Guild Wars 2

TabMorte.5297:

That jumping puzzle looks INSANE.

Bring it on! I’m super excited; I hope it’s epic tough.

Ragnarox, you’re mistaken:

The thief is also great for this encounter, as are the necromancer and ranger. All of them provide invaluable applications of AOE and non-targeted poison and bring decent DPS to the table. Furthermore, any class can do the spark running, so it’s not an issue. You can also do a lot of damage to Simin through retaliation stacking, and Engineers with grenade kits do remarkably well in addition. I have no issues beating this path with practically any team makeup, although having multiple warriors certainly makes it easier because they’re perfectly suited for this encounter. Mind you, one class being ‘perfectly suited’ for one encounter in the game does not make every other class worthless.

That’s an unfinished jump puzzle. I no longer have the link, but a developer has confirmed it.

I hope it’s harder than the Clocktower so that I can have as much, if not more, fun as I did with that. The hours I spent on the Clocktower are the most memorable for me in years; it was such a blast. I also loved how people complained about the Norn/Charr scaling, yet I succeeded repeatedly and reliably despite it.

It’s so satisfying being able to do the hardest jumping puzzles in the game while others fail and complain about the difficulty on the forums. Call me sadistic, but I think it’s a good thing that only the top X% of the population can succeed at certain content!

Dungeon boss Dhuum 2013.

I don’t necessarily agree with all that you suggested and am sure that ANet has their own ideas cooked for this if they go down this route, but I definitely support a dungeon boss on the order of difficulty of (Giganticus Lupicus x 10) for Dhuum.

This is how I approached finishing this path for my DM title:

- Investigate quirks of path online
- Inform guild of what strategies worked/didn’t work
- Coordinate guild to use said strategies
- Run path
- Win path

For the record, we ran sparks in the battle and tried to do “just enough dps” to keep her from fully regenerating when stealthed. We had a Mesmer do the spark running while a Necromancer, a couple Warriors, and a Guardian tried to dps Simin. Maybe this isn’t working “as intended”, and maybe it is, but who cares? If you want the title, do the research, plan accordingly, crush the path. I have never met a path that I couldn’t take on with that kind of planning. If you don’t have a good guild, might I recommend finding one! It helps a lot!

Presumably the adds are supposed to despawn once you hit the seal with the hammer, rather than be the infinite hell-spawns that they are now (I think I have a screenshot on my machine of >40 enemies on-screen in that boss fight at once).

This thread’s title should, instead, be “How I invested 200g in a few seconds”.

It isn’t listed in the TP because no one has put one for sale on the TP yet. Once one goes on sale, it gets added to the listings and you can put buy orders for it. Be aware, though, that no one has reported finding one anywhere in-game, yet, and so it will likely be incredulously valuable when someone does find and sell it.

So that’s the strategy to not bug out the boss fight? Don’t kill the veteran? If that works, that’ll be great.

I’ve been having trouble with that fractal boss because something like 50 enemies spawn and the boss is attacking you all at once, but then the whole boss encounter gets screwed, the door doesn’t close, the enemies don’t despawn, and so forth. I’ll keep that in mind next time I encounter this fractal (probably tonight…).

Well, to be fair, when the Primordus expansion comes out, I have no doubt we’ll be killing hundreds upon hundreds of Destroyers at max level and beyond. I wouldn’t worry about the future in that regard too much.

neon.4863:

The problem with it only affecting downed players is that players would then get in the habit of alt+f4ing when they’re about to be downed, so it wouldn’t solve the problem – but I agree with the concern re: getting stuck into combat mode, happens to me very often and the only fix is either logging in/out or killing any number of things, which in WvW is obviously problematic for a number of reasons. Wouldn’t want getting stuck in combat mode due to a bug to end up killing me.

I thought about that, but I think the reality is that people will always try to find a “way out”. Eventually it’ll just wind up being “you see an enemy coming at you and ALT+F4 before he can hit you”. I think anti-griefing is important for the developers to work towards, but when it comes at the expense of legitimate players suffering pretty common bugs, there’s a point where it causes more problems than it fixes. I think the ‘when downed’ only clause is a good compromise there, but that’s me. I’m willing to give this a chance, but I think I’m definitely going to rack up a much larger repair bill than normal because of this implementation without ALT+F4ing vs. enemies at all.

The ALT+F4 code should only apply for being in the downed state, if you ask me. I have, on numerous occasions, been stuck in combat mode in WvW and elsewhere and had to log out/in to fix it. I would not want this to kill me, give some random player who hit me thirty minutes ago rewards, and damage my armor. That’s terrible!

I also really hope that change only affects WvW. That would be a nightmare for PvE if it got implemented in a sweeping manner.

Actually, Destroyer Cores/Lodestones are one of the easiest to farm. In Fractals of the Mists, the Dredge fractal drops an incredible number of consumables called “Heavy Miner Bags”. In any given run I get 2-3 Cores / 1-2 Lodestones from these bags (I usually pick up 20-25 of these bags per run). Granted, when doing FotM, you won’t always get the Dredge fractal, when you do, it’s a goldmine! I definitely recommend it for anyone going for these Lodestones.

These bags are one of the primary things keeping these Lodestones from getting super expensive despite how many things they are used for. I imagine the more people doing FotM, the cheaper they’ll get, too. It’s rather exciting for me.

Charr already get a holiday, but the rest of Tyria doesn’t celebrate it… Yet.

MEATOBERFEST!

Yes, it requires transmutation stones. Steps:

- Transmute the skin onto a white or blue item (any item that is not soulbound of the same type)
- Put it in your bank (notice that it’s now listed as account bound)
- Log onto your alt
- Grab the skin
- Transmute the skin onto whatever you want.

Basically just lure him to the edge of his aggro range where there’s only one gorilla corpse he can respawn. Then, you just tank the stupid gorilla and punch Korga. Took my team like 5m to kill him.

He’s not worth it if you don’t care about the WP, though. He doesn’t even drop a bag of wondrous goods.

My friend got a precursor from a boss in AC, and if it can happen there, it can happen anywhere.

Titans’ Vengeance if I recall, which is the lava axe model from PvP. It’s also the model of the fire axe that Elementalists can summon.

Yeah! Gaile is the support mastermind, she just interfaces with the public while the developers scurry in the background to figure out what’s going on. They’re definitely involved, guys, don’t worry about that fact. I didn’t get my chest, and while I think I deserve one considering the criteria Gaile has described, I’m not all that worried. I’m sure it’ll get sorted out, and if not, there will hopefully be more super-awesome-epic chests in the future for me to try my hand at earning.

I appreciate the ANet teams’ effort in trying to reward people who suffered disconnects and the like during this event. I think that’s just swell and really commendable; most companies would say it was your fault and to deal with it. This sort of dedication to fairness is part of what separates ANet from the crowd.

In reality, you get 1/8 of the experience required to get to level 80, not 10 levels. So if you did your entire 1-400 craft at level 2, you’d get something like 14-16 (something like that) levels instead of 10 (because lower levels require much less experience).

I think the idea is for you to spend fractal relics on the skill points from the fractal relic merchant in the hub.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

“I anticipate” was hylarious, didn’t see a dev tag near your name.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

I’d address the rest of your post, but it hurts to read due to the illegibility and, quite frankly, you’re not even making a cohesive argument. You seem stuck on the idea that one has to show off a legendary to appreciate it or enjoy it, which is intrinsically fallacious in nature.

While that’s true, Ahlen, the scream’s duration outlasts a single roll. You’d need two back-to-back rolls to tank the whole thing from start to finish. Granted, it can be done and I do it when necessary, but just clarifying.

As to the main topic, this 270-degree scream has been this way since launch. I always felt this uber scream would be better suited for the HK, and that CR should have a better version of his leap more like the Graveling Scavengers.

There is one thing I’d like to see added to this:
- Necromancer needs a few more finishers

I really like your suggestion for Life Siphon becoming a leap stab skill, because it gives the MH Dagger a much-needed gap closer, makes the skill useful at large (quicker activation, unchanneled), and gives us a leap finisher which we could desperately use.

I’d also like to suggest here something that I put some thought into before, which is that I feel Enfeebling Blood should become a blast finisher. This would give us a second blast finisher, since we lost Mark of Evasion, and would go a long way to giving well builds and team-centric builds more usefulness. It’d also give us a way to actually take advantage of our own combo fields without wasting the AOE weakness from Staff 3 → 4.

I absolutely agree with your sentiment on most of the utilities. Corrosive Cloud is downright bad, our signets have way too long of cooldowns, our wells could use distinguishing runes, and pretty much everything else you suggested is spot on.

Good post, would read again; here’s to hoping Jon Peters reads it and comments.

You cannot delete mail that has items/gold contained in it so as to avoid accidentally deleting something you didn’t want to lose.

When it’s ready; they’re already working on it.

Dear God 10 tokens to a lodestone. I have upwards of 3000 of several different token types. As much as I’d love to just convert that all into a Volcanus overnight, I don’t think that’s realistic. Maybe a half-stack (125) of tokens for a lodestone, but no less than that.

For the record, I think each dungeon having a different T6 material would actually be a really cool idea in order to encourage players to play the different dungeons. AC: Dust, Arah: Venom Sac, CoF: Totem, etc.

There is already a return to sender button; it’s at the bottom-right of mail you receive from other players.

It’s purely a visual tooltip bug; the stat changes work perfectly fine when you equip the runes.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

The point was neither him can enjoy his own so hard worked legendary if not for a few minutes of fractals or playing hotw all the day just for the sake to give himself a justification of his weapon and he owns one. I mean, he maybe like that weapon, no doubt. But gw2 at the current stage doesn’t justify at all to spend so many resources for… that thing. Just to add, hotw having or not having his weapon doesn’t change a bit the results on 2 paths where there is a bit of underwater, even when will be updated as ascended , nor 3 minutes fighting the beginning of underswater fractals , the boss fight is kite him to the light, not surely based on his weapon and people jelous of him haha

I anticipate that there will be a largely underwater expansion in the future, so he may yet get a lot more mileage out of his legendary. That said, it doesn’t hurt you for him to enjoy his underwater legendary, so perhaps you should lay off a bit. Not everyone makes a legendary to show it off; sometimes it’s more for personal edification and the sense of achievement.

They mentioned that they want to improve their previous dungeons, so I wouldn’t put it past them to significantly improve the structure of dungeon bosses to include multiple stages. I don’t think the turnaround will be instant or even fast, but I’d expect these improvements over the course of the next year.

For something called ‘Frenzy’, I was really expecting it to have an entire school of rapid fish flip out on things when you attack. Still, looks pretty nifty for a rainbow gun. Congratulations!

I’d just like to comment that you have no idea how many times I have seen a zerg of players fail to take the Temple of Silence or fail to take the Promenade on the way to the Gates of Arah. There are other events, too, that I see zergs regularly fail at. That said, I would expect that “the more bodies you can throw at enemies, the more likely you are to succeed”. For me, that makes sense, and doesn’t really bother me all that much.

They actually took this to heart with FotM; the Jade Maw boss has stages as well. Certainly, the Ancient Karka had numerous stages if you factor each section of his dynamic event during the final encounter. I would anticipate seeing a lot more like this in the future for GW2.

If you want to complain about the costs of anything, you should be complaining about the costs of T6 materials. The precursor is arguably cheaper these days, with few exceptions. :P

It does soulbind it. It specifically says when you add an upgrade to an item “This action will make the item Soulbound”, color codes it for emphasis, and gives you a confirmation window.

Next challenge: beat him solo while he has 1 stack of Empowered!

There is a point to this thread. Users are asking to prioritize making it account bound, and there is a discussion revolving it about whether that’s a good plan or not. You coming in and posting a link to a wiki page which can be edited by anyone with access to the internet does not in any way end a thread.

Malediktus.9250:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Just to add, he removed it, realizing noone would never ever buy it.

I wish he would’ve just sent me by mail the 444.44g he needed to list that thing in the first place instead! Sheesh!

I dont think he removed it, you cannot even leave buy offers for legendaries on TP, so chances are you can only offer them, but noone can buy them.

You can only leave buy orders for something once someone has posted it for sale on the TP. Then it becomes available to put buy orders in for as long as there is a supply at all (with the exception of those silly account bound items…). That’s why Volcanus had no buy orders up until the 22nd of November, for instance. Note that this may not be exactly how it works, but it’s what I’ve gathered from my experience.

I would just like to comment that Miseris hit the nail on the head with why people seem to find Necros “less effective” or “underperforming” in PvE compared to other classes. Well-written post, sir.

It also helps that Aegis works versus bosses, whereas Blind is reduced to pathetic levels of effectiveness against them.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Just to add, he removed it, realizing noone would never ever buy it.

I wish he would’ve just sent me by mail the 444.44g he needed to list that thing in the first place instead! Sheesh!

According to GW2Spidy, Twilight has been on sale on the TP since December 3rd.

That said, I don’t mind. If it were up to me, I’d make everything sellable on the TP. That would include things like Halloween Tonics, Fractal weapons, and so on. I think the more things we can sell and buy on the TP, the better it is for the overall health of the economy and for the players. I have no qualms with players being able to buy a legendary weapon; it is, after all, just a skin.

It could be any number of things. Hackers in general get lists of email addresses from countless fansites and such that have database breaches and then cycle through those accounts with brute-force password crackers and the ilk to acquire accounts. They also have lists of passwords that they try for every account and so on. Of all of the possibilities, the one that pits ANet at fault is the least likely. Please, I implore you to explore other avenues, make sure you’re using an email address and password unique to GW2, and make sure that your password is not reused anywhere. Use a different and difficult password for each of your email account and game account. There’s really nothing else I or anyone can suggest.

I will say this in conclusion: Many times, users think they don’t have a security breach somewhere, and they really do. More often than not, it’s you using your email account on another website, or using your password for another website, and that website having a database breach.

ANet confirmed that they will constantly be adding new fractals to the game, so I have no doubt that we’ll see something focusing on the destroyers and branded, much like how we currently have fractals dealing with the Sons of Svanir and so on.

As an aside, it would be very cool to see a fractal revisiting Destiny’s Edge’s battle against Kralkatorrik. Imagine that!

The no-reward bug occurred to me about a week and a half ago. We ran the run normally, clearing stuff as normal, and encountered this issue. I have as-of-yet been unable to figure out the reproduction causes with my guild, but I’m constantly trying to figure it out so that I can report it to Rob and get it addressed in a future build. If anyone has any reproduction methods, that’d help a lot with ANet fixing this.

Like others said, we killed the Howling King and it still said “Search the Catacombs for the patriarch.” Can anyone who had this issue confirm whether or not the HK’s health bar appeared in the event window or not? I can’t remember, and that may be relevant for debugging.

They’re working on the ART (Account Restoration Tool). By the time it goes live, it will only be able to help those people hacked moving forward. Gaile has confirmed this in the Account Issues forum repeatedly. This is a major priority for them, and although it is a huge labor cost and development time cost, they are doing this to help people like you. So don’t think you have to rally the armies against ANet or some such; they’ve already heard, and are already well underway with the solution.

That said, it doesn’t matter what you do in real life. Passwords can and will be cracked. No matter what you say, your security measures were at fault here. If there were a security breach of ANet even insofar as a single account could be stolen from their databases, they are bound by law to come out and tell us. As such a statement has not been made, I am confident that your claim that “it must have come from the GW2 site” is illegitimate.

Furthermore, the hacker got into both your email address and your GW2 account. The only way he could achieve both is if you had poor security measures on both, reused passwords, used simple passwords, have a keylogger, accidentally logged into some phishing website designed to look like the GW2 website (I’ve seen some fancy ones), or so forth. The best thing you can do is change all of your passwords, change your email address if you can, and be more careful moving forward. Good luck.

It’d also be nice to have their entire bug tracker visible to the public, but sometimes we take what we can get and we need to not constantly ask for more and more and more. I’m happy having the question answered, and don’t think we need a massive public bug list maintained by ANet employees on the forums. I’d rather them spend their time fixing issues, instead.

Confirmed. It happens to me a lot, and it really sucks.

There are lots of parts to your post which are subjective in nature, so I don’t want to touch on them too much because a battle of the opinions doesn’t really interest me. That said, I will say that as a player, I research bugs before I do something, look up the ways players avoid the bugs, and then carefully avoid the bugs in my playing. Doing this, I have (for example) achieved the dungeon master title despite the blocking bugs in Arah and other dungeons. It’d be nice if these bugs didn’t exist, but they are not completely crushing, and have not in any way impeded my enjoyment of the game thanks to my careful planning. Knowing that they are working the fixes for them is good enough for me, and hasn’t stopped me from enjoying the game.

Similarly, you’re talking to a guy whose internet fails regularly in ways beyond my control. FotM has been a nightmare in that respect, and reconnecting is definitely something they’re working a solution for. That said, I have, again, planned my time to take advantage of times of the day when my connectivity is better and I am less likely to disconnect. As a result, I have played a lot of successful FotM runs despite the fact that I regularly disconnect from the game. When I am disconnecting, I just do the other dungeons that allow reconnects, and my time is not wasted.

I don’t think the bugs are good, nor am I happy with them. Don’t mistake my patience for complacency. These bugs absolutely must be addressed, but I have spoken with the developers / read their posts and know that they are being worked on. Their communication in this regard is admirable. I also agree that we need an improved LFG tool, but I don’t think it’s fair to expect one walking out of the door. The guild system in GW2 encourages being in multiple guilds and having huge friends lists; I never have to look for groups, even when my guild is largely offline. I use GW2LFG sometimes, but largely I don’t have to because I have, again, planned my time wisely so that I know people in many different timezones always available and willing to play with me. For me, a LFG tool is not as important as releasing new content to keep players engaged and excited for what’s to come. You have to remember that ANet needs players to constantly be coming to the game in order to keep making money, and in order to achieve that these content updates are of critical importance. New content draws in new players, and making it a regular thing makes all customers think they are getting more bang for their buck. That, to me, is worth the issues we face as players, and what’s better is knowing that “in time” this, too, will get addressed.

Perhaps it helps that I am a patient person in general, despite being quite a hardcore player. Again, this is just how I approach things like this as a gamer and developer.