Guild Wars 2

LordByron.8369:

Totaly confused by the blog.

If anyone can answer, i’d have 3 questions:

1) can i equip minis from the collection without using inventory space?

2) can i use the same mini on different characters without buying more than 1?

3) will it stay equipped after i change map/istance/on Death ?

Thank you

1. Yes. You can now “equip” a miniature from your Wardrobe.

2. Yes. All miniatures can now be unlocked for your account. This destroys the mini, but it unlocks it in your Wardrobe and can subsequently be equipped by any character on your account.

3. Yes. Once equipped, the minipet will be automatically displayed whenever you enter a new map. It will continue to be displayed until you unequip it. Presumably it persists even through death.

No information on whether this means that all miniatures can now swim.

Err, what announcement? I didn’t see anything relating to “stacking” for minipets in yesterday’s feature update.

Random inspiration; what if Rangers got “I Will Avenge You!” as a new shout that gives you massive bonuses if your pet is dead?

As I said, I’m one lazy skritt. I find having to constantly carry a “spare” tool and revisit merchants to restock to be tiresome and a waste of my time. (And because I do a LOT of harvesting, this happens very frequently.)

I’d rather pay a premium to do it once and then never bother with it again.

Ayrilana.1396:

So essentially you get achievements for being a hoarder?

Yep. And it sure makes this old hoarder happy.

And from ANet’s side, it gives players more hooks to keep them playing, and will help increase demand for mats.

Well, hang onto them for now. “Trading 2.0” is coming tomorrow, and for all we know ANet might loosen the restrictions on some account bound items.

I always carry my Rifle in my secondary slot, except when I’m messing around in low-level maps, then I bring out my Hammer to lolsmash everything. You never know when you’ll need a ranged weapon.

It was fixed at one point though, so I wonder what change they made since then that broke it again…

Nomad’s might be funny just to see how tanky bunker builds can get. XD

Mmm, I dunno about that. Pre-Searing holds a special place in my memories for me, but I think that Shing Jea wins the award for most beautiful region in my books. (Factions, in general, is the most beautiful of the three campaigns, I believe.)

Officially, the victor in WvW is whoever has the highest score by the end of the week.

Personally? As long as you’re having fun in WvW, you’re “winning”.

Actually, Argon made a good point. It could result in players deliberately exploiting the system to duplicate items. (Even non-major stuff can get pretty pricey, like Pots of Lemongrass Poultry Soup. Or Foxfire.) And if the system got adjusted so it only gave you trash and blues, then… what’s the point?

So yeah, it’s not gonna happen.

But what if… the Thief was the Jackalope all along?! :O

^ That too. Salvaging Ectos also gives WAY more luck than salvaging blues and greens do. Of course, you’ll have to weigh that against what you might have wanted to use the Ectos for (crafting, selling etc.)

Considering they were once a subterranean race, I’m guessing the Asura probably lived on a diet of fungi, lichens, insects and other subterranean foods before they came to the surface. Since their arrival on the surface, they’ve expanded their diet to eat basically what humans and other races eat.

If that’s meant to be Eir though, that kodan is HUGE. O.o In-game, the kodan aren’t much bigger than the Norn.

I can’t say for certain, but I think the devs stated that the kit quality had no effect on the quality and number of Essence of Luck being returned.

Someone like Mystic or Wanze (who do a lot of salvaging) may be able to verify that.

I PUG dungeons and Fractals ALL the time. (Sadly, my guild tends to do those at times that aren’t convenient for me. )

My results have been 70% average, 25% awesome, and 5% horror stories.

Yeah, but why waste my Mystic Coins and Luck Essences when I still have a spare 5000 Bloodstone Dust on my mule?

For the record, I’m also up to 178 Bloodstone Bricks. I will need 203 for all my Ascended crafting, but I will craft 250 to account for any incidental craftings like the Spinal Blades or Mawdrey into the future.

And on a similar stat request, would you be able to divulge how much gold was sucked out of the economy when it was announced the price of Commander’s Compendiums would be rising to 300g, John?

Congrats on winning the lottery. Spend your money wisely.

Yeah, I calculated that I still need 1500 Bloodstone Dust to finish off Mawdrey. Ever since reaching 450, I’ve been slowly refining Bloodstone Dust into Bricks (along with various other T7 mats) in a slow climb to 475. (I’ll need a LOT of T7 mats to fully outfit my 5 characters with Ascended gear, so none of this is being wasted.)

Now I have to remind myself to keep aside some of my Bloodstone Dust stockpile for Mawdrey and not just burn through it every day.

It can be worth it for some.

But for me, I just parked a mule in Divinity’s Reach to harvest all that stuff daily.

I can understand the reasoning behind that, but no need to feel sorry for me. I bought the extra sets fully aware that it was a terrible financial decision (especially once the tools became account bound). But for me, the convenience of not having to manually swap the tools between my 5 characters was worth it. (I’m one lazy skritt. XD)

Of course, if the tools gained that extra convenience of being account wide, then the convenience I paid for is gone and I’d be looking for my refund.

It USED to be though. I wonder why ANet pulled it. :/

If you visit the high end maps frequently enough, you’ll become familiar with the possible spawn points of T6 nodes. For example, in Southsun Cove, I know all the possible spawn locations of Ancient Wood and Orichalcum, so every time I visit there for Karka Queen, I check all those spots.

Mystic.5934:

yet another example of why all learned recipes should be account-bound.
currently, all recipes are NOT account unlocks – they are soulbound. so your huntsman charater does know the recipe to make the dagger, he just can’t use it unless he becomes a weaponsmith.

I wouldn’t mind this. But I’d also be happy with a compromise where if a character tries to learn a recipe that he is not capable of using (either he doesn’t have ranks in the crafting discipline, or he has insufficient ranks), a window pops up saying, “You do not have enough ranks in Weaponsmith to use this recipe. Are you sure you want to learn it?”

It would just be a good safety net to help catch accidental uses.

Yes, they are permanent additions to the game.

Which is why their price will only continue to fall as time goes on. Supply will keep on being injected into the economy, but the vast majority of players are only ever going to craft Mawdrey once (for the skin, and for Mawdrey II).

Rares do not, and never have, given Essences of Luck. They only drop from blues and greens.

“Fractal Weapon Collector.”

I can just imagine the tears now. XD

Anyway, I greeted this announcement with a mixture of great excitement and dread. On the one hand, I’m already a collector, and it has been one of my goals to slowly unlock all the dungeon armor and weapons. (I’ve already completed numerous weapon sets, such as the various Cultural weapons below T3, all the Beaded weapons, the Lionguard weapons, Ebon Vanguard weapons etc.) So, it’ll be nice to get some extra rewards on top of the collecting satisfaction.

On the other hand, I’m already addicted enough to this game as it is. >.> More goals = more time sinks. My backlog of “other games to play” is going to get even longer!

Chris’s response makes it pretty clear that while selling is “allowed”, it’s not something they support or endorse. Any complaints regarding scamming or trolling involving sold runs is likely to be treated as a very low priority, if they address it at all. Sell/buy runs at your own risk.

Wurm is almost impossible to do without an organised group using voice comms. (Or if you get lucky and happen to be in a map being used by one of these groups.) Rhiannon’s post above has some excellent links to get you started.

Well, with the new Collection achievements, it’s possible that we’ll get a Fractal Weapon Collection achievement as well. If it comes in, we’ll have a stronger case to argue with ANet for a more reliable way of getting specific Fractal weapons.

That’s one thing I really liked about the way you convince Knut Whitebear at the Summit, actually. If you’re a Norn, you can remind him of what it truly means to be Norn; taking on what seems like impossible challenges, all for the chance to gain immortal glory, even if it means your death. (For if you fail, at least your attempt too will go down in legend.) For too long, the Norn have taken a more pragmatic, cautious approach, hunkering down and fighting off the Svanir and Icebrood. It’s time for them to live life on the edge again, savoring each moment of life as if it could be your last.

For we are Norn. And that is the Norn way.

Ehhh, I find him a bit of a wearisome gag that’s overstayed his welcome, in my opinion. >.> I don’t dislike him, but he’s obviously there for comic relief and I think shoehorning him into a prominent role in the story would detract from the impact of Mordremoth’s attacks.

I have my own internal story of my characters forming their own little adventuring band (now alongside the Biconics), and while they generally still oppose the Dragons and are “heroic”, their motivations can be quite varied.

I think the new ones are generally well balanced.

- Rustbucket is pretty straightforward.

- Defend the camp from Skritt Thieves may need a bit of tweaking, as it scales up rapidly. When you have upscaled Champion Skritt Thieves, it’s pretty dang hard to kill them before they escape with the supplies. Maybe cap their upscaling to be Elites at most.

- Escort Ewan is fine.

- Gather Beetle Remains for Soup is fine, once players learn how to deal with Beetles.

- Experimental Inquest Suit is fine.

- The Giant Beetle event during the sandstorm is also fine, once players learn how to stand in front of it. However, perhaps it should spawn a bit earlier, as it’s generally ignored by players due to its late appearance (they’re all already busy doing another event).

Yeah, that information on the wiki is outdated, but no harm done. During the Tower of Nightmares LS chapter, you could indeed find Toxic Seedlings throughout many different maps, but after the chapter concluded, they are now only found in Kessex Hills (natively), and in a handful of maps with Toxic Offshoot events (the event must be completed before ONE Seedling spawns).

I do sometimes get that feeling too. I don’t believe it was intentional, although I am a bit surprised by it considering one of the biggest lessons ANet learned in GW1 was how many, many, MANY players hated seeing Ascalon get destroyed in the Searing, and some players refused to leave Pre-Searing entirely.

I suppose minor destruction and changes are acceptable, if they can be restored to their former glory.

Tootsie has always been pretty tough for a Champion. I wouldn’t try killing her with any less than 5 people, but she scales up pretty dang high if you have more than 10 people.

Hmm, good point KOPPER. I’d love to see Polymock get introduced as a new activity, but with minis now being a fairly hard to acquire commodity, the odds of them being used as polymock pieces is low indeed.

They could easily fix that by adding a couple of Toxic Seedling nodes to every open world map. (Lore explanation: “The Tower of Nightmare’s destruction blew millions of spores far and wide, some of which are only just beginning to germinate after being carried on the winds halfway across the world.”)

It might even increase supply of Toxic Spores since not many people generally go to Kessex Hills.

It’s come back multiple times now, so odds are good that it will be back sometime. Just be patient and keep an eye out.

Well, technically the Tengu don’t have wings either. Their wings are their arms.

Interesting. Thanks for crunching the numbers, Wanze.

It’s also worth mentioning that Mawdrey will also require players to do the relevant Living Story chapters and run around collecting ingredients. (If they come in late and have to purchase the LS chapters for 200 gems apiece, that would be a major price hike too.)

You sure that’s not a centaur fighting a Norn in Raven Form?

Nah, that wasn’t us. We did cap their Keep and defended it for the longest time, which eventually caused a large well-known guild from Blackgate to show up en masse to try and dislodge us. (They succeeded in the end through sheer numbers and attrition, but it was rather hilarious seeing them so determined to get their EotM keep back.)

Zealot’s/Keeper’s stat recipes was a special drop from the Marionette boss battle some months ago. You’ll need to purchase the specific Keeper’s Warfists recipe from the TP.

Unfortunately, the achievement is bit misleading. What it actually wants you to do is have all 49 Set 1 miniatures in your bank at the same time. So, if you want to complete the achievement, you’ll need to purchase all 45 missing Set 1 minis and put them in the bank (after which you can sell the minis, or keep them for account unlocking come Sep 9th).

Well, Smokey needs to fatten up for hibernation one way or another!