Guild Wars 2

Hmm… So we might actually see a drop in price for the exclusive dyes come tomorrow’s update. Might be a good time for me to pick up a couple I had my eye on, but thought were too expensive.

Sarathiel’s situation is slightly different, Angelica. In her case, a guild officer’s account got hacked and the hacker decided to loot the guild bank in addition to everything on the officer’s account. Once the officer got her account back, an account restore could save her characters, but the contents of the guild bank are forever lost.

If real world plants were sapient, they would probably also be much less bothered about incest than we are. Self-pollination is a common occurrence among many plant species; if you think incest is squicky, imagine fertilising yourself and growing your own child purely from your own sperm. XD

Sylvari names also seem to be inspired by Gaelic or Welsh sources, so look up some name lists for other ideas.

^ Like it was in GW1?

That was pretty cool, OP. Kudos to you and your guild for putting it together.

Just one objection; the camerawoman got puked on at one point and didn’t zombify! :P

Thanks for the free Transmutation Charges. I’m a bit surprised that it’s not 6 (the amount for a full suit of armor), but it’s definitely an appreciated gesture.

Thanks for the information, Michael. I think it’s a nice move to offer replacements for the limited edition dyes.

Just have to remember to claim my refund for my extra Marjory’s Dagger skin. XD

Anti-Materiel Traps? Causes massive damage to any siege placed on it or moving over it?

Kalavier.1097:

Zaxares.5419:

That’s a very good last point, Tobias. Charr society is still very much a militaristic-oriented one. They are peaceful with other races insofar as they have a common enemy to fight (the Dragons). If/when the Dragons are defeated, and the ghosts/Flame Legion dealt with, the other races of Tyria might need to be wary of who the Charr decide their next enemy is.

Of course, this could be several generations later, and by then Charr society has matured by then to be more cosmopolitan and less expansionist. (You can already see it happening to Charr who leave Ascalon to settle elsewhere.) Future Charr generations may move away from their warlike origins and spread out into more sedentary, peaceful occupations.

I don’t get where people form the idea of if there were no dragons the Charr would suddenly invade everybody else.

Do note, before Kralk awoke, the Charr were only at war with Ebonhawke. They couldn’t care less about Kryta or the other nations. Even then, I recall reading that the siege of Ebonhawke went from all three legions, to just Iron, to just a small potion of Iron legion.

Even the Charr intro cutscene shows this. I forget the exact wording but it basically was “The humans took our land, and they have paid for that in blood.”

Paid, not “Will pay.” Iron legion at least seems to consider the debt of ‘blood’ from the humans/Ascalonians to be paid and delat with.

Similar to the idea that if the dragons/other threats weren’t around, the Charr would launch into some giant war against the human gods or spirits of the wild :/.

A militaristic culture basically defines worth and accomplishment through conflict and warfare. Citizens living in such a culture basically need to prove themselves by defeating powerful foes and conquering others. They might be able to sublimate these urges into more peaceful/tolerated activities like sports or gladiatorial tournaments, or privateering/counter-insurgency work, but the Charr seem to have an innate racial belief that they are meant to conquer the world, thereby demonstrating their superiority. (My own Charr Warrior certainly ascribes to such a belief in RP.)

The Charr need an enemy to fight against, whether it be a common one, or against each other. If they do not have one, they will find one, because it is how they define their existence. As I mentioned in my initial post, the only way out of this is if the entirety of Charr society changes so that it is no longer a militant culture (which is very possible, given enough time).

So if one wanted to farm a Fractal Sword, what level Fractals would you guys recommend as the best one? 49/50 drop rates seem dismal, so the time/risk investment doesn’t seem worth it.

That’s actually why I didn’t join the Legendary acquisition group. Most of the Legendaries are just too over-the-top for my tastes. I like my weapons to be visually impressive, but not so flashy so that it basically IS the most stand-out thing about my character. I want it to complement my appearance, not BE my appearance.

The only Legendaries I actually find appealing are Kudzu, the Flameseeker Prophecies and Kraitkin, but unfortunately they don’t suit the aesthetics of my characters who could use them.

I agree that Silk was overcorrected. It should probably be dropped back to 50 AND the amount of cloth scraps from salvaging increased by 50%. This should help ease the scarcity of cloth scraps which are needed by all 3 armor crafting disciplines, and the one that is hardest to farm.

Technically leather is in the same spot, but the prices are kept in check by its much lower demand.

I get a fair bit of Dragonite by doing the Karka Queen event daily and joining in the EotM karma trains. Most of the time the train doesn’t bother defending at all; we just let an opposing server cap all our points while we cap all of theirs, then we WP back to our respective starting points and cap them all back. Rinse and repeat. :P

1. The bunny ears will become a tonic, I believe. If you are unhappy with it being a tonic, you can apply to Support for a refund after the Apr 15 patch hits. (Don’t send the request now. Support will not be able to do anything for you until after the patch.)

2. Keep your Crystals/Stones/Splitters. When the patch hits, you can convert them to Transmutation Charges according to the following table:

3 Stones = 1 Charge
1 Crystal = 1 Charge
1 Splitter = 5 Charges

You seriously think people will move to another country just to get a better rate on their cash to gems transactions? Seriously? O.o

I do understand your concerns. Trust me, I do. Those who know me on these forums will know that I’ve argued strongly against the gem store offering anything beyond convenience or cosmetic goods. And as long as the gem store does only that, I feel that the playing field is relatively fair.

I’d actually say that the gem-gold ratio is quite balanced right now. Despite the numerous sales we’ve had lately, the ratio has not broken past the 7 – 8g gold barrier for many months. It seems that we’ve reached the point where players are willing to spend cash for gems and convert it into gold, at a roughly equal ratio to players trading gold for gems.

If the ratio increases beyond current levels, that would mean that players are earning gold at a faster rate. That actually points to there being inflation within the game, which ANet could only fix by reducing the amount of gold players get. (And you can imagine how that would go down. There are already complaints over diminishing returns, the nerfing of coin from Champ bags, and the Megaserver architecture which would nerf alt-farming.)

^ Of course. That’s a given. Although the same could be said for people who do not like WvW, do not PvP, do not like Fractals/dungeons etc. ANet has the final call on what’s going to get their attention next. This thread is mainly just for SAB fans to show that we do want it back, and also provide some suggestions on what we’d like to see in future releases.

I can see how the recipients of the 2v1 might feel upset at being ganged up on by two different zergs (admittedly, I took part in a TC+JQ zerg beating back Blackgate into their spawn point on JQBL on the weekend), but the BG player on the previous page is right.

In a war, two weaker powers will inevitably team up to fight the bigger power. BG is king of the hill at the moment, so SoS/TC/JQ will more than likely team up to bring them down. However, as the Tournament goes on, alliances are likely to fracture as servers jockey for first place. Double-crosses should be fully expected.

I’m not privy to the war councils on TC (I’m just a filthy casual), but personally I think TC is angling for 2nd/3rd place. We don’t have the numbers/coverage to come out on top once the final weeks arrive and things likely turn into an “every server for itself” situation, but we can place ourselves beforehand to come in behind the leader if we play our cards right.

The illusionary hill hump? That was still there last I checked.

Pay no attention to those bookahs in Rata Sum. Training a living organism to obey your tiniest cues and carry out complex instructions is far, FAR more intellectually stimulating and challenging than programming yet another golem. Not to mention a golem could never provide as much entertainment and personal satisfaction when you give them belly rubs.

Who’s a good boy, Wuffie? Who’s a good boy?!

You can have my Rifle when you pry it from my Charr’s cold, dead hands.

I just use them whenever I’m running the EotM karma train.

My Sylvari’s certainly made comments along those lines at times.

But my character is one those “naïve” types. I’d imagine that most Sylvari would have been given instruction on cultural norms of other races to understand that incest is a taboo activity among most sapient species.

That’s a very good last point, Tobias. Charr society is still very much a militaristic-oriented one. They are peaceful with other races insofar as they have a common enemy to fight (the Dragons). If/when the Dragons are defeated, and the ghosts/Flame Legion dealt with, the other races of Tyria might need to be wary of who the Charr decide their next enemy is.

Of course, this could be several generations later, and by then Charr society has matured by then to be more cosmopolitan and less expansionist. (You can already see it happening to Charr who leave Ascalon to settle elsewhere.) Future Charr generations may move away from their warlike origins and spread out into more sedentary, peaceful occupations.

It should also be noted that this was back during the time of GW1. Modern Charr armies now have guns, tanks and airships. (Granted, those steam devices may not work very well in bitter, high-altitude cold that can make iron brittle enough to shatter by hand.)

Although on the other hand, the Norn have also learned the benefit of banding together and working in groups. We have the Wolfborn, for example; back in GW1 it was almost unheard of to have a police force at all. A Norn enforced the rules of his homestead via his own strength of arm.

Konig Des Todes.2086

Wrong. The Movement of the World mentions risen (specifically called the Orrian dragon’s minions) fighting on the northern Elonian border.

There is not a single mention of Kralkatorrik’s minions being in conflict in the desert or with Joko’s undead.

Also, the Branded are moving south by southeast. But as we see in Edge of Destiny, at least upon the Brand’s creation they head south because that’s the last they saw Kralkatorrik heading. Think of it like the Walking Dead zombies when a herd shows up at the end of Season 2 – they see a helicopter and start following it, but they loose sight of the helicopter, however they continue moving in the direction they last saw/heard the helicopter going.

Whoops. Maybe I misremembered Joko’s forces battling the Risen as battling the Branded instead. It just seemed more logical to have the Awakened battling the Branded given that Elona abuts the Crystal Desert, rather than having the Risen cross the Crystal Desert.

I wonder if Kralkatorrik has any means of communicating with his Branded telepathically… Or if he even gives orders to his minions at all. The only Branded that I’ve seen speak thus far (Victurus the Shattered, in the Iron Marches) doesn’t give the impression that he has any real goal aside from killing all non-Branded he comes across.

^ That’s why I keep a backup of the GW2.dat file.

Welcome to the Internet. Innocence doesn’t last long here.

Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t mind seeing Braham and Rox get together, but the vibe I’m getting from them is that they’re just close friends.

I usually welcome anyone in my dungeon/Fractal PUGs, but I admit that these days I won’t join a AC run without an Ele, or a CM run without a Thief or a Mesmer. >.>

To unlock a skin for the Wardrobe, you need to either:

a) Equip the item on a character so it becomes soulbound/account bound.

b) Salvage the item.

c) Destroy the item.

If people are just after unlocking skins for the items, then it makes the most sense to salvage the item for possible Ectos, Dark Matter, Inscriptions/Insignia, Runes/Sigils since the item itself can’t be resold any further regardless of how the skin is unlocked.

Oh, believe me, I am NOT a fan of RNG. I fully support the Precursor Scavenger Hunt idea and eagerly look forward to when it will be implemented. I am also an ardent supporter of the SAB model of rewards where you can bypass the RNG, but at the cost of having your item be account-bound so it’s only usable by you.

I don’t have exact numbers, no, but it really does feel like every 10th or so player I pass by in town or WvW has a Legendary. (This number goes up when I attend things like TTS attempts on Tequatl or the Wurm.) Going by that old data John provided about the number of Dusks being sold in a day, I think it’d not outside of reasonable bounds to assume that at least a couple of Legendaries are created every single day. True, some of these are by players who are making multiple Legendaries, but I think the vast majority of them would be first-time Legendary owners.

I’d also love to know just how many players are actively going for a Legendary too. I know that I and my girlfriend aren’t; me because I’m not particularly taken by any of the current Legendary aesthetics, and her because she doesn’t play the game enough to justify sinking that much time/money into it.

Slightly in the short-medium term, but it will fall in the long-term once players unlock it on their account and have no further need to buy more. Blue/Green dyes will crash hard, but they won’t become completely worthless due to what Wanze mentioned about gamblers buying them up to throw them into the Forge. (Same way that “worthless” Major runes/sigils don’t completely crash either.)

Supported. Now that WXP is going to be account bound, being able to Command on any of my characters would be a fantastic QoL improvement.

I’ve always called them “characters” or “chars” for short. I find the term “toon” unpleasant on the ears, but it doesn’t bother me enough to mention it to people using the term.

That’s basically the root cause of any complaint in a game’s economy: “It’s too hard or taking too long to get what I want!”

I’m not against making it much easier for players to get luxury items or exclusive skins, but I fear that would have a detrimental effect on the longevity of the game (as players tend to move on once they’ve accomplished their goals), and on the feeling of satisfaction players have when a goal is achieved. That said, we do need to constantly monitor the goal posts so that they are achievable by most players who set out to reach them.

Legendaries, while a hard slog, are definitely doable by a large segment of the player base as evidenced by how many we see in the game every day. I think players might just have the impression that you should be able to get them within a couple months, when they’re really intended to be more of a year (or two) long goal.

Stuff involved in completing the Wardrobe:

- Buying all 15 sets of Cultural armor (approx. 2000g)
- Buying all 19 T3 Cultural weapons for each race (5,985,000 karma)
- Buy 3 sets of Temple armor (774,000 karma)
- Buying a complete set of Order weapons and armor for each Order (257g for all Weapons, 80g for all Armors)
- Buying every single set of gem store armor (12,700 gems for the distinct sets, not counting miscellaneous single-piece armors like hats)
- Buying a complete set of every single Black Lion Weapon set released to date (plus future ones)
- Completing SAB Trib Mode 16 times (19 times if the next release introduces underwater weapons) for each World.
- Buying/crafting all 19 Legendaries(!!!)
- Craft all 19 Ascended weapons for EACH colour type (x_x)
- Craft 1 complete sets of Ascended armor for each weight
- Get extremely lucky and have Tequatl drop 19 of his Hoards.
- Get extremely lucky and get the Wurmslayer’s Armor chest 3 times
- Get extremely lucky and get all 19 Fractal weapons.
- Reach 36,000 AP to collect the entire sets of the Radiant/Hellfire armor skins.

If you’re serious about making the attempt, khani… I /salute you. You will be ANet’s most dedicated fan.

If you have Laurels to spare, trading them for Heavy Crafting Bags (1 Laurel each) is also a nice way to supplement your T6 acquisition.

Speaking for myself, I’d support demotion recipes in the Mystic Forge.

Had a really good streak over the weekend. Salvaged something like 14 or 15 Rares, got 29 Ectos in total. I think it’s safe to say that the salvage rates have not been touched.

I did notice a considerable spike in gold seller PMs yesterday too. It actually got to the point where I had to block a couple of them because they were so persistent. (Normally I only get one PM, I report it, and that’s the last I hear from them.)

Hmm, I’ll have to check again. But I did Weyandt’s Revenge as part of my 12 JP’s for the Monthly, and my “jump down the right side hitting the stalagmites” method still worked.

Calm down, Byron. Your last post comes across as needlessly hostile.

I don’t have access to any more data than you do (updated wealth statistics sheet, JS? Pleeeeasseee?), but my own observations of the TP on a few occasions makes me inclined to believe what John is saying. The market in GW2 is HUGE. Like, REALLY HUGE. I was there when the Great Dye Frenzy of 2014 took place, and seeing all those dyes disappear and prices undergo such crazy swings in the space of just an hour before things stabilised told me that there must have been thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of players all frantically scrambling to try and get the most of the situation. (The fact, too, that the market stabilised as quickly as it did tells us a lot about the ability of a market to find equilibrium after a sudden shock.)

No single player, no matter how wealthy, can hope to come close to the kind of impact this mass of trading power the collective GW2 player base has. Even a cartel of wealthy players would probably find themselves hard pressed to match it.

I wonder how many players bought that bow simply because it was the biggest bow in GW1? XD Ahh, memories…

Note that I don’t have anything against the concept of airships themselves. Air power is an undeniable advantage in many areas, not least of which is warfare. But WHY do they look like airships/zeppelins? If the ships are powered and kept aloft by magic, why do they look like they have a central balloon? Look at the Zephyrites, for comparison. Their ship is kept aloft purely by magic and wind, and it shows. I’ll grant that we never received an explanation for how exactly the airships function, but if your ship is propelled by magic and does not rely on external factors, why not make it a flying tank? A miniature Death Star with solid steel armor everywhere and bristling with cannons? Why an airship, in particular?

Obsidian.1328:

One man’s terrorist is another man’s patriot. The English did all sorts of atrocious things to the Irish for hundreds of years, and the Irish(when given the opportunity) did equally atrocious things back to them in return. Who’s more “right”. Truth is subjective. It depends on your point of view, like Dust said. ANet wants them to be viewed as terrorists by having them be reckless with bystanders because it reinforces their own agenda; i.e. unity amongst the playable races. Obviously this wouldn’t matter much if GW1 didn’t exist, but it does.

You realise that also applies to the Charr back in GW1, right?

ExTribble.7108:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Karka_Shell

Consortium Chests
Defeating Karkas
Defeating Reef Skelks in Southsun Cove
Defeating Sharks in Southsun Cove
Crab Toss
Completing Canach’s Lair

Wiki is your friend

Skelk and Sharks drop Karka Shells? Really? O.o

If you’re just starting out, I recommend joining a map with a Commander tag on it and then just following it around, attacking what they attack. Pay attention to what they say in chat, and join their voice chat server if you’re feeling social. (I usually don’t since I like playing in silence and I find other people talking to be distracting.) After a while you’ll start to get a feel for why players do what they do and what are the larger strategies being employed. (e.g. why Commanders will usually cap a Camp before attacking a Tower or Keep (They want their followers to have maximum supply for building siege), or why they suddenly bail out of one map when you were doing well attacking a structure (a more important structure, such as a fully upgraded Keep, is in danger of falling to the enemy and needs reinforcements).

@bullyrook: That is a fair point. It may be that Sylvari sexuality is merely an implanted desire given to them by the Dream in order for them to better relate to the other sentient races. But in the same way that real life sex is ultimately just to propagate the species, it doesn’t make the act any less awesome.

Kralk must still be somewhere in the Crystal Desert though. The Movement of the World mentioned that Palawa Joko’s undead armies are busy fighting off the Branded, so it stands to reason that Kralk must be somewhere nearby, since all the Branded we encounter were heading south in response to his call.

@Herald: Yeah, when I refer to “technology”, I tend to mean stuff like steampunk, science-fiction gadgets and modern day mechanical devices. I acknowledge that building massive infrastructure for irrigation (if we’re continuing that example) would make more sense if we’re dealing with agriculture on a massive scale, but the size of the game world doesn’t really match up. It could cost thousands of gold to build something like the Queensdale water pumping station and the associated pipes (a structure which is routinely targeted and sabotaged by bandits, I should add); in contrast, depending on workforce competition, you might be able to get that Water Elementalist to work for you for 5 silver a day. And if he gets killed by Bandits, well, you can probably find a replacement worker that same day. (Orrr just hand out karma rewards to any adventurers who run past to get them to water your fields for you. XD)

As far as portals are concerned, that’s another thing. During the Lost Shores Living Story, we saw how quickly people could get waypoints up and running on a new island. (Apparently Waypoints are discrete magical devices that can simply be brought to a location and then activated.) Wouldn’t it be easier to just transport goods and supplies by players running through Gates and Waypoints rather than building huge, expensive airships?

@panzer: Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Technological advances in a magical world should progress along making magic more effective, since that’s the proven, most efficient tool to accomplish things. Instead of a large water pumping station, why not have smaller, magical towers in each field that generate a constant supply of clean water through magic (utilising said Geyser and Healing Rain spells)?

I’d stick it on my Harpoon Gun for my Ranger.