Guild Wars 2

Ishmel.1308:

Don’t your spider senses tingle hearing about this or am I the only one? Doesn’t it sound a bit exploity?

I very much doubt anyone will get banned over it, but don’t complain if they get retroactively changed to different stats. You knew what you were getting into, don’t deny it.

I dont think its an exploit and even if it was an unintended change, i wouldnt mind, if they would reset mine and give me another choice.

The reason why i think its an intended change, is, if i remember correctly. you could only chose those stats that werent available from other crafted ascended backpieces.

You couldnt choose Zerker, Rampager, clerics, etc but only celestial, dire, Apothecary, Dire+Apo. etc.

And i dont think that Anet didnt want to add celestial stats.
You could already half an ascended backpiece because you were able to upgrade them with a celestial jewel.
They always said that they try to introduce more and more stats to backpieces and other ascended gear. The did a huge leap on that front with the last update to ascended weapon crafting so i think the choice for the backpiece is intended.

And its not an exploit to save gold on crafting cost because you can use 250 t6 claws instead of 250 t6 bloods to craft your zerker piece.

But its an easy fix to introduce ascended back pieces with stats that havent been available yet while bumping the value of t6 claws after their mass farm in the Pavilion.

If anybody is going to craft one of those back pieces, I would appreciate, if you would note down the stats that are available to choose from and post them here for clarification.

Here is the recipe for the Backpiece with an offensive infusion slot:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quiver_of_a_Thousand_Arrows

They are available at the Guild Commendations vendor for 10 Commendations and 80 silver.

First of all, you get 10 lvls for crafting from 0-500, so you get around 8 levels for crafting to 0-400, so maxing 3 professions to 400 wil get you from lvl 50 to around 74.

Potentially , you can max all 8 crafts on each of your character and will always get exp for it, it doesnt matter, if you already maxed it on another character.
The Achievement points you get for reaching certain lvls in a craft however, will only be awarded to you once, as achievements are account bound.

You can only have 2 professions active on one character but you can switch the active ones out as often as you like and you wont loose your progress on the deactivated profession.

However, the first time you learn a craft, it doesnt cost anything. But if you want to activate a profession for the 2nd time, it will cost you 40 silver.

If you want to craft something to be used on another character, you have to place the item in your personal bank, so the other character can pick it up, mailing it doesnt work.

I know that some were waiting for this and with the last update, Anet quietly introduced them.

Just craft either of the offensive or defensive ascended backpiece that had magic find on it in the mystic forge.

It will let you choose your stats, once you equip it and celestial is an option.

Gives +22 to all stats and 3% crit damage.

steveway.3167:

Arena net please make the sentinel inscriptions availiable again. I am a new user and missed the opportunity to get the recipes

Recipes for those were never available, they were just drops from a dungeon.

And as already mentioned, Inscriptions are available at the guild commendation vendor and im sure insignias will follow once ascended armor is introduced.

However, right now its cheaper to buy sentinel exotic weapons directly form the trading post as they are about half price of the inscription itself due to overproduction.

coolsaint.6150:

It seems to me dungeon tokens for exotics will be useless when Ascended Armor comes out (unless this is intended). Alternately, some of the dungeon skins are nice looking – so a way for players to upgrade existing dungeon exotics to ascended might be good (just theorycrafting).

Maybe the dungeon vendors will sell the recipes for the inscriptions?

Also to OP, i think the recipes will require more leather and silk compared to the amount of wood and ore we need for weapons to drain some of those from the economy.

Just play the game the way you like.

Words.7538:

Currently withbthe removal of magic find it is possible to craft A Quiver Of A Thousand Arrows (i’m pretty sure it’s this skin.) which you can then select stats for. I believe its 250 vicious claws and 50 ectos, i think i paid around 60g for mine. I’m unsure whether anet are aware that it’s possible to do this and as such it may be patched sooner or later, i dont think there are any other ways to acquire a piece with Dire stats but i’m sure someone will correct me if i’m wrong. :-)

I made “There with Yakkington, A Travelers Tale” which is the Magic Find Backpiece with a defensive infusion slot.

It let me choose my stats as well and I am pretty sure that Dire was an option as well, i certainly know that dire+apothecary is an option (4 stats instead of 3), so dire alone should be available also.

I however, went for Celestial stats.

Edit: The list of stats to choose from was quite short compared to the ones that i can choose from on my legendary weapon.
It might be that you can only choose the stats which arent available from other recipes. So this wont be a cheap way to make one with zerker stats for example.

Axtozob.4597:

Bah Sentinel is the best but running PVT is quite the same thing !

For the runes, you have the choice between Melandru (-25% condi duration is good but it’s for the -25% stun duration !), Hoelbrak (you don’t run a lot of Might, maybe not that useful) and Lyssa (using your banner = unkillable for a few secs).

Lyssa and Melandru are horribly expensive…

Lyssa and Melandru runes are quite cheap right now.

Rainie.7154:

Well the mats for the 5% chances for Silver Doubloons have currently rise now its about 1.15s each so give or take a stack will roughly cost you about 2.8g this ridiculous. I always have been using this recipe but now with the price going up I dont know if I should take my chance and gamble from the stack or just buy them from TP. I really do hope they will come up to convert Gold Doubloons to Silver Doubloons.

That would be bronze to silver.

Check what the Black Lion Weapons Trader NPC has to say on that topic.

Last week i bought 25 key for 110 Gold, got 2 tickets and 11 scraps, converted them into 3 zodiac skins and sold them for around 115G.

Bought another 25 keys and got 9 scraps.

Just shoot you catapult into the lord room, after you got the wall down.

no, no, no, no, no.

During the first week of invasions, i bought plenty of light bags of booty between 60-70 silver. They were so cheap because aetherblades dropped them during invasions in low lvl zones.

As they mainly dropped t2 mats, which are after t6 the 2nd most expensive mats on the tp, i made at least 1G profit per stack without selling the doubloons.
I bought around 80 stacks of bags over all and got around 1 doubloon per stack.

Now the prices of the lootbags have doubled and even though doubloons gone up as well, t2 mats declined a bit, so i stopped using this method.
Even though it might still be profitable, i lost interest in this because i make more profits per hour with other methods than getting 20G from opening 5k lootbags per hour and selling its contents.

Khisanth.2948:

According to the patch notes they will be returning.

The Mystic Forge recipes for The Mad Moon, Arachnophobia, and The Crossing have been temporarily disabled. They will be updated and return at Halloween.

Those are weapons and not weapon skins.
I dont think the old weapon skins will return but they will release some new Halloween Skins for weapon types that dont have any yet.

Meglobob.8620:

alcopaul.2156:

How about when ascended armors are out? Prolly 800 gold?!!??!?!??!?!

WTF!

WRONG!

There are 6 armour pieces so more like 1200g!

WTF indeed…

So you have to level your crafting from 400-500 6 times because there are 6 different armor pieces?

This is the worst post in the worst topic i read today.

alcopaul.2156:

To get my level 400 to 500 artificer I have to spend ~200 gold??!!?!!??!?!

200gold for a weapon?!!!??!?!?

How about when ascended armors are out? Prolly 800 gold?!!??!?!??!?!

WTF!

You, dear Sir, dont deserve an ascended weapon if you dont know to craft or gather resourceful.

Or at least, you deserve to pay 200 Gold for leveling to 500.

This only applies to people that farmed champs like no tomorrow before patch.
Dragonite Ore and Empyreal Fragments are way harder to come by on a daily basis and shouldnt be an issue.

Anet recently forfeited alot of potential gem purchases by introducing the account wallet at no cost to ease your bank space.

I also think alot of players sold their small amount of Lodstones they had to generate funds for crafting ascended.

Buttercup.5871:

Wanze.8410:

I will miss that area as well, once my pass runs out tomorrow. Didnt even know it wont be availalbe anymore otherwise i would have bought a couple.

In the meantime, you will find me in Ebonhawke. Quite place with guild bank and BLTP right next to all profession crafting. The only downside is no MF and higher waypoint costs because its on the rim of the map-

Rata sum is even better. The accountancy waypoiny is my standard waypoint for all characters. All but one, she has a pass. Royal terrace -> all. Even has a mystic forge and personal myani.

I used Rata Sum before but Ebonhawke has far smaller distances between the TP and crafting stations.

The 30% Confusion Duration is bugged and doesnt apply.

Fix Please.

I would be very happy with those changes.

Dear WvW Devs and fellow WvWers,

In the past couple of months there have been ongoing discussions about GvGs and how they affect the experience of other regular wvw players.

Right now there is a lot of negative feedback on the forums about the Bloodlust on the Borderlands Buff (BBB).

Naturally the GvGers oppose that buff on themselves and would like to have an option to turn it off.
Of course, the forums are not the general opinion of the whole wvw player base but they give a good indication on what is on their mind.

I also have my opinion about it but I dont expect Anet to change any core mechanic of the next update. I am sure they put alot of effort in it and it will roll out as intended.

But why not involve the opinion of the player base more in the future?

Let us decide in game with our effort and actions on the battlefield, give us a vote!
You already did this in PvE with the Council Vote between Ellen and Evon, why not introduce something similar to wvw?

No doubt, the coming update will change the meta in wvw and with WvW Season 1 starting 2 weeks later, we wont see any mayor changes for 7 weeks.
Why not use those 7 weeks to gather direct feedback from the people that play wvw?

Give us a vote ticket every 10 kills or every rank chest (starting at level 10), or from every Camp Supervisor, Tower or Keep Lord.

Then give us choices to vote for.

This can just be a general opinion like:

Do you like the Bloodlust in the Borderlands Update so far?

It could also be a vote to change something for the next weeks match-up:

Would you like to have the BBB reduced to 25 points to all stats for next match up?
Would you like to have the BBB disabled for next match up?
Would you like to have the BBB go up to +25 (50) again for next match up?
Would you like to have Arrow Carts disabled for next match up?
Would you like to have Environmental Weapons enabled for next match up?

You could also gain some valuable feedback concerning long term changes, like map population caps, more maps with lower pop caps, or a second Obsidium Sanctum without a JP Chest at the end, where we could do our GvGs (I know some Devs have a problem with that abbreviation: It means Guild vs Guild) without interfering with map queues on the Borderlands, not getting the BBB and not annoying other people that try to solve the regular Jumping Puzzle.

This voting system could be used on alot of different topics, I just used GvGs and the Bloodlust Buff as main examples because personally its bothering e the most.

I posted this in the WvW Forum because i hope to get some feedback from wvw players before it gets moved to the abyss of the Suggestions Forum.
Maybe you also have something you would like to see a vote on.

Cheers,

Bloin, 26 stacks.

timidobserver.7925:

Wanze.8410:

So how do you plan to obtain Dark Matter without the involvement of RNG?

Yes, because obtaining Dark Matter is nearly as difficult as obtaining a precursor without spending absurd amounts of gold.

In addition to what the OP said, I won’t be going for a legendary as long as their functional benefit is the same as exotic. Just like ascended weapons are stronger than exotics, legendary weapons should be stronger than ascended weapons.

You better start going then.
Legendaries dont have the same functional benefit (whatever you mean by that, my guess is stats) as exotics anymore.
Legendaries also have more functional benefit than Ascended weapons because you can change their stats everytime youre out of combat.

Again K.O. by reasonable argument.

I hope they never will.
Step away from your arrow cart and try some open field battle.

Their favourite server is the one that doesnt GvG.

Moderator.9532:

As a reminder to everyone, please remain civil and contribute to a constructive discussion of the topic.

That hammer swings both ways. It would be nice to read something constructive from Devon that doesnt ignore everything that has been said on this topic.

I will miss that area as well, once my pass runs out tomorrow. Didnt even know it wont be availalbe anymore otherwise i would have bought a couple.

In the meantime, you will find me in Ebonhawke. Quite place with guild bank and BLTP right next to all profession crafting. The only downside is no MF and higher waypoint costs because its on the rim of the map-

I have the same problem, playing on lowest settings

Its traveling…..

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Behellagh.1468:

Couldn’t be T5 to T6 promotion, that’s perfectly legit, just not profitable until just after the patch.

Not profitable……. yet

/wink

It was not profitable because they wrongly doubled the vendor price for elonian wine which was fixed yesterday with the crafting exploit.
You could have, however, eploited the crafting bug for 4 days to gain lots of skillpoints and after yesterdays patch, buy wine at regular price again and use up all those skillpoints.

Behellagh.1468:

I am not a bot, I’m a human being. But it’s not me this time.

I do something like this when playing the market. I put in bids starting with A’s (or Berserker) work my way to the end and they go back to the start and update any bid that’s no longer the highest. Rinse, repeat for and hour or two then cash out. Entirely manually. No automation, just a mix of asperger, OCD, market PvP and a fanatical devotion to the Pope.

I do the same and i am sure there are many more of us.

DeShadowWolf.6854:

It isn’t just armor and weaps, I’ve noticed a couple other things as well. 1) Mini prices are now inflated. Not sure when it happened exactly, but i used to buy and sell them, now they are far more expensive. 2) Dyes and runes/sigils are less profitable nowadays. again, I used to buy and sell them, but now some have dropped off in price/profitability.

1) this is due to the introduction of the 2nd set of minis. People bought old minis from the TP to put htem in the MF to get new ones which were, due to small supply at the start, quite expensive. This coused the supply of the old minis to dimish and their prices rise.

2) I think dyes also drop from various champion bags which people were farming and stocking prior to last patch to open them after. This caused a high influx of unidientified dyes. Runes and Sigils dropped in price because alot of people salvaged exotic armor and weapons to get Dark Matter, meaning supply was way higher than demand.

heavy bags of any kind.

So how do you plan to obtain Dark Matter without the involvement of RNG?

Make sure to consume a Bottle of Elonian Wine before using the Mystic Forge.

Zomorros likes that.

Maybe your account got flagged for exploiting the bug of getting exp at lvl 400?

Your magic find stats arent connected to to the people you play with but the amount of essences of luck you consumed.

Your Magic Find stat in the Hero panel shows your actual stat after boni were applied.
To see what permanent Magic find your account has from achievement chests and luck bars filled, check your achievement tab.

I refined some 3 hours ago and it was working. You need the artificer profession for it and as far as i know, it doesnt give exp as it is a basic recipe.

You only get 2 APs for completing Agent of Entropy 125 times.
It also says, how much you completed it already.
If you completed it 125 times already, its workign as intended, if not, its a bug.

I wonder who is gonna be first after the patch which fixes this to run to the mf vendor, buy loads of elonian wine for 25.60 silver and fill all those buy orders on the tp for 40 silver.

As you can easily copy the item code into the chat and preview it on yourself, no, i dont need a different angle.

The initial price spike to 35 silver pre patch was because alot of casual players got their stack of ectos because they knew they would be needing them for crafting.
So once the demand to use ectos was there, the majority of players had enough supply ofr their own crafting and werent forced to buy from the tp.

nmoral.3876:

yes, those kind of movements were announced, but this? back armor being salvaged it is not related with blog nor ascended crafting. I knew this was going to happen so i saved like 40 of them loooooong time ago in a bank-guild, but due to space issue i didnt buy more. Didnt know when they become salvageable (?) but i tried just after big 3rd Sept path and they werent. SO it was a veeeery recent change and market already reacted..so thats why i wonder how the hell people realize so fast of theses no announced changes

can you imagine the CRAZY profit for those who got them at 2 silver from TP?

how much are they now?

oZii.2864:

Rennoko.5731:

Shifu.4321:

50% chance for a 3-5 second boon. Pass.

Yeah and it is only defensive boons too…. had some real promise. Oh well.

Ouch! I don’t know what they where thinking with that one make it 10 seconds and it would be more appealing.

The Sigil and Rune designers are so hit and miss lately it can’t be the same people doing all the Runes/Sigils. Whoever is designing them now though is better than the launch people.

That would give me 20 seconds of Protection, Retaliation and Regeneration every 10th kill on average, when i run 100% boon Duration. Would be OP in zerg fights and we would have to give the rallybots the nickname boonbots.

Belorn.2659:

> Still curious why would people put up the blues/greens at a non profitable price. TP an item 1 copper higher than the sell value will make you lose money.

TP can be used as an slightly ineffective merchant golem when you got full inventory. At least that was the case before this path. Now days, I wouldn’t leave town without a backup 250 salvage kit.

Its because some people dont even know about sales tax or listing fees.
I stopped salvaging my ites now and put them on the tp for 5-15 silver.
They sell quite frequently.

It doesnt take much people to buy up supply of some items.
Before patch the were some green and blue traveler items on the TP that had more than 1000 listed at 1 copper over vendor price and no buy orders. I bought 1000 each of those, draining literally 99% of the supply and I could also see that i wasnt the only one doing that.

I had no inside infos. I just bought and relisted them for 5 silver each because i knew from the blog post that all items with mf stats on the tp will be returned to the seller after the patch. That way i lost some gold for the listing fees but didnt have 10k items blocking my trading post pickup for 2 days.

I salvaged 10k blues and greens right after patch (alongside 60 exotics) and it put me bang on 100% MF. I am at 120% now and need 6000 luck points to fill my bar for the next % point. I still put buy orders for greens in over night but the pace of my bar filling got very slow. I dont think anybody will get to 300% anytime soon.

And for those that didnt now: You can refine the low tier essences of luck into higher tier essences as an artificer at no extra cost or loss of luck in the process.
After salvaging my 10k items, i had 35 stacks of blue essences in my bank. This saved me alot of clicking.

Not sure if it got mentioned but i still got craft exp until lvl 413 i think, for crafting RARE inscriptions, which use t5 mats.