proudft
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It is definitely an encouragement for me to play alts and then never buy the poor bastards anything.
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kildorn
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Laurels have been account wide. Karma will be useful since you have tons of it on the character who doesn't have anything to buy with it.
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Fordel
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More bag space free!
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Kageru
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The token account is great, the feature to start winding back visual effects as the numbers grow is almost as good. Some of the big event fights it's difficult to even see your character amidst the spell effects if you are melee. Which of course makes responding to red circles and mob telegraphs more or less impossible.
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Stokowski
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Am I allowed to hope that they will also make title visibility toggleable? They're just annoying fluff.
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tazelbain
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Did they ever make it so you could see the chat for all your guilds?
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Threash
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No. I see very little point in the whole "join multiple guilds" feature as it is.
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Stokowski
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You create a one-man guild for extra storage space, then join a real guild for giggles & stuff.
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Threash
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Made like 10g in about an hour of doing world bosses after reset last night, did get two exotics and above average on ectos from salvaging though. Still, it seems a much better time investment than endless dungeoning, and more varied.
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Lantyssa
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I need some of your luck. I've yet to see an exotic drop from a world boss, and it's been over a month since I've even gotten two rares from a single event.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Threash
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People tell me magic find only affects mob drops and not chests but i think they are nuts. Two rares per boss is average, three is not rare at all. Two exotics in one night is quite rare though, but i do average about 6 gold or so after clearing all the more common world bosses each day (no convington or karka queen or the hard temples usually).
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KallDrexx
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So I have two friends looking to start playing and I decided to hop back on. Is WvW usually that dead on a sunday evening (3-5pm-ish)? I play on Blackgate (which appears to be number 1) and yet there was literally no action on any of the battle grounds except for Eternal Battlegrounds (which of course had a queue). Are all servers like that? It is really hard to get back into this game in a non-WvW aspect. I haven't played since 2 months after launch and trying to remember all my abilities, how to play my character, what I should do, etc... just makes me feel pretty lost.
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Shatter
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It is really hard to get back into this game in a non-WvW aspect. I haven't played since 2 months after launch and trying to remember all my abilities, how to play my character, what I should do, etc... just makes me feel pretty lost.
Nah, I just restarted last week and got back into it very fast which quickly reminded me why I left in the first place but I'm trogging through anyhow. My experience so far though is a lot of areas are dead, just no one there, maybe its server dependent dunno. Sucks to see events and stuff up and no one doing em.
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Setanta
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Has to be server dependant - Yak's Bend has at least 30-40 doing the chests at any one time in Aussie prime time, more during US prime.
WvW is good in US
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"No man is an island. But if you strap a bunch of dead guys together it makes a damn fine raft."
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kildorn
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It's the rewards revamps. People don't do the harder zones with shit rewards. So people will do the temples (though the timers on them are kind wonky), and everything you see on the timer sites. And you'll usually have a karma zerg around in a sub-40 zone hitting all the champ spawns in a rotation.
But 70-80? Kinda empty. Because the content is harder for roughly the same rewards as just farming lucrative events.
Ideally they patch in that exploration bonus XP => bonus loot chance to encourage people to spread out a little bit and reward killing that shark in the lower corner of the map who hasn't been killed in seven months.
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Sjofn
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That shark ain't doin' nothin' bad! Leave it alone!
As for WvW being dead, I think it depends pretty heavily on time zones, but probably also on the match-ups. I know I stopped bothering going last week mostly because JQ was so thoroughly owning the other two servers, there wasn't much to do, and the stuff there WAS to do just felt like needlessly kicking the other servers in the nuts, which would make them less likely to come back out, which meant we were even more ahead, etc.
And we still haven't gotten kicked back up to T1, so we are still just beating the shit out of the other two servers unlucky enough to be matched up with us. I am pretty sure Fort Aspenwood is ready to see us go away.
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kildorn
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FA seems a lot happier about it than Maguuma, who as far as I can tell has ONE guild who cares about keeps and the rest basically forum troll about 8v8s or whatever the kids call it now.
I took the shit matchup as a reason to finish my WvW map complete. Got killed a few times running into hostile groups. Why you gotta bring 5 to fight my 1, FA! Zergers!
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KallDrexx
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Wow, I was wondering why I wasn't doing as well as I remembered with my necromancer. Just found out that sometime during my haitus they refunded all trait points, so I literally have zero trait points spent. gg...
Now I have to remember what kind of build I can do and what I should be speccing in.
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murdoc
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Wow, I was wondering why I wasn't doing as well as I remembered with my necromancer. Just found out that sometime during my haitus they refunded all trait points, so I literally have zero trait points spent. gg...
Now I have to remember what kind of build I can do and what I should be speccing in.
This was me yesterday - I can't even remember HOW I was speccing, let alone what all my points were in.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Setanta
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Wow, I was wondering why I wasn't doing as well as I remembered with my necromancer. Just found out that sometime during my haitus they refunded all trait points, so I literally have zero trait points spent. gg...
Now I have to remember what kind of build I can do and what I should be speccing in.
I was in the same boat. Fortunately I screenshot all my builds :) Just respecced my warrior into 30/0/0/10/30 and am having a ball as axe/mace with greatsword. Finished my second thief and am playing it as S/P and P/P for fun. At 13 level 80s I can't bring myself to level another.
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KallDrexx
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I didn't last long in my attempt to come back to GW2. It really is like Shatter said, even in the newbie areas there aren't many dynamic events firing off, nor random people you run into to do quests with. It really seems dead for a lot of content :-/
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Setanta
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Guest on a different server. Yours is dead by the sounds of it but mine seems to be alive in both US and Aussie time zones.
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"No man is an island. But if you strap a bunch of dead guys together it makes a damn fine raft."
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kildorn
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JQ is pretty populated. But for this week nobody's in the world because everyone's farming the new zone for a bit. Seriously, everyone. I've yet to even see the non overflow version of it.
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Setanta
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Likewise with Yak's.
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Sjofn
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JQ is pretty populated. But for this week nobody's in the world because everyone's farming the new zone for a bit. Seriously, everyone. I've yet to even see the non overflow version of it.
Not entirely true, there are also giant champion trains in the 70-80 zones.
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God Save the Horn Players
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Fordel
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You should be defending the realm instead!
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Sjofn
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I can't complete my daily in WvW alone!
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Fordel
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You totally can!
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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kildorn
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JQ is pretty populated. But for this week nobody's in the world because everyone's farming the new zone for a bit. Seriously, everyone. I've yet to even see the non overflow version of it.
Not entirely true, there are also giant champion trains in the 70-80 zones. Bah, inefficient! Low level champs die in 30 seconds! This patch made the Harathi Powerlevel Event stupidly good and soon to be nerfed, because all in all there are 5 champs involved every 20 minutes or so.
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Threash
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What's the harathi powerlevel event?
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kildorn
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What's the harathi powerlevel event?
The Harathi Overseer or whatever. Starts at the very NE part of Harathi Hinterlands, and involves a four event chain that spawns a billion centaur. If you go up there, you will find tons of people and usually XP/Karma banners. Bring food/oils for xp bonuses, and every AE you have. You will not be able to see the mobs, culling gets brutal. But it's pretty comical amounts of xp, and a daily chest at the end if you just want to run it once a day with an 80.
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Ingmar
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All the fun of fin tree without the ability to go AFK ever.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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kildorn
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All the fun of fin tree without the ability to go AFK ever.
Lies. You have to move at the harathi event! Occasionally.
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Sjofn
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You totally can!
Depends on the set for any given day, and yesterday's was not one of those days.
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Saw this for £25 on this place a couple of days ago so. Been playing with a friend since then, really liking it. So far it feels very much like you get rewards for doing pretty much anything you feel like. My highest level is only 15 so far, a Charr Necromancer, but it's fun. I'm digging the way skills work even if I don't yet understand a lot of it. My one complaint would be that every single female character in the game, both player and non-player, appears to be a porn-star-esque 19 year old. Mind you there aren't many male characters over the age of about 30 either. MMOs are all like Logan's Run.
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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