Guild Wars 2

So month before HoT release: i made a post about the “special” ascended stats on trinket.

Acquiring an armor/weapon stats set is fairly easy thanks to the mystic forge recipe but ascended trinket can be fairly annoying at least for silverwaste/dungeon stats.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Special-asc-trinket-availability/first#post5337217

So Hot come out & Anet announced 6 new stats: bound to the new hoT map, so they were extending on the silverwaste design.
Except that this time; there is no trinket buyable on these map for these stats: armor & weapon are available but trinket are not.

So where are they ?

Drop from the RAID boss.
Yes the ascended trinket are random drop from the raid bosses this time. If you are not familiar with the raid : there is 3 boss.

Vale Guardian have ascended rings with selectable stats as random drop
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vale_Guardian
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Malicious_Energized_Loop
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Assaulter's_Energized_Loop
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defender's_Energized_Loop
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Healer's_Energized_Loop

Gorseval have ascended accesories with selectable stats as random drop.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gorseval_the_Multifarious
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spectral_Balm
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spectral_Juju
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spectral_Talisman
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spectral_Ward

Sabetha have ascended backpack & amulet with selectable stats as random drop.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sabetha_the_Saboteur
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talisman_of_Garr
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talisman_of_Holt
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talisman_of_Irwyn
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talisman_of_Manton
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sabetha's_Assaulter_Crucible
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sabetha's_Defender_Crucible
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sabetha's_Healer_Crucible
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sabetha's_Malicious_Crucible

TL:DR

The 6 news stats ascended trinkets are behind raid: which means that Viper ascended trinket is only available by doing raid.

These ascended trinket are also the only instance of zealot ascended trinket that I know of: A stats that is wanted by a lot of druid players.

Looks like Anet decided that there will be no wide gear treadmill but there will be stats treadmill for ascended trinket in the raid.

DrEckers.2039:

How about just removing swamp for 51+? That would fix the swamp rolling problem.

Don’t encourage Anet to be lazy, please.

Reward system in 51-100 is a joke. The end chest reward for each fractal is bad. No wonder people only do swamp.
Anet should have reiterated like the 2 others steps.
Add two dailies with really good loot chances for an ascended chest possibility (10% not less) & good monetary value.
One for a random fractal between 51 and 75, the other for a random fractal between 76 and 100.
Hide the 51-75 behind fractal mastery lvl 3 & 76-100 behind fractal mastery lvl 4.

Now we have an incentitive to play something else that swamp all the time.

PS: fix that spot in mossman swamp.

Michael.4079:

If it feels too hard for you than just skip it…

Pretty much this.
This is for a vanity item, you have no obligation to do it.

Draknar.5748:

snippp

I agree with all your post.

Win 10 64 bits & 64 bits client.
Happened from beginning, still happening.

- raid
- silverwaste
- drytop
- verdant brink
- auric bassin
- Tangled depth
- dragon’s stand
-Tequatl
-triple double

Vayne.8563:

It’s a shame that people think this gem store is so bad. Cause you know, it’s really not.

It isn’t bad.
The problem with it is that the game have so many bug that people are frustrated when they see stuff added toward the gemshop while many other things are broken.

Granted: the team in charge of the Gem stuff & the other content are probably not linked but this gave a sense of wrong priority/focus from Anet.

This make me sad. :[

Khados.8147:

I’m confused, why are Arenanet staff posting about this in that reddit link above? Isn’t this the official bug forum? Without Cindas posting that, I never would have known they even knew about the issue.

This is also annoying.
At that point, they should close the official forum & post everything on reddit.

Inventory & achievement followed are also reseted.
Thanks a lot ANET.

My setting are gone each time I quit the game.
This is higly annoying.

TexZero.7910:

You get a stupid amount of them for just killing things. Sure there’s other ways but killing is the most effective. Each nuhoch bag can contain anywhere from 5-150 ley line crystals.

I haven’t had to farm the meta’s and im sitting at around 5k ley line crystals.

THIS: get the Nuhoch 1 masteries.
You will gain currency map for Verdant, auric bassin & Tangled Depth by killing mob.

One bag will give you between 5 to 150 tokens. Chak coming in really large wave, you gain a ton of bags.

During the meta, if the map is successfull in forcing the gerent to emerge (& you have enough participation); it is 75 for meta starting, +45 for event +75 for meta ending.

UnbentMars.9126:

Vials drop in 1-30, globs in 31-49, and shards in 50+ only

The thing is that vials & globs also drops in 50+ which is dumb.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I agree. Guilds fund the leveling of the scribe and it’s primarily used for making things for guilds (and just a few legendary-related items). However, I haven’t seen a lot of support for the idea. :/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Suggestion-Make-Scribing-Guild-Bound

I’m not sure about that.

I leveled my scribe to 400 alone; it took me a good amount of money & time.
Most(literally all) of what I crafted went to Guild furniture: vault access, WB event, banners, decoration…..

I would agree with having the scribing becoming guild wide if all materials used to craft the basic thing in scribe were made guild bound.

By those I mean mainly resonnating sliver (pigment pouch also) not being sellable on Trading post.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resonating_Sliver

When an item is sellable for almost 1 gold on Trading Post and you can possibly make 10 of them because of a guild mission: I doubt that most guild members will think twice between selling them & give them to the guild.

When you reach around crafting level 200, these are what really hurt the most:

Level 0 & 75 : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resonating_Sliver
level 0: Need 3 to craft anything.
level 75: need 5 to craft anything.

Level 150 & 225: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resonating_Fragment
level 150: Need 3 to craft anything -> 9 slivers= 9 gold.
level 225: need 5 to craft anything -> 15 slivers= 15 gold.

Level 300: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resonating_Core
Need 3 to craft anything -> 27 slivers= 27 gold.

Level 400: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resonating_Lodestone
Need 3 minimum to craft anything -> 81 slivers = 81 gold.

Another big issue is actually sand in the finishing kit that is used for every decoration.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pile_of_Coarse_Sand

Flax is less of a problem to me because usually most of my guildies are usually playing in the HoT maps. So there is a regular supply of flax.

But as sand is only available in SW; this result in the neccesity to buy it all on Trading post as I don’t have a lot of guildie playing there.

skullmount.1758:

Another possibility: add a checkbox up there to go with it, which lets us hide completed ones.

I would take that one too.

Faab.8049:

Yes. And then I die in the attempt and have to spend a few minutes navigating mob spawns while running back to the top of the hill. Jolly…
So I won’t do it. I can spend my time in a better way.

You are just making excuse there: the event is very simple & scales fairly well.

Faab.8049:

In the Case of Farens Waypoint in VB this is extra anoyuing because it is both a cental point and a high point. You have to navigate quite a bit of land to actually get back into the fight.

Or you can do the event to unlock it.
It only take one person.

Bee.7081:

Yea, I also believe that if you want to max out the masteries, you need all the mastery points from adventures aswel. I have all strongbox and regular mastery points, and it is nowhere near to being enough for maxing out the HoT mastery lines.
I’m kind of alright getting silver, but gold from all… some really looks impossible atm.

No you don’t.
I haven’t completed all adventure on gold & I am lvl 161 with 4 unspended points in maguuma.

Please add some filter in the collection & achievement tab.
A “not completed” filter to be exact because I do not really care about those that I already did.
Plus those are always at the top of the list.
This forces me to scroll down all the way every time I want to check something.

To be clear : Tier completion & Total completion displays almost the same things as once a collection is completed: it just go up in the list no matter what.

Cyrotek.7019:

@OP: I aggree on everything but the hearts. I hate those stupid, annoying and boring hearth quests. Please never put them in again.

Agree, it’s the one thing that I hate the most in that game.

Falanu.4289:

“We want dx12!” – That’s a “we minus me”.

Make it two.

Doesn’t dissapear when the player is killed.
Didn’t know that until 5 minute ago.

I made all my auric weapon craft using the cleric stats.

Here’s the recipe:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Auric_Greatsword

Misguided.5139:

I’ve done this one solo and also in big groups. the key here isn’t just killing all the Chak, but keeping them away from the larvae by getting rid of the closest ones.

This that’s all.

fishball.7204:

The no hint one is in kessex hills outside Uzolan’s whatthingyplace.

Thank you that was exactly that. ^^

Can we just have HP account bound in PvE & WvW please ?
You only gain them once per character but they are usable by any character.
Thank you.

Ring.6928:

papry.8096:

Ring.6928:

Because PVE is hard. #WhineWars2

That’s my choice

Let’s blame a net for our decisions.

Take a snipet of my argument and make it look like I’m just whinning that’s some intellectual integrity.

I’m applauding you.

Ring.6928:

Because PVE is hard. #WhineWars2

Sorry this is bad, just bad.

I have the 9 class with full spe/stuff/ almost exploration, etc…..

I NEVER plays these character in WvW because of gear swapping/build/etc…..
Instead I make an alt that own a WvW gear & I only play these in WvW.

That’s my choice & until now; it’s was perfectly fine but not anymore.

I have 4 soon 5 of these toons; But Anet decided to screw me over with how I up these character because “I need to learn AGAIN how to play them”.

This is just bullkitten.

So I just reached scribe level 400.
I’m trying to acquire the recipe for the Uzolan orchestra.
I’m struggling on 2 items for the collection. If anyone have an hint about them. You are welcome. (see pics for the hint or absence of hint for one of them).

While leveling scribing, I saw that there may have an error in the pigment used in the crafting recipe of the various ink set.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grandmaster's_Ink_Set
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Master's_Ink_Set
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Journeyman's_Ink_Set
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fine_Ink_Set
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Basic_Ink_Set
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Simple_Ink_Set

Grandmaster : white & black pigment
Master : purple & yellow pigment
Journeyman : blue & orange pigment
Fine : yellow pigment
Basic : red pigment
Simple : brown pigment

There is 9 pigments in the game: white, black, purple, yellow, blue, red, brown & green.
Yellow is used twice while green is unused. Anything else is used at least once.

Isn’t that an error ?

Elden Arnaas.4870:

To me this seems like a bug. I can loot the chest with any of my characters, and even guests in my home instance can loot the chest. And I can loot the chest in friends’ home instances. So your situation is definitely not how it should work. I would put in a ticket.

Wait..what ? You are sure ?
That never worked for me.
Everyone that tried had a message “no you can’t open that”.
What is going on there ?

Manasa Devi.7958:

The first 3 are rewards for a collection, and are themselves part of another collection. One of the iterations of the order backpacks I believe. They’re unsalvageable to protect us from destroying things we might still want later.

I actually finished the 3 Order armor/weapon collections just so I could salvage the amulets.

Problem is they can know that you have actually finished the collection(thank to the achievement), so having to keep the item is a nonsense.
Plus, you can still destroy these amulet so why preventing people from salvaging them ?

I love the map verticality & I adore tangled depth.
Thank you Anet for these 4 new map.
The old Tyrian map are boring as hell now.

Please enable gliding in Old tyria too.

The ascended amulet from HoT achievement can’t be salvaged

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Priory's_History
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vigil's_Honor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Whisper's_Secret
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sun%2C_Moon%2C_and_Stars
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Abaddon's_Cowl
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Janthir's_Gaze

Squad are amazing but they seems to lack the finishing touch in some area.

Looking For Party :
– You can’t post a squad in the LFP. In case of raid squad, a member of the squad will leave, post the lfp & wait for someone. For meta-event, usually the squad leader will untag & start taxiing people.

- You can’t join a squad by contextual menu. you are either forced to see the squad leader or goes with command.

Targeting :
Anyone in the squad can choose a target. As a squad leader, I would like to be able to restrain that to me or give access to everyone.

Squad leader disconnect. If a squad leader get disconnected, he is kicked from the squad.

Squad leader should also be able to remove his tag & stay in the squad without being forced to choose another squad leader.

If you have any other ideas, feel free to post.

Opc.4718:

The raid DIDN’T in fact get beaten within 15 minutes. That was just pure BS. Check out this twitter post by DnT attempting some backpedaling damage control:

http://i.imgur.com/suxl7xf.png

That was their damage control after Anet handed them their kitten.

Is there someone that have been able to unlock Dark Harvest ?
Currently I’m trying to get the Oola’s Data crystal.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Oola's_Data_Crystal

But I just can’t get the Energy crystal that trigger the event no matter how many mob I kill in metrica province.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Energy_Crystal

Plus the Energy Crystal chat link just doesn’t work anymore.

I’m the only one here ?

No thanks: I hate that new size.

So in order to obtain crystalline ore , you must:
– find a good/fresh Dragon stand map with 3 commander
– do a 40 minutes minimum chain events.
– beat an elder dragon.

Then go on an hunt for noxious pod:
– that are in zone infested with high damage mob (hello veteran smokescale & legendary wyvern).
– with player that only care about their own loot. If you are taken in the trail of mob that they are aggroing too bad for you.
– with a time limit of 14 minutes.
– while they migth disappear in front of you.
– with a random chance to actually get something.

Minimum amount for something on post meta DS vendor : 50 crystalline ore.

Obviously this is not skippable if you don’t like it, because a lot of thing use this as money (lot of guild stuff, futur legendary, collection).

So if you hate doing it, you just cut a big chunk out of the expansion.

durend.6237:

Just because there’s a category for it doesn’t mean people will use it. I’ve seen alot of FotM posts in open world lately – despite there being a FotM section already.

I think they should force people in a section based on the map they are on.
Currently no matter what you end up in open world.

If a group is in a meta map: force the LFG in the meta map.
If they are in lion arch/fractal: force it in FOTM
If they are in asca: force it in dungeon section.
& so on.

Oh yes one hundred time this. This new trend is getting ridiculous already.

Just did verdant brink @ 100% with my war still no reward.
This is really frustrating.

Thank you for the 64 bits Clients: Using waypoint & loading map seems way faster.

Can add anothe “Potoni the masher” achievement doesn’t register while I have the masterie to fight & actually manage to beat him.

papry.8096:

Event :
After rescuing the Zildi Assist-o-matic from the chak lobber.
The little guy appear as a defence event & ask for data crystal.
There is none on the whole lane. (not sure if bugged).

This one is a bug; when zildi assist-o-Matic apperas he is at the ley line convergence tunnel entry.
i actually got one instance where he doesn’t bug: he is supposed to run from where you kill the chak lobber & free him, dropping data cristal until he reach rata novus entry.

Achievement:
Friend of Frog : The step “Protected beetle Hatchling” doesnt register.
Honorary Rata Novan: The step “Protected Zildi” doesn’t register.

Event :
After rescuing the Zildi Assist-o-matic from the chak lobber.
The little guy appear as a defence event & ask for data crystal.
There is none on the whole lane. (not sure if bugged).

After escorting the Nuoch Lore master, the event of the Great Skelk regurgitant appears but the boss is invulnerable & doesn’t move.

During the SCAR event at the mordrem migration phase sometime if the scrap cannon is destroyed, the NPC will keep repairing it; blocking the event.

I agree with this change.

Arjuna.1490:

Mordremoth: (Get ready, there’s a lot of problems)
-Upon restarting, Mordremoth retains all abilities from previous attempts. This is a MAJOR problem given how much HP he has and how long the fight is meant to take.
-Upon restarting, the ledge that contains the first two rifts sometimes fails to respawn, making the attempt impossible.
-The ledge that contains the third rift has texture bugs that make it impossible to tell where it ends and a deadly drop begins.
-Updrafts sometimes fail to launch the character into the air, especially after getting hit by a rock (even if the character landed nowhere near said updraft)
-Updrafts sometimes fail to spawn during Mordremoth’s massive attack.
-Blighted Marjory occasionally teleports around the arena at random. Unsure if this is intended or not. (I know with Mordremoth it is)

I can add one; I experienced all that & managed to bring him at 10% life (I was soloing it).
Mordy launched the big attack & then proceed to make the big windy AOE during it.
As you can’t come trough even with stab (that you can’t even launch while in glider, so me): I took damage & fell on the ground. Dead.
I threw my mug after that one in frustation.

Please Anet debug that Boss; It’s infuriating.

Pretty much the title: my treasure hunter chest (rare collection) is gone from my personnal instance since one of the patch from HoT.