Guild Wars 2

I know a creepy dude named Owen. I call him Ewwwwen next time I log in.

Ska Roots – I’m a reggae fan and my character is a living plant person, so…

If I come back to this thread in a day or two and we don’t have twelve days I’ll just write the whole song myself. :P

Move on with your life and celebrate Wintersday. That’s really all there is to it.

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a vista in a far away tree.

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me…
two cherry tarts
and a vista in a far away tree.

See, now if there’s a reason to be mad about ascended gear – it’s because it takes time away from that shooting gallery and the orchestra!

Can someone tell me how they get to level 80 then leave themselves with less than 3 silver? Or how it is somehow too difficult to kill a handful of things and sell 6 whites or 3 blues or 2 greens, or some combo thereof?

I mean I understand being stuck with 5g and not playing a lot, and saying “ kitten I’ll never have 200g.” I can totally see that. But not being able to afford waypoints? Do you teleport 10 times to the wrong place before hitting your destination? Even the newbiest new guys in my guild have amassed enough wealth to never sweat traveling.

I see after reading that I’m repeating some previous posts. That’s comforting, because I really was wondering if I was the crazy one. I’m not editing my post either; some things just have to be drilled into the skull.

I play the game about as much, and these forums are as bad or possibly worse than Diablo III’s forums. Congratulations.

Fractals are great, Southsun Cove has the best farming in the game, and with world completion done and my alt complex out of the way I’ve found a new love for my main; I have been making at least 20g a week for the last two weeks, had a reason to actually use the mats I’ve been hoarding (quiver), and have been doing a lot more dungeons.

I guess the difference is I play the games I have, not pine for the imaginary games that others want.

The thought is the more characters you have, the more space you need, and is probably the one part of the game where spending gems is closer to a necessity than to a frivolous desire. I’m OK with it – even in GW1 you only got more bank tabs through buying the sequels or outright buying the bank slots. That we get free mat storage up to one stack for every normal and fine material except a handful of the rare materials is reasonable.

So I agree that no, one tab is not enough space for more than one character (or even for one character). But you can still use an alt as a mule or spend coin on gems and buy tabs if you don’t want to spend real money (which I did, being the frugal person that I am).

I just wish those Xunlai chests weren’t such a psych out.

I’d have to believe they knew this would contribute to orichalcum supply. Look, it exists, now you adapt to it. Farm something more valuable for money, place lower bids on ore at the TP for your crafting needs, and be happy the Consortium doesn’t charge licensing fees for access to the Cove.

Orichalcum has been between 2s70 and 2s80 from before the Lost Shore event…

If they did Wintersday in Divinity’s Reach only I could understand that lorewise. Or make Div’s Reach decorated all over, but only a few spots in LA.

Wealth envy in real life is bad enough. Wealth envy in Tyria? lololololololol

Exactly Krookie.

Oh no, someone else has more gold than me. That was never the case before this week.

I think the fancy drakes drop them. I know I got one as a drop there, I just don’t recall where.

You think that a group doing a level 10 run want a player with level 2 experience? Not likely. I wouldn’t care if this was implemented, but outside of guild groups I doubt this would accomplish anything.

Good advice from Wiser the Age here. I would also recommend checking what other lower tier mats are currently selling for good prices. Gold and seasoned wood were selling for 40 – 50c each for a time up to a week ago – which meant one trip to Blazeridge Steppes could be incredibly profitable from just harvesting nodes. Look for those kinds of trends when you’re looking at the TP prices.

Other than that, if you haven’t done full map completion for the level 60+ zones – do them. Two exotics and a 40 stack of T5/T6 mats is worth some good coin, especially if you luck out on the exotic runes (I’m looking at you exotic Berserker Helmet with Superior Rune of Dwayna, but really there are a lot of sigils and runes worth one gold coin).

Not really sure there’s a good answer here – although I think there are more than five dungeons, and the new fractals dungeons is like a buffet table of nine separate one hour long dungeons that gets progressively harder and drops Fractal weapons at higher levels (which look cooler than many of the legendary weapons). The new loot drops of level 80 gear in level 55+ zones adds some replay value to Mt. Maelstrom, Sparkfly Fen, and similar level zones.

Personally I do WvW, Fractals, and search for jumping puzzles that I haven’t completed yet (the Mt. Maelstrom hidden glade has been a standout puzzle that I stumbled upon) with my fully geared level 80s. I tend to level alts also because I personally find it more rewarding then just killing stuff with no character development.

I’ve had better T6 drops in five hours of Sunstone Cove than anywhere else in the game. You can get powerful blood, armored scales, and the powerful venom sac there. I know some people like to farm minotaurs or trolls in Frostgorge for blood as well.

Other than that you can do whatever you do to make coin and when you go to collect your proceeds from the TP buy that much worth of your T6 mats. It will be slow progress – but it will be progress. And progress is important psychologically when going for a large ticket item.

“What I expected was something larger in scale: new pervasive mobs or mob types, a new class, a new playable race, some new utility skills, a new elite skill, permanently-changed world geometry on a larger scale than a missing lighthouse or other such game-jarring things.”

There are new mobs, new mob types, and a level 80 zone (with access to T6 mats) unlocked. Willful ignorance on your part?

You get a precursor from the chest. I get exotic pants with a crappy rune. What did I lose, exactly?

Now there are thousands more precursors out there. If you feel bad because someone has a precursor and you don’t that’s an issue on your side.

I farm with a ranger using LB/SB, but I always carry warhorn and axe too, and with two traps you have:

SB – the spread shot, fast auto attack with piercing
LB – Barrage, piercing
Traps – one to three AOE if specced for ground targeting that have 12 – 20 second cooldown
Axe – ricochet (3 targets), spread shot

Although I also play a warrior with greatsword – and the greatsword can hit multiple targets with all its attacks (except for 5).

And don’t forget how awesome you are at fighting underwater as a ranger! Hey, why are you laughing at me?

Joey.3928:

I play ranger as my main character. IF you don’t mind spending money, I’d recommend the Razer Naga mouse. I use it and it works perfectly for me.

For the pet skills I use ctrl+1,2,3,4.

I use Alt+1,2,3,4 myself – really amazing for pretty much all profession with multiple functions (shatters, attunements, toolkits, guardian things :P). I have weapon swap on 11 (the dash/minus key) also. The ability to always move and still hit your skills without removing your left hand from the movement keys is so much better than trying to hit 8 with your left index finger.

I also use shift to dodge instead of double tapping movement; C to select closest enemy (although it’s sort of wonky in what the game interprets as closest enemy, but useable); V to swim down; Alt+B for town clothes (because you can); Alt+F for sheath/draw weapon (extra RP friendly); Alt+R to switch run/walk (on sketchy vista/jumping puzzle ascents); Z to look backwards; X to turn 180 degrees. Hmmmm…. I think that covers most of my personal keybinds.

I got level 80 drops in Sparkfly yesterday, even salvaged whites for ori like I’d normally do.

And in Wayfarer Foothills I got a couple level 67 rares (not that 80 would be expected there after patch notes, just a tidbit of additional info).

Whoa whoa – hold up. Badges should be exchangeable for whiskey as well.

Chronus, thanks for the laugh.

I couldn’t even go back and finish War in Kryta after playing the GW2 BWE. Combat is too slow, and tab + space bar too prevalent (at least for PvE).

For me the GW PvP was a lot better than GW2 PvP (I’m thinking HA and GvG); but the PvE in GW2 is way better than GW.

So when are you getting your ascended chest piece?

Why would exotics not be worth it from whenever until now? Two hours of playing gets you the financial cost of an exotic armor piece. Every piece of exotic armor was max until now, will still be max for at least another month, and will be max potentially for several months (without going off into full speculation mode – think about the likelihood that there will be full ascended armor sets in December).

If you want to say crafting an exotic ring today isn’t worth it, yeah, I may agree with that (depends on what it takes to get the ascended ring with the stats you want). Everything else? Sure it was worth it. You played from whenever you crafted to now with exotics. You’re going to have time to play in that exotic gear now and in the future, and you can craft exactly the stats you want (within the game’s normal attribute combinations).

I guess you can sit on your bank account and say to yourself “man, thank the Fantabulous Sky Kitten that I have a few more gold coins in there!” I mean if that’s your thing, cool. To act like every piece of exotic gear is worthless now is a bit overboard, or that you somehow didn’t use that gear when you were playing. Exotic gear is still top tier for all the armor and half the accessories even when ascended first gets introduced.

Steelfist.5634:

I wonder if you need to have a time machine to know that if you throw something out your window it will eventually fall somewhere, or that you will be hungry in the future. There are several more examples relating the amount of information you have and the knowledge of the consequences after an action. We have ample of information regarding the one thing the OP is complaining. Anet has announced these items will have better stats.

They are effectively creating a gap with the argument of eliminating one that did not exist (at least in terms of item characteristics). I will concede that we know very little about the dungeon. And though I personally dislike this decision, I would rather wait and see how the new item mechanic works.

If it is as broadly obtainable as the several exotic gear set out there I will give it another “It’s fine”, but this only on the assurance from Anet that this new tier of items is final. Though I will not hold my breath, Anet has deviated from it’s “Manifesto” like the OP and several other comments in these forums show.

It’s funny that you’d compare a completely subjective conclusion based on something that hasn’t occurred yet to a natural law of physics. The truth is that none of us know how this will play out, and we won’t know until weeks after this weekend’s event just what impact the content will have. You are reasonable enough to acknowledge that no, we won’t know until we see it in action and that’s probably what’s driving me nuts: that nobody knows for sure but many are ready to bombard these forums with exaggeration and hyperbole.

When you have to turn to reddit for a reasonable discussion you know that something has gone horribly, terribly wrong.

So you know yet-to-be-implemented update is bad? Can I borrow your time machine?

And not a single kitten was given that day (nor a puppy).

I would like him much more if just one NPC referred to him as a pansy. Just once.

Gwen was a human mesmer hero…

Ah, I missed that. :P

Quora Sorrowmuzzle, who could use a scratch under the chin.

Good old Stormcaller! I remember the cutscene from GW.

BTW, this kind of community scavenger hunt stuff is always good fun. And I think our characters may be cousins.

You’re right Jemmi, it was just something that popped into my head while reading the thread and not really analogous. At the end of the day, however, you have to ask the same question regardless of how you got here – what happens to the value of currency when you give everyone additional currency by statute? The value of that currency goes down, the purchasing power of the currency goes down, and prices go up.

LOL, you get an achievement for doing what the NPC workers do? That’s just kittenish. I’ll echo others before me – repairing that many doors and walls is more likely a bad thing.

This reminds me of people who say the minimum wage is too low. Let’s just make the minimum wage $100 an hour! I wonder what would happen? We’d all get rich, right?

Once you figure out the path and know where you lose time from jumping too much and which angles make for the best jump, you can do it fairly regularly. It really doesn’t matter what class. Once you figure it out you can do it based on the camera, not really looking at your toon.

Has no one played Excitebike before?

Just wanted to add to the list of people who loved it. Great spontaneous chatter in the waiting room with random players, and a challenge that felt rewarding when beaten. It was hard, and frustrating at times, but that added to the thrill of victory in the end.

Replace “taking advantage of” with “filling market demand.”

As for the costume brawl, I believe it’s under Community, and it will probably be tied to future events also.

I’ll take the charr cub over the latrines/sewers/hey you asked dialogue.

Sorry, have you completely run out of useless puppy to whine about?

How could all of us lead the Pact to victory? Not that all of us being Commander makes sense either…..

Maybe if we didn’t constantly need to rez his lame puppy it wouldn’t be so bad.

Make sure you’re not wearing anything you want to transmutate. At one point in time you could be wearing an item and still transmutate it, but now you must unequip both items before proceeding.

I can say this about the level 350 area – artichokes I had from running around Straits of Desperation came in very handy…. and certain spicy steak recipe that was simple and also involved ingredients that I had a ton of already.

That’s where the mass crafting part really kicked in. I’m staring at 350 and had something I could make 20 of with no additional effort on my part.

Now that I’m at 400 I’m still going to try and find those recipes where you combine some different meals and make a scrumptious meal item, if only to mail to people for the lulz.

Yes, there are a lot of random karma vendors (mostly renown heart karma vendors) that offer produce in bulk for karma – like cherries, pears, and peaches for example. Pretty sure I got coconuts from a karma vendor somewhere also….

I just hit 400 this morning, and I’d estimate that I used discovery for 85% of my crafting leveling. The only time I’d mass craft an orange colored recipe for crafting XP was when I was close to opening a new tier of ingredients and I had the ability to craft that recipe from ingredients on hand. I had one entire bank tab dedicated to intermediary cooking items, so take that as a warning. You’re going to have a bunch of items like creamy soup base or basic poultry stock that are going to be used for multiple tiers of recipes.

The downside is that a lot of the stuff you make is crap, and I ended up just eating it (works towards a community achievement) rather than trying to TP it. Of course there is something oddly fun about making good food and mailing it to guildies which you just can’t account for in normal terms.