Guild Wars 2

Seriously, I’m used to building for current meta in games like Wow in ages past, but I’m 40 years old, was playing EQ, NN, and UO, and of course vanilla Wow, Rift, SWTOR, and then (only because) I loved the Elder Scrolls franchise, I got into ESO, and actually had a blast and enjoyed the more action-oriented, dodge/skill based combat vs strictly tab-targetting.

Anyway, I think patience with a semi-theorycrafting/meta based focus is beginning to edge away in my “old” age. I also have zero patience or desire for guilds and raids, but basically would just like to enjoy the open worlds bosses, open world content from both expansions, maybe the occasional dungeon, lower level fractals, etc. with my son, who plays as well, and I think we will have plenty to do right there.

My point is, no raids, so I’m less concerned with the current meta builds, and would just like a website with some basic, well performing builds that would more focused on versatile builds that could encompass open world and dungeons, and maybe even builds that work well when duoing with another class, such as Ele/Warr builds or Rngr/Necro builds. Wouldn’t that be cool? Ok so tall order, but maybe someone could help and old slowly decaying gamer and his boy out?

Thanks.

Nevermind, I appreciate the help, but it looks like according to this https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery you can unlock the central Tyria mastery tracks by completing Torn From the Sky, the second portion of the HoT storyline, and then earn Mastery points by completing any achievements in the game, so basically this nullifies my plan, since there is zero reason to do the main story content after boosting to 80, besides just wanting to experience it. In fact, now that we can boost any character to 80, there is zero reason for anyone to complete it, other than the pure experience of it. We can also use the trial stage to try out any profession, so there isn’t even a reason to do the main story to try a new profession either. I guess I’ll just pretend they don’t exist, or maybe I just go with the boost, and do the story for experience only and just have the mindset that it’s all for learning / experimental reasons. shrugs

I understand now that this would be central / core mastery XP vs. HoT mastery, but would I still be unlocking core masteries doing the main story content?

Also, doesn’t this whole mastery system force players into doing certain activities that they do not want to do? For example, if one abhors any sort of crafting whatsoever, one would then forfeit gaining said mastery points and permanently lose out of unlocking certain tiers, or is there always another way to gain the points? Sorry to be such a noob.

As a side question, what is the best way / source for getting caught up on the events of Living World, if you were unfortunate enough to miss LS1 and LS2?

And thanks for the feedback, it’s greatly appreciated.

-Val

Right, ok so no respec necessary, just unlocking skills, then switching whichever when you need to. I have played other MMOs while I’ve been away, each of which handle skills differently, I apologize.

So, I guess what this boils down to is this. If I boost to 80 permanently and then chose to go back and do my main story on that toon, would I still be earning enough CORE mastery XP to make it a worth while endeavor, or am I going to feel like I’m wasting my time, thus “cheapening” the experience? I don’t mind leveling up the normal way on these alts, but I will admit, it would be kind of nice to have all the specs unlocked and then be able to experiment with different setups as I go through the story/map content. And thanks for the feedback, it’s greatly appreciated.

-Val

The proposed plan of action consists of these steps:

1. Try out all professions using a level 80 trial boost.
2. Decide on favorite two and boost them.
3. Complete main story / map content with both.
4. Mastery XP gained during main story /content will unlock Mastery tiers.
5. Unlock gliding skill as soon as possible to help with travel time.
6. Experiment with different builds while completing said content.
7. Make use of cheap trait/spec respec costs along the way.
8. When it’s all said and done, I should have perfected my choices of profession, build, and overall skill with said professions.

Would you say this is a viable plan, and would one encounter any hiccups in said plan? It’s just, I have a level 80 Thief and Warrior, and figured since I’ve already done the story content twice, but would still like to experience other stories, I would do that since it should still give me Mastery XP. Or is that not the case?

Thanks,
-Val

Rore.3548:

Technology has turned you all into a bunch of lazy, whiny, spoon fed ignorant dumb kittens who want nothing more then an ‘I win’ button. Which, even if you did get it, you’d probably kitten that it was to easy, or not having anything to do after having pressed it.

LOL This made me laugh.

So all those posts you made about issues with the Mac client, those were just babyish whining too then?

Wow, to even compare these two aspects of the game is even more immature. I didn’t have “complaints” i had questions, that’s it. No where will you find me whining and moaning about anything. I don’t even use the mac client but once in a blue moon and now that it doesn’t work at all? I’m still not complaining because as I said in the Mac thread, I can just start up in windows mode. Big deal.

And to anyone who says that you should whine and complain like better business and all that and how it makes the game better, well i never said you “shouldn’t” be allowed to whine, but it doesn’t make it look anymore disgusting than it is. Personally I find one useful moan post out of 10 useless ones who are just written by people who didn’t take the time to figure things out or were lazy. Bugs? I didn’t experience one and I finished everything. Hmmm, amazing.

Yeah this thread is pathetic. It’s just a bunch of people who had some weird expectation that wasn’t met and are whining because they didn’t have fun. Personally, I had absolutely no problem progressing at all. And instructions for completing phase 1 is posted right on the main page of the website after logging in. In phase 2, the NPC led a huge group of us all around the island to complete the various stages of the event. It lasted much longer than “five minutes” and consisted of much more than just a short “boss fight”. The only people who had trouble are the ones who failed to read. Even the tooltip told you exactly who to talk to yet I saw many people constantly asking where to go, who to talk to, and if the event had started yet. Instruction was clear. I laughed my kitten off when people rushed head long off the bridge before it was built during one part of the event. That was the best part for me. Why? Because I learned long ago not to have crazy expectations of one-time events like this in MMO’s. They are what they are and appeal to some more than others. Most of the time I’ll check them out and just go back to doing what I find more fun. Right now it’s leveling a Warrior because I got bored of my 80 Thief. So do what is fun and if it’s not fun, don’t play it and ST_U. But to create post after post, complaining to Anet that you didn’t have fun is so immature and babyish it’s not even funny. Personally I find the amount of BS-ing on this forum disgusting, especially for a game people don’t even have to pay a monthly fee for. I find myself coming back to the forums less and less for this exact reason.

And on that note, i just want to say thanks Anet for giving us a great game that has aspects that can appeal to all gamer types. Glad to hear you’ll be adding more endgame PVE content as well. Now people who whine about how GW2 is just about PVP can stuff it too.

Whining is disrespect in my book and it does no good and it also makes you look like a 7 year old brat as I’m sure it does to them, especially when they’ve said over and over that they have chosen not to tell you ahead of time. Respect would be respecting that decision and shutting the H up. lol

Hell naw. What, and not have the fun of figuring out what changes we need to make to our weapons and/or traits and/or skills while trying not to miss out on the DE’s taking place? That would be no fun.

How about we learn to show some respect to the folks who brought us the game to begin with? Especially since we have no idea what it’s like on their end with all of their responsibilities? They don’t want to tell you until it comes out. Just freakin get over it and stop acting like a bunch of 7 year old brats who aren’t getting their freakin way. Oh I forgot, you probably ARE 7 years old, my fault.

I’m confused, I don’t play a Warrior yet so that’s probably why, but why all the talk of Warrior’s killshot needing to be nerfed and videos circulating showing Warriors doing like 16K-20K crits with killshot using rifle? There must be some other factor not spoken of in this thread or something I’m just missing?

Also, sometimes if your pet dies in combat and it gets healed, the pet does not begin attacking again even if you tell it to attack, just stands there. If this is already listed as a bug, I apologize.

That’s what I’m thinkin.

Dam, I sure hope they don’t nerf the killshot, i was looking forward to rolling a GC rifle warrior just for the sole purpose of plunking off all the noobs in WvW. I dunno, I think it’s just fun watching people die. It’s the only reason I PvP after all. I mean call it “cheating” wah, wah, but what other reason is there to PvP? If you don’t like it, then roll a Warrior and do the same thing. And don’t get ugly with folks for going GC, if they enjoy high risk, high reward playstyle, then that’s up to them to decide and up to you to deal with. So deal with it.

Maybe your right, but then why do you have threads like this one https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Ranger-update/first where so many Rangers (literally 12 pages of them) are complaining that they are weak, have no useful skills, and have useless pets to boot? I don’t get it. I also don’t know since my Ranger is only level 20. I have an 80 thief and wanted something that could dish out dmg at range.

Jericho.5940:

I love you guys. I enjoyed the game so so much. And yet you kept surprising players like me. It’s not even a month after the Halloween patch.

I spend over 100$ (not much) in gem store for town clothes, keys, skins and I’m so glad about having those things. I will spend more with all those awesome game content out there, constantly improving in WvW (weekly transfer, remove of the orbs), man you guys ARE listening to the community. I have the urge to spend a lot more in the gem store (just for the curtsy of the awesomeness of the game). Especially on different kind of skins (so please, add more armor / weapon skins available for purchase).

Thank you so much for putting all those great content together and making a great game! The only concern I have for the current game play is the botting issue which can be seen everywhere. But I believe it’ll go away.

:)

It won’t go “away” because they are gold farmers who live in Asia who are also professional hackers who you will see in every MMO because most game companies don’t have the money or resources to deal with all these hackers, even when they have people like you spending all your money on pointless gem store items like more town clothes. I think you might have more fun with The Sims. lol

I dunno, the more I level my Ranger and see these Warriors out in the field one-shotting mobs dead with their swords, the more I still just wanna roll a Warrior.

@Ursan, I agree, I would normally assume the patch would come out on the 16th which is the day of the first event. Unless someone saw something I did not.

I’m definitely rolling a Warrior now! lol

Not sure why all the speculation… Peters already told us the main things that would be tweaked and essentially this is all he really said:

Many signets, a shout or two, and spirits.
Improve the feel/ pacing on some weapons.

Those are the only areas he went into detail on. Not sure why some people are so confused about it. It’s already clear there will not be a major over-haul, so I would not cancel your plans to roll a Thief or a Warrior if you have them. It’s also clear there will be substantial tweaking to the areas mentioned. And if we are surprised by more than that, then great.

He did say he could not give it all away since it would be a spoiler and he did mention “significant Ranger improvements” then went into some small detail on some of those fixes. So while I don’t think it will be as major as some are hoping, I do think we will see some things fixed that have been very annoying. I’m still rolling a Warrior though.

I would imagine that’s because it’s true?

No amount of asking is going to make it come any faster. lol

Yeah, I had fun on my lvl 80 Thief for awhile, ran a rew dungeons, etc, tried a DB / condition build, then a BS / crit build, then got kind of bored with it. I found myself switching to short bow more often than not, but still seemed sort of meh. So I decided to roll a Ranger, hoping to be more of a true long range dmg class, then started reading about how lackluster the Ranger is, so I guess I’m hoping for some decent changes as well. I’d be happy if all they did was increase the dmg of the longbow and greatsword and make the pets a little more useful. It’s not that you can’t be successful playing a Ranger, some things just need tweaking. And it’s not that I wasn’t successful playing a Thief, it just seemed somewhat spammy. And you don’t have to be a “stealth” Theif either, you and be condition or rely on evades and dodging, or whatever. I personally didn’t care for the stealth builds. For some reason Thief just got old. I have a lot more fun on Ranger, but I’m only leveling. Like many have said, it’s another ball game when your’re playing end game content.

Rangers must be pansies. All I see in Ranger forum are all these posts requesting new pet animals, pet names, and other pet crap. How about actually improving on some of the major aspects of Ranger skills, Pet skills, and weapons, etc? Seems more interesting of a subject to me. LOL

The part of my personal story I was on was called “Liberation” and I went into a cave instance to liberate slaves. Upon entering I discover my dead sister is alive inside the cave being held as a slave. After defeating the all foes and opening the cell door and speaking to Logan and my sister, the last thing I was told to do was to meet Logan in his office, which I assumed would be in Divinity’s Reach. But there was no way to get OUT of the cave instance. No green sparkly thingy, nothing. So I chose to simply leave the story mode and it put me back in Kessex Hills. I could no longer see the “Liberation” green sparkly thingy that previously allowed me to enter the cave instance (although it still showed on the world map) and I see no other green sparkly thingy anywhere at all on the map. I simply cannot advance. I’m assuming this is a bug.

Yeah, so back to the topic, the only reason I care about the Mac client is so I don’t have to restart into Windows, so I’m certainly not on the same level of desperation as some people in this forum are, but diabluz, have you looked into installing Bootcamp? You can do so from your Bootcamp utility app and all you need is your own Windows installation disk. You can install Windows 7 or XP or whatever. Here’s a how to on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2JbvkdcfVY Personally, I’d rather spend the money on a copy of Windows than wait for a native Mac client. For those of you on a Mac Book, you can still do this if you don’t have a secondary HD by simply partitioning off part of your HD for Windows.

Me too, same “serious error” yet no response yet from Arena. I’m hoping they will give us an official word on it soon. I can restart into Windows XP and play just fine, but that would be too much work during the day when I’m playing GW2 at the same time. Hmph.

And your response to him Todd, was also useless. He has the right to ask whatever question he wants to Arena. You also don’t know what his situation is. It could be that he is having trouble with the cider version (as many currently are, including myself) and feels that a native version would work much better with better performance (both of which are true). And why should the fact that he asked this question even cause you to post a pointless reply on this thread in the first place? What difference does it make to you?

I get the “A serious error has occurred…” thing before I even get to the character select screen. Nothing just quits. Any official word on this yet?

I’m on a high end mac myself and get the same exact error. I can’t get to the character screen at all, just the same error. Any updates Arena on when this will be fixed? I know it was the update that did it because I logged into the game and played fine before the most recent update. Could we get an official response on this? Even if it’s only to say “we are working on it” ?