To be technical (yes, I’m THAT guy), there will never be a ‘last’ legendary crafted in LA, since many of us have Conduits
If you want an honest opinion, go ask from these forums AND on gw2 subreddit. Take it all as one and form your own conclusions.
Why do you think a lot of devs post on gw2 subreddit more so than here? It’s because reddit is unfiltered and a lot less biased than here.
I make 8-12 g/h.
Weekdays I make about 50 G in 5 hours.
Depending on how long I play on weekends, I make 200G.
So every week I hardcore farm 450 gold.
I’m not normally greedy, but I do not share my farm spots since Anet loves to nerf whatever I do, and more people doing what I do doesn’t exactly help me make gold.
If I were the director of Anet sales department, I would keep it the way as it is.
Here is the business side of things:
Investors and anyone running a business prefer steady sales trend rather than unpredictable, haphazard ones.
If Anet were to keep these skins on the gem store permanently, what would the trend look like? They would have very high initial sales, and then it drops off from that. Sales are good, but it messes with your forecasts and year over year figures, which would look bad to non-players, specifically investors.
By removing these seasonal skins, Anet can effectively drive up sales over two periods. The first period of course, is when the skins make their debut. Anet can drive plenty of sales for that particular month.
The second period is when the skins come back.
Now is this far-fetched? Nope. Here is an example.
Now let’s say the sales department is looking at their forecasts for the 1st half of 2014. They predict that sales will be drastically down in March 2014 compared to March 2013 because they do not have any items in the pipeline to release in that month. So what they can do to adjust the forecast is to re-release these skins during that month to at the very least comp to 2013.
In the real world you can consider this manipulation of sales. I’m no accountant (I planned on being one before I failed cost accounting miserably), but these are some of the tricks companies use to tailor their income statements. In the extreme side of things, there is something called Hollywood accounting which turns highly profitable movies in actuality to massive losses on paper.
Silver/Gold/Platinum will go back up, this I’m sure of.
Last time it went up due to speculators in January.
There is still room for it to go up from:
-speculators hyping up content patch
-the actual jewel 500 itself
There are repeated questions, as always, as to how would Anet approach 500 jewelcrafting when there are already ascended weapons out there.
Anet could always make lvl 500 jewelcrafting a pre-requisite for infusing backpieces and accessories, let alone make it a factor in making the legendary trinkets that were talked about in September.
As always, as self-disclosure, I have lots of investments in the above
As soon as Anet releases this, expect a lot of complaints and tinfoil threads about how Anet destroyed permanent content all to make $$$$
How dare you call yourself a Hero of Tyria by running away from danger…
You’re probably a Quaggan. Or Logan.
So after reviewing this a bit, I believe those who have controlled the conduit market have actually profited off this whole ordeal.
Despite the absurd 1500g or so listing they had, even accounting for the wasted fees, they have essentially pushed up the price of conduits by an average of 100G.
I only have 1. I don’t intend to sell it no matter the price. Did you hoard any?
lol nope, but I do have one since release that I have sparingly used. I had guildies ask me months back if it were a good investment. I told them no for the very reasons I said above – and besides, is it really worth that much money for the time savings? No.
A guildy also suggested that maybe people are speculating about conduits because Anet will destroy it on Monday. I do not think this is a good reason and Anet won’t inconvenience the population that much.
http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/35728
Quite hilarious. I have been watching this market for quite awhile and it was around 220-250 in terms of buy orders for quite awhile. Then it shot up to 500g sell price yesterday to what it is now.
Buy order price however is at an all time high at 400g.
Considering that conduits are resellable, I really must wonder what % of conduits are in the hands of people who actually use it, vs the hoarders.
I never expected the price of conduits to rise over 500G because of the resell ability.
edit: it also shows that buy listing have grown dramatically, so I suspect people are trying to get this item again on the Top Demanded Items. I suppose buy order prices will keep going up as people fall in the trap.
(edited by Vol.7601)
I’m interested in this as well. I also thought about selling them, and I think the price may be half of the gift of fortune, maybe cheaper.
I haven’t done any research on this, and I don’t know of anybody willing to do this.
The problem here would be for the buyer, I mean, if I was the buyer, why should I trust you?
Well it would have to be amongst trusted people. i.e. guildies you know of for a long time and have done past business with. If they have no plans for making a legendary, you really could take advantage of that. You can even expand your potential pool by inquiring major guild leaders. Risk of getting scammed is smaller due to reputation, although of course that depends on the type of guild they are.
I don’t know anyone who has, but I know what I would be willing to pay for them.
First off, of course, I would need to trust the person. But then I think I would offer 600g (probably depending on the legendary, and how much it meant to me, though). For account bound materials. However, I would also supply the ectos and mystic coins for clover tries.
Yes, I cannot remember where I saw it (here or reddit), but people were discussing selling the AB portions between 300-500G.
wvw and dungeon tokens I do not give any value to, since they are easy to get (well they do have value, but dwarfed by the estimate values for map completion and karma)
Skill points can be valued at current promotion prices (no more than 100g if I recall)
Karma is harder to quantify since it’s rarer. Let’s say I value karma alone at 200G
Map completion is the most difficult, and I think I would value alone at 300g.
So 600G is indeed a fair estimate.
If that is the case, there is no room for profit at all. If we were to use Twilight, it costs 1910G. Add the AB fee and it’s 2510G. No room for profit and absolutely not worth the risk.
account bound…
Try to think a little.
Giving materials to someone to craft the legendary, at which point they give it to me (only among trusted people)
Try to think a little.
-Build templates that can be changed and saved out of combat
-More searchability in the TP
-customizable UI
-First person camera view
Has anyone here ever bought or sold the account bound components for a legendary?
-200 skillpoints
-250 obsidian shards and 77 clovers
-Map completion
-dungeon and badge tokens.
If so, how much did you charge/sell it for?
Am I the only one that try to use crude to MF300?
Quality of kit does not affect salvaging, I believe – at least, only in terms of salvaging ectos. Not sure with salvaging weapons/armors.
If you look at the wiki research data, the amount of luck and dust you get from salvaging ectos is largely the same across kits. I wish I had known this before I wasted forge stones on 4000 mystic kits.
agreed. do not do it every night. it’s even more mind-numbing than champ farming, if you can believe that.
sometimes I wish you could put, for example, 4 stacks of 250 runes in the MF and get 250 random runes out (same chance of superior, so ~50 superior and 200 major). But then I remember that if that were the case, everyone would be MFing runes and sigils to the point it’s anti-profitable (not just not profitable, but actually cheaper to buy the superior you want than make it with majors)
I think it’s just to make it easier on the servers.
If Anet were to do it that way, you’d have 250 calculations all at once. Multiply that with hundreds of players possibly doing it at the same time, and well, it can get pretty laggy.
I guess that’s why we have the mystic forge as opposed to crafter.
Crafting results are guaranteed, and as such, calculations are minimal.
Meanwhile mystic forge results are RNG, and as such, require calculations.
It’s not ideal, of course.
These skins are at the extreme end at ‘seasonal’ status, so you can expect they will come out with them in 2015.
I’m extremely biased because I think seasonal items are ugly when worn out of season and the hearts do not do any justice. Or maybe I just hate these ‘lovey-dovey’ skins and I prefer more regal and dignifying skins.
But putting aside my bias, the fact that ticket requirements will go up and that the risk of re-introduction under a year is small, it would seem to be a good investment. The only problem is the demand side – will people actually continue to buy these type of skins, say, 6 months down the line? Also keep in mind that anyone and everyone knows about investing in these skins and you will be competing with a lot of people who want their share
It’s even better to park them at the LA pirates puzzle. That puzzle has the best chest in the game and the largest loot table.
All you need is a mesmer to port all your characters up.
Hmmm… I wonder who that Mesmer might be?
lol
Charging 20s per port pre-patch.
Charging 5G per port post-patch (since it’s dangerous)
$$$$$$
Vigil keep makes the most sense lore and gameplay wise.
How, in either sense? It is a military keep, and while they may be able to support some refugee population outside the walls, it is in no way adequate to assume the role of a major player hub and trade center.
Gameplay? Go look how big it is, and get back to me. Unless the plan to put all of this in Gendarran zone/external keep.
It makes no sense at all. It is just “convenient”.
Well it’s the best according to proximity. There are no other large towns nearby. It also makes sense lore wise considering that the vigil is a military force and can help police and maintain order from all the displaced refugees. I doubt the Norn would be happy with all these criminals or ex-pirates invading their hometown.
And yes, Vigil’s keep is too small. But like any refugee camp, they don’t necessarily occupy the building – they occupy the land around it.
Expect the area around Vigil’s keep to truly look like a refugee camp. They could have makeshift crafting spots and vendors selling their wares. They can put all the misplaced NPC’s all around “BY OGDEN’S HAMMER, WHERES MY SAVINGS?!” while keeping all the portals inside the keep.
I’m kind of disappointed we haven’t touched upon the Consortium ever since release. Would be nice to involve them more in the story.
Ascended materials conversion has been suggested many-many times because different people prefer doing different content and would be happy to convert them even at a discriminating exchange rate. I for one am drowning in dragonite but have very little empyreal.
Trick for Empyreal:
Take your alts and park them at the Morgan’s Spiral Jumping Puzzle chest. Every day, log into each alt and open the chest.
You’ll be rolling in fragments with no effort.
Evil but brilliant….
It’s even better to park them at the LA pirates puzzle. That puzzle has the best chest in the game and the largest loot table.
All you need is a mesmer to port all your characters up.
If you refuse to do events that drop dragonite ore, then you don’t deserve dragonite ore
langmar 10charr
No.
Ascended Armor is very expensive and gives value to all the components. It promotes trade and acts as a gold sink whenever people buy/sell these components.
Same way daily gives the option for multiple activities, one of those activities could be “Complete a Cultural Mission”.
You must have missed the multiple threads where people are ‘forced’ to complete the dailies. Someone always finds that things are not ‘optional’.
Not only that, but people feel forced to complete ALL daily achievements even though you only need to do 5.
All because it shows up on the tab…
no read the forums, someone mentioned insider info regarding cisco on the matter. Somewhere the BG v Jq v SOR matchup thread
You know, If I wanted to be a troll I would make up fake insider info and create a ton of drama between JQ and BG, just for the ‘lulz’
Just saying that’s exactly how it happened..
And TS DDOS do happen for sure, but I doubt anyone would be DDOS a specific server.
The only TW I know of is Parfur and Indo? They still around?
Heck, didn’t these two guys have their differences and disband/leave each other? I cannot remember.
Several months ago I tried my hand at rune gambling. It can be quite profitable, but is kitten the wrists and time consuming.
If I don’t have the patience to do TP flipping, I won’t have the patience to do rune gambling.
If you get scammed, set up your own LFG posting and warn others
“Do not join X, he is a scammer”
Of course, this is open up to abuse, but thanks to party chat not disappearing, you can also tell other people in the party that got scammed to make the same posting.
I’m disappointed that back last year, John Smith admitted that the ecto rate was bugged and had been accidently nerfed.
In a way, I respect the transparency, but darn, it would have been so much easier if they just steathily changed it back.
Now, we have weekly threads on bad ecto salvage rates and will continue to get them for the foreseeable future.
If you’re good at making websites, you should make this with a meme generator.
I know some meme generators ask you to simply type text and associate with the meme you want, and it comes out seconds later with the image and text. Much easier.
But then people would complain about “the grind”
You see it with the dailies we have right now..
If I would have known this game is so broken I would have never bought it. Couple of days in and I find out there have been lag issues for months now and no fix, still a lot of people compalin. I’m lagging for 10 seconds to 5 minutes (if im patient) – died like 20 times. Game is broken, gimme my money back !!
It’s a DDOS dude. Stop blaming Anet for something it didn’t do.
If you’re so willing to quit the game just cause some script kiddies DDOS the cloud service that GW2 uses, then just quit now. Because if you’re going to get all mad over something as small as this, you won’t last long in this game.
It doesn’t hurt to have a title, but I personally don’t need to make a big deal about it.
Some titles:
-Magical
-Looter
-Lucky
And that’s when we all realized it was Zommoros talking to Scarlet the whole time…
I don’t care, he gave me Dusk last night.
http://i.imgur.com/jHBADHK.png
Looks like I’ll worship him for the next 6 months.
I’m sure you probably know this guy. https://twitter.com/DerpTrolling
‘’kitten ?@DerpTrolling 34 min
It’s not every day you launch the worlds largest DDoS attack.’’It’s a shame that the US justice system sees them as a joke, and thinks that the best punishment for their actions is to hire them and give them a salary. If they caned the kittens like they do for vandals in Singapore, it would be a better deterrent than a fat paycheck.
Have you already forgot about lulzsec?
They were the original inspiration for kitten Troll. They got caught after several months with some on probation while others were sentenced to 10 years.
One of them was actually an insider by the FBI while another was eventually given a job at an undisclosed employer.
Unfair yeah, but the FBI takes it seriously (they have different divisions for crimes)
I don’t recall anything about a sentencing, just that a bunch of them got a slap on the hand (probation is bullkitten). 10copper bets that the guys pulling this off now are former lulzsec.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/15/5108288/jeremy-hammond-lulzsec-stratfor-hacker-sentenced
Pretty funny on his reaction.
Nothing can be done.
It’s all up to the FBI to catch em. Took months for the FBI to catch lulzsec.
All the feds will do is hire them and pay them a kitten-ton of money.
Not really.
kitten trolling aren’t really all that talented. I would equate them to experienced script kiddies who know how to hide their tracks. They wouldn’t be able to get a job for the government because they don’t exactly meet the skill requirements.
I’m sure you probably know this guy. https://twitter.com/DerpTrolling
‘’kitten ?@DerpTrolling 34 min
It’s not every day you launch the worlds largest DDoS attack.’’It’s a shame that the US justice system sees them as a joke, and thinks that the best punishment for their actions is to hire them and give them a salary. If they caned the kittens like they do for vandals in Singapore, it would be a better deterrent than a fat paycheck.
Have you already forgot about lulzsec?
They were the original inspiration for kitten Troll. They got caught after several months with some on probation while others were sentenced to 10 years.
One of them was actually an insider by the FBI while another was eventually given a job at an undisclosed employer.
Unfair yeah, but the FBI takes it seriously (they have different divisions for crimes)
Nothing can be done.
It’s all up to the FBI to catch em. Took months for the FBI to catch lulzsec.
The answer would be that the GW2 Servers, are yet again, under DDOS attack.
This keeps coming up, but I’m starting to wonder if that is truly the issue. You’d think that for the 3rd night in a row they’d be a little more prepared with how to stop it when it happened.
That’s easier said than done.
It’s not Anet’s fault that kitten troll is DDOS’ing again. I’m not sure if you guys understand that but it’s a 3rd party attacking Anet’s servers indirectly.
http://blogs.csoonline.com/network-security/2989/ddos-attack-cloudflare-customer-larger-spamhaus
I thought the festivals where there to give the devs to work on other things. This would make them have to create new content to keep having them. right? That would be counterproductive one would think.
They’re not going to be starting off from scratch. They will still have assets and models to re-use, such as gift dolyaks, snowmen and patches, as well as the special game modes. The only thing they will have to focus on is implementing these assets in new environments
What exactly is ATT? Is it an experienced PvE guild from BG or is it another super guild like the Teq ones?
How exactly do people come up with these ideas? That this Living Story chapter is constructed to remove any association between GW1 and GW2?
Like seriously..if you hate this game that much, at least say so. Don’t try to hide it behind some BS idea like this.
Vigil keep makes the most sense lore and gameplay wise.
Why is everyone so eager to play a race mirrored after chickens? ;S
what if… after being destroyed, the LA area overflowing with dragon energy, becomes a dense jungle area and we get a new dragon event, mordremoth’s liutenant or something
LA doesn’t have enough land mass to sustain itself as a big enough zone to hold a dragon.
maybe fuse it with gendarran or bloodtide, who knows, maybe it magically gets fixed after the battle, maybe it was all a ruse, an illusion by the mesmer squad from DR
I think what will likely happen in the last patch is that somehow the dragon will be awakened in Lion’s Arch, and through a cinematic, he will fly west out of the map in the direction of the Maguuma Jungle.
In the meantime, his champion (Scarlet) will become a 2-week-long boss fight that you will eventually kill. At the end of this all, LA will be a pile of burning mess with related dynamic events involving clearing out remaining enemies, fighting back looters and such.
what if… after being destroyed, the LA area overflowing with dragon energy, becomes a dense jungle area and we get a new dragon event, mordremoth’s liutenant or something
LA doesn’t have enough land mass to sustain itself as a big enough zone to hold a dragon.
hmm how is it worth it?? i mean salvage kit come in 25 stack.. carry 100 only take 4 slot.. plus as you salvage it goes down pretty fast.. before you run out you will surely find an npc to resupply them..
as for function, it cost 3 copper per use, which is almost exactly the same of basic salvage kit per unit price…
hmm confusing…someone please explain, thanks
Its .5 cheaper overall so in the end it pays itself off. (I have used it well over 1000 times) so i saved over 500c so far and it hasn’t even been out over a year. On top of that it takes only 1 slot rather than your 4 slots. Also don’t need to run to a merchant to buy more kits.
yea..but the item is like 60g+.. you save like 0.5 copper per use…. likely will take few years of dedicate usage to cover up the price…
btw.. 1g = 10000 copper.. this kit is 800gem, which is like 65G+ at current price..
65g = 650000 copper / 0.5 (unit saving) = 130,0000
say you salvage 100 per day.. it will take 13000 days or 35 years to cover up the cost.. sure if you salvage 1000 a day it only take 3.5 years.. but can you really salvage 1000 per day??
Overall it’s more about convenience/efficiently than cost-savings.
If you want to get 300% MF through ectos for example, you absolutely need to get the kit to save you any personal injuries.