Farm the areas that drop the crafting materials that are in high demand and sell them on the TP
Farm them for 30 minutes till I don’t get any more drops? In that time I farmed with 120% magic find I get 1-2 T6 mats and around 8-10 T5 mats…
Also, many people will say you need to manage the trade post and work the economy…that sounds like god darn work and I want to play this game for fun, not play wall street with fake money…
Let me just state that I spent 3 hours farming today and have nothing to show for it. It’s like moving at a snails pace. I don’t feel any sense of accomplishment when I farm for hours on end or spend 4 hours doing events only to end with around 40 silver…
There are money sinks every where in the game. Repair bills, way point costs, the cost of experimenting on the mystic forge, upgrading keeps and guards, buying siege equipment. I think I lost over 2 gold this week playing WvW alone due to repair and upgrades…
I can’t farm an area for precious rare to find crafting materials for more then 30 minutes without having diminished returns. There are only a few areas in the world that drop the tier 6 crafting materials to begin with and they are usually highly farmed at all times.
Events get repetitive and rarely offer more then 1 silver. The majority of them are bugged at times. It has also become significantly more difficult to “tag” waves of mobs in hopes of getting loot because they die so quickly.
I don’t have the time to craft high level items and sell them on the trade post for a profit because farming for materials is already difficult enough and very time consuming since the drops seem to be hit or miss after 30 minutes.
I have never had more then 10 gold to my name, I find myself in an endless cycle where the only way I can make money is to repeat events with magic find gear on over and over and over again.
How does a semi-casual go about making money?
I have 350 kills in WvW and only 70 badges…
That’s 70 badges in 14 hours :C
If the game is global then let us play the EU servers….
Why wouldn’t be fair to play EU? Cause they play in a different time zone?
They should just close down server transfers to full servers already…if you want to transfer to a full server you have to pay 10 bucks….
Yea. Let the NA servers play the EU servers….
kittening do it.
Really surprised by Anets comments on here, I’m not saying night capping is not a valid strategy, but when you allow open transfers for a full month it causes kitten like this…
Why not make the points go down for claiming things based on how many players are on the map? If the map has less then 50% people than they get 50% less points…
Hahaha, just let warriors use a beer mug in the off hand!
Lol
Sprinkle them in flowers!! Rawrrr!
It’s not over yet….
Knights Templar on SBI had a good run on the northern supply camp, and the garrison battle lasted inside the inner circle for about 25 minutes, that’s a hell of a good last stand.
Yea, it doesn’t work…
I brought this up earlier today, without direct communication with the other server you don’t have much of a chance to make allies.
An Actual Fix to keep WvW active all week long and solves Night-Capping, snowballing, and isn't exploitable.
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Posted by: grifflyman.8102
Well something needs to be done to fix WvW.
I got 100 kills today in around 4 hours on WvW and only have 18 badges to show for it…
What’s the deal?
I have said nothing but decent things about HoD players, but the more I read these forums the more I’m finding them to be very egotistical…
:(
HoD wins, yes. You guys are good.
However your dominance has showed the severe problems with this WvW system and I’m sure things will be changed in the future.
We have had 0 queue time since 2:00 PM Eastern time zone, so it’s not wonder we are getting owned, no one wants to play!
The allies beat the Germans in WW II because they teamed up…
Listen to what you’re saying!
A win is a win, and sounds like your ego is hurt and you need a justification as to why you might lose? That’s pretty silly…
Also it’s very hard to team up with others servers. I can tell you for a fact that SBI and ET have no type of communication going on, so any type of alliance is just bogus.
You guys are the top dogs, people will come after you no matter what. If you get beat you get beat.
This thread should be locked or deleted. Telling people you suck is not constructive…
There was talk ages ago about the 1 vs. 1 vs. 1 mechanic and the discussion of what would happen if a server had control of most of the maps.
The theory was that the two weaker servers would team up on the stronger server, but without the right tools to put this in place I don’t see this happening.
So the top servers say, “Why don’t you ally with the other server in WvW?”
Well let’s looks at some of the major problems with trying to forge an alliance with another server…
All enemies on the map have red name tags. These tags can become impossible to read due to name clumping and the fact they are all the same color, so distinguishing between two servers that are clomped together can be pretty difficult in the heat of the battle.
There is no way to communicate between the players on other servers, communication is the key in WvW and not being able to talk to a potential ally means no ally at all.
Even if you do decided to ally with another server, not everyone is going to follow these rules. Small guilds will do what they want, and many people will not listen to begin with.
There are no server forums to even suggest any kind of alliance or coordination.
Good luck with that…
Games is still getting some kinks out, we will get a chance to beat them again without bugs in a few months!
Go SBI!
This is basically it. HoD has some great guilds and players that others will follow, but the diverse play times is key…
SBI was 30,000 points ahead over the weekends! During the early mornings on weekdays I don’t even get queues…most of our map control comes at around 5-12 eastern time zone.
Most people only hate HoD’s ability to field full crews during times when most of NA is at school/work and all night long.
Look at the weekend when both SBI and ET had queues all day and night, HoD was 3rd place. Sunday night hits and HoD’s numbers finally shine. Once all the servers start filling up it will be nice to see how WvW plays out, but until then HoD will dominate because of a 24 hour full status.
I was playing during the day yesterday and it feels pretty hopeless being apart of the 20 man zerg agaisnt the 50 man hoD zerg…. At least we had 20% increased magic find to help us win the battle!!!!!!
I play on SBI and I don’t see many people crying. Seeing one person make a post does not mean everyone on SBI is a cry baby…
The guilds on SBI that take WvW seriously know that HoD is currently the best server and leave it at that. We don’t cry about it, so please stop letting a few people speak for everyone!
HoD has some very large guilds compared to SBI. You also have a large dedicated player base that’s on 24/7 compared to most servers.
The game just came out so I’m not worried about it.
SBI is only behind by 6,000 points, and we don’t have nearly as many large guilds as you guys. We also have 0 queue times in the early mornings.
Before today SBI was ahead by 30,000 because we ran a great strategy and took you guys off guard but we can not compete with your 24/7 organization because we lack players in certain time zones at the moment and we don’t have any truly monstrous sized guilds on our server.
Disconnected but I can still move and see the world?
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Posted by: grifflyman.8102
This just happened to be again, I am able to talk in party chat but not /m or /t I can still see all the chat and I can see all the action but I’m stuck in limbo? After about 8 minutes I was disconnected.
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Disconnected but I can still move and see the world?
in Account & Technical Support
Posted by: grifflyman.8102
The last couple nights I have been getting disconnected but my client never drops. I am able to run around WvW as a “spy” because I can still see everything that’s happening around me.
My guild reports that I am stuck running into a cliff but on my client I can talk to them and still move around and see whats going on….
The only way to fix it is be re-logging.
I have a feeling its my ISP comcast doing something, anyone ells have this problem?
Invisible armies and player culling is ruinnig this game for me...
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Posted by: grifflyman.8102
This is getting ridiculous and I consider a major flaw in the game currently. I have a great computer, and great processor and a great connection and my computer can’t render these players around me? You have got to be kidding me…
I was in WvW today attacking a gate for 5 minutes and when we ran inside to attack it looked like there were only a few people who had been behind the walls. NOPE! GUESS WHAT AN INVICIBLE ARMY! Are you telling me my computer could not render those players in the 5 minutes I sat at the gate? They were 20-30 feet away from me!
It’s effecting both PvE and WvW and it’s getting extremely annoying…
Take off the settings handicap and let players tweak the settings to their own liking, I should be able to decide how much renders on screen, not have it determined for me or be told that it’s because I lack a proper connection.
/end rant.
Why not add a 5th map to WvWvW that’s full of dynamic events and a huge flat battlefield with trenches and tunnels. Imagine the old battles fought during ancient times when armies would face off across a large field.
I think a map where large scale PvP is the focus would be pretty cool! When I say large scale PvP I mean a stagnant battle the revolves around a central battlefield.
How it would be incorporated and tied into the other maps would be up to developers, and I’m sure a 5th map would take a solid 2 months just to create.
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, and I don’t really like the armor sets the dungeons offer so I find it very hard to even run dungeons to begin with.
I really feel that if dungeons also had a few unique drops they would be a lot more appealing.
Well said Lokai.7850 I have a lot of the same feelings…
I had several paragraphs sharing my feelings but decided to delete them and just state my general opinion…
Does anyone ells find the dungeons to be undesirable?
I feel that many of the encounters have hidden or unclear mechanics that result in frustrating deaths or result in me standing in the back and using a ranged weapon because if I’m going to melee I will get utterly destroyed with no visual warning…
Other then the shards I don’t think the rewards justify repeatedly running through the same stories over and over again and I have a hard time accepting the many deaths learning the dungeon when I know I’ll personally get nothing out of the experience other then a few blues and enough silver to cover my repair costs.
I enjoy the stories and explorable paths but once you run them I don’t really feel they offer anything ells. Perhaps if they offered more variety of unique drops or an increased chance to find certain hard to obtain crafting materials they would be more appealing but right now I just don’t find them desirable, even though I’m really trying to like them….
They are used with transmutation stones! The idea is that you get some really nice stats on some armor and then you transmute the cultural armor with the stats….
It’s not supposed to be an “easy” thing to do…
I’m at 10 gold right now, the game has been out for 3 weeks or so? It’s not absurd at all.
That armor is for 4+ months from now.
I know it’s very early into launch but I wanted to know if all the legendary items are going to cost the same amount of time/effort to craft?
After talking to a few people I noticed very few people were planing on making any of the offhand items and I have yet to see anyone say they want an underwater weapon. Considering that the weapons will go much farther in improving you’re characters damage output I don’t blame people for wanting to choose the weapons over the offhand items.
I plan on creating the war horn because I love wolves, but I was hopping someone could clarify this?
Let me start out by saying I didn’t get a chance to hop on the speed run bandwagon were you could get around 25 silver per exploitable run and I’m a bit miffed that I missed out…
Now I have been farming the 75-80 zones for about five days with around 120% magic find and I’m still finding it hard to acquire wealth.
Tagging monsters during events has become almost impossible due to zergs so I try to gather materials and kill things on the way. I occasionally get a rare and will sell it on the TP or salvage it. I tend to sell everything ells and will horde most crafting material for later use, or sell them in bulk.
After all of this I’m still finding it hard to make money. I have yet to have more then 8 gold at anytime!
What am I doing wrong?
Very strange see-through artifacts graphics error. (Nvidia) (Sreenshots)
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Posted by: grifflyman.8102
I updated my graphics drivers a few days ago and I noticed that when ever I get close to any kind of mountain I get this very strange artifacting graphical error. The walls seems to become semi transparent and it makes viewing things very difficult.
The bug happen when I move the camera around and at certain angles. I have pictures of before and after the bug for comparison!
I’m using a EVGA Ge-force 680
8-27-2012 Beta Driver 306.02 Windows 7 64bit
Here are some screen shots….
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The war horn sounds like an old man passing wind into a conch shell! Seriously, for how awesome the sounds are in this game I would think the warhorn would be awesome sounding!
Look up Viking horn sounds and go with that!
Yeah the end game zones are looking bad, this is what we get for only being able to beta test the first 3 zones. It’s also why you see that those zones are so well done and the end game zones are just garbage. If they had broken the 80 levels into three tiers for each beta event it would’ve been fine imho.
I’m sure they had a large internal team testing later zones, I disagree that the zones are garbage, but they are bugged.
The problem is that some of the events work on other servers and bug on others. This makes it hard to find the bugs!
I wish, the amount of times I come across a bugged event in the 75 and 80 zones is starting to drive me mad!
Yes, and it’s quite annoying!
So the 8000 that flies above the mobs head is the added tottal damage?
What…
I keep finding myself comming back to the Greatsword in PvE, the DPS and the chance to stack might just make it amazing. Right now I’m non-critting things for 8000 on the end of hundred blades use!
The other weapons just don’t come close to the DPS output the Greatsword has when combined with traits and skills, and this concerns me…
Has anyone ells noticed this?
Was he in combat? It could have been a potion that changes you’re appearance, or it might have been the Norns bear form if he was in combat.
I bet there is a karma vender who sells them somewhere!