At least this time i’m in no hurry, seeing as I won’t get to play until tomorrow anyway
(German here)
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Seriously, you’re not asking for any real world money in return, so you’re fine
You CAN buy ingame-services from other players for gold, after all – at least you could in GW1 (rush to XY etc.). There’s the trust issue involved, but all in all…well, as long as it stays ingame and no illegal activity was used to earn it, you’re fine.
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Minions are unfortunately borked right now. They often do not attack. As with the engineer targeting bugs, a lot of these path-finding bugs happen when the target is not on the exact same Z plane as the player (or minion). Until ANet gets this issue resolved, you’re probably not going to be particularly “effective” as a minion master. You can make it work but you’ll definitely feel inferior to other necromancers. Just a heads up on that.
Nevertheless, they are quite useful at the early levels for soaking up aggro, giving you some breathing space while learning to play the game (It is easy enough to kill most mobs before they are done with your creepers)
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As a ranger, go and charm yourself a bear pet – they make good tanks
If the mob is not aggroing your pet and you like fighting with a shortbow (I never got around to liking longbow), press 5 when your pet has reached the mob – if you time it correctly, your pet will be the first to attack the stunned mob again, drawing aggro away from you (and allowing you to hit the mob from behind, effectively stacking bleeds on it).
A guardian is a very “survivable” profession – unfortunately, I find its playstile pretty boring. My main is a necro, and the high HP pool together with the second hp-bar (deathshroud ftw
) make it pretty tough – and also ridicoulusly easy to level (hint: wells. That is, unless they seriously nerf them next month or so…).
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Most importantly, ask the people you run dungeons with for advice.
Most likely you will have someone who already did that particular dungeon path – they can give you an overview over what to expect, or will remember to warn you of particulars once you told them you’re new. If they kitten around because you’re new, look for another group, as you probably don’t want to do the dungeon with those people anyway
If you don’t know where to go/which path to take, wait for your party members to go before you – I do that all the time because I don’t do most dungeons often enough to have the paths memorized.
If you are unsure about what a particular boss will do, stay ranged – and don’t let it drive you into a corner where your camera will give you funny angles and ruin your dodges…
Most dungeons are a little more forgiving than fractals I think. But then, I only did Fractals once because I didn’t much like the random element…
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I don’t see the problem with necros in dungeons – we often have 3 necros in our guild-dungeon groups and never had any trouble with that.
But then, we don’t do real speedruns, because none of us find those very compelling.
And I’ll always love their survivability
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I love those elements, actually
I mean, 250 years passed since GW1, you’d have to see some improvements.
Also, the highly industrial nature of the Charr really fits their overall ‘alignment’, in my opinion. (Although I can’t help but chuckle every once in a while when I walk into the Daethstar…I mean, Black citadel)
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Why people is so upset with CD?
I mean, it’s a kitten secondary stat. It’s not suppose to do the killing for you, just add some pressure to your target. Trying to kill with CD only is like trying to survive with healing power only (ignoring vitality and toughness).
Yes, it can be removed but you need to waste a trait, skill or an utility skill and that mean less dmg, defense or something else. And even if conditions are easily removed, you can always put more.
In PvE, it actually does the killing for me on my necro, seeing as the attack power (and frequency) on my ranged weapons is….subpar. Even with an axe power build (I’m not fond of the melee range dagger requires) would be slower to kill mobs than a condition build. It’s really frustrating on objects though…
Apart from that, I just like putting dots on my enemies and watch them die
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From dulfy’s transcript:
we don’t want you to use AoE skills on single target mobs."The problem here is that, for staff eles and staff necros, we use aoe skills on single targets because we don’t have many single target spells. Ele staff fire 2 and Necro staff 2,3 are all AoE skills I use in every fight because they are a necessity.
This is why they need to introduce more viable builds for certain classes…. and they said in the interview that they would. I would be shocked if any AoEs stats were changed before they add more build options to the heavy AoEs reliant classes.
But I don’t want to be forced into melee just because my ranged options are AoE heavy
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Take the portal to lion’s arch (found at the top floor of divinity’s reach, in that beatiful garden), take the next portal to Rata Sum (the one with the two Asura in front of it), tadaaa
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While we’re at it: Which idiot ruined the price for my exotic light gloves? Price was at 5 gold something yesterday, now it’s at between 2 and 3 gold…I need that gold to buy my cultural T3 armor ;_;
You’re just fine playing in rares at 80, btw I can’t think of any content that really requires full exotics.
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I’m not ok with no longer being able to res at waypoints in dungeons Just draws everything out, and – more to the point – having to walk through the whole dungeon again because you missed one dodge is boring and annoying as hell.
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Really depends on what you want – and if you want to spend the additional time and gold on all the other stuff you need for the Legendary
The Legendary is really a skin, even with the slight stat advantage over exotics. If there are other skins you like better, go ahead and sell the Precursor. (I know I would…there are a couple of cultural armor pieces I want ^^°)
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In summary, you should probably try both, because they favour very different playstiles
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In the large majority of cases it is better to respawn at a waypoint rather than wait for a res. Unless you mean the downed state instead of actual death. The risks outweigh the benefits if you’re fully dead.
It takes a long time to revive someone that is fully dead. During this time, the person reviving you gets bumped up the aggro chain, resulting in a high probabiliry of death themselves.
If you die in a high-risk area, yeah (I know there are some areas where I wouldn’t wait around for a revive). However, if you happen to die far enough from aggro (or just fall off a cliff >_>), it’s not that difficult. I usually clear nearby mobs before I revive another player, too – you usually get them up before the respawns
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What server are you on? I suspect it’s not Gandara, but if it was, I’d join you – just for fun
Whether it’s a bad idea or not just depends on your goal: Walking the whole distance or simply getting there (quickly) so you can play and level in the Charr starter area (or complete the Black citadel)
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Huh, I missed that flag and did it via normal support…gotta make sure I use the forum mechanic, too
(I love reporting goldsellers…makes me feel all warm and fuzzy ^^)
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I’m sorry to hear that you have technical problems with the game.
The customer support is usually very decent – I only had a problem once, and that was actually my GPU dying, but I got fairly prompt answers anyway. When I had a hacked account issue back in GW1, the support was wonderfully considerate, too.
However, if you receive no (satisfactory) answer from support, it IS very likely that they simply don’t know the answer. From what you described, it does sound like the problem lies with either yur system or your connection :/ You’re not from Australia by any chance? I hear they have difficulties with the american based servers all the time…
For me, the game is entirely worth the time. I’ve been playing since the first BWE, and still enjoying the heck out of it
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There will always be jerks, but most players are really helpful with reviving
As for me, it depends on how much time I have on my hands – if I’m in a hurry and have activated a nearby waypoint, I wp out. If the next waypoint is miles away and I want a new cup of tea anyway…I wait ^^
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It depends. In my experience, the Ele requires a much more active style of play no matter what build you play, simply because they are more squishy.
You can play the Necro actively, too, especially if you go for daggers, but they can take a lot more damage.
Ele is definitely more versatile, but I just love running into ~5 undead with my necro, dropping my wells, my staff and scepter/dagger AoEs and hitting f1 followed by 4. Not much mopping up left to do after that
And I can just stand there, taking the hits. And the conditions.
…I’m lazy. I just enjoy the necro so much more ^^
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I don’t mean that the wealth of the country grows. I mean that individuals with wealth will create more wealth an a significantly higher rate than those without wealth. It takes money to make money essentially.
You know, this is exactly why I don’t understand why people are surprised that the income gap grows.
When you have a guy making minimum wage, there is very little he can do to make his wealth grow.
When you have a guy with millions to spend, the minimum he can do is invest a ton of savings accounts and make more off interest than the minimum wage guy can get in a year.
Of course it’s going to expand! The more money you have in your pocket to spend, the more money you can earn if you choose to invest it.
More importantly, the more you have in you pocket, the more likely you will have money left over to invest
If you can barely make ends meet each month, you’re lucky if you can save enough to have a vacation once a year, or have ‘emergeny money’ on the side, etc.
… I even believe there is a threshold here.
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Actually, I feel like I saw an influx of players for two weeks or so – at least the low level areas are quite well populated again in Gandara. Seems to me some people got GW2 for christmas
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…as sad as it is, but most stores won’t give you the difference back if you just happened to buy stuff a few days before the next sales-wave arrives. Tough luck :/ (good to know though, I might just buy one )
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