you only seem to have 16 vision crystals worth of frags… that’s not even enough for 1 precursor. Might want to keep saving…
Did i miss somethings. I’m pretty sure Anet never talked about the price of a precursor crafting yet. Maybe some leak? Do you have a source for that?
There is no confirmation that these would be involved in precursor crafting. It would also be curious to see how a T7 mat would result in an exotic weapon (precursor).
However, be prepared to have non-tradeable/time-gated materials to be used in precursor crafting in order to keep the value of precursors from crashing.
-T7 mats
-Mithrillium/Residue
There will also more than likely be other materials that will act as sinks that can be tradeable. I honest to god hope that leather will be used to make the precursor/legendary books.
They should give everyone, one time per year, 5 free ticket scraps.
That way people will be enticed to gamble on keys to get the last remaining 5.
This has been slowly but surely getting worse over the last 6 months. The amount of times I have been left for dead when there are no mobs about is ridiculous. A perfect example was a while ago. Me and another got killed just before our zerg had finished off a boss in a temple in Orr. There must have been a good 25-30 people there and all they did was loot the chest and then leave. I’ve seen it happen on champ trains on various maps, people are downed and just left there, it takes a few seconds for a few people to revive somebody. I now call this game Greed Wars 2 because that is all it is, the “me me me me” generation. I’ve seen it happen loads of times in the new content that was released the other day. People are downed, there are no mobs about and other players will just run past them and not help.
Why don’t you just WP? If you finished a temple, the WP is right there.
I was able to get about 88 heirlooms across the two days it has been available, so you only need 162. Opening lots of alliance bags + the crate will get you close.
SAB 1 not included? ;(
For armorsmithing 400-500, it will cost you 86G
http://www.gw2crafts.net/armorcraft_400.html
Although I suggest looking over at Leatherworking since Elonian Leather is cheaper. Depending on where your crafting is, it’s cheaper in the long-run.
The cost of materials for the item itself keeps changing. A day ago it was calculated at approximately:
98G for Tailor
155G for Armorsmith
50G for Leatherwork
As for the time it takes, you need 925 blades. I think I average about 200 blades each LA (depends on your class and farming smart). So you need at least 5 LA events to do (5 hours).
The fact that only 3 people showed up to do Golem on JQ yesterday at 10 pm shows people are playing…
If they ran past you, fine you got something going.
But often I see players who do not play smart.
If you are 25% downed and you notice that a mob nearby is low health and currently being attacked by someone else, what is the smart thing to do?
Heal yourself?
NO!
You tag that mob so you can rally as soon as it’s dead.
If I see 4 normal mobs ganging up on a downed player, I 100% of the time will not rez you immediately. I can kill 4 normal mobs quicker than it takes to rez one player while taking hits. And I certainly expect players to realize this and tag the mob so that they will rally right away.
It’s a definite downgrade from RT. It’s a refugee ship, not a luxury cruise.
And just like that, 90% of the playerbase rushes for heirlooms
It doesn’t take long to press ‘Skip’
Instead of nerfing it into the ground, they should have just given us more stuff to buy with it………
That doesn’t fix things if the items you buy are something that you would only buy once.
Items like the orrian box were perfect at baiting players to eating up all their karma before the karma nerf.
If you are talking about the WP in fireheart rise, yes you can get banned. A user two weeks ago here posted that he and his friend got permanently banned for farming it.
They made an inquiry and they were both unbanned. The message they received was:
““Thank you for your patience while we completed a review of the administrative action taken on your account.
While our investigation points to the fact that your account was involved in a violation, we are going to extend leniency to you on a one-time basis. We have reinstated your account and you may rejoin the game now.
In the future, please take care to observe the Rules of Conduct, the User Agreement, and the Naming Policies, all of which can be found on our legal pages here: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/
Also, please keep in mind that future violations may result in increased penalties or irreversible account termination, as explained in the Conducts Breaches and Outcomes document, also found on the legal pages linked above.""
So you can certainly risk it.
edit: I totally forgot that this waypoint was fixed in the previous patch, so this may not be relevant to what you are doing.
The minipet market is crazy because the buyers are crazy. It’s a market I cannot and will not predict because I simply don’t understand it, especially when people pay four figures for wurm minipets…
When the first LA trailer came out, I remember reading a post that people should stock up on racing moas. I scoffed – who the heck would buy that?
Of course, it went up considerably. I never seem to learn.
In regards to the 90% Karma Nerf:
I’ve googled the topic over and over again trying to understand and possibly overcome this nerf implemented by ANet. There’s been I’m sure countless threads on this subject and on many different forums, as I have discovered many just in my searches alone, but in none of them did I see a response from ANet.
To keep this short: Why is that, ANet? Help me, and other players concerned with this move you took to understand why.
It’s been far too long.
TL;DR bolded
Why?
Because they wanted karma to have value. They wanted account bound currencies to have value.
People as it is hate the way rewards are handed out for bosses like Teq or wurm. Now, instead of rewarding everyone guaranteed exotics and destroying their value, they have rewarded people with guaranteed karma. That way people who desperately need karma have the incentive to run these events.
That’s the reason no company in the world wants to say what the maybe doing next. Because everything will be taken seriously and gets demanded if not released after the announcement.
sometimes you, as a company just have to commit to dates, and be held responsible if you miss said date. Cant always say nothing in fear of people expecting things
What business school did you attend that said that?
It’s a time sink and helps prevent massive supply shocks on the price.
Imagine if everyone could just buy iron ore and transform it into ingots instantly? The price would be depressed very quickly.
It’s actually no based on a refund, it’s based on a chargeback.
If you ask for a refund and get it, you won’t get banned.
If you do a chargeback and it succeeds, you will get banned.
I’m a farmer. Here is my opinion about it
1.) The map is glorious. Very well done. Scripted scenes and VA are done well. The camps, and the Vigil especially are done well.
2.) The events are repetitive and could use some work. It seems you have three types of events. You have the miasmi events, the escort events and the special kill events. I think they could have created more interesting event dynamics that would cater towards both the zergs and the smaller groups. This also makes it feel less ‘grindy’ when you have more variety. Right now the variety in the miasmi events is strictly the type of mob you face.
3.) I wish there were more doodads on the map. Right now we just have ruined structures. There really isn’t enough strewn paper on the ground, destroyed carts, crushed apples (Tybalt god bless his soul), e.t.c.
It just feels as if before the invasion, LA was empty and everything you see destroyed is just structures. At least throw some corpses here and there.
4.) Anet could have implemented some events outside of LA. I understand that this is a patch mainly for LA, but it would be nice if there were supplementary events in the nearby zones.
Overall I rate this update 8/10.
I won’t be happy until Leather sections hit 20c at a minimum. Hopefully that happens during BoTW
I’m hoping it goes up to 2s just like silk… then I will be happy.
That would turn my measley 200g leather in the Pick-up tab worth 4800G.
But it would have be an awfully huge sink considering hundreds of other players are probably hoarding leather as well.
you have 1000 stacks of leather? how do you store all those.
You purchase several accounts and utilize the BLTC pick-up tab as storage. You can store an infinite (as far as we know) amount of items there.
The only risk about doing this is if you place your buy orders and the price moves up. Your gold is then ‘lost’ until you cash out the items. This happened to me this week when I lost about 60G due to buy orders not being filled.
I have two extra accounts, so I’m able to invest in an unlimited amount of two commodities, while at the same time having 10 storage guilds to hold even more items.
Maybe Anet prefers that players find it out themselves?
Besides. Anet afaik never has included extra details on these consumables or potions. Even the Infinite Watchknight doesn’t have a note that locks use for 30m and lasts for only 5m.
I don’t think it’s sloppy. It’s just they have no requirement to.
In September I grew tired of the game. I went to play BF4. Came back after 2 months and suddenly my interest is rekindled.
Do the same.
If you are so much as going to ignore your ‘Anet is sloppy’ remark, I guess you should just delete/edit it to pretend you never wrote it.
It is, after all, what I’m more focused on than your original post.
I’m all for criticizing the game but if you have nothing to back it up then you deserve criticism itself.
How to best utilize this skin:
1.) Roll a sylvari with ‘leaf-like’ hair and purple/light green skin as a ranger
2.) Name yourself “Kerrigan”, “Queen of Blades” or “Sarah Kerrigan”
2.) Enter WvW, preferably with a guild full of skinny Charrs
3.) Command the Zerg
Royal Terrace = upper class
Ship = middle class refugee ship
Vigil = refugee peasants
One word, Districts
Let everyone choose where to meet up at.
Here is what would happen if we had districts
“Join district 1”
Full
“Join district 2”
Full
“Join district 3”
Full…
“Join district 9”
Only 5 ppl here.It’s no different than the overflow system and would cause a lot more problems, including but not limited to:
-increased server costs
-botting/exploiting opportunities
-spread out playerbaseWith the exception that you can choose where to go. I played GW1 during large events never had problems meeting up with people.
Also since you’re comparing districts to over flows which are basically the same thing, except you can’t choose what overflow you wind up in then there could be a hypothetical over flow with 5 people. So that renders that invalid. The player base is already spread out with overflows, allowing you to choose your overflow would at least allow guilds and parties to work together.
I fail to see how this increases server costs or is any more of a problem with botting, because overflows stay open as long as players are in them just like a District would.
Districts are overflows that you can choose.
How does this increase server costs? Because each overflow is considered a map on a server. They need to allocate resources for this. And how are overflows/districts going to be created? Fixed number? Unlimited? This can be abused.
And it will be a problem for botting. Think about it.
Let’s say you are a major botting tycoon that wants to keep characters undisturbed. You would create your own district and invite hundreds of your bot accounts to it. This way you can fill your own district and not allow any non-botters in there.
One of the things promised in this game is a dynamic world. Well if dynamic you mean do event, wait for timer and do exact same event again…well yeah you got it. They blew up Lion’s Arch but the whole storyline is already plotted out to the very end. Why not have different possible outcomes and let the story play out. For now its zerg lag zerg lag.
Because you are asking a lot from a 200-person company, which only a fraction are game designers.
You are asking Anet to design new content from scratch in two weeks in response to player choices.
That is unreasonable and impossible.
It takes 6 months to design the content we have now.
We have some dynamic events in different vanilla areas, but they are difficult to create and branching stuff means more work.
GW2 went down from 81 mio in Q4 2012 to 23.1 mio in Q4 2013.
Ain’t nobody got time and money for dynamic events. Everyone gets the same dish, all events are success or failure only nowadays.
Do you know why sales went down or are you just copy/pasting figures?
Just a reminder: I already gave you guys the solution earlier in the thread.
Everybody: you can fix the problem with overflows without removing overflows. You do it the same way Personal Stories are kicked off. You have this option:
Join in Lion’s Arch (Overflow) <—- exists now
Instead of just saying the world is full, it pops up a new option: Invite Party to Overflow
This pops up a box (like the one for the Personal Story) that lets each party member accept an invite. Everybody who accepts is moved simultaneously to an overflow with room for them.
It’s not IMPOSSIBLE to solve. There are more than 2 options (overflows that split party and queues.) Be a little more creative here.
Sounds nice in theory but you are ignoring the repercussions from this. For one, each overflow acts as a server. The more servers, the more resources and costs involved. If you do not include a cap on the number of overflows that can be created, then this can be abused to bring down the game.
And we are also forgetting about the bots who would create their own private overflow. Out of sight = out of mind.
I was getting really bad lag during the marionette fight, it would take ages for my skills to activate (which usually meant it was too late to do anything when they did) and the same has been happening in LA sometimes.
I assumed it was my computer because it’s about 4 years old now. I can normally play with high graphics settings but it really struggles if there’s a lot going on and I have to turn the settings right down. I’m waiting for a new CPU and graphics card to arrive so I can upgrade it.
The graphics card won’t help a lot, and even the best CPU for consumers on the market won’t be able to handle mega zergs.
Anet needs to optimize the game further before you can start getting +35 FPS in huge zergs on very high settings.
One word, Districts
Let everyone choose where to meet up at.
Here is what would happen if we had districts
“Join district 1”
Full
“Join district 2”
Full
“Join district 3”
Full
…
“Join district 9”
Only 5 ppl here.
It’s no different than the overflow system and would cause a lot more problems, including but not limited to:
-increased server costs
-botting/exploiting opportunities
-spread out playerbase
Time to buy t6 mats then. Or in a few days, doesn’t look like we have reached the bottom point yet.
I never experienced lag at all yesterday, where I’m sure a large majority of players flooded the server
They are fixed once selected.
2nd question, correct.
Blame it all on Kiel.
It’s all your fault, Kiel supporters.
No network lag?
Are you playing the same game I am?
I played for 5 hours after the patch yesterday and experienced no lag. This was in a TS of over 200 people and I read no complaints on map chat. In fact, a lot of people on TS gave credit for Anet that this didn’t turn out like the Karka invasion.
Unless you are specifically referring to the network lag that happened for the past 2 weeks – that is an entirely different issue that is of no fault from Anet.
Go in circle, zerg fest, farm bags, repeat.
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Vol.7601
The living story zerg fest, run in a circle and kill mobs and repeat all day, has finally become a normal part of the game.
Nothing bad about it but I seem to be missing the point of it? oh yes, Achievement points.
And what is stopping you from going solo or in a 5 man team and doing other points?
Don’t hate on farmers because they like to farm.
Nobody will know until the weekend most likely.
By which time it is probably too late to start grinding for it.
Really sloppy on Anet’s part imo.
It resets daily, try harder
Come on, man.
Perhaps he has a long week next week with funeral arrangements, or vacation, or has some significant things happening in life which makes these next few days very relevant.
Reset daily? Sure. Which means, once qgain, only people who are able to play 8.3 of the days and only focus on rubble will achieve. Why can’t he have an opinion that that is sloppy?
I personally don’t care. But stop with these attacks man.
You can call it sloppy, I call it fair. There are rewards that not everyone is going to get unless you want to dedicate the time for it.
If are unwilling to put x hours over the next 4 weeks, then you do not deserve the item. It’s as simple as that.
If you want everything easy to get, then what’s the point of playing?
Grats, you are eligible to get a selfless potion for one heirloom! Click on that rubble near Gendarran portal and you’re done! We’re done the content, let’s come back in 2 weeks and repeat the same thing.
Hmm.
I wonder this is how main servers have been able to carry over points? Port people in to LA while it’s under miasma and keep it ‘contested’
Nobody will know until the weekend most likely.
By which time it is probably too late to start grinding for it.
Really sloppy on Anet’s part imo.
It resets daily, try harder
Just shows how pathetic of a politician, let alone a speaker that she failed to convince the rest of the council.
HEIRLOOMS RESET DAILY
Been confirmed on the dev post on the other thread.
We can stop with the complaining about grinding now.
To the guy who is threatening to quit the game because of being forced to pay WP fees now that LA is gone, it’s not an incredible update!
My goodness – if you find waypont fees expensive enough to make a convoluted rant, then…
Pick your poison
1.) Current overflow system where there is only 200 people on the map but no network lag
2.) Proposed overflow system where there is an unlimited number of people on the map, with intense network lag, making it impossible to accomplish anything.
Not only did silk crash, but linen did too. Which is a shame because I’m farming LA with my lvl 50 guard to level him up, and I’m getting a ton of scraps from salvaging and molten bags.
It is too late to invest in iron ore. But if you look over at the collections tab, there are still plenty of items out there to speculate and hold on to if you are willing to get a 2nd account and stock it up on the pick-up tab.
You can certainly try, but I’m not sure Anet can give you refunds because ‘you don’t like it’ (especially when it comes to digital items).
You can try to argue that there is no official way to preview the item, but depeding on how long you have had the item, Anet can deny your claim.
I won’t be happy until Leather sections hit 20c at a minimum. Hopefully that happens during BoTW
I’m hoping it goes up to 2s just like silk… then I will be happy.
That would turn my measley 200g leather in the Pick-up tab worth 4800G.
But it would have be an awfully huge sink considering hundreds of other players are probably hoarding leather as well.
Why does everything nice always take 5000 iron ingots and 5000 steel ingots? Enough with the iron ore. Prices jumped like 3s over night and once again I’ve found myself monotonously farming endless iron to fulfill my ever growing needs to complete DAILY recipes…
Stupid, hardly noticed rant complete.
Iron ore was under 1s before the patch. It hit 3s due to demand, which you are a part of.
Choose whatever mat you want to replace it with, and it still would skyrocket.
Too bad.