Guild Wars 2

No it isn’t, atm (atleast in my country) only creditcard and Paypal are valid payment options.

Jus try some dungeons storymode. Storymode is a good way to learn how to do dungeons. They are also a lot more forgiven. Besides that in storymode the pug’s are more forgiving too. Specially if you say beforehand you both never done a dungeon and when you show effort, I wouldn’t mind if you get lost in e.g. cm and I think most people don’t.

first off all, your not a noob.
Secondly, like stated before you might want to find a guild.
thirdly, like also stated this game might be not yours. Even though it sounds like blasphemy, it is true that not everyone likes it. Maybe could you describe what you are doing in the game, how you are leveling. what experience you have in other games and why you didn’t found them boring.

Though I agree with SpeedFiend’s list I have to warn for too many assumptions. We asume that Primordus stayed underground but we dont really know for sure. Those tunnels go all the way to Cantha, and maybe even further, so he could have come to the surface anywhere. Personally I find it likely he stayed underground, but jsut dont see me fighting him there. Although it does give a nice way of adding a whole subterranial underground like Blackreach (in skyrim) would be cool.

As for Kralkatorrik and Palawa Joko. The fact that Anet did mention him and stated thathe is active and rulling all of elona doesn’t automaticly promote him to have any part of the gw2 story. It is just very likely.

With the Karka event I was under the impression they are pushing ‘Bubbles’ a bit more into the open. But ‘she’ is a bit obscure indeed. Somehow I see her as the only female dragon, and maybe the mother of them all. She’ll be raging to the continent when we cut of the last head of her baby’s as a fiery mother who lost her childs.

ED6. Well I just think the lore writers made an error here. but who knows

I’ve been using this since bout 2 months. the bird is there, but very small. it is a bit like the mail dove, flashing through the screen. I know for sure it isn’t mail cause i also see it in instances. I am never really watching numberon the screen, but I do see my survivability has improved a lot since I started using them.

+MF gear helps a lot.
And like Oglaf said…. It’s not Jormag.

hmmm, there is a bit of a dip in the larger event chains. My best bet would be lvl 50 events round the killing of the shatterer. There are 2 pre-events as well as good amount of other chains in the same zone and there are some good events close by in iron marches.

Mount maelstrom is for lvl 70 but one of my favourite events.

I think a bonus mission pack to tell a part of the story not told in future free updates or expansions is not something we will see soon as argued before by others. I do hope there will be more factals to tell small story’s. also in a year or so I would like to see some way to relive past events like the karka-incident (scaled to be instanced as a ps). the later I could imagine to be a mission pack in the store.

both the website as the android app are down for me. I did get an update for the app this morning.

Hopfully they fix it soon.

Oreoz.2573:

That aside, Zhaitan’s “death” allows for travel to Elona now. This for me, presents perhaps the most logical way Zhaitan could return and that’s through Palawa Joko. Perhaps Palawa has been made a champion and senses his master’s distress? Was a deal made?

Hmmm. lore is explaining that area that was once the crystal dessert is now occupied by Kalkatorix his forces. So the short answer would be no Elona isn’t open. It made me think however.

The flow of Elona river is reversed running through what whas once known as the crystal dessert.

The center of Kalkatorix his realm (I guess it is the purple spot at the end of the dragonbrand) is still far away from Elona river. and we actually cross the Elona river delta at Fort Trinity, wich is now under our control. So it wouldn’t be hard in my imagination to take a boat, go up river and meet maybe only a few minor branded creatures, but mostly Palawa’s minions.

Palawa’s role in Elona AND the new flow of Elona river did had me wonder bout the connection between Zhaitan and him. The river would be an easy corridor between their forces, and they both need the same resources for their army and power (dead body’s). hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…….

What I mean is that Char and Norn will be the only races I imagine that a guard would stand by and cheer when two of them get into a brawl instead of jumping in to restore peace.

(though maybe a silvari guard would prolly run away peeing his pants……hmmm, do Silvari have to pee????)

hmmmm, I disagree with many of your discriptions, so listing those I disagree on.

Humans: One human sunk Orr, and he was mislead by a god-entity- The destruction of the region of ascalon was done by char (with help from others). as a last resort in the war with the char, they destroyed the city.

Char: The legion’s where and are the cause of the war amongst eachother, not the solution. They death of their leader and the war around his successor made the legions. the legion’s aren’t at peace, it’s just that 3 of them work together against the 4th, but I would agree Char are the least peacefull.

Asura: The inquest is also a political body, but I see their presence in the council as a way to achieve peace not war. It’s like recognising Sinn Fien in Northern Ireland has helped to resolve the problems with the more millitant people thinking the same way as them (IRA). The inquest is only a small portion.

Sylvari: Ye their wild hunt might call upon them to kill something, and they are very capable of defending themself. But somehow I don’t see the pale tree giving a good amount of silvari a wild hunt to go start a full scale war. I think, compared to the Norn they are definitly more peacefull.

Norn: They always want to porve their strenght among eachothers and others. being competitive in strenght and skill is one of their mayor goals. making them more destrictive and violent then humans, Silvari and Asura. This cause with those three it is a small minority that thinks different. where with the Norn the violence is a primary part of their society, as with the Char. It might sound innocent bar brawls, but it isn’t.

Oglaf.1074:

Bunny.6185:

The most commonly missed locations for Shiverpeaks are:

1. Griffonrook Run in Lornar’s Pass
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Griffonrook_Run

2. Lair of the Coil in Timberline Falls
Bottom right corner of the map.

I got both of those, yet I am still missing two.

Annoying.

First off all I’m assuming you did get 100% on all shiverpeaks maps?
if so this is a list of places wich are not needed to visit for 100% map completion. best is to check them all.

Wayfarer Foothills:
- Doldenvan Passage
- Moleberia
- Shamans Rookery (mostly discovered without ever entering)

SnowdenDrifts:
- Griffon fall
- Jotun’s Vista (center of the map, though the heartgiver is elsewhere, you have very very likely entered this for a heart)
- Molengrad, again the heart giver is elsewhere but you likely visited this to fill in a heart
(Snowden Drifts has one of the least straight edges, making a lot of people imagine they must look here, but if you did 100% and did Griffon Fall you very likely has done all)

Lornar’s Pass:
- Griffonrook Run

Dredgehaunt Cliffs:
- Betrayal Grounds (it’s a very common area to pass through, not very likely you missed it)
- De Molish post
- Forsaken halls (cause added later, im not sure it is needed, pls lemme know if it makes a difference)
- Heimdahl’s Last Stand (again an area you very likely passed through whendoing map completion)
- Rat’s Run (and again, you prolly passed through this one as well)
- Tribulation Caverns
- Ulukk’s Hunger (possible you’ve been here for a quest, but might worth checking.

Timberline Falls:
- Sector Zuhl (you prolly visited this when filling a heart)
- Bynebrachen (likely to have passed through allready)
- Pythian Point (likely to have passed through allready)
- Tail of the Serpent
- Lair of the Coil

Frostgorge Sound:
- Rime Moraine

’ The Mists is the oldest thing in existence, constituting the fabric of time and space that connects the multiverse together. The Mists is the proto-reality that exists between the worlds which in turn are the building blocks of reality. The Mists resonate from the worlds around them, forming bits of their own reality – islands of existence that reflect the histories of their worlds.¹ Within the Mists are worlds, each with their own realities and histories, floating as islands in the ether. Some worlds are enormous, such as the Underworld, the home of the dead; others are simply residences for powerful spirits or deities. At the center of the Mists is the Rift, and within the Rift is the Hall of Heroes, the final resting place of powerful and virtuous souls.’

This is what the wiki has to say bout the mysts. Thismeans that lorewise, the pure mechanic behind the myst is yet to be discovered and more likely will never be discovered. Using a mulptiple dimension universe I see the mist as a higher dimension in wich we can get a physical form, but it is actually a more powerfull purer version of ourselfes (if you have reached level 80 the effect is less notable, to most not existing, but if you are lower level, you suddenly become the person you have the potential to become in the real world).

I actually never tried it or checked if it is possible to approach that close, but what happens if we tryto use an enemy-portal? do we get a custom error-message or a generic one? or are we just sent to our own world?

in the end it doesn’t matter. Though we (from a player perspective) know the worldinvaders are actually players from another server. We (from a roleplaying perspective) don’t know that in game. Though the mist is accessable from other worlds and reality’s we dont know bout these worlds. The special form we are granted in the mist prohibits us to talk to these people and the true purpose of the wars in the mists are unknown. So from a lore perspective I see the other worlds as other worlds inaccesable for us and places we know nothing bout. For those saying they are exactly the same I say they could be as wrong as that guy that claimed the earth wasn’t flat but round

(In other words, when it comes to explaining game mechanics from a lore standpoint you get stuck easily. some things you have to except as they are. the devs, maded the mechanics behind the mists obscure and theoraticle cause they dont have a good way to explain it from a lore-perspective. so who am I to try it?)

I would say in total a year. The reason is that I dfont see the biggest gap (between forging the pact and battle for fort trinity), doesn’t feel as long.

I know it takes time to reinforge frot trinity, build the asuran gates (though, construction at the other sides has actually started when you turned lvl 33 and visit your headquarter for the first time) and build the airships. I do think however it was a matter of 3 months maybe. The combined resource of the orders got the designs and resources needed for hand and building started early.

I have this feeling cause of the surprise the npc’s where showing that Zhaitan could launch a counterattack against fort trinity this quickly.

The actuall killing of zhaitan is indeed rather easy (though lorewise, the way to do it, it makes much more sense to use those huge laser/cannon/blasters instead of your staff or sword). Anet tried to catch that to make the lead to the battle (story-line from lvl 70 and onwards) a lot bout weaking Zhaitan. But cause you don’t really see him, his threat, atleast for me, is still not as eminent as it should be to really give me that feeling.

It’s like a warior in e.g. the Iraqi war, thats marching to Bagdad to kill Hussain, but never has seen the man nor what he is capable of doing. You do it cause others are saying he is bad and he is building chemical and even nuclear weapons.

A good cameo a few times in game should help to fix this, and maybe a world changing effect. I know maps can be shared and still look individual. So something they did with the lighthouse in Lion’s arch, could be done with a next e.d. e.g. Jormag, flying.

I imagine a personal story that the pact is discussing wich dragon to go after next. The lion’s arch authoirty have given the pact permission to build permanent headquarters in the abbanded arch above the main entrance (above the portal between lion’s arch and gendarran fields). You attend to a meeting where the pact leaders are discussing wich dragon to go next for when the alarm sounds. cutscene: Jormag comes flying in from the north. you get a warning to leave so you do. Trahearne stays behind to gather some important papers. Just when you reach the exit another cutscene : jormag destroy’s the entire arch, killing Trahearne in the progress.

While workers clear the rubble from the entrance to lion’s arch you stand at the mill with the other leaders. They say that it is clear that the next ED to kill will be Jormag. And they ask you to replace Trahearne as the leader.

Cause the arch is just a visual, it will only be gone for you. if you team up with another person who didn’t do it, you will see the broken remains of the arch and he/she will see the full thing

A storyline like I described would help me big time to make the rest of the fight more my own vendetta and story and less one that you do cause others tell you to do it. (And yeah, the death of Trahearne I put into it cause of personal selfish hatred with his character)

skullfaerie.7203:

mercury ranique.2170:

The kicking system works perfectly in my opinion. I know being kicked out of a group isn’t nice and even offending.
However how unetical it is, it is also totally normal that you cant force someone to play with you. I know that when we are talking and halfway your sentence I walk away that that is not done. But is is my freedom to do so anyway.

if you dont want to have this to happen dont play in pug’s. 99% of the time I have had an awesome time in pug’s. 1% is a pug of jerks. so be it.

There’s a difference between someone not wanting to play with you and using you to get through the whole dungeon, only kicking you once you’re not needed anymore.
Clearly these individuals want you along for the ride, they just don’t want you to get anything out of it.
That’s completely different from what you are describing.

And hey, if the bad eggs are so few, there shouldn’t be a problem punishing them, since it won’t hurt the game to lose a few jerks for the benefit of the rest.

No there is not a difference. It is called freedom. And yes they are jerks. And yes they get on my FL, with a nick reminding me never to play with them ever again. And yes. Everytime I see them LFG I tell whole map chat what they’ve done. But I don’t think that the freedom to kick someone in any situation should be prohibited, or that Anet should be acting as a policeofficer for something we could easily handle as a community.

If Anet is banning those people I disagree. I have seen misbehaviour in other games e.g. LOTRO. on my server one had caused and incident during an activity making the share of the loot (not such an issue in gw2, but likewise behaviour as in this situation) go wrong.

The result was that his name became garbage on the server within 10 minutes. got kicked out of his guild (or whatever thats called again in lotro). in every map he came people where warning the entire community to not play with him. after bout 5 hours he came round, made a public appoligy, handed over the goods and assured he had learned his lesson and would never do it again. He was also inmediatly excepted back into the community.

I’m not a big fan of factory build pc’s. So maybe I would wanna go to a small local company that builds you a custom pc. First off all the assemblage is done by professional. second you have the exact specs you want. and third you don’t have to take the low quality assembler crap I’ve seen too many in factory build pc’s
- reversed case fans, creating overpressure air in the case instead of constant airflow.
- not connecting front connectors.
- up side down dvd-player (really seen this!).
- wiring in the gpu-fan, blocking it from spinning.

afaik no official word. But logic dictates it. I’m considering a ‘sex-change’ on one of my characters. but the name would be wrong afterwards.

the furthest I have tested it was CM, where is was in Queensdale at the DR-gate and i got the popup.

The kicking system works perfectly in my opinion. I know being kicked out of a group isn’t nice and even offending.
However how unetical it is, it is also totally normal that you cant force someone to play with you. I know that when we are talking and halfway your sentence I walk away that that is not done. But is is my freedom to do so anyway.

if you dont want to have this to happen dont play in pug’s. 99% of the time I have had an awesome time in pug’s. 1% is a pug of jerks. so be it.

Ludacrits.3857:

If it does work, can you stack this sigil on main hand/off hand daggers for 10% chance to crit?

Thank you!

No. Weaponmods only apply if you actually use the weapon.
so on main hand this will give +5% change on crit when you use a mainhand skill.
On offhand this will give +5% change on crit when you use an offhand skill.

keep in mind that some skills work as multiple hits.
e.g. AoE ele skills, each hit has a +5% change to crit. if your a thief using dagger dagger, deahtblossom (skill 3) works as follow.

hit one is with your mainhand dagger. if the sigil is there you have a +5% change to crit.
hit two is on your offhand. if the sigil is there you have a +5% change to crit.
hit 3 is again mainhand. so if your sigil is on that weapon you have again +5% change to crit.

hmm. all I can say is that I have seen the tag as well. keep in mind however that the guildtag isn’t unique. there can be a few dozen guilds with that tag. only a guildname has to be unique. If you select a character with this tag you can see the full guildname. might help if you can post that.

Liet Talen.7284:

From what I’ve found on GW2 Wiki, the second rifle you posted has the same skin as Legionnaire Bayonet.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gallery_of_Rifles
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Legionnaire_weapons

Yip, they are an drop in mostly in fireheart rise. but also available on the TP

just buy them. Racial armor is racial bound. Racial weapons are not. my human engineer can easily get an peacemaker riffle by going to Rata sum and talking to the vendor.

http://www.gw2guilds.org/ is still up, but not very accurate anymore. lot of guilds changed server, or seized to exist.

For dungeons. If you use http://gw2lfg.com/ it doesnt really is an issue unless you want to look for players on your own server. The reason is that guesting in dungeons is allowed. This website makes it possible to find a group.

If you want to be on an active WvWvW server this forum can helps you: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv
in the sticky’s is the current ranking visable (currently https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Updated-World-Ratings-Jan-11/first#post1191101)

There are several versions called GW2 soundtrack. The amazone one is the 4 cd soundtrack with all music of the game. The directsound one is, atleast I suspect, the one cd-version as it is also included in the collectors edition. That one is officially called: ‘Best of Guild Wars 2 Soundtrack CD’

As for the river. (though a narrow bay,would be more likely). I suspect that the reason we enter Orr as we are doing in GW2 has to do with the form and the way the city is defended. From a defendable point of view it would be logic tomake the main gates bout where nowaday the dungeon entrance is, making sure that to reach these gates you have to circle all around the city. leaving you exposed to the defenders inside. As for the sea-arm/river, I suspect that where it enters the city the shores where high cliffs.with wooden scaffolding making it easy for traders and goods to go in and out of the city, but easy to destroy, closing off that entrance.

indeed it depends on the eye of the beholder. If you ask an average schoolboy when America was discovered and by who, the most likely answer is Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the truth is that thet continent had there long before that date, and people where living there.

With the Norn it is no difference. Though for most everyday Tyrians the Norn didn’t exist, we do know that the ebon vanguard knew bout them before we thew player knew them. Also like Son of Elia said, the norn, having their homeland border Norn-territory, new bout them for longer as well.

It is very likely that explorers or more likely traders have made reports to authority’s in Ascalon, Lion’s Arch and Arah, wich where considered not very shocking. They lived far up north these days and prolly where seen of little value nor a a danger.

We know the dwarves knew bout them as well. The moment we, the players find out bout them, we are introduced by the dwarf Ogden Stonehealer when he explains ’They’re called the Norn. They’re big, tough, and very, VERY bad-tempered. We may have to fight our way out.’

It is the events in the far shivepeaks during the eye of the north campaign were Humans, Asurans, Char, Norn and Dwarves fought together to the first signs of the rise of the elder dragons, is the time the Norn’s really came envolved by the movement of the world and it is from that day on that their name gets spoken more and more often. Not only in dusty archives, but also in stategy-meetings and in bardtales on the streets.

A: Though population has dropped some I still see a lot of people and the game is still very active. After christmass population actually got a boost, filling up the starterzones. now those people are starting to level the effect is less notable.

B: most of us are still very mature and friendly.

C: Most bugs are gone, but Orr is deserted anyway. the reason is that the reward/effort ratio is wrong. people decide therefore to hunt in different area’s or do dungeons. specially fractals (new dungeon in lions arch) is very popular.

Fildydarie.1496:

When you enter a personal story mission, every group memebr in the same zone will be asked if they want to join.

Just to further elaborate on this. If the group member needs to do exact the same part of the personal story, then at the end he she will get a question if they want to progress. If you took certain choiches for future storylines during that storyline step that person will hvae made the same choiches.

If your friend/friends are from the same race but you answered your questions on character creation different you have to wait till level 20 to do this (you can help eachother, but every step has to be done double cause the steps are different). If your friend is from a different raceyou to wait till level 30 (and pick the same order at level 28).

tobschge.1948:

i want to bring up this post again, still bugged and unfinished. Maybe some statement?
Eternity should be different of twilight and sunrise besides the skin bugs.

Maybe a window between night and daysky. This would be epic. But even if you jsut fix footsteps and skillanimations…

Would love to hear anything from a dev.

Hmmm, in all fairness this is a minor thing. don’t bump posts just for nothing and dont expect a dev to answer to a suggestion. They wont. the reason is that suggestions are in some country’s copyright protected where the person making the suggestion would be able to make claims if that person can prove the dev got it from you. If dev’s would asnwer to a suggestion then that claim could be possible. in this way devs can always say they came up with it on themself.

To be more on topic. I would consider the absense of a footsteps a bug. If reported as a bug in the bugsection it would be possible for a dev to answer if it is a bug and if they are intending to fix it (if possible).

Hmmm. To add to the things above.

I might be old. But when I grew up there was just Star Wars 4, 5 and 6. one could argue that 1,2 and 3 are less then 4, 5 and 6 (and I agree) but thats definitly not cause I know how the story ends.

hmmm, I disagree with Ethics completly.

Both rangers and warriors are not challenging to learn. They are easy to learn but hard to get outstanding at it.

Ele, mesmer, necromancer and engineer are your targets.

Ele: very weak, low armor, low health. deals huge amounts of damage. asks a lot of deidcation, but can kill really quick. finding a good balance between protection and damage is challenging. but if done right you can be awesome.
Necromancer: I dont have personal experience with them, but they have nice health and use minions as tank
Mesmer: due to clones a lot of crowd control, good damage, dodge and avoid is a bit of anissue. but specially the leave a clone when dodge trait is very nice.
Engineer: I think you should try this one cause it has most of the things your asking for. It is a special ops meaning it can forevill almost any role. The riffle can hold melee at a distance all the time and still deal a nice punch. whenever you are overcrowded you can easily change to a kit to deal a lot of AoE. CC is therefor no problem. You can be a pretty good healer for you and your party, as well as a condition remover. downside is that each role takes practise and training. so it is challenging to master. but thats what your looking for

Brightest White – celestial imo. though it’s only a slight difference with regular white, but I’ve been switching them out on my armor and it looks slightly more whiter with celestial.

Darkest black – black….. but thats not the deepest black. for example midnight ice is very dark blue, but due to the slight blue glow over it more vibrant.

Sky Blue – pastel winter dye is closest imo.

Oxford Blue – blueberry blue or afternoon are closest imo

primary red – red

shiny gold – gold…..but keep in mind that with mettalic dyes the colour really depends on the fabrik of the armor. on metals this looks very shiny, but on cotton it looks very like yellow and you would have beenwasting money imo. Leather is in between them.

Dull Gold – Brash….. but see the remark bout gold above.

Evening wine: hmmm, the wiki doesnt have a picture of it, and there is no chat link avialable. so I can’t say more without an ingame link that it is a purple dye.

Hi geminiknight. Overflow is never designed as a server for glf fractals but it is communitybased that people do. You only get in overflow if the map is full on you home server or if you are teamed up with someone on the overflow map (right click party-window, join in lion’s arch).

The website Recycle mentioned is a good alternative for finding groups with people from other servers to do e.g. fractals.

Zommoros is very wise and travelled far and long before he was caught in the mystic forge. I see him as a crafter of things long forgotten. some things he makes we still remember, but the legendary weapons are mostly things only he knows bout. How he knows?? well I guess there is a story to tell for all of the weapons

hmmmm, there are some globes showing the world, and if I look at the parts we know of, they are tiny compared with the rest. then again you might be right, but there are other games calling the playable area the world but wich are actually a lot smaller. in the end this is a fantasy world. no need to make it bigger then needed.

First off all, I never look at builds pages or other resources when it comes to choosing weapon, utility skills, traits and armor stats. I do them all myself to my own sattisfaction and therefor it is hard to asnwer this. You have level all the way to lvl 80, you have picked your traits and made decissions I don’t really know. In my opinion there is no straight forward answer cause It is all bout balance in the total combination of stats. What are the base stats of your armor? what utility skills? What traits? and what are your main issues you have now when playing and you think should or could be better.

You are right, Rune of Divinity is a poor pick cause it is too generic. if you goofed up your traist, armor/bonusses and utilityskills then it is a good set, but otherwise it isn’t.

From the other three runes you are thinking bout, I see two are concentrated around burning. Although both cause burning, it isn’t very often. there aren’t a lot of skills that cause burning on a GS guardian either. So for example, when you don’t have other soruces of burning, the runes ofthe flame legion have a 5% change to cause burning (one of twenty attacks) for 1 second. This results only then in 0.15 seconds longer burning and +%% damage. in all other situations you just have the extra power.

So unless the rest off your build is leaning on causing burning I wouldn’t go for either of them.

Rune of infiltration is nice. And I think it has potential. it depends a bit bout how easy you get foes below 50% and how much extra push you can use then.

As for the ascalonian settlement. What surprises me most is that they haven’t come up with a name after so many years. What also strike me is that Rurikton is called that way. Rurikton is the secontion where most ascalonians are settled cause of the presence of the asuragate leading to Ebonhawke. Ebonhawke was founded by the Ascalonians that stayed with King Adelbern and not by those that followed Rurik.

First answer no there isn’t
You are basicly asking for a magical button to gain money in a second.
the first rule in making money is to set a goal and stick to it
the second rule is to know money savers (crafting, avoiding to waypoint, best way to salvage).
third rule is +magic find gear, it increases money gained a lot

for the rest play the game and do high level stuff like events and dungeons

Thanks Matthew for clearing this up
We don’t see you lot often mingle with our mindless jabbering over small prints in some obscure parts of lore (though I’m pretty sure you have a great time reading it all ). So I really appreciate you word in this.

Welcome to the madhouse.

I totally understand what you are saying. I think considering the problems you have that you have to let go of your role as a healer. DO NOT PLAY WATER ELE OR GUARDIAN. Or atleast not till your more experienced.

Cause the 3 standard roles are banned, the replacements are very hard to play and more for skilled, experienced and (younger) players.

I would in your case accept this faith atleast untill you mastered gameskills like dps and tank.

Your logic question would be then what profession to pick then. My answer would be either ranger or warrior. They are considered the easiest classes to play with as a starting playing (and cause your role is going to be difficult from everything you know so far you are a starting player). Warrior is melee, based around tanking and dps. you have a huge health so healing is offc course important but lesser then other professions. Rangers are (mostly) ranged classes with a pet trying to tank for you (and doing it reasonable good if you expect they will die often and not go, ‘ow no they killed my tweety’) and you can cocnentrate on dps and keeping yourself alive.

Please do not give up, but do see your own limitations that you have to learn everything from the start instead of trying to build on old skills where you actually know they are useless in this game.

I think that the current system of transportation is pretty good but lacks some finesse.

The problem lies in the lack of some strategic (free) traveling hubs and how they operate.

We have the heart of the mists, the 6 city’s and fort trinity, but these locations are too random in my opinion when it comes to a traveling network.

A:The heart of the mist is annoying, just give us a simular button to go to Lion’s Arch directly. This is less annoying for pvp-ers where us pve-ers are gatecrashing their staging zone and less annoying for the pve-ers too cause we can skip a loading screen.

B: beside the orders-portal make a 4th portal from lion’s arch to fort trinity (only accesable when you’ve done the battle of fort trinity). nobody wants to run through a low level area just to reach a portal.

C: Add simular hubs (portal from LA to that location) in a few strategic points (again with personal storyline requirements). They should be in otherwise hard to reach places. Some possible locations:
- Murdered Dreams Waypoint in cursed shores (only after completing storyline ‘kill Zhaitan)
- Earthshake basin in frostgorge sound (only after completing temple of the forgotten God and a special extra quest you get an email for, e.g. kill the claw of Jormag). (note that this is also directly next to fireheart rise for CoF and its near HotW)
This will make reaching these two deserted area’s easier

D: last off all, make a zoning portal between Arca Waypoint in Hithari Hinterlands and Divinity reach (they are next to eachother) If you really want to protect this from low levels make it a smugglers passage for Skritt’s shinies) in an house in divinity’s reach inaccesable for lower levels.

These small additions to the current system would make traveling so much more fun and enjoyable. People can still decide to do the last bit on foot on

This way, every dungeon-entrance is 2 portals or less away from lion’s arch, and every area is max 3 portals away from lion’s arch

The answer lies right before an independent leader is picked:
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<Trahearne>: Enough bickering, all of you! Our real enemy lurks across the waves.

<Trahearne>: Zhaitan’s servants march at the gates of Lion’s Arch. We must band together, or we will all be destroyed.

<Character Name>: When I joined my order, I sword to fight Zhaitan. I will die for Tyria, if I must. However, I believe that together we can win.

<Character Name>: The Vigil has shown tremendous courage in the fight against the dragons. This alliance will require courage as well. Why back down now?

<Character Name>: The Order of Whispers has seen nations rise and fall. You cannot hide from this threat. You need to make a stand.

<Character Name>: And who knows more about the dragons than the Priory? Just think of how much there is to learn. Where else, but in Orr?

<Gixx>: By the whorls of the Eternal Alchemy, you’re bold! But… you’re correct. Knowledge is useless if it is not used. We shall aid you.

<Halvora Snapdagger>: The Order of Whispers has worked for generations to bring nations together. We can do no less now. Our blades are yours.

<General Almorra Soulkeeper>: The Vigil fears nothing! Not even ill-tempered, undisciplined louts like these two. We’ll join, but I insist there’s a decent hierarchy. Who will lead this compact?
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It is your speech that convinced the three leaders to combine powers and resources. So with neutrality garanteed by picking Trahearne, the main architect is appointed an even more important role. Besides that, it is only for the neutrality that Trahearne is leading right? it is not that he could have done anything without you

I did this with my mesmer and didn’t really had any problems with it (it was hard, but I zoned (bug?)to the top floor when downed, leaving the doc behind with my clones, giving me time to heal myself back up, continuing where I left off and after 3-4 times he was gone). What I’ve seen is that some personal story’s are really annoying on certain professions while I didn’t have trouble with it with other professions.

Most of the times it helps to change tactics if you can’t make it. If I remember correctly the doc is using pistols as the main weapon. So I would advise to go ranged on your guardian to make dodging easier. also concentrate on skills that keep you alive, the adds are going down relativly easy, so as long as you can dodge and keep yourself alive you should be able to make it. Last off all sometimes you just need some help. If you are by any change on the Gandarra server just give me a pm and I gladly help you out.

This was possible, but has been considered as undesirable and therefore changed. If you transmutate a soulbound item it stays soulbound.

ElixireL.5190:

Farming is ruining this game.

Hmm, ty for your statement. Why is farming ruining the game?? Farming in any MMO has been the way to keep the game exciting between releases of new content and expansions and to keep people playing the game. Besides that it isn’tr bothering anyone?

Maybe you are mixing terms up with things like botting??

To be more ontopic. Besides the things your doing I highly recommend doing the daily achievement. A jug of liquid Karma is a lot of Karma in one time, and if you do it in a starter zone you can have the daily done in 30-45 minutes.

I always do it in Queensdale. As you are already farming event’s and in the process are killing a lot of enemy’s, you can concetrate on gatheringnodes and killing different type of enemy’s. It is account wide, so you can do it on a different character as well.

Although you prolly don’t have the right amount of resources when you start out, you can buy higher level gear and transmutate the skin to lower level gear (for level 80 gear keep in mind you need a more expensive kind of transmutation stone).

However the skins most people like are also expensive and you are throwing away the good stats for minor ones (it’s like buying a roll’s royce, taking out the engine and putting a Skoda engine in it). I have two characters that have been running round with lvl 40 and even lvl 60 skins from lvl 1. But then again I had the resources from my other characters to waste my money that way.

You not buying a product but your buying a service. Before actually using the service you agree to follow certain rules when using the service. If you don’t agree with those rules you are at that moment in your right to ask a refund AND Arenanet is offering that refund. They even stretch that period for those who started playing but after like 1 hour of playing decided they don’t like it.

The people who got banned however started playing and therefor fully using the service. The willingly broken their agreement with the provider of the service and are therefor cut of from service. In this case there is in all the legal systems I know of (including US-law and Washington state law, wich is the one that counts here, conmsidering the registrated adress off the provider) no right for refund. However, people who think they have a valid claim, feel free to waste your money in court.