Guild Wars 2

for some reason I have no quote buttons shoing up:

Jason King wrote
“We made some changes to the respawn timers on the resource nodes so that they only respawn once per day. This happens based on our server time at 5pm PST, not based on when you last harvested them, which may be why some of you think you are seeing varying respawn rates.”

Then something is wrong, as I have encountered an anomoly to these intended mechanics.

On Aurora Glade, I harvested all 5 Orichalcum nodes between 10am and 11am GMT (around 03:00:00 PDT).
One of the nodes (north of anchorage waypoint) respawned in the last 30 minutes (7pm GMT/ 11:00:00 PDT) but the other 4 have not.

Yukuai.3691:

I don’t understand how the fix will work: we’ll receive some token to buy our rewards?

In GW1, when you completed one of the stories (Prophecies, Factions, Nightfall, EotN) you received a “token” such as a “Deldrimor Talisman”(Prophecies) or “Amulet of the mists”(Factions) that you could use to trade for a unique max stat weapon in the closing sequence of the story (when everyones cheering for you). There’d be a vender for each profession, offering any of the weapon types available to that profession, so you could pick whatever you desired.

I completely agree with the exploit issue of your post.

For me, its not a case of tp prices, or the fact the precursor is RNG, its that the precusor was RNG for most people, while some were getting a far better chance at the precursor, through exploiting, then saving them up in their bank before reporting it.

I can live with the RNG element, it irks that, because of exploitation, the rng was not equal for everyone. If it had been an even playing field for everyone, we’d be seeing less complaints in these forums about it.

Also, the exploiters, knowingly storing up the precursors through exploitation have not been dealt with in the same way as the karma weapon exploiters in the games beginning. This is sending out the wrong message IMO.

I don’t have any problems with my pets, they attack regular, do decent dps for me, crit for 2k and I manage to time the f2 skills right to hit the target. I seriously can’t see why theres so much hate for them. Don’t use bears.

I just want to put this to all those people talking about ranger weapon damage being far below that of other professions:

Your pet makes up more than the difference, other professions do not have a constant additional damage from their f1 skill, the lower damage from weapons is to compensate for this, and rightly so.

On topic:
I have noticed much more of a decrease from Sb than I was expecting considering the difference is in milliseconds

Further to last nights (end of the day) salvaging of 8 rares for 0 ecto, I just logged in for a new days play and salvaged another 8 rares (all level 80) that I’d saved up after yesterdays dissappointment.

I got a much better return of 7 ectos from the 8 rares, 2 produced 0 ecto, but 1 produced 2 ecto.

So start of the day, I get roughly what I would expect, end of the day I dont.
I think DR has reared its ugly head.

I would like to chime in here:

I’ve always used black lion kits on yellows, even when the text said 10% chance at rare mats, because even though the masters said 25%, I always got results with the B.L.kit. Its very rare I get 0 ecto from a salvage of an 80 rare item, normally getting 1, sometimes 2 and very rarely 3 (about as rare as getting 0)

The last 2 days however, the rate of ecto per salvage has been dreadful. no, I have no hard figures, because I figured I was just being unlucky as far as rng goes, but I’ve just salvaged 8 80 rares in a row with a black lion kit, and got nothing but elder wood and sigils, I’ve never before in the game gone 2 salvages without an ecto drop.

Maybe its the black lion kits not working as intended?

I’ve been getting the woooooooom wooooooooom woooooom bug since day 1, especially in wvwvw, sometimes its followed by a crash after 30 mins continued lay after the bug starts.

The issue dissappeared between 25 sept and 2nd oct, but has been happening more frequently since then.

Its a pain for it to happen in wvw, cos i know i’ll eventually have to restart and rejoin the queue

I did reply in the previous thread, but cant find it atm:

I’ve been getting this since day 1, especially in WvWvW and during big battles, like the dragon fights or the temple fights in orr.

But, between last tuesdays patch (25/09/12) and this tuesdays patch (02/10/12) i didn’t get it once.

The last two days though, its come back with a vengeance, more frequently than before.

Using the onboard sound on my motherboard, An asus sabretooth, if that helps

I’d go jewelry, the materials needed, jewels and metal, mainly come from the same mining nodes, and you’d be able to outfit yourself with 5 slots worth of gear (2 rings, 2 earrings and an amulet) throughout your adventure (adventure, not levelling :P ) whereas artificer will only fill a maximum of 4 if you dual wield on both your weapon choices.

Also weapons drop from creatures and chests way more than jewelry items, so I dont think you’d find yourself short of brand new weapons.

dont buy transmutation stones, they come from map completion rewards too. i had 76 of them by the time i got 100% map completion.

start a new toon and 100% map complete your home city, you’ll get 5 for that alone

Before Arah, Ogdens part of the norn level 20-30 storyline.

You can come across the iron horse mines, underwater in frostgorge sound

I cant remember where exactly, or what his name is, but one of the gate guards from ascalon can be found in an alcove along the great wall somewhere

there is a type of bag that can be crafted by leatherworker, called oilskin, and any junk items go there automatically

PortmaN.3179:

This costs about 3g depends on which Server you are.

doesn’t really matter, all the servers access the same trading post, its global.

try searching out someone with a corrupted weapon, it doesn’t exactly “glow” but its got a really cool iceblue colour with frost coming off them

Cloudwalkernz.1328:

Like all MMO crafting is a gold sink. If you want to make gold just sell the materials, you will most likely make more gold on most if not all servers.

There is no difference between servers, the trading post is global accross them all

To be honest, the game needs some sort of inventory pressure, or extra bank slots become worthless and theres no hard choices to make over what to keep or destroy/sell

So, wandering round Divinities reach, we have a few of references to gw1 characters:
(slightly tongue in cheek, no actual character disrespect meant)

Salma District – Queen Salma, who hid while your gw1 character defended her from mursaat and mantle and secured her the throne

Rurikton – Prince who ran about aggroing everything and making you clean up after him, eventually getting himself killed and leaving you a load of refugees to escort to Kryta

Plaza of Kormir – after doing nothing useful throughout the whole of Nightfall, Kormir pops up at the end, steals your kill and claims godhood for it (I swear she must be one of the best CSS players around)

So ……….

Wheres the references to my deeds? My hero that defeated the vizier and stopped the titans emerging? Rescued Elona and exiled Shiro to slavers exile and helped bring peace between the Kurzicks and Luxons? Who defeated Dhuum and brought together the norn, dwarves and asura to slay the great destroyer.

I would like to see, for those that have linked accounts and have finished those GW1 stories some sort of monument to those deeds in Divinities Reach, possibly (if actually technically possible) an actual character statue of the most accomplished characteron that account.

I just feel, that for everything my character did, no one seems to remember or acknowledge those deeds.

Of course as we were all humans in gw1, it would have to be in the human home instance for all gw2 characters.

Thoughts?

Their disappearence coincides with the release of the HoM calculator and the sudden need for stacks of granite

To be honest, I’d say grenth was jormag. (cold)

Judging by Zhaitans inability to hit the broad side of a barn in the final battle of Arah, I’m pretty sold on zhaitan being blind Kormir.

i remember rata sum being an anagram of “mursaat” and riven earth being an anagram of “thrive near”

you’re all wrong, The dragons are the Gods mortal forms, thats why tyria hasn’t heard from them since the dragons reappeared 6 dragons, 6 gods. coincidence?