So I hit 80 recently, is dungeon running the best way to make gold? I'm sure this has been asked ad nauseum.
I dunno if it's the
best (playing the Trading Post apparently works wonders), but it's the most entertaining while being somewhat fast. Running COF1 and SE1 and AC Ghosteater are all pretty quick (slower, but more fun since the AC overhaul) and can be done in a night for about 3-5 gold depending on your luck. Use Raspberry Peach bars to increase the money earned by 30%. Magic-Find gear, if you use it, doesn't work on chests.
3/16/2013 - GAF Guild Tier 3 Bounty Mission Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHnMl7NAgBw
Awesome, but on further investigation I didn't actually get 5 people with my warbanner, there were only 4. My personal best remains unchanged.
Kos made a good point on this though, we need more people recording at all of the bounties so we can edit the whole missions together. Maybe throw in some epic music.
I finally picked this game up and am enjoying it, I only have one problem. I suck.
Can I please get some advice and even have some help to like level me up fast? I am a thief and don't even know if I should make a PvE build, spvp build, WvW build ugghhh it is so overwhelming for me.
You don't
want to level fast, the game you're playing at level 1 is the game you're playing at level 80. You don't hit max level and suddenly start playing a completely different game like you would with other MMOs, the breadth of content just expands. Take your time, enjoy the scenery, smell the roses. The stuff at 80 will still be there (or improved, actually) when you get there.
If you still feel like you're not leveling, try doing a little of everything. You level up from pretty much everything in this game (gathering, killing, events, hearts, WvW, PvP, daily achievements, crafting... even wandering around exploring) so just playing is rewarding enough. Hit every node, get to every vista, do any events you find... pretty soon you'll be leveling up and not realizing it.
The only real shortcut is to grab a crafting guide and level up two professions. It's expensive, but it's 10 levels per profession and you can drop ones you've completed and theoretically do all 8. But it's a lot of money.
At lower levels, try not to worry about spec; you'll be resetting them at level 10, 40 and 60 when you use the manuals.
fyi, this is my first mmo, so I am flat out terrible at the moment.
That's a good thing, honestly. People who have played other MMOs have been conditioned to a certain kind of behavior that runs counter to Guild Wars 2 (and reality, for that matter...). You would have had a lot to unlearn, crap like tagging mobs, stealing nodes, spawn camping, ninja looting, power-leveling... you're already well ahead of the pack starting from scratch at this point in the genre.
Is OverFlowrce still being supported at all? I'm looking into getting back into the game in April and want to help whichever GAF guild I can. Logged in this morning for the first time in forever, looked into OverFlowrce, but didn't see too much recent activity.
Overflowrce hasn't been getting any support because we moved all of the active players into the main GAFGuild after the last culling. There's plenty of room in the main guild now, so if you're back and actively playing you've got an invite headed your way (Kos tells me you're on, so I'm getting on to get you switched over now).
Also, in case anyone is curious, our numbers slowly dropped between November (mostly because of the holidays) and February when people started to come back. We floated around 300 for most of the winter, but now we're back up to 400 again and climbing. The March update should bring a lot of new content too, that should entice even more people back.
