Guild Wars 2

They need to borrow from the monthlies that have done this and word it similar to "complete your daily category while representing ___". This should eliminate the initial reaction to assume it’s merely the completion of one of the various achievements that will count towards the daily’s required five (PvE) or 4 (PvP).

You don’t need to be supporting a candidate to get the achievements -- just make sure you do the different versions of the trial in order from 1-4.

So go into Kiel’s, start at tier 1, and elevate up to tier 4. You get both of her trial achievements.

Go over to Evon, repeat.

Do note that if you do, say, up to t3 in one and move over to the other it will still default to t3. You will need to tell the first mate to scale it down if you need to do 1 and then 2.

The ones that require the button to be active at completion will state it in their descriptions.

Meriem.3504:

I haven’t been so scared of a flying face thing since Mario 2! No matter how fast I run it keeps up with me!

Those guys! Arrgh!!

hahaha

Thanks for this thread. That made my afternoon much happier.

Does anyone who played WoW remember when DoTs were shared across the whole raid? Maybe we’ll see an update to [some] DoTs being per-character in GW2 at some point. Even with a cap of 25, splitting bleeds among characters will be a buff to damage.

edit: Of course, this assumes their code is amenable to doing so and being updated, since I think they’ve said the cap is in place currently for technical reasons.

I leveled to 80 with d/d and the shortbow.

For a while, I had a second thief that I was leveling with p/p, but I scrapped that to make room for trying out engineer.

In any case, while I had to learn that I couldn’t just wade into battle like my warrior or guardian, once you play to the strengths of d/d it’s fine, if you choose to continue to pursue it in PvE.

Your thoughts about what skills to use should work for most mobs. As I recall, I usually did something like the following:
- heartseeker’d (2) into a group, ’cause I cannot stop myself from using leap skills to initiate
- popped caltrops (utility version, not on-dodge version)
- used death blossom (3) as an evade and aoe on the now-crippled enemies a couple of times
- hit steal (default: F1) on one of them, followed by using whatever stolen skill (doing both recovers initiative)
- more death blossom if needed or heartseekers to finish up

If things went badly, I could always cloak’n’dagger or otherwise stealth (utilities, heal) to give myself a reprieve. Offhand dagger also gives you Dancing Dagger to bounce among the baddies and give you some easy kiting.

Roll for Initiative will make it even easier to spam death blossom on groups until they are dead.

On top of all of this, if the group is large enough or not dying fast enough to your liking, the shortbow is an amazing weapon probably every thief should be familiar with or running with, at least in many situations. It gives you additional AoE damage and a poison field as well as the means to kite PvE mobs quite well.

You could even adapt the skill sequence you describe in your own post to include, say, a shortbow opening to hit the enemies before swapping into daggers at melee range or swap to the bow during the fight to hit the now-clustered pulls as well as provide you with an easy escape (shortbow 3).

All of that said, you might still enjoy s/p or d/p more for leveling. I just really like D/D and think it’s loads of fun to dance among mobs while leveling. You may instead prefer the easy stunning with Pistol Whip, the natural cleave of the sword, or the ability to keep melee mobs blinded.

Oh my God, ambients count for those Weapon Master achievements? Well, the few I have been worrying about might finally get done.

Put Trahearne on the Council and Magnus as the Pact leader in his stead. A sort of leadership exchange program.

Then, me and a giant, colorful norn can go clobber villains around the world, while bland-McSue can sit around LA.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Here are the digital versions of the campaign posters, so you can print them out or play with them to show your support for the candidate of your choice:

Kiel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenanet/9304482086/sizes/l/

Gnashblade: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenanet/9301701493/sizes/l/

Thanks for these!

The intent was to lead up to the question at the end of my post -- about any prospects of the losing choice still making an appearance in the game ever. I’m quite sure real-life constraints are playing a role in all of this, and yes I would agree that letting the players as a collective whole take part in directing development is kind of neat. I didn’t think I argued against any of that.

But, ultimately, what’s at stake is that we’ve more or less been told that one means of developing the lore further for the Guild Wars world/universe/canon will never get visited as a result. The winner will get developed, further Living Story content in the pipeline will be revealed to us, and Tyria will move on.

The split interests of the players -- and seemingly the development team -- shows, at least to me, that both ideas would get played and be welcome additions to the game. I worry that choices like this will continue to leave Tyrian lore un-expanded upon, and the cynic in me further worries that we’ll end up with more loose ends from new content as well.

edit: Parisalchuk makes a good point, as well -- knowing a choice exists brings along some (unintended?) negative consequences for players, or at least for those whose choice loses. That, however, seems to me to be an unavoidable trade-off for even having the choice at all, though, unless the losing content has a chance to eventually see development.

I quite like how folks are getting behind one or the other here — whether everyone’s just playing along with the political campaign setting or truly interested in one over the other, it’s actually pretty fun to read this section in a way.

However, I feel like we, the players, are losing overall.

It seems that whichever of the two fractals is created will be completed at the exclusion of the other as a consequence of the in-game vote.

To me, dangling cool content in front of players and then locking some of it away to never be seen is very unfortunate. Worse, even, than giving us the chance to see it and have fun with it even in a limited time window (i.e. the previous LS dungeons).

Is there any hope that down the line the one that loses the vote will still get implemented? There’s got to be a way that it can be done without pulling the teeth from the choice inherent in this campaign story arc.

I agree with you -- I head to the Fan-generated Content section looking for discussions about the various community sites that have been created and instead have to wade through fanfiction and art commissions.

I don’t think the two styles of user content overlap enough, personally, if you folks are open to splitting them.

edit: Also I need to stop alt-tabbing while playing and getting killed writing posts :P.

Meriem.3504:

Sera.6539:

Joseph Skyrim.2470:

Oh ok. I can see how that would be handy in the cliffs.

I wonder how many zephyrites became paste while putting all those sky crystals about... maybe they all had death shroud too? :P

I’m half convinced it was Kiel who put them there. Lots of people having to pay waypoint costs, make them lean more towards lower WP costs in the future vote. Conspiracy theories abound.

Where is all this nonsense about Kiel wanting to do this and that. I talk to her and she never mentioned such things!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/
The "Coming Soon" image, paired with a wallpaper image of the two, shows that she and Evon will be competing, probably in some kind of election. After that, I think most of it is just fan speculation.

Paul Belz.7351:

Hey guys,

So we’ve been investigating this issue and we feel that Adnul is being a little too mean. We will have a change in soon that should make him give players a bit more breathing room while still maintaining the difficulty to a degree.

Thank you all for the feedback and apologies for any frustration this has been causing you.

So do I get some kind of cool, smug reward for beating him without cheating and before his nerf? :P

Naw, I think it’s great that you all looked into it and tweaked the masters a bit. Sometimes they really would pile those special moves on — I was really confused when I got my first one and could only use it once!

Huh.

I got the achievement, and I know I skipped two of them that I kept failing on when trying to leap and jump towards them. I hadn’t realized that there were nearly ten more I haven’t even caught a glimpse of yet.

All it took for me was to walk in and try it one time in late 2012.

Wub-wub’s become a regular part of my play ever since.

Simplicity.7208:

so my guild stops poking fun of me being a lesbian?

Romance is romance; sounds like your guild is a bunch of jerks if they mean this seriously in any way.

More seriously:
There are a few male-male sylvari couples, too, I believe, though at present I don’t recall their names in particular. There are also straight couples, of course! Lore-wise, they are probably the race where it might seem to be most prominent ’cause they’re not biased by a long-standing culture that tries to paint homosexuality as morally corrupt or against nature. Instead, they embrace what they feel openly and directly and have no hangups about for whom or why they have those feelings.

In some ways, they’re far more enlightened as a result.

Yeah, I swap to D/D with a few trait swaps when wandering around in open world PvE or playing missions with friends, etc. I like not having to go back home, so to say, to do that.

Wickson.5381:

This is my first post ever and just wanted to say that, this boss is the most useless thing i’ve ever seen in this game.

I know, right?
After the first, say, thirty seconds of the fight I basically am sitting there thinking, "OK, I get it already. Die now. You’re doing no damage, I am not going to lose, and all of this HP you have is just extending this mission artificially." It would have been better, imo, if he had another phase or something.

And I don’t even mind the stun. It’s just that his fight is so completely boring, and the outcome is clear as soon as the abominations are killed.

Huh. Interesting take on it.

Personally, I like that it’s shared. That way I can get them done on whichever character or combination of characters as I play, get them out of the way, and go about playing the game without worrying about "did I do that yet..?"

Zumi.6384:

He didn’t, he just made you think he did.

Lanny.6987:

Wait. I’m confused.

I thought I had an answer, but I don’t think I can follow these successfully. Well done!

For the staff, air is the only element that I am looking to get out of quickly during combat. That always seems odd -- it’s not like an interrupt, blind, daze/stun, and speed boost are bad things!

First, let me congratulate you on a well-done video. While I think (I don’t read these sections much) this kind of build has been used for quite some time by staff elementalists, the video you have put together clearly explains the reasoning behind the trait choices and how the spells can be used to grant boons, apply conditions, etc. I really liked that, even if I didn’t see anything new for myself in it.

I also liked the WvW portion of the video wherein you show what you are doing and how your spells are benefiting the fight / working with others (e.g. might stacking for the zerg with lava font, water fields for the hammer-wielding commander). I think anyone new to ele can benefit from knowing how not only they can generate their own combos but how others might as well. I am sure I use mine inefficiently more than I’d like to admit.

It is my opinion, the very little that it matters, that the video alone makes the post worth a sticky in this section.

What I am wary of is the emphasis on cleric’s accessories and healing power runes. I used to run similar -- cleric’s accessories and this spec; armor was not PvT but Knight’s with beryl orbs -- but moved to berserker accessories instead. I was motivated by a) my understanding that healing power scales terribly for HoTs (check out some of the math for Healing Power in water skills) and doesn’t matter for when others use my water fields to blast-heal (i.e. it uses theirs) and b) the damage being awful.

In the video, your damage is quite low. I can gain the same field effects for my allies and provide similar healing (of course it’s not going to be quite as high) while also managing to dance around through the other elements and down or finish enemies. For example, there are even crits at times in the video that top out between 100 and 400 damage, a mere fraction of what they could be. Mind you, that’s what I noticed - I may be missing other numbers?

What are your thoughts with using it? Do you find that you are mostly sticking in water to capitalize on your stat focus? Have you played with other gear choices and found that you just weren’t able to keep an ally up like you can with the HP focus of this setup?

My goal here is a discussion, though I am critiquing the build. GW2 combat seems to benefit more from fitting in damage alongside other roles.

You wouldn’t have to get Transmutation Crystals as much, then. So it’s unlikely.

That is my [cynical] take on all skin rewards. Why else let us see how neat the stones are all game, giving them away to us all the time, only to make the max level version require gems?

I would prefer something like the Festival Hat vendors in GW1, though, so we could reclaim earned skins, like you suggest, again and again as needed/desired.

Ah, I saw the posts on gw2lfg as this was happening. Very cool to see! Hope it went well.

Chopps.5047:

synk.6907:

Chopps.5047:

I think it was more than 1 person, it was a company wide decision. They’re trying tk market to those countries and japan, china, korea takes their different heritages very seriously. As american, I am melting pot, so I don’t mind mixing culture it’s what we do. But it could hurt sales for them if patrons from japan/korea are offended.

It’s a good thing cats cannot talk or purchase video games. They might be outraged at the fictional portrayal of cat-like people living in harmony with their own city!

Or, for a more realistic comparison, look at how significantly large portions of Europe and North America are totally not upset about any of the design behind the humans and cities in-game that obviously draw from their different cultures! Because it’s a fictional, fantasy game.

Ugh that’s so frustrating that, from the information we have, it’s basically true that Cantha is being blocked by a bunch of weirdos who think it’s, like, a critique on their lives or some nonsense.

Meh, I disagree. I think you’re young and naive with a lot to learn about the world.

People in our world get upset by a lot of things. I’m very aware of that. For some, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was as serious as, say, depicting Muhammad. It is a silly thing to be upset about a fictional world that borrows from real world cultures, with no intent to represent or parody them, in developing its atmosphere. There are so many more pertinent problems in our world.

The tone of my post probably conveys my meaning rather poorly, but the gist is that I’m still quite frustrated by the situation regardless of the reality that may serve as the backdrop for it.

I’m not really sure how my sense of frustration is something that can be disagreed with, but that’s likely a result of writing a garbage post as a result of said frustration.

I’d bet I’m older than you’re assuming, which just makes it clearer that I should have given more thought to what I wrote or, at least, the word choice. Ah well. That’s a good sign to log off.

Gabby.3205:

I would like that. I would be able to change the order of the keys for the skills 1-5 to make it so it feels more natural to me, depending on the character.

Ah, I hadn’t thought of that right away when making my reply above. I can definitely see how, despite having the "right" keybinds available overall, not being able to control the order of the weapon skills hampers per-character customization.

The dungeon is easy, though, so keep that in mind. People are regularly trying to do it to complete their story, as well, so eventually it should fall together for you.

edit:
It’s not solo-able, to answer the other question. I mean, I am sure there are some folks who can solo the bosses and such, but there are portions of the trash fighting and movement within the dungeon that need a party to split its focus a bit.

For characters still doing the personal story, give them back the dedicated Quest Log UI window like in GW1. Dump the living story general notes here as well.

Leave daily/monthly achievement progress in the achievement panel.

Leave the top-right for dynamic events that pop up when in range, as they do in the world and WvW, etc.

Then provide tracking in the quest / story log like achievements have. Players can then choose to track what they want, be it story objectives or dailies or whatnot, and clutter or de-clutter the area as they wish.

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Alternatively, give us little X icons to close the things we don’t want. If the worry is that players won’t see it and then be too stupid to figure out what to do, make us have to choose to close it every time we log a character in, even when switching chars.

The point is let the choice of what to show here be ours as much as possible.

Are you saying that your keybinds are not the same for all of your characters? If so, something must be wrong with your account / install.

Or do you mean that the keybinds you use for one class are not the ones you want to use for another class? If it’s this case, what makes them not "on the right keys" for the alt(s)?

We have the same number of skills in use at any time on any character, so I suppose I don’t quite get what makes your hotkeys good for one and bad for another in a way that can’t be fixed just by moving which utility is in which slot. So help me understand (for my own curiosity, regardless of if I can be of any help).

Hypebeast.3259:

I’m mostly gonna be doing PvE and dungeons. So which class is the funnest?

That’s very subjective.

It is my opinion that both are very fun to play. I don’t know what I can offer you with respect to “funnest” that wouldn’t just be my opinion, but perhaps if you had some thoughts about what things might be more appealing to you in playing a character the forum community could help you better.

It seems to be the meta for mesmers to have an easier time finding dungeon groups, if that might influence your choice at all.

Chopps.5047:

I think it was more than 1 person, it was a company wide decision. They’re trying tk market to those countries and japan, china, korea takes their different heritages very seriously. As american, I am melting pot, so I don’t mind mixing culture it’s what we do. But it could hurt sales for them if patrons from japan/korea are offended.

It’s a good thing cats cannot talk or purchase video games. They might be outraged at the fictional portrayal of cat-like people living in harmony with their own city!

Or, for a more realistic comparison, look at how significantly large portions of Europe and North America are totally not upset about any of the design behind the humans and cities in-game that obviously draw from their different cultures! Because it’s a fictional, fantasy game.

Ugh that’s so frustrating that, from the information we have, it’s basically true that Cantha is being blocked by a bunch of weirdos who think it’s, like, a critique on their lives or some nonsense.

Nodes in the world are per-character, so based on that it would make sense for this to be, as well.

Meta-achievement rewards for living story are per account, so based on that it would make sense for this to be once per day per account or something like that.

This is without taking into economic concerns. I guess in that light it will be released as something per-character at first until a bug fix within day or two to limit it to once per day per account.

I never play alone.
At any given time, in any map zone, I always have potential and actual teammates.

That’s one thing I love about how mob tagging in PvE works and how easy it is to participate in WvW. Playing with your peers and other server members is a simple as playing the game -- parties and guilds are not required.

Don’t get me wrong -- parties and guild can be great, and many are. I’m just making the point that you don’t have to look at the world as "solo vs. guild", as it’s very much not like that.

But I might be taking the "play alone" too literally here.

Calae.1738:

Go watch Game of Thrones and ask yourself why that show is watched by over 5 million people.

Because a lot of episodes are basically softcore porn?

Oh, that wasn’t your point.

If Orr was updated, they would have to phase it or something so that folks who haven’t done the two major climaxes of the personal story will still see undead.

But that would rob those of us who have of many of the events and world bosses. I don’t see it changing from what it is now -- that you can tell yourself these are the last bits of undead clinging to their land (and respawning thanks to game mechanics).

edit: Or I guess just pull a Cata/GW2 transition to the world and introduce a whole new version of the place -- but what would the enemies be there? And think of all of the undead-related content all over the other zones that would have to be changed as well.

those mustaches

Wow. That is terrific.

I remember how weird it was when I realized that Pre-Searing had its own whole community of people who weren’t planning on leaving ever. It was neat that the title and some items were made for it, but I don’t think the tutorials will ever fill that role -- they are waaay shorter, and the XP amount required for max level in GW2 is far, far larger.

Mustafa.7684:

Lol i love that title... I even suggested adding it to Gw2 if you have achieved it...

That being said its not that hard. There are crafting stations in every starter area. That means that I can spend 50G and level my toon from 2 - 80 with only doing crafting...

It just doesn’t bring back the joy and the hard earned achievement feel like it was in GW1. In gw1 It was exclusive title. NOT EVERYONE was capable of doing it.

The tutorial areas are even prior to the race’s city and the first starting zone. No crafting stations or vendors exist, and you won’t have access to your bank.

That would be a good step in further connecting GW1 with GW2. As it is sometimes I have to remind myself this is still Tyria (the world) that we’re running around in and not just another place that looks similar.

Plus there were great parts of the game that came out in both continents, and the Asian and African themes of the environments were quite well done -- would love to see the art team(s) bring them to life in the GW2 engine.

Dan.2940:

The fact that arenanet hasn’t responded to this thread yet, on their opinion of this matter, is kinda bothering me... its been at the top of the Suggestions forum for the past 2 days.. I think we deserve an answer so we can stop battling each other back and forth on the topic and just forget about it and go back to enjoying the game.

What reply is required? edit-- this is an honest question, with my reasoning behind it, hopefully it doesn’t come across as trying to argue

A player who uses a portal to complete a jumping puzzle has no bearing on whether or not you (a general you, not calling anyone out specifically) can do the puzzle.

If a group of players ports to the chest, you won’t suddenly have more difficult jumps to complete or lose control of your character.

And as long as the chests at the end of the puzzle continue to not offer some kind of ridiculous reward (let’s ignore that the exotic shoulders were 60s originally), no one’s going to benefit over other players by porting aside from a little bit of time.

So I cannot help but feel that most of the complaints about portals must be about the achievement points for jumping puzzles being trivial. Achievement points are a mess in any system. They sure do provide the carrot for us all to chase, but for whatever reason people also seem to think they mean anything about skill. They should just be for fun, and as such you shouldn’t care who has what achievements.

All that should matter, until the puzzle rewards become something of impact, is if you had fun and you enjoyed it. I don’t see how others’ using portals has any real bearing on that.

Ehragus.5843:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Spiteful_spirit

Anyday.

definitely

Arguably one of the best skills in the game, and it made for some really fun necro builds.

Oh how I miss hexes.

Ha, hadn’t thought of that. I read it prior to doing them, but that’s a good point.

It’s really great, though, to have the relevant areas from the story given a bit of highlighting in the game world. I had a couple of them wrong in my visualization of the city as I read the book.

re: City of Villains: Oh, man, I keep forgetting that game existed. Thanks for that.

Axyl.9408:

synk.6907:

Has there ever really been an MMO wherein the PC can be “bad”? I mean, more than just saying a few mean things or being a jerk to a companion NPC.

Play the Sith in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Some of the stories in that game were absolutely incredible! I still play the story, just to experience the story lines(I treat it like a single player MMO.).

Seriously though, playing a Dark Side Sith Sorcerer was INCREDIBLY satisfying! Being very different from this game, the voice acting is VERY well done in that game.

Ah, that’s a fair point. I have been following a very light-side themed empire LP of the game, where you can still be a hero and all that, but yeah you can totally be a comical jerkbag like all of the NPC sith in that game. Good call.

Guns and Giblets.9308:

synk.6907:

Has there ever really been an MMO wherein the PC can be "bad"? I mean, more than just saying a few mean things or being a jerk to a companion NPC.

Those first few levels as Death Knight were a bit dark, especially where you kill your childhood friend despite his cries for mercy.

Oh, sure, you definitely get a taste of playing for the bad guys. Some of it is really, really fun! But your friend and you also share a moment, and it's one of a few hints that you're one of the DKs not sold on the whole idea of obeying the Lich King's will; as I recall it your friend even accepts his/her fate so that you live on and remember, so that you can fight it. But perhaps I spun it too optimistically when I played?

No one likes the Scarlet Crusade anyway, though. Sweet tabard, however. Always had to snag that.

Has there ever really been an MMO wherein the PC can be “bad”? I mean, more than just saying a few mean things or being a jerk to a companion NPC.

Dessan.9420:

Ision.3207:

For the Horde !

Horde isn’t evil. It is just more manly, more awesome and better compared to the lame suckers from the alliance. Also, lok’tar ogar.

The Horde is definitely not evil. But it’s also my opinion that there are terrific people on both sides of that conflict — just as there are total jerkbags and scums as well. I’m not aiming to derail the thread to talk about this setting, but I have come to appreciate it for being dynamic, even amidst its cliches and weak characters, and not ever truly dropping “good” and “evil” on any one side or view.

Apparently, a bunch of ragtag steampunk pirates are next. Maybe they’ve built a dragon.

People want more combat skins, or perhaps to be able to use town clothing in combat. More and more town clothing is added, but it still cannot be used in combat.

More players increase the length of encounters but not the skill required.

Area of effect attacks can crush your enemies in groups! But only five of them at a time!

Let’s create Orders to fight the dragons. We’ll each accept members of any race and nationality! Oh but wait working together is an abominable idea [until the PC comes along].

colesy.8490:

Slay an elder dragon, get rewarded with a few silver.

This. It kills me so much. "Here’s a token for a non-max item. Oh, if you want to use the skin, be sure to convert gold into gems or to buy gems for the transmutation crystals. Thanks for saving the world, sport."

At least GW1 campaign rewards were max, and I liked some of those skins (though I totally realize that point is quite subjective).

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Talking to NPCs may start a Dynamic Event. Hearts are only on the map to insure you are in the area for any DEs. More of a means to an end, than a way to level up. Try exploring all around the area you are level-appropriate for.

Also, you can completely explore Divinity’s Reach for a few extra levels. Or gather some mats and craft a bit for some levels. Almost anything you do gives XP.

Good luck. =)

Both of these are great points (not that others in the thread aren’t, as well). Hearts give you an idea of where action happens, and if you can get involved in a DE at the same time you’ll have a greater boost in XP when you complete them.

Also I, too, would definitely recommend anyone wanting a head start or a little boost to catch up to hearts in the early levels to explore your race’s city map completely and then head through the asura gates to LA. Do LA, and then do one, two, or all of the remaining cities. Not only will you get a feel for the cities if it’s your first time visiting them, but you’ll get an enemy-free feel for how game exploration works and a decent chunk of XP.

It’s tedious when you are on X alt of out however many, but hitting the cities first kept me from having to grind out hearts or events between story, for the most part, on my characters.

Crafting also helps, but that might not be as easy to get going on your first character until you get some more supplies.

It might be in how you look at it.

The instanced nature of everything that wasn’t an outpost in GW1 meant it was easy to head to hotspots for endgame groups or to tour low-level missions and offer aid to new players or groups needing to fill slots in their party. Also, of course, the fact that -- outside of the tasks of farming or running -- content required parties encouraged adventurers to chat and joke around in towns and then party up and plow through quests in explorables and the like together.

In GW2, we have a wide-open world that doesn’t actually require party play throughout the whole experience from 1-80. Coupled with the world not being instanced (for the most part), there’s not as much impetus for a new player, or any player I suppose, to stand around and consider forming a party to tackle content. That said, the non-instanced nature paired with the way looting works (i.e. not limiting it only to the first player/party that pulls a mob) encourages dynamic group play.

We can still have random groups, they just might be as explicitly defined as you are used to from the GW1 style.

I have fun following friends around and playing with random people in the game, but I don’t usually see the need to party with random people I encounter. Most of the time, I have an idea about how I want to go around clearing a map as I level a character, and no matter how nice or entertaining other folks are often the hearts done already or the direction we are heading don’t align. Sometimes it’s annoying to have to go at someone else’s speed, regardless of if it is faster or slower. The GW2 system lends itself a lot more to helping and grouping when it’s needed and splitting as soon as it’s not.

Because of that, I like to think of /m (and even /s) as more valuable than /p when running about the world and to consider the whole map zone as my potential party mates.

Hopefully I’m getting the idea across. I am pretty worn out from working on research papers and might not be forming my thoughts well.

Sea of Sorrows spoiler, so don’t click if you haven’t read the book yet I guess.
Livia. edit: removed my other thoughts, don't want to give anything away.