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The Thunderstrike Harvesting Tool comes with a Glyph of the Leatherworker. You can buy that separately on the TP via its unbound version, currently priced at ~400-500 gems. Put another way, if you want the glyph anyhow, convert ~340 gold to gems & buy the tool. That's a 15-35% discount on the glyph plus you get the gathering tool skin, for free. Other notes: it's loud and it doesn't seem slower than the standard glyph. Hopefully, someone will eventually publish a timed test to compare.

Retail Values: 2050 gems + 150 BL statuettes Winter Monarch Outfit: 700 gemsGlacial Glider: 500 gemsImmortal Weapon Choice: available only in packages & sometimes for 150 BL statuettesTotal Makeover Kit: 350 gems (also available at 10 BL statuettes)Winter Chimes Dye Kit x5: 500 gemsThere are a variety of ways to value BL statuettes, the simplest being 10-25 gems each (representing the value of gem shop items available for statuettes) or 84 gems each (representing the cost to buy them indirectly via BL keys, ignoring the contents of the chests). Using the lowest value, the Immortal Weapon can be valued at1500 gems. tl;dr not a great bargain except for those who want the _Immortal Weapon_(if you do want an Immortal, the _Winter's Solstice Package_ is another option that might be available soon)

Great! Glad that worked (much faster than my recommendation).

I don't ever remember having to avoid the poison in the manner @Gorkus.7496 describes and I've completed Straits in the last six months, too. So I think if the Temple of Balthazar is under Pact control, the statue should be clear of poison and the wiki simply hasn't been updated. (In fact, trying to find information on the 'corruption' and where/when it takes place is kind of tricky. I'm not at all sure where to look, even for Malchor's Leap, where I'm more familiar with the mechanics of the map.) tl;dr if you can, park the toon at the statue, and just swap back whenever you can and (I believe) eventually it will just work without an issue.

In PvE servers don't exist anymore anyway, it is all one mega server with sharding. Or do you mean RPing in WvW? then you can join a RP alliance. It does exist, shards attempt to pair people while picking them from the same server first, then they add more to fill the rest through the megaserver system when they can't. With servers fumbling and changing, this won't happen anymore. Yes megaservers killed this a bit, but it is still there. I can see roleplay all the time in divinity reach since i'm from Tarnished coast. If you aren't there, then try going to DR and check yourself so you can see any or not.This is a change to WvW; it has nothing to do with PvE. It will have no impact on how roleplaying works now in PvE. It will arguably be easier to roleplay in WvW, because all you'd need to do is belong to the same guild, whereas currently you'd have to be part of the same world which might or might not be locked.

I am not sure that we can say that the times need adjusting after less than a day into the new races, especially since some people are getting gold. (I say this as someone who is going to struggle to get silver.)

The conditions under which ANet actually suspends are so generous that there are tons of threads with people complaining about botters, because other players can't tell the difference between scripted and non-scripted farming. All they ask is that one pays attention to whispers, not even those from players, just the ones from GMs which are in a very different color from the others. i typed in local chat "that was weird, anyone here?" (knowing only GMs can move you) when i was moved because there was no whisper from a gm.Then appeal the decision to ANet. Typing in /say doesn't count as responding to a GM. They have strict protocols about when to suspend and it would be surprising if it turned out that a GM skipped the step of whispering. But if they did, ask them to overturn it and they almost certainly will. I know a fair number of people who load up GW2 while working, because their job is so undemanding that they have the time & attention to manage both. That part of the story is entirely plausible. However, the cutoff before ANet suspends is incredibly generous. They don't do it because someone missed a single message. In short: don't tell us; tell them.

The conditions under which ANet actually suspends are so generous that there are tons of threads with people complaining about botters, because other players can't tell the difference between scripted and non-scripted farming. All they ask is that one pays attention to whispers, not even those from players, just the ones from GMs which are in a very different color from the others.

Fees have all sorts of impacts. The listing fee of 5% is there to reduce the use of the TP as alternative storage. The exchange fee is a gold sink, to reduce the supply of gold (which slows inflation and means new players don't have to earn 1000s of gold to afford basic gear). Neither has all that much direct impact on flipping; fees reduce the efficiency of all flips, creating a higher floor for marginal flips & making "obvious" flips less profitable (e.g. selling a 2g item for 4g is still great, just not as great) The combined fees also prevent "regional arbitrage," i.e. someone buying something during EU supply peaks to sell a few hours later during NA demand peaks.

Put another way: the reason some of these things are profitable is not that many people know about them. If you want to whisper me about something you're considering, I'll be happy to let you know the sort of things to watch out for.

On NA, ip/61, there was someone porting (I didn't check to see if the events were stalled; just pointing out that folks don't necessarily need to wait to finish some of the related achievements) I believe Vayne still has a toon there, for people in the North America region. (Hopefully the timing works out, since Vayne, like Rust, never sleeps.)

Retail value: 1700 gems ~50 gems: 20 Slot Black Lion Satchel360 gems: (5) Black Lion Chest Key (keys are normally 5 for 450; they are discounted 20% this week)640 gems: (5) Heroic Booster0 gems: Desert Explorer Kit (150x trade contracts, 15x trader keys, 5x UnID common|blue gear, 1 treasure hunting kit)650 gems: Black Lion Sample Pack (1x recovery package, 2x tradesman packages, 5x transmutation, 5x unID dye) Not recommended: 1700 gems retail sounds good, but it's more like 1050 gems worth of useful stuff for a lot of players. For 140 extra gems, you get a better value from the PoF Survival package, which has the same boosters & transmutation charges, twice as many keys (plus a golden one), and a Makeover Kit. Retail Value: ~2580 gems 0 Gems: (5) Teleport to Friend (not directly available)500 gems: Makeover Pack (Total Makeover Kit + 5x transmutation charges)1440 gems: Black Lion Key Set (10x BL keys + 1x Golden Key, roughly 1800 gems retail & 1440 today)0 gems: Desert Explorer Kit (150x trade contracts, 15x trader keys, 5x UnID common|blue gear, 1 treasure hunting kit)Conditional recommendation: This is a good deal if you regularly buy BL keys anyhow, need a makeover kit, and are running out of boosters.

Total value Without estimated values: 2900With estimate: 4200 gems (includes the value of the random BL skin, getting a more expensive outfit, and valuing a golden lion key at ~10 regular ones)Good deal only if you really like the RNG dyes and a golden lion key.

And incidentally, you do craft legendary armor; the recipes are unlocked via collections which are completed primarily (not exclusively) through raiding, as well as one of the mats/currencies. It requires a lot of PvE, too.

Have you considered that this game might not be your cup of tea?

They were and then an update caused people who hadn't earned them in GW1 to have access to the titles, AP, and skins. they tried to fix it twice that we know about, with the problem returning. The current system is the compromise worked out. 99.9% of the time, we don't know (or need to) about how it works. a few times each year, mostly when something else has gone wrong, the two systems don't communicate well and folks get messages. Seems like an okay tradeoff compared to spending dozens, perhaps hundreds of hours trying to find the root cause, which might not be enough even then.

This is one of the cases of ANet Consistency™ The game includes: Gear that can be salvaged, extracted, forged.Gear that cannot be salvaged, extracted, or forgedGear that can be salvaged, but not forgedGear that can be forged, but not salvaged or extracted.Gear that can be extracted, but not salvaged or forged.I'm sure I've missed a permutation.Fortunately, this mostly only applies to a tiny fraction of rare & exotic gear (and all gear bought with karma). I think rather than making a list of each individual situation, I'd rather ANet did a complete overhaul, where they started with a plan for how they want gear to work. Since that's unlikely to happen in our lifetime, I'd like them to simply include in the description if an item can't be salvaged or extracted or forged. (Yeah, those descriptions are getting long, aren't they? It's still the most efficient way to make sure people don't accidentally lose something.)

The description: From the wiki: The Copper- plus the Silver-Fed retail for a combined 1300 gems, so 1100 gems is a steal for anyone who doesn't yet own either.

Good point.

But... I can't summon the enthusiasm for that; been there, done that. So I'm aiming for a more manageable, smaller list. Later, once I've got a useful build, I'll do some exploring and update the menagerie.

Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Here's the list I've come up with based on the comments and re-reviewing the main build websites. Anything that you'd cross off? Anything essential missing in your opinion? TerrestialBlack Moa (requires 15 points in the GW1 HoM)Bristleback (requires HoT)Brown BearDrakehoundElectric Wyvern (requires HoT)Fern HoundIboga (requires PoF)Jacaranda (requires PoF)LynxMurellowOwlPink MoaRock Gazelle (requires PoF)Smokescale (requires HoT)WarthogWolf AquaticArmorfishLashtail DevourerRiver Drake I hadn't noticed until attempting to put the list together that Snowcrows doesn't actually list pets for half their builds. They assume a raider will know which pets to take (which is reasonable considering their target audience). DT does and MB sort of does (although you have to recognize the icons and they don't always make it easy to find recommended alternatives). On the whole, I can imagine it's a lot harder for a player new to the game than for a veteran new to ranger gameplay. updated: per @Bright Oblivion.2856's suggestion, included requirements for the pets