And your characters that have 400 crafting since…forever, also have to be 80th level to memorize the finished good patterns (armor/weapons/jewelry).
I don’t think they need to be 80, because I was able to learn them high 70s (I’m 80 now on my ele).
While the two under 80 characters I have (with 400 crafting) could learn the component piece, neither of them can mem the finished goods recipes because they have an 80th level requirement on them.
“Your level is not high enough to use this item.” 
I hope it’s not intentional. I went ahead and bought everything and found nooks and crannies to shove things while I wait for that requirement to be dropped so I can mem them up and blissfully remain under 50th level on those 2 characters. 
I posted a suggestion to change this. I don’t understand the philosophy myself. I have 2 alts that aren’t 80 (by choice) that have 4 of my crafts on them. Jewel/Cook and Weapon/Armor. As it stands now, I won’t be able to make my Elementalist any of the weapons she’d like or possibly jewelry (though that isn’t as critical because of the ascended gear).
I guess there was some fine print we missed when we spread our crafts around to alts that said something along the lines of:
“You can avoid having to pay the 4g switching cost by spreading your crafts around to other characters, in fact we encourage it! Playing alts means more bag space and other purchases from the gem store! However, 10 months from now, we’ll most likely arbitrarily reward those people who use the 4g sink rather than alts! So while we encourage alts, we do not encourage alts!”
And your characters that have 400 crafting since…forever, also have to be 80th level to memorize the finished good patterns (armor/weapons/jewelry).
400. Understood.
Level 80?
I spread my crafting around among some alts. I don’t really feel like spending time leveling and equipping them. I guess I’m missing the fine print that lets me know that I did it wrong, and the right way was to put all the crafts on one character and pay the monthly health ca… I mean switching costs?
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I have 400 in all disciplines, but my Jewel/Cook and Weapon/Armor characters (I used alts, I’m finicky with my money and the switching costs seemed high for me to put it all on one character) aren’t 80 yet. They’re 40 something.
Not only do the new recipes require 400s, they require you to be level 80 to mem them.
I don’t really understand why they did that part.
With honorable mention to Astral.
You know…I should have known that.
I get confused sometimes when new things come out and some things have a new look and some things don’t. Clearly, all the preview codes that Dulfy had for the armor were just Exotic crafted. I’m not sure why I thought the weapons would be different.
Thanks folks!
While I was nervous about this one, it was largely unwarranted. There is a lot to do, and ‘still’ do even though I have my 16. The race is ‘really’ fun and at 9-11s per race completion, something worth repeating while it’s around.
I’ll add to the awesome community story. A big ol’ Charr named “Scorch Bloodclaw” on Emhry Bay was making sure people had gotten in the top 3 at least once. Not only was his initiative amazing, but everyone else, at least in my races, seemed to be cooperating.
I’m sure I made him nervous when I blew right by him the first time when he said it and won, but I read what he wrote, and I hadn’t yet. The win jumped me over my 16.
So to Scorch and the rest of the folks that ran a few races with me tonight on Emhry (which is my home server, I don’t guest much). Thank you!
I don’t know where the other 9 are.
But this was the guide I was talking about, for those who don’t know about it. Not only this event, but Dulfy has been writing great guides for various games for a few years.
There’s a link in there to walk through finding at least 43 of the crystals.
As it turns out, it started getting a bit tough for me when I was at 29, so I decided to see how hard the racing was (I had gotten to 14/16), and it turns out that was all pretty easy. Collecting crystals, and then some small runs at the end of the night where some ‘really’ nice people were stopping at the finish line (Emhry Bay) and letting folks go that hadn’t placed in the top 3 yet.
So now I’m all done, and have my home crystal thing. I’ll get that 8 charged crystal one, I’m sure, just because it seems like something useful to do over the next few weeks.
All in all, I started a ‘bit’ nervous about this one, but it really wasn’t too bad. While I won’t get some of the inner meta achievements (like the kites), it did manage to get me off my duff and run my first fractal today. And I ran it to completion after getting the kite. So I guess ‘mission accomplished’ for them with respect to getting 1 person to try something outside their comfort zone.
I’m babbling. It’s late. Time for nap.
sigh or get there, and slide right off and die again.
Still having a good time, but ya’ll are testing me.
Ok how about an alternate route for crystal 10?
I just keep sliding off on the 2nd drop down. Tried all sorts of angles, with run disabled.
Edit: Nevermind (again)! You can get a lightning pull and get there from the last let of the light dash bridge. Saw a note way at the bottom of Dulfy’s that recommended it.
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I followed Dulfy’s guide, and I’m on crystal 6, and when I ‘jump down’ to that lower platform, I hit the platform (hurray for my sorta ok non-time-sensitive jumping skills!) but then I die. Apparently my paltry 17,442 health just isn’t enough.
Is there an alternate path for 6?
Nevermind! I think I got it. There’s a double-jump to get to one on a bamboo ‘thing’ below, and from the top of that, you can jump over to the platform to do 6 and 7.
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This is intended behavior, this is to prevent mini pets without underwater animations from being used or summoned in water.
I summon thee from the depths!
Wow, really?
You know some of us paid real money for these right?
And for me, the issue isn’t so much that it can’t swim anymore as not auto-summoning it again once we get ‘out’ of the water, making it a pain to use.
If you can’t do that, then just let it swim until you can figure out how to do that, as…hmm..oh yeah! Some of us paid ‘real’ money for them to at least be remotely functional.
Like Yargesh says. For “best” results, bind it separately. Otherwise, having it checked, don’t be near a body to “Loot”, an npc to “Talk”/“Greet”/“Sell”, etc. anything that will pop-up that small text window telling you what you will do if you “Interact” with it.
Takes a bit to get used to but so glad they put this in.
Yeah, I finally got used to using it exactly this way, and I really like it. I wish it didn’t include a single Loot interact as something that overrides the AoE loot, but I can live with it, whether they choose to change how that works or not.
I sure hope they are hard to find (until someone finds it and writes a guide) and not hard to get to. Diving is diving. Jumping is jumping. Rock eaters eat rocks. Rock eaters don’t eat bars.
But as with all things, it will be what it is.
If it weren’t so loud and often, I’d agree. In the form that many of them take, it’s a bit grating. Maybe I’m just sensitive to sounds.
Like that one in Caledon, I think it is? I was there one time working on map completion and there was some person that was constantly yelling, in this horrible screechy voice. I think she turns you into animals? Ugh.
I’d rather have a visual than an audio. I don’t mind the audio where I’m participating. The problem is the area that they seem to let them play. Or maybe the volume, compared to other voice over? Like the civilians that ask for help to direct you to an event, that volume seems fine? “Hurry, there’s room in my bags for a few more!” while you are down waiting for Maw? Compared to other things, and the area, it just seems pretty loud and large is all.
That overlay doesn’t interact with the game at all, at least the one I tried. I ended up not liking it because of it’s size and ‘how’ it sat on the window. It basically is designed to stay on top of the GW2 game (windowed mode), but it’s not like it’s an add-on. It doesn’t have focus. So when they tell you you can ‘right click’ on it to bring up this, that or the other, you really have to alt-tab to it (unless they changed how it works), and then you can interact with it.
But unlike the super-teleport-cheater-6000 thing that those people were using to pop around from node to node, and you’d see them dead in a rock from time to time, it isn’t interacting with the game client at all, other than to say “stay on top of this window”. It gets it’s information from the provided APIs, same as the web site, so I gather.
Now, if they deem that using it gives you an unfair advantage to accidentally die quicker than your opponent if you are accidentally alt-tabbed to it, though it wouldn’t look too different than not being, and you start mashing key strokes and nothing happens (much like seeing “wwwwwwwwwaaadddsss1111www11122 sorry” in chat from time to time), then I suppose it might give an unfair advantage to ‘not’ you who is attacking you.
Now, that was my experience with the very first edition of it. In fairness, it could have changed since then. I’d just as soon alt-tab and use the script for the audio notification, that suits me fine. What I’d really like is a mobile app.
If we don’t show the event in the upper right hand corner, then we shouldn’t ‘hear’ any NPC or music related to that event.
Chef Alsdis and subsequent music…I’m looking at you.
You can assing a hotkey to the autoloot function. (I used the available ‘L’ wich stands for loot), then it doesnt matter what interact (F) is saying or doing, it will loot all loottable objects in the aoe distance.
Yeah, that works too, but I’ve gotten so used to mashing ‘F’ that I’m happy with that. And now that I know how that works, I’ve been able to make it second nature to hit F ‘in between’ things to good effect.
But I did map Alt-F as a back up.
That works.
My problem was not understanding that even if all the interaction is, is a ‘loot’ interaction, that still interferes with aoe loot.
Not terribly intuitive, and in hindsight, I can see why they do it, so you still have the option to just do one at a time while it’s on, I guess.
But at any rate, success, thank you!
Ok sorry, I got a chance to finally test this morning. It totally works. My bad.
I didn’t understand that it couldn’t even be the ‘loot’ interact that could interfere with it.
The patch notes mention: “…will only trigger the AoE Loot functionality while none of the forms of the interact dialog are visible…”. Perhaps you’re hovering your mouse over a lootable corpse when you hit F. Since the mouse-hover would pop an “Search” flag (a form of interact dialog), the AoE loot function would not trigger.
Wait…
So AoE loot is even superceded by the very thing auto AoE loot is supposed to work hand in hand with? They literally meant ‘any’ Interact dialog…including loot?
Well that’s not intuitive.
I’ll try that and see if that works, thank you!
Just keep in mind there is a seperate keybinding for AoE Loot that will always work, regardless of Interact prompts.
Which is great, and was option 2 (if you were crazy and didn’t find 1 useful).
But I was looking forward to 1.
I wish I had recorded a movie of this, but I just killed 2 Arctodus bears in Frostgorge and they each had loot. I have the AoE thing checked. They were literally right next to each other. I had to hit F twice. There was no other possible interact command with any other object near me at the time.
So long as what you transmute it to is not 80th level.
Any time either a source or destination is 80, you need a crystal. Otherwise, stone.
Edit: And I ‘always’ forget this when I plan. I wanted to put the Whispers legs and boots on my Elementalist, who happens to be Priory. So my Ranger, who is Whispers, bought the legs and boots for my Elementalist, and I figured that’d be 2 crystals, which isn’t so bad. But, I always forget it’s really ‘4’, b/c the Ranger needs to put them onto some whites to make them account bound and put them in the bank (using the white’s stats). That’s 2, b/c the source are both 80. The Elementalist takes them out and applies them to whatever exotic 80 armor she wants to (in this case, magic find gear). That’s 2 more crystals going from some < 80 whites to exotic…which are both 80.
Hmmmm….
1: Buy the item thats in the right order.
2: buy as cheap level 5 white item on the tp (or keep a drop) for 5 copper or so and use a transmutation crystal to transder the skin to.
3: place the level 5 accountbound item in the bank
4: use a 2th crystal to put the skin on an exotic item on the character you want it with.Still only 2 crystals used.
I had 2 items I needed to transmute in my example, which was lost in the example, sorry.
So I had to do your list…twice. Which was why I needed 4.
My edit was how I always mess up thinking that doing a cross-faction move will just cost me 1 per item, and I always forget that I have to do it twice per item.
On a total suck up side note, always appreciate your input in my own and others’ threads.
So long as what you transmute it to is not 80th level.
Any time either a source or destination is 80, you need a crystal. Otherwise, stone.
Edit: And I ‘always’ forget this when I plan. I wanted to put the Whispers legs and boots on my Elementalist, who happens to be Priory. So my Ranger, who is Whispers, bought the legs and boots for my Elementalist, and I figured that’d be 2 crystals, which isn’t so bad. But, I always forget it’s really ‘4’, b/c the Ranger needs to put them onto some whites to make them account bound and put them in the bank (using the white’s stats). That’s 2, b/c the source are both 80. The Elementalist takes them out and applies them to whatever exotic 80 armor she wants to (in this case, magic find gear). That’s 2 more crystals going from some < 80 whites to exotic…which are both 80.
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me thinks you put in the wrong link…
Not at all. My Plush Griffon needs lessons.
Swimming lessons.
Because somebody, a few months back, decide Plush Griffon could no longer swim, because they didn’t give him proper animation. So he would either run in place underwater or glide.
Which…was deemed as ‘game breaking’ [?], or maybe it was ‘immersion breaking’ (which…don’t even get me started on that phrase, and talk about subjective), so they despawn the poor guy when you go swimming and he doesn’t respawn.
He’s the only pet that does that, and as such, he’s become kinda a drag. I paid gems for that guy in the TP too (since I made the doll, and you can only make one).
I’d like someone to give him swimming lessons. I don’t particularly care that he runs in place or glides. I … just can’t think of any good reason why they didn’t leave him alone. For those of us who have the Griffon, sure it was a bit silly he glided or ran in place, but he was still out pet, and he would still follow us anywhere. Now it’s swim, shore, open bag, double click, run, swim, shore, open bag, double click.
It’s starting to get a bit like buying cupcakes with candy. I swear I think that cupcake vendor is my doctor. “Now, you just had 3 cupcakes. Are you ‘sure’ you should be eating another cupcake?” YES!
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Please keep that around.
They could just make the item reusable. Remove from collection, apply skin, put back in collection for future use.
That would solve the last problem.
Ok, so they can choose which is less development time!
1. 0 gem cost items that just sit in the store and unlock on achievement.
2. Collections tab for achievement-y type ‘stuff’ and makes items reusable (where required, like a skin).
I’d still like to see a skin ‘armory’ someday, where a skin becomes memorized like a dye once you use something as a source or destination. I won’t make any comment on whether that should be character or account wide, though I’m sure they’d pick the former (like dyes) and I wouldn’t fault them for that.
I like the idea, however, a new collections tab for these reward items would be easier to manage and would prevent cluttering up the gem store with 0 gem items.
Except collection tab has the same problem. Maybe not for some things. If it was a combination of a collection ‘and’ a new system where you learned the look of things like dyes, then it’d work.
But without the second part, putting those helmet skins in a collection would only be useful until you use it, then if you don’t like it, you are forced into an issue that the first responder had, which is a bummer.
If you could always just go pick it up again from the store, then you wouldn’t need a collection, and it would cover all types of things, even weapon and armor skins (if they don’t implement some sort of ‘dye like’ handling of those).
I have to agree with you in part. I used the dragon helm skin on my Guardian and found I absolutely hate the way it looks on him. So now I am in a quandary. The helm is slotted with a Superior Rune of Divinity currently going for over 9 gold on the TP. I could change the skin back but then I lose the skin which would work better on my warrior. If I replace the helm then I have an helm with a Superior rune of Divinity and a skin that no one else can use as it is soulbound plus I would have to spend over 9 gold for another rune for the new helm.
Decisions….
Well then you agree in full! :p
If you could just put another skin back over your awesome helmit, you’d know you’d have access to the helm later on, because it’s in the gem store…for 0. Just like the celebration baseball cap (though not sure if that is still there).
Come to think of it, I think any piece of armor that is used for a source or destination should have it’s ‘likeness’ placed in a gallery for reuse at any time, without having to go get another physical item that looks like that. Once you have one, you earned it. Like a dye. Whether they want to charge us a Crystal to apply it each time is totally up to them, I wouldn’t want to deprive them of a money maker. Having to get a new source is a hassle, and often costly (in game money).
Of course, that wouldn’t preclude the need for my other idea, as there are things like that book that we just don’t need in our inventory. If I want to watch the cut scene, I could buy it for 0 gems, watch it, then throw the book out in space and delete it, since I know I can get another one any time I want for 0 gems.