You’re running around in the wild. What do you expect? Hostile wildlife is going to come at you. It’s par for the course. Why not just kill the mobs? It removes the movement impediment much faster than being tagged and just walking away again.
We’re at war with elder dragons, I can’t see why grawl, drakes and bandits would still have time to fight us when there’s a greater threat pretty much everywhere.
It’s frustrating how everytime we go on node farming runs there’s always that cave bat or drake autoattacking us and slowing us down. I don’t see the point in this harassment, we aren’t learning anything new from having to kill these annyoing mosquitoes in 2 hits, it just slows us down for no reason and its even more irritating when they have have CC moves like knock back.
We should get a tyrian mastery or something to remove this, it would make all red mobs appear yellow instead or something, except maybe veterans or bosses.
How coincidental that super adventure festival takes place at exactly the same time…
Any specific reason for there not being an Easter event?
I mean, I get the whole “there was no Jesus in Tyria” idea but 1. there was no Jack O’ Lantern either yet we do have Halloween, 2. nowadays it’s far more about the chocolate bunnies and eggs than about the religion, and 3. who cares? are you going to tie your hands on principle instead of having fun?
Hey there,
I’m looking forward to crafting ornate guild armor. I currently have 20 guild commendations and I need 40 more to buy all the recipes.
I never paid attention to how I got those 20 guild commendations, I know it’s from guild events but I’m not sure how many I was getting. I read somewhere that you can only get 2 a week, is this true?
If not, how much can I expect per week?
19 characters with full map completion… wow… you got nothing better to do?
Like, that’s your problem man, you knew what you were going for, if you didnt need gifts of exploration then why did you bother doing it more than once?
I’m just gonna point out the fact that the “you get one shot anyway even in valkyrie gear” is bullkitten.
I’ve been using both valkyrie gear and berzerker gear all along. Open world is my thing, and in open world it’s impossible to avoid damage, either because of there being too many AoE’s around you or because of there being too many people around for you to event see attacks coming in your direction.
In Valkyrie, on my main class which is Engineer, I often find myself running around with less than 5k HP left due to having tanked a few hits here and there, and almost always find a way to heal myself and keep going.
Every one of those times I was running around with 5k in Valkyrie, I would have been downed in Zerk, wasting other people’s time while not doing any damage myself. I know this is true, because I tried both and I know how both work.
You can say “oh but with enough skill you can survive”, nonsense, everyone gets downed once or twice in open world, or even killed, in open world it’s not a matter of skill but a matter of luck.
This “meta” is a good tool for dungeons, and good for people who don’t know how to build and are looking for something straightforward, but at some point you have to remove the small wheels off your bike and learn to do things by yourself.
You should absolutely use zerk (unless you’re going with a condi build, then you should go Vipers).
The problem with using other gear, especially gear that focuses more on durability, is that it can teach you bad habits, or fail to teach you good habits. When you use Berserker gear, you learn thing like damage mitigation through things like blind, distort, aegis, etc. You learn how to position better and you learn to dodge crucial attacks and just work better in a group. Using tank stats causes you to miss out on those lessons.
Yeah because you can dodge everything and avoid everything with those, right?
At no point in an open world event will you ever dodge an AoE just to find yourself in yet another AoE attack?
Or find that your defensive skills are on cooldown, while being in the middle of a red circle?
Or find that the boss you’re fighting has gone invincible and all you can do for 60 seconds is avoid its damage or tank it head on?
And even if none of the above ever, ever happen to you because of how much a pro you are (which, again, I highly doubt, regardless of your level of skill; some deaths are just unavoidable while in zerk gear) it’s not the case of 90% of the community.
This zerk meta crap just has to die one day or the other. Bringing in Vipers was not enough to bury it.
Everytime I’ve been in a dungeon or fractal, there’s always been at least a death or two, and most of these deaths could have been avoided by wearing a safer set.
What you are missing here is that playing with full damage builds makes things die faster, so in return you take less damage and have to deal with the boss mechanics fewer times. If you use a “safer set” then your team mates with the damage sets have to deal with more mechanics, and take more damage, leading to deaths that could’ve been avoided.
So it works both ways.
But here you are making a strawman argument where you pretend that I’m talking about Nomads or Clerics or something, which do kill things a lot slower.
However, that’s not the case at all. The comparison being made is between Berserker and Valkyrie or Marauder, which with the right runes or food can compensate for the lack of precision. Those sets have a very, very minimal damage difference with zerk, and hugely more survivability, therefore you’re killing things at nearly, if not the same speed, while not going down in one hit from random attacks.
So it’s not like you’re trading off huge chunks of damage for huge chunks of HP, like you claim in that strawman fallacy. It’s about trading just a little bit of damage for hugely more vitality.
And yeah, I did mention vitality, not toughness. I can’t see why everyone here is talking about toughness, seems like another strawman to me.
You won’t get the same benefits as zerk gear, it’s obviously the best set when direct damage is your main objective.
And in PvE, that should be the case, unless you run condi (which is also meta these days).
In WvW/PvP, things may or may not be different.
So the question is, what do you want to do?
Care to elaborate? Because if both sets give the same ferocity, valkyrie gives more power and if you can hit the 100% or close to precision then I’d have doubts about zerk being an “obvious best”, do xou have some calculation to show?
Warriors have a ton of precision buffs, so I was wondering if we even need all that much precision in our gear?
I’ve been playing around with builds and I can reach around 40% crticical chance with valkyrie gear (power / vitality / ferocity) and exuberance runes (they give 100 vitality and convert 12% of your total vitality to power and 7% or so to precision), as well as a higher power stat and the same amount of ferocity.
With some assassin’s trinkets or food thrown in there, plus all the fury buffs you can get as a warrior, it should be fairly easy to reach close to 100% precision and end up with easily 10k more HP or so… all while still having the same benefits as zerk gear.
Valkyries can be replaced with Marauder’s as well, but I haven’t tested that out yet.
So at this point I’m not sure what gear to get. This gear seems like a logical choice but I’m a bit unsure about it just because everyone else seems to run zerk.
Thoughts?
The deal is that people consider it funnier and more enjoyable if they are doing something optimized. It makes them feel better in general that they are doing something well. This might sound weird at first but, are we not encouraged to do our best at whatever we do?.
That said, this is not a real pressure outside of Fractals/Raids. Marauder, Valkyrie and the like works wonders for survivability as well as damage. You can also wear Celestial to be an all-rounder (change build as you wish without ever worrying about equipment!) and do well at most stuff.
Just remember though, toughness in particular needs a rework. They have severly nerfed it because of a previous PvP bunker meta, and it is basically a junk stat. You need vitality and proper use of protection+vigor much more than you need toughness, as enemies will simply pierce through you in groups. So it might actually be hindering yourself rather than protecting yourself, if you wear toughness equips.
What’s more optimal though, a dungeon run with 3 party wipes or a dungeon run 1 minute slower than the world record?
We always see experienced players suggesting zerk gear for people who want to build power builds in PvE, but is this really a good idea?
I’m not gonna argue that you can achieve the fastest dungeon times etc, etc, with zerk gear. Yes, if you’re an expert and you can dodge everything, then zerk is fine. But how many people out there are expert dungeon speedrunners? Like, 1% of the community? Maybe less?
Everytime I’ve been in a dungeon or fractal, there’s always been at least a death or two, and most of these deaths could have been avoided by wearing a safer set. What about open world events, where sometimes damage can be outright unavoidable? Where dodging one attack only means you’ll land on another AoE?
Valkyrie with exuberance runes works wonderfully for any non-expert player and I can’t see why sets like these aren’t being promoted to new or casual players, or even high tier fractals for that matter. The damage output is only ever so slightly lower than zerk and the survivability is much higher.
So what’s the deal with trying to sell zerk to every single player out there?
Another thread by someone who has confused the dislike of buttcapes and trench coats with a desire for women to run around half naked.
it’s a wish for more diversity in design instead of armor after armor with buttcapes or coats. it’s a wish for pants for women instead of dress&pants or dress&leggings. Just plain simple pants.It’s a wish for some armors with clean silhouettes. Not armor with so much extra cloth hanging down In addition, it’s a wish that armor sets weren’t so different between the sexes so that women have exposed skin on the belly, legs, or chest but the same armor on men, all that’s showing is the face. It’s not the wish for more skin showing for women.
Do you not have a million games out there with butt tight silhouette armor? Why can GW2 not be an exception to the rule?
But then, whenever you have a female character, she wears clothing that is 90% about showing off her body and a mere 10% about her role. So basically they wear clothing that simply define them as women. It’s reminiscent of the Smurfette Principle (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurfette_principle), where men are defined by what they do and women are defined by their gender. And GW2 does a pretty good job giving that idea the middle finger and giving us proper epic fantasy female clothing.
When I’m against trenchcoats and buttcapes, I’m just sick of my weapons and arms clipping through them!!! Look at the medium Glorious armor! FULLY COVERED BODY but it’s TIGHT and has no clipping issues! This is EXACTLY what I need for my female characters! I don’t want to be naked at all.
The fashion and armors in Tyria are not tight. You are confusing our world with Tyria. Clipping is a minor problem, it can only be adressed by improving the game’s engine.
I often see people around here complaining about “buttskirts” and “trenchcoats”, so I’m gonna go against the flow here and defend the amazing clothing options we have in GW2.
First off, it’s a question of fashion in Tyria. Tyrians live in a world that is very different of ours and have tastes and behaviors of their own. There’s no reason for them to have the exact same sense of fashion as us. In their world, long clothing is the norm and it’s what’s fashionable, and this seems to be true for all races.
Secondly, it’s pretty good for gender equality. I’m no feminist, but this is something I would agree on with those who are. Too often in games, movies or comics, I see male characters wearing epic clothing that shows off who they are or what they do; clothing which defines their role or function, like wizards wearing huge robes, pirates wearing ragged shirts with tricorn hats or jedi wearing those monk garments (or whatever you’d call them). But then, whenever you have a female character, she wears clothing that is 90% about showing off her body and a mere 10% about her role. So basically they wear clothing that simply define them as women. It’s reminiscent of the Smurfette Principle (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurfette_principle), where men are defined by what they do and women are defined by their gender. And GW2 does a pretty good job giving that idea the middle finger and giving us proper epic fantasy female clothing.
Thirdly, it’s also a nice change from previous games, and in my case (and probably many more around here) from modded games like Skyrim. Whenever I wanted to mod that game with extra clothing for my female character, I’d have to browse through pages and pages of skimpy, if not erotic content to finally find something that looked great. Like, come on guys, you’ve had the spotlight pretty much since the dawn of time, and now you think it’s too much to ask to have it differently in one single video game? There’s already so many video games or other forms of entertainment out there to satisfy your tastes, get over it.
Modern clothing belongs in modern world based games like GTA V. Not on GW2.
It’s ok to go to dungeons or fractals with builds and classes that are what you enjoy playing first, and “optimal” second.
If those builds get your party killed it’s not ok.
Please remember that your rights end where someone’s else’s begins. Please don’t be a kitten.
Hence why I said “optimal second”, as in theres still a line between creative builds and troll builds. Still, a noob in full zerk will kill your party faster than a noob in full soldiers.
Sorry to ruin the mood, but I want to say something about the dailies. Logging in and doing the same thing over and over nearly ruined the game for me. If you play gw2 for the dailies only, play mobile game instead. I just can’t stand this mentality to force yourself login and doing the same thing over and over, especially if you don’t have a certain goal in mind. The game will get boring quickly. I was at this point and I stopped playing for 1,5 years.
[etc]
Now I’m waiting for number 7
I’ll have two number 9’s…
A number 9 large…
A number 6 with extra dip…
A number 7…
Two number 45’s… one with cheese…
And a laaarge soda.
(waiting for someone to get the reference)
I get your point, but it’s not that we log in only to repeat a daily and log out, we log in and while we may have a goal, like for example ascended gear, we don’t invest all of our gaming time into it, and won’t sacrifice real life activities for it either.
I don’t PvP, because if I do want to PvP I download a proper PvP game like any FPS or MOBA out there. This is a MMORPG, it’s for PvE, it’s the core of the game and PvP is more like class training for raids and difficult content.
It’s ok to lose yourself on the map and explore the world, not for rewards or completion, but to enrich your imagination and find the little details you hadn’t thought of before.
It’s ok to go to dungeons or fractals with builds and classes that are what you enjoy playing first, and “optimal” second.
It’s ok to take the time and help someone in your party who is having difficulty playing, rather than flaming him and leaving to find another party.
It’s ok to not want to unlock every single item and achievement in game but rather those you like the most only.
It’s ok to consider 1000 hours of gaming a gigantic amount of time, and be happy enough doing dailies and a dungeon here and there a day.
It’s ok to lose an event or dungeon you had worked on for over an hour, and instead be glad you spent a great time with your friends.
It’s ok to not aim for legendary or ascended gear and instead enjoy the amazing content that is provided for nearly everyone with merely exotic gear.
It’s ok to enjoy figuring things out by yourself rather than using guides only to maximise efficiency.
Add more if you can.
Scarlet was the worse of them all, though.
Smart or not, there’s no reason she should have been able to do what she did. How in the world did she have enough time to find enough metal to build those gigantic machines?
Another issue : I don’t have a music folder next to my “screens” folder :-/
You can just create one yourself with no problems.
See I dont want to replace any of GW2’s soundtracks because they are excellent. LA’s introduction theme is the one black sheep in the playlist which is unbearably bad. It’s really unfitting and should be removed.
It’s been out for a year now, it’s no longer news, I can’t see why we still need to view the cutscene everytime or why it still has that horrible obnoxious fanfare theme that sounds like it could be a 70’s Superman movie theme.
Keep to your Jeremy Soule style music Anet, it’s great the way it used to be, trying to copy John Williams is an embarassement.
Some words evolve, yes, because they’re used very subjectively, abstractively or loosely. But words that stand for scientific measures don’t evolve, because a second will always be a second and a meter will always be a meter.
And yet you wrote ‘tons of damage’ in your initial post when, according to my knowledge, damage is a concept which in itself does now weigh even a single, much less multiple tons.
D-Does that mean that the word ‘ton’ actually evolved to also mean ‘a lot’?
I have a very simple answer for that, and for the “wait a second” metaphor too.
A ton is usually a lot of weight for us humans, while a second is a short amount of time. So saying “there’s a ton of stuff” or “I’m afk for a second” can be metaphors for there being a great amount of stuff or for you being away for a short amount of time. They are constant.
DPS and km/h, however, are variables. The reason nobody says “that car is very km/h” instead of “that car is very fast” (aside from it sounding really wrong) is because “km/h” doesn’t necessarily imply a great deal of speed, it could be 1km/h as it could be 100km/h.
It’s the same deal with saying “a DPS class”. What DPS? DPS could be 1 damage per second as it could be 1 million damage per second. It could be extremely weak as it could be really powerful.
People in previous MMOs have come up with names for power based classes. Nukers, DDers, dmg classes, etc. I’ve never once heard “a DPS class” while playing a MOBA or older MMOs, this is a recent trend that is born from people not being able to speak proper English or not being aware of established MMO jargon.
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It’s almost as if words evolve to gain new meanings or are used in different ways.
So you’re saying that the term “Damage per second” has evolved to mean something else than damage per second?
To think about how ridiculous this is, imagine you’re talking about km/h, as in kilometers per hour. Any car dealer would ridicule you for saying “how km/h is this car”. Go around flagging it under “words evolve” and the scientific community would also laugh at you.
DPS is what it is, it’s damage per second. It’s a calculation of how much damage an attack is dishing out on average per second based on its raw damage and cooldown. Saying “DPS means to do high damage”, is as silly as saying “km/h means to go very fast”.
Some words evolve, yes, because they’re used very subjectively, abstractively or loosely. But words that stand for scientific measures don’t evolve, because a second will always be a second and a meter will always be a meter.
Jesus you just refuse to accept the fact that you can be wrong, can’t you? Words evolve all the time. Xerox evolved into a verb even though it started off as a Company name. Google is almost a verb. The word “literally” was used incorrectly by so many people that all dictionaries caved and ended up adding the “wrong” definition since no one was ever using it correctly (and now, that definition is technically one of the correct uses of the word). You’re getting upset because people don’t have perfect grammar in a game? My bad. I didn’t realize that was a requirement to playing GW2. Because when the bar is broken, everyone wants to wait for you to type out, in correct grammar mind you, that we can “now attack it and do maximum damage in the 5 seconds you have before the exposed debuff wears off”. Oh wait, no one wants to kittening do that.
Everyone, literally everyone, knows what “DPS this boss” means. You are the only one who has a problem with it, so maybe the problem isn’t with the phrase at all. Maybe it lies elsewhere. Hmm?
The fact is that I’m not wrong. “DPS” isn’t a word, it’s an acronym, and it stands for a specific measure, in this case of damage over a specific amount of time. Measures are rarely ever changed, if ever changed at all. While some words evolve, especially if we’re talking about abstract or subjective words such as adjectives, there’s no reason for the acronym DPS to evolve. There’s a good reason Google and Xerox as names evolved too: because they’re names, they stand for the companies they represent and nothing else and those companies provide very specific services, there was room to turn them into verbs. With DPS there isn’t.
Do you walk into a car dealership and say “how km/h is this car?” Do you refer to a supercar as a “km/h car” instead of just saying a fast car? No, and yet those terms have been used for a much longer period of time by a much larger amount of people. They still haven’t evolved because people have common sense and understand the difference between “fast” and “km/h”. Even a hillbilly would laugh at you for saying such absurdities.
And the last card you play is pretty much, “I know we’re doing something wrong, but I want to keep doing it wrong because tradition”. Really? This is your ace? Come on.
Time’s never been wasted learning new things. Begin by learning how to use simple terms properly. And don’t go around saying “I can km/h my car a lot” because you’ll look silly, just friendly advice.
It’s almost as if words evolve to gain new meanings or are used in different ways.
So you’re saying that the term “Damage per second” has evolved to mean something else than damage per second?
To think about how ridiculous this is, imagine you’re talking about km/h, as in kilometers per hour. Any car dealer would ridicule you for saying “how km/h is this car”. Go around flagging it under “words evolve” and the scientific community would also laugh at you.
DPS is what it is, it’s damage per second. It’s a calculation of how much damage an attack is dishing out on average per second based on its raw damage and cooldown. Saying “DPS means to do high damage”, is as silly as saying “km/h means to go very fast”.
Some words evolve, yes, because they’re used very subjectively, abstractively or loosely. But words that stand for scientific measures don’t evolve, because a second will always be a second and a meter will always be a meter.
I see that learning new things is a concept that is met with fierce resistance on these forums.
i know the problem, i get all kinds of bashing like “we need DPS not a necro” while in the long shot i do more damage.
i see ppl saying they need a guardian and a thief because of DPS but end up doing something several times because of glass cannon problems, i get in and kill a whole group.
i don’t kill fast but i can hold my own, i don’t even see why DPS is misused so many times while they are better off with a stable but successful battle.
Great point, now that condi and necros are viable options it makes even more sense to know the difference between DPS builds and nukers.
I can’t believe how hugely misused this term is. I’m in a dungeon and I hear barbarities such as “DPS that boss guys”. Really? “Damage per second that boss”? Does that sound English to you?
Now I don’t mean to be a grammar kitten but come on this is just basic MMO knowledge. I know GW2 is more of a PvE game than it is a PvP game and so people don’t need to care about knowing such terms with as much finesse as a Starcraft or Dota(1 or 2) player, but here’s an easy explanation in layman’s terms.
Let’s imagine two characters with two different classes, A and B, ok?
Class A has a spell that hits 1 000 000 damage in a second, but only once every hour.
Class B has a sword that hits 1000 damage every tenth of a second.
The DPS of class A is 1 000 000 : 3 600 = 277 DPS
The DPS of class B is 1000 × 10 = 10 000 DPS!
Class B has hugely more DPS than class A!
Now I don’t know what class or build in Guild Wars 2 has the most DPS, but stop refering to nuker classes (tons of damage but huge cooldowns or casting time) as DPS classes because they aren’t! (except if they actually are, in GW2, I don’t know, never bothered to calculate which class had the highest DPS) Also DPS is not a verb for antarctic phoque’s sake.
Thanks.
I’d be happy if it got just the following changes:
- A counter for how many items you can place down out of a clear total. As you get near it, it grows bigger and turns red, possibly starts flashing if you place down more siege. I’m tired of people who won’t listen to me in team chat continue to place down new crap even while the old, upgraded stuff is disappearing in front of their eyes. Replacing a mega cat with a regular one is a downgrade, why the kitten would anyone do that?
- Delete the objects with the lowest health first if you have surpassed the siege cap. Same as above, I’m tired of people just placing down dozens of new objects every round, and they end up deleting my upgraded snowmen, catapults, and few ice walls that are near full health instead of deleting (or, gasp upgrading) some first tier siege that is almost dead.
Making it harder could be fun, but honestly after the first few times I only do this for the daily when it comes up so I don’t mind it being easy. To me, its not worth my time unless the rewards were buffed.
I genuinely did not know there was a siege cap for this, thank you for the information!
If there is one it’s so big I didn’t even notice it either, I’ve placed toys all over the place and didn’t notice them disappearing.
It actually takes more effort to lose this game than to win it.
I think the festivals will never be hard because to have to be including ‘everyone’
and by everyone they mean even people born without limbs need to have enough time to do it.what would fix it, is a difficulty setting:
Tixx: I’m gonna reactivate the production core. Let me know how much you can handle. Supply line has three settings; slow, normal and fast.
(public vote like they used in dungeons)
Tixx: alright gonna crank open the supply lines, be ready!
This is so easy that not even that argument works here. A 3 year old would get bored doing this minigame. You can literaly place catapults in the same place you salvage the scraps and it will still work. The only way you can lose at this minigame is either if you do absolutely nothing or if you place only balistas at some lost corner of the map.
Toypocalypse is so easy to do, it’s so easy that has made me feel depressed after each game, because I actually like tower defense games and I wanted this to be fun. It has so much potential but it’s just far too easy.
Even if you argue that it’s meant to be family friendly and that anyone should be able to participate, it’s still too dumbed down. You don’t need any thinking at all, you can literaly place catapults at random and you’ll still win, because 1 or 2 shots from those catapults wipe out whole enemy groups as soon as they spawn. Even a 3 year old child playing this without any idea of what he’s doing would still win every single game.
I mean I know we’re already halfway through this Wintersday but still couldn’t we at least get a hard more or something?
Sound weird mabye, but i had sometimes this problems with starting screen and beeing stucked. I heard the music, but it wasnt loading.
After i restarted my computer, i realized i had a windows update and i believe it was blocking mostly everything and was taking all ressources of my internet connection. After windows upgraded, there was any issue.
That happened to me too before actually, but it’s not the same problem, I don’t have any updates to get. This has been happening for many days and I’ve turned off or restarted the computer many times.
You can contact the Tech CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below for assistance, if you so desire.
Good luck.
You don’t say?
Have you tried using a VPN? You may be having issue with your Tier 3 provider. (Telia is often a culprit.)
Good luck.
I have no idea what a Tier 3 provider is and I’m not sure how to launch GW2 with a VPN either. Don’t know much about VPN’s, the free ones don’t seem trustworthy and I’m not going to buy one just for this.
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I’ve been having serious issues logging in lately, including here on the forums, and I’m taking this window of opportunity to make a post about it. I’m often unable to login or access the main website, and when I’m in game I get disconnected sometimes. The forums don’t seem to be affected by this, but I can’t login most of the time either.
The error code I’m getting is 42:1000:7006:1231, and it happens when I press “login” on the launcher. On the website, I’m able to access the forums, but clicking "login"gives me 404 error code.
Things I’ve figured so far:
-It’s been happening since the Wintersday update
-It happens on two different computers from different houses, one using Windows 7 and the other Windows 10,
-It seems to happen randomly during the day, but from 7pm to 11pm GMT+1 it’s completely impossible to login.
-I’m sure my account isn’t being hacked, as it’s not logged in at all (checked with friends who are logged in)
-This is happening exclusively on GW2. Every other online game I have installed works just fine, and I can access the internet without any problems.
Solutions I’ve tested so far:
-I’ve followed this entire guide
-I’ve done the port 80 test, it seems to have worked once yesterday but it was probably just a coïncidence, it hasn’t worked since.
-I’ve restarted my modem
-I’ve disabled the firewall
-Tried netsh winsock reset on the control panel
-Moved my GW2 files to different folders
-Changing the game’s language
Nothing seems to work. I suspected it was because of there being too many people logged in, but the thing is my friend can login without any problems and I can’t. I’ve seen other people on the internet with the same problem as I, but nobody seems to have a solution.
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Perhaps the OP isn’t aware that there are no Christians in the world of Tyria, and therefore no Christmas?
Read the lore before coming to the forum and showing that you haven’t looked into it. Wintersday was the struggle between Dwayna and Grenth. Whoever won got to either bring spring early or extend winter.
What an insane coïncidence that it happens right at the same time as the Christmas holidays and that it’s even said “Merry Wintersday” just like “Merry Christmas” and not “happy wintersday” or something?
Also, again I’m atheist, I just have respect for our culture unlike SJWs.
Guess what Christmas was before Christianity stole it…Yuletide, which is exactly what Wintersday is.
It’s been like this for a long time, we live in 2016 not in 300bc.
Like, while you’re at it why don’t we also stop counting years since the birth of Christ? Then it’s no longer 2016 but rather year 4 500 000 000 or something.
Settle down dude. WD is a little more open minded.
What about Hanukkah for one? Not everyone marches to the same drum…
I’m not even Christian myself, I’m atheist, but this is Christmas, even if it comes from religion it has grown a greater meaning than that.
“Wintersday” really? So we’ve come to the point of hating our own culture so much that we can’t even call it Christmas anymore just to appease some minorities who don’t celebrate it?
Everyone knows it’s Christmas, no one is forced to celebrate it.
I realize, and also used quotation marks. Again, what are these ‘exploits/speed runs’ that new players are encouraged to use? EotM? I heard the XP was reduced there. Where are new players allowed to skip things? It’s not like they have ToKs. The only thing, and this is from ArenaNet itself, is the L80 Booster. Is that what Mentors are suggesting? That new players use the Booster?
Most of the time I’ve only seen new players ask what to do with their newly created and boosted L80. And never in the Starting Zones. So, I’m curious what these new players are being suggested to do. They must be Play4Free players, or they would have access to the L80 Boost, and they can’t access WvW…so what is it that levels them so fast?
I’m not an expert at speedrunning, I’ve never done it, but the general idea seems to be to go for the tomes of knowledge and exp boosts you can get from several activities, like PvP dailies. If you follow any guide that tells you exactly how to do this you should get lvl 80 in a breeze. I’ve also heard of leveling cheap crafting skills like cooking because those can level your character very quickly.
Also, I still see EotM being suggested regardless.
What are these ‘exploits’ new players are encouraged to do? Why aren’t they being reported? Why aren’t the Dungeon runners either refusing the new players in their group, or teaching them what they need to know?
I used the word exploits because I couldn’t find a better one, that’s why I put it in quotation marks. What I mean by exploits are the tricks that help you speedrun the game, all of which are perfectly legit but not suitable for someone who is discovering the game.
I’ve made an alt recently and have been levelling it the good old way with map completion. While in Queensdale I saw mentors helping out new players many times, but I found their way of helping kind of wrong.
Basically what they are suggesting new people to do is to use the “exploits” that get you to level 80 asap and then farm the hell out of masteries in HoT areas. And I’ve experienced the result from this in dungeons later on, you have people with level 80 characters, who claim to have started less than a few days ago, who don’t even know how to play properly.
I see two reasons for this, either the game’s idea of encouraging exploration and questing has failed, or new players believe in what these mentors say way too much. Why would you encourage new people to ignore 99% of the content of the game? I get the whole idea that when you have 50 alts you’re too bored to do mapping and quests all over again, but what’s the point in trying to convert new players into grinding machines? Is it a crime for people to take their time and enjoy the game?
Currently looking for a group of people to do Arah p1 and p3 with, can’t find anyone in game so far. It’s a difficult dungeon and nobody seems to want to do it.
I’d like to do this any day of this upcoming week, at around 8 or 9 PM GMT time. Would anyone be interested?
It would also be cool if everyone watched a video tutorial of it before coming just to be sure we do this without too much difficulty.
I’m trying to create a guild like that, it’s called Phasmantys, got a forum post around here somewhere. We are only 8 right now but we’re working on it. We mostly do PvE. If you’re interested you can PM me in game (Armathyx) and I’ll send an invite.
Bumping this thread.
The fashion in Tyria seems to be large clothing. It’s meant to look epic. Like, imagine Gandalf or Darth Vader in skin-tight gear, they’d look ridiculous. Epic fantasy characters have “large” clothes, it’s just the way it is. If you want modern clothing you should be playing GTA Online or something.
Does non-skirt armor look a bit more limited now?!!
No, and also skirt =/= trenchcoat. Do you not know what a trenchcoat is? I don’t care that you and your friends have collectively decided to change the meaning of the word “trenchcoat”, a trenchcoat is a trenchcoat, not a skirt or a jacket.
2? Where? I just looked up human male medium armor and I counted arguably 16 non-trenchcoat armors… not counting outfits.