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At least your getting this emails, my account was forced before this and got hacked, no response yet from Anet yet. sigh
SirPenguin
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Just hit 25 on my Engineer. Absolutely loving the character still, so I must be doing something right.
My role feels so natural in WvW. You sort of naturally slip into this support role - when attacking, I love to build up a little "base camp" off to the side with a healing and net turret. Grenades are crazy (seriously, use them before they're nerfed as they WILL be nerfed) in PvP and when you're defending it's not uncommon to be doing 3-4k combined damage across multiple people per grenade lob.
I really hate the hit detection on towers, though. Unless you stand just right you get "Obscured" messages constantly.
My role feels so natural in WvW. You sort of naturally slip into this support role - when attacking, I love to build up a little "base camp" off to the side with a healing and net turret. Grenades are crazy (seriously, use them before they're nerfed as they WILL be nerfed) in PvP and when you're defending it's not uncommon to be doing 3-4k combined damage across multiple people per grenade lob.
I really hate the hit detection on towers, though. Unless you stand just right you get "Obscured" messages constantly.
They're doing maintenance on the fly, same thing just happened to me too. Pretty sure the maintenance is causing that, they're probably working on fixing the guild stuff.
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Oh, lol
My bad. That would have been good marketing material for ANet if you had done that though. I actually wish they would just seal off the DD so that it's pretty much required you be an early adopter in order to get any particular in game things that may come with it. ANet could easily implement a lot more and exciting things into the gem store that they could take advantage there, too (without making it a "pay for power" thing because this deals with minipets and flashy elite skills). That way we could have something of a "Hall of Monuments" with some of the items in GW2 when special events, special releases, and what whatnot offer items that are not normally obtained through the game and/or gem shop.
Yeah, the on-the-fly maintenance is something I've not experienced before.
Unhandled Exception
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Sure wish I could transfer my Guardian over to the server. Started off playing with a group of friends who are hardly around. Would like to get into the GAF guild, but alas.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Good times chatting with the GAF guild folks in game and in mumble. Good peeps & helpful! 
TomcatTheLion
Member
20 levels in and I'm still trying to figure out if Greatsword + Staff is a good PvE and PvP setup for my Mesmer.
LumpOfCole
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Asura Tier 2 Light Cultural Headgear + Asura Tier 2 Light Cultural Shoulders + Level 59 Story Chest Reward + Pirate Pants = Broke, Sexy Lump
Damn, now I'm at the point where I have to choose between the 3 orders Can someone please link me pics to the exclusive armor sets they get? And is that really all the difference between the 3 factions (apart from flavour&storyline)
Can someone please link me pics to the exclusive armor sets they get? And is that really all the difference between the 3 factions (apart from flavour&storyline)LumpOfCole
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Damn, now I'm at the point where I have to choose between the 3 orders
Forget the armor sets: you want to be in the Order of Whispers no matter what. It is there that you meet the best character in the GW universe: Tybalt the Charr.
eeeh, I decided to go with Priory for my Norn Guardian, it made the most sense Lore-wise. Will go for Order of Whispers with my Human Thief alt.
I'm constantly underleveled, despite going for 100% clear on everything I can before moving on to higher-level hearts. Am I doing something wrong? I'm doing every event I find, sometimes even doing events until I don't get any exp from them anymore, and I'm still three levels under where I should be judging by the hearts on the map. Really frustrating. Should I be grinding or something?
ComputerMKII
Banned
Same for me.
You aren't doing anything wrong from what I can tell, it has been happening to me too. My advice: Do the orange dynamic events whenever they appear, collect materials and craft, go for 100% completion of zones with vistas/points of interest.
You can also go to another low-level zone and do the hearts there.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Same for me. From my experience some people will tell you this problem doesn't exist though.
Me too, but I'm finding I can finish personal story missions 1 or 2 levels under. I assume its by design, as they want you to spend alot of time exploring and crafting so you can get to those missions and the gear they reward you with.
LumpOfCole
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The way I play is that I try to 100% zones with level ranges right underneath my own (if I'm level 35, I will go to a 20-30 zone and 100% it). I haven't even touched the Charr land areas except for AC and I'm level 62 with plenty of zones I feel I should 100% at 80 since the completion rewards aren't relevant for me now anyway.
Gather and craft. Crafting is great xp and if you're already doing it then you can always take on another zone in your level range.
Pixel Pete
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How easy will this game be to play by myself and to walk away from spontaneously?
It doesn't nerf it at all. It scales your level down a bit while you're doing them though IIRC.
What salvage kits do you guys use on blues+? Just looking at the costs and percentages, it seems that Basic for blues and Fine to Master for anything with a Rune in it, depending on how badly you want that Rune.
I made a pretty noobish mistake for a while and was just using crude on my blues. Pretty stupid considering that it would be worth the extra cost if you simply get 1 rare material out of the 25. It doesnt really seem to be worth the cost just to increase the percentages on rare materials, since those percentage increases are rather small
I basically play by myself - no mic - and its pretty easy. Its a bit more challenging than if you team up with someone but still totally doable. I also dont really feel any rush to get to 80 super quick, so id imagine that if you want to put the game down for a while, youd be fine, especially with no sub and down-leveling
I made a pretty noobish mistake for a while and was just using crude on my blues. Pretty stupid considering that it would be worth the extra cost if you simply get 1 rare material out of the 25. It doesnt really seem to be worth the cost just to increase the percentages on rare materials, since those percentage increases are rather small
I basically play by myself - no mic
- and its pretty easy. Its a bit more challenging than if you team up with someone but still totally doable. I also dont really feel any rush to get to 80 super quick, so id imagine that if you want to put the game down for a while, youd be fine, especially with no sub and down-levelingI was constantly under-leveled too, but then I got more into crafting. Training up cooking for the first time gained me an entire level, right there on the spot - one full XP bar. I didn't even need to do anything special. Just use the ingredients I had already gathered naturally to make discoveries.
I've never touched tailoring so I can probably do the same there in a day or two with the cloth I've been salvaging. Free XP!
Likewise, going to other starting zones won't feel like the busy-work it does in other MMOs, since your level scales down with the content. You can enjoy the hearts and events and enemies fresh again. Will harm your experience leveling any alts, though. So I would do it as a last resort.
I've never touched tailoring so I can probably do the same there in a day or two with the cloth I've been salvaging. Free XP!
Likewise, going to other starting zones won't feel like the busy-work it does in other MMOs, since your level scales down with the content. You can enjoy the hearts and events and enemies fresh again. Will harm your experience leveling any alts, though. So I would do it as a last resort.
What salvage kits do you guys use on blues+? Just looking at the costs and percentages, it seems that Basic for blues and Fine to Master for anything with a Rune in it, depending on how badly you want that Rune.
I made a pretty noobish mistake for a while and was just using crude on my blues. Pretty stupid considering that it would be worth the extra cost if you simply get 1 rare material out of the 25. It doesnt really seem to be worth the cost just to increase the percentages on rare materials, since those percentage increases are rather small
I basically play by myself - no mic
Hey you can still guild chat.
I can, but I'm afraid that I will just fall behind even more than I already am. I guess I'll start crafting, haven't done any yet. Have a bunch of gathered stuff, though. Should I take cooking + whatever is useful for my class, or is there a super profitable craft that I should take instead?
Castor Krieg
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What are people thinking about the classes? Are all of the viable? I'm thinking about trying some sword&board guy, what do you recommend?
I'm running a defensive-based mace+shield warrior right now. It's insanely good in dungeons and in wvw, especially for defending supplies and whatnot.
I'm playing a Warrior, and they seem extremely versatile.
Engineers have flamethrowers.
It's just for the client, not the server, right? The behemoth should be up by the time you finish patching.
StrangeADT
Banned
Hmm, I'm trying to rejoin but it just sits there on the loading screen endlessly playing the little loading animation Sad.
Sad.No, I patched and came back. He's gone. I don't think i'm currently in an overflow.
So my Internet crapped out on me in the worse way, so I didn't get the chance to make a post Neil ow. Thanks Rabious, Palmer, Fiona, ItAintEasy, Hawkian, Lump, DrKirby, Wallach, and a bunch of others for the fun time in Mumble while running around the Ehmry Bay Borderlands. Hopefully we'll still own their garrison tomorrow.
Huh? I thought the consensus was that you specifically could not wear another race's armor. Do you have a screen by any chance? I hate all the human cultural light armor sets so I'd be interested in other race's by default.
EDIT: I was just checking out some other sets. Even the Durmand Priory light-armor stuff is pretty generic, for human at least.
I'm going to be wearing this heritage skin forever, aren't I? :|
One Foul Note
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I am currently rocking an alchemist engineer. Battles generally involve getting completely drugged up on my elixirs and running at the enemies while screaming and shooting my blunderbuss. It is working out for me currently, I have never felt weak given the level of my opponents and I've got lots of opportunities to buff my allies should a group fight break out. I did try a bit of the sword and shield action on an alt character and it seems enjoyable, I would say go for it if you want to.
I have no idea pve wise and have only experienced public spvp. I think all classes do decently from what I've seen(on this skill level at least). Gaurdian seems pretty beastly though.
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