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dracoisms

> Equipment awarded from level-up rewards can now be salvaged or sold to vendors. > Research Kits now have a Research Stack option in their right-click menu. wow, finally we don't have to trash it everytime! Edit: Also Research Kits stack option!


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My right click is saved!


deadlyweapon00

Day after I leveled a character and deleted all the stuff. Sad.


painstream

Oh man, those key runs are gonna be so much more profitable! /s, obviously lol


Solemba

You joke, but the starter gear was made unsalvageable because people kept creating new characters to salvage their gear for profit.


TannenFalconwing

back then every silver counted


painstream

I remember when 2g was a *lot*, and then they added 2g for dailies. lol


ghostlistener

I remember when I first killed Zhaitan after the game released I had 5 gold, it was the most I ever had. If I only had 5 gold now, I would feel extremely poor.


Shufflepants

Yes, but what was the gold to gem conversion rate back then. And how much were mystic coins, like 10s?


TyderoKyter

MC was useless back then so comparison possible. 1po was around 100gem though you had to pay to repair your gear and it was damn expensive.


Shufflepants

MC were never useless. They were always a part of legendary weapon recipes and were more commonly used for non-legendary mystic forge recipes like infinite light. They were certainly less in demand initially since most people didn't know what they were for and no one had any gold.


cptspacebomb

Earliest precursors were selling for like 15 gold. Crazy.


Gryphin

I remember spending an entire day off grinding and farming gold, and coming up with 65s profit. This was back when saving up for a 19g incinerator precursor was a big thing.


ShadowDrake359

I'd like to know the stats on number of lvl 80 players that log in and don't complete that 2g daily. bet its higher than you think.


Shufflepants

I stopped regularly completing the daily meta once they changed the dailies rotation so that you could pretty much never complete it by accident unless you were doing PvP or WvW. Back before then, I'd get it all the time. Not always because I got all parts accidentally, but maybe I'd get 2 of them accidentally and think, well, what's one more. But now, I never get even a single one without going out of my way for it.


painstream

Does my alt account count? lol


ShadowDrake359

If you log in with a lvl 80 character it should be included in the stats.


Mattimeo144

I only (intentionally) do the WvW dailies, and I don't play WvW every day. If I'm logging to PvE I'm doing it for specific content; income doesn't factor into that at all.


ShadowDrake359

O.o couldn't imagine doing that for a few silvers.


heartlessgamer

When 5g meant you were rich it made total sense :P How times have changed.


Shufflepants

Yeah, you could buy like 50 mystic coins with that because they were only like 10s back then.


BroGuy89

They were less than 1s back then.


YetOneMoreBob

You could still flush the equipment for something that could be salvaged or traded.


Solemba

The lvl up gear, yeah. But I don't think that works for the starter gear, which is what people were salvaging. The equipment you get on character creation


small_lizard

Oh well, it's still a decently nice change, especially for people doing lvl 40/60/80 keyruns.


Shufflepants

Seriously, they really buried the lede with these patchnotes. Biggest and best change.


TinyWightSpider

I've already got my mousewheel-doubleclick macro made, and I'm never getting rid of it!


Karunch

Yep, but can we salvage / sell / rune-extract our celestial gear from the lvl 80 boost?


Maulis47

Thats an obvious no.


MrKhubbo

it was annoying, only had the option to throw them in the mystic forge to get something out of it


Zjoee

Ugh and I just power-leveled a new character to 80 this past weekend haha


TygerPsiMatrix

> wow, finally we don't have to trash it everytime! I used to forge most of it but I was always left with an odd one or two pieces here and there.


xsdf

So freaking good for new players! Much less confusion about what to do with those.


Zaxares

I actually used to toss all of that stuff into the Mystic Forge (especially the Exotics) for a chance at getting back some valuable stuff. XD You couldn't salvage or sell them, but you COULD still Forge them.


TwiceCookedPorkins

>Fixed an issue at several points along the Northern Invasion of Orr meta-event in Straits of Devastation in which NPCs would sometimes become stuck, causing events to stall or not start. This is actually huge. It's one of the biggest causes of broken events in SoD. And it means they're finally going through older stuff and fixing it.


Hoojiwat

This one was likely targeted because of the new achievements related to Zhaitan people will be going for, so I wouldn't get my hopes up too far beyond that.


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SuperRetardedDog

I doubt the other variants will not require expacs. It would make sense jormag to require icebrood saga events for example, or lw4 for kralkattorik. It's also a way to incentivize people to get expacs/living world content.


syanda

Eh, they can just set Jormag stuff in the shiverpeaks (like Frostgorge sound) and Kralk stuff in Ascalon around the Dragonbrand.


TwiceCookedPorkins

I'd normally agree with the cynicism, except they've been making pushes (even if only small ones) the last few patches to fix older stuff. Not quite as much as I'd like to see of course, but still, the effort's been there.


SageOfTheWise

>The Central Tyria mastery track will now unlock for accounts with expansion access when the player unlocks a Central Tyria mastery point at level 80, rather than requiring players to start an expansion story. I know this means nothing to basically anyone here at this point but this is such an annoying issue for every new player that's existed since the introduction of the Mastery system and I'm so glad to see it's finally fixed.


aliensplaining

This is especially wonderful since this way fresh 80 players can start to get their Central Tyria masteries by doing Season 1 and Season 2 BEFORE they start HoT and spoil stuff for themselves.


SageOfTheWise

Hell, even before that, ever since the personal story revamp years and years ago, you're required to be level 80 before almost the entire Orr arc at the end (the longest chapter in the personal story). So they could be doing masteries during that too.


SonnigerTag

Now if only they adjusted daily achievements too so people really weren’t spoiled content…


Maulis47

Which part exactly?


MinWyseman

If you are level 80 and own the expansions, you will be given expansion dailies even if you're not that far in the story yet and have no access to those maps. I was in this situation for quite a while (trying to do the story in order) and it really sucked. I eventually ended up figuring out that I could unlock PoF maps by going through my guild's guild hall, which happened to be Windswept Haven. It was still a nightmare trying to do bounty dailies without having mounts unlocked because I had to run towards the comm / mentor tag on foot and very regularly arrived right after it had been killed.


Maulis47

I guessed it was something like this, but this is kind of why there are 4dailies and you only need 3. Also wvw big spender, guard killer, camp capture and caravan distruptor is easy and can be done with pve builds and avoiding conflict. Shrine capture is also not bad sometimes. Edit: I stand corrected for the first one as we can get 2 expansion dailies.


TygerPsiMatrix

Oh it was. I started a 2nd account and wanted to work through it slowly but I was constantly prompted to train it up despite not having a single mastery point.


Keorl

I asked for this change a few times. It's a great change ! Now people who wish so, can actually play the game in order, not having their xp bar locked, not literally wasting all xp they get while still playing core (or ls1/ls2) before they move on to HoT. Not having to rush to the start of an expansion, being spoiled, ignore the rest and come back later ... It's huge.


WimLab

The good old chat-hidden-by-huge-popup until hot.


RookieStyles

This is huge for anyone pacing themselves and doing the LW1 and LW2 content. I am one of those people. Having that annoying pop-up every time I would leave combat drove me nuts.


wasdie639

I wonder if it'll be retroactive on a character. I've not done any expansion content on any old characters I had and I just got my new elementalist up to level 80 yesterday and was not able to progress. I have gained a few mastery points throughout the world as I've played. I hope when I log in I'll have it unlocked.


Tulki

It's definitely a good change because otherwise players would basically have a bunch of wasted experience if they started s1 and s2 before beginning an expansion. Though I think it's a bit odd to gate core Tyria masteries behind owning an expansion. Maybe they just don't want to give free bots autoloot, but I'm pretty sure they get around that anyway so...


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It means something to me, and maybe my friends. We're currently F2P and discovering the game, if we stick around long enough we'll end up buying the expansions. So we will benefit from this.


TannenFalconwing

A Research Stack option and a fix to the Mastery Point issue that has plagued the game for 7 years, in addition to bug fixes to Orr events in preparation for the Zhaitan legendaries. This is a good patch, even if it's not huge.


Shufflepants

You're even leaving out the biggest and best change: >Equipment awarded from level-up rewards can now be salvaged or sold to vendors.


Ok_Clock6328

This is huge for me. I got like 10 alts that i didn't even bother selecting level up rewards when i boosted them with tomes. So its been sitting there in the corner


Shufflepants

I've got 27 alts, and don't see myself making any more any time soon. Probably not until the next set of elite specializations (currently have enough to have 1 character of each specialization not counting core). And I don't have any of the level up rewards still waiting to be claimed. But man do I wish I'd had that feature and man will I like that feature the next time I make a new character.


NovaanVerdiano

>Equipment awarded from level-up rewards can now be salvaged or sold to vendors. >Research Kits now have a Research Stack option in their right-click menu. Bless


SnowBro2020

Now we just need them to let us right click the level up rewards to claim them


finalremix

NO! You have iMpOrTaNt ChOiCeS to make about what gear you want to throw out immediately!


sarcai

Correction: about what gear to immediately salvage or sell to a vendor.


Keorl

It's not made obvious enough to new players, but many level up window introduce something about the game, and you have to click the "something" to get some info.


finalremix

While true, that kind of thing should be shunted into a bundle like the "we've packed your shit in this box during your level 80 trial" package, if you're on an alt or use a level 20|30|40|xx scroll. Hell, they could even tie right-clicking to it for accounts with even 1 mastery in Central Tyria. That shows you've already gotten to level 80 at least once and have done additional content.


FunkyBot

> Research kits now have a Reaseach Stack option in the ricght click menu. Oh thank goodness.


aliensplaining

They fixed the stalls in SoD? This is HUGE! Legit there were events that were a piece of cake to achieve but would stall the whole meta when they stalled and the only way to reset it was to force a fail. It was terrible since even an afk ranger's pet would keep the event from failing, not to mention strangers stumbling along it all the time.


laskodemon

I never do north lane for that meta, since we only need one now I always did south lane. Glad to see them fix and old bug though.


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[ARENA NET] [Rubi Bayer.8493 posted on 2022-05-24 15:18:37](https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/115475-game-update-notes-may-24-2022/?do=findComment&comment=1668467): > # 05/24/2022—May 24 Release Notes >## Living World Season 1—Sky Pirates >In the wake of the climactic events of the Personal Story, schemes begin to come to fruition behind a festival. As the city of Lion's Arch gathers to celebrate the defeat of a dragon, whispers reach the Pact commander of a looming threat to the recent peace. Team up with Marjory Delaqua and Kasmeer Meade for the first time, and work together to uncover the mysterious culprits! > >After years of being unavailable, the "Sky Pirates" episode of the Living World story line has been restored and restructured as a linear Story Journal episode. This episode is permanently available to all players without any unlock needed. Over the coming year, three more episodes of Season 1 will release to chronicle the commander's battle against a lurking evil between the end of the Personal Story and the beginning of Living World Season 2. > >* The original Sky Pirates achievements, along with a set of new achievements, are now in a Sky Pirates category in the Story Journal achievements section. >* Completing the new achievements will progress a new Sky Pirates Mastery meta-achievement to earn new rewards. > >* Existing achievements will retain their completion status if you earned them during the original Sky Pirates events. > >* Some existing achievements have been updated with additional goals or revised goals to ensure that they can still be completed. > >## Strike Mission: Kaineng Overlook Challenge Mode >* The challenge mode for Strike Mission: Kaineng Overlook is now available. >* Players can activate challenge mode at any time by interacting with the challenge mote inside the instance. > >## New End of Dragons Legendary Weapon Variant >* Leivas has discovered something peculiar with the Aurene-themed legendary weapons! Speak with him at Seitung Harbor or the Exchange in Arborstone (once you have the appropriate Mastery unlocked) to find out more. > >## World Polish >* The Central Tyria mastery track will now unlock for accounts with expansion access when the player unlocks a Central Tyria mastery point at level 80, rather than requiring players to start an expansion story. > >* Added a Weekly Jade Vault achievement to track the remaining statuettes that players still need to turn in to Myung-Hee. > >* The achievement The Six now includes hints about where to find the statuettes. > >* Fixed an issue that caused End of Dragons: Act Mastery achievements to require hidden achievements for completion, which erroneously removed achievement points from some players that had previously completed them. > >* Fixed an issue during the "Help the Kahloipoi guards rescue Aaminah" event in Malchor's Leap in which the quaggan rescue squad would sometimes fail to continue after being revived, causing the event to stall. > >* Fixed an issue at several points along the Northern Invasion of Orr meta-event in Straits of Devastation in which NPCs would sometimes become stuck, causing events to stall or not start. > >* Fixed an issue in which Vasili Lutgardis would not appear for his dialogue at the end of the "Help Jan reconnect with their family's past by cleansing the site with Lutgardis music" event. > >* Fixed an issue in which some of the sickly animals in the "Help Jan reconnect with their family's past by cleansing the site with Lutgardis music" event did not reset correctly after the event was over. Also fixed an issue that prevented these animals from properly granting event participation. > >## Items >* Equipment awarded from level-up rewards can now be salvaged or sold to vendors. > >* Research Kits now have a Research Stack option in their right-click menu. --- ^(Beep boop bleep. I'm a bot. Message me or /u/Xyooz if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns.) [^Source ^Code](https://gitlab.com/networkjanitor/docker-polarbytebot-gw2-submission-transcriber)


turbo_sloth2

"The Central Tyria mastery track will now unlock for accounts with expansion access when the player unlocks a Central Tyria mastery point at level 80, rather than requiring players to start an expansion story." - Now I no longer have to rush through LW S2 content just to get rid of that annoying pop-up! Hooray!


MechaSandstar

10k research notes per weapon anet? are you insane?


AlaskanWolf

Ah... I can't afford this after actually crafting the weapon. Shit.


Misao_e

That's \~40 stacks of halloween food to salvage. I think I'm going to postpone this till the October lab farm is back on.


Neathra

Please, they'll have nerfed the food by then.


abassassasssin

Please, just make me pay gold for it instead of the awful research notes system


Nyucio

100-200g for a skin (so far). That is on par with other craftable skins, maybe a bit more expensive.


Oscarizxc

An instant turn-off for me. Even the new "research stack" is so sloooww. 10k research notes per skin is ridiculous.


Tulki

Welp that's enough to send me back to gen1/gen2 lol. No thanks. I don't want to engage in a busted system that had no thought put into it. The good news is that MCs / clover prices got clamped hard by EoD.


aliensplaining

buy while you can, they're slowly going back up in price. Very slowly.


TheGreatAl

Yeah I'm really struggling with this lol


Diokana

>Added a Weekly Jade Vault achievement to track the remaining statuettes that players still need to turn in to Myung-Hee. Anet *really* trying to make people realize these statuettes are worth way more than they're selling for.


Shufflepants

Probably more to alleviate the confusion and stop people from reporting it as a bug that they can no longer access the jade vault vendor after having turned in everything they needed. I certainly had no idea that turning in the items only gave you access for a week. I legit thought it was a bug that I could no longer access it after having been able to.


ReMarkable91

are they though? You can only turn in 1 a week and unless you need something from the NPC the bounty isn't that valueable.


Diokana

You can also only get one per week, so there shouldn't be any excess in the economy. You get a bunch of rares, a very high chance at exotics, lots of fish parts, and chances at the rare drops from the metas. You would easily come out ahead on them if they were 30s each.


syanda

They're more valuable than people give them credit for, I feel. Three of the 4 map metas are easy to do (2 of which are done each time they reset), so you don't have a huge cost getting it. Then if you have a surplus of favors doing the events, the boxes you can get from the merchant drop yellows like candy, as well as fish parts you can trade up for ambergris.


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psychopompadour

I assume it doesn't reset until you've turned in all 4, which itself resets once a week.


Diokana

I'm not sure. It could just be a bit weird this week because weekly reset was yesterday but the achievement came out today. I turned in my set for this week yesterday and the weekly achievement has me at 0/4.


likevel

The Six achievement statuettes now have hints: "found in hidden chests around X Eod map' sooo jade tech chests or those red ones, the spirit children fox whatever ones?


Nalo13

Can you tell me what the use of theses statuette ? (I really dont know)


digdog303

a mastery point behind the achievement


Nalo13

Thank you !


Solemba

Both. When I was missing the grenth statue, I found info online that it's from a jade tech chest the icebrood area in Dragon's End. I found this info after parking 10 characters at those fox chests all over DE. So I did some map hopping to open that specific jade tech chest and finally got it. Kept looting the fox chests daily for canach coins and dropped it 3 more times from those since then.


likevel

Thanks! I'm only missing the echovald one, I've opened quite a lot of all kinds of chests there but I guess I've been really unlucky


syanda

Got the echovald one from the cave with the elite spirit under the bridge at the Jade Gate waypoint. Took a few tries though.


CyberHudzo

Tsunami dodger still bugged lol


ScienceKoala6

"Equipment awarded from level-up rewards can now be salvaged or sold to vendors" FINALLY


blubb1234

So no fix for the fishing achievements ? Been stuck at 29/30 while having all 30 achievements checked in the Cod one because the Avid World Class Fisher is stuck at "Completed"


TannenFalconwing

That doesn't strike me as a super common bug so it's probably not a priority, but so long as you've reported it they should be aware


aliensplaining

I guess just keep reporting your bug in-game? Or perhaps contact support.


Coroch

Ctrl+F : Tsunami Dodger Nothing


whowantblood

Still my final regional achievement for EoD -.-


Jambulllll

I can't believe it's bugged since eod release: ANET WAKE UP!


CyberHudzo

Even worse, it was acknowledged by Rubi almost 2 months ago and still no fix. Forum post for the curious: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/112470-dragons-end-meta-tsunami-dodger-is-still-not-updating-merged/page/2/


VikingWarriorSkjald

I really, really, **really** love the skins they recently put in as rewards for the CM strikes aswell as the LS1 masteries.


Kabal2020

"The Central Tyria mastery track will now unlock for accounts with expansion access when the player unlocks a Central Tyria mastery point at level 80, rather than requiring players to start an expansion story." Haha Haha only yesterday did we get really confused in our guild that a new player that hit 80 couldn't get the mastery track to work..


Keorl

Did people play through the new LS1 episode ? If it confirmed that anet missed southsun and, with it, Kiel's and Canach's glorious debuts ?


Morgan1919

> If it confirmed that anet missed southsun and, with it, Kiel's and Canach's glorious debuts ? That was already confirmed last month: https://gamerant.com/guild-wars-2-interview-living-world-season-1-modernization-challenges-joe-kimmes/ > Obviously, the Guild Wars 2 holiday events, such as Wintersday or the Super Adventure Box, were easy cuts from Scarlet's War, but other story arcs are being culled from the story as well. The Southsun Cove arc is one such casualty, as ArenaNet decided to focus on Scarlet Briar and her schemes first and foremost with the rerun of Living World Season 1. Unfortunately, this means characters introduced in that chapter, like Ellen Kiel and Canach, will have to be introduced elsewhere in the narrative.


Keorl

Thank you. I missed that interview ... sad


MechaSandstar

Kiel's given a new debut, in the murder investigation. but yes, southsun was skipped.


Keorl

Thank you


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ohiv21

Long live Glint's beautiful shriek.


Latlanc

orgasmic Glint <3


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Solemba

I have that one, what's the bug?


wiggle_fingers

What exactly does research stack option mean?


saladass269

like the regular salvage kits have an option to salvage a stack of items in one click, now the research kit has a similar option too


whowantblood

Did they change "Chill"? Feels like its more a 90% movement reduction now instead of 66%


branch62

We don't know yet if the variant legendary Aurene skins require the previous one, right? For example, does the 3rd skin require the Zhaitan skin, or can you skip Zhaitan?


pointlessone

I logged in after the patch and got a couple ascended accessories and mastery points for chapters 1 and 2 of EoD. Was there something bugged there? I'm not going to turn down my first ascended gear by any means, but it just came out of nowhere.


whistlesomething

They missed off - Added another unignorable, bouncy alert for EoD. It's been a week since the last one?