Posts by Looney

  • Favorite campaign

    Factions is top for me too, I love the scenery there. In the past I've vanquished areas there then gone wandering around the whole explorable to look for things I never noticed before. I really enjoy the aesthetics of the Jade Sea and even though the city can be a little ugly it hides some interesting things such as the empty moving rocking chair outside KC and the many cats in different places. Also the mouse that comes out of the hole in tahkani temple is cute (iirc that's the right spot).

    Second would be Prophecies just because it has some areas I don't like. I'm also not a fan of the sand (ugh, desert). My favorite spot in prophecies would have to be kryta with it's lush greens and beautiful sky. My favorite spot to afk used to be in Gates of Kryta sitting on the hill with my froggy friend.

    Last would have to be NF, again, did I mention I hate sand? The only area in NF I consistantly play is the island of istan, and I only play there because I like the no req insc 8ar shields that can drop there.

    EotN isn't a campaign but it probably fits on my list about even with Proph. I like most areas, I enjoy some dungeons and it's mostly aesthetically pleasing to me. The probable worst thing for me about EotN is the asurans, I dislike their smug atittudes and bunny-looking faces and would love to smack Vekk around a bit.

    ...which leads to favorite tonic combo of Vekk tonic + lunatic court helm (flaming pumpkin head) = Vekk on fire.

  • Two OS items

    Most ppl go with the argument of 'easy to farm from mantids' for cele weapons.

    I farm mantids a lot, the chances of actually getting a q9 with +5e is rather low, especially once you figure in loot scaling and the anti-farm code.

    I'm not saying it's worth a ton but a q9 +5e cele bow is nice for a caster bow and you can probably get 3-10e for it.

  • PC some stuff

    Accursed Staff q9 20/20 probably 5-10e max. It's a pretty common 20/20 staff to find.

    Water staff q9 20/20 fire probably merch. Mixed attrib staves are very hard/impossible to sell except df/heal or df/prot since there isn't heal or prot req os staves in most cases.

    Not sure on wand/focus

    Ofc I may be wrong, there is ppl who will buy almost anything in gw in 2017

  • Birthday Presents

    Vouchers / Surprise BOXES aren't tradeable. Their value is that of whatever mini or tonic you get.

    Most ppl go for 7th year surprise boxes and hope for one of the non birthday minis.

    7th year PRESENTS which you get when you turn 7 ARE tradeable, but, Surprise Box ≠ B-day Present.

    So price range from 3k if you get something like a purple burning titan to ~6 arms if you get a gold vizu... if you get the Seventh Birthday Surprise Boxes and are reaaaaaaly lucky opening one.


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    Oppressor weapons are 6-8e for a stack of war supplies which converts to 10 medals of honor to get one weapon

    Tormented weapons = 1 arm = 110-125e currently but sometimes you can find someone selling a premade weapon cheaper 70~80e if you don't mind not choosing.

  • Is it worth something or merch ?

    Image isn't working, idk how to price something you can't see.

    edit: How do I right click on mobile? Embedded images within posts using [ img:XXXXXX ] don't work on chrome for mobile and long press won't open them either. External images on 3rd party sites show fine in [ img] [ /img] tags. It's why I like when ppl post the stats in text form as well.

  • The truth about Pre-Nerf

    Quote from kriss

    Yes but no, making undroppable only a few skins wasn't intended as a nerf from ncsoft. They would have to made undroppable every shields q8 to call it a nerf but that's not the case :)

    but meh, I guess we all have our own definition, logic or not

    One skin or all skins is not the point. Q8 of the skin was nerfed. All currently dropped OS shields of those skins are q9+ so the power of those old drops is no longer attainable, hence 'nerfed'.

  • The truth about Pre-Nerf

    "In video gaming, a nerf is a change to a game that reduces the power of a weapon or skill in order to maintain game balance. The term is also used as a verb for the act of making such a change. The opposite of nerf is buff (in one of that term's two usages)"

    The term 'nerf' applies. The req one needs to get the full power of something is a change in the weapon's power. If an item can only happen at req 9 now that was previously available at req 8 it's power has changed. You can no longer get full power at req 8.

    Just my 2¢

  • Does it exist?

    that's kinda what I thought. Interesting that all martial weapons in factions share the same possible inherents as proph, except the only 'new' martial weapon (at the time, daggers) which has the same possible inherents as what became inscriptions.

  • Q9 20/20 Hypnotic Staff

    Hmmm... 10e ~ 50e ~ 150e?

    Can anyone else weigh in since it's such a large range so far?

    As of now it's gonna be sitting on my mesmer as her first q9 20/20 OS staff...

    Hopefully one day I clean out her inventory of all the stuff there so I can actually play on her lol

  • This or That?

    Omg, hard choice. I'd probably go with both, and sausage, and bacon, and hamburg...

    Picking one or the other i'd probably pick pepperoni, but it depends on my mood lol

    Deep dish or greek style?

  • Post Your Favorite Chest Run

    I agree with Vizi, most often on Factions runs I'm pretty sure I'm usually not losing $. If I am it's due to how I don't sell unids since I really don't have space to store them to sell. Yesterday was decent I think all told I ran 50-60 HM chests and had decent luck retaining, only 22 broken picks. Final tally of drops was 2 superior vigors which I kept since some of my heros still need them, ~18k made from selling other runes to traders, a q9 15^50 mammoth axe which some characters koss will probably get and 2 elite tomes (1 necro, 1 rit).

    Runs like outside Boreal Station idk how profitable they are, the skins mostly suck so you are stuck praying for max mods that are also wanted mods or elite tomes. About the best weapons you can hope for are draconic or ornate spears, bramble bows or dolyak prods. There are a few others but too but most of the weapon drops aren't really worth your time. The only time I even bother running there is if I need mods or inscriptions because I try to avoid kamadan as much as possible.

    On a different note,

    What is everyones biggest pet peeve about chestrunning?

    Mine is getting a reg mesmer tome from a chest and breaking the pick.
    Worst drop imo + broken pick = annoyed Looney :@

  • Post Your Favorite Chest Run

    Idk about 'profitable' it all depends on luck. Your luck retaining picks and your luck with drops. Nomal mode is definitly not profitable imo, hard mode is less not profitable due to elite tomes. Honestly, I don't really keep track of my cost of picks vs. cash made from drops. I don't sell my crap unids to improve my income, I id everything and salvage most junk drops if it salvages into mats I use for other things. I usually chest run in hopes of getting that rare item that makes it seem worth it. Most stuff I have/use on my characters was dropped to me, I have traded for some stuff but it's a small % of what I have.

    http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/15%20The%20…%20Run.003.html

    There is some math on it in that thread... just change the 3 on the end to 4 thru 7 to see the rest.

    Just today I broke 10 picks running chests for a few minutes but got 2 superior vigor runes, random luck is random like that (Halcyon Job, lux sin chests). Most times you probably won't make money but there is always a chance at a string of good luck.

  • Post Your Favorite Chest Run

    I #$% ING hate loot scaling and the anti-farm code. 'Doesn't effect rare drops' my ASSassin!

    Quote from Emma

    Looney,

    Perhaps it is an idea to post all the chest runs with maps in the first post for easy findingz :D :D Thanks Marty for posting the link :D


    All the maps I could find in the whole chestrunners thread are in an imgur album linked in the first post now. There is also a link to a .zip archive file on my google drive of them if you cba to visit imgur.

    @Kairi, I think a couple maps may have been posted by you, hope you don't mind me trying to save them from the ashes.

  • Announcing the Guild Wars Guru Archive

    I was going through the chestrunners thread and I noticed the archive contains many doubles of the same page. Most pages there is 2 copies of. If you look at the size column it's pretty obvious. I know it would be a task but it may be possible to curate it a bit and remove the doubles to save some space. Just looking here it's quite a few doubles. http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/15%20The%20…e/11%20Farming/

    Is there a reason for the doubles I'm missing? If the whole archive is similar it could really add up.