Guild Wars 2

Perhaps I am just lucky but I got this on my first try. Here’s how I did it:
(read it on reddit somewhere)
First do the pre event and gather all the stuff (don’t remember the name), but instead of giving it to the npc, you keep it. After pre event you go to shatterer and wait for 5-8 minutes. During this time you can always try to get crystalized, who knows. Then exit map and re-enter. You will most likely now be in a pretty empty map which hasn’t done the pre. So do the pre and then the shatterer will spawn. It will now be much easier because there will be much less people. I think when I did it there were still around 20 people or so. Good luck.

For kitten sake, yes we need, want this.

Can’t believe this hasn’t been adressed yet. Sometimes I feel like there are only working a handful of people at Anet.

I don’t get the joke.

Happened to my guild too yesterday.

Serophous.9085:

It doesnt need to be buried deep, its just adding in two more categories:

Living world
– open world content (leave this the same)
Map Zones
– Tyria
*List all tyria maps
– Maguuma Jungle
*list all HoT maps
Raids
– List raids
Everything else stays untouched

tada

Sounds good, but I woulnd’t list all the different maps (and eventually raids). Just a category for Tyria zones and for HoT zones would suffice.

Out of curiosity, how much where they charging?

Rewards in general pretty much suck in HoT.

Is anyone even against a change like this? Besides Anet of course.

Tried the meta event one time. It failed after 1 minute, never bothered with it again. Fact that the map is hard to navigate also doesn’t help. You’ll never see me again in that horrible map.

I support 100%. Should already have been in the game, don’t think anybody is against this idea.

When I started precursor crafting The Legend, it was actually cheaper than buying it on the TP. But now with the inflated mat prices it costed me like 100-200 gold more to craft. To me there is no point in precursor crafting. Friends suggested me to farm the mats myself, but then I am still better off selling the mats and buying the precursor on the TP. Do yourself a favor, don’t start precursor crafting and just buy it on the TP.

I think the difficulty is ok once you get used to it. The only problem I have is that if I want to play a decent HoT map I have to spend 10-20 minutes in the LFG.

You might want to include if this is for EU or NA.

I don’t have this problem in my guild. Every night our guild chat is full of people asking other guildies to join them for raids.

Elomite.2396:

I never cared to join a larger guild because I didn’t see the point.

Perhaps the point of joining a larger guild is that you can find enough people to raid?

I am getting sick and tired of Anet saying “you’re not supposed to play like this”, “we don’t want you to do this (dungeons)”. People obviously want to pug raids, so give us tools to do so!

I got mine after about 2-3 hours of farming. I started with farming on my main only and going to all lakes in 50+ zones, but as you know this is pretty slow. Then I found 2 areas where there always seemed to be more coral spawning than in the other areas. One is Stygian Deeps (vista in the middle of the ocean) in Straits of Devastation and south east part of the ocean in Mount Maelstrom. Get all your lvl 80 characters (or any character that can go and survive there) and switch between these 2 places. If the coral hasn’t respawned, try guesting or switching map. I also used an item booster on my main only (33% of having an extra gathering strike).
Good luck.

Hope they do something about it since both gw2 core game and HoT have the same minimum system requirements.

Agree, I am actually baffled that this still isn’t in game after all these years.

Couldn’t agree more.

Fireball spell now just looks like red spit.

It’s today, no idea at what time though.

Only had 1 gold sell whisper in the last 3 months or so. I think these guys now I am poor.

Same problem. My pc isn’t the newest but with medium graphic settings I can usually get around 60 fps in core zones. When I go to HoT zones, I have around 20-25 fps (With both 32 and 64 bit clients).

Keep stuff like this out of the forums please. If I want to read about horrible man made disasters I’ll read my son’s report card thank you very much.

hophopcool.7618:

Fractals, 1-10 easy 20-30 gold

I find that very hard to believe.

Guess I won’t be doing any fractals until december.

lordhelmos.7623:

The expansion is pretty small, I blew through the story in less than an hour.

I agree with most of your points, but this I just can’t believe.

Ronah Lynda.2496:

When I decided to grind for the money to buy some legendaries out of the TP then they added new Legendaries so the old ones become obsolete. And the new ones made only by crafting. I despise crafting

Why do you think that old legendaries become obselete with introduction of the new ones?

I have been going up to the canopy without chopper many times. I see no reason why this wouldn’t be legit.

Great changes! Pretty much everything I hated about fractals are going to be changed. Too bad we have to wait for december.

Was wondering this myself.

Jaxom.7310:

I remember the daily system before this mess. Where it was just a giant list of 20 activities (fairly broad ones) or so and you got your daily by just playing the game.

Now it’s like ‘do it this way’, or ’don’t get your daily’

Of course, Anet and gw2 have been doing a lot to move the game to this form. Legendary armor (raids), guilds (be big or don’t bother) and grind masteries.

They are looking in to it. Whether they’ll do something about the horrible fractal rewards in general is another thing.

“The reaction to the core changes to make fractals more approachable by playing one at a time has been really positive – but there is some work to be done still in the smaller details like balance, XP, and reward rates.”

From the colin interview
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/feature/10256/Guild-Wars-2-Heart-of-Thorns-One-Week-In-with-Colin-Johanson.html

I think they should have never called them ‘elite’ specializations in the first place. It gives the impression they these specializations are better than the old ones. Which they are not. Maybe some are better, but I haven’t checked them all out. As Sir Alric mentioned, they are just meant as a new way to play your class.

Great news. Why isn’t something like this posted on the official forums?

Yes, yes and yes!

Yea it sucks, I hardly do any fractals now because of this.

I don’t think this is ever going to happen. It’s just too costly in terms of time and resources.

Did you register the core game prior to january 23 2015?

Sigh, I already stopped doing fractals because of how bad the rewards are.

Have to agree, after 3 years I am pretty tired and sick of all the trenchcoats.

You can buy those with gold? Awesome! Thanks for the tip!

Also having problems getting to this one.

Noticed I was losing money to. Stopped doing fractals because of this.

I’ve also been farming cof p1 for mastery experience. It’s great!
fast exp? yes
Boring? yes
Would I rather gather mastery experience at a much slower rate by doing the same content I have been doing for the past 3 years? no!

Is this for real? I thought Arenanet wanted us to do fractals?

Wanze.8410:

I highly doubt that silverwastes is more lucrative than farming the jungle atm.

Really? How do you farm the jungle?

I don’t mind the grind. Nerfing dungeon and fractal rewards on the other hand …

You can actually change the color of a completed Hero point, but you will need the right mastery for that.