7:18 am, October 22, 2014
Even though the Black Lion Trading Company started celebrating Halloween early, we’re not out of festival goodies yet! Read on to learn about this week’s new offerings, plus li [..]
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7:18 am, August 25, 2014
.. are as follows:
1x Experience Scroll - Boosts character to level 20
1x Birthday Booster - 24-hour 100% boost to karma, magic find, WvW rank, experience and gold from kills
1x Skill point scroll - [..]
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7:18 pm, July 9, 2014
If you werent able to check out Episode 2 of Points of Interest last Friday, the video is available now on the Guild Wars 2 YouTube channel. Our host Kate Welch is joined by Narrat [..]
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7:18 am, June 4, 2014
Its a busy week here at the Black Lion Trading Company! From a license to allow you to learn an additional crafting profession on each character to an eye-catching new finisher and returning minia [..]
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9:16 am, April 16, 2014
In the new wardrobe Anet wants us to buy new transmutation charges. But I feel Anet can make plenty of money without these charges.
How? Improve the BLC rewards. [..]
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9:16 pm, April 8, 2014
Im proud to present you with this weeks newest offerings from the Black Lion Trading Company! Were bringing you three beautiful miniature birds for your collection and a drum that will revolutioni [..]
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8:16 pm, March 28, 2014
Hello again Tyria! There are a lot of great new changes happening in the Mists with rewards, gear, build-making, and more! Its incredibly exciting to finally be able to share with you all of the updat [..]
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8:16 pm, March 14, 2014
Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.co...ng_power_sucks/
tso said:The problem is not the numbers, it is the ham fisted mob design.
We can see this clearly when a mob gets zerg scaled, as it magnifies [..]
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2:16 am, February 24, 2014
What is Damage Downtime?: DDT is the time spent not attacking that is unrelated to an attack's central action window.
What increases DDT?: Dodges, Movement, Knockdowns, Interrupts, Fear, etc.
Why ca [..]
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7:10 pm, November 22, 2013
As some of you are certainly aware, in GW1 it was fairly commonplace to receive a drop that was essentially a piece of armor you couldn't use (say it was for the wrong size or species for example) yet [..]
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8:16 pm, November 19, 2013
Well after looking over these new previews for the next update I found myself immensely underwhelmed, and even bordering on offended. This is primarily because I dont play Fractals, and dislike gettin [..]
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8:16 am, November 18, 2013
So at this stage I'm mostly just the guy who wrote that lore summary once and drops by like once every year to contribute something, probably half-finished, and then leaves because Guild Wars 2 just h [..]
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2:53 am, October 30, 2013
Just something i thought was important. Events with champions like the cyclops need to give item drops or chests. I enjoy killing the cyclops and it takes a decent sized group and some time to do. I d [..]
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5:17 pm, October 9, 2013
Not sure if it's a bug or intended but a few of us noticed on hotw, coe, se and other dungeons that the mobs that usually give 10-20 silver are not giving any silver at all anymore...even some of the [..]
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11:08 pm, October 6, 2013
So this may be a stupid question...
Where is all the good loot at? I understand that this is a "different" MMO, but why can't there be ANY decent loot in instances or something difficult li [..]
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11:42 am, October 6, 2013
http://gamasutra.com...nomy_Review.php
QuoteWith the exception of craft materials, the pre-endgame item economy is broken. As an example, I can buy a L39 coat of green (good, better than blue) qualit [..]
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9:14 pm, October 5, 2013
It always feels like they never ever test their updates themselves. It's like they add random skills onto a mob and think about it theortically and go "yup, feels balanced, I think the new skill [..]
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10:44 am, October 5, 2013
I originally posted this topic on the official forums but as it's most likely to be burried there, I want to open the discussion here too.
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9:57 pm, October 4, 2013
First i wanna say there are many things that aren`t right in pve,but there are also many that are amazing,so this is not just another random bashing thread.
I played 500+ hours,and i played since rel [..]
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3:18 pm, October 4, 2013
So I just finished the jumping puzzle at SS. Getting up to the top wasn't terribly hard, but it took a modicum of effort. The reward for that was a green level 76 item, a sapphire orb, and a green lev [..]
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8:44 am, October 4, 2013
I did the whole, custom, buy order thing on Rare daggers in the hopes of getting Spark.
So I've spent 250g already, made about 100g back thanks to exotics.
But seriously.. Is this what Anet intended [..]
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7:22 am, October 4, 2013
Just a reminder to everyone to hold onto your Black Lion Keys for the upcoming winters day event, we might have special loot drops from black lion chests like we had in Halloween, so don't use them ju [..]
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4:02 am, October 4, 2013
So, I went to play today after a somewhat big patch, and I noticed mobs are circle strafing me, dodge rolling and interrupting casts.
I also noticed I am getting level 75-80 drops on all the zones, w [..]
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3:38 am, October 4, 2013
is there another viable way of making gold? With the latest updates concerning DR and the lowered frequency of drops and DE's in the Cursed Shore, it's a pain to farm there. I used to be able to get a [..]
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2:27 am, October 4, 2013
Anet own quote "Were a company of passionate gamers with one mission: to make Guild Wars 2 the best MMORPG ever created."
Since for some, including myself, the game is no where as great as [..]
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9:16 pm, October 3, 2013
Anyone figure out the secret sauce to Aether Key Piece drops?
I saw 3 drop yesterday while doing my normal open world wood chopping and daily competition. One in a short TA dungeon [..]
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7:49 pm, October 3, 2013
--> First of all,if you are a fanboy with a biased opinion that is unable to express your opinion in a reasonable manner or read about what other people think without getti [..]
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9:13 pm, October 2, 2013
There are many threads in the official Guild Wars 2 forums and I had to weave in and out of them to find this specific post but here is the quoted copied text from Robert Horuda (content designer). Th [..]
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5:21 pm, October 2, 2013
I've been plinking along in Lornar's Pass for weeks now. Jumping in killing a few mobs and then jumping out sometimes for days. But, I've noticed something after getting hardly any or no loot drops fo [..]
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2:39 pm, October 2, 2013
my favors are:
- 20+ man raids
- arena's
- harder dungeons
- drops with 0,1% change (at bosses)
- balanced pvp
- new spells
- weapons
- a smithing thingy where you can customize your weapons en you c [..]
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11:24 am, October 2, 2013
So I decided to check what the small update was last night after the huge bug fix/bug making update we had.
And read.
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Update:Fixed a client crash that would occur whilst using the dye panel w [..]
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6:45 am, October 2, 2013
Since I've heard a lot of comments in this forum and others of how people were "doing it wrong". Oh you're after progression/loot/etc, you're doing it wrong. Well, how are you supposed to pl [..]
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6:15 am, October 2, 2013
To preface this, let me say that I'm not trying to say "QQ I'm quitting". GW2 is still fun.
Now, on to the conspiracy theory. If you don't feel like reading a wall of text, there's a tl;dr [..]
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4:29 am, October 2, 2013
It's back!
You might remember this thread from GW1 Guru forums. This is the thread for the nastiest drops you've gotten.
So today I got 2 rares in Orr. I decided to buy 2 more and try my luck on Mys [..]
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4:19 am, October 2, 2013
Whats the most magic find u can have?
Also, does magic find affect things like crafting material drops and bag drops? ( the bags that give random loot)
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1:30 am, October 2, 2013
heya guys, i just wanna ask if u experienced the same.
im running around with full mf-gear+omnombars and sometimes the gemstore mf-buff, but still dont get golds or even exotics.
im farming cursed sho [..]
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12:59 am, October 2, 2013
I've recently started playing RIFT since it's F2P now and it's been fantastic. Yeah it's a gear grind game but you don't have to gear grind for top of the world gear (outside of dungeons is what I mea [..]
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12:04 am, October 2, 2013
^Topic.
I have to ask cause it seems like every day they have post on their Facebook to redirect to reddit answering questions and giving the playerbase a status update on, well anything and everythi [..]
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9:34 pm, October 1, 2013
I just chalked it up to luck at first, but it has become so consistent, I am starting to wodner if there is some sort of loot bug related to your class. I have had serious problems [..]
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8:55 pm, October 1, 2013
In beta weekends I found this charge to severly handicap my ability to solo areas beyond starting areas. They have reduced the cost for both of these at earlier levels so, at launch, I was willing to [..]
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8:35 pm, October 1, 2013
ArenaNet has posted a handy little guide for those of you who want a push in the right direction. Think of it as flipping through a player's guide of a game you're playing through. We'll also be pos [..]
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8:19 pm, October 1, 2013
I have been trying to work out why this is. I did not play GW1 247 for 7 years, sometimes I might have taken a month off, but that took some effect. GW2 is not holding me at all like GW1 did and Im tr [..]
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7:41 pm, October 1, 2013
According to the patch notes:
"Vials of Condensed Mists Essence no longer drop after scale 10"
I am currently on lvl 11 and still haven't seen a single Mists Essence due to my normal terri [..]
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6:49 pm, October 1, 2013
As of Yesterday
https://www.guildwar...-ascended-gear/
"This is just the beginning. In November, were only adding the first level of Infusions and Ascended Rings and Back slots, so that leaves [..]
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5:55 pm, October 1, 2013
LIVING WORLDDragon Bash
The Ship’s Council of Lion’s Arch is sponsoring Dragon Bash, a celebration of the Tyrian spirit and resolve to defeat the elder dragons. Bash on dragon pia [..]
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5:10 pm, October 1, 2013
Hello, fellow Dragon Bashers! Want to know where to go and how to get started with the celebration? Read on!
Spoiler-Free Mini Guide
Spoiler-Free New Items and Rewards
Spoiler-Free New Achievemen [..]
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4:20 pm, October 1, 2013
RNG, I understand = Random Number Generation
Which means the game will pick a random number from 1-10 and the loot that drops will depend on which number you got. For example, getti [..]
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1:12 pm, October 1, 2013
According to wiki, "Magic find is applied when a foe dies; it does not apply to loot from chests, items created in the Mystic Forge,or random drops from gathering." And I think it may not ap [..]
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12:32 pm, October 1, 2013
Before fixing anything, let's quickly identify the core problems with GW2's PvE today. And by "PvE", I mean only the open-world PvE here, not personal story or dungeons.
So, the problems:
- [..]
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11:30 am, October 1, 2013
See, this thread: https://forum-en.gui...endaries-Rework and scroll down a bit.
tldr version: not in active development, not even a final concept, just a bunch of ideas.
You can find precursors in th [..]
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10:30 am, October 1, 2013
A ****** at the Dragon Bash has thrown lions Arch into Chaos! The culprits responsible for the mayhem have holed up in their hideout. Inspector Ellen Kiel spearheaded the investigation into the ****** [..]
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9:59 am, October 1, 2013
I (and many others) thought this particular boss battle was lacking something, like for example: a battle. Hop on ship, **** some trash and wait for mahlazor to fire, then pelt dragon with fireballs u [..]
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8:46 am, October 1, 2013
I wanted to write this topic, because it really have concerned me for the past months. Orr has been known to have several bugs and stops progression of the meta event to Cathedral of Glorious Victory. [..]
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7:22 am, October 1, 2013
I was curious if exotics drop of dragons? And if so does mf gear effect chest?
Can you get level 80 exotic drops?
How rare is an exotic drop?
What is the best place to get exotic drops?
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6:48 am, October 1, 2013
I'll admit, the Fractals have been pretty fun and I'm sure there is some way to make the Ascended gear work in some way down the line. Right now though both the Fractals and Ascended gear are carrying [..]
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6:01 am, October 1, 2013
Now i know you can make gold in game easy enough (sort of) but if someone wanted to exchange gems bought with real money to buy a tier 3 cultural armor set it would cost $600 US dollars, Its not even [..]
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5:56 am, October 1, 2013
I played guild wars since just before Factions, its the best online game ive ever played, been waiting for so long for GW2. Its not a bad game, its far better value for money than most games,  [..]
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5:37 am, October 1, 2013
I have recently played my last class to level 80 and am now in the process of map completion. Having been to Orr with 5 chars before this one gave me sufficient insight to say this event has never bee [..]
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5:34 am, October 1, 2013
https://forum-en.gui...irst#post477887
Scroll down.
"Its not an exploit to skip Kholer. Hes a bonus boss that unlocks a central waypoint, drops loot, and also gives a chest.
People skip him b [..]
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2:56 am, October 1, 2013
With the February 26 update changing stealth to no longer reset monster aggro table; has stealth become useless versus all but players?
I ask this because earlier today I was working on dailies in a [..]
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2:17 am, October 1, 2013
This topic is in the form of a question because I am not trying to troll, but seeking answers or work-a rounds from the community.
My assumptions from sneaking a peak at some forums from work today: [..]
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1:35 am, October 1, 2013
Ecto's?
Does anyone else feel ecto's are over used in the game in general for too many things?
Lets just say for example you would like a legendary, an exotic skin thats hard to get, upgraded ascen [..]
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1:32 am, October 1, 2013
I'm at work and I wanted to get this out quick so I apologize if its been brought up elsewhere. Redirect if it has.
I quit playing GW2 for about 4 or 5 months, only really popping in to play the sup [..]
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1:02 am, October 1, 2013
Looks like Lead Designer Isaiah Cartwright did a fairly lengthy QandA on Kotaku last night. Just thought I would post the link in case any hasn't seen it or.
So [..]
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12:37 am, October 1, 2013
Two candidates, war hero Ellen Kiel and Black Lion trader Evon Gnashblade, are trying to secure a trade agreement with the Zephyr Sanctum but neither of them can seal the deal without your support! T [..]
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12:21 am, October 1, 2013
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After reading reports in the loot issues thread, we spent more time investigating our rewards system. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we verified that all loot tables are indeed working correct [..]
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11:54 pm, September 30, 2013
SEE BOTTOM FOR TLDR.
"This game is for casuals, It's too grindy, this Tilapia is too wet".
These are the things I see on this forum, and hell, even on the official forums. If you ask anyo [..]
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11:35 pm, September 30, 2013
T6 Mat Farm Guide
(hopefully, this is in the right place!)
Much like many players, I'm dirt poor. I developed these runs in conjunction with a freind of mine, Handmade. We're both working on legendar [..]
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11:13 pm, September 30, 2013
(i had this posted on guild wars official forums but the admins destroyed it changing my posts changing the topic names and deleting multiple posts, So hopefully i can get my concerns heard properly h [..]
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11:12 pm, September 30, 2013
Anyone miss the days of going to playing an area is GW1 and hoping to get a storm bow, or a celestial skin or a chaos axe?
What about the icy dragon sword that only dropped in the imp caves?
Yes, I [..]
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11:11 pm, September 30, 2013
If you come across any undocumented changes, please post 'em here in this thread!
GENERALYou can now see titles under names [screenshots: one]
PROFESSIONSNecromancer staff sound changed/adjustedWarri [..]
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10:56 pm, September 30, 2013
Ok, letter drops through the post. By some whim of fate you now find yourself in charge of Anet. You know people have an issue with stuff to do after 80. Given that you cant spend millions on an expan [..]
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7:59 pm, September 30, 2013
How many of you have experienced regular drops while playing grawl fractal in FOTM? In last 2 days I had seen 6 members of my party get disconnected while doing the last boss in that fractal (legendar [..]
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5:14 pm, September 30, 2013
The system has 5 different types of tiers which dont have common things.They are based on different farming methods.The models are made like this because people should do different things.They shouldn [..]
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5:13 pm, September 30, 2013
In this thread we'll be discussing magic find. The benefits, the negatives & its impact on GW2 as whole. This topic has a tendency to draw opposition from bot [..]
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5:12 pm, September 30, 2013
Too many games slack off on creating dynamic environments and overlook weather and sound, resulting in the mood of the environment being too dull. Guild Wars 2 has done so many thin [..]
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5:12 pm, September 30, 2013
Guild Wars 2 is live now for 1 and a half months, and for many people (me included) is dream come true after all that long wait. Game proved to be real eye candy, also i`m quite pleased how it fairs o [..]
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5:11 pm, September 30, 2013
Its no big secret that a lot of people are having money issues at higher levels. Especially for someone like me (Working on the Incinerator), you need to save as much money as you can! So here are som [..]
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5:01 pm, September 30, 2013
GW2 has major issue with novelty of its content. The developer have spent most of their time developing each unique zone with its own content to complete and while it was incredibly [..]
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3:41 pm, September 30, 2013
Yesterday I was lv.33 when I grouped with two of my friends (68, 71) and we played in Fireheart Rise (60-70). Some things I noticed:
-) I got tons of blue and green drops and some yellow ones with o [..]
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2:41 pm, September 30, 2013
It feels like ArenaNet is turning into the evil and greedy Blizzard. I don't know if there's any hope for humanity. This Halloween event is not as fun that i hoped for,so many disappointed fans. To ge [..]
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2:20 pm, September 30, 2013
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/GetRarerItems
Visit this Steam Group. Has great detailed instructions on how to Utilize Prayer and and your Computer for Rarer Item Drops.
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2:06 pm, September 30, 2013
Its been a month? All of us are level 80 with Full Exotic Gears and LVL 400 Crafter in ALL PROFESSION. We also Chip in for 100g Commander Icon. What else to do?
Anyway, We need an [..]
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12:44 pm, September 30, 2013
I present to you the signs of a p2w items, buy able loot. And they have the items from the new harder instance. First we had OP costumes that make costume brawls a joke. Now we have buy able loot.The [..]
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12:07 pm, September 30, 2013
Based on my understanding of the Mystic Forge (and the wiki), dumping 4 items into it will generate a new random item with the same rarity (or better, ~20% chance). If four items of the same type are [..]
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11:34 am, September 30, 2013
I'm a casual player that loved GW1 and started out loving GW2. I've run into enough things that have slowly turned playing this game from enjoyable to frustrating and uninteresting, to the point that [..]
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11:24 am, September 30, 2013
Did ANet lower the drop of Dragon Coffer?
When I **** mobs now I rarely get one, before I used to get at least one every three or four kills.
Yesterday I played for almost 2 hours and I got only 3&am [..]
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11:04 am, September 30, 2013
Anyone have issue with fps drops in AC? Everyone in my guild does now. i have a 2gb gtx680, i7 at 3.5ghz, and 24gb of RAM and during path 2 and three i get drops as low as 10 fps during certain times. [..]
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10:12 am, September 30, 2013
Motos Super Adventure Box is once again open for business in Rata Sum! Enter Tyrias first and best virtual reality simulator and prepare to get schooled! The revolutionary edu-tainment experiment has [..]
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10:00 am, September 30, 2013
I expect other people have noticed this who have been farming the events in the Cursed Shore for whatever reason, karma, money items etc. It's that the longer you spend there farming the frequently re [..]
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7:48 am, September 30, 2013
So I decided to check what the small update was last night after the huge bug fix/bug making update we had.
And read.
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7:45 am, September 30, 2013
Anyone planning on waiting to complete maps/zones until higher level to get more gold/higher level gear from the reward chests?
Been some time ago, but when I was testing this I'm pretty sure you can [..]
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6:57 am, September 30, 2013
Note: This thread is not a QQ about magic find. It actually isn't about magic find at all.
Ever since GW2 was released, I've seen topics which have something to do with luck but as far as I've seen, [..]
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5:35 am, September 30, 2013
Does any anyone info about the items that can drop ?
They are for sale now at the TP
QuoteThe Consortium Chest has been added to the gem store in the Consumable category for 250 gems each or 10 for 1 [..]
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4:52 am, September 30, 2013
First off: This might be asking a lot, but please, don't turn this into a Ascended Armour QQ thread. We've already got a thread for this. This is merely a speculation thread on what people think this [..]
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4:30 am, September 30, 2013
In an effort to keep the noise down over discussing the various points hit upon by Colin's most recent post, I've taken the time to create different threads in the General Discussion forums to cover t [..]
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4:29 am, September 30, 2013
Over the past week I have bought 1600 gems with the gold I earned through playing. I used the gems for the Mining/Wood/Harvester tools.
However, I noticed the price for 100 gems is alot higher than it [..]
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4:24 am, September 30, 2013
I just finished the mini dungeons of the aforementioned name in Diessa Plateau. I had a ball. Very nice balance between difficulty and reward, loved that you have to think how to open gates etc...
We [..]
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3:56 am, September 30, 2013
Exotic and rare and masterwork all have the same 3% mf...so what's the point of the exotic tier gear?
Also, does mf affect the drops the moment you open chests or can you switch between your dps gear [..]
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3:37 am, September 30, 2013
(Opening new thread on mod suggestion to keep relevant and timely)
As people may know, unidentified dyes' drop rates spiked in (IIRC) the 11/2 patch, to the point people were getting a dozen dyes in [..]
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