I don’t know if this has been mentioned already or if I missed it when reading the others. But both with the release in China, the fact that the Japanese also make up part of the fan base and the fact you can get Phoenix (Zhu que in China/ Suzaku in Japan) weapon skins via trading in Black lion ticket scraps/ tickets. As well as Jade dragon (Qing Long in China/ Seiryu in Japan) via the same method. I would like the set to be completed by adding weapon skins based around the tiger (Bai hu in China/ Byakko in Japan) and the tortoise (Xuan Wu in China/ Genbu in Japan). Even if it means having the other two as a permanent set in the gem store.
Armour skins based around these four for all the armour groups (meaning medium and heavy for phoenix not just the light armour I currently see) would also be a good idea. Since you already seems that you started doing that with the light Phoenix armour anyway. Or failing that keep it so that the Phoenix is light only, have the medium get the tiger armour and have the heavy get the tortoise because of the shell. I am not sure which one dragon should be though it could be all three in theory. And I am well aware we have Draconic armour but I was thinking more along the lines of being based off of the already existing jade dragon weapon skins.
As for non skins how about a miniatures surprise pack that gives you two common miniatures and one of the Special miniatures that can no longer be obtained otherwise. And then you could make that newly obtained Special miniature account bound so that is could not be sold on if deducting from the original value of the already obtained ones is an issue. Which is to say it would have the name of the Special miniature then something else in brackets like “ld” (lucky dip) or “gs” (gem store) so it would be easier to do this. Also if they don’t exist already miniatures of some of the world bosses might be a thing to consider.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Since you are in a French guild the megaserver takes that in account when placing you.
So apart from learning french(which I as starting to do anyway) what should I do if the area I end up in continues to be almost dead in terms of players?
Also rather than start a new thread does anyone have any stories they would like to share about being in or going against (in terms of WvW) Vabbi? Even ones where you just guested there for a while?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Maybe if you disable that you will get more chat showing up from other languages so the server won’t seem as empty.
I had thought of that. But my client text language is in English not French. Maybe it is just a coincidence and the next time I log in it wont be the case?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
What I would like to see back from GW are the Missions. Think of Dungeons that you HAD to do in order to progress in the story. You would be blocked from new areas untill you did a Mission. It encouraged grouping in the beginning and replayablity with the mission bonus. I also liked how as you progressed the missions got harder and required more people to complete, 4 in Ascelon up to 8 in Ring Of Fire.
So separate missions out side of your personal story and Pve world events? I think I understand what you mean and I do like the idea but wouldn’t that mean you would need enough people of a similar level in order to do that? Or could you just invite anyone to help?
The other thing I’d love to have back has been said already, Guild Halls and GvG. I’d like to add to GvG the reappearance of Heroes Ascent and the Battle Isles. HA was where you went to try out new GvG builds and configurations before taking it into real GvG. It also gave the winning region access to FoW/UW.
Hunting down special mobs with elite skills with the signet of Capture to get that elite skill.
Vanquishing zones.
Doing challenge modes to get armor for your heroes.
Actually miss fetch quests because lore was written down in them.
I like the sound of challenge modes and Vanquishing zones. I highly doubt they would do a bunch of fetch quests though unless it was through the living story at some point.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
if the mega server have been implemented why is it when I log in at most I might see two or three other players running around? Is it because I am still near the beginning area?
Also is the reason I see all the chat in the main box in french because I joined a french guild? Or are they just the biggest percentage that play on that server at the moment? Because I tried to find out but I either get “unknown” or EU when looking up the various EU servers on the sites that list them.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
helm/coat/ leggins (Assassins) (because these are the three pieces of armour that give the biggest boost to what stat you are focusing on when making them. At least according to the calculator anyway).
shoulders/gloves/boots (Shaman), you might understand why when you look at the build I made up as a whole via the link.
5x superior rune of the Eagle/Ranger. I have used the eagle one in the example but since I won’t be using the 6th one the both do exactly the same thing.
1x Superior rune of Golemancer/ Air/Rage. Again since I am only using one they all raise the amount of crit damage done by increasing ferocity by 25.
Though if I wanted more damage at the expense of pulling them off less often (current build over all is 80% chance of crit and 200% more damage when achieving a crit) I would have five Superior rune of Golemancer and one of either Ranger or Eagle.
All Knight accessories. All infused with precise infusion. Where as my armour would have all vital infusions.
Then since I don’t like the look of the Ascended light armour (my character is a tailor so crafting my own will be one of my in game goals) I would decided based on what I had unlocked to transmute them accordingly to a random combination that I think looks better.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
- Group wiped
- Hunter ran away, his dumb tank pet found something to aggro
- Hunter waits afk, were all dead but in combat
HOW CAN YOU NOT BOOT THIS HUNTER TO HELL?!
- Sees “Halp me” pop up during an open world event.
- Runs over to revive
-Gets attacked
-Fights back then has to rally
Tries to revive again repeat about ten times
-Knocked out completely and watches the remainder of the fight.
Failed rescue attempt was fail and the best bit was I have know idea if I was trying to review the actually person or someone next to them xD. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an npc though.
(And with that interruption she now leaves this thread to continue)- Mesmer.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
It’s still being sold, by retailers I think, and I am certain it is available on Steam, so I don’t expect them to shut down the servers soon.
On steam…….. (Runs off to her steam account).
Edit: (has added the trilogy pack to her wish list for easy access later).
:) Enjoy
But you’ll need Eye of the North as well if you want access to the Hall of Monuments and it’s rewards in GW2.
(Makes a mote of that) will do when I next get paid. Which will probably be around the time of the summer sale.
Also in response to everyone else I do hope they don’t shut it down any time soon. Since I’m not the only one still buying it. Based on some of the discussions on steam. And yes hopefully most of if not everything mentioned so far will be included in one form or another. Probably through living story if it is going to happen.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
No servers were deleted. The person is referring to the MegaServer implementation and the loss of Server identity for some. (You will find players from many different servers in your map.)
Ah right I get you now. I thought they meant their GW1 server had been deleted I didn’t realize they meant the current GW2 mega servers. I don’t think that has happened to me yet but I have no idea how you would even find out.
The only place where your selected world (or server, whichever you want to call it) is unique now is WvW. All PvE maps are megaserver maps which contain multiple worlds.
I see so unless you want to be on the same side when it comes to WvW it doesn’t matter which server you are on then. I shall remember that in case a few people I know decide to join GW2.
Well it looks like most of what I wanted from GW1 was already listed in this post.
Maybe the ability to stow pets for good on Rangers, but that’s a minor thing to me.
Yes this is the one problem I can see when it comes time to make my second toon a Ranger. I won’t want to ever get rid of my starting pet but there are at least three others I want to use and only one spare spot. Maybe they will add this if more creatures get added as tamable Ranger pets.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
No servers were deleted. The person is referring to the MegaServer implementation and the loss of Server identity for some. (You will find players from many different servers in your map.)
Ah right I get you now. I thought they meant their GW1 server had been deleted I didn’t realize they meant the current GW2 mega servers. I don’t think that has happened to me yet but I have no idea how you would even find out.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
It’s still being sold, by retailers I think, and I am certain it is available on Steam, so I don’t expect them to shut down the servers soon.
On steam…….. (Runs off to her steam account).
Edit: (has added the trilogy pack to her wish list for easy access later).
Yeah here is a fun fact, you can add GW2 to your game library and use Steams web browser and overlay in game…..just goto Games-Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library…
Great if you don’t want to Tab in and out of the game or you could use another overlay like Overwolf which has specialty apps just for GW2 …note some of these apps are dated though. But I like the overlay in Overwolf more since I can open the browser and size it to my liking and still be playing the game. So if I wanted to look at a map of something I can have it open while walking toward the objective.
Oh thank you. I shall do that when I am next on steam.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Hello there. I was going to suggest Vabbi (the server I am on) because the population is always high, but not very high so no ques. However I just looked at the WvW rankings and we are one under your current server (secretly plans to change this once she reaches level 80). But I think we are starting to take WvW more seriously but with out double checking I have no idea how many WvW guilds we currently have.
So yea it would be less empty but the WvW would probably take a while to improve.
Alternatively you could save your money and set up your own WvW guild on your current server. But without knowing the exact state of the population on your server I have no idea if this would work. It might even improve the WvW score for that server if successful though.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
People only had 9 years to know about the existence of GW1 by now.
And it isn’t as if you need more than yourself to play GW1 – in fact solo or duo are the best GW1 modes imo.
I know that now but nine years ago we would have been about 16 and going from school to either Sixth form or college. Plus the people I am referring too, including myself never have really looked into mmos for various reasons. I know when Wow came out I never had any interest anyway. And it wasn’t the issue of playing alone that made me ask. It is the issue of having to be connected to an online server still and if there will be any left for much longer.
Elite Templar
Elite Platemail
Capes
Fissure of Woe
The Underworld
Domain of Anguish
Guild Halls
These are all things that can and should be added to GW2.
Well with the current rumours of an expansion coming in 2015 some of those could very well be added. Or if not in that then part of the living story maybe?
Edit:
I simply want my server back, and instances.
Ah so they did delete some then. You didn’t lose your character/s did you? Or did they get transferred to another server?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
From what I understand when looking up the game play they have said it will not be closing for the moment because the cost of maintaining the servers is tiny compared to GW2 servers. And I know a lot of people have asked for an off line mode.
Perhaps if more people were informed about the existence of GW1 it might go up in population? I know of a lot of people who had never heard of it until 2.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
I’ve played both GW1 and GW2. I don’t see it getting a resurgence of players, it’d need a huge influx of players all at once. Don’t know if it’ll be shutdown or not.
The main things I miss a few classes such as Dervish and Ritualist, the Signet of Capture, and the build template system. Of all those I think templates is the most likely to be added.
As for the discussion about if GW1 is dead. Well it has a few diehard players but most have moved on. I could argue that any MMO is dead because the public thinks it’s dead. Games that are perceived as dead have a hard time getting new players, and an even harder time retaining them if there’s no community to greet the new player. It might keep a few anti-social players but it’s hard to have faith that a game that’s way underpopulated will even stay online much longer.
It’s like going to an understocked store, you start to wonder if they’re going out of business.
As for what Magic Find does. It’s supposed to help you get more and better loot in-game. But since the loot system is controlled but RNG, it can be hard to notice the difference it makes.
I see so magic find will basically help with crafting rare stuff in the end, but not so much Karma accumulation. I guess it is a good thing I have been consuming those essences of luck then. I now have 2%!
Back on topic yes that is what I thought. Oh well I am sure as this game grows in years and is added too people might be less down/ harsh on it when comparing the two games. Dervish and Ritualist sounds interesting. Maybe they will be added when the other dragons are?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
i know that no one has promised nothing, i have only said that many player are asking for those features
Fair enough. Also if this expansion if 2015 turns out to be true they could very well be in there. I would love to see and go up against all the other dragons eventually even if they are not.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
“However, NCsoft is scheduled to launch an
expansion pack for Guild Wars 2 in the US and Europe in 2015. Lineage Eternal, Metal Black:
Alternative, and various mobile games are also in the pipeline. "
Look for the thread in this forum titled: Gw2 Expansion Confirmed? by Demonts.
Also as Berelious has said Anet never actual promised a third heavy armour class or new skills. We still have more dragons to go based on lore alone but from what I can tell after looking up some old game play of the first guild wars we already have two more classes than the original anyway. I think.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Perhaps if they do do another expansion like this it will be to do with bringing one of the other continents and one of the other remaining dragons? So you can do them once you finished going against the first one?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Are you both playing this and the first game? And do you think the first will ever go back up in population again? Is it worth those of us who learned of it (like myself) through GW2 to buy the first one or do you think it will be shut down soon?
Also what if anything do you want to see brought back into the game from GW1?
And don’t get me wrong I am enjoying GW2 (and I think some of the dislike others have is because they assume it will be the same as the first). I just ask because I went to look up some of GW1 game play out of curiosity and people seem to be down about it. Some saying it is dead while others saying it is dead only because people think it is dead.
Edit: Oh and an off topic question. Has anyone figured out what exactly magic find does?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Oh a European Server! I’m on NA, so I don’t really know much about the EU wvw scene (off-topic post).
Ah that OK I am a long way off anyway.
Back on topic another possibility aside from being able to chose one at dragon rank/ giving those already promoted an automatic choice. We could have it that everyone who completes the final boss at the end of the game (during their story mode instance only) gets one at random. But again you would have the issue of everyone who has already completed it and on multiple toons as well. So the dragon rank one and your previous idea are still probably the better ones.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
What is your server Leo? And yeah I think they promoted every player rank 50 and above back then but I can’t remember exactly.
And the ToL placers can pick the legendary or precursor they want, and choose between the gift they want if they get a choice between fortune and mastery (hah such a hard choice) or between might and magic.
I just had to log in to look it up. The world/server I am in is called Vabbi. On a side note I am also part of a guild called TheHELLFEST or Goth for short but I haven’t been able to do much yet due to both being knew and the fact most of the messages seem to be in French and Polish. Which is fine it will give me something to learn on top of the Japanese I am doing but dungeons could end up being a problem if I don’t learn a few key phrases before then xD.
Also I did not know that about the ToL and gift choosing. Mastery all the way!
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Agreed. Daily would make them too easy to get but there is also a danger currently of the gold price getting too ridiculous levels. Perhaps tying them into pvp rank is an option? So say when you reach tiger rank you get one at random and the again when you get to the final (dragon) rank you get to pick one of your choice.
Or we could link it to the badges of Honor in some way? It might encourage people to do WvW more than just for map completion on servers with lower populations. If any such servers exist of course.
Well for pvp, its already somewhat implemented by the tournament of legends prizes, as 1st place team gets legendaries, 2nd gets a precursor of their choice, and I think places 3-8 get some choice or combination of the gift of fortune, mastery, might or magic, which is a great addition, but only accessibly to top tier teams obviously.
It takes a huge amount of time to get to dragon these days, so I think it could be a fair idea, but tiger would be far too low.. I casual hotjoin and I’m 2 ranks away from tiger. And also for the many people who were promoted to dragon when rank got reworked, some controversy could arise.
And for WvW, badges are already incorporated into the gift of mastery. And as a primarily WvW player (although I like the other game modes too), people who are serious about WvW don’t play on low population servers. Right now, the other main NA guild on my server DB is going to SOS most likely this friday, and my guild could be next if DB drops from T3 (which we are dominating atm).
True and I am guessing that there would be too many who were promoted to dragon for it top be viable? And by that I mean couldn’t they get the choice automatically once it was implemented or no?
I seem to be on a high server at the moment so hopefully it will stay that way when I get around to WvW.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Yeah the daily idea is a little wack. I like an idea of using high amounts achievement points in some manner to get one.
Basically Safari the problem is that while these items are obtainable, people dislike having little control on acquiring them. The fact that RNG with the mystic forge or drops makes them rare is acceptable and needed for these items to maintain their value in the economy, but there are some problems with how the markets operate. For example, precursors have different costs based primarily on the popularity of that weapon, which is the main reason why the bifrost is so much more expensive than the minstrel. A lot of people would prefer to standardize precursor cost by whether the weapon is one handed two handed or an offhand, which is somewhat present in the market, but the differences between two legendaries of the same type of weapon are a bit disenheartening, such as the bard being 200-300 gold cheaper than howl.
Another source of frustration is that precursor markets are easily manipulated by wealthy flippers who can make a products buy and sell price face a sustained increase for reasons other than graphical or functional improvements to the legendary itself.
For example, take a look at Howl’s pricing over the past month and try to explain what happened to it on June 7th. http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29184
The howler certainly didn’t get a shiny new aura that day.
Also just as a note, if precursors were easier to maintain, T6 mats would become so much more expensive. I think that economically they are in a decent place, however ways to obtain them at a fixed price, that are a significant but reliable way to achieve them in terms of gold would be ideal, because no one wants to save gold for so long only to see that they need 100s more to get it in a reasonable time frame.
Agreed. Daily would make them too easy to get but there is also a danger currently of the gold price getting too ridiculous levels. Perhaps tying them into pvp rank is an option? So say when you reach tiger rank you get one at random and the again when you get to the final (dragon) rank you get to pick one of your choice.
Or we could link it to the badges of Honor in some way? It might encourage people to do WvW more than just for map completion on servers with lower populations. If any such servers exist of course.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Cats (Jaguar, Snow Leopard, Jungle Stalker, Lynx) if you want to maximize damage, drakes if you want to play it safe. I’ve heard that apparently birds (Raven, White Raven, Owl, Hawk, Eagle) are also good for damage but I have no insight regarding that.
Forgive me since I don’t have a Ranger yet but isn’t the solution to this simple. (…)
The solution is to run whatever you want in PvE, and what’s best for your team in dungeons; as a general rule that means no ranged fighters and no single-target damage.
That doesn’t necessary means ranged weapons can’t be viable, e.g. Staff Eles and grenade Engineers can be very good in dungeons; however they have to stand in melee range as well, otherwise they might pull bosses out of the range/AoE of their allies or scatter mobs out of AoEs.
OK thank you. That is basically what I was trying to say but you have a better way of putting it. Also I will be sure to remember that about Engineers. On a side note what pets are good for dungeons?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Forgive me since I don’t have a Ranger yet but isn’t the solution to this simple. When you are own your own try to use every weapon type to unlock all the abilities then focus on the few you want end game after that. And by that I mean the ones you want to have above the basic level such as FrostFang for the legendary axe as an example. Only in this case it would be the long bow equivalent and Howler if you wanted a warhorn. Maybe.
Then with your long bow, war horn, sword etc you can just take all of a few seconds to switch equipment within your two weapon sets so you can continue you to be an archer in some cases and adapt in certain group events in others. That way there is no need to choose one over the other.
Or is this also a trait/ skill problem and therefore it still wouldn’t work too well? Plus correct me if I am wrong but can’t rangers have up to two pets despite only being able to summon one at a time? So they can have both the bear and one other for dungeons?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Presumably because making armor skins available for all weight classes is too labor intensive, so instead they shoehorned in a one-piece outfit system at the sacrifice of the town clothes system.
It’s nice that outfits can be worn by any weight class, completely misses the point, but a nice gesture nonetheless.
And with that my question has been answered thank you. All I need to do now is figure out how you get the katana.
Then you were lucky more than anything. From what I can tell a lot of people are having trouble just getting one precursor based on previous comments. Sell them for gold maybe?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
If you want to duel Wupwup you’ll need to go back to GW1.
Except I have never played GW1 so it would be more a first time thing than going back.
Do they plan on keep one for the foreseeable future? I know a I read a while ago they have no intention of shutting it down yet due to it not costing that much or something. But if the population gets too low I can see it happening eventually.
If they do I probably will have a go just to learn more of the lore.
Anyway back on topic sort of I just had another look at bolt. In order to make it I will an Artificer to make a gift of Gift of Lightning which makes me both lucky but also means I have a bit of a choice ahead of me in terms of what my second character’s profession will be.
Lucky because the only four I have an interest in playing are Mesmer (which I currently am), Ranger, Necromancer and Engineer. And there are only three legendaries that I actually want. Bolt, Howler and Frostfang. This means that I only need two fo my four planned characters to do full map completion but it does mean I have the choice of going Necro first and getting both Bolt and FrostFang first or going for Howler first via my self sufficient Ranger who will be able to make both gifts needed on their own.
So I will probably just stock everything else needed for Bolt and go the ascended route for the swords and transmute them to look like the Wupwup ones as stated before if I decide that I must have that look. Since I definitely want to play Ranger next and I can use my Mesmer to make the next character some melee weapons.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
That looks so cool. It can be used for all armour types yes? Also in regards to armour skins do they always remain on the gem store or sometimes get removed?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
I will have to look into what celestial stats and build are but in terms of specializing I guess that would mean going for Soros’s Blade then? Or Tonn’s for the Vitality and Toughness over the Precision and Ferocity since power would remain the same? I just thought that if they stacked a +88 to all might give me more flexibility plus I like the colour purple. I guess this is why I should think about what build I am going to use first before deciding on weapons.
Definitely, when you have control over what stats your best set of equipment will have (whether you make it or buy it) you should be following a plan for what stats and look you want. The appearance you can easily change with the wardrobe, so it’s good that you have the Wupwup weapon. You can craft the other weapon to the appropriate stats and then transmute it to look like the Wupwup one.
True. I think I will focus on making the stat weapon first (I am no wear near making them yet but hope to be) and then make the other to transmute later if I feel it necessary for my characters cosmetics. I will also probably go with either Soro or Tonn as well like nearlight.3064 suggested for the stats since I was planing to have a high crit Mesmer long before I even started to read up on the forums properly. Hence the mention of Soros’s Blade in my original post. What with her being in Ash legion and all. But I am not all that keen on the yellow.
Edit: Though that being said red is OK and Zojja’s added power over precision might be more useful we will have to see how things turn out. Plus it seems to be a fairly dark red which is a plus.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
So no duel swords for WvW then? I never got around to using the bug or WvW in general yet so I don’t know what it entailed anyway. I am still going to try and work around this I think.
Ok, here’s the deal. You used to be able to use ‘swap’ even after the clone died. It would move you to the clone’s last position and do the cleaving immobilize. This is the only thing that lets it be used in many situations.
In pve, the clone often gets instakilled by aoes, and this used to let you sorta plan a safe route to leap to and/or get through a nasty area. Now you can’t.
In pvp, the clone will often be cleaved down. You used to be able to use this to your advantage, sending the clone through a place you wanted to go to put a tether to go back to. Now you can’t.
In large group WvW, the clone dies almost instantly. The only reason this skill worked at all was this now removed functionality.
To expand on wvw and mainhand sword. Blurred frenzy will kill you on retaliation. The autoattack is not particularly high damage. Now the third skill is completely useless. I honestly can’t see a reason to use mainhand sword in wvw now. In fact, I only see reasons to actively avoid it.
Ah OK yes that is rather bad in that case. I can understand now why people seem upset about this change. But since I will be PvE for a long time until I am confident with the basics of the game I think I will still try and use main hand sword just so I can say I have unlocked everything. Eventually I probably won’t be using Torch for a long while just because. But yes based on the other bugs already reported this change does seem a little……..odd? To put it politely.
Edit: but I think we might be in for a few surprises yet. Ones everyone might like?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
So no duel swords for WvW then? I never got around to using the bug or WvW in general yet so I don’t know what it entailed anyway. I am still going to try and work around this I think.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
It depends on what you do with your mesmer. If its PvE you want assassins (Soros) or Zerker (Zojja).
If you are relatively close to making bolt, only make an ascended sword if you go S/S, which is what you should be doing in PvE. Note that GS is considered to be suboptimal on mesmer in dungeons, and typically you’ll want to use S/S and S/F to milk the best phantasm damage and melee DPS boosted 12% by empowering mantras.
If you have other questions on crafting, and ideal things to craft or ways to use your resources wisely to get what you want, don’t hesitate to PM me ingame, and we will chat.
OK thank you I will do. I look forward to chatting with you. And yes it will mostly be PvE but I will also be doing some WvW eventually. And not just for map completion.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
With skill points, there are more than enough on the map to buy all of your skills, plus you will continue to get them after you reach level 80; when you gain enough xp for level 81, you get a skill point and the xp counter is reset to lvl 80.
For the ascended weapons, you can buy the augury stone with a different character than the ones who make and/or use the weapon.
I see that is good to know. I will probably do this at some point if needs be.
The increase between exotic and ascended is incremental at best; still, if you want best-in-class, it’s a lot easier and cheaper to make ascended weaponry than a legendary.
Wupwup is celestial stats, usually considered good only for Elementalists, who can actually make use of a boost to all things. For a Mesmer, you probably want to specialize.
It is not so much a case of wanting the best so much as I just like the look of some of the ascended stuff. Plus I see me using it for a long time before ever getting the Legendary so the price factor does come into it as well. Plus I will probably only ever go for the one legendary on this character (sending the spare Gift of Exploration to another for Howler). So having at least one ascended will probably be a good idea if I find I don’t have a Zap when I reach that level. Plus it will be fun to try and craft it entirely from stuff I have gathered.
I will have to look into what celestial stats and build are but in terms of specializing I guess that would mean going for Soros’s Blade then? Or Tonn’s for the Vitality and Toughness over the Precision and Ferocity since power would remain the same? I just thought that if they stacked a +88 to all might give me more flexibility plus I like the colour purple. I guess this is why I should think about what build I am going to use first before deciding on weapons.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Question now that legendaries are account-bound rather than soul-bound, and you can do almost everything on any alt and give it to the alt that wants it: what about bloodstone shards? Are they still soulbound? What if you have everything else you need but the alt you want to use it on has no skill points? Another alt can make it and give it to the alt that needs it, right? Or am I missing something.
According to the wiki bloodstone shards are still soulbound.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
OK so it is a very long way off but since I plain to keep playing for as long as GW2 is online I guess that is a good thing. But anyway I chose Weaponsmith for my Mesmer (Tailor for the other purely for the Winged armour set). Because I see myself using the swords/ great swords (maybe spears but doubt it) more than I do scepters and focus.
In fact I am sure at this point my main weapon set will either be sword/pistol or duel wielding with two swords and a scepter/ pistol (which I currently use) or great sword for my second one. I will unlock the focus skills at some point for team (raid) play. But I just prefer some of the ones you can get from questing/ dungeons (or Dragon’s Jade Aspect Skin as well. Please don’t replace this Anet fingers crossed) based on what I saw from the wiki.
But anyway in regards to long term goals which is something I like to do, should I begin leveling my Weaponsmith skills and hording supplies as soon as I am able with the view of crafting two Wupwup blades for my end game? Or is two over kill? Is it even possible to craft more than one on a single character because of how Augur’s Stone is acquired or am I miss understanding when it says you need skill points to acquire one? I would have thought you need all your skill points for your skills and traits.
Plus aside from Legendary weapons which are even further off I am guessing their might be better blades than Wupwup that drop in game? Also adding to the over kill of making two? I guess basically what I am asking is making two Wupwup blades worth it? Or would Soros’s Blade be better for the crit chance rather than a bit of everything that you get with Wupwup? I would also be aiming to get hold of a Zap as well because Bolt is probably my favorite Legendary out of all the ones I have looked into. Which I guess is another thing to consider.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
This applies to most classes… in PvE content its berserk or make/control your own groups.
Just carry a extra set of armour/weapons and move on.
^This if only because you might want to try a slightly different build at some point. Not because someone took the game too seriously by the sounds of it. Well that or they came off more strongly about it than they intended too. I would like to think it is the latter since it can be easily done. But then I can be overly optimistic.
I mean I am still learning with my own Mesmer at the moment so this might be the newbieness of me coming out but it sounds like (based on how you say you are able to play your Mesmer), that they just don’t feel to comfortable using anything other than “Zerker” for group raids at the moment? Rather than an issue with the build itself. But since I don’t know which group said that too you or how experienced they are I could be completely wrong on this. I mean all builds can be good if used correctly right? Or am I wrong on this?
Either way I wouldn’t worry to much about it just continue to have fun with the game I’m sure if they don’t want to raid with you another (as jenzie.4083 has pointed out) group will want to raid with you regardless of Zerker or lack there of.
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
I know it has been a while since this was an issue but rather than necro raise an existing thread due to the fact the only one I found was over a year old. Am I allowed to post videos of me playing the game? I know you said previously that it is OK so long as we do not monetize said videos. (I have not enabled that feature nor do I intend too). But I still like to ask directly for permission in case anything has changed since then.
Thank you in advance.
Saz
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
Thank you again everyone. I am slowly putting this all to good use. I even managed to make it so the camera allowed me to look up. Yay I can see the sky again xD. (My mouse is wireless and runs off batteries. They were getting low).
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
A) ya, make a bit of everything. Try to keep up with your personnal story as much as possible. Don’t let it lag behind you level like having to do the story level 30 while you are level 60. The quest won’t be that much easier, its just that if you wait until you are level 80 to do your personal story, it became boring quickly and you won’t enjoy it as much. Same thing with map completion. Go ahead right aways, while you are exploring you get more into the universe and story.
What i would keep for latter? Dungeon and Crafting. Crafting will level up you so quickly and won’t give you much to use while leveling. It will be very useful to level up alt later when you don’t want to repeat everything to level up your 3rd or 4th character for exemple. Dungeon on the other hand can be hard to get into when you are low level and don,t know the game very well. You could end up in a speed run group that will go super quickly and leave you a bad impression. You will do A LOT of dungeon after your level 80 so better use that time at low level to explore and do quest than forcing you into dungeon just because its said that it at the same level as you are.
Yup. At least for me. Exploring, Personnal Story and doing the hearts were a lot of fun while leveling, but a lot less once I reached 80 and I had a lot more stuff to do.
B) No shield for Mesmer. Sword/Focus, Sword/Sword and Sword/Pistol are the best set of weapon for mesmer. You also have Greatsword that is less good, but give you some range option when you need it (you’ll probably need it when you start the game, melee can be a bit more difficult when you start playing).
Thank you and yes upon re reading the instructions I realize that a shield isn’t possible now. I have just got passed the tutorial and a bit of worm killing I guess. The hardest thing for me at the moment is getting used to the controls. I think heart completion will be my main aim since my combat consists of spamming my clones at the moment xD.
I think I will try and use a great sword to start with then and go sword/pistol for my main combo later. I need to find them first anyway.
I thought I would start this thread to both say hello to everyone and to also ask a few things. I brought this game the end of last year but haven’t been able to get passed character creation until now due to time constraints. This is my first mmo and I brought it mainly for confidence reasons.
I have set my character up to be a Mesmer Charr and a wanted to know:
a) What would you advice that I do first level up by collecting resources or just head the first part of my story quests?
b) Since I was thinking of using a sword for my main hand should I use a second one for my other one or in your experience regardless of character would a pistol or shield be better?
Astra Ferndale – female Charr Mesmer of the Ash legion.
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