Guild Wars 2

Some back story on these: (1) You need 1 crystalline dust and any combo of 9 orbs such as beryl orbs, crests, and doubloons separated into 3’s in the mystic forge to make 1. (2) You have to have 250 of these amalgamated gemstones to make the crystalline ingots needed to finish the new Maguuma legendaries.
I don’t understand why these were necessary as an ingredient for crystalline ingots especially when it says on the item definition that it’s for polish for precursor crafting not legendary! Also as of tonight the price of them has gone up to 2g 25s and every orb, crest, and doubloon has gone up as well. When Anet said that they were looking at helping out the market for lower priced items, this is not what I was thinking they had in mind! I thought they would actually introduce something to help out the silver and gold markets not the orbs and crests which were already over the 5s a piece before the expansion. Now they are 17s to 18s each and they aren’t that easy to find since a drop is not guaranteed per farming a tier 5 or 6 ore or wood node. If we needed something jewelry related for crystalline ingots why not have used something silver or gold instead of amalgamated gemstones which require so much in themselves and costing over 450g for a full stack? So much for being able to craft a Maguuma legendary in a month like they said and cheap of them to use something already created from Silverwastes that was 1g before the expansion. Anet should have chosen a better option than amalgamated gemstones for their Maguuma legendaries which would have had a better outcome in the market than amalgamated gemstones that were already expensive.

Those of us who are going for HOPE know this too well. Most of the time the event for defending Union Waypoint doesn’t spawn a champ after retaking Union Waypoint because people kill High Priestess Lyssa before the event comes up (which takes a good 10 min after the recapture). Could we have a different Champ Wraith for the Crystalline phial to corrupt because of the timing of the Lyssa event in general (which takes up to 3 hours or more and is unpredictable) and the lack of community support to wait just 5-10 min after reclaiming Union Waypoint before killing Lyssa so the champ wraith can spawn? People tell me to come in the morning, well what if I have work in the morning and can only come in the afternoon or evening and trust to luck I get it? Unlikely. Please Anet, please consider a different champ wraith that is more predictable and less confusing of an event chain dependent on the death of a consecutive boss.

So then I’m stuck on the first collection for HOPE. Atlalli wasn’t talking to me at first for the poison test. I reloaded on a new Timberline Falls map and she did then so I finished the chapter 1 for poisons, though my journal in my inventory didn’t appear as a Chapter 1 like it did in my collections. I talked to her again to purchase the Filtered Honey recipe but she wasn’t selling it to me. Did I miss something or is it bugged for me?

Ok got it, thanks! Took a few seconds of a blank screen lol

Same, I have the full client downloaded but it loads and then crashes after I sign in.

Overall I thought the stress test was a success, didn’t disconnect and some skill lag of about 3 seconds but wasn’t too hard to overcome. The only bugs I noticed was the handgliding system.. the vertical ascension was either laggy or just difficult to use because of rubber-banding effects. I had pointed my camera down to look at where to jump, so maybe that was why I couldn’t land too well? Even after I got better at it, I still had an error message that I was leaving the beta area lol
On the mace 2 skill for Revenant, I noticed was a combo field for fire but it doesn’t have “combo field: fire” in the description of the skill (thought that was noteworthy). The other skills of the new class seem to be OK so far, I really liked that the hammer has 2 blasts, even if both use groundtargeting. Seeing a lot of potential for the Revenant!
Everything else looked great, the events were fun lots of time to practice the new skills and explore the class a bit. The environment looks amazing, can’t wait to explore more!

Randulf.7614:

I’m confused. What ring is this and what is it for? I can find Caithe’s Blossom, Palgue Signet and Wynne’ Locket, but no mention of the ring in this thread?

The Verata’s Seared ring is for the luminescent pants collection. Wynne’s Locket you earn after finishing all the story achievements for this episode are for the luminescent boots collection. It’s a little ridiculous that I can only get the Verata’s ring for 1000 bandit crests and 10g when more than likely I will have to purchase all three carapace boot chests for 3000 bandit crests and 3g total. (I do thank Anet for letting us collect all the carapace pants from completing the Living Story) So I’m hoping they will have the Verata’s Ring available with the Laurel vendor to give us the option for purchasing it with laurels.

Yeah Caithe’s Blossom and Plague Signet are now available with Laurel vendors, so I’m hoping they can add that ring too. And I have gold, but I just don’t like that I need to buy a trinket for one, if not more, for the new armor with gold and that much gold. I guess what I’m implying is that the Verata’s Seared ring is not something you can get after finishing the Living Season episode achievements, so then if it’s not being sold by the Laurel vendor then it probably won’t be available after the season is over.

So I saw the past two trinkets you receive as rewards for doing all the Living Season achievements for purchase with the Laurel vendor. Will the Verata’s Seared Ring be available for purchase in two weeks with laurels same as the previous trinkets? I don’t really like paying out 10g for a ring I need for only one piece of the luminescent armor. Not to mention I’ve already paid out 2g for the gloves the last episode, and we still have 2 more pieces of armor to go.