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Anno

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Having ANet's SoundCloud playing in the background at work today reminded me that Labyrinthine Cliffs is probably the best zone ever. Hope we see it again one day :(
 

Bree

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She should know she's going to die a lot. Though I suppose that's already evident. Thief is the squishiest class and has only one medium range dps option (short bow) and zero long range option. So what she should know that when playing her Thief, she's going to have to focus on avoidance as mitigation, even when killing normal mobs. This means lots of kiting, dodging, and stealth dancing.

The toughest thing for a Thief are the mob groups of 3-4 enemies. For those, she'll want to have a Shortbow either as her secondary weapon or at least in her bags to switch to. It's 1,2, and 3, attacks are all viable for group damage. It's 5 also improves mobility, which helps with kiting.

Thief isn't really hard to learn so much as it's hard to Master. However that really doesn't get reflected in the leveling process. Leveling a Thief solo will result in a lot of dying. On the upside, it prepares you for WvW in the sense that you'll be used to trying to avoid damage rather than tanking it. So... there's that.

Terrible advice. She shouldn't spend her time camping a short bow if she wants to learn to play the class.

Pve is a faceroll on a thief. Grab a sword and a pistol. Use pistol five (Black Powder) to blind everything. Smoke screen can also be used to blind foes that come in groups larger than five enemies. Auto-attack til death. If not in need of conditional removal or the evade from pistol whip switch to dagger/pistol or dagger/dagger.
 
Ascended weapons are definitely worth getting, and the trinkets and such are fairly easy to get. When it comes to armor, not so much. Unless you're doing really high fotm, super competitive in WvW, or just want the best stats, it's not needed.

That being said I have about six different ascended armor sets. >_>
 

Minamu

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I don't think Guild Banks are shared between NA and EU regions. Only within their respective regions. So an EU account with its own guild bank, can't share stuff with an NA account via the guild bank.
since I'm in Sweden, we can easily test this by you taking a screenshot of your guild bank and I'll compare it to the one I see.
 

Levyne

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since I'm in Sweden, we can easily test this by you taking a screenshot of your guild bank and I'll compare it to the one I see.

i could invite you to my personal guild and you can see if you have access to all my valuables thick leather sections
 
Why do you have to point out how thick they are, pervert?

but it's not the girth its th- ohh ohhhh OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


Now I get it;) You dirty sly dog.



the thicker the hide, the more warm you feel!! haha! Yeah I wouldn't want to be caught in canada without a really nice thick leather winter jacket too!
 
Okay, sounds nice. How about the changes since the introduction of ascended gear? I remember leaving due to the devs focusing on a new gear treadmill and a lack of other content.

There has been two years worth of content, a year's worth you missed due to it being temporary. There was never a gear treadmill (Ascended is not required, or even needed, or even desirable, for 99% of the content).

So, since you missed Season 1, there is at least the entire Season 2, two new zones, and more. The zones are free, Season 2 you'll have to unlock. It's about $20 for 8+ hours worth of content. It would be free, had you logged in when each episode went live, as they then unlocked for you for free forever. They are 200 gems per episode, so you can unlock them with gold. Or, if you don't want the achievements/rewards, you can just play through them with someone who has them unlocked already.

Ignore anyone who calls Living Story crappy. They're
morons
spoiled children who can't get over when things don't match their personal preference. smileyface.gif

I just sent my brother (on Piken EU) both gold and a stack of snowflakes through the shared storage guild we have, so guild banks are confirmed as global :)

I stand corrected on the guild bank thing.
 

Emitan

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There has been two years worth of content, a year's worth you missed due to it being temporary. There was never a gear treadmill (Ascended is not required, or even needed, or even desirable, for 99% of the content).

So, since you missed Season 1, there is at least the entire Season 2, two new zones, and more. The zones are free, Season 2 you'll have to unlock. It's about $20 for 8+ hours worth of content. It would be free, had you logged in when each episode went live, as they then unlocked for you for free forever. They are 200 gems per episode, so you can unlock them with gold. Or, if you don't want the achievements/rewards, you can just play through them with someone who has them unlocked already.

Ignore anyone who calls Living Story crappy. They're morons who can't get over when things don't match their personal preference.



I stand corrected on the guild bank thing.

While I like the living story as well, could we not call people things like morons? It just makes the thread seem really hostile :/
 
The thread is made hostile by people who shit it up with "game still crap, Living Story is crap, we want REAL content like REAL men, wah wah" posts.

I have no patience for people who call the game crappy. It's been two years, they can effing get over it.

But fine, I'll put on kid gloves so that I don't insult anyone.

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Emitan

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I really don't think you need to insult someone's intelligence because they don't like what Anet is doing. Guild Wars 2 is absolutely one of if not my favorite game ever but I don't think of someone as a lesser person for not liking it.
 
Terrible advice. She shouldn't spend her time camping a short bow if she wants to learn to play the class.

Pve is a faceroll on a thief. Grab a sword and a pistol. Use pistol five (Black Powder) to blind everything. Smoke screen can also be used to blind foes that come in groups larger than five enemies. Auto-attack til death. If not in need of conditional removal or the evade from pistol whip switch to dagger/pistol or dagger/dagger.

Even blind spamming doesn't make PvE faceroll for a Thief. Especially during leveling when you don't have the luxury of speccing for damage. Smoke Screen is a Tier 3 Utility, so you don't gain access to it until higher levels unless you've been farming SP's or using SP items from other characters.

SB doesn't depend on a build to be effective, it has the best group utility of all the weapons, and it's mobility is invaluable. It's a solid alternate weapon for any build and very useful in group activities like DE's and Dungeons.

Learning the timing and instincts to play D/D, D/P, or P/D is something that can be done in conjunction with a full spec build after hitting 80. Trying to learn it while leveling is much more frustrating and WILL lead to more deaths. I say that as a Thief who leveled the entirety of 1-80 using P/D as my primary set while experimenting with S/P and D/D before eventually settling on SB as an alternate.

With a Thief, you're just better off using a dependable weapon set that isn't as frustrating to play through the content and then experimenting with the others once you have the ability to spec to their strengths.
 

Pro

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I just have to say I had an epic time last night with a random party helping me get the Wicked Rodeo achievement. Good group who wanted it as bad as I did and we followed through. Everyone was so polite and grateful afterwards. Those are the types of GW2 moments that make you reflect on how awesome it is.
 

Spyware

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I really don't think you need to insult someone's intelligence because they don't like what Anet is doing. Guild Wars 2 is absolutely one of if not my favorite game ever but I don't think of someone as a lesser person for not liking it.
While I mostly agree with you I think there's a difference between simply not liking the game (and maybe saying that in a way like: "I don't enjoy the LS, I really want them to drop that and do something else") and coming here and calling the LS "crappy" (like the post on the previous page did).
 
Miktar banned ?

Well anyway, I got tired of LS season 1 so much it made me quit for months.
I never liked the concept of it. So glad they somewhat changed it.
 

zulux21

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so I have a question.
for the event tomorrow which of the following will happen.

A. a new thread will be opened and all discussions of the event will be posted in there.
B. this thread will just be used for discussions of the event.
c. a new thread will be opened and both that and this will explode with discussions of the event.
D. no one talks about the event because we are all to busy helping the new players with $10 guild wars :p
 

Levyne

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so I have a question.
for the event tomorrow which of the following will happen.

A. a new thread will be opened and all discussions of the event will be posted in there.
B. this thread will just be used for discussions of the event.
c. a new thread will be opened and both that and this will explode with discussions of the event.
D. no one talks about the event because we are all to busy helping the new players with $10 guild wars :p

C plus reddit being upset about something
 

hythloday

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so I have a question.
for the event tomorrow which of the following will happen.

A. a new thread will be opened and all discussions of the event will be posted in there.
B. this thread will just be used for discussions of the event.
c. a new thread will be opened and both that and this will explode with discussions of the event.
D. no one talks about the event because we are all to busy helping the new players with $10 guild wars :p

Retro was actually planning to make a thread for HoT.
 
so I have a question.
for the event tomorrow which of the following will happen.

c. a new thread will be opened and both that and this will explode with discussions of the event.

C plus reddit being upset about something

Both of these AND the New Thread will probably have some variance of "I don't like game" posts because that's what happens to nearly every game topic in Gaming Discussion.
 

Cathcart

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Though choice this weekend with the double experience boost .

Do i level my Mesmer, My ranger , my engie or my thief ?

How would i make the best possible use of all that exp ?

All mesmer all the time. Should be made easier when they announce tomorrow that everything but Sylvari mesmers are being removed from the game. That includes gear, currencies, levels and zones.
 

Spyware

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Haha tja, jovisst. Vad heter du i spelet oftast?
Was about to reply in swedish but it felt so wrong! Iddia is the one I'm playing dailies/missions on so that's sort of a main I guess. But with 45 characters it's easier to say that I'm Falsetto (account name) :p
 

Emitan

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Was about to reply in swedish but it felt so wrong! Iddia is the one I'm playing dailies/missions on so that's sort of a main I guess. But with 45 characters it's easier to say that I'm Falsetto (account name) :p

Ike makes fun of me for my alt problems but dang. How can you even have that many.
 

Minamu

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Was about to reply in swedish but it felt so wrong! Iddia is the one I'm playing dailies/missions on so that's sort of a main I guess. But with 45 characters it's easier to say that I'm Falsetto (account name) :p
Damn xD Don't think I've seen your account name which is odd. So it's you who makes Anet turn a profit then I assume ;)
 

Retro

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Missions tomorrow night are going to be crazy, though next week will probably be busier with all the potential new players due to the sale.

On that note: For any new / returning players who will be joining us for Guild Missions thanks to the announcement / sale, we'll try to get everyone where they need to be and explain what we're doing. The missions are chosen at random so we can't always tell what level zone they will be in, but we'll attempt to pick the lowest level option when we have any choice (mostly just for Guild Bounty, really).

I'd say something about current members being patient if missions take a while to get set up, but you guys are always super cool with getting folks escorted and such.

There still is a lack of content. Tune in to the PAX South presentation tomorrow though. If it is what the community hopes it to be (An expansion over another crappy chapter in the Living Story model), it would be a great time to come back.

Care to substantiate that position? By all accounts the Living Story model has been a success, allowing a subscription-free game to thrive as multiple sub-based games have launched and wilted away in the interim. Given that they've been using this 'crappy' model for exactly two years now, surely they would have abandoned it if it wasn't paying the bills and retaining players?

Looks like it is an honest to god Armor set instead of an Outfit.

It's an armor set, That_Shaman confirmed it on Twitter last night.

While I mostly agree with you I think there's a difference between simply not liking the game (and maybe saying that in a way like: "I don't enjoy the LS, I really want them to drop that and do something else") and coming here and calling the LS "crappy" (like the post on the previous page did).

Heh, just watch the gaming side thread for the Heart of Thorns announcement, the thread-shitting is going to be intense. Whichever mod got Miktar, I hope they're watching because the drive-by trolling that usually happens in non-community GW2 threads is pretty well established.

It's sad when I'm up until 2am putting the finishing touches on a thread and have a moment where I stop and consider just not making one because I don't feel like seeing all the usual hate get piled on by the usual people who go largely unpunished.

F' it, I'm just going to report 'objectionable posts' to the support e-mail like we're supposed to instead of hoping a moderator wanders in and sees what's going on.

so I have a question.
for the event tomorrow which of the following will happen.

A. a new thread will be opened and all discussions of the event will be posted in there.
B. this thread will just be used for discussions of the event.
c. a new thread will be opened and both that and this will explode with discussions of the event.
D. no one talks about the event because we are all to busy helping the new players with $10 guild wars :p

The correct answer is "A". I will be making a thread before the Livestream begins (probably just a few hours) and when it's over change it over to an announcement thread when we have more details on what Heart of Thorns actually is.

New news = New thread, and this definitely qualifies as news.

The community thread probably doesn't need the burden of all those posts too as we're getting up near 20k again and we don't have anything planned for OT5 yet.
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I played the beta a bit back when that was a thing and it didn't really grab me, but 10 bucks might make it worth checking out how the game is now. I might make a norn warrior so I can be a viking guy or something.
 
MIKTAR:( WHY? What has MIKTAR EVER DONE TO ANYBODY? He's a charr for god sakes! He ain't a threat to nobody!




Was about to reply in swedish but it felt so wrong! P

Then let me put it in a language you might understand for you two swedish dogs;

vi vil have skåne tilbage NU!!! I kommer her og tro at i "bare" kan rende rundt og sælge marabou til os? i kommer over øresundsbroen med jeres chokolade og ikea og tror i er så smarte! næ nej, kære små! nu stopper festen. i giver skåne tilbage med det vums!"
 

Spyware

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Damn xD Don't think I've seen your account name which is odd.
Yeah, I play every day. But my sleep has been really messed up since I got sick just before christmas so I usually play really early mornings and other odd times now :p

So it's you who makes Anet turn a profit then I assume ;)
Spyware singlehandedly funded Season 2 of Ls .
Yup, something like that! ;D

Heh, just watch the gaming side thread for the Heart of Thorns announcement, the thread-shitting is going to be intense. Whichever mod got Miktar, I hope they're watching because the drive-by trolling that usually happens in non-community GW2 threads is pretty well established.

It's sad when I'm up until 2am putting the finishing touches on a thread and have a moment where I stop and consider just not making one because I don't feel like seeing all the usual hate get piled on by the usual people who go largely unpunished.
Yeah I've followed every single GW2 thread made on GAF since the game was announced. I know of the... usual people. :/

Then let me put it in a language you might understand for you two swedish dogs;

vi vil have skåne tilbage NU!!! I kommer her og tro at i "bare" kan rende rundt og sælge marabou til os? i kommer over øresundsbroen med jeres chokolade og ikea og tror i er så smarte! næ nej, kære små! nu stopper festen. i giver skåne tilbage med det vums!"
Omg xD
 
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