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Elementalist/thief PvE question

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It totally depends on how one is geared and traited and skilled. But considering that the ‘weakness’ of the thief is that it is rather single target orientated and that the weakness of the ele the survivability is, and considering that the weakness of the ele can easier be countered then the weakness of the thief I would say the ele is likely to win, but it really depends on the stats and the person playing the character.

both have great issues with bigger groups though.

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DSD Location and Influence

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a: Why do so many people want to go back to Cantha. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
b: In lore it is good to speculate, but please speculate based on atleast some things that are facts. Now your just speculating on speculations, while ignoring other speculations.

The DSD is somewhere in the endless ocean. It is unknown where.

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Will greatsaws come back next halloween?

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Short answer ‘Unknown’.

We don’t know. in GW1 they repeated the festivals every year, but it’s unknown if they do in GW2 as well and if they do the same items and things every year.

It might very well be that Anet doesnt know yet either. They prolly have evaluated last years, but might not havemade decissions if and how they are going to repeat it.

So maybe they do and maybe they dont come back

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Token Vendors

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I have to disagree with you on this point. There are two important reasons to put all possible gear in the vendorwindow.

a: preview gear for a future character
b: Buy gear to salvage it into mats like ecto’s. Heavy armor is more likely to salvage in e.g. ori.

Many people like dungeons but are not interested in the gear. To prevent that the tokens keep stacking up and to have a better use then throwing them into the bin, they salvage gear. To make sure they have a higher change what they want need for crafting, people often get armor for different professions.

You want those people to be limited cause you didn’t read properly??

Having said that there, if you want to make a suggestion to make it more stupidity proof, I would say to put a checkmark somewhere in the window ‘Only show Gear I can equip’ and have that checked on default.

If people uncheck that mark and still buy the wrong ones…..well there is no limit to stupidity ands its likely going to happen, but I hope a lot less then now

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Guild Wars 2 Lottery

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Yeah we’ve done it in my Guild before, but I guess alot of people have trust issues

So did I, but in my guild I made a name. I was an officer, I had a greenlight from my guildleader and it was ok.

A guild is a confined area. people can choose to trust you and if you cheat them give you the penalty of leaving them. If you trick guildmembers in false lotery’s you’ll get a lot of leavers so there is a reason to trust you.

This action means eaither:
a: you are trying to get people to sent you free money
b: people trying to scam you and reporting you cause they so called had the winning number.

You prolly want to advertise your guild to get more members by making your lottery open for everyone but dont do and dont try.

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Banned for botting when not botting?

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First of all I would advise you to change the negative tone of your message. I know your upset and I totally understand that you are upset. You don’t know the reason however why they suspended you (well beside the general reason wich is botting). Talk to support and treat them with respect and in an un-emaotional way will prolly yield better results then calling them what you are calling them.

Support has tasked themself with a 72 hour period in wich they have to react. This is a maximum. If you haven’t heard from them by 72 hours there is something wrong and you should let them know here (in the sticky’s is a threat for that).

Most cases get resolved however within a few hours. So be patient and when they come to you be friendly and polite. If you didnt do anything wrong, all will be fine.

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Traveling this summer. Region lock?

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there is no region lock and you can play normally from Canada.
You need to make an account on a server that is in the same region as where you brought the game. But Canadians can connect normally. I have a few canadians in my guild who all play on a european server (the one who got them hooked on the game is a former englishman that moved to Canada and uses the game to stay in touch with old friends)

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and now?

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possibly during the instalation you checked unchecked an option to make a shortcut on your dekstop.

Browse to my computer – your harddrive (default is C) – program files (x86) – Guild Wars2

Rightclick the file gw2 or gw2.exe and choose copy to – desktop (make a shortcut).

You now have a shortcut on your desktop.

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map bug need help!!!

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yah every thing is 100% in my maps and already completed the WVW map there is not even one of them is 99% so i dont know what to do really and i already got the hall of monuments is there other one like that???

Like being asked have you actually been to the chantry of secrets?? and did you do it after you made sure you got 100%??
There is a known bug that prevents you for getting 100% map completion that can be resolved by going there and exiting again.

If that doesn’t work, also make sure you have the ones on claw island (if you have done the personal story there then your ok).

Many people have claimed to checked it thouroughly, but found out later they really didnt have 100%. Best advise is to print this list on paper, check very map, end then checkmark them with a pen. You don’t have to go there, you can hover your mouse over the worldmap where the area is and you’ll see if it is completed or not:

- City’s -
Rata Sum
Black Citadel
Divinity’s Reach
Hoelbrak
The Grove
Lion’s Arch
- PvE-explorable area -
Plains of Ashford
Queensdale
Caledon Forest
Metrica Province
Wayfarer Foothills
Diessa Plateau
Kessex Hills
Brisban Wildlands
Snowden Drifts
Gendarran Fields
Lornar’s Pass
Fields of Ruin
Harathi Hinterlands
Blazeridge Steppes
Dredgehaunt Cliffs
Bloodtide Coast
Iron Marches
Timberline Falls
Sparkfly Fen
Fireheart Rise
Mount Maelstrom
Straits of Devastation
Frostgorge Sound
Malchor’s Leap
Cursed Shore
Chantry of Secrets
Claw Island
- WvW-maps -
((Blue World)) Borderlands
((Green World)) Borderlands
((Red World)) Borderlands
Eternal Battlegrounds

If you followed my method and still are not there feel free to ask support to help you out at https://en.support.guildwars2.com/

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The Game is Dieing!

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Yes, the player base is actually growing. The reason you see fewer people is because the initial level rush is over and now players gravitate towards where they want to be. You don’t have to take my word for it either. Just do a dragon champion event on any server and you’ll see how many people are still playing. And those are just the ones interested in pve.

-mean observation- I only see bout 10 people doing them, the rest are culling

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Eeaiest way to earn 3 HoM without eotn?

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Complete the three campaigns + bonus
Get all elite skills
Get a golden and green minipet
Get your nightfall heroes special armor, get the special pets

That should net you 10 points or so when you put them in the HoM.

The person only wants 3 more points?? you have that with M.O.X. (one point) and the black moa bird (animal companion one) (2 points).

So why advise him to do much much more then his goal??

Besides that if he does what you are saying he ends up with 19 HoM points and not 10:

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Omnomberry Nodes

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There was a point to not letting everyone know about the actual spawn time… And that was to make bots less efficient. If they do little to no research and follow the wiki, they are possibly losing out on controlling or manipulating things. But now it is all over this thread, so be ready for a patch. Things are hard enough to get as is…

I have to disagree strongly with the motives to keep a respawnrate silent for everyone, to prevent botters for mis-using the info.

I am very strongly against botters and I think they should be stopped. Thats why it is important that things like bot detection methods or how DR works have to remain a secret. That information doesn’t effect the general population. When it comes however to important information like this I think you push it too far.

Lets not make this a police state over botters.

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I dislike temproary content

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Do we repair signs and collect memento’s while getting knocked down every time we try to walk down a path in the dungeon? Because so far that’s the F&F experience :P

I really really hope Flame and Frost is temporary. Those Sonic Periscopes are incredibly annoying.

After the last update they are a lot easier tbh. The ones in starter area’s only damage a lil bit and the others don’t stun you (only knockback).

As for the OP. They indeed stated that the content itself will be limited, but it will leave permanent ‘marks’ on the world. As to what extend is currently unknown.

I would imagine doing something as in the lost shores event. After the event the new map was open to explore.

Now for the ’ dungeon’ we have to wait and see. but for the two instances. It might very well be that after the living story has ended the hatchery and cragstead is open for public as part of the map (so open the gate without entering an instance). Maybe even with a heart that remembers of the past events or a dynamic event.

There are facets of the content I would rather see to be gone. As for changing the world. Keeping new content forever doesnt help. So I’m just curious bout what they mean with an everlasting mark on the world :P

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Hello all password reset

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1: You might be better posting in the account issues section.

2: I trully have trouble to understand what you mean. I understand that you have 2 mailadresses and 2 accounts?? and one of those accounts you need a password reset??
If you explained it as unclear to support as you did out here I can understand that you don’t get the help you need. I dont mean this in any offensive way.

3: All I can say is that you should keep on talking to support. If english isnt your native language, it might be wise to tell them that and also what your native tongue is. Perhaps even if it isn’t officially supported they have someone there who speaks it.

4: if you cant get a proper solution with support you can always ask an arenanetofficial to have a look at the ticketnumber. You can make sucha request by asking in the account section of this forum. Make sure you include your ticketnumber then.

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Weird half dungeon rewards

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The bug is that the daily reset doesnt reset for some characters. afaik it’s a totally random bug that can hit you out of nowhere

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Giant Slayer Title Progression

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Champion_Giant
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Champion_Kol_Skullsmasher
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Giant_

Jade Maw Tentacles wouldn’t fit into the giant-type of npc’s
The not champion giant in brisban does count for the slayer achievement.

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which server for GMT +5 (est morning)

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I am on Gandara, an highly populated and mostly english speaking server. Basicly its active all day round but peak like said earlier is in round 7-10 pm GMT

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which server for GMT +5 (est morning)

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most european servers are slowly getting active now. Many people who have a job are starting to get home. But the real peak on european servers isnt for another 4-5 hours from now

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Golem Mark II pre-event

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http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Disable_the_containers_before_they_release_their_toxins

Walkthrough:
Inquest engineers that spawn after disabling containers need to be killed in order to contribute to event progression. Otherwise, there won’t be enough containers to complete the event and it will fail.

So this isn’t a bug but as designed.

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Boss events? (Maw, Fire Elemental, SB, etc.)

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^^That website is the best thing to know, but you can never be exactly sure.

Some events have a random change to happen (Maw). Some have a few pre-events that have to done successfull. Some have a spawningwindow. Etcetera

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Lady In White

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hmmmmm, first of all I would like to know the location of this gaveyard cause it didnt ring as bell and there might be more to this lorewise (had the ghost a name for example).

Second of all in general, many fantasy genres have enraged spirits or ghosts. Often called things like wraths, demons, shades, lich, etc. Many times emotional reactions that last an eternity are the cause of this transformation.

It shows how eternity can drive a soul to madness.
It’s not often that you see the transition and reason for this madness, but think bout the fact that every undead you kill and every ghost you kill is for a reason. Good and evil and the balance between good and evil isn’t a sharp line.

I wouldn’t do Ascalonian catacombs storymode if I where you. You have to kill two ghosts that where lovers in real life and in afterlife.

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Equipment and Ability Scaling?

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The size of the skill effect is scaled to the the target rather than the user of the skill. Use anything on an air elemental and you’ll see that. Using Impale(warrior offhand with a sword) on a Norn is also a good example. Instead of looking like they got impaled by a sword it looks like they got impaled by a greatsword.

This partly right, if you look e.g. to Dragon’s tooth, there are limitations to the scaling. e.g. on the oakheart champion it starts with the tip of the toothe allready in the oakheart and then falling through the body. If you try it on the shadow behemoth it actually starts halfway his body and falls through it (and barely visable).

it also depends on the animationtype of the skill or effect. a skill like e.g. Whirling Wrath has an animation that is totally scaled to the caster.

Botom line is, that its all animation and effects. The size, amount of damage, range and hitrate of skills are always the same, no matter what profession you use.

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Mystic Clovers?

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Yip clovers are only used for making a legendary weapon. So unless you get 75 more, and also the rest of the things needed for a legendary weapon they are useless

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Molten Alliance Mining Pick Bug

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this is not a molten alliance mining pick bug but a well known gathering tool bug.
When ever you use a gathering tool while in combat there is a bug that very rare can hit you that results in ruined orr, ruined plant fibers or ruined logs.

To make sure you don’t hit this bug make sure you are out of combat

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Lost gold and cannot make a support ticket.

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……it is out of their “control.” ………..

I recognise this quote. Arenanet has not the power to create money or items out of thin air on the live servers. and thats what they basicly are saying. There is some debate whether or not it is true what they are claiming, but well it is what they always saying so for discussion sake lets asume it is true.

If however it is true what you are claiming that this was indeed cause by a gamecrash and that the logs are showing and supporting that…In that case and simular cases I would like to make a suggestion to support:

Why not, in cases like this, have the ability to reward a custom size free gem giftcard.

I do believe the customer in this situation would have no objection to recieve an amount of gems for free that are the equivalant of rougly 30 gold in the current conversion rate.

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just don't get it...

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Never asume that 50 people complaining bout something on a forum is what ther majority of people in the game wants. From my guild im the person afaik thats active here. Besides that on places like this people tend to say what they dislike rather then what they like. So you end up with more negativism as is reality. The amount of critique on the cutscenes is on a normal level except one. Trahearne.

Trahearne is like Rurik. I hate them both very deeply and throughly. The frost gate is my favourite mission ever, that final cutscene , I never ever skipped that and was always cheering.

As for Trahearne. I want an NPC to come with me that makes me feel happy and enthousiastic to play the game not one that is a pessimistic snob. -This wont end well-

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A class that has not too many buttons

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My engineer belt uses elixer h as healing (medkit is useless crap imo, specially cause I have the Self-Regulating Defenses-trait active wich resets the elixer h skill when tossed, even though the description doesn’t say so)

So the F1 skill I only use to heal allies, cause I never have a big health issue.

I use a rifle to keep foes at distance during single foe fights and switch to flamethrower during most fights. and off course am traited to make conditions do more damage.
I use two turrets as dummy’s for extra damage and to get agro of me. these are riffle turret and rocket turret. Personally I never feel the need to use f2 and f3 skills that come with them.

The flametrower skill (9) gives incendiary ammo on F4 wich i never use cause when I want to burn my enemy’s I switch to my flamethrower.

Together with armor specs and traits I’m really happy with my engineer. She is quick in killing, and very durable.

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"The Professional's" Training Manual

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No please dont go here!
I totally understand why you are asking this but no. The respec handicap is created to forge people to make it difficult to change and to work on character development.

In GW1 people where too much specialised in the task ahead. Many tricks only started to show up after many years of playing. But the ability to change your skills and attributes whenever you where in a town made that you could change from a solo farming tank to a dps machine with 3 mouseclicks. Now people are forced to decide how they want to play the game. You can always change the path, but with a handicap.

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(Humourous) Possible Minigame Mechanic?

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I love it…..
But i dont see this happening. the reason is that they trive to not give any race an advantage over the other. And while this game could also be played with a char character, it would make the humans an silvari feel left out.

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Eeaiest way to earn 3 HoM without eotn?

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Nope, you need EotN to actually get the points. What you can do is get to the end of each game without finishing them. Then, when you get Eye, run the last mission in each game, and you’ll get three statues you can put in EotN.

Not true! For almost all points and specially the easy ones you need EotN, but not for 5 titles in pre-searing ascalon.

(drunken, sugar, festival items, survivor and legendary defender of ascalon).

To get those points without owning Eye of the north you need to make a prophecy’s character and never leave the tutorial map (if you look at the worldmap you only see ascalon).

However these titles are all very hard to get. Where the legendary defender of ascalon can be done within a few weeks, the rest needs months and even years of playing to get them and you have to stay in a very limited area all the time.
———-

So best way to do things is to actually buy Eye of the North. Having the black moa pet at level 20 and the hero M.O.X. is I think the easiest way to get to 6 points. If you don’t have all three campaigns you can also use your 50 free torunaments point Tolkano gives you in the great temple of balthasar to get 10 zaishen keys, sell them and use the profits to get one normal undedicated miniature and one tapestry (you get one on arrival, but you need two if you mix different shrines).

If you don’t own factions for the black moa pet you can also finish any campaign to get your three points.

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Looking for a good EU server

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I have been a resident of Gandara since release and I really enjoy it. Chat is very friendly and kind. people are helpfull. It is highly populated and very good balanced (we do okayish in World Versus World, have a mature sPvP population, low level maps are nicely filled, but high level events are also very active (I’ve been guesting round several times to find an unlocked temple of balthasar but always ended un my own server cause people where actually doing it succesfull).

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Magic Find Question

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“Everytime you kill a monster you roll on a number of tables, inside these tables are different rarity categories. Magic find increases the chances you will get higher categories. For example if there is a 1 in 10 category, and you have 200% magic find you will have 3/10 chances to get that category. This improves not just the rarity of the items you get but can also improve your chances at getting trophies and rare crafting materials like lodestones.”

What one of the ANet people said about it, basically magic find increases your chance of all loot types you’ll get less empty loots and potentially less greys and maybe some less whites (though bags tend to be calculated above whites) but in return more blues including t6 mats if your lucky.

As for kill speed vs loot chance, if you have 100% MF you need to have similiar loot rate you’d have to kill twice as many in the same time period as without that MF, considering MF gear doesn’t slow you that much its basically a preference…

Though there is/was diminishing returns on loot at some point but I can’t remember which one it effected most.

100% MF doesn’t double the amount of loot.
e.g. lets say the change of getting an exotic when farming is 1 out of 1000 (0.1%). With 100% magic find that percentage doubles to 0.2%, so 2 out of 1000. So 100% MF means bout 10% increase in value of loot (considering you sell everything you loot to the merchant). And yes you are bout killing10% slower, ending up with roughly the same amount of wealth.

MF is only effective if you really are farming for high end items (e.g. rare’s and exotic gear for ecto’s or rare materials like lodestones)

DR affects the loot table in a negative way just as MF effects it in a positive way (you get lesser loot and lesser valuable loot). But DR isn’t going to be actrive due to what kind of loot your getting. DR gets active if you overfarm a certain part of a map and/or a certain type of foes.

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Ban Language Suspension

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Hello
Gaile Gray can you chek the PM what i send it for you pls? I think somebody made it a mistake.

Please do not pm Gaile. Im sure Gaile will respond in a way like mine, but to speed things up (she is a busy lady and I want you to get on the way))

If you have an account issue (e.g. being worngfully suspended) you always need to make a support ticket here https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ (ask a question).
It can take up to 72 hours max! for them to answer you. if you dont have an answer within 72 hours post your ticketnumber here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Tickets-for-Review-3-days-and-older-merged

If support has handled your question/request but you are unsattisfied with the outcome you can ask an arenanet senior member to review the matter. You do so by making a public thread in here with your ticketnumber and your request.

It is up to Arenanet to decide to review the matter (they can do it on your request but are not entitled to it) and to choose wich arenanet senior member talks on their behalf.

By pm-ing her directly you only risk that she is somewhat annoyed, or actually enjoying a well earned holliday. You will eventually get the same respons that you have to walk the official lighted path.

If you have the urge to pm her maybe do it to sent her some nice frog-pictures.

I hope this helpsyou to get a speedy answer. I know the official response time is 72 hours, but if you make a ticket now, you prolly have an answer within a few hours.

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Magic Find Question

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LHound,

What happens to the basic items then?? the total amount of drops still have to be 100%, so even if magic find gets you more fine drops (wich I actually doubt) it means you get lesser basic drops, so lesser lootbags. While lootbags are what you really really want when farming tier 6 materials.

It might be that the effect is slightly higher, but cause of the decrease in white drops and so lootbags and the effect of slower farming with magic find gear it will in every scenario be less effective to put on magic find gear.

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A class that has not too many buttons

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Go with either warrior or guardian. You can have a working build, which doesn’t require that much key presses.

Avoid engineer at all cost if you want to avoid key presses. Playing engineer effectively requires much more key presses than any other profession.

I disagree on this statement.
Engineers don’t need the toolbelt skills (f1, f2, f3 and f4) to be succesfull, just like a guardian doesn’t need them. They are just a nice addition, besides that they don’t have a weapon swap button, actually giving them the same amount of buttons as the guardian.

I only sometimes use my F1 skill on my guardian to give other players a bit of healing. What your ssaying only goes for certain engineer builds wicharen’t more effective as others.

The one with the least amount of buttons is the Thief (only weapon swap, F1, 1 to 0)

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Omnomberry Nodes

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I’m an avid gatherer, I keep track of timers so I can make the most of gathering everything right when it respawns, Omnom’s are 6 hours respawns.

hmmmm, with all do respect, you are also asking questions bout how to farm tier 6 materials in another thread. So calling yourself an avid gatherer might be a too bold statement. Besides that you go against the statement on the offcial wiki and that of established players like Bri.

I’m NOT saying your wrong but it’s hard to swallow it as a fact when other sources are disagreeing with you. So can you please explain more of your testing methods. Best offcourse would be a few sets of screenshots with the servertime showing on the map (3 sets of 2 pictures would do).

If your right this is imo revolutionary and important to be changed and added on the wiki.

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Magic Find Question

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

No it doesn’t, or atelast not as you are expecting.

Magic find increases the change of getting rare items from drops and depending on the materials you want it can havet an opposite effect.

I asume you mean these kind of tier 6 materials: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crafting_material#Fine_crafting_materials

The rarity of the matieral isn’t based upon the tier but on the rarity itself (the colour).
Most tier 6 fine materials you need are mostly coming from dead corpses directly or lootbags. Fine materials are blue coloured, while it increases the change slightly to get a blue drop above the white drops, MF is mostly aiming for rare and exotic drops

Besides that the molten bags that also give these fine tier 6 materials (and are actually the better source then direct drops) are of basic rarity. By increasing the change of getting rare materials using MF, you are decreasing the change of getting these.

MF doesn’t work on opening the bags, it only works negative on the droprate of these bags.

So for The fine tier 6 materials like e.g. vials of powerful blood, they have no effect to a negative effect. besides that you are killing slower cause of using MF-gear so on those its a bad thing to use MF-gear.

Very different it is for rare tier 5 materials you also need like e.g. crystal lodestones.
They drop from bags (according to the wiki, but I actually doubt it cause the amount of actual reports are minimum, if they do the change is so low it isnt worth it), chests in a certain dungeon and drop directly from a certain foe (for charged you need sparks in malchor’s leap).

Now these are of rare quality and drop directly from the sparks, so it is a good idea to use MF for that.

Sorry for a lengthy post. It turned out to be more difficult then I suspected.

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Omnomberry Nodes

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Omnomberry’s respawn 6 hours after you gather the node, in the exact same spot (unless there is a new build in which everything respawns and all nodes are moved in locations)

Do you have any source for this information, cause all info points into the direction that Bri above you have it right. So please proof this opinion.

At Bri,

I actually have this issue on Southsun Cove and not on Malchor’s leap (farming on riverside, thank you riverside community for providing us with the best resource map in the world)

I have a suspision bout the course.
Empty maps: If a map gets empty (no players) it goes to sleep and is remade on the server when someone enters it again, restting all events as it was a serverreset.

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T1 Mission then T2 = more guild merit ?

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

No that isnt true.

If you do a tier 1 bounty on monday and a tier 2 bounty on wednesday you end up with 20 merits in total. 15 on monday and 5 more on wednesday.

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The Game is Dieing!

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Ow boy…….
There are two types of games.
a: a game like e.g. Skyrim. It’s an offline game that is foun for bout 100 hours of gameplay but then you have seen it all and you move along until an expansion comes out. Nobody complains bout this cause you also only pay to buy the game.

b: a game like e.g. WoW. They do everything in their power to keep you addicted and interested in this game. The simple reason is they want your monthly 10 dollars

GW2 tries to find the middle between them. They are doing their best to keep the game interesting between expansions, without asking monthly fees. They do this not for gaining profit, but for the love of the game and the community.

The game is definitly not dead or anywhere going there. But you are right that people are temporary moving on. Although thats changing as well I have seen people leaving for the new tombraiders game. They finished that and are coming back now.

wait for the next expansion and you will see it grow active again. Or do what others are doing move along for a bit. Do never expect this to be a WoW clone. Anet was founded by people who worked for blizzard and disagreed with how they approached the worl of mmo-gamers

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Unable to submit support ticket

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

You are always free to sent a support ticket, and this form should be working. Perhaps can you also tell your windows resolution your using. As webdesigner myself this can be important to get the bug out of the system.

To answer your problem directly. The amount of gold you can sent to a new account is limited. This is done to discourage goldsellers. To prevent a bypass in this system, if your sending items or goods, this is also limited (the merchant value is being used I think/guess).

Lowering the amount of goods you are trying to sent will solve this for now. You can always try again in a week or two when the limit will be higher.

When transfering valuables like gold or items to your rl GF, always include in the the message why you are sending it to her. Even if she is in the same room as you. The reason is that for the same reason a suspicious flag can be raised having a GM look into it. So your actually writing this for the GM.

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Banned for inappropriate language

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

It is actually very simple. Do not break the rules. It’s not ok to offend others. There are no ’but’s’ or ’tho’s’ to this rule. If you got offended then just report them.

There is an old internet saying ‘Do not feed the troll’. What you did was wrong. You shouldn’t have offended other players.

As for the other players, the reason they might not have been suspended can easily be that nobody actually reported them. If people decide to ignore them, move server cause of them etc then Anet will never know bout it. Bottom line is that you used faul language and you shouldnt have done that, no matter what the cause was.

I really understand your anger, but I have to agree with Anet’s decission here.

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World completion 99% bug?

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

I am having the exact same problem.

I got the Star with my name and the 2 gifts of the explorer and EVERY area says it is complete, but I am still stuck on 99%. and I have the Plains of ashford one in south west

the title, gifts and star are rewarded when you get to 100%, but after you finished some now points are added. This is not a bug. While the game keep aknowledging your effort (and keeping the rewards in place), they changed it a little bit by adding new points to discover (yaaaaay new content).
In historical sequence:

2 poi’s in wayfarer foothills and diessa plateau (both in the flame and frost instances, walk to the gate to unlock them).

2 WP’s in brisban wildlands and plains of ashford (guildmissions update)

2 WP’s in Orr area’s, so there is always atleast one waypoint incontested in any map.

2 poi’s in lions arch (these where added end of november and where if i didnt missed anything the first additional points to the game since launch)

Hope I didnt miss anything. correct me if im wrong :P

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Monthly Completionist

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

You need to have done 4 daily achievements. To get one daily achievement you need to do 5 daily achievements in a day. Keep in mind that this has to be done inside a 24 hour window that last from 00:00 UTC till 23:59 UTC. if you done it 4 times you will have 4/4 for your monthly

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Where to report a player...

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

1: rightclick the name and then click report (add them as friend frist to make it easier).
2: if no time, etc screenshot it and open up a ticket.

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Two Engineer Bugs still need to be solved :

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

I know it very likely is very easy. but on the other hand it isn’t always the case. I normally leave priority and timeplan to the experts who need to do it (in this case anet).

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Regarding voided purchase account bans.

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Thank you. I hope anet’s support will respond in less than a three days this time, since my buddy is pretty frustraded right now and i feel guilty because i adviced him to buy this game.

In many cases they do so. I think the 72 hour response time is that sometimes a senior staffmember needs to look at it and like in most company’s they work officehours. so 72 hours is to bridge the weekend for tickets that needs review by a senior. My experience is that most issuesi are resolved within a day.

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Offensive account names

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Like I said, the name is wrong. end of the story and in my point of view you should be ashamed of yourself.

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Regarding voided purchase account bans.

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Sigh. Joke is, he didn’t do anything wrong, first purchase wasn’t a “fraud” or anything. We actually have no clue what was this ban about. Thanks for the honest response anyway.
Yeah, and i was wondering myself, how it is possible to link a key to a permanently (?) banned account. Apparently, there is no block, hence why i started this topic in the first place.

In that case talk to support: https://en.support.guildwars2.com/ (ask a question)
If it is an unused account then make a new one, but make sure the pruchase problems are solved and cleared first. Your friend is now marked suspicious by anet and thats the thing that needs solving.

If he didnt got his money back for the first key, then he should ask for a refund as well.

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"Exploiting bugs" bannable?

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Are you sure it’s actually a bugged event, or is it an event that continuously spawned mobs until completed?

In the one I mentioned:
This is next to an uncontested waypoint (never use that one!) where people end up being swarmed by the enemy’s while loading in. there is no event going on but the village/campment is constantly udner attack by waves. This goes on for hours and hours till a servereset. This often only solves it for a a few hours.

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