So much this.
I was completely relieved when I saw the Queen’s Speech was going to be a low key arc with virtually nothing to do. I thought I could finally take a few days break from Living Story content to play parts of the game I enjoy.
Haha nope. Clockwork Chaos rolls around, and now I have to idle in LA nearly every hour hoping RNG blesses a map I need so I can run around in a zerg for 45 minutes to get 1/13th of a single achievement. Not to mention the other achievements coexisting with that one as well, and a dungeon.
Some days I think the core game was all just a dream, where you could play the game no strings attached and not miss out on a temporary story/lore or achievements.
I’d almost prefer the game breaking bugs during headstart than a few more Living Stories. I can’t keep up, I can’t play what I want without being left behind, and I start to wonder why do I care. I can’t even begin to imagine how newer players feel, they don’t have any time to explore or go for map completion unless they blow off the latest story arc.
This is like buying a book to read when you want to, only to learn that every day someone bursts into your room and rips out the first 5 pages. Now instead of reading it when you’re bored or interested, you have to read it every day or you lose.
I’ve been making lists in a notepad.txt so I’ve never experienced this. I like how it’s up to the player to set the difficulty for some of these achievements, personally it brings back memories from when I played certain puzzle games like MYST. You either write down stuff you think you need to know later or you shoot yourself in the foot for not doing it.
I have the Digital Deluxe upgrade, but I didn’t get anything from the Heroic Edition like the upgrade says.
I’m assuming it’s bugged?
Pretty sure by " recognize her when we see her" they meant that we would recognize her when we see her.
Ok, that didn’t really help, but look at this example to get what I mean. You get off a plane, you called for a ride and was told “you’d recognize the driver when you see him”. Standing there holding a massive sign with your name on it, you immediately recognize this complete stranger as the driver you called for.
So besides the fact she isn’t holding a signboard with “I’m the nemesis”, combined with the fact she was clued to form the Molten Alliance (and now has the alliance under her control), and her being met in a city (after we learned she went to every city to become the very best like no one ever was). Also the fact she told you that you’re #1 on her list. It’s a safe bet to assume that she’s our nemesis.
I was going to buy a couple WXP Boosters until I noticed it said Soulbound on Acquire.
I don’t think I even need to say anything else. But please, stop making everything Soulbound for no logical reason.
So I finally decided to try out my barely-used Warrior with full zerker armor. Being able to kill mobs from every wave with literally just one keypress is pretty overwhelming, especially compared to the amount of effort I was pouring into on my Mesmer.
Having achievements tied to a DPS race in temporary content doesn’t really seem like a smart idea in the slightest. Unless, like mentioned above, everyone can have access to what they think will be the desired setup for the temporary content; and not need to farm/buy an entirely new armor set every time an update rolls around that makes their current set useless for the goal.
Of course it would be fine if it was permanent, but that doesn’t happen.
So far it looks like zerker stats are the only thing ANet will make content for, seen mostly with the Queens Gauntlet, tagging mobs during Invasion events, and the Raced to the Rescue achievement.
Should I just throw away all of my current gear and rebuild as a pure zerker for all of my characters? Or do you think Anet will actually make more temporary content that uses a different stat?
And that you “one shot” Zhiatan in a solo match.
Well about that… I bet he can take out Zhaitan without even unsheathing his weapon. Or looking at the screen. While eating a sandwich.
Yeah this is actually mentioned in that sticky like 3 lines below the Create Topic button lol.
Next year? Most likely not.
Next time the gauntlet opens? Yes she will.The Queens Jubilee is not a recurring event, the Gauntlet however is. We do however not know when it will come back.
Pretty sure when they said The Queen’s Gauntlet will be the final yearly festival in the rotation hinted at this being a yearly thing. I’m pretty sure SAB got pushed into an April event too, since the SAB’s estimated timeframe for returning got scrapped and passed. Either hinting that ANet wants to keep it as the April event or just that they genuinely missed it due to not allowing to add it or it being incomplete.
Even looking at just the “reoccuring” festivals we’ve had (Mad Kings Day, Wintersday, SAB, Dragon Bash, Bazaar, Gauntlet; all of which have been at least hinted for being a yearly thing), that’s kind of a lot. Especially at nearly a month length each. I’m hoping a bunch of those show up at random times through a year, or else this will feel like carnival central. So much for keeping festivals to a minimum since they take away from the “special feeling”, eh?
Also more on-topic, we have no idea if ANet will change out bosses each time the Gauntlet comes around, like how SAB will be changing out weapon skins making the previous ones unavailable (as well as changing old levels).
I agree with that sentiment, allowing me to use the tickets I’ve accumulated on the other toons I play would be far, far less frustrating for time-critical content. I don’t have the hours to farm up another 70 tickets, but I have at least 200 across my characters.
Account bound tickets would have been much smarter, in my opinion, and I can’t even guess why they didn’t make them AB after saying not all professions could beat all the gauntlet champions.
No good reason for it that I can see at all.
But what about the Mail delivering new characters Tickets upon creation? Clearly people can just create characters to bypass needing to farm new tickets or buy them!
What; do you expect ANet to make that mail only send to pre-existing characters? Or just send it to one character? Or put a level-restriction on the Mail? Or make a Mail cap restricting accounts only # amounts of that Mail? Or literally anything else since its probably better than Soulbound.
C’mon man, instead of putting work into re-coding already-sent Mail and patching it up so it doesn’t feel like alts are banned; you can just change the item toggle to soulbound. Life can be so simple on the easy road.
I’m hoping a lot of the broken mechanics get fixed during the Speech patch rather than next year. I’d be surprised and disappointed if they leave the Gauntlet as-is before it’s gone in a couple weeks; So there’s that I’m holding out for.
I can’t possibly imagine a situation where they read pages and pages of the same game mechanics issues making this boss fight more of a control fight, and then NOT do anything about it in its final major patch. There’d have to be something really messed up with the devs if that’s the case. Which I’m definitely sure it wont be. Fixing up game mechanics to fine-tune the boss to its intended form seems like a priority patch for the midway point of its lifespan. So just wait a day until they fix everything. Highly doubt they’d ignore all the player-unfriendliness created by the boss mechanics clashing with game mechanics. Give it a try when they fix it. Which should be tomorrow. Which reallllly should be tomorrow. Major portion of the new content has been working improperly, so they have most likely working on a fix for the new update. Coming tomorrow. /repetition
And then it turns out they actually have been ignoring this and deciding instead of fixing temporary content, they’ll just roll it over for a year. No biggie.
Well, you got the Tickets stuck to you like glue, if you feel like testing the waters go for it.
Just be prepared to pay the price of death if you can’t manage.
I kept a list going while I was doing it. Unfortunately it seems the only other way is to wander around every area’s balloons until you find 5 you haven’t done.
Just remember they’re in every map except Orr and Southsun.
I honestly wish the camera was outside where the spectators are, but that would make the fight far too easy. You’d know where everything was.
Yeah that’s just crazy talk man. It’s definitely NOT a fair fight if we’re aware of our surroundings and can see the AoEs without straining our eyes to look for red circles on a red-brown grate.
People think of the most broken things sometimes.
/sarcasm
I’m with Tower Guard who’s with Nilkemia.
I could sure use more Tickets without being forced to grind completely unrelated content merely by asking other helpful players to lend a helping hand/paw/stick.
it’s part of the challenge. You know you have to run when you die, so it adds more pressure that you don’t fail :p
But you already have…
- Armor Damage
- Wasted Tickets
- Wasted Time
- Wasted Buff(s)
- Re-Queue
- Slightly more Angry/Annoyed
So instead of respawning alive at the top level somewhere, they just decided “welp may as well toss another two onto the fire”
- Waypoint Fee
- Walking Back
And people wonder why someone with over 3400 hours of playtime has 0c left in their Wallet.
Agree. I burned about 100 tickets in total for both killing Liadri and Light up the Darkness. Now I’m so proficient at it I’ve actually done Light up the Darkness 5X now. A couple of them with max graphics settings (yes, with post processing). I am actually able to complete light up the darkness approximately 30-40% of the attempts I make.
I would totally ask you to do a specific favor in return of whatever you’d want, but the ToS says otherwise.
I haven’t given up however, just ANet wont give me any more Tickets without doing completely random and boring farming for hours on end. So they’re pretty much telling me to give up.
Alas, poor Rurik, I knew him well…
Sadly I don’t think you know him as well as those stairs & Devourers, since they spent a lot of time together.
@Xalugami – I noticed at the end of your 2nd vid that the WP cost was 0 – how is that possible lol? (It’s 1.11s for me on my level 80s)
Because I literally have 0c to my name. Spent it all on Tickets. Spent all my Tickets on losing to Liadri. Now I’m coinless and ticketless, no more GW2 content for me unless I turn off my brain and ride the zerg train… which I really am not in the mood to do (farming is not my definition of fun), so I’m playing me some Spelunky.
Here’s my Light Up The Darkness vid where you can see it happen 3 times at 1:15, 1:33 and 2:02 (1:33 shows it best):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy56fSJ4dqw
And yes that skill is quite frustrating!
Dat ending. Wish you could help me out getting this achievement lol, I’ve already lost all my Tickets and I’m left with a hefty 0c in my Wallet thanks to Waypoints, Sprockets, & Tickets. Now I still need to worry about paying my Guild back the 19g as well as getting more Tickets too keep trying.
Also I’m aware it’s from reflecting the Whip. But why oh why does reflecting a melee attack cause your skills/dodge to stop working and watch as you hurt yourself in confusion?
My advice is do not get overconfident. Even at the tiniest sliver of health left she can still kill you in a heartbeat.
Also do not even think about picking up a 4th Orb unless that’s your goal. Beating her with the first 3 Orbs and focusing on circling around the arena is pretty easy after you find your rhythm. Getting distracted by Orbs spawning in phase 2 will get you killed or just cause a whole slew of bugs to get in your way.
What bothers me most is that there seems to be some sort of developer complacency about the issue: shouldn’t they apologize for this? Shouldn’t they at least say “we are aware that this is not up to our high standards and we will be looking into correcting these issues in the future”?
That would be smart move and would not even be admiting they delivered sub par content once again. CRM is as bad as QA here. Anet’s really unprofessional here and just decides to say nothing and sit it out. Time to revisit corporate governance here in my opinion.
Sorry for bumping into your quotes here, but I still believe they are just scared back from Wintersday. Toypocalypse Cancelled got changed because it requires team coordination and forced players to play with randoms and seemingly did its best to separate people who are in the same Guild/Party. After the change the people who earned it by luck/server hopping were absolutely furious. So in order for that type of outcry not to happen again, they’re probably just not going to mention if anything is subpar and keep it as-is unless it’s clearly a broken “exploit”. The last time they tried to acknowledge a horrible achievement design was with Crabtacular, but even after saying they were looking into a fix, it never came.
I must agree though, if they release temporary content that makes the player fight the actual game design (and don’t intend to fix it), an apology or at least a reason why it was designed like that would be very nice to see.
I noticed this the first day. No time for fact checking when they need to release something every other week. Not sure why they wanted such a tight schedule, I’d have to wager 99% of the players would prefer more time between temporary content updates if that meant said content was thoroughly checked & tested for playability and position in the lore.
No ones is breaking ToS here as no one is offering a service here.
Legal defitnion of a service is: “The doing of something useful or helpful for another individual or for a company in exchange for a fee.”
Basically: No one is allows to make money out of GW2 beside Anet or anyone Anet authroizes to do so. Which is perfectly fine. Just protecting IP and investment.
Just one player helping out another desperate player. That’s all… If this is not acceptable better shut down the forums as well as it is about helping each other.
Don’t mean to be that guy, but sharing an account with another person breaks the ToS too. Which also punishes couples/family/friends that have 1 PC among them and only use 1 GW2 account.
I would be most happy to be able to sell all of mine for 4s ea. I’m guessing I’ve got over 200 at this point.
I wish I could ask you for a few, I’ve already put probably over 300 in for just Liadri and practically forced myself and a few Guildies to go broke giving me coin/sprockets to buy more just to get beaten down by broken game design.
But that would be too player-friendly huh, can’t have that happening.
Breaking the ToS isn’t proof that something is too difficult to do. ANet puts out content that they are fully aware not everyone will not be able to complete. Halloween jump puzzle ring a bell?
Of course it doesn’t prove difficulty. It proves what people will resort to when they have to get something done in a strict amount of time before its taken away from them and lack the [resources, time, skill, whatever] to do it in said time limit to get a collectible prize.
If the game’s core mechanics weren’t also a boss to fight during Liadri, maybe more people would be more tolerant to try completing it themselves. This is why I feel the Clocktower is not a good comparison. Everything worked fine, there were no issues besides needing to wait your turn (it didn’t even break armor or rip Waypoint money out of you) and it was really all up to the player for trial & error. It didn’t even have a prize either, so there’s no drive to do it or not.
I’m all in for challenging content that rewards the most prestigious of prizes, but slapping a timer on it pretty much ruins the reason for it existing. It removes the only hard content in the game and wont let people keep trying to improve their skills over time.
“Not everyone deserves everything, that’s entitlement”. This is true. But if it’s taken away before you can accomplish it yourself (and have gained the skills to be able to do it), why are you not allowed to earn it? If somebody else does it for them to get the prize before it’s gone forever, and later has the skills required to win, then they already have the prize tied to it and had their [delayed] victory still be counted for.
Seriously guys, stop incriminating yourselves on the forums. If you’re going to go against the ToS, don’t air all right here.
Goes to show ANet how wrong it is to slap challenging buggy “content” into a temporary update. Vocally airing they needed to break the ToS for it to get done on time because adding permanent stuff is too hard to do.
I beat her myself after begging for tons of Coin (19g) and Sprockets from my Guildies, and I’m almost out of Tickets now (trying 8 Orbs). This game needs more hard content, but not temporary stuff, and it needs to actually function properly and not cram the camera up your backdoor or do whatever the kitten THIS is.
Double Posting all the way across the forums!
I got a video of it, trying to understand how the nuts to upload it on Windows 7 (only ever tried it with XP)…
I’ll keep on editing this post with more links I guess.
As you can see in the first video, my skills go on cooldown for its duration. It isn’t too bad when it just loops one time since it’s just 1 second and it didn’t do damage, but when it starts looping permanently, not being able to use a skill to stun break it or cure conditions is stupid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQsneacZq4o
I like this one. The whip lasts much longer and I get killed during a dodge. Thank you sir may I have another?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCgjKydQ28E
Hoping I don’t run out of tickets… begging Guildies for gold to buy them is getting old, and I’m already in a ton of debt and flat broke with 30 Tickets left. Can’t use the other 100+ I have among my characters either because ANet can’t code mail properly.
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I have fought her about 200 times (at least) and have never seen this.
I have beaten both her and the Light Up The Darkness.
Could you provide video proof of this? (Preferably at high resolution.)
I’ll certainly try, it happens pretty randomly yet consistently (can’t really pin it down to a pattern or action she does) and each time I end up just throwing my arms up in a fit of rage, so I never think to hit my screenshot key.
I’ll try out some fights with Fraps running and see if it happens, but I’ll also try to snag some screens of it in case.
I doubt I could get it in Hi-Res though, I can’t figure out how to take a Fraps file, edit it, and upload in a quality higher than 360p (not to mention I shoved everything onto the lowest settings, because lets just cram an AoE spamming zerg fighting an AoE spamming boss under single-player-only content right guys?).
So how does one actually counter her elite skill? I’m talking about the one where she forces your player character to don the whipping animation and place all of your skills on a 1 sec cooldown that refreshes every second whilst dealing insane amounts of damage to yourself (and persists on downed restricting all of your downed skills).
I’ve lost so many Tickets because of this and nobody I asked has a counter for it except waste your turn and die.
Either this is just a small chance to activate as a “waste your tickets and coin”-move as to provide additional resource-sink, or it’s just the devs not testing their junk as usual. Whichever the case, chalk that up on the the huge list of “How not to design a game”.
Anyways, if there’s a way to fix this skill, please do share.
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I thought it was engineer with the best consistent DPS? I’m too lazy to search out Guang’s video.
Pretty sure this. Engineer has the highest DPS (granted hitting all those buttons to achieve more than a Warrior pressing a couple skills is a lot of work). I too am far too lazy to find that thread or the video that was posted there.
I heard Thieves and Lightning Hammer Elementalists also can get super-high DPS only if they’re in a team composition and can constantly keep the appropriate boons from other members active.
Overall, I’d have to say Engineer (from the last DPS studies I recall reading/watching).
But if you want to play maximum Engineer DPS for the entire game, prepare to schedule an operation to replace the bones in your hands for a robo-arm, or hope you can keep up the speedy skill rotation without being in too much pain.
Wow that’s a weird title to say in GW2, but thanks to this wonderful design, I (and probably a lot of others) would really appreciate someone to hang out, watch some arena fights go horribly wrong, not queue up, and just be there to revive the person when they spawn dead.
That sounds like a stupid request I’m sure, but too many people ignore your dead body to queue up themselves, or are just AFK for some reason. I also highly doubt ANet will do anything about throwing your dead body onto the rafters instead of spawning you alive, so I guess I’ll be the one to make this terrible thread.
If anyone’s nice enough to feel like being a dedicated reviver for a while, post your character name & server here.
Alternatively, players who wouldn’t mind asking for a healer could post their character name & server, as well as what they’re trying to accomplish.
LF Healer
Character name: Xalugami (or) Kiyomi Grace
Server: Sanctum of Rall (US)
Goal: Trying to beat Liadri preferably with 8 Crystals (already wasted over a full stack of tickets)
Like… No one is reviving anyone after Queen’s Gauntlet any more, and everyone just ignores map chat. I’m sure you don’t want to add 6 additional waypoints by each arena, so why not just make it so you when you die and change location you just revive with whatever armor damage you suffered from (like SAB checkpoints)? It seems like this was just pure laziness on the devs part. This isn’t there to make things “harder”, it’s more like “yeah we didn’t want to add this, so walk back and waste more time instead”.
Too bad I know you guys most likely wont fix anything in a living update that isn’t an exploit. Probably because you got too scared from the Wintersday ‘Toypocalypse Cancelled’ achievement complainers, and that’s why you haven’t done anything since. But I can always hope.
i haven’t fought him yet.
just beat the 4 ppl gang (tier 2 boss) and gonna fight subject 7 (ooze multiplier) next.
does he does his kill shot often?
or, every time he got some distance, he will attempt to kill shot?
Every 10-20 seconds he’ll teleport to the edge of the field somewhere and start up a Killshot which gives you a second or two to react before you die. The floor is filled with mines so it’s not as simple to just run right to his face.
If you have a Mesmer or a Sylvari (or ideally a combo) laying around at Lv.80, you can finish Deadeye as well as the 5 Gambit achievement with absolute ease. Blocks/Aegis/Reflects all don’t work on his Killshot, but Blinds/Stun/Daze seems to do just fine. If you don’t have reliable access to any of those, stay as close to him as possible and just keep hurting him. His Killshot at point-blank barely does any damage so you don’t need to worry about that too much. Guardians are good at flashing to targets, so they’re a good choice too.
*Edit- This was the video I used when I was looking for tips for High Stakes Gambler . I just used Take Root to negate a Killshot and also the turrets hurt him way more than those useless exploding puppies did. By far the easiest in tier 3.
I haven’t played my Engi too much, so I’m not sure how good they are at shutting down a ranged attack somehow.
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It’s because people were creating characters, logging in and sending their free tickets to their main character. They would repeat this and get hundreds of tickets for little effort. I imagine it also caused problems for the game engine.
You’d think they would do the sane path and just make the mail account bound (like the letter from Kiel, it was only sent once to your first logged in character, then never again). But I guess they, yet again, took the completely silly outrageous path and screwed over players who enjoy alts…
I’ve been playing around in the new area over my few characters and they’ve each found some gauntlet entrance tickets. I’d love to do the gauntlet on one of my specific characters, but trying to have fun with gambits is hard since he doesn’t have many tickets. I’ve looted over 100 on one of my other characters so far, but they’re soulbound for some confusing reason.
Why am I not allowed to use the tickets I found on the characters I want?
…There was a “loss condition”?
Such as if Evon Wins and we get the BLKey Discount, but in exchange Ellen ends up making Waypoints more expensive or randomly contested from Aetherblade mobs for those 4 weeks (since she’s now a sky pirate captain technically).
On the flipside if Ellen Wins and we get the cheaper Waypoints, Evon would increase TP tax or shut down the TP for the 4 weeks (since he owns the thing).
I think it would have been more exciting to have gotten a loss condition that affects more than just Fractal runners (which I find hilarious that they’re the ones who end up losing either way, out of an open-world PvE event).
Maybe then people wouldn’t have voted just on the merits of “Kiel is just Kormir the third” or “Evon’s a smelly Charr” etc.
Didn’t know if I should put this topic here or in the PvP section. lol
So I have a couple of questions about the upcoming Permanent PvP Finishers. Though I don’t think they can be answered just yet, wouldn’t hurt to ask I suppose.
*Knowing that these are Account-Wide unlocks, will you be able to set multiple finishers for each character (such as setting 2 characters to use Finisher A, and a 3rd character using Finisher B in one shared menu) at the same time without having to change every time?
*It says “Rank up for rank Finishers, or keep an eye on the Gem Store for a new selection of Finishers.”, so does that mean you can earn the Permanent Rank Finisher only from playing?
If so what’s going to happen with players who’ve already exceeded a Rank tier?
*Finally, my biggest question: Will the Gem Store prices be reasonable? Musical Instruments are apparently $10, so that kind of scares me that Permanent Finishers could be 800 or higher. Personally I’m hoping for the 400-600 gem range, as I could see myself buying many of them (if not all of them).
I doubt this will get any insight before the update goes live, but here’s hoping these could get answered afterwards.
(Yes, yes, I know there’s a ton of threads like this, but may as well add another to the mix since this is definitely wrong)
And each day I have been looking for group after group trying to complete Candidate Trials t3-t4, and so far I haven’t been able to complete it once, let alone the twice you need for the achievements. I’ve done every single event achievement to date, and I have nearly 10000 achievement points, but these just cannot be done. I’ve gone at this from every angle across 6 different professions, tried PUGs & coordinated groups of every party size, tried to do most of the specs from various forum threads, I’ve tossed money for gems to see if that could sway my luck. Nothing works.
So far the best strategy we’ve had was to take advantage of the game mechanics by camping spawns and running away from aggro instead of actually playing the minigame, but there’s just way too many mobs with way too much HP (I think its about time to fire the guy in charge of setting HP values, he didn’t refine his work in the main game since launch and he sure as heck can’t get it right on additional content releases). Looking back on how much time I’ve sunk into failing this only to be taunted with pathetic Junk-tier rewards (sums up the entire game’s loot reward system in a nutshell may I add), as well as all of this new content I’ve missed simply because of this brick wall is incredibly annoying and feels like a game breaker for me.
Difficulty should not be just in numbers, Frizz was a difficult fight until you learn it and then it was fun. Mai Trin was an incredibly difficult fight until you cooperate as a team. I thought you learned this but you always take steps back every update.
Now that I’ve cooled myself down by typing all of that, perhaps this thread should serve to help match people together to get these darn achievements done.
Who else needs this done still (or just wants to help) and which server are you on?
There is a reason why financial advisors do not recommend buying more lottery tickets as a means of generating wealth. Buying keys is analogous with buying lottery tickets. There will be daily winners, but the chances are it won’t be you. There is no rational reason to buy keys.
That’s why my choice is between farming the gold to either turn into gems into keys, or just buy the skin on the TP directly (depends on the cheapest way as the Revolver is so awesome the price is reflecting that); or if it would be quicker to put faith in some blind luck and farm keys directly.
If the latter goes remarkably well then I’ll have to farm for less time (I think); but that’s why I made the topic. If the chance of bad luck is worth going against to grind out the free keys -vs- spending a tremendous amount of time with my brain turned off doing 8minute dungeon runs. I’m just terrible at paying attention to CoF so reading opinions on the alternate ways is very nice to see.
I’ll still never spend a cent on RNG no matter the chances (because it’s just a skin in a video game, honestly no reason to gate that between all of the above – Cashmoney, RNG, and availability), but my time & pixelated thingamajigs are all fair game.
Also inb4 “The weapon skins will be here forever, they’ll just be 5x more expensive” because that sounds totally fair & logical to work towards (given an opportunity to get cheaper anyhow).
If you’re talking about the Commoner Human, that’s a widely known Key farm method.
At current Gold -> Gems conversion (3G50S/100Gems), it will cost 15.75G for 450 Gems (5 Keys) or 3,15G per Key.
At CoF, with a rate of 80s per 8 minutes, it will take ~ 4 runs to get the gold to get 1 Key. 4 runs is about 30 minutes.
Getting a Key takes about 30 minutes through the Commoner Human method.
I’ve actually been going White Stag Sylvari (Thief), evade spam together with Infiltrator’s Arrow and AoE conditions on a ranged weapon pretty much breaks everything you encounter. Haven’t tried/heard about Commoner Human though.
Also doesn’t DR kick down your CoF runs to start making like 12s at some point?
DR in CoF is a non-factor. CoF1 is profitable because of gold drops from mobs, and DR has no influence on gold drops.
But that whole consideration is pointless since dungeons are changing this Tuesday.
Ah, I didn’t realize the mobs dropped so much coin (I don’t do CoF too often to begin with lol).
Though I did know that dungeons are changing soon, and so are the pricetags on Aetherized weapons, thus is the reason I’m trying to rapidly obtain my revolver before that happens.
If you’re talking about the Commoner Human, that’s a widely known Key farm method.
At current Gold -> Gems conversion (3G50S/100Gems), it will cost 15.75G for 450 Gems (5 Keys) or 3,15G per Key.
At CoF, with a rate of 80s per 8 minutes, it will take ~ 4 runs to get the gold to get 1 Key. 4 runs is about 30 minutes.
Getting a Key takes about 30 minutes through the Commoner Human method.
I’ve actually been going White Stag Sylvari (Thief), evade spam together with Infiltrator’s Arrow and AoE conditions on a ranged weapon pretty much breaks everything you encounter. Haven’t tried/heard about Commoner Human though.
Also doesn’t DR kick down your CoF runs to start making like 12s at some point?
So it’s my understanding for them there new-ish Aetherized Weapons, they cost 1 Claim Ticket, which is only obtainable by trading 10 Scraps dropped from Black Lion Chests. They can also be rarely found by doing Trials and can be purchased on the TP for about 55g.
Now I barely make 2g per day or less, so buying it is kinda never going to happen unless I go full gold-farm mode. If that doesn’t happen, that leaves Black Lion Keys as the only other option.
CoF honestly doesn’t look appetizing enough to run 110+ times (assuming 50s per run, accounting for any DR you hit).
But Keys… they drop rarer than Exotics off mobs, so farming those that way would just make you look dumb. However, I’ve found a nice way to solo farm 2 Keys in an hour without fail. At this rate I can keep that average of 2 Key/hour without spending any currency (unless you count Time as a currency).
So far it seems like it’s maybe a 75% chance, possibly a 50% chance to get a Scrap from a Chest. That would be 15 Keys if that’s a close estimate; So 7.5 hours on my end.
Now my question/discussion is if this is worth it to farm 2 Keys an hour instead of farming gold for an Aetherized skin. Like… is 2 Keys/hour too few, or are Keys just the wrong way to go towards these in general?
I asked around my server’s LA for a bit, and the overall theme was nobody would farm 2 Keys/hour… but why would that be? Any insight and opinions on this would be much appreciated.
So if it’s all core tokens & currencies (none of the holiday things)… are Pact Victory Tokens counted? Or are those one of the neglected currencies like Pristine Fractal Relics? Other than the missing currencies already posted about, this seems like an amazing change.
Besides the removal of banking Coin, of course, that seems pretty darn unnecessary.
I was very fortunate for these. I just started a new job and I also need to balance out classes with that, leaving me a lot less play time in GW2.
I noticed the Wind Aspect Helm and really wanted it, but I don’t have the time to farm baskets every map every day for what could probably take a week. I tossed $10 in, grabbed 50 Kite Fortunes, and got about 160 or so Fortune Scraps. Now that leaves me with a much easier amount to find (which means I don’t need to spend all my play time doing baskets) for the duration of the event.
So I’d say that’s the point of them. If you really want one of the Helms and you don’t have a whole lot of spare time to farm Baskets, buy them up. I’d say this is the greatest way so far handling these kinds of rewards, I really hope we see more of this system.
One thing I really liked with the old UI was to see the total Achievement Points earned so far in each Category.
While just a small quality-of-life thing, I think they should add back that counter somewhere on their new UI. Anyone else think the same?
Yeah, I think this system even surpasses the HoM rewards, since you dint even need the portal stone to see a vendor, plus you get to choose the order at which you unlock your goodies.
Just click the Withdraw button from your Achievements homepage whenever and on whoever you want to have your rewards. You can do this infinitely.