Guild Wars 2

Daywolf.2630:

notebene.3190:

Catisa.6507:

1. press o
2. click trading post tab
3. set filter to consumables and sort by price.
4. buy and eat the cheapest food listed (always 2copper each from my experience).
5. achievement done at a total cost of 50c.

I tried that once, and there was nothing cheap for sale the last time, it was all really expensive. I don’t mind spending even a few silver if it helps someone out, but I recall at the time the only thing was really expensive, highly sought after buff food for sale.

I’ll look again next time it comes up. I did manage to get one more dolly in.

hmm? I have 400 cooking, it’s quite true most food is cheap, many at 2c ea and worth far less than the ingredients to make them. Even with cooking, it’s cheaper to just buy most stuff apart from a small amount of L400 foods. Fact is, for those looking to make a little gold from a craft, cooking is just not it.

Anyway, to find food on TP, for those that don’t know since there is no “food” listing, you simply set your filter to consumable and then list it. Click on price sort once and you will be filled with pages and pages of food.

I know what I did, I picked a sub category of ‘food’ off consumable. Things start at a higher price that way. The cheapest thing I see is 23c, and if you consider you need to eat 25, that would be a bit more than I’d want to spend.

So, those little potions count as food? It just has to be something you consume? That’s actually great, those little starter potions are cheap.

Catisa.6507:

1. press o
2. click trading post tab
3. set filter to consumables and sort by price.
4. buy and eat the cheapest food listed (always 2copper each from my experience).
5. achievement done at a total cost of 50c.

I tried that once, and there was nothing cheap for sale the last time, it was all really expensive. I don’t mind spending even a few silver if it helps someone out, but I recall at the time the only thing was really expensive, highly sought after buff food for sale.

I’ll look again next time it comes up. I did manage to get one more dolly in.

Milennin.4825:

If you don’t like levelling, chances are you won’t like being max level either, as you won’t be doing much different at max level than you do while levelling.

I agree with this. It’s kinda hard to recommend options when we aren’t really clear ‘why’ they want to get to ‘the end’ so quickly.

Could you tell us what you are hoping to do once you get there?

Without any other information, and only knowing you don’t like to craft, I have heard that WvW is very fast. Myself, I really don’t like ‘most’ PvP in games, but WvW (and DAoC and Wintergrasp in WoW) I find myself enjoying quite a bit. Might be worth a try.

Thank you very much, folks!

I’ll keep that in mind for next time. As it is today, I have 4/5 dollys assaulted in WvW, so I’m going to shoot for one more of those today to keep me motivated.

But I’ll definitely file that away for next time, especially at that low karma rate!

I’ll stop by and check out the apple pie as well. I favor spending a lot of time in Queensdale for my dailys as it is, plus I just enjoy the zone.

I was thinking about this the last time eating food came up as a daily, and forgot to ask. What’s the cheapest food (that would count when eaten)? What about for sale at a vendor for cash or karma?

Astral Projections.7320:

When it happened to me, a month or two back, I bought karma armor from a heart merchant. I bought it for the skin to give to a low level alt. I did the transmute onto a low level white item, as low level and cheap as I could buy. But after I transmuted it, it was still soulbound. My alt was unable to take it out of the bank. I deleted it after that.

Just to be clear, you only picked the ‘look’ of the karma armor, but selected the ‘stats’ of the low level white item, correct? And it was still soulbound?

You can transfer the skin and keep it account bound by transmuting it onto some cheap white, using the white’s stats. That should make it account bound, which would then allow you to then transmute it again onto something else with another character (that uses the armor type that the skin goes with).

I’m sure trying to transmute the stats keeps it soul bound because then you could just re-use nice armor by passing it from character to character, and I think (I could be wrong) it’s designed to prevent that.

So the skin is not lost. You paid money for it, and it is account bound. If you have a Guardian that has a skin you bought and it’s on some Exotic armor you own, and you want to put that skin on your Warrior, you … hmm, just thought of a flaw in the philosophy, I think?

Ok, starting over:

Guardian and Warrior have Exotic armor.
Guardian has skin.
You want the skin on the Warrior.
You transmute it to white, keeping white stats, bank it, and Warrior can then use it on the Exotic.

However!

You just had to throw away your Exotic on the Guardian?

Well that doesn’t seem right. I mean, I’m for not letting you put a skin on an Exotic and then just letting that be account bound so you can pass it around to other wearers of that type of armor, but to be forced to by another Exotic seems weird?

Which…is why I wish they would have gone with a system where both clothing skins and armor skins work like dyes.

You buy or use transmutation stones to ‘learn’ a look from something, but then you just know it, and can apply it to something whenever you want. I suppose if they want to make us burn a transmutation stone each time, that’s fine, but at that point the type of stone should be relative to the ‘target only’. So once I learn a skin, if I want to ‘put’ it on an 80, I gotta use a Fine, but if I want to put it on a junk white to give to my warrior, I’d use a basic, for example. At that point when the warrior gets it to transmute it, the warrior would then ‘learn’ it (any source used in a transmutation is ‘learned’ so you don’t have to go find a source each time).

Something like that.

That doesn’t help you, but yes, you can preserve the skin and keep it ‘account bound’ by effectively killing the exotic, and forcing you to get a new exotic piece.

It affects how your personal story starts. Later on, you will choose one of three factions to join, which (to me, at least) mostly just effects (in addition to the middle of your personal story) what sort of specialty armor you can buy (which at the end of the day, becomes mostly a cosmetic decision, but if you only plan on running one character, something you might want to research).

Your story is like an upside down tree. We all eventually meet up about half way through the story and our stories are the same at that point. In the beginning, you have two (or maybe 3) episodes that are a direct reflection of some of the choices you make when creating your character.

Probably not a very good description, but hopefully my terrible answer will prompt someone to come out and trump me with a better answer, which is what you really want.

It would be nice to have some targets to revive without someone also working on their non-existent Daily Reviver Griefer achievement.

I have seen the discussion before, and I have a related question from a different perspective.

If I never added that switch to my command line, why do my screenshots all seem to look great?

Elementalist Owner.7802:

Game Over

As much as I love this content, it should not stay in the game – for the same reason that Wintersday and Halloween content never stayed in the game – it’s event material. The kind of content that gets you into the spirit of the event, but after a while gets stale and boring. This month will be very fun with SAB, but if we kept it in the game any longer it would collect dust and grinders.

Also, if the developers put in work for this, it would destroy the resources they could have used on the game, such as other events or expansions.

Yeah, I think this would be a better poll to have 3 weeks from now. Two days in, it’s very shiny, and clearly no one that enjoys it would ever tire of it!

Part of what makes content like this fun is the short bursts of it that you get. Now, I’m not saying it needs to go away for a ‘year’, but having a month or two off between the month (or maybe cut it down to a few weeks) on would give us something to look forward to and keep it fun and fresh, and give SAG (Super Adventure Guy) time to throw in a few more things and levels and worlds and such. Which…is probably what the plan is anyways.

emikochan.8504:

notebene.3190:

Could someone tell me how to ‘start’ infantile mode?

Jump on the cloud in the starting area just after paying your entry coin.

Thank you!

Could someone tell me how to ‘start’ infantile mode?

Well, I will say this.

First, I really enjoy the game as it is. There are some things I don’t like or participate in, and that’s true for any game I play. I carve out a niche for myself where I can find a path to play that is enjoyable, and if (or when) I can’t do that, I leave.

Now, your population discussion is interesting in their game from the perspective of the wonderful technology that they seemed to go great lengths to throw together. The guesting, overflow, transfers. It seems like they are ‘so close’ to being able to technologically solve your issue.

People have brought it up before: Underflow.

It would be really amazing if instead of putting the onus on us to have to find the right server and the right people and exactly the right time so we know where to go on Tuesday to find the most people in Kessex and then on Thursday to find the most people in Lornar’s pass, to just do it all dynamically. You walk into a zone, and it just pops you into a zone that has the most people in it without being ‘full’ whatever that is deemed to be.

And give people the options of whether they want their zoning experience to behave that way or not, and if you are in a group, the group leaders destination controls where the party goes.

It seems like they have all the tools at their disposal to make that last leap, and if they did, it would be ‘really’ slick.

So while you concern ‘might’ be dismissed with a ‘yeah, but this is a problem in every game’, and rightfully so…in this game, it’s a great thing to raise your hand on because of their existing technology.

So for your leveling sake, and for the sake of seeing another neat milestone in technology come to life, I hope they are thinking about or working on the underflow concept, as it’s been discussed plenty of times before.

Where do you find super adventure chests out in the world?

Well, for what it’s worth, as someone who played a lot of LotRO a few years back, I found the event spacing and duration (they always seemed to start out as 2 week events but went to 3-4 weeks because of bugs and extensions), plus the ‘month off’ in between events made them much more fun and a nice break. Something to look forward to, but never around so long you got really tired of them.

It’s like the McRib.

Or maybe “Makin’ Cookies” from Baskin Robbins.

Donari.5237:

Not that I want to play GW1, in fact I specifically chose not to in advance of GW2, but I will note the laurels cat has a costume on. The GW1 cat looks normal.

Oh…guess I should have kept reading. Thank you. I don’t really want a cat with a costume.

Khisanth.2948:

notebene.3190:

I was thinking of trying it just so I could get a cat.

You can get one with 75 laurels.

Really? Does it look like one of these or is it a weird looking cat? Has anyone seen these in the wild?

I was thinking of trying it just so I could get a cat.

Interesting, I didn’t know that either, thanks Rising.

I enjoy visiting low level areas to do my dailies, but I prefer Queensdale to the other starting areas. I can’t imagine I’m the only one. I didn’t care for the other races’ starting areas, and muddle through them for map completion, but rarely visit them. Actually, I liked the Norn one, and visit that almost as much as Queensdale to do the Maw event or hit a few things for dailies on the way to Frostgorge to do some gathering and maybe some events for dailies of Claw.

But I’m always willing to divert to help people.

I’m on Emhry, and do see a ‘lot’ more people in the starting areas these days, though can’t speak for the 15-25 areas.

You might try guesting system and ‘server hop’ to see if there’s activity on other servers?

There’s also that big “People Helping People Thread/Guild/Thing” around here somewhere. Sorry, I forget what it’s called. I think it’s a guild or communication network of some sort that helps get people hooked up to maybe do some things together.

Edit: Operation Union , that was it!

That made me wonder, do you get anything for just using supply on anything? Helping to build an item or repair something? If not, that is a shame, because I’ll often help in WvW by running supplies to help build or repair things.

I actually experienced this for the first time tonight myself on Emhry Bay at SB. It’s unfortunate, I’m not really sure what the answer is.

I will say that I seem to recall that, at least in beta, our overflow server was a ‘sister’ server, of sorts. It wasn’t just some nameless instance, it was actually someone else’s server, as if we had chosen to guest there, and we could see the name.

If that is still the case, would it be harmful to let us ‘see’ the name? At least in that case, we could look to see where the timers are at on that server as well and whether we’re willing to waiting for the event to be up or not? In my case, I had just started my dailies for the evening and was planning on running around Queensdale a bit anyways. If I knew the name of the server I was overflow(-ed? -n?) on, I could check the timer and if it was an hour, maybe elect to stay in that overflow and wait?

I should be able to say ‘Moto’ to a Herald in Rata Sum and he should show me on the map where the person is, or at least reference a POI name.

For someone that doesn’t like to do dungeons and finds gold rather difficult to come by, I kept mine. At least for cloth wearers.

I think if you want it account bound you need to transmute only the ‘look’ to some other white, keeping the white’s stats, and that ends up making it ‘account bound’. Then you can transmute that resulting item with the other character onto something that has the stats you want.

I think if you elect to keep the stats from the original it keeps it soul bound to the one character?

Thank you very, very, very, very, very, very much.

There. 15 characters. Ya’ll can count them. :|

I’d consider lowering that to 11 with spaces and punctuation so we can say “Thank you.” :p

Well I found a Audio Log Collector. And he took them from me. All 12. But he didn’t give me anything back. And my progress hasn’t moved.

Sketch Eight.9508:

hi all not sure if this quest is bugged, i have visited all 12 locations on list 3 times and used the decrypter, but no matter what i do my achievement says 11/12 i have all living story done and this is a hindrance.
the mysterious icons are still in locations and now when i scan them they say you have already read them, ne help would be appreciated,thank you

How did you “use a decrypter”? I can’t even figure that part out.

I’m having a lot of fun so far. I haven’t collected any audio logs yet, but I got my continuum transfuctioner. I did the Rox story, though next time I need to be careful to only destroy one of the 4 things at a time and not open the show with ‘Meteor Shower’, that got me killed.

I’m off to help Braham now, and start looking for logs, and hopefully get done in the next 4 hours before the reset.

I talked to the refugees, and saw in the patch notes something about the Cove. I need to poke around and see if I’m not supposed to be heading there to help anyone.

I like the new cut scene style for the stories, but I admittedly got used to the comic strip conversation. It has a neat style to it as well. I do miss hearing my character talk too. Though I will admit, when I created her, I assumed she was much younger than she ended up sounding, but I eventually got used to it.

Well, I guess I’ll ask as a new question, since the other one was deleted, but I don’t think it was because of the topic?

I see in the mouse note for doing one of the collections that we need to get a cryptotranslator from an Agent Brandubh, though there isn’t any information as to where this person might be found?

I’ve never bought the gem store armor before, but it won’t let you use a transmutation stone (of an appropriate type) on each piece to move the appearance to another piece of armor?

Eparchos.2489:

Its got to be in either DR or LA. Just went through all of the explorable maps in the wiki, i do have all of them, and ive gotten chantry. Im 99% sure its not DR, that leaves LA. Hope its there.

Since you have the 100% map completion, the maps are largely opened up, have you tried like GH suggested and gone to ‘each’ area’s map in the wiki, zoomed in, then opened your mapped and zoomed to a level where you can read the names well, then just alt-tab back and forth sliding around the map matching up all the white names until you either confirm them all or find the missing ones, then methodically move on to the next map?

You don’t even have to go anywhere to do this, no need to run around the world, just a lot of alt-tabbing.

GuzziHero.2467:

The maps on the wiki are invaluable. I just got 3 I needed thanks to them. I had the map open, and alt-tabbed in and out to make sure I had all the white letter named areas, and got all mine within 30 mins.

I agree, once you know you have the things like Chantry of Secrets, it’s most likely a white named area that is eluding them. I had the same problem and used this approach months ago to solve it. Mine happened to be “Tail of the Serpent” in Timberline Falls.

How well do they dye?

NM: Dulfy’s showed me what I needed to know!

Well, I though maybe you were holding down Shift/Ctrl/Alt inadvertently when switching, so I tested that, but doesn’t seem to produce what you are seeing (though I’d strongly suggest against Alt-Earth :p).

Now, the ESC key will pop up the options window, and on my keyboard it’s next to at least fire, could it be you are hitting that when trying to switch?

BioFringe.7945:

notebene.3190:

It’s not reachable for me either any more.

I’m using Google’s Public DNS (8.8.8.8; 8.8.4.4). I wonder where the break down is?

I’d go post on their site for assistance, but…well…

Anyone know these (fellas/gals/blokes/hooligans) that could float them a wiggle (who talks like that?) and see if they don’t have the bandwidth to research why some of us see them and some of us don’t?

I don’t think that anyone can see the armor gallery any longer. It’s down for good it looks like. Check out the new site posted above though…it’s really nice.

That’s fine, and has a lot of detail, but it doesn’t have the ability to really look at zoomed in pictures to see more detail. I’m more inclined to use this even though it’s older and not as complete.

It would be nice to know one way or the other whether the other site is gone, and if it is, maybe they ought to get rid of that sticky?

Someone else mentioned they are updating the site? What is the source of that information?

24+ hours seems a bit drastic for some DNS server syncing, if that is the case? Though I’m actually getting a ‘403 Forbidden’ error at this point.

BioFringe.7945:

Every time that I’ve shared a personal story with my friends those who were not the leader were prompted at the end of the quest as to whether or not they wanted it to count towards their own personal story progression. I’ve shared a lot of personal story quests over the past 5 months so unless it’s broken or has been changed most recently…not sure what else to say.

This was my experience as well, but I haven’t done one in a few months.

It’s not reachable for me either any more.

I’m using Google’s Public DNS (8.8.8.8; 8.8.4.4). I wonder where the break down is?

I’d go post on their site for assistance, but…well…

Anyone know these (fellas/gals/blokes/hooligans) that could float them a wiggle (who talks like that?) and see if they don’t have the bandwidth to research why some of us see them and some of us don’t?

It’s not reachable for me either any more.

I’m using Google’s Public DNS (8.8.8.8; 8.8.4.4). I wonder where the break down is?

I’d go post on their site for assistance, but…well…

Anyone know these (fellas/gals/blokes/hooligans) that could float them a wiggle (who talks like that?) and see if they don’t have the bandwidth to research why some of us see them and some of us don’t?

All passive aggressiveness aside, yes, it would seem cooking got the short end of the stick on this one.

If you have ‘any’ thoughts of ever doing another profession, like Artifice, Weaponsmith (since I believe those two can work both wood and metal), I would gather or buy lots of green wood and copper and do nothing but make copper (and enough bronze) ingots and planks until you can’t get experience any more then whatever is left over to get to 50 then do these for the monthly.

If you have no interest in keeping the planks and ingots that you used to get your experience up, you can at least vendor them for cash.

If you can squeeze your Weaponsmith up to 50 (which shouldn’t be too hard), you can make Bronze Plated Dowel.

At 15, you should be able to make the bronze ingots and wood planks for quite a bit of experience towards that 50, which you’ll then need anyways to make the dowels.

I made those with my artifice. Pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things, especially since I’m a resource hoarder, and only start selling resources on the TP once I have 250 product and 250 raw material, so I always have stuff around to make whatever for whoever.

I just typed in ‘master’ in the search so it filtered on all the items that end in (Master)?

I looked with my cook, and it seems unidentified dyes is all they have. That is unfortunate.

Have you used the horn enough to learn the ability? I know that’s probably a really dumb question, but just in case.

@Fever – I’m not sure they ‘fixed’ it, per se, the other was a daily. I’d expect that 10 (or if they bump it to 20) show up as a daily again from time to time, and allow you to make anything.

I think because it is a monthly, they wanted to make it something a little more substantial.

At least I hope it shows up as a daily again, I liked that one.

Fever.9830:

Copper ingots…

They have to be master quality.

Wow, that’s pretty good.

I was going to recommend this for jewelers, if you have plenty of iron, but I might do what you did. I think I have an overabundance of those materials anyways.

Thanks!

Edit: And my pick for a jeweler is a horrible idea, because it was a karma recipe so you can’t sell the finished product.

This isn’t bad, 5 iron ingots, nothing special.

Edit: Retracted, it’s a horrible idea. It was a karma recipe so you can’t sell, disassemble or do anything useful with it. Unless you happen to be level 25 with 40 fingers.

Ok, I’m going to change the entire question, since no one responded to my buffoonery to begin with, which was a good thing.

Now my question: What is the cheapest thing to craft to achieve this goal?

Any profession, I’m mastered in all. Can you make like 15th level green items? Is that what a master is? Or does it mean 375+? That wouldn’t seem very friendly to newbies?

Thanks for both the posts!

I don’t tend to do dungeons, but rather find I enjoy outside events where there are a lot of people, so maybe magic find is the way to go.

I’ll go with the rose.