1 – I unlocked gliding and shroom super jumping, is there a preferred order of other things I should work on or should I just wing it?
I just winged it but in general the last and most expensive in each line is probably the least useful.
Gliding – Getting this up to advanced gliding is good. You won’t miss much by not having ley line gliding
Itzel Lore – You will want to get up to Itzel Poison Lore otherwise some areas are not accessible.
Exalted Lore – Just getting Exalted Markings is fine
Nuhoch Lore – Get this up to Nuhoch Stealth Detection
2 – I have a few full exotic sets, zerker, carrion, knight/soldier, etc., so I’m doing okay, but how do I obtain ascended weapons? Do I need to craft them? I hoarded materials for years, everything is at the stash cap, meaning that I cannot store anything anymore. It shouldn’t be too terrible to get all materials, even if I’m very scarce in liquid wealth (gold), but if I can farm it I can make it I guess. Oh, I’m a Huntsman if that helps identifying what I have to do.
You have 2000 of everything?
Unfortunately an important aspect of ascended crafting is the time gated material so having a lot of things stored up less helpful than it could be. You can also bypass the gating by buying the finished item on the TP but that will cost you extra(usually).
You can also buy ascended gear using the raid currency or random drops but random drops are obviously not reliable.
Two of the cheaper options for ascended weapons is the various elite spec weapons and weapon you get through the Caladbolg quest. The first time through the that quest the weapon is very cheap but you do need to have a character that has finished the HoT story and this assumes you want a sword/greatsword/shield/scepter/dagger. Caladbolg’s weapon type is changeable as well for 1000 unbound magic.
3 – How can I grind some gold? Not looking forward to make thousands, but say a couple hundreds maybe? Which is the best way?
Silverwastes is pretty easy and basically guaranteed. Ideally you want a lv30 or 50ish character to do all the bag opening. Check the LFG. If it is advertised as RIBA it means they are running around in that order. Red fort -> Indigo -> Blue -> Amber.
4 – I heard someone say legendaries can be crafted now, is that true? I think it may be referring to precursors, but I’m not sure. If it’s possible, how can I work on one?
They have always been craftable. :P
The “new” thing is craftable precursors. This is not always the cheapest route. Sometimes the crafting cost can be as much as twice the cost of buying it.
5 – Is there an experienced thief that can give a few tips on open world or general pve builds? Eventually for raiding in the future as well. A link to some website is also equally welcome, I’ve been really out of this game for too long and I have to find my ground again.
http://qtfy.eu/build/thief
https://metabattle.com/wiki/Thief
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How about avoiding corpses at all and reviving people while they are downed?
1) I am sorry but we are not in the type of relationship that would make me want to walk through fire to save you.
2) OP is talking about dead not down.
Actually if you lay dead (not downed, but defeated), you are hurting the fight, because people may accidentally select you over a downed (not dying) ally that is still contributing to the fight. You also run the risk of people that don’t know any better that hard ressing takes longer, putting themselves in danger and getting themselves killed because they were being considerate! Yes, they can manually select, but you’re still making it hard for them. WP back.
I think it should be like in WvW where you can’t res dead people in combat (and should remove the option as well as that gets annoyed).
Disabling ressing dead while in combat would not help with the issue you raised of interfering since you can still interact with the dead. You just end up with a message telling you that you can’t res dead while in combat.
That is not the experience I have in this game, in Open World content as well as Fractals. It’s rather the opposite, people run to resurrect downed players even if just killing the mob that downed player is hitting from the downed state only needs one more shot to allow rallying. I often think “omg, that is so nice, but it would really help me more if you just killed that trash mob I’m throwing daggers at.”
And people also drop everything and run to resurrect dead people, which makes no sense most of the time.
There is also the opposite … you kill half a dozen mobs around someone and they did not rally because they didn’t hit any of the mobs.
And if you don’t have a nearby waypoint and won’t get back in time? Then should you port? Maybe you used teleport to a friend to get into the fight and don’t have any waypoints in the area at all.
It’s happened to me.
Maybe they shouldn’t be making the WPs so sparse.
Especially since there seems to be an obligatory ty/yw at the end when the best strategy is both backing off a bit (or even further for a full heal), hitting their heal skills, then returning to the fight a few seconds later.
That is so hateful. If you really want to thank me then GTFO the AoE instead … oh look you are downed again.
Just NOT like they did in the HOT zones, where if you do not tag an event in a certain time period you time out. Obviously someone forgot some dynamic events do not scale well so it is hard to get in many hits. Not to mention that when several events are near each other you can wind up participating in one you did not mean to be in and losing the work you put in on the first.
I think you still get the item rewards in those cases. You just lose out on the karma and exp and possibly collection item.
What kind of mob is this, that takes longer to kill than reviving a dead person? Maybe the one doing the reviving has some different (and more important) issues if it takes him longer to kill a mob than revive a person.
Way to turn my point into “L2P” lol. That wasn’t my point. If I’m running along and I see a dead person, I might stop to rez them. If after I start rezing a mob decides to attack me, I shouldn’t have to stop rezing and kill the mob so I can start rezing again.
With the WvW implementation you do not have to stop in that situation. You will continue ressing. If you decide to stop ressing and try to resume again then you would need to get out of combat first.
In a way this whole thread is a L2P issue. People ressing at inappropriate times as well as people expecting to be ressed at inappropriate times. There has been way too many people asking to be ressed while in the middle of Matriarch/Patriarch’s fire or Golem Mk II’s electric field.
It would be nice to see something definitive on the scaling issue, though, with the conflicting accounts in this thread. Knowing that for sure would definitely affect my decisions on rezzing both self and others.
In the case of the Patriarch’s shield it only seems to scale up. It never scales back down. I can be fighting there alone then someone shows up and the shield will be scaled up. Even if I never see anyone else again for the next 15+ minutes the shield stays scaled up.
My stance on this is not too popular, but here it is anyhow:
Waypointing out of combat should be disallowed (like in dungeons or fractals). Also, dead characters SHOULD count towards scaling (they do not now).
My reasoning is that this is a cooperative game. Players should be reviving defeated players on the “don’t leave a fellow soldier behind” principle. My stance would force players to revive their fallen comrades. However, it may also require some changes to the overall scaling formulas in use.
Nope. Still won’t ress some people. For example people who would drag a mob out of its leash range and cause it to reset and anyone else who doesn’t know how to kite properly. Those people are more useful dead than alive.
Please give us the option to change which side of the keyboard we can have those keys active on so we can use them without the discomfort..
They did – read more closely what is written above
The keys are separate, and BOTH are usable as controls. You will have to re-pick in the options, but then there will be “right shift key” in it.
The difference is that you can now select “right shift key” or “left shift key”, instead of both acting as the same button.
And I agree, this stuff should be in the change notes.
These particular actions are not rebindable.