Guild Wars 2

I would buy Tooth of Frostfang. I really want to make that legendary. the rest of the gold would go to T6 mats to help me make it sooner.

I farm sparks at the steps of Dwayna’s temple, across the way of Dwayna’s temple there are air elementals and sparks you can farm as well and there is a section of steps near Arah that has sparks as well. All of these have a chance of dropping a charged lodestone. The biggest problem farming them is the longer you farm them the more you’ll likely get diminishing returns. So farm them for an hour tops then move on to something else for the rest of the day.

Proposal Overview

Making the Guild Hall accessible to the public/private. Finding a place to put Guild Halls and overall making a Guild Hall that is worth coming to.

Goal of Proposal

The goal of this proposal is to not only make it easier to prevent lag issues but also to allow people access to your Guild Hall without taking up too much room in city instances. Also making it worth going to your Guild Hall and not just occasionally glance at it or stay there just for a short Guild meeting.

Proposal Functionality

I propose that like people can buy an Instance for PvP arenas why not do as such with Guild Halls. You can make it an instance list that shows all the Guild Halls that the players can select and enter if it is not password protected by the Guild. In this way we can have many Guild Halls created that won’t cause much lag, crashes or even lower graphic settings due to the amount of people within.

What, though, would make it worth going to your Guild Hall? In many MMOs of the past I have not found one reason to enter my Guild Hall. You get all the buffs the guild puts in it without having to step foot in there. So why not make it worth going to by not just making it unique and how you build and customize it (creating a small , medium, or large Guild Hall) but by also adding features to it. Daily Nodes Garden/Backyard being put in the guild is a given. Why not go further though? Why not add a jumping puzzle to it that leads to a grand or magnificent chest.

But, by far the one thing that I believe should be added to the Guild Hall is… a dungeon. A daily or weekly Guild Dungeon that has a 5 team, 10 team, or 15+ team level at the end of which you earn merits to upgrade and customize your Guild Hall and tokens that can go towards brand new Guild Armor. In some ways Guild dungeons have been created (Guild Puzzles) so why not take it a step further with this idea in mind. As such a Guild Dungeon should be added to the architecture list in order to create it but should give the guild access to any of the 3 team levels depending if you can pay for it with your merits.

Associated Risks

Like a Custom Arena one risk that could come to fruition is having a single person own the Guild Hall that leaves the guild or quits the game. A Guild Hall should be owned by the guild and not be owned by just one individual as such a Guild Hall should somehow be created by the guild rather than purchased and owned by a single person at the gem store.

I have to say that I am somewhat dreading the Halloween event and not because of skins; it is mostly due to events. Last year they took away a couple of events like Reaper’s Rumble and Ascent to Madness. They could have kept reaper’s rumble and at the least make an ascent to madness specialized to his son last year. Not only this but they put a lot of effort in the first year of Halloween with the scavenger event and learning Mad King Thorn’s past which they did not do much of in the second year with the son. It was like Halloween was an after thought what with the son’s event being over in 20 minutes.

What I would like to see and probably won’t would be adding those lost events back in the game, putting back the candy corn nods in the maps to make it look more festive or something similar to them, adding another or new Jumping puzzle in the mix that you have to access through 1 of 2 ways one being beating the mad clock tower or a second way being completing some other Halloween events to unlock it. I would love it if they made NEW armor skins that you can make for Halloween.

Ah well guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Well that’s fine by me if it’s just bad luck I’m just hoping they hadn’t gotten nerfed in the amount of T6 mats you can get. Thanks for your input.

So since this patch I have tried this recipe a few times and the most T6 mats I have gotten on a try was 25. Before the patch I was usually able to get around 34-40 per try or if I lucked out 10 clovers. Has anyone else experienced this? Have they nerfed the T6 mats you can get from this recipe?

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of mesmers with a new build and wanted to try it out to learn the class better when pvping. What traits and trait numbers are used and sigils and runes and such? It seems like fun.

Well, if there’s a Black Lion wep skin you want best to get it now prices will shoot up with lack of key farmers selling them.

I was smart enough to buy my Ghastly Grinning Shield when it was selling for 80g but yea I’d have to agree that putting them up for black lion tickets would be nice, though for a lot more like 10-12 tickets. At least then you’d really have to work a lot on farming keys or buying them and they could still hold some exclusivity.

Now, in the past I have seen servers intentionally lose just to be placed in a lower tier and get first place. This is a sad way for a server to cheat thier way to first place instead of trying to actually earn it in the tier a server actually belongs to. I am wonder if this has been addressed and fixed? From what I have read in the announcement they seem to have changed things a bit but I would think this is still on a tier basis.
The one problem with this tier placement is the fact that the weakest server will almost always still get last place, which in part could be a reason to intentionally lose to get in a lower tier….

I’ve found what I was missing. Apparently I did miss getting a solitary POI in Eternal thanks Astral Projections for that idea of checking WvW. Thank you all for helping me find what the problem was I very much appreciate all your help.

Astral Projections.7320:

I know OP said he did the chantry, but the one way inside doesn’t show on the main map as either visible or iirc as being counted for that area. There are 2 POIs involved with the chantry. One is visible. The other is way back inside the instance, is not visible and does not count toward Bloodtide.

If op shows 100% on all maps including WvW then it’s a strong possibility it’s the one in that instance.

No, this isn’t the case either I decided to try what you said and since I am in the whispers order on this toon I went through every bit of it when I did not get the 2 gifts of exploration. This is all I need to finish my legendary too….

No, I went in the forsaken halls and got nothing. still going through there atm but I don’t think i’ll find anything

Nope, had that done ages ago even went back in there before posting here and it showed as being done

@misterman

Do you recall the area that you had missed and found?

I finished doing Map completion, or so I thought. I find that I am down 1 POI somewhere. I’ve got 100% map completion on each map. I’ve gotten the new POIs in Brisban, and I’ve got the POI in Chantry of Secrets in Bloodtide Coast. So what am I missing? Did they add a new POI somewhere or is this a bug?

Wonderholme

Armor:

Fuzzy Panda Hat
Whiseper’s Secret Shoulderguards
Buccaneer Coat
Flamewalker Armguards
Viper’s Leggings
Sneakthief Sandals

Dyes: Midnight Ice and Algae

Actually, because of the double drop rate of black lion ticket scraps there will most likely be a less likely chance in getting the permanent hair style contract. You will most likely end up with another ticket scrap in its place. Ah well, still gonna try for it.

You may want to try Ranger. The class has decent survivablity in PvE and WvW with some nice evades with sword, dagger and gs. Lightning reflexes breaks u out of immobilize and does dmg. Signet of the Hunt gives you 25% spd as passive and gives your pet (and yourself, if traited (under marksmanship trait 11)). The axe can bounce between up to 3 enemies so it’s a nice weapon to have for zergs in WvW. The GSs evades on auto attack can keep you alive longer in close range fights in zergs or can help you get away from them with the #3 skill Swoop.

Aside from this suggestion the one big thing that helps me find what class is my main for a good while is PvP. I find the class that I tend to play a lot more than others is one I’ve enjoyed playing in PvP with, it’s also a good way to better get to know your class and other skills and traits they have that you normally wouldn’t use or think of using in PvE and WvW.

The only thing that bugs me about WvW are the colors. My server hasn’t had green in like 6 weeks or something of the like. This something that should be fixed, though the only scenario I see for that is the same 3 servers play each other for 3 weeks and you rotate colors once a week so you get to be all 3 colors in that time allowing for map completion. This, though, I doubt would be implemented since a lot of ppl complained about having to play the same servers over and over again.

Turn em into obi shards use em in the 10 recipe for mystic clovers get lots of t6 mats sell and do what u want with the gold. I myself am making another legendary weapon and with the fractal relics I only need to use 500k of the near 800k karma now to make the other stack of obi shards for it. I’ll save the rest for my next legendary.

Yea, I’ve been seeing people lag and d/c since last night. During such times they say they cannot even log in b/c the servers were considered to be down. Half my guild d/c’d last night and couldn’t get back on due to this. Just a bit ago did a pvp that started out 5v5 and dropped to a 2v5 and at one point 0v5. At the last 100 pts 3 people managed to get back on but that match was game over pretty much…. This was a spvp queue too.

Facing the same issue. I’ve got 29 of 30 and have gone through the Dulfy guide 3 times and once through with my guild and nothing. I watched someone in my guild get at least 1 coin on each spot and I did not get my last one. Doing it a 4th time….

Prysin.8542:

F2 attack – humiliating spit

The llama spits at the target causing a massive surge of humiliation. Enemy is dazed for 20 seconds.

Cooldown – 180 seconds

Except instead of humiliation he spits in your opponents eye for 5 seconds of blindness!

Yea do the boss blitz also you get a lot of festival tokens from there which you can use to buy more tomes of knowledge for 300 a piece. You’ll get those tokens fast in there specially if you find a gold group.

Only a couple days left though so best put it to good use.

They should make capes the way Tera did. This would remove clipping from charr and look pretty good to wear on any race.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

try Celestial amulet,
Lb+S/W 4/0/4/6
runes that grant a might bonus/duration. or a power type set.
longbow + sigil of fire + sigil of whats the name (7% crit)
Sword (sigil of strenght) horn(up to you i use sigil of earth ) but the horn one is preference.

Traits.
marksmanship = Sharpening stone, Spotter
Wilderness survival = 20% cooldown on survival skills , Oak heart or off-hand training / shared angusih (check what classes are the opposite team before choosing if you need more regen or more damage quickly or that extra stun removal it maybe 90secs but it can save you in the best of moments)
nature magic = Natures bounty , vit to power/evasive purity , Survival of the fittest

utlity
muddy terrain/quicken zypher your choice i kinda like to use muddy terrain if i decide to go mid / near , or quicken zypher if mid far.
lighting reflexes = for mobility and stun break / condi removal
#signet of the wild = your damage reduction through passive healing / evades + kiting with the Celesital amulet it’ll be at 81hp per second i find its enough to help and makes for some great tank/evade combat when used with oak heart.

i think this is a good/great build thats got great mobility+good damage and great when given the chance to use longbow on multipul targets using fire sigil.
and has some amazing potenional for tankiness just by swapping 2 traits oak heart and natures bounty .

What heal do you use with this setup and what pets work well with it?

I would like to HAVE gender specific armor for Charr and Asura. It is kind of sad that they both have male only armor sets except in town clothes. And no, it does not have to necessarily be some kind of skimpy outfits either. It would be a nice change to not let them have just a unisex set of outfits as they do now. I like my female asuras and would like to see them in dresses or long skirts, something other than the plain old pants of the male sets as they mostly have in light armor and all they have in medium armor. It is kind of sad that a lot of the female armor of the other races have these great sets and when you put it on a female asura or charr it’s just the male version….

I would like to see a box containing a completely new set of weapon skins that we get to choose from that you can only get on the 2nd year bday gift.

I really enjoy how several of the boss fights are made (pirate (especially), bandit, ogre, and centaur bosses). They have great mechanics I like having to toss bird seed or destroy the healing turrets, or the centaurs stampeding and especially like how the bomb mechanics work on the pirate boss. These types of mechanics are what should be added to future dungeon bosses to make them more challenging. The only thing needed for dungeons besides this is adding zones like the guild challenges to each dungeon like the maze in brisban or the guild challenge in the beginning charr area.

Started ranger 4 days ago and have been using this build in pvp the whole time. I’ve actually been doing decently well. I’ve found myself using sb pretty much the whole time, though I find the learning curve of sword a bit high so far. =oP

I had thought that when you created a character you would get the armor set of your choice per each toon made. Is this not the case or not the case any longer?

Guimba.5869:

Nice! I will test this soon.
But why u dont use GS? Gs give u more dmg then mace or specter

It just mostly depends on the situation. Scepter has the range, which I’ve found very useful when I see 3+ distance classes fighting and because of the trait setup in those 2 builds there, mace has that extra 5% dmg and 250 healing power. For the most part though is because I really like using focus in pvp it’s saved me a bunch of times and has the blast finisher with the #5 skill and since I use hammer for the extra cc the GS has taken a bit of a backseat in pvp.

I tweaked the first one a bit you have about 200 less toughness but depending on how much range for the other team using a mace over the scepter you would be able to get 5% more dmg and 250 healing power (used with #1 and #2 skills) and if the #3 skill goes it’s full duration you get the added 3 1/2s protection. You can always switch back the valor trait 6 and use scepter if there is are ranged. I kept the strength runes for the added 7% dmg with might boon.

Also replaced hollowed ground with purging flames for the added dmg and condi cleanse plus more burn dmg when you use focus #5 skill. I would never really use hollowed ground anymore (seems to have been nerfed in duration by a lot) would instead use SYG for the longer stability duration and being able to give it to the rest of your nearby team if there’s a lot of cc on the other team or in skyhammer.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAS5dlsApIoVBxZI8DNh8QlZd0iVPBBwDc5LsDA-TJBBwAAeCAeuIA12fAdZAA

If you want to use the celestial amulet I would also use the strength runes to make up the power and dmg you lose due to it and what I said above could still be used for more sustainability.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAS7dlsApIoVBxYI8DNh8QlZd0iVPBBwDcZRsDA-TJBBwAAeCAeuIA12fAcZAA

It’s a good build that I’ve been using for awhile myself with the exception of spirit bow which i use Purging Flames to remove condis and burn foes then with the focus can cause more burning on them with shield of wrath along with the added protection (5). The spirit hammer has nice cc plus when triggered can do some great dmg (the only downside is it’s fairly easy to see when it is being triggered and dodge so it’s best to try and use up the person’s dodges or lock them with #3 or 4 with the hammer before using. Think I did 9.3k dmg to someone yday. You may want to replace speed runes with Runes of Strength instead due to all the might you can get from it and the added 7% dmg boost with might boost. You’ll lose out on 1800hp but the dmg output may make up for it.

As for Traits I have been absolute resolution for the added condi removals instead of indomitable courage and since I don’t really use symbols much I went with wrathful spirits for the added retaliation on aegis removal.

Edit: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQNAS8dlsApIoVBxZI8DNh8QlZd0iVPBBwDgZJ+EA-TJRBwAduIA02f4cZAAPBAA

I actually find using barbarian amulet to be a better fit with the added hp.

Thank you all for the info and the link, very much obliged. :^)

Do you know where they discussed this kind of refund? I’d like to read up on it.

Now that we can duplicate the skins we bought at the gem store, is there any way to get a gem refund if you have purchased multiples of these sets (ex. if you have several Aetherblade armor sets or Marjory’s Dagger Skins)?

This was just something that popped in my head so thought I might ask.

Let’s say that you made Sunrise and wanted to put it on your new lowbie to enjoy it the whole time you’re leveling to 80. In total you transmuted the Sunrise skin 4 times during your course to reaching 80. Now you want the original stats for it back so you use a trans splitter. Here’s the question from what I’ve read in the description you’ll get back the stats from the last time you transmuted Sunrise rather than its Original stats.

Now if you buy 3 other trans splitters and use them to once again get back the last stats on your Sunrise skin again and again and again will you eventually be able to get back to the original legendary stats?

I doubt GW2 would go p2p. Most likely what would happen is that gems would get more costly or items in the gemstore would go up in price (maybe both).

Zommoros blessed me with dawn. Made Sunrise, sold it, made twilight for keeps, had enough gold left over to where me and a friend made twilight again. Sold it (50/50 split). Made The Moot for keeps. Zommoros blessed me again with dawn. Me and my friend made sunrise. Sold it. I made The Dreamer. Sold it. Made The dreamer again for keeps. Had enough gold left over where me and my friend are making Bifrost now. Just need world comp again. I’ll use my share to play the TP a bit and use what I make for the new legendary weps and probably The Minstrel.

I pretty much believe if you get a key drop that’s a precursor u missed out on. So far I’ve had at least 4-5 keys drop for me. There goes 4-5 precursors….

Just wanted to say thanks again to all the people that helped me out here. I finally finished making my thief a couple days ago and have been enjoying it. Found a build that Incinerator had posted that works rather well in wvw and pve. Finally here’s a pic of my thief and maybe I’ll sneak up on ya in WvW or pvp sometime. =oP

Yea that’s true. I do snowball mayhem for extra karma atm. 600 for losing 1k for winning and they go by pretty fast.

lol, sorry about that. Well at least it was out bid by a larger margin? But yea yours will sell too saw a couple in that price range just before Christmas sell. I just thought ugh a penny. And it just sold a bit a go too. lol :o)

Also I did find it kinda interesting that legendary prices never really dropped back down sometime after ascended weps came out. I understand that the price in the beginning would jump up just sorta thought that they’d drop back down like most things. Musta been a decent amount of inflation during that time period.

Aw that’s sad that you can’t choose which to buy. And if you noticed i laughed about it. Just think it would’ve been funny if you could. Take a chill pill dude. =oP

I made The Dreamer yesterday. It is a weapon that I actually really want to use but making it put me near broke. So, I had the idea of putting this beauty up for sale and remaking it for keeps allowing me to keep a little extra to help me make the minstrel for my guard in the hopefully near future. Did I outbid my competition? To put it simply, yes. Yes, I did outbid them but not by a copper more like 300g. It seemed a decent amount of a difference to me, 300g…. I laughed when I saw this, sorta knew I’d be underbid but by a copper? Lol, felt sorta like a joke the other person made knowing that they would get virtually the same amount just a copper or two shy of mine. I think we’ve all done it at one point or another, underbid someone by a penny or two. Mine were usually on smaller transactions like selling a couple of ectos for 31s 99c to their 32s or the like. Nothing this substantial though. And I’ve bought things at the lowest bidder too. I never really took notice to the check mark to which item you can CHOOSE to buy. The highest item I purchased was the ghastly grinning shield back when it was worth 80g. It too took every copper I had to get it and was well worth the purchase. I guess what I am getting at here is I’d like it if someone that is going to buy The Dreamer notices that one penny, that one little copper difference and think: What a kitten thing to do, and uncheck it and buy mine for one little copper more as a sorta kitten you to that under bidder. That would be the funniest thing ever to me. I know that I’ll pay more attention to the bigger purchases I buy and if I see that small amount of difference or close to the like I’ll uncheck that under bidders and check the one above as a lovely kitten you to that under bidder.

Thanks for all the help so far. Right now my thief is level 58 (22 to go!) and I’d like to find out about wvw meta builds with short bow. Most likely I would be more of a solo roamer taking out stragglers or picking off soloists when I get the chance. I have heard that a lot of thieves add some soldier armor or the like for extra defense and am curious about these meta builds. For the most part I ask about a meta build due to my lack of knowledge on thieves. I do hope to learn a lot more on thief on the way and will hopefully learn from the meta builds to help construct my own build along the line that I would enjoy. That, though, is a ways off for the time being. So, what is a good meta build that synergies well with short bow? What gear stat mixes are recommended along with trait builds and why certain traits were chosen? Also, any videos of the meta build recommended would be great to view and better understand the class. Thanks a bunch. So far you’ve all been very helpful on my road as a thief.

Feels like this was “inspired” by Charlie Chaplin’s speech in his first ever non silent film “The Great Dictator.”

What about using a s/d with short bow? I’ve heard that sword got nerfed no idea how bad really (my first actual try for a thief here). It seems like it could be good for dungeon runs due to it hitting multiple mobs/players. I’m not the type to just be sitting in the back firing away I do like to get close and personal as well. I know there may not be a “viable” sb build but a build that uses it frequently well would be great. Sadly I’ve never been a big fan of WvW but I’m trying to get more into it. Honestly don’t really know why I don’t care for it much, kind of annoying. =oP
Also what about a d/p with sb or s/p they both seem viable with d/p u have that nice blind and with s/p the stun and aoe atk.

At first I know I won’t be that great so besides zerker armor what would make a good secondary set to use till I get used to using zerker, if I should use zerker at all? Knights? Cavalier? Carrion? etc.

P.S. Thanks for all the info and help so far it’s been very helpful on my continuing journey as a thief.

I guess I’d be going more towards dmg over conditions but am curious about any build that would incorporate these two weps in pve/wvw. Still new to the class so what kind of pets would synergize well with these two weps also? My toon would be human I recall there was one build that uses asura for it’s techno babble so it may not work as well here.