Guild Wars 2

Gehenna.3625:

I remember some time ago there was an auction of some Chinese game that hadn’t actually come out yet. They auctioned some weapons that would be unique in that game. So nobody else would have that exact weapon. They sold for thousands each….

I am thinking that if I hear that some people here already spent hundreds in cash on gems, that this will not be an unlikely thing to have happen.

Yet tons of people have Twilight so it’s not exactly unique.

Fractal weapons are just skins. Weapons with “Ascended” rarity haven’t been added yet.

I have 9 rings that I don’t want :\ How about instead of MF, you can salvage the rings and it gives you Pristine Relics?

Thank god it doesn’t take 250 ectos.

^I can’t imagine why it would though. I mean they might give you the option to revert it back to it’s original form and have power/tough/vit boosted to ascended, but boosting up the berserker stats or whatever you put on it to ascended doesn’t seem likely. That being said, I always thought that you should be able to pick the stats for your legendary when you craft it, given how much effort it takes. And I’m not just talking about picking the stat combo, but actually picking the three stats and which one is primary.

Arcadio.6875:

I bet these guys would have some interesting stories to tell.

I’m sure all 4 of them do.

I’ve posted this bug before. It’s existed since the very beginning, which is boggling since how easy it would be for a programmer to spend 2 minutes to fix the timer length. Here’s the wiki history and if you click on July 25 the bug is there lol:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Portal_Exeunt&action=history
I love Anet’s rapid response don’t you?

The skill clearly says that the exit portal (Portal Exeunt) should last for 20 seconds, but in practice it only lasts for 10-12 seconds. This bug has been known for a long time, heck its been posted on the GW2 wiki page for the skill since July. Seems like an easy thing to fix though, curious about when you guys are going to get around to it.

Kongguan.7580:

i can log into my 80 hunter but not the character that has log-in issue which is my elementalist. the code is 42:5:7:1008:101 in heart of the mists.

What’s a hunter? lol

I’m having the same login problem, won’t let me login to any of my chars.

The cost-benefit doesn’t justify it. Let’s say you have 2 hours to run fractals and that killing every mob takes you 1 hour to do one, if you skip stuff it takes you 40 min. That means in the same amount of time you can either do 2 fractal runs with full clear or 3 fractal runs with skipping. The thing you’ve got to keep in mind is that even with skipping you’re constantly killing stuff (just only the stuff you need to). So in both cases your spending 2 hours killing things. Roughly the same number of mobs killed and the same number of loot chances. Only difference is for full clear you get less tokens for the same amount of time. Hence, why people skip.

These times were just an example, but even if skipping only saves you 2 minutes, that 2 minutes would be better spent doing another run because it increases your token yield while maintaining the same killing rate.

It seems like the word “exploit” is being batted around a lot in this thread but I’m not really clear what’s the dividing line between exploit and simply learning the map so well you can skip stuff. Happens all the time in dungeons. Is having a thief run past all the mobs to a checkpoint then having everyone die to res at it an exploit? I would say of course not but I guess I’m not clear on the meaning of the term. Is jumping past the barriers on the left ledge on the Ascalonian fractal an exploit? You’re just doing a standard jumps onto ledges. Not sure how the dredge jump is a whole lot different in terms of abuse, the outcome is the same in that your basically not gaining anything except time shaved off your run.

Btw the final seal on colossus is not just damaged by AOE, you can target it directly and attack it. I figured this out my first run on the map when I started auto attacking it by accident. Not sure how that one slipped past the bug testing.

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

Heh, at least you got one.

If I had to take a wild guess I’d say the drop rate is 25-30%. If you’ve gotten, say, 10 daily chests and no ring you’ve simply had a string of bad luck, you might get two in a row next time.

Are you seriously complaining about wrong stats? ^^
At least your progress is not blocked.

Progress toward what exactly? The ring with the stats you want is the best item that drops in the dungeon. That’s the whole prize, agony resistance is simply a means to that end. Yet you can do level 10 and 20 dailies without agony resist and get the rings. From what people have said, level 30/40/50+ dailies give the same stuff as 20. If grinding to endlessly high fractal levels is what you’re after then yes it’s blocking your progress, if getting an ascended ring to upgrade your exotic is what your after then the RNG nature of the ring stats is blocking your progress.

Quote from Chris Whiteside on Reddit today:

We absolutely design everything we do with minimal grind and will continue with this principal moving forward.

The current state of fractal rings completely contradict this statement. We have to grind fractal 10/20 every day for a chance at a ring. On top of that, there are 20 different rings, 2 for each of the 10 stat combinations.

If we want a particular stat combination (like most of us run with) that means we need 2 particular rings of the 20 (they are unique so you can’t equip two of the same ring). So if the RNG does bless us with a ring, it’s only a 1/10 chance initially that it will be one we want. After we grind out that first one, the chance of getting the 2nd ring to complete our set is 1/20.

This means that you easily expect to get dozens and dozens of rings before you get the 2 you want. Or if the RNG gods really hate you, then you could literally play forever and never get them. This is the textbook definition of grind, Mr. Whiteside.

Please put in a way to turn our unwanted rings into the ones we want, or have a different way (tokens? MF recipe?) to get the rings that’s guaranteed. Right now it’s like we’re rolling a 20-sided die and hoping for a 5 and an 18.

wads.5730:

how low is ET and HoD goign to fall before actually trying? i mean they can’t be tier 8 servers.

It has nothing to do with trying, the servers were almost completely abandoned. And to quote myself from about a month ago: “I wonder who will come in 2nd behind Kaineng, ET or HOD”. Now it’s Ferguson’s Crossing, but you get the point lol. I’m still very curious to see who will get 2nd in tier 8.

Thing is (and I don’t think I’m alone in this) I don’t care about higher level fractals, what I care about is getting the ascended ring that has better stats than my current exotic ring. And it’s not a bragging item because it’s so easy to get. Right now it’s a pure and simple RNG, I’ve gotten 4 rings now grinding 10 and 20 everyday and there all junk, and like I said above two of them are exactly the same ring. It’s just realllly poorly designed as is.

It becomes even more ridiculous when you get two rings… that are exactly the same. Since they are unique you can only equip one, the other one is completely useless (unless you do alts, which I don’t). What am I suppose to do with it Anet? Vendor it for 4.96s? That just seems really poorly thought out.

GW2db doesn’t show any with that combo:
http://www.gw2db.com/items?filter-item-rarity=8&filter-item-trinket-type=3

In my opinion the drop rate for rings is far less of an issue than the fact that you can’t choose which ring you get. Btw, you can do the dailies for lvl 10 and 20 without any resistance (just need one person in the group to have agony resist for maw transitions on lvl 20).

I mentioned this in my thread about rings, but I really think they should have it so you can salvage the rings and receive a “glob of ascension” (or whatever you want to call it) that would be used in a mystic forge recipe for the rings. That way if you get rings you don’t want, you can break them down to create the one you do. Problem solved IMO.

I can’t bring up an issue because some people haven’t got a ring yet? First, like I said I’ve done a lot of fractals. Second I’m grinding fractals for the rings stats not the agony resistance, I don’t really care about progressing into higher level fractals, I just want the best ring for my character (I don’t think I’m alone in this). I don’t even use the rings I have because it seems like a waste to slot them when you only need one person with agony resistance at level 20 to survive maw, and apparently level 30 and 40 chests don’t give anything better than 20. So not having a ring isn’t detrimental to getting the best gear, you just do 10 and 20 everyday for a ring chance. Those people who don’t have one will get one, but who cares really if it doesn’t have the stats you want and you can only use it in fractals for agony resistance.

You can’t equip the exact same ring, but every stat combo has 2 rings, one with an offensive infusion slot and one with a defensive infusion slot. Trouble is getting 2 specific rings among all the possibilities. I really think my idea above about being able to break down rings and use the extracted component in a MF recipe would be a good way to go. Seems like such a waste to vendor an ascended item.

Easier? How about less idiotic. Those people who never got one WILL get one eventually, the drop rate on rings is fairly decent. But fast forwarding two months and you have a whole bank full of rings that do you no good and you can only vendor them for 4.95s… that’s just plain idiotic. I don’t see who would be harmed in letting us swap rings between players at least. Or make it so the rings can be broken down into some component that’s used in a mystic forge recipe to create the ring you want. That would be a perfectly reasonable way of doing it I think.

I gotten 3 ascended rings so far, yet none of them are the stat combo I want (I’ve run a LOT of fractals btw I didn’t just get lucky 3 times in a row or anything). There needs to be some way to get the stat combo we want, since I’ve seen people get the exact ring I want yet they DON’T want it. You should be able to trade rings with each other, or maybe have some vendor who will trade in 2 or 3 rings for 1 specific ring of our choosing. The RNG is bad enough getting the rings in the first place, but getting the specific ring we want out of the almost 20 different ones is just crazy. The prospect of getting like 50 rings and never the one I want is ridiculous and yet completely possible. Please do something about this Anet.

Item:
http://www.gw2db.com/items/72107-bloodstone-fragment

Recipe:
http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/11410-bloodstone-fragment

I would like one, anyone know how you get the recipe?

Now if we could just figure out what the Beta Fractal Capacitor is and how to get it: http://www.gw2db.com/items/72464-beta-fractal-capacitor-infused

It’s a good question that I would like to know as well. I did 10 yesterday, got a chest, then I did it today after the dailies reset and I didn’t get a chest. I had run other fractals before that. Can anyone enlighten us with your experience on what you have to do to get the chest, specifically on level 10?

Could a dev PLEASE just tell us if/when this vendor is leaving, surely you have a plan for them.

Bump. I would like to know this as well.

You make some good points, therefore watch out, your thread is likely to get infracted. I got a thread of mine where I talked about how karma armor was a total waste of karma now that they have ascended armor and it got infracted with this:
“Threads posted for the sake of complaining are not allowed as they do not invite constructive discussion. Please refrain from creating such post in the future.”

Your complaining about the mystic forge and how it’s a poor mechanic and lazy design is completely valid. And for that they will remove your post because they simply don’t like people pointing out their shortcomings. To the moderators who will remove this, look up this word please: tyrannical.

“Which one is the actual mesmer?!”

Ah the good old days, grinding superior third marks to get Armour of the Aurochs for my hunter so I could run Barad Guldur. The raid was fun, the grind for the armor was not. I agree with the OP, it is a failed mechanic that serves no real purpose except to piss people off by forcing them to grind.

So your WM night crew isn’t on for the first part the match and you’re losing. They come back and you’re winning. Kinda funny to see people from other guilds on SBI talking smack, clearly you’re not the reason SBI is winning, WM is. Now if we could just get WM to transfer to JQ we would be unstoppable

Anyone ever play LOTRO? Agony sounds very similar to dread and infusions are like radiance. Luckily they got smart in that game and removed dread and radiance because of the pointless gating mechanism, not sure why Anet thinks it’s a good idea.

Pic shows a +5 stat increase. Rare to exotic is +6 for that opal ring. There are 6 accessories and 6 armor pieces, if +5 is the average then that’s +60 to your stats. Pretty big difference if you ask me. I thought GW2 wasn’t going to have gear grind?

No aveneo is correct, I’m talking about the upgrade slot. I was just thinking they should have an orb that has +20 power, +14 toughness, +14 vitality and a recipe so you can upgrade it to an exquisite jewel with +25 power, +15 toughness, +15 vitality. Or maybe they could sell some kind of "superior crest of the soldier" in WvW that would have the +25/+15/+15 stats? That might be a more fitting item, since WvW vendors already sell everything with P/T/V anyways, they should sell a unique P/T/V slot upgrade too.

Pretty straightforward request: could you guys put in an orb and jewel that has power/toughness/vitality? I have WvW armor/jewelry with this combo but there’s sadly no orb or jewel to slot that has it.

Score update…

Cover Girl.2580:

Don’t be angry. Seriously. Everyone else is having fun.

Are you crazy, I’m not angry at all! I’m having great fun beating you guys, thanks for letting us do it!

Cover Girl.2580:

Selwynn.2758:

Did SBI just give up or what?

Yes.

That’s quite amazing! How did you manage to convince an entire server of people to give up? Here I thought you guys were just losing, but apparently you can just tell the players on the #1 WvW server to stop playing and they do it! You seem to forgot to inform a few people though, since some have been actually fighting us! Thank you SBI for letting us at JQ have the lead, we’re very grateful! And if you do decide to stop giving up, please tell us beforehand so we can start losing to you as soon as possible!

Great fights so far!

You can get 5 out of 6 pieces of power/tough/vit armor from exotic karma vendors in Orr, and the last piece (legs) with badges. That’s what I did, and it’s probably the easiest way to get it (210k karma and 370 badges).

As far as whether or not its worth it, I can’t help you there since I’m wondering the same thing which is why I bought them for my mesmer. Sadly I still need a boatload of badges to get all the jewelry for the whole set, until then it will sit in my bank. It also kinda sucks how there is no orb that has power/tough/vit.

Lensar.4920:

SB and JQ can beat each other bloody, or they can sit holding hands in the middle of Daemonspell Lake singing kumbaya and sharing candy corn for all I care.

Just so you know, if you guys ever decide to do this I’m definitely in. People from SBI, JQ, and BG getting sugar rushes and singing sappy folk songs sounds awesomeee. Mainly because it’s something different. And you know what else, a freaking massive risen army should appear and interrupt our sing along so we have to band together and fight off this common enemy lest they take over the whole map. How bad kitten would that be! (yes I wrote kitten)

First? Second? Either way Jade Quarry and Stormbluff Isle are locked in an eternal battle, fought between immortal armies until the end of time. When will the madness end? When will we realize that for all our battles and bloodshed, all our siege and savagery, all our golems and gore that we have accomplished nothing? Walls may fall, but they are forever rebuilt; points may be gained, but they are forever reset; enemies may be slain, but they are forever reborn from the ashes. That eternal question begins to grow in our mind, begging to be answered: What’s the meaning of it all?

Savage.5482:

Thoughts/opinions?

I’m just curious who will end up in last place, you guys or ET. Right now it’s just too close to call.

^I dunno about all that stuff Distaste, but they definitely need to add SOMETHING to WvW. It’s pretty pathetic when you realize that the only thing in WvW that’s been changed since launch is that they REMOVED a feature (orbs). They badly need to add some new content because the points game just isn’t cutting it any more.

Even more depressing is we are all most likely going to be playing the exact same match up next week, unless some server stops logging in altogether. SBI vs JQ vs BG is going to be an endless battle *sigh* The match up site has that same thing happening to tier 2 as well, none of the top 6 servers are projected to even change their place. Great... so we’re all nice and equalized now... how exciting...

At a minimum the Berserker skill needs to be changed so that the LOS check actually works.

Berserker isn’t meant to have a LOS check at all, that’s what makes it such a great skill.

Have you guys noticed a drop in players? JQueue is no longer, since I only get queues on reset and even then it was instant into a BL 4 hours after reset. I’m starting to think its maybe not just on JQ but for the game in general, people moving on to other games maybe? Thoughts?

fixit.7189:

Culling will never go away.

Sorry but is there some technical limitation preventing the game from rendering all the players? Because I’ve played plenty of games with huge numbers of people where there were no rendering issues at all.

Fall back. Build catapult. Destroy gate. Mesmer portal inside. All dead.

It’s a waste of breath guys, I don’t think they have the capacity to see reason about 2v1. They believe BG should be stomping both of our servers, and when it’s not we are obviously joining together to defeat them, since that’s the only way given how superior BG is. All BG is doing is giving people motivation to ACTUALLY target them.