Guild Wars 2

doesn’t matter if they are named or soulbound.

I have never had this problem.

1.) Just bad luck
2.) Don’t waste BL kits on rares. Only use them on exotics with very valuable runes that can be sold a lot more alone than when infused with the gear.

Holding off a 20 man Dragonbrand group at Quentin Lake with just 5 of us.

We had an arrow cart, a ballista, an ele and I think two guardians including myself.

Thanks to walls, we wiped them.

RNG is optional, not required.

You want to play the RNG game, go gamble on the forge.

If you don’t want that, go save the gold that you make and buy it.

Let’s give a conservative value of rare greatswords at 40s

That means you gambled 800g off on the forge instead of saving it up and buying it.

Not sure why you are complaining – you gamble and lost every single time. It’s no one’s fault except yours.

Ursan.7846:

Problem with rewarding players purely with skill is that it’s hard to enforce rarity based on challenges based on purely skill.

Of course, you CAN have rewards that reward skill, but it’s gonna be common as heck. Because whatever Anet designs, it’s either gonna be uber hard or easy enough that half the population can do it. If it’s uber hard, it becomes incredibly unfair to those who lack skill. What if you’re just not that good at jumping puzzles? What if your profession is just bad at soloing? And of course, on the flipside, if it’s doable by the majority of the population, it loses its “rare” status.

Again, not saying they shouldn’t. I personally think that completing all jumping puzzles should let you get a token or something that you can trade in for a “Jumping puzzle” themed skin. Nothing too fancy, but still a nice reward for those who love JPs.

So in order to enforce rarity, you have to introduce time/luck into the equation. Because in the end, time/luck is “fair.” Everyone can choose to invest more time. Everyone has a fair shot at getting something.

Like for example, Arah. It’s a pretty hard dungeon, requires a lot of skill to do, but Arah armor sets are VERY rare in this game. If you got the full armor set in just one run (pure skill) then that armor set would not be as rare. But since getting that armor set takes both skill AND time, it’s incredibly rare.

People in this forum like to talk about skill a lot. “Skill should be rewarded, blah blah blah.” While it’ll be nice, in a game it’s just incredibly hard to come up with metrics of “skill” that’s fair and can’t be gamed. So Anet uses time and luck to enforce rarity of items.

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It’s very hard to design a system based on skill while maintaining item rarity.

How exactly do you determine ‘skill’ in an MMO? And how do you program the game to properly recognize those skills and prevent exploits?

1st pic taken in October

2nd with my Bifrost back in December (got in November)

3rd with my Sunrise today (got in late December)

4th with my Flameseeker today (got it a few days ago)

Keep battles between Longview and Cliffview were pretty epic.

For all those complaining about lodestones, do you guys complain about T6 too? Do you guys farm them all or do you buy them?

If you buy them, then why not do the same for charged? You can’t possibly expect to farm all your lodestones.

1.) This thread will probably be edited and/or locked for including the supposed offending person’s name. How would you feel if I made another post stating that you scammed me?

Best to remove the person’s name.

2.) Your friend is at fault for being duped. Disappointed this stuff keeps happening

Item distribution should be tiered

Legendaries should be rewarded to the least amount of people while whites rewarded to the most, which is how it works in this game.

How are they rewarded? Time, gold and skill, with heavy emphasis on the former two.

John Smith.4610:

Tallis.5607:

Lenneth.1372:

I really think they need to adjust lodestone drops.

Then the prices of lodestones would drop

In a virtually economy like this one, that isn’t necessarily true. Because of the ease of entry, it’s not uncommon to see an item become more common, more players receive the item naturally and enter the market, creating more demand and increasing prices instead of decreasing prices.

Do you think vial of powerful bloods is an example of this?

Back in mid January the price of them was 10-20s. Now with the increased drop rates of T6 and moldy bags, the price of vial of powerful bloods has increased even more!

So what do you want exactly?

Guaranteed exotic to drop from a dragon?

MF is worth it when farming Orr.

crawlerxp.1536:

I have this happen a lot too, so no, it’s not just you. My friend also had it happen while we were playing together (happened to us at the same time). I just assumed it was due to more people actually being in the immediate area since Orr is now fun to play, although I can’t be sure since I never really kept track before. It is frustrating, though. I see all the players (I think?) but have a pack of mobs spawn on me defending Penitent camp. Seems to happen more for me in that one than any of the others.

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Orr right now is very profitable to farm. I’ve been farming it since October and it’s pretty obvious that there are more people there because it’s the best way to get gold. I don’t think they made any culling changes to PvE (they did minor ones to WvW) and so this issue has been there for quite awhile.

The best way to solve it is to learn the waves and to stand a bit farther from the zerg so that the mobs load first before other players.

Trust me, you do not want to do this.

Not only will you have to wait a long time, but you can make better profit investments with in-game items.

Opportunity cost, friend. You will be losing a lot.

One wouldn’t think so? It’s a different skin.

If you have a test server for the Lost Shores event, where is the excitement for the revealing? It’ll all go away.

I’m sure Arenanet has their own test servers and ‘public’ computers to test the game on in their headquarters.

Yeah I noticed how certain parts of the dyable areas don’t exactly match the dye color. Sometimes it’s a shade lighter or a shade darker.

But don’t trust the preview armor, sometimes you need to actually equip the item and dye and visually inspect it in game.

Josh,

Sorry that a few people here are so seemingly demanding and rude in their requests. I find your interaction with all of us positive and enlightening, and I hope you continue to answer our questions when you can ;D

Darn it.

Oh well.

Josh Foreman.8250:

RandomHominid.3456:

I have to say Scavenger’s Chasm is my favorite overall purely because it’s an actual puzzle. I also absolutely love the area with the running water, the water-worn holes, and just how beautiful it is overall inside. I’m a caver so maybe that has something to do with it, I prefer it for looks over the usually-preferred looks of Hidden Garden just because it’s so complex inside. It’s also impressive that nothing feels copy/pasted (in fact, very little in GW2 overall feels that way, which is very different than most massive games, especially cave systems). It’s also great that each JP is so different.

I want to say thanks for making these and the rest of the team for putting them in the game because it really does make the game more unique and I’m very glad that they’re a big enough success that you’re allowed to continue creating more!

Wow, thanks for the great compliments. I do some spelunking myself, which lead me to try to recreate a claustrophibic feeling in one of the WORST JPs in the game: Troll’s End. Which was NOT that bad until the camera got changed just before we shipped! But then I incorporated that claustrophobia with exploration in Chasm. Also, I sculpted most of the cave props and tunnels in the game, so I’m glad to hear they don’t appear copy-pasty.

There is a part at Troll’s End that infuriates me so much. It’s on the part where you are on the planks, and you have to jump from the plank to a rock. But if you jump too early, you hit the ceiling which ruins the jump. And if you jump too late, well you just fall down. Was this intended or will there be a fix for this?

Also, are you responsible for the rewards for JP’s? I’m just curious if the loot table for an easy puzzle (like Urmaug) is the same as those which are harder and take much longer (if you can share that type of information)

You get more gold from moldy bags than rares, which aren’t even hit by DR, so it shouldn’t be much of an issue.

You do know that you can acquire an ascended amulet by using gold alone? Triforge Amulet upgrade? It’s another option.

munkiman.3068:

Here’s a possible, http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Help_Agent_Scrybe_search_the_ruins_for_Orrian_artifacts. This has an unknown event listed after it. I vaguely remember this event, but i’m not sure i’ve completed it.

It won’t be that. You do not get a chest from that, and even then, it was killed a lot back when plinx wasn’t nerfed (when you could do tar defense and rakkan)

Josh Foreman made it, and as a JP veteran I also found it very challenging

I think we need more JP’s like that which are harder.

Pixels.6532:

Vol.5241:

Deadcell.9052:

Of course your going to see more legendarys, the fact that anyone can just google “legendary weapons” put in a credit card and buy one makes the whole thing a joke.

You do know that buying a legendary through gems costs +$2000, right? Maybe even on the black market, half of that?

The number of people who buy a legendary through real $ are far and few.

I think Mr. Smith said that gold costs from gold sellers run around 300%+ marked down, so about $660 vs the $2000 if you want to gamble on Gold Sellers.

I just happen to have an offer in my inbox for 2160 gd for $520.00. Don’t know if it still stands though, I reported him despite his (or her) profession of love.

Even $600 for a black market legendary is too much considering the risk of getting banned.

I wish I had recorded my clover data. Overall I’ve found that the 10 recipe gives more mystic clovers. But of course- it’s a small irrelevant sample size

I took the hit and bought the mystic binding agent for science. I was too greedy hoping for a quick buck in hoping that it would allow you to transform x lodestone into y lodestone. Turns out it’s a replacement to Elonian Wine (with another meaningless feature) and as such, I’m out 10 laurels.

Oh well, I’m just gonna collect them now.

Nike.2631:

Vol.5241:

Nike.2631:

Viking Jorun.5413:

One legendary? No. Everyone and their mother seems to be roaming Lion’s Arch with one. TWO legendaries? I’d say that’s impressive.

I think many folks find that less impressive – because now there is absolutely no questions that at least one of them was in large part bought.

I got three, I guess I bought em all off the TP?

You know that’s not what I’ve said.

But if you haven’t bought one wholesale (and my estimation of you from posts is that you are far too capable of a Trade Post user to fall for that sucker’s bet ) by definition you’ve bought the mystic coins to make make the clovers and from my own experience harvesting the t6s off the landscape you’ve bought at least the majority of the 3rd round of Might and Magic.

The funny thing is from you post history I do respect your contributions to the game both in exploring and optimizing your use of the trading post and being a rationalist about what goes on there, along with being one of the guys that took the hit for science to test out mystic binding agents. But knowing that, I also firmly believe you’ve spotted some of the weak points in the Legendary acquisition scheme and have beat them with a solid gold stick. Trust me, I apprciate that you have three – but only as open mockery of the Dev’s design goals for the things.

So, if mystic coins had been acount bound, could you estitimate how may you’ve generated by doing dailies, and consequntly how many legendaries you’d have right now?

You are correct – most of the items are bought off the TP (through gold that was earned elsewhere). If I were to harvest every single T6 and glob, I would only have one legendary. Though for all the legendaries, I bought gems to finish them off – about $40 worth or 40g (most of the time to finish off those Icy Runestones). All the gold I earned was from drops and farming shelt/pen/anchorage. If coins were account bound, I’d have over 150 coins, which would be enough for one legendary (the 10 clover recipe seems to give clovers at a better rate)

I can honestly say that I wish that legendaries were harder to acquire. As it is right now, it’s quite easy for the hardcore players. There are no exploits or vulnerabilities in the system. The dungeon token requirement is too easy (500 is nothing, they should increase it to 1000 or 1500). The WvW badges is easy – and note, I did not farm JP religiously. I can earn 500 badges from dedicating my time to WvW Friday through Sunday. The only obstacle is gold, and at these t6 prices, it’s very easy to acquire.

And if I had made better investment choices, I would have enough to afford a 4th right now. I invested about 120g in armored scales after the bot ban in November and it was the one t6 that investment that did not spike as much. If I had invested in bloods or totems, I would have made at least 100% profit on the investment.

I’m sure there are numerous others out there who made a good chunk of their money through investing.

Sauzo.6821:

Vol.5241:

kiba.2768:

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Vol.5241:

People who seemingly only farm specific mobs for lodestones are the ones who are complaining . I’m not sure if they realize what they are doing is inefficient or not.

Well by all means, please enlighten them. Or are you just blowing smoke too?

he means if you spend your time farming sparks for your lodestones, you’ll not be as efficient as say…someone who farms t6 mats that drop more frequently and sell them to buy your lodestones

that is all. no need to get hostile =]

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You are trying to farm mobs that are widely spaced.
Compare that to dynamic events that spawn a dozen of mobs at a time in high frequency.

Your kill rate and loot rate per hour is huge and you actually make a lot of money.
1 hour at shelt pen can net you enough to buy 1 and a half charged lodestones. Farming sparks can net you anywhere from 0-2

Your luck at shelter/pent DEs must be alot different than mine then cause after about 2 runs of each, it seems DR kicks in and i get squat from these events. Not so in the past but since jan 28th, much more so.

I don’t care about rare drops and neither should you, otherwise you’ll never want to run shelt/pen

You make most of your money off moldy bags. At these t6 prices, it’s very lucrative. Moldy bags are not hit by DR.

Olfinbedwere.5049:

I think you can get rares/exotics from the laurel vendor now, maybe this is why there is a drop in the demand for them from the TP.

I highly doubt many people are deciding to waste their laurels on the hope of getting a rare/exotic from those boxes.

Deadcell.9052:

Of course your going to see more legendarys, the fact that anyone can just google “legendary weapons” put in a credit card and buy one makes the whole thing a joke.

You do know that buying a legendary through gems costs +$2000, right? Maybe even on the black market, half of that?

The number of people who buy a legendary through real $ are far and few.

Sauzo.6821:

Wait, gold/hour has improved in CS? All i’ve seen is DR was implimented, DEs were put on longer cooldowns and DR implimenting quicker on DEs(i’ve seen some people say as soon as 2 DEs they started getting crap drops fast).

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You don’t make most of your money off rares/globs. You make a lot from moldy bags, which aren’t influenced by DR.

You want to do this if you are farming karma. If you want gold, shelt/pen is still the place to go.

Don’t listen to those folks above, guardian is THE best and will get you the most gold/hour

Guardian has the best aoe, speed and mobility in the game. If you are farming events, it is a must to use greatsword and staff.

Staff is great because it’s auto attack is a spammable aoe, up to 5 targets. The 2nd attack, orb, is also an aoe that passes through mobs (so it works best when coming across a line of enemies) 3rd is an aoe placeable (which can be traited to last longer and have a bigger diameter) AND it gives you swiftness. 4th is a skill that stacks might and can heal you – best reserved for when there is a break in the action. 5th skill is great for stacking mobs, making it easier for you to aoe as many as possible.

And then you have the greatswords. 2nd skill is a high damage aoe that can hit a good number of targets. 3rd skill is a leap aoe, and can be used to blind enemies as well, increasing your survivability. 4th skill is an aoe placed underneath you character which can also be traited to last long and be larger. 5th skill is a pull, and used in conjuction with the 2nd skill, can be good when mobs are spaced out.

And how about the utility skills? Well, you have two utility skills that give you swiftness, and when stacked with the staff 3rd skill, you can have perma swiftness.

There is also a skill that teleports you to targeted enemies and burns everyone in the vicinity. This is great for mobility and helps you make a lot of gold.

Guardian is one of the few classes that can tag two different waves of mobs simultaneously and excel both as ranged and melee. It is clearly superior to the warrior, whose best combination is GW/dual axe.

You need to do a certain amount of damage to a mob to get credit, even if it shows exp. When there are many people at events, this makes it hard to get credit since the mob dies very quickly before you reach

lettucemode.3789:

They didn’t nerf it because they hated farming. They nerfed it because of guesting. Since you can now guest onto other servers the bots would just camp the node and guest around to different servers to get all the orichalcum. Players could do this too. I guess that falls under farming, kind of, but it’s more like abuse.

Not true – back when we had unlimited transfers instead of the weekly cooldown, people would constantly switch servers and farm ori nodes. But they disabled that rather quickly.

They most likely removed it because it was being farmed by alts with lvl 1 picks. I believe they also introduced the level requirement to the karma picks, which reinforces that theory

Novalight.7568:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

John Smith.4610:

Not even close: 9 and 11

well I guess all those threads complaining about how dawn and dusk are too expensive to afford are a load of crap… Clearly plenty of people CAN afford them.

That’s like saying: ferrari cars are being sold every day, so clearly they must be very affordable.

and it’s like your average person is whining to Ferrari asking why they won’t reduce their prices down from 300K to 20K.

We were never promised that.

Nike.2631:

Viking Jorun.5413:

One legendary? No. Everyone and their mother seems to be roaming Lion’s Arch with one. TWO legendaries? I’d say that’s impressive.

I think many folks find that less impressive – because now there is absolutely no questions that at least one of them was in large part bought.

I got three, I guess I bought em all off the TP?

You need to ask yourself – why do people want to buy certain exotics?

A few reasons:
-they like the skin
-they like the stats and want to transmute them
-they want to use the weapon
-they want to throw it in the forge

So if you have an exotic that has a crummy skin, bad stats and is not the cheapest in it’s type, then it most likely won’t sell.

If you are new to MMO’s, I suggest you go find a very casual guild that has very helpful members. They will provide you with a completely open and different experience than if you were to go solo.

If you don’t like guilds, considering joining public mumble/teamspeak channels for your server. My server, Yaks Bend, provides this, and on Fridays we have over +100 people in channel.

Improved fractals, better gold/hour rates if you love to farm cursed shore

The latest Arenanet post in regards to multi-boxing was made by Gaile, since one of the original responses from one of the CSR’s was incorrect.

I believe Gaile said that multi-boxing is not bannable unless you have a 3rd party program running it and not an actual person.

Personally, I don’t see how multi-boxing can be operated properly without 3rd party programs

I do agree that there are too many legendaries. Even the hardcore players got them within a month of release. I was hoping that it would have taken 4 months for hardcore players to make them and maybe a year for casuals.

A big feature of legendaries are there rarities. Now you see them everywhere.

The best solution to this right now is to introduce more legendary skins for each weapon type so that we see more variety.

Appx 1300h

and no, I’m not unemployed or a student ;p

Alright, just finished my 3rd legendary, Flameseeker prophecies. My other two are Sunrise and Bifrost. Here’s the gallery

http://imgur.com/a/LVnU5

and proof that I made all three

http://imgur.com/a/bmAox

to exchange gold/gems?