Guild Wars 2

I’ve been happily living in ignorance with my condition necro, playing around in PvE not really caring about maximizing DPS since it never actually matters. However I decided it would be nice to crunch some numbers and see how I compared to other specs and classes.

Then my world came shattering down.

I was already using what the forums consider to be the “max” dps condition build for necro apparently, and it is pretty decent. I thought, hey I do pretty good dps.

Theoretical max dps for a condition necro is:

25 stacks of bleed
Fear
Burn
Poison
3 stacks torment

Assuming 100% uptime and 2100 condition damage and 25 stacks of might (875 condition damage)

This gives us:

Bleed: 4781 dps
Fear: 1190 dps
Burn: 1071 dps
Poison: 381 dps
3 torment: 430 dps

This gives us a maximum of: 7850 DPS

This is obviously impossible to reach as you can never have 100% uptime, max stacks and max condition damage. Realistically you will be looking at ~5500 dps.

Then I went to other profession forums and looked at their most popular builds….

Warrior: 11000 dps (sustained) 17000 dps (burst)
Guardian: 12000 dps (sustained)
Ele: 14000 dps (sustained)
thief: 11000 dps (sustained) 18000 dps (burst)

Holy crap… condition necros suck. Condition damage needs to be increased significantly, allowed to crit, something. How is this considered acceptable?

nexxe.7081:

If the Pact is coming back, does this mean we’ll see Trahearne again?

As long as we see him strangled from the end of a vine, then go for it!

Yes please! Probably just an oversight, but should be easy to fix.

Eggman.1405:

Omnitek.3876:

Setting your own price: Exactly what the title says. Click match highest seller and lower price 1c below. (tip: if you click the copper field at the top and press down arrow or mouse wheel down, the price will lower by 1c)
Pro: You will sell your item before the 7 already listed and get more money than Option 1.
Con: It takes 3 seconds to change the price.

You cleverly left out a second con. This is also not instant.

Omnitek.3876:

Why would you ever click Meet highest buyer after reading this? I’m serious. Please tell me the reason. I want to know.

You already know why. Mainly, some people are better off getting money now.

If you want other reasons:

• If the buy price is 80c and the sell price is 1s, some people aren’t interested in haggling over a few coppers.
• Worrying about how to wring out every possible copper of profit from every item they ever encounter is not a source of enjoyment for some.
• Some people feel undercutting on sell orders by 1c is dirty pool.
• This is a game that could be unplugged at any time ANet desires. Some people don’t care how much fake money they amass, since it’s fake money that could disappear any time. When the zombie apocalypse strikes, you may start wishing you had a pile of real gold instead of ANet gold.
• The time that you spent earning more fake money could have been spent earning real money.

Don’t take any of this to imply that I think nobody should enjoy playing the market. I just have difficulty with a mindset that seems to think everybody should be playing the market.

I don’t care if you don’t play the market, and neither does anyone in this thread. What people care about is that people don’t play the market and then complain that the TP is dumb and is making them poor. Which is just not true. Their ignorance is making them poor, not the TP.

Tanith.5264:

I know we’re still processing the information, but I’m a mite surprised that no one’s remarked on the centaur at the beginning of the clip.

That’s probably because all the crazy map people found the centaur camp outside of the dry top map last week, so we already knew there would be centaurs coming.

It will be interesting to see how they play into the story though.

The overrun base is the Pact base in Timberline Falls I believe.

Vol.7601:

That is most definitely the pact camp looking from the west. Good to see that the effects of Mordremoth are spreading out…but that far? All the way in Timberlines across the sea?

Doesn’t make any sense. It would be better if the vines stretched into Rata Sum or anywhere along the Tarnished Coast…

I think his presence has just been hidden. It looks like he is attacking the pact, which means taking out Timberline, Orr, and various other locations far away from his home turf. There is a thread that has been following his spread of corruption throughout the week. The vines are disrupting the waypoints throughout tyria. It started in Dry top on patch day, but it has spread further as the week went on. Multiple waypoints are malfunctioning now.

Looks like we will be getting at least one new zone, and also some content in Timberline Falls. I’m excited to go back to timberline, that was one of my favorite zones at release.

Also something to do with giants. That should be interesting since giants used to be a major presence in tyria but died out. Maybe we will learn more about them.

The problem is that people really are that dumb. There are probably hundreds if not thousands of people buying these things right now.

On a side note, red dyes are going to take a dive due to the rescue package which IS worth it if you like opening black lion chests.

Well with exotic gear and ascended jewlery there isn’t anything you CAN’T do.

However if you are looking for a list of things to work on I would start with:

1. Crafting now goes to 500. Level up your chosen weapon and armor profession to 500.

2. Begin work on ascended armor. These are long term goals, don’t get frustrated if you aren’t cranking out an ascended piece every other day. You will need to do dungeons, WvW, World Bosses and other activities to earn the ascended mats needed, so just play the game and collect the stuff you need.

3. Wardrobe collection. Skins are now permanently unlocked via the wardrobe ( you can view it from your bank). Collect skins you like and find rare skins you really want and start working towards those.

Those are some of the long term goals you can do. Certainly not everything, but a good place to start.

How is it that after nearly two years there is still no grace period for getting D/C’d from the game?

This might not be an issue if you had a stable game, but since it crashes so often a grace period is sorely needed.

WvW, Dungeons, and World Bosses all suffer greatly from this problem.

No one likes waiting 45 minutes to set up in a teq instance just to crash half way through and get no credit.

biased poll is biased. Every option except one is worded towards the negative.

Ayrilana.1396:

Not taken by me

Looks like an egg. My guess is that it is Glint’s egg and that it has been waiting for the right time to hatch.

There is a lot of dragon literature where dragons can choose when to hatch, staying in their eggs for 100’s if not 1000’s of years.

People are always complaining that crafting is useless… they introduce a skin that can only be made through crafting… people complain they don’t want to craft… Anet can’t win either way.

I say the more skins added to crafting the better. At least it wasn’t in the gem store.

If you missed the point of interest stream this afternoon dulfy has the notes and link up:

http://dulfy.net/2014/07/03/gw2-point-of-interest-ep2-livestream-notes/

The most interesting thing is that Kasmeer is gaining powers and it is apparently very important to the story. I wondered what was up with her during the lying scene, but I didn’t make the connection.

I would love to see more history, lore, powerful artifacts, information on the races that defeated the dragons last time and how they did it. I would also like to see us encounter the dragon sooner in the story. We didn’t meet Zhatian until the moment we killed him. I would like to see the dragon destroy something before we are even close to facing him. Make the threat of destruction more real.

Dry Top isn’t even complete yet. You can jump your way out of the map and see the rest of the zone that will open up soon. A couple of my guild mates have done it, and there are SS’s floating around this forum and reddit as well.

Vajra.3914:

CodenameZeus.3945:

Just how does one get there?

Interested as well, is this some kind of lame jump?

It’s content from the next update, you aren’t supposed to be able to get there yet. Some people are very good at finding holes in the map though.

Isn’t it possible the dragons now control the realm of torment? I mean the human gods abandoned tyria right? Maybe when they left they abandoned the realm of torment too?

Odd before the patch the only complaint for new things I saw was for a new map… now you are saying people have been requesting a new class and new weapons?

Also Features come from Feature patches. This was a story patch.

Where is all this jumping that people are talking about?

I had to do two jumping puzzles for OPTIONAL achievements, but other than that I got every achievement and I don’t remember having to jump for them.

Are you talking about using the crystal skills? I suppose there is one part where you need to press 1 and move forward, but I think it is quite a stretch to call that Super Mario…

They are on more of a flex schedule this season. It will either be every 2 weeks or once a month depending on the update. Smaller releases will be every 2 weeks, but things like feature patches will be the only patch of the month. So it will vary from month to month depending on what is coming.

I like the chests. Keys are easy to come by ( I have found ~20 so far) and you just run around and open them whenever a sandstorm hits. I can usually find about 5 per sandstorm in about 5 minutes.

I would enjoy a return of the lockpick idea from GW1. It is a good alternate way to get ascended mats as well.

Do the story achievements, and DE’s around the world. Haven’t grinded a single thing, never done an event more than twice and I already have 190 geodes.

Also don’t purchase from the vendor until you get a T4 map. The prices are almost 50% less.

I think with the inquest playing a role this season we will see an Asura enemy as well as slyvari.

We are fighting a jungle dragon, Slyvari make sense. Once we fight the other dragons we will see other races as the enemies. Norn for Ice dragon, Charr for crystal dragon, etc.

It seems like it should be a bug. It doesn’t really make sense for it to be account bound.

You keep mentioning quality content and SWTOR… One of those words doesn’t mean what you think it means…

Lukyromero.6780:

Okay so… over the last few weeks I’ve just started is to tp flipping for my legendary; I’ve done everything from dungeon farming; I know every gold making tactic there is from mystic forging to farming to EoTM and WvW to salvaging so please don’t suggest any of those; this is specifically for the TP. I keep reading in map chat that people are making like 60-300 g just by flipping but I only get like 5-6g from it. What I do is I order like 5-10 stacks of an item I see has a higher supply ratio than demand, I wait overnight and get what I receive and flip it back accounting for the 15% tax and stuff. Now heres what I don’t understand: what am I doing wrong? I even have a spreadsheet for projecting profits but each day I can only net like maximum 6g.

Tge problem is that you’ve been reading the forums too much or t alking to too many poor people.

There are only a handful of players (probably a dozen or so) who are making 200+ gold a day by flipping items. It is not easy, it takes a lot of work, and the best flippers buy and sell dozens of differnet items on WEEK long time scales, not daily ones. Prices vary depending on time of day and day of the week. You will need to chart, track, and find the patterns for each item you want to flip over at least a week and then take advantage until the profit dries up and then move to the next item.

The people on the forums make it seem like you just stand in front of the TP and smash your face on the keyboard and that makes you steal all the money from poor players. That just isn’t how it works. Most people who try to flip items end up losing money not making it.

Sky.7610:

Samuirai.4561:

You can sell an apple at $0.75/each. Sky will buy 2. You made $1.5
You can sell an apple for 10.00$/each. A richer guy who doesn’t care will buy 1. You made $10.00

that might have been correct if the sample size consist of 1 “richer guy who dgaf” and me. Hopefully you realize there’s more ppl playing it.

Exactly. And the market research team at Anet has clearly concluded that the amount of money they make from selling things for $10 is more then the amount of money they would make from selling it for $3. If they thought otherwise they would have already changed it.

People spend stupid amounts of money on virtual items. They simply don’t care about the cost most of the time.

Those were given low AP counts because many people aren’t skilled enough to complete them and they will whine constantly and make 100’s of threads about how it isn’t fair that they can’t get the AP’s even though they didn’t achieve anything.

Even at 1 AP there are still 5-6 threads on the front page alone complaining that it is too hard.

The best way to level your first time through is to just explore each and every map and try to get 100% map completion. You get very good rewards for completing each map, and you get a lot of experience. You will hit level 80 long before you get 100% world completion.

Season 2 of the living story just started this week. There will be an update to the story every 2 weeks. You need to be level 80 to get access to the story, but you can unlock it just by logging in while it is happening on any level character. Then once you hit level 80 you can play it at your leisure. You picked a good time to start playing again.

The very fact that you’ve spent $800 on gems gives you the answer you are looking for. Why would they lower the prices if people are spending almost $1000 on gems to buy the items?

Do you need to actually kill him with the overcharge or just damage him once with it?

My DE v2 completed the whole instance without me. I just let them do it and threw out an auto attack once in a while. They seemed a little too good to me.

Of course new legendarys could use an entirely different set of mats. We have kakra shells, watchwork sprockets, and now amarite sheets as “T6.5” mats. One more and that will be enough for an entirely new gift.

Well it seems that it is pretty much confirmed that any sylvari that leaves the protection of the Pale Tree can be corrupted by the dragons. Though it seems interesting that this dragon is taking a more one at a time approach instead of corrupting vast swaths of sylvari. Taking the more nuanced, secret approach it appears. Guess we will learn more as the season goes on.

Eowin Of Rohan.2619:

Common sense says that it should be character bound.

The entire game is account bound. There is literally no reason for this to be character bound.

You get a debuff that counts down while damaging you. That debuff needs to go all the way to 23:59:45 for you to get the achievement.

Jumping out of the sand, and getting to close to the edge both reset the timer. You need to make sure you are in over your head and that you don’t jump.

Yeah this was an oversight. I want to get rid of the green star, but now it looks like I need to play through the whole thing again. Hopefully they can add a toggle.

If they adjust the collision on the bamboo I think this one would be fine. The only problem I’ve encountered is that you can land on the bamboo and then slide right off to your death.

The other issue is that there are no check points. In almost every other puzzle in the game if you fall you land a few platforms down and can start from that point. Here if you fall you die and start over completely, which is where the frustration is coming from.

notebene.3190:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Yes, the map(s) and zone(s) will stay, as well. Open World content is permanent, except for certain events that might further along the Living World story, and make sense to only be active for a period of time.

So that is my question. There are events going on right now in that new zone that will only be around for 2 weeks?

No. Everything added in the patch will be around until the end of time. You can complete any and all events, achievements, mining, etc for the next 10,000 years.

It’s an achievement. Try achieving something.

Took me like 20 tries, but it felt great when I got it.

I disagree. I would enjoy the LS significantly less if they changed the things you want changed. Opinions are opinions I suppose.

Of course there will be less people on the map after the LS is over, what did you expect? That is what you get with a permanent map. How many people did you find running around brisband wildlands before this patch? People will still go there for the achievements, and to harvest the abundant ancient wood and ori nodes and to get the recipes they need.

Traveling around the map vertically opens up a whole new dimension and makes the map much bigger for its area. It also makes it a fun puzzle. This was the second best part of the update. Not every map should be like this, but it is amazing that they were able to do it for at least one map.

Every task in the game is completed more easily by a warrior or a guardian, this is just status quo. Hopefully one day that will change, I agree with this point.

The story was the best part of the update. It was substantial, intriguing, and flowed nicely. I will admit that the forced gay agenda is tiresome and annoying though. I wish they would develop the characters without having to scream we’re a lesbian couple! every other line. The story was leaps and bounds ahead of S1. Also how could it NOT be a continuation of S1? Scarlet just destroyed half of tyria and unleashed a dragon… Did you expect us to just forget that completely and go pick flowers in a field or something?

I’d say 8.5/10. Points off for forced lesbian couples and lack luster rewards.

I think Anet just needs to find the right balance. Most of the rewarding activities are rewarding due to zerging. Zerging is the most boring type of content however. They need to find a better way to reward small group and solo activities better.

The elite achievements are a good start. The chests are fairly good and you can get 3 by completing all the achievements and it only takes about 15 minutes. However they are a once and done type of thing.

Ohoni.6057:

Pyro runs were at least fun little multiplayer activities. Story missions are not usually super fun, the story is engaging, but once you know it, you know it. There are tons of TV shows I enjoy, but it doesn’t mean I want to watch them dozens of times in a single fortnight. And besides, I was doing Pyro runs because I enjoyed Pyro runs, if I wanted to do something else then I could have done something else. They didn’t have some “Run Pyro 25 times” achievement, and more power to them for that.

That’s the thing though, you don’t have to do it in a single fortnight. Once you unlock it you can do them at any time until the end of time, or Anet shuts down the servers, whichever comes first.

There is literally no jumping at all in this fight. you walk up a ramp, stand on a platform and afk auto attack him until he dies. If you don’t want to run up and down the ramp 10 times then you can add in auto attack + dodge bombs.

Where is the secret room in cornered? I’ve looked everywhere like 100 times and there is no room. I found it once on accident, but it doesn’t seem to be where I thought it was when I went back (didn’t get achieve first time I found it)

Slyvari that leave the pale tree are becoming corrupted by the dragon. The zephyrites are preserving glint’s “legacy”, Scarlet searched for ley lines and found one in dry top. Jungle dragons corruption is spreading, and vines are overtaking Tyria.

You need to skip listening to the story to do some of the achievements, thus they separated them.

Great farming, made lots of gold so far.