Guild Wars 2

Visit more maps,
Things that get you experience:
Renowned Hearts, discovering Points of Interest, discovering Way Points, viewing Vistas, doing Skill Challenges, when you push M and you can see things on the map that is where you should go. If you see a telescope on the map it will show you a heart you haven’t gotten near enough yet. Finishing the Checklist on a map, that thing on the left side of the screen when you hit M gives you a reward for that map.

Dynamic events are a part of leveling and the gaming experience but the rest of this should be your primary objective. Let the hearts, waypoints, points of interest and vistas guide you, do events between those.

What are you talking about, reevaluate what you are doing. 20% of the games overworld content is the level 1-15 zones, another 15% is the 15-25 zones. My first character I did the 5 starting zones and the 4 15-25 zones first and I was level 40 at the end. Doing the checklist on a map is more than reward enough.

Diminishing returns is an antigrind mechanic. Grinding is doing the same thing over and over. If you are not doing the same thing over and over you are avoiding grinding and avoiding diminishing returns. I agree with this mentality. Making it less of a reward to grind makes you want to do other things.

There are no lodestones required to get the best gear in the game though. It’s all personal preference.

I eat all food I make to fill up my all you can eat achievement

I am full mm, i killed a thief while I was afk. My 30k health, 2800 armor and the thieve’s lack of AOE and the minions had him down before he had me down.

don’t stop moving, use the terrain to your advantage. go up stairs and when they follow jump off and make them run up and down if needed.
and there is a 3rd golem for that event that is not near the first 2.

there is a command in game to type /wiki
and then whatever you are searching for and it will bring up the corresponding wiki page.

Now that you mention it, yes, the one in red should be an Asura.

2 Humans, one dressed in red, one in green
A Sylvari with a mushroom head
and a Norn female with a pink dress

Does no one else remember Togo and Mhenlo through factions? And Kormir though Nightfall?

AT LEAST you don’t fail a mission when Trahearne goes down. That was my number one rage reason in Guild Wars 1.

There are specific points in the story that are the same for everyone yes.
The rest of it is a story pyramid. I recall 2 places where the story goes into 3 tangents. When you tell the Pale Tree what your greatest fear is, this decides your 60 to 70 story and one more quest after level 70. Then there is how you choose to storm Orr, finding the missing patrol, rolling in on tanks or by navy.
AND each one of those choices has different options for you to pick at certain levels so even if you pick the same option on different characters you can do a specific part a different way and experience a new battle.

because you are going the wrong way?
30-40 Fields of Ruin, you get there from the Asuran Gate in Divinity’s Reach
25-40 Lornar’s Pass is designed where the lowest level heart is entered from snowden drifts from the north, which you go through Hoelbrak, Wayfarer, Snowden, Lornar’s.
25-35 Gendarran Fields right outside Lion’s Arch, although the lowest heart there is from Snowden Drifts

Oh, and I am pretty sure this is in the wrong forums.

Being from Guild Wars 1 I would rather have npcs with me on every mission.

If food suddenly got a vendor price, that would be a huge influx of gold from buying all the current food for 1c then vendering it.

Push H, go to crafting tab

If the stats aren’t better than exotics they aren’t forcing you to do anything to get the most effectiveness out of your character.

Switching alts is not going to guarantee you land in the same overflow.

Completed on all 5 races. Charr was the hardest.

Skill 2 on Staff is a maintainable health regeneration skill that also aoe bleeds.
Skill 3 + 4 is aoe weakness
Skill 5 Fear
The autoattack is purely a Life Force battery,
The purpose of a staff on a necromancer is to keep people alive.

Server Transfer is not the issue because even if people transfer there is only X number of people from a server allowed in a wvw map.

Shatterer is level 50 in Blazeridge steppes.
Tequa (umm something sunless) is level 65 in Sparkfly Fen.
Claw of Jormag is level 80 in Frostgorge Sound

Other Events:
Level 65ish Mount Maelstrom, Megadestroyer

Lower Level Areas
Metrica Province has the giant elemental
Queensdale has Behemoth in the swamp.

Can’t think of anymore right now. Anyone else think of any?

Crafted gear is all I wear on my characters. Starting at 20 the first tier of Masterwork, then 35, 50, 65, and at 80. Armor Weapons and Jewelry. I love crafting. Recipes is the only thing I have spent Karma on.

Using the forge is like going to a casino. The only difference is that the items in question here are virtual. You lost virtual items on a virtual casino. Please, don’t go to a real casino.

The Destroyers don’t corrupt, they are just made in the image of creatures that already exist.

there are 3 dragons to fight, and other events which give a chest at the end.
The end game is doing more dungeons, exploring zones you haven’t finished yet, wvwvw, and structured pvp

Exactly Roctod, I agree with all of your points. The reviving is best left to classes with abilities to protect while reviving. Thieves can even cloak the revivers and revivee with Shadow Refuge.

Personally I put all commanders on ignore. I can’t stand pretentious things.

I’ve thought for a while now that the Steam Creatures are a dragon minion of some kind. Everything about them fits the description of a dragon minion army.

I don’t understand what you expect. Just saying do it better or do it different doesn’t cut it. What is your idea of what is boring? I’m not sure what you expect in the manner of mechanics. There is so much stuff going on here. I’ve seen people on the forums complain about “why do I need to know raid tactics to finish this?” and others saying “Why is this so easy?” I can name multiple boss mechanics already at play in this game, and this is just the starting phase.

Everyone has anti stun skills and some type of block ability. You should be expected to pack your bar accordingly for each specific fight. That is the point of a limited skill system.

You expect too much right now. They said the current encounters in the game are tame compared to what is coming. The content in the game right now is to test the waters of the player base. Once they get comfortable I expect to be destroyed by my overlord arenanet masters.

They said that server transfers are not the cause of the imbalance although the cause of some griefing.

There is a timer that the persons character stays on the map even after logging.

If someone truly does disappear:
For me I had my EB Que pop when I turned the corner into a mob, I didn’t hesitate to click yes.
Some people have a teleport to point set and can make a quick and easy get away. That combined with cloaking.
And lastly a few people are teleport hacking.

I’m use to dealing with bugged classes, I was a Conjuror in EQ2. I love my necro and I refuse to be trumped by any other class.

You don’t see Tegwen die unless you pick to storm Orr with the tanks.

When you get the choice of Tanks, Navy or finding the missing squad. Tegwen dies after the Marching Orders mission during the Armor Guard mission.

Just thought I’d share my new desktop image. Love the design of this dragon.

My Necro! She glows…

Albino Charr Warrior!

I’ve killed a mesmer and a thief afk with minions in wvw. I was browsing a website and switched over to find them nearly dead just from minion attacks.

Minion Spec
Running 10 Spite, 30 Death, 30 Blood
Dagger/Focus – Staff
Traits: Spite II
Death III, X, and XI
Blood VI, VII, and XI

Keeping minions alive:
Blood VI transfuse makes your death shroud Life Transfer a Minion Battery.
Staff Skill 2 grants regen to your minions.
Staff Skills 3 and 4 Poison Field with Blast Finisher = AOE weakness, greatly reduces the damage all allies take.
Focus with Reaper’s Touch can provide some spot healing to minions.
Also I have a Sigil of Superior Water on my Dagger that does aoe heals on autoattack.

A few minion tactics.
A good use for minions is projectile blocking. Flesh Wurm is nice against Kohler in AC. You put the Flesh Wurm between you and him and when he tries to pull you in he hits the flesh wurm instead of you. If he does manage to pull you in you blow up the Wurm and are out of there instantly.

If you use Well of Blood for healing you can use Blood XII to heal minions even more, and you can set off blast finishers like staff 4 and Bone Minions to give allies AOE Retaliation.

Any boss you want to avoid getting hit with projectiles just put a minion between you and them. I really enjoy minions during fights like the Jade Maw in fractals. Having minions blow up instead of allies frantically grabbing Crystals.

There are some fights minions should not be used:
One is against the boss that is fought in every path of Arah. 1st stage grubs might spawn on minions. 3rd stage he aoe life steals and your minions become his health battery.

Another is the boss in SE that puts flame circles around every ally you have.

When you have minions you are also the tank, and support for those minions. They will all eventually die yes, this does not mean you failed.

When I don’t run minions I don’t respect I just switch traits:
Marks – Death II, Death V, Blood III
Wells – Blood IV, Blood VIII, Blood XII, Death IV
Anti Condition – Spite III, Death VI, and Staff skill 4 transfers conditions to enemies.

Grenadiers in SE are not meant to be fought.

Endurance is part of game play. The entire point of any game is to live long enough until the enemy dies. The longer a fight goes the more likely you are to get enough mistakes for everyone to go down and have to start the fight over. This is what defines encounters and sets group encounters apart from regular encounters. I play with people and time combinations for optimal results. My guild is interactive and never pugs.

We are not even 2 months into the game, The easiest dungeon will always eventually get buffed and the hardest content will eventually get scaled down just a bit.

I don’t see a problem in this image, I just assume there is a hole or a slot the tale pokes through.

yes I would assume 65 to 75 is about 1/8 of the total xp as well as 1/8 of the total level, it’s just coincidence. I had a friend that the first thing he did on a character was max a crafter and it got him into the early 20s.

I have 4 characters with 2 professions each. I can display the title on alts that aren’t even crafters.

It’s 1/8 of the total XP you need to get to level 80 per craft.
1/8 of the total XP is not equal to 10 levels.

Thanks Arenanet! Crafting is always a favorite activity of mine. I spent lots of money and was satisfied in the end.

Artificer – Slayer Potions made this fast
Tailor – Leveling a Necromancer I kept this up with my level.
Jeweler – Extremely easy, it boiled down to about a stack of the metal for the tier and 7
or 8 jewels to get each tier done.
Cooking – Hurried to finish to conserve inventory. Leveled almost entirely through
discovery. A few times I was a left with no discoveries to reach the next tier.
Leatherworker/Huntsman – Kept these in range of my Thief.
Armorsmith/Weaponsmith – Kept these in range of my Warrior.

The only advice I can give is that when you hit a new material to refine do nothing but refine that metal for about 21 levels. Runes and Insignia discoveries from Rare materials will level you quickly. The best tiers for these are the Pile of —-- Essence. The other items get pretty expensive, and for Sigils you will probably need two of the item.

3 Classes have traits that affect shouts, Warrior, Guardian and Ranger.

and 1 rune that I know of that affects shouts.
Superior Rune of the Soldier (rank 6 – shouts remove conditions)

Why isn’t this classified as a shout?
And therefore be affected by shout buffing traits and runes?

I got to 400 cooking after the change. about 95% of my cooking level was just from discoveries. It was satisfying when I discovered all the recipes using the base items from the cooking ingredient window. Empty discovery tab, full storage.

I figure everything we did to weaken him up to that point, he was just begging to be killed. Either that or he was overconfident.