Guild Wars 2

fuji.6283:

1600 Rare Greatsword

Mistake

First mistake, expecting gambling to be guaranteed.

Second mistake, expecting 200 gold to equal 500-ish.

Third mistake, “toileting” rares expecting a precursor. Precursors are considered a higher quality than exotic within mystic forge “RNG”. They’re never a good chance to get them, but your best bet is using 4 exotics of the same type as the precursor you want. Forging rares for a precursor is an insanely low chance.

Learn from your mistakes.

PS: I’m not exculpating ANet and the ridiculous system for precursors. It is a ridiculous system. But you’re still doing it wrong.

renss.5764:

so everyone knows we will soon be able to lvl up to 90 or even higher

[Citation Needed]

I mean, that would be a pretty phenomenally stupid decision, so let’s see some sources.

In b4 nerf.

Ya’ll ought to know the deal by now. If you mention farming spots, they get nerfed.

I’m so glad to know I wasn’t the only one.

For about the first month of playing this game (i.e.: while I was too busy with the overall game to pay attention to details and lore) I could have sword Melissa was a human god or something.

Rock.7324:

haha… never seen this, but whoever thought of it, props to you.

Yeah, AHAHA! THEY ARE SO CLEVER! Griefing is sooooooo funny! In fact, it’s so funny I hope they and people like them get banned from the game just because someone in ANet wants some kicks and giggles. Cause that’s funny right?

Sil.4560:

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I’ve completed the 5 Gambit achievement twice and not once have I received it. […] At one point the quaggan disappeared

Eh… 5 gambit achievement is for tier 3 fights only, as are all other gambit achievements… Quaggan is tier 1..?

ShadowMaster.5708:

I wish Anet could write this in the patch notes atleast, where they said they changed the effects…

Yeah man, if only they had written something like, I don’t know:

Set the Effect LOD option to be enabled by default.

If only….

TehPwnerer.7215:

“I really wanted to make the Abaddon fractal..” So why would you guys tie such an amazing idea for a dungeon to something so stupid as player votes? Will we ever see or hear about what this fractal would have been like?

This.

I could understand the vote deciding which takes precedence, which will be worked and completed first as higher priority, but to deny good content based on something like this is a very bad idea, IMO.

The only 2 problems with Liandri are the camera randomly being a piece of kitten and giving you stupid angles that don’t let you see properly, and the rather restricting time limit.

Even then Liandri is tough but fair. This is a L2P issue through and through.

I went through most of the gauntlet with a fairly tanky warrior.

Sounds like a PEBKAC issue.

As far as I know there has not been a documented change.

There is always the possibility of a bug, glitch, or undocumented change, but 8 cases does not constitute an appropriate sample size to draw any significant conclusions from.

Also there’s very little reason to mystic forge rares. The rate of return for your investment is kitten poor unless you’re extremely lucky. If you want a precursor then your best bet is to MF actual exotics, as precursors are considered a somewhat “superior” quality within exotics, like “exotic 1.5” AFAIK.

Im Mudbone.1437:

I so need TA f/u, but, with the infinite spawning spiders at end boss and 10 fails(all using repair canisters) before we called it quits I can see I may never get this path working on my dungeon completion achievement.

The problem with that boss currently is that you can’t repeat it. If you get it right the first time it’s ok, if you don’t, forget about it, it’s nearly impossible.

Mikau.6920:

Thanks guys, then I guess I’ll get a soldier back then.

That is, IMO, the best choice until you acquire an ascended one if you want berserker stats. Exotic Soldier’s back item with a berserker ruby jewel.

Psychol.5783:

20%

Psychol.5783:

%

See that symbol? It’s called a Percent sign . It implies that the value in question is a probability , not a guarantee.

It does not mean that 1 in every 5 “uses” of the mystic forge will upgrade the rarity.

It means that, if you were to use the mystic forge an infinite amount of times, the more you used it, you’d have a pretty good change of getting closer and closer to a 1 in 5 “success rate”.

In short, it’s a random chance, not a guarantee. RNG is RNG.

Of course it does. Fear is a control ability (commonly designated as hard CC in other games). As such it will cause you to lose control of your character and, if performing any action, be interrupted.

And in case you’re wondering no, there’s no issue with it not “counting” as an interrupt. It does. I got the daily interruption achievement thing several times with my necro (at least once after this last patch).

Of course, the whole “interrupt” thing only triggers when the target was actually performing any action when he was CCd. It only triggers during an action’s channel or start up, not recovery.

Surbrus.6942:

For the “fast” crowd: Items should not invalidate unique class abilities, even if it is PvE only.

Ok, we need to remove every other item in the game, as almost all of them overlap class abilities.

Stealth? Thieves.
Healing? Several classes, but mostly staff eles and guardians.
Giving protection? Guardian.
Etc, etc.

Just about any item in the game does something another class does and can often by defined by. Irrelevant. There’s no reason why Mesmer should be the only class to have access to Portal (IN PVE) anymore than there’s no reason Guardian should be the only ones capable of giving out protection or Thieves stealth, among other things. It’s a utility skill, it’s not a class mechanic. If the item created clones any class could shatter then I would somewhat understand your complaint.

Also, if what defines your mesmer is using portal, you are useless as a mesmer. In fact, you’re not a mesmer, you’re a Tyrian Taxi Cab.

If you’re new to the game you have to understand that GW differs from most traditional MMOs when it comes to gear.

The only things that matter are weapon type (hammer, sword, pistol, etc), rarity (exotic, rare, masterworks….etc), level and stat distribution (commonly addressed by their most common prefixes, such as berserker, soldier, etc).

Any lvl 80 weapon of the same type, rarity, stat distribution and level will have the exact same performance.

e.g.: Any lvl 80 exotic greatsword with berserker stats (power/precision/critical damage) will have the exact same stats regardless of name or “rarity” (in the sense of how difficult it is to acquire, not rarity like ‘exotic’ or ‘rare’).

So, no, the exotic crafted lvl 80 berserker set has exactly the same stats as any other lvl 80 exotic berserker set on the TP or the ones you buy in WvW.

None. Racials are rarely useful.

Mesmers have some of the strongest elites in the game.

Mass invisibility for disengage/escape/coordinated PvP/WvW, Moa for 1 on 1s, and Time Warp for just about anything else.

AFAIK, this would be when you hit someone else.

At least, all the other runes list “when hit” or “when struck” when they mention effects that trigger when you are hit, although this could be an anomaly.

I can’t understand these…

You have an achievement tab.

That tab lists every achievement available.

Most of them tell you exactly what to do, and the ones that don’t you can easily wiki/dulfy/google the answer in a second.

That tab also lists the exact value of AP each achievement gives you.

Look at the tab and start doing the ones you can/want.

ANet teaching us a life lesson – Just like real life politics: the only winning move is not to play.

Conncept.7638:

casual players

There’s your problem.

I’m pretty sure what you define as “casual” is what I define as “terrible” players – i.e.: players who haven’t the faintest idea of the dungeon’s mechanics and are just sort of winging it (along with their builds, gear, etc) as they go.

Any dungeon will be hard like that. CoE having all paths be worth the same is ridiculous (1 is by far the easiest), but there are far harder dungeons and paths than CoE (like, for example, Arah or TA’s up, forward path).

skullmount.1758:

You could always go with a cavalier back piece, as a non exotic back piece.

“Cheaper” to acquire if what you want is critical damage (Temple of Balthazar with Karma, IIRC), but same issue as above. Critical Damage is insanely expensive at 16 stats per 1%. Not worth it.

Sitael.4680:

The Wiki is missing the Zephyrite Weapon-Skins AND they cost now 5 Black Lion-Ticket instad of 1 as during the Event! (may be a bug)

Do people not read…?

They specifically mentioned everywhere that the 1 ticket price was temporary, and that the weapons would cost 5 tickets afterwards.

Not in the trading post.

Back items are, currently, sitting right above breathers in the “poorly implemented mess” scale. Most are untradable, they can’t be salvaged, forged or just about anything really.

The only exotic berserker back items IIRC are either fractals capacitator (don’t do it, it has no upgrade slot so it sucks more than a green one) or Guild backpack.

That said exotic berserker back items are a waste of stats, as you only get 1% critical damage for 16 wasted stats. Extremely inefficient.

Berserker Ascended back items, on the other hand, offer some of the best return on critical damage, with 1% critical damage per 7 stats.

Vayne.8563:

Ivienn.6354:

Kyven.7514:

I just did the one in EB and didn’t see my badges go up in my collection. Is this intended or a bug?

There is a chance they directly go to to wallet and didn’t display in inventory. Also if you clicked decompose all collectables before checking it went to wallet for sure. Check next time how many you have in wallet and then after you open a chest to see if number changed.

If you are already checking wallet and it’s not there then it’s probably a bug especially if other puzzles still give badges.

I think this is the case, because I’ve had some currencies go directly into my wallet already, instead of appearing in my inventory.

I’m assuming the OP checked that…? Because yes, currently the currencies go straight to your wallet, not your inventory.

Chickenshoes.6250:

sounds like a fix to me

PvErs shouldn’t be able to collect their badges of jumping.

Inb4 fracking achievement chests….

Ok, I’ll accept* that if you stop receiving gold and items in WvW.

PvPers shouldn’t get their PvE content in PvP!!!

(*Note: Not really. Just showing how fundamentally ignorant this argument is.)

Because time gating is the kitten right now at the ANet offices.

It’s THE choice way to virtually inflate content. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it works!

To quote myself: How do you make a simple 5 step process that would normally take 5 minutes last a whole week? Make sure people can only do one step a day!

It’s asinine, disgusting, and cheap in the worse sense, but by god, it works!

For the “slow” crowd: It’s PvE only.

The item is useless. Should be permanent use.

Star Ace.5207:

EVERY STAT COMBO IS VIABLE,

Same kitten again…

Viable in what way?

That you can finish content? So is no gear at all.

Berserker is, for most things, plain superior, as it is the most effective gear. This is a PvE design issue that ANet, with this patch, seemed to be aware of and trying to deter… But for most PvE it’s still berserker or bust.

Oh please don’t, you’re providing me with quite a lot of free entertainment.

Fake elections, on an online game, which are ultimately completely meaningless for the actual game aside from some minor side stuff, much less have any impact on your real life, and some of you are going completely nuts. It’s kittening hysterical. I bet most of the people raving and whining about this kitten didn’t care half as much the last time something that actually affected them in real life happened.

But don’t let me stop you, go on, I’m having a ball. It’s like going to the zoo.

I was so very confused by the first post…

“…Forum update? What? …But this has been here forever…?”

I think I’m laughing harder at the idea of someone that has been spending 2g every single time they wanted to retrait because they were too lazy to read.

Poetic, really.

Fortus.6175:

reputation

This is the word I keep getting completely lost on… I can’t understand this. I tried to on the original thread but I ended up just closing it and saying “kitten it”.

Reputation… for having an item? For grinding out an item? For getting lucky with RNG? I don’t get it. “Oh look, someone has something”? It goes completely beyond me. Baffles me. What am I supposed to be impressed with?

To me, the only reputation that matters in a game such as this is being good at the game. Teldo and Jumper have a reputation I care about. They’d be equally scary opponents in full legendary shiny gear or in transmuted (for stats) level 1 gear. They’re impressive for what they do, not what they do it with.

I guess that’s what confuses me entirely. I don’t understand why the difficulty of acquiring an item matters. It always comes down to either grinding it out, which is a matter of patience, or getting lucky, which is a matter of luck. Neither impress me.

Even less can I understand why anyone should seriously care what anyone else looks like. I mean, I notice it when someone looks nice – nice to me, that being an extremely subjective issue and all, but that’s just a “cool”, it’s not something worthy of a “reputation”, and it is completely irrelevant of the rarity of their gear. If anything, sadly, most legendary weapons look like complete kitten. I wouldn’t wear most of them if I got them for free…

So at the end of the day, only things I associate with most legendary gear these days is either horrible taste, or a sad overcompensating attempt at some vicarious notoriety. “Look at me, I have something rare!”. That’s nice dear.

By selling cheaper you also sell faster. Time is money. By making money faster you can also invest faster, for more profit.

If you’re upset someone got their precursor sold before yours – tough kitten. That’s how the market works. If you don’t wanna be undercut make your product cheap enough that people won’t want to. The financial value of an item will always be a meet up between how cheap people are willing to sell, and how high people are willing to buy. Apparently not as high as you listed. Deal with it.

The only problem is the 1c undercutting. There should be a minimum % of undercutting, a percentual value of the item (say, for example, 5 or 10%). Other than that it’s all good. If someone is willing to sell cheaper to sell faster, that’s their problem. If you want to sell even faster you know what to do. Otherwise, wait in line.

Simple: Too much of an advantage. Being able to instantly clear 900/1200 distance is already one of the best things in the game. If you could clear heights as well it would be far too good a getaway/close in.

Mostly because that’s not difficult, just very time consuming.

It’s not difficult to avoid any deaths while leveling in PvE, with any class. But often it’s too time consuming and downright boring to guarantee it. Personally I find it a lot more fun to just play normally and take the odd death as it comes. The 100% safe route can be very restricting and very “unfun”.

I’m not a woman, but I just realized that both of my female characters are light classes – Mesmer and Elementalist.

Cultural stereotypes I suppose.

Then again, it’s not the only game with these kind of tendencies. Find a woman that plays Street Fighter and about 5:1 chances they main Chun-Li.

Shrugs.

Chopps.5047:

Didn’t know I’d have to give up my normal daily routine (work/chores) so I could get up in middle of night to maybe MAYBE possibly if I get lucky score this achievement.

You don’t. I didn’t and I got it easily. I’m just giving you some tips on how to make it easier since you’re clearly having issues with it. Again, it’s quite easy for me, but if it isn’t for you you have ways of improving your chances.

Chopps.5047:

It’s harder than intended. I don’t get what’s so hard to understand about that.

How do you know what’s intended? Hint: You don’t. You’re just spouting BS to make your lack of argument sound more important.

It’s clearly not that difficult to everyone , so maybe the problem lies in you?

Got this achievement, and would have gotten it multiple times if it was possible… I don’t get the issue. Just pay attention and you’ll get the chance to.

If you really are having those many issues guest in a low population server by odd hours. Tada.

Duke Blackrose.4981:

As Fractals are a glimpse into the past, perhaps he’s one of the Giganticus Lupicus.

Giganticus Lupicus are canine in appearance. He’s perfectly humanoid.

Sadly this is one of the points where many fractals fail – there isn’t enough story on these supposed historic moments. This fractals supposedly happens “at the beginning of history”, and it is known that around that time giants ruled Tyria. I believe the Jotun “king” or whatever at the beginning of the Norn personal story mentions something along the lines of “true giants” having existed long before humans came.

Giganticus Lupicus being one kind of giant. It’s also hinted that, unless a retcon took place (hope not), the Lupicus we fight in Arah is basically a baby or juvenile. We know of another race we classify simply as “Giants”, because they still exist today, albeit very few of them remain. Colossus would appear to be much older than most races, with the exception of perhaps Lupicus, and could simply have been another race that walked Tyria long before even written history begun being kept, let alone GW1 taking place.

> Account currency wallet
> Champions worth killing
> Effects detail system
> Permanent Finishers
> Some other, infinitely less relevant but also nice kitten

> See attachment

So ANet, which of the 4 teams is in charge of this update? Whom do I send the cake to?

Don’t even care if the living story events turn out to [moderator edit] (which they may or may not, we’ll see). Already one of the best updates so far. Whichever team this is, keep them around.

Jabberwock.9014:

It’s impossible if you wipe once. A ton of recluses spawn that can’t be reflected and never despawn. If you fail the first time you might as well restart the dungeon (terrible design I know).

This. THIS is the kittening problem. Kill it the first time or restart the dungeon. This should have been fixed long, long ago.

If the tree gets reset for any reason despawn all the kittening spiders. Otherwise if you don’t get it the first time it becomes impossible, simply because you can’t clean all the spiders inside without aggroing the tree into spawning more kittening spiders. Cue endless kittening cycle.

I’m agreeing with Daecollo… I’m expecting a rain of blood and talking horses any minute now.

On a serious note, sadly I don’t think we’ll get rid of the asinine time gating ANet seems insistent in shoving down our throats… Sadly it’s such a cheap and efficient way to virtually inflate content. How to make a 5 step process that would normally take 5 minutes last about a week? Why, just make sure someone can only do one step every day!

It seems like it’s going to be present in the latest addition of vertical progression treadmill crap that is ascended gear.

So much for “We don’t make grindy games”.

Psychol.5783:

I don’t know exactly what it is but I’m talking about something that they throwing which knockbacks to the hell that I can’t even get up.
They are using knockback instead of vapor form also and turrets.

…What?

Your posting history shows that you’ve been here for at least 6 months, so… I’m genuinely confused if you’re a troll or just honestly completely clueless.

The things you’re talking about don’t exist. Elementalists don’t have “instant rez”.

Rangers can rez themselves with their Spirit of Nature Elite .

Engineers can rez themselves with Elixir R’s Toolbelt kit .

Elementalists can’t do any of that. Much less do they have any kind of knockback while they’re downed. What you’re describing seems like their elite skill Tornado . They can’t use that while downed unless there’s some horrible new bug we’re all unaware of.

Yes. Exception made for any potential bugs, they’re independent things.

It sucks because the mentors, all 3 of them, are by far the most interesting characters you meet through the personal story… And then they’re replaced by super bland salad boy in one of the most pathetic “sacrifices” I’ve ever seen…

It might have eased the blow if the rest of the story was full of equally endearing characters.

It might have eased the blow if the sacrifice itself seemed even somewhat justifiable instead of a completely arbitrary suicide.

Could have. Should have. Didn’t. And thus that mission marks the turning point where the personal story goes stupid.

Psychol.5783:

I’m talking about elementalists with bombs,

Ok, I thought I knew what you were referring to (even if it was a L2P issue) but now you lost me completely…

What in the kitten buddy…?

tattyana.2356:

So Anet I got ? City of Hero’s had been around for 8 years, with a very healthy population and was making money on the game. Despite that, out of the clear blue with little warning even the publisher got very little warning, Ncsoft pulled the plug on the servers……

Pressing the bullkitten alarm. Do you have any evidence of the bolded statement? I have yet to see a publisher, no matter how crappy in general they are, pull the plug on a profitable venture. That just doesn’t happen. It’s the exact antithesis of investing in something, which is the core essence of what publishers do. It would be the rough equivalent of a surgeon shooting a patient in the head in the middle of a very successful procedure.

I’m ready to believe quite a lot of nasty things about publishers and “business people” in general, namely that most of them are Machiavellian, “the end always justifies the means”, to the core, but one thing I’m not buying is that they’d strangle an healthy cash cow.

As for the rest: None. I have quite a bad past experience with NCSoft, and yes, my investiment in GW2 may blow up in my face. So far the signs point to NCSoft’s and ANet’s relationship being quite functional, so I’ll take it.

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it as long as it’s true: Most people playing this game are horrible. Unfortunately, you’re mostly on your own, and when someone else isn’t a complete waste of oxygen you should count yourself lucky.

All too often I see people ignore downed players… Then try to rez the defeated. If you ever try to do the Temple of Grenth in Orr you’ll see this a lot. My favorite so far, related to rezzing, happened to me in PvP, in a tournament , I get downed (that kinda happens in PvP, for those who don’t go there very often), and a mesmer on my team ignores me laying there, downed and rezzing myself, while the opponents were mostly ignoring us, to try and rez a defeated player . Some people were just fed lead paint instead of breast milk or baby formula I guess…

Bottom line: People are stupid, get used to it.

And I’m not going to bother with the whole “SHOULD YOU REZ PPL???”. It’s an incredibly simple topic but, like most things, would take too much effort to explain it when most people aren’t even the slightest bit concerned with understanding it. I’ll leave it at the simplest terms imaginable: If you’re not going to die for it, always rez downed. Defeated are dead and should port. Some situations are different, but if you follow that guideline you’ll be right most of the time.