Guild Wars 2

You have more arah tokens than money can buy tho Miku. I heard it was 93k now? :P

kolompi.1287:

This is another dumb idea in a series of dumb ideas. People who key farm(ed) performed a valuable service for the game world.

From the player’s point of view: They kept the BL weapon skin prices in check, they kept the permanent kit prices in check, they kept the gold to gem ratio in check. They made some low-level cooking materials more desirable.

From Arenanet’s point of view: Keyfarmers spent time playing the game, bought some cooking materials or used tomes of knowledge (that could have been turned into spirit shards>MF use>gold). Sure, they did not buy 125 gems to get a key, but they spent 20-30 minutes playing a game that has severe issues with rewards and “endgame” content.

Now gem prices will rise even further (when bought with gold). Ok that’s in some way super from Arenanet’s point of view. But will this make me buy gems with money to spend it on keys? Of course not. I’ll just think more about what i actually want to buy and buy that instead.

Bottom line is, this change ruined a working circulation without providing Arenanet any benefits. Whoever bought keys with real money will keep buying it, whoever spent time key farming before, still won’t buy keys with real money.

I think what they are banking on is people will buy more keys because the stuff that drops is now ‘worth more’ due to less supply from key farmers. Black lion skins right now might be 80-100g at release making scraps worth 8-10g but if the key farmers really consisted of a large supply, and the skin price for example doubles then each scrap is suddenly worth 16-20g.

Permanent Contracts could see the same rise, tempting players to gamble on keys for that elusive contract. We saw how this worked with the hairstyle contract before when it was first added. Buy keys for a chance of 2000g contract!

Permanent contracts already gone up in price a lot due to this.

I kitten lost my chest in that fractal during a run when the boss die and teleported me into the wall.

RIP

I know people that justify the archdiviner exploit as “legit” because the aoe wells still hit you among other things. Quite sad really.

The pvp one was very funny the first time I read it and this one’s not bad too.

I did a coe pug with frifox once and the pugs blindly followed him and me after spire’s laser thing lol. Too bad they had no feathers or kits = woooooo abom funtimes.

Someone cross posted the video to reddit and the comments are eh.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3jle2h/the_meta_is_a_lie/

2500 is way too low for yak slapper. I have over 8k yaks killed and I’m not a roamer/havoc squad type of person. At least make it 10k or yak slapper will be commonplace which really screws over the efforts of wvw players.

Element Two.7316:

Miku Lawrence.6329:

http://gw2efficiency.com/c/Miku%20Lawrence

Wish people were using this more.

p3 exp only full meta link gw2efficiency/api key on join, no more than 1:3 hours:death ratio

rip me died 5000 times in SAB w2 tribulation

I’m way too lazy to launder a couple of gold but yeah I wouldn’t risk it.

Already have enough troubles managing 2 accounts let alone farm more on f2p accounts lol.

HAHA hey I guess they really do read the forums despite what you guys think

Actually I still have one way to transfer wealth but it’s far less direct and requires pre setup and involves art of war IV.

Jerus.4350:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Truthfully I’m okay with this as long as they’re active in building new raids and Fractal content.

Ditto.

At this point I really only enjoy Arah, while Fractals I enjoy most (kitten snowblind).

Kitten snowblind. Kittens.

I’m ok with no new dungeons I guess, as long as they actually add new raids/fracs. They’ve barely added anything to fracs since its inception so…. we’ll see.

Not really an easy way to transfer money but you could buy siege from the TP (eg. omega golems) and give them to your main account in WvW. You’d probably take a small loss but that’s probably the best way.

In b4 stealth nerfed.

As for selling arah, haven’t done that since lupi bug, too much effort for a couple of gold. Rather trio a frac and sell that.

Quarktastic.1027:

spoj.9672:

The best dps food is seaweed salad. This applies to all classes unless you get rooted a lot mid combat (ele with meteor shower and ice storm).

But each class is different. Warrior is using phalanx so they would often use food that supplements that. Thief rarely needs precision but they might be using ice storm a lot so they would use sweet and spicy butternut squash soup over salad a lot of the time.

We have pretty extensive food info on the dulfy class guides if that helps. :P

Rangers have to be rooted to output their absolute highest DPS. So much for the seaweed salad.

This applies to all classes unless you get rooted a lot mid combat (ele with meteor shower and ice storm).

Duuuuuude

Heck with STRAYA ping (300+) I sometimes get hit mid dodge animation lol.

Yeah the “zerker meta” threads pop up pretty much 2-3 times a week. Kinda sad but that’s what happens when the majority of the playerbase spams 1/F for loot in SW.

bob.8632:

fishball.7204:

bob.8632:

Similar to what happened back when SoS was the king of T2, and they decided way late in the game to make a T1 push.

Heh, SoS never decided to push T1 as a server. Plenty of meetings, plenty of pledges to PPT but nothing eventuated.

Eventually a lot of guilds got bored and left for various servers including FUG, BEAR, TS, Dx, lion etc.

#historicalaccuracy

It never eventuated because you

decided way late in the game to make a T1 push.

http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/191
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/193
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/195
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/197
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/199
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/201
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/203
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/205
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/207
http://mos.millenium.org/na/matchups/history/209

You can see in those weeks SoS was dominate and in the weeks prior they were content to “skirt” the rating gain each week (IE: win most of the time, but with overall rating gain in primarily in mind; similar to what T3 servers are doing with T2 atm). Starting the first week I linked, a concerted push was noted also marked by the beginning of the end for Maguuma who no longer cared to sit in T2 with SoS content to sit atop the tier doing nothing.

This all leads up to the last season that WvW actually had….

The historical accuracy professor takes his leave now.

Lol @ you thinking Maguuma got tired of T2 because SoS didn’t push for T1. You can’t infer from glicko charts what goes on in the tier and that’s what I’m telling you, SoS didn’t even WANT to push for T1 as a server that’s why guilds left. Same with FA. Maguuma just got bored of GW2 and mass quit to other games, their big players like Duke/Nacho left WvW to do other stuff and that’s why they collapsed, not because they got bored of being PPT stomped (Hint: Mag gives 0 kittens).

bob.8632:

Similar to what happened back when SoS was the king of T2, and they decided way late in the game to make a T1 push.

Heh, SoS never decided to push T1 as a server. Plenty of meetings, plenty of pledges to PPT but nothing eventuated.

Eventually a lot of guilds got bored and left for various servers including FUG, BEAR, TS, Dx, lion etc.

#historicalaccuracy

My sinister ranger says hi.

Jethro.8725:

YB runs blobs 24/7 so it may be in actuality two BG official guilds but in their wake they had to drag a lot of other people because the size of YB is unreal. And to see BG dip in points just a few weeks ago seemed natural since ones gain is anothers loss. YB surged and BG dipped but now BG in a locked situation is surging with less people, hard not to have a red flag go up on that one.

BG was split in half by server/guild politics and infighting before the “alliance” guilds left for YB. Guilds and leaders were arguing left right and center and people were spending more time PvF-ing on BG forums/shoutbox than in WvW which caused BG to look really weak.

There were literally 20 page+ threads on TW/OnS cross server repping arguments that went nowhere for weeks.

The entire T3 is already avoiding T2 like the plague right now.

Just this week JQ has tried to waypoint BG’s bay several times and BG has tried to waypoint JQ’s hills several times. KILL is always papering BG’s stuff in PST<→OCX gap. Hardly a 2v1.

Even last night during late SEA after papering all of TC BL, JQ and BG just decided to brawl down near the bridge at south camp (80v80, multiple guilds each side) rather than camping TC BL for ppt.

Every server gets 2v1’d, BG and JQ don’t “keep t1 locked up”.

That actually looks pretty cool haha.

Any transfer changes should be effected immediately. This isn’t like “blackouts” where people mass logoff for manipulating the algorithm.

I’ll be tehre sent u a PM munt

The recent black lion offerings (account jump start/bump) gave account bound un-id dyes as part of the package. This is why the price of masterwork and probably other dyes have dropped in prices (the basic ones). People buy it, open the dyes and dump on the tp.

Real forms of manipulation (which usually fail) are more like:
https://www.gw2tp.com/item/68632-spring-roll (check month chart)

Munt is it true you’re actually Fred

Necro goat with crystal.

CM123 are all fast

- 25 might
- Perma fury
- Almost perma Swiftness (static blasts)
- Stealth/smoke (pistol 5 on thief, smoke bomb on engineer) and people that actually blast it (warhorn warrior, eles, guardian hammers etc)
- Quickness if available
- Reflects, swirling winds, smoke screens (eg. lupi, reflect required fights)
- Defiance stack management for ice bow-ing/interrupts (eg. arah 2 abom)
- Blinds (ele sandstorm, thief)
- Lightning hammer on eles when required (eg. SE p3 clown car, alpha in all coe paths for static)

Probably covers most of it.

This thread would be better in dungeon forums, most GW2 players don’t even bother doing 1/2 the stuff people would do in meta casual dungeon tours.

morrolan.9608:

As for TC pop you clearly have more NA than JQ but your OCX is reasonable with the return of Envy, your EU is competitive, its SEA that you are down in.

TC has the weakest SEA in T1 but they’d roflstomp anything below T1 in SEA. Between HIRE/AHMA and TFV, they can completely dominate FA/SoS who have basically 0 SEA presence.

TC’s SEA makes DB’s look like a havoc squad lol.

Top servers are the top cuz they have more coverage aka people around the clock to Pree preee teeeeee

2015-08-10 13:51:02 57 822 +460
2015-08-10 13:36:02 57 238 +450
2015-08-10 13:21:02 56 680 +400

From Mos, for SOS.

http://mos.millenium.org/servers/view/37/

SoS ticks like 400 every OCX and FA ticks at like 30. YB is somewhere in between but they just hump siege to defend since they’re severely outnumbered vs TF’s map blob.

Gr8 fights during OCX m8888 /s

You don’t need to share the key with other people but the website needs it to read the info from ANet’s servers.

I doubt this will be wide spread but it’d be hilarious watching people without EU keyboards trying to type some of my accented character names to gear check LOL.

rip Australian lag/ping

A lot of my friends don’t pug anymore, when they do dungeon they try and get a group going and don’t bother if it doesn’t happen. The main incentive used to be to dungeon for gold but nowadays unless you run a decently good tour the earning rate is slower than SW so there’s no incentive to pug.

Also the recent patch made lower level dungeons harder for non organized groups, wiping in AC now is an actual thing in pugs whereas before you could blaze through everything easily.

Cuz you can make more money salvaging some things rather than selling them on the tp

Shrubsy.9720:

Based on your diatribes, you seem to think most players ideal is a T1/EotM all maps queued extravaganza, but the fact is most of below T1/T2 aren’t still here because we’re helpless peons—we’re here because this is where we prefer to be. So kindly just suck it up and take one for the team.

If you’re happy where you are and T1/2 are happy where they are why do you care at all then. Why would you want T1/2 to take one for the team and change the status quo that as you say, you prefer to be.

Also, honestly if you guys think there are enough OCX players to spread to 24 servers while maintaining any semblance of WvW at all then I have a bridge to sell to you.

Guardian has a similarish playstyle to mesmer, probably easier to master too if you want to try that.

Maybe for NA, BG and JQ blobfests might annoy you but OCX is an entirely different ball game. Right now, JQ might queue 1 map, TC queues 0, BG queues 0, 1 if lucky during OCX. There are less than 10 OCX guilds in the top 6 servers that actively raid in WvW.

Think about that for a second. Less than ten guilds across 6 servers, and they aren’t all massive guilds like OnS/SE/KILL.

Maguuma has more GvG guilds than that in NA and that’s 1 server.

OCX is already bloody ghost town outside of T1, this change literally screws over every new OCX player looking to play in WvW that actually has enemies to fight.

THAT is what we are complaining about.

I still think T1 is mostly siege humping blobbing pos but when you play when I play which is OCX, your choices are severely limited if you want a REAL wvw experience.

There wasn’t much listed between 6-10s before the price spike which is why it jumped so fast

It is beneficial to hoard as much time gated material as you can, especially the stuff you can’t profit from today. If there is a sudden spike and you have 2 stacks of the time gated mats, that’s basically cashing in hard.

Back on topic, no way am I selling quartz at 4s, even easier to gather items with less uses go for more than 4s. Since I bought all mines at 23-24c eons ago, even if the prices tank I’ve already made back what I paid for my quartz and the rest is just to keep around for fun times.

There aren’t even enough OCX players in tier 1 to form queues on ONE map on all 3 T1 servers in NA let alone spread out to 6 or more servers. This change really does nothing to balance out anything, they should have looked at timezone server status rather than across the board because having 100 people during SEA is different to having 100 people in NA prime.

You can skillfully inflict damage by

- stacking 25 vuln, 25 might, fury
- line casting icebow4/meteor shower
- Using proper food/slaying potions/sigils/runes
- Paying attention to your damage modifiers (eg. warrior non full endurance = +10%, water attune on ele using conjures = +20%) and having a proper DPS rotation

I’m willing to bet you do none of the above.

We did a dungeon tour with a condi ranger today, zerker isn’t the only viable stat. The runs basically took the same time compared to having a full zerk ranger.

The ‘trinity’ in GW2 comes in the form of CC (fear, knockdowns, knockbacks etc), support (eg. aegis, blinds, stripping defiance, reflects etc) and DPS. Every class is viable in dungeons/fotm and with the exception of Necromancer they are all in a fairly good place. Even a good Necromancer can provide blinds and chills where required.

You just need to get better at this game and learn how to use your class fully (eg. utilities, blast finishers, dodging). Good players don’t need a ‘healer’, they just blast water fields or use their own heal in order to heal or mitigate the damage in the first place with reflects, blinds, absorbs etc

deSade.9437:

Check my sig: never talk about dungeons. Never.

Anyway, I’m amazed at how anal people can get.. talking about sigils. Omg nub you use sigil of strength/air, what a scrub. Everyone knows you should get stacks of sigil of x slaying and swap for every dungeon, DUH.
… I think I’m either getting too old for this kitten or too casual… or I’m just kittening sick of people. How do I cure this disease?

I consider play style more important than sigils. Not once have I asked if people have force/outlaw sigils in CM even though I run it. Unless you want speed clear records there really isn’t much difference and play style / player skill makes so much more difference imo. Maybe I’m a casual too

No that’s SBI having a 0.01% chance going to T2…

I am curious to see if there are actually millions of quartz out there still. I know a lot of people have a few here and there but it feels like a lot of people made Mawdreys and other stuff to consume the quartz up.

I guess we’ll find out over the next week or so.

Meanwhile prices of quartz based items haven’t caught up with the price hike yet, such as charged ambrite.