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Legendary Aura removed. Please put it back

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Legendary auras remaining always has been a bug.

Maybe a bug, but I liked it and I think it should be brought back, maybe as an option to turn on/off?

Legends need more love…

[SPOILERS] Season 2 Finale [merged]

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I’ve never seen a dragon champion being more influenced by proximity tequatal seemed to be ok with it ,plus if you are a dragon and you make a servent and you have the power to bind his/her will wouldn’t you do it from the start ? To be honest the whole " pale tree is a dragon champion " feels so forced by a-net. The point of Plotholes should be the name of the chapter.

Tequatl was never free from Zhaitan, so him being far did not matter, their bond was never severed.

If you want a better example – Glint. She broke free of Krallkatorrik’s influence and when he woke up he did not bring her immediately back under his influence, but instead went straight for her to kill her in the desert; this can only be because he could not do it from afar since Glint also had power to resist him. I would assume that he could have taken her back if he exerted enough influence over her, but this would have to be close by and I guess he was enraged at this betrayal. Or maybe he could not bring her back under his influence since Glint was old and powerful herself (far older and presumably more powerful than the Pale Tree, who is very young).

The Tree is weakened and reeling now because her identity from birth was given by Ventari and his tablet, so she has one of her own, rather than that of a dragon champion. Now the 2 sides, dragon servant/independent entity, are fighting for control, and so she is weakened. If Mordremoth could exert close, sustained, influence on her, then the scales would tip in his favor and she would be taken.

It’s all speculation, of course, but it seems sound to me.

[X] better be punished [spoilers]

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What I don’t like is why didn’t Caithe and Wynne… you know… attack Faolain?! Not necessarily kill her, but at least subdue her and take her to the Tree for judgement. I mean, they were 2v1 there… I understand Faolain had growing support within their people, but this seemed a far better option to me than just killing Wynne. It can be put to shock, I guess, but it doesn’t seem proper. I like the terrible decision that Caithe had to make, but it seems a bit unnecessary. However, for the reasons above, I guess it can be alright. Just… it could have been done better, the situation could have been manipulated by the writers so as to make the decision seem the only way at the time. Not that big of a deal, though, considering how good the final episode was.

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Well, I’ll be kitten ed. I did not expect this finale to be anything but dissapointing, but ANet delivered, and it delivered well and in style! The final episode was incredible, the Turai Ossa instance with the same dialogues from GW1 gave me a huge nerdgasm, but the final instance was beyond belief and the end cinematic and possibilities… Wow. Just WOW! Sure, there were some hiccups, but the good outweighs the bad in this by so much that they don’t even matter!

Kudos to all the people at ANet who made this awesome story, you did a fantastic job and deserve every praise you get and more! You are on the right track with this, keep up the good work!

Now… please… for the love of the Six… let January 24th bring us an expansion announcement, and as soon as possible! Let’s take the fight to Mordremoth properly!

[SPOILERS] Season 2 Finale [merged]

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“Oh poor little Sylvari. If it makes you feel better I’ll be sure to burn down the Pale Tree as painlessly as possible :P " , this is why we can’t have nice things. The Pale Tree never shown any signs of being Mordy’s ally , hell she even was attacked by the dragon. Glint was freed , no reason to think the Pale Tree is otherwise. The only thing i can accuse the pale tree is stupidity. But people would still burn someone down based on some beliefs they haven’t event tested out.

It’s silly to say that the Pale Tree can be an ally of Mordremoth. She is his creation and can only be a servant if she falls under his sway. I don’t think the Shadow of the Dragon attacked her to destroy her, but to weaken her to the dragon’s influence.

I don’t think the Tree can be taken by Mordremoth unless he exerts huge and close influence on it personally, but the individual sylvari are a totally different thing. Let’s not forget that in the cinematic almost all sylvari in the Pact fleet were instantly taken by Mordremoth and they started attacking their fellow Pact members of other races.

No, the Pale Tree should not be burned down, but all sylvari should keep as away as possible from Mordremoth to avoid being taken, and let the other races handle him. Once Mordremoth is dead, the sylvari will be finally free of him and can be fully trusted again. Until then, however, they should back away since the risk is too great for them being taken.

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Finally started downloading and it was all going well, but now it’s stuck at 2 files remaining and it downloads at speeds of 60-400kbps. So far it has downloaded about 60MB at this speed and it’s still going…

Can anyone who has finished downloading tell me how large this download is? I’m at 425MB and going strong…

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Getting it as well.

What did you get from the final daily reward?

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Wow, Healix… O.o

And I thought I had too many Laurels at 754. XD

I have one lonely laurel.

The 20 went thru my hands so fast I got ‘laurel burn’.

I have exactly 0. Then again, Frostfang is max 1 day away…

How much for heavy ascended armor ?

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Note that prices for Ascended mats may actually come down a little now thanks to the Chest of Loyalty offering the Ascended chest as one of its options. If players opt for it instead of the Laurels or Legendary mats chest, that will be a huge spike of Damask/Elonian Leather/Deldrimor/Spiritwood coming into the game every 28 days.

I really don’t see why people would choose ascended mats instead of the 20 laurels if they are looking to get the most cash out of the loyalty chest. The best possible outcome is 2 Damask, which is about 28g before taxes, while the 20 laurels should be ~20-26g before taxes depending on what mats you get (you get heavy bags of crafting materials, 1 for 1 laurel, and each drops 3 random t6 mats). However, since the ascended mats choice is a gamble, you run a very high risk of getting stuff not even worth 10g (worst possible outcome being 1 Elonian Leather, so not even 2g).

This gamble is waaaaaay too risky IMO, and I would not recommend getting anything other than the laurels, since this is the most cash/least risk you will get out of the loyalty chest.

There is the option for mystic clovers and obby shards, but without knowing how many you can get, it’s very risky as well. Not to mention that obby shards drop like candy in Silverwastes and anyone working on a legendary will get the clovers very easily since the recipe for them also yields the coveted t6 mats, so it’s a win-win.

The option to get Tomes of Knowledge… lol.

TL;DR If you want stuff to help with the ascended armor and you are short on cash, get the laurels and turn into cash, then buy what you need and craft the ascended mats yoursels.

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What did you get from the final daily reward?

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I chose the laurels, safest bet to turn into cash. I immediately turned them into t6 mats for my new legend.

I am curious if this same table will repeat itself starting tomorrow or if there will be a new one.

Do you find the Tomes of Knowledge useful?

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At the moment I still have 3 more racial alts to level for their personal story, so I still have use for them, but they pile on fast since I also do some PvP. After I will finish with these, I dunno what to do, they will be glorified skill points.

This seems like a good ideea:

You can always use them to key farm.

Or this:

At minimum you get skill points out of them, with a little more effort you get all the level up rewards.

Living Story Season 1 and 2 recap

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What I have learned is that there are so many characters that it’s really hard for me to follow the story line, I’m not sure how it felt being played but reading these brief summaries makes me feel like I missed out on a ton, due to not having a good enough computer to run GW2.

I also think the story was really choppy in the beginning with the molten alliance/flame legion, they had no real part in Scarlet’s story that I could see.

They were experiments of Scarlet’s to gain the tools, weapons and armies she needed for the Breachmaker and the assault on Lion’s Arch (better called Badluckbriantown, it seems). In that most epic of updates when her armies invaded Tyria, you fought them all – Molten Alliance, Toxic Alliance, Aetherblades, Clockwork constructs. It was truly epic and awesome since it was on a continental scale. One of the best updates so far.

A five week break for 1 episode?

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I think the title says it all, this is disappointing and poorly planned.

“Dissapointing” does not even begin to cover it. Still, the quality of the LS has improved, so I guess we have that going for us, which is nice. Maybe they save it by giving us an epic finale, though I sincerely doubt it.

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Tutorial: How to stop EotM whining

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It’s funny how people talk about “the hijacking of EotM by the PvE players” – WvW people went into EotM when it first came out, played for a while, then left. Do you know why? Because it lacks purpose. There is no noticeable gain at the end of the 3 hours, you don’t contribute to your server, there is nothing. So it has been turned into a ktrain. Now it has a purpose. Now players can go there and ktrain and level their alts or just farm instead of doing it in low lvl PvE areas, where the ktrains do a lot of harm to the new players (remember Queensdale train?).

Also, this is spot on:

points to thread

Devs, take note: EotM is a joke. Axe the rewards for playing in EotM, please.

Ironically if they did that, and made EoTM what it was originally intended to be like, nobody would go there. Queues can be annoying at times but nowhere near as bad as they used to be before when the concept of EoTM was concieved of.

It’s strange that this poster understands this, but is against the ktrains in EotM. If WvW players don’t go to EotM and PvE players don’t go to EotM, then who does?

Spawn Camping.

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The spawn may have 3 exists, but I want to use THAT ONE and they are not letting me, thus not letting me play how I want!

EoTM Off Balance

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whats your point? your upset you cant karma train all the time like you used to because good players went in there and actually have the nerve to fight your group? how dare they get in the way of your farm! Eotm has been around for a little over a year, anyone can go in there at anytime and do whatever they want, theres plenty of farming in pve maps. People who go into EoTM/ WvW with pve setups, or are low levels OF COURSE are going to get slaughtered when fighting wvw focused players.

I laughed a bit at the bolded part. Nevertheless, there are indeed a bit more fights now, but I don’t really think that really derails the ktrain much, just adds a bit more diversity. Of course, when a guild group of 15-20 goes to EotM to farm bags, the fights get to be very one-sided, but they don’t last for very long since the ktrain swiftly disbands in that map. I personally stopped taking my alts there to level since I can just use the Tomes of Knowledge I get from PvP to level them, so now I kinda hope our zerg runs into some fights while ktraining since the combination of high survivability+lootstick+450MF+tons of targets can lead to very interesting results.

The EotM debate has been going for quite a while now and no official stance has been given by ANet, so anything goes. If you want to ktrain, go ktrain. If you want to fight, you will probably find some fights, though their quality will vary wildly. And if you want to grief other players, this is certainly the place to be. I guess there is satisfaction to be found in fighting upscales and feeling like a hero because omfg i alone me me me killed 20 nuuubz with my ac and saved my keep hoooraayyyyy.

The New Dailies -- Feedback welcome

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I just want a way to be able to open the daily login window again so I can see where I am in relation to finishing/what rewards are coming up next.

This would be great! Frankly, I have no ideea why it was not added from the beginning. Regardless, it is a small issue and the new daily system is awesome (although granting more WvW experience for the WvW dailies would be great, 250 is way too little, or to give instead stuff like superior blueprints – give people stuff they can actually use for WvW and are helpful, not more badges of honor!).

What would you add to the HoM?

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I would like a miniature of my main character from GW1…

Or all the weapons and armors from HoM to be transfered over to GW2. And minis.

Any ETA on Fractal Leaderboards?

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A reply to this issue would be nice, but I think we all know what really happened.

The New Dailies -- Feedback welcome

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I absolutely love the new daily system, especially the PvP part. The rewards are sweet and I can now just ignore most of them since I get my 10AP from doing the PvP ones, so I have more time to do stuff I like. In the first few days I tried doing them all, but it was soon apparent that the rewards for some of them don’t even justify a single WP cost to the area, so they are safe to ignore. Nowadays I just do the gathering ones, sometimes world bosses, maybe vistas if I feel like it… Only the PvP ones are worth doing all 4 because of the sweet sweet track progression (almost a full tier when coupled with the points you gain from playing the 2 hotjoin matches you need to gain all 4 PvP dailies).

WvW dailies are very bad when it comes to rewards, though. I do them since I am effectively helping my server, but not always and the very little WXP they give and the few badges (lol, we definitely needed more badges!) make them totally not worth it if you are looking to maximize your gains. Make the WXP gained per achievement at least 1k and then they will be worth doing.

The only bad part for me is that I will be getting less Black Lion Salvage Kits since now you only get 4 chances per month at them, which is rather little. Not that big of a loss, though IMO.

#justgw2things

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When you get your progression reset with no compensation or valid reason.

Point of No Return

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So this is the last one of session 2?

I’m not 100% certain, but I believe it’s the final episode for Season 2 yeah.

Is it just me or did this season seem really short?

Nope, not just you: it was very very short and they sought to hide this by having very very long breaks in it. Still, its quality was greatly improved as opposed to season 1. If this is indeed the final episode, then I expect a break from LS until summer at least.

#justanetthings

Legendary Favorites

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Favorites:
1. Flameseeker Prophecies
2. Eternity
3. Bolt
4. Howler
5. Frostfang
6. Juggernaut

Least favorite:
1. Quip
2. The Moot
3. The Dreamer
4. Kudzu
5. Incinerator

Kudzu is very annoying for me as I would love to make a legendary longbow, but this skin is sooooo not my style. Ended up making Azureflame instead.

Are rankfarm servers [Red win or kik] ilegal?

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Hotjoin win rank is 500 pts. Unranked Q loss is 500 pts/ win 1k. Ranked loss 800 pts/ win 1500. Even if you loose every ranked match you will be doing better.

I think UnR and R got exacly same rewards since last patch.

Ranked loss gives you 500 points, not 800.

More to the point, I think this Red Wins strategy falls under the match manipulation clause and it’s strictly illegal since the players manipulate the outcome of the match so that one side wins and gets the end rewards.

All around warrior build dungeons,wvw,pve,pvp

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Do CoF p1 daily and in a bit more than 3 weeks you will have enough tokens to buy a full set of exotic Berserker armor. It’s really very easy to get and not only do you not need to spend gold to get it, you actually make gold while working towards obtaining it.

Inventory Window changing size alone

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I’ve been having the same issue since forever, just never reported it since it is not that great an issue. As to the requested info:

  • What game client are you using? (Windows / Mac) – Windows
  • What are your current graphics settings? – I use Autodetect and they are all set to about medium, though sometimes I set them to Best Performance when doing Teq or WvW.
  • Are you playing in full screen or windowed mode? – always full screen.
  • Is your inventory full or maxed out? – rarely full and not maxed out, though I usually only have about 20-30 free spots in it for loot (I tend to carry a lot of stuff around with me).
  • Do you play with bags displayed or hidden? – bags hidden.

The Lone Transmutation Stone...

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I also have a stray transmutation stone and I am keeping it as a souvenir.

Wasn't the living story returning today?

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You mean…. More a week of this christmas event and the extra daily laurel?
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There, I fixed that part for you.

Royal terrace guard - fix it!

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Yep, this is annoying and I’d love to see a fix for it. It’s not a big deal but, like someone above said, it’s the small things that, when put together, cause the big eruptions…

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Merry whatever-doesn’t-offend-you!

How can I WvW with guildmates

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Well there should be something to be done. I just changed guilds after the one I was in evaporated and now I learn that my new friends and I can’t WvW together?!? That is unacceptable. I understand the need to protect the WvW nature but don’t you agree that I should be able to WvW with my guildmates?

Chaba,

Why are you being rude? I simply posed a couple of thoughts and you are telling me to do more research. If you don’t want to post anything helpful, then it would be best not to say anything at all.

Self-entitlement, passive agression and over-defensiveness, the 3 ingredients that make these forums fun.

As to Chaba’s post, his advice would have actually solved your problem 100% 10 cases out of 10. It’s hillarious how you pick on him for pointing out the best possible thing you could have done. But I guess what he said isn’t exactly what you wanted to hear, was it?

OP, World vs World means that one server fights another. I can’t possibly see how you could assume it would be otherwise, and your coming on the forums complaining that you can’t play with your friends from another server because you didn’t think it through before you chose your servers won’t solve it. Transfer to another server or just accept the fact that you can’t play with them. Unless ANet drastically changes the way the wvw concept works, there won’t be any other way.

Reward track points vs rank points.

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I’ve noticed something rather odd: a win in ranked PvP gets you 1500 rank points, which gets you about a segment and a half or so from a tier of the reward track you are on atm. This should be fine since the wiki states that each segment needs 1000 points to complete. The problem comes from elsewhere: a win in hj gets you 500 points and, as per the wiki info, this should advance the reward track for only half a segment, but I get almost a full segment for each such win!

A guildie also tested it and he got ~250 points from a hj late win, which awarded him about half a segment of reward track, when it should have awarded him only a quarter, according to the wiki.

I know there are some bonus points to be had, like volunteering and top stats, but they are very very few, ~50 extra points if you volunteer and you do exceptionally well, so the difference cannot come from this.

There is a problem, but with which one? Either there is some sort of DR or bug for winning ranked when it comes to reward track progression, or there is a bug that makes wins in hj award about double the reward track progression.

Rank progression seems fine, only the reward track progression has this issue for me.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Finisher question

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oh it stacks higher like all our gathering mats then? or did i miss a change towards limited charge finishers or is that because of +storage space"? i remember base stacking 250 was not sure past that.

I checked last night and I have 326 scarecrow finishers all stacked together in the finisher wardrobe panel. I don’t have any collection expander, so I guess they stealth changed this to either a higher limit, or no limit. I don’t know what is the superior limit, but it would have to be pretty high considering how many finishers dropped during Halloween.

Getting 1600 gems for the store?

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Character slots are really the only thing you will actually need. Not only can you experience all the classes in the game and keep them, but you can also use them for their inventory space.

As convenience goes, buy everlasting tools, they are very very very handy. Copper-fed-salvage-o-matic is also very useful. And if you chance upon a permanent Royal Pass or Captain’s Airship Pass (the permanent ones, not the limited nonsense), buy one of those – they are incredibly convenient.

Finisher question

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^ as both have mentioned, take into account the finisher stacks up to 250charges.

Not really, I currently have some 376 or so halloween finishers of the same type in my finisher selection screen, all stacked tightly.

Is Edge of the Mists WvW or PvE?

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The best commanders use it like a WvW map defend, Zerg hunt (which gets more bags [bags = loots] than a karma train).

Most individuals now rely on Tequatl killing for karma (~30k) per completion and will do this on alts as it’s much faster than edge of the mists.

These are 2 false statements.

Firstly, claiming that bags give better loot than ktraining is laughable. You get bags of all varieties since most players are uplevels and most items dropped by them sell for pennies. Besides that, it is not regular, you actually have to find people to kill and tag as much as possible, which is not always easy or fast to do and requires something out of your control – the existence of opponents. Ktraining, on the other hand, gives you champ loot, karma, badges and WvW rank-up chests on a very regular basis, and all these can be made into cash. Not to mention that it’s by far the fastest way to level up characters (except using tomes and crafting, ofc). The monetary gains of EotM ktraining are stagerringly high, which is why most people preffer to ktrain. On the other hand, it is pointless to fight, defend and siege up since there is absolutely no end reward for winning the 3 hour match and the benefit to your server is so little it’s as good as 0.

Secondly, teq does not give 30k karma per kill, it’s only 13k + what you get from the events, which is little.

It’s sad that there are abusive players, but you can just block and report them and be done with it.

Keep in mind that, if in a map of, say, 100 people, 97 want to ktrain and 3 want to fight, it’s pretty obvious what the majority opinion is and it would be nice of you to allow the majority to do their thing. Nice, not mandatory: you can do whatever you want. EotM has been along for a long while now, if ktraining were such a bad thing, they would have fixed it by now, as they did with every farm in the game they thought was damaging (ember, coil, SW amber etc).

OP, I’m sorry to see that they have gotten to you so badly, but try and move over this and enjoy the game. A few bad apples don’t make the whole forest bad.

Karma Train

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If you read what the current and ex-employees on glassdoor.com write, you are most likely right on the money. Go ahead and read it. I’ll wait.

I am reading it now… OMG… No wonder things are as they are…

Wvw (EotM) Questions

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Ah ok, is there a server list of which servers are always on the same teams? or does this change every week?

You team will depend on your server colour… Blue and Red usually have dead times, while green always keep most population. If you try to join a EotM instance right after it start, you’re likely to get on active one (despite your colour). But later on, unless you’re on green, you’re likely to face bad instaces.

Hmm i do not understand why. Jade and Blackgate are blue and red. There is like no major server in green, so why would it always be populated? but yes i have noticed this i think

Tarnished Coast is green, and they are currently #1 server on the NA leaderboard. But besides that, green is the color of the top server in each tier (blue is 2nd, red is 3rd), so the green side of EotM will always have the top servers of each tier and they usually have a lot more population than the other servers.

That is why the green side in EotM always has the numbers regardless of overflow.

Even so, red and blue usually have their zergs, but sometimes these disband due to fail commanders or other colors farming their ktrain. There are sometimes guilds going into EotM to hunt the ktrains, so people usually leave when they see they can’t run the ktrain and level their alts anymore. I fail to see the satisfaction in this, but there are all sorts of people and for some it’s fun to ruin other people’s day, and some of them even get all self-righteous about it and how they “protect the way wvw should be played”; it’s hillarious to read what they write on map chat or on the forums.

For a new player, EotM is not really a good place to go. 99% of the people who go to EotM do so to ktrain and/or level alts, so they generally try to avoid fights and, sadly, most of them have their brains put on sleep mode, while others display a rather toxic behaviour; EotM is really really not representative of what WvW means. If you like the ideea of large scale PvP(-ish), go to WvW proper (Eternal Battlegrounds and the Borderlands), that is where the real action is and the people interrested in WvW as a competitive large scale PvP(-ish) mode. The general consensus for the majority of players is that WvW proper is for WvW, and EotM is for ktrain and leveling alts.

Depending on the tier your server is, there may or may not be a lot of action in WvW proper, but usually during prime time there are people there. As a rule of thumb, the higher the tier, the more people you will find in WvW proper and the more chances you’ll get of having people to play with there in the off-times.

GL.

Edge of the Mists is a WvW zone. PvE players who arrive in Edge of the Mists and get upset that they’re being killed should stay in PvE where they belong.

Here we go…

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The wiki post mentions that you only get a Masterwork item and only random ingredients (meaning only cooking stuff), while Mawdrey has a chance to give you rares (got a few myself) and I hear even exotics, while also dropping mats of all sorts, not just for one profession. If this proves to be true, then this is inferior to Mawdrey. However, it’s only been out a day so the loot table maybe is not quite clear yet? I sure hope it’s the same as Mawdrey…

Nevertheless, kudos to ANet for giving us this, perhaps now I won’t hit the 200 stacks high water mark for Empyreal Fragments…

Wintersday daily doesn't count for meta?

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haha i will not play bell chore bs so goodbye meta for me. O well, good there are more nice games out now coz GW2 have absolute nothing to offer in this christmas.

Perhaps the meaning of the word “achievement” is lost to you. Maybe this will help.

How are so many rams on a gate possible?

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Perhaps because that is the S. Grey gate. If you know what I mean.

Wvw (EotM) Questions

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Ah ok, is there a server list of which servers are always on the same teams? or does this change every week?

You team will depend on your server colour… Blue and Red usually have dead times, while green always keep most population. If you try to join a EotM instance right after it start, you’re likely to get on active one (despite your colour). But later on, unless you’re on green, you’re likely to face bad instaces.

Hmm i do not understand why. Jade and Blackgate are blue and red. There is like no major server in green, so why would it always be populated? but yes i have noticed this i think

Tarnished Coast is green, and they are currently #1 server on the NA leaderboard. But besides that, green is the color of the top server in each tier (blue is 2nd, red is 3rd), so the green side of EotM will always have the top servers of each tier and they usually have a lot more population than the other servers.

That is why the green side in EotM always has the numbers regardless of overflow.

Even so, red and blue usually have their zergs, but sometimes these disband due to fail commanders or other colors farming their ktrain. There are sometimes guilds going into EotM to hunt the ktrains, so people usually leave when they see they can’t run the ktrain and level their alts anymore. I fail to see the satisfaction in this, but there are all sorts of people and for some it’s fun to ruin other people’s day, and some of them even get all self-righteous about it and how they “protect the way wvw should be played”; it’s hillarious to read what they write on map chat or on the forums.

For a new player, EotM is not really a good place to go. 99% of the people who go to EotM do so to ktrain and/or level alts, so they generally try to avoid fights and, sadly, most of them have their brains put on sleep mode, while others display a rather toxic behaviour; EotM is really really not representative of what WvW means. If you like the ideea of large scale PvP(-ish), go to WvW proper (Eternal Battlegrounds and the Borderlands), that is where the real action is and the people interrested in WvW as a competitive large scale PvP(-ish) mode. The general consensus for the majority of players is that WvW proper is for WvW, and EotM is for ktrain and leveling alts.

Depending on the tier your server is, there may or may not be a lot of action in WvW proper, but usually during prime time there are people there. As a rule of thumb, the higher the tier, the more people you will find in WvW proper and the more chances you’ll get of having people to play with there in the off-times.

GL.

Suggestion: FOTM Titles

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It took me less than 1000 hours to GWAMM on a new account with no support (eg no free ectos, zkeys, etc) from other people. So 4-6 years would be extremly casual or not focused on the title.

Getting GWAMM these days is not really the same as getting GWAMM in the olden days, though. Instant booze consumption, party items and sweets available at every corner, 7 heroes making vanquishes lolmode, tools for easy carto, LDoA achievable as a daily…

"Play How I Want" Is Gone

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Trait update was one of the stupidest things I’ve seen so far, and having megaservers everywhere struck a blow to server communities. You’d think they could keep server-only populations in LA and the cities, but noooo. And let’s all fondly remember the Fractured update.

As OP said, 1 step forward, 2 steps back. Though at times it feels like 1 step forward, 2 steps back and a punch in the stomach.

How buy stacks from npcs?

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Nope, you can’t buy one stack at a time since apparently adding this simple feature would break the class balance in PvP, destroy the WvW as a concept and make the LS buggy as hell and totally unplayable.

Welcome to Click Wars 2.

All is still vain.

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Since apparently the old thread has died, I am making this thread so that this glorious piece of gw2 history remains with us.

This is a poem written by a gw2 player called mighty meak and I take no credit for it.

Please do not let it go gentle into that good night.

“OK gusie listen
im decent pvp
but my gf left me
coz of lederborsd
i mean W T F
i enter new leaderrbord after reset
and i say i am decent
i adapt
i see no gaurd so i think ok go gaurd
i go imba heal guard
adn i am gona mid
and i heal and i heal and i heal moar
but w t f
i am alone
no one helps no loves
1vall
i die no win
next game i say ho ho ho no guard no gaurd at all i go imba power crit wahtever
but guy at srat say ok gusy lisen plan
1 close 1 animal 1 far rest mid
ok ok i say i am mid coz far is noob
burt map say i am 1 mid rest animal no close no far
and i die hard lol
loost
then enters next
and i say lol i know now i follow plan noooobs
w t f skyham
i change imba engi canon trololol
so caanon here i comes
1 mesmer hiding and pul no prob i push and push broken glass canon all mine
i shoot a shoot b shoot c
w t f
non see abc
they all canon gate coz it causy no push nothing just fight fight fight
chase chase chse
i say go b go a and go c
all say lol noob u here for golds
lossst
gf now half interest
i say ok lissen good i win next i go up 90%
but i dont
all ranks 10 for goold
next is same and next
70% and down
ranks down too
i go guard i am mad no guard love
i go engi bunker power right no nothing
i do ele i go war ooops w t f war nerfes
69% and down
gf dont impresss say she leaving now
all is vain”

Why are quartz missing from gifts?

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You can buy the charged ones

No, you can’t.

The New Dailies -- Feedback welcome

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To all those self-entitled people, I will just leave this here.

The New Dailies -- Feedback welcome

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Since the most important part of the daily completion is the laurel, and you get those just by logging in without actually doing anything (and you can actually get 15 more laurels per month as opposed to the previous system, if you so choose), why is there so much hate now for widespread dailies? You just don’t do them if it’s that bad, kitten . Perhaps I am biased because I try to PvX and I have no issues with stepping into PvP or WvW, but come on! Some of the PvP dailies are pathetically easy – capture a point?! Seriously? This literally takes under 1 minute… Or capture a sentry in WvW… kitten , guys, I know it’s hard to get out of the comfort zone, but… wow.

Under the old system, singular daily achievement gave no rewards. Now you get stuff for each.

The new system is better. Plain and simple. Easier AP, more actual rewards. And the laurels are guaranteed just for logging in.

Winter JP goes against the GW2 Mani

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Isn’t pretty much everything they done with the game since its release against the Manifesto?