Guild Wars 2

Malediktus.9250:

I find 1-5 a day.

This is pretty typical for me as well: and I play around 2 hours a day.

Field Marshal.7946:

I am going to do an ax. Just wish there were better options. A rifle would of been nice. But of course…that was forgotten for some odd reason.

They were too busy making 15 foci to get around to making a rifle.

Gator.5729:

I figure that my legendary will come eventually. I have found some really nice weapons that I am in the process of making.

Firebringer – flaming sword
Titan’s Revenge – Molten Axe
Destroyer Bows (Short and Long)

Just be careful with Titan’s Vengeance – the recipe is the same as one of the Jormag’s Needle recipes (this is probably a bug) and the recipe has a chance to give either of the two.

Those are the shoulders from the karma temple set:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Temple_armor

Congrats! That’s an awesome achievement. Are you going to make more or are you done?

I guess I don’t really agree – I think the point is that it’s healthier for the game if people AREN’T able to move all the time. It’s not just ANet being greedy, this is just the right move. They’ve always planned to charge, they just haven’t yet because guesting wasn’t available.

I am not part of a guild, and have 3 level 80s, and have done many of the dungeons with a PUG. I’ve never found a reason to need a guild. I DID make my own personal guild, for two reasons:

1. So that I could get more bank slots for free: I just made a guild bank and since I’m the only one in the guild…..

2. So that people would stop seeing that I’m not representing a guild and whispering me to join theirs.

I agree that they should include ectos and other RNG things in the purchasable items. However, since they can have as many items buy able thru laurels as they want, I see no reason to not have obsidian shards too. More options is always good.

Corrupted lodestones can be used for crafting unique weapons as well.

Probably a bug. They probably meant them to all be the same, but somehow the swords accidentally were made more expensive. They probably just haven’t gotten around to fixing it.

Esplen.3940:

gw2lfg.com and don’t buy armor with gold.

He’s telling you to run dungeons. They are a good way to earn money and you can use the tokens you get while running them to purchase exotic armor and weapons so that you don’t have to spend coin on them.

Actually I kind of like it the way it is

Love those colors! They match with the minstrel much better.

bomber.1540:

Hey Leo, I rekon it looks cool, good work.. What sword is that in your picture?

I believe he is using the wintersday gem store sword skin.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Could be speculation due to the upcoming Guesting, which will see an influx of new players who will need those mats fairly soon.
Would make more sense if it was low tier spiking though.

Off topic: I think you might be misunderstanding what guesting is. Guesting is just being able to play on another server temporarily without switching – it has nothing to do with new players at all. It’s not like a trial version or anything.

On topic: my guess, OP, would be that there are simply fewer people going to the level 70-80 areas since they upped loot in lower areas. Therefore, fewer people are in areas with t5 nodes/drops. Therefore, a price spike because there is less supply.

Plus, eternity has the exact same stats as twilight and sunrise. It doesn’t have a “better stat combo”, as you say.

Grats, it actually looks pretty good on your character!

Depends on if you want the legendary. If you do, then that’s likely the cheapest you’ll ever get a precursor greatsword.

If you don’t care about the legendary, and don’t think you ever will, then go ahead and sell it.

Go to divinity’s reach, and take the Asura gate to Lions arch. That will allow you to get to the lions arch gate hub. There is a gate to black citadel from there. That way you don’t have to run all the way there

Well, since most people look for their groups on gw2lfg.com, it’s going to be extremely difficult for you to find a group without using that

I don’t mind the character’s female voice – but I do mind some of the NPC voice acting. I cringe every time I do the bear skill point in Wayfarer Hills – “I can feel bear’s little tail wagging in my heart”.

Seriously? o_o

Iyeru.5240:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Not entirely sure where you got your impressions from.

When I searched the trade market for legendary tier shields, there were none. I had “Show available only” unchecked.

That just means no one has tried to sell it on the trade post.

The wiki clearly states that there is a legendary shield. I also think the OP can probably tell if the shield’s rarity says legendary or not.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Flameseeker_Prophecies

@OP, while I see your point, I agree with some of the other posters that there are other legendaries in dire need of renovation before they look at the shield.

Ronah.2869:

ElixireL.5190:

Ronah.2869:

Finishing the personal story must be a requirement for advance in the future expansions. In GW1 you couldn’t access different things unless you finished the story. I want this feature for GW2 too.

No, unless the personal story is worth playing. It just isn’t for many of us.

Do you do heart quests? I bet you do, So why is is such a bore for you guys playing the storyline? Its is just a chain of quests – because you can skip all the cutscenes.
What give the hearts better and more than the story?
Oh, its is the name “story” that bothers you? Fine, change it to “Primary Events” or Primary Quests" to be more familiar from GW1
So, you run the whole huge map and run dungeons but you get so “borred and frustrated” with the primary quests?
They are just quests, traditional quests that takes you go from one place to another, they are in ALL MMOs. Why are you so “against” it all the time.

For me personally, the storyline quests just got long and boring. They weren’t hard, just mindlessly long. The rewards weren’t even close to worth doing them. And since the story itself was meh, I just stopped doing my story stuff.

I think this is why people don’t want to finish their stories.

SSalp.6423:

looks like it works on the helm lol

Well, like he said, he isn’t wearing the TA helm, he’s wearing the CoF helm to show the difference.

@OP, you should probably file a bug report about it.

Just wondering if ANet has said anthing about name changes being available in the gem store eventually.

On my computer, I noticed a bit of a speed increase with GW2 once I upgraded to Windows 8. I would never go back to 7 – I have yet to find a way that Windows 7 is superior to 8.

I believe putting any sort of an upgrade item into armor automatically make it soul bound. At least, that what the in game warning text says when you go to put the upgrade in

Nike.2631:

Revan.6259:

I think the point is that, like legendary weapons, they don’t want everyone running around in T3 armor. It’s a prestige thing.

I think with the kitten litter-box droppings that happen in the tradepost every day adding to the distorted income between adventurers and traders, attaching “prestige” to anything that costs coin is a joke.

“Nice armor. You must be an awesome trader.”

Well, frankly, yeah. Lets be honest here. I’m jealous of people who know how to play the TP well. While I wish there were other good ways to get coin, I still think that people who are good enough to flip stuff on the TP deserve the rewards they get, as long as they’re not exploiting the game or exploiting the community by controlling precursor prices. I don’t get why everyone hates TP traders – the only feeling I have towards them is a little bit of envy. Anyway, what I’m saying is that TP traders deserve prestige same as anyone, because they’re accomplishing something not everyone can do.

Hyper Cutter.9376:

Malediktus.9250:

120g is perfectly fine.

No, it isn’t. If nothing else, it’s WILDLY out of line with the price of cultural weapons.

Cultural weapons: 9800 karma -> 35000 karma -> 63000 karma (t2 is about 3 and 1/2 times as much as t1, and t3 isn’t quite twice t2)
Cultural armor: 2.8 g -> 7.1 g -> 119 g (t2 costs a little over twice t1, then t3 is almost twenty times more expensive than t2)

I think the point is that, like legendary weapons, they don’t want everyone running around in T3 armor. It’s a prestige thing.

Naturemastr Artemos.4021:

Nope, a month or two ago the cost per piece was 2g not 20. Unless I’m really wrong. But i looked at it alot. I was just too poor then to buy any

You sure? I just looked through all the patch notes back through September and couldn’t find anything about the prices being changed.

Naturemastr Artemos.4021:

well i guess my question is why raise it from 10g to 120g? Was there a reason for this? Also since cultural weps cost karma, why can’t we use karma to by cultural armor?

When did they raise it? The T3 cultural armor has been 120g for as long as I can remember. The T2 armor is in the ballpark of 10g, maybe you’re thinking of that?

Well, in the end, it’s just a look. If it’s too expensive, then find another look you like, and go for that instead.

If the T3 cultural armor look is what you absolutely must have, then you’ll have to save up a lot of gold for it.

Athens.6125:

How are you guys reporting people who are using the teleport hack? I never was able to click on them long enough to report them, but out of curiosity I setup camp close to a node out of the way and turned on my recorder and sure enough within 5 to 10 minutes of watching my playback, I had my first teleport in, gather the node and poof gone again.

Funny thing, I did the same thing on a Vista and had a few teleport in and out there as well.

Also, there’s no guarantee that the node people are a hack either – I know some people that will park alts next to resource nodes, and then log in every so often to mine them, then log out of that character again.

You can check out the wiki page for Destroyer Lodestones to find some places, if you want to farm them.

However, as a general rule with lodestones, the drop rate on them is so low that it’s typically more effective to farm gold and then use the gold to buy the lodestones.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Lutharr.1035:

well to be “that guy”, but why does every option have to be braindead friendly? Seriously its almost like mmo’s these if they were in charge of creating a light switch would have to think of a simplar version of on/off.

They don’t want CS staff tied up with “Help, I accidently deleted” requests I think.

I’m sure this is exactly the reason they haven’t done it yet. However….just write a generic response to this and copy/paste

Recycle.5493:

It pretty much glows everywhere you go. It’s the model used for guardians’ Shield of the Avenger.
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gw2-eidolon-shield-2.jpg

Hey, looking at that picture, I could see how from the back that shield could look like it was actually a spectral, glowing type of shoulder armor.

Milo.6325:

Does Eidolon give out a glow when it’s on your back? Does it glow only in the dark?

Yes, I believe it glows all the time, including when its on your back.

BobbyT.7192:

Rising Dusk.2408:

I don’t want to diverge the thread from its original discussion, so I will keep this short. Maybe if you’re creating thousands of snowflakes to salvage, it’s clear that you’re in it to profit. However, I created a stack of ecto, and I didn’t think it was an exploit while doing it. The change to the value of ectos seemed totally intentional to me; people were converting mithril and snowflakes into ecto. It didn’t seem any more radical to me than dropping precursors out of the Ancient Karka chest, dropping Arach/Crossing/Mad Moon out of the MK chest, dropping permanent bank access items out of the MK chest, or allowing people to convert exotic trinkets into BL keys. If I had 1 more BL kit to waste, I would’ve used it, and I’d be banned right now because of it.

It might be easy on the outside looking in to say that it was obviously an exploit, but hindsight is 20/20. If ANet had told me somehow “This is an exploit” I would’ve never done it. As far as I was aware, however, I was converting BL kits, which cost a boatload of gold, and mithril into ecto. That didn’t seem too far-fetched to me, and seemed in-line with Regina’s post about lowering the cost of ascended items (what spurred the increase in ecto value in the first place).

I guess my only point here is thus: Don’t lump everyone into the same boat and give anyone who made hundreds of these snowflakes the black mark of ‘exploiter’. ANet is free to ban whoever they want to whenever they want to, and I won’t argue that, but the difference between me and someone who was banned for the snowflakes is negligible. If ANet had said something, anything, I wouldn’t have salvaged a single one.

Just consider your self lucky, and be done with it, and remember if something is too good to be true, it probable is.

I think his point is that he was saying he didn’t think it was too good to be true. He’s saying that he felt like it was intentional, based on what ANet had said. Makes sense to me.

Milo.6325:

The effect appeared to be blueish white. The glow was diffused a bit like a cloud around the shoulder area. It wasn’t the Guardian pauldrons you get when you create your character. These you can’t get them confused with anything else, wish i had kept mine :/.

You could always make a new character and take theirs via transmuting

Could it have been one of the “guardian” weapon skins, such as Eidolon?

What color was the glow again? You said it was similar to the AC weapon night effect…does that mean it was blue?

Magiofdeath.2745:

Revan.6259:

Magiofdeath.2745:

A lot of the mystic forge uniques look better than the legendarys. Most of the Mists themed weapons (the ones that require 250 ecto) look pretty awesome. There’s quite a few focus skins that look good as well from the forge.

Totally agree. Only thing driving me in the direction of a legendary is that dang empty medal slot on the start screen……

Same. That, and progress towards the achievement. I’ll be f’ed if I’m going to make 5 legendarys or w/e the requirement for max rank of achievement is though.

Lol, yeah. However, at least that achievement isn’t staring you in the face every time you log in, saying, “You haven’t completed me yet, sucka”.

John Smith.4610:

When I say the last round of banning encompassed, I mean those who were banned created that many.

And now we understand why it is that you guys are so “harsh” on banning people who do things like the snowflake exploit. If you’re getting 1350 ectos essentially for free, I don’t know how you could NOT know that was an exploit.

Magiofdeath.2745:

A lot of the mystic forge uniques look better than the legendarys. Most of the Mists themed weapons (the ones that require 250 ecto) look pretty awesome. There’s quite a few focus skins that look good as well from the forge.

Totally agree. Only thing driving me in the direction of a legendary is that dang empty medal slot on the start screen……

drkn.3429:

[x] Display the Personal Story steps on the main screen interface.

And also:

[X] Display Personal Story Waypoint on the world map.

testinga.9108:

I believe what the previous person was saying is that you can currently change weapons OUTSIDE of combat. The change I suggested was being able to easily swap weapons OUTSIDE of combat. Therefore, this change makes something that is possible right now (changing weapons OUTSIDE of combat) a little easier.

Gotcha, somehow I missed that point while reading your OP. I agree that this wouldn’t be bad, can’t see why it would hurt.

John Smith.4610:

2. The economy is so massive and filled with good players that RMT holds relatively little total percentage of the economy. To give some perspective on banning for exploits. Our last round of snowflake banning encompassed greater than 275,000 illicitly created ectos.

Wow, seriously? Someone else from ANet (it might have been you, John, I can’t remember) said that there were fewer than 200 total bans. Less than 200 people managed to make over 275,000 ectos?!

Joris.9672:

Revan.6259:

No, you can do it – but all the starter gear has issues with this in my experience. The issue of not being able to transmute usually happens to me when I put the starter gear in the right side of the transmute panel. If I put the starter gear in the left panel, it usually works fine.

Nah, it makes no difference, not left, not right..

Bummer. Don’t know how to help you then. Maybe you should file a bug report? I don’t think this behavior is intended.

ExCode.6370:

I wouldn’t be opposed to this because it’d be allowing you to do something you’re already allowed to do, just a little bit quicker. It’s still annoying to have to run out of combat to intentionally change the weapon, which as I said in my last post is extremely frustrating in WvW.

I think that’s the point. It ISN’T something you can already do. In order to do it now, you have to run out of combat to switch the weapon. This would be a balance change because it would allow Eles to switch weapons in the heat of a battle. They’d have to rebalance the whole class around that. It’s simply hard to balance a class that can effectively have 40 skills on their skillbar, instead of the 10 that most classes get.

Sorry, but I feel like the reasoning behind not giving weapon swapping to Elementalists and Engineers is sound.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Have an option in the hero panel to disable it. Have it enabled by default. Thus, the only people who would ever have to enable it again already know where it is because to be in that position they had to disable it to begin with.

This. We have a personal storylines panel in Hero, add a “hide story prompts” and “resume story prompts” checkbox if possible.

And thank you, Dev, for responding.

I also agree that this would be the best solution. If someone accidentally turns it off, that would be the most natural place to look for the option to turn it on again – in the personal story tab of the hero panel.

You didn’t happen to get a screenshot of it, did you?