Guild Wars 2

Khisanth.2948:

Vennyhedgie.5369:

Well if I had known I wouldn’t have destroyed mine :/
It would be nice if there was another way to get this kind of gear other than the starting sequence

Are you aware of the method to do that using a second character slot?

All my slots are full already

Well if I had known I wouldn’t have destroyed mine :/
It would be nice if there was another way to get this kind of gear other than the starting sequence

I did get 3 (or 5, can’t remember) from a chest a week ago. But that’s about it. They can be obtained without using the gem store, just really really rare

Blackgate is bugged too.

On iron marches map, a couple of displaced spirits seem to like getting up (or even inside) trees!

You could actually see Zomorros during the karka event once, when talking to Miyani about he karkas, mighty Z would answer some questions about them, and you could see a portrait of him.

Had Rodgort for a couple weeks, it already had footsteps but no aura, still didn’t get any update on this patch tho, so there’s not sure you’ll get auras anytime soon

proxy.7963:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

How could anyone possibly take me seriously if I equipped the Quip and shot bubbles and confetti at them? I want a more bad kitten pistol, please.

Specifications for New Legendary Pistol:
1) Must be at least twice the size of regular pistol, preferably three times;
2) Must be black. Design must be completely impractical. Spikes everywhere;
3) On fire too? Fire is bad kitten always on fire;
4) Shoots smaller pistols that then fire knives;
5) Needs to be loud. Make it sound like the roaring of an angry Norse God. I want to read reports of people’s ears bleeding;
6) Emotes when fired: ‘rulez r 4 foolz’. There is no way for other players not to have this emote appear in their chat window if the wielder is on the same map;
7) Sends whispers to wielder complimenting them on their prowess in love and war;
8) No-one understands how it works, like no-one understands your heart;
9) Unsure about the name, but it must involve a combination of at least four different bad kitten words, ie; ‘Wolf’, ‘Midnight’, ‘Slaughter’, ‘Blood’, ‘Axe’. No, it does not matter if it is a pistol with the word ‘Axe’ in its’ name.

I expect my royalty cheque in the post for designing this masterpiece.

This post, so much win lol

Aside for the couple stealth ideas I don’t agree with, everything else is pretty much true. Really kudos for this post. I agree that some classes , though it might look interesting on paper, are not really well implemented, specially on a pvp basis. I don’t even play pvp, these two classes are what are turning me off from it. Yes I know there’s ways to fight them, but comparatively speaking they are way too hard to hit, at least compared to other classes. Mesmer is still somewhat ok since it’s a light armor and medium HP, making it kinda squishy (unless built tanky), so once you get rid of the closes, they are pretty much done. But thieves are another story. You can’t directly target them, you need to use aoe, and some classes just don’t have enough.
I also agree with how making a player unable to act is a poor design choice. Yes, I can get an enemy one shotting me if it’s somewhat predictable or avoidable. But we all know there’s tons of mobs with knockdowns which will make you unable to act and kill you instantly unless you have a stun breaker or stability skill on your utilities, which might not always be the case. Even on the very first dungeon we get those scavengers. I’m pretty sure everyone knows what I’m talking about. And that’s not even a boss

Ah I forgot, he’s White furred and gold stripped, hence the name xD The armor only goes with his natural color

RyuDragnier.9476:

You so mean Oro. T_T

6/10, because of the pun. CHARR NEED NO PUNS.

Lol sorry I just thought it was a funny coincidence xD

Main is Oro Blanco (means white gold) charr guardian. A knight in shining white…and gold armor

6/10 because Zar is my cousin’s dog name lol

I have 7 charrs so, to avoid the list, I’ll do them one by one. First is my ele, Charrged Lodestone. He gets all the kittens~

One of my guildies has it, but didn’t bother to take pics, you can find twilights everywhere

I’m pretty sure I got the infinity loop out of path 1 on CoE (the recipe I mean). Also got Subject alpha to drop Soulshard (Exotic named dagger) on his second fight on path 2.

zencow.3651:

Static.9841:

Wow, really? Because someone found something you didn’t, it’s really unfair? This is just massive entitlement. Go out and grind dungeons if you want it so badly. Do you make forum posts every time a precursor gets sold on the TP because they had the RNG fortune that you didn’t?

Yes, I do. And I don’t feel the sense of entitlement is unjustified. I’ve grinded my way to BiFrost but since other legendary grinders seemingly all have these OP recipes will get their SECOND legendaries up to FIVE TIMES FASTER than I would. This is much worse than precursor RNG since it affects income at a MASSIVE level. Precursors are a one-off payment that can be easily sneezed off. Winning a precursor is like winning a small lottery but getting one of these recipes is like getting paid 5x more for doing the same amount of work.

I’m still here and willing to grind. I deserve an equal footing but RNG does not provide this. Anyone who doesn’t realise how broken this and think my sense of entitlement is invalid can suck my fat rainbowy charr kitten.

Are you even aware of what you’re saying? First, to actually earn the money someone has to BUY them. Their demand is so ridiculously low compared to precursors it’s not even comparable. Yes, I got a lucky shot and got the CoE recipe. Am I rich? LOL hell no, I make maybe 5 to 7 gold out of a ring…every 3 runs. Is it really that bad? and that’s with buy instant offers because even if you list them, almost nobody wants them. Honestly, I understand the RNG fixing stuff for items you need like ascended on fractals, or even legendaries (though they’re not mandatory), but this..this is thought to be a lucky shot, it’s meant to be a way to earn money. All mmo’s have some of these lucky shot stuff, and honestly it should stay like that.

So apparently with the last patch something broke, because bugs that were supposed to be solved are coming back. I did arah story mode to help a friend and there was no music at all from the first dragon champion till the end. Also, just had to leave an AC instance because Detha wouldn’t trigger the mortar event on the final room. AFAIK these were bugs that were solved on previous patches and they seem to be coming back. Please devs, take a look on those.

Fixing guardian shouts? Please tell me you’re fixing that. I wanna know when I have the buffs y’know

Yeah just a locked-in-combat weapon swap would be great. Having to go to the H menu every time is annoying. Just lock it in combat, and keep us two weapon sets, it’s not that hard. We’re losing 2 inventory spaces after all.

I support this. I’m an earth condition damage ele build, and would love my other stats to be survival since condition is damage over time (what time am I going to get if I 2 hit die). When I was setting up my build and realized I was forced into precision if I wanted toughness and it’s just a wasted stats since conditions can’t crit. I think if anet wants all classes to go whatever way they want to avoid the trinity, they should give ALL possible combinations of stats. Problem is I’m trying to get an apothecary set of trinkets to compensate the lack of vitality and it’s pricy as hell, making it way too hard to build, and not really worth it. I would really hope new combinations of stats on future updates.

This is why I don’t believe in single weapon builds. If you have to depend on a weapon to win, you are not a good enough player IMO. Weapons have lots of uses and may come in handy in very different situations. I always carry one of each possible equipable weapon for each character. This is specially important on eles who cannot change weapons during combat.

Since I need a full apothecary set I started gathering them yesterday, I’ll be posting my finds here if anyone wants to track it down. I’m using 2 lvl 80 characters for a full run for passion flowers at southsun cove.
1st day – 0 passion flowers.
2nd day – 2 passion flowers.
3rd day – 0 passion flowers. (Went with a guildie so count as another 1 full run)
4th day – 0 passion flowers. (Happened to be gethering when the patch came out so I got to gather some nodes twice)
5th day – 0 passion flowers. This is getting ridiculous. I had both guild 10% gathering bonus and WvW 6% bonus (I even got to farm a same node 5 times). The weirdest thing is I got a ruined plant fiber with an ORI sickle, can someone explain me this please?)
6th and 7th day- 0 again. Okay, I’m done with this kitten lol
(I’ll keep editing this post on the following days.)

To be fair, I’d say investing in Healing power is pretty much useless past a certain point. It doesn’t scale fast, you’ll barely notice the difference

It’s getting stupid. I started with my legendary 3 months ago and it’s getting harder and harder to get anything. I don’t care if it’s supposed to be a long term goal, a dedicated player, if he so chose, should be allowed to farm, even if devs don’t consider it fun. It’s a damn MMO, farming is like the core of all MMOs.

I think I’ve only completed 1 out of 3 tries average on fractals. This is getting insane. I’m tired of wasting so much time with this pathetic excuse for a dungeon. Faked difficulty by introducing unavoidable damage (don’t get me wrong, I know it can be avoided, but if it hits you, you’re done), RNG dependent progression, and flawed system with DCs and defeats. Seriously it gets annoying when someone screws up in, say, the blizzard fractal, they die somewhere you can’t revive them, and the whole team has to pay for one’s mistake.

This game is unbalanced and poorly designed when it comes to damage. Yes, anet, keep calling 1hit KO skill. Oh hey, subject alpha? That is a joke. Agony? Don’t even get me stared.
Let’s make a new mechanic where the player just dies, total fun.
They really need to rethink their idea of challenge. 1hko is all you find in this game

Funny how when someone gets a precursor it’s always dusk, and not any other one. This leads me to think that those people lie, since most are going for twilight, a lot of people are running around with dusk till they make it, and they probably want to troll.

If it’s true though, then they might be worth doing the JP

Smooth Penguin.5294:

>Balance is in the eye of the beholder. My guild knows the perfect spot to farm Charged Lodestones. We can get 1 to 5 per hour (with MF gear of course).

I can sell you all you need directly if you want. I’ll do 1 silver cheaper than TP.

By Odgen’s hammer, what savings!

Don’t listen to the kids who only want the shiny greatsword everyone has. It’s nice to see not everyone is going for the same. Congrats!

Not entirely sure if this is a bug or it’s my graphics card messing up but it’s pretty odd. Whenever Post processing is set to None (which I use quite often to get higher FPS) the lightning hammer skill causes a light box to appear around the hammer item or on a player who’s holding it when hovering the mouse over them. This doesn’t happen when Post processing is set on Medium or higher. Also not sure if this happens with the Exotic hammer Mjolnir too, haven’t come across one yet.

Mighty Assasin.3816:

So if I want my legendary account medal, I need to create two of the harder legendaries to make?
(I’m in the process of making sunrise)
But someone who makes a focus…
Gets the medal?

Just because it’s a focus doesn’t mean it’s not hard to make. In fact half the process of getting a legendary is common. I don’t get why anyone would go for the focus considering how ugly it is, but I for example am almost done with Dragon Maw, and it still has taken me a good 2-3 months to make

Nice reference I must say. Would be hilarious to see a Scarborough fair pistol skin

Today I ran into someone who had 3 legendaries, that should simply not be possible. Someone has been abusing the TP way too much. What people don’t get is, the main problem with this game is prices for items are not fixed. If I recall correctly ANet said no player’s time should be more valuable than others. With this kind of market, that is simply a big fat lie. Why am I ok with the icy runestones? Because they’re fixed. If you want everyone to pay the same effort for the same item, then they should be fixed. RNG is ruining your game ANet, yet you fail to see that.

But the ost version doesn’t have the voices, which kinda give the ominous feeling to the song, kinda a shame.

I don’t mean the song titled “Zhaitan” but the one that plays while you fight him. It doesn’t seem to be on the OST, and I wonder why, because it is pretty epic. I wondered if anyone knew the name of the song (sounds similar to There be Dragons, but it isn’t quite the same).

phantomdust.4729:

Why does your experience invalidate everyone else’s experience?

Internet, basically.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

This is why most MMO’s do 1 boring content update every 6 months. When they try to do something fun and exciting a small group of people just have to go and ruin it for everyone.

They announced this event 3 weeks in advance. They sent out emails, forum posts, facebook posts, twitter updates, etc.

If you didn’t attend the event it is your own fault not Anet’s. If it really meant that much to you then you would have planned it into your schedule. 3 weeks is more then enough time notice to plan these things. Most important events in real life don’t even get 3 weeks notice.

Wow…you have absolutely no idea.
First off, even if there’s weeks of announcements, it IS anet’s fault half the globe is missing such a huge event. They could have just made it timezone dependant. Make it happen, say, at noon on the american servers, and at noon (7 hours earlier) at european servers. I’m an european player playing in an american server (because my guild is there) and I had to stay up till 3am to finish this laggy event. And what do I get? A 70s worth harpoon gun skin I can’t even use because I’m a guardian. Ok, I have bad luck, I have to face it, though I’m not gonna say I’m not jealous since I’ve been working on my legendary over the past month and a half.
The problem is, yes it’s just “a game”, but for some people it can mean a lot much than you expect. I never played GW1 so my impression on anet is solely based on this game. I got the collector’s edition for starters, which means I paid almost 3 times what other paid for the game (of course this is entirely my decision), and I dedicate nearly all my time to this game since it’s nearly the only thing I have to keep me entertained. I’ve got some severe changes in my life this year and I’m pretty much living alone in a whole new city, which means I don’t know anyone, I’m away from my family and friends, and this is the only thing I have to spend my free hours to. Some hours of dedication and hard work towards a goal that’s just been randomly made easier for some just for the fact of being american (because of the timezones).
Yes I did loot the chest. And I’m happy with my 20 slot bag, and my ancient karka shell. You know why? Because everyone had their fair bet there. I could have dropped midway the event but decided to stay, laggy as it was, because I thought “I’m sure there’s a friggin’ awesome reward at the end. Maybe even an ascended gear”. Little did I know I would get a 70s harpoon gun which could barely pay for repairs and travels. 3 hours I could have otherwise, been farming as usual, and earn a lot more. Equal playtime value, my 4$$.
There’s just NO excuse for anet with this big failure. I’ve been getting a bad impression off them with how poorly managed this game is. A game where the rewards from doing the main quests (hearts) are lower than what you have to pay just for traveling. This is a bad design no matter what. Basing the game on the free market is a bad design. And mind you, not to brag about it, but I’m a game design student, and this is just wrong with everything I’ve been taught so far.
In all honestly, I AM jealous of those who got a precursor, like pretty much everyone else who says “I don’t mind”. It’s basic human psychology. From an objective point of view here tho, it’s not anet’s fault since after all precursors ARE exotics after all and thus you get a chance at every exotic roll. I’m just unlucky. But still, all this fuzz can be solved by just making this event happen in this area periodically (it’s a lvl 80 area after all, you HAVE to work to get in there), an area which doesn’t have too much to be done now anyway, so why not give players the chance of getting the ONLY rewarding loot roll there is in the game? Because dragon chests are a joke.
Ok, I gave my two cents, now back to farming for another 300 more hours to get those lodestones.

Kajetan.3146:

armour exotic or weapon exotic venny?

If you mean buying, nope sorry. I already got some exotic armor I can’t even use because it’s light (this should be looked into too).

Got a named exotic but it wasn’t a precursor. Don’t remember the name and I can’t log back in :/ I’m willing to buy a colossus if someone minds to save it

I…actually find it funny.
This guys is so becoming a meme lol

So I’ve tried to join some friends from the spanish server twice, and kept getting an error, something that never happened with people from other american servers (I’m on Crystal Desert). This doesn’t seem to be just me since one of my guildies from Crystal Desert was coming with me and he got the same error aswell. When trying to get into a dungeon instance (joining) we got the Network error message. When creating, my friends over the spanish server got the error instead. This only seems to happen when I try to play with people from the spanish server Baruch Bay[SP].
So is this intentional or is it a bug? It happened on different days so I’m guessing there’s some sort of issue, and if there is, hoping it is fixed someday.

Bonscha.6473:

gaborkaldy.3210:

I would really reform the meaning of precursor. What if you get an unusable weapon at character creation what you carry with yourself during your character evolution. It gets stronger and stronger while you explore the game. It gets first blue than green rare, exotic etc with reaching major points in game. When you reach 80, when you finish all dungeons all path, you kill 5000 ppl in WvW, when you hit 1-2-3-4 …. crafting to max etc etc etc. And when you completed all you can turn that into a precursor by an npc.

And THIS is an epic idea!
Obviously, it has to be applied to all existing characters… But hey, this absolutely makes sense and I like the idea a lot.
Make them chose after 10 levels or so, which weapon style they want to choose and get them the low-level precursor to “level it up” as they go.

(sorry for double-post)

And since you’re the one creating the legend on said precursor/legendary, it would be cool to have the crafter’s name on the weapon, as in “Eir’s bow”. Say your character name is Thor, then have “Thor’s Colossus” (the hammer precursor).
You should be able to get 2 precursors (Since you’re getting 2 gifts of exploration anyway) per character with this leveling method.

In the ingame description for the recipe it states that it’s used to craft Incinerator (only). Dragon’s Maw/Rodgort is not mentioned even though it is needed for its creation. This is a pretty minor error since most people just look at the recipes online but it should still be addressed.

Samandar Khan.6821:

People who has it didnt work hard for the precursor they get it by using exploits or drops …

I don’t agree with this. I am currently on my way to get Rodgort and I’ve been working hard for over the past month, I already have the precursor since it was rather cheap on the TP, but any other materials are equally hard to get for ALL legendaries. I still have to get all the ectos, wood (or metal), I already got the 200SP, missing clovers and the Gift of Exploration (hit 90% today), though I do have some other necessary ingredients such as Gift of Baelfire or the sigil.
BUT, I still don’t think the precursors have been properly implemented. This game does NOT give money easily, even if you work with the TP. I can tolerate the RNG for materials such as lodestones, that’s ok (though it’s still a money pool to get sometimes, depending on which ones you’re aiming for), why you may ask: easy, you know what you have to kill to get it (I know I have to kill a destroyer to get a chance on destroyer lodestones). Most games do it that way. (I.E.: Ragnarok online had a rare card system where you had a 0.01 chance on getting a card out of a monster you killed, which meant you only had to focus on killing the same kind all over again. Of course this can be seen as boring but at least gives you a GOAL. There’s no goal in getting the precursor, it’s just luck. And in all my playtime, even with full magic find armor, I still don’t remember a single Exotic drop outside map completion rewards and such, yet alone a precursor of course)
Even though statistically they all have the same probability, one of them is just 40g and some are 500g. There’s no fun factor on it, there’s only frustration. I have been playing over 400 hours total with all my characters and I hardly believe I have gotten over 200g during that progress. What am supposed to play over 1k hours to get a precursor? When you finish your map it rewards you with TWO gifts of exploration, implying you should get two legendaries maybe? Oh ok, let’s play for another thousand hours then. No problem.
Let’s be fair, this game takes your money away with everything, completing a mission gives you 2s at maximum, while WPing takes up to 5. It’s just stupid and it doesn’t work. Selling a lvl 80 item gives you nearly the same amount of money than selling a lvl 20 item…Do you devs know what’s the sense of progression?
I must say, I love the game, even if it has a LOT of flaws to fix, and I’m getting a legendary out of pure personal challenge, I couldn’t care less about the achievement or the skin. It’s almost as if the game told you that’s what you have to do when you reach the endgame, yet devs expect NOT everyone to do it? Are you serious?

TL;DR: Guess I needed a rant time, I guess it can be seen as improductive, but I need to say something: Not all of us getting (or trying to) a legendary are cheaters or exploiters, some of us are taking the time and challenge it means to earn one legendary, but there’s always that unbeatable step none of us can virtually achieve alone: the precursor. No matter what you do, it doesn’t depend on you, only luck. This is just poor game design for Anet’s part, and it should be fixed (I’m not asking for an easy solution, I still want a challenge, but something I can achieve by my own means)

Just to clarify, all this is coming from someone who actually has the precursor already. Thanks for your attention. A pseudo frustrated yet hard working player.

Sprinkles.6748:

Wheres the fun if everyone can easily get everything?

It’s a holiday event. It’s supposed to be a celebration for everyone to have fun. And most of what I’ve seen is frustration and anger, and some sporadic cases of suicide attempt because of the clock tower

Happened to me too. Gas was gone until the next round started. STILL couldn’t beat it. It’s not only the camera and the timer, puzzle by itself is pretty kitten hard

The puzzle itself is not hard, the problem most people are having with it is the camera being screwed up all over.Being a charr this is a common problem, and I think norn too. Also another big problem is the collision boxes with both big characters and the level itself, making it frustratingly difficult to tell where you exactly are

Got it too, and though it’s not a bug I do have a complain about it. The blade’s model seems to be a 2D plane, it doesn’t have any width. It’s pretty ugly looking in this current generation, I think it should be upgraded

Also, Zhaitan’s battle theme is not in the ost either, other dragon fighting themes are in, why not his?

3 greens…2 of which are unusable by my profession. I saw this coming

Happened to me too, was in party chat and it suddenly changed to say. Doesn’t seem to be happening today though, so I don’t know