Guild Wars 2

I don’t think I can resurrect anything in me to celebrate these new murmurs.

No one could be more supportive of Anet than I am…and devoted, with zillions of hours in GW1 and GW2.

I can’t talk about my experiences with the Mystic Forge…too painful. I’m not obsessed with legendaries, but I’m willing to work stupendously hard at insanely difficult adventures and misadventures to get something cool to hang up in my home instance. Oh wait, we can’t do that yet.

But I will never buy one on the TP, nor can I fathom how it is assigned to pure luck and then horrific grinding. So not what we were told in the months leading up to release. Shame, shame.

Nor how dull it is when grp after grp experience ends with, “Oh, 2 blues and an acct. bound minor upgrade. Again.” Or that someone in the group is actually delirious over getting a rare. Exotics don’t even enter the conversation. Actually, people get energized over a green, which is sad. It’s almost like greens are set to yellow rarity, yellow is set to exotic rarity, exotic is set to “yeah right” and I’m not talking about pre-cursors ever again.

I used to believe. I want to believe. I still play zillions of hours. I don’t worship shinies. But for god’s sakes, could we sometimes get some? From being awesome players, though. Not through blind luck, using real world money or grind. You promised! Many times!

A staff mesmer can make large money solo farming mats on any map. I have a small army at my disposal, the ability to disappear or teleport if it gets too hot. Orr, Southsun, Frostgorge on a regular rotation for orichalcum, woods, and occasional good drops.

Laniluna.9017:

The other day I was thinking about rolling a second mesmer for my main alt… 8D
(Other professions aren’t nearly as fun to play!)

Um holy cow, so true. I really have tried the others, but I am clearly a career mesmer.

Confession? I rarely switch from my staff in pve, except to my gs specced to kill karkas as a weapon switch when all illusions and bubbles are up. Oh and I am completely addicted to generating exotics from the Mystic Forge. It’s pretty bad. What’s sicker is that I never sell them.

Phase retreat is still very bugged, though perhaps very slightly less so. I’ve contacted Anet dozens of times about it, with screenshots, to no avail. It seems to happen when you are in a border zone, that is between land and water, the line separating horizontal and vertical features, etc. A major problem when loot is staring at you from afar, or enemies can still get to you. Occasionally you can phase back if you line it up somehow, but you have to have a targeted enemy.