Guild Wars 2

Well most of the people that are had stopped making their legendary are the ones that saved the precursor for last. Precursors are 1/3 of a legendary most casual player will never make one and are having enough difficulties making ascended weapons. I the only expensive precursor I had to buy was The spark everything else was cheap (25g the bard, 80g the storm, 600g the spark, 5g venom, 220g the legend). Only had 1 precursor drop in WvW, bought 4, and made the legend in one 220g attempt.

The ascended Knights will do slightly more damage. I tested with fully pvt and glass cannon. http://gw2buildcraft.com/

I am not sure how A-net will make jeweler useful to max 500. Most players should have ascended trinkets. What will we look forward to if you max jeweler? The 500 jeweler craft may shock everyone and be very worthwhile or just be another way to get ascended trinket.

No because doing pve is to hard. Need map completion and Arah to finish the Bitfrost. Wvw is so much fun I do not want to leave it.

Btw consider mystic forging for the dusk. I talked to one my my guildies that sells precursors weekly (yes he has thousands of gold). He said it takes an average of 200 attempts per precursor using rares (0.5% chance at a precursor). Two hundred 40s rare greatswords. So you can save up ~320g to do one attempt for the dusk/dawn or you can save up 800g to buy it.

That was how I got The Legend which I never intended to buy. I just wanted to see if I could craft a precursor, so was trying multiple different rare and a 4 staff forge payed off. The Legend cost me 220g(saved 580g) but using the mystic forge is RNG so you could fail or get it on the first try.

You are having bad luck atm.

Tried a frost build before in spvp but I went with 30 fire for the increased condition duration. Frost builds can completely disable a enemy team but it sucks for solo fights since your damage is low. When I used a frost build we won every team fight. No much you can do when perm chilled.

Try ramming a gate that has a few superior AC on it.

Aberrant.6749:

I’ve been telling people to stock up on it for a while. Guildies, friends, people on the forums etc. Some of them are starting to do it now… most still aren’t doing it at all. I’m just one person and my guild/friends could be atypical… but from general knowledge of the player base, I don’t think so. I don’t think that people have fully realized how bad (or in my case good) it’s going to get.

My first post:

Been telling my guild since ascended weapons came out the price of cloth will triple once ascended armor comes out. No way to increase the supply of cloth on the market other than farming mobs. The cloth market is very finite in supply and cloth is use for ALL armor types.

You will still need to craft dozen of exotic to max armor crafts. Cloth is the common item for crafting exotic armor. Their will be no way to reduce the price of gossamer unlike orichalcum which people are heavily mining now.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Way too many people speculating on the clothes right now. There is going to be way too big of an influx when people try to unload these things. It won’t be as big of a cash cow as the ore/wood was when ascended weapons hit.

Well if level the armor crafts to 500 takes similar amounts of gossamer as the weapons did with orichalcum the gossamer prices will be extremely high. Just from people buy a ton of cloth today I have made a few hundred gold. Did not expect people to buy so much cloth just off of the idea ascended armor will come out soon. This has been more profitable for me than the Bazaar and Anet has not done a ascended armor preview yet. Once the more casual players see a preview prices will increase even more.

Been telling my guild since ascended weapons came out the price of cloth will triple once ascended armor comes out. No way to increase the supply of cloth on the market other than farming mobs. The cloth market is very finite in supply and cloth is use for ALL armor types.

Chipsy bloodlust was meant to counter the pvd for server that lose ppt overnight. So primetimes would gain a slight ppt advantage over the night-shift. If you have looked at the total ppt last week the t1 match had like ~720k ppt(~620ppt before bloodlust). the T8 match-up had ~650k ppt. Bloodlust added 50k~100k total ppt from stomp in a match-up, ~475k ppt from bases and 100~150k from dolyaks/sentries. So havoc groups can add anywhere from 150~250k ppt during a match-up.

I do not want the tiered system again. Getting locked into the same match-up week after week is boring. Having to work twice as hard just to get a new match-up was not worth it.

Will hopefully league play will increase the amount of people attempting to wvw. Going by ranking points half of the leagues will be very competitive the others will not. The most leagues are closer in ranking point than NA gold. Ranking point difference: NA gold league 1vs6 400pts, NA silver 7vs15 364pts, NA bronze 16vs24 240pts. EU gold 1vs9 245pts, EU silver 10vs18 230pts, EU bronze 19vs27 685pts. The bottom 2 servers in EU will get stomped by everyone, NA t1 servers will have a easy match half of the time, and who every fails to get into the NA gold league will win silver league.

Well a 6 team league would be more of the same match-up. For 7 week you will fight the same servers 3-4times. With a 9 league system you will fight the same servers 1-2 times. Yea the winner of the silver or bronze league would get stomp if they move up.

Seems like everyday I report at least one camp/keep that does not give me credit for taking it. I kill all of the guards and the lord. I stand int he cap and do not receive credit. I have been reporting this issue in-game for months but I do not get any response about it.

If you follow duffy guide you should not miss any. The ones missed when I was going for it, was before the worm and inside the worm. Check for those next time.

This bug has been happening for months. You ram the door down, rush in kill the lord, stand in the cap and do not get credit for it. How is that even possible? I did enough damage to the keep to get credit. This even happen when I solo camps, I flip it and nothing. Seems like their is not a day were this does not happen to me at least once. I have reported this issue but I never get any response about it.

Something should be done with it to make it more helpful. They should remove fire aura cooldown or decrease it to 0.5. The aura is helpful but it can not be stacked and it is very situational.

Namu.5712:

if your trying to boost your magic find on purpose dont buy blues and greens.

Buy ecto’s and salavage them with a yellow kit. You get anywhere from 1 to 9+ T6 dusts which sell for around 11s to 15s, and they reward like 9 blue lucks and more often green, yellow, orange lucks.

So basically you end up dropping 82gold on 250 ecto’s. But end up getting like 70g+ back. The most dust ive gotten back from 250 ecto’s was 700 something. I basically profited on that one. and had 32 stacks of luck.

So if your going for high magic find do it the right way.

I am at 182% MF by the way.

Greens are the most cost effective way to max luck assuming you are bidding on ones that are around 1s. My tests with ecto you are making 2/3 of your money back from buying ecto (33s) and selling dust(14s). At 4.2million luck it will cost something like 4200 gold once you sell all of the piles of crystalline dust. If you are only bidding on greens ~1s it will cost you half as much money (2100g) to max magic find. This is assuming blue ~10luck, green ~20luck, ecto ~100luck.

You can buy rares to salvage for ecto too. Salvaging rares tends to be cheaper than buying ecto, since you are getting other mats back. Either way it is a long term goal.

I am at 161% magic find. Assuming you need 4.2million luck and are only getting 3000 luck a day it will take 4yrs to max magic find.

If someone has better gear you can still outplay them. Do you complain when someone beat you because that have food, exotics, or legendaries? In zerg fights 50vs50 with 3bloodlust (6% all stat) it like 50 vs 53. Bloodlust is comparable to a 2-6% all stat advantage, so that only come into play if you are equally skilled. The nodes have increased the amount of roamers. Some player have to group up before they roam. Also, GTA is out, so GW2 will lose some people to that.

MagnusLL.8473:

The balance problem in this game has never been at peak hours or during the periods when the forces are similar. The problem has always been the huge amount of points the server with more off peak presence can rack up whenever the opponents are not around to fight. Bloodlust exacerbates the problem; now if you’re on the losing side not only you’re forced to leave one or more maps deserted due to lack of people, but on the maps where you can still afford a presence you’ll be forced to fight at a huge disadvantage.

Yes it makes being outmanned worst. In term of ppt the Night capping servers will have few people to gain points off of with the bloodlust buff. They will still be able to get their normal 400-500ppt but they will not get the extra 40-50 stomp points (global wvw kills every 15min)you can get during primetime with bloodlust. The points per stomp are suppose to make it so primetime hours will gain more war score. The servers with no SEA guilds will still suffer from lack of people but will be able to gain ground during their NA primetimes.

We get to see how big of a difference point per stomp will make during the rest of the week. Bloodlust is already decreasing the size of zergs on maps. It is making servers choose between defending a keep or keeping the buff.

I want the musical note to grow bigger the farther they more away from it. The musical note trial is not notice on a asura unless you stop and zoom in. If you have radiant gloves all of the minstrels effects are overshadowed by them.

A ascended weapon is cheaper. Legendary weapons will always be the best in slot. Since A-net made legendaries omni-stat the prices of them have increased. http://gw2legendary.com/ They cost 800-1800g to craft and sell for 1200-2500 on TP. A legendary will take months to make. A ascended weapon cost around 200g to level crafting to 500 and ~100g to make the weapon. Takes around 2 weeks of casual play to get the timed mats for one.

Having 4 leagues would be the same as it is now. With 6 servers per league you would not have the same variety as a 2 league system. The 6 league system would just be more of the same match-ups. Yet the top servers in each league will be pvd during 80% of the league matches with the 12server system. That will get boring to anyone after awhile. I hope the league will displace wvwers into some of the other servers but that will not happen with server transfer fees.

I was curious to see how the wvw points would have stack up over the course of a 7 weeks. The NA leagues 12 servers, so assuming A-net will force a rank 1 server to fight a rank 12 server these numbers will not reflect how the league will play out. Still I was interested to see what the points spread would look like. I used http://mos.millenium.org/na/ from week 35-29, over a 7 week period. 1st place in each matchup gains 5 points, 2nd place 3 points, and 3rd place 1 point https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/welcome-to-world-vs-world-season-1/.

NA UPPER LEAGUE:

1. Sea of Sorrows 29pt t3
2. Blackgate 27pt t1
3. Jade Quarry 27pt t1
4. Bolris Pass 27pt t4
5. Tarnished Coast 23pt t2
6. Fort Aspenwood 23pt t2
7. Dragonbrand 23pt t2
8. Yaks Band 23pts t4
9. Sanctum of Rall 21pts t1
10. Crystal Desert 17pts t4
11. Maguuma 15pt t3
12. Ehmry 13pt t3

NA BOTTOM LEAGUE

1. Isle of janthir 29pts t5
2. Darkhaven 23pt t6
3. Henge of Denravi 23pt t6
4. Gate of Madness 23pt t7
5. Stormbluff Isle 21pt t5
6. Northern Shiverpeaks 21pt t6
7. Sorrow Furnace 21pts t6
8. Ferguson Crossing 20pt t8
9. Eredon Terrance 17pt t7
10. Devona Rest 15pt t8
11. Kaineng 13pts t5
12. Anvil Rock 7pts t8

The only thing the points totals shows is which servers had the hardest match-ups or gave-up early over the past 2 months. It is interesting to see that SoS had it the easiest over the past 2 months. Now I can see why Maguuma is always complaining on forums.

If you normally wvw you will have tanky gear and a low crit. Precision>Power in that situation. If you are under 40% crit I would go with precision.

Their is a magic find booster. Which is way better than the idea of a luck booster. 50%mf for a hour vs 50% more luck per hour. No way to gain enough luck to equal 50% magic within a hour.

Out of all the post and data I have read the amount of luck you get per rarity is something like this: Ecto ~100luck, Greens ~20 luck, and Blues ~10luck.

aeneq.1760:

Salvaging 20k times for <500g return is just an insane amount of work given the return…

It takes around 2hrs to salvage that 20k items with crude salvage kits. With the copper fed salvage kit it takes around 80mins. Not really alot of work just alot of clicking. People are measuring the value of the copper fed salvage kit base on reducing cost not increasing profit. If I salvage fast I make more money per hour so I have more free time.

As far as the amount of profit you can make from salvaging whites that varies with the market and how many items you normal salvage per hour. During the Bazaar was making 35gold per hour from salvage but on a normal day I would make 10-15gold per hour depending on the market and if I get the supply(that takes awhile). It is like 10-15 minutes of salvaging whenever I get supply in.

Ecto>Green>Blues for luck items. Well did not take long for all of the blue/greens to disappear from TP. They are holding at double the price since patch. Still curious why would people put up the blues/greens at a non profitable price. TP an item 1 copper higher than the sell value will make you lose money.

Brutaly.6257:

That math is a bit off.

Power is the main damage stat and each point of power is more worth worth given that critical damage is equal.

Check out gw2buildcraft.com for effective power and you wont get the mess of doing the math.

Been to the site before did not know they added assassin stuff. Then I notice that the site side did not include based stats added 916 power/precision in on the manual tab. Hum 97% crit before buffs guess you are right. At the extreme you should aim for 80% crit before fury. Never been full berserker as a elementalist, so I tend to end up with 50-60% crit with tankier gear. Guess both are meant to balance tanky traits/gear.

No food, traits, buffs, sigil and it did not have an assassin backslot item so berserker for both.

Berserker: 2905power 2566precision 83% crit 71%crit damage ep=5807
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|6.5g.0|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.0.1g.0.1g.0.1g.0.1g.0.1g.0|2s.0.2s.0.3s.0.2s.0.3s.0.2s.0|0.0.0.0.0|0.0|0.0.0.0.0|e

Assassin: 2587power 2884precision 98% crit 71%crit damage ep=5645
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|6.5l.0|0.0.0.0.0.0|1l.0.1l.0.1l.0.1l.0.1l.0.1l.0|210.0.210.0.310.0.210.0.310.0.2s.0|0.0.0.0.0|0.0|0.0.0.0.0|e

Power is better than precision but everyone is forgetting about the crit damage. Your crits will hit for ~260%. That extra 15% crit will outweight the extra power because of it. The difference between main stat power and 2nd stat power is ~300power. You are hitting with -10% less power than berserker with assassin gear but you are critting ~15% more. Overall you will be doing slightly more damage with assassin gear than berserker.

Will their be a league specific map like only EB counts for league points? Because some of the low population servers may only be able to queuing up one map. The difference between the tiers is so huge. If everyone only has one map to worry about it would help.

The footsteps are nice but why did they remove the blue/purple streak effect? I just hope the night time effects is awesome. I know the kraitkin only looks good at night.

I do not want footsteps for some of the legendaries but a floating trail of light or something esle. Footstep are to common. Footsteps are every color of the rainbow but they are not that unique.

~15ranks since patch and I have gotten 3. Still they are a rare items. So if you add up all of the wxp level listed they are a 4/55 levels so far.

Will this issue be fix anytime soon? If so will I get rewarded for the dozens of reports I have sent in?

Articluna.4509:

Nice, 600k~salvages in 2 weeks. You know, it doesn’t pay itself back in 10-20c per salvage but that 0.52 per salvage. Unless, ofcourse, you’d have NOT salvaged those items otherwise.

This being said and bragged, I’ve atm 3,632,665 salvages under my belt in bit under year which should mean 300k~salvages a month. Payback time would be around 2 months Then again, time saved with salvage-o-tron is big factor that I haven’t counted in copper. That’s the real saving you get – time.

Yes I really took into account the time saved factor and did not talk about it. Since I was not sure of the exact amount of extra items I could salvage per hour. It is something like a 20-25% increase in the amount of items I can salvage now. The time save is why I was saying it would pay for itself in 2weeks. It is an increase in profit per hour, assuming I have the supplies to salvage.

Vagrant.7206:

So I looked at the copper-fed salvage-o-matic and was absolutely mortified at Arenanet’s decision making on this one. It only counts as a basic salvage kit, and does not recover weapon or armor upgrades (nearly as useful as a crude salvage kit)

Copper-fed Salvage-o-matic: 800 gems = 31g12s
Cost per use: 3c

Basic Salvage Kit: 88c
Cost per use: 3.52c (88c/25 uses)

Right off the bat, you can tell that this is a bad deal. 0.52 copper per use better with the salvage-o-matic compared to the basic salvage kit?

Then, if we calculate the cost of the salvage-o-matic with money traded as gems (using current values), the salvage-o-matic costs 31g12s. In order to make up that difference by salvage uses alone, you would need to salvage nearly 600,000 items to make up the money lost by buying this thing. The only “benefit” is that it never breaks, which is a pretty mild benefit.

Heroes of today are busy; they’re always on the move and always looking for innovative ways to save on time and money.

Riiiiiight.

TL; DR: ArenaNet, what were you thinking? How is this a deal worth buying? Even the convenience factor doesn’t compare — I’d rather have 10 basic salvage kits sitting in my inventory than spend 31g or $10 for this.

It is a luxury item that players with gold/money can get. The cost per salvage is slightly cheaper than a basic salvage kit and has the same effect. As for it paying for itself, players who make money off of salvage(like me) tend to make an average of 10-20c per salvage. For me it will pay for itself in 2weeks. It save time since you do not have to click multiple salvage kits.

I assume FoW gained a guild. That is all it take to make a large difference at the lowest tier. One guild add more coverage and wvwers.

If you are looking for skilled players go to Spvp. WvWranks are mostly about how long people spend in wvw. The most wxp comes from PvD>Havoc>Zerging.

As far as wxp balance hopefully the update will fix some of that. Making defending more worthwhile or improving the amount of wxp people get from deciding to treb. Some of the the important task to winning wvw are the least rewarding.

So are their any plans to increase the amount of wxp given to people who are trebbing towers/keeps? Trebs are the only way to take a defended t3 fortress but it takes ~20min to take down a fortified wall (with 2 trebs). During that time my guild took 2 towers, 3 camps and wiped 2 zergs. Even though trebbing is a good strategy it is not worthwhile for the people who decide to treb.

You miss out on some many rewards while only get 60wxp when the wall finally drops and you do not get credit when your zerg finally caps the tower/keep. Trebbers should get percentage of a destroyed wall wxp per hit or an increase amount of wxp when the wall is destroyed. So if someone decide to treb a fort wall or any wall they will get some wxp that that makes it worthwhile for them.

The unlimited salvage kit save time. For players that salvage to make money(like me) it will pay for itself in 2weeks. So it is useful to few not useful to most. Just another luxury item like the sickle or axe. If you have alot of money or salvage to make money buy it, otherwise it is not worthwhile.

No wxp should not be readjusted base off of how long you played. True Havoc is more wxp than zerging it is constant wxp. No stopping to defend(unless it is a upgraded base), killing roamers and having fun. That is how I got most of my rank.

I want the focus to leave a trait of floating musical notes and to make every hit on a enemy like throwing confetti of music notes. The meteologius should have some type of storm cloud following you overhead or random weather effects happening around your body. The Kraitkin only looks like a legendary at night on a Asura, so make the daytime effects bigger. I want those 3 legendary to have more unique effects than the rest. Most of the caster legendaries seems like they were an after thought for A-net. I do not want the rainbow stick :P (Bitfrost).

Still wondering if A-net will every do anything with the ugly legendaries. Similiar to Blizzard soon this will happen, meaning months or years. The first month of the game people complain once the minstrel was made and what happen. A-net improved the warrior legendaries. It has been 10months, so its easy to see that A-net are ignoring casters legendaries.

I mostly do small group stuff and it is very fun with some of your friends. Their tends to be more small groups in T1/T2. In t1 their is a high chance of running into another small group at the first camps you go to. If you watch the camp counter in the WvW ppt it is easy to tell which server has the most small groups active.

Entropy was 250g earlier and still selling. It is the best looking none legendary hammer in game atm.

Fuzzion.2504:

NA 1-BG 2-SoR 3-JQ
SEA 1-JQ 2-BG 3-TC
EU 1-SoR 2- BG 3- No one else even comes close

Hum I do not remember JQ NA being strong than TC. On the weekend maybe but the weekdays we were dominate over JQ’s NA. So most of the week our NA was stronger.

I am curious how would you rank the servers WvW coverage for each timezone. NA, Oceanic, SEA and EU? I know BG has the biggest Oceanic/SEA and SoR the biggest NA, but what about EU? Which NA server has the most EU wvwers?

Hum this is still going on.