Guild Wars 2

Made myself an Endless Quiver last night, just had to fork out 1g30s+ to get the remainder of Ancient Bone that I need. Since I don’t plan to go for Legendary, I don’t really have much use for all those ectos, T6 mats and skill points I have. Now time to get some Powerful Blood, got 47/250 now.

Still getting the same amount of ecto when I salvage. From the time I started playing the game till now, my ecto salvage is still the same, usually only 1-2 doesn’t give me ecto. Sometimes can get 2-3 ectos from each rares I salvage.

As for rare drops, got 2 in a row just now on a character with less than 5% magic find.

After much saving I finally got it
Now I need to find a nice dagger that goes well with the armor, any suggestions?
Currently using Mystic Crescent shortbow

@EdwinLi

Thanks for the heads up, will take note of them when I do the quest for my thief.
For my thief I prefer shortbow due to the AOE, but kitting and using skill #2 and #4 is not easy

calankh.3248:

This past week I did Battle of Claw Island and Killing Fields with a friend. Both were frustratingly difficult. We both had characters over level 60 and I have no idea how a single player would be able to do them. Especially since these missions had ZERO drops from mobs, dying so many times and incurring that much repair cost was very much not fun. Then upon completion (after we looked up where we had to be killing things for Claw Island) we got crap items and 5 bags at the end of the mission. So we lost money doing both missions -.-

So yeah, exploring areas out in the world? lots of fun, enjoying the dynamic events! missions? really dreading having to do more of them to get to the high level areas.

I solo both on my warrior, help my ranger friend on Battle of Claw Island as well. Solo I probably died once or twice. Not impossible for war and I guess guardian to solo, but other classes I am not sure, as my thief haven’t reach there yet.

stormwaltz.5368:

Hey all. First post and likely last post. I just uninstalled the game over the difficulty of a personal story mission.

I first tried the level 10 “human street rat” personal story mission “Breaking the Blade” as a level 12 Thief. I had relatively little difficulty with the previous missions, but on this one I died six times in a row. Doc Howler crushed me every time – I killed everyone else, but couldn’t get her below ~25% health. I tried different weapons and different utility skills – nothing got me any farther. So I abandoned the personal story and played the rest of the game.

This morning I returned to “Breaking the Blade” as a fully-equipped level 27 Thief. Green weapons, blue armor, all on-level. I expected to do somewhat better, but… no. Again I was killed over and over by Doc Howler, never getting her below ~25% health.

So I give up. I’ve got less frustrating games I could be playing.

I know. Whine-whine, call the waaaambulance. Normally I’d leave without saying anything, but they asked which personal story missions were unbalanced. It’s only my opinion.

I did Breaking the Blade with my thief when she was at the same level as the story, it was surprisingly easy. I can’t really remember how I beat Doc Howler, but I do remember I was using dual pistol and the other weapon set should be sword/pistol.
Probably lots of dodging, smoke, stun, pistol whip. Quinn died early in the fight, though since Doc was focusing on him early on, it helps a bit for me to unload some damage first.

For my thief, I did not have any difficulties on my personal story, she’s now on level 47-48 story and I always do my thief story at the same level or when she’s 1-2 level above.

I completed this quest with my thief with 1 death, not exactly hard, need to kite, avoid fire and burning. My thief was either same level with the quest or 1-2 levels higher. The destroyers attack in groups of like 2-3, I didn’t see any more than that at 1 time.

The NPC was never fix, since I was playing my lower level alt as well and they all die very fast on early story. Yeah story after level 60 the NPC get a big boost, they become very useful, too useful in some that one of my guild mate was saying he was having trouble getting kills.

I am not sure how the story is tested but definitely it was not tested on all classes. A story quest that is cake walk for 1 class can be hell for another. I think a simple fix to the NPC to be more useful in early story would be good.

I have played 3 different classes, a warrior, a thief and a mesmer and I can say from my experience there are definitely certain part of the story where there is a problem with the difficulty. It’s not about fighting mobs with champions or multiple mobs, it’s because certain part of the story you have no choice since you are practically thrown into the fight, right after a cutscene, etc.

In one of my warrior story I was thrown right into a fight with multiple abominations and a boss, in the end all the NPC died and I was the only one left, luckily I was over-level by a lot so I took care of them using range and kitting.

On the Claw Island story itself, I have seen multiple Vigil trying to take down lesser number of Risen and fail.

On my thief, during the circus storyline, you have to fight 3 carnies that if you are not careful can permanently keep you stun, so you had to kite them. The fight actually starts in a small room, so if you fail to leave the room good luck killing them.

The main problem to me is the NPC are practically useless, in an early story with my mesmer, where me and Logan suppose to ambush the White Mantle, Logan and all the Seraph died, seems like the ambush went the other way around lol. When you think about it, how can Logan a hero died so easily from a few White Mantles and how can when both the Seraph and White Mantle have the same amount of soldiers but the Seraph got wipe instead.

I can see how it came be very annoying and frustrating to some players when you story become a series of frustrating fights, rather than something you can enjoy.

I have played till level 70+ quest on my warrior, 30+ quests on my thief and mesmer.
Even on my warrior some of those quests are hard, I did almost all of them solo. The amount of mobs you have to handle is ridiculous and the NPC is pretty much useless, they die even faster than I did.

For my warrior is not that bad, thief as well since I can stealth and run off to heal, but on my mesmer is terrible.

One of the quest require me to fight risen, first of all they are like on constant swift mode, they move so fast that is pretty impossible to kite, and also they will always without fail go for my mesmer rather than my clones, every single time. Seems like those risen are smarter than they look. The last part of the fight was a Abomination, forgot if it was veteran or just normal but I know that I can’t knock it back. So my only crowd control skill with greatsword is useless, and I was trying to kite a super fast abomination around, I died a few times while trying to kill it.

Some how I feel that story mode should be made easier, we the players are hero in our own story, do it doesn’t make sense that we have to fight naked in our story because the mobs are hard. Either make it easier or make the NPC more useful, they need to do some damage, a couple of seraph or vigil etc should have no problem kill some risen themself.

Just to add in my 2 cents on this. It happens a lot to me while fighting underwater, the kraits I was fighting just decided to run away from the fight and turns invulnerable, this happens 2-3 times in a row and is really really annoying. Bear in mind I was in melee range, so I am not in an advantageous position where the mobs can’t hit me.

If players does not become invulnerable when we ran away, why should mobs do, they get free hits on us when we ran but when they ran they become invulnerable, doesn’t make sense. This happens on land as well, though just not as often.

I am fine with them turning invulnerable when they are in a position where the mobs are unable to hit the players. So players can’t have tactical advantage, ok fine, but it’s not fine when mobs can cheat.

Fix it or remove it, because seriously it doesn’t contribute anything to gameplay except pure annoyance.

ok just updated and check my level 80 character, yes the Mistfire Wolf Elite skill is finally fixed

Just saw that link a while ago, but the update probably haven’t roll out yet, since when I login and check it’s still lock for my level 80 character that was use to buy the DDU

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-September-13th-2012/first#post95296

I was checking out one of the level 2 character that I have, I remember I created the character before I upgrade to DDU, the Misfire Wolf Elite skill is available for this level 2 character. It’s just not available on the character that I was using when I bought the upgrade which is kind of strange. Shouldn’t it just unlock for all characters that you already have and any new character that you made once you upgrade.

Anyway still waiting for the fix, though sadly I probably won’t even be using it on my main character anymore since she’s already level 80 and I can buy all the Elite skill if I want.

DavidOrtiz.7165:

Hi everyone.

We are fully aware of the issue and the dev team is working on a fix that will be applied retroactively to all your characters, but we still don´t have an estimate time for it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I feel that this should be a priority fix, after all we did pay real money for it and it should be working right as we bought it and not having to wait for so long. Now whenever someone ask me if the DDU is worth buying I’ll tell them do not get from the store, it’s bugged.

Sandzibar.5134:

So does that mean I have to roll a whisperer order char and bank one of their guns so my original char can transmute the rifle back to its CORRECT MODEL.

Or have you been snide and made the whisper stuff soulbound making that impossible?

5 gold too… nice one.

Last I check they are soulbound, just not sure if soulbound on aquire

I have been using the whispered rifle skin since level 20ish and now I am level 60+ so you can imagine how many transmutation stones has gone to waste since they patch it. This is basically punishing players for their own mistake, so is it wrong for us to get some sort of compensation for it.

LinseyMurdock.4165:

The Whisperers skins are intended to be only acquired if you join the Order of Whispers, but unfortunately a handful of the skins were set up in core loot drops. In the other night’s patch, we fixed this bug and converted the existing weapons into the intended skin. If you acquired the weapon through the intended means (joining the Order and purchasing the exclusive skin), those weapons were not affected by the fix. Only the ones that were erroneously dropped as core loot were affected. Apologies for the mistake! If you loved the skin, I highly recommend selecting the Order of Whispers through your personal story and you’ll be able to acquire it again.

In that case please fix the icon use for Whisperers weapons that was drop as loot, because they are still showing Whisperer’s icon instead of normal icon. Because this change was never communicated properly to us players I wasted my coins buying Whispered weapons through the trading post only to receive a normal weapons.

same problem as well, the elite skill is still locked. Hopefully Anet get this resolve soon, since we paid for it. I did send a support ticket including screenshots proving I bought the deluxe edition upgrade and also that the elite skill Mistfire Wolf is lock