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Setanta
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Reply #315 on: August 22, 2013, 12:51:16 AM

That's what I'm going to try second time around. I went a well build to level and hated every minute of levelling. Since then I went condition for PvE/PvP and love it. Minions seemed weak early build so I'm hoping it was just me.

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Reply #316 on: August 22, 2013, 04:55:48 AM

Yeah, I leveled pets and it was fine. Also not sure of the Well build hate. I love my wells so much that I don't see myself doing anything else. Things swarm me, I put down wells, pop shroud if I need to, and things just melt.
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Reply #317 on: August 22, 2013, 07:30:03 AM

My necro was the first to 80 with wells.  Easy Peasy.
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Reply #318 on: August 23, 2013, 07:47:30 AM

Blarg. So ever since the first day of this new event, I lose connection during phase 3 of the invasions. I suspect it's Comcast's fault since all of my connections quickly reset (youtube will error out, but a refresh brings it right back), but logging back into GW2 puts me into an overflow without an active event so I wind up never getting credit towards the meta.

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Reply #319 on: August 23, 2013, 09:00:07 AM

Yeah, you are pretty screwed. 

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Reply #320 on: August 24, 2013, 04:21:04 PM

I have no idea what the ramifications are for the economy long term. It's really weird. They've been so careful of keeping money flow tightly restricted, because of the RMT ramifications, that I simply cannot understand why they've opted to throw the doors open for three straight weeks now. So much money. Just greens and blues on this event are netting me something to the tune of 2-3g per event (half hour).
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Reply #321 on: August 24, 2013, 04:28:50 PM

Its fucking the gold to gem conversion. Good for people who buy gems to turn into gold, bad for everyone else.

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Reply #322 on: August 24, 2013, 04:45:55 PM

Perhaps that's exactly what they want to happen.  Now more people will have to buy gems.

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Reply #323 on: August 24, 2013, 05:07:27 PM

I think it's just lack of planning, the two week cycle doesn't leave much time for balance testing.  A guildie made 200g on the first few hours of the pavillion before they took it down to nerf the champ centaur spawns, subject 7 was a cake walk with five gambits for a whole day before they nerfed him and even after deadeye dunwell was easy enough to farm with 3-4 gambits for several classes, now you only get rewarded once a day.  The aether champ farm from this event has already been toned down once.  They just aren't expecting people to thoroughly monetize everything so god damn efficiently and don't have enough time to make sure it's not easily exploitable before they roll it out.

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Reply #324 on: August 25, 2013, 01:36:01 AM

Perhaps that's exactly what they want to happen.  Now more people will have to buy gems.

Probably yea.


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Reply #325 on: August 25, 2013, 03:53:43 AM

Whatever they are doing, they are doing it right. Logged in to Yak's Bend during Aussie day-time, LA and 3 other zones were in overflow. Hell, there were even people in the Asuran city

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Reply #326 on: August 25, 2013, 10:15:37 AM

I don't think the intent is to flood the gold market to sell gems. They're trying to flood the high tier mats market to fix a few holes in the economy to prepare for 500 level crafting. The reality is that when they adjust the precursor system to be something other than bulk farming there will basically be no big ticket gold items left.

They're moving gold sinks into vendor purchased cosmetics, such as the gauntlet event letting you buy any racial weapon skins for gears + 5-10G per.
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Reply #327 on: August 25, 2013, 02:44:15 PM

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, etc.

Anyway, I haven't logged in for a couple of weeks (way too busy working on a Shadowrun Returns module), how fun is this event? I kinda got bored with the pavilion farm after an hour or two.

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Reply #328 on: August 25, 2013, 03:52:37 PM

Same as the pavillion farm but spread across a lot of zones.

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Reply #329 on: August 27, 2013, 06:53:51 AM

Quote

Craft Ascended Weapons: New recipes and materials will be hidden around the world, and a new skill cap of 500 will be introduced for the Weaponsmith, Artificer and Huntsman crafting disciplines. Players crafting their way to 500 will become Grandmaster Crafters and can learn the secrets of crafting Ascended weapons.
Legendary Weapon Updates: Legendary weapons will receive a stat boost, an Offensive Infusion slot to align with new Ascended weapons and additional functionality, among other things.
Account-Wide Magic Find: Magic Find will be removed as an equipment stat and implemented as an account-wide bonus applied to all of a player’s characters.


And the return of Super Adventure Box which I loved.

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Reply #330 on: August 27, 2013, 08:39:49 AM

That sounds sweet.  Looks like i'll be finishing my legendary at a perfect time.

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Reply #331 on: August 27, 2013, 09:02:45 AM

The additional functionality of changing stats when out of combat is a really nice way of make the Legendaries more than just aesthetics, but not making them more powerful than the other stuff to can be bought/crafted.

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Reply #332 on: August 27, 2013, 11:23:32 AM

I'm still really really uncertain on the ascended weapons. Things leveled out a bit where getting ascended pieces wasn't that big a deal recently, but if the weapons are pricey as fuck it's going to be yet another alt-unfriendly patch and fuck with the power curve.

I will wait and see on this one when the patch hits. A lot of it comes down to how hard the new stuff is to craft.
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Reply #333 on: August 27, 2013, 10:08:31 PM

I probably won't even come back to play RVR occasionally like I have been with ascended weapons being a thing. Oh well.

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Reply #334 on: August 27, 2013, 10:39:08 PM

Quick newbie question: how do I do dungeons?

My necro is level 50 now and I've had 3 dungeons pop up on the map with mails suggesting I go there, but there's no dungeon finder? I found GW2LFG but the groups that show up on that seem to always be level 80 and they don't say what server they're on. Can you group cross-server or something?

Is it even worth me doing story mode dungeons while leveling or does the lack of a group finder (which I am slightly stunned by, wtf is this 2004?) make it too much of a hassle without a large enough group of friends?

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Reply #335 on: August 28, 2013, 01:11:10 AM

1) Guildies
2) Guildies
3) Guildies

PUGS are cancer and from my experience aren't prepared to carry sub-80s. Level to 80, get into yellows, then give it a shot.

Depending on your server, get into a big guild with others that run instances. This is why I'm in TOG (http://www.theoldergamers.com) and have been for several different games

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Reply #336 on: August 28, 2013, 02:25:24 AM

I used GW2LFG a lot... haven't really had any bad experiences with it, really. Ironically, the only dungeon group I was in that failed / fell apart was an AC storymode dungeon ~1 month after release that was an almost-full guild group (4 people from the same guild, and I was the PUG along for the ride). But yea, you'll want to be 80 with at least yellow gear (maybe a few greens) for best results.

Anet has been promising a LFD tool forever, but I haven't heard anything about it lately.

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Reply #337 on: August 28, 2013, 06:49:28 AM

I have no idea what the ramifications are for the economy long term. It's really weird. They've been so careful of keeping money flow tightly restricted, because of the RMT ramifications, that I simply cannot understand why they've opted to throw the doors open for three straight weeks now. So much money. Just greens and blues on this event are netting me something to the tune of 2-3g per event (half hour).

I started the month with about 5 gold between my characters and due to random purchases tended to stay around that level. As of yesterday after plunking down 10 gold for a skin for my long bow I am at 55gp. This whole month has been one gigantic loot pinata of epic proportions and probably will have long term consequences on the economy.
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Reply #338 on: August 28, 2013, 07:16:52 AM

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/guild-wars-2-the-first-year/

The graphic at the end was pretty interesting.

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Reply #339 on: August 28, 2013, 05:59:01 PM

23 million dead cows  ACK!

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Reply #340 on: August 28, 2013, 06:02:04 PM

Pretty sure those Risen Thralls are just killstealing from all the other bullshit in Orr.
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Reply #341 on: August 28, 2013, 06:30:32 PM

There's risen thralls in every zone with risen, and most zones have risen.

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Reply #342 on: August 28, 2013, 08:05:27 PM

The caravan stat made me laugh. Poor yaks.

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Reply #343 on: August 28, 2013, 11:02:03 PM

I seem to always end up playing the unpopular races & classes in MMOs. My Charr Necromancer feels special now!  why so serious?

Dungeons are for 80s only then? Well that sucks.

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Reply #344 on: August 29, 2013, 12:04:36 AM

I seem to always end up playing the unpopular races & classes in MMOs. My Charr Necromancer feels special now!  why so serious?

I have a Charr Engineer - that makes him rare too :)

Of the races I love the Charr and Norn the most but have a fondness for Asura and the Humans are the easiest to do jumping puzzles with. Sylvari I'm not fond of but that's probably an anti-Treahearne thing.

Looking at the racial breakdown of my characters it looks like:
Charr: Warrior/Elementalist/Engineer
Norn: Ranger/Warrior/Elementalist/Necromancer
Asura: Mesmer/Guardian/Thief
Sylvari: Ranger
Human: Guardian/Mesmer/Thief/Engineer

Of those, only the Charr and Norn warriors, Charr and Human Engineers are male. I do wish I'd made the Human Engineer a Norn.

I'm considering a Sylvari Necro as there's nice dungeon armour that would fit the theme but again... Treahearne syndrome.

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Reply #345 on: August 29, 2013, 01:20:17 AM


Dungeons are for 80s only then? Well that sucks.

That's not strictly true but as people have said it'll be the rare pickup group that can get through one. I did the first one with a good group around 32 or so. It was difficult but we persisted and made it.
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Reply #346 on: August 29, 2013, 02:36:44 AM

My boring race/class break down for level 80 goes like this:

norn elementalist
human mesmer
sylvari guardian
human thief (her armor looks hilarious on her right now, by the way, it all looks WAY TOO BIG for her which has the added bonus of making her look like she has a pinhead)

I was a little surprised to see norn so "low," just because it feels like there are a lot of them on Jade Quarry. Not at all surprised at the charr being the least popular, though. I feel a little bad I still don't have one, because I really like how they designed the females, but bleh. I just don't like the charr much to start with (NEVAR FORGET) and the running animation basically seals my DO NOT WANT opinion.

Still, I should probably make an engineer. Probably. Mmmmmeh, probably won't.

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Reply #347 on: August 29, 2013, 07:11:21 AM

Norn Warrior, Thief, Engineer and Elementalist. Human Necro and Guardian for me.

I kept trying to make a Charr because I felt I ought to, but I could never make one I liked. The most important part of any MMO is character creation. If I don't do it right, I won't play no matter how good the game is.

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Reply #348 on: August 29, 2013, 07:25:42 AM

That running animation is the worst thing in the game next to Orr.

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Reply #349 on: August 29, 2013, 08:52:22 AM

The caravan stat made me laugh. Poor yaks.

The part thats hilarious is that it takes 1 million kills for the achievement and only 23 million total have died across all players.

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