ugrakarma.9416

Im completing achievments left behind, and i did dive not into Strike areas yet;

- anyone can tell me a list in order of dificult?

- how is the environment for pugs?

but just to clarify im not a "new player', im just lazy/burned out to do hardcore content, sometimes i run T3 fractals and i find it ok difficult. in the past i did even an "migraine" achievment.

sry if i seem too lazy person, im just a older guy with no much "energy" left.

i dislike firebrand a lot, then i a migrated from burn guard to power dragon hunter, its a lot better.

im in SoS since begin, i find it good.

well i selled all my mats days ago, but unfortunately i spent lots of gold on full trailblazer set just 1 day before patch, was like 20g each piece.

this post show how is dangerous Anet take decisions based on forum opinions, because the most voted map here is the less played, i hope they notice that the question is about the best episode not best map.

poor end for a great saga, i enjoyed almost Bjora and Drizzlewood, are amazing maps and very lore rich, i enjoyed do achievments too;;;;

now this cheap instanced content.

i feel like we have a "secret" episode cancelled to be delivered this.

Some high end materials have 1g~2g profit like bolt of damask, elonian leather square, and deldrimor steel ingot. craft these everyday if u have abundance of basic materials i like gain 5~10 g gold everyday doing nothing....,

But beware, these stuff requires T4 materials(like linen)..., to reduce the cost at maximum, u should use level 51 character trick to open bags and get theses T4 materials, or farm Drizzlewood Coast.

About bag opener: https://scoutwarband.com/use-a-bag-opener/

About material tier:

Tier 1: Green Wood, Jute, Rawhide: Level 1-20

Tier 2: Soft Wood, Wool, Thin Leather: Level 16-33

Tier 3: Seasoned Wood, Cotton, Coarse Leather: Level 31-50

Tier 4: Hard Wood, Linen, Rugged Leather: Level 44-63

Tier 5: Elder Wood, Silk, Gossamer, Thick Leather, Ancient Wood (rare), Hardened Leather (rare): Level 59-80

U can use this site to check craft profit, or gw2 efficiency, to check if a material worth profit, or have loss when craft it.

https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/item/71334-Damask-Patch

https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator/a~0!b~1!c~0!d~1-46739

@"TeeracK.3601"

thanks,

now i understand how this mess begin.

Tyria exploration is fascinating to me, i will return to topic later

> @"Danikat.8537" said:

> > @"ugrakarma.9416" said:

> > is a work better suited to add-ons like taco.

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> I've never used Taco. How does their version work? What makes you think it's better than anything Anet could come up with?

Is a external "graphic overlay" add-on thats works only in client side. the difference between such add-on to OP suggestion is basically that actually "annotations" are pre-made by the developer of the add-on.

is a work better suited to add-ons like taco.

i find it very easy compared to shaterred observatory, first time i did it was it guys was just "exploring" it for first time.

> @"Hypnowulf.7403" said:

> So here's the problem: Casuals are money, hardcore players are not. In the hardcore mindset, the need for reward dictates that ArenaNet should be doing all they can to sate that desire for the raider's "hard work." There is little concept of recompense that I have borne witness to in raid culture. What this means is that any product that isn't _that one_ (World of Warcraft, yes) is doomed to bankruptcy. See: WildStar.

>

Anet is right, "raid economy" hurts the game. first they create a "elite group" aka experienced speed runners, then later, these speed runners just sit themselfs on LFG selling runs. but the Catch-22 of this content kill itself in long-term, so starts complaints about "no ones play its anymore", at same time they still blame pugs for game mode ruin. in WvW we see this sometimes, dudes complaining about game mode dying at same time complain when Anet try attract pugs/casuals to the game mode.

i spent my vacations farming Drizzlewood almost, is a fun, engegin meta, and at end, i completed my exordium with profit here.

But think what if u spend 1 week "farming" DRM, what u get at cost of such dull content?

> @"Chaos.7614" said:

> > @"ugrakarma.9416" said:

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> > Also i hope new expansion bring some decente legendary "flame" greatsword, its was should be balthazar one with big effects like Exordium(i have one), the Ascalonian Halowwen one and fallen Balthazar one are the coolest til now, the others are just a "big stick" designed for childs i guess.

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> Ha, you must've missed the latest [Vermillion Blaze Greatsword](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vermilion_Blaze_Greatsword_Skin)! It's pretty neat and almost legendary quality! Too bad it was locked behind BLC drops and now a time-gate until we can get it for statuettes...

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the flame effect is good, but still its a ugly "big stick", also same old pattern, their fixation with "volcano/lava rock" theme(the texture of that greatsword is "rocky") when come to fire, basically legendary quality i mean a exordium like stuff.

@"kharmin.7683" said:

> Need and Want are two different things. I'd rather resources be spent elsewhere. I don't need this at all.

infusions and cosmetics effects inst a xpac or even a new armor. and ofc "we need it" me and other players wanting the same.

Unless u have lots of free time, u must to stick to sites that monitoring gold per hour, atm Drizzlewood Coast and DragonFall are the best.

I recommend this one they monitore lots of metrics.

https://fast.farming-community.eu/

The "meta trains" are popular these days, with so many options is almost a matter of balance between boredom and profit. Some ppl like Fractals for example, other ppl like the time-gated metas.

Some people are "trade person" and have skills to monitore market, prices and stuff, im not. but even this requires some extra-free time.

If u are alergic to expansions, just stick to Silverwastes;

If u like advanced craft to increase profit, u can combine a DragonFall and Drizzlewood to avoid burnout, DragonFall give more yellows, and Drizzlewood give more ingots. also theres the opening bags in 51 lvl characters if u run out of leather and linen, so u can craft **Dreldimor Steel Ingot, Bolt of Damask, Elonian Leather Square and Spiritwood Plank** everyday, time gated stuff, normally have more than 1g~3g of profit and price oscilate more. DragonFall and LS stuff have the bonus to give lots of extracurrencies, so u can conbine a LS4 farm to always have currencies for ascedend trinkets and legendaries. Since im not new to the game, and have farmed HoT since begin, im not worrried about legendaries currencies(im swiming on AB/TD currencies).

EDIT: i noticed u focus is on base game.

Theres the ley-line anomaly, is basically granted 2g per day. Ley-line+Dailies is 4g. if u dive into fractals u can earn easily 30g daily.

Just compare to bluish/ice ones, theres tons of options.

The red like infusions, of fire themed are boring or ugly.

I have the Koda ones, basically only show on some human armors, anything bigger will make it dissapear.. i have fallen balthazar outfit, u barely notice kodas flame.

We dont have anything like a 'red versions' of Ghostly infusion.

The ember infusion is ugly, i wonder why anet have fixation to tie anything related to flames with rocks, we know primordus is a "lava rock" dragon, but because of this we should have been tied to this "thematic" forever?

Lets check the blue, ice, "light purple", sky blue like infusions:

- Ghostly Infusion.

- Winters Heart Infusion.

- Snow Diamond Infusion.

- Frost Legion Infusion.

- Mystic Infusion.

- Peerless Infusion.

- Otter's Blessing Enrichment.

Not counting that all legendary trinkets are "light purple" thats fits in way or another a "light color" themed character.

Just to compare lets see the redish infusions:

- Ember Infusion (ugly, overexpensive, overused "lava rock" theme).

- Koda's Warmth Enrichment (lots of clipping issues, the similar effect u get on Bitterfrost frontier map is more visible than this), also overexpensive too, at time i did make mine it was near 1000g, luckly it was at time when AB multimap farming was running.

- Heart of the Khan-Ur (crazily expensive, also like ember infusion is a just a confuse, "rock like" red or flame effect, i never seen this in game, by the pictures i barely can get the "theme" they wanted with this, so be the "powerful khan ur guy" mean have a crazy skin effect?).

Im not even couting the cheap implementation of Polysaturating Reverberating Infusion (Red), Polyluminescent Undulating Refractor (Orange), is just a cheap/lazy implementation of already existing other colors effects, im dont count this as "hey guys we wanna do a cool red/fire like effect for u";.

Also i hope new expansion bring some decente legendary "flame" greatsword, its was should be balthazar one with big effects like Exordium(i have one), the Ascalonian Halowwen one and fallen Balthazar one are the coolest til now, the others are just a "big stick" designed for childs i guess.

And pls stop with this obscession with rock/lava when come to a "fire" theme, we have enough of this since flame legion armor from dungeons.

too much things to "detect", it wil not overload the "subroutines"? im not insighter of GW2 engine, but im programmer, its common people think that everything can be throw under a "detection routine", but this is a very performance complex issue.

forum was never metrics for anything in any game, normally pvp related stuff always have more complaints = more posts;.

if NA, go to Divinity Reach's. ppl here are cool, is the most used "chill place".

but timezone can be tricky.

im "veteran" i like toypocalipse too, for those inclined to "siege games" is too addictive.

I will try to explain what the OP means.

Rytlock is sticked to us since POF i guess, yeah give that guy some vacation.

its seems the only episode he didnt apper its LS4 / ep2.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rytlock_Brimstone#Living_World_Season_4

I have near 70% of core-tyria puzzles completed, with a warrior, some of them even by accident ou curiosity when exploring maps.

I guess they have a "tier" to puzzles, the "core tyria" tier puzzles inst so hard.., them theres the "ubber hard" tier like the one on Ring of Fire.

are NA or EU? if NA add me. the pv me when online. i have some damage spounge toons to use on this area when farm leather.

im very bad with timezones, i didnt know whats 2:30 am would be to me.

i farm Drizzlewood like crazy(probably reaching milestone of 100 completed metas), never see someone genuinely leeching...

its a very long meta, i myself "pause" or play in a "chill mode", after 2 or 3 run(3hrs).