Guild Wars 2

It seems to me alot of rares, especially lv80 ones, are worth enough money to just buy your ectos. If the rare you have is worth less than 20s, then yeah salvaging is a good idea, but more often than not a rare is worth at least 20s, enough to buy one ecto even when sold to the lowest price. Sure you could salvage it and get more than 1, but you can also salvage it and get 0. Isn’t it just better to buy ectos rather than salvage for them?

Diminishing return affects the -rate- of drops, not the quality of drops. So yes, you can still get items during the anti-farm code, you’re just unlikely to.

Don’t forget that Pandas also came out yesterday, people who decided that they like WoW have hopped back over.

Like wise on Sanctum of Rall.

Jormag himself is not a boss in this game. He’s farther up north beyond the Frostgorge Sound.

100% map completion is supposed to reward you with 2 gifts of exploration and some other neat junk, so yeah if you got nothing then that is definitely a bug.

Well what do you play? Norn naturally have large weapons than everyone, that could be the case if you play Norn. I’ll say that the Vigil sword looks more like a giant’s personal butter knife than it does a one-handed combat, but that’s the only case that comes to mind.

Running around Ashford, I find a Charr with the last name of “Cubminder” and her job was quite obviously to watch over a group of cubs. Now, obviously given the war-bound nature of the Charr this doesn’t sound like a “snatch it up while it’s open” kind of job, as we know Charr choose their own legion and warband as such. Do they earn their last name as their life goes on? Is it given to them by others? Do they get to pick it themselves?

Assuming you earned your gems via gold, there is almost no reason to actually purchase a repair canister. You get 5 of them for 300 gems, and assuming 1g=300 gems(I think the rate is below that now), your repairs need to be worth at least 20.1s to actually justify your purchase. Now, I personally repair after all my armor is damaged, not broken, since the stat penalty for broken armor is too severe, and my repair costs typically don’t climb above 15s. Does anyone here actually have regular 20s+ repair costs to justify constant purchase of these repair canisters?(ones that came free from BL chests are fine).

Gundam fans can appreciate the majesty of Charr Aznabel.

I particularly liked a Sylvari named Plantyhose

They mentioned tokens becoming a rare drop in the future, since this patch places all of the tokens at the very end, so people who can’t finish the dungeon can still get some. I’m worried about that drop rate when the “future” comes around.

The weapons look so sexy. Also some people need the tokens to buy the gift of ascalon to make legendary weapons.

Gossamer Scraps are indeed a rare salvage chance from salvageable cloth trophies or high level light armor, rewarded in place of silk. Node respawn timer for orichalcum is estimated at about 5 hours, and they also apparently shift locations after each server reset.

I think it’s really just that we need more time to settle into the game. LoL, for example; its champions only have 4 skills and a passive effect, but the core of the customization comes from rune page set up (think of that as armor), their masteries (traits if you will), and lane composition (who plays what role in a dungeon/PvP match.) Given that we allow weapon variety, I’d say GW2 is fairly more customizable, but then again we also don’t have 100+ weapons to choose from….

Right now my friends just use it as a private chatroom so we don’t have to whisper to each other constantly or don’t want our conversation to be seen in guild chat.

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The worst thing about the armor is that it’s only RARE. If we’re going to shell out that crazy amount of gold, it should be Exotic at LEAST.

Actually something most people don’t understand about the culture armor is that wearing all 6 pieces gives you a bonus to power, vitality, and condition damage. Also note that this is a set bonus, not a bonus that comes from runes so you can actually buy the superior runes from the dungeon vendors to stack the rune bonus plus the set bonus from the culture armor. Also note that right now culture armor seems to be the only armor that gives a set bonus like that.

EDIT: I was looking back at the culture armor on the wiki and different culture armor gives different stat bonus. For example silvari give condition damage, toughness, and precision

Yeah, these “bonuses” are the actual stats on the armor itself. Giving the armor bonus stats for wearing all 6 pieces doesn’t make sense, since then players that have the armor set would get an unfair advantage.

Mhmm, right now meta events are the only things that drop chests, so people who put in alot of effort to kill the giant at Nageling in Diessa or similarly strong champion monster end up being disappointed.

One sigil on your main hand, a second on your off-hand. Tada.

Why can’t we just play it the way we want, even if it’s the wrong way? Isn’t our own happiness is what we should be putting first and foremost when we play?

Dredgehaunt Dredge is a more fitting name.

I don’t see the harm in that, but what it does is diminish a feeling of accomplishment in PvP skill. If a guy in PvP walks up to me and says “where’d you get that cool armor?” and I told him “unlocked it in PvE”, he probably wouldn’t be very impressed, nor would I.

Generally speaking, the more badkitten the player looks in PvP, the more time he’s put into it and more skilled he is.

Crafting is pretty much meant for self-sufficiency. You can supply future characters with their own armor/weapons rather than fork over coin/karma. You could try and make a profit, but it won’t be much, I’d imagine, especially when the lv400 recipes require ecto globs to craft.

@Jetsunhi(why does the quote button keep disappearing). There is nothing of note to farm in lv1-15 zones besides copper and jute, and their prices pale in comparison in to the T5 and T6 mats the bots are farming in Frostgorge Sound/Cursed Shore. Bots are gonna farm where the money is it, not spread out across every single zone and farm everything for not as much profit.

Every server has bots. Of this I am 100% certain. They get smarter and harder to curb with each patch Anet seems to release, and I’ve been getting more and more mail a day from gold sellers. It’s ridiculous.

Mhmm, was in Plains of Ashford not even 15 minutes ago, and the amount of LFGs on map chat was at a minimal. People just aren’t interested in running dungeons at the moment.

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I think it’s a good idea to have such events that occur rarely. If it went off frequently the area would be full of players waiting to farm it for drops. And it means that some mysteries can remain even in areas that one is familiar with. In the long run perhaps, when Arenanet add more content, maybe they will increase the number of events that only trigger in certain circumstances, so that each time you are in an area it is a unique experience.

The problem with that is that Rares don’t exist at lv15, meaning there’s next to reason to farm him, vs the Shatterer who has a better track record of showing up on time than most local city buses, doesn’t have portals to pad his length and does in fact drop rares.

I agree with Wooshoo(quote button keeps disappearing on me). Can anyone explain what’s being said in this wall of a post.

That’s a drop system for you. Typically 2 hits on any mob at all will have it “Tagged” so any player who has at least 2 hits on it is eligible to get a drop chance.

Potion recipes are strictly discovery only, they’ll never appear as an option to craft as you level up. That being said, they all require 1 jug of water and the weirdest combination of materials, so be sure to stockpile everything you find.

I would want that the Heart Rewards scale upward. I’m not gonna teleport back to queensdale just to fulfill one single Heart that gives me a measly 70 copper. There needs to be an incentive to do them and pull me away from whatever I was doing before.

Well, seeing as PvP gear is just PvE gear but with no stats and limited only to being equipped in PvP, isn’t all PvP gear just PvE gear with the numbers stripped off? Or are there some actual PvP gear that has its own unique look?

Well changing the numbers wouldn’t mean anything if the experience earned/needed didn’t change. Personally I would’ve done it lv1(copper and jute and junk) to lv6(orichalcum, gossamer, etc), but that change doesn’t change anything if it needed the exact same amount of exp per level/total to reach the max level. It’s just an aesthetic thing really.

Runescape does(did? do they still do this?) the same with their random events. You would be typically thrust into combat while doing a grindy activity like fishing or mining, and the enemy was scaled to be somewhat stronger than the player, but defeatable with some effort on their part that a bot couldn’t do. More recent random events skew towards a “do this thing” bent since many legit players met a swift and painful death at the hands of the fishing troll.

I wouldn’t mind seeing these again, I enjoyed them.

Jewelry or Cooking, as they don’t consume the same craft mats as armorsmithing. If you decide to level up both professions, they won’t be wrestling each other for the same mats(Jeweler will need both copper and platinum which Asmith also uses, but that’s it).

If you only want to level up one at a time then I would pick whichever profession crafts the 1 weapon you use the most.

Well, I know signet warrior builds can have over 100% crit with the right precision gear, which means after that there is literally nothing to build -but- power and crit damage. Now I’m sure power has the better ratio anyway, but I think there is only 1 other armor type that offers pow/prec with a non-crit damage third stat. and that I think is Valyrie, maybe.

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Um… we call it vitality
If you want HP and defence try going for Carrion gear.

And stack your traits on vitality and toughness lines.

Carrion gear is the glass cannonist of glass cannony gear. No toughness at all.

Berserker’s gear is glass cannon incarnate. At least Carrion increases your HP total, Berserker doesn’t have neither vitality nor toughness, just raw power, precision, and crit damage.

Not to mention you’d need them to be seriously difficult or almost wholly combat un-related to prevent people form just zerging the events to death in a few minutes.

What if you didn’t care for Diablo III or never played it? Is this a dig on D3?

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They have started to flag videos so you can’t earn money on them , So people that are making a living out of posting youtube videos won’t get any food on their tables .

Maybe they’ll get an actual job now.

99% of people who make videos or stream don’t make a penny off of it… just sayin

what about the other 1%

That other 1% is making so much money that they don’t even need to get a job, as any League of Legends professional streamer can tell you.

Speaking of, Riot Games has a similar policy in place I believe: Don’t upload videos of their game and try to make money off of it. But ultimately what’s gonna make GW2 an E-sport is if the E-sport people decide that GW2 is good/balanced enough to be at their next big event to show off. I wonder if Anet’s ability to be considered an E-sport will affect future balance patches.

I can see where you’re coming from, since representing a guild and then choosing to representing another guild is like saying “heys guys brb, gonna hang out with other my other friends now”. That’s typically not how it goes down in real life.

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I did it yesterday. Killed him by 100% ranged. It is a basic mechanics for boss fight.
When the boss spawns some small wurms (I think its 4 of them), he gets an invincible buff. You need to kill all those small wurms to remove the buff. If someone pulled any of the small wurms away, you might not notice that and would be struggling against his infinite invincible buff.

This is an entirely different boss fight you’re describing……

Champions are nigh impossible with out surpemely awesome kiting skills,, no matter the level and stats of the combatant. Champions are reserved for group events or are found roaming in out of the way locations.

I think alot of people are coming in and thinking that DEs were gonna really be world changing. Yes, sometimes you can’t use a waypoint, sometimes enemies will be in a camp, sometimes itll be allies, but that’s all its ever gonna be really. This ain’t Everquest and its Sleeper Dragon.

You don’t craft it. You just get lucky and hope it drops.

That would be armor with the “Shaman” prefix.

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Also you’d find the later quests do reference earlier quests.

I haven’t finished my story, but this is the first time I’ve heard this. Is it possible that these sorts of things need to be pointed out a bit better? Or are the events the same no matter which character you are and you get references to all the personal story quests and not just your own?

Some quests do reference your previous acheivements, one that I’ve done with the Hylek quest chain within your order, and at one point you are required to list off your previous accomplishments. It’s text box only though, so it really doesn’t feel like it means much, especially when your choices still didn’t change anything, you’re just telling them to people.

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MONEY SINK

i don’t see why people are always wondering about things like this, they NEED this in place to stop an influx of gold

True, but with repair costs, waypoint costs, the cost of purchase only craft mats (threads, lumps, runes of holding, etc), people in attempting to craft legendaries with items that require purchase, there are alot of gold sinks in the game. The 15% fee is abit large with all these other extra fees.

3/2/10.

Complex fractions make the best ratings. As well as good dates.

I don’t know, but the Master Mining Pick/Logging axe gained from story quest completion can’t actually gather anything better than platinum/hard wood logs, so I don’t think people are gonna risk an entire orichalcum vein to see if the BL picks can mine them. But based on my experience with them you sometimes do a bit of both, gather more and and a higher chance for gems, maybe.

Everyone has the hots for Felicia Day, who voices Zojja.

I was actually expecting this post to say how the game is secretly a giant allegory for Jesus or something.