Never buy anything on the gem store unless it’s on sale.
I follow this rule and I’m never disappointed.
And for the record, if you bought multiples of gem store armor skins, when the wardrobe is released you can file for a refund for extra sets you haven’t used.
Thank you for the heads-up, I suppose I’ll try to submit a ticket for the armor-sets. I’m honestly a bit surprised considering how many people would want compensation.
I tend to follow the same rule as you, but my characters have been cramped on storage space for months now and it honestly keeps me from certain aspects of the game or forces me to keep my inventory open whenever I can, salvaging. For WvW I need a different set than I need for PvE, this can be as little as 6 slots wasted, but sometimes it goes up to 12-15. I waited out the whole March sales, which was already long enough. I just wish there’d been a week or so in between, not like a few hours. Especially since I’m on such a roll, makes me feel so stupid. :\
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Gz on the Tooth of Frostfang! I’ve really been ment to try your guide to fill in the times I might have to go at any moment due to real life (and the game has like nothing fun not requiring a team or a queue :p) but I still haven’t. The mega-server update all in all has me a bit worried. For all the selfish reasons: I enjoy server hopping to quickly get all bosses done, I very much dislike needing to endure 2 loading screens due to the new WP-system (I don’t care about the extra 1-2s personally.)
Will it already change all World-bosses? I thought they were going through a semi-beta phase with city-maps, 1-15 zones (yes I know that includes a few of the best bosses) and then implent it, but I might have misunderstood.
Bought my 8th banktab yesterday. fml ;_;
I bought bagslots for all 8 of my human characters yesterday…. Was there_any_ anouncement of this what-so-ever? I’m starting to get a bit sick of my bad luck; use up 3 Make-over kits, next day, new hairstyles are released. Buy a bunch of expensive double skins; day later feature packs leading to Wardrope is released.
Could have had another bank tab for that… Or am I just missing some page where all this stuff does get announced? I feel very inclined to stop buying anything because a day after I’ll regret it anyway.
Edit: I am very happy they listened to the feedback though <3 I just dislike regretting my purchases.
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Talking about stereotypes, my little Mesmer:
(I just love it when Queensdale is deserted, used to be my all-time favourite zone.)
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Loads of helpful advise here, I’m going to try it! (2/5 here) Thank you.
Thanks guys for all responses.
Esmee, this is by far the most helpful and detailed for my needs response. I’m noting it down
I started to play warrior and guardian cause people recommended these classes for newbies. Now I would like to play something more challenging in meantime. I think I’ll try Mesmer and if I won’t like it I will try Ele. From all your descriptions Mesmer I get that is better to play Mesmer after Warrior.
Glad you didn’t pass out by viewing the wall of text I put down for you. I really hope you’ll find the class that’s right for you!
Some small tips that could have helped me when I started out my scholars:
- If you feel you die a lot try summoning a clone or phantasm before you attack (they die quickly, but as long as they get their first attack of that’s ok for now, the mob doesn’t tend to live long enough for a second to hit.) For Elementalist it helps having an Elemental around, just to take some fire of you.
- If you feel your damage is lacking, buy some (different) +10 power runes from the TP, they range between 16-50 copper and give you a huge buff on early levels.
- Struggle with weapon/attunement swapping, try to use a similar rotation to get used to whilst learning the cooldowns. For Mesmer I start of with a clone, then I tend to summon my Phantasm (every weapon has 1) swap and summon another, kind of straight forward (PS: I run Sword/Sword, Sword/Focus, so swapping only affects my phantasms, find something that works for you!)
For Elementalist it’s very weapon dependant, but most weapons start in Fire to put down a Firefield and then go to Earth where most of the blast-finishers are. A dagger/dagger rotation could look something like this: Fire #3 -> Fire #4 (Firefield) -> Fire #5, swap to Earth, Earth #4 (blast-finisher) -> Earth #3 (2x) -> Earth #2, swap to Air -> Air #4, Air #3, auto-attack in air. Though in most cases the mob dies before you get to go into Earth. :p Ye, Elementalist can be a bit complicated, but I find them very rewarding.
And it’s very important for almost any class to make your f1-4 skills easy accessible. I’d recommend finding a nice keybind for them. I can’t recommend anythough though since I personally use: 1-5 for skills 1-5, crtl + 1-4 for F1-4 abilities, Heal is on R, Utilities, Dodge, Interact, etc is all on my 12-button mouse.
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I personally prefer fast guide over normal guide since the time I spend putting offers on the materials needed and the actual crafting I might aswell been out farming the gold-difference back. Or what usually is the case, doing something fun.
I suppose that is how we make gold from the TP, we should thank the people who sacrifice profit for convenience.
That was poorly written by me sorry, I ment I take the fast guide, place the offers (which are considerably less in numbers than the normal guide) do something on my 80 that will compensate (and more) for the loss. Whenever my buy-listings are filled, once again I’ll save time than if I’d be putting in all different recipes the Normal guide contains. Time = Money, it’s how people spend the time that makes they key-difference. I still use buy-offers like (almost) everyone else.
Say the Jewelcrafting guide currently; the normal one is 50s less than the fast one. I also know that making the buy-offers and the actual crafting will cost me atleast 5-10 minutes more, so unless you make less than 3-6 gold per hour, the fast guide would be more beneficial. It’s especially important for the cooking ones with the hearts, assuming you haven’t got full map completion. But if you can’t make 3-6 gold per hour, then in this case the Normal Guide would be more benficial.
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More organized attempts and more chance for a guild to have every will-able guildie included. I see this as a positive update. And as a time to consider bigger guilds
Most all classes are welcome anywhere else but PvE dungeons. I don’t even do them myself because if you read the forums, dungeon runners are generally completely rabid and elitist about their groups. If you’re not full berserker, best spec for your party, and one of the highest dps classes, they don’t want you there.
Eles and warriors are pretty much the highest dps for dungeons right now so if you’re wanting cloth, I’d recommend you go with the ele instead of the mesmer.
Most EU LFG around midday/afternoon tend to ask for Mesmers more often than Elementalist. Likely since a lot of people are stuck in the CoF p1-farm, where you’d want 4 Warriors, 1 Mesmer. Though there’re ‘Full zerker, ping gear, 5k+ AP etc’ groups, I see plenty of groups forming with ‘Anyone Welcome’ or at the most ‘80s only!’ You shouldn’t be discouraged just because certain players prefer running with favour of the month classes. No reason to discourage people just because not every single group has the anyone-welcome mentality.
As for the OP:
In WvW all Scholars are in a good position. Necromancers are very useful with their Wells, Marks (Staff) and Plague Form (once traited you can spam blind and chill) in zergs. They’re not in the strongest position for roaming though. Mesmers provide amazing utility to a zerg in the forms of Veil (invisibility for the whole zerg) Portal (many uses) and Time Wrap. In the actual fights you’re not doing much more than trying to tag and pull people of walls with Temporal Curtain (focus.) Your usual weapons will be Staff (survivability purposes) Sword/Focus (or Scepter if you prefer.) Greatsword is very situational but can replace the Staff for more offensive play. Mesmers make great roamers with their stealth and clones. Elementalist usually provides fields (Fire for offense, Water for Healing) when the Commander asks for them and has plenty of CC to mess up a Zerg (Static Field from Air and Earth 4-5) They make decent roamers aswell.
In Dungeons/Fractals Necromancers are currently in a less beloved place, they have little blast-finishers, no cleave and no desired Fields, which currently makes them fall out of the meta, but they are rather easy to play and many groups welcome anyone. Elementalist is very beloved due to Fiercy Greatsword and situationally Frostbow for high damage and their potention to either deal huge amounts of damage and stack a bit of Might with perma Fury or stack tons of might at a slight personal DPS-loss. Mesmers are also very beloved due to their Reflects (Feedback, iWarden (focus, traited) and Temporal Curtain (focus, traited) which caused a lot of damage aswell as party protection. Be aware that Elementalist feel rather squishy compared to Warrior/Guardian, or any class really.
For Open-world any class does the job just fine. Elementalist is a bit squishy but deals huge damage (in AoE) If attunement swapping is an issue you can chose to use Staff, where it’s generally preferred to stay on fire and spam 1 + 2. How-ever I recommend using the friendly envoirment of Open-world PvE to get used to attunement swapping. Mesmer has a build-up on damage and limited AoE (Though once you get used to Sword/Focus you can get a far way with iWardens AoE and your cleave.) Don’t feel you have to use Greatsword, I see a lot of Mesmers do but I have no idea why, it’s a very situational weapon. Little survivability compared to Staff, low DPS in most situations compared to Sword, a weak Phantasm, average at most AoE, though it removes a boon. The only advantage is that it’s a Ranged weapon that can’t be reflected (except skill 2) very, very situational (I love it in early morning WvW though.) Necromancer is likely the friendliest for Open-world. Huge HP-pool along with an additional Health bar in the form of Death Shroud with plenty of AoE (Wells especially) to quickly dispatch mobs.
Hopefully this can give you some insight on what you’d like from a class and which would fit you the most.
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I personally prefer fast over normal since the time I spend putting offers on the materials needed and the actual crafting I might aswell been out farming the gold-difference back. Or what usually is the case, doing something fun. But if you’re patience, use the Normal ones (Note: Cooking has fast, normal and depends on how many Hearts you’re willing to use, Hearts stand for Karma-vendors unlocked by completing a specific Heart, great if you have map-completion, not so much if you don’t.)
As on how to make money, crafts aren’t that populer to actually make money with, but http://www.gw2spidy.com/ has a crafting section showing you what will make a loss and what will make a profit (aswell as when you search for an item you can see if it’s cheaper to buy or craft.) Very helpful website. The Ascended Materials that are time-gated sell for a small profit usually aswell, and it can level you from 450-475! If you ment in general to afford the crafts to level or something:
-Dungeons
- Nodefarm
- Worldbosses
- Daily and trade in your Laurels for Heavy Crafting Bag (only do this if you have no intention of getting Ascended Trinkets!)
- Champtrains in Frostgorge Sound
This is not put in any particular order, I’d recommend doing something you enjoy how-ever.
Astral explained everything else perfectly.
Stop giving your backpacks to your pets! But ye, I find it very unappealing aswell and didn’t get them for that reason. I agree with KyreneZA though, send in a ticket explaining your story and see if they will give you a refund. Who knows right?
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This would be great cause if u have 2 fury ele’s or 2 hammer guards it would be so easy to just quickly swap builds. Now if they do not allow it in dungeons, only arah p2 would be an option to log in and out (after lupi) this is if your go for a speed record otherwise the time it takes will not shorten the run
This, for pugging this will be a very nice addition. It’s not worth porting back and forth to retrait for a single path in the average pug, but after the update you can. I mainly play Guardian and Elementalist, though I enjoy every class and it’s always a shame if you have about a minute of Fury leftover since Persisting simply isn’t needed for that group. Or swap to Sw/F even though your build is for Hammer, in Guardians case. Engineer/Necromancer aswell if you build focusses on stacking most of the Vulnerability, though I don’t play these enough to judge. Or Warrior/Ranger with Empower Allies and Spotter. I don’t even run Empower Allies anymore since usually someone else already has it.
In SC I’d love to know when it would be worth the time to respec, though surely there are some situations and in casual dungeoneering. How many of you would respec for a certain fight? I mean respec, not just swap some traits around, which we already can. This is curiousity by the way, because I fail to see how this system will change much.
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Gee, never thought how much disabled people where into mmo’s. I myself see games as an escape from RL and I just stutter a little, but for ye must be such an inspiration or a place to free yer mind.
Kudos to all of ye and spread the love for Taimi!
I want to cuddle and hug her sooooo much.
Bit of a slow reply, but for quite a few disabilities gaming is a very logical way to spend your time. It makes a great distraction for me because it goes on even when I zoned out a little from my pain (ok, this is chronic pain-patients only.) Or to still be a bit social without having to rely on other people or need special support just to be able to attend. It helped me a lot when I went from reasonably healthy to obviously disabled, my friends weren’t too understanding, being young and having better things to do than adjust, in games it has never been a problem for me, or those I spend time with. It’s got me through my teenage years relatively well. I recently came back from rehabilitation, in which my activity therapy group completely fell in love with gaming aswell, especially the less creative types. It warmed my heart since it does me so well when older people are open-minded and begin to enjoy something completely alien to them, shame there’s an evident language barrier, but some were going to ask their grandchildren to play together with them! My therapists sadly weren’t as open-minded.
Games have been more than just an escape for me. The people I’ve met in them showed me there’s a lot more to me than just my disability, something even my friends couldn’t do. Or me, for that matter. Hence I find it an absolute gem they didn’t let the players know about Taimi’s disability until Edge of the Mist, Braham’s reaction was very fitting, yet sweet.
PS: Anyone have a Taimi printscreen from April Fools? I know it’s unlike, forgot to get one myself.
Not to mention a single person with enough money to do that, likely knows markets better than this. I assume it’s people rushing to get a Legendary with the patch coming out, especially those who struggled deciding whether to get it for their beloved Warrior or Guardian. Maybe 1 or 2 people trying to gain a monopoly. Patience will be the key here, though I’m sorry for those who only need 1 more component; the precurser. Patience can be difficult.
For some skins they’ve done that through March sales, wouldn’t be a bad idea to have a similar concept. It makes people more inclined to make ‘panic’-buy since it’s only there for one day and give people another chance for those lovely skins.
I’d love it, find it unlikely, but would love it!
I’m pretty sure a dev confirmed this somewhere.
Found it
Single items, such as the Fuzzy Hats and Scarlet’s Spaulders, will be unlocked for your entire account and usable with any armor weight.
You made me a verry happy kitten. I can go and buy it without worries now!
Cheers, Seafarer’s Rest it is.
When you enter the WvW-map I’d recommend asking for the community TS (and website if you’d like.) You don’t have to talk, just listening is fine (and will definitly help you stay alive.) Welcome to SFR!
I have a few questions.
Which range class would you recommend me the most for WvW? (+ build?)
TL;DR – Elementalist is perfectly fine. Mesmer, Necromancer and Engineer is viable aswell. If you decide another role, I’m more than willing to suggest a build, so will anyone else from the SFR-WvW community. (use that map-chat, they’re lovely people!)
Reasoning/Roles:
Mesmer – You’ll provide Veil (invisibility for the whole zerg) Portal (for Golems) and Timewrap mostly given them a unique hit or miss role. Usually played with any/Focus and Staff (Defensive) and Greatsword (Offensive) which are both ranged.
Necromancer – Staff with any/Warhorn is usually picked. Marks on the wall and for their damage. Wells (with groundtargetting specced) for damage and their utility. But tends to Frontline in Plague Form, besides that, ranged.
Elementalist – Staff is the usual choice for Zerging, full effect at max Range and thus in my opinion the best choice for a Ranged class, atleast one of.
Engineer – Grenadekit is a good ranged damage option. Some playstyles are better done in melee though (like bombs.)
Ranger – I’m cluess about Ranger, nice Waterfield in their heal though.
Thief – Usually in the back to kill stranglers, but I only roam with them unless the zerg needs more numbers for a short time. So I can’t give much insight on them.
Warrior – Don’t play it at range. (Or without Hammer – Any/Warhorn)
Guardian – Don’t play it at range. (Staff = 900, it’s not ranged! :p)
Have your pick.
And does anyone have a WvW elementalist build?
Thanks in advance!
This is what I run for Zerging on Elementalist (note: beware of the 15th of april patch, especially with runes.)
zerg-build
Try to use as many Berserker pieces you can handle without dying. I tend to swap some Soldier’s pieces in or out depending on who’s commanding. Celestial is more than viable aswell, but difficult to obtain (timegated)
Edit: If roaming is more your thing I’d go something along the lines of:
roaming-build
Heal and Gear is preference, if I wasn’t too cramped in storage-space I’d like run Knights with Cavalier Trinkets for more Toughness, possible even Traveller runes to get around easier. Ranged isn’t really as viable for Roaming due to easy dodges and our Staff is more a utility weapon. S/F does wonders too apparently, but I got no build nor experience on that one.
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I think the problem is more tha glow effects have more than one color, and nothing with a glow is colorable in game. Like weapons, flamekissed armor, hellfire/radiant armor, CoF armor ?
Please correct me if i’m wrong and there are colorable glowing pieces
It’s not my area of expertise, but if they can do it in the Beta (CoF armor) and in gw1 with the Chaos Gloves, I highly doubt it’s impossible.
I’d love if the Glowing Crimson Mask was dyeable (slightly kills the name) same with the Necromancer starter-one.
The last part of the article makes me feel it’s a work in progress. I guess we’ll see how it goes with Behemoth, Maw, Wurms and Fire Elementalist soon enough.
… Also in GW2 we don’t have angels. Thus dragon wings and the “small bird with a beak” is the closes thing you can get.
But in GW1 we did (of a type)
Not to mention Paragons, their theme was about as Angelic as could be, in both animations and armor. So it might not (yet) be in GW2, but it’s definitly in their lore… Oh how I wish Guardians animations looked more like Paragons.
And how I love this skirt: http://blog-assets.bigfishgames.com/uploads/2013/08/DervishDwaynaAvatarMonk.jpg (yes, I fail at making links.)
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3 Make-over Kits – 1050 Gems
I think those are dye packs, not makeover kits.
Ah dangit, I forgot those could drop aswell.
One last question: Do I need ascended gear in order to survive in WvW? And by surviving I guess I mean will I be able to contribute without always having to fear for my life?
People who do the maths generally state full Ascended is a 5% increase in Defense and Damage. As a min-maxer I wouldn’t say 5% won’t matter, but it’s far from needed. I personally feel fine in Exotic, damage and survivability-wise.
The toes sticking out of boots actually ARE them clipping. Because boots are made for a human foot.
Ye, wish a tiny bit more attention would have been paid to the reskinning. But I specificly ment T1 Cultural which doesn’t have toes sticking out, but the feet clip through a little.
I remember a similar question on reddit, and we found that there were only a few boots that don’t have asura toes sticking out. The ones apart from T1 cultural were:
Exalted boots (looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/dk29LUm.jpg.) (Disclaimer: Boots are that colour for visibility!)
Radiant & Hellfire boots: Not really achievable quickly unless you’ve 21,000 achievement points.
I’ll try Exhalted, thank you!
Edit: That’s perfect! The armor slightly clips through it which can be easily fixed with dyes. Getting them straight away. Thanks you so much! Now I’m even happier with my little Asura.
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Mesmer is super-duper slow, but groups have forced me to do it in the past. I did warden-swordsman-signet of ether-sworsdman-blurred frenzy. Not sure if the third phant is necessary, but it wasn’t the slowest I’ve ever seen someone do it.
Mesmer definitly won’t be the fastest around, especially since you have 1 or 2 utilities less (portal slot for sure and Blink if the group is quick) but I usually don’t find it too bad on par with most other classes. It’s not an Elementalist/Thief/Warrior though. Just snooping for things I haven’t tried, like using FGS, choice between slower gate or less might-stacking at the beginning of the boss unless someone else provides a firefield. It’s the magmacite field I struggle with and it’s a huge annoyance if the team ports back without any communication and then slowing the run down even more by failing to get across, and only 1 of those 2 things can be changed
So I made a little Asura yesterday, about time, to see their personal story aswell. I thought long and hard about which class and I settled with making another Elementalist, but I start to slightly regret it, are there any boots that
1. Don’t have toes sticking out.
2. Don’t clip?
It’s quite a major issue for me, I’d even consider basing my armor around a proper boot, so far I’ve tried T1 Cultural, but sadly it clips, nor were they very pretty. I’ve settled with TA-boots for now, no toes covered is none sticking out, but not 100% happy with it. Suggestions?
(Should have made a heavy after-all, darn!)
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1.) This is pure marketing. Limited time offers work and scarcity encourages impulse/quick purchases. It also plays well into financially ‘manipulating’ the sales performance at the company.
It works wonders on me and I think on many other people. So I’d say it’s a smart descision from A-net, if anything, make more ‘possible’ returns for items, such as with the March Sales, triggered even more impulse buys from me due to ‘oh I got another chance, might never get this again!’
2.) No comment
I quite wonder how many of these 1-time conveniences people spend money on. E.g. The Banker Golem. I’d spend more cash to have it permanently, maybe even on all toons, definitly 2-4. So I think point 2 is a good idea, but maybe I’m too shortsighted.
3.) Gem prices overall are fine as is. Yes, there are some items that could be fixed but overall it’s in a good position. Remember that this is a B2P game and the gemstore prices reflect this. You also cannot forget about the gem-gold conversion.
I agree most prices are fine, the ones I’d change:, items with a time-limet (boosters for example) or useage limit (Black Lion Kit) seem very unpopular, or is it a mixconception?
4.) This is a marketing scheme, as it encourages you to spend more to use those gems, or sell off the remaining as gold.
I’ve hardly run into situations I’d have gems left-over (if I do I rather go gold → gems to fill a gab, but that’s not the point) since what I assume are the most popular choices (Outfits/Crystals) are already 800 gems. I don’t see the convenience nor inconvenience overall though.
5.) I agree with this, but no mounts
I totally missed the mount suggestion. More items!
Question of interest, what makes mounts so special? So many people either really want them or really don’t want them, for someone who feels completely indifferent (what-ever is the fastest, using my abilities or a mount, makes little differents to me) it’s though to grasp.
I think it should be exotic Insignia’s instead. While stat swapping gear is nice, it may just be cheaper to go for a legendary then do this lol.
Except there’s no Legendary Armor
I love the effort you put into this OP! I’m too tired to calculate the actual costs, it seems like a lot, but would be worth-while in the long-run.