Guild Wars 2

Toxity.2547:

Crafted precursors should have their own set of legendaries.
That way, people know who the real “legendary” players are and who got their legendary from easy-mode crafting.

Because simply buying a precursor off the TP is so legendary, right? And easy-mode crafting? If/when it is finally available, you can bet the mats are not going to be easy. They’ll probably be time-gated/require excessive rare/high priced mats. If anything people who make their own precursor and then their own legendary I would say are more legendary than you “real” legendary players who either got lucky or are just rich farmers/flippers.

My problem is I didn’t afk on maps I knew I needed, except for Blazeridge because the first time I did it legit it didn’t count it. I AFK’d it again later and it counted. I don’t know which map didn’t count aside from the 5 or so I made sure the percent went up when I tracked it. I’m really going to be upset if I don’t get it because 1) 25 AP is a bit of a chunk, and 2) I actually bloody well did all the maps legit and for whatever reason they haven’t said, one of them didn’t count. The clockwork champion makes sense, but I fail to see why killing just a single champion is what makes you get credit, when I’ve closed portals and killed Pirates and Molten Alliance for the entire 45 minutes, both of which are required to actually down and “win” the event. That’s BS that those two supposedly don’t count towards completion. Why the hell are they even there then?

I hate complaining about this game because it’s free and I appreciate content like this, and I understand bugs happen, but by God I’ve spent so much time trying to get this achievement that if I don’t get it before it ends in a few days I’m going to be livid. I spent 45 minutes on these events and they didn’t count.

I hope they change it to 12/13 because of the glitching. It’s going to be total BS if we have to miss out on the 25 points when we kitten well did all the maps. I think I might still need Fields of Ruin, but I don’t know for sure which one hasn’t counted for me.

Zumy.6318:

Very neat! Please post details Wermora.

Looks like mostly pit fighter’s exotic. I also wear some of that. I’ll get around to posting one of these days.

9/10. Sounds Charr-y all right.

My Ranger goes by Dolyak Jones. Not his given charr name, but something he adopted being out in the wilds for so long

I miss the rich Ori node in Southshore. I used to actually be able to craft jewelry and a few weapons without spending a fortune or time.

If they become craftable, they won’t be easy to craft by any stretch. The mats will be intense I’m sure.

Sauzo.6821:

Honestly, I really wouldn’t expect some miracle from heaven to happen with precursors. If they do make em craftable, i’d be willing to bet it will be time gated by something like the charged quartz crystals. Something that will take months to get all the mats to make it.

Pretty much this. If/when they become craftable, you can bet the mats are going to be a kitten to gather up, unless you’re rich.

WyldKat.4712:

Woljnir.7810:

They shouldn’t have to check to make sure it counted when they did exactly what they’re supposed to do.

Another old school trait is paranoia. I immediately checked at the end of every go around to make absolutely sure it counted. Only then would I use the pencil and paper.

I also checked after, but I didn’t keep track of which maps I did in order. I know the first six counted because I looked, but I don’t remember what those maps were. Had I known the achievement was buggy like this I definitely would have written it down. I know some achievements in the past have been buggy (the balloons I guess, I had no problems there), but this is my first time experiencing completion problems.

I see. I guess I better redo it to then xD.

Enough of this pen and paper kitten. It’s not about that, people are borked over because one of the maps didn’t count. People assumed they counted when they finished them, and rightfully so. They shouldn’t have to check to make sure it counted when they did exactly what they’re supposed to do. Problem is one of them didn’t count. When there’s 13 maps it’s kind of hard to tell which one didn’t count. That’s why the checklist would show which one they didn’t get credit for and they wouldn’t need to keep doing pointless maps and wasting their play time.

From now on I’m just tracking the achievement to see if the percentage goes up. I’ve eliminated about 7 of the maps because I saw the percent increase and know for sure that is not what I’m missing. I wish I’d have done that from the start.

The good thing is if you got the Flame and Frost one then you know it’s not Frostgorge or Fireheart. Still leaves 11 maps though. It also doesn’t help when the same maps pops twice in a row, or it goes back to the one that was up before the one you just completed. There’s a time flow problem in that this achievement takes 13 hours to complete, and if the same map pops up that just completed or the same one from two hours ago, it’s another hour before we get a chance again. I haven’t seen Iron Marches in days, and that is the last one I for sure need.

Don’t waste your time with tickets. This has been happening the entire event to people. Maps are pretty much deciding on their own whether or not they want to count. I currently have the achievement tracked so I know when the % goes up I for sure got credit. It has helped eliminate about half the maps for me. I know I still need Iron Marches, but that means another map hasn’t registered since I’ll only be at 12/13. They’ll say kill clockwork champs and do the portals since they’re directly tied to the event, but I’ve straight up AFK’d on two maps and got credit, as well as done an entire event and not gotten credit (I didn’t get credit for Blazeridge the first time I did it, then the second time I did it I got credit. Both times I took part in the full event).

Bottom line it no one knows for sure what the H is going on other than it must be a bug of some kind. I have two problems with this:

1. I enjoyed this event, but I’m ready to move on since I have all the achievements except canceler. I’m getting tired of doing these invasions, especially when the same maps keep popping up. I really need Iron Marches and haven’t seen it once except when I logged on too late and was taken to an overflow without the invasion.

2. I haven’t moved on because I don’t want to just give up on the 25 points the achievement is worth. That’s a bit of a chunk to me. There’s going to be a big problem if when the event ends because of the apparent bugs people didn’t get credit for the achievement, when they kitten well did every map 5+ times.

They won’t because you have to look at the bigger picture. This game is free, Anet makes nothing off of you after initial purchase. The Gem Shop is nothing but a bunch of convenience or vanity items that add no advantage whatsoever to a player over another. It’s also the only way Anet can make any extra money. They want people to buy as many picks as they need. It’s not their problem you have 7 or 8 characters, because there are people out there who will buy them for each one.

Also the biggest picture to look at is it would render regular tools completely obsolete. They are currently a money sink and Anet is not about to let that aspect of the game go completely defunct and let people pass the infinites between characters. Buy them for your main, or don’t buy them, but they will never be account bound.

I know I still need Iron Marches, but I’ll be at 12/13 then, meaning 1 didn’t register. It sucks because I’m pretty much done with this event. I’ve enjoyed it, completed everything I want, and enjoyed all the champs and what not but I’m ready to move on. It sucks so badly because there’s no telling which one didn’t register. Yesterday I did Blazeridge thinking I hadn’t done it, then didn’t get credit. Then I did it again and got credit. It could seriously be any map that didn’t register. It probably hasn’t registered at least twice by now. At least I know it’s not Frostgorge or Fireheart, since I got that one. I’m ready to move on from this event but I’m not prepared to give up on the 25 points over something like this.

I have 100% completion on my main and have for some time. I have everything of everything, as one would expect with 100% xD. But my Shiverpeaks exploration is stuck at 174/175. Muguuma Jungle is also like 3 points shy of complete. How exactly does this work? Am I missing a small clouded over section somewhere? I know I ended up getting Kryta and Orr when I still had stuff clouded over, so I’m kind of confused here xD.

And if you didn’t get kitten for failing, people would be on here crying about spending 45 minutes on an event and getting nothing for it.

It never ends does it. Who gives a kitten if people use a mesmer portal on JPs. Seriously, explain how that affects you at all in your play style and enjoyment of this game.

One of the Devs said in another post you can do 5 invasions on any character. I sure hope so, because I think a lot of people did the story and got the communicator on a character they shouldn’t have, myself included xD.

Zefram.8945:

Gabesz.3895:

The holographic communicator is soulbound. GREAT!!!!

Hehe, this was exactly what i was thinking.
So how can i get this thing on my other Character because i got this with a Toon who has almost no World exploration still, and i want to do it with my main (need the waypoints and levels).

Check the Devs post a few above, both of you xD. Says you can do it on any character on your account.

Make sure and get yourself out of combat when the last wave is almost done. You have to be smart about it folks. There’s 100 people wailing on her. Even with a few more zeroes she’s still going down fast.

What’s with the tattoo like thing on the winged armor set legs? I think it’s a great looking leg armor, I’m just not fond of the tattoo it gives our character. I’m not saying take it out because I don’t like it, but I also hate to ask if it could be made toggable, given we already have so much customization as it is xD.

My problem isn’t so much the items inside, but I just never have any kitten keys to open them. I still have like 100 chests from when they dropped like candy at launch. Buying keys of the Gem Shop isn’t exactly cost effective xD. Can’t tell you the last time I got one off a drop. I’ve gotten lucky the last few maps I’ve completed with a key instead of stones, but that’s it.

Man I hope I can figure this out once I get 80, it sounds complicated. I know once I get it down and get all the boons up I’ll be able to do it blindfolded. Gonna have to hit the Mists and practice.

This has come up a bit I’m sure and we probably don’t need another topic about it, but how hard would it be to make story mode dungeons account bound? Few people want to do story again on separate characters, and I’ve been getting groups lately for things that everyone assumes/hopes someone else has story done to start it. I’ve taken my own advice and gotten story modes done on my current alt, but to be honest, I don’t really have much desire to do them again, and I think that’s the general consensus.

Hmm, I’ve actually enjoyed doing about 90% of them, and have about 6-7 left before finishing them all. I’ll admit some of were a kittenhole to complete, but the vast majority I’ve thoroughly enjoyed.

Who said anything about them being hard to find? They aren’t hard to find, it’s just the majority of players who still need one don’t have anywhere near the gold or resources to get that many exotics to put into the MF. When you have the amount of exotics you have in those screenshots, the odds were already heavily in your favor. Either that or the RNG has just been kitten for them if they do have that many. People have put 3000+ rares in the MF, and some have put hundreds of exotics in and gotten nothing.

That’s the thing though, the more people who show up the higher the bosses hp is supposed to be. Taking back Claw Island the dragon literally took almost 15 minutes with 4 people doing it. With 20-30 80’s showing up to world bosses doing severe damage even a million HP health bar is going to melt fast.

Regular champions are all over the place and are too easy to take down to warrant guaranteed rares and exotics . Jormag is a world boss, and you do get rares for those now. They changed it to at least 1-2 guaranteed rares. Magic find is garbage. I’ve gotten more rares and exotics without it than with.

Even being downleveled in starter zones a 70+ will 1-2 shot stuff. LawL fail.

marnick.4305:

2/ you’re trying to make legendaries easy to obtain … where’s the legendary then?

To be fair, there’s nothing legendary about buying the precursor off the TP or random luck from the MF either.

Move along folks, just another guy who wants something for nothing.

I don’t wanna be a crafter and I hate crafting.

You’re kitten out of luck then, aren’t you. Anet doesn’t force anything on anyone. Sure it’d be nice if it wasn’t account bound, and maybe they’ll change it, but it doesn’t change the fact that your refusal to craft is your problem, no one else’s.

I don’t understand how this is “forced.” Anet doesn’t release this stuff and say “by the way, if you don’t do any of it you’ll be significantly behind in progression and rewards.” If you don’t want to do it, then buy the materials off the TP. Instead of enjoying new content for free, people would rather complain about it.

This is the world we live in. People don’t want to earn their victories, they want them handed to them. I know this is a game and it’s not real life, but it has real life ramifications: if you want the achievement, then win the race. That’s how it works in real life and only gets worse the older you get. People want the rewards but don’t want to work for it, and it’s not only sad, it’s aggravating.

Now when there’s someone griefing who’s only trying to get first so other people don’t get the achievement, then yes, that’s the problem, but we all know the majority of folks who will complain about this just don’t want to put in the skill or the competition for the achievement. They want it handed to them.

I’m done with Adnul. I hate to say I can’t do it and I further hate to complain about free content and I certainly don’t mind challenging content (I don’t expect to be handed anything), but I’ve decided it’s just not worth the frustration anymore. That’s the beauty of this game, there’s a few other achievements I can get and still get the Bazaar meta.

Ok, I’m nerd raging again. I’ve beaten the Asura and Sylvari, but Maddie has Woo up 100% of the time and I can’t even heal at all.

/QQ

Edit: Beat that rotten Maddie finally. Now for the Charr and Norn. Not looking forward to Adnul xD.

I’ve heard about Adnul but haven’t even tried him yet. Are they supposed to be able to spam their moves constantly? I don’t understand why we only get 1 charge while they get infinite. I did the Order of Whispers and since this is similar I thought it would be a piece of cake. Am I just getting unlucky?

That’s precisely why they’ll never be account bound. It would render the normal tools completely obsolete, and they’re essentially a gold sink.

Why am I not surprised by this? We’re finally getting rewards and cool stuff for otherwise useless achievement points, now all the people who couldn’t be bothered by doing dailies are all kitten-hurt because those of us that spent the 10 minutes each day to do them have a load of extra points to use that they don’t. I love the online gaming community: complaining about optional content they didn’t feel like doing now offering a reward for doing it.

havoc.6814:

Wow, every post argueing in favor of portals in this thread is being posted by mesmers. Those mesmers are immediately and vociferously attacking anyone who posts in support of my OP.

Wait a minute. You posted this in the Mesmer forum, and this surprises you? This topic is a joke. I’ve only ever taken one Mesmer portal in a JP and that was the new one. I could’ve cared less about the shoulders. Useless stats for my characters. As for the content I missed, also could’ve cared less. If someone wants to skip and trivialize content, what’s it to you? Even reading all these replies I still honestly don’t understand. So much headache over the simple fact that people are worrying so much about what other people are doing. Worry about yourself.

For all the idiots (sorry if you tried this) trying to charge money for portals to the end of JPs, there are 10 more players who would do it for free. I am never doing Obsidium Sanctum again. I did it legit with a couple people who could do it blind folded. They knew I was a newbie and they took at least 15 minutes longer than they would have originally to let me catch up when I fell like the scrub that I am. These same players will always put down portals for free to help others. And you want to restrict them? Sure, there are people doing it for tactical advantage in WvW, but who cares? Get a group and go fight them to stop it. Do something about it instead of complain. Mesmer’s are illusionists and use deception and trickery. One was hiding in a keep you took over and let everyone else back in with a portal? Your teams own fault for not securing the area.

And for the record, it’s still in the game because there’s nothing wrong with it. Complaining about PvE is ludicrous. The computer controlled bosses and enemies aren’t getting their feelings hurt because they didn’t get to fight you.

I mostly WvW and PvE/dungeons, and I’m definitely going Chaos Maestro. I’m only level 16 so I have a ways to go. I’ve always been attracted to support/healing and it sounds right up my alley. My guildmates have always been better suited than me at straight dps in either dungeons or WvW/PvP (in WoW) while I was hiding or in the back healing up everyone and everything. I do miss straight healing, but I didn’t really click with any of the other support professions like Guardian or Ele. I was sold on Mesmer once I read the Chaos Maestro FAQ.

Honestly, more people than not will say skipping > clearing. There are people out there who will join you to fight everything in there, but even with the suspected nerfs people would still skip. It’s just efficient for a lot of us with limited play time who don’t have hours to spend on a path. Sometimes when I do have time I don’t mind a good, long dungeon, but in the end I just want to get some badges and some money and have time to do some other things instead of just dungeons.

ShinjiSama.5063:

Thanks all, for the replies.
@Nike: I would have “Xena” be a Warrior, so it would have to be heavy I’m afraid.
@Woljnir: My highest character is like a level 34~ Necro. So I don’t have anything near 80 yet. This might be a roadblock; but I really don’t like PvP in MMOs very much. And alot of the gear I like is from PvP sets.

I also have a few other characters that I would like to try to “recreate” if possible. I might make another thread in Crafting for GW2 Cosplaying.

You can still buy higher level stuff and use regular transmuting stones on them. In the stone menu, get the item look you want, then just put the current level stats on it and it stays your level. Since I have like 190 stones that’s what I do when I create a new character. As long as it’s not 80 it’s fine.

Best thing to do is either surf the TP or check online for armor galleries. Just narrow the search to armor, coats, etc. Check different level zones too. I’ve found a few pieces level 30-40ish that look great on my level 80, much better than even exotics. I will say check out “knight’s” and barbaric" (might even be the same thing xD) for chest pieces. Not going to be identical of course, but I used them for awhile.

I told myself after getting Obsidian done the first time (NEVER would have made it if our server didn’t own all of EB and two other players happened to be in there to follow) and I’m sticking to it. I’ll focus on some others to get the bonus item.

I would like to point out though the disaster that this achievement is. People who could do the puzzle in their sleep are going to be in key spots waiting for the PvE achievement people, who are going to be easy targets if they don’t WvW/PvP at all. I see where all the kitten is coming from, but at the same time there’s enough achievements available to skip Obsidian. But, if 6/7 bugs your completionist kitten, then man up and get the JP done and quit complaining xD.

I think the jump is pretty outrageous. I don’t really understand why there needs to be a 100g difference between two tiers. What I find annoying is the gear isn’t viable at all being rare, so we’re paying 119g for transmute skins. I don’t really see any prestige in the armor itself other than saying the wearer is good at making money or is good at farming. People laugh at how little gold people still have in this game, but in general making gold is not as easy in this game as it was in other MMO’s I’ve played. Like you, I don’t expect to just be handed the best looking stuff, but when we’re talking about 100g difference in price, it’s pretty crazy.

About the 20 millionth topic on this my friend. Race change is unlikely to ever happen. Never say never, but it’s highly unlikely it’ll be anytime soon. There is name change available however.

People have been asking to be able to dye hair accessories since the first week of release. Hopefully someday we’ll get too.

formosablaze.8041:

Keep those RNG coffers/boxes comin, A-net and NCSoft. Let those with no brain continue buying with gem and real money. Its a great way to make profit, and if I am to run this company, I will do the same thing. We know these whinners will still play and pay. Human nature. Let them cry and kitten. If they really want to quit MMO, they would with 0/100 coffer, not 0/5000 coffer.
I love this game. It keeps reminding myself that I AM responsible for everything I do. If I spend money on imaginary lottery hoping to get imaginary kitten, that’s my own problem. I created the issue myself. I have NO ONE to blame but myself. If I want to spend my time farming/buying 60000 coffers and win nothing but getting frustrated, I have NO ONE to blame but myself.
I really love this game. I get to use some of these players as my mirror, learn and grow to be a smarter and better person. I have never thought a mmo could offer so much life lessons for me to learn.
Thank you A-net, for a wonderful game.

Actually, really well said. I’m using the coffers to pad my income. The Jade skins are nice, but I’ve accepted the low drop rate. If I bought 100,000 coffers I wouldn’t get a ticket. For me this RNG stuff comes at the least expected times, when I’m not trying for it. Like in Wow out farming near an instance where a boss drops a mount. Really low drop rate, but I’m right here, might as well. And boom, it dropped. Some people enter, leave, reset 500 times and nothing. I’ve made at least 15g this week selling coffers alone.

Bottom line is people are blaming Anet and the game and not realizing they are doing it to themselves. People play the lottery their ENTIRE adult life and never win the jackpot. It’s all luck. Could the drop rate be a little higher? Abso-freakin-lutely. Would it have been nice if the tickets were sellable? Of course, but they aren’t. I’m just so sick and tired of people whining and complaining about it. It’s not Anet fault, it’s all of you who don’t realize you have a gambling problem. “Man, I just bought 500 crates and didn’t get one? Crap, I mean, if I get another 500 I can’t possibly lose again.” After nothing again it turns into 500 more. The drop rate is kitten , if you buy up 1000 crates and don’t get anything, then stop. You tried and got screwed. Happens to us all. And it’s nothing new. Same thing next event, yet people will buy a million crates and get nothing by dolyak poop and complain about it.

Nothing new. Yet people will still come on here and say how they’ve opened 200 billion crates of whatever and didn’t get anything. People play the lottery every day for 30 years and never win the jackpot. People open 5000 crates and never get the ticket. It’s RNG, it’s luck. People who get 3 tickets in 50 crates got lucky. You didn’t. Stop blaming the game.

Now being account bound was a problem. There would certainly have been less blowback if the tickets had been buyable on the TP.