Guild Wars 2

So anyone check out the new vendor in game that uses shards? What are the items included?

If it’s not ready, then it’s not ready

Just don’t expect this to be a significant increase, like 50% chance at ascended or fractal weapon drops.

These items are still meant to be rare.

Your fault buddy

What a terrible time to come back, as you only have a few hours to experience the content before it gets removed.

Heck, patch may hit in under an hour..

MAGIK.5740:

Can anyone recommend any servers?

Friendly is subjective and hard to define, but SoR has plenty of PvE activity remaining even though it dropped from T1 awhile back. Yaks Bend has daily reset trains as well.

Plagiarised.2865:

As characters we did not see Mordremoth awaken. We do not know where it is. Signs point to a jungle area but nothing says it in ‘our backyard’. If the dragon does nothing, why would we do anything? If it has a cataclysmic awakening, then why would it be any different to Jormag or Kralkatorrik. I believe we would go after Modremoth, but not straight away and definitely not in Season 2

Why not in Season 2? It’s true that other dragons in the world are currently awake and do not pose an immediate threat.

But what if Mordremoth poses a huge threat because of the large number of Sylvari in the world? He would need to be taken care of, lest Sylvari players drop dead.

Sinaya.4201:

Videos like this really discourage me from ever trying to do anything in the trading post. How are “regular” players supposed to compete with players who do this kind of stuff?

What is there to compete for? Sure if your end game goal is to be the richest person in game, then you have already lost.

Or if your goal is to have all legendaries for your class, sure.

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Regarding the video, it was posted back in January and the profit spread for crafting those items became smaller. Not sure if it’s the case anymore.

You may not consider it cheating, but the program he used is very suspect considering that it appears on pretty infamous GW2 hacking websites. Anything that modifies the client in anyway is considered cheating. If you want to try, sure, but don’t complain when you get banned.

If you want to do this multi-client set up, the safer, 100% cheat free method is to use multiple VRs on your computer. Of course, you need a pretty beast computer to do that.

I have never heard such a comment, and if they did, they would have probably said it in a CDI topic (which never should be taken as a promise for future content changes)

Most items are reasonable. I have no issue with the armor/skin/select armor prices.

There are items in the gemstore that are useless and priced like they are not. Swimming boosters, for example, are ridiculous.

Belzebu.3912:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I clicked on the link earlier. Wat do I do now?

I suggest changing your password, using the “My account” link, in the top right corner of this page.

That won’t do anything if it installed a keylogger.

Gotta clean your computer first, then change passwords. Or change passwords from your phone or other computer.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Vol.7601:

On a related note, what is the deal with certain precursors? Yesterday I was I notified that a lot of people were getting their buy orders filled for precursors, such as Spark/Dawn. If I recall there was a 200g price spread on these, which I don’t think was the case for quite some time!

Of course, Dusk price dropped but the price spread was still minimal <100g

I presume people are selling their precursor stock anticipating precursor crafting in 4 weeks?

When precursor crafting is introduced, prices will plummet for an hour or so. Then, after people realize how much of a grind it will be, prices will skyrocket. Since we’re not sure when this update will hit and can’t plan a vacation day, I’m prepared to call in sick from work. I need to make some money back to cover my recent losses.

Yeah this was something I considered. I have more than enough gold to hold several precursors, and I truly trust John Smith/Izzy to design such a system to not tamper with the current precursor market too much.

The big thing that concerns me, however, is the demand side for these old precursors.

With newer legendaries, will people really be inclined to go after the old ones? I’m leaning towards supply outweighing demand.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wizard's_Fief

One day I hope it becomes a dungeon.

On a related note, what is the deal with certain precursors? Yesterday I was I notified that a lot of people were getting their buy orders filled for precursors, such as Spark/Dawn. If I recall there was a 200g price spread on these, which I don’t think was the case for quite some time!

Of course, Dusk price dropped but the price spread was still minimal <100g

I presume people are selling their precursor stock anticipating precursor crafting in 4 weeks?

1. - Anything related to BLTC – gem store, economy topics, inflation, gold, wealth, e.t.c.
2. through 10 – see #1

Ascendant.5746:

I would sell the items that u have right now before the event ends for the living world. There should be investors out there who hoarded these items and are ready to sell these, further bringing up a large supply, possibly equaling demand. This creates competition between investors and will drop the price.

If you want short-term profit, yes.

But I reckon there will be long-term investors who will be keen on stocking up and holding these rifles for many months.

There was a picture that was accidently released (through mmorpg/massively, can’t remember).

It showed a small memorial in LA after what happened.

Lue.6538:

Kratos.6293:

There are many top tier MMORPGs coming out this year

1. EverQuest Next
2. Wildstar
3. The Elder Scrolls Online
etc

Does Guild wars 2 even stand a chance ? What do you think Arenanet should do to retaliate ?

Theres enough people to actually play all 4, they are also vastly different games and will attract different playertypes.

as for ESO: A game that before launch promotes itself as a “play it the way you want to” game and then proceeds with locking players out unless they invest an excess amount of cash into the collectors edition, then proceeds with adding on an ingame shop that according to statements will be purely for “fluff” (but will inevitably, and we all know it, contain a fancy upgrade to the CE); They then proceed with throwing together a very interesting PvP outdoor zone but then again, mess that up by adding a bonus that will in PvP grant the players who bought the CE a seriously unfair advantage.

So what we’re looking at is a game that is buy to play with a subscription model combined with an ingame shop built upon an engine that provides you with features that are barely good enough for a game from 2005.

Didn’t they lock out a race unless you got that edition too? Imperials?

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Vol.7601:

When pretty much all the MMO sites and alpha testers say that ESO is going to stink, then it’s going to stink.

Why you even mention that game in the same breath as GW2 is just silly.

Stink or not it is attracting a lot of interest. Just look at the Google trends page over the last 90 days.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0jt2y_q%2C%20ESO%2C%20GW2%2C%20%2Fm%2F02q25c_%2C%20Wildstar&date=today%203-m&cmpt=q

GW2 has pretty constant interest but ESO has higher constant interest with a slow growth towards release. Surprisingly enough Wildstar holds the lowest interest of the 3, even though everyone I have talked to has said Wildstar beats ESO in pretty much every aspect.

google hits aren’t a good way to gauge future success.

When the majority of the press is talking about how terrible the game will be, of course people are going to google ESO and find out what’s the deal.

And yeah, there could be a bunch of people who will sign up and play for the first month. But we all know that the success of MMOs is on sustaining a playerbase, which ESO will unlikely be able to do with their sales model and lack of content.

GW2 population would dip a bit for ESO release, but people will come back.

ThunderPanda.1872:

Vol.7601:

Off the top of my head:
Lvl 1- 20 Queensdale champ train
Lvl 21-40 – ???
Lvl 40 – 50 – Harathi meta chain farming
Lvl 51 – 68 – complete all personal story quests, explore, WvW
lvl – 69 – 80 – Metaevent train on reset across 3 servers.

Also keep in mind that you can get 16 levels for under 15G with artificer/cooking

there’s a train in harathi?

Yeah it’s a pretty long train, +30 minutes

Related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKkW0MrjlqU&list=UUP_FgMqOxp_VsM0UfrL-DxA

I’m well prepared to make at least two new legendaries, assuming that they will be using the same recipes and the new precursors won’t cost several thousand gold

Currently on my way to get the mats for more.

We are extremely spoiled in this game. A lot of players don’t realize it because there really isn’t anything out there to compare this game to.

One of the biggest things I like about GW2 is the fluid combat and the art style.

I would absolutely hate going over to another game and notice that in order for my skill to go off, I have to be rooted in place.

Off the top of my head:
Lvl 1- 20 Queensdale champ train
Lvl 21-40 – ???
Lvl 40 – 50 – Harathi meta chain farming
Lvl 51 – 68 – complete all personal story quests, explore, WvW
lvl – 69 – 80 – Metaevent train on reset across 3 servers.

Also keep in mind that you can get 16 levels for under 15G with artificer/cooking

When pretty much all the MMO sites and alpha testers say that ESO is going to stink, then it’s going to stink.

Why you even mention that game in the same breath as GW2 is just silly.

RoyalPredator.9163:

I would like to know how some gets 100k+ gold on TP without harming the economy.
There is a chinese imigrant guy I know in the city, he explained me how the goldfarmer network works (mafia). Last time I saw he had 100197 Gold.

People who play the TP = good for economy since it takes 15% gold out of every transaction

Why the hell would you link the direct site?

Why the hell do people keep doing this?

“hey guys watchout for a phishing/keylogging website, here check it out for yourselves!!!!”

To be fair, there are exploits on the TP that have been there since the start of the game, but they help you save money rather than make it.

But I think OP is just lumping all ‘tp players’ as exploiters so he’s just trollin.

Others just like have thought the same thing, and I would wager the price increase since the start of the patch has been largely pushed by speculators fighting over the limited rifles. As I mentioned back, one guy has at least 200 of the Kiss rifles (this when it was around <160g)

This skin may end up like SAB, where a lot of people are hoarding these to the point that sellers will keep undercutting and they will dwarf demand. A lot of people have learned ever since the Halloween skin situation to hoard limited time items.

But this skin does show signs that it’s a perfect long time investment in that
a.) It’s actually a really good looking rifle, so it will good demand
b.) It’s a rifle for LS1, and I don’t think there is a reasonable way for Anet would reintroduce

I would argue BG is the worst for PvE considering most of the time you get kicked to OF.

A lot of the casuals will then complain that the best items are available to the select few.

Which I think is fair, but then again, casuals are a very, very vocal bunch.

Geez you are impatient. The month isn’t even done.

They have a plan of what they are releasing every day this month. Most of the time you aren’t going to buy what they list there. Be patient for once.

It’s not going to be the 18th. You can blame the community for making up false dates and then listening to it.

However, wexp will likely come before the start of seasons.

This is the norm in China. It’s just a small minority freaking out because they know of the lack of restrictions in the eastern version.

Refine 50 of them incase they get used for precursor crafting.

Sometimes you need sacrifice immersion in order to promote gameplay.

For example, does it really make sense how a tiny Asura can easily defeat a large monster? Does it make any sense how a Norn can defeat a stationary Asura in PvP? No.

Better to just buy them. The cheap price reflects the supply and demand of the item, which is high/low respectively.

There is zero confirmation that Guild Halls is coming, and speculating that they are ‘on the radar’ simply because it’s discussed on the CDI (which time and time again is repeatedly a discussion and not a concrete plan to have things in future releases).

Anet is simply aware of it, which isn’t newsworthy. Just like how they are aware of people wanting mounts, cheap legendaries and new classes.

It’s ill-advised to go out and farm specific items/mats in the world. It’s incredibly inefficient.

You are better off farming gold and then buying the lodestones from the TP, or even better, buy charged cores and promote them (provided you save gold)

I’m not a fan of guild halls – it dilutes the population too much.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Has there been an announcement that the ‘Big Feature’ patch is being released in April? I must have missed it. I would love to see some confirmation. =)

March 18 – Epilogue, Story patch
March 25 – Sub patch, WvW focused
April 1 – SAB
April 14 – ?
April 28 – ?

My speculation.

Expect to wait until at least April 14.

Both BG and JQ has had short periods where it’s available after 8:00 EST. Not sure why.

Twinny.9304:

Is this JC 500 definitely going to happen? or is this just pure speculation?

There are items in game that are already linked to JC 500, so it’s 100% confirmed.

Chef 500 is not guaranteed, however.

Pie Flavor.1647:

Vol.7601:

Pie Flavor.1647:

I’ve farmed a hefty sum of karma, but I just discovered I need to find an NPC that only appears after finishing the temple of balthazar world event to exchange the karma for obsidian shards.

i went to gw2state and there simply is not a single server with the temple open right now.

so how does one go about reaching this NPC? do I really need to go for less efficient ways to obtain OS? are there servers that do this event regularly or should I just babysit the webpage like I have to do with several other things required for legendary? what about icy runestones? will they be just as big of a pain in the kitten as this?

You just went to play the game in non-prime time hours. Wait for primetime – Balthazar is always cleared daily on the top servers.

I’m not sure where you got the idea that Icy Runestones are hard. Runestones are almost always available every 3 hours considering each server will complete Claw of Jormag.

yep, I just noticed that suddenly several EU servers had “open” and “attacking” status on balthazar during the late afternoon/early evening, that makes it so much easier, thanks.

About icy runestones, I was wondering, since everything so far about the legendary is a royal pain in the kitten , that it would be just as painful if not more to be allowed to spend 100g.

Icy Runestones are IMO the easiest part of the legendary. Cheap and quick to acquire, and 100% guaranteed price.

Eh I’m pretty overrated. I’m a speculator, not a flipper, so my gains take awhile to show profit. I’m just a farmer that makes a ton of gold and invests it

Kind of like a lawyer or accountant who makes a huge salary and decides to invest in in a high interest ING account, bonds or GICs

You don’t deserve Tengu

It’s been like this since the start of the game, and is intended. The party leader is the one that has created the instance, and when he leaves, it shuts down.

Unfortunately it’s extremely inconvenient, especially when people like the leader do this. We haven’t heard of any changes happening to this (it would be a difficult change).

Next time politely PM him and remind him to wait a bit so hopefully future dungeon runners don’t get robbed again.

Another thing to keep in mind about MF is that DR can pretty much nulify the effects of MF.

You could get 100% MF but if DR hits you end up with a system similar to -100% MF.

DR hits both the quantity and quality of your loot.

This is why I do not recommend people buying communal/MF boosters since they are worthless when you farm.

I suggest that if you have these stocked up to use them in the Crown Pavillion when it comes back, as the wide variety of mobs prevents DR (compared to Orr)

Pie Flavor.1647:

I’ve farmed a hefty sum of karma, but I just discovered I need to find an NPC that only appears after finishing the temple of balthazar world event to exchange the karma for obsidian shards.

i went to gw2state and there simply is not a single server with the temple open right now.

so how does one go about reaching this NPC? do I really need to go for less efficient ways to obtain OS? are there servers that do this event regularly or should I just babysit the webpage like I have to do with several other things required for legendary? what about icy runestones? will they be just as big of a pain in the kitten as this?

You just went to play the game in non-prime time hours. Wait for primetime – Balthazar is always cleared daily on the top servers.

I’m not sure where you got the idea that Icy Runestones are hard. Runestones are almost always available every 3 hours considering each server will complete Claw of Jormag.

Charak.9761:

all sales do not go to arenanet, they go to NCSoft.

NCSoft is using that money to make wildstar.

Which isn’t bad by any means – for example, Aion indirectly funded GW2 while GW1 probably funded Aion as well.

On a related note, look at the drops in my sig if you want proof that MF works. I spend lots of time farming, so I get a good sample size compared to people who strictly do WvW or spend their time in dungeons.