Guild Wars 2

I am confused why this is the case. not only is it the most difficult and expensive to level, then you need 300 scraps per day (about 7g a day!). Also it is the most in demand too, so the price is pushed up from that.

You can buy leather for almost vendor cost, and metals are easily farmable everywhere for all tiers. not to mention weapons and jewelry salvage into metals. Once you hit lvl 80 farming lower level cloth in a huge pain in the kitten .

I just do not understand why… if anything the other professions should be 3x the mat costs of tailoring.

Sad story: My elementalist has been sitting dormant on my account since it hit 80 about a year ago. So I decided to make a dedicated world boss character that would take advantage of the condi damage changes, to use power and condition damage together, and have no crit. I also would like to do some support / healing as world bosses do tend to chunk some HP off

My idea was to run carrion gear and staff. I made a little build but I would really like some advice from people who play ele, I am clueless, just taking what sounds good. I would use mainly cantrips as my slot skills and healing skill, and conjure greatsword for elite.

build: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-o;4BJ-V0z47NkY0;9;4210;0138158257;40O1;3jxqQjxqQIsk71;62V6WBXGYL3S4A7-1V-7-6Rk06RA

Im not really sure about sigils and runes, but I would rather use cheap ones I went for balthazar and corruption / malice

I would really like some help and suggestions.

Is carrion gear good or maybe I should just go pvt and forget condis?

Is healing power a viable stat to use in new patch for this kind of build? I wouldnt mind going more support focused If there is a good build around it

Any suggestions on useful slot skills for world bosses?

Any suggestions for runes / sigils?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Biggyboy.7105:

Every second you spend playing [a multiplayer game] is a second you are spending doing unpaid voluntary work to support it.

my god

the entitlement is so strong if you believe this.

I guess arenanet should start paying us to play the game now.

yes the expansion is expensive and some mistakes have been made, but the complaints here about having to ‘buy the base game again’ are just ridiculous. People are so upset that somebody else gets a better deal than them.

you are buying an expansion, you will get an expansion, what a new player gets is irrelevant.

grow up seriously, Anet is a business trying to make money. They are trying to grow the playerbase. You already got 3 years worth of content and updates for the price of one boxed game.

i was being sarcastic about free legendaries of course.

What does it matter what a new player gets? you are buying the expansion, you are getting the expansion.

I already said the cost was pricey in the OP, my point was that you are not paying for the base game, its just a bonus for new players.

as for being mindful of my money, I still believe GW2 is good value for money in the long term. And I hardly buy any games at full price, the only recent game i paid the launch price was WoD and city skylines, the rest I get from bundles and in sales.

I bought WoD and 6 months gametime because my friend convinced me to try WoW again. That really was a waste of money. I dont feel that way about GW2.

Jordo.5913:

LOLOL

so you want him to start fresh with HoT? you mean, not take all the characters with hundreds and hundreds of hours upon into the Magumma Jungle?

he said he should get a free account, I was just pointing out that he can. Sure its an empty account but guess what? so are the free accounts for new players. They have to start fresh too. Or maybe they should get free level 80s and free legendaries, since some players seem to think everything should be free.

If its too much, don’t buy it. Nobody is forcing you to. I’m pretty sure you can stay viable in existing pve, pvp and wvw with the basic traitlines.

MashMash.1645:

But what am I getting for “Free” – NOTHING.

What makes you think you you are entitled to anything for “Free”?

And Zoul, you can get an extra account, just make a new account and you get the base game for free. You will have one new account with HOT, and your old account without. If that is what you really want, you can have it.

Amazed at how many people are outraged they ‘have to buy the base game again’. You are not. It is being bundled in for free for the new players. (unless you want some free gems maybe, then you actually do have to buy the base game again as I understand it)

Yes its a pricey expansion.
Yes the wiki telling players they would need to buy the base game to play HOT is a pretty bad blunder.
Yes, offering the ultimate edition only to new accounts is a bit weird, and bound to annoy a few people I’m sure.

However do you not feel you got your money’s worth with the original purchase? I dont even play that much and its been amazing value from where I am standing.

HOT may not have the kind of content on release that the base game did, but you will also get 2+ years of living story updates, and all the other work that goes into the game. Do you expect so much for 20-30 bucks?

A little comparison to the industry leader World of Warcraft.

Players of Mists of Pandaria played one raid, Siege of Orgrimmar for a total of 429 days according to this chart: http://imgur.com/w0deu0t . In the entire expansion there was only 2 content patches. Cataclysm was similar. 429 days of sub to WoW costs about $215, and they bought the boxed expansion too.

Many other comparisons could be made to games that cost the same at launch and have only 4-8 hours of gameplay and you are done.

However Anet have made mistakes with this announcement in my opinion, especially stating on the wiki that it would not be a standalone. I can truly imagine some new players feeling extremely cheated on that count.

wait so you cant buy the ultimate edition if you already have an account? Thats pretty weird. Isnt that just throwing money away? a percentage of old players would have bought that.

there needs to be some solution, and to me it is adding a map to personal arenas that is a huge open space and accepts a larger amount of players.

anet would also make some money from gems spent on these arenas. Every wvw guild I have been in owns one and only use it for occasional dueling.