Guild Wars 2

Honestly for the amount that you need (making yourself exotic armor for example) I don’t feel like the price is that bad. So I have just been buying gossamer bolts from the trade post with each new piece of armor I craft. I think I only have gloves left to create. All the rest of my gear is exotic.

What are you using to salvage and what is your brother using? Best bet is to use the rare quality salvage kit that you make in the mystic forge.

You already can combine lower tier items in the mystic forge to create higher tier items. Not sure it is really worth it though.

It really isn’t that big a deal. I got it done yesterday relatively quickly just running around with a zerg. I’m not a fan of WvW either.

Raided as a priest in WoW for years and I have to tell you. Don’t miss it at all.

Though I must say that I did a bit of WvW yesterday and there were some great AOE heals being laid down by guardians, engineers, and elementalists. They really made a huge difference too. So healing is still around maybe just not the way you liked it.

Lunatic Inquisition was insanely fun (and did reward personalized bags. 5 for a win and 3 for a loss).

Maybe you could just play to enjoy yourself rather than always needing a reward for every little thing you do?

Loved her “That’s an interesting costume” line. Didn’t catch her smack down of the Mad King. What happens with that exactly?

Loved everything about it.

Lunatic Inquisition is AMAZING! Most fun I have had in “pvp” in this game. I would love it to be kept around year round! Only thing I would do is maybe give a chance on some kind of cool reward to encourage more people to try it out (for those who need some sort of reward possibility instead of just playing for fun).

Wasn’t able to complete Clock Tower but love that there is stuff like that in the game and think there should be more of (difficult content – not mandatory – not dumbed down).

ETA: And ANet I beg of you to ignore the crybabies who are demanding that rare skins be less rare. If everyone has them no one would want them. Keep rare items fairly rare so that they are actually super exciting to get.

I gave up. Was making progress but then decided to watch a video to see what else I could expect and realized that I had only made it half way (if that) and knew I didn’t have it in me to continue.

I hope that they will continue to include features like this though. I love that there are difficult things that people can be proud of if they accomplish and that not everyone will be able to do (as long as it is an optional bit of fun and not something required to play the game).

I really enjoyed the camaraderie I felt with others in my instance who were attempting it too.

Overall I think the Halloween events were really fun and made me feel better about the game itself (which I do think has some issues). I hope ANet doesn’t let whiners and complainers force them to dumb their content down to the lowest common denominator.

The ability to kill steal is the only thing that makes PvE mobs not horrible in PvP.

Underwater is a dismal failure. I pretty much hate everything about it.

For those not bugged like the OP you can transmute it to your level 80 personal story back brace (or whatever it is called) and can thus use a max level gem in it. I did so myself today.

I think they purposely didn’t give it a level so you can use it on any level alt or character you are able to get it with but still have the option to transmute.

If ANet doesn’t make this a permanent feature of the game they are out of their minds.

The drop rate is perfect. Rare items should be rare. I know there is no way I will get one but when I see someone run by with one of the rare skins I want to think “Oh cool!” instead of “That old thing again?”.

I agree whole heartily.

I much prefer Lunatic Inquisition!

A. do it with your guild helping

B. don’t do it with all your alts. By Christmas your alt will be 80 and you can do the Christmas event with your alt.

I hate it but I am just not going to do it. Not a big deal. There should be things in the game that are a challenge that not everyone can do.

Pretty much all the armor in this game is unimaginative, boring, and full of clipping issues.

I am sort of having fun but it is absolutely not sustainable.

Aside from the complaints in this thread that I agree with I think the things that annoy me most about pvp is the camera angles. Never in a game have I had to manually adjust my camera so many times because the camera doesn’t really follow my character when he changes direction.

The sloowwwwww grind is probably the biggest killer. I am pretty sure they did this because your ranking is account wide. IMO they should have made it so that you rank faster but it is character based. You can still hold onto the gear that your highest ranked character wins and pass it along to your alts but they can’t wear it until they are high enough rank themselves. This would provide a bit of a carrot on a stick for players who make alts but not make it a grueling grind for those who don’t.

As many flaws as WAR had I really miss it so much. Never had so much fun pvping in my life. I was hoping that GW2 would fill that spot in my heart in both PvP and WvW but sadly it doesn’t even come close.

I just decided to PvP with my level 25 thief yesterday. I’ve decided that you would have to be crazy to pvp with anything other than a thief. I am absolutely HORRIBLE at thief but I am making two to three times as much glory as I did on any other profession I have tried including my main mesmer.

The nerf bat is definitely coming and I am going to enjoy it while it lasts.

I definitely agree with Rickshaw a few posts above. All of those issues with other classes that he listed are things that need to be dealt with to make pvp more enjoyable for everyone.

I made a female Charr elementalist but deleted her after I went to the mists and previewed all the light armor sets.

Light armor is fairly awful in this game though. There are very few sets I like. ANet sort of missed the mark with the armor in this game. I’m not sure why I am surprised since I wasn’t crazy about most of the armor in GW1.

Light armor is pretty bad, medium armor is OK but all looks the same (think witch hunter from Warhammer Online – cool look but more variety would be nice), heavy armor is the only thing that I really like. So I have been leveling a guardian and warrior.

Hopefully they add new armors to the game and put more thought into how they look on ALL the races. The Charr definitely get the short end of the stick.

I think they are both perfectly fine the way they are.

Never have a problem with the illusion not spawning in PvE. Any time it doesn’t it is because I misjudged and was not in range. I have had an issue with any sort of terrain difference between myself and the mob causing the clone to spawn in the wrong spot.

Now PvP is a totally different story. I don’t know if it is lag or what is the problem but sword has been pretty much worthless for me. Illusionary leap never works as intended.

I have been wondering this myself. For many classes boon durations are really short. I mean really really short. So adding 5% to 2 or 3 seconds seems a bit underwhelming, no?

I’m so glad they did. I do not miss mana at all. Definitely one of the things they got right with this game.

It is pretty awful. When I first got this elite on my warrior I was like “OMG why am I being followed around by bits of floating poo?!”

Staff already got nerfed! But yeah I thought that pvp would be unplayable without staff and I was wrong. GW is just as viable (different type of play though).

I have so much freaking butter in my bank you would think that Paula Dean has my account info and secretly logs on every night after I go to bed. =\

Is there a game where crafting isn’t a tedious bore with only max level perks as a reason to even do it? Because it sure hasn’t been any of the games that I’ve played.

I am going to guess that it is pink with a pretty purple ribbon and shoots pastel colored flying ponies at its target instead of bullets.

Someone please let me know if I am right when one gets made.

I definitely love staff and was wondering how a mesmer could even dream of playing without having it as one of their weapons sets. But I recently changed to a shatter build and am using sword/pistol and greatsword and I have to say it is a ton of fun. I never loved the greatsword until I tried it with a shatter build.

But yeah staff is pretty sweet especially if you want to survive ridiculous odds in both PvE and PvP. That is the thing I do really like about this game. The ability to switch weapons and traits and feel like you are playing a totally different class.

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I’m going to assume that you’re talking about Orr? I have yet to begin Orr’s maps, but I have 100%‘d every other maps(other than PvP) and I’ve never felt awkward, nor had trouble fighting multiple mobs.

The problem with mesmers is in the big zerg groups that do dynamic events in Orr for drops, money, and karma. The groups are so big that many of the mobs drop before you can even tag them (classes with many AOE skills have it a lot easier).

I am not really sure that I agree that this is a problem with the mesmer class however. I think it is more of a problem with the game mechanics that make people want to farm this way. It is SOOOO freaking boring and I can’t imagine that this is what ANet wanted when they were building this game.

But the facts are that everything costs huge amounts of either money or karma and people will always find the quickest ways to farm to get their needed currency.

ANet needs to address the problems causing people to want to play this way just as much as they need to address mesmer aoe and tagging abilities.

You will get plenty of them as rewards for zone completion and other things so don’t buy any in the gem shop right away.

Yeah you have it reversed OP. Originally it was account bound but they changed it to character bound during the BWE’s.

Are you crafting smart? Leveling tailoring only via discoveries and for the most part only learning the shoulders, gloves, helm recipes to level with because they use the least amount of mats?
If you are almost to the next level do you salvage the stuff you made to get the rest of the mats you need? If you are still running out the trading post is obviously another option as has been mentioned. It isn’t so bad buying them if you just need a few things to finish making one or two items to get you into that next bracket.

The fine quality mats are more annoying for me than the common drops. Especially as you get higher and higher and they each insignia starts to require more and more mats.

You level up faster by doing discoveries. You should almost never have to make items from individual recipes.

A weaponsmith doesn’t have any specialty. He can craft any of the weapon types he can make (I think there are 7 for weaponsmith) equally well. For the rifle I believe you will need to level huntsman. And you should look into the specifics of the legendaries that you want because they may require other crafting skills to be at 400.

You should definitely start to see some different armor designs by level 30. Each bracket of new crafting armor changes appearance and then there is a design for rare sets (the ingredients of which are made via recipes bought with karma from the armorsmith and other vendors). There are also rewards for karma from the different heart vendors in the zones. I know the human and charr have different designs for theirs. I haven’t looked at the other races vendors. There are also different designs available via drops at the trading post and of course higher level gets you dungeon gear.

The gold star is beyond stupid. It should be an optional title. Not a “Please kill me first!” symbol that you are branded with for all time.

I am amazed at how many truly bad players there are. Mesmer is obviously not for you. You should probably roll a different class. May I suggest warrior or ranger with a bear pet?

Honestly unless you want black or white (and really does EVERY one of your alts need to be in black and white?) you will get SOOOO many dyes in this game just over the course of questing that you can change the color of your outfits every day for a month and not wear the same color twice.

I’ve gotten a ton of keys just as drops, rewards, or from chests that I open (I once had a streak of 1 key turning into 10 keys). Of course not at the same rate that I get the chests (must have about 45 of them in the bank at this point). But I have no intention of paying RL money for more keys so in the bank they will stay.

Yeah I was going to say there are TONS of focus recipes for the Mystic Forge. More so than any other weapon type right now. I think most of them have unique art associated with them and quite a few are for sale on the trading post.

Of course they aren’t going to make one that looks like the HOM skin. The whole point of the HOM stuff is that it is unique.

Gem store hair cut and facelift feature should be coming fairly soon. Items were datamined in the last patch. So just hang in there. Don’t do anything like reroll or anything drastic like that.

I agree with khadorian. This is pretty much an iWin against most PvE mobs and groups of mob. Great for burning vets down quickly or if you get yourself in a bad situation with a big group of mobs. Spell definitely does not need a shorter cool down.

For PvE I feel like you can’t go wrong with burst damage of sword + focus (even multiple mobs) and then if things go wrong the staff is a great secondary weapon. Just try them all though and see what you like the best.

I believe with the latest patch there was some data mining that revealed gem store hair cut and “face lift” options. Sort of like in GW1. So hopefully it is coming soon and with that some new hair styles too. I would love the female butch afro from GW1 that sadly isn’t available in GW2. My necro would look great with it.

Spam does seem to be down a bit. Now I hope they turn their attention on the bots. I reported about a dozen yesterday. I feel like there should be an achievement for bot reporting!

WoW was the same way. The thing with champion mobs is if they dropped better loot or loot at a higher rate than regular mobs than people would ONLY kill champions. There would be a champion killing zerg that would run around in search of them. People would be calling out that champions were up and everyone would drop what they were doing to run off and kill that champ.

Some of the champion fights I have participated in this game have been the most fun I have had (a few others have been truly awful though). I don’t think the loot needs to be any different. I DO think that there should be consistency on which dynamic events result in a chest reward at the end of a chain though.

Honestly I don’t know how melee players do it. I feel like it is impossible to tell what is going on with all the spells going off and I feel like bosses spam their AOE attacks. What is the point of dodge when you are just going to end up rolling into another red circle and then another red circle that you can barely see.

I’m leveling a guardian and warrior and I think they are fun classes but I’m worried I won’t be good enough to run any dungeons with them. I’m definitely in awe of people who are good at melee. How do you do it in this game?

I stopped doing WvW because of the repair cost. I guess they need a gold sink for WvW but it seems like they could have come up with something more creative.