Guild Wars 2

Been raising a guardian with the new updates and thinking the higher loot allocation affects weapons more than armour. Havn’t been keeping track of loot drops however other class items do seem to show up less frequently.

Unsure if it affects loot from bags, doesn’t seem like it.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Why is it odd that dead bodies remain in place? Would dead bodies usually just up and move themselves?

Themselves no. Underwater denizens, yes.
Are Risen skeletons a thing?

With what Konig said, perhaps spin it as:
You found a stash of semi preserved dragon eggs withing the lower half of the Bone Dragon / Rotscale’s original ritual site. Attempted a resurrection which ended.. poorly. Using what parts were still in respectable condition a minion was animated.

Unfortunately due to the infantile nature and rough process its main value combat wise is getting entangled within your feet to trip you while seeking attention or play time (yeah, it’s totally a cat). Most don’t bother you on this feat due to the difficulty involved or they are too busy getting it to chase a magically floating bat on a string.

The dead bodies sticking around for so long after the sinking of Orr is another oddity.
So, was Zhaitan killed with the cataclysm then corrupted by his own magics or was it just a release of his power. The long term preservation of bodies could be attributed to his leaking magics, possibly due to the shift in his nature.

As in, when the city was thriving magic was a common and wondrous thing. After the destruction and ascent from the depths it became a corrupted land.
Instead of wonders by living beings the undead wonder aimlessly until willed.

Overflowing transmutation chalice: Double click to obtain (6-10ish) transmutation charges. Refills at daily reset.

Loved using the lower tranny stones to give sub 80 alts different styles once in a while and alternate armour sets for others just for looks. Losing the town clothes slot at the same time made me sad, it also killed dancing with weapons out
Was really hoping the transmutations would affect a characters inventory slot not the item itself before release.

What I saw with the last living story was a push for the main protagonist, aka the player, to be seen as the main protagonist. Artificially making us find out clues was more akin to the NPC’s guiding a child. Being the Boss and deferred to for tasks that the others seemed to previously have had a plan of action or more of a solo role in a similar situation. Requiring story completion before cheeves unlock is also annoying, havn’t bothered to go back for them as many would have been obtained on the first play through.

The new zone is nice. Seems to be more about champs and chest hunting, essentially another farming zone. The delayed expansion to access more of the zone was an interesting idea and would be good to see more of with one change – faster access.

Limited content is actually neat. Being able to replay it in a way is beneficial but defeats the limited nature. Perhaps really really big events being one time would be fine with ample advertising and build up such as the destruction of LA.
Story events like the tower of nightmares were actually really interesting. These locations could be reused as a dungeon. Possible not as a short fractal but more of a Vision of the Mists, using the fractal concept and expanding it to be more akin to the normal dungeons. Could even use the fractal scaling and additional affects. And lore wise it’s the mists. To counter the ‘uniqueness’ problem secondary or unrelated stories can be told using the location as a canvas (or just here’s this thing, do stuff/kill stuff).

With all that being said what we the players have had as extra content so far has been a bonus to the initial purchase. It’s been two years since release. I’d like to see a personal story 2.0, which would give a way to introduce new races. New content more akin to an expansion. Even if it’s purchased content giving half the landmass/dungeons/etc it will expand the area to explore, find new things, and be based on everything ANet has learned so far. Coming from GW1 I’d really like to see the old lore expanded upon.

Anywho this has gotten long so ‘post reply’.

Wasn’t sure about this myself and made a Sylvari guardian just to try out the race back at release. Been perfectly happy with it since. Also have a sylv war alt, it however will get rerolled whenever a new race comes out (intended to do this however). Both are female. My male engy is fun just to run around with the flamethrower…

The racial elites are fairly meh. The turret growth can be useful for some pve ranged damage or some invul on a war however the turrets get removed in one aoe. It has been funny to use in wvw just to see people have no idea how to react.

The armour for both is the same so nothing much to say there, will be up to your taste. Find a few of them rather nice and one not so much.

Now the class choice. War is generally simpler to pick up and use and not much to think about in the longer run. Guard has some more stuff to think about while using and a little more depth. So if you’re mainly going tanky and want some more support options guard is the winner.

Don’t forget to try out both before deciding.

Heya folks!
Guild Missions are fun, so much so that I do them 2 times a week currently.

If you’d like to check them out, this is the playlist where they all end up: YouTube Playlist
Most recent vid with: Xunlai Heroic Service Agents [XHSA] Episode 88
Previous with: Silvertree [Str] Episode 87

Started doing missions around their release and recording began in March of 2014. Not an expert by any means, still learnin’ new stuff and ways to port people in. All episodes are currently exported in 720p due to my video editing software only supporting it.

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 near 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. 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!

Yeah, you no longer need to guest for credit.
Source, my last guild missions (did not record the guesting though).

For anyone that has yet to get one or unable to log in for a while here’s a quick video showcasing the.. um.. toy?

Birthday Blaster (YouTube) 720p

ConfusedDave.4271:

…the metrics for SAB World 2 were terrible, which I imagine is why we’re never going to see it again.

Closing it down instead of addressing the reason for the bad showing is great.
Was considering getting the Continue Coin mainly for red or purple weapons, glad I held off. Thought it was really odd that SAB didn’t come back in april even just with the old worlds.

So the blue weapons on the trading post are gunna go up in price now? Was eyeing the mace.. oh dang many skins are over 100g.