Guild Wars 2

Hopefully what will happen is they will use the sPvP system.
In the mastery menu you would select either gain skill points or progress ranking up the chosen mastery.

http://obsproject.com – OBS is free for streaming and recording, takes a few mins to set up following a guide.
http://www.lwks.com – Lightworks is free for 720p output, bit of a learning curve but has significantly more features than other free editors out there.

Held off on updating at the start of this month due to… episode 100! Yay! Some sort of milestone right!

New year brings new years vids! Updated first post ^.^

If only dual moot engy…

Some stuff can be traded at the lion statue in LA, mainly candy corn to get cobs and a few cob items.
Sell it on the trading post or sit on it to next halloween otherwise.

Got one leveling an alt in EotM. Fairly mindless zerging ftw?

Ele in water attunement using a staff with stacked healing can output a fairly large amount of health. Each auto attack heals for over 600. Add on a couple of blasted water fields and healing water elemental for more fun ^.^

Reflects are great for his ranged attacks if you can get any. Range and kite a bit while keeping an eye behind you for the courier and focus on them when they appear, generally there are two runners. CC is your friend there.

(Since the closure of the Guild Mission section I’m moving this back to Community Creations. Previous topic was at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/missions/Vids-Guild-Missions-are-fun-Dec6-XHSA)

Heya folks!
Guild Missions are fun!
If you’d like to check them out, this is the playlist where they all end up: YouTube Playlist

Latest vid with Silvertree [Str]: Episode 181

Started doing missions around their release and recording began in March of 2014. Not an expert by any means, still learnin’ new stuff. All episodes are currently recorded and rendered in 720p.

Previous to episode 57 recording was done in 1080p then downscaled for youtube and my rig was set to medium settings. Episode 58 and forward recording was changed to 720p with high graphical settings. This was initially done due to finding out having the game in window mode actually improved performance plus allowed increased details. Do still intend to upgrade my gfx card in the future at the very least.

Try to be on the guild host’s voip service when available otherwise attempt some running commentary. Rarely censor others in the video, mainly upon request, and never with their audio (will mute within voip on request, not post production). Used to stream at the same time as recording however my upload limits the quality to 360p so that didn’t last long.

On Aug 21 2014 the 50th Guild Mission video was uploaded bringing the playlist up to 45 hours. Neat!

Comments, questions, concerns, ridicule? By all means post below!

Discontinued Missions
Xunlai Heroic Service Agents [XHSA]: Episode 138
Knock Out [KO]: Episode 77

Cooking is fairly easy to hit 400.
Most ingredients are fairly easy to harvest especially when you have multiple 80’s. Some are a royal pain, most of the time you’ll save buying the ingred over the finished product. Though there aren’t many recipes that will turn in the big moneys.

Basically, no harm in getting a character to 400 chef and shouldn’t have much if any cost using your existing mats. Never used a guide, there are a few out there that dynamically show you the cheapest route just check up on google and use the one you like best.

Some environmental weapons would make really nice weaponry.. smacking your foes with hunks of meat or a leg.. hehe (Check out Meatoberfest in the charr area.)

Tailoring can also be a painful experience due to the mats being so rare and as your first character it may be more worth it to sell the mats.

When you hit lvl 80 and start getting gear the ability to do higher income activities crafting becomes much simpler.

Texmod seems like it would work or shoop your character out manually.

I miss the old key farming

Kreejaffa.3682:

Some people suggest getting 100% in Holbrek, as it is a fairly fast and easy city to complete.

Would think Rata Sum and the Grove are far quicker to map complete. Though map completing seems like it would be slow for exp but the extra loot rolls would be good.

At least it’s a form of hard mode.

Are you.. lost to nightmare?

Many people were requesting refunds on the coin.
Last public SAB status is not being worked on, no short or mid term plans to bring it back. Really unfortunate. The issues with world two could be resolved. Had a blast, would like to play it again myself :/

They havn’t needed it in the past. They don’t need it now.

If you want the recipe to make them yourself, gotta pay the trading post price. Looks like only 14 are on the market though.

Alternately if you just want some sigils you can ask someone you know to craft it for you. Make a few of these types of things myself on request once in a while, they send the mats then get the item back.

Since you just rerolled it once already you can revert it to the race in question to transmute the skins back to a neutral state and redo it again.
If you want to be super efficient spend any skill points on forge stuff since it’s account bound now.

Gorani.7205:

When I asked him a few weeks late if he was willing to taxi me to an organized attempt if the map was not full already I got the reply that he and the guild in general will not do that, because you have to join the guild for this service.

Not as bad as the times they said head to a certain map for a hosted kill event only to sit around for a while then hear about it being a front for them to get to an empty map and pull their people in.

Being friends with a few members can be fine, they can sneak you in. Though if you’re going to do a wurm kill join any voip service the host is using. Teq doesn’t need the military precision, he’s totally pugable.

Been talk about this since not long after launch. Would really be handy sadly will probably never happen.

Would really like the option of choosing the key or armour part. At this point why not make story completion account based in order to bring in alts to help others and still be able to get the cheeves.

Maybe the key is in there since the new pact weapons are in black lion chests instead of as a reward for doing the story?

I run a Sylvari with a flamethrower sometimes.

Why wouldn’t you want a Sylvari with a flamethrower?

If you really like the look go ahead and buy them. The gear will last for quite a few levels then simply sell them to a merchant to get some money back. Otherwise it’s pretty easy to use what you find or trading post what you need.

Later on that armour cost won’t be as bad of a hit to your wallet so look pretty now or wait for lvl 80 to buy then sell back for the skin and transmute it to a set of exotic armour.

Lightworks free exports as h264.
I’m good with the quality it outputs, could be better, but find it reasonable.

Tried other free editors out there and found them to just be yuck. Would rather pay for another proper editor or simply continue using lwk.

Yep, decided to clear out the super annoying VICTORY OR DEATH KILL ZHAITAN clutter on a few characters. Nope, now it’s [LIVINGSTORYTHING]. Quit this episode just pops up the latest.

Wish we had the UI customization that GW1 had.

I use OBS to record and Lightworks to edit.
Lightworks does have some limits on the free version with the main ones being limited rendering options and 720p max output. Also a bit confusing so there’s a learning curve. Have some older software but never bothered to buy new ones.

Lightworks: http://www.lwks.com/

Ooh flying mounts! Ha not gunna happen, would be neat if they made a story mission minigame of blasting as many as possible.

Even better would be a new zone and bringing elements of Guns of Icarus and a bit of commanding a war effort like Battlefield 2142.

Fire has more upfront burst.

Engy has:
Bomb and Flamethrower fire fields though the latter is smaller. Both utilities also come with a blast finisher.
Shield has a blast, hit 4 twice.
Thumper turret activated is a blast iirc.
Self-destructing a turret also causes a blast.
Supply Crate causes a blast when used.

May be missing something, takes effort to blast with engies ^.^

Frostfang is completely meh.
Juggernaut is ok and I was thinking of going for it but saw it on people and didn’t like certain aspects. Maybe some day.
The Moot, I’m planning on making two Sadly this will still take a lot of time, havn’t seen a precurser since lost shores and am fairly bored of the farming grind. But eh something to work on in the years to come.
Was also thinking of Rodgort. Cus, Rodgort.

If only eles could use torches.. and engies using maces/hammers…

Yup, can make a few instant 80’s as well. Though with the mechanic of more class based drops I’ve been thinking of having a light armour class remade over and over to farm the cloth mats.

Killing Zhaitan gives a lvl 18 exotic armour part, done it a few times for a set. Then can craft some low level exotic weapons. Since they will be account bound after the lowby hits 80 could burn through the story if wanted and remake for more farming. Little extra karma or mf would be nice to have.

Yup a guide is invaluable. Make sure to go the opposite way of the path they walk.
After finding them waiting to start the fight near a waypoint is good. Ten people scattering in a zone to find then kill a bounty will get it done no problem, five is reasonable for many targets if you want to split up.
One downside of doing it while others are there as well is if they kill it before your guild is ready. Also sometimes they don’t announce finding it in map chat, kill it, and who knows where it will respawn.

If your guild doesn’t care about the influence and merits use a tier 3 bounty and find the simplest one to take out. Yeah the megaservers havn’t been as bad as they were in the past unless you happen to be on a world boss map. Having team leaders able to split and ferry their team in works great.

Been recording the missions I participate in and uploading for a while now, the latest one is with a group of about 8 or 9 people. We generally do fine on the bounty, can have problems during the puzzle (mainly langmar but getting it down), challenge is the most difficult for the group as some need more or people just don’t want to try, and the rush may need some people to escort/clear monsters on the path. If you want to check out the videos a link to the thread on this forum is in my signature ^.^

When jewel crafting goes to 500 (no idea why it would..) or maybe just an update to match the other leveling equipment.

Low level exotic trinkets would be nice for the stats but the amulet could be useful with the utility slot. Especially the exp boost on a character being leveled up. Think I would craft one for the exp boost on rerolled chars plus the stats would be reasonable. Plus most of the time trinkets don’t get changed out much while leveling too.

Would anyone else craft at least an amulet with a utility slot for the boost?

Warrior, greatsword crit, share might to party.
Guard, f1 might, party might on crit, staff skill.
Engy, blasts, traited flamerthrower (~5 constant), hgh.

More info at: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Might

If you’re looking for mass might stacks the war greatsword and guard f1 plus traited to recharge on kill gives massive might stacks in group content like the labyrinth.

The level requirement to start on the next set of stories can get fairly annoying..
Anywho after claw island the pace picks up rather quickly. You can wait for your friend to get to that point and do them all together if you take the same choices, claw island may have more meaning to you when done solo though. To say why would be spoilers.

Nobody knows what they will do with the story. Most likely nothing will change from how it is now. If it does you can always make a new character to do it again, also taking alternate paths for a different view and the skipped options. Waiting to see what happens with it seems pointless.

If you have ran through it once already the later stage has one part removed (the fear arc, three alternate parts) and the series of events is incredibly disjointed.

Nausiation.1469:

what is npe?………….

Null poin.. no hang on. New Player Experience.

The instant 20 scrolls got a nerf too due to those levels being really fast to obtain. Being able to mystic forge them higher would be grand.
The level up rewards are nice, especially later exotics. The wonkyness of stats is horrible. Traits are a disaster.

The leveling equipment (low level exotics) is a neat idea but abhorridly expensive to craft. Been thinking of rolling a light armour class over and over for the increased chance of good salvage may be worth it though it’s probably better to just farm on an 80. Sadly my main passtime farm was lion keys..

On an interesting note upon killing Zhaitan you get the choice of a lvl 18 account bound exotic (head, coat, pants) and 5 level tomes (that don’t stack with the other ones).

Currently 2.
Sylvari female, convinced me to keep it and to like the race more. Multiple armour for different looks and builds though won’t be going for t3 cultural.
Human female, alt character.

If you ever make an alt ele? Otherwise destroy it I guess.

My main has Champion of the Gods.

…i ended up in the hospital couple weeks ago cus of this game…

Probably time to take a break instead of worrying about titles.

Darkbattlemage.9612:

cephiroth.6182:

Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his power level?

It reads 1,200. Nothing to be alarm about Nappa it just one of your Saibamen wearing a wig.

Good thing it wasn’t 1006, could have ended badly.

Gotten in a few times with friends, much more competitive when you’re trying not to fail for fear of ridicule on voip.. or laughing at them too.

Reaper’s Rumble would have also been amazing with premade teams vs.

Go with the one you want more?

This would be hilarious for my ele, simply auto attacking with an old build was aoe healing 600. Probably incredibly difficult to balance though.

Hehe imagine Regeneration crit healing.. or Healing Signet being more op?

The other downside with the new system, when you’re not powering the character to 80 that is, is using bad traits or having nothing set simply due to limited options. A stack of skill point scrolls will also be rather handy..

Simply EotM’ing to 80 then buying them will cost a fair amount too.

You can also guest to another guild and join in for their missions. Alternatively a set of celestial may come in handy for an engy or some other odd builds with other classes you may want to use (like the mentioned ele).

Or just sit on them until you feel a need to spend, supposedly they won’t expire.

Could also try to get some larger packs or additional bank space. The bank space is amazingly useful especially when working on multiple characters.

Wouldn’t bother me.
Can have an instant 80 and 50+ right now. Would be grand if the birthday 1 and 2 scrolls stacked. Or even forge them to higher level scrolls since getting to 20 now is quick.

Unfortunately some people would use it and have no idea how to play their class.