Guild Wars 2

Yeah same thing here all the soulbound rings which I have no use for, I already vendored them cos they are taking up too much room. And so much for Anet say that there will be multiple way of getting ascended gear. U guys add rings to the laurel system but not amulet to the fractal relics vendor.

My question is where are all the loadstones that used to drop. I used to get a min of 1 loadstone in 2 runs, and that was the worst of it. Usually there are alot more but now, its more like 1 in 4 or 5 runs and more like only on tier like 30-39 or 40-49. The loadstone drop has been reduced for sure I can tell u you cos alot of ppl are experiencing the same problem.

I’m just started trying this build out so don shoot me down if its a noobish question.
If I’m running a 20-toughness, 20- vitality, 30-condition damage or any variant of it wouldn’t it make more sense that there’s a condition damage. toughness, vitality exotic gear set.
So far I’ve trying looking around but i can’t seem to find anything with this gear stats.
If there is one pls correct me and if it isn’t ideal for these kinda builds pls correct me as well.

Thank you

Gonna make this short and sweet cos everyone already knows what I’m gonna ask. Just want a reply out of Anet

As the title says, I have 1 bank tab full of relics and almost 50+ pristine relics and I cant do anything with them

Also got a bank tab full of rings and i cant do anything with them.

When is Anet gonna do something about this?

The next part is something I would want to see replied

With Laurels it takes 1 monthly and 20 dailies to get an ascended amulet. Basically it will take a minimum of 20 days.

With FOTM 20 days will get you 2 pristine relics which is enough to get 2 rings. And in that 20 days it is quite easy to get enough relics and crafting mats to get a beta fractal capacitor.(Only using tier 10-19)

In short – Laurels 20 days, 1 ascended amulet
– FOTM 20 days 3 ascended gear

WHY? PLS ANS ANET

If you want dungeon kicking to go(atleast for FOTM) then make sure players can only join lvls in their own tier. So for example lvl 1-9 is one tier, lvl 10-19 is another. Make sure a player from the first tier can’t join the second one.
Anyway if I find someone sucky, i don think i’ll bother keeping him till Maw, then kick him. Probably kick him straight away and post on gw2lfg for another guy.

For other dungeons, they can simply come up with something like right clicking on the player so that we can inspect him, to see what gear he’s suing and what his build. Also maybe have an achievement section or something which shows how many times he has done that dungeon. Asking players to link stuff is never gonna work or be honest and tell us exactly what they are using is never gonna work.

I hope what you guys are guessing about this comes through. But I really wanna see an official response. At least someone letting us know that this info has to been passed to the dungeon design team and what they are thinking of doing about this or what their stand is regarding this issue. It cant be the case that ppl have been talking about this issue for so long and the game designers still have idea where they are headed with the problem.

There is another big issue with the ascended gear using the laurel system. IT TAKES TOO FREAKING LONG. Let me explain what i mean by this.

Currently if one diligently does his dailies for 20 days and within that 20 days finishes his monthly, he can get his ascended amulet(25 for a ring). So the fastest you can get one ascended gear is in 20 days.

However in FOTM in that 20 days you definitely get a bare minimum of 2 rings with pristine relics(if your rng is horrible) and within that 20 days can quite easily get enough relics and crafting materials to make a beta fractal capacitor. And i’m only talking about someone who’s in the range of lvl 10-19. Most ppl will push on to higher lvls and they most likely will get a ring or 2 that they need from the daily chest, thus making the acquisition process slightly faster.

So bacisally is the same period of time one can get 3 pieces of ascended gear, now with the laurels system, you gotta wait for bleeping 20 days just to get 1?(25 for a ring, if anyone gets the ring through laurels they’re probably one of the biggest kitten this game would have ever seen.) Also bare in mind we can’t get any of the other stuff you can buy with the laurels system. Have you guys also considered that ppl have multiple builds and multiple alts which might need different ascended items.

If your counter argument is, “If we reduce the amount of laurels required for ascended gear, then it would be easily acquired by everyone.”, then my point to you is WHY IN THE WORLD DIDNT YOU LET PLAYERS BUY IT WITH FOTM TOKENS???? THESE ARE THE GUYS WHO REALLY NEED IT.

Would love to see anet reply this cos as of now i’ve seen so many posts and have posted quite a bit myself on this topic and none have really gotten a reply.

+1 to this

Ppl as of now have tons of token and nothing to do with them. I mean isn’t this a major design flaw that ever other dungeon token can be used to buy armor or weapons but the ones from FOTM can’t. Alright i agree they can be used to buy rings and back slot items. But most ppl have no use for these items anymore.

As of now nothing which is ascended can be salvaged or sold(other then to the vendors for some pathetic amount of silver) and this is something ppl have been complaning about pre 28th Jan patch. And what have you guys done about it?

I mean come on its so obvious that your trying to get ppl away from FOTM by putting a hard cap on the lvl through agony, making the encounters harder, even freaking nerfing the loot. I agree it works. But give something back to the kitten dungeon PLS.

Dess.4391:

He said that confusion is weaker in PvE cos normally mobs dont spam skills like ppl do. So even when confusion hits quite a lot its not unusual that mobs only take dmg once or that confusion goes away before they attack not taking dmg at all from it. If mobs attacked a lil faster confusion would destroy them a lot faster for sure.

Ok to this, I have no argument. It is dependent on the attack speed of the mobs. But for most mobs, I don’t think is so slow that it becomes weaker then bleeds right. When I get the time, I’ll do more test’s on a couple of mobs in dungeons and post the results.

However you do have to remember that a mob can only have a max of 25 stacks of bleed. On certain fights i have noticed that the mob, usually vets and bosses,almost have 25 stacks of bleed on them already. Hence there is a question of how much of those 25 stacks of bleed comes from you. Technically you can be doing not much dps. Thats the problem with bleed, its the number 1 condition damage being used across the board.

Kaiyanwan.8521:

I wish GS had a whirl finisher. And the blast finisher on The Prestige is probably the best finisher mesmer have (but unfortunately, the torch fails as an off-hand, different story).

Now we only have so little weapon skills, and ppl still have no clue… ^^

Number 1 – Gs 4 skill Phantasmal Berserker is a whirl finisher and incase you dim enough to say its not. Read the link below.( I think your the one with no freaking clue with whats happening when you make statments like “I wish GS had a whirl finisher”)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Phantasmal_Berserker

Number 2 – Why is a blast finsher the best for a confusion build when whirl and projectile gives stacks of confusion and blast only gives chaos armor.

Number 3 – Torch does not fail as an off hand esp on pvp/wvw. The aoe blind and the invisi it offers is very useful and a Phantasm thats gives 3 stacks of confusion on the first shot(which by the way bounces twice) is quite decent for a confusion build.

Nikked.7365:

I’m not sure that all your facts here are correct. The torch has a combo finisher (The Prestige is a blast finisher). Blasts are one of the most effective finishers. Setting up the combo field then requires Null Field, Feedback, Veil, or Timewarp. (All confusion based, except for Veil.) If the staff is your secondary weapon, you can also use Chaos Storm. We don’t have any whirl finishers, which you said the GS has.

Further, Scepter + Torch isn’t a pure damage weapon combo; they are condition based (confusion primarily). Sword + Pistol or GS are both damage setups. Confusion is a weak condition in PvE. In sPvP or WvW, players do suffer from it, but they can also remedy it with condition removal. So, it’s a gamble.

Personally, I’ve never found a use for the scepter, so I can’t imagine carrying around two of them for the extra Confusing Images. This is the only weapon available to use that I actively avoid.

If your using a confusion build then projectile finisher or Whirl finisher would surely be better as it gives confusion stacks. One can easily go up to like 11- 15 stacks of confusion with projectile finisher or Whirl finisher(even more if done right). Just imagine the stacks of confusion one can put out if specter and torch has projectile and/or Whirl finisher. As blast finishers only give chaos armor, i guess its decent for a confusion build as it may cause confusion stacks when someone hits you, but i don see how its better then then projectile and whirl.

You do make a point about it being a condition and that it can be removed in pvp or WvW but so far I find it alot better then other condition build and power builds. I cant say i find it better then mantra build cos i havent really tried it.

I don really use confusion build in pve as specter/torch, astleast for me is more for single target. Of course there’s shatters that give confusion but i think a regular shatter build will do much better in dungeons with alot of mobs.
However I don understand why you would say it is a weak condtion in pve.
If anything confusion is stronger in pve then in pvp and the link below will prove it.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Confusion
And compared to confusion, bleeds are weaker. The calculation for bleeds are in the link below
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bleeding
So basically if it was a single target fight, like boss fights. I think Confusion build will put out alot more damage then a regular condition build based on bleeds.

FireDragonDoL.3610:

We have a big bug as mesmers, skill number 2 when downed teleports you in a random place. Now with the new system, where you can’t resurrect during a boss (I found it a good idea), this skill it’s becoming a real problem.
1) It usually teleport you under the boss, instead of being a helpful skill, this usually involves your dead.
2) It teleports you in LAVA. YEA inside lava, so instead of saving you, not only this will kill you, but will make you impossible to resurrect, because in lava you take 4800 damage per second even while dead.

In CoF (Citadel of Flame) Path 3 last boss, I were teleported near the lava, pressed 2 to avoid taking other damages, teleported me inside the lava and I can’t do anything else. People can’t help me because my body stays in the lava after dead.

Can you please fix this skill AND the fact that the body stays in the lava even after dead?

Happens to me quite alot and it gets very frustrating when it does.
+1 to OP

Specter and Torch are almost always present in all confusion builds. So wouldnt it make perfect sense that they have have projectile finisher or Whirl finisher esp on confusing images and phantasmal mage.
Other then bleeds, i think confusion is one of the best condtion damage(ethereal combo fields, traits and of course weapons) which mesmers can stack and the primary weapons for doing so which is Specter and Torch have no link with the offensive combos. Best yet specter doesnt have any form or combo at all.
The only weapon that delivers both projectile finisher or Whirl finisher would be gs. But with one weapon set doing damage(specter & torch) it would be so much better to hold something like a staff for the utility and defensive abilities but again no projectile finisher or Whirl finisher.
Of course u can go with off hands like pistol or focus in which case you end up with just one projectile finisher or Whirl finisher. I guess you can try a second specter here for extra confusing images but is it really worth it?(not a rhetorical question cos I never tried it and I don think i will, if any one has tested it pls comment)
So pls to make this a good build it would be nice to see Specter and Torch having some projectile finisher or Whirl finisher.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

No. There is no flag for good and bad loot. It is just RNG.

Wait wait wait, so why is his RNG presciently is bad(much like mine) and other ppl have better RNG. How is it Random Number Generation when some ppl have it good and some ppl have it bad. Doesn’t that mean that there is something fundamentally wrong with your “RNG”.
Sorry if you guys were talking about it is the posts above I just skipped ever thing else when I saw this.
Cos a fren of mine just got his second precursor and he doesnt even have the stuff the craft one legendary. While I got the stuff ready and I havent even got one. Both of us put almost the same amount and quality of stuff down the mystic toilet and do event/dungeons together so I just don understand WHY I STILL DON EVEN HAVE ONE PRECURSOR.

With the new laurels system, getting just one piece of ascended gear takes a minimum of at least 20 days(for the amulet, the ring is about 5 days longer). Basically finish the monthly and 20 dailies.

When it comes to getting ascended gear from FOTM it was so much more faster. In that same 20 days, I can get fractal capacitor(I actually got 2, 1 for my condition and 1 for my power build) and 4 rings(2 for each of my build). I also managed my ascended MF set in less then a week or so after getting my power and condition gear. For the ppl who are thinking I’m trying to show off, I’M NOT. Just trying to make a comparison. Even if one’s RNG is so bad you can surely get 2 rings from the pristine relics and 20 days for a beta fractal capacitor is really not too hard, so lets use this as a bench mark.

Whats happening now is that in the time I can get 3 ascended items, with the new laurels system, I only can get 1. To the ppl at who came up with this idea, COME ON GUYS U GOTTA BE KIDDING RIGHT? And to get second one for my other build, lol ok lets not go there yet. And lets not go any where near getting one for my MF set.

Now I know some are gonna take a look at this and say, “Unlike you most ppl who play this game have a real life”, cos 3 ascended gear in 20 days or less might sound like quite a grind. But you have to realize, that some ppl have a period of down time from their jobs or lessons and after that they are gonna be really busy. Which is why I liked it when grinding was an option for ascended gear. But with this system I have to play a minimum of 20 days just to get one ascended neck item.

Also I know that Anet is trying to take the “grinding issue” out of the game but really what your doing is taking the grind in FOTM and pushing out to other areas, which as everyone knows is really what they are trying to achieve with the laurels system and making ninja changes to a few elites in FOTM making them hard or impossible to do at higher lvls. Actually if you ask me, you guys took the grind and stretched over longer period of time. But don get me wrong, i’m still quite indifferent about this. The only thing that kitten me off is the amount of time needed for one bleeping Ascended gear with laurels.

Just bare with me for a bit more cos I got a second query. What in the world am I suppose to do with the remaining FOTM tokens? I got almost 2 bank tabs of rings, crafting materials and tokens from FOTM, that is just lying around. I asked this question like 3 or 4 times on this forum, alot ppl have asked this question as well. To the ppl at ANET, AN ANSWER TO THIS WILL BE FREAKING AWESOME.

At least tokens from other dungeons can be exchanged for gear and that be salvaged or thrown into the Mystic Toilet for some freak chance at sometime good. But none in the case of FOTM.

I’m really hoping for some answers this time cos ANET have never replied me on any issue. Oh wait actually you guys did reply me once when my account got banned for no reason and the time I had to change my email address, so thanks for that. Now pls try to reply to this one.

Not too sure if I’m missing out on any info with the laurels system. If I am pls correct me. Same views as me pls +1. Any opposing views, I would like to tell you to pisses off but hey who’s gonna listen right. So go right ahead and post them.

swiftpaw.6397:

Dont care about experience. I care about someone’s ability to listen. And their gear. Many times I take new people into arah and they do very well. All I ask is exotic gear ( not hard in this game) and to listen if you’re new.

+1 to this.

Ppl who have no idea what they are doing, like to think that they know what they are doing and REFUSE to listen, when they group tells them what to do or maybe to change and use the strategy that the team is applying. Another reason why ppl hate taking in inexperienced players.

So its gonna be about 3 months since you guys released ascended gear, ppl have been grinding FOTM quite a bit to get them and its been quite fun all along. But now the problem seems to be ppl having so much excess fractals tokens that we can’t do anything with them.

Hence my question is when are you guys gonna release more ascended gear and can we buy them with the excess fractal tokens we have. No need for anything accurate but at least a rough timeline would do. My worry is that Anet comes up with something totally new to buy the remaining ascended gear and we are stuck with all these tokens for nothing. Don get me wrong, I like the idea where ppl get tokens for achievements which then can be changed into ascended gear but just don make fractal tokens redundant in the process.

Another question that I would like to ask(is something ppl have asked quite alot on the forums but haven’t seen any reply), is can PLEASE introduce something that can be done about the excess ascended rings. Selling them off got 4s at the vendors is quite stupid so please don even mention that.

What I would like to hear from them is, a rough timeline of when the rest of the ascended gear will be coming out. I’m aware that it would be released “over a period of time” but it would be nice to have a some knowledge of when and what pieces of gear will be coming out in the up coming months

yuckfou.1254:

please allow us to buy these with relics or coins…

39 lvl 30+ runs, 55 lvl 20+ runs…im not in need of these anymore so they are worth like 4 silver each since i cant salvage them.
plz the Rng is old….

Totally agree with this. I’m currently working on getting my 3rd ascended gear set to the highest tier and still havent got a single fractal weapon.
Best part is I was doing my daily yesterday and some guy in my group got a fractal sword. Guess what he says next, “but i don’t use a sword”.
This bring out my next point what are the chances that even if a fractal weapon drops, I can use it on my char.

Stridix.4260:

Well mf means nothing if ur group can’t complete fractals. Try to join a group where everyone has mf gear in lv 40 and see where that will get u…
Or go do simin

OMG why do ppl keep talking about using MF in FOTM. Where in any of my post did I even mention using MF gear in FOTM.

PLEASE STOP BEING BLIND kitten and post stuff about using MF gear in FOTM.

An F.Y.I to those ppl who’s current GW 2 experience is all about FOTM, there are other things that this games offers which MF gear can be used for.

PowerCat.5738:

MF doesn’t work. Don’t waste your time and money on it.

Have any hard evidence to back it up your claim?

Chibi.1839:

theres a ring thats also give 5% MF only its based on the other 2 stats it.

Yes I do agree with that but my point here if about ascended gear being a higher tier, which means it should be carrying more stats. And how is the MF fractal capacitor being a “higher tier” when it gives less MF then a rare back slot.

Eldarion the Warden.1437:

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

How about you don’t be a burden on your team instead and not use MF gear?

i second that

So are both of u trying to imply that MF gear is only used in FOTM. Omg so narrow minded and shallow. Have you considered the fact that with the drop of stuff like precursors being so low it just might help having extra mf?

Lol I cant believe I have to spell it out for ppl.

What I think this games need is right click———→inspect. Something which shows us the gear being used and other stuff like fractal lvl. Or something in the official website, which allows us to type the players name in and see see the same stuff i mentioned above.

Hey I was looking at getting an ascended Magic Find set since I already got the rings for it but realized that the back slot only gives 5% Magic Find. How can ascended gear be a higher tier if Wayfarer’s Spineguard with Exquisite Opal Jewel gives 7% Magic Find? Both the Magic Find ascended rings gives 10%, so why isn’t the back slot giving the same increase in stats? And pls don’t even think about giving me crap replies like ppl buy it for the toughness and vitality.

Basically I see 3 ways in which this can be fixed:

1. Buff the MF stat on this capacitor(PLS DO NOT do something like changing the stats on new capacitors and not changing them on the ones ppl have already)

2. Coming up with a recipe for crafted MF infusions

3. Creating a new Fractal Capacitor with 10% Magic Find stat(which will suck big time for ppl who already the MF one).

Thank you

As the name suggest, the ring drops from FOTM just annoys the crap out of me. After the patch you guys did 2 weeks ago, where the the shortcuts in the fractals were fixed, I have only got 2 rings. This compared to how much it dropped before is such a drastic drop.

My real frustration isn’t over that, its over the fact that I got 3 freaking Mellaggan’s Whorl(uninfused) so I cant use them and another 2 rings that have stats that isnt for my char. I cant salvage it, I can’t TP it. Oh yeah I can do one thing with it, which is sell it for a pathetic 4s.

I mean come on guys, I know that anet is trying to make it easier with the reduction of infusion cost and bringing in Pristine Fractal Relic but you have to do something so that we can make some use of the rings players do not need.

I was thinking of a few things and I’ll list it out here:

1- Let us TP the rings we don need. Do something like ppl lvl 10 and above can buy uninfused only. Ppl 20 and above can buy all rings.(Just like how each class can only use certain armor and weapons)

2- Let us exchange the rings at the vendor in FOTM for other rings of the same tier

3- Come up with recipes for Mystic Forge which would allow a conversion to another ring .

4-Let us salvage it(not really what I hope will happen but better then a useless ring I can do nothing with)

Please take this into consideration as I believe ALOT of players are facing this problem.

Thank you