Guild Wars 2

Ayrilana.1396:

Taxidriver.2043:

u cant autoloot the black event box

Yes you can. I do it all the time at Chak Gerent by just being in the area where the chest shows up.

Teq, Maw, Fire Elemental and Fractals all auto loot too (probably other world bosses too though I haven’t personally done those).

Sometimes I miss pressing F to loot chests, but then I don’t because auto-loot is awesome.

what does /stuck actually do? I’ve used it before but I never know what the result is.

I finished the shoulders tonight and spent maybe 3 gold buying drinks to help top things off.

I spent time with family over the holidays, did things outside of the game and farmed a whole lot of choir bell in between doing other things in game. For a RARE collection, it’s fine. I don’t have all the rare collections done and some are going to be harder than others, but to get them done it’s going to take a concerted effort and that is okay. It’s a goal.

I don’t think rare collections are meant for everyone to be able to get quickly. They require effort and dedication to finish. I don’t think the collection is going to go away, so if you don’t finish this year there’s always next year.

I think it was all fine. 10k drinks, while high. It is totally farmable. I’m at 9k drinks as of tonight and haven’t bought any from the TP save for a handfull (22 to be exact) to round out my total.

I haven’t farmed the JP…..I farmed Bell Choir. And that’s not the only thing I’ve been doing. I do plenty in other zones, I completed the Hot story twice, dailies, worked on the PvP meta, etc.

It’s a RARE collection. If you want to finish it, you have to be determined and farm (or be rich and buy your completion). It’s in a good place where it is.

It counts the first time you go through it, but it doesn’t check off in the list.

Yes please.

I’d buy account bound karma drinks.

Aomine.5012:

khani.4786:

The jumping puzzle is easy…if you’re the only one there. I can consistently get to the midpoint but getting up the presents is a nightmare since they disappear for everyone as soon as one person gets near them.

I hate pvp jumping puzzles. (Not pvp in the sense that I am attacking another player, but player against player in the sense that I am forced to compete against others to make sure I have a place to stand before things disappear).

If it was strictly timed like the Mad King Tower it’d be different. But this one has obstacles that disappear when a single player touches them. If they could find a way to code it so that the disappearing boxes/snowflakes were per player (or make it a solo instance) I would someday be able to make it to the end with practice.

I can’t practice the second half if everyone jumps the gun and doesn’t let me try.

Just saying, most players, including me, consider mad-king tower way harder than Wintersday JP…

True, I never managed to finish that one either, but the pacing on Mad King is faster. At least with the Wintersday one there’s a moment or two you can spare to get your jumps in (at least in the first part).

If I could ever get up the present stairs I’m sure I could finish it, but everyone runs ahead of me. People are antsy and don’t wait their turn.

The jumping puzzle is easy…if you’re the only one there. I can consistently get to the midpoint but getting up the presents is a nightmare since they disappear for everyone as soon as one person gets near them.

I hate pvp jumping puzzles. (Not pvp in the sense that I am attacking another player, but player against player in the sense that I am forced to compete against others to make sure I have a place to stand before things disappear).

If it was strictly timed like the Mad King Tower it’d be different. But this one has obstacles that disappear when a single player touches them. If they could find a way to code it so that the disappearing boxes/snowflakes were per player (or make it a solo instance) I would someday be able to make it to the end with practice.

I can’t practice the second half if everyone jumps the gun and doesn’t let me try.

Doughnuthole.2403:

AegisRunestone.8672:

This is why you must play asura (female specifically). I have never been annoyed with her voice quips.

Female asura’s voice are great! But there’s one thing keeps bugging me though.

Get knocked down “This is how amazing I am!”
Hmmm amazing what? Lying on the ground?

My husband plays all female Asura….his girls keep saying “So this is what it feels like to be Taimi”…..all the freaking time. Just standing there. It’d be better if she said that when she got crippled and not just standing around doing nothing.

I’ve had the first collection for the Minstrel opened up since it was available….and harvested every mushroom in sight. Not a single indigo mushroom to be seen anywhere.

What am I doing wrong?

ionix.9054:

If they added a waypoint in there, then I would purchase it…

You don’t need a waypoint. Just double click the scroll.

I would appreciate that filter. Or a way to add things to a tracking list that isn’t the watch list. I use the watch list so that I have the things I plan on completing short term up there on my screen. A longer term tracking list would be nice so I could just go straight to the ones I’m working on but are going to take longer than a day without sorting thru various sub menus.

Omne.4603:

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

is there a way to visit lost precipe without having a guild that has it? Would like to see it (only know Gilded hollow now).

Its not expensive to just have both for your guild. Thats what we did.

You can’t have both halls for one guild at the same time. It’s an either or.

And yes, you can visit Lost Precipice as long as you know someone who is in a guild that has their hall there. If you see me online and I’m not busy I’ll happily let you come visit our Hall. You have to party with someone that has that guild hall then walk up to the guild hall portal entrance to enter.

I like the speedbuff and don’t want it turned off.

You need to kill 50 for the achievement, there are approx 55-60 in there. Just stand at the ramp and pull a few, once you get the few vets there at the entrance cleared out it is a whole lot easier. They won’t pull very far.

I’m fine with them existing….but please let me dismiss them after I’ve read them.

Tamasan.6457:

3) The Minstrel I: Egg on your Face requires being hit by a risen chicken egg. The only veteran chickens that allow this are behind an event fail in Malchor’s Leap. This one is minor – the event resets quickly and there’s not a huge demand for this or for the Predator I Experimental Rifle which is behind the same event yet needed success.

There is a second event that has a vet risen chicken that spawns in Cursed Shore. So you don’t have to rely on the event failing in Malchor’s.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Slay_the_veteran_Risen_chicken_that's_chasing_Priory_Scholar_Zepa

Tamasan.6457:

4) The Minstrel I: Swiftly Scrambled Eggs. The drop for this recipe comes from Three-Toed Tootsie. Pre-HoT, Tootsie had mechanics similar to a breakbar. With HoT, she got an actual breakbar. The way these two interact make it impossible to kill her no matter how many people are around.

Her breakbar got removed and Tootsie is working correctly again. This fix never made it to patch notes.

Tamasan.6457:

5) The Minstrel I: Drottot’s Poached Egg. The NPC that sells this recipe is bugged permanently, or gets bugged so fast it is effectively permanent. The wiki says he doesn’t sell if there’s an event anywhere nearby, but I’ve tried when the nearest event is more than half a zone away and he still won’t sell anything.

Drottot’s event got removed with the NPE and is forever broken…however I found out that he does indeed sell the recipe eventhough he has no vendor icon over his head. Talk to him and there’s an option to buy his recipe. I wish they’d fix this event as the nearby heart mentions collecting devourer eggs which you can’t ever do.

Tamasan.6457:

6) The Minstrel I: Quiche of Darkness. Indigo Mushrooms – are they really supposed to be are rare as they are? A few people have gotten 1 from orrian truffle nodes, but I’ve harvested hundreds since unlocking the collection and yet to get 1. 5 are needed for the recipe. (edit, I see you’re looking at this)

I hope they fix the indigo mushrooms issue. All I need are the indigo mushrooms to finish the first collection for the Minstrel and I haven’t seen a single one.

I miss the box of pvp skin unlocks in the AP achievement chests. I wish we’d get at least 3-5 random skins from the game in each achievement chest. I like the bonuses we get, they’re nice extra stuff but when those extra skins were removed they feel a little lackluster now. If they’d always been as they are currently it wouldn’t be a big deal, but when you got a bunch with lots more in them and then Oh look less free things, yeah that gets a little disappointing.

The ONLY visual clutter I want removed are the dumb text bubbles over that stupid hobo-tron backpack.

Everything else they’ve removed thus far…I want back.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Solid Gold.9310:

Notsoperky.2348:

Keep them the way they are. Just remove the mastery points from them and add the mastery points to some other open world content instead of gated behind this garbage.

Nailed it.

Or they could also add enough Mastery Points to the game so that people that struggle badly with these games or don’t enjoy them could max out their points without having to do Adventures.

I have all the HoT mastery points I need to fully train everything and I have not touched some of the adventures yet, don’t have gold in all of the ones I’ve have done and haven’t even done the Act 4 story achievements. There are plenty of mastery points out there to get to completely train everything and not have to get gold in all the adventures.

Edit: but I will agree that some of the harder ones need to be tuned down slightly.

I don’t think many folks are calling for getting rid of the timers completely. There needs to be some middle ground between Ehmegherd all dps/condi glass (with one running a bit of toughness to “tank”) and everyone full bunker hitting with wet noodles.

Right now there’s very little (if any) wiggle room for build diversity. Most groups won’t even take one fully bunkered up tank or a fully geared healer.

I personally want to beat/do the raid and I do run mostly zerk characters, but sometimes I’d like to have a tad more vitality or toughness so that I can flub a little and not insta-die while I work on getting the mechanics down. And if nothing changes then I will wait til it’s on farm and try to get into a guild group later down the road. I didn’t do dungeons for the first year of the game either because there was other stuff I could do and I could come back and get the dungeon things done later once more folks knew how they worked better.

Skady.5916:

Gizmo.9178:

Maybe I missed something but blocking someone puts you as invisible to them. How can they still find you?

Yes you are missing something. Currently even if you block person he will still be able to see you online unless you go Invisible. And even after that he will still be able to stalk you through guild list (it will show location even thou your name will be greyed out).

The only thing that block currently does – prevents person from sending you in-game whispers. He still can harass you in say/map chat assuming stalker can get into the same map. He still can join your group from LFG etc etc. This is a very serious design flaw imo

1. Blocked accounts must not be able to see you online and your location/AP etc.
2. Blocked accounts must not be able to join your group from LFG.

Actually, if you block someone you will no longer see them in map chat, say chat, emote chat, guild chat…any sort of communication channel. You can still see their character in game if they’re right there in front of you, but the blocked person has no way to communicate with you.

As far as grouping goes…yeah that should be blocked if it isn’t already.

For me…the bundles are HALF the price of the expansion I just bought. I like the glider skins, but I will not be spending half the cost of the entire expansion in order to get one skin.

No thank you.

ham.8209:

khani.4786:

ham.8209:

you could also put these items in the forge and maybe get something worth something for noting . and then salvage it or even sell it

Some of the items like the Auric Shapening stones have no vendor value, cannot be salvaged, cannot be forged and can only be deleted by typing out the entire name. They don’t even stack so you have 8 different Auric Sharpening stones you have to manually type out and delete the name for every single one of them.

far as the sharping stones goes you can always use them for a new toon . or maybe even give them away to some one . but other wise the items i buy with my karma . them you can not sell them or any thing but you can put them in the forge and then you got something worth something for noting. but ya like i said for the stones just use them for a new toon or give them away . i do that a lot with food trays as well too i have no use for . i just set them out in high traffic areas

They’re not a consumable otherwise I’d use them rather than look at them sitting there doing nothing. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Auric_Sharpening_Stone

:P

ham.8209:

you could also put these items in the forge and maybe get something worth something for noting . and then salvage it or even sell it

Some of the items like the Auric Shapening stones have no vendor value, cannot be salvaged, cannot be forged and can only be deleted by typing out the entire name. They don’t even stack so you have 8 different Auric Sharpening stones you have to manually type out and delete the name for every single one of them.

It is a backpiece. It doesn’t care which weight class you are and there’s only 1 skin. The recipe is the same regardless of which crafting profession unlocks it too.

The best part is the “Raiding Package” thing…includes FIVE upgrade extractors. So if you wanted that to get the runes off some gear you still need to buy one more to get all of your rune set.

Someone wasn’t thinking when they put together that package.

Laurels are fine…

it’s Mystic Coins we need more ways to get.

participation is definitely tied to the IP of the map you’re on. I was in a party with my husband, I had 200% map participation, did one of the instanced adventures and when I was done it threw me to a new map because the one I was on was “full”. My participation was gone. I finally got back to the same map I was one and boom 200% participation was back.

Not sure if each zone has a set range of possible IPs or if all possible zones share IPs. If each zone had an IP range perhaps they could change participation so that the range of possible IPs for that particular zone kept your progress so that when you volunteered or joined a friend in a different instance, you didn’t lose all of your progress.

It’ll probably be more complicated than it looks on the surface. To most of us VB is VB, but to the servers each IP is unique despite you staying in the same zone, which is why we’re losing progress on instance change. Hopefully, this is something they can work on so that we’re not punished for changing instances by volunteering or joining friends in another version of the map.

Personally, I think a timer is a good thing, but I’m tired of bashing my face into the wall and hoping the wall breaks before my face. I think the timer should be relaxed a little (perhaps 10-20 minute timer rather than the current 8 min). That way you still have to have a good party comp, master the mechanics and you can’t just sit there and hit him with wet noodles for an hour and eventually win.

If Anet wanted to break the DPS only stacking meta…well it didn’t work as well as they’d hoped. What’s the point of having cleric gear in the game or any other gear with toughness? All the “tank” needs is a singlar piece of armor to put his/her toughness over the rest of the group’s. the “healer” just needs to be a class with AoE heals, and staying alive wasn’t the problem in the groups I’ve been on. You still have to be spot on with knowing the mechanics and it is a hard fight. I like that. It’s good, but a hard fight, and needing 99.9% DPS only gear so you can beat the clock is just not my cup of tea.

I have and play many zerk characters, but I do think the timer needs to be relaxed a little.

It must be the tooltip got removed. I just tested and it IS a blast finisher, it just doesn’t say it is. Let’s hope the removal of the tooltip is the bug.

I agree, a Raid lobby is needed.

Yeah I was able to get two of them, but despite killing Blademaster Diarmid several times, that one never registered for me.

o.O they’re not hard to get. They drop from mobs, they’re in champ bags. Just play and kill things and you’ll get them.

My husband plays Asura and when he got downed his character exclaimed “So this is what it feels like to be Taimi!”

I was like did she really say that??

o.o

Jon Olson.8439:

UnknownFreak.2805, switch to the 64-bit client, if possible.

lexxguard.2690, please post your crash log as an attachment.

Thanks.

I’m using the 64-bit client and I’ve noticed the same problems with having the treasury window open and then trying to open the guild panel.

The game doesn’t crash, but everything lags to the point of locking up. If you open one or the other everything seems fine, it’s only when you try to open the guild panel when the treasury window is open that everything comes to a halt. It’s not just the Guild panel being slow, it makes the entire game seize up. There is something going on with using those two interfaces at one time. Once my game froze up so bad I had to force it to close and restart, it might have caught up eventually but I didn’t wait and see.

I’ve also noticed that if I try to open the guild panel while running from one place to another everything lag hitches and gets really slow while the guild panel loads. Other windows like my inventory or the trading post don’t seem to do that. It’s something in relation to opening the Guild interface that makes everything hitch.

Preyar.6783:

Have you guys been able to harvest the Indigo Mushrooms? I’ve harvested over 200 mushroom patches and not a single one so far, with both the gathering booster and banner.

I’ve not tried yet, but from what I’ve seen they’re VERY rare.

Yeah…I tried to kill Three-Toed Tootsie today and even with just 5 people there the break bar is way too much. I don’t think it’s a scaling issue…but it was definitely an event that was overlooked when they added break bars and it needs some fine tuning. Either an easier to break break bar, or remove it completely so she works like she did before we had the break bars.

And I need that Drottot’s recipe too, but his event has been broken since the NPE. :/

Minstrel I is broken forever unless Drottot Lashtail’s event gets turned back on.

This guy is supposed to sell a recipe you need, but he is only a vendor after his event finishes. His event was apparently removed with the NPE because the event never ever happens anymore. The Devourer Lures sometimes become interactable (but don’t work).

It was stupid this event got turned off in the first place. The new heart nearby references collecting devourer eggs, and having this event on would greatly help with doing that event anyways.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Drottot_Lashtail

Same here. I just did all three of them over again.

Is your backpiece showing? Not just equipped, but it needs to be showing on your character too before you talk to the scout.

Agemnon.4608:

Kraggy.4169:

Agemnon.4608:

I don’t agree with the blatant sylvari favoritism. I shouldn’t be forced to level yet another character to 80 and buy another character slot just for a character I’ll only care about just for sylvari only achievements. Those achievements need to be deleted because not everyone has a sylvari and I shouldn’t need to make a sylvari just for an ascended trinket.

I agree, delete ALL achievements I don’t want to do!

If you don’t want to create a Sylvari, don’t, you’ll live without that achievement (whatever it is, I’ve no idea myself).

And without that trinket I’m owed too for completing the other achieves. Where are the human only or asura only achievements that give ascended trinkets? Do we not deserve ascended trinkets too without needing to bother or if too long have to pay? Why should someone have an extra income stream merely for picking the “right” race? They said at launch that races are purely cosmetic and the only thing it’ll influence is the personal story. Once you give out ascended trinkets to needing some races but not others it favors that race mechanically. The race never appealed to me and with Trahearne, Faolin, and Canach I like them even less.

…Again. You yourself do not need to be Sylvari. Bring a sylvari friend/guildmate/random person with you to star the story instance.

Avectius.3271:

Guys, can someone clear something up for me?

Is is it possible to do Precursor crafting without spending gold? Can I farm/craft all the mats needed myself? Cause that was the argument behind why it was so “good” by several players. What kittenes me off about Legendaries is that you not only have to wait a ton of time due to time-gated items, but you also have to spend ridiculous amounts of gold for things. Is the Precursor crafting alternative that much better?

You can technically farm every single part of the mats for the precursor. It’s going to take you quite a while depending on how many of the ascended mats you need, but it is doable without touching the TP.

Thanks for the answer Andrew. That all makes sense and it’s more clear what’s disabled and why.

Xandrian.8304:

So I’ve been crafting Juggernaut, finally finished The Colossus a few days ago, so all I need now are the dreaded silver doubloons… I’ve been farming them for 4 months with 6 lvl 21 toons in sharkmaw, but I only have 32. If anyone could donate me some I would appreciate it loads!

I sent you a few and some tips on ways to make more. Folks here helped me get my stack and I got a few more from my alts parked at Sharkmaw recently so I sent those on to you.

Some of these are unlikely to be used in the first place, but it’d be nice to have an answer regardless

Yes/No on these:

Rune of the Privateer
Rune of the Ogre
Rune of Infiltration
Rune of the Grove
Rune of the Sunless
Rune of the Lich
Rune of Snowfall
Rune of Rata Sum
Rune of the Mad King
Rune of the Flock

Sigil of Demon Summoning
Sigil of Impact
Sigil of Mischef

Ghost Pepper Popper (and other food that is day/night specific)

Nidome.1365:

Agemnon.4608:

I don’t agree with the blatant sylvari favoritism. I shouldn’t be forced to level yet another character to 80 and buy another character slot just for a character I’ll only care about just for sylvari only achievements. Those achievements need to be deleted because not everyone has a sylvari and I shouldn’t need to make a sylvari just for an ascended trinket.

Or just party up with a Sylvari for that instance.

This. My husband got this achievement on an asura because I started that instance. If you don’t know anyone that plays sylvari poke me in game and I’ll help you with that one.

Ayrilana.1396:

rotsono.9176:

Someone said you need a lot of people to spawn a champion husk.
Dont know if its true.

I was about to ask that. I was starting to get the feeling that the one that should be there is bugged and we have to force one to spawn.

I did see one champ husk spawn once right near the end of the second event, but it despawned right as the event finished (before we could break his bar)….but I’ve done it several times since and never gotten one to spawn.

I only see husks at the second event and none of them have break bars.