Guild Wars 2

As many of you know, the meta event required to make available the Temple of Balthazar vendor has become bugged on many servers, making it impossible to access this vendor and purchase karma sets or obsidian shards, a necessary ingredient for legendary crafting.

Would it be possible to temporarily make a new vendor, perhaps in LA, that sells the items normally provided at the Temple of Balthazar until the meta event is fixed?

Supply/Demand

People are willing to buy them at the prices they’re selling. If they don’t sell, then prices will continue to fall until they do sell, even below the cost of manufacturing them because they will be taking up inventory space, as well as holding value that could be liquified and spent elsewhere.

And that’s as simple as it gets. If you can’t afford the bag, then it looks like you’re going to have to do with whatever size you’re currently using.

Nice stuff costs lots of money in real life too, because demand far outpaces supply.

People talk about probability as if it is this enigma that is controlling of the player’s fate.

With a large enough sample size, an event with a certain probability of occurring will approach whatever mean value AN has determined for the clover recipe.

The chance that you do the single mat recipe 100 times without getting a single clover would be laughably small.

Get obsidian shards and do the 1 clover recipe. You WILL get your clovers in a reasonable amount of karma spent. If you don’t want to do that, then don’t craft the weapon. Those are your options.

Which server did you get your ob shards from? The one I’m on has been bugged for a long long time…

Bumping this after the update.

Maguuma’s Balth quest line reset after update, and then the central invasion proceeded to get stuck at step 2. Sigh.

Is this working on ANY server?

Bring:
1) Condition removals (multiple for each person)
2) Bows
3) Ensure you’re minimizing bleeds/conditions/burns on the golem
4) Dodge

That’s it. Then just shoot him until he dies.

Man, I’m really glad I ground out my 500 tokens a long time ago. P1 was the only one that you could do it in a reasonable amount of time. P3 was ok, but P2 is just an absolute nightmare with the sheer amount of trash you have to kill.

I think one major issue that is prevailing in these dungeons is trash mobs have an insane amount of HP but almost no reward for killing them. Thus, it becomes much more time-efficient (if the goal is to farm gold, items or money) to skip as many of these mobs as possible and hit only the bosses.

If the philosophy of the dungeon loot process were to change, I think you might see people exploring/completing dungeons more fully. Why not give these difficult and time-consuming trash mobs better loot tables for killing them? Why do they have worse loot tables than silver or trash mobs in open world environments? Give them a high chance to drop T5 or even T6 crafting materials, yellow weapons, etc. Make it worth the player’s time to actually kill the trash.

If the goal is to have complete exploration of the dungeon, give players a motivation for doing that, rather than just encouraging them to hit boss after boss and reset the dungeon, or not even complete the dungeon at all and simply reset it to hit easy bosses at the beginning over and over again.

Start expecting to see them early to mid of this week.

Maguuma zerg is usually pretty helpful and friendly to new players in the area. Sometimes there are some smartass comments but it’s almost always in jest from what I can tell, and no one really takes it personally.

If possible, could someone post in this thread when and on what server the Temple of Balthazar event is working? This event has been bugged on my server forever and I (and I’m sure others in this situation) would appreciate knowing which server to transfer to so we can continue our legendary weapon production.

Thanks!