Yeah, it’s much better for your mental health to do something else to take your mind off it. I beat myself up trying to get the smokescale claw, until I put it on the back burner. Ironic thing is I finally got it on a random DS run from a deathscale I didnt even think I tagged.
The treasure mushrooms are easy, they always spawn in the same place and the respawn rate is fairly quick… the one in VB is close to the exit to AB waypoint, and the TD one is in the grub pits (nuhoc wp then wallow). Just yell out on map chat and there’s usually a few other players interested enough to help.
Does Ansel require any underlying tech to work? Witcher 3 is a modern DX11 game and GW2 uses an utterly ancient DX9 engine.
But yes, it would be an amazing feature.
I forgot about the key run option… before the weekly cap I used binge-keyrun in a less than healthy manner. A part of me is still grateful for that nerf.
Just like chrono, at end-game, your role is moderate DPS with great support (not just healing, but spotter/frost spirit/GotL) so your options for stat types are quite diverse… power, condi and heal are all viable depending on which encounter you’re doing (going full healing stats isn’t that useful outside of raids, not even in fractals). If you’ve got a regular group, you can tailor it to them rather than the ubiquitous “meta”.
Also, longbow isn’t a condi weapon… if you do go down the condi path, you’re looking at either shortbow or axe/torch.
Apologies, I’ve just done the numbers and at current gold to gem rates, a BL kit costs 93g, or 3.7g per salvage. So it is worthwhile for retrieving the most expensive upgrades. It’s still not cost effective for ecto and dark matter.
Is that enough to justify the gem costs though?
At approx 1g per exotic, it’s more cost effective to just burn through more exotics with mystic/master kits than buying BL kits.
First of all, Anet need to drop live gorillas into the game world. Currently we only have risen gorillas… those would make for unacceptably smelly pets :p
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I’ve noticed the drop off in BL kits too. They used to drop like candy but now they are much, much rarer. I used to use them on all my exotics, but now I’m a lot more picky.
What do you need them for? Since being more selective, a stack lasts 6+ months. Even with the most expensive rune or sigil, at current gold to gem rates, it’s cheaper to just rebuy the rune. And you don’t get that much more ecto or dark matter compared to a mystic kit either. Only exception I can think of is if you wanted to extract the Queen Bee, or similar.
It shouldn’t make a difference what time you sign in… your daily login reward should be waiting for you as long as the daily reset has happened.
Also, you don’t get laurels every day… if you open your achievement panel, you should see where in the reward cycle you are. And the cycle doesn’t progress unless you login… e.g. if you didn’t log in yesterday, the reward you would have received yesterday is given to you today, and today’s gift delayed until tomorrow, and so forth.
I’ve noticed something different about LS3 compared to previous seasons.
Previously, when a LS happens, there’s usually a permanent physical change to the world. It may be huge (LA and Kessex Hills getting completely FUBARed) or more subtle (Bandits abandoning Fort Vandal).
For LS3, I’m disappointed at the lack of noticeable physical collateral from the exploding Bloodstone. I would have thought it would be a great excuse to blow a big hole in the northern side of VB which doubles as an entrance to Bloodstone Fen. Or maybe a red glow to the northern skies. Or bloodstone dust settling in distant areas like volcanic ash.
The bloodstone-crazed creatures and that random ley line entity don’t seem to do justice to Tyria’s equivalent of a nuke.
I really hope Anet has something more impactful up their sleeves with ep2+
Ascended armor isn’t supposed to be cheap or easy to make. I think its fine.
You forgot to say that once you get your ascended piece, that’s it… there’s really no further upgrade to grind for (unless you’re made of money and want a full set of +9/5 AR infusions). For 15 days of work/waiting, I’ve been using my weapons for the last 1.5 years… most other MMOs would have me grinding/raiding for the next tier by now.
It would help to know what class you plan to use this with. The current meta for power DPS classes is force/air if your crit is ~100% (with buffs), or force/accuracy if isn’t. If I remember correctly, fire was nerfed a while back so isn’t used so much now.
Don’t get satellite, my understanding is that it’s download speed is ok but uploads are terrible, and you need both for gaming.
I’m in Sydney on ADSL2+, no NBN for me either, but I doubt NBN will make a big difference to GW2 ping cos the data still needs to cross the pacific.
Another advantage of the thief suggestion is once you get the daredevil spec, you’ve got 3 dodges instead of 2, so you’ve got more margin of error if you mistime one.
I can’t advise re warrior, I’ve barely played it. My regulars are guardian, necro and druid in that order. I think it mostly comes down to being on your toes, knowing the fight’s mechanics and reading animations. I usually turn down my graphics settings when dodging is super critical (raids, Mai Trin 100) so there’s less visual spam to distract me.
For druid specifically, you don’t need to be full healing spec in anything other than raids. Your unbuffed heals are mostly adequate. Only time I’ve run full Magi’s outside raids is for the migraine achievement, and even then it was probably overkill.
Ranger and necro fits your requirements. Essentially having minions that can tank mobs while you range.
Is 250-300 your typical or best case ping? Australia always has 200-300 ping and most of us have got used to it. Pvp is where the main disadvatage is, but most pve including raids and fractals are doable.
It doesn’t look like your armor is transmuted. If it were, instead of saying “Skin unlocked” that part will say “Transmuted: xxx armor”.
Only other thing I can think of is that the level changes according to the level of the character buying it. I don’t have a ~70 level toon to test that, but I just went to the WvW vendor on a 80 character, and he definitely sells 80 armors. Going there on a 30 level character doesn’t give an option for any exotic armors.
I did something similar with my Reaper where I equipped lvl 70ish armour as aplaceholder, but because I transmuted and dyed, I ended up forgetting all about it until the other day when I noticed.
lol… I had a similar experience. My Rev got the elite spec and explored half of the HoT maps with level 30-40 reward weapons before I noticed.
There hasn’t been any change in the crafting of ascended weapons besides the addition of the HoT stats.
Armors had their leather requirements (for inscriptions) increased last year, so older guides may be out of date.
Btw, if the weapon you’re looking at is one of the elite spec weapons (GS, staff, shield, warhorn, torch, hammer, longbow) and you have the appropriate class; it’s cheaper to get your weapon via the collection and use the MF to get the stat you want.
Defeating Mayatl in VB gives a MP that isn’t listed in the achievement panel.
Regarding TD, try do the events immediately after the meta finishes. You can announce your intentions and there should be enough interested players to help.
Another possibility I’ve run into with Nvidia’s gameworks (or whatever they call their game app), it would randomly minimize my game window.
My guess is it stopped detecting the game, so took focus to change profiles or something. Maybe with the update, AMD’s raptr is trying to do the same thing. I’ve seen the behaviour with some antivirus apps too.
Do you in fullscreen and have the same resolution for your game and desktop? I’ve seen the flashing in other games when my game resolution is not the same as my windows desktop.
I’d suggest always crafting the time gated components whenever you can/remember, even if you don’t have any current use for them. You never know when you’ll want a bunch of them in a hurry. e.g. if you wanted to craft Dusk, you need 90 ingots.
You can always sell the resulting ingots/planks/etc, so you’re not losing any gold by doing that.
It’s because thief’s initiative mechanic allows you to quickly spam skills, hence the large burst damage. All other classes have cooldowns for skills, so they can’t do that. Unfortunately it does mean you have to learn to be more controlled with your key presses.
Also remember you won’t have as many offensive boons on yourself when compared to an open world zerg, or even a raid/fractal group, as your team will be more spread out instead of stacked.
They’ve already scrapped new legendary weapons because integrating the collection into existing pve content was too resource intensive. If Anet do restart legendary weapon development, then armors will be more likely too.
AFAIK, no ones gone from b2p/f2p to an optional subscription model. Most examples started as mandatory subs to optional subs
Any change in how RL cash influences the game is always fraught with risk and needs to be managed carefully… just look at what’s been happening to BDO in the last week.
Sell your AR+15 and AR+16 if you don’t want the AR+9/Stat+5.
I do want the AR+9/Stat+5 infusions. And you know what? By deconstructing a single 16 infusion you can create 128 +9 infusions. And 3 +9 infusions are needed for 1 AR9/Stat+5 infusion. So I could create 42 AR+9/Stat+5, instead of the FIVE that ANET is generously giving us.
And before you say, what are you gonna do with 42 AR+9/Stat+5 infusions, you need 18 for a full set just for 1 stat combo for 1 character. I have at least 4 stat combos on a single character. So I do have a use for all of them.
Aren’t most of the cost of the 9/5 infusions in the stabilizing matrices? Approx 30g for infusions and 80g for matrices. That prices Anet’s offer at 500-600g. Your 42 9/5’s would require you to put in 3000+g.
And if you look at the historical prices, it cost about 600g to make a 16 just prior to the patch (1 ARs were in the 40c price range vs 2+s now).
So you’re right, Anet aren’t being “generous”, but they are replacing the approximate cost of your pre-patch 16.
Aside from birthday gifts, another potentially important thing you’ll lose is that toon’s crafting disciplines. If he’s got 500 crafting, it’ll be expensive to re-level those.
When you say 3 years, are you coming up to the character’s 4th birthday? It may be worth waiting until Aug 28th to see what the 4th birthday present is before you decide
Isn’t the anniversary more of a RL and social media thing rather than in-game? Come to think of it, have any of the previous anniversaries been associated with a major in-game event? I only recall the presents, BL store sales and that one outfit.
If you look at it as an rpg; there are additional time gates for exiting starter zones and wvw, etc, however all aspects of gameplay are available to the f2p. So it isn’t stripped down from that perspective.
However, as a mmo; f2p is severely restricting because of the social and economic restrictions. After all, those are some of the most important factors that differentiate mmos from single player games.
I personally feel it strikes a good balance when compared to other game’s f2p models.
My understanding is that Anet updated the old GW1 engine for GW2, hence it’s low efficiency on modern multi core processors. Unfortunately it’s unlikely Anet will upgrade the engine… too much work for too little return.
What I’d like to see them do is cap group size and the number of groups on a map. Groups shouldn’t account for more than 50% of the PvE maps players. This would allow random people to fill the other half and spread the groups out on other instances which would also allow random players to catch slots on those instances.
It’s not a group size issue, it’s how the event mechanics are designed.
What you suggest was how it was before squads were implemented. What used to happen was whichever group running the event would have taxi parties to get everyone on the same map instance. That was a pain in the kitten because the taxiing people often had full parties, so you’d have to spam party joins for ages until you get someone with a free party slot. Anyway, my point is, this “taxi onto the relevent ip” process was there long before squads, and restricting squad sizes won’t actually change it.
The issue is, for this particular event you need 3 commanders, 9-12 reflecters and 9-12 husk condi (less if husks blockers are available). You may or may not find this particular combo in a random pug, but the organized groups ensure success by having people already trained and prepared to fill those roles. Breaking up the organized groups will make it less likely to find a successful TT, not more.
Out of that selection, normally I’d recommend the 960+i7 6820HQ, but since earning a living>GW2, I’d base your decision on your work requirements rather than GW2’s.
I wouldn’t say taboo, but most of us would recommend against deleting an old character. Reason is the birthday gifts and the ever increasing cost of leveling crafting disciplines (80 isn’t too bad… it’s the maxed out 400/500’s that you’d want to keep). Ghost is right about the character leveling… it’s pretty trivial. And the Zealot’s armor is just gold… you’ll eventually earn it back.
When you deleted the toon, did you move the ascended trinkets to somewhere else? Those things are account bound, so any of your other toons can use them too.
You can run story mode as soon as it becomes available to you. It can be soloed, but I’m not sure if it can be done if you’re not level 80. Just get a group on LFG and it’s easy even if you’re not familiar with the mechanics.
Explorable mode is more difficult. Most run it at 80, but if you’ve got guildies or a willing PUG willing to teach, it’s doable at lower levels.
Just to clarify his point, retaliation is a boon you want complete control over, specifically in high level fractals. Just ask any guardian ever since they made the boon thief instability.
