Guild Wars 2

Aeleniel.4973:

Welcome shirookami and crowgrrrl! :] I think many of us can relate to the accidentally-on-purpose cliff diving. I splatted myself just the other day after getting to the top of a troublesome vista, only to promptly run off the other edge… All before I got the “view” in. Woo for splatting! xD

EDIT: I’m pretty excited for the Wintersday festivities. Those who have participated in GW2 events before – should I focus on leveling before Wintersday begins, or will there be fun things to do at every level? I’m level 30 or so.

For the Halloween update, they had a bunch of instanced stuff that anyone could do (we were all leveled up to 80), they had stuff in all starting zones, and they also had a cross-zone scavenger hunt that was technically unleveled but low-level characters couldn’t do it because we got creamed by the mobs. Even with a party of high-levels helping, I only barely completed the first part at level 10-15 (went up 5 levels trying it). It was awesome to see people taking the time to help though.

Basically, there should be stuff to do regardless of level. Some stuff may be really really difficult if you’re not the right range for its zone, but there will probably be a ton of stuff to do.

Re: Fatal Faceplant, it’s a staple of Tyria. The ‘best’ kind is when someone faceplants near you and you can rez them while loling. It’s like free entertainment + XP for standing under a JP. Being on the other end of that is pretty silly too. No idea who put the face-first-landing animations in the game, but they are funny.

@Gilosean
I am glad to hear that there should be lots of fun stuff to do regardless. Also, I expect I’ll be leveling up quite a bit during the event (since it’s over winter break, I’ll have lots of time to kill).

Also, I think the sound of hitting the ground face first is hilarious. It’s a sickening splat if I ever heard one.

@Aluna
Welcome to the group! :]

Blarrg.8305:

BongiB.

A friend of mine has informed me that once you choose your server, you can not jump to another server

Incorrect. You can change servers once a week.

Thank you very much That is a bit of a sigh of relief!

Lexy.3912:

Hi BongiB

Welcome to GW2 and to Tyria. Just to let you know that you can still currently transfer servers for free once every 7 days, we don’t know how long this will be the case and as of yet there is no other way of ‘guesting’ with friends in open PvE – only through dungeons and then only EU-EU servers or NA-NA servers.

In response to your ‘the who in the what?’ comment – this very long thread has evolved over the past few months into a bit of a cross-server guild of people who like you are in the game for some fun, some company and to help others from time to time.

As we are cross server there are possibilities that other members will be on your server for partying up, we get together to do dungeons (some more rgularly than others) and we also have a lively guild chat that all can particpate in. I’ve even heard a rumour that we might have a website for more organised events but I begin to suspect this is a lie…

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in I can send you an invite, or if you want to take some time to find your feet in the game first that is fine too – we’re quite relaxed about the while thing.

Thanks for the reply This sort of fun is exactly what I am looking for. I am actually in Australia, so I would be hoping to find people that are of like time zones instead of me staying up till 3am or getting up at 5am LOL!!!

Where are most of you guys from? Or are you all pretty spread out then?

So it all goes back to the big question… What server do I start out in?! I had a pretty nice guy from my local game store explain to me how the overflow servers work, so should I just jump on sea of sorrows then? (I keep reading it is the “go to” for the Australian/New Zealander folk)

Thanks again, what you’ve described would be awesome re. doing the dungeons together and questing n stuff in a group

Hi again BongiB – I’ll shoot you a guild invite when I get back from work, unless some kind soul who is in game in the next 5 hours can do it earlier.

We are quite spread around (location/time zone wise) with most members in either American or Europe. We do have some members who are on a Hong Kong timezone or there abouts as well.

If you can get onto SoS and it is considered a good server for your location I say go for it, if you don’t like it there is nothing currently stopping you from moving and trying somewhere else. You usually only tend to end up in an Overflow when you are moving in and out of Lion’s Arch, due to the fact that recently located a popular dungeon there – at least this has been the experience on my server.

Hope to chat with you in game soon.

Name: Hexxim.8943
Main Character: Break Yourself Foo
Current Server: Erradon Terrace
Interested Activities: Socializing, Dungeons, PvE, and PvP
Active: Early mornings, evenings to night, most days of the week.
Additional Comments: Been playing off and on since release, highest char is
30, couldn’t decide on a main :/ Thinking necro, ive always been a support type player, healing, buffing ect. I enjoy games 1000x more when i have people to talk to and play with, and currently i don’t have that. Probably the reason i don’t play this game too much. But im very interested in maybe finding some people who would like to play?

Are you willing to participate in Operation: UNION’S project, Y/N?: Absolutely!

Name: Lich.7609
Main Character: Artemis Aphaea
Current Server: Yak’s Bend
Interested Activities: Mostly PvE, working toward 100% map completion
Active: Mostly evening (US East Coast), but also online whenever time permits
Additional Comments: My main is a Level 80 Ranger. My guild spends most of its time running the various dungeons so it leaves me playing solo more times than not which is very difficult in the areas of SoD, Malchor’s Leap and Cursed Shore. I’m looking for other players interested in completing these areas and that are also interested in farming and grinding areas for loot and gear.

Are you willing to participate in Operation: UNION’S Project, Y/N? Definitely…

Welcome all the new peoples! (especially Hexxim because you’re on ET! The few of us on ET are a friendly bunch and always happy to help).

@Helequin – I know what you mean about the heavy armor classes – I really want to like them, but they’re just so boring compared to other classes. I’m trying to level a warrior, and I’m so used to running through my skill set on my ele so quickly that I use all W1 skills, switch to W2, use all those, eventually switch back, and find that most of my skills are still on cooldown.

So I’d rather play my elementalist or something equally interesting. By my thief’s inventory is full of jewelry, and my engineer’s inventory is full of food. And my elementalist is sitting on like 120 skill points with nothing to spend them on. I wonder what the maximum number of skill points a character can have.

^ I gotta give more of you folks promotions!

Welcome everyone!
You’ll be sent an invite by a more competent person than me very soon.

20 pages loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong ….
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!

nottsgman.8206:

funny you say that Glitch, I am trying to figure out a mesmer build (just started one). I did expect him to be alot squishier to be honest. Kit’s guardian went down, I took on 7 enemies alone and survived just to pick her up. I expected to go down quickly after she did, came close a couple of times, but won in the end. anyway, back to original point. any mesmer tips? I’d be grateful for them

Hey nottsgman, check out MrPrometheus’ mesmer guides on youtube. I run his builds and I love them. Worth a look for sure. Survivability is great. Takes a mob to take me down.

welcome to all new people

@Rynomyte
thanks for the suggestion, going to look up those guides right now

@DEKeyz: Haha, it’s interesting to see how different preferences can be.

I really thought I would like Ele for the complexity and supposed variety. Then I played it for some time and realized 20 skills does not equal variety. It all felt very very samey for me, flipping through 4 attunements which all largely do the same thing (albeit with different boons/conds) for a weapon set. Now, if I could take D/D for two attunements and staff for another two or something…..but not the way the class was built.

I couldn’t stand thief either. I guess I tend to look for the most efficient way to run things, and the no CD thing just made it far too boring. I’m also not a burst damage player, so I was trying things like Pistol-Dagger and Pistol-Pistol, which are pretty mundane to play.

@Helequin – Elementalist Scepter/Dagger is alright for now since they debugged (what!?!) a few skills. You get mobility from the offhand dagger and some midrange AoE from the Scepter. Give it a shot if you ever feel like picking one up again.

Thief can be very efficient in PvE if you stack Initiative building traits. Pistol/Pistol is mighty boring though, I agree.

Rangers seem interesting – like the lighter version of a warrior but with fun stuff like traps instead of banners. And necros also seem like they have so many possible builds that if you get bored of playing one way you just grab another set of weapons, retrait, and have a completely different character.

Welcome, new friends! Woo for another Eredon Terrace player. I think you’ll find that this group is great for chatting and feeling like you’re playing with other wonderful people. None of my RL friends play GW2 anymore, so I was feeling pretty lonely until I stopped in here. No more! ;]

For me, as along I get to hit things in the face I’m happy.

D/D is by far the most interesting for a thief. For me a high damage/low health build is more active for me as any big hit make take you out.

I’m all about the melee, in your face classes. I normally play the swarmer, harrasser, troll build.

Oh, and Elowin, it was great chatting with you ingame yesterday. I’m not sure about your dungeon guild idea – it certain seems like it would work, but I’m not familiar with how GW2 guilds function from the inside (the leaders’ perspective). I’ll let one of the people in charge here answer that for ya.

Name: Vlawde
Main Character: vlawde, sylvari elementalist, also vlawdex, human guardian
Current Server: Fort Aspenwood
Interested Activities: Exploring and learning the game, having fun
Active: Most afternoons west coast time
Additional Comments: Just got laid off, so I have lots of time, at least right now.
Are you willing to participate in Operation: UNION’S project. Yup

Dungeon? Where?

It looks like I missed out on a good conversation yesterday – hubby and I were running WvW to farm some IP for his guild.

Right now, dungeoning plans are pretty much “It’s you!” “It’s you!” “Wanna dungeon?” “Okay, need more people” – or some general plans to run a particular dungeon on a particular day. I’m sure we can organize dungeoning groups better when when have a website.

@Elowin – is there a particular dungeon you’d like to run?

@Vlawde – Welcome! See you in guild chat!

@DEKeys: I’ll give scepter another shot, I just never liked the weapon. But if there have been some fixes that might work. As much as I tried, dagger/focus just doesn’t work real well.

In terms of thief, I just find initiative management boring over CD management. Maybe since the way the weapons are designed it’s often better to use one or two skills over others unless the situation changes.

Yeah, rangers and necros are both quite dynamic and can change it up lots…more so if they ever fix the bugs.

@Glitch: sounds like the classes I would like! I love flanking, causing havoc and generally confusing the heck out of people. Which sounds like a thief tbh, but I just couldn’t get into it probably because I favour sustain over burst. So I use Ranger/Necro to do the same thing.

@Elowin
I’m not sure when/if Anet will open up more servers, but it seems that most that are listed as full drop to high in off-peak hours. like you said though, it doesn’t really matter where the guild resides, as cross-server groups for dungeons are possible (EU/EU and NA/NA).

Edit: when are you normally on? and what dungeons are you looking to do?

@Aleniel all of you lot are important. We make decisions together. I never make a decision without all your input!

I’m not quite sure what you would like to accomplish Elowin? At the moment this is a very social place where dungeons are not the be all an end all. Except in my case. We run dungeons whenever we feel like, mainly here to talk to great people as everything’s better with others.

We just do things whenever we feel like it, when the moment suits us.

I organise a lot of the dungeons on the EU side, and Kaii organises our dungeons on the NA side on prime time.

We’re here to help if you want to start up your own dungeon guild and you’ll get all the support from me.

So how do we join the guild chat? And do we need to be contacted in game to actually join?

Welcome to all the new folks! I have only been in a very short amount of time, but this is a great group, kind, helpful, fun, etc. Anything you have questions about, ask.

@nottsgman – sorry I forgot to respond to you, I completely forgot lol, I, too wish guesting would hurry up and be available. I would definitely take you up on your offer of JP escort . I have a feeling I am gonna need all the help I can get lol. But hey, we could all have a laugh at my accidentally on purpose fatal face plants heehee.

@Helequin – Your Ranger and Necro are both melee, right? What are the sets of utilities that make them fun and viable for you (would/will when they fix the bugs), if you do not mind my asking, that is?

Thanks for taking the time, guys and gals, to give your thoughts about the heavy armor classes. I guess I just haven’t found THE profession for me yet lol. Like I said before, is it a good idea to try the professions I am interested in up to a certain level or is it that some of them do not really start to shine until about level 40? I know it is kinda a personal thing too but it would help me out. Am I wasting precious time by trying several professions at once? As always, any thoughts, advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you all again for being so helpful!

@cowgrrrl – Yes, trying a profession does take some time. But try them all out now! It’s better to know which profession you like now than to get a character to level 65, go “Meh, this isn’t for me” and have to start over when you’re so close to 80.

There are different levels of “I don’t like this class,” but I would say getting a character to level 20-25 gives you a good idea of how it will play. You can even throw some crafting in for a quick level boost. Level 40+ is when things start really coming together, but that is quite the time investment. You should save that for when you narrow your choice down to 2 (or 3 if you’re really indecisive).

I will say that if you start not being able to have fun for an extended period of time (like 2-3 DEs), try another class. I died tons on my ele, and while that part was frustrating and not so fun, I still enjoyed attunement dancing and having to use a little bit more strategy when facing enemies. My hubby on the other hand didn’t like dying so much.

@crowgrrrl
I don’t think you’re wasting your time trying a few at once, I did it myself, and finally settled with engi as my main. I think alot of the professions don’t really come into their own until at least 30 (personal opinion), if they don’t feel right by then I’d say try something else. you’ll know when you really like something

@Vlawde
just sent you an invite in-game, so now you can join in guild chat

Hello, all!
Checking in to see what everyone’s up to.

Elowin — I expect a website will help for those who would like to schedule dungeons in advance. Finding the info you need on a website would be much easier than scrolling back and forth here in a discussion thread.

For me, it’s best to schedule ahead. That’s not to say I can’t be spontaneous, but I get more of what I really want to do done if I plan ahead. YMMV!

Can’t believe another week is almost gone. The holidays are eating up so much of my free time! I’m feeling a little GW2 deprived.

Take care, all.

@Crowgrrl: I’ll answer what I can. Keep in mind my Ranger is level 30 and my necro is 3. But I tested all classes in sPvP enough to figure out kind of what works and doesn’t.

For the Ranger:
I currently use Frost Trap for chill and combo field, QZ for great burst with 1h sword or survival with GS, and I play around with the third. For PvP I would run lightning reflexes as a stun-break. In PVE I often run a second trap for more AOE damage. Muddy terrain is also a great utility, perfect for setting someone up for a QZ burst or to make a getaway.

Shouts are currently terrible, but if fixed there could be some nice abilities here. SaR could be good support, and I know some who use Protect Me! to tank along with 30 power and signet of stone. I typically prefer to survive with out the oh heck buttons, using dodges from the 1h sword or blocks/stuns with the GS, or pull out a longbow in melee and knockback.

Spirits also defintiely have a place if used cleverly in PvP around points. Currently bretty bad in PvE. They don’t follow you unless traited (so you don’t get to use them much), but if you do trait them to follow you they will die quickly in melee.

For rangers, it defintiely depends on what you want to do. For more support look to combo fields or spirits. For more self-focus QZ, traps, muddy terrain and stun-break seems to work well. Of course, you can also go well-rounded and have some of both, which is what I try to do.

Necro:
Take spectral walk. End of discussion here. Gives amazing speed and a teleport you can use to juke people. Reasonable CD.

Beyond that, bombing wells (the blind well is amazing) works well. In melee, you don’t even need to trait for ground targeting so you can spend elsewhere. This is especially good if you can really stack up the Power/Vit/Tough. With ground targeting, this would be very effecitve in WvW, since you can get more stat jewels in PvE vs PvP.

For sPvP, that well bombing build doesn’t run so well. I took 20% CD on spectral skills and ran Walk, Grasp and Wall. Gives you a gap closer, two types of speed and a cripple. Your job is now to find the glass cannons and run them over. Great fun and seemed really effective after a few tests.

I combined this with dagger/focus and axe (or dagger again)/warhorn. This gave me lots of access to speed and cripples. With 30 points in power I got some more chills and extra damage on wounded opponents just to reinforce the finishing people off nature of the build.

EDIT – I had much the same problem picking a class. In the end, I didn’t have time to level them all to 20. So I researched builds, played a touch of PvE and then jumped over to sPvP. I spent some time with each on the dummies and PvP NPCs, then threw down in some PvP games.

Now, I wasn’t looking for the best build for sPvP or anything, but I payed attention to how each class felt and played. I extrapolated to what the experience would be like in PvE or WvW, and mostly just looked for what I had fun with.

For example the banner warrior was actually a lot of fun fighting over points in sPvP. But I realized I would get really bored trying to level the thing in PvE.

EDIT 2 – maybe this is more helpful than wall o text.
Necro sPvP – http://tinyurl.com/aquohpp
For PvE or WvW, keep stacking soldier’s jewels and the toughness line with wells become viable (steall points from power and the last line).

Ranger – I don’t have specifics. Typically a 0/25/30/10/5 with Knight’s amulet and Soldier’s jewel. Can add more to Nature Magic and use spirits, or go 0/0/30/10/30 to really tank. WvW a 30/0/30/10/0 could work with stacked soldier’s for switch off to long range bow. This is probably why i like ranger….

Glitch,
I think you do a fabulous job of including everybody! I feel very welcome and very involved already. I have no problem opening my big mouth when I think I can help somebody, but there’s still a lot I don’t know, so sometimes I’ll defer to you or one of the others. ;]

Name: Spider
Main Character: Kyrtá, Kyrtána
Current Server: Ruins of Surnia
Interested Activities: Socialising, PvE,
Active: When I’m not at work which is randomly decided by my boss
Additional Comments: Can’t decide on profession so I may reroll my main characters names a few times till I find the style I do want
Are you willing to participate in Operation: UNION’S project, Y/N?: When I can sure

Hi there, I see this particular thread seems pretty friendly, I’m pretty new to MMO’s in general and definitely new to Guild Wars but I’m not new to RPG’s. I’m still figuring things out but for the moment I’m loving the ranger and necromancer professions.

Welcome Spider!

@ Elowin – The story modes make more sense if you go in order, but it’s not like finishing one dungeon “unlocks” the next or anything. Arah might be a little different, but I haven’t started trying that one. I’ve done AC, CM, and TA, and I would love to start tackling pretty much every dungeon except the Dredge one (because I don’t like dredge) and Arah (because I know it’ll be super tough).

Welcome folks!

I’ll keep this short as I should be asleep.
Good to see everyone’s feeling welcome, it’s what we’re good at.
(Yea I had a little ninja look on how everyone was getting along)

@Aeleniel Hahahah good one!
No, it’s not me. It’s all of you lot that make everyone welcome here.
I like reading up on stuff that’s all. Most things are a /wiki away.
No, I’m just the doof that started this little thing.

I’ll leave you lot in more capable hands now, see you all tomorrow.

I go to work for a day and this page is suddenly full.
Welcome to all the newcomers. \o
See ya’ll in game soon, be well.

This thread is becoming madness. MADNESS I TELL THEE!
Calm, JJ, calm… enough rage
Just before I go gonna say Hey to the new guys! Hey
On a more build related note can anyone tell me a good ele scepter/focus build? The ele forum is just full of whining so i don’t go there to sift through the crap. :P

Name: Cuteholic.8534
Main Character: Anryaa
Current Server: Ruins Of Sumia
Interested Activities: Seeking casual players to play with (I don’t mind talking…socializing is good lol)
Active: Evenings after 6pm EST during weekdays and can do as schedule permits on weekends. Also play on XBL so I balance between the two with the same amount of free time.
Additional Comments: I just started playing…currently level 5 human female guardian. I figured would be more fun to play with others since it is an MMO

Are you willing to participate in Operation: UNION’S Project, Y/N? I would like to…however I haven’t played many MMOs recently and not sure how much time I can dedicate.

Welcome, Cuteholic! Welcome, too, to the new folks who have arrived in the last couple of days.

It’s been a page or so since the AA (Asuran Army) was mentioned, and it’s taken me that long to remember that I wanted to introduce my little mesmer, Myrnah. She’s just turned 46 and I’m having lots of fun with her.

My ranger is still my favorite, though. I’ve played hunters/rangers since time began, i think. Since I just figured out how to post pics, I’ll throw in one of her too!

They’re both sporting Christmas colors as of this evening.

Allright!

Welcome to all of the new additions to this guild.

My current status on world completion is – Cursed Shore to go! Personally, I dislike Malchor’s Leap. Cursed Shore is little bit annoying but overall I’m having more fun there than in the previous zone.

Will let you more as I progress towards the end of this zone but there seems to be quite a few players in this zone. I will most likely spend some time here so anyone wanting to party up – lets do it!

just dropping by quick : ))) good to see this running crazy and all over the place.

@BongiB – i’m in Hong Kong! so similar timezones, though 3 hours behind ya, still closer than being flipped night and day. ; )) hope to see you around soon!

@crowgrrrl – definitely try out all classes like all the good folk mentioned in here! good to see some class discussion going on. i only know anything about the Guardian – who i adore to bits. working on his 4th armour set now as well. so i guess i’m more of a mainaholic. lol. and to be honest, i couldn’t pick who i wanted to play but i somehow, and luckily, stuck through my Guardian to post 30 and then i really started to get the hang of the mechanics, as well as developing how i wanted to build him. so for me, i’d say around 30+ is where you start to see if you’re REALLY gonna like a class. but then again, that’s just me ; )))

@Hexxim – you’ve found the right place then if you’re looking for some people to play with! and just chat to if not play with exactly. ET is a good place as there are more than a few good peeps in here on there!! so look ‘em up! if they haven’t “harrassed” you yet ; ))) and we can always run dungeons together as well (first one you can access is at level 30! but prepared for a ride ; ))) ) i agree, gw2 is soloable, but is such a different game when with others, even with strangers! so let alone a crazy group of kids like you find in her e; )) once again. welcome

@Lich – nice character name!D a lot of us run dungeons here and there when time permits or when groups get together. since we’re able to do that cross server. once in guild, open up the panel and see if there are Yak’s Benders on there that can help ya out! i wish i could help, or when guesting comes (so many of us are patiently waiting for this!!! lol) i would defs farm CS, ML or SoD with ya. i usually start doing my dailies there without fail. and welcome! hope you find a good place here hehe

@Vlawde – welcome Vlawde!! hehe appreciate that all your character’s share the same prefix.. or suffix.. in the names. i do a similar thing ; ))) and poo to being laid off.. but like you said, more time for Tyria right?? you’re being a full-time hero now. looking forward to seeing you in-game! and woot for another Guard heheh hopefully you figured out how to be part of guild chat! just hit “/g” in the chat panel and you’ll see the place happning hehe

@Spider – welcome Spider!! a warm welcome to you. i come from a similar background.. LOVE RPG’s. and this is my first MMO experience and loving it to bits so far. having this group here makes a big difference as well. you can always start alts to see if you like ‘em. you can go to the Heart of the Mists to test them out, so you don’t have to keep deleting and renaming your character ; )) and just do it once after you’ve found a class you like. there are a few ranger vets in here that i’m sure can help shed some light on the class!

@Cuteholic – ho, traveler! and welcome to the Union. you’re spot on about playing with others! ; )) and you’ve found a good group of people here, mark my words. also, how do you have time to play other games? lol i haven’t touched my PS3 in so long. other games i’ve been meaning to play too bu ti keep finding myself logging back onto gw2. heh. ps, if you ever wanna talk Guardian talk, i’m here!! lol in terms of dedicating time and effort to the “Union”, to be honest, you really don’t have to. we don’t have a schedule nor require you to clock in. all we ask if you have an open mind and an open heart and enjoy the company of one another. and do stop by in-game and say hello if you see any of us on!

and to all you other crazies, whether you been here since day one or joined in the past few weeks. keep doing what you’ve been doing!! bringing players together, making a difference.. in Tyria, on the forums, IRL. : ))) God Bless and godspeed.

jjc.4863:

This thread is becoming madness. MADNESS I TELL THEE!
Calm, JJ, calm… enough rage
Just before I go gonna say Hey to the new guys! Hey
On a more build related note can anyone tell me a good ele scepter/focus build? The ele forum is just full of whining so i don’t go there to sift through the crap. :P

MADNESS!!??!!

THIS IS UNION!

Couldn’t hold back on that one. And indeed welcome to everyone new!

EDIT to avoid double posting – Thanks to everyone who volunteered for taking me through my first dungeon run. Too bad the server maintenance killed my connection. Another night then!

Also, since the AA was mentioned again here’s Haeldra, ready for tossing duty:

@Helequin – lolol i fully apprecaite that reference. ; )) i remember when it was premier night, a few buddies of mine stood up in the cinema at that exact moment and yelled the line out at the top of our lines. we refrained from not kicking the seat in front of us hahaha good times.

which dungeon did you guys do? and aww, could you guys log back on? can just reenter. though heard the servers were a little wonky just now.

@Akamon
nope, we’d just got a group together and were about to go and boom, got kicked and couldn’t get back it

@Helequin
we can always go tomorrow night if you’re on, well as long as the servers are back by then hopes

NOOO : ((( sadness. fingers crossed for the servers as well! maintenence should be done soon. i’ll be on tomorrow as well (weekend) hopefully lol and if i see you guys, i’ll try to join ; )))

G, let’s go do some jumping puzzles together already : ((

p.s. is it just me? or does everyone have to click on the pages after coming into this thread?

I saw it premiere night as well. There was a guy there in a full chainmail hauberk. Another group were in full on Spartan costumes with light-up swords. It was awesome. And the movie was better than I expected too. (I tend to prefer things that stick to historical context, but 300 was exactly what is should have been and was awesome for it).

I’m not sure about the others, but the maintenance nuked my client. I got kicked and still can’t reconnect.

Edit – sure thing. Not sure if I’ll be on tomorrow, but next time certainly!

And yes I have to click pages too…

:OOOO that. is. awesome. wish i had time to dress up too hahaha that’s crazy cool. and couldn’t a gree more! hmm now i wanna watch the movie. or better yet, get the vigil helm and play a little dress up with my norn. haha too bad no spears on land : (((

boo, hopefully the servers will be back up soon! least the forums are working now ; )))

p.s. did you guys get the karka event chest??

hey Elowin. grats on getting done with your first dungeon!D well done, you.
in regards to the dungeon achievements, for each dungeon, there is a story mode. and then 3 explorable paths (apart from Arah dungeon which has 4 exp paths i think). so for each dungeon achievement, you’re going to have to do the story, as well as each path once. so as some bits may overlap, as certain dungeons have shared paths, the bosses and mechanics you will encounter can be quite different. : ))

people are usually in a hurry to get dungeons done and most don’t stick around to chat. but you can always add someone as a friend and whisper them. if you get lucky, you’ll find a group that is willign to take it a little slower and spend time talking.

you can always try to run some with us here as well if you plan to run more. : ))
am sure you figured out how to leave the dungeon afterwards ; )) multiple was as well and the same as leaving any instance in the game. although, which chests were you unable to open?

at the same time, i feel TA can be quite intense, though some feel that it’s one of the easier dungeons. to each their own, so don’t lose heart!! or like you said, stick to the things that had you going in the game for now. i haven’t had the chance to chat with you in-game yet, but i always hate to see someone leave Tyria! lol, though you mentioned you could always come back. ; ))

hope you do find a guild that works out for ya! that you can call “home” per se. and for your next dungeon excursion, don’t be afraid to call out in LA as well. just “LFG whatever dungeon, which path, story or exp” and you can also check out www.gw2lfg.com as well. which works wonders. : ))) and this is all after checking to see who’s online, in guild, and if anyone’s able to help ya.

again, grats! i’ve only recently done TA and i agree, haha, pretty darn intense. do you remember which path you did? or if it was story mode?

I have a second addition to the AA tossing squads. Asta Vidmaer; Norn Ranger, she even be able to find a bow large enough to shoot the Asura over the walls for the assault.

Hey you lovely people!

Had no change getting on the forums yesterday, so had to do some reading before i got to the end.
At first, a warm welcome to all the new members! Settle in and have fun in game and on the forum.
Secondly, thanks for the tips about posting pic’s, gonna take a few off my little girl with the big ears (yep, another addition to the great and ever growing Asuran Army!) so you all can meet here. I must warm you though, beneath that lovely face is a cold, angry necro lurking, so be carefull or she brings you a visit at night (and it wont be fun after that :p )
@Kaii, i wish to thank you for linking that music that you listen to. I started the playlist and didn’t stopped listening till i had to go to bed. Bookmark in place and gonna see if there is more off that lovely music out there. So if you have any suggestions, go ahead, i’ll be watching out for them

Also good to see some opinions about different classes and a bit off discussion about what works well with each class. As long as we all see it as “personal opinion” and not mandatory to build your class as posted, its a great thing to see happening.

That’s all i got for now people, and i see you all ingame soon!

wait wait, just re-read when had a bit of downtime now.. so there’s the AA. and if i’m not mistaken.. the AA tossing squads??D i am a Norn. though on the smaller scale. i feel i might be able to take part in this? lolol

@Noppy – always good hearing from ya. hope you been well! yay it’s the weekend!!!

Hehe, yes Aka, i’m doing fine.
Work is getting in the way off gaming but thats life!

And yep, there is an Asuran Army assembled and they are a growing force! So watch out for them.
As a counter reaction, people that felt a bit…. how shall i put this?…… well, they felt a bit cornered with the growing number of Asuran and therefor created the AA Tossing Squads. It was there hope to eliminate the AA but alas, the numbers off AA troops is still growing so…. Asuran rule the world!!

Akamon, Hello thanks for the mention. Yeah once I work out what is going on with all of this, it would be great to communicated with you guys

So I will try log on and go select the server and go make a toon, I want to look at a warrior of some description so here goes

Thanks Glitch, Lexy and Aka talk to yas soon my net is shaped for the next 3 days so I don’t know how far I am going to get, plus work has been full on TO THE MAXXX!!! Had a huge 12 hour day at work today and so I am hardly staying awake even now!!