You can still do the missions even when you reach the cap, for your individual rewards. The Resonating Slivers alone make it worthwhile.
They won’t increase the Favour Cap, though. That exists, much like Aetherium does, to ensure that large guilds can’t progress too quickly through the guild upgrades.
Right.
Before you go and spend days rolling new characters and getting them up to level 30 to do that story, you might want to consider practicing your jumping instead and doing Winter Wonderland. If you’re good at completing it, you’ll be able to earn over one gold each five minutes, and thus be able to get the whole 90-ish gold needed for the Vigil collection much more quickly than by running characters through the story.
You’ll need gold anyway in the end, as you need to buy all eighteen armour pieces as well as the nineteen weapons.
Those unlock the weapon skins, so yes, they’ll count.
You can also get a Vigil weapon skin from one of the “Torn From The Sky” story achievements, too.
If you’re just starting out with the Thief, you’re a long way away from having to worry about raids or high level fractals. Beyond that, as an MMORPG, balance is constantly in flux. A year ago at this time, it was Ranger and Necromancer that everyone was complaining about as being subpar and undesired. A year from now, who’s to say what it will be?
If you’re doing exclusively PvE, you should focus on power rather than conditions. Get to know your different weapons and what they bring to the table, because without cooldowns on weapon skills Thief plays quite differently than most other classes. You can learn how stealth and your stealth attacks work on your way to 80, and then forget all about that once you get Daredevil and the staff and suddenly don’t have stealth options on your weapon anymore, but extra dodges and better healing to make up for it.
Condi cleanse can be a rough spot for the class. Our best old cleanse from Shadow Arts was nerfed to only apply to damaging conditions. Daredevil added a “cleanse a condi on successful evasion” trait, which is tremendous, but starting out it’ll take you a while to get to that. So be careful!
You only need 17 Agony Resistance now to be able to shrug its effects off at scale 25 for Mai Trin.
The issue is finding other players to do it with. The use of LFG for that range will be blocked off for you until you get your personal level to 21+. Finding a friend who you can tag along with will be your best bet.
Reclaimed Metal Plates are extremely rare from blue and green Reclaimed weapons, but you’re guaranteed to get them from rares.
The best way to get rare Reclaimed weapons to salvage, besides the Trading Post, is to open as many chests as you can in Heart of Thorns zones. Tangled Depths is generally the best place to do this, as it has far more chests in various hidden nooks and crannies than the other zones do, but every zone has some to find (as evidenced by the Strongbox achievements).
There’s a chance to get a rare Reclaimed weapon as ‘bonus loot’ in any of those chests. When you get one, it’ll appear at the bottom of the list of things you pick up, under even the Empyreal Fragments. It’s still rare, but there’s a lot of chests that you can open, so given time you’ll get enough for your Plated weapons, once you find a good route to run daily. I have a run in Tangled Depths from the zone entrance through the Flax farm and beyond, which has seven chests to open and takes around ten minutes. Others might know even more lucrative routes!
Kill the Controller, get on the pad, target a Mordrem Wolf and press 1 to kill it. Target the next Wolf, press 1 to kill it. Repeat until all are dead.
It wasn’t fixed for me last night, we did scale 61 and the Jellyfish Beast was instantly killing anyone it ate.
I can’t really imagine how good they’d have to make Rifle to make people want to use it over Shortbow, so no, I wouldn’t quit if it wasn’t the next weapon.
If there’s no name, it belongs to a character who you deleted. As a result, you should just delete the item.
If it’s a “Mysterious Grubby Package”, it’s a container with a 1 silver junk item to sell to a vendor inside. So definitely no harm in deleting that. You can get another one by doing a jumping puzzle.
Yeah, as said above, you can buy a new chest from the vendor on a different tab for only 10k karma. You aren’t actually out anything except that karma, you don’t need to spend any more gold or redo the collection.
Try running the 64 bit client they put out, that should help with crashes. Alternately, turn down your graphics options while in the zone.
So you can say just from the 3 boxes in TD (1 strongbox, 2 chests) I have opened over two hundred and I got like 4 gold armour pieces in total. No gold weapon and, of course, never a reclaimed one … very, very frustrating.
Then it’s time to expand your rotation!
If you’re getting one strongbox and two chests from TD, then I’m guessing you’re flying up from the zone entrance to the Flax farm, while getting the Strongbox and two small chests on the way. Lets add some more chests to the mix.
Before you go for the Strongbox, take the updrafts leading farther north to the vista just north of the Flax farm landing. There’s a chest there next to the vista. That one’s easy enough. Now comes the fun part, which will need Lean Techniques.
After farming your Flax, at the outlook over the Ogre Camp, there’s a small ramp leading up to the right before the cliff. Climb all the way to the top of that, then jump off and glide/lean along the right wall. There’ll be a narrow ledge you can land on. Carefully wiggle your way to the top of that ledge if needed, let your gliding endurance recharge, then jump off and glide/lean towards another larger ledge along the wall about the same distance away as your first glide. It’s tight, but doable. Get up on that ledge, recover again, then glide/lean alongside the wall one more time to land as far up on the southern ledges as you can.
From there, hop across heading east, keeping as high as you can. If you glided properly, when moving east, you’ll see the broken nose of an airship. From your ledge, you can glide/lean over to the tip of that nose. Climb up the broken airship from there, go inside, and head down to the bottom level of it to find a Splendid Chest to loot. Climb back out of the airship and exit on the side to wind up higher up on the ledges you initially landed on at the south. Head west and jump/glide across a small gap to find a nest of Adolescent Electric Wyverns (unthreatening enemies), there’s another Splendid Chest in the middle of them. From there, you can glide towards the west/center edge of the Ogre valley, where on a raised ledge just above the ground level is another chest to loot. After that seventh chest, you can hop down to ground level to collect a bit more Flax, perhaps some Crystallized Supply Caches, and usually an Ancient Wood node somewhere as well.
Adding these extra steps will more than double the number of chests you’re looting with each character in a day, and once you master the gliding along the ledge to reach the southern chests it doesn’t add much time at all to the routine. If you slip up and fall while attempting those ledge glides, you can head to the eastern edge of the Ogre valley and use bouncing mushrooms to get up to the airship and the Splendid Chests, but that takes longer than the gliding route.
No, it will not.
Learn where Strongboxes and other treasure chests are in the Magus Falls zones. Figure out a route you can take to open several of them each day. There’s a small chance in each of those chests to find a rare Reclaimed weapon as a bonus item on top of the chest’s usual contents.
Tangled Depths is an especially good map for that, you can find several chests on the way to the Flax farm from the start of the zone, and then glide on past the farm into the Ogre valley for several more. Being able to get seven chests in 10-15 minutes should net you Reclaimed weapons eventually.
I have 9 level 80’s and am on the last tier of Tyria mastery and have run out of points. The only way I can get any more is to grind every story achieve which means doing each chapter more than 9 times over, spend 100’s of gold on cultural I don’t want or be forced into fractals, which only give a few points anyways.
Okay, I have to ask this…
If you “don’t want to be forced into Fractals”, then why not just do every Tyria Mastery except for the Fractal masteries? Leave those ones for last, the ones you don’t have enough points for, and then it won’t matter that you don’t have enough points for them, as they’re content that you don’t want to do.
If you someday change your mind and decide you do want to do Fractals, then you’d be able to earn the extra Mastery points you need to max out your Fractal masteries by… doing Fractals.
Does that make sense to you, or is it just me?
To get Shards to drop, you need to play on scale 51+, first of all. As for specific fractals, anything where loot dropping enemies will spawn is good. So basically, not the fractals everyone else will want to run. Swamp is bad, Molten Duo is bad, etc.
Volcanic gives you a good amount of Grawl right at the start. Urban Battleground enemies at the very beginning are endless and don’t drop loot, but once past the gate the groups of enemies in the streets will work. Snowblind has the stretch past the Elemental that normally people just run through, but if you kill all the Svanir and the wolves along the way to the boss you can get drops from them. Molten Furnace has a decent amount of enemies along the way to the boss. Thaumanova had some of the enemies stop dropping loot, but enough still do. Aetherblade Retreat and Cliffside will have things to kill. Perhaps the best overall will be Underground Facility, especially if you kill all the Dredge in the starting area outside the cages before starting with the pressure plate puzzles.
Even Jade Maw will be okay if you kill the enemies rather than just running through them.
In short, anything except Swamp, Molten Duo and Mai Trin will have some level of enemies to slay for goodies.
Pretty sure for Finite Result it can only be 20.
But, yeah, make sure you’re doing the correct fractal scale, OP.
It doesn’t actually have to be only 20. I got it done on either scale 30 or 35, I don’t remember which of the two, but when I saw the achievement icon I made an effort to push to quickly kill all the Colossi and we came out of it with the achievement.
It operates differently than the Scale 2 and 3 Challenge Motes, because for those ones you need to interact with a mote in that specific scale to change the mechanics of the Fractal, whereas the Timed Mote is something that happens automatically that you don’t need to turn on.
Well, is the Ele you switched to a Berserker staff Ele? Because enemies are dumb and stand in AoEs, Berserker staff Ele will do more damage than anything else. That’s just how it is, no other class is going to compare to that. To be able to deal that damage, though, the Ele needs to basically camp in Fire and rely on enemies standing still inside Lava Fonts and Meteor Showers, something that isn’t always possible, and something that can put the Ele himself at risk if there’s no other players around to draw agro and you need to hold the enemy in place with your own frail body.
In short, it’s not a really good comparison. Yes, it can often outdamage thieves, but it can often outdamage the other seven classes too.
It’s impossible to craft it in a single season, yes, because you need to complete 60 days of “Daily Participator” and only have 56 days to do that in. Even doubling up on the days by doing the next tier once you finish the previous one will leave you a day shy, as the league ends on a Monday rather than a Tuesday.
It’s set up so that even the absolute best players need to play in more than one league to finish the backpack.
That’s not a bug. You need to cross a total of ten different division thresholds over the year to complete all the “get a division” achievements.
You got your first division threshold getting to Emerald, then moving to Sapphire got you credit for your first threshold for the second achievement. If you can move on to Ruby, you’ll finish that one, opening the next achievement which is to cross three thresholds. If you can’t make it to Diamond in the current league, then you’d have to wait for the next league to start up, at which point you can go Amber > Emerald > Sapphire > Ruby again for three more thresholds, enough to complete the third achievement.
There were some small bonuses for those people.
Players who had accounts before Heart of Thorns was announced, who chose to prepurchase the game, got an extra character slot as a bonus. Meanwhile, players who bought the core game after Heart of Thorns was announced but before the core game went free to play were given a chance to refund what they paid for the core game if they prepurchased Heart of Thorns, as they hadn’t yet revealed that you’d be able to buy the expansion and the core game together.
The window for both of those offers has now closed.
Buying the game three years ago got/gets you the following benefits.
-Three years of gameplay (you seem to have largely skipped this). This included limited-time events, both holiday festivals and episodic story content that isn’t replayable anymore. Living Story Season One episodic content was only available for 2-4 weeks per episode, then it went away. Living Story Season Two episodic content had permanent access given away for free to players who logged in during each episode’s two week availability, but again, you didn’t do that.
-The Royal Guard Outfit, given via the mail to everyone who owned an account before the game went free to play.
-Birthday gifts. You have at least one character who’s three years old, possibly five or more, they’ll all pick up birthday gifts including boosters and expensive dyes. They’re also that much closer to getting whatever next year’s gift will be compared to the free player who joined a few months ago and doesn’t have even a single gift yet, needing to wait three years to get his dye.
You don’t get a discount on the expansion. You also won’t get a discount on any future expansions either. They want it to be set up so that there’s always only one thing to buy, so if you buy Heart of Thorns now, you need to be prepared to pay for the next expansion in a year or three, which you’ll need to buy as well.
In the meantime, you get an outfit that new players have absolutely no way to access. Yay prestige!
If you want heavy AoEs, you’re using the wrong weapons. Swap to a Staff instead and lay waste to things with Vault. Dagger/Dagger can give you good single-target DPS with Cloak and Dagger into Backstab, and Heartseeker once the enemy is weakened, but it’s much less effective against crowds.
Your traits will make a difference as well. Running Shadow Arts or Acrobatics is going to reduce your DPS sizably compared to Deadly Arts, Critical Strikes and even Trickery.
Whatever criticism people might have about Thief, your damage output in solo PvE should not be a cause for concern
The “exotic” Fractal reward chests can. Veteran and Champion, at least. The ones earned from three fractals scale 1-20 can’t.
It’s just that the individual daily Fractal chests don’t differentiate between the 1-20 daily and the 21-50 daily.
After hours of waiting around I managed to get the pre event to not only fail once, but twice and both times I did not receive the required trophy. So it’s not only gated, but broken as well.
I have been working on other aspects of the collection while I wait for this to be fixed, the problem is that I’m running out of other avenues to pursue before this becomes a hard gate for me.
If anyone who has actually completed nevermore could tell me how they managed to get this trophy please shed some insight.
After the necessary fails, in the event that follows, make sure you kill the Veteran Shaman before you actually destroy the totem. You have to do that in the right order in order to get your trophy.
You’re missing that Fractal Scale 10 isn’t the Jade Maw Fractal. Do Fractal Scale 20 instead. Or 30 or 35 or any other Fractal that’s actually Jade Maw.
Yes, the text saying to do 10 is bugged.
Then why did TT become a ghosttown?
There are already less people doing TD compare to other meta.
Do you know what else has been a ghost town for three years? Sorrow’s Embrace path 2.
Not everything is going to be easy, not everything is going to be for everyone. If the King of the Jungle meta-event bothers you this much, then just don’t do it. Go to Auric Basin, go to Dragon’s Stand, go wherever else. Some of the content they add is going to be harder than others. Triple Trouble is a fine example of that, but it still gets done.
Personally, I’m on the side of increasing the rewards from the Gerent rather than reducing the difficulty. I only got a single Chak Egg for killing it. We need a lot more than that for the weapons!
Give it seven more weeks and it’ll go away.
The daily achievement rewards for individual fractals (the ones that drop research pages) can include weapons and armour very rarely. Since one of the daily achievements is for a 1-20 fractal, that means that even at the lowest levels it’s possible to get ascended weapons and armour. There is no difference between the daily achievement chest for a 1-20 fractal and the one for a 21-50 fractal, the two chests stack.
There is a difference between the “complete three fractals within the difficulty range” chests, of course. Those ones don’t stack.
New Legendaries no aura effect, seriously?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Xiahou Mao.9701
I don’t know, I am happy with my new shiny pistol. So happy that I am making a second one. The auras were part of the reason why I did not bother with the “old” legendaries, also did not help that anyone could just break out their cash and buy one.
Just as a warning, you can’t actually make a second H.O.P.E. with the new system. You’ll have to use the Wardrobe to apply the skin on another weapon.
When you’re salvaging items for the Inscription, make sure that you’re not salvaging a crafted weapon, but instead a dropped weapon. If you’re buying level 80 “Cavalier’s Pearl Greatsword”, for example, that’s a crafted weapon. It cannot be salvaged into an Insignia. If it could, people would just endlessly craft it and salvage it to get the most expensive part back to progress their crafting XP.
Cavalier is one of the stat types associated with Fractals, it might very well be that you can only get salvageable weapons with that inscription from playing that (as Fractal-specific exotics are account bound). In which case, your only alternative is to buy them on the Trading Post. Other stat types like Dire and Shaman’s can be found on drops in the normal world, meaning you can find non-crafted versions on the Trading Post to buy and salvage.
When did I say it was easy? I said people are getting better at the event.
We had a lot of time left on the clock, but that doesn’t mean it was easy. I died twice because I’m incredibly squishy and get very little forgiveness with the donuts,. But the people who were taxied in were generally knowledgeable, and the ones who weren’t asked questions about the event and got the help they needed. We didn’t need to shout for anyone to leave the map. We didn’t even have four tags until about ten minutes before the event started.
I’m sorry that you’re having bad luck.
What do you mean at the moment? How many pug tries have you done since HoT and tell me how many times did you make it?
Since the bug in Nuhoch lane was fixed, I’ve made one try with a random group, and succeeded one time. That’s 100%.
That might go down the next time I try, or it might not.
At the moment, 100%. We’ll see if I try it again tonight. Probably not, I don’t have as much time to play on a weekday as on the weekend…
Plus a couple other collections and map completion of Tangled Depths.
Map completion of Tangled Depths is in no way tied to the Chak Gerent. There’s a single Mastery Point tied to a Strongbox behind the wall. You don’t need to collect every Mastery Point to max out your HoT tracks.
I stepped up last night to command a lane for a Gerent attempt in a map with randoms. We won pretty handily, Ogre being the last lane to kill its Gerent with 1:30 left to go. People are getting better at the event.
There have not been annual mini-pets, no. Your second birthday gets you the Birthday Blaster item that lets you feed people stat-boosting Birthday Cake on demand, while your third birthday gives you your choice from an extensive list of normally-gemstore exclusive dyes, some of which are hundreds of gold if bought on the Trading Post.
If you want to avoid buy orders, consider doing some runs through Tangled Depths to find and open chests there. From the zone entrance (with Updrafts and Lean) I can get up to the Flax farm for a Flax harvest and two chests, glide across the Ogre valley using ledges to get two more Splendid Chests at the crashed airship, then down to a final small chest in between the airship and Flax farm. That’s five chests and a bunch of Flax in a little over five minutes.
There’s plenty of other chests in the zone, I think there’s close to thirty overall, so finding a series of them you can comfortably run to every day might help you get what you want without needing the TP. And if you can run it on more than one character a day, all the better.
You need to pick up the Plated Shield to unlock the collection for the Machined Shield. The vendor for Plated weapons is at the end of the Dragon’s Stand event chain, so you’ll need to play that the whole way through. Buying a Plated weapon costs 100 of each of the three zone currencies (150 for two-handed weapons), plus two Reclaimed Metal Plates (three for two-handed weapons).
Reclaimed Metal Plates are found by salvaging Reclaimed weapons. Blue and Green Reclaimed weapons will only give Plates very very rarely. Rare Reclaimed weapons (found most commonly in chests throughout HoT zones) are guaranteed to give a Reclaimed Metal Plate.
Economy Fail: price to high, gold too rare
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Xiahou Mao.9701
Hey sir, do you think people will ever complete the goal when new COOL legendary Greatsword, Sword, Longbow, Hammer, etc is going to come every 3 months?
So be smart about it. Spiritwood almost doubled in price when the Nevermore bug was fixed, going from 9 gold to just under 17 gold. Since then it’s dropped back down to around 13-14.
Nevermore is an ‘all-wood’ Legendary. We haven’t yet had an ‘all-metal’ Legendary, as Sword and Greatsword will be. As a result, Deldrimor hasn’t yet had the same price spike, it’s remaining at the 9 gold that Spiritwood was at before.
So why aren’t you stockpiling Deldrimor?
I sold my entire stockpile of Spiritwood during the Nevermore spike at 16.9 gold each. If I were to buy it back today, I’d still have a profit. You can bet I’m stockpiling my Deldrimor and waiting for the same thing to happen with one of those new Legendary weapons. Make your profit on the back of those who must have their shinies immediately, then bide your time afterwards while prices stabilize and enjoy your profits.
On your Hero Panel at the top, go to “Outfit”, which will be under Equipment a bit. That will bring up the Outfit panel that lets you choose what Outfit to use and dye it if you wish. Find the Royal Guard Outfit at the top-left of your character’s screen there and click the checkbox on it to hide it and use your armour instead.
You can use similar checkboxes on the Equipment screen to hide your helmet, shoulders and gloves, if you wish.
Hearts and Minds: What am I suppose to do?
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Posted by: Xiahou Mao.9701
They look like updrafts. Waves of air going up from the ground, in a circle pattern on the ground around the boss in the middle.
When I played the mission and heard the call to take to the skies, I was immediately able to identify the updrafts and make use of them.
Is there some proper ETA of the patch? December is pretty long…
With their release cadence, it’d be either December 1st or December 15th. I would think the 1st would be more likely, as the 15th should be the Wintersday patch, but they could certainly double up Wintersday with Fractal fixes.
I wouldn’t expect a patch on the 29th for the holiday break.
There are foods you can obtain that reduce condition duration. Some rune sets like the Superior Rune of Melandru do the same.
Of course, having ways to outright cleanse the conditions away might be better.
Hearts and Minds: What am I suppose to do?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
Posted by: Xiahou Mao.9701
Small updrafts/launch pads pop up in a circle on the floor once the call is made. Stepping on them will launch you into the air, giving you a chance to unfurl your glider and properly catch the updraft and go into the air. It’s been a little while since I’ve done it, I don’t remember if just walking on them is enough to launch you or if you need to interact with them, but either way, that’s what you should be looking for.
It’s not on the outside of the map, it’s closer to the middle, in a circle.
The south end of Malchor’s Leap has always struck me as pretty unpopulated. Imagine my surprise the other day when, after the login issues in the evening, I entered the zone to see escort events there. Mirroring the advance through the northern part of the zone, there was an escort to the bridge across Hope Falls, at which point a camp was constructed with merchants, and another escort event was sent to Wren from there. The waypoint was finally uncontested, for as far as I knew the first time.
As it turns out, there is a defense event for that new camp afterwards, at which point it will fall if no players are there to help. The issue, of course, is that once the camp falls, the event to rebuild the camp will never start again, thus leaving that map instance with no events running along the south/southeast part of the zone.
While people are going through and fixing the various events for precursor collections, can someone take a peek at this Hope Falls chain and try to slap in a fix so that it’ll restart after it fails? The zone would be much more alive, and it would give the Elder Wood farmers down in that corner something to do. There were some pretty amusing swarms of Risen Chickens spawned in the area while the event was running…
If you know the old location of the Spider Farm, the champion is past that up the mountain to the southwest.
If you don’t know the old location of the Spider Farm, there’s a series of treetop houses south of Jaka Itzel itself which have spider enemies in them. You can reach them from a bouncing mushroom at an exit of the Temple of Ameyali, south of the Primary Pact Rally Point. Once up in the treetop village, head west along the bridges and the path will wind its way up to the top of the mountain the Temple is inside. There’s an NPC there with a Mastery icon on it you can talk to for the champion.
Bifrost is a Staff, and thus requires Artificer to craft.
Talk to the Legendary Craftsman and he’ll have the recipe box item to buy again for karma, and you can use it on an Artificer this time.
You get nothing from experience past level 80 without Heart of Thorns.
Well, not quite nothing. Your health will fully recover when you “level up”. You used to get a skill point for levelling, but when they changed those over to Spirit Shards, the reward for levelling was removed.