Guild Wars 2

I actually havn’t done dry top in a couple weeks so I’m not sure what tier it is usually now.

You dont’ really need to do the living story to farm geodes in dry top, but you get zephyrite keys when doing living story, and the chest sometimes give good loot.

anyway here is a guide. If you don’t have keys dont’ worry about it, just do the events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qUgjTn1ul0

Someone probably told you already, best way to make money is from the trading post. Either from flipping or craft something to sell.

Other non trading post activities, dry top, orr event farming, mining probably average 8-10 gold per hour to me. Dungeon is hard to say, depend how fast you can do them.

DonQuack.9025:

laokoko.7403:

Worse case scenario is no one agree with me if I initiate a kick, so I either just suck it up or remove myself from the group.

And you are saying that is fine. Infact you are encouraging people not reading and complying with lfg requests.

Sucking it up? Teaching them that they can join groups and people will accept it and carry them.
You leaving? Youre not telling them they are in the wrong. Youre bowing to their will. Accept me or you leave.

Encouraging bullying. plain and simple. arguably terrorism too

Quite honestly, it is still a majority rule society.

I rarely do initiate a kick. Because for example “experience players only” can be interpret many ways. Some one may felt they are experienced because they done the dodging tutorial in the beginners area.

That being said, when the party description clearly says require 40 agony resistance, and someone is dying just standing there, I would initiate a kick. But if the other 3 people don’t agree with me, there is nothing I can do. And that actually happens quite often.

I understand there are people getting kicked for no reason, that is why they are asking for party leader system back. But the problem with that is other people arn’t being protected.

And as Tao says, it can lead to abuse. Because the party leader knows he’ll never be kicked and act anyway he want.

DonQuack.9025:

:D Disagreeing with me is fine. Disagreeing with me in “my” group is fine. Want to do something else whilst in my group= Nope gtfo Make your own group. Dont want to follow me Fine= make your own group.

I typically get kicked when I have 1 hour to play and I want nice and smooth 15min/path run and I put " p1 experienced Lvl 70+ meta pref" and I get level 50’s who also dont know what to do. I get kicked when I am mean and elitist and ask " You dont meet any of the requested requirements for the group. Why did you join?"

Frankly in my eyes everyone against the party leader system is either a griefer, or a person who joins groups without meeting the requested requirements who enjoys the relative immunity they get from joining pug groups.

The people who want three votes instead are practically confirmed griefers.

I just never get into that situation. Because if someone joined a group which have some requirement. And someone don’t meat that requirement, he is usually the one get kicked, not the person initiating the kick.

Worse case scenario is no one agree with me if I initiate a kick, so I either just suck it up or remove myself from the group.

DonQuack.9025:

I mentioned nothing of tag.

Your logic-
people have to follow to be special

Question
how does one follow if they arent in a group?

Thats like saying parents arent special because their kids dont listen to what they say.

Leading the group through content isnt intrinsic to the group leader. I would say enforcement of the listed goals is.

also I rarely get kicked. I notice groups that I dont mesh with relatively early and leave.

quite honestly, I’ve done gw2 dungeon a few thousands time. Fractal I should ran 100+ times. And I never been kicked.

There is this once that 1 of the person says he wants to kick me, I just excuse myself from the party.

I’m quite surprise this became such a heated topic. Because I personally rarely see party kick as a problem.

If you think you should enforce the group, that’s fine do it. If people agree with you, they’ll do it. You seemed to think if people disagree with you, you still should have authority though, that’s the part I disagree.

I think all your parents, or teacher analogy… well kids still shouldn’t listen to their parents or teacher if they are bad. Obviously most of the times the parents or teacher are rights, but not always.

And you seemed to try to relate mmorpg party leader as some holy people like your parents or teacher people should follow… which is quite laughable.

The WvW commander is special because he got a commander tag?

Absolutely not. They are special because people choose to follow him. (They are still ignored if they arn’t a good leader)

You arnt’ special just because you create a group. You are special because people choose to follow you. When ever people choose to not follow you, you stop becoming special. Which is the time people probably choose to kick you instead of the other person.

DonQuack.9025:

I think I know the answer the no-group leader people would say.
Something along the lines of

" You arent special. Anyone should be able to change what the group is doing. If you dont like it you should leave or join another group and change it to what you want it to be."

I agree with the first sentence. You arn’t spcial.

The rest I mean… “anyone” have the chance to get kicked. If someone is doing what the rest don’t like he have a chance to get kicked too.

Remember, you can kick people too, if your a party leader, and you think some people dont’ fill your need. Initiate a kick at anytime… If the rest of your group agree with you, they’ll click yes.

The party opener can be a jerk and just kick people out for no reason to add his friends at the end of the dungeon. Or just kick people because they think they arn’t really skilled. Your assumption is the party leader is some special person which I fail to see.

You apparently think you are special. That is your personal opinion, there is no problem with that. I just dont’ personally agree with that.

DonQuack.9025:

laokoko.7403:

That’s fine.

But you are telling me a random pug of 4 people should leave just because you take 30 second to make a lfg text.

why should you be exempt just because you take 30 second to make a lfg ad. And other people don’t.

If it is at the start of the dungeon I dont’ mind. But mid way through the dungeon, if the party leader are the clown, maybe it is he who should leave. He shouldnt’ be exempt just because he take 30 seconds to make a lfg ad.

I dont take 30 seconds to make an lfg ad. I take months of running x path with x professions to the point where I feel comfortable where I could lead a group to do a specific thing.

And yes. purely because I took the initiative to do it. Heh its like kicking me out of a my own house party just because you dont like me.

Beginning middle or end. If I decide you need to go. You need to go.

If one think there should be an time gated exception then one probably needs to lead more groups and see that “bums” dont display true colours when you want them too.

darnit I said I was done with this thread

Right, you are so special because you ran the dungeon for x months to the point where you can lead a party. And other players joinging your party are just people who arn’t as special as you.

BillX.4987:

(lets just take a moment for laokoko to read his own posts)

Im’ not sure what you mean.

I read your post and what I see is a person who kick other people out of high level fotm just because they are playing a certain class.

DonQuack.9025:

laokoko.7403:

If you lead a group of 40 people and 39 of them don’t like you, maybe you deserve to be kicked out.

Considering I made the group ( pay $300/mo for the server/website/mumble) it is “they” who would leave not me.

Just like I was in a guild where we disagreed with the Guild Leader we all packed up our stuff and made a new guild.

That’s fine.

But you are telling me a random pug of 4 people should leave just because you take 30 second to make a lfg text.

why should you be exempt just because you take 30 second to make a lfg ad. And other people don’t.

If it is at the start of the dungeon I dont’ mind. But mid way through the dungeon, if the party leader are the clown, maybe it is he who should leave. He shouldnt’ be exempt just because he take 30 seconds to make a lfg ad.

@DonQuack

Even if party leader is exempt from kick, I still wont’ know who kick me, because it can be any of the 4.

Another thing is you are assume Anet actually do things about people getting kick(for any reason or no reason).

I have “never” heard of any mmorpg where any GM interfere with people getting kicked out of dungeon.

And I dont’ think Anet is any different. Or base on my limited understanding when browsing GW2 forum, I dont’ think anyone have actually been suspended from kicking other players out of dungeon for no reason.

Base on my limited knowledge reading the forum, where a bunch of players complain about getting kicked for no reason, I havn’t heard of anyone actually getting suspended. (besides a person who purposely close arah sellers instance like 500 times)

And you are assuming every party leader is righteous like you. The way I see it is there are as many clown jerks weather they are party leader or not. So why are you exempt. If you lead a group of 40 people and 39 of them don’t like you, maybe you deserve to be kicked out.

Astralporing.1957:

laokoko.7403:

Astralporing.1957:

laokoko.7403:

I dont’ know. So you are complaining about clown jerks. What if the party leader is a clown jerks.

Then people will not join his parties, or leave shortly after joining, without losing anything.
Remember, people joining groups have a choice what lfg group they will choose. LFG group creator doesn’t have any choice about who will join their group. The situation is not even.

That’s the thing, if you are a party leader and you dont’ like your group too, leave and remake another party.

Even if you are looking for people to complement your group after (for example) you lost someone on third fractal?
No, the situation is definitely not equal.

Right so you are at third fractal and getting stuck on imbued shaman… you lost someone so try to look for guardian….

but what does that have “anything” to do with “only party leader” being exempt from being kick.

DonQuack.9025:

Kasima.8143:

DonQuack.9025:

What would truly fix this problem? People reading and adhering to requested info in LFG. Oh and make you own kitten groups

I swear i think the only people scared of being kicked are those that are incapable of making it and terrorists.

Wow. That’s some interesting parallel universe in which you’re living there.
Did you forget to read the problem the original poster tries to solve with his suggestion?
Did you forget that you can’t fix stupid and force people to do things like read?
Did you forget that most people can’t make their own kittening group, which is WHY LFG WAS INVENTED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Most people can not make their own groups? Thats news to me. ArenaNet really needs to fix that problem. It must be a bug of some sort. Have you bug reported it?

Quite honestly, if you can logon at “anytime” and find friend to run with, you must have a really good friend or guild list.

Most of the time people asked me to do dungeon I either did it already or want to do something else.

It is not always easy to find 4 other friends that want to do the samething you want at the time you want.

and just because you are in a guild, dont’ mean your guildmates actually fullfile what you want. For example just because he is your guildmates dont’ mean they are experienced.

So base on reading in this post…

The people defending instance owner are either “person who kick people in high level fotm because they arn’t playing the right class”…

Or person who want to purposely punish people by ending the instance because other people arn’t playing his way…

Astralporing.1957:

laokoko.7403:

I dont’ know. So you are complaining about clown jerks. What if the party leader is a clown jerks.

Then people will not join his parties, or leave shortly after joining, without losing anything.
Remember, people joining groups have a choice what lfg group they will choose. LFG group creator doesn’t have any choice about who will join their group. The situation is not even.

That’s the thing, if you are a party leader and you dont’ like your group too, leave and remake another party.

Someone was complaining about getting kicked out of his own group he created previously because he aint 80…. All I can say is really? just remake the group.

And it really just shows you can’t know everything about the party creator from the LFG description. If the party creator specifically says he(or his friend) isn’t level 80, that wont’ be a problem.

If you think those people wont’ loss anything because they have the choice to leave and create another group so can the party leader.

If you think it is a problem some clown kick people at end of the dungeon(or half way through the dungeon), that is a problem for all, not just the party leader.

One thing I admit though is I hope party kick can at least be majority rules. If there is 5 people, 3 people should agree to have a kick.

Illuminerdi.9153:

hybrid.5027:

This thread is either a troll or a cry for help. I think the solution in either case is the same.

No, it really isn’t, and that’s the saddest part.

I made an honest question asking if I was alone in disliking the current method of dungeon play, with suggestions to change this, and so far the entire response has been “OMG U TROLL” or “kitten and let me play how I want!”

The real irony? I really do want to play through dungeons in a slow, relaxed fashion. That’s how I want to play.

So apparently nobody else wants to change their play style, but it’s totally fine that other poeple can’t do theirs without taking a severe reward penalty. Because that makes perfect sense.

Right, but have you actually think through weather your suggestion really works?

For example universal token = people pick the easiest dungeon. It is bad enough people avoid “dungeon path” like SE path 2. Now they can avoid a whole dungeon whole together. Because quite honestly why bother doing arah when you can get the same thing from cof.

Remove end rewards = People find ways to “not do the whole dungeon”. Anet actually thought through this. Previously people would just farm the first mini boss in arah for tokens instead of doing the whole dungeon. Or people used to farm the first few part of TA instead of doing the whole dungeon. Or some people are farming SE path 1 repeately right now for their champ bags.(havn’t been fixed).

And your last suggestion, you havn’t answered me…. you actually find it fun to kill trash mobs (with very little mechanics)?

And I personally dont’ want to fight dungeon in a relaxing way. Because I find it boring. I like more competitive thing.

May I ask why you “enjoy” killing trash mob first?

To me dungeon is fun because of fighting “interesting” encounters. For example interesting boss fight(like legendary imbued shaman).

I don’t mind fighting trash if it is designed to be interesting. Like the cliff fractal where we have to break the seal. Or the harpy fractal where harpies shoot you off the plateform.

I would say many skipping are more interesting than actually fighting trash. To me it is sort of like guild rush where you have to use ability to avoid damage.

If Anet design really hard trash fight, I don’t mind. Else I would say kill a bunch of scavengers is even more boring than trying to use stability to pick up the sceptor in AC path 1.

i mystic forge 3 lvl80 hammer and 1 mystic forge stone… and get back a lvl80 exotic warhorn.

Is it because of the mystic forge stone?

I remember trying with 3 exotic dagger and 1 mystic forge stone and got back an exotic dagger.

I’m not sure what’s going on.

I dont’ know. So you are complaining about clown jerks. What if the party leader is a clown jerks.

If you want to avoid getting into bad pug, try finding people to do dungeons everyday really help.

or trying to find groups which specify level80, dps, and speed run.

Orr farming is actually decent. But you need to be able to tag monster. The easiest way to do it is play a staff guardian and just keep spaming one.

node farming is very consistent. Meaning you won’t get slowed down because of teamate afking etc. Use www.gw2nodes.com to farm orichalcum or ancient wood. The problem with that is the map isn’t always updated. You can also try farming rich iron or platinum ore. Having a watchwork mining pick really helps for that.

You can also do a bit of dry top farming. Farm geodes and make clay pot to sell.

you can put the level up exotic in mystic forge. I tried it.

Instead of randomizing, why not just add specific instability for a level range, for example lvl51-60 get 4 instability “Last Laugh, Antielitism, Overextended, Tainted Renewal”.

fotm 61-70 get a few more.

fotm 100 have 20 instability.

Put a timer on fotm, add pve ladder. Problem solved =)

you actually kill faster with sword condition build on warrior if the monster you fighting have high armor.

Looks like the Anet dev is really knowledgeable with meta. (I’m just joking, dont’ take me seriously)

it does felt kind of weird, the meta pve offhand is sword for warrior, or torch for guardian.

It dont’ fit traditional fantasy lore really well. But it don’t bother me much for the game play.

sword condition build is actually decent for soloing boss with high health and high armor.

well he probably have to wait since he wants’ wupwup. You can just buy the damask of the TP if you don’t want to wait 36 days.

Ayrilana.1396:

laokoko.7403:

Ayrilana.1396:

laokoko.7403:

Ayrilana.1396:

Sephas.8793:

Ayrilana.1396:

Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.

At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.

If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.

With all due respect, did you even read the OP?

We are talking about light armor.

Did you even read my post?

his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.

Not really. It’s all about when you place your buy orders and when you sell the bolts.

honestly it is getting annoying.

I’m not sure how to publish google sheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5so3iMA1QWsbYESd3jD_69wsmsqPIMXNe72hSuoBWE/pubhtml

basically that is current price. ya if you sell gossamer at 18 gold, be patient with that you can get 2 gold.

and your price is of by 20 gold too. Im’ not sure why argue about things like this.

at current price using buy order it is 539 gold. if you really good at buy order you can probably push it to 520 gold.

Prices fluctuate throughout the day and throughout the week. This is what i meant when it depends on when you place your buy order and when you sell the damask cloth. It wasn’t by accident that I included that.

It’s ok. Not everyone is a TP Guru or patient person like you.

That’s why Thanatos and me got our Zojja’s armor for around 640 gold.

Ayrilana.1396:

laokoko.7403:

Ayrilana.1396:

Sephas.8793:

Ayrilana.1396:

Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.

At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.

If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.

With all due respect, did you even read the OP?

We are talking about light armor.

Did you even read my post?

his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.

Not really. It’s all about when you place your buy orders and when you sell the bolts.

honestly it is getting annoying.

I’m not sure how to publish google sheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f5so3iMA1QWsbYESd3jD_69wsmsqPIMXNe72hSuoBWE/pubhtml

basically that is current price. ya if you sell gossamer at 18 gold, be patient with that you can get 2 gold.

and your price is of by 20 gold too. Im’ not sure why argue about things like this.

at current price using buy order it is 539 gold. if you really good at buy order you can probably push it to 520 gold.

Ayrilana.1396:

Sephas.8793:

Ayrilana.1396:

Wow. Is everyone buying the materials immediately off the TP rather than placing buy orders? Are people buying off the TP rather than crafting the time-gated materials? The last I checked, it was 520 gold for light armor.

At least half of the cost for ascended armor IS in the insignia. This is due to them requiring 3 damask bolts each. For medium and heavy armor, that cost percentage is greater as they use less cloth than light armor.

If you’re going to state that such and such costs such and such amount, please be specific in how you arrived at that. There’s a difference between buy and sell prices just as there’s a large difference between crafting a component and buying it. I can make 2G profit off crafting damask bolts after TP fees if I plan out when I make my purchases of ingredients and when I sell it.

With all due respect, did you even read the OP?

We are talking about light armor.

Did you even read my post?

his only 7% of, I would say your 2g profit which should really be 1.15 gold per damask is far more off than him. I dont’ know why people keep arguing about such minor difference.

mtpelion.4562:

With 3 level 80 Exotics, the average level of the items is 75.75 ((80+80+80+63)/4) which means that it will qualify for a precursor attempt.

I know that works for rares.

But havn’t heard much information about it for exotic.

anyhow thanks.

I got a lvl63 soulbound exotic from level up reward. Not sure what to do with it.

Is it possible to toss it with 3 lvl80 exotic for a chance to get precursor?

Yoroiookami.3485:

laokoko.7403:

I finished my map completion 24 times.

It dont’ bother me too much because you get level and waypoint when you do map complete anyway. And by the time you reach level 80, you are already doing the hier tier maps, and you get exotic when you complete it.

khani.4786:

I have 10 characters at 100% map completion and 3 more in progress….The rewards aren’t the best sometimes …..come on leeks for cursed shore >.< But they are better than they were (do you remember getting low level greens for finishing Cursed Shore?).

The XP boost for finishing the map is fine as is I think, you get a whole bunch as you’re working on the zone already. And personally, I like the lower tier items for the lower zones because when you’re lvl 80 it’s harder to get those mid-tier crafting materials. I need so much wool…someone send me wool!. >.>

That’s actually pretty impressive. Congrats. I couldn’t bring myself to do it the second time. I only uncover maps by accident, basically.

ya to me I get level anyway. That’s how I get to 80.

I can understand if you are already 80, you probably dont’ want to go back to low level map to do map completion.

and quite honestly, map completion is one of the few things I still enjoy in GW2. I “only” did map completion 25 times. I would say many dungeons or events I did much more than 25 times.(having 5000 hours play time)

I finished my map completion 24 times.

It dont’ bother me too much because you get level and waypoint when you do map complete anyway. And by the time you reach level 80, you are already doing the hier tier maps, and you get exotic when you complete it.

I just started doing sPvP. new at this.

I tried solo arena, and people tell me to go away and do hot join.

Is there a rule I can’t do solo arena?

There’s like 7 other maps in your level range you can do. If you insist to only do maps for your race, you probably wont’ have enough level.

1)Plains of Ashford c
1)Queensdale c
1)Caledon Forest c
1)Metrica Province c
1)Wayfarer Foothills c
——————————————————-
15)Diessa Plateau c
15)Kessex Hills c
15)Brisban Wildlands c
15)Snowden Drifts c
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25)Gendarran Fields c

Rogue.7856:

laokoko.7403:

I hope they just give magic find post 300 a temporary magic find boost.

I would say 95% of the players having 300 magic find now just buy gears from the TP to salvage anyway. It’s not like they accomplished something that great.

I’m not saying to reward 300% magic find. I’m saying do something about the obsolete luck. Whether its giving it another use, or just remove it from the game post 300%.

The problem with removing it however, is it could still be used to level artificing to level 25. I honestly could care less about artificing to level 1-25 though.

i understand. I’m just saying I hope it is not ground breaking. I find it pretty silly to spend everyday buying greens and blues of trading post to salvage.

not only that, it’ll boost the price of low level gear. people that arn’t 300 already can’t take advantage of it any more if they actaully make those essence ground breaking after 300.

I hope they just give magic find post 300 a temporary magic find boost.

I would say 95% of the players having 300 magic find now just buy gears from the TP to salvage anyway. It’s not like they accomplished something that great.

I haven’t have lag problem in a few weeks. Last time I have lag problem is right after September patch.

I never have DC problem with world boss before(fortunately). Might be a location or ISP issue. I’m not sure how many people are having this problem(DC at tequalt)

I just started doing fractals daily and ran into some question.

First question is for the cliff side fractal. The last boss. Some guide says in phase 2 the boss reflect projectile. My question is does he reflect it for the entire fight. Or only when he have a protection like buff on him.

Second question is for the Thaumanova fractal. The cooling room. I can manage to run to the end with warrior using vengenance. But I’m not sure what to do after I turn on the switch, since when I use a switch I’m stunned. Do I use shake it off to remove it?

Tentonhammr.7849:

SundayTrash.9562:

Tentonhammr.7849:

SundayTrash.9562:

I really never get what is with this game and people hating on harder content.

You think 1 random instability is more difficult than choosing to do 3 or 4 instabilities simultaneously? Ok…

Did I mention 1? As I previously mention 2 random for 40-49 and 3 for 50 is much more difficult then picking ur own.

My objection isn’t to adding harder content. It’s to adding more RNG to the fractal game mode that is nothing BUT RNG. Also, permanently enforcing multiple instabilities in higher tiers would equate to a “hard mode” that Anet has already categorically denounced and won’t implement.

The gambit system accomplishes the hard mode we want without excluding the precious LS crowd who sometimes venture into fractals. Yes, people will still select 1 or 2 really easy instabilities and call it a day, but we will still have the option of choosing as many of them as we want to make things as difficult as we want. More importantly though, there is already a precedent for the gambit system from the Queen’s Gauntlet, meaning it’s an idea Anet might actually consider.

Right, but get to your original post. Quite honestly, picking the 3 easiest instability is much easeier than say getting the mobs explode when killed instability.

It’s just back to the drawing table. Everyone avoid hard content when there is a way to get the same rewards easier.

If you randomly get a really bad combination of instability, that is just asking for people to rage quit. Because redo it might be easier.

Tentonhammr.7849:

SundayTrash.9562:

I really never get what is with this game and people hating on harder content.

You think 1 random instability is more difficult than choosing to do 3 or 4 instabilities simultaneously? Ok…

I think the point is everyone will pick the least resistance with most rewards.

Take for example the gauntlet boss farm. Everyone pick the easiest 5 gambit and repeat them.

Quite honestly I dont’ know the answer to this one. I still remember the days where people rage quit when they get the dredge fractal. If you randomly get a really bad instability, it’s quite painful.

There is also a possibility Anet will release the recipe again.

It happened to a few item like celestial or sentinal.

If you are willing to wait for Anet to release it again. No guarantee, but I think it is likely.

you should just search wvw build or pve build.

I think berserker is obvious for pve. For pvp, you should search for build and you’ll know what to use. The question is better asked in ranger forum.

I usually raise 5% when I want to buy something. And I usually get it.

I just dont’ have the time to keep checking the trading post and 1 copper up people.

I dont’ disagree with people who say farm silk directly…

But by the time you farm 1 stack of silk… You probably have enough money to buy 5 more.

That’s the way I look at it.

Ryn.6459:

OP here. My friend has decided to go guardian. Thank you all.

By the way, that means that I should choose my profession for high levels fractals (to craft the ascended armor). And I can’t decide between warrior, engi or ele.

I can’t decide to play warrior or guardian. But that is easy to decide, since they share the same gear.

Maybe ask yourself, do you like to play the other complement heavy/leather/light class. Say if you like theif also, you can play an engi.

I overall think the living story season 2 is ok… But I just can’t replay the living story a 2nd time on another character. There is way too many talking going on. I just want to kill things.

It is ok the first play through, I just don’t like to replay it again. It’s like watching a same movie twice.

Compare that to the personal story before, there are more fighting than talking(and option to skip talking). I enjoy that more(personal opinion).

The way I do it is just try to make 10 gold a day.

Use that 10 gold to make 1 bolt of damask per day.

You can really do anything you want, dungeon, fractal, orr, frostgauge sound, dry top, EOTM… etc etc.

I tried to farm 300 silk scrap a day… Not very realistic, I say just farm 10 gold and buy the material.

Ohoni.6057:

Precursors are actually one of the more functional markets in this regard. Players can specifically choose which precursor they want to generate with the forge; crafting costs and competition keep the prices between the high demand precursors relatively flat, as suppliers switch between them looking to maximize their profits. It’s only the purely random throws that generate the low demand precursors, which ensures there’s at least some supply available.

You do understand that the core supply of precursors is random world loot drops, not MF rolls, right?

On a lot of items players have little ability to generate specific, high demand goods for sale – but in the case of precursors, players doing exactly that dominate and make the market. It’s more or less exactly what you’d want a player driven economy to look like.

Precursors are not “crafted,” they are pure gambling. It’d be like basing an economy entirely on lottery tickets.

I would guess majority of top end precursor comes from the forge.

There are only like 50 supply of venom on the TP. So unless people are investing in it and holding them, there should be much more than that than say (dusk or dawn).

Honestly, you’ll get no sympathy from a bunch of people who is either super rich, dont’ care about legendary, already got their legendary.

Like someone said in another post. It just get into a silly argument of weather the economy is player driven and Anet influence, or Anet driven and player influence.

If you dont’ like to spend real money or farming, just don’t get a legendary. I have 5000 play hours, spend an insane amount of time farming, and I don’t even have a legendary. That being said, I have lots of alts, and that’s where most of my money went.

Yumiko Ishida.3769:

Just run Living story on every alt you have at lv 80. You can get 100s of lockpicks.

why do you have to run it on alt. Can’t you just rerun it on your main?

I think it is more of a priority. You could add both casual and hardcore content. And just let people play whatever they want.

The problem is you probably can’t develop that many contents. So you have to choose.

I would say guardian. Usually when my pug are having trouble in fotm", someone always say “wait, let me switch to guardian”.