I got a little ‘Storm’ a week ago that I got to sell for a bit of gold, that was nice.
What I don’t like about Jormag (and no, I don’t care if it’s his half-cousin’s sister who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors, it’s “Jormag” to me just like all you folks call dungeons cryptic things HoQ3, 3F8Y) right now is having to use the Jonny Commander Zap Zap Go Rifle Squadron Pew Pew to bring his shield down. I hope they fix that. 
I struggle to make gold myself. There was another guide out here recently that talked about making gold. It basically said to go do dungeons and fractals all day, or long chains in Orr (all of which I don’t like doing, at all), and never craft, because that wastes money (and that’s one of my favorite things).
So for someone like me, who enjoys playing the game, I apparently enjoy the wrong things, if I expect to make money. 
Unlike many of you, I do place a certain practical value on my personal time. Wasting my time steadfastly playing a game that may or may not improve to an acceptable level at some indistinct time in the future is NOT a good investment in my personal time.
Unless, we place the same practical value on our own personal time as you, and find the game to be at an acceptable and/or above level and continue playing for that reason?
I agree wholeheartedly, if it were not, I would not be playing!
Though, I would play myself to make the determination, and not read a general forum to make that decision.
I agree. Maybe not exploits, but bugs, yes.
1. Was it a bug that we could use our own abilities against Jormag’s ice shield, and they fixed it? I’d like to know if that were the intention, as many others, so we could voice our opinions and concerns.
2. Did they fix a ‘bug’ by not letting us preview armor we can’t wear?
Or…hopefully this new patch fixed ‘those’ bugs which they introduced in the last patch. Much like they had to fix jumping quickly after they broke it last time.
And then there’s things like being able to transmute armor cross faction from one character to another. Will they fix that ‘bug’? I sure hope not, I don’t think it’s a bug myself. Luckily (hopefully) I’m done, but what if someone comes along behind those of us who have done it, read old posts on how to do it, buy the piece for 2g only to find out they “fixed a bug” and that no longer works?
Not to mention giving us the opportunity to voice our opinions about what they see as ‘bugs’.
And no, you can’t just reclassify things as exploits then so you don’t have to waste time typing it out. “No, no…no bugs this time, just lots of exploits!”
Very few little ‘nit picky’ things from me as well, but overall it’s been (and will continue to be for me, I still have lots to do) a great experience.
Finally got it! Everyone stuck around to help as long as they could. I thanked them and a few left. About 5 min later I dropped a Lava Font on a building that was clearly burned out already and it ticked off (as well as for another person in the group).
Well that’s just silly, it was already broken.
I hate dungeons myself.
Having said that, this plays much more like an outside chain event you happen to be at with 4 other people. That’s it. It’s actually pretty fun. I ran it twice. I regret not doing it more yesterday, but hopefully after Thursday I can find people willing to do the Grove version a few more times so I can get some of the missing materials I might need for a pet.
I don’t own a single pet yet, thought it would be fun just to try to get the 5 you can make from each place.
What is ‘really’ frustrating me is getting the stomping the town achievement. Both times I stuck around and broke ‘everything’ and it didn’t work.
I don’t remember exactly but my high score is somewhere around 500. I found it relatively easy, maybe because I’ve played a lot of Guitar Hero and similar games, but I also only played enough to get the achivement. I’ll go back to it later but I want to do the jump puzzle first.
Ha. This must be easy for a pianist. I am not one and I have troubles coordinating 8 fingers at the same time. Perfect score? For me same insanity as guitar hero perfect play on hardest mode.
I’ve been playing Piano for over 20 years. My highest score is around the low 500s. So no, its not easy for pianists.
Unless, we can somehow keybind our pianos to play the game :p
I’ve heard that guitarists actually find Guitar Hero harder than non-guitstists because the movements required feel odd to them. Maybe it’s the same here?
I can do this event, but as someone who plays the guitar (not well, mind you) I found this totally true. I can’t play Guitar Hero to save my life. Not that this would come up as a pivotal moment in defining my humanity, saving the world by playing Guitar Hero, but I’m just saying.
Lava Font, Meteor Shower, Ice Spike, the initial blast from Eruption.
I’m indiscriminately laying waste upon waste in large areas that look totally destroyed, in the hopes of finding that last little thing, and still nothing.
I’ve been in here for 40 minutes and don’t want to leave to have to do this a third time.
I’ve done it about 10 times so far, it’s generally fun. There are two things I don’t like about it. One they can’t do anything about.
First, the achievements are designed such that you end up having to work against your own team to complete them. Make the objectives if your “side” accomplishes those things, and greatly up the counts.
Second, and you can’t really do anything about this, but its sad to see people just leave when our side isn’t doing so well, or even throw in the ubiquitous “I’m playing with idiots” comment before you /rq. It’s a holiday event. . It’s not even terribly long. Happy Wintersday? /shrug
But I like the mechanic, and overall philosophy. It’s fun to pick a different “class” each time. I settled on support, helping package carriers back, but I’ll never get the achievement at this rate, and that’s fine. Would have been nicer if the rewards were team based.
Of course that assumes one skin doesn’t skyrocket while others plummet (which is probably what will happen).
(cough)princesswandandslingshot(cough)
And those are my two favorites. I was impatient, I paid about 90s each. Oh well, I still enjoy them.
What did you receive that was a secret?
To take the shield down, in this patch, was that on purpose?
Or are we just bugged on Emhry?
Because it’s really not very fun.
It is the second most annoying thing I have encountered with wintersday, the snowballs being the worst.
Iiifff…I promise not to ring it near you, will you tell me where it comes from? 
This seems like a good place to ask for a copy of the Velvet Hose model (light) that doesn’t have the hose.
Anyone else experience this at all? When it gets to the part where you are supposed to break his wall, you can’t target the wall any more? At least with your own weapons. It seems like you have to get a ray gun or something?
Makes it a bit difficult to just sit there passively helping to heal people with my Water Staff.
Conceptually, I like jumping puzzles, a lot, actually. I don’t like it when they have a ‘time’ component to them. I don’t particularly care when they have monsters and such either. I like the two WvW puzzles? I mean, when they aren’t being camped. The puzzles themselves are fun.
So I tried clock tower maybe 5 times, I gave up rather quickly, because I knew what would happen if I kept trying. I don’t have a good personality for things like that. So when I heard this puzzle had a timed component, I tried 3 times, and that was it.
So for me, jumping puzzles that have any sort of timed or other mechanic that makes me have to make any jump at a pace that isn’t my own, will just become like dungeons to me (which I don’t care for after years and years of the same sort of experiences, drama, stress, bullying, etc).
But…that is just a comment on the mechanic and how I feel about it. I’m sure the puzzle is awesome and people are enjoying it. I don’t think the thing shouldn’t exist because “I” don’t like it, that’s crazy. I think it’s unfortunate for the people that wanted something harder, as to me, it’s no different than when I want something in the game (like a Velvet Hose skirt without the hose…hint hint), and don’t get it. I sympathize.
Maybe next time they’ll design the puzzles with about 3 levels of difficulty with 3 different achievements related to them? The super-tough Mad King style puzzle, something in between (like, I’m guessing, Wintersday is, based on comments), and then a whimpy puzzle with no time factor (I’m ok with obstacles like fire, wind, light, that sort of thing…maybe the occassional monster), and have a “Really, that’s all the better you can do?” achievement associated with it.
Just sell the socks/hats/sweater and buy the skin on tp.
Didn’t realize you could sell and trade all of this, that was a great idea, thank you. Not sure if I’ll end up gaining or losing money, but it doesn’t matter so much. I’d rather get a few things sooner to make sure I get them, and then just let the rest roll in when it rolls in.
Figured I’d ask here, as many of you are good at finding the words within the words, and I’m just not seeing it.
I was trying to make ‘Greenway’. I was going to have ‘gw’ as the tag. I get a message saying “Greenway [gw]” contains words or partial words that are not permitted.
Any thoughts?
I demand to know the age of this thread’s OP.
It cannot be that a sensible mature person with responsibilities in life, will resort to spend his free time in reporting instead of actually playing his game of choice.I don’t even…
P.S
I’m parking a few of my characters on top of that rich ori for quick cash every day since I barely bother to play lately, you little kitteners better watch who you’re reporting.
Well, I’m not the OP, but I’m also not 8.
First, regarding your PS, I doubt anyone would. Having seen how this works, you logging a character in, mining, and logging out would look ‘very’ different. You wouldn’t have the speed. There would be a significant amount of time between the time you logged in and started mining.
Furthermore, if they ‘friend’ or ‘block’ you temporarily, it’s easy to then track where you are. Did you really just log out? And bring in another character on a node somewhere and logout 45 seconds later? That’s not what is happening.
These fine, upstanding citizens with 2.4 children, 2 cars (1 a mini van) with responsibilities and day jobs are using a third party hacking program to teleport around the world from node to node, mine, flash out. No, they aren’t millionaires that are using the waypoints. If you ever tracked one, you’d know.
Google on teleport hacking for GW2, you’ll find some. I’m not going to post them here. There’s a great, production quality one that cracks me up. It is actually a hacking tool that does all sorts of things, scaling walls, flying, besides the teleporting. They have a little UI with a list box with saved locations, and they click to go there, and they are there. I’m sure they have a little web site somewhere where they all help each other log the locations of all the nodes after resets so they can share and download on a given server.
Second, I’m a bit curious as to the tone of the first part? Do you believe that someone who uses a program like this is well within their rights to do so?
Mine is doing the same thing hopefully a moderator can see this and give us advice on what to do. Seen this same issue in other threads but no responses from anet.
I have a support ticket in. A lot of back and forth. They had me run all sorts of diagnostics and upload logs and such. They even had me restart with all my other services that would normally start turned off. I think it got to a point where they said they escalated it, and keep an eye out for something? I don’t know, hopefully that means it made some sort of bug list.
Weird that it seems to have happened out of nowhere?
I hope they fix it, but in the meantime, I’m hoping some kind souls out here might have found a solution to it and wouldn’t mind sharing.
@Joey – Yes.
Ranger (at the time) 65ish.
Guardian to 27 to join the Vigil, go shopping, buy leather pants from vendor, transmute onto white low level pants, merging the display, but keeping the low level white stats (stats on level 70 item gone) and the result is an ‘account bound’ really bad piece of white armor…that looks really nice. Drop it in the bank, Ranger picks it up and transmutes it onto whatever (just pulling the look).
Ironically, ‘after’ I had already bought the leather legs, it was at that point that I had the concern that I wouldn’t be able to transmute it because it wasn’t an item a Guardian could use. Luckily that doesn’t matter. The soulbound warning ended up being account bound, and I had read a bunch before hand and the consensus seemed to be that wouldn’t happen. It was a nearly 2g gamble, but it paid off.
Just in case, here’s my Ranger with Whisper (chest)/Vigil (legs). Hands are crafted, I think the boots might be too. Was looking for the least bulky things I could find. I suppose I could have photo shopped it, but I’m not that smart.
Edit: And to reiterate, it’s the Guardian that does the first transmutation. The guardian will need a ‘fine’ stone (since the source is level 80), and your Ranger will need a fine stone if applying it to 80 armor. The first transmute is done to a vendor white. I wouldn’t risk doing it to a blue, green, crafted, etc. Vendor bought cheap white bought with your lowest level character.
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This reminded me of this old video so I thought I’d share.
Or…perhaps, you will find adventure first!
Unfortunately, there’s not. You’re stuck with whatever faction you chose for that character, and since all the armor is soulbound once you purchase it, it wouldn’t work to make an alt join the order of whispers either.
Actually, this does work rather well.
1. I ran an alt up to around 26-27 and joined the Vigil (I wanted the leather pants).
2. As soon as I joined, I was able to run out to the vendor and buy the pants with my Guardian (who can’t wear armor of that type, which is important later).
3. Used the lowest level character I had (I’m cheap :p) to buy the cheapest ‘white’ leather legs I could from an armor vendor in a city, and threw it in the bank.
4. My guardian picked up the white pants from the bank, and used a ‘Fine’ transmutation stone (since the source is a level 80 item), to transmute ‘only the look’ onto the white lets, keeping the stats of the white legs intact.
Two things to note here:
1. You are allowed to transmute things, apparently, using a character that could never use those items because of class restrictions.
2. Even though it warns you that the resulting item will be soul bound, the item I received was ‘account bound’. Whether this is a bug that will be patched later or not, I can’t say, I did this less than a week ago. It would be a shame if they did, I can’t think of any reason to put in such a punishment. They got me to spend money, what do they care?
5. Put my new low level ‘account bound’ white pants in the bank (with the look of the Vigil legs).
6. Login my Ranger, pick up the ‘account bound’ white pants, and used a ‘basic’ transmutation stone (because I was not level 80 at the time and wanted to put them on the pants I was currently wearing, though I know I’ll need a ‘fine’ when I eventually morph them on my final Exotic armor) to apply the look to my current legs.
7. Result: Whispers top with Vigil leggings.
Do this every day if you can. More often than not, you’ll get most of it done just doing whatever, but best to take a look at it when you only have 30 minutes or so left. An easy way to finish up is to go to a 1-15 zone like Queensdale. Or pick a zone where you see people complaining about not having anyone to play with.
Edit: And the jugs are account bound, so if you don’t really need it on your main, you can bank them for other characters. Karma is a bit slow early on, so I like to give a new character a few jugs so they can buy anything they want at every Heart they finish to at least keep them in trinkets and such as they level up.
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