What happens when you slot a dungeon rune into a Fine (blue) armor? Typically fine gear can’t be soulbound, so that might allow you to transfer runes between characters, albeit at the cost of a Black Lion’s salvage kit (or a mystic salvage kit if you want a cheaper, but slightly less reliable, alternative).
i can’t understand why people are so against them. with them being developed, resources aren’t pouring into more important things?
what utter BS. not developing mounts or capes for years now did didn’t help them develop precursor crafting right?
Well, look at it this way: content has been coming out at the current rate without mounts being on the plate, so diverting resources into mounts is just going to slow everything else down. Just because they haven’t delivered on previously mentioned features yet doesn’t mean they’re sitting around doing nothing, so another project would definitely have to suffer in order for them to work on mounts (much like how previous projects probably had to be put on hold to shift focus onto the April 15th patch and LS season 2).
It depends on whether or not you think that’s an acceptable tradeoff; while I think it would be amusing to ride a Charr armored bike around (seriously, if they have mounts in GW2 they would definitely need racial mounts), I wouldn’t want it at the expense of everything else that still needs polishing.
It’s very much like how armor skins used to be: they want you to spend pay price for each tool/skin for each character, because then it’s more likely you won’t have enough gold for gem conversion and roll your credit card instead.
Wardrobe made armor skins a bit better in that you still get dinged additional charges for using it more than once/on multiple characters, but the cost is only a fraction (and potentially free) of how much it used to cost. It would be nice if infinite tools got a similar treatment: pay full price for your first set, but get a discount for each subsequent set.
Also don’t use the same password to register on other forums/websites.
You can probably be reasonably sure your Amazon login information isn’t going to get compromised (and if it does you’re going to be alerted pretty quickly), but some fan/guild site whose admin stopped maintaining a long time ago? Chances are it’ll be compromised, if it hasn’t already, and someone will be trying that email/password combo on every MMO to see if they get lucky.
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I neither expect nor particularly care if they introduce mounts, but if they do the first mount absolutely must be a dirty peasant running behind you while banging two empty halves of a coconut together.
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You never could mix town clothes and armor though. Before the wardrobe update you could mix and match town clothes, but only with other town clothes.
The lack of customization is a step backwards IMO, but in this specific case it hasn’t changed anything.
I think the argument is that resources are going into producing Outfits that are essentially worthless for customizing our characters’ appearances, but if Outfits turn out to be financially successful it might encourage more Outfits to be produced instead of new armor skins.
That aside, I still think ANet should have upgraded the Town Clothes system to allow clothes to be displayed in combat (with a toggle), then introduced the Heritage and ninja outfits as new mix-n-matchable town clothes; that would have given players the option to keep their town clothes look, made the new outfit assets more versatile (ability to dye individual pieces, ability to hide/not use oversized pauldrons, etc.), and (this part is a pipe dream) maybe, just maybe, make it easier to remove weight restrictions on armor skins (by transitioning skins to the Town Clothes system rather than remodeling each armor set two more times for each weight class). I understand it wouldn’t have been easy, but the Outfits system as-is makes none of that possible.
It happens with every new things. People buy it, wear it for a while then revert back to what they really like once the novelty has worn off.
Kinda suspected that, I can’t really see Outfits doing much better than Town Clothes if it’s driven largely by novelty; people are eventually going to look back at their wardrobe full of unused outfits, start regretting spending that much, and stop buying new outfits.
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I didn’t blame anyone for making the mistake. I’m simply pointing out that it got to be a better deal on April 15. Everything I said in my post is true. At what point do you see me blaming the OP? In fact, I suggested he contact Anet and get a refund if he’s not satisfied.
Oh, I wasn’t saying you were blaming him, was just making a general statement that his mistake is pretty understandable.
To be fair, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect a skin that you paid 1/5th the retail price of a full game to be reusable without additional costs, so I wouldn’t blame Sylent for making the mistake; that being said, wardrobe is a massive improvement in that we don’t have to pay full price for a set each time we want to use the skin (or part of the skin) on another character.
Of course, the problem is ANet makes no distinction between gems purchased with money or converted from gold, so there’s no way to flag a skin as “bought with real money, infinite use” or “bought with gold, ‘encourage’ them to spend real money”.
At the risk of going on a slight tangent to this topic, but has the popularity of the Ancestral Outfit dropped off? I still see people in the witch’s outfit every now and then, but it seems like for the most part only the newest outfit gets worn and people tend to revert back to their mix-n-match looks once the glam wears off.
I did decently against the Mordrem champ as a ranger, but melee was definitely far more preferable than ranged: no vines to deal with and Lightning Reflexes was enough to clear the poison field it drops, though the sword 2 skill also worked in a pinch (when I’m not knocked by random worgs, that is).
Depends on your build, I’ve found that a lot of the achievements are a pain because they either require a lot of dodging or have objectives that keep popping up on different parts of the map (teleporting sylvari bomber, escorting exploding zombies, bouncing between mender and statue, etc.), which puts a lot of pressure on melee builds. Ranged builds have a much easier time about it, moreso if they have knockback/immobilize.
I can sympathize, if my condi thief were in Dire are well I can imagine it would have taken forever as well, thankfully I run Carrion instead because of how frequently there’s crit and condi immune content in the game.
Most of my characters also carry a second set of armor, typically Berserker or Soldier, for situations like this one. I’d suggest you also invest in an alt set/build as well, so you can stick to playing how you want most of the time and switch out when the game starts penalizing you for that.
It is allowed, in fact JQ and TC have allied against BG before, and BG and JQ have allied against TC as well.
One day you’ll get your turn double-teaming TC or BG, but today is not that day.
This is only possible if the MMO supports streaming updates (meaning the game will update as you play, no need to restart the client to see new content), which GW2 does not; even if it did, allowing the community the ability to publish content freely creates massive server loads and connectivity issues, not to mention absolutely juvenile and/or stolen content popping up everywhere (do you really want GW2 to become Second Life?).
There was another thread where someone mentioned SOE started a user submission program, where you can create something, upload it to SOE, and let them decide whether or not it’s appropriate to go into the game; however it’s unlikely even that would happen because the chances of someone sneaking in a model that they stole from another game/modder are fairly high and it’s impossible for a moderator to catch them all, so that just exposes ANet to legal liabilities.
There’s even quite a few outfits that wouldn’t work as clothing, unless you packed a month-worth supply of double sided tape. Especially among some of the light armors.
Such as this one:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/9/99/Flamekissed_Light_Armor_Skin_human_female_front.jpg
Female parts would not hold that top up, unless it came with double sided tape, or was made out of a fiberglass shell. It’s like the designers never heard of straps, or just don’t know where to put them.
Don’t discount safety pins.
Oh, thanks! In a moment of complete kitten the list I thought was for last month was actually for March. Looks like it was recent enough that it won’t go on sale for the remainder of this month or next month.
Does anyone know when the last time the name change contract went on sale? I’ve heard there was a site that keeps track of all past gem store sales, but haven’t really been able to find anything (best I can find was what went on sale last month).
Thinking of buying it to make some changes to a character, but would be kinda silly to buy it now only to have it go on sale in the near future.
I only played the original GW1, never got into the expansions, so I don’t qualify for HoM rewards… but I also think they should remain GW1 exclusives; how many MMOs give you anything for coming from another MMO (even within the same publisher)? It’s a nice nod to the people who supported the game back in the day and it’s even nicer that they’ve kept GW1 for people to still get the skins. By all accounts getting the points for all the skins is fairly easy, it’s getting the titles that require lots and lots of grinding.
There’s just no way my necromancer could ever walk around with a weapon that has a giant heart on it.
What if it was the still-beating heart of your enemies?
Ah the old Guild Wars-mentality of ‘I only want realistic stuff’. I like the fancy kitten. If I want simpe and realistic stuff, I have the reality that surrounds me about 95% of the time.
“I only want realistic stuff” doesn’t prevent you from getting your fancy stuff, it’s just additional options for people who don’t share your taste.
Also I want to know what part of the world you live in where you’re surrounded by medieval armor and melee weapons 95% of the time. Do you work in a museum or something?
To be fair, the artists making these weapons aren’t under the illusion that they’re remotely practical, so pointing out the flaws isn’t much of an argument. A lot of people like these over-the-top designs (I’m not one of them, however) and that’s who they’re appealing to; if we want to see more practical and elegant designs, we just have to convince them that there’s an equally large (or large enough) audience to make appealing to us worth the effort.
No how idea we could go about accomplishing that, sadly.
Would be neat if each of the NPCs had their own culturally relevant nickname for our characters. “Boss” sounds like something Marjory would say, Rox seems like the type who would use the “commander” title, Braham could say “champ”, while Taimi and Kasmeer… I can’t really imagine what they would use.
Every day I run the Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon.
And every day I have an Asuran asking me if I can taste colors – no, wait, nevermind, be proud I have furthered the bounds of SCIENCE.
Nope, I don’t think what Taimi did was a stretch at all.
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Blade shards aren’t on the TP, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have value.
You need 50 sprockets to make about 10 blade shards. That means bladeshards are about 5x the value of sprockets. Simples.
Why do people fixate on words. Wrrrrrrrryyyyyy.
Well, given that most RNGs use time as a component of its seed, a “consume all” option might heavily skew the results of opening boxes; it’s likely a majority people will get nothing, but a few outliers will wind up getting an exotic/ascended for every box opened.
Thats how RNG works.
With this feature you would have the option to use it, but you don’t have to,
if this breaks the “feeling” for you of opening rng boxes.
I’m just tired of breaking my hand by klicking through everything.
The same should be done with vendors, so you can choose how much of a
specific Item you want to buy, so you don’t have do klick million times for obsidian shards or items that even need confirmation each time (icy rune stones)…
Er, no, I’m not saying it’s a “feeling”, I’m saying “consume all” can potentially break an RNG.
Warning: long winded explanation incoming.
RNGs work by taking a seed and applying it to a mathematical formula to produce a wide variety of seemingly random results, but ultimately it’s still a formula; if you input the same seed ten time into the formula, you get the same results ten times. Almost every RNG uses the time and date as part of the seed, because it’s a number that’s constantly changing, and ANet’s RNG isn’t going to be any different (why reinvent the wheel, after all); a “consume all” function will cause all boxes in a stack to be opened with the exact same time and date, which means the results of the RNG will be exactly the same as well, which in turn means using “consume all” on a stack of boxes will likely give you the exact same loot for each box in the stack.
So the only way ANet can avoid this is if a) they use a non-time dependent, constantly changing value for the RNG seed or b) code “consume all” to work like the crafting queue and opens a box/use a consumable once per second; the former is highly unlikely while the latter can increase server loads in unexpected ways.
End long-winded explanation.
As for clicking things, the oft-suggested solution is to temporarily bind your left-click to the mouse wheel, though it certainly would be nice if vendors had an interface that allowed you to select how much of a good you want to buy and sell.
You could always buy a second set of armor and apply the krytan skin to it, it’ll cost a bit more (if you convert 700 gems to gold), but you’ll get to keep the ability to mix and match.
After that whole debacle with the blade shard trader in Labyrinthine Cliff, I really don’t expect ANet to do anything else with it unless they bring Scarlet back in some weird time travel event that trashes LA again with another invasion.
And feel free to blame me if that actually happens.
Because, whether you can access it or not, it is much easier to get Watchwork Sprockets?
Would still be nice to have a use for blade shards for people who do not want or need to make spinal blade packs.
Or, hell, just make blade shards not account bound so I can at least give it to someone who might find it useful.
And? I still see that is says blade shards are “utterly worthless”. I pointed out the fact that they are not.
Well, let’s rephrase what I said by removing the emphasized parts:
Why is there a recipe to convert 50 watchwork sprockets to 10 blade shards, but not vice versa?
Why is there a recipe to convert 50 watchwork sprockets to 10 blade shards, but not vice versa?
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This is not a topic about editing nor about clarity.
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Well, given that most RNGs use time as a component of its seed, a “consume all” option might heavily skew the results of opening boxes; it’s likely a majority people will get nothing, but a few outliers will wind up getting an exotic/ascended for every box opened.
I’m not disabled, so I don’t share your perspective on disabled characters, but I never thought of Taimi’s disability to be some attempt at tugging at heart strings; it was an aspect of her character, which she manages by herself for the most part, and the only thing that really caused concern was her dogged pursuit of everything Scarlet. Every time Taimi stops to investigate Scarlet by herself, my thought isn’t “oh geez, don’t leave the disabled kid by herself”, it’s “oh geez, she’s either going to wind up a pile of ashes with a bow tie on top or go completely insane”.
As for Braham… that’s just dumb. Sorry, don’t mean to offend, but seriously: gentle giants are a cliche that existed long before the feminism movement. There’s nothing “feminist” about the stereotype, it’s just something that’s frequently used for characters who are either meant to be followers and/or not to be villains; being offended by something like that just makes you look hypersensitive.
Rox is a longbow ranger, she just has the decency to spam Barrage instead of knocks.
I am nto really sure why bleeding and other conditions are capped to 25? Everyone should be able to deal hi damage and that’s it. But no, you have only 10 options for a build in pvp (10 amulets), you can not play a condition build because 200 ppl can only have 25 stacks:) load of xxx:)
I believe the cap is to prevent conditions from become too overpowered in PvP/WvW (it’s already pretty hefty as-is), but the downside is it basically cripples condition builds in group PvE events. If they remove the cap, conditions will become useful again in group PvE, but then PvP/WvW players will suffer when zergs instantly drop 100 stacks of bleed/poison and the DoT kills people faster than they can heal/cleanse.
I’m quitting forever if a holographic clone of a child we failed to rescue shows up in the end to tell us how dragons are actually trying to save us from uncontrolled magic usage by killing us before we get that far.
I wonder if Taimi has been studying Scarlet’s holomagic?
Holographic clone of dead Taimi confirmed.
that has been patched Pandaman.. latest patch disabled the ability to complete the event then go back…. but tbh I also followed the Dulfy guide and never attacked anything, got all 7 to retreat and still nothing.. otherway is to rescue Lindsay and then run round speaking to them and not attack anything.. still nothing…. some players just seem to be lucky and get it.. map chat right now is talking about it as quite a few players have run it since the latest patch and never got a sausage… its borked for sure imo and ANET need to stop wasting players time, if they aren’t properly QA’ing these metas don’t bother putting them in I say.
Oof, yeah, just checked the patch notes when I noticed there was an update, sorry to hear that :/
So glad I managed to get it before the patch, don’t really care for trying to save NPCs who die when they stub their toes too hard.
I’m quitting forever if a holographic clone of a child we failed to rescue shows up in the end to tell us how dragons are actually trying to save us from uncontrolled magic usage by killing us before we get that far.
I followed the dulfy guide and did the mission to the end, then backtracked to resurrect and order those survivors to retreat for the achievement. I had to try this twice because one of the NPCs died and couldn’t be resurrected, but I believe the trigger for this bug is if you attack any of the mobs en route to Lindsay – once the PC damages them, they can permanently kill NPCs they attack, even if the NPC hasn’t spawned yet.
It’s a similar observation to dulfy’s, where the guide suggests you not attack mobs engaged with the NPCs because if you fail to save them they can’t be resurrected.
A Zerker on:
Claw of Jormag
Tequatl The Sunless
The Shatterer
Fire Elemental
Jungle Wurm
Triple Trouble
Shadow Behemoth
Golem Mark IIis a weakened character. You cannot critically hit those bosses. Two stats wasted.
EDIT: Can’t say the abbreviation of GNU Image Manipulation Program here.
So? It’s generally accepted knowledge you don’t bring Zerk gear to anything that can’t be crit, just like it’s accepted that you don’t bring condi to any group event because the cap makes anything more than two condition builds completely redundant.
Also have a shameless self-plug of a half-baked idea on how condition can be fixed for PvE.
Due to various balancing and server load issues, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see the condition cap removed or separate condition stacks for each player, so I had a crazy thought: how about condition bursts?
The basic idea is that you still have a cap on condition damage, but once the cap is hit the condition stack will instantly “burst” for its damage multiplied by remaining time left on the stack (so that condition damage and condition duration would remain desirable stats); once the condition has burst, it will wipe the condition and allow players to start building stacks again (possibly with a short buff that prevents additional stacks of that particular buff from being applied for a couple seconds, to mitigate possible condition burst spam).
This would allow multiple condition build characters to participate in group events without becoming uselessly redundant, provide a means for said characters to burst those massive HP pools that bosses enjoy, and introduce a new cooperative dynamic beyond the standard combos.
Of course, I understand that this would make conditions even more devastating in PvP/WvW, so perhaps instead of a straight damage * remaining time burst, it can be a burst for a percentage of health (of which is determined by condition damage and duration stats).
Or maybe I’m just babbling and should get some rest.
I’m not interested in minis. I might use one if they didn’t disappear every time you zone, if it didn’t take up an inventory slot and if it didn’t go to the collectibles bank every time you deposit all collectibles. Yes, I know about invisible bags but I don’t carry enough items that I don’t want deposited.
Actually, miniatures don’t get automatically deposited anymore when you hit “Deposit All”, the rest is still true though.
Well, Marjory did rather spell it out: she’s going to lose control if Kasmeer tries to comfort her, which she knows will happen even if she tells her not to, and she needs to stay in control to arrange for Belinda’s body to be sent back home, to arrange for the funeral, and to break the news to her family.
She just sent Kasmeer away so the strong front she’s putting up won’t break prematurely.
Answer: No. As we’ve seen, Mordremoth seems to be going after specific waypoints, not all of them (specifically ones closer to ley lines), and Taimi’s already working up a way to protect waypoints from getting snared by it later on.
Actually, he isn’t going after specific waypoints, in both Concordia and Fort Salma there were powerful artifacts in proximity to the waypoints when the vines appear: the former had Krytan artifacts passing by, while the latter had Krait shards from the Tower of Nightmare.
Mordremoth is seeking out powerful magic items, just as Zhaitan did with his Eyes and Mouths, but it looks like he’s using the leylines/waypoint network as his “web” (borrowing the analogy Taimi used) and sending vines whenever an artifact gets near it (though it’s odd the Priory wasn’t amongst the first attacked then, maybe their artifacts aren’t quite as powerful as Krait shards and current-ruler amulet?).
You really should have used them up. I made more money during Gauntlet than 4 months of farming. I made at least 2000g just picking up all those monocles and chaos recipes.
Then you’re one of the lucky ones, I went through around 4.5k gauntlet tickets and only got one monocle (light), one recipe, one spore backpiece, and four hybrid minis. Gauntlet is a terrible way to make money unless you happen to be very, very lucky.
Keep in mind that a lot of the loot decisions are structured around account based MF now, as stacking MF is basically the “endgame” stat progression for GW2. Thus, the idea is that you start out on blue/green drops and luck them out until eventually those drops start to poop out better stuff.
It would not at all suprise me if inventory bags were subject to MF.
Actually, a dev has made it clear that MF only affects mob drops and PvP mob chests.
The real question is whether there is an alternative that is better than the current system. The answer is no – without completely reconfiguring the game there is no system that would work better than what is already in place. There are small tweaks that can, have and currently are being made, but demanding sweeping changes to the system is futile, what you’re asking for will destroy the game in the long run, and only make the imbalance between casual players and grinders even bigger in the short run.
Actually, the PvP reward track is a nice example of a system already in place that incorporates RNG without ignoring effort. You can still get lucky with a precursor or ascended box drop, but there is fixed reward at the end you can work toward.
Alternatively ANet can just make a repeatable achievement with a reward box at the end, just like the repeatable activities achievements (Southsun Survival Regular, Belcher’s Bluff Regular, etc.); have one for each world boss and repeatable content (like Queen’s Gauntlet) where you are guaranteed a hoard after killing Teq a hundred times (that’s still over three months of effort if you do once a day, every day) or a Chaos of Lyssa after repeating the Gauntlet a thousand times.
But when it was up, you could only spend them to run the gauntlet, which was both annoying and way too time consuming. It would have taken be hundreds of hours to get through all those tickets. They need a way to just convert them into something useful, even at an exchange rage of less than a copper per ticket.
Well, with four gambits five thousand tickets would have been a thousand fights, a Zerk warrior against Hamli only takes roughly 30 seconds per round (time on the catwalk talking to NPCs included, assuming you had an arena all to yourself with nobody else in queue), so the total would come to… 8 hours and 20 minutes. Even if you took a full minute per round that would still be 16 hours and 40 minutes, so it would have been doable if you slowly chipped away at it over the course of a month rather than saving it all up until the end.
Now if the blade shard vendor taught us anything it’s that post-event conversion will be an afterthought at most, so you can keep the tickets to do the gauntlet next time for a pathetically low chance at something decent, keep them in the vain hope there will be a ticket vendor (who will give you trash that isn’t worth the space you wasted holding onto the tickets for), or simply save yourself the grief and trash them.
Only useable in the Queen’s Pavilion, which is closed until the next Festival.
healing and tanking stats in a game that doesn’t reward healing and tanking.
Yet! The correct response it “yet”. I’m assuming that the dev’s have something in mind for the stat in the future.
Yes, I did bring up this possibility in an earlier (now deleted) thread, but that doesn’t change the fact it’s speculation based on circumstantial evidence and doesn’t change the fact that the Nomad set is in a terrible place right now.
I mean, really, they haven’t made the monk class yet, but that doesn’t justify me stripping naked and trying to punch Teq to death.