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PVP Reward track Q

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Related question, figured I’d as here instead of starting a new thread.

If I start a reward track during its 2-week unlocked period, but don’t finish it until the available tracks rotate, what happens to my progress? Will it reset? Will I be able to continue it but not restart it until it’s rotated back in?

LWS3 Snow Leopard Easter Egg

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Having gotten the snow leopard cub but no other cats (yet), I can confirm that it does leave a dead bird at the entrance.

Koda's Blessing Achievement Aura

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Maybe a stupid question, but does the enrichment give anything more than the visual aura and +15% karma? The text first made me think it gave a permanent Warmth effect (the one from the beacons, not the elixir one).

I was wondering the same thing. Does it make the Elixir redundant?

I don’t see anything in the item text that suggests the elixir could be redundant. The elixir doesn’t have anything to do with the Kodan.
If I understand correctly, the aura shares its look with the Warmth buff given by the Kodan fires around the map.

Marauder's Gear Ninja Nerfed?

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Should be easy to check, should it not? Just compare the values on your gear to the values on the wiki. If they don’t match, they’ve been changed. If they match, check the edit history for recent changes.
You can also double check that all pieces add to the total by unequip/equip.

I do think it’s far more likely that the WvW buff or some other buff is the culprit.

Edit: Kittens strikes against grammar again!

Verata's Seared Ring available or not?

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So it seems like the ring stops being available for purchase upon completing LW2? If so, that has to be a bug!
I’ll make sure to check the vendor regularly ony the toon I’m slowly taking through LW2…

Verata's Seared Ring available or not?

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Sorry, must have been tired when reading >.<
I just checked, I can’t see it for sale either!

Verata's Seared Ring available or not?

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According to the Wiki it’s sold by SW Quartermasters and the Priory Historian to characters that have completed the Seeds of Truth chapter. 10G+1k crests.

Koda's Blessing Achievement Aura

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Maybe a stupid question, but does the enrichment give anything more than the visual aura and +15% karma? The text first made me think it gave a permanent Warmth effect (the one from the beacons, not the elixir one).

Color option on legendary back item/glider

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Anet has repeatedly said that there is no realistic way for them to make backpacks dyable, unfortunately.
Edit: D’oh! Ninja’d!

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A Word On This Targeting System

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It was a serious darn problem for me tonight in the Bitter Cold area of the new map! Constantly targeting mobs way off, making my pet run and aggro not only that, but the patrol in between us! I’ve never been so frustrated by the targeting system during the year I’ve played!

Unused upgrade slot

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The slot actually called “Upgrade Slot” cannot be added to anything. Everything but 2-handed weapons get one and only ever one slot. 2-handers get two in order to match running two 1-handers.

What can be added in some cases is Infusion Slots, but they hold a completely separate type of upgrades.

Phoenix Glide

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The glider was in the gem shop as recently as 11 days ago, according to Delsea “I like Tables” aka Dash (see the most recent post with one of these amazing Tables of Availability). It had been there since its introduction on 2 February of this year.

No, that’s the Phoenix Kite Glider.
The Phoenix Glider (fiery wings) was in the gem store in September, according to that table.

Returning player - Masteries which order?

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A few are required for story:

  • While in Verdant Brink: Basic Gliding (Gliding 1) and Bouncing Mushrooms (Itzel 1)
  • In Auric Basin: Exalted Markings (Exalted 1)*
  • Prior to entering Tangled Depths: Updraft Use (Gliding 2)
    * Exalted Lore is unlocked when entering Auric Basin

So total needed for HoT story: Gliding 2, Itzel 1, Exalted 1.

Other than that, I aimed for these, roughly in order.

  • Gliding! Advanced Gliding (Gliding 5) is as big a game changer as Basic Gliding, if not more! Ley Line gliding isn’t as important, but still nifty, especially in the LS3 maps.
  • Nuhoch Wallows (Nuhoch 2) is useful, especially in Tangled Depths.
  • Opening Vendors (Itzel 2, Exalted 2, Nuhoch 3) are of course useful.
  • Poison Lore (Itzel 4) is needed to reach some places, including some Mastery Points.

Toxic Gloves and Mantle

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Warning: Pure, undiluted speculation incoming.
I wouldn’t be the least surprised if they make a return within the next few weeks, given the upcoming Nightmare Fractal and its connection to the Toxic Alliance.

Blood ruby backpack and transmutation charges

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Well the wiki is completely user-maintained, so someone has to add it. There’s a “leave article feedback” option if actually editing the article is intimidating.
I’m a very sporadic user, but I’ll look into making a note – I agree it’s relevant!

Blood ruby backpack and transmutation charges

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Any time you use the mystic forge, the original item is destroyed. I know we refer to “resetting stats,” but technically, we’re sacrificing the old stats to zommy, who voids his RNG policy to give us the same item type with new stats.

While it’s reasonable to assume it uses the same underlying system (especially given the destroyed infusions) the Mystic Forge isn’t actually involved with resetting the Bloodstone gear, so explaining how stat swapping in the MF works isn’t really an answer on its own. Not without a note stating that the answer is extrapolated from how the MF works.

For the second expansion [Elite Specs]

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You’ll only be able to slot one Elite Spec at a time, no matter if they add 1, 2 or 10 each in the new expansion. Why only in the 3rd trait line? Because it’s 1) how it works now (you can’t slot it anywhere else) and 2) what they stated when the elite specs launched.

I’d be really happy for two new per class. Just getting one more will improve diversity a fair bit I think, but getting two could create choice even among the “new and shiny” stuff!

Colocal Ranger Pet

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Land: I’ve wanted Griffons ever since I first encountered them. Another ogre pet we can’t charm.
Aquatic: Dolphins! Come on, they’re both cute and darn viscious! They kill sharks!

What level will a crafted weapon be?

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There’s also a pattern to it.
It’s all in steps of 5 levels – so there’s crafted gear for lvl 10, 15, … 70, 75, 80.

There’s also kind of “sub tiers” within a crafting tier. For example, t2 is crafting rank 75-149. New recepies unlock every 25 ranks, so at 75, 100 and 125.

When you first unlock a tier, you get a few stat option of Fine (blue) quality, for weapons usually 3.
Rank up the crafting 25 ranks and a new, larger set of Fine options open up, these are 5 levels higher than the first.
Another 25 ranks later, you can get all the stat options of the tier in Masterwork (green) quality. These are a further 5 levels higher. For most tiers, there are also purchasable Rare (yellow) quality recepies at this rank.

The exceptions are:
Tier 1, having a set of Basic quality options
Tier 5, which spans 100 ranks instead of 75. Here the Rare option is 25 ranks later than the Masterwork.
Tier 6, no progression of rarity and stat options, it’s all exotic all the way; 450 unlocks Ascended materials and 500 (max and technically tier 7) for Ascended gear.

50/50 HoM realistically

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I want to point out that HoM 50/50 is not what gives the GWAMM title; there’s just a lot of overlap.

Getting GWAMM in GW2 is rewarded for getting the same title in GW1, which is a reward predating the HoM.
It requires maxing 30 reputation-like titles, similar to some achievements. These titles tend to help reach 50/50, but it’s quite possible to have GWAMM without 50/50; and reverse!

Edit:
To expand, now that I’m not on my phone: If you look at the HoM calculator (at https://hom.guildwars2.com/ ) there are five categories:

  • Devotion (Collecting Minipets)
  • Fellowship (relating to Heroes and Ranger Pets)
  • Honor (various accomplishments, primarily titles)
  • Resilience (collecting Prestige Armor sets)
  • Valour (collecting certain weapon sets)

God Walking Among Mere Mortals really only interacts with the Honor category. Getting GWAMM will almost certainly max out that section (worth 14 HoM points), but not actually on its own impact the other categories directly. It will of course produce opportunities to get a lot of the other stuff done, but there’s not a direct overlap.

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Mesmer Illusions

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Just to be Captain Obvious, remember also the two types of illusions: Clones (who should look exactly like you) and Phantasms (who does not look like you).

Might be easy to forget.

Edit: great that you solved it!

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Late Blossoms

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I did that one recently, within the last month or two. (well after HoT as I didn’t even play before that)
It functioned exactly as expected – have the item in the inventory, interact with the Hero Point by pressing “F”. I don’t remember if I had to choose “Commune with this place of power” or if it gave a separate option.

If that doesn’t work – bug report and contact CS to see if they can help.

Anet Too Generous In Gold-Gems Currency

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OP: what might not be clear is that the Gem Exchange does not create any gems. Every single gem bought with gold has originally been created when a player spent money. That player then sold those gems to the Gem Exchange in return for gold.

Restarting Recalibrating the Waypoints

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Once you’re on the actual _re_play of the episode, you can go to any of that episode’s story instance and start it. It’ll point you to the original order, but all the insances will have different colored stars on the map.

Edit: I really shouldn’t post “helpful” stuff before my coffee. Apparently I lack too much reading comprehension.
You are entirely correct in your conclusion.

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Way to Wield in Wardrobe?

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Of course, if the preview window would show wielded items they way they are actually held when wielded, that’d be great… I feel it’s worst for Charr with the weapon just placed in the open and relaxed paw, but really any two-handed weapon is poorly showed.

[Suggestion] Ember Bay Clams in Core Tyria

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hangs head in shame I could have sworn that list wasn’t there when I last looked, but the revision history laughs at that…
Thanks all of you who have contributed!

[Suggestion] Ember Bay Clams in Core Tyria

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A good list of skills broken down by profession would be pure gold on the wiki, connected to the article on Breakbar!

[IDEA] Free Legandary Greatswords

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No, but you can get Sunrise and Twilight, unlock both skins, make Eternity, trade Eternity rather than unlock the skin.
End result: you have two legendary skins unlocked despite selling/trading the final product.
Personally, I’d prefer to get all three skins myself…

Shared Inventory Slot

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Minor detail: I think there’s 13 purchasable slots (not 15), plus the free one; unless they stealthily added two recently.

Update on the Economy

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I doubt Anet considers anyone holding a stack or two of a material “hoarding”. The people hoarding Mystic Coins are the ones sitting on 4-5k coins. Remember – more coins are entering the system then there are leaving.

Help me shop please

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Lots of good advice, and I agree with most of it.

I’d add two things:
1) Don’t look at what people say is most important to buy, look at why they say it’s important to buy it. This leads into:
2) Don’t spend a lot right away – save those gems for a couple weeks or a month, while you play and find out what would fit you.
Figure out what stuff frustrates you while playing.
Is it always running out of salvage kits – buy a Copper Fed (high on my own list).
Do you play one character almost exclusively – then Shared Inventory is probably not too important, get Bag Slots instead.
Do you like making/rerolling alts? If you’re sometimes deleting characters Bag Slots might be a bad investment.

Also don’t buy too many Storage Expanders initially – when you have 500-750 of a material, process it or sell excess – you’ll most likely get more of it!

Bloodstone Dailies

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Rift Closer: Do the various Rift events on the floating shards of rock. On the ground level, there are small rift symbols that will teleport you up.

Magic Gatherer: Fly (or fall) through the blue spheres in the air to collect Unbound Magic. This requires completion of the story step “Reaper of Magic”.

Personal Story Won't Go Away?

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You could also go into settings, and check “Content Guide”
Any option but “Default” will hide the story.

berserker and valkyrie stats

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Non-ascended, everything has an upgrade slot.
Ascended armor and weapons still do.
Ascended trinkets however, that upgrade slot is already filled and lumped in to the stats shown. The Berserker option means “Berserker trinket with Berserker jewel”, the Berserker + Valkyrie option means “Berserker trinket with Valkyrie jewel”.

The same option on a weapon or armor would mean the slot for Sigil or Rune would be filled and unchangeable.

unachieveable achivement points

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I’ve seen an idea here on the forum that i liked: Add unachievable AP to the daily cap!
Daily/Monthly cap is currently 15000.
Say there’s 2000 AP (number strictly an example) that are permanently unachievable.
Player A has all of these, and maxed daily.
Player B has 500 of these, and 14000 daily AP.
Add unachievables to the Daily cap, and we get a new cap of 17000.
A is still capped, since they already had those AP.
B is now at 14500 of 17000 and can continue to chip away at the AP total for more than 50 days.
Later, another 100 AP becomes unachievable due to changes in content. This is again added to the cap.
A hadn’t done those, and now sits at 17000 of 17100 and can get these points.
B had, so they are now at 14600 of 17100.

Crafting question (Tempered Spinal Blades)

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Isn’t that note a legacy from prior to the current transmutation system? Before the Wardrobe?

Rytlock Brimstone [spoilers]

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It was pretty funny. The ‘cowardly’ charr was well aware of how fast he could be killed, since not only was he in front of THE Rytlock Brimstone, who has happened to have 2 dragon kills under his belt, but also because Rytlock has a new power nobody knows the ins or outs of just yet except for Rytlock. He had the right idea, not wanting to kitten the big man off.

“I’m starting to think both…”
Pure gold!

Colored Spinal Blades

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Just checking – if I want to unlock all three colored Spinal Blades (Dynamic/Static/Synergistic), do I have to make 3 sets of Tempered Spinal Blades from scratch (so need three sets of blueprints) or is there some way of shortcutting that?

what to buy from gemstore?

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First: Unless you’re uninterested in both story and Core Tyria masteries, I’d get LW2 first! It’s the lead-up to the HoT story (there’s a lot in HoT that doesn’t make sense without it), and contains 16 CT Mastery Points (8 easy, 8 harder).

After that it depends a lot on play style and personal focus, but inventory/storage is always good. What to focus on there depens on play style again.

Mithrillium/Elder Spirit Residue Salvaging

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Also, the ascended mats, as opposed to the Gifts, can already be used for other things.

Can you please fix spawned items?

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What I meant was if it’s not on purpose, it’s not going to be repeated, and thus probably not sanctioned. If it’s repeated it’s not accidental.

Can you please fix spawned items?

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I don’t see how reporting would be overboard. If someone does it once, they are unlikely to suffer any consequence. If they keep doing it, they should be reprimanded.

can i remove 'account bound' ?

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The Upgrade Extractor is to remove an upgrade such as a rune or a gemstone from equipment without destroying it.
There are items that are account bound that contain valuable upgrades that can be extracted and sold, maybe this is what the OP has questions about?

@OP: If you describe what you want to accomplish, we can probably help more.

Viper's prefix?

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Ps: just in case, you can use the mf to change stats if you eventually drop another set. Prices on tp are quite low

Only for Ascended! OP never specified rarity, but were looking on TP, thus Exotic. Exotic can not be stat-swapped.

Treasure mushroom in Bloodstone fen

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Well exploring BF doesn’t count for the collections either, so it’s not super surprising.

Gemstore items: new/sales/discounted prices

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If bank tabs are on sale now, isn’t that new? They haven’t been mentioned in this thread during the sale at least.

Edit: rephrased to stave off felines.

4GB Patch

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Did you switch language in game? Apparently that’ll trigger a download of all the voiceover audio for the new language.

What order would a follower of Abaddon choose

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This seems a perfect place to mention that I’ve managed, by bug, to make a character join both the Priory and the OoW!

I picked OoW, then joined a friend playing through the LA meeting w DE. They had a character of the same race that had chosen Priory. They were the instance owner, and I accepted progress at the end. The following stories were a bit of a mess, the 50 chapter randomly having Sieran or Tybalt in the instances, but I now have full access to both the Priory basement and the OoW sanctum including both sets of armor/weapon merchants!

Guide to Proper Ecto Gambling

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As a RL Blackjack dealer, I’d point out that the first three rules are very good rules to follow in any gambling what so ever.
Consider everything gambled lost, and thus don’t gamble what you can’t afford to lose.

Of course, you’re very welcome to forget the third rule when playing at my table

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Givers armor stat needs updating.

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My second favorite character is useless to use almost everywhere since it can’t have ascended gear.

Not to derail, this is just to make sure I as a newbie gets the stats – wouldn’t Minstrels be a good fit? Little drop in Toughness for a boost to Healing, (effective) Boon Duration and some extra Vitality?

Edit: Back on topic – I completely support retrofitting old stats w Boon Duration and Condition Duration to instead use Concentration and Expertise, respectively.

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