Snapshot King
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Yeah, no matter WHAT I'm doing to enemies my pets pull aggro off me every time. It's unbelievably useful.
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Yeah, no matter WHAT I'm doing to enemies my pets pull aggro off me every time. It's unbelievably useful.
Fragamemnon
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Try using a Greatsword on your Guardian for the close ability ( I think it is there, my wife plays one) and a Rifle on your Warrior. Rifles hit like a truck in PvE and are decent w/ the right skills in PvP (need Bola so you can actually connect with your hard hitting shots).
Longbows on Warriors are more group support/AE oriented ranged damage, you get a combo field option and radius damage. Rifles are straight bang-bang single target DPS.
I totally remember vanilla wow. One good thing about not conforming with the holy trinity in GW2 is that anybody can fill a spot. I have not made it far enough to even think about going into a dungeon ( I am only ~16, I think), but hopefully it won't be too time consuming to find a group.
diffusionx
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Everything I've seen so far has been a zerg fest. Everything. I expect that will smooth out over time. The fact is that the systems in this game are very deep and people haven't been playing it much.
No, fans realize that. But they also know it doesn't matter - what matters is how the games play today.
GW2 is probably the first MMO that is good enough to take WoW of today head-on. TOR was good enough to take on WoW of, I don't know, 2009, but that's not good enough.
The truth is that people hate this form of payment, think of broadband caps. It's the same concept.
And, FWIW... APB tried it.
No, fans realize that. But they also know it doesn't matter - what matters is how the games play today.
GW2 is probably the first MMO that is good enough to take WoW of today head-on. TOR was good enough to take on WoW of, I don't know, 2009, but that's not good enough.
Z3M0G said:
The truth is that people hate this form of payment, think of broadband caps. It's the same concept.
And, FWIW... APB tried it.
Teknopathetic
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"Cooking is easily the most time and money intensive professions out of the six I have first-hand experience with. There's nothing free/easy about it-you need lots of ingredients, some are in completely random places w/ random recipes and ingredients on karma vendors. It's very much an 'advanced' craft IMO, and the game tells you as such."
Depends on if you follow a guide or not, if you do, it's actually by far the easiest because the materials are significantly easier and faster to acquire. For those that like to simply figure things out as they go, yeah, it's the trickiest.
Depends on if you follow a guide or not, if you do, it's actually by far the easiest because the materials are significantly easier and faster to acquire. For those that like to simply figure things out as they go, yeah, it's the trickiest.
Wrong exploit. That one was fixed fast. Tier 2 hoelbrak yellows for 21 karma was up for half a day though.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Reading this makes me go
But reading these makes me go
I'm not sure...I don't know if keeping one or the other crafting is worth it, but I feel conflicted now. Deciding which to drop is not easy...
Many MMOs tried this in the mid 2000s, but most failed because people hate that kind of scheme.
Teknopathetic
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"But reading these makes me go
I'm not sure...I don't know if keeping one or the other crafting is worth it, but I feel conflicted now. Deciding which to drop is not easy..."
You do not lose progress when you drop a profession (if you think about it, it would actually be SUPER exploity if they did. Craft a bunch, drop profession, pick it back up, craft a bunch, etc.) so just drop whichever and go back later.
I'm not sure...I don't know if keeping one or the other crafting is worth it, but I feel conflicted now. Deciding which to drop is not easy..."
You do not lose progress when you drop a profession (if you think about it, it would actually be SUPER exploity if they did. Craft a bunch, drop profession, pick it back up, craft a bunch, etc.) so just drop whichever and go back later.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
"But reading these makes me go
I'm not sure...I don't know if keeping one or the other crafting is worth it, but I feel conflicted now. Deciding which to drop is not easy..."
You do not lose progress when you drop a profession (if you think about it, it would actually be SUPER exploity if they did. Craft a bunch, drop profession, pick it back up, craft a bunch, etc.) so just drop whichever and go back later.
That's true - I keep forgetting about that, haha. I guess I'm going to start cooking tonight!
Oh, and where the HELL are extra bank slots in the gem store? I want to expand my bank!
Fragamemnon
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This is a good point, and as long as the TP is down then as long as you don't mind some trips to the boonies, you will be able to level OK in cooking with a guide to tell you what vegetables (and in what quantities) to harvest and where to harvest from and not be gated by rare craft materials (though those can also be farmed easily IMO).
I like to plug stuff in and figure it out as I go along, which has been super frustrating with cooking.
Maleficence
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I can't seem to log back in after leaving due to the new game version. Anyone else?
With all the hacking talk a few pages back I realized one thing they could put in place to stop this. Just let me select a region to connect from and only allow IP's within that region. If I live in a certain state, and am not traveling, only allow IP addresses from my state. Easy fix to a complex problem.
It's not even just that, you can finally get a full group, and then spend ages trying to get everyone into the same dungeon instance. Similar problem to the overflow issue.
Can't remember an mmo where I've had so much trouble trying to play with friends!
That was working as of last night, but yeah you're right that was Ebonhawk I was thinking of. Hoelbrak was far worse I'm glad they fixed it. People were buying a ton of them and Mystic Forging them into higher level exotics.
That one they really should roll back.
GasProblem
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My new alt:
Feels like my Engineer has a bigger skill delay then my Elementalist for some reason. When I'm auto attacking on my Ele and I use a skill, the skill goes off right away. If I'm auto attacking on my Engineer and I use a skill, it finishes the auto attack before the skill goes off. Maybe it's the zone or the overflow server or something.
Feels like my Engineer has a bigger skill delay then my Elementalist for some reason. When I'm auto attacking on my Ele and I use a skill, the skill goes off right away. If I'm auto attacking on my Engineer and I use a skill, it finishes the auto attack before the skill goes off. Maybe it's the zone or the overflow server or something.
Pretty screenshot of a dragon, don't look if you want to see it in game for yourself first. =p
spoilers, maybe..?
http://i.imgur.com/yG5x6.jpg
spoilers, maybe..?
http://i.imgur.com/yG5x6.jpg
Teknopathetic
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"This is a good point, and as long as the TP is down then as long as you don't mind some trips to the boonies, you will be able to level OK in cooking with a guide to tell you what vegetables (and in what quantities) to harvest and where to harvest from and not be gated by rare craft materials (though those can also be farmed easily IMO)."
Yep. The main reason why it's so easy is precisely because it requires very few harvested materials at all, the materials are all largely acquired from renown heart vendors, only like 40 materials from later level zones.
Yep. The main reason why it's so easy is precisely because it requires very few harvested materials at all, the materials are all largely acquired from renown heart vendors, only like 40 materials from later level zones.
Have you come across a good cooking guide you could share? I wanted to do a bit more tonight.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I hope they do something about this...It's really disappointing that people are exploiting stuff like this to the degree they are.
Teknopathetic
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"Have you come across a good cooking guide you could share? I wanted to do a bit more tonight."
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/56511-chef-cooking-0-400-guide/
I didn't follow this one in particular but it's very similar to the one that I did follow.
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/56511-chef-cooking-0-400-guide/
I didn't follow this one in particular but it's very similar to the one that I did follow.
I am not sure how much it differs in this game, but aggro in the original game was not based 'threat' but more on maximizing damage.
The AI would prioritize squishy, low hp targets. So often the name of the game was to have tanks hold aggro and make sure that mobs did not get in range of the more vulnerable party members.
That would actually explain why Necros are so lowly prioritized: they have the second highest health pool in the game.
BlazingDarkness
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they need to fix the mail, can't trade a damn thing
Maleficence
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Still can't log in.
But in the end it is worth it due to 1. The buffs are always helpful, whereas many professions' crafted items end up useless later and 2. The huge variety makes it much more entertaining.
ROBOKITTYZILLA
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When I party with a Necro, sometimes the mob will come and attack me (Thief) while the Necro is fighting it, even if I'm not doing anything at all (e.g. managing inventory). I thought that was kind of strange but I guess this explains it.
Btw, I forgot to mention in here, last night I realized that SLI was disabled on my machine, probably as a result of a settings reset when upgrading drivers. Had it off the entire headstart period. Pretty weird. Turned it back on and got an immediately 10+ frame boost to my minimum and maximum FPS. Feels goood.
Teknopathetic
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"what does guild influence points actually do? we have 17,000"
You can use it to buy various upgrades and perks for your guild.
You can use it to buy various upgrades and perks for your guild.
Thanks. But about how much silver does this cost to buy all the mats yourself to skill up? Is it viable for someone's first character who doesn't have any money?
flyinpiranha
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Must have had a crappy rifle then! Also, what are good ranged options for the Guardian? I've yet to get him high enough to really take any advantage in WvW yet and Greatsword (after using it with the Warrior) was the first thing I bought my GRD!
Thanks for the tips BTW.
Teknopathetic
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"Thanks. But about how much silver does this cost to buy all the mats yourself to skill up? Is it viable for someone's first character who doesn't have any money?"
I dunno about that one exactly, but maybe about a gold or a little more. Definitely plausible for someone's first character.
I dunno about that one exactly, but maybe about a gold or a little more. Definitely plausible for someone's first character.
Teknopathetic
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Yep, Omnomberries.
No...
Haha ok then I'm missing something because I'm level 25 at chef and I can't combine the salt with peppercorns
Have you done it before?
If so you, you're only able to discover something once. After that you craft it through your recipe menu.
Barack Lesnar
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I think I have a pretty good rifle for my level (21) and I also think the damage is meh.
I went with the grenade engineer based on Teknopathetic's post a while back and haven't really looked back. I've tried rifles and pistols + off-hand but they don't compare. The grenade kit damage is actually kind of OP. I'm doing monstrous damage, and it's not a case of them only being good for AoE, I do more damage than any other weaps I've tried vs. single mobs as well, which is why I think nades might be OP (or the other ones not strong enough). Also the AoE circles are huge so it's super easy to be accurate with them.
A couple other weird engineer kits I've tried (best class ever btw, so much variety):
- Elixer Gun kit. Same as the rifle it doesn't do enough damage. The #5 skill is great tho, it's an AoE circle called Super Elixer that does a bunch of things, including life regen. Pretty fun kit, I like the poison flamethrower skill. But overall just doesn't compare to grenades
- "Tool kit", this is the wrench kit. This was really cool. I've been using all ranged weapons and then I put this on and am doing pretty huge damage with a wrench at close range... totally different play style. The #1 skill does huge damage. The #2 skill that gives a debuff (bleed) and throws nails has too long of an animation and is just not a good skill. The #3 melee attack with the crow bar that gives the enemy confuse is a good one. The #5 magnet skill that sucks the enemies towards you has a too long animation as well. This kit had a lot of potential and could have been really fun and maybe it still is later on, especially if you combo it with turrets (the #1 melee attack repairs turrets) but when like 2/5 of the skills sort of suck it's just a shame.
It won't let me discover it for whatever reason. I'll check again.
Might be one of the starting recipes that you get by default.
chickdigger802
Banned
am 1 the only one that finds the auto attack with 2h sword to look terribad?
It's just that finals stab looks so goofy :S
It's just that finals stab looks so goofy :S
Seed turret will pull aggro over EVERYTHING it seems. I like to drop it when running away. I manage to escape almost every time because they stop to attack the turret
What race? The 1h sword 3rd stab with Asura is like my favorite goddamn thing ever.
chickdigger802
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humans. don't recall if warriors and guard have different animations. 1h swing is ok.
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