Well, the end reward (after the 4th fractal) depends on your personal fractal level. The drops in the fractals (including mist essences) aren’t influenced by personal levels, just by the active fractal’s level.
Why are people ignoring the fact that we HAVE comments by the team in this very thread and that they have already outright stated that it WILL be back?
The thread has too much pages, I don’t want to search the latest dev reply, but it simply doesn’t matter very much. We all know that the SAB WILL be back at some point. That’s not the point. I’m sure 99% of all players responding in this thread would be happy with a message like “We’re working on it at the moment” or “It will come after HoT, but most likely this year” or “Next year or maybe later, no certain plans at the moment”.
The actual state of simply avoiding to do any statement led to the riots.
Define stats. Your position in the leaderboard?
Well, the new class (revenant) could be quite near to ritualists, at least optically and lore-wise. But it may take some months til HoT comes out and you can create one.
Well, players who simply want to get some dungeon tokens without spending time there can simply buy their paths, if they’re willing to pay for it.
Sellers do dungeons as fast as possible to earn some extra money for sold slots.
Of course devs know how much appreciated a new world would be. They’re even working on it at the moment (see that_shaman’s datamining post), so I’m pretty sure we’ll have it back somewhen this month, maybe on the 14th or 28th.
I guess they plan to surprise us with it, so you won’t see an official announcement before.
Sry, got everything maxed by now, but if you have questions or want tips or whatever, I’m always happy to help out.
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You won’t be able to use it in the rest of Tyria. As far as I know, nothing has been said about things in future areas. Totally possible that you can glide there, too.
The vanilla Tyria maps can’t support gliding since they weren’t designed with gliding in mind, I guess. You could possibly cheat around to get to some vistas/JPs/etc with them, so gliders are logically not supported there. For future expansions/maps, Anet could design them while having in mind that gliding is an option there.
So you’re not talking about doubling the gold cap to 1000, then? Please get more precisely, I’m not sure what exactly should then get doubled.
As Neural said:
If you use rares, you have to get lucky twice: a) to get an exotic out of it (~20%) and b) get a precursor as an exotic.
For exotics, a) is no problem because you get always (100%) exotics – so the chance on a precursor is 5 times higher if you use exotics.
To be honest, I think that the prices are only decreasing at the moment because many speculators are panicing and selling their dyes. I assume that the drop rates for those dye kits are the same like the rates for the last set of dye kits, and they dropped very rarely (single digit percentage, I think).
I don’t think that the dye supply will be largely affected by this. It’s a too rare drop, plus there’s only a chance to get a limited dye.
This is a PRANK, what prank has a button to turn it off?
You should take a break from the game, or even better, do a little yoga course, if you can’t handle a single day of… airplane noises. Oh wait, I forgot about the character model.
No seriously, don’t play today. It’s healthy to relax. Imagine all the stress hormones every of your post produces. Just don’t play and don’t complain. It’ll be over soon.
PS: “Look at the forum posts” is the worst kind of proof. Only the ones who have enough time to complain about easily avoidable things are coming here. I’m pretty sure that today’s logged in player number is higher than average.
I’m a bit confused about it, I have to admit. What’s the connection between a plane crash and a 20th century / steampunk style “pilot”? I’m German, and still, I haven’t even seen a connection til someone else complained about it. It seems many are just oversensitized….
I would take a Guardian and give him a land spear.
It’s strongly depending on your class. It’s a piece of cake for heavy professions.
I’d generally recommend to use condi removal (but always have some ready in case you get feared), stay near the statue and attack it sideways, dodge in the flame direction when they’re near you. Don’t forget about the healer, use cripple, chill etc whenever possible.
Right now I’m laughing my booty off. XD
That’s really the kind of joke I like for April fools. Of course many will be upset about no SAB again, but it wouldn’t be a fitting theme for this day anyways (because a) twice the same joke doesn’t work, b) it wouldn’t be a surprise whatsoever and c) it’s more or less considered “real content” now).
Well, it wouldn’t be a “fool” if we’re expecting it. However it’s still possible that it comes back as regular content. Maybe later today, maybe next or in two weeks.
(maybe never ;__; )
My skin advice would be:
Sell it now that it’s worth ~100G. If that’s not enough profit for you, rebuy the skin once the demand gets lower and prices decrease to ~50G. You can then wait a few months til the skins are only available for 5 tickets instead of one, where prices will rise to ~150G again.
Well yeah, I was just about to finish my 7th story completion and that has kinda made it impossible for today. Well, so I just farmed a few platinum ores for my next legendary and now I’ll most likely do 1-2 dungeons for some missing skins. Not as planned, but not too bad. Still one week til university starts again, so still enough time.
Okay, we did so much begging, hyping, revolting etc, how about something more productive?
What would be your favourite themes for World 3?
I’d love an “underworld” level like some sort of cave / tunnel etc, something water related (or maybe something like a tropical island level) and maybe something crazy like that ninja dojo level.
I’d love a lava level, too, but it would be more fitting for W4, I guess.
Welllll, it’s kinda small and in the background. I guess it would be hard to find a place in Rata Sum (top level) where you can see less of it. If there’s some sort of connection to the SAB intended, I had made it more obvious I think.
It seems to happen at many PS/LS instances since today’s update. It’s not directly connected to this specific story part.
Well, gonna wait for a hotfix, I guess.
I have a similar problem at the LS S2 Story “Caithe’s Reconnaissance Sqad”, where the objective “Defend Caithe’s squad from the attacking Mordrem” (or something like that) isn’t fullfilled. After completing the rest of the mission, I get ported out normally, but because of this open objective, the whole story counts as not completed and I have to redo it. Did it just two times now, both bugging the same way.
It’s really time to free my bank space from the 12 stacks of SAB spheres (you know, for instantly buying future skill upgrades)… I would be finally able to store 12 more ascended rings xO
I’m quite jealous for your guilds if you’re regularily handling those large sums for single players…
sooooo. sab minis in the bl chests.
Brings up the hope again! We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Because reasons? The reasons are pretty clear and outnumbering all “problems” that may occur because of this change.
As usual, Anet. Good on Paper: Bad in Practice.
Withdraw 500G on Sunday, 500G on Monday and you’re ready for every precursor. Yes, you have to wait a day. I know, that’s hard, because you could be dead the other day (as you said), but I guess you have bigger problems if that would be the case.
After doing 7x Arah Story with a group, I’m eager to see how it will be done for my solo 8th try…
I’m no lore expert, but I remember a WoodenPotatoe Video about the ice fractal, connected to the lore of a “hill giant invasion” to the southern shiverpeaks long ago.
It was just speculation, but those hill giants could have been norn.
There is a handy tool by that_shaman, where you can click on a RBG scale and it gives you the ingame dye that’s nearest to this selected RBG value. If they had lightened up abyss, the data miners had clearly noticed.
I’m having a similar problem, but it has been a few weeks since I submitted a request. Is there any place where I can view my requests? Maybe I forgot to hit “send” or something xD
I already have all skins, so every chest would net 1G or something, even though I’m sure that there are people who would pay 50G+ for it if they could. I rather hope for a future change than getting a few gold, I guess…
Once expansion launches, you may be able to salvage asc. equipments. I’d not vendor anything at this time.
Is this just a possibility or do you have a source or at least some indications?
What do you mean, actually there are 250 stack salvage kits…. you can get them via mystic forge.
Actually, it is exactly egotistic to hope that it gets cleared. Your sense of accomplishment (part of the ego) is being harmed and your ego’s desire to maintain it’s self worth is causing you to desire the perceived slight to be reverted.
You got a point there, “not egoistic” isn’t really true. However, it’s the kind of egoism that is the basis for everything (including everything in a MMO): accomplishment -> reward. If that wasn’t true, you could simply remove dungeon marks, wvw marks, everything, and make everything for free, because nobody is harmed when everyone gets everything.
So yeah, maybe I am egoistic, but in a necessary way (and people tend to use that term in a negative connotation, I fear…)
How does it make your accomplishments worthless? You did the work to get it, and have had it for all that time, able to lord it over everyone that you do and worked for it. How does it change anything if others were then able to get it easier?
What about the people who just played GW for all that time and happened to have accumulated all the things? They didn’t work hard for the achievement, they just got it because they happened to have it by then. Don’t they also make all your hard work pretty worthless?
For the last question: no, of course not. Whenever I see somebody with one of those titles, I know “oh, they did the same things like me, great that they managed to do that” and not “oh, probably a bug user…”.
And that’s the exact way my “accomplishments get worthless”. A big part of MMOs is to show what you were able to get, be it nice skins, a legendary, a title… of course its not the only or the most important aspect (because enjoying what you do should has the highest priority), but its neither an unimportant aspect.
PS: Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved GW1 and collecting points/titles there.
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I’ve spent hours and hours and months to get 50 HoM points + GWAMM, of course I would be upset when everyone gets it through a glitch. It would indirectly harm me by making my accomplishments worthless, so it’s not egoistic or something to hope that this gets cleared.
2) I would guess one of the reasons was to force players to reach 500 crafting before they can get ascended gear. While you can buy the T7 materials to make it, you still need to have the crafting level.
I can see your point, but boxes from Tequatl, 3head Wurm, PvP, WvW etc. don’t require crafting. The crafting part is fine, but those extra RNG dependant boxes are what bugs me.
I just don’t think that it would crash the whole market or something. Or how about a new option beneath equip parts: same stat insignias/inscriptions that are actually sellable, if you don’t need the armor.
You can’t salvage ascended equipment.
I’m a completionist and a perfectionist. I made/will made 4x berserker, 2x assassin and 2x condition-style ascended armor for my 8 professions.
I don’t want to use some mix&matched ascended pieces from boxes I randomly find that don’t have the right stats.
As an example, I just found a Wei Qi’s armor box (sentinel stats) and I just can’t use it. I don’t play with those stats and I don’t want to. Anyways, I’m sure it had a great value if it wasn’t account bound, because sentinel insignias are hard to get. Now what to do with the box?
a) keep them and hope for a future change that makes the stats useable for me, the vendor price higher, … etc
b) open them and waste bank slots for armor I nearly never use
c) sell them for the laughable price at the vendor
Okay, so my discussion topic would be:
1) What do you do / think is the best thing to do with those unwanted boxes?
2) What were the reasons to make asc. boxes accound bound? What would be advantages/disadvantages of making them sellable?
Why, he could just done the last Lv20 mission, followed by the first Lv30 one. Totally possible to do the 20er with a Lv19 char.
The percentage only refers to the amount of files, not to the actual size of them.
Same here, but eventually the last file was finished, so mybe it’s just a really big one or something.
By the way, there seems to be no cap for character slots. I heard of a guy who made several hundred characters and is still able to buy more slots.
Plus, it depends on the corner: Mesmers are kinda weak in PvP atm, but they have no problems to find a dungeon group. Same goes for every class!
Are you Lv80? It takes about an hour or two of doing events/mobs in a starter area, that’s not that hard to get at all. If you want to do it easy, buy crafting mats and level up through crafting in different disciplines.
Tomes of Knowledge, masteries, Q &suggestions
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We know that experience will grant you mastery points like gaining character levels, where in the past it would have given a lvl 80 simply another skill point.
Wrong. Experience does not give mastery points. Instead certain activities (such as map completion and jumping puzzles) give mastery points. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlBFoHs_siY
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That’s one source, but you can “equip” one mastery path and “train” it via XP if you don’t have enough mastery points or don’t want to spend them.
Tomes of Knowledge, masteries, Q &suggestions
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Posted by: Thanathos.2063
I read that too, but additionally, I read that Anet made the demo masteries “easier” to fill because otherwise players had no chance to test them.
That could suggest that the actual amount of tomes needed for a single mastery token would be much higher than 5 in the actual game.
But all in all we can safely assume that tomes can be used to level masteries. Maybe you need 5 for one point, maybe 10, maybe 50, who knows?
You need 78 mastery points to max all vanilla + HoT masteries, by the way. If we consider that there are some things like world exploration that reward points and that we’ll get those points for already completed things directly at the start… I think its definitely possible to fill one mastery completely at the start, or multiple ones partially.
I’m definitely PvPing a bit til HoT and save up my tomes to get an easier start.