Guild Wars 2

There is for sure, since I made mine just last night It wasn’t cheap though… I’m broke now

I like this idea as well; there may have been a thread about it some time ago. Since I have all of my characters at level 80 and all the crafts I want up to max, I don’t need XP, kill streak, or crafting boosters. I will never bother to use gathering boosters. And who in the world even wants a swimming speed booster??!! On the other hand, since I play a lot of WvW, I would love to trade those in on strength, armor and karma boosters.

mtpelion.4562:

MithranArkanere.8957:

Sell or use. Never both.

And then the entire game’s economy collapses due to rampant inflation and lack of supply. Well done! You “fixed” it!

Um ya, I don’t thnink you understood what Mithran even said.

Slight tweak to Rose Boleyn. Meh… I wish ANet would come out with some awesome new armor. So much same/boring stuff.

I main a necro in WvW for zerging (as much as IoJ zergs LOL) and I absolutely love it. It’s fun because you can hit plague at the two zergs meet up and run through the enemy zerg, basically tagging every one of them, run back, un-plague, and then start the real fighting, picking up loads of loot until the end of the fight ‘cuz you’ll be the last one standing.

I’ve never used my necro in a dungeon but I do run around PvE with her. She has about 89% map completion. If you do PvE at all you will need to go full zerker. You also need to be great at dodging and kiting.

Overall I think necro is my favorite profession… or at least tied with my warrior.

Definitely run the Frostgorge champ train. I have stacks and stacks of skill point scrolls in my bank because I do it quite regularly. You’ll have 250 in no time.

Lankybrit.4598:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Lankybrit.4598:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

But you can make the same or more running the champ train and you’re not “stuck” in a dungeon. You can always try a couple and see if you like it. If you do, I suggest watching video first so you can at least know what to expect.

How do you make good money on a Champ train. Don’t they only give a few silver each? I guess the gear you get nets a bit more, or maybe I’m running the wrong train?

Salvage and sell my friend. If you do the Frostgorge Sound champ train, you can make average 7-8g per hour (sometimes little less, sometimes more). Personally, I salvage all except exotics worth 1g or more. you get lots of T6 mats, and with salvage, you’ll get lots of silk. You get lots of blues and greens as drops. You also get dropped silver plus whatever silver you get in the champ bags/boxes. If I do the champ train Saturday and Sunday morning for a few hours I will net about 50g.

Ahh cool. That’s where I’m going wrong then. I’m still leveling all Crafting so I always just deposit all to my collection where ever I go.

Thanks, I will do Frostgorge soon. I’ve been running the Queensdale one.

Queensdale is good for karma and levelling. You won’t get karma for champs in Frostgorge (just an FYI). I sell everything, so ya, there’s a big difference. Once you are able to hit Frostgorge, I suggest guesting to Blackgate (if that’s not your home server). The groups there are usually very cool, and quite generous. Personally, I will put out trays of omnom bars and gold/magic find banners, as do many others. Sometimes there’s good chat, sometimes none, but it rarely devolves into the mess that Queensdale can become.

Lorelei.7809:

Fantastic idea. I could see myself using a hair kit for that XB (and I’m already tempted enough to make yet another character and get a hair kit)

I would also buy a self style hair kit (or a few) if the streaks were added.

xallever.1874:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Actually Flissy i usually find it a great relaxing way to spend my weekend mornings. I have my coffee and run the train and make enough gold to spend the rest of my time in wvw. I would rather do that than speed run a dungeon which takes ZERO more skill than a champ train. It’s all farming. Dungeon runners should get over themselves. Not everyone needs to or wants to run dungeons and at least we do have an option.

If it takes no more skill, then why don’t you run dungeons as well since it is as relaxing. Is that why PUGs are overcrowded with extremely efficient runs?

I wouldn’t say that dungeons are extremely tough to finish (otherwise you won’t see PUGs anymore), but that’s such a ridiculous notion now you’re saying OP can just write LFG for any/all dungeons and expect the run to go smooth, fast and it can be done as easily as hopping onto a Champ train.

It’s so easy to disprove this. OP will just do that and come back at you with his dungeoning results.

Also, I don’t think Flissy ever mentioned anything about not having an option other than doing dungeons. I don’t think anybody ever did. Why should anyone who speedclears dungeons care that not everybody’s doing it?

Dungeons aren’t hard, but they require you to complete the thing in a group of others who are relying on you to complete it. A lot of people can’t play totally uninterrupted. The nice thing about the champ train is that I can stop any time and get a coffee, go to the bathroom, have a conversation with my husband, or whatever. My point is that the train and dungeon speed clears “pay” about the same, and the speed run dungeons require the same amount of skill, although Flissy seemed to want to convey that champ trains are boring because they don’t require skill, while intimating that dungeons do, which in most cases is simply not true.

Edit: I also find it disheartening to see Flissy tell the OP what he feels or doesn’t. Personally, the only time I didn’t enjoy it was when I was making Sunrise and I literally felt like it was a grind. Now that I’m just doing it “casually” I am enjoying it again

Actually Flissy i usually find it a great relaxing way to spend my weekend mornings. I have my coffee and run the train and make enough gold to spend the rest of my time in wvw. I would rather do that than speed run a dungeon which takes ZERO more skill than a champ train. It’s all farming. Dungeon runners should get over themselves. Not everyone needs to or wants to run dungeons and at least we do have an option.

Lankybrit.4598:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

But you can make the same or more running the champ train and you’re not “stuck” in a dungeon. You can always try a couple and see if you like it. If you do, I suggest watching video first so you can at least know what to expect.

How do you make good money on a Champ train. Don’t they only give a few silver each? I guess the gear you get nets a bit more, or maybe I’m running the wrong train?

Salvage and sell my friend. If you do the Frostgorge Sound champ train, you can make average 7-8g per hour (sometimes little less, sometimes more). Personally, I salvage all except exotics worth 1g or more. you get lots of T6 mats, and with salvage, you’ll get lots of silk. You get lots of blues and greens as drops. You also get dropped silver plus whatever silver you get in the champ bags/boxes. If I do the champ train Saturday and Sunday morning for a few hours I will net about 50g.

But you can make the same or more running the champ train and you’re not “stuck” in a dungeon. You can always try a couple and see if you like it. If you do, I suggest watching video first so you can at least know what to expect.

I run Ascii’s wellomancer build (at least very close to it) for WvW and I find it has great survivability and allows for dishing out conditions. I use food to increase conditions duration and tuning crystal. I have a total blast playing the build and I’m often the last one standing. I know the build is here on the forum, usually not more than a few pages back.

Not much unless there’s a particular dungeon armor you really want, since you can’t get those anywhere else. If you decide to go for a legendary weapon at any point you’ll need to do whatever dungeon is necessary for one of the gifts. A lot of people use dungeons to make gold, get loot, and armor. They use the tokens to get rare weapons to throw into the mystic forge… they’re “free” way of trying to get a precursor.

Yes, I’m in agreement as well. Powers of ANEt… make it so!!!! (please)

Morrigan.2809:

Mmm
I deleted a level 63 Mesmer because her face annoyed me (before kits).
She was wearing my wizard hat and she was my 400 artificer

I sold abyss for 2 g

I vendor-ed several stacks of silk because they took up space

I sold my one love struck pistol because I like matched weapons

Don’t feel bad about the silk. I’m sure thousands of us have vendored millions of silk scraps, because they WERE pretty useless. But on the other hand you can’t fill all your bags and bank with stuff for years in the hope that one day MAYBE it will be worth 3s instead of 2c.

You can help people. I just res’d a total stranger who got smacked down by some jungle trolls. That’s my absolute favorite aspect of this game. In the open world, you don’t compete with everyone else. If you want to compete, there are places like WvW and PvP. It’s beautiful everywhere you go. WvW is a blast. No sub fee. My guild is awesome. Developers actually listen… at least sometimes.

Teon.5168:

So far, my worst, and most amusing mistake…..was just the other night in WvW. I was claiming a tower late at night on my ranger, when a lone enemy waltzed up the stairs, and I engaged him. After a few seconds of trading blows/shots/etc., he knocked me back and stunned me….I broke the stun, and without thinking where I was on the small tower platform took my short bow and fired the shot that does an evade roll back when you shoot(can’t remember the name of the shot). Well, I rolled back and off the tower, tumbling over and over again down through the outer scaffolding that was against the tower…..with my character letting out ‘oofs’ all the way down. Fortunately, I had the mud special that breaks your fall, and I barely survived the 5+ story fall……lol. I laughed and laughed at what I had just done.(It doesn’t take much to amuse me….lol). After doing such a stupid thing…….fortunately, as I was falling, a small group of friendlies close by dusted the guy on top of the tower, and I still got some credit for the kill. I can just imagine what my enemy thought as I tumbled backwards off that tower(“what a moron!”) just before he got finished off by the small group of friendlies.

My wife got a good laugh out of it, too…..as she has done the same with her elementalist more than once….lol.

LOL… good one!

I had a similar experience in that my group and I took a tower, and at the last second of killing the champ, I used my sword “rush” skill (warrior), but since the champ had just died, I literally ran off the side of the tower to my death. I laughed, and a guildie was quick to point out he saw the whole thing I hope he had a good laugh too.

Paulytnz.7619:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Hannelore.8153:

Also beware that to get the title and star you have to uncover every single area, not just get all of the objectives on each map.

That’s not true actually. “Areas” being uncovered relate only to achievement point explorer stuff. For the star and 100% map completion, you only need the POIs, vistas and skill points.

Don’t forget the hearts.

DOH, you’re right on the hearts. My bad

Hannelore.8153:

Also beware that to get the title and star you have to uncover every single area, not just get all of the objectives on each map.

That’s not true actually. “Areas” being uncovered relate only to achievement point explorer stuff. For the star and 100% map completion, you only need the POIs, vistas and skill points.

Agree also. Please implement, ANet all-powerful peoples

While i dont understand the point of the OP’s pics, i also dont understand why you might ridicule someone who is (probably!) working for good money…using his time to earn real cash and using it for a game they obviously seem to enjoy. You jelly or what? There is nothing legendary about legendaries. Either you have no social life and farm 24/7 or you work in real life and buy the things you want. Get over your self rightous selves.

Here’s my ladies! Warrior, necro, mesmer, thief, and guardian. I love them all

Easy…

Finding my first jumping puzzle in Orr. Read instructions on how to do said JP … which specified there is a big hole right before the final chest. And DONT FALL INTO THE BIG HOLE. well…after one hour of falling and jumping to get to the end….i fell through the hole. I still have nightmares.

First, make sure all your underwater gear is up to the highest level; next, make sure you’re running useful sigils on the weapons and breather. Then, equip the long range weapon first, swim in circles around your target, which pretty much is like dodging on land. Don’t stop moving. Weaken your foe with that, then switch to your close range weapon and pop whichever number is the most damaging; preferrably one that either pulls them to you or pulls you to them.

PRACTICE… a lot. Underwater fighting is something many people avoid simply because they haven’t done it enough to get good at it. Personally, I do so much of it that I feel just as comfortable in the water as I do on land, no matter which profession I’m using.

You can also use them to buy minis, unidentified dyes, crafting starter kits. I think if you want to make gold go with the bag of T6 mats, which guarantees you 3 random T6 materials, or unidentified dyes. I used 10 laurels to buy 20 dyes last night and ended up making 11g. If you don’t feel brave enough to open the dyes (because lets face it, you might end up with all cheap dyes), you could sell them unopened.

If you only do PvP there’s no point in getting ascended trinkets, since you get everything for free in PvP.

mtpelion.4562:

khani.4786:

Absolutely I am…..When MF gear was a thing I ran full MF gear + MF infusion, my base account MF is 152% and after my normal boosts I’m over 300% MF and even with that zergging in WvW or the Champ train in Frostgorge or any other large event my loot tends towards blues and greens, maybe 2-3 rares and sometime once or twice a month I might get an exotic drop. Maybe, if that.

Because of my crap drops even with MF well up there it really makes me think that there is something somewhere in the system that screws with the drops of certain accounts. That or MF is a placebo.

Magic Find ONLY works on mob drops. The reason you are seeing bad loot is because you are killing champs. Champ loot is NOT affected by Magic Find because it comes from containers.

To get the most benefit from Magic Find, you need to be doing Dynamic Events that spawn a lot of monsters to kill.

Well you are somewhat incorrect my friend, as champs not only give chests/bags, but ALSO drop random other weapons/armor/materials. So ya, MF should affect champ DROPS.

Immortal.3647:

head: svanir
shoulder: exalted
chest: embroidered
hands: svanir
legs: embroidered
boots: cabalist

Immortal, I really like your look. Well done imo

Azure Prower.8701:

Morsus.5106:

How about we get new reviving animations. Why does everyone just rub the guy when they have healing magic?

Because every revive must have a happy ending.

LOL…. LOL… LOL /15 chars

Spudfuzz.6185:

Also highly recommend not getting an alienware laptop. I have one I bought 2 years ago and it’s a piece of crap. What’s hilariously sad is they even advertised GW2 on it but it barely plays. My boyfriend tried to optimize it multiple times, it was advertised to do some things it never does thanks to bugs and has massive problems with overheating despite the fan sounding like a beast. I have to have some form of external cooling like sitting it on a covered ice pack or a fan going just so it can maintain running GW2 at extremely low FPS rates.

Any event will get me kicked out almost immediately because it cannot handle the game period. My boyfriend built his desktop PC custom 5 years ago and it runs the game smoother than a baby’s bottom, even in big events. I agree with Chaotic, Alienware is a brand, not a gaming pc.

You know they have a warranty? They also have superb customer service. My AW laptop handles GW2 like a champ.

Teratus.2859:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

Teratus: my advice was to take a few people at non-peak times. As I mentioned in my post, me and my 2 kids completed one whole BL map in about 30 mins on an early Sunday morning. There was just no one around. We weren’t taking anyone’s spot. One person called us cowards for running from a small skirmish, but whatever. We were having fun, and not there to fight. I do plenty of that in peak times with my guild

That’s cool but everytime I have looked at the WvW maps there are always ques
my Server is highly WvW active so rarely there isnt a que for the Borderlands maps and I have not noticed EB without a Que since… well.. ever there is always at elast 50 people quing for it at all times of the day
there is also the case of people who simply do not have access to WvW at certain points of the day
currently I can play anytime of the day although that will be gone starting next Monday since I am starting a course that will only permit me to play afternoons and weekends for the next year at least
so playing in peak times will be my only option..

this is one of the problems the Megaserver will hopefully fix though but still it is a problem that does effect a lot of people
the easier solution is to simply make WvW not count for that 100% marker

Good point. I speak from my own experience where the only time there’s a queu for WvW is on reset night (sadly).

Teratus: my advice was to take a few people at non-peak times. As I mentioned in my post, me and my 2 kids completed one whole BL map in about 30 mins on an early Sunday morning. There was just no one around. We weren’t taking anyone’s spot. One person called us cowards for running from a small skirmish, but whatever. We were having fun, and not there to fight. I do plenty of that in peak times with my guild

To be fair also, doing the entire PvE map over and over must be just as boring as doing the same maps over and over in WvW. You do the same hearts, the same vistas, run into the same NPCs, come across the same events. Talk about boring. At least WvW can change up and be different ACTION.

I recommend trying to find a few others that need the same thing and as a group, go roaming off PEAK hours. You’ll be surprised at what you can accomplish. My kids and I did a whole WvW map on an early Sunday morning. It was dead. That being said, you may have to be more patient now that Season 2 has begun. It’s pretty intense on my server (silver league) right now; then again, we’re up against the top 2 in our league. By reset tomorrow it will probably be better.

I understand and applaud your right to state your opinion and ask for a change, but this has been beat to death on the forums to date.

The developers have stated that the reason they require it is to encourage players to try WvW and they hope you like it and continue doing it. Maybe they’ll change it at some point, but I believe that is unlikely.

In before everyone else who is going to tell you to suck it up and just do it.

Well you must be Mr. Lucky StanleyJohny because I have farmed Orr many times and come out with garbage. I gave up on that place long, long ago. Best results for my time are always FGS champ train.

Also be aware that some people hate AW “just cuz” it’s AW even though they’ve had no experience with them personally. There are also other good gaming laptops, FOR SURE. As Sera said. There are probably one or two others. Shop around. One thing you could do to save a bit is find a good used one, if possible.

I agree completely that T6 mats do not drop nearly enough. Once again we are forced to go to the TP or use other methods to get something that is highly sought after/needed for many things. Don’t understand why people scream “nerf the champ trains” when without that, you would be paying 1g per T6 item by now.

If you want weather, go to Frostgorge Sound, where it is often snowing.

Another thing to think about is fan and placement of the graphics card. You need a laptop that will stay cool, because this game will melt stuff. Before buying my AW laptop, I was using a new HP laptop, and whatever it was (CPU, GPU) that gets hot, was right where you put your left hand. I literally got burned. That was actually the entire reason I decided to get a dedicated gaming laptop. I never have that issue with my AW… on the contrary, the fan on that thing is like a jet engine, but I don’t get burns

Read reviews of any laptop you’re planning to purchase.

Twelfth Knight.5698:

Bobble-Charr head-to-head, plus my mesmer and a really ugly bobble-Siamoth.

That Siamoth … needs… an orthodontist.

I don’t think you’ll find any laptop that will run the game at max settings. As Mystic said, that will be possible on a tower. You want a fast CPU, an SSD, and a high end graphics card for your laptop. Personally, I run the game on an Alienware 14" laptop I purchased last year. It has the i7, an SSD and the top graphics card I could get with it, as well as Killer Wireless N card. It plays on medium settings and looks almost as good as my tower PC (high end, custom made for gaming). My load screen times beat pretty much everyone. I’m not suggesting you get an AW laptop. I’m just saying that you need to look at more than RAM, and price may be an issue. I paid $1600 Canadian for my laptop, but I don’t know what that works out to in your currency.

Perhaps if you could salvage ascended trinkets and get some laurels back, this wouldn’t occur. I rarely use my laurels on trinkets anymore because of the reason that ProtoGunner mentioned… too many changes to builds. I don’t want to “waste” 3 months of acquisitions on one item that may be no good in another 2 months. And I don’t like feeling pigeon holed into one build. Most of my trinkets are exotics.

However, I do use my laurels all the time. I used quite a lot to get T6 bags to make Sunrise. I have used some for dyes. I used some to craft one set of ascended armor. As I said above, I try not to stockpile anything in this game. I don’t want to be “that girl” who is crying because I saved up and then ANet smacked me down. Nope. Thank you.

If i’ve learned anything in this game it’s that stockpiling can backfire. Too many examples where ANet suddenly gets rid of or nerfs something. I honestly see no achievement or anything to brag about in saving up laurels but if it makes you happy then ok. Just don’t come crying when you eventually get hit by the nerf hammer my friend.

I would definitely support that

Kasei.8726:

ozmaniandevil.6805:

we’ve all been there except for a select few lucky

Speak for yourself, I flat out refuse to gamble in this game. Though I’m content with the fact that I’ll never get some items due to that.

Speak for myself that RNG sucks? OK. Done. I never said anything about gambling BTW. RNG affects drops too no?

I don’t know. I tried to think of it this way… suppose I’m on a one day vacation today and my ONLY plan for the entire day was to play GW2 (this isn’t far from what I will actually be doing on my vacation soon). Would I be upset about the fact that my only day to play all day, I was “forced” to play as a bobble head?

My answer is no. I would continue to do everything I currently do, only I would probably be smiling all day I might even explore a little more just to see the effects on different creatures.

I wish I was home now to enjoy it. It is so fleeting….

JustTrogdor.7892:

Here is something that might help some of you. Not long after you stop complaining about it and demanding some way to toggle it off your horrible nightmare of bobbleheads will be over. It is a done deal, a prank. You can demand this and that all you want and even threaten to go play ESO. Go get something to eat, take a walk, call some friends, read that book you got for Christmas, do anything you can think of, and before you know it the ‘bobblehead horror’ as you know it will be gone. You will wake up tomorrow and your GW2 world will be back in order, your nightmare over.

Epic post is epic. +1 and good day to you.

You shouldn’t need to do WvW or activities for your daily achievement. I did them for months without ever touching those things. For using the Mystic Forge (an often occurent dialy ach) a cheap option is to put major runes into it, rather than weapons or armor. The mystic forge is also found now in Vigil Keep in Gendarran Fields, where are the city portals are.

Then there’s usually stuff like veteran slayer or champion slayer, both of which could easily be done in Queensdale if you don’t have too much of the map completed.

Anyway, there’s lots of things you can do for dailies. Welcome back to the game

Me too Adimar… me too. Hundreds at least for me, and I didn’t even buy a legendary :p

I want to add my thanks too. Sometimes I know I talk a bit down because I’m at a loss for something to do or I feel the RNG hates me (we’ve all been there except for a select few lucky peeps), but I always find another area that keeps me interested and excited. With almost 2,000 hours in, I still love this game. Things like April fools bobble head stuff is what sets this game apart! The graphics are so amazing, the playstyle is fun. I can’t wait for the new QoL updates.