Guild Wars 2

I’d like to see an update to the bell focus, to make it look like some shiny metal. Like the song “Silver bells”, not wooden bells.

Vanquishing maps…

I think I’m going to start saying peakitten in real life.

Start doing dungeons, world bosses and crafting. The world bosses drop rares, which you can either use or salvage for the ecto’s you will need for crafting. Save your gold and karma for now.

Start playing wvw even though you do not have ideal gear. Ask in map chat if there is a group that will show you the ropes. If not, try to find a commander leading a pug and tag along with them.

That is the new player experience. You will get them back when you level up.

I believe the difference is in the infusion slot. My B&V backpack has a defensive slot.

DonQuack.9025:

Draknar.5748:

Whoever says elementalists just sit on Fire are talking about bad elementalists. Good elementalists use all elements (usually water being least popular when doing solo open world PvE). Staff elementalist is just……boring.

Fun is objective.
2. Not bad elementalists.
3. Perma firefield elementalists
3.1. Meta
4. Paired very well with a LH elementalist.
5. A good chunk of the time all you need is Fire and more Fire.

And most important of all, the OP was specifically asking what was EASIEST.

New stuff should be in addition to old stuff, like they did in GW, not a replacement for old stuff. Also, mobs in the Labyrinth should drop loot once in a while.

edit: fixed my pre-coffee tortured english.

I don’t even try to finish the dailies. It happens from playing the game usually about the time the svanir shaman dies at the frozen maw event. The laurels are all I want from it anyway, the AP’s will take care of themselves. Competition is for pvp or wvw. Otherwise its just stress you don’t need.

If they would let us choose to not target neutrals or walls it would be a huge improvement. Minions and pets are hostile so we should be forced to cycle through them.

It might make you feel better to know, we can also pick up our loot bags or grab supply.

Cheers!

I would rate staff ele as the easiest of the three. The attunement switching thing is overstated. Most eles spend most their time in fire.

Because of your high ping, necro minion master might be easiest. Minions can absorb a lot of damage while you wait for your ISP to catch up.

With time and practice you will get good at any one of them

If you switch now you may be locked out of the tournament.

Of all the sorry crap for people to get uptight about…

I use toon and I intend to continue. Say it out loud, its a lovely sound. People who are really upset by it have issues and should probably disconnect from the internet.

Since you are new, I recommend you find a group and stay close to it.

If you have a problem with getting stomped, get over it. It happens to everybody and will probably happen to you a lot until you get the feel of things. WP, shake it off, and get back to the fight.

Keep aware of your consumables.

Welcome Leah! I hope you have fun and great success at Anet.

For advice: watch out for cheesy tropes and you should do OK.

Especially watch out for redshirts and Sophie’s choice situations.

November 4 is good. It will give us time to enjoy Halloween.

Glad its just a bug.

Load up on power runes. At 35, minor runes of: the ogre, the elementalist, the mesmer, the privateer, strength, Hoelbrak, and/or flame legion.

Use consumables that increase power: at 35, standard sharpening stones and spicy lime steak or fillet of sesame roasted meat. Or if those food items are too expensive use grilled steak. +20 is better than nothing.

At level 39 you can upgrade to major runes. I also recommend piling on the power.

Get good at using swords as well as ranged weapons.

My best looking toon is my key farmer, who sadly needs a new job now.

Crovax.7854:

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Logos.1306:

guys new info

some Renown Hearts will change after patch.

Taking food to feed cows were too complex, so now you only have to F-click the cows.
Taking water buckets were too complex, now you only F-click the plants.
and so on..

so yeah no more fun thinks like running with water and other like that. Now we just F-click everything because this game want to be PEGI 3

I would really laugh my kitten off if they actually did this.

Newsflash: That’s actually what they did – for real.
http://youtu.be/nba4yjIp8fM?t=20m12s

That is truly horrifying.

This really stinks of executive meddling. Some marketing twit at ncsoft has to be behind it. No way can I believe the players or the Anet designers wanted these changes.

edit: changed monkey to twit, because I like monkeys.

Padreviejo.6283:

I now have 120 days into this game. I leveled 3 characters to 80, and equipped them all in exotic gear. I have a 4th almost done. Then I leveled their crafting all to 450.

It looks as though I have to start running dungeons to get the materials to craft ascended gear. Is this correct?

If yes, this is a big flaw in the game. I have never played a game where people are less helpful to new players in all the years I’ve been gaming. Running dungeons is a denigrating humiliating stressful exercise.

If you don’t need to run dungeons, that would be great. Please let me know how to get materials for ascended gear.

You do not need to do dungeons to craft ascended gear. The dragonite can be earned by doing world bosses and capping keeps in wvw. Empyreal frags can be found in the chests scattered all over Tyria. Bloodstone dust can be found in champ bags. Dark matter comes from salvaging exotic gear, even from gear you crafted. Most of the materials are crafted from lesser materials, which will become available when you increase your crafting level to 500.

ref:http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Ascended_crafting_materials

check out this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ANX_fIj9PY

I think he should make an appearance at Halloween. Ghoul-o-tron collecting candy corn for something.

Thobek.1730:

I see quite a few posts about expansions on the 1st page. What exactly is the most important feature of an expansion for everyone?

more levels?
more zones?
more gear?
another race?
another class?
A larger story arc?
dungeons?
new features like raids/guild housing etc?

what’s the main reason behind an expansion that can’t be done through LS releases?

An expansion worthy of pay is what I want:
New continent Elona or Cantha, new and separate story/campaign, new classes, new skills, new weapons. We do not need more playable races, GW only had 1 and did just fine. We don’t need more levels, 80 is enough.

LS is a great way to expand on the continent of Tyria. A boxed expansion should be like a complete game. They could do great things with Elona and Palawa Joko.

Here are some more.
1)diving platform in Brisban,
2)Dry Top near Omadd’s machine
3) Hylek village somewhere
4) Camp Karka Southsun Cove
5) Queen’s pavilion Divinity Reach
6) Wayfarer’s foothills

Nick.6972:

The more you dumb down the game – make it more accessible, the more money you can potentially earn. There’s no learning curve, you can just pick up the game and play without knowing anything.

At some point it stops being a game, and starts being a CGI cartoon.

No, it won’t work.

To me, an expansion would be a totally new campaign like their previous model with original GW. Anything less than GW2: Elona edition or GW2: Cantha edition would be a huge disappointment. They would have a hard time getting full price for it. LS is just filling out the current edition of GW2, not an expansion.

I’ve been noticing lately that LA seems to be showing signs of repair. The bridges especially seem more solid and there seems to be a lot less clutter. Did anybody think to get screen caps of the freshly devastated LA? I didn’t so I have no way to compare now to then.

Incentives to transfer to low-pop servers(relative to wvw) are needed. Dis-incentives to transfer to high-pop servers would help. A block on transfer to T1 servers would help. Giving the RP’ers an official server of their own, without wvw access, would be nice. At least one server exclusive city would be good for community development.

Mergers are not needed, and for me at least, not desirable. If it happened, it should be only combining bronze and silver. for example: ET would combine with CD, FC with YB etc. by current standings.

Everything jackaljag said, plus: ranger sword skills will throw you off cliffs if you are not careful. Ranger was the easiest to level up for me. Always use consumables, even if they don’t have a noticeable effect, for the 2(+10%) exp bonus.

Buy them from the trading post, or find a friend with a sprocket generator who will let you use it.

I can confirm they are dropped in wvw borderlands. My toon is lvl 20.

Favorite: Bloodtide coast. I grew up in a Florida beach town and really like the way it looks there.

there always seems to be a lot of them around the edges of godslost swamp.

They are supposed to be special.

Eggman.1405:

Mystic.5934:

edit: on second look, looks like I was actually outbid at the same time the buy order demand went down. probably more likely someone removed their old bid and put a new smaller one 1c above mine.
Eggman, looks like this might not get researched

Well, that’s a bummer.

Hayashi.3416:

Edit: Now that I think about it, there are level 15 ish resources near the skritt camps in the northwestern side of World vs World borderlands. While the area as a whole is level 80, aside from upscaled level 15s who will almost definitely get the bags in question, there may be a small chance even for higher level characters to get those.

Wait, so anybody in WvW only gets loot based on their base character level? That’s interesting. I think I knew already that this would apply to getting armor and weapon drops but didn’t think it applied to getting a non-champ bag.

I’d test this out now but I don’t have any character slots free to make a new level 15 – 20 character. Anyone else able to try this? The downside is that the drop rate on the bags from those Skritt for my level 80s is rubbish- like 1 bag per 10 kills. I’ve already been there trying to collect the Heavy Bags of Skritt Shinies.

I’m leveling up my key farmer to check on wvw skritt, unless someone else can get there first. curiosity too strong!

This could be really bad for pugs and casual groups. The overall dungeon population will decline because people really have no way to discourage griefing. Anet will see the population decline and realize no new dungeons are needed since nobody uses the ones we have. Its the end of hope for new dungeon content.

They must be a skritt burglar item. I checked icedevil WP, they drop light bags of skritt shinies. Try doing skritt burglar events in lvl 15 – 25 maps.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skritt_Burglar

In WvW, go necro, especially if that’s what you enjoy. WvW is one mode where conditions are actually effective. Find out if your server has a community website. If they do, join it and ask for tips and builds from experienced necros.

Get lots of practice turning with your mouse. After a while, keyboard turns will seem really unnatural. Change your keybindings so you can strafe with A and D. It will fit your hand better. Set Q and E to the skills you use most often or for attunement swapping. With no keyboard turns available, you will learn quickly to mouse turn.

Left click drag causes the camera orientation to change without changing the direction your toon is running. Right click drag will change the direction your toon is running. When you are standing still there is no apparent difference.

Use the calculator to see where you are and what you need to do.
https://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome

Don’t be in a big hurry to get it done. Playing with friends makes it a lot more fun. Set aside one character to get level 20 in pre-searing for Legendary defender of Ascalon title. Drink booze, use fireworks and eat sweets at every opportunity. There is a guy in LA who will give you a book for recording your missions. There are others in EotN and Gunnar’s hold with books for dungeons and the main story. Keep them in your inventory. The EotN and dungeon books are especially helpful.

Wintersday is coming soon, so get at least one toon to the Temple of Ages for winter wonderland. http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Fighting_in_a_Winter_Wonderland
Tell people you are new when you join a group or they will give you hell for every mistake.

When you get to EotN, do dungeons as well as the main story quests. You need the diamonds and onyx for destroyer weapons, and dungeons are profitable.

Make at least one PvP character. RA is probably your best bet for PvP, but GvG may be possible if you join a pvp guild.

Without Factions or Nightfall, it will be more difficult. I’m not even sure it is possible to get 30. Have fun, its a great game.

edit: I forgot about Halloween, also a great time to pick up sweet, party and drunk points.

Small bags are in lvl 15 to 25 maps, so I’d start by looking for hostile skritt in those areas.

Get the trilogy plus Eye of the north. GW platinum includes Prophesies, so it would overlap with the trilogy. Most important is to buy only NEW packages. Used copies are useless.

I thought they were only nerfing fiery rush.

Komahina.1728:

(Edit) Oh and another question since I’ve been wondering. I often see people call up banker golems in the tutorial areas for races and put on their awesome looking sets. I assume they’re transmutating their starter/level 1 equipment? But wouldn’t they have to continually transmute their equipment as they level? Wouldn’t that cost like 100 charges?

These people are probably key farmers. They have one set with the look and the runes they want. Since low level armor is account bound they just use the same armor set for their next key farmer character, no need for additional transmutation charges.

They have other toons which have unlocked skins which they use through the wardrobe function in the hero panel.

The difference in combat is probably the result of bloodlust stacks and power runes, and lots of experience playing the game so they know how to hit without being hit. In time you will probably have no trouble doing the same, so stick with it.

Thief shortbow 2 and 4 work really well together, especially in wvw zergfights.