Guild Wars 2

Damage is mitigated by gear.
One Shot Kills are mitigated by skill.

You can’t rely on gear in the QG.

There are 44 balloons out in the world, of which you must visit 30. That’s 30 unique balloons, not 1 balloon 30 times.

Once you hit 30, you cannot loot any additional chests.

It appears that the chests in Queensdale are bugged and only one will work correctly.

It depends on what happens when the Queen’s Gauntlet ends.

Right now, everyone is either there or champ farming in Queensdale/Frostgorge. That means that ingredients that were normally being farmed are now being ignored by the farmers. If the farmers return to their old routes after QG (unlikley with the new champ trains) then you can expect prices to return to normal.

The more likely scenario is that with the new farming routes you can expect prices to continue to climb as the supply of ingredients dwindles.

Levels 1-399 are pointless, since you can fully gear your character while leveling using Karma at the Renown Hearts.

Additionally, the materials drop at such low rates (or at least they did prior to the champ loot change) that you can’t keep your crafting level on par with your character level just by playing the game.

My recommendation:
For your first character, pick up Jewelcrafting (everything you need comes from ore nodes which makes it easier to get the materials through regular game play) and use it to get some XP.

After your first character is at level 80 and making money, then you can worry about filling in the crafting gaps.

Food prices are going wild right now since ingredients are not dropping from QG. All of the farmers have transitioned to new areas for either QG (no drops at all) or champ farming (Queensdale and Frostgorge) so what you’ve noticed is purely a supply issue, not inflation.

That isn’t to say there is no inflation going on, just that the significant price variations are not related.

Inflation of 20-30% over the course of a week would have caused the game’s economy to collapse.

How did you arrive at that number?

I’m OK with time gating new content, so long as the gate is removed at some point.

The tickets are still being dropped, which is probably why they let you sell them while they work out why.

Afya.5842:

mtpelion.4562:

Afya.5842:

No freaking way! I have at least 1 rare drop for every 2 champs. Only MF buff from NPC, no other MF sources.

No one believed me when I asked about it in map chat either. I’m going to try again after work today and will this time not loot any boss chests (since MF doesn’t help with those anyway) to see if those are kicking my DR into high gear for some reason.

At least the coin drops are decent.

Or are you only hitting the boss? Drop your aoe everywhere to maximize profit

I tried it both ways. First hitting everything for loot bags, then hitting just the boss to see if the loot bags were engaging DR.

Afya.5842:

No freaking way! I have at least 1 rare drop for every 2 champs. Only MF buff from NPC, no other MF sources.

No one believed me when I asked about it in map chat either. I’m going to try again after work today and will this time not loot any boss chests (since MF doesn’t help with those anyway) to see if those are kicking my DR into high gear for some reason.

At least the coin drops are decent.

Tinni.4351:

It’s Random-guy-#55! He’s been getting all my drops too! I heard he performed a dark ritual at the mouth of hell involving a Charr, an Asura and a three goats. Since then, he’s been getting a lot of people’s drops!

Let’s get him! I heard that if you tie him up and throw him in the lake you can prove he was getting your drops. If he sinks he is innocent but if he floats he was stealing!

While I feel for the OP, I feel it is important to point something out.

Getting a Precursor by any means other than buying on the TP is not a goal that anyone should set. It really is about as silly as setting a personal goal of “winning the lottery”. No matter what you do, you cannot meaningfully impact your ability to attain this “goal”, and setting unrealistic goals will quickly lead to heartbreak, depression, and anger.

DisplayError.4527:

I just put four pieces of chest armor into the forge and got shoulder armor back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMxlReysNXw
Am I supposed to use all armors of the same type (all heavy, all medium, or all light) to get the same output?

Yes. If you want a light chest you need to put in 4 light chests.

Well, I played for most of the day on Saturday, full MF buffs and everything. Had 1 rare drop the entire time. I’m convinced that someone else is getting my drops :P

I did two of them yesterday while in an overflow.

Onshidesigns.1069:

OK thanks, I’ll have to wait to do the next daily tonight.

Anet is really make players grind for these minis.

I don’t think that 1 quick item a day for 3 days over the course of an entire month constitutes a “grind”… by any definition.

Devildoc.6721:

Look guys, throwing a fight or a game is bad sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is all participants competing at their best.

To hand victory over to someone might be “nice”, but it is also insulting/condescending, and poor sportsmanship.

How do you think some world class champion Boxer would feel, if he knew his belt was not earned, but given to him, because his opponent threw the fight and didn’t give it his all?

Poor sportsmanship is not being a graceful winner or loser, being a cheater, not respecting your opponents, and throwing the fight, especially if you get a kickback from it.

The concept of “sportsmanship” sadly died a very long time ago. Personal honor is meaningless in today’s society, we care about getting away with as much as possible, and the anonymous nature of the internet makes that easier than ever.

As for the boxer example, his only concern is winning. If his opponent took a dive, all that means is that his opponent gave him the belt and the money that goes with it.

Likewise, GW2 players are only concerned with getting the achievement, title, and reward.

Granted, there are a few players who do it for their love of the game, but it will take a while for the reward seekers to work their way out of the system before those types of players can compete with only each other.

Whether it is intended or not, the fact that it has been reported and not fixed suggests that it is not considered an exploit.

I do my best to tell every player in the match about it though, that way it evens the odds for everyone and is an advantage to no one.

I think this game hates me lol.

I stepping into the pit last night for the first time, had over 300% MF with all the buffs on my farming character and managed to pull nothing better than masterwork for the 2 hours I played. I gave up and tried to do the world boss circuit just to get something out of my time and only managed to complete two of them since there weren’t enough people out there.

I was even more irritated since my guildies were linking the rare they got as they dropped and they were just piling them up.

My only solace was that the MF was nice and I managed to turn all those masterworks into an exotic.

She is a monarch and thus has absolute power, so by definition she is a tyrant since tyranny is laying claim to powers not granted or powers no one can claim.

FWIW, you can be a nice tyrant.

zerotwo.4731:

So what has inflated in price that players who don’t have the money can no longer purchase anything? All I see is items dropping in price. As players scramble to build the legendaries to sell, they too will be cheaper since the costs to make them would have been cheaper then the past 5 months. Costs will drop considerably once players farm multiple dungeons instead of just Cof 1. All those extra drops that get sold to the TP from areas barely farmed. I don’t see the problem with balancing that out by adding the additional reward of gold at the end.

The whole point of nerfing the gold farming is to prevent inflation in the first place. The fact that the average player has not been completely priced out of the market suggests that the gold farming nerfs are working.

KitaYumi.7048:

mtpelion.4562:

You can’t guarantee that you will get any random item. I’m just telling you how to actually have a reasonable chance at getting one.

Take the tips or don’t, but don’t complain about random being random if you aren’t willing to help your odds.

And that is exactly the problem. They should not be random. They should be challenging to get, not luck-based. If I increase my odds and still do not get one after three years, what good did that do me?

I never said it wasn’t a problem, I just provided tips on how to improve your chances at overcoming the problem.

Kelayda.8359:

The more I think about this the angrier I get because wouldn’t it make sense to have the Watchknights look like the Avatar of Dwayna? Wouldn’t it be a smarter political move for Jennah to tie her reign with one of the six, especially the one that’s the first and tied with leadership and health?

Especially since Dwayna has feathers in her motif, it would’ve matched the Seraph well and the Watchknights wouldn’t look so out of place.
(Posting again because I like to have solutions when I critique something.)

Actually, tying her personal guard to the Divines might cause a bit of a hiccup in the peace treaty with the Charr, who are religiously seeking to avoid religion.

The snowflake thing was an exploit because it generated new materials. This is not an exploit because it is simply paying you for the risks you wagered (as designed).

The difference is that they did not intend for salvaging to create profit but they did intend for gambits to create profit.

They intentionally designed the gambits to reward skill. As long as your gambit combination is not doing something unexpected (i.e. making it easier to beat the opponent rather than more difficult) you aren’t exploiting anything. You are earning your reward and using a portion of that reward to play again.

Inflation affects the entire economy, not just select individual markets. Prices in individual markets fluctuate all the time based on supply and demand.

Generating more lodestones does not create any new gold (unless you decided to vendor them) and thus does not cause inflation. It does impact supply though which can cause the price to go down.

All of the T6 materials are tanking in price because the supply has soared due to the new Champion loot mechanics (and the Gauntlet). Farming resources allows you to trade them for gold, but it does not create gold (again, unless you vendor them).

You do know that you have a whole month to work on this, right?

Alleluia.1320:

mtpelion.4562:

Alleluia.1320:

Those are my opinions, yes. That’s also not what I said in that post. You’re still arguing past me instead of at me. Reading comprehension, please.

You can’t argue with an opinion, and thus I can’t argue “at” you and am forced to argue against your method instead of your content. What you’ve said is irrelevant if it isn’t logical.

We’re all having a discussion about whether the aesthetic of the robots is overtly sexualized or not, not whether they are actual women. As I’ve said to you several times now. You are right. They are not actual women capable of biological reproduction. That’s also not what anyone is talking about besides you. Not responding to you anymore now unless you are actually on topic. kthnx.

Ok, I guess I have to break down the implications of my point since it isn’t being inferred.

I am saying that because they are not females, they cannot sexualize females. Any female features that are considered “sexually appealing” are sexualizing the robot, not the female that inspired the design.

Barbie can be argued to sexualize women because it is a doll that is intended to represent a female while exaggerating the features that most commonly elicit sexual arousal.

These are robots that draw inspiration from the female form so any “sex appeal” does not sexualize the female form but rather reflects the innate sexuality of certain aspects of the female form.

You can’t sexualize women by making “sexy” robots. You can sexualize a robot by borrowing “sexy” features from women. They are not the same thing.

1. Make a new character.
2. Get the nearest WPs to the level 1-15 balloons.
3. WP around spending 10c per WP to find the guy you need.
4. Switch to your main (or use your new character if you can take the guy with him).

There, you just saved a fortune on WP fees.

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Nope definitely not needed

Actually, i’m pretty sure they are mandatory.

If you aren’t wearing a cape, you’re doing it wrong.

Alleluia.1320:

Those are my opinions, yes. That’s also not what I said in that post. You’re still arguing past me instead of at me. Reading comprehension, please.

You can’t argue with an opinion, and thus I can’t argue “at” you and am forced to argue against your method instead of your content. What you’ve said is irrelevant if it isn’t logical.

Alleluia.1320:

And the matter of the fact they imitate the female form and that imitation is overtly sexualized is what is being argued in this thread. You realized that female shaped robots aren’t actual women and argued that point successfully in a condescending manner. Grats.

Your OPINION is that they are overtly sexualized.
Your OPINION is also that overt sexualization of objects is “wrong”.

Those are not facts.

Alleluia.1320:

You’re being ridiculous. You know the problem is thakittens an overtly sexualized female aestetic. Its immaterial whether it is biologically female and capable of reproduction when we’re talking about the imagery used, not debating a robot’s biology. Your argument is a red herring.

So you concede my point that they are not females and have adjusted your argument to be that your opinion is that anything that resembles a female is “wrong” as long as it meets your personal definition of overtly sexual.

Fine. Your opinion is your opinion. It is by definition unprovable, subjective and arbitrary and thus inadmissable in a debate.

The fact of the matter is that these are robots and not females.

Alleluia.1320:

Being modeled after the female form means they have a female model. You’re trying to split a hair that isn’t there.

These robots cannot reproduce and thus are asexual. Female is a reproductive gender and is thus inherently sexual. Asexual means “not sexual”. You can’t be sexual and asexual at the same time because they are mutually exclusive.

Additionally, the fact that there is only one model directly prevents that model from being a “female” model due to the lack of a male model. A female is a counterpart to a male in the reproductive process. If there is no such thing as a male, then there inherently is no such thing as a female as well.

Again, these are robots. They have no gender. The fact that you find their appearance similar to something that has a gender does not bestow a gender on that object.

Alleluia.1320:

mtpelion.4562:

Alleluia.1320:

mtpelion.4562:

Garenthal.1480:

I’m a little baffled by the lack of a male model.

They don’t have a female model either, just a mechanical clockwork robot model.

Are you seriously claiming that they aren’t modeled after the female form?

Strawman Detected.

What are you talking about? That’s what you said. “They don’t have a female model either, just a mechanical clockwork robot model.” /confused

I didn’t say that the female form did not influence the design, I said that there are no female models. They are mechanical clockwork robots. They can’t be females and thus it is not a female model.

Alleluia.1320:

mtpelion.4562:

Garenthal.1480:

I’m a little baffled by the lack of a male model.

They don’t have a female model either, just a mechanical clockwork robot model.

Are you seriously claiming that they aren’t modeled after the female form?

Strawman Detected.

ozmaniandevil.6805:

I have a crazy question. I compacted so I have everything all mashed together. How do I un-compact it? Compact is the only option I seem to have. Do I just click that again?

There is no “un-compact”.

Your only option is to squeeze everything up and left.

If you put 4 axes into the MF the output is guaranteed to be an axe. If you put 3 axes and a dagger the output could be any kind of weapon or armor. Putting 4 different armor pieces in (different in either slot or weight) could give you a weapon or a piece of armor.

Essentially, in order to guarantee a type of output you must put 4 of the exact same things in. To get an axe you must put in 4 axes. To get a heavy helmet you must put in 4 heavy helmets. If you put ANYTHING else in your output will be completely random.

KitaYumi.7048:

I never said I expect one to fall into my lap. You can say I need to do all those things, but they still do not guarantee a precursor. You could theoretically do that for five years and still do not see one. As I said, it is all about luck. Having luck is not challenging.

You can’t guarantee that you will get any random item. I’m just telling you how to actually have a reasonable chance at getting one.

Take the tips or don’t, but don’t complain about random being random if you aren’t willing to help your odds.

I think you may have missed the point of the daily. It is there so that people who LIKE doing mini games can get credit towards their daily. If you don’t like mini games you have PLENTY of other options.

Garenthal.1480:

I’m a little baffled by the lack of a male model.

They don’t have a female model either, just a mechanical clockwork robot model.

Kal Spiro.9745:

I don’t have the same super sexist view of them as the OP but I really have to question their design as well. Why would they go to all the effort of constructing these things with boobs and butts to bounce silver pieces off of? They’re robot soldiers, they shouldn’t look like S/M mistresses. High heels make even less sense. Platform, maybe a wedge, but not stiletto. That is not a stable design.

This is why I like the Asura. Golems are big bulky blocks of material. There is no “asthetic” in their design because their purpose is defined by what they do, not how they look. These things make no sense and wouldn’t have been designed this way, regardless of that they shouldn’t have been.

The Asura have always been about function over form. Humans tend to be form over function in real life, and that comes into play in game.

When you get gold from events, chests, mobs, or dungeons, you are creating money out of thin air. This new money reduces the value of all the money in the system (inflation).

Inflation affects those on the low end of the volume spectrum much more severely since they already had a small amount of money but now that small amount of money can’t buy as much as it used to.

It is for that reason that we attempt to control inflation.

That is why farming for gold is constantly being adjusted, because the developers have determined that you are creating too much too quickly and that is negatively impacting the low volume players.

TottWriter.8591:

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

I guess for me, I don’t see being female/feminine as a weakness. I’m not the kind of person who judges ones value or capabilities based on what they are, or aren’t wearing.

That being said, I’m going to switch gears for a moment here.

Lets be honest with what is happening here. There are some players in this thread that are claiming sexism. They are projecting their personal beliefs onto these characters and looking for reasons to support those beliefs.

I appreciate that femininity can be seen as a strength, and I am certainly not ashamed of my own femininity, but there is a difference between appreciating it and fetishising it, and I am of the opinion that the Watchknights represent the latter.

A woman’s breasts and backside are far too often objectified for their emphasis in the models to be automatically put down to “embracing the strength of women”. I’m not a self-hating woman at all, and I would relish the sight of strong female figures in the postion of defending humanity. But that’s not what the Watchknights are. They are highly sexualised figures. And what’s wrong with that, you ask? What’s wrong is that it is a body shape which is glamourised to such excess that women are shamed for not possessing it. It is an unrealistic, disproportionate representation of what real women actually look like.

Real women have curves, yes. They might have slender waists and large breasts and comparatively long legs. But they still don’t look like the Watchknights. They still have far wider waists, shorter legs. A nude woman with breasts that size is not that perky, trust me. And what about women who don’t have that wonderful “sexy” figure? Do they just get airbrushed out of life in the same way that wrinkles and cellulite are? Either this is a sexualised fantasy, in which case it is “logical” (though still distasteful IMO) that they do not appear, or it is a “celebration of femininity” in which case, why is it only “celebrating” the women who conform to the most narrow, unrealistic version of beauty which exists?

If there were a genuine celebration of the strength of women in the game I would be all for it. And heck, there is, in places. You have female characters getting stuff done as opposed to simply being the damsel in distress. (Though let’s be honest, none of them are ugly or too fat, because that doesn’t sell. All the heroes and heroines in games must also be appealing to the eye.)

Yes, people here are of the “opinion” that the Watchknights are sexist, unrealistic depictions of women put there because they are attractive to the male eye. That’s because there is very, very little evidence to the contrary.

I’m concerned that you are comparing your human body to that of a mechanical clockwork robot in a video game. That doesn’t seem healthy at all.

My point of course is that mechanical clockwork robots in a video game are not human people and thus they cannot be sexist. They do not promote any ideal as far as body figure for humans is concerned because they are not humans.

Sometimes a mechanical clockwork robot in a video game is just a mechanical clockwork robot in a video game.

aspirine.6852:

That would not be any fun to have everything and everyone the same. The difference is what makes interesting fights.
Like i said in another thread, the winners of the gauntlet should be able to duel with eachother.

The difference is what makes the QQ flow and the developers to constantly change the game to try and balance it leading to huge imbalances in other areas of the game.

If you had a 1v1 arena with any kind of reward system attached, class X will always win over class Y because of the mechanics. You have to normalize everything in order to have anything that even resembles “balance” in a 1v1.

That’s why I’m ok with adding dueling, so long as there are NO rewards attached to it.

KitaYumi.7048:

I do not have a problem with them being rare. I do however, have a problem with the way they are obtained. The prices are ridiculous, this is no longer a matter of being challenging to obtain a legendary, but a matter of either being rich enough in real life to buy $250 worth of gems to obtain enough gold, or being lucky enough to ever see one drop.

The prices are not ridiculous as the orders are being filled.

If your plan is to have a precursor fall into your lap, you are going to have a very long wait. You need to focus your attention on getting one which means doing the following:

1. World Boss Circuit – Get that bonus chest each day. The rare/exotic is going to mitigate your costs as well as provide you with “free” chances. The bonus chest and boss chest also have high precursor drop chances.
2. Determine the cheapest way to obtain chances
A. Find the cost to buy the materials to make an exotic weapon of the type you want.
B. Find the cost to buy the materials to make a rare weapon of the type you want and multiply by 5.
C. Find the cost to buy the cheapest rare (times 5) or exotic weapon of the type you want on the TP.
3. Use the cheapest method from 2. above and obtain a bunch of weapons. Drop them into the Mystic Forge. Monitor the sigils on the output, if you get any valuable ones, salvage the weapon instead of MF (to offset your purchasing costs).

Your best chance at a precursor is to put 4 exotic weapons of the type you want into the MF. The steps above will help you do that in the least expensive way.

Stahrr.1308:

I rarely use the Trading Company, but I was lucky enough to stumble upon a Greatsaw Greatsword skin during Halloween. I finally got enough gold to list it at a decent fee, so I posted it. Then I decided to remove it, but I didn’t know that you didn’t get your listing fee back. I don’t think it’s a problem that you don’t get it back, I think it’s a problem that there’s no disclaimer anywhere warning you that it’s non-refundable if you don’t sell the item. Having no previous MMO experience, how should I have known that? It doesn’t seem like common sense to me. So now I’ve lost out on a little over 2g, which took me a long time to get. I’m running around with 76 silver and it’s a little disheartening. I just think there should be a box that pops up or some fine print at the bottom stating that you will not reclaim your listing fee if you remove the item. I wouldn’t have clicked remove then, I would have just left it alone…

For future reference:

FEES are almost never refunded.
DEPOSITS can be refunded.

This rule applies to real life too.

sorudo.9054:

after a bit of leveling on my new character i found out that the TP is full of scammers, to give you an example:
i searched for a helmet lvl 10 (can’t get it lower anyway) and found one in the TP for 1S 9C, then i checked the merchant and found out i can get the exact same helmet for 80C.

what i would suggest in this situation is that the TP keeps track of merchant prices so it can’t go higher then the merchant sells, it will make scamming players a bit more difficult.
now i am smart enough to check the merchant price but some are not, they get scammed all the time because of this.
a more alarming scam are the trait books, the adept one is sold cheaper so that’s ok but the higher ones are sold more expensive.
they should put a stop to that, it gives the TP a bad reputation and i don’t thin you want to see that happening.

A scam is a transaction in which fraud allows one party to obtain a gain that they would otherwise not have obtained.

There is no fraud involved in what you have described. Just for the record, it is ALWAYS less expensive to acquire any object in the game than it is to buy it off of the TP. When you buy it from the TP you are paying a premium in order to save time.

Personally, I’m not sure why they cared. The people who were rolling new characters just to farm tickets were cheating themselves out getting better loot by actually playing the game. The first floor of the Gauntlet drops tickets at a really decent rate AND provides you with gold while you’re doing it.

I would have preferred that they simply not send any tickets in the mail over making them soulbound.

The only way structured 1v1 would work is if all stats are equalized and all skill bars are replaced with the same skills for all players (i.e. NO customization at all and your profession does not matter).

It is impossible to balance a game around 1v1 because the professions are all too different.

Now, I’m all for adding in dueling, but there wouldn’t be any rewards attached.