Guild Wars 2

You don’t even have to do DS meta first – the Whisper’s Keeper in the beginning offers them right away.

I had bought a Plated weapon prior to doing DS, and thus got the Noxious Pod component in my first end chest.

The various gem-type upgrades (nuggets, shards, orbs etc) are both upgrades and crafting materials.

Anything with an open slot in Material Storage will be deposited unless it’s in an Invisible Bag/Safe Box.

Assuming you’re not sarcastic:
Skills are the stuff at the bottom of your screen – 5 from your weapons, 1 heal, 3 utilities and 1 elite.
Traits are the stuff from Specializations, which you slot in three rows in your Hero panel. They often, but not always, modify skills.

Personally, I think they absolutely want to launch it within the stated 2-3 month interval, so I’d guess 2nd may as the absolute latest target date, with the 25th april as slightly more likely.

Edit: Actually, I’ve changed my mind. With the PvP season ending 1st of may, that does bump thr likelyhood of 2nd may for E5 a bit in my eyes…

I don’t expect to ever see the inside of it, or even really get to know anything about it for certain. It feels like tje classic kind of “world mystery” that helps create an engaging world.

New episodes are planned to be 2-3 months apart, this puts ep 5 at anytime between now and a month given last episode. My very personal prediction is april 25, first tuesday after end of SAB.

Also, no numerical downscaling can balance out the entire specialization mechanic and several additional skills. On top of what a lvl 15-20 character has, a lvl 80 has 18 traits, up to 2 utility slots and an elite slot.

SAB is running until 20 april, and I very much doubt they’ll overlap it with the new episode. That means I bet S3E5 to come at the earliest 25 april. Announcements have been one week ahead lately, so probably not before 18 of april.

There are more level 1-15 zones than there are any other level range, apart from max level zones. I strongly doubt they’d add more.

I’m with jheryn here, and that tone has been consistent through all the April Fools patch notes in GW1. Either pop culture references (like the one year all Vampiric skills for necro would cause the caster to sparkle), jibes at recurring complaints or poking fun at balance choices.

They enjoy joking about themselves in game as well, I remember skills like “Isaiah’s Balance” and bosses like “Tenagg Flametroller”, and of course the “bearded reptile” Minister Caudecus.

Ardid.7203:

Adding more vertical bag slots is also a solution, but it doesn’t add more things to do for crafters, and it would force a lot of people who use the inventory fully opened to scroll, while 5 more slots to the side will not.

Are you talking about showing the inventory in a wider grid? Did you know you can resize it both height- and widthwise as it is? I usually aim to have it 5 wide, but a lot of people seem to like it 10 wide or even dragging it out 16-18 wide if they merge the bags.

You can star enjoying something by relaxing about it. Recalibrate expectations and goals and something frustrating can become satisfying.

Of course, the collections could be lacking in availability, but look through it and aim to be aware of where all the events are and then move general playtime to those areas. Just play in the areas without focusing on the collection.

The “simple” sollution in my mind:
Remove Upgrade Extractor from gem store
Add a Gold-fed Extract-o-matic; removing all upgrades from an item for a cost of 1(/5/10/whatever devs deem appropriate) Gold per use. Unlimited uses.

*simple here meaning using existing tech, nothing new. Implementation is not necesarily simple, but simpler than making something completely new.

That is purely game mechanics, not lore.
Permission to enter Lake Doric, just like acquiring Koda’s Flame, are story steps.

There is nothing in the game lore connecting the characters on your account to each other, so nothing can actually be in-story account bound. Anything affecting story progression on an account level (such as Masteries) are cases of game mechanics trumping game world logic. The strange thing here is the inconsistency.
For BF and EB it makes (some amount of) sense, as there are no portals. That BFF and LD are different is just strange.

Since playing my scrapper more lately, I’ve really started to want a “target nearest downed” for my gyro revive.

Folks, OP has already explained that due to Blue/Gray color blindness, a particular zoom level, and the color palette of Ember Bay they couldn’t see the waypoints. I.e. there was a misunderstanding thinking there were no waypoints!

I agree that they really should mark items better – they already have the standard text about item only having value in a collection, they should use it more!

As a workaround to make confirming deletion a little easier, shift-click the item. That adds its name to the chat. You can then cut & paste it into the confirmation box. You’ll just have to remove the brackets at each end of the name.

I’ll second the advice to get Living World Season 2. It’s the lead-in to HoT, both storywise and in difficulty; HoT is harder than Core Tyria, and it can be a bit of a jump. LW2 is a kind of midpoint.
You will also probably want to get it eventually anyway for the Mastery Points that HoT “retrofits” to several achievements in Core, so might as well play it in its intended “slot”.

Hevoskuuri’s summary is also excellent – get full exotics and dip your toes in a bit of everywhere!

My advice (and you’ll get it from a lot of people) is to put the permanent tools in your shared slots and regular vendor-bought ones on each character. At the start of a playsession you double-click the permanent tools to equip them, and at the end of the session double-click the regular tools to swap back. It’ll take a few seconds each time, no need to get to a bank and drag them out manually.

felincyriac.5981:

I beleive it was like 100 unbound magic for 1 shard, so just get one of those farming tools that give unbound magic when you use them, farm winter berries on all ur characters and eat them. Move on to lake Doric and do the same, should be like 100 or more, ember bay and blood stone is also there once you are done.

While Winterberries for Unbound Magic is an effective way to get Obby shards, using the harvesting special tools are probably a loss if that’s what you’re after.

Each swing gives 3-5 UM, and the sickle is only 25 uses so I’d guess it averages about 200 UM per tool; i.e. 2 shards. The tool costs 4900 karma.
2 shards bought directly with karma is only 4200.

The other tools seem equal – while they have twice the charges, they give 1-3 per use.

The problem with fulgurite as eater is really two related parts:

• It uses equal parts of all ingredients, so I can’t ise it to get rid of a surplus of one of them.
• It uses Obsidian Shards, but doesn’t provide a way to gain them at a higher rate (as you can’t really convert gold to obby afaik).

Correction: You do not need Southsun, Dry Top or Silverwastes.
You can check if an area is required by opening the map while standing in it. If the top right corner show both Map and World completion progress, it’s needed. If it shows only the current map, it’s not counting towards World Complete (and thus GoE).

Lady Draco.6294:

I’m hoping to see the angry chest and witch hat for a certain wizard i just created.

Unseen Academy Stamp of Approval

You can also look through your Collections to see wich of Scholar’s/Crusader’s/Agent’s Pack you have in progress.

In any way – to open a new, you’ll have to take a new character through the HoT story. First through “Prisoners of the Dragon” to unlock the collection, but to finish it the same character will need to finish HoT story with “Hearts and Minds”.

Finishing all three order backpacks will thus require at least three characters through HoT.

On completion of Prisoners of the Dragon you got a choice of rewards – one of three order-themed backpacks. Each opens a collection – to open the Priory-themed Scholar’s Pack you need to pick the Priory-themed Novice’s Pack as reward.

The items themselves can’t be made dyeable without a rework of the entire item system, that’s been stated practically since launch as I understand it.

The other stuff (particle effects, auras etc) might be possible, would be cool!

Option to multi-click macros:
Not something I’ve done myself, but I’ve read some posters here and in other games binding their mouse wheel to left click. Scrolling will then produce a rapid series of clicks, so can work through a stack pretty fast and should, from what I can figure out, not be in danger of violating the “one keypress = one action” rule, as each tick of the wheel is a single hardware action.

Also, there is no difference between Gems bought with cash or Gems bought with gold, because every single Gem is originally bought with money.

I did that collection a couple months ago, the fog comes creeping pretty much immediately. Get there before nightfall (check the wiki for day-night cycle) and you can’t miss it. The actual spot to sample the fog was just outside the gate, at least for me. Even if someone interacts with her as soon as she spawns, you’ll have time to sample before she becomes hostile – the key is just being there before it actually becomes full night.

Hope that helps!

Hevoskuuri.3891:

The Bitter Cold area is very small and has pretty much nothing to see or do in. Once you complete the story step, you have 24 hours of cold resistance left to explore that area, get the mastery insight, etc.

Minor correction: you do not have 24 game hours (like the guild buffs), not even 24 real-time hours. You have it until next reset, wether that is 23h30min or 10 minutes.

In all the rest, I agree.

kimtingen.6472:

As for EU and NA.. It should be pretty obviously where I am, this is the EU forum, isn’kitten If I were playing on the NA servers I would likely post on the NA forum, wouldn’t I? Anyway.. I play at whatever time I am awake and my time zone is central EU time.

No, there isn’t an EU forum. The forum is divided by language, English being the most general one.

I agree on the hassle, but I can at least offer a workaround.
If you have the Heritage armor skins from the Hall of Monuments (from having linked GW1 to GW2), they’re free to apply. Using it asan intermediary skin removes the extra cost.

It would be nice if you could be given the option “This armor has a skin that cannot be worn by this character. Do you want to transmute it to equip?” and choosing Yes brings up the transmute interface.

I can agree with OP as long as there is an actual, meaningful tradeoff.
The game is obviously designed to present you with choices – extra runspeed or fall damage reduction etc should come at a price; currently a trait, skill or rune slot.
This is why I’m also leery of a mastery-like option of permanent unlocks.

Tyria is Lazarus’ home planet. You know whose home planet it’s not? Humans.

GW1 was specicially mentioned – I wonder what it was there!

The only achievement for Rally to Maguuma is to complete it. If you’ve done it yet don’t have the achievement finished, I’d submit a ticket.

First of all: Man PTSD sucks, I feel for you!
Second: Actual help with your question:

There are ways of getting WvW rewards without actually fighting other players.
At the farthest end of the spectrum, Daily Big Spender only requires you to spend 25 BoH and rewards a Potion of WvW Rewards. This give 250p progress iirc, requiring 80 potions to max a track. It would be very tedious and expensive (in BoH) to do it that way, but possible.
From what I’ve seen, people waiting for the Veteran Creature Slayer daily are left alone unless initiating hostilities.

Can you handle being attacked by other players? If so, there is no problem what so ever. You can work up your Participation (determining your Reward Track progress) with capturing ruins, killing Supply Dolyaks etc.
If being attacked is a problem, you could still do the above during off-peak hours, just more carefully – WPing if you see an enemy player, remember that you keep your participation.

Edge of the Mists might be workable as it’s more PvE-ish, but I know barely anything about it.

Hope that helps, and that it feels a bit more possible.

They did make it easier to move around solo, by reducing the mobs a bit. There are actually quite a lot of hero challenges that can be done solo, just communing. Do give it a try!

Also, if you WvW anything and have proofs of heroics – you can use them aswell!

I think that the set of Basic Unbreakable Gathering Tools (the set without special animations or effects) is always available at 2400. I’m pretty sure they’ve never been available as anything but a set.

As for prority: I’d second Illconcieved’s order.

As a post-HoT player who’s only seen Old LA in story instances, I love this idea!

No. If you do the level 10 story with a Sylvari, you don’t get a MP for later doing the lvl 10 Charr story.

As for ToK for MP – The only way i could see that happen is something like Proofs of Heroics: complete a random Mastery Insight. Anything else would autocomplete specific achievements, which would create a nightmare to sort out from meta achievements etc. This would of course leave out Core as there are no Insights there.

I strongly doubt the system can handle MPs that aren’t discreet – a source can’t be endlessly repeatable even in theory.

I usually call them “stat block” or just “stats”.
Prefix is one accurate option as the various names (Magi’s etc) are used as prefixes.
I think the old name Item Nomenclature is a good one, as is the current, along with various redirects. I don’t think there is an established term.

Any filters active on the recepie list? t1 is still checked? You haven’t typed anything in the Search bar? Note that these options persist through switching between characters.

Have you Forged all the Clovers you’ll need? Otherwise do that before finishing up the mats, as you’ll relatively often get t6s from that recipe.

They are used to create Mystic Clovers, which are needed for all legendaries. They are also used in a bunch of other stuff, including various unique skinned exotic items in the MF such as the Mystic weapons (needed for the Specialization Collections), and right now people want them for Winter’s Presence.

Was just going to add what IWN said. Also – that slot that’s now always a Seasonal Item? It was always a Booster before, so if anything the economic value of that slot has increased from Zero to Insignificant.

Santa Charr really knows his stuff!
Super thanks for the presents, I’ll keep a lookout for an opportunity for a picture, can’t miss that!

Not owning either, I can however say why the Silver-fed is uninteresting to me:
Mystic Salvage Kit

250 uses and I only use it for Rare+? I keep one on every character and it takes a good long while until I have to remake one.

Sure, with things like ABML it’s spent faster than before, but still not fast enough to motivate a permanent. I haven’t had to purchase Mystic Forge Stones ( I get them in login rewards often enough), and discounting those, the cost / use for the Mystic is 10c, while Silver-fed is 60c.

The only way I could see a Silver-fed be worth it is if you ABML absurdly much!

This patch reordered the Ascended Materials section of the mat storage, but didn’t add or remove any material that I could see. Is this preparation for Lindsey’s planned addition?
I have to say I find the new order a lot less consistent!

I just love this initiative! Can’t decide if I should go for Nice or Naughty… I feel a bit selfish for actually tagging along (I’m Swedish, we’re odd that way) so I think Naughty fits best!