Guild Wars 2

this will never change, 1 year laer gw2 is still the least optimized game on my computer

i can run far cry 3 all max setting on 16:10 w 1680rez and it’s smooth sailing 60+ fps constant

gw2 however i get fps drops as low as 25 in wvw huge zergs….

in order to change this, they would have to REDESIGN the whole game and engine, and that’s like making a new game,they simply don’t have the money for this

it’s badly optimized and badly polished, it will allways work like this, my advice is, buy an alienware computer, u can run anything with those things no matter how sloppy the people working on the game were

AndrewSX.3794:

Make a conversion recipe for Bloostone Dust to Luck.

Solved. (with a decent ratio.)

that’s a great idea

eisberg.2379:

Zepidel.5349:

Vespirisa.1497:

200g? The amount I spent was no where near that number. I just refined ori and ancient wood I gathered, made some sharpening stones and crafted a few exotics. I think I spent less than 25. Also the 200g on the website is due to the inflated prices that will eventually drop. oh from 450 I just refined ascended mats I got from champ loot bags.

Yes 200g. You speculated in wood/ore, as did I thankfully. Regardless its 200g.

Collect the stuff yourself and it is significantly less than 200G

If you collect it, it isn’t free. You still pay for everything you collect with your time. If you sold everything you collected it’s the same as buying everything. There is literally no way around it and no difference.

It’s a loose-loose situation. Either way, you bleed money.

I’m surprised by people that look as gathering materials as the materials being free. You’re paying for it.

Gather materials, sell materials = profit
Gather materials, spend materials = bleeding money
Gather gold, buy materials = gather materials, sell materials

Either way, you bleed money.

considering the amount of text in this topic…

noobs play with noobs

elitists play with elitists

that’s just the way it is, and it’s the way everyone is happy

Klonex.4562:

50/50 that it will/will not – there’s no way to tell, we will probably end up getting new things though there’s a chance for them to come back. we just have to wait.

it is a nice shield though there’s no way i’m paying that ridiculous price that it’s going for in the TP…

last year it was going for 80 silver…now it’s 400g :o

The Mad King’s long lost skin. A very special kind of skin, the loss of which is responsible for his insanity.

Twinkle, twinkle, little skin
How I wonder where you’re at!
Up above the clouds you fly
Like a skin-tray in the sky.

An eon ago…The Mad King was but a King. As the Pharaohs of the deserts, The King possessed a very powerful piece of skin. A skin like none other. A skin in which there were thousands of skins. All in one skin. That piece of skin was very dear to the King.

Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.

One day…came a traveler. The traveler offered The King immortality in return for his very special piece of skin. The King accepted. The trade was made. The King became immortal. A few months after the trade The King realized what a terrible mistake he had done. He was to spend eternity, without his most beloved and prized possession. The King was envious of his peasants, who were still in the possession of their own very special skin. The envy, the regret, the remorse, the pain, the hunger, the lust, the agony….slowly…drove…The King…Mad.

‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the spider to the fly,
‘?’Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy,
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I’ve got many curious things to show when you are there.’
‘Oh, no, no,’ said the little fly, ‘to ask me is in vain,
For whoever goes up your winding stair can ne’er come down again.’

In this chest, lies the long lost skin of the now Mad King.

A skeleton walks into a bar and orders a beer and a mop.

Refresh.4386:

Im trying to figure out if it going to disappear or not sent we got to keep the Tequila one’s it be kind of odd to take this one out even know it a permanent path.

Yes.

after this twilight assault is over, will there still be daily achievements obtainable to make keys and get points? will the keys stay ? will the achievements stay ?

i put 3 keys together, first one normally, 2nd one i split into 2 stacks and then clicked and 3rd one i split into 4 stacks and still did not get daily T_T

i am sure this is bugged

everyone plays the game in their own way and some people just don’t feel like wasting time

So Scarlet had sex with The Mad King and out came The Bloody Prince ?

He’s their son ? Oh man, if that’s true it’s gonna be the best Halloween ever !

Joey Panda.8321:

My party ….on more than one occasion has gotten to the end at the last boss…and then the leader decides to leave…therefore defeating over an hours worth of work….down the drain…no defeating boss no tokens….

If this in the game could get changed. I’m sure it’d be appreciated by many players….

who here agrees?

I totally agree. Happened many times to me too. Arena wants us to waste time more so we do less and thus play their game longer.

Hobby? You think this is a hobby??

YOU THINK THIS IS A HOBBY!!!??

THIS IS LIFE !!!

RuneCrimson.7380:

Ok so This new content is only for level 50 and above as I have found out…so us lower levels are SOL when it comes to the content and finding out what happens at the end. The two spiders at the beginning kills lower levels with one to two hits so its relatively useless to bother with it. Sad though seemed like it might have been fun to do it.

dude, 1-80 is less than 5 days while doing your homework and going to school and studying for tests

Mordalus.8146:

I hate Anet’s philosophy to make encounters frustrating and annoying instead of difficult. Why can’t we have difficult and fun instead of frustrating and not fun?

Liadri was frustrating and annoying.
SAB tribulation mode was difficult.

I liked SAB trib mode, i did w1z1-3 and w2z1-3. did all of it, then threw all 3 green coins and 3 yellow coins into the trashcan. destroyed all 6 of them. why? because the skins were 2gold each. f**k that s**t.

oozes aren’t that bad, just have 2 heavies with you, they pull and tank the fire ele’s at the door, not the cogs where u gotta take the oozes, but at the vine entrance where u go into the room, then have 2 people walk the oozes. simple and easy.

It’s permanent. I can’t wait for Halloween too tho, I hope Mad King returns with his clocktower and labyrinth and all the spooky goody goodies <3

Aliatis.7836:

I just finally managed to get 17/17 (5th try).

I lol’ed so hard. During previous 4 tries, we have been just perfect (no deaths ~ yes downed), no disengaging, followed Dulfy’s and coronaas’ strategies, etc. But we didn’t get achievement, noone of us.

Last try:

• we didn’t kill the two on the ramp;
• we killed the Steam Watcher (and his adds);
• we killed only a small group around the Taskmaster near the boss, right side;
• we pulled the boss and lured him BEHIND pipes ~ wiped ’cause too many mobs came (= whole group dead);
• we pulled again the boss and lured him BEHIND pipes ~ killed the few mobs that came with him;
• at a certain point, boss lost his aggro, and resetted;
• we pulled again the boss and lured him BEHIND pipes (third time);
• finished the boss with 2 players on the ground, completely dead;
• cleaned the whole room, disengaging more than once the different groups of mobs;
• got the achievement.

The secret is: DO ALL WRONG! DONT BE PRO!

lmao my thought exactly

very buggy indeed

oakheart encounter needs fixing, those generators that teleport your whole screen around around if u run into the front of the generator are annoying

spur also needs a lot of fixing

and the oakheart is way too hard for casual groups

LOL this is soooo sooo bugged.

it was a total noob group, 3 of us died just jumping down, we were trolling around, we wiped(meaning the whole party died) cuz one of ours just ran in and pulled all the mobs + spur and steamwaatcher, so that was the first wipe, so we go back, we kill the watcher, we leave the two on the railwak, we kill 5 of his crew, we pull boss accidently, all of us die(the 2nd full party wipe), all 5 of us wp back, run, jump down again, 2 of us die from fall damage including me cuz we were trolling and lolling, as i said nub group, so they rezz us, then we pull some more of his crew, killing everyone except 1 single mob on the far back left corner, so we pull boss and 4 of my group die from the axes on the floor and the spin attack, they all wp back while I manage to get away and survive because I was on my alt thief and used stealth. So that was the third wipe, i disengaged, they all did, out of combat means disengage i guess cuz boss reset and regenned. So we pull him, for the fourth time between the pipes, and somehow he glitches and resets back to his position, we all go ooc because of it. Then we wait for my cooldown, i make the pull guy invisible, he pulls, we go straight at him, we finally kill him, with 3 people completly dead and me and the other guy downed spamming 1 killing the boss, and as the boss died we rally, the other 2 use the wp, one guy was lazy and we rezz him, then we all kill that mob we left, not for the achievement but 4theLULZ and we all got the achievement. the two mobs on the sidewalk were still alive and untouched… I mean…just..ridiculus

so basicly… disengaged and died and wiped and somehow just got it…. so…so..bugged….

6 tries, coordinated, organized, well thought out – no achievement
2 tries just completly random, disorganized, unorgazite, with fails and lols and trolls – achievement completed

people should play with other people that play the same way as they do

the only time when there’s conflicts is when people play with other people that don’t play the same way

some people have all the luck lol

after the 20th update i salvaged 30 rares and not 1 ecto, now i allways sell my rares

Winzzy.9435:

There needs to be a kicking lock while in combat and during and after boss.

Just this morning I ran CoF with a group, went very well. Downed once but that will happen in full zerkers. Ran pas Indiana Jones trap with no portal from Mesmer because he didn’t feel like doing it.. Kill the boss in record time (timing my blocks well, was running guardian) and as soon as he dies I am kicked… No reason but they wanted to be jerks.

I did get the tokens but nothing else. Anet please make it so there is a window when people cannot be kicked at, during, after boss…. maybe the boss area is a no kick zone. What happened to me was complete BS and isn’t fun to be trolled just so some immature deviant can get his/her laughs.

btw, if the person who entered the dungeon leaves, EVERYONE GETS KICKED the whole group, it’s been like that forever, so maybe the person who entered just left and you call got kicked out, it’s happened to me

i think there needs to be a lock on who can join who’s group. that way the new players can have fun explore the dungeon with other new players

Give us an option so that nobody with less than 8000 Achievement Points can join my group. Just a modifiable LOCK or LIMIT or SHIELD that we can put up to fend off the players we do not want to play with, without them joining our group thinking ’’hooray’’ and then we have to kick them because we don’t want them in our group. Now the reason for this is because..well.. everyone plays a certain way so that the game is enjoyable for them. Whenever i join groups with people that have less than 8k AP…the game…is..not..enjoyable.

Since the LFG system I and my friends have been dealing with people that join our that that

1. did not read our party description
2. do not talk to us in party chat
3. have less than 1000 AP…

we are tired of kicking these people out of our group and having to retype our party description, then it sais we’re spamming the lfg because we keep getting leeches that want to drink our blood and ride on our sweaty backs lols

it’s a good suggestion imo, people would finally stop whining about ’’elitists’’ kicking them

dude i killed this guy 7 different times 7 different ways with 7 different groups

this is bugged 100%

when’s the eta on the foreman spur fix ? with the halloween patch or will there be a hotfix sooner ?

my seventh try(everyone had 8000+ AP, and we had 2 in group that had already gotten this achievement, so they guided us how they did it): Groups setup: 3 guardians, a well support necro and me, shout heal full pvt tank warrior 10,0,30,30,0

NOT 1 PERSON DIED SINCE ENTERING THE ROOM. one of our guardians got downed but didn’t die.
We pulled about 5 mobs from the corner of the ramp.
We kill the 5 mobs.
we go between the pipes
we pull the boss + 4 of his adds
we pull him to where you jump down where the water flows from pipes
we kill the 4 adds while fighting boss, then kill boss,
then kill steamwatcher + 2 mobs on railwak, finish off crew

no.achievement.

this is 100% bugged, i’ve been with people that are telling me they died and wiped and thought they wouldn’t get it and still got it, people that went ooc, people that only left 2 of his crew alive and still got the achievement while 2 in their party were dead as boss was killed

this needs to be fixed

Azure Prower.8701:

I thought people went into dungeons because they were challenging and fun.

Your statement contradicts itself.

Waar Kijk Je Naar.8713:

It’s not bugged. Don’t aggro/kill the monsters.

Aggro or kill? Which one? What monsters? Steamrider monster? Pirates ? Mobs? Normal mobs? Vet mobs? Both ? Only charr pirates? Human pirates?

Lucky.9421:

You should probably fill out a support ticket because it could be a bug related to your accounts.

There there are 21 bugged accounts. Because I’ve tried it again today, using the 2pipe method, and didn’t get it after finishing off his crew….

coronaas.4362:

see my post directly above yours? the one posted 2 hours before you did? yea i posted a video specifically for this thread.

Yea i was in a group just now, we copied it step by step and we did not get it. 100% bugged.

Naglifar.1684:

Paradox.5498:

..snip..

Hope this helps for the ppl who want to get the achievement done.

I wish it did help but myself and other have tried all the different strategies people have posted… not exaggerating. I appreciate your recount of ‘what worked’ and ‘how to do it’, but I honestly feel these recounts give people false hope & lead them to waste more time.

We really need an official response from a dev or an update to clarify the parameters of the achievement.

there’s no reason to clarify, it’s 100% bugged, all I want to know is an ETA on patch fix for this

I’m 100% sure, that this is bugged.

First try: We killed spur first, we left a vet striker alive, who we were engaged with, when Spur was killed vet striker had 50%, we finish the vet striker, no achievement.

Second try: We killed everyone except 2 mobs. We kill Spur. We go out of combat. We kill the 2 mobs. No achievement.

Third try: We leave 8 mobs. We aggro spur and 3 or 4 mobs, the mobs leash back to their position, we kill Spur. No achievement.

Fourth try: We kill everyone except 4 mobs. We stay engaged with Spur and 4 mobs through the whole fight. Kill Spur. Finish off mobs. Still….no…achievement.

What is this sorcery? It’s either bugged, glitched, or we did it wrong all 4 times.

Explain this to me: the achievement sais don’t die and don’t disengage. Disengage who? The mobs? The boss? The mobs and the boss? Don’t die where? Don’t die when? During the fight? Before the room? After the boss? Before the boss? In the room? During bossfight? Does downed count as dying? Does it involve all 5 players?

Vague. Unexplained. Confusing.

+1 i wanted this since 2012 when fotm came out

Rezzet.3614:

by the gods every single party i go as soon some kid is downed he rage quits if not someone else requests a kick

or worse if someone asks somethign as simple as Who’s gonna tank the fire eles on the ooze part he gets kicked cuz to the others he’s a “noob”

really people what is wrong with you you want everything handed to you without putting effort nor learning nor letting others learn about the content?

www.dulfy.net

you know, farming it is the same as buying it

you loose money that you would have earned by selling those mats

imo it’s easier to grind gold then buy mats

400-500 is 200g, each…so it’s 600g for all 3 professions

Thief. I used the twisted watchwork shoulder. I’m wearing a COF chest. I have 11 of those shoulders so I decided to use one. So I use it, and it’s not there. It doesn’t show up. Once I remove the COF chest, the shoulder shows up. Why doesn’t the shoulder show up if I wear the COF chestpiece?

Is this a bug or as intended ?

I have 580 of them. I farm them regularly so I can do tribulation mode.

They’re fine the way they are.

Harder? Yes.

Longer? No.

I would be fine with longer, if there was 0% chance of disconnects/crashes/bugs.

ZitheratiS.8967:

Same. Got my King Toad Z-3 token, waited for the timer to count down, and was moved to the mine cart bonus. But I didn’t get the Glutton for Punishment achievement which is still stuck at 2/3 zones completed. I also cannot go into World 2 Tribulation Mode.

Enter extreme rage. Is there no other option but to do it allllllll over again?

I just finished today, so happy it didn’t happen to me _

I just did world 1 tribulation mode, all 3 zones, with all shops and honeycombs. All in all it cost me about 350 lives, which is somewhere around 70 continue coins.

I will do world 2 zones and achievements tommorrow after I farm some more coins.

Make an underwater zone. The whole zone, underwater. And make SAB themed underwater weapons.

We farm him on a daily basis on beastgate.

Hahaha I’m sooooo happy I never started collecting them.

I’m sure they will be tradeable, as the special ones were in gw1, and I’m sure, just like in gw1 they will have ludicrous prices.

Start grinding money, you’ll be able to afford Mr.Sparkles somewhere around 2019.

Ha !

I spent 130 laurels on dyes and got 12 gold out of it. Lol if I sold the unid dyes itself I would’ve made at least 30g

KyreneZA.8617:

No. They offer exactly enough useless fluff, priced at exactly the right price, to dissuade casual gamers from wasting $s/gold on gems, while at the same time ensuring enough income from hardcore gamers to sustain the game.

Hardcore gamers don’t spend RL money on it. Casual gamers do.

LordByron.8369:

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

juno.1840:

My friend saw a bunch of dawns vanish from the TP and then an identical number show up shortly afterwards, reposted for roughly 200gp more.

…and we’re off into conspiracy theory land!

Ecto salvage rates are fine

Fractal drop was never nerfed….

Ecto salvage rates were ninja nerfed on the 20th. I know because I salvaged 25 rares and got 7 ectos out of it, which has never, ever happened before. I allways got 1-3 ectos 90% of the time, so salvagin them was a profit. Ever since the 20th patch, It’s allways a loss to salvage it. I salvage 5-6 rares a day and I haven’t gotten 3 ectos out of it in days, I’m always loosing money from salvaging them.

It was nerfed, believe it.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

juno.1840:

My friend saw a bunch of dawns vanish from the TP and then an identical number show up shortly afterwards, reposted for roughly 200gp more.

…and we’re off into conspiracy theory land!

All of the exotic set 1 miniatures went from 80-95g to 160-225g in one day. You can check gw2spidy for the graph.

Mostly with miniatures.

If you check gw2spidy, you’ll notice the prices of the set 1 exotic minis went from 80-95g, to 150-230 gold in one day.

I remember buying those minis about a month or two back, and they were 90g, while the supply was between 13 and 20.

I noticed the same thing with Jack-A-Lop. The supply was 28, and it was 160g, while Oakheart had a supply of 15 and it was 90g….

I know there’s plenty of people ‘’playing the TP ’’ as in buy low/sell high, or just buy the whole thing out and make up your own price. But my question is, is Arena okay with this?

Isn’t it stupid that someone who bought an oakheart/wraith/witch/chicken last week, payed 80-95g, and someone who want’s to buy it today has to pay 150-225 gold for each?

Siphaed.9235:

I converted 30g, completely earned in-game through the Scarlet Invasions (normal play and NOT FAIL FARMING), to Gems and purchased the Infinite Continue Coin. Not a single dollar shed from my pocket, yet I was still able to obtain this “Pay 2 Win” item. Curious how, if it’s truly “P2W” that it’s obtainable in-game?

P.S. Didn’t use it at all until I started Tribulation mode as the 5 coins Moto sent me -in addition to the 7 banked ones from April- were more than sufficient to do W1 & W2 in Normal mode.

Because you were forced to pay 30g for it, otherwise you couldn’t complete tribulation mode and get tribulation achievements.