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Did we skip a cycle today? If I recall correctly, resource nodes are supposed to respawn after 5:00pm PST (about an hour and a half ago). I usually farm potatoes daily for crafting in Metrica Province, but it looks like it hasn’t respawned today. Is anyone else noticing this?
I don’t swap as often as I would like. Necromancers don’t really stuff that works well with weapon swapping. I’m running Staff right now for the AOE, and switch over to Dagger/Horn when I want to travel far for the Swiftness buff (with Horn + Spectral Walk, you can have swiftness on permenantly). Other than that, Dagger, Scepter, and Axe don’t really do as much damage as I would like for being in Melee range in light armor.
Something happened where my screen would “defocus” for a few seconds (usually after large explosions?). I’m not sure if it’s related to the motion blur patch, but it feels like watching a 3D movie without the glasses. It gives me headaches :/
On Yak’s Bend server, Vollym in the Battle Pit (Gendarran Field) has been dead for weeks. The DE for the Battle Pit cannot start because he’s laying face down on the pavement. I wanted to show a friend this event (it’s one of the more fun ones, IMO), but we can’t start it because the NPC won’t respawn.
I think I want smarter world bosses. So far, everything has been “throw all your skills on it and don’t die”. Nothing really… interesting as a boss mechanic.
Punishing MMOs have a tendency to make people afraid to go through the content. I’ve gone through enough of them to see this in action.
Experience penalties for death often leads to people waiting until they are overleveled before they attempt anything that appears difficult. Why go into an area that matches your level and risk dying when you can grind ten levels above and never die. You end up gaining levels faster and more efficiently because you simply die less using this tactic.
Runes of Magic suffered from this. At level 15, you get access to instance dungeons. No one did these dungeons at level 15. Everyone started doing them at level 30-ish because it guaranteed that they won’t die during the instance. The entire community ended up being a bunch of pansies kittenfused to do anything risky.
Wow. Sometimes I wonder if you people just don’t like MMOs >_>
My friends and I were roaming around and doing some exploring. We found a diving platform and decided to jump off it. My two friends went first. I jump after them… and hit a rock. They couldn’t reach me to res, so I respawned and ran back. I jumped again, and my freaking toe clips the side of a ledge and I die instantly. My body is 99% hanging off this platform, and I’m dead.
Third times a charm….
Ugh. How about I come back when you have some grasp on the concept of “complete sentences”, capital letters, and punctuation?
Make/Purchase an Invisible Bag. Anything in that bag will never be auto-deposited.
+1 for autoloot. There are too many times where I had to target the loot, or else end up triggering some other deal (manning a weapon, revive, finisher, etc etc etc).
Actually, a race change would also affect skills/elites that are available to the classes. “Take Root” for instance is only available on Sylvari.
I don’t know if this helps at all, but is it possible that a Risen is getting stuck somewhere, and the even won’t continue because it’s still alive?
I ran into this problem during one of the quests before the quest appeared to be stuck, but I ran around for 15 minutes and found a Risen Asura stuck behind a tree.
For buying, FIFO would drive the price up. This is because it would be beneficial to bid above the price to get at the top of the queue. With LIFO, it keeps the price down, because to get to the top of the queue, you just match.
The same goes for selling. FIFO would drive the prices down because people want to undercut the competition (by 1c, most of the time) to have their stuff sell. LIFO, though, you don’t have to undercut to get to the top of the stack.
Whether or not this is a good system is up for debate, though.
I can vouch for xoticpc. I bought a sager from them and absolutely love it.
Trahearne totally steals all my thunder. I risk my butt to find Caladbolg, and the tree gives it to Trahearne! I pave the way for the union of the three factions, Trahearne becomes their leader! I name our base in Orr “Fort Trinity”, and Trahearne outright says that it was his idea to name it that!
Trahearn can gnaw on the fatter part of my plant butt…
From my experience, they don’t stack. I play Necromancer, and get a 10% quickness from Signet of Locusts. I should also get another 10% quickness bonus from using a Dagger in my main hand (Quickening Thirst trait), but it doesn’t seem to increase my movement speed any further. I seem to only get the bonus once.
It was really awkward being introduced to Trahearne after already meeting him >_>
I succeed in WvW quite well on my necromancer. Definitely not the best there is, but I think I pull my own weight pretty well.
I stack up on Staff skills and Wells. The interesting thing about these spells is that they work through structures. I’ve killed a lot of people and siege equipment by targeting under bridges or through walls. Basic tactic for defending is to just drop Marks and Wells on the wall you’re defending. All the melee take a nice hit from that.
Well of Suffering is my bread and butter for most things. I like to use Spectral Walk to run up close to some siege equipment, drop a Well of Suffering, and then blink back to safety.
From ArenaNet’s responses to other tools, it’s all right as long as the player must interact with the game to play. I think it was regarding game-pad controller software.
In general, anything that loops is strictly not allowed.
I wonder if we can start a wiki page listing approved tools? There’s a lot of legitimate gaming software out there that would constitute as botting. My logitec mouse, for instance, can do looping macros (bannable offense), but I’m not sure if many people are aware of such things. People usually believe botting is some sort of black market tool, but that’s not always the case.
Yeah, forced is the wrong word. In the first arc of the Green Knight, when you saved a Sylvary’s lover, you don’t even find out that he’s a guy until you talk to him for the one line he has and go “Oh, that’s a male voice”. If you consider that “IN YOUR FACE”, then you probably shouldn’t go outside or two guys might make eye contact in your presence.
Seriously, I didn’t piece together Caithe/Faolin until I read this thread.
And yes, Logan needs to shut up about Jenna. Ugh…
Edit: Also the deal about Lord Faron being gay is probably based on stereotypes. Stop doing that.
I go with 12345 for weapon skills, and zxcvb for class skills. Works okay for me. You might also want to try arrow keys for movement and numpad for skills. Or you can make use of the ins,del,home,end,pageup,pagedown block for movement or skills
You probably won’t be able to sell stuff back easily. Food doesn’t sell as fast as you’d like. There’s probably cheaper ways to reach 400, but require you to venture to high level areas for Karma food. Other ingredients in the TP are dirt cheap, though.
I’m hoping this is a kneejerk update to flatten the curve. I think a lot of people are making money too fast, and it probably needs to be balanced out, but the nerfs are definitely harsh. Changes the game too much.
If ANet is smart, they’ll start scaling it back up to the point where it’s worth doing, but won’t throw in more cash into the game than it can take out.
The game is less than a month old, and people are already crying for the apocalypse.
Can someone explain to me why these exotic/legendary weapons are necessary? I know they’re powerful, but are they necessary? From what I’ve seen, you can enjoy every part of the game with a set of level 80 blues.
If you’re grinding for vanity gear, that’s your call. It just sounds like you’ve gone through all the core content at an amazing pace, and now you’re angry because all you can do now is farm junk so you can get your Ultima Keyblade or whatnot.
Don’t get me wrong, ANet needs to fix up a few things. Some things are too easy to achieve, and some things are too hard. It just seems like they’re curving the “too easy” part right now. Karma for Gold exchange defeated the purpose of Karma for the most part, and 400 Cooking is still way too easy to achieve.
I hope they find time to curve the “too hard” part, or at least “hide the grind” better. They’ve done a great job at hiding the grind to level 80 with their content. Dungeons should be fun to do on their own right, and there should be no reason to repeat a dungeon except “That was awesome, let’s do it again”. I’d like to see more dungeons added to the game (this will take time), or somehow earn the same reward doing something else. You should be working towards your goal at a reasonable pace doing the things you enjoy, and dungeon grinding isn’t really working out.
I’d rather not have any events based on a day-night cycle. It would essentially lock me out of certain events because I logged in at the wrong time of day. I don’t get to play much (maybe 30 minutes a day), so I’m not too keen on waiting for the sun to come up to do stuff.
Wow, really? So PvP monthly achievements are now “forcing” you to do PvP content? When the heck were achievements required at all?
100% Map completion isn’t all that important, either, for that matter. You get an ingredient to build a legendary weapon, but the legendary weapon is only really useful in PvP environments (you can do all the level 80 content with what you got, trust me). So why do you want it so much? The rewards have no practical purpose for you.
He does summon minions if you select the Priory Branch on the last Sylvari specific story quest. He summons a minion to show you traps.
Honestly, if they have access to your email, your Guild Wars account is the last thing I’d be worried about. They can lock you out of your email, and use “Account Password Recovery” from any site to gain access to anything you have an account on.
I will put in a recommendation for the Support Necromancer if you want a more typical ranged healer style character. Essentially everyone can heal, but I think Necromancer does a pretty good job at what people think a typical healer can do.
Go with a staff. This gives you AOE “traps” that do damage and support allies when triggered. 2 bleeds enemies in an AOE, as well as put regeneration on allies. 3 is a slow and poison. 4 removes conditions from allies, and transfers them to enemies. 5 is an AOE fear. You can get traits to lower the cooldowns and make the AOE size larger.
For slot skills, go with wells. They’re basically self-targeted AOE spells (unless you get the trait to make them ground targetable). Well of Blood heals in an area. Well of Power turns allied conditions into buffs. Well of Corruption turns enemy buffs into conditions. Really powerful stuff. Also Sigil of Undeath can revive 3 allies from being down, but its currently broken.
I’d say warrior or thief with range weapons. Thieves are squishier, but they can put out some nice damage. Dual Pistols are fun for single target damage, but I like Short Bow for AOE (the auto-attack bounces).
I will note, however, that you can usually do an instance that is 2 or 3 levels above you, depending on your class and build. Those warnings usually means there a decent battle ahead, so if you feel confident (or have some friends with you), go ahead and try it out.
Except that bleeding only stacks up to 25 on PvE. Bleeding in general kind of sucks in PvE boss battles because everyone is just overriding stacks.
Do turrets count as summons? I wonder if they count towards the Necro minion bonuses >_>
Around level 20 or so, I stopped getting Jute altogether. I only get Wool and Cotton now. I basically had to make a new character to collect Jute for me.
There are several places where you can get stuck. I got caught inside a wall of rocks once, and again somewhere on a boat while doing jumping puzzles to get to vistas. The only way out is to Waypoint.
On that note, are the developers concerned about places where people can get stuck? I know it’s not high priority, but it’s sort of a matter of polish.
It’s supposed to go away when you kill all of his wolves. However, I’ve seen it get stuck on at least 2 occasions.
I really like Take Root if I know I’m going to be fighting in a single area for a while. The invincibility is nice to eat up some burst, and the turrets do a surprising amount of damage. I wish it was more consistent, though. Sometimes I get 5 plants, and other times I get only 2.
As a Necromancer, though, I use Flesh Golem a lot more since it stays out and I can travel with it.
Same. Signet of undeath only seems to revive NPC characters. It won’t revive player characters in PvE or WvWvW
It definitely feels like it favors Melee Necro over Condition/Support Necros. For the most part, 4 requires you to be in melee range, and 2 puts you in melee range. 1 is great you have good power (melee stat). Only the fear is really useful if you’re playing keep away as a Staff Necro.
Black Peppercorns are also missing
All classes have some kind of support. Granted, some are better than others.
Take a look at Necromancer, along with the classes already mentioned. Staff Necromancers drop spell-traps that heal/buff in an AOE. They also have wells which remove conditions and grant boons, as well as more AOE healing.
I think Thief is probably the weakest in the support group, but I’ve seen many people do support thief by reviving/healing people while stealthed.
Raw materials tend to sell better than crafted gear in pretty much every craft right now. In Cooking, you can try selling dyes, but that only becomes profitable at higher levels of craft
I don’t think you can hide it on the character select screen. You can’t hide the shoulder items, either. I’d definitely would like to see this changed.
I don’t have that model, but on my mouse I just put 6,7,8,9, and 0 mapped on the mouse so I don’t have to stretch across the keyboard. I also have a button for 1 mapped on a key so I can auto-attack while I move around.
Utility Skills should switch as well when you enter water. You can only slot them while you’re in water, though.
Pick a class that suits your style best. Remember that every class can essentially play every role. That’s the goal, at least. Depending on how you build and allocate your skills/traits, your character will always have the option to play Tank, DPS, Support, etc etc. You can be a melee Necromancer with lifesteal and daggers, or you can be a support Thief with heals and revives.
The only way to remove it is to use a Salvage Kit, which has a chance of removing the upgrade from the item. The better the Salvage Kit, the higher the chance. There is also a Salvage Kit that gives 100 removal of upgrades from an item.
If you’re still low level, I would say that it’s not really worth it
Remember that some classes can swap weapons in battle. This essentially gives you an additional 4 skills (plus your auto-attack). I’ve seen many people burn cooldowns on one weapon, switch weapons, and then start using those skills. Weapon swapping is on a 5 second cooldown, so you can do this quite often.