Guild Wars 2

Astralporing.1957:

OriOri.8724:

B – This change will help enforce needing teh stats. Now you actually have to build for condition duration if you want it, instead of having stupidly easy ways to hit 100% duration and then going tanky and just kiting while you outlasted their cleanses. This is literally what this change is implementing, so how can you be upset over it?

You do realize that “stupidly easy way to get 100% condi duration” required getting a condi duration gear and traits, right? And that it wasn’t even possible at all for some of the condi classes?

Kusumura.8642:

Astralporing.1957:

Don’t expect power builds to have anything close dps-wise to the good old condi builds. What’s likely to happen is just nerfing necro condi into the ground, making the (mostly useless) power builds the only option.

Power Engineers would like a word.

As far as i know, power engi is not a necro build, is it?

Did you read the rest of the thread? Someone linked to a WP stream where he showed they were working on putting power reaper back in action (since, you know, that’s what Reaper was meant to be in its original design and all)

KiLLiAN.5629:

Still bugged. Here’s how I did it:

1) I avoided both sets of traps.
2) Killed the wolves, met Taimi.
3) Did the part with 4 saurian bones and talked with the NPC.
4) Went back to trigger only the 2nd set of traps and killed the mobs. Achievement buff disappeared.
5) Went back to the room with Saurian bones.
6) Achievement unlocked.
7) YAAAY!

Worked for me as well. Thanks!

Riku.4821:

Let me restate my point.
Using the mystic forge is a RNG mechanic that has a chance to get the precursor.
Trying to loot the precursor is the same.
Both of these are to add longevity to the game.
Yes some of the things are RNG related, but the actual precursor after getting these things is not.

Did I clear this up or is it still confusing? I am terrible at explaining things

Problem is, this isn’t RNG as in farming something until you get the right drop—which would be fine because you’re actually playing the game, it’s RNG for the boss to appear—and it seems to be ridiculously rare. That forces you to stand around in one spot to find it, and that’s not adding longevity to the game, it’s preventing you to play it.

Alaryk.6310:

I bought it off the TP and 60g later I bet its still cheaper than if I was to continue this precursor crafting. I don’t know how many ascended mats it will take to build the two parts but if its anything like the other 2h weapons it will cost you more than it would to straight out buy off the TP. The only reason you would want to do this, is if you want those AP, other than that just save the money and buy it off the TP to save yourself the headache of standing in Dry top for something that might not spawn for days.

Actually underwater precursors are the cheapest out of all the precursors to craft (that includes crafting the first tier and how much you need for the second tier).

Still I feel like putting a rare enemy that appears randomly and only for 15 minutes in a precursor collection was a bad design on Anet’s part.

Going to bump the thread here. Got 100% central tyria completion, got no rewards for Drytop, Southsun or Silverwastes. Now I just finished VB exploration and got no reward for it either, which is a lot more annoying for the collection and legendary weapon gift. Filed a bug report, but I’m posting here too, hoping they can fix this soon.

By the way, I saw that you reported Ogden didn’t accept the ale—you can give it to him the The Durmand priory instance (use another staircase around the Priory room in the open world than the one you use to enter Arcana Obscura)

Having the same issue, I filed a bug report, hopefully it’ll be fixed soon.

Maybe we should bring this to NCSoft instead? I’m guessing they’re the ones who own whatever server we connect to here in Europe…

Misterdeeply.8764:

Hiya, I tried changing my DNS address it the meantime and it seems to be stable now.

I’ve put it on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

I’ve tried this and it seems to work (I managed to log in at least) using this tutorial

eta: nevermind, doesn’t work anymore.

Belgian user with Belgacom here.
This has been happening to me too since yesterday. I managed to play last night but kept losing connection, and every time I had to wait 10-15 minutes before I could log back in (and in the meantime I got error 42:1000:7006:1322), and it’s happening again right now