Guild Wars 2

Jewelcrafting on my character is around 330. My Artificing is at 230 and that’s AFTER I went to the Trading Post to buy several vials of blood and such.

JC is the only profession that really seems to have the intended flowing design path. As you quest and explore, you mine what you find and you generally have enough materials to push the profession up a few levels depending on how lucky you get with gems (This is made easier as later on trees can have hidden stashes that carry the gems you need).

All the other professions need large amounts of enemy only drops meaning that where with Jewelcrafting your exploration and normal gameplay will guide the leveling along the other professions require you to stop and grind a certain section of enemies and hoping you get several of their drops.

I’m soon going to be reformatting and installing a Solid State Drive on this computer. Now while SSDs can improve performance in programs due to the much faster Read/Write times however I’ve heard that for some online games that benefit can be lost due to server/client communications with what gets loaded when from where (Guildies back in WoW said moving the installation to an SSD gave miniscule to zero benefits).

How is Guild Wars 2 designed for SSDs? Worth it or should I save the space for other games?

The only real issue I see with crafting is that Jewelcrafting seems to flow a lot smoother than the rest.

To level Artificing, Weaponsmithing, Armorsmithing and Huntsman you need to mine a bunch of ore and chop down a bunch of trees, then go fight certain enemies and get lucky with drops several times. For Leatherworking and Tailoring you need to farm certain enemies for cloth/leather and then other enemies for certain drops. For Cooking you need to fbo grzzlfmp gbub bluh and then give up.

Then to level Jewelcrafting you just have to mine a whole bunch and get a bit lucky with gem procs.

Personally I really enjoy the Greatsword set on the Mesmer; but they really need to rework Spatial Surge. Even at max range and getting all three ticks off the damage is really weak and most of the time you will not be experiencing those scenarios.

I’d like to see Confusion last for about two seconds longer. This would allow for some builds to maintain the debuff for a longer time in PvE and get more ticks off.

I’m not sure if the servers would be able to withstand the sudden influx of white haired characters in red jackets if this ever happened.