Guild Wars 2

I found 8 orb liadri really frustrating last year, this year I rolled warrior and got it easily

http://youtu.be/opnHUK1MKWM

rabid warrior 3/6/5/0/0 rifle.

That sounds a lot like event feedback, not bug reporting.

“mobs drop (almost) no loot” = not a bug.

“I feel the event poorly rewards effort/time” = feedback.

got a decent team of 70 ppl together last night, we got gold on the blitz event 12 times in 2 hours, I ended up with over 100 champ bags for this.

Working as intended.

1. Cantha

2. Elona

Trinity notsoholy

I used the gold to forge gamble for more

From the patchnotes of the feature pack

-Some Mystic Forge recipes have been updated to provide a wider range of results.
-Fixed a bug that caused magic find to be applied erroneously to some reward rolls

I think Magic find was mistakenly affecting reward rolls for forge, cos I have had a lot less precursors for my gold from the forge post patch than I had before patch, at a far lesser rate too.

I know I know rng rng your sample size is too low, but I’ve had 54 precursors total from the forge since October 2012, 26 of which have been in 2014, 2 of which have been post feature patch (dusk and lover) and they cost me a total of 1200g in rares to get, I’ve spent 900g since and got nothing, which for me, is a vast reduction in gold to pre forging.

I dunno, wild speculation and all, but it could explain the rising prices as theres less precursors entering the gameworld post patch (cue John Smith with some nifty facts →)

The Pointless.3869:

Hamfast.8719:

If you don’t have any GW1 Hall of Monuments rewards, a Portal Stone can STILL be very handy to have. You use the Stone to teleport to the Hall of Monuments. When you leave the Hall, you are returned to the spot where you left.

So if the phone rings, or the pizza delivery guy rings the doorbell, or if nature calls and you can’t hold it in any longer, the Hall of Monuments can be your “AFK Safe House”. A way to “pause the game” without logging out. Of course there is always the possibility that your return location will be under attack when you leave the Hall, but that’s better than being attacked while you’re AFK.

Flip me, that’s actually pretty genius. o_O

Just like entering and leaving the heart of the mists, but with the added bonus of using up an inventory slot.

I don’t expect all the answers to all the questions, but there’s been a load of bugs introduced with the feature patch (daily achievement chests not being rewarded, triple trouble achieves broken, the wurms golden chest not being rewarded, guild missions not rewarding the commendation), some very concerning ones from before the feature patch(metabolic primer broken for rangers springs to mind, as I’m a victim of this) and I think all people actually want is a “we know, we’re working on it”

The absence of communication, however brief, on these issues breeds uncertainty and thus confidence in Anet and the games direction as a whole is being degraded.

Not awarded the chest again tonight, 7th wurms golden chest I’m missing since the 15th april feature patch

Brother Grimm.5176:

As I recall, start a new Ele and NEVER change the Attunement….it will pop up in less than 10 minutes.

This

Hints pop up when you aren’t doing something you are able to, to show you “hey did you know you can do this?”

If you are already switching between atunements, the hint won’t won’t appear as the game thinks you already know how to switch.

I posted this same bug here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/My-Metabolic-Primer-is-Broken/first#post3777946

Although I didn’t realise that it was because I was on my ranger ><

BTW still broken

So after the “fix”, today, the 24th april at 19:00 gmt+1 wurm spawn, 40% of people on crimson wurm did not recieve The Wurm’s Golden Chest, although we got full gold completion and the giant in game chest at the waypoint.

Four people also did not recieve the chest on Cobalt, one of whom has not had the chest now 3 days in a row (event completed each day), although everyone on Amber appears to have.

fix it fix it fix it

For a showcase world event, not getting the appropriate rewards is extremely frustrating, I personally am now missing 5 chests since the 15th april, having done the wurm every day except sat and sun easter weekend.

Sorry, Herr der Friedhoefe, on topic:

Yip, the servers that do not have the coverage will not get the rewards they deserve for fighting an uphill battle for 2 months. They will work harder get beat up worse and have their Morale challenged on several occasions only to be slapped in the face at the end of it all.

pretty much sums up my expectations.

4.4k hours still no precursor drop in open play.

(52 from forge though)

Max Lexandre.6279:

Why so much silence?

I don’t know what you mean, theres Two dev posts today about converting gems to gold to buy enamaled dyes off the tp……..

geist.3980:

badges fall like rain in the spring, the only people who will actually have to work to collect them are the pve only players who don’t stockpile thousands of the useless things.

I find most PVE players are joining “Edge of the Avoiding the Enemy While Capping Npc Guarded Special Objective Mists” or EAEWCNGSOM for short.

Its a better champ/karma train than anything in pve and gives badges of honor for avoiding the enemy.

arKRazor.8654:

This was to resolve the bug that granted some players thousands of extra chests after the feature patch.

Yet has left them with 250 out of their thousands?

Is this for real?

I can understand if its people that have logged on for the first time since rank up chests appeared and have all the bonus chests from that + the bonus chests for placement of their server each week since, thats fair enough, we all got those chests too.

But if people suddenly from nowhere got 4k+ chests for nothing, as is implied in this thread, and are now allowed to keep 250 of them?

What the actual hell?

Can we have some clarification plese?

Well, just logged in to gendaren fields to find its now a megaserver, and I do not recognise any players or any guild tags.

R.I.P. Aurora Glade community, thank you for the last 606 days.

11 Characters
9 level 80’s (other two are level 2 mules)
6 100% map completes (50% on 7th, wvw 100% on 2 more)

Prometheus.6781:

Same here. It seems to have taken my highest and used that for all characters.
Also – My PVP did exactly the same thing. Used the highest – not cumulative – total :/

You realise PVP ranks always been accountbound, right?

Knox.3748:

So why do i with rank 290+ have 0 chests and some people with 300+ have 250? Because they created new chars and i didnt? thats the only explanation i have

I also don’t understand this, I just had 3 from the previous matchup and 0 after patch yet others have 250? o.O

4x lv80’s used to guarentee a lv 80 back, now you can get lv75-76 back.

\o/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Mystic-Forge-now-even-worse/first#post3938452

My necro got a Knights ascended weapon chest at rank 62, my Ranger got a Cav weapon chest at 268 and I’ve had one ring (Meghallans whorl, one I already had 4 of).

Total accountbound rank now 667

My rangers final look (until the next decent addition to armor skins)

sirflamesword.3896:

This is completely wrong…it’s not like the megaserver puts you in the same zone as with the other members by first priority or anything… And please leave if something so good for the rest of the game can make you ragequit.

15 of us tried to do a guild bounty today in lornas pass (bookworm) in 3 partys of 5, all same guild, all same home server……..

1 party of 5 got put on a different megaserver to the other two.

This megaserver thing is a nightmare for small guilds as well as large guilds trying to do gms as well as bountys

Just attempted Guild bounty tier 1, 3 parties of 5 players, all the same guild, all of the same home server.
One party was in Lornas looking for Bookworm Bwikki while the other two dealt with the other bounty, once the other bounty was finished the two parties waypointed to join the third in Lornas, at Mistriven waypoint where Bwikki had been found.

One party joined the first, the other party ended up on a different megaserver to the other two parties.

We got around this by leaving parties and taxi’ing each other, but seriously we should never have been split in the first place, especially for an active bounty mission.

This is going to be a nightmare tomorrow when we do a tier 3 with 400 people

I’ve got the daily each day though, so my daily is resetting. So this is seperate issue. or maybe the same issue, but crossed with that issue

As well as bumping this, I just want to say I’ve just done Tequatle, was there from start to finish, took part in each defence phase and only recieved the exotic dragon chest, I didn’t recieve the blue, green or yellow ones.

Please fix the loot, play may be its own reward, but im feeling a bit unrewarded atm.

When you change server, you cant play for the remainder of that matchup and the entire next matchup.

So if you changed last week (asuming before fridays reset) you should be able to enter wvw after todays reset, in about 2 hours time

ahhhh tyvm

Line 3—Trait XII: This trait is now also awarded from successfully completing the defend event at the Temple of Melandru as well as the capture event.

Am I missing something?

All my characters need Karka Queen to unlock the line 3 trait

on the flipside, i requested a refund on 4 sets of magitech and 1 phalanx (dupe sets i bought prior to the patch) and got this reply 20 hours ago:

“As a general rule, we are not able to offer a gem refund. However, in this case, we were able to refund your gems and they have been added to your account. Please check your gem balance for confirmation.

We cannot guarantee that a similar refund will be possible in the future, so please exercise care when conducting all your gem transactions."

my gem balance is still 0

yet if you actually read the replys here, there are two dev quotes people have found stating mystic forge would give better results.

Im not sure if you are trolling or just can’t read.

Yeah I reported it as a bug, not intending to touch forge for a bit now

khani.4786:

Yep, threw the rares back in and got more rares….same ol’ toilet.

Same old toilet would have given back an equal or higher item back, not lower by 4 levels

anything bought for karma, or for wvw badges cant be salvaged or forged

Can confirm,

Second day in a row now we (TXS) have completed the Triple Trouble Evolved Jungle Wurm event in Bloodtide Coast, and both times (post patch) has resulted in 1/4 – 1/3 of our participants across all three wurm heads, not recieving the daily “The Wurm’s Golden Chest” achievement even though we get the large in game chest and full event participation rewards (karma and xp)

So, a dev said somewhere (i cant find it) or on a ready up, that the mystic forge woulkd be changed, improved to give better results for what you threw in.

I waited for the patch notes, and sure enough:

“Some Mystic Forge recipes have been updated to provide a wider range of results”

4x level 80 exotic hammers = 1 level 76 exotic hammer.

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Rezz.8019:

I really like the schedule for tequatl/karka/wurm. it fits all time zones. People have to understand that it’s not only americans who play on NA servers, and it’s not only euros who play on EU servers. People choose their home server for many different reasons and not just the location. This way no matter where you are in the world at least 1 spawn time should be at prime time.

For the UK at least Karka now spawns at:

02:00 When most ppl are asleep
11:30 When most people are at work or school
17:00 When most people are either at work still or just starting their journy home

So not actually prime time, no.
In fact im now able to do Karka twice a week,, on my days off from work.

Its becoming less a “living world” and more a “rigidly scheduled world”

izzuedotcom.2498:

Ron Cordova.9824:

For BM, why do you recommend apothecary instead of cleric? Is it just personal preference or is there something about BM that synergizes better with condi?

Cleric works too, but I think the toughness line already gives condi damage so it just synergizes more. Having power works as well but it wouldn’t be a main or a side stat like condi would

Further to this answer, building for conditions requires 1 stat on gear, condition damage.

Power based builds benefit from precision and crit damage (or ferocity XD) to up the damage quite significantly.

Its more efficient to build for 3 stats, as thats what you get on armor (except celestial) apoth lets you do this with the damage stat, con, and two defensive stats, healing and toughness.
Cleric gives you the two defensive stats, but only one of 3 offensive stats needed to maximise damage output, missing out on critchance and critdamage.

over 4k hours here, in a variety of game modes, no precursor drop for me as loot (3500 hours with over 180% magic find), you, OP are lucky imo.

I’ve had 44 from forge, but I gambled hard for those, some cost 140g to forge, some, like my caracias (was 70g at the time) took 400g to forge, others still (spark) took over 1000g to forge.

RNG is RNG is RNG

Nope, just had it happen with another one, whatever new food you eat should have whatever duration is left, as stated here by developer Curtis Johnson: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/arenanet-tracker/topic/290462-metabolic-primer-what-is-the-effect/

“you can eat food during the 12 hours.. it will change which food buff you have but the duration should still last the rest of the 12 hours (rounded up, so never less than an hour)”

“Metabolic Primer(12 h): Any food eaten while the primer is active will have the same remaining time as the primer, rounded up to the next hour. The metabolic primer does not stack.”

Any food I eat does not get the remaining metabolic primer time.

I’ve used them before and been able to change foods midway through.

I noticed this last night during play (before last nights patch) where I had metabolic primer active, but no nourishment with it.

I used a plate of steak (100 power, 70 vit) and got 1 hours duration off it even though I had 8 hours on the primer.

I logged in today, used an omnom bar and still, I got 30 mins nourishment even though the primer has over 6 hours left on it.

Here I am soloing the third of the three knights, I killed all three within four minutes (Honest), still didn’t get the 6 minutes to knightfall achievement.

Loyo.8526:

I know this isn’t the correct format, but I can’t agree with the change on Sword skill #2 being inverted. The whole purpose of it is to break off the chain and disengage from combat via a dodge or sorts. If you make it so that you have to jump forward first, it will most likely get alot of people killed in WvW moreso than going backwards.

This is my only complaint for this CDI.

I have to agree here, sword is an amazing weapon allowing you to stick to the target, evade, reposition, break off and get back in, kinda like boxing. I would’t like to see it change at all mechanics wise.

Having said that, there is a change to sword #2 that could improve it whilst still fitting in with the weapons theme. Sword #2 is about disengauging for a half time rest, oranges and a cup of tea ( or a “Time-out” I believe the Americans call it):

Sword #2 Hornet Sting. Stab your foe, then evade backward.
Increase time Monarch’s Leap is on skillbar by a few seconds (to 5), while Monarch’s Leap is on the skillbar, the ranger heals for a small amount per pulse and/or removes a condition.
Add a 3s fury to Monarch’s leap

- You break off, and rejoin the fight having refocused.

Counter play:
The heal pulse could have to be traited
Allowing the full 5 seconds to elapse without Monarch’s leap being activated causes the ranger to gain the 3s cripple

QoL

I am against any perma stowing of the pet, while the aspect idea is kinda cool, the guild wars ranger is a minion class, the pet is the key mechanic of that class, the pet should be fixed, not discarded.
I don’t want to be one of those guys that tell you to reroll, but c’mon, its been 20 months, why are you still a ranger if you hate the pet that much.

I’d like a scenario involving the Sunspears.

We had Battle fo LA and Winds of change as part of Guild Wars beyond, but we never got anything for Elona, why not correct this with a “fall of sunspears” story or “Escape of the whispers” vs the forces of Palawa Joko?

You could even have the end reward as a pile of Djinn spawning gold like the DO NOT TOUCH’s.

And maybe, just maybe, give everyone on-land spear skills unique for each profession.

Massive lag, started at 19;00 GMT

ISP: Sky (through a BT line most likely)
Server: Aurora Glade
Map: all so far

I had this lag for a 3 month period early last year, was very frustrating, always between 6pm till 12am. Not seen it for awhile though. Been fine all day, even in the hours of 17:00-19:00, its like someone flipped a switch dead on 19:00

Wow 10 pages is a lot to read through at this point so apologies if this has already been put forward:

Issue: Rng of Ring assignment as a reward

Many people who fractal regularly have so many rings of stat types they don’t want or need and which they’ll never use and are only taking up bank or bag space for no reason whatsoever as nothing can be done with them except destroy.

Solution:

Add Mystic forge recipes to get a ring of your choice, perhaps combining 3x random rings and a tier6 mat or trophy.

Examples:

• 3x Random ring + 5 elaborate Totems = Druids Circle (cleric)
• 3x Random ring + 5 Karka shells = Lucce Seal (apoth)
• 3x Random ring + 5 Passi flowers = Purge signet (apoth)
• 3x Random ring + 5 Orichalcum Ingots = Ruriks Royal Signet Ring (cav)

Problems:

Removes a laurel/pristine fractal sink

Top: spvp

Middle: Pve

Bottom: WvW battle armor