Guild Wars 2

What do you mean to be “in full control of the customizations”? You can swap the stats on legendaries anytime outside of combat, not just when creating it.

But back to the original question. Making a legendary takes a helluva lot of time, but so does grinding the gold for it. Your choice.

Well it’s really your choice where you want to stop with the EoLs. After that you can vendor the stuff instead. Think of it as a long term investment vs. short term investment, with the “long term” getting longer with every salvage.

Aaron Ansari.1604:

Lemme see if I understand you.

The devs were lazy, so they made a model that is only used in the same general vicinity, for nothing essential to the game? They didn’t feel like putting forth effort, and therefore went the extra mile and created and distributed something into the game when hardly anyone would have noticed if they had not? Is that correct?

Maybe they had an extra giant head model lying around?

It’s probably far, far away. ANet is too busy producing this “living story” stuff.

The reason they look identical is because the devs were lazy and used the same model.

Probably nothing more to it tbh.

Drums. Absolutely the next needed instrument.

Lilliyaneha.2670:

Curtis Johnson.8456:

The Copper-fed Salvage-O-Matic will work just as well as any other kit for finding Essence of Luck

what about salvaging to get other stuff?
ectos and dark matter, both stated as “trophy”, so in theory (bunch of exclamation marks) quality of salvaging kit shouldn’t matter either.

It’s been long tested that the quality of the salvage kit does in fact affect the drop rate of globs of ectoplasm and it seems to the same with the dark matter. Don’t use the salvage-o-matic to salvage rares/exotics.

Funny you should say that, because I think the Troll fight in LotR is pretty much what the devs imagined boss fights to be. Nobody can stand toe to toe, so you need to take turns attacking it and withdraw when you get aggro.

Queensdale/Orr champ train or WvW zerg. Remember to bring your boosters. Can easily make more in an hour than what you previously got from the dailies.

It was changed early after the game’s launch because soft wood was piling up. Would probably be time to change it back, now.

While it doesn’t affect EoL drops, it does affect Crystalline Dust drops.

Bringing a shield to a dungeon is usually a waste. Against some bosses you could probably get nice spikes with reflective blocking, and it can save your butt in a pinch, but otherwise you will be sacrificing a lot of utility or DPS.

Mammoth.1975:

Tom Gore.4035:

Mammoth.1975:

OK the hammer is even more fun, but man is the adren slow on that thing, really gotta build with axes. Earthshaker>whirling axe>eviscerate is truly obnoxious.

I went all in rallybot spec 30/10/0/0/30 just relying on stances and stuns for defense and I am now hitting 18k with that 3button combo on the indestructible golem. 11k of which is aoe. Crazy fun on clocktower.

Hammer builds usually have Cleansing Ire from the defense tree and Burst Mastery from the discipline tree. No shortage of adrenaline.

That’s what I was using initially but I still found it really slow :-/ I guess it’s just compared to axe.

The problem with Axe in PvP is that the damage on the autoattack is so unevenly distributed. If you cannot hit with the 6th swing in the chain or it doesn’t crit your DPS is going to be really low. Not to mention it’s easy to kite.

Hammer is of course slower and easier to evade (and also much more susceptible to blind spam), but it has so much control that against “average” players you can beat them without losing much health at all.

Mammoth.1975:

OK the hammer is even more fun, but man is the adren slow on that thing, really gotta build with axes. Earthshaker>whirling axe>eviscerate is truly obnoxious.

I went all in rallybot spec 30/10/0/0/30 just relying on stances and stuns for defense and I am now hitting 18k with that 3button combo on the indestructible golem. 11k of which is aoe. Crazy fun on clocktower.

Hammer builds usually have Cleansing Ire from the defense tree and Burst Mastery from the discipline tree. No shortage of adrenaline.

Also, if you are talking less than 5 targets, your Axe autoattack hits harder than the Whirling Axe.

The reason is that people are again doing the world boss and temple events which give guaranteed rares → lot more ectoplasm entering the market.

covenn.7165:

24 exotics, black lion, 0 globs

That’s interesting. Were all those 24 exotics level 80?

galandor.1059:

I am a CPU noob and have 0 idea how to overclock, so I highly doubt I would ever do it, unless someone did it for me lol.

With the board you have chosen, there is a slider in the BIOS you can crank up to ~4.4Ghz and that’s it.

morrolan.9608:

You will be able to buy them but I would think the cost at least initially would be pretty high.

No, you won’t. Some of the materials are tradeable, but the weapons themselves are account bound on acquire.

There are already scythe skins for staves. For example:

http://dulfy.net/2012/11/13/gw2-staff-skin-gallery/#17

I smell a troll, or a forever alone -type.

SAB and the Playhouse are not comparable to the 5-man dungeons in difficulty. Not by a long shot. SAB and Playhouse are designed to be soloed, but allow you to bring a full party if you want to.

If you still don’t believe me, do this. Go into SAB and play it solo. After a while, go into a 5-man dungeon and try to solo it. I guarantee you will see the difference then.

Don’t forget crafting. It will give you some experience too.

Anyhow, as said above, don’t sweat over the gear you have. It will be “good enough” to level your character anyway.

If you are level 17 you should proceed onward from Queensdale anyway.

I managed to sell one ingot of Deldrimor steel for 15 gold after launch. I think it was nice profit.

Elbegast.6970:

Tom Gore.4035:

Obvious troll is obvious.

It’s not trolling. For crying out loud this release directs everyone into a 5 man dungeon. All of the achievements take place inside that 5 man dungeon. I don’t do 5 man dungeons. Where is the solo content in this release? Oh right, there isn’t any solo content in this release. So players like myself may as well not even log on for the next month.

I’m angry and I’m expressing my honest opinion. Since when did that become ‘trolling’?

Since the moment you were told SAB is totally soloable, as was the playhouse. Neither of them require any special builds or skills and the playhouse actually got harder and slower to clear in a group, most cases.

The fact you choose to ignore these advice tells me you’re trolling.

If you want to express your concerns of Arenanet flagging solo content as group content, there’s a whole different way of doing that than whining that there is no solo content, when there is.

bTomfoolery.2563:

The Mists are basically Valhalla. You’re an immortal warrior (while in the Mists anyways) fighting endlessly; reliving the most glorious battles the world ever knew because it’s awesome and you’re awesome.

I think the fact that you’re immortal outside the Mists too kind of dilutes the Valhalla aspect.

xTruegloryx.1603:

RedCobra, it is permanent but will still take a while to level, also, thank you for your answer Tom.

Tom, do you do this with a group or solo? and if with a group, I’m looking for a more solo solution for less downtime.

The dungeons are not soloable, so if you’re looking for a solo solution, at the moment I would level crafting to 450 and craft the daily deldrimor ingots and spiritwood planks. Those will give you a hefty profit and the materials are easily farmable. In addition, the price of Ancient Wood is through the roof currently. By harvesting the nodes from your home realm and two others (via guesting) you are looking at 3-4 gold profit per day for just 30 minutes of harvesting.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Can you throw them into the Mystic Toilet? If not, this should be a top priority to fix.

Rofl if you don’t see the holes in your plan then you are either extremely naive or new to the Internet.

AncientYs.8613:

i can also confirm i had 4/4 lost monthly champion slayer and down to 3/4 right now. GoodJob Anet =)

You’re actually one of the lucky ones, since you got your 10 laurels already and are going to get them again now.

Magnetron.5823:

Ahh ok pejot, because in my experience everytime there are larger fights inside these keeps/castles you really notice a big skill lag, but in open fields there is not very much skill lag.

That is because in the open field the players spread out more and thus there are less skills affecting less people. In congested areas such as keeps and towers everyone is packed on a very small area and the requirements for calculations rapidly explode out of hand.

We already got exoskeletons. They’re called siege golems.

Galen Grey.4709:

Khal Drogo.9631:

MikaHR.1978:

xephire.8324:

Gear wars 2 ,Farm wars 2 , Grindwars 2.All of those is what gw2 has become instead of actually having guild wars.A tittle that doesn’t even relate to their game in anyway….

I like Grind Wars 2 the best. Its most fitting

Even the grindosaurs are complaining about time gating and not about collection of the mats.

of course grindosaurs complain, they’re rather grind then deal with a time gate, but there isnt much grind here its just a time gate which obviously isnt their thing.

There is no time gate you cannot bypass with enough gold or grind.

Down the drain. ANet kittened and they have said they can’t fix it because they fear they will break it even worse.

There is no off-topic forum here, but currently playing Memoria when I don’t feel like GW2ing

Axes are useless in (t)PvP. Offhand axe is pretty useless in PvE too.

Longbow on the other hand is ok but mostly used in condition builds in conjunction with dual swords.

It’s because the Risen never let you take the temples without a fight.

Reborn.2934:

citizankane.5723:

http://dulfy.net/2013/09/03/gw2-super-adventure-box-back-to-school-coverage-guide/

10 for inscription 10 for blade and hilt

thank you that posted this image . this proves my words .

right now to craft the new weapons the pile of crystalline dust is the only material ( until now , if devs changed i dont know ) thakittens drop is not standard and really rare .

source : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Crystalline_Dust

all other materials someone can gathering or farm them ….

Play world boss events, salvage guaranteed rares, salvage ectos. BOOM crystalline dust farmed.

You’re welcome.

NeHoMaR.9812:

Tom Gore.4035:

NeHoMaR.9812:

Tom Gore.4035:

Then stop doing the champ train?

What champ train? I just play WvW. Are you trolling? because I don’t see where you want to go with your comments. I don’t play PvE.

Then you don’t really have any need for the dust anyway nor did you need the karma that it replaced in the loot tables. Just delete it and carry on? I don’t get what the fuss is all about?

I’m not sure if you are getting the point. In some days everybody will be massively deleting this bloodstone dust of inventory, it will stop to be “the new thing” to become “the annoying thing”, I am just anticipating the future.

Everything you salvage should be sell-able in some way, trading post, merchant, if you are not interested in using the item directly in crafting, mystic forge, etc. This helps everyone in the game and build an economy.

I’m actually surprised that most of the stuff for Ascended Weapons is tradeable. The Vision Crystal and its components are the only things that are not.

But yeah, there would be no harm making them vendorable, for whatever low price they see suitable.

The same could be said about most renown trophies too, though.

Pifil.5193:

Gabby.3205:

When it exploded, I was doing some late Personal Story. Luckily, Trahearne was there to rescue me. Wait…

This won’t end well.

Unless you hurry to Chlore Island!

Dungeons are still the best way of making gold, albeit you can only spend some 4-5 hours to clear all the worthwhile paths per day.

NeHoMaR.9812:

Tom Gore.4035:

Then stop doing the champ train?

What champ train? I just play WvW. Are you trolling? because I don’t see where you want to go with your comments. I don’t play PvE.

Then you don’t really have any need for the dust anyway nor did you need the karma that it replaced in the loot tables. Just delete it and carry on? I don’t get what the fuss is all about?

Khal Drogo.9631:

BS. With the possible exception of Infinite Light, all other exotics are cheaper and much faster to craft – even Volcanus. And a lot of this has to do with the fact that 90% of mats can be bought with gold ie you can trade what you don’t want for something that you want.

Mjölnir says hi.

There is actually many MF recipes that are far more expensive than crafting Ascended WILL be, once the price of the mats goes down a bit.

Moreover, practically all components of an Ascended weapon are easily farmable. Good luck farming Lodestones and T6 mats, which the most expensive MF recipes require in hundreds.

Ranged DPS is always less than melee DPS in GW2, at least if you don’t account uptime on moving targets (such as other players in PvP).

That said, Elementalist, Engineer or Ranger are your best bets for RDPS.

Daelin.6782:

Greatswords are Arenanet’s favoured weapons at the moment. :P

I’m seeing a lot of hammers recently, mostly warriors tho.

Then stop doing the champ train?

Don’t throw your money into the toilet. You will just ragequit if you don’t get the precursor and it’s more likely than not that you will not get one.

Yeah I didn’t even think about it. Luckily I only had some 4+ hours left on the booster.

You can test it yourself by opening the Hero window. Your total Magic Find is listed in your stats on the right.

It’s because people want to finish the game and move to the next, and ANet is making it slower for them