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Guild Wars 2 |OT2| Funding An MMO Entirely On Quaggan Backpacks
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CornBurrito
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Fuuuuuuuuuck. :/
I'm not gonna be able to get on at that time.
It may be worth waiting to level crafting professions until Friday (before the WvW reset) so you benefit from the extra "Artisan: 2-3% increased chance of crafting critical success" WvW bonus if you've been stockpiling materials/crafting boosters to go on a crafting binge already.
Colin's blowing up Twitter. I gotta say, I can recognize excitement about one's work when I see it:
Bold points in order:
1) Welp, I will not be satisfied until we complete all of the mission types at the highest difficulty. So much for making any short-term progress on my existing goals :3
2) This (extra supply as a reward for WvW progression) strikes me as kind of a great idea. I mean, just hearing that makes me want to go for it. It feels like attaining a military rank in a sense; maybe that's what they're going for. Like below the authority of commanders, veteran WvW players will actually have more impact in a given encounter by enabling siege to be built more quickly or with a smaller team. I wonder what else there is.
3) Ghost Eater now harder than Lupicus confirmed
4) This is basically just bolded for the "Wallach and Jira were right on the money" factor
edit: oh, official forums...
Bold points in order:
1) Welp, I will not be satisfied until we complete all of the mission types at the highest difficulty. So much for making any short-term progress on my existing goals :3
2) This (extra supply as a reward for WvW progression) strikes me as kind of a great idea. I mean, just hearing that makes me want to go for it. It feels like attaining a military rank in a sense; maybe that's what they're going for. Like below the authority of commanders, veteran WvW players will actually have more impact in a given encounter by enabling siege to be built more quickly or with a smaller team. I wonder what else there is.
3) Ghost Eater now harder than Lupicus confirmed
4) This is basically just bolded for the "Wallach and Jira were right on the money" factor
goddamnit slow down, colin!
edit: oh, official forums...
("kitten" is the universal swear filter replacement)
("All the bosses" ???)
(Trying other dungeons... the horror)
Man, what in the world do they think is gonna happen? D:
Kos Luftar
Member
If they add legendary mini pets. I cancel my subfor sure.
Squall ASF
Member
Legendary armor soon to be confirmed? mwahahaha I win, fools, I win!
if this goes down, I will re-campaign the universe dungeon token cause!
So when you guys create a new alt, who do you use to complete the dailies? your primary to continue to stack karma? or the new character to get them the xp and their karma started?
I kid
So when you guys create a new alt, who do you use to complete the dailies? your primary to continue to stack karma? or the new character to get them the xp and their karma started?
Legendary back item: Capes. Watch the nerd rage flood the internet.
I save all of my Karma Jugs. I'm over 100 of em now. Had to create a second stack for my vials too. In general, I will do dailies on an alt for the XP.
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Now imagine the new legendary items require basically the same mats as the legendary weapons, so people who did all this have to do it all over again.
I did mention a flood of nerd rage, right?
I'm kinda miffed Quivers are actually as hard to get as they are, I'd love one on my Thief but there's no way I'm gonna dump the materials needed for an alt.
irfaanator
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I do wonder if the WvW stuff is retroactive or if everybody will be on a clean slate when it comes. I also wonder how servers will respond to no orange swords w/ less than 25. It does encourage more smaller engagements which might be a response to help w/ culling/lag but it may lead to some undesirables that I myself don't know of just yet
I dunno. Half of the zergs on my mid-tier server have under 25 people. This seems like it'd just hide them better.
Yea I'm not so sure about how well it will work. I can see it leading to more zerg on zerg behavior, as it will be a guaranteed indicator of 25+ numbers. Honestly, I'd rather see LESS indicators and have commanders rely more on actual scouts etc to monitor movement.
That'd be nice. No indicators would be ideal in that case so it would allow for more scouting parties/havoc groups.
I'm missing on how this isn't "less." The orange swords will now be an indicator of 25+ people, but there will be no indicator for a smaller group. Seems like it'll be more viable for a group of 10 to rapidly assault an undefended keep, no?
You still get white swords even if a solo person hits a keep door(useful for denying WP's).
Orange swords can already be "skipped" by just using siege on a door; you will still get a white sword, but that's it.
The only "plus" is that you might catch someone derping on a skelk and put up a flag that a 25+ group is in the open field(but honestly I don't think things like that need to be shown on the map; I'd rather see zero indicators beyond white swords).
Tuesday is going to be a very big day:
http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/210/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson.aspx
That article is 20 minutes of a 2 hour interview, so more news still to come.
http://dragonseason.com/Front/tabid/124/EntryId/210/Lunch-with-Colin-Johanson.aspx
That article is 20 minutes of a 2 hour interview, so more news still to come.
theMrCravens
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Hmm.
I guess we should save up influence now.
Only spend on +mf everyday, skip the rest.
I guess we should save up influence now.
Only spend on +mf everyday, skip the rest.
We're not spending anything other than buffs that give us more influence.
Hey all,
Next time you're playing could you all login to each character you have on your account? Each login will get us +10 Influence for the guild. Influence is going to be necessary for starting guild missions, unlocking new guild missions, and other new influence rewards with the Feb 26th patch.
Next time you're playing could you all login to each character you have on your account? Each login will get us +10 Influence for the guild. Influence is going to be necessary for starting guild missions, unlocking new guild missions, and other new influence rewards with the Feb 26th patch.
What professions/weapon types do you like for kite classes? Something that can slow enemies and kill them before they engage at close range, disengage to put daylight between yourself and mobs, that kind of thing. So far this is what I've tried that seems to fit the bill:
- Guardian: scepter/focus
- Ranger: shortbow or axe/axe
- Elementalist: haven't found one yet
- Guardian: scepter/focus
- Ranger: shortbow or axe/axe
- Elementalist: haven't found one yet
Shortbow thief is pretty great at this.
Necro: Staff and scepter/focus or dagger/focus
I was able to solo kite the giant bore in Queensdale with a lowbie Necro and a staff. Dagger has a immobilize on the mainhand, but its a close range weapon. The focus OH has a chill on the 5th skill. Staff has a slow and a fear. You basically lay aoes out in a row in front of enemies and kite forever.
I will do this for you, my love.
+1, also Mesmer Staff and Greatsword (especially Staff/Greatsword). You'll want Crippling Dissipation from your Domination traits and Blink on your bar though.
Edit: to flesh out the shortbow Thief, you'll want either Shadowstep (good condition removal also) or Sword on the alternate set for Infiltrator's Strike.
Just to follow up on this. My buddy installed the mac version on his air and got 11fps. He then installed win8 onto said laptop and got 30fps with the windows version.
Dat poor optimization
I'm FINALLY going to start working on getting at least 1 full exotic set (looking at a soldier set) and I am wondering which would be the easiest route?
I just purchased a T3 cultural weapon so that ate up quite a bit of my saved Karma. Currently I have about 10k on my char and then maybe 10 un-opened jugs.
I also have just 'started' doing dungeon runs (have recently had some good ones with guild mates
) so I do not have a stock-pile of tokens saved up...
From what I understand my 2 best options would be to either purchase all 6 pieces from Karma vendors for 252k Karma or to get enough dungeon tokens to buy the full set - 1,380 tokens.
Seeing as I want soldier armor I would need to get all my tokens from either AC, SE or HoW - I'm guessing AC would be the easiest. As for Karma, I know I'll need to buy different pieces from different vendors to get a 'true' Soldier set. Right now I am only getting the Jugs from doing Dailies I believe.
So, which would be the easiest/fastest way to get my full exotic set?
I just purchased a T3 cultural weapon so that ate up quite a bit of my saved Karma. Currently I have about 10k on my char and then maybe 10 un-opened jugs.
I also have just 'started' doing dungeon runs (have recently had some good ones with guild mates
) so I do not have a stock-pile of tokens saved up...From what I understand my 2 best options would be to either purchase all 6 pieces from Karma vendors for 252k Karma or to get enough dungeon tokens to buy the full set - 1,380 tokens.
Seeing as I want soldier armor I would need to get all my tokens from either AC, SE or HoW - I'm guessing AC would be the easiest. As for Karma, I know I'll need to buy different pieces from different vendors to get a 'true' Soldier set. Right now I am only getting the Jugs from doing Dailies I believe.
So, which would be the easiest/fastest way to get my full exotic set?
Funny how you identified all the viable options but limited yourself to getting the full set from only one method!
Your easiest/fastest way to get your full exotic set would be to buy the pieces you can afford with karma with karma, the pieces you can afford with gold with gold, and save up dungeon tokens for the rest. On the TP, you can just search for "Solider's" armor directly.
There's no reason you need to get all 6 pieces from karma or all 6 from dungeons or all 6 from the TP.
Then you can, at whatever pace you please, obtain the skins you want and transmute everything to the look you want.
Luckily, SE1, SE3, HOTW1, and all three paths of AC (especially 1 and 2) are rather easy and fast. If you like the visual appearance of any of those sets, I'd head to them and get good at the runs- you'll earn oodles of gold in the process.
Another pro-tip: On the TP, do not limit yourself to level 80 exotics. Search for level 75-79 exotics for massive savings over level 80s for a ludicrously minor stat difference (hopefully you're not the min-maxing type... this game doesn't much reward it). As an added bonus, depending on what skin you want ultimately, you might be able to use regular transmutation stones on those pieces rather than Fine stones, which is always pleasant.
edit: Some relevant info/discrepancies...
Karma, besides dailies and monthlies, is earned from doing Events, Dungeons, Fractals that are below your personal Fractal level (help newbies!), and even Hearts.
Transmutation stones and Fine transmutation stones are earned from zone completion, rarely from completing your dailies/monthlies, and can be purchased in the gem store (of course, remember that you can buy anything in the gem store with gold).
edit again: Of course there's the matter of runes. If you have your mind set on a rune, consider looking for pieces on the TP that have it already, or choosing the dungeon/karma vendor that has the rune you want for the right pieces, etc. If you aren't worried about a rune set yet, then just focus on getting the pieces.
Your easiest/fastest way to get your full exotic set would be to buy the pieces you can afford with karma with karma, the pieces you can afford with gold with gold, and save up dungeon tokens for the rest. On the TP, you can just search for "Solider's" armor directly.
There's no reason you need to get all 6 pieces from karma or all 6 from dungeons or all 6 from the TP.
Then you can, at whatever pace you please, obtain the skins you want and transmute everything to the look you want.
Luckily, SE1, SE3, HOTW1, and all three paths of AC (especially 1 and 2) are rather easy and fast. If you like the visual appearance of any of those sets, I'd head to them and get good at the runs- you'll earn oodles of gold in the process.
Another pro-tip: On the TP, do not limit yourself to level 80 exotics. Search for level 75-79 exotics for massive savings over level 80s for a ludicrously minor stat difference (hopefully you're not the min-maxing type... this game doesn't much reward it
). As an added bonus, depending on what skin you want ultimately, you might be able to use regular transmutation stones on those pieces rather than Fine stones, which is always pleasant.edit: Some relevant info/discrepancies...
Karma, besides dailies and monthlies, is earned from doing Events, Dungeons, Fractals that are below your personal Fractal level (help newbies!), and even Hearts.
Transmutation stones and Fine transmutation stones are earned from zone completion, rarely from completing your dailies/monthlies, and can be purchased in the gem store (of course, remember that you can buy anything in the gem store with gold).
edit again: Of course there's the matter of runes. If you have your mind set on a rune, consider looking for pieces on the TP that have it already, or choosing the dungeon/karma vendor that has the rune you want for the right pieces, etc. If you aren't worried about a rune set yet, then just focus on getting the pieces.
What class are you? I'm not a fan of Soldiers stats as I think it's only good for a strictly w3 d/d elementalist. If you want tanky stats then I suggest Knights (T/Pow/Pre) which you can get from SE.
Dolyak runes are pretty good. I have a knight armor set with those if I need to be more tanky.
Ranger using Shortbow/Greatsword (berserker) 0/0/30/10/30 build
Was thinking Soldier armor - Dolyak runes and then Knight trinkets
Oh fair enough. I think I've definitely seen the back pieces on the TP but if it can't be crafted I'm sure you're right.
Hey Taffer, did you get added to the guild?
edit: Can you only buy the armor in WvW with badges?
Yep, PVT armor/trinkets can be bought from WvW(just make sure you are level 80 otherwise you'll get the level 60 junk), there is also a rare backpiece on the TP(and some exotic/ascended rings from fractals), not to mention AC/HoTW(maybe karma gear too? I haven't really checked that). So a lot of ways of getting that armor stat setup.
Not yet but I'm just levelling an alt ATM so there's no rush. I've been using the friends list to see if you or Retro are on (I remember your character's names) so I can bug you in-game but I went to bed early last night.
Yup, got Karma to spare and wanted some for my elementalist but was many badges short, ended up checking the map every 5 minutes to see which Orr temples were open instead. Still no leggings (not available from Orr), I need another few AC runs to finish that set off.
Yep to Karma.
I guess crafting is actually the only way it can't be obtained which as a matter of course means it isn't on the TP.
edit: Ooh, if you're in a hurry to get a piece of Karma gear, just try a quick guest hop to see if the one you need is open on another server (you can try 2 within a 24 hour period), Tarnished Coast is sort of the unofficial "everybody guest here" server in NA.
Taffer, you can just send one of us an in-game mail so that can see your character name and we'll be reminded to do it next time we're on. We don't have to be online to receive mail.
I plan on running that +gold utility, omnom, and guild bonuses; should be pretty crazy for CoF p1/p2 runs.
Complistic
Member
It's just + gold from monster drops I think. The infusion that is.
Applies to the bosses with large silver drops though, like those that also have bags of wondrous goods. AC is chock full of them
irfaanator
Banned
So yea it could've been just the music, but that video got me hype for guild missions.
Running around as chickens? That's what I'm gearing up for. I hope they implemented sick chicken dodge/flight animations
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