Guild Wars 2

Oops there was one wrong hidden room posted, corrected now

Hey everyone, I made a guide for the Associate of Secrets in world 2 which require you to find all hidden rooms in World 2 zone 1. There are 11 rooms in total. The guide is in written format at the moment but I will do a video guide later in the day as well.

Let me know if there are any part that are hard to follow etc. Pretty much all of the hidden rooms that count for the achievement are after the raft section with the assassins. I recommend you do it on infantile mode to save yourself the headache.

http://dulfy.net/2013/09/05/gw2-associate-of-secrets-world-2-achievement-guide/

Enjoy!

Hey everyone, as you all probably know, SAB Back to School is coming later today. While alot of info has gone out with th embargo mishap yesterday, I thought I would summarize it for those who havn’t seen them yet and put my own spin.

This is just a TL : DR summary, there is also a longer version with artwork hand drawn by my friend and a vine video I stole from Lord Vanquish: http://dulfy.net/2013/09/03/gw2-super-adventure-box-back-to-school-patch-preview/

World 1 and changes to loot

• World 1 will return with all of the achievements. Those who completed it last time will retain all of their achievement and get a King Toad Green Backpack cover if they have completed the meta (new players will do as well)

• New secret locations added to world 1 for players to explore

• All chests and dig spots are now account bound daily to prevent mindless farming.

• Old SAB skins are not returning but the 9 other weapons not shown last time will be coming (Mace, Axe, Warhorn, Focus, Torch, Pistol, Rifle, Dagger, Hammer)

World 2

• Zone 1 was largely finished from last time but you will need to do it again for the new achievements etc.

• Zone 2 is distinctively asian themed with mountains, dojos and palaces. It is also more exploratory than other zones with multiple paths you can take. Harder the path better the rewards.

• Lots of interesting mobs such as ninjas, frogs that swallow you, stealth owls that steal your baubles etc.

• Less baubles along the main path this time so you will have to really go out and find them.

• Environment is quite deadly and filled with dart traps on various passages. You will soon learn to watch out for them.

• Lots of puzzle this time, including one where you need to balance a scale to gain entry to the next checkpoint.

• Dojo master mini boss that pays homage to Megaman – defeating him gain you a giant glove of wisdom, which allow you to push blocks around to act as mobile platforms or break wooden barriers blocking your path.

• Push Block puzzle where you need to use your giant glove to push blocks around while avoiding dart traps.

• Roll a gong from top of a temple to the bottom while using it to block dart traps. Similar to the scene from Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom in the Chinese nightclub.

• Secret shop that sells Wooden Whistle for 250 baubles that can play a couple songs.

• World 3 isn’t finished but you will get a sneak peak at it.

Tribulation Mode

• For those who seeks a challenge, designed for small group of players who find Mad King Clock Tower easy
• Anything can and will kill you in one hit.
• Flowers that explode, rocks that jump up and slam you, even checkpoints will kill you. Invisible traps everywhere.
• Basically force you to find a new path from what you are used to. You are going to die alot and waste alot of lives so you will need to farm baubles.
• More checkpoints than normal modes thankfully so you don’t rage and break something.
• Full set of green color variant weapons available to those who completed world 1 on Tribulation mode, yellow for world 2 and purple for world 3 (not in this release).

Achievements

• Same achievements in world 2 that have you hunt down secret rooms and collect all the baubles.
• Complete 13 of the World 2 achievements and you can earn yourself a new title (Honor in Applied Jumping) along with a new backpiece (Storm Wizards’s Backpack Cover).

• Tribulation mode also have its own separate set of achievements but doesn’t seem to offer any titles or rewards beyond the special weapon skins and the numerous achievement points.

Yes there are alot more puzzles this time around compared to world 1 from what we were shown.

Donari.5237:

Scanning through Dulfy’s coverage, it is comprehensive but not 100% complete (not that it could catch every word). The bit at the end is misleading, though. “Polymock” wasn’t the last word. When asked if there were last words, an audience member shouted “polymock” and a dev responded, “Polymock. That’s a word.”

As printed in Dulfy it could make people think a dev was making a hint at plans for Polymock.

Ya it was a rough draft as I was typing same time as the livestream. I went through my recordings and corrected it though

Hey everyone, for those who were unable to watch the livestream, I have wrote down some details notes I have taken from the livestream.

The livestream is still available for viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsjhbHQEzDQ

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

Some key points

Account Wide Magic Find

• New consumables called Essence of Luck (different rarity levels – purple, blue etc) that you will get from salvaging blues, greens, and globs of ectoplasm. You can consume these Essence of Luck to add to your luck bar which will increase your account wide magic find when the bar is full
• All existing players, to make up for the removal of magic find gear, will be rewarded with purple Essence of Luck that will give you 20% Magic Find by default.
• Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.

Ascended Weapons

• It will take 2 weeks to craft an Ascended weapon
• Crafting is not the only way to get Ascended Weapons! Anywhere you can get an Ascended Material drop or an Ascended item drop there is also a rare chance that you will get an Ascended Weapon chest that allows you to choose which weapon type you want from within a stat combo
• Added new Exotic Inscriptions to the salvage tables on all non-crafted Exotic weapons and to drops where applicable
• Raw materials for Ascended crafting will come from Champion loot bags, temples in Orr, Megabosses, keeps/castles/camps in WvW, from salvaging exotics, and purchased for skill points
• Crafted ascended weapons are account bound and soul bound on use. This allow you to craft them on any character on your account.
• Ascended weapons will have upgrade slot, and offensive infusion slots. 2handers will have two offensive infusion slots.
• Different colored sets depends on the stats you crafted.

Revamped Legendary effects

• You can select stats anytime out of combat, on the fly, making legendaries extremely versatile.
• Most of the legendaries are updated to have bigger footsteps and flashier effects.
• No change to Twilight/Sunrise/Flameseeker Prophecies/Rodgort – we felt they were awesome already.

400 is still Master, 500 is Grandmaster (from the livestream today)

Healix.5819:

http://dulfy.net/2013/08/21/gw2-set-2-minis-gallery/

Mystic forge and Sparkles is unknown.

Dismagus just submitted a specific recipe that will provide any of the three exotic steam minis except for Mr.Sparkles. I was a bit skeptical of it at first but multiple people have confirmed it in the comments section

Twisted Nightmare
Twisted Horror
Twisted Mender
Twisted Reaver

Malchior.5042:

Anyone care to explain overflows?

Invasion starts every hour on the hour. (i.e. 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm etc.). Overflows can be created anytime. If an overflow is created more than 10 minutes after the invasion have started (i.e. 4:15 pm) than that overflow won’t have invasion events until next hour – 5 pm.

Basically, if you get to an overflow past the hour and there are no invasion events running, you are screwed for the hour until the next hour, where the invasion can on a different map.

Um, have you read this guide? I have explained it step by step.

http://dulfy.net/2013/08/20/gw2-emissary-vorpps-field-assistant-achievement-guide/

Name: Copper-fed Salvage-o-matic.
Cost: 800 gems
It costs 3 copper per salvage with 10% chance to recover rares and 20% to recover upgrades (i.e. same as a basic salvage kit). The basic salvage kit comes down to 3.52 copper per salvage so this one is 0.52 copper cheaper per salvage. This is assuming you buy them for coins. Basic salvage kit can also be purchased with karma (77 karma each)

Also comes with sound effects of a golem talking when you salvage things.

More info: http://dulfy.net/2013/08/13/gw2-copper-fed-salvage-o-matic-unlimited-salvage-kit-in-the-gemstore/

The following champions have no loot bags upon being killed. Not sure if intentional or a bug but I will list them here just incase. This is not a complete list as I am still going through all the champions one by one.

• Champion Separatist Leader in Fields of Ruin
• Captain Jetsam in Lornar’s pass
• Ancient Creature in Lornar’s pass
• Lord Ignius the Eternal in Lornar’s Pass.

These are all solo kills so it wasn’t an issue of not getting credit for the kill.

Razor.9872:

You can only get them as drops. Run around with zergs below and you’ll get more.

That is not true, as the other posters have said, you can get 5 tickets for 15 Watchwork Sprockets and 20 silver from the various vendors in the middle of Crown Pavilion. Watchwork Sprockets can be acquired from the TP quite cheap now (60 copper each last time I checked)

Hey everyone, for those who are still working on the various tiers of Queen’s Gauntlet and the associated achievements, I wrote up some guides on the various fights and achievements you may find it helpful.

The guide will mostly convery general mechanics/tips but I also have video for various hard fights/achievements from a mesmer perspective (mostly). If there is enough interest, I can upload some videos of these fights/achievements on my warrior.

Guide: http://dulfy.net/2013/08/06/gw2-queens-gauntlet-guide/

If you are just interested in the achievements: http://dulfy.net/2013/08/06/gw2-the-queens-gauntlet-achievement-guide/

and here is a Youtube playlist of all the videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ2ntiwVMOhKnJNm-tCD_SweWmwlQD9Ow

The only one achievement I havn’t quite gotten down yet is the 8 orbs one for Lidari, which I am still working on

Enjoy!

I didn’t have much on it as I just got the achievement, will be updating the guide in abit with more info. Anyways for a warrior you have Fear Me, Rifle Butt, Kick, Bull’s Charge, and Stomp skills you can try out. It will be a bit tougher compared to a class like mesmer since you can’t stun Chomper right away. Instead, you will need to race Chomper to the meat and use those skills to push Chomper away.

Can be done fairly easily with berserker warrior using rifle and sword. Just run around the edge of the doom shooting at Subject 7 and then when he gets low (<20%) just savage leap and final thrust to finish him off.

Different story with my mesmer though..

cerberus.1937:

According to the patch preview in order to get the mini you “have to beat Laidri with all gambits active” to get the Laidri mini which only 5 testers were able to accomplish. So I am sure some classes will have the advantage which in most cases usually happens to be Thief or Warrior/Guard good luck and have fun!

Whoever wrote that is incorrect. You get the mini pet for defeating her, not for defeating her with 5 gambits.

skullmount.1758:

Vewen.8016:

skullmount.1758:

So do you know Dulfy, if the Queen’s Gauntlet (and Crown Pavilion) is permanent? Are we going to be able to keep trying to get the achievements after the two weeks/month?

It’s temporary, it only stays for 4 weeks.

Do you know that for sure?
I haven’t seen anything yet from Anet thats said its temporary (or permanent, for that matter). Granted, it doesn’t specifically say its permanent, like some other things have in past event pages.

We were told it will be here for 4 weeks.

and yes it seems you are able to jump between tiers without having to complete the previous one.

Hey everyone, I recently had access to a limited preview of the upcoming Aug 6 Queen’s Jubilee patch and here is something I wrote to share some of that information with you.

Hot Air Balloons, Beacons of Kryta, Crown Pavilion, Queen’s Gauntlet, and Gambits are some of the content you can expect in this Living World release.

http://dulfy.net/2013/08/05/gw2-queens-jubilee-patch-preview/

Enjoy and let me know if you have any questions!

The Phoenix, Magitech, and Braham armor skins some of you saw in the pvp locker last week are finally in the gemstore! 800 gems per armor skin as usual.

Here are some pics and preview codes: http://dulfy.net/2013/07/24/gw2-phoenix-magitech-braham-armor-gallery/

Here is a rough transcript of the livestream: http://dulfy.net/2013/07/16/gw2-colin-johanson-livestream-transcript/

Same location but you can only loot each basket once per day per account.

I managed to beat him twice and posted a video if it helps

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-belchers-bluff-activity-guide/#2d

Gallery has being updated with full set of Zenith weapons (mostly previews at this point)

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-zenith-weapon-gallery/

Farzo.8410:

Isn’t that bar brawl just a dynamic event in the new area? Just because it’s named bar brawl doesn’t mean it has to be the mini game bar brawl.

We already got the race mini game which looks awesome.

No Bar Brawl is actually a full blown minigame, it is not related to any dynamic event in the new area.

Hi, someone asked Leif Chappelle about this and he said the entire Labyrinthine Cliffs zone is not permanent. Once Zephyr Sanctum departs the zone will be inaccessible until the next time they put something in there and open it up again.

Leif Chappelle said it will not being part of this release. The Bar Brawl achievements are already ingame, they just made more prominent by the new achievement UI

Omnomnivore + Sanctum Sprinter (first place in Sanctum Sprint) are the two new titles.

Erasculio.2914:

dulfy.1493:

Skins

• Zenith weapon gallery (incomplete)

Dulfy, a question: is it me, or does the Zenith shortbow and staff’s animations change slightly when you use a skill? It looks like the green glow becomes somewhat orange.

Yup, most noticeable in the shortbow, staff is a bit hard to see but is there. Dagger/pistol didn’t see it so much.

Venirto.4208:

26 achievements, some will take while to complete and we can assume that more people will focus on them from now on. The question is, are they limited to 2 weeks only like the Sky Pirates or do we have more time to get them done?

26 achievements is alot but most of them can be done fairly quickly. You can pretty knockout most of them on day 1 except for maybe

• Lessons from the Sky (depends if you follow a guide or not)

• Like Clockwork (will take 8 days to complete)

• Sanctum Sprinter (depends on your opponent’s level but you should come out first place in say 15 matches).

BrunoBRS.5178:

what do you mean “You can pick only one skin to unlock per achievement chest”? does it mean that, to get all zenith weapons, i’d need what, 10k achievement points? :/

That seems like what they meant yes

There are some confusion here so I will clarify

1) There are more options than just the personal node to get quartz from. I listed a bunch here. However, it doesn’t matter how much Quartz you have as the bottleneck is in the production of Charged Quartz which is only produced once per day per acccount.

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/08/gw2-quartz-crystals-and-celestial-recipes-guide/

2) That personal node thingie is only available for once per account. Once you consume it, it disappears and you can’t get it on other characters. This means that you can only mine that character’s home instance once per day per account.

LordByron.8369:

great as Always:

but weapon skin vid is set as private <=== fixed
While the last link for celestial recipes is broken :|

Can you tell me how to get other weapon skins like daggers for example?
Also if old achievement are taken in account.

Oops, link fixed. Yes old achievements are taken into account and you will have access to the full selection of weapon skins. Some may not be available until higher achievement milestones though.

Hey everyone, to help you better prepare for tomorrow’s big patch, here are some previews and guides you might be interested.

This is a MASSIVE patch with tons of content and I think everyone will find something they like. There is a brand new Canthan themed zone, new weapon skins, new armor skins, new backpiece skins, 2 new minigames, new sPvP map, new crafting mats/recipes, massive scavenger hunt, tons of achievements. The zone will be here for 4 weeks but some of the stuff are only here for 2 weeks.

Overview (Get a basic idea of what this patch contains – contain least spoilers)

• Bazaar of the Four Winds patch overview

Achievements

• Bazaar of the Four Winds achievement guide
• Sky Crystal scavenger hunt guide
• New account achievement rewards and achievement UI revamp overview

Skins

• Radiant and Hellfire armor skins (from account achievement rewards)
• Zenith weapon gallery (incomplete)
• Fortune Scraps and Zephyrite backpiece/helm skins

Minigames

• Sanctum Sprint
• Belcher’s Bluff

sPvP

• Skyhammer map overview

Crafting

• Quartz crystals and celestial recipes

Yup, there should be previews today.

darkace.8925:

Is there a separate achievement for the goggles? Or is it solely +1 for the world goggle achievement? Thanks.

Just +1

Costs 800 gems. I know some of you have being waiting for it since Sky Pirates’s release last Tuesday.

Video of animation

Axe is available in the gemstore for 800 gems.

Here is a video of its animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzPnqMBqqEc

Ayrilana.1396:

dulfy.1493:

Ayrilana.1396:

So does this count as an extra dive for those who are still bugged with one missing?

This should count as #38. Which bugged one are you talking about? If you are thinking of the Metrica Province one, it got fixed a while back and should allow you to 38/38 it now

Oh was that the one that was bugged? I believe I made the round to every diving location in March and couldn’t figure out which one didn’t give me credit. Great thakittens been fixed. Thanks!

Ya check Loch Waypoint near SW portion of the map. This was the one that was bugged for the longest time but got fixed a couple months back.

Ayrilana.1396:

So does this count as an extra dive for those who are still bugged with one missing?

This should count as #38. Which bugged one are you talking about? If you are thinking of the Metrica Province one, it got fixed a while back and should allow you to 38/38 it now

Added another video showing you how to get down from the very top using diving goggles for the dive master achievement

I enjoy it, it can be a bit unforgiving at times but it is doable after some practice

Puzzle is now live!

Hey everyone, as you all know, the Aetherblade jumping puzzle opens up this week! (It is still unclear if the jumping puzzle opens up today July 1 or tomorrow July 2). Here are some info to help you get started.

Where: Gendarran Fields – just south of Broadhollow Waypoint

http://i.imgur.com/OKgzIjM.jpg

Difficulty: It is not as hard as Mad King’s Clocktower but it isn’t something most people can finish in 5 minutes. While the puzzle is not timed, there are many steam jump pads inside the puzzle that can take a bit of practice to get used to. On some of the jumps, a mistake can be fatal and you will be forced to restart.

Rewards: You will be given an exotic shoulderpad (soulbound on acquire) in the puzzle chest. Unfortunately the skins are not new (for light it is the stately set, for medium it is the prowler set, and for heavy it is the heavy plate set).

Along the way, you will find three Aetherblade caches inside the puzzle. These caches are like normal jumping puzzle chests and generally doesn’t give you anything good.

Guide: Here is a video to help guide you through the puzzle (spoiler obviously). Note that the puzzle ends at 5:36 and the rest of the video show you how to get to the optional diving goggles at the very top for your #38th location for the Dive Master achievement

Added another video showing you how to get down from the very top using diving goggles for the dive master achievement

Additional link: A longer writeup with some pictures can be found here:

http://dulfy.net/2013/07/01/gw2-not-so-secret-aetherblade-jumping-puzzle-guide

Have fun!

I believe for Unfriendly Skies you have to defeat the encounter within 15 minutes and on your very first try. If you wipe then the achievement bugs out or something. Was that the case here?

This POI will be accessible on July 2.

You have to beat the boss encounter within 15 minutes for the airship to show up for you to destroy.

is part of the new jumping puzzle not open till July 2

It is supposedly inside the place where they sell Lionguard cultural weapons but Mai Trin is not there yet.

Zipster.5190:

@Dulfy, so just curious how do you get all this information so early and all these screenshots up so quick? What is your secret? LoL. Thank you very much for the information,

There was a press event over the weekend I was able to participate and take notes.