Guild Wars 2

Niim.9260:

Wow, 8 whole abilities, they really out did themselves in the creativity department, glad that took over 6 months to come up with.

The framework is in place now though. That is what took time. They said said before they wanted to start small and see how it goes before adding in more abilities. Also there may be other upgrades in those other tabs, hard to say for certain.

Also at 20 points per rank I think it is going to take a long time to upgrade your supply carrying. You will almost certainly be better off upgrading the siege lines in the mean time.

I may not even bother with the supply line. It is valuable for small groups, but for groups larger then 15 the limiting factor is the rate supply camps get supply, not the amount you can carry. If I can significantly increase my damage with certain weapons, or get in extra hits before having to roll away, that will be more valuable in most situations.

JP’s are my thief’s playground. I get the badges from the puzzles and usually 3-4 kills along the way. The best ones are when there is someone waiting at the waterfall to kill half dead people from the fall… stealth… jump… heal… slaughter. They always expect easy targets, I can usually win 3v1’s on those.

I am excited about WvW rank. It will give me another goal to work towards. I was running out of goals. Never really done much WvW, this will be a good time to start.

I love how half the suggestions and demands in this thread are things that Anet has already said are going to happen before this goes live like a month ago lol.

1. They have already said they are going to cap the infinite achievement point thing and remove the points from those who have extreme numbers.

2. They already said they are working on a system to turn the points into a currency that you can spend for vanity items/titles.

1. I’ve heard of people struggling in dungeons, but I guess I just don’t understand. With a basic understanding of your class and how to dodge they are relatively simple. They are already borderline faceroll easy, with almost no tactics or mechanics required. As we move forward they should be adding more mechanics and requiring a greater knowledge of your class. Story modes are quite accessible to casual players as you seem to categorize yourself. That being said, I am certainly not against adding a middle tier for players who want to work up towards explorable modes. Though you shouldn’t expect to be awarded dungeon tokens for completing it.

2. Casual players really shouldn’t expect to get a legendary weapon. It is the singular goal in this game for the hard core players. I just finished my legendary weapon by only playing a single character for 700 hours with the sole goal of getting said weapon. That is the time and commitment it takes. That being said, outside of a legendary what do you need all this gold for? you can get full max stat gear for 20g which you said you have sitting in your bank already. You say you are poor, but I suspect you already have Orange gear and just want to go for the expensive skins, which again are cosmetic goals meant for serious players. You can make 5g/hr farming some events and about 5g worth of rares a day from a casual tour de world boss.

3. I would advise you to take a look at the march update page. They have just announced they are adding in a beginner tier to guild missions for smaller guilds to work on if they don’t have the organization and support of a full guild.

People in this thread are why I don’t do WvW.

Awesome fun RvR, awful people.

Maybe they only give half the reward and are much cheaper. Hard to say, but at least they are making the effort to try and help small guilds.

This is one of the fine examples of Anet having a great creative team that comes up with some awesome ideas, but they lack either the programming talent or manpower to see it through.

I don’t know how big the programming team is, but they really need to take some of that gem store money and hire more programmers. The content is coming it slower then a snail since the holiday events ended.

Theplayboy.6417:

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Why make a thread at all if you are the ultimate source of truth and no one can possibly disagree with your infinite knowledge?

Every time the client has updated and there are changes it is posted in the thread for the current major update as a reply to that thread.

Every time the client is updated for maintenance and no changes are made there is an announcement either at the top of the forums or on twitter.

Many times they list things rather vaguely, such as “fixed various server crashes” or “closed possible exploits” because the details aren’t important.

The only thing I wish they’d provide more details on is the addition of new features. Guild missions were very poorly explained and no one is sure what is a “feature” and what is a “bug”.

I don’t see anything in-game that says you have to unlock them in order, there is just a merit cost associated with each mission. You have to do bounty first because it is the only one that doesn’t require any merits, but I don’t see why you couldn’t run bounty for 10 weeks and then unlock puzzle next.

Is there an actual hidden requirement for unlocking in order or is that just the fastest method?

Killyox.3950:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

This change is almost certainly a "oh crap people don’t like overflow, we’ll make up some imaginary problem and “fix” it and hope people stop complaining"

I mean come on. There are 51 servers in this game and >3,000,000 accounts. That means there is a very rough average of 58,800 accounts per server. An area goes to overflow when there are 300 people in it. And they are saying Alts are the problem? yeah ok….

Even if they have only 10% concurrency during prime time, that is almost 6000 people and at any given time 1 event is going on. Even if only 5% of the online players try to go to the event it will get sent to overflow. This is almost assuming every server has the same number of accounts on it. The top 3 NA servers probably have 10x the number of accounts as the 3 smallest servers, making the issue 10x worse for them.

If you are exaggerating at least do it properly. Why not say AN has 1099000000000 accounts?

Because they have >3,000,000 accounts, not that dumb number you stated.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-on-guild-wars-2-in-the-months-ahead/

Sorry my numbers are accurate.

Keras.2876:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Well manipulators aren’t controlling the ecto market, but the devs certainly are.

Ectos fall 10s-> devs panic -> nerf drop rates to hell -> ectos rise 10s in 20 minutes.

I suspect they will fall again, but the devs sure know how to stimulate the market in the direction they desire.

Do you seriously believe a nerf to ecto drop rate would have such drastic consequences? It would take most people quite some time to realise the rate was nerfed and the price would rise slowly.

The spike you noticed a few hours ago was because people got their 40 laurels and everyone was dumb enough to just instantly buy their 50 ectos for an ascended accessory. I would guesss there were at least twice as many ectos sold yesterday than on that day John showed us.

I was really amazed that people just kept buying so I sold my whole stack of ectos for around 33s and will just buy them again next week when they are back to 25s

I don’t know a single person who even thought about buying an accessory with laurels. What an awful way to get them… Most people have their accessories from Guild missions at this point. At least anyone who has been consistent enough to have 40 laurels.

The ectos responded very rapidly to an announcement by the devs that they are greatly reducing the ability for people to get rares, thus making it much harder to get ectos. 20% price increase within 20 minutes of the announcement. The devs knew very well what would happen when they made the announcement, they did it at least in part to bring ecto prices back to a level they wanted.

This change is almost certainly a "oh crap people don’t like overflow, we’ll make up some imaginary problem and “fix” it and hope people stop complaining"

I mean come on. There are 51 servers in this game and >3,000,000 accounts. That means there is a very rough average of 58,800 accounts per server. An area goes to overflow when there are 300 people in it. And they are saying Alts are the problem? yeah ok….

Even if they have only 10% concurrency during prime time, that is almost 6000 people and at any given time 1 event is going on. Even if only 5% of the online players try to go to the event it will get sent to overflow. This is almost assuming every server has the same number of accounts on it. The top 3 NA servers probably have 10x the number of accounts as the 3 smallest servers, making the issue 10x worse for them.

Well manipulators aren’t controlling the ecto market, but the devs certainly are.

Ectos fall 10s→ devs panic → nerf drop rates to hell → ectos rise 10s in 20 minutes.

I suspect they will fall again, but the devs sure know how to stimulate the market in the direction they desire.

So basically a big “SCREW YOU” to people with alts. Guess i’ll just go ahead and delete my alts, there is literally no reason to have them at this point.

Can’t get ascended gear for them→ Check
Can’t get any loot at all for them now→check

I think many of those items are bottoming out because the demand is just way down. The game has hit the age where a large amount of the players are max level and have a set of exotic gear. They really have no use for the items you’ve listed. What they need is mats for their legendary or rare skin (I.E. tons of ectos, and powerful bloods, etc) which are all rising in demand and price.

What we need is another recipe to dump mats off the market like the butter recipe, except this time with mined/gathered/salvaged mats. I mean leather and silk are below vendor price, I sell stacks of them every day to the vendor.

It would be a meaningless list. None of the top 50 wealthiest people would have a substantial amount of their wealth in actual gold. It would be almost all in investments and trades. Which is why they are the 50 richest and not you lol.

It’s called RNG, nothing else is going on.

Salvaged one batch for 15 rares got 5 ectos. Salvaged the next batch got 20 ectos.

I got 30 points in a month by completing all 3 campaigns and then running the Auspicious beginnings missions about 500 times. Then I just bought everything else I needed to finish my 30 points.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Auspicious_Beginnings

Fastest way to grind money for a newcomer by far.

Morena.9604:

*If you like gear progression… this game isn’t for you
*If you like playing a certain role in trinity… this game isn’t for you
*If you like raids… this game isn’t for you
*If you like mounts… this game isn’t for you
*If you like amateur pvp with different modes… this game isn’t for you
*If you like semi-amateur pvp with ladders etc like wow… this game isn’t for you
*If you like pro-pvp like moba… this game isn’t for you
*If you like real open world pvp… this game isn’t for you
*Most importantly if you like to have a goal… this game isn’t for you

‘this game isn’t for you’ is a common reply to many posts and it is sadly and actually a true reply for the most posts. I really believe that devs prepared this game for a really specific(even unique) type of a player base.

There is plenty of gear progression: White→blue→green→yellow→orange→Pink→Purple, there is more progression in this game and it takes longer then most games on the market. If you want gear progression then this is the ultimate game for you!

If you strictly like only 3 roles then I guess this game isn’t for you, but Gw2 has 4-5 unique roles that greatly expand the trinity system. We still have straight up DPS, always a classic. Instead of tanks we have defensive buffers. Classes that offer defensive boons to their party. We have offensive buffers. Builds that boost party damage by sharing offensive boons. We have control players. Players that debuff enemies and disable them. We have Utility players who use a variety of banners/shouts/traps, etc to provide unikittenfects to the group. There are more roles in this game then many classic MMO’s, but it certainly is in no way shape or form roleless like you are implying. So if you like diverse and meaningful roles then this game is certainly for you.

If you like raids then this game is most certainly for you. There are huge world bosses that require 20-30 people. There are guild missions which require 50+ people. There are small tightly focused dungeons that require 5 people. They are still adding things, but the raiding environment is slowly becoming more and more prevalent as time goes on. Once they finish revamping the world bosses this game will have more relevant raids then any other game around.

I can’t say I’ve ever met anyone that played a game solely for mounts? Why would that even be a motivation to play a game? I don’t understand this statement…

I’m not going to comment on PvP because I haven’t done enough of it to say one way or the other with any meaningful opinion.

There are more goals in this game then any game I have ever played. Map completion is rewarded, completing all the jumping puzzles is rewarded. Getting the highest cultural armor is rewarded. Getting a legendary is rewarded. WvW armor. PvP rank. Unique skins. Fractal progression. Achievements. I’ve played over 600 hours and still only have about half my goals done and they just keep adding more. If you like having long term goals then this game is your dream come true!

So basically nothing you said is actually true…

Hickeroar.9734:

I think the rings should yield either a max of 3 or a max of 5 ectos, and chunk of Ori or something. Kinda like Rares/Exotics already do.

No point in getting shards, etc. I already have a pile of useless ones sitting in the bank.

I get the picture ANet didn’t think some of this through very well. :P

If shards aren’t the problem then ectos or something like you suggest. I just don’t want to toss the rings in case they change it but they are really starting to pile up.

Nikon Justus.6902:

Minion of Vey.4398:

Flamenco.3894:

What kind of materials should one be able to salvage from an ascended item?

Salvaging ascended could have a chance at getting the various fractal mats like vials, globs, shards etc.

Maybe salvaging a non infused ring has a good chance at a vial, small chance of a glob.

Infused one would be good chance at a glob, small chance of a shard.

Wouldn’t really be anything special but it’d be something.

The problem with that is you would still end up with useless crap. I have 42 Shards and nothing to use them for, I already have every infused ring I could ever want.

Shards are significantly MORE useful then rings are though. At least shards can be used to infuse and upgrade things. And they will continue to be useful as more ascended items are introduced. I suspect infusing a two handed weapon will probably take dozens of shards. and who knows what a full set of infused armor will be. A ring will always be just that, a useless ring.

I currently have 6 ascended rings that I have absolutely no use for. Of course I still can’t progress in any fractals because after hundreds of fractal runs I still have 0 globs of ascended goo stuff to let me infuse said rings. I just have to keep running the same levels over and over again trying to get lucky with these drops while my rings just keep piling up.

Please allow us to salvage ascended items for a chance to receive ascended mats similar to how exotics and rares have a chance to drop ectos.

Clearly I am ready to progress further as I have plenty of rings and an unholy amount of relics, yet I can’t because of a stupid crafting mat that should be available to me.

The worst I have ever seen was a warrior in heavy armor with every section of that armor dyed bright pink. No variation at all, just monotone bright pink.

Be careful what you wish for. Once the new scaling takes effect on all events I won’t be the least bit surprised to see T6 mats top 1g a pop. Since the Pen/Shelter “fix” mats already rising, and that was only with the change of 2 events, wait until they are ALL changed.

I could get behind that. Collecting dyes has become a hobby of mine. I just hope they add more some day.

6.5 months is a vast overestimate of fully gearing a character.

It takes a maximum of 20 days to get both ascended rings.
It takes 20 days of laurels to get your ascended amulet (plus completion of the monthly which should happen in those 20 days)
It takes 4 weeks of guild missions to get both ascended earrings (assuming your guild has them all unlocked, will take longer for the first few months as guilds unlock things)

In total it takes 28 days to completely deck out your character in all current ascended gear. That’s one character a month. In 6 months you could fully deck out 6 characters.

A far cry from the 6 years that people are claiming lol.

Must be a warrior who realized there was one thing left in the game he couldn’t do better then everyone else…

morphemass.2850:

There does appear to be a pretty good chance of an exotic from the chests and hence, a good chance of a precursor which is why I am doing them. Loot wise though, I make a lot more from doing Orr with the recently added bags and T5/T6 drops, hence what I am surprised hasn’t dropped more, is the price of mats…

Mat prices haven’t dropped because even though they increased the bag drops they also nerfed the farming events into the gutter. Even with the increased drops I get about 1/10 the amount of loot I used to farming since all I do is stand in front of 1 champion and beat on him for 5 minutes and if I get lucky he doesn’t vanish and I get a blue drop.

Since farming is less profitable less people do it so mat prices overall seem to be staying the same.

Remember there are no melee and no ranged professions. Every class is fully capable of being fully melee, fully ranged or both.

In fact I think if you play a class as fully one or the other you are missing out on quite a bit of their capabilities.

Engineer would probably be my choice answer to your question though.

Paradoxine.8192:

This has to be a troll post surely.

We HAVE to group up now? We can’t ‘play it our way’? This is the kind of thinking that ruins this game. If ANET intended to gate it to grouped content then it would be a dungeon reward. The fact that they didn’t indicates that they do not want to discourage solo players from obtaining the weapon for themselves.

“They have dropped almost 50% in price over the last month and aren’t that outrageous.”

This is what gets me the most. If every ecto cost 10g on the trading post and I increased drop rates so that they ‘only’ cost 6g ea then I could still say “they have dropped almost 50% in price…”. This is just nonsense and frankly the fact that you think such a fact is relevant is pretty telling. The fact is they’re stagnant now and show no signs whatsoever of decreasing at this point.

Explain to me how almost 1,000g, almost 2x the price of a legendary precusor is acceptable and ‘not that outrageous’. Go on.

People really love to abuse that statement. “Play your way” never has, and never will mean you get to have everything in the game by ignoring everyone else and having it handed to you. Legendaries are in fact partly a dungeon reward, as are many other unique skins. Every legendary requires 500 dungeon tokens. Tokens that can only be gotten in a group. Fractal weapons, again a unique skin can only be gotten from very high level group play that almost no one can complete except the very skilled.

If every ecto cost 10g that would be because of inflation, supply, and demand. The same forces that determine the price of every item in the game. If the price drops by 50% that means either demand is way down or supply is way up. Inflation is more of a steady upward trend so it in a non factor in large price swings. This is true of all items. Since the demand of Charged lodestones has been relatively constant and inflation increases the prices slowly then we can conclude that supply has in fact significantly increased due to efforts by the devs.

I have no idea where you got the 1000g thing. Right now you can forge charged lodestones using cores for 2.5g per lodestone. I don’t know of any recipe that requires 400 lodestones. Legendaries cost 100 lodestones or about 250g and the precursors for those legendaries are 300g and 500g, which is half the price of the precursor not double.

Actually I don’t know of a single game that had a lfg system at launch… They mostly add them later.

And there is no need, your blind rage and hatred for the efficient, effective, simple, and convenient lfg tool available doesn’t make it any less of those things.

I’ve seen this topic pop up on a number of different MMO forums and it always comes down to the same thing. You will NEVER please everyone. The daily/monthly is the system that almost all MMO’s adapt simply because it makes the largest number of people happy.

If you made a backlog where you could do all the dailies for the week in 1 day then there would be people on here complaining that they can only play every other week. If you made it so that you could buy laurels then poor people would be excluded. Someone will always be left out, it is just a fact of life.

Daily and monthly rewards fit the schedules of the greatest number of people, those with standard day jobs and those in school. This is the most appealing system and is unlikely to ever change unless the social ideal of what a “standard” job also changes.

Agree. Any fractal over level 10 should drop guaranteed rares with the number and chance at an exotic increasing as the level increases. Heck there are four chests in the world that can be looted without even doing a boss. You just take a wp, walk 10 seconds to the chest and get handed free rares.

If you want to limit them to prevent farming then make it part of the daily reward

10-19 = 2 rares, low chance of exotic
20-29 = 3 rares, medium chance of exotic
30-39 = 4 rares, high chance of exotics
etc…

Bob.5732:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Is there some reason gw2lfg.com isn’t working for you? I don’t see any reason for the devs to waste time and effort on something that has already been perfectly and successfully implemented. They have many other important things they are working on and bugs they are fixing. This would just be a redundant waste of time.

Whether or not someone think gw2lfg.com is successful or not is all relative. You clearly feel that it is a good tool and don’t want to “waste” dev time and energy on an in-game LFG tool. I, however feel that an in-game LFG tool is very much needed and very much worth dev time & energy. I can’t stand gw2lfg.com and is a waste IMO. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents.

If the devs do ever add a lfg tool to the game there is a 99.9% chance that they are just going to copy the website and add it to the UI. So i suggest you learn to like it.

It’s simple, functional, and effective, if they don’t copy it then it will be a failure in the eyes of most people.

Story mode is for enjoying. Explorable mode is the “hard mode” of the game, it is supposed to be challenging, not a faceroll.

Paradoxine.8192:

Can we get an ANET reply here or what? I’m not asking for massive gameplay changes or a revolution of dungeon gameplay or a complete overhaul of the laurel system here. Those are separate issues. Surely, we can at least get small issues like this addressed within a one month time-frame?

At the very least I think some acknowledgement of the problem would be appreciated. If you’re around Martin then I’m looking at you here. Do you think it is fair for a player to spend 350+ hours trying to get a non-legendary item? Is this as intended? If nothing else then just confirm that spending 14+ days (no sleep, no bio-break, no afk) solid farming is what you wanted.

Just farming COF path 1 and /thread isn’t a solution because most likely it’s going to get nerfed into oblivion and besides, what about the players who come after the nerf? Never-mind the fact that I shouldn’t be forced to group up in order to buy unique weapons in a reasonable period of time.

This is no longer a case of the game being out for two weeks where we can just overlook everything.

I’m sorry, but why exactly don’t you think that you shouldn’t be forced to group up to get unique weapons? You certainly should need to.

Also there isn’t a problem so there is nothing to acknowledge. They have dropped almost 50% in price over the last month and aren’t that outrageous. I just finished my Bolt today, took me 3 weeks to get enough gold/cores to finish. They are in no way a problem anymore, Anet fixed them by increasing chest drops, adding in jewelery boxes and having them drop from fractals. There is really nothing left to complain about.

It’s not that you were tricked it was that you weren’t paying attention. This is EXACTLY how the developers marketed the game for 3 years before launch:

“The whole game is endgame, we don’t believe you should do one thing while leveling and then all of a sudden be thrown into a completely different thing at the end of the game”

Which you are now describing as some sort of trick. In fact is in one of the only games on the market that DOESN’T trick you with some bait and switch when you hit max level.

I don’t understand how anyone could miss the new content. I understand you may not find it fun, but how can you possibly miss it? There are giant glowing yellow stars on top of NPC’s that constantly spam in every city to talk to them and learn about the new content. Not only that but they sent you a personal mail that details what when and where the new content is.

Is there some reason gw2lfg.com isn’t working for you? I don’t see any reason for the devs to waste time and effort on something that has already been perfectly and successfully implemented. They have many other important things they are working on and bugs they are fixing. This would just be a redundant waste of time.

You might be able to make consortium chests still. Haven’t tried. still have to buy the skins off the TP though to try.

There are currently 8 dungeons designed for the casual player known as “story modes”

Explorable modes are designed to be for hardcore players and are the “hard mode” dungeons of other games. The problem was they vastly underestimated the skill of players and the result was facerolling all the hard content. They are now correcting that problem one dungeon at a time.

The dust is the killer. The mat prices are favorable for some of the conversions, but with current dust prices you lose like 1g per conversion, it is pretty bad.

The only information that is confirmed as of this time is that guild bounties may or may not award you comms at some time interval.

Anything beyond that is just speculation and varies from person to person.

Some people claim they reset friday night. Others claim they reset every 24 hours. Some say they reset with server resets. From my personal experience the only time they have reset was saturday night.

Some people say each mission type awards comms, others say that only bounties award comms. Some say that you get 2 per week total from the first mission you run of any kind ad that is it. Some say every type except trek awards comms (not sure how people got that theory as only bounty and trek are currently available. The most logical of those is that you get 2 per week period regardless of mission type. That explains why no one is getting comms from trek this week as they had to do bounty first to unlock trek but then they had already received their 2 weekly comms.

Until the devs decide we are worthy of knowing how their “features” work we are just in the dark subject to exploiters who have 20+ comms already.

OP, what you are suggesting is exactly how it has been for the last 5 months. The bosses dropped no good loot so people for the most part just ignored them. Why should they care if those temples/that part of the map is blocked off. If it didn’t drop any loot then why would they want to unlock it anyway?

The only people at the dragon events were alts and bots who just stood there 24/7 and got free stuff. Now people actually have motivation to do all the events. The world has opened back up, the temples in orr are available, people are exploring around the area and doing events while they wait for bosses.

A BLSK has an average return rate of 0.9 ectos per use. (See research on the wiki and other sources)

25 uses * 0.9 ectos per salvage = 22.5 ectos

Cost per salvage of the kit: 300 gems = 5.82g/25 uses = 23s per use

ectos cost about 25s-15% = 21.25s

you are LOSING an average of 1.75s per salvage over just straight up selling the gems plus losing additional money over what you could have been making from just selling the rares.

For your total loss:

sell 300 gems = 4.2g
sell 25 rares (ave of 25s ea) = 5.3g

total profit: 9.5g

buy BLSK, no gems to sell = 0s
salvage for 22.5 ectos and sell for: 4.78g

total profit: 4.78g

so every time you buy a BLSK you are losing 4.7g on what you could of gotten from selling the rares and gems and buying no kit.

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Unspecified.9142:

munkiman.3068:

With a BLSK you’re actually pushing close to 100% return in ectos.

Safe numbers to work with when salvaging rares are:

BLSK = Average of 0.9 ectos per rare.
Master’s Salvage Kit = Average of 0.8 ectos per rare.

Obviously you aren’t going to get Ectos every time but some times you get 2 or 3. These numbers are based off me crafting and salvaging hundreds upon hundreds or rares (mostly gloves, boots, helmets, and shoulders).

Assuming you got those numbers with a relatively large sample size then I guess it is safe to conclude that you should NEVER buy a BLSK.

25 uses * 0.9 ectos per salvage = 22.5 ectos

Cost per salvage of the kit: 300 gems = 5.82g/25 uses = 23s per use

ectos cost about 25s-15% = 21.25s

you are LOSING an average of 1.75s per salvage over just straight up selling the gems plus losing additional money over what you could have been making from just selling the rares.

To put it in perspective:

sell 300 gems = 4.2g
sell 25 rares (ave of 25s ea) = 5.3g

total profit: 9.5g

buy BLSK: -5.82g
salvage for 22.5 ectos and sell for: 4.78g

total profit: -1.03g

so every time you buy a BLSK you are losing 8.5g on what you could of gotten from selling the rares and buying no kit.

Ping.5739:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Cymatoperior.5942:

I did the destroyer event chest run yesterday. There were like a hundred players involved. I got greens and blues at the end. I asked around if anyone got anything good. Only two replied that they got crap drops. If someone got all rares I expect them to yell in chat but no one did. Did rare drop rate really increase?

The megadestroyer and Arah chests did not get buffed for some reason. They still only drop blues.

Here is a list of chests that have a >90% chance of dropping a rare:

1. Jormag
2. Shatterer
3. Sunless
4. Jungle Wurm
5. Hydra Queen
6. Shadow Bohemoth
7. Maw
8. Fire Elemental
9. Grenth
10. Lyssa
11. Melendru
12. Dwayna
13. Balth

So each character can get at least 13 additional rares a day over what they could before the patch. I usually get closer to 20 a day now. I’ve gotten 100 ectos since the patch playing only casually.

90%? you must be trolling so hard or the rng on me must hates me so bad

Actually John Smith said it was actually closer to 100%. Remember the loot is scaled to your level. the near 100% chance is for a level 80, and also remember you can only loot the chest once per day, and that this is since the patch last Tuesday. After doing about 70 of the listed events I have averaged 1.3 rares per event, and have ALWAYS received at least 1 rare, not always armor, once I got a ruby orb

John Smith.4610:

Nike.2631:

Answering the crazies but not the real questions again .

Simple question mode: does the vendor coin value of a rare affect the ectoplasms-outcome of salvaging it?

Pleeeeeeeease?

Sorry, you aren’t getting salvaging secrets out of me.

Any insight on why salvage rates on ectos are such a highly guarded secret, as opposed to other information you provide? Is it just the potential market impact that prevents you from sharing or is there some higher big brother reason?

I can’t see what effect telling us the salvage rates would have on the market. The only change I see is a potential increase or decrease in certain salvage kit sales, which seems nominal to me in the long run.

marnick.4305:

Endrance.1680:

During the first 3 months of launch GW2 experienced a huge botting problem. This is no secret. During this time the bots flooded the economy dramatically increasing the price of gems. While the staff did a great job of smashing all the bots, they never removed all of the gold produced by the bots from the game. Why haven’t they done so? With gems being literally worth more than the American dollar, people are spending a lot of real world cash on gems to then convert them into in game gold or spending them in the gem store for upgrades.

Not to burst any bubbles but almost everything is worth more than the american dollar.

Not to throw this thread off track, but lets not be spreading false information.

The US dollar is currently the 12th highest valued currency(1) out of the 183 currencies recognized by the United Nations(2).

(1)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest-valued_currency_unit
(2)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies