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since school ends this week, time to get some pvp gw2 in. Gotta figure out builds now. Have they added in the new heals or have they actually added in the multiple new stat combos to pvp?
 

Proven

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since school ends this week, time to get some pvp gw2 in. Gotta figure out builds now. Have they added in the new heals or have they actually added in the multiple new stat combos to pvp?

New heals were in. New stat combos from PvE aren't as most of them are considered too overpowering.
 

Shiokazu

Member
help the dolys get to the gates, donate to the guys in need, play music with bells, snowball fights, toys wreaking havoc all over, presents, tons of presents, jumping on snowflakes, more presents... theres a new explorable dungeon, i even forgot about the whole ascended gear stuff.

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wintersday is awesome
 

Complistic

Member
I'm giving away 1000g to a gafguild member this Saturday at 9pm eastern, well drawing after the missions..

Just show up and you may win :)

Since it's not my gold, I shouldn't tell you what to do with it, but I feel like giving every member that shows up to the guild missions 10 - 20 gold (depends on how many members hows up) is much more generous.

#GW2Socialist
 

Levyne

Banned
Since it's not my gold, I shouldn't tell you what to do with it, but I feel like giving every member that shows up to the guild missions 10 - 20 gold (depends on how many members hows up) is much more generous.

#GW2Socialist

Nah. That's sounds exceedingly boring.
 

Complistic

Member
What's more boring is not getting anything. But again like I said, it's your gold so I'm not in any way going to get down on you for however you want to spend it. If it's more fun for you to make one person very happy, than make everyone happy, then that's that.
 
I'm giving away 1000g to a gafguild member this Saturday at 9pm eastern, well drawing after the missions..

Just show up and you may win :)

How great of you. Too bad I work this weekend. And sadly I'm nowhere near as active as I once was.

Ignore the naysayers. Though the last time I randomly gifted gold to GAF members because I said fuck it, they all returned it back. (was after a really bad Arah run however)
 
Yesterday I tried the Jumping Puzzle and the Bell Game, and they were pretty cool.
I managed to beat the Jumping Puzzle twice in a row. That felt good. I'm awful at the Bell Game though.

What should I exchange for the Unwanted Gifts?
 
Singapore/China (GMT+8)

That means 10pm Saturday here.

Also how come some events count in Monthly, some don't?

Well the Saturday guild mission is 9PM (evening) EST which is -5 GMT so that means for you it's 9PM+13H which is 10AM (morning) on Sunday.

If you are doing the hearts they don't count, only the dynamic events count which are identified by an orange circle on the map when you are close to them or when a npc runs up to you and asks you to do something for them.

This might help: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_event#Event_indicators
 
Scaling. The game scales you to a specific level of the content involved - and as such, your gear get scaled as well, to make sure your gear doesn't make you just super pwn the content. Meaning what Hawkian said. So always make sure gear is near your level and you should be fine.

It's not 100% identical though. A low level character scaled up will be missing traits and abilities. A high level character scaled down will still have better stats that a low level character because their gear is better in addition to traits and skills.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
So Hawkian thinks my keyboard control scheme is weird... or awesome. I can't tell. :S
I was you and it was awesome


Your keyboard scheme seems rather logical, but holy crap I can't even describe how disorienting it was to pick up my gamepad and discover how incompatible it was. Like in old NES games when the boss hits you with a "screw up your controls" move. Try to open bank, use utility skill :D

It really is awesome how that stuff is all stored server-side though. Something I always forget about.
 
It's not 100% identical though. A low level character scaled up will be missing traits and abilities. A high level character scaled down will still have better stats that a low level character because their gear is better in addition to traits and skills.
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Yeah up scaling is just so that you can participate in new stuff or WvW but you are still very week though because of what you said about traits.

Your keyboard scheme seems rather logical...
What was his setup for his keyboard.
 

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Bah, what am I doing wrong? I went inside the instance solo in Tixx's Infinirarium, and broke everything in it. I still don't get Wintersday Wrecking Ball.
 

Luigi87

Member
Bah, what am I doing wrong? I went inside the instance solo in Tixx's Infinirarium, and broke everything in it. I still don't get Wintersday Wrecking Ball.

If it's like last year, some of the trees might be invisible.
It took me like 3-5 attempts to get what was essentially the exact same achievement last Wintersday.
 

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
If it's like last year, some of the trees might be invisible.
It took me like 3-5 attempts to get what was essentially the exact same achievement last Wintersday.

wtf

how will I know then

EDIT: Nevermind, it popped up randomly.

Also apparently the wintersday dungeon is soloable, since I just finished it... but then again I'm a ranger and my pet did some damage too.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
wtf

how will I know then

EDIT: Nevermind, it popped up randomly.

Also apparently the wintersday dungeon is soloable, since I just finished it... but then again I'm a ranger and my pet did some damage too.
All of the Infinirarium (I think I spelled that right) instances are soloable,but Toypocalpyse (the tower defense "dungeon") is meant for a full party.
 

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Hmm, I counted, but there's not enough for 20 achievements! Do repeatable achievements count or am I missing something else?
 

Luigi87

Member
^
That.
ANET started doing daily achievements that work toward the meta, I think around the Jubilee update (I'm probably wrong), so people could get the meta achievements but not have to do some of the overly difficult. As long as you keep doing those you'll get 20.
 

Proven

Member
Any good central location for builds since I'm assuming they've changed since i've played

Go to the profession specific boards on the official forums. While they're all filled with whining to some degree, there are a lot of legitimate builds posted there, and theory crafting. Stuff gets figured out.

Some boards are better than others, and it depends on the perception of the class. Mesmers have a "do it all" mindset right now, so you'll find all sorts of builds. Elementalists and Thieves overall feel pigeon holed into specific build types. The other classes are in a spectrum between those two extremes. Despite that, you'll still find a variety of builds on each board. The only issue is that if you're trying to make a build that's considered not meta viable you might have to look up some older posts from someone that gave it a shot and alter it from there.
 

Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
If I won that much, I'd split it evenly between everyone who was there. That's how I roll.
:) That's how it should work, I mean, whoever wins should decide how they'd most want to spend it for maximum enjoyment. Really is a crazy generous giveaway, Levyne.

I don't think there's any chance I can make it (i'll be in Marathon this weekend), but on the off chance I did, I'd do some kind of "wildcard" with it as well rather than keeping it.
Ahh I see. No wonder.
The dailies are usually really easy, basically "can't miss" achievements. So you can pretty much choose your preferred combination of "x days played" and "x living world achievements" for each release if you're interested in getting the Meta.
 
Go to the profession specific boards on the official forums. While they're all filled with whining to some degree, there are a lot of legitimate builds posted there, and theory crafting. Stuff gets figured out.

Some boards are better than others, and it depends on the perception of the class. Mesmers have a "do it all" mindset right now, so you'll find all sorts of builds. Elementalists and Thieves overall feel pigeon holed into specific build types. The other classes are in a spectrum between those two extremes. Despite that, you'll still find a variety of builds on each board. The only issue is that if you're trying to make a build that's considered not meta viable you might have to look up some older posts from someone that gave it a shot and alter it from there.

Yea that's how I did it before, so i'll try that again. Thanks
 
I was you and it was awesome


Your keyboard scheme seems rather logical, but holy crap I can't even describe how disorienting it was to pick up my gamepad and discover how incompatible it was. Like in old NES games when the boss hits you with a "screw up your controls" move. Try to open bank, use utility skill :D

It really is awesome how that stuff is all stored server-side though. Something I always forget about.
Oh man, that's true. With a gamepad all of the awkwardness of key bind changes would be magnified.

And yeah, I like being able to log onto any computer and have my keybinds ready to roll.
 

Moondrop

Banned
I think I should give shatter mesmer a chance before I gear for phantasms. I just don't like staff that much. Hmm.

I may also level armorsmithing to 500 tonight. As loathsome as the gear creep is, I have the gold and my warrior deserves the best.
 
I'm curious, what is it?

I use a Nostromo for my left hand, and couldn't live without it.
Normal WASD for movement. r, f, c for utilities, e for heal. Z to interact. U for autorun. 1-5 are normal weapon skills, 6 for elite. Q for dodge, double tap dodge turned off. - for sheathing. , for run toggle.


I may also level armorsmithing to 500 tonight. As loathsome as the gear creep is, I have the gold and my warrior deserves the best.
I wish I could be crafting my way to 500 armorsmithing. Alas, I will have to settle for making mucho dinero from my long term investments in cloth.
 
Normal WASD for movement. r, f, c for utilities, e for heal. Z to interact. U for autorun. 1-5 are normal weapon skills, 6 for elite. Q for dodge, double tap dodge turned off. - for sheathing. , for run toggle.



I wish I could be crafting my way to 500 armorsmithing. Alas, I will have to settle for making mucho dinero from my long term investments in cloth.

Not too different from how I used to do things, until I decided to get a Nostromo and put movement on my left thumb, freeing up the 01 - 14 buttons on the left hand for all skills/utilities, so I'd never have to stop moving to use skills.

The standard GW2 layout is... not optimal. I mean, who has time to reach over and hit 7 or 8 on the right? Then again, even half of ArenaNet seems to be mouseclickers.
 

Proven

Member
Normal WASD for movement. r, f, c for utilities, e for heal. Z to interact. U for autorun. 1-5 are normal weapon skills, 6 for elite. Q for dodge, double tap dodge turned off. - for sheathing. , for run toggle.

It has the same mindset as my setup, except where did you put the F# keys? That's what made my keyboard become a screw up.
 
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