Guild Wars 2

UltraSaX.8603:

Is possible to request a refund for the Flamekissed ?
Because i’ve payed 800 gems to have the old Flamekissed and not for the new one.
I not like this one and want a refund.

They said back then that you can make a request if you do not like it. Send a support ticket.

Forestgreen.7981:

Flash.6912:

someone show it to me on human female please….. sylvari doesn’t do justice

dat gap

Dee Jay.2460:

I hate the reward system in this game.

There’s no correlation between risk/time and reward.

Instead rewards are almost entirely random and valuable items can be attained with a similar chance in just about any type of content.

Maybe this is a side-effect of “play as you want” because rewards are kitten everywhere.

Only in GW2 are 95% of your drops worth less than 5 Silver, 4.9% of your drop worth less than 50 Silver and maybe 0.1% of your drops worth more than 2 Gold.

And if you’re really, really, really lucky you might get the drop worth 800 Gold. And this is pretty regardless of which content you do.

And if 95% of you drops were worth 2 gold, you think that would make you richer? That means everyone else would also be getting 2 gold for 95% of their drops, leading to inflation, which is never good.

I have a master excel spreadsheet that I use to keep track of metaevents/dungeons. It’s all manual, but you can reset it all by a quick button.

If you are interested, pm me your email and I can forward you the excel file.

Dwayna expansion confirmed.

This would end up with people buying commander tags just for color.

Imagine the spam in WvW/LA if that were the case?

Ascended weapons do not have better stats or damage. They’re the same.

The only advantage legendaries have over ascended weapons is their ability to change stats out of combat, and aesthetics.

Legendary weapons will more than likely stay the same as long as the game is under Colin’s watch.

Blude.6812:

Zoid.2568:

Get a lot of MF and run champtrains and run dungeons.

Doesn’t help!!!! RNG is broken! It favours some and completely ignores others.

If RNG favors others and ignores others…it’s not RNG.

Ken DeBoer.9268:

I know, I know, QQ whoa is me. But I have hit the RNG wall. I have about 2k hours played, no precursor drops or MF luck. I am not expecting any precursors and those aren’t the reason for the post.

I could have probably put this in the dungeon subforum, but dang, FOTM has slapped me in the face the last week. 7 runs in a row @49 without even seeing a crappy ring, and 6/7 runs in the 30’s bracket without receiving any bonus.

Just needed to vent my RNG punch in the gut over the last week. Anyone else in the midst of a bad run of luck?

Hours played is meaningless.

If you have three players with 2k hours and each of them have a different playstyle, it’s going to affect your chances.

WvW’er? Very few opportunities for rolls
Dungeon? Very few opportunities for rolls
Mob farmer? High opportunities for rolls

1.) Go after skins to make your character more aesthetically appealing.

You mention t3 culural, which costs quite a bit of gold (especially for you since you only have 19g up to this point)

2.) Do dungeons to go after these unique skins (armors and weapons) and they simply take time rather than gold. Easiest dungeons off the top of my head (I’m not a dungeon runner) to do are AC 1, SE 1, CoF1. You should also try out Fractals of the Mists – it’s a really good dungeon.

3.) Participate in WvW. Depending on your server, and the people you choose to run with, this can be extremely satisfying. But if you do not like getting killed by people or get anxiety from this, don’t bother

4.) Participate in map completion/collection/spvp

Last point: The fact that you only have 19g after all this time tells me either you are not doing any events that give you a good amount of gold, or you have limited time.

Depending on your server, people may be doing metaevent trains, which are giant zergs that go through each major boss at reset night. It’s a good (not the best) source of gold and you make the most out of your time if you only have 2 hours to play.

If you haven’t already, go visit gw2stuff.com and pick your server. It’ll show current metaevents that are in progress for which at a minimum will give you 1 rare and a couple of blues/greens.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

krall? please quit being argumentative. thanks.

now then, back you go into my personal ignore list.

that’s quite sad that you block people just because they have a difference of opinion from you.

Mystic salvage kits also provide non-quantitative value by saving up bank space and not having to constantly buy rare kits

Having a copper kit and a mystic salvage kit often means not having to visit a vendor for quite awhile.

As you already mentioned, there would be a ton of exploits (I can think of several off the top of my head).

Any sort of ‘fix’ for these exploits would be such a difficult and time-consuming process to design and code (such as removing all enemies/siege on the map).

I do not think it is worth the resources to design such a system that will have very limited usage

I don’t think Anet has made any confirmation that 1st-person view would be released. It’s currently only available on alpha servers afaik.

Diminishing return was created to combat botters.

Botters do not, afaik, participate in champ runs

Do not waste mystic forge stones. Once you run out of them, they become very expensive and valuable.

It’s best to use them for mystic salvage kits.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Kain Francois.4328:

It will be here soon.

If that is data mined it is going to be terrible. That helm structor is awful.

different strokes for different folks

the heck is WAI?

Speculated coming in March.

Vayne.8563:

Anything I could possibly say here would earn me an infraction. lol

That’s the main reason why my main account got permabanned. I’m just…too blunt.

Thankfully I can control my urges.

OP is, in kind words, lost.

BotW will be coming back sometimes in the summer, so you can gamble that the skins will be coming back.

1.) If you do not plan on using shield often, do not make it. You will regret it.

2.) If you are leaning towards selling it, DO NOT MAKE IT.

You should just make another legendary (I hope you did not make the gifts yet) like Sunrise since it can be sold for much more on the TP and in greater frequency.

afaik mini karka is a super rare drop in southsun.

sazaw.1347:

Vol.7601:

Xillllix.3485:

I’m going to love this update that’s for sure, finally new WvW content. I really don’t understand these people that don’t do PvP or WvW. The real test of skill comes form PvP and WvW.

I don’t think WvW is particularly skillful. All that matters is blobbing up on a commander and coordinating your blast finishers.

well zerging is not the only play style you can do in wvw though.

It is, however, the majority playstyle in WvW.

There is a reason why guys like Sacrx from RG or Indo from TW have Ultimate Dominator titles. They both play(ed) a lot and both spammed staff guardians.

Though to be fair, RG is coordinated, but that doesn’t necessarily mean skillful.

When someone walks around with a Liadri minipet, I know that person is skillful.

Xae Isareth.1364:

I tend to think that a lot of Guardians with staves aren’t using them because they think its actually a good DPS weapon, but because its one of the best mob-tagging weapons in the game.

I think due to how much the event fails, people are coming with the mentality that even if they play well, being 1 in 100, it won’t have any swing on the outcome of the event (ie, it fails anyways), so they’ll just tag as many mobs as they can and grab as much loot as possible before it fails.

I use staff 80% of the time I play guardian, but in marionette, I only use it in defending lanes.

There is no point using it against a single champ. Hammer/GS/Sceptre is much more reliable.

I think the average guardian just uses staff and forgets everything else.

Xillllix.3485:

I’m going to love this update that’s for sure, finally new WvW content. I really don’t understand these people that don’t do PvP or WvW. The real test of skill comes form PvP and WvW.

I don’t think WvW is particularly skillful. All that matters is blobbing up on a commander and coordinating your blast finishers.

BobbyStein.2315:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

By the way, still taking bets on who’s dying this time when we do take down Scarlet. Rox, Kasmeer, Hobo-Tron, or Taimi.

I guess you’ll have to wait and see what happens.

Any chance you can say, in general, how you feel about ending characters. Do you think it’s possible, in the GW2 world, to kill off characters?

Shows like GoT are so good because anyone and everyone can die, and it’s not boring because you know that even the good guys can get the axe, or making mistakes will have drastic consequences as opposed to stories/shows where the good guy always wins.

It would be nice in future stories that we would have consequences to our actions (or even the NPCs) which result in extremely negative results such as a zone being permanently destroyed or a character being killed off.

All these complaints about pve’ers in WvW will be forgotten. I find it hilarious that people would threaten to quit over such a small ‘issue’.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

(hint: some people have scroll buttons)

which only go far out so far. Near the end your character zooms out a lot farther than usual.

You know what you’re doing.

Is this your first time on this forum? You think a dev will flatly say “x map will be coming out on March 3rd”?

What’s with the increased zoom? (actually I know the answer, I just can’t say it)

Your answer is here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1wdc2h/massively_edge_of_the_mists_preview/cf10zn2?context=3

It’s a glorified overflow lobby. Temper your expectations. It’s a nice map but I don’t think it’s the ‘best update ever’. It’s sort of the cross between a content drop and a QOL improvement.

I find it funny when people point out arbitrary achievements just for the sake of it.

First OF? First to beat it with 20 sec? What is this?

Next up we’ll have “first wurm kill with only 5 guardians” or “first wurm kill at 5 am”

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Yeah giant eyes apparently drop from large moldy bags, not heavy.

But the drop rate is ridiculously low. I simply put buy orders in for my giant eyes. My immobulus is still my favorite weapon, and worth it in the long run, to me.

Wrong – they also drop from heavy moldy bags. They just have an incredibly low drop rate, which is reflected in their current prices.

There’s no point, you will get overflowed and organized runs won’t take random pugs.

Simplicity.7208:

Fafnir.5124:

HownDoog.8529:

I forgot the game was about the loot. I didn’t realize people actually worried so much about loot instead of playing. jesus.

Well you usually get payed based on how hard a job is.

Which is why Bill Gates makes less money than Chinese sweatshop workers….Oh wait…

I agree with Hown Doog. It’s legit just to kill the boss. Loot is a bonus, not a goal.

It seems you have absolutely zero clue of how hard upper-management work is.

Are you sure it isn’t the ‘medal’ rewards you get from completion the event? Maybe you hit event DR.

Fafnir.5124:

Vol.7601:

Yutaka Matsushige.1987:

im posted here video Karka drop on Lostshore event (Karka Legendary type mob vs Wurm Epic !!! type mob)
http://i.imgur.com/Rrz5tEk.jpg
sry for bad screenshot this screen from this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMOV9o75GZc
now that we have from Karka BIG chest … 2 gold + 2 Exotic + Box(1exo Amulet + 20 slot bag)
what im have from 2! Wurm … umm just 10 gren item lol …

Well yeah, lets conveniently ignored that the Ancient Karka Queen was a one-time event and all…

I think he is referencing difficulty. that Wurm is much harder and there for should have more rewards. But with next path there is a garneted nerf on him so we really should wait and see how the difficulty changes before complaining about how current reward is worth it or not. 10sec or more will be added to phase 2

Yes, the wurm is much harder but the exclusivity of both events are widely different, hence the disparity in rewards.

Furthermore, while the wurm is difficult, I don’t think it’s as incredibly difficult that we need to be showering players with exotics. There is a long learning curve, but once you surpass that the fight becomes easy. I remember when Teq was notoriously difficult. But now we have servers finishing teq with 8-10 minutes to spare, and Teq right now is easy like clockwork for servers that are experienced in it.

The wurm, after all, is bugged right now and sometimes you have to get lucky to get past the scaling issues in the 1st phase.

If I recall the way to get this vista is along the east wall.

Yutaka Matsushige.1987:

im posted here video Karka drop on Lostshore event (Karka Legendary type mob vs Wurm Epic !!! type mob)
http://i.imgur.com/Rrz5tEk.jpg
sry for bad screenshot this screen from this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMOV9o75GZc
now that we have from Karka BIG chest … 2 gold + 2 Exotic + Box(1exo Amulet + 20 slot bag)
what im have from 2! Wurm … umm just 10 gren item lol …

Well yeah, lets conveniently ignored that the Ancient Karka Queen was a one-time event and all…

Yutaka Matsushige.1987:

Delvoire.8930:

Yutaka Matsushige.1987:

Taisia.2813:

After our second kill I took screenies to demonstrate the difference between Wurm and Tequatl Loot. I think the picture is self explanatory. Basic differences:

1. 2 champ bags vs 4 champ bags
2. No karma pots from wurm.
3. A lot less items from wurm “physical” chest
4. 20 item pool vs nearly 50 item pool

Comments?

2 Gold item from Wurm ?
watch on my loot from Wurm …
http://i.imgur.com/3XZE1uj.jpg

Uhmm. you didn’t take a shot of your whole loot. Just the side bar showing what popped. That stacks though so what you’re showing isn’t everything.

Kinda disappointing though. If there was a guaranteed Ascended for the Wurm, now that would be awesome. With the difficulty..it’s not like that is a bad thing. 300 players max have beaten this thing now….

yes, that not all drop, but … me interesting drop from BIG chest. im kill 2 kimes , and 2 times only 5×2 green item … mini and new ascended armor skin do not drop from Gold Box+DailyWurmKill Box. many who killed the worm, sat for 12 hours in the game during the week before they succeeded. Personally, I was 3 days before the first murder 16 hours before he was killed. but not even earned a simple exotic for it. ArenaNet could do to increase the ranking drop for the first murder. You remember what was the drop from Karka when it entered? people to link to the chat pile exotic , and more ppl give Precursor.

It’s a player choice for waiting that long. You don’t deserve anything special because you waited.

Simplicity.7208:

Taisia.2813:

After our second kill I took screenies to demonstrate the difference between Wurm and Tequatl Loot. I think the picture is self explanatory. Basic differences:

1. 2 champ bags vs 4 champ bags
2. No karma pots from wurm.
3. A lot less items from wurm “physical” chest
4. 20 item pool vs nearly 50 item pool
5. 3 rare items from both (or one mini or ascended chest if you’re lucky)

Comments?

From the looks of it, you didn’t include the world boss chest that spawns after wurm dies. That chest definitely counts towards wurm loot. When the wurm dies, you need to take the portal that appears. It takes you to his chest by the Firthside Vigil Waypoint. That chest guarentees 50~ dragonite ore & 3~ rares/exotics among other things. I see no dragonite ore in your SS. That’s how I know.

Furthermore; we’re talking about a Tequatl mini worth about 30g versus a mini cobalt wurm head worth about 800g. So yeah. I’d say the rewards are all right. The main problem is the lack of a working & fair queue system that people can’t abuse by “ferrying” & the many bugs that plague wurm right now including but not limited to map glitching, wurm scaling, and a 10 second invulnerability on phase 2.

There is 164 dragonite ore in the bottom left. It could have went there.

Yamiga.7863:

Colin said in this blog post they’ll do the 2014 preview after the end of 1st season of living story (at least that’s what I understand):

Due to the size and scope of the final four story releases in season one, the next round of major features will be bundled together into a large “feature only” release that will come after the first season of the Living World 2014 has finished. Once the story has completed, we’ll go into much greater detail on what’s to follow, but for now we want to focus on making sure our last four episodes shine.

Got it, ty.

Sometimes it’s because of bad platform spawns (1 person solo’ing a champ), a terribad ranger. But more often than not I think it’s the casual players and people who do not know how to utilize strategy.

Casual players who have no idea of the champ mechanics and refuse to read the champ details or even read chat. Players who lack situational awareness and ignore the cues that they need to dodge or move right away.

Whenever I do Warden III I frequently have to save the kitten of whoever is on my platform because they fail to move. I see bombs right on their character and I have to activate my aegis. I can save them up to 3 times. After that I can’t do anything about their lack of gameplay.

I don’t know what you guys are expecting. 5 guaranteed rares? 2 guaranteed exotics? You start handing these out and they lose value, leaving you no better off than before.

What Anet should have done was introduce a token system for bosses like Teq/Wurm, where each completion will give you tokens that can be exchanged for unique, highly desirable rewards. This encourages subsequent completion of these bosses.

i.e. Each wurm head decapitated gives 10 tokens, while successful completion of wurm event gives an extra 50 (so maximum of 80).

A token vendor will have the following:
-Wurm-themed exotic weapons – 300 tokens each
-Wurm minipet – 250 tokens
-Wurm-themed exotic armors – 240 – 400 tokens each
-Special runes – 100 tokens
e.t.c.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/01/30/guild-wars-2-edge-of-the-mists-qanda-with-devon-carver/

tldr:
-account bound wxp not coming in this patch
-queue position will now be visible
-WvW information now available in OF and instances
-it wasn’t exactly clear, but it seems there will be no pve version of EoTM and it will be lumped up with WvW players

Also a reminder there will be a dev stream Friday at 5 PM EST

“I’ll try doing the once every 6 month Gw2 status updates every 3 months starting in 2014 (the next one will be in January) and see how that works going forward. If every 3 months is still not frequent enough we can all discuss that as a community at that time, though I’m not sure a big blog post saying we’re still working on the same stuff each month would be very useful or well received”
-Colin 3 months ago.

I know you guys don’t want to spoil any living story stuff, but how about content in the next 3-6 months?

Semicolonkid.4620:

Vol.7601:

Colin said last September that one category of legendary would be released that year, hinting that it would be a backpiece.

Since that got moved up, it is reasonable to expect that the new legendary backpiece we will get will happen in the content drop in March.

Okay, that’s fair. I didn’t know that.
However, I still doubt it will purely be backpieces; I think new legendary weapons are in the mix somewhere.

Yeah, perhaps the reason why it was delayed was to have a simultaneous release of all legendary types.

Looking at the specific paragraph:
“We aren’t quite ready to go into all the details here, but what I can say is you will see a specific way to build precursor items on your way to a legendary. On top of this, you’ll also see new legendary weapons and new types of legendary gear in 2013. Building your precursor will require a large amount of the new crafting material rewards listed above, 500 in crafting, and likely a combination of other items earned for completing more specific content in the game”

curtegg.5216:

Wow, no overflow problem anymore for this event on Tarnish Coast. Hardly anyone shows for it given the paltry rewards for the difficulty of the event.

I know a lot of servers/guilds for now have put it off temporarily considering:
1.) Scaling is incredibly bugged and will make you lose phase 1
2.) Invulnerability on 2nd phase is bugged for 10 seconds
3.) Marionette is temporary and currently very rewarding