Guild Wars 2

All this type of XP and the Trading Post, yet very little as to why vendor prices are messed up. The OP is simply saying that one ingot should vend for the same amount as two ore should vend (with a couple ingots could be more due to them needing a vendor mat to be made). There’s no “crafting for profit” in this. I should be able to gather 500 ore and vend it for the same as if I took that 500 ore and made 250 ingots. If the Trading Post truly matched the vendor pricing, then the ingots would be less than the ore needed to make them. But the ingots are more, and if they sell well (I’ve never tried), you could actually make minor profit. Case and point, TP Orichalcum: Ore = 2.97, Ingot = 6.10, profit = 16 copper! Vendor: Ore and Ingot = 8 copper, loss = 8 copper! If you’re doing crafting for the XP, those ingots (pre orichalcum obviously) would then be all (or mostly) used up for crafting the other parts needed to level the craft. And most crafting for profit are aiming at end products, so again the ore gets used. So all-in-all the vendor price of said crafted part is kind of null as you wouldn’t (shouldn’t) be vendoring it anyway. Only time I see it slightly annoying is if you’ve made too many sigils/runes and want to just vend them to break even (but even then the TP often yields more).

It’s proposed as the same stats as any other Exotic. What is really being added here is the ability to save a few bag slots by having one Legendary and not X Exotics. I like the idea, but feel it wasted overall. Anyone swapping stats (build) would be swapping out armor/accessories and even resetting Traits too, right? Sounds like a trip to town/bank anyway.

I do think they could add more to Legendaries though. Just more cosmetic things. A weapon specific title? Dye/effect unlock to make armor look similar? Emotes? Lots of possibilities.

“Are you lacking gear or something? = Insulting = “Are you stupid or something?”
“Are you having issues?” = Less Insulting = “Is there a problem?”
There a plenty of other ways to ask “Are you the better tank?” than “Are you lacking gear or something?".

First, you can report people via the web support page and put all the details you want. Second, if they were having issues, why not help? And then when you put what you said plus how you put “yeah, terrible group” next to a time stamp, makes you sure sound “elitist” to me. Third, it wasn’t just the one player that didn’t like you, it takes a “second” to kick someone.

It’s not the Cattlepult that’s giving the message, it’s the NPC (that turns to Vendor). Just selecting the Cattlepult is enough to change what you’re interacting with.

Booster (50), Guild (15), Banner (5)

1.7*4500=7650

It’s also scaled down with level.

Sondergaard.8469:

PrestonSwain.6219:

Fixing the bug is only half of the issue. The game has a bug that is literally eating items from players and you have no system available to restore items. “When it’s ready” was the biggest lie ever told. I’m sorry to be so rude, but WoW support makes GW2 support look like monkeys. GW2 is more fun to play, but about 80% of my guild already quit because of how unfinished/untested this game is mixed with how bad the support is.

When my account got hacked in WoW, it took 30 minutes using an automated system to get my account and all of my items returned. Friends who got hacked in GW2? A week minimum to get the account back and the characters are likely permanently gone along with all of their items.

And how many years did it take Blizzard to develop this type of support and recovery system?

FYI, Blizzard also outsources their customer support. The issue is not that Arenanet does not have the tools, it’s that they do not have the time or staff yet to handle supporting requests for rollbacks on characters.

They are at their limit already with many other very legitimate account issues that need to be resolved first before they can even start to think about adding to the list of ‘support’ features. They are working on this, rest assured. They’re hiring new staff as fast as they can, and I am more than certain they’re expanding the capability and the tools available to their support staff as needed and as fast as possible.

Sure it would be ideal to have a system like this that is automated, but developing that also takes time, and doing it right, putting it through QA, etc also takes time. Give them a break. Yes it sucks if you get hacked and lose your items. Yes it sucks if the forge eats things. Is it the end of the world in either scenario? No.

As for the ‘when it’s ready’ thing being a lie I don’t agree. The game has its issues, sure, but it’s far from being unplayable. So you don’t use the mystic forge for a few weeks til they fix it? Big deal? There’s a thousand other things you could be doing.

Arenanet is not perfect, no company is, but they are trying hard and there’s no reason to treat them like crap. They’re people just like you, who have feelings just like you, and are frustrated with bugs, just like you. Having unrealistic expectations helps no one.

This is the biggest cop out ever. First, Support flat out tells you they don’t have tools to restore items. Recently this may have changed with the “Armor Box” mail out. Second, any company releasing such an anticipated title such as GW2, should have more than enough support staff on hand to filter and handle the massive amount of tickets that will come in. It’s called hiring temp staff. Big companies do it all the time: hire a bunch of temps for release, let ticket load die out a bit as things get worked out, temps contract end and move along nicely. Third, just because one company has had more time to develop something does not mean another company isn’t expected to be held to the first’s standards. Think about it a minute. They’ve had all the time in the world under the guise of “when it’s done”, but opted to do it this way. Bugs may not be a big deal individually, but they add up and how they are dealt with is huge factor.

Sorry for the rant. I’m just so sick of the “ArenaNet can do no wrong” attitude. They messed up, time for them to owe up and deal with it. The first step toward recovery is admitting you have a problem.

And yes, my wife has experienced the bug mentioned in this thread. We’ve both taken the attitude of only Forging known (and well tested) recipes.

KyleQuest.4639:

Last night I was looking for Armored Scales too. Came up completely dry after several hours of farming. Had +50% MF and was killing more Barracuda and Jellyfish on the West side of Frostgorge than I could ever count.

In fact, farming scales is on my to-do list whenever I play next. I had not thought of Kraits in WvW. I’ll try that next to see.

There was an oddity, I was seeing Candy Corn last night. Just for a second or two in Cursed Shore. Perhaps it’s still buggy after the Halloween event?

I don’t think Magic Find works for Fine Crafting Materials as technically they are all the same quality. Anyway, I would go out with no Magic Find and get an average of 1 Armored Scale for every 20-25 Large Scales. That was when I was farming for my current Knight’s set. A good constant kill rate and I’d get that 1 Armored Scale every 20 minutes or so at the most. (This is all way better than, say, Blood farming.)

" Pennry you seem to be under the illusion that I go there. I don’t go there nor will I ever."

Game over. Thanks for playing. Moving on.

It’s actually both. And easily stopped. Many places have given it up.

Spike Firebrand.8943, most of the environment that you should be having issues with can be manipulated by players. The actual “jumping path” that you go through is so straight forward it’s not even really all that much of a puzzle. And once you’ve done it once, you beat it, why go back? Oh yea, the PvP reward at the end OR the PvP fights that can break out in there. The sheer fact that there are traps that players have to set off makes it a PvP area. Add in the fact that the traps hurt everyone equally and that there are no real gates/walls to turtle behind, makes the puzzle the best place for open “sandbox” PvP. EDIT: By your above definition of PvE, everywhere is just PvE because everywhere has environment for you to deal with, even SPvP.

Honestly, if you truly only wanted to PvE and that’s all you cared about, you would just not go to WvW period. Map completion and Badges of Honor are only needed if you want a Legendary weapon. So sorry you have to partake in most the game to get such a reward. You’re lucky they don’t make you SPvP. Then you wouldn’t even have the chance to go in on off hours/wait for server dominance to swing to your favor. You’d be stuck actually PvPing. Woe is you.

WvW Jumping Puzzles are for Badges, Prints, a couple silver at most, and killing fools. None of which you need for PvE.

Cerulean.5142:

Regardless if this is a PvP zone or not, it does border on griefing since it is in a PvE puzzle. OP do you think Anet sits and watches every server, every zone, 24 hours a day? If you think that these people are griefing then report them. Posting it on the forums will do no good and will just cause people to flame you and grief you on the forums.

Question for you: Where does one fight the environment in these puzzles? Besides the few ooze in the Borderlands puzzles? All the fighting one does in the EB puzzle is done with/by players. Therefore it’s a PvP puzzle.

Again, in this case, it’s only really “griefing” when it’s your own faction/server.

Good laugh here. The Eternal Battlegrounds “puzzle” is setup for pure PvP and “keep the other guys out”. It’s full of traps that those further along can set off. Yes, siege construction is a tad over-powered in there. They could limit it, but eh, it’s not that hard to get around. Considering the rewards, it’s definitely worth taking the time to figure out.

I’m more concerned about the recent spree of griefing in there: Build ally siege en mass directly on the chest, making it harder for people to select and open the chest. Low, but still possible to get past, just take some time.

“GW2 needs the same focus on currencies and more on randomness”

Fixed. And anyone comparing Guild Wars to Guild Wars 2 needs to stop. It’s pretty obvious the ArenaNet of yesteryear is long gone.

I’ve found http://dulfy.net/2012/08/28/guild-wars-2-karma-vendor-list/ useful.

But you may prefer #4:
http://dulfy.net/2012/10/03/gw2-cursed-shore-karma-vendor-list/

May be the same skins as the WvW set, but if you look at them, they’re most likely a test set. They have no real stats. Possibly created as place holders or to put on NPCs for a “view detail” we never got.

First, I’m so sick of people calling out “bot” every two seconds when it comes to farming and the Trading Post. Not all of us farming and using the Trading Post are bots, etc and it’s pure ignorance to say we are.

Now here’s a brief list of what I’ve found by experience (by no means is this official):
Bloods = bigger beasts. aka Trolls, bears, Shelks, etc
Claws = smaller beasts. aka shelks, cats, etc
Scales = fish. aka Krait, barracuda (west side of Frostgorge all the way), etc
Bones = all of the above plus undead
Totems = people. aka Crawl, Sons of Savnir, etc

Farm where you see these things in good supply. Also note that oozes can drop any of the materials, so they’re always worth a few seconds to kill along the way. Take anything you don’t want and sell them on the Trading Post to get cash to buy more of what you do want. Do the math on seeing if the upconvert method mentioned earlier is worth it – that’s looking at the TP and seeing if 50 T5 mats is more than 5 (the minimum you can get in conversion) T6 mats, make sure it’s a good 5 or more silver to cover the Mystic Coin and SP time.

Lastly, you can get a decent 71-78 Exotic set for some 50s-1g a piece. Easy enough to get while leveling from 65 to 80, even easier after 80. Or you could sit down, quit your kittenin’, think a minute, and get things done.

There’s the “Rare” (gold) one from the Guild Armor vendor, it’s a slight upgrade from the Masterwork (green) you got from the quest. But that’s it that I know of, no Exotic (orange). Just like the best aquabreather you can get is the Masterwork Karma one from Cursed Shore.

So you spent two hours following bots and it’s ArenaNet’s fault?

I enjoy Guild Wars 2 mostly naked and on the couch.

lol at the discussion about why and how we go about following him. That made sense to me on my first character (stories completed), other than the fact he seems to appear out of nowhere. It’s like “Claw Island is being attacked!” Go there and find a tree person there for no apparent reason, who suddenly knows all about what’s going on. Really?

Anyway, the point was the screenshot. Apparently people are missing it. Trahearne comes in and says “You have to listen to us!” to the wall. So not only is this guy a pessimist, but he’s blind. He literally ran up to the wall and started having a conversation with it. I guess trees and stones go way back!

Wow, my post got deleted for having a couple all caps words. Anyway:

“Remember, he did all that while talking to the wall!”

Um, you said he could send you one gold. One gold is way more than enough. You are in no way “inhibited from advancing.”

It better not be a dragon thing. We still have Icebrood and Branded to deal with. They actually have lutinets that we currently deal with. If they add in the other two, I’ll be severely disappointed.

On another note: I really don’t like the level scaling bit. It’s too broken. If you get scaled up to 80, you’re still severely out gunned. If you get scaled down to whatever, you’re still severely overpowered. I like the idea of “one level for all”, they just need to tweak it first.

A transparent map, a decent LFG tool, and SPvP variety.

/giggity

And they’re in the nearby Vista too. It’s kinda creepy…

I was just up there and I thought there was something off on the loading, didn’t pay any notice until you mentioned it. Yep, them whales be beached. (That brings up something I’ve wondered for a long time: Why are the whales in this game so small?)

Well, again, future interactions with Trahearne aside (OMG don’t get me started on his “This won’t end well” and “woe is me” bull!). The screenshot is when you first meet him (when not a tree). And yes, he spent the whole conversation that way, waving his arms and all…

Nismu.4019:

He has big wooden sword and he can summon something 5 elite summons at once.

But he doesn’t get said sword until later (has to see the Mother Tree /allkindsofwrongthere), nor does he show off his summon skills.

Just look at him, I sure wouldn’t trust him.

Trahearne… aka “Tree Dou… kitten” /shakehead

I pose to you all the question “Watch Commander Talon” recently asked (seen below in screenshot). Please ignore Talon’s dumb ways, he got what was coming to him anyway. Just take note of our self proclaimed “leader”, then answer the question: Why should (did) we trust him?

“Then, I pull my Orichalcum Pick.” Is that what they call it now?

So they just take the place of a fourth item? They don’t even increase the chance of something “special” like they say they do? And there’s no special recipes for them? Bummer.

Is there a general rule for what to expect when using one of these?

I ask because I received one from my daily a couple days back and thought to use it. Now I threw in the Stone and three Exotic greatswords, and got a sword back (“Resonator”).

Does it just pull from the possible “special” (more uniquely named) items? Obviously it doesn’t stay consistent (ie four greatswords normally gives a greatsword back).

Last note: Any “precurser” discussion will be reported as off topic. I’m just curious about using these Mystic Forge Stones for other, more unique skins.

If we’re to go after any of the other dragons, it should be more Icebrood or Branded as they’re already setup (we already fight their lutenits).

But most likely they’ll be filling that gap of the Bay.

I’d also like to point out: So far a “one time event” is just a one time video then looped in game anyway. Mad King Thorn gave us all a video for the “one time event” then he still popped out throughout the day, just not in video form.

William Fairfield.1428:

Whole thing is here.

http://www.twitch.tv/mmorpgcom/b/337726366

Let me know when the whole thing is on the official site(s).

Looks like they make more than just one rune: http://www.gw2db.com/items/19789-pile-s-of-putrid-essence

I’ve always been annoyed that my character’s hair changed when I put on a hat. What’s the point of choosing a hair style when it changes constantly?

It was only 50 the last two months. I’ll have to see once I opt to WvW later.

I don’t know… One tier each for a mere four points total? Sure seems like a better “eat X” than the Halloween one, especially on such a smaller scale as described. But they are driving people in to dungeons, so they could be after the “new content”. Either way, I’m sure there will be some nod to the holiday.

I agree with and have no issues with the timing of the achievement resets. But as a courtesy they could add a simple timer to the dailies, monthly and event achievements. Just so anyone could know at-a-glance that they have X amount of time left to complete it.

I don’t understand. Please clarify something for me: How are you going to “just farm the achievement”? I understand going in solely for getting the achievement done. But, it’s player kills. Killing players stops said players from doing something to help their side, thus killing them helps your side. You’d only be a jerk (and take way more time) if you just spent your WvW time running around looking for solo fights or say camping a puzzle. Just go with the masses and help get things done; you’ll be done in no time. You’re not going in and filling a spot to farm mobs (which some people actually do do).

From the new November Achievements, I’d say “yes”. For those not in-game, they added two unknown (or “???”) achievements. They did this for October’s Halloween one, so I’d expect the same this time around (and for December too).

My overall opinion: Act 1, pure crap; a simple quest with mob grind. Act 2, really nice; a whole new area to grind, two PvP matches (would love to see those modes hit SPvP permanently), and a challenging but not improbable jumping puzzle. Act 3, just alright; an instanced fight against Mad King Thorn, could have been better, he was easily soloable and overly farmed. Act 4, pure crap; see the above spoiler, seriously, that’s it, lamest party ever. I loved the dialog and scenery, was a little upset about “nerfs” but overall I enjoyed myself.

EDIT: Why is “hat” “kitten#8221;”?

Wait… you were typing in a text box… then got annoyed that it changed… when you clicked out of it. Really?

It’s more annoying to right-click and “mail to” an item and just have some random name in there, targeted or not. I like that I can just click a person and mail them something

DoM.8396:

Adine.2184:

Yes because you are not only endorsing somthing tha destroys game economies but also saying “i want to play a Massively Sigleplayer Online Game”

Excuess me you are incorrect. It does not destroy the game economy. What destroys the economy is gold sellers and bots. A bot does all its actions alone without any human contact needed. What I am saying in my post is why cant I purchase 3 more guild wars 2 accounts and have 4 character’s logged into the game at the same time while I have a program that repeats all my keystrokes and mouse movement/clicks to all other game clients. It takes a human to do it, it also takes real life cash. Something I would rather do then deal with 85%+ of people that I just do not want to know.

Welcome to botting. Three out of the four accounts are not requiring that “human interaction”. Now get over it. If you don’t like people, either go play something else, or just ignore the dungeons, etc that (nearly) require more than one person.

Isopaha.8092:

I’ve opened around 2500 ptot bags and 500 tot bags and haven’t seen a sight of an Endless tonic yet.

Also opened 15 Black Lion chests without any special skins.

My question is? Why isn’t there 2 systems implemented for getting the items? A hard way of grinding and an “easy” way of opening bags and chests?

I’m really pissed off atm because of this kind of thing.

They’re both “easy”, just one is longer and guaranteed.

Yes, when empty.

lol Another thread on this? Why don’t all you “only need shards” people band together, pick a server, and take the temple? I’d love to see the vendor set to only sell to people that helped take the temple. Way harsh, but would be funny none the less!

I missed out on the farming of the events. I was able to open one chest after the nerf and only received three greens. AND this is what I have to say;

1 – The event farmers prior to the nerf were not exploiting. I can’t even understand how one could consider doing an event and collecting the reward as exploiting. Yes, people should have seen the enhanced drop-rate and wondered if it was right, but you can’t blame them for being excited to actually see a decent drop rate from any event.

2 – A roll-back of any kind for this situation is just not right either. You can’t take away people’s loot from doing an event as it was designed. It’s not like they were glitching the chest so that it reset without the Champion.

3 – ArenaNet’s nerf is extreme one-sided overkill. Once every 24-hours or so is pathetic. They could have just made the chest events happen less often. They could have just adjusted the Exotic drop rates. There’s a lot they could have done to make it more fair for the remainder of the event.