Any of the old world bosses are still good. Anywhere they still hand out level 70+ yellow items. I usually melt armor for ectos, but the weapons still sell for 30-33 and add up quickly.
Of course, when they make us pay for our loot, this will change. 
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Oh, okay. Thank you. Guess it goes in the bank. I think everyone has this earring already.
I struggled with HoT when it first came out and walked away for about 15 months. Came back this past December, and had a blast with it (still occasionally AB or DS). Everyone of my alts (one for each class) has cleared the VB map for the ascended weapon collection.
I found it a lot easier when I came back, or less aggravating at any rate. They must have made some adjustments to it during that time.
Made and leveled a Revenant in the middle of all that too.
Thing with that is they didn’t really…change anything if you’re talking about mob difficulty or how the zones were laid out.
Here is the thing with “knee jerk” reactions. People tend to get annoyed/frustrated/angry at something initially due to not being used to it or having a misunderstanding in relation to it, but then they step away (for however long) and when they come back after not thinking about it, aka cooling off, typically someone will tend to approach the situation with a better mindset and handle whatever difficulty they ran into much better after the fact. Or just have a better understanding of it.
Crazy what impulse emotions can do to ones objective reasoning.
Disclaimer: I’m not taking a shot at you, just making an observation based on your comment.
No no, didn’t take it that way. It’s an interesting point and something to consider moving forward. Or…in less than 3 weeks! 
I struggled with HoT when it first came out and walked away for about 15 months. Came back this past December, and had a blast with it (still occasionally AB or DS). Everyone of my alts (one for each class) has cleared the VB map for the ascended weapon collection.
I found it a lot easier when I came back, or less aggravating at any rate. They must have made some adjustments to it during that time.
Made and leveled a Revenant in the middle of all that too.
Where’s Weaver?
Do you really want it added to a poll that can’t possibly even tell anything of any substance due to specs being randomly paired together? I’m surprised this thread still hasn’t been deleted.
Right?
“Revisionist New-Age Isolationist Humanitarian Neo-Classical Beatle-esque Utilitarian seeking…”
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For me it’s always the death/goth/emo/metal places that usually constitute end game zones, as is the case with Orr.
Terrible lighting.
I actually really enjoy snowy place, especially the way they did it with GW2, where when you travel south through Lornar’s Pass and into Timberline Falls, it feels like a contiguous land (even though they are instanced).
I mostly enjoy sunny places, like Queensdale (lighting), and glad to see they will throw us some of that with the LW content for end game.
Excited to be going to a desert. Other than getting a taste of it with Dry Top and Silverwastes, it’ll be fun to see what they do with it in big, sprawling areas with the occasional oasis or what not.
Deserts should have good lighting.
If it’s a bound skin-only (not an actual item), the ability to convert those to charges would be neat.
It would have to be a ‘skin-only’ item, as being able to convert anything to a transmutation charge would clearly kill that entire source of income for them.
I could see it either way. It would be fun to have it as a WB, since the area is all still there, and they could just clean up the destroyed version and move that Vista. The fractal idea is intriguing (even though sadly I’d never end up getting to do it), for this purpose as well as maybe re-thinking some of those other instances from LW1 as fractals, and trickle them in, like a Memory Box section of fractals. Maybe a little ‘Old Lion’s Arch’ as a fractal too.
Oh, one last thing you might want to consider: there is a thing called “Masteries”, which was introduced in HoT. Since it retrospectively introduced masteries for the core game as well, you might want to buy HoT in order to be able to level those masteries. Not right away, but as soon as you decide that you indeed enjoy the game and want to continue playing it.
At the ‘very’ least, get into HoT after 80 and level up the gliding mastery, that will be useful (and fun) every where. 1 point for bouncy mushrooms in Itzel, and complete the Verdant Brink map and learn the meta. I think that’s the funnest of the maps in HoT. The AB meta is still fun for me too (I actually stopped when HoT came out, but started up again 15 months later around Dec ‘16 and did all of HoT and LW3 up till now…lot of content!), and the Dragon’s Stand meta is worth experiencing. I really hope there are still people playing it. While I wasn’t super excited about HoT originally, I had a blast there when I came back!
But really, I suppose you could ‘tag team’ between PoF and HoT once you get to 80. It might be an interesting way to play. Of course, if you want continuity of story, you’d want to follow that path through, wherever it takes you.
…things…
Thank you!
I’ll have to keep an eye out for the Mistlock Santuary key then. Edit: Bummer, I see it was like ‘just’ on sale a month ago. Crossing my fingers the PoF one works like the Mistlock item (but I highly doubt it, as a give-away item).
You’re right except for the last part – the passes do not send you back to where you entered from. To leave you either walk out the entrance into Divinity’s Reach or use the asura gate to go to another city, or use a waypoint.
Thank you. The new PoF pass will work the same way when it’s active?
Is there another type of pass that sends you back to where you were (other than WvW, which they removed the guild bank from a few years back)? I see there is a Home Portal stone that says “d-click while in your home to go back to where you were”. If you walk out into the city and use the services and then walk back into the home instance and then use the Home Portal, do you go back to where you were? Update: Disregard last question, this in the notes says you can’t do what I’d want to do.
Without the ability to use services and go back to where you were, I’m not seeing the appeal of these things.
You can’t go wrong if you go with thief.
5111111511122nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuVmvUJLhG8 reference ;>
Never seen this before. That is some catchy [donkey] [stuff]! Now I’m listening to that on Spotify while I’m playing. I gotta go dial the rest up on youtube so I can catch all the lyrics.
On a sad note, like, everyone in the world is more talented than me!
Edit: On a sadder note, I just followed my new discovery through to its sad ending via a binge YouTube and googling. Oh well.
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Must admit, always get excited when I get my birthday mails.
I banked the dye, need to sit down and see what all the choices are and what I have. I picked a sword and knife skin for the two weapons, but it was a difficult choice, they’re all pretty nice. I picked the backpack with the hat on it, thought that was fun.
The sigil inside doesn’t seem to be worth anything? There are other shields of the same type and skin that sell for the ‘normal’ 28-34s. I see a few other shields sell for more too.
So I was scratching my head on that one. I hate to list it for that much and get burned on the deposit only to have a flood of ones come in offered for 35s and then I have to pull it and re list it. Hate it when that happens.
Thanks folks! I tried looking the item up, but it didn’t exist. Probably searched on too specific of a name.
Hunh, really does go for that much.
Now I need to figure out why.
I just wish I could hover over my character portraits and use the mousewheel to scroll through them.
Yeah, that’s my only other ‘would be nice’ feature.
…because everything in your main character’s crafting bag disappeared, and zoning didn’t fix the problem, and you realized you just bought a storage expander.
Pleeeeeease… if nothing else, at least remove the awful dark orange lighting from the PoF character selection screen.
Agreed. It would be nice if they could come up with something lighter, but still keep the same theme they are going for.
I’ve noticed a hell of a lot less regular gear dropping on the demo. The Unidentified Gear almost certainly replaces normal loot drops. It is NOT “in addition to.”
Well, see, this is something I’m trying to get clear on, because it totally changes the discussion.
Do we still get our MF rolls for Rare and Exotics, and those just pop in our bags? And as rewards for DEs sometimes? Or in lieu of (or still) boxes from champs, like how Maw drops a few chests in addition to the DE reward chest (I get a fair amount of rare and sometimes exotic out of those).
If all things are still equal and we get all those, and these new UNIDs (which is a weird thing to call them, because I see Universal ID when I look at that ) stack up in our bag, and we can view them as ‘blue/greens’, b/c we are still getting our normal share of rare and exotics outside of that, and the ‘cost’ to ID is a new gamble system to ‘potentially’ turn some of those blues and greens into rare and exotic…well that’s a very different discussion, and everything makes sense to me.
It makes no sense to me if I’m not getting the exact same thing (or more! I’ll take more! :p) now for rares and exotics in addition to those UNIDs, and the source of our rare and exotics are bound to identifying those.
If the rares and exotics we get for identifying UNIDs are in addition to all the rare and exotics we’re used to getting, and we’re paying for that ‘chance’, then the cost and time associated with that activity makes sense.
I have yet to see that assertion made or demonstrated. I hope that is the case. I’ll gladly Homer (Spicer?) back into the bushes.
But if I don’t still get my normal rare and exotic rolls outside of the new system, pre-identified, for free, then I have a problem with the system. I would expect to see taxing chat next. Or maybe a fee to move things in and out of our bank. It would make no sense.
Instead of calling them unid gear, they should have called them “Forged Chests” and the vendors should have sold lockpicks for 1s 68c, wouldn’t be half the whining.
That’s like the reverse of Republicans calling ‘Estate Taxes’ ‘Death Taxes’ to achieve a desired result. It doesn’t change what a thing is.
No, it’s nothing like your analogy at all, it’s closer to the opposite. The unid stuff is in addition to normal loot.
I did say ‘reverse’.
Where is there still normal loot? So we get the green stackable things (which, as people have demonstrated, can contain rares and exotics), and we ‘still’ get our magic find roll on top of that so normal rares and exotics just pop in our bags? If that is the case, and my ratio of obtaining rare and exotic, in no way, is reduced in frequency, but the new ‘cost’ to ID is a new gamble to get more rares and exotics that I didn’t get before, or not gamble and just salvage the stack, then that would be awesome.
But I haven’t seen that point made yet, that we still get our normal MF rolls and get rare and exotics that are already ID’d and just pop in our bags.