Guild Wars 2

I am mastery 161, can confirm you can still accrue them after max. And, like everyone else said, it’s only a chore if you make it one. Don’t focus on it and it will just happen as you go.

Hawken son of Z.1367:

Yeah I expected to be able to work on astralaria right away and was disappointed when I realized the first book wasn’t in game yet. And id also like some clarification from a dev as to what mastery level I need u locked to start working on astralaria.

If you read the mastery tiers its pretty obivous

Have you played MMO’s before? Anything nearly as grand as a legendary weapon is in this game has a ridiculous quest tied to it or a raid encounter. Stop wanting to be spoon fed. They also made it clear BEFORE the expansion released that the 3 legendaries were delayed until shortly after launch.

I love how people don’t realize how much work it was redoing the entire legendary system and not only writing the quests for each new one, going back and writing ones for all of the existing ones. Get your head out of your doggy and think bud.

This collection is very bugged. I do not receive updates for any of the things that are active updates that I have tried and I also killed the exalted traitor and mined the ingot, no updates. Also no updates for participating in any direction of the meta events. Also, the item you have to buy from the exalted vendors isn’t even on them.

Anyone???? At all?

I’ll just say I’m mastery 141 about to hit 149 and I am in no way bored or burned out. Only thing that is kinda putting me off atm are bugs on the collections I want to do.

Mo Mo.1947:

The costs are boomed up because everyone is crafting at once. Crafting exotic gear is cheap enough I’d recommend waiting it out for a while until the TP prices go back down a bit.

btw where’s my ascended jeweler crafting. I don’t have enough laurels for the multitude trinket varieties I need, and crafting exotic jewelry makes me sad.

Fulgurite is not buyable. It was for the first week but that was a bug and is not anymore.

Leather is cheap still, and easily obtainable. 450 fulgurite is a month or 2 of farming. Not NEARLY equivilent

I know getting all the achieves for part 4 of the story gives a select a stat amulet, but I also want minstrels rings and earings

Wanze.8410:

Ranlares.2513:

It is cheating whenever they specifically made Viper’s and Minstrel’s to require an extra component for some reason. This is obviously an oversight on their end.

Considering that the exotic versions also need extra components, i wouldnt call it cheating.

Its badly implemented though.

The exotic insignias don’t require 450 fulgurite =P

Also, OBSIDIAN SHARDS OUT THE DOGGY

Well things I’m sure new legendaries will need: Fulgurite, make kitten tons of this because even ascended gear that needs it requires 450 of them for the full set. I would save all of your currencies obtained in the first three maps for now until legendaries come out because I am sure the legendaries will require some item from each faction that will cist a large amount of whatever currency.

On the fulgurite note, I wouldn’t make fulgurite yet, just save up the materials needed for it (airship oil, auric sand, and ley line sparks) as I’m sure these will be needed.

Also get your map completion in the magus falls all done because the gift from doing it is required for legendaries

It is cheating whenever they specifically made Viper’s and Minstrel’s to require an extra component for some reason. This is obviously an oversight on their end.

Awesome, thanks for this information. Anet, if you’re reading this, IMA GONNA CHEAT!

So I am working on making a full set of ascended Minstrel’s gear, and I have to say….wtf lol. For each insignia, for each piece of armor, you have to make 3 Jeweled Damask Patches. Each patch requires 25 Fulgurite. That’s 75 Fulgurite per insignia, making it 450 Fulgurite for the set.

Fulgurite is made at a 1:1 ratio with 4 items, Obsidian Shards, Bottle of Airship Oil, Pile of Auric Dust, and Ley Line Spark. You need 1 of each of these to make 1 Fulgurite.

So you need
450 Obsidian Shards
450 Bottles of Airship Oil
450 Piles of Auric Dust
450 Ley Line Sparks

JUST to make the insignias for each piece of armor.

Now I am all for Ascended armor being hard to get, but this seems quite ridiculous. For anyone that doesn’t know how these currencies are obtained, they are only available from opening the map specific chests in VB AB and TD. ALSO you don’t even get one everytime you open an airship cargo, exalted chest, or chak crystal thing.

Is there an easier way to obtain fulgurite that I am missing?

Lord Trejgon.2809:

kitten if 75 mastery level is “lazy and casual” then how bad I am with my 15?

and I though I was no-lifing the game…..

75 is not that big of a deal to be honest, well it is if they are all maguuma, but I bet this fella hear spent a few hours in cursed shore or CoF to cap his central tyria, which is 49 levels

You do not need TTS for the events in this expansion. Assuming you do is part of the issue you are complaining about. I would put a 50gold bet down that most of the people who think the meta events are too hard have not even tried them more than 3 times. Assuming it is as hard as triple trouble and avoiding map chat commanded events and ignoring people who try to organize them is the reason you see so many of them fail.

Not to mention the fact that, to discredit the OP, it has not even been 2 weeks and all the events other than TD are EASILY beatable by having competent people in map chat.

Cameirus.8407:

logan.5846:

Tangled Depths might be a nightmare but at least it has character. Dragon’s Stand is just a big forest with 3 roads cutting through it, and if no one is running the meta event the whole zone is practically closed off.

yeah, it seams that TD and DS are just rushed out and not complete.

VB and AB are so much better experiences in every way and seam much better thought out and “finished”.

I disagree, I don’t think either TD or DS seemed rushed (excluding how you can nearly literally walk out of DS and see (presumably) later living world stuff. I just think they wanted polar opposites in a way. The first two maps are very accessible and simple In most ways, where as TD and DS are either very difficult meta events to oppose how east AB’s is, or have content gated behind specific things. AB’s meta event can hardly fail now, and if it does you still have access to everything other than a poi and a hero point. I like the contrast I guess, though I understand its not for everyone.

ProtoGunner.4953:

TD is the culprit of MMO crafting. It’s the top of complexity, ingenious design and craftsmanship. But I understand it’s very hard, the mobs are mostly utterly annoying and do sometimes too much damage. 27k shroom explosion or whatever it was on my heavy armored zerker rev is absurd. They really have to tone down some enemies. Also make the meta event a bit easier. Otherwise we will never see this map ever done on a regular basis.

I actually like hard content, but the problem here is, I can’t do it alone, no not even in a group, you need hundreds of people to do it and that’s the problem.

Here’s a tip that will help you understand the game better, zerker gear isn’t “heavy” armor. I know what you’re saying, plate armor,more defense. This is guild wars 2 though, and your armor type doesn’t mean anything. Stop running zerker gear if you are dying, don’t make anet put it back to how it was, zerker or you’re bad.

Still no updates for this collection, would love a response! Or at least put the item from the exalted merchant on the exalted merchant

kitten …really? I love TD lol it’s interesting.VB is meh Imo, though I enjoyed them all

Jaxom.7310:

u shuldnt’ sell precursors, because people who buy them didn’t earn it lik u did. don’t let them pay2win, thats the whole pt of the knew system. only earned players git to show off the legends. come on!

RNG is NOT earning things. Not at all. Also, English….please.

AS someone who is now making my third set of ascended armor, i would LOVE it if when you hit 500 in whatever craft it is, the time it takes to refine things was halved, you know, because grandmaster and stuff. Sitting through the refinement of thousands of items, SUCKS =p

2 Things, why in the HoT threads, and k.

Bump! Lol pleasee

There is a whole new mastery line coming with raids guys, this has already been confirmed. Unless I am misunderstanding, but I’m pretty positive

SamTheGuardian.2938:

The adventures that were once a lot of fun have already become unapproachable to newcomers.

Would like to add to this thread that this morning I tried three mini-games/adventures. I ended up doing each of them about five times, in all cases the game ended almost instantly and after my five attempts I was only slightly more equipped with a bearing on what was going on, map objectives, etc..

Sort of like unbalanced pvp, you have players who have become experts at these adventures using them to farm XP and they don’t do much else and they are going up against players who have never tried the adventure…. If you put a pro up against a complete amateur, do you really think the amateur is going to play 100 games against the pro and slowly learn as he gets beaten each time? Probably not. For someone to improve at anything they need a trainer and they need to be pitted against people of similar classification for experience with whatever the objective is. As with anything the key is balance, but I don’t think these were thought through very well.

I do like that the adventures exist as an alternative way to gain xp, bu they are a closed door unless I want to grind though a couple hundred games to get my head around what’s going on (again, the race type ones end almost instantly) I’ll let the Adventurer elites have their mini-games.

Making these so simple that you get them 100% on the first or second try would be VERY lame since there are so few of them. There are a couple that I got gold ont he first try and i just sat there disappointed.

There is a symbol on the majority of them, looks like a little man witha cape holding a stick. Some do NOT have this icon though, specifically Scrap RifleAdventure and Haywire Punch-O-Matic in Tangled Depths

Bump, anyone with the same issues??

I think saying all of them are too hard is ridiculous. Some are too easy, some are too hard, some are perfect. The only 2 i have found too ridiculous to play anymore are the Haywire-Punch-O-Matic and the Scrap Rifle adventure, and quite a few peopole have gold on them so its obviously my error. Don’t be upset because you can’t figure something out, learn how to be better at it.

They are looking for a fix, that is all we have for now

the item you have to get from the exalted merchants isnt even available from them

I unlocked this collection and decided to start chipping away at it, and I think this may be bugged. I got an aurillium ingot out of a chest in the basement of Tarir and it did not update the collection, which requires that exact item. Anyone know why? Do I have to obtain this item a different way?

The period that Season2 of living world was free after it ended was REALLY long, months. The new Seasons of LW will be gated by HoT, but that is all we know, we do not know if you will have to buy them seperately from HoT if you wait long enough

You have to have the elite spec selected as one of your 3 active

Anyone able to help me out and tell me where the champion of the itzel is?

WHERE IS THIS THING???!?!?!?!??! lol seriously tho, can’t find it for the life of me….halp!

ryb.5861:

Ranlares.2513:

Do you kill every chak on every platform or do you get the bulk of them and move on?

There’s not enough time to be thorough with the platforms. If there are a lot of chak grouped up on the platform you can lure them into the skill 5 fire field but they don’t follow as easy as the chak on the ground. If you use the fire field on the platform you have time to glide to another platform right away and do a bit of flamethrowing skill 2 before going down on the ground for skill 5 again. The cooldown on skill 5 is about 15 seconds and it was the key skill for me.

Thanks man

Hello Anet! Quick suggestion, or request I guess, can you add adventures to the map legend? Would just be a nice quality of life dealy!

ryb.5861:

While getting gold for this one I figured that using skill 1 repeatedly was not efficient enough. Skill 5 is the big chak chewer and the goal is to make them stack up as much as possible so they can walk into the fire. Skill 3 packs quite a punch, interrupts(good for the “tougher” chak) and can be used to move around. I used skill 2 when on the platforms mostly because I wanted to clear the platforms as soon as possible so I could get down on the ground again.

Try to get to the main area as soon as possible and don’t break too many eggs on the ground, they’re handy to keep around for later when you’re going up to the platforms and down again. While up on the platforms the spawning chak will gather up and stack below you so when you drop down after clearing a platform you can drop a big juicy fire field to mop up a lot.

Speed shrooms and dodges are great for getting around and you get full endurance bar after popping an egg while being close to it.

Other than that you want to just figure out a route that works for you. It’s a tough one.

Do you kill every chak on every platform or do you get the bulk of them and move on?

nacario.9417:

And thats because mordremoth is all, the nature is his form, he can reach out from anywhere in maguuma

Which I think is silly for then to do since they are the Elder “Dragons”

Nemesis.6938:

Marauder and crusadet u can buy from normal crafting merchant

Im interested in wanderer and trailblazer

Do you know what stats are on marauder? At work or I would look

Commander is bought from the merchant after the meta event I dragons stand
Vipers is from the exalted merchants
Minstrels is Itzel
That’s all I know

Astralporing.1957:

Dengar.1785:

When you die you’re not supposed to get rezzed. You’re supposed to waypoint.

That was true for old maps, where waypoints were relatively nearby. Here, the closest unlocked waypoint may as well be at the very beginning of the map.

You not wanting to run another 2 minutes it’s not a good argument for your case lmao

Mastery 121 hear, all 4 maps 100% did it 90% solo.

I like it. I hated it at first but after doing the dragons stand events i like the way the dragon looks and don’t mind his mind form as much. You have to keep that in mind, that wasn’t him really, just the iteration of him made to fight you in his mind

Thanks you sir! Thus is good info

No sadly you can not use utilities

Has anyone done this legit? Please I’m at the point I have to milk all the masteries I can to progress =P