Guild Wars 2

Mea.5491:

“Should zerk gear be used by casual players?”

No. Go to Dragon’s Stand, the amount of people who get downed in one hit is too kitten high. Squishy people die and do nothing useful, they wait for revive and scale events up. People laugh at me for wearing Knight-Cavalier gear on my Necro but in the end, I deal more damage than dead people. Thanks to my unique invincible Necro build, I literally don’t even get downed in PvE. We would actually finish meta events faster if people stopped dying.

You’ve got a valid point there.

As to answering the question, I think a casual player can use zerker gear, if he/she is capable of not dying all the time. In that case, the zerker player in question has to acknowledge in all honesty that he/she should consider minimizing his down-time (heh) by perhaps getting better or gearing up some hp or toughness.

During my first playthrough, I was all “ok, go there, kill that, go there, recieve that…” and truly didn’t care for the story. Seems like a bad mistake to start with the human story now, on my second complete core playthrough, I paid much more attention to the story and discovered what others said before, that the stories of the different orders and races and of course personal choices intertwine, which I think to be a fine feature. It often has amazed me. But on the other had, I am not sure just how important the story is to me. I guess if GW2 did not have a story, I would still play it

Compared to GW1, I much prefer the diversity of the stories that incentivizes numerous playthroughs. By the time I got my 3rd Proph char, I couldn’t stand to do the Frost Gate mission anymore…

28k AP or not, Vayne got it right. OP complains about not being able to play his SOLO STORY.

Proof:

I start up my SOLO play story line. Let me say this again.. SOLO PLAY Story line. To find out that not only do the NPCs get absolutely annihilated leaving you alone to fight 15+ mobs, but you yourself get zerg gibbed in 2 seconds. Yes i dodged, Yes i tried to avoid everything. At some point you have to try and hit them and thats when you get gibbed.

After dying and grinding my way through a few solo missions and getting to the point where I had to defend the frog village only to once again have every single npc dead within seconds and dying over and over i gave up.

The SOLO PLAY story line is simply not designed properly. Its garbage. And thats it for me, I was COMPLETELY enjoying the game .. right up until the expansion. Solo play is just not balanced properly.

Hey guys!

Is there a tiny chance we will see the sunglasses return to the gemstore? Because I badly need them! Whether they be sports or inventor sunglasses, I don’t care, but they would be ultimate for my charr engineers look!

Let’s start a petition to bring sunglasses back to the game! I’m pretty sure it is not just me wanting them back.

ANet, gimme sunglasses and take my money!!!

Edit: ANet gave me sunglasses, now I’ll give them my money. Thanks ANet

Totally agree with you there. I often wondered “Without wiki and dulfy, how on earth should I have known this??”. Maybe it is some cunning move to increase the wiki’s popularity?

When my feet first touched HoT ground, I felt like I was in the wrong movie. All the time, I trashed everything in my path with my almighty warrior with mix-and-match stat armor (at least it was all exo). Then, after getting my butt slightly kicked by “Terrorgrifs”, I got rekt reaaaally good by even the lousiest trashmob (I’m looking at you, red frogs), because they actually posed a challenge. Instead of just standing still and soaking up all my damage, they just vanished, reappeared and shot me with arrows. Their yellow brethren did their three-hit-combo, stunning me and almost rekking me in one go. Oh, was I furious. I thought I had got it all wrong, that I did not even know how to play my warrior, which indeed happened to be my first char.

That was the critical point. Either I would keep on trying or go on and do something more fun. I suppose it is the point you are in right now, OP. Maybe it helps you if I tell you that it is do-able. The frustration can be overcome. But it takes patience and the willingness to adapt. Forget what you learned so far by yourself, as the core game is very very forgiving and looks away when you miss that dodge or are running with max healing power while trying to do damage. In HoT, however, you first of all need to know what you want to do and then do it 100%. Check all your traits. Look for synergies between specializations. Streamline your gear. For me, it made quite some difference whether I played rare mix’n’match or matched exotics.

Also, don’t expect yourself to become dodge-god overnight. I did it in two steps. I first went the safe route and chose a defensive traitline for my warrior, namely defense (heh) which gave me quite some nice regen after each adrenal burst, which from that point I did much more often than before (ofc using berserker traitline). At some point where I managed to survive quite decently, even against higher odds, I realized that it took me quite some time to kill mobs. Also, every player and their mother taunted me for using defense, as it is basically training wheels (which in my case, was just the thing I needed). So, after some time running around in all HoT maps, surviving, but doing minuscule damage, I decided to switch to all attack mode. This in return ofc led to me dying more often, because I still sucked at dodging. At the same time, it would take 20-30% less hits to kill mobs. So, after all, the saying “kill it before it kills you” is absolutely true.

Right now, I got somewhat better at dodging and it really is the best defense there is. I even discarded my last pieces of non-berzerker gear for a mix of assassins and berzerkers, to increase my damage. As an afterthought, I wish I would have noticed marauders earlier, as it would have been exactly what I had needed. Berzerker plus some hp. Then again, to get marauder’s armor, you actually have to play HoT… or have some gold. A vicious circle.

TL;DR: If you want to enjoy HoT, you actually need to get good at the game. Understand me right, I am still not “good”, but at least I enjoy playing HoT, which was all I wanted to achieve. The major problem is, that the core game does not teach you how to get good and most advises pro-uber-power-gamers give you are seldomly brought to you in a respectful and understandable manner. So, what you need to do:

1. Streamline your gear – exotics with 1 or 2 stat-combos (berzerker + vakyrie or pure berzerker (not advised in the beginning) for example)
2. Streamline your build: Are you really using that trait? Is that one trait really worth it to pick that entire traitline or should you chose another one that has more uses for you?
3. Learn your dodges and blocks/invulns. This is most important. If the enemy hits hard, you have to make sure you won’t stand in that hit.
4. If your tactic doesn’t work out, adapt to the situation. Be always ready to adapt. It will make your time on HoT much more enjoyable and hone your skills in the game as well as increase your understanding.
5. Ask someone, maybe a guildie, for help. They walked the way that lies ahead of you before and know what they are talking about. Don’t be ashamed of being tutored.

This is just my personal experience and is meant to help the OP. Don’t tear it apart because you don’t agree. It has worked for me.

Je suis ANet.

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Vegeta.2563:

Slowpokeking.8720:

electricwater.1572:

Because it affects the economy and because it’s catering to entitled children who can’t wait an extra day when something goes wrong (smth that is not even Anet’s fault).

‘Making players happy’. Yeah, I bet lots of ppl are REALLY UNHAPPY just because a patch is few hours late lol. Actually I’m so unhappy right now, I’m going to enroll myself into a depression clinic right away.

No it doesn’t, one ticket or 200-300 gems would not affect anything.

Yes of course, just like the customers would feel unhappy if their item is delivered later than usually, and it’s their right to call the company. We are not talking about any real money, just some FREE stuff which only requires Anet to do a little bit to their program.

Here’s your Free stuff.. Bonus Lunar New Year day content. More envelopes.. more chance at making more gold. If the patch would have dropped today before reset, you wouldn’t have had it.

You’re Welcome.

BOOOM! Headhsot!!!
Also, take another day of AB multiloot exploit into account.

So you get refunded when your mail comes one day later than promised? Oh, the land where milk and honey flow…

This is amazing! Finally some love for them Germans ^^

Thornbury, that’s some good input! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Might get one of those myself.

Edit: I looked it up and found Antec Cooler S Compact. Is that it?
Price seems reasonable. But then again, after 16 months I merely got 500h together, is it still worth it to get such a cooler as my laptop does not have to endure that much and prolonged strain?

…nobody made this joke? Then it will be me.

“What is Caudecus’ profession?”

“Wraaaaghouuu!”

Seriously, I would say Mesmer.

OriOri.8724:

Astralporing.1957:

OriOri.8724:

Yes, you paid for HoT. You did not have to pay for LWS3, you did not have to pay for the new fractals, or the new current events, or the new maps that LWS3 brought with it.

LS3 and new maps it brought cannot be accessed without HoT.

The new fractals can. The WvW and PvP changes can. But this is all beside the point because you aren’t paying for LWS3. These people are trying to argue that we have to pay for all of this content, but we paid once for a single expansion and got access to all of the content that came after it.

This. We did a single one-time purchase to get years of updates to content, game mechanics and items. Even if some of that is restricted to HoT users, not everything is. And this is exactly my point. The game is not “bought as seen” but is evolving, getting (mostly) better. All this development work is delivered to us by ANet for free (disregarding the HoT parts, especially LS3 which you may not be able to play, but still can unlock after all, so you don’t have to pay for it once you decide to buy HoT – I can think of lots of companies that would let you pay the LS3 as well).

Remember back in those days when we bought a game and moaned about the bugs/game mechanic without ever hoping to get an update?
Did we go to the forums to complain? Hell yeah!
Did we ask the publisher to change things? Hell yeah!
But did we seriously believe for one second that the changes would be considered or even done? Never ever. We had to wait for the next part of the franchise or an expac to receive content that was less flawed, paying money. Now in GW2, changes to core mechanics are basically a revision of all the existing game parts… for free. So we get an (mostly) improved GW2 with every major update that involves general changes without paying a single penny. Instead of buying the product per se, we buy the privilege to play the game and the right to get our game updated and further developed until ANet do us part. For a one-time payment!

But I can’t change your mind about this, nor do I want to. It is just my opinion that gamer communities nowadays are way to demanding and at the same time very ungrateful. Instead of ever seeing the amount of effort and work that was put into making us happy, some think that the shortcomings are designed to make us angry on purpose, that evil ANet wishes only to screw us all over. Maybe they do, but in doing so they coincidentally made a lot of people very happy with the game.

What other game is there that was paid once and delivered thousands of hours of play, I ask you? So GW2’s price-performance ratio is miles ahead of any other game’s.

But on a second (and third and fourth) read-through, Einlanzer is actually right about what he says. The point is that you can walk away because the iterations are too slow or you can stick to a game you actually like or even love and hope that one day, they will come up with something that will blow your mind. Although even I doubt that, I find that I am not that upset about their slow iteration pace since there are tons and tons to do… except you are a hardcore gamer who used up all the content that was designed for years in mere months, in which case you simply bought the wrong game, as it is made for the casual players. But I perfectly understand your point.

Edit: Sorry for the wall of text, couldn’t help it.

ArchonWing.9480:

Plautze.6290:

Maybe a warning from me: I tried to get a refurbished laptop from Lenovo. The specs were awesome (i7, 8GB RAM, 512 SSD etc) but for the love of Dwayna, I couln’t get it to play GW2 smoothly. So if you get a refurbished one, make sure it is a recent laptop and not a geared-up model from 5+ years ago because there is “something” that keeps it from being just as fast as a modern system (still haven’t figured out what tbh).

Ah, yea I prefer new stuff because I don’t know where it’s been and considering even brand new stuff can end up DOA… Stuff suffers from wear and tear but more importantly the act of being shipped around is an issue. Because I know they do not handle it with care. >.> There’s a reason why computer companies ship their computers in what is basically armored boxes.

Did it have its own graphics card? Yes Gw2 doesn’t need a good graphics card but if we’re leaving the CPU to do all the work, then it definitely would be a problem in a game where every spare cycle counts.

IIRC, it didn’t. But the numbers look still too good.

After all, buying a new piece is always more to my taste as well. But again, the sheer amount of choices and the common unpreparedness make it hard to single out a good piece of hardware. So every purchase is foreshadowed by hours and hours of research… but mostly it’s worth it.

GWMO.4785:

I wouldn’t recommand a laptop for gaming. Despite hardware being good/reliable. You still have to deal with cooling. Notebooks arent optimal in those therms. Not to mention the dedicated gpu is in most cases solderd. So if that worns out after a time, you need to buy a whole new system.

You are perfectly right, but… erm… well… I actually don’t know what to say you are right in all points but in my case it is kind of preference to go for laptops I guess. At least the cooling issue can be helped by putting the laptop an a cooling shelf or not using it on the bed. Also, the lack of modularity is a PITA when it comes to cheap parts breaking down and thus in some cases forcing you to buy a whole new system.

Maybe one day I’ll get wise

It’s okay to be that guy.

It’s okay to play GW2 even if that does sound like me.

BrotherBelial.3094:

It’s ok to have 5 warriors

Agreed.

It’s ok to have a real life next to GW2.

It’s ok to play other games (only for short durations and only to come crawling back to GW2).

It’s ok to use ranger’s LB#4 on the very same target that warrior is just trying to 100B. Not.

It’s ok to like ANet for actually doing a pretty good job with GW2.

It’s ok to sometimes not being ok.

It’s ok to write okay.

I find it rather sad that the majority in this thread is whining about the slow pace of the game’s updates while all those updates come completely for free. Please note that not a single item from the Gem-Store is needed in any way. So the whole company is fueled by many players buying the game and some very few people buying mostly QoL items. A lot of QoL items. Often. If you take a look at other games offering micro transactions, you have to literally pay for everything. Wanna press enter to get to title screen? Buy the title screen DLC. Wanna start a game? Buy the start a game DLC. Wanna change settings? Buy setting DLC. You get my drift.

So, basically, nobody of you did pay for those updates you all seem to be taking for granted. You did pay for the base game? You played it. You did pay for HoT? You played it. You did pay for wasps destroying trees or little robots dancing through herbs? Here they are, destroying and dancing. But you did not pay a single penny for the updates, so basically ANet delivers in advance, hoping that the players will take the update benevolently so they buy a flute that makes a nuclear strike collect their herbs or a rainbow barfing unicorn kitten their ore.

So, saying that ANet has chosen the wrong payment system is a double-edged sword. Perhaps some of you have chosen the wrong company, knowing it utilized that payment system. If you are tired of waiting so long, you should consider leaving or adding some more purpose to your life than just and only GW2 so the wait does not seem that long.

At the end of the day, all whining won’t speed up things in the least. It was clear from the beginning that GW2 will be for the casual, so here you are, as a power gamer, complaining that the updates don’t come fast enough… if somebody complained to me that our vehicles don’t fit into small parking lots or use up too much fuel, I would reply that maybe they should not have bought a pickup truck…?

And, knowing this forum: Come on, hate me.

Back to topic: I’d rather have a good legendary armor that was worth the wait and the grind instead of having a skimpy one that came out too soon just to be on time. But that’s just me.

To be frank, I don’t trust Acer that much actually, but the price was just too good to pass by. Concerning the GC, as far as I can tell, GW2 seems to fit it nicely. But as you said, there may be other games which are more demanding, so it would surely be better to gear up in time. Exchanging the hard drive in a laptop is pretty easy if even I can manage it I did use a manual one my premier, tho.

Amen to checking prices on different platforms.

Maybe a warning from me: I tried to get a refurbished laptop from Lenovo. The specs were awesome (i7, 8GB RAM, 512 SSD etc) but for the love of Dwayna, I couln’t get it to play GW2 smoothly. So if you get a refurbished one, make sure it is a recent laptop and not a geared-up model from 5+ years ago because there is “something” that keeps it from being just as fast as a modern system (still haven’t figured out what tbh).

At the moment I use a Lenovo Edge E545 which is enough to run the game in medium-high at okay-ish speeds. But to achieve this, I swapped the HDD for SSD and increased the RAM size to 2×4GB to make use of the dual channel architecture. Especially the latter was a game changer (heh). Be warned this machine uses the evil AMD chip, which keeps it from running Dolphin at a playable speed.

As an alternative, I use the rather new-ish Acer E15 notebook which comes with a dedicated graphics card and what can I say, the game runs at max settings with 60 FPS. When I last checked, it was 500€, so it’s rather cheap for a machine with a dedicated graphics card. As a downside, the Lenovo feels more solid and not so cheap, but a comparable Lenovo would be around 1.400$ (last time I checked the US site). Edit: Funny enough, ArchonWing postet JUST that Acer E15 Notebook I am referring to I even watched the same vid to gain Info on it.

Your mileage may vary, that’s just my two cents.

Edit: The Asus Notebook ArchonWing posted looks pretty promising, if somewhat
pricey.

Edit²: Incapability to type.

CMM.6712:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Are you volunteering for the first infraction?

Yes. I want to maintain my considerable lead on the infracted/bans leaderboard.

Where would I find that leaderboard?

In GW1 noob island, there was (or still is, as it certainly is immortal) a rabbit next to the waterfall close to Ashford Abbey. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Rabbit_%28pre-Searing%29

That is the Ruler of Tyria. Powered by Duracell so he can drum for all of eternity (of course only when nobody is watching).

Doam.8305:

Elites are stronger and their stronger to get people to buy HoT

^Pretty much this.

You Sir, have just sparked the flame of mesmerism inside me. Thank you for your effort and the pretty well written guide! Can’t wait to try it

Please bring back the Inventor Sunglasses! That would be really cool.

I must admit that I was dismayed when first playing VB. The verticality and the rather strong (=read: not stupid, rooted, soaking up all your dmg dummies) mobs did put me off. But that was not because HoT was too hard, but actually because core GW2 is much too easy. Under a retrospect, I had the most fun after having fully understood maps like VB and even TD. DS was pretty lame in comparison. Perhaps the maps in the next expac should be all like DS as I seldom read rants about that map design, only about the meta. I think most people’s problem is that they don’t want to adapt to the new content, but instead expect the new maps to play exactly like all Core Tyria. While that is a legit desire, it does not necessarily mean that not fulfilling your personal desire and meeting your expectations makes HoT a “bad” expac.

Think of earlier: the game was released and that was it. There were bugs, design flaws and whatnot. But the players worked their ways around, as there would be no patch coming. Nowadays, everybody seems to think that the game should be designed to meet their expectations, forgetting that the game was designed by people who have their own image of “good” content. If you don’t like something, you go into a forum, cry about it and expect a whole company to change their entire game only to fit your personal preference, totally ignoring that developing and designing a game with financial success in mind is to meet the broad majority of expectations, not every single one.

No offense, but when there used to be a game that I totally couldn’t stand, I just quit playing it and moved on to more fun stuff. With the plethora of games out there, this should actually be no problem, right? But at the moment, everybody seems to think that ANet’s game has to adapt to their wishes instead of them adapting to the new content. Back in the ol’ days, we used to call that “challenging” and would feel proud if finally overcoming that piece of the game. But not anymore, it seems.

Perhaps if ANet made HoT refundable, the players that don’t like it could just sell it and be on their way…? As it is now, you buy it and if you don’t like it, you are stuck, having spent some precious bucks on a game you are unlikely to enjoy. So basically, my advice would be to make the next expac with a playable demo so customers have the chance to see what awaits them before ultimately buying the expac.

I play a Zerker/Assassins Power Reaper right now in OW PvE and I gotta say, although the way there was a real drag, it is quite funny, despite GS’s infuriatingly slow AA.

I would suggest to play both, actually. But if you decide to do so, please make sure to begin with the Necro/Reaper as it is out-damaged by pretty much any other class and thus can seem lackluster when compared to other classes, leading to you discarding it entirely, which imho would be a shame as the class itself has some pretty awesome feel to it. Especially when everybody else is retreating to catch a breath while you enter the fray in DS/RS and kick some butt.

Only played Guard to 15-ish, but will reroll another one in a not to far away future. Just need to finish my Reaper’s personal story and maybe some HoT for Dark Harvest. And my Engie who is at 34 right now and of course Fix-R-upper… wait, this might take some time… so much to do!

If I had one wish for free, it would not be Eternity or the Juggernaut. Those are goals that I might yet set for myself in a far away future.

But I’d really like the Inventor/Sport Sunglasses for my Engie and/or Thief, since it is the pinnacle of swagness! I know this can be hard as they are no longer available but you never know maybe one of you has one set of sunglasses to spare.

Thanks in advance for considering this!

Server: EU

Edit: Now that the inventor sunglasses are back in the shop, I’ll fulfill that desire myself Still a wonderful thread!

Rising Dusk.2408:

Plautze.6290:

I used to come here to seek information, nowadays I only come here to laugh at all these haters, imagining them sitting all day in their mother’s basement, eating cheetos and ranting about everything in at least 12 forums at once. Oh, what a life I can only dream of this.

So what you’re saying is that the OP shouldn’t try to showcase his build against more competent targets? He shouldn’t try to be more informative regarding how this build operates against high-skill enemies? You’d rather he be only praised for the random video with no feedback given whatsoever?

Look, I get it, some people have a rotten attitude about this sort of thing (ie. you), but if the OP would like this build to be taken seriously he needs to better showcase what it’s capable of. Last season I ran power Necromancer exclusively in high diamond and it was good (and worth it for surprise factor), but it was not nearly as good as the OP’s video makes it seem and required gross numbers of team peels to keep alive under high duress. Balance hasn’t changed enough to make me feel like that has changed.

What I’m saying is that pro uber gamers shouldn’t take everything too seriously. Sometimes this community reminds me of a mathematician going berserk for somebody telling him that math is an auxiliary science. (Which it is.)

Loading.4503:

Tac…tics? I’ve never heard of this, I thought we only had defense discipline and berserker…

In ages past I heard about something called Strength or something… might be wrong tho.

If you have char slots to spare, go for it. If you don’t like it, you can still reroll.
In my opinion, all classes are worth a try.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I normally don’t comment on threads like this.

Good

Reknarok.7582:

wow why the hell are you lot so salty? they just wanted to share a video, chill. for real

u lot are acting like ur gods gift to pvp, maybe just lighten up. dont like the video? k, just say so or keep it to urself and move on

Don’t even try to understand this, it seems to be the normal way of communicating in this forum. “Look, i got this video/build/idea/pictures of cute kittens…” “It’s bad enemies/build/idea/ugly kittens”. If it weren’t for all those haters out there who seem to have nothing to do than hate everything in this forum, never adding the slightest piece of advice but just ranting all the time, this forum would actually work as a hub for information exchange and information gain. But as it is, it servers merely as an alternative to afternoon talk shows.

I used to come here to seek information, nowadays I only come here to laugh at all these haters, imagining them sitting all day in their mother’s basement, eating cheetos and ranting about everything in at least 12 forums at once. Oh, what a life I can only dream of this.

I like the vid, but maybe I am a bad player as well… Most likely even. But then again, there is world outside of GW2 * dramatic gopher * which sadly consumes more of my time then I spend playing or ranting about other player’s play. And in the few minutes I got left of my day, I come here to catch a laugh

Is this engi your first char? If so, I strongly advise that you play another char to 80 first, something with less complexity (engi is very complex and overburdens most players at first) and more survivability. Dying to literally anything first of all is not funny and second not beneficial as it makes you actually fear encounters.

I tried to play a Necro and it was completely dumbing because Necro does indeed hit like a wet noddle however, I did an overhaul of all my traits, analysed them for synergies and most important, unified my gear. Before, it was all and everything in there, now it’s just Zerker and Assassin (I do know I could/should go Condi, but that’s not the point :P). It’s still weaker than my Warrior, but compared to earlier, mobs go down faster. Of course that makes you a lot more likely to go down. So again, everybody has to learn their dodges.

As another thought, you should not play the Scrapper Specialization until you have 80% unlocked. In some cases you can live without the GM trait for some time, but living without all the traits and effectively playing only on 2 specs (but at least with a hammer) is frustrating (tried that on my Warrior, then tossed Berserker Spec in the trash bin only to pick it back up and love it once it was fully unlocked). You should stay core engi until you unlocked most of the Scrapper Spec (imho).

So what you can do:

Play another, durable and rather easy char to learn the game proper. (No offense, but it took me more than 1 year to know what I am actually doing and since then I see the game, its traits and mechanics, with different eyes.)

Or

Buy a full set of lvl 80 matched (one prefix – zerker, marauder etc) rare gear off the TP. Should be 1-3g and can change everything. Or maybe two, one for Power, one for Condi, to see which fits you more. Once you have your playstyle, you can still go for exotic or ascended or whatever.

In any way, you need to learn dodges and your classes skills that mitigate damage (blocks, evades). It doesn’t sound like much, but very often makes all the difference.

Just my two cents.

It’s always the same. Whenever somebody else achieves something, others hurry to belittle their efforts and achievements. Dirame beats his opponents and all the “Experts” say that they HAVE to be bad. Very very bad, there is no other explanation!

Sometimes I get the idea that this forum is full of people who are actually bored of playing the game and instead find a perverted satisfaction in frowning upon everything other persons write. Keep going! What you don’t know is that in secret all you do is amuse us

Dirame, let the haters hate, I like the vid! You made my eyes widen in astonishment with your spikes and your keeping calm at 10% HP.

Lexander.4579:

Plautze.6290:

One shares his piece of information and gets bashed for it.
This community is really toxic.

nice way to distort the situation boi

guy boasts reaching a meaningless rank with a meaningless build, is explained that build is still bad and that rank can be achieved with pretty much any build whatsoever

“gee gee toxic community”

First, no wonder you don’t notice toxicity when that seems to be the way you “Pros” communicate. One gets used to everything, it seems.

Second, the only distorted thing here is your perception. There was no boasting at all, no evaluation. Only facts, almost scientifically. No “It was awesome” or “I think this is great/better than others”. Only what he does when using this build and how it works out for him. Boasting is “I am plat, you are gold, so all you say is wrong and what i say is right. If you don’t see my point, you are dumb”. See the difference? Glad to be of service.

Last, don’t “boy” me. You know nothing about me. I could be 14 or I could be 55. At least you were right about the gender, grats. There is a certain line one should not cross to conserve the mutual respect. And knowing respect, among other things, is a good part of the difference between men and boys. So basically, all you did was “boy” yourself – with your actions.

One shares his piece of information and gets bashed for it.
This community is really toxic.

Where do you guys always have that info from?

Yeah, a shotgun would be cool, but I would already be more than satisfied with a “normal” rifle. See, there are so many awesome rifles in the game, but the only Legy has to be one of two available sniper-themed rifles (the other being Order of Whispers IIRC).

Anyway, I know that FashionWars2 is all about the look and sparkles and auras and particles, but for me personally, the final precursor looks mostly better than the legendary weapon itself. Of course this is purely my taste, but seeing there are “normal” unbreakable gathering tools because some players don’t like lightnings, lava fountains or aliens to gather their resources for them, I suspect that I am not entirely alone with that taste. Although I strongly doubt that anybody would endure all the tedious tasks to make a Legy and than only get a Iron Greatsword with Legy stats as a result

I like your approach.

Another alternative might be to make the banner off-hand, so the warrior can still wield a weapon. Right now, warrior loses literally all his DPS for a rather minuscule buff he has to place and pick-up all the time (or continue being a mascot). Especially for GS-warriors, being highly mobile and always on their targets, always having to go back and pick the darn thing up is somewhat… dumb.

The alternative to carry the banners on their back (Samurai-style) would surely be OP if that leaves the warrior untouched. Maybe nerf his movement speed while being a walking banner. But then again, skinny women carrying gargantuan greatswords walk unhindered… so having a stick with a flag on your back should not slow down a muscular bulk of manliness (in my case :P). Or anybody being able to wield a GS while wearing a ton of scrap metal/metal bikini.

Joxer.6024:

Lol, well, technically not of age yet, I’m 55. But here in Australia my wife is on a disability pension and they have me on a Carer’s pension, so maybe semi-retired? I can work some if I want, which at times sounds great…as for gaming, been doing it since NES came out with Dragon Warrior. RPG’s have been my passion and FF11 Online was my first venture into online gaming, followed of course by WOW.
But not to worry, you will get there soon enough! Just pray you have some money waiting for you!

Ah, I see. Sorry to hear that. That kind of retirement ain’t funny. My mother too lives on Carer’s pension. In Germany that’s not enough to live, but too much to die. I suppose one always has to look on the bright side of life.

I started out with Marios Bros (NES) and went all the Nintendo way until Wii. From there, I grapicwhored my way over 360 and PS4 I did some pen&paper, then during my time at the university discovered GW1… only laid it down to play GW2 like 1 year ago, when it became F2P.

And as it seems, I sticked to that, maining my Warrior and leveling Necro, Thief and Engi (mostly because I am an engineer in RL). But after all, I don’t even have 500 hours, so I’d call myself causualest of the casual.

Idk if there will be money waiting for me. I put aside as much as I can, but you never know if there will be an economy in 40-ish years. Maybe, we’ll pay with chickens and seashells by then… or bottle caps

Joxer.6024:

Plautze.6290:

I imagine you do have a lot of time

Lol, yea, I’m retired so playing GW2 takes up a whole heap of my day!!!

kitten (edit: even dam_n gets kitten’d? WTH?) , how I envy you. You are in fact the first retired person I hear of playing video games. Or aren’t you that old and retired early? Anyway, I do envy you. For me, it’s still 37 years before I can play GW2 all day long… if the servers are run that long, that is. sigh

@Ivantreil: To me, this only proves one thing: We need more professions using the rifle. Why design a sniper legy and then have it used by hipshooters and warriors going all close and personal for rifle #5? Imagine thieves stealthing and dealing crippling or hellish damaging shots from afar or rangers (with their 1500 range) destroying everything before it even reaches them.

I imagine you do have a lot of time

Ivantreil, thanks for sharing that looks really nice, although all those particles and auras are not to my taste. Also, shooting the ultimate sniper rifle of doom from the hip does indeed tip me off. Still, grats to you for having this masterpiece of destruction

Joxer: That’s a nice looking cyborg chick! I would stick with that, if I were you. It really has something to it.

Whoa, that’s pretty awesome! Do I see a Nightwing there? Pretty sweet.
I’m not sure about going legy for rifle… shooting an obvious sniper rifle from the hip seems off to me.

Joxer.6024:

Plautze.6290:

Just make sure to post a picture of your Norn Old School Engie in the “Show us your engies” Thread! You really made me curious. Mine will follow once I have reached 80 and figured everything out… might still take some tome with that class.

That would require figuring out to post a pic…..I shall look into it! Good luck with yours!
BTW, rolled a Char female for the heck of it, named her Motoko Kusanagi after the cyborg chick from Ghost in the Shell.

Easy enough: Just click “more editing options” when replying and you can upload pictures took me some minutes to figure out as well.
Yeah, king of my castle funny enough, they used the same-ish scenes in the movie trailer that they did in the music video clip.

Just make sure to post a picture of your Norn Old School Engie in the “Show us your engies” Thread! You really made me curious. Mine will follow once I have reached 80 and figured everything out… might still take some tome with that class.

Joxer.6024:

…but for now my Norn fits the whole Cid from Final Fantasy (the original engi!) theme I got going .
Cheers!

Which one? There are literally dozens thinking about your race choice and toolkit-Kit, this seems to fit best (and looks the funniest):

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Cid_Pollendina

Engie race choice was tough for me, as well. I started out with a human, as always and was perfectly happy until I realized that I can’t muster the nerve to endure human’s personal story AGAIN (already done it with 3 chars, so the magic there is clearly gone, if there ever was any to start with). This took me to deleting my mid-40 engie and re-roll as Charr… while I am still somewhat taken aback by running on all fours while at the same time looking reaaally slow and I greatly dislike the fact that my trenchcoat billows out while firing my rifle (as if my Charr was flatulating in rhythm to the shooting…), I have to admit that playing a non-human for a change does make a difference. The fourleggedness can be overcome by equipping a kit AT ALL TIMES. Which is fine with engie.

Still, if it wasn’t for my cool fur and stripe colour (I’m doing the winter tiger look), I surely would have quit that toon as well… I just wish human PS wouldn’t be so boring or there was a way to stop Charr from walking four-legged. I mean, in GW1 they never four-legged and that’s exactly why they were so awesome. That and Charr Scouts pwning everything pre-Searing.

So you’re not the only one having trouble with choosing the ultimate race for engie

You, Sir, have done a great favor to GW2-loving mankind!
Your Video deserves to be sticky’d, so that generations to come may benefit from your efforts! Thanks a gazillion times!

I really like the idea!
Some traits read too good for my taste and would surely be nerfed as soon as they hit the virtual ground, but I wouldn’t mind them either

Miles better than the dual-dagger Spellbreaker thingy.

^Now THAT is pretty amazing! What are your armor parts?

Edit: Found it. Sentinel outfit. Still nice

Since all races do have the same hitbox, I suppose internally they all share the same geometric specs, such as height. This would mean that it does not matter what height your Char has… I suppose. Please right me if I’m wrong.