Guild Wars 2

I believe the system is a character cannot mail more gold then they’ve earned so your brother would need to earn 100g to mail 100g. Just getting gold in the mail doesn’t count towards earning.

I read this in a post a while back. I’m not 100% certain of it’s truth though.

Not really at low levels but once you get your desired weapon set, and about 15 trait points (so around 25-ish) they start to be a lot more effective.

I don’t see how not having people makes leveling slow. No people means easier DEs which means you can clear them quicker which means faster XP.

Human because it was the only race I could make look like the perfect form of the guy I’d like to date.

IndigoSundown.5419:

LithePanther.5027:

Orr is not nearly as difficult as you’re trying to make it appear. I’ve taken 6 different characters through it solo with no problems except for a few skill-points that had champs on them.

It isn’t all that time-consuming to kill 1 or 2 risen which ends up clearing the path for you and once you realize that only purifiers pull you it’s super-easy to just avoid them.

While I agree with you in large part… with regard to “only purifiers pull,” the Risen Spiders would like a word with you.

Ah, true. I tend to forget about them since they’re not nearly as common as the purifiers.

Chantry of Secrets.

Orr is not nearly as difficult as you’re trying to make it appear. I’ve taken 6 different characters through it solo with no problems except for a few skill-points that had champs on them.

It isn’t all that time-consuming to kill 1 or 2 risen which ends up clearing the path for you and once you realize that only purifiers pull you it’s super-easy to just avoid them.

Oglaf.1074:

LithePanther.5027:

Oglaf.1074:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

I’m pretty sure it adds, so you’d get +30% stun duration. This is a hot topic of 1H weapons versus 2H weapons and whether or not its balanced.

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t.

Sigils in the off-hand only affects attacks made by the off-hand.

That’s incorrect because a sigil of fire on an OH will proc with the MH auto-attack.

IIRC, having 2 of the sigils simply increases the chances you have of it proc’ing. However, if one proc’s, the other won’t until the internal cooldown works. (i.e. No matter which sigil proc’s the effect, both go into interna cooldown mode). It’s generally reccomended to use 2 different sigils.

Are you really sure about this? That doesn’t seem fair to Two-hand users.

It’s in the wiki on the sigil page and the same info has been posted in this forum every once in a while

I’ve found that when I cancel a skill it sometimes continues to glow like that until I switch zones. I think it’s just a bug

WvW is 8% of the completion.

That sounds really cool. It makes me happy to see people start building server communities again after the mishaps in the first few months. I know HoD is probably permanently damaged from the mass exodus we experienced and this might be something to implement ourselves.

There is scaling depending on your character’s current gear level. I.E. a lvl 25 in lvl 25 greens will be equal to an 80 in 80 greens, but a lvl 25 in 20 blues will be much weaker.

Ah, I was more talking to the other guy.

To that sigil specifically, they don’t stack together.

I’ve leveled 6 characters to 80, and the fastest way I’ve found is to alternate human – charr areas. I think they’re the best in terms of hearts/events (except for that kitten FLAG HEART) and make sure to 100% them and gather. I can usually do ~8 levels in 3 or 4 hours.

Use the transmutation stone trick, which will allow you to keep the skins but not the stats of your gear.

There is no one at Plinxx because Plinxx got nerfed by Arenanet. You’re using outdated informaiton now.

I don’t know the current best way to get Karma but Ayrilana’s method is what I’m doing.

Oglaf.1074:

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

I’m pretty sure it adds, so you’d get +30% stun duration. This is a hot topic of 1H weapons versus 2H weapons and whether or not its balanced.

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t.

Sigils in the off-hand only affects attacks made by the off-hand.

That’s incorrect because a sigil of fire on an OH will proc with the MH auto-attack.

IIRC, having 2 of the sigils simply increases the chances you have of it proc’ing. However, if one proc’s, the other won’t until the internal cooldown works. (i.e. No matter which sigil proc’s the effect, both go into interna cooldown mode). It’s generally reccomended to use 2 different sigils.

I hate when people rez me. I would much rather they be effective and attack mobs so I can rally with more HP then I would have had if I was rezzed instead.

Ojimaru.8970:

It greatly depends on which server you are playing in, at what time, in which Borderland, against which other servers, at which tower, etc etc etc.

You could have been playing at 2000 EST in your home Borderlands, what’s already fully dominated by your server, against another server that has a “primetime” of 0800 EST.

Or, you could have been in an enemy Borderland defending some tower against a small group of defenders, while in actuality the majority of the all three forces were in the Eternal Battlegrounds duking it out in a three-way, no-holds barred, cage match of epic proportions, fit with hotdog merchants and scantily-clad quaggan ring-side ladies.

MY EYES! The scantily-clad quaggan ring-side ladies are burning me eyessss!

The average zerg size is anywhere between 25-40 people. No one runs in bigger groups because the lag would kill you.

It doesn’t make any sense for condition damage to effect the sigil because it doesn’t do any condition damage.

Fire damage is fire damage. Burning is a condition. They aren’t the same.

It’s when you have an empty off-hand. Because your 2nd weapon changes your skill #3, you never unlock the actual #3 skills for them

Not really. It serves 0 purpose when the content in this game is ridiculously easy as is. The only food I would ever use is MF food, because that’s the only food with an actual impact on you.

It’s not worth my time to either buy or make food when I could be doing something else.

I would head to the Chantry of Secrets. People have reported that zoning there will give you your rewards if you haven’t got them after getting 100%.

They were using T3 cultural weapon skins iirc. And since it’s the charr area, I would have to agree with Wintermute.

Ok. So upgrade the graphics card. Any SSD reccomendations?

I noticed in the other thread you recommended some kind of cooling. Should I get some kind of cooling device?

I have 4 fans atm

So what would you recommend? I only pull about 30 FPS on max settings and I’d like to boost that up to 60-ish

Why do you care why he wants to get to 80? He does. It shouldnt matter to you how hw wants to play.

I know I don’t do anything but solo level until 80, because I have no wish to do content at a disadvantage to everyone else, making it harder on myself.

As for answering your question, honestly I would say alternate human-charr zones doing 100% map completion listening to exciting music and VOIP chatting with people. I can usually do 8 levels a day (~5 hours a day) doing this, and it’s how I’m getting my 6th character to 80.

If you transfer back, everything will still be there. It’s permanently on that server forever, or until the guild gets disbanded. (this includes everything in the bank)

Anet has said since day one that guild upgrades are server-specific. I doubt it’s being looked at because it’s not any type of bug or problem, but something specifically decided to be implemented.

In the future, I would definetely post the computer spec’s to some kind of forum, because the people here aren’t trying to make a sale and know what they’re talking about. This forum has been really good on the tech-side lately which inspired me to make my own tech post.

I edited the information of my motherboard into my OP

Hello everyone! I spent about $500 on my PC over the summer so I could run GW2, and it does a nice job, but I’m looking to upgrade some pieces to get both better GW2 performance and future game performance.

Here is my info:

Motherboard:
Manufacturer = ASUSTek Company INC
Model = M5A78L-M LX PLUS
Version = Rev X.0x
Serial # = MF70 BCG01200828

Windows 7 64x

AMD Phenom™ II X4 965 Processor, 3400 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

8GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

I don’t remembr what my PSU is and I can’t take the side panel off atm, but I believe it was somewhere between 500-800.

My price range is a total of 400 dollars, and I’d like to upgrade multiple things instead of one really expensive thing.

I also think I’d like an SSD so if you could recommend one of those as well?

If you need any more information needed, let me know

*Also, should I change from an AMD to an Intel CPU? And I absolutely want to stick with NVIDIA cards.

nottsgman.8206:

Chaialyna.1023:

Xavi.6591:

Don’t get 100% World Completion if you are a Mesmer.

Ok, I’ll bite. Why shouldn’t you?

because the star next to your name is not applied to clones, so in pvp/wvw you know straight away which the mes is

I’m really glad that you’re letting people know because that is a huge disadvantage.

One tip: maybe just state that from the first post so people know right away why it’s not good, instead of needed you to clarify in each thread.

Fractals will work if you’re all on the same overflow, however, which isn’t too hard in LA

Monstrosity.2783:

I’m sorry, but you’re not helping at all. Please stop posting.

Actually, that’s incredibly useful information. I know that I’ll never get 100% on my Mesmer now if it doesn’t appear on clones. That’s a HUGE disadvantage when I go into WvW or sPvP

While I can get on board that the commander title is rather silly when not in WvW, I can’t agree that people who completed the personal story should get anything special showing that they did. It’s not exactly difficult to complete the personal story and I would guess that the vast majority of players have done so already, which means most people would be running around with the same thing. Not very distinguishing or impressive when everyone has it.

A lot of places on the map are indeed not reachable. Cartographer has the names of all the reachable zones, so it sounds like you’re trying to get into areas not currently accessible.

They’ll probably be opened up in future updates/expansions, like the Lost Shores island was.

Zones. Cities. EB. Each of the 3 borderlands are separate maps and must be completed.

All these methods take too much time. In fact, I didn’t even waste time when they were running in packs.

I miss the bots. They made everything so cheap and easy to get. I wish I had pre-bought exotic armor and jewelry for the last few characters I need to get to 80.

Log out and then back in to kick yourself out of the mission and then go back in and stand somewhere else

I usually cringe when I run into someone else while leveling. Without fail they mess me up 95% of the time :/

All the gates have a WP right next to them and if you look on the map they generally have some sort of pathway into the other zone, usually a road-looking thing or a form like ) ( from one zone to the next

Elowin.9078:

Danikat.8537:

Personally I would like the oppertunity to see more info on other characters. I’d like to be able to see what choices they made at character creation (maybe the entire ’I’m Xyz’ page of the Personal Story’).

I would also say the entire first page of the Hero panel, but I have a feeling that even though ‘gear score’ doesn’t really matter in GW if it was possible to see it a lot of people would suddenly get very picky about who they allowed into their parties and that would definately out-weigh the benefits.

But what I’d really like is a blank profile page that we can write whatever we want in, like UO had (has?). So RPers could do an in-character introduction with their background, both the choices they’ve made and stuff they’ve made up, other people could put what dungeons they like to run, or what other activities they enjoy, or just a general intro to themselves.

I think it is sad that the only title recognition (icon over head) is ‘Commander’ if you BUY the book; your guild if you join a guild; and/or a Star (which I will have soon I think but NEVER see) when I finish the world 100%.

I like the blank page angle too with some guidance as to what goes in it I suppose.

I also want a choice/means to turn on what everyone else sees over my head so I can see it too.

Further more buying the ‘Commander’ icon is pretty dump imo if you haven’t earned it but the 100 gold. On the other hand earning it by finishing up My Story, like I have, should be given out free!

Nuff said…I’m getting warmed up and kitten off.

They’re not the same type of “Commander” so I would disagree because a WvW commander definitely shouldn’t get a commander title from completing the personal story. While the money system isn’t optimal, other systems are too easily abused or are just as arbitrary as money.

Where the hell that HoD push came from I have no idea but we managed to take and hold all of our borderlands and EB for a little bit. WE HAD AN EB QUEUE! :O

Great for map completion

Well done to HoD and shoutout to Shakalaka for organizing and pushing it!

SHAKA ZULU.3128:

Aeolus.3615:

Latelly this has been my ultimate fight, finding no cool heavy armor and hard to choose a good combination to dye draconic armor. Ç_Ç

try white + midnight blue
classy as kitten on my guard’s draconics

Yes. You are a proper guardian.

Leablo.2651:

I just saw this in the northern part of Bloodtide Coast and I thought they were just part of the environment, like the Lionguard put them there to help travelers or something. Every couple dozen feet or so there was another Healing Turret along the road. Funny bug if that’s the case.

Yeah, I always notice those and have no clue as to why they’re always there.

I can’t believe all of the BAD GUARDIANS in this thread!

Guardians are REQUIRED to dye themselves some combination of dark blue, light blue, and white/silver. REQUIRED.

Humans.

Asurans are short and I despise all short races and will never play them.

Also humans are more pretty!

It’s funny because I chose a human male over a norn male because norn hairstyles are awful.

All my characters have the white-blonde hair because it makes them more pretty