Guild Wars 2

I decided to have my Asuran necro be more … Asuran. Here she is with new armor and weapon. I like this look much better for her.

This “bug”, if it is one, irks me to no end. I really don’t understand why this kind of stuff never gets fixed.

Because deep down we have highly addictive natures! I’m in the same boat as the OP. More and more when I come into the game I wonder “what am I doing? why am I doing the same old same old same old stuff in here?”

For myself, it’s because I have invested so much time in the game that I feel it will all be wasted if I just walk away. That’s honestly it. I’ve spend a lot on gems and over 2000 hours of my life in GW2. I can’t seem to just leave it all behind, even though I have much better things to do with my time, that involve NO games whatsoever. Lastly, it’s the only thing I have that feels like a way to unwind from stress. I know all the mechanics of the game – it feels safe, and I can think about my armor colors rather than the file on my desk at work that needs to get completed. It’s more involved than TV, but just barely

To tackle those that say “people will just buy level 80 and not learn their class”.. I hate to break it to you, but those people will never know their class anyway because they’re the ones who sit at the outskirts of every event and hit the ‘1’ button. People who want to PvP don’t need to get to 80. People who WvW will either learn the class or die constantly.

In the grand scheme, it simply doesn’t matter how one gets to 80.

I bought my first precursor, but then, after I had made and sold my legendary, I kept thinking “why am I rewarding other players for being luckier than me?”

Since that time, I have vowed never to buy another precursor. I ended up getting The Lover out of the MF a while ago, so here I go again grinding my time away to make a legendary I don’t want, so I can sell it and buy stuff I do want.

My advice is to not bother with the legendary grind until you get a precursor by MF or drop. But then, I don’t WANT one. If you really want one, you will get it one way or the other, ya?

I would recommend to hold onto them, since at some point in the future, they may be usable on other items. Hey, you never know with ANet!!!

I’ve wanted this for a long time. I would hope that new players would not bypass the entire playing experience, but really, once you’ve leveled 2, 3, 4, 18 (!!) toons, why can’t we just bypass all that? I would gladly, GLADLY spend some real cash to do so, rather than wasting my precious playing time by crafting (which I hate) for 4 straight hours. This is not a pay to win scenario, since it’s already FREE to fully level to 80 using in-game items such as scrolls and tomes, as others have mentioned.

LOL…of course they’ll be impossible! Thanks for the info.

Just saw these in the wardrobe. Tried looking them up on Dulfy but that site it’s unknown how they are acquired. Anyone else see these? Anyone know how to get them?

My new necro, Necrologist Wikka, female Asura.

How about making things work in general? I have mained necro for a long time, so I thought “I’m going to make another and try out some different build(s) on it”. So I got my new necro to 80 and thought “well first I need to map so I’m going to try the good old minion master build”. Well, LOL, silly me. What is the POINT of minions if they just stand there 80% of the time???? Seriously. So, so, so broken I can’t even play this build. At all. So now, after wasting a bunch of time and gold, I will end up playing the exact same build I already have on my first necro. Such a kittening waste/shame.

I have no problem with ANet re-releasing halloween outfits at halloween but as another poster said, they still need more armors. I would buy and use transmutation charges but… have nothing to use them on. And i do not agree that more people wear outfits over armor. I look at other characters a lot and if i had to hazard a guess at how many wore outfits i would say 5%, NOT including special occassions like halloween (since honestly that’s what i would say these costumes are made for).

I agree 100%! Enough with the outfits…overpriced and kitten unuseful. Bleh! More armor. LOTS MOAR ARMOR.

Pray For Kosmos.5849:

this is the last thing anet should be worried about.

I disagree. This is something that the company should have anticipated and planned for. There should have been something in place when they incorporated essences into the game, then there would have been no issues. But they wait, and wait, until it becomes an issue.

Just wait moonglum, pretty soon there will be millions of people with maxed out luck, then things will get angry.

I like the idea of a luck vendor. Im a ways away from 300% but i know lots of people have it maxed aleady so ANet really needs to take that into account. We get enough worthless stuff in this game already.

Mmmm keep in mind that most people on the forums talk about “meta” and “speed runs”. I really feel you can do anything with any class, it just isn’t going to be optimal. That said, I have not done any dungeons on my necro – I use my warrior for those exclusively. I use my necro for AoE loot bag pickup in CS and WvW.

That Guy.5704:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Um… just one thing ANet…. when you look at the base ingredients for say, Zojja’s masque, it LOOKS like you need only 150 scraps of silk, because the picture of the silk scrap covers the EXTRA ZERO. You actually need 1500. This is true for all the the base materials for the light armor. In every one it looks like hundreds instead of thousands.

That really needs to be fixed. Really. I thought I already had all I needed and went to make some stuff and was confused as to why I couldn’t make as much as I needed. Turns out I need more than 9000 more scraps than I thought. Bad. Very bad.

If you are referring to that feature on the wiki, the wiki is player maintained, not ANet. Also, again if you are referring to the wiki, I dont see that problem on my browser so it might be a browser or device issue.

Hmmm… ok, so I had originally used Google Chrome to open up the window. I just tried Explorer and it does show up correctly. Argh! Sorry for my assumption that this was something that ANet should fix. Obviously I have to use Explorer for the wiki now :p Would be nice if all browsers worked the same.

Adept and Master traits should not be tied to anything at all. Nothing. Nada. These should be BASIC, because… they ARE basic. They should be available – ALL of them – well before level 60.

Grand Master traits, if you want to tie them to something, make it something that doesn’t require people to group with a bunch of other people or wait on broken or time consuming events.

I thought this game was built around anyone being able to play it and being able to compete regardless of whether they play a lot or a little. The way this is now, and the way that some people suggest even changes to this ludicrous trait system, requires a LOT of time and commitment, to get something that is SO BASIC to EVERY character.

I’m still disgusted by this change. I can’t even……….

Um… just one thing ANet…. when you look at the base ingredients for say, Zojja’s masque, it LOOKS like you need only 150 scraps of silk, because the picture of the silk scrap covers the EXTRA ZERO. You actually need 1500. This is true for all the the base materials for the light armor. In every one it looks like hundreds instead of thousands.

That really needs to be fixed. Really. I thought I already had all I needed and went to make some stuff and was confused as to why I couldn’t make as much as I needed. Turns out I need more than 9000 more scraps than I thought. Bad. Very bad.

law.9410:

If you use pure power weapons, the dps you lose from zerker to celestial is very large. The more might you stack, the smaller this difference is. I guess what I’m saying is celestial forces you to use might stacking of some sort to do decent damage.

Thanks for that info!

Wow… Wanze… just … wow. I had no idea you could do that thing with the base materials. I had been using the wiki, but had like 8 windows open, one for each thing. Thank you so, so, so much! That will help. I will start organizing a spreadsheet I guess. I just really hate to use Excel, because.. I use it all day long at my job, so I was hoping for something more “fun”!

Dead horse … Ima beat you more!! Take that!!

Hi all, in about a month I’ll be starting to craft ascended armor (light and heavy). I see you really need a lot of mats for this (obviously, right?!). Does anyone have suggestions on how to track what you need in relation to what you have and collect? I was thinking Excel, but if there’s a better program/way, please let me know!

I find it really confusing to track all the things even needed for bolts of damask, for instance. Damask is made of several items, which in turn are made of several items, etc. Then the insignia, vision crystals, etc etc etc. Please help!

Do you need ecto for ascended light armor? Are you salvaging the ecto for piles of crystalline dust?

For myself, I was lucky enough to get a precursor out of the MF, so I’m making a legendary that I plan to sell and use those funds to make my ascended armor (I don’t like the look of legendary weapons). Since I need a ton of T6 mats for the legendary, I am in CS a lot. I salvage everything I get there, and I’m saving up all my silk so that when I’m ready to make damask I won’t have to buy that part at least. So far I have about 1500 scraps, but I probably have a month left of farming to make the legendary, so lots of time to save up.

I’m interesting in finding this out also!

I suggest having a look on the forum under guild recruitment. Most guilds looking for members will advertise there. You’re welcome to check out our guild, Knights of the Rose, based on Isle of Janthir (if you’re NA). They have a website, and also have a thread in the guild recruitment forum.

If you’re looking for champ/event farming, you should look at Frostgorge Sound (not quite the same as it used to be but still pretty strong). Also Cursed Shore has a large amount of people event/champ farming, thanks to those megaservers.

A lot has probably changed in terms of your weapons/skills on your current character. You might want to check the subforum for your class to read up on the changes and/or new meta builds. Dungeons haven’t changed, so maybe just check out a few youtube vids on whichever ones you want to try. The only thing now is that you get a finite amount of gold and tokens per day, per account, so you can’t just run CoF P1 20 times (well you could, but it will only “pay” once).

Hi and welcome back

One of the things you missed was a change to how traits are acquired…. it is now a terrible and/or expensive endeavor (there is a thread in the 1st page or two here that details the issues.. it’s over 50 pages long at this point, with plenty of complaints). Given that issue, I suggest just keeping the toon you have at 80.

As to guild, do you want to WvW? If you do, then you need a guild specific to your server. If not, thanks to megaservers, you can join a guild on any server you like.

chemiclord.3978:

This thread is like looking at a still picture of an Abbott and Costello routine painted by Salvador Dali.

Yup, that about sums up my feelings.

In the necro subforum, as VodCom mentioned, there’s a sticky by Spoj with has a lot of really great necro info. I used his info as a springboard to make my own build, but he really knows a lot about power necro. With help from that sticky I went from always dying to soloing champs.

But ya, different weapons have different applications. I spend a lot of time in Orr doing events, so I do use staff a lot due to the AoE capabilities, and use axe/warhorn for staying at a distance and speed, but will also use dagger mainhand quite a bit also. I run a full berserker build for DPS. I don’t use my necro in dungeons; rather I use my warrior for that, as necros are in last place for usefulness for dungeons ATM.

N00b

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Were you trying to die or dodge roll?

Mea.5491:

Am I the only one around here who deletes unwanted stuff?

I used to delete stuff but as another poster pointed out, ANet has this way of making you go “DOH!!!” right after you do that, so now I try to keep as much as possible. I have extra toon slots I’m not using though, so will be able to have several mules if needed. Right now I have one I use strictly for ascended materials, which is close to getting full. But, I’m finally planning to make ascended gear and weapons, so I’m sure I’ll be using it all up shortly.

What I find worse is the LS stuff. That’s where ANet gets you, as they do and don’t bring stuff back. Or let you sell stuff. Or don’t. Who knows any more am I right? So ya, I keep it all.

I would really like to see more things you can do with all the ascended mats and with essences of luck, as those will be really useless to most people very soon if not already as well.

Absconditus.6804:

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I didn’t get either of the outfits because… well… outfits. I would have bought both had they been pieced armor.

I agree with the OP … a lot. I’m one of those “whales” that would love to dish out real life cash to make my characters look cool (to me). But there’s just hardly anything to play around with. I also find the gem store armors, while usually visually better than in-game armors due to better coloring, etc, are just .. blah. And not enough! I would love to see ANet producing a new armor set every 2 weeks… you know… for when I get paid I really enjoy the dress up aspect of this game, but it’s not keeping me interested with the limited selection.

AnniMira.2506:

So nice all…. have you fine-tuned the faces with all those sliders? I’m happy with the preset face… and face details are too complicated for me.

I always make changes to the presets, for pretty much everything.

I must have posted in here at some point, but here’s my necro’s most up to date look. I sincerely think she is my best looking character

Well Chris has already stated, and I think rightfully so, that a specific memorial to his golden retriever would be inappropriate. However, I do feel that a general pet memorial statue could be warranted given that rangers have pets. I don’t really know what form of memorial would be “right”, but role players would probably appreciate this, and players in general could pay homage in spirit to their own actual pets that have passed. It’s not outlandish considering certain aspects of the game. Perhaps this is just a catalyst for a decent idea.

Plus 1 for SKATE. Well put.

Chris, you have my sympathies. As many others have, I have also lost a very close pet.

My husband and I have a 3 year old yorkie (my account name is partly his). I dread the day already that he will not be around, as I have never seen a grown man love a creature so much as my husband loves our Oz. Should anything happen to either one of them, the other will be devastated. I have never seen such a strong bond of love and caring, because either one would move heaven and earth to protect the other.

My heart goes out to all those that have lost beloved pets – best friends. You will meet again someday.

I agree with Xenisis 100%.

Well let’s face it folks… if ANet hasn’t fixed the WvW stupid achievements when they even admit they’re silly then they simply do not care and will never change this stuff. Oh they might pretend once in a while…maybe even ask for the incredible useless CDI that they will ignore. But really. They. Don’t. Care.

I’m on IoJ. Add me as a friend and we can get stuff together. Our guild does organized runs in WvW all the time. Friday nights at reset is the best time. It’s not hard…just can’t do it in 10 mins. It’s going to take time. Anyway i have a ranger i need to map WvW with so ya…

I have a necro and a warrior with 100%. I usually play early mornings and later evening pacific standard time.

Finally, i think if you look at it more as an opportunity to try a new game mode…that happens to be way more interesting than PvE… you can have fun instead of feeling it’s a chore. I’m glad WvW is part of msp completion and i hope ANet never changes that.

While I appreciate all the ideas generated here, I firmly believe that CORE needs of a character should not be locked behind anything. Nothing at all. If you want to lock extra, special grandmaster traits behind tougher content, well, whatever. But do not do this for any other traits. This whole design is BAD. Just BAD.

And after 6 months it’s no freaking wonder we’re just getting more angry about this. Coming in here like Jon did a MONTH ago and posting the slap in the face that he did, then ignoring this issue for another month… while we all consider playing other games or just giving up all together… that’s what we’ve gotten so far. It’s a crying shame and it makes VERY angry.

Every single day I come in here hoping to get some kind of reasonable response. Every single patch I actually hold out hope that this grossly incompetent error will be fixed. But NO. After SIX months. Srsly. Disgusted.

Actually 45g if you want to buy all traits.

It seems obvious at this point that this is exactly how ANet works… pick ONE random forum post from some random person and base the next 3 years’ game production on that. At least, judging by all the changes over the last 2 years, that is exactly how I see it, since every decent idea is wrecked in some way by equal and offsetting pussball ideas.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Brother Grimm.5176:

While I agree that getting the BEST weapons in the game should not be guaranteed or easy, if you are going to nit-pick the term “Legendary” like that, consider that VERY few players consider the available methods to get one very “Legendary”…..at all….

I just wonder how many people can put themselves in the same boat as me. It took over 596 days and thousands of hours play time before Big Z finally gave in and dropped The Legend for me. Now I’ll not feel smug in any way about how lucky I was with that particular drop; I’ve seen both sides of the coin — the ones whose RNG is crap and those who have actually gotten a pre at sometime through some method that doesn’t involve a gold transaction (including gem-->gold swapping). However…

I just can’t see how getting a precursor is IN ANY WAY legendary, by buying it.

On top of getting the rares and exotics to throw in the forge (toilet) I spent 100g on the Icy Runestones and 10g each on the required recipes (120g total). The rest I acquired through normal gameplay. Nothing more in the crafting of my legendary was spent on the trading post. There’s but a handful of people in the game who can claim that as well.

I’m with you on that Valandil. I was finally lucky to get The Lover out of the MF with some random level 80 rares, I think a little over a month ago. I refuse to purchase needed materials from the TP. I have almost everything now – probably be another couple of weeks for those pesky T6 mats.

I bought one precursor long ago and made Sunrise and sold it, since I don’t even like it. I will sell The Dreamer too, since I don’t like it either. However, I will enjoy the 3000g or so I’m going to make on it BUT I promised myself after Sunrise that I would never make another player rich for being lucky, so will never buy another precursor, ever.

Honestly, just play the game. Legendary isn’t legendary. It’s just a silly skin. There are much better skins in the game.

Ah yes, now that QD train is gone, Blix is gone, Coil is gone, and all other farms gone, we need something new to nerf into the ground. Good on ya. Destroy the hell out of EotM. You should team up with the guy trying to get all champ boxes nixed.

Ayrilana.1396:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Some of us don’t like the garbage they call Edge of the Mists and would not step foot there.

EotM is pretty much a PvE karma train. About 80% of the time you will not see other players. You’re more likely to get 25 badges before you see them. If you dislike EotM because it is a PvE karma train, then real WvW shouldn’t be a problem for you.

I like WvW (the real one) but don’t always have time to get my dailies in there when I have limited time to play. Today, since I needed events in Shiverpeaks zone, I went to Frostgorge, and by doing Trio and Coil Watch event chain, I got everything I needed, plus 50% of my champ kills for the monthly to boot, plus exotic weapon drop worth 7g and 25 champ boxes, etc. All in all not bad for 40 mins. I called it a win.

Anyway, I thought they should have MORE choices for daily, not less.

I think they’re ok… if you’re a mesmer or a fluffy pink guardian. I find it always disheartening to not have much choice when it comes to really cool looking weapon-looking weapons… sigh. Well I still got 3 of them with BL tix I had waiting in my bank. I’ll sit on them for a year and sell them for big coin… the only way to make real money in this game while still “playing the way I want”.