Guild Wars 2

Anything that has a cap to it (ex. tier 5 of 5) will be turned into laurels somehow in the future. Maybe February or March.

For now,I’m just getting things done at my leisure and doing my dailies.

I’m experience in AC and CM though only so I’m just like a pug in all the others.

I might need to find a good dungeon guild or find expert teams in LA overflow as my RP guild is too small for this stuff.

I did this with my own guild from DR to Caledon for an RP event. My ranger was her bodyguard and got defeated a few times in Kessex Hills as he was only lv 16. We had varying levels and she even leveled to 7 off kills/stray events.

I should try to get a big one going like this with my 80 ele.

Eventually they will all be laurels.

Stock up, but not through agent of entropy, that will be taken off the list and made finite.

My Ele still 1-3 shots foes with her D/D build before and after update. AC on the other hand, not one group could make it to Kohler, or if they skipped Kohler, like in route 1, couldn’t even down all 6 burrows for hodgins. I even did a lot less damage to the spider queen. I felt like a GW 1 Ele in Hard Mode all over again.

There was at least 10 plus people there and in most events the timer goes up with more people present. No one could reach that in only 30 seconds when on the other end looking for a few apples. Other collection events allow 1-2minutes with 10+ people. The scaling is bugged is what I’m getting at.

Another thing is wrong with these collection events is that items should be like nodes, available to all, not first come first serve.

before someone else can in Eda’s events.

Happens a lot a times, even I accidentally gather too many and the timer goes to 0 before anyone can turn any in. I usually don’t mean it, yet others do so they get gold and everyone else gets no credit or is able to turn only 1 in for a copper reward, like for instance what happened today and I get into a argument with a guy that thinks he is a smart kitten saying it wasn’t grieving.

Either people need to agree to wait for all people there to turn in at once or Anet needs to make that timer up to 4 minutes.

Or relog in WvW or sPvP. you’ll be where you entered it form the main PvE world.

So its not only me. I thought it was my laptop being a piece of crap as it always is.

I’m not that rich either, I have only 20 g on Yumiko and 50 s on my guardian. I’m not spending any of it as I have no new methods to make gold. I might go dungeon running today.

I always keep different and even random gibberish passwords everywhere I am on the internet. Here I’m doing four random words only unique to my personality and what I like that no one can guess unless they know me personally (only one person can do this and he wouldn’t even give a kitten). Even if one part is found (can happen in my password structure) They don’t know me personally and can’t get to any of the other parts by machine generation. I do follow the xkcd method. I decided to change my password today anyways as I want to be even better at what I do.

I would so I can RP privately with those that need a place. My RP guild needs a home too as many guilds are fighting over the use of a certain empty home with an open door in Rurikton. It causes RP continuity issues (and breaks immersion) when two groups say the home is theirs.

Blueshield.6291:

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

How to kill karka:
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The thread isn’t questioning how to kill them. The point here is that the zone is purposeless.

Yet most here are saying that its too hard to even set foot there. Sounds more like a L2P issue to me.

How to kill karka:

Young:
Ele: Earth 4 on staff/focus, wind 4 focus Arcane shield or vapor form for the spit then just spam conditions.

Guardian: sword 3 and projectile absorbing and reflecting fields work.

Engi: Shield skills/ turrets to take the full force of the spits.

Mes: whatever Mesmers do.

Necro: minions!

Warrior: Shield skills like guardian maybe?

Ranger: Whirling defense.

Thief: Whirling daggers.

veteran young/normal: for young repeat process for normal young yet use both summons (if ele) and your elite summon (if others and human). For Vet normal, dodge its jump and roll and block its children with blocks/fields. Party helps.

Got a rare lv 78 GS from an ice elemental in the chest. The second time was a green upgrade jewel chunk.

Daily dodging: karkas. You can dodge up to 2-4 acid sprays in two dodges. repeat as many times as needed.

Gatherer: karka land or queensdale or caledon. So many trees and ore there in these places.

Events: Queensdale or the consortium item in karka land event 5 times every 5-10 minutes.

Everything else: Queensdale.

Every post I made that was infracted seems to be a bit too hard on someone where it was just my severe brand of reason and logic to counter most of the inane whining and “Hate-Anet!” comments here. Yet I get a post deleted every time as it seems even remotely “disrespectful” to the other poster that is far worse than I’d ever be.

I guess logic is out the door. So I just don’t even join these arguments anymore.

I rather see them infracted for all the bad publicity and damage to the game that’s going on by them instead of my slightly snark filled and reasonable in nature comments. I should be more worried about the so called, “GW 2 minority” than little ol’ calm me. I know my last post that was infracted was a bit of edgy sarcasm, yet anyone could see how downhill the discussions have gotten, including the poster above me.

The constant hate on Anet and stuff going on is really demoralizing on me and others enjoying the game.

Once a new player to GW 2 takes a single look at this forum, they turn tail and run expecting the game’s players to be exactly like us here.

If any of this rhetoric gets me infracted and banned here, then I finally know where my allies are.

Laurels can buy tier 1-6 bags infinitely for ever and ever based on how many laurels you have accumulated.

Prices are going to hit rock bottom and its, WONDERFUL!

As I said in another thread this was made so people can find their loot and also because corpses disappear after a while, this helps lower end machines that can’t get to their loot in time, now be able to get to it. Also the chests and loot filled corpses never go away until you get the loot (this goes for blues and below as well) after this update.

aberrantone.5410:

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

The Ori in my opinion needs to drop to 20 copper to make non-hard core player and people that have lives get stuff easier. Nothing will stop us form using 6 characters to get 54 -72 ori from normal nodes twice a day (ori resets every 12 hours (each daily reset) not 24 for non rich nodes btw (and is independent of character/account hitting it). So you can hit it twice per daily reset.

For now, I’ll try to get my 80s to farm all spots every day on all maps that have them just to make money.

Umm did you miss the word “daily” in your statement? Ori nodes are like Omnom are a DAILY reset. You know daily, as in 24 hours. Not sure how you came to thinking that its meaning was 12 hours. And no they aren’t tied to the daily’s reset, they are tied to when you harvested them. I’ve got five 80’s that I make a 30 to 45 min trek each with through SC, FS, ML, and CS.

The price of Ori will go up a lot over the next couple of weeks I’m sure, which I’m fine with. But I would have been fine with them just fixing the mining picks and leaving the Rich node in the game…. either with our without it Ori is keeps it’s worth.

I was right in what I said. I hit a node near the Captain’s Retreat (when it was there) earlier in the day (10AM-1PM) when I was going across the map for my rich node, and then I came back later after 7 PM EST (same day) and it was there again the same exact Ori node same 3 hits. Was not even 24 hours! I wish I took a screen but it was unexpected.

YES. Its easy enough to level lets make it infinite. Oh wait…

What? I can get rares from 12 greens used and an exotic for about that much effort as well.

cesmode.4257:

Not sure I like the change to rare loot. You get a chest? Im so used to spamming my loot key in large packs of dead mobs. Now I have to look at the ground in the middle of all the particle effects and explosions and players and dead bodies, to see if i have a chest?

Please change this.

This was made because the fact that corpses will dry up with loot on them after a while. It was in beta for underwater areas at one time. Why they removed it to begin with made a big problem for slower machines (like mine) that can’t see the corpses for a few minutes (usually well after they rot away) to begin with. If you kill 20+ centaurs at a time in Harathi like me, you’d wish you could get your loot in time.

Think of all possible benefits for something before saying anything please.

Anet is making lots of new ways to help our slower processors cope.

The Ori in my opinion needs to drop to 20 copper to make non-hard core player and people that have lives get stuff easier. Nothing will stop us form using 6 characters to get 54 -72 ori from normal nodes twice a day (ori resets every 12 hours (each daily reset) not 24 for non rich nodes btw (and is independent of character/account hitting it). So you can hit it twice per daily reset.

For now, I’ll try to get my 80s to farm all spots every day on all maps that have them just to make money.

Yet my only source of money is gone now along with platinum→ mithril guess I have to wait until my alts are lv 45 and bring them back there, sneaking them past mobs skillfully again. Right now only 3 nodes of normal Ori are there now for my two lv 80s.

Might as well sell the 70+ ori from earlier today from before the nerf.

I’d do it if not all my karma is used for Orr karma armor. I have 6 people to eventually get through the game 100% the maps, etc. SO i need all my karma for a full P/V/T set alone and 3 more sets on my Main.

We have /sit, but this is not the /sit your looking for. Move along! -“Not the droids…” Star Wars quote repurposed for GW 2.

We need a non side sitting for girls and not guys with their knees up.

Southsun has three easy foe types that drop t5 and t6. Karka drop shells (obviously!) and also blood. Skelk at the Under New management area. Appear around it and also with a event there. They drop fangs and blood as well. Drakes are very hard to kill, yet drop claws and scares most likely.

You also have fish and barracudas to kill for scales.

Riders have venom sacs.

Bones and totems are no shows in Southsun though.

Its real easy to salvage lv 68+ gear to get tier 5-6 mats and lv 51-67 gear to get tier 4-5 mats.

Can you combine Superior runes to get different ones in the forge or is it not possible? People are telling me its not and I don’t want to risk money buying cheep superior runes.

I know you can combine 4 minor (Masterwork) to get a shot at getting major (Rare) and 4 major to make Superior (exotic), yet can’t you keep combining superiors to get other desired superiors like other exotics combined to try to get precursors?

The best corrupted essence (as I call them), Putrid, is used to make superior runes of undead, etc. which are not bad runes for many builds. They make you tougher and add condition damage (good for eles/mes/theif/engi).

Karka Land- go to the Under New Management Jump Puzzle island and do the Consortium Item event over and over and killing Skelk then walk over the bridge and karka alternatively. Both drop potent blood/powerful blood (Karka/Reef Skelk) and Large fang/Vicious fang (Reef Skelk) Farm the event, Karka and the Skelk until you can’t anymore and make Lv 80 Weps to combine in forge (exotics) or salvage for ectos. Its how I got a cheap exotic GS for my guardian. I made three GS and combined with my Trinity Pact GS and got an Exotic Charr Skin GS back.

Tarnished coast is very fun to be in we do everything even PvP (#5 and climbing in WvW). Also, you may need to learn how to Role Play(RP) as its the unofficial official RP server in NA.

I only need money to complete my crafts, so once they are done, I’ll start finishing my monster hunts for all the kill counters. I am pretty OK with money. I’m not rich, yet I’m not poor either. Me and MMOs its like a love hate relationship when it comes to farming and grinding. I do it when I need to and hate it when I don’t or just find no value in doing it.

Like for instance, trying to find the best gear in a very old MMO I play and can’t get it without a holiday event increasing drop rates. If its too hard to get (legendaries), I don’t waste my time until it is made easier some way in the future of the game’s life span. I play for fun first and foremost.

Chances are 1-2 years from now, GW 2 will have new events and features like in gw 1 (heroes/7 heroes/ 5+ events a year/mini games) to allow us to get stuff much, much easier. If you can’t wait that long like I do, then you can’t wait for anything in life and will be miserable anywhere you go.

Pyrotechnic Hell.3209:

kRiza krimos.1637:

I want to afk on rings of fortune again so badly!

YES PLEASE

Yet you’d be kicked off game very few minutes…

Yay TC is #5 we should shoot for #1! Role Players are also good at World PVP too!

Its funny, no one comments on my posts based on gaming experience and pure logical reasoning. Blood here and Killcannon basically reiterated what I was getting at though.

It can be crafted as exotics so eventually there may be a way to get clerics ascended.

In another very old MMO game PSO (the first one not PSO2) Monsters have various tables: They have the drop anything rate which can range from 0-100% and is based on difficulty and area foe is found in. It means what it says, the chance for a foe to drop anything in the game based solely on the difficulty and area which allows it to drop.

The second loot type is the foe’s actual drop. Which is usually its rare drop at higher difficulties. This is usually Item name at 1/5000 or 6/48 or some predefined fraction.

In GW 2, this equates to you getting anything in the game that is allowed (drop anything tables) and the exact item that that foe drops (item bags, coin, fine material). These follow the above logic which is 1/3, 1/45, etc. Essentially with no DR and a 100% rate you will expect to kill the denominator amount to get exactly one at that n’th kill.

So Karka Shell is the Karka’s actual rare drop along with the Mini Karka (which is the higher rare item, everything else held equal is drop anything tables/rates). Since we have 6 naturally occurring rarity levels (9 with Ascended, Mystic, and Legendary, which do not drop) it could be various set drops on one table for each tier with RNG accounting for each separately (named gear could be such a set drop for all monsters in all lv 80 maps, this follows the examples from PSO, which are area and level based drops). I noticed with almost no DR I get one shell every 3-10 kills. So its drop for Karka Shell is 1/10-1/3.

The reason Anet doesn’t give these fractional rates to us is that we expect it to drop after so many kills and when it doesn’t, people still cry.

Keeping with all of this, The drop anything rate for certain foes with respect to DR could be 0-100% for normal trash, 0-85% for elites (silvers in dungeons) 0-75% for vets and 0-60 for champs/legends. Yet, legends have a 90% drop rate for its bag/coin and 10% for accessory or nothing (you weren’t alive on kill or didn’t do enough to it).

What the OP is asking for is more set drops and not randomized drop anything rates in GW 2, if GW 2 even uses a DAR system along with RNG.

Here lies Hikari Kyoko Ishida:

She thought Wall of Reflection would protect her, but she was on the wrong side, and that Young Karka didn’t miss.

(So many times this occurred.)

I’m Canthan across my whole account almost. My Ele wants to party!

erapago.4387:

Seize the MOMENT used to really buy me when I was leveling cooking.

“I feel six feet tall” annoys me mostly because Asurans shouldn’t be using anything but metric.

“I feel approximately 2 meters tall!” n.n!

Lady Elyssa.2469:

Back in GW1 hearing the Norn at the Rez Shrines asking, “Are you hunting something” and I always used find myself answering (admittedly to myself, lol), “Yes, Norn!”

I did this as well. I hated Norn VOs so much in GW 1, I could not bring myself to play one in this game. I deleted two Norn already as soon as I made them.

thrice.9184:

And the I chose you the worst one as well, Both ranger lines I believe.

Polymock Go! (Pokemon much?)

In addition, most special sets are karma based or crafted.

No problem. Now admins can lock this as I answered it expertly.

“Ate too much food and died from being too fat to move. ‘Connoisseur of Confectioneries’ Indeed!”

Also if you try to type in the chat box while TP is up, the buttons will grey out or you can’t type values into boxes. You have to open up tp again. Had this happen many times and I was casting spells on my ele instead of typing values or typing on chat instead of typing in search.

So it could be this or the other problem which you must close completely.

KinkyPotato.4219:

ColinJohanson.2394:

PhilipRed.9473:

Just ascended amulets? what about the rest of the gear?

Good question!

Ascended rings will also be available for laurels as well. Back slot items will be made more widely available in the future and will likely tie into a different reward system.

(Please note, the ascended gear purchased for laurels will not have agony resistance built in, since that mechanic is currently unique to progression in the fractal dungeons. They are however statistically the same as any other ascended gear.)

We will also introduce an additional reward system (or systems) in the future to make these items more accessible to WvW players on top of the laurel system.

The remaining ascended item types will be introduced in future releases, and may or may not tie into the laurel system, TBD.

(Edited to add note about agony)

Will we also be able to purchase rings with nomenclature currently not existant at the fractals merchant including: Cleric’s (Healing/Toughness/Power), Giver’s (Toughness/Healing/Boon Duration), Carrion (Cond Damage/Power/Vitality), Apothecary’s (Healing/Toughness/Cond Damage), and Magi’s (Healing/Precision/Vitality)?

What about Power/Vit/Tough? What shall we call it? Its dungeon, WvW, and karma only, yet it should have a name.

Here lies Yumiko Emi Ishida, mother loved by all except Claw of Jormag that stepped on her when she couldn’t see in the blinding snow.

“I can’t see!” were her last words.

Survivors are her daughter Hikari and sister Tomoko (my other alts). May she find peace in the mists.

(Actually the dragon was culled before me and my laptop can’t render a thing half of the time for a few minutes. Also the lag!)

Under new management in Southsun Cove. Bring all your characters to it before you get your ori.

A :

Priestess: Yes in Timberline Falls. Each heart has her armor parts (one of each of the 6 pieces). Go spend your karma at each heart and fine stone them unto your gear.

Logan and many high ranking seraphs wear T3 Human cultural or an armor smith chain/scale set for the non-T3 variety.

The Ministry guard and Consortium guards wear Guild Armor.

Kain Francois.4328:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFSDWx82sw

The GW1 Kryta theme would have been perfect. Why doesn’t it play in the Kryta region?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfjWleiHQ4

“Sands of Kryta” would have been fitting too.

I hear Temple of Tolerance when just idling in Queensdale and Lions Arch occasionally. It also has to do with settings and your computers power. If your latency is too high or you lag too much or too much going on in game causing processor problems (like mine does) You may not hear music at all or never on cue. I heard Sands of Kryta recently in Lions Arch. Its very rare like Over the Shiverpeaks was in gw 1 Southern Shiverpeaks areas. Now that Over the Shiverpeaks theme is very common in Hoelbrak and early level areas of the region.