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So my question is really about “did I miss a turn or road somewhere?” Can I “just walk into the next zone” to a different zone and actually continue leveling like my Human and Norn characters did?
Yes.
GW2 is different from WoW this way. There’s no such thing as a ‘right spot’ for leveling or level gates on events- any character can level in any area. In higher level areas players get ‘upscaled’ to the correct level (although they don’t get the necessary traits, so they’re still weak) and in lower areas they get ‘downscaled’. Experiences, events and hearts aren’t limited by your level.
The level markings on the areas are there to let players know how hard an area should be, but if you want to you can stick to the starter zone until level 80, or head straight for Orr. Neither is the most efficient way to play, but they’re both options.
I hereby give this thread my seal of “I hate all of you darned lucky people”.
Eh. Some people will get lucky, but I don’t hate on the players, I hate on the game (RNG). 
People need to post weather or not they stocked a bunch of leather and gossamer before they make such claim.
I know the only reason I hope leather or gossamer price go up is because I stock up a bunch in the bank…. and it is just collecting dust now.
Of course I have a lot of it on bank. I wont sell anything for less than I feel like it would be worth with appropriate sinks and let speculators fill their guild banks with it and make big bank if a patch comes
I think John Smith is smart enough to check the accounts of people who make these kind of threads without them disclosing their items to the public though. I mean he doesnt hesitate to look up how often someone died when he claimed he never diesya I mean, I find it hard to believe anyone cares about the economy or some kitten what the price should be because they are at a higher tier…
People are probably just complaining that their investment don’t turn out big and is collecting dust in the bank.
Few people have the stomach for long-term investments. I like collecting, so a few extra stacks of ingredients sitting around is fine with me.
Leather in particular can only go up from here – it is selling at vendor +1 on the TP. Any logical move ANet makes regarding leather can only raise the price. And since the price is so low, it only has to go up a miniscule amount for the investment to be worth it. It’s the surest bet on the market, just with an indefinite time frame.
This is what I do/did to make/save money but to be honest probably staying in town CRAFTING your eyeballs out is probably the quickiest/most efficient way to make GOLD.
Ahhhhh…tis true then —CRAFTING is the key to GW2 wealth.
My superior left-sided Asuran brain knew the answer but my puny human intellect still refuses to comply.
Thanks for the awesome link Khisanth! :-)
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Actually, crafting is hard to make profitable in GW2, which is why sites like that exist. The easiest way is to do quick dungeon runs or farm the latest LS map – dungeon runs have the highest typical gold/minute with a good group, and the LS map will have the highest concentration of players. Since kill-stealing is impossible in GW2, more players = more events and mobs = more loot.
There are also guides to farming high level maps that can come up with significant gold/hour, which are good fallbacks when LS zones are depopulated.
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You’re not the only one who’s finding the difficulty spike very annoying. I think it was caused because a small group of players complained about how ‘easy’ PvE is. Instead of going off to dungeons, fractals, WvW or PvP, they wanted to make PvE harder for the rest of us. I don’t think it was a good decision by ANet.
If this trend continues, I’m probably going to ignore LS updates. Having NPCs bug out and stand there leaving me to fight off hordes of powerful mobs isn’t fun. I’ve had bugs in most LS instances, Fort Salma was very irritating. Why should I spend so much time and effort on things that are broken and not fun?
For the story – ANet storywriting is mediocre. If I’d paid for the LS updates I’d feel ripped off to.
Dry Top is very hard to navigate. The vertical design is interesting the first few times, but it makes getting places hard. The hard mobs mean the exploring is difficult. I can’t take the time to pay attention to the scenery, I always have to be on the lookout for mobs spawning. That’s very frustrating for me, because I think Tyria is beautiful and I want to be able to take time to look at it.
Silverwastes is a bit better to navigate, but it can still be difficult. I hope they make better maps going forward.
I wish ANet wouldn’t keep shoving LS/PS in our faces with the UI – I really like the map completion guide, but I can’t figure out how to have just that and not the achievement tracker and LS tracker.
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1. <b>LVL 80 is not good to be the lvl set forever i mean i like if the cap is changed and also after having the same items for 10 years down the road whit no progression is also dumb for me
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No. No, it’s not.
Gear grind and constant leveling is not the only, or even best, way to design a game. GW2 was specifically marketed as not doing that, and not having to deal with a gear grind or raised level caps was one of the big reasons behind my purchase. I probably would stop playing if I thought that was going to change, because there are tons of games that will respect my time and effort in a way that gear grinds and raising level caps doesn’t.
OT:
I’ve always been very put off by typical MMO raids, but reading this thread has made me very happy. People see to be thinking carefully about how to do inclusive GW2-style raids where the emphasis is on playing together (vs. grinding for BiS gear or bragging rights). I’ve seen things described here that would make me interested in raiding, like having mini tutorials raids to introduce concepts (can we apply this to starter zones and get a tutorial for combos too?) and having stories built around player choices (like needing to coordinate who dies to hold off the hoards while an escorted NPC gets away, that was a good post).
I would really like to play with a large group of friends or guildmates to go through interesting stories and fun gameplay. I like playing with people, but I really can’t stand group grinds or angry elitists. I think the Labyrinth is a nice starting point for larger group content. It’s dangerous enough to be hard in spots even for large groups, but rewarding both in terms of fun play and drops.
As for raid design, focusing on letting all classes and playstyles shine would be great. In a group of 10+ there’s going to be someone from most classes, so having ways for each class to contribute something extra (not requiring all classes, but letting a diverse group do better) would be a nice way to combat players’ focus on optimal classes. Please, please stop locking drops behind punishing RNG. A token system, even if it was a different system per raid, would be better than rare RNG (although I’d prefer it if the tokens worked across different raids, like guild commendations instead of dungeon tokens).
Also – and I thought this went without saying but the trait system shows that it needs to be said – making players repeat long content is bad. Locking content behind long gold or time gates is bad. Fun comes from lots of sources, but one thing it doesn’t come from is needing an external checklist to get the desired result. Please make sure to communicate in-game the choices players have and the impact of those choices.
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Most non-Defience mobs have a lot of small attacks with small tells and instead of dodging you’re better of dealing with them through Blinds/Weakness and simply killing them quickly, most classes have access to something. Certain attacks (like Ascalonian Catacombs gravelings) have big tells, it tends to mean a big hit or CC is incoming, those you might want to dodge. You’ll take some damage, but aslong as you’re not downed 24/7 it’s not a big deal.
Elementalist: Glyph of Storms in Earth / Lightning Hammer for Blinds, Focus gives a small anti-projectile (Swirling Winds) Reflect (Magnetic Wave) and Immunity (Obsidian Flesh) and for defience mobs; Glyph of Elemental Power in either Earth for perma cripple so you can kite (our ‘max melee’ range is big, even in D/any) or Air for Weakness.)
Mesmers: Not a lot of Blinds, but Blurred Frenzy for Evades and access to Anti-Projectiles/Reflects (Focus Phantasm and Feedback.)
Necromancers: Well of Darkness, Death-shroud Tanking, Traits for Weakness.
Engineer: Smoke Bomb (Bomb Kit,) Flame Turrets activate skill for blinds, some Elixer has a Reflect/Anti-projectile + blind (forgot the name.)
Ranger: Take a pet with Toughness (I’d recommend Drake for survivability vs damage) when solo’ing and send them in first.
Thief: Black Powder (Pistol 5) gives a lot of blinds, Sword Auto-attack inflicts Weakness, also helpful.
Warrior: Healing Signet + High base Toughness should be plenty, if not, check out some defensive Utilities (Endure Pain for example.) Or AoE Stuns (Mace 5 for example.)
Guardian: With the right Traits (Blind on Virtue of Justice, Virtue of Justice Recharges on kill) along with Sword/Greatsword Blinds makes almost any hit miss, along with Aegis (Retreat, Virtue of Courage) and Wall of Reflection for some Reflects, you should be fine.For every class, you can range and kite almost anything, but that won’t help you improve and is a bit boring in my opinion.
Most mobs with Defiance (Champions, Legendaries) have big tells on their high damage attacks, which is usually all you need to dodge really. They do differ per enemy, but usually it’s either a big movement, some sound or a glowing effect. Even if it’s not obvious at first (like Lupi’s kick is almost impossible to judge from his legs, but you can see it in the way he moves his shoulders) with practice it will become easier. Watching a video on a specific encounter can also help and as last resort you can always ask information on the specific encounter in either the Forums, groups or guild/friends. Attacks with little to no tell generally are counter-able in a different way, be it Condition-Cleanse or Reflects.
The only real exception I can think of is the Champion Icebrood Wolf in CoE, who uses 2 PbAoEs that can easily down anyone in non-defensive gear with just one of them, but they have a long cooldown (~30s) and can be lured out during the pull.
Whilst practicing the encounters it might be worth wearing some more defensive gear, such as Knight’s or Soldier’s and swap in more and more DPS-stats as you’re comfortable with. Downside is that in certain fights that can lead to a lot of aggro and thus making the encounter more difficult, but from what I’m aware only Mai Trin and the Archdiviner would give a lot of issue with that.
For PvP encounters you struggle with I’d recommend to watch some streamers play the class and possibly play it yourself, like that not only the tells become easier, but you’ll often be able to predict when a certain attack is coming and also able to judge what’s worth dodging and what’s better off left alone.
I hope this helps.
How does agro and tanking work in this game?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro
You can get a mob’s attention by hurting it or by going near (if it’s name is red). But agro isn’t handled the same way as other MMOs at all, and tanking doesn’t exist in the same form because agro is different. Manage mobs with kiting, moving and choosing your ground.
I think your MMO experience may be hurting you here. Some of the mechanics here are simply different enough that the typical MMO roles don’t exist. I found it was especially helpful to pay attention the land around me and practice disengaging from immediate combat for a running battle (condition builds are especially effective this way).