Posts by bsoltan

Selling some items.

Remember to abide by the Xunlai Market Rules.

I'm in EU, UTC+1 evenings and late weekends. Leave your IGN, send a message on Legacy, or Discord DM bsoltan#1289.

Ecto to Ambrace = 77e:1a (rounded up)

Specials

Celestial Staff q9 Curse HCT 10% s/b 5e c/o 30e Internetuser

OS Non-Inscribable s/b 5e

Hand Axe (Tyrian) q9 15^Stance s/b 5e

Shadow Blade q9 15^Enchanted s/b 5e

Spiked Axe q9 15^50 b/o 4e

Inscribable (all q9) b/o now added

Bramble Recurve Bow q9 b/o 2e

Copper Crusher q9 b/o 2e

Cleaver q9 b/o 2e

Diamond Aegis q9 Tactics (x2) s/b 2

Draconic Scythe q11 b/o 2e

Dragon Spire Staff q9 Inspiration b/o 4e

Dragoncrest Axe q9 b/o 2e

Emerald Edge q9 b/o 2e

Exalted Aegis q9 Motivation b/o 2e

Exalted Aegis q9 Strength b/o 2e

Fire Prism q9 Fire b/o 2e

Fiery Blade Axe q9 b/o 2e

Iridescent Aegis q9 Tactics (x2) s/b 2e

Ivory Bow q9 b/o 2e

Pronged Fan q9 Divine Favour b/o 4e

Salient Daggers q9 (x2) b/o 5e

Straw Effigy q9 Energy Storage b/o 2e

Wayward Wand q9 Inspiration b/o 3e

Zodiac Shield q9 Tactics c/o 2e Wolfreed Spirit

Zodiac Staff q9 Inspiration b/o 2e

Zodiac Axe q9 b/o 3e

Greens (listed alphabetically) b/o now added
Axes

Murakai's Reaver b/o 2k

Totem Axe b/o 3e

Bows

Ahvha's Longbow (q6) b/o 2k

Razortongue's Recurve Bow b/o 2k

Thornbeard's Horned Bow b/o 2k

Zelnehlun's Longbow b/o 5k

Urgoz Flatbow (x11) b/o 1e

Urgoz Shortbow (x3) b/o 1k

Urgoz Longbow (x2) b/o 1e

Daggers

Claws of the Broodmother b/o 1k

Kaya's Daggers b/o 1k

Nihil's Daggers x2 b/o 2k

Shreader's Talons b/o 1k

Focii

Fendi's Focus b/o 2k

Focus of the Master b/o 2k

Galigord's Stone Scroll x2 b/o 2k

Mallyx's Inspiration b/o 5k

Milius' Eye b/o 2k

Oola's Focus b/o 5k

Hammers

Eldritch Maul b/o 2k

Murakai's Maul b/o 2k

Scythes

Shields

Exalted Aegis Tactics b/o 5k

Fenrir's Bastion b/o 2k

Shield of the Kinslayer b/o 5k

Spears

Turep's Spear b/o 2k

The Darksong b/o 2k

Staves

Alem's Remedy x2 b/o 5k

Antiquated Staff b/o 2k

Earthbound Staff b/o 2k

The Mindclouder b/o 5k

Swords

Wands

Flint's Wand b/o 2k

Scepter of the Keeper x2 b/o 10k

Stygian Scepter b/o 2k

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bill_Freist

An ArenaNet developer that works on GW2 and GW.

Ah the reposters from Reddit with ads in their posts are back. Noice.

20e on the q4T Tall Shield

200e - Ornate Shield +45 w/e +10 vs plants

60e - Ornate Shield -2 w/e +10 vs Cold

edit: thanks so much for the trade.

180e - Ornate Shield +45 w/e +10 vs plants

10e - Ornate Shield +60hex -3 Hex

10e - Ornate Shield -2 w/e +10 vs Cold

130e - Ornate Shield +45 w/e +10 Vs plants

As a tip; closing the client is the worst way to prevent a death as the client will try to keep you connected in case it is a network disconnection (as the game allows reconnects).

The best method to leave a zone is to map to an outpost/guild hall, the second best is to log out to character select/switch character.

3 - 7e

16 - 10e

31 - 5e

2. Ornate Shield Q10 Tac. -2wE / +44wE OS - 10e

I'll take this please

edit: Thanks for the quick trade!

Katana q9 x2 5e/ea - 2.5e @ 50%

Shinobi Blade q9 x2 5e/ea - 2.5e @ 50%

Platinum Wand q11 Dom 5e - 2.5e @ 50%

Wooden Chakram q9 Domination x2 5e/ea - 2.5e @ 50%

10e total

Looking for a quick trade

Thanks very much for the trade!

Been a while, but time for a bump!

Skull Shield q5/13 tacs - B/O 30e

B/O please.

edit: Thank you for all the trades! Very kind.

Ornate Shield - 30e

edit: I'll bring back my offer on q12 Strength Ornate.

Guess it was removed from sale.

Not new ones as far as I know.

Plenty of boxes show up on eBay though, 99% of them are with the codes used though but if you just want a load of boxes then that should be a good place.

Thanks to the last two posts, this is now working nicely for me;

[ChatFilter]
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gw2sale.com = Suppress, Any
GW2SàLè.com = Suppress, Any
mmogamersmarket.com = Suppress, Any
MMOGäMERSMARKÉT.COM = Suppress, Any
gwshop.com = Suppress, Any
gwsh0p.com = Suppress, Any
Free Over 15 = Suppress, Any
Biggest GW 1 Shop = Suppress, Any
|Limited Stock on Aion Wings, = Suppress, Any
Min Delivery = Suppress, Any
MMOSKY.COM = Suppress, Any
GW1SHOP.COM = Suppress, Any
Extra on Ecto/Zaishen Key/Armbrache Purchases = Suppress, Any
Free Over 15$/12€ Spent! = Suppress, Any
MERSMARK = Suppress, Any
MM0GAMERSMARK/T.COM = Suppress, Any
$ = Suppress, Any
€ = Suppress, Any
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GVGMALL = Suppress, Any
Cdkeys = Suppress, Any
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MM0GA = Suppress, Any

I came to explain how it was working in Messages, but it is exactly as Red Fireball explains. Looks like it hasn't worked but it has sent the message just the screen hasn't refreshed although when you do refresh your message still appears in the box as if you're about to post.

edit: Yep and just like above it happened when replying to this thread for me too. xD

I was looking up something and got to Gaile's wiki page.

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Gaile_Gray

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What's your history with ArenaNet?

I started with ArenaNet in September 2000. Today, I am Employee #2, after Mike O'Brien, our president. I was thrilled when the ArenaNet Co-Founders -- Mike, Pat, and Jeff -- reached out to me to invite me to join the team. The fact that ArenaNet looked at community relations as a critical part of their company, and not as something that could be added just before the release of a game, was refreshingly different. A continued interest in and novel level of community input and engagement remains a cornerstone of ArenaNet to this day. Of course, joining so early means I was answering fan letters and working on communications long before Guild Wars was even announced. All and all, I've been interacting with players, liaising with the dev team, and communicating about the company and the game for 18 years, and I'm still as excited about my job as I was in the early days.

I didn't know she was the second employee. A shame to go out with this 'cloud' over the company.

In case anyone is interested on GW (2) player on Reddit /u/Zarurra has kept a list of those confirmed that have left, (and those that remain).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c…p_this_updated/

Going for an epic Eigth Bump. Saturday 23rd Feb 00:15

I'll try and contact people on Sunday.

(I also deleted the old bumps to clean up the thread)

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Seventh Bump Thursday 21st Feb 12:37

Sixth Bump Tuesday 19th Feb 20:50

Fifth Bump Saturday 16th Feb 18:51.
Fourth bump Friday 15th Feb 16:24.
Third bump Thursday 14th Feb 13:01.
Second bump Wednesday 13th Feb 12:41.

First bump Sunday 10th Feb 12:41.

Made this into a new thread as it is a big enough topic to not be caught up in the other one.

It is a huge shame that a developer has to reduce it's staff, hopefully the people effected by the restructuring manage to find new jobs quickly. I wonder if the new things they were working on were new IPs or more tangents of the GW World.

https://uk.ign.com/articles/2019/…not-be-affected

At least some better news as GW fans in this recent article on IGN where ArenaNet are quoted saying that this restructuring won't affect GW and GW2.

Quote

ArenaNet send IGN the following statement:
"We can confirm that due to the cancellation of unannounced projects, ArenaNet will make staff reductions. This is part of a larger organizational restructuring within NCSOFT in the west, but the Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 game services will not be affected, nor is any upcoming game content canceled."

Sadly as companies reach the end of financial years they review the last year's performance and make the business decisions to move the future in the direction they want to go.

I switched to KAOS's GW Launcher a few weeks ago after being sceptical and having used GW MultiLaunch since it came out.

It works flawlessly for using multiple accounts, and has the added benefit that you can setup multiple accounts to run from the same .dat file. I think it has the option to use the same .dat for ALL accounts but that brings with it in-game limitations.

The only issue with it is that it has to launch in Administrator mode for every game which is just extra hassle but I can understand why.

The biggest one though is unlike GW MultiLaunch there isn't a way to setup a client to launch without adding your login information. This is only a concern as you're putting your login information into a 3rd party application. I'm sure the application isn't recording/sending the data but that's what put me off using it initially. I just use it for storage accounts and not my main one.

Updated edit 12th June - Today I was told that you don't actually h ave to put any login details in. If you just link it to an executable then it will launch the client with out any login information. This is good news!

It is a shame that a lot of the information and discussion from ArenaNet has been lost over the years what with guildwars.com being streamlined and links removed, and GWGuru going down. They used to post there and discuss things. I'm sure some things can be picked out of the wiki but it is a bit of a pain to trawl through to find things.

I've considered doing a regular look-back at certain updates in GW's history and pull together the info such as updates, balance changes etc. so that players these days have a form of reference for the history of the game and how things have changed. It is just rather time consuming to start!

I saw your reddit post, I replied there too but it was a rather long reply.

OSRS was splintered off from RuneScape 2/3 due to the falling population in the game, a game still financed by monthly fees and adverts from what I understand. Since Guild Wars was planned in to be in maintenance mode whether 100'000 people or 100 people play I don't see how that would make any difference, that's not to say it wouldn't be nice but the business decision was probably made 10years ago.

There is also the risk that as GW doesn't bring in income from ads/subs that ArenaNet could just cut their losses and close it (as RuneScape Classic), or even NCSoft's other titles like City of Heroes which HAD a monthly fee and they still shut it down.

Quote from Saxazax

Because GW2 was a big graphical, gameplay, and content update from GW1, but Arenanet barely supports their old game. RuneScape 3 was also a big graphical, gameplay, and content update, but they went back and supported OSRS and just had a $50k tournament--the game is played in a browser with very simple graphics. People have told me that it's the fault of GW's community that GW1 is in maintenance mode right now, and I can understand that.

My understanding is that Oldschool RuneScape is just a previous version of RuneScape 3, (a game they change the name of when the do major updates). Their old game is RuneScape Classic, which imo would make it a better comparison.

Which people have said that it's the fault of GW's community that GW1 is in maintenance mode? I would have thought maintenance mode was planned in during the development (and future) of GW2? Implemented nearly six years ago, but must have been planned way before that.

I dug out some articles about the maintenance mode news, these are from May 2013.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/05/21/gui…lted-automated/

https://www.engadget.com/2013/05/17/are…automates-game/

http://mmofallout.com/guild-wars-is-in-maintenance-mode/

Here's the post from guildwars.com I found on the internet archive

Quote from Saxazax

It is a fact that Arenanet has all but walked out on GW1. Jagex, on the other hand, just had a $20k prize for first place in a PvP tournament in Oldschool, yes, you read right, Oldschool RuneScape. They still release content for that game, fix bugs, and police it. Now, it is true that there are just as many botters and cheater in OSRS as there are in GW. It is true that every game has them, whether the company is supporting the game or not. I mean, I can live without big ol' content updates and still play GW1, because it's a challenging game, intricate, and I've invested so much time and know so much about it. But as far as making an art of theorycrafting builds like I used to do on PvX, somehow learning something I could take with me in a career as a game designer; or as far as taking pride in in-game achievements--these things I am caring about less and less.

This is not really related, but I think we would better spend thousands of hours learning, playing, and mastering games that we know will be around forever, and hold some real-world prestige beyond the stories we tell about the game to friends and family.

Is there a reason why you compare Guild Wars to Oldschool RuneScape rather than RuneScape Classic?

I don't know any online based games that are guaranteed to be around forever. Many have disappered over the last few years.

Quote from Izzy

But we never get an official answer if they have even thought about it or if it`s posible. There`s still people working in Anet that worked on GW1. And i guess they have some sort of guides for things they develop, because you never know when a guy is gonna leave the company.

It feels like a dream. Just post this kind of stuff in reddit and quote Bill and company.

Sure we do, the official answer is: there is no development for Guild Wars.

Why would they make guides for a game they no longer support?? Most of the people have left the company and the few that remain that did some work on GW don't know enough.

Yes it is a dream. You're right about that.

Yeah I was going to say same as Looney, why not transfer your bags to a new character??

Legacy Forum has a built in gwbb code displayer!

It will display builds & skills like this:

Build

[build=OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W]

Skill

[Fire Storm]

The skills in individual and builds have a tooltip (hover-over) so you can see the name and details of the skill. You can also copy the build code from within a build post as well as see the primary and secondary professions.

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Guide

The post toolbar has an icon just for this as well:

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Build Code [OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W]

1. Copy the full build code to your clipboard. (OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W)

2. Press the button or type out the gwbb [open] and [/close] tags as below

2a. Use the following syntax:

[gwbb][build=<buildcode>][/gwbb]

3. Replace <buildcode> with what is on your clipboard so it looks like this:

[gwbb][build=OQYWETaWRkpuVFN9vANrfrYT7W][/gwbb]

4. Done! Finish and Submit your post.

5. IMPORTANT! To display you need to refresh the page, this is a limitation of the script for the gwbb code, so after submitting make sure to refresh the page.

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Individual Skills [Fire Storm]

1. Find the full name of the skill using the skill text or GWWiki. (Fire Storm)

2. Press the button or type out the gwbb [open] and [/close] tags as below

2a. Use the following syntax:

[gwbb][<skillname>][/gwbb]

3. Replace <skillname> with the name of the skill so it looks like :

[gwbb][Fire Storm][/gwbb]

4. Done! Finish and Submit your post.

5. IMPORTANT! To display you need to refresh the page, this is a limitation of the script for the gwbb code, so after submitting make sure to refresh the page.

It's as simple as that! (Don't forget to refresh page after each submission/edit).

I hope that helps with skill and build posts. Any questions or suggestions just ask.

Quote from Faffin

I just put an elementalist/mesmer in the pure mes spot using the same skills. Worked fine.

You'd be better off using the Ele with Ele skills to get through normal mode until you unlock all the mesmer heroes and Razah.

CLOSED

Selling some items.

Remember to abide by the Xunlai Market Rules.

1. Clean q9 Earth Staff (core skin) s/b 1e c/o 5e - Hrwakka SOLD

2. OS q9 Zodiac Axe +5 energy s/b 5e c/o 65e Flint Lightning SOLD

3. OS q9 Jade Sword +5 energy s/b 10e c/o 10e Moon SOLD

4. OS q8 Oni Daggers Damage +20% while Hexed s/b 20e c/o 150e Crazedhealer Contacted

5. Inscribable q7 AL15 Tall Shield, Blue s/b 20e c/o 50e buddyleex SOLD

Quote from Flint Lightning

I'm not sure.......is that what you think i'm saying?

Yes

I'm not sure, are you saying someone hasn't bought all the material storage and filled it?

Quote from Flint Lightning

yeah that's a Dev lol

I have a screen from Pre with every high end mini going also a friend sent me lol

Here is the source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/co…ive_ever_spent/

If someone hasn't done the quest or mission on a character yet they can test and try the same steps to see if they run to the outpost / do the mission and then check if the quest is no longer available.

No, you can still get to the outpost and do the mission without taking the quest.

I don't see any mention that it stops you getting the quest if you've already reached the outpost or done the mission but it is something that could easily be confirmed.

I think it means you may have accepted it but as it doesn't show up in your quest log in-game it wouldn't have been easy to identify to tick-off when you did complete it.

From the wiki: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Seeking_The_Seer

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This does not show up in the Quest Log as a primary quest, but behaves as one: it is the quest leading to the next mission (Ice Caves of Sorrow)

So you may have done it an accepted it but that's why you don't remember seeing it in your log.

Skull flatbow

Turtleshell longbow

6e for these

Also interested in:

Aureate dagger

Stilletos

Brass spear

Clouded spear

Serrated spear

Solemn spear

Windblade spear

Adamantine falchion

Crested machete

Golden machete

Amber staff OS 20/10 (domi)

Torivor's rage (axe)

Wintergreen staff

14e for these

20e total

Thanks for the trade

#3 Spiked Targe q7/15 - 60e

Withdrawn

Fiery Mursaat Hammer of Charrslaying - 2e

Quote from Rushin Roulette

One very small thing Id like to see would be an addition to the "Armbraces to ecto" rate display on the forum overview page to include the Ecto/Zkeys exchange rate.

Over the years Zkeys seem to have transitioned from Chest title opening items to a completely parallel payment method for mid to high end trades.

This is interesting, and with my comment above as well about Ecto to Plat added.

So we could have
Ecto : Platinum
Ecto : Zaishen Key

Ecto : Ambrace

Question is, how can this be defined in order to stay accurate enough to rely on it. Do we need to canvass people who are involved in the game/trades on a regular basis? Ecto:Platinum isn't too bad because you could just take the mean between Trader Buy & Sell, but the others are harder to define.

Sadly no API for GW so it all has to be done manually too.