Guild Wars 2

Lemme translate this thread for you guys

“I wish Anet had done this earlier so I didn’t have to waste 1000 ectos to make 4 fractal backpieces glow. Other people need only 250 ectos and charges.”

Or maybe

“They don’t deserve that backpiece as much as I do because I grinded them out.”

You care too much about what other people has.

Creator’s fault. He made earth round.
And orbits the sun.

I’ve once ran dungeon with a pug with tag.

A longbow ranger.
In a dungeon.
With a tag.

Dungeons bring out the worst in people. I’ve seen all sorts of people ever since I started dungeons. Probably losers with low paying jobs and no social life.

While I do symphatize your grievance, I agree with Psybunny that we just have to deal with it and pray hard we will never run into these a**holes again.

If you want revenge, run with them on an alt again. Start the dungeon yourself and let them have a taste of their own medicine.

But remember, being an a**hole is not a talent. It is a choice. You are not them you can be much more.

Style

Armor sets are worth it. For $10, I get some sweet looking armor. Personally I don’t feel the one time use a large problem since it is very unlikely I need multiple copies. If I do, I don’t mind paying another $10. It will be cool tho if these armor skin pieces can be MFed. Sometimes we don’t use every piece and perhaps 4 leftover pieces can be forged into a random armor piece skin.

Single armor piece skins, backpack skins, weapon skins. Some of these items are a hit while some are just meh. Price wise, I am rather comfortable with it. $6 for a quiver is totally cool for me, but eyepatch…maybe not.

Town clothes are underrated. Although I feel they are a little costly, I love them and will buy them if they are cool. Like for the pirate outfit, the cannon skill is awesome! When are we getting wedding gowns?

Special

Most of these items are worthless to me.
Mystic forge stone ($3 apiece?!), revive orb, normal transmutation crystal, dye pack etc. I wonder who buy these.

Metabolic primer might be the only thing that is worthy. And it is cheap. $1.50 for a 12 hours effect.

Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic is useful but a little expensive. Still, something that you buy and enjoy, and forget the $10 you paid. WvW zergs gotta love this.

Transmutation Crystal are almost essential to vain players. The price is fine too.

Transmutation Splitter. Important for transferring of soulbound items to another toon. For $3, you’d better transferring legendaries. Actually you need a transmutation crystal ($2.50) as well so a transfer cost $5.50. Worth it? Hell yea.

Black Lion Salvage Kit. Most of us get these from BL chests I bet. We don’t use it often only when retrieving expensive runes or salvaging exotics. It is rather cheap for 25 charges.

BL keys are subjective. Espcially the contents changes, buff/nerfs frequently. Love it or hate it, face it. Most of your transmutation crystals, BL salvage kits and booster comes from these.
P.S is there really a need for BL chests in the game???

Upgrade Extractor. Very important item for very expensive upgrades. It all comes down to how much gold $3 is worth. For now, not many upgrades are worth it. I’d rather turn the $3 into gold and use it to buy the upgrade.

Black Lion Introductory Package - $20. NO. MEANS. NO.

Services

Instant Repair Canister, Merchant Express, Bank Access Express,Trading Post Express. Okay these are not expensive…but I don’t really use them. Like I stock a ton of these for FREE from dailies and BL chests and even so I don’t use them.

Banker Golem (2 weeks). Fair price. $6.25 unlimited easy access of bank for 2 weeks is actually a ton of convenience for those who rain loots. Personally, I don’t rain loots and I’ve got more than enough bag slots. I don’t hardcore farm either so there is no need for me to stay at a place for hours without getting to a bank.

Custom Arena Starter Kit. Share it with a group of friends and it will cost you less than your breakfast. Almost essential for hardcore pvp groups. (Oh c’mon share it with 5 guys and it will cost like $4/person for a month!) Custom Arena Time Token add 5 more days for $2.

Self-Style Hair Kit/ Total Makeover Kit. Worth keeping a few at hand. New gem exclusive hair are added once in a blue moon so why not. It is a little pricey but just like the real world, looks are pricey.

Unlimited Harvest tools. Okay..these ARE expensive. Yea sure unlimited charges sounds good. BUT it is 1k gems here we are talking about. Even if you run all ori ores in the world in a single toon everyday, it will take you a LOOOOOONG time to use up 1k gems worth of pick. If it is convenience we are talking about, tool merchants are really easy to find. Watchwork Mining Pick was the only one I bought since it gives me watchwork sprockets.

Name Change Contract is expensive but I feel quite justified. Teaches us to think hard before we decide on dumb names. I keep one at hand to check for name availability.

The most sensible thing would be the skin can be purchased and applied normally as we can now i.e double click the skin item mailed to you to apply.
After that it will be in the wardrobe for you to apply on other armor using charges.

Do you think switching from fire attunement to lightning attunement is the same as switching from staff to D/D?

No it is not the same. No weapon switching is a handicap.
We have to plan beforehand what kind of fights we are facing and switch accordingly.

Of course eles are powerful classes and allowing weapon switching makes them OP. I am not asking for weapons switching, but please do consider this when nerfing eles.

We have to plan more, and press alot more buttons to achieve results other classes can do so with ease.

You cannot sell lower than the highest offered price.

If someone wanna offer 1s for your shredded rag, you can’t go sell it at 50 copper. That rag will automatically be sold to the highest offer and you get your silver.

Both are awesome.

But mesmers without Runes of Traveller are awful at exploration due to movement speed.

umbrablackfell.7849:

Alright, I’m done. I guess I’m the only one seeing this new system as a disguised cash grab.

I’ll just go back to wearing trash looking armor until from lvl 1-79.

No one is disputing that fact that it is a way for Anet to earn more money. I don’t even think it is disguised, anyone with half a brain can tell.

It IS beneficial for us too.
Why do players have to jump at every move Anet makes to make more money?

“Anet only cares about money.”
“Gem sales is all they want.”

Guys, just because you have nothing to do but playing games at home doesn’t mean these people has got nothing to do but make games for you.

NCSoft is not a name of a guy with no life hiding in a basement making games. It is kitteng NCSoft Corporation.
It has an office.
It has a board.
It has employees.

Yes just like the one your dad or mom goes to work for every morning to pay for your school fees and useless game stuff.

Boosts

All boosters are a waste of $$$. I don’t think Anet is stupid but I still don’t know why they put them on sale. Oh well, I am not complaning. Just don’t buy them.
The only reason why anyone uses the boosters is because they dropped from BL chests and are now taking up a bank slot.

Toys

These are subjective.
Personally I feel they are rather expensive. Especially the musical items. $10 ohmygawd.
Still, when I am bored, I do stupid things with money (like I do in shopping malls.)

I don’t understand minis. They are a completionist trap. Why the hell you need so many minis for?!? Barely anyone notices them if you carry one around, and for sure no one cares if your bank tabs look complete or not. Not for that price.
Quaggan minis are different tho. Because quaggans

Upgrades

Digital Deluxe Upgrade. $25 for bunch of useless stuff. You get a dumb mini a useless skill to show people you bought it.
Or $25 for a nice dinner with girlfriend. I’m having a hard time choosing.

Basic Ore Node Pack. $10. 3 copper, 3 silver and 3 gold ores everyday. A very easy way to get your daily gathering achievement. OR, you can find the nearest rich ore. This is very useful if you’ve mined all the copper, silver and gold ore in the entire world and somehow need 3 more of each.

Finishers are dumb. In Wvw, no one knows your name. And at $8 apiece, I don’t see why I wanna put a cow on you and run off.

Okay the better part of Upgrades section.

Character slots. At $10 a character I feel it is totally worth it. Most of us will NEED a few.

Bank tab and collection expander. Okay these are almost essential. BUT VERY EXPENSIVE. Yes it might look cheap at first. But it adds up.

11 bank tabs – $82.50
5 collection expanders $50
Total it is $132.50

Is it worth it? Well…yes if you are playing the game long term. These are permanent and it is very hard to play the game with only 30 bank slots.
Personally, as an artist myself, I know these work needs to be paid in dollars and cents. I take it I’ve paid my year of subscription and the rest of my life too. But if possible, wait for a discount.

P.S By the way there is really not many reasons to get collections expander since you hardly fill up 1.5k items except for a few you farm regularly like ori ores/ancient wood, bloodstone dusts/dragonite ores etc. I use them up or sell them the moment they fill up.
For market flippers, yes they gonna need them. Many hold a few thousands ectos on hand and other random stuff.

Bag slots. $5 a slot/ $15 a toon max.
I say while it is not expensive (kinda worth it) it is not neccessary for most people. Maybe on their main and that is it. I got it on 3 toons and I barely fill up except my main.
Also, it will be great if bag slots are account bound. If I want to delete a toon that I expanded bag slots on, I will love to be able to transfer them to a new one.
Or maybe pay some gems to recover bag slots from a toon.

In PVE, go full damage i.e. zerker.

In WvW vitality is more important IMO.

PVP, well armors stats are free to change so no worries.

Foosnark.1784:

I’d argue that dagger/focus is better than dagger/dagger. Dagger/dagger gets more points for style though.

My rule of the game: If it looks cool, make it work!

Simple stuff
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Consider these two situations.

1. You are shopping for fruits and someone tries to sell you a hairdryer. He is telling you one day you will need one and he has the best one right there.

2. You need a hairdryer. So you went online did some research on finding a good one and purchased it.

Which one do you prefer?

Go play your elementalist, however way you want to. It is a fun class and don’t let just listen to my statement. Let the game prove it to you.

Stay in one attunement, and even if you are the only one in the world who does that, so be it. It is your toon. Why the !@#$% care about other’s opinion? Because you fear your elementalist will fail?

When you decide your elementalist is somewhat lacking in an area, go find out why. Experiment, online research, whatever.

Slightly more technical stuff
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If you are wondering if it is possible, yes it is.
I leveled mine using 3 attunements Fire, Lightning and Earth.
3 attunements because I get bored not because I had to.
So when I got bored of seeing fire, I changed to lightning for flashy stuff. I stayed in an attunement for hours before I got bored again. If you won’t get bored, feel free to stay in fire all the way.

The technical stuff, and something you might not like to hear
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That was when I was leveling on PVE map. I do dungeons all day round and things are different.

Elementalist is a very powerful and versatile class. Without full use of blah blah blah yada yada…refer to 100 other posts above.

Fact: You will never be as good as other elementalists. Not a problem unless you are working towards world ranking #1 elementalist and there is a Nobel Award for that.

Now for something you might be glad to hear and try.
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Stick to fire.
Use tweak your build/play style to keep yourself alive.
When you don’t drop like a fly in dungeon, no one will notice if your playstyle. This way you are still welcomed in dungeon runs.

Get a girlfriend.
Get married if you already have a girlfriend.
Have a kid if you already have a wife.
Bring them on holiday if you already have a family.

Made my legendary a few months after launch.
And I realize no one in game cared if I made one.
Quit for 10 months after that.
Realized no one in real life cared either.

Came back after 10 months. See legendaries everywhere.
Playing the game normally and casually.

A happy man.