Living Story is the type of gameplay content. F&F is just the name of a living story.
The blast is a form of direct damage and does not actually applies any burning condition on the target so it would not scale with condition damage.
Use gw2lfg.com. It’s makes it easier to find other people to run story modes. It’s much better than map chat shouting because people not on your server or zone can see it.
The server population status that you see in the log in screen are not based on current online players but the number of actual accounts on that server. This is because once you pick a world, all your created characters stay on the server. So you will never experience a queue when trying to log in.
If you don’t like the PvE experience on your server, then you can use the guesting system with your friends to play on other servers. The limitation of guesting is that you can’t do WvW for that server and will be transferred back to your own.
For PvE, any server you choose will be about the same experience. There isn’t a really big RP presence, but you can find some on Tarnished Coast server. For sPvP, I don’t do it but I think all servers are connected to the matchups. WvW you should look at the weekly rankings to decide where you want to be.
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There’s no advantage in being one race or another. This game is all about balance. You can focus on doing some things well, but you can’t min/max your way in this game.
I would like to see more NPCs travelling along the roads in zones from one zone entrance to another. It would make the world seem more lively. Dynamic events could be attached to them, but not necessary. At night, you could have Lionguard patrols with torches and NPCs that pitch a tent and make a fire like those memento collectors in the living story and then keep moving during the day.
What I would really like to see is travelling merchants/circus/refugees/supply caravans that moves across zones to different destinations across Tyria. I know this can’t work because the zones are not synced.
This would not work because the price of it would have to be astronomically high in order to prevent inflation. If this was affordable enough so that everyone could buy it, then you have effectively removed gold sinks from the game other than the TP transaction fees.
I think a big part of this feeling of missing wilderness if the convenient waypoint system. Waypoints are never too far apart so that you always have a feeling of safety no matter where you go. The game would feel more dangerous and wilder if there was only one waypoint per zone.
Salvage white gear.
Sell blues and greens unless you are leveling and can actually equip it.
Salvage rare and exotics with master salvage kits for ectos.
The new dailies try to encourage people to do events/kill monsters in certain regions. You can’t force people to do stuff they don’t want to do.
And they should not make group events soloable. That defeats the point of even needing to group up for teamwork.
100% exploration is optional as well. If they felt like making you an actual explorer, then they should have included all jumping puzzles in the achievement.
Say I want to make a Rare Veggie Pizza from scratch. The current menu tells me if I have the required materials and how many pizzas I can make with it. The problem is that it requires cooking items from lower tiers. I find it a hassle making lower level stuff and then realizing I am missing stuff for the next tier and running off to TP to pick up more. To make a rare veggie pizza, I need to make Dough-> Cheese Pizza->Mushroom Pizza->Fancy Veggie Pizza->Super Veggie Pizza->Rare Veggie Pizza. I would like the menu to let me set which tier I want to start from and what product in the line I want to end up with and then tell me what I am missing. So for example, I want to make 10 Rare Veggie Pizzas. I click on Rare veggie pizza and type in 10 and I want to start off at mushroom pizzas. It will tell me what I need for 10 of them and what I am missing.
Sigil of smoldering is not considered a permanent stat sigil. Read the wiki to see the catgeories. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil
Any item that is grey is junk. Even event items are white so that you know the difference. When you go to NPC vendor to sell stuff, there is a sell junk button that will automatically sell all junk items.
What I do if my bags are full is click on the gear icon in your inventory and deposit all collectibles so that it moves all crafting raw materials in your bags to your bank. Your bank actually has a slot for each type of crafting material and can hold 250 of each item. Then sell junk. You can then sift through what’s left to see what to keep.
There are no skritt in the eternal battlegrounds. I don’t have problems finding skritt to kill in that area when I do it. I think they respawn pretty quickly. There are more up top if you kill all the ones on the ground.
If you’re going dual pistols, then a condition build is what you want to go with. From there you gotta decide on stacking condition duration, condition damage, or a mix of both. Right now I’m full rabid gear and I’m doing okay, but I feel a little lacking in direct damage with no power gear. Since I don’t have money to actually buy two full sets of gear, here’s the build I use except that I swapped the rabid trinkets for carrion. After comparing full rabid with my new rabid/carrion, I end up with:
-more power
-more effective hp
-same condition damage and duration
I play both PVE and WvW, so there’s some things in here to deal with survivability. I prefer to use my pistols most of the time when there is more than one target because I can line them up and hit both with autoattack. If it’s just a single target then I’ll use elixir gun autoattack because it has longer bleeds and the weakness lowers incoming damage. I use the healing turret offensively because detonating it does over 1200 damage along with a pushback at melee range. The battering ram is great for interrupting enemies and you can drop supply crate on players while they are down. The toolbelt skill is a nice slow for kiting or chasing enemies. The third skill you can choose what you like. I chose elixir C because I felt I needed more condition removal in WvW than what super elixir could provide. Swapping weapons and using healing turret will keep an almost constant 6 stacks of might on you. For the traits, the last 10 points I put into speedy kits because I need the constant swiftness. You can go kit refinement to help in group situations on heals and condition removal. If you don’t need the swiftness, then I would suggest going 10 into vitality tree for trait that gives you 5% of vitality as condition damage. It will give more condition damage and health plus your might buffs lasts longer.
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All players can whisper and party with anyone other player from other servers. You can’t see them because they are on another server though. However, you can whisper to them and join their parties. Once you enter a dungeon with people from different servers, they will all get a pop up to teleport into your dungeon so that you can complete it together.
Damage wise, the kits will have the damage similar to an exotic weapon of whatever level you are. They also get the sigils and stats you are using for your main weapons. The only kit I use is the elixir gun and it does way more damage on single targets than my pistol.
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I add them to my friend list and then report. Seems wrong, but at least I can keep track of them.
It’s not clear because it sounds like you are talking about the trading post and not NPC vendors.
They recently added new waypoints for the guild mission locations. If you finished this before the patch, then you will have gotten the gift because it was 100%. Just look in the patch notes for the zones that have the new waypoints to get back to 100%. You won’t get anything new.
From what you describe, it sounds like you want to run two instances of the game on one computer and controlling both characters at once. I don’t know how you would effectively control both in battle and combo this way.
Hackers/Exploiters needs to get its own category in the report function. For now, I report them under botting.
Overflows aren’t just created when the zone gets full on one server. They are a separate server running all the time which you get transferred to temporarily. There is nothing to sync to.
Just start from Hoelbrak and walk up the road north in wayfarer foothills. There’s so many signs and refugees to revive that you will get it done quickly.
I would say duration would be better because an enemy player can do more overall damage to himself if he keeps spamming attacks while confused. There is the chance for them to cleanse it off or they will have to sit around and not attack for a longer period to avoid damage.
I think ranger pets should have a down time period when they are killed. Whenever I kill a ranger pet in WvW, it runs back to its master to regen its health in 10 seconds and gets sent back out at me. It get even more annoying when you are trying to siege and they send the pet out on suicide runs to hit siege equipment over and over. My idea is for there to be at least a 30 second downtime where they can’t use the pet if it dies.
Bots are bad for the economy. They may lower prices for buying raw materials, but this means that inflation will start to occur as everyone has more disposable income to spend. Things that you actually want to save money to buy will get more expensive because each gold you earn is not worth as much as it used to be.
Karma does need a sink but not at the expense of gold sinks. The waypoint costs are pretty affordable as it is. Completing 2 or 3 events and selling off junk will get you back 3 silver easily. If you are dying or waypoint hopping so often that you can’t even do that then it’s not the cost that is a problem.
Goloith, I read your post and the article on effect stacking. When it comes to duration stacking conditions, it doesn’t actually slow down the killing of a target. If lots of condition damage players apply their burn after your weak one, then the game will re-order the durations to always have the highest condition damage go first and once it expires, it applies the next strongest. If players continually re-apply burn, then your weak one will keep getting pushed to the back of the line and never actually tick on the target until other players stop applying.
I agree with nakoda. There is no best weapon for leveling. I used pistol/shield to level up because I felt dual pistols was too squishy. I switched to dual pistols later as I understood how to better play the class and focused on condition damage.
Generally as you level up, power will be the most useful stat. Once you hit higher level gear with more than one stat, you need to balance out damage with survivability. Look for stuff that has at least toughness or vitality along with power/condition damage.
This increase in population for queensdale isn’t all due to behemoth. The new random dailies have “Complete x events or kill x monsters in Kryta”. Queensdale is the lowest level zone for Kryta, which makes it the best place to finish these when they pop up.
I don’t know if it has anything to do with the patch, but that delay is because the game loaded up the graphics into memory before the audio and let you move around too early instead of keeping you in the loading screen. I think it is to reduce load screen times as being able to see is more important than hearing.
This trait should work with turret detonation. It seems to only work when it gets killed. Right now I don’t use the trait but when I detonate the turret against lvl 80 mobs, it usually does at least 1200 damage in a very small aoe. The extra pushback would help us with survivability against melee opponents.
I know they aren’t doing anything. I add teleporting harvest bots to my friends list and report them to see how long it takes for them to go away. So far none of them have been removed and it has been months. This week in WvW, I’ve been seeing enemy players speed hacking that lets them run super fast and jump over tower walls. You can’t add WvW enemies to your friends list nor can you see their names.
I run full rabid as well with P/P and elixir gun. I do both WvW and PvE. Condition damage is nice and stable damage, but it takes so long to kill that most can either cleanse or heal long enough to either kill you first or get help from friends. Our big damage source is burn and since it doesn’t stack we need to find other ways to deal more. In between reapplying poison and burn, I use explosive shot and have noticed much higher damage output by switching from toughness tree to power tree even though I don’t use explosives. I think a good mix would be to use rabid armor and carrion trinkets. There’s condition damage in both and each offer survivability in toughness and vitality. Toughness only mitigates direct damage and vitality helps with conditions. The extra power and precision help with all direct damage and crit procs.
There’s no way to see the names of enemy players in WvW. All we can see is guild tags and guild names when you target them. If you right click on them, there is only the report option.
I don’t know if there are any foods that are masterwork(green) other than droppable feasts. I would assume making one is pretty costly and making 40 is super costly. Are you sure you’re not just making a bunch of blues?
I hit that same wall around 20 as well when I first started. I was only doing the personal quest and hearts in the zones while not really doing events. Quests as you think of them from other MMOs have been replaced with dynamic events and the hearts are more like signposts to help you explore the zone and run into nearby events.
If you have shaders setting on high, it will cast a constant “backlight” on your character that sorta throws off the colors of your clothes because the light is a whiteish/blue hue. This backlight is independent of any actual light sources in the environment.
3 RED Players were using hacks to fly/speed around the south island of SBI BL, this distracted from a northern assault by the same guild at Bay with golems. We don’t know if any hacks were involved with the northern assault.
Not saying they weren’t flying or hacking, but this is why I think screenshot’s are useless, and that videos would tell a much better picture. To me, that picture looks like he’s standing on the rubble, which would then imply he’s not flying, rather he jumped up there. So hard to tell from just that screenshot alone, IMO.
Hopefully, if they are hacking, Anet will sort it out, and ban them.
I’m glad you guys got screenshots of this. I posted about these flying thieves earlier in the thread and it was 2 thieves I saw with the guild tag [RED]. I was defending the SBI BL’s SW tower during a seige and one of them was an asura that kept on jumping over the wall and inside the tower to attack me. I tried to report him but there’s no exploit reporting so I was forced to report under botting.
I was defending SBI BL during the night and there were 2 DR thieves that were jumping 100 feet into the air and into the tower to attack me. Is this new?
How is it inappropriate? I spend all my time in WvW and still get the dailies done in half an hour in there. I like the new dailies because they offer variety not the instant gratification you are asking for. From your reasoning, I should get laurels for just logging in because that’s how I want to play.
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Real world money supply is not based on what the government can print but on what is actually in circulation in the hands of people and banks.
The gem supply is the same. It is not based on how many ANet can create, but on what is actually in the hands of players. The gem market is between players selling gems and players buying gems.
Name filters usually look at what the letters can spell and not the actual name itself. It is probably flagging the letters S H A G. It’s a british slang word.
The gem exchange market is made up of players buying and selling gems with gold. When we say that the supply of gems is limited it is referring to the number of gems in actual circulation(gems being held by players) who want to sell it for gold. With no outside influences this supply will continually diminish because of trading fees that ANet has put in place. As supply goes down, prices for gems will go up. The only way to increase the supply of gems is to have players pay real money to buy gems and this will inject new gems into the gem supply. Any currency is a store of value. Players trade the value in their real money and transfer that value to gems. Now the gems have value and can be sold to other players for gold. Gold’s value, on the other hand, comes from time. You need to spend time in game to gather gold. So now you have two parties in this market. The first that has gems whose value comes from real money and wants to trade it for something that saves time in the form of gold. The second has gold whose value comes from time and wants to trade for something that saves real money in the form of gems.
The issue that people seem to be confused about is ANet’s ability to create gems. Yes, they can create an unlimited amount of gems but this does not affect the gem supply because it is not in player circulation unless they buy it with real money. You can think of ANet being the central bank of a country. They have the ability print unlimited amounts of money but since it is not in circulation for citizens to use, it does not affect prices of goods in that country.
Sorry for the long post. As an economist, this stuff is fascinating. MMO economies are actually being studied by economists because they mimic real world scenarios.
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I’d like an option for there to just have any loot that drops go right into my bags instead of having to pick it up. It’s not a big deal in PvE because the bodies sparkle to indicate which have loot and you’re never fighting super large groups.
It’s a big problem for me in WvW. The loot bags will just pop up at your feet and in big fights where you move a lot, it is easy to miss them.
For a home server, it all depends on what you like to do. If you’re into PvP then you should join a server that is high in the WvW rankings. For general PVE gameplay, I hear that Tarnished Coast server is pretty good. I am on a different server and have guested over there a few times to help a friend level and it feels like there’s more people running around levelling.
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I’ve been adding them to my friends list and then reporting them. It’s been over a month and they are still hopping around.