Guild Wars 2

I use scepter/dagger for bleed/poison as my main damage source. It has a long ramp up time, but for fast kills I use staff. Staff 2-5 gives me 3 stacks of bleed, 3 stacks of poison and chill which is enough damage to get tag credit on all mobs.

For bosses, I ramp up with bleed/poison then after I lay down CPC I go into RS, use RS 2 to get to the boss, RS 4 for poison bolts, RS 5 for chill, RS 2 again for frost armor, then RS1 until I get 5 stacks of burn (also 5 stacks might, 10 stacks vuln) then pop back out and repeat. The bleeds last long enough that they are still ticking hard by the time the rotation ends so the ramp up the second time is much shorter and you get pretty crazy high burst during the RS rotation.

This also gives good survivability. It lets my heal recharge while in shroud and build my shroud up pretty quick.

I haven’t clocked my DPS yet, but I will at some point.

Also on DS if the meta event is past a certain point you are disabled from rejoining the map. So whatever you do, don’t crash in dragon’s stand.

eisberg.2379:

Seems like not to many people are having this issue

Well considering i’ve seen 10 threads on crashing in the last 2 hours alone I would say it is a very common problem, especially in DS.

I crashed out of 2 maps today, wasting almost 4 hours of my time.

Fix your kitten servers or redesign DS.

I think the difficulty is discouraging players from doing it. And the map itself is already not a lot of peoples favorite.

I think it would be wise to make it a little easier so that more people will play it. Super hard challenges are awesome in raids, but open world events should be doable with a map full of pugs.

Trailblazer recipes come from crystallized supply caches in TD.

Gliding 6
Itzel 4
Exalted 4
Other Frogs 4

I think every mastery point or gate i’ve found can be overcome by that set of masteries. You should be able to get every achievement with those.

I tried the golem suit adventure in TD and got silver and no credit.

I then ported to Rata Sum and picked up items from the TP. Picking up the items then awarded me all my missing chests, my mastery point and the xp. I would give that a try if you aren’t getting credit. No idea if it is repeatable or what, but it worked for me.

Some of the adventures seem to either be bugged, overtuned, or require some odd trick no one has thought of yet. I know for a few of the adventures I BARELY get silver and my world ranking is ~30. So I would say that is an issue if <10 people in the game can get gold on something that is required to finish your masteries.

I hope you know you need something like 500+ airship oils for the new legendaries.

You better hope you have a lot of crowbars

I’m not sure what POI you think is inaccessible? Can you post kitten

You can reach the inner chamber without doing the story. There is even a JP in that room. You can reach the throne room outside of the story too.

Fairly certain there aren’t any points that are story only.

Lynnie.7213:

Any tip on how acquire Black Diamonds?

They drop pretty commonly from the chests under Tarrir.

After a win there are 27 chests under Tarrir, I generally get 2-3 black diamonds from opening all of them.

This is clearly a miscommunication from different teams.

Hopefully this gets fixed soon.

DeWolfe.2174:

Wanze.8410:

Gold income wasnt nerfed

I’m calling bunk on this statement big time. Where is the replacement gold coming into the system? And again, Dungeons were not the only gold faucet reduced or removed.

I’m making about 3g/hr just from shiny baubles in AB. Considering there are 1000’s of players in AB right now I suspect gold faucets have actually INCREASED since before HoT. That will level off in a few weeks, but the amount of loot HoT throws at you is just absurd.

This seems to miss the special unlocked areas? or am I just confused?

I know the westernmost unlock area has 9 pods alone.

The new precursors will be account bound on acquire and will only be available through the collection, no forge, no drops.

Therefore they won’t have a direct price associated with them. They will almost certainly be more expensive than the current tier though. Significantly higher demand.

If you have 100 people in your guild, have them all farm the flax farm under VB.

100x*~18 = 1800 flax per day for <30s of work.

If your whole guild isn’t contributing then of course it will take a while as it should.

Terra.8571:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

All they did was normalize the price to that of the light armor set.

Light armor didn’t change at all.

Leather and Heavy armor price was increased to cost about the same as light armor.

Welcome to what light armor wearers have spent for the last 3 years.

Ummm… they all increased. The 3 additional elonian leathers are needed for Insignias now. As such all insignias cost 20g ish more to craft. So even Light Armor users have to pay the extra 20g for their zerker zojja insignias.

You are right, leather wearers now pay what light armour wearers use to pay. But light armour now pay 120g over what they use to pay too.

Well good thing that due to the decreased amount of silk demand the damask is now 180g cheaper than before HoT.

So overall the armor is now ~60g cheaper than before HoT.

anahiDelrey.7601:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

It’s just an endless loop. The people who actually want/deserve something will earn/work for it, while everyone else will just whine that they don’t have it.

So, according to this statement, I do not deserve an item because I do not have the same hours to invest as a minority of player? I am currently working towards it, and Ascended Armor was already a lengthy process as it was, they have simply made it longer.

Basically, the people that they are aiming to hinder with making things “hard” to get will still get them; let’s face it, a 50 gold difference is not much to people whom have lots and lots of hours to dedicate to a game. But, what it really is doing, is making this much more out of reach of people who are actually able to get said items, but at the same time enjoy the game. I want to be rewarded for playing something difficult in a game. I do not want to have to plan out farming and make Ascended Armor my main focus, to a point where my whole play time consists of hopping from a lucrative spot to the other in order to maximize my gold income.

We are starting to see some of these things, which bring population to areas that were once barren prior to Heart of Thorns, because people actually like and want to do these scavenger hunts, that feel much less like the “I have a second job at home which consists of farming gold” pattern we were seeming to fall into. It is much more fun to run from a collection milestone to the other than constently farm the same things for ours in order to afford enough material for your time gated pieces.

And pertaining to casual players doing casual content, why did they nerf the gold reward from dungeons? That feels like cheap move which will render these instances much less populated than they should be. You do not shift focus in-game by bringing things down; you bring interesting things up with its own advantage.

Not sure how it is longer. Ascended (light) armor is ~150g cheaper now than it was before HoT. Additionally there are now numerous achievements that grant ascended trinkets.

Azzumy.7685:

In here is a spreadsheet for DPS calculations.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Reaper-dps-builds

Is there any reason why you use Shroud skill 4 over skill 1? Instead of skill 4 you can do 4.5 times skill 1. This gives more or similar damage from DoT, more direct damage, 4.5 might stacks, 9 stacks of vulnerability and it also generates 2% to 6% life force depending on the number of targets.

How important is the damage outside of Reaper shroud? The time outside of shroud I normally spend on obtaining life force from all non-auto attack skills, healing my health, boon stripping, reviving allies and resummoning minions. This normally already takes up more then the 10 seconds cooldown, not leaving any time to deal non-shroud damage. The only time when I am outside of death shroud is when I am too lazy to keep track of my life force, which I am for most of my time in the open world.

Also keep in mind that Soldier and Dire more than doubles your shroud uptime compared to sinister and berserker. Which might be a downside if you have to boon strip for your party, as I noticed in the fractals 40 to 50.

Before switching to condition, first think about the armor of the enemies you are going to fight. During the cliffside fractal I notice that enemies have very high armor, making conditions ideal. But during the beta the guardian in the raid has very low armor. There are some objects that can that critical damage, but do not take condition damage.

If you use RS4 while standing in CPC you apply an additional 10-12 stacks of poison. I think that should easily out dps RS1.

The problem with these fancy burns builds is that they are very focused on burn. We only have 1 skill that applies burn, and if you take a large hit and get knocked out of RS your dps essentially drops to 0. You have 0 bleed stacks up, and no more poison generation.

You become dead weight until you can fully recharge RS. This could be devastating in a raid where you take one hit by the boss and lose all your dps for 10-20s while recharging RS.

Well now that the hype has died down a bit and prices have fallen you can make it for ~2k gold now. It is pretty reasonable.

The main expense is still the linseed oil, but that will decrease in price. I can easily farm 100+ flax seeds in 10 minutes using the farm spots. Right now i’m just selling them, but once the price drops i’ll buy them back.

All they did was normalize the price to that of the light armor set.

Light armor didn’t change at all.

Leather and Heavy armor price was increased to cost about the same as light armor.

Welcome to what light armor wearers have spent for the last 3 years.

Engineer is king of conditions right now. Head over to their forum or check out metabattle for builds as I don’t know the specifics.

anahiDelrey.7601:

I think you are totally missing the point. The game should have more avenues than gold farming and economy play.

They’ve tried that multiple times. Every time they do that there are 1000 threads here complaining that Anet is “forcing” them into content, and “locking them out” of ever obtaining that particular thing.

So Anet makes the rewards tradable.

Then people complain that the item is too expensive. Of course they aren’t willing to do the work to get the item in the first place, so I don’t really see why they should be able to afford it.

It’s just an endless loop. The people who actually want/deserve something will earn/work for it, while everyone else will just whine that they don’t have it.

These are not limited, you can farm them all year long.

Look up maize balm.

I finished VB today and got no reward. Yes I have 100% map completion.

I have also not received anything for drytop, SW, or southsun.

The only other item in the game that is comparable to this is the preserved bee queen. It requires you to give up an ascended slot and take subpar stats. Yet it still sells for ~2000g.

This item is ascended can be given any stats you want and has an even better effect.

Anyone who expected it to be less than 2000g was just having unrealistic expectations.

Since this item is not in the game yet, how do you know this?

What items in particular are missing? I think it should have updated when the API updated. Gw2tp has every item i’ve search for at least. It does need to actually be listed on the TP for these sites to pick them up though.

Pre-launch datamining had them dropping from a couple maps during various weeks. I can’t remember which ones though. I think one was cursed shore.

Game time.

/15char

It doesn’t go in the forge so it isn’t a direct component.

It is of course possible that you use it to make another item which is then thrown in the forge, but if we start getting that convoluted with the recipe then it will take years and years to test all the possible combinations.

symke.3105:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Please do some reading.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Diminishing_returns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion

It explains what DR is but not how exactly it is working. Loot tables, for example. It’s one thing to know they are there, but another to understand them. How many there are in particular zone, when do they change? Do they change with every NPC we engage or are they bound to zone, sub zone or some sort of NPC group?
How long before DR kicks in, how long before it refreshes?

I can understand not having this information at the start of the game, when even devs themselves might not be 100% sure about the effects, but now, it just looks like “We are punishing you for not knowing, but refuse to teach you so we can punish you some more”.
Seriously, what is the official reasoning behind devs not explaining how DR works?

Their official reason has been stated and goes something like:

“If we told you how it worked then bots could abuse it”

There are essentially 2 types of DR.

1. Event DR. If you repeat events in a zone too quickly then you will notice that your XP and Karma rewards from events slowly decrease. This generally happens in a “farm” map where you are quickly running from event to event. This is by far the most common type of DR and can effect many players.

2. Loot DR. Anet swears that this only effects 100-200 players a week (as of last year) and is responsible for turning your loot into junk loot or no loot. This one is much harder to prove since RNG plays a larger factor. Some people seem to hit this DR much sooner than others, and many people claim it is also effected by MF. Without exact data there isn’t much anyone can prove or disprove here since you would need a large sample size and very precise data (i.e number of mobs killed, MF, time spent killing, kills/minute, etc)

Event DR was put in place to prevent karma farming at the beginning of the game when karma was hard to get and a major gate to legendary weapons. After a year or so no one even cared anymore because they didn’t need XP or karma. Now with masteries needing massive XP people are noticing again.

Note: There is no DR of any kind on mob XP gains. This is why you can still farm cursed shore or COF P1 for hours on end to get experience.

I also tried this event chain 3-4 times and never encountered a husk with a break bar. I think it is currently bugged.

Novuake.2691:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

99.9% of people who complain of DR have not been affected by DR. Do a search on it, it is explained quite well on the forums.

Really? So the 5K XP(instead of 18K) per event I get after spending 2 hours in Orr is not DR?

kitten must be my imagination.

I got into a good cursed shore map and after an hour I was getting 500 xp and 8 karma…

But i’m sure the game was just playing tricks with my mind lol.

Megaservers are currently broken:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/heads-up-iteration-incoming/

I didn’t see anything about a fix in the last patch so I assume they are still working on a solution.

Where are the +7 ones and how much do they cost? Do they come in an omni variety?

Play hot maps. Some of the crafting mats are going for 5+ gold each. common mats are selling for 20-30s and they are just lying around on the ground literally everywhere.

I heard if you complete any of the HP challenges using WvW unlocks then you will not get the map completion bonus since it isn’t counting those correctly. Not sure if that is your problem or not, but that is what I heard.

Why even bother putting in masteries if you are just going to remove ever needing them for anything?

Every single mastery I have earned so far outside of the first basic 2 has been rendered useless within a day by the constant dumbing down of the content.

Is this going to continue? Should I just not bother trying to get masteries and go do something else for a week?

Jackums.3496:

Stats for ascended Viper armor/weapons:

Thank you!

so 14% condition duration on the armor and 7% condition duration on the weapons.

Looks like i’ll switch to Viper armor and weapons to make up for the food nerf and keep sinister trinkets for now.

So much for our tank role in raids. I don’t see how we can reliably tank without this trait.

Guess we need to push for more damage instead.

Nice find! I was hoping they might mention the expansion launch like they did when SWTOR launched. No such luck though

Dav.9152:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If your answer is anything other than “use it to make more money” then you now know why you are poor and other players are rich.

I was going to answer the OP, but this has silenced me

To cheer you up here is some advice:

Due to halloween dropping large bones, and ancient bones like candy these items are now much cheaper than any other time in the year.

Spend 20% of your current gold to buy these items. Sell them in 4 months when their price doubles and you will have doubled your investment.

As long as you keep a portion of your gold in short term and long term investments you will always be making money just by playing the game, no grinding required.

No you won’t have to do raids, but they aren’t physically in the game yet. Even if you unlock the mastery it doesn’t do anything right now. In the patch where they add raids they will also add the new legendaries (that’s the theory at least) so you won’t be able to work on them until then.

This means you have over a month to finish the mastery and you won’t fall behind anyone else.

If your answer is anything other than “use it to make more money” then you now know why you are poor and other players are rich.

John Smith.4610:

Couple of replies:
1. Ensign is, as usual, pretty dead on.
2. 12.6 Silver from key output is off from my understanding of that design, so I’m going to look into that.
3. A market like this isn’t going to crash, it could grow unhealthier over time, but that’s why we iterate.

Don’t suppose you want to give any nightfury hints like you did for the last MF recipe that got introduced… pretty please…

Reverse.1056:

where is the master scribe npc to start lvling scripe ? i cant see nowhere near others in LA

You need a level 10(?) guild hall, a tavern, a mine, and a workshop. Once you have all that you can begin training scribe.

MoonRaiden.7423:

Straylight.7529:

MoonRaiden.7423:

Straylight.7529:

Pixelninja.6971:

I bet half off the 10 stars reviews on Metscritic are written by Anet employees.
Yesterday the score was around 5 with almost 1 to 1 positive and negative reviews.

This tells us that the better, well-thought out reviews from people who took their time to test the game tend towards giving it a better score. Most of the 0-scores HoT received on Metacritic were given within the first 72 hours after launch.

I’ll be honest, your statement makes no sense, and is very bias. Those who took their time to test the game will realized how bad the optimization, experience gain, and how badly gated it is. Hell, I discovered all 4 of the new maps, and is unable to explore the whole area because I am sitting behind mastery walls.

Then why is the quantity of positive reviews increasing? If what you say is true, then metacritic should show an increasing number of negative reviews. Yet precisely the opposite is happening.

Have you looked at those reviews? Half of them ARE VAGUE.

So are you saying that you can’t enjoy and like something unless you have a full 20 page explanation as to why?

After reading through about 30 of those reviews it seems the negative ones are significantly more vague than the positive ones anyway.

afierce.9208:

Can someone clarify something for me?

Will this ONLY be craftable during Halloween? Meaning, even if I have all the necessary items AFTER Halloween, I won’t be able to make it in the Mystic Forge?

I keep hearing people say that, but that sound ludicrous!

There is no indication that this is the case. The limited items are the tattered wings which will no longer be available as drops after Halloween ends. Everything else is still obtainable and the recipe should still work fine.