Guild Wars 2

Keep in mind that the number of bags you got the last two weeks is not the normal rate. At the normal rate the amount you receive is fine. My advice refine them and make vision crystals. Those are going to be expensive.

Calae.1738:

It costs 190g to go from 400 to 500 weaponsmith.
It costs 203g to go from 400 to 500 huntsman.
It costs 215g to go from 400 to 500 artificer.

http://gw2crafts.net/

That’s the cheapeast way to do it.

Actually it is not. The time gated way after 450 is the cheapest way. That assumes you want it and want it now.

Time gated mats is the cheapest way but it takes more time

Deldrimor Steel Ingot and SpiritWood Plank are currently selling at about 1-4 Gold profit.

TexRob.5183:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

Increased MF will not help with precursor drops.

Trust me, with a very high MF before the patch, exotics and rares were not raining from the sky. Just an increase in blue/greens and higher level crafting materials (T5 instead of T4 for example).

Besides, most of the player base whined about MF and about how useless it was. That is why they removed it in the first place. Not sure how rewarding them with an extra free 20% MF made sense, but who really cares.

Don’t over estimate the value of MF.

Did you have 300% MF before the patch? Nope. We’ll see, maybe I’m wrong, I’m just saying, lets see what happens.

Southsun. Yep… He did. 300% magic find as the base cap did not come out of nowhere. Not to say it is a hoax not to say it does not work. It does. But it will not solve the precursor problem. It will help on the exotic drop problem. But not solve it.

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1252:_Increased_Risk

BondageBill.4021:

Would you mind transcribing the exact quote: question and answer? Can’t watch the video ATM.

Exact quote is important someone else put this in for me. Here is the link to where it starts.

http://youtu.be/Jy7CcwnfUdU?t=1m51s

Originally they did not have magic find apply to containers and chests due to they did not want people to think they need to put on their magic find gear to get the best out of it. Now………. Not the case.

What is everyone’s opinions on removing this restriction? Would it be good for the game? Are chests/containers rewarding enough?

Keep in mind a lot of work may need to go into having this implemented. This may also put off other things you want into the game. They may have to make some major modifications to the engine no I am also not saying this sarcastically?

Waldir.2571:

If the rate us the same wouldn’t it make more sense to sell lvl 80 gear for around 1.5s and use profit to buy a bunch of low lvl gear to salvage?

Depends do you need gold or do you need magic find. That is the best thing about it. You can choose what you need.

Do you need a % chance for more rares/exotics or more gold. I am still selling my greens for gold as I need the cash. Now blues I am not disappointed on getting though.

But then I am one of those players that never had a magic find set so I now have more magic find then I usually do.

Mungrul.9358:

So contrary to what they initially claimed (that Ascended was planned all along), Colin specifically states in that interview that Exotic WAS supposed to be final tier and Ascended was added because they underestimated how quickly people would get Exotic.

Ignoring the fact that people like being able to get max stat gear quickly so they then only have to worry about aesthetics, here we have proven that ArenaNet did outright LIE back in November, and that Ascended WASN’T planned prior to release.

Depends on how you interpreted it. I think what they were trying to say is the level of difficulty to obtain like Ascended currently is was planned all along. And perhaps it really was planned but desided not too do it as in initial testing they thought it would be too hard to obtain. They thought the players would simply charge more for it. Or at least charge more for the mats. A lot of pepole thought that. Now in a sence they are artifically restricting supply. Still waiting for those vision crystals to appear in the trading post.

And frainkly you know what I want to see the origional quote before I jump to any conclusion becouse pepole make posts like this and the community runs away with them. When quoteing a dev please be as close to what they actually said as possible.

Morrigan.2809:

Colin did say that they want Ascended to be the last tier- thank the six!
Housing! YaY!

And things like this are part of the problem of why we have a roller coster of pitch forks. It is more correct to say that he hopes Ascended to be the last tier.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Ursan.7846:

Vol.5241:

what’s so wrong about being rich?

The plebeians hate you.

Wat’s a plebeian?

It is a roman commoner. Now days it is usually used to refer to the masses.
There saved a google search for a few people.

Ayrilana.1396:

Aren’t the time-gated materials sellable? He likely has multiple accounts, generous friends, or a lot of gold.

I don’t think anything is on the trading post yet for them.

Condas.7056:

Yeah, the looking forward post made it look like a sure thing and then on that dev stream she brushed it off like it was just brought up casually during a meeting and wasn’t serious yet. Do not like the flip floping.

They just don’t know how they are going to do it yet. That is all. That is likely why it sounded more like it was brought up during a meeting and nothing has been done about it.

Condas.7056:

Psycho Robot.7835:

I hope you have enough scratch to get to 450 crafting, because unless you refine those, or throw 90% of them away, you won’t have room for that much dust.

Actually not even doing 500 crafting. Focusing on 2 Twilights right (wife’s and mine for eternity) now so it isn’t even on my radar yet. Guess I will destroy them.

I would keep them refine them into what can be sold a Vision Crystal

So far it looks like the rewards scale up with “Difficulty” and by difficulty I mean more the closer to 80 you go. Keep the results coming.

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Colin has stated the future dragons and personal story is something we would see in expansion type content. Expansions are typically permanent, so I think we can safely assume that when additional personal story and dragons are introduced, they would remain in the world.

Could be wrong though. At which point, I’ll holler just as loudly as everyone else. Since that content should be perm.

And the Devs later stated that there will likely be no expansion…

They also said that they are willing to release expansion type content for free as part of the living story.

They also said they do not know if they are or are not doing a expansion.

Not this patch. I would expect it sometime this year.

Hu ??? explain some more.

I thought Pile of Bloodstone Dust was basically a guaranteed drop from champion loot bags. Explain some more. Less rage this time please.

Thanks. Glad to know I don’t have to do 500 of each to get this. Empyreal Shards need more info on.

Might start up a wiki research thread from this. I wonder if it is constant or RNG. Please keep them coming.

RainbowSyrup.4130:

Sure it is.. if you’re not making a legendary.

you cant even buy obsidian shards with bauble bubbles anymore.

Go do some events. They are what gives the best karma. Things are back as they should be in the world of karma.

azurrei.5691:

WhedonGaming.8016:

yeah, i noticed that too. i bug reported it. people who have done it already get to do it a 2nd time! crazy… i was off by 1 (3/4 done). this is hopefully fixed soon.

edit 1: oh, and i’m down to 1/4 done now. they changed a bunch.

this has happened before and yes, people who completed it before the change can double up.

Not recommended as it is a bug. And that would be considered a exploit.

Daily and monthly achievement rewards now include Essence of Luck. To offset this, the amount of karma earned from daily and monthly achievements has been reduced.

Karma was given out too much anyways. Magic find however is much more useful.

How much of Empyreal Fragments and Dragonite Ore dig you get per drop?

Looks like you only need 10 of them though. So if the drop rate is 0-3 per exotic that would be ok.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

This is definitely not intended. Thanks for the reports, all. The team is aware of this problem and they are working to resolve it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Unintended-Monthly-Achievement-Rollback/first#post2762899

Panda Shepard.1248:

So can I hurry and finish and get more laurels or would that be a bad thing since this is a bug?

Not recommended that would likely be considered a exploit. Along the lines of if it is too good to be true it probably is.

The other side of the coin I thought Accept was a confirmation. I don’t want to be asked are you sure? Are you Really Sure? There is a balance to play with Confirmation boxes.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Update:

With the announcement of ascended weapons Anet has fallen to new lows in their attempted destruction of alts. With a 2 week minimum for each weapon we are talking a minimum of 40 weeks just to get weapons in every slot for your alts.

If you are an actual good player and keep every weapon for your class it will take you multiple YEARS just to get back to the same place you are right now.

I suspect the armor grind will be the final nail in the coffin for even the most hardcore alt lovers. I know I am reducing down from 2 characters to 1 after this update since it just isn’t feasible to get both characters to a point where I can use them at full power.

We will see how this is implemented soon but I have a feeling you can buy the ultimate result of all the account bound timegates in their trading post.

I think the biggest indicator is the design themselves. It takes the upgrade slot and merges it into the stats of the item itself. This is where most of the stats difference comes from.

Ascended equipment has an infusion slot instead of an normal upgrade slot. Infusions only give small that’s why all ascended trinkets have attribute bonuses comparable to a “built in” jewel to compensate for the lack of a standard upgrade slot.

For those saying that he is a bot or he is using Photoshop. Those that know how the economy works can do this. I could likely do it too if I wanted too it would just take me a lot longer and I would risk loosing a lot more coin as I am a beginner in the Trading post ways.

I am also just not patient enough too. Don’t want to do the research required (even with gw2spidy there is research required) Nor is it how I want to play the game. It might be later for I do enjoy some stocks at some time.

Definitely not starting now though. Economy is way too unstable. Great for the day traders and the high rollers. That I am definitely not.

As before you get on the hole hate the Trading post players. He likely lost a lot of coin recently. Thus him stating I do hate inflation. Every risk has it’s reward. Playing the tradingpost can be a high risk.

Congrats on getting ready for ascended items. Just go easy on us with the New Tier 7 mats please. Luckily it is timegated so it does not go way down the drain like most other crafted items under level 80 are.

Lets stay on topic. Let the topic be about on if ascended items is a death to alts not if it is good for the game there is another thread for that. There are plenty of threads for that.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-do-not-destroy-this-game/

Is the most recent one.

I still hold one reservation in the blog post on the upcoming for 2013 they stated that they would time-gate it to some content. I hope that is not there any longer.

Tomorrow me in WvW may give me the information that I need for that.

I was put off by hot join when it was first introduced. That is why I did not play sPvP for a long while. I like the way it was in beta better.

Azjenco.9425:

By now we all know that at PAX it was revealed how Tequatl will become a “raid boss” of sorts. What gets to me though is the requirement of 80 players minimum to succeed.

This got me wondering, why did ANet push for such a crazy amount? I mean, in theory all open world boss fights will undergo the same restructuring, which is great. However, how will this work. If 50 players take on Teq, they’ll fail. Moreover, he actually leaves now and we also don’t know how his timer will function.

I guess the battle will be made available in the LFG tool, but we’re still not sure how exactly it works. Can you apply for the event and be thrown into a group with random 5 players?

All I want to know is, with so many players needed, how will ANet allow players to fill that quota when the boss appears?

The LFG tools looks like it would work close to the same way it does in GW1.

That all depends on what ArenaNet releases for the GEM store. Two things made is rise. The large influx of gold and secondly the sales in the gem store.

BilboBaggins.5620:

psyckos.6893:

there will be an initial skyrocket in price, but it will top off and then drop as supply/demand balances back out. no different from any other particular item that all of a sudden becomes more useful than it was the prior week.

But the price always seems to settle at a higher price than before. We’re seeing inflation at a pretty breezy pace.

Just wait some time after the next patch to hit. You will see a lot of items will start to drop as buy prices demand them to sink.

Siphaed.9235:

anzenketh.3759:

Question 1:This will be coming on the 17th patch. October is when Season 1 WvW starts.

Question 2: Watch this space.

Question 3: If it is anything like Gw1 LFG system yes they will no longer be in a LFG party system. If that does not happen I expect it to be a hotfix. It makes no sence to leave them in the LFG system when they are not logged in

Question 4: If it is anything like the Gw1 LFG system you actually joined the party that you were LFG for. Then you communicated. Went wherever and did the party stuff and left.

Question 5: Yes
Source: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7728/page/1

Question 6: Just like it is now.

Thank you for that season answer. I got the stream quotes mixed up a bit. Though the recording is up and I was able to rewatch it, it would seem that the map changes are set for the 17th patch and the season is indeed in October. Also, thanks for the MMORPG.com link, didn’t finish the article yet, but still a good find.

As for #6, you say “as it is now”, I think you misunderstand the context of what I was asking. I’m wondering if they’re going to do something similar to the Scarlet Invasions, but with undead minions under the command of Te’Quatl throughout other zones (ones beyond Spark Fly Fen).

1. I understand your question now. I do not see this likely. It would be fun though for the effecting the world.

My Advice Wait…… Wait until the market is stabilized. Wait until you see for a entire month a nice picture of floors and ceilings with the item you are buying.

The market is unstable at the moment we don’t know what it’s final resting place will be. If in doubt ask in the trading post section of the forums.

I was going to draw some nice ascii art but forums does not like it.

Vayne.8563:

I tend to finish my achievements during the first week of living story and make the second week a week off from living story.

Make your own vacation and you’re keeping it fresh. During the second week I do other stuff, like I always did.

I do the same. I hope with a busier schedule due to school that I can keep this up.

Question 1:This will be coming on the 17th patch. October is when Season 1 WvW starts.

Question 2: Watch this space.

Question 3: If it is anything like Gw1 LFG system yes they will no longer be in a LFG party system. If that does not happen I expect it to be a hotfix. It makes no sence to leave them in the LFG system when they are not logged in

Question 4: If it is anything like the Gw1 LFG system you actually joined the party that you were LFG for. Then you communicated. Went wherever and did the party stuff and left.

Question 5: Yes
Source: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/7728/page/1

Question 6: Just like it is now.

Time gated will take about 2 weeks. From what I understand buying the refined mats that the time-gated mats are used to craft will be buyable though the trading post. So you could build the gear in one day.(If you had the gold and the mats are on the TP)

They already told us why.

his tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.

Do not worry though If you want to get your gear faster just bypass the time-gate from the trading post. All time-gated material can be bypassed by buying the items of what the time-gated material is crafted into.

Is it possible to build a well rounded Thief build that is good at PvE but also that same build good at WvW. I am not looking to be uber awesome. Just looking for some good survivability with some decent damage.

I also don’t want to change my gear just to go into WvW or just to go in PvE. I want something that is good for both.

As for weapons. I enjoy DD PP and SB.

I like DD due to Death Blossom. Although I tend to use Heartseeker more often then Death Blossom. PP due to Unload. SB for the good AOE.

squirrelzilla.5809:

Wait, wait, now I’m confused. Should I get all my lower crafting tiers up to 400 now? Or wait until the patch so I don’t have to rediscover all those recipes?

What say you Oracle of Forums?

Get them up to 400 now. This effects 400 level exotics only.

CuRtoKy.8576:

Some of the items are account bound and some aren’t.

Even though some of it you can trade I doubt there will be that many on the Trading Post at the beginning because everyone will be holding on to it to craft their ascended item.

And the daily refinements I believe are account bound.

True, And mostly true. The Daily Refinements(ecto refinements) are account bound. But then you turn the daily refinements into another refinement. (The Tier 7 Mat) That refinement is sell-able.

Falling in line with
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.

Don’t believe me check out

http://dulfy.net/2013/08/30/gw2-account-magic-find-ascended-crafting-and-legendary-weapons-revamp-preview/

The real gate here is the Account Bound Gate.

Mikau.6920:

anzenketh.3759:

For those that pay attention will find that this update actually solves the alt problem. Before you HAD to wait to get any ascended. Now this actually reduces the time to get ascended.

What I got from the TWITCH stream was that the results of what you make from the account bound time gated items are tradeable in the trading post.
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

So theoretically you could make your ascended armor without any timegate it would just cost you more.

If you do want to make it yourself however it should take about 2 weeks per piece.

NOTE: This is a good thing. It makes crafting useful after you got the armor/weapons you are looking for. Can’t have everything.

I’m a little more happy! Do the weapons will be account bound after equiping them? Even transmutating them (I hate the GS look and wanna keep my GS look)? I really hope so.

Yes the weapons are account bound. All Transmuted items are account bound anyways.

Zero Day.2594:

@anzenketh
Great! (sarcasm)…. so i want five items (2 daggers, 1 pistol, sb, sword), ~10 weeks… or i could buy (shortcut) mats via TP for i would guess as high as 10-20g? perhaps i should load up on some gems… (kitten no)
crafting had its place for crafting for yourself out of mats you found, if you choose to.
@Xsorus
cool. i’m still 10-20% stronger than you wearing my fancy ascended gear.

The ascended weapons will be obtainable by other means it is just a lot harder. We do not know what their drop rate will be. Currently they do not drop at all outside of WvW and fractals last I checked. We do not know yet how much the result of the account bound items that is trad-able will cost. If I were to guess it would cost maybe 1-2 gold more then ecto price. So around 5 gold max is what I would guess. These are not rare drop precursors after all.
The Players dictate the price not Arena Net

Mirta.5029:

anzenketh.3759:

What I got from the TWITCH stream was that the results of what you make from the account bound time gated items are tradeable in the trading post.
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

So theoretically you could make your ascended armor without any timegate it would just cost you more.

If you do want to make it yourself however it should take about 2 weeks per piece.

NOTE: This is a good thing. It makes crafting useful after you got the armor/weapons you are looking for. Can’t have everything.

from what they’ve said there’s 1 ascended component that’s sellable. The time gated, exotic salvaging, jumping puzzle jumping ones are acc bound.

Ectoplasm refinements are the only thing are time gated. So the Glob of Elder Spirit Residue and the Lump of Mithrillium. Not sellable.
If they follow the pattern(As they likely will) as shown in the livestream. Both of those are only used to make the Deldrimor Steel Ingots(And the like). The result of that is tradable.
For clarification The refined materials that you make from the refined ectoplasms are tradable. So if someone wants they can go out and buy a whole bunch of Deldrimor Steel Ingots and completely skip the timegate.
This is how I say you can make ascended weapons with no timegate. It will just cost you more.
Duffy made some nice notes go take a look. You will see that I am right.
http://dulfy.net/2013/08/30/gw2-account-magic-find-ascended-crafting-and-legendary-weapons-revamp-preview/

Viking Jorun.5413:

SkylightMoon.1980:

Mirta.5029:

Well it’s still a huge money sink hole and not worth it.
1. You need to get from 400 to 500 with T6 and their prices are on the rise right now
2. One of the ingredients is gotten by salvaging level 80 exotics and has only a rare chance to drop.
It’s just simply not worth it. I’m tired of time gate and I’m tired of RNG. Why can’t we have karma and dungeon tickets like we used to? Why can’t we get new dungeons to earn ascended items in?

I had this same complaint because I feel like the aim or horizontal progression in the game is creating this lack of content(dungeon) for rewards. I think it would be cool to have a series of missoins where we are sent back in time through FOTM to the crystal desert or the deldrimor dwarves area to receive the crafting mats. But then the WVW players would complain about being forced to do PVE.

kitten right we would! I’m fine spending 5 minutes a day crafting so that I can go back to WvW.

This actually helps WvW players from what it sounds like most everything is obtainable though the TP or though WvW itself.

What I got from the TWITCH stream was that the results of what you make from the account bound time gated items are tradeable in the trading post.
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

So theoretically you could make your ascended armor without any timegate it would just cost you more.

If you do want to make it yourself however it should take about 2 weeks per piece.

NOTE: This is a good thing. It makes crafting useful after you got the armor/weapons you are looking for. Can’t have everything.

For those that pay attention will find that this update actually solves the alt problem. Before you HAD to wait to get any ascended. Now this actually reduces the time to get ascended.

What I got from the TWITCH stream was that the results of what you make from the account bound time gated items are tradeable in the trading post.
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

So theoretically you could make your ascended armor without any timegate it would just cost you more.

If you do want to make it yourself however it should take about 2 weeks per piece.

NOTE: This is a good thing. It makes crafting useful after you got the armor/weapons you are looking for. Can’t have everything.

Not really ……

What I got from the TWITCH stream was that the results of what you make from the account bound time gated items are tradeable in the trading post.
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

So theoretically you could make your ascended armor without any timegate it would just cost you more.

If you do want to make it yourself however it should take about 2 weeks per piece.

NOTE: This is a good thing. It makes crafting useful after you got the armor/weapons you are looking for. Can’t have everything.

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

This is why. Ectos are part of a new base mat. Ectos are becoming the “2nt currency” that ArenaNet wanted all along.

Ectos did spike due to the following:

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

Everything else can be explained as players currently have more money this was on purpose and expected. This was done in preparation for the coming(If not already started equilibrium) shift.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/economy-report-brace-yourself-disequilibrium-is-coming/

What I got from the TWITCH stream was that the results of what you make from the account bound time gated items are tradeable in the trading post.

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/c/2844578

So theoretically you could make your ascended armor without any timegate it would just cost you more.

If you do want to make it yourself however it should take about 2 weeks per piece.

NOTE: This is a good thing. It makes crafting useful after you got the armor/weapons you are looking for. Can’t have everything.

From what it looks like things that you have transmuted that you want to upgrade to exotic will have to be transmuted again. Bit of a drag but at least it is just one more time.(Hopefully for a long while if not ever).