Guild Wars 2

Yes they do increase, but they have a hard cap now, when you hit 10,000 points from daily which you have you do not get anymore points,

Now I agree its completely 100% unfair that you do not gain more, but sadly there was a lot of crying about how some people could never catch up yadda yadda, even though AP slows down the higher you get, because you have most of perm ones done.

When I cap my 10k points out I will prob stop playing as im then being punished by Anet for playing the game, where as some causal 2 hours a week player is crying they wont catch up to me so I get punished.

Taku.6352:

Depends on groups. PUG runs wary from 45min to 2-3 hours and my guild runs from ~20min to max 1hr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFEcrnoi0I

Even though you had great maps for that fractal, that was impressive none the less, Mossman melted lol.

Is this where it the throws the orbs out from the wurm, if so, then yes the reflects etc have been used for awhile, there was a change done that xx% time it has a chance to fail and they still spawn etc,

(if you are on about something else ignore this :o) )

Your maths on the 1000 rares returning 50 exotics is purely down to RnG, ive thrown in 500 rares before and got back 8 exotics,

If its for purely pre cursor hunting from forge id use exotics,

I used close to 2000 rares in forge and no pre’s back at all, I swapped to exotics, and I tend to use 200g worth of exotics at a time, and so far ive pulled 17 pre’s from forge.

You will get a lot of different answers to this, I personally only ever use Exotics, if you use rares, you have a chance and rolling the entire rare table, and the exotic table, the numbers are way to high, with only exotics you only role the exotic table ( I hope that makes sense )

NOTE though, you can easily throw in 200 exotics and not get a thing, ive had times where ive had upwards of 500 exotics in forge before a return….

You maybe better selling rares/exotics and buying the pre you need/want.

Forge = 1 big gambling machine that usually doesn’t pay out.

Shpongle.6025:

Haaaaiiii

So 2 days ago I was playing and the map was so full everywhere I went there were people playing, I even found maps that had 50-60 commander tags on them and the LFG tool was full of SW ferries, and now today I log in and all of a sudden it’s dead. Everything is dead, all the people disappeared, everyone is gone…

What happened ? It’s only been 2 days.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/amber-farm-destroyed/first

That is why the new zone is dead, all these other reasons about the achievements being done, and all maps have this is minimal, the above link is the real reason the zone is a ghost town now.

*grabs popcorn, this is going to get hot.

The community for WvW is getting smaller each week, I know several former hardcore WvW players who got bored of waiting for updates, and moved onto another game, and ended up taking there friends/guilds with them, they have no desire to return to WvW in this game no matter what happens now, it will eventually hit critical mass where even the highest servers will not bother,

Its a fine line between reward and skill for WvW, if the reward becomes to big PvE players/bots show up to farm it, if its not big enough WvW players get screwed,

The rewards in WvW should be linked to the objectives you take, abit like how MF works in PvE, it could be linked to the title track, ( not exact numbers but you’ll get the idea )

Cap 100 objectives ( xp/karma/wxp/gold gain) increases by 1%
Cap 1000 objectives (xp/karma/wxp/gold gain ) increases by 10%
Just make it that every 100 objectives it goes up 1%

It only affects WvW, and the buff is only affective in WvW, most PvE players will not bother with it, meaning that WvW players are at least getting some sort of buff,

Hopefully some long time players of WvW will have better ideas on bonus etc,

I personally stopped playing WvW when it because very apparent we are not going to see major updates/rewards.

They are in dire need of players in the now new ghost map, thus posting this trying to get more people to join them lol,

I notice the LFG tool there is not 1 LFG request for the new zone, funny how that worked out eh.

So we all know this last week there was a farm in the new zone that allowed opening of chests to gain champ bags, this produced a lot of T5/T6 mats along with certain exotics to be dropped, I and many others found this great because it pulled down the price of the massively overinflated T6 prices due to the fact they just don’t drop in game,

Go look at the TP today not even 12 hours after the update nerf went live, and already T6 blood has nearly went up 10s, the exotics have went up x4 and are still climbing, I seen in another topic about people saying the nerf was good for the NPE, really how so, mats are now rapidly climbing out of there reach,

YOU need to start fixing the zones that drop high end mats, espically the lvl 80 zones, when I can go farm in CS for an hour with 500% MF and get 1 T6 mat there is something very very very wrong, there are more complaints on this forums about loot and RnG than most other things, yet it goes vastly ignored, this is why for the most part people will continue to flock to 1 point to mass farm an event, causing massive spikes in the market that are just harmful in general, be it from investing in mats, to needing them for crafting,

So FINALLY please fix the loot across the board, and allow us to finally spread out across the game again instead of having to mass flock to 1 location for 3 or 4 days before you move in with the nerf bat.

You really need to be more open exactly how Magic Find works, im just 1 of many players in the game that has pushed the base MF to 300%, and with boosters it can be upwards of 500% , yet a friend of mine has no faith in MF at all, infact he called it Magic Beans, and a total waste of gold, and I swear sometimes hes right, we can do dungeons/fractals and he will come out with 6 or 7 rares and 2 or 3 exotics and I will get maybe 1 rare yet my MF is 450% higher,

MF really doesn’t seem to work with the current RnG system, ( im aware how MF is supposed to work with the tables etc ) but I sometimes wonder if my friend is right, and it is a total waste of time/effort/gold if some RnG table decides the drops.

Yes all the crying TP flippers got there way, now they can go and push T6 up and up again,

If ANET just made loot across the game actually drop we wouldn’t resort to mass farming events.

The only people who really seem to detest this id say are the hardcore TP flippers as this is destroys some of the high end mats the flip,

It is good for those who need mats for legendary’s etc after months of farming in lvl 80 zones and getting squat its kind of refreshing to see loot via the chests, granted I don’t agree with people ignoring events etc or failing them as this will just lead to the ultra nerf which you are all crying out far, then no doubt you will be back crying the new zone is dead,

Its been clear for months now on these forums that people have been crying out for loot, the new maps are full, I personally tend to find a more organised map, which really isn’t to hard to do,

The simple fix if anet is going to do it, will be to remove crests from chests, and make them only available in the 3 minutes in between defense events,

Any other form of nerf to this zone will result in it being left like a ghost town,

Too all those who are crying about the farm, press Y to bring up LFG tool and look for an organised map, its that simple.

Also all those shouting them make 300g a day from this farm I question your maths, I farmed 300 champ bags today, and after selling off everything including the 4 exotics I only made about 45g, given that it took me about 2 1/2 hours to farm them bags, that works out about 18g/hour which is easily on par with other parts of the game.

dennie.9237:

Now when you relog game clien keep status “invisible”. Another stealth update without a string in patchnotes.

It wasn’t a stealth patch, it was actually listed in the patch notes, but the post has been edited, I wonder did they copy and paste a new set into the post and accidently deleted it or left it out, but either way it was listed with the recent patch notes.

Im actually really stunned this is in an instance to be honest, so much time put into it, and its a locked instance, this should be a fractal or a dungeon, with same battle mechanics.

The drop mechanics for the loot are fine in the new zone, when I first went in there last night and played and seen no enemies dropping loot or very little, I thought oh here we go again Anet, BUT having actually played it, there are loads of chests on the map if your a roamer that u can open, and the keys are fairly cheap, so you take part in the events get the keys and open the chests, which can easily drop enough loot to replace the non mob drops,

Im actually starting to like this new design, as it also deters bots etc, so im a say keep up the good work on that, we are being rewarded for our time in this new map.

As for the boost to MF everyone gets it the same, and Anet does not state if MF affects Champ bags in here or not.

Yea id say whoever it was is just trolling the map, and it looks like you took the bait. Happens all the time at most events.

Yes they have it temp deactivated, I don’t know why they would release a collection that requires something that is locked away, they should have just held off on the collection full stop until it was ready to go live.

Just did the Karka Queen, on server 64.25.38.161:0

Server was suffering massive lag spikes then mass error 7 dc, everyone who reconnected seen the karka queen die, but did not get the chest, so now we cannot get the loot from the event later on,

Can you check into this server before other maps are affected at world events and we lose out on once a day only chests.

Me and a Friend opened 2000 each today, didn’t get anything to shout about, mostly Candy Corns, the rares drops are indeed rares in this case.

OK, seeing as this has been posted in General, and the bugs section and went ignored its now officially an account issue,

There has been a game breaking bug introduced that when you are OUT OF COMBAT you cannot change skills, it happens in any instance in the game where you are transformed for the instance,

AC Path 3
Thaumanova Reactor Fractal
Urban Battlegrounds Fractal

Are just some examples, this has been reported a few times already, is it game breaking as the only way to fix it is to log out to char select screen, log back in, before you re-enter instance select the skills you want then rejoin your party, is this the NEW PLAYERS EXPERIENCE, Anet was aiming for????

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/In-Combat-bug/first#post4477981
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/out-of-Combat-bug/first#post4476980
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Game-breaking-cannot-change-skills/first#post4484590
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Warrior-Dungeon-Bug/first#post4481992

How much longer do we need to go before this is acknowledged as a bug, and will be fixed, there have been several hot patches and 2 game updates since this bug was introduced and its STILL not fixed, this is totally shocking,

It wont be hard for an Anet dev to test this, just go into any instance that the game changes you and TADA broken skills.

Nick.6972:

So after watching these 2 videos of this guy getting 4 and more precursors – Dusk, Dawn, Kudzu x2,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF1XzDh1Co4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtL_vxAudiM
I decided to gamble a bit too and got The Hunter on third attempt using Exotic weapons.

Maybe they’ve changed the drop rate?
In any case, I’d suggest people to give it a try – Mystic Forge.

Its just luck, I put 400G worth of exo’s last night into forge and got nothing back ( not a big deal as I play forge a lot and have been rewarded greatly in the past, I got the Dawn 3 days ago ) and yet last night gave nothing, a friend who had put 1000’s of gold into the forge over last 2 years threw in 4 random exo’s the had drop over last few days and got the Chaos Gun,

Video’s can be edited to make it look like they are on a winning streak etc, I wouldn’t believe everything you see, you got lucky, you should enjoy it.

FeralOne.1093:

Wow, how do u get so many bags?? I’m a noob with a lvl 50ish character and I get maybe 20 bags from 5 hours of play…

You need to go to the Mad Kings Labyrinth, there are 2 doors in LA to take you there.

Talyn.3295:

Rewards are always the issue, anything that takes a while to do needs to rewards better. Its why some paths don’t get done, Rewards per Run have to be there.

This summed it up perfectly, a few guild friends needed the TA Aetherpath for the achievements so we set a group up and ran it, the path took about 30-40mins and I got all blues from the run, the rewards just suck, but the fact they already said they aren’t looking at dungeons I don’t expect things to improve.

laokoko.7403:

You dont’ have to gamble. You can just buy it from the trading post.

I think the problem is it is just too expensive that some people felt it is unobtainable.

Incorrect, they are too expensive now, the Ghastly Grinning Shield Skin is a perfect example of this, it used to sit around 200-400g, then anet said they would not be coming back or obtainable again, then suddenly they are 4000g,

Now they decided to put them into an RnG Lottery where I can bet someone will be screwed hard, the most Ironic thing about it is, they started a topic about RnG then put an RnG lottery into the game, and once its in ITS IN, expect to see this repeated at Xmas.

Vayne.8563:

KarlaGrey.5903:

Don’t know Raptr,
don’t know xfire,
but game’s going down,
that much, I know.

But you have no evidence at all for it. Anyone can say things and provide no evidence. It’s quite easy.

You cant prove that its not going down, your using links to programs that a lot of people do not use, none of my gaming friends whom play GW2 use any of the programs you mentioned.

Fact is, the only person/company/program that can truly tell us what the numbers all belong to Anet, and unless they want to tell us those numbers its a guessing game, and with the guessing game it brings 2 types of people, those who think the game is doing great like yourself, and people who think the game isn’t doing so great, and topics like this cause friction that isn’t needed.

As soon as gave the NPC the ticket then I discovered it was an RnG Lottery, it was instantly screw this, there are more complaints about RnG than anything else in this game, just wait until the event is over and we have people on the forums saying things like

WTF ANET I spent $500 on gems to get them tickets and didn’t get squat,
followed by
HAHAHAHA I got a random ticket drop and I got a skin RNG BRO RNG

I guess you could say the game is truly now a PAY to WIN game.

Least we all know now how the Christmas event will be going.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey there,

Here are a few tidbits from the team:

• A lot of newer players had trouble with the interface. That doesn’t apply to you, you’re veterans who have been around the conversion block a time or two. But newer players will benefit from the updated system.
• The goal was to make the Gem Store more like other shopping experiences, and if you think about it, there is more of that feel to it now.
• You may be surprised to know this (I know I was) but very few people bought gems at smaller denominations than the first one offered in the new system. That’s not to say they never did, nor that there wouldn’t be the desire to do so. But overall, the current options were selected based on player purchases in the past.
• The team is going to listen to your feedback and, if and when it’s practical and desirable, they can look towards adjusting the new system to better meet your needs.

So please keep your thoughts coming on the new system. Feel free to make suggestions but please, keeping them constructive would be very much appreciated.

Sorry Gaile, but that doesn’t seem right, this game is 2 years old now, yet you’s seem to be catering hardcore for new players and yet the players who made you where you are today are getting trolled, there was nothing wrong with the gold-gem or gem-gold before, this “streamlining” is a way to force people to buy more than they need, which in turn will likely force them to buy more gems, etc,

I personally will just not buy anymore Gems, whereas me being 1 person wont make a difference it does seem the only way that Anet pays attention, it would be awesome if you could have the Dev/Devs who decided this streamlining was a good idea, to come here and explain it, rather than you taking the flack,

Be honest is this just another China client feature that we are getting pushed, if you keep these sort of unneeded updates going forward you wont have a veteran playerbase left to support the new players,

Whats next, New players contacted support saying they didn’t understand how to make Lengendary’s so we decided to remove legendary crafting and added them to the gem store for 100,000 gems each, come on already enough with the NPE.

If you want a suggestion that caters for the DUHHHHH we don’t understand anything in a game and don’t want to learn, keep the “streamlined” for them, and for everyone else, add the feature that allows you to enter the amount you want, why this wasn’t done in the first place.

I don’t say this very often, but I will this time, Thank You ANET for leaving the loot in The Mad King’s Labyrinth, you actually feel like you are being rewarded for doing the events,

So thank you from me and my farming buddies.

Good Job

Denhart.5308:

You seem to miss the point. I did not ask for any rollback. A friend of mine got his account hacked, he lost all the gold, but Support Team didn’t perform rollback. In my case, they expect me to start from zero.

I guess if the person who hacked your account boosted AP etc, you get boosts from then now to Magic find, karma gain etc, support deemed you did not earn them yourself, thus they rolled the account back to when you last played, be grateful they rolled it back and didn’t say to bad.

I also get this problem when gaming at 1440p so I can only imagine what its like at 4k res, I wish Anet would allow us to change the colour of the mouse for those who use it ingame, I figure I wont lose a bright green or yellow mouse cursor on the screen.

I think the fact that computer is posting a PSU related problem on startup that stops the computer from booting, and when you disable it you still get the same problem, its highly likely that you have a defective PSU,

Even though its rated that it can run your system, hardware can be damaged before you buy it, if you can confirm 100% its not the PSU, then id be looking at a faulty motherboard, which is flagging the issues.

Labjax.2465:

Weird, I’ve yet to run into anyone who is upset about defending Arah. Seen plenty ignore it, but people seem to unanimously love the bags in the maps I’ve been in.

Really, then we clearly have been on different Megaserver maps, there is nearly a daily fight in map chat about defending arah vs retaking it, the loot for retaking it is a lot more then defending it, yet sadly because of MS, if you are a troll you can basically screw the map over, I watched 5 people from the same guild do the defend event themselves, where people in map chat where asking to let it fail so they could retake to unlock the trait, and they basically got told to kitten.

This whole thing comes back down to 1 thing, LOOT, if it didn’t suck so badly, people wouldn’t fail events/ farm/camp the same champs over and over and over and over and over and over, Anet don’t care though, but watch how fast they bring the nerf hammer into Orr when they see it.

These mats should be added to the Champ loot bag table, along with all other T6 mats, including Ecto.

In 2 years of playing ive seen 1 of these drop from a Heavy bag in Orr.

There is a piece of software called Burnintest, ( google it ) ive read on some sites this is a good program to stress test hardware ( normally used I think by people who are overclocking to check hardware is stable ) this will likely push your system to failure point, AFAIK you can test certain parts of the hardware that you think are failing.

Also memtest overnight 12hours should be fine.

Is the loot getting worse or is it the way its being given out, I seen a convo in map chat the other day that said only so many people get loot from an enemy/boss everyone else gets nothing, I never thought anything of this, but then I got thinking, in the mornings I usually do the world bosses, and ive noticed that they no longer drop champ bags, ( MAW, Taidha Covington, sometimes Karka Queen, usually all 3 champs and final boss at Ulgoth ) these are just some of the events I fail to get champ bags from on a daily basis, no matter how much damage I do,

If its raw loot drops your on about there are some shocking examples out there also, The Temple of Lyssa chain has to be 1 of the most unrewarding events in the game, they removed nearly all LOOT from the events for whatever reason, the North pre was nerfed because of the bugged farm, yet it wasn’t fixed for loot after the patch went thru to remove the bug, the entire event is hateful, and the worst part is, if I wanted too, I could wait until Lyssa was at 10% health run in hit her a few times and get the EXACT same LOOT as some poor player who suffered through the pre events, its shocking,

Megaserver also doesn’t help, where it did help some events in the game, others got destroyed, anyone who farmed cursed shore before Megaserver went live will know what I mean here, before you could do Melandru with 30-40 ppl and get decent loot, now there are 80-100+ people there, and you get little to no loot at all, I did this event on a full party with staff guards, and the main farm event Beacon 2, I got 5 drops, that was it, 5 drops in 6 mins ( and I run 300% MF ) its shocking,

Dungeons are not much better, and fractals are just appalling, instead of making new gems store items for the 1% you start looking at the issues that are being flagged by the 99%

Far to often you see on here its just RnG if the game is RnG only then remove all MAGIC FIND, as im sick of having 300% base magic find and up to 500% MF with boosters, and see people with 120% MF getting exotics etc on a daily basis, something is seriously broken here and broken badly.

A lot of my personal friends and myself feel the only thing keeping this game going, is that there isn’t a major contender for it yet, but im sure its not far away, you can only really push people so far before they say im done, and uninstall, and usually with that, they takes friends with them, I even told some of them the only reason I play is because they do, and they replied with the same, so really why do we play, to get laughed at from devs…..

Is there any acknowledgement on this game breaking bug where when you are transformed you cannot change skills or you can but then they become skill locked, this was introduced in the latest patch and seems to have gone mostly ignored with a suck it up attitude it seems,

AC Path 3
Thaumanova Reactor Fractal
Urban Battlegrounds Fractal

All of the above suffer from this, im sure there are other places in the game this is happening, but these are the main ones I come across on a daily basis, I know you can log out change skills and log back in, but this is shocking this is still in game, if this was a gem store problem it would have been patched by now.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/In-Combat-bug
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/out-of-Combat-bug

It sounds like a stuck event or an event that requires these enemies to be at a certain point, it will probably be fixed when they roll the resets etc, the fact they drop no loot also maybe suggest it maybe part of a quest that has been nerfed recently or removed and they haven’t gotten around to fixing the spawns.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-Essences-of-Luck/first#post4474003

For those who don’t read it, it basically says allow us to decide what the essences boost,

Karma
XP Gain
WvW XP

Gold boost was left out due the problems it could cause to the market with no money sink etc,

All they had to do was add a little check mark beside each one of these that you can select ( note you can only boost 1 at a time ) the coding is already in place for this, its just a matter of allowing us to select which we want to boost, and let it follow the same pattern as MF.

Essence Snow.3194:

Pretty sure that the 970 isn’t available in a reference design^

You are correct, they do not seem to be, maybe this is why they suffer from the problems the 980’s don’t, either way the rest of the advice is sound, ill edit my other post to remove ref design info.

Anyway certain models suffer worse than others, Zotac seems to suffer badly from it, some EVGA’s also, Gigabyte/MSI seem to have faired better from what im reading, ( I cannot comment on brands we don’t get in the UK )

Its interesting to see what each person would do in game, is shows the way different people play the game, me personally id either put it towards mats to help a friend get infinite light, or id buy 1000g worth or exotics and forge them to try for pre’s ( im kinda addicted to do that )

That actually looks like bad RAM on your GFX card, do you have access to another GFX card to test in your machine, as your current one looks like it may be done,

Check the fans etc on your current card for dust etc make sure its cooling ok.

The problem you are getting it Coil Whine as the card get hotter, its a known issue with the 970’s, here in the UK 1 major company that sells them ( overclockers.co.uk ) has declared this as a defect in the card and will replace any 970 card that suffers from it.

Just Google Nvidia 970 Coil Whine there are 100’s of reported issues with the cards, so its very highly likely that you and your B/F both got defective cards espically if they are both the same make, and both have reference cooling on them, ( IE not gaming edition ones )

The FPS issues are likely down to the GFX drivers not being fully ready for these cards this happens to most Nvidia cards until they are a few months old and they get al the kinks out of the drivers etc,

For a fix I highly suggest you contact the site/store you bought them and complain about the issue, direct them to any one of the sites that report the problem as a fault,

So I did a bit of research on that PSU, and where itself its not really all that bad, and should run your system ok, it doesn’t mean that its not the cause of the problem, it could just be defective, some reviews on it that I seen showed that the 1st one they tried failed nearly all tests and they had to get replacements etc, I guess this can happen with all hardware,

The only way sadly to truly rule out hardware failure is to test each part with a different version, that’s just the slow process of elimination when it comes to potential hardware failure.

Well the BSOD data shows the driver that is crashing, but finding out what is causing it to crash is another story, from what I read from various sites, its hardware drivers that are causing the root issue, Nvidia drivers seem to be a good source of this problem for a lot of people, followed by RAM,

As you only have 1 stick of RAM this could be tricky to test unless you have access to other RAM, but did you try updating any drivers recently/adding new hardware that required newer drivers etc.

Gaile I reported this bug a month ago, 8 hot patches and a game update and still not working.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/No-auto-login-after-patch/first#post4457847

If the hard drive on the old PC is still working, you could take it out, slave it into your new system, and run GW2 from it as normal, it would just require a new short cut.

Do you know what the error message on the BSOD says, this is usually a good place/indicator as to what is happening.

So currently ingame we can use Essence of Luck to boost MF if you so wish to, after salvaging, I believe also there are a few recipes that require a small amount of EoL also to craft, but other than that there is no real use for them at all,

I was talking to some of my WvW friends the other day, who do not bother with Magic Find at all, because drops/loot in WvW is bad thus they have no interest in it, and I guess when you take the number of kills per hour in PvE vs WvW this probably is true,

So

Why can Essence of Luck not just be used to boost any stats, that we can select,

At the moment its defaulted to Magic Find, but why not give us the chance to boost,

KARMA
World vs World Experience
XP gain
( I have left gold find out of this as people boosting this to 300% could cause issues and may cause more bots to appear )

The above could use the same numbers as Magic Find did and progress the same way, this would give more uses for Essence of Luck.

Ayrilana.1396:

I got 5 last night from 4 trees. They must’ve increased the drop rate!

Nice troll

Anyway back at the OP, it just seems really random, I can go days without getting any no matter how many tree’s I hit, and other days I get 7 or 8 in very few tree’s ( im currently at 4 days without getting any )