Guild Wars 2

To answer your question directly. Besides doing daily and monthly (use a guildbonus+banner+persobakbooster when opening them) is really hasnt changed at all. So farming Orr event’s specially the temple ones is the best way to do them. What has been changed is the difficulty level and the reward chests. This means people are actually doing those events.

As for getting obsidian shards. This has been changed. You can also use the laurels to get them (2 laurels for 2 obsidian shards). so with the jug of karma thats 4 per day (3 for the karma you get) and 40 if you finish your monthly.

You can also buy them for fractal relics (15). I don’t do fractals, so I don’t have a clue if it is time effective to farm them that way.

Shards also drop from lost Orrian Jewelry Boxes, but thats a non-effective way of getting them. The boxes are bought with karma and are more expensive then buying shards directly. They also have a change! to drop them.

Yes it works.
There are two important things to keep in mind. First of all the random generator will always be active, meaning you can have lousy drops with magic find on.
The second is like bcd said. The loss of stats means you kill slower.

So does it work? yes!. is it worth it…Well you don’t get any big advantage over others. I still wonder why people are surprised by that

hmmmm im not going to help you directly. The main reason is that pvp builds are as good as they are not countered by foes so I’m always carefull to share secrets. The best way tobe good in PvP is take n out of the shell build (the burst build e.g.) and tweak it to your satisfaction and adept it when your enemy’s adept to it.

So ask yourself, what skills or ability’s of the ele can be used to prevent people from dodging out of your aoe??

Though a bit hard to get, maybe the hidden garden in Mount Maelstrom:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dierdre%27s_Steps

bri.2359:

After playing a ranger for 4 months, then switching to an alt guardian, I will say this:

The scepter is by far the worse weapon I have used in this game. It servers no purpose. The damage is pathetic. the skills are bad, and for the limited range it has, I am better off in melee, with far better options.

The fact that the scepter is the guardian’s only range option is the only reason I carry one around .. I cringe every time I have to use it ..

As stated above I disagree with you (dunno bout the guardian), but both on my necro as on my ele the scepter works great. A gurdian also use a staff ranged. but I would prefer the scepter shield combo

Scepter/dagger is ele is awesome. I really prefer it above dagger/dagger. The main reason is that it gives more survivability without sacrifcing too much damage.

My ele and my necro use scepter as a main weapon. (ele switchting to staff when im prewarned by a dynamic event, cause of no weaponswap, and necro using staff as secondary). My mesmer doesn’t use a scepter at all. My guardian is only level 12 atm and is using the scepter as secondary weapon for now.

Irena.1062:

They mean a Tank build.

Not really. There are no true tanks. this is cause of the way agro holds in this game. To ‘tank’ you need to deal significant amount of damage otherwise the foes will just ignore you. This means sacrificing suvivability for dps. A bunker is build round suvivability and won’t deal enough damage. Therefore it is in many situations not suited as a tank.

However in almost every dungeon there is good use of a bunker and also in e.g. WvW they can play important roles.

Lucky Shot.7650:

Asuras are presented in this game to be the most intelligent race.

As far as I know only asura’s present themself that way. It’s like Coca Cola saying that Coca Cola is the best coke.

Asura’s think smart bout themself and have some genious moments through trial and error. But they also make a lot of goof-ups in the progress and many asura’s younger and older have been killed from being too arrogant and thinking too highly of their intelect. I’m not saying they are dumb, but they are a lil but full of baloney

Horned helm, flames around, something that looks like Fire God’s Vambraces. I could swear…but then again, it could be a flame legion shaman. But I still don’t understand how the two main enemy’s of the char the humans want peace with are on the murals beside the godess of thruth….. hmmmmmmm

Vorch,

I try again what others are trying to say.
gift of exploration is for getting 100% on each map. So all hearts done, all waypoints discovered, all PoI’s found, All skillpoints done and all Vista’s watched. You did that so congrats.

What you didn’t do is unfog!! all of the maps. Thats what is needed for that title. Though closely linked together, they are different objectives.

Many places in the game are unfogged till you visit them, but do not contain waypoint’s, PoI’, etc.

I disagree with the limitation of Suspension of disbelief. To describe the essence of why I quote the great Dumbledore:

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

The thing is that we take for granted that what we percieve in real life is real and what we percieve in game is not real. Lets see what really is happening.

The real world is percieved through sense, like eyes, and ears. The same goes for playing a game. In what way is that different? Are you aware you are operating a keyboard/mouse, or do we do that as instinct. How is running forward in a game different then running forward in real life (beside condition). The game is percieved as real as the real world.

Given this situation, it is your own limitation of mind that makes an element too absurd, and not the element itself.

Yellow is yellow cause we call yellow yellow. But what if you percieve what is yellow in the way I percieve red. Or in other way of saying. For some a dish is spicy, and for others it is not. Who is right and who is wrong?

I only noticed today that in Kormi’s plaza to the left is a mural of Balthasar wich is the size of kormir’s statue. It made me wonder why. The only reason I could figure out is that Batlhasar was the patron of Paragon’s and that Kormir was a Paragon before becoming Goddess. But somehow that wouldn’t explain to me why the mural is there. So anyone else have better htoughts??

most professions use those skills for something. Have you the same thing then??

Panda Shepard.1248:

The boots and the gloves are from the basic medium armour that medium armour classes are born with. They’re the rawhide bracers and boots.

uuuhmmm, you start with no gloves.

But your right bout the boots

It doesnt really matter and depends on your playstyle. For a starting area/race, its all looks and feel so pick what you want. For class it depends on what your used to. Best is to try a few characters out.

As for gameplay. The game isn’t straightforward. Almost everything you can do gives XP for levelinbg. but it never gives enough. So you need to do several things to level.

My advise is to start the game till you see your personal story is two level’s higher then you. Then you have to do alternative things (I usually explore the towns to 100% exploration).

Last advise. Find a good guild and helpfull. If you are going to play on the european server Gandarra, you can always sent me a pm for an invite.

There is a lot to do bout the world events. The recent update has brought good things but also controverse.

There are a few issues at the moment with the events.
a: lag on prime time, due to people not waiting for it on their own server but guesting for this.
This can be solved by closing a map for guesters early on. e.g. if a map is 75% full of people, guesting people are only allowed in if they are with a non-guesting person in the same party. initially they will be sent to overflow.

b: eventfarming. There are alot of events that reward a chest, but most people only do the ones on gw-temple. Limit it to once per account per day.

These two measures would in my opinion solve everything. I do not expect them to nerf the chests again.

As for choosing one of the militairy orders of Kryta (not humans, cause lion guards are also human, as well as the ebon vanguard).
To not spoil too much if you repeat it again. There is a reason for it. There are several storylines and a dungeon regarding the more complex differences between the Ministerial guards, the Seraph and the Shining blade. You still might hit some of those or get it when you make another human with different storylines.

As for the god you select. Go to your home instance. You’ll see a priest or priestess of your god there. I know it’s a small detail, but it is there :P

It seems to be a mixture of several armor sets. The shoulders are ascalonian dungeon armor.

The coat and pants are order of whispers.

Im unsure bout the boots and gloves

First off all. The problem with taste and like/dislike will come with every design. Anet made a decission to make of every weapontype only one legendary (beside greatswords, but only eternity count for the title there).

Secondly, one should ask themself, why do you want a legendary?? Is it to show off?? or is cause you like playing the game.

I see the path to getting my legendary as the real reward, not how the thing eventually looks like.

It’s new krytan:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/New_Krytan

Anything that gives you an unfair advantage over other players by utilising third party software is a reason to take disciplinary actions against your account.

So ask yourself?, does this make it easier to play the game? Your answer is clearly yes, it is also third party software, so you risk being banned.

The exact disciplinary action take depends on a lot of things. Mostly the amount of advantage.

Well it makes sense that pirates have a lot of Oranges. Vitamin C is the best remedy to a well known pirate dissease called Scurvy. These small details make me smile and wonder if Anet did it on purpose or not :P

The answer to you question is that you best can farm bandits.

if you completed a map, you dont have to go nack for world completion. As far as I know, no vista’s have been added to the game either.

Basicly you are not looking hard enough
This is my advise: Print or write down this list. hoover over every of these maps till you have found it. Cause you didn’t mention it…Did you check all city’s, they are at the top of the list anyways

- City’s -
Rata Sum
Black Citadel
Divinity’s Reach
Hoelbrak
The Grove
Lion’s Arch (thnx Devin for sending the PM)
- PvE-explorable area -
Plains of Ashford
Queensdale
Caledon Forest
Metrica Province
Wayfarer Foothills
Diessa Plateau
Kessex Hills
Brisban Wildlands
Snowden Drifts
Gendarran Fields
Lornar’s Pass
Fields of Ruin
Harathi Hinterlands
Blazeridge Steppes
Dredgehaunt Cliffs
Bloodtide Coast
Iron Marches
Timberline Falls
Sparkfly Fen
Fireheart Rise
Mount Maelstrom
Straits of Devastation
Frostgorge Sound
Malchor’s Leap
Cursed Shore
Chantry of Secrets
Claw Island
- WvW-maps -
((Blue World)) Borderlands
((Green World)) Borderlands
((Red World)) Borderlands
Eternal Battlegrounds

I don’t see a problem….. My point is that you don’t need to solo just cause you can solo it. You can join 5 guilds in total. So find a bunch and test them out. In the end you end up with a group of people you like as company.

Excelliate.7914:

Well, according to legend, if a descendant of Doric gets Magdaer or Sohothin, he can release the curse on Ascalon and make the ghosts go away for good.

I was actually thinking of that. How would that work?? We know Sohothin is in the hands of Rytlock. And Rytlock would want to get rid of those ghosts. Now the treaty is there, he could lend it to Queen Jennah (don’t think Samuellson would do it) and ask her kindly to Ascalon to get rid of the ghosts there???

So why don’t they do that?? or even made that part of the treaty??

The main difference between GW1 and GW2 is that in GW1 you could do everything solo, but it was a lot easier in a guild. In GW2 you are not forced into playing with others and groups, but you still can do it.

Main thing to do is to find what your interest in doing is. Do you like dungeons? then join a dungeon orientated guild. Do you like WvWvW? then find a WvWvW orientated guild. Do you like cleaning and completing maps? find a guild that does that a lot. Every element in the game can be done with others. You don’t have to solo (ok ok except crafting).

nope, this goes for all legendary weapons. only those in your main hand will show the footprints.

The new waypoint is in a new part of the map they kept out of the ascalon explorer. It is in the south-west corner of the map.

keep in mind if you done (100% complete) the brisban wildlands and plains of ashford maps before the februari 26th update you don’t need to get those two waypoints. And indeed you need to have finished your story up till lvl 60 to get all PoI’s. Also remember to do all WvWvW maps. they are a pain to complete imo and take a long time waiting for weekly cycles.

Well, I never had any problems with this storyline and can’t check, but my guess would be no. The summoning skill is a skill and you can cast skills when immobilized, just not move around. Basicly a net turret only is effective against melee foes.

Why do you want to do it??
If for the karmamerchant, you need a good mob of players and some coordination of players from the same guild. If you just need the map completion, it is all runable.

I dont have a clue, but they are rather cheap on black lions market and i got a few of them in the materials bank. so if you have trouble farming them, just farm the money to buy them on the bltc

Guardian is very easy and very wanted in dungeons and lvl 80 stuff. very boring imo to play though. An Ele is very hard to play, but they can be very good. so if your up for a challenge you should try ele :P

Fact one: We only know bout one silvari not born of the pale tree in the grove.
Fact two: We know there once where more seeds then only the seed the pale tree comes from.

We don’t know there are other pale tree’s or what their origin is.
We know from gw1 that it was rumoured (in lore wise) that the wardens where once human but so much merged with spirits they lost touch with humanity.

I think that a warden is more like a juggernaut. A human merged with a tree in the echovald forest and became a warden. We know juggernauts die when their tree is destroyed. But we don’t know what happens if a jade wind turns the tree to stone. My suggestion is that thats the reason why they turned hostile, connected with a piece of rock in a very twisted way.

But like Donut said, it’s all speculation. it is possible that there is a pale tree in the echovald forest (or once was). Personally I doubt it, but thats a feeling.

The engineer can be categorized as the special ops of the game. There is nothing they can’t do. It takes time however to master every different role and be good with it. they can be reasonable healers, conditions spreaders, buffers, but also be good in CC and in DPS.

Well considering the thing s you like I would say ele. both necromancer and mesmer lean on the use of clones or minions for protection. The el can deal huge amounts of damage itself and can be set up to be pretty defensive. Keep in mind however it is the class with the lowest health light armor. so your defense comes totally from skills and traits. It is therefor an interesting but challenging class to play.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

GW2, however, seems to have a bit of preservation mixed into each class, what with the heavier focus of healing in each profession (some, such as myself, suspect this is due to a weakening of the Preservation bloodstone, believed to be the one in the Maguuma Jungle – in the area now known as the Maguuma Wastes). It is possible that professions have adapted to use 3 schools, but I think that more or less removes the point of the bloodstones in of itself, since 3 schools can be very devastating in of itself, so I find it unlikely.

Sorry for not quoting your whole text. I disagree with this point (though you are making a good argument for the rest. Though all classes have healing skills I’m not sure if they come from the school of preservation. Like an ele destroy’s (the essence of) earth so it does its bidding, it does the same thing with water. Beside that, an ele in gw1 had healing skills allready like the glyph of restoration. wich has the same symbol as the signet of restoration and has almost the same effect.

A glyph or a signet is a word. And the precise effect behind the word is unknown, but it might be destructive in an unknown way while being restoring the user. actually. The skill needs to damage a foe to heal the caster. So its healing through damage.

We don’t know how elixer H is being made…
Ether feast is drawn from your illusions that helps you fight

Summon blood fiend is a dead minion,maybe made of the body of a monk??

My point is that all schools can be tight to a specifick effect, but the bottom line is that all can do a good amount of damage and self preservance. Even though gw1 didnt need self healing, every class could solo farm in hardmode and survive. The lack of monks now demands us to heal ourself, but thatdoesnt mean we couldn’t do that before….

There has been a lot of talk bout the Cantha ‘good’ dragons. It is obvious that dragons play an important role in Canthan society. Maybe, and this is just wild guessing it is indeed a seventh elder dragon wich is worshipped as a god cause it is, though from the same origin, a good elder dragon? With good I mean still magic consuming, but only what is given to him/her freely and and not taking it by force.

The area seems to be in the bottom left corner of gw1’s talus chute. But I odnt really remember anything of importance there….

Ye there is another pale tree round. If Malyck is a firstborn, we don’t know. It is very likely this other tree is in the maguuma wastes or beyond. But we don’t know much beyond that. There are suspicion that this tree might be partially under the influence of mordremoth (the plant elder dragon that is a big enigma), but that would put out concerns how Malyck escaped without any memory…..

I was actually going to say ele as well. A friend of mine has an ele for a team we form (though low level, we are taking time) and I play a warrior. Though the trinity (tank, healer, dps) doesn’t exist, the combination of tank and nuker is still a very good combination in this game.

Well it is a very big personal thingy.considering the price of tier three cultural armor I would never go the ones that are used by divinity’s edge characters. I know they are there, but you meet those guys soo often the armor isnt special.

I know a lot of people go for the CoF armor, and although it looks nice, it is what is putting me off. I like to stand out. I dont have any asura that need to make the pick right now, but considering your choices offered I would go for Zhed, just cause it is very nice ancool looking and you dont see it a lot.

hmmm, nope. First off al, when you change server it needs to be a payed transfer and not guesting. Secondly you need to wait for the first cycle and it is very likely that you have another borderland by then. Just wait a few cycles (weeks)and eventually the maps will have rotated. Ow and keep checking each day.

there are three dragon’s that you fight in a dynamic event that offer a loot chest at the end.There are more events that end with a loot chest. all events on the guildwars temple site do have such a chest.

There are more dragon’s in the game. You encounter 4 of them (including an elder dragon) in the final dungeon story mode. There is one during another personal story step.

For locations:

Tequatl: Splintered Coast Waypoint
Shatterer: Lowland Burns Waypoint
Claw of jormag: Earthshake Waypoint

Wel your last comment is not needed and was a bit putting me off to asnwer your question. this isnt general discussion. so if you want help, dont make a fuss bout it.
To asnwer you anyway: I personally always play with pen paper at my desk. I use it to note a lot of things, from e.g. interested things a karma vendor has, to what dragons I did on who that day. You can keep it really short like 3.3ele.maw (on third of march my ele did the Maw). The reset is when the daily reset. So that shouldnt be too hard to keep track of.

It was added in the februari 26th update. Before that it was just a slope with on top a veteran (or champion, not 100% sure). I think it is very likely to have a connection with the story and I suspect it will open up in due course. At the moment it is just there.

First question to answer in my opinion is What is actually a God. I know many players see them as 6 versions of the Christian God. Wich is only natural due to the fact that it is the dominant religion in the regions where this game is popular.
But I think we need to have a more neutral explanation. First of all cause only humans see them as gods. Secondly cause this isn’t a ‘real’ world. In my opinion a God is a skillfull entity that can do things that are unexplainable by the common folks. In the case of (any) Tyrian gods the skillfull part is most likely magic.

When we did the final two missions in Nightfall they also gave us blessings. Strangely only to kill of Shiro and the Lich and not Abadon himself. We also know that their magic works through statues. In GW1 their statues could grant players magical gifts. In GW2 they often prvide the pure basic power to learn new skills (it’s a commune skillpoint challenge). The ED are devourers of magic. So naturally those places where the human have put those statues a lot of magic can be devoured.

The thing is we dont know how the statues are powered. It could be a battery once loaded by the god’s with a huge amount of magic, or it could be working as a conduit.

Like WonderfulICT is saying, we already saw their activity in the world go smaller during gw2.

First off all, the enemy factions need to start working together. The second thing is that we dealt some sensative blows. The flame legion was nearly dead till Baelfire boosted moral. The inquest lost their leader as well as (one of) their main research facility.

Tengu and Largos are neautral, and Kodan are peacefull as long as there is balance in nature and we dont threathen them. Ascalonian Ghosts, grawl and ogres are mindless creatures that are more animal then sentient beings.

No and Im not planning on. The main reason he can tell the lore like you never heard before is that he is mostly just simply wrong. Stating wrong facts and Im really done with him and the constant people plugging him. Sorry to jump on you. I don’t know you and you might mean well, but it looks like he is constantly plugging his half true made up lore story’s here.

NolanP.7604:

Koss, sexiest character ever

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