It’s very annoying. They put in these HUGE grinds to get just about anything at level 80 and then they prevent you from grinding.
I guess it is to make everything take arbitrarily longer, but it just makes me want to not play when after 20 minutes I stop getting loot.
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Your argument falls on two fronts.
1. you are giving ectos a higher value than every other mats and it is NOT. I have more ectos than I have level 300 poisons.
2. jewelrycrafting requires FAR less mats to craft each item than almost any other crafts. But more importantly, you seem to be giving ectos some arbitrarily higher value than the other mats, which which again is not.
I just leveled my jewelrycraft to 400 today it took me last time AND money to do it than it did for my LW and huntsman."
None of what you have said here is true. In fact it is all patently false.
1. Ectos do in fact have a higher cost then other mats because:
a. They are exotic quality other mats are fine quality
b.Their vendor price is 2s 64c, while even T6 fine quality mats vendor for less then 1s
c. Their market price is 20x that of level 300 poisons.
You could easily sell 1 Ecto and buy 15-20 fine mats. Value is set by the market price nothing else.
2. I’m not sure where you got your numbers but JC costs just as much in mats if not more then other professions. Sure you need less variety but each individual mat costs much more. They need a huge amount of metals particularly silver and gold which cost over double the amount of the same tier metals that other professions use.
Agains Ectos DO have a higher value then other mats as shown above.
More power to them… i’ve tried and failed 3 times and succeeded once. It’s very difficult due to the global nature of the market.
Yesterday there was a post about the economy and how they created new mystic forge recipes to help take items out of the economy.
These recipes are a scam. After 5 attempt in every single case the items I received from the mystic forge were valued less then JUST the glob of ectoplasm. Not even considering the price of the other mats.
Just figured i’d save other people from wasting their money.
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Why disapointing? You only craft for the stats, the looks you can copy with trans stones. Or did you forgot about those?
Crafting is supposed to be for the looks. The stats come off the random items you find in the world.
Sweet, the game is selling even better then I expected.
Melee is seriously kittened in WvWvW because everyone is playing ranged so if you go in that close you get focus fired because you are the only one. That is a self perpetuating problem to which there is no solution, it happens in any open world PvP scenario.
In PvE I don’t have any problem with Melee. It does much more damage and is superior as long as you know how to dodge and apply conditions. The only instance it becomes a problem is when you have multiple enemies focusing on you or if the enemies do all AOE damage. The multiple enemies thing is also just related to your class (mine is thief), classes with strong Melee AOE like warrior wouldn’t have nearly as much of a problem.
I agree, I haven’t PvP’d much but even for PvE events not being able to get credit for any kills because your computer doesn’t render fast enough is not very fun.
Umm you do know that servers are matched based on how good they are? there won’t ever be a huge server facing a little server once the 2-week cycles start. All the servers will be evenly (closely at least) matched.
if you do end up losing you will be down ranked to face a worse team so it will get easier and easier to control points.
Also 3 of the maps are the same aren’t they? so even if you are losing in 1 of the borderlands maps you can just switch over to one you are winning.
The eternal battleground could be more problematic however, but map completion is supposed to be a life time achievement, not something you get done in a day so I don’t really see them changing it.
The “nerf” made it even easier to level most of cooking because chocolate and butter are even easier to get then they were before. I will say that a few of the items that you really need a lot of though are impossible to find (vanilla beans >:o ) so they need a new source of those.
Cooking is one of the most useful things once you hit max level. It just needs to be slowed down a bit in some areas and sped up a bit in others.
Bloodstone shard is almost certainly a component for the legendary weapons, however it does NOT combine in the mystic forge with Dawn, so it probably has to be used as an ingredient for something else that is used in the final recipe.
That is the big mystery right now, no one is really sure what that item might be.
As a side note… wow you must be really rich to be able to afford all that stuff… how did you get all that money?
I’m sorry but can you explain how 8v8 sPvP is a zerg that depends on who has the most players?
OP I think your problem is that you are low level. I don’t see you stating your level anywhere but by the sound of your post i’m assuming you are probably around level 30.
At level 80 100k xp is about 3 events. It takes all of 30 minutes to complete this part of the monthly. It is the easiest monthly part to complete. Also if you have the mats it is about 10 minutes of crafting using discovery at level 80.
So I believe your problem is your level not the achievement itself.
I don’t understand the replies in this thread… The OP asked a simple question if anyone knew of a recipe for mystic clovers because the only known option right now is random…
Then a bunch of people come in and start screaming about how legendary weapons should be hard to get and the OP is an idiot because he wants to have everything handed to him…
Did I miss something?
The name of the item indicates what stats it has, for example any item that starts with “carrion” has the stats +power +Vit +condition dmg. Any item that starts with “Explorer” has the stats +Power +per +MF.
There are about a dozen names/combinations, and searching for those will give you the stats you want. Stats always come in sets of 3 (past level 60) and they are per-determined sets.
Where are vanilla beans found now? They have jumped from 4c to 60c on the TP.
I agree that the anti-farm code is really annoying. I’ve been doing events in Orr and i’m about it call it quits because I can only get loot from the first 1-2 waves in an event and then I spend the next 5-9 waves getting absolutely nothing. I’m just wasting my time at that point.
It’s really easy to check thsi for yourself…
1. Go to an event in Orr
2. Kill 10-15 enemies per wave
3. Loot 10-15 items in the first wave
4. Loot 5-6 items in the second wave
5. Loot 0 items in waves 3+
It happens in every event (i’ve done 30+ in the last 2 days) and the exact same pattern repeats every time. It isn’t random at all, the pattern doesn’t even vary.
This achievement can be done in 10 minutes with crafting or about 30 minutes (4 events) in a zone. If they made it any easier to obtain they might as well take it out.
This is meant for level 80’s, if you can’t get it as a lower level then it is ok because the rewards are for level 80 crafting, so if you are not level 80 and you can’t get there in a month then it isn’t really an issue. The monetary and experience reward for this achievement are really poor so the only reason to do it is for the level 80 mystic coins you receive.
As far as I have been able to tell it only resets if you die or change zones, so you should be able to do it just by clearing a whole zone (around level 40) without dying. I did the August one in the centaur area where there is a chain of like 3 events that ends with a centaur boss. took me about 2 hours doing it with that event chain.
It doesn’t seems to work on bosses, or atleast some bosses..
I put blind on them, but when they attack with blind, it doesn’t miss.
It only works against single target attacks. Most bosses use AOE attacks so it will miss the first person the AOE hits but then will hit everyone else in the AOE. So its effect is greatly diminished if you are facing an enemy that does mostly AOE.
I’ve been using a +100% MF gear set (with food buff) but I can’t seem to kill things very fast. where do you guys farm? do you just run around and kill everything or do you stay near events?
I noticed that the anti-farm code kicks in really really fast in events. When the first wave of zombies spawn I kill 10-15 of them and they all drop something, I get 10-15 items. By the second wave if I kill another 10-15 I get 2-3 items max. This has happened at least a dozen times so i’m pretty certain it is the anti-farm code. The best strategy seems to be kill the first wave in a event and then go find another event, don’t stick around for that one.
Well that weapon will certainly be epic! I hope they keep the requirements this high. I like having a long term goal to work towards.
You forgot to mention the cost of the boosters in your OP… each boost costs 150-200gems… so at the MINIMUM you are getting an item worth 150 gems, not including the tonic and 3rd item.
The boosts are extremely useful for getting SP’s and karma. Or a speed boost or armor boost or damage boost, etc…
Bugged on Jade Quarry as well. Also the SP north of Snaketail Inlet is no where to be found.
I finally made it to the level 80 zone and now I can’t figure out what to do. There are too many enemies to travel anywhere alone (2 enemies every 5-10m if I attempt to dodge I instantly aggro another 2) if I try to fight solo I die almost instantly (constant CC and immobilize prevents me from dodging or even moving, I just sit there unable to attack or dodge until I die).
This isn’t a huge problem because I can just follow the zerg of players around, but the problem is that there is so many of them I don’t get any experience. When I attempt to do one of the 5 events in Orr that isn’t bugged there is so many people that the enemies die before they even render on my screen. So I get no money, no loot and no participation medal.
So I feel sort of stuck at the moment. The only place I can seem to get any level 80 loot is by painstakingly slowly killing enemies solo back and forth across Orr. Is there any plans to add hearts or a few more events to the level 80 Orr zone? Or instance it to prevent 90-100 players all AOE botting events in a giant zerg?
I’m open to suggestions.
Once you get 1 or 2 gold it is pretty easy to find an item that is selling at tp cost and just buy all the items within 5-10c of tp cost and relist them. Easy way to make a few silver.
For the items where there are like 500 of that item listed at vendor cost I have no idea what to do to fix the prices on those items though.
From the game status update page:
“We’ll add an option to report an account for sending spam or otherwise inappropriate in-game mail. Edit: This option will be added in tomorrow night’s update, not tonight’s update.”
This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkMECGVxagY
Will show you every possible combo in the game. There are a couple other video guides out there too, but this was the first one I came across.
I think the major problem in this thread is that people aren’t realizing that Explorable mode dungeons are the highest level and hardest content in the game. They are supposed to be equivalent to the difficulty of Hard-mode 25 man raids in WoW. I’m surprised that anyone at all has been able to clear them since the game hasn’t even been out a month yet. Plus they will only get easier.
If you are doing them at any level below 70 then you are missing at least 1 grandmaster trait which that alone can make a big difference. If you are not in full orange gear that exactly matches your level then your stats are not scaled to the highest they could be so you aren’t properly geared yet. People are still experimenting with builds. I doubt even half of the people trying an explorable dungeon even change their utilities to match the challenges of each encounter, and I bet even less then half of those people are changing their major traits to match the encounters, which also would make a difference.
I think it is kind of absurd to be talking about something being too difficult when most people don’t even know how to play the game yet. Explorable modes are supposed to take lots of coordination and skill. If you want to pug you should be doing story mode.
They made a dungeon mode for people who aren’t as skilled, it’s called story mode, and it lets you see the story in a more relaxed easily pugable way. If you want to do the hard mode then please don’t complain that it is hard.
It currently resets anytime you enter an overflow map. So do it all in one place, don’t go to different zones.
It’d be helpful if you changed this to your race, not your class. The story quests are based on race not class.
But in general if you ask in general chat you might be able to find someone to group with you and help you.
Krait drop scales in abundance.
If you are looking for a good mix of items though your best bet is Centaurs and Pirates. The loot bags they drop are a great source of ALL crafting mats. Just find an area with an event and they will spawn in large numbers. In the level 35 zone I was getting 20+ bags during a 20 minute event chain.
If you mean the “Anet Points” that you get for each achievement you get, then no those are nothing more then a number that you can compare against other players to show that you’ve completed a lot of stuff.
If you mean the “Mystic Coins” that you get for completing the daily and monthly achievement, then yes those are vitally important for making level 80 exotic weapons and armor.
I haven’t really run into this problem. Make sure you always have extra gathering tools availible so you don’t run out, also make sure to always go out of your way to collect nodes if you see them. Doing this alone I found about 500 copper while leveling.
I also notice that you are doing 2 professions that use metal. If you try and level both of them at once you obviously will you twice the mats. I would suggest focusing on 1 profession for a while or pick a different profession that requires different mats then your first.
Matches are getting more even over time. The first few days my server controlled all 750 points of WvW. We didn’t let anyone have anything lol. Now it is much more even.
It’s just because people don’t understand the mechanics all that well yet. There IS still a sort of trinity though… except it is now, “support”, “control” and “damage”. But every class can do all 3 and you can be a hybrid that works really well as well so it’s best to just grab some people and go.
I agree. Reporting them in actual chat is easy and simple, however reporting a mail is next to impossible.
You can either wait until you need your next trait manual and that will reset your traits, or I believe your trainer also offers a respec option for a few silver.
Mine also did not reset, which was nice because it allowed to to finish the monthly, but I think it is a bug.