Guild Wars 2

jweez.7214:

Elbegast.6970:

jweez.7214:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/short-story-what-scarlet-saw/

Haven’t read this yet, but I figured anyone who would post here likely cares a great deal about the lore so I figured I’d inform you of it.

I care a great deal about the lore but if it isn’t in-game, I’m not reading it. I’m don’t support this kitten poor extra-game storytelling.

I agree with you aside from the I’m not going to read it part. This story while-very interesting-is not a suitable replacement for in game lore. There is no suitable replacement for in game lore. But it makes me wonder, why the hell didn’t ANET put that part into to the LS update?

At least they posted it on their own website instead of facebook or reddit.

Chicho Gosho.6507:

3 hours a week or less – 0 laurels
3.5 hours a week – 7 laurels
Now tell me – which way is more “forcing” players to log in.

That’s easy. Instead of having 1 tier for each category, you have 7. Every 5 tiers you complete, you get a chest with 1 laurel, coin, and jug. You get no more chests after 35 tiers, but still get 1 AP for each tier after.

Doesn’t solve the issue of stats being time-gated or the fact that Cursed Shore is completely excluded from the dailies many days (kill variety, events/kills/vets in X zone, event mentor).

What ever happened to horizontal progression? Why can’t we obtain our PvE stats the same way as sPvP?

Un-equip all of your gear except the shield.
If the problem goes away, equip your armor 1 piece at a time until it bugs again.
If the problem exists when you are naked (including no main hand weapon) try a different shield.

I had a problem with shield placement caused by boots. It’s can be something weird.

Absconditus.6804:

You can be first and rush up around the bend to the finish line, only to find whoever was behind you, exploited a map weakness and are standing behind the line as winners. They don’t even need to cross the line to win. I doubt that is intended.

Probably not intended. But you do have to run at least between the chest and ribbon for your finish to register. I usually hop up there to use a firework gun until someone else finishes first.

This is the highest I’ve been. I will make it to the top eventually.

HawkMeister.4758:

Oddly the word disaster is what comes to my mind when I think about the old “interface”. I routinely scrolled around to find my kitten dailies or where the frack the current living story achievements were.

I always found that quite well ordered. Dailies at the top, Monthlies next, current Living Story was third. The (probably) most checked items at the top. They weren’t buried under sub-menus either.

Vol.5241:

You just don’t like it because you were used to the other one.
You just don’t like change.

I’m sure that’s part of it. But the page could have been improved upon with completely removing the nice parts. Adding sorting would have been easy.
This event reminds me of MS Office ribbons.

MrRuin.9740:

Striker.9413:

Finally, the icons only show the titles of the achievements, not what you need to do. You have hover over the icon. The old one showed the task to complete without an additional action.

I literally facepalmed at this.
Dear god no!!! I have to mouse over!!!!!!!! Why must I suffer so?

Why would they create the new system to require MORE user input without providing a benefit? It’s just poor design.

Raine.1394:

I tend to prefer text-based, information rich elements in a UI. But, that’s probably because I’m older and remember the good old days when the word reigned over the image.

I’m with you all the way. Surely I’m not the only one using command line almost every day.

Raine.1394:

Times have changed. However, it’s possible to have both (cf. Edward Tufte’s work) and I do notice an improvement here and there like the display of achievements close to completion. I’ll bet they are not done with it yet and that we’ll see further refinements over time.

Lets hope they continue to refine the interface. Maybe they can learn from Edward Tufte too (thanks for introducing me to this awesome guy).

Sigils of Force and Accuracy do not (did not previously) affect phantasms. The grandmaster trait from dueling to give % damage bonus for each readied mantra did not when I tested in the mists. I imagine the % damage bonus from Eagle runes also does not work.

The idle animation on my Asura engineer, where she spins the pistol, goes through the body. Images shows the spinning path using fractal pistol.

My rates from 6/15:
7 rares with master kits: 7 ectos
7 rares with black lion: 3 ectos (5x 0 ecto in a row, odd but still possible with RNG)

My rates from 6/14:
6 rares with black lion: 12 ectos

So, my only problem was yesterday. Not everyday since the most recent update.

Jalen.8746:

Oh, I didn’t know it was only white/blue items…well now I feel dumb. How in the world am I going to get this book over, then? There’s only green/yellow back items in the TP. Curses.

You could try buying one of the cheap backpack sets that comes with an account bound white back item. Never tried it myself though. Just make sure to get the backpack set and not just the cover.

At least a little while ago you could still apply conditions to him after hitting him with a caltrops or poison trap. The fight was insanely easy with my condition theif. Finished boss in under 2 minutes.

No. Just skins. Stats are stuck to a character once soulbound.

I just transmuted a soulbound item to a blue and it is no longer soulbound (just account bound). Still works.

Warrior with Air – 3260 power – avg 1200 damage from sigil
Mesmer with Fire – 3294 power – avg 900 damage from sigil
Tested on Dolyaks at Snow Climb in Frostgorge.
Fire is better with more than 1 enemy. Is 300 damage per 5 seconds worth the loss of AoE? For you to decide based on what you do.

Taking a base of 10 seconds and 1 attack per second we get, base damage of 1000!

-Sigil of Strenght! -> 1 stack of might per crit with a cd of 2 secs. (Max of 5 Might boons when no Boon duration up, and considering you had the luck of 100% crit on hit):
2 strikes with 5 might + 2 strikes with 4+ 2 with 3, 2 with 2 and 2 with 1 Might boon =
(10+8+6+4+2)(352) = 2100 added Power

So the total damage would be = 10000+2100 = 12100

This is on odd and confusing way of calculating (I can’t even tell if you’re right). Also the sigil is 30% chance of might. Even then you’ll average about 5 stacks of might constantly. 5 stacks is 175 power. The equation for damage from the wiki is:

Damage done = (weapon damage) * Power * (skill-specific coefficient) / (target’s Armor)

The power at which sigil of force becomes better will be:

x+175 = 1.05x

or 3500 power if you can keep 5 stacks.

With 50% crit and 2 attacks per second (most weapon chains are 1 per 0.5 sec) and 30% chance to gain might you need an average 6 attacks or 3 seconds to proc might. That’s 5 seconds with the CD per stack or only 3 constant stacks. The breakeven is now 2100 power.

Sigil of Might also boosts condition damage, it will be better if you stack rabid/rampager and use conditions as primary source of damage.
Sigil of Night is best for zerker when you can use it. Sigil of Force otherwise.

The T2 pants for your warrior didn’t count since you already got it on your engineer. You are missing T3 head, shoulder, pants. Armor class (light, medium, heavy) doesn’t matter.

Black Regent.5897:

Eh…. PayPal isn’t exactly the most trustworthy company. More power to others, but a lot of people, myself included, aren’t keen on their terms of service that basically say they can freeze your funds for any reason at any time.

You don’t have to keep money in paypal. I just use it as a funnel to buy things using my credit card without having to give my CC information to every individual website. You can do the same with your bank information.

How long will the Fused Weapon vendor be around?

Phreak.9356:

I think it actually depends on something else (the combination between Race, Gender and Items texture models) rather than the items themselves. I say this due to the fact that I’ve seen this post written by you Entropy and I, myself, never had this bug and I’m playing this Class at this moment. In any case, take into account the fact that if they change even something small it could have big repercussions on the game as it is (a.k.a new bugs). I’m not defending them at any point, all mature people should take responsibility for their actions, but take into account the fact that they are just a handful of people and we are Legion
Hope it’s fixed soon and happy gaming.

I have never met a mesmer without this problem. Please post a screenshot of your clones holding an offhand weapon. I would love to see it.

Pandemoniac.4739:

I understand the appeal of bartering, but what is the up-side for ANet of encouraging bartering? Directing all trade through the TP has many benefits from a support, a code maintenance, and a economy management perspective. What would bartering add other than pleasing the portion of the community that wants it? I see a lot of down-side for ANet, and can’t think of a single up-side.

The upside is pleasing customers and gaining a boost in PR. Whether ANET thinks that benefit outweighs the cost is not my call. Although, as long as people are willing to throw paychecks into the casino, I’m not hopeful in receiving nice features.

Ursan.7846:

Scams cannot be eliminated completely, because they rely on lack of knowledge of the victim. No mechanical limits will absolutely eliminate scams. Just think of how many people, when closing unsaved documents, quickly press “yes I want to close without saving” without thinking and regretting it later?

Scams still exist. Have you seen the “X item is going to skyrocket/crash” topics on this forum? The mechanical limit I proposed for direct trades only prevents the fast swapping of items/values like removing a zero from your side just before the other player accepts.

Ursan.7846:

Also to clarify, when I say “scam” I don’t mean just outright thievery. They also include cases in which people persuade others that the value of certain items are much lower than they would believe and potentially rip off other people in terms of the true value of the item they wish to trade. (When someone finds a “great bargain,” you’re also ripping the trading partner off)

I encountered this a lot when playing Magic. In many cases the person didn’t care when I mentioned the value difference. They wanted what I was trading and were willing to give up more monetary value for it. They didn’t feel ripped off. Those who did feel ripped off later learned to research or ragequit. I don’t like ragequitters and don’t care if they leave.

Ursan.7846:

Regardless though, the question you then have to ask is, why would anyone want to directly trade, instead of going through the TP?

And the answer always invariably is “To avoid the tax.” Which cannot be a good thing to the economy. Imagine the inflation that would occur without (IMO) the biggest gold sink in the game.

There are always item for item trades. If the 2 items are of the same value, the tax would prevent you from selling and buying. Inflation has occurred and will continue
to occur. The large majority will continue using the TP out of convenience, set it and forget it. The gold sink will be only slightly affected. WoW auction house is still (or was last I played) the primary trading method despite there being a trade feature.

Ursan.7846:

This is not a flaw, this is a design choice the Devs made and a feature of this game’s economy. Player to player trading allows players to avoid one of the biggest gold sinks in the game while opening the door for many possible scams.

I consider it a design flaw. Scams are easy to avoid. I have suggested an additional confirmation window to trades in many others games to avoid quick switching items/values; no one has implemented it. A read-only confirmation window summarizing the trade would eliminate that completely.

Ursan.7846:

Why is this a flaw? Why reason will you have to sell an item below the highest buy offer or buy an item above the lowest sell offer?

I would purchase items that were more expensive based on seller name or simply to bypass the people undercutting by 0.1%.

I have not played a game with a global buy offer listing like GW2; nothing I can compare it to. I only see it as a method to prevent players from finding a great bargain. There really wouldn’t be a point in selling lower unless you wanted to give a specific person a deal (which leads back to having no other secure trade method). A fair amount (possibly majority?) of buy offers are simply flippers and not consumers. I’ve done my share of flipping.

The GW2 TP has some major flaws currently.

1. TP has a monopoly on secure trading. This makes player to player trading risky and near non-existent. It forces people towards using the TP.

2. TP restricts pricing options. You cannot sell an item below the highest buy offer or buy an item above the lowest sell offer.

3. Not major, but TP lacks a way to bid on auctions. This alone can be an interesting game.

These things prevent the average user from obtaining bargains or items at a price which they think is fair.

There are other issues with the economy like gathering and crafting but don’t relate to the TP.

This whole debate has nothing to do with casual vs hardcore. Even though it comes up in every game.

The difference is simply the ability to learn, think creatively, react to the situation, and most importantly the willingness to learn. If someone ragequits over a few deaths, that’s a personal problem. You wont ever fix it until it becomes impossible to die.

The stats aren’t really the issue. The fact they are only offered through limited content and time gating is. Add them to all forms of gameplay without the dumb time limits.

Dont forget crit damage is increased by 33% over exotic.
Exotic: 6%
Ascended 8%

I’d prefer fighting 100 untextured models rather than 100 “pretty” models of which I can only see 20.

Magic bullet is a waste of time you could be using auto attack. The archers deal pitiful damage and dont need to be dazed. 3 sword clones will apply at least 6 stacks more vulnerability, plus bleed stacks.

There is nothing special about the encounter. It artificially lowers damage output (quite severely for mesmers) for no reason.

All equipment with max stats should be available through ALL forms of gameplay. Karma, dungeons, crafting, WvW, and even dailies. Never should one method of gameplay be excluded. How can anyone argue against this?

It’s bad enough they want to add ascended gear, but they are doing it in the worst way possible. I’d give up my ascended gear (soon to be 3 back pieces, 2 amulets, 20 or so rings) if they would remove it from the game entirely. Adding AR to exotic gear would have been perfect.

Exotic jewelry available through only crafting and karma should also be fixed.

No thanks. I like being able to store money in a place invisible to other transactions.

Although adding the option for people who want it (checkbox in the options) is the best way to go. That way both sides are happy.

I heard it can get bugged. Try un-equipping all AR gear and re-equip.

My most profitable fractal runs have always been after ignoring it for a week or more.

Time gated content is worst thing added to games in recent times.

I liked the dailies at the start when it was just a nice bonus and possibly a gem store item. The mystic coin could be purchased from others. Once top gear was added it became horrible. You cannot progress at your own rate.

Dungeon tokens are also time gated but at least can be bypassed with alts and multiple explore paths. Why does it matter if someone wants to farm 1400 tokens for an armor set in one day or one month. If 2 different people run a dungeon X times, they both should get Y tokens no matter when they did their runs.

Male Charr Warrior

Major issues with the left arm clipping through the left shoulder of several heavy armors while using 1H weapons. 2H weapons work fine.

The images show (in order): Reinforced Scale Pauldrons, Banded Pauldrons with 1H and 2H weapons, and Chain Pauldrons.

The reinforce scale and banded have the problem (possibly more that I did not test), the chain pauldrons do not have the problem.

Tested 1H weapons: Pact Morning Star, Phoenix Talon, Norn Blade, Ghastly Warhorn
Tested 2H weapons: Inquest Greatsword, Priory Hammer, Rifle (generic rifle skin)

Wearing no other armor. Problem does not go away while wearing other armor.
My other armor for reference: Barbaric Helm, Heavy Deep and Troubled Chestpiece, Banded Gauntlets, Legion Tassets, Flame Legion Greaves, Fractal Capacitor.

I like WoW’s party system with 1 leader having dictatorship control of the group. That way I can make my groups and kick who I want.

Currently, even if I make the group and enter the instance, it doesn’t protect me or others I invite from getting booted. Which is crap. I made the group. I should be able to manage it how I see fit.

Is there anywhere to get leafy short skirt light armor like the npc in this picture? (guild registrar in the Grove)

There are lots of legendaries out there that you don’t notice. Sunrise/Twilight are simply highly visible compared to others. I personally think they are ugly and wouldn’t even spend 10k karma for one though.

Instead of adding more legendaries, we need more skins in the middle. Ones that require more than a handful of materials but less than full stacks of rare materials. Like corrupted/destroyer weapons or 50 ectos instead of 250.

It would be cool if we could display the title based on our personality.

1. No, exotic should be the highest
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No
5. Maybe, nice for balance but will require more dev time
6. Don’t care, players should be offered free gear of equal rarity of their stat choice if it is removed
7. Don’t care
8. Yes
9. Yes, if you mean overall higher droprates of rarer items
10. Hard for me to say
11. No
12. No

You have to buy recipe for orbs from the vendor.

I did the silk→gossamer 3 months ago. It’s not worth it.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Also on a slightly related note: this will make odd numbered fractals (1/3/5/7/9) completely pointless as no one will run them.

Grinding odds for levels will be faster as you can skip Jade Maw.

When you use Mail Item To… the To field is populated automatically with the person standing nearest to you. It’s a really stupid design.

I figure at least 2 weeks before they find their new (probably higher) stable price.

I was somewhat shocked to see my 5.90s order get filled

The problem isn’t that you are forced to take certain traits/utilities due to synergy. The problem is most traits/utilities are simply terrible and useless.

My bonuses started working at this reset. So relieved

Still not working for me. Sanctum of Rall.

I personally like the way fractals were designed from a gameplay standpoint and enjoy doing them. However I still don’t like the addition of Ascended gear and hate that they have made fractals the only way to get them. It should have been available from all forms of play (world drop, crafting, WvW, dungeons, and fractals) from the start. They also should be tradeable.