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After I finish crafting this weekend, I plan on taking a long break. Tired of the 2 week checkoff events. I’m just not seeing any long term content, that would come with an expansion pack.
Why is there a title for Master Crafter but, no title for Grandmaster, huh?
If your not in a guild, it’s not easy to find out if players are doing which temple events. Please consider adding temple events to LFG tool, this way players can announce and find others doing temple events.
They really should allow players to sell account bound stuff to merchants, this way it won’t end up on the trading post or be salvageable for something. Doesn’t seem like 400-500 crafting was well thought out.
You can buy Heavy Crafting Bags from Laurel merchant for 1 laurel. Also killing champions and salvaging items, farming level 70-80 areas & dungeons.
There is no good way to search for “Recipes:” for Artificer, Weapon smith, etc. Please consider adding filters for crafting professions for both material and recipes.
Take a look at the following site for recipes you haven’t yet discovered
http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/artificer?cookieTest=1
Also check the trading post for recipes you might not have. Do a search on “Recipes:”, there’s no way to search for just Artificer recipes.
Sorry to say but, Anet did a poor job (lazy) with the 400-500 crafting.
400-425 – refineT6 ore & wood
425-450 – Recraft exotics with discovery
450-475 – refine T7 material
475-500 – just Recraft more exotics
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Nope, want some real WvW content, not PVP which WvW has become. The added bloodlust content is just bad and just made it worst.
No, this is just crap content, the game long term level 80+ content, not some revamped champion of the week.
Bloodlust – proof Anet doesn’t have clue when comes to WvW, really is this the best they could come up with?
Updated Champion, LFG tool, etc?
Tom Gore – thanks for the list, could you put JP (jumping puzzles) for locations, it not always clear which locations are JP’s which are not!
It’s not that hard to get 50 per day just doing chests and JP’s on a couple of maps.
The chests you get in the invasions can also drop cores and lodestones. I even got a core from one of the later personal story missions.
I get the Internal Server Error 50% of the time when I click on a Subject in the Forums, using a Mozilla browser.
18 exos salvaged – 0 dark matter
Do you not get dark matter until you reach a crafting level of 450 ?
The game needs a build-in event tracker so players can find and track the event they want!
If the GW2 world gets bigger, mounts maybe a good idea.
I wish they would keep the Invasion message up longer!
You have to look at crafting as a long term goal, not some 2 week farming event. I’m happy to have some longer term goals in the game. Relax, it’s not going away in 2 weeks, just play the game and you’ll get Ascended stuff without the randomness of the mystic forge.
2 weeks or 2 months. It is still 200g gold to lvl profession and that is too much just for 100lvls of one profesion. And most of people will probably need 2 professions to get full ascended weaponry.
Phase I 400-450 Solo
It’s not going to cost me even 5 gold, I do a solo farming run in Frostgorge, Malcor’s Leap & Cursed Shore for Ancient Wood & Orichalcum, takes less than 1 hour, then do 3 JP’s and 1 or 2 champs. I get enough to make 3 or 4 exotics per week. So in less than 2 weeks I go from 400-450 with zero cost.
See
http://gw2nodes.com/index.php
Phase II 450-500 Group/team up
I may continue to do some T6 mat runs every other night, then do champ hunts or dungeon runs for T7 material. It may take a month or even longer but, won’t cost anything outside the recipes, plus I’ll still make a little gold. Remember to farm everything and sell what you don’t need.
You have to look at crafting as a long term goal, not some 2 week farming event. I’m happy to have some longer term goals in the game. Relax, it’s not going away in 2 weeks, just play the game and you’ll get Ascended stuff without the randomness of the mystic forge.
The days of leveling 1-80 through crafting are long gone! Your best bet now is having a character craft in two different crafts for about 10 levels (0-400) per craft. Don’t know yet, what the new 400-500 crafting gives you yet.
Farming events has been the best method of making gold, there will be more events in the coming weeks.
You still get lots of karma from doing events, WvW, etc. You also receive Luck for the Dailies so they reduced karma.
What is your crafting level and what are you trying to craft?
Note: You stop receiving experience on items below your crafting level.
I thought it was funny has well! One too many gifts!
It’s not a bug, it’s a new Event for Bots!
I think the GW1’s content was more expansive vs GW2’s bi-weekly farming event & mini games.
I want deeper more expansive content, GW2’s content is headed in the wrong direction of lighter fare, tell me crafting isn’t going down the wrong path.
I would like to know where crafting is going? Where is Anet taking this, do they have a long term vision?
I don’t like all the account bound stuff, event only crafting or how there is nothing new in 400-450 crafting levels. The lack of new items in half of the new levels shows a lack of long term planing and/or imagination.
I hope crafting doesn’t end up as nothing more then part of the farming event of week trend. Jumping through one hoop after another just to be able to craft this or that.
Some New Ideas:
Contract Crafting
- where you can receive a contract from other players to craft something, this way new high level items won’t flood the trading post and allow non-crafters to get the latest goods
Crafting Goods
- where you craft non player items and hire a guild to transport your goods to another town or city. All sorts of events can be built around this idea and allow guilds to make money transporting goods.
I hope they take Jewelry to 500 as well, it needs it.
Consider you can buy/sell legendaries this makes little sense. It’s backwards, now the new ascended weapons are things you earn but, anyone can buy a legendary,
It’s surprising that they are not part of new tier7 crafting material, maybe they’ll be added when armor crafting goes to 500 .
I have solo’d some dungeon paths with a Mesmer, with the right build, they can to anything, PvE, WvW, PvP, dungeons.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/september-03-2013/
Only Weaponsmith, Artificer, and Huntsman will get the new crafting skills, bummer. I was hoping to be able to craft Ascended jewelery.
Events should be designed to work on overflow server period!!! It’s poor design to create events that leave players hanging, who can’t play or complete them. I’ve been kicked from events when I died and ported to a waypoint only to end up on a overflow server where the event wasn’t running, losing rewards and 20-25 mins of time!!!
My concern is will we get better content (more RPG elements, deeper gameplay elements, better NPC’s, etc.) without an expansion?
While it’s true, there’s nothing they can’t do that needs an expansion, the game needs a lot more than just farming event of the week living story content or more mini games we’ve been getting so far.
Wow, I’m surprised that Warrior and Ranger are the most popular and Mesmer is tied with Engineer for dead last, I like my Mesmer and play it all the time. Engineer I can understand it’s the most non traditional class but, the Mesmer is pretty close to a typical Mage. I always hear other players complain about the Ranger Class.
Source, just scroll down
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-the-firstyear/?session_key=172D3EBC-F347-4042-A739-A315452CBD58
I found this is where crafting became useful, I farmed Orr for material and crafted armor one piece at a time. Crafting is going to change next week, so I don’t know if that would work anymore.
Best bet now would be to farm the living story events, sell everything and buy what you need.
Other than chief and creating food boosters, all other crafting has been almost useless. I hope new recipes include a mix level of crafting material and more like chief vs the make 5 of A,B,C, with tier 1 then wash, rinse & repeat tiers 2 through 6.
Will we finally be able to craft back pieces now?
Jeweler will once again be useful.
Will we all be farming Orr next week for material X & Y?
Should I just sell all my Magic Find items before the patch? So all MF food boosters will disappear also?
Next week when the patch that removes Magic Find stat from items, what’s going to happen to player/inventory items with magic find (Explorer Armor, Weapons, Omnomberry Bar,s etc)?
Will these items just disappear, willthe player get credits for them?
Lower level players need something to kill too, go do something else!!! Not every battle needs to be a 20-30 min. slug fess.
Return of the Bots!!!
The longer this invasion event goes on, the more bots I see.
I agree with Kebtiz.8370, part of the issue is poorly designed events.
Examples:
I’ve saved Lord Faren & defeated Scarlet, got the Defender of the Crow achievement but, I still have to go back and do it again, wait, what! This time to I have save Faren in 3 mins. and defeat Scarlet again with out dieing, what’s wrong with that sequence of events? What kind of story telling is that, huh?
How come there is a timer for the invasion events and none for the timed event for Lord Faren? Once again poor design.
This Event should have been 14 of 17, with number of invasions finished with the completion of the Vorpp’s achievement. I’ve done 14 of 17 events, feel burnt out and just not having fun anymore.
The problem here isn’t the players, (playing the way they want), it’s Anet’s poor design that allows this.
The problem is even worse, I died during an event, ported to waypoint and got dumped to an over flow server where the event was no longer active, then got no credit from the event after wasting 30mins. I’m sick of poorly designed, untested events.
I now seem to have two types of gears in my inventory, one of which is soulbound?
What are these used for?
This content reminds me of following the Bot trains that use to run in Orr, last year! Sad Anet couldn’t come up with something better 9 months later.
Lost mine as well.