Guild Wars 2

@PopeUrban: The dredge, as of now, can’t be blinded(unless its for a very short time) sadly but that’s just when you have to rely on movement rather than blind.
As far as the bosses missing and such when blind, their normal attacks(which would be our auto attacks) miss a lot of the time(not 100% of the time, which makes sense if you think about it) but their AoE attacks or stronger attacks seem to do the 10% thing Tulisin was taking about.

I honestly prefer D/P combo. This gives me the ability to basically blindlock the boss mob, even if I’m half way across the field. This makes it so a lot of attacks just miss. As long as you keep using Blackpowder whenever blind goes away and you remember to dodge, it usually works out fine. I prefer to use shortbow when I need to fall back and every time I can double tap my F1(and hope for a good steal xD) and then use V to dodge backwards and 3 to get out of direct damage area then continue on auto attack, throwing a poison every now and then. I love the auto attack for shortbow especially with bosses that spawn adds because the arrow hits up to 3 or 4 mobs which means you can pretty much shoot down all the adds.

If your looking for more damage, try going with P/P for a ranged weapon set but I personally don’t like P/P all that much(but that’s just me, to each their own play style). I love my bouncy arrows too much xD

Got the perfect video for you then, just watch the guy who plays this Asura:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPPHMWKPd2o
Shows him making the Incinerator and everything; He equips it a little bit after 2 mins into the video. Love how it drips lava

vortexC.5238:

I really enjoyed this skin. I’m using it with the Ghosts of Ascalon wallpaper since I don’t play a thief.

Anyway, has anyone gotten the music plugin to work with Spotify? If so, how?

Thanks!

With Rainmeter, the Enigma skin can be configured to work with Spotify. Its one of the skins that should of came with Rainmeter for you in the download, just look into the Enigma setup thing :P You can just take that ONE part from the Engima skin and your good to go.

Eh, its not all that hard but the .ini files in the “Time” folder, the area between the number time and the AM/PM letters just aren’t spaced correctly so they end up overlapping each other.
The text is blocky(probably AA isn’t on the code, haven’t looked too much into it, was looking at the other stuff and working down the list; just loaded it to see what I had to work with) and the numbers/letters don’t have any colors(since there is supposed to be a black, grey, and red variety) or colored boarder around them to make it match with the rest of the layout. You can figure out how to do this from pretty much reading the documentation on the Rainmeter site.
Oh and coding(if you can call it that) with Rainmeter is pretty simple, its almost like a more complicated html coding.

Alright, I’ll put together what I can if I get the time :P and of course, full credit to you and your sources

Got about 70% of it done so far. Still need to redo the “Time” folder so the times display without having the numbers laying on top of each other as well. Basically been just cleaning it up and adding instructions to it for others to use; Making it more user friendly.

@Ironheart:
If I get the time, would you mind if I cleaned up the code and released a .rmskin using all this(since you’re busy). If you don’t have a problem with me doing that, I’ll attempt clean coding it.

Isengrimil.6450:

I can not move the icons some where I wish, wrote in “technical assistance” that you need to change the code and refresh, but how? you please help;)

Sometimes, individual parts won’t move because they have the “draggable” option turned off. To turn it on, right click whatever it is you can’t use, go to “Settings” and make sure “Draggable” is turned on; If not, just click “Draggable” and it should allow you to move that PART of it.
To “refresh” it, right click the Rainmeter icon near your clock on your PC and click “Refresh All”.
To manually change these in the codes, you basically have to edit the .ini files in “Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\”.

LiangShu.5342:

http://imageshack.us/f/525/gw2h.png/

And just put your things in it.

I requested the same thing and if you read what he posted back, he said he never intended to release it to people so he didn’t code it very good. He said that if he ever gets time to clean up the code, he’d release the .rmskin package.

Ironheart, might be better if you just click on the “Create .rmskin package…” button in Manage Rainmeter and then you can just upload the .rmskin so its as easy as 1-2-3 for people to install :P

@zapzarap: The color code is Red(0-255):Green(0-255):Blue(0-255):Transparency level(0-100)

Well I’ll use the Black Lion since I have a few of those from map completions and hopefully by the time I run out of Black Lions I can make a few Mystics(since those have a 250 stack).

I’m assuming I should use a Mystic, Perfect, or Master salvage kit for this right? And for the Mystic salvage kit, I believe that would be made with Journey, Fine and Master salvage kits in the forge along with 3 Mystic Forge Stone?

As the title says, ectos and the best ways to get them; Just wanna know how to get them(I know from salvaging items but I have no idea what to salvage i.e. whites, greens, ect) and the best ways to get them. Any help would be great ^^;

Very impressive!~ I’ve been using rainmeter myself for about 11 months and love coding stuff for it. Watching this topic for your download link, would love to just play with that .rmskin

Paranormal Bear.2539:

I got Spark from the chest. :-)

I also recieved Spark from the chest :P Now to work on getting cooking to 400 lol.

Alright, thanks for clearing that up. Mod can mark this as solved

First off, before I start, just wanna say this is not one of those flaming threads, this is just me giving some feedback.

The first part of the event, from about 12:00pm-1:00pm was pretty horrid with the connection issues and lag. Was seeing a lot of people were having similar issues on servers other than my own. The lag and disconnection issues made it unplayable to the point where people were having their whole server populous in Southsun Cove wiping and armor repair costs started to skyrocket since we were all dying due to lag and disconnections.

After the first part though, the connection and lag seemed to go back to what I would expect when everyone is trying to go into the same map at once, but it was playable.

As far as the event in terms of doing the event(this has nothing to do with lag or connection issues) I liked it, having to defeat wave after countless wave of monsters, having Champs and Vets running us into the ground, having the dead(or downed) everywhere and rushing to help them up because we NEEDED them, not just because some of us are nice. And then the chest at the end, made it worth it in my eyes since I was able to get some pieces I needed for my legendary(along with that 20 slot bag but I think everyone got one of those).

I personally would LOVE to see more events like this, providing that A-net can figure out what their issue is with server lag and connection in events like this. Only thing I wonder is why if WvWvW can have pretty much the exact same playing conditions(with people all logging into WvWvW), as we had in the event today, why can’t whatever is being done in WvWvW server sided be applied to all maps and zones? Again, this is not constructed to be a flaming post, just to relay my thoughts to A-net.

KyleQuest.4639:

Personally, I’m not a fan of game elements that are based around inducing adrenaline. You know the “Zomg…..Zomg….Zomg…!!!!” moments. Some are ok but, for people to run puzzles like this for hours just isn’t healthy. Maybe would can get some thought based puzzles instead of speed based ones?

There are thought based puzzles like this one:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Professor_Portmatt%27s_Lab

If I wanted to make an Incinerator dagger, I need the Spark dagger beforehand to make it. My question, if I equip the Spark dagger, thus making it soulbound, will I still be able to use that Spark dagger in making an Incinerator dagger?

What Rekia said. As far as single bags go, you can get a single bag that has 20 slots.
Bag 1: 25 slots [starter bag you get when you make a character]
Bags 2-5: 20 slots in each bag.
Bag 6: This is extra bag space that you need to buy with Gems.

So if you have all 6 bags, your max bag space will be a total of 125 bag spaces.

Sorry, nothing wrong with this puzzle. And plus, A-net was even kind enough to give us another puzzle in that map that just about anyone can do. QQ more.

Thanks for working at an attempt to fix it, I know its not easy working on this stuff and you guys at A-net can only prepare for so much. Other companies(Blizzard, ect) would also have glitches like this when they release expanding content and when they do have glitches, instead of doing what A-net is doing(keeping the server up and trying to fix the server with the server up), the other companies would of just taken their server down until they are satisfied with their attempt at fixing it.

I’ll give that a look as well, but would still like to see something integrated into the client itself.

I still think adding an option to toggle it would be the best idea but I see what your saying, it would be just ANOTHER thing to dig through options to set, which is, of course, very annoying.
Maybe something that would be better is if its OFF by default(to have you happy, no changes need to be done on your part) but if your one of those players who like it at certain times, you can press the / key on the number pad to toggle it on or off, this way your not digging through an option menu.

Vinny.6924:

hahawinner.5273:

I’m pretty sure they were making up a random number but they could be playing the Gem markets, buying Gems(for gold) at their lowest price and selling the Gems(for gold) when the price was higher. Basically buy low, sell high; I’ve turned 3g into 7g or 8g by doing the same.

Edit: Just be careful when doing this, its a RISK but if you do it right, the reward outweighs the risk.

I hope u dont listen to this. You will lose tons of money doing this. Its been proven time and time again that it will yield nothing.

If you saw, I did say it was a risk; Before I even started playing with buying and selling Gems, I watched the market for the prices for a good 2 weeks, noting down when they seemed to be the highest and when they seemed to be the lowest. It DOES work but it takes patience, time, and a little luck.

Also, there isn’t a “guesting” feature working yet but they plan to put a “guest to other player’s server” option. Don’t know if this will allow NA players to guest to an EU server but I would think it would.

I’m pretty sure they were making up a random number but they could be playing the Gem markets, buying Gems(for gold) at their lowest price and selling the Gems(for gold) when the price was higher. Basically buy low, sell high; I’ve turned 3g into 7g or 8g by doing the same.

Edit: Just be careful when doing this, its a RISK but if you do it right, the reward outweighs the risk.

Articluna.4509:

1) chance for exotic (20%?)
2) not legendary, but people do this to obtain precursor (specific exotic)
3) .. t6 items? If you meanto define t6 by crafting (exotic lv 80ies) then best option is to use 3x rare 80+1x mystic forge stone (beware rng). If you mean t6 crafting materials, ones that require crafting level 400, then you can upgrade t5 materials. wiki has recipie ^^ Ectoplasma however is gained from salvaging high level rare and exotic items(68+). I recommend master or mystic salvage kit for bulk, and bltc salvage kit if you happen to have them prior salvaging.
4) Upgrading sigils and runes works same way; chance for same or higher tier result but not tied to specific rune (ie, varmpirism, dolyak, etc)

Edit I’d also salvage white items, always, with crude salvage kit and sell/store mats. IIRC majority of 75+ blue/white are better to be salvaged for chance at t6 basic materials (gossamer, orichalcum) but I’m not yet sure if one should use fine or basic toolkits for that. (“rarer materials”)

1)If that 20% is the actual chance, iunno if I’d want to risk that…unless I get a crapload of yellows one day.
2)Do these have to be certain exotics to get the precursor exotic or is it just a random exotic(that has a chance to be a precursor)?
3)Now I’ll pay a bit more attention to what I’m salvaging; When you use a salvage kit and get an Ectoplasma, is it usually just one or a couple?
4)Gotcha, thanks.

@Edit: Wasn’t aware that 75+ whites would be able to give me T6 basic mats so I’ll keep that in mind.

Sorry to say, but I too feel there is nothing wrong with it. Yes, people are going to sit there and farm player kills but it would be no different from getting ambushed in WvW when trying to take a Keep.

TL;DR version:

3 reasons why Anet will not change the puzzles
1. Jumping puzzle is in a pvp area. Been attacked by opposing players is the whole point
2. Chest rewards badges
3. Chest gives siege plans (it’s strategic to prevent the enemy from gaining and using this seige against you)
This has been said by numerous people since release and it’s still exactly the same.

Really, I think the problem is that it sounds like your trying to solo in Orr. The higher level areas are going to be more designed for groups to do rather than a solo player.

This game was designed to be a group game, not a solo game. Yes, I’ve been to Orr solo and have noticed the respawn rate is high but that adds to the challenge; If we could all do this stuff solo with little to no issue, there would be no sense of trying to make friends with people to get through everything.

This is almost like saying “I’m gonna take on an invader zerg solo in WvW and kill them all by myself”

So basically add day and night effects to armors and weapons…I actually kinda like that idea. +1

I also agree with this but with one little change to what the OP put. Instead of taking it out altogether, why not just have an option added to the “video” tab in the options menu to “Disable Spinning Death Cam”?

Doing it this way would make it so people who do enjoy it or want it can have it but people who don’t like it can just turn it off. I find it annoying in WvW, PvP, and dungeons but I tend to like it in PvE at the lower levels.

I’ve noticed in some games, once you start a 3rd party program to capture video in-game(such as Fraps), a lot of lower end computers(and sometimes even higher end computers) tend to loose frame rate while recording. From games that have a recording option built into the client itself, I’ve noticed they tend to loose little to no frame rate what-so-ever.

If something like that could come built into the client, it’d be great(and it would save to an output folder in “Documents/Guild Wars 2/Recordings” or something of that sort).

Well you can copy into the type box(aka input field) using Ctrl+V(after copying something from a website or notepad or something like that). And you can also do those kind of shortcuts as long as you highlight text in the type box. But I agree, not for RP-ing reasons mind you, I think we should have a chatlog feature and be able to copy from the chat box, not just in type box.

Era.2930:

Hi hahawinner

I am not sure about the first few questions so I will leave someone else to answer those, but your fourth question: yes they work the same way 4 greens will make another random green with a chance to proc to yellow (same applies for blue to green also). FYI the same applies for dyes

hope that helps

Era

Thanks for answering that 4th question; Do you know if 4 yellow sigils would have a chance to proc to exotic? And about what you said about dyes, what happens if you try putting 4 unidentified dyes in the forge?

Recently been messing with the Mystic Forge quite a bit. I read here on the forums that you should do something like this with items you get through general gameplay.
Sell(to npcs)
Whites lvl 1-80
Blues lvl 1-80
Greens lvl 1-69
Sell(on TP)
Yellows/Exotics lvl 1-80 (only if you can make more than 16% of what you list it at)
Combine(in Mystic Forge)
Greens lvl 70-80 to make Yellows(which I then sell on TP)

Now, it leaves me with a few questions:
1)If I combine 4 Yellows, will that get me an Exotic(or a chance at an Exotic)?
2)What happens if you combine 4 Exotics? Does that give you an Exotic output or possibly a Legendary output?
3)What is the best way to get the T6 items(ectoplasms, ect) from the Mystic Forge?
4)Will upgrade items (sigils, runes, ect) work in the same way?
i.e. put in 4 green sigils, get a random yellow sigil.

Any other useful info would be appreciated as well. (Yes, I have searched around a bit in the forums but couldn’t find anything concrete…)

Eh, I can see where it would be useful(since I used that in GWs myself) but here I think it would become an issue since then people could log out right before they die in PvP/WvW/PvE and save the hassle of dying; but if they did go with your idea, as long as they made it so we have to be out of battle for X seconds, then I think it’d work fine.

As a few people said here, its being mobile that is probably a big part of your problem. I know a lot of other MMO seem to have it not matter if you move or not but it isn’t the case in GW2. I would say, at first get used to using the mouse and Q or E to turn and/or move. After you get that done, you may wanna switch your A and D keys up so you dodge roll when you press them(for those “OMG GONNA GET HIT” moments). Like the guy from that video link said(yes, I watched it),
“I rather spend 30 mins running in a tight circle around a tree so I can spend the next serveral hundred hours succeeding where I might have otherwise failed, than skip that 30 mins to learn a new skill[moving in tight circles]and spend the next serveral hundred hours failing where I might have succeed[if I learned the new skill of moving in tight circles].”
And he is right, it took me about 30 mins or so to learn it at a basic level but its so worth it.

Basically, as Nels said, taking damage doesn’t end stealth, but if your in stealth and cause damage to someone, stealth ends. Something to watch out for though, if someone has a “launch” skill (a skill that makes you jump forward) like Heartseeker, and they jump through a smoke field, they will gain invisibility so try to watch that in sPvP and knock them back when you see a smoke field go up if you can.

From what they’ve said on botting, eventually yes but try to report all the ones you see; I would imagine ones that are report are banned a lot faster than those that have to be found by A-net’s developing bot detecting protocols.

Wow, all 403 dyes o_O Leaves me wondering though, did you get that from buying dyes from TP, buying dye sets using Gems, or by just getting lucky and finding all the dyes…either way, its pretty impressive and there SHOULD be an achievement for it in my opinion.

Oh and I just looked this up, seems like that device you used to complete the Halloween Act 1 event can be used to get you trick-or-treat bags as well.
http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/use-candy-powered-matter-meter-to-get-trick-or-treat-bags/54312/

As far as I’ve seen, the doors net you candy corn the quickest, even if all the doors you open all contain monsters and not bags, the monsters even have a high rate of trick-or-treat bags dropping. Got quite a few bags from a wave of spiders coming from the door(I believe it was 8 bags). And yes, join a “door hunting” group, you get TONS more with a door hunting group.

Oxe.6142:

When downed, every class should be able to zoom their camera out to see the battlefield. Just, better camera controls all around, every race, every option.

^This, only thing I would add to this is to get rid of the slow camera spin too, its quite annoying.

I tried giving my Asura hair but didn’t like any of the male hair styles so chose to leave em bald…goes well with my pirate hat though!

This is a pic of my Asuran Thief (Curisu;left) and my guildie (Cico;Right) just napping on guard duty

Finaldeath.1059:

hahawinner.5273:

This is sort of off topic but relates to these last two posts made by Finaldeath and Gehenna.

Making money in this game is not nearly as hard as you guys are making it out to be; I’m a decent level right now and have had probably about 5G in total throughout the whole game. How did I do this? First thing you might say is “oh he must be going crazy on Trading Post selling mats/crafts.” Truth is, all the money I’ve made in this game has been from map exploration(you get some money for 100% maps), npc-ing drops(that weren’t worth it to salvage), doing dynamic events(they pay at the end of the event), and the occasional money drop from monsters. I will admit that I have made money off the Trading Post but its only been 1G if that(since the economy is new).

I know money isn’t hard to make in pve, i am talking from purely a wvw point of view. I make money pretty easily in pve.

The only time i have money issues is when i go overboard on buying junk i don’t really need like a bunch of crafting mats to level a crafting profession i don’t really use.

Only reason I listed what I did was because money in WvW and PvE are the same thing. Also, I’ve noticed that you can get items to sell(some stuff worth 1S that is npc feed) and occasionally money in WvW.
But I do agree with everyone here, the armor repair system for WvW has to be re-done because we should have a small penalty, if any, from dying at other player’s hands.

This is sort of off topic but relates to these last two posts made by Finaldeath and Gehenna.

Making money in this game is not nearly as hard as you guys are making it out to be; I’m a decent level right now and have had probably about 5G in total throughout the whole game and I’m walking around in almost entire rare armor with 3 rare weapons. How did I do this? First thing you might say is “oh he must be going crazy on Trading Post selling mats/crafts.” Truth is, all the money I’ve made in this game has been from map exploration(you get some money for 100% maps), npc-ing drops(that weren’t worth it to salvage), doing dynamic events(they pay at the end of the event), and the occasional money drop from monsters. I will admit that I have made money off the Trading Post but its only been 1G if that(since the economy is new).

I felt it kinda odd that my armor was damaged from dying in WvWvW at first too, but then when I thought about it, like Vexus said, it prevent death zerging, which so many games have in it. I think maybe instead of changing the cost of armor repairs, make it so your armor only gets damaged after X amount of deaths.

Another option would be similar to what draeath said, maybe we could use badges for armor repairs but instead of armor repairs, let us be able to exchange badges for a consumable(account bound) that prevents all armor damage for X amount of deaths with like a 2-3 hour time limit on it.

At the same time, I don’t want any sort of change like this because it will directly impact the economy, as in raising inflation, which, at this early stage of the economy, could set the economy up to fail.

Honestly, for PvE and Dungeon runs, it shouldn’t matter if you can see the levels of people or not because everyone is level scaled to the area. You have to remember, there are no “healing classes” or “tanking classes” and just because someone is, for this example, lets say level 80, does NOT reflect how good or how bad a player someone is since we pretty much all have to rely on our own timing with dodging and healing. I feel if there was a way to see people’s levels in PvE/Dungeon runs, this would make it harder for lower level players to do things because the whole mentality would switch to “I don’t want that low level nab in my group”.

As for PvP/WvW, allowing people on the same team to see the real level of a team mate would be useful for formulating a battle plan because someone who is level 80 would most likely have better gear than someone who is upleveled to level 80 so obviously, the level 80 person will hit harder while the lower level people can be organized to run supplies, guard caravans, work as bait, ect.