Posts by Ostona
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EDIT - I didn't see the SH2 is Strength attribute, I thought it was Tactics, I'm blind, my bad, Red Fireball is right.
Regarding the other OS shields, put them for auction and see what happens, I'm not into OS market so I have no idea there.
OS staves if they don't have the inherent HCT and at the same time they have high requirement (q10~13), merch. If they have the inherent HTC 10%, you can scratch 10~15e depending the skin.
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I don't know where to ask this so I leave it here: why ArenaNet did not put shields for sale in Prophecies? the only ones available are the 3 Carapace Shields from collectors and a few others from quest rewards (which are all bad). I don't remember what weapons I had on my warrior in my first account before the release of Factions but I'm sure they had to be pretty bad (the only one I remember was the Razorstone).
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Staff +1 Air 20% b/o 5kStaff +1 Fire 20% b/o 5kEDIT: Trade completed, ty!
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Lazy here since 2011, but lazy that I prefer to buy upgrades that I already have on other characters because I don't want to reroll. I'm like the Spamadan floating palm tree, I have merged myself with the environment like the crew of the Flying Dutchman.
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T Ancient Shield b/o 1eEDIT: Trade completed, thank you very much!
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Reinforced blue 5/13 (20e)Spiked blue 5/13 (20e)EDIT: trade completed, tyvm!
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Are you really sure about earning the gladiator title in the Craig Arena ?
No, no, no, the title was only to show that this character was only doing Arenas and PvP since the beginning, not that I earned it in that place in particular.
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Great addition wqcefp, I edited my message above crossing out what I said, because this proves I was wrong.
Then I don't understand what happens with my map, it's really strange. I did not mention other outposts because my memory could be wrong and perhaps I entered with another character (but it shouldn't be because I always played with the same profession), but in the case of The Crag I can assure 1000000% I was inside because that account was the only one doing PvP and with the title, so this is fucked up in some way.
I'm gonna enter with the other characters, 1 sec.
EDIT 1: nop, everything is clouded in mine in all the characters, I don't fucking understand. Red Fireball don't trust too much what I have written above (the list I mean), it could be all wrong right now. I edited with a warning message to prevent confusion.
EDIT 2: wqcefp can you try to enter the outposts using the /tp command of GW Toolbox? You have the Map ID numbers for each one in my post above.
EDIT 3: I see the LA bug, cool, I didn't know, thanks for the pictures.
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do you have Tex Mod and the Cartography made easy package so you could provide us with screens of how the relevant section look now on the mentioned char? that' be beyond great!
Yes, but this character only unlocked the essentials of the game to advance to the end, it was only used for Arenas and HA, so it has the Tyrian Explorer at 67.0%
I checked this textures:
- 2009 Edition (March 6th, 2009) (2009-03-06) - Complete Collection 1 - Tyria & GWEN.tpf
- 2009 Edition (March 6th, 2009) (2009-03-06) - Complete Collection 4 - ALL MAPS MERGED.tpf
- 2017 Edition - Updated, Extended (24 june 2017) Originally Cartography Made Easy 2015 (v1.3).tpf
- Cartography Tyria + GWEN Made Easy (OLD).tpf
- Cartography Tyria + GWEN Made Easy.tpf
and only the 2017 Edition has the areas marked, but everything is cloudy again,
so they reverted the map exploration and covered the zones again it seems.I don't know if the % of map exploration was reduced from the progress bar when they covered the zones again, if anyone knows of any case in the whole GW history where a title has been reverted or reduced with an update, let us know please.Edit: wqcefp has the map discovered, so this problem only happens in my map for some reason that I don't understand.
I remember pretty well being inside The Crag's outpost because there was a bridge similar to the one in Ember Light Camp that led to nowhere behind the lava mountain, and the outpost itself was above the fight zone like Alliance Battles, so I can assure 100% the map was registered and fully explored, but right now this is how it looks like (the notes in the picture are from the texture, not mine):
And this was the outpost.
Left : picture from the wiki
Right : my marks
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I searched inside the Black Falcon Games website and look what I've found: https://blackfalcongames.net/?p=659
GIF comparison: gallery | outpost | arena
another point: has anyone been here on 2006 dec 15th and explored the entireity of Lions Arch map and could provide the same screens?
I don't know about this, what do you mean with "entireity"? Isn't it possible today to fully explore it? Something was different in the past?
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do you know what happened to those who had accessed the arena outposts and cartographed the arena maps? I think they can still acces the outposts and the map is still revealed (both for the outpost and the arena map) most of them being inaccessible and hence not cartographable - correct?
As far as I know when the outpost was removed everybody that was inside was moved and absolutely nobody can travel to it anymore. I know that I had access to it on my oldest character, maybe not the very old individual outpost but at least the competition arena and I definitively can't access it nowadays. Maybe some people who have account even older can also contribute but I don't thing it's accessible to anyone.
For the cartography part, well it's some extra % for them but Prophecies is notorious for having a lot of leeway in the cartography so at the end of the day some 0,1% aren't a big deal.From an old account, this is what I can contribute:
Account creation: May 2005
Character type: PvE
Character campaign: Prophecies
Arenas Rank (current): Fierce Gladiator (R2 = 1200 points)This was the first character created on this account that was doing Arenas and PvP mainly and entered in all the arenas available in its moment.
I checked each one with Toolbox and this is how it is now in this account:
WARNING - Take this with a grain of salt, could be totally wrong since wqcefp proved that he does still have them discovered.
● Competition Arenas (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/0mtmGLQ.png travel button icon: no (deleted)
map discovered: no
/tp 65 (teleport erased)
● D'Alessio Arena (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/Rjjgzm0.png travel button icon: no (deleted)
map discovered: no
/tp 318, 339 (all teleports disabled)
● Amnoon Arena (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/W6Ylfwo.png travel button icon: no (deleted)
map discovered: yes
/tp 182, 319, 340 (all teleports disabled)
● Fort Koga (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/fsL3NTc.png travel button icon: no (deleted)
map discovered: no
/tp 180, 320, 341 (all teleports disabled)
● Team Arenas (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/g5FSPhf.png travel button icon: no (deleted)
map discovered: yes
/tp 189 (teleport disabled)
● Deldrimor Arena (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/W0SCOxH.png travel button icon: no (deleted)
map discovered: yes
/tp 183 (teleport disabled)
● The Crag (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/MTuBaIP.png travel button icon: no (deleted)
map discovered: no
/tp 184 (teleport disabled)
● Ascalon Arena (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/w2ME5E9.png travel button icon: yes
map discovered: yes
/tp 85 (teleport available)
/tp 308 (teleport disabled) probably because it's the pre-Searing Arena, but I don't have a character there right now to check it
● Shiverpeak Arena (outpost) - https://i.imgur.com/z7ymfue.png travel button icon: yes
map discovered: yes
/tp 181 (teleport available)
/tp 314 (teleport available but it kicks you) probably the "Dwayna vs Grenth" or snowball arena
/tp 322 (teleport disabled)
/tp 343 (teleport disabled)
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What am I getting at with Hivernel today? Those who remain on the team, including Dr. Stephen, are touching a code that better be left as such.Now that you mention this, I remember that many times when people asked about fixing or changing things, they said that they didn't want to touch it because many things in the game are hardcoded, being able to cause unexpected chain of events and creating two new problems for each one fixed.
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If you are going to merch 17 and 18, I buy them.
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My example was in "Scenario 2", with these 7 remaining players (your friends or your alt accounts with the multilauncher) giving you the item if it drops to them instead of you (what Mr. Clean explained xD)
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Not sure how to read this. If you are alone killing the same amount of enemys gives less drops than a full party of real pll?
Great video and research data, Thank you.
When you are fighting an enemy, the drop of the item is assigned randomly to the people fighting him. If there is only 1 person killing the foe, there's only 1 chance that the item is assigned to someone. If there are 8 people killing it, the item can be assigned to one person of the 8 of your group, so more chances/probability to obtain it from someone in your party, like the lottery in real life.
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So if someone sells for more than what you estimate the item at, they're scamming ?
When did I say that?
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I bought an high end shield to him/her one year ago and everything went smooth & stuff.
i mean, if u dont have the income for such items, why bother him/her?
most of time, him/her answers & show the items.
maybe you are the one arrogant here, thinking u can low balls such items
Save your anger cowboy, I'm not the one who whispered to him nor I don't want any crysta since I don't like final fantasy weapon skins.
Well personaly i prefer a guy who said "too low sorry" than people who insult for example:
I remember a guy i asked him how much for obsidian shard and he tried to sell twice as expensive as at the merchant and i said "too expensive and said the merchant sell it less expensive" after i said this , this guy said "stop f*cking lost my time so f*cking noob!" and he tried to send another of his alt for try to sell his obsidian shard. (and I think some people know who I mean)
Nah, in this case is just a troll, believe me. When you know that there are people in this game with more than 10.000 armbraces and you still don't want to sell it after 5 years, it is either because you don't have it or because you never had the intention to start.
Regarding people selling materials for expensive prices, just ignore them, it happens every day, you don't have to give any explanation to them, just finish the chat in that moment and leave them talking alone. There are people in this game who tried to sell me things like Strength & Honor inscriptions for 10e each one, I'm well aware of the nest of scammers in this game. And there are others that if you don't buy the item at the scam price they want, they try to convince you that you won't find it for less than that price, like trying to make you feel guilty, it's pathetic (happened to me with maaaany greens and golds and they all ended up being wrong). I see good paying 200e for a Jormungand's Thunder due to the conditions that must be met to obtain this green, or 8-15a for a Firebrand (I paid 9a in its moment), but I will never pay 300e for a Drago's Flatbow or Tanzit's Defender for example (I have 3 Tanzit's and I paid I think like 3e and 7e for those, the other dropped to me, and the Drago's I have even given them for free, it's a very common weapon despite what they try to say to scam you). Also I think I sold a Beacon of the Unseen for 5e? I don't remember now, I think it was some price like that, I didn't use the item and didn't care if it was rare, I just wanted to get rid of it to gain inventory space.
In this game, apart from those who are always online 24/7, new people enter every day for a short period of time, so you always end up finding what you are looking for, it's a simple matter of leaving the game open in the background. I'm not even aware of the chat most of the time, I still work from home due covid so I have no problem leaving the game open for most of the day, I leave my "WTB" or "WTS" in the chat and put the game in the background, so I only have to be aware of the whisper/trade box sound, it's "practically" zero effort. Recently I've been buying Shadow Scythes and an user from this forum whispered to me telling me that I was not going to find them -as well as some insults-. I have x10 q9 currently, so again, wrong. It's a rare weapon, but not that rare. And the same thing for every single weapon or material, don't feel pressured by what another player tells you, it's just a game.
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Does the fact that there are more players in the same instance increase the drops?
Not the quantity, but the probability of drop to more people. With a full group of 8 players an item is more likely to be assigned to someone than if you go alone or with heroes/henchmen.
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Peter doing God's work again. I feel the pain just seeing the video, I truly feel it. Thank you very much, this shows pretty well how fucked is the drop of WiK weapons.
One thing though to increase the drop ratio, open as many sessions/accounts with the multilauncher and leave the characters afk while farming those enemies at the gate.
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I have four shields with that armor/Q and I bought them all for 10e ea from different people from Kamadan (not this skin though, mines are a x1 Tall Shield, x1 Wooden Buckler and x2 Ornate Bucklers in blue and purple), it's the only thing I can say. If the "Crude" skin and gold is rarer than those I said, it's beyond me, no idea.
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I bough the Vale Wraith costume since day-1 in my old account and as far as I remember this costume has been always the same, it emulates Dhuum's robes and it never shows the below part.
Edit: what Sudi said xD
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Everything looks the same for me xD if you can put an example in pictures...
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The Pack is the only one, you can sell/buy it for 20e (standard price since long ago).
The Shortbow is also random spawn, but with more frequency than the Pack. There is no market for the Shortbow as far as I know, typical drop that no one wants and end deleted. But you can try to sell it anyway, you don't lose for trying, maybe there is a collector who wants it.
The Great Horn + Jug always spawns in known locations, so the only price you can obtain with those is if someone is lazy enough not to want to go get them themselves xD