Guild Wars 2

Well, while there may be negatives to the game (lousy jump physics, super hard to stay grouped with friends if you don’t level in lockstep), TESO matches the criteria you put in your OP. While they have four base classes that have certain advantages in specific areas, like Templars will be better at healing, I can say as a deeply altoholic player I’ve been satisfied with just one main character because I can wear any armor, wield any weapon, and spec to tank/heal/dps as I please (not all at once, you do have skill trees to make you specialize in particular combos).

Combat is quite active, includes dodge rolls, and has no tab targeting. You just point your crosshairs at the target and click the mouse buttons in the appropriate manner to attack, block, wind up a big attack, etc.

Aesthetic customization isn’t as good as in GW2 imo. You can’t reskin armor, and the dyes (while vastly superior to launch state with no dyes and everything muddy brown) don’t have the range or depth of GW2’s dyes. You can, however, design a character with sliders to have a lot more difference in looks than GW2 allows, including being portly if you so desire.

Between the two my druthers lie in GW2 but, well, you asked for something that matched your factors.

Grimrah.9256:

I pre-ordered the Ultimate edition and I have a character slot that says beta on it. I am not sure if that is what you are speaking of but, if so then yes I have it already. I also got the 4k gems already and all the digital items like glider and Revenant Rytlock the guild thing and something else.

The beta slot is not the subject here as that one will vanish post-beta. If you have an older account and prepurchase any tier of HoT you will get a “veteran appreciation” slot on top of what comes in the HoT package.

So with your ultimate you should have a fresh live game slot already, and a second one on the way some time if your account with HoT on it was created long enough ago.

Flakkenmarsh.6573:

Oh, I’m also proud(?) to say that while leveling with my first character I took a screenshot at the end of EVERY SINGLE VISTA.

Piker! I took a series of shots DURING every vista.

Oh dear, I just realized I’ll be playing GW2 on my old computer for the next month. I’ll have to remember to email any screenshots before I junk it at the end.

My very first was a character creation screenshot to save sliders (this was an early version of Donari, not how he ended up), from 4-27-12 at 2:35 pm eastern. My first in game was of the Options menu on top of a Norn Necro the same day at 3:17 pm, as I decided to play something I was unlikely to play in the live game in order to reduce spoilers, though over time I did test out most every starting situation I could.

Rogue Potato.4723:

My character names always start with an adjective followed by a noun, and they must make as minimal sense as possible. I.e. Agitated Toast, Swift Napkin, Agile Rock…

So you’re one of those people with interesting names in the Wordament high scores, got it …

Here is a sample of the notes I keep, same format for each alt, some with additional comments about RP pet names and the like:

Donari Mal di Bette May 21 1298 — Aug 25 – Priory – Skritt – PS done – Trickery 121, Shadow Arts 121, Acrobatics 333 – 6 20’s + 1 invis 18 – sp 189/189 DONE

So I have name, IC birthday, game birthday, Order, race studied, what step of the PS they are on, their main build, their bags, and how many skill challenges they’ve got (Donari has world completion, so he has more than the 189). I suppose I could add in crafting disciplines if I had problems remembering which alt knew what. With the trait change coming I made sure I had a list of my trait distributions so I could try to replicate them in the new system (boring, but easier than trying to learn all new ways of playing each alt).

Then I also have a Word document listing each alt’s preferred dye scheme for each outfit they might wear, and another much older one with which alt has which town clothes and toys and permanent gathering tools.

Because the game doesn’t let you look things up like that in game >< I am very happy this game hasn’t got mods that need constant updating but I do miss my WoW “Altoholic” mod where I could mouse over something and see how many of it each alt had.

You can forget the 65 points. They changed it so being 80 gives you all skills. Your builds should remain substantially the same, with a few things you can’t do now (I’ve heard that Mesmer Clone Factory is nixed) and some things you can.

Open your Hero Panel. In the top left click on the Training button. You will get a circle of skills or traits in the main window that progresses clockwise. Clicking on the left side with the bars under Skills and Traits will select which circle to look at (eg Mesmer Mantras for skills or Dueling for traits).

Because you are 80, you can train up everything. Fast way: Click on the last square in the circle, agree to spend the points, and it fills it all in. Slow way: Click on them one at a time in sequence. Or, as I did, mouse over each one to see what they do that is different; the round ones are the minor traits you will automatically get, the square ones are in sets of three where you must choose just one.

Once you’ve unlocked everything click on the Build tab just above Training. You will have three trait lines available. Clicking on the big (circle? Octagon?) on the left lets you pick any of the five lines to put in that slot. Maybe it’s a right click, I don’t recall, but definitely you click on that and then pick one of the 5 little symbols (mouseover tells you the name). For skills you are unlocking utilities by filling in the circles.

At that point you go through and pick from your square icon traits, Adept, Master, and Grandmaster. You can swap them around as fast as you can click new squares.

Because there are not build templates, I added my builds to my little Word cheat sheet on important info I keep about alts, eg Donari is currently Trickery 121, Shadow Arts 121, Acrobatics 333 (I’m not a theorycrafter and it’s likely a crap build but it’s how I play him). That means he has Trickery with the top Adept, middle Master, and top Grandmaster trait open.

It did take a while to do all that for 14 80’s, but that was due to my taking time to review each and every trait and to try to give each of my three mesmers, two guardians, etc a unique build while still giving the falling damage trait to every alt.

I hope that helps. Short version: You have full unlock of everything, you just have to click the boxes. And once Elite specs come, you will need to have done Hero Challenges in the world to get the Hero Points to unlock the new spec (or whatever the WvW equivalent may turn out to be, if they decide not to compel PvE play by pure WvWers to get their unlocks).

I do like what one can do with apostrophes and maybe having just one available per name would allow some nifty names. Though I don’t know they would fit Tyria; are any Tyrian names in lore apostrophed?

In ESO I turned my WoW nelf name into a Redguard: Frelle in game, Tenefrellendion ICly, Tenefrelle as a DK “ebil twin” troll, became Tan’Afriel as my Redguard, “Tana” for short. I would have been quite sad not to have the apostrophe there. Or the dash in my Argonian name, Leaf-Over-Ant’s-Nest, which I had to have since that is always how I hear the radio announcer say the pianist’s name Leif Ove Andsnes.

In GW2 it would add to possible name combinations but might not fit the feel of the world, maybe? I’ve never had trouble finding a name fairly quickly, especially if I designed it myself instead of using a generator, even for one-word names. I just made my revenant name place holder a few days ago. Because the alt I made for the first beta stress looked so Germanic, I named him Hernst Wieder. That’s a very German first name without being a standard one, and the last name is German for “again.” I used the name in the beta and as of this week no one had taken it, hurray. Maybe they thought it an ugly name?

The point is you can make real-sounding names that people in the world would really have, and not be blocked for thirty minutes, if you just think of something new that isn’t already part of media read or watched by hundreds of thousands of people.

I’m surprised. I know I made it in on the first day of the karka hunt by my old trick of jumping far forward between the two waterfalls aiming for the left side of the gap between them. Though I did hit one rock on the way down, my fall damage trait saved me (I always have that on for most of my alts). I figured I’d just mis-steered, not that they’d added a rock.

I didn’t have to retrieve my rifle after swimming, either. I was on my Thief; I’ve heard that Engineers have been a bit bugged there, and I have heartfelt sympathy for anyone that only has an Engineer and is thus barred from Princess.

Is the waypoint in range of a mesmer portal? I ask a bit academically as I’m getting set for extended travel so I can’t promise to be super helpful to people for a while, but once I’m back if people still need aid I can certainly park a mesmer down there to provide portals. If the WP is too far I bet I could place a portal at the top, jump down, and place the exit, assuming I don’t splat myself in some embarrassing fashion.

Total Characters: 17 (and one empty slot with another on the way and one beta slot)

- Mesmer 3 – 80, 80, 80
- Guardian 2 – 80, 80
- Necromancer 3 – 80, 80, 80
- Ranger 1 – 80
- Elementalist 2 – 80, 43 (an RP shill I have been leveling for fun now and then)
- Warrior 2 – 80, 80
- Thief 1 – 80
- Engineer 1– 80

-spare Mesmer name place holder to be the real name of a Whispers mesmer using a cover identity – level 1
-placeholder for a possible revenant to save the name just in case – level 2 (wanted to show his looks to guildies so I did the tutorial)

Did you check his tabs of items for sale while keeping the ticket? He won’t offer it by a dialogue option, I don’t think, you have to peruse his tabs.

I’ve heard that the different old weapon sets are on different vendors in the Vaults now. You might need to check several of them to find the guy with Dragon’s Jade.

edit: Oh wait, zenleto may have found your problem. Back when Dragon’s Jade was first a thing, the skins that dropped were account bound. That was when they introduced the BL vendor for tickets. So then people got some skins for tickets, which were tradeable. I think the only way to convert a non-tradeable skin to a tradeable one is to stack it with another skin of the same type. Which of course means buying one. Or finding someone that has an unused tradeable skin and trusts you enough to loan it for you to stack then split and return theirs …

I’m afraid the devs don’t have time to “loiter.” They do show up (well, ANet employees do, not all are devs). Look for the red ANet logo on their name as they run around in the game.

Then look at all the people swarming after them and the long strings of inane questions and comments that surround them in a cloud, and you’ll see why you can’t realistically set up a guaranteed talk-to-devs spot and expect it to remain respectful and spam free.

(I admit I tend to do a /cheer or a /salute when I see the red tag, but other than that I leave them alone unless I see them engaging in commentary, and then I limit my remarks to things germane to the immediate discussion).

If you are able to transfer to Tarnished Coast (NA) or Piken Square (EU), the megaserver will be more likely to put you in map shards holding RPers. You can try guesting over as well, then wander the racial cities watching your emotes chat until you spot people RPing.

Check the 2RP link Diovid posted as well, in the guild recruitment section. There are quite a few guilds that no matter what their guild name have elected [RP] as their tag. If you spot them in the game you can ask for help finding RP. Just don’t ask while they are in the middle of organizing a Teq fight or something like that

As simplesimon noted, “zerk” is the slang term for “berserker.” That’s a set of three stats that aims at pure dps without any defense. For quite a while now there have been quite a few people who feel that the only way to do combat in GW2 is to dps the foe into the ground faster than it dps’s you, and rely on well-timed dodges to avoid damage. They feel that if you aren’t in the most dps-y gear, you’re going to slow them down in their mad rush through the dungeon. (And they might be right, you might cost them a few seconds or even minutes).

So a “zerk only” PuG is asking for people aimed at the most efficient content clearing possible and isn’t interested in taking time to hear the dialogues, view the cut scenes, or spend any more time than minimally necessary per boss.

You can make your own LFG, by the way. Make sure to put it in the right place, eg don’t ask for AC Path 3 in the Open World Content, go to the AC Dungeon part. Type in “new to dungeon, would like help” or whatever describes your needs for the run. It may fill up quite quickly, which is why you see the more finicky listings all the time — they haven’t found anyone to join them, sometimes in the amount of time it takes a more casual group to run the whole path they will still be sitting there waiting for someone to help them get through faster The friendlier runs fill up so fast they vanish before you see them.

If you have the time to list on the TP, you should list there. Just note the two amounts on the right side that tell you the listing fee and tax, add those together, and if that amount subtracted from your asking price is still higher than vendor value, go ahead and list.

Remember the TP is global, used by millions of people. You may say “omg there are 3100 mithril ores at 58 copper each, why would I list at 60 copper which has 48500 ores ahead of me” but after a few days, you’ll get the sale. (numbers entirely fictitious for purpose of this example). A truly huge volume goes through the TP.

If you want to be sure you will sell, list at the lowest sell price if it matches the calculation mentioned above. When I have minor runes, and time to deal with them, I’ll list them so long as there aren’t a zillion at 19 c. Another trick is to scan down the sale listings a bit. The first few are 5, 15, 7, 26 … and then you see one at 900 units. List at the 900 units price. The smaller amounts will sell quickly enough and you’ll get a better price.

Ok, that about exhausts my vague TP wisdom. I am not a TP guru. I just play MMO mats/coin gathering on the “every little bit helps” principle so even tiny profits add up over time.

Take a look at the new shield that will be coming with guild halls. It’s a huge tower, I believe, and I don’t think it’s as silvery.

I’m not avoiding map completion due to “wasted XP,” I’m avoiding it because they said they’ll be revamping the rewards for playing in maps and I want to hold off and see what the new goodies are. And that was true even before something happened that is going to limit my game time for a good while.

Yep! Check the Patch Notes for how the PS got changed. Also look at the Personal Story Restoration sticky at the top of the General forum for details. (You can still bring friends along just like any other PS step, btw, but it’s no longer required).

You can’t do an autoclicker, but I’ve read that people bind the click to the mouse wheel as each “tick” of the wheel counts as a new key press. Then they spin the wheel to click a lot of things.

I haven’t tested this because I’m firmly wedded to my scroll wheel being my zoom.

One thing I did test was the Win7 option to use the keyboard as the mouse. That made my num pad + become the clicker, so I only had to tap that a lot with my cursor over what I was clicking. It helped a ton with all the stuff from Wintersday, as I recall. Then something went screwy with it and I gave up on doing that. Sorry, details hazy.

There’s certainly no requirement to do the Arah Story again if you don’t want to, but keep in mind that it just changed a week ago to become a solo instance. So there will be some fresh things to see. Also you get rewards for completing the PS (I’m not sure what they are, I haven’t worked on PS on my alts since the PS Restoration was announced — used to be you got another Pact token for a Pact weapon).

I don’t think there is any way to erase the green star from your upper right, however. People have been asking for that option for a long time. Having it there’s never bothered me, but I have a reasonable size higher rez monitor that isn’t square, and I came from WoW with a nightmare amount of UI. I suppose people wanting something as clean as ESO’s UI, or dealing with laptop monitors, might find the PS tracker more intrusive.

Before you repeat too much of the commentary, take a peek at https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Glider-use-in-LA/first#post5228573

So far the beta alts have been only for beta events, and cannot be used to advance your live account. They have also come with a set of gear, albeit not to the taste of many players (Celestial stats). The money spent/gained by them is for a “snapshot copy” of your account, and does not affect your live bank, per a dev.

The name is an interesting question. I’ve gone ahead and made a name placeholder alt for my revenant in case I want to keep the name I used in the first stress beta, which I will if I go with male human. It would be nice if the beta name could be reserved. However, keep in mind that any name you take in the game is yours until 24 hours after you delete the alt. Given that the beta alt will most likely be deleted well before launch day, I don’t think the mechanisms in place will allow saving the name. Hence the value of using a slot to make an alt with the name you want (which will mean not using that name in beta).

If you don’t have a spare slot for that, then keep very quiet about the name you want and don’t use it anywhere on the internet. At launch, instantly create a character by doing “Skip to End” without regard to race, gender, profession, or lore choices. Put in the name, create. Bam. You can then delete the character when you want, and have a 24 hour window to make it just right before using the name.

I really like it on female charr. Though there is no tail-flap detail, alas, at least the pants are snug enough clipping isn’t obvious.

Besides the Monk’s Outfit there is a “Lion’s Arch Rebuild Dye Kit” — another RNG one. I’m awaiting the Dulfy preview on colors before I sink a single gem into it.

edit: Of note, the Monk Outfit is male version on Charr, female on Asura. It works pretty well that way.

Mtpelion, I think the OP doesn’t know the SW/Breach/VW cycle, so s/he is looking for the beekeeper all over the place.

If you don’t want to look it up or ask (and I can respect the stance of wanting to figure it out all by yourself), then for your example clue you just need to spend time in SW learning the cycle. Once you have figured out fort defense, bull escort, and the boss fight, and then tried out the three lanes on VW (which gets a huge red circle with arrows pointing to the lanes on your map), you’ll have found the beekeeper and probably gotten that achievement just by doing the fight right.

Sure, there are some achieves I can’t figure out without a guide, or I get without meaning to just from playing. But a lot of them only require you to become familiar with the area where they occur and then you understand the clue and need only work on the mechanics of achieving the requirements.

Heck, if you want to figure it out yourself, don’t ask them to spell out exactly step by step how to do it!

I upgraded within five minutes after Colin announced pre-purchase was live. I already passed up several chances to get a second account for 10 bucks because I don’t want to manage two accounts or give up all the account bonuses I’ve accrued in nearly three years of play. I have 18 slots now and another coming from the veteran pre-purchase, one of them empty and two more just acting as name place-holders. All my 80’s have at least 100 Hero Points waiting to pounce on Elite specs.

Why in the world would I want to have to jump between accounts to enjoy HoT, along with having to repeat three years of effort to get the new account in parity with my current one?

You follow the instructions with your serial code. It will tell you the web page to go to. Then you input the code and click the thing that is NOT “make a new account.”

I really see no reason to get a physical box unless you just want the jewel case. You’re not getting a disk, at least not for prepurchase, and even if you did you’d still have to digitally download the bulk of the game.

Maybe that’s why there’s no CE. They knew most people would order directly from them if the retail stores didn’t have anything worth the extra effort of ordering physical stuff. (I’m not saying that’s so, or assigning any negative implications to it, just wondering if perhaps maybe it was a factor in the lack of physical goodies).

Check the OP in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update/first — the section on What This Means for You — it talks about the effect of Forging the Pact.

But no matter how she got moved around, she should definitely have the ability to select PS on the left side (just left click on it), then Continue This Story (with a warning she could lose progress on the LS2 she’s one). If not, I suggest she file a bug report and perhaps also reply in the thread I linked as Bobby Stein is paying attention there to reported problems and feedback on the revamp.

As I understand it, “baseline” means you get it just for being the profession, it’s automatic. Like, perhaps, all Necro wells being ground targeted now, instead of traited to do that. “Part of a spec” means that you have to pick that spec line and that trait to get the function.

In guild discussion this came up as a possible way one of our Thieves would use a staff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cuihrjLNAo

You also see your name in chat any time you whisper, say. guild chat, emote, or map chat. If you forget who you are, just say something Preferably non-spammy and appropriate to the channel, so no one knows you had a brain fart.

You’re just trying to make me relive that time in LA, ScribeTheMad, aren’t you? As I said, I am IMMUNE.

*hic*CITIZENS*hic*

I’m sorry but after “CITIZENS” I am immune to annoyance from repeated dialogue in GW2. Here’s a sample that doesn’t begin to do justice to how he spat out that word each time someone new approached.

There is, but you won’t be getting at it in the first few hours of play.

Ascended armor and weapons: You have to craft them yourself, and must be at the max crafting level (500) to do so. At 450 you can start making daily items (using a ton of mats) that you need a crap ton of for the gear. These are tradeable so you can sell them for a profit, or buy them to speed up your process, but doing it all yourself will give you quite a time gate. Ascended gear isn’t a huge upgrade over exotic, as this game isn’t meant to require long gear grinds, but if you min-max and want BiS no matter how small the improvement, it will certainly take some time to make.

Daily boss kills: There are world bosses with chests you can only loot for one of your kills a day of that boss. (Maybe you can do it again with an alt, I’m not sure, I don’t do the world boss train).

Dungeons: You get the most reward for each path you run the first time you run it in a day. The reward includes a pile of dungeon tokens. Get enough tokens, you can buy the exotic dungeon armor from the vendor in LA, with skins not otherwise available in the game.

The Hearts: Those are a minimal part of map exploration. Sure you need them for zone completion, and completion gives you rewards, but they are there to help out people who feel adrift without quests. Most of them have ways to do them quickly, mostly involving being there when an event spawns a ton of mobs that count for the heart.

Jumping puzzles: They have chests at the end that you can open once a day. There’s not much of interest in the chests, but you can salvage for some mats anyway.

Dailies: At reset each day (currently 5 pm Pacific, in the fall it will got to 4 pm Pacific thanks to Daylight Savings stuff) you get a set of tasks. Do three of them for interim rewards and for a completion reward.

Warning, other than getting to 80 and getting end-gear (exotics are fine, Ascended is a thing), there isn’t much to get “stronger” with as this game is meant to be easy to get to the competitive level gear-wise and then just use your own skill to prevail. Your progress will come in learning better use and timing of your hotbar skills, choosing builds with synergy, etc.

Now, there actually will be something you’re asking for in HoT. Level 80’s will have “Masteries” which they unlock, then skill up via XP from playing the game. Masteries will advance in effectiveness as they are trained. Maybe that is enough to keep you around until you get used to the game and realize how very many things there are to do even just sticking to PvE? I’ve been here 3 years (including betas) and the game still excites me most days, even though I hardly touch any PvP related content.

You slipped in an inspection feature request there. I suggest you google the mile-long threads that happen every time someone asks for one. TLDR: leads to elitism that doesn’t fit GW2 player culture.

Most of my character names are made to sound like real names belonging to their originating culture and fitting into world lore. So my norn ranger has names for herself and her pet garnered from an Old Norse dictionary site, my sylvari are all Arthurian in tone by using syllables that work together in Arthurian style (Briamor, Andret, Ysethe). Except for Briara, she’s using a name I had in DAoC for a plant creature, just feminizing “Briar.” My asura follow asuran naming rules (Merra and Froblekk). My charr is Talani Stormburn, originally Razorstorm. “Talani” was my first WoW alt’s name, a nelf druid, playing on “talon.”

But I do have two instances of outside inspiration. Make that three. Two of them are in WoW: I made my first real main in WoW when Farscape was on TV. A nelf priest engineer, I thought about how engineer stuff goes boom and what you would say and got “Frelle.” I added the e to feminize the Farscape cuss word. My second main, a belf mage, got her name because I had a gnome friend named Ela. Ela logged in, someone cried out in gchat “Issa Ela!” and I realized that Issaela was a fine name for my pending belf.

In GW2, in beta, it was darn hard to remember how to split item stacks. When reminded how, I realized “Altdrag Splitstack” sounded quite nornish and commented on this in a few places. Shortly after launch I went to make him. Someone had taken the name! I gave up a bit, but when I needed an engineer so as to work on all eight professions, I made him after all as “Altdragg Splitstack.” I actually like the double g better.

My humans are just culturally appropriate to their backgrounds. Donari Mal di Bette and his sister Salvina Lucia (di) Bette have mouthful names from being noble. David “Rafe” Raffino and Jin Macklin are commoners (Jin is a name I got from a Chinese names site, as she is of distant Canthan descent). Mirth the Mouse is a street rat who got her name from never smiling and always lurking around the edges of things. I confess I got “Mirth” from my 1980’s online name, which at the time I took from the comic book MAGE: The Hero Discovered, by Matt Wagner.

See, name inspiration can come from all over! You just have to tweak things to fit the naming style of the setting, and you’ll always be able to find a name. (Tweaking example: in high school I had a DnD ninja character that I thought myself terribly clever in naming Sosumi Idongishi. Say it out loud a time or two to see the original English phrase… I was young).

How do you propose they sort out the people that really help out in the beta from those that just go in for a sneak peek and never bother testing and reporting and suggesting?

You get in the beta by prepurchasing. You get a slot from prepurchasing. The additional beta slot is mechanically there to separate your beta actions from your live account (though I’ve heard using transmute charges on a beta alt will deplete your live account charge supply, but it’s not supposed to). It’s a necessary part of the beta access process, not a promise of a later freebie.

Also, anything you do in beta is wiped before the game goes live, so there is no need to retain the slot. If you feel this somehow cheats you, you don’t understand how betas work.

Evans.6347:

Guild Wars 2: Absence makes the heart of thorns go yonder

I love you so much.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

What about the hundreds of us who farmed the portal, showed up at the correct times and were unable to participate in the beta due to a bug preventing us from getting a beta slot?

I think it would be fair to let us into the first closed beta weekend event. I farmed a long time for that portal so I could preview the expansion and see if it was worth pre-purchasing. So far all I know is that even if you do what anet says you may not be able to access the content.

They already sent us gems as an apology for that. While I’d have preferred a replacement beta of the same duration and timing as the first the gems were a very nice gesture and I see no need to ask for more on top of that.

There may not be any more closed betas, anyway. BWE’s are open to anyone that has prepurchased HoT; there may be other avenues of access as well. That gives them far more scale than a closed one. I recall in the first vanilla BWE there were so many people buying the game and thus getting access that ANet had to stop sales on their site to keep the servers from overloading (for which I still applaud them, reason triumphed over greed).

The Portal was advertised as a one time access. The FAQ said that access to any beta did not include access to later ones. If they happen to do another few-hours Tuesday stress test, sure, it would be nice to offer the bugged portal victims a spot in the pool if they want it. However, I can’t see any moral, ethical, or legal requirement that they do so, or any reason to be outraged if they don’t.

I think having none active may be what did you in. The program assigned points based on the most heavily invested trait lines. With all at 0, all were equal, so it had to randomly select rather than focusing on your preferred lines. I’m only guessing on that, but it would fit the pattern I’ve seen.

Move your gathering tools to the bank as well. Anything not soulbound you should bank or convert to coin or mats. Anything soulbound that you can salvage, do.

In any MMO, the rule of thumb is to strip an alt bare before deletion, even if only for a few coppers worth. That way you don’t miss out on something valuable you should have saved. Here, account bound items in the bank will stay in the bank for your next created alt on your next server. (So I am told. I’ve never transferred).

Now I want a hamburger for under two bucks that is as good as the twenty-dollar meal I had from Zin Burger in Arizona …

Yes, prices go up, Nate. I think you undersold by how much.

No, what happened was that you got as many HP as your level + challenges done unlocked, then they spent them for you using your highest trait lines and slotted utilities to decide what to give you. I think they only spent the ones from leveling, though, as I had 50+ points available on my 43 Ele so I was able to mostly swap him to Fire when he was in Water thanks to the fall damage trait being what I had spent points on.

Spending extra skill points to unlock things would not have helped or changed any of that.

That one gives you an item in your inventory that you can only get once. Look in your bags and double click the item — you can do that anywhere, not just in the cave. That will give you the point.

Now that it’s off your chest, do you realize that you lucked out by not using them? Unlocked traits would not have been grandfathered in, you would have just used up your Mystic Forge currency on nothing.

I believe we can’t kill Mordremoth in the inital HoT release, it will be locked behind further content releases, but we’ll get those releases LS style. So it will be part of the expansion, just not in the launch version.

Oh I misunderstood, Khani. I thought you meant it moved you to chapter 8 of the PS, not the final episode of LS2. Never mind me.

I think you left off an apostrophe-t there, Mightybird. Without purchase, you cannot start the instance, and only the instance starter can control the dialogues or manipulate objects. Only people who have the chapter unlocked and active at the time they enter can get the rewards, achieves, and lumi armor progress.

I like your thinking, Pixelpumpkin and OP. I’ve been against fall traits since they first showed the new system. As someone who finds them vital parts of my permanent builds to the point that my reflexes include them in judging jumps, their location dictates an entire trait line for me, and then removes two other trait choices in their tier.

When the Elite Specs come, that will mean that while playing Elite I will be Elite, Fall Trait Line, and one other of my choice. Not a lot of flexibility there ><

(Yes, I know a lot of you find the fall damage reduction useless and will say I am shackling myself. You might even be right. But my enjoyment of running around maps includes the fun of taking those long plunges and firing off the special effect at the end, and the new system makes it very hard to retain that fun while selecting useful build options).

GuzziHero.5104:

I just thought also… what kind of pact would allow a child Commander? Or let them near the battlefront at all?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game

Though that was a very different world setup and a far more desperate “pact.”

I agree with those saying the cons far outweigh the pros on this point for GW2. I can see the RP uses of having kids to fill out family groups. I can even, if I stretch, see the charm of playing a kid in order to fill out some nostalgic misty memory of how nice it was to be so carefree. Though personally I hated the powerlessness and uncertainty (I had a great childhood, btw, very secure and well cared for. But my social life sucked thanks to my being an SF reading D&D playing bookworm). Growing up and taking charge of my own life was too wonderful to want to go back to such a dependent status.

But I can also see just how terrible it would be to let most people stick kids into the situations we get in game, and how implausible a child protagonist would be in the story as presented. ANet can’t facilitate that on purpose.