Posts by Ostona

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.

Quote from Red Fireball

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

EDIT

I searched inside the Black Falcon Games website and look what I've found: https://blackfalcongames.net/?p=659

GIF comparison: gallery | outpost | arena

Quote from Red Fireball

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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Quote from Red Fireball

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?

Quote from Oldschool Cool

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.

s/b

Crude Shield 13/5 tac blue

Reinforced Buckler 13/5 tac purple

Skull Shield 13/5 tac purple

Militia 13/5 purple

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Quote from Neutral_CH

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.

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)

Quote from The-Tick

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.

Quote from Speed Clear Ele

So if someone sells for more than what you estimate the item at, they're scamming ?

When did I say that?

Quote from Hobo

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.

Quote from archenemy

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.

Quote from TheKuM1Ko

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.

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.

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.

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 Zes said xD

Everything looks the same for me xD if you can put an example in pictures...

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

Quote from Oldschool Cool

One of the many quest reward item with an unusual inherent mod that can be turned into a "duplicate mod" by adding an upgrade.

Some of my collection :

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You can find them all there : https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Category:…eplicable_items

Really impressive. The "Dmg +1 (vs. Charr)" is top tier xDDD

Quote from Fenrir el Gris

then this dont means '40% armor pen with luck?'' xD

lmao! I did not know the existence of this treasure

Quote from Oldschool Cool

I'm curious what's double enchanting staff are you talking about ?

I remember this one from an old PC thread : RE: OS BDS Dual chant staff? but imo it was an obvious photoshop (notice the weird spacing of the enchant mod)

This one, yes, the BDS. For some reason I remembered 19—20%, now I see it says 20—15%, I never read the thread and I just took a quick look at the picture in its moment, my fault.

I'm reading now the thread and yes, it seems fake, the explanations given by Surge are logic and makes sense.

Quote from Capitalist

It was 20% of enchant length +20% of enchant length.

It was not 24% of enchant length.

That is why it was broken. And retroactively nerfed.

What I wrote in the wiki is that the sum of both 20% increased the time to +40% due stacking (as a bug or whatever, and also being this the reason of the removal), conducted by the lines: (...) that could be modded to double 20% enchant. (...) and "At the time there wasn't a way for permanent spell immunity solo except until that axe was discovered."

I mean, to put in context why I wrote that:

1. Sword Pommels (of Enchanting) as far as I know existed since the beginning of the game, so the Denravi Sword (which also existed since the beginning) could be modded with a 20% enchanting.

2. Spun said that "at the time there wasn't a way for permanent spell immunity" (until the discovering of this axe), so saying this I assumed that in this time a normal 20% enchanting was not enough to having a spell permanently active (Denravi Sword assumption discarded then), because many skills have changed over time and I never played the very beginnings of the game, so it could be that the duration of some skills at that time was much much less than it is today.

3. So regarding what I understood before, I assumed that this axe was a mistake by ArenaNet's part and the double 20% enchanting had an effect stacking, creating an unique 40% (and that this was the reason of the removal when they discovered it).

4. Hobo said "NO" to my point 3, so if this effect was not stacking like he says, then it means that it doesn't matter the double, triple or infinite enchanting, the effect of the axe was just a normal 20% like the Denravi Sword with a sword pommel.

So, it stacked or not???? xD

Quote from Hobo

Percentages do not add up
if my keyboard lacks of keys, what about ur math notion from early school ...

I don't know what a game hardcoded mechanic has to do with what you said, but whatever

I'm very well aware about how the % and stacking works today, but since there are no weapons with a double "Enchanting" upgrade like this one (with the exception of that staff 19/20 that I don't know if the picture is real or fake - EDIT: confirmed fake), and in addition of the nerf of this weapon (and others) plus the explanation that Spun has given (and HOW it has been explained), this is the conclusion that I have drawn from the writing, because in that time the Denravi Sword was still in the game, and the Totem Axe was not introduced until 2006, so why not using the Denravi Sword with an enchanting pommel instead?

Spun Ducky, please, if you can bring light to this. Perhaps (or not) maybe I have misunderstood the explanation you have given.

Quote from Hobo

Hummmm , NO.

Feel free to edit, correct, explain, amplify, whatever instead of just saying no. I know your keyboard lacks of keys, but you can write in the phone too in case you have one.

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Quote from Excite Blue

Warrior Ascalon armor is one of the best looking in my opinion

I didn't think about this combo in black with both shadow weapons, good one!

I was seeing how it looks like with the Turai's Sword (with the glitched effect) and I have to say that I like it more than the Shadow Blade.

Quote from Aragorn_Granpasso

Totally agree about obsidian armor and shiny weapons, helmet apart I always had the same "inflated barrel" feeling about it.

I'm really digging this full chainmail armor, I love the looks of it with the first weapons set

I think most of the problem is the bulk in the middle of the chest, lowering this would solve the problem. I don't dislike the armor per se, only the bulk. And yes, the helmet is very good.

Quote from Swiitisch

Ostona i can relate to that

I always thought it looked like a black pinecone

Though i like the helmet.

Personally for warrior i like a few other armors too but the classik chainmail looks very good.

For the same reasons you mentioned about the obsidian armors i opened this thread because there are sooo many people only buying the most expensive stuff and calling it a day, but there is no creativity anymore. Thats why im always enjoying the combos you and the others come up with

You bet.

I don't know why, but as the years have passed I have been liking less and less all the expensive armors. When I started in 2005 and I saw the Obsidian Warrior armor for first time, I thought it was really cool, but now every time I see it, it looks like an inflated barrel with legs (the female version in proportions seems correct to me though) to the point that I don't like to play with the character. I've always found a bit surreal to wear 200kg of armor (immersion issues ~~) and that's probably why I never liked shiny weapons or fantasy armors like the ones you can find in online JRPG games... or even GW2. Same happens with the Obsidian Elementalist armor, I tried dozens of color combinations and I don't like any, it looks ugly with all. The only Obsidian that I find cool is the Ritualist one and the leggins of the Dervish. (Personal opinion, of course, my comment does not represent the general preference, when you are bored in this game after so many years your brain starts looking for other forms of entertainment, some people collect things and in my case I try armor combinations xD)

I've recently been testing combinations with the Warrior that resemble armors in real life, and from the designs available in GW I think the regular Tyrian/Krytan chain mail armor looks pretty good, it's very underrated in my opinion, and it fits with a lot of different weapons. You can even simulate the iron color applying a black + white dye. I think I'm going to delete all the other armors and use this one from now on > . <

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10~20e like they said, that's for what I bought mine (also OS).

Quote from Spun Ducky

You are thinking of the infamous "Scavengers of Ascalon" quest reward axe that could be modded to double 20% enchant. At the time there wasn't a way for permanent spell immunity solo except until that axe was discovered. It was also promptly nerfed as a reward and in all inventories. I remember it quite well because it let me ball up half of perdition rock and many other mobs that would shred a 55 monk normally.

Thanks for the clarification. Do you remember what skin was the Battle Axe from Scavengers in Old Ascalon ? I'm going to update each article.

Quote from Oldschool Cool

Well as the post mention low level quest reward and energy while hexed and while ench maybe it the one that was discussed here : RE: Capitalist’s Remains

It's part of many quest reward that were changed in late 2005/early 2006

That makes sense, that's why I could not find info.

Like the Flame Spitter, this was not updated in the official wiki. And in this case, is not updated in the fandom wiki either.

The only update matching with this topic that I've found is this one (Update - Tuesday December 20, 2005) but it's not exactly correct (or at least it doesn't seem like it), so we cannot assure that it was changed in this update:

• Fixed a battle axe that was incorrectly allowing two axe grips to be attached.
  

Here says two grips, but that counts as an inscription, right? (although inscriptions were not invented in that time). I don't own any old weapon like that to try to change the mods, maybe Capitalist can confirm this using a Perfect Salvage Kit.

Something about an old Axe which grants Energy +5 while Hexed/Enchanted/etc? (I assume that in the text, between the words «damage» and «5 en», there's a missing coma).

Source: https://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/04/04%20The%20…ot%20_.025.html

Quote from zurathustra

So for question 2, so long as I have a particular quest in my log I can do the "standard" cantha zones if I group with another person and won't have the difficulty amped up?

Yes, this NPC