Guild Wars 2

I think this is the only all-in-one outfit. I’d love to split it as well. The riding pants don’t -quite- cut it as casual pants.

I’ve done him on Guardian and Mesmer. Likely I should go in on all my alts, but I achieved him on Guardian and Lightfoot on Mesmer, and the 1 gold is nice but not crucial to me.

Guardian being my first, I did a lot of flailing as I learned the fight, and went down a few times. Never died, though, she’s -very- tough. In retrospect, stability sure would have helped! I didn’t know about the knockback when I started, though.

Mesmer felt like hax. Not only did I know the fight, but Canach happily charged at clones all the live-long day while I stayed in the mostly open area at the back of the cave and lined up mines for him to hit when I exploded the clones to get his attention on me. At the very end he knocked me into the fringe of a mine effect but I managed to dodge out of it in time and bam, Lightfoot.

I’m not even a very good player with high reflexes either.

I sure hope Lorazcyk is wrong about that not preventing re-targeting on camera move … because I want to be a happy camper and I am cheering so much right now. It’s been especially difficult on my Thief since his skills flip him around but the camera doesn’t turn with him (a good thing, I’d get queasy and disoriented) so then I do a manual spin in a controlled fashion to re-orient … and lose my target.

I am happy! I expect to be happy! Please be wrong, Lorazcyk … please?

I hit my 5th 80 today, primarily PvE rather than crafting/wvw. Now, I did get her from 66 to 79 in the Instigator zerg, but then I went to PS to cap her. I have one or two guildies that level via crafting, the rest of us play the main game.

A lot of people is not necessarily most people. The game remains fun! Though, as I’ve posted repeatedly, I have RP to add that extra depth and keep me excited about each character. Today’s 80 is my first non-RP one, and mesmer just turned out to be so fun to PvE with.

Still as others have said, if it’s not fun, it’s not a game. There’s no obligation. I hope you find the fun again, here or elsewhere.

Earlier today in the Instigator zerg someone dropped a merchant. The merchant did not respond to me or my guildmate. Just now I was running to the LA TP to pick something up; there was a Black Lion trader standing out in the plaza, so I stopped at him to save some time. He likewise did not respond.

Has there been a change to where these only work for the summoner, like the CE Bank Golem? Yesterday the merchants were fine and it was very helpful of people to drop them for the zerg.

I have not yet tested this by dropping one for people to try, I will have to organize some people to see if we can reproduce the issue.

Just now I am seeing some posts with Attachments listed but only blank white space instead of the image. I saw attachments fine yesterday.

I have not yet restarted Firefox or my computer, but I have checked a thread I know had visible images posted and they are now all blank as well.

I checked another thread I know has attachments (Evil Looking Characters) — none there either. Hmmm.

Just checking: Are there pictures posted or are people leaving the Attachments blank here?

While it is not a guarantee, they did say that if and when they bring back the SAB there will likely be new, different skins, but the currency will be the same. If you have the inventory room, you might want to hold onto them to save effort later.

Any word on whether this has been fixed? I’m about to hit 80 on my Mesmer and per my usual practice I drink up the karma needed and zip off to the temples to get my first exotics.

Though there may be less zipping involved as I have been leveling on Southsun and so will have to explore my way through Orr …

Mesmer (greatsword and sword/pistol) – A lot of movement, a lot of 2-5 and F1-F4 (I focus on F1 and F2, with F4 for emergencies). Also constant use of 7 to 9 because those are making my clones and phantasms, as are my weapon skills, and ~ because swapping lets me toss out even more clones and phantasms. It doesn’t feel frantic, there’s time to consider which button to use when, but you do need the whole gamut.

Engineer (lower level, he’s 51, right now on pistol/shield, with grenades and flamethrower and an elixir) – I’d find this difficult with limited key presses. I may just not be comfortable with the profession mechanics yet but he gets a lot of frantic key presses plus instead of a nice convenient ~ I have to jump my fingers over to 7 and 8 to swap out kits, and ~ to go back to pistol/shield. Plus which kits you have determine what your F1 to F4 do and you really need to use the F1 to F4 keys a lot. I haven’t tried turrets, mines/bombs seemed far too awkward to implement, and elixir gun too situational. But unless you’ve tried out a low level build that is viable for you, I’d say this profession is likely to frustrate you too much given your keyboard issues.

Ranger — I’m only level 20 and not fond of pet classes, I can’t say how this will work out for you. At least the only function key you really need in haste is F2 for the animal’s special ability, and sometimes the pet-swap key too if you lost the pet. Which btw means watching the animal’s health as well as yours and using heal even when you yourself are fine. So far it’s a lot of 2 to 5, and 6, and my utilities for emergencies.

Elementalist – Only level 30, I bogged down on her soon after launch, partly because she is so very squishy (and also due to guild issues that are irrelevant here). A lot of keys to dance with as you noted. You do need to keep going between attunements via F1 to F4, then you have the 2 to 5 in each one, and utilities mixed in. It’s more ergonomically laid out than the Engineer’s needs, but you can’t just hit 2 or 3 keys and get anywhere. I did just start another Ele as an RP shill, I only got him to 12 so he could wear the outfit needed, but I made him dagger/dagger and he felt a lot tougher than my staff elementalist. Which may be the weapons, may be the lower level, and may be me understanding the game a lot better than I did last September.

I hope that gives you some ideas, and that you do find some effective and fun profession you can manage.

If you are mouse-moving then all you need at speed on the keyboard is 1-0 and the space bar for jumping. The 1 is almost superfluous if you have it on auto-attack. You might be able to remap the 1-0 (maybe even onto a numpad peripheral, I had one of those for an old laptop and it just plugged in USB) for easier access without so much hand movement. Now, thinking on the 8 professions from a key-mashing perspective:

Thief (dual dagger/dual pistols for me): Mostly 2 3 4, and 6 for heal, along with ~ for swap. I save 7 8 9 for when my elite is up and fire them off in sequence. Not always, sometimes I toss a utility for situational reasons, and if I’m in a dungeon or ore-running in Orr I swap in other skills that need different timing. But you’re looking for something to get you through the basics of play. Downside of Thief: very squishy. The weapon skills themselves do most of your dodging for you, but you need to use regular dodge a lot as well. I have a Naga HEX and use my right thumb for all that stuff.

Guardian: (scepter/focus and sword/shield for me) – A lot of 2 to 5 as well as ~ for weapon swap, also a lot of F1-F4 and 6 to 9, with my elite saved for when my party has a lot of people low on health. Traited and statted right the guardian is the least squishy you’ll find and doesn’t need nearly as much dodging other than getting out of red circles. Otoh my guardian dps is nearly nil so fights do take longer solo and it’s hard to get credit in zerg events.

Warrior: (Greatsword/Rifle for me, yeah, I know, but she’s mostly been for RP) – 2 to 9 get a lot of attention, as does 0 for elite and F1 for burst skill. I haven’t fooled with banners but they either need planting/collecting or get used, at which point you have a different set of 5 skills to deal with on 1-5. Not as much dodging needed but you’ll suffer in melee if you can’t dodge at the right times.

Necromancer (Staff and Dagger/Horn) – minion builds are bah-humbugged by many and I have found signets more fun. The staff is a fairly steady 2 to 5 sequence but is all ground targeted so you need to be able to put your cursor where you want the marks to land. With my skills I don’t hit 7 so much (it puts aoe damage where I’m standing, and I do try not to be next to the mobs), I use 8 and 9 a lot, and on my elite I have to move by the mobs and spam something, usually 2 to blind them so they don’t hit me while I plague them. I find myself doing a lot more standing still and casting on the necro.

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I’ve been singing that tune since Beta (and at least they GAVE us emotes .. the RP community had to talk quite a bit at them after the first BWE to explain the need for emotes and to have a limited range. Emote and Say started out as zone-wide).

The grey is of exactly the shade the eye most wants to ignore. One has to force oneself to concentrate on every line to even realize it’s there, let alone read it. I am pretty sure every other MMO I’ve played had some level of color customization for types of chat box output. It is sorely needed here.

I many times +1 this for cleverness and reasonableness all rolled into one.

Our guild has some very good rangers. One of them saved our butts epically in one of our first TA story runs, back when we were at level for it and there were wp rezzes in combat. She expertly kited and dps’d the guy with all the little spider things while we ran back, and he was mostly dead when we got there.

I will run with any mix of professions. I only want people to be grownups who are having fun, performance is the least important part. Though after you tell someone twenty times not to pick up the wisp in the swamp fractal until everyone’s ready, and she keeps doing it, that run does eventually get called. No kicks, however (she was a wife of a friend but I won’t kick someone for anything other than a long unexplained fta or foul mouthed hate and anger issues).

I -think- you advance so long as you are doing a level at or higher than your personal max.

- I am pretty sure you have to play at your max personal level to advance to the next one.

- I am told the loot gets better, you get more relics, and at higher level you get the more valuable relics needed to buy some things. You also get a better (still very slim) chance at the fractal weapons.

- I don’t know on agony, as I have no interest in required-gear-collection so I have not gone to level 10 ever.

Way too much to list! Check out the sticky at the top of Players Helping Players:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/OMG-If-you-only-knew-this-tips-for-new-players/first

One place where this would be very useful is on the TP. People can sell off white armor and weapons bought on vendors for many times the purchase price (ok, so it’s still in the 45 copper range). Not an issue except the daily and monthly salvage achieves can be filled in nicely by buying some very cheap whites. On the TP you have no way of telling if you are getting a vendor-bought or mob-dropped item, and almost no one is going to buy level 2 whites from the TP -except- to salvage. So a no-salvage line in the tool tip would save frustration.

All right, let’s give this a try!

Right now doing 100 events is one option towards the monthly and so people will show en masse to events. The Southsun instigator farm zerg is a nice way to get those, though.

That degree of control would be lovely. Meanwhile, a somewhat annoying workaround is to /sleep. That ducks most characters out of camera view, though does force an upward view angle from the ground.

As per the title. That beast is bigger than most cats get. Ugly, too, and in need of a diet (not that being overweight is bad, but there are healthy and unhealthy cat shapes. I have 3 cats RL and one of them is way too round, even if it does make her the most cuddly of the three).

There are plenty of small real-sized animals in Tyria, and look at how wonderfully you made the raccoon. Surely you can do a realistic kitten.

I see people doing it all the time on these forums but the one time I attempted to do it per the guide to codes, I ended up with text gibberish rather than an image. I could sure use a step by step dummies guide on this.

I love a game where I can don real looking armor if I want. Here’s my street-rat turned warrior:

Unless you RP. Most of RP is done in emotes despite the horrid grey text color. Then you need them on, regardless of occasional spam.

I am happier without the blood dripping. I had to look at a closeup screenie to realize it had the Sclerite scheme at all, which suits me because I purely loathe the Sclerite weapons aesthetic.

I am sure many want the blood. I am sure many do not. As they can’t please everyone and are already on the third iteration of the sickle animation, I am going to selfishly vote to keep it as it is now.

I get the impression the qualifier is that you used a Black Lion kit during the bug. As I did not do so, I have not (as of last night) received a kit, which is fine as the bug did not affect me.

Guys, take a look at the thread in Suggestions on “An Option to Disable Right Click Targeting.” It will explain one prime source of targeting woes. Note that the one person in -this- thread without issues keeps the right button permanently down …

Necromancer — I forget the Elite’s name but you turn into a noxious cloud for a good long while, doing aoe damage to everything in your circle of doom, and I like to spam the 2 skill in that so the stuff near me is mostly blinded and can’t hit me or my friends.

Guardian — I have the heal elite despite its 3 minute cd. In a game without healers it is deeply satisfying to announce on Mumble “big heal near me” as I channel the 5 skill and boom, everyone gets back to full health. Then there’s a lot of smaller heals I can fling while the elite remains active.

RP.

Seriously. I do a lot of PvE with my 80’s but the reason they got to 80 and the reason I want to visit their lives is that they -have- lives. Stories, plotlines, adventures. I’ve RP’d since 7th grade when D&D first came out and it makes my brain happy and creative.

Heck, I went from tongue-tied dread of public speaking to being a career defense attorney thanks to RP and the acting skills it gave me along with the ability to see multiple points of view. I played WoW for 7 years thanks to involved plotlines and fun people to play with (who are still going with amazing stories over there).

RP will keep you invested long after the game mechanics pale.

To clarify on kokocabana’s point, while there is no login queue to get in, that’s once you have your account settled on the server. If you are trying to join the server in the first place, you need to refresh a lot (maybe restart the launcher a lot? I’m not sure, I’ve never swapped servers and only guested once). I have a WoW friend who just joined TC and says it took him an hour of refreshing to find an opening. I’ve heard of others that never find it open in a week of trying. Make the attempt at very non-peak hours for your best shot.

I have become a real fan of healing power. I have a lot of it on my guardian, not so much on my other professions. When I hit my signet heal I get back to full, most every time, even from very low health.

I’d have to go in game to tell you how she’s statted, and I’m hardly a theorycrafter or min-maxer, but I seem to have lucked into a very viable build for durability. DPS, not so much, I had problems getting better than copper rewards with the Southsun zerg on her until I gave up on support from the edges and waded in with my sword.

edit: As to getting Bolt, you need either a lot of money (thousands of gold) or a lot of time (could take a year, though some did it very quickly, likely with lots of money and guild support). It’s a legendary and needs ungodly amounts of rare materials, full world exploration (including wvw lands), a lot of luck in the Mystic Forge, and a very pricey (or lucky drop) precursor weapon.

Otoh it doesn’t have stats better than exotics, so it’s really something to go for for looks and to show off your dedication (or your wealth).

I think Mercury has the right idea. The white rainbow radiance of Bifrost would look stunning juxtaposed with emerald shades.

Fern Hound and Drakehound both would make many of my guildies giddy with glee.

I’d also like a kitten that is kitten shaped and sized. (a young feline, that wasn’t a censored line).

Oh, well, in WoW I mained range only (Mage and Priest mostly). I thought I’d never want to play a Guardian because I couldn’t stand Paladin game play — I was so wrong! Mine is sturdy, protected, and this rose has thorns baby! Armored, hurling blue fire, putting up wards and shields like crazy, she is my dungeon preference. Most of the weapons were too slow for me until I settled on scepter/focus with some sword/shield for variety.

Also fun to RP but that’s separate from the profession

I just sickled the heck out of the Beetletun lettuce and enjoyed every swing. It even bursts out a shower of leaves. Third time’s the charm! Thanks for working on it ’til it was good.

You also won’t get guild bank access or WvW benefits while guesting. However you will be able to RP your heart out. My guild has two members guesting from elsewhere that are quite involved in our plotlines.

ANet didn’t lock out TC, TC simply attracted so many players that it’s pretty perma-full. There’s not much ANet can do about that at this point; if they’d designated two NA RP servers at the start there’d be more room. But how were they to know? Also the RP community would have been quite torn about where to go, TC having been selected by gw2roleplayers.com ’s thousands of members before launch, many of whom had intricate plots going on forums before beta even began.

Thief would be good at all but the Champions part. If you’re alone and there’s a Champion, the Thief’s best skill is to run the heck away (in my opinion — some Thief players might well be much better at it than me).

Guardian has a ton of survivability, not so much aoe to get at the DE’s, but might give you a solid feel.

I have avoided minions on my Necro and my Ranger’s barely in the 20’s so I can’t really weigh in on those.

Agreed. They do give you a “buy more on TP” dropdown option, so perhaps we could also have a “craft X number” choice. Or else a secondary craft window could open with that item in it and its components listed (do we then need a tertiary window for crafting those too? Some cooking items take a lot of base mats to make intermediate pieces to get to the final product).

That has been a problem in character creation for me. I have two characters that should have a pleasant or even merry demeanor and their game faces are all “I’m in a real bad mood, don’t you dare mess with me.” I have a guildie that made a smiling Norn but humans are stuck with dour.

The Fallen Earth MMO had several face settings you could put on your character, which was great, but they were on a timer. It would be nice to be able to /mood smile and then always have that character smiling even after a re-log until you set another mood.

Fishbait.6723:

Whilst you`re at it, can you code the game not to move forwards when LMB & RMB pressed at the same time?

Whoa! That’s a completely different issue and would completely screw up how I move in this game (and in every other MMO I’ve played, all of them have used double button press to move). I don’t use the keyboard to move or turn except for short position adjustments.

If it’s a toggle, as most everyone is asking on the right click targeting which is the focus of this thread, fine.

I agree there should be more report categories, and not just in custom arenas.

Also, it took me a while to realize you weren’t talking about costume brawl. It seems to be a common typo on these forums.

Costume: unusual outfit to make you look like something else.

Custom: created to a specific individual design.

Level 80: Thief, Guardian, Warrior, Necromancer
Level 66: Mesmer
Level 50: Engineer

I have a Noble’s Coat and yeah, that’s about what Illumination does on it.

I was taken aback by the size. It’s knee high to my sylvari. Maybe I was imagining something like WoW’s white kitten which is, y’know, kitten sized. I really did want a little ball of white fluff, not a bruiser that could eat some dogs for lunch.

I’ll join in all the rational comments here. While I haven’t used uninstanced Salma much (or at all, I’m trying to remember if/when I did), the timing is really bad since a guild plotline scene set for tomorrow night was meant to be played in there.

Even if I had no plans I’d still be boggling at this “fix” to something that wasn’t broken. Granted the NPC’s in there are oddly pathed but the terrain itself is a wonderful stage dressing for so many stories. As others have asked, I’ll also request that we get some explanation of why this was deemed necessary.

I’d hope architectural style would be selectable as well. Some guilds might want Sylvari trees or Norn mead halls or Asura labs …

I think of all the MMO’s I’ve played LotRO did the best guild areas. For those who haven’t seen it: A zoned area of each architectural style is set up. When you enter, you pick which iteration to join; it has a list of number of available houses inside. As the instances get sold out, more get opened. Individual guild members can each buy and decorate a home in the instance.

A guild can’t claim a whole instance, though, and I’d like to have that ability in GW2 so there’s no rush to grab houses before people are ready to buy. Also you have to keep paying game money on a periodic basis or you lose the house and all the decorations go to an escrow NPC. I -loathe- that. It doesn’t fit GW2, either, this game being made for long absences without penalty.

I guess I’m just pushing for the infinite instances that anyone can join if they know which id # to use to get in that one, with buildings with specific permissions the owner can set, and lots of choice of home style and location (up on a cliff, along a river, etc).

How do you make it dodge you forward if you’re not already in motion? Can you?

Piken Square is the unofficial EU RP server, yes. I’ve heard it hasn’t gotten the density that Tarnished Coast did but I know some excellent RPers that are over there.