Guild Wars 2

Of the two, I’ve only played Guardian, but here’s what I run:

Traits: 5/5/0/2/2
Not at home right now, so I don’t know my exact major traits, but most if not all are the obvious choice for higher DPS among a sea of largely useless options

Gear is full zerk, Scholar runes on armor

Weapon sets:
- Greatsword
- Sword / Focus
Not sure which sigils to recommend honestly, as I’m re-evaluating my setup, but I try to keep Strength and Force on-hand.

Utilities:
- “Retreat!”
- “Save Yourselves”
- Purging Flames (unless reflects are needed, in which case sub for WoR)

Gets the job done pretty well, and I’ve really enjoyed the class.

They’re called “standing desks,” and the research has already been done and proven: sitting for 8 or more hours a day is unhealthy, regardless of whatever other physical activity you do throughout the day. Great news for me, as I type this from my chair at the office, nearly 7 hours into the workday…

I’m sure Soule would appreciate you saying his work sounds like Uematsu, but rest assured, the music in GW2 is entirely original.

kitten crowdfunding sites got ‘em thinking you can just throw money at people and they’ll do whatever you want. smh

??? Don’t create characters you don’t want to have? Also race change is fundamentally infeasible within the game engine, so don’t expect to see it ever.

Sad drops… It’s such a shame you can’t buy almost anything on the Trading Post… oh wait…

I think it’s gonna be axe to start off with. Some kind of inquisitor or something?

Immersion is such a joke… as if you could possibly be unaware that you’re sitting at a computer using a keyboard/mouse to control pixels. But no, you’re right, let’s go ahead and remove the only thing that makes getting around this game convenient just because it doesn’t feel “authentic” enough for you.

I dislike moochers, but that said, I do take part in it sometimes. That’s just how life works, kiddos, you’re either playing some fools, or you’re getting played. Devs could try their best to prevent it from happening, but this is something that’s just inherent to nature. All things tend toward the path of least resistance.

Lol… so much wrong with this post. “Play how I want” doesn’t even mean picking whatever build you want and still being viable, even though that is the case in GW2. PHIW is about doing whatever content you want to do and still making progress toward your goals (namely, getting money you can spend on most anything in the game).

Also, I wasn’t aware that higher DPS is equivalent to being better at the game. I must be astonishingly good! Never mind knowing when to dodge, or any of that ilk.

Gold->Gem price will always fluctuate, but it can never get out of control, because there are capped pools for each exchange. You’ll notice the price tends to spike whenever something new hits the Gem Store, typically when a new LS episode comes out, because more people are trading gold for gems, which increases the price in that direction, and decreases the price in the other direction. I expect that to happen on a larger scale when the expansion drops, but what will happen after that is hard to say.

Worth noting is that some returning players may want to increase their gold supply by purchasing gems and exchanging them. I doubt there will be enough of that happening to have a particularly noticeable effect on the market, but again, it’s hard to say, since there hasn’t been an expansion before. Whatever happens though, one thing you can be sure of is that it will balance itself out eventually.

Palador.2170:

Yes, PAX was a big “wow” moment, but they’re letting that moment linger a bit too long, even with the interviews they’ve done (given that they don’t really add anything there, just clarify a few minor points).

Really? After mostly not talking about this for 2 and a half years, I’d think people would expect the flow of information to be pretty slow. It’s going to happen on their timeline, exactly how and when they want it to, and there’s really no point in getting hung up about it. In the meantime, just play, or do something else, it’s just a game after all… why do people even think about stuff like this?

Spiral Architect.6540:

I have no proof of anything regarding faulty RNG algorithms or “un/lucky seeds,” but I really have to wonder. I started playing at launch, and except for a 4-month break in the middle, have played heavily: dungeon runs, world boss trains, WvW, EotM, FGS champ trains — pretty much everything except fractals (I never cared for those).

And since launch, I’ve looted exactly 13 exotics. Not precursors, exotics. These threads always amaze me.

Either you’re flat-out lying, or you have a very different definition of “playing heavily” than I do. How in the hell can you have been doing all of that and only gotten 13 exotics the whole time?

The thing is, it’s not a lifestyle option for the large majority of people… any able-bodied person of working age who is spending that much time in-game on a daily basis is wasting time, because they probably have a lot of other things they have to be doing. I’m not saying I want to be stricken with a debilitating condition, but I’d probably be playing a lot more if I didn’t have to go to this stupid job every day to support myself.

Anyway, I’m glad you’ve found relief in GW2, and I wish you the best in the future.

Oh no! If only there were some way to turn in-game currency into gems =(

It’ll be fine probably. /shrug/

Swagger.1459:

some players don’t want to craft, yet have 0 choice when it comes to gear progressing with their character.

There’s your problem.

You do have a choice, and that choice is either:
1. Work hard to get the ascended gear you want
2. Settle for exotic gear, which puts you out a meager 5-10% stat increase that you absolutely don’t need

You are not being forced to do anything.

It’s not like they just started working on it… they’ve been balancing working on the expansion and steadily adding new content for most of the time the game has been out. I doubt they’ll have any trouble continuing to do that.

I’m pretty sure they don’t care about this? I certainly don’t. Why does it matter, exactly? An MMO is pretty far-flung from where you’re going to see hole-less plots, namely because the game is continually being added to. Not to mention the already-existing plot problems around Lion’s Arch and Orr.

And that’s fine to me. It’s just a game. A game that has always had much stronger gameplay than story. I’m perfectly OK with Revenant just being dropped into the existing engine with no explanation as to why. I don’t know if this is what they are going to do, but whatever, you’ll live either way.

It’ll be rebuilt one day, no idea when, though…

I missed the event because I was at PAX. =/
Then again, PAX was incredibly fun, so…

DiogoSilva.7089:

Rising Dusk.2408:

There will be no new weapon types. If there were going to be new types, they would’ve been announced explicitly at PAX. The melee polearm you saw the Revenant use is actually a melee-attack Staff.

Source? Anet very explicitly said that they were only revealing the major features at PAX, while there were many other, smaller features yet to be revealed.

Also, I doubt their marketing team would mislead the entire community like that, by showing off a melee-attack staff with a polearm skin. Unless Anet wants to intentionally troll us, which would be of bad taste and lead to unnecessary disappointment.

This is purely a perspective issue, by which I mean your perspective. There are no new weapon types. They absolutely would have been announced. And I was not confused by that at all, because they made it abundantly clear that they were going to cover everything in the announcement (except, apparently, price and release date…). They do not want to troll us, you’re just taking something you saw and warping it into what you want it to be, but it’s just not that way.

Or you could go see it in person :P

Probablynotbecause thingschange and ithinkTheydecidednot todoitAnymore

It could be significant, but that’s assuming they even use it. If it’s exclusive to Windows 10, it might be a while yet before it’s even worth taking the time to implement it. Unless it’s easier than I’m thinking.

Lol chronomancy… never seen it done well, probably because games that involve timing have no room for things that manipulate time. Also, people don’t understand time as well as they think they do. It’s not even a thing really, it’s just the apparently random movements of quantum particles causing changes in reality. Think about it: if nothing ever moved, would there be time?

Lishtenbird.2814:

babazhook.6805:

Some of the hours on theif are by a roomate who plays when I not around and rolled herself up a thief.

Just so that you know, you broke the terms of service you accepted when installing the game.

Oh my goodness! Get the cyber-police! And the cyber-FBI just for good measure!

I’m gonna say there’s less than 10% chance of new race anytime soon, if ever. And that’s being generous. Introducing a new race would screw up so many things that I just don’t see it happening.

I love how whenever something is hard, it’s clearly not a problem with the player; they’re just being punished for not choosing a better playstyle. Right??

Well, we can always hope they add some stuff in the future. It would be pretty great for cities to have stuff like that going on. Though, if there were rewards, people would be instance-hopping like crazy; if there were no rewards, nobody would be doing it. Sad, really, that something primarily intended for enjoyment is so ruthlessly optimized for gaining value-less data.

Weapons, mystic salvage kit, and a bunch of crap I haven’t yet decided I’ll never need again

Astralporing.1957:

Albadaran.1283:

Is it important?

Yes, it actually is important to me.

I’m sorry to hear that

If someone finds it, I’d like to make a motion that it be sticky’d, because this thread pops up approximately every other day

None of that was logical.

Well they’re making an expansion-sized announcement on Saturday, so, pretty good.

I’d like a GW2 tabletop game, just so there’s a specific place I can tell RP’ers to screw off to. =P JK I’m not mean to RP’ers, though I do think it’s silly.

Do you think they plan on refunding everybody who bought the game before?

The announcement is pretty definitively going to be the “expansion-sized content” they’ve talked about working on “in the background” for so long now. I’ve heard a good argument for why it might actually be a free expansion, resold in stores with the original game included, for the original price. This way would get both the revenue and publicity of a traditional expansion, without splitting the player-base in two.

EDIT: Never mind, I see what you’re saying now.

laokoko.7403:

spoj.9672:

Yeah im not siding with anyone. Just saying the arguement “its improbable” is pretty weak.

It’s not weak. Winning a lottery is improbable.

Yeah, but if somebody comes along and says “Hey, I won the lottery!” Would you argue, “No you didn’t, that’s extremely improbable.” ??

It’s really not that expensive… you could just play the game however you want until you have the money. If that takes too long, then I guess you’ll just have to start putting more hours into the game. If that’s what you really want to do with your free time, anyway.

I would be OK with a level cap increase as long as gear remains relevant, though in that case, there seems to be little point in doing it.

If they introduce another race, they then have to provide the equivalent of the Personal Story for that race. While I’m not saying it’s impossible, or even completely unfeasible, I rather doubt they have done this. People have also been asking for mounts since before launch, and as we all know, that’s never happening.

Just goes to show, you don’t get jack for doing your own work; better to mooch off a bunch of other suckers whenever you can! That’s the way good ole “Bob” would do it, and that’s good enough for me!

Man that’s pretty dope. For all those who would say this needs to be implemented in the game / site, well, there’s like a 0.01% chance of that ever happening, but still, wow, nicely done.

They’re supposed to be unique lore-wise. Many of those items are specific things that, in theory, exist in only one instance in the world. Obviously that’s not the case as the game handles it, but it’s supposed to feel that way.

Great idea, except that’s not how any of that works. No sweat though, you’re totally the first person to suggest this.

NO! Paid expansion would fragment the playerbase and is completely unnecessary with all the revenue they get from the gem store.

Besides that, I’ll point you to the quote, “setting up a new framework for how MMO’s expand their universe.” Is a paid expansion a new framework? I would argue it is the exact opposite. Therefore, it does not make sense.

“Stop liking things I don’t like” etc.

thefantasticg.3984:

It’s not the one instance of using the five extra minutes, it is the cumulative effective of those five extra minutes of every run. They add up. I know you were looking at the short time but I was looking long term effect. Not only that, more DPS nerfs will come in the future. That has been the trend for the 2 years I’ve been playing.

Only really noticeable if you’re doing run after run after run. In which case, you clearly don’t have other responsibilities in life, so what does it even matter?

Purple Miku.7032:

Narkodx.1472:

They don’t care about your solo dungeon runs taking 15 seconds longer

I don’t care about that either.

Now, would you mind not posting unless you actually have anything relevant to contribute to the discussion?

Thanks in advance.

Hostile much?