Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

Im currently on 14 level 80s. Going to list them all out!

1. Asura Elementalist ‘Main’ Character as it has my Legendary.
2. Asura Engineer – Condi/HGH Build
3. Asura Necromancer – Power Build
4. Asura Guardian – Shout Build
5. Asura Ranger – Apoth Condi/Heal Bunker
6. Asura Mesmer – Standard Shatter Build
7. Charr Guardian – Cleric build
8. Sylvari Mesmer – Old Glamour Build
9. Norn Warrior – Hammer WvW Build
10. Norn Ranger – Power LB/GS Build
11. Human Mesmer – Zerky CoF Running
12. Human Warrior – Zerky CoF Running
13. Human Thief – D/D BS Build WvW Roamer
14. Human Necromancer – Condi Build

I tend to make a new character when I find a new build or armour set I like.
Know something fun that isn’t on my list? Please suggest it! I love levelling

Thanks in advance!

Still can’t get this achievement. Its the only SAB achievement I don’t have now and its making me MAAAD seeing that empty box

I am 99.999999% sure I haven’t missed a bauble in any tries. Q.Q

+1 for more tsunami.

What it needs is the room for the organised group to do it, while being supported by those that aren’t involved. I personally just want to see my fellow GW2 players beat Tequatl for the experience, hence why I get myself so involved in Overflow kills, and for the first time tonight, a server community overflow attempt.

I have no issue in carrying those players who are not accustomed to the level of organisation Teqqy remands, they have as much right to see the content through as I do. But right now those players are a hindrance, as there simply isn’t room for them if you want to down him first go. You have to populate your own overflow.

What I’m hoping is that the tactics for killing Teqqy will become natural to those I teach and command, so they can go back to their servers and spread it. Therefore we won’t need to find an overflow anymore, everyone will know what to do, and when. It’s a pipe dream for sure, there’s always going to be trolls and AFKers – but a girl can dream.

We’ll see how my server learns over the next few days

Ahhh! I was looking for an actual post! Thank you!

Thanks guys! I’ll just leave it be then, didn’t know it was against the forum rules to discuss moderator actions! Used these forums for months and didn’t even know we had rules like that!

Any chance you could link the rules here so I can read up?

Yep, I was almost at the end of W2Z2 TM. Just me and the boyfriend in the party, and he leaves, I get kicked from the instance. I was not a happy bunny haha, it’s certainly something that could do with having a little look at!

Yeah I didn’t have any trouble with checkpoints when I completed this zone two days ago

Hi!

I logged on the forums today to get the personal message:

A moderator moved a message you posted to the forum ‘Trashcan’ with the reason:
False information

Is there any way of finding out which particular post this is? I pride myself on being truthful, and not posting things unless I know I have a source. I would hate to post the same information again, or tell another player, if what I believe is not true.

Is it possible I have simply replied to a thread which has been deemed false? Which has subsequently been deleted and could throw up this message? I’ve looked through my past posts and the forums I haunt to try jog my memory about what it could be, to no avail.

Any answers are appreciated, hoping this is the right forum to post in now!

Aisi x

Ok guys we’re now at 500 members. Tends to fluctuate as people leave so always worth checking in. We just downed him again, so proud <3 event succeeded at 00:01!

Time to work on refining our strategy I think.

Just downed him again – thanks to all who attended!
(and JUMPED when shouted at on TS hehe! C:)

We’re on 403 members now, just a quick update.

Aisi x

Hey all,

TSS is currently on 333 members – so I will make myself available today for invites.
Feel free to send me a Whisper ingame, if I dont reply straight away I’m either incombat or AFK – so try me again after waiting a short while.

I’ll update here again if we hit max membership.

Happy dragon slaying,

Aisi x

I think the biggest problem EU faces is that if you’re in an overflow, you’re screwed. Last one I was in had a guy advertising a German only VoIP and the French flat out refused to speak English in map chat so everyone could communicate. Nevermind that a lot of our EU players can’t speak English, they stick to their own guilds in order to have a translator for most situations but are suddenly thrown into an overflow separate from their fellows and as such are completely lost.

You can imagine how volatile a mix of various nationalities can be. EU overflows are scary.

Elite =/= WvW

./15chars

His current mechanics are fine as they are – thats not what I find frustrating. I’m definitely not calling for a nerf in difficulty, don’t worry. What I’m looking for is the opportunity to experience these mechanics and have the chance to overcome them with competent players at my side. Rather than wondering if there is a point to going to the event because I know all that will happen is that map spots will be taken by ‘sightseer’ players who have no interest in working hard every single time for the chance of killing him.

My other option would be to guest to a server who has killed him, and therefore proven their level of coordination. But I highly doubt said servers would appreciate an influx of players like myself as guests are unlikely to be invited to voice comms.

Oh I cannot deny Anet is on the right track. Theres a reason I literally SQUEEED when it came up saying ‘A new patch is available’. The concept behind this fight is fantastic, its much much more what I expected from GW2. I think the problem is that the needs to be space for new and inexperienced players, as it is the space for them is marginal.

That being said, its the day after patch. I just need patience. Patience. Patience.

I think the reason it stresses me so much is because of the parallels that are being brought up to raid bosses. My inner competitor is raging because the ability to defeat him is completely out of my control whether I wanted to defeat the content 1 day after release or not.

Ohai, I think I just need to get all this frustration off my chest. Otherwise my head might explode, and that wouldn’t be pretty.

Generally, day to day, I play GW2 with my boyfriend – this is great. We’re both skilled players and can rely on each other in any combat situation. Woopdedoo for us! So. Tequatl’s update was released as the 17th, and I celebrated because no longer would I be a GTA V widow, wandering the expanse of GW2 alone – I would have all the time in the world to defeat Tequatl. Yay!

I love tough content. Liadri, SAB etc, these things that have people up in arms about difficulty, it really doesn’t bother me. The reason why is that previously these things have been Solo, the only person I needed to rely upon in these situations was myself.

Now I know there will be some saying ‘Well hold up a sec Aisina, this is an MMO you’re playing woman, if you wanna play solo, go find yourself a single player RPG!’ – Which is fair enough, however, multiplayer hard content in this game (such as it is) allows you to choose your team mates. Nobodys just going to wander into my dungeon or fractal and start aggroing mobs left right and centre while the rest of us stand there going ‘what the?!’ – Neither am I going to 4 man this content because player 5 wants to leech the reward easy. “You go ahead guys, Im just going to sit here and let you do the hard work.”

Do you see where I am going with this? Maybe.

My point is. No matter how much I gear my character towards defeating Tequatl, no matter how many Powerful Potions of Undead Slaying I purchase, or spicy mushrooms I force down myself. Its not going to make one jot of difference.
Even if I bring lets say… 15 of my closests friends and guild mates and we magically all make it into the same instance, we all bring our potions and mushrooms and BiS gear. We all sit on the same voice server, and coordinate. We still don’t make a difference – because Sir Herpalot is busy firing his hylek turret at Risen 20 feet behind him.

Even if you coordinate players on the turrets to be on the same voice communication, you can guarantee that Sir Herpalot and friends (he has many) still manage to steal them mid fight.

Ok wall of text, you can see why I needed to get this off my chest.

Just… argh. Do I have any magic suggestions other than putting Captain Teqqy in an instance where me and Sir Herpalot + company never shall meet? No.

Stress. So much stress.

./end

You probably know this, but it prevented me sending a message saying thanks for the SAB – so here’s a silly post instead. Really enjoyed your content, well worth the money we paid for coins in the store. It’s given us fits of giggles and bouts of foul language, but at the end of the day it’s been a highlight and a laugh.

Looking forward to the next instalment.

- a fan.

Mods feel free to lock it, not looking for a response. Just wanted to say my bit.

Finally finished this little one

Going for staff next I think, I’m loving having reasons to do JPs/Dungeons/Bosses – I’ve actually been so much more sociable since Ascended weapons came out – if nothing else I’d like to say a big THANK YOU to ANet for giving us something which is bringing people together, and giving us new friends

In order to do this as cheaply as possible, I farmed all the materials I needed manually + extra pre-patch. I then was able to sell the extra to buy the 4 or 5 extra spiritwood planks I needed.

EDIT: Yes I’ve played since Beta and still not killed Zhaitan. Bwahaha.

Theres probably a better place for this but:

Did the new build include SAB difficulty updates? We’re waiting for changes before attempting it again – thanks in advance for any answers x

Most of my experience was with staff, my weapon of choice for many months. Then I decided I’d pick a Legendary to get and the staff option was dire for us, all mesmery and stuff. So I made Meteorlogicus!

While I was farming for it, I forced myself into playing Scepter/Dagger. I tried my best, failed. Meteorlogicus lived in the bank for two months. During that time I experimented a bit with dagger/dagger. But it just didn’t right as a caster.

Then someone said to me, trait for Fresh Air, stop running that bunker build! Low and behold my Ele felt brand new! Meteorlogicus came out of hiding, I discovered that focus was a weapon I enjoyed as a caster, and it gave some great PvE centric abilities. I don’t think I will be going back unless staff gets a maaaajor boost.

ANet obviously approved of this move, as they made my Meteorlogicus all shiny a month later! So the moral of this story is, experiment. Find what you enjoy. Test your damage (both burst, and consistency) – but if I was ever going to recommend a weapon set – it would be Scepter/Focus.

Current gear:
Full zerk w/ divinity runes
Full soldier ascended trinkets
Zerk weapons
Damage foods!

Needs moar zerk .__.

I used to have a set of PVT armour, but it got transmuted to zerker with div runes. I also have an emergency clerics set with dwayna runes/ relevant water traits. For when things hit really hard. Which they shouldnt as Fresh Air offers perma vigor! I’ve stuck with ascended PVT trinkets simply for that basic defence/power gain.

Add some small amount of might (3 stack) and I have a consistent 5k auto attack.
I know the instinct is to go defensive, but we have that much survivability as an Ele, you really shouldn’t pass up better damage gear.

Check out Scholar runes. Also Traveller runes look fun to play with now.

I think the main issue for me here is that we cannot farm the baubles like we used to. The only way I got the upgrades I have (which are not all!) is because SAB was farmable in a non-painful way.

I am a minipets collector, so I need a minimum of 40 bauble bubbles for Moto, and a second to create the princess. I have spent 1000 gems already buying the gemstone minis. Collecting BBs for Motos, plus Baubles for upgrades is a little daunting with a cap on farming the box.

When I heard about the Infinite Coin, I expected it to be needed for players interested in Tribulation Mode (this included myself and I bought gems in advance!) What I didn’t expect was to be buying it for Normal Mode! I can empathise with my casual friends who have a couple of hours a night after the kids are asleep to come on and head into SAB, they’re never going to see the end of the content. I think it’s a terrible shame to see people gated from something that really is unique and beautiful.

I hadnt made any exotic staves, just focuses and scepters. So I made 5 or so of those and it bumped me quickly to 500.

Just seems silly that your Ascended Level stuff greys out before exotic stuff. Confused my small brains. It also cost me a little bit in the extra wood and ori I hadnt counted for! Ouch!

She*

So when the timer runs out, it will turn back pink?

This makes no sense as people are already at 500. Which would be impossible if it required the once a day recipes!

deffo didnt cost me 250-500g O_o

If you are referring to:
- Bloodstone Dust
- Dragonite Ore
- Empyreal Fragment
- Glob of Elder Spirit Essence
- Lump of Mithrillium
- Deldrimor Steel
- Spiritwood Plank

All these new ascended recipes have gone from Pink to Grey, indicating they give no experience?

Feeling very blonde.

All my Ascended recipes are greyed out.

Do I craft Exotic weapons to 500…? Or have I missed the 475 recipe?

Aisi x

Would love more aquatic helms. Stuck with my green lvl 80 version!

Not overly bothered about having lots of skins, just make it so we can dye them!

+1 for some HoM love!

I think showing off our HoM skins should give us a sense of pride and achievement, updating the great-sword effects would be a step in the right direction.

I finished up everything I needed (and more thanks to my terrible math) yesterday. All I need is the open world material which I will be farming like a mad woman. I have my champ boxes ready, fingers crossed they count!

Bring on the race!

Am I the only one who is happy never having anymore PS? LS for me, is my personal story. I have witnessed so many things over the past year, which are all culminating and coming together. NPCs recognise me for those things that have happened and Angel stated that they are working on more way for your character to feel that level of passive involvement.

For me, this past LS update was exactly the kind of stuff I want to see. The world is turning, events are happening which I am there to witness. I have no intention of being the cause of these events, the one person everyone turns to to save the day. I am simply a guest in this dynamic world which will continue without me if I stop playing.

I don’t want instanced story which I can come back to a month later if I decide to take a break. I want to come back and find the world has moved on without me, main players who have come up don’t recognise me because I haven’t been around, I need to reintroduce myself, offer help where I can.

Simply put, I don’t want to be “the hero” I want to be “a hero” in Tyria who does everything she can to help, and makes friends along the way. I want to be able to team up with other heroes without feeling like we’re all supposed to be “player 1” with the exact same storyline. Over the years we will have all completed a different experience.

Just a few thoughts, Aisi x

I originally made Meteorlogicus because of the lack of animation. But I have to say after owning it for a few months now, I wish it was a little more eye catching. I’m even thinking of making the Incinerator just for some footsteps!

+1 to moving it out of LA!

Umm I have over 500 of them. They just stack up even though I use loads.

We can’t sell them though otherwise it would be infinite money

As a woman I don’t have a left nut. Or a right one.
But if I did, I’d give it for an Account Wide Bag.
A special little slots for things like, minipets, food, my kite, my dance book, instruments, royal terrace pass. So many things.

Infact I’d give both imaginary nuts.

Edit; more things: personal banker. Mystic forge node. Summon merchant. Instant repair canisters, boosters, tonics to turn me into a dolyak, cake…

OMG GIVE ME IT NAO.

Tbh the only way I can see a GvG arena being implemented is through the sPvP format in order to provide satisfactory PvP balancing, such as it is. At which point everyone would complain that they want to use their WvW gear. And as such would go back to bashing their heads in the field of WvW.

Played since Beta.
14 level 80s.
Still not killed Zhaitan.

A new zone which I can’t access till I’ve completed my story… I don’t know. Maybe.
I might actually do it then. I’ve only not done it because I wanted Orr to make sense.
Might be nice.

I have to agree that without farmers these invasions wouldn’t be populated like they are at the moment. There’s nothing Dynamic about them, you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. As much as I’m a GW franchise fan girl, ANet really could do with taking a good look at RIFTs zone invasion mechanics. As soon as I finished my achievements (which happened very quickly! Please give more living story goals!) I haven’t bothered going back to the invasions.

Invasions are not fun for those in the map coincidentally either. With players choosing the avoid it (by simply sidestepping around the stationary invading force) and carrying on with their levelling and map completion. There needs to be incentive for players to liberate camps, farmsteads, towns and keeps rather than zergkitten their way between groups of mobs.

Invasions should contest waypoints, really make things awkward for the player. But most importantly, the enemy needs to move. Going to all that effort to invade and portal into the world, only to stand around for a picnic seems silly. Unless that’s their intention and we are being unwitting party poopers!

I’ve just remembered one of the end of beta events when The Shatterer invaded. Now THAT was an invasion, fail to protect a waypoint and it would be used against you etc. Gosh that was a fun day.

Just a rambling few thoughts.

I will be interested to try this on my Charr engi when I’m at the PC!

Good catch!

This feels like such a punch to the gut. As soon as I saw the little unfilled box for Mr Sparkles I was so excited. As a mini collector and Asuran fan, it ticked all my boxes. The fact that there is no way around this is pretty upsetting. At least with the town cloth GW2 tshirt I was able to get one via fan site competitions. This is just a dead end.

I think they should have advertised it clearly before hand so we had notice to get there, or not made it account bound so we could buy it off those that could make it. I don’t feel comfortable trusting eBay with my money for an ingame item. Doesn’t feel right that I should have to take that option.

Heres my little Engi updated today with a new look!
Needed to share her deadly cuteness!

Heres my Engineer. She was updated today with a new look!

Hope you like her!

This time… as a sofa!

Poor Faren. He will never be the same…

They all thought Scarlet was the star of this LS update. Little did they know…

Mr Charr Guardian got an update!

Meet Tygor Brazenstone I’m a happy woman.

Doesn’t work. Overflows fill up as quickly as Home Worlds. Right clicking and joining creates an error message,

Yeah its just frustrating in the meantime!

On top of that, Commanders are now trying to pull people away from actually completing the event, saying that if people zerg together, more champions will spawn. They literally said they didn’t care if the event completed or not, they just want money.

This new farming malarky going hand in hand with our living story updates, is really bringing out the worst in people. We really need quick diminishing returns on these invasions to prevent people ruining it for others.

Me and my boyfriend play the game together, each update we get super excited about the next part of our story. However, even though we’re in the same party we cannot get into the same overflow, we’re constantly split up even though we waypoint to the same place as soon as the event pings.

Right clicking on my boyfriends party name and choosing “Join In —-———” doesn’t work, neither can he join on me due to apparently full overflows the instant we get in.

Last time we cut our losses and did it separately, but its hard to complete our achievements together. Now he’s defeated Scarlet, but I couldn’t on my overflow as she died in seconds.

I can’t even coordinate in the new overflow I am now stuck in, as map chat is in German.

We love the update, we just want to see parties stick together like they usually do.

Aisi