you see the list of people that want to do the quest. why not just form a group. There’s a lfg story up right now
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36 area map completes(dat time investment), 200 skill points(more than enough just from just map completion), half a million karma(hearts from map completion alone give maybe 10% so this needs severe grinding), and 2k AP or a few days wvw blobing worth of badges all for just ~500-700g.
And then you need another couple hundred thousand karma and maybe a hundred skill points for clovers and ~8 dungeon paths for your gift. This also assumes that the buyer will be paying enough for you to level 2 crafting professions to 400 which you may or may never again use for yourself.
This has bad idea written all over it. If you really want to make big money churning out legendaries you have to put in the work to justify people paying you all that money, at least until the game is released in that country known for child slave labor.
Definately not worth it to “grind” for it. But I just happened to have a bunch of dungeon token, 15 million karma, 15 gift of exploration in my bank.
I won’t sell it for 300 but 500-700 I’ll think about it.
I actually really enjoy skipping. You guys said it yourself people die during skipping.
The use of mobility skill, invulnerability skill, chill, interrupt. Skipping actually takes learning and you are rewarded for learning things. I carry a sword with sigil of energy so I can use leap and an extra dodge. I carry a shield so I get a few second of invulnerability. For my elementist, I cast reflect with my staff, I chill enemy, I switch to earth form to use blockage skill, switch to lightning to use aoe stun to skip.
As for stacking. One of the problem I see is guardian is way too powerful. Create shield, everyone stack. Hallow ground, everyone stack. Stability everyone stack.
Another problem is everyone will naturally want to stack because of cleave damage.
But for boss such as spider queen, all they need to do is rework the mechanic. Make spider queen aoe target which is close too.
But all that do is people dont’ want to group with newbie any more. Its’ not like those dungeon are easy for a group of low level newbie.
Hey all anet need to do is make every dungeon like the dredge fractal. So no one will be complaining about stacking. Remember a few month ago? Stacks and stacks of complaints about AC is too hard for newbie.
I think the lfg open world content is limited to your server only. And have no sub category.
I think you can go to anyone’s server(is that correct?) as long as your in a group so that is not a problem.
Havn’t look at all the hearts, But I use one that charges 311-322 I believe (not in game yet! )
There’s a much cheaper karma vendor.
Much more helpful if you just post where it is =)
Someone suggested bloodtide coast. I’m not sure if there’s better location.
Bloodtide coast – sorrowful waypoint – heart above – buy for 266 karma – cloth crab (blue) – mystic forge and salvage. 1-4 linen = 1k karma
One of the most complained topic I heard is people ventured into the open world zone but can’t find people to play with.
Why not expand the lfg tool for zones. For example if I want to explore Iron Marches I would create a LFG under iron marches. If some other people want to explore iron marches on other server he can just hop to my server through group function.
if you don’t mind using consumable, you can easily do it with “ash legion spy kit”
from your list of 4. I would say mesmer is most popular for pve, elementist and thief tied 2nd, necro is the least popular.
I don’t wvw. I would suggest guardian like the guy above me though. But it’s not in your list.
I think it is a pretty “safe” investment. Because chance are the weapon skin won’t go lower than 70 gold.
I’m not sure how much it’ll cost after the event 3 or 5. I remembered Anet gave some temp event to cut the cost of skins from 3 to 1, or 5 to 3. So that’s something you need to watch out.
do you always get 2-3 linen. I thought it’s possible to get 1 linen. Another guy said you get 1-4 linen. I never pay attention to salvaging.
Well. The best way to turn Karma to Gold, would be to get 4 account bound items from heart vendors and Mystic Forge them into one items that you can salvage or sell. So… lvl 55 (lien) stuff…. watch out, Cause I got 1.5mil karma to spend!! ..
Basically it’s easier to do the forge right there instead of having to run back an forth every 10 itemswhat?
I’m not sure if it’s bannable. Since Anet banned a bunch of people during head start for turning karma into gold “through cooking?”.
You can buy a bunch of blue cloth item, mystic forge it and turn them in to linen(which sells very high right now).
I think someone mentioned 1000 karma is worth 1-4 linen? I never tried it since karma is so hard to get right now. I just don’t think it is worth it.
Even with 1 million karma it’ll only take 27 trip to the mystic forge which isn’t that big of a deal.
I don’t know, 1 million karma will only take 27 trip. I’m not sure if that worth 1800 gold.
But again, I won’t sell mine even for 1800 gold.
its 1800g now… crazy
Oh you missed your chance on 1800-400 = 1400 gold profit Vol =)
I did that event a bunch of time(maybe soloed 10 times?). Never have trouble getting the skill point.
I’m not entirely sure but I think monster stop spawning after you killed a bunch of time.
all the permanent license went up dramatically and there is continual supply. There are quite a few rich people in the game and maybe they really have no place to spend money.
I only have 1. I don’t intend to sell it no matter the price. Did you hoard any?
Can you actually crit hit wurm. I think people can get away with just ascended jewel and weapon, and I doubt the difference is that big.
Beside I’m sure Penguin is in full ascended and legendary gear.
I have 14 level 80’s. I’m leveling my 15 and 16th level80. And I intend to finish my map completion on all of them.
To many people that is a grind. But not to me. Because “I’m enjoying myself”.
Another guy who I talked to have 10 legendary, and he did that purely by playing/farming. He seemed to enjoy himself.
So is gw2 grindy compare to many other mmorpg on the market? I think the answer is yes base on the some players answer. But it is fine for me.
If I would play the same way I used to…. That is purely farming(I did cof path 1 2000 times) to buy the 9 permanent bank license I want to. I won’t be enjoying myself.
So I try to get away from that path to farm my ascended armor. I think to many people farming ascended gear it is a grind to them(that is especially true if that person want multiple set). Same as legendary. So I just set that as my long term goal.
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I can safely say I do not have a single piece of Ascended Armor, and am in no rush to do so. I kinda understood the gnashing about weapons (as the overall damage was not insignificant), but armor in a game that is pretty much predicated on avoiding as much damage as possible isn’t quite a big of a deal for me.
ya I can get away with exotic armor. Since I don’t WvW or intend to do high level fractal.
I’m quite surprise I can actually craft bolts of damask every few days just playing normally. So I wont’ even need to spend money on it.
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I kind of was saying how gold have no use for me on the forum. After that all of a sudden a set of ascended armor cost like 500 gold. For me I would like 3 set on my guardian which would cost 1500 gold.
Even though I could afford it now. I just don’t want to spend money like that. I dont’ wvw so that’s not a problem for me. And I’ll probably give up fractal after I reach 39. So I dont’ need to maximize agony resist.
Most other materials haven’t really increased in value.
You want items to increase the value for “what reason?”
You say people are not able to afford leveling crafting and ascended gear. But want items to increase in value? Isn’t that very contradictory?
I think many people don’t know they arn’t making any money. And some people might just want to clean up their bag.
A better question is why am I responding to such unimportant issue, and why are you posting about such an unimportant issue =)
If you want to make sure to get the new loot table, just buy another wintersday gift and add it to your old stack of gifts. If they still had the old loot table associated with them, that should update it, once you mix old and new in one stack.
I suppose another question is if I want to get the old table, I better open it now. For example dragon coffer for jade weapon skin.
Since if new dragon bash event come around, I probably wont’ get jade weapon skin again?
The key issue with crafting components in this game is that there’s not really much worthwhile to obtain with them.
In GW1, various crafting materials were required for each purchasable armor/weapon skin. Krytan armor still required Krytan materials… But Elonian armor required new materials like Elonian Leather. Stuff in Cantha required Spiritwood Planks.
I’ve seen many people complain that the Ascended skins aren’t worth it for various reasons.
Elonian Leather is worth less than the components that it consists of.
Various leather components, generally, are about the same as they were months ago (or maybe even cheaper now.)We need cosmetic grind. It’s been established in past topics.
Adding stuff to the Gem store may serve to reduce the overall amount of gold… but does nothing to impact crafting components.
Add to it that Ascended weapons are crazy expensive for the minor stat increase.
If you ignore getting your crafting to 500 and buying all the crafting materials necessary…
You could probably almost afford a Legendary with all that you’d save.
And that Legendary, unlike Ascended, would allow you to change stats on the fly.
I think that is more like leather isn’t worth as much. I’m sure you see the price of other material.
Please stop asking for it. I dont’ like to grind 7500 silk/500 gold just for a full set of ascended armor. I suppose a few people are invested in leather.
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I thought ascended weapon is about 60 gold to make. I don’t see why people wont’ want it. I thought weapon itself will give a decent amount of damage
A full set of ascended armor however is very expensive 25 bolt of damask is already like 325 gold.
Which become very expensive if you want to craft a few set.
I wasn’t here last christmas so was wondering how things goes.
If I open the winter’s day bag from 2 years ago. Do I get winter’s day item from last christmas(eg. light of dwayna) or do I get winter’s day item from 2 years ago(won’t have a chance for light of dwayna)
Is there any dungeon that is possible to switch to alt for leveling “after the last boss is dead”, without someone holding the movie cut scene?
Was just wondering. I know I can just logout at boss 10% hp or have someone holding the cutscene, but…
Or people in the middle of the dungeon and someone quit.
That’s a lot of people.
But you don’t need to mention you are in the middle of the dungeon.
Quite honestly never met those kicking people.
Maybe I’m just lucky. But it’s definitely possible for meeting them.
Probably a rare occasion for normal players. If someone joins and kick me, I just reform the party. And if he do it too much, he’s automatic blocked by the Anet system.
Sellers is really the only one affected. Or people in the middle of the dungeon and someone quit.
For every meta runner out there there’s probably 5 or more carebearbows or HEALERS-in-heavy-armor out there.
I pulled those numbers out of my lower back hole, so take it with a grain of salt.
Exactly. As long as you are lvl80, it’s not that difficult to find a group.
I have much more problem finding a a group on my low level. But still manage to do some dungeon here and there.
You can play anyway you want. You just can’t make people party with you.
I think some of the problem is really a game design issue. Many of the things people are complaining aren’t there in the new scarlet dungeon. So that’s obviously something Anet can do better.
I think for “trash mob” there is just too much benefit for stacking.
You can cleave multiple target. Many of the utility skill, “wall of reflection, shield of avenger, hallow ground” can protect multiple people. You can cc multiple target with blind etc.
They really need to do an overhaul of the combat system if they want to change that.
But I think they can obviously design boss fight so it is dangerous to stack. I’m sure many people dont’ stack on many of the boss fight.
dont’ think it’s that bad for guardian. You got staff, and 2 skills which increase speed. So I can actually keep swiftness up most of the time.
Except that the current way forces you to use 2 skills instead of one passive. You’re sacrificing an extra utility just to be able to run faster. The staff change is also really annoying now. You have to stand still to get the max benefit…
I’ll save myself trouble and just delete my post. I was only refering to the “it take me much slower to lvl to 80 part through map completion”. Obviously most people try to use fast leveling build.
I dont’ felt I actually map completion slower than other class with my guardian.
I wonder why you have bought them, if you don’t wanted to use them ?
Just in the hope that they are changed to be tradeable in future and so you can make money out of them ?
I have a bunch of those. I think people just farmed those boss too much during events. I think I have the full set from just farming.
dont’ think it’s that bad for guardian. You got staff, and 2 skills which increase speed. So I can actually keep swiftness up most of the time.
mesmer I find much slower though.
Warrior has many ways to increase speed with traits for speed. guardian has to use utilities and a weapon that may not help that person’s build for theirs.
ya I’m just refering to the “It take me much slower to lvl to 80 part”. I dont’ find it much slower. I find guardian pretty bad for roaming though.
Isn’t that the plan? I thought they are removing glory, that’s why you can buy tome of knowledge. And make sPvP fix in to division.
I think that’s what I heard from a guildmate. I don’t pvp so I didn’t pay attention.
ya you should ask in the pvp forum. They should know more about it.
you don’t need to do them all… serious i never done them all.. i just play regularly =)
another one who doesnt understand what the thread is about
I think people understand.
My brother will keep checking the refrigerator door and tap to make sure it’s closed. He’ll even wake up several times everyday to make sure it’s closed.
People make fun of him. But they don’t realize mentally that’s who he is. He went to see a psychologist about the issue but the psychologist says there’s nothing wrong with him. As long as he don’t cause harm to other people or himself.
Some people just have the urge to do those type of things. As long as it isn’t harmful. I think it is perfectly fine. Consider I’m a game addict myself who plays 10 hours of video game everyday. I have nothing more to say. That’s just who people are.
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I quit the game 4 month ago, and when I come back gem went from 5->8 gold.
But I still won’t be making any money back if I sell gem because there is a heavy tax on sell price. But I know a few of my other investment went up in price a bunch.
If you decide to quit for a long period of time, gem could be a good investment. But if you still intend to play everyday, I suggest you buy other things to invest.
ps. I always think gem is a good investment, but that’s because I actually spend the gem to buy cash shop item. If you resell you have to think about the tax.
Ok your not understanding:
I have 6 level 80s and im in full exos and ascended
Its not the tactics.Its the people. There are none
Click on the “Contact and LFG”, click on “Looking for Group[Beta]”, click on dungeon, click on the dungeon you want to do. Click “advertise your group” to make your own group.
I bet you never tried. Because most of the dungeon group can be filled in less than 1 minutes.
ps. I go afk for 30 minutes and there are 30 listing of AC. Afk for 10 minutes and there are 10 listing of CM. You can’t find a group?
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Ya and we try to use it. Spent like 3 hours looking for groups and then gave up. Its either they dont want to do the path or they want full heavys.
can you tell me exactly what dungeon you are doing? I don’t know how it take you 3 hours. Most of dungeon is filled in 5 minutes for me. Even the longer one wont’ take more than 30 minutes.
You use the ingame LFG tool.
Its not the fact about not knowing the dungeons as much as just getting the people to do them. Thats the whole issue here. Cant find groups.
what dungeon are you talking about? I challenge you to make a group by yourself and see how long it fill.
There’s a LFG tool
That not what he ment by that the issue is you cannot get people to do them unless you run something specific or in full 80 gear already which honestly defeat the purpose to do the dungeon to begin with. Before the massive dungeon over haul they did you could take any class in their with any combination, long as people where compident enough to use the build they have you could make it through the dungeon. However alot of the dungeons have been tweeked to the point that unless you run in their with the omg dmg zerk build on a warrior or some other heavy class or mass aoe you can’t run the dungeons anymore.
If that’s really true, I won’t play with a bunch of no AP, no dps, no experience player everyday.
Besides just go do FGS champ train. 3 hours should net you enough money for 1 set of exotic armor and weapon.
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Don’t be shy. Just step in the dungeon.
I seen a bunch of people who don’t have a clue in dungeon, or in fractal. You won’t be the first.
Queensdale farm probably take 50 minutes per level. so about 67 hours from 1-80.
I think there’s pros and cons to every level methods. Another way is just farm money and level through crafting. Which surprisingly is much faster.
Some methods is slower but you get other perks such as map completion.
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Can’t you guys just spend a bit of those thousands of playing hours farming for gold.
A guy is flashing his 10 legendary in the crafting forum. And he says he just farm.
A reasonable point, however, I’m not talking about crafting a legendary. I actually place a higher priority on playing the game for fun, making a legendary would drive me mad. The most money Iv ever seen is 80g all of which I farmed. Don’t get me wrong, I can get by with the level of farming I do, im currently sitting on 40g with 4 fully kitted 80’s. I just wish that just one time, I could find 300g without having to work and work and work for it. And Im just wondering what the odds are of that still happening.
I found a zap(sold for 270 gold), and a venom(sold for 30 gold) after 3700 hours.
I dont’ think your odds are high. Not because of the game hours. Because you don’t farm. If you don’t farm, chance are your chance of precursor won’t be high.
I got my venom after 2000 cof path 1 run.
Can’t you guys just spend a bit of those thousands of playing hours farming for gold.
A guy is flashing his 10 legendary in the crafting forum. And he says he just farm.
you can do every map completion by yourself. (I have 8 character with 100% map completion).
A few of the harder place just grab a spy kit. The WvW is the tough part.
with 4300h played if 3000 of those hours is farming people can easily make 30,000 gold. 10 gold/hour isn’t too hard to achieve.
My question is did you do any TP investment. It’s not hard to turn 2000 gold in to 4000 gold by just investing.
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About 50% of total accounts have less than 1,000 achievement points.
And 90% of total accounts have less than 3,000 achievement points.
take that for what you will.
I’ve been playing for 4+ months now and I’m not even at my 2500 mark. Believe it or not, when you don’t try and get achievement points all the time they don’t come that fast. The games only been out for a little bit over a year. And I’m addicted to this game, I play 4-6 hours a day.
ya I do dungeon daily. It’s quite common seeing people with less than 3000 AP.
Those are your casual players.