Guild Wars 2

Paulytnz.7619:

Karizee.8076:

I imagine they went with percentile since ranking numbers would change so rapidly on millions of players.

If you are in the top 1000 on your world, your name is highlighted on the page. 25 ranks per page – just count it up

Umm no this is what I’m saying it is not showing the top 1k by world only. It is ONLY showing the top 1k players amongst ALL worlds.

You can filter the worlds.

Wooboost.8527:

Pennry, I CAN’T LOG IN, IM FREAKING OUT

It’s okay, you’ve only lost that Dusk you just got.

Servers go down and kick me after killing Shadow Behemoth. I’ve lost the loot and the daily completion. Daily will let me redo as it just show undone. But, is my flag for killing Shadow Behemoth still there? Or can I go back out in a few hours and rekill it for my account’s daily loot?

+Over 9000 for flower field!

What I don’t get is how people get so far in to a character before realizing that they hate the aspects of that race. You all claim to have all this Karma/gear invested on these characters. Am I the only one that would stop working on that character the instant I realized I didn’t like it? Or are you all too slow to realize at level 2 that you character’s size, etc is not for you?

Chalk me up as another against. Don’t like the idea of holding WvW spots as well as loot/WXP trading. Can’t counter holding spots with the JPs as people usually either do them right quick and help or only come because their side has ports and are in and out in minutes. Duelers usually stick around for a several fights at least. WXP trading is simple enough with just waiting a bit between. You can’t stop getting loot outside of just not picking it up.

Duels should be contained to the SPvP Mists. If they ever enable such a direct duel feature, I would hope it would be contained there. I would think anyone truly dueling to test skill, etc, would agree.

SPvP you gain nothing but pride/shame, WvW you gain so much more. I totally see why you picked WvW.

Israel.7056:

Pennry.9215:

Israel.7056:

bcd.4352:

You had no idea what the word “unique” meant? Dictionaries are usually awesome tools for understanding words.

I had no idea what that meant in GW2 terms no. A standard dictionary wouldn’t have told me what I needed to know.

So when seeing this strange new marking, it never occurred to you to look it up before making the purchase?

Since this mistaken purchase was entirely your fault and no fault of the product, your refund is 4 silver and 95 copper after restocking fees. Thank you, have a nice day.

You don’t get to make that ruling but I understand that some people will see it that way.

I didn’t make that ruling, ArenaNet did. There’s massive loss on all vendor purchases.

Israel.7056:

bcd.4352:

You had no idea what the word “unique” meant? Dictionaries are usually awesome tools for understanding words.

I had no idea what that meant in GW2 terms no. A standard dictionary wouldn’t have told me what I needed to know.

So when seeing this strange new marking, it never occurred to you to look it up before making the purchase?

Since this mistaken purchase was entirely your fault and no fault of the product, your refund is 4 silver and 95 copper after restocking fees. Thank you, have a nice day.

I too wonder what the joke is. I also wonder where the drunk husband is and why no one smacks the Asuran child for randomly telling that Charr his face is weird.

Oh, and I use the Weaponsmith station for bank to post access. Now move the Waypoint to the other side – where the traders actually are.

Levitas.1953:

few words: pay attention to rings/earrings. if you want the same stats for both the items, you must buy the one with offensive infusion slot and the one with defensive infusion slot. if you buy two times the same item, you cant equip it.

Not necessarily. Look at the stat combinations, there are some with two Offensive and two Defensive options. Rule to follow is that if it has the Unique tag that you just can’t have two of the same name.

Yargesh.4965:

Yeah, your name is always on top, I think the order under that is when others log in by default. The top of the non-online members is always the leader.

Um, no.

I think the entire list is either random with Online first or based on some kind of “logged in time” scheme. I have seen the Online portion reorder between looking at it over a period of time.

killcannon.2576:

The SAB exploit only makes sense in the Instance part of the exploit, not the raising it to tier 5 and increasing costs. Try again.

SAB blame makes no sense. Baubles are account bound, therefore cannot be put in the Guild Vault.

I’d simply suggest they limit the targets per tier. There’s a good variety in difficulty to find and difficulty to kill. They could actually put a feeling of progressing through each Tier, and cater to the smaller/newer.

Wombatt.2546:

Ok. Just making sure that we still had to/should scout all the potential targets. Thanks!

You shouldn’t have to scout all the potential targets. It’s a single target in the same time (15 minutes). You should be able to find and kill it in that time. Even smaller groups, as they scale pretty well from my experience. As an example, a group of seven of us found and killed two targets (a Tier 1 mission) with no pre-scouting. But it is a good habit to get in to for the T2s and 3s.

EDIT: I also think the “practice” target list is shorter, but can’t prove why I think that.

Reize.2176:

The only other profession that uses a rifle is the warrior, and they indeed use them like a rifle.

Range all round is 1200, with skill 3 being a rapid fire attack similar to assault rifles, skills 2 and 4 does cripple and cracked conditions similar to precision shots at weakspots, and skill 1 bleeds.

All round the Warrior handles the Rifle true to its namesake.

I do LoL at “Aimed Shot” (the cripple), it’s the only skill fired from the hip. Worst aim ever.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

There weren’t any stealth buffs to the existing bounty targets. Some of the newer targets, however, are more punishing if you try to ignore the mechanics of the fight.

Lies! :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Bounty-Scaling/first#post1710635

EDIT: Tilion.4062, They aren’t enemies, they’re allies until engaged. I opt to enable NPC names under options. That lets me see them farther away, and sometimes before their star shows up.

You must not know how threads work. You replied at the end of it, thus replying to the whole thing. You didn’t quote the OP to be specific. Of course the OP was posted in rage. I was randomly booted and lost out. How does that change the ability to discuss the core problem?

Yet another reply stuck on the one case’s magnitude and not the core problem. Let’s all ignore that character and account flags don’t get rolled back and just concentrate on Pennry losing out on a bit of coin. Even if it was a lost Precursor, I could get another any number of ways, most of which can be done at any time and repeated all day.

Oh to be so vain that one’s principles change based on magnitude.

The point being: A rollback changed character placement and what items it had but not it’s flags. Kill a world boss, get loot, get rolled back, lose loot and not be able to get it again for the day. Do a Guild Mission, get Commendations/loot, get rolled back lose both and not be able to do it again for the week.

With more and more getting bound to timed flags, I can just see the influx of rage. Timed lock-outs are bad enough, but to lose them to server errors is just a bit too much.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

I activated the Bounty Hunt Training and all that came up was “The Bounty Hunt Training has begun”.

Nothing else till 15 mins later it said “The Bounty Hunt Training has failed”

Is there a icon in the map that you are supposed to go to? Cause I sure didn’t get any clue…

It’s under your Guild panel, Upgrades, Missions. When you activate one, it’ll give the info there. dulfy.net is being kind enough to keep guides up-to-date if you want more prep time.

I was in the middle of gathering and remapping all the new spawn locations. I went to port to the next map and got kicked with a network error. I couldn’t log in to the client or site for a while. I finally get in and I’m rolled back. Standing in the middle of the previous map with none of the ore I’d just gathered. The kicker? All the nodes show that I mined them already.

So thanks for shafting me.

A little fancy editing since people can’t see past that last line. The “nodes have been harvested” flag was still triggered despite the rollback to before it happening. Thus I lost out on a once-a-day deal. Why don’t rollbacks effect these timed flags? Now read the whole thread before clicking reply and telling me to shush and that it wasn’t such a big deal.

Vol.5241:

Mozy.9608:

I would guess that 4 Superior Runes would generate a random Superior Rune!

Well why would people do that.

People use the forge for hoping to get a better graded item, not to get the same one.

Is that why people throw exotics in the Forge for their exotic precursor? Is that the only reason people throw in soulbound items?

Soulbound Superior runes is the main reason I’d like to be able to Forge them. I can Forge most other Exotics, it’s expected to Forge runes.

Midnightjade.3520:

I think Bloodstone Shard, Phil Stones and Crystals are Soulbound, and so is the Precursor if you equip it. Beyond that, everything is Account Bound – clovers, gifts etc.

This is from personal experience but I haven’t finished the weapon yet so it’s not exhaustive.

This is correct.

If I recall correctly: On the last day of the month for most people. It’s at 12 am GMT on the first day of the new month.

Am I the only one that can clearly see that there is more to it than a simple name? I had one of my character’s name get reported. All they did is put a prompt on character select telling me to change her name before I could log in as her.

We attempted a guild bounty today only to discover our target was level 80 and we were down-scaled to 24. Naturally we could barely scratch him. Pic related.

Bastilean.7042:

Why can’t you get Laurels for doing both? Why does A.net think that rewarding people for participating in both PvP and PvE is bad? A.net please reward me for both. This would be a massive step in the right direction.

Encourage people to be part of the Renaissance.

Nothing you can get for Laurels can be used in SPvP. It makes no sense to me to give them as a reward. I’d like to be able to get some PvP skins and use them in PvE, but I can’t. SPvP has it’s own reward scheme to keep it “balanced”.

So what else can I do to advance my PvE via PvP? Or my PvP via Pve? :|

You’ve always lost the infusion when Forging.

I’m seeing several reports of these events just not happening, so they could just be on new timers.

1-2k gold? Seriously?! Smells fishy to me.

Aelaren.3784:

Have you? The “big” chest he mentioned, the one that contains the guaranteed rare, will be lootable once per account. The normal chests will be lootable per character then.

One rare is not that “big”, normal chest can give you much more, including a precursor. I might missed the point where you decided to dub small icon-ish chest with a rare as “big” (why on earth?… ) It should have been obvious from my post I am talking about BIG freaking chest that appears on the ground after the thing is dead. The one that used to give trash blues until the recent update, and now going to give trash blues again, apparently. So instead of overall better drop from a chest, with a guaranteed rare and better chance at more rares and exotics, you now going to get a guaranteed rare and trash blues from main on-ground chest.
Corrections?

Correction:
They already said they are only moving the one “garunteed rare” to the “daily chest”. Not the other 1-2 more rares people were getting. So it’s 1 rare per event from “daily chest”, then 0-2 more rares and other stuff from the standard chest at the end of the event.

Currently it’s 1-3 rares plus possible exotic(s) and lower grades, per char per event per day. It’s becoming 0-2 rares plus possible exotic(s) and lower grades, per char per event per day PLUS 1 rare or better for the first char. People are only losing out on 1 rare per alt.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Let me quote myself again:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

You will get one guaranteed rare drop per boss per account per day. You still have the chance to get pre-cursors/exotics/rares from the regular dragon chests every time you play an event. It is just the guaranteed rare drop that has been restricted.

hchadw: That answers your question.
Pennry: Previously it was on guaranteed rare per character per event per day.

But it really wasn’t. I have several personal accounts of not getting a rare, let alone guild mates, friends, and what not.

That also doesn’t address the issue of the “daily” being rare or better or just rare.

EDIT: Read what was posted while typing, removed other stuffs.

Robbyx.1284:

You havent read the nerf have you ?

One guaranteed rare, per account, per day…..and it will solve the overflow because no one will waste their time running multiple events now….standing around for over an hour waiting for Jormag with little to no chance of a rare is not fun for anyone.

In fact i can see everyone running the easy events like SB or Maw and the dragons will rarely see people at them…there will simply be no incentive.

And you have no sense as to what causes the overflow issue. People rush the events mostly during “prime time”, which is just after reset. People will still do so. People will even still guest (despite it not being the problem) to do these events as fast as possible so that they can either be done or move on to something else in game. So unless you play outside this “prime time,” you will most likely still see some overflowing.

Martin Kerstein, Could you address my previous questions? I know for a fact a rare isn’t “guaranteed” now. I’m assuming these “daily” chests will make it so, but can that chest give better than rare? And will the normal event chests take a huge hit to loot? Like before the update, to mostly greens and blues? Or will it be somewhere in the middle? We’ve always had the “chance” at good loot, but it was just really low.

Robbyx.1284:

TESO cant be released fast enough for me…then i can leave Anet behind and pretend it was all a bad dream.

lol at these statements. Just leave already.

This “fix” won’t do anything for overflowing. People will still all cram in at their optimal play time and still cause overflows. Now you might get lucky and be able to hit the boss’s second rotation and make it. Well, that is if you’re play time allows it.

EDIT: Still want some answers to clarify this change.

Questions I’d like a dev answer to:

1) I, and many others, didn’t see a rare 100%. It wasn’t “guaranteed”. Is it now?

2) What about people get multiple rares? I’ve seen up to three.

3) What about the exotic rate, will this be limited to the “daily chest” or still the normal one?

I’d thank them for the 60s – 1.5g.

FLFW.3105:

Its a myth. On my alt is shout warrior with full soldiers gear and soldier runes and i really have to put a lot of effort to make mobs attack me cause they just go for squishies while ignoring me.

You do know that “Soldier” gear has less Toughness than “Knight’s”, right?

If you observe some of these precursors, you’ll see that there are some thresholds, people bidding past a certain point and people selling below a certain point, that are just about always met.

I’d advise watching it for a few days to get a feel for your specific item’s thresholds and go from there. Do this and you’ll see where about you can get the most without it sitting too long. And if buying, you’ll see where about you can get it for the least without waiting and/or possible out bidding.

I did this when selling Dawn and buying Dusk, both transactions were completed within hours of them being posted.

Direngrey.8376:

Dusk just went up in price, last night price was 630 gold, now 3/10/13 at 16:57 ( 4:47 PM ) it’s at 700 gold. By the time I even reach 700 it’s going to be in the thousands.

RNG is RNG should I drop all the gold I have at the forge? I currently have 64g

It’s been hovering at about 700g for weeks. Few people undercut it down but it always seems to bounce back up. From my observations planning out getting my Dusk, it seemed that anyone offering much over 600g didn’t last long either. So I opted to shoot for the 600g mark and sure enough made an offer at 607ish and got it.

Before all that I set myself a cap to try in the forge before just giving up. I’d set aside 10ish and try 2ish, repeat. Soon enough I lucked out and got Dawn, sold it, and just saved up the difference. This, of course, was after I had everything else done, so anything I did was for max profit.

ColinJohanson.2394:

The initial release of this system will be for WvW only. There are additional complications we need to solve with PvE due to the number and variety of creatures on screen that WvW doesn’t need to account for. Later this year, we’ll be expanding as much of the changes to the PvE open world as we can as well.

WvW doesn’t have creatures, NPCs, and interacting objects everywhere?

“Culling” happens mostly in PvE during large events, with large numbers of players. Events where most the normal mobs get replaced with a limited amount of event mobs. It’s the large number of players and skills/effects that kicks in the “culling”. Obviously WvW should have more players, but the core issue seems the same.

It is in fact one per character per day, no matter the server.

jwaz.1908:

What are legendary weapons if not skins. They have the same stats as exotics, and are all PVT, which again fits very few people’s builds. If Arena net didn’t intend them to be transmuted, they wouldn’t have given all of them generic stats, and wouldn’t be trying to fix the legendary transmutation bugs.

And yes, I do expect a magical script to upgrade my transmuted legendary, I spent 3 months to get this skin, I expect it to continue to be “best in slot” no matter what, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way.

EDIT: If you don’t have a legendary, Pennry, please don’t even try to argue this point, since it doesn’t even apply to you, and you don’t know what it is to have one.

I am currently working one my second Legendary – building them both 100%.

If you created the weapon for it’s skin, then you got what you wanted. If you created it for “best in slot”, then you could have gotten any other Exotic. If you’re build doesn’t suit a PTV weapon, then Legendaries are not “best in slot” for you – an Exotic is. Skins are not “best in slot”, they’re just looks.

As I pointed out the “bugs” were in the naming and coloring – they didn’t match the other standards. All transmutations’ rarity matches the item used for stats. Why the color of the text matches the skin? I don’t know. In my opinion, I’d have changed everything else rather than change Legendaries.

When Ascended weapons come out, I expect all Legendaries to have better PTV stats. If they are nice and include transmuted weapons, I expect them to be reverted to PTV stats. Why should your Exotic stats get upgraded to Ascended, when everyone else running an Exotic weapon does not? Legendary stats are Power Toughness and Vitality, nothing else. If you want something else, go get that Ascended weapon and retransmute.

That’s the only way to get the Exploration Gifts.

You complete the map again on another character for more Gifts.

andeysmandey.1647:

Zulubeast.8519:

When you transmute two items you create a completely new item, which in your case does not fit into the recipe to create Eternity.

Which should be fixed, if someone makes both Sunrise and Twilight, and want to turn it into Eternity, they shouldn’t be denied it because they transmuted one of the items..

Fix what exactly? If you took any other weapon and transmuted it for it’s skin, you’d not be able to still use that weapon for forging specific recipes.

If someone wants to make Eternity, they should stop and think, not destroy one legendary for it’s skin.

jwaz.1908:

In all honesty, if Anet doesn’t run a script that upgrades all transmuted legendary weapons, I and many others will be quite angry, especially since PVT works for very few people. I don’t see how hard it would be for them to implement, even if the item is no longer considered “legendary” in the eyes of the game.

In all honesty, I don’t see transmuted Legendaries worthy of the upgrade. You used it as a skin. Any other skin is considered gone. You used it for it’s looks. If they changed the looks, you’d get it. If they changed the stats on any other weapon, you’d not get it.

If I were to make Foefire’s Essence then transmute it for the skin, and then suddenly they decide that all HPT exotic weapons need better stats, they wouldn’t give me an upgrade.

Lastly, if the game doesn’t see it as Legendary, how do you expect this magical script to see it as such? Even though the Weapon Strength was the same, you still downgraded the Legendary to an Exotic. All they’re doing now is making it so that the Icon and text matches the skin used so that they are in line with all the other same item type transmutations out there.

ThiBash.5634:

Chickenshoes.6250:

Seems your problem is you expect it easy.

How many dungeons are there for casuals, if this keeps up? Is it really THAT bad to have a dungeon people can run relaxed for fun? Does everything, including PvE, have to be an edge-of-your-seat experience?

A good piece of music alternates between tension, and relaxation. This game should be no different. Make a few hair pullers. But also make a few easy, relaxing dungeons. The loot drops can be less, I don’t mind. But This AC thing isn’t helping the casual guilds one bit.

Dungeon Explorables were never “for casuals”. Anet has always said that they were for solid groups that achieved “group synergy”. Now it’s one of the few things they’re revamping to keep their word on, and you want it to stop?

If the PuGer can’t learn the instance and how to adapt to different groups, then they shouldn’t be PuGing. If the PuGer refuses to find a group/guild to get set, than they shouldn’t be playing Explorables.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Sarcasm, sweetie.

Now as there is no constructiveness to this exchange I’m going to stop replying to you before a mod comes along and locks this.

Let me make it more constructive. Increased weather equals increased server and client load – period. Games I’ve played in the past that had some really nice weather, etc all had options to disable them. Naturally the WvW crowd would opt it off most the time. Currently GW2 can’t handle mass amounts of people in one spot, let alone lots of rain and whatnot. Changing how much the client does is a huge change compared to how it is now. Some of the supposed culling fixes may be a good start for something like this.

That said, sure, I’d love some more atmosphere.

Anyone WPing around enough for it to hurt their income is just not thinking.

I can see that they made Karma insanely easy to get by adding it to just about everything you can do. It needs uses, but not “sinks” due to previously mentioned reasons. I would be all for being able to buy a reduced WP booster with it. I mean it is “karma” and I’m supposed to get it for being all helpful and stuff, you’d think the locals would be nice and cut me deal. Guild Influence boosts would be good to for the same reasoning.