Guild Wars 2

I think if staff #2 did “when the Astral Wisp passes through you or your pet, applies a stack of Grace of the Land”, it would be interesting. It would finally give staff an ability that affects pets and would fit the risk/reward model for melee range for extra damage output for druids who get up close and personal.

For a few of them, I’ve gotten the collection added on event completion but no item actually dropped for inventory and the “opps, I deleted the item” vendor in LA doesn’t have them. So I’m not certain what that will mean when I get the last 5 that I’m missing for t1.

On Nevermore. For Natural Protector & Protector of the Weald, both checked off the collection but neither gave the trophy reward. Others might be broken too, but have only done 35% of t1 so far.

1. Ranger
2. Engineer
3. Elementalist

I use mine for LOLs. My ranger is named ‘Charrlock Holmes’ and love it when people do a double take and send me tells over my pig named Lestrade… (But I rarely break it out unless I’m just mucking around)

I found longbows really useful at lower levels. The short cooldown stealth makes it really easy to stay alive. I’ve used it to ping-pong Champions between me and my pet and taken them down solo. Damage might not be as strong as strong as some other weapons, but it does offer nice survivability.

The shield is awesome on my engineer. Every time I stow a kit, I get the cool animation effect. I <3 it.

I’d love it if they’d just throw in a command line switch, like they did when the POV testing was done, to force it to run like the nVidia solution for ATI. Even if it was considered an “unsupported” feature, it’d be a step up over what it is right now.

7/10 that follows the Charr naming convention nicely and I can just see you slaughtering wolves to earn it.

“Charrlock Holmes”

8/10 that’s a good solid name; I hope you’re wearing cultural armor to really look the part.

“Audrey the Second” – I love getting random tells from people quoting lines from Little Shop of Horrors, makes my day.

An eyefinity view of the the boss crawling out of the lava.

As an Eyefinity user, I love the new FoV on my triple monitor setup. Curious, is there any command like “-useOldFoV” to force the ui/map/cut scenes to render on the center monitor (like it does with nVidia multi-monitor solution)?

I had a similar issue when doing landscape eyefinity the first time. Deleting my local.dat file for the game and letting it rebuild fixed it for me.

I just setup eyefinity (love it), is there any trick to getting the centered text/etc to work on ATI (game flag, etc)? I tried deleting my Local.dat but it didn’t change anything.

I have a passive 3d monitor and while it’s great for some games, I find it a bit hard to play GW2 after a while with it. Because of the way text gets interlaced I can only run it in 3d mode for so long. Just something to be aware of. So between those two, the active 3d one(120hz) will make fonts easier on the eyes. (But for other games, I find passive 3d easier on my eyes than active glasses)

The Quaggan pirate and ghosts both got huge amounts from me.

Getting into the spirit with my mixed set of Halloween costumes.

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Crafting mats aren’t too much of a problem for me. My problem is all the food we get! Jesus! Also, a costume/hat storage would be very nice.

I’m with you there. I’m already eating up space off the 2 Halloween costumes; gonna get even worse with more holidays.

I could live without finished food storage but all the precursor crafted items for food are using up all the bag space on a storage alt.

So far I like the difference. The Clock Tower puzzle seemed to even have better camera angles as a result too which was nice.

A few of them pug dungeons with their tags turned off to check things out. You never know if that person next to you is a GM checking out what things are like from a layman’s perspective.

There is a program called SofTH ( http://www.kegetys.fi/SoftTH/ ); it does the same thing as Nvidia’s 3D Surround and AMD’s Eyefinity by allowing people to run a game spanning multiple monitors. I don’t have the money to buy a third monitor and SLI my Nvidia setup but I could afford adding a third monitor to my current setup and run SoftTH. There have been posts that running 3rd party software isn’t allowed. Is it possible to get an official response on the use of it? I’d love to play with my game running on three screens but if it would get me banned for doing so I’ll stick my single monitor game play.

Warrior named ‘Have Gun Will Gate’. Although I suspect the reference is lost on many people.

Nice of you to give this away. Here’s my /age.

Let your pet die and don’t swap out while staying in combat. After a few moments the hint will pop suggesting you swap pets. (Oddly, it didn’t check off the hint the first time I got it, so I had to do it a second time.)

Whichever you find most enjoyable will be the least painful. I found it easy from the get go; the playstyle/abilities of Mesmer just sync’d with my kind of enjoyment. Some people swear by GS or Staff (etc), try them all and see what you like. By the time you’re level 10 you should have all your weapon skills unlocked and have a feel for what you enjoy.

As for how to level quickly: craft. It’s amazing how many levels you’ll put on just off doing a crafting profession or two.

It’s been posted elsewhere but I’ll add this to the list. Illusions don’t show the World Explorer Completion (or I believe Commander) icon while the Mesmer does, allowing the real Mesmer to identified instantly.

I run this build for both PvE and WvWvW (works reasonable well for 1 on 1 and zergs). The first time I ran AC with my guildies, I found that I was often the last person alive while we were figuring out the fights (we don’t read the wiki for info, we enjoy learning it ourselves). Since then I’ve been refining my build based off the idea of not being the best at pew pewing mobs down but to be able to survive prolonged fights and bring utility to aid my group.

I typically use staff & sword/focus (or pistol for faster regen). Superior Rune of Dwayna.

The 10 points in Domination is mainly for the 15% extra illusion damage. I tried some builds without this but I felt that I killed too slow when soloing.

20 points in Dueling. Sword cooldown reduction so I can get temp immunity to damage faster. 15 points for the bleed so I can contribute to damage. 20 points for clone on dodge, really helps with surviving and keeping mobs/bosses off me.

20 points in Chaos. 10 point ability for either 50% falling damage (great for escapes in PvP, exploring, jumping puzzles) or Illusionary Defense for reduced incoming damage. 15 points for protection on regeneration (plays off my inspiration traits). Chaotic Damping for toughness and staff cooldown reduction.

15 points in Inspiration. 10 points for Medic’s Feedback so when I’m still standing I can revive allies with a little protection. 15 points to get regen and protection off my Chaos trait.

5 points in Illusions to get illusions out faster. Combined with the cooldown reductions on my weapons, this usually lets me have them out as fast as they get killed and keep mobs off me.

For abilities I run with Ether Feast. Decoy: I always keep this slotted, has saved my life more times than I can remember. Other slots vary based off what we’re fighting.

I don’t run a phantasm build but the issue that stands out for me is that you’ll be slow to spawn them. You don’t have any of the abilities that reduce weapon ability cooldowns. They stack with the 5 point illusion reduction and really help getting them out fast for burst or replacing them if they’re going down fast.

Generally I think people run GS with phantasm builds and staff for condition/utility builds, so your weapon type may hurt you some too.

I’m of the opinion that the build you find most fun/natural to play is the best build. Sure, some things might do more PEW PEW, but if you can play a build with your style than that’s what is best.

Replace Moa Morph with a signet that’s passive lets me have an extra illusion up and I’ll can live with its loss.

Moa Madness (aka Insult to Injury): When you use Moa Morph, it converts your clones to Moas that peck your target to death :p

Deceptive Explore (or Commander): Applies the World Completion Star or Commander Icon on a random clone and removes it from yourself. (Bugs me that I can be instantly identified by my golden compass on my toon)

Illusionary Weapons: Whenever an illusion is killed, it leaves behind a weapon for 20 seconds that can be picked up by allies and gives them new 1-5 abilities based off the weapon.

Phantasmal appearance: Gives the Mesmer the same visual appearance as their phantasms.

The first time I did dragon I didn’t place anything, the second time I got bronze. Every time since then, I leave clones on the dragon while beating adds and barriers and only swap to the dragon when anything else in the area is dead/destroyed, always get gold since then.

For other DE’s, I tab target through mobs and try and drop a clone on 3 different mobs and run through shatters to tag things. It’s really not bad, just have to be really active more compare to just dropping AoEs with my Necro.

I agree between World Completion Gold Star and Commander revealing Mesmers for who they really are, it makes me avoid doing things I want in game. I want both but I’m holding off on do either until I know I won’t give up the defense that this class provides.

The other day, I went after a vista in one of the Charr zones along the wall. It was a bunch of jumping and fighting to eventually get to it. While I was sitting there figuring out where I wanted to go to next, I watched a player miss the final jump and knew he was going to have to redo the whole thing. So I broke out my portal, hopped down, and ported him up. I then hung out at the vista for the next 15 minutes or so while chatting with guild mates and helped out anyone who missed the last jump. Probably helped a dozen or so players. Felt good being the nice guy.