Guild Wars 2

SirBiest.3071:

Before spending karma on gear, keep in mind that crafting a legendary requires large amounts of karma (an average of 1 million i think?). So before chugging away karma for items you can get for 5 gold, make sure you arent going to need it for a legendary which costs thousands of gold. I made that “mistake” because I didnt know better at the time :P

I have no plans to make a legendary at this time, but that’s good to know. Maybe when the expansion hits with the new system. There’s no way I’ll get enough gold to buy mats for it, and I’m not that lucky.

SirBiest.3071:

yeah I recommend starting with a berserker set of exotics, you can easily obtain it from the trading post, throught crafting or from dungeon tokens + it allows you to tackle the widest variety of content and it forces you to learn to dodge and use damage mitigation abilities

I started playing last year with a warrior in Soldier gear and with a shout-heal build, which basically means I didnt die in dungeons… and it got boring so quickly I actually stopped playing for a few months.

I’m working on karma gear and saving my crafting mats for when I get good runes, like scholar or travelers. Grenth gear is berserker stats. 42k a piece is fair and requires no upfront gold. It lets me save badges for weapons and doesn’t pick my pockets. It lets me save my gold for things like runes, bags, and maybe some gems for bank space. So I guess I’m really in half exotic gear if I run with my berserker pieces.

I hope not, it’ll be months before I’m in a situation to even look at ascended crafting, but I started playing for the sale. I’m in rares, and not having the greatest time. It works out alright if I can hide in the group. In small fights, it seems to be an issue. I’m working on getting better and enough badges to get better gear. I have the WvW weapons, I just need to settle on an armor stat and get enough badges.

I use this to figure out my builds and gear.
http://metabattle.com/wiki/

It recommends valkyrie or berserker for nercro back line, and mix of solider with berserker or just full berserker for roaming. I’m debating trying full berserker and just do trial by fire until I learn to play better. That way I can use the set for PVE, Roaming, and blob fights. Then I just need to swap weapons and talents. Hmm….

Astral Projections.7320:

Really? ANet thought this? Is there even one player out there who read the requirements when this was released who thought, “Good idea, this will definitely encourage more build experimentation.”

If you did, speak up now.

Well I used weird trait builds when leveling because I didn’t have any choice. It was this near pointless trait, or no trait. I often opted for just putting one point in every line just so I get something, since I didn’t have enough traits unlocked. But yeah… I like running around in a small area hoping a champion spawns. =(

My google-power has failed me and I’m new. What’s PPK? I assume points per kill, but how does that work? The more people you kill the more points you get? And how would that fix balance issues on servers as everyone always says “PPK would fix it!”

Because they way I look at it, if there’s low to no population, I can see PPK being helpful. No one to defend so you don’t get as many points stealing all their stuff. But what if you have enough players to run on a map, but not enough to hold it? Getting farmed by a larger blob would net more points for the enemy no? And wouldn’t this mean the best thing to do if you can’t beat the blob, is not play?

And thus why I’d like some explanation on PPK. While my thoughts on it give it strengths, it doesn’t seem to me to fix the underlying population imbalances. Though, I honestly feel, nothing will fix that.

Edit: I tried to type like kungfu but with google in the world instead of kung… anet doesn’t likekitten

coglin.1867:

No one is forcing you not to play during those time zones. That is your choice.

I don’t mean to nitpick, but some people have very specific times they can play. That may be one of the only times he gets game time. You know there are things like work, school, family, friends, etc. Some people have very limited play time and some people may very well be forced to play on those times.

I’m a morning person, I play very early in the morning and because of my very early morning schedule I can’t play much at primetime. I made the mistake of joining a server with almost no morning crew. Though this morning I think there was a group on the map, but they were running silent and tag-less so I couldn’t follow. I’m new, so how was I supposed to know my server is dead in the morning? Heck I didn’t even know what WvW ranking was. I knew WvW existed and I was very interested in playing it, but I just chose a random server. I could pay to transfer, or I could delete my character and start again on a server with a morning crew. But I opted for just skipping WvW and jumping in on the days when I can play closer to prime time.

I can see why the original poster is upset, but I don’t think a lot can be done about it. I woke up this morning to see almost all our borderland taken (we had two towers and two camps) and lost all of EBG. We were ticking at 40 or 50 I think. And the maps were empty and quiet. It’s really disheartening, but I’m sure we’ll reclaim them sooner or later. I just hope we didn’t have any waypoints. I wish upgrades in WvW cost nothing, but badges, karma, and time. It makes me sad to think of all that wasted gold.

Delune.4817:

Whenever I think about anet not caring about WvW at all I just think of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kk3CDbAO0M

Waits for infraction point

LOL

I hope you don’t get an infraction point for that, it is a pretty funny video. I’m assuming this video is a little old, so now we know why they couldn’t chatter about upcoming changes. They weren’t allowed to speak about the expansion. I’m sure at the time it made it look like they do nothing all day but play facebook games and browse reddit.

lordkrall.7241:

There are multiple ways out of spawn.

With FA fielding those numbers, I wouldn’t be surprised if the other exits are also locked down.

It makes sense. If you target the weak you get points, while if you target the strong, you may not get any points. It’s more or less how PVP works in most games, hit the weaknesses, avoid the strengths.

I haven’t been playing very long and my server looks like the underdog in their match up. For the record, I don’t mind this. But some people do. If we get wiped or our commander seems a little rough with players, people will just leave. And there’s not a lot you can do with low numbers. So it’s sadly often nipping at weakness and building up players as more minor wins roll in, then suddenly you have a group of 40+ and things can get rolling. At least in EBG. Borderlands seem to do well with small groups, and you only need a larger group to eat their large group and encourage them to seek points else where. But if Borderlands can’t muster a suitable defense, people will just roll over and give up. But this is just what I’ve noticed in my short time joining the game. I will admit, I’m part of the problem. If there is no tag, I don’t really know what to do. I don’t have a lot of siege, I’m ignorant of placements. And my gear is all rare stuff.

For most people, losing isn’t fun, winning is. This is also why server populations are so messy.

This is a fair point, I just started playing and while choosing my home server I think the majority of them said “Very High”. I didn’t notice any full servers, but I’m sure they were there or hidden since I can’t chose them. I had been told server don’t matter much, so I was confused if servers don’t matter, why am I choosing one and why are they “Very High”? I understand that WvW is one of the reasons to choosing a server, but no where on that server list does it tell me anything about WvW or the servers I’m choosing. It seems odd to me to keep information external. It also seems odd to me that they charge for server transfers when the only reason you’d want to change is WvW. I’m sure it’ll make more sense when I become more experienced. I can see people switching teams constantly becoming an issue, but there are other ways around that.

As a new player that was very helpful, thank you. I might have to watch it a few times, but it at least has helped me to understand as a newb necro where to stand and what my focus should be. I’m not 80 yet and it will be some time before I get ready for World vs World, but I’m excited to try it. It looks like a lot of fun.