Guild Wars 2

Yeah, no issue with buying anything. Just an FYI “this needs fixing” kind of thing.

Oops :P
Fish out of water!

After completing the Fort Evennia Heart, there is no dialog in the reward, only states “renown region complete” and gives silver/karma reward.

Edit: In the new Lake Doric Map.

Day 4

Ok so I left off on level 25. I am a day behind on updating the log but since my last update I am now level 40. I have cleared all the starter zones, Kessex Hills, and Gendarran Fields and finished the all the story up to this point. I have went back to using my flamethrower as I like it more. Sorry for the short log. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day. I’m hoping to be 80 no later than the end of the month. That’s plentyy of time. Hope every one has fun on the beta this weekend. Still not sure I want to pre-purchase yet. Havnt seen enough to make me jump on board.

Day 3

Alright I have my coffee so lets get this entry started.

I started out today as I always do, I hopped on to my engineer and checked out my gear and inventory to get a feel of where I left off the day before. Looks like I’m level 21 with level 15 gear. Meh, not ideal (not that it even hugely matters either) but I’ll run it until level 25.

So I head off towards the Eastern Ward of Lion’s Arch towards the town portals. Decisions Decisions. Guess I’ll just go to the Plains of Ashford. Not particularly crazy about the “fall” look of Ascalon but I want to go ahead and knock it out. I travel through the “bang and clang” of The Black Citadel being careful not to be trampled on by all the Charr running around and head towards my objective.

Streamlined kits has definitely made my life much easier now with the perma-speed buff. I just speed my way through the zone. No real issues to speak of. I did run into an issue with the heart “Help Paenula train troops” where it didn’t seem to be giving me the rifle that has the capture skill on it but it was actually just an oversight. The rifle she gives you looks so identical in skill set as my current rifle I didn’t realize Paenula had been giving it to me the whole time. Duh.. After that I finished up Plains of Ashford. Thank goodness. Back to LA.

I made it to level 25 after clearing the first little area of Wayfarer Foothills and had to wind down my game so Tomorrow I’ll be finishing up Wayfarer. Cleaned up my bags and upgraded my armor to level 25 armor. I’m off work tomorrow so I’m expecting to make some good progress. I don’t have anything else to do and I’ll have the house to myself so I’ll be “no lifing”. Wish me luck.

EDIT: I will try to get us some pictures uploaded tomorrow while I’m home.

Day 2

And so day two has began. I logged on to see that I made it to level 15 on day 1 and needed to buy some new gear as I was still wearing level 1 gear.

I strolled over to the Black Lion merchant and bought all level 15 power gear, a level 15 power rifle and 6 different runes all of which the first bonus was +10 power. Stuck a bloodlust sigil and a flame sigil on my rifle. That will do for now so I headed off to Lion’s Arch to decide which map I wanted to do next.

I briefly contemplated doing my level 10 story but I decided to wait a bit because I want to be able to enjoy the story and on days that I have to work I don’t really get to focus on story very well because I want to rush around and gain a bunch of levels and feel accomplished before I must leave Guild Wars for the day.

But I digress, I headed over to the portals in LA and (like I do 80% of the time) decided to go and clear out Queensdale. I began my journey clearing the map and thought how much nicer it was finally have some gear which made killing soooo much easier compared to day 1. I stayed on flame thrower throughout Queensdale and enjoyed it quiet well although it did start taking a tad bit longer once I made it down to the swamp.

I finished up Queensdale which got me to level 20 and I headed back into town. I found a website last night (www.wolfineer.com) and liked the fact it was an up-to-date smallish website that was geared to all things engineer. I read some articles on there and realized the “owner” of the site plays gw2 frequently as a main engineer. So I figured I would add him to the friends list just to see if he could answer a quick question for me (which core spec should I dive in to first at level 21).

He responded immediately with very helpful info and he recommended getting streamlined kits first for the speed buffs which was an excellent idea! He also mentioned that he felt like grenade/bomb kit was a little bit faster for low level characters. I had been saving up my hero points since I unlocked flamethrower so I had enough to get streamlined kits right away and still had enough to unlock all the way to bomb kit so I will be giving this kit set a try tomorrow.

Forgot to mention I gained that extra level to boost me to 21 by doing about 2 story missions. Hated to rush it but I’ve done this particular story line before so I wasn’t so upset by speeding through it. I think tomorrow I will clear out Wayfarer Foothills or maybe Plains of Ashford. Caledon Forest will probably be last because it has too much underwater combat for my liking so I’ll put it off. Although I love the environment of Caledon so idk yet :P

Question for the day:
For those who have an engineer what race did you go with? I’d love to see some pictures!

So today I decided to start my engineer. I have one of every character at 80 except for engineer, necromancer, and mesmer. I like the idea of engineer so I decided to give it a whirl.

Let me first start off by saying that these forums can be toxic. I almost didn’t even want to attempt engineer due to all the negativity (which might be fair, idk). But alas, I made one any ways.

I spent a few hours looking through the “Let’s See Your Engineer’s” sticky to get an idea on how I wanted my Engineer to eventually look. I decided on making it an Asura. So the adventure begins…

I initially thought about using Tomes of Knowledge and an Experience scroll to get my levels up a little bit before starting but I decided I wanted to take my time and really learn the class.

Day 1
Initial toon creation. I decided on female asura and got the show on the road. My initial reaction for engineer is the low level dps is absolutely horrible. I scrubbed my head against a brick wall and finally made it to level 11 and unlocked flamethrower.. still.. low..dps. I have finally made it to level 15 but I will say it has been like absolute torture. I hate to start my adventure out by complaining but goodness it was horrible.
I decided to stay in metrica province to try and keep immersion but it wasn’t the easiest thing to do. Normally I would knock out all the starter zones in the 1-5 area heart quests.
But enough complaining. I will pick up my adventure again tomorrow and hope that it will go a little better once I am able to get my armor and weapon upgraded with cheap runes and such.

I refuse to give up because I really want one of each class at 80, preferably before HoT. Wish me luck on the rest of my adventure!

I will try to keep this journal/log up to date so I can get tips from people who enjoy reading this type logs the way I do. Maybe it’ll start a trend

My question for today will be..
How do you like to level your new toons? Tomes of knowledge, story as it unlocks, map clear, or some other fun thing you have created? Good luck and game on!

Still a baby but I love her already