Guild Wars 2

If you could dye it they wouldn’t be able to sell a recolor of it to you for another 800 gems.

To have fun…

You might want to google the dictionary definition of “game”.

This game does have an exceptional new player experience.

However like every single game in existence it does have an exhaustible supply of content and you will eventually get it all done. Then it falls to grinding repeat content for end game.

Take your time OP and enjoy the experience while you’re new. Glad your having fun and welcome to the game.

Since Ranger only gets Druid in HoT – which makes them a healer (useless for damage dealing or soloing) I would say ranger. Longbow is easiest, but you could play whatever you want.

I have all classes maxed and the only class I don’t use the elite spec on is Ranger.

Comparing Anet with Valve is like comparing One Direction with Beethoven

Depends on how much money you earn IRL imho. Lol.

Game aint pay2win but it’s certainly pay2pretty.

As somone with a decent job I consider a couple of hours of my wage to be far cheaper than 6 months of grinding silverwastes.

Kastiel.1947:

PvP tracks give a kitten load- i have around 500, and most came from PvP i believe. Also there is https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ley-Energy_Matter_Converter , which gives nice bags full of obsidian

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ley-Energy_Matter_Converter

This is a great, steady and practically effortless way to garner shards by just double clicking an inventory item once per day when you log in. You get three chances per day, one for each expac currency. Look for bags of Obsidian, they come in stacks of 3,5 or 10. You could get theoretically anywhere from 0-30 in a day.

Honestly the term “best” is entirely personal and subjective.

If you wanted to know what the statistical best mmo was, you could have just google searched for subscribers or players or revenue etc.

PvE or PvP?

For PvE probably Longbow Ranger or minion Reaper?

Idk why people suggest squishy melee classes like thief, they have to actively dodge and mitigate damage.

Longbow ranger has maximum 1200 range, and a pet to tank, you can even swap pets if it gets low HP. And Necro has that trait that activates Death Shroud if you take fatal damage, if you got high life force regen and minion pets there’s basically nothing to worry about…

I love the staff, it was a little bit boring pre-HoT but now with overloads I feel like each element is useful and has a distinctive role. Mainly PvE.

Zojja is a bit cliche, but her voice acting is brilliant that’s what I love about her.

I would really like the ability to amp up my spell partical effects, by which I mostly mean revert many of the “visual clutter” graphical nerfs that have been applied over the years.

The amped up graphics would be client side and other players would still see the small version.

This would be a completely harmless and optional feature, but it would be greatly appreciated by many players.

Omg, I feel bad for Wildstar after looking at that chart…

The world content is all easy as long as you don’t bite off more than you can chew. Dynamic events in the new zones are designed to be done as a team, but even a very loosely organised ungrouped map can easily complete them if there are a couple of commander tag, I would hardly call it group content, more like “team solo” content. Just look for taxis into populated maps to circumvent the broken “100 empty map, 2 full map” mega-server system.

Same goes for any of the old world bosses really, except Tiple Trouble which does require grouping and effort.

Ben K.6238:

I have one, but I’m a bit lost on why you should use it during a raid.

Just making an assumption here, but it sounds like he uses it to vendor trash items.

Tommyknocker.6089:

People that are playing your game = possible cash.

The more timegates they stick in the game the longer players have to stay/return to your game.

Not rocket science, but it is greed, pure and simple.

Edit: clarity

This is correct but it’s called capitalism not greed. That is the societal structure that we live in, you really need to learn to deal with it.

vesica tempestas.1563:

thats the point of the gem store, if your happy with the game you have the option to contribute, if you are not you dont. Much better than a Sub.

Re the invetory slot, I live the idea of giving instant access to my bank for all characters with 1 slot, decent QOL upgrade imo.

Talking like everyone has that item. Do you have any idea how expensive that item is in actual money terms?

It’s 3200 gold.
100USD = 8000 gems = ~1000g

$320 USD
I live in Australia so that’s $460 for the instant bank access item.

Yeah sure every other player is going to spend nearly half a grand on one kittening optional video game item lmao.

Is there any chance we could have the option to return some of our Copper-Fed Salvage-O-Matic items we have previously purchased?

With the shared slots, I just put one Copper-Fed Salvage-O-Matic in the shared slots and suddenly my other purchases of the item are now useless.

Previously you haven’t released any gem-store items that make previous purchases completely obsolete and useless.

I feel sorry for people who bought more than one airship pass too.

They can just disable it in JP areas and cities. Pretty sure that’s what they’ll do.

There are a few (two i think) that are only open for the short while after you beat the meta. They are full of chests. I don’t think you need ley line gliding.

I’m trying to make the gift of Zhaitan… I have everything else.

But I haven’t really played this dungeon before, and the few groups I joined cussed me out because I didn’t know what to do, or kicked me. I joined a group of newbies and it was really fun, but after taking an hour to get to Lupi on P1 and then wiping on Lupi for 2 hours I gave up.

I figure I’d give it a shot and ask on here as my last ditch effort. Thanks.

The culprit is minor/major sigils and runes.

I would kill for a salvage-o-matic with 0% chance to recover upgrades, because sigils/runes are utterly worthless garbage.

The mystic forge recipe is a joke, on the tiny chance you get upgraded to a sup, it will be one of the 99% that are useless and worth 2s

The inv just fills up so fast with these little kittens and the problem is when I salvage an item I do it to free the inventory slot up, not replace the inventory slot with something else I can’t salvage and have to find a vendor and manually click to sell it for 20 copper JUST to free the slot up that I wanted to free up in the first place.

Let us know how many drinks 10k presents gets you.

It indicates poor performance of the person(s) who moderate the forum. Allowing a completely outdated / irrelevant thread to remain stickied for two or more years is atrocious.

I’m not an idiot and as the person above me indicated, after a few minutes I realized threads were severely outdated but that doesn’t excuse the fact that they have remained stickied for such a long period of time.

It’s the same concept involved anything in gaming, or life in general. Practice makes perfect.

If the OP is referring to Winter Wonderland, which i suspect they are, there isn’t actually any timing involved apart from waiting for the footstep present to spawn on the present climb segment. Everything else is simply a matter of memorizing and execution (with plenty of leeway). The snowflakes don’t break unless you stand on them for like 10 seconds which is a huge amount of time. The snow boulders at the end have plenty of time between them for you to move to the safe spot.

This puzzle is just a MASSIVE grind, and that’s intended by Anet to both drive up the price of Wintersday Gifts (to make them rewarding to the average player) and increase exclusivity of the winters presence shoulder piece, which both oncreases desirability to get it of players and increases likelyhood of buying gems (business perspective).

Man, that grind for gift of battle… That was a terrible experience.

I’ve had this thought many times when putting on outfits, in whole-hearted agreement here.

Longbow ranger.

They are on holidays right now.

This item gives the option to convert Airship Parts, Aurillium and Ley-Line Crystals into one of the other types once per day for each type.

My question is why is the conversion rate so terrible? Who in their right mind would spend 25 of one map currency for 10 of another map currency? The rate should at least be 1:1 because it’s gated at once per day.

Is this 2.5:1 conversion rate intended Anet? Why, what’s the point? I can just go on that map and do a meta event to end up with something like 200+ currency, the equivalent of 500 other map currency and 20 days of converting.

If someone actively seeks out and joins a taxi for an event they are more likely to participate and increase the chance of succeeding than if you had a 200 full map full of people off pursuing their own interests or AFK etc. Taxiing is a good thing. I’ve seen people post on map chat for everyone to come meet for the meta, and a couple people even respond with “Make me”.

As for Triple Trouble, this is undoubtedly the most difficult open world content boss in the game due to the sheer amount of co-ordination required. This is not a Taxi problem, this is simply a difficulty problem. Mere taxis and a quick explanation isn’t enough. By accident I found that a guild called “Evolved Jungle Wurm Scouts” [EVOS] would host a highly organised run once per day. Once I learned what time they hosted it, I looked for the [EVOS] tagged taxi, and joined each day. There were three commanders from the guild in each run, and they would give a highly detailed explanation and lead us to victory each time. I highly recommend looking into them.

Sitting here on my veranda with a rainbow of glowstick bracelets on my arm after spending the night with my family. The 12am fireworks start in twenty minutes, thought I’d say post happy NY to the great community of this game, which is the best online community from any game I’ve had the pleasure of meeting.

Off to watch the local fireworks, good luck in 2016 and happy new year from Sydney Australia!

It’s basically just a way to shoehorn another aura into your build, for another magnetic or shock aura, and traits that give fury, vigor, healing aura share etc.

Lol if 5 snipers are spawning at once, and they are all elite it’s obviously part of an event, probably one which has been significantly upscaled due to a large number of players participating. You’re not supposed to be soloing it, just dodge or move out of the sniper trails and try to get some hits in, everyone else does the same and you clear the event…

I found a browser extension that can invert colours on web pages, to make them less blinding during night time gaming. This is particular issue for GW2 (for me, anyway) because I usually have the Wiki, event timers, forums etc. on a second monitor, and all those pages are blinding white.

Just throwing this post out there as an idea for anyone else who has issues with the annoying brightness of these websites.

I’ll include example screen shot of the wiki.

Because it’s an AoE stun break and five seconds of group superspeed.

The other shouts don’t really have “effects” except for some small damage and an aura.

Honestly I feel like EoTS is one of, if not the best shout tbh. With Feel The Burn and Flash Freeze being practically useless except for proccing aura-traits.

If there was a “Money Spent” icon on peoples characters, similar to the mastery points next to name?

Do you think people would look at the person with $3000 next to their name and be like:

“Wow man, nice legendary weapons and armor!, you look incredible and I’m jealous!”

or maybe “Holy crap I wish I had that much money to spend on a video game!, nice stuff”

Or perhaps a simple negative reaction of “W T F” ? (etc.)

What would your reaction be?

I used to go there during GW1, but combination of official forum, reddit and detailed wikipedia sort of killed it (i think?)

I know I’ve been back there a few times in the last few years, but when you see months/year old posts on the front page you know it’s derelict.

The more crap they pump into your bags, the more annoyed you get and the increased chances of buying bags slots.

For what content?

For PvE I say ranger because pets is easy mode.
Guardian longbow is similar, has better GS skills, and traps are strong as hell but no pet.

A lot of the people complaining it’s hard come from WoW I think, in that game you one or two shot every single enemy in the open world and they take about 300 hits to kill you. A brain damaged monkey could do open world content in WoW, all the mobs are just different skinned meatbags.

I agree open world content in this game isn’t too difficult but you do need to know what to do and anticipate / react to different enemy types and attacks.

As far as I can tell it’s because conditions bypass toughness and berserker Warriors have the Longbow adrenaline burst which creates five burning zones in a row which on large targets that you hit multiple zones with can stack a huge amount of burning, which coincidentally is the strongest condition. They also have lots of bleeds and decent direct damage.

They aren’t exceptional on small targets or low HP targets but as far as raids are concerned those posetives make them pretty ideal.

I see this has been bumped and as I was the OP I feel obligated to respond again with a follow up.

I have managed to complete all of the masteries and most achievements with some 200-300 ms latency, it doesn’t really prevent any of the stuff with rewards tied to it, glides to those areas usually have some room to deal with lag. But for random glides where you think you can make it to a ledge and then you don’t make it because the glider delayed, it’s still very annyong.

But it’s not particular game breaking unless you are lagging a lot, like more than half a second.

Also, some other things like the bouncing mushrooms and some adventure abilities are also badly affected by lag, in particular Fallen Masks: Gold since there is so much bouncing mushrooms and gliding on that adventure.

I know it’s a technicality and Anet can’t defy the laws of physics when it comes to delivering network code through long distance fibre optics. Putting technicalities aside, I have had immense fun in this expansion and would like to thank Anet for that, but please when designing movement oriented abilities in the future keep in mind network stuff

I like jumping things, but I find it really annoying when they add artificial difficulty by implementing randomness or time limits.

You only get to choose between 3 stats, the same choices as the exotic version. I only know from memory it was Celestial, Assassin and one other (can’t remember). I chose Assassin because it’s closest to Berserker which is what I play in PvE. Choose what you want though.

I am sure a lot of people won’t bother with the collection because there seems to be a consensus that Warhorn is not as good as focus or dagger. I like Warhorn personally for the extra auras, and the free 20% boon duration from the grandaster trait. With str runes and food buffs and warhorn I get like 85% might bonus boon duration which helps with DPS on most open world encounters where there aren’t 50 players stacked on top of you spamming buffs.

I’ve found gold is tuned to be pretty cut-throat, like you will beat the timer by a second or two on the timed ones.

But silver is pretty reasonable on all of them.

The jump from silver to gold is pretty extreme. Like bronze being 25% effort silver 50% effort and gold is 200% effort.

Lahima basically nailed it.

But this game is designed to reward fetting in close to deal damage.

Hammer rev will deal much more damage getting in close and switching to sword.

DH guardian needs close range for traps, and GS.

Ranger is unique, they can deal max damage at long range, but a lot of their damage comes from the pet which ypu need to wait for it to go into melee range and also manage it.

Tempest Elementalist has a good consistant range damage and high AoE but if you go in close to overload you are rewarded with higher damage.

It’s pretty obviously a risk/reward setup by the devs.

Although Ranger with Longbow is probably what he’s looking for, definitely the easiest and safest playstyle.

Yeah me too, tried multiple times today and yesterday, always get full error…

Just play the game.
Meta events
Hero points
Get alts through HoT content
Map exploration
Killing mobs
HoT challenges

Etc.

The exp will all come eventually, and once it’s done it’s done. There’s no real reason to rush beyond the first few perks in each mastery anyways, the final mastery unlocks are mostly fluff (bar ley line gliding).

The actual mastery points come thick and heavy with minimal effort, and there’s like 20 more than you actually need, so you don’t need to bother with gold challenges etc unless it takes your fancy, silver unlocks collection items and is usually not that hard so you might as well grab those ones.

Although if you really want exp fast the DS meta really can’t be beat. But you want to have enough currencies from other maps to buy things from the merchant at the end (like plated weapons), so chaining it is kinda pointless imo.

Honestly just play the expansion, Anet did a pretty stellar job at pacing the grind.

How can they see this thread @ nearly 3000 responses and still not bring it back yet.

Anet why so cruel?