*shrug* I like it, I've always liked it. Really shows off the combat system which is a pretty deep "actiony" system for an MMO that has its fingers in so many different pies.
Well, that's all really good stuff. Dunno what else to say about it!
Yeah, I'm too casual to care primarily about that, but it is a nice addition.
Oh, there's nearly nothing even close to that. The games have different design philosophies in that regard. If you want to join the guild and come for guild events and missions, you're welcome to, otherwise you can spend your time however you like.
I don't think you're going far enough. The only question is how naked to make our naked runs? I'm not sure we could do it with utility skills alone. Maybe CoF1.
Might look into the greatsword or sword in the next week or two if I get a bit more gold.
First I recommend making sure that you have at least level 80 green (masterwork) gear for all of your equipment and accessories. That should only cost you a couple silver each. There are multiple ways to get orange (exotic) level gear for cheap such as karma or WvW badges if you've been around a while, but at this point your best option is probably running dungeons to gather tokens.
No no please no. I don't put anything into the "Mystic Toilet" unless it's one of the handful of guaranteed recipes. Gambling is a losing proposition.
Yeah the color of text indicates whether that recipe will give no XP, a lot, a little, or is as yet unavailable or soon to be available (red). Yes, you likely need to discover new recipes to raise your crafting level.
World vs World (vs World)
)You have good tasteGot around getting a pact fleet weapon, and it the hammer! Was thinking of the staff, but think I love the leyline one too much.
That is one pretty charr!Congratulations!
If you mean the Mystic Forge Stones then nah, they just count as another piece of whatever you throw in (like a weapon if you throw in a stone + three weapons). The toilet can be nice if you wish to upgrade Runes and Sigils since the non-max ones are pretty cheap and common. Other than that I don't use it much, especially not for the gambling with exotics and stuff
Ugh, I'm the worst at explaining stuff but I'll try.
I hope this wasn't too confusing and at least of some use!So. You have 2 different ways to craft stuff, and mostly you have to combine these two ways to get something useful.
The second tab is "Production". You should start here, and specifically with Refinement.
My list are way longer than yours because after a bunch of crafing levels new stuff will appear. First as red that you can't use yet, then they become more yellow, green and pale and that shows how much exp you get for crafting them (lowert the more pale they get, ending with grey and zero exp).
You should at least have Green Wood Planks, Dowels, Leather and Bronze in your list.
Make this stuff! Only reason not to make as much as you can is space and if you wanna craft on other characters. I usually at least make a bunch of each until they are all grey.
Then you need to make the parts! To make a pistol you have to craft both the barrel and the frame. They should both be in this list.
I wish that was the end of it, but sadly you have to make it have some kind of power!
So we have to go to Inscriptions!
All weapons need an inscription. The materials here depends on what stats you want the weapon to have. You have to craft the same tier of inscription as the weapon. For example Green Wood and Bronze go together, you can't craft the Bronze and Green Wood weapon parts and then add an inscription made from Soft Wood.
When you have these three parts you need to go to the Discovery tab instead.
Here your parts will show up and you have to combine them! This is only done the first time, after that the character knows how to make the item and it will be in the list under "pistol" (or whatever weapon you made). Only the chosen stat version will show up tho (like Mighty Pistol), the others have to be discovered separately.
The other stuff in this list makes things like sigils and you have to "discover" them to learn them too.
Here is an example of a random discovery.
Red icons means I don't have enough levels in this prof to use them (if I hover over them they say "Huntsman (400)" and I'm only 387 so that's a no go). If you can't match anything then you don't have the materials necessary (often it's those slivers and orbs and stuff that are pretty rare drops).
There is always a level to the discoveries, and the closer to your level, the more exp you get. Crafting already known recipes gives exp (as long as they are colored) but it's way less than discovering stuff. So for leveling you basically craft a bunch of pistol parts and then all the different inscriptions to discover all the different stat versions of pistols.
Yeah it looks like we're going to the past. I think that's Faolain with Caithe and perhaps it's back when the sylvari first met the asura and got experimented on? It was all a bit messy and chaotic so I dunno. That was my first thought anyway.
So, in terms of progression, you can get Exotic armor and weapons from:
Definitely; he can also run World Events for rare gear upgrades, and each dungeon path will give roughly enough gold outright for a basic Exotic too while saving up tokens.
Only from Explorable mode- they went straight into you wallet. Ascaloanian Tears are a good example. You can use them to buy unique sets of level 80 exotic armor and weapons from each dungeon.
Meh. Kinda. Badges of Honor (the WvW currency) gets you some good stuff, there are rank up rewards which can include rare gear, and tons of XP and Karma. But it's a lot of fun and mostly people WvW cause they find it enjoyable just to jump in, the large-scale battles can be really exciting and intense. For time invested the rewards in the traditional PvP are much better minus the Karma, but if you're not really into head to head competition stuff it might not be interesting to you.
I appreciate that last line, it's not the kind of thing people typically concern themselves with!Thanks Thorgal. Will check that out tomorrow.
1 last question. I can apparently purchase the season 2 chapters that I have missed so far, for gems. Now if I'm not mistaken gems equate to real money and you also attain a decent amount every 5000 APs (I currently have around 600
Is there anyway to circumvent this? 5000 APs is along way off. I am at the point where I feel the game can have some more of my hard earned. Though, in a strange way I would prefer to spend it on some pretty aesthetic stuff or whatever, then on content that was released at a time, I unfortunately wasn't playing.
I want to get into the living story, but I would prefer to pick it up from the start (of season 2 at least) instead of jumping in half way through. I mean, I just found out the other day Lions Arch wasn't always in ruins, and it made me sad that I missed how all of that played out, and what it looked like before it was trashed. A living, breathing, evolving world is a big part of this game and part of its unique appeal. Having to essentially pay real money to experience a part of that because I wasn't playing in time, doesn't seem entirely fair.
Sorry if that discussion has been played out in the past too. I imagine it could have been a point of ire.....
Well isn't that what they're doing, transitioning hotjoin to "Practice" and introducing unranked arenas called "Play?"
