Guild Wars 2

If any generous soul has some Resonating Sliver from guild missions….
I’d really appreciate some so that I’m able to level my scriber. Thanks!

- on your warrior’s first / second birthday, you’ll get a scroll that brings another char directly to 20 (and a similar scroll for the third birthday even to 30)
- dailys and PvP reward tracks give tons of tomes of knowledge. I’m keeping 250 at the bank for new professions and I’m just using the rest, since there are too many to keep them all.
- exploring cities is an easy way for some extra levels
- crafting may be expensive, but each profession brings you some levels. cooking may be the only one that’s worth it, since the others are kinda costly
- EotM should still work, since events bring a good amount of XP, too. Any other area with high frequented events should work the same, e.g. HoT maps

At least they nerfed the TD golem armor adventure. That one was even harder than fallen masks….

I see. I still think that it’s easier than chak weapons.
It may be a bit tedious, but if you want to try to get all achievements anyways, you can combine it with rescuing Tarir 100 times. This should give you enough dust and aurillium.
Maybe I was just lucky with those direct ingot drops, but I’d guess that ~70 times should still be more than enough.

I have 9 classes and 1 from PvP → only 6 weapons left.

That are 30 auric ingots (you get 5 for achievements and a few out of the Tarir chests or noxious pods – you can get the rest by collecting the auric dust)
1500 or less Aurillium – doable, compared to e.g. blade armor parts (you get a recipe out of the AB PvP reward track)
60 vials of lineseed oil – around 45 gold

I just did Tarir like 30 times, opened only the 5 biggest chests (while exploring AB with my first 7 toons) and I’m only missing two weapons now. Chak weapons are way harder since you can’t get 2hand weapons from story rewards and chak eggs are harder to get than auric dust (they’re cheaper however).

I’d absolutely LOVE to get one or two bag space expansions!
I don’t want to get too whiny, but I’m in a quite stressful time at the moment and that would really brighten my day, since my lack of inventory is my number 1 rage moment.

Okay, I found a little inscription at the T3 pre recipe saying “You already crafted this item” – I guess it’s a one time only recipe

Why is it impossible to simply craft another one? I can get the needed essence for karma at the legendary merchant.

Heya!
I’m thinking about crafting a second Spark for the “have two of the same legendary” achievement.

So, the most expensive parts of the precursor hunting are within the collections – and I already filled them, so… theoretically, I only need to craft the T1 pre, salvage it, craft T2, salvage, T3… finished. That will still need some mats, especially for T1, but the rest is pretty cheap. All in all, it will be much cheaper than the first Spark (and the ones @tp)…

Is this possible? Is there some component that you can’t get a second time that I forgot about?
Thanks in advance!

1)
Isn’t it an instant kill without downed mode?
It’s not working in the middle of the fight – only when he lands for the first time. Maybe that’s the issue.

2)
Yeah, got the same impression… I’m not sure if you have to do a certain amount of % to its breakbar and/or health. I’m usually trying to focus on one or two of them each time they spawn – CCing them as much as possible and attacking them fast before they get destroyed. Bonus tip: Use boons on allies (like blast finishers… I’m running staff ele on earth → CCing with 4 and 5, laying down 2, switch to fire and lay down 2 → blasting might for all allies) – it will copy you a bit of their credit for the tower kill, too, maybe this increases the chance on getting it counted for your achievement.

Okay, so I just opened 944 of the Divine Lucky Envelopes with 658% magic find.
Maybe you’re interested in the results and if it’s worth it.

944 opened, 658%mf
->
31 rare monkey backpieces
2 exotic monkey packpieces

2685 blue essence of luck (10 luck)
887 green essence of luck (50 luck)
526 rare essence of luck (100 luck)
244 exotic essence of luck (200 luck)
12 legendary essence of luck (500 luck)

981 Golden Monkey Figurines (-> 871G 91S 28C)
35 Ornamental Golden Trophies (-> 311G 10S 80C)

590 Lucky Draketails
72 Lucky Prismatic Rockets
178 Lucky New Year Fireworks
48 Lucky Guild Fireworks
40 Visage of the Great Monkey Fireworks

275 Fried Golden Dumplings
93 Delicious Riceballs
34 Spring Rolls
26 Steamed Red Dumplings
24 Sweet Bean Buns

So, all in all, I paid 944 gold (got all through my alt accounts, no tp involved) and got back 1183 gold through junk items alone.
I sold most of the rest (kept a exotic backpack for my skin collection) on the tp for another ~54 gold.
Net profit was around 290 gold, so around 31 silver per envelope. Selling them on the tp brings maybe 18 silver at the moment.
It may be more profitable to store them or at least the involved backpacks (the rare one from last year is at 5 gold now), but for me personally it’s not worth to wait that long (plus the skins aren’t stackable).

Quick magic find reference:
150 through silverwastes event buff
200 through boosters (festival booster +100, mf booster +50, item booster +50)
10 through guild item research
15 through hero banner
30 through sharpening skull
40 through Chocolate Omnomberry Cream (you need a boon)

I’d like to join any organization on european servers, too.

The spring quarter update will implement the needed two gifts.

Yeah, you’re right. I checked again ingame and now I’d guess they need ~5 more expansions to fill the world map (of course not every little space, but the major “theme” places like charr homelands, woodland cascades etc).
That’s achieveable in 6-7 years.

However, I don’t think that it’s THAT big of a problem to enlarge the world map of a nearly ten year old game (by that time). It’s still not necessarily a new continent – to be honest, I ’d prefer going west / north / east first to reach (at least one or two of) the boundaries of the Tyrian continent.

edit: I made a little paint picture to show which “new” boundaries I’d prefer. It’s just my personal opinion of course.

draxynnic.3719:

To be fair, currently there’s plenty of space within the existing borders for more vanilla-style maps as well. However, the HoT model is the one that allows more content to be fit into a finite-sized overworld map.

Awww come on, they’d need like 10-12 years to fill the current world map, even when they would switch back to vanilla style maps. I really don’t think that limited space is something they should bother about.

This still bothers me a lot, by the way.

So I just got The Legend via collections, so I’ll share my opinion:

The cost:
Sure, it’s not cheaper than directly buying a precursor via TP, but I don’t think Anet intended to decrease their value. Anet is perfectly fine with some extreme expensive items. But what’s the sense behind choosing the collection way then, instead of simply farming enough gold?
Well, a) it gives a few AP, b) it’s more lore connected (e.g. to travel to runestones for a norn-connected weapon) and mainly c) it’s more of a progress instead of “oh, I waited years, but now I finally dropped a pre” or “I’ve farmed SW or similar stuff until I hoarded enough gold to buy it”. It’s more like a progress bar. Sometimes, after exploring a map on an alt, I had enough mats to craft another collection item. Or I farmed a few mat spots. And then you had to complete a task like getting crystallized by the Shatterer, followed by the need to farm a few mats again.
Of course it gets expensive if you prefer to buy all mats in the TP. Of course it’s nothing more than a mat sink that you need 2-3k old wood for Legend T3. But there are plenty of ways to get mats – maybe not 1000 a day, but it’s not supposed to work that way. It’s more a journey than a single field trip that’s completed in a day.

The timegating
Well, I haven’t really counted how many ascended mat is needed. I guess I needed around 50 spiritwood plank or less. I don’t think that ~2 months is too much time for a legendary weapon. I remember that I needed much longer to collect 250 T6 mats of each type^^ (long before laurels, lol…)
Plus, you’re always free to simply buy asc mats in the TP. Of course you’ll have to pay a bit more than buying the mats and building it for yourself, but I don’t think that it makes much of a difference here.

A few points I want to add:
- Legendary collections belong to the biggest mat sinks at the moment. It will take some time (mabye a year or more…), but eventually most of the players will have at least one collection completed. As long as no new mat sink will get implemented, mat costs will come down a bit more again. I wouldn’t be too surprised if some (e.g. leather) mats would get some change, since their prices increased so dramatically. Maybe Anet will take a step back and reduce the needed amount, or will add new, more reliable sources of low-tier leather.
- Set yourself a mark, like 100 or 1000 or whatever gold, and don’t get under that mark. Whenever you have some gold left, spend it on mats or whatever needed. Don’t put all your gold in, it will just frustrate you.
- The longer it takes, the more proud will you be when you finally achieved your goal. Trust me! It may take long, but it will be very satisfying

I’m pretty sure that there are new sources of fragments, even though I’m pretty sure, too, that nobody really remembers them, since there’s no actual need to farm them. I get around a stack per day from just doing daily stuff.
I’d suggest roaming the metas, since all “chests” (obnoxious pods etc) have ascended mats. Tarir (and the 27 underground chests spawning after the meta) could be useful. You’ll get more bloodstone dust / dragonite ore too, but that can’t really be avoided I fear.

Regarding fractals: There is one daily fractal of a certain level (eg. 14) that you need to do to get the reward. The second daily fractal reward is rewarded for completing three fractals within the same level span (1-20, 21-50, 51-100).
You won’t get a daily reward if you’re simply doing, lets say, Lv.2 if the daily is Lv.12.
Check the fractal achievement tab to get infos on daily fractals and your progression on the 3-fractals-reward.

1) How do I get “Vinewrath’s Light”? I got hit by his laser beam @troll boss, but nothing. Is it the laser he shoots whenever a boss battle failed?

2) “Golem’s Light”? I vaguely remember a few golems shooting lasers (not projectiles), but I can’t seem to find one…

yurdun.2501:

Does this mean we will still be able to get Winters Presence after wintersday? or is only the (Festive Imbibier) achievement still available? I really don’t care for the achievement I just want Winters Presence Skin…

Yes, since you get Winters Presence through a Rare Collection achievement, not through a Festival achievement. Just make sure that you get the necessary things that you can only get via Festival achievements (Jormag, JP, snowball PvP, music making) before they vanish.

You don’t need it for the meta. There are more than 18 achievements that count, so you don’t need to complete the 10k and the 2.5k achievement to get the meta.

Don’t forget that you can easily get 1000-2000 drinks every wintersday through presents everywhere
Completing it in 3 years is very doable without spending money.

The fly phases are a bit messy, true. Try to run into one of the updrafts, don’t jump into them.

Artanis.4963:

As such, if you fail to consume all ten thousand drinks in the allotted time (at least two weeks, most likely four, and hope it’s more), you will fail to complete the collection.

I need to correct you a bit here:
You will fail to complete the collection this year.
This whole achievement is obviously a GW2 version of the GW1 drunkard title. You needed 10k points in GW1 too and most alcohol only dropped during holiday events.
I’m 10.000% sure that the points won’t reset for next wintersday, as they didn’t in GW1. You absolutely don’t need to aquire 10k points this year. If you really want the shoulder skin, you can grind the presents or buy alcohol, but you don’t have to.

That’s a really interesting question. Could you please elaborate on that.

Paying 600g? Yeah sure, if you want it on day 1. Prices will rush down as every rich fella who wants to get everything as soon as possible reaches the 10k. The supply however will stay or even increase.
I’m pretty sure that you could buy enough drinks for 300g in about 2 weeks. But of course you can simply get them through presents, if you don’t like simply paying for an achievement.

edit: oh well, who could have known that someone is faster than me @2AM x_X

So during the Infinirarium story mission, you have to paint 40 princess dolls with a plasma gun.
Is it just me or is the targeting really horrbile? I can shoot from far away, I can shoot from directly beneath, I can shoot diagonally, without targeting the doll, with targeting it, …
It’s incredibly inaccurate and I spent 20 minutes for the first 20.
This applies even to some of the stationary dolls! They can’t run away, they can’t hide, and still I, a 2 meter big dragon killing norn, is absolutely unable to aim right! -.-

I would simply ragequit if I would think that it’s a bug, but I remember it being the same pain in the kitten a year ago…

I’m pretty sure that gliding #1 is enough. As Turamarth said, simply use the egg’s skills.

Read the last page. Yes, the rewards will get changed on today’s patch.

He is as active as he was since launch. I just can’t see any connection between the lose ends of the HoT story and Jormag…

Braham requested Jormag next? Maybe I’ve missed this part. Personally, I’d loved this most, since I really like the ice/norn/kodan settings and I’d love to see some more EotN related stuff. Well, we’ll see where the story will lead us… in a few months, hopefully.

I don’t know about any trials, but it’s definitely worth the money. The complete 3 campaign + EotN pack is really cheap, so.. just give it a try

(If you want GW1 for GW2 achievements/rewards, it will cost quite some time. PM me if you want tips on how to get to 50 HoM points in a few months)

Konig des Todes said that Laranthir’s dialogue makes no sense lorewise and if anyone knows it, than Konig des Todes.

I also noticed the change in the second last mission at the “dna” rotating section, but I just thought that this is to make it harder (at higher levels of the dna string) to avoid the tendril aoes. I haven’t really looked at it, so I’m not sure if it’s really the Mouth or just some random obstacle.
My second guess is that Anet’s trying to bring those events in a different order and struggle because they totally lost the oversight over their creation, at least lorewise.

At the moment, we can’t really say anything about the next dragon for sure. There are a bunch of arguments for nearly everyone of the remaining dragons.

First of all I’d like to point out that there are two kinds of dragons:
Those who act as a direct threat to the Tyrians (Zhaitan, Jormag and Kralkatorrik) and those who aren’t that present (Mordremoth, Primordus and Bubbles). We have already taken out one of both categories, but I’m not sure if that makes it more likely that one of the first category comes next…

I think that Bubbles is the least likely next dragon. Mordremoth and Bubbles were the most mysterious ones and I’d be kinda surprised if Anet would take out both this early.
Plus, they would run out of excuses why the naval tradeways with Elona is / remains closed.

Jormag is kinda unlikely to me, too. The argument with the arcitc explorer outfit isn’t THAT bad, but that’s not more than a small hint.

So I’m kinda torn between Primordus and Kralkatorrik. The HoT story end leaves some cliff hangers for Season 3, so we can already see what’s most likely to happen next.
The two main things that come to my mind:
1) Glint’s egg (possible connection to Kralkatorrik) and
2) Taimi @Rata Novus: possibly finds out something about Primordus / accidentally attracts his attention.
So I can’t really decide at the moment, even though I personally think that Primordus could be a bit more likely, since he and his whole “underground/underworld” theme could give a few interesting possibilities for Anet – like new underground maps that lie under the existing ones, or Primordus reachs the surface (maybe he settles at Ring of Fire… okay, it’s unlikely, but it would be an awesome setting) and those would both be really nice raid settings.
(Plus, once again, the defeat of Kralkatorrik would open a way to Elona and I’m somehow sure that Anet will avoid this for now)

PS: Not native speaker, sorry for all mistakes :*

You need 5 shards for the last tier (6, if you’re still missing the fractal condensator skin).

I did around 400 fractals according to my achievement counter and I don’t have that much vials/globs and not a single shard. I had to farm one or two globs for the tier 2 Ad Infinitum pre last week… worked quite okay in the grawl shaman fractal since there are quite many mobs (around 22-23 I think) at the start. I was nearly at 300% magic find with boosters and I still needed around 45 mins to get two globs. Could have been faster if I hadn’t farmed them solo, though.

As far as I know, the fractal patch will change the rewards to a more appropriate level, eg cliffside will give more reward (XP at least) than swamp.

Read again. Gaile didn’t say that the usual practice to prevent misuse is a 72h ban, she said that your friend should permit a ticket if something like this happens since it was clearly not intended.
Plus, the non-giftable glider is a bug and you’ll be able to gift it as soon as it’s fixed. At least as far as I understood it.

Is it just me or are thieves (and daredevils) kinda … well … inferior DPS-wise?
I’m running a full-ascended full-zerk daredevil at the moment and well, every small mob seems to take an eternity to die.
When I’m comparing it to my other classes… the light ones have heavy AoE’s, the heavy ones have high DPS and can just facetank stuff most of the time…
But my thief (dual-wielding daggers at the moment, plus staff or pistols situation wise) has neither good AoE’s nor permanent adds. Maybe I haven’t played enough with him to know useful damage rotations, combos etc but it feels just really slow at the moment and I’m really not looking forward to the Mordremoth story fight….

Gliding 5 is enough if you just start at the northernmost waypoint and glide in that general direction.

Okay, as everyone knows, nobody is doing dungeons anymore since the lack of rewards.
I thought of some easy solution: Make dungeon marks needed for guild hall upgrades. This way,
a) the economy is still unaffected
b) there’s a reason to run dungeons again
c) players like me who already got dungeoneer can spend their remaining dungeon marks on something useful (to “clean up” the account purse)

There could be a broad usage of those marks – limited time buffs (so that there won’t be a time where enough marks have been collected), dungeon-themed guild hall accessoires, maybe even special weapon/armor skins, … and much more.

What do you think?

You can type /age ingame to see your character’s age (in days), so you can calculate when you get your presents. If you haven’t received one even though you should, try to delete some ingame-mails.

Look them up in the internet. Many races have shortest paths that you nearly can’t find without help from YouTube video guides. Some may be really hard und luck-based, but I’m sure that you can get enough mastery points without doing them all on gold.
And last but not least, patience is your friend. You get better. You’ll find some shorter ways, some better tricks and skill usage etc…. til you’ll eventually be able to get silver or even gold. I was so happy when I finally managed to complete shooting gallery after one or two hours

Let’s say they assumed we would only get 1 journal side per day (because they failed at calculations or whatever) since this is the only timegated thing I remember.
If they really said that it will be available when the first T3 backpacks are finished, the last plausible date for adding the other 2 gifts would be 19th January 2016.
If they calculated with an average of 2 sides per day, they need to finish it til 9th December…

I’d suggest simply putting vials / globs / shards of condensed mists essence to the loot table.
Those wouldn’t hurt the market in any form since they’re account bound. Some guys like me just don’t have that much drop luck and I still don’t have enough for fractal back / legendary back / infused rings, so… it would be at least SOME reason to salvage my rings…

The classes are kinda balanced now. Nobody will kick a necro or ranger anymore since they’re quite viable now with some builds.
I’m not doing much PvP, but from what I’ve heard, the thieves are struggleing at the moment, while guardians aka. dragonhunters are a bit OP, but it’s totally plausible that those get nerved somewhen.

Of course you could simply try out the revenant. They are quite fun to play and definitely worth it, even though I don’t know much about them in PvP.

Hey, protip: Use fire elemental powder and ogre pet flute at the beginning and boost them with your rabbit skills. It will easily get the wolf down to about 1/3
The rest is tedious but doable.

Somewhen this december. Probably on 15th, but that’s just a guess.

I honestly have no idea, I lost track of my fractal relics amount for months now.

I’d wait for the fractal patch since it will be much more valuable then.
Okay, they only spoke of more gold / ascended chests, but it’s entirely possible that the relic drop chance will increase, too.

Naah, no hype train please. Skins and models like this get added all the time, that_shaman usually waits for a bunch and then posts all at once. It doesn’t necessarily mean that SAB is near.
I’m kinda sure that it won’t be coming before next april.

Ascended boxes can drop whereever ascended mats (bloodstone dust, dragonite ore, empyreal fragments) can drop, but with a much smaller chance.

I personally don’t mind it that much. It gives the whole thing a more legendary touch, but it’s not that dominant that it ruins the whole skin or something.