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Lets see your Necromancers/Reapers!

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Everybody is doing grimdark so I thought I’d do something a bit different.

Still looks pretty grimdark to me.

But what do I know? My reaper wears bat wings.

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Rata Sum Bug - Skin Overlay Error?

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It’s just a ground texture that’s been improperly placed.

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PvE Solo Necro versus Elementalist

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Necromancers are very durable, and reapers are even more durable. I haven’t played an elementalist, but I know how squishy they can be. I suppose if you want to feel rewarded for playing skillfully, then roll an elementalist. If you want to play the game while watching netflix/taking a nap, roll a necromancer.

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Bug: No Golden Wings in Glider Skins Panel

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I haven’t purchased the golden wings, but I usually use the hero panel to preview a glider before I buy it. But the golden wings glider doesn’t have an icon in my hero panel. I noticed the golden wings backpack doesn’t appear in my wardrobe storage either.

Again, I have not purchased this item.

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Sigil of Accuracy

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A sigil of accuracy is equivalent to roughly 147 precision, which can allow a build to reach certain critical hit thresholds without running things like precision boosting food/utility items.

I may just be blowing smoke, but that’s my theory.

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In search of a name.

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I typed up a very wordy and eloquent post, but the forum ate it. So here’s the cliffnotes version.

Try alternate spellings or other variants of the name. I’ve been in situations where I’ve been very attached to a particular name, but I’ve learned to make compromises. Anet can’t do anything to help you.

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O0O Nuuu dont die

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My only regret is that we weren’t able to “smooth things out” in the form of a fine mulch we could apply to the soil of our home instances.

That mulch might taint your garden.

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I love Guild Wars 2, but am saddened.

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What exactly was the bug that made you so sad?

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Stavemaster Adryn

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I really don’t get you guys…. The boss was actually one of the coolest ones I have seen in this game. I absolutely love his black hole attack. He was also easily defeatable. You just have to move. Pretty simplistic. You are already playing one of the easiest MMOs out there, please don’t ask ArenaNet to nerf primitively easy boss fight.

I didn’t find the fight difficult either. The black hole doesn’t have much of a telegraph, but you can dodge even after it appears and it won’t hit you.

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Came back for one night...

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Logged back into FFXIV.

Sounds expensive.

$12/month isn’t expensive. LoL

Giving the “homeless” drug adict on the corner a couple bucks isnt expensive either.

Doesnt mean its not a scam

What in the kitten?

Was that analogy too complicated for you?

“Homeless” person asks for money for “food and shelter” you give them money and they spend it on drugs/alcohol and go back to their appartment at night

Mmo company asks for monthly subscription fee to “support the servers and development costs”. The company makes more than enough money from initial game purchases + ingame cash store for these expenses and the sub fees go right in their pockets

Both parties are scamming people out of money for personal gain under the guise of “necessity” and “survival”

Any MMO that charges a monthly fee AND has micro transactions is a scam. If I’m paying a monthly fee to be able to play your game, I shouldn’t also have to pay additional money to get shiny cosmetic things or “quality of life improvements”.

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mini hiding

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Its been a bug since sometime around when HoT launched. For some reason when miniatures are hidden by high map population, they actually get unchecked from your settings instead of just being hidden temporarily (which is what used to happen).

Some of the HoT maps (mainly Tangled Depths) also seem to hid miniatures almost by default no matter how many people are there. I’ve been in instances where I’ve barely seen anyone around and yet the game is still telling me the population is high and minis are hidden.

Its probably pretty low priority on the “fix list” since it doesn’t actually affect anything gameplay-wise, but I do hope they’re looking into it at least. The auto-miniature system / mini wardrobe was a great addition to the game but with the bug turning them off all the time its almost like we’re back to the days where you had to manually bring them out again.

Sometimes, when you deploy your glider, your current miniature becomes unchecked. As someone who owns over 200 miniatures, I would like this bug to be fixed.

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Came back for one night...

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Logged back into FFXIV.

Sounds expensive.

$12/month isn’t expensive. LoL

More expensive than $0/month.

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F94 Archdiviner No UI 0 AR - Daredevil Solo

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Are you going to quit or just stopping the solo kittening amazing vids?

quit and will play black desert online

You’ll be back soon then when you know black desert online has no dungeons/raids/end game contents.

Other than the customization it’s losing popularity really fast even in Korea

Reference: http://cdn.gamemeca.com/gmdata/0001/016/546/160210-risell-sw1.jpg
18 is black Desert online and it has weapon upgrade system up to 20+

Black Desert has ‘permagame’, unlike wow and gw2 you always have something to do
and as for endgame, I dont think gw2 has any honestly, or at least it’s very weak
I was done with the first raid wing in 18 hours with SC group, got to fractal 100 2nd day of HoT got to max mastery in a week or so casually and have spent most of my time afking in terrace.
BDO has dungeons and raid bosses, It’s just not the traditional instanced kind that everyone is used to.
And about the popularity in KR, I think It will do much better on NA/EU, but we will see ^^

Time to find a new hobby?

Or play something other than MMOs. If black desert is like every other Korean/Chinese MMO I’ve ever seen, it’ll be a massively soul sucking grind fest, devoid of any real challenge or entertainment.

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Please Explain "Slow CC" on MoM

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for each break bar, he will bite the island about 5 (4?) times before you lose the opportunity to stop him from eating it. he nibbles for about 20 secs, during which a break bar is active. as soon as you break him, he stops biting, recoils, and starts the next break bar. the first couple bites only take 5-10 secs to happen, so if you delay ccing until hes bitten 3-4 times, it takes longer for the entire phase to cycle (about 1 minute instead of 30 secs). he repeats his nibbling up to 3 times, and assuming the bar gets busted each time, he will munch on the island some more and then break half off.

you want this phase to last as long as possible so people can bring mortars. mortars deal about 5% of his hp in damage, whereas the entire 60-100 man zerg 1ing his face might deal as much damage throughout the entire phase as 2 mortar hits. so the more mortars that hit him, the faster he dies. it simply takes time to run/wp/glide from the mortar choppa to the mouth.

I think you are overselling the bombs.

It’s only a bit over 84k per hit. It might out damage an individual’s damage from attacking but not likely to out damage the combined damage from the zerg.

Are you sure they’re only 84k damage per hit? A good bomb run deals far more damage than the zerg can do with weapons alone.

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REMOVE Glint's Egg Sack!

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Are you saying you did the story instance where you deliver the egg to Tarir and then the egg backpack still appears on your character in the open world? I’m pretty tired at the moment so your post didn’t make much sense to me, but I think that’s what you meant.

If so then that’s a bug. Once you’ve dropped the egg off the backpack should disappear.

Of course it will be there if you’re on one of the story steps where you’re carrying it, but if that bothers you can’t you just switch to a different step temporarily?

My reaper has completed the story twice, and currently has no story steps active. Every time he enters auric basin, that blasted egg shows up on his back.

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PSA: Silver Fed Salvage-o-matic is back!

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I’ve heard that it’s salvage rate (especially for ectos) is well below that of a master / mystic kit

The salvage rate is identical. It’s the cost per use that falls behind mystic salvage kits. Higher cost per use compared to mystic kits, combined with initial gem cost makes it a no buy for me.

That was a while ago, last I saw the costs were pretty close (Silver fed slightly ahead) with Mystics being 63 copper per use and the Silver being 60 copper per use. Unless you have lots of mystic forge stones, which- admittedly- most people do, the silver fed is cheaper to use.

You’re thinking of the Master’s Salvage Kit there.

Here’s a handy table.

Mystic is 10.5 coppers per use, far better than the SFSoM’s 60 coppers per use. It’s only worth getting the SFSoM if you’re one of those people who use Mystic/Master kits on absolutely everything rather than just level 70+ rares and exotics.

Your cost calculation is horribly off. You are ignoring the actual cost of the mystic forge stones which are considerable.

1 fine salvage kit – 288
1 journeyman’s salvage kit – 800
1 master’s salvage kit – 1536
3 mystic forge stones – 45 Gems (cheapest) – 253125

(with a price of around 150 gold for 800 Gems…This is 5.33 Gems per gold….
that makes 45 Gems cost around 8.44 gold and you need 3 = 25.3125 Gold)

for a total of = 25g 57s 49c for 250 uses
per use = 1023 and for 25 uses to be equiv = 2g 55s 75c for a Mystic Salvage Kit

~ 2.56 Gold is definitelly not cheaper than a Master’s Salvage kit that costs 15s 36c

Also just for perspective at an average of 150 Gold per 800 Gems that would make the Silver Salvage-o-matic cost ~ 93.75 Gold is you trade gold for Gems that means after making 3.67 mystic salvage kits it would have been the same cost to just get the Silver Salvage-o-matic which takes up much less space.

I didn’t factor in the gem cost of mystic forge stones because you get them for free, and in large amounts, from achievement points. I have enough to make roughly 83 mystic salvage kits. That’s over 20,000 uses.

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PSA: Silver Fed Salvage-o-matic is back!

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I’ve heard that it’s salvage rate (especially for ectos) is well below that of a master / mystic kit

The salvage rate is identical. It’s the cost per use that falls behind mystic salvage kits. Higher cost per use compared to mystic kits, combined with initial gem cost makes it a no buy for me.

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[Bug Report] Veteran Coztic Shadowleaper

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They are working as intented, Coztics have stealth, evades, stuns, roots, poisons, and high damage ranged and melee attacks, they are supposed to be theives and rangers with super op stats. Basically it comes down to you need to git gud.

The bow frogs passively evading almost all ranged damage makes no godkitten sense, intended or not.

Just use melee, geez.

What? The frog dropped an AOE of death? Just circle ar-

Huh? It jumped away whilst firing a deadly volley? Just dodge and get back in range ag-

Eh? It dropped another AOE of death again AND jumped away again?

Kitten this. I’m out.

Staff eles have exactly zero melee attacks.

My reaper eats them for lunch though. Unlike mordrem snipers, they don’t seem to have any stun breakers.

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branded bane 500 kills ap

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A good number of the mobs that spawn during large events do not count as individual XP. The kills and damage you do is counted towards the event completion XP.

Slayer achievements only advance on creature kills that award XP.

It’s not always true. The whole system is buggy TBH.

For instance: ranger spirits (including your own) progress the plant slayer achievement when they die.

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Torment viability in PvE

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Torment as a melee is just weird and doesn’t synergize at all. I am supposed to hit them a few times and then run around? What about ranged mobs that don’t run at all? Bosses?

The idea behind torment is forcing your opponent to move so they take more damage. This is easier to do in PvP, but for most PvE encounters (excepting those where enemies can’t move or be moved) forcing your targets to move is certainly possible, though not optimal.

You can get a melee enemy to chase you while still being able to hit him in melee. You aren’t supposed to just hit them while standing in one spot.

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Torment viability in PvE

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The only weird Torment I’ve run into so far is mace-Revenant, which is actually hilarious because the easiest way to up your damage is walk backwards.

Except in Raids, where it matters most.
It’s kinda inconsistent there and Sabetha barely moves at all (I don’t know if her Shadowsteps even count).

Being a melee condi spec, you’d think it’d be pretty strong, but it’s kinda average.
Also, Revenant is the only class that uses Torment as its primary damage-dealing condition, so it being “fine” is debatable.

In contrast, the vale guardian moves a lot, especially in phase 3. Gorseval also moves quite a bit.

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Grasping Darkness - why?

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This skill is coded in a really weird way. A friend of mine and me tested it some day and did find out that it actually uses a projectile!

If you use the skill, you are shooting a invisible, not damaging projectile. If the enemy is reflecting, this projectile will be reflected (still no damage). Then the animation of the skill will show like it worked normally, the only difference is that it will not pull your foe to you! Test it for yourself, don’t know if they patched it meanwhile, but it was hilarious.

If you equip Sunrise/Twilight/Eternity they turn into flying greatswords.

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Top active pet reverts to starting pink moa

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I’ve never encountered this one. try posting it in the bug forum.

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Suggestion: Kudzu Bowstring

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TBH that legendary it’s the worst design imo.

-Bow doesn’t have a string and it looks more like a staff than a bow

How exactly?

-The flower “limbs” of the bow are not consistent, they are just simply floating there…c’mon put a vine or something to make it look it has Limbs. (the worst).

I was initially put off by this, but I’ve grown to like it.

- That floating arrow, whats up with it? it looks so unnatural, nothing it`s holding it just a single arrow, just gfet rid of it.

It’s not a floating arrow. It’s a spear held by the figure carved into the grip of the bow.

The idea of the “nature flower” bow it’s cool, but problem it’s the desing itself doesn’t look like a bow, but a floating bush.

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Snowden Drifts and daily events

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  • Start at Hunter’s Pitfalls in the northeast corner of the map.
  • Look for the wounded moa. Attacking it starts the Beak of Darkness event.
  • Head south to King Jalis’ refuge, and do the jumping puzzle

By this point you should have two events complete, or 3 if the veteran looter spawns in the jumping puzzle. If the flower collection event spawns as well, you’ve just completed your daily events.

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[Tendril Torchers] Graphic bug?

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Tendril torchers is best done with action camera mode turned on. The flamethrower will fire in whatever direction you point the reticle.

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I Made A Mistake..

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I had originally searched for a breakdown of how much mats they cost. I couldn’t really find much except like the big items that seemed pretty reasonable to make. But considering I’ve stockpiled for 3 years and I have (had) tons of resources to start, it would have taken me another 3 years with the crafting of the precursor.

I am (was) going for dusk and then on to twilight. It costs about 1200 gold to buy dusk. I was at 622 gold when I decided to craft it because everyone I had talked to said it was just as much, if not cheaper to make. Well it turns out that is a bunch of crap. The first part of dusk cost like 25 elonian leather squares and 25 Deldrimor steel ingots. I had most of both of them, but still had to get more materials.

Part 2 of dusk (the part I am at now) requires 40 deldrimor steel ingots (30 of which are so the “master weaponsmith” can ‘see where I’m at’. Not so I can craft a legendary.) Which in cost of mats is 350 gold approximately. That plus what the cost of mats I have already spent for this is close to the cost of the precursor.

I have zero interest in the new legendaries, and this only cements that. My buddy is making H.O.P.E. and just hearing him talk about it almost made me want to quit Guild Wars 2 entirely. It is beyond ridiculous. Even though he can stockpile so many resources it will still take him a ridiculous amount of time to get what he needs to make it.

I originally started building twilight backwards. I would get the mats for the gifts and have everything I need for a legendary ready so when I got the ever so elusive precurser I could make my legendary. That has now gone to crap. And it is stressing me out and I don’t think I should be. But I have little faith in anet solving this for me sadly so I prolly will never get a legendary now because of this and its worse than it was before so idk what I’m gonna do. I make plans and do them because that’s how I work. But my plans got sideswiped by a freight train.

You’re doing it wrong. Place buy orders for the base materials, not the completed deldrimor steel/elonian leather. You’ll save a lot of gold doing it that way, but you’ll only be able to craft one of each material per day.

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ascended stuff is a mess

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The idea that the ascended drop rate is the same as before HoT seems crazy to me. That or there is a bug that only effects some people. I don’t have a nice spreadsheet like above (started one after seeing that) but for myself, I used to get 1-2 chests per week doing a daily 49/50. (single fractal) Since the Patch, I’ve gotten maybe 2 (1 was from a recommended daily 19). Speaking with others they have had similar experiences. Though I have heard that some people are getting good/similar drops. Many others are getting garbage. That and doing higher level fractals (>=90) doesn’t seem to improve your chances by much if at all. Definitely not worth the increase in time. I’m curious how the spreadsheet was generated. I’m assuming it is across multiple people based on the numbers. I will say that for the first week post patch the numbers seemed decent but since then it has been barren. Either way, keeping detailed track of the chests now so that it is more precise. Maybe my RNG is in a lull.

Regarding the armor sets. I’m glad I’m not a new player having to craft from scratch.

After the Fractured update, I ran scale 30/40/50 fractals daily. In 6 months of fractal running, I didn’t get a single ascended box or fractal weapon. I started running fractals again 3 weeks ago. I’ve received 4 ascended boxes so far.

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I SPEND GOLD ON ARMOR

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Make another profession in the same armor class. Then you can share.

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Standing on the Pole in Mossman

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Fractals is content, therefore they will be patch. The new fractals may have better fractal mechanics. It would be worth giving Anet suggestions on how to make fractal mechanics better. But what mechanics, need to change for fractals to be better?

As example, less 100500100500 hp punching bags and less absolutely ridiculous instabilities.

So lower health and different instabilities, will be better mechanics in your eyes. Problem with the first one is, Mossman needs to change as the fractals scales get higher. So what changes about him? Higher attack power? Also, “ridiculous instabilities” is subjective. What is ridiculous to you may not be ridiculous to others. Do you know of any challenging instabilities that will be accepted by all players at 50+?

Furthermore, of course attack power should be increased, it used to be much higher pre hot.
Regarding instabilities, the challengemotes with healing reduction would be better instabilities than most of the current existing instabilities. Also, a big list of instabilities that never got implemented was datamined a long time ago. Some of those instabilities were pretty good imo. For Example: No downstate, Cannot use your nr6 healskill, Cannot reflect projectiles, No rezzing of dead players.

Attack power was higher but several players complained that it was unfair and too difficult. They also did not like getting one shot and wanted Anet to lower the attack power. I agree about losing boons on dodge, not being able to dodge does increase the challenge because you have to rely on your skills (blinds, blocks, etc). Some of the datamined instabilities do sound nice though, ty.

How about this:

Not harder hitting attacks, but faster attacks. Perhaps a few new attacks.

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Most STUPID condiiton ever!

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I’ve been hit by the 23 hour immobilize. It is a condition, and it can be removed with condition removal.

I have no idea what causes it, but I’ve only seen it in the cursed shore.

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question about new wardrobe

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Each time you equip a new item, you have to use a charge to change its skin to the one you want. The skin you apply stays on the item.

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You Can't Keep Forcing 1 Hour Restarts!

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This is why I’m a supporter of weekly scheduled maintenance.

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Making a Ranger soon. Have a question.

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Sees title, considers giving advice, clicks title

clicks link

“AAAHHH!!! EEEWWWW!! WHAT? oh, PvE”

closes link

negates from posting in thread

You still posted in the thread bro.

Nice try though.

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Steelseries Sensei Raw buttons not working

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Never had a steelseries mouse, but in order to get GW2 to detect the buttons on my logitech G300s, they must first be assigned functions using the included software.

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Making a Ranger soon. Have a question.

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Stay away from metabattle and just play the game. You’ll wind up finding builds that work.

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New mossman

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I’m a complete nub in real terms to gw and gw2. Signed up at the end of September and started fractals in December. Love em to be honest – but then, they are all still new to me

Did the “Pole” things a week or two ago, and last night did mossman without the pole thing. Definitely seems easier/quicker without the Pole.. shrugs Maybe it was just the pug i was with?

For the most part it depends on your team. If everyone is appropriately geared (with AR) and know what attacks to avoid then the run is going to feel very smooth. Even more butter if you’re slapping on boons and buffs for more damage and/or mitigation.

Now if you get a lousy team where players are trying to sneak in with less than appropriate AR or are taking hits left and right? Then it might just be easier to jump into a tree where I can at least watch YouTube or something while AA-ing to make use of the extra time I’ll be in that fight.

My issue with knowing which attacks to avoid, is you can barely see what ol’ mossy is doing under all that guardian/ele fire and other effects.

I’ll admit it, I suck at fighting mossman. But only because I can’t see him.

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Pinnacle weapon skins when?

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Pinnacle weapons are achievement point rewards. Supposedly they begin at 29,000 AP.

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Auto Attacking?

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Ranger sword being a notable exception, leave it on.

In pvp if you are a projectile user and eating lots of reflect, you might choose to turn it off.

For the elementalists’ weapon conjures all the AA are turned off.
In wvw if I get into a golem I turn it on.

In some burst builds, You don’t want to be wasting your +x% damage modifiers on your auto attacks either, so in those situations, you would leave it off.

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Why click 48 times/day for divine evelopes?

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But, tbh, all vendors should just be able to sell you stuff in bulk with a slider bar or something.

GW1 had this 12 years ago. Why anet?

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What is pc-malware.com?

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Sounds like the OP has ransomware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware

Edit: I did a Google search for that website and saw the phone number in the search results. I then did a Google search for that phone number and I got multiple results about it being a tech support scam/virus.

Check all web browsers you have installed, even ones you don’t use. Find the addons/plugins and look for anything you don’t recognize and uninstall it.

If using Windows, bring up control panel and go to Programs and Features and look for software you don’t recognize and uninstall it.

did you uncover anything about removing it? I’ve spent the past two hours digging through my C drive and noting looks out of place.

Well basically aside from checking browser plugins and programs and features to uninstall any suspicious programs, it’s complicated.

You would need to go into the Windows folder options to show hidden files and folders, then search your hard drive for the files. Also you would need to go into the Windows registry and search for and delete the malicious files.

The problem is you need to have at least some advanced computer knowledge (which isn’t something I have myself) and know exactly what type of files you’re looking for.

Basically the best option is using anti-malware software to scan your hard drive and remove the infected files. But since it seems anti-malware software isn’t detecting anything you might not have any malicious files on your computer.

Here is another option: go into the settings for each web browser and check your homepage settings. It could be one of those things where your browser homepage is reset so you constantly see the webpage popup. This has been a tactic for many, many years. If this is the case, simply resetting your homepage should fix the issue.

It’s not something I’m constantly seeing, or something that spontaneously happens when I launch my browser. It tends to only occur when I click a link either on, or navigating to, an unfamiliar or dubious website. At most, I’d say it happens once or twice every few months. I just thought it was strange that every time it happened, it was the same website.

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Compact bags an issue?

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So we should have to carefully select exactly the right bags to put in exactly the right slots to avoid having a tiny mouse twitch turn into half an hour of placing inventory back in the desired order? I’ve only goofed maybe 3 times in 3 years, but it was a major hassle each time.

Plus I don’t sort things out by rarity, I sort them by function. I keep my invisible bag(s) at the bottom for irreplaceable items, and otherwise prefer generic bags when possible so that new acquisitions will always show up at the top. Whatever algorithm the Compact function uses, it bears no similarity whatsoever to how I place things in my bags to easily find. Salvage kits here, consumables there, spare unequipped weapons in this row, tonics down here, clothing changes by type of garment over here …

To you a waste of time, to me and others who have begged for this UI correction over the years a boon beyond compare. That little bit of tension every time I deposit materials is a burr of annoyance that adds up.

In 3 years of playing, I’ve never accidentally compacted my bags. But I play with my important items compacted anyway.

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"Gall-uhm" and "Wivv-urn"

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Did you know that Wyvern is also correctly spelled as Wivern? On the topic of golems and gollums though, I can’t say which is truly correct. Maybe ask Tolkien?

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What is pc-malware.com?

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It’s not clean if this happens. There’s something in your computer that’s doing this, even if your scans don’t find anything. I’d advise you to got to one of the many anti virus/malware sites to get help cleaning this or do a full format and reinstall your OS.

I’m pretty sure it’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking and not malware.

At least, that’s where all the evidence is pointing.

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What is pc-malware.com?

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download malwarebytes from malwarebytes.org, run it and have it clean everything it finds out of order.

To be 100% sure you could start windows in safe mode, and then run malwarebytes.

Done that, nothing suspicious.

Ultimately, I just edited my hosts file to block the website. I’m reasonably sure my PC is malware free.

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What is pc-malware.com?

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Sounds like the OP has ransomware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware

Edit: I did a Google search for that website and saw the phone number in the search results. I then did a Google search for that phone number and I got multiple results about it being a tech support scam/virus.

Check all web browsers you have installed, even ones you don’t use. Find the addons/plugins and look for anything you don’t recognize and uninstall it.

If using Windows, bring up control panel and go to Programs and Features and look for software you don’t recognize and uninstall it.

did you uncover anything about removing it? I’ve spent the past two hours digging through my C drive and noting looks out of place.

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"No Signal" after playing for a few minutes

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Sounds like either an overheating problem or a driver problem. Try updating the drivers to see if that fixes the issue. Also, check to see if the software that came with your card includes a GPU monitor.

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What is pc-malware.com?

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If by “sometimes” you mean it’s possible on any legitimate website like this one, then your computer is infected.

If however you mean that websites that are full of ads are the only ones that do it, that’s caused by the ads on that specific webpage rewriting the links. As a simple solution, use Firefox and get an ad-blocker add-in.

It’s never happened on this website specifically, and I’m running two separate adblocker plugins. I do believe it’s the websites themselves, because running a full system scan with all of my antivirus/antimalware yielded nothing yet again, except for one file that my antivirus couldn’t scan.

Also, I’m using google chrome.

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What is pc-malware.com?

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After an exhaustive search, I couldn’t find out anything about this mysterious website on the vastness of the internet. And since this is the only forum I’m currently subscribed to, I thought I’d post my query here.

Sometimes, clicking a webpage link redirects my browser to this site, which completely locks up my browser, and plays an audio message telling me to call the number displayed on the screen to unlock my PC. A quick trip to the task manager fixes the issue, and a complete virus and malware scan of my PC comes back with no results.

So what is it? Should I be wary?

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Collection Wars 2

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Collections are pretty much my end game now. It’s end game for the rest of us. It’s supposed to be difficult.

If collections are end game, then there is something really wrong with them.

How so?

RNG. The fact I can spend hours killing mobs for a junk item to drop and it never drops.

Yes I did check the wiki to make sure I was killing the right mobs.

What are your killing that you’re not getting loot from. I’ve completed a bunch of collections with RNG, doesn’t mean one isn’t bugged.

The junk collection. I need one of the shells, I forget which. I spent 2-3 hours straight before Christmas trying to get it. After that long I just gave up.

I completed the junk collection without ever actually trying to complete it. I just played as I normally do, and the junk eventually came to me.

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