Guild Wars 2

Just play the game. The Karma will be piling up on you slowly but steadily. Those events are literally everywhere.

Because you can’t. Either level to 450 and refine or trash them.

Heh. Well no biggies. Anyone actually playing more than one aspect of the game will get the achievement done and eventually everyone will again have more laurels than they need.

When you say footballs do you mean the american one or the soccer one?

Woljnir.7810:

So I’ll probably try to get higher since I’m only at 25%. I might try to get 50-60, but then I’ll probably just go back to selling. The silver for greens did start to add up.

Well it’s practically a question of short-term investment vs. long-term investment.

It’s a known issue and they are working on it.

I would say yes. They were already up at 24c apiece before the patch. They still drop from enemies, but the supply is severely cut down now. The vendor price is 13c per piece so it can’t go any lower than what it is currently (sell price 15c, lowest buy price 14c).

Stratigo.1976:

Tom Gore.4035:

Stratigo.1976:

Tom Gore.4035:

You don’t need anywhere near 1000g to level your crafting to 500.

Just save those mats and level your crafting at the pace you can afford it. Don’t sweat. Each ascended weapon will require 500 of each of those dust and fragments (and dragonite ore) so it will be good to start stocking them early.

If you want to make some money in the meantime, level your crafting to 450, craft your daily Deldrimor Steel Ingot and Spiritwood Plank and sell them in the TP for some nice profit.

It just costs 200 gold instead.

Or you can just take your time and sell Ancient Wood logs fo 12-15s apiece while the rush lasts. 36-75s per node is not bad.

Look. I don’t play that terribly often. When I play I prefer to do WvW. I don’t want to be forced to grind out content for materials. It makes me hate that content. They have introduced a very serious grind to get ascended weapons, and I can’t imagine this will be any better a grind for ascended armor.

I don’t make much money in game. A good WvW night I might make 1 gold for 2 hours. I made more gold running invasions for 40 minutes then I did doing WvW for a week. Which means, for me to realistically get ascended stuff I either cut out WvW and Roleplaying with my limited time to grind PvE, or I just never get it. But then I am locked out of the highest teir of weapons, which is something I thought was against the game philosophy.

I do not play this game to grind. I hate grinding. I’ll run content two or three times to see it and enjoy it. But after that, it starts to become dull. One of the reasons I picked up GW2 was a perceived stance of anti grind. And there was. Exotics were not hard to get. But now this ascended stuff is coming out and suddenly we are back into the same archetypes all MMOs have, and if I liked that sort of thing I’d play WoW.

Well then you’re just out of luck, I guess. The “there is no grind in GW2” flew out of the window already with Ascended trinkets. Wait until the ascended armor comes and the real grind begins.

Yep. I always cringe when I see warriors dropping banners of discipline at the Golem, etc.

Stratigo.1976:

Tom Gore.4035:

You don’t need anywhere near 1000g to level your crafting to 500.

Just save those mats and level your crafting at the pace you can afford it. Don’t sweat. Each ascended weapon will require 500 of each of those dust and fragments (and dragonite ore) so it will be good to start stocking them early.

If you want to make some money in the meantime, level your crafting to 450, craft your daily Deldrimor Steel Ingot and Spiritwood Plank and sell them in the TP for some nice profit.

It just costs 200 gold instead.

Or you can just take your time and sell Ancient Wood logs fo 12-15s apiece while the rush lasts. 36-75s per node is not bad.

Dzent.2750:

with 7 stacks i would almost be lvl 500 in weaponsmithing.

No you wouldn’t, since refining the dust only takes you to about 470. The rest you have to discover/craft exotics. Better have a nice stack or ori/wood and T6 fine mats.

You don’t need anywhere near 1000g to level your crafting to 500.

Just save those mats and level your crafting at the pace you can afford it. Don’t sweat. Each ascended weapon will require 500 of each of those dust and fragments (and dragonite ore) so it will be good to start stocking them early.

If you want to make some money in the meantime, level your crafting to 450, craft your daily Deldrimor Steel Ingot and Spiritwood Plank and sell them in the TP for some nice profit.

You will get a white back item if you buy any back item skin from the gem store.

You can sell the deldrimor steel ingots, spiritwood planks and the deldrimor steel plated dowels. You can also sell the ascended inscriptions.

I.e. you need to level crafting if you want to sell them.

Well for wood and metal, the ascended recipes will take care of excess mats pretty well.

Seigfried.5938:

Tom Gore.4035:

Seigfried.5938:

I have an off topic question. Are the new maps going to be introduced today?

No. And it looks like they’re not coming in the next update either.

Thanks

Actually now that I looked again at the Anniversary Bash coverage, Devon says that borderlands bloodlust IS actually coming in the 17th of Sep patch… Here’s hoping

Zeldain.5710:

Tom Gore.4035:

Zeldain.5710:

3) There’s a difference between revenues and profits… by all accounts they are not yet profitable.

Which accounts are those?

NCsoft financial reports, as they do not break out profitability by game, only sales revenue.

Do we think GW2 cost just $40m to make or something? Including all development costs, infrastructure capital (and ongoing), support and marketing?

No. Where did you pull that 40 million? The sales for GW2 from launch are around 200 million USD (230B korean), which after taking out the post-launch salaries, box making costs (considering at least 50% would be digital copies), infrastructure (dirt cheap today, btw) and marketing should leave a lot more than 40m under the black line.

In fact, the only indicator we have is that they seem to have about 35% profit margin after everything, which would indicate GW2 has made them around 80B korean so far IF we would ignore the fact they have development costs for games that are not bringing any profit yet. So the real net profit from GW2 is probably more than 80B so far.

Now if that’s enough to cover the development costs or not, we will probably never know.

Zeldain.5710:

3) There’s a difference between revenues and profits… by all accounts they are not yet profitable.

Which accounts are those?

Considering we have insane lag already in WvW, no thanks.

The engine would have to be redesigned for this from scratch.

This simply is not the game you’re looking for.

Actually if you end up in melee range with the Ranger you should try to disengage ASAP.

Otherwise you’re dead pretty quickly.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Daendur.2357:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

People will need to kill something like 200 world bosses in order to get an ascended weapon

woot! they told you something via PM ?

No they told us via livestream a couple days ago… you can check out

http://dulfy.net/2013/08/30/gw2-account-magic-find-ascended-crafting-and-legendary-weapons-revamp-preview/

for the details. You will actually need 500 dragonite ore per weapon, not 200 like I thought. I must have mis-remembered. Of course that is assuming the chance is 100% per boss. Based on how much they like to make us grind this may not be the case.

Or, for all we know, each event could drop 10 ore.

Point is, WE DON’T KNOW what the droprate is.

And neither do you.

Avalon.6418:

Actually I want to confirm this, if everyone in the defence has the “Melee Attack Assist” on, will the enemy be able to pass through them?

Yes. But if all in the offence has it checked and they each target the defender they’re about to pass they can’t get through.

So in all fairness we should all switch that on and always target the people in front of us. Sort of voluntary body block just because it’s fair, right?

It’s the same for all top tier consumables except food.

Demon of the Light.7961:

Tom Gore.4035:

I used to believe that when I played UO on the Europa server.

Nowadays, they could just aswell remove the RPG from the end.

It really depends on the game and the community:
It is true, back in Ultima Online there were a lot of roleplayers and lore was important, now it is just something “more” around the core of the game, but it is still important to someone…
It simply changed the “importance” since (seems like) the majority of the players is not interested in it, but as long there are players which pays attention to it there should be lore to explain every bit of the game.

You’re right about that. I guess we roleplayers are in the great minority. Nothing else can explain the fact we don’t really have any tools in the game to help us visualize our roleplaying.

It actually seems the western developers are not doing anything to change that either. The only games coming (or being) out that have any RP tools are the eastern ones, such as Age of Wushu, FFXIV and ArcheAge.

Meanwhile I’ll enjoy my invisible drink in GW2 while standing up and not even moving my hands.

You’re so gonna get eaten alive.

Yeah I think she only surrendered after the fight, actually. Don’t remember.

Demon of the Light.7961:

MMORPG are all about lore and backstory since, well, they are role playing game…

I used to believe that when I played UO on the Europa server.

Nowadays, they could just aswell remove the RPG from the end.

That’s because I killed her in Breaking the Blade.

Can’t help you as I’m swapping between 5-6 weapon sets on my warrior by mood. At any given time I’m carrying at least one of each mainhander, a shield, warhorn, greatsword, hammer, longbow and rifle.

I have tried. Apart from the nifty twisted clockwork destroy mechanism there isn’t anything fun about annihilating a bunch of mobs with uninteresting and trivially easy mechanics.

I haven’t tried killing Aetherblades with a small group because… well you know.

So you took the absolutely worst example of what’s available in the Gem Store to “prove” your point?

I consider the price of Gems to be alright. It takes me about 40 minutes of RL work (or writing messages like this) to get 800 gems (after taxes), which can buy me a nice set of armor skins. Compare to grinding around 35 gold which I doubt anyone will be doing in 40 minutes of playing the game.

I’m not sure if the invasions could be done in a fun way even if there was no lucrative rewards…

I mean they’re just bunches of mobs randomly spawning in the world and then you kill them all. How exciting!

Epervier.4217:

testing:
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I don’t see a problem.

I stand corrected. It only works when doing F and then King

kitteng

Kjeldoran.3849:

cpg.7140:

It’s supposed to be based on how many people are buying and selling the gems. Now since it’s not a direct post-and-buy system like the trading post you have to take their word for it that that’s how it works, and it would be sensible for them to give it a shove here and there. But for the most part it certainly seems like it’s based on demand and such. And in that case it’s unlikely to change; the exchange rate probably isn’t high enough for it to be worth buying gems just to covert into gold, at least not for most players. So as long as the gem shop has things people want (and they roll out new stuff often enough that that’ll probably be the case for a long time) the exchange rate should keep climbing.

ok that sounds interesting but… if you are right, why during this period gem’s price has grown up so much? this mean that no one is buying gems with real money but golds… really? this sounds legit but… if this will continue ò.ò in two months gem’s price would be like 1gold per gem!

Personally I’m waiting until I can buy 10 gold with 1 EUR (80 gems).

Some Norns are taller than others…

(continue if you catch the reference)

On topic, great idea and should definitely be at least carryable. I’d love to see banners turned into offhand weapons so we could retain some fighting capability too.

Woljnir.7810:

Tom Gore.4035:

Woljnir.7810:

I’ve made more gold the past 2 weeks than I’ve ever made in my life. Grinding wasn’t exactly fun, but I enjoyed the event.

Listen to yourself? It wasn’t fun buy you enjoyed it?

Don’t you mean that you enjoyed the loot despite of the fact that getting it wasn’t fun?

That’s a really dangerous road we’re being lead into.

No, I enjoyed the event overall, not just the invasions. The playhouse, the pavilion, all of it. Overall it was fun. When it got grindy I stopped playing it. Did 1-2 invasions a day and still got lots of treasure.

Well now you are making more sense, but it also tells me you didn’t really make much gold before the invasions and you’re still not swimming in it.

Well looks like they are learning, though. They’ve made the new Scarlet’s playhouse to scale from solo to 5 man groups. It’s too easy to solo, though. But it gives hope that ANet will in future make story-related “dungeons” soloable.

Never beat Liadri either. Though I only tried it like 20 times before giving up. Would have probably tried more but I grew tired of watching my Norn’s huge back all the time.

Mesket.5728:

Clindberg.5683:

This is all great and all, as long as they remember to implement thakittens not only damage ON tequatl that will give contribution! Because if that is still the case, nobody will be using the turrets to cleanse and heal the area, and nobody will be defending the turrets. I remember on Claw of Jormag, I ran and ressed, escorted golems but actually didnt get much damage in on him because I was assisting downed people. Ended up not even getting contribution. This is a demotivating factor that leads to people just being selfish. Please make sure this event does not make the same mistake!

It will still be the same. The game engine doesn’t have a “contribution” measurement mechanic. Only damage applies.

Is that why you get the achi/rewards for Invasion events for Akitteng the whole event and not touching a single enemy in the zone?

They could get rid of a lot more confirmations too:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Hey-Anet-Buying-stacks/first#post2517181

Why would you play the same build in WvW and sPvP anyway?

Oxygen.5918:

sPvP/WvW (so half the game).

Half the game based on what? Players in those parts of the game? Player hours spent in those parts of the game? Content updates?

Don’t get me wrong I would love PvP to be half of the game, but currently we’re lucky if it’s 20%.

It has been stated that Celestial will lose MF and it will not be replaced with anything.

So it seems. So currently it looks like this:

Crafting Level 1-100

1% of the character level

Crafting Level 101-200

2% of the character level

Crafting Level 201-300

3% of the character level

Crafting Level 301-400

4% of the character level

So logically it would be 5% of the character level, which means 5 levels for 401-500.

JakHammer.7094:

(ROFL WHY is that number being censored Four-thousand Five-hundred Fifty)

Because you spelled the nasty version of “butt” in l33tsp33k.

Ihales.3820:

One amulet -> double click to choose whatever combination you want. Choose main attribute and the others. For example you have something like 5 points on amulet: 2 to Power, 1 precision, 1 critical damage, 1 vitality = berserker amulet.

Now this I could understand.

What good would that do? You can already “mix stats” by choosing the trinket/jewel.

Of course I’m all for it for including these new stat combos into sPvP trinkets and jewels, but beyond that I really don’t see any reason to put stats into each and every piece of gear.

lordkrall.7241:

Well…. it would be important to stop the enemy server from getting said Ascended materials in order to stop them from getting Ascended Weapons, right?
So technically there is MORE reason to defend stuff now.

Yeah that works so well. Like stopping your enemy from getting badges and siege in OS?

People want shinies and don’t mind if others get them too, as long as they get theirs.

More power to the zerg train capping undefended objectives.

I wonder how long before the trains just hail each other in the field when crossing paths and continue to the next capture.

Why would the Mad King repeat his entrance this year? That would be utterly boring and totally not his style.

Personally I hope he will spawn in another city this time. LA has had enough time in the spotlight already. DR just did and Rata Sum is coming now. So it’s either Grove, Hoelbrak or Black Citadel.

sPvP armor does not have stats. What do you mean?