Guild Wars 2

The achievements “Peer Review” and “My Friends, the Smiths” from the “Prisoners of the Dragon” story instance are bugged on my second walk through via my second character.

Update – I ran it again on the first character I completed the story with and I was able to interact with the pages and was able to get the Peer Review achievement.

I went back to Ritlock. He was standing near the first page. He would not progress forward and I could not interact with him so I restarted the instance.

After restarting the instance on my first character I was able to complete My Friends, the Smiths achievement.

I posted this in the bugs section but received no replies.

When using these skills, 3/4 of the time my warrior runs past the mob and not actually hitting the mob.

This has been happening only this weekend. I’ve been playing off and on throughout the weekend and it continues to occur.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks,
David The Warrior

Both warrior GS #5 and Spear #5 are charge attacks where the warrior runs directly to the mob. This weekend the skills have been acting strange. When using the skills this weekend my warrior runs past the mob, to the side of them and often roughly 5-7 feet past the mob.

I’ve been playing off and on this weekend and it continues to happen.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks,
David The Warrior

Same. Taimi is now stuck and I was playing my zerk ranger.

This is very helpful in obtaining the tiger http://prnt.sc/8wm7wf.

Ethan The Ranger

I found the following helpful when trying to obtain to the tiger -

Step 1: Pull this up in the background http://prnt.sc/8wm7wf

Step 2: Join a map with an organized group

Step 3: Kill the dragon

Step 4: Alt tab to view http://prnt.sc/8wm7wf

Step 5: Waypoint

Step 6: Go claim your tiger

Here’s Tony http://imgur.com/ouutVAM

Ethan The Ranger

A moment ago I ran a 3 part chain event in Auric Basin. The entire chain of events took about 30 minutes. A player I was grouped with had Mastery Rank 100. At the end of the 3 part chain the player went up 3 ranks. The player’s ending rank was 103.

I also see players with 20+, 30+, 40+, etc ranks. How do players get so high? I’m running around in the new areas, doing map completion and doing events and I’m only Mastery Rank 7.

I thought what I was doing is what I should be doing but seeing players with a much higher rank makes me think I may be doing something wrong.

Any insight is welcome.

Thanks,
iczek

Why is there a daily fractal but no daily dungeon?

I logged in just to say great vid. Keep them coming. I don’t pvp but watching this encourages me to.

iczek

I would buy it if I could swap out the helm for a pair of shades.

Thanks mate!

iczek

I’d like to gift GW2 for a friend but I do not see that is available so I’d like to buy it for him. How would that work out if I were to buy it for him? It’s okay if I use my personal information including my email to buy the game but then I would receive a code that I could give to him?

And yes, I’d like to purchase it at the GW2 site due to the sale.

Thanks!
iczek

That reminds me. A while ago I ran HoTW P1. There were 2 staff guardians in the group. We were on the last boss. I said “lol 2 staff guardians”. One replied saying " that’s the only way to defeat this boss".

I know players enjoy playing support. So perhaps that is it. But I run full beserker and I feel I provide great support with my boons, reflects, etc. Maybe its the whole healing thing? They like to provide healing through their dodge roll?

I’m a guardian and I know the benefits the staff can provide. Please help me understand why a guardian would have their main weapon as a staff in dungeons. Okay, the staff is a great weapon for certain scenarios such as clearing blossoms in TA. But why would a guardian use a staff as their primary weapon during the entire dungeon run? Dungeons are my favorite thing to do in GW2, they are amazing but I am constantly seeing guardians using a staff as their primary weapon. I main a GS and the damage is great. During boss fights, I see guardians spam number 1 on their staff. And I’m thinking, why not use a GS or 1 hander sword to dish out a lot more damage. Perhaps I’m missing something and if so, please explain that to me. But why would a guardian main a staff versus a GS or 1 hander sword/focus?

Thanks!
iczek

Something strange is happening since the patch today. I’ve gotten dc’d 4 times since. I never had this issue before. It puts me back to my character select screen.

They do carry over. I transmuted my ascended greatsword to the corrupted greatsword.

We entered the room for the last boss where we kill the Aetherblades to blow up the generators. Well we wiped and came back. Wiped again then came back but this time the Aetherblades did not spawn. Not one was in the room therefore we were unable to complete the dungeon. We even all died by jumping off a ledge. Ran back, they still didn’t respawn. We all relogged, still they didn’t respawn.

ArenaNet please take a look at this.

Thanks!
iczek

I’m a guardian with Pure of Voice. Tonight I ran HoTW P3 and we were on the boss that immobilizes. In the past when I used a shout, the immobilized would be removed (curing a condition) however tonight when I used a shout I couldn’t remove the immobilize.

Anyone else experience this?

Thanks,
iczek

As I stated in my post, I use a greatsword. I also see the other benefits by using shouts – damage reduction, regen, stability and retaliation. All of them are useful while running dungeons. In combination with my virtues, I’ve seen them save party members numerous times. However, I may consider placing the 10 points in Virtues and see how that works. I’ll need to adjust my overall build but I could go hammer for dungeons. The protection it provides is quite useful especially when stacking on some bosses. Also, the only reason I went in to Honor was for PoV so if I’m no longer taking that then I won’t place no more that 5 points in it unless the 20 points in Honor is for Writ of Persistence for the hammer build.

I tried many builds and couldn’t find the right one until I tried 10/25/0/30/5 with full zerker – greatsword/scepter-focus. It provides greats dps and has Empowering Might which gives party members 1 stack of might for 5 seconds each time I crit plus Pure of Voice which converts 1 condition in to a boon when using a shout. I pug dungeons about 90% of the time and I don’t want rely on someone else to remove conditions so I take on that role for the party. Also having the 5 points in Virtues for Inspired Virtue is helpful as well. For me this is the right balance of dps and “support”.

Asura, the animations are great. Also, the culture armor looks good.

Any servers have Grenth open?

IndigoSundown.5419:

iczek.9628:

I don’t know what I’m suppose to do. I don’t enjoy pvp’g at all but I would like to have the achievement but I am prevented from obtaining it.

Your choices are quite simple.

1. Continue trying at odd hours in the hope you will get lucky.
2. Devise a PvP solution to a PvP problem. This would probably mean asking for help from guild members or randoms in the EB map.
3. Reconcile yourself to the likelihood that, if you don’t want to embrace the game mode, you may not get the achievement.

Good luck, whichever option you pursue.

I appreciate you trying to help.

1) I have a fulltime job and a life outside of this game. I don’t have the hours to commit to getting this achievement. It shouldn’t take hours to obtain, however, unfortunately players enjoy causing trouble for other players. Treat people the way you’d like to be treated…
2)I’m in a very small guild with close friends. They’re not on much so asking them is not an option. I have attempted to get a group together via map chat but no luck.
3)I have made the decision that if I don’t get then I just don’t get it. After all, it’s just a game.

Things like this don’t upset me, just disappointing.

I’ve done this JP before and understand the difficulties. I tried it yesterday afternoon (Saturday) with a guildie where it was his first time and we of course were killed in the arena and it ruined his experience with the JP. I got up at 4am CST this morning and got killed again in the arena. I change my schedule to accommodate the game yet it fails. To be honest, these little disappointments are adding up and there are many free games to play. Rift is a good one. Anet has competition and the result is my time is invested in other games a little more each time these little disappointments occur with less time spent in GW2.

Revel Heart I understand. I’m in the same boat. Twice I have attempted to complete it and twice I have gotten killed by 2-3 Tarnished Coast players in arena.

I’m on the Jade Quarry server. A guildie and me went through the JP yesterday afternoon (Saturday) and got to the arena. Tarnished Coast was ganking people there. We lost the fight. My guildie was totally bummed. It was his first time through the JP and I think him getting ganked totally ruined the experience for him. He enojys JPs very much but what happened in OS totally bummed him and and he logged after getting ganked.

So this morning I thought, well those gankers must be asleep so I woke up at 4am CST so I could get the Kite achievement. I made it to the arena again and at the top was a long bow Tarnished Coast ranger killing people. I was able to LOS him then 2 more Tarnished Coast players came up to me and killed me.

I don’t know what I’m suppose to do. I don’t enjoy pvp’g at all but I would like to have the achievement but I am prevented from obtaining it. These little disappointments discourage me from playing this game and encourage me to play other games. The little disappointments are slowly adding up. This is not something like the range on my skill changed or they nerfed my pet’s damage by 15%. There is an achievement I’d like to get but players are preventing me from obtaining it. And they are preventing me from obtaining it just because they want to cause trouble for non-pvprs.

As a side note, the Well/invis should be a permanent buff and not limited to time so PVE players can get the achievement. Those who don’t mind pvp’g don’t need to take the Well buff and everyone lives happily ever after.

Leo G.4501:

iczek.9628:

Same here. My ranger was 100% defensive. Mobs were taking so long to kill and I thought well when I run dungeons I’m not contributing much. Today I switched to Beserker and a very different game opened up. Mobs fall down quite fast now, I blow right through them. It’s very nice for farming too.

You shouldn’t expect to kill fast with a 100% defensive build. If you yourself are geared defensively, then you probably should take an offensive pet, traits to support the pet’s damage and weapons/utilities to help them hit harder. Running a Beastmaster build in PvE isn’t quite effective but it doesn’t really kill that slow while still giving you a huge margin of error that lets you do other crazy things…also, your pet can be made so strong, it just solos Vet Karkas for you while you make a sandwich.

People underestimate defensive strategies, IMO. It’s not so much about how much slower you kill or how much punishment overall you are capable of taking but what you can do with that margin of error you open up.

And I didn’t expect to kill them fast being 100% defensive. With 30 points in BM and 25 stacks of Master’s Bond my jaguar was holding aggro and tanking mobs including Champions. I just pew pew my way to victory. The big difference I noticed was when I switched from Apothecary gear to Knight’s gear. In Apothecary gear I could not solo the Vet undead or what ever he is in Cursed Shore. He tosses out the grubs which in return shoot poison everywhere. However in my knight’s and zerker gear I can. Also, when boss’ in some dungeons one shot pets it is real unfortunate cause there goes half of my dps. So investing more in my character (offensively) than my pet is worth it.

Same here. My ranger was 100% defensive. Mobs were taking so long to kill and I thought well when I run dungeons I’m not contributing much. Today I switched to Beserker and a very different game opened up. Mobs fall down quite fast now, I blow right through them. It’s very nice for farming too.

This week my pet began not attacking mobs. He is on guard but will only stand next to me while I attack mobs. He will then commence to attack my target after about 30 seconds to a minute. This happens intermittently. It occurs with both my pets on land and under water. I was fighting a Risen Champion Shark today, swapped pets to my Armor Fish to tank but he swam next to me, doing nothing. I then selected Attack My Target and still did nothing. After about 30 seconds he began attacking my target. Same thing happens to my jaguar. I say it occurs about 10% of the time.

Anyone else?

Thanks,
iczek

I went with Knight’s gear. Thank you for everything’s input. I can’t believe how much faster I’m taking down mobs. What a real difference spec and gear makes. I’m running around with 72% crit. It is awesome seeing how fast the mobs fall. I’m using shortbow and 1 hander sword/torch.

I too was thinking toughness would be a good stat to keep. A little survivability would be nice. Knights is looking pretty good atm. I look foward to hearing what others have to say. I also like BM cause my cat is tanky, he soaks up the damage and deals a fair amount as well.

I like to run both my jaguar and my snow leopard. My prefered weapon is shortbow with a 1 hander sword/torch on the side. Currently I’m very tanky with apothecary gear but as you know, it takes a long time to kill mobs. I’d like to speed things up. So I just switched my traits from 0/10/30/0/30 to 10/30/0/0/30. What is the best set of gear to pick up? I’m thinking Rampager since it has Precision/Power/Condition damage. I feel that is a good combo with my shortbow. Or do you think Beserker with Power/Precision/Critial damage is better? Or perhaps Soldier’s or Knight’s gear? I’m up for suggestions. This is strictly for PVE.

I appreciate everyone’s help.

Thanks!
iczek

The mobs in the Orr zones are ridiculous. I use to solo some Champs by kiting and now they 2 shot me. The Grenth Champ is ridiculous. When he steals your health, your health drops very quickly almost to the point you have no time to react. A group about 10-15 of us were working on him and we got him down about 10% then he healed himself back up. This happened a couple times then we gave up.

I use to solo all Vets and now they 2 shot me. I worked on the Vet Chickens. In the past, I had no trouble with them infact I use to take on 3. Now, when they explode 3/4 of my health drops and I continue to take damage then I’m dead.

I use to take on 6 regular mobs but now it’s a challenge to stay alive fighting 1-2. I appreciate a challenge that’s why my favorite past time is searching out Champs and Vets then soloing then. Now it is out of control. Once the fight is engaged I may stay alive for 10 seconds. I’m a ranger with a focus on toughness and healing. I can take on a large amount of damage, well use too in the Orr zones but not any more. I’m planning on avoiding the Orr zones until a good change is made.

I understand the drop rate of Passion Flowers have been discussed numerous times however Anet needs realize how discouraged its player base is by the outrageously low drop rate of the Passion Flower.

When I pick a Gold Ore node there is a 100% chance that I will receive Gold Ore. When I pick an Asparagus node there is a 100% chance that I will receive Asparagus. If I pick an Onion node there is a 100% chance I will receive Onion. However when I pick a Passiflora node there is a 0.00% chance that I will receive a Passion Flower. Now, those are my findings. I know Passion Flowers exist and the actual drop rate is greater than 0.00% but if I run through the zone and pick every Passiflora yet receive none, how am I suppose to feel? Well, discouraged. I am not encouraged to log in to the game the next day knowing there is a slim to no chance of receiving this flower when I spend 30 – 60 minutes farming this flower.

No, I don’t log in to the game to only farm this plant however I do want the Passiflora Orichalcum Ring of the Apothecary. The ring is insanely expensive. I’m not good at making $ in MMOs so I decided that I will work for it the other way…I learned the craft…crafted 0-400 in Jeweler. I look online the mats required for the ring. I need 5 Exquisite Passion Flowers. In order to make those, I need 15 Passion Flowers. That totals 75 Passion Flowers. I begin to farm and run through the entire zone of Southsun Cove picking every Passiflora but no Passion Flower to be found. I am willing to work to obtain this ring. I will farm all the mats needed to make it but when the drop rate is incredibly low, how can 1 player farm all the mats needed to make this 1 ring? I can alone farm mats for amulets and other rings but for this ring, it is just too much.

Anet, would you kindly increase the drop rate of the Passion Flower? If you still would like this to be a rare drop then okay, don’t make it drop every time but perhaps 20%?

For those of you that are tired of the low drop rate, please post a comment and hopefully Anet will take the appropriate action.

Thanks and happy gaming!

iczek

I was browsing through the forums hoping there would be a great guide for jeweler. I want the Passiflora Orichalcum Ring of the Apothecary but don’t have the gold to buy it so I figured I better learn the craft then make it. I understand how difficult it is to make due to the mats however my biggest challenge is crafting. That has always been my greatest challenge in MMOs. Then I stumbled on to this post and your posting xanthic.9478. I checked out your website and leveled Jeweler 0-400 in 2-3 hours. Fine job on the guide! Excellent!! Thank you xanthic.9478!

Today I completed an underwater event called “Defend the Pact galleon from Risen sea life” near the Dire Shoal Waypoint in Straits of Devastation. I had to protect a few NPC’s from 5 waves of mobs (a ship was above us). Seems pretty simple but on the 4th wave there was only 1 mob. I thought, well that is quite strange until I my and my pet’s health dropped 75% (ranger here). Then suddently 4 mobs appear. I used my heal skill then took them down and begin rezzing 1 NPC. Here comes the 5th and final wave and again, only 1 mob is here. I thought, well this is simple but this time I died instantly and so did my pet. Then 4 more mobs appeared out of thin air. I swam to the surface, rez’d then swam down to kill the remaining mobs. Now, I assume the mobs not appearing initially is a bug – 1 appearing and 4 not then the remaining 4 appearing. Same thing occured with another underwater event but I cannot recall the event anme. Can you Anet folks take a look at this? Thanks mate, appreciate it.

Keep up the great work team!

iczek

I got 100% World Completion roughly 4 months ago. I was aware Anet added 1 or 2 WPs in Curse Shore. Adding those 2 WPs would not remove my World Completion title, which is great, however I am a completionist so I ran out there and got the 2. However, I noticed I was still missing 1 which was very strange. I figured well, perhaps Anet added a WP in one of the zones. For about a month I’ve searched and located it in Straits of Devastation. The WP was the Dire Shoal Waypoint, way north under water. I got it and received 100% map completion for Straits of Devastation. I didn’t receive any reward for 100% map completion however I assume since I previously was reward I was not due any.

Side note, keep up the great work ANet. You’ve made a fantastic game and continue to make it even better.

iczek

What rune should be used with this set?

iczek

Very good. So my pet benefits from it. The more healing power I have, my pet heals for more resulting in him lasting longer. That’s great news. The set is pretty cheap, around 6 gold I saw for the chest piece. Although the earrings are expensive. I’m spec’d BM/WS so more I can help my pet the better Thanks again mate for your help.

iczek

Would you please elaborate? Are there different sets of Apothecary gear for a ranger? If I get that set, would it be a good for supporting a dungeon? I also explore qutie a bit. I like to solo a lot of champions.

iczek

Thanks mate for your reply. To clarify, is the gear called Apothecary Emblazoned Helm for example? I want to be sure I purchase the right gear.

By the way, I’ve seen your nature ninja videos Xsorus. They’re awesome. I posted them on our guild’s website.

iczek

I like the thought of toughness/healing set up. It sounds like great survivability. I explore mostly so this caught my interest. I’m always taking down veterans and I like to challenge myself with a champion. Running a toughness/healing set up sound good for PVE including soloing champions but what about running dungeons?
Also, what is this apothecary gear people are discussing? I’m assuming it has toughness and healing. What is the full name of the gear so I can look it up on the Black Lion Trading post. I’m always exploring the world and it would be helpful to have a very good survivable build/gear as I continue to complete many events and fight champions.

Thanks!
iczek

Thank you mate. Very helpful

iczek

The gear I have now does not have the stats I prefer. There is a rune that does have the stats I prefer. Do I need to equip that rune to one piece of my gear to get those stats or do I need to purchase 6 of those runes to apply to all pieces of my gear?

Thank you,
iczek

I’m in the middle of the US so I play on the NA servers. At launch a few friends and I started a guild. They play 1-2 a week, mostly on the weekend. My buddy enjoys alts so I run with him on my 80 ranger (whom I enjoy playing alot). I enjoy running with friends but they are not on that much and there are not enough of us to run dungeons so I’ve been looking for a friendly, encouraging guild that does that. I would join the new guild however I would also continue to play with my friend (when he logs in).

I found a great guild on the EU servers. They seem like the perfect bunch, friendly, encouraging, very helpful and does guild events (dungeons/puzzles). I don’t mind transfering or guesting to them the only issue is, guesting is not available from NA to EU. So, I would have to transfer, again not an issue. However if I transfer to the EU guild, I will NEVER be able to play with my friend on the NA server. And, he will not transfer to an EU server (his brother is also the guild owner). This would have been the perfect scenario, run with my friends (whenever they log in) and be part of a guild that helps its players.

Now I’m in a pickle, do I continue to be part of my guild on the NA server and continue to pug dungeons (running dungeons is my favorite activity)? Or, transfer to the EU guild, be part of a great community, run dungeons with the guild and NEVER play with my friends again? As you can see, this is a difficult choice.

iczek

I logged in tonight and my email address is shown next to my toon name in the guild window. That has never happened and I don’t what my email address revealed to others. Has anyone encountered this? I did submit a ticket.

Thank you,
iczek

Good to hear, thank you mate.

iczek

The description reads it provides 25% increased movement speed however when I mouse over the tiny icon it reads 10% increase movement speed so which is it? And which ever it is please have it corrected to read the correct speed.

Thank you,
iczek

Obivously there are some bugs that need to be worked out and the combo requirement should be removed however overall I enjoy the new dailies. They change each day (as far as I can see) so I won’t be doing the exact same thing every day. The new dailies enourage me to log in each day. This is what I was looking for. I enjoyed doing dailies in other mmos – the reward (currency) could be used to purchase something I wanted.

Thank you ArenaNet for the new dailies. I know you had a good heart when you made them and with some adjustments they’ll be even better.