Guild Wars 2

PiTheMathGod.3742:

I mentioned this earlier, but I have high doubts it is 1 in 20,000 odds. If that were the case, then we have the following probabilities:

P(getting mini) = 0.00005
P(not getting mini) = 0.99995
P(not getting mini in 156k tries) = (0.99995)^(156,000) = 0.00041 = 0.041%
P(getting mini in 156k tries) = 99.959%

So either I hit the reverse lottery (well let’s face it, I probably would :p), or the odds are not 1 in 20,000. I think a more likely scenario is 1 in 100,000, in which case a repeat of the above calculation for 156k tries gives a 79% chance. This thread shows a few people opening more than 100k bags and not getting the mini, so I think this is more than likely.

I would be interested in knowing how the wiki got that figure, but I just have high doubts about it.

your math is right(i think.. too late to do the math on my own..) but..
just because there are not that many players who opened 100k + bags and got one do write here because those who get the mini
usually are happy and keep quiet
whilst if we others dont get it
we go whining on the forums (yeah including me …)

i think the 1 : 20k calculation is not too far off
i could imagine that it is impossible for some accounts to get it.. dont ask me why but a lot of strange things did happen in the past as well..
(fixing fractal high level rewards several times so that the correct chances occur…. for example..)
or the other thing i could imagine is that we just are… reallly.. reallly..really unlucky
and the chance my be about 1 : 25000 or 1 : 30000 (about that size..)
but not tooo far off

surely what wiki calculated could just be reallly lucky as well so…
who knows
1 : 100 000 may be right as well..

@anet… please tell me why?.. srsly… >___>

yeah giving one Gwynefyrdd for everyone who has given more than 250candy wrappers would be fine
but i doubt theyll do it >_<

more than 80k opened for me and nothing..
dont we love this rng?
btw i had one zuzu…
one!!
no gwey..
nothing but mf
i mean i like magic find but…
its getting ridiculous… -.-

well… what if bubbles is correct?
sure it ahs to start with s…
Selbbub then? (here i reversed it for you)
would this make sense?
if linked to abbadon and …
forget it
im calling him steve from now on.. xD

lightsabers.. super adventure box duh

and someone confirmed that the sab will be back!!
well.. we dont know when..
(i hope be4 2020halloween)
but yeah those skins do come pretty close to light sabers

yeah my characters have the same thing
but that IS because of new hearts^^

if i recall it correctly 2 in plains of ashfurt and 1 in caledon forest

why just gauntlets and pauldrons?
why not chestpieces and legs?
or complete sets

i think id like some of these parts
(would probably not wear the whole set becase i like to mix.. bu yeah)

Lemuria.3195:

I don’t understand the thinking behind this. Ecto’s are basically a high level crafting ingredient, yet in your own words you don’t condone the idea of making T6 materials available in the same way. One rule for one, and a separate rule for another is just foolish nonsense.

The whole point of ectoplasm is that it’s not common enough that you can get it in huge quantities. At least, not without a significant time investment. I could craft a dozen low level rare items for a fraction of the current cost of the ectos I could potentially get from the salvaging.

I’m the sort of person who crafts exotics just to salvage them for Dark Matter, so don’t think that people out there wouldn’t abuse the heck out of this system if it were in place.

following this logic
mean linen wool etc are not high tier so they shouldnt be part of ascended armours?!

i think crafting yellows and recycling them to get ectos could flood the market

but what if anet would only make the drops give ectos?
they dont drop in tons
until youre 80 u usually only see about what? 3?
if youre only doing fotm ull see a bit more.. like 8?
within hours where a level 80 would get two exotics and the same amount of yellows out of? xDD
sure that would completely ruin the market (sarkasm)

by giving twinks toons…(put in your favourite word for non 80 chras)
some ectos
raising new characters wouldnt be sooo less productive
itl almost double the money you get from playing a new chra to level 80
sure still waaaay less than a level 80 farmer can do…
but it would lead to more people buying character slots =>
-more players spread all over the place
-cash for anet
-account bound magic find usefull on toons >__<

and i dont think the argument u should only get crafting high level things in high level areas…mhmhmh NO!
you do already get cooking ingredients in early zones that you can use once (if you are lucky) and then at about 350 crafting with a requirement for 60+ chras…
so…

overall i think allowing the dropped yellows to drop ectos is a good idea
btw i often prefer getting greens on my toons ebcause this way i get iron + luck
yellows usually.. just iron >_<)
it feels terrible if greens give you more to salvage than yellows
considering rares should be better…

but thats for another topic..^^

do u have a second weapon equipped?
:D
if not then u obviously cant swap..^^

i do know a few guys who dont even run fractals .. theyd like fractal rings into their faces but yeah…
once you do a few daily fractals you litterally swim in rings
i do have about 10rings i like
the rest goes almost always instantly to the vendor
(sure condi can be usefull but i do have them in my bank anyway so any more condi rings => almost 5silver)

allowing us to salvage ascended stuff(rings not included since they drop too often or u get something differen from them like 1-(verry rarely 10) ectos
to egt deldrimor or damask out of it would rock
(and help getting wool linen and silk back into order cause they kinda… rise and rise…)

also keep in mind u can just take celestial stat combos if u dont like the stats
(i dont like celestial for pve either but its a possibility to mix celestial with other stuff..not tooo bad^^)

+1 if conjure weapons and all trnsformations get this too

id like that
but its probably not top priority..

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Am I the only person that wants a bone minion plushie?

no u are not

but i did like gw(1)s flesh golem sooo much more over gw2 …elite minion… -.-

mechanicly wise its an awesome dude
but why does he look like a dredge? xDD

VodCom.6924:

Just dropping an idea here, I’d like to hear your thoughts about this.

So far the living story season 2 has been refreshing and interesting. After discussing with few guildies, we agreed that it felt a bit lack the old cooperative missions in GW1, bar one detail :

You cannot fail.

Or to be more precise : the only way to fail is “to die so many times you get naked”.

That’s it, even if you mess up badly in the krytan politics party investigation, you just contiue where you stopped. No restart from scratch or whatever. I don’t think it encourages people to do these instances seriously unless you are going for the achievements (but that’s an other topic).

Having failure conditions in these missions (they do not have to be far fetched or make the instances too difficult) could be an additionnal hook to get people concentrated.

Example : In the mission where you help taimi building the recalibrator, if the party wipes -> game over and try again.
Example 2 : In world summit, failure to protect the leaders => try again.

Do you think the game could benefit from such addition ?

can the world leaders even go down?xDD
i doubt thats even a possibility^^

ive had all theese ideas loong time ago
fast hands does stack it just does not make any sense since weapon swap sigills are already almost perfect cooldwon with 2weapon swaps

thief the only class that would not profit from shorter weapon swaps due to initiative???
you still get weapon swap sigils more often
AND u get initiative on weapon swap if traited so.. please shutup
engineers dont get any advantages from weapon swapping since they do only have one weapon set ie only two cooldowns ticking
and their kits are almost instant anyway^^

overall yeah rune of the warrior buffing could be nice

even if i find it strange that rune of the ranger is ONLY good on a ranger whilst rune of the warrior would be almost useless for warriors… >__<
but weapon swap reduce time is nice id love to se some bufffood in the future that reduces weapon swap time

if you can choose the weapon on your own the price should be more like 73 pristine relics and 4729 normal fractal relics

a fractal weapon random skin box AND a box f choice (diferent prize) would ne nice tough^^

does anyone have a nice mesmer farming build for me?

you are not alone
but i doubt we will see moto opening the box or ofering us anything for the next couple of months…

Stephapanda.5804:

Bumping for visibility, I’m hoping that they will add a bank with the upcoming feature patch.

since the pvp week is over and anet asking how we would like to have this suggesting that theyre not even working on it

if they were they wouldnt be allowed to say anything…xD

i highly doubt it.. -.-

well.. maybe in 6months… : (

too many peaople doing hotjoin just for the rewards…
well.. and you are doing fractals because its challenging? xDD cmon.. you also just want the rewards^^

nice idea with the +1 infusion in it.. somewhere

champs and veterans are plenty of there wont be a problem..^^

yeah making it available once u hit fractal level 50 sounds kinda reasonable

and i want to say this again because a lot seem to not read what im saying

WE WANT THE SAME CHANCE OF GETTING A (RANDOM) FRACTAL WEAPON
not a guaranteed of your choice

sooo
storywise the pact lost a lot of his fighters and needs help..
the ones who can fight instead of fighting mordremoth go to wvw and fight against each other….
okay
fits perfectly into the lore..^^

whilst training combat in an virtual game.. within a game..>__<
training!!
would be bad?

well anet knows what they doing lorewise.. i suppose…

Vayne.8563:

It’s just a bit of fun. I’ve been in the early zones today running around after people and shooting cakes at them, so they get buffs. lol

Nice way to meet people actually.

naaaahh he shot me..
oh a buff.. nice thanks..

Sogradde.8016:

Hugh Norfolk.2798:

Someone already put up a good argument point for this statement, that WvW isn’t always accessible. Sometimes there is a queue which for players in a hurry will cause them to spend some silver to get to a place with a bank instead of going to WvW for free.

Is everyone here forgetting that you can access LA via EotM for no fee at all and with no queues?

free to go there but not free to go back

white mantle mursaat dwarves glints offspring crystal dessert.. okay i got it…

Cantha Confirmed!!
:D
just joking

SAB confirmed it was all just a bluff…

i doubt the white mantle will be that much of a role
mursaat maybe
if bloodstones then we will for sure meet the last couple of mursaat and ask them out (after some crazy fight probably?)

glints offspring mhmh.. crystals with vines around somewhat lets suggest something like this but i dont know i somewhat think the zephyrites will be involved for sure…

what goes for glints babie/s i actually doubt it (even if its much more likely than white mantle)

id even say poison is more of a threat than burning
what makes conditions so strong is condition stacking and more condis on someone than can be cleansed is really a pain

burning is so often in your dmaage indicator because its bugged^^

condis too easy to applie and they tick and tick.. well…

if u see a condi warrior throw his sword or do longbow 5 DODGE or u are forced to use a condi cleanse…
sure it does dmg..
like a warr who does eviscerate.. just because the actual hit does not as much dmg does not eman u have to facetank these stacks of torment / bleeding etc
incidary powder procs on crit so quite relieable and if the crit is dodged or blcoked then it procks on next one yeah that is a problem
but this works just the same as fire + air sigils work (okay they have a chance of procking that isnt 100% but thats the same cause that makes them a bit OP)

the thing is fire + air sigils both heavyly offensive tend to leave an opening where u can attack whilst a trait is… well… really strong for a trait

but u still cant play full condi really well..
most play hybrid
which is even stronger because might buffs direct damage as well as the passive condis and.. there IS a lot to worry about ^^

Cynz.9437:

None of what you suggests resolves the issues that getting skin via pvp will be still easier than running (and getting to) high lv fractals every day and making content obsolete for reasons:

- you don’t need to grind/buy gear and 75AR in pvp
- you don’t need to grind lv 50 personal reward in pvp, you can argue about pvp ranks but we all know how easily those are obtained if you do it not exactly the intended way
- you can do tpvp alone, you often have to have few party members at least to be able to finish map (dredge, swamp etc.)

P.S. Also, this whole EU is better than NA thing cracks me out. Still has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that class balance is crap, ranks can be farmed etc.

your personal FRACTAL LEVEL otherwise my sentence for playing different parts of the game wouldnt have made any sense at all^^
so it is easier to get to level 50 and play 50 than to get to level 50 and play pvp?

(easier make the fractal track only available after completing fractal 50 once)

one time frac 50 isnt hard it just requires some ar and a bit time
pvp a full reward track does as well just take a bit time
no ar but if u make the rewards u get from completing the fractal pvp track equal to what their actual fractal level..
well.. it takes more time you dont get a higher fractal level (in case u are not already 50)
and the chance is as small as in fractals..
ive done PLENTY of fratals as well in the ast and still doing them
i was quite lucky i got my greatsword long time ago sicne then just underwater junk unfortunately but i want sword dagger shield and many more as well

im pvping quite a bit as well

another idea to aquire fractal weapons would be 25pristiline fractal relics = 1 fractal weapon skin( or anything like this)
but then people who already got some skins would rage that all their effort was useless….

Lynne.8416:

Luna.9640:

Your Reward : 2 blues and 1 green

(Joking ofc)

and for the opposite end of the spectrum….the precursor of your choice. :-)

i think two blues and a green are much closer to what we will get ..
sorry^^

were were talking about fraktal weapon CHANCE the whole time
the daily cest at the end in fractals would be the final reward at the reward track

my suggestion was the end reward scales to reward players do different content

i did not want to make fractal weapons too easy to get
and to all those fractal runenrs (if there are any that still argue pvp needs no investment while fractals need hundreds of gold to even start)

no

and even then fractals would be much faster way to get the fractal weapons
a slow fractal team will have 50 and 40 daily chest be4 a good pvp group with a perfect evening of just winnign games will have the latest reward…

(if the final reward scales with individuals fractal level then u need to do some fractals at least or u dont even get the chance of fractalweapons as well..)

i saw a mesmer got moad down by the chieftain

so about unicorns?..
we havnt seen unicorns so far…
we havnt seen mordremoth so far

OMG mordremoth is in fact a unicorn!!^^

Skull !!!
really !!^^
id buy that
other than that….

maybe a shield and two swords even if both are already in use
(guild recommendation trader and uh there are 25players in combat)
you could surely make the symbols not look the same

another quite simple symbol would be just a round Bubble

the class symbols would fit there quite good as well..
you could add a huge goldsink this way.. sure commanders 300 and colours for free but i shapes cost something …

if we get elvel up chests
please give us the level up chests that we would have gotten so far… muahahahhaa
getting close to a thousand chests then..

uhm..
no.. i dont wan tto klick them all up XDD

i think this might be a bit more to it than just the few steps u said..xD
also why ?
dont u like having 4 maps?
why do u only want 2 maps?

i personally like the homelands more than the eternal battlegrounds…

yeah i use nickname as well
sure u cnat write books about your friends but…
you should remember it if u write something like accnamenumber 250ektos in debt or acc namenumber belinda exploration tour
thats actual names i have (okay mine are in german but u know what i mean)
i do know and remember the account names only lend things from friends i knowi can trust so their names i do remember well while others get the name where i know them from

a lot of pvp friends get
accnamenumber pvp english/german -speaker good/nevereverever(i have only one with this) and then is still space for a couple of words guild or why do i should remember them i just pick whatever comes first to my mind..

so it isnt really necessarry
it would add a bit to the quality of life changes but.. meh…

Suggestion to this suggestion…

what about the fractal level of the one who completes the reward track is a thing that is being taken into consideration?
so a chance on something really good.. or a chance at something a fractal 50 daily can obtain faster is only for pvpers who have rank 50 as well
they will take longer.. but have the same chance
means just junk for those who havent done a lot of fractals
and for those who play both game types there is a noher way to get to the fractal tonic weapons etcetc
what then every kittening pvper who has just rank 30 in fractals which is sooo easy to obtain can get fractal weapons in pvp as well?
yeah… right…
just like he can obtain it in fractals as well…

sure fractal weapons wouldnt be pve exclusive anymore but would that really hurt anyone?
you still have tequatl weapons which are pve exclusive.. and wurms armour

all of it extremly rng based…
probly we should add tokens for all of these so at least after 50runs u can get one of these kitten things >___<

ive got much more than twice as much characters than u… if i dont like a character i just create another one i only dleete characters that are younger than 2weeks
like keyfarmers
or chracters unde rlevel 20 where i dont like the hairstyle or something
at some point will have every race / class combination
(i secretly hope anet will at some point increase the max characters you can have so that i can have each klass gender race combination..^^)

if u want to test chras out pvp was good a long time
its still better than most of pve to test out all weapons shouts andchannelling animations
and if you like them or not

btw having so many characters of one class can help u in pvp if u have different builds on your chras and know who plays what i can change quite quickly without changing the whole build

uh their two eles are berserker staff eles?.. brb thief

in them?
in the living story?
in the developers?

i do too there were less mistakes and not as big ones compared to season 1
especially fights and ahcievements did improve massively
overall storytelling is great as well

btw i dont flip out because of sab “not fitting into ls” make a long break and…
well yeah we dont get to do anything at all…

besides this in terms of living story i could just wish for some points within hte living story where we get to choose stuff
even if it turns out that it didnt matter same opponents and result..
but i didnt wanted to give taimis machine away : (
i feel like ive taken a lollipop from a helpless baby..
yeah sure for a greater good but…. -__-

besides the lack of decisions the living story rocks so far and i am sure that we will see the box at some point again..
its just that it WOULD have fitted into this break…
and if it isnt ready yet the old content would still be good enough for most of us
i got plenty of friends who werent playing back then
and the more experienced skin hunters would have something to do as well…
quite a lot actually

that somewhat frustrates me
and that anet just does not respond while always stating:
“…and we DO read the forums…”
ive just seen too less anet employes answering one of the topics that really bugs so many people..
every other week i see one dev in some hidden suggestion thread saying something like : ah okay sounds nice .. but how would this be.. i like this conversation… makes one joke and then never hear anything about him anymore >___<

well it doesnt have to be permanent content
it can just apear for a hand full of weeks be4 it disappears like it did before

what do we get instead of old content recycled?
well.. a break..
weeks long
anyway…

well the living story says something like a"and the great commander of the pact did nothing until 9th september arose or sometign like this"

so he cant have fun in the sab..

arcane council could let young asurans train combat in the box… would fit …
so storywise it would fit into it

you font have to make it a living story update
make it a activity
so the world feels more alive if something is going on other than uh there were the commander is walking things change everythign else just stays the same^^

btw tradeable and permanent Super Adventure Box O Fun sounds like a reaaallly nice idea to me

if world three is not fully ready yet you can just give us world 1 and 2

nevermind
just let the great commander of the pact idle around instead of amusing in hte sab (training combat at elast some sort of content and those who dont like it have the break u want us to have)
i think it is just wrong having events that are made to fill breaks like this and then NOT use them….

draxynnic.3719:

Soinetwa.5193:

we might see the greatsword as actual weapon since datamining brought up two belindas greatsword (maybe savenger hunt) and since theyre weapons instead of skins (as majory kasmeer braham and roxs weapons landed in) its pretty unlikely belindas sword will end up in the gemstore

Oh, the irony.

Always assume any new skin will be gemstore-related until proven otherwise.

Always.

Because that’s how ArenaNet rolls these days. Still, at least they’ve made the black lion weapons tradeable so it is actually practical to get those by other means.

i was hoping…
but hey theres still hope left what about belindas greatsword with the white aura?
will we be able to obtain in?
will we see it again some ime ? (im sure of this at least)
and how will we be able to get it if ever… (probly gemstore >___<)

well i had some great fun with my new character (which was still grandfathered be4 that trait system xD)
while playing him through the whole world and litterally speaking to everyone and exploring every corner and i had fun
i didnt really cleared everything in record times
neither did i got a huge amount of gold due to it

but it was really fun and even though most people would say .. it wasnt rewarding
i felt for me
it was worth doing
all npcs ive spoken and read through everything
every book.. everywhere

i had so much fun

the problem with hidden caves in normal gw2 are there is NO CHEST AT ALL^^

even after jumping through a jumping puzzle u will get in 42 out of 1337 times something usefull.. maybe i should add another number to 1337 but u get what i mean.. fining hidden stuff never is of any use (usually)

while bombing a secret room and getting baubles does help u ingame

hard levels
big point this one
i loved the tribulation mode
the first time i spent HOURS inside the box (together with friends) and we did beat it
it felt just amazing
the weapon skin was just the cherry on the cake

after the first time trying to optimize our ways through was quite fun as well
and the weapon skins do have some value

id compare them to tequatl weapons or wurm armour
but both does not drop in 1/100runs
it does by chance…

that is something the SAB made better than anything else in the game so far
getting an exclusive reward of a weapon of choice… could there be anything better?

in normal mode (in a group at elast dieing didnt felt that bad id say) but if u died in tribulation mode due to something uve ran past a thousand times without being hit just to run all the way again…surely DOES feel bad so.. just dont step into spikes

in terms of boss battles i feel like anet is continously improving
more and more interesting (mostly great) bossfights coming into the game
some feel dull but the living world story bosses are at least 7 times better than everything thats soon to be 2years old^^
so the sab bosses may not be on todays standard but…
meh.. theyre still a bit better than personal story bosses

imagine having two zergs
guild zerg red and public blue
big enemy blob u come from two sides
meet up in the middle and who know to follow which commander if the colour is the same?
its much easier just to follow the red lamp then^^

guilds quite often run without a commander becuase of the dotn want randoms with them AND because they make a target on top of their commander to be able to see him

a comamdner only visible for guild mates function would help even more than colourfull commanders

then you could actually target enemies during a zerg fight … xDD

i guess the majority of the forum active players will yote for yes but since arenanet just sees .. what so few votes thats not the majority of the gamers…
so assuming all the others would vote for no… ok lets just go on like we have been planning to do…

we will see…
but i like your idea and i hope anet will take this into consideration once/if it becomes A LOT of votes
well.. if.. xD

axe.5621:

Where can I join #noSAB ranks?

u can try creating such a topic… i wont support your idea though…

Dusty Moon.4382:

I think first – players are unrealistic with their expectations and demands – yes demands. Trying to be a bully on a forum, to get what you want, is the wrong way to go about getting anything. It seems that is the norm for game forums now a days.

Second, people really need to stop READING into things stuff that isn’t there. Like the SAB aficionados. A.Net said it won’t be introduced during the LS2 part of the game. They didn’t say never. But, since SAB isn’t out WHEN THEY WANT IT, they are protesting and stomping their feet like 2 yr. olds. Sad – very sad.

Third, yes A.Net could be a little more forthcoming with information as long as players don’t jump on them or come to conclusions. Forum posters have been down right nasty to A.Net employees who do post information so I understand where they are coming from.

well.. thart partly because were waiting for a while now
Sab 1 and 2 were just a couple months between
then A FEW months later wouldve been 1.april aniversairy people already asking when its coming out and.. it didnt came out
noone ever talked to us about anythign regarding sab
and then almost one whole year after the release of sab2
we get to hear something like this…

anet coulve told us that muuuuuuch sooner

Crise.9401:

wipefusens.9625:

I should delete all my SAB related stuff to be a part of the riot!

Having all of that sitting in your bank and not being able to use it is just sad

ive almost as much as he does (a few less baubles a whole stack bubbles more and not the gemstore minis)
but i htought about writing something about trying to get a refund of bank expand space since one is almost full just with sab stuff… : (

game within the game?

cmon did u do that on purpose?
a lot of people are currently raging about anets statement about
“a game inside the game”

tootsie is quite easy
sure without cc … not so much
but u have… like 5 seconds to cc him?
correct me if im wrong but 3seconds are okay as well

ive done him with 5guys a lot of times in the past when our guild hosted t5 (back then)
you just need to organize and not all f you waste a cc on his first attempt to run away
(teamspeak helps a lot here)
other than that u could specificly trait/build for him to get a ton of ccs
two warriors with kick hammer etcetc and yo ucan just faceroll and itll most likely work

giant which takes a loong time and dust monster which spawns so late that most groups need to be on position to start next event sure are problems that should be fixed/changed .. someday

or dont close it at all if they dont want to work on it…were fine as it is
the skins would always be available
and it would fit into their “permanent content” hype…

if u continue this riot u will all end up in jail…
uhm
nevermind

btw i dislike that this took such extreme destructive sizes…

but if anet doesnt listen…
everyone get a war and use longbow f1 coordinated all over the place mace a screen from far away half of rata sum in flames (engineers are fine as well use the mortars)

#OccupySAB2014!

Gummy.4278:

Instead of locking us out all the time allow us some form of currency that we can pay Moto to play anytime we want in the old worlds already completed. For example for 5 to 10 laurels you could buy an “SAB all day play coin” something akin to an arcade token. Also even though I did not buy one from the Gem store anyone who did get the Infinite Continue Coin allow them all day access once per week without the need to buy the SAB all day play coin as an extra benefit to the infinite coins current function. And if not once a week at least once per month. Re Release the ability to purchase the Infinite Continue Coin on the gem store as well.

This way Anet profits and we all can be happy.

hell id pay 100laures+ a few hundreds gold and gems to get playing sab
(and using my leftover colourfull tokens that are now over a year kittening in my bank space)
just the recepies to make colorufull weapons would lighten up my bank but… grumpy cat works for anet and ays no!