Guild Wars 2

Goodbye dear friend. We were back together for only one night, but we had fun. QQ

So candy corn returned and for the third day of the events is holding at 60+ cc and seems to be a lot more limited drop wise than last year. Fascinating foresight by whomever bought out the lat year’s supply before the events once again.

Steelo.4597:

its now basically either melandru+lemongrass or cleansing ire+burst mastery. warhorn is not an option anymore for condi cleansing and there is no reason to use it anymore as the condi cleansing has been cut in half.

Forgot to address your pot in my previous one. It being true that warhorn looses some of the condi cleanse it still remains very viable in guild group WvW considering it has perma speed, one of the few viable blast finishers and vigor buffing.

What are we talking here? Spvp? WvW solo in zerg? WvW guild groups (20+)?

I’m playing mainly as part of a guild group in WvW and for me Hammer got only buffs, never did run para sigil on hammer in the circumstances, fire and bloodlust are my choices. Para sigil feels rather useless because of the nature of the fight, doesn’t matter if it’s 2 sec or 3 sec, unless the enemy stun breaks out into a dodge in the first second he will die.

Now the lung capacity, warhorn fix and leg specialist(if not fixed) gives me a pause. The balance of a standard worker 0/0/30/30/10 hammer/sw+wh warrior shifts from offense to defense to a point where it’s questionable if it’s worth running a pre patch balanced warrior. (I’m calling a balanced warrior something like ~20+% crit, 2,9+def, 28+k hp, str primary stat).

Leg specialist without icd is simply incredible and was practically a must before nerf. If it stays you will be seeing a lot more hammer/gs warrior variations running in guild groups again for sure. I’m not seeing a standard worker taking it simply since condition removal is taking a huge hit when considering WH nerf , which gets compensated by lung capacity with soldier runes. I really don’t want to get a headache over Leg Specialist until we find out if it’s intended or a fast fix tho.

In the end I must say these changes open up a lot of room for build variation.

You mean my strategy of pulling out a ranged weapon to auto attack the candy man simultaneously tabbing out to watch a movie is flawed?

Thanks for the fights on saturday JS border. That final Garrison fight… hope you enjoyed the successful defense as much as we did the half hour fight inside of the lord room.

Do not run, we are your friends.

Bags huh. Well maybe, although I fully expect Anet to go in line with the Holo Wings and Jorbreakers. 100k candy corn for a bag or random drop.

Ye gods I will be quite miffed if it turns out Candy Corn is actually very valuable. -tinfoil hat on- And some people just knew in advance. -hat off-

So Candy Corn jumped over 1s/piece, unexpected for me personally.

People speculating that the drop rate will be way less than what it was the first time around? They already confirmed you will get personal candy corn nodes for your home instances, doesn’t seem to be the case. People want some of those rewards, bought presumably for candy corn, the day it comes out?

Insider knowledge? I really don’t see a reason for this sort of jump, betting on a much lower drop rate seems too risky to me.

Aberrant.6749:

8000 scraps isn’t that much to sell when the demand is going to go nuts but the supply will remain the same. That’s only 32 stacks of scraps (not 80) or 16 stacks of bolts (how they’ll wind up being used by players after processing).

80 stacks is slightly more than 8k units. And I’m already counting profits at current prices and as numerous other people said, the situation atm is akin to the ancient wood one and arguably will be even worse supply wise later, so I’m fine. Just need to be sure to sell at the right time, sold my ancient wood too early, never expected it to shoot that high up (15s a piece was it?).

@Volt; No need to go all defensive, it’s mostly friendly banter in order to keep the thread alive, never doubted the truth of your words. I personally find you a very sly and intelligent person worth listening to.

@Volt fan-club; Yes we all love the man, I really like how his posts get the attention, especially since most of them benefit me (and I’m certain many of you) due to their price raising nature, no matter if the man himself intended it or not.

Volt, the man stating the obvious and simultaneously driving the prices up. Personally I make sure to throw in gems like “Sheesh did you see the gossamer prices?” followed by the armor links before/after Tequatle killing in community channels or big world events. 80 stacks of gossamer won’t sell themselves. Rock on.

You wouldn’t believe how many people running in WvW actually have a very, very limited grasp of English or none at all, especially spoken. Makes cooperation rather difficult. Ups and downs.

Good show at yesterdays Viz border Garrison fight to VSS and respect to the commander that was able to keep the discipline up among all the randoms.
Looks like we will need to think of creative ways to counter your guild numbers and the games technical limitations in the scale of engagements you are comfortable with once the league comes around.

If Piken gets stacked on par with SFR/VS we MIGHT actually have real WvWvW! \o/ Not this WvW we have now. :P

This entire thread… brb getting some torches to light up this troll cave. Maybe a rug.

Different item drop every year was common in gw1? Now THAT is interesting. A rather long shot to be fair though.

Double rare tops, refer to scarlet invasion and it’s 45 min timer.

So it seems demand dropped and/or the hoarders started getting rid of excess Candy Corn supply a month before the return of the Halloween event. The sell price dropped by roughly 30% in the past week.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/36041

Is this a glimpse of things to come with the other recurring event goods dear speculator friends? Feel free to went your thoughts.

Spidy is out of sinch on gem price for the longest while. Just get online and in the “buy gems” tab enter 1 gold to see the real conversion rate. Which hangs at ~20 gem per 1 gold.

It is quite funny. The more people join SFR the more chance the wvw community will up and leave due to queues. So yeah transfer to SFR only if you don’t mind taking the risk of being stranded on a server with no organisation, or ready to pay for a transfer out once your cooldown is up. I think Arena net wins either way.

But yeah, in the spirit of the other guys.
SFR IS NOT RECRUITING. QUEUES ARE 4h+. GET OFF OUR LAWNS. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME.

Vashoom.8512:

BLKey run guide here; https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Fastest-Possible-BL-Key-Run-22m

And the price? Since you can obtain a key in 20 minutes think they are way overpriced on the gem store. 125 gems for 1x, which is almost 4 gold.. most people don’t make 4 gold in 20 minutes so they are more likely to do a black lion key run than to buy them from the gem store, am I wrong?

Almost 4 gold? Last I checked you could buy only 20 gems per 1 gold, and the rate seems to have stabilized in that range. So the question is can you steadily farm up 6g per 22 min (key run) currently?

You can’t get it at the moment afaik. You will have to wait for the crown pavilion to open up again as said emissary was inside the pavilion.

Ooooh, placing stealth disruptor against a keep tagging rogue. Excuse me, I have some rogues to catch. Ho ho.

Just wait till the rest of the classes get wind of this. I’m salivating just thinking of this.

Granted the good old skull crack with sigil got a 0,55 sec nerf, but hey, you can’t have them all.

This update is the first one I can remember that I didn’t have all achies done 5 days in. Now due to bugs or content amount is another question

The part of OP’s post where he mentioned people meeting in a JP to conspire made me laugh out loud. I would like to see some sort of “Beta patch notes” where they list changes. Those may or may not make it into the game, but will give everyone equal footing.

I wasn’t really interested in the Royal Terrace at the start. The pass dropped off a destroyer. I went in and oh boy I can’t stand the thought of having to return to all the filthy peasants in LA. Stocked up on passes. I dread the day they all run out.

Please uncle A-net I need another fix and soon.

Farming directly for t6 is the slowest option available. Especially if you need it in large quantities. Time wise I’d wager the best way is to get a dungeon group going to run daily and minimize what it takes to clear em. Convert all resources from there to t6 (gold, drops, badges into armor into ecto). Treat it like a long term project

Why does everyone ignore one more major change in the economy? The greens and blues are currently being salvaged en masse not vendored. That’s a large chunk of money “out of thin air” that gets converted to supply of materials. Now the second part is important for us since people get less money that they can spend on purchases from BLTP. Meaning less stuff bought – lower prices.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

So apart from the Acc Bound weapon skins and minis, is there any reason to farm baubles? In terms of converting them to gold.

Stacked up on Royal Passes. I just can’t go back to LA and all the filthy peasants there. And lag. :<

Heh. Personally I was quite surprised when the Tp returned a bunch of items I was flipping. Should have noticed they had MF stats on em ^^ Oh well. Dark matter globs hooooo.

renmei.3102:

Vizunah Square is guaranteed #1, please transfer there.

What this man said. Vizunah is the server to go to if you want the win. They are the only t1 EU server that plays the ppt game exclusively and are very, very good at it. They slack sometimes but always rebound almost instantly. Just check their win history so far.

Good luck Vizu!
From SFR with love

I am doing the gauntlet once a day (except Liadri) for some quick money and yet between destroyer farm and WvW I have a stack of the tickets and a second one growing. I never did the deadeye farm mind, so these are not bought.

I too am wondering if there will be some use for these in the future.

Tom Gore.4035:

In my experience the value of an opened deluxe gear box on average is far less than 30s + 30 sprockets. Don’t see why anyone would want to buy those.

Do you have statistics to show otherwise?

An opened box gives you a rare of a certain kind. Now you can actually choose what type of rare it will be, like the warrior one giving weapons (even the high value ones like GS, Hammer, Sword), or guardian one giving metal armor (the best return if salvaging for ecto, rune and ori). Throw in the chance for exotic, however small.

My purpose of the original post was to show there is a soft cap in ecto price at the moment since you can get high value rares (resalable weapons and salvageable metal armor) for ~35 silver. Considering the sprocket price shot up during the period I do believe some people found the investment worth it and probably made a good bit of coin while ectos were over 35s.

Ecto prices are kinda capped at the moment. Why? The gear boxes you can buy in pavillion for 30s+30 sprocket. Not sure if it’s worth stocking on rare and ecto that way tho. And yes, I have a substantial interest in the sprocket market

What is this? You mean you’ve lost the basement keys where you keep the night blobbers? Come on I’m hoping for another call to arms, otherwise following weeks will be boring with no one to fight.

Mod’s are asleep, post pie pictures? Or is it let loose Daecollo time?

Either way this thread has turned into a farce.

On topic I really like to have stun cc as another edge of pvp, which used to be condi, bunker or dead. Surprisingly the spvp’ers I know complain about mace/hammer more than mace/gs.

I am playing warrior.

bull kitten. 20s a rare? Let’s take a stack of ten that’s a 2g buy order. Now pre taxes, you gety 9/10 ectos at 23s a piece that’s 2,07g. You get 8/10 runes 4s roughly, that’s another 32s. Now in best case scenario you are salvaging metal and get ori at a 25% rate, that’s 2,5×4s=10s. Add 3s mithril. In total you get 2,52g worth of materials.

Now expenses. You were using master kit. thats about 6 s lost right there for the 10 charges, very roughly. Selling everything on TP add 15% total tax, selling a 2,52g worht of goods it’s about 38s. You are left with 2.52-0.06-0.38=2.08g

Total profit 8 silver. Add in the risk of RNG. Add in the work you put in salvaging making buy/sell orders. Don’t feel like it’s time efficient. Unless you grind Agent of Entrophy for the achi points. Which would make you a rather sick kitten. Or botting.

The biggest problem I’m facing is having completed most zones, just needing 2 from ascalon for full only to discover I have 8/13 counting to the achievement. Now I need to keep doing these over and over in hopes I find the one that didn’t count. AND THEN hoping it counts this time around.

They should just significantly decrease/flat out take away boxes from scaled up event champs and revert it to pre box drops. Less reason to run zone blobs for farms since scaled event champs were the money makers, still plenty of incentive to kill champions/finish up event if you happen to be close to the area.

Jordo.5913:

Dawdler.8521:

florence.1674:

What is 2 rares compared to the deluxe boxes you get just focusing on Aetherblade champions?

Roughly 10 times the loot since you get a couple of silver, a useless T5 and a green item in 99 out of 100 deluxe boxes?

two rares would net you about 30s…..i could get that with 6 deluxe boxes easy

You forget the amount of veterans that spawn with each champ wave. I haven’t filled my bags so fast since day 1 pavilion.

Personally I would love for the event completion to be worth more than aetherblades farm, sadly it isn’t and since this at the moment seems to be the best farm it is where I will be spending my time at.

With the disappearance of both pavilion and orr farm zergs I was wondering when people would start to farm aetherblades. Give it another day or two for more people to finish their Scarlet achievements and see Ember chat come to you at every invasion map: “DO NOT KILL CAPTAIN YOU *”. Especially seeing how this one is arguably more profitable than the embers, lots of champs and whats even better – veterans that spawn in big easily taggable clumps.

Hey, as back story, lost Aldon with reports of exploiting, with no walls/gate damaged. Got to Wildcreek in time to find these guys in Lord Room.

http://imgur.com/a/79XHH

As you can see both the gate and only breakable wall in the keep are ful HP. No attacks/white swords on either keep for 2 hours +. Not to mention you can’t really hide a Mesmer in Wildcreek.

Asking Anet to find out what’s going on and fixing the exploit, thanks.

Edit: Link.