Guild Wars 2

As some people before have suggested…
- If your character dies and has no money, money will be deducted from your bank to pay for the WP travel
- If your character dies, has no money, and your bank is devoid of money, your WP travel is free

I do not disagree with you, Jabberwock. Their site just says “Free Upgrade”, so I wanted to know exactly how it functioned.

Be that as it may, judging from the other infusion recipes, it will probably be quite an investment of either time or gold or both to infuse it. I have no problem burning some fractal relics in the meantime to get some infusion right now.

Yes, but we know it can be infused based on the item database, which is good enough for me!

Thanks! Guess I’m not as excited to get home from work now. :P

I agree with the 30-60m group. 15m is too short to enjoy and feels cheesy, but 30m runs when played properly and 60m runs for those that are a bit trickier or when you have less experienced players.

No, please don’t nerf the rewards for dungeons; I’m glad that I can finally make money playing the endgame content of the game. It’s worth noting that AC doesn’t have a chance to drop cores/lodestones of any kind, which is actually a huge hit for the value of running it. It’s still great and worth the effort, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not offering those big potential payoffs.

If you ask me, other dungeons (harder dungeons) should have their rewards buffed slightly so that it’s worth it to run them compared to AC. I would suggest the following:

Any dungeon that gives a core or lodestone type should give a guaranteed core in the end chest of that dungeon’s explorable paths.

AC: —
CM: --
TA: Onyx Core
HotW: Glacial Core
CoF: Molten Core
SE: Destroyer Core
CoE: Charged Core
Arah: Corrupted Core

I know Arah doesn’t drop corrupted cores, but it deserves something. Maybe it’s hard enough that it should give a lodestone instead of a core. Also, didn’t factor in crystal cores, but maybe they could go somewhere too. Anyway, this would really encourage people to play the harder dungeons more.

I noticed on the front page of the GW2 site and the buy page ( https://buy.guildwars2.com/en/ ) that it lists a free upgrade to the Digital Deluxe edition. I’ve always wanted the mistfire wolf elite because I’m a completionist and was wondering if this means that accounts that already exist can upgrade for free or if this only works for new accounts bought during this weekend?

Maybe it could be a repeatable chain event that happens in the Cursed Shore (or a new Orr zone, or maybe even a new Arah path), but that you can’t do until you’ve completed the main story. Then, you could limit the completion rewards (loot chest at end) of this event to one time per character so that people wouldn’t take advantage of it.

That’s really cool that there’s a non-gold way of obtaining the ascended back items! Cheers for the link. Guess I won’t have to buy those overpriced t6 materials after all.

Even the GW1 scavenger hunt for the Moa Chick had a lot of story behind it. You read a whole book in-game about it and followed a ton of steps to make it happen. I imagine that Lindsey is taking the time to make sure each legendary weapon gets special treatment and that every precursors story and consequent attainment is unique, special, and a tremendously difficult effort worthy of a legend.

Well, clearly your password must be known to a hacker if he has hacked you. Furthermore, you say you made it years ago, which means it’s been in-use for lots of things, and possibly one of those other things had a security breach that has given hackers your password. There are any countless number of ways this could work out to a hacker getting your password without it being ANet’s fault.

One thing that’s really important to remember:
There are hundreds of thousands of players of GW2 and a scant few hundred people getting hacked by hackers. The percentage of users that are hacked in GW2 is astronomically low. These incidents you read about on the forums are isolated and result from user-end security issues.

ANet actively monitors this forum, and actively helps with hacked accounts, and actively works on further improvements to account security all the time. Did you know ANet has a team dedicated specifically to account security? A lot of people who get hacked like to think their personal security is impenetrable, but the reality in almost all cases is that it isn’t. The best thing to do is to get your account back and be more mindful of account security in the future.

For the record, if support doesn’t get back to you in three days time with the ticket you just made, make a post in the following thread so that Gaile can help you out. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Tickets-for-Review-3-days-and-older-merged/page/34#post390052

ANet agrees with you. Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/crafting/Patch-fixing-precursors/first#post761776

If it’s anything like the GW1 scavenger hunt, but upgraded like all things in GW2, you’ll have your lore, you’ll have your story, and you’ll definitely have your legend.

People fill in what they know, and let others do the formatting / spelling / grammar work that they’re not interested in. If you ask me, I’m glad we have any measure of a walk-through at all. It’s better to read that than read nothing.

Amidst all the complaints about Lost Shores, one thing is for sure:
The Ancient Karka’s entire event chain required lots of work, had great rewards, and was really epic

Sure killing a couple thousand karka in the reinforcement stages was boring as all hell, but that’s a minor detail. The battle against the Ancient Karka was well-staged, well-played, well-planned, and epic in scale. It was massive, required hundreds of people to succeed, and rewarded well. It had all the scale right for something of that magnitude.

Here’s my suggestion: Do the same for Zhaitan

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We “killed” Zhaitan. Yeah, we saw him fall from the sky into the clouds, never investigated the body, and are assuming he’s dead because when we explore Arah afterward we find little pieces of him. But here’s an idea, bring him back as an epic battle like the Ancient Karka. Say he did die, but that as the Elder Undead Dragon, he, too, is coming back from his own corpse and is building power again slowly.

Use this as a great excuse to make a battle with him that will truly stun players with the environmental interaction and event structuring that you proved possible with Lost Shores. Give the players who participate in the battle against Zhaitan true rewards, just like the Lost Shores chest did. These sorts of things will create stories that people will tell about GW2 forever, unlike the current Zhaitan letdown that we have where he just gets shot up by cannons, falls off a tower, and gets reminisced upon as an unworthy finish to our personal story.

Maybe no developer will ever read this. Maybe they don’t want to revisit Zhaitan. Maybe I’m wasting my time. However, I’d like to think that ANet is learning from their design issues, as can be seen with the Ancient Karka, and it’d be incredible if they took those lessons and applied them to an epic weekend event to slay Zhaitan once and for all. The specifics of that weekend event are not something I care to discuss here, all I am suggesting is that Zhaitan deserves a better boss fight, and I know ANet wants to give him one, they just need to buckle down and do it.

Unfortunately, the poor security setup is your own, not ANet’s. I won’t presume to speak for you, but if you’ve been hacked, it means that you had a breach in security in that someone acquired your account/password combination. If they were also able to log into your email account and validate their own logins, that means your email has also been jeopardized. That is a crucial security issue that you must resolve, not ANet.

Steps to help with this in the future:
- Use a unique, memorable, but tough password for each different account (game account, email account, etc.)
- Change your email address
- Verify that your computer is not infected with any malware that may be tracking your keystrokes or other such information
- Read Mike O’Brien’s article on account security here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/mike-obrien-on-account-security/

Furthermore, if you continue to have issues logging into your account due to hackers getting into it, create a support ticket and they will help you get your account back. After that, the matter of account security rests with you.

Good luck!

The big reason here is because the Elementalist hammer takes up a utility slot and has limited number of uses. The Warrior hammer is exceptional considering that it’s just a weapon and doesn’t require a utility slot to use. I agree with those other posters saying that the things being compared here are incompatible and thus the comparison is invalid.

Yes, but as soon as they are found, they normalize as people capitalize on it heavily. Thus, unless you discover something lucrative as it’s in the process of developing, you won’t encounter anything profitable from crafting.

An example of this was Omnomberry Bars the other week when they introduced more silver drops from bosses in dungeons. There was a period where you could craft the bars and sell them back at a 1s profit for each bar. It was nice while it lasted.

Tzark won’t start the Lover’s Crypt event

This is easily replicable, I’ve found in testing with my guild.

1. Get to the lover’s crypt.
2. Get Tzark in range so that he’ll start his dialogue.
3. Get Tzark killed by something (the ghosts, for instance) while his dialogue is happening.
4. When you revive him, he will not begin the event and the dungeon must be restarted.

Detha won’t construct traps during the trap construction event

Also pretty easy to replicate.

1. Get Detha to the event starting location.
2. Get Detha to aggro on an ooze or something while she is in the middle of her dialogue with the Ascalonian Captain or while she is running to the waypoint to start the dialogue.
3. She will not build the traps now, and depending on when during the dialogue she aggroed an enemy, she can sometimes be killed to get her AI working again, or sometimes even killing her won’t fix it.

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I’ve been working on the Hodgins getting stuck bug, and I think it has something to do with moving too fast during the protect-him-at-table event that you do earlier. ie. If you activate the tomb in the crypt (by using the WP) before he opens the door, he may bug out. I will keep testing this with my guild and try to determine the exact method to reproduce it.

If you guys have any other replicable issues with dungeons, post ’em here so we can get them resolved! Jason King has been checking these threads out for useful information for the developers.

In GW1 they did pumpkin pie drops for Thanksgiving, but that was it. I doubt they’d have a major event for Thanksgiving without announcing it in advance, especially given that Thanksgiving is an American holiday.

I absolutely agree with this. Every crafting material, rare, fine, or otherwise, should have a collectible slot for a stack of it.

Who knows, but I highly suspect that they’ll use BoH for WvW-obtained ascended gear when it comes.

Why is it that way, though? That doesn’t make sense to me. Why can’t I get “lifetime survivor” by beating all 3 paths of a rather challenging dungeon without dying? Why must I run around in circles in a zone gaining a pittance of experience to earn it? It is an achievement based on survival; why are we being funneled into doing it in such a way that wastes time rather than being allowed to do it in a manner better suited to how we choose to play the game? Experience is experience, after all.

It depends on the timeline for the scavenger hunt to get a precursor (and the nature of that scavenger hunt when it arrives), really. I imagine prices will continue to rise over the coming weeks, peak, and then drop when announcement of the scavenger hunt implementation hits (whenever that is). There is a lot of speculation involved, but I suspect that holding onto it for at least a month is a safe bet.

I agree, we should always get the bag of Wondrous Goods. If we get lucky, we should also get the jewelry, but not as a substitute for the bag.

No, you get one random color from the blue spectrum and one random color from the yellow spectrum. It is not talking about rarity (which would be fine and rare, respectively).

See the above poster’s remark. There is a veteran dredge on the same platform and a cannon both that shoot to keep you in combat. You will need to kill both, as well as any dredge that followed you up there, to get the vista. So long as you are in combat you cannot activate it.

Yes. You can throw the exotic weapons obtained with dungeon tokens into the MF and, if you’re lucky, score a precursor.

Doesn’t happen to me or anyone I’ve played with either, and I have done that fractal a good couple dozen times with different groups. Not sure what to tell you, man, but maybe you have a corrupted file and should reinstall GW2.

That’s the thing, Lucas; that is the attitude that is wrong. Ascended items are supposed to bridge the gap, not be a fork in the road. We should be able to progress toward Ascended items while we progress toward Legendary weapons, not be forced to pick and choose. This is the ideal that I think ANet should look at in terms of Mystic Forge recipe design for Ascended items.

For PvE, I don’t necessarily agree with you Savan. The reason being that in PvE, stacking 25 stacks of might on yourself is as problematic as stacking 25 stacks of bleed on an enemy; you’re blocking the rest of your teams’ dps/support. In most environments, if you have an Elementalist ally (or a Warrior, or anything really), they’re stacking 9-12 stacks of might on the whole team. If you are trying to stack 25 stacks of might on yourself, you’re wasting half of your effort, or wasting his. It’s for this reason that those mass stack builds, like the one you suggested, are best used when you’re out soloing the world. For dungeons or other team-based activities, I highly discourage you from using that build unless you’re coordinated with your team perfectly such that there’s no unnecessary overlap/wasted effort.

It would make too much sense for every class to have 1 elite of every skill type they use. That’s why this will never happen.

There wasn’t a level gate during the prime time to do it (the event). I did this with a level 63 character during the event, when everything was upscaled to level 80 for Southsun Cove and LA. I actually got the achievement during just the first event on Friday night! There were a ton of Karka.

If you still haven’t done it, then yes, you need to be L80 to do it now (or should be). You still have enough time left in the month to fully level a character from level 1 to 80 and kill 200 Karka if you start now, though, so it’s achievable! Good luck!

Note: This only applies to the ascended back items; I know there are ascended rings you can earn as daily rewards for beating t2 and t3! (And I think that’s great, though the RNG has been very unfriendly to me for a few days)

This is an underpinning flaw in their design of ascended items. They (ascended items) use the same materials that you use for your legendary items, which means that to progress toward ascended items requires you forgo work on your legendary. They are mutually exclusive at the same time and require separate efforts to obtain.

The real bottlenecks here are the ecto and the t6 materials. It would’ve been a much better middle-ground if the requirements were different, and you could work toward both at the same time. So, for instance, if instead of ectoplasm it required Gifts of Ascension from the FotM dungeon. Still a significant effort, yet something you could work toward alongside your legendary progress. This is just an example, and I could think of any dozen others as a substitute. The point is made, however; these two progression tracks should not be mutually exclusive, and this creates a real problem as it is.

ANet has said that they want to add new ways to acquire these ascended items in the future, and I look forward to that, but I hope that this feedback will maybe reach its way into a design discussion so that they do not make these future methods of acquisition mutually exclusive with progression towards one’s legendary item.

Thanks for reading.

There is no reset. Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Concerned-about-weekly-fractal-reset/first#post776705

There is no reset. Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Concerned-about-weekly-fractal-reset/first#post776705

It works, it just doesn’t show the updated tooltip in your hero stat panel.

Just like the tile says. This is the only reason anyone leaves the hub to go back to LA, and it is an annoying extra step, especially because if someone goes to LA we all have to go back and restart the instance to get them back in. You put in the convenience of a merchant, I think the convenience of a bank would make sense.

P.S. BLTP trader would also be cool, but that’s not nearly as critical as a bank.

Yeah seconded. This is ridiculous. Two steps forward in dungeon design, two steps backward in player convenience and support. I always seem to disconnect once or twice, regardless, and then I’m screwed and can’t get back in thanks to this. You’d think with all their QA they could find glaring problems like this.

I love the bags, now that I’ve tested it. The only thing I don’t like is that bosses don’t always drop the bags. For all dungeons, you either get the bag (great drop) or you get worthless jewelry that cannot be put on the TP and isn’t worth the karma/silver/token loss of the bag. I haven’t tried it on Arah yet, but I imagine it’s the only dungeon with actually valuable jewelry worth more than the bag itself.

Proposed Solution: Always drop the bag from these bosses, but in addition you could get the jewelry if you’re lucky and have good MF.

Terra.8571:

Things have changed in last 7-10 days if you haven;t noticed. Ectos are 22-23s and rares 20s+. Orr now offers 3g+/hr. AC still offers 1.5g/hr in a good group. Orr is much much more profitable these days.

That may be true, but I get 5-6 worthwhile rares an AC run all the same in MF gear, not factoring what comes from chests or this newfangled stuff they’re adding with this patch. This is also all still not factoring in the dungeon tokens, which are great mystic toilet fodder or alt items. I think the “net worth” at the end of the day is roughly the same, and it all comes down to what you need / what you’re willing to do.

Anyway, my only point is that I was hoping this patch would make other dungeons as profitable as AC, as opposed to keeping AC the only dungeon worth doing for anything other than a particular skin.

Derk.3189:

But its your choice to not run dungeons other than AC. You ever thought maybe some people want to run dungeons for gear specific to that dungeon, or just for fun in general? Clearly if you’re running dungeons for coin, you could be doing Orr for coin faster.

I make roughly the same consistent money clearing AC as clearing Orr, it’s less boring, and it gets me a ton of free exotics to throw in the forge for precursors via tokens or give to my alts. If you farm Orr for money, you have to then spend that money to gear other toons, which is not the case with farming AC (the gear is a free side bonus).

Ouch, this is what we waited so long for? Omnomberry Bars aren’t even going to boost the silver from these silly bags because it’s an opened bag, not a drop! Furthermore, since the “good rewards” (tokens, silver) are static across all dungeons, there’s no good reason to do other dungeons bar the easiest. That means that AC is still going to be the most profitable dungeon (barring lucky cores/lodes in CoE), and I’m still not going to diversify my dungeon experience any. What a shame.

Yeah that’s true, but it’d be nice if we didn’t have to coordinate, waste multiple peoples’ time, and so forth just to achieve something that should be readily available.

I play a lot on one character, which means that I ended up with a lot of siege plans on that character just from playing, doing the jump puzzle in the off minutes, and buying them up to support the team for when we needed them. However, because they’re soulbound, I’m stuck playing this same character pretty much forever if I want to support the team with my siege plans.

It would be awesome if ANet put forth the little bit of effort to make them account bound so that I can move them to my other characters, help the team, and get some diversity in my WvW life.

Thanks in advance for any consideration.

This is my greatest issue with the implementation of ascended gear. Now, instead of being able to play end-game content and get the best armor available stat-wise, you are forced to play a single dungeon to grind out some armor that is the best stat-wise. The other dungeons become irrelevant.

Why would I waste my time in Arah to get Exotic gear when I can spend that same time and get Ascended gear in Fractal of the Mists (FotM)? Sure, you might say that you’d expend that amount of time to get the skin, and that’s fine, but a lot of people do it because it is a good, fun, healthy, end-game way of getting max armor without having to blow your gold. I do not want to play a single dungeon for the rest of eternity on all of my characters just because Ascended gear makes Exotic gear obsolete.

This sort of progression of gear worries me when it render other end-game content obsolete. Maybe it’ll only be rings and back items now, but it’d be nice if it down the road or whatever, all dungeons reward equal rewards (bar skin, of course).

Since you asked, I typically play a Warrior. Thanks for the feedback so far, it looks to be good stuff and I look forward to trying them out tonight.

I debated between putting this in another class’s forum or here, but I think I’ll get better insight here. I’ll start this off honestly: I don’t play a Thief and only know what I know about them from fighting them every twenty-odd seconds in WvW. That’s why I am posing this question to you guys, the Thief players of the forums.

I’d like to think I’m a pretty good player. I kill lots of people, I know what’s what, and so on and so forth. I’d like to avoid the answers being things like “play better” and such. Whether I am good or not is not the topic of the discussion, and I’d really like to focus on generalized strategies.

I’ve been encountering these Thieves that appear to be using sword/dagger (correct me if I’m wrong) and they chain dazes together repeatedly while attacking in between for massive dps. I don’t know the names of the skills, only what they look like when used (they swing their bladed weapons rapidly). Regardless of what class I use and how many stunbreaks I have, the daze seems to be applied with such frequency that I get totally locked down and destroyed without even having a chance to fight back / dodge / etc. Of course, the Thieves that do this to me approach me stealthed, so I never even see it coming until it’s too late.

Now I’m curious. As Thief players, what do you guys do to beat this, or what do others do to you to beat this? Stunbreaks don’t seem to be effective as the daze is reapplied rapidly, so I am looking for solutions. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide into this matter.

They don’t have said animation because then there’d be no incentive to craft the lovely Corrupted weapons that people currently covet so ferociously. While it’d be nice if every armor set shot off lasers and had a billion special effects, the dungeon sets are still relatively easy to acquire compared to things like T3 cultural or legendary weapons, and so the particle effects match.

Besides, I’d rather they make new armor than revamp old stuff that’s already pretty cool.

No, actually, the support is great, you’re all just sour that you can’t have your fancy toys right away. There’s no appreciation for ANet’s quality assurance processes here, and while they drag out the process of getting fixes live, they’re necessary. Working in the business of software development myself, I can safely say that the QA process is unquestionably necessary for the proper enhancement and development of a software like a video game. Read Jeff’s post; there is a fix finished, coded, and implemented, it just needs to be thoroughly tested before it can go live. It will be live when it’s ready, now please do something else besides complain until then!