Guild Wars 2

I got a bit off-topic with my response. Correcting course -
I’m going with a mix of checking Dulfy (mostly to find out how to unlock some of the collections that are refusing to unlock) and my own detective skills (running down various items until they prove too well hidden and I’m close to finishing). In that regard, though, I’m a bit ahead of the curve. I spent since May researching merchants and longer than that checking out known forge combinations. You could say I already put in my time at Dulfy and the wiki :/

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Turnabout IS fair play

Same here, in regards to leaving the achievements to the future. With the pressure off on getting them done, I turned my attention to other things (like getting ambrite recipes and checking personal story rewards)

dancingmonkey.4902:

You can buy that skin from a karma vendor. I do not recall specifically, but I bought it on my engineer in one of the areas populated by many asura NPCs some where in a zone outside of rata sum

I’ve surveyed all the heart merchants in-game and investigated the entire item-skin availability that’s in the API. If this is true, and you’re not talking about one of the bundle weapons (there are few using this skin), I haven’t seen any evidence of it and I want to know where

Are you certain one didn’t get smashed and rebuilt?

Just to rule this out, try checking in your bank/guild bank. Use the search function there and in your inventory to be sure you don’t miss the icon if it is there.

Also, make sure all of your inventory bags are expanded. There’s a little drop-down arrow above the inventory of each one, if you don’t know.

I misplace a lot of crap, so I’ve had to go through the whole panic cycle more than once ;D

Try making the item itself and consuming it… that might be what you need to do.

Tachenon.5270:

Rouven.7409:

Edit: @ Tachenon – sounds interesting, which story would you recommend to someone who hasn’t read anything from him yet?

The one where a poor charr farmer sells his cow to buy his sylvari friend some weed killer to help tame his impressive ‘hair’ only to discover that his sylvari friend cut and bailed his ‘hair’ to feed the cow (which, ironically enough, only wanted to be entertained).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry

The story in particular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi

Bertrand.3057:

RC golems are gone. The metrics said they shouldn’t be there anymore. Of course they came to that conclusion. 4 out of 5 players probably stopped at the golems, spent 5 seconds trying to figure out what was going on, then gave up and moved on.

The RC golems were a great idea, and it was fun to actually get to try them out instead of just being a bystander.

The first time.

The checkerboard layout suggests at least some complexity, but the game consists entirely of ‘walk up to opponent, punch til one of you dies’. The only strategy: get in the first hit. Otherwise you lose, because you’re equally matched.

I may have come back to it 2 or 3 times. After that, I reasoned it was too slow a means of leveling up the attached heart and moved on to better things.

I don’t think it would have hurt them to leave it in untouched, but a tweak in the design would have been better. With a lot of work, it could have been made into a quick PvP format.

There is now, at any rate. Initially with everyone being a crafter, it was rather pointless except as a means of turning your gathered materials into gear for yourself. Basically buying it with sweat equity. Nowadays, inflation (true inflation, mind you) and a general lack of patience all around is making this more viable as a money-maker.

The wardrobe has extended the use of lower-level crafting as filler material, and it’s still a good means of supplying your alts with level-appropriate gear.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Btw whichever developer created the backpiece is hardly koalafied. This demonstration of cruelty is grizzly. Stop pandering around.

This is definitely a Kodiak moment.

You keep using that word…

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Brass cladding, maybe?

I’d love to support you on that, snow, but history on these things shows it’ll only ever get worse

Like they say: rare drop or random forging.

I like my mobility and keep it on on everyone that can manage it. On my necro, I don’t use dagger or the speed signet, but I do use traited warhorn.

Or saving money. One of the benefits of higher level PS chapters was rare skins that you only otherwise could get on exotics (several gold on the TP) or from cultural traders (for thousands of karma). There was even a set of dungeon armor available.

On top of that, they were salvageable, with some lucrative Superior Sigils attached.

Reviewed the thread to refresh my memory. In the context of that conversation, he could claim he meant it wouldn’t be implemented in this update. But I’m quibbling.

I figure any decision to do this will be made at NCSoft’s level and far over his head anyways.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Sariel V.7024:

This is NOT a denial that it will never be instituted here.

But this is.

Ah ha. ty sir. We needed that linked in.

Make sure you elaborate some reasons why you dislike the idea I rather prefer the guild mission setup, where passersby can join in and get some small rewards too.

Im Mudbone.1437:

Vayne.8563:

Im Mudbone.1437:

fourhim.3584:

This accusation gets tossed around a lot – that certain people who post such high praise for Anet’s decisions might be rewarded in some way. I haven’t reached a decision on this yet, so I thought the best approach is just to come right out and ask.

Will someone at ANet please tell the rest of us if you reward certain people for their forum comments? If you could just issue a flat out denial then that might diminish the number of accusations, especially right now.

I don’t believe they do even though there are a few blind White Knights.

And therein lies the problem. Anyone who doesn’t agree with you is blind or a white knight or both.

Anyone who uses those terms, or hater for that matter, is doing themselves a disservice.

Exact same thing can be said for the White Knights.

Except they aren’t calling people blind or biased entirely out of fanboyism.

papryk.6273:

Paid posters on forums are a common thing. Even if this the case here nobody will admit it.

This is true, but this is mostly to drive sales (guerilla marketing). It doesn’t make a lot of sense to do it on the host’s own forum. You’d get better mileage at gamefaqs or the like.

IMO anyone using “white knight” to silence/discredit someone needs his Geek Card revoked. Calling someone a brown-noser means you’re a godkitten bully, and you’ve gone to the dark side.

Having been a DM for decades and in software QA for a but over a year now, I am sympathetic to ANet’s position in nearly all cases. If there is money going around for that, I want in; it’ll help me afford the blood pressure meds I usually need after reading any three forum threads.

Guh. Good point. And I haven’t bothered with trying to make any of these things yet, so I wasn’t aware either XD

dace.8019:

I remember the first time I saw Diving Goggles, conveniently placed on the precipice of a ledge above some water.

After the initial shock wore off, I stood staring down at them, my mind racing to comprehend their meaning, Literally a couple of possibilities swirled around my tiny brain but it was too much. Exhausted, I logged off.

I went for a walk just to clear my mind. The image of those goggles haunted me as I walked along the path, teasing me with their impenetrable puzzle. I saw the moon and the stars, and it dawned on me. Just like the endless mysteries of the universe, I was not meant to understand. In another life, in another time – maybe.

I had looked upon those goggles on that ledge like a mouse looks upon Michaelangelo’s David. They were simply too huge to comprehend, to hold their full meaning in my head would be like holding the sea in a teacup.

Sometimes I still dream about them, and the ledge. In the dream, the water below rushes up to meet me, an epiphany promised within its depths – but then I wake up, and the dream, like the answers, fade away.

A better love story than Twilight.

And here I was getting excited as I read the patch notes. Congratulations are in order regardless, because I think you putting this all together helped spur the devs to get them working.

I’ll be doing an API walk in an hour or two, so I’ll be able to see if they got the skin references fixed. This would address Stalker Boots/Studded Gloves/Stalwart’s Bracers/Chain Helm in your list above.

Possible, or it might be a case where they didn’t think it made sense to use soft metals for something requiring durability (not a good explanation, I know).

This isn’t entirely unprecedented. The Artificer requires a couple items for recipes that only a Jeweler can make.

Heh. Make it a transform and leave it in

Note: Artificer has some recipes you can’t unlock without stuff from your Jeweler. Not looking to see this fixed.

drink in hand

I am anti-mount to the core, but he brings up an excellent point. Is there any way to get a permanent passive speed boost below level 15 any more? Traits were already pushed to level 30, and you have to track down the ones you want if you don’t want to pay for them. Now you have to level farther to get access to your utility skill slots.

Which 2-3 are you talking about specifically? I can’t see why a couple would be omitted and you’d have uneven numbers of back pieces per crafting skill.

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Hope that chair is a comfy one.

Coopziana.1802:

Probably… Look on the bright side. At least you will gain the advantages of the new leveling system… GULP

truer words have yet to be spoken…

I ran an alt through PS from creation to finish a few weeks ago, to get the free PS skins. Said alt has little in the way of traits, and I didn’t bother to equip her past rare gear. She plays ok, but even I’ll admit where she stands right now is disappointing.

She’ll be kept until I run her through LS, then I’ll pawn off her skill points on some item creation and trash her. Probably to do it all again.

Exosferatu.2961:

Anyone reading this want to start a game in forums? Every time we see a goodbye thread we take shots.

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already part of mine.

Then the solution is to do as the devs intended, AND GET THE kitten THINGS YOURSELF.

Sorry, I don’t know what came over me. Achievements are meaningless if they can’t be bought, and bought for less than 7g, no less. Carry on.

Romek.4201:

lordkrall.7241:

So… what in the gem store is necessary in order to play the game?

If you have issues with BLCs simply throw them away when you get them. It is not really that hard. I also seem to recall them lowering the drop rate quite a bit, so it should be even less of an issue nowadays.

I have gotten plenty of rewards in-game, while none in the gem-store. But I suppose that is all a matter of opinion. In my eyes, getting something for doing something is a reward. Simply buying something is not.

I get that you dislike the gemstore (you have been complaining about it since before release I seem to recall) but you are making it more of an issue than it actually is. It is fully possible to experience and enjoy the game and completely ignore the gem-store. But you prefer to see the gem-store in everything and thus it creates and issue for you.

And the fact remains. Without the gem-store we would most likely have much of a game left to play now. At least we doesn’t (as of yet) have pure OP and/or gamechanging things in the store, as we had in GW1.

Than trie to play a new account (new player) with only 1 bankslot and the normal 5 bagslots and you will understand very fast how annoying it is. How you need in this game more space but you can´t afford it anymore as a new player just from gold and you have to use creditcard. Its Pay to win – even when whiteknights in this forum still bring same kitten over and over : “So… what in the gem store is necessary in order to play the game?”

They repeat it because THEY ARE NOT WRONG.
Your impatience is your own problem.

Erukk.1408:

Mystic.5934:

I imagine it’s more for entertainment/see what everyone has to say than engaging in a discussion.

I would have jokingly suggested that maybe the John Smiths have a drinking game for it, and they pull up a thread and take a shot every time someone uses inflation incorrectly, but that would be impossible. Because if they did that, they would have all died of alcohol poisoning a long long time ago.

There’s enough drinking games being played on the forums already ;D

Ayrilana.1396:

Since you love words with double meaning.

“I made the water run.”

Did I have the water run as I turned it on and let it flow or did I make the water run as you do in a race? See how they’re the same word but have different meaning in their definition?

Or is the run a track for water to follow, and you made this particular one?

We could go for hours with this.

Wanze.8410:

Vol.7601:

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if the PR/marketing folks didn’t consult him on the implications of previews. In most organizations, departments often don’t work together.

I would also reckon that the overall profit that gets made on these items is miniscule compared to amount of gold being traded every day. Most players will be positively affected because their rubbish 2 gold exotic drop they got from a world boss sells for 20-200g out of a sudden.

Have to agree. I’m more likely to postpone getting the cheev in order to make a quick mountain of gold out of anything that drops for me in the next few days.

pdavis.8031:

Forgotten Legend.9281:

in my opinion, generally speaking… any guild that wants 100% rep is not worth joining.

Pretty much. I responded to a guild ad that required 100% rep and asked why. Was told it was to “promote a friendly and close community”. I said if I was already in a guild with friends, then I wouldnt be able to do stuff with them. Their “solution”? Invite them to the guild. And do stuff with the guild. Doesnt seem like a very friendly and close community if I have to either leave my friends, or bring them into a large guild in order to have fun.

My guild’s first alliance in GW1 evolved into the central guild trying to cannibalize the other guild’s members…. for much the same reasons. Within a few months, the alliance was effectively dissolved when more than half the member guilds broke off, and the central guild was dead not too long after. The power play was NOT appreciated.

Telling your members they can’t have a life outside of your clique is cultish. If enjoying your mates’ company isn’t enough to get me to rep 24/7, then forcing me to do so ain’t going to make me want to hang with you any more than I do already.

Wants mounts.
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There are also a few buildings that are completely closed off otherwise. I can recall a couple, like the Apothecary south of Divinity’s Reach, the Whispers Agent’s hidden storehouse and the Priory’s (force-fielded) storehouse in LA, and the crypt inside the Temple of Grenth.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Wolfield.9812:

Its the materials that you use when making a legendary that make it expensive. No one is willing to waste 1k gold on other stuff for a bad legendary.

What are you talking about mate? Legendary weapons are the top tier luxury items in this game. I just offered proof that Precursors are highly affordable to nearly anyone, including new players.

Romek.4201:

this precursors you posted are nothing worth cause they are useless

I beg to differ. Rodgort’s is an awesome looking Legendary. The animations are top notch. The torch head almost looks alive. And if they were so useless, then why would someone have purchased my Rodgort’s Flame listing from the TP?

Ironically, that might have been me, depending how long ago you posted it I bought one a few months back before the current wave of pricing madness.

Bad Legendary? What makes a legendary bad? If it’s not Twilight, Eternity, or Sunrise, it’s automatically crap? Or is it the fact that no matter where you look, they’re the only ones you see because they’re honkin’ huge, and everyone has one? I’ve never really been one for following the herd, and I’m more than happy to take advantage of someone’s prejudice in this case. Hell, if you’ve got a Venom, a Howl or a Carcharias you don’t want, mail ‘em to me. I’m happy to take them.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Sariel V.7024:

eithinan.9841:

John Smith.4610:

Attempting to track people manually isn’t effective. If we suspect it’s getting unwieldy we have a numbers of options to make insider traders (and them only) lose large quantities of money. We’ve done this before to destabilize insider trading as an idea and will likely do it again.

My imagination is running wild based off this…

We’ve seen some of this before. Remember Gift of Wine? That may or may not have been an intentional sting, but there have been instances of price-driving information getting out that have turned out to be completely untrue.

It was pure market hype that fueled the trading in grapes before the Gift of Wine was actually available. I should know. I was one of the guys doing the hype and getting rich selling a lot of grapes.

Right, except for one detail. The Gift of Wine was NEVER available. Anyone buying in on the speculation got bit in the kitten .

eithinan.9841:

John Smith.4610:

Attempting to track people manually isn’t effective. If we suspect it’s getting unwieldy we have a numbers of options to make insider traders (and them only) lose large quantities of money. We’ve done this before to destabilize insider trading as an idea and will likely do it again.

My imagination is running wild based off this…

We’ve seen some of this before. Remember Gift of Wine? That may or may not have been an intentional sting, but there have been instances of price-driving information getting out that have turned out to be completely untrue.

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As heals go, this one was weak, even in the area where it was almost a necessity. I’ve obtained it on my toons mostly as a matter of completeness.

1. Run the game in windowed mode instead of full-screen. Move the window down enough that the skill icons are hidden.

2. Open up the UI layout interface. remove the skill bar.

Knew I should have waited til I got home and verified that before I posted it.

This is what I was trying to reference