Guild Wars 2

New Roses? Now there’s a tune!

I know I’ll be giving myself a good time on Valentine’s.

There’s a beautiful mental picture for you all. You’re welcome.

You know the bit at the end when you use cannons on the boss? I used to use that Chill cannon on the Ascalonian ghosts. I am a little disappointed that Robert prevented me from being able to be a bit creative with the encounter.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

DR should not effect fractals.

Affect*. You’re welcome

Upgrading in WvWvW is one big gold sink. People who prefer to play WvWvW will never have Legendary weapons. But they won’t care, either.

Auri El.1032:

The other gifts aren’t that hard so this holds little weight IMO. Anet needs to tread carefully dealing with this. They make them a hand out and all the people who got one prior will feel cheated, if it stays as it is people will continue to rage quit. I think everyone needs to remember that it is MEANT to be exclusive

Regarding your “hand out” comment, my problem with this is that the wrong people have already got the legendaries. They are demeaned. Okay, now that might seem a little inflammatory, but frankly, it’s the truth. Get over it.

Auri El.1032:

just because you throw some swords in the forge doesn’t mean you are entitled.

Exactly! Why should you be able to acquire something by flushing all that you’ve achieved down the Mystic Toilet when others are incidentally deigned worthy (“entitled”, as you put it) by the RNG? But enough about the randomness! Onward, to the positive conclusion!

I’m going over old ground now, but here it is anyway:
Legendaries should have been tied to the Achievement system (even if it means “grinding” of a sorts), not market speculation and grinding for gold. Fix this, and you can stick a fork in it!

All of my characters are varieties of my name, but I still want to see someone name themselves:

Decapotato

(Decapitator? No?)

Having considered my opinion on Laurels for some time, I have changed my mind.

I think they are a clever, sure-fire way to get people (who choose to do the dailies/monthlies) a reward purely for time played.

CassieGold.7460:

Noerknhar.3826:

That was a month ago. In terms of a game that is on the market for about 5 months, that’s like a decade.

Right, a month ago, we knew it wasn’t on track for the Jan / Feb / March patches.

So…. why do we expect continual updates saying ’It’s still not happening in Jan / Feb / March…’

Because we’re used to developers in other games going quiet and then when April arrives saying, “Oh that? We haven’t even started on that.”.

LinseyMurdock.4165:

We can’t have any recipes that are karma/coin only due to the ease in earning karma and coin.

This makes no sense.

The real answer is to make them expensive in karma and coin.

Wreatch.3812:

New apps being created, if this is legal im out.

Please close the door behind you.

Why are charged lodestones the most expensive?

How would I make it notify me of goods that have a regular trading range that would give a profit? (i.e. 1c or more)?

I forgot to congratulate Zicore on a great piece of work.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Arenanet-willing-to-share-WvW-details/first#post1190149

MikeFerguson

Attic.1562:

Thanks for posting Mike. Would you mind answering another question while you’re at it?
-Is dropping siege blueprints for other characters to pick up an intended function? It seems very bizarre.

It is indeed intended (and bizarre). We would actually prefer to just make the blueprints tradeable, but [B]there are a couple of funky code interactions[/B] that happen to make that impossible for us currently. It’s something we’d like to address at some point, but it’s not very high on the priority list currently.

Also;

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Arenanet-willing-to-share-WvW-details/page/2#post1192287

We tried changing blueprints to being account bound and it completely broke the pack up skill when holding the blueprint so we can’t do that either unfortunately.

I’m hoping that someday may find some programmer magic that can solve this so we can at least get rid of them being soulbound, but[B] nobody is looking at it currently[/B].

(Also, in before CC Eva, “Since this question has been answered, I’m going to lock this thread”).

Miller’s Sound revealed. Sorry, guys, I had to.

GJ FSP, looking forward to an even harder pounding this week. /PvE

Iures.2894:

You’ll find something. . .

I’ve been looking for ages. Hence the thread.

Nike.2631:

The Orrian Jewelry Boxes are an amusing concept, but I’d still like to see a somewhat more definite line of advancement from non-coin-currencies we have towards the Lodestones we want.

Even if it’s a lot more expensive, I will take certainty over randomness anyday.

I wonder if Zicore’s app has such functionality?

Winfernal.9208:

Svarty.8019:

Acotje.5689:

we have 50% of both enemy borderlands, I’m sure we are working with Miller’s!
Wait, what?

The conversation has moved on from that now, please keep up

Lets focus on tomorrow, when we meet again

Here is where I hope you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akEgsZSfhg

Acotje.5689:

we have 50% of both enemy borderlands, I’m sure we are working with Miller’s!
Wait, what?

The conversation has moved on from that now, please keep up

Winfernal.9208:

So goooood!

Give me those conspiracy tears GH! We’re still not working together with millers.

No, but going for the weakest side is only sensible. I appreciate logic.

Nimue.9507:

Twinny.9304:

Svarty.8019:

Twinny.9304:

awesome fight trying to defend bay against GH on GH BL just now i think we res lord about 4 times lol, there was literally a handful of us defending against a huge army of GH and i think we pulled together nicely and really held out as long as we could, great fight to be remembered

Handful? THAT’S a handful?! You had a million gusy! In my view, the sides were very evenly matched.

We had a tough time getting our guys to push in because they were obsessed with downing that lord you were ressing, gj.

definitely wasn’t evenly matched we were very few in numbers compared to urs, we knew we were gonna lose it when we seen u coming but we fought till the end and gathered our bags of loot even the post before original comment mentioned about how few we were lol

Anyhow great fight guys really enjoyed it even if u guys did kick my but across the floor sooo many times lol

I think things are different depending on the point of view… I was there and I think we were both matched with numbers, but ok, it’s the same.
We’ve hard time this few days, because it seems our ppl are less than before, I don’t know why… we need to concentrate on one map and call for help in another. You see numbers but ppl you see are almost all the players we’ve at the moment all together, it’s very difficult, but sure it’s fun.

Thx for this match to both the enemies.

Honestly, having experienced their massive zergs, I have to say every group in FS is enormous. There is no such thing as a few or handful as we understand them.

goldi.3129:

Svarty.8019:

goldi.3129:

You buy something cheap and sell it quickly for a profit.
Markets are volatile- just look for an item where you can place the highest buyorder and still sell with the lowest sellorder for more than 15% difference (the tp fees).

I would need a piece of third party market-scanning software for that. Does Zicore’s do it? I am struggling a little with the interface.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/

This uses data from that. http://notifier.zicore.de/
I was wondering if there’s a way to get it to scan all the item prices and return all of the ones with a specified volume and margin?

Gaudrath.6725:

However, the funny thing is, in GW2 it still takes you a lot less time to get the items you want. Because you only have one layer of RNG to deal with, instead of a totally unpredictable factor of other players rolling for the same item (as anyone who played vanilla WoW, for example, can attest to).

I played vanilla WoW and I can tell you why I think you are wrong to make this comparison:

The number of possibilities of acquiring loot EVERY time you killed a boss (OMG, actually working to get something!) was 100%. It might not be a piece you want but someone can probably use it.

goldi.3129:

You buy something cheap and sell it quickly for a profit.
Markets are volatile- just look for an item where you can place the highest buyorder and still sell with the lowest sellorder for more than 15% difference (the tp fees).

I would need a piece of third party market-scanning software for that. Does Zicore’s do it? I am struggling a little with the interface.

How does one flip, and which markets are good flipping targets?

The Unending Bureaucrat [Staff]: A very plain, prim, proper straight staff, topped with a skull wearing officious round spectacles.
////Drawing the staff causes an explosion of paperwork!
////While drawn= forms float into existence around the wielder and gently settle on the ground.
/////Footsteps= documents, forms, paperwork (including a 27B/6).

Voodoo Mathematics [Torch]: A torch in the shape of a number 1.
////Drawing the Torch causes fiery numbers and mathematical symbols to spring from the ground at the user’s feet.
////While drawn= Smokey numbers and mathematical symbols appear in the air around the user.
////Footsteps= Fiery numbers and mathematical symbols.

-What if the number of guards at a keep/tower varied depending on how many keeps/towers you already own (across all maps)?

• More keeps/tower=less guards at each,
• Less keeps/towers=more guards at each.

Level 70 rares to salvage for ectos? Usually the T5 mats for the insignia cost as much as an ecto.

fab.3298:

Earlier i saw a thief glitch into our sunny, i got his name and tag but put it down to an error on his part. Well, i guess he showed his mesmer friends how to do it because we just had 6-2 FSP players inside our fully upgraded sunnyhill tower, such a shame.

I’m sorry to hear this. I had held Far Shiverpeaks in higher regard. -1 to their reputation.

freesexalice.3578:

1. Moa
2. Armadillo’s
3. Dolyaks

2 ARMADILLOs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqeGxMgVOHI

If they did this, I would like them to redesign the maps instead of bodging the current ones.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging

English slang

In contemporary British English slang, bodging can also refer to a job done of necessity using whatever tools and materials come to hand and which, whilst not necessarily elegant, is nevertheless serviceable. Bodged should not be confused with a “botched” job: [..] A “bodge”, like its cognates kludge and fudge, is serviceable: a “botched” job most certainly is not – but a total failure.)

I like this suggestion, but I believe it’s against the ToS to bump threads. I think you have to make something positive up that advances the conversation.

I believe that Ascended Gear from non-WvW activities has some impact on WvW players but that said impact is quite low. If, however, there continues to be additional Ascended stuff available in PvE, then WvW players will be forced to play a form of the game that they don’t necessarily want to. This would be contrary to propaganda posted by Arenanet in the past, so I suspect something will become available via WvW activity in the future instead, though I guarantee nothing. Enough waffle from me, now onto the next bumper…

Svarty.8019:

Twinny.9304:

there was literally a handful of us

Handful? THAT’S a handful?! You had a million gusy!

One thing I learnt during this matchup…

FSP have really big hands!

I want to thank Arenanet, too. For all of my complaints, this is a terrific game and the developers are for the most part wise and fair in their decisions.

Would dungeons be revitalised if the Dungeon Master title was required in order to make Legendary weapons?

Everybody in GW2 wants a legendary weapon. /sigh. So… how is the ESO beta coming along?

So tarnished is the reputation of these so-called “Legendary” weapons, that they just don’t mean anything.

I believe that once the system is fixed (read: IT IS BROKEN NOW), Arenanet should spend some time creating new Legendaries that might actually garner the admiration of other players, rather than apathy and despondency.

Calae.1738:

I believe they ran out of time. They didn’t have enough time to do what they initially wanted with Legendaries and just threw a couple of ingrediants together and voila. Theres your Legendary. Took them 6 minutes.

From my perspective it seems so obvious and easy to link the Achievement system to the Legendary weapon requirements instead of drops. It makes me cry when I think about it. ><

Twinny.9304:

awesome fight trying to defend bay against GH on GH BL just now i think we res lord about 4 times lol, there was literally a handful of us defending against a huge army of GH and i think we pulled together nicely and really held out as long as we could, great fight to be remembered

Handful? THAT’S a handful?! You had a million gusy! In my view, the sides were very evenly matched.
We had a tough time getting our guys to push in because they were obsessed with downing that lord you were ressing, gj.

I really enjoy the Eternal Battlegrounds Jumping Puzzle, and many of the others, but I couldn’t dislike the timed jumping puzzles (Halloween/Christmas) any more than I do – they are just plain horrible.

Firegoth.6427:

I totally agree that legendaries are more common at the moment, but still rare.

Therefore, to become a special snowflake one need to get more!!

Often script that happens to me in the game:
Random player: “nice weapon”
weapon switch
Random player: “lol… 2 legendaries?”
Me: “3, soon 4.”
Random player: “o.o”

I had this conversation tonight…

The next line was, “Where did you get the gold? Gold sellers?”
“Playing the TP, I can make 100 gold in 4 hours”
“That’s BS”
“It’s true, but you don’t have to believe me”
“No, I mean it’s BS that you can get Legendaries by playing the TP”
“It’s like RL”

I wasn’t impressed.

Firegoth.6427:

Svarty.8019:

Vol.5241:

Alright, just finished my 3rd legendary, Flameseeker prophecies. My other two are Sunrise and Bifrost. Here’s the gallery

http://imgur.com/a/LVnU5

and proof that I made all three

http://imgur.com/a/bmAox

You are a brilliant market manipulator. Congratulations!

Hey I worked my kitten off to get falsely accused too!!!
Why do I get ignored?

Worked? Really?

1 Skritt
2 Tengu
3 Kodan

I would be interested to see Arenanet’s data on the usage of Spirit Weapons. I bet nobody ever uses them. I firmly believe that all 4 should be replaced with useful skills and that as they stand they are pointless filler.

Vol.5241:

Alright, just finished my 3rd legendary, Flameseeker prophecies. My other two are Sunrise and Bifrost. Here’s the gallery

http://imgur.com/a/LVnU5

and proof that I made all three

http://imgur.com/a/bmAox

You are a brilliant market manipulator. Congratulations!

Deadcell.9052:

the fact that anyone can just google “legendary weapons” put in a credit card and buy one makes the whole thing a joke.

This whole situation makes Isiah Cartwright looks like a fool (allegedly, and in my eyes).

So much USA crazy here. I laughed.

Ursan.7846:

We’ll see about the Scavenger Hunt though. [..]
And the SH is certainly going to make people who don’t like doing things unhappy (and there are many of them in the forums. “I DON’T LIKE DUNGEONS I DON’T LIKE JUMPING PUZZLES I DON’T LIKE WVW”).

People should not be able to get Legendaries if they don’t do those things. Arenanet have dropped the ball on Legendaries. Massively.

The legendaries are supposed to (sic);

• “show off your accomplishments and symbolise all of the things that you’ve been doing” (Lead Designer Isiah Cartwright – in this video) and,
• “show everyone that you are a true master of Guild Wars 2” (quoted from here).