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inky

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One mistake I've seen a lot of people make (and thus have exp woes) is not following Dynamic Events. Most, if not all of them, are chains. There was this Asura NPC in an area asking for some enemy parts, so you killed stuff in the near vicinity and bring them to him. Around 8/10 people were contributing to it with me so it filled up pretty fast, then after like 30 seconds everyone got a reward. At this point everybody left. I followed the NPC back to a settlement where he began talking to other NPCs. They did something together and another, bigger veteran enemy was summoned that when killed gave even more exp/karma/gold. I was the only one there to fight him together with some NPC guards.

This is but a short example of what happens with DE yet if people are not told by the game exactly where to go (or are not paying attention to the NPC's dialogue) they have no clue. There are events that have 4 or 5 stages.

I am going to agree that maybe more stuff to do could and should be added around, but exp is so easy to come by it's not even funny. I am currently getting 850 exp for every node gathered. I need 180k to level up and this is a lvl 70-75 zone where I have uncovered maybe 40% of it and I am already level 75, heck there are not even hearts in this area, everything chains together through DEs. If you are constantly under-leveled you are doing something wrong imo.
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
kayos90 said:
Oh they turned it on EVERYONE? When? then maybe I didn't get hacked and the email is taking FUCKING FOREVER.
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Oh, yeah. Very unlikely you were hacked. They've commented:
We're aware that some players are unable to login due to the email authentication and our teams are working on fixing it ^SL
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Bizarrely it worked flawlessly for me, just logged on, saw that it asked for an email, went to my email and clicked and said save, never bothered me again. :/
 
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kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Hawkian said:
Oh, yeah. Very unlikely you were hacked. They've commented:

Bizarrely it worked flawlessly for me, just logged on, saw that it asked for an email, went to my email and clicked and said save, never bothered me again. :/
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Well, I'm just fucking pissed now. An email shouldn't take forever. Also, if the authenticator is broken, then take that shit down so people can log in. Once it's fixed, THEN implement it.
 
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Ken

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The email authenticator worked for me too well. Kept getting emails every time I logged in so I had to check the box to remember the network I was logging in from.


Teknopathetic said:
"8 gold is like a little more than $40 in gems."


The gem/gold ratio is dynamic.
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Dynamic but that's how much it was when the exploits were happening.
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Ken said:
The email authenticator worked for me too well. Kept getting emails every time I logged in so I had to check the box to remember the network I was logging in from.
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Yep- this is how it's intended to work. They must be beside themselves that it's just keeping people out of the game entirely right now. Double your mail servers Anet!
 
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tci

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A bit angry about it myself. I was supposed to level with a friend of mine on a new character. He have been playing alone while I have been watching the TSL4 stream.
 
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kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
I checked every single email box including spam. I'm pissed because I NEED to play this game for review. When I dedicate a time of the day to reviewing a game and it's not working I become extremely upset/frustrated because now it's stupid and wasting time. Luckily I have review Dark Souls too so I'll do that. But as a reviewer you have no idea how angry this makes me.
 
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Kalnos

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So far the Renown Hearts seem like a step back from modern WoW quests. All of them seem to boil down to kill this or click this. I think the 'click this' is where I have a problem with it. Light a torch, destroy artifacts, collect items, etc all boil down to walking up to something and then clicking on it where in WoW they have added all sorts of interesting quest specific items/vehicles and what have you that you need to use.

The dynamic events can be amazing at times, when they aren't an escort, but the really cool ones are pretty rare (Caledon Forest worm was awesome).

I'm just finding it hard to get excited about the PvE in this game.
 
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RS4-

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The areas that have people continuously spamming skills in anticipation of events, I came across one but I wasn't getting any XP lol (maybe because I was level 15 while the mobs were 20+). I'm assuming they're doing it to farm xp and drops?

Rare drops and higher, just salvage eh?
 
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Mothman91

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Damn, this is very serious. Hope ArenaNet can solve this out. I haven't gotten any email authentications.............................yet.

I hope I don't get into this mess.
 
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kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
I feel like they should just TURN THE FUCKING THING OFF so people can log in. Once you have it fixed then put it up. This mentality is insane. If they can't turn it off, then tell us WHY!
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Kalnos said:
interesting quest specific items/vehicles and what have you that you need to use.
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There are quite a few of these- don't give up hope yet. In one there's a rifle that lets you trap minotaurs when they're below 50% health, another you're inside a golem, and one where you have to lure and trap invincible crabs.
 
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Fivefold

Banned
Don't want to be blaming the victim here but I've had absolutely no problem with my account so far. Received my auth email instantly.

People getting hacked either:

1. Used the same email/password they used in a compromised site (last.fm was the latest, most high profile case IIRC)

2. Have an active keylogger in their system.

Anet not providing a functional authenticator (email or dongle or app) day 1 is of course their fault, but if the user's security is already compromised from start that won't do much anyway.
 
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Sethos

Banned
Thanasis Deitus said:
Escorting Dolyaks in WvW is considered an event, and gives good exp rewards for completing it. If you want to mind numbingly grind your way to level 80 by basically doing nothing, that's the easiest way.
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Add to that, on one of the routes you can bunch up two of them either by luck or with some speed abilities. Then you only need to follow them 50% of the way and they will both give you a gold completion when they arrive. That's like 4 minutes of double event XP over and over again.
 
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Teknopathetic

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"Add to that, on one of the routes you can bunch up two of them either by luck or with some speed abilities. Then you only need to follow them 50% of the way and they will both give you a gold completion when they arrive. That's like 4 minutes of double event XP over and over again."


Pro-tip: You can get the other 2 on the opposite side of the map as well for 4x event XP.
 
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Mothman91

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Thanasis Deitus said:
Escorting Dolyaks in WvW is considered an event, and gives good exp rewards for completing it. If you want to mind numbingly grind your way to level 80 by basically doing nothing, that's the easiest way.
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WvW? Ehhhhh, I don't think I've played WvW for even like 5 minutes. When I was in there, they teleported everyone back into Lions Arch because they were going to restart the servers or something.
 
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Sethos

Banned
Teknopathetic said:
"Add to that, on one of the routes you can bunch up two of them either by luck or with some speed abilities. Then you only need to follow them 50% of the way and they will both give you a gold completion when they arrive. That's like 4 minutes of double event XP over and over again."


Pro-tip: You can get the other 2 on the opposite side of the map as well for 4x event XP.
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Really? Damn, how's that possible
 
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kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Honestly, I don't think I got hacked. My password remains the same. I can log in. I just can't verify the fucking log in. So they turned on Authentication for me without my knowledge and I can't access it as a result.
 
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Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I've gotten no previous emails indicating someone was trying to log in, and I have a password created specifically for GW2 that's never been used before. And of course, I can actually log in. It's the authenticating email itself that won't send.
 
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benny_a

extra source of jiggaflops
I tried the Dolyaks stuff in WvW and escorted them like 8 times but only got exp 2 times.
One time was when I had to defend the Dolyak from enemy players and once the Dolyak died to enemy players.

Killing enemy Dolyaks gave me the completion event every time.
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
kayos90 said:
Honestly, I don't think I got hacked. My password remains the same. I can log in. I just can't verify the fucking log in. So they turned on Authentication for me without my knowledge and I can't access it as a result.
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Yeah, I think your account is safe. It's bizarre to me that so many people are missing their emails as mine was literally, I mean, it was in my inbox by the time I tabbed to it to check. I think it's a mail server issue honestly... hoping they get it locked up quick.
 
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bogg

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Same thing here. And we finally managed to get a party to do CM on gandara, I couldn't enter the instance so I tried logging out, now I can't log back in. sigh.
 
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kayos90

Tragic victim of fan death
Hawkian said:
Yeah, I think your account is safe. It's bizarre to me that so many people are missing their emails as mine was literally, I mean, it was in my inbox by the time I tabbed to it to check. I think it's a mail server issue honestly... hoping they get it locked up quick.
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It's been hours....
 
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Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Hawkian said:
Yeah, I think your account is safe. It's bizarre to me that so many people are missing their emails as mine was literally, I mean, it was in my inbox by the time I tabbed to it to check. I think it's a mail server issue honestly... hoping they get it locked up quick.
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I've heard a few people say that they got the email instantly but it was earlier in the day than the lot of us.

Right now, it seems to be non-functional.
 
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Zoink

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Kaijima said:
So... isn't the leveling balanced to take crafting into account? It seems they really want to encourage people to craft here, especially with the bonus XP from discovering, and the fact that the gear you craft for yourself can actually be really great at any given level range.
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I don't think so. I got to level 80 with zero xp from crafting, pvp, dungeons or xp boosts. There was a couple of times I thought, "oh crap...I have nowhere to go" then I realised I had missed entire zones. The xp from personal story is insane, I always did them -2 levels and it wasn't unusual to get around 20% of a level on completion.
 
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