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chickdigger802
Banned
Yeah... have similar problems with those event bosses that hover in the air, like that giant moth/bee or w/e.
Not being to seeing where I'm wacking and next moment i'm down. Awesome.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
From what I've seen and heard, the longer an enemy is alive, the more bonus experience you get.
notoriousKTR
Member
Anyone know where to acquire this rifle: http://www.gw2db.com/items/46178-rifle ?
I really like the model and want to transmute it.
I really like the model and want to transmute it.
The longer the mob has been alive in the game the higher the exp bonus. It's easy this way to get bonuses larger than the base exp if you go kill stuff in remote places.
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Finally got to 400 armorsmithing. That was a bitch. I don't really like the way crafting works in this game, it has its nice things and all, but it's just as shitty as in most MMOs. At least I crafted some exotic dragon pants that look pretty cool.
Wow this game amazes me every day I play it. Today I decided to roll my Asura Elementalist alt, and going to one of the very first Asura Tasks has the option to "Experiment on Sleeping Golems".
On my Sylvari, the options were like, "Cut the green/blue/yellow/random wire", "Turn the round thing/Wiggle the square thing/Push the triangle thing", etc., and the result was always that the golem turned into a bomb and exploded.
On my Asura, the options are much more Asura-like: "Ether-the dynamo server/Invert the mood matrix/Cross the poli-ellipsoid aggression relay/Yank that thing out", "Tweak the multiphased polarity/Replace the pyrolithic sub-node/Prime the necrochromatic over-field.", and the result is sometimes your experiment actually doesn't blow up the golem!
I realize this is a rather small thing to be so amazed about, but I thought it was awesome!
On my Sylvari, the options were like, "Cut the green/blue/yellow/random wire", "Turn the round thing/Wiggle the square thing/Push the triangle thing", etc., and the result was always that the golem turned into a bomb and exploded.
On my Asura, the options are much more Asura-like: "Ether-the dynamo server/Invert the mood matrix/Cross the poli-ellipsoid aggression relay/Yank that thing out", "Tweak the multiphased polarity/Replace the pyrolithic sub-node/Prime the necrochromatic over-field.", and the result is sometimes your experiment actually doesn't blow up the golem!
I realize this is a rather small thing to be so amazed about, but I thought it was awesome!
Im kinda curious what the options would be as a Norn. Punch the wire! Poor ale over that square thing. Yell real loudly at it!
Barack Lesnar
Banned
It's my only significant issue with the game. The jumping puzzles can be brutal with that camera (ex: the one in the Sylvari starting zone), among other things like tense battles in enclosed areas.
Personally just trying to avoid any drama going forward. Just let it go.
Neither of you will convince the other at this point and after the discussion about builds and specs I just thought it better to not get involved. I did think the argument was funny. Sorry to Jack and any others if I seemed dismissive.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
How could there be drama about this gaming masterpiece. So are exotic pets (orange text) mystic forged? Mini oak heart, mini witch, undead chicken, those ones. Put 4 yellow in the forge and maybe get an orange?
chickdigger802
Banned
but... half the fun of mmos is bitching about how shitty your class is compare to everyone else's!
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I figured it would be how OP (insert class) other than yours is. I haven't seen any of that really, which is surprising.
Bold 1: Ironic. Isn't it?
Bold 2: Cool. At least they had some level of decency to begin with.
Bold 3: Nice to have expectations but don't have them when you act the way you do in the first place.
Bold 4: That applies in-game. I've already made this point clear a long way back. Thread drama is fine since the mods will take care of it. In-game is for the me and the other officers to decide. Thank you.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Who gives a shit and just play the game. That's my take on drama.
The game keeps freezing for me so I have to pass the time either writing the review or posting here.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Finally got to 400 armorsmithing. That was a bitch. I don't really like the way crafting works in this game, it has its nice things and all, but it's just as shitty as in most MMOs. At least I crafted some exotic dragon pants that look pretty cool.
Damn dude you look godly. WTB that helm
CornBurrito
Member
Yeah. Armorsmithing is not fun. I am level 30 something right now and I don't have enough materials to craft anything worthwhile. My armorcraft skill is still stuck at ~50 as a result.
Cooking is basically the only tolerable one for me.
Also as far as traits go, how is this for Guardian? Maxed Zeal, Maxed Honor, 10 in Virtue. I plan on maxing Zeal for the juicy Greatsword skills. I think maxing Honor gives me an abiltiy that reduces TH weapon cooldowns.
Jeweler is pretty easy too. I actually liked that one. They really need to up the drop rate on fine mats since its pretty tellign that the two best crafting disciplines dont use them
And just be thankful youre not a leatherworker or tailor. Defintiely worse than armorsmith since cloth and leather are a lot harder to come by
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Unless you have an addiction to stress then not responding to hypocrites that call you out on things would probably keep you sane longer
I love the tribal looking set you get around level 30 for humans. Been keeping the skin the whole time.
If there are any runs going on, I think ill try my first dungeon tomorrow. Just too damn sleepy today (thanks GW2 for keeping me up too late)
hockeypuck
Member
I'm not sure why it's not a symmetrical tri-spoke for truest balance.
I'm burning through my coins to buy mats and keep up my crafting with my level. I've had at most 54 silver at one time and I'm level 30. Never had a gold coin to my name
For crafting discovery, can anyone confirm for me that the QUANTITY of a material matters and a new recipe won't show up (or even be alluded to) unless I have enough of a said material, i.e., I can't have one of each level-appropriate mat and go crazy. Because if true then my alt's life is going to be much tougher given how much coin I've donated to the WvWvW cause
The Elite
BOSS
To think that ArenaNet should let the "community" guide their hand in anything is wishful thinking at best, and dangerously misguided at worst. I can't express how relieved I am that ArenaNet would never do such thing. If there's one single thing worse than design by committee, it's design by audience.
I'm all for consumer entitlement (heck, I'm the first to complain when a company screws over their consumer, which is pretty much daily), but I think ArenaNet can't really do much more than what they are doing. Believe me, all the whining you can do is orders of magnitude less pressing to them than the company reputation they are perfectly aware of losing. I very much doubt any marketplace ever has gone from zero to hundreds of millions of items being listed worldwide without a hitch; crafting materials hover around the several hundreds of thousands of units each, and realize each individual item has an associated user id and price (among others). The volume of information being accessed in real-time is quite staggering.
That said, people fail to see the bigger picture, which is that the game itself is more stable and lag-free now, at less than two weeks after release, that most MMOs are within months of their launch. How quickly do people forget about stuff like WoW's loot lag, etc.
Finally, could we (and I mean both camps) please take the ad-hominem attacks out of this forum? We can discuss different and even opposing points of view without degrading those in front if you. I know we are better than this.
I've been saying this all year!
Start up a new thf and chuck the hood into your bank?
You must have at least 1 lowbie character you can delete for a little while
For crafting discovery, can anyone confirm for me that the QUANTITY of a material matters and a new recipe won't show up (or even be alluded to) unless I have enough of a said material, i.e., I can't have one of each level-appropriate mat and go crazy. Because if true then my alt's life is going to be much tougher given how much coin I've donated to the WvWvW cause
Not really sure what you mean, but so long as you have both pieces of gear and an insignia you should be able to get a discovery. quantity really doesnt matter in that situation. You just have to have a combination of the 2 piece equipment and insignia that you havent discovered yet.
The only thing that limits you in discovery is your crafting level and if you have already crafted the item. If you have 6 ravaging insignia then you need six different 2 piece gear combos to get 6 different discoveries. If you have 6 different insignias, you can have the same 6 2 piece gear combo to get 6 different discoveries.
Necromanti
Member
I miss this game. Haven't played it since the 30th.
Haven't played it since the 30th.Man I should have gotten the Karma helmet instead of the chestpiece from the Balthazar karma vendor. I look pretty dumb.
Exotically dumb.
I usually do that, but right now I am sporting an awesome engineer style monocle that i just had to keep
Yeeeah. I'm going to transmute when I get the exotic helmet I want. I like the Doric Helmet but it has a different texture than the rest of my armor; applying white gold makes it shinier than the rest of my armor.
hockeypuck
Member
We can't discover the insignias themselves?
Edit: do unchecked helmets still appear to other players? Keep forgetting to ask my fellow players.
No, you automatically get those when you level up
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
All the newbie stuff you start with is character bound.
Ah. Well, I found a monocle that looks exactly like the engineers starter monocle thingy, so theres hope!
GAF, help me decide which alt to play first!
I have the gems to make a male Sylvari mesmer too, but I don't really like the class
Charr engineer, cause they're awesome.
Alex
Member
sPvP seems kinda wonky due to some class balancing issues at the moment. It stands to reason why everyone is suddenly making Thieves and Mesmers to PvP on :lol
Auto scaling includes it's own problems I suppose; when there's a flavor of the month, now everyone has free reign to be it.
Auto scaling includes it's own problems I suppose; when there's a flavor of the month, now everyone has free reign to be it.
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
That is by far my favorite greatsword graphic
I'm level 50 and my offhand dagger looks like a level 1 dagger. Fortunately I have a cool yellow one to balance it out. But visual loot scaling is definitely a problem in the game. I suppose they want you to invest in high tier cultural and special armors, but there's no way a level 50 character should resemble a level one character at all.
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