Guild Wars 2

Xhyros.1340:

Correction: rapid fire is one of the weakest of all weapon skills for a ranger.

Just wait. What the devs showed in the last Ready Up video says they’ll be giving it a speed boost.

Azhure.1857:

Azrael.4960:

I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing a reappearance of the Tengu weapons that were available in the bonus mission pack. I had the Tengu sword and bow. They were puuuurty

I loved the Tengu shield.

The amount of shield skins that I would be caught wielding can be counted on one hand in GW2…. less so if you count the ones that don’t clip on my charr’s armor.

Whenever the Tengu get reintroduced thanks to Mordy beelining through their territory, that’d be a great time to reintroduce them to the BL store.

hint hint nudge nudge ;D

Invictus.1503:

Sariel V.7024:

Invictus.1503:

I just got 5 continue coins from opening one of the LS reward bags (which caught me completely off guard). I’m hoping this means it will be here soon.

Pics, or it didn’t happen.

Heck, pics and I still won’t believe it XD but I have to admit, with the midseason break coming soon, this would be a good time to insert it.

Wow, I forgot my audience. I didn’t take pics and even if I did what would stop somebody from saying they weren’t in my inventory to begin with? In any case, frankly I don’t care. Believe me or don’t, doesn’t bother me. I was simply contributing to the conversation with my own experience as I thought it a very odd drop when I opened the bag from the LS.

Relax, I was just ribbing. ;D

Still, I remain incredulous, but hopeful

Hey now, I’m perfectly capable of rushing heedless and headlong into certain death without the Prince of Perilousness.

Azure Railgun (random drop) gets my vote, though the way it is held is ridiculous.

In the tech-ish vein, Glyphic (random drop), Dark Asuran (dungeon), Vera (Engineer personal story), Dreamthistle (dungeon), Fractal (fractals), Pact (personal story), Peacemaker’s (karma), Sarraceinaceae (random drop).

While not worth as much xp, you can still get a boost by filling out your lower tier discoveries. Chances are, if you’re level 80, you’ll have a lot of T5 materials you can turn into rares. Check the master artificer to make sure you have rare inscription recipes.

Two potion sets that are easy to miss are Inquest and Krait slaying potions. The former require a scepter part. The latter require an enhanced jewel.

Also, the are sigils you can discover, provided you have the lodestones or doubloons, but you’re probably already aware of those.

Rare drop. As in, NEVER DROPS. The only way to get any of this now is Personal Story, and only the chest piece is available.

Usually the gripe with medium armor is we need more variety and less raincoats. I’m of the same mind.

Arikyali.5804:

Something is holding her back from going into the Mist. What could it be?

5 million players are lusting after her “assets”. And by assets, I mean “sword”. Because we’re geeks.

Personally I think legendaries are fine as they are. Enough attention has been made tweaking their appearance.

Counter suggestion: base the color on the stat setting, like the current ascended weapons. You might have to give up power for a weapon that matches your blue or white ensemble, but you only really need that for photo ops anyway.

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Thobek.1730:

Zaxares.5419:

Pretty cool design and animations, but… he’s basically out of place in the world. >.> It’d be like getting a Commando tonic.

It is so out of place! the monkey king?! why did they pick him of all the other characters they could of they choose some character from a Chinese story.

makes no sense whatsoever. looks cool though, I like the design.

You’re right, it IS out of place. And you guys got me thinking.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/When-will-Super-Adventure-Box-SAB-return/4254345

Actually, I’m going to revise that…

The monkey king item we just received is a real anomaly. Sure, this could be a tribute to the new servers being opened in China, but for that they would pick something more universally known. Like the panda mini. Saiyuki isn’t a story with much renown in the west, even if it is one of the classics of Chinese literature, and with the intervening gap of a few months, the timing is now completely off.

So why are we receiving a tribute to a poorly known fantasy story from the old kingdom? Unless it’s a reference to something else. At best, the only thing we have in-game that connects to it are grawl. But in SAB, there is a hierarchy of enemies in simian form. And SAB is supposed to be based on Cantha (or one asura’s misconceptions thereof).

Makes ya think.

Soinetwa.5193:

well yeah there is a pool of items that can be inside
it happened to me about 8times as well
(out of several hundred)
it happens in dungeons as well with all chests not just wvw

but thats becasue there is not every rune armour combination that can be dropped
if it could the auction house would have…. LOOOOTS of stuff

This is the crux of the matter. Items are not (totally) randomly generated. Rather, there is a list of specific items and it is randomly picked from. Even if you are seeing double picks frequently, it is quite possible that it can happen. Not entropically favored does not mean impossible.

Invictus.1503:

I just got 5 continue coins from opening one of the LS reward bags (which caught me completely off guard). I’m hoping this means it will be here soon.

Pics, or it didn’t happen.

Heck, pics and I still won’t believe it XD but I have to admit, with the midseason break coming soon, this would be a good time to insert it.

Obviously, no one knows.

Going on history, where skinning any item has made it useless for further crafting, I wouldn’t recommend it.

iceydragon.7146:

Mystery Tonic gave me Golem and this is the result.

Shortly thereafter, Grenth was supplanted in the Underworld….

Becka Williams.4978:

I love it when people convince themselves that purposefully annoying and frustrating game mechanics are a good thing.

Not working in your favor does not make it a bad thing.

If the map is being heavily farmed (and most Cursed Shore maps are), there’s little reason to sit at the gate. The Risen Wizard’s reappearance is an event that will be announced in map chat. So take advantage and join the zerg.

No, nothing I’m afraid. :/ There have been fixes to item data (spelling/name adjustments, new icons), but for the most part, this issue has been untouched.

…

From what I pulled down two weeks ago, it would appear that they DID fix the problem for Rogue Helms, and that’s it. I think that a bug ticket may have been entered based on the title of the post, and the dev tasked with fixing it didn’t read any further into the post itself.

Gunsnroll.2657:

They give 5% boost. So much for kittenufull item.
If you wanna see by yourself : [&AgFRBQEAAA] [&AgFNBQEAAA

Called that one right. Might still be useful to my engi.

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SkiTz.4590:

Vayne.8563:

Spiky.8403:

Wait, wait… did you really expect anything else besides story and gem store update? HAHAHAHAHAHA

Because we didn’t get part of a new zone in the first two chapters….oh wait…

Cursed shore is a better zone to farm. The events in these new zones are so “meh”. If you don’t unlock high tiers, its a gigantic waste of time. So unrewarding.
These zones will be pretty much dead, kinda like southsun.

Not sure what your problem is.. I’ve gotten more Lodestones out of Dry Top than I have any other map in the game. Decent chance at orbs too.

Probably a crafting material for the new back piece. Try it in the forge?

I swear someone just suggested this on reddit…

I’m not a PvP-player, but I’m sympathetic to the fact that they tend to miss out on the cool stuff. Seconded.

Rainshine.5493:

Yes, and you know that Aerin’s note is a Soundless mantra immediately if you’re sylvari, for instance. I like what they’ve done so far, I’d just love to see profession matter the way race does for these little things

You’ve probably seen the little lore things they’ve included for Engineers since the end of the first season, and a few things for race and personal story choices. Adding actual play mechanics to easy-mode a single encounter for one or more professions…. this is brilliant. It speaks to the True Dungeon fan in me ;D

To be fair, you’d have to include something for everyone eventually, but I do like this idea.

MysticHLE.7160:

I entirely understand and support the OP’s view.

The entire rewards system in this game needs to be looked at. Why should I be repeatedly getting greens from soloing Giganticus Lupicus in Arah when I can kill a champ in an open world zerg event in less than 1 minute? I can think of a bazillion ways to improve the reward system.

The first and foremost though: loot should always be dependent on the rank of the mob killed.

Regular: whites
Veterans: whites/blues, higher chance of blues
Elites: blue/greens, higher chance of greens
Champions: greens/rares, higher chance of rares
Legendaries: rares/exotics, higher chance at exotics with a chance at precursors
World bosses: exotics, even higher chance at precursors

Everyone at a world boss zerg fight gets an exotic or better. Logical conclusion: a few hundred exotics dumped into the tp every hour, an utterly trashed economy, and an even further devaluing of highest tier weapons. At least fishing around in the mystic forge for precursors would become affordable. Not profitable, of course, because it’s only a matter of months of riding the boss train before everyone has 4-5 of them.

MysticHLE.7160:

Mobs from each region’s open world maps should also have a chance at dropping the respective dungeon tokens. Killing a veteran/elite perhaps can yield 1 token towards the dungeon in the region, champion 3 tokens, legendaries 5 tokens, etc. It would minimize the need to farm dungeons for the grind over and over, or PvP endlessly to get an entire set of dungeon equips.

Now this, this is workable. It could be argued that it’s just another grind, but in truth you’re getting a little something for just being in the area. The rewards are soulbound and would be infrequent enough to not hurt supply or drive down demand.

MysticHLE.7160:

Also, exploring certain key areas should yield extremely rare and useful items. For example, finishing your personal story by killing Zhaitan should yield a Gift of Zhaitan.

Something, like a token of your victory? Of your success as a pact commander?

MysticHLE.7160:

Killing the Risen High Wizard for the first time should yield something meaningful towards crafting Eternity (perhaps some charged Lodestones), with subsequent kills having chance at rewarding relevant lower tiered materials.

It makes playing different content more rewarding with an end-goal – not limited by some artificial daily reward chest that forces players to go around the world as if every world boss is some item on the bucket list of the day, and then everything being determined by some RNG-god. The fact that any exotic precursor sits at 1.4k gold is absolutely ludicrous.

This should be a game – not a job/chore.

What I think bugs me most about these topics is that suggestions for actual improvements are few and far between. What I usually see is “X is too expensive, therefore we need more X.” “I don’t have enough gold for X, therefore everyone needs to be getting more gold so I can have gold for X.” “I want a Y, therefore I deserve a Y, and why aren’t you giving me a Y?” When the things that are rare become commonplace, they also become worthless. And not just for one person, but for EVERYONE. When you dole out gold-encrusted baubles at every event, people are going to farm the bejeezus out of that event until gold-encrusted baubles are considered junk (substitute Elemental Blade for GW1 equivalent). When everyone has more gold to throw around, prices on unaffordable stuff is going to rise until it is unaffordable again (substitute precursors and legendaries).

If the game is not supposed to be a chore, then stop treating it like it is one. Set realistic goals for the pace you intend to keep. Get off the World Boss train if it isn’t fun. Is that legendary you put so much faith in changing your life still going to bring a smile when you flash it for the 30th time?

The Risen Wizard already has something similar in place. First kill: unlocks a trait. Followed by salvage items and the occasional tchotchke.

MysticHLE.7160:

Oh, and fix Fractal rewards. Finishing an FotM 50 should yield at least 5 gold, not 1.4.

No. No it shouldn’t. Fractals have never been about getting rich. They have always been about being a harder challenge and the rewards were bragging rights and a small increment to stats.

The less than polite response is expected when the original post is bordering on hostile. And I’ll keep rolling those eyes till I make point or get a seven.

You keep using the word “overused”, so this should be easy. Name twenty video games outside of GW2 that use the ley line trope. tvtropes.org manages 12 out of a…. I dunno, 40 year history of video games? Surely something overused has to be more widespread.

CureForLiving.5360:

My knowledge of American is limited by the few encounters I had with Americans (I live in Africa so having the first thing being told to me being: “I though there’d be more elephants in the streets” never gave me a very good opinion of the open minded nature of Americans. Better I guess than that Russian girl asking my why I’m white). Also lots and lots of Colbert Report. So I’m kinda under the impression that most American’s wouldn’t be fine with the native american’s rising up and retaking their land.

Popular culture likes to paint Africa as still being effectively stone-age. The 5 o’clock news mainly focusing on terrorists in the backwater villages as opposed to life in the cities doesn’t really help.

Thalador.4218:

From the lore’s point of view, it would be a huge spit in the face for lore dealing with spirits and ghosts.
…
The very last chance I’m willing to give to ANet and their writing depends entirely on how they handle this.

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Yes. Play how you want to. Even if that means you’re making it 100x harder for yourself.

Some related information here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Rogue-Helms-for-bad-skin-IDs/first#post4019490

Reeeeeeeeeaally…. well thanks for the tip

I’ve been following this issue for a while now. In the case of the Book of Secrets, the item’s skin id points at a bad entry, or seemingly so from the data I can get out of the API. This isn’t true with Shadow of Grenth or Light of Dwayna, as they both have the correct values set and the skins are coming up in the API. Overall, something different is up.

Some brilliant ideas here but I doubt any of them are what ANet had in mind.

Teofa Tsavo.9863:

I would prefer an Asura explanation of how they managed to focus energy in linear paths to transfer matter over “oh. Ley lines”.

I’d like an explanation of why a Dragon with access to conduits of magic wouldn’t just stay there absorbing it if that is their prime and natural function.

I’d like an explanation why all settlements have waypoints, and all waypoints are on ley lines, when some settlements predate waypoints, and then had those waypoints built in ignorance of ley lines. Pretty huge and needless chunk to digest, when the simple statement that Magic permeates the world has already been made.

With ley lines, we won’t get explanations. We will get more ley lines.

What I hate is what I see already happening. The “question” is already turning from “how and why” to “hmm. must be a ley line.”

Stifling. We are stuck with them, but I still cringe when I see them used to rationalize anything in game. Some things deserve their own mysteries and magics instead of hammering a ley line over them.

eyeroll
well, you’re not going to like what’s coming, seeing as they’re already hinting that every differing view of magic and the supernatural is actually just the lens of cultural perception looking at the same thing. The Gods, the dragons, the Eternal Alchemy, animal spirits – all the same thing, at different stages and with different masks.

Why’s the dragon not sitting idle any more? q.v. end of season 1. Already explained.

Why are all settlements on ley lines? Organisms are attracted to resources. q.v. http://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/

Better question: are settlements set up on nexi because they can draw magic better from them, or do nexi form on settlements because of the confluence of magic there?

Farzo.8410:

Dry Top kind of got back to Original Guild Wars with chests and lockpicks.

I think every map should have that kind of system, that you are able to buy and/or find keys and open chests put around the map and get items tied to the area, or something similar.

There are chests in every map, many not even behind jump puzzles, and they are all free. The drops tend to be better than gw1 chests (they’re both mostly trash, but you get more in gw2 plus a good chance at a gem), and you don’t have to spend 600g/1.5 plat (or the equivalent) to open them.

I have gotten a couple of exotics out of the free chest… of course, I’ve also gotten a Storm Bow or two in UW. So there’s good and bad to be had all around

Gbok.1039:

Vol.7601:

So what exactly do you want at the end of the cave? Precursor? 5g?

How about some new and unique looking skins. You know that thing the game is supposed to be all about as far as rewards go.

They could even be white trash for all I care but the buy my rewards kitten is getting really old in this game.

Here’s the problem. If it’s guaranteed to always drop, then pretty soon, everyone has it. IT STOPS BEING UNIQUE.

As for a literal unique skin at the end of a cave, check out Iron’s Tailpipe Bandana. No fights required, just need to work out a click puzzle. Whether it’s cool or not is a different question.

DeadlySynz.3471:

I find a hidden cave in gw2 and I don’t go in. It’s not really hidden as I have 100% map exploration, I’ve already been in and there is absolutely no reason for me to go back.

100% map completion means you managed to step over every invisible dividing line in the ingame regions. It does NOT mean you’ve been everywhere.

I’ve got a feeling I know which guild this is. If so, it’s already been reported and dealt with.

digitalruse.9085:

As promised.

Bowl of Black Pepper Cactus Salad
Nourishment (1 h): Gain health every second, +70 Toughness, +10% Experience from kills

TOTAL: 17.8s & 6 Karma

Bowl of Cactus Soup
Nourishment (30 m): Gain health every second, +70 Toughness, +10% Experience from kills

TOTAL: 47.8s

Okay. So here is our first food to be in line with expectations. 30m sets a price and it’s 1h counterpart is a little more than double for the convenience. The initial cost/value of the item aside (mentioned below).

Read that again carefully.

The night effect becomes a constant thing in certain dungeons.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

Drooburt’s death by far, it made me think. Did anyone else notice that he did actually get to buy his drink? It was right there, next to him: an elixir of heroes. Why he didn't drink it for the invulnerability buff, I don't know.

3 seconds of invuln is kitten useless in that situation, just like in most situations.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Jennah probably found a heroic charr that’s worthy of siring a child for her.

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Evon Gnashblade is the new King!

takes a drink
It takes more than boinking the queen to make a king.

Seabreeze.8437:

Sorry guys… The real correct answer is, “Want to cut through Mordremoth’s vines in style with Belinda’s Greatsword? Now you can, for the low price of 800 gems! Hurry in to Black Lion Trading Co. and get it while you can! -Evon Gnashblade.”

700.

700 gems.

Chance. Yes. Certainty? …. uh, probably.
Scheduled date? Hell no.

But if they’re taking a mid-season break in a few weeks, you’d think they’d fill it with something…

Oenanthe.6549:

There is a theory that some undead take more damage from bludgeoning weapons and others from slashing weapons, I wonder if they are trying to design swords that count as both.

There are 4 damage types in GW2 (potentially a 5th, but no known in-game examples). One of those is “Physical”. There are no delineations like there were in GW1 into Slash/Pierce/Bludgeoning.

Just made Breath of Jormag (GW2’s Icy Dragon Sword) because I wanted a companion for my FDS. All this would take is a recolor, and we could use a few new skins from the forge (make it comparable in cost, but with Onyx Lodestones and/or Obsidian Shards). Please give this one some consideration

I’ve got a post on this one somewhere in the backlog here. There are a lot of helms where the skin id somehow goes bad, and Rogue Helm appears to be the default (which is what you get for the icon and, here, the helm itself). I don’t remember Emblazoned having bad entries, though :/

Rauderi.8706:

Newp. Wasted a charge on it and everything. =P
I might have to double check to be sure (I think I turn off helmet appearance on my mesmer), but it had something to do with me being underwater at the time I tried to transmute.

There are two breather skins (out of four) readily available in every weight class. One looks like a breather and the other like a regular helmet. Chances are good you switched between the two.

ilr.9675:

Sariel V.7024:

Not without a vicious outcry.

This never made sense to me. There’s no direct way to use Gems to buy more Scraps so there’s no “legal tender” precedent here. Furthermore:

When the game first got rolling and Soft Wood supply was completely over-saturating to the point they added another log required for refining AND temporary forge recipe to eat up as much of the overstock as they could, they didn’t suddenly say “Okay you are all indebted to us 25% more logs (back-Logs… get it?) now for all the Crafting progression you’ve already made”. When courts change a precedent, statutes of limitation on damages apply automatically to all cases that came before the decision was overturned (unless it was a human rights violation which obviously this situation IS NOT). There has to be some direct pre-existing cause for that level of entitlement which assumes that the buyer couldn’t possibly have known all the risks and at the same time proves that the acting company was actively concealing all evidence of said risks.

I’m not talking about courts and definitely not talking about level-headed behavior. ;D But I think you understand that.

Comparing the ascended crafting silk issue to the soft wood plank doesn’t work when you consider scale. To make that one plank, the time required to get one more soft log and the space to hold the other three that make it are a drop in the bucket (specifically “move to the next gummo sapling” and 3/250 of the bucket). To turn silk scraps into a bolt of damask takes more scraps than you can hold in a bank slot and the time requirement for the extra 150 scraps becomes ridiculous. Soft wood planks are used in fair quantities for only a low tier of weapons with little demand; damask is used in large quantities in every piece of ascended armor.

The idea that someone could have saved this time, effort and/or gold if they had waited just a little longer is what will set people off, because the cost is non-trivial. Never mind that ‘a little longer’ translates to 9 months and counting, that many WOULDN’T have waited. ANet took something that was effectively toilet paper and turned it into pennies in a system where anything else comparable was a $20 bill, then demanded you pay your grocery bill in pennies. This carries a double-whammy of “I’ve been throwing away gold for months,” by dumping silk when it was worthless and, “Now I can’t get enough fast enough” by hoisting the requirements through the roof. After almost a year of adjusting to that shock, having the system revert to something easier would be galling.