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[BlindCommunication]

Ooooh these are looking good, especially the heavy armor.

Is it just me or do the light and medium armours look a bit asian themed? This can only mean Cantha expansion announced on the 24th right???? I hope both the ritualist and the assassin classes make a return, I can't wait

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to be disappointed

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[Zeroth]

Today my elementalist, my very first character, completed one year. It's weird to think I've been playing the game for only one year, since it seems to be much more. Still, I've had more fun playing GW2 this year than any other game in the past years, and a big part of it comes from the community. I'm really glad to be part of the GAF guild, because it allows me to meet new and awesome people who I consider very dear to me.

Thank you everyone who has been part of my GW2 life this past year, I'm sure we will have more adventures from here on!

 

[Retro]

As usual, medium armor is shafted.

Yeah, the little plate-looking bits on the leggings look kinda cool, but otherwise it's just another trench coat. We need more "ninja" looking sets and less "bandit" looking ones. Viper's set was a good start, so was Strider's.

It's weird to think I've been playing the game for only one year, since it seems to be much more

Time flies when you're having fun.... wait... shit.

Seriously though, it's been good having you with us and you're right; it does seem like you've been around for longer. Glad to have you aboard and ready for another year of misery.

 

[shysaursoft]

Thank you everyone who has been part of my GW2 life this past year, I'm sure we will have more adventures from here on!

You are the sole reason I'm above level 9 on Fractals (coming up on 40!). Thank you.

 

[Minamu]

Something wrong with the login servers at the moment? I'm getting errors on both my own account and while downloading the game finally on my gf's new laptop (hope it works well enough for this game :/). Maybe because we're on the same connection?

 

[Levyne]

Something wrong with the login servers at the moment? I'm getting errors on both my own account and while downloading the game finally on my gf's new laptop (hope it works well enough for this game :/). Maybe because we're on the same connection?

Normal here

 

[Minamu]

Normal here

Got some kind of connection timeout when trying to load my main into lion's arch. Has happened twice but once during game download on the other pc :/ Gonna try again. This happens now here.

 

[Thorgal]

Time to introduce my last Character :

Madame Mesmeralda .

Ill leave it up to you to figure out which class it is .

 

[Hawkian]

Time to introduce my last Character :

Madame Mesmeralda .



Ill leave it up to you to figure out which class it is .

SHES TOO CUTE

i mean, nice job.

 

[docbon]

The twist is: Madame Mesmeralda is actually a preying mantis.

 

[Minamu]

Finally got the games running My gf rolled a human necromancer chick and I made a human elementalist bro xD Level 10 both of us, so much fun ^^

 

[Emitan]

As usual, medium armor is shafted.

Do you like butt capes? No? Too bad every medium armor has them

 

[5il3nc3r]

Working on map completion now. Some of these renown hearts are so dull to complete. Worst one so far is Beetletun. Stomp the wasp nests. Erase the grafitti. All i'm doing is pressing F. I'm so glad this game moved away from renown hearts.

 

[spiritfox]

Do you like butt capes? No? Too bad every medium armor has them

Butt capes are more a heavy armor thing, but mediums are all about bulky trenchcoats and skimpy ninja outfits.

 

[Levyne]

Already back into the bad habit of play way too late on a work night.

Thanks, gafguild

 

[Thorgal]

Working on map completion now. Some of these renown hearts are so dull to complete. Worst one so far is Beetletun. Stomp the wasp nests. Erase the grafitti. All i'm doing is pressing F. I'm so glad this game moved away from renown hearts.

The worst one i found so far was in the Harati hiterlands which at first sight should be a cinch : kill horse people.

Problem is that area is very light in mob spawns save for the pre events for the world boss there.

The rage inducing part came when the zerg there was killing the centaurs just outside of the Hearts range .

God i almost wanted to punch somebody .

Already back into the bad habit of play way too late on a work night.

Thanks, gafguild

youre welcome .

 

[UltimateIke]

In two days, I managed to gain 23 levels!

It was just spread across four different characters...

Such a happy little family.

Too sleepy right now to get the Ranger to level 50 with the rest of them. Maybe we can do more AC and CM explorable paths and then he can have his turn.

Already back into the bad habit of play way too late on a work night.

Thanks, gafguild

We should have saved the ooze royalty for another night.

 

[Thorgal]

Oh god . somebody went and did it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejg_5qqfQMI .

 

[Kos Luftar]

Oh god . somebody went and did it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejg_5qqfQMI .

That is incorrect.

He should look way more Asuraish.

 

[spiritfox]

That is incorrect.

He should look way more Asuraish.

You know how you look the best, don't you Colin.

 

[5il3nc3r]

The worst one i found so far was in the Harati hiterlands which at first sight should be a cinch : kill horse people.

Problem is that area is very light in mob spawns save for the pre events for the world boss there.

The rage inducing part came when the zerg there was killing the centaurs just outside of the Hearts range .

God i almost wanted to punch somebody

Funny you mentioned Harathi Hinterland, i just completed it a few minutes ago. I'm so sick of centaurs. Bad idea on my part in trying to complete the Krytan zones consecutively, there's so many of them. But still screw centaurs they're so dull and ugly. I think we can all agree they are the worst enemies in the game. Give me skritts (best enemies in the game), i can slaughter them all day.

 

[appletoasty]

Working on map completion now. Some of these renown hearts are so dull to complete. Worst one so far is Beetletun. Stomp the wasp nests. Erase the grafitti. All i'm doing is pressing F. I'm so glad this game moved away from renown hearts.

There was a heart in Fields of Ruin that was just horrible. The options were: pick up scrap metal or kill ogres, but there were no ogres anywhere. I was like hey maybe they're in a cave? Or something? But I kept leaving the bounds of the heart without finding any stupid ogres. There were only ~15 pieces of scrap metal on the ground to pick up and they took a minute or so to respawn. Ended up having to pick up like 50 pieces of scrap metal because they're worth so little. Rage-inducing.

 

[Boss Doggie]

There was a heart in Fields of Ruin that was just horrible. The options were: pick up scrap metal or kill ogres, but there were no ogres anywhere. I was like hey maybe they're in a cave? Or something? But I kept leaving the bounds of the heart without finding any stupid ogres. There were only ~15 pieces of scrap metal on the ground to pick up and they took a minute or so to respawn. Ended up having to pick up like 50 pieces of scrap metal because they're worth so little. Rage-inducing.

They actually fixed this now. The metal scrap spawn so fast now that simply looking back has a new item ready to be picked up, and you only need 18-20 scraps to complete it.

 

[Levyne]

We should have saved the ooze royalty for another night.

Nah, I wouldn't lose sleep any other way.

 

[Cathcart]

Have you guys done bounty hunting training missions? I have a small guild with some friends from work and I'm wondering what the minimum number of people is to have a good chance at completing that is.

Working on map completion now. Some of these renown hearts are so dull to complete. Worst one so far is Beetletun. Stomp the wasp nests. Erase the grafitti. All i'm doing is pressing F. I'm so glad this game moved away from renown hearts.

I've done that one a few times without any problems, but it might just be that I got there at the right time. The one I can't stand is in Diessa (I think) where you have to bring food and drinks to a bunch of stupid cat people at a party. You have the option of beating up drunk cats--which I definitely did when possible--but unfortunately there are only a few of them and it takes a while before they'll fight you again.

 

[Thorgal]

FELLOW GAFALONIANS

After a long jouney through Tyria , Godkrig The Brave has made it through legions of undead and now stands at the gates of Arah preparing himself to slay the vile serpent Zhaithan .

He is looking for a mighty and well clothed Pose to carry out this glorious task .

WHO WILL STAND WITH HIM ?

/ disengage cheesiness mode .


On another note i discovered the lightning in that spot is doing awesome things to my armor .

 

[Retro]

Worst one is the Jotun trading one in Wayfarer Foothills.

 

[Kos Luftar]

Worst one is the Jotun trading one in Wayfarer Foothills.

That needs to be redone.

Rabbit one in Wayfarer also felt like it took forever.

 

[Dog Problems]

Worst one is the Jotun trading one in Wayfarer Foothills.

Yeah, it use to be really annoying. It was actually changed to where the enemy wolves in the area can be killed and counted towards it.

 

[Emitan]

That stealth heart in one of the Ascalonian areas is awful. I hate it.

 

[Levyne]

That stealth heart in one of the Ascalonian areas is awful. I hate it.

I actually made it to the end my last go-through of the map.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Only one bladder set to go, thank fucking god

Speaking of which, what determines the speed of "Pact Preparation" in SW anyway?

That stealth heart in one of the Ascalonian areas is awful. I hate it.

Nah I like challenging hearts like that, and you don't need to clear the stealth segment, just wipe enough flags.

I've done that one a few times without any problems, but it might just be that I got there at the right time. The one I can't stand is in Diessa (I think) where you have to bring food and drinks to a bunch of stupid cat people at a party. You have the option of beating up drunk cats--which I definitely did when possible--but unfortunately there are only a few of them and it takes a while before they'll fight you again.

That shit is like one of the easiest hearts to do. There are always events that relate to it, and the food and drinks is easy to bring to people.

 

[Spyware]

Worst one is the Jotun trading one in Wayfarer Foothills.

They added doggies that give a lot when killed. It's one of the easiest hearts in the map now

I don't agree with Beetletun being bad. It's really simple and fast. Kill rats, press F.
If we're gonna bash a Queensdale heart it has to be the Claypool "train with the militia" one. It's soooo slow.

 

[shysaursoft]

Worst one is the Jotun trading one in Wayfarer Foothills.

I must be the only person who actually liked that one, and the ludicrousness of the situation: literally using the Jotun's idiocy against them. It never takes me more than a few minutes to complete, less time than killing things because of the snowball effect of their bad trading habits.

I think non-combat hearts add a lot of flavour to the game, but since the game is overly focused on combat uber alles, I do see how it can clash with the 'go go now now' mentality the game kind of fosters in its userbase.

Still, I'd take a thousand Jotun quests, over the literal hundreds of banal fetchquests I've done in the last few days in FFXIV. I dig the game, but there is one quest that really epitomized the insanity of some of the quests in the game: you walk up to a woman who has a quest marker above her head. In talking to her, you startle her, making her drop all her gil. She gets upset and tells you to to pick it all up. You run around hitting action on a bunch of 'gil dropped' piles that spawned. Talk to her again, to give the gil back. Doot de doo, experience points, and some money.

You only talk to her because she had a quest marker, so she becomes a fetchquest by talking to her... it's like an existential quandary.

While the hearts aren't perfect, and many of them could do with having their rougher edges smoothed, I do prefer the heart system infinitely more than doing the Errand Boy Loop Of Lame going from ! to ! to ! and then !, all so that you can deliver a letter from one person to another, who is standing like five feet away.

FELLOW GAFALONIANS

What time?

 

[hythloday]

Have you guys done bounty hunting training missions? I have a small guild with some friends from work and I'm wondering what the minimum number of people is to have a good chance at completing that is.

Depends which bounty target you get (it's random). Some are really easy, others require more coordination with a good group. But the "hard" ones can be harder with more people around because of difficulty scaling and will seem easier with 1-2 groups.

Also just to be clear, the Bounty Hunt Training only gives your guild influence. The actual Bounty Hunt is what will give people commendations for participating. But the influence is necessary to build buffs and more missions so it's worth doing.

Worst one is the Jotun trading one in Wayfarer Foothills.

That heart...

 

[Thorgal]

What time?

Any time when available and i am on .

 

[Dog Problems]

I must be the only person who actually liked that one, and the ludicrousness of the situation: literally using the Jotun's idiocy against them. It never takes me more than a few minutes to complete, less time than killing things because of the snowball effect of their bad trading habits.

I don't know why but it always takes me much longer than that. Every transaction takes up such a small part of the bar.

It's funny, I'll do a bunch of hearts that are killing so many of something and think to myself, "Ugh, I'd love to do something different for a change" and then something does come along and I think "Dang it, why can't I just kill something to speed this up?" haha

 

[shysaursoft]

I don't know why but it always takes me much longer than that. Every transaction takes up such a small part of the bar.

But that's because the transactions aren't the main way of filling the bar. You're doing the transactions to turn having a few of the Jotun Runes into having a lot, so you can give it to the NPC nearby. I think you only need to hand in like 20. You start with a few, buy a thing, sell it for a profit, take that profit to buy a more expensive thing, which you sell for a profit again, etc. It escalates your amount pretty quickly, then you go over to the guy studying the Jotun and hand them in.

Do people not know to turn them in?

 

[Retro]

Rabbit one in Wayfarer also felt like it took forever.

I didn't mind the rabbit one in its original location because you also picked up the Yeti Fur event often and that contributed, I believe. Also, it was kind of fun dodging the rabbits, though it did go on a tad too long.

Yeah, it use to be really annoying. It was actually changed to where the enemy wolves in the area can be killed and counted towards it.

Glorious, coming to that heart when doing Wayfarer's always killed my momentum.

That stealth heart in one of the Ascalonian areas is awful. I hate it.

Yeah, that one is annoying because the enemies are too dense to make sneaking through the whole area worth while. There are ones who literally just sit and block the banners. It's faster to just hit the first two or three banners.

As 5il3nc3r said, I'm glad they've moved away from Renown hearts. Now that the game has been out for a while and people 'get it', there's no need for them to persist since their whole reason for existence is to teach people to get out and explore event-heavy areas.

Speaking of which, what determines the speed of "Pact Preparation" in SW anyway?

Successfully completed defend / retake events in the zone. Escorts and such don't count (though they do improve your ability to defend, so they're still worth doing).

I must be the only person who actually liked that one, and the ludicrousness of the situation: literally using the Jotun's idiocy against them. It never takes me more than a few minutes to complete, less time than killing things because of the snowball effect of their bad trading habits.

It just feels like a lot of back-and-forth trading that goes on a tad too long. I like the non-combat stuff too, and it's an interesting idea but without the wiki open it takes twice as long as it needs to.

Still, I'd take a thousand Jotun quests, over the literal hundreds of banal fetchquests.

Okay, yeah, if we're going outside of GW2 for examples, then yeah, I'm okay with Jotun-style stuff too. Anything beats doing chores for NPCs.

 

[Dog Problems]

But that's because the transactions aren't the main way of filling the bar. You're doing the transactions to turn having a few of the Jotun Runes into having a lot, so you can give it to the NPC nearby. I think you only need to hand in like 20. You start with a few, buy a thing, sell it for a profit, take that profit to buy a more expensive thing, which you sell for a profit again, etc. It escalates your amount pretty quickly, then you go over to the guy studying the Jotun and hand them in.

Do people not know to turn them in?

I know about turning it in but the part that would frustrate me is I think I have enough to turn in and finish, turns out I don't, and I have to start over. So I go back to collecting those stones on the ground and, to me anyway, they are hard to find and I do a lot of running around looking for them.

 

[appletoasty]

Is there no gem store sale today? I'm not seeing anything on Dulfy or Reddit ?_? I was hoping the copper-fed salvage-o-matic would go on sale so I can salvage all my beautiful wool X...

 

[Mxrz]

Gotta wonder how people afford the gold-to-gem rate in such quantities. Even for a dungeon grinder, 140-150 gold for 800 ($10?) doesn't seem worth it. Where are people getting so much gold?

 

[shysaursoft]

Gotta wonder how people afford the gold-to-gem rate in such quantities. Even for a dungeon grinder, 140-150 gold for 800 ($10?) doesn't seem worth it. Where are people getting so much gold?

If you sell off everything in your collections every few months, you'd be surprised. Also, people have huge stockpiles of Laurels they don't use, instead of converting them into T6 mats to sell. (Saw someone in GAF once say they had like, 500+ Laurels or something - and I'm like, wtf, you're rich and you don't know it).

I think if you actually sell your assets instead of stockpiling them, and play with the TP a little, not to mention convert unused skillpoints to gold, you can usually get quite a chunk of change. I made a quick 300g by making two Anomalies a while back.

If you really apply yourself (I sound like my gradeschool teachers) and use the materials you have, like Mystic Coins and salvaging rares with black lion kits for Ecto, and etc, you can make money quite quickly. Things like all those Tomes of Knowledge are just skillpoints waiting to be turned into gold, for example.

 

[Kos Luftar]

Gonna be a long ass week.

 

[Vinci]

The "aggro" lines from FFXII is something I'd like, since I think it'd be a good assist to cut through some of the visual carnage in the game. Even with Spell LOD on, there are so many effects you're never sure if that thing in the melee blob is aiming at you or not.

I've always been thoroughly confused how FF XII exists and yet so few games have stolen from it. Because some of the ideas in it were truly helpful and would go a long way in a number of titles.

I'd also like a little pip display that shows your inventory space, not unlike how FFXIV does it (lots of FF in my post, I'm noticing). Little dots that represent your total bag space, and filled dots showing how full you are. Just so you can have a heads up.

Stealing from FF XII again - I would like to set up gambits associated with certain housekeeping tasks. For example - I want to set up a gambit that would automatically salvage certain equipment and sell on the auction house others. I would like it to compact my backpack automatically, placing certain items that I can use in priority positions for my perusal.

Basically, I'm tired of housekeeping.

Slightly more clear designs on the buffs/debuffs icons, perhaps collapsing a few together if there are too many. Also, the ability to set 'show only my own debuffs', so you can cut through the icon noise on boss encounters a bit.

Like this one quite a bit.

Outfits/Gear Lists: I'd like to save gear loadouts, so you can swap to them when you go change your activity.

Trait save/loading presets, of course.

Holy crap, this is a 'Duh' if ever there were one.

A gorram quickbar! Like a bar on the right, that you can drag and drop things into, like Slaying potions, food, pet shortcuts, etc. Perhaps let you define 'groupings' of things on there, like 'all my foods', and 'all my slaying potions'.

Love this. Would really appreciate that.

 

[Hawkian]

i don't like centaurs

 

[spiritfox]

i don't like centaurs

They don't like you too

 

[Cathcart]

That shit is like one of the easiest hearts to do. There are always events that relate to it, and the food and drinks is easy to bring to people.

I don't care if it's easy, I just don't like doing it I wouldn't say any of the hearts are actually difficult so that's not really a factor.

Depends which bounty target you get (it's random). Some are really easy, others require more coordination with a good group. But the "hard" ones can be harder with more people around because of difficulty scaling and will seem easier with 1-2 groups.

Also just to be clear, the Bounty Hunt Training only gives your guild influence. The actual Bounty Hunt is what will give people commendations for participating. But the influence is necessary to build buffs and more missions so it's worth doing.

Yeah, I'm aware. We're a really small guild so even unlocking full bounty is a way off and even then we probably don't have the people to do one. This will hopefully be a good way for us to get the influence to open a lot of the other perks.

 

[Minamu]

Uugh, I really could use some help (again xD) on crafting. I just bought 100 jute scraps (1g almost) and ended up with 5 8 slot bags, earning me a few silver, if that. Massive coin loss. How am I supposed to make any kind of money on this (the bags gave me three ranks though so I guess that's nice? currently at lvl 28)? I'm in the tailoring business.

 

[Zeroth]

Uugh, I really could use some help (again xD) on crafting. I just bought 100 jute scraps (1g almost) and ended up with 5 8 slot bags, earning me a few silver, if that. Massive coin loss. How am I supposed to make any kind of money on this (the bags gave me three ranks though so I guess that's nice? currently at lvl 28)? I'm in the tailoring business.

You don't. Crafting, outside of the mats that are used for ascended crafting, is never a lucrative business.