Guild Wars 2

That’s true of most things. Sellers of goods will increase the price of their goods to offset taxation costs.

I imagine they rounded so it would be consistent for all time. I imagine they aren’t going to be constantly adjusting the buy-price for gems based on currency conversion rates on any given month.

Simin’s getting nerfed in the February content patch, so no one should take you up on this offer. They may as well do it themselves come the nerf.

Buy the Vial of Liquid Flame recipe from Miyani and use it on your cook. Your cook will then be able to craft the Vial of Liquid Flame.

I think Taunt is a fine idea. It’d function as mentioned above, as the opposite of fear. Whether we need/want/should have another condition is anyone’s guess, though I think adding new CC options increases the fluidity and excitement of the combat system and gives players more interesting mechanics to pursue. Anyone making an argument against it on grounds of realism should probably take a step back and reevaluate the nature of the game you’re playing, what with fireballs, frog-people, undead, and stick-figure women killing people fluidly with greatswords.

Guardians have easily-achieved 100% swiftness duration. Warriors can come pretty close, or they can use a banner and have it no problem.

Infused versions exist for all amulets except the Triforge amulet in the GW2 database. The recipes to upgrade them, whether they currently exist or not (and if so what they are), will not be known for a few more days.

P.S. I want a gold find +5 AR infusion!

evolverzilla.2359:

It´s not a fallacy, it´s a direct response to a fallacy, just because someone can take more damage it not make him the better dps. Simple as that.

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but you seem to have made a false conclusion. In my original post comparing Warriors to Thieves, I never once mentioned a correlation between a Warrior taking more damage and his DPS relative to that of Thieves. I’ve quoted the relevant part of my post below for posterity:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Honestly, Thieves are worse than Warriors in the case where the player isn’t that great of a player. Warrior has a lot more room for mistakes, which makes it more pug friendly. That said, if your Thief is really good, then honestly it doesn’t matter what classes you bring. (…)

Hopefully this will address your apprehensions.

Blacklight.2871:

You have a rare oneness with your spatial awareness. Anything bigger than an average sized human is a pain in the backside for me.

I think what really helped me was learning the nuances of the camera. With the exception of really bizarre jump puzzles like Troll’s End, there is almost always a special way you can angle your camera to get a better feel for where you are coming from and where you will land after a jump.

That said, if you’re still having trouble, you could always use one of those Ascalonian tonics or the Plush Griffin tonic. They make exceptional jump puzzle helpers for big characters that need the assistance.

Charr is kind of annoying because they switch to running on all four legs. Then their hitbox doesn’t really fit their animations… on most jumping puzzles you can just shoot/slash at the open air to get some seconds of guaranteed 2-legged movement.

For my Charr, I run JPs with my weapons drawn to keep them standing up. It helps you normalize exactly where they are in most cases. Sometimes it doesn’t matter, of course.

evolverzilla.2359:

And having more room for mistakes just tell us that warrior are not the best dps, so in a DPS dungeon they are not the optimal to use.

This is actually a logical fallacy. Just because Warriors give players more room for mistakes does not inherently mean that they are not optimal for the dungeon. Warriors are actually superior for this run except in the case where a Mesmer is able to spread 25 stacks of Might to the Thieves via the Warrior’s boons. That is important. 25 stacks of Might for a team of 2-4 Warriors is easy to maintain, and puts their DPS above Thieves on equal footing. Furthermore, banners push the entire team’s DPS far above what a team of 4 Thieves could accomplish. A mix of the two is arguably the best because you combine the raw single-target DPS of the Thief with the unparalleled DPS support of the Warrior. If you’re talking pure min-maxing, then the group setup in the OP is the best. That said, the 30-60 seconds you save really doesn’t save that much time or earn you that much more gold in the long run, so you can honestly use whatever team combination you want so long as the team’s good.

Also, to the above poster, I was thinking the same thing, but had stuff to do at work so I couldn’t make a post about it. :P

I’ve done every jumping puzzle in the game on a max size Charr. Honestly, it barely matters at all.

Honestly, Thieves are worse than Warriors in the case where the player isn’t that great of a player. Warrior has a lot more room for mistakes, which makes it more pug friendly. That said, if your Thief is really good, then honestly it doesn’t matter what classes you bring. I’ve done 5-6 minute runs of CoF 1 with Engineers, Rangers, Guardians, whatever. All that matters is that your team is good and knows what to do.

Nobody knows, and although I’m sure ANet knows, they certainly wouldn’t spoil it in advance. I have no doubts that they will update all of the legendaries to look cooler, however.

I hate how when you ask them to use a skill and they refuse, they always follow with something like “I WANT TO PLAY THE GAME MY WAY!! STOP TELLING ME HOW TO PLAY!!”.

You should take this opportunity to fix the “1 under” bug with the Hints achievement, too. That one for me has been stuck at 82/83 (if memory serves) for awhile, even though I have every hint checked in the hint document.

He has a fixed amount of time before reappearing. What I do is count down in my head between when he vanishes and then dodge roll as soon as the countdown in my head matches whatever whim he’s at that day. The alternative strategy is to fight him far away from the water and then to jump into the water that you swim through to get to his hut in order to avoid him.

Okay, thanks for the investigation and prompt response. I was unsure if something had changed policy-wise behind the scenes between your two posts, or if someone was misinformed, or what to make of it. I don’t imagine I’d ever take advantage of a free transfer insofar as deleting all of my characters, but I like knowing these sorts of things so I can help out other people who ask down the road.

Cheers.

Spend all of the moneys!

No, but really, don’t spend money unless you really want something. If you really want this Greatsaw, then go for it, be happy, and never look back. It’s a game, so enjoy it in whatever way you can. I know that I could barely afford it, but I bought my Warrior some T3 armor and I love it. No regrets.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Personally, I want more difficulty in dungeons, not easier dungeons that everyone can beat. And no, false difficulty from Agony in FotM doesn’t count. Fractals are no harder than any other dungeon, while some Fractals are arguably easier than some other dungeons.

I agree that more difficulty would be better, but a DPS check really isn’t difficulty in my opinion. It’s a mechanic, sure, but after you learn all her mechanics its just down to raw numbers, and I don’t agree that is as fun as running sparks and using tears to cleanse people. Right now Simin just forces you to bring high DPS with you, which I’m not a fan of. Its a tough fight for the wrong reason, and her core mechanics should be more emphasized, not her health bar.

It’s strange, because that DPS can be achieved with nearly any class make-up. I’ve accomplished this feat with a Necromancer using a condition build, of all things. You can perform the 4-1 strategy and brute force your way through her, but I’ve also beaten her using the sparks and running them really fast. It is a challenging encounter now that she’s invulnerable while stealthed, and requires that players react quickly and waste zero time. That is true difficulty, locked away in team coordination, planning, dedicating players to tear throwing without missing a beat, and knowing exactly what to do at exactly the right moment. Seconds counted before when you had to run those sparks mid-combat. That is the difficulty I speak of, not brute forcing her.

Honestly, I would have preferred buffing her to make brute force DPS ineffective, and simply forcing players to get the sparks in every time. Increasing her Toughness (reducing raw Power-based damage, but rewarding condition damage) and DPS, but decreasing the speed of her healing in Stealth slightly to compensate for the greater difficulty in damaging her. I’d also recommend fixing the 4-1 thing, because that just feels like an exploit (it might not be, but it simplifies the battle too much in my opinion).

And thus the prestige of Dungeon Master was lost. I will admit that this change is probably for the better, but this was really the only boss that was actually ‘challenging’ and a run-stopper. I loved facing her in all of her glory, and beating her knowing that I was among a select few to have done so. Now that will no longer be the case.

Personally, I want more difficulty in dungeons, not easier dungeons that everyone can beat. And no, false difficulty from Agony in FotM doesn’t count. Fractals are no harder than any other dungeon, while some Fractals are arguably easier than some other dungeons.

He cares a lot, clearly.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

You can delete all the characters on the account and then change servers for free. The transfer costs only kick in for accounts with characters on them.

Gaile Gray.6028:

(Deleting the characters would not provide a free world transfer.)

Now I am really confused. I read Martin’s post and was really excited and pleased that ANet was being considerate of players… But now I’m confused. Who is correct? If Martin’s wrong, I can see people deleting their characters by ANet’s recommendation, getting screwed out of their characters, and then not being able to transfer. But, Gaile, if you’re right then that means players are stuck forever. Martin’s post makes the most sense and “should be” what is implemented in my opinion, but some clarification is definitely in order.

Now that I think about it… All of the missing stat combos are those acquired normally via crafting. They may be adding them as crafted ascended items at some point down the road for absurd amounts of ecto and other things, as if all the stuff wasn’t expensive enough as-is!

The only exception is Berserker gear, which I guess they had to introduce or no one would use the Ascended items at all.

No, there isn’t, but it’d be nice if they added it somewhere down the road.

Account Bound currencies are always superior as a design decision to Soulbound currencies.

But what if I like Dolyaks and don’t want an ugly Marmox? This is why I like all servers having the same appearances, otherwise it isn’t truly equalized across servers in a tier.

This thread was better before people used it to show off.

They’ll most likely be fixed in the February content patch in a couple of weeks. Just be patient until then. You can still buy the packs, you just can’t open them yet. It’s like waiting to open your Christmas presents.

I don’t know what to tell you because I really like them. I think their coloring looks great, contrasts really well with most armors, and the particles look sweet. I would be very sad if they changed. I am definitely not disappointed in them.

Buy her a Passion Flower. Those are better to symbolize passion anyway.

They’re always reading when they can, they just can’t always be posting. When it comes to content-related stuff or things in upcoming patches, they have to be very careful what they say and many times have to run it by others in the office before they can post it. When they’re talking about Seattle, the Mariners, and hot sauce, well, they can post whatever they want when they want to. :P

I want to point out that I do Arah p2 with my guild in 22 minutes, it just requires that you skip every single mob inbetween each of the bosses, and is very merciless to players not very good at skipping. I do this strictly for the tokens because I love the Arah weapons/armor; otherwise the rewards for this dungeon are terrible. Also, I’d like to point out that Rob is aware of this, and is looking into rewards for dungeons like Arah in future updates.

I do it with an Elementalist friend daily. Heck, I’ve done it with Elementalist friends and no Guardians or Warriors before, too. I really hate to say it, but if you’re having trouble, look at your team, find some better pubs / guildies, or instruct your team on the finer points of handling the event. Blaming ANet for it when the event is, in actuality, rather easy is pretty immature, no offense.

Largos
Margonites
Tengu

Largos and Tengu are great races, diverse, and would be really cool with respect to armor and structure and so on and so forth. I doubt I need to explain them much at all in my list. Margonites are really awesome, though, and seeing how the Apostate and The Lost both showcase free will, I think it would be grand if surviving Margonites fled to Elona from the Realm of Torment and are now trying to make a living. They would be a pretty stellar race to play as in a post-Abaddon universe, I think.

I wouldn’t pay a monthly fee because I don’t care how good the game is, I am unwilling to pay a fee to play a game and then feel obliged to play in order to make my expenditure feel worth it. The only reason I picked up GW1 was because of there being no monthly fee, and it was a driving factor in my picking up the sequel as well. I don’t mind microtransactions because they aren’t required to play the game or succeed at the game, but if a fee were to ever become mandatory consider me gone.

Note: I think the game is worth a monthly fee, but my stance is that I refuse to play any game that requires a monthly fee. I’m one of those customers ANet won over by never having a subscription fee.

This event is incredibly straightforward and easy if you have a coordinated and/or good group. If you’re dying, it says a lot about your team make-up and your ability to spot the thief and handle it accordingly. The enemies are straightforward, predictable, and easily handled, and the Thieves are slow, can be crippled, can be chilled, and can be immobilized despite being immune to CC. Let me also mention that Stability helps a lot against the chain knockdown spams that the Blademasters use (why they are called Blademasters when they wield hammers is beyond me). Guardians will help a lot if they are using “Stand Your Ground”, and in general will simplify this event massively.

Still, within my guild I have managed this event successfully using such motley crews as a Necro, 2 Thieves, an Ele, and a Warrior. If you’re dying, step back and assess the situation and make sure that everyone is aware of what’s going on. Usually that helps more than anything.

I think the Arah weapons look amazing, personally, and get them on practically all of my characters. I’d take them over an AC weapon any day of the week.

Vials of Powerful Blood were also heavily farmed by bots, which have since the patch which increased supply been banned, reducing supply. There is a balance to be had here, and the net result there is that the price increased. I know it doesn’t indicate actual supply/demand, but on Spidy you can see how the daily average number of Powerful Blood on the market has decreased with the loss of bots.

The thing for me, personally, is that while I make a decent amount of gold per day, I think the prices for lots of items are outrageous, and so I refuse to buy them at those prices. That’s my only real way of contributing to the market as a buyer, and ideally if enough people agree with that, then the prices will drop because no one wants to buy them at those prices. The problem arises when so many people are willing to spend that money, and if they are, then the price is justified. It surprises me that people are willing to spend 3.8g for a Charged Lodestone or 25s for a single Vial of Powerful Blood, but it is what it is. All I can do is not buy them and spend years farming them myself instead.

Gaile said somewhere along the line that she’d really like to bring back an epic ban animation like Dhuum, but that there’s no telling if/when it would happen and what it would be if it does.

This wasn’t a stealth buff, it was in the change log of one of the past content updates.

These things say account bound and one-time use, which intrigues me. Does that mean that when you become this profession for the first time on any character you automatically get those items? If not that, then what does it mean?

The problem is that you can get max armor from dungeon tokens, so why waste Karma? Karma doesn’t take up inventory space like those tokens, so it’s always preferable to spend the tokens rather than Karma. Furthermore, most things from Karma are either complete RNG (the jewelry boxes) or completely useless (the several hundred karma vendors in the game). I have so much Karma, personally, that if I wanted to buy a specific skin from a specific vendor, it would be as a water droplet in an ocean. The worst part is that I already have stacks of Obsidian Shards for my legendary, too.

I think it’d be nice if more of those little doodad items like Spy Kits were actually useful. Many of the really useful ones like the Portal Gun or Skale Venom cost gold, where if they cost Karma I’d actually have some use for all of it. More of those would be nice. Also, the Jewelry boxes would be nice if they weren’t a gamble; spend 10,000 Karma on a Core of your choice or something would be a good way to spend it. Things like that would be nice.

This one that you’re working on.. I suspect you cannot talk much about it, but can you say whether it will be for a currently existing zone or for an as-of-yet unannounced zone? Is it themed for a specific holiday, or is it more general purpose?

The problem with the jump puzzles in WvW is that they do a few things:
- They draw players who have no interest in WvW into WvW, which takes up queue slots from players who do want to contribute to WvW
- Their rewards provide a lot of siege and Badges of Honor, which makes them feel necessary for WvW players who have no interest in them
- They create a lot of animosity because players who prefer to do the JPs and not PvP cannot without being attacked by other players, due primarily to the willful griefing that the JP encourages (a lot of players love ruining the day of the players who do the JP but are not very good at PvP)

Habib Loew.6239:

In light of the strong community response to the idea of a WvW ratings reset, the results of our ratings formula investigations, and our data on the current matchups we have decided not to reset the WvW ratings at this time.

Looks like we won’t be losing the good match-ups with each other after all, guys! Although I think SBI might drop anyway, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Woo, go JQ! This match-up seems like the best T1 has seen in a long time, and it’s really exciting to be watching from the (distant now T4) sidelines. I’m excited that despite all of the heavy opposition, JQ is still showing everyone why it has been a T1 server for as long as it has. Good show everyone, enjoy the good times while you can! Next week is going to throw everyone for a loop and end up with a lot of uncompetitive match-ups.

Vanthian.9267:

Even if I were to hit all three targets it might equal out over 3 seconds. In one second of damage I would take 21k over 8,333 damage to 3 targets. In PvP 8k ish damage round robin is pale compared to downing a person in a second. Many a classes can hit for 8k damage in one second and not self root themselves.

Also, the claim still stands and is still correct. Burst, meaning damage up front not after 3 seconds, from a thief is more reliable and can be more defensive than a Warrior.

Your argument is correct, and is indeed why Thieves are more popular than Warriors in PvP. That said, the Warrior has a huge advantage over the Thief in high-end PvE in the form of tankability, party-wide Fury/Might, tons of Vulnerability stacks, heavy armor class, highest base HP of any class (tied with Necro), etc. Both classes are very good for different things. Thieves are still good, too, don’t get me wrong, but I’m just trying to give some perspective to the other readers as to why Warriors are definitely not weak by contrast to other classes.

Well, hey, that’s what gold sinks are for, right?

Pah, I try to farm these things at CS, but it’s just not as efficient as farming gold and then buying the items with the gold. Maybe my luck with ~130 MF is just bad, but I think that’s the cornerstone of the problem. The prices right now given their current supply are totally acceptable given their scarcity, it’s just their scarcity that bugs me.