nicoga3000
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Yeah, play whatever sounds fun. There are no roles - each class is equally as viable. Dive in and explore and let the game teach you as you go.
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Guild Wars 2 |OT2| Funding An MMO Entirely On Quaggan Backpacks
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Yeah, play whatever sounds fun. There are no roles - each class is equally as viable. Dive in and explore and let the game teach you as you go.
I knew that was Yuri Lowenthal. He's in everything, along with Troy Baker. Is Lauren Bailey in this too? If so, it's just one big Bishock Infinite/Persona 4 reunion.
EDIT: Laura, dammit.
Lauren or Laura? Laura Bailey is in this, as the human female voice.
Complistic
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Yeah, when you see him trying to get you to do Arah, you're suppose to ignore it.
The N was accidental!
Oh she's the human female voice? Dang. Why couldn't female norn get a decent VA?
Where's that awesome newbie manual from Retro... I'll have a looksee. edit: i canna find. what's wrong with meeee?
Start with the class that sounds interesting to you. "Tanking" in the traditional MMO sense is not an effective tactic for any GW2 class.
I ended up having some bad lag issues and I'm really getting sick of this laptop and didn't stay on that much longer anyway... but Complistic and Kos took me around to get the samples I was missing, so I basically know where all of them are now if you want a guided tour!
Had quite a lot of fun just running around in those little groups though, and made a healthy bit of coin as a Consortium spy, too. Really sorry that I was multitasking so much of the time at the beginning (in an officer meeting on mumble, but had to use the Mumble app on my phone, so juggling gamepad and phone.... whee).
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Our officers' meeting was very productive by the way. I'll be making a substantial post about our new schedule and policies soon (almost definitely today), to go into effect on Monday. Tonight will be the last time guild missions/makeups are ever held on a Friday (to accomodate people who may have already been planning on it this week). WvW-heads rejoice!
Every game is.
Yeah. It's actually kind of concerning. I wish there were more notable VA's. Kinda takes you out of the experience once you start attributing these guys to one performance that stuck out to you.
I never really took note of anyone until P4, so now it's like I see those characters in each subsequent game their VA is in.
Are you collecting enough Pun Tokens? It's the new currency.
It's not how many bars you fill, it's what and how much you drink in each one of 'em.
Tanking doesn't exist in GW2 like other MMOs, there's zero taunts in the game. Every class can assume any role, nothing is locked down and can be changed at will via changing your weapons, traits, utilities, or gear. You kinda "tank" by putting yourself in front of attacks and using block skills or projectile reflect skills or knocking mobs back. There are absolutely no ways to guarantee that you have threat, it's up to everyone to be paying attention. Post your account name (name.1234 thing) and we'll throw you a guild invite so you can have help because this game is very different from other MMOs. Also, be sure to roll on Stormbluff Isle if you're in North America.
Credit to Retro for the quoted.
In order to become an officer you need a max leveled character in Progress Quest
edit: I can't find it Jira! I feel the feels of fail!
edit: I can't find it Jira! I feel the feels of fail!
Yea, though I certainly wouldn't mind if every game had Liam O'Brien in.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I figure you were having issues. I would love a guided a tour when time permits!
Squall ASF
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I'd like to bring up a proposal to ANET for a system they can add for Ascended rings you get as drops in Fractals. I now have two that contain stats I will never want for any toon I create and I can't sell them so they are literally worthless. Now I understand not selling them because everyone could just buy them without doing any work. What I'd propose is adding a trade option through the fractal merchant that lets you trade a ring for one of equivalent value stat wise. Every other weapon, armor, or accessory holds some value if you don't want it whether it be selling it, using it for a skin, or salvaging it for rune/sigil/ecto. These rings do none of that. I imagine you can salvage them for mithril or orich and maybe even ecto but that's a laughable action with something that should be so valuable. Give me something to do with these rings please, Anet! #first world problems
I'm not sure why it has to be axes, just you get two weapons worth of upgrade slot filled and keep the luck sigil stack from the weapon swap.
Everyone wants there to be something to do with spare Ascended Rings (a complaint I once found ridiculous I am now guilty of myself). Your idea is as good as any!
Really, if nothing else you should be able to toss four in the forge for a random one, but you can't even do that!
xenoflux2113
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I just can't seem to get into the Southsun stuff. I log in and try to do more living story and then I just end up logging out after 15 or so minutes. The thing is I wan't those items and titles but I am not having fun with it and so I actually log out instead of leaving Southsun and doing my dailies or working on finishing the monthly or even playing an alt. I know its supposed to be good but yeah, its just not grabbing me.
Jest Chillin
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I'm skeptical on the stacking of MF booster with Laurel MF booster. I've only seen two types of "booster" that allow for stacking and that's the Banner style and the shop style. MF Bonfires and BLT MF Boosters use the same icon and don't stack. Unless the Laurel booster uses a third kind of Icon that I'm unaware of, it probably doesn't stack.
If you literally just want the skins, everything needed to complete them can be completed in under an hour total. Here is a 30-minute video guide to getting them all. Why not do 10-minutes of it at the very end of your play session over the course of a week or so? Then you will spend the vast majority of the time you're playing having fun and still get the stuff you want with a minimum of doing stuff you don't.
thus far I've rarely had a reason to leave Southsun to be able to complete my daily
It does have its own icon.
xenoflux2113
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If you literally just want the skins, everything needed to complete them can be completed in under an hour total. Here is a 30-minute video guide to getting them all. Why not do 10-minutes of it at the very end of your play session over the course of a week or so? Then you will spend the vast majority of the time you're playing having fun and still get the stuff you want with a minimum of doing stuff you don't.
thus far I've rarely had a reason to leave Southsun to be able to complete my daily
As always you have sage like advice for me. Thanks Hawkian I will probably do just that.
Jest Chillin
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BrokenSymmetry
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Still a good thing ArenaNet has automated all events, bonus weeks, and tournaments. They could have simply stopped all these events.
I haven't played this in weeks. Friend I play with had to get his computer repaired, but it's back now and it's time to jump back in.
I wish we had more friends who played, as it gets kind of boring and repetitive with just the two of us. It'd be a lot more fun to have a larger party so we could tackle dungeons whenever, and big bad bosses.
We played a dungeon once with some gaffers, and it was great!
I wish we had more friends who played, as it gets kind of boring and repetitive with just the two of us. It'd be a lot more fun to have a larger party so we could tackle dungeons whenever, and big bad bosses.
We played a dungeon once with some gaffers, and it was great!
Why are you not playing with the GAF guild? Come to Stormbluff Isle!
I really want to! But I can't join on Friday and Saturday since I can't make it at those times.
Still, when we have a dungeon to do, we'll put the word here and see who wants to join us.
A sad day indeed, but some very clever ways around the potential abandonment problems games would ordinarily have in that vein.
The population spike the game got yesterday must have been hilarious...
You my friend will be pleased to see the new schedule for stuff we're rolling out.I really want to! But I can't join on Friday and Saturday since I can't make it at those times.
Still, when we have a dungeon to do, we'll put the word here and see who wants to join us.
INdeed. I'm waiting for Hawkian to make a sick infographic.
Jest Chillin
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I had fun in GW1 during the downtime yesterday. Finally ding'd 20 on my Ele. I might actually spend some time doing the HoM stuff if I owned Eye of The North but alas, I do not. And they haven't dropped the price on that badboy down low enough for my tastes.
Hey, question guys in regards to all that crazy MF business earlier. Does MF help you get rares and exotics more frequently, or is it only for blues and greens? Also, does anyone know how it affects crafting materials - many of them are consistently blue in rarity but can vary wildly in prices due to the crafting level.
Haha, MF just actually affects where your rolls land on the table for drops from enemies (and ONLY drops from enemies, so far as we've been told).
So it's not related to whether or not you get a drop- that's a 1/x roll unrelated to magic find- but it applies to what the drop is. So you're more likely to get everything from an exotic or t6 mat on down than you were before, but should not appreciably be seeing a difference in the AMOUNT of loot you get.
Honestly I thought it was pointless at first but I'm vastly preferring the gold find buff. I'm just not really interested in anything you get from the crates so it's easy for me not to care about finding boxes.
So it's not related to whether or not you get a drop- that's a 1/x roll unrelated to magic find- but it applies to what the drop is. So you're more likely to get everything from an exotic or t6 mat on down than you were before, but should not appreciably be seeing a difference in the AMOUNT of loot you get.
Well I've gotten two! I was able to get closish to 400 with raspberry peach bars and a full luck stack...
Honestly I thought it was pointless at first but I'm vastly preferring the gold find buff. I'm just not really interested in anything you get from the crates so it's easy for me not to care about finding boxes.
I don't have access to photoshop and all my home goodies... but at least a very well-formatted post! :[Ashodin said:
The entire table shifts rolls, but remember this only applies to drops from kills. Magic find doesn't apply to items you loot from containers or rewards from missions (like opening the bonus chest on large group events or your daily rewards). Since it is possible to get rares and exotics from drops, you will get proportionally more by increasing your magic find.
How I envision it in my head is a Loot Table with various things on it. There are several "tiers" of the the table, which Magic Find "pushes" your drop into said "tier".
A normal player's tier without any MF would fall into a category similar to this:
Drop 1 - Gray
Drop 2 - Gray
Drop 3 - Blue
Drop 4 - Lower Tier Mat
Drop 5 - Gray
and so on. This would be called Tier 1.
If you put on say 100% MF, it pushes the rarity of items that drop into a second "tier", which increases the chance of the drop rolling on that tier's loot than before.
So "Tier 2" looks like this:
Drop 1 - Gray
Drop 2 - Blue
Drop 3 - Green
Drop 4 - Lower Tier Mat
Drop 5 - Gray
Drops are not entirely accurate with data, but you get the idea.
Chests in the game (specifically, the world event chests) are already "set" to a specific tier of loot, and is static with your chances to get anything on the tier of loot. It's probably set right about where you earn more greens than blues, but of course, you can "roll" all blues, all greens, or all rares (much more likely to roll all blues, however).
Back when they upped the rares from the chests and had them directly in it, it actually pushed the tier even FURTHER ahead to where getting multiple rares were much more guaranteed. ANet has since denied that this was the case, because why would they admit to such a thing? It would cause fans to be in uproar about the chest drop rates, and say they're deliberately tampering with the economy, which by all means they have every right to.
So when you roll to Southsun and you're rocking over 350% MF (what most people can achieve), you're pushing that "tier" of loot so high, I'm betting it's sitting right below high chances of rares. Remember, it's not a flat number of MF, but a percentage. It won't be the same as ANet manually adjusting the rate to drop at a static value.
With the chest at the end of the Lost Shores event, I'm fairly sure that box was tuned up to, let's say, Tier 5 of loot. This means everyone who opened the chest had a very high chance of getting an exotic (which is Tier 4), with a high chance of a precursor drop (which I imagine is the highest form of loot in the game). You'll never see a chest like that again, I'm certain.
I got the axe precursor and I should have kept it. My Ranger was a twinkle in my eye at the time though...
A normal player's tier without any MF would fall into a category similar to this:
Drop 1 - Gray
Drop 2 - Gray
Drop 3 - Blue
Drop 4 - Lower Tier Mat
Drop 5 - Gray
and so on. This would be called Tier 1.
If you put on say 100% MF, it pushes the rarity of items that drop into a second "tier", which increases the chance of the drop rolling on that tier's loot than before.
So "Tier 2" looks like this:
Drop 1 - Gray
Drop 2 - Blue
Drop 3 - Green
Drop 4 - Lower Tier Mat
Drop 5 - Gray
Drops are not entirely accurate with data, but you get the idea.
Chests in the game (specifically, the world event chests) are already "set" to a specific tier of loot, and is static with your chances to get anything on the tier of loot. It's probably set right about where you earn more greens than blues, but of course, you can "roll" all blues, all greens, or all rares (much more likely to roll all blues, however).
Back when they upped the rares from the chests and had them directly in it, it actually pushed the tier even FURTHER ahead to where getting multiple rares were much more guaranteed. ANet has since denied that this was the case, because why would they admit to such a thing? It would cause fans to be in uproar about the chest drop rates, and say they're deliberately tampering with the economy, which by all means they have every right to.
So when you roll to Southsun and you're rocking over 350% MF (what most people can achieve), you're pushing that "tier" of loot so high, I'm betting it's sitting right below high chances of rares. Remember, it's not a flat number of MF, but a percentage. It won't be the same as ANet manually adjusting the rate to drop at a static value.
With the chest at the end of the Lost Shores event, I'm fairly sure that box was tuned up to, let's say, Tier 5 of loot. This means everyone who opened the chest had a very high chance of getting an exotic (which is Tier 4), with a high chance of a precursor drop (which I imagine is the highest form of loot in the game). You'll never see a chest like that again, I'm certain.
I got the axe precursor and I should have kept it. My Ranger was a twinkle in my eye at the time though...
No, you weren't saying that particle effects = death. I was saying that. I was saying that you're ignoring the fact that the particle effects also mean that you're getting hurt if you stand there. I was saying that because so much damage can be aimed at a point (which usually takes the form of crazy amounts of particle effects) bunkers exist.
As for the field, the nature of the field tells who it's from. If I see a poison trap go off, it's one of the rangers, but the Thief poison field is very distinct and the only other one that looks similar to it comes from two necro traits that no one uses and (I think) a rune set no one uses.
As for which team a given AoE belongs to, that I can agree with. What would need to happen is blue and red borders. For now, you generally tell which team launched it based on who takes damage standing in it. Yes, this means more figuring it out as/after the AoE goes off, rather than before it touches the ground, but...
Part of the issue is how fast everything is. And with more skills to work with, casters need some time to get up to speed. The best caster team from the last weekend of tournaments wasn't one that played GW2 much at all, so of course they needed to catch up. And then the caster team with the most knowledge weren't the best speakers.
And while I agree it is easier to tell in the MOBA's, it's still not easy, especially during team fights. I don't know who has what skills, so there are times when three or four guys mingle, and start going off on each other, and the only reason why I might be able tell what happened is because I saw those skills go off before. GW2 has a lot more skills per character, with faster animations, but I disagree that there aren't a deluge of unique effects. You can tell a lot from just a 1 on 1 fight.
To summarize,
There are a lot of effects, but those effects are there because they come from skills that do a lot of damage.
GW2 is fast, and with a lot of skills. I don't think it's impossible for a caster to keep their head on through all of it because there are a lot of unique things between classes. In your example, everything blue that comes out is the Guardian. Most of the other crazy effects will come from the D/D Ele. If a poison field shows up, the casters can easily say it's from the Thief on the side. Anything else will be a trap from one of the Rangers, or perhaps their torch AoE skill, which has an animation different from all the other class skills in play.
The problem is when both teams are running the same class and they clash during a team fight. That is a problem they absolutely will have to address. But for the most part, if I can parse what's going on, then a caster can. What's next is working on speed, or failing that, being able to breakdown what happened after the fact as quickly as possible. As it is right now, the casters are already able to call out when stomps are going down.
And I will say that I'm basing a lot of this from all of the special showmatches and demos they had for PvP before GW2 released. For the year up to release I loved watching these vids and figuring out the general gist of what was going on wasn't too hard.
Thanks for linking my "Beginners Tips" post, guys. I'll probably put that in the OT3 and clean it up a bit. Also, Hawkian, you need to get me a list of your awesome info posts so I can get them in there too. You only have 4000 more posts or so to do it.
Hmm? The Female Human Character VA is April Stewart. She's done the majority of the female characters on South Park since 2003. You can tell because the human female sounds like Cartman's Mom.
IMDB doesn't show anyone named Laura Bailey working on GW2, nor does she mention the game on her own site's full credits.
Hmm? The Female Human Character VA is April Stewart. She's done the majority of the female characters on South Park since 2003. You can tell because the human female sounds like Cartman's Mom.
IMDB doesn't show anyone named Laura Bailey working on GW2, nor does she mention the game on her own site's full credits.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
What's this I read about DR while farming?
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