Guild Wars 2

Conga-Rats! Lighthammer!
If you want a task or a mystery to solve, try https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Final-Rest-Current-Theories/first

or if there may be a way into http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tomb_of_Blimm

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Divinity%27s_Reach
“The city itself is made of heavy stone and mortar contrasting with the wilderness that surrounds the city. It was built with a large underground crypt, which are lined with bones of dead humans and contains the tomb of Blimm. The crypts are accessed via the Skull Gate and requires paperwork to access legally.”
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skull_Plaza
Good luck!

Evil Octopi.8253:

Karas the Undying

Karas the Undying is one of several unique spawns in the open world: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Defeat-the-Ministry-Guards-event/first#post1414250 and none of these solo’able events (good for monthly) provide a chest. I’ve been using /kneel far too often when passing through a graveyard or just about any suspicious object. (or /threaten the object. /threaten and /kneel are the only emotes I’ve discovered to prompt an event or interaction with open world objects)

How goes the progress to identify all loot chests, so that the unique named one(s) can be listed as the potential loot chest(s) that would have a unique loot table which possibly contains the rare Final Rest? Presuming, that it requires a unique chest on account that the other Large chests associated with Temples and World Bosses have been looted many times since launch and some feel it would have been discovered by now.

If I got a legendary, I’d be transmuting it, so that there are no rainbows from my shortbow. Knowing that I don’t need a legendary to complete any content currently in the game, I’m not trying to get a legendary. Legendary weapons might get stat increased in… 6 months? a year? /shrug.

When Legendaries get the stat upgrade, will WvWvW debuff them like they buff lower ranked characters?

I have a precursor of a weapon i don’t use now. I’m not selling it. One day I might use it for an alt. (thanks Ancient Karka) I sometimes wonder what I might do with lots of in-game money, I might get, if I were to sell it on the TP… then the moment passes as soon as it begins. (nothing I want to buy currently)

Hunt for a unique named chest? or has the uniqueness (associate with the hint of rare) been disregarded due to the rarity of the potential drop chance?

have you seen this? http://www.gw2armor.com/
or this? http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/fashion-gw2/
wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Heavy_armor

from the General Discussion thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Final-Rest-Current-Theories/page/6#post1403306
Deified.7520 says:

Hey guys, after seeing hte conspiracy theory about how the boss/chest isn’t dropping the “correct loot table” i went and asked Mr. Vaughn about it. Here was his reply.

“No, I traced it back from the item all the way back to the encounter, and it’s all hooked up. The chance of it dropping is extremely low.”

So we could have already found the place and it just hasn’t dropped.

Well, who’s got a Decoder ring from a Cracker Jacks box? Is there depth to the " I traced it back from the item all the way back to the encounter"? what might it hint at? A long event? or merely the code screen containing the Event has pages of details and had to page down/up many times to get from beginning to end?

GJ! TY! I got screenshots of the Vigil locations, and /kneel event in Orr.
1st link is Charr attacks Vigil player in Blazeridge.
2nd link is Commander attacks Vigil player in the water of Bloodtide.
3rd link is of a special altar in Malchor’s Leap west of Rayhan Bayt. /kneel at the altar for the event start (Karas the Undying). Skulls of the altar have to be glowing for the /kneel to spawn him. if no glow, no spawn (cool down).
1st http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/3921/gw006qx.jpg
2nd http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9519/gw004yw.jpg
3rd http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/8237/gw005s.jpg

While I was roaming Blazeridge the other night, I found 2 more campfires… I’d guess there is nothing to do with campfires in Blazeridge. Yet that one campfire I originally found to be uniquely located, alone, and no NPCs on top of it… suspicious. The other 2 campfires were near http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/campfire/17966/ which has NPCs, skill point, & event. That lonesome campfire… hmmm. North of The Last Whiskey Bar Waypoint along the west map wall near spiders.

TY for the video. GJ!

Avenge Tybalt! Not just by whipping Zhaitan. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/Defeat-the-Ministry-Guards-event
2nd post, in the screen shot you can see the chat directed at the player by a Commander saying, “We’re sending you to shake hands with Tybalt!” A special Event named: “Kill the Risen commander to avenge Tybalt”

Mysterious campfire in Blazeridge Steppes. It can be interacted with. Seems to do nothing… so far. 0o /emotes at it… nothing, but skull, torch, and bone appear close to it for pick up.
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2903/gw003im.jpg
(still searching for Vigil surprise attack from http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Renegade associated with Ajax)

Awesome! TY for information!

Steag defeated for Priory is 20th quest in personal story list. Demmi stands up for herself is 20th quest for Whispers. Vigil 20th is a peace treaty; Ajax Anvilburn (charr) defeated.

Map locations per 20th quest:
Priory- Defeat Steag- Lornar’s Pass, black barls mill POI (rank 39 heart nearby).
Whispers- Demmi joins Whispers- Bloodtide Coast, near Deadend Waypoint (rank 45 heart nearby), but she was captured by pirates and held near Wiley’s Cove in Gendarran Fields.
Vigil- Defeat Ajax – Fields of Ruin, The Thunder Den POI (rank 38 heart nearby).
The surprise attacks… are not at those locations. hmmm. ok.

Surprise Attack Locations:
Priory, rank 44 heart nearby; Sons of Svanir mobs nearby. (Dredgehaunt Cliffs; see link above)
Whispers, rank 36 or 42 hearts not very nearby, but closest, Centaur mobs nearby… 0o. (Harathi Hinterlands; see post above)
Vigil…? (I’ll guess somewhere in Blazeridge Steppes. /shrug. Good luck hunting the location!)

Battle for Claw Island, 25th for each Order. Will Commander show up for each Order at that location? (checking; may be a cool down before another Commander attack?)

edit: My Priory character was attacked by the Risen Commander, near the location (not the same) as the Whisper character. http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9287/gw002vl.jpg

behind this door! http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/desert-gate/14128/
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Desert_Gate
and
through these gates! http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/coriolis-plaza/5801/
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Coriolis_Plaza
and
Get the cattlepult ready! http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wizard%27s_Fief

Should we hear a selection from "the soundtrack will also change to the “BossBattle” playlist" as we possibly win a fight that may drop the Final Rest?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/NPC_rank

I was exploring the “rare” among the NPC ranking descriptions, and was interested to find the description of Legendary rank used “rare” in the description. Then I noticed that there are “Users” listed among the NPCs with Legendary ranking. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Special:SearchByProperty/Has-20NPC-20rank/Legendary …users?! /cursewiki. /facepalm.

! https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/events/More-of-this-please
I just did this, /kneel at a special location, spawned Karas the Undead (veteran). No chest. More like this? Where?

Gilosean.3805:

So either the boss that drops it is so obscure that no one can find it, or so worthless that no one does it. Either way, we need something more. I’d be fine with an in-game update to NPC chatter, frankly, so long as it was over a wide enough area and repeated often enough for people to find it.

Oooorr, someone got it and sold it to vendor; threw it in the Mystic Forge (trying to get a precursor); has it and does not participate in forum; etc. etc.

Good idea. I would appreciate more NPC chatter pertaining to secrets and hidden stuff… yet many NPCs do mention finally rest, ancient artifact, or something that may be interpreted as a secret message. Too many ghosts and undead wanting to rest. Several POIs that are doors that don’t open (or so it seems, mostly). I’ve been searching with words like Secret and Hidden(finding some threads in Reddit, Dulfy, here, & stuff in MMORPG-life & wiki), & watching gameplay videos (they don’t always target the chest in them. What is the chest called?).

Good luck hunters!
Hints welcomed. Something more please.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/NPC_rank
“Legendary:
These creatures are very rare to see, they can only be found in dungeon instances or in Ruins of Orr group events and require an organized group and concerted effort to take down.” Is the Boss a Legend? or Elite, or Champ, or Vet, or Epic?

Sorry if I was not clear. The door is closed and can not be opened, thus one can not enter the Artesian Waters room that is in the personal story where you fight the Eye of Zhaitan. Yes you go down the hallway, get the explorer achievement, get the little chest next to the door, reveal the artesian waters on the map… the door is still closed. The door is to what I referred to with “but alas it can not be entered in open world (only via personal story).”

If someone knows how to open the door, please describe the process so I can get in the room and beat whatever is in there.
I’ve been wanting to get into many of the rooms that are included in the Orr portion of the Personal Story to hunt for the Final Rest staff, but many of those rooms are not available to be entered in the open world.

Good post/thread.
Glad there was no mention of “And Found This Disgusting Brain-Like Organ Inside” ….I got it! There. Now you can image search this quote with chicken. Enjoy!

And not for something completely different… Veteran Svanir Champion is found in Dredgehaunt Cliffs, but will only spawn when a player of the Priory passes under the tree. How many other Veterans or Events will only appear to a player of a certain Order that pass by a specific location? So many secrets in this game!

kRiza krimos.1637:

I saw in exploration achievements one that you get for finding some secret underground area beneath Orr…anyone got that one/been to that area? Perhaps there are some clues there…

is the underground you speak of, this http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Artesian_Waters described further http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Forgotten_Stream
While it was the first place I thought of to being the Final Rest of the Source of Orr (personal story) that had an Eye of Zhaitan, but alas it can not be entered in open world (only via personal story). I asked pages ago, in here or the other thread in Crafting forum on Final Rest, about can the door be opened by some unique criteria (all temples captured)? This idea had limited replies. Few, if any, spend time at the closed door to see if it opens, and there with no reddit page or other info… seems unlikely to open.

I read about the hidden/secret Hylek area in Caledon Forest, Dengatl Grounds POI. (on reddit) iiiiinteresting…. now am searching for any seemingly random item on the ground to pick up, if it may be used for something specific nearby. So many cemeteries and tombs throughout Tyria. What’s the deal has some sort of war happened?

Ok, the contested/uncontested Statues in Orr with the grey or orange little icon on the map… I’ve beated the NPC/Acolyte at a statue, I’m bowed at the statue, and it does not change from orange to grey. I have seen the icon be grey. How do I make the statue icon grey? What happens if all statues are grey? anything? I can damage a statue (very slowly) but not target one. (Kill the Risen acolyte leader attempting to perform an unholy ritual, in Straits of Devastation, I could no longer damage the statue, and then I could walk through it… very odd.)

The Dwarven key, Gear crank, and Energy crystal are random loot from mobs, and there are other doors out there to /threaten, use boulder on nearby thingy… hidden rooms with turkeys or kittens. The organ (open door with song) & books (achievement) don’t work anymore, I tried it in Ebonhawke. Listing these serves to point out that there are many unique door mechanics in game. Have they all been discovered yet?

Rare, Boss, Chest, Large.
Chest, Rare, Boss, Large.
Boss, Chest, Rare, Large.
Rare, Large, Boss, Chest.
….another hint please? What region of Tyria is it in or not in?
Was this boss size increased with recent graphic changes?
Is personal story considered open world? (I’d presume not, but always wondered what the Mouth of Zhaitan’s corpse dropped in story mode. Did it 3 times, never could loot the corpse because the cut scene started instantly and put the group on the ship where the chest was.) aaaaanyways.

Good luck hunters!

underwater….. as irritating the underwater can be in Straits of Devastation Map (irritating because I think whenever that event with the submarines is active, i believe when the submarines surface, it brings Everything that is in the water to the surface)… 0o

Checking POIs and listed Events… http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/plaza-of-the-lost-wisdom/32209/ wasn’t this the place in the personal story where the rare species (Largos) joins the fight? /shrug.
How often does anyone kill the huge underwater beasties in the SW corner of Malchor’s Leap? near http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/statue-of-grenth/34158/ I remember seeing 3 beasties and not staying to get autographs. Beat the beasties and get a boss to spawn? I’ve never fought the beasties, what happens when the 3 are defeated?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bosses + http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l68oDZAGGY (see chest at the end of Hydra Queen fight? it’s Large. 0o) = what kind of chest?

Watching videos for research.
yeah, enormous chests from all them bosses, right? looking for a specially named chest that may have special loot unlike any other chest? Would naming the chest for each on the list of bosses be a good start? /shrug
Too narrow of a definition of boss? /shrug. yeah, feels awkward to me too.

Jelle.4623:

I’m thinking of these kind of events:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Force_the_ancient_creature_back_into_its_prison

There are more of these events and they are rare.

I’d been roaming the map killing mobs trying to get a Gear Crank. No luck so far (rare indeed). I want to see this Ancient Creature! Wiki: Fleshreaver/Rragar Maneater, breeding a race of hideous creatures… creature on a stick?… 0o

I’ve got several Dwarven Keys on 2 characters, but the Imp Lord and the Destroyer Troll… /shrug. no luck there, with the loot.

edit: I just watch a video of the Ancient Creature… person could not loot corpe and no chest… 0o ….what was even more disturbing was the elementalist in the video that only used water skills!

no, can’t get into Tomb of Blimm. I made a thread about Blimm and Skull Gate a while back after reading Wiki for a while and searching for Skull Gate and Blimm: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Skull-Gate-where/first#post1172789

I saw "The city itself is made of heavy stone and mortar contrasting with the wilderness that surrounds the city. It was built with a large underground crypt, which are lined with bones of dead humans and contains the tomb of Blimm. The crypts are accessed via the Skull Gate and requires paperwork to access legally. " on http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Divinity%27s_Reach and thought wow, I’d never been there. Looked for it and came up with nothing.

Have you ever read the Trivia on the http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/The_Great_Collapse page? 0o iiiinteresting.

Jehuty.7426:

How i know my friend got official response that this staff isn’t in game O.o

How indeed. Meanwhile, back at the Joker hideout. Catwoman’s plan is coughing up results.

So, there is a bloody slab (sacrificing alter?) above the Antre of Adjournment JPuzzle in Malchor’s Leap. I pass it on my way from Pagga’s Waypoint to the JPuzzle. I remember seeing many mobs up there at the altar…. once (many months ago). I’ve never seen them again, and am wondering why the mobs left & how might I get them to return because I’m thinking it’s an event of some sort. Anyone familiar with the alter & know how to get the event started (if it is an event there)? (bloody surface of slab, layer below it is Skulls with white glowing eyes, & another slab below that layer… a skull sandwich! [URL]http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/120/gw001mp.jpg[/URL]) may or may not lead to a boss… 0o No Stone Unturned!!

PS: I think the staff is in http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tomb_of_Blimm and the door has not been available to enter the tomb.
On that note, http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dwarven_Key & http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Energy_Crystal have all the rare map drops associated with starting events been identified and their associated events listed?

….Zho’Qafa Catacombs…. that there Champion Abomination has been eating too much. He’s sooo big! I like the graphic changes.
edit : I sure wish the Waywarde Waypoint were not contested so quickly, and the Champ didn’t get the Acolyte of Melandru Sanction buff from the other nearby quickly recontested statue. The Champ is sprinting far away now! what the heck?!

Homonavn.6348:

Low level monsters, bosses and events can still drop lvl 80 rares and exotics…

Indeed, this has been my experience since launch when going to low areas with my 80. I believe the loot got tweeked (rearrange loot table and increased %s) in the recent patch for higher ranked players in lower map areas. I got a rare rank 80 mace while waiting on Shadow Bohemoth and killing some mobs for one of the Slayer Achievements. I had been getting more rank 76 loot than 80 previously (& still getting loot ranked for the map I was in) while in lower areas and it’d certainly be rare to get a rare item. I’d not spent a lot of time in lower areas with an 80 in previous months, except when I was getting materials for an alt that I was going to craft with for some ranks, but with the recent patch tweeks, I might spend more time… hunting for Order related Dynamic Events or Events I’ve not seen.

Zho’Qafa Catacombs, any change since the patch? Is the Abomination taller? I like that tip I read about it. Let the Pact NPCs die to the abomination, the abomination gets stacks of frenzy, let the abomination reset(no more frenzy speed), & then fight the abomination.

SenorMoody.5908:

Yes I’ve had a Dynamic Event pop on top of me that I presume would only pop for “Order of Whispers” members. I was running around farming nodes and this random event pops right on top of me as i was going for a Rich Mythril vein, I just ran right passed it because i wasn’t interested in doing events, only farming. But just as i Mined the 10th piece of Mythril, i saw that the DE said, “Avenge Tybalt Leftpaw”… I ran as quickly as i could to try and catch that Event, but it Disappeared just before I could leap in. The most depressing part of it was that I could’ve sworn one of the mobs was an Undead Tybalt…. i never saw that event pop again… ./sadness

Which map was it for the Order of Whispers event? Now, am curious about Order specific content… Anyone know of a Vigil one? I’ve searched Wiki, Dulfy, and the net and can’t find mention of Tybalt event, nor kill the veteran Svanir Champion one. 0o

yes, with http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pipe_Organ and /threaten at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bonegrinder%27s_Gully POI, what other environmental mechanisms are there to be found? Can I get a bomb from a vendor named Zelda and blow up a wall somewhere to find a hidden room? 0o

What do the numbers on graves mean???
Does reading certain books in a certain order do anything? Can they be read in any order and still do anything?
Does in-game day and night time have significance to certain possible events or locations?
Is there no Dana, only Zuul?

Hail! Science! I’m blinded! Which way did she go?
/thumbsup for scientific thread because “she blinded me with science.”
I finally tried the MForge about the time the scavenger hunt idea was announced, but soon afterwards gave up in order to preserve sanity. (about 40 tries with rank 80 rare staves; got 2 named, lots of rares, several exotics. imho, simply not a fun gameplay mechanism/process/aspect. PacMan is rolling in his grave.)
…certain Gifts for Legendary require super duper rare materials to make; multiple Gifts… why not a specific recipe with Gifts and something to make a Precursor??? I like the scavenger hunt completion to get a precursor idea better though. Although, if the scavenger hunt can result in a precursor that I don’t want… /slamfaceintowall&neverplayanymmoagain

Meanwhile, I dislike the legendary shortbow, dagger, and focus, and am hoping for more skins (not having to be legendary). Not excited about staff, but thought I’d try for one anyways.

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/28/gw2-new-orr-temple-exotics/
bookmark Dulfy and wiki.

I like that there are fewer little ice elementals running all over the place. I’ve not been in a fight to see if there is more than one wave of Shades. I thought it was odd to die from the ceiling fall ability Grenth has (no downed state after fall. instant death), but when I use a waypoint I had no damage to gear… (curious, but I don’t mind not paying to repair). I sometimes was in a dodge roll as I fell from ceiling and lived with a sliver of health, and often that dodge put me into another circle to finish me off. I kept focusing on the Shades and didn’t see any “tells” from Grenth animation. Next time, I will ignore the Shades and watch Grenth to see the wind up animations that are “telling” what AOE is coming. /shrug

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/29/gw2-flame-and-frost-patch-new-legendary-weapon-effects/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Sanctum-of-Rall-has-beaten-Grenth/first#post1320688 screenshot of karma vendor in this thread.
from names, then head to http://www.gw2db.com/items/trinkets and find stats.

plan B: http://dulfy.net/2013/01/28/gw2-new-orr-temple-exotics/

http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page
;)
http://dulfy.net/2013/01/28/gw2-lost-orrian-jewelry-box-guide/
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Orrian_Jewelry_Box

Guess who didn’t complete one fractal and still doesn’t loose sleep over ascended or legendary stuff or wants to do fractals? (If fractals is in another monthly, i will consume many drinks quickly and maybe do it) It was said early on they (Anet) wanted to make loot available in different ways. Should have expected fractals to be less desirable sooner or later, except for those that enjoy it, and those that have to have loot now and not a few months later. It’s a fairly common aspect to MMOs, like a starter area is less populated after the launch.

So, complaint is about possibly being kicked from a pug to make room for a possible guildie? is anyone surprised? and the usual practical response is where are your guildies? yeah, most mine left too, back around October. Got exotic stuff and left. waiting on WvW progression and/or more guild options in WvW (not sure what that means).

http://dulfy.net/2013/01/28/gw2-new-orr-temple-exotics/
all temple’s (Arah is not a temple) have back pieces (spineguards), but they have different stats.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Laurel_merchant
http://dulfy.net/2013/01/28/gw2-laurel-merchant-items/
more guides or more details sill come soon, I’d guess, but these have some information

A’ha. Soldier’s Spineguard: http://www.gw2db.com/items/72046-soldiers-spineguard
That’d be the one I wanted.

twice, I was beating the Veteran, with his accompanying mobs of spectral hammers, that comes up from behind Jones when he reaches Murdered Dreams waypoint, and when I and maybe 2 others finally kill them, we turn to Jones and saw nearly everyone wiped in the middle and Jones surrounded by Shades. /cry
We’ll beat him…. eventually. ty for condition tip.

Yes, it’d be great if more would spread out… or not run directly to Grenth ASAP.

I also had no damage to my gear after falling from the ceiling to my death many times (in the 8 times fighting Grenth). I dodged the little circles easy enough, some of the large swirling circles too, but other large circles, it seemed to instantly drop me with no chance to dodge.
Grats to SoR!

What stats are on the back piece?
I’ve been trying most the night vs Grenth (8 times) and we didn’t win. I tried explaining in /map about portals to get aura to damage Shades, but still few did it. I think some came just to revive after the event failed, for the daily… 0o

oooh so many red circles!! wow! red circles priority attention during fight. We got 1st wave of Shades dead, but the circles wiped so many of our large zerg. (dragonbrand)

Did the insta death happen to anyone that used the “Updated the visual appearance of the portals to Grenth’s domain and the effect applied to players who step in.” and gets what was an aura like the Shades had. I’ve not seen the new one and if the shades and aura are the same as before. You know, the old two portals that made one capable of doing damage to the Shades.
I’ve got to head there next to see these changes…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features
looking for wiki’s patch notes archive page for past changes…. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Updates

“You’ll earn these brand-new laurels as a reward for daily and monthly achievements!”
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/january-2013/
go get the goggles and jump (screaming on the way down is optional).

I don’ use MF gear or food. What I think would be a good idea, is to nuke MF gear, jewelry, & weapons from orbit (replace MF stat with some other stat; keep skin, oh wait, it’s not a unique skin), and increase MF food buffs.

The ANet definition of Rare or Exotic being .0001 or whatever number it is with that there RNG, fine. Bothering with MF to go from .0001 to .0002 is of no interest to me and seems absurd. Early on, I’d tried it with jewelry, gear, then I salvaged that gear and jewelry when a guild mate showed me some numbers.

After the new currency is added and the new way to buy class gift boxes (anxious to see what the heck the result actually are with the new system), MF is primed to be removed completely from jewelry, gear, & weapons. Before the: oh, i spent so much materials making MF you can’t render it obsolete position is made, I’ve played a few MMOs where content has been rendered obsolete (changed currencies, new gear, new stat customization system, combined PvE and PvP gear, etc). it’s to be expected. Plans don’t always go as expected, and change is inevitable. (WarhammerOnline & DCUO comes to mind; I bet there are many more that have obsoleted content)

Some say getting in a game early is more fun, while others wait for year 2 to avoid spending time on stuff that might be removed from the game. Enjoy the time spent either way = fun. I’d like to see MF gear be put into a large pile on the beach in Lion’s Arch and burnt. Those that contributed at least 6 units/items to the burn the MF gear event get a reward: pick which tier, of a stack (250) of a tier of Dust (crystalline, incandescence, etc). ;P

Persons saying they make money from buying and selling items on TP are in various threads…. 0o The hedge fund simulator has been an active mini-game for some time now.

Some are still waiting for halloween (or other event) items to become expensive on the TP too. On the next episode of Hoarders, we’ll see examples of how the inside may look in mere hours after releasing housing content. (*look up funny images of Skyrim Hoarders)

Nappychappy.7046:

The whole game is endgame and you can’t lose.

/cheer

just like Donkey Kong, PacMan, Ghost and Goblins, DCUO, Halo, Gears of War, Devil May Cry, Half Life, Left 4 dead, etc etc etc. even mmos have limited content and an intended end of game (typically the story mode/missions), yet the loot or hoarding potential can extend game interest for some players, where PvP modes extend game interest for others. Players motivate themselves beyond the intended ending of a game in many fascinating and boring ways. With the online game product, a game can get DLC or added content to extend interest in a game.

At launch is the special time for every game and getting launch populations in the starting areas will not likely ever happen again. Heck they had prelaunch days available for preorder users. The phenomenon that is calling special content of any game “end game” is a bizarre one. When I first saw this phrase being tossed around, I thought of the “congratulations” screen or animation at the end of a game… I think this phrase has been redefined many times in recent years.

If the UI is adding a LFG in game, that might help guide users in a vast land to explore in a communal way of playing. My most recent 3 alts reaching rank 50 recently had no need for others. Ok, maybe I need others @ Shatterer.

Player motivation is not a universal carrot. Not all players will be motivated by things you might be motivated by. Maybe after having 3 rank 80s, they’d rather take a learned/experienced fast route to rank 80. Cue up the Socializing aspect, which is to say raise a flag and see who salutes. Then make a guild from those saluting.

Picking one to rank up at a time might feel like a quicker progression process. I spread materials on all Crafts after launch, but quickly priorities which ones i wanted to do sooner.

Use http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crafting_material to identify the material you want to get, then click the material for source locations and go farm them. TP is an option, but not required. Also, doing 100% map completion gets you a stack of a material of that map’s rank/tier (along with other loot). http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map_completion

The last Craft I got to 400 was Leatherworking, and I did it slowly. I did it merely for the Achievement (Anet points/hero tab) of getting all Crafts to 400 and not because I wanted anything it could produce. One day, there might be new recipes added to the game and other possible motivating reasons to get all Crafts to 400. My 1st character was a Thief and have not had a medium class character since, was also an aspect to not doing Leatherworking sooner. When I made alts with Heavy class, I had motivation to get that Craft ranked up to be able to make gear for them (with particular stats).

If you don’t plan on using an alt much for a few days, park them at a jumping puzzle loot chest, and login once a day with them to get some loot they might be able to use.
I’ve been sharing materials with guild mates.

a tip, don’t be melee’n it when it dies because you could get trapped in the square on the floor that it stands on. (happened to me; had to use waypoint to get out; didn’t get to click the chest & get loot when it died)

I’ve read player say it takes a long time to get Escort Warmaster Leddron event to start (read some say “wait an hour after beating the 3 in catacombs”), and just wanted to share an unexpected experience. After doing the destroy coffins & beat the 3 (noble, wraith, abomination) in the Catacombs, I got the helicopter into the air. Went to the swamp and the anti-aircraft gun was not targetable. I thought I’d have to wait for it to become targetable/event started, but I rained fire (AOE) with my Elem on it while it was untargetable and it changed to targetable (“did that just happen?”) and the anti-aircraft event ended when the AA gun was destroyed. ….could be coincidence, but so very odd, seemed an AOE on the AA gun started the event. Warmaster showed up, with basically no wait.

If all the other events have been done and the AA gun event in the swamp is not active, try AOEing the AA gun.
Good luck with the Champ Abomination. Champ can’t jump; if looking at Champ from front when he spawns, there is a rock slab on his right, a player can jump up to the different elevation; Champ has to run around to get u; jump up, dodge down, jump up, repeat. Bought time for a player to be resed this way (was only 3 of us. we still wiped). /shakefist@ Champ

No Karma from Crafting. Do daily (hero tab/window; achievements), the jug of Karma (that you get for completing the daily achievement) is account bound, give jugs to alts to use.