Guild Wars 2

tl;dr all the whining.
Tip: Take your toons (mains and alts) and start playing as much as possible doing PvE events, for the next couple of months. Whenever a game does something momentous, like have an expansion, a BIG update, or goes F2P…anything that is designed to bring in new players and bring back Vets, drop rates usually increase for a short time. Don’t farm the same stuff over and over, or Diminishing Returns will set in, but rather, go from map to map, exploring, and doing all that stuff you used to do when you first started out. that’s where the good drops should be.

I did that last night and ended up with 2 keys and a chest that contained a very expensive dye. I was able to get my weaponsmith to Grand Master last night XD
Now just to wait until Sunday for my Laurels, bwahahahaha!

Linken.6345:

savacli.8172:

Practically any of the crafting professions are gold sinks. Yes, you can make money through the TP or save money by crafting items yourself (vs buying them outright), but that has the potential to change radically at any moment.

Specifically to a Mesmer or Ele: tailoring would be useful to both classes since they are both Scholars and use the same armor categories. Weaponsmithing and Artificing are both useful for crafting their primary weapons though you’ll need a few weapons from Huntsman as well for a Mesmer. Artificing can also be use for crafting slaying potions.

Jewellery crafting is universally useful for any class as everyone make use of trinkets. Currently, the craft is limited to exotic quality items but will advance to Ascended after the expansion.

The only ones I can see not being immediately useful for you are Leatherworking and Armorsmithing as neither of your toons can make use of the majority of the items that are crafted from that discipline.

Otherwise there are a bunch of one-off type items that require a random crafting discipline.

Again, we have no idea what you’re after so it’s going to be pretty difficult to point you in a direction. If you’re ultimate goal is making of the post though, you won’t find many people willing to part their money making secrets as those flipping techniques/secrets are what’s making them money.

Please show me source on the bolded part no were have I read that jewelery will get bumped to 500, always made me kinda bumed it wasent already upgraded since my first char was jewelery/huntsman

Yes please. I was really bummed to find out my chef and jeweler couldn’t create ascended items.

For the long term, I suggest tailoring and artificing. Tailoring will allow you to make the ascended thread and cord(account bound) needed for making Damask and Elonian Leather (ascended, sellable). Artificer will allow you to make the account bound glue and mithrillium for sellable ingots and planks. this way, regardless of whether you choose to craft ascended gear or not, you can still craft the time gated materials and make gold from that. You can also craft those at any level, I believe, so if you start early, you can create enough ascended mats for your own gear, plus have extra for selling on the TP.

Also, the fastest, cheapest way to level crafting is via the refinements, then backpacks, then components, and sell the components/insignias/inscriptions on the TP. Use a crafting booster, ALWAYS, whenever you can get one.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_equipment#Stat_Changing

Also, the crafting vendor sells ascended recipes, if you haven’t put the inscription together yet.

I, for one, would like to see representations of as many of the developed human cultures as possible.
Asian (Cantha), Hispanic and Latino, Anglo, African and Middle Eastern (Elona)….
Every player wants to feel like they can be fully immersed in the story, like there is a place for them within the cultures of Tyria. I think GW 1 really tried to do that with Cantha and Elona, and I wish they would continue, and improve upon the that tradition in GW 2.

Linken.6345:

oh i thought this was a thread about to many old veteran players

Actually, I thought it was a thread addressed to our many veteran players, not too many veteran mobs, lol.

Rauderi.8706:

So far as #1, at least it makes the falling traits mean something.

OMG! I never even thought about that! I only ever slot that when I’m doing exploration and might fall off a cliff or something. That’d actually be useful in a lot of the new content now XD.

This is subjective, since my idea of fun may be someone else’s annoyance, and some folks won’t like attacks no matter what. I was just so tickled by this particular one that I thought I’d mention it, in hopes it won’t be changed or done away with.
Alrenatively, it doesn’t need to be fun, but definitely makes the fight interesting.

1> Giant Hylek that throws you straight up into the air (Huh…I wonder if I did it right, I could get him to toss me up to the next landing, lol). It feels like a trampoline, since you don’t take much damage from the actual attack. It’s just “Whoopsy!” (interrupt+a couple of seconds recovery time)

2> IIRC it’s the Mounted Cavalier that does another launch type of attack. It’s a pain in the butt, and the consequences can easily get you killed if they gang up on you, but the tumbling across the field is well done. It makes it feel like a real fight, rather than a dodge and spank.

+1! I love this idea!
It’d be kinda cool to be able to put all your postcards and stamps in some kind of scrapbook…maybe some kind of in game snapshot add on?

darkwombat.3695:

So if I want, I can weapon swap between Longbow and Hammer?

As long as you have the Elite spec slotted; Guardian is Dragonhunter, so in your hero panel, you’d go to where you set up your specializations (just another fancy word for passive skills) and make sure that Dragonhunter is set up in one of the 3 rows of specialization slots. Since Dragonhunter is the Elite Specialization, I’m going to guess that it won’t become available until level 80.

In case you are not familiar with the Specialization slots, I have attached a screenshot of my Guardian’s Specs. She’s only Level 51, so it’s not full yet, but you should be able to figure it out.

Since Guardian is one of the classes that allows for weapon swapping, you should be able to equip a longbow in one of your available weapon slots and swap between weapons like you would any other weapon, but only when the Dragonhunter specialization line is applied.

Mercypsy.9602:

I think OP has a valid concern. Core maps have a lot of stuff you can do if you’re alone or there are few people about. The new map really needs a group to have something to do. I managed to do some events solo, but it was a slog and I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t want to test the new specialization. I worry that this, combined with the density of new, harder mobs will leave the maps deserted after they stop being new and fresh. Masteries may help populate them though.

I agree. Look at Southsun Cove. It has the same problem. It’s why I almost never go there. I don’t mind mobs being harder, but combine added difficulty with added density, and it’s just too much, unless you have something else to break up the constant threat.
I think Silverwastes and Drytop are good examples of balanced mob populations. At least if you die during an event, you can dodge and weave your way back from the base camp, and get back to business without too much trouble.

IMO, making the mobs more difficult should just make you play smarter, it shouldn’t make it nearly impossible to get from point A to point B on your own, which you need to do, if you die during an event or activity and have to WP. (in case anyone was thinking of interjecting with “well go with a group..join a guild….”.)

Sully.9453:

You do realise that you were just playing ranger normally and that druid specialisation hasn’t even been announced yet…

Shhh…drink your tea/coffee. Read it again. It works.

Huh? Druid was even an option this past BWE?
Oh. Morning caffeine finally kicked in.
I see what you did there.

Yup, ok, that explains it, ty

My friend said she couldn’t see it. I saw it on another player earlier as well.

The last one in the chain: clear hostiles from the noble’s crash site…when /where does that happen? I’ve been at the crash site many times and followed the quest chain from what I thought was start to finish, but this part hasn’t come up yet, or at least hasn’t completed for me..maybe I did it already and it didn’t apply?

It’s supposed to be the last one in the chain..it’s at the bottom of the list anyway, but the last one that actually seems active is the Legendary Wyvern.

Klipso.8653:

He’ll probably take credit for development too

No doubt -_-;
Please! I want to find out in HoT that he got turned and we finally get to kill him off, Bwhahahahahaha!!!

..Also, Tybalt somehow survived and has been recovering from his trauma in an Itzel village.

lordkrall.7241:

Yes, Trahearne is a necromancer. And no, the use of the Caladbolg have nothing at all to do with the Reaper.
In fact, any profession can use the very same sword if they play as Sylvari.

Only in the Personal Story instances that require it ;P

Randulf.7614:

Why did you think development has taken so long with Trahearne providing the feedback?

IKR..Every time the devs said “Hey..we should give PC Necros a GS!” he just replied “This won’t end well”. Then Mordy made his grand entrance and all bets were off ;P

Seera.5916:

The problem is complicated by a number of factors:

1. How many players were playing a new class last beta vs this beta? If you played a new class last beta but not this beta, that could be part of why it seems easier.

2. Are they testing in a different area? Maybe this area is supposed to be an easier area than last week’s beta.

3. What one player says is hard is another’s easy.

I actually find this map more difficult than the previous one. It has zero indigenous allied areas, and nothing to do except kill or be killed. There is no respite from survival mode, and no breathing room to just explore. It’s definitely not a solo area (I mostly solo or duo, and sometimes will follow a larger group during events)

The mobs themselves aren’t necessarily easier or harder than the previous map, there just seem to be a LOT more of them, and the overlap + lack of proper gear/build is what ends up killing me. It’s hard to find a spot where I can practice the stuff I come up with, and get used to the new specs to properly learn how to be effective with them enough to experience anything else.

More and more I am missing all that gear I had prepared to use for this BWE. I have spent more time working out builds this weekend, than actually playing
I finally have something that seems to be working ok, and at least I have better survivability than before. I still feel like I can’t really test well, because of so much time just figuring out what build and gear set up works best so I can live long enough to even complete an event.

So far, it’s CleriMonk Armor + Zerker accs/weapons FTW…who’da thunk?

ronpierce.2760:

They need to add Power Ferocity Condi Dmg gear :P that’s what I need

So much THIS!!!!! I want that so badly. What I decided to try today was Dire armor and Carrion everything else. I used Scholar runes. I’m still playing with sigils. I thought I’d give the Axe/Focus combo a try. I usually do D/WH or D/D, and staff, but I switched out the staff for the GS. The GS seems better this time around, but I’m still not thrilled with the timing. I can be really fast with a staff, even though it might not do as much damage per hit..it hits more often, plus marks.

I’ve got SR: 1/2/3 (because FIRE) but would I be better off with Death Perception?
Spite is: 3/3/3
Reaper is: 2/3/2

I do mainly PvE

ok, so it’s not just me. It was actually making my eyes hurt and I ended up with a migraine last night.

I enjoy playing on full graphics, so I hope they’ll be able to make some adjustments to make the light in those areas less painful to play in.

I’d still like a merchant in the starting spot of the Beta area. It’s the easiest way to clean out my bags, since destroying anything requires me to confirm (which is good, but time consuming) just being able to sell my trash would be nice, instead of having to hop over to the normal area each time. Bank access would be nice too, to store the extra gear. I know I can just hop over to DR, but it’s a convenience thing that would just be nice to have during Beta, so we can spend more time playing, and less time sorting and traveling.

They didn’t do a new account snapshot this time around, so if you didn’t have it unlocked before the last beta, then you are out of luck…unless this is your first beta, and then, I dunno.

Am I the only person getting headaches from how bright it is, and the pulsing of the brightness from the dust in the air, and whatnot?
I’m not sure if it’s from the game, or if I’m coming down with something, but my eyes are starting to hurt from the glare, and I’m getting a headache. Is there a way to adjust the brightness, without making the rest of the game areas darker as well?

warherox.7943:

Not to mention the lack of some stat combos and runes/sigils in the upgrade box.

Yeah, the more time I’m spending on trying to create a build for my Reaper, the more I am missing the set-up I had prepared. I’m missing runes and weapon stats that cannot be acquired via the beta bundles (Giver’s +condi duration weapons, and the closest I can get to my Mad King runes is the Krait set, and that’s ok I guess, but not nearly as fun, lol Hopefully the additional poisoning and torment will make up for the missing birds). So yeah..I’m over the skins/makeover, but I’m seriously bummed about the build I had planned, but now can’t use.

Bovan.9481:

Kitty La Boom Boom.4065:

I get that, but I would not have made the time/emotional investment that I did into my bank prep if I had known they weren’t going delete everything from last Beta as it says they would. I could have spent that time doing other things..

You could have spend that time reading all the info we got BEFORE the very first beta weekend. They specifically said everything would carry over to the next beta weekend, which is this one.

They have never said they would delete everything and allow you to re-copy your bank this weekend.

Look; I already /end whine (d). No need to rub my nose in something I’m already over. Yeesh.

Seera.5916:

They might not have the ability to do a new bank snapshot without resetting the beta accounts. Which would be fine of they weren’t trying to test the mastery progression. Which is best done over the course of more than just a few days.

And testing mastery progression is better than everyone being able to find their builds for HoT.

I get that, but I would not have made the time/emotional investment that I did into my bank prep if I had known they weren’t going delete everything from last Beta as it says they would. I could have spent that time doing other things..I know it’s silly, but I’m just really disappointed I won’t have that stuff..especially the Dreamthistle GS skin, that I spent a LOT of time grinding out the gold for. I could have spent that gold to raise up my crafting levels, but I really wanted that skin for this weekend. Oh well.
/end whine

SADNESS! I just logged into Beta, after spending about an hour last night prepping my bank with a makeover kit, and making sure all the account bound gear/items that I wanted to use for this weekend was all set up and organized, and now I see that it’s still the same as I left it last BWE.

No makeover kit, no painstakingly crafted ascended armor. No hard earned ascended jewelry, and worst of all, no extremely expensive greatsword skin that was going to complete my truly badkitten Reaper.

/commence melodramatic sobbing

vampirem.2065:

lordkrall.7241:

vampirem.2065:

Ok, you made me really laugh.
I’m listening, trying to prove to me how.

I suppose you reading the actual restrictions are too much to ask?

It is precisely the current restrictions, which make me assert immense economic problem that will result ‘.
Limitations BEFORE the letter “our president” were right and at most criticized for pettiness.
Here we are faced with a problem that overturns’ the economy of the game.
Allow from “old” player Gw 1 and 2, I am baffled the decision.
And that limits me to buy the expansion.
Since I have three accounts whose principal and ’CE edition …..
I do expect that even HOt become free?

Possibly..If you want to wait for the next expansion.

Linfang.1087:

I am so embarrassed by the Warhorn sound my warrior waits till he is out of the city before he uses it for the speed buff. It’s like going outside to fart.

Too bad we can’t macro audio shouts to our skill use: /on skill WH 5; “Oops! Excuse me…”

ArchonWing.9480:

Oh, so that’s what the user does to go faster. >.>

Yes..esp on a Necro, where you now look AND sound like you are farting flies, rotflmao

Does anyone know if we can send items to the FTP players? I know they can’t send items, but can they receive them? I thought it might be nice to make up batches of consumables and low level gear for Random Acts of Gifting the newbies

What a great thread! If anyone would like to contribute to my Black Lion Chest Key addiction, I would be ever so grateful, and happy to pay it forward (via this thread) the next time I have room for Gems in my household budget <3

Thank you so much, kind Benefactor <3

briggah.7910:

Doggie.3184:

briggah.7910:

azizul.8469:

it’s a free trial . the free2play word is just a sugar-coating.

So when does the trial expire?

When you buy the game.

Oh so if I don’t buy it it never runs out? I might actually try this game out then.

How are you posting in these forums if you don’t have a paid version of the game?

Behellagh.1468:

SuinegTsol.1729:

why only ONE bag slot???

Why only one Shadow or Flame dye?

A1: Because folks would be doing exactly what they are talking about doing, and buying up multiple slots for multiple HoT toons, thus negating the need to buy them at full price after launch. They can give you one for cheap, but the rest are full price…kinda like crack ;P

A2: Because folks would buy up as many as they could afford, to get the ones they want and flood the market with the leftovers.

Awesome, ty all for the info <3

I got the Birthday gift on the first 2 characters I rolled at launch. About week later, I rolled another alt. I thought she should be getting her gift today, but maybe I did the math wrong? She’s at 1,092 days, which divided by 30 (for an average 30 day month) comes to 36.4. Was there a limit to how many toons per account got the gift?, or do I just need to be patient, lol.

Zalladi.4652:

Not a bad suggestion to have a 5 minute preview of your new makeover before you commit to it.

However, you would then have to find a solution to this issue; how would you stop players from simply re-applying the 5 minute preview every time it runs out? And thus, they never actually consume the makeover kit, and can infinitely re-change their look forever?

That’d be kind of a PITA, wouldn’kitten I can’t see anyone doing that every 5 minutes, indefinitely. They’d never have time to play the game.

Negative Vision.5982:

I have a friend that had recently bought the game only for it to be announced that the base game was going to be free with HOT purchase and that now the base game is free regardless. What was the point of him paying $40? Now he won’t even touch the game after all this. I could personally see playing the game if I at least got HOT for $30 but $60 is just stupid considering how much bullkitten went on for 3 years and that I still regret having ever pre-purchased this game myself.

How recently did he purchase the core game, or did he prepurchase HoT? If it was within a short time of the FTP announcement, and it doesn’t already have the HoT pre-order attached, he might be able to work something out with Anet CS.

Amarthis.5314:

I think it would be nice to have such option and really fit upcoming new guild features.. or at least have possibility to send one email to multiple recipients

I’d only want it for Guild and Allies. General multi would be too easy to abuse.

Yes please, to all of the above suggestions!

That’s the Carapace top, helm, boots, and bottom (light armor). The gloves and shoulders are the Radiant (something) skin from the AP awards. I’m not sure of the colors, but it looks like Celestial for the white, and maybe Electro Blue for the blue. Dunno what the raspberry color could be.

My 2 copper: I agree with the OP. I don’t care for the drape of the Human WD.
IMO, they could take the bottom of the starter Light Armor, and stick a train on it and get a better effect with just a few texturing and shading changes.

The Sylvari version = <3, also, the Asura (my personal favorite)
The Charr one..I dunno yet. I’m thinking they could just do away with the tail cover, and it’d be fine.
The Norn one is simply lovely, with emphasis on the simple. It’s quite elegant

HOWEVER!
I have to say that I absolutely L-O-V-E the way they made the effort to make the outfit a unique style for each race. I’d really like to see that in all of the future Outfits from the gem store.

Dawdler.8521:

Because they are fugly thats why.

If I wanted to be a pigeon, I wouldn’t be playing GW2.

Nope. You’d be playing Aion, and hopefully as a Raven, not an elitist, fascist pigeon.

“Blood for Blood”

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought of farts when I heard the new WH sounds.
Norn Farts was my exact visual/auditory response.

Derek.9021:

KAWW, you scary! Give sparkly, me! Give twinkly, me! Me, KAAWW , you, trade, trade! Give me. Sparkly-twinkly. – Sparkly the Crow, Demon’s Souls.

I trade you 1 sparkly for ALLLLL the Demon Souls (Yummeh!)

Endless Soul.5178:

~uses a key on OP to unlock loot~

Ooh a shiny!

LMAO! Oooh Shiny is the name of my guild hahahaha!

I ran around all sparkly like that for about 5 minutes, even in DS. It was neat! Why did that happen and how can I do it again???

Conncept.7638:

Either a marketing rep in disguise or someone who somehow does not have any idea what the term ‘value’ means.

The copper fed salvage-o-matic is not cheaper from a real world monetary perspective no matter how long you use it, it will never give a rate of return that outweighs its gem cost because of the continual copper cost whch could be converted to gems and the fact that it doesn’t even give you the hightest salvage level. It is actually a better value to buy or convert MF stones and make mystic salvage kits in both the short and long run.

Black Lion keys have a near zero rate of return on your investment until you open hundreds. That’s like saying the state lottery is a good deal.

I found it worth the $ because I was sick to death of taking up valuable pack space with multiple stacks of basic salvage kits, and constantly running out of those. I prefer the basic salvage to the MS kits because they have a lower rate of extracting upgrades (which take up a LOT of bag space, and have to be tossed because the minor upgrades from all the blues and greens I salvage are worthless. Plus, I get more silk ($$$) than gossamer(-$) and even some linen and wool.

If I wasn’t currently trying to build my ascended armor set, I’d be making bank on mats from salvage (still do, just not as much since I’m no longer selling cloth or leather)

If you do a lot of SW runs then it is definitely worth it.

As for BL keys, I think that’s subjective. No, they aren’t an investment that is guaranteed to make gold, but they’re still a lot of fun to many of us, and I’ve gotten some really nice stuff from the chests It is like buying a scratch ticket, lol. I’ve had way better luck with those chests than I ever have with the lottery tho, lmao.