Guild Wars 2

doing 1 damage to jormag won’t be enuff. I’ve zoned in with just enough time to hit him about 10xs and got no loot.

salvageing for mist essence would be nice
using pristine relics for mist essence would be nice
ectos would also be nice but not necessary.
Having content gated completely through your luck in getting mist essences is kinda silly

yes, they removed the holy trinity so that it would be easier to calculate drops
kitten /p>

plasmacutter.2709:

Quick Mouse.7635:

aliksyian.7642:

It does sound like it will take an awful amount of time to get a complete set of ascended gear for multiple characters.

No, it generally becomes easier the more characters you have since dailies are character specific. Meaning you can do the daily multiple times a day!
Also keep in mind only a few ascended items have been released (rings, amulets, and backpacks).
It took me just over two weeks of just doing the dailies with my two characters to gear them completely.

cough this is not true at all

Dailies are now account wide, and laurels are account wide.

This means that you are perma-blocked, and the more toons you have, the worse off you are.

daily ACHIEVEMENTS have always been account bound.
daily FRACTALS have always been character bound.

Not hard to carry a second weapon set in your inventory…
I run staff ele pretty much everywhere except the dredge fractal, where i bust out my scepter/dagger for the projectile control.

Also, elementalist is probably one of the most difficult classes to master because you have to know how to cycle your attunements at the right time. Probably the easiest is thief or warrior.

Tip 1: Dodging. Most effective when you are more familiar with how other classes play/what there dangerous skills are.
Tip 2: Try everything. I played ele since beta and I only just found my ideal build for spvp after 6 months lol.
Tip 3: regardless of what I’m playing (pve/pvp/wvw), I go 30 in water for cantrips grant regen/vigor, cantrips recharge 20% faster, and regeneration removes conditions. Then I take cleansing flame, mist form, and armor of earth as my utilities. Gives you an absurd amount of defense

CassieGold.7460:

Both methods are viable, both work just fine. Melee range is a risk / reward system…. you get higher damage working in melee range, but more exposure to 1 hit boss mechanics. Less time to ‘see it coming’ as it were.

Want to be powerful in GW2? Learn how to float between melee and ranged based on needs and be effective in both ranges

This

nope. random chance. Wish you could buy them with pristine relics somehow.

aliksyian.7642:

It does sound like it will take an awful amount of time to get a complete set of ascended gear for multiple characters.

No, it generally becomes easier the more characters you have since dailies are character specific. Meaning you can do the daily multiple times a day!
Also keep in mind only a few ascended items have been released (rings, amulets, and backpacks).
It took me just over two weeks of just doing the dailies with my two characters to gear them completely.

wish I could open my unid dyes, but I have to save them for my legendary (bifrost) :P

Killigraphy.3075:

Psychatog.8246:

um its not, everything can be completed by casuals

Tier 3 weapons….would like to have a talk with you.

Do you mean t3 cultural ARMOR? because the weapons are really easy to get. 63k karma isn’t alot given that there are very few karma sinks.

Thoughtless.7148:

if everyone has it, is it really legendary? of course you want a Lamborghini for the price of a civic…everyone would jump at that chance.

Even if the price of precursors dropped to something more reasonable, say 200-300g,
they would still cost a fortune because of everything else required to make them.

I play for fun, and once I get my legendary, I will still play for fun.
Having a carrot on a stick provides some motivation, but if that’s the only reason you play a game then it’s not really fun, is it?

tigirius.9014:

It amazes me the number of “I got mine” groupies in these forums these days that continue in their illusion that nothing’s wrong. Ascended is far from casual and very much a grind, don’t kid yourselves LOL

I am a casual player and had no problem gearing two characters with ascended gear. You don’t even need ascended gear until you hit level 20.

Thoughtless.7148:

Quick Mouse.7635:

Everyone coming to the forums saying precursors are “ok” have already gotten their precursors through one form or another.
Say that to the person who has farmed 100s of dragon events, threw 100s of gold into the mystic forge, progressed to level 40 fractals, and has never gotten one.

and how many people on the forums have actually put in this much effort into obtaining one? i assure you most haven’t. and i probably did close to 600 dragons to get my dusk, not to mention the toilet and fractals.

I have. And many others have too. And I still don’t have “The Legend”
And every time I get close to being able to buy one off the TP, the price increases by another 100g. It has gotten to the point where the price on the TP is increasing faster than most people can make money.

Thoughtless.7148:

Redfeather.6401:

Thoughtless, you’ve completely missed the point.

do tell? what is the point?

casual players should be awarded just as much as non casual players?

that seems to be the overriding concept behind most complaints

Will.9785:

The OP’s post can basically be summed up as “screw you, I gots mine”.

Everyone coming to the forums saying precursors are “ok” have already gotten their precursors through one form or another.
Say that to the person who has farmed 100s of dragon events, threw 100s of gold into the mystic forge, progressed to level 40 fractals, and has never gotten one.

As a casual myself, I find this game INCREDIBLY WELL GEARED TOWARDS CASUALS.

Melee is higher risk but higher reward (more damage = faster clears).
Every RPG is built the same way.
I used to be terrified to go into melee range. But now that I understand the mechanics, it’s much more fun to play in melee range since it directly rewards player skill.
If you look at top-tier dungeon runners (check out strife025’s channel on youtube), they full-melee basically everything in the game due to melee’s inherent higher damage. Even giganticus lupicus. I’ve never seen any team take out GL faster.

They will probably release a recipe for the mystic forge sometime in the future. I think they’re doing it this way now to cap progression in fractals.

It’s not that they’re difficult to obtain, they should be. It’s that the market for precursors is controlled by a few extremely wealthy people who are buying up all the precursors and reselling them for 100g more, meaning the price keeps going up and the supply remains the same.
I would really like to see the scavenger hunt they keep talking about. I don’t care if it takes me months to achieve it. I’d rather that than have to put 700g into the pocket of someone controlling the market in such a way, or flush 700g down the mystic toilet and get nothing.

Yes ascended items are still there and offer a (minor) stat increase. Rings are incredibly easy to get, amulets take a little more time. Both can be obtained outside of fractals.
I too liked the horizontal progression of gw1, but considering how easy it was to get my two characters fully geared in ascended items, any complaining about it is really unfounded.

It’s true. If you’re unlucky with drops you cannot progress past level 19 in fractals, since at lvl 20+ 20AR is kinda the minimum you can run with.

You should be able to buy essence with pristine fractal relics. Once you get your rings, pristine relics are useless bank-fillers.

Check out strife025 youtube channel. He has detailed guides for just about every single dungeon path (including fractals).

darnit…thanks guys…guess it’ll be a while before I can actually have my quaggan buddy on my back
Thanks Mod for moving the thread

nobody has tried infusing a skinned backpeice?

I recently bought the loveable, adorable quaggan backpack! (yaye!)
However my ascended backpeices are not infused yet (saving for my legendary instead)
If I infuse my quaggan backpeice in the mystic forge, will I lose the skin?
Haven’t actually applied the skin to my ascended backpeice yet as I’m worried I’ll just lose it.

Hahaha sorry for the sarcastic response. I’m on the forums quite a bit, and I see new threads on this topic several times a week.
Here’s the thing: you will get map completion (regardless of how long it takes your server to switch between red/green/blue) waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy before you’re even close to getting your legendary.
So don’t worry about it

I have everything except the precursor

Because it’s not just agony that gets harder at higher fractals, all damage and resistances scale up as you get higher level. So that small stat boosts really help.
And treadmill, sort of.
Let’s be honest guys, it’s really NOT hard to get ascended gear. I geared out 2 characters with rings and backpacks in just two weeks of doing nothing but the daily.

Earth magic has the combo field FINISHERS. Staff (earth attunement) has 3 finishers on it.

Because most teams are pugs unless you are running with guildies, this sort of coordination doesn’t exist. As a result, most people will ignore the defiant mechanic.

Damage, but don’t die.
Melee is tricky but totally doable once you know all the boss mechanics/what to dodge.
Also shouts. Don’t use signets. Signets are bad, mkay?
For great justice gives your party so much dps.

Legendary weapons.
Maybe fractal levels, but it is kind of necessary to continue grinding the lower levels to get the vials of essence you need to infuse your gear, so it all works out in the end.

You can get up to fractal level 19 without any AR. Agony does almost nothing before level 20. The stat increase is barely noticeable.

People who have never set foot in fractals should not be commenting on this page.

Sepreh.5924:

What would happen if you made a new guard with the exact name of your deleted mesmer?

I’m not sure about gw2, but in gw1 you could do this and equip it on your new character

Hmm…I play ele and I didn’t really notice a difference. And I didn’t read anything about it in the patch notes. Anybody have more specific information?

Kilrain Daggerspine.6843:

Once again the flawed assumption that the precursor is the entire legendary or even close..

It is when you have everything else… And at the moment even starting from scratch the precursor is the biggest cost.

Getting a precursor definitely has nothing to do with L2P, I think we can agree on that.
And I’m not talking about rushing to a legendary either. I’ve played 1000hrs so far since head-start.
The problem is that everytime I get within 100g of buying my precursor, it goes up by another 100g.
And with the luck I have, I’m not going to blow 100s of my hard-earned gold into the mystic toilet and get nothing but un-named exotic staffs at the best. And most people will agree with me on that point. No one wants to blow 100s of gold that they’ve worked so hard to get, only to get nothing.
Anet has mentioned several times about a precursor scavenger hunt. This is the only thing that will stop the skyrocketing price of precursors.

lodestones have actually been going down in price since you can now buy with laurels.
Precursors on the other hand…

I wouldn’t spend relics on obsi shards unless I had to. Right now there isn’t really any karma sink besides buying obsi shards, unless you’re going for some karma-specific armor.

Since the game came out 5 months ago, the price of precursors has risen about 100g a month (source gw2 spidy), more so even in the last two months. Right now precursors like the legend, dusk, and dawn are around the 600-700g mark, 100g more than they were at the beginning of january. When will it end?
The problem is that a few very wealthy people can completely control the market for precursors, and everyone’s progress towards a legendary is gated through this step. Extremely wealthy people can buy up all of a given precursor (for reference, there is a combined total of 12 dusks+dawns+legends on the TP), and resell them at whatever price they want to make a profit. And people will have to pay that price.
This is not fair, and it has to end now.

total guess, but I’d say somewhere in the 50-80g range. Each profession costs about 6-10g to max. Again, total guesses

The only thing failed about them is the way precursors are obtained. And because of that, the price of precursors continues to rise seemingly indefinitely. If they would hurry up and make a precursor scavenger hunt, along with some backstory, this wouldn’t be a problem.

No it’s not any more often. Stability/aegis/dodge/projectile reflection/stopping works. What’s actually really nice is that the guardian’s shout stand your ground is on almost exactly the same recharge time(i have the 20% recharge trait) as kholer’s pull. So you just time it everytime works just fine

This game needs to list our recent teammates. When you leave a party after a successful dungeon run, not only do you lose any record of who you were playing with, but also all party chat.
This makes the game feel even more anonymous than it already is.
This game needs to list our recent party members, so that we can go back after a dungeon run and say ‘oh yeah, player x, he/she was really nice and a good player, I would like to play with him/her again!’

haviz.1340:

Quick Mouse.7635:

The one thing that drove me nuts about this encounter (which I still haven’t beaten) is that the whole dungeon requires you to pick a pretty defensive setup (for obvious reasons). Then all of a sudden you get to Simin and you need basically maximum dps output to get past it. Since you cannot change your traits on the fly, and most people don’t have several gear sets on them, this makes the encounter extremely challenging for most groups, especially pug groups.
As mentionted above, one slight miss-step in pathing the sparks and it basically resets the fight. I can’t count the number of times we got her down to less than <25% hp, only to have her heal completely because we couldn’t get the last spark to get in the kitten circle.

How this dungeon requires defensive setup? It’s more than doable with glass cannons.

Use mobility skills to get sparks faster, don’t just run. I’ve seen groups picking as runners the worst possible choices.

So, a glass cannon ele with 916 vit and 916 toughness? You get one-shot by trash mobs.

You have hinted several times at a precursor scavenger hunt.
Please make this a priority.
You have given us so much free content updates and things to keep us busy, and we love you for it!
Please, please, end the ever-increasing cost of precursors.
In the whole game, I can count the number of dusks+dawns+legends available with just my fingers.
Nobody wants to waste 100s or 1000s of gold and all their hard work into the mystic toilet, only to never receive their precursors.

Signed Yours truly, a loving and devoted fanboy.