Guild Wars 2

Yes, he has.

There are fewer barrels per location now (1-3 usually), and if he is discovered, he will reset after ~5 minutes of standing in the same location. In this way, you can no longer scout this particular bounty ahead of time because if you try and do find him, he’ll just reset.

It’s worth noting that the Ice Ele boss has two agony-inflicting attacks:

• His ground-pound, which creates a big frost field, inflicts agony (long wind-up, but he uses it against enemies in melee and oftentimes after the V-attack)
• His ice crash red circle skill that he uses at range on all nearby players

This is probably a gross oversight, haha.

BlueDragon.7054:

Well if you are from NA server and want to try, 2 friends and me want to try it also, we would just need 1 more

Don’t bother, the poster above is correct in that it’s still locked.

Unfortunately again, a fair bit due to the fees and the spread between the sell/buy values. I had definitely considered that before asking here.

Shame you took offense rather than trying to see the value in what I said. Either way, good luck on your own time frame in whatever you do.

This was a bug with the month of March, and ANet has since fixed it. Your friends abused the bug before it was fixed is how they got extra laurels.

I don’t think ANet has the implemented tech to allow you to change the name of your guild. They, thus, have two options:

• Allow the guild to persist as-is in an offensive state
• Delete the guild

I can see why they chose option 2, honestly, as the burden is really on the guild players to make sure their guild name/tag follow the EULA.

I paid for my tag with my own money because my guild is PvX and most don’t really care about WvW. That said, when I tag-on in WvW, I strive with all of my being to make the best possible choices, listen to players, and take / defend points in a fashion that best suits what we need at any given time. It would’ve been great to be in a guild that cared about my being commander and helped me out with it, but that’s just sort of how it goes.

Sil.4560:

A year from now I’d still be saving them to spend on ascended crap because of the outrageous prices to outfit all of my alts. So being able to do that in any reasonable amount of time would force me into sPvP.

Meh, I’ve had enough of this game trying to force me into a certain mode of play for specific rewards with fractals.

This is flawed logic, and let me explain why.

You’d be on the same time frame you are on currently no matter what, and if they added more ways to get them, nothing would have to change about your current rate of acquisition. The only change is the requirement that you place on yourself to get them as fast as possible that would “force” you to play some part of the game you’re disinterested in. The real culprit here is you, not ANet!

The issue is that you insist on some super-speed time frame to gear out your alts, when the reality is that ascended gear makes so little difference (And honestly, you don’t even need more than 25 AR for the current max level of FotM if you’re a good player. Seriously, I run 5 AR in FotM 48 on one alt and never die except to Maw) that the time frame shouldn’t matter. Don’t let yourself be driven by your desire to get everything in the game as fast as possible and you’ll find yourself:

• A lot less bothered by the speed at which you get things.
• A lot more free to play the game you want to play and enjoy the content you want to enjoy.

It makes the whole ordeal a lot more enjoyable, and I can say that from experience.

That’s kind of the point, though. Anyone can “bridge that gap” as you describe it by time investment alone. If you’re not willing, or simply don’t want to, do the work involved in bridging that gap, well, then it wouldn’t make sense to be upset with the prices. The reality is that so long as people are willing to grind and pay the prices as they are, the prices will continue to stay as they are, and will not fall. Because farming CoF 1 is so easy, and for most players who do it “what’s another few days grinding”, the constant increase in price of high-demand items isn’t surprising to me, and shouldn’t be surprising to anyone else.

Like I said before, all that really matters is that people are willing to pay the prices, and that people are willing to grind the gold to pay those prices. So long as that is true, the prices will only go up with time.

So don’t get involved! Just because something rewards a laurel doesn’t mean you have to pursue it for that laurel. Consider how you’ll feel a year from now with something like 300 laurels at your disposal and only so much to spend them on. You’re not “falling behind” by missing some added currency, you’re only progressing slower, which is okay.

Regardless of how you or I feel, the point of the game is to ‘play-your-way’, and be rewarded for it. Even if it’s not perfect now, I think encouraging the PvE/WvW players into SPvP (even if, obviously, not everyone will do it) is great and expands the player base of that community. Sure they should be rewarded for PvE/WvW stuff, and they are already! The point is to incentivize a style of play they might not otherwise ever consider, and that’s a good thing.

Unfortunately, no. The only ones that count are the ones that were around at game release, which are the ones available on the TP (not counting the Karka event minis). Those ones are also the only ones that can be sent to other players due to them not being account bound or soulbound.

PvP gear will never change; the only changes that may come with time is new skins.

That said, having a PvE/WvW benefit to playing SPvP is exactly what the game needs to encourage more of their admittedly massive PvE/WvW playerbase to get involved in SPvP more consistently and thus make that a more populated and enjoyable experience for everyone. Really, it’s win-win (PvE/WvW players get more laurels, SPvP players get far more opponents, queue diversity, rating diversity, and rank diversity).

Essence Snow.3194:

The prices of “high end” (items of either high predetermined value or high player created value) items are strictly based on a minority of the player base. The amount of gold that the majority consistently earns really does not factor into it.

Since the number of minority wealthy players > the supply of “high end” items, the majority population has next to no bearing on said item prices. Thus effectively creating “haves” and “have nots”.

You’d be surprised how many “unwealthy” players farm up the gold and then buy them off the TP, thus contributing to that specific market. Just last night a few of my friends finally got their buy orders filled on The Hunter and The Leaf of Kudzu, and I can say with absolute certainty that they are dirt poor now and farmed the living hell out of CoF 1 to make every gold spent on their precursors. Anyone can, and many will, contribute to this market and drive the prices. As long as people like my friends and others I know about, even those who aren’t super wealthy, continue to pay the prices as they are, the prices are without a doubt reasonable. You have to realize that countless players farm CoF 1 at length specifically to buy their precursors, and because they are generating tons of gold out of thin air in record times, people are constantly willing to pay more and more for these high-end items, and thus sellers constantly list them for higher and higher prices.

Michael.7943:

But we were already down players, and the new build prevented us from getting replacements, and then we couldn’t clear the trash guarding one of the circles.

Unfortunate timing, really. I’ve beaten a FotM L48 before with only 3 players against Cliffside boss because of a similar situation, but that’s just how it goes. Either make it happen or quit and try again after updating to the newest patch. It’s not ANet’s fault; no matter when they put up a new patch they will interrupt someone doing something.

The trading post has all of the materials you need in exorbitant quantities. Check it out by hitting O in-game.

Honestly, Necromancers already have arguably the best healing skill in the game. When I play my Necromancer, typically I never need the regeneration from Mark of Blood unless I am playing at medium/close-range, at which point it’s rather easy to get off of MoB’s triggering.

As an aside, Apothecary’s is a bad armor set for Necromancers, and healing power is an inefficient stat in general. You’re much better served by Berserker, Rabid, or Carrion armor depending on your build.

It is a visual glitch. You really only have 2/6 and are only getting the stats for 2/6, but it is counting the 6/6 in your PvP gear in the visualization.

This “glitch” has resulted in what is probably the best burst of activity that SPvP has ever seen since the game’s release. Seriously, they should consider letting us earn 20 laurels a month if we do both monthlies forever more.

Hi everyone:

I’m a player with 1500+ hours, nearly 6000 achievement points, and a spotless record. Why am I telling you that? Because I like achievement points, but I don’t care at all for the miniatures in this game. They don’t interest me, and I don’t want any of them. I would never get this title and achievement points on my own, though I’d still like the achievement for completion’s sake. Maybe you’d say “If you won’t buy them yourself, then you don’t deserve the achievement” and that’s fine, you can feel that way, but that doesn’t stop me from being a completionist and wanting to get the achievement without wasting any of my money on it.

Basically what I’m asking is this: Would someone mind sending me the miniatures for the title, and then have me send them back once I’ve gotten them? I’m making this a topic in the hopes that it will further solidify that I have no intention of scamming anyone, I just want to get this thing completed and done with. If so, please don’t hesitate to contact me in-game or post here. I’d greatly appreciate the help, and really, maybe all of us involved can make some friends out of this.

Cheers.

You can only earn 10 laurels from either the PvP monthly or the PvE monthly, not 10 from both. You already received the 10 laurels from completing your PvP monthly, so you won’t get any for your PvE monthly. This is working as intended.

If it rolled back to before you earned your rewards, then yes, you can still get them if you do a bounty again.

Your idea is too specific, and not good enough that I’d ever get it. I’d like something like this:

“When a mark is triggered, all allies within the mark gain Protection for 3 seconds.”

I like it because it means I can get my daily without ever leaving WvW.

It was an interesting downtime. The entire downtime I was in a FotM 48 and the entire rest of my guild disconnected (except those in the run with me), yet our run was untouched. Needless to say I got garbage anyway, so it wouldn’t have bothered me even if I had been rolled back.

The prices on the TP are exactly what they should be based on three things:

• The amount of items put on it
• The amount of gold/hour we consistently earn
• The number of players wanting a certain item

If you factor in how unhealthy CoF 1 is for the economy based on the gold it inputs, and the fact that ANet has completely ignored it for months, it isn’t a surprise that high-demand, low-supply items like precursors are 600g+.

mosspit.8936:

When you are in distortion, attacks that normally hit will register as invulnerable. Unless it is a labeling error. Jade Maw’s agony goes through distortion though.

It’s interesting. Some Agony can be blocked by invulnerability, as last night I was testing Invulnerability on my Guardian against the Grawl boss, but yet the same exact skill wouldn’t stop Agony against the Cliffside boss. I’m not sure what all the intricacies are yet or if there are certain situations that make it work/not work, but I guess the only safe thing I can say is that evading the attack definitely avoids it. In general that’s my plan of attack. :P

Now that culling is fixed, Habib is no longer a part of WvW!

We will miss you! Hopefully Devon will be as communicative as you were!

kerona.3465:

Also, out of 30 JPs my friends and I did today, they both got 6 Coins while I got 2. I don’t know if this is some serious RNG fail or game just hates me.

Statistics so far show that there is a 1 in 5 chance to obtain a coin from a qualifying chest.

DrixTrix.7168:

hmm…i’ll be selling mine then this is something i’ve been stock piling these just in case i ever wanted them ill check how many i have but if you want to come to some sort of agreement i could sell you mine.

The trading post is that-a-way. →

That is a discussion more closely related to the D/D elementalist itself, and not quite about boon hate. Boon hate is only one piece of the equation that will address handling boon bunkers like the Guardian and Elementalist; I have no doubt that there will be other changes regarding those in the coming months.

Just succeeded another guild bounty last night! We’re still recruiting, so let me know if you have any interest!

I don’t presume to know what ANet’s philosophy is, but I do think they would want traits focusing on Boon Hate to be significant enough to warrant use. I doubt they’d go to all the effort of setting it up only to have it be worthless.

Yes. See the second top-most tab in the Black Lion Trading Company browser.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I think this “bug” should be a regular thing for all months. Basically, have each of PvP and PvE monthlies reward 10 laurels every month, for a total of 20 if you do both. As a WvW/PvE player, I normally ignore SPvP and TPvP, but with this laurel reward I was actually incentivized to do it, and went in, won some tourneys, and had a good time. If it stayed this way, I think it’d be a good thing for the SPvP and TPvP communities.

Boon hate isn’t necessarily limited to stripping boons; it also includes things like dealing additional damage for each boon the target has, or other things of that nature.

Viking Jorun.5413:

As a Charr I have to oppose this new mega jp. :’(

You can do it! One of my mains is a max-size Charr and I rock jump puzzles!

I’ll preface this by saying the following:

• The most memorable, challenging, and fun content I have ever played in GW2 was the Mad King Clocktower jump puzzle.

Needless to say, I like jump puzzles a lot, and consider myself pretty bloody good at them.

I am hoping that this jump puzzle ‘dungeon’, whatever it is, will be the most difficult jump puzzle ever conceived within the GW2 engine. I am also hoping that this dungeon will be worth the time investment, comparable to actual dungeons, and that there will be rewards worth the time investment. The Mad King Clocktower gave you an exotic pair of boots when you finished it the first time on a character, and while that was nice, I think it’d be even better if we could get exotic prestige items (possible ascended), fancy skins, and more. I know so far that we get a title, and while that is nice, I hope achievement hunters aren’t the only people who will do this. I hope that the rewards are so awesome and difficult to achieve that someone will see you running around with them and go “Hot dang, that guy must be a real pro at jump puzzles”. That’s the feeling I want coming out of this.

This is an extension of my feeling that nothing in this game rewards skill appropriately. Fractal skins would, except that you can win the lottery and get one on your first L20 run, or you can beat L48 repeatedly over multiple days and never see one. The prestige is almost there, but still misses the point. I am hoping that the Super Adventure Box doesn’t fall prey to this mistake, and that skill at jumping puzzles is truly rewarded.

This is a really exciting time for me, hearing about this content, and I only hope that it lives up to my hopes, and the hopes of those others who look forward to this content in the coming month(s).

This is the chain near Twilight Arbor in Caledon Forest, Jeffrey.

I think the solution is very simple for helping Warriors, because their “immense strength” in PvE boils down to exactly 1 skill, Hundred Blades. The problem isn’t with enemy AI, either; the problem is in the skill.

Solutions that aren’t knee-jerk:

• Reduce Hundred Blades’ damage output by 25%
• Reduce Hundred Blades’ cooldown by 1 second
• Decrease the time Hundred Blades takes to complete by 50%

What does this do? This results in a faster burst, but of less damage. In PvE this means that your net dps when smashing your sword against the foe is reduced because the damage is reduced more than the cooldown is. In PvP this means that you can actually connect with more of your burst because it executes faster, increasing the actual damage you inflict to an immobilized or stunned opponent. For bonus points, it would also look cooler because you’d be swinging your sword faster.

Of course other things such as main hand Mace, Swords, and so on need buffs as well to bring them in-line with other weapons. The only reason that Warriors are so strong in PvE, though, is Hundred Blades, and addressing that will significantly fix up those issues on that end while simultaneously helping PvPers. It’s win-win.

I think this “bug” should be a regular thing for all months. Basically, have each of PvP and PvE monthlies reward 10 laurels every month, for a total of 20 if you do both. As a WvW/PvE player, I normally ignore SPvP and TPvP, but with this laurel reward I was actually incentivized to do it, and went in, won some tourneys, and had a good time. If it stayed this way, I think it’d be a good thing for the SPvP and TPvP communities.

I enjoy Fractals and the difficulty associated with 48, and that’s the only reason I run them. If by some miracle I get a weapon I can use (Can’t use my 3 Fractal hammers, woo!), then that’s icing on the cake, but otherwise the rewards are abysmal and it is an absurdly inefficient use of one’s time.

I can’t bring myself to do lower level fractals on any other character because it is simultaneously unrewarding and unchallenging. I will likely never progress another character because of this.

People do CoF 1 the most because it is the most efficient use of one’s time. Every other dungeon is a waste of time unless you’re specifically seeking the skins associated with that dungeon. I’d branch out and do other dungeons if they made it worth it to do so.

Endure Pain is not invulnerability, it is direct damage immunity. There’s a difference.

Agony is special in lots of ways. The only thing that can prevent the application of Agony is blocking / evading the application. Being invulnerable will not prevent the application of Agony. This means that moves like Distortion work because they result in evasion, and similarly for Blurred Frenzy. This also means that boons like Aegis or skills like Shield Stance can block the application of Agony, but moves like Renewed Focus or Mist Form will not. You can test this by standing in the Cliffside boss’s wells with an invulnerability skill active; you will find yourself getting applications of Agony.

You’ll get a new race with an expansion, which they’ve confirmed that they aren’t working on right now.

HiddenNick.7206:

Fotm level 1-10 -> Gear Griiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnd -> Fotm level 10-20 -> Gear Griiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnd -> Fotm level 20-30 (half bad)

Mine was more like FotM 1-28 (First ring at 28, got back piece with relics at 20) → FotM 28-50. I enjoyed it more my way.

The tactic is popular at L48, and very effective when done right.

The best suggestion I can give OP, and the one that has worked the best for me, is to use Knight’s armor for maximum Toughness and wield a Shield. The super high Toughness / Armor draws his aggro.

If Rob doesn’t respond to this thread, then he’s reading it but has nothing to say. I don’t think harassing him will help anyone in any way. That said, it seems like a fair extension of Rob’s distaste for Portal Guns and Spy Kits to extrapolate that to any of the other consumables that were removed. They must have been removed for the same reason, be that “too strong” or “removed class uniqueness” or whatever.

Anyway, I agree with what someone else said above. I think they afforded too much class versatility to classes who have otherwise very specific class roles, and negated the value of bringing the classes that pack those mechanics in the first place. I think this is a change for the better, despite that I now have stacks of these items I will doubtfully ever use.

I only wish they’d revert the change they made to Ash Legion Spy Kits in favor of just banning them from dungeons now that they have that tech. Seriously, I’d love to actually use them to stealth revive players in open-world PvE again. Make it happen, Rob!

grrarg.3701:

The Butcher is a mechanically uninteresting fight that goes on way too long, just like the other HP-sponge HotW end bosses.

Supposedly the dungeon team will release updates “soon” (probably in a few months) to enhance the dungeon experience for other places besides AC.