Guild Wars 2

My only issue with this is when we go through the portal and ONE person gets stuck by him/herself on a platform….there’s no way we can help him/her.

Nyuudles.9104:

I got a mini ho-ho tron and a light of dwayna recipe with 250 gifts.
I’d say it’s worth trying atleast.

I’d say that’s pretty darned lucky. I opened 3x that on the first day and just got three of the grenth recipes…..

Keys as drops: 5-8
Precursors: 0

I miss getting keys from inside the chests.

I’ve opened thousands of gifts to try & get the mini ho-ho tron and nothing but wool junk and recipes with the odd dragonite/empy fragment here & there…..and yet I keep trying.

As someone saving gold for Leaf of Kudzu, I wish my luck was better and I’d get some sort of windfall with a huge drop that I could sell to afford my precursor. At one point in time I wanted Dusk but with the way prices are going up and up…I’ll just save my gift of darkness and hope that someday I can make something else with it.

I play a LOT, farm a bunch, dungeons, world events, etc….and even with the Ancient Karka event (I got two of the rewards from that event) and still I’ve never gotten a pre-cursor. Game time played, Magic Find, Activities done means nothing in terms of getting a pre and I hate it.

So I save every bit of gold I get in order to someday be able to get one of the land based precursors. UGH

Do the story up to level 10, get your black lion key, ignore the rest of the story.

I personally enjoy the story as it gives heaps of xp for the time it takes to do the bits.

Some good ideas in there. I completely and totally support this:

Make it so that we can set who is allowed to start guild missions….not activate them from the guild panel, but like talking to the bounty and setting him/her off or activating the puzzle before everyone gets there.

If you do a guild mission with another guild make it so that the pop-up to accept credit only goes to the officers/leaders.

Guild home server should also be an option so that people on other servers cannot join and/or are given a message saying “This guild’s home world is X, are you sure you want to join? Selecting YES will not move your home server and you will not receive benefits activated from the guild.” (something like that)

Being able to set a welcome mail for new members would be nice as well. Upon joining a new member receives a message from the guild in their box with a message set by guild leaders. Possibly a place in that box to store items to send out with the message. (panel contains place for stacks of items and a ^/v box to set number of items sent: i.e. 5 pieces of toast 1 potion) Officers would have to refill the stacks periodically but it would save us time.

Being able to donate influence to other guilds would be nice too…our guild has 1.2mil influence and the max number of mission credits with not much to spend it on.

I like it, just as I liked the toxic skin pieces. But for a single piece of armor….too much and not going to buy it.

Thanks NCSoft for messing with how ANET originally priced armor sets.

I can finally realistically start working towards a complete set of sclerite weapons (minus mace because no blinky eye). I’ve been saving any scraps/tickets I get and now I can get three for the price of 1!!

I love you, thank you. This totally makes up for the consortium supply crate problem I had.

Now I need a dagger, focus, torch, hammer, bows, rifle and pistol (in that order). [anyone want to buy me one? >.> ]

I also got it in my email, so people should be getting it either through the launcher or email. Not sure how it would fit in-game though….

Maybe they should just put TVs in all of the bars that we can interact with to view cinematics, trailers and such. :P

Aedelric.1287:

khani.4786:

A guildmate of mine found this awesome recap of the living story…..why isn’t this on their official youtube channel?

-removed link-

If you checked you would have found out that it is.

http://www.youtube.com/user/arenanetofficial/videos

When I posted that it wasn’t yet…..just saying. I did check by the way.

Here’s the correct link: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/one-week-only-black-lion-weapons-discount-2/

A guildmate of mine found this awesome recap of the living story…..why isn’t this on their official youtube channel?

The best place I’ve found for linen is the caves around flamefrog waypoint in Sparkfly fen. The medium thorn bags and garment fragment things they drop are good for linen & cotton.

I just need more silk >.< (Still kicking myself for turning my silk into gossamer)

Precursors drop and are obtainable outside of the trading post?

Color me shocked. It makes me very sad to hear that “OH the droprate is fine, I’ve gotten X number of precursors and I’ve only played the game for a few months”. I’m starting to doubt that I will ever get a precursor outside of saving hundreds of gold for one. :,(

• 13k+ achievement points, including dungeon master, every jumping puzzle done at least once, participated in every living story everything…
• thousands of hours played in all areas of the game (PvE, WvW and even some PvP)
• World boss events done nearly daily
• Rares/exotics tossed in forge, every chest I’ve found raided
• Map completion done 4 times now
• 8 level 80 characters (and one level 51 character)

Precursors that have dropped for me = 0

I’ve gotten one precursor from the trading post for 19gold (all I could afford at the time) and I’m saving everything I possibly can to try and afford Leaf of Kudzu and I’m still so very far away.

Even with ~140% account magic find I’m still lucky to get a rare or two outside of the guaranteed ones from world events.

I once got kicked out once during the “play whatever you like” song….guess jingle bells was the wrong choice for me to play. o.o

very rarely I’ve gotten snowflakes as drops from the mobs inside the presents. Overall though, snowflakes seem very rare.

I’d love some toxic spores in my home instance because shinies!

Soulstar.7812:

ANet actually gave us the most metal gift ever.
Click link to find out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGMnmiqlss

This is exactly what I’ve been getting from the gifts this year. cry

at least 100 gifts per day and the same wool, wool, empy fragment, wool, wool, ori/gossamer recipe, wool, wool, and oh yeah maybe a dragonite ingot and more wool and the odd cheap weapon skins here and there maybe once every couple days.

spend all wool for more gifts

Rinse, repeat.

That is awesome!! Maybe someday my husband or I will get one.

I don’t know how I did it last year but I have all the minis from last year…..and I had 200 cogs left over that I wound up vendoring yesterday. I was even able to make two of the endless tonics last year too.

Mystic.5934:

you don’t need to make it to the end before health runs out. you need to make it to the peppermint platform that tixx is next to (just before the stairway of presents).
when you are on that platform, you are healed to full and don’t take damage. you can then talk to him for some choices. after the stairway is the snowballs – you need to be patient for that one, but quick as well
I think I’m a pretty good jumper and I make it to his platform with about 2500 hp left (about 15%). That is close to the fastest it can be done in. so not a lot of time to lollygag. using a mouse for turning is a requirement. Basically the only time I’m not holding down the forward key is for those two candy canes sticking out of the wall.

You still have to make it from Tixx’s platform to the end before your health runs out. That’s the part I can’t do yet >.<

Here’s me as a princess doll with a charrzooka consumable for reference…..

I’ve never made it to the end. At least this year I can at least make it to the middle point. I just wish the frostbite was just a tiny bit slower after the mid-point. I can almost make it to the final presents but then I die and go all the way back to the beginning. sigh

ever since they patched the gifts to remove the charged quartz I’ve been getting the same, emperial fragment, dragonite, same insignia recipes and ugly trophies. I got two of the grenth recipes before the patch and nothing anywhere near as “good” after. :/

OOh! I hadn’t realized that there were others that were datamined!
Interesting that some of my ideas I found in there
“Hardcore You cannot resurrect allies”
“Tenderfoot The floor hurts you”

I like these too!
No Second Chance Downed state equals death
Tag Team One player must remain out of combat
Finesse Two-handed weapons are very ineffective
Barbaric Only two-handed weapons are effective.
Weak Link If one party member dies, all die
Ensnared Spike traps periodically appear

I love having different situations to work through and hope that at least one of the levels is a random instability rather than X Level is X instability.

Since 42 already reduces endurance regen, how about for 59 that Endurance will only return after fractal completion (so after each big chest and you get a whole 2 dodges for the entire fractal)

and 60 would have to be Agonizing Expedition if the future levels follow the same pattern that has been started.

so your 60 will be 61….

62 – Utilitarian Setback -All utility skills have double recharge time and reduced effectiveness
63 – AoE Overkill - All AoE skills, shouts and signets effect enemies as well as party members.
64 – Hot Foot - Standing still causes you to burn (same as the platform at the end of grawl)
65 – Inept Revival - Party members cannot revive each other and checkpoint message will only appear upon a party wipe.
66 – Don’t drink the water - Food & Potion consumables cannot be used and any boons applied will periodically convert to conditions.
67 – Ominous Unknown - Red rings are hidden so you’ll never know what’s coming until it’s too late.
68 – Explosive hits - Melee damage to enemies has a 30% chance for them to drop a bomb upon hit.
69 – Metamorphic Transformation - Prove the sun shines through you, face the fractal in another form! Players are randomly transformed into a variety of Tyrian wildlife and must fight using only the skills provided.

and 70 would be the Agonizing Expedition once again…..

Malchior.5042:

khani.4786:

I love and hate the princess dolls. I love to be one to terrorize others, but they’re the first to die when they pop out of the boxes.

It’s a combat tonic now?! :O

No, but you can use the consumable charrzookas, jars of bees, harpy pheremones, golem in a box, (as well as any other consumable you have in your inventory) and the guild puzzle that requires you to shoot down the icicles, you can use the bow they give you there (that’s the second picture of mine)!

I play both & love both. My guard is celestial gear with Traveler runes and my Ranger is zerk with Golemancer runes.

I play with guild teams and we don’t care what people bring on teams so I don’t have to worry about the bear-bow ranger hate. (I prefer my black moa and reef drake pets to bears and sword/dagger/warhorn/greatsword is SO much fun)

“For Krait Justice!”

I always want to hear the charr say “I FEEL…….PRETTY!” (rather than Strong)

I love and hate the princess dolls. I love to be one to terrorize others, but they’re the first to die when they pop out of the boxes.

One of the gifts I opened had 50 dragonite in it. That one must be a rarity though, the others I’d gotten only have 1 dragonite. I love the variety of stuff, just wish snowflakes were more common.

You can also moonwalk too! It’s so cute!

It happens when people go early (before the first row of blue presents spawn).

Same here, but I bought it for the dolyak so I’m okay with it for now.

that happened for me too. I’m not concerned with the credit for the meta, but I would like my achievement points for it.

Freedom Bound.6210:

Check your game log, I consumed an endless toy golem recipe but learned “Giver’s Darksteel-Imbued Inscription (Rare)”.

Same here.

Yes, but the colors in the makeover kits do not include a green option (that isn’t teal), the purples are either neon or uber dark and the blue is teal. So I would love more options in the makeover kits!

Where is Clawfford now? I must know!

We do really need some green hair colors and pink would be good I guess too. I’d also like a true blue and a true purple….or a rainbow option (or at least some others that have varied colors within the spectrum)!

It was loads of fun!! Looking forward to more epic battles.

I’ve resigned the fact that I will never in my lifetime ever see a precusor drop for me. I still throw my rares into the toilet and hope they’ll at least get upgraded, but every single chance I took yesterday I got back something of the exact same rarity and nothing at all even special.

It sucks, I hate RNG and my luck in the system and there have been days when I’ve contemplated going back to 1 player console games…..after the debacle with the consortium chests was one of those. I only just now have any sclerite weapons because I finally scraped up enough BL Tickets for one and farmed my bottom off to afford the others on the TP.

A guildmate of mine got Dawn out of the forge, sold it on the TP because he wanted Dusk, then continued throwing stuff in the forge and got Dawn again. -_- Another throws 4 random rares in and gets Dusk. Me…I put in rare greatswords and get back more rare greatswords. And for whatever reason 4 rare armor pieces of the same time always give me back a rare armor piece of another type (4 boots = 1 helm?)

Personally, I’m banking on the vendor to go away but to still be able to get spores in at least Kessex.

O.O I want a dragon balloon!

Blackwyn.8127:

khani.4786:

Because I actually enjoy the underwater fractal and enjoy soloing that one.

But.. why?

Because it’s fun to me. I’m one of those weirdos that enjoys underwater combat and even has an underwater legendary.

Because I actually enjoy the underwater fractal and enjoy soloing that one. I can’t solo swamp because it requires two other people for me to get the door open.

Will there be new toys added? And if new toys are added, will be they be added to the Toymaker’s Tonic?

It sucks, I tried to discover the recipe, nope.

Why can’t I upgrade them like all the other gemstones?

My block list grows by 2-3 pretty much every day now. I block & report every time. It’s getting worse and needs to stop.

Some minis can swim, some cannot. I just wish they’d come back when you got back onto land.

The sweaters, socks and hats are all on the trading post (or you can buy wintersday gifts from last year for them + snowflakes) The mouseover on the minipack says exactly how many you need of each to combine with the three new minis.