Guild Wars 2

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Well, path notes are up, still no CoF nerf… guess the chaos continues for another month.

Or maybe your classification of it as chaos is wrong?

Fire/earth signets got buffed(doubled) and restoration only nerfed some in spvp. No signet stun break still but nothing too earthshattering aside from the RTL gutting.

dreztina.4820:

Welp, glad I quit the game a while back. Anet devs either don’t have the first clue what they’re doing when it comes to ele, or they secretly want everyone to run full bunker and nothing else. Again they nerf us in a way that barely affects bunkers but prison kitten everything else.

Can I have your stuff?

I wouldn’t care for a real level cap increase but more allocatable trait points would be pretty sweet.

ahuba.6430:

Solo.9027:

If todays patch drops before monthly resets you might get a couple of hours of a window to double dip monthly again.

I’ll be stuck at work :/

why would that happen? why would a patch reset their data?

I don’t know why, I’m not a programmer. I do know that it has happened at least twice before since laurels were part of the game, once for the first daily after and another time for the monthly. It could be fixed by now though.

Does the reflect have to be in melee in order to damage him? Also, why d/f instead of s/f? Is it to melee and avoid the single target ranged blast he does?

If todays patch drops before monthly resets you might get a couple of hours of a window to double dip monthly again.

I’ll be stuck at work :/

I was planning on going in a couple new directions maybe with signets but it depends on the patch notes. For example: 25/15/30/0/0 s/f with fire/earth/air/restoration signets and the gs elite. Signets grant fire shield which grants prot/fury/swiftness and might on hit plus everything will be burning all the time and high crit/dmg. Rotation would go fire→earth→air→repeat, while sprinkling in signets for boons and to enhance spikes.

I dont think going arcane is going to be worth it anymore without deep investment into water for the 25 trait and cantrips procing regen+vigor. Like I said though, depends on the patch notes.

Why would Anet feel the need to nerf a gold source? They should want gold to steadily devalue so that gems become more attractive to buy with cash. Besides, there are plenty of systems in place to drain gold from the economy and with monthly updates they have every opportunity to simply create new avenues for gold to flow between players via the TP or out of the system altogether via gem conversions.

I appreciate the analysis Syeria.

I would counter your results with the simple fact that selling greens allows you to use that money on many things other than ecto(and relatively immediately because you don’t have to save all that loot between forge visits) and also that RNG is a fickle mistress no matter how much faith we put in that .9 ecto/rare figure I always end up in the .1 that gets silk.

Maybe he is hoping for the signets buff to save us somehow. It would be nice to have a stunbreak or two in signets or something else.

The sotg only talked about nerfs and how people “cry” about ele’s and how they are “bringing ele’s down”.

I’m personally saving up gold to craft an alt to 80 depending on what gets buffed.

bravoart.5308:

Solo.9027:

FallenTear.3710:

I think i got best luck here with 1 key drop from mobs and just take ticket

Same thing happened to me last night at around the same location. I got a key off of a random zombie during the packheart escort from caer shadowfain on my zero magic find warrior and got a fused weapon ticket for free. I have never bought keys before.

Now I just have to decide if I want the greatsword for the warrior or the dagger for my ele. I never bothered thinking it through because of how they are attained, I just wrote all the skins off as unattainable.

KEYS STILL DROP FROM MOBS?

News to me, I can wear enough magic find to choke a horse and have 1 t6 mat to show from an hour of farming. >:C

Edit: 30 or so keys, finally got 1 ticket.

I hadn’t gotten a key since doing map completion ages ago. I also never wear magic find gear anymore and recently finished my legendary a couple weeks ago.

Afya.5842:

The way people/market react to news is very true IRL. The world chest nerf causes a bubble of the price of ecto. It’s very interesting how some news/rumors can cause a massive change in market.

Just the other day there was a story about how a false news report from a hacked twitter account caused the markets to tank for a brief few moments.

http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/technology/296319-markets-watchdog-ap-twitter-hack-shows-need-for-new-oversight

Trebuchet blocking is also being nerfed, they talk about it in the guardian section and say it will affect swirling winds as well. About an hour in.

Glad I gave up on crafting a pretty one.

I stopped forging masterworks after world events tanked ecto prices. At 80, you only have to sell ~11 masterwork to buy an ecto. I think the chances to forge one are less than 1 in 4 tries, selling to a vendor is guaranteed to get you at least one with the money. It also requires less time and thought to just vendor all your greens and blues too.

Like everything in this game it all comes down to how lucky you feel.

One hand or two? I’m trying to picture it in my head, is it more of a zulu warrior or donatello from the ninja turtles?

sostronk.8167:

I did about 50 yesterday as well. I made a custom sell order of half way between the highest buy order and the lowest sell order, which was around 37.4 silver at the time. All swords sold within 2 minutes. Considering selling the materials straight up was going to sell for around 28.4 silver, I made an additional profit of around 4.5 gold.

The reason this works is because you appear as the lowest seller and people forging for precursors just filter by lowest price.

Sometimes you can get away with higher sell prices with a little time waiting if you check how many of the item are for sale and how far apart the listed prices are. For example, if 10 total are for sale with 2 at 10c and 8 at 20c listing for 9c is not wise unless its a very slow move item. One thing is for sure though, never sell to buy orders unless you absolutely need the money rite nao.

John Smith.4610:

can we learn more about our real world economies with more finite virtual economies?

The purpose of economics in the real world(IMO) is to squeeze efficiency out of human labor for the benefit of other humans with as little cost as possible. The way that translates to this game is how little can I pay someone to farm salvage X for me while I RP in divinity’s reach with the trading post window open and my credit card handy.

So, yea they’re pretty similar.

Vayra.3290:

Also, for a suggestion of my own:

Since FGS is an elite, why not rename it Elemental Great Sword and give it different skills for each attunement (with skin change on attune swap?). This could make it more than just an offensive/escape tool and allow a good elite to be used for more healing or defensive builds.

Even better, make it an arcane greatsword with 100% crit :P

They won’t touch that skill because it would be silly swinging a flaming sword and having water shoot from it.

Leo G.4501:

Can’t Rock Solid let you break stuns (earth trait that grants stability upon attuning to earth)? If they just made the Earth line a bit better, that could be a viable answer right there. 10sec cooldown stunbreaker. Go wild with your utilities from there

If they wanted to diversify builds they’d add stun breaks(or other meaningful defesive abilities) to the higher tier fire line too to get people to invest in it. I mean, why are there even two duplicate traits in the fire line?(+5% vs burning foes)

Its not so much regret as it is a feeling of “now what?”. I got good at collecting gold and rare items and doing dungeons efficiently but unless I want to make another legendary those skills are pretty useless now. I guess I will save for T3 cultural or something… or maybe craft a new alt to 80 for fun.

I tried helping friends get theirs but they just end up begging for all my drops because I don’t “need” them(I never once asked anyone for help making my legendary, this just seemed bad manners to me).

Best buy did this around xmas time. I got $30 worth for ~$27, so its not unheard of.

Let me preface with this: I play and separately enjoy both for different tasks.

At this point though, i’d have to say warrior. Conjured hammer is super nice but when you use it you can’t swap like a warrior(gs+axe/*) can and someone else can easily grief your 2nd hammer leaving you to wait on the cooldown. Also the transition is very jarring when you run out of charges, it takes me a second to re-orient myself.

If they made ele conjures exactly like engi kits then we could have a discussion but for now theyre just a novelty(the skill, not the whole profession).

when i was new i vendored everything… so i wouldnt expect much from truly new people

Its just like when world bosses were announced to be limited in that thread, prices went up as a result of player reaction not a supply shortage. People are collectively assuming that ori is less valuable(albeit so far only 10-15% drop according to OP) because of the new pick so they will take whatever they get knowing that there is more competition.

Enough 1c undercutters eventually leads to this type of situation, I bet it stops around the cost of t5 salvage or a little higher.

Starbird.4029:

Wiser with Age.3714:

Starbird.4029:

S/P seems to be the top spec for leveling, with D/D being pretty popular too. I just really don’t want to be a melee thief :|

Ah… Then you pretty much don’t want to play a Thief. Our AoE ranged option of Shortbow is a decent back up weapon, but Pistol/Pistol is our weakest weapon set available and is in serious need of a rework.

I’d suggest that you take another look at a Pistol/Pistol build for Engineer. If you use P/P in some kind of condition / critical hit build and combine it with one of their weapon kit utility skills (like Grenades or Bombs), it should probably play closer to what you’re looking for. That kind of build can have almost permanent Quickness through a couple of Minor traits, which can lead to your having Vigor whenever you’re under Quickness (for just another Minor trait choice). This will let you still dodge around like a Thief and will let you ranged combat to your heart’s content. (My personal vote would be a Charr Engineer since they have exclusive access to the Dual Hidden Pistols toolbelt skill. This skill is the Thief’s P/P skill called Unload, just with a different name.)

Yeah, I have a feeling that I’m going to have to reluctantly shelve my thief…a pity, because I adore the look of the class.

Engi – ick. Super duper gimmicky, not at all the ‘gunfighter’ that I want to play. Unless I’m totally misunderstanding the class.

I tried a pistol/pistol engi with all potions and had fun in wvw but its mind-numbingly slow to pve with that spec so I deleted it mid-20s. If I ever get enough gold piled up again to craft something straight to 80 i’ll give it another go.

+1 for cursed shore

CoF can be frustrating if you don’t have reliable teammates, I don’t like having to size up other players hoping they’re reliable. I only do CoF anymore for the freebie berseker stat exotics for when I’m skinning new gear.

Ooshi.8607:

Free trial weekend coming up…. Copper definitely not gonna get cheaper….

So an increased supplier base will decrease supply? New people are more likely to just mine than to craft, mining is 1 button while crafting seems daunting to most new players.

you also seem to be forgetting the wildly popular infinite use mining pick that gives people more incentive to mine copper and other low tier metals and not worry about wasting resources.

I predict a surplus coming.

FallenTear.3710:

I think i got best luck here with 1 key drop from mobs and just take ticket

Same thing happened to me last night at around the same location. I got a key off of a random zombie during the packheart escort from caer shadowfain on my zero magic find warrior and got a fused weapon ticket for free. I have never bought keys before.

Now I just have to decide if I want the greatsword for the warrior or the dagger for my ele. I never bothered thinking it through because of how they are attained, I just wrote all the skins off as unattainable.

OIIIIIO.7825:

The mystic forge stone counts as a random item.
When used in forge you get the average rarity (E+E+R+Stone = Exotic)
I hope this helps

Wrong. Mystic forge stones count as a random item but not random rarity. 3 exotics+stone=random exotic.

You can never mix rare+exotics. You can, however, put 3 rares and a stone in and get an exotic out but that would be a waste of a stone since rares are much cheaper generally and stones cost more than most people can justify spending for 25% of a lottery ticket.

Starbird.4029:

I really enjoy my guardian, but I am not a fan of the plate sets (why oh why can’t there be some sort of Heavy ‘coat’ look?).

Try the heavy arah legs, they have a but-cape that looks like a trenchcoat.

I got $30 worth of gems from xmas gift cards and $25 worth trading in some old console games so technically I have only spent the original $60 of my own money. I did also buy a few gems using in-game gold for fine transmutation stones when gems were much cheaper.

I’ll probably trade in some more games and get more gems before the next gen of consoles come out and tank the values. This game is still cheaper than console gaming and being an mmo addict saves me tons of money from having a life

I bought ~40 stones when they went on sale a while back. Every exotic combine resulted in aquatic weapons or junk torches/horns. I stopped about 12 into it and just used the rest on mystic salvage kits. Lesson learned, on the bright side I did get my precursor eventually from rares I crafted.

Danicco.3568:

For maximum DpS I think the build would be this

However, from what I tested, Rune of Strength is currently bugged so you’re not getting the extra 5% damage.

When you have Pyromancer’s Puissance it is a DpS loss to switch OUT of fire. That essentially gives you around 7~10 might stacks by yourself (you don’t even need to hit, just keep spamming 1 – don’t remember if you need a target or not, or if you need to be in range… I used to do this with the Scepter).

Why would you switch out of a 245~350 guaranteed extra Power?

I’m tempted in crafting this gear now… Rune of Strength might be bugged but there’s still Rune of the Flame Legion which should work as well (though no extra Might duration).

Wow, just imagining achieving nearly 100% extra raw damage and 100% extra critical damage… if a Guardian/Warrior gives me Fury & 25 Might stacks, will I one-shot someone?

You could have 4 more might stacks permanently if you took inscription and quick glyphs just by using your heal(5 if you pop your elite pet and more if you lose a cantrip but that might be pushing your luck). This is assuming you want to sit in fire attunement to get the most out of puissance, there is no reason to trait air cooldowns unless you wanted swiftness which can be attained elsewhere. Traiting glyphs is nice because you can either get perma swiftness or regen or 30+% protection uptime. Plus glyph is our fattest heal and traited for 20sec cd really rivals ether renewal imo.

Zumy.6318:

Solo.9027:

and my 2 daily laurels

Does this mean you can get 2 laurels per day for tPvP and PvE?

No. I just happened to only have 2 laurels at the time to spend.

SnowHawk.3615:

I find it the most feminine of the staves.

So men can’t like colors?

Not a dungeon but the mad kings labryth was pretty awesome as a pve zerg with a champion/chest every few minutes, plus the game was all still very new and fresh. I finished my 1st 80 in there.

I’m pretty confident lupicus reacts to your damage output and proximity more than anything else. When I kite him well he never even faces me but if I hover too close and stand still a second too long he charges me and stays on until I can outrun him. I always run full berserker.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Sure revamping some bosses would be neat.

…but whats this about removing the boulders trap?

You guys overestimated the playerbase’s ability to play frogger.

Solo.9027:

I just forged The Legend!!!

I logged in this evening and started sizing up my T5 stocks. I had enough T5 and mithril to make 38 rare staves but needed all the elder wood. I spent a total of 2-3g from logging in on mats and on my 7th forge it showed up. Since release I have forged maybe 50 times total at the most and that is a generous figure.

I have fortune, mastery, and almost all of gift of bifrost except for the 480-ish crystalline dust and runestones. The hard part is past now. I just have to go into hardcore savings mode like when I saved up for my Golden title, 200g should cover the rest hopefully barring changes in the next patch.

For all you guys still forging, best of luck to you. Here are some screenies I took after the adrenaline wore off: http://imgur.com/a/cgHai#0

I just finished Bifrost.

http://imgur.com/a/HjoOZ#0

Today I ground out the last 35g for my runestones. I farmed cursed shore for maybe 1.5hrs on and off, did exactly 1 10 minute CoF path(then pug fell apart… so glad I never have to CoF again), did some wvw for my monthly and used it and my 2 daily laurels to buy heavy crafting bags to sell their contents, finally I did some clover 10x recipe rolls for the hell of it and got a lucky 39 crystalline dust return for even more money.

Now my next goal is an armor skin that will accent my new rainbow stick and maybe celestial dye(or just get all of the dyes on this character )

If prices come down or a scavenger hunt gets released I’ll go for predator on my warrior since I have like 50 clovers spare

Yay! Play RNG for the chance to play RNG Wars 2!

I just forged The Legend!!!

I logged in this evening and started sizing up my T5 stocks. I had enough T5 and mithril to make 38 rare staves but needed all the elder wood. I spent a total of 2-3g from logging in on mats and on my 7th forge it showed up. Since release I have forged maybe 50 times total at the most and that is a generous figure.

I have fortune, mastery, and almost all of gift of bifrost except for the 480-ish crystalline dust and runestones. The hard part is past now. I just have to go into hardcore savings mode like when I saved up for my Golden title, 200g should cover the rest hopefully barring changes in the next patch.

For all you guys still forging, best of luck to you. Here are some screenies I took after the adrenaline wore off: http://imgur.com/a/cgHai#0

LittleOldMan.9415:

As of right now TC is dropping down to tier 3 and Fort Aspenwood is moving up http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

As sad as this will be i’m glad to finally be getting map completion from green garrison.