Guild Wars 2

At least I realised today that it was the filter… I have been wondering for over a week why people used the word kitten so much. I thought it was just another mmo word I didn’t know about. (like the word ‘zerg’)

I also have similar problems with Firefox:
Say I visit the crafting forum and go to thread A. After reading it I click on the link “crafting” at the top of the page, then visit thread B. Using the page back function here, then using page forward because I missed something in the thread. When I use the page back function after that I get pushed to thread A instead of the crafting forum, which was the last page I visited.

I also asked my guild about it and they were having the same problems.

It seems to be happening more and more often: being stuck in combat. It makes it impossible to heal yourself, to swap weapons, to change skills, to adept your combat style for the fight… and so on.

Usually it can be fixed by killing a mob or walking further but this is sometimes not possible. Like after killing a group of mobs, being on low hp and running to safety you get stuck in combat. No way to go: out of your safespot are mobs, you don’t regenerate health and you can not teleport to safety. Logging out resets sigil stacks, mantra’s and the consumable with the wrench icon.
And today I noticed a new upgrade to this bug: being stuck in combat and killing a mob used to get you out of combat, but that didn’t happen today. I killed 2-3mobs in a row trying to get myself out of combat, but nothing happened.

Since today’s update my chat keeps randomly changing to /s. At first I thought it was party related (I would see my party members’ icons disappear for ~0.5sec and then reappear) , but later on the day it also happened while I was typing in the guild channel.

Yes, I hope for a hotfix. I can’t wait yet another week of no Arah runs.

We had the same problem. Before reaching the Hall of Champions we noticed something weird during the trap event. We failed it the first try, and on our retry the bar that showed Detha’s health was empty.

After the bugged run we tried again, didn’t fail the trap event, Detha’s health bar was normal and the Hall of Champions event started as normal.

Don’t spoil your merchant secrets lightrayne… Some things are best kept to yourself.
Anyways I support this this thread, the 250 stacks is too low. Reducing everything by a factor of 10 would make sense if the vendors didn’t have the potions and recipes nobody buys for under 10 tokens.

Staff bounce seems to prefer allies over enemies at the moment. This makes tagging mobs for mesmers even harder.

Confusing combatants doesn’t always work. An earth elemental killed my phantasmal warlock and didn’t get confusion. Also an icebrood colossus killed my warlock and a clone but it did not confuse him. I suspect this is linked to clones made by a staff, the scepter ones are working.

Please increase staff bolt speed like scepter bolt speed. 90% of the mobs are dead before my bolt reaches them in medium-busy events such as opening Arah.

On Sorrows Embrace path 2 with the 2 golems the skill Mimic does block the aoe bolts initial hit but it doesn’t stop the aoe from being placed around you.

And this didn’t get added to the opening post yet:
Mimic – It is supposed to absorb the projectile and send it back on the secondary skill that you use. But instead it reflects projectiles during the primary skill and the secondary skill does nothing at all.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

DKP.4196:

Anet should make it so player titles are easier to see without selecting a player! Perhaps over/under the players name above the player avatar!

Congrats;) Welcome to the Dungeon Master Club:P

Like the star of map completition? Would be nice, agree

Ye this should be added to it.

Nice and grats, I was hoping to get it myself a lot earlier, but seeing the time that some Arah paths might take and the fact that the gate has been bugged so often it got delayed over and over again.

At the moment I only have p4 left from Arah.

In that case I don’t see any motivation for getting my gift at the moment since no staff catches my interest in spending that many gold.
I guess it’s back to mystic forge gambling for a precursors and as a money sink.

That is exactly the kind of thinking we are trying to avoid here Evoked…

“If your entire group don’t even have a fully geared 80, then goodluck, don’t think Anet made dungeons friendly for those parties”

That particular bit makes no sense at all. First being level 80 provides no bonus on itself only the minor/major trait slots you unlocked do. Which is just a nice addition but not a game breaker.
Second as said above: there also are lower levels who are fully geared. Since the gear attributes are downgraded as well there is no difference again between a level 80 or a level 40 in rare gear.
And before you start complaining about 80’s in exotics: the difference between rare and exotic is small and there are still a lot of 80’s out there that also run dungeons in a rare set without problems.

Thord.2017:

The last game I played there were up to 3 levels of difficulty which worked well. I would say what we have now is all 3 levels squeezed into one dungeon.

Good idea allowing people to choose their level of difficulty.

You can choose your difficulty:
Easy: random veterans on world maps and world events.
Medium: Story dungeons.
Hard: Group events on world map, explorable dungeons.

That sounds like something I could write. I try to look at what we have in the team and see what we could use (dps/support/control/combo) and I ask for that by saying that it would be preferred. Though if a light armor would come and ask for the last spot I would probably accept him.
And that fact that he said prefer at 3 more needed could be to give it more time. If he would start looking for “the missing profession” at last slot it would be a lot harder to fill it.

I am currently building a support warrior by using:
Survivability for myself, thoughness/vit trait and build
Regen on banners
Extended banner time
Placing banners for buffs
Using shouts
Bow for combo finisher and the F1 for combo field

And my mesmer isn’t really team support build, but it does nice too:
Using staff with condition trait/build for dps
Staff has bounces and aoe that buffs team
Feedback people to prevent damage/put down combo field
Time warp ultimate
Focus for phantasmal warden and curtain

Are those people looking for a team with like 3-4 heavy armors, or are they parties with already 4 light armor and wanting to fill the last slot with a heavy?
This is in fact a major difference, not just for the fact that they are heavy armored but also for having a melee ranged fighter in your team.

Besides the small undertone of rage i can sense from you i have to agree. I only need arah tokens and path 4 at the moment for the creation of my gift and gaining my dungeon master title. I have had to delay this for 2weeks already because of a bugged entrance.

Besides that, Arah is the biggest challenge for a dungeon and I am trying to improve myself in there to get better with PvE in general.

Dracones.9105:

LordByron.8369:

1) i explain better:“did u ever seen a lvl 35 player in full green?” i think nobody saw any because at lvl 35 you don t waste money on gears that will be obsolete in 10 minutes….

This myth gets popped out a alot and I don’t like it, because it keeps players from gearing up in green as they level up.

First off the leveling curve is flat. Leveling from 35-36 takes as long as leveling from 79-80. So don’t skimp on good gear in the low levels thinking you’ll be leveling too quickly. However, having said that even if you did level quickly the gear is extremely cheap because it almost always sells for a few copper more than vendor sell price at the TP.

So while you may spend 6sp on a full set of green gear at level 35, it’ll vendor for 5 or more sp. Just don’t slot it out with custom runes.

There’s no reason not to be gearing up in greens every few levels as you’re leveling up. Seriously, it costs about as much as a WP transfer and will speed up your leveling and make you more competitive in group events.

Exactly that, I just gear up my warrior in yellows. Even bought him a cultural armor set.
And when I was levelling my main I did buy yellow weapons and green gear without having another money supply for it.

I didn’t read the whole thread but I keep getting annoyed by this too. I am levelling a new character and I have been kicked out of several groups.
Usually I just link them my Arah token collection and tell them to F* themselves, but that still leaves me without a group.
Unfortunately this is nothing that Anet can help on, it is purely the community that does this to itself. I always try to “fix” it by arguing with the person recruiting for their team if I see them say Level 80 only on map chat.

I see more people have this ‘problem’. My guess is that they show you that message after a certain amount of time because changing your password regularly makes your account safer.

Well I hope they remove that message soon, it is already annoying me after seeing it 2 times.

So if an item isn’t in the gw2db database, does it mean it doesn’t exist? Because if that is the case, then there really are no stave that I would waste my money on atm.

bantapoo.1093:

ouch! lightning hammer cost even more than volcanus..
The biggest issue after gold, is skill points as I drained around 300 skillpoints from all of my characters to craft volcanus.
Im thinking of a strategy to get skillpoints: create new character, get it to lvl 3, buy crystal, delete character, rince repeat..70 times lol…

Uhm, the mystic forge vendor items are all soulbound not account bound.

Darx.9842:

Here are some staffs waiting to be discovered:
http://www.gw2db.com/items/68526-cinderspires-rage
http://www.gw2db.com/items/68519-final-rest
http://www.gw2db.com/items/68525-pillar-of-ulgoth
http://www.gw2db.com/items/54400-primitive-pike
http://www.gw2db.com/items/54904-quaggan-staff
http://www.gw2db.com/items/55239-wolfborn-staff#
Wolf staff <3
Wolf’s statue gift+scroll+50coins (or more)+ 250 staff parts OR ancient planks
It might be recipe for wolf’s staff!
edit: here is wolf trident too, so replace staff parts with harpoon parts.

All “Wolfborn” weapons are the T3 Norn cultural weapons that cost 63k karma each. All “Quaggan” weapons are the level 400 weaponsmith recipe. The latter doesn’t really make sense to me, why are the exotic weapons we can make quaggan themed?

When you use the item code from Quaggan in game it says PVP quaggan staff, the same for primitive pike.

I will in time Iejean, but for now I don’t have any of the 2 gifts yet. I keep wasting my money by throwing rares in the mystic forge ^^

So for my legendary Bifrost I will eventually need gift of color and gift of energy. Are there any speculations on an exotic staff with these gifts? If so I am happy to farm money, buy the gifts and test them out.

Mesmer can use teleport skills like phased retreat or blink to get out of his prison attack in phase 3. Worth a note :P

Anyone have any idea what staff this is? https://i.minus.com/j2QdmxBVT16Vy.jpg

“How good is the loot?
Legend says it drops Exotics like a common good. This cannot be verified due to lack of data, but most people who have completed Lupicus agree they got exotics. The drop chances are quite favorable is all I can say as of yet.”

I have only gotten white items from him… And his chest was just the normal blue/green trash

BakedGoodz.4082:

I mean anyone who plays the tp properly

This isn’t what everybody considers fun to do… So you can’t expect everyone to molest the economy for their money and get rich fast.

McWaffle.1927:

There are several combinations that grey out improperly in the MF window but upon placing the greyed out item in it then ungreys options.

Is this a bug or is this done to make discovery more difficult?

The dungeon chest drops are so extremely low it is almost insulting to people who love to pve. Droprates from farming are a LOT higher then continuously running dungeons.

140 rares in, mixture of stave and scepter. No precursor found and 2 or 3 named exotics received.

The best looking staves IMO are death related or close to that, so for a necro they are fine. They don’t match a mesmer or ele though, and definitely not a guardian support build.

I am currently using the Modniir skin, but it is a low level skin and not as great looking as the rare level80 exotic skins that greatswords have.

Xarfay.8617:

anybody try this:

Scroll+ Gift of Energy + Coin + maybe Staves or other something ?

Chronologist.9782:

Hey guys,

I’m going for legendary staff and since I have gift of energy laying around in the bank I figured I should just waste 50 skill point to see if gift of energy will mix with scroll

Unfortunately it does not

Edit: Figured you guys need proof http://imgur.com/wzF5F

I have seen the Gift of Energy suggested a few times now, but it is confirmed that it doesn’t make ANY weapon at all.

Ether Bolt (scepter slot 1)- The primary attack function of this weapon appears to be either worded incorrectly or I am not inflicting the confusion status upon my foes as promised on the 3rd strike, which simultaneously produces a clone.

Utility skill:
Mimic – It is supposed to absorb the projectile and send it back on the secondary skill that you use. But instead it reflects projectiles during the primary skill and the secondary skill does nothing at all.
I tested it on an Icebrood Colossus.

I am a light armour mesmer and I had no problems at all taking down Romke’s crew 1 by 1. They were just normal fights to me, easy and fast.

There were some instances in Divinity’s Reach where this has happened. They forgot to add an exit point.

I agree too and have noticed b) d) and e) as well.

Both Deathwish and Final Rest don’t match with my character and looks. I like Final Rest but it’s not as awesome as say Volcanus greatsword.

Harbinger.8637:

Wow lame. They’re some rares with particle effects. Yet one of the hardest weapons to get doesn’t. Plus it doesn’t have a unique skin. lol how does that make sense Anet?

Since the exotics aren’t meant to be the legendary weapons themselves, they are made to be precursors. If they would give the precursors a unique skin then people would try and get the precursors without going for an exotic creating even more demand.

Yea, I’ve seen/heard about so many epic greatswords but the staves looks are just decent. Didn’t see/hear about a staff with nice particles yet.

Aren’t mobs in Mount Maelstrom too low level to drop? I heard onyx lodestones only drop from lvl75+ elementals, so I guessed that MM mobs would be too low for destroyer.

Use this code to preview it ingame [&AgHldwAA] it will show particles/glows on the weapon, just not the attack animation.

Does anyone have an idea on a cool staff? I also checked every skin that was on gw2db but none of those seemed to be a ‘semi-legendary’ like foefire or volcanus weapons.

Ether Bolt (scepter slot 1)- The primary attack function of this weapon appears to be either worded incorrectly or I am not inflicting the confusion status upon my foes as promised on the 3rd strike, which simultaneously produces a clone.

I’ve had it happen in Citadel of Flame Rhiannon path almost every time in the first objective room.

I also have this problem.
I follow the news URL from the gameclient, I get prompted to a log in and afterwards I am back on the main page.

I also noted that the ether clone attack on the scepter does not confuse, which is a big loss in DPS for a mesmer who is focused on condition damage.