Guild Wars 2

Sorry, not right now. It is currently unknown if season 1 will ever come back like that, it was designed differently and according to Anet it would be lots of work to change it. If I remember correctly that came up in the first POI episode.

XxAudioxX.2519:

Rouven.7409:

They are now available for 3 Sandy Bags of Equipment – at least that’s what I read here on the forum, check Gentt if you are in-game.

Its actually 3 sandy bags of equipment you can buy with 1 fossil

Oh dang! Sorry

XxAudioxX.2519:

I love the ambrite weapons more than probably all the other weapons in-game combined and I just spent 2 weeks going back and doing all the Gates of Maguuma/Entanglement missions on all of my level 80s just for more lockpicks to open chests… and Out of 75 chests total since Dry Top came out… Only 1 fossil. All in T4 sandstorms. I don’t want them handed to me on a silver platter… but the drop rate for them from the chests is lame. I’d love it if they were at least tradeable with geodes or something, like the recipes. That’s at least a goal I can get into. I’m not very lucky at all so needing dumb luck to get fossils from chests is disheartening for me. Im getting burnt out on it

They are now available for 3 Sandy Bags of Equipment – at least that’s what I read here on the forum, check Gentt if you are in-game.

Behellagh.1468:

Rouven.7409:

Depending on what type of content you play you will be lvl 80 in under 14 hours played time.

What content are you running? I’ve seen an hour a level as a rule of thumb. Sure starting from level 1 the first dozen or so levels are much faster than that but 80 levels in 14 hours?

The OP said the character is lvl 66 … ?

Morsus.5106:

Farming Flats.5370:

Fossils for sandy bags ..

I’m speechless now …..

And only 3 of them.

Thanks for the info.

skullmount.1758:

Rouven.7409:

Wish granted – apparently you can trade them now. Does anyone know how many of those Sandy Bags of Equipment are needed?

Wrong way. People wanted to be able to trade them to other players (some anyways), not to the vendor for a masterwork champ bag.
And others wanted to be able to buy them from other people.

I’ve seen most people – the ones that did not get one yet – asking mainly for a more reliable way of obtaining them, usually in terms of an increased chance the more chests you open.

I still don’t know how much they cost, but this seems to make the geodes more interesting, not hiding behind keys and chests.

Edit: My bad, got that wrong anyways.

Wish granted – apparently you can trade them now. Does anyone know how many of those Sandy Bags of Equipment are needed?

Edit: Disregard – understood it wrong.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Rouven.7409:

If you like to gamble that is. I would most likely pay 3500G in gems first *lol

Except I don’t want the kit itself…..so I’m spending 20 minutes to buy a lottery ticket (that actually pays off something even if I don’t hit the “big money!”).

I think I’ll wonder over to GW2Spidy and see how the buy orders on this item have been effected by this news…..

I get that, this was in response to the OP of cashing in of the existing 3500g buy orders. Wish you good luck

If you like to gamble that is. I would most likely pay 3500G in gems first *lol

I’d rather have a way to look at my characters (traits, equipment etc) and perhaps the achievements.

To me, everything that affects in-game should stay in-game. The election Kiel/Evon was nicely done for example.

OP should be able to discover this?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Minor_Rune_of_the_Ranger

I have not heard about a character level requirement, but I might have always been a higher level anyways …

draxynnic.3719:

(…)
I can understand why farming of mobs in a story instance would be something you’d want to discourage, but would it be possible to make it so that mobs in such instances do still trigger on-kill type traits and similar effects?

Just to emphasize the core of this thread.

Hattoni.8597:

Cyrill Faust.9340:

I would just save your skill points, You need 20 per ascended piece and 200+ for a Legendary.

I’m just curious – how many skill point can be obtained? 200+ is a large amount..

You keep on leveling up and you continue to get them, there is no limit. You will also get scrolls to drop from champion chests.

Skill points are used for crafting and the mystic forge, either for skins (weapons mainly) or to promote materials. Take a gander here and check what the items are used for.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skill_Points

Edit: The weapons are not just skins, but they are basically so expensive that people typically craft them for the skins. You will need a few SP if you decide to try ascended crafting btw.

To be honest, I don’t consider those kites mounts. First – a mount for me would increase the speed of what is possible on foot – currently I doubt that will be the case, of course I could be wrong about that. Second – a mount for me would be something my character is “on top of” and I would not have to open my inventory to click on it but rather be able to use a key-bind.

We’ll see if it’s faster than 33%, my only other though, it might be great to free up some speed-traits etc.

It will be the same for me as before, I will do the story, if I get keys for that I will venture over there and open some boxes. Otherwise I’m not hunting this currency to buy keys to open chests. I’m weird that way. Hopefully the kites will look nice

I like it!

15 little asura…

Depending on what type of content you play you will be lvl 80 in under 14 hours played time. I would not spend any gold on equipment, it would only be a marginal speed increase, negligible in my eye – unless you find yourself dying lots of course.

I’ve never done this (with < 80), but you could try and check out some world bosses. If you don’t know where and when they appear there are websites like dulfy or the dragon timer on guildwarstemple. You should get some rare drops, if you are lucky they are your armour weight. You might have to discover the waypoints beforehand and some lvl 80 areas will be tough alone, but there are a good chunk in your lvl range.

In terms of permanent account bonuses for achievements (% increase of MF, Coin, Karma), what, if at all, would you consider a real world equivalent to this mechanic and how do you look at it. Surely, while the dynamic is slower compared to the rest, this is an increasing number that will flat out at some point.

I believe those are all discovered in the forge based on the crafting materials needed. Check “satchel …” On wiki. Sry, bad linking with phone. Good luck

Maybe I’m odd, but my characters are among the most memorable thing for me in games. Anyways, didn’t see the other comment before, browsing on phone here. Not going to argue if people would in general like dwarves, but it does come up and I would love it, especially if they stay “different” (stone). However I agree that it will make more sense for one of the other races as mentioned earlier to come first.

Anmida.4058:

Azhure.1857:

To those saying “No” because dwarves are “overdone”.

Dragons are overdone.
Undead armies are overdone.
Humans are overdone.

Aaaand they are part of the most dull bits of Guild Wars 2’s setting, if you ask the average player.

I disagree. Dragons have been asked for many times in particular with the LS. According to older numbers humans are the most played race. So I would argue that the “average” player very much likes these dull and boring traditional fantasy elements.

Anmida.4058:

(…) I believe the Guild Wars 2 community would implode on itself and become a blackhole of rage if they implemented any sort of resources on Dwarves, when the community has been fawning over Tengu/Largos/already present minor races(Skritt and Quaggans namely) since pretty much the launch of the game.

That’s perfect! We have 5 races currently, now we’re adding 5 more! Double the mega feature content super patch! That shall silence them all. Not just one race, no, all. of. them. Tengu, Largos, Skritt, Quaggans and Dwarves! Personally at that point I would need at least 10 more character slots and I’d have a hard time deciding between what to start with, like a kid in a candy shop.

The only thing I am curious about … since Anet doesn’t want to do the PS cinematics anymore … would they still do it for something like this? Overhaul the system for all races?

There is really no negative side to being in a guild … you can join more than one as well. If the other people apply “pressure” and that’s not your thing I would just say so, I’d have no hard feelings. You have to be comfortable.

Good overview here. Many sets look similar or course, but some still better on a few races then others.

http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/

Edit: Do check the picture thread in the sylvari forum! Or the mix-n-match in this forum.

I am one of those weird people that can appreciate both aspects. The chaos, not knowing what’s around the next corner vs the planned execution. There is something soothing in the whole group moving as one, mowing the mobs and bosses down, but the sense of wonder is missing, replaced by might stacking and other mechanics. However in this context that is always the case in maturing games, it can only be brought back shortly with new content, new dungeons if you so will.

I still remember the days when an item drop was always exciting (in general, not GW2 related). I had no clue about those numbers, but they were higher – that had to be good!

It is self induced pressure, for both parties. Finding the right people to play with is key and not always easy and both sides might often end up thinking that there is more of those “other” people around.

GuzziHero.2467:

I tried but it will only accept one picture attachment

Attach, preview it, attach another, not intuitive but it works.

nexxe.7081:

(…) They shouldn’t have megaserver’d the cities though. They should’ve kept them like WvW.

Being from a higher population server I would have liked that too. Not sure what lower pop servers might have thought about that.

RP’ers and Guilds were affected the most by this too. It wouldn’t have so bad, if they gave guilds better organization tools and a better guild UI to address some of the issues that megaservers caused.

No doubt about the RP part, there is a pretty large thread for that part.

What tools or UI are you thinking of?

Going and playing on another map removes it, some people claim time plays a major factor from what I read.

Other than that – if it was known how the system works it would not be very helpful to combat bots.

Coopziana.1802:

(…)
So I’ll come back to my original point. The Megaserver has created more problems than it has fixed (From a guilds perspective).

Sorry if I misunderstood you. I however disagree. There are no additional problems created.

You had to guest previously – now you don’t in general – only for guild mission rewards.

Overflow existed as well, but admitted I don’t think it happened as often.

Ok, you knew that people you saw in general, other than being in overflow, where from your server. I don’t see talking to people that I am looking to invite into my guild as a chore though.

I belong to a guild with members from pretty much everywhere, as a matter of fact I believe I am the only current member in this guild that is on JQ.

I have not heard of most of the problems you have described in the OP. Perhaps these individuals could open tickets to see if here is another reason and maybe it’s possible to solve them.

Guild Missions – yes, in order to receive guild mission rewards people to have to “guest” to the main guild server. This is as far as I know the only existing reason to use the guest function currently.

“Taxi” – we do limit our parties to 4 people. That way the main officers can switch parties as needed and taxi anyone over to one map (usually only needed when doing guild events).

I don’t WvW but obviously that is something that does not work otherwise, I’d assume most WvW guilds recruit people right there or advertise as such in main cities.

Because I am the only one from that guild on my server I noticed the megaserver change quite drastically, I run into people from the guild on a pretty much daily basis now by accident.

Can I ask what your objection is to communicate with a potential candidate for the guild and find out that way what server they are from?

Edit: I’m leaving out issues with events like teq etc on purpose because I feel that’s not the purpose of this thread.

Coopziana.1802:

THAT is exactly my point. We don’t want to be a MEGA-GUILD. we want to stay a server based guild, but since the mega server put people from every server in the same instance/map/open world (whatever you wanna call it), and there is no definitive way to see whop is from the same server as you, it makes it very difficult to manage who is being invited to the guild from which server.

HENCE MY POINT: Same Server Colour Assignment – Problem solved!

Potential option for you, even if a bit cumbersome:

Add person to your friendlist, go to the leaderboard, check achievements filtered by friends. It tells you there what “world” someone originates from.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Wanze.8410:

• Which item has the highest vendor value? This question can be answered rightly by any player who wants to do some research on it (I dont), so I gonna make a little contest: Whoever posts the item (or any item, if there are multiple ones) that has the highest vendor value first, will get 10 gold from me, plus 4 items that i currently invested in because i think they will gain in value.

T3 cultural chest armor pieces can be sold for 3g75s.
However they cost 30g to begin with.
Note: If you’ve transmuted your T3 armor this wont work. Also just looking up the armor at the vendors wont work.

Too funny, I was just checking the wiki for this, didn’t say there though.

Wanze.8410:

• Which item has the highest vendor value? This question can be answered rightly by any player who wants to do some research on it (I dont), so I gonna make a little contest: Whoever posts the item (or any item, if there are multiple ones) that has the highest vendor value first, will get 10 gold from me, plus 4 items that i currently invested in because i think they will gain in value.

Sooo are you going to do the research to verify the answer? grin

Facepunch.5710:

I agree that this would be pretty cool, OP, and the idea of a few sets of profession-specific armor is really appealing to me in concept.

Mh, appealing, yes. Looking at the few starter skins that can be shared as well and how the wardrobe works, don’t know.

Would it be ok if they make “profession-specific” sets but technically other professions withing the same weight could still equip it? Might even be fun, imagine someone “posing” as a mesmer stuck in a necro illusion (thinking RP ideas).

Imagining Bobby sitting in his office, a flower in his hand, picking off the petals:

“We kill him…”
“We kill him not.”
“We kill him…”

Beldin.5498:

Rouven.7409:

Why necro exclusive? Pure sentimental reasons?

Because its easier for the armor designer to create 80 sets instead of 2 if we make them even race-specific and gender-specific also for charr and asura … so 5 × 8 × 2

Oh, so the idea would be to have this only available to humans?

Just watched episode two, don’t stop

I would like to tell NPC X to harvest that stuff for me and deliver it to my house. Ach what am I saying, mail it to me
I wouldn’t mind paying him the equivalent of gathering tool uses as a tip.

Why necro exclusive? Pure sentimental reasons?

Evans.6347:

It’s not much of a mix and match, but this is my current version of my celestial mesmer:
Zodiac chest, gloves and boots with nightmare court leggings:

Beautiful job with the colours, like it!

Best indicator would be individual titles for 50 runs of either a specific dungeon or perhaps even a specific path.

Or whatever number might be adequate, I don’t think I’ve done 50 in total

Ah, I see, so getting two of the versatiles for 150 relics should be good for the start.
Thanks

I’m no expert but you should have gotten these:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony_Infusion

Or you can buy these
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Versatile_Simple_Infusion

Hope that helps a bit.

Edit: Be aware that you need that special upgrade extractor to get them out and replace with higher ones, so maybe someone can help you with the best course of action so you don’t need a ton of those.

If you guys play together I’m sure you will pretty much roll over everything you encounter (open world PvE). If you guys are good friend for example and you will share loot among you – Mesmer and Necro are already two light armour classes, Ele would be another but Guardian is a heavy armour class.

Just a different angle, have fun.

First, as Vol said, I would get the potentials for a Legendary out of the way, mainly the clovers. After that, if you go with the Orrian boxes, make sure you keep track on how many Obsidian Shards you get and keep enough to buy the rest. Consider more if you would like to do any ascended crafting.

Other than that you could research cooking and perhaps be lucky to find something there.

Or what others mentioned, buy low level cheaper karma gear en masse. While those are not salvageable you can throw 4x into the mystic forge and then get one piece out to salvage. A while ago it appeared that linen was the best option, it might still be good.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/208rng/how_to_convert_karma_to_gold/

Be sure to double check this and know there is a lot of clicking involved.

Other than sharing the same guild bank the only reason would be for WvW as far as I am aware.

Really beautiful.

I forget where I’ve seen it but the answer pretty much was that there will be too many clipping issues. This is I would believe also the reason why they made the “outfits” what they are, biting the bullet because they could not solve this reasonably (within their own quality assurance).

This is not to say that I would not like to have this happen, I would like that very much indeed, but I’d wager that if we are not beyond the point of implementation that it will still take a while before it will happen.

Sort of the same reason why I don’t think Brahams Helm will not remove my beard soon and why I don’t think the Adventurers Scarf will soon look good (on that character) because of the beard.

I don’t think that’s what you wanted to hear and hopefully it turns out I’m wrong!

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Kalavier.1097:

redslion.9675:

Kalavier.1097:

redslion.9675:

Considering an asuran warrior deals the same damage as a norn warrior doing the same thing, I think in GW2 individual strength doesn’t matter at highest levels, because the armor you wear is an exoskeleton that greatly enhances your capabilities.

Game mechanics.

I am from Dark Souls school: Game Mechanics = Game World phenomena

A single norn can take out entire warbands, they cannot in game mechanics.

Wow, forgot about this thread. Anyways, wanted to refute this, just for the “hardy har har” effect. My single Charr toon can take out the equalivant of several warbands of Norn in game mechanics. All I gotta do is Whirling Wrath a few times and their out!

Endure Pain, ding – winning.
lol