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Nemesis121
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Need to stack them in a corner and let me 100 Blades them with my Warrior lol..
Forerunner
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More violets, less violence!
I want the jungle itself to have to be cleared away every time. Encroaching darkness!
In other news, Rytlock has his sword back! It broke because of stress at the flame part of Sohothin's base, and I fixed it with a couple drill spots and a long needle connecting the two.
Also, I love the lighting in some areas. It makes my armor shiny!
In other news, Rytlock has his sword back! It broke because of stress at the flame part of Sohothin's base, and I fixed it with a couple drill spots and a long needle connecting the two.
Also, I love the lighting in some areas. It makes my armor shiny!
Vigilant Walrus
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I would love to hear;
What is going to happen to gameplay systems like Charm/Ferocity/Dignity, The Home Instance, The Personal Story, and how are they going to cohesively bridge the Personal Story, with Living Story, with HoT?
It sounds like HoT will be like Orr in that there won't be Hearts. I guess we're all happy about this, right? Nobody needs more Hearts at this point. Everyone who gets to 80 understand the game so well, it serves no purpose.
Adventures sounds like a great type of competitive PvE. It will be interesting to see who in the GAF guild will have the best speed runs for jumping puzzles. Hopefully there will be a guild pane, just for stat tracking this.
I also like the idea of the Outposts; This fixes (or it might fix!) a fundamental problem with dynamic events; You're doing an event by just finding it, and it's really cool that this goes on while you just stumbled upon it, but it's difficult because you don't have any context. By having a outposts as a base storyteller, narrative-set-up, you know the factions, the struggles and you can more easily make sense of what the conflicts are about.
I wonder if both Adventures and Outposts will carry into main GW2 as more main zones get changed by Living Story. What will happen to Orr? What role will Orr have now? Orr is still an important piece of content, but one that hasn't seen balancing for a long time. I still go there, and I enjoy the difficulty of the God temples, and there is a healthy train, that is not to extreme. Megaserver has done wonders for Orr, like it has everywhere else.
What is going to happen to gameplay systems like Charm/Ferocity/Dignity, The Home Instance, The Personal Story, and how are they going to cohesively bridge the Personal Story, with Living Story, with HoT?
It sounds like HoT will be like Orr in that there won't be Hearts. I guess we're all happy about this, right? Nobody needs more Hearts at this point. Everyone who gets to 80 understand the game so well, it serves no purpose.
Adventures sounds like a great type of competitive PvE. It will be interesting to see who in the GAF guild will have the best speed runs for jumping puzzles. Hopefully there will be a guild pane, just for stat tracking this.
I also like the idea of the Outposts; This fixes (or it might fix!) a fundamental problem with dynamic events; You're doing an event by just finding it, and it's really cool that this goes on while you just stumbled upon it, but it's difficult because you don't have any context. By having a outposts as a base storyteller, narrative-set-up, you know the factions, the struggles and you can more easily make sense of what the conflicts are about.
I wonder if both Adventures and Outposts will carry into main GW2 as more main zones get changed by Living Story. What will happen to Orr? What role will Orr have now? Orr is still an important piece of content, but one that hasn't seen balancing for a long time. I still go there, and I enjoy the difficulty of the God temples, and there is a healthy train, that is not to extreme. Megaserver has done wonders for Orr, like it has everywhere else.
Yep, that and the Day / Night cycle is pretty close to what I was thinking.
I'm afraid I'm in the "interested but not super excited" camp regarding today's blog post. Outposts sound like the Silverwaste Forts (small, region-specific meta events around which multiple DEs are based), and that's a good thing and a much more interesting way to lure players into the world than Renown Hearts... but the details are kinda slim so I'll wait and see.
Adventures, when I imagine them in my head, are like the races you'd find in Crackdown (at least the Jumping Puzzle parts). You can normally do the JP, or you can interact with an "Adventure Mote" and do it while timed / competing with other players. It doesn't seem like something that will be intrusive, so it's just one more thing to do for the sheer joy of it and that's just gravy in my book.
OT5 is 90% done, for what it's worth. Just gotta tweak some color / layout issues, fix a few typos, upload some properly sliced images and toss all the links in there. The way the thread moves lately it'll probably be up sometime this weekend, maybe. I'll keep an eye on things.
Kos Luftar
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I'm excited but it doesnt feel like what I expected a "deep dive" to be. Still kinda reads like it was written or edited by marketing rather than the devs themselves.
I'm a "show, don't tell" kind of person sometimes. Especially with games. I'm very excited for Heart of Thorns but I don't want to read paragraphs of theory about it all that much - I want to get in and play it and see things for myself, or if that's not an option, screenshots and videos are rad.
But that said I'm still eager to see the additional blogs! Especially the class specializations.
Kos Luftar
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Its new stuff, so I'll eat it all up. They really do not need to convince me of anything with blog posts. I'm on board. Just gimme a release date and a preorder. I suspect that outside of specific specializations, we already know everything can tell us.
It does sound like there won't be as many maps, but even so there will have to be Izel(?) or whatnot villages. Unless these are in the middle of the jungle/fort/silverwastes stuff, there should be some quiet maps too.
It does sound like there won't be as many maps, but even so there will have to be Izel(?) or whatnot villages. Unless these are in the middle of the jungle/fort/silverwastes stuff, there should be some quiet maps too.
I'm sure she loves that comparison!
Yeah it's not a comparison I enjoy. I mean my beard is way better and I don't live in Canada so there's no icicles on it.
I can imagine it now, 200+ fish to collect, over 50 different fishing spots, 5 tiers of rods to craft/buy, each location has a super rare fish that is unique to that location that even with the most expensive rod only has like a 1 in 500 chance of being caught.
my time... she would be no more :/
Oh dear god this is terrifying.
Rods could even be bundles, it's easy as hell to add them, with a complex mini-game mechanic to catching or lazy fishing auto attack 1. Auto-fishing would just catch small amounts of common fish.
What would be really cool is instead of a collection tab is a pond or something for your home instance where you could keep one of each different collectible fish.
Kos Luftar
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Ploid 3.0
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Just saw a video on turning Karma into gold by buying a crap ton of Lost Orrian Jewelry Boxes. Is there a better way to spend Karma? I don't think I'd ever try for a legendary if karma ever comes into play for those. I'm a casual and the only thing I ever spent karma on was low level gear sometimes, rarely.
1,097,828 karma currently.
1,097,828 karma currently.
There used to be a way to get karma items and throw em into the forge for salvageable linen, but it sounds really tedious and a lot more effort than spamming on jewel boxes, even if the return is better (and is a sure thing).
That said, I don't recommend jewel boxes either really
That said, I don't recommend jewel boxes either really
Bry0
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why must you like all the terrible things?
Say What!?!
I been hoping for fishing since before this game launched!
FISHING ANET. All these rivers and lakes and i can't fish?
*converts karma into boxes of stuff
this idea of a digital aquarium is very nice.
you would have to have some sort of simple minigame that requies some sort of random input mechanic for fishing. The game auto logs you out if you stand around for to long, so it's doubtful they would want to bog down their servers with people standing around fishing while there is no human player at the other end. Thus it would have to be an active thing you do to catch fish.
but yeah, really thinking about it this wouldn't be that hard to implement. I know I spent way more time than I should have fishing in torchlight 2 lol.
UltimateIke
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My seventh level 80, freshly completed just tonight.
Kjoxx the Asura Thief
Almost there now. I plan to be ready for Revenant on day 1, so my Necro should be done long before that.
Jensina Swiftstride the Norn Ranger
Pyrok Bladeburn the Charr Guardian
Glycia Silverpaw the Charr Engineer
Pantarwen the Sylvari Elementalist
Kwearri the Asura Mesmer
Kjoxx the Asura Thief
Almost there now. I plan to be ready for Revenant on day 1, so my Necro should be done long before that.
Jensina Swiftstride the Norn Ranger
Pyrok Bladeburn the Charr Guardian
Glycia Silverpaw the Charr Engineer
Pantarwen the Sylvari Elementalist
Kwearri the Asura Mesmer
Yeah, buy the blue Cloth Crab Grabbin Gloves from this guy. Forge four of them, salvage for linen. Its tedious as hell, but its how I get my linen for crafting.
I'm only doing it for the story achievements.
Once you have 'em at 80, it makes it sooooooo much easier!
Adventures + Hang Gliding =
mothafuckin ring course baby
hockeypuck
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OT7, maybe OT8 if we spam some gifs towards the end.
A actual quip, or the quip?
I like making quips about Quips.
I also hope we get an awesome revolver for the pistol legendary in HoT. Enough pony bows and disco maces.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
wait what's so special about Laranthir
also wasn't it Canach who was making a reaction that "we're not evil!!!"
also wasn't it Canach who was making a reaction that "we're not evil!!!"
http://www.tentonhammer.com/news/gu...layers-‘first-look’-guild-wars-2-heart-thorns
Livestream stuff starts at 2 p.m. EST tomorrow at twitch.tv/guildwars2
Most likely we'll see the mastery system in-game. Aww Yiss
Livestream stuff starts at 2 p.m. EST tomorrow at twitch.tv/guildwars2
Most likely we'll see the mastery system in-game. Aww Yiss
Really hoping there's some gameplay in that stream and not just panning shots of the jungle (which are great and I'm excited about them and not super jaded). Would love to see an adventure because yesterday's blog made it sound like something they thought up as they were writing the post ("Uh, maybe it will be like a jumping puzzle with a clock on it? Who knows?").
I'm excited to be excited about masteries. So far I kinda dislike the idea because "You can unlock the ability to get places you couldn't get the first time" sounds a bit too much like "We added new levels but just called them masteries." But at least you only have to get them once per account. Idk, prove me wrong, ANet.
I'm excited to be excited about masteries. So far I kinda dislike the idea because "You can unlock the ability to get places you couldn't get the first time" sounds a bit too much like "We added new levels but just called them masteries." But at least you only have to get them once per account. Idk, prove me wrong, ANet.
Phanatic8390
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Alright how much longer should I wait for support to contact me about my account being locked?
I bought this during the sale last week and its been nearly 2 weeks since I submitted a ticket without a response. Are they really this slow? I might just try and use an alternate email if it gets any longer.
I bought this during the sale last week and its been nearly 2 weeks since I submitted a ticket without a response. Are they really this slow? I might just try and use an alternate email if it gets any longer.
Hey everyone, I recently started playing this game and am playing a human thief. Can you give any advice on how I should be progressing? I'm almost level 30. I feel like my PvE abilities suck hard, I'm just not sure how to maximize my dps. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, from skills to gear to anything else.
Vigilant Walrus
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Thief is a class that leaves a lot more to the skill level of the player than some of the easier-to-play-classes, like Warrior and Guardian.
Well, you want, to prioritize gear with Power and Condition Damage and Ferocity. Those will maximize your damage.
If your problem is that you're not good at weapon swapping and staying alive, you can opt for Toughness and Vitality based gear. That will make you more more surviveable, but it will make your damage less effective.
You should go to the trading post and buy a stack of Sharpening Stones and Foods. Besides giving you 10% increased XP each, they also give you a nice buff, and they cost next to nothing. Don't worry about not having money while levelling in the game. You make a lot more money at lvl 80, so its pointless to think you're saving copper by not buying consumeables and stuff.
You can see a list of foods here, to find a combo of stats you like. Just search for it on the trading post. Pick something that is cheap; http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Food
Vigilant Walrus
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A great deal of people don't have good security, or know how to protect themselves from malware, and are easy prey. This allows people to easily steal peoples accounts and use them for gold selling schemes. This creates a massive pressure on the customer supports infrastructure.
Being a non-subscription based game, there are limits to how fast you can expect CC to get back at ya, but with that being said, in the 3-4 times I've contacted them about various things they got back to me within 1 or 2 days.
Noisy Ninj4
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If you want to dps, your best bet is using sword/pistol and dagger/pistol. Sword/pistol has solid damage on the autoattack as well as a nice cleave, s/p 3 is also nice.
For dagger/pistol, you have a stealth combo. Using pistol 5 lays down a smoke field, dagger 2 finishes with it to give you stealth, which you can then use to backstab with dagger 1, just make sure to hit from behind.
Both of these weapon combinations are heavily dependent on power, with precision and ferocity being useful but less necessary.
Lastly, shortbow is solid dps against groups. The weakness combo is nice too.
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