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mind the walrus posted:That Husk has his dick in a pumpkin I heard its really good if you microwave it
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ijyt posted:Sorry is no one going to comment on the freaky burnt husk child on that dragon spawns back? What is that your mummy or something?
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ijyt posted:Sorry is no one going to comment on the freaky burnt husk child on that dragon spawns back? pretty sure it's a mummy
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Generic Octopus posted:How it works right now: you have a Personal Reward Level that starts at 1 and goes up as you do fractals of your level or higher (so tagging along on higher level fractals is fine). The relics/pristine relics you get for completing fractals & fractal dailies will let you get oodles of AR via Versatile Simple Infusions from the fractal shop bot. It's so trivial that you can't even call it a barrier to entry; the only real limiting factor is how much armor/weapons/accessories you have to slot AR into. Cool. I've probably got 10-12 slots now that you can mystic forge things into having useful stats.
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Am I too late to make a mummy pun, or did that wrap up already?
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im gay and embalmed
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ItBurns posted:im gay and embalmed Twinkankhamun e: mesmers are cool 
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Oh my god I need the pumpkin hammer
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Sprite141 posted:It's a lot easier to just get ascended trinkets from guild commendations, and also grab one of the crafting backpacks which are the best. Plop the +5 infusions in them and with just the commendations having infuaions you are good to go. The main misconception I see with all of this (which is what Diego is confused about) is that people assume that the +1 infusions are how you actually get Agony Resistance and consequently they make them into a +5 (or buy them from the TP since they’re not bound) and can’t add them to their ascended gear (usually accessories from Guild Missions), declare that this is bullshit and Fractals are stupid and spit the dummy and vow never to do Fractals again. I’m hoping that the  below will help to make things a little clearer so that this doesn’t happen to you when you start looking at Fractals in HoT.Fractals of the Mists Okay, so for people who aren’t familiar already, Fractals of the Mists are a set of sequential mini-dungeons that can be accessed through a portal in Lion's Arch. They have difficulty scales that (in theory) reward better loot as you go up them but to counterbalance the increase in rewards they scale the enemy NPC health/damage and also introduce a mechanic called Agony which is a ticking debuff that does damage in the form of a % of your health per second. Currently, a Fractal set is composed of 3 randomised sequential islands followed by a random boss island and you need to complete all 4 to count as ‘finishing’ the set of fractals. In Heart of Thorns this is being changed to each level being a single set island (could be either normal or boss, depends on the level) so it should require significantly less time investment. Agony Resistance Agony Resistance will allow you to reduce the damage that Agony does down to a minimum of 1% per tick which makes it negligible but it means that there is effectively a hard gate to entering high level fractals. Fractal scale 1-9 doesn’t require any Agony Resist, 10-19 requires 10 Agony Resistance to reduce Agony to 1%, 20-29 requires 25 AR, 30-39 requires 40AR, 40-49 requires 55AR and 50 (currently the highest scale available) needs 70 AR to reduce the Agony ticks to 1% damage. There is a good explanation along with a chart on exactly how Agony Resistance works on the wiki: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony_Resistance The difficulty scaling is going to a max cap of 50 to 100 in Heart of Thorns but we don’t know what changes to Agony Resistance will be required for that since I don’t think you can actually get enough AR for 100 going by the 15 more AR per bracket increase we have now. Anyway, to actually get Agony Resistance, you need to have ascended gear as it has Infusion slots on it that you can slot AR into. There are two types of items you can slot into your gear that provide AR: Versatile Simple Infusions (+5 AR, can be put into any normal Agony Resistance slot regardless of whether it’s Offensive/Defensive/Utility) which cost 75 fractal relics from one of the Golem Vendors or special Agony Infusions (the +1 numbered things that you get for completing fractals) which can only be put into infused Rings and Backpacks. There are also fine versions of the simple infusions which are crafted in the mystic forge and give you +5stat as well as the +5AR but they use T6 mats and cost hundreds of gold so they’re entirely not worth it. Now, to get a lot of AR, you need lots of Ascended gear. There’s no way around it. That said, what you don’t need is to get all 70AR at once before you even start. If you’re only doing fractals for chances at ascended loot chests and fractal skins, I’ve actually gotten more of them from 19 and 29 scale fractals than I have from 49/50 (and I think Cletus has as well). Also, as Nilgoow said 70AR is the absolute maximum you need for the very highest level of fractals and realistically, more people levelling their reward level will be running 49 as opposed to 50 (which also only needs 55AR). You can quite conceivably get 55AR from just your accessories and weapon so I’d honestly be recommending people do that before they charge headlong into ascended armour crafting (which is absurdly expensive). Ascended accessory acquisition All of the accessories can be acquired without actually running Fractals at all, although I find it’s still more efficient to get rings from Fractals.
Necklaces can be purchased with a special utility infusion slot that allows you to get 20% Magic Find or 15% Karma gain (also exp/gold but no one uses those) which I’d generally encourage using over a raw +5AR infusion because you can’t get those specific buffs from any other source and they stack with everything else. Rings I would encourage you to purchase them with Pristine Fractal Relics (which you get for completing a daily bracket completion or fractal daily if it’s up, more on that later) since if you actually start running fractals you’ll be swimming in them before long. Now, earlier I mentioned ‘infused’ rings and backpacks. Well, when you’re running fractals there’s a chance for some ascended crafting materials (vial/glob/shard of mist essence) to drop. The rings are easier to infuse than the backpacks but basically you need to throw your ring into the mystic forge along with 5 vials/3 globs/1 shard of mist essence and it’ll spit you back out the ring with a second infusion slot on it that can take all those +1 infusions you’ve been getting and combining. You can also infuse ascended backpieces in the same way but they require a Gift of Ascension (500 fractal relics from the vendor in Fractals) and a bunch of ectos to do so most people will stick to infusing rings unless they really need the extra AR. Reward Level or Why Am I Actually Running These Fractals In The First Place So, in addition to the scaling difficulty level Fractals also have a scaling reward level called the Personal Reward Level. Basically, any time you complete a set of fractals equal to or higher than your current reward level, it goes up by 1. You can only start a set of fractals with the difficulty as high as your personal reward level but you can join in on any level once it’s started. What the reward level does is increase the quality of drops you get during fractals but it also has a special interaction with the daily fractal bracket completion where if you’re reward level 11 you start to get a chance of straight up being rewarded an ascended ring (which is unfortunately random so enjoy your bank full of rings with magi stats) when you complete a daily bracket. At personal reward level 26 and above that changes to a chance at an infused ring. Higher level daily rewards also have a better chance at dropping bonus loot like Fractal Weapon Skins, Ascended loot boxes and at higher levels the coveted Endless Fractal Tonic. Daily Rewards and Reward Brackets Last confusing mechanic for the day: when you complete a set of fractals you’ll get a reward once per day, similar to dungeon paths. However, unlike dungeon paths there are actually different daily rewards for the various brackets with the caveat that any thing at or above your current personal reward level counts as a single bracket. As an example, I’m at level 50 so if I really hated myself I could run 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40 and 41-50 for a total of 5 daily rewards. If I was reward level 25, I could run 1-10, 11-20 and anything 21 or higher would be a single bracket. You might also notice that from time to time there are dailies for Fractals, either ‘Daily fractal’ (which requires you to complete a single island) or Daily Scale 1-10 Fractal (which requires you to finish a full set of fractals in that scale). Both of these give a Pristine Fractal Relic from their resulting wigglechests so if you have both of them together at the same time you can combo them with a scale 1-9 fractal run (which requires no AR) and get 3 Pristine Relics. Do that 3-4 times and you can buy yourself the ascended ring of your choice. Note that this is being condensed to three daily ranges in HoT: 1-20, 21-50 and 50+. Mercurius fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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I heard from somewhere that any guild upgrades that are queued when the expansion hits will complete, does anyone know if that's been confirmed?
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I need all of this oh my god e: also Mad King boss fight yesss
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I'd like to thank everyone, but mostly Traherne for making my personal story not about me. Kudos to totally saving Tyria for 5 minutes. Seriously, I thought everyone was kidding about how terrible that boss fight was, but really, it was just really that bad. They could have just made it a world boss fight like Teq and made it actually somewhat interesting. The good news is that I could solo Arah story in Rare 'zerkers on my guardian. It took a little under an hour.
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To be fair, it's kind of silly to have two different types of AR infusions that aren't cross compatible with one another but such similar names.
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Jhet posted:The good news is that I could solo Arah story in Rare 'zerkers on my guardian. It took a little under an hour. It's not a 5 man dungeon any more, the story instance as it stands now is tuned to be soloed. Grats on your first time through personal story though!
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whydirt posted:To be fair, it's kind of silly to have two different types of AR infusions that aren't cross compatible with one another but such similar names. Pretty much everything about fractals is kind of silly.
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AzureSkye posted:It's not a 5 man dungeon any more, the story instance as it stands now is tuned to be soloed. Grats on your first time through personal story though! What the gently caress? When did this happen?
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Was there a goon who said they wanted the Kraitkin precursor? One just dropped for me so I can sell it to you or something 
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Hey, I have the +10 infusions rear end in a top hat.
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Visidan posted:Hey, I have the +10 infusions rear end in a top hat. I prefer to keep that slot empty.
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Irenio CalmonHuang.2048 posted:There are two components I can mention right now, the rest you’ll have to wait until the 23rd to see: Hopefully it won't leap you off the edge of poo poo or three miles away from your target anymore.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Was there a goon who said they wanted the Kraitkin precursor? One just dropped for me so I can sell it to you or something You had me excited until I realized you were talking about the trident, bird.
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brainSnakes posted:You had me excited until I realized you were talking about the trident, bird. I know. I confused it with the spear too.
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Irenio was nice enough to post some druid changes!Irenio posted:Hey all, Overall some nice looking buffs to druid. I like this. And some scrapper stuff too i guess Irenio posted:’allo fellow Engineers, Kerrzhe fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Kerrrrrrr posted:And some scrapper stuff too i guess 
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quote:Gyros now start their cooldown upon summon praise the stun
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whydirt posted:To be fair, it's kind of silly to have two different types of AR infusions that aren't cross compatible with one another but such similar names. Yeah I'm not going to blame players for thinking the +1 infusions they're getting directly from running fractals are the things you need to use to get agony resistance. No one said Anet is good at this whole fractal design thing, of course.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Was there a goon who said they wanted the Kraitkin precursor? One just dropped for me so I can sell it to you or something well, its not like its something important like the frenzy pre
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https://www.gw2tp.com/item/20375-sand-dye Tired of insanely expensive Sand Dye? Don't buy from those charlatans on the Trade Post. Buy directly from me, the charlatan you know! George Sex - REAL fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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That is a good idea. Also keep in mind that both tang and shy peach are over 96% similar at a fraction of the cost, as per https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/tool/dye/search?cloth=927743&leather=907646&metal=967841&sort=matcher edit: Can you update the OP to include this helpful link for color matching for new players so they dont blow all their gold on one dye? https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/tool/dye/search LordAdakos fucked around with this message at 12:05 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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LordAdakos posted:update the OP this happens with regularity!
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Paging Lazy, gather your disciples for the big leagues.
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Fargin Icehole posted:What the gently caress? When did this happen? https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update
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quote:We strongly believe that regular balance updates are one of the key pillars of building a successful competitive game. As such, prior to each season, there will be a balance update. and not more often
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Surprised at the lack of Llama hype tbh
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Joust posted:I prefer to keep that slot empty. good joke
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So that is $400,000 that they could have used to fix other poo poo. I've got bad news for Anet but the esports ship has already sailed and it doesn't have GW2 on board.
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Glad i sold all my thick leather last night at 47c, i figured it would hit that 2 million wall at 48c and then crash back down. It's in the mid 30s now, maybe i'll buy in again if it goes under 20.
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LiftAuff posted:So that is $400,000 that they could have used to fix other poo poo. I've got bad news for Anet but the esports ship has already sailed and it doesn't have GW2 on board. guild wars 2 is already recognized by the prestigious ESL organization like fuckin forever ago. the esports ship has been sailing with gw2 on board for a while now forkbucket posted:Paging Lazy, gather your disciples for the big leagues. none of yall including me are good enough which says more about my teaching than anything Kessel posted:and not more often one of those balance patches will be made entirely of tooltip updates and icon changes
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