Guild Wars 2

I am making gold by running dungeons (usually AC full run, CM 1 and 3 and Cof 1 and 2 and possibly some CoE if I have nothing else to do.) and it makes me a nice amount of gold. Farming labyrinth also works but I find that quite boring after doing it so much at the start of Halloween. This is probably not the best or most efficient method but I always like seeing the gold I gain every day!

I would say I am mostly B because I am an achievement hunter but also C because I enjoy making expensive skins including legendaries to stand out from the crowd for cosmetic purposes. Maybe a small amount of D because I PvP quite often and have 6 champ titles and dragon rank but I did those for AP/titles.

I didn’t know exactly where this thread would go so i put it here.
Today, I ran FotM and got a Crystalline Band as a drop. After that I decided I was going to infuse the Ralena’s Band that I had been saving ascended mats for (vials, globs and shards) and when I got to the mystic forge I accidentally infused the Crystalline band instead. Is there anything that can be done about this? I don’t really want to have to grind the mats again but I suppose I will have to if there is nothing that can be done.

I think the dragon at 1:23 is zhaitan. I thought it was mordy after DR: Part 2, but after looking at it it has the same look as zhaitan does in Arah story mode.

Jimmy JimBob.2801:

“S2 hurtles toward an unforgettable end”

To me that says we’ll have another short block like part 1 and then that will be it for Season 2, anyone else find that? Maybe… S2 will end just after the new year then… EXPANSION?!?!?!? Well we can dream anyway lol

Yup that’s pretty much what is going to happen at the end of S2 I bet. I hope (like S1) the last 4 or so episodes are the best. After that, it is very unlikely we will be seeing an expansion, but probably another few months of nothing and we will be seeing season 3 starting.

Indeed, it looks very epic. I will be looking forward to it all week!
It looks like more of dry top will be unlocked, with some sort of charr base there (or was that somewhere else? I will have too look again) or maybe even a new maguuma map.

While no offhand skills would be nice, a problem would be only having one sigil and having decreased stats over having both mainland and offhand. A better idea could be being able to choose from several sets of skills for your offhand?

Becka Williams.4978:

Here’s a question for you: would the marionette be done, or would it be ignored, like the legendary sand giant in dry top?

I am pretty sure it would be done if it fit with the boss schedule and gave decent rewards. Even without increased rewards, it would be done just for the fun that many people think it is. It would be nice if it still gave the lockbox cyphers and you could open them in your home instance maybe, it would be nice to implement those chests again.

Haha I never noticed that. There’s a lot of nice things in game like that that I am always discovering, I will definitely have too look in the labyrinth for this and any other surprises that may be there.

Yes Gw2 is the best game I have ever played and ever will play. I have not played ANY other game of any sort since I got Gw2 over a year and a half ago and since then I have got over 2.5k hours in game, with every one of them being fun. However, I am sort of addicted to the game and have something of a blind love for it and I could never dislike anything about it so my opinion on this means less than most people’s, lol. Even because of this it is nice to see positivity and other people who like the game as much as I do!

Tbh I think this game is not the best mini game there is, but I do like it every once in a while as a survival challenge type but I have never survived to the end before, I think I need more practise at it. It is a shame that I have found a lot of players just kill themselves at the very beginning because they just want to farm bags, I think the villagers would be able to win a lot more if that didn’t happen! Very good tips btw, I think another useful one that I have found is as villagers, you can all take the hammer and stay as a group, last Halloween I got people to do that and we managed to kill some courtiers and survive well.

I have to agree the marionette was the best thing released this year by far. As far as bringing it back goes, maybe a marionette fractal wold be best? It would be a boss fractal, the 4th one in a run, and there would be the same 5 lanes with 1 person def each and one person is sent up at a time to kill their respective boss to break a chain while the other 4 players stay down.
If this is implemented though, I think so should the event as a big world boss again as well because it was the best boss in game and I know that many players would want it back as a world boss.

The best way to get those would be to farm labyrinth in a big zerg doing the door events, especially the ones where many foes come out of the same door.

Although I do not find it very hard, I do think that it is very fun and I do it a lot when I can’t think of anything else to do and I never regret doing it. I remember last year when I first got to the top, it did feel very epic. Also, I think the area is very well thought out with the time limit in the form of the green stuff with the skeleton hands if you are too slow. although the rewards are not very much, it is the accomplishment of having succeeded is the best reward when you first do it.

I am also really enjoying it. Last year I got all my achievements and then didn’t do another thing related to halloween, but because of the increased rewards, I am really enjoying zerging round the labyrinth farming ToT bags saving up for the new rewards, like the minis. I can see these new rewards keeping me doing the labyrinth for the duration of the event.

I wouldn’t really say this is a real exploit as you are not taking advantage of a bug, however it is very profitable and likely unintended so I also would advise you to not do it just in case it is considered exploiting. I wouldn’t worry about the bags you have already farmed, if you didn’t know it was exploiting (if it is at all) there is no problem.

Devata.6589:

It’s not a fun way. Making it as a rare drop in the Halloween dungeon (the one from first Halloween) or a type of scavenger hunt would be much better.

I do understand why a lot of people would think that a scavenger hunt would be better (you personally would be more involved in getting it) but I like how unique (for this game) the lottery system is so far.
I will not say it is perfect, I think a better idea would be that when you complete your meta achievement you are awarded one lottery ticket and you can’t get any more. This would stop the super-hardcore farmers or the very rich getting all the skins and so everyone who contributed to the festival would get an equal chance. But I really do like the idea behind the system and would like to see it appear in future releases.

Electro.4173:

But yes, the recipe for learning to craft the gifts is indeed completely insane in price, even with the increased drop rates this year. They adjusted a lot of the other rewards to be much more reasonable, was kind of hoping they’d adjust these too, but alas.

I agree that the recipes are extremely hard to get (I have farmed labyrinth a LOT over these first few days of the festival and I am looking at-if I grind this much for the whole festival-just about getting the recipe) but I think that was how they were supposed to be- the end reward of a hard grind over Halloween. For a lot of people though, buying might be the only option to get these over the 2 week time if they don’t have enough time for the farming.

I have seen a lot of people here who dislike the idea of a skin lottery, which I am very surprised at. Personally, I absolutely love the idea and I am very happy that they brought back the 2012 skins in this way.
When I first saw the skritt guy offering the skins I thought ‘WOW, this is such a clever and fun way of giving out valuable skins’ I am considering spending lots of gems on the wrappers even though I pretty much accept that I am doomed to get nothing!
In addition, I think it would be a great idea to use this lottery system in future for exclusive rewards.

Earlier today I was running Arah p3, and it was a decent run with minimal deaths until we got to lupi. Well, we didnt die there, but instead my party exploited in some way to make him die almost instantly. Completely in the dark bout this and just thinking we had HUGE dps I continued until another party member said that doing tht was risky and people could get banned. When I asked why he said we exploited, so I left the party without doing anything else in the dungeon and didn’t collect any rewards.

Did I do the right thing in that situation? If not please tell me what to do because I want to have no part in any exploited dungeon runs.

In the festival of the four winds I think they rebuilt it slightly and I have the feeling it will slowly be rebuilt over time because I do agree leaving the most important city destroyed wouldn’t really make much sense.

I have to ask, is Halloween going to be EXACTLY the same as last year because I remember reading that it said ‘blood and madness is returning’ or something similar. Personally I would be ok with that because i liked the content, but I would welcome a slight change at least.

What do I plan on doing now? I think I am going to grind dungeons to finish my dungeoneer and do the rest of my collection achievements. That should keep me happy because I enjoy working towards difficult/grindy achievements. I also like that they added new titles for me to add to my collection.

For the mordremoth fight, I think it really should be instances just like the zhaitan fight and all the other elder dragon fights should be in my opinion. I am not sure why I just don’t think 100 people killing or trying to kill an ED would be the right atmosphere for it (like if you fail he will just be back in another hour). The dungeon gives the sense that what you do really maters.
On another note if we were to fight a champion like. The shadow of the dragon that should be a teq difficulty open world fight like all the other dragon champ fights.

I have to agree I really don’t like the s3 achievements. When I first saw them I thought they meant something different than actual events like they do, as I don’t really enjoy wvw very much, the S1 and to a lesser extent S2 achievements we good to keep me interested for a week or two and to help my server. With the new ones I will only be playing 10 minutes each week which is not what I want to do in seasons but I just can’t get interested in it.

When I saw it was the mid season finale I was very surprised in that I thought we were halfway done, but thinking about it I don’t see why they would only make it 8 episodes long so I don’t think we a exactly halfway, probably much less. Saying that though there really isn’t any way of knowing until the end of the season. I do hope we don’t take on mordremoth soon though, I was looking forward to the fact that it would take a year or more until we actually confront him.

I think that green ‘always’ wins because the strongest server in their matchup has the highest chance to be green so green in eotm will have more coverage than blue and red.

I have to ask, is this event really an ‘exploit’ exploit, like one you can get banned for? Because earlier I was farming this event not knowing it was considered an exploit and when someone said it was and started reporting people (or at least saying they were) in chat, I immediately stopped and apologised for what I did and left the zone. If this truly is exploiting I will not go back until it has been fixed.

I highly doubt that kessex will be restored.

However I am certain that LA will be rebuilt slowly over season 2/3 and will probably use parts of the breachmaker wreckage in its new design, I do agree that it wouldn’t be a good idea to see an identical LA to before season 1 though.

Ben.2685:

I realised then that I playing out of a compulsion

haha that is exactly how I feel- I feel like I NEED to do all my dailies, make gold and grind PvP or whatever and I am not happy until I have. I still do enjoy the game very much, but it does feel like I play because I have to rather than because I want to, even because of this I only have 2k and a bit hours in 450 ish days so I don’t play very much compared to some, still.

Danikat.8537:

I’m not sure but I think they’re more likely to drop at higher tier favour. I’ve gotten 2 from opening less than 50 chests, plus quite a few other good drops, but I only open chests at T4 and above.

Hmm, sounds interesting, but the very first chest I opened in entanglement(?) whenever they were first introduced dropped an insect and that was either a t2 or 3 instance. Since then I have been in many t5/6 instances and got nothing so you are probably just lucky.

Goatjugsoup.8637:

For me this issue would be resolved simply by not forcing you to complete the content before you can even attempt the achievements, if the concern is spoilers than lock the descriptions but if people luck into the achievements or end up reading a guide then so be it.

Also if the concern is wanting people to see the story that is something which is interesting and worthwhile to me but if it wasn’t then forcing the story on me would not make me pay attention it would just be annoying.

I completely agree, I did not understand the logic behind only having achievements on repeats of the instance. However, I am not sure if it is locking away the achievements that has done it or just improved storytelling but usually in game I just play for AP, but in LSS2 I am becoming more and more interested in the storyline as a whole. I still would like to be able to do achievements first time though, just to save some time in game.

I like the fortnightly schedule because it keeps me interested in the story and I don’t feel like I am getting bored of waiting for the next update, so I personally think that changing it to monthly releases would be disappointing, but I see why people would want it if they want to have a perfect storyline, though I think the storytelling is still fantastic as it is.

Favourite dungeon- COE, the scenery is far better than any other dungeon and I like the fights In the experimental lab parts

Least favourite- Arah, by far. I can’t do it and I end up taking hours to do 1 path, and don’t even get me started on lupi, I can never get past it lol.

Purple Miku.7032:

I got one in under 10, and have no use for it because I find all of the weapon skins grotesque. I’d sell it if I could!

I also wish they could be sold, but unlike you I love the Ambrite weapons and have only had 1 insect drop in 100 chests so far, I would happily pay 5, even 10 gold to get a fossil and save me the effort of farming and complete the whole collection!

I got the achievement by standing holding one of the rocks and waiting for an inquest to come near, the time it takes to throw the rock will be almost nothing and it also helps if the inquest is a veteran/elite because they are not instant kills.

Blix.8021:

Taygus.4571:

suffish.4150:

Blix.8021:

Dungeons used to give tokens at every boss, they changed it so people wouldn’t just run the first boss over and over.

They could make it so the later bosses give you more tokens than the earlier ones, of course that won’t stop people running the first boss over and over but it would make it less profitable. This wouldn’t completely fix the kicking right before the end boss dies, but at least you get something even if you go straight after the first boss.

They already have a system in place where you can only claim a “big” chest once a day per path. (kholar in ac, the burrows.) if you do p1 twice before reset, those chest won’t show up for you..

Even if you only do as far as kholar p1, and restart, it won’t be there.

I know. But I should only get tokens for actually completing the dungeon, not killing the spider 3 times for 3 different paths. You don’t get pristine fractal relics for doing swamp and ascalon and quitting. You shouldn’t get tokens for doing half a dungeon.

I think that you should get tokens (albeit it should be less than half the full amount) for doing half the dungeon, this is because if the owner leaves or you get kicked/anything else, you get a reward (even if only 15 tokens) for contributing to the party running the dungeon

Blix.8021:

Dungeons used to give tokens at every boss, they changed it so people wouldn’t just run the first boss over and over.

They could make it so the later bosses give you more tokens than the earlier ones, of course that won’t stop people running the first boss over and over but it would make it less profitable. This wouldn’t completely fix the kicking right before the end boss dies, but at least you get something even if you go straight after the first boss.

ulcimql.2516:

in my opinion there is no justice when giving more power to some party members. having a majority vote in all cases makes the most sense. it is not only in an mmo that you have to manage your stay in a group.
if one has a lot of problems with being kicked from parties then maybe one should look into refining oneself first.

I agree that there should not be a party leader and there should be a majority vote to kick people.

I do believe that 2 people is not enough to kick someone though, because then you get situations where 2 people can kick everyone else right at the very end of a dungeon, which has happened to me multiple times, so changing the system to all other party members have to agree to kick someone else can at least make it so EVERYONE else has to want you out right at the end which will happen much more rarely

Cormac.3871:

Well, LS may not be working very well for some, but it is for me. Personally I am glad that they are committed to this path.

I completely agree with you about that, I enjoy the format of a living story rather than an expansion. The updates every 2 weeks keep me interested in the story and keep me guessing what is going to happen. If the whole of S2 was released in an expansion type update, I would grind through it all and do all of the achievements in a matter of days, leaving me nothing to do for a considerable amount of time.

I have to say that I found the boss fight a lot of fun- it was well thought out with different things going on at once (especially challenge mode) but not too challenging.
Personally, I think the difficulty was perfect, harder than what we were used to, but nowhere near liadri level (I didn’t enjoy the endless amount of tries it took me to kill her finally) I died once using a condition warrior build on this fight so if more boss fights on this level are added, it would make it a brilliant season for me.
I also have to say the boss fights in general are better designed now, I mean the statue and the mordrem thrasher at fort salma were both more than just hit the boss until it dies.

Hi everyone, I have not posted here before but I felt that I had to in the current break from living world that we are having at the moment and how I think it could improve.

To start with, I have to say that I am enjoying S2 so far because: the story is interesting, I like the new way of getting achievements and that dry top is very good zone (especially the uplands/oasis, they are one of the few places that I have stopped for a minute and though ‘wow, this is beautiful’). However I have to say the last 4 episodes of S1 were much more enjoyable and I will explain why below.
Origins Of Madness:
Marionette was hands down the best thing in game for me, I absolutely loved it.
Wurm was impossible at the start but I liked failing for my server!
Scarlet’s lair was good with the hints at attacking LA and all that.
Edge of the mists:
Just dialogue story-wise, but very interesting dialogue especially the bit about Omadd’s machine.
Battle For LA:
The breachmaker fight was epic and had a feeling of ‘this really matters’ to it. decently designed fight too.
Scarlet’s End was a good finale… And that cutscene after it was so awesome I couldn’t believe it (map chat was everyone going ‘MORDREMOTH!!!’ in all caps as well lol)

But the main thing that I think those episodes had over S2 is the mystery of them (everyone thinking ‘is it Mordremoth?’). Personally on the breachmaker fight I was literally saying ‘please mordremoth, please mordremoth’ and on the end cutscene I was going ‘this has to be it’ and when we saw him open his moth and roar I was so happy that we were going to fight another elder dragon. But in season 2, now I KNOW that it’s mordremoth, I am just not enjoying it quite as much though I am still liking it nonetheless. I would like to know what all of you think on this subject. I am also hoping they can develop the ending cutscene of DR: Part 2 into something that gives me a similar feeling to the end of season 1.