Guild Wars 2

Are you sure you’ve only crafted 4 of the 6 pieces? Once you know all the discoverable recipes, the items don’t show up anymore. You might search your recipe list for “Explorer” to make sure you’ve never created them.

obstinate giraffe.9276:

I originally thought that, but Call of the Wild does not force combat, but if you use it with a mob selected it will alert your pet to go and attack it, thus forcing combat; if you keep your pet on passive or don’t use it with a target selected, it shouldn’t activate combat!

No, I originally thought it was my pet’s fault (Looks like I owe Sarah Jane an apology) but it was definitely auto-attacking that did it. It’s made the warhorn speed buff all but useless in jumping puzzles with mobs, since I end up stuck in combat after sending the baddies into “invulnerable” after chucking axes at the wall …

Has anyone else had an issue where using “Call of the Wild” causes your ranger to start throwing axes at the nearest yellow/red? I’ve been using the skill primarily as a speed buff pretty much since launch, and this is definitely new to me.

Zaxares.5419:

It helps to have multiple alts that you’re all leveling through the starter zones at the same time, and only ONE Tailor out of all of them who gets all the Jute scraps.

It should be pointed out that leatherworkers (I’m maxed) also go through a buttload of cloth, and I think tailors may use a buttload of leather (I haven’t started my tailoring yet) as well. These should probably not be done at the same time.

Zenyatoo.4059:

Onyx
Chests in TA, possibly drop from earth elementals in cursed shore (havent confirmed)

Confirmed.

“i know a warrior skill that gives the mob 10 vulnerabilty stacks have that effect. If there are other skills that have the same effect, i dunno, but it is a good thing”

Good on mobs, bad on you.

If it’s the same circle I’m thinking of, it also means that, for example, those @#! snipers in CM have decided that you don’t have enough holes in your head, and they’re about to remedy that.

Nefaria.7659:

If you’re looking just to swap the bag for a new one, you can drag the new one right onto the other without having to empty and manually remove it.

I wish I’d known that. Upgrading was always such a PITA…

1. Gather everything.

2. Don’t repair your armor until it’s broken (red). Damaged armor still gives you full effects, and there’s apparently a cap on repair costs (per GW2W).

It’s been “fixed.” You now get a token in the mail that you can trade in at Fort Trinity for a “Pact” weapon.

Human
Ranger
No boosts

Norn
Guardian
No boosts

Human
Mesmer
No boosts

Genlog.4983:

w8 a sec now i see what he is doing to get so fast 22 every time he kill that earth element you get almost 1500 exp and a weapen to pick 1 dunno about mony but its not much i think

so i think he do that quest over and over again to lvl fast

Nope. Once you kill the earth elemental, you finish the intro quest and map into Queensdale.

@Bruno:

Yes, they can. The event chain that opens the haunted doors in Queensdale bugged on Tarnished Coast the other night. Tony Ordon (game designer/dev) came out and force-opened them (since I’m assuming they decided it would take long enough to fix to warrant it for a limited time event like halloween).

Clearly, they have the ability. Whether or not they have the desire is the question.

How do you use the naga to use your F1-F4 skills? O_O I have one, but the switch on it just lets me choose between 0-9 and 0-9 (keypad). I checked if the Naga software would let me remap, but no dice.

Enlighten me, great one! I’d love to be able to do this at last.

Bluestone.7106:

Ya’ll must have little hands lol. F1-4 are totally within easy reach :P

Or use an old IBM Model M keyboard. I love my clicky (stupid filter break) keys <_<

Kopipoki.3542:

The Halloween scavenger hunt books show.

It seems to depend on armor. It shows up on my ranger’s “Duelist” chest, but not on my MF “Noble” coat. This is probably a bug.

Molmoch.4126:

But I might take the prize for worst Mad King Chest Loot ever. 50 Candy Corn, 2 Loot Bags, and a Unidentified Dye. Candy Corn?

Pretty sure the 50 candy corn is a static drop from the chest. But I still can top that.

50 CC, 2 white loot bags, and a ToT bag (with 2 CC in it).

I pretty much stopped farming him after that…

It’s not just you. The only exotics I’ve ever seen came from rewards for map clearing 60-80 zones. They DO drop from chests though. On friday night, before the nerf, some mid-level IRL friends and I were farming the labyrinth. Between the 5 of us, 5 exotics dropped (Mad king armor. None for me, of course…)

As a ranger with a shark, I actually fare better 1-on-1 with a mob under water than I do on land with a bow…

Throw multiples at me, though, and my face gets eaten. Axe/horn wins there (especially if there’s only 2 mobs)

I’d love to replay that mission too, since by the time we passed the bit at the end (where you’re in a very small area with lots of red circles), my pants were broken and the epicness of the cutscene was somewhat diminished by my ranger being in her panties…

I’m still pissed off that I didn’t actually get a “Champion of Orr” title when the NPC in the story mission said “From this day forth, you will carry the title of ‘Champion of Orr’.”

Seriously?

Redrumickey (No quote button again) “Ive seen bots do many things from mining to healing but bots don’t like candy corn. So if a player runs right pass a candy corn nod it a very good chance he’s a bot.”

I really hope you’re joking.

I’ve got over 1200 kittening candy corn, and still getting more from drops. Excuse the kitten out of me for not wanting to waste any more picks on the crap!

Found it! Turns out the wiki is wrong. Those are Vigil Medium Leggings.

alcopaul.2156:

im suspecting the leggings is a Norn Cultural armor (tier unknown). please confirm.

Nope. Just checked. The Tier 3 Norn armor leggings bare one leg, but are not as revealing as what’s in the image, and neither of the lower two tiers match either.

Back to the drawing board

Update: It’s also not any of the dungeon armor. Checked previews in game. If the images in GW2W are correct, it’s also none of the orders’ armor. Something craftable or PvP only maybe?

OP, was that an NPC? Maybe it’s armor that we can’t get our hands on, or perhaps a skin from the gem store?

That’s almost certainly the Duelist chest (Medium Exotic). I don’t know the leggings though… Kind of wish I did.

In the “Sloven Pitch” area of “Fireheart Rise” the mobs are level 69 but, depending on which direction you enter the zone from, the player can be either level 63 or level 71, in the same places. This is particularly easy to find right near the vista over the lava falls.

Book “backpack” reward from the Halloween event doesn’t show up with crafted Noble coat.

I would assume it’s intended, since it also works during revives.

GrantWizard.7832:

I got level 80 greens Like a week ago from now… I was expecting something More…But!, it does say Random

Can’t find the post (these forums are pretty rough about that) but I seem to remember one of the devs saying that it may be part of the upcoming loot fix (week after next at the earliest, won’t be part of the halloween update) and that those of us who have finished our PS will get something. Sorry for all the vagueries, and YMMV as to whether it comes to pass or not.

I’m having a similar problem, but my thread of it seems to have been deleted. I’m not seeing any other indicators of lag, but if my character is auto-attacking, I can’t reliably press ‘F’ to, say, pick up a boulder in the AC Story “Lovers” fight. I have to ctrl-Right click to turn off AA completely.

Wow. That would be the dumbest exploit ever, since achievement points don’t actually do anything.

I was in AC Story with some guildies today, and during the Lovers fight, I found that if I was autoattacking, pressing [f] to pick up a boulder was very, very unreliable. I’ve done the fight many times before, and have never seen this before. Throwing the boulder set my autoattack to firing again, but turning off the auto-attack completely (ctrl-right click) made the problem go away.

Is anyone else noticing this?

Well, there is one slight flaw in your reasoning. With its high attack speed (even post-nerf) and low per-hit damage, the shortbow is absolutely a weapon ripe for criticals (faster attacks = more critical hits). Unfortunately, the per-hit damage is so low that a critical shortbow build is still inferior to a condition build.

Same logic applies to a mainhand axe. Its autoattack also does no conditions, but what it does is hit up to 3 targets per attack. That’s three potential crits for the price of one, and unlike the current SB, its crits, even only modestly traited, can tear stuff up. For example, thanks to really poor level scaling boundaries in Fireheart Rise, I found myself downscaled to L63 while fighting 4 L69 Charr tonight. Popped QZ and RaO, and spammed the hell out of the pinball axe. It was close, but I managed to survive. (Dat feel…)

theeagleeye.7693:

Didn’t even bother finishing the entire post, since I saw a couple more subtle jabs and flaunting that holier than thou attitude.

Right, like that comment about “that’s why you don’t have a full set” wasn’t waving your kitten around. Not at all.

And he still doesn’t think players will just spam run AC path 2, or CoF path 2 to get any armor set of their choosing.

Next time, finish reading the post. I absolutely acknowledged that would be the case for SOME players. My position is that those players are irrelevant, since they’re already doing that anyway, and the benefit to the majority of the other players who are then able to enjoy some variety outweighs it, if one takes the intelligent path and removes elitist ego whining from the equation.

Parisalchuk.9230:

You are incorrect in your first statement…. The dungeons offer 3 variants of stats so you can mix and match.

Confirmed. You’re correct, I got that wrong. Good to know, thank you. Now I need to see if I can find a list of dungeon-to-stat-sets and hope the combination I want isn’t Arah… kitten Lupicus and his resets.

tuck.2719:

Article link is: Guild Wars 2: Dungeon Crawl

Wasn’t sure whether anyone had posted this yet, but I was curious about what reactions other players might have.

Note that I have yet to venture into a dungeon myself, so I have very little to say about it.

Nice. He pretty much nailed my problem with dungeons in general, a lot more eloquently than I’ve ever been able to.

AC: Story – Easy, even with the lovers being bugged. Boring. Stupid hat.
Exp – Not worth doing anything but the ghost eater until they fix the kitten hitbox on the burrows. Chests suck.

CM: Story – Easy. Boring. Stupid hat.
Exp – Easy with a dash of one-shot cheese. Chests suck.

CoF: Story – Easily the most fun SM dungeon I’ve played. The last boss is a hoot. Stupid hat.
Exp – Easy, if you fight cheese with cheese at “Magg’s Deathmarch.” Chests suck.

Arah: Story – Not hard, but annoying. Tries to use all kinds of alternate mechanics
(cannons, etc) for variety. Does it badly. End boss is a disappointment.
Extremely stupid hat.
Exp – A combination of some great, innovative parts (corrosive light football, crystal guardians), progress-wiping bugs (Lupicus), and cheese (Ooze zergs, Illusionist Deathstar Blasters, most bosses). Chests suck.

theeagleeye.7693:

LOL. Too bad you don’t think that way, and that’s probably the reason why you don’t have a full dungeon set. How is my post fanboying? Are we spitting out words that don’t make sense anymore, just to insult other people? I understand the point you are trying to make though, but tell me, how does that solve the problem of having people run the easiest, fastest instance for the tokens, just to buy an armor set from a different dungeon? You know very well this is going to be a problem, and don’t pretend that this isn’t going to happen.

Actually, the reason I don’t have a full dungeon set is that I don’t want a full dungeon set. It leads to top/bottom heavy builds since every piece has the same stats and a more balanced approach is better for maximum flexibility. It’s also not worth getting to transmute onto a good armor set since A) Having a separate transmute stone for 80 is a blatant BS cash grab, and they’re ugly as hell. They might be nice with OPs idea, since I could get them to transmute different stats on to good-looking armor, but as it is, it’s pretty pointless. There are less annoying ways to deck out in exotics.

At this point, I’m running each dungeon path once to get the achievements, then grabbing the lowbie gold armor to salvage or feed to the forge just to get the tokens out of my bank slots, because they’re useless otherwise.

And no, I wasn’t throwing out a word to insult you. I was actually giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you were blinded by loyalty rather than just incapable of reading and thinking in a straight line.

As for the problem of people running the same path over and over again, that’s already been dealt with with the stupid DR mechanic. If anything, the OPs idea would INCREASE dungeon visibility, because you’d get groups that float between the different dungeons, since they want the tokens. Yes, some people would run the same path over and over again, but we ALREADY have that going on. That’s an issue of bad design, not a consequence of OPs idea.

It’s a good idea from a playability standpoint. The current implementation promotes endless, mindless grinding, since when you do the same dungeon over and over again, it gets easier, and then it BECOMES the easy path that you’re apparently so afraid of. That it offends someone’s kitten/ego is a stupid reason to dismiss it.

AcidicVision.5498:

So they fixed it so you can’t pull him out of the room to the waypoint anymore?

For some very generous value of “fixed” since you also apparently can’t dodge backwards/kite anymore.

Even though I make most of my gold via the TP, I’m not a power trader. And those are the only people who lose out to the “free buy orders.” Given the mess that the power traders made of GW1, I’m perfectly okay with that.

Counterexample: Upgrade/Siege Donations in WvW.

Counterexample: Gold sellers already use alternate methods.

Only 100% solution to removing the problem of gold sellers: Completely eliminate all inter-player trading.

Fail.

I don’t see it as a problem at all.

Since value is determined by the intersection of what someone is willing to buy for and what someone is willing to sell for, someone willing to sell for less changes that “magical” X to X-1 for as long as someone is willing to take the loss. And there’s nothing “fair” about “first come, first serve,” like you argue. If you don’t want to be undercut, then YOU have to be the one willing to take the loss. The lower YOU sell for below the current market rate, the less likely you are to be undercut. If that means taking 5%, 15%, or 50% off of the current sell price, that’s your choice.

The higher you price it, the longer you wait.

soren.6918

After thinking about this nerf for a week or so, I have decided the reason they did it was because they saw a majority of rangers using the same or similar builds. They nerfed the damage to force players into playing a different build. The problem is there really aren’t any other viable builds.

Pretty much. Now they just see a majority of rangers playing the same or similar build, but less effectively because it’s still better than any of the other options. Brilliant, isn’t it?

Fayte.1803:

Holy crap, 16 pages and still no response from arena net? I stopped playing my ranger a week ago and left the forums alone in hopes stuff would be straightened out, guess I was mistaken…..aw well back to warrior then.

We did get a response. It was basically “Yeah, it turns out that it was a damage nerf, but repeatedly using your single passable DPS skill wasn’t the sort of ‘fun’ play we want to promote. Tough cookies.”

ChillyChinaman.6057:

Seriously, I’ve gamed for the majority of my childhood, and I sorry to say I know of no such game or company. Company are about turning a profit first, pleasing their fans second. If they could make money without keeping us happy and make it easier on themselves, they would do it in a heartbeat. Once you’ve paid your money you’re nothing to them, unless it’s a monthly subscription game, I’ve never played one of those.

I’m not sure if you’re a fan of ARPG/Diablo-likes, but Runic Games (Torchlight/Torchlight II) does actually make it a point to try to keep both of those focuses (foci?) in balance, to the level where the actual devs and even the president of the (small) company post on the official forums and engage in conversations, rather than the pre-packaged and pre-approved “press-release” spin-doctoring we get from ANet.

Did you happen to turn on “auto-cast ground target” or whatever that option is called? The one that makes your ground target skills cast on your mouse cursor immediately?

A guildie ran into this the other night while we were mapping Cursed Shore. His master pick appeared to be somewhere BETWEEN mithril and ori, since he got 2 ruined ores and 1 orichalcum ore from the node.

You can turn on (or, better, create a second tab) combat messages. There’s no text log for parsing or anything useful like that, but it will at least show you your damage spam. I don’t know how big the buffer is, though, so it might not even cover a whole fight, but it’s the best we’ve got.

theeagleeye.7693:

The fun factor is diminished because you play to get the gear as fast as possible, instead of focusing on just playing the dungeon and coming up with strategies, without thinking of just give me my God kitten token while running it.

Speak for yourself. I find the “fun factor” being diminished because I’m running the same freaking dungeon over and over and over again, rather than getting some variety by running the others. THAT’S the contradiction in the red post’s reasoning above. For a development philosophy that hates farming and grinding so intensely, they seem awfully fond of requiring farming and grinding.

It has nothing to do with wanting to be “handed” anything or “rushing to get the gear,” and if you stopped fanboying long enough to think for a second you’d recognize that. We’d still have to “work” for the armor, we could just spread out that work over a change of scenery rather than having to split up because Guildie A wants the CM armor, but Guildie B wants CoF and you want TA.

Apparently the highly-touted “social” aspect of the game needs to be sacrificed on the altar of the Holy Grind, instead.

Strzalka.9451:

But in all seriousness, I think folks are taking this way to personally. I don’t know what you all have been doing that makes it so you easily notice that 40 milliseconds or whatever, but I’ve been using shortbow from the beginning and I can honestly say that the only reason I even noticed a tiny difference was because of all the spam on the forums about how the SB was nerfed. If not for all the forum tears, I probably would still not know about the change. I haven’t even changed my build. I certainly don’t die more easily… the change has nothing to do with survivability.

Your observational skills, or lack thereof, notwithstanding, it’s not a question of “taking it personally.” It’s a matter of the development and company philosophy that’s been exposed by this whole mess, and in other “fixes” (DR, anti-farm, etc.): the design is frequently slipshod, the implementation often sloppy, and the communication with the players alternately condescending and dishonest.

The thing that surprises me about it is all the people who say that they’re “Surprised by Anet’s attitude.” AFAIK, their only other game was Guild Wars, so they either didn’t have enough experience with ANet to draw a conclusion that was contradicted by this behavior, or they should have known better. This is nothing new. The same crap went on in GW1.

I have to say I disagree with all of these complaints about “cheesing,” since the entire design of a bunch of these events and bosses comes straight from the dairy aisle, too. One-shot kills, carpet bombs, one-shot carpet bombs, “escort” quests with elite zergs… all “cheese” mechanics.

The main problem we see with a universal token system, is that players will find the easiest dungeons they can do within the DR system’s influence range, and just do them over and over.

Instead, they just run the easiest path of the dungeon they want the armor for, over and over, and all that other content goes unseen, and the armor has no value anyway.

Why not adjust the rewards based on the difficulty? Whatever one’s opinion of the DR system, you can still use it if the base reward for Arah is 100 tokens and the base for CM is 20 (numbers fabricated for example purposes).

On a personal note, I know, for example, that under the current system, I have no reason to ever do SE, since the armor is, to my aesthetic taste, hideous. (No, it’s not worth running dungeon just to make an “Are you my Mummy?” joke)

Vecuu.2018:

I see many people trying to compare the damage of a Ranger to other professions, complaining how “it’s not fair” that our skills do less damage overall.

Do people forget about the damage their pets do?

I think Jayne said it best.

“Ten percent of nothing, out of nothing… carry the nothing…”

Useless in PvP, Useless in dungeons, useless in the last 3 game zones. But yeah, pets are GREAT for the first 5% of the time you’re playing the game!

Making pets a requirement was one of the biggest bone-headed design decisions Anet made (and they made a lot). Mine only exists to get swapped out every 16 seconds too buff my paltry damage.