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Only in an MMO – walk into a forest and can’t find a tree to harvest.
My favorite was always FFXI and having a bone chip being an uncommon drop off of a skeleton. Obviously, I obliterated the first 20 of them into a fine powder until I was able to restrain myself enough to recover one.
It worked so well in UO that they had to split the world into open pvp (Felicuca) and not (Trammel)…
Good luck. I tried once and got the “too bad so sad be more careful” response.
As an additional daily in the rotation? Sure.
As a replacement for Vista viewer? No thank you.
Asura know how to troll with style.
Also check your keyboard for an FN LOCK key. Keyboards that have those shortcuts on the F keys typically use this button to toggle between those functions and the actual F# keys.
My wife and I are currently experiencing the same issue with her personal story. We’ve killed all destroyers and the object still says to kill them. I’m having her submit a ticket but it’s not just Knil seeing this.
Race changes are free but then you pay $50 for all of your new char’s kitten traits though…
Um….sure?
It’s not like you pay a subscription fee or there’s only one guild in all of Tyria.
i’m curious, is there any P/P build that does anything other than mashing 3 like a madman?
Not really.
Don’t look for one. Then you’ll find 10.
Works in Diablo 3 at least…
I just started dungeon-diving with my friends and understand the boat you’re in. There’s lots of useful advice about gears already posted but I’ll share my current learning experience:
6/6/0/0/2 is going to get you killed. Fast. Especially so on first runs. I trait 5/6/0/3/0 for Feline Grace. In full zerk gear that’s just over 12k HP and essentially an extra dodge. It helps tremendously.
Forget D/D exists. You can try to be the backstab hero but until you know what the bosses are capable of you’re going to be counting ants face down on the floor. I stick with S/P and SB. Pistol Whip or SB kite as needed. As stated, S/P is going to also murder trash very well.
Make friends with an Elementalist. I know that FGS changes are coming but until then use it if you can. My wife plays one so I take the Improvisation trait and unload with Ice Bows and FGS as needed.
This is the spec I use when running:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZQQNAsaVl8Mp6pFOx0J0PNBOBt9BqQC0NAruvfA-e
It may not be the most efficient but the dungeons get completed so… who cares?
Oh and total after-thought… don’t forget to check 78 exotics too. Most of the zerk pieces (except the ones with major expensive runes) only go for about 1g and are better than 80 rares. Masterwork/Rares are fine if you’re planning on bridging the gap to 80 exotic quickly.
I hope some of this helps!
Mounts: No
Guild halls YES PLEASE. I was hoping to get a really cool guild hall. But now I would almost except the old GW1 guild hall.
^ Basically this ^
If no guild halls at least continue development on home instances. If not for the festival nodes I’d forget they even existed (actually had a friend who didn’t know they existed at all!).
If you want a updated blog post it will cost you 400 gems.
As an in-game item, narrated by Morgan Freeman … huh. Might consider that!
SOLD!
Trait Revamp Redux.
…one can hope right?
In a game of self-sufficiency this just isn’t going to work. The game already has a good host of crowd control abilities… instead of taunting that dog on the Ele try using immobilize or cripple to accomplish the same thing.
Also, I think this would make the FGS/Icebow tactics that you mentioned even easier to accomplish.
Coaster?
/15char
How is this not stickey’d yet? Do eeeeeeeeet!!!!
Awesome guide so far, bravo.
Consider dagger/dagger Death Blossom condition spam (use Signet of Malice along with Caltrops and Trickery III – Uncatchable for AoE bleed, tons of healing and lots of dodges) or using pistol offhand for Black Powder’s AoE blind.
Stealth is a good survivability mechanic but you’ll need to trait heavily into Shadow Arts before it pays off. At level 12 you don’t have those traits and stealth is simply only a way to execute backstab.
Thief starts more glass than cannon until they can build the cannon portion.
Just chiming in to say the new trait system is terrible. Who signed off on this? Seriously. This thread has beyond enough feedback, suggestions and criticisms to do something about it.
Beyond the acquisition issues – I just want to call out the leveling progression: completely ridiculous. Leveling means nothing except for the seemingly random times you manage to get a trait point (or points at later levels). Even the fact that you can’t view the trait page until 30 is terrible. Pushing the trait tiers back to 30, 60, 80(!) is terrible. The focus has gone completely to where the game really doesn’t begin until 80 (even then you may have very few traits). This is an incredibly punishing and unfulfilling system for new players. I can honestly say that it has deterred RL friends of mine from playing or purchasing the game.
First off, welcome back! Let’s see how well I can answer these…
1) They are but part of it is knowing the encounter. I have a hard time meleeing bosses that I’ve not fought before and sometimes resort to shortbow if there’s a ton of people around (lag, screen clutter). Kessex is a good example of where at first I’d shortbow or P/P like crazy until eventually I figured out the bosses to where I could reliably backstab and survive.
2) I’d start here but be aware that it’s written more for end-game dungeon speedruns as opposed to general PvE. Still, it’s a good write up to give you ideas and direction: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Thief-PvE-guide-by-Xukk-Jeremy-Chase
3) I, honestly, haven’t done PvP in GW2 yet but if you look around the forums the general consensus is that non-thieves say they’re OP but thieves say they’re UP. Take that for what you will…
4) Mass murder one backstab at a time…