Guild Wars 2

Isnt d/f the only ele weapon that has solo’d lupicus? That should tell you most of the reason why its the best for harder pve encounters.

kmortonson.2154:

Interesting – the website Vol posted assumes an average return of 6 t6 mats per promotion, while the Egg Baron spreadsheet assumes an average return of 7 T6 mats.

Is there a solid basis for either assumption?

Well, 7 is what you get out of the forge on average but technically the recipe requires one so you actually net 6. Sorry if there was confusion there.

dhocke.1536:

It says the output would be 5 – 12 T6

I made several hundred of these recently, the average is 7 per forge. Depending on T5 prices it can be better than outright buying T6 but T5 has been high recently(2.5s a couple days ago), I made mine when it was a little cheaper(1.5-1.7) but T6 was still 40+.

Points in earth seem like a waste, if you really want more healing you should have evasive arcana and maybe soothing winds. Also, expect to be disappointed by water blast and ice bow healing.

I forgot about this thread. I made moot a few days ago on a whim with my second gift of mastery saved from a year ago after making bifrost. When the march sales didn’t have character slots or the armor set I wanted I said kitten it and bought energizer for 163g. In the next 10 days I collected ~800 T6 and around 4-500 ecto to make fortune and used my saved box o fun from cheivo rewards to make gift of moot.

I completely exhausted all my resources to get it done so quick and then they went and announced character slot sale so now I’m just saving up for 1 using the same grind methods. This is going to be my last time messing with legendary weapons, I can’t justify doing more map completion.

Banning classes that spam garbage fields improves my quality of life when I lay down fire fields a split second late. Guardians are notorious for this but they can provide other useful boons so it balances out.

I like money too.

When I see a lfg that looks promising the first thing i glance over is AP because its all the info the game gives me before I potentially waste my time. If I see any under 2-3k its a red flag, if these indicators add up too high its time to leave the party.

Other such indicators include not speaking(ignorable if its a guild group on their own voice comm.), having starter gear skins like pearl and draconic etc.., and not moving until I move indicating that they are just following whoever seems like they know what theyre doing. Oh, and bearbow.

I waited all march to buy one or a few of these, just sitting on my gems and a couple hundred gold and when it didn’t happen I went on a spending spree for my existing characters. As much as its nice to have good things like bank/bag slots and these character slots on sale at all, it just feels like a kitten move to put the things i’d imagine that a majority of people would actually want on sale after the loudly publicized month of sales ends. I’m not complaining, just stating my opinion, i’ll probably grudgingly buy 1 on the last day so I don’t regret it later.

I gave up on the idea of 400-500 jewelry when they said ascended items will become account bound.

Thats because its not a fire field.

Anyone who flat out asks what should I play should just camp fire staff because its the most simple build to understand and hardest to screw up. 30 20 10 10 0 or 30 10 10 10 10 if you really want not to have to think.

Since they didn’t put character slots on sale in march I decided to use my 2nd gift of mastery up and bought energizer for 163g, it then jumped +50g. I had about 100g left and over a few days since the 31st have made all the gifts and upgraded around 7-800 t6 and need about 50 of each and a stack of ecto to complete my moot. I had around 250g to do all this and only run 2 AC and 2 CoF and 2-4 temples max per daily cycle(some would call that casual).

The only real problems IMO are precursor RNG, even upgrade RNG is fine as it is.

Thats just a text bug, count out the seconds its 6 even though it says 4.

Not the original design, the design direction lately. Lightning whip also didnt have cleave originally if you really want to go there.

Its by design, thats why they created fresh air. They planned for us to swap out of air for a couple of skills at a time and to go back to air for best efficiency.

In all honesty i would probably send it back but really slowly or make them do weird stuff to get it back.

Anet gave a valueless item some new increased value and gave us all a few weeks heads up to prepare for the change. Its no different than when ascended crafting exploded the prices for the then-useless crafting materials.

The way theyre doing this is all positive in my opinion. It even increases the relative value of all dye packs since even the failed rolls with those will turn out some gold.

Zaxares.5419:

I bought 2 Marjory Dagger skins too. I’m sure ANet will refund us for the extra copies once the Apr 15th patch arrives.

I just had a thought, what if they raise the price on stuff like this in the future because its now an account unlock? Would you be able to justify 800-1000gems on a single weapon skin?

I can’t see needing more than the hundreds i’ve got stored up already. I only wish I was one of those people who played one race so I could get more out my tier3 cultural skins.

April is going to be a great month for this game.

juno.1840:

Stone Heart keeps you alive longer in a PvP/WvW situation but you have to stay in Earth (no lingering elements either!). So you are not killing fast and that merely delays the inevitable.

Considered using conjure and sitting in earth attunement?

I wonder if soothing wave and stone heart would work together, almost like a reverse weakness.

I like all of these new traits except the water one but I never go deep water anyway.

The problem with a month long daily sale for me is that I can’t justify buying anything until the month is over because it might go on sale. I’ve been sitting on my money wanting to buy another character slot or flamewrath for my warrior but I don’t want to regret it a few days later.

I did what Electro did for those reasons but also because I understand that living story rewards are ALWAYS going to be a spiffy new backpiece and investing in something that gets outdone/outdated every few weeks is futile. Plus, these things were extremely fugly and only good for cheap exotic-tier any-stat selectables.

Disappointed not to see a 5x flesh golem rush on a walled slave driver. Funny music though.

Paying for spots on boss fractal runs is the only way you can directly buy into ascended.

Key farming is one of the few rewarding farmable things you can do without a party in this game. My personal record is 17 minutes from character creation to key award using only starter gear and sw/wh warrior.

I used to do the same thing during the 1st SAB and made decent money selling rare skins and saved money from having to buy rare skins just using the account bound skins. Since they patched SAB in the 2nd version its probably frowned upon internally by anet(or maybe just nc) but having active looking starter zones is probably worth the loss of income as it gives legitimate new players an idea of what an active zone looks like.

In 1000-2000 years there will be a global religion based around the mysteries of the RNG of MMORPGs of the early 21st century. This thread will be a hymn sung at tuesday mass.

Saint.5647:

It’s actually all Barbaric armor except the legs. They are not chain mail but rather Invader’s or the WvW armor.

The headpiece is, of course, his eye patch (available from the gem store).

Invaders is a prefix of the armor describing specific stats. WvW is one place you can get the skin, there are several others. Everything I said is right.

http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?lang=en&skinID=defenei&sex=0&race=3&w=3&color=0

http://argos-soft.net/GW2/ArmorGallery/index.php?lang=en&skinID=blacknighti&sex=0&race=3&w=3&color=0

CMstorm.8679:

I don’t know about how anyone else feels about underwater skills, but hopefully in season2 of living story, maybe underwater weapon skills will be buffed. Who knows?

:::LS spoilers:::

Underwater in the next living story is pretty much out of the picture since the new dragon is the jungle dragon and not the underwater one.

It would be nice if there was a trident trait but the skills are already pretty fast activating and have decent enough cooldowns, I would like if they modified some skills to more reliably hit since the addition of z-axis combat makes things miss way too often like how water 5 is essentially an inferior version of warrior spear rush.

Barbaric chest/gloves/shoulders/boots, chainmail legs, his own eyepatch.

Anet must really like Rick and Morty.

silvermember.8941:

Unless you are in love with particular back item look, there is really a reason to bother with.

Solo.9027:

Solo.9027:

Ascended is probably not ideal for you then, just go with a single exotic spinal blade pack and pass it around as needed.

Does the spinal blade pack become soulbound if you continue upgrading to Ascended?

And is the stat change for the spinal pack only a one-time thing when you upgrade it, or can you change stats around when you pass between characters?

It will be account bound once you equip it.

This changed since todays patch, advanced spinal blades(exotic) are now soul bound… :/

Not terribly pretty by most standards of beauty but it appealed to my OCD gland. Perfect burning retreat spread happened during a key run.

When I go to the grocery store I instinctively look at the “price per ounce” listed in small print under the unit price to make decisions on what constitutes a good deal. Its not always true that larger quantities will always offer the best deal and you should not assume that the seller owes you if you don’t select the product that works best for your interests. These are basic things every functioning adult should be able to consider for themselves before spending money IRL let alone in a virtual world.

Pie Flavor.1647:

oh noes your day was ruined because you tried to join a party in a highly populated server, how very very sad and how very very unfortunate of you…

I think he’s referencing the message popping up when trying to enter a dungeon but you can act like a kitten if it makes you feel good about yourself.

Whining for a refund on the 25 pack is just outing yourself as mathematically challenged.

Gold to gems its a little over 5g per key if you buy the 5 pack, sort of makes me wish I still had an extra character slot for key farming still as I can’t beat that rate farming without playing the tp game.

Zelyhn.8069:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Bread.7516:

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Anierna.6918:

Zelyhn.8069:

There is no correct way to read Guang.

Exactly. Case in point: Guang goes 30/10/10/10/10. Which is wrong. 30/20/10/10/0 is higher DPS in almost all sections of every dungeon. Not just with staff, but also with conjures.

I’ve said it before, 0/0/0/0/0 is really the new meta for elementalist. With tornado elite. Anything else and you’re exploiting because elementalist traits are blatant bugs, same with ele conjures, and pet summons.

btw, new meta is going human ele and [prayer to dwayna] [prayer to komir] [prayer to lyssa] [glyph of renewal] [avatar of melandru]. Stability+wiggle so op

Oh sorry, I’m not playing as the devs intended…. Mines an Asura.

Plus, I only use offhand weapons. And only focus. Doing damage is an exploit.

Only off-hand weapons?
(From the Ascension Challenge)

No ele’s in that video though… someone should do an all ele no mh/oh conjures only dungeon run and youtube it.

Thanks for doing the legwork Khisanth.

Ohoni.6057:

Man, I wish there were cheaper options. 100g is not a “just” thing for me when considering I still need 5-6 backpacks. I really wish that 100g was something I could just throw around on a whim.

Ascended is probably not ideal for you then, just go with a single exotic spinal blade pack and pass it around as needed. I think I payed 60g for my quiver/books back when they were cheaper to make, at today’s prices the stat increase is not worth it especially with all stat choices available in exotic spider packs.

Malediktus.9250:

I got almost 1 stack of the sub 80 ones already. I would gladly exchange them for 6 lvl 80 ones so I can transmute a lvl 80 set

Even paying customers get bent over with transmutation crystals, they only sell them in multiples of 5 knowing full well there are 6 armor sections so you have to buy two if you only wanted 6.

IMO they all look fugly but being able to pass them around for alts and select stats is enough of a reason to make a couple for future-proofing.

Does anyone know if skinning them soulbinds them?

aspirine.6852:

It would look good on my Engineer if there was not a giant sack on her back

Use rocket boots with a kit equipped and you get both.

That was the worst ele i’ve ever seen. In the end he even does laugh emotes over the corpse after running away from his party and a bunch of good players come to his rescue, no class at all. I avoid playing with other ele because of people like this.

The whole point of this recipe in my opinion is to get you used to needing high end craftables for basic use consumables. This does not bode well for ascended cooking.

Atlas.9704:

Nike.2631:

It like a big shout out to City of Villains.

Thank you! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who saw this.
When I looked at the release notes and pics I just kept thinking, “Lord Recluse is here?”

Lions Arch is basically Recluse’s Victory now, minus the open world pvp.

Edit: video for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUMeo7-1hZc
Atlas park was the lions arch of city of heroes and when the villains patch/expansion came out they added an alternate universe pvp zone with the area as a contested zone that could be won or lost by capping points. The center statue of Atlas would change to Recluse with the spider arms holding the globe and all the textures would change zone wide. I spent more hours there than all my gw2 time and i’m like 2k hrs in.

I really like the light skin for my ele, luckily I had exactly enough gems to insta-buy it and enough loose gold to snap up a set of zhed’s to put it on immediately. It looks great with the lightning catcher and my mists weapon skins but I would have liked to be able to dye the spacey parts to match.

If its a permanent skin I will be saving up gold to get a heavy set and a few zodiac weapon skins to try to match the look. 9/10 good job Anet!(ps, lions arch is fantastic, great patch)

36 area map completes(dat time investment), 200 skill points(more than enough just from just map completion), half a million karma(hearts from map completion alone give maybe 10% so this needs severe grinding), and 2k AP or a few days wvw blobing worth of badges all for just ~500-700g.

And then you need another couple hundred thousand karma and maybe a hundred skill points for clovers and ~8 dungeon paths for your gift. This also assumes that the buyer will be paying enough for you to level 2 crafting professions to 400 which you may or may never again use for yourself.

This has bad idea written all over it. If you really want to make big money churning out legendaries you have to put in the work to justify people paying you all that money, at least until the game is released in that country known for child slave labor.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Solo.9027:

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Solo.9027:

Frozen burst is getting a blast finisher in the next update, I highly doubt any sane dev team would follow that up with a water field on dagger offhand as it would be blatantly OP. If anything you can lobby for water trident getting a short water field instead of the proposed short duration regen boon added but I doubt you care about any weapon set except d/d going by your posts here.

why would it? the skill has a 40 second cool down. I mean come on, look at how many Water Fields Engineer can make and blast.

Water combat means nothing to me. I stay as far away from water as i can, the combat is a total mess and is just as unbalanced if not worse than land combat.

I am still curious, rather than just stating that it would be “OP” – WHY would it? considering the cool down the skill has already…

water trident is a scepter skill

That doesnt answer my question – why would Cleansing Water – the Dagger skill NOT the dodge with EA be over powered if it was a Water field attached?

First of all, I already posted that it would be no worse than an already existing engi skill all by itself but thats a dumb way to balance classes. That doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be overpowering considering how many more finishers ele have in their meta builds and that the devs have already consented to adding even more in the next patch. I only responded about water trident because its clear that you only play d/d and don’t know or care about the class outside of one specific purpose and its clouding your judgement of what is balanced.