Guild Wars 2

This is as ridiculous as it is awesome!

ANet, let the flying carpet FLY!)

No fix for this has worked consistently for me (leaving party/rejoining, going to another map then back to LA, relogging, relogging on another char then back to the one you wanna run fractal with, or combinations of these). However, each of these worked at least once for me so ?

It sure would be nice to get a fix for this…

A friend of mine is working on his first legendary (and to be as cliche as possible, it’s Twilight). His account name is “gaboiu.8954”. Anything would be appreciated. Many thanks in advance!

You can buy them now.

You need the 2 favors (of the pavilion and of the bazaar iirc) which you can buy from the TP (bazaar is kinda expensive).

Then combine them (double click) and go to the sovereign weapons vendor which atm is in Divinity’s Reach up the stairs from the wintersday karma merchant, to the right iirc.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sovereign_Weapon_Vendor

Hah, kids these days complaining about 10k drinks which they can instantly buy on the TP at any time and then speed through them by consuming a stack at a time…

It’d be really funny to see these guys attempt the oldschool Incorrigible Ale-Hound title in GW1, where not only did you have to drink 10k drinks, but you actually had to stay drunk in-game for 10k real life minutes for it to count, and you had to spend 2 drinks to get drunk for the third to count towards the title. And the drinks were really hard to come by in the early years, too. They changed it though some years ago and now you can just spam the drinks so it’s only a lot of clicking.

“The Thackerays send their regards.”

Thaddeus.4891:

Yaki.9563:

I’m pretty disappointed. I guess I’m forced to craft ascended armor and weapons if I want to continue in fractals and that is just not worth it. I opened about 20 days worth of daily boxes (40 regular, 20 adept, 20 of the middle tier) and got nothing. GG and bye bye.

If you bother looking thing up. If only lol.

Ascended box are dropped from daily 51-100. There is a very small chance to drop from Veteran and zero from Adept and Mist chest.

With Trinkets alone you can reach 94 AR which mean you can do up to level 68 where you should get about 1 Ascended box (weapons or armor) for every 6 days on average.

Pretty much similar to what we used to have.

That is not true as to mists chests – exactly yesterday I got a raider’s chest of gloves from the mists chest that was the reward for doing the recommended 4 daily (or 5, I forget which it was).

I opened about 200 encryptions and the proffit per was about 25-30s solid cash.

But I got no cat golem. Did anyone else get any after patch? Or are they super insanely rare now?

“I don’t like that people do certain things, therefore the game must change to force other people to do what I think they should do” – OP

Sigh…

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Game client: 64-bit
When it started: after yesterday’s update
Opinion on Satan: he’s alright I guess

This kinda makes me sad as well.

I don’t think the problem wasn’t that much that it was a DPS race, but that it took waaaaaay too long from the point where the map finished the events up until the Gerent event started, so people in an organised map had to choose between leaving the map to do other stuff and risk not getting back in the same instance, or remaining there faffing about uselessly for about 60-90 minutes. Yes, there are other events and adventures, but those are not really something to fill your hour with, unless you really really like those specific adventures (and since one of them is the golem punchy one…). It’s just such a huge time sink. Well, at least for me, but I got this impression as well from a lot more players.

We didn’t need another world boss-type encounter to add to the tour…

YES!

Please remove that free play period, it’s annoying and it slows things down.

I usually use Sovereign Punisher, I absolutely LOVE this skin, but it’s greatness only becomes apparent from very very close by.

Also nice skins are Mistforged, Hero’s Mistforged, Gallant, Fractal, Balthazar.

It seems to me you need to find some (or all) waterfalls in Southsun and stand in them and do the thing, the tip says “water cascading down”, if you haven’t done this already.

No way in hell. HoT was incredibly overpriced for what it promised and doubly so for what it delivered. I only prepurchased for the last beta weekend to try raids, and we all remember how that went. I’m playing it since it gave me lots of stuff to do, but this is mostly since I am a completionist. Meh…

Crafted a full set of armor and weapons for my main, cost me an arm and a leg waaaay back then but at least I had something to work towards. Atm I have enough boxes of asc armor and weps for any alt I would need to gear up, but no need for it so far. Had to open 2 boxes of asc gloves for legendary backpiece collection thingie, that hurt a lot. As for rings and trinkets, the first set for my main I got with laurels/guild comms, all the rest of the rings from FOTM. Backpiece from FOTM and Mawdrey.

You need to wait for the prompt to take you back to mystlock observatory, the one where the entire party must click ready. Otherwise it won’t register.

Heh, that looks FUN. GJ!

Also, soon. Because reasons.

Wait, you need to fail events in order to get it to spawn? And this is specifically implemented by ANet?

Bwahahahahahahahaha

Ember farm is rolling in its grave…

Hey, look, the game has no heterosexual relationship in it, so let’s add one more gay relationship, this time male. Because reasons.

Sigh…

You seem to ask why there is no such relationship in the game. I ask you – why should there be?

Been doing this daily with some friends for the XP from the fight hero challenges, lol. Easy and fast 300k XP.

Got a chest of gloves yesterday from 21-50 daily. They drop, but the rate has been nerfed into the ground.

kolompi.1287:

Agreed, but there is a bright side to this. We didn’t get our personal levels reset again.

…yet.

:(

Fractal ascended armor boxes still drop, just very very rarely and from daily chests – I got yesterday a chest of gloves from the 21-50 daily. First such chest to be seen by me and my friends since update, so definitely as nerf in droprate.

I regret prepurchasing it, I only did it for the last beta weekend to try out raids, and we all know how that turned out. My plan was to buy a boxed edition which was not only cooler since you get a shiny box, but also 10 euros cheaper here.

So I regret the prepurchase, but I would have bought the expansion anyway once it got out even though with a bitter taste since it is so small and overpriced.

There should be a mini Swarm of Pocket Raptors! 10-20 pocket raptors in a tight bunch. That would be awesome!

People are deluding themselves if they think ANet would crash the value of precursors (and thus the value of legends) by making them trivial to obtain through running around. From what I gather from people who completed collections, the general trend is that the price is a bit lower through collections, but not by far.

Ranting and arguing over silly semantics won’t solve the issue in your favor. Be glad that your precursor grind is at least somewhat varied and you don’t have to farm the same spots for just gold.

People didn’t as much hate Trahearne for taking the credit, as much for being lifeless, useless and with a terrible, terrible voice acting. It was one of the worst characters I’ve met in video games.

Thanathos.2063:

The new legendaries require mastery#4

And they are also not currently available. The 3 first new legends will come together with the raids.

Soon.

Whatever they do, no matter how much they hurt it, CoF will always rise back to stand by the players’ side.

All hail CoF, Mother of Players and Friend to All!

I have mixed feelings about this. While I am opposed to them being available on the TP, their alternative cost of 20 pristines is ridiculously low so it’s mostly the same IMO. I dunno…

Alteraphim.4629:

Alteraphim.4629:

Let players play how they want within the games own defined ruleset as long as it isn’t using exploitation of a software bug

Fixed it for you

There is no bug, stop misleading people. Nor is it an exploit, unless you count as an exploit people failing events for better loot, or people calling many other people to scale up an event for more mobs and thus more loot.

Also, remember this: anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering, suffering leads to junk forum posts.

Well, this is sad news for me.

I’ve had the precursor for some 8 months now, bought for some 200-250g back then, and everything else I need for the legend, but I waited until now because I wanted to see the collection for the precursor. It seems to me much much cooler to go on a thematic journey to get the precursor, than just buying it with gold. However, if it requires this scribing BS to just begin the journey, I’m out. Just gonna craft mine and be done with it, and maybe do the collection anyway for the feels in the future when the price for scribing will go down.

“GG” Anet…

Hey guys,

Can one change the stats of an ascended piece of armor into Sinister in the MF with an exotic Sinister insignia, like all the “regular” stats? Or does one have to craft the full ascended armor?

I ask this, and in this subforum, because of reasons.

:(

Absconditus.6804:

I’d rather see that they added checkpoints to the final fight stages, rather than to reduce the Toughness/Health of the final boss. I liked that it took some time. It’s a fight against the visage of an Elder Dragon, it should be conceived as difficult to do. At least in my opinion. I appreciated that it was a bit of effort involved.

A fight taking a long time to complete does not make it hard. It just makes it tedious. The only effort involved was to not die of ennui and to stay away from the ledges to not get knocked off the arena. The mobs you fight are no real threat.

Absconditus.6804:

I just want to pipe in and say I absolutely loved that final fight and mission. People kept saying it was so bugged when I was about to enter, but I only found it to be a bit wonky in the final fight, when you were tasked with either going to Braham (uncertain how it works if you don't bring him, I guess you get him regardless) or bounce up and glide around to avoid the AoE damage (it wouldn't glide a lot of times, and often I wouldn't bounce up either, a problem the bouncing mushrooms have in general). I saw no bugs, just various mechanics that I assume people didn’t understand, and then just chalked up as bugs. This was a really fun fight to solo.

Heh, I tried standing near Braham but I still took damage so I immediately went to the skies, but indeed the takeoff was often problematic; there was no time for experimenting since the damage dealt was pretty big and done every second, so for me it was either sky or die. The fight was interesting, but the fact that it takes sooo much time to complete (and without any checkpoints) is very annoying. Reducing the hp/toughness of the boss should solve this IMO.

Lethalvriend.1723:

@SkyFallsInThunder, if you would break Eir’s breakbar while she is reviving Garm (only one stun/daze/knockback or so would have been enough) then she becomes vulnerable for about 5-10 seconds where you can do enormous damage to her, even my auto attack did over 13,000 dmg.

I didn’t have anything to break her bar with since I was running gs/lb, I wanted the gs for the extra dodge, damage and good movement skills and the lb because, well, while not knowing what you are facing, it’s best to have a ranged weapon as well.

Thanks for the tip, though, I’ll be sure to pass it on to my friends who are close to that fight as well! It should reduce the time of this fight tremendously.

I dunno, I didn’t like how it ended, it seems really silly to me. Mordremoth kills the Pact fleet and most of the world armies, and then you go and kill it with 4 friends. I mean, seriously?! And you, a human being, can outwill an ancient being of incomensurable power in its own domain… Gifted as you might be, this is plain ridiculous.

Giving a voice to Mordremoth was a mistake IMO. Zhaitan never spoke to you and that was awesome IMO because it underlined its otherness from regular beings, it seemed beyond our mortal views, as an eternal like him should be.

The final battle was anticlimactic but mostly it was very very tedious. I dunno who at ANet decided to give the mobs so much hp and toughness, but it was a horrible ideea. The fights are stupid easy, you can’t die unless you potato bad, but they just take soooo looooong.

Eir was long and stupid, I thought downing Garm would put her in some vulnerable state where she takes more damage while resing him, but it does not, she is just stationary and you can melee a very very very small chunk of her huge hp pool… I ended up longbowing her to death while ignoring Garm.

And Mordremoth… he is a bit more dangerous if you get caught in his attacks, but those are very easy to avoid. And his hp… I think it took me 10-15 mins to kill it at least, I didn’t time it but it felt that way. I got the impression that condi dmg would be better for those fights than power dmg, but I’m not sure (I was running gs/lb on my warr with almost full zerk, ptv rings and amulet and knight gs and one accesory). The fight was still easy because it is very hard to die from dmg (I managed to die twice though, once being hit by a rock while gliding and then falling off the platform, and the second time I got pushed off the platform by Canach), but other than falling from the platform you are guaranteed a kill… eventually.

The duration of this fight needs to be reduced to about 1/3 of how it is now. So does the duration of the Eir fight. The Pale Tree seemed alright I guess.

Also, about Trahearne’s death – even his final action was to make you do something: he can’t even kill himself properly and you have to do it for him… Still, that at least was somewhat satisfying.

Guys, guys, how about the Jetpack as a glider skin? SPACE MARINE POWER!

Worked fine for me.

Also add SPOILER in the title pls, not everyone finished the story and it’s not nice to spoil things for them

Killer Instinct.2058:

They say a picture says more than a thousand words..

That’s wallpaper material right there!

Hahaha… haha… ha…

I made myself sad.

Yes, this would be a very very nice QoL adjustment! It’s sooo annoying to have that extra loading screen, particularly into LA which takes longer than pretty much every other loading screen.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Bob F It.5701:

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

… where and how doesn’t matter.

As long at it’s in the core game continents.

…which is what I said in the first part of my sentence. lol

Not really, it would have helped to be more speciffic. WvW, EotM and the Labyrinth are also in the core game, but they award exactly 0 XP to masteries tracks. You need to do stuff in the actual continent of Tyria for it to count for mastery progression.

On the other hand, XP gained in fractals counts for mastery progression.

So WvW, EotM and the Labyrinth, which are in the Mists, do not give XP that counts for masteries, but the Fractals of the Mists, which are in the Mists, do. Because logic.

All hail CoF, Mother of Players and Friend to All!

I’m missing 3 of the skins I have unlocked. Please fix this, it’s annoying.

I only did a few fractals since release, but I’m not pleased at all with what they’ve become. They feel very unrewarding. I finished my fractal mastery last night and will try some fractals with it maxed to see if the loot is more decent, but I don’t have high hopes.

I’m not sure this helps, but I got 3 rings from daily chests yesterday for doing fractals 1-20 and 21-50, so I assume ascended weapons/armors drop from these as well and the higher the level, the better the chance. It’s only a supposition, though.

What I would like to know is whether the fractal skins still drop from chests or are only obtainable from the merchant with pristines – I’d like to have my conscience cleared about finishing my collection with pristines rather than waiting for drops, since I hate waste and would not want to see skins drop after I finished my collection and feel bad about their uselessness.

All hail CoF, First amongst Dungeons and Friend to All Players!

TheLastNobody.8319:

RSLongK.8961:

Its a new kind of fractal reset. Increased gate and less reward. Now its 1-20; 21-50; 51- 70; 71-100 (4 daily bonuses) with lots of gold sink. WHY? who looked at this and said :“Ha thats gonna be fun” Oo

My best guess is they are trying to flush a lot of gold out of the economy, but I really think if that is so this is the wrong way to do it. Maybe they’re trying to account for all the new ways to make gold? Just have to see I guess, right now everything that seems to have been good for making money has been nerfed into oblivion. Which would be so bad but….RNG….

Well, they will succeed because many players will stop playing due to this bad policy of theirs, and their gold therefore is moved out of the economy…

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

They are in the game. Beat level 50, Buy merch has them.

What’s the price, man? The price?!!!

:D

Is this some kind of sick joke from ANet?!

1g to SALVAGE an item?!?! What braindead potato ideea is this?! So now we either pay 1g to free up one inventory spot, or keep filling mule chars till we drown in rings?!

I swear to God, they always do this – every bit of good stuff they put out has to come with some sort of kick in the balls. It’s not enough that they killed dungeons, now this… It’s like they did this on purpose to spite the players asking for a use for the rings – “what’s that? you complain all the time because we give you rings? here, pay up a premium suckers! why? because we can and because kitten you and because next time maybe you will learn to shut up! huehuehuehuehue”.

Disgusting.

If there MUST be a price, then it should be something like 10s tops.

While this seems good, it is actually bad since the rewards for staying until the end of an event means you only get the rewards for that event, and they are very very little. It will make more people quit doing them altogether, unless they buff the rewards to make it worthwhile vs the time spent. I guess we’ll see.