Guild Wars 2

nacario.9417:

Lets say I have a tradable Sunrise and a trusted friend with a soulbound twilight. Could I send him my Sunrise so that he could craft an eternity, and then send the eternity back to me? (would that also unlock Sunrise on his account?).

Yep. You can do that, it will work exactly like you want.

Hmm, thats a good question. I really love the writing of her, (Sea of sorrows is by far the best book I’ve read).

The assumption that she would be working on HoT makes me feel a little better confident about it. Still, I miss her too, can we have some Game Dev Insight with her? (Just like we have been getting on the hidden arcana blogposts).

Warrior is the actuall might/deeps increaser main component in groups (Empower allies, Banners, Phalanx strenght, etc..).

Revenant might come with a cool dps setup, but I highly doubt it will ever overshadow the HUGE ammount of dps support/increase that warrior gives.

MiniEquine.6014:

MauricioCezar.2673:

I’ve read the topic title, and had think:

Serious? Necro is going to be good for farm mobs? Time to gear up my necro and…

Oh, no.. Its not related to mob farm… go back to end of queue necro, I ain’t using you.

Well, they will be good at farming mobs though. Their GS gets multiple 5-target strikes, the Reaper shroud gets a lot of AoE, and the Reaper shouts are all 5-enemy-target damaging/condi-based shouts. In fact, this will be the Necro’s first viability for consistent AoE damage.

Ah, so let the name be the equivalent of “Farming machine” :P , Makes sense in the end.

I’ve read the topic title, and had think:

Serious? Necro is going to be good for farm mobs? Time to gear up my necro and…

Oh, no.. Its not related to mob farm… go back to end of queue necro, I ain’t using you.

The difference between hearts and adventures, is that hearts were like quest : You take it, you complete it once, you earn a reward and you never come back to it.

Adventures seens like some sort of mini-games troughout the world, with leaderboards that challenge you to do it better than the last time. And its fully optional to do, or not to do. If you like the adventure and feel like you want to test yoursefl more and more, there is where you’ll sepnd your time.

Great, GREAT!

Please more, Had been a long time since i’ve las stopped to read a 30-inch wall of text and appreciated it at the end x)

Now that we’ve talked about dual swords and the last legend, we have a complete set of core weapons and legends for the revenant profession. Let’s take a second to recap:

Mr Roy Cronacher, are you sure about what you are talking? Because we yet don’t have a single hint about how Revenant will work underwater, neither what weapon he will use. And I am dying here to know how it will work there, since I love UW combat.

Good job on shiro btw, seens awesome, but revenant is not complete, stop negleting Underwater content. Also, seens like not a single trait is affecting the underwater weapon, this seens wrong and overlooked.

Gold? 0.

Still, I tossed way more rares/mats than I can imagine, but ONLY the ones I drop on playing. It feeld much less frustrating when you just toss there what you drop, instead of buy-it-to-drop. Got myself 3 precursors on the course of 3 yars, trowing rares almost every day (1-5 tries per day maybe).

It is always part of my build on pve and wxw. Just don’t use it for pvp.

Anet put the plot around dragons (Zhaitan) = People conplain the lack of iconic anthagonist.

Anet put a iconic anthagonist (Scarlet) = People conplain the lack of dragon related content.

Anet turns the focus on Dragon (Mordrem) content = People conplain the lack of iconic anthagonists.

Yeah, the cycle never ends.

But you can just farm and buy the precursor. taking the route of gambling, is the “Lazy” way to do it. I bought dawn, and I bought legend, and I bought dusk. Farming, playing, whatever.

Take me as example: Have crafted a eternity, and the bifrost. Have all upgrades possible on my acc. Also, had a little over 1600g 2 weeks ago.

Gambled with ecto, and got down to 5g, and 76/100 on the skritt support. You logic fails on me.

Still, I farmed sivlerwastes the last 2 weeks (2h/day) , ONLY playing, not gambling with anything else, and what do you think? Got back to ~200 g. Thats in 2 weeks playing.

TL:DR – The lazy get poorer, The player get richer.

Worst example of research I’ve ever seen, can I downvote it twice?

1st : You don’t use ranger as a example of comparision between Damage Output x DoT
2nd : You use a auto attack setup for direct damage, and a combo for condition? ‘singleclapforyou’
3rd : Terrible Formatting
4th : DoT takes longer to reach the same damage output of zerk builded groups.
5th : A group in set kitten persons, and not a single ranger : There is were the real numbers interest (Dungeons / Fotm / Pvp).
6th : Even while comparable in overall damage in the end of a cycletime, both would be viable, and not “X Gear Suck” as you described on your title
7th : Laughin Out Loud at ur Zerk damage output of 5k. For serious, its hard to take you serious, while my war hits over 35k in ~2s with hundred blades, or my ranger hits ~28k with longbow rapid shot in the same time, or my ele hits 10x 7k with a combo of lightning storm + Metero shower. Yeah, you “over rounded 10k condition damage outputted in 5s” is real bad.
8th : YOu don’t try to deny/destroy a build setup in order to make another viable. Show better argument for your style of gameplay without trying to break others.
9th : For solo Pve , neither glass zerk, neither condition are viable builds, so useless research around of a solo player with a solo profession.
10 : Fail research, do it right next time, thanks.

+1. I support totally, and I really think that should have a 5% minimum to outbid (Ither for sell or for buy) a order.

There already tons of reports of ppl getting “Precursors” out of revenant exotics mystic forge. You are not alone there, this is just some joking, or bug (Probably the pool of outcome on is lesser on the beta, or somewhat like that).

So, don’t even get sad due to ti, because this is not “Destiny” playing a trick on you, just a regular game bug, or maaaybe a dev trick to cacth the griefer players trying to take vantage over the beta.

All 3 I got was from pure random lv80 rares weapons. 2 with 4 random weapons, and one was with 3 random weapons + 1 mystic forge stone.

Your first bet is guardian. (Easy, tank, powerful)

Your second, is elementalist. (Powerful, self-supportive, but hard)

Thief is the last. He is a pretty powerful glass canon, that can both hit pretty hard, and self sustain trough stealth. But, he is not that good into pvp/wxw large mobs’s fights. Far too squish.

1st: Zap – Out of toilet, 4 rares weapons random.
2nd: Spark – Out of toilet, 3 rares + 1 mystic stone.
3rd: Storm – Out of toilet. 4 rare weapons random.
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Also, got on my acc 2 legends(the staff precursor), dawn and dusk, all of then bought torugh TP.
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Q: “Hey! How do you get precursors out of a garbage toilet?”
A: – I use Toilet with every single rare weapon i drop. Only the weapons, and only the dropped ones. I never buy-to-try, or craft-to-try. I salvage all rare armors for ectos.

Ah, thanx. I am mainly a pve/pvp, hardly try out wxw. I usually run my PC VERY clear, and free of interwebs softs/ads. I’ve running pretty decent on my actual set, but with most of settings at medium/low. I was just hinking if the i7+gtx550 would be a big improvment.

I really don’t understand what you mean by overkill x), you mean that it is much more than what it really needs?

Thankxs for the tips also!

Hi, in advance to the expansion I am trading my old i5 2320(3ghz) + GTX 550 ti(196bits 1GB) for this new set:

• i7 4790 @3,6Ghz
• GTX 970 256bits @4gB ram ddr5
• DDR 8gb
• Also, I am installing gw2 on a 120gb ssd

So, do you guys think this setup is good enough to run gw2 on its max settings smoothly?

Chilipadiboy.9340:

Things to note:

All? World bosses have DC attack now.

When you DC you go back to LA

Your inventory gets rolled back

I haven’t laughed like this in a game in a while. Thanks Anet

Oh kitten!

I just lost a chance to open destabilized ecto and roll back my inventory in case I lose :|

Crise.9401:

What OP is asking is just not going to happen, at most they will announce something like the 3 day head start for the original launch if even that (the economy could suffer if they did that maybe, so they might not).

I like your name along with your economy assumption

Well, by “Complete”, i mean all the named expansion related content:

• HoT Legendarys : < They are a set of new legendary weapons tied within the expansion. (“Maguuma jungle precursor mastery”)
• HoT StoryLine : “We’re taking the fight to mordremoth!” – I ain’t assuming as a fact that we will not have the fight against mordy, but with the way things are going.. I am becoming afraid of..
• HoT Reward Tracks : The HoT Champions for stronghold.
• HoT New WxW Map Style : I mean, we have a full alpine set for core game, would be reasonable to have a full desert set for HoT (Borderlands+EBG+JumpingPuzzle combat area)

Those are the “Incomplete” stuff I am aware of, that I feel like are all part of same package named as Heart of thorns, and so should come complete at release.

Randulf.7614:

This would just give people with max char slots an extra slot essentially when HoT releases

I think I didn’t quite understood.

I talking for allow a creation on permanent character slots (Either the one we will get with xpac, or any of the one’s we already have unlocked). Not the “Beta slot” .

About It being a WiP, I am fine if they allow it even 2-3 weeks right before launch. I can run the whole story into a single weekend I believe

I would like to roll a revenant sylvari trough the entire core story before the launch of the expansion, and then experience HoT with this character when expansion release. Is that ask too much?

No, its not any strange, nor is this sort of thread..

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/2000-hours-0-precursors-why-keep-playing/page/4#post3947916

Actually, suriel can be seen running trough lion’s arch “Training” for the upcoming reopening of CP. And there’s also another champion in LA that I don’t remember the name right meow.

One could think that this is a tease for a reopening of CP at upcoming gw2 anniversary eh?

Basandra Skye.4031:

MauricioCezar.2673:

Completely agreed. Please, just do it. I never ever used a glob od dark matter, so I am about to reach the 500 (Maximum stack on my collection atm) and still don’t find a use for it. I feel bad, because it was suposed to be valuabe considering from where it come from.

If you’re never crafting ascended gear, go ahead and just trash the globs. I dont think Anet’s going to give them another use for quite a long time, let alone an “eater” because of their obtainment method.

I have a problem with deleting itens, thats why I still have polla, 250 mystical cogs, Instant trait reset (Yeah..), Pvp salvage kit and there it goes..

I.. just, can’t do it, unless I think its worth.

Sorry, but this is a freaking awesome look on the second SS. Mind tell me what sword is that?

Completely agreed. Please, just do it. I never ever used a glob od dark matter, so I am about to reach the 500 (Maximum stack on my collection atm) and still don’t find a use for it. I feel bad, because it was suposed to be valuabe considering from where it come from.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Well, you can think of it this way: Your $50 dollars pays for all those forthcoming patches, just as whatever you paid for the core game covered every patch since launch.

When was (or is it now) GW2 complete?

Hey, core game came pretty complete ^.^ . The full story arc (I Am not in mid of the ppl that think zhaitan kill was too short, I liked the story progression). We had the 3 pvp maps (Or was it 4?), and we had both alpine BL and alpine EBG . We had the full set of legendarys (1 for each type of weapon ), a full set of dungeons etc.. etc..

I just like to think in HoT like the conclusion of what we had in LS so far. Like LS was a prelude to it. Then, after HoT, we could start another LS as a prelude to bubbles, or something like that. But if HoT comes “Incomplete”, with patchs to fill HoT related content, then we will have another delay until a new arc, or new progression.

But Okay, I am not a heart full of anger pointing and shaming, just expressing how I feel about it :|

Sorry, I am indeedly bad on express myself, and I will learn to get better.

I just think that when you introduce a new thing that is a set, (Like legendarys for example), the set should come complete.

I am jut worried that they are rushing to provide the expansion, and might be letting it be released with less content than the 50 U$ worth. And then, after it launchs we will setill get “Patches” that are still part of the expansion, but were not present on the expansion launch. What will consume more time that could be used for the new progression of the game.

But okay, If community is fine with this, let it be , I already bought the xpac anyway.

We will have acess with some new legendarys, with more coming on next releases.
We will have acess to some Stronghold champions, with more coming on next releases.
We will have acess to 1 stronghold map, with more coming into next releases.

What more we are receiving incomplete? There is even a rumor that we are not even taking mordremoth down, only coming in future releases.

Astralporing.1957:

Nate.3927:

No, those beta portals are for PvE beta. This is the WvW beta.

Didn’t say they had to be valid for this one – after all, according to lordkrall, this one isn’t even beta, but just a stress test. Still, if there is any next pve beta event in the future, then (again, according to lordkrall’s interpretation) it would be the first beta after the access portal drop event, so those portals should be valid for it.

I think you guys misintrepret what each thing is. On a game development test phase, there are several sort of “Tests”. some of then are:

Stress tests : Those serves only for the purpose to test the server. See how it respond to player activity on the maps and event, and see if its not overconsuming it. It has nothing to do with beta event.

Closed Betas : Those, are events with closed acess to the game areas, for a selected group of people to test out if everything is working (Game Mechanics, events, collisions and balances). Those betas need to be made within the work time of anet developers, so they can take immediate feedback, and work on those features at same time they are being noticed. ** < THIS IS WHERE PORTAL DROPS FITS IN.

Beta Weekends : These, are marketing events, that serves the purpose to show off to players what they can expect from the new features, and give a little preview of it for their customers. Beta wekeend are mosty always tied with a pre-purchase to serve as a form of “Benefit” for player trusting on the development in process.

This has been talked so many times already, But I am explaining it again in hopes that ppl understand how different all those things are from one another.

@DevilLordLaser – Just adding my confirmation, that indeedly never was my intention to insulte casual players, since I am pretty casual myself too.

On a second point, I just gave up on the whole debate of hardcore going on, because it implies nothing on my concern explained on topic. The concern explained, is the same the one largely discussed into the NPE feedback : Anet is bringing the original content down to dumb levels of easyness ( < Not existent word probably).

I Find it insulting that a T rated game (13+) put the content on a EC (Early Childhood) level of gameplay. For serious, you can’t die on tutorial instance. For serious… you.. can’t.. die. The following steps of personal story aren’t too different.

BrotherBelial.3094:

So never had to use a heal skill? Dodge or anything else? Just stand there and auto attack everything down? Sorry but I don’t believe a word of it.

Ah, sorry.

I also used wasd to move, and maybe i need to use 6 to heal sometimes(Hardcore mode, of course). That’s too hard too, maybe anet should consider putting away healing button, and trade it with auto regeneration.

/sarcasm

About dodge, yeah can do easily without dodge. Go there, try yourself – no need to believe in me when you can actually try out by yourself.

Duke Blackrose.4981:

While they’re at it, they could make staff good.

Lol

If you find staff guardian bad, I have a bad notice for you : Its not the guardian staff that is bad

@Topic: I quite like the male annimation. Seens like Goku channeling power, or something like that (Sorry, couldn’t find a better example).

Randulf.7614:

MauricioCezar.2673:

So, I think someone at Anet has read my post

/jk

With great power, comes great responsibility…

If this means I’ll be getting Gwen as my girlfriend, I accept the responsibility :o

Edit: BTW, I love how far and controvoversy from the thread is the above discussion about pre-purchase should give acess to this stress test lol

So, I think someone at Anet has read my post

/jk

By the way, if you are planning to only get Gw and EotN, get the platinum edition:
http://store.guildwars.com/store/gw/en_US/pd/ThemeID.37893000/productID.299594600
(There are other websites that sell cheaper, but thats up to you).

I advert that, because it is cheaper. And on Topic, yes – You can get a character, level up to 10, rush to Lion’s Arch and get eotn storyline.

Not sure if only linking account without unlocking hall of monuments gives you the points, but unlock the hall of monuments should take to a new-ish player about to 4 hours of gameplay I believe.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

As for ingame stuff, only marjory & kasmeer come to mind, but i didn’t pay much attention to that other then being mindblowingly cheesy and annoying.

The main lesbain couple in gw2 was here since back from release : Caithe and Faolain.

The novel had put this very clear, and the game does too trough the TA dungeon, or some PS story steps.

What you want is convenience, and only convenience.

Copper-fed salvage o matic is there for convenience. If you want convenience, pay for it. Anet don’t need to change anything about it.

This is here since gw1, Keyran and gwen even got married.

Oh, wait.. Keyran was not a girl?

BrotherBelial.3094:

I’m guessing everyone who is saying game is easy is cakewalking level 50 fractals. ANet have said in the past that they will unlock higher levels. Or could it be that after close to 3 years, you can play the classes you play well? If you want to be challenged, go play some sPvP. Sure some matches you will walk them. Most you will be screaming at your monitor. The other night I was on the losing team for ten games in a row. Now if pve os your bag, you can always make things harder for your self by using white gear. It’s not ANet’s fault you are good at playing there game. And that’s the thing with an MMO, you have to make them to everyone can play them so you get the biggest group of people playing it. It is impossible to keep everyone happy.

Unless you are trying personal history, with a lv 20 character, totally equipped with white armor/weapons, and still can beat the content offered autoattacking.

1..1…1…1..11…1..1.1.1…..1….1….1.

(Hope I’ve been clear on what I am talking about now, and if you doubt on what I am talking about , check out WP video).

Ah, sorry then. This trhead got so controversy that I don’t know anymore what who is talking about what ^^

@Teon and Aerlen, had you at least took the time to understan what this thread is about?

Because as I Previsouly stated, I did not even make any mention to Hardcore content here. The On_topic discussion is abobut how poor is the levelling experience and the personal history, that got transformed into a very easy-mode, with absolute 0 engagement, or challenge.

This not “Casual” (I am a casual mostly), this is just way too easy.

Reverence.6915:

Challenging content doesn’t have to equal gear treadmill or missing out on stuff when RL takes you away from the game.

Challenging content simply means content that you can’t autoattack your way through to completion, where you have to look for tells and time your dodges. Where you need to have skill rotations spot on to keep sustain and DPS up. Where you have to juggle aggro in order to keep the party alive if someone stuffs up. Where highly involved theorycrafting for builds is required to push the meta in different ways.

GW2 lacks all of that right now except in its PvP.

Let’s be brutally honest here, GW2’s PvE is a joke.

Glad that someone see the point I want to bring :’)

Summaryizing a awnser trough all the different opinions putted in the topic : I ain’t talking about gear treadmill, or usual super elite content (I even think we kinda have some elite content , like the gauntlet, teq or some of the LS achievments). I Am talking about the core experience, the levelling experience, the personal history experience.

It not just because it is the personal history that it need to be as easy as smash 1-1-1 (And I am not kiding, since into the first instances all you have acess is the skill 1 basically).

A-net has the capacity to “Build a better centaur”, they are just decided to not make it aparently, since the centaurs in PS are jsut as dumb as they can possibly be.

PS: Casual is a whole different than easy mode. And actual levelling and personal history experience, are easy mode

met.9653:

You probably end sitting in que for test time anyway

Good joke x)

But talking seriously, the announcment states that it would feature the most active wxw players (Like invited players to a closed server for tests), so I am already out of the pool either way, but at least I could watch some gameplay footage on youtube

I don’t know, I rememeber when I did my PS first time, and it was a explosion of fun. I loved to try to push myself into a some higher levels PS (I.E : I Was at lv 14, trying a PS lv 22), and it was challenging, and of cousre optional, since I could just go around and level a bit, get a little stronger armor and really feel like I was progresssing to try the new level of content.

NPE seens to have removed this completely.