Guild Wars 2

Yes.

Toughness is what mitigates the hits in the first place. Vitality just gives them someplace to go.

Clearly the least played is apparently the one you left off of your list.

Elementalist

~Sigh~

Which just happens to be my main and most played character.

I recommend you look at crafting. I say this because as a newbie, your magic find isn’t very likely to result in drops that exceed Masterwork quality, which can be easily achieved in crafting. If you are collecting materials from nodes while doing your normal daily routine, then essentially it’s free.
If you start now then it will be easier to keep pace with your character leveling and thus you can always have weapons with the stats you prefer. Same with the armor but it’s not as cheap as it used to be due to the addition of Ascended recipes using tier 2-4 mats.

In general crafted weapons and armor will have better stats in certain ranges than anything you can get as a drop under rare quality. Just don’t try to craft anything using ecto until you get to level 70. Those recipes are meant for vets who have tons of gold to blow on spare gear. xD

Personally I found it very enjoyable to be able to craft my own upgrades while still leveling. Yes I did this back before Ascended armor was a thing…but if you are collecting your own mats the TP prices shouldn’t have any effect.

It seems you were also bothered by the fact that no one was answering your questions in mapchat before the fight. Maybe they felt you should go find the answers yourself since it would likely take them a while to give you a rundown of what happens and what is needed. Maybe they all thought someone else was helping you. Maybe they didn’t care since there are so many places to find the information they figured you’d find it if you cared to.

Maybe any number of things contributed.

You really don’t need to justify how you play to us. You want to filter out any possible useful information in an open world boss fight by turning off map chat that’s your business.

No it’s not like sitting in a jet fighter either…because you would be ignoring the voice in your earphones giving you information on where your firepower would do the most good.

I’ve noticed a little bit of toxic chat during some events but it happens, people get frustrated at constant failure because of a lack of cooperation or whatever they see it to be and since it is sooo easy to grief people in the game without any possible recourse. Well, it happens.

Also something you may not have been aware of is that there is a world boss train these days, usually the fights are over well in advance of the next boss…but not always. There have been times when the zerg hasn’t arrived at Lowland Burns until after the dragon lands.

As for why you would want comms open…seriously??? Do you think that real world armies go into combat and then turn their radios off as they engage the enemy?

It’s called battlefield awareness…it helps to know when things are going poorly or maybe, I dunno…say a vital position is in need of assistance because they are taking more fire than was expected.

So you got to the fight so early that asking any questions was kinda pointless as most likely anyone who might have answered you hadn’t arrived yet. It’s also possible that those who were in the map at the time didn’t know the answers. I would have to make a few assumptions about your experience like: that you were constantly asking for info every two minutes and that you were explaining that you hadn’t done the fight before.

And then as the fight begins you shut down all forms of communication with the group just so you can watch your numbers fly by? So when you were hitting the Pulsing nodes for zero damage, what thought went through your mind? It’s entirely possible that someone was actually giving directions during the fight, but you wouldn’t have known it. Maybe the people who would have answered you were too busy making sure the pre-events got done.

I’m sorry if this feels like a personal attack but it really is your fault. You severed the communication link. As for the toxicity of the mapchat, well…can you blame them? I mean if they are trying to get people organized and get them to do one particular task but everyone is too busy plinking away at range to notice…to them it just looks like they are being ignored by people who don’t really care.

hugs Azure

Yeah…I log in and farm CS or do dailies…though I have nothing I’m working toward. I’m not rich compared to TP flippers and those who run SW chests for hours…but I have enough gold…just…not sure what to do with it. I dunno maybe I’ll make some Ascended heavy gear for my Guardian.

You mean: The whole idea of this thread is to give you the chance to express your idea of making names sever unique because no one could possibly have ever had the idea before you and even if they did you didn’t want your version of it to get lost in the myriad of other threads about the same thing and thus completely ignored.

Sorry, no.

Nope. Make a new guild. That’s your only real option if the leader is unwilling to relinquish control.

While yes, you are correct that you most likely will be leveling fast enough to not worry about it, I say have a bit of fun while leveling. Find some minor or major runes that all have a power boost but are different types, a rune of Hoelbrak, Strength and so on…and just max your power. I don’t think it makes as much of a difference in the mid levels as it does early on….but I think there is some increase.

This is what can happen when your elderly mother has admin privileges.

Or is this another case of sharing the same single user login? If so then you should now create a separate user account for her and yours should be password protected.

Leaa.2943:

In the end you will have everything unlocked both skills and traits, so there is no reason to start over, just go on playing and keep on adding. Just make sure you add to both skills and traits so you can start using the traits as well.

In the end yes, until then just trudge along in whatever trait and skill line you put points into first because of course you were new and didn’t know any better. Heaven forbid we should actually have a way of resetting those points and skills to something more useful while leveling up. Not like we were ever capable of doing that before.

That’s right you’re just supposed to spend money on gems to buy gold to spend on mats to level up by crafting.

Anyway, yeah…sorry but maybe if you don’t have much invested into the character right now, remaking them might make leveling a bit more fun if you have a good idea what sort of build you want to use while leveling.

BellatorDeus.2310:

The question is: “what are the best weapons in the game”? Best is defined as maximum kill— not style, not skins. Maximum damage weapons. Uber kill weapons.

Say why you think they are the best. Staff/scepter/sword/projectile.

Do you actually play this game?

“more difficult or impossible” ??? Umm…no. Annoying? Of course, which is why they do it.

You do know that you can just jump onto the launchpad to go airborn, right?

The whole post from Curtis Johnson:

We do understand and sincerely apologize that there are creative combinations of town clothes that will not exist anymore. Many have asked why remove town clothes as a concept. It boils down to we believe better armor skinning and the outfit system is something we can add more options to more often and will produce a better supported RP game for everyone with more variety in the future. In short, a healthier game.

To expand more on what I mean by better support, It helps if you think of town clothes as a 4th weight class of armor. Clothing was meant to offer visual options that break the class roles, however we were never completely happy with the way it was isolated from the rest of the game and still felt largely the same. Many pieces could have easily been mistaken for light or medium armor. In many ways it was more akin to building an alt character because town-clothes and armor were so separated. Additionally, every time we added something to town-clothes, it didn’t really help someone building their light, medium, or heavy look. And there was no way to add combat gear fairly without creating 3 versions on the back end (light, medium, and heavy). As a customization platform and sustainable expansion design it left a lot to be desired.

When we started looking at bringing more of the clothing back into armor with mix and match styles there are some fundamental incompatible things between weight classes. (part of how we set up every armor to allow many dye channels and styles per piece).. There really is no way at this point over six years since we started development to make absolutely everything work together. So we needed something new to continue to grow in the future.

Outfits give us a way to create highly stylized looks that aren’t constrained to armor slots or weight class. In addition to armor skins that are easier and cheaper to collect across characters and the account dye system we do believe the options across a players whole account are much more attractive now. You’ll see more outfits coming out this summer and additions to the game more often usable by your characters. We try not to allow too much ‘hoarder’ design where we just keep stacking more and more options on leaving lots of unsupported things hanging around. Yes, we do have to give up some of our current closet space and clothing to fit the new wardrobe in. Again, apologies for that.

As always we ask you to try out the new system of customization and see what’s available to you. I think many people will be surprised by how many pieces have become armor compatible. We hope the benefits to the outfit system and wardrobe in terms of future support and additions will be clear, and you can look forward to more new outfits coming very soon.

Imagine that…Town Clothes were a Fourth armor class…just like so many new players have asked for who aren’t aware that they ever existed.

The system that replaced Town Clothes was deemed better by them because it simplified what was originally a complex system that would have required time and effort to create new assets for…in other words, more money to pay people to design the things going into it. Okay, I get it…cutting costs.

“So we needed something new to continue to grow in the future.” = They needed something they could capitalize on that required minimal effort to maximize profit.

Where are these new cheaper and easier to collect armor skins? Without purchasing HoT you got a total of One new armor set.

I haven’t spent any real money in the gem store since they removed Town Clothes.

I like the idea of more options but I would really prefer more armor options, not more outfits. I especially like the Sylvari birth cycle option. Too bad it wasn’t a thought when they made cultural armor.

Ally.4382:

it was a suggestion, not one i care for a great deal either, merely nothing more than a starting point for what i wanted this thread to be about originally, which VERY quickly turned into some other beast

Perhaps, but that happened mostly because of your insistence on this vague portrayal
rather than a more honest dialogue that you are clearly capable of. The over-the-top references just made it worse.

I did read all of this (okay…most of it) and after doing so I feel fairly confident to respond.

No. I do not think it a good idea to give people like those you are portraying the tools to effect other people in the game that they paid for, especially when the people metting out these penalties would not be held to anything but their own ideal for what is considered offensive or rude behavior.
As evidenced by this thread, we do not all agree on that point. Or do we? As I can’t be certain your responses are genuine and not part of this attitude you are attempting to convey, I can only say that it’s possible we may not agree.

Originally I was going to suggest you give Thief and Elementalist a try but after reading your latest post I think you might like the Ele most of all. Grab a set of daggers or a dagger and focus along with a staff for the ranged work. Keep in mind though, you will be VERY squishy…dodging is not really an option. As in, you really can’t ignore it…you must dodge at times.

No, you’re not missing a hidden set of armor…not yet anyway. Supposedly Legendary armor will have the ability to swap stats out of combat but I don’t know if it’s true. Legendary weapons have that ability though so it would seem in line with the tier.

I personally just crafted my various sets as exotic gear. It’s not prohibitively expensive and some I even used a karma merchant for as it was a more common stat set. Some sigils are very cheap…others not so much. I also have the ability to craft the armor and weapons myself if I feel the cost is a bit high on the TP.

And for future reference: Exotic recipes in general are not discoverable, you must buy or loot it to unlock it.

Etien.4601:

Something like this?

Didn’t read the actual OP? That’s medium armor, not Light.

After you posted your character I tried this…

“Also, if I go with an “outfit” I am stuck with the entire thing not just one part of the outfit. It would be nice if we could separate bottoms, from tops in order to mix and match what we want from outfits, but I gather the reason Anet created “outfits” to begin with was to offer a complete look without having to cobble together different items for it.”

Yeah we probably shouldn’t bring up that entirely different and 100+ page thread about Town Clothes…

Anyway, I too wish there were more “pants” available for light armor users in addition to just more armor sets in general…for everyone. I mean I thought the generic character models were for people who had a hard time knowing the armor as well as graphics quality…I dont see how anyone who doesn’t use them would care if my ele looks like thief but throws fire.

In GW they enforced the differentiation of classes by armor type but it had a silhouette to it and there were no outfits allowed in PvP. In GW2 you can wear outfits and most armor is meaningless for looks since I doubt anyone relies on it as an identifier of a class.

I really wish they would just stop using it as justification for the way they do it. I’m fine with keeping the distinction between light, medium and heavy armor but stop making all heavy sets look like they are metal plated turtles. After a while I began to despise the party dresses, masquerade costumes and noble finery that seemed the only option for my ele who grew up on the streets fighting for her survival.

Those are Exalted leggings not Illustrious. Personally I prefer the Illustrious look. I also have a set using the Incarnate leggings which, despite having those wings, actually look a lot like leather pants.

I believe it’s a remix of “Abaddon’s Mouth” which was in the special soundtrack cd released in 2005.

First there is the “New Player Experience” which is what Anet did to low level zones once Black Lion Chest Key farming began to impact their sales of keys in the Gemstore…they also claim it was designed to help out new players. It eliminated certain mechanics and changed how some events worked in addition to the revamping of skill acquisition. It also quite nearly guaranteed that most new players are completely unaware of certain mechanics until later in the game.

I’m also reasonably certain that most new players have no idea how to use the chat system and don’t bother to either ask for help at an event or even announce it so that others have a chance to participate in it. They would rather spend 10-15 minutes fighting a single boss with their two friends, dying repeatedly than call out that a map boss is up and get a bunch or people to show up and “steal their loot” from them. Maybe they don’t even know that they CAN communicate with all of the players in the zone.

“Every wooooooorld is my world…”

“Ordinary World” by Duran Duran

So you can blind your target while overloading… ~yay . . .

Overall I’d say not as bad as it once was, but still awful enough that I don’t bother.
Daggers and staff is what I generally use.

Ayrilana just wants others to play the game the same way that they do. Anything else is clearly wrong and obviously an exploit or glitch because you shouldn’t be able to do that…whatever ~it~ is.

Why do they continue to argue their point even when several others clearly disagree with their conclusion? Validation? I don’t know.

Karka invasion then Scarlet and the Aetherblades.

I would recommend going with an Nvidia card for graphics. I’m running a 650 Ti and have no issues.

Yes! I agree with finding another slot for all of them to occupy. However that might require them making changes to the wardrobe system again and I’m not sure we would want THAT to happen.

+1
Definitely agree with this. I would love to be able to use mine to glide around with. Also how about the Teq wings in addition to the holo-wings being added.

But why a need to fill in the gap between blades? It’s got a jet engine on the back…or whatever magical device equates to jet propulsion.

+1 Because I usually don’t have the time to hover my mouse over the icon and wait for the pop-up to see the timer and description. Too busy steering.

:Edit: These servers sometimes, took several minutes for this post to finally load and then it gives me two of them. Then the attempt to delete the second takes well over a minute to acknowledge as well.

I’m guessing you folks are new to the game. A few months maybe, possibly up to a year or so?
You see I can guess this because at one time the wardrobe system as they call it, did not exist. We started out with a very clunky system of armor and what was called Town Clothes. They were two seperate tabs if you will. Town Clothes could be switched to out of combat but as soon as you used a skill or took damage from any source including falling, you would revert to your armor set. It was annoying but we made it work because we had five slots for town clothes to fill; boots, legs, gloves, chest and head. Very much like our armor pieces.

They could even be mixed and matched at will and several different pieces could be used to obtain totally different looks. Back then we had transmutation stones. They could be earned a few at a time for each map completion. Those were stones for armor up to level 79 and then there were special stones for armor rated level 80. Those were only found on the gemstore…but for about the same price. It was a fun time as people could have lower level toons and farm stones fairly easily if they wanted to change. Which they did all the time. Of course the downside to this system was inventory space. Transmuted armor was soulbound unless you did it to a white piece.

Then the wardrobe system came into being…and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. All of the town clothes were turned into either outfits or tonics, the majority of them tonics. People left in droves over this change. All role players, but still…people who regularly spent a small amount of money in the gemstore.

Okay maybe not in droves, but I knew people in game who were upset over the change despite the positive side to it. Some of them left. I was nearly one of them. I didn’t want to like the new system, after all how can taking options away be a good thing? I got used to it I guess…I just haven’t spent any real money on gems ever since.

TLDR: The system used to allow more customization; they took it away. They’ll never change it unless they can make a ton of money on it.

As for your idea: I see what you are suggesting, however I don’t want the looks to be tied to something like a tab that cannot be changed once set…what if I only want to change one piece? Also…earning charges isn’t as daunting a task as you think. Of course maybe you don’t have a character slot for it so I understand. Many players have a “charge runner” slot in which they make a new toon and run around the five racial cities to earn the charges for map completion.

Though I do like it for the idea of having a set look that you can swap to immediately, like a Guild Uniform or your “Commander gear” for showing off all of your most hard earned pieces.
I miss the old system from GW…we had four weapon sets we could swap at any time. I even recall the reasons that the armor set was taken off of those tabs early in beta. It seems no one left at Anet remembers or even cares. After 10 years we still can’t sit in chairs.

What I don’t get is this: GW had lockpicks after a while that were used universally for the most part, to open locked chests found in any zone map. Why did they think it was necessary to create a new key for every new zone in GW2? (nevermind, it’s likely cuz none of those people are still around)

Now I do NOT want a repeat of that…with lockpicks being something you buy…but yes why not a key ring in our wallet for all of these things which each toon must have, even though every character on our account can access our coins and other stuff…I might get closer to using up my crowbars then.

Also…this should just be an add on to the wallet….not a gem store purchase.

I too have been experiencing this, however I do not have all bag slots unlocked on my character who opened the Shared inventory slot. One short of that. The above work-around seems to work for now.

Wizard’s First Rule.
People see or hear what they want to see or hear regardless of what was actually said.

Reading comprehension helps too. I wonder sometimes how some people manage to make it in this world with the level of their communication skills.

Kinda like a level 29 ele managing to find the SE path into Frostgorge Sound.

Sorry but in order to be able to do that you would have needed to buy the game three years ago. Back when they were called Town Clothes you could have swapped out head gear, gloves, top, pants and boots. Anet decided removing functionality and options to improve clipping was a better thing.

Well how some of us veterans do it is we farm and salvage blues and greens, deposit mats and continue. Sell off rares and exotics or salvage rares for ecto but continue this until your materials storage is full then sell off those mats that don’t fit. You really have to experience a SW chest farm run for yourself to comprehend the amount of loot.

If only we had been told exactly how all of those Skill Point scrolls would be tallied once things were changed. Had I known then that they would be tallied as points only once they were used on a character…I would have used them all up immediately. I have over three thousand shards. With nothing to spend them on. I maxed out the Pact Commander line only to see I wouldn’t have enough to get beyond the first rank of Legendaries. Would I spend them differently now had I known it would only unlock one full line? No.

Guess I need to allocate time to finish all of the Starter stories. ‘Course I won’t need to really worry about it until they release some new Legendaries that are actually appealing…so there is that.

Here’s a thought: How about you just slow down a bit, cut back on the caffeine or whatever it takes to not click so fast that you mistakenly click on the compact option.

I mean I personally have crafted the invisible bags myself to hold my gear that I keep on my characters. It’s noticeably cheaper that way but I also stack everything not in them from the top down so that as loot comes in it fills the bag after the stat food and other things I don’t keep in the invis bags. Maybe you should first try using things in the game that can make it easier before crying for the devs to code a new feature that…really isn’t needed.

[Anet seriously needs to re-evaluate their filters…past tense of bite, also eight * character in programming is apparently filtered for some reason…so I changed it to something else]

Except that in game, there is no legal system in place to guarantee contractual obligations. No review of your actions to say that in fact you performed your end of the contract or that you didn’t. And of course, no way for either party to obtain restitution should the other fail to meet their obligations. Because ultimately if you give someone gold in game, it’s theirs…whether or not they earned it or did what they promised.

In answer to your questions, no…to all of them.

Because…Fire D/D …3, 4, 5…target dead. If still alive, switch to Air and 5, 4, 2 and auto until dead. I do still keep a scepter in my bags but almost never use it.

I used a Soldier’s gear set until I got used to things. I had splurged and bought Tempest runes for it but they were lackluster and once I finally got used to the mobs I made a new set of Marauders armor with Scholar runes. I haven’t decided on a final set as yet and tend to play around with those two plus a Knight’s set and my ascended zerker set.

I’m gonna link this anyway…as I think it might be useful for you https://www.guildwars2.com/en/manual/

Unfortunately this should have been addressed in game but most of the tutorial tends to get skipped through even by new players and the “New Player Experience” has made things worse. Because it no longer allows you at starting levels to interact with the world in a way similar to how you do at higher levels

I was going to link you to the online manual….but clearly it has NOT been updated in a ~very~ long time.