I don’t think you will see it on every corner, the materials and commitment required are no joke. The precursor is only about 25% of the whole.
I use a mix and match set. I’ll post it when I get back.
It’s the BLC chest and legs, masterpiece helm and boots, exotic gloves and dungeon shoulders.
I think.
To prevent farming, they can make them soul bound on receiving them.
The current precursor market will crash.
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When did they add this? I know it’s a feature that a lot of people wanted in the game. Talk about a stealth addition to the trade post, you’d think there would have been an announcement or something. At work atm, so I can’t confirm this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JEHKtUBq9As
I love my Guadrian. I’m slow and suck at range, but I keep lumbering along.
Oh and I’m not good with fire or poison.
I now only play about 2~4 hours during the week, just got up to a 100 gold. I’m already about 500 hours in. I’ve given up on the precursor for now and have started getting everything else first. The legendary weapon will take a lot of time and money to make. The 250 ecto, 100 lodestone and 100 Icy Runestones are going to be very costly. Of the T6 mats I have 4 at 250. Farming blood for 1 hour a day gives me about 2 to 4, so yeah it’s going to take time. Also working on clovers, I’ve gotten 66 clovers so far, so that’s almost done. Made the gift of metal yesterday, so that’s done. Seeing as I have 0 skill points atm getting 200 SP for the Bloodstone Shard is going to take a while. The same with 250 Obsidian Shards. Also need another 280 WvW badges.
So yeah, next year I’ll have it. If I get my hands on a precursor or else it will be another 200~300 gold farm. Lost a lot of money trying to gamble at the forge for it, won’t do that again.
They have an economist, he’s called John Smith. Haven’t heard much from him recently though.
Here are some numbers, make of them what you will. Salvaged using mystic kits. Salvaged over a period of 8 hours.
batch 1: 50 lv 80 rares = 50 ecto’s
batch 2: 50 lv 80 rares = 49 ecto’s
batch 3: 50 lv 80 rares = 41 ecto’s
batch 4: 50 lv 80 rares = 38 ecto’s
DR much? Logging out and going to bed apparently doesn’t reset DR .
IMO It is better to sell your rares than to salvage them. This won’t help the price of ecto’s, but you’ll loss money if you salvage them every time, unless the price for an ecto goes up to 30~40 s. Even without the DR you’ll lose money if you salvage them. I crafted and salvage the rares, using buy orders for mats, sold at a few (10~50)copper above best sell price (I waited) and I still lost about 1.5 gold in the process. Not very rewarding for all the work.
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Nice.
Going to try it out, beware of zerg.
I still have a lot of transmutation stones left from the Halloween debacle. (40~50)
If the karma or xp boosts go on sale I’ll buy a couple.
Will never again buy keys though, never.
It’s mass effect 3 all over again.
At least that’s the feeling that I’m getting. Corporation pushing the Studio to do things.
You should also add a RNG element to it.
RNG = Rage Now Generator.
I won’t be buying any chests or anything with RNG. Halloween was a good teacher.
What next, precursors in chests? Oh wait. Just put them in special black lion chests. I’m sure people will gamble to get a 50g~150g profit.
I was going to post something insightful and got a error. They are already among us.
288 skill points? ouch
eep. I should not have made so many mystic forge weapons.
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We kill everything. Elder dragons? Pah… we’ll kill each and everyone of them.
With no elder dragons left we will war amongst ourselves and the Quaggan will inherit Tyria.
Dear Anet,
I’d like to share my experience of the 3 events this past weekend. I’ll make it short. Event 1 and 2 were not so good. Event 1 had issues with backend server lag, event 2 had issues with the Karka that kept resetting. So Sunday I was playing the new Fractals which is fun and I got the email for event 3. Seeing my experience with event 1 and 2, I didn’t bother going to event 3. It was only after I got back to Lion’s Arch that I heard people were getting fantastic drops and yet they also had a terrible experience due to invisible mobs/lags and all the trouble that comes with overloaded servers. I felt kinda bummed out that I missed such an opportunity, I was only thinking about the loot.
Luck would have it that through the forums some overflow instances were found where the event was still up, this was at 7 PST. We started out small, only 10 of use, rezing the demo squad, as we started running through the event more people joined us and it was fantastic to see our numbers slowly build up, all the while turning up the heat on the Karka. Great cooperation between player, you could always count on a friendly rez. Every rez counted because we didn’t have the numbers and everybody knew this. But slowly our numbers grew. We even had two commanders on which kinda added to the RPG Epicness. We were almost going to wipe on the second set of reinforcement, too many loses, until a group of industrious players cleared a waypoint and we came back full force. A very exhilarating moment. Near the end were starting to get culling issues, but that was on the final push to bomb the Ancient Karka. The ending cinematic came and we had won the day.
In the end I didn’t get a precursor as loot, I did get the 20 slot bag and earring, it was a great end to the event. What I can say is that the event itself was great when done with the appropriate amount of people and server resources available. It was actually nothing short of amazing, staring with a very small group and ending with a full horde. I wasn’t easy but we made it, it took us 2 hours. I went to be bed very stratified.
To the dev, you did a good job, I really saw what you tried to create. A+. I’m sure the event was like this when you play tested it. No lag, no invisible mobs, Epic. But you really need to work out load vs performance better. You are clearly capable of making epic events but the sheer amount of people doing them seem to kill the experience every time. Having experienced this event off peak was what made it Epic, had I been there at 12pm I would probably have hated it.
I know it must be hard, having to put in all that time and effort, only to receive negative feedback duo to hardware resource problems. Take what you can from this event, learn and get better.
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Epic fail event
I was there for pre-lauch, I was there for Halloween, I won’t be on for this one.
I’ll be taking a nap.
LOL, chests again?
I guess they made a lot op money form keys on Halloween.
Data points don’t represent reality Anet. I will never buy keys again. :p
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Precursor formulas are being released within the month. Keep an eye out.
If this is true I’ll come back to the game.
(yes, I check the forums even if I’m not playing anymore, same with The Secret World and bioware social)
With all else going on I do have to say that this is an interesting development. I’m very interested to see how this plays out.
I’m not going for dungeon armor because it doesn’t look good. I’ll only comment on getting a Legendary.
Yes it is a grind and you need to farm all your stuff. I don’t have a problem with that. I can make about 5 gold every night, 10 if I’m lucky. What is killing the game for me is that I farm for a week, make about 60G which is then reduced to 0G by the mystic forge, all that work for nothing. I’m so devastated by that loss that I usually end up buying gold. I have a full time job so I have money to spend.
hmm. I just checked the confirmation emails and I’ve already bought about $210,- worth of gems since launch, that crept up on me. Lifetime sub? You know what, I’m giving up on the Legendary. After I’m done with the jumping puzzles and exploration, I’m quieting the game. My stuff will be donated to my guild, the 8 out of 179 that are still on will be happy.
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You know, I wonder if they factor in the amount of exotics or precursors there are in the world when you are gambling at the forge. This would insure that the swords stay rare. Dynamic odds.
BTW I’ve gotten the following named GS exotics, some multiple time. Ebonblade, Dhuumseal, Kymswarden, Skybringer, Naegling, Naga Fang, Breath of Flame, Khrysaor(my memory is fuzzy about this one). Only a matter of time until Dawn/Dusk?
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previously state: 550 great swords rare crafted and gambled.
Attempt 6 100 swords crafted, 0 precursor, 7 exotics sold for 15G
Attempt 7 100 swords crafted, 0 precursor, 5 exotics sold for 11G
Total swords crafted 750 (getting sick of this)
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26 exotics lvl 78+ nothing.
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My compliments to SBI. I’m a causal WvWer and was surprised I was able to get into BG BL yesterday, fought until my time was up (3-4 hours daily) and got a good amount of badges too. I don’t know how my fellow BG comrades will react but from what I’ve seen on BG BL, SBI is winning on skill and organization.
Tower Guard from Black Gate from day 1.
Hey Snow, I know how you feel. I’ve been trying this for some time now. After creating 550 weapons and just losing all my gold at the forge, I’m becoming very depressed with this whole affair. De prospect of going out and hunting down a massive amount of undead to get back up to where I was is very disheartening. All my previous time and effort was just a waste.
Every time I lift my staff there is a nagging voice in the back of my head going “why do you even bother?”.
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To me, it sounds a lot like the voice of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises.
this
The more you hype it up, the more you’ll be disappointed.
Just take it as it comes.
Made another 100 GS rare yesterday and no precursor. I did get 5 exotics, 3 of which were named. Currently using the ebonblade, the rest didn’t look that good.
That’s about 165 attempts currently. I’m down to 20 g, so I’ll give up for the moment.
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Thanks you all for the input. I’ll be doing the upgrade soon.
I need to upgrade a total of 4 Window 7 PC/laptops.
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So today I decided to give it a go.
Crafted 400 (GS) rares and used every one, also the rares and exotics I got out of the 400, so i don’t know exactly how many attempts. No Dusk/Dawn. Got about 18 exotics out of the 400 crafted rares.
Sad face. :/
Edit: I only wish that they put in a some max failed attempts trigger, if after 1000 attempts you don’t get it you get it on attempt 1001.
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As of October 26 Microsoft has launched windows 8, I’d like to upgrade to it.
Will Guild Wars 2 still work after the upgrade or will I have to re-download everything?
Human Guardian, 3 times, no boost.
I did this on a human guardian, it took over 2 hours and almost a hundred tries. I have no complaints about it. It was very fun, especially talking with the other players that had a hard time doing it. Poking fun at the Norns and Charr was also fun.
After I completed it once, I finished it again 2 more times. Don’t give up and keep at it.
I really like this little Char, so cute. They should make a pick up and hug animation.
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After sleeping on it and thinking it over, this incident really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. For me personally I gambled and lost, I don’t need any items in return, I also don’t need money back. Personal responsibility and all that. No skins, theme items, no trading them in the Mystic Forge for items/tokens, Anet can keep their stuff. I accepted the fact that my image of Anet and this event was wrong and that.. well that hurt.
Let’s hope for the best until Christmas, but mystery presents will really be a bad idea.
This is what I got for that $50,- hope I can trade it for something useful.
I don’t know if this will repair the trust I’ve had in Anet, but I’ve already sold the rest of my 129 black lion chests on the TP so I don’t buy more keys.
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Bought $50 + 9 gold worth of gems to buy keys and got nothing.
I will never buy gems again, I’ve learned my lesson.
Blackgate here, guys why don’t we give them a couple of maps and orbs so we can take it back later? This match is just boring.
I wish it was like this in the lv 80 area, the zerg up there is just horrendous.
Exploring and finding unexpected things.
Finding Eirs house.
Cow cannon.
Lions arch “crazy ghost captains cave of fun”.
But what tops it all was finding Killeens grave, unexpected and unforgettable.
I will try change my audio settings to lower settings.
I always get this at big battles.
350+ hours for $60, compared to 10 ~ 30 hours of every other single player game.
Yes it has been worth it.
30 and meh it’s alright.
As for extra weapons, I’d really like to see a Spear (lance/javelin) that you can use on land. Javelin and Shield combo would be a great look.
Other weapons I can think of.
Halberd, pick axe, flail, whip, crossbow, fan, mirror, wand, throwing knifes, brass knuckles.
Heck even a rapier (as a two handed weapon) would be cool. Free off hand.
Congratulations , that is sure to have taken a lot of work.
Or there should be an option to hide it.