Posts by Ostona
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The q9 Inscribed Staff (dom) has the 20% inherent or it's a clean staff? the picture only shows 2 mods and I don't know if the 20% it's the Staff Head or the base mod.
If it's inherent s/b 20e
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10e Willcrusher5e Arcane Staff r9 FCEDIT: Trade completed, tyvm!
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Another one please:
Baneful Scapter - req9 Smiting Prayers
EDIT: trade completed, ty!
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It has been speculated for nearly a decade now that they might have stopped dropping...I'm quite sure it's just a low drop rate issue(one in ten thousand was speculated once on the wiki...) but it would be really nice to have visual confirmation. As far as I can tell, no one has ever posted a photo of one dropping on the internet after 2011. Like, ever??? It just seems like we need to get visual proof they still drop since they're too rare for one person to ever meaningfully test it.This next month I'm gonna attempt 300 runs with consets and 3 simultaneous accounts to increase the drop. Don't expect results though.
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T Spiked Targe b/o 70eT Adamantine 1eEDIT: trade completed, ty
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This is not the usual kind of comment here but also doesn’t deserve a thread I think. Does anyone have a confirmed drop(hopefully screenshot?) of a WiK mini in the last 5 years? Dorian/Isaiah specifically? They’re so rare that there is no data. I have seen speculation they may not even drop after some time in the early 2010s, and with the drop chance there is really no way to test it.
There are people who have finished WiK with more than 20 characters and nothing dropped (no minis, no greens). I have finished WiK with only 3 characters and neither. So with this, get an idea of the probability. In the wiki/discussion section of the item there are some users comparing the % of drop with the polar bear mini.
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Glowing radiance of evil at the heart of Arachnia. Said to be the remains of a now-dead spider-god, older than Abaddon and the Five True Gods themselves.
— gw.dat
Sources
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Arachnia
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Arachnia_Plateau
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Spider's_Heart
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Harvestman's_Lair
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Vale_of_Shadows
Not many people stop to look at the layout of the maps from above since we only can see our character in first and third person view, but it's a hobby I've been doing since I discovered the "/map unlock" command in GWToolbox and there are real gems that go unnoticed in the game (like the cat and floating tree hidden in the valley under "The Tengu Accords" Bonus Mission Pack).
Time ago I started to read the whole "Unimplemented content" category to see if I could find discarded things of lore, and when I read all the sections related to Arachnia I began to understand that many of the map designs and terrains had a reason for being like they are. So I took Toolbox and started taking screenshots of the entire map, and what you see from the front view to how it is designed from above is another world.
I do not know if the blue giant spider corpse at The Spider's Heart and Arachnia Plateau is the dead old god Arachnia herself because no developer has explicitly confirmed it, but due the place is called like that and precisely there is the spider, gives something to think about. Perhaps all this discarded content found in the gw.dat remained as a game of perspective, quoting Thaddeus Bradley from "Now you see me" movie: «The closer you think you are, the less you'll actually see.»
Anyway, here I leave the screenshots for the general enjoyment: https://ibb.co/album/hCPcqR
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Q9 Insc Demonic Aegis - Strength (5e)
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Serpentine Reaver b/o 5eEDIT: Trade completed, tyvm!
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I was trying to buy it in Kamadan to complete the 4-set but due the lack of luck I went to Fenrir's cave and it seems luck returned because it dropped in the first run from the Locked Chest inside the cave.
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Thank you again Blind Was My Fury !
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I was wondering if it is simple enough for someone to run two accounts and play both characters.
Ah, no, it's impossible. You need 2 real players yes or yes with this method.
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What two man would you recommend?
Ritualist + Mesmer is the best combo I tried (and the Legionnaire as tank). Any common build of interruptions or energy surge is ok.
The trick is to kill the foe healers as fast as you can putting pressure, that's all. Without the healers, the rest is easy.
This is not a "farm" itself, I know. It's just the only way I see to do this shit xD
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Hello, only this one if possible, please:
Platinum Staff - req9 Energy StorageEDIT: Trade completed, thank you!
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The Firebrand can be farmed in "Cursed Lands" map with Ritualist SoS + Legionnaire Summoning Crystal + Normal Mode... AND MANY PATIENCE (or many consets).
With 2 people works better though.
I have not discovered any other system (although I have not looked for it too much either ~~)
And keep in mind that if you decide to go, the drop ratio is super ultra hyper mega shit. When I went and after more than 50 attempts, absolutely nothing dropped, so I quit and ended buying it.
There are around 5 groups with Peacekeeper Firebrands in each run.
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But some raise sadness - for things that got nerfed, bugs I missed witnessing - mainly the few areas that could earlier be mapped but can no longer - like the proph arenas or the part during the amnoon/la flooding bug.
Yes, but at least the """"good"""" thing is that those areas are still in the game, but only available to access with developer account powers (which are a server thing).
Some of the arenas can be accessed to see them with GWToolbox, because they are part of the map of the city itself to which they are merged (like the Amnoon Arena), but others are isolated maps and the maps are incomplete unless you enter the arena itself (Fort Koga arena).
For example, the outpost of the famous Fort Koga arena it's still there, but incomplete and locked with giant roots (entering from Henge of Denravi), but the preview map can still be seen with the free camera mode.
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As some of you know, I am a fan of the "History" of this game even though I never got to play the Betas, I contribute in updating the photos of the wiki when I have time and I have tried to contact some old players to try to discover how certain things worked in the past (although with this I have not had much luck because the game is practically dead). I still have pending to create two or three new pages in the wiki compiling the info about some things discussed here in the past months about old weapons (that I will probably do at the end of September), etc.
Some of the sources:
https://www.gamepressure.com/games/screenshots_list.asp?ID=1547
https://www.tendocity.net/showthread.php?tid=7147
https://blackfalcongames.net/?page_id=1174
https://www.angelfire.com/games5/guildwarz/infopage/
https://www.angelfire.com/games5/guildwa…um/info-map?i=0
Anyway, I've been searching and saving old screenshots of the betas from various portals, webs and forums (some of them using the Wayback Machine, where I found old pictures of the Ahmtur Arena -in bad quality though- with the names of the players in the group, despite I've never seen any of them online again) and I thought it would be nice to compare a little how the change has been when Kyhlo was remodeled to what is now Ascalon City. There is not much content available on internet, but less is nothing.
Album: https://ibb.co/album/7QQbmG
* Think that some of them are my own interpretation of what I think it was before, keeping the base map but modifying the landscape.
* The last picture, Kyhlo's main square/plaza, is a combination of our current Ascalon and Lion's Arch, I merged both pictures trying to recreate it.
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Prophecies here too. Also thanks to GW I discovered Jeremy Soule and since then has become one of my favorite composers.
More than missions themselves, my favorite areas are the Magumma Jungle and Crystal Desert for all the history it contains, I'm fan of Egypt and its forgotten history, so any landscape with sand, dunes, buried things, symbols in constructs, lost buildings, etc, is beauty in my eyes.
One thing I like a lot of Prophecies is the progression/transformation between maps or zones. For example, I remember arriving at Ventari's Refuge for first time and we know is not Magumma yet, but you start to see traces of it.
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Amazing, thanks for sharing this piece of history Scryb Ranger
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Also because except the Tengu mission, the other ones are a pain in the ass.
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Clean as always
It would be cool too to take screenshots with weapons and skills or poses, there are plenty of possibilities. It's a pity that many of the photos that were in GW Guru were lost because they were uploaded via ImageShack, when they did the mass cleansing almost half of internet pictures were deleted, many forums ended empty.
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Q9 Insc Vampiric Dragon Sword - 5eQ9 Insc Flamberge - 2eEDIT: trade completed, tyvm!
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Another chance to enter the Ahmtur Arena destroyed. Tears of sorrow ~~
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I'm gonna ask the redundant question: if you played the first weeks of the release, do you remember by ANY chance something about the Brick of Mud or Clay Brick? It's a mystery that remains unsolved.