Guild Wars 2

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Salvage MF gear will yield a MF kit as per the new system. Number of kits based on rarity of item.

Runes can be exchanged at a vendor for more kits.

MF stat removed from that gear on patch day so you can’t stack and armor is inferior but still useable.

/done

Not quite. MF kits will not be free, armor MF that you already have will still be free to equip. So unless you actually nip the MF out of the armor itself, some people will still be running MF in dungeon(because it is free) if they dont have kits, and be still a liability to the team.

Neural.1824:

Turtle Dragon.9241:

snipped for brevity

Are you trolling? 24 hours? Just kittening nuke the stat with no exchange at all then.
Not everyone pulled a credit card to just buy their MF exotic gear, and they certainly didn’t intend to just wear it for 24hours.

Anybody could be grabbing MF boosts from blue rarity gear. The point is to remove MF from the gear and give you regular(stats-useful) gear so you are not a liability to dungeon teams anymore, without forcing you to farm said gear all over again.

The point isnt to give you permanent MF that you had on your gear + free regular gear as exchange. That would be awfully broken because everyone would just grab every piece of blue explorer gear and exchange permanent MF until they reach over 1000% and have it forever.

Step1: Allow any MF item to be exchanged for any other stats, same skin.
Step2: Remove +% MF effect only from every piece of gear, that way people who are still hoarding them are forced to get rid of them(otherwise they have gear with only power, precision and fail). If you do not remove these stats from the items, people will just keep the MF gear and spam new MF boosts on top of their current MF gear(human greed) which they will keep forever.
Step3: For all pieces of MF gear exchanged, you receive a +1% MF account bound bonus that lasts 24hours, bonus stacks up to 100%. Yes you may grab a piece of blue gear that has MF on it and trade it in to get +1% MF bonus for a day. At some point, all MF items on TP will be completely gone due to people buying it and stacking it for 100% MF a day. Meanwhile, since no new MF gear is being generated, at some point demand > supply and will make even blue MF gear too expensive to buy from TP. Given that the MF on the gear has been rendered useless from the above steps, MF is gone from every piece of gear in the game.
Step4: Disable or modify to not include MF any recipe of any items that will make Explorer’s or Opal in it.

So as examples:
Explorer’s Exalted Armor(Exotic) <=> Berzerker’s Exalted Armor(Exotic)
obtains +1% MF boost for 24 hours for trading.

Explorer’s Winged Tunic(Fine) <=> Giver’s Winged Tunic(Fine)
obtains +1% MF boost for 24 hours for trading.

Triforge Pendant(Ascended) <=> Triforge Pendant(Ascended) (new Celestial stats)
obtains +1% MF boost for 24 hours for trading.

The End…of Magic Find

Tired of not finding a group?
Tired of being kicked out of teams when you did all the effort?
Tired of some instance maker denying you your reward by leaving suddenly?

Fear not. There is a solution.
All that needs to happen is the following system to be implemented:
The HENCHMEN
Mhenlo is back with Word of Healing!
In the open world, you may add Mhenlo and friends to your party. Henchmen never show up in the open world(just like adding someone to your party who is not in the same map).
As soon as you enter a dungeon, henchmen all spawn and have specific professions/weapons/skills/runes/sigils/etc.
Henchmen are all AI controlled, no more stupidity from other players that will ruin your run, you know how smart the AI is, you know what to expect.
If you leave the instance, Mhenlo and friends go back home and the instance is gone.
If you disconnect from the instance, you may reconnect within 5minutes(to prevent abusers) and Mhenlo will still be smiting the dead out of those ascalonian ghosts while awaiting your return. Mhenlo needs your help though, so reconnect quick!
Cutscenes will not trigger unless you are within the instance. Mhenlo will wait patiently and let you do the talking, just like he did two and a half centuries ago.

Henchmen is possible to implement in this way, much better than a lot of “zerk or gtfo” players and much more reliable than “i got my reward and since i made the instance i leave before you get your reward dont waste my time waiting for you kthxbai” players.

Solution 2: You make the instance or dont go.

darkace.8925:

I’ve dropped into Queensdale twice in the past couple of days to charge some quartz crystals, and I’ve been disappointed by what I’ve seen. A zerg of players have been running a circuit of champions for exp/karma/loot/monthly achievements/whatever. That they’ve turned my favorite zone into an mindless assembly-line grind isn’t what bothers me, it’s how they’re treating other players who don’t know or don’t care to follow their champion-killing routine.

Both times I stopped in I saw members of the zerg shouting down, brow-beating, and being needlessly rude to those who did anything to interrupt their circuit. They’re acting as if they own the zone and anyone who doesn’t follow their rules isn’t welcome. It’s not something I expected from what has generally been a very friendly and helpful community.

Hopefully what I’ve seen has been an anomaly. If not…well, unfortunately there’s not much I can do about it other than voice my displeasure in-game and here on the forums.

What server are you on? 2 people can solo champs before their zerg can even get in line of sight.

Boreale.3129:

MadDemon.7548:

Well, now I know not to spend any achievement points on them.

Ah well, at least the Greatsword skin looks awesome…

That isn’t how it works, you just unlock them after a certain amount and you get to use the skins an unlimited time.

As for them just “adding on dyes” it’s not as simple as that, if it was we would have dyeable weapons.

You can dye CoF armor, the FULL armor can be dyed except for the burning flame animation(orange flames). What we are asking for is not dying the particle effects on Radiant/Hellfire armor, we want the surrounding parts(the metal inner gloves of Radiant Vambraces, not the shiny light outer part) to be dyeable.

Additionally, GW2 uses the same engine as GW1, and Chaos Gloves, Chaos Axe and Envoy Axe had 100% dyeable particle effects, and they were made solely of particle effects and nothing else(when you “sit” in water in GW1, your hands/axe disappears completely).

Surbrus.6942:

Again its all up to tastes. Some people such as yourself like the crazy oversized anime weapons, some don’t. I’ll take the non-anime weapon skins any day over those things that don’t even look like weapons.

Do you play Guardian or Warrior?
As a guardian, your hammer already spits symbols, rings, sparks and chains of light, realistic hammers dont really do unrealistic things like that. As a warrior, realistic hammers fit in well.

Astraea.6075:

Taste is always subjective, but I’ve already replaced my guardian’s Krytan hammer skin with the new Zenith skin, so I’m not displeased with the new skin (and it really works well with #2 skill). That said, more skin variety (including bigger hammers) is a good thing to help cover as many different tastes as possible.

^This. 100% Agree. People have different(sometimes weird) tastes.

This is the poptart cat(a.k.a Nyan cat):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4

I want a Hammer that is the poptart cat on a stick, and when you swing it it leaves a trail of rainbows. If there are issues with copyright, make it a poptart turtle on a stick.

I am still angry at the designers for not having a profession that can wield both The Bifrost and The Dreamer.

Siege is not account bound anymore. Siege can even be mailed now.

Bug: Siege still cannot be placed in Guild Bank
Siege should be placeable in Guild Bank as many guild members would like to make a stash of siege and share/use as required.

Make Radiant Armor dyable.

With the correct color, anything can look light/medium/heavy. The reason you are so focused on it being for heavies-only is because the default color of the non-glowy parts is metallic.

If you change that to something like abyss or purple, then you will see the equipment fits better. Unfortunately Arenanet is releasing content every 2 weeks now, so they dont have time to implement things like that(such as dyable armor) anymore.

When previewing Radiant Armor and Dyes at the same time, it does not seem like dyes have any effect on the Radiant Armor pieces.

Please make Radiant Armor dyable.
(at least the metallic part of the armor should be dyable, if not also allowing us to change the color of the glowing parts)

My Female character is not as tall as a Male character. Sexism.
My Male character cannot wear a skirt. Sexism.
My Asura character is not as tall as a Norn character. Racism.
My Norn character’s ears are not as long as my Asura character’s ears. Racism again.
My Sylvari character cannot have the same color skin as my Human. Racism…again.
My Human character’s skin cannot be blue. Too much Racism in this game.
My Asura character can have a bigger afro than my Human character. Serious Racism.
All my Human characters had the option between killing their parents, their sister or join a circus…that’s an awful lot of choices about not having a (assumed)dead family member. Communists forcing us to join a circus or killing a family member.
Kill the cute dolyaks carrying supplies for the other teams. PETA on their way.
Thousands of virtual bunnies die everytime there is Daily Ambient Killer. PETA already at your doors with pitchfork and torch.

Enough. Make your character the way you want within what the sliders permit and stop comparing your character to the choices of other people’s characters. The developers designed the game on what they think(opinion!) looks good, rather than giving us every option to make a Human look like Manbearpig. Disagree with their opinion? Leave, kthxbai.

Stop comparing this to reality as well, or the next time you inflict bleed on my character, i’ll press charges against you for assault.

This is just a game.

Karizee.8076:

Relax

The really cool thing about GW2 is that you don’t have to finish all the content to “progress”. No pressure, no guilt – just do what you enjoy doing, go for the stuff you want, play what you want to play and have fun

Disagree.

New Content comes out.
Choice between World Completion and New Content.

If I dont do the New Content, I miss out on skins that will be gone forever, weapons/armors/accessories with stats that I will have to pay a fortune(see Sentinel’s 26g apiece and rising or Scythe Staff skin) to get later if I do not do it now, and most importantly, I miss out on the content itself because it will be gone.

If I do the Content, then I dont have time to do World Completion.

So,
1. Extremely Pressured to do the New Content because it will be gone soon.
2. Extremely Guilty that I missed one-time-only items(I was in the plane for 20 hours +8hours transit time +12hours timezone difference during that weekend with the fireworks and never got the Dragon Helmets…and now never will be able to. Sadly, I wanted the Dragon Helmets)
3. Extremely Unhappy to pay a fortune to get specific stats/skins because of missed event/rng boxed skins(and that’s provided said item is even available on TP in the first place).

NOT Cool

GW1 had Mhenlo and friends. GW2 has no such thing.
What they represent: characters that have always been around(or with you) and are your friends, fighting along your side in every map.

What i wanted from GW2 was dynamic events being led in every area by Mhenlo.
For example:
Mhenlo and friends are defending Nebo Terrace in Gendarran Fields.
Meanwhile,
Mhenlo and his friends are making preparations to assault the Shatterer in Blazeridge Steppes.
Note: I dont really mean Mhenlo(long since dead), I mean a group of NPCs(since there are no henchmen) that would be actively doing/starting events in every map, the same NPCs being in every map.

What the developers didnt quite get right is the events barely have any importance. Instead of the above examples where Mhenlo leads the events, what we got is
Defend group X from enemy Y until X reaches place Z.
Group A is preparing an assault on place B.

Group A has absolutely no relation with group X. Who cares about helping group X and get 1 silver(reward) when you will never see group X again in another map?
It has no significance except for us being goody-two-shoes helping complete strangers for 1silver.

Now, if group A was Mhenlo and friends and traveled the whole map helping out at a chain of events in every map, you would see some cohesion in the events.

Leadership is important in the world. The simple name of a popular/important figure makes the difference. If unknown person X opened a foundation to help against a disease, “most” donations to the foundation will be from people who have been affected by that disease in some way. If the Pope opened the same foundation, it would be much more successful.

Even the story fails hard to appeal to the player. Let’s take as example Crusader Hiroki if you chose the Vigil storyline. What happens to her after the missions that involves her? She just goes away and never ever talks to you again after thanking you. Very disappointing. Same for Almorra Soulkeeper, once you become 2nd-in-command and the Pact is formed, she's GONE. No consistency. All we got from the story is that glory usurper Trahearne...

In some way, they tried to do that by making the events involve
the Vigil/Priory as an association or the Pact as a whole, but all the NPCs you see in the events are still complete strangers, VigilCrusaderA, PactMemberB.... Helping somebody does not have the same feel as helping an association.

tl;dr
I could care less about an event involving helping stranger X that i will not see in any other map ever again other than during that specific event in area B.
I would care more about many chains of events involving helping Mhenlo in areas A, B, C, D and E.

P.S: last patch notes they event went ahead and
“Phill the Fisher has grown tired of being attacked by drakes and is now retired. Other lesser-skilled fishermen have moved in to take his spot.”
are now killing random stranger fishermen instead.

E is Eir.

/15chars

Screen goes completely black suddenly. If you press Esc you get the “log out menu”. You can also press ‘character select’ button(whatever button you mapped it to) and it will appear. It will go to character select screen(with the music at character selection), but screen is still completely black.

i7 3770k
7770 HD Radeon
8GB of Ram
Windows 7 64bit

To survive Maw
OptionA
Bob must die. Rez Bob to 99%. Trigger the Agony. Rez the last 1% on Bob quickly before you all go down. Bob grabs a shard(to avoid lazer) and rez all of you who died of Agony(you may get naked before doing that to save on armor repair costs)

OptionB
i) BobGuardian uses Tome of Courage#5 and times it right on himself. BobGuardian must have 45AR to do so. BobGuardian is the one who is trying to survive Agony. BobGuardian must leave Tome and use Selfheal right after Tome of Courage#5 hits. BobGuardian grabs a shard and rez the rest who downed/died.

ii)The “GW1 55 Monk Theory” applies here. Agony’s damage is 18% of your HP at 45AR, the player with the least HP takes the least damage. Given BobGuardian heals for a set amount of 2500/sec with Tome of Courage#1 and has 11000 HP (thus taking 1980 damage per Agony tick), BobGuardian survives. Note that this DOES NOT WORK, because there’s no way 2500/sec is doable with Tome of Courage#1 because Agony reduces Healing on top of that. But the concept is there. What works is having BobGuardian, DanGuardian and EveGuardian all Tome of Courage#1 on the whole party standing together at 45AR(that’s heal 3000/sec at 1000/sec each), thus the 3 Guardians(and possibly the other 2 party members) survive.

iii) AceWarrior with Warbanner. Requires perfect timing. AceWarrior dies and runs back before triggering Agony, but does not do the final jump on the Maw platform. Everyone else on the platform(except the one who triggers the Agony) stands close to the edge of the Maw platform(within 600 range of AceWarrior). Everyone downs except for AceWarrior who does not get hit by Agony because he is not on the platform. AceWarrior casts Warbanner before they die(requires perfect timing) and rez everyone who now use their strongest Selfheal to survive Agony. Grab shard and rez the rest, AceWarrior then jumps on the Maw platform and dies from Agony, then gets rez by the others.

Combine i), ii) and iii) as much as possible for maximum effectiveness. Note that for i), BobGuardian can use Tome of Courage#5, then EveGuardian uses it right after him, then DanGuardian uses it right after her(again, timing is key) while the other 2 spam Tome of Courage#1.

Usually OptionA is a lot easier to pull off than any/all/combined versions of OptionB, but OptionB guarantees survival so it is more viable. If you fail OptionA(party-wipe), none of you are getting back on the Maw platform alive(because Agony hits once you land) even with full party at 45AR unless you use something like Option B, someone jumps back on the Maw platform and immediately takes Agony damage, but somehow survives by Tome of Courage#1/#5 and Battle Standard.

Now you know why people want Warrior/Guardians for FotM40+, they have the right safety tools.

See you in FotM if you’re up for it

Manuhell.2759:

I wonder why they haven’t still put a full-screen alert with flashing lights and a detailed description in a very large font. This issue appears, like, everyday in the forums.

I wonder why Unique is still in the game… I believe that would be a better fix than flashing lights.

Answer1:
The healing from Regen is affected by the HealPower of A.
Proof: If A has Poison, it makes no difference on the healing that B gets. If B has Poison, B gets 33% less heals from A.
(Therefore B’s HealPow never comes into play unless B heals).

Answer2:
The boon duration applied to B(by A) is dependent on A’s BoonDur (same as above, B’s BoonDur never comes into play unless B boons up).

I am not going to argue whether it is the OP’s fault or not for not noticing what Unique does until it is too late.

What i am going to argue, for those who do ask questions such as “Why?”

What purpose does the Unique mechanic serve and why does it exist other than to cause this kind of annoying situation above?

I have asked the exact same question in 2 previous threads
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/What-the-word-unique-means/first#post1976689
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-Accessories-There-can-be-only-one/first

But I have yet to get a reasonable answer(or an answer that makes sense for that matter) from a Dev or from anyone else. So i am going to ask the question 1 more time, hoping to get an answer this time.

I simply dont understand why this mechanic is in place in the first place. Does it have a purpose? Does it seem Extremely Weird to you that someone is wearing two earrings that are exactly alike one on each ear?
Bad Mechanic = Unhappy Players

Example of bad mechanic:
Fractal Rings were “FotM10 + RNG + daily + untradable+ unique” before they introduced Pristine Fractal Relics, meaning you had half the chance of a chance at getting the correct ring) with 22 different types of rings.

who designed this and why?
When you design an item,
You should either do
1. Obtain a certain amount of tokens to get it
2. Randomly dropped from monsters
3. Account Bound
4. Put a time limitation on obtaining parts of the item
BUT NOT ALL 4 AT THE SAME TIME.

If an item is Randomly Dropped, then it should be Tradable to compensate for Luck.
If an item is Not Tradable then there should be a hard but sure way to get it, whether it be acquiring tokens or time limitation.
If an item has a Time Limitation on it(such as once per day), it should not have a random possibility of it dropping on it.

Compare with scenario below
“Try your Luck everyday to win a ticket to a random country.”
After 30 days, i got a ticket to England, my cousin got a ticket to France. I wanted to go to France and him to England. No Trading allowed. Neither of us go. I am unhappy, and so is my cousin.
How to fix? Allow trade. (RNG + Tradable = Possibility)

I really need a LAZER in this game.

Item name bug

Had a Prototype Fractal Capacitor
Upgraded it to Beta Fractal Capacitor(Infused)
Used Tiger Charr Backpack Cover on it
Item is ‘pink named’ but says
Tiger Charr Backpack
and not
Tiger Charr Backpack(Infused)

Item still shows +5 Agony Resistance in stats or when pinged, item gives +5 Agony Resistance just fine.

Transmuted Infused items should say (Infused)

Gems to Gold conversion calculator is currently okay, because you see
100 gems = xyz gold, and if you need the gold, whatever you get is fine.

Gold to Gems conversion calculator is NOT okay, because the gem value of gemstore items is FIXED but the gold>gem market is NOT.

Example:
I want to buy 5 Fine Transmutation Stones for EXACTLY 200 gems.
What i need to do to get EXACTLY 200 gems from gold:
1 gold = 30 gems (not it)
200/30 = 6.6666667
6 gold 66 silver = 203 gems(still not it, because of decimals/rounding up)
6 gold 55 silver = 198 gems(still not it, because gold>gem market just fluctuated)
6 gold 60 silver = 199 gems(still not there yet)
6 gold 61 silver = 200 gems(finally there, and that’s excluding nickel and diming for copper)

Please note on top of that that prices fluctuate by the second and you never get there on the first try.

When people buy gems using gold, they have an EXACT amount of gem they want to buy(because they want a specific gemstore item that has a FIXED price in gems). I want to buy 200 gems, i dont want to buy 201 gems or 199 gems.

Can you just please implement a “i want to buy 100 gems so tell me the price in gold” button?
That way i click the button twice and get EXACTLY 200 gems.

My guardian scepter auto-attack is still broken. Jon Peters promised to fix it, but did not say when.

Please follow the guidelines below on how to win the lottery, I promise you that you have a possibility to win the lottery during the limited time, but i will not tell you when.

Please note that a rare of a rare is rare-square. Rare-cube will be implemented in late 2015.

Guidelines
The Southsun Supply Crates will also be a limited-time rare drop off the creatures on the island during this time.
+
These special crates contain a rare chance at new weapon skins and minis.
=

Mirta.5029:

Turtle Dragon.9241:

The Unique mechanic is only there to kitten off players by adding extra useless RNG for no reason. If you acquire another same Ascended item through random drop, you cannot equip both(specially bad when back then, obtaining Ascended Rings was completely random rather than using tokens)

I played fractals since two weeks after their release. Fractal pristine relics were always there to buy rings with as far as I remember. What are you talking about?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractals_of_the_Mists
Fractals of the Mists was introduced as part of the Lost Shores release (November 16th, 2012).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pristine_Fractal_Relic
This token was introduced in the 14 December 2012 update.

Either way, that doesnt answer anything about the purpose of the Unique mechanic.

Question: What purpose does the Unique mechanic serve?

The 2 items have the same stats. What difference does it make if i equip two of the same items or one of each?

I am not disputing multiple items with same stats, their Infusion slot is different(Offensive/Defensive/Utility), but given that the best infusion gives 5 Power at best, having 2 Ascended items for a total of 5 additional Power(instead of 5 Vitality) is NOT game breaking compared to items like Plate of Truffle Steak(100 Power) or Sigil of Bloodlust(250 Power).

The Unique mechanic is only there to kitten off players by adding extra useless RNG for no reason. If you acquire another same Ascended item through random drop, you cannot equip both(specially bad when back then, obtaining Ascended Rings was completely random rather than using tokens). It is also there to kitten off players who did not see Unique on the item or did not know what the Unique mechanic was for.

So whoever at Arenanet who thought this mechanic was a good idea and implemented it, could you please enlighten us on the whole purpose of this stupid mechanic?

The following people are suspects in the Personal Nemesis case:
1. Gwen (clearly the prime suspect, no questions asked)
2. Eir Stegalkin (did not help her son)
3. Rox Whetstone (sweet talking Braham and obeying Rytlock until the time comes)
4. Jennah (does not like Rytlock and wants Logan all to herself, thus creates a war)

Notice how he blames Arenanet immediately?

watch these videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy8ErFrRCbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4Ut761FQE

Their friends changed their WoW password, and immediate reaction is “Fing Blizzard”. As you can clearly see from the 2 videos, Blizzard had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with them being unable to login.

The real culprit, as seen below

mordred.4610:

So I log in today and my main is naked, his weapons and armor and any rares are all gone. My money,mats etc are untouched.

At first I thought i was hacked so I ramped up the old Avast antivirus and run a full system scan. Nadda not even one whiff of a trojan,malware,etc nothing.

Then I went to my bank and the stuff from my other toons is still there, money,mats and all.

So let me get this straight, you Arenanet, stripped my main of all his gear, alot of it I got by buying gems FROM YOU,then did a currency exchange WITH YOU to turn the gems into gold to outfit my toon. I used YOUR system the way YOU set it up and you strip me of my stuff for playing by YOU RULES.

I mean seriously WTF is wrong with you guys, I didnt farm that stuff in dungeons,I dont run them so I sure as heck didnt look like a bot.
I dont farm pvp all day either so again, not looking like a bot!

Fix it!

You are not thinking outside the box. What has happened to you is common.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l99nfgols4E
This is what has happened to you.
Not exactly this video, but close enough. Replace the girlfriend with a ninja that dropped in from your roof, an alien that just teleported in, or your pet turns into a werepet at full moon. Either of these are plausible explanations, and it could be all 3 at the same time. Do not blame Arenanet for it. You want a more complex explanation? You were drunk last night while playing and thought your character would look sexy without armor.

My sister had my GW1 password for 1 night, She spent 105 Ectos, 105 Obsidian Shards and a lot of Plat to get Obsidian armor for a character that has a total play time of 3 days 2 hours and 53 minutes to this date. Luckily for me, she is the one who now plays GW2 and I am the one spending her hard earned gold/laurels in GW2.

I repeat, what has happened to you is COMMON.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/R.O.X.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rox

Rox was in Guild Wars 250 years ago, and Rox has not changed one bit even after all this time. Can you see the difference? I dont. Asuran golems sure haven’t changed over these centuries.

Note: GW1 Rox was a warrior, GW2 Rox is a ranger(but Keiran Thackeray changed class too, so that is normal).

Joke Topic aside, i think Frostbite needs more HP.

Since Ascalon Fractal already transforms your characters, the possibilities are limitless.

I want a Fractal that puts us through a section of Edge of Destiny, transforming our characters into Logan Thackeray/Zojja etc. Not going to mention which sections because that would be spoilers for the books. Or make it a section of Ghost of Ascalon.

See screenshot.

I am using the Arrow Cart as you can see from the screenshot. For some reason, I cannot fire off the AC at all(it ground targets, but refuses to shoot). I cannot leave the AC either because it tells me that I cannot drop bundles while in the air when I press the Weapon Swap button. I am clearly on the ground.

I have been on that AC for 5 minutes, cannot get out of it, cannot fire it, cannot move. I am not lagging(as you can see, chat is still rolling), but I am STUCK.

AC are not bundles!(I am not deploying an AC Blueprint here).

My only way out was using the Waypoint.

Picture below should be a legendary staff, effect is it lights up.

Even if they make it a regular staff requiring charged lodestones, i would definitely buy it.

We are missing staves that actually have fluorescent/transparent glowy effects. All staves so far are bland with an effect at the tip.

We only get AC staff at night, Bifrost and HoM ugly staff that actually have an effect along the staff rather than at the tip only, none of which are actually transparent/fluorescent. There is no Foefire’s Stick, or Stick of the Mists.

I have a better idea.

Orb of Power
Each Orb of Power grants the owning world a 5% boost to maximum HP and 50 bonus points to all stats.

Outmanned
+20% Magic find
+33% Experience
+10% World Experience
Take no Armor damage on death

NOW JUST SWAP THE TWO!

Orb of Power
Each Orb of Power grants the owning world a
+5% Magic find
+10% Experience
+3% World Experience

Outmanned
5% boost to maximum HP and 50 bonus points to all stats.
Take no Armor damage on death

With this, no more need for balancing. If you server is so strong that they can afford to get the enemy’s orb, then your server deserves extra loot(MF), extra experience and extra world experience by grabbing the orbs, but you do not get any stronger(which caused the imbalance gap). Wannabe hackers getting extra MF/XP/WXP is no big deal either, really. This will be considered just like if you server is super dominating WvW, you might as well go and kill the stupid Oversized Grub outside Blue Keep, a.k.a completely separate from WvW.

Likewise, when you are Outmanned, it means you are low on players in the map, if all players of a server are Outmanned and gain 5% extra HP and +50 to all stats, given that you are already going at 5 vs 50(you have very few players), Outmanned levels the playing field for you by a little.

nikkistar.1409:

Do any of you guys use Sweet FX?

definitely not this, i use Sweet Fx and i am logged in right now.

Like i proposed on the other thread, i want a Logging Axe that makes little fairies come out of the tree screaming.

The new pick is a great idea.

1. This will drop ore/ingot prices even for lower ores.
2. This provides an infinite supply of ore. It ensures you can dig any ore in any zone. One reason why you would not go to lower level zone is that you dont want to waste your 4s orichalcum pick on copper nodes, the new pick gets rid of that and ensures an ample supply of every ore. Thus indirectly causes people to go back to lower level zones.
3. This will make bots worthless. Given that the prices will drop down to ores being practically free, bot farming the ore will become unproductive.

The next thing will be the Unlimited Logging Axe.
I want a Logging Axe that make little fairies fly out of the tree and scream!

You cannot put Eternity in the Mystic Forge.

/close thread

(I completely get your point, but you lose on a mere technicality)

I want this as new Staff skin, I dont care how many Charged Lodestones it would cost me.
http://www.uleth.ca/facilities/caretaking/sites/caretaking/files/fluorescent-light.jpg
obviously, it has to turn on.

1. Red/Blue/Green Invader. I know what server i am fighting and i know what color they are, i dont need to see Gate of Madness Invader or Henge of Denravi Defender.
(Red named = enemy = KILL!)
2. Player titles toggle(on/off), I dont need to know that i am killing a “Champion of the Gods”

Does anyone know at what time free server transfer comes back too?
Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/SEA-WvW-Guild-Looking-For-New-Server/page/2#post1699401

Fever.9830:

The Vision of the Mists that I just crafted is bugged. It shows two swords overlapping.

Race; Norn
Class; Mesmer

This was fixed in February patch, then broken again a few hours later after they re-patched. I wonder if they completely forgot about it, or are going to fix it for March patch.

Also, Foefire’s Essence still has the broken chain that got fixed in the February patch.

All I want is for them to move the chain a little to the right so it attaches to the hilt instead of floating in midair.

GW2 Mesmer = GW1 Ritualist

Illusionary Defense = Armor of Unfeeling
Phantasmal Healing = Recuperation
Persisting Images = Spawning Power

etc.

Granted game mechanics themselves are different, some skills are traits and some traits are attributes, but the general concept of spirit spam got integrated inside mesmer already.

They put up a picture of a guy on a horse at the start of Flame and Frost
They gave us Riding Clothes as town clothing for gems

Mounts are coming, it is an indeniable fact. Even if a Dev came here and said there will be no mounts, i wont believe them. Why would you introduce Riding Clothes if you do not introduce mounts?

Oh wait, i forgot this is Arenanet…

“Unique” is the type of mechanic that make no sense whatsoever in GW2.

You can have a Crystalline Band and a Ring of Red Death, which have the exact same stats. Why not just create 1 Crystalline Band and let people equip 2 of it?

The only difference between the 2 items is Offensive/Defensive/Utility Infusion slot. Oh wait, infusions give +5 stats, that completely imbalances the game! Right?

The only purpose of this mechanic was when Fractal Rings were random, and the whole purpose of it on top of that was to screw people over. You got 1 Crystalline Band? Hey! RNG will give you ANOTHER ONE of it that you cannot equip instead of the same stats corresponding one. So go grind fractals more until you get the counterpart ring. As well as the above example, screwing people who did not see “Unique” on their Ring/Accessory.

As clever a design/balance decision as GW1 Smiter’s Boon.

Vinny.6924:

The worst things about this game are:

DR – It only effects the player not the bots. Bots farm all day and it doesn’t really matter what they get because they spent no time trying to earn it.

Gated Content – I have to wait weeks and months to get stuff thats brand new. Im completely hopeless with this system and cannot speed up the process by putting in more effort.

Ascended Gear – Not so much the fact they released a new tier but how its obtained is so bad. Whoever thought this up should be let go.

Other then that is a pretty solid game for being 6 months old. But they have to stop now with this month long grind each day to get gear. Its going to kitten a lot of people off and its a horrible system.

DR – the idea came from Smiter’s Boon
Gated Content – the idea also came from Smiter’s Boon
Ascended Gear – the idea definitely came from Smiter’s Boon

Did you know that everything that is going wrong in this game is the fault of a single person?

They added ponies to the Dreamer.
They added invisible enemies.
They added riding clothes.

Conclusion:
Invisible Pink Unicorn Mounts of the Mist!

On a serious note, what other changes are coming to WvW?
Rank?
Can we get Badges > Commander?
WvW Ascended Gear?

The whole March patch is culling removal?

Note: I am not pointing the finger at anyone, but generally:

If you wanna be competitive, go to sPvP. There is no such thing as “fair play” or “1v1” in WvW unless you and your enemy from the other server plans it out. If you do encounter a situation where you and an enemy are fighting each other 1v1, then that has very little impact on WvW itself, or on the score. If i see someone from my server fighting an enemy, i will join in and kill the enemy whether you like it or not(i wont pass a free kill just because you want to 1v1) as i know many of you out there will do the same.

If you just want Ascended gear NOW because you “cant” WvW otherwise, then all you are is a bully who is trying to get better gear to pick on people who dont have said gear. You are not competitive, you are not competing against anyone, you dont even know the name of the person who you are killing(or who is killing you), there is no competition going on(maybe in your head).

I saw a level 34 ranger(upscaled) in blues kill a level 80 warrior with Visions of the Mist & CoF Armor(exotics) 1v1 by playing it smart, and twice. If he can do that(consistently too), but you cant pass the smaller barrier of 10% more damage Ascended gear provides, then you are the one that’s bad.

Edit: By this example, the warrior who earned his pve gear, got owned by a low lvl wvw ranger. Similarly, the player who earned his ascended gear in pve(ascended gear is not obtainable in wvw yet), will get owned by a wvw player who has inferior gear but knows his thing.

Issue with Transparent Weapons (Foefire or Mist)

Weapons do not load properly either after loading screen, or upon weapon swap. If you swap weapon and swap again to the transparent weapon/or re-equip, sometimes it will load correctly then(sometimes it will still have the issue though)

Weapon effects do appear correctly(blue/pink fire, bugged broken chain floating in midair etc) but the weapon itself is transparent.

See screenshot.

Did not have issue until last patch. Hope this gets fixed soon...

Nurse.1085:

to explain them it takes a minimum of 12 weeks for 2 accessories, a dedicated 20+ days of dailies and 1 monthly completion for a necklace and 20+ dailies from Fractals (unless you’re lucky with RNG) for 2 rings.

They look at me like “Are you serious?” – It’s a complete turn off and I can’t even defend you, Anet.

It takes 15 weeks to fully level and gear your character out in WoW while playing 10hours per day. Gear is essential to progress.

It takes 15 weeks to fully gear your character out in GW2 while playing for 1hour per day. In addition, the gear is nowhere near essential to progress anywhere other than FotM(agony).

(Numbers are not exact or maybe nowhere close, but consider the context rather than semantics)

I played with Masterworks in Cursed Shore before Ascended gear came out, even if i have full Exotics only now, i’m still doing better in Cursed Shore now than with my Masterworks. I can pull a whole list of raids you cannot do unless you have specific gear in WoW. Would you like to show me an event that i can do with Ascended gear but not Exotic gear?

GW2 is similar to WoW in that it takes time to acquire final gears. If you compare how many days it takes to acquire all the gears, you end up in probably very close number of days. If you compare in how many “hours” though, GW2 is considerably for casuals compared to WoW no-life grinding.

People are confusing “grinding” with “patience”.
Grinding is when i ask you to water the whole greenhouse for me and i’ll give you a carrot per week.
Patience is when i ask you to plant and water 1 carrot per day and wait 1 week for it to grow up so you can harvest it.

You wanna be on your best(Ascended gear) for WvW? But that’s only if you’re a perfectionist. Check how many people on your server actually dont mind playing an upleveled character in WvW with white gears.
Hint: they dont mind, why do you?
I’m on a level 2 thief in white gear with an arrow cart and i am killing you right now Mr.Ascended.

Consider there is a big WvW patch coming end of this month, you will probably get badges>pinks.