Guild Wars 2

I’d venture to say that the vast majority of GW2 players, regardless of whether they’re dungeon runners, WvW’ers, RPers, PvPers or open worlders, do not contribute a lot to society outside of having a job and paying their bills. :P

I don’t think the anti-crafter in your example above would have to wait long though. The TP shows that the GW2 market is VAST indeed. If you could post buy requests at a reasonable price, you can bet a crafter would be along to fill it very shortly.

And again, this is purely for skins. Players could buy generic-skinned Exotic weapons from high-level NPC vendors for coin or karma if they’re that impatient or just don’t care about looks. At the same time, perhaps certain dungeons/Fractals/activities can also reward specific skins that can be applied to an existing weapon, which allows dungeon runners etc. to work for their own skins.

Yeah. They’re valuable only to recipe collectors like myself, basically. :P Still, I don’t mind having the actual inscriptions/insignia drop; I’m planning to use a few as part of my levelling to 500 grind.

Yeah, I still have 3 Celestial Gossamer recipes (and 3 Celestial Orichalcum recipes) stashed away on my mule on the chance ANet releases new races and I end up creating a new character(s).

Someone on this forum once made an interesting suggestion. What if mobs didn’t drop items at all? Monsters only drop coin and crafting materials; all items in the game come from either NPC vendors (karma or coin), or from PC crafters, with most of the unique skins in the game only available through PC crafting. (Instead of purchasing dungeon weapons/armor, for example, the vendors instead sell crafting recipes. So if you wanted, say, an AC greatsword, you’d need to either run the dungeon a few times to get the tokens to learn the recipe and craft it yourself, or you just buy one from another player who’s crafted one with certain stats and put it up for sale.)

So that’s what the sudden inability to access the forum was about. Possibly another DDoS attack. Waiting for more information.

Am I the only one who sees the irony in “Zhaitan” being an Arah seller? XD

But on topic, I don’t think much will be done anytime soon. ANet may have said dungeon selling is “OK”, but I think they mean that in the sense that it’s not a bannable offense. ANet has had a track record of not liking runs and skips dating all the way back to GW1; they just can’t eradicate it completely because players inevitably find a new way to cheese/skip content, and they can’t fix everything without making the game all but unenjoyable for normal players.

Ahh, fair enough. Yes, I echo that suggestion. Do a Fractal a day when you can, and supplement it with Obsidian purchased with karma.

I really do wish that SAB W2 had still allowed us to buy Obsidian with Bauble Bubbles though. I stockpiled almost 50 Obsidian from W1.

I fear everyone (when I’m not in a zerg). I’m a terrible WvW/PvP player. XD

The Collection Expanders definitely helped me with my stockpiling of Ingots/Planks for my future Ascended crafting.

Why not though? Just by doing a Level 9 Fractal a day, I can earn 2.5 Obsidian Shards (24 Relics for completion, plus a Pristine Fractal Relic that can be converted to 15 Relics) a day, plus gold, Emp Fragments and other assorted loot. Assuming a halfway decent group, you can complete that in about an hour and a bit. That’s about the same time it would take to earn the 5000 or so karma you’d need for buying the Obsidian from the Temple of Balthazar.

About a year since I first posted in this thread and my answer is still the same:

1. Tengu

2. Krait/Naga

3. Skritt

kitten . That’s some high-level roleplay right there. Kudos to the person who wrote it up.

The bags were a hilarious touch though. XD

Right. I thought maybe it was like what Chris was doing with the CDI threads where the writers/designers would answer questions as they were posted. Waiting patiently then!

I’m mostly wondering how they’ll introduce Crystalline Ore into the game. Where will it come from? What is a game aspect common to both PvE and WvW that is mostly neglected by the player base that ANet can use to encourage more participation?

I would like to see more “full clears” of dungeons, but in order for that to happen, we’d need to make it more worthwhile to players from a time and loot perspective. I’d personally look at the following:

1. Currently, most enemies in dungeons tend to be Elites, which take a fair amount of time to kill for not necessarily better loot. Perhaps ANet can look at scaling down most of these enemies to Veterans, and most of the Champions to Elites (except for named foes, which always remain Champion or higher). Legendary foes in a dungeon (like Kholer) also get bumped down to Champion status unless they are particularly noteworthy foes from a lore or gameplay perspective. The boss at the end of dungeons is always a Legendary foe.

As a side benefit, this also makes foes less dangerous so there isn’t as much focus on “killing the enemy before they kill us” strategy which is why the Zerker meta is so powerful.

2. To buff the loot from foes, Veterans now always drop a Loot Bag appropriate for their race/type, plus possible additional loot. Elites will always drop a non-Exotic Champ bag, plus possible additional loot. (These changes apply to the open world too.)

3. Players can still “skip” dungeon events (I’m talking about bonus events as well as main events like fighting Kholer) if they really want to, but if they complete all of the dungeon’s events, they get a bonus daily chest containing 1+ Rares (with a chance for it to be an Exotic), coin and tokens. This chest is given out once per path per account per day.

4. Introduce a “Dungeon Conqueror” title for killing every single enemy in a dungeon path in a single run (aka “vanquishing” for you GW1 vets. ). You have to vanquish all paths in each of the dungeons to get this title. (Since enemies in dungeons do not respawn, this should be feasible where it wouldn’t be in the open world.)

I do miss my Monk.

But she was running an awful healsmite build most of the time. XD

I killed the Karka Queen 41 times before the Gossamer recipe dropped. x_x I was THAT unlucky. I kept on getting the Orichalcum recipe instead, although I suppose I can’t complain too much given that I also got the actual inscriptions/insignias a few times which sold nicely.

But yeah, I find it extremely annoying that the recipes are account bound. No recipe should be account bound, IMO. I had guildies who kept on getting the Gossamer recipe and could only destroy them when they knew I wanted one so badly.

Back items always look too small on smaller than average characters, and on bigger than average characters. I passed on buying the Jetpack for my max-size Charr Warrior because it looked like a child’s toy on his back. :/

If I recall correctly, the first waypoint you visit in any new map will not give you any discovery credit (this is because it is automatically unlocked so you have somewhere to WP to if you get killed).

I sympathise with the OP’s frustration. I was in a similar position myself, having spent a large sum of money buying gems in anticipation of the December sales, but because I bought them at the start of the Black Friday sales, I missed the cut-off date by just 2 days.

Eventually I just bought more gems during December anyway, as I can always hold the gems in reserve for when new stuff comes out, but then again, I have the disposable income to spare. Someone who’s on a much tighter budget wouldn’t have the same luxury, and THAT’S who I’m feeling for. They might be in a position where they just can’t afford to drop another $50 on gems two months in a row, and having to miss out on the special promotion due to that must be very frustrating.

Yes, but who knows? Perhaps the PvP skins will be given a “default” stat spread, or a selectable stat spread matched to the stats offered by the dungeon merchants. And even if they don’t, as Exotic items, who’s to say they won’t be salvageable for Ectos/Dark Matter? Or maybe we could even vendor them for a decent bit of coin.

Bottom line is the devs have told us to hang onto them, so I’m just spreading the word.

I’m not seeing any answers from the devs in there so far though. Or is this just a “compile a list and the devs will address them in the next podcast” thread?

I’d be all for an Ascended food item that requires 250 Bloodstone Dust as one of the ingredients and that gives you a big boost to MF.

Don’t expect it until March at the earliest. The info from ANet has always been “once the current Living Story arc is concluded”, of which there are four more in the Scarlet story. The LS resumes on Jan 21st, so that’s 8 weeks before they’ll likely start rolling out the new major features. (And even then, don’t expect everything to be released in one big patch. EotM and Account Wide WXP will probably come first, since that’s been in the works for a while, followed by the PvP/PvE rewards merge, then other stuff.)

Of course, ANet could surprise us and release it earlier, but if you don’t get your hopes up too early, you won’t be disappointed.

^ Unfortunately that is true. Players always gravitate to whatever is the easiest method that gives the greatest rewards. If the Zerker meta is destroyed, I give it a month, maybe less, before a new meta is found.

Ideally the game would be such that all builds are equally viable, or the differences are small enough that it does not matter. This requires constant balancing and adjustment as new content is released, however. It’s a TON of work, so for most games, it never becomes more than a pipe dream.

Save those PvP gear! ANet is merging PvP and PvE rewards in the near-future, and one of the devs said to hold onto them because you’ll be able to salvage them. (No idea on what they’ll salvage into after the change, but you’ll be kicking yourself if they all salvaged into Ecto/Dark Matter/inscriptions/insignia.)

If you join the World Boss train, Dragonite Ore builds up fairly quickly. I used to have very little Dragonite Ore, then I farmed the Karka Queen something fierce while hunting for the Settler’s Gossamer Insignia recipe, and ended up with well over 1000 Dragonite Ore as a result.

That said, I agree that we really need a Mystic Forge recipe to convert excess Ascended mats of one type to another.

Ben K.6238:

Heart of the Mists is the lobby; it’s a PvE zone. (And a free ticket back to LA, too.)

For anyone who’d like to get the world completion achievement, but really doesn’t like the idea of fighting players in WvW, you may be able to get some assistance from your server community.
For players on my server, Stormbluff Isle, there is a community website at http://www.stormbluffisle.com/ – you can ask for assistance on map completion in the WvW forums. We have quite a lot of PvE/WvW crossover guilds who can help out with map completion and the WvW jumping puzzles as well. It will take repeated visits as we never own the whole map all at once anymore, but you don’t have to do any PvP at all if you don’t want to. Got plenty of experienced WvW players and scouts who can keep you well clear of the trouble spots.

Oh, I know. But you can be certain that ANet wouldn’t just stop at making Heart of the Mists the only PvP mapping zone if they went ahead with that change. If they’re serious about using world completion to get people trying PvP, they’d definitely include points in actual PvP maps as well.

For anybody who’s mapping as well, I agree that following the zerg as it captures points is the easiest way to map. If you’re starting out, whenever you get a map of a different colour, map the following areas:

1. On your home Borderland map, everything up to and including the two Keeps in the Bay and Hills areas, but leaving stuff south of there.

2. On enemy Borderland maps, map the sections up to and including the Keep in the Bay/Hills area closer to your spawn point, if possible. Map the southern Camp and its environs if the opportunity presents itself.

3. In Eternal Battlegrounds, stick to mapping the areas closest to your Keep (the two camps and 4 Towers, along with the Mercenary Camp and skill point closest to your area). If your server manages to capture Stonemist Castle, get in there and map the 3 gates and grab the skill point and Vista while you have the opportunity. SMC tends to flip fairly regularly from my experience, so don’t dawdle!

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Konig Des Todes.2086:

• Final Question: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen tengu?

Do you mean a Canthan tengu or a Tyrian tengu?

Dang it, I wanted Anet to respond with that! Curses!

(for those who couldn’t figure it out, that was a joke)

We know.

But obviously, the answer is 0. Tengu are flightless birds.

I like the idea of having all fields getting blasted at the same time, but it might possibly be too powerful (especially so in WvW with stacking).

Everquest 1 or 2? (I can’t believe that EQ 1 is STILL going. XD)

I want them to fix River Drakes so they look like ACTUAL River Drakes and not Rock Drakes. >.<

I agree that something should be done to address the “DPS IS KING” meta, although like some have suggested, it should be done in a way that makes the other builds more viable, rather than just a flat-out nerf of the Zerker build (although some nerfs will probably be unavoidable).

As someone with MF now around 125%, I CAN say that I’ve noticed a significant increase in the number of Rares I’m getting from kills than when I had 0% MF last year.

There’s actually some evidence to support that now, because the message Marjory received from E is awfully similar to Evon’s warning that LA may be under threat. Still, I have my doubts. Evon’s not a Mesmer, and you’d think that Marjory would have easily known that it was a Charr she met in her short story if Evon wasn’t able to disguise himself as a non-Charr.

I do both; one person pulls the striker towards the boss, the others slowly move the boss towards the striker. The problem with the Clockheart is that he frequently gets hung up on attacking one player or throwing gears if too many players get too far away from him, so to avoid him spawning more gears than necessary, the Clockheart doesn’t move very much. It’s fairly easy to pull the striker towards the boss if only one person aggroed him; once you’re close enough, use Push/Pull skills to get him next to the boss and kill him.

I dunno if Ascended cooking will give food recipes that are greater in power than what we have at 400. We didn’t see Ascended potions with r500 Artificer, for example. I think it’s more likely that r400+ dishes will be the same as 400 ones, but they have a greater duration.

Another possibility is new dye recipes that give us possible drops of the exclusive colours from the Flame & Frost, Toxic etc. dye sets.

As a PvE’er who dislikes PvP, I’m kinda annoyed at ANet’s insistence on trying to push more people to do WvW or PvP (they wanted to add the Heart of the Mists for World Completion too!) I don’t particularly like fighting other players (aside from Activities like Keg Brawl or Southsun Survival), and I dislike having to constantly look over my shoulder when I’m mapping in hostile territory. It’s always a feeling of relief when I’m done and I can return to the safety of my Keep, which I don’t think is the experience ANet is hoping I would get from WvW.

That said, from a design perspective, I can totally understand why they’re doing it. Having more players doing more aspects of the game promotes game longevity, especially since PvP is a much bigger hook to keep players playing than PvE content is. There’s also the fact that designers take pride in their work and having a large segment of your game ignored by the majority of players must feel awful. (I’m thinking primarily of the sPvP segment, which I hear is practically deserted compared to PvE or even WvW.)

I just think there’s better ways to go about it. I think that splitting off PvE and WvW/PvP map completion would be a good first step. Why not have Tyria Map Completion and The Mists Map Completion as separate achievements? That way, if PvE completionists want to complete it without setting foot into WvW or PvP, they can, and likewise the WvW/PvP players who don’t want to do PvE can also get their bit done. You get one Gift of Exploration for completing either, so at the end of the day, you still get two Gifts.

Personally I’m leaning towards “No”, as I’ve opened probably over 1000 Giant Gifts by now and have not seen either of the Ascended backpiece recipes or the Unbreakable Bell. The chances of them dropping is crazily small.

By all means, open up any Gifts you get through normal play and hope you get lucky, but don’t buy the Gifts in an attempt to beat the RNG game. That only results in poverty and sadness.

The Infinirarium is, although it’ll take you a long time trying to do it solo.

Toypocalypse I would say no. The Toys come thick and fast in the later waves, and it’s unlikely you’ll be able to get enough defences up and repaired fast enough to hold them off. Especially when Toxx shows up.

The devs have also hinted that they’re making changes to the Living Story “platform”. I’m personally hoping that they’re implementing a sort of “Replay past events” NPC that you can talk to and replay past Living Story content (mainly talking about dungeon and story instances here). This would enable newer players as well as older players who would like to re-experience past adventures to see it all first-hand.

Rox also has special dialogue if you’re a Charr, and you get some different responses if you’re a Sylvari while talking to Kasmeer, and talking to Marjory as a Norn.

I believe the Eztitl Stuffed Mushroom has the same bug.

That said, has anyone actually checked to see whether their stats DID go up after a kill? (That is, the display buff isn’t showing up, but the bonus is correctly being given.)

I agree that something needs to be done about the gold whisper bots (been getting my share of them too, though not as often as you), but the part about “no honest player is spending hours in the Tutorial” is perhaps a bit unfair. There are players who basically parked one character in the Tutorial for whatever reason, usually to get a Legendary Defender of Shaemoor" etc. where they reach Level 80 without ever having left the Tutorial.

Plus if you don’t want to deal with the rabbits, you can just kill the minotaurs N of the Heart for credit.

It is the Dead End bar in Divinity’s Reach, a separate instance.

I never gloat over killing another player. Well, almost. The one (and so far only) occasion I’ve done so was when I was in Obsidian Sanctum doing the JP. Ran into two FA players from the same guild at the section just before the well. They attacked me as soon as I got close, without any provocation. Well, OK. Maybe they thought they’d better get in the first attack in case I was going to backstab them.

I respawned, waited about 5 minutes for them to get further ahead in the JP, then started the run again. Turns out they decided to camp on the trap triggers in the section after the well. Despite ignoring them and doing my best to bypass them with mobility skills, they knocked me off the walls to my death.

Respawn again. I notice a Ranger from my server heading into the JP, so I decided I’d better follow. Sure enough, the two FA players are still there, and also attacking the Ranger while she was in a bad spot to defend herself. She gets downed and almost killed, but her pet manages to keep her alive. Then, one of the FA players makes the mistake of jumping down to try and finish her off. Since the FA players show no signs of being peaceful, I join the battle and down and stomp the second player. The Ranger and I then head back up the stairs to jump again, and the first FA player (a Thief) jumps down to try and gank me from behind. He fails and tries to run when the Ranger turns back to help me, but some snares ensure he can’t escape his coming punishment.

After we stomped him, I couldn’t resist spamming /laugh a few times. Serves him right for trying to slaughter peaceful, lone players. Not so tough once the odds and the terrain don’t favour you, huh?

As an addendum, we ran into a Maguuma player in the dark room afterwards. He was peaceful, so we let him be. :P (He was probably lucky that the FA pair didn’t catch up to him and kill him too.)

Hmm? I thought it did cause a small uptick in Charged Lodestone prices shortly after release (but it’s since corrected back down again). I haven’t been following Lodestones very closely though.

I once made a suggestion that the Birthday Gifts should drop guaranteed Scraps. (I would have said Tickets, but given the sheer amount of characters in the game, that would probably crash the market overnight.)