Guild Wars 2

Moogy.2378:

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I love PvE and WvW, but I stay away from dungeons. Hate ‘em. I’ve done Fractals, CoF and Arah and never want to do them again.

I hate PvP and WvW. Why i was forced to do at least WvW for mothly?
Quid pro quo.

Hello,

I’v recognised that since the Guesting-featur came out, we have massiv problems with the dragon events (in particular with Jormag, but the others too).
The last time i experienced such skill delays was the Karka-Event.
It seems that Guesting is now abused to swich server and do the event again or just do it because one miss it on his own server and don’t want wait till next event.
However, it is already a problem and it will be more and more a bigger problem if more players discovered Guesting as a “jump in – jump out” possibility for a particular evet.

Conncept.7638:

“It’s a very rare reward from defeating a boss in the open world”

Lindsey: “It is dropped from a LARGE boss chest.”

Matt: “It’s a loot drop from a specific (rare) boss.”

Thank you for this summar.
This three sentences says everything we would ever know (as long as somone post here an “i got it from X”) . But if we take that sentences as they are, it is enough and we really do not needed to make some text-exegeses about.

We know: It’s a loot drop from a specific (rare) boss. (no regular champions, veterans etc.)
We know: the boss has a chest (it does not matter if a chest or a boss is large, because every rare boss is a "large " boss, and it is only matter that is in fact a chest to loot)
We know: this boss is not in an instance or dungeon.
We know: it is a specific boss (so, only this boss has the chest where it can drop)

What now everyone has to decide/finde out for himself:
Which rare boss has a chest?

- Shadow Behemoth with the (Demonic Chest)
- The frozen Maw with the glorious Chest
Fire Elemental (it is a follow boss fight with the “lost steam ogre” if you collected the four pieces from the JPs ad fire elemental to get access to the center of the reactor)
- one of the Temple-Events (are the really rare bosses?)
- or some long-event-chain boss, we just not aware of it

Jason King.2647:

Did any of you do another event prior to fighting dragon? It’s possible you’re hitting the DR if you completed another event beforehand.

Can you please explain what it realy means?

Does it means: if someone is doing his daily in one area, he will enter DR in any case and got less Exp, less Karma etc. from Events nearby?

Dose it mean: if someone is waiting for a Dragon and meanwhile doing other events/kills nearby, he will enter DR in any case and got less Exp, less Karma and at the end no chest from the Dragon event?

Dose it mean, it is generally a DR on events, so if someone is doing events for his daily achievement he will enter DR in any case and got less rewards for that???

Can you please explain, why it is at all a DR on events?

I’m not sure if it is WAI or a bug.
We have done level 10 Fractal (after the patch) with one of my character which could do level 11. He has 15 agony resistance. Before the patch i did not see any effect of the agony on that char at level 10 (or not in a way i could relly noticed). Now, after the patch i recognized, that the agony hit my char in a noticeable way. I did not chage any gear.

Lafiel.9372:

So, I just finish the dragon chest, got gold medal and no chest?

Half so bad. I fighted the shatterer (saw alle my damage numbers etc.) and not even got the Event! No EXP, no Kama and of course no event => no chest.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

He is supposed to be a very challenging encounter, but currently he is a wee bit too nasty. We will do some fine tuning in an upcoming build.

Either that or put (much) better loot into the chest. Yesterday (Tuesday) we have done the event and actually no one recived more than green items. (as far, no one said he had a rare or exotoic)

Gussy.3907:

[…] for example, one of yesterday’s daily requirements was healing.

You know how a guildmate and I completed it? We took turns jumping to our deaths and reviving each other.

Why you didn’t rezz some NPCs???

coldfire.3628:

And what will be next ? Will I have to /dance naked one hour long while playing the bell to unlock a token a day and with 330 tokens I will be able to buy a pair of ascended boots ?

lol
but if you do that, do not forget to post the time and server of your performance here in the forum!
sorry, but that part of your post is really funny!

JarekCyphus.7068:

BUGS

DISCONNECTS

• As the emboldened subject heralds, there are some unusual disconnects happening, tonight, particularly on the Tarnished Coast. They make no fanfare of stalled skills or jogging in place—the game simply disconnects you to the character select screen.
• Following a reconnect to the game, some of the content is rolled back a few steps. It was noted by a few peers that their Renown Hearts had rolled back a few steps, or even had their completed Renown Hearts undone by 10% or so.

I can confirm that. In the midde of an event fight (Straits of Devastation): DC to the character screen and after logging back, the event wasn’t there! (logging back was within approx. 10-15 seconds)

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Uncontested waypoints have been added to Cursed Shore and Straits of Devastation. Players that have already achieved map completion will retain it without having to discover these new waypoints.

Not true, one have to discover this waypoints (go there and discover it). Oherwise the map completion show only 98%.

Grent: “Added several new abilities to the Champion Risen Priest of Grenth.”.
Grent is only a joke (a bad one!), right? Have you ever tested what you have done with Grenth?

new Orrian Jewelry Box has been added to karma vendors across Orr
You seriouse??? You put trash item (Unidentifiable objec [trophy, soulbound] sell to the vendor for 2s/each) into a 4550 Krama-box!?! If you are going to make a lottery, you should announce it as LOTTERY!

Special Events: Pumpkin Carving is on 0

Heavy Crafting Bag (better we call it: heavy crafting bug) for T6 mats:
Three pice of T6 as revard for one laurel for THIS new kind of completion of the daily achievement? The news: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-January-28-2013 was talking about “Rewards” and not bad jokes. Really upsetting!

John Smith.4610:

GW2’s TP is by a wide margin less effectively manipulated than the other games mentioned in this thread.

I have some question about that.
1. Do you monitoring the TP on a way, that you can see if there is an attempt to manipulate the TP?
Background of the qustion: i see may times some low level items (nothing for crafting) are asked on the TP, where i can see that one user asking for more hundreds or even thousands of it.

2. Why it is still possible to post 1 copper request on the TP?

3. Why it is possible to post requests on the TP, where the normal vendor price for the item is higher then the request?
That mean: even if one are willing to sell the item under the vendor price, it is not possible, so the TP is avare of the actual vendor price.

Ethics.4519:

See, I can twist words too […]

Good idea.
What is the max of MF one could have?
If groupmember with MF gear do not have that max: kick him from the group for beeing not equipped good enough! L2P! ;-)

Facepunch.5710:

Sitael.4680:

Mirta.5029:

What I’m saying is that magic find works, …

Last week we just made a test (i wanted to kow it): [….].

No, you have not performed a test. Repeat this 100+ times and you have performed a test.

You right, but I have done that test in Orr. More than 100 times, but after the november update MF don’t work for me. The test in the Fractals was just a quick re-check.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Because paying money will HEAVILY lighten the load of grinding you have to do if you want to get one. Imagine this was a dungeon and you could pay to skip one of the more tedious sections. It’s not physical power, it’s progress. Money, in a way, is power. If you just start this game and buy yourself 20g, I think you have a bit of an advantage over others, especially since one of the best ways to overcome the level requirements of Story is to do crafting, which requires a crap ton of materials.

But we are talking about LWs, a cosmetic item and not dungons. (but even dungons you can skip, use one of that mercenary guilds and you can join only the boss fight or even only the very last part of a boss fight and this is offered by the players, not by ANet)
You absolutely right, if someone able to buy 20g just at the start of the game, well i’t is a big advantage. But can you tell me why people do care so much about how others play this game? for me at the end it looks very very jealous, like: “if i can not do this or that, others shouldn’t be able to do this or that too”. That’s just jealous and shabby.
And all the other complains about buying LW on the TP looks for me a bit as a tempest in a teapot.

PS: no, i do not own any LW (just before you ask ;-) )

sostronk.8167:

1) Is it worth getting it?
2) Will it be overshadowed by ascended in the near future?

ad 1) No. You are better with only one of the three pendants.
ad 2) Yes. In a week. See: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/january-2013/#new-features

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Fair way to think about it, but think of it like this too:

[…]The difference with P2W is that they purposely put obstacles in that can be remedied either by them fixing something they purposely put in or you paying money. It’s purposely bad game design to get more money. If the things you buy are simply more content or purely cosmetic, no one has an issue, but as soon as you can buy power, it becomes kind of wrong. It becomes schemey.

You right in one side, but on the other side, LWs are only cosmetic Weapons and somtime not even really that. They don’t have (yet) better stats then exotics. So why we are talking about P2W? There is no reason for. They gives no one more power or whatever kind of stats to be better than others. If someone buy a legendary, it is nothing more than buying a weaponskin.

The question is, why people are willing to grind or pay for a skin and why there is so much dispute about nothing else than cosmetics?

eisberg.2379:

If Arenanet can actually get people to buy $2000-$4000 in Gems to convert to gold to buy a Legendary, then good for them.

Do not think in a term of one big amount of money. Take it like it would be a monthly fee for the game (e.g. $20 / month) and as the game would be a hobby. There are lots of hobbies where people pay more than $20/month for it.

Mirta.5029:

What I’m saying is that magic find works, …

No, Mf don’t works. Not since the November Update and with the change to the loot. Veterans and Champions should give better loot. They do not. And so on…

Last week we just made a test (i wanted to kow it): Fractals Level 10, MF Gear, MF buff food, 50% MF potion, MF-guild banner. We killed every single mobs in all fractals (as far a possible). What i got wit all that MF was white and blue and two or three green. The others find more green and some yellow from the normal mob. For me is MF bugged and dead. Not a single reason to use it.

Azjenco.9425:

It just makes no sense. These are supposed to be progression items, weapons you work towards. They should be prestige gear that you obtain through hours upon hours of play.

That is a fundamental misunderstanding. Of course you can do all the things by yourself and that will be legendary. A legendary grind.
But if you have friends and/or good kin mates, then you put together all the ingredients for an LW. And that was by far the easiest way yet.
They are only four things what you can not get on this way: PvP Marks, Instance Marks, Karma and Skillpoints.

There was never a presige to get an LW. It was only the question how do you mange to get one.

Now you can by LW on the TP. Who cares? Players who buy one either grind for gold or grind for real money to get gems to chage to ingame gold. Grind is grind regardless where you do it.

The concept behinde the LWs was never to give you some prestige (it is a nice side effect if one feel that way), but rather to bind you to the game or spend real money to get one. In the first case you are the one, who build the “gaming community”, the croud who populate the servers. In the second case, you are the one, who make the finacial long term gameplay possible. The concept is WAI.
May be this is not what you would like to hear, but this is the very unheroic and unspectacular reality about Legendary Weapons.

Saturn L O L.1406:

As I’m closing in on my second legendary, money isnt a problem, karma isnt a problem => I get obby shards and money from Fractals – is there a viable way to actually farm skill points, because I am running short on those and in fractals you barely get any skillpoints…

I know you could level an alt, but that’s boring
You could do dungeon speed runs but I’m wondering if there are any quicker methods ?

Buy the EXP Potion and the other EXP Potion (for series) from Shop (additionaly: buy the Strenght/Armur/Quickness potions too). Use EXP-Guild-Banner.
Find one or two Places with loot of close standing Mobs and quick respawn rate. Kill the Mobs, kill the Respawn, kill the Mobs – change location – kill the Mobs, kill the Respawn … Start the circle again.

Alternative:
Buy the EXP Potion and the other EXP Potion (for series) from Shop (additionaly: buy the Strenght/Armur/Quickness potions too). Use EXP-Guild-Banner.
Look for Events like Balthasar or Lyssa. (do not mess with Orr’s Penitent- and Shelter’s Gate-Waypoint Events!)

Alternative:
Move your home to WvW.

All that is boring? Yes it is.

Iehova.9518:

The facts are that PVT and MF gear is for leeching scum who cannot contribute to dungeon running at all and just asking for a piggyback, son.

How many times need to be told to you, that i’m not you son and that my father died a couple of years ago?
Please THINK about things you are posting even if you do not share the opinion of others!

Ethics.4519:

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1) If I start dying too much then I’ll switch to PVT. I’ll also switch to PVT when I’m going to take some damage (I usually volunteer to kite the mobs on AC flooded temple).

2) For you to say I leech off my party cuz I use MF?

Ad 1) if you start dying it’ to late to change AND you can not chage weapons in fight with you ele, so what you are running is not a PVT gear but a mixed good-for-nothing at all.

Ad 2) Yes.

haviz.1340:

Players with full MF gear deal similiar damage to PVT. Hence, everyone who considers PVT gear not leeching should consider MF gear equal to PVT in terms of contributing. Plus, you get more shinies. Ergo, MF > PVT. Logical conclusion.

We may have different sight about PVT gear but i thought at least you know a bit about PVT. But after such a statement at this point i really have to ask you, if you know what are you talking about?
Do just some math on a full PVT and an full MF gear, you do not even come close to with MF to a PVT damage (take a look at some class skills to!). You can do more damage with PVT as with MF and have quite good chance to survive also some bad situations.

So please do not try to be such closed-minded, i think you do not need that.

Iehova.9518:

Sitael.4680:

Your opinion. Bad for you.

It’s a fact, son.

I’m not your son. And if i would be, it would mean you are deceased since a couple of years.
And if you are talking about facts, try to talk about things you know and not about thing you would like to know.

Iehova.9518:

Sitael.4680:

It is the same as with PVT gear, if you know how to play with it, you can do very high damage.

PVT and damage is mutually exclusive.

Your opinion. Bad for you.

Iehova.9518:

I’m sorry, I cannot contain the amount of facepalms I had while reading this insinuation.

Good for you.

haviz.1340:

Iehova.9518:

It’s pretty clear how much DPS you do as a corpse on the ground.

My downed state auto attack hits like a truck. And I got self-heal on number 4.

Serously. The goal is not to have “downed state auto attack hits like a truck”, but ruther avoid such situations. Of cours is not allways possible and things happen.
If you can play your Berserker very well: it’s really fine! (i just know very few players who really can play a real “Berserker”).
It is the same as with PVT gear, if you know how to play with it, you can do very high damage.

EDIT: all that is – of course – depending on the class you play.

haviz.1340:

You meant you’re unlucky you’re not being carried any longer, right? Do you really think Anet made pvt and the like armours for pros to carry bad people with zerkers?

No ANet meade that armour for players who know how to play. Nothing you have to take care about ;-þ

haviz.1340:

If you play with people bad enough that they have to rely on defensive stats, than yes. No glass cannon dies from one-shot.

ROFL you made my day with that.

haviz.1340:

Dee Jay.2460:

WoW, this is the dumbest comment I’ve read in a while.

I’d rather group with 4 players wearing PVT gear than a group of full glass-cannons.

Then you play with bads.

No. He an me plays in that case with a group and not with selfish one-hit wonders beggig for rezz ever 15 seconds. That is the different. L2P.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Same reason people run PVT gear. They don’t care about contributing, they just want to sit there and let other people do the work.

Utterly, utterly wrong. Just because people are to lasy to take care about a real PVT equip. Most of the time people are talking about PVT gear and only means six pices of armour with some silly runes. Not thinking about buff food (never use Superior Sharpening Stone: Gain power equal to 6% of your toughness; Gain power equal to 4% of your vitality) or just use some stupid MF food.
When i’m running my PVT gear it means: armour, weapons ,accessories/jewellery all with soliders crest (exc. some ascended gear). I’m running around with 3.700+ Attack Rating and do with that a very solid and constant damage.
I hate stupid glass canon players who are begging for rezz after 15 seconds of fight.

sol.4751:

If anyone knows what shoulders these are I really appreciate the info!

http://www.gw2armor.com/

ThCakeIsALie.5306:

Hey guys, I created this video w/ my thoughts. It’s a bit long (12:44), but any feedback would be appreciated.

I’m not sure what you are saying with this video.
Use http://www.gw2db.com/items/70842-scythe-staff-skin

I do not understand the Problem.

Before the patch: i never find any Passion Flowers from Passion Vines.
The pachnote said Increased the drop rate of Passion Flowers from Passion Vines.
After the pach: i never find any Passion Flowers from Passion Vines.

It is simple math: 0 x [whatever number of increase] = 0.
So everything is OK there. Teher is no reason for complains.

Regard.
—
PS: yes, this post is full of sarcasm.

Threkki.5271:

I was talking about toughness, it is not the primary stat on PVT gear right? power is.

Sorry i have overseen you post prior to that i answered. You right, power is the main stat on the PVT gear. Toughness i have approx the same as you, a bit higher, but still under 2K, i use now a PVT staff, but my two erarrings are not PVT and as backpiece i use the “Yakkington”-Book. (bit less power, but same toughness and vita as koss on koss). I think, if i would change the earrings i would be approx at 2130/2140.

Draeyon.4392:

I will say that it wasn’t as hard as the Mad King Clock Tower so ANet, MAKE THEM HARDER!!!!
Something I can complete in 5mins is not hard enough
Don’t listen to the people who say they are too hard. They are just not putting in the time or effort and solely want the rewards for it so they can get their weapon/armor skins.

In the german Forum someone mentioned it is very very hard for her/him, because she/he is handicapped and can only use one hand. She (or he) try it for a couple of hours with no success yet.

Is that what you you would like to say to her/him: "You are just not putting in the time or effort and solely want the rewards for it "?

If it is too easy for you: do it backward! Make a video of it, and we all will praise the new and only true King of all Jumpingpuzzles.
Seriously, it is you right to say, it is to easy for you, but it is really selfish to ask ANet to make it harder for everyone else.

Threkki.5271:

I already addded that in not sure what else it could be.

So far I have the following:

72 for chest
48 leggings
24 boots, gloves and shoulders
32 helm
110 from accessories
138 from rings
79 from amulet
17 for back slot
128 from weapons
84 from 6 soldier crests for each armour piece
250 for death magic and 916 base

Total: 1941

I think there is probably something wrong with my accessories/amulet calc, or maybe what is in my weapons. Any clues?

Something is wrong. You sure you have exotic and not only rare PVT armour?
There is my:

45 Head
34 Shoulder
101 Chest
34 Hand
34 Foot
67 Leg
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128 Staff or 2x 64 for two one-hand (not PVT gear)
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90 Amulet
134 (2×67 Ring)
32 Back
55 Earring – not PVT gear
25 Earring – not PVT gear
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220 soldier crests (11×20: 6 armour, 2 ring, 1 amulet, 1 earring, 1 staff)
Are you sure, you are using this one: Crest of the Soldier . from six you should get 120 and not 84)
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916 Base
200 Trait
58,65 Trait (+5% from 1173 Toughtness Trait Death Magic —> Deadly Strength (the 25 point skill)

Total:
2165 (actually it should be 2173,65 but the game show me 2165, i have no idea where the 8,65 is gone).

Attack: 3276

With more PVT gear (higher toughtness) the power and so the attack should be higher too.

Okamy.8235:

But my dmg looks bad. Against a lvl 80 doe (the ones just outside of Valley in EB in WvW), i do 300-500-800 with my auto-attack from dagger.

I don’t have a full exotic setup yet. I’ve full exo armor PVT with crest soldier, full rare invader earring, ring and amulet also with crest soldier. My weapon are PVT rare, no sigil yet.

My stats are :
power : 2,160
presicion : 917
toughness : 1,900
vitality : 1,774

attack : 2,993
crit : 4%
armor : 2,820
health : 26,952

Am i supposed to do that kind of dmg ? I don’t expect to do 5k+, but it takes a very long times to kill something. Is it because of my incomplete gear ?

The damage is appropiate to that stats. You lose power due to the rare versus the exotic jewellery and you lose weapon attack and power too for the same reason (use crest soldier for the weapons too). What is you back-piece? Maybe you lose power there too and you “should” use the described buff-food.
With more exotics you can get approx. 300-500 more to your attack.

Sheobix.8796:

even with dc rates, obtaining the loot by farming l10 fractals is easy.

Two notes:
1)
I have read many postings in the forums where people telling how frustrating it is, not to own a single ring after the 20th and more runs or have a couple of rings with the wrong stats.

Plese do not misunderstand me, i’m very impressed with the work and effort you have done for this build and i love it. Actually i would love it, but i’m missing the weapons and some of the jewellery.

So at the bginning i was looking what i could do to bring my build as close to the perfect prototype as possible.

I came the conclusion, this build is a long term goal for many many players.

One way to get this build is: time and the luck-factor.
Farming one of the instances and fractals for Armour and jewellery and farming WvW for badgets for weapons (i never saw a rare/exotic PVT weapon in the fractals yet) and jewellery.

As other players and you too mentioned, the armour could be the easiest to obtain. (For example how i got it (i allready had a full Grenth-Set) 3 of the Grenth-Set, 1 from AC and 2 from HotW). So for the less passionate player it is a mix of carma-vendor and some dongon-runs. Not really a grind.
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The other way is: money and a bit of time.
Eliminate the luck-factor: one would need a lot of money to buy the two nightmare-coils and much more money to build the emerald-pendant and money again for the back-piece (if not running fractals day & nighty for fractal relicts)

What still remain: the weapons and earrings. Either 1.584 budgets (2 earrings, one staff and two one-hand weapons) or 140.450 carma if one accept the rare version, or a mix of both.

Neither the first nor the second way is a short term goal. Maybe you are willing to clarify this in your OP?

2)
One could experiment with Triforge Pendant and the Superior Rune of Divinity

You got +100 on each of your stats and 17% critical damage. Of cours you will lose some of the PVT compared to 7xCrest of the Soldier (6 on armour and 1 on the emerald pendat)

To be accurate: you will lose 130 Power, 62 Vitality, 62 Toughness. But win: 100 Precision, 100 Healing and at least 40 Condition Damage (not sure if the rune is working for Condition Damage too) and the 17% crtical damage.

PS: just for the math: if you use buff-food, eat whatever you eat before you consume the SSS. After eating an Omnom Bread (100 vit 70 toughness) i got +4 power too. Don’t ask me why.

Skribulous.3521:

MF does not affect chests, but DR definitely does.

Pardon me, but what is the meaning of DR?

tigirius.9014:

Vayra.3290:

Doesn’t matter. It is not affected by magic find.

That would be my answer as well.

I think it does matter. Let me try to explain.
At this moment it is just a suspicion and me and some friends try to watching it … so the suspicion: i for myself recognised, if i loot a chest very early maybe as the first one, it seems i got a better loot. The best/worst examples are the Dragon-chests. Usually after fighting a dragon i rezz other players first, that they are able to loot the chest too. In that way i -usually- do not get good loot (white and blue, seldom green and never yellow or orange). Once it happened that i was standing just on the place where the chest was sown up. I looted immediately and i recived two rares.
Since this time, we are looking into this: we let loot other players and loot the chest very late. None of us reciveing good loot in this way, then one of us try to loot very early and the others more late. The one who looted the chest early seems to got a better loot. Till yet one rare at least. Even in the fractals, if i loot as the last person, i just got junk (white or blue), when i looted as the first person i recived much better loot, even exotics.

As i said it is just a suspicion (so please take it as such one!) and not much more at the moment, but my feelings are not so good on this.

ps: chest and magic find: yes it was said/written so: no affect. but it also has been told to us, that chapions should drop now much better loot and the droprate is increased etc. etc. Hm ….

Sheobix.8796:

tbh, ascended gear isn’t that hard to obtain..

It is hard to obtain, see this (written after a disconnect 10 min. ago)
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Need-an-ETA-for-disconnect-patch/first#post966847

but that is an another diskussion. ;-)

Hugo the Great.1426:

which are PVT (Power/Tough/Vit)

Ahhh!!! :-)

Hello,

Seems to be a nice build, maybe the one i looked for, BUT …
i have a coupele of questions:

1) do you know, that this build is nearly impossible becaus of fractals ascended RNG-Gear?
2) as non nativ english palyer i do not understad many of you abbreviations.
3) missing some explanation to the items.

So:
Royal Signet of Doric - RNG-Ascended Ring at chest from level 10 daily bonus chest

Lost Seal of Usoku - RNG-Ascended Ring at chest from level 10 daily bonus chest

Koss on Koss - Created at Mystic Forge

Emerald Pendant - Created at Mystic Forge

Shukov’s Launch Codes - Where can one get the recipe?

Invader’s Earrings – ??? No such item in the GW2DB. (no Invader and no Invaders too)

Sorrows Embrace/ Ascalonian Catacombs/ Invaders/ HotW gear – What do you mean? Some part of those sets or one full set, like full Invaders Acolyte … ?

Invader Weapons (Or PTV Fractal Weapons) * Ideal setup: Invader Dagger x2 + Invader Staff
Invader*s* Dagger
Invader*s* Staff

Wahat are “PTV Fractal Weapons”? Fractal Weapons (like Fractal -Ascended- Rings) are not in the game at the moment, so said by ANet.

Last question: have you ever been able to play this build inc. the gear you listed?

Regads
S.

Astraea.6075:

Just to clarify… I meant the price increase started around 1 November, which was about 2 weeks before the introduction of ascended gear with the 15 November patch…

You right, but do not forget the Halloween-Event. For some players with a bit luck (you now the precursor story) the legendary weapon is now half so far as before, so they may since collect/buy some ingredients (Ecto and T6 mats). And if i remember right, in this time was also one of the botter-kicking actions from ANet too. AND since the Lost Shores came online, the droprate of the “yellow” items is significantly decreased (discussed elsewhere), so the sources for Ectos are at the moment very rare. Ascended gear is just the last link in a chain of incidents, but it “heat” the market up.

Astraea.6075:

This is not true. Look at http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/19721 and you will see the price increase started long before the introduction of ascended gear roughly around 1 November.

I do not know, what you see, but i see definetly something else:
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Vasham.2408:

It’s a simple truth: the current set up for Fractals of the Mists, it’s much touted and advertised “endlessly scaling difficulty” is a complete and total failure.

Agree with that, but it is not only the difference in the level’s between players and that players are less and less willing to do the low levels.

For example:
Today i joined one of the nicest pug i ever had, for level 1 and 2. All level 80, two ing, one ranger, one mesmer, one necro. Of course i do not know how the others were equipped. We have done everything well, but the “20 minutes for one mini dungeon” was only a nice lullaby (Cliffside Fractal bugged once, but that is not the point here). At the second level we got for the 3rd dungeon the Underground Facility Fractal with the Legendary Hulking Ice Elemental . That was the end. Whatever we try, we couldn’t manage to bring him down. All the members in the group were really really willing to do the boss. After a first try, kiting worked fine, using the molten buckets worked fine, but we still didn’t had enough damag and at some point in the fight either someone was down, or the boss healed himself. I think we try it for about 50 minutes, after that we quit.

Can you immagine, what this player may think about the fractals?

I have done level 1 50 times* (sic!) to help frieds/guildies or just some pugs in many different grouping. I had groups where we did this boss in less than 5 min. (my best run ever was with two warriors, guardian and thief).

I like the idea behind the fractals – i.e. the random mini dangeons – and the fractals too (except the swamp, that is bullsh…t) but it is all just too beta for me. To much bugs, to unbalanced fights – particularly at low level and in particular class combination – and a very poorly conceived leveling mechanism.

The complete and total failure is not only about the fractals, it is about the holy trinity too. ANet decided not to have any roles in GW2 anymore. What is the relality? Guardians are used to be the healer, warriors the DD, the rest is mediocre CC/DD. The “every class can do everything” is an epic mistake from ANet. And as they can not change the classes any more such drastically, they should change the dungeons (not only the fractals).

One more epic mistake is the revard system in the fractals.
After all runs (and as i said, 50 from at level 1) just one drop of Vial of Condensed Mists Essence. That is (sorry dear game desingers, but i like to be very clear in that:) a piece of sh…it.

Fractals = no fun, no revard, punishment/boring if you helping others to reach higher level as 0.

Drew.1865:

In most cases failure in this game is by bad players that don’t listen and learn.

Could you be so kind and write a definition of “bad players”?

drkn.3429:

It’s not about very specific team builds,

drkn.3429:

Don’t have more than 1 necromancer … 3 people in any combination of ele/war/engi

Well … do you realize the discrepancy?

drkn.3429:

… (including those pesky necros),…

Oh, a little necro-hater!?!

Just two things:

1) Fractals of the Mists:
- you have to fix the Fractal-Disconnect problem. It has to be possible, that the same user with the same character can rejoin the gruop after a disconnect. This issue is the worst kind of instance desing i ever experienced in an MMO. Frustrating for all affected players and a sure way to controversy and disput in guilds/friendships till to separation.
- you need to fix the client-crush issus with fractale *
- you need to write an FAQ to the Fractals: they are so many questions – ingame to – about how to progress the levels in the fractals (the wiki describe it not good enough!) ** .

2) The new kind of Magic Find in Dungeons:
This is a 100% NOGO. This is an absolutely (pug-) group/guild killer. Remove it and just adjust the loottable for the mobs. Same chance for all group members.

ad * ) it hapens to us two times that all of us had a client crush at the same time. frustrating if this occurs just before or in the bossfight in the 3rd fractal.
ad ** ) many people do not know, that they do not lose their level if they go and help others in lower levels and so on.