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Guild Wars 2 - Heart of Thorns |OT| Welcome to the Jungle...
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WvW and pvp feature update. WvW is GW2's most distinguishing mode.
Nemesis121
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SAB already did...
appletoasty
Member
If you have tons of extra mists essences laying around, it's maybe worth it to infuse the rings and then salvage them
I'm disappointed to see stabilizing matrices from fractal boxes, but I'm somehow more disappointed to see ascended rings because they're useless AND worthless, lol. At least matrices are worth 27 silver
I'm disappointed to see stabilizing matrices from fractal boxes, but I'm somehow more disappointed to see ascended rings because they're useless AND worthless, lol. At least matrices are worth 27 silver
Yeah I've kept all of my infused ones. But truth be told none of those have stats I like anyway so I could salvage those as well. Will just start selling the uninfused ones to merchant. No way would it be worth the effort to infuse them. Takes a whole lot of random mist essence drops to do that. Plus I still need to infuse my zerker rings on my main. Was hoping to get infused zerker rings as drops by now, but no luck so far.
UltimateIke
Member
Only 900 more to go.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
How long is SAB gonna last?
19th,next Tuesday.
Teaser for the spring update that be coming out next week
Access to Fractal legendary backpiece, Cliffside boss becomes a rev apparently, and this seems to be the legendary shortbow, which eeeh.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Tangential, but I'm really torn on the core mechanic of GW2 combat, namely your primary skills being dictated by your equipped weapon. On the one hand I think it's a pretty cool and novel approach, but on the other hand I dislike how it totally removes weapon type as an aesthetic choice.
Like, I want to be a viking ranger that dual wields axes to throw at people, but that actual weapon skillset attached to that idea is mediocre most of the time. I have to choose between the sort of (to use a WoW term) class fantasy I like best versus the actual gameplay mechanics that make me effective.
appletoasty
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It's nice to see that they're doing trailers again... but there was literally 11 seconds of content in that 33 second video. 5 seconds for the intro and 16 seconds for the outro. 66% of the video was filler. :/
Excited to be able to finally finish the fractal backpack, but not looking forward to everyone and their mom wearing the big ugly wings for the first few weeks. My eyeeesss
I hope this update isn't as tiny as it looks like it will be
Excited to be able to finally finish the fractal backpack, but not looking forward to everyone and their mom wearing the big ugly wings for the first few weeks. My eyeeesss
I hope this update isn't as tiny as it looks like it will be
Nemesis121
Member
5 days until they nerf AB grand chest farming... time increase the grind..
New raid lobby in Lion Arch?
Airship port to Cantha?
More likely they're moving the entry to the raid out of Verdant Brink so the people waiting around to have fun aren't a waste of space, as far as the map's meta event goes.
Let's talk about the real news that affects more than a handful of players; Ranger sword's auto attack will no longer cause you to have a seizure and shit your britches off the side of a cliff.
appletoasty
Member
I like that the ranger sword changes generated more hype for the Tuesday patch than the hype video did
Well it's true! You go to attack an enemy with Ranger sword now, but instead go completely cross-eyed, dive face-first into their groin, do a little wobbly twirl like the Tasmanian Devil ripped on Goldschlager, throw yourself ass-backwards into the dirt and then pffffffkkkttt; poop-geyser right off a cliff leaving nothing but a very confused enemy and a few noxious dribbles.
Tuesday's patch is a vague, nebulous coagulation of "stuff they might do," and my general impression is a lot of people (especially WvWers) are getting themselves worked up for a whole lot of nothing. Ranger Sword sucking is something most players have experienced first hand and Ranger Sword not sucking is something they can immediately get behind.
Jesus man, it's always orcs and orifices with you.
I dunno, they put out a video with a release date, that seems fairly firm to me.
this. LOL
What can I say? Some kids could afford to play Dungeons and Dragons. All we could get was Orcs and Orifices.
Dude, FATAL is Not Safe for Life.
NobleXenon
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Season Two of PvP is almost over and it is a step up from Season One. I made it to Diamond with only two losses in Ruby. My only suggestion is to wait a week or so to let the ESL people get out of the lower tiers so you won't get stuck in a metronome of winning&losing.
I also have almost every SAB weapon unlocked, minus the remaining 12 orange weapon skins that are locked behind time. I'm going to get the BoomBoxes next so my character looks more gangsta, lol j/k.
I also have almost every SAB weapon unlocked, minus the remaining 12 orange weapon skins that are locked behind time. I'm going to get the BoomBoxes next so my character looks more gangsta, lol j/k.
Spike Spiegel
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I couldn't bear to subject myself to SAB often enough to earn even one of the weapons, let alone all of them. 
Nemesis121
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I couldn't bear to subject myself to SAB often enough to earn even one of the weapons, let alone all of them.
I played the hell out of the first world when it first came out, but when they released world 2 with the cash shop continue coin i said fuck that, and I haven't played SAB since...
Kos Luftar
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I enjoy deleting baubles when u get them from dailies.
Useless currency for a useless terrible addition to GW2.
Useless currency for a useless terrible addition to GW2.
Okay, didn't notice they actually put a release date in that post. Up until then, the snippets they put on the forum like "it's in Q&A, we're trying to get everything ready, etc." made it sound like they weren't sure if they wanted to wait a week or not.
Spike Spiegel
Member
Why are they being removed?
They're doing some fractal changes in the update which includes changes to the tier structure. There will be new ones but MO said that old progress isn't going to count to them.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I got puke green and piss yellow weapons with the power of cash
this is how I avoid insanity
this is how I avoid insanity
All three acts of World 2 go on far too long, so I can't say I blame you got buying those in the slightest. World 1 is tighter, but I don't think I'd have it in me to do 16 full Trib runs there either... and I actually really like running SAB.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
So I take it the major patch will roll out in the reset?
appletoasty
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The years of hype for SAB sort of dampened the experience for me. My expectations were high but it's just more jumping puzzles for me to suck at. Definitely not something I would want to do over and over. (World 1 was fun the first time round. World 2 was misery.) Not my thing, I guess.
Unrelated, PvP season ended today. I am finding it difficult to care about my rank (and thus playing PvP in general) when it seems to be a test of endurance rather than skill. I am not feelin it. I just want the backpack.
I hope we look back on this time period as a weird detour for the game.
EDIT: Looks like the lord in Foefire will get a downed state soon. https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/722047553135583232
Unrelated, PvP season ended today. I am finding it difficult to care about my rank (and thus playing PvP in general) when it seems to be a test of endurance rather than skill. I am not feelin it. I just want the backpack.
I hope we look back on this time period as a weird detour for the game.
EDIT: Looks like the lord in Foefire will get a downed state soon. https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/722047553135583232
I'm pretty sad the special aura infusions are buyable for so little as 100g-ish. As someone who ran it all by myself it felt worth so much more. Now people are just gonna assume I bought it and even if they don't the effect isn't in any way special.
Such a stupid mistake from Anet
Such a stupid mistake from Anet
I could have told you from day one that outside of the skins SAB stinks.
PVP balance is still an joke when Mesmers are invulnerable 24/7, Dragonhunters laughably OP and thieves absolutely useless.
So I decided to play a little GW2 again after a few months, but I see it's downloading a big ~9ish GB file. What is this supposed to be? I remember already downloading HoT when it released. Normally those sizes don't faze me with 200Mb (25MB) internet, but the GW2 client downloads it rather slowly at 1MB/s.
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