Guild Wars 2

Nothing to do with your server and no bug either. There were question marks in october (Halloween) and november (Lost Shores) and guess what, those missing achievement were to do with those events. This month is winterday. You’ll have to do winterday stuff to finish your monthly.

Would the drop rate of karka shells be influenced by diminishing return? So the more karka you kill, the lower the drop rate, unless you take a break every now and then?

Fractals are somehow not considered dungeons at all. They didn’t count for the dungeon part of last month’s monthly achievement and they use personal story mechanics when considering connection and rejoin-your-party-issues.

Last night I was in a dungeon when a new build became available. Our party got a warning that the game would restart in 3 hours. After finishing and leaving the dungeon, the game updated automatically. In my opinion you get a very reasonable amount of time to finish your dungeon when a new build is implemented. But I agree that outside of dungeons the warning could be better.

All destroyer weapons (crafted exotics) look like they are made of lava, have a nice glow and subtle particle effect. There are destroyer rifles and pistols as well.

Which back item are you using? I’m using the halloween book (complete edition) and it doesn’t disappear when I use axe (which is my weapon of choice).

Oh, so the great “this is unfair” whining has started again, guess it’s that time of year. Well, life can be unfair. I couldn’t even get online during the event, the login-server just wouldn’t let me in. I missed the whole Karka attack on LA and guess what, I won’t be compensated for that. Disappointing? Sure! For, like, one day or something. But if you feel treated unfair or disappointed, do as I did and get over it. Stop acting like a spoiled brat and go enjoy Tyria. There’s no time to mourn over missed chances on free shiny pixels, Tyria needs you.

Garambola.2461:

Well, how about those of us who do not want to go to Fractals at all, if possible. Or those of us who really are not favourites of RNG?

Is there anything even in existance that is better than the green back item from Personal Story?
If there is, where should one hunt for it?

There are quite a lot of rare lvl80 back items on the trade post at the moment, for about 2 silver each (prices are low because they can’t be salvaged). They are called “something spineguard”, like Soldier’s Spineguard.

For a list of back items (so you can search the trade post):
http://www.gw2db.com/items/back

Why farm for exotic if you can farm for ascended? :P Do fractals until you get a “vial of condensed mists essence” to drop. Then farm loads of rare items and craft your own back piece in the mystic forge.

On the wiki page of the vial of condensed mists essence is an overview of back pieces that need this ingredient, with a comparison of stats:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vial_of_Condensed_Mists_Essence

The stats you want are on
Quiver of Swift Flight: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quiver_of_Swift_Flight
Book of Secrets: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Book_of_Secrets
Prototype Fractal Capacitor: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prototype_Fractal_Capacitor_%28Ascended%29

Oh my, did I waste a lot of time on that POI first time I wanted to complete Kessex Hills… Stubborn as I am, I wasted almost an entire evening of playtime on finding that point and finally decided that it was probably bugged, there was nothing on the island and there were no tunnels beneath it. After that, I went to complete the rest of the zone so when later, if the POI was no longer bugged, I could return and grab it for fast zone completion. By pure coincidence I blundered into this tunnel and got a POI without even realizing it was the one I was looking for all the time. It actually came as a surprise when I saw I completed the map :’)

Manoa.5897:

Tenshi.3598:

On odd levels you get 3, on even ones you get 4, so say doing 1+2 should get you 7 fractals.

This is how it works. I haven’t done my fractals this month. But last month, I was able to complete level 1 (which contained 3 fractals) and level 2 (which contained 4 fractals) and completed the fractal component for my monthly.

I assume it works the same for this month’s monthly achievement.

I can confirm that it is how it works. I did level 1 and 2 fractals last night and got that part of the monthly achievement done.

marnick.4305:

optional step 0) buy yellows for every slot to get started. For less than a gold you can get full rare armor. While not best in slot will give you enough stats to start doing dungeons/orr/southsun/whatever.

Prices for lvl80 rares have gone up quite a lot recently, due to the value of ectoplasms. Don’t expect a full set for less than a gold, it’s actually close to 2G at the moment. But yeah, a full rare set isn’t that much less viable than a full exotic set. Exotics are overrated.

Vile.7043:

I stumbled upon this thread and I think that you guys might help me with my question. I was wondering if there are any ways to monitor the achievements. I did not found any hot keys or tabs that are showing your progress and what you have done so far. Yesterday, I was at 97% of what seems to be my daily achievement progress but I was not able to finish it because I did not knew what to do to get my last bit. I’ve tried harvesting stuff, killing diversity of monsters, completing quest hearts but I could not filled that last 3%. It’s a shame really because I’ve wasted a karma jug

I’m fairly new to this game (lvl 25) and there’s still stuff that I don’t understand. I did not even knew that there was daily stuff that you can do for extra rewards 2 days ago. Sometimes a reward popped and I did not knew where it came from. Of course that was the completion of my daily but I didn’t notice it because I was overwhelmed by all the new stuff I was discovering at the same time. Can someone enlighten me please ?

Big thanks!

Press H to open your hero screen, then at the very left of the hero screen click the Achievements tab. There you can see the daily and monthly achievements and their progress (what’s been done and what’s not) as well as every other possible achievement in game.

SanctumSyte.5019:

Actually there’s a very easy solution to this. If you find a name that you want to invite to your party and right click Invite to party does not show then just add them as a friend. Press Y to open your friends list and right click the name there and Invite to party. Right after they join you can just delete the name. Same principle if you wish to join a party instead of inviting someone to join yours.

Admittedly it is annoying to have to do this, but until Arenanet fixes the invite glitch these extra steps are a necessity.

This way you won’t have to remember a bunch numbers that correspond to an accent or have to constantly switch between game and the forums just to spell a name.

Hey thanks, I wasn’t aware of that workaround!

I think the Asura experiments are fun but NPC’s could definitely be a bit less repetitive…

“Any plan that involves raptors is, by design, foolproof. I’m an unmitigated genius!” I’ve heard it a million times now.

I don’t like the boring endless snowy areas in Norn territory really that much. I completed them on my Norn. On my other toons I just do them if I want something I can’t get anywhere else (Jotun greatsword and tailor recipes for the shadow set come to mind, both in Snowden Drifts which looks very much like the Norn starting area itself). If I want a raw, alpine environment I prefer to play Skyrim instead, which just looks better.

The Sylvari area ain’t my favourite either. It looks great, but I found it a boring area to complete. Asura is slightly better, mainly because of the humorous Asuran experiments you encounter there.

The two areas I could do over and over again are Charr (my all-time fav) and Human (humans are wussies but their areas look great and are nice to play).

The biggest problem with names like these is that rightclicking a name does not always give the option to invite that person. If only that function would work fine, typing names would be history (at least for me).

Lexy.3912:

I thought all mob fire elementals were called embers. The only exception is the big fire elemental in the reactor in metrica.

For the OP this page says there are also some in Malchor’s leap, I can’t remember where they would be but hopefully someone else will.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ember

The only SECOND exception is fire elementals summoned by elementalists (either players or elementalist mobs) :-)

I think the fire elementals in Malchor’s Leap are only there during some event, can’t recall what or where exactly though.

The fire elementals in Mt Maelstrom are named “Ember”, not sure if they drop molten cores. Never did for me at least.

Molten cores drop in the Citadel of Flame dungeon, at least on the explorable paths but maybe on the story as well (not sure, only did story once). Don’t expect many cores per run, I’ve been doing CoF path 1 and 2 most nights for the pass 2 weeks and got about 15 cores. They’re rare.

I’ve made me a glass canon full dps set for my warrior and it’s CoF and draconic themed, with a destroyer greatsword:
http://tweakers.net/ext/f/gvnbMKOqCBS7AYfiBpiipY8P/full.jpg

Now I want to make me a second set which should have more tankish stats. And I want it to look entirely different. I’m thinking a mix of temple gear and Charr cultural. But with a different theme come different colours.

But if I want to switch between those two sets and still have the colours of my taste, I have to paint every single dye slot for every piece and when I switch back I have to experiment until I have the exact same result as before the first switch. Because I’ve spent quite a lot of time to get my armour look like I wanted it to.

It would be great if we would have a couple of slots per character where we could save a dye theme and switch between these slots instantly. Or alternatively, to have slots where we could save entire gear sets including dye choices and switch between them instantly.

Zogyark.4597:

It exists, just no one has got it o.O

And THAT is what I find hard to believe. Every single event in this game must’ve been done 100k times by now, I just can’t believe Arenanet puts so much effort in creating a unique looking weapon that is so rare noone ever saw it after the big wave of event participation has gone by.

I know what 1 dev has said. I know it’s available in the PvP locker. I just have never seen actual proof that it does or can indeed drop in PvE.

I strongly believe that it is not Arenanet’s intention for any weapon to be more rare than legendaries and there are plenty of those on pretty much every server by now. Either this staff is not on any loot table at the moment, or something’s badly bugged.

Just my 2 cents.

As far as I know (but I might be wrong, maybe there are some HoM-skins for daggers) the only real dagger skins are the ones from the Halloween event. I think you might find them more hideous than the ones you have though :P

Obly.9243:

Hello everyone,

Although most minor patches are just bug fixes and event tweaks, still I would like to see ArenaNet to create a Locked forum section where it states what they patched.

Right now I have no clue what the “New Build” is, or what changed, except that all events reset. This is more to stay in the loop of things.

If there is already such a forum section, I cant find it.

Anyone else feel the same as I do about this?

Obly Out

You mean a section like this?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-December-3-2012

I’ve been playing since head start and still haven’t seen everything. My main (lvl80 ranger) has seen 64% of the world. Next is my lvl80 warrior (50%-ish). Then I got a lvl39 elementalist and a lvl39 necromancer. Then an lvl25 thief that has been standing next to crafting stations since level 10 (got skill 400 in jewelcrafting now). And finally a lvl23 guardian.

Nope, GW2 ain’t too short for me, there’s just so much to do! But for me, being an altoholic is the thing that keeps me going.

Guardians are definitely more “paladin-ish” than warriors and can be a great utility / support profession, depending on how you spec your guardian. While warriors are -imho- mainly dependent on a large health pool and/or high armour rating for survival, guardians have a much smaller health pool but rely heavily on healing and damage mitigation through skills and traits. I find both classes much fun to play. Imo warriors have a bit of a raw edge while guardians are more or less the “good guys”.

Depends. If you can AoE a lot longbow warrior >>> rifle warrior. Single target I’m not sure.

Tumbero.3945:

I love how the carebears defend the pve , awesome as always.

I love how I’m apparently the carebear while I’m the one having a great time in Tyria. I love how you take the effort to post but still contribute nothing. And yeah, I love GW2’s PvE.

Nunna.6413:

This is guild wars 2. it is not supposed to be just another MMO where we are forced to grind our kitten off so we can get things. many people buy this game because anet made a statement that all content can be reach from anywhere in the game, there will be no forcing of anything and you can do whatever the F you want ingame. but now all the promises are broken. we start seeing this pattern that you ‘must’ do this go get something. if you can’t see that and keep being happy while anet keeps making bad decision, then go ahead, be happy and keep defending them blindly. but people are allowed to complain and make suggestion. 2 months without monthly achievement is a lot of loss for some of us.

You AREN’T forced to do anything.
You CAN “do whatever the F you want ingame” without grinding.
You DON’T need monthly rewards to get full exotic gear within 1 day of getting to level 80.
And karma gear’s not better than any other exotic gear.
You can see all dungeons and zones and events with crafted or bought or grinded gear to your level.

So show me where the broken promise is. Go play the game as you want instead of misinterpreting every single promise Arenanet has made. If you want no grind, don’t grind. If you don’t want any feeling of accomplishment, don’t chase achievements. Just don’t spoil it all for the rest because what it basically comes down to is that you’re whining about the fact that there are optional weapon- and armour skins that are too hard to get with your play style. Fine, suck it up, deal with it, get other skins and accept that we don’t all want to be as casual. You simply cannot expect to get all skins without ANY effort.

melodyca.8921:

Some of us don’t have the time to grind 3-4 hours a night doing Fractals.

3-4 hours a night??? You need 7 fractals done for the monthly. 7 in total, not per night. A series of 3 fractals is 1 to 1.5 hour total if you’ve never done them. In 3-4 hours, ONCE A MONTH, you can get them done. There are some things in this game that need grinding for. 7 fractals a month ain’t one of them. There are 28 more days to go this month.

If so little effort already feels too much for you all, I wonder why you feel entitled to the ACHIEVEMENT.

The only bad thing about the fractals being included in the monthly is that some people can’t complete any of them because bugs resulting in disconnects or game crashes lock players out from their own party. But don’t start about too much effort or grinding.

They’ll probably be in another overflow or on the actual server. Rightclick one of your party members, then join that person. Before entering Fractals, everybody should join the same person this way or your group ends up split up in Fractals.

And not just the flame eyes, but the other elementalist starter head pieces as well… It’s a real pitty. It has been reported since launch (and for all I know in betas as well) and just never been addressed. Sad elementalist alt here.

Dear Toymaker Tixx,

I miss Lion’s Arch, even when I’m in Lion’s Arch. I’m there but it just doesn’t feel right anymore. It no longer feels like home. Someone told me I’m suffering from a disease called Overflow.

I think I don’t even need to tell you how good I’ve been. Tales of my adventures must’ve reached your ears by now and they’re all about me doing good deeds. As, of course, one would expect from a guardian.

My wish list is really short, so short it shouldn’t be called a list anyway:

Please remove the entrance to the Fractals from the Lion’s Arch map.

Thank you in advance!

Ophrys Pallida, Sylvari guardian.

Getting full exotic gear takes a little farming that can hardly be called a grind, unless you want to have it in 3 days after getting to lvl80. What DOES take a grind is obtaining some of the more spectacular exotics and the legendary items. Arenanet never said there would be no grind in the game, just that you didn’t NEED to grind to do all content. Which is true. You can see and do all content without legendaries and it doesn’t matter what exotics you’re wearing, they’re all “best in slot”. The only difference is the looks, which makes the grinding completely optional. I don’t see at all how ppl can be mad about that. Grinding is the ONLY mechanism that provides players a chance to obtain something unique-ish, don’t spoil that chance because there is a market for uniqueness of looks. It’s pretty much the only thing in this whole game that provides certain players a goal and a sense of achievement once the goal’s been reached.

You don’t want to grind? Then don’t and enjoy your more common looking gear. Just don’t wish for ALL gear to look common.

Explorable dungeons, fractals, crafting or grinding better looking exotics, world exploration (only had 46% explored when I reached lvl80), jumping puzzles, mini dungeons, WvWvW, guild activities. And leveling a multitude of alts.

Did you just try to drag the swords into the transmute screen and then press the transmute button? If so, you’ve got to choose appearance (top part of the transmutation screen, either pick left or right sword), stats (again, pick left or right sword) and upgrade (left or right). Only once all 3 options have been picked you can hit transmute.

Mr Cranch.3768:

I joined a spontaneous party the other day and the other players were pretty solid. I had hoped to track them down later, so I wrote down their character names, but the Contacts menu isn’t finding them. Is there a way to find them again? (No, I didn’t get their account names; I didn’t think of it.) My follow-up question would be: I can contact them via in-game email, right?

P.S. Yeah, they might not want me to find them (I think I held my own!), but here’s hoping…

It won’t help you much in this particular case but it might in the future: next time, don’t write down their names but rightclick them and add them to your contact list rightaway.

I saw these names as well and actually found them very amusing.

Dear Toymaster Tixx,

I honestly swear I tried to be a good Charr this year, I really did! And I’m pretty sure I mostly succeeded, in a clumsy sort of way. So please don’t use that one occasion against me, you know, the one time I ran out of toilet paper… I mean, I never meant to hurt the feelings of that Asura Mesmer but being in a dense jungle environment where every other plant was either home to a nest of venomous spiders or just plain poisonous, her dress was really the only thing around that wouldn’t wreak havoc to the tender area beneath my tail. True, I shouldn’t have eaten Deputy Jenks’s entire black bean plot a day before that unhappy accident in the first place but after chewing on icebrood wolfs for two weeks during my adventures it was the first thing remotely edible I saw after arriving in Kessex Hills. How the hell could I know they belonged to Jenks, or the fact the beans would mess with my bowels more than all the candy corn I ate during Halloween?

Anyway, I promised the Asura girl I’d buy her a new dress and I told Deputy Jenks I’d restore his bean plot. But then I had a small accident with a well of corruption. As intended, the creepy grub thingy died, but so did the very patch of land where the bean plot was located. It won’t be usable for growing anything for the next 20 years at least I’m afraid. As a compensation I killed Jenks’s neighbor so Jenks could move over to the adjacent patch of land but then I had to compensate the neighbor’s widow. Which left me with so little gold that I’m afraid I can’t buy the Mesmer a new dress this year. Basically it’s all Jenks’s fault, ofcourse, because he shouldn’t have grown such foul vegetables in the first place (or any vegetables at all, to be honest), but for some reason I’m still feeling a tad guilty.

So now you might understand why I’m not asking you for much at all. I’m just asking you to give the Asura a new dress. I don’t know her name but I’m sure you won’t have a hard time finding her, the smell of her dress is terrifying.

Also, would you be in a forgiving mood, I’d love to get my hands on one of those Deathwish staffs. I’ve been good this year. Don’t listen to what others say about me.

Caraxes Venomjaw

darkwolf.4236:

I’m sitting here watching someone teleport between multiple spawns killing mobs. It’s worse than a bot, since I can’t get to the next mob before they just teleport there.

Just report him in game?

I checked Diessa again last night and when I arrived at the cattlepult, the harpy event and test firing had just started. After the event, a couple more cows are fired in the general direction of the tower (and the harpy nests) and then the NPC says something like “Allright, playtime’s over, back to work”. After that, the cattlepult is set on “autolaunch” according to the NPC and players are able to interact with it. And it worked!

So, on Piken Square something seems to have been either fixed, or reset. Solved for me, now, let’s hope it lasts for others.

@ Thermidor: Make sure you interact directly with the cattlepult, at the side that faces the tower. The disabled content is something of a gamble game that was shut down for some reason, not the cattlepult. I think when you’re standing on the right spot and the cattlepult allows interaction, you see an option to “read the warning” or something like that.

You don’t need a consumable to unlock Mistfire Wolf elite skill, it’ll just unlock as soon as you hit level 30. Check your skill screen (one of the tabs at the left when you hit “H” on your keyboard) and scroll down to the elite skills, it will be there (all the way to the right at the top row of elite skills).

The book you used is 1 per account and gives influence to your guild, nothing to do with the elite skill.

Seras.5702:

Look up the word “unique” in a dictionary and I guarantee it says nothing about “only 1 being equipped at a time.” A truly unique item would mean that only 1 appears in all of Tyria. To assume a player would read the word “unique” and immediately jump to the notion that “I can only have one of these” is absurd.

Seriously, the thought “Hey, a unique item, let’s buy TWO!” is even more absurd.

Diggy.3760:

You seriously can’t preview your character when you are using one of those things? ANet is making it very hard for me to want to buy gems.

You can preview your character, just not the glow in case of Sylvari. I feel a bit silly I seem to have missed the option to change glow colour and intensity but in my case the glow fortunately was one of the few things I was actually happy about for this character. I wonder in what tab the glow was hidden this time.

Also, yes ofcourse you can use a fresh character slot to preview the looks you want to achieve on the character you want to make- over but I find it hard to leave a slot available. If I’d buy yet another slot I’d wanna use it sooner or later and have the same problem again.

I can confirm the equipment damage indicator is sometimes way off.

I’ve done path 1 of CoF exp several times and always took my gear off for the “frogger-part” to avoid repair bills in case I died. The times I did indeed die, as soon as I put back on my gear the “broken” indicator lit up but nothing WAS broken and in some occasions none of my gear was even damaged. Using the repair anvil at the entrance would not give me the option to repair anything in that last case, but removed the “broken” symbol from my interface.

Bought me a total makeover consumable off the gem store last night to redo the looks of my Sylvari guardian. I’m happy this is possible now. Thanks for the implementation of these nice items Arenanet!

What I found lacking however was an option to change the glow (both colour and intensity) of my Sylvari character. I’d love to see that implemented as well. I think many people didn’t even notice the Sylvari glow options during initial character creation (I know I didn’t) and this would just be THE chance to fix that afterwards!

Anhae.2167:

Sounds great… finally

One concern I still have… is there a delay of these packs coming on to the european servers? I cannot find any at the shop. Thanks

They were available on the European servers last night, guess they still are. They’re in the category Services.

Note to ppl who wanna re-customize their Sylvari: glow colour or intensity can’t be modified with these packs.

I recall seeing a place called Polymock Arenas on the world map as well, near Rata Sum. Can’t get there yet I think.

Dear Toymaker Tixx,

Being a Norn, I’ve been sober on two occasions this year and regret both occasions. As far as I can remember, I haven’t behaved particularly bad on those occasions. I was too busy searching my bank tabs for mead to get wasted again.

My wish list is short, I’m just hoping for an endless amount of ale and mead and other booze.

Gweee.6938:

It isn’t the cost of the item so much as it is the fact that it requires items from a market outside of the normal player-driven, non-irl cash based economy. So I am just wondering if you can randomly get it in the game or is the only way to get a Box of Fun through gems. Depending on people’s desire to spend irl cash to set the price of this weapon seems off.

It just seems odd that it would require that when no other weapon does.

You conveniently bypass the fact that you can exchange gold for gems and thus buy the boxes of fun with your in-game cash. Still much cheaper than buying all the lodestones for other legendaries.