50+ here, started pencil and paper then graduated to tape drive, and the rest is history. Jeez I miss Bedlum. I am going to get that out one day, but my halfs-heimers will probably nix that. Now where the hell did that doughnut get to>>>>??
I went to Dry top, as I couldn’t bring my self to go back to Silverwastes after grinding out the armor. Spent about an hour there, nothing. Next morning before work I went to Silverwastes and did 2 of the Vine Wrath fights on the west edge, second chest had the portal. in total about 45 minutes in Silverwastes.
I have only one account, and I can make it produce 2 different loot experiences.
One week I will do dungeons, farm materials, generally play like most people with bad luck describe their playtime on these forums. My drops decay to junk quickly and stay in that realm
The next week I will play my way, and almost instantly my loot will improve. Every time. and they do not degenerate.
Change the way you play. This game rewards diversity and limited repetitive actions.
Trust me if you want, don’t if you do not want to. I know what works.
The discussion of younger account is spot on, as the longer you repeat repetitive actions, the further your drops degenerate to junk, and the longer it takes to recover. I can go 3 weeks in forum described play, and it will take 4-5 days for my drops to recover.
My hints, use one character per day, cycle through all your characters before returning to the first. Start and end in a city ALWAYS. Maximize power for solo play, secondary stats have no effect on drops. Never kill more than 30 of any one enemy, or within any particular map area. Run to another area and kill another type of enemy, then return if needed. To farm something, IE Charged Lodestones, go to where they drop once a day, and vanquish the enemies ONE TIME THROUGH, (use the hint above). I farmed Charged Lodestones near the Temple of Dwayna, over a hundred, in just over a month.
If you do certain things every day ad naseum, do them in a different order, change up the process you use. Random activity is key.
This is of course IMHO. Take it as you will.
As a potential returning player, the prospect of levelling up a new character sounds great – until I remember that I will need something like 500g for the crafting professions I already had on my main, another ~360 or so for the armor, and 200g or so for weapons.
Not so bad if all you want to do is roll an alt, because you can always give up and be happy with your main… but how do new players feel about this? If it’s enough to put me off rolling a new character for HoT surely it’s enough to put off new players?
First off let me say that this is a bogus argument.
1) You do not need any money to get the stuff you want.
2) You do not need it today.
The only reason it costs so much is because of players like you that have to have it right now and have to buy it. It is a rather simple solution. I have crafted all 3 sets armor and all weapons for all 8 of my characters. I might have spent, oh, 20 gold maybe, to top off a material need or two.
If you cannot play the game the way it was intended to be played (IE harvest your own materials) then, you get what you get, a large hole in your wallet that drains all your money.
This constant whining on these forums about how much gold it costs to craft ascended is just bogus.
Started to happen after a patch about 2 weeks ago, then ceased. Started up again after the Tuesday patch. When arriving (especially in the mists) I am stuck for about 20-30 seconds, then the camera snaps to the location my character ends up at, as they are moving, but the camera is not following. annoying at best. I can still be camera frozen when my character enters to portal to Lions Arch, and then it freezes in LA as well.
In other news, Nintendo games sell really cheap on Ebay.
The legendary status of these weapons is now actually a thing. Before the Moot was just a bauble, but know knowing why it is legendary makes it somewhat legendary. If it is just the party attitude, not so much. But if it had slain 25 party pooping boss enemies in one night of Mooting, that would be worth the disco celebration. I hope I can be proud of using a bow that is made of an invasive plant species, and a sword that is somehow electrified. I cant wait to learn the story behind them.
I hope the new ones have a deep history and story behind them.
I was able to play the second stress test. Smooth operation on my antiquated machine, only one lag issue before the only disconnect.
Revenant is interesting, some UI changes, like moving the energy bar to the right side would be a good thing.
Gliding – make the updrafts larger with a slower ascent rate, more like a real glider operates. I love the mechanic and the verticality of the map. I was only able to reach two spots near the edge of the map for some awesome screenshots.
I understand the stress test , but a few more event chains would have allowed for more members to interact and allow movement on a broader scale, maybe next time.
Wyvern, I like the battle, also using the glider to watch it from afar was very cool, and it was easy to recover from the breath attack and return to the fight. Well done.
The mastery point to the west of the waypoint was tricky to get to at first, but it was a good test of the gliding skill.
All in all, I am stoked at the potential the glimpses given show, a general “Whoooah” is deserved.
I started the game in Beta as well, and have played all the way through. I completed my third set of Ascended armor 3 months ago, and it was easy to do. I don’t have the attitude of “now or never”. I play the game and work towards long term goals, as the game is designed for that. The reason it costs so much gold to buy an ascended set is because too many (most) people cannot go a day without the best in slot items. I, on the other hand, like the goal of actually achieving something by making it, from harvesting all of the materials to crafting every component. “Good things come to those who work” is a working man’s motto.
Delete that character, and start over and play the game. You will get to 80 with the knowledge you seek. The game begins at level 1, not level 80.
Let’s just re-examine where I’m coming from:
There are only FIVE races in this game, and I can’t name all 5. I don’t know how many classes there are, and the ones I do know, I don’t know what they do. (What the heck does an Engineer do?)
There’s no desire to learn about them, because there’s no reason to. All grouping via a dungeon ends up with somebody tanking while I sit in the back hitting 2 and 5. People say that WoW conditioned players to just heal, dps, or tank, how is this any different?
I was a Gladiator in that game. I had to know stats, how to enchant, how to gem, how to itemize, what skills every class did, how to properly time abilities – none of that is required here.
I had actual goals laid out – you log in, you do your dailies that actually lead to gear, and that helps you in a larger raid with a large number of people, with a clear goal and progression. Dailies in this game are: log in, do 3 things, get some karma and gold.
My guild has about 100 people, and nobody is ever on. And the only reason I’m in it was I had nobody to actually talk to at 80 because there is no grouping in this game so where exactly would I find people? A guild, in my mind, is a group of players who have the same goals in mind (endgame content) and want to work together. Here, it’s just people with a tag. There’s no 10, 15, 25, 40 man content, and everything I can do with my guild I can just do in LFG or solo. What’s the point?
For an mmo, there seems to be very little structure. It’s like, instead of having 10 or 25 maximum players for content, and having lots of it, there’s just random world bosses that any number of people can do, and then 5 man dungeons. So I’m supposed to go to a timer website, then every 15 minutes go to the next world boss with 300 people and get a chest of yellow items that I sell for 20-25s on the trading post and just gather more ascended materials I don’t need and can’t sell?
And that’s it? Just do that?
You selected the wrong game. This game is aimed at the casual player. You seem very terse for a casual player. You actually lost the game by leveling to 80 in a week. IMHO, you are not looking for a game like this.
stand behind Tequatl, right where the water meets dry sand, right on the water line. Get a good view of his left foot. When he stomps his left foot, dodge left or right. works every time.
I disagree with the free loots (laurels, mystic coins, etc) for just signing in, that is just ridiculous. I want to work for my loots, whether they are game currency or drops from enemies. I also want to be rewarded for hard work or extended timelines with better drop loot. I seem to have good luck with my drops, and I play in a way that I think helps that. Some do not agree with my way of thinking/playing, yet they complain that the RNG Gods do not like them. RNG Gods have ben very very good to me, so I will continue to play the way I play.
Farming, or concentrating on a particular area of the game to accrue gold is not the way. Play as many different areas of the game to avoid grinding. Do the world bosses, dungeons, WvW, map completion, Fractals, and never stay in the same place for very long. Your gold stockpile and luck will be better off for it. Of course, this is just my humble opinion.
One character to 80 with 40G in the bank is about right. You have many more character slots to use for a couple more characters. When you have them all to 80 you will have a lot of gold and a pile of materials to start crafting Ascended. Have fun!
Pet names also are sometimes extremely offensive, no way to report the owner.
My concern is for the cave that we opened, the Mordrem can now remove the seeds there and grow legions of fighters for Mordremoth.
My main char is a Sylvari. We Sylvari have the inate knowledge needed to defeat Mordremoth in our souls. As the saying goes, “keep your friends close, keep your enemies even closer”. It might pay off in the end.
In GW1 the RNG was in place for the VS. I planned three daily runs and expected top get one every 2-3 months, and it averaged out to one every 256 runs for me. I received 38 total over the life of the game.
GW2 is the same way, I portion my time and I have a little better luck, over 500 Teq kills and 5 Hordes, with a few other Ascended boxes as well.
There are hitches, as we saw with the SB staff. I am sure there are other hitches as well that are currently unknown, and that is what bothers me. They took three years to figure out the problem with the staff at SB, how long will it take to gather enough insight to know that there is even a problem in the general database or with certain parameters that affect the data selections that create the reward tables.
Excellent eye on the information gathering Koenig, and Titus, excellent work. Kudos to both of you for the vision and talent to figure this out.
I had a GM years ago that gave me an obelisk with a similar puzzle. It took me 21/2 years to break it, but it tumbled down and opened up many more questions than it answered, so hopefully this will too.
Nice work guys.
Um, so can I ask a question of the OP. Why would you complete the gifts without having the pre in the first place? That makes no sense, unless you planned on buying the pre…….
Either Infuse one, or contact support, sometimes they help.
PLEASE check the drop tables on this item. The outrage expressed by players is intolerable every time Tequatl is defeated.
I personally have gotten a Bone Spoon every day except 4 days since the item was introduced to the drop tables. I do Tequatl every day. Tequatl used to give a variety of theme items as well as an assortment of exotics on a regular basis, then came the Spoon. Nothing but Spoons. Something is wrong.
The Christmas items got looked at and adjusted immediately, the same should have happened to the problem with this item.
Previous tasks were generic and lent themselves to the play of any individual. When you reduced the options you also reduced the ability to complete them playing the way I want to play. Instead of Daily Frozen Maw, it should be Daily World Boss. Instead of Southsun Cove Event completer, it should be Maguuma Completer. Instead of Ascalon lumberer, it should be Ascalon gatherer.
either reinstate the additional options to 6-8, or reduce the over bearing requirements that make me play the game you want me to play.
Forcing people to play game types that they have not played, for whatever reason, is not the way to get them to like it. Silverwastes was the right way to introduce WvW to the PVE community and it was fun. I personally don’t find the monotony fun, it is the same thing over and over and for me, it just is not for me.
Converting Toypocolypse to a PVP, cant play with your friends type of “forced band with unknowns” was not, in my opinion, the way to go. The Holidays are a time when small player groups and Guilds enjoy getting closer and having more fun together. The change to Toypocolypse has severed that community building activity, and will only serve to diminish the feeling of community within the guilds and groups that used it to have fun together.
Just my humble opinion.
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Maybe it is my old age, but I just suck at JP’s. Glad I have a friend with teenage reflexes to help me out.
And is it just me or do the changes they are making to the game as a whole seem to be making game more of a juvenile experience?
Why does he look like Wharf with a hat on? No Klingon would wear a hat.
A lot of this is, ….familiar in a twisted sort of way. Enjoyable still.
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In a skilled players world, the time to kill is lessened by a few seconds with a zerk build, in a less skilled team the time drop to kill can be substantial, and it can cause the squishy zerker to go down. I view this fact to be evidence that the zerk build is not optimal for gameplay except when used for speed farming. I think that skilled gameplay with a balanced build (not pure DPS) is far more exciting, challenging and rewarding. My DPS may not measure up to any ones ideal, but my skill in gameplay is very good in my opinion. If you want to only play with speedfarmers and lessen your ability in the challenges present in mechanics, well then, go ahead, it does not bother me, and it should not bother you that I play my way.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-LFG-Improvements/first#post4615053
LFG is broken anyway.
Yes, it is not functioning correctly. The team is looking into the situation.
Can we get a response in the Bug Forum, where the bug report has gone apparently unnoticed? That would go long way to making the Bug Forum seem like the right place to report bugs.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Suggestion-LFG-Improvements/first#post4615053
LFG is broken anyway.
Yes, it is not functioning correctly. The team is looking into the situation.
Can we get a response in the Bug Forum, where the bug report has gone apparently unnoticed? That would go long way to making the Bug Forum seem like the right place to report bugs.
LFG is broken anyway.
Yes, it is not functioning correctly. The team is looking into the situation.
Can we get a response in the Bug Forum, where the bug report has gone apparently unnoticed? That would go long way to making the Bug Forum seem like the right place to report bugs.
constant blinking when members join or leave a party, almost impossible to use at this point in the open world view. Please acknowledge if you are aware Anet, 5 days and counting with no moderator or developer response.
No matter what you guys suggest, the meta will always be the fastest and most efficient way to beat something, which will always be the point where you no longer need more defense and can focus everything else into offense; Zerker gear falls into this category.(along with Assassin)
Even if you nerf it, or change the game in some way, the meta will shift to another gear/trait set-up to maximize speed.
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People will always prefer the faster methods, so taking 5x longer to kill an enemy isn’t on their list of things to do.
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tl;dr Either Zerker is meta, or something else will take its place. Going against this is pointless.
Not all players, and I would venture most players, do not need the Meta to succeed in this game. I have lots of gold and things, and I have not run a Zerk build except for maybe a week. I have a good story of being berated by 4 zerkers dead on the ground while I finished off the Dungeon Champ solo on my Ranger, they were actually telling me that my build was kitten. While they lay dead on the ground, just priceless IMHO.
It would appear by your comments that you play for the cool stuff instead of just playing the game. That is where the divide exists between the Zerkers and the players. You can play any way you want, just please do not try to tell me that your way is better. It might be a few seconds faster, but that does not make it better.
16 tries and nothing but Tendons. RNG is not this lopsided. I have good luck, FIrst three fangs from red purple and blue in first day. 5 days since then, 16 attempts, no fang from Gold.
I understand they like the RNG and they think there is nothing wrong with it, but sometimes the extreme outliers are so blatant, yet they do not seem to believe that there may be a problem.Which extractor are you using?
Not a tendon extractor.
Have you tried silver? Is anyone else having issues getting fangs from the teragriffs?
The one person from the first page had the same issue and took 32 attempts. Perhaps the drop rate for those two bosses is incorrect?
I created a report in the bug forum. I’d send an email but I’d likely get the standard “we’ll forward this on” response and I’d prefer any response to be available for everyone to see.
I was trying to get the Fang from the Yellow under boss Troll. Attempt 18 was a success. If the next iteration keeps adding to the drop tables, I doubt it will interest me, as that will take months when we get to the last armor piece. I find having to repeat the instanced content to be counter to a living world, but that is for a different forum.
16 tries and nothing but Tendons. RNG is not this lopsided. I have good luck, FIrst three fangs from red purple and blue in first day. 5 days since then, 16 attempts, no fang from Gold.
I understand they like the RNG and they think there is nothing wrong with it, but sometimes the extreme outliers are so blatant, yet they do not seem to believe that there may be a problem.Which extractor are you using?
Not a tendon extractor.
16 tries and nothing but Tendons. RNG is not this lopsided. I have good luck, FIrst three fangs from red purple and blue in first day. 5 days since then, 16 attempts, no fang from Gold.
I understand they like the RNG and they think there is nothing wrong with it, but sometimes the extreme outliers are so blatant, yet they do not seem to believe that there may be a problem.
The reason precursors feel so nasty to acquire isn’t that they’re too rare. Based on my knowledge of MMOs, players will literally grind for anything. The problem is that they’re too distributed.
Spamming autoattack on world bosses and farm trains shouldn’t get you essentially the same odds for a precursor as Arah or FotM 50. There’s absolutely no reason for there to even be a minuscule chance of them dropping off of trash mobs.
When so much faceroll content has odds of dropping a pre, the odds for any given activity have to be crazy low to keep the supply limited. Players are pushed into this global lottery where nothing feels like progression. Why work my way up to harder content if it won’t even improve my chances?
This leads to a situation where the most effective method is to find the easiest gold grind and buy it off the TP, rather than actually putting any effort into playing the game. This feel cheap to do, and is the reason why legendaries have near zero prestige right now. When you see a legendary these days, all it means is “farmer” or “RNGeesus”.
My suggestion:Take precursors off of trash mob loot tables. Take them out of afk-auto world bosses. Dramatically raise the odds of them dropping in actual content, so that players get to feel like they can do something about getting them, and they regain a bit of prestige factor.
What do you guys think? Would it actually help the process of getting a legendary feel more special, or would it see too much casual backlash?
This game is designed for the casual player. Removing the casual players ability to get a Legendary would destroy the franchise. It will never happen. They implemented Fractals for the hardcore player, those weapon skins are for the hardcore gamer I believe. The game is actual content from level 1, there is no need for “endgame” content as the hardcore player sees it. There is disdain for the casual player in your words, and it is more than evident.
I have received 4 precursors by playing the game, including using the forge. By playing all avenues that the game offers is how you increase your chances. Low level mobs, high level risen chickens, the forge, and World bosses all have the possibility to drop them, so go play more of them. I did trade one in to get one I wanted, built 2 without buying the materials, and sold two.
What if she had a backup plan to be re-born sort of like how a Phoenix would rise from it’s ashes, perhaps Glint can resurrect from her crystals.
We don’t know if this is possible, but we can’t rule it out either.
Actually… I think it’s very possible.
In Glint’s lair we see memories recorded in the crystals. It’s a safe bet that the egg and the dragon within it are crystalline. Glint was telepathic, and I’m sure she could record her memories into a crystal if she so chose to do so.
The egg may not hatch into Glint, but it’s very likely that she’s deposited a lot of her knowledge into it. When it hatches, it will have access to all that information and knowledge. The problem is, it will have access to ALL of it. I don’t think Glint’s brain came with an index file, so finding the information it/we need on demand is going to be the challenge.
The knowledge of the Forgotten is of utmost importance to defeating the Elder Dragons. I also sense the knowledge from Glint is present in her spawn. I expect that if it hatches, there will be a HUGE Elder Dragon race to eliminate it.
I presume Sligh refers to the Luminescent Shoulders, (not the Carapace Armour) which is the Collection reward for the achievements in the main story arc. That requires repeating the story
Well the parts of the Luminescant shoulders are findable through playing in the silverwastes though. It’s how you get the luminescnet strap, the shoulderpieces if you don’t wish to replay the story instances and the mordrem parts which you get from defeating the bosses at the end of the eventchain. As such the only thing not available in the sivlerwastes itself is the firefly piece which you ahve to get in caledon and infuse in the silverwastes. Even the ascended trinket that you get from completing all the achievements is available to be bought with bandit crest you get from playing the events in the silverwastes map.
So even if OP wasn’t talking about the carapace shoulders , it still doesn’t require you to relive the story part of this update.
Caithe’s Blossom is only available by redoing all the instanced content, and for sale only after completing that meta achievement after reliving the same content over and over. It should be available for sale without the requirement to do the instanced content over and over. So much for a living world, as it stands right now, it is relive it over and over, or get lost.
To have to relive the same fights over and over is just against the Living World concept and makes no sense to me. I went through the episode (took an hour with the bugs), and now I have to relive it over and over to get the parts for the Luminescent armor?
Make the parts findable in the new living area of The Silverwastes, instead of making me relive instanced content over and over.
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If the egg can be hatched, it will be valued as a source of Forgotten knowledge that can help the races of Tyria to battle the Elders. Glint knew the dangers of her actions, and her progeny will retain that knowledge, as well as the knowledge of the Forgotten. If we hatch it, the battle to destroy it will spur the Elders to hold few punches in battle. But those puches they hold will be exceptional.
I finished this puzzling set of three fights. I still do not know how I did damage to the bosses. Some of them would drop 25% instantaneously, one even did it while I was conversing with a friend in guild chat, I was not hitting him at the time. It makes no sense at all. How did he drop 25% damage when I WAS NOT HITTING HIM? How did I actually damage these bosses? I still do not know.
How they ever thought this was entertaining is just beyond me. And who in their right mind wants to redo it over and over, I thought it was supposed to be a living world, not one you relive over and over, utterly stupid.
When in a map, and in a party, the party members are shown on the mini map with blue dots when they are NOT in the same instance.
The fact that the current system is supposed to direct party members to the same map is not working as strongly as it should, especially in World Boss encounters. When I port in, I see my party members dots, but them we are actually on 2-3 different instances. Please have the mini map only show a blue dot for those party members on the same instance that you are in.
Options=>General Options=>User Interface=>Content Guide: set to off
250 Ori dagger blades, 250 shells, coins and a scroll, =reaper of souls?
My guess is a recipe for a Mendel dagger. Scroll, Coins, Gift, Shells.
The thing is, you cannot put the original bought delaqua blade skin in the forge and transmuted weapons work as if they were not transmuted.
I realized that and adjusted my note. It may also be upgradable to the dagger no one can find, or it may be that dagger as the outcome, Reaper of Souls. Probably the Gift of the Nobleman, or the currently available Gift of Souls.
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My guess is a recipe for a Mendel dagger. Scroll, Coins, Gift, Shells.
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Right now, you can click to buy 9 gems for 1 Gold 250 times to get 2250 gems total for 250 Gold.
Your top option is to click once to buy 1826 gems for 250 Gold.
Clearly a bug. Please fix it so that the quantities are the same in multiples, just like the buying gold with gems is.
Gibbering skull is not used to make Gift of the Moon, it is used to make the recipe for Gift of Moon
Tyria’s Best Nougat Center is not used to make the Gift of Souls, it is used to make the recipe for Gift of Souls
High Quality Plastic Fangs are not used to make the Gift of Spiders, it is used to make the recipe for Gift of Spiders.
Just an FYI