Gorkus.7496

I'm not happy with the change either. What a punishment it is for the ways I like to play. I get that there are benefits for certain builds, but my PvE play is outright broken with this. Try to keep up with a horde in the silverwastes and tag enough creatures to grab a gold: Can't. While I'm waiting for my best skills to cool down from the prior battle minutes ago, others are laying waste to the mobs using their best skills. I'm only participating in every other battle. I liked the rifle, forge for up close and rifle for ranged. No more. Gotta change to the holo sword in order to take advantage of all that permanent heat or be left behind by the horde. Personally, if they just let the forge cool down normally while mounted, it would be fine or reduced the cool down time on switching. But no. So I'm forced to revert to melee only holo sword. It makes me laugh (to keep from crying) as my old main was a weaver that got her stability nerfed and made her super brittle. It seems whenever I find something uncommon I like about GW, they kill it for PvP reasons. Oh well, I guess I'll have to become a scourge like everyone else. *sigh*

Merry 25th of Dec, it's still broken. I tried on a skyscale and all other mounts, on the ground, lying down, while dancing, while playing another game, etc. Nada. I tried reloading, attempting prior and after the concert, I tried at midnight, early this morning , sometime last week and multiple times in the future. Nothing. Thanks for the Black Lion Claim ticket though.

Everyone else said unbound magic, but I say volatile. I bought those over a year ago and they have made me rich. The volatile magic can be traded for Trophy or Leather shipments that are very lucrative, more lucrative that the Magic Warped Bundles. Then again, you'd have to play the LWS4 maps to get those trinkets. But you could use the extra money you've made with the volatile magic to buy a LWS4 Black Lion Expedition Board for your home instance and then just sit back and collect the map currencies needed for trinkets without ever having to visit a map. Ideally, having both is better, but if I had to choose one, the volatile is better over all, just not specifically for getting trinkets.

May I suggest Weaver. The thing is, it is the most complicated class to play. At least that's what everyone says. It may be due to the fact that the weaver class has more skills than any other, 26! For me, the (sword/dagger) weaver (human female, light armour) is the most aesthetically pleasing of all the classes. Everything she does is done with flair and a lot of colorful special effects. Her sustain is unreal. And though she doesn't do max dps, she ends up resurrecting many zerg players who do. To me, the advantage is that as a Weaver, you are a melee magic user. How cool is that? Then when necessary, switch to staff and have the biggest dps in the game. Another aesthetically pleasing class is the Holosmith. They do lots of dps and armed with a rifle, can be deadly both in close combat and at range. It's an ideal killing machine. My build is all out attack, so I need a friendly weaver to res me once in a while.

Personally, I like the Condi Weaver. It's true, she does less dps than most, but here sustain is unreal. I don't do max damage, but I sure res a lot of players who do. As an aside, I've actually had players criticize my weak build as I'm resurrecting them.

I recently stumbled across a group farming shiny baubles in the Pale Reaver section of Verdant Brink, and I joined. While playing, others spoke that the farm would last only until Thursday when the Map bonus changed. Fair enough, but I can't for the life of me find a list anywhere, including on the wiki, that shows the map bonus rotation by week for verdant brink (or any of the HoT maps for that matter). There is a simple list, naming of a few of the map bonuses in no particular order, but no definitive list of what and when like the Tyria maps have. Anyone know what the rotation is or know of a link to a list somewhere?Thanks

Anyone know why the trading post price of Pile of Coarse Sand has risen so dramatically since July 28th 2020. I read the release notes from that date, but still, I don't see a clue why the price went from 2 copper to just under a silver. The price has been next to worthless for years, then boom.

The stability from using a stance is gone, no? Just to reiterate, I now have to retool skills and I'm slow at doing that. I know this is a case of wanting some whine with my cheese, but it took me a long time to get used to playing and I keep getting cc'd where I wasn't before. I apologize if my (minor) frustration isn't worth listening to.

Kind of a necro but here goes... I don't play PvP. I'm too old and slow (took me 2 1/2 months to figure out my weaver was broken - I thought it was me getting older and slower) and play on a standard keyboard and mouse. I loved, LOVED playing with the Weaver as it allowed me to stay alive long enough to enjoy the game. That's gone now. I'm back to when I first started playing, dying all the time just in PvE. All I can say is thanks Anet for only thinking about PvP and ignoring the needs of other types of players. It kind of makes me feel that if I don't play PvP, Anet simply wants me to find another game to play. As an aside, the Weaver was my main character, the one I started with, the one I've invested most of my time playing. I had come to love my little weaver, and now she is in traction in the hospital and I don't know if she'll recover. It took me soooo loooong to get used to the build and now I'll have to tinker with some of the suggestions from above, but like I said, I'm old and slow. It seems like my best option is to grab a staff and find a group to hide in. No more wandering Tyria on my own as a couple of veterans can down me once again.

Using many of these suggestions, I was able to gain some nice speed and get close (to the end of the Not So Secret JP). I got to the end chest, but can't past those last two spinners along the diving goggles path. I'm stumped as to what I'm doing wrong, but I just can't land on the second spinner pad. I've aimed a little left, a little right, dead center and everywhere else in between, and always miss. This last time, the time that drove me hear with my tail between my legs, I aimed dead center and hit the bullseye perfectly, only to fly right over the top, past the pad and into the chasm. I haven't a clue how to make those last two spinners work right and I'm embarrassed to say how long I've been trying. I've watched several videos and even witnessed a few players just whiz past me perfectly hitting the mark. What do they know that I don't?

It would, but then I'd have to ask how to get 100% boon duration. I suppose that would require a whole new set of gear. Hmm... Food for thought. Thanks. It would be cheaper/less hassle to pay for a port (instead of gear/etc). I say this because, having made quite a few legendaries (and getting mounts)--doing some of these JP's are for only the mentally insane. Seriously, if you ever decide to TRY 'Chalice of Tears' JP--please come back to this post and update me on how much hair you have left, lol. I say that because, I am TERRIBLE at JP's--and while NSS JP is tough--I was able to do it--but Chalice---WOW.....designed by the devil himself! In any event. gl mate.LOL, I started my mesmer character specifically after watching a video on Chalice. There seems to be no logical reason to even attempt that JP without a memser's portal. I hear what you are saying about the costs of gear vs a port. I'll probably end up buying a port in the end, but I wanted to try, once again, to beat the NSS on my own. It's kind of my nemesis at this point, Chalice not withstanding. I am so used to JP's with my swift ele, that the slow mes really throws me off.

It would, but then I'd have to ask how to get 100% boon duration. I suppose that would require a whole new set of gear. Hmm... Food for thought. Thanks.

Perhaps not, but it sure helps. What I do know is that swapping between two speeds really messes me up. :)

Hi everyone. I have a mule mesmer that I wanted to use to get through the Not So Secret Jumping Puzzle. I have done 90% of the JPs in the game, but never completed that one on my own. I paid a mesmer 10 gp to get me to the diving goggles about a year ago after trying for a few weeks to get to the top with my very swift elementalist. The thing is, I am having trouble with the mesmer because I can't get constant swiftness and my lack of focus means I loose swiftness mid jump and fall. Is there any way to get a good (time) amount of swiftness with the mesmer without having to use skills to get it up and running? If not, which is the simplest way to get a longer swiftness boon? I am currently using the signet which procs 5 secs of swiftness every 10 secs. The on and off feature of this method is not working for me at present. Any suggestions?

Hello Gorkus. I explain the why of this thread in my previous post, last two paragraphs, but I can understand that people may not want to read the whole thing especially as it's in answer to Ojimaru.8970. I initially made this thread because I didn't believe support would get back to me in time so figured I would ask here if any others were having this problem in case it was a bug on my end or something like that. Since then I have garnered more information from other sources so i decided to update this thread with the relevant information. From my previous post, _"I posted this thread to gather information which I did, to make people and maybe Anet themselves aware there is a potential issue and lastly to give an update as to what the response from support was that another player received as I know quite a few others have this problem. This way the information of why they cant buy the prep pack is here and available to everyone without them having to contact support as they are busy enough as it is. There is also the small, small chance Anet will see this and make a change in the future so core players can indeed buy pack.... especially since all these item can be bought individually by core accounts, not sure about f2p one as I haven't checked that out yet."_ I apparently, accidentally, deleted the first ascended weapon I ever made. In a panic I asked Anet, and within 2 days, they had given back to me that which I had lost. They are more helpful than people know. The fact that Anet has staff dedicated to returning deleted equipment is amazing, truly. The number of times and labor hour cost to maintain that kind of support is amazing. I don't know for sure, but I bet if you contacted them and described the problem, they might offer you a satisfactory solution, even if the item in question is no longer available on the trading post. In the end, the game is nothing but a database. Adding or subtracting something isn't a big deal, it's just time-consuming for Anet. But like my Grammy told me, only the squeaky cog gets the grease. Anyway, I wish you the best.

I would like to say that Illconceived Was Na.9781 has proven to be one of the most helpful and respectful people on this board and in the game in general. Does that mean that you two can't disagree, of course not. Just know that I believe that Mr. Ill has no ill intentions. I know this from the myriad of other posts I have read, penned by Mr. Ill. Remember that 93% of communication is non-verbal. When we text, we don't see body language (55%) or hear tone (38%). When the words alone make up only 7% of communication, is it any wonder people get misunderstood all the time in our current world of insta-text?

I have another thread in Players Helping Players with almost the same complaint, but a different chapter. After reading this thread, I want to flog a dead horse, just to be sure. So, I have to finish a LWS2 chapter with a character and then go back and redo sections of that chapter to even qualify for an achievement opportunity, is that right? Or do I have to finish the entire S2 story first, before attempting achievements?

I don't understand why you just don't contact Anet directly and ask them. If you have already, then disregard this suggestion, obviously.

2nd Update: Yes Virginia that is a Warclaw on my lawn! As some have said, in the end, it wasn't too hard at all to get the Warclaw. Perhaps the biggest stumbling block was flipping the keep. But eventually, even that happens a bunch of times. In fact, I am having so much fun in WvW, I'm going to stop typing and get on my mount, Woody. Thanks for all the help folks!

I've never been an achievement hunter. Until today I had never chased an achievement save for the Good Apple title. Playing my second character through LW Season two, I thought I'd go for it and looked up the possible achievements for my current story, Into The Labyrinth. There were/are three, Connect the Dots, Labyrinth Runner and Master of the Maze. I should have received the first and third upon completion of the instance, but got neither. The first, Connect the Dots requires you to retrieve your companions in a specific order, Rox, Braham, Jory and Kas. I did that. The third requires to not be caught by the Mordrem Lurker. He never caught me. He never attacked me nor I it. The instructions aren't clear if the requirement applies for just the player or the entire party. Members of my party did fight it, just not me and I wasn't even close. I can forgive not getting that achievement, but the first one I don't understand at all. It was simple enough, find the party in order and I did. Since Google showed no results for this being a known bug, has anyone experienced this or have any clues as to what I could have done wrong? Any advice on how to properly avoid the Lurker would also be helpful. Thanks for reading. UPDATE: It is possible my issue is the same as the one in this topic: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/84088/problems-whit-achievements-during-lw-s2#latest

UPDATE: All the suggestions were terrific. My second foray into WvW was far different than my first. T6 Participation, lots of pips, caps, chests and reward track. Thanks again to everyone

I know. It was embarrassing and frustrating at the same time. But ya gotta start somewhere right?

This is like opening up a book and being bothered that you don't know the ending when others have read it. Just take the time to read the book or in this case get the mount, it isn't really hard if you like WvW. I respect your opinion, but I would argue it's more like opening a book with a bunch of classmates only to find the text is in a foreign language and everyone but you can read it. And then you're handed a quiz. I would also argue that the fact that I am here asking questions indicates a desire to learn to read that language, wouldn't you agree?

Team up and roam with one or two other of the mount-less sounds like the plan. ty