Guild Wars 2

luzonophir.7134:

we need communism in guild wars 2

Raise the minimum wage!

To be perfectly serious for a moment, I’m almost certain that player to player trading opening up room for scamming was not why ANet prevented trading. They want everything to flow through the TP so that they can tightly monitor and control the economy. Doing it for “the good of the players” was just a neat excuse. Plenty of other games allow player to player trading afterall.

I used to main a Warrior everywhere I went, and got to know it quite well. The Rev doesn’t have quite the CC potential, but for some reason I’ve been drawn to it. I feel like the skill cap is a tad higher in all content, but the play style is also very interesting. It took a looong time to get to the point where asking questions about the class felt like a worthwhile thing to do – one can read guides until they are blue in the face, but if you don’t have the faintest clue of what you are even aiming for, you are still going to get wrecked. I’ve finally started actually winning fights 1v1 with just my berserker’s gear without buffs, so I figured I’d start asking around for tips and tricks, since I reckon the time investment to build an ascended set with pvp infusions would now be worth it. I’m leaning toward Marauders for sure, lots of fights I lose tend to be close, so I don’t think I need to reinvent the wheel with a hybrid play style. I just need a bit more survivability, and to remember that 4 sigil combo

Cheers folks!

Faaris.8013:

demitel.1340:

Collect at least 100 Dragon Chests and open them all in a row, you are almost guaranteed to get Tequatl’s Hoard.

Is the random generator working differently if you open 100 chests in a row compared to opening one each day for 100 days?

Even then, it’s possible that the hoard is already in the first chest and you slay Tequatl another 99 times on 99 days to open it.

No it doesn’t, it’s just a ritual that people who don’t understand the whims of RNG perform.

The visual clutter could easily be solved by simply downgrading the appearance of player shops; most people have graphics cards nowadays able to handle orders of magnitude more than Guild Wars 2 throws at them. In fact, the main reasons for slow down in the game isn’t even due to the graphics load, it’s the network traffic and hard disk streaming that’s the real culprit.

Scams and the like can be mitigated but certainly not stopped, that’s just the reality of commerce just like in real life.

Finding items is part of the charm, and part of the whole point.

Clearly the solution is to delete the Trading Post!

The Trading Post has always left a bad taste in my mouth in terms of simulating a player run economy. Just like with any Auction House implementation, it destroys a crucial part of the concept of supply and demand, in that global supply becomes the only kind of supply. In reality, this is obviously not the case, and if it were, the world would come crashing down faster than a North Korean rocket.

Enter The Merchant; a player run subsidiary of the Black Lion Trading Post, the Merchant allows players to set up player run shops anywhere in Tyria, bringing a supply of goods to weary travellers and armies that need them. The Merchant is able to set up a shop, that persists as a static NPC, from which players can purchase goods. Naturally, some cut of that profit goes toward maintaining the Merchant’s trading license.

The Merchant’s skills would revolve around improving their shop, for example, being able to stock more or rarer item types, reducing the Black Lion trading license fee, or increasing their inventory space. At high level, the Merchant would gain access to crafting bonuses, and might even be able to sign their crafted insignias, armour or weapons with a “created by” tag.

Naturally, this will tread on some toes: ANet sell increased inventory space for example, and with improved crafting bonuses the Merchant would be a must-have class for all players. Player shops would also increase server load, and persisting across the merge cycles of mega servers would be difficult.

Ah great, those are helpful tips. You are right – I hadn’t considered being able to proc every swap sigil.

I was indeed planning a marauder roam spec, and it’s interesting that you mention you use hammer in a zerg, but seemingly not whilst roaming. I use hammer even when roaming (backed up by sword and shield) but that might be because I run straight berserker right now, and find that the hammer hits much harder than people expect it to. Zerker also has terrible survivability, so I find myself on the defensive very quickly in melee. If I can knock a third of someone’s life off by the time the fight goes to close range, they can’t just win a war of defensive skill attrition since my burst is just as likely to down them as theirs is to down me, once we run out of endurance.

I assume you roam with sword/shield and staff? How do you prevent being at a disadvantage at range? How do you open a fight / bring it to melee? Furthermore, although I know that surge of the mists is absolutely mental, I can almost never land it. Do you have any tips for decent staff usage?

Assuming I was going to make a roaming build, would Rune of Surging be a good choice? I heard somewhere that it activates from just beginning upkeep on Glint 4, not sure if that’s accurate or if it has been changed.

I’ve also come in to possession of half a set of ascended armour via boxes, but they are only defensive stats. Would Celestial be a workable choice of stats, or is that a complete waste of time?

Thanks for reading my random questions.

Oh thank God, I was losing my mind over this and it had to be something obvious. I am a level 500 weapon smith, hence being able to craft some of the items earlier. I’d moved over to the artificer station to convert some essences of luck, logged off, and completely forgotten about my location when I logged back in again! Thanks folks!

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Um, there’s no screenshot.

One thing to check is to see if you have any bags minimized.

Good luck.

I mentioned being able to repeatedly attempt to craft the item.

If my bags were full, the attempt wouldn’t be possible. If the attempt succeeded, I wouldn’t be able to do it again as I’d be out of materials.

Initially I thought that perhaps the items were not being created as the open bag slots were in invisible bags, but this is not the case.

A screenshot is attached.

I just tried to craft Pristine Mist Essence, and it would not appear in my inventory. The crafting bar would fill up, and then nothing would happen. I had space for it in a non-invisible bag.

I then went and picked up 65 stabilizing matrices from the Trading Post, to try and craft a cube of stabilized dark energy, and the same thing happened – the crafting bar would appear and complete, but no item.

The attached screenshot is the crafting bar, but no item lands in my inventory. I can keep attempting to craft, but nothing happens.

Am I missing something obvious here?

Oh boy, conservatives! I wondered when someone might start to talk about that! I simply could not wait for yet another tired ideological mud slinging match…

…You do realise though, that you called Arena Net of all companies conservative, right? Perhaps you ought to open your eyes and ears a little more when you play this game?

Maybe it’s just the route your traffic is taking to get from Australia to North America, have you measured your ping to any of the other realms?

I don’t raid, and I wouldn’t call Tier 3 fractals end game content, which is where I’m at. My Rev does fine, but the Warrior has Phalanx Strength which basically secures its place amongst the core pve party composition imo.

Kelly.7019:

nosleepdemon.1368:

You’re the one making it into the job, not anybody else. It’s not supposed to be easy to get. If you aren’t having fun then why exactly are you doing it? If you enjoy wvw then who cares about a cosmetic reward? You’ll get it eventually.

people do it cause the back pack is pretty and awesome! the grind just sux bad, like usual.
I hate pvp, but i do it for the ez gold!

I find fractals to make a fairly decent amount, although I’ll be kitten ed if I can ever get anything to drop from them that isn’t the Red Ring of Death.

The back-piece for WvW I find to be extraordinarily hideous. It’s far too large for a start, it appears to completely and totally overpower any other armour effect, and to make matters worse the precursor / lower tier versions look obviously incomplete. Were I going for it, I wouldn’t even bother to use the other skins, unlike Ad-Infinitum’s precursor / lower tier skins, or even the spinal blade skins, which mostly look alright.

The Rev is, or at least was, a PITA to level. You really need the Herald spec to do anything decent with it, unless you have some decent armour / trinkets from the very beginning. It’s great fun to play mind, but the time investment may be daunting.

On the other hand, you can pretty much mash your face on the keyboard with the Warrior and you’ll eventually combo something useful. The Warrior is hugely customizable, as it doesn’t use “kits” for the utility bar like some of the other classes (The Revenant’s “kits” would be its legends, for example). You can also equip every weapon in the game except the crap ones, which you wouldn’t want to bother with anyway.

The Guardian is indeed slow, much like its playerbase in fact.

Tl;dr: Go Warrior and have a blast, unless you are a masochist (Revenant) or wonder if life is like a box of chocolates (Guardian).

GW2 is the only game where I play female characters, and it’s because most of the male races have such insanely, ridiculously broad shoulders. Their armour choices also suck, so it would definitely be nice to see some variety there.

Oh one other thing. If you are fighting against more than one opponent, especially if it’s a group fight where you don’t have focus, you can always just go down and rally off of a low hp mob by killing them in your downed state. It’s risky, but I’ve survived plenty a dungeon wipe by killing some low hp, inconsequential mob shortly after going down. Just make sure you have a heal skill ready for when you get back up.

Some encounters really are difficult as melee, especially elite or champion monsters, whose damage is very punishing. However most high damage attacks have wind up animations, or tells, which you can watch for and react to. Again, if you are solo this is only going to help until you run out of defensive skills and endurance.

I’m not familiar with Mesmers, but in general you may want to learn a particular skill rotation that emphasises control and damage avoidance, whilst dealing at least moderate damage to your opponent.

For example, I main a Revenant, and my skill rotation switches between weapons and legends in an almost rythmic pattern. My two melee weapon sets both have evasive and blocking skills, and one of my heals converts all incoming damage to health. Revenants also vomit boons, and I can configure my dragon stance to give me protection (33% damage reduction) and regeneration at the cost of dealing less damage while I reposition.

The tl;dr of it is, look at your class and weapon set, and make some more defensive choices. Finally and most importantly: don’t panic! It’s easy to blow all of your defensive cooldowns in one go to avoid moderate attacks. But you need to know what skills you truly need to avoid, since unless you are kiting, you will take damage. The trick is to not take so much that you die

I just mentioned this thread to my wife, stating that I thought giving a bonus would be a bad idea, since people would marry simply for that feature. The following reproduction of the ensuing “conversation” is as accurate as I can make it:

Me: “…And that’s why I think it would be a bad idea.”
The Wife: “You would marry someone other than me??”
Me: “…What?”
The Wife: “Why would you marry someone else?”
Me: “…I’m lost? I didn’t say I would?”
The Wife: “You just said you would marry someone in guildie wars for a bonus!”
Me: “Huh? No! i said I wouldn’t marry someone else!”
The Wife: “Oh! Then why did yo~”
Me: “Ehr mah gherd! I didn’t say that!”

As you can see fellas. You probably shouldn’t be too keen on this system :P It’s mere mention can have unintended consequences!

It’s not like wvw wasn’t already kitten on in terms of rewards before hand. If you look at things that way, what we have now is at least an improvement!

You’re the one making it into the job, not anybody else. It’s not supposed to be easy to get. If you aren’t having fun then why exactly are you doing it? If you enjoy wvw then who cares about a cosmetic reward? You’ll get it eventually.

Mag? As in Maguuma? Crikey. You can have them for sloppy seconds once we’re done stomping them into the ground.

I remember playing the game quite vividly at low level. For some reason, it was a lot more enjoyable in beta, probably because of the impermanence of everything. It felt like an achievement to discover a new map, because in a few hours, everything would be reset.

The 40 zone was definitely difficult to get through, and I don’t think your partner’s experience is unique. ANet did try to improve the new player experience of the years, but as you said with the hearts – there is precious little there in the way of story.

Your enjoyment of the game hinges, story wise, on the personal story. Unfortunately if I recall, that does begin to taper off inspite of a strong start, and doesn’t really pick up again until the attempted attack on Lion’s Arch around level 50.

I would encourage you both to give the game another shot, perhaps in a different game mode. I would also really suggest just wondering around Tyria. I remember that the most fun I had in this game was trying to go to places I wasn’t supposed to, or discovering jumping puzzles and mini-dungeons.

I understand that most people wanting this system probably date (if they do, in fact, date at all) on Tinder and the like, so won’t ever get married. So for those folk, ol’ NoSleepDemon has some handy words of advice for y’all:

Getting married isn’t a matter of earning XP, completing a mastery and expecting some sort of reward at the end. You get married because you love someone, that’s the reward.

Let’s not gamify the institution of marriage folks, let’s get ourselves lives instead.

I was looking at the crafting prices. 70g or so for one piece, that’s a tad steep. I think I will improve my AR to get into 75-100 fractals (just two more +9 AR infusions will do the trick) and hope for a couple of pieces to drop, and see how my gold and ascended material intake improves. Speaking of AR infusions, what’s the use for the super high level ones? It seems to me you don’t need to go higher than +9, and if you do it’s because you lack an infusion slot, which is still cheaper to purchase than to get a high infusion level.

In the divorce proceedings, each player would get 50% of their combined total wealth in terms of materials and gold. Except in the case where the couple consists of one male and one female, whereby the male shall lose an additional legendary, all companions (except on weekends), and be required to pay a fee of 50 ectoplasms and 200 gold bi-weekly.

Definitely, I’m after ascended for precisely the reasons you laid out. With that said, there are a myriad of ways to get it, including purchase from fractal and wvw vendors, and the good old fashioned crafting method. I’m trying to decide on the most efficient path in terms of time spent. I’m at fractal level 50, which probably determines the likelihood of the fractal vendor path being useful or not. I’m just not sure!

Hi folks.

I’m looking at building some WvW armour for my Rev, and Marauder’s seems like a safe bet.

My question is: Is it still more efficient to craft a cheap set of ascended armour and then transmute the stats to Marauder’s, or is it better to craft it directly? Or, could it be even better to purchase it from a Fractal or WvW vendor?

By efficiency, I’m referring to time spent accruing gold/marks and/or materials.

Cheers!

All of the HoTs maps in both categories. Stunning features with plenty of diversity coupled with a fantastic approach to vertical traversal. Here’s hoping the new expac’s maps are even more challenging!

Revenant. Literally any Rev build. Oh wait, you said meta. I thought you said “huge cahones”.

You forgot to answer the most important question OP: Why?

All you folk hating on HoT maps wouldn’t know clever map design if it smacked you upside the head :P Those maps are some of the most inspired areas I’ve seen in any game, and there’s a definite symmetry to them that once you learn, makes navigating them a lot easier.

On the other hand, the maps near Hoelbrak (but not the city itself, which is quite a nice zone) are a tad boring, so if I had to choose a map, I’d choose one of those. However, I think we are all forgetting that one map that even ANet agreed was beyond saving:

God kitten ed Raid on Capricorn!

Green? That’s bizarre! If I recall, when I previewed them the effect colour was blue, and this remained so when I assigned the skin to my gloves. Resetting the dye also returns them to their blue colour. I am hoping this is a bug, because they could do with a more obvious transition. A bit of clarification would be great!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’m guessing what you see is what you get. That regardless of the advertisement, it’s only a smoky effect that might intensify a bit a night.

(And the shoulders are bizarre).

Yup, ah well

Just a flesh wound.3589:

That’s disappointing. I’ve bought the gloves with the (apparently erroneous) assumption that there would be day/night changes like the weapons.

Figures :/

That’s what I was expecting – a bright blue glow overriding the usual colour. Maybe it’s not quite working as intended?

WarRooster.6502:

I got them too and as far as i can tell there is no appearance change. I waited for the the transition between day and night and nothing on the gloves changed. I have tried it with both the original dyes and dyes that i have picked and still nothing. I thought that the dye channel that is used for the luminescent runes was going to change color depending on the time of day . But there is no change. Is the appearance change something else ??

2nd picture is in AC , no difference.

I can only suspect that it’s a very slight darkening of the ghostly smoke aura. I honestly can’t think of anything else that it might be. The trouble is that just general day light seems to hide the effect – you would expect it to be naturally less noticeable in sun light. Maybe it’s a bug?

I’m more curious than disappointed; they do look good with the glow and how the wrappings hang off the character’s arms. I’d say they are a nice alternative to the Chaos Gloves, but if it’s eye stabbing neon you’re looking for, the Chaos Gloves do give more bang for one’s buck.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I know on the ghostly infusions, it doesn’t show if animations are set to low. What do you have animations set to on your computer?

Well, maybe it’s just subtle.

It must be yeah, perhaps the fact that I’ve chosen a slightly darker purple (still the brightest I have) has something to do with it.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

The blue areas seem to be glowing more at night, but it not a marked effect.

What setting is “animations” on?

Everything’s maxed out, including animations. The blue effect is actually Glint. If I switch to Shiro for example, it turns green.

This is against some cliffs in LA at day time. The effect is definitely diminished. Judge for yourselves if it’s worthy of being termed “different”. The shoulders cost the same amount, have the same tooltip text, but their appearance changes when their candles light up at night.

It’s now daytime and you can see that the effect is slightly darker, but I wouldn’t say that it’s really changed. It looks more like the post processing bloom and bright light have washed the colour out. I do like the appearance of the gloves, but if this is indeed the “changing” of the effect, that’s a bit misleading imo.

I saw that, but I think I’m OK – I’m wearing Braham’s chest piece. Taking the armour off didn’t change the effect. I see a coloured, dyeable smoke rising from the gloves but it doesn’t seem to change much during night or day time. I assumed that maybe the gloves began to glow blue like Foefire, or that the effect somehow became stronger but I don’t think I’m seeing any difference. It must be subtle. I’ve attached a picture; the blue you see there is from the Herald’s Glint stance.

I bought the new Foefire Wraps skin, and the description describes how the gloves look different at night. I’m honestly not noticing a difference though. Since LA seems to be in perpetual daylight for some reason, I went to AC (as I believe it’s always night time there, am I wrong?), and also a couple of maps that appeared to be at night time. Does the effect just get more noticeable, or am I missing something? For instance, on the shoulder pads the candles light up at night. I suppose I could transmute one of my weapons to an AC skin to be sure, but that’s a waste!

Why does it matter that other players who have played for far longer, and have probably contributed a lot more to the wvw community, get better rewards? Wvw didn’t used to award a whole lot of anything, so if anything, it would be better to be happy for everyones better rewards than jealous of top tier players. Besides, considering how awful wvw rewards were, “new” pve players are probably just as well geared as the vets. All you really have an advantage for in terms of reasonably unique items is the legendary back piece, which is truly hideous anyway :p

It’s hardly a huge bonus. Why are you so bitter that players that stuck by wvw have been proportionally rewarded for their efforts? Where is your sense of fair play? By the way, you two can earn These Rewards And More if you play the game.

This has escalated fast… What level of crazy must you be at to continuously insist that other people include you in their group when they clearly don’t want to? Yeah they’re jerks, but trying to force someone to behave in a particular way that suits you is social justice on a whole new level. Just save 300Gs like I’m doing and put your money where your mouth is: If you don’t like how something’s done, try doing it yourself!

Had something similar on Black Gate last night. Some tosser of a commander was tagged up, and when asked about a squad, people were told it was private.

Now if you want to run a private squad, that’s your perogative, but don’t go tagging up and then refusing entry to your special group of snowflakes. Especially since a lot of those players gravitating to the tag could have been doing something more interesting than following the same tired path of “capture everything where the enemy isn’t”.

I’m putting some practice in so that I will be able to command moderately well, so that if some self important bell end does that again, I’ll be able to group up people that want to play the game without referring to some kind of egotistical, self serving “pro pvp” guild.

Interesting, tell me more about this condition? Is it contagious? Can it be cured?

I’m sorry, I may have missed something. By rotation you imply something that might have been thought out, perhaps even designed by someone. However you then mention “condi”, which I can only assume was an autocorrect mishap that meant to read “power”.