Guild Wars 2

Well, the like/dislike of TD is more or less determine by people’s navigation habit.

If you are the kind who like to use map/GPS, TD is arguable one of the most miserable map in the game, as mini-map is fairly useless on this map.

If you are the kind just “improvise”, then TD is one of those more “interesting” map. Until you realize everything is connected to ley-line WP, which can be fairly far from the entrance of map without burrow mastery.

First off, no RNG ever made can be truly random. To ask for true randomness will be like asking roll a zero or seven(or any number that’s not 1~6) with a standard six face dice, which you know it’s impossible due to limitation of the tool/device.

Second, “someone I know is luckier than me”, well, guess what? That’s exactly how randomness work, do you honestly think randomness distribute reward evenly or base on probability of any sort?

Not saying randomness is a good way to distribute reward, but I just find it funny every time people made the argument that RNG is flawed because it is not truly random, while what they actually ask for is to have less randomness rather than more.

Craray.2603:

LastShot.4762:

Nike.2631:

I just want the shoulder attached to this year’s meta-achievement chest instead of the collection.

It actually makes very little difference, I am at 16/18, and 3 achievements left are 2500 candy, 10k drink, and 3x JP.

2 of them require you to open 10k+ gifts, so all it does just let people skip JP.

The repeatable ones count towards the meta aswell.

I wish, well, actually I don’t know, but pretty sure repeat for Toypocalypse and bell choir doesn’t, unless you mean I have to max them?

Nike.2631:

I just want the shoulder attached to this year’s meta-achievement chest instead of the collection.

It actually makes very little difference, I am at 16/18, and 3 achievements left are 2500 candy, 10k drink, and 3x JP.

2 of them require you to open 10k+ gifts, so all it does just let people skip JP.

1st Wintersday is pretty disastrous in its own way.

2nd is arguable the best, it actually feels like a holiday, despite the lack of reward.

3rd Anet just push it into a corner of DR, because LA(after Scarlet attack), for some odd reason, has the fund for Halloween but not Wintersday.

This year….can’t say Anet is even trying anymore.

DarkAngelo.5894:

Well I am currently leveling a Guardian and I am having a blast doing so. I have been using great sword/mace torch. I am currently level 23 and I have been searching and searching for a leveling build and or a open world solo build for pve and I have found nothing at all.

Does anyone have one willing to share or know of a link that is a good guide. Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately, ever since NPE, most vet no longer level their character the old fashion way(unless it’s for funs and giggles, which is not very efficient), and most old guides are outdated due to new specialization.

As for OP, since we are talking solo pve here….which I can’t think of anything other than PS and map exploration, I’d say warrior is hands down better, simply because wh4+signet of rage is better at maintain swiftness than retreat+staff3.

…also, why the mention of shield in solo pve, just pick up a greatsword(for both war and guard).

The exciting content is the content you haven’t done for the 100th times, which is kind of hard for an MMO consider the entire genre is designed to make player sink 1000s hours on ~100 hour worth of content.

If reward is good, people will farm it, master it, then it becomes boring.

Honestly, without new content to explore, you just have to make your own fun, and knowing you will get nothing/trash or even a net loss with the time invested. (or just play another game til new content come out)

If you have good APM and good understanding on combo, go elementalist, ice bow/FGS, fire+blast for might stack, water+blast for heal, you can also aoe cleansing quite often when trait water.

If you want lazy support, go warrior, banner(s)empower alliesphalanx, just equip greatsword and have enough precision to proc phalanx.

Ranger is more along the same line as warrior, with a bit better on cleansing/heal(use healing spring, don’t use water spirit), but weaker on dps boost department.

Depend on how broken this so call bug is.
If it’s at the scale as recent symbolic avenger, then Anet will disable and fix it asap.
If it’s for trolol/non-meta builds, then Anet will put it in backburner….and when they finally fix it, everyone will go OMFG STEALTH NERF.

Also, if it’s vital to a profession, everyone main it probably already know, just because people don’t say it out loud doesn’t mean nobody knows.

Meh, support in zerker gear is still support, it’s not like cleansing/boon/reflect need any of the defensive stats anyway.

Never really pay attention, but what weapon does phantasm rogue use if it’s not dagger?(looks like thief’s heartseeker, so I always assume it’s dagger)

Funny enough, most f2p give out their xpac for free, while sub base ones are the ones charging for it, generally it’s down to how much the community willing to pay.

Not quite sure what you mean to by “reversible”(you explanation of the term is equally confusing), but f2p cash shop generally are much more pay to win compare to p2p(if have one).

Lots f2p offer no more, if not less, content than p2p, they just gate their content with higher xp/gear curves, so you need to grind for quite a while before experiencing the actual content.

I would rather say gw2 is a bit…unique(not necessarily better) in its industry. If this is any other mmo, we will most likely need to be 90 to do southsun and 100 to DT/SW, and we will still be busy grinding to level/gear instead of complaining done the content for the 100th times.

PvE: conjure ele
WvW: staff ele
PvP: probably not the best, but a good ele is definitely in top 3 classes I don’t want to go against.

Before all this discussion on hammer guard, which should belong to guardian sub forum.

I am just curious, how did OP manage to get a juggernaut before he realized hammer doesn’t fit his play style? I mean, you can always test hammer skills with a blue/green hammer.

Except that won’t create diversity at all, just make knight or pvt the new meta, with zerker gearing more toward the “pros”. At the end, everyone still respond to keep their own skin intact and do as much dps as possible, which is no different compare to now.

Content need healer = content where people can’t keep themselves alive
Content need tank = content where people can’t kill mobs fast enough before mobs kill them

Anet makes all classes to be self sufficient and favor open world over instance, so this kind of content will be extremely hard to implement(if it’s even possible).

You will get the skin as well, the MF “stat change” actually gives you a new sword, not the original sword with stats change.

Kalavier.1097:

LastShot.4762:

Are you even sure you were kicked because of necro? Maybe you were kicked because low AP, not being 80, or play/act like a noob, and you just happen to be a necro.

I honestly have not seen any necro being kicked just for being necro, exclude those with obvious bad builds for dungeon(hint: MM necro).

AP points are NOT a way to judge skill and frankly I laugh at that.

I think a friend uses it purely to guess how long they’ve been playing. :P

First off, I know AP is not a way to indicate skill, however, OP seem to believe he was kicked for being a necro, which I don’t believe that was the case.

If he was instantly kicked, the chance are, the group is measuring its member by either AP or level, and has nothing to do with his class.

Are you even sure you were kicked because of necro? Maybe you were kicked because low AP, not being 80, or play/act like a noob, and you just happen to be a necro.

I honestly have not seen any necro being kicked just for being necro, exclude those with obvious bad builds for dungeon(hint: MM necro).

Well, from my understanding, bleed still gets an extra +2 per tick, not much of a buff but at least you can’t call it a nerf.

Soval.3206:

In that case, I want to pay for my game in Chinese yuan. $50 USD = 310 RMB —- I demand to pay 50 RMB ($8 USD) for HoT!!

Might as well ask for Japanese yen, 50 yen is like 40 ¢.

To be fair, look at what actually happened to Destiny’s Edge when they try to take on a mission that require more people: One guy ran off to attempt rl issue, one guy died, and 2 rage quit.

Eventually, they have to (indirectly) ask 3 much bigger guilds for help just to accomplish something similar.

Jon Peter’s comment(which most likely lead to impeding nerf for condi) isn’t a result of any zerker whining.

If you attempted any world boss yesterday(hint: shattered daily), you’d come to the same conclusion.

moony.5780:

Just go to a lvl 50 area and tell me if the monster r too strong..i can easily fight 10-15 of them at the same time (on a DD zerker ele)
…in dungeons..yes..dungeons got really much more difficult..but what is so good about killing every monster in the normal map in 1 hit?

(and i just wanted to help u for a happier life bcs beeing friendly brings more than beeing agressive…but ok i will not say anything anymore^^)

Actually, 50 zone is not the best example, as 50~60 area is where the scaling seem to break even with the old system, 60+ area onward I actually feel stronger than before.(so essentially you are saying the old scaling was fine.)

Tried out some of the newbie zones, and you will notice where the super downscaling has the most impact.

Well, hiding behind zerg spamming 1 is always easy, now it’s just faster.

If you want some challenge, try do some AC runs with newbies now.
The downscaling is scary(my crit rate drop from 6X to 3X), also the condition cap goes both ways, it’s actually terrifying to have mobs stack 30+ breed on you.

What you will miss from S2 is the lumie set, nomad/sinister ascended trinkets, and mawdrey(and AP if you into leaderboard).

If you just want to know the story, go search youtube, and save yourself from the headache on some encounters.

That was note from a week ago, this is the note from today’s patch:

•Bleeding:
•The formula for this condition has been rescaled to account for the new behavior of damaging conditions and to put more focus on the condition damage stat.
•New damage over time: 2 + (0.25 * Level) + (0.06 * Condition Damage)

Haven’t tried it out yet, so couldn’t tell if it’s buff or nerf.

Celtic Lady.3729:

LastShot.4762:

Anet will be in a lot of trouble.

Why would you assume this?

Well, you know what bad PR can do.

But then again, Anet may have a big enough fan base to not care about that, kinda like a certain D game by company B.

ps. I was hoping this thread got drift into a GH discussion, but hilarious indeed, another thread about prepurchase.(guess OP was wrong)

Is it even possible to make a personal hall? consider you need to party with guildies to get the resource.(unless you have many alt accounts)

As for the prepurchase rage, it has been 3 days, if it still persist, Anet will be in a lot of trouble.(errrr….just looked around, there are still like ~5 threads on the subject, didn’t notice much tone change either.)

Lol, no please.

I don’t know how long you have been around, but every time ANet made the game “free”(trial weekend, etc.), there is a huge surge of bots and you will get gold spam everywhere you go.

So as much as I think $50 is bit on the high side, please do not make the base game free.

Well, for $50, I’d expect HOT double the size of existing game world, but ANet hardly reveal anything content wise, so it’s hard to tell it’s worth or not.

I think a lot of people have the impression HOT is just an open up version of demo map ANet used for beta, which is ~$20 worth at best, and couple with the newbie package, people think ANet is trying to double dip vets with very few additional content.

Well, mastery is not coming until HOT release, so hopefully ANet provide us a mean to bank our exp until then.

As for people don’t plan to buy expansion, guess they just out of luck.

EcoRI.9273:

Up the reward to adjust for the timegate it’s what they did when they introduced the 24hour time gate on dungeons.

Not really, 24 hour time gate was there way before ANet up the reward, ANet up the reward because they remove a large portion of gold drop from boss/chest to prevent people from looping through the same path(cof p1) over and over.

Most people want solo mode because they want reward gated by group content, not because they want to experience the content their way or want some sort of challenge.

If Anet make a solo mode with severely reduce reward(kinda like a training mode), there will just be a ton of QQ follow by a pretty much dead mode. (People want reward will revert back to group mode, and “lone wolves” will just do it once and never look back.)

Actually, water arcane ele with mist form is super good at survival, even in zerker gear.

Since we are talking about open world here, there is really no reason to go crazy on dps with squishy builds.

ps. OP, no, gear is not your problem here, if you stick with current setup, you will die just as often as you do in exotic as in rare. For zerker gear, upgrade to exotic just makes you hit harder, you are still as squishy as ever.

Katalos.5038:

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

and I know it isn’t this way now, and I think it might be a mistake on Anets part, but when the game first came out, for a long time, people WERE doing dungeons of the appropriate level. that “80+ only” junk has only developed once people got to that level and made their legendaries and junk and now they feel like they’re superior and don’t want to waste time with the likes of a *gasp/ newww playerrr

That makes new players like me very sad. I can’t even find players to run dungeon at my level with me through LFG. I only ran AC twice, once with some very helpful players, who kept telling me I am doing great while I kept dying, and once with my guild mates.

Actually, that’s not the reason 80 only party exist, dungeon has very little change since launch, so some people just see it as a chore and want to get it over asap.

Dungeon in this game is so easy, it can be carried by 1~3 people, so you are more likely bump into “nicer” people(they are being nice because they know they can do it without you) than most MMO.

GW2 is a not really a good representation for the MMO genre, it’s more of an outliner, ANet definitely go way overboard in term of carebear-ness.

Not saying that’s a bad thing, but if you play this game for a little too long(like me), you will have hard time surviving in most MMOs out there.

Just a thought, if you have 100% map completion but was not reward with chest, what most likely happen is you missing the POI in order of whisper HQ.

Edit: someone beat me to it :P

Oh ok, your experience is probably before pvp reward track/daily reward was introduced then.

Now, you get a load of tomes just from logging in 28 days, so level to 80 is kinda like a joke now.

I am just curious OP, how long have you been playing, and what exactly do you do for leveling?

If you pvp all day every day, you should have at least one level 80 in less than 2 weeks, unless you lose a lot.

Pretty sure we will be getting guild hall, new pvp & wvw world, and map reward for free, just imagine the backlash if they aren’t.

Problem of HOT is ANet still haven’t set a price tag yet, so it is hard to expect the actual amount of content. Honestly, from feature introduced so far, HOT feels more like a paid DLC than an expansion to me.

Didn’t we already help LA rebuild by donating in BB(that was a long time ago)?

EcoRI.9273:

Many of you guys have been saying that DPS is the only thing that matters in dungeons. Well I made a video showing how I was able to speed run as a lvl60 thief 0 dps pure support in blind, defiance crowd control, and stealth.

Interesting fact, you can do ALL that while wearing zerker gear. :P

But then again, you only need 2~3 “true” DPS in team to achieve the boss melting effect, that’s why some seasoned dungeon runners don’t mind leeches.

Don’t really see chrono = Mesmer X necro, only thing resemble necro is the well, but everything else chrono just Mesmer plus….also, necro don’t use shield.

Local, but have a day job.

If study is off hour or weekend, will definitely be interested.

OP, hope you didn’t quit your old game, cause base on your history, you may chew through this game in 3 month or less.

No gear decay and repair is free, but no meat shield tank is this game, only dps and support(not healer) in this game.

ps. there are tank gear, but even the most tanky setup have to learn dodge, tank gear generally only let you take 1~4 more hits than the most squishy build.

I think he’s talking about the mailbox size(it only display 10 player mails, and you need to delete old ones to receive new ones) as well as the mail spam(if you send 3~5 mails in short succession, your mail will get suppressed).

Although judging by OP’s post history, he may want to double the gold cap too.

Anet is going to overhaul the current trait system in HOT due to its unpopularity(no detail on how), highly doubt they will do something similar again.

I am with the “Reach level 80 and speak with a class trainer” guy. :P

skullmount.1758:

LastShot.4762:

Now, here is the important part:
1. The final finishing precursor (of the existing/preHoT) is TRADEABLE
2. You can only make EACH precursor once per account this way

It specifically says the new precursors won’t be tradeable though.

The problem of new ones is Anet can totally RNG us on components other than precursor, they may not even follow the same formula as the existing ones.

At least for the existing ones, I know what I expect now.(And don’t get me wrong, I actually think those are good things, for me at least.)

I read through the whole article and here is what I gather:

Step1 : you need to train mastery then speak to NPC to unlock 3 collections.
Step2: in example of moot:
collection 1 involve getting specific drops from killing mobs, finish this collection give you a receipt, allow you to craft an untrabeable weapon.
collection 2 seem to just talk to some npcs, again give you a receipt, which let you craft an upgrade to the first weapon.
collection 3 require you preform certain actions, attend events and/or activities, and final give you a receipt to upgrade 2nd weapon into precursor.

Now, here is the important part:
1. The final finishing precursor is TRADEABLE
2. You can only make EACH precursor once per account this way