Guild Wars 2

Ok I think there may be some confusion here. Are we talking about making the actual bags “account bound” so that we could trade them across chars via the bank or are we talking about “unlocking bag slots across all chars”?

Because for me we are talking the second. I can’t see it being feasible to simply make the bags account bound and tradable. Because where would we put them? Lets face it we are not buying bags when we purchase this we are actually unlocking slots. This is totally different to gathering tools and other such items.

So when I say all extra bags that I have purchased on my alts would have no use it’s exactly what I mean. Because simply put if they “unlock” the bag slots across all of our chars those extra slots I purchased would now be for nought.

Same issue for me in Drytop and even somewhat in Silverwastes. Are you sure it’s lag and not FPS? I think in my case my graphics card just really, really struggles with these maps because of the vertical spaces and all the detail in them. More than likely it is the same for you.

If however it is actually lag it could be there are a lot of people playing on that map and in the same area as you. Latency can also be a factor of this if you are located far, far away from USA like some of us who are stuck with anything from 200-1000 ping at times

Many variables come in to play tbh….
Good luck tho! As for myself I have to look at getting a better computer, can’t do anything about the latency tho.

Celtic Lady.3729:

traviswrdunbar.4780:

If “something breaks” its either software or hardware. That is not something, to the best of my knowledge a GM in ANY MMO is responsible for. In the vast majority of instances, GMs are responsible for dealing with player behavior.

There is an in-game bug report feature, as well as the tech support side of this forum, for everything else.

In LOTRO, when an instance bugs out, a GM will come and advance it for you, so you can get completion and not lose any progress.

I’ve also asked LOTRO GMs to unbug NPCs that won’t talk to me and they can do that, too, so yes, GMs in some other games are very helpful.

In the early days of Runescape I was well known to the game creators on the forums as I would post there a lot like I do here. It was very early days and botting started to become a problem so they had a thread up asking to report cases of botting. I came across one case and reported it on the forums. One of the game’s original creators happened to be online at the time watching the forums and jumped straight in game and came to my location. He found the bot and removed him right away. Into what they called “the black hole” in those days, pretty much trapping them in a room where they could not do anything lol.

So yes, they can very from game to game with their powers and willingness to help. I guess it all comes down to what they were actually hired to do in the first place and how busy they actually are at what they are doing and even then what they are even doing in the game at the time they are on their Anet accounts.

In this game’s case I would say it would be something they would not because – see my post above. But yet, it is nice to have some things helped with in game. But getting around things such as PS stories and associated bugs, I think that’s best left to the bugfix department and just waited on.

Ps, I can tell you tho it was soooooo satisfying to get rid of that bot that day lol. They were causing all sorts of problems for many players. Knowing that just 1 was taken out of the game was very satisfying. Especially this one as I think it was doing something silly as just opening and closing a door very fast so that people could not continue a quest or something. Basically just trolling….

CrashTestAuto.9108:

I think they should go the other way. Double the price, and make it apply to every character on the account. 400 gems is way too much. 800 for everyone is cheap, but would sell by the boatload (I don’t think the return on a higher price would be worth it, as there’s a slight psychological and cost factor in the way gems are bought over 800).

This is my thought as to what they would do as we saw it happen for the gathering tools. So the concern again then becomes would/should they refund those of us who have purchased bags for more than 1 account? I would say they would but to offset that they would hike the prices up a fair bit like they did with the tools. I would also say 800 gems might be a little too cheap for people who do run a lot of alts. So it could be a tough one for them to crack.

If you are talking about the part of the LS2 that makes you go through the maze it can be completed. You just have to know your way around and where to go. I did this 2 weeks ago on one of my alts and could not see the minimap either due to this issue.

So if it’s your first playthrough yes it may be rough but it is possible. So right now you have a few options:

1 – Wait for the fix.
2 – Try and stumble your way through it.
3 – Ask someone who has done it before who remembers it to help you out.

3 is possible as there are players like myself who have taken numerous alts through the LS2 PS who know the maze pretty well for the story instance. So perhaps try on the player helping player sub forum.

As to the topic at hand, I would say it’s good that GMS can’t take us through things by workarounds or whatever. Could you imagine all the cries on the forums from players demanding Gms to help them through every bug because “but they helped my friend so you have to help me too!”? Yeah I would say that would not be a good day for these Gms lol. They would probably not even want to log into the game anymore or hide on accounts without the Anet tag.

Tigaseye.2047:

SirDrygan.1823:

Jarvis.9540:

I understand that ANET has to make money (believe me, I’ve given them plenty), but 400 gems for one bag slot for one character is crazy. I think the fair thing here is to make bag slot purchases account bound.

Better than paying monthly USD15 like WoW isn’kitten And you can earn gems from farming gold in game.

It’s really not.

Especially if you also buy bank slots and like your character to look nice so buy armour sets and outfits and/or gathering tools, or minis, or musical instruments, or whatever.

I’m probably a fairly unusual case, but I have spent more on this game, in 9 months, than I would have spent on WoW in about 3 years.

…and I mostly do EotM/WvW, so my ingame financial future isn’t even looking that bright, either.

Paulytnz.7619:

If they did this they would have to do a lot of refunds…..
I have bought extra bags for 8 of my chars so all up that’s 8400 (3 bags for 7 of the chars) gems they would owe me? I can’t see that happening, it would be nice but still can’t see it…

I have 2 more chars who do not have extra bags as I have found they really are not even needed for whatever that’s worth.

There’s no legal requirement that says that, if a company drops the price of something, they have to partially refund previous purchasers.

If any company does this, they do it just as a courtesy, for customer relations purposes.

When we made that decision to buy, we did so agreeing to the current price at that time.

Not whatever new price may come in future.

Whether it be higher, or lower.

Tao.1234:

Stop whining.

Stating an opinion about a game, on its official forum, isn’t “whining”.

Complaining about someone stating an opinion about a game, on its official forum, on the other hand, may reasonably be viewed as that.

What are you talking about? My reply had nothing to do with if they dropped the prices of bag slots. It was in reply to the OP post in which the OP is talking about making the items account Bound.

Sure they may not have an obligation to refund us but I can tell you if they did not they would have a lot of unhappy people. Who would be happy to have spent real cash or in game gold to gems for items that have no use anymore? Or to have something the same as other people but in our cases spent a heck of a lot more cash for.

Also going by Anet’s past actions over such things (unlimited gathering tools) and their integrity in general I would say they would offer refund. So the only question that remains is if they would consider making these items account bound.

Behellagh.1468:

Well if you get the mastery there are new Karma vendors that are suppose to have some interesting stuff.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pact_Supply_Network_Agent

One of these items you can buy for 5k and lets you use it on any map with Bonus Rewards. It then gives you that bonus reward. Sure you can only buy 1 per day but I would say that’s another option.

If they did this they would have to do a lot of refunds…..
I have bought extra bags for 8 of my chars so all up that’s 8400 (3 bags for 7 of the chars) gems they would owe me? I can’t see that happening, it would be nice but still can’t see it…

I have 2 more chars who do not have extra bags as I have found they really are not even needed for whatever that’s worth.

Actually now that I think about it if they did do this they would probably up the cost to about 1k gems each slot. So I guess they would have a little bit less of a refund they would have to give me.

I had this same issue a couple of weeks ago when I did the LS2 on one of my alts. I sent in a bug report in game but I doubt they will rush to fix it at this point being that there is still a fair bit to fix up with HOT that is a bit more serious….

Luckily I had done the LS on 4-5 of my alts already so I sort of knew my way around it. If it’s your first go through I feel for you.

rsimoes.3851:

Paulytnz.7619:

They took loot out of Personal Stories a long to ago to help fight bots. Could be they saw the need to remove xp as well since it is very much needed for Masteries.

Remember not only Goldsellers bot. So do people who can’t be bothered to put in the hard work themselves for exp etc.

I don’t see this being left out because of bots since you actually have to pay more than 1 thousand gems to unlock the living story right now.

The way i see it is when Living World was realeased there was no mastery system, and since it had a lvl 80 requirement giving experience there was irrelevant, and now that we have the new mastery system, they might have forgotten to review the code from living world season 2.

I don’t see how having to pay 1000 gems means anything, besides there were a lot of us who didn’t have to pay that who were here and did those parts and got them for free.

What I am saying is, exp is needed a lot more now, it means something and it is required. This was not the case previously for those of us who had lvl 80. Sure the extra skill point was nice but it wasn’t really incentive for people to bot exp. Now with the mastery system and the HUGE amounts of exp points needed, yes some people would consider using a bot if it means less work for them. Btw I am not speaking strictly LS2 either I am talking any instance type content that could be botted without other players seeing the person doing it to be able to report.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Sometimes a decimal point is misplaced and things don’t quite align. It happens.

The thing I find funny about this pic is not that the mistake was made in the first place but the fact the builders built both sides as far as they did before they realised “ummm this wont work”

I guess the pic could have been photoshopped tho to being the bridges closer together just to give people the idea of what went wrong.

They took loot out of Personal Stories a long to ago to help fight bots. Could be they saw the need to remove xp as well since it is very much needed for Masteries.

Remember not only Goldsellers bot. So do people who can’t be bothered to put in the hard work themselves for exp etc.

That must be some great lunch and snacks as you mentioned it twice. I am thinking something with omnoms in them right!?

Anywho, to whoever gets to take this mission on good luck to you and I hope it’s something cool that will be added to the game soon for us all to see and play around with.

Lucifer.7289:

Paulytnz.7619:

Dude that’s Runescape or possibly WoW (never played it so can’t really say tbh) farming which does not really work here. You have to farm events for decent farming. :P In which case any class is fine just as long as you have a way of tagging a lot of mobs at once, some examples:

Engi – Flamethrower
Ranger – Longbow skill 5 with also the trait that gives Piercing to arrows.
Necro – Wells and/or staff.
Guardian – 2 Hander Sword/Staff/Longbow
Rev – Jalis, Vengeful Hammers – nuff said.
Mesmer – Staff?
Thief – Off the top of my head I can’t think of many aoe options…maybe traps? However I do like Sword/Pistol as you can bunch groups up and Spam Blind and fast attacks on them.

Ele – A lot of options here for aoes, staff is fine but daggers and such should be equally viable

Warrior – Ummm, I don’t really like warrior much, although they have access to a lot of weapons they seem to be master of none. Pretty much the Jack of all Trades that Engi was promised to be. Maybe 2 Hander and just spin though everything….

Now, to address your question about single farming and what’s best. Just go with something that’s fast at killing. Personally I like Ranger as I can send my pet to solo 1 while I take out another 1-3 on my own. Of course you can do similar on other classes just by attacking a group 1 at a time and them bringing them all together to aoe them down. Examples Necro wells/Rev Jalis, Vengeful Hammers.

Lot of options just play with things. :P

Guild wars 2 farming is the same as any other MMOS farming. Events for direct gold farming is terrible. Aoe farming mobs for x materials is the way to go, even more true once you hit Heart of Thorn maps which is pretty much mob grinding Korean style for that mastery XP after you do the big events.

The most efficient aoe farmer is still the Guardian with staff/greatsword or staff/scepter/focus ect.

Necromancer/Engi being 2nd best at aoe farming quickly if spamming the loot stick on the Guardian is boring.

Thief with shortbow/dagger/dagger is also not too bad but I would say it’s slower than Gurdian/necro/engi. Rest of the classes are much slower. Goal is for mass aoe farming very quickly, ranger and mesmer are terrible at aoe grinding.

I did not say events for the gold, that would be just plain stupid. It’s the lootbags you want. Obviously having the events scaled up because of a lot of people in the area is the ideal way to go as you get a lot more lootbags and a lot faster. Add to that now too the BONUS MAP REWARDS and it’s a double win. Shiny baubles anyone? Not to forget to mention lodestones and such as well.

Have you never done the daily events and seen how many mobs come because of the zerg? I can tell you its a lot more than you could find just roaming around solo tagging groups of mobs. Haranthi Hinterlands is a good one that comes to mind. The number of Centaurs that charge in to their deaths vs the zerg is crazy. But hey as I am getting my loot and bonus map rewards I am not complaining. :P

PopeUrban.2578:

Paulytnz.7619:

PopeUrban.2578:

Paulytnz.7619:

PopeUrban.2578:

I made some posts about this as well, and sadly, as of right now, you can’t. I reccommend keeping a “deletion item” in the guild’s inventory you can use to enter decorate mode until they correct this problem.

We have a special “reserved pumpkin” for this purpose.

Between this, the multiple missing items/recipies in the scribing and workshop system, the anemic basic deco list per upgrade level, and the quite frankly absurd scribing and workshop time costs of even the most basic completely cosmetic decorations it is obvious nobody at anet bothered to QA guild hall decorating in a live environment and they just tested the whole thing on dev consoles with admin commands.

I mean really. They reworked the whole system to remove ques from the upgrade system because it was frustrating and boring, and then put furniture that has no function at all on that same system, and made it compete with consumables like banners for que position.

The guild team needs to revise decorations. The material rarities of incredients, and the gold costs of basic decorations are absurd for a system that is to the hall what armor skins are to characters. I can get a TON of cheap common cosmetic skins for my character and a minority are high cost and high rarity.

It’s unreasonable that it requires no less than three people to fork over a guild mission reward, as well as ten quite rare pigments just to put arms on a kittening chair.

Looks like there will be a lot of issues that need to be looked at and rethought from what you are saying. But this, this is a very BASIC thing they should have thought of lol. No doubt yes they were all too used to using their dev commands to enter the editing system. So much so they forgot to put something in for us to be able to use. Really the mind boggles, I seriously think they rushed the release of HOT and it should have waited until after the new year. Because to be honest it wont be until then probably that we will have everything fixed and in working order.

We could have waited Anet! :P

PS, thanks for the deletion item tip. Too late for that now tho lol as we only clamed the hall a couple of hours ago so can’t create/add anything new yet. I will keep it in mind tho!

Does anyone in your guild have a special edition of HoT? If so you could just “suspend” one of the special decorations and use it for decoration mode and place it permanently later when they fix it.

Sadly I was the only one with the Deluxe purchased and that was part of what I have already placed. My 2 choppers and a couple of statues and a flag and such from what we had unlocked from earlier guild upgrades. So nope, gonna have to wait now until we can get the upgrades needed to start working on more decorations or until a fix for this comes.

You can buy a flagpole from the guild commendation vendor in the guild initiative office for like 1 commendation and 50s if my member serves correctly. That should also provide a “deletion item”

Oh yes I think I remember seeing that, thanks for reminding me I will check that out right away.

PopeUrban.2578:

Paulytnz.7619:

PopeUrban.2578:

I made some posts about this as well, and sadly, as of right now, you can’t. I reccommend keeping a “deletion item” in the guild’s inventory you can use to enter decorate mode until they correct this problem.

We have a special “reserved pumpkin” for this purpose.

Between this, the multiple missing items/recipies in the scribing and workshop system, the anemic basic deco list per upgrade level, and the quite frankly absurd scribing and workshop time costs of even the most basic completely cosmetic decorations it is obvious nobody at anet bothered to QA guild hall decorating in a live environment and they just tested the whole thing on dev consoles with admin commands.

I mean really. They reworked the whole system to remove ques from the upgrade system because it was frustrating and boring, and then put furniture that has no function at all on that same system, and made it compete with consumables like banners for que position.

The guild team needs to revise decorations. The material rarities of incredients, and the gold costs of basic decorations are absurd for a system that is to the hall what armor skins are to characters. I can get a TON of cheap common cosmetic skins for my character and a minority are high cost and high rarity.

It’s unreasonable that it requires no less than three people to fork over a guild mission reward, as well as ten quite rare pigments just to put arms on a kittening chair.

Looks like there will be a lot of issues that need to be looked at and rethought from what you are saying. But this, this is a very BASIC thing they should have thought of lol. No doubt yes they were all too used to using their dev commands to enter the editing system. So much so they forgot to put something in for us to be able to use. Really the mind boggles, I seriously think they rushed the release of HOT and it should have waited until after the new year. Because to be honest it wont be until then probably that we will have everything fixed and in working order.

We could have waited Anet! :P

PS, thanks for the deletion item tip. Too late for that now tho lol as we only clamed the hall a couple of hours ago so can’t create/add anything new yet. I will keep it in mind tho!

Does anyone in your guild have a special edition of HoT? If so you could just “suspend” one of the special decorations and use it for decoration mode and place it permanently later when they fix it.

Sadly I was the only one with the Deluxe purchased and that was part of what I have already placed. My 2 choppers and a couple of statues and a flag and such from what we had unlocked from earlier guild upgrades. So nope, gonna have to wait now until we can get the upgrades needed to start working on more decorations or until a fix for this comes.

PopeUrban.2578:

I made some posts about this as well, and sadly, as of right now, you can’t. I reccommend keeping a “deletion item” in the guild’s inventory you can use to enter decorate mode until they correct this problem.

We have a special “reserved pumpkin” for this purpose.

Between this, the multiple missing items/recipies in the scribing and workshop system, the anemic basic deco list per upgrade level, and the quite frankly absurd scribing and workshop time costs of even the most basic completely cosmetic decorations it is obvious nobody at anet bothered to QA guild hall decorating in a live environment and they just tested the whole thing on dev consoles with admin commands.

I mean really. They reworked the whole system to remove ques from the upgrade system because it was frustrating and boring, and then put furniture that has no function at all on that same system, and made it compete with consumables like banners for que position.

The guild team needs to revise decorations. The material rarities of incredients, and the gold costs of basic decorations are absurd for a system that is to the hall what armor skins are to characters. I can get a TON of cheap common cosmetic skins for my character and a minority are high cost and high rarity.

It’s unreasonable that it requires no less than three people to fork over a guild mission reward, as well as ten quite rare pigments just to put arms on a kittening chair.

Looks like there will be a lot of issues that need to be looked at and rethought from what you are saying. But this, this is a very BASIC thing they should have thought of lol. No doubt yes they were all too used to using their dev commands to enter the editing system. So much so they forgot to put something in for us to be able to use. Really the mind boggles, I seriously think they rushed the release of HOT and it should have waited until after the new year. Because to be honest it wont be until then probably that we will have everything fixed and in working order.

We could have waited Anet! :P

PS, thanks for the deletion item tip. Too late for that now tho lol as we only clamed the hall a couple of hours ago so can’t create/add anything new yet. I will keep it in mind tho!

So call me a noob but…….

How do we enter the decorating/edit set of tools on our toolbar if we have placed all decorations already? I looked through my keybind options and there is nothing there at all. Looked right through the Guild Panel and again nothing.

ZachAttack.3957:

Paulytnz.7619:

ZachAttack.3957:

Paulytnz.7619:

Dude that’s Runescape or possibly WoW (never played it so can’t really say tbh) farming which does not really work here. You have to farm events for decent farming. :P In which case any class is fine just as long as you have a way of tagging a lot of mobs at once, some examples:

Engi – Flamethrower
Ranger – Longbow skill 5 with also the trait that gives Piercing to arrows.
Necro – Wells and/or staff.
Guardian – 2 Hander Sword/Staff/Longbow
Rev – Jalis, Vengeful Hammers – nuff said.
Mesmer – Staff?
Thief – Off the top of my head I can’t thing of many aoe options…maybe traps? However I do like Sword/Pistol as you can bunch groups up and Spam Blind and fast attacks on them.

Ele – A lot of options here for aoes, staff is fine but daggers and such should be equally viable

Warrior – Ummm, I don’t really like warrior much, although they have access to a lot of weapons they seem to be master of none. Pretty much the Jack of all Trades that Engi was promised to be. Maybe 2 Hander and just spin though everything….

Now, to address your question about single farming and what’s best. Just go with something that’s fast at killing. Personally I like Ranger as I can send my pet to solo 1 while I take out another 1-3 on my own. Of course you can do similar on other classes just by attacking a group 1 at a time and them bringing them all together to aoe them down. Examples Necro wells/Rev Jalis, Vengeful Hammers.

Lot of options just play with things. :P

I main mesmer, and if I wanted to farm something at a decent rate it was terrible, because they have almost zero AoE, aside from skill five on the staff which has a long-kitten cooldown. However, now with Chronomancer out I believe a mesmer can reliably tag mobs with their wells, so that’s what I’d say for mesmer :P

Thanks for the input. I do play a Mesmer but really besides staff I could not think what the best options would be for zerg type situations off the top of my head. Alone away from the zerg I play my Mesmer pretty much like my thief and enjoy using Sword as it has some nice cleaving. You can add the offhand too that gives you the speed buff to help somewhat for the Mesmer’s lack of mobility options, yet even this is not so great as if enemies touch the field you are then slowed down again. Sigh they really need to give Mesmer and Guardian another decent option!

PS, not had a chance to play my Memser to his Elite Spec yet. I have 6 other classes to do first before him sadly lol. But that’s the price you pay for having all classes. :P

Yeah the sword is nice but the issue is that it is melee. So in a Zerg mobs would die before you can get to them. And movement skills like blink have too long a cooldown to be used to remedy this. As for guardian, they were most likely the best farming class before elite specs thanks to staff 1, but now are even better with a long range option. They definitely do NOT need any more options :P

I meant mobility options for Guardians. They have no Signet or traits that help at all unlike most of the other classes. All they have is staff 3 and that suffers from the same issue that Mesmer speed buff does. Being if any enemy hits it you lose your extra speed.

Hi there. I had the same problem that you did but ended up hiring some mercs lol. Try using the LFG feature and say that you are willing to pay. I offered 2 gold per person and the group filled up easily within 5 mins.

Feel free to add me to friends list if you wish and if I am on I can help as well, for free.

ZachAttack.3957:

Paulytnz.7619:

Dude that’s Runescape or possibly WoW (never played it so can’t really say tbh) farming which does not really work here. You have to farm events for decent farming. :P In which case any class is fine just as long as you have a way of tagging a lot of mobs at once, some examples:

Engi – Flamethrower
Ranger – Longbow skill 5 with also the trait that gives Piercing to arrows.
Necro – Wells and/or staff.
Guardian – 2 Hander Sword/Staff/Longbow
Rev – Jalis, Vengeful Hammers – nuff said.
Mesmer – Staff?
Thief – Off the top of my head I can’t thing of many aoe options…maybe traps? However I do like Sword/Pistol as you can bunch groups up and Spam Blind and fast attacks on them.

Ele – A lot of options here for aoes, staff is fine but daggers and such should be equally viable

Warrior – Ummm, I don’t really like warrior much, although they have access to a lot of weapons they seem to be master of none. Pretty much the Jack of all Trades that Engi was promised to be. Maybe 2 Hander and just spin though everything….

Now, to address your question about single farming and what’s best. Just go with something that’s fast at killing. Personally I like Ranger as I can send my pet to solo 1 while I take out another 1-3 on my own. Of course you can do similar on other classes just by attacking a group 1 at a time and them bringing them all together to aoe them down. Examples Necro wells/Rev Jalis, Vengeful Hammers.

Lot of options just play with things. :P

I main mesmer, and if I wanted to farm something at a decent rate it was terrible, because they have almost zero AoE, aside from skill five on the staff which has a long-kitten cooldown. However, now with Chronomancer out I believe a mesmer can reliably tag mobs with their wells, so that’s what I’d say for mesmer :P

Thanks for the input. I do play a Mesmer but really besides staff I could not think what the best options would be for zerg type situations off the top of my head. Alone away from the zerg I play my Mesmer pretty much like my thief and enjoy using Sword as it has some nice cleaving. You can add the offhand too that gives you the speed buff to help somewhat for the Mesmer’s lack of mobility options, yet even this is not so great as if enemies touch the field you are then slowed down again. Sigh they really need to give Mesmer and Guardian another decent option!

PS, not had a chance to play my Memser to his Elite Spec yet. I have 6 other classes to do first before him sadly lol. But that’s the price you pay for having all classes. :P

Hi hi,

At level 80 no you do not get exp from crafting that counts towards your Masteries sadly. This is probably due to the fact it would be far too easy for people to “buy” fast mastery exp/levels simply by plonking cash on craft mats.

Good luck with crafting and mastery levels!

Dude that’s Runescape or possibly WoW (never played it so can’t really say tbh) farming which does not really work here. You have to farm events for decent farming. :P In which case any class is fine just as long as you have a way of tagging a lot of mobs at once, some examples:

Engi – Flamethrower
Ranger – Longbow skill 5 with also the trait that gives Piercing to arrows.
Necro – Wells and/or staff.
Guardian – 2 Hander Sword/Staff/Longbow
Rev – Jalis, Vengeful Hammers – nuff said.
Mesmer – Staff?
Thief – Off the top of my head I can’t think of many aoe options…maybe traps? However I do like Sword/Pistol as you can bunch groups up and Spam Blind and fast attacks on them.

Ele – A lot of options here for aoes, staff is fine but daggers and such should be equally viable

Warrior – Ummm, I don’t really like warrior much, although they have access to a lot of weapons they seem to be master of none. Pretty much the Jack of all Trades that Engi was promised to be. Maybe 2 Hander and just spin though everything….

Now, to address your question about single farming and what’s best. Just go with something that’s fast at killing. Personally I like Ranger as I can send my pet to solo 1 while I take out another 1-3 on my own. Of course you can do similar on other classes just by attacking a group 1 at a time and them bringing them all together to aoe them down. Examples Necro wells/Rev Jalis, Vengeful Hammers.

Lot of options just play with things. :P

It would be nice however if they just have the new skins be both outfits AND Armour skins. Similar to how they are selling glider/wing combos. This would please everybody I should imagine. The mix and matchers can have their options and low lvls and new alts can still enjoy outfits in their full without having to waste transmute stones.

Problem solved.

The option is already there, buy a new char slot if you have used all existing ones. Come on stop being so lazy. Do the work yourself don’t expect Anet to do it all for you! :P

I don’t think it’s a bug but VERY poor design. I am not doing this collection yet but I was in the map the other day completing it on my Rev and over the course of that 2-3 hours the map chat was constantly filled with people asking to fail the event or moaning they have been trying for days.

Very poor design Anet. You need to not only fix this and any other collection/achievement or any other type of requirement for anything to not rely on failing events. Further more ALL current events that offer more rewards of any kind for failing need a good hard look at and fixed.

Starts angry stare

All dialogue with the skritt is cute and totally awesome. We need more Skritt in our lives!

No, just no. Period. No.

Thank you, don’t come again. :P

Edit:

Ps, no.

I think in time they will have every weapon be used for both melee and ranged. Just give it time, they will come with future Elite Specs. As for focus specifically I can’t see any difference to mace besides skins of course. But I think Anet could probably do something with that in time.

When HOT released I made my Rev and insta-80 him. I had completed his PS 1.5 days later. You will get ALL keys.

However for your warrior if it has been less than 1 week since you obtained the key from your lvl 10 Rev PS you wont get another until 1 week+ after that time (or if the reset kicks in, not sure when that is). If you decide to ignore the lvl 10 key and continue on anyways you should still get the rest of the keys post 10.

Hope that helps.

Rpgtabbycat.5869:

ANet is secretly turning you all into Vampires… just like Edward!

I have yet to see this in game. Does this only happen in the new zone or everywhere in game once you have the Pact Commander Mastery?

Everywhere, a good place to see it is out in Malchor’s leap at the Cypress trees. But maybe only those with the Autoloot perk can see it….

Kill.3458:

Paulytnz.7619:

nightwulf.1986:

Are we talking about these sparkles? I took this screenshot in June. It’s happened around on a few of my characters in a few different maps. It’s happened to me in SparkFly Fen several times and in Southsun Cove.

No it’s different to that. If you don’t have the Autoloot feature yet you should see loot drop on the ground with sparkles rising up from it. Just imagine that on your body.

If you do have Autoloot, just go and gather something and you will see it.

Her image shows exactly that O_O Are you seeing well sir? I have the autoloot ability and the picture shows exactly what happens lol

I’m not too sure…..

1 – I’m tired lol.
2 – I don’t have my settings to that high due to crap graphics card.
3 – I’m also not seeing the white light in that pic which usually appears with the sparkles.
4 – How could this be the same if the pic was taken in June? Hot was not released, we did not have Autoloot then…

Either or, it’s still annoying. :P

nightwulf.1986:

Are we talking about these sparkles? I took this screenshot in June. It’s happened around on a few of my characters in a few different maps. It’s happened to me in SparkFly Fen several times and in Southsun Cove.

No it’s different to that. If you don’t have the Autoloot feature yet you should see loot drop on the ground with sparkles rising up from it. Just imagine that on your body.

If you do have Autoloot, just go and gather something and you will see it.

Hey guys at least they are not behind RNG from scraps/tickets and chests! :P

Okay I am now starting to believe this may be a bug or there is a bug related to it. I was just out in Malchor’s Leap at the Cypress tress when I noticed there was someone standing near the trees either afk or chatting. He was just there, not moving, certainly not cutting the trees or killing anything. The odd part? Every time I swung my flamethrower (yes flamethrower because Engi is still bugged when gathering…) I would sparkle as usual but not only that so would EVERYONE else around me including the guy who was afk a few steps away from the trees.

I went to mine some mith ore and there was a guy there gathering. He stopped swinging and didn’t move, sure enough as I gathered he sparkled as well.

Ps this is not an Engi only related issue it is the same for all of my chars. Yet Necro (or possibly Asura, not sure which as my Necro is Asura) has a special gathering bug all of their own but that’s for another post and probably in the bugs forum…

I don’t think so but to double check you could check all the skins in your bank wardrobe, can preview there even ones you don’t have unlocked.

Oh dear now I am seeing it on everyone else as well lol. Try farming the Elder trees in Malchor’s Leap and you see EVERYONE sparkling. I can bet you once this post is off the first few pages, in time more and more posts will be made by others moaning about this as more and more people unlock this feature.

Just wait until you are doing the daily events and you see the whole zerg/blob all sparkling. :P

Farming Flats.5370:

Doggie.3184:

Farming Flats.5370:

got this mastery recently , I thought that the auto loot was only working on mobs .. but it also work on Big chest .. like world boss chests , dungeon chest , fractal chest .. i’m not talking about the bouncing chest but the ones who spawn on the wold map.

Careful with that though cuz chest that have animations of character opening them aren’t auto looted.

Of course ,, like the ones at the end of a jumping puzzle don’t work.

im still spaming ‘’ F ’’ .. its a old habit ;p

Lol it took me a full day to break the habit of clicking C for my autoloot, I had it separate from F to make life easier.

Now I just dread going to WvW because I will have to spam it again and the habit will come back again.

Just to be clear I am talking about the perk that comes with completing the Pact Commander Mastery and not the feature we had in game before that.

So before we had masteries and when an enemy dropped loot we would be notified by seeing it on the ground and it would have an upward sparkle like animation to make it really stand out to you.

Now with the Pact Commander Mastery, being that loot no longer drops on the ground there is no need for the sparkles. However Anet have now gone and placed those sparkles on our characters whenever enemies drop loot. I don’t find it that big of a thing in this situation, if anything I guess just something else to see.

However, it also happens when we are gathering from nodes and I find it distracting. I don’t know why I do, I just do lol. I guess perhaps because it kind of looks like it used to when we got a level up? Being all of my chars are lvl 80 now it just confused me at first. But now it’s, well annoying lol.

Yes this is a silly little thing and it is not a game breaker, but still. Being that Anet are now doing things to help with on screen visibility for combat and effects and such I thought this should also be one looked at. Please just give me a toggle to turn it off for gathering. Honestly I don’t need to see it for gathering or even in combat as I can see clearly I am getting my loot on the side of the screen.

Anyone else have issues with this minor thing?

fireflyry.7023:

Competitive play vs non-competitive play.

What a silly thread.

You can also bet that the OP would be saying the exact opposite if the WvW maps allowed map chat for all sides to see each others chats. Just imagine it, it would be worse than the PvP lobby and that’s the WORST place out of all 3 (Pve/WvW/PvP).

pants.1379:

Yesterdays dailies – timberline falls, every second it seemed ‘events?’ in map chat, events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? events? <<<<<<<<<<is what my map chat looked like, it is now so bad i just turn off map chat to avoid the spam.

It was horrendous, not sure if players are just plain lazy/thick to even look on the mini map (yellow wagon wheel looking icon), or the top right corner of their screen (which points to them), but when you see this every day – during peak times when i’m either gathering or doing the same dailies….

It gets annoying to say the least

I hear you, it gets real annoying, people just don’t have any patience/initiative anymore.

I hate hearing the “event’s, where are the event’s?” thing myself so I NEVER use it. I think it is mainly an issue that people come to the map and ask straight away simply because they have no clue what to do and just stand there and ask.

Seriously? You come to a map and just stand there and ask? You can’t think to go out and gather some resources and try and find any for yourself while you wait for someone to call one? It’s very selfish behaviour, wanting everyone else to do the work for them. If they DID go out and gather/try to look for themselves and then call it out for others then they would be pulling their share.

Personally I make it a note to WP in to the WP that is nearest to the farming fields/patches and make my way to farm those while I wait for someone to call an event out. If by the time I am done digging these up if no event is still called out, NP I will go and gather the nearest thing on my map in the direction where I know events usually pop up.

People these days…..and I thought the Queensdale Champ Trains gave people bad habits. It seems they just have them naturally!

I don’t understand all these “how do I make gold” posts, seriously…

Just play the game and do what you find fun and gold will come without even thinking about it. It’s not like gold is required for a huge amount of things besides vanity items and a small amount of convenience items if you do trade gold to gems.

Exotics can get you through all the content. And even if you MUST have that ascended, well like I said play the game and it will come. I made myself a full set of ascended and I did not buy 1 mat, it all came from just gathering etc as I went along.

I think the point of this thread here is to highlight how the game and guilds especially can be more community driven. I think this is an excellent idea and it’s things like this that Anet should be doing to encourage more people into joining guilds.

For those of you against, thinking the OP is out for an easier way to obtain Ascended gear or whatever, it is a shame that you can’t look beyond such a shallow outlook as this.

+1 from me.

HI there, I too would like to be added to this list. A small 2 person guild willing to help and be helped.

Same name in game as here minus the numbers of course lol.

Tom Gore.4035:

30 silver per bauble? Wow, my money problems are over.

Yup got 3 yesterday just playing around in one of the new HOT maps. An easy 90 Silver as I was just exploring.

It’s not as much as one could make if farming Silverwastes I would hazard to guess (not really a farmer myself) or doing other grinds for easy/fast cash. So if you were being sarcastic that is my reply to that. However as I said it is another option when bored/burnt out of other ways that could just come naturally as you are exploring, gathering mats for crafting or whatever.

I would love to see some more gameplay involving the orders and the choices we made when choosing our selected orders.

I wouldn’t expect a whole storyline or an expansions worth tho. Maybe just a new daily mission system for them or something. Think of guild missions such as the Treks, Bounty’s etc just applied to the orders.

It could be a fun new small system that could bring something new to the game and give us something other to do to help as filler content until more expansions, living story is here.

I have found a semi decent way but it’s not super great. Two words:

Shiny Baubles.

Find the map/maps (I believe there are 2 atm) that give these as bonus rewards and play in those maps doing events/gathering other resources. These shiny baubles are vendor trash but they sell to the vendor for 30 Silver each. The great thing about this method is DR can NOT hit them as they are rewarded for completing events.

I’m pretty sure completing a random event in these maps would be quicker than doing a dungeon run? I know that you don’t get them every event completed. It seems to be a mix of every second event in my exp mixed in with sometimes one of the other listed rewards. I would love to be corrected on this if I am incorrect. But still, it’s another option and may just give you something else to do when burnt out on other money making ways.

What they could do is as an event scales up the loot rewards scale down to compensate for the fact that a lot more mobs are spawning and are possible for you to tag. This could help break up the Zerg mentality/meta as well somewhat.

But seriously they need to look at the drops for when you are out and about soloing map completes etc. It gets old fast when you kill something and get nothing for your effort. Especially as I said before if you are in non zerker gear and those kills come much slower.

Randulf.7614:

I’m confused. I have never completed this JP, yet I have every skill/hero point in the game.

Is this new?

No I am assuming its the Not So Secret JP in Gandarryn Fields, just West of LA if you enter the map from LA.

Edit: also many of the JPs in the game have no Skill/Hero points attached to them so you can’t use that as an indicator that you have done all JPs.

Engi, Engi, Engi. Still waiting for my Tommy Gun tho….once I get that it will assure Engi for me for everything for a long while to come.