Yes, all characters should have the same base magic find.
Are you checking your magic find on the equipment page of the hero panel or the achievement page? The acheivement page shows your base magic find without considering buffs, so will give the clearest way to check if your characters really have different values.
One thought for a ‘hidden’ magic find buff – are you characters repping different guilds?
When PvP tracks were introduced, they didn’t retroactively unlock for people that had already finished the story mode paths, and everyone had to do them again.
I get the communication reason for guilds wanting 100% rep, but with the expansion, there’ll be options to see chat across multiple guilds and should take that excuse away.
The last patch introduced separate skill bars for WvW and PvE. If you switched the skills while still in WvW before logging out, you won’t see those changes when you log back in until you go back into WvW.
The challenge is still there and works as intended, there is just no icon for it on the map before or after you finish the event
This affects at least two hero challenges (and predates the change from skill challenges to hero challenges), the other being the spider caves in Diessa Plateau. I’ve found that on logging out and in again, or leaving the map, it’ll then appear on the map – it only goes missing when you first uncover the section of map in which it appears.
As far as I can tell, it happens at specific challenges (I’ve seen it at this one, and the one with the harpies in Fields of Ruin), but only when you first uncover the section of map in which it should appear. Leaving the map or logging out and back will then cause it to appear normally.
There are whispers that we won’t even fight Mordremoth, how does the OP feel about that? This still boils down to one thing: Buy it or don’t.
Some of us are anticipating what we always get from Anet…a great game.
Does anyone have a source for Mordremoth not being in the expansion? I’ve seen this rumour in a few threads now, and not seen anyone point to a definitive source, other than other threads with the same rumour.
You need to have the Nightmare Court disguise and go into Briarthorn like you do for the renown heart. Once inside, follow the west wall round – there’s a passage to the west that starts just south of the POI which takes you to the hero challenge.
Found this thread on PvP forums, which suggests we’re both right. The leaderboard is currently not updating (and is not supposed to be updating) because the season is over, but when the season was live, it was sometimes not updating when it should.
I’ve had this happen with people joining the party after the first fractal has started. They were able to get in by selecting the same level as the open instance.
That’s the one I’m talking about. There isn’t a PvP season running right now, so no-one can score points. That is showing the final scores from the season that ended 15th May.
Did you get any of the armour pieces from personal story rewards? Although it unlocks the skin, it doesn’t count towards the achievements. Otherwise is sounds like a bug.
I just tried it out in Queensdale and Sparkfly Fen.
My counter stays at 718 no matter what I kill.
BUT
If I use my spear to kill stuff, THEN the harpoon counter goes up and vice versa.
o.O
so harpoon and speargun are mixed up.
They’re not mixed up, as the speargun achievement is called ‘Speargun’, it’s just that spear’s achievement is confusingly named.
Stitch,
- please use a harpoon(gun) of your choice and a spear(gun) of your choice.
- kill something with one and the other
- look where the kills register in your hero panel
or in other much simpler words:
killing a fish with my harpoon shows up in the Speargun Master achievement
AND
killing a fish with my spear shows up in the Harpoon Master achievement
How is this not mixed up?
It’s just confusing naming. Spears are referred to as spear or harpoon in different places in the game, same as harpoon guns are sometimes referred to as spear guns. The achievements as such are working, but if you only look at the Harpoon achievement rather than the whole set, it’s not clear which weapon it’s referring to.
Interesting – just tried switching maps, and the Fields or Ruin one now shows.
What seems to be happening is they’re not displaying when I first uncover the section of map they’re in, and stay hidden until I switch maps. So at least there’s a workaround.
I spotted a skill challenge not showing on the map or mini-map (both before and after completing it), reported it, and moved on. Today, I’ve found a different one, so thought it was worth posting here in case anyone has found any others.
The one’s I’ve found are:
Diessa Plateau – Spider Nest Cavern
Fields of Ruin – Tanglerot Hills (Scrabclaw’s Roost)
I was checking out my achievements in my hero panel and saw that I was 1 kill away from completing Harpoon mastery giving me 5 achievement points. I was currently on my necro and could not perform this action, so I changed to my engi went underwater in Queensdale to kill a yellow, trash, mob river drake. I killed it didn’t get the progress, so I was like, maybe It can’t be a yellow mob? Went to Kessex Hills found a shark killed it, still no progress, found another shark killed it same no change. Then I was like let me get on my warrior, so now I am on my warrior in Kessex Hills killing the same sharks still nothing. Now I’m convinced that this is bugged, either the progress is wrong and I am a lot further away from 500 and it is showing up as 499/500, or for some reason it just isn’t registering that I am killing things with a harpoon gun.
Has anyone had this same issue, Can someone help me out please.
P.S. my achievements are not completely bugged because I was able to complete Nightmares Court’s Bane recently.
Thank you, Twig
The ‘Harpoon’ achievement is for kills with spear, not speargun.
Which means those 20 skill points will simply disappeared and won’t count toward shards? I might as well use those now? Is that that this implies?
The question still stands. It’s a yes or no question – will those 20 skill points count toward shards? That is the question which is the concern of the article!
As I understand it, at level 80, with full map completion and 20 unspent skill points, you will get:
~465 hero points (whatever the maximum needed to unlock everything).
20 spirit shards
For the hero points, most will be for having reached level 80, and the rest from having skill challenges completed i.e. the number of skill challenges that shows for map completion, NOT the skill points you have unspent.
You could try using the streaming client. Just add -StreamingClient to the target on the GW2 shortcut. That might speed up getting into the game, as it lets you start playing before the entire download is finished.
Note that the streaming client is still a beta, but I’ve been using it for the last month or two and not had any problems.
When I created my Revenant, there was one of each type of weapon that he could use in my inventory. I was able to try out all weapon combinations for that class. Maybe the other classes were supposed to have this happen as well but there might have been a glitch for you? I’m curious what it was like for anyone else that created non-Revenant characters.
Same for necro, 1 of each weapon + 2nd dagger for dual-wielding.
I have the stone, and the beta slot, but never got an E-mail.
Whenever I click the beta character slot all the buttons grey out and i can’t do anything. I can play or create with my other characters and slots just fine.
Is this a glitch? Did I just miss out on something?
Might just be because beta’s not active right now. I think the next session starts in 15 minutes…
I just don’t understand how the feature pack tampered with the storyline quests… unless like Lindelle said, they reworked it, meaning they intended for this to happen or…? Cause now, I’m just… lost. I use to know what direction I was taking based off which path I chose but now… everything is just all bass-ackwards.
Before the feature patch, you got the next story step every 2-3 levels. They moved the steps so they appeared in groups every 10 levels, with each group being a complete chapter of the story. The problem was, the story in Orr didn’t split nicely into a level 70 chapter and a level 80 chapter, and the changes were made to force it to fit the new system. Currently the level 70 story involves cleansing Artesian Waters, and level 80 is the advance to Arah, even though previously these two chapters occurred side by side.
The sticked thread said at least 8 weeks before the updates get rolled out, and I believe it was posted on 31st March – today would be 8 weeks to the day from that post. No guarantee it’ll be in the next patch, but could be any time now.
I noticed this a while ago and I just didn’t think to mention it until now.
The Personal Storylines, they are not as they were before the leveling system changed. Some are missing – like the one with Apatia with the Krait and others are… some totally out of sequence. Like, I am jut now up to killing Zhaitan, but I didn’t go through the Artesian Waters to cleanse Orr and kill the big eye thingy and… ugh… I’m so confused.
Not to mention, Characters that I left off at the original placement of doing Grenth’s temple… that use to be two quests away from the end, and I did it, but had to do Temple of the Forgotten God… again… after I did it already a long time ago. I know I left a lot of my character’s storylines sitting dormant for a while, but I… I’m just having a hard time understanding this. Am I going crazy or… did something happen here?
Something did happen, in a feature patch last year.
It’s being addressed – the missing steps are being returned, and the original sequence is being restored. No ETA for when this is happening yet, but I would guess it won’t be too much longer.
Personally? I couldn’t allocate the first point in the Exalted Knowledge mastery line. (Yes, I had selected it as the active line and filled the bar) The “Are you sure you want to spend this point” dialogue came up, but choosing “accept” did nothing.
Small, obviously, but it’s something I ran into.
I noticed a few masteries weren’t selectable, but I assumed that was because they were useless in the beta. As far as I know, there’s no exalted to encounter in the areas we can explore, so maybe the exalted masteries are locked so we don’t waste our finite pool of mastery points on things we’d get no benefit from.
I think i heard at the start of the stream that you will also get hero points from champ bags, so you would be able to earn your traits in wvw as well.
I think it was ‘djinngots’ they said would be in the champ bags (i.e. the new currency replacing skill points for buying bloodstone shards, etc), not hero points.
Also, you can see the where the chests are without using shovel skill 2 (useful as the white light markers are sometimes a little off) – look for a bump in the sand.
By the way do you think the portal to Verdant Brink will be where the Vinewrath is currently? And that we need to kill it to get to the portal?
Kind of like how we have to do the events to first access Dry Top.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there is no portal. If you just had a normal portal to walk through that bars players without HoT, I can see that being a little immersion-breaking for some players. I eckon it’ll be more like the original access to Southsun Cove, before there was an asura gate and you had to get a boat there. Something story based, like maybe a Pact chopper survived the assault (back at base for repairs when the fleet left?) and HoT will start with characters getting airlifted into the new maps if they talk to a NPC.
I doubt it’ll be a long wait. It’s already been said that the story in Heart of Thorns carries on directly from the end of the last living story episode, and I can’t see them to going as long as a year with no expansion and no living story.
I just linked a gw1 acct when my ranger hit 80 so i could mainly just get the two unique pets. But after i bought the orb from the karma vendor, there is no jellyfish or black widow to be found. And i cant see the goodies from the vendor either.
Does anyone know if i did something wrong or how to fix it?!?
Have you logged into your GW1 account recently? I had a similar problem when GW2 first launched, and logging in to GW1 and visting the Hall of Monuments there seemed to sort it out.
They do downscale, and the three-headed wurm is a great example of it. That event scales up on the number of players at all three points, rather than scale each point individually. One tactic on the final phase is for the first two groups to finish their wurm to run out of the event area. You can see a significant increase in the rate the last wurm’s health goes down as it is suddenly scaling to 1/3 of the players it was a moment before, but still has the same number of players hitting it.
I’m about to hit fractal 31. I read up on instabilities and they seem impossible to do. How do you guys actually complete some of these especially on dredge fractal?
I’ve found that the impact of the instabilities can vary quite widely, and it doesn’t necessarily follow that a higher level instability is worse. For example, fractal 36’s instability is barely noticeable (crowd control has reduced effectiveness) whereas 33 (increased damage from behind and the sides) can really hurt unless you’re very careful.
I’d suggest picking the ones that look like they won’t impact you as much, and do that level, even if it’s above your personal reward level.
