Guild Wars 2

Quality of life tip: use booster to make an 80. Do the first story in HoT. It will allow you to unlock gliding in core tyria. You will need to raise xp bar and have enough points to unlock but once done it will change your experience. It will take a lot to max it out out.

You can now level however you like.

You had me at custom swimwear

Golems v Golems.

Moments before teq went down, post disabled traits, pug map organised by LABRSS and our friends.

Many have fought with us. We haven’t always been successful post double hp, but we’re always there to give it our best shot. We try to make it fun and positive. We appreciate those who are willing to put the effort in to help us out on our maps. I understand that although specific guilds exist for these large coordinated world bosses, not everyone can go to their maps, even their own members.

All our commanders aren’t from the same guild. But in speaking for myself, I am proud of what we have done and can continue to do, a true reflection of the community. If you also have a same mindset, we welcome you too to fight alongside us.

moments before our kill. want to thank our map, we were all there to kill teq, we didnt have any negatives. me and Legendary Air Bender really wanted to give it a real shot to see how it was. i tried power/prec food as well, just the cheaper option. some in map were getting reliable crits. it was steak and asparagus, cos feast of truffle steak was a little pricey.
chaining burns is harder but i think definitely not impossible. we will see if there is any tweaks by anet . and grt job to those who have done it with a lot of time still left.

This is sad to hear. I am hopeful teq will be rebalanced to become again a defeatable boss given a coordinated effort. Do we know of turrets are reliably critting?

If you have fought with me before, LABRSS server hopes to once again organise fun and coordinated teq kills.

As far as portals go, many players, including myself choose to do jps with our mesmers. I drop safety ports in case I fall. I am also happy to help others with a friendly port. Now I think anet has done some get things and perhaps the newer jps, especially the challenging ones should include certain mechanics.

Checkpoint system
Better rewards for completion with condition like time or no ports.
Collecting like keys or orbs etc
Transformation, so we have new set of skills like GM rush, cannot use personal skills like savage leap or portal entre

I fully envision anet will include jps into the Adventures and the associated leaderboards. Maybe speak to NPC to start it, and we can choose our level of difficulty.

This way it can be rewarding, challenging, recognition and friendly competition.

To give us some content. Bring back some old favorites. Lore: well some don’t care but could be that the Mists are breaking thru, due to dome instability with interaction from waypoints/leylines/mists. Chronomancers. Whatever. I mean we still dont have clue about Dessa. Could be a tie in, doesnt matter. Anyways that gives us the opportunity for old events coming back.

Crown Pav both versions
SAB don’t need anything new if not built, give is old ones
Marionette, Ancient karka these can be put onto the boss rotation timers for the month/week
LA Invasions and rescue
The Scarlet knights and breachmaker events

This mist instability could also be back door to revenant appearance into timeline pre/post zhaitan.

Larp/foam replicas of Legendary or the awesome wep skins. Can ask community for which ones eg Volcanus.
GW2 themed Monopoly/Risk etc play as an elder dragon
Costume hoodies; see ThinkGeek and other sites
Plushy 3 pack: Claw, Shats, Tea
TT jungle wurm gummies, giant size or bag of mini gummies a la Josh
Book of bad salad jokes
Evon or Kiel buttons/pins
Model of Zephyr Sanctum
Art book celebrating the great community ie cosplay, culinary cosplay, fanart, community events in game or irl

Aaaaaand… expansion packs for Cards against Humanity, cos why not.

I have a naga mmo mouse. I just personally like having more buttons. But my scroll wheel has buttons for pushing left and right. So I assign left to wep swap and right to run. This has worked for me.

Thought you meant the Bear Rush for guild missions. That’s kinda a baby Kodan Bear race right? Otherwise they should allow all tonics to be combat tonics like Watchknight.

So your character has the Map Complete star next to their name? This is a visual clue that it has done it and the strongest evidence. Your map info may also say 100% for Tyria or perhaps 99%. The 99% only means you are missing new poi etc added after you left game but does not change your star. If so that means at one stage you acquired the Gift of Exploration. But maybe Anet cannot now verify whether it has been used in recipe etc and that is the reason.

Also gift is account bound so cannot be sold. Would love to be able to sell my remaining 9 gifts, so possibly destroyed.

If you are completing it in another character, you only need to do pve maps not including the two new maps.

As one NPC pointed out in pre destruction dialogue :“Ex-pirates, but I get your meaning. Commerce beats combat.”

They gave up their piratical pursuits in favor of commerce, but many things point to their heritage. Like the Captain’s Council, Commodore, architecture.

I believe we can send msg across NA/EU time vortex. Will do when I get home

Yeah I would have suggested selling Sunrise and Twilight separately. I sold Twilight to buy Eternity not long after the fx buff. I know you might not be getting much sympathy from the responses, but like you said, it’s just pixels. You didn’t spend real world money. It’s just game time. In life and game we make decision, good or bad and deal with the outcomes. We sometimes get too invested too. If these things make you rage quit, I suggest taking the time away from game to work on some life skills. Approach things differently, respond in a more healthy way, in game and out. Its all just 1s and 0s.

My method is to come up the other way. From the piece that points towards the lanes. That way you are already facing the upright gear. Dun always jump too far. Jump mostly up and a little forward. This trick will help you on many JPs esp ones with small landing areas. The collision point/hit box you will figure out, if you know what I mean. Like sometimes you are floating close to the object, but in actual fact you have landed on the edge.

Remember, the obvious way is sometimes obviously wrong

All the posters give great info. Levelling is relatively fast and simple. Since you are not on a new account, you may have access to account xp x%, maybe xp boosters, birthday etc. You had the 20 lvl scroll. I think tomes drop in PvP, and SW if I am not mistaken.

As a “vet” you already know about Eotm/wvw. I would never advise a new player to go into eotm, but it is a place for us vets to level. Wvw or eotm may not be working out for you for leveling, but that’s not their intended purpose, it just became that way, especially eotm. I say, too bad. Your expectation to level rapidly really depends on what you have access to and what content you are doing. But like I said, lots of great responses for you in the thread.

Really? For those posters who insist that since we are playing a fantasy game, that it cannot borrow from real life? Devs are also students of history, culture, tactics etc and the way content and encounters cannot be fully removed from real life, past and present.
As players we get a sense of realism because we do look at the game thru the lens of real world knowledge. That being the case, we learn about the game world rules as they are presented. But sometimes they need to take shortcuts, even with their own established rules. And we as players will decide if they get a pass or not.
As far as the locals of the jungle are concerned, it really depends in how they want to being about the story/lore. We are outsiders, that may be enough for us to get the initial cold shoulder. As far as I know, friendly fire doesn’t exist for the most part in the game which makes sense. One exception I know of is the trolly whisky, inflicting burning on your party members in Arah.

As far as Treahearne is concerned, his decision to commit the pact to the final encounter seemed foolhardy, maybe rushed compared our research for zhaitan, but i assume the story had to bring us there. There’s no tension if we have a large force that can roll thru and defeat everything. Mordy’s attack on the forward base and subsequent destruction of the pact fleet puts tyria and us, the player character on the back foot, and we gotta go back to what we do best. Challenge and unite a new force to defeat Mordy.

As far as the airships are concerned. They really are more akin to naval ships. Treahearn thought he had air superiority or even supremacy, but greatly miscalculated. It could gave been a strategic play by mordy. Feign weakness. Provoke an attack. And witness the power of a fully operational Mordy. Those vines must have been moving at hundred/s of feet per second. The fleet couldn’t stand firepower of that magnitude.

I emote welcomingly in your general direction, returning adventurer. Urgh, add you can see I an a terrible RPer. Welcome back.

I can confirm. Definitely notice it in svanir. In wayfarer foothills, dredgehaunt, so might be only affecting them. Which is totally weird. Kinda thought it might be related to taunt bugging out some enemy ai.

The item will have similar features to others.

Costume brawl item: the aviator cap. not sure if this is already a costume brawl item. Anyway, the cap will turn you into Airplane mode. The difference is you will be more horizontal with feet off the floor. Maybe have effects like the riding broom.
Skills can include dam buster etc.

Secondary mode. Like the How to dance, you can invite 1 person to mount you… OK maybe Pilot you. This mode should be twice as high as the carpet or broom. Secondary skills will be gunner type like Barrage for the pilot, and strafe for the airplane mode guy.

The broom and carpet should also have these secondary skills and pilots. Then we can have aerial battles for costume brawl.

Anyway. It was a just for fun thought.

Hey there. Welcome to the game. I will see if you guys are on during my play time (oceanic) but our guild, mainly NA is filled with players from all over.

I have done Victory or Death 9 times, once each on my 8 characters and once to help a friend. It is a long instance, with many boring lulls or lols. It is still buggy as heck, so i hope they will fix things. Like being knocked down thru the airship and falling all the way down to map and death. Buggy interaction with cannons, sometimes you are stuck in falling animation when using it. I don’t know if they change is just to scaling for solo and more party members or a revamp so that its more like the LS instances, shorter duration, challenging for solo, but welcome to party up too. If nothing really changes as far as the current instance is, soloing would probably be super UN-fun

What fowl deeds are you undertaking?

If you step outside LA into Blood tide, just off to the right is a grp of raptors. I can think of more when I get home

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/28/guild-wars-2s-first-birthday-by-the-numbers/
Sorry if I made gross generalisation, but these were the 1st year numbers. I assume the % spread still holds true going into their 3rd year. Happy to be wrong

Asura : Outnumbered/Determined to survive
Charr : Outnumbered/Determined to survive
Norn : Outnumbered/ Determined to survive
Sylvari : Outnumbered/Determined to survive
Human : Queues for daysssssss

i love jumping puzzles but i am also someone who will get nauseated after spending too much time in SAB. but sorry OP, seriously, for map completion we are talking about those vistas that are at the end of jumping puzzles : Vizier’s Tower, Wall Breach. 2 jps if i am not mistaken. the one in wvw can be tricky but its not a jp. if you also count tricky jumps them the list may expand based on skill level and what you may find hard. if you need help, there is always someone who will help you or port you. to give my early noob example, the vista in Caledon SW of Stormwreck deeps, on a little island. that one took me 2 days to do. first day i gave up after over an hr. logged in next day, took me another 30 mins. but i did it. since then i have done all jps and help to port players and friends who are also jp challenged. some at least make you think the first time thru about how to best do it. jps arent hard. you just have to get better, and you will.
Dry Top and SW do not count towards map completion, so i expect the tricky stuff introduced in HoT wont count. The new wvw map, i am leaning towards it counting, but i plan to get all my alts to 100% before then.
but seriously, which ones are you really having trouble with for your map complete???

Looks like Radiant gloves. It is an achievement reward.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Radiant_Vambraces_Skin

Teq has become super easy now. The challenge was there in the beginning and required quite a bit of coordination. Nowadays most are familiar with the strategies. The Triple Wurm is not kittence you understand the various elements. I have led and been involved in many kills. I have also been in many failed, fully organised attempts. What makes the Wurm hard is that the in game tools falls short of the coordination necessary. Decap is easy, triple decap using in game tools to push for phase 2… I dunno if a pug map had managed it, but I bow to you if you have. So voice comms seems an essential part of wurm kill.
Tldr. Find a server, guild, alliance etc. those that do will have times of their raids. Come (super) early, join their voice comms. If you new, speak up. They are happy to teach. Otherwise check a guide. Bring a build or class that is useful, like reflector or condi. You can get on a team, which usually guarantees a taxi if they switch maps.
Good luck

Am I mistaken. In some frames, I see Pop nameplate showing level 81

Wait till you get to victory or death story mode. Riddled with bugs since launch. Classics like being knocked under map, falling animation kicking in during interact with cannons. Finally taken my 8th and final alt thru a few days ago. Will probably take my Revenant thru as well if it starts like any other character, but there’s another issue. I will kill Zhaitan as a class that doesn’t appear in Tyria until Rytlock goes into the Mists post Zhaitan/Scarlet. Colin said Rytlock will return to us as the first Revenant.

I have done majority of AP solo. Being in a guild doesn’t necessarily mean getting AP easier/faster. You can always ask in map/say/guild chat : how to…, I need help with…, and you would usually get a positive response and maybe some that will help. An example. A guildie asked about how to get AP since he needed about 100 for his next AP chest. He got some responses. I said JPs. He said he hatred JPs. So I jumped on my mes, took him to like 9 and bam.

But here’s some examples of AP that can be soloed or grouped.

Look at what is on, ie festivals and current LS always had a bunch. Always lots of guides out there if you get stuck.
Go do past LS, tons of AP, rewards are meh mostly but have ascended.
Look at Weapon and Slayer cheeves. Combine them.
JPs, explorer, dive goggles.
Crafting : can be harder if gold is an issue
Dungeons. Helped quite a few get their Dungeon Master. Try gold guild/lfg.
fractals : same as dungeons, lfg. Maybe say I want this or that cheeve. Setting own lfg means party members should be on same goals or will help. (Not always tho)
Collections. Some are only for end game collectors with lots of gold or completionists. But most are achievable.
That’s all I can think of (in my lunch break)

O and welcome back if you are returning player, welcome to your friends if they are new. Those of us who aren’t blinded by the hype train, but still want GW2 to be successful are cautiously optimistic for many fixes to long known issues. At least the acquisition of traits will be overhauled, current system dropped in favor of something else for HoT. There is still lots to love, and hopefully much more to come.

Yeah, this has been around for a long time now… see My Greatest fear plotline post and others referring to the mess that is the last chunk of personal story being all messed up. May not be fixed, or may be for cohesion in HoT.

I know I had to spam close to 200 for bloodstone from miyani a few times. Can’t recall anyone saying “stahp!!!”. Maybe a fix is Right click Use: slider for how many.

Crash a world boss you say… Hmmm. Minions of Mordremoth, assemble

Underwater combat overhaul confirmed

Don’t skip leg day

I am super pumped to try out the Revenant. Extra happy too with the change to Trait system incoming.
So here’s my thought. The Revenant is coming as a new playable class because Rytlock went into the Mists etc. When we all get our hands on HoT and create our Revenants, will they be starting in current instances? Hero of Shaemoor? Progressing thru to kill Zhaitan etc? You see what I mean right. This new class is a result of post PS/ Zhaitan, post Scarlet and destruction of LA etc.

So what will make more sense? How will anet deal with it? I won’t assume we will get the Revenant at 80 at launch of xpac. But progressing thru the Personal Story also doesn’t make sense. If HoT will include zones for 1-80 (unlikely) and Revenant starts in Maguuma. Maybe we will get Personal Story update?

Any possible solutions? What do you guys think?

I love flying with Captain Merforga because he always gets me into the upright position! The new tequatl fight is great and we look forward to more like it in Tyria. It has indeed, all things considered, led to a greater sense of community, for those who wish to contribute. I am very glad i found TTS.

love an invite too pls. thx

(apologies for the typo and errors. i made my text box bigger and couldn’t resize so couldn’t see some sentences ending)

hey guys, first post ever, i have an interest in this topic and came across eviator’s post about guild organisaon and titanlectro and lightsbane and others sharing their thoughts.
saria is indeed a great commander and obviously is passionate about Gate of Madness.

ferrum’s comments about a governing body determining the fate of the server can be misconstrued but i am sure it just means better communication and making the server better as a whole i commend what you guys are doing.

i think a meeting of commanders/guild leaders or their reps is great and it can foster many great benefits.
we can get a pulse of how the players are feeling and how they are enjoying the game esp in relationto wvw.

let me know if i can help in any way.

we are a smallish guild and some of us love wvw, and i am currently helping to level some new players and they get a handle on the game. for the new players which i have taken out into wvw, they had a blast.

stepping out into wvw on your own can be pretty daunting, not knowing exactly what is going on.

my hope is to build up a nice force of guildies who like to wvw and we can come thru and be lia great little tactical unit to command etc.

i agree with styx and titanlectro. players will find different aspects of the game fun, especially the pve’rs.

my plan is to introduce them to the wvw enviroment, show them the ropes (what little i know) etc and the idea is to have fun overall. maybe a Map chat that goes something like – hi some of us are going into wvw, come out with us if you haven’t already , join our vent or teamspeak etc, we’ll team you up, you’ll have a blast etc.

will be doing this soon. will do that with fractals as well. like – hey, new to fractals, come in withus, you’ll have a fun time. creating and being part of a fun and vibrant community/guild/server is important to me.