Guild Wars 2

haviz.1340:

Winning a lottery isn’t a prestige. Acquiring skins should be done by completing hard content.

Stealth nerfs/bug fixes are hardly support.

What is prestige according to you? And acquiring weapon skins just by doing a hard content? EVERYONE will have that “prestige” skin of yours within few days. Think Teq for instance. Hardest boss fight in the game? EVERYONE can kill him these days. Fractal 48? Our guild does them daily like a regular dungeon run. There is no prestige in this game, even if legendaries could be acquired by doing a hard content, withing a week or two we’d be literally seeing everyone walking around with a legendary.

With that mindset there is nothing prestigious in this game at all. Even legendaries are based on RNG because of the precursors. Only thing you could consider prestigious are maybe dungeon armors or weapons since you have to do the content in order to obtain them. Other than that, everything in this game is based on RNG.

kitten nic Touch.7960:

You got jokes, good. You’ll need them. Credit is deserved? haha. That’s just hilarious.

The joke is on you, since you’re still playing the game, aren’t you? They kept you on this long, therefore the credit is well deserved.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Romo.3709:

I’m just wondering if Halloween is somehow connected with the Krits… I mean Mad King is trying to escape the realm, and at the same time Kraits are making a tower that somehow works as a portal for their prophet… Is Mad King the prophet??? Somehow it doesn’t connect, but the timing is just TOO perfect…

Nothing says the tower is to work as a portal for their prophet… At least as far as I’ve seen. Got a source for that?

Wiki:
“According to the Oratuss, the priesthood of the krait, the obelisks mark the sites of the “ascension” of ancient krait prophets to some higher realm…"
“The krait regularly use magical and mathematical means to attempt to predict the time of the prophets’ return, but have yet to be successful.”

Player Character.9467:

Romo.3709:

For a STARTER dungeon you shouldn’t need “decent” pugs.

You make it sound like decent pugs are some holy grail. Decent pugs are still bad and even a starter dungeon shouldn’t be so easy.

On scale of difficulty this should be on the bottom, since it is a starter dungeon.

Dub.1273:

What about Cookie?

huh?

I did say that AC is easy, it is not extremely easy though. It does require some temwork to complete. But for a level 35 dungeon it is way too buffed up compared to other dungeons we have available. In that retrospect, really all dungeons are easy.

Considering p4 takes roughly about 3-4 hours to complete, I’d say that’s resonable

laharl.8435:

He said extremely easy, which is a correct statement for at least path 1 and 3 for decent pugs.

Decent pugs? You can do all 3 paths of HotW with crappy pugs. You can do CoF with crappy pugs, Even SE p1 and p3 with crappy pugs. Needing decent pugs doesnt make it EXTREMELY easy, it makes it moderate. Decent pugs make Arah easy. For a STARTER dungeon you shouldn’t need “decent” pugs.

Ethics.4519:

AC is still extremely easy. There were a couple of bugs that made it seem harder, but mostly they just changed it up and people were butt/hurt they had to relearn it.

It’s not the easiest dungeon. It is easy, but then again all of them are easy. In comparison to all the higher level dungeons this one is not the easiest one. I can run CoF, SE, even HotW faster and with less problems than AC itself. And AC being a “starter” dungeon would make much more sense being easiest.

LordByron.8369:

yes but will ask an insane amount of farming
Just to respect lucky players who got randomly a precursor.

So lucky players for a needed item are to be considered more important than dedicated players (300 pristines and still i miss one skin i want) that put effort on a skin?

Effort isn’t running level 28 over and over and over again. Effort is getting one or more toons to level 50, not being stuck at one level.

Lurock Turoth.9085:

where did this idea that only level 80s can do dungeon content come from????

Since they revamped p2 making AC harder then most of the dungeons out there for no reason.

This is almost like Gears of War 3

There’s also some mob groups that you CANNOT kill, because they keep respawning. SO there are groups you HAVE TO run though. If you want to explore the dungeons, make your own group, advertise dungeon slow run to explore the paths. Don’t be the guy that slows everyone down because you disapprove of running though mobs.
It’s Proper Etiquette to do it the way the group you JOINED is doing it, not joining a group and telling everyone how YOU want it done.

kitten nic Touch.7960:

That’s giving them way too much credit.

Well, that wouldn’t be the first time the surprised us. And the credit is deserved. I’m actually excited to find out.

After I threw tons of rares and exotics into the forge, I just gave up and held on to the gold for few months, and bought it with my hard earned gold… It was worth it. I should’ve never gambled to begin with…

I’m just wondering if Halloween is somehow connected with the Krits… I mean Mad King is trying to escape the realm, and at the same time Kraits are making a tower that somehow works as a portal for their prophet… Is Mad King the prophet??? Somehow it doesn’t connect, but the timing is just TOO perfect…

I sadly agree with you on the amount of items needed to make anything these days. Especially since you can only hold so much in the inventory because after 250, it won’t deposit anymore. To clear inventory you’ll have to actually go to you bank take out the 250 u deposited, turn them all in for “condensed versions” and repeat. It reminds me of holographic wings from Dragon Bash and the requirement of 100,000 zhaitaffy… Really? I just bought mine off TP. As long as they create ridiculous numbers like these, the rewards are not going to be very compelling. Halloween! we have 3-4 people running around with Halloween themed weapons. Why? Make it festive! Just like last year with toy weapons. It really brought out the spirit of holidays then.

That would be AMAZING!!

Zaxares.5419:

Romo.3709: “I want to tell you how much I want to pay for the thing I want”. Welcome to the real world kid. Things don’t work that way.

Actually… If you, the client, are big enough and powerful enough, you CAN get the seller to bend over backwards to clinch your deal. You’d be surprised how much haggling and negotiation goes into high-level contracts between big companies. Some of the things they stipulate in their contracts are downright amazing/mind-boggling/petty.

That is true, but if there’s only ONE supplier and the demand is high, the price rise regardless of what the client “wants”

Josh Davis.6015:

Just to clarify – I forwarded this issue to the team earlier this morning.

I appreciate you guys actually taking time to look over this little issue. As a Guardian myself, I mostly just spam my buttons to activate boons before they fully recharge because every fraction of a second counts in some tough spots. “Game Messages” option been a good option to me for a while now, especially because of friends logging on and off

I truly appreciate you guys looking into this.

PVE:

1) New armor pieces, perhaps as rewards from living stories instead of usual backpack/mini combo.

2) Skin locker.

3) Balancing Dargonite Ore as ways of obtaining it are extremely limited.

PvP:

1) A reason for hardcore PVE players to even go there.

“I want to tell you how much I want to pay for the thing I want”. Welcome to the real world kid. Things don’t work that way.

Scott McGough.6897:

Xanthia.7209:

I wonder how hobo-tron is doing……

Stay tuned…

EX-CI-TED!!!!!

jsduke.6537:

(Estimated Numbers)
1hr of world bosses = 60-100 dragonite ores

If you extrapolate that out based on crafting needs:
5 Dragonite Ingots = 5-8hrs

Your numbers are utterly and completely flawed. Each MAJOR meta fight is roughly 15 minutes long which gives you between 15-25 Dragonite ores. And that’s only for Jormag (30 minutes), Golem, Tequatl (20-25 minutes), Shatterer and Champion Drakin Cinderspire. Those spawn every 3 hours or so (excluding Teq atm).

SO you’re looking at about 50 maybe 60 dragonite ore for an hour of work tops, IF you’re lucky and happen to have them spawn one after another. At that point smaller bosses like Wurm or Maw give you 3-5 Ores… Which is just pitiful as you look at the time needed to complete these. One viable way to get the most amount is by doing tamples. Those give you 30 ores each time, BUT average time to complete a tample is about 30 minutes… 60 Ores an hour.

Empyreal Stars you get from EVERY chest in the world, every dungeon you do, every fractals you run. If you’re low on it, you can literally park all your alts at the end of a jumping puzzle and open them daily just getting more and more of these.

Dragonite ore is the only one that’s VERY restricted to the way you play. I agree with you that they should be balanced or added more possible ways to obtain these. But Dragonite ore is just ridiculus…

Devs said they’re working on the issue. Some people figured out that you can multiply the blueprints. It’s an exploit and it will be dealt with harshly.

Soulstar.7812:

Gaheron Baelfire
-Wants to become god of the Flame Legion
-Becomes god for 5 minutes
-Dead

HAHAHAHA!!! Love it!

F/U path was challenging but also more fun than the other two. The only problem with the path that people were complaining about was the boss fight itself. Why not change that instead of completely deleting the content? You did that with AC p2 even though NOBODY was complaining about that…

Tom Gore.4035:

I don’t have a problem with dragonite. One night doing boss events / temples nets you 200 ore or more. The Empyreal Fragments are more painful for me, since I’m not a very avid dungeon/fractal runner.

It’s all about game-style that certain person is accustomed to. For example I myself am a heavy fractal / dungeon runner and I don’t like being limited to world timers of bosses. Especially since fractals take anything between an hour and hour and a half to complete (Especially higher level ones).
Dungeons are pretty much the same concept, even though time is much much shorter on average to complete each path compared to fractals.
The point is that I can easily get a stack of Empyreal Fragments or Bloodstone Dust just doing dungeons for few hours, when to get a stack of Dragonite Ore would take me roughly a whole day of time investment.

One the side note for all people that have problems gathering Empyreal Fragments. Leave your alts at the end of Jumping Puzzles next to a chest. Then just open it with each character once a day. ^_~

It would be nice if we had another way of obtaining Dragonite Ores other than WvW and World bosses. I mean Bloodstone Dust is just flowing like water and Empyreal Fragments keep piling up with doing Fractals, Puzzles and Dungeons daily. They even drop from random chests scattered all over Kryta.

Dragonite Ore seems to be the only one that is scarce and the mounts we get from Metas are quite laughable, with 2-3 on average from low level metas to MAX of 30 per heavy metas. Where I can easily obtain a stack of Bloodstone Dust from running a fractal.

What’s your take on it?

Considering that the skins are going to be back with more colors and all, they’re really not very… special anymore. Super GS for example used to be 80g when SAB first came out. Went down to teens and back up to 20s when SAB came back. So practically speaking from experience, the skins will go down in price, because they’ll be back again. So nobody will be willing to pay more for skins that they can just get later when SAB will return. Given the skins will not be the same color anymore, but I don’t think a lot of people care.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Raven Paradox.1860:

ArenaNet learned from that horrid mistake that made a living world event be nothing but a farm for failing.

One can only hope.

Though this update was in the works for 3 months approximately before the Jubilee and Clockwork content went live. So it’s hard to tell.

However, the Claw of Jormag event champions don’t drop loot, so it they adopted that philosophy then there’d be no distraction to the event.

Hence the whole reason why nobody even comes to do Jormag till later, when the second stage starts. I think the time limit will help get people interested in the meta for Teq.
The only problem will be profit-time ratio on Teq. Given, they said that it will get increased loot, but if it’s one more green for the effort put in, people will quickly whiter out of the event itself, and it’ll become something of a dead meta that nobody wants to do because it takes too long.

Legendaries shouldn’t have been tradable in the first place…

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

We’re currently looking at a few things regarding individual fractal difficulty and length. A couple of options are reducing the length of unnecessarily long fractals (dredge) and modifying the possible sequence of randomly selected fractals so you don’t get the longest and most difficult ones all on the same run.

Would you also look into adding a reset button for current level? Me and some friends got Harpies level on our 3rd fractal and the boss bugged out. After trying everything, including dying all at once, we were forced to leave the fractals and start all over again. Please, at least consider.

seanpenn.7364:

Game Update Notes – September 17, 2013

Good laugh. But lets not give them ideas… Soon enough we’ll have a bunch of one hour long metas that nobody will participate in because of effort/payout ratio. Kudos for creativity! And thanks for good laugh

dagrdagaz.4913:

2 players with the same account name, really ?!
I would think that should not be even possible.
Unless they share a same account.

Now, if u meant same character name, thats more believable.

Account names can be very similar to each other. Ex. John.2546 and John.2545

It’s an honest mistake. I’m sure if you open a ticket with support they’ll help you.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Anomaly
1 Eldritch Scroll
100 Mystic Coins
250 Globs of Ectoplasm
1 Bloodstone Shard
Shove everything in Mystic Forge. Ta dah!

My point is what’s faster? Doing a few hearts here and there, or saving up 700g? Exploring the map is just something you do as you play. It doesn’t put you down, nor limits the game for you in any way. When you’re saving every penny it can become quite frustrating especially since a)prices are constantly going up and b) you’re very limited to what you can buy or do. With every patch they come up with new items and fun stuff that you cannot afford since you’re saving up. But since exploration is all you have left, it’s really nothing “hard”.

Vol.5241:

Zoij.3498:

That said, I may not have to. In the next patch it looks like you can craft precursors using T7 mats you get from JP’s and mini-dungeons!

It’s unconfirmed

Yes it is. Read up on it.

RedCobra.7693:

Zoij.3498:

You could pretty much sell dusk and use the profit to make a non-greatsword legendary, but if you want to make Twilight then you’ve got the hardest bit covered.

thats subjective i believe, i cant stand exploration (i love the sights just not the process) as you can see its the last thing i have to do, im on 85% and i find it extremely difficult.

Difficulty here is much lower than affording Dusk. All you have to do is just go out and finish what you started. If that’s the last thing you need, than your problems are little to none compared to all the other people working hard to get their legendary.

Definetly. Considering that average length of the fractal is roughly the same as an average length of a dungeon. Considering rewards we get in fotm, make the gold reward into like 50 silvers or so. Or maybe 2-3g upon completion of all?

Some of my Canadian friends were talking about buying the prepaid credit card and then using that to buy gems in the gem store.

Simple reason: because EVERYONE (including you) wants them. And when you’ll look at buy orders, people are willing to pay a good coin for what they want.

Follow THIS or sell it for roughtly 700g

EnemyCrusher.7324:

If we were going by logic, legendary weapons would have never made it to the trading post in the first place. There’s nothing legendary about buying something.

Couldn’t agree more.

Link.6791:

Speculation incomming.

You just made yourself a few gold by putting it out there and having the price skyrocket overnight.

Didn’t they datamined something about an item in gemstore that will be able to split transmutated items? That also might make them account bound again or maybe even sellable. Just saying.

I wouldn’t be surprised that the crafted precursors become account bound as well.

Joxer.4807:

Considering that legendary weapons will be ascended items only with a fancy skin and that they are available on the trading post than logic would tell that even normal ascended weapons should be there.

Although that same logic also points to the ascended trinkets that are nowhere to be found on TP. It’ll be something you’ll have to work for, although they did said once there will be a very low chance of them dropping as well.

The only mini that has been inspired by any character from the game’s story is Zojja. Why only one? Why stop there? I put a plead in this post about mini mentors. There are characters in this game that made us like it for what it is. Given, we’d be better off without some such as Trahearne and his “great help”. But all other characters I’d love to see as minis. It kinda sucks that we got a bunch of bobcats and drakes, not to mention the nobodies with armors and weapons. It wouldn’t take much to make since we already have the models… C’mon Anet!!! Please?