Guild Wars 2

Yep, they got added in a later update. I’m not really sure if I like them or not. They add to the retro feel, but they’re kind of annoying after a while.

MaideN.3284:

been staring at this for almost 30min now.. still can’t decide
the black hair under the blonde ones by the ears.. seems strange XD

Duh, it’s because Princess Miya dyes her hair! She’s not a natural blonde. Enough with the crazy conspiracy theories!

Josh: “I’ll see if I can break that up a bit and compensate by getting some super annoying monkeys in there.”

… I hope in that case that there’s some Monkey King boss that we can beat the snot out of as a form of catharsis. :P

Yeah, Josh confirmed that it definitely won’t be April, and definitely not May either, but after that is a possibility.

Initial reports claimed that the slingshot was not needed for the achievement, but it makes more sense if it was. The last item I got was Moto’s Breath, and I’d purchased the slingshot before that, but I don’t remember if buying the slingshot increased the count by 1.

One thing I really like about dulfy’s guide is that in areas with multiple baubles, it tells you how many you need to collect in that area. Thus, I made a note of how many baubles I had before starting that area and made sure my bauble count had gone up by the right amount before moving on. (It helps to go through and kill enemies first so they don’t screw up your count.)

DHBM.7652:

I think your all forgetting about those bloody 8bit pets from the BLTP. i want to murder every single person that has one.

My experiences in the SAB have traumatised me to the point where the sound the Super Monkeys make now send me into a genocidal rage.

MUST. KILL. ALL. MONKEYS!!!

emikochan.8504:

falling off the metrica jumping puzzle and it not resetting you properly must be pretty high :p

That happened to me last weekend. It was so high that the game didn’t even display it and just went from full health to dead without the courtesy of a death animation. :P

Note that you actually get slightly more height during a vertical jump than a running one. For some jumps, you actually need to stand still, jump straight up, and then tap W to move forward onto the next platform.

The platforms themselves can also be slightly higher/lower in certain spots. Some experimentation may be needed to determine what’s the best point to jump onto a platform.

My personal stance is that while it may be aggravating for people reading the chat, it’s not spam any more than the cascade of non-stop “WTB/WTS” messages in Kamadan was spam. Annoying and headache-inducing, yes, but not technically spam.

You’re right in that the polite thing to do would be for the person giving away gifts to ask people to whisper them instead, and that is something I would urge donors to consider. However, the donor can’t control what other players do, and reporting them for it is unfair.

At any rate, if the speed of the map chat is getting annoying, there’s always the option to temporarily disable Map chat in your chat window.

I was under the assumption he was pegging the vendor price of the finished item to be the total of the vendor prices for the individual components, plus 5%. It wasn’t based on the TP value of components/items at all.

That said, given the current prices of items made with Fine materials, you would still be losing money under this proposition because the value of Fine mats is so much higher than their vendor price. (Tiny Claws are 3c, for instance, but they are currently selling for about 28c on the TP, almost ten times the vendor price. If you made a Jute Insignia and vendored it under Arkham’s proposal, it would net you a measly 8 copper after taxes. If you’d sold the Bolt of Jute and the 3 Tiny Claws on the TP, you’d get back around 1 silver.)

Moto’s lips are bigger than Miya’s. It’s true! They are different people!

Well, we have conflicting accounts from different people here. What we need is more confirmations from different people about whether Laurels can indeed go over 100. I’d like to know if this is the case too.

If there is a cap, it won’t really bother me too much. I can buy Infusions for future use when I start nearing the cap, or just spend it on Unid’ed Dyes or T6 Mat Bags.

@Orc Slayer: That’s exactly what Arkham’s proposal was trying to address, the fact that most finished items sell for less than the cost of the component items on the TP. I personally don’t believe that would be an issue as market forces would correct the price of the items on the TP to match pretty quickly. If one can earn more money selling an item to a vendor rather than on the TP, people would do so. Supply drops, forcing people who want the finished item to offer more for it, until the price one can earn for a Gold Ingot on the TP is more than what they can get for at the vendor.

The bigger problem I feel this would lead to is that it would destroy the market for finished goods, while massively increasing demand for raw materials. Why bother buying the finished item from someone else if you can just make it yourself?

As others have said, the name sounds Ascalonian, so perhaps his father’s line comes from Ascalon. He may have been one of the early settlers in Kryta, and from there his family intermarried with the local Krytans, resulting in his current skin tone.

Obsidian.1328:

And where does it say the last Khan-Ur was assassinated by a human? Or that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman for that matter?

It was never stated that the last Khan-Ur was a shaman, so you’re right there. It was also never explicitly stated that the Khan-Ur was assassinated by humans, but it just seems VERY convenient that the Khan-Ur would die “mysteriously” (actual words from the Movement of the World article) when he was gearing up the Charr legions for a mass invasion to kick the humans out of Ascalon back when they first arrived.

That threw the four Legions into vicious infighting, and the humans used that time to build the Great Wall of Ascalon. If the Khan-Ur had managed to attack before the humans had time to construct it, they would probably have all been swept back into the Shiverpeaks/Kryta.

So yeah, no proof, but it just seems awfully convenient timing.

I don’t really mind. With 5 characters to play, I generally appreciate the fact that the Living World content is something I can finish in a day or two and then get back to adventuring throughout the world.

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“LAB – ADMIT ONE”

Surprised nobody’s mentioned the cheapest, simplest method yet.

1. Go to any Master Chef in a city.
2. Buy Rice in Bulk for 49 karma.
3. Eat all 25 Rice Balls inside.
4. Achievement done!

Yep, the Monthly this time around seems to want 12 unique jumping puzzles, and it’s account wide, so you can’t just do the 3 LA JP’s on 4 different characters. I’ve gotten 10 done so far, just need 2 more.

While your suggestion seems reasonable, on a macro-level I think this would just end up causing runaway inflation. John Smith or the other economic heads here could probably give more details about it, as I don’t have any economics training.

In any case, it seems to me that Crafting in GW2 was not designed to be a way for players to earn money. Rather, it is a mini-game that allows people to turn materials (and therefore money) into XP. It also appeals to the players, like me, who enjoy the feeling of making something to use myself. The knowledge that you can just make what you need without having to rely on the TP or other players is quite gratifying and a reward in itself.

What I would like to see is the ability for crafters to make their own Ascended items. This could be done via new Ascended tier recipes, or perhaps via the Mystic Forge. For example, you put into the MF:

- Your Exotic item
- 50 Vials of Condensed Mist Essence/10 Globs of Coagulated Mist Essence
- 10 Philosopher’s Stones/3 Crystals
- 1 Bottle of Elonian Wine

And the Mystic Forge spits out an Ascended version of the same Exotic item. Like all Ascended items, the stats on the item are now fixed and can’t be changed, so you need to make sure that the item you want to Ascend is correct and properly runed/sigil’ed in every aspect.

As a final step, make it so you can trade in Laurels for Vials/Globs of Mist Essence, so that players who don’t like to do Fractals can obtain Mist Essence without needing to do so.

On a personal level, I despise the concept of flipping because it’s essentially earning money while producing nothing of value yourself. In the real world, where supplies, goods and resources are finite, I regard market flippers/speculators as essentially parasites on the world’s economy.

However, in a virtual economy like GW2, I concede that it does little enough real harm, mostly because unlike the real world, where hoarding of resources essentially concentrates a limited supply in the hands of a few, there is nothing stopping other players in GW2 from just going out and creating their own supply from nothing by farming monsters/dungeons. This gives players the power to break monopolies whenever they wish, something which can’t always be done in real world markets.

Furthermore, in-game wealth can only do so much. In the real world, having wealth buys you influence and power. You can corrupt lawful institutions, bribe politicians, secure favourable treatment for you and your clique at the expense of others etc. But you can’t do any of that in GW2. Having 5000 gold in your bank isn’t going to make ANet treat you any different than Joe Newbie who just started his level 1 Guardian yesterday. Sure, you can buy one of every single Legendary and show off in Lion’s Arch all day, but that doesn’t affect anybody else’s game play in the slightest.

I decided to sell the Super Shield skin I was lucky enough to get on a run. Originally I’d planned to hang onto it for a while before selling it after appreciation, but after following the discussion in the SAB thread, here’s my reasons why:

1. Owing to the immense popularity and positive reception the SAB has received, Josh Foreman has stated that, while the SAB will disappear after April, it will return again in the future with more levels and, more importantly, more rewards. (No word on whether the SAB will be here to stay on its subsequent appearance.)

2. This means that there will be opportunities again in the future for people to farm the current Super skins again, and it’s likely that with the release of additional reward skins, demand for the current skins will drop.

3. By the time the SAB makes its return, it’s also likely that everyone who wanted a Super Greatsword etc. already has it. Thus, demand is likely to never again be as strong as it is now.

With all of the above in mind, I decided that the 9 or so gold I could get for the Shield now was a good enough return, and opted to sell now rather than risk demand (and prices) plummeting in the future.

The only thing I will add to this discussion that I believe ANet SHOULD have made the Fused weapon skins tradable. If you were a player who only has a Warrior, and you happened to get a Fused Staff skin from a chest, you now have a skin which others may want, but is completely useless to you.

If even Legendaries can be purchased on the TP, I see no reason why Fused skins shouldn’t be.

I don’t really remember how I beat this one on my Asura Ele… I probably did so by bringing Glyph of Lesser Elementals and letting the Elemental tank for me while I spammed as much AoE as I could to kill off all the lesser mobs, along with throwing up Geyser and Healing Rain to keep my Elemental and Shodd alive. (Shodd is surprisingly tanky!)

CHIPS.6018:

Anyone interested in playing an new insectoid race?

I enjoy playing exotic races, so yes, I would. (One of my top picks for a playable race are the Krait, for example.) Then again, I know I’m in the minority here. Most people want nothing to do with insects or insectoids.

We’ll probably see the next phase of F&F content come around 23/24 of April.

Those are probably bugged instances of enemies spawning at a higher level than they’re supposed to. Report those if you find it.

The Veteran Molten Bruisers are surprisingly tough for Veterans, however. They’re probably easily handled by a level 80 in Exotic gear, even downscaled, but they’re extremely dangerous to take on solo if you’re not one of those. I managed to kill one and his adds on my level 80 Warrior (with very sub-par gear), but I got downed once and had to use Vengeance to get myself up. (Luckily, there was another mob near death and I had the Sweet Revenge trait.)

Azure Prower.8701:

It does get irritating when you open like 200ish chests and only get one skin out of them whilst some one waltzes into the SAB and loots 10 chests and gets like 8 skins.

Almost as annoying as that guy who tries out the Mystic Forge for the very first time, chucks in 4 Rare Greatswords, and gets Dusk.

EDIT: No, that was not me. It was just a hypothetical example.

The health of the cages needs to scale, similar to King Toad, but for the most part they’re brain-dead easy. Just run around it in a circle while auto-attacking.

A pity that it’s fairly useless as a weapon. It only fires in a straight line directly ahead on your Y-axis, which means you can’t stand on a platform higher/lower than your enemy and kill them from a distance. I know it was probably done as part of that “retro” game feel, but I was so hoping to use the slingshot as my answer to those stupid Monkeys, always standing somewhere I can’t reach and throwing coconuts at me and laughing, knowing that I can’t retaliate… :P

Those mushrooms leading up to the top of the hollow trunk can be a pain. They’re spaced far enough apart that you need forward momentum in order to get enough distance out of the jump to land on the next one.

What I do is position myself so that I’m jumping directly in the center of the mushroom. I orient myself to face the next mushroom, wait until I land on my current mushroom from a bounce, then start running forward in the split second before the mushroom launches me again. This will sometimes look like you’re about to run right off the edge of the first mushroom, but it will still launch you upwards with enough speed and trajectory to get to the second mushroom.

Yep. It’s a known bug. It occurs if you exit SAB while the camera is zoomed out while fighting the boss at the end of the zone. Solution is to log out of GW2 and log back in. Annoying, but at least the fix is easy.

It’s possible that other guides may be incomplete. I recommend dulfy’s guide because that’s the one I used and I can verify its accuracy. We can’t rule out the possibility that there may indeed be a bug that’s preventing people from getting the achievement though. Xrider, did you at any point throughout your multiple attempts:

a) lose all your lives and have to use a Continue Coin?

b) exit out to Rata Sum and then rejoin the instance (if you were in a group)?

I believe in the latter case, it invalidates your achievement because it has to be achieved in a single run through of a Zone without quitting the instance. However, there may be a bug where if this occurs once, it permanently stops you from being able to complete the achievement. Not saying that this is what happened, but it’s a possibility (it’s happened in the past with some other achievements).

If that doesn’t work, you can also hope that Gaile will notice this thread and flag it for further review. Several other people who were wrongfully suspended/banned due to false positives have managed to get their accounts back this way. (She’s really good about that. )

Rafujin.1498:

just received one too. i wonder how they got my email :/

Do you receive similar phishing messages regarding selling WoW/Diablo 3/Runescape accounts? If so, that means your e-mail address is basically on a spam list that’s sold from one hacker to another. These are just giant databases of e-mail addresses that have been harvested from hacked websites/forums in the past. The hackers know that someone who plays an MMO is likely to go on to play more MMOs in the future, so they just spam these e-mail addresses with fake warnings for a variety of games in the hopes that someone will bite.

If you just ignore/block the spam messages, eventually they’ll stop coming because the hackers occasionally prune the databases to remove listings that bounce back or receive no responses. Until they sell the list to a new hacker and the whole process starts over.

lunawisp.2378:

I’m not so sure. They seem to have enormous pools of health and hit harder than ‘normal’ mobs. Took my lvl 70 ranger nearly 60 hits to take down an average minion in these instances. The mobs, on the other hand, take half her health with a single hit. Without the pets and the friendly npc’s tanking while I sit there mindless plinking away with the shortbow, this would be a real pain in the neck.

What’s your gear quality like? Level scaling is also affected by the quality of your equipment; for example, a level 10 character with level 10 gear upscaled to 80 will be on par with a level 80 character wearing level 80 gear, but a level 60 character wearing level 30 gear upscaled to 80 would find themselves with weaker stats than the level 10, because the game is assuming that your gear is level appropriate and scaling you appropriately.

I have level 80 characters that are still using level 35 Rares (long story), and I did notice a definite drop in my characters’ power during the instances, although I was still able to solo them with some careful strategy.

Only the Rare versions that drop from the Glorious Chests in the SAB are tradable. The Masterwork versions that you buy from Moto with Bauble Bubbles are account bound. Both versions of the skins look identical, so the Rare versions are only for players who aren’t able to get 50 Bubbles for themselves or just hate jumping puzzles.

That particular boss knocks down with the attacks where he throws slow-moving flame jets at you. His normal attacks, which look like the sonic periscope blasts, don’t knock you down. However, the flame jets are kinda unpredictable in that I’ve been knocked over by jets that had already passed me or that I wasn’t struck by. Lag may have been a factor, but I’m not sure.

Ouch… That has to hurt. I spent almost 2 hours in Zone 3 last night carefully collecting all the baubles; if I didn’t get the achievement after that, I would be shattered. If both you and your friend grabbed the exact same baubles each time and he got the achievement while you didn’t, something is definitely bugged.

Just to be on the safe side though, you aren’t by any chance looking at the incorrect achievement? Like, you actually need Associate/Bachelor of Baubles but you’re thinking it’s Master of Baubles?

Orc Slayer.2780:

I currently only own the servers Kaineng, TC and FA. My tp taxes come in at a regular basis, but I make about forty thousand gold every half hour.

So those rumors about the Xunlai guild controlling the markets are true!

Uhh, what Zone 3 achievement? If you’re talking about the “Minor in Immortality” or “Minor in Fortitude” achievements, you only need to complete it once in any Zone.

Or are you talking about the Scholar achievement? For that one, you need to complete it in Normal mode. Make sure that you don’t die after the screen fades to black; this can happen in Zones 2 and 3 where you’re standing on a lilypad or the rainbow bridge. (The rainbow bridge disappears and you can hear yourself fall into the poison water and take damage while the progress map is displaying.)

Bong.6247:

Josh Foreman.8250:

We don’t have any reason to use a different currency in future expansions. I’m certainly hoarding some bbs myself.

It means that current Super Weapon Skins will be available to get from vendors permanently, not only in april? I’d really like to know this, thanks in advance.

What Josh means is that while the SAB (and Moto) will disappear after April, the SAB will most likely return at some point in the future with new levels and new rewards. These new rewards will likely continue to use Baubles as a reward currency, so you can hang on to any baubles you find now for future use.

I think the Bone Minions in GW2 are a lot cuter(?) than their GW1 counterparts, although I admit I do miss the look of the Bone Horrors and Bone Fiends from GW1. The Bone Fiends, in particular; I’m not really a fan of the “flayed devourer” look of the GW2 version.

I run a pure Minions build with Scepter/Focus as my primary weapon set. I’ve picked up the traits where minions siphon health and transfer it to you; coupled with Bloodthirst, Parasitic Bond and my Blood Fiend, I have an incredible amount of sustained health gain as long as my minion army is alive. This means that I can run right into melee and lure enemies into attacking ME and still tank quite well (the fact that I have 30 Death Magic doesn’t hurt either). My minions provide direct damage, while I supplement with condition damage. Everything dies quickly, and if things do look like they’re going poorly, you can always leave your minions behind to distract enemies while you retreat.

Personally I feel it is one of those “not an exploit, but still not cool” activities. You’re clearly bypassing the designer’s intent in how the dungeon was supposed to work, although since you still need to run through the dungeon each time to get the baubles, it’s not a true exploit as you have to put in the time and effort of completion. Functionally it’s no different from someone who has 10 characters and studiously does the SAB on each every day.

Me too! I love the SAB and do at least one run through it each day. I can’t wait to continue my adventures in 8-bit glory and rescue Princess Miya from that dastardly Lord Vanquish!

The Super Adventure Box is staying for the month of April in its current form. After that, it will be removed, but it will return at some point again in the future with more skins and more levels.

All of my runs have been in groups. I’ve only done solo runs in Infantile mode for completing the achievements.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/sab/Super-Adventure-Box-Soundtrack/first#post1763664

Download the 8-bit Menu Track. Listen to your heart’s content.