Guild Wars 2

The last 2 fractals I did with rangers were with a typical longbow ranger that sits back and shoots at the enemy.

Didn’t switch out of longbow a single time during the the fractal.

That ranger was using Eagle Eye, Signet of the Hunt and Signet of Stone during the entire time. Refused to take Spotter to help the team.

That’s why rangers get a bad name, because of bad rangers who don’t know how to play.

Sure, you’re the last one alive cause you were hiding in the back, avoiding being useful.

sticky:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

Ectos! Ectos for everyone!

Sup my guild wars friends

Has anyone been on http://www.reddit.com/r/guildwars2 lately?

I like the reddit site cause it’s definitely a good source of info!

Over 10000 gold over the year

Yes it’s true that Jonez now sells soldier trinkets for karma, however that doesn’t make Shukov’s Launch Codes any less valuable.

In all of the months people have been doing SE p2, this recipe is still missing.

As my earlier analysis explains; Shukov is SE P2’s boss. However, you never fight him – you fight the golems.

I strongly believe they messed up the loot table and gave it to shukov, which drops nothing.

As explained above, the last bag of woundrous goods is from the chest where you return the stones.

Just getting back into the game, and I still don’t see this item out there.

I think this recipe is bugged and not appearing in the game, any idea?

Why would you settle for a stas you’ve never tried for ascended armor?

Exotics are cheap. Play around with builds using masterwork/exotics, then decide.

Jon.1376:

PowerCat.5738:

I don’t know why you’re saying anet killed alts.

I agree that ascended are extremely time consuming to get; but honestly you can gear an 80 in full zerker for about 20 gold if you’re smart about it.

I have 6 fully geared full berzerker exo chars. They are all powerful and I use them in different context, because one class doesn’t rule all.

or you could get a full set of zerk gear using nothing but karma, minus slots.

Apparently you haven’t heard of warrior lol…. jk…… but no really

Where?

According to http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats#Level_80_exotic_equipment, you can’t get any berserker equipment with karma.

Pls respond

The bear is floating to the right of the boss. he’s as dark as the background

I don’t know why you’re saying anet killed alts.

I agree that ascended are extremely time consuming to get; but honestly you can gear an 80 in full zerker for about 20 gold if you’re smart about it.

I have 6 fully geared full berzerker exo chars. They are all powerful and I use them in different context, because one class doesn’t rule all.

Yeah tanking is fun. Mobs in Rift never leash, they follow you until death.

To be honest I only ever see red posts under “black lion trading company” cause that’s the main source of income.

What’s with you necroing 1 year old threads?

If skipping mobs wasn’t intended, mobs would never lose aggro and follow you until they’re dead.

Arenanet has the capacity to change the behaviour of mob aggro, and they have done so.

Remember when stealth used to completely break all aggro? Now it doesn’t.

So skipping is intended, for skilled players.

AKA newer players are punished for not playing earlier.

GW2 already runs under linux using Wine/Crossover.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_2_on_Wine

Because people were running those paths with all their 80s, then buying dungeon rares for ecto salvage.

Arenanet is really on their ecto income rate, they don’t want you to get more ectos than they want you to get.

This allowed for too much ectos.

You don’t really need money when starting out the game. Things are cheap until you get to the endgame, and you can get by fine with equipment 5 levels behind when leveling.

Just play, enjoy yourself and you’ll probably find other uses for those gems when you get more exprience!

Any idea about this? Still bugged on this. How do we get the game employees to review bugs and correct them?

The problem isn’t that people are stacking. The problem is that the battles in gw2 are so simplistic, that stacking becomes the optimal way to beat anything.

Look at many boss fights that actually have mechanics. See if stacking helps in those situations.

I’m glad to see anet is making efforts to make some boss fights more complex by adding mechanics.

Imagine my surprise when I saw the new and improved Ghost Eater in AC path 2, now that’s some interesting mechanics!

The dungeon instance is created on the server of the person who created it.

It’s just the way the game is made.

It’d be nice to have a similar feature for dungeons.

Like a sheet under your character that shows dungeons, etc, and a checkmark would appear once you do it, and clear at reset.

The exotics that you refer to are “fractal weapons”, and not dropped anywhere else. Those are account bound.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_weapon

Precursors are just regular exotic weapons, therefore abide by the normal exotic weapons rules.

Arenanet doesn’t really care that much about GW2 anymore. They’ll do the bare minimum to get people to login and buy new skins.

Noticed how most of the work is going to gem store skins, stack extenders, anything that can get people to buy gems

But fixing the bugs in the game? Low priority.

I would also recommend going for at least “Rare” quality armor with ruby orbs (or ruby crystal if you’re poor) and also using masterwork ruby trinkets (rare trinkets are expensive)

Then gear up asap!

Did you look at all your chars, bags, bank, etc?

Don’t play ranged. You’ll be out of range of party buffs and be genrally weaker than the rest of your party.

Nope. I have 8 toons, each of a different class.

This is a bad bug. I sent a /bug but they never responded.

I set the sound quality slider to Fastest, and still getting popping noises.

Even when gw2 is in the background, with “mute when in background”

This bug overrides all sound setting in the game!

Been getting the sound popping bugs since day 1 playing GW2.

The strange thing is that I play gw2 with the GW2 master sound slider way down, but the popping noises seem to override the master sound setting and play at full system volume.

Very annoying, and as usual, no word from arenanet!

Maybe they’ll pull a Pistrix and just change the tooltip to say you get more damage, or just remove them from the game entirely instead of trying to fix it.

Sup guys

I’m at 82/83 on Hint Completion, and looking at the Hints list, it seems I’m missing “Hint Panel”.

How do you get this one to trigger? I’d like to finish this one!

Looks like arenanet is milking the gem store again LOL

Hey let’s recycle some old armor to make some cash.

Grenade is carpal tunnel heaven.

I don’t use them for that only reason. It hurts my hand when I mash 1 like a madman.

Also having this bug, can’t complete the story quest.

Asura engineer.

EDIT: Used Serris’s suggestion of dropping the VOED near water and picking it up from there. Worked.

Sup necros! I haven’t played GW2 since early january, and throughout the entire life of the game till then, minions have always sucked, especially the AI.

Has it gotten any better lately?

I think it’s really great that arenanet is stepping up to say they think they found an issue, however knowing arenanet’s track record, we have to take things lightly, and analyze their message.

Arenanet likes to dodge questions or issues, as they did again with this problem.

Some history, several months ago this thread was started:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first
it reached its climax at 26 pages, before it was locked.

Sure, drop QUANTITY was an issue, but the issue we actually care about is DROP QUALITY. Also many people reported being LOCKED OUT OF LOOT, as if affected by some sort of PERMANENT DR. Many people reported such issues. Many people have no issues. Something funky’s going on.

Now let’s read Colin’s message more indepth. Remember wording is important, they like to play with details.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Update-on-Loot-Drops-Investigation/first#post1462956

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we verified that all loot tables are indeed working correctly in the game.
Translation: The drops are what they are, and that’s it.

While it’s nice that we’ll tag more mobs, we’ll just end up with more junk. This did not deal with the core of the issue, which is DROP QUALITY, not quantity.

If you read the initial complaints, player submitted hundreds of data about what they received as drop. Why is the issue suddenly concerning tagging champions for loot?

Another good dodge by arenanet. Closing off both threads, posting a happy message that STILL dodges the issue at heart. Seems like it’s been a common pattern around here since the game started.
Here are both threads for your reading enjoyment.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Share-your-data-about-perceived-strange-drop-behavior-here/first

Players started reporting reduced DROP QUALITY around the nov. patch.

Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012/first

What Colin actually said was that this implementation of veterans and champs not dropping loot was actually a bug. He said drop quality was what it should be. He said champions will now guarantee drop FOR REAL.

About Arenanet picking specific words to answer questions, check out this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/wintersday/Captain-s-council-commendation-here-to-stay/first

Will the care package and the Captain’s council commendations stay ingame after the Wintersday patch or will these be removed? (notice he did not mention if Lyns will still sell stuff)
Then the answer:

It will be in the game during Wintersday.

Yep, she was ingame but she was DISABLED. This is why we’ve become a bit defensive about the wording of the answers.

Hey all

I think it’s really great that arenanet is stepping up to say they think they found an issue, however knowing arenanet’s track record, we have to take things lightly, and analyze their message.

Arenanet likes to dodge questions or issues, as they did again with this problem.

Some history, several months ago this thread was started:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

it reached its climax at 26 pages, before it was locked.

Sure, drop QUANTITY was an issue, but the issue we actually care about is DROP QUALITY. Also many people reported being LOCKED OUT OF LOOT, as if affected by some sort of PERMANENT DR. Many people reported such issues. Many people have no issues. Something funky’s going on.

Now let’s read Colin’s message more indepth. Remember wording is important, they like to play with details.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Update-on-Loot-Drops-Investigation/first#post1462956

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we verified that all loot tables are indeed working correctly in the game.

Translation: The drops are what they are, and that’s it.

While it’s nice that we’ll tag more mobs, we’ll just end up with more junk. This did not deal with the core of the issue, which is DROP QUALITY, not quantity.

If you read the initial complaints, player submitted hundreds of data about what they received as drop. Why is the issue suddenly concerning tagging champions for loot?

Another good dodge by arenanet. Closing off both threads, posting a happy message that STILL dodges the issue at heart. Seems like it’s been a common pattern around here since the game started.

Here are both threads for your reading enjoyment.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Change-in-loot-parameters-or-a-bug-Merged/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Share-your-data-about-perceived-strange-drop-behavior-here/first

Players started reporting reduced DROP QUALITY around the nov. patch.

Rares and Exotics should be much more likely to drop and every champion should be guaranteed to drop loot.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012/first#post808152

What Colin actually said was that this implementation of veterans and champs not dropping loot was actually a bug. He said drop quality was what it should be. He said champions will now guarantee drop FOR REAL.

About Arenanet picking specific words to answer questions, check out this thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/wintersday/Captain-s-council-commendation-here-to-stay/first

Will the care package and the Captain’s council commendations stay ingame after the Wintersday patch or will these be removed? (notice he did not mention if Lyns will still sell stuff)

Then the answer:

It will be in the game during Wintersday.

Yep, she was ingame but she was DISABLED. This is why we’ve become a bit defensive about the wording of the answers.

Thank you for the info. It must be an unintended side effects of various mechanics clashing and creating something that shouldn’t be.

Ever since I started doing fractals there’s been a widely used trick of using binding blade on the maw tentacles to spawn more crystals.

Recently, people have been discussing that it could be an exploit.

Is this a legitimate, intended game mechanic, or should we discontinue its use?

Yes, there was a trick you missed.

Just to be clear, she will be back WITHOUT keys.

Which further emphasizes that you’ll get banned if you steal sales from anet, but if you give them sales, it’s ok!!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Just to clarify, you’ll no longer be able to use waypoints when a party member is in combat inside a dungeon. This is prevent people from using waypoints to rush and kill bosses or clear areas, which is not intended game play.

All other forms of res remain unchanged.

Are you confirming that we can resurrect a fully dead team mate, at any time?

Are you also suggesting that this will make it that if one person dies in an encouter, they cannot WP to resurrect? The only way is to use the orb or get rezzed?

Ilithis is spot on.

I just feel like GW2 isn’t an improvement to GW1 in many aspects.

I just wanna keep watching the action, not rotating the camera around my corpse

Yes, they are. People are exploiting a bug with the transmutation stone which makes a soulbound item still say soulbound, however can be transfered to other toons, once you use a transmutation stone.

This is an exploit, obviously, since it was not designed that way – as you can clearly see it messes up the item and makes it unsoulbind.

It’s a valid concern to know if we’ll be banned for doing it.

I think this is a legitimate worry. I mean arenanet said that all exploits which are not intended are bannable.

They did not intend for transmutation to remove soulbound – the item still says soulbound and the message even says it’ll be soulbound. But it’s not.

You’re effectively abusing broken game mechanics, something that arenanet has banned people for in the past.

How is this any different? Cause it makes more money for anet?

I don’t mind that you can’t rez someone in FotM, and I don’t mind that this will make it over to all dungeons.

BUT PLEASE, for the love of kittens, don’t make me spectate my dead corpse for an hour!!

Just put real spectating on. The only reason I don’t do FotM is cause I can’t stand spectating my dead body.

NO MORE, pretty please?

Don’t worry tho, Orb of Resurrection will still work.

Just another clever ploy to monetize on gem store items!!