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FASHION CONTEST RULES:
1.) Post your character who you wish to enter in the /gw2g/ Fashion Contest with "I hate E*onians" where its clearly visible.
2.) The theme is: "Whatever you feel like, maaaan."
3.) Once the thread hits 750, the entry period will be closed. The next thread, or the thread after will hold the judging portion via online poll. It will be checkbox point system and the one with the most points will win.
4.) Winner will get to be in the OP, regardless if they are an avatarfag.
Edition
>Resources and FAQs
https://pastebin.com/ZU4uUREV
>Guilds
https://pastebin.com/zCUYwWF0
>Am poor! What do?
DO THE WIZARD VAULT WEEKLIES
Daily Checklist - https://fast.farming-community.eu/farming/daily
Currencies - https://fast.farming-community.eu/conversions/overview
OW Farming - https://fast.farming-community.eu/open-world/overview
Salvaging - https://fast.farming-community.eu/salvaging/overview
https://gw2efficiency.com/
Alternatively, get a fucking job and swipe.
>My build is absolute shit! What do?
https://gw2mists.com/
https://metabattle.com/
https://snowcrows.com/
https://discretize.eu/
https://guildjen.com/gw2-builds/
https://en.gw2skills.net/
>Events and Gem Store sales
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/events/
>Latest
VoE Staff/Spear leggy
VoE Aquabreather leggy
Fashion Templates
>Soon™
GW3 (never ever)
Two more VoE maps
>Now
Lunar New Year Festival (Horse)
Legendary PvE Ring
rAIDS Quickplay
VoE Quarterly Release
>Latest Patch
https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/168295-game-update-notes-februar y-24-2026/
>Latest news
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/the-raids-and-wardrobe-update-is-li ve-now/
>Speed Relics for Turbogays
https://www.elitepvpers.com/forum/gw2-hacks-bots-cheats-exploits/
>Addons
https://www.deltaconnected.com/arcdps/
https://blishhud.com/
https://raidcore.gg/Nexus
https://burrito.orthogonalprojects.com/
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very low iq player here
so vanilla legendaries require world completion which is insane for me. but eod aurene legendaries only requires eod map completion?
so why are eod legendaries still more expensive on the auction house?
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>>558585827
more expensive items go into them with different kinds of timesinks and busywork and tiers to get the final product, none of which is optional. gen1 legos have the optional step to craft the precursor weapon, but it is entirely skippable with luck or gold.
believe it or not, world completion isn't the same level as all that.
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>>558585827
It all comes down to material cost, and gen 1 legendaries have the additional benefit of having their costs drastically reduced due to the Wizard's Vault starter keys. Gifts of X are never really taken into account when it comes to costs, it all boils down to sellable material costs and what the market is asking for it.
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i've been liking sw/a untamed, but it is strictly worse than mechanist which makes sense because engineer is the pet class with 65 pets to choose from.
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>thief: *does anything better than any other profession for more than three seconds*
>ANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!! NERFITNERFITNERFITNERFITNERFIT
>Anet: "Ogey" *nerfs the shit out of thief*
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>>558599840
STOP THAT RIGHT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
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which anon was it that said anyone who has more than 3 GoB should uninstall or something like that? well suck on deez.
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WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE TO JUMP ONTO AN INVISIBLE, 1-INCH WIDE FIN IN THE NOT-SO-SECRET JUMPING PUZZLE?
AND WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THAT IF YOU FALL INTO THE PIT UNDER THE FIN, YOU DIE AND HAVE TO RES OUTSIDE?
AND WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE INBRED DEVS PUT A LAUNCHER DOWN THERE THAT ONLY MOVES YOU HALFWAY UP THE FUCKING PIT AND MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN CLIMB OUT BUT YOU ACTUALLY CAN'T?
WHAT
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SACKS OF SHIT
DESIGNED THIS?
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>>558603085
i don't feel like making a video, so you get what you get
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>have killed 5 elder dragons with my bare hands
>New Kaineng Police think they can arrest me
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>>558603271
The fucking puzzle is broken.
The fucking pistons don't launch as high as they used to.
The zippers don't add any lift to your jump when they launch you forward, so you don't jump from platform to platform, but instead launch horizontally and immediately dip and slam into the side of the platform.
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>>558599116
do you think they could be friends?
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>>558603271
this one, i think (i could be wrong)
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>>558567146
>we have maybe one major patch left in the game
There's two more patches left for VoE.
As for true maintenance mode I'm 50/50 on it. There are a few reasons to think GW2 will continue to be supported.
1. Very few game designers from back then still work at ANet. Anything they're doing now that resembles what they did with GW1 in the end of its life is probably a coincidence.
2. GW1 had very few microtransactions. GW2's gem store is much more lucrative and could be a secondary source of revenue.
3. The majority of ANet employees are already working on GW3. They can keep shitting out mini expansions on a 1.5 year basis.
All that said, the fact that they haven't even teased another expansion yet is the best evidence that there won't be one.
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I wonder, is maintenance mode really a bad thing? People still pay subscriptions for vanilla world of warcraft. If the mmo has captured an audience it can pretty much keep them for nearly forever. Especially if there isn't an alternative.
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>>558606497
I think WoW is a special case, and even then most people playing Classic are obsessed with F R E S H starts, which isn't something GW2 can do. I can't think of any MMOs with a significant playerbase that don't get content updates.
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>>558583974
I shan't be entering.
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>>558599116
Bird Up
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I swear to god, the single biggest sign of staggering incompetence in the ANet devs is THEY KEEP TRYING TO MAKE THE GAME SOMETHING IT'S NOT.
They didn't design a platformer, but they shove platforming into the game all over the place.
They didn't make a stealth game, but they try to shove stealth into the game all over the place.
They didn't make a racing game, but they try to shove racing into the game all over the place.
They made a shitty tab-targeting MMO and instead of leaning in on any of the 200 fucking mechanics and making it the best tab-targeting MMO, they waste their time making shitty knockoffs of games THEIR GAME CAN NEVER BE, while the tab-targeting MMO elements sit abandoned and rotting. How long has this fucking game been out and only now are they bothering with a fucking LFG queue? Fucking idiots.
Imagine if all the time they wasted on stealth missions and racing bullshit and jumping puzzles had been spent on LFG and raids and dynamic combat instead.
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>>558606497
Optics are important. Active development = worth it to start or keep playing. That's why there are so many "Should I play X now or it's too late?" discussions about every game. Sometimes even single player offline ones. People view MMOs as a worthwhile long term investment. Feeling of continuity and accumulating history is key.
I'd argue 'dead game' label is a meme that no one takes seriously anymore. While 'maintenance' is much more damning, basically admitting game is abandoned by devs and only player who can't let go left.
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>>558626830
Agreed. They should have never added pvp and wvw. These two ate too much of game dev time and resources, with all the other aspects struggling, while dividing playebase.
Should have focused on dungeons, OW, JPs and pve combat.
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Guardian feels amazing in instanced content but feels boring in open world. Even Dragon Hunter longbow feels pretty boring with its slow Auto attack speed, slow projectiles, and the terrible lay a trap at your feet mechanic.
What classes feel fun in open world? I Define fun as in somewhat decent mobility, good cleanse for a lot of the open world condition spam, and can kill mobs rather quickly with a rotation that actually has a nice rhythm
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>>558626830
Correct.
When I want to play a 3D platformer, I boot up Super Mario Galaxy/Odyssey
When I want to play a stealth game, I boot up MGS.
When I want to play a racing game, I boot up Gran Turismo or Forza.
When I want to play a good tab-targeting combat game, I boot up Monster Hunter.
Actually, I think I will now uninstall this game.
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>cool thing is a pvp reward
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god dammit anet fixed the exploit in WvW where you could join from pve, swap maps and then not need to wait for the participation to cycle twice to start getting reward track progress
I swear every time I find out about an old exploit they fix it within a few months
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WHY IS IT UNSKIPPABLE
AHHHHH
I'm only seeing this because those inbred fucking devs didn't put a way to jump to the Tower of Nightmares outdoor section when replaying a story mission and I need the fucking note off the table outside the tower.
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HOLY FUCK, YOU HAVE TO DO ALL OF THE ANTITOXIN QUESTS TO GET TO THE TOWER QUEST. You have to grind Kessex events or waste 20 spore samples on this stupid little bitch just to catch up to the part in the story where a fucking note BRIEFLY showed up on a crate.
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THE FUCKING TOXIC SAMPLE TURN-IN DOESN'T WORK ON REPLAY. THE DUMB BITCH JUST SELLS SHIT FOR SAMPLES AND WON'T TAKE ANY DONATIONS. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
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You WILL enjoy the Marjory & Kasmeer story. Some self-inserting tranny didn't put that in there just so you can skip it.
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And if you try to enter the Tower of Nightmares to hand in spore samples to the military bitch in there, she won't take them.
UNTIL YOU COMPLETE THE MISSION BY GRINDING EVENTS. THEN SHE'LL TAKE YOUR FUCKING SPORE SAMPLES BECAUSE THERE'S AN ACHIEVEMENT FOR TURNING IN 50 EVEN THOUGH THE QUEST ONLY REQUIRES 20 AT MOST.
And now I'm fucked on the Tower of Nightmare achievements for the day because nobody runs this shit at night and it's unsoloable without going into turbo autist mode and slowly fighting your way through the tower while shit respawns around you.
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>encountering a minor inconvenience in MMO be like
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>>558639213
Griffon you say?
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How much masterwork and rare rift essence can you farm in the convergence? I've been grinding t2 and t3 rifts in open world for three days now and collected only half of what I need for my first piece of obsidian armor.
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>>558640181
>make a joke about shooting up Anet office
>GW2 account banned
>twitch banned
>0 twitter posts
>9 months ago last vid
Americans can't deal with gun jokes, you silly lil brit
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>>9 months ago last vid
https://www.youtube.com/@RozeMMOlive/videos
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Oh he has 2 channels, ok
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>>558639213
I would pre-order and buy the overpriced Tengu/Naga/Kodan race character Rytlock story replacement statue if Griffon is the only flying mount they add in the next game
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>>558650473
What's the point of crafting ascended anything between all the pvp tokens, wizard's tower rewards, magnetite and freebie asc gear from achievements the game throws at you?
At most you'd need a grandmaster mark every now and then if you've have excess pvp/fractal currency.
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>not doing fractals
Fractals is the lifeblood everything money. You're ignoring the gold faucet. Just do your daily 30 minutes crapshoot with 4 other retards and be on your merry way holy shit. Even T1 is worth running.
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>>558629035
Just switch to luminary, tons of aoe burst between radiant forge aura detonations and spear, shits out all the boons but quickness, can run sword-sword on swap for endless blink (on top of the regular blink).
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>>558656781
It is not complicated as you'd think, and you're overestimating the general IQ expected from pugs even in T4. Progress from T1 is pretty easy and doable, and the new players are at least the same skill level. In T1 you don't need much party comp like healers.
>the only newfag in a group with 4 very experienced players
If its T4, then yes at least you should have a correct armor sets and build to pull your weight, but nowadays its extremely easy to do DPS, you have to purposely throw the game to get sub 10k nowadays.
However the mechanics to clear a fractal (like swamp wisps, underground facility, etc) which may look simple get considerably harder with time limits and trash mobs that hits harder which can lead to frustration.
Best way to climb is to get full ascended set asap, get funds to get 150 AR by slotting AR infusion in those ascended. Join a guild and ask if someone willing to pull you into T4 and willing to bring a new player along.
Otherwise just prog normally from T1-T4.
CMs however is an entirely new bullshit that needs some training and rote memorization in to pug comfortably (there are still retards in there).
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>>558656781
>I heard fractals are extremely complicated
You heard wrong. I'm semi-retarded and have incredibly slow reaction speeds and can't do a rotation for the life of me but I can still hold my own in T4, as a q/a/dps chrono no less.
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>>558656781
It used to be you had to play specific classes and learn rotations, but the game has gotten so much easier that just about any class can reliably fill any role and have very forgiving rotations. The days of Guardian's dominance in ftactals are long over.
You can easily pug T4's in like 30-40 mins on average. CM's are a different story, but you're probably not going to do them anyways.
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>entire
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>armory
oh fuck that nonsense, the non-craft-only ones make us do fractals to complete the collections. i am allergic to fractals and pugs, and waiting on the right one for a daily always brings the tards to the yard. i just want my cat bow, but i just can't stand making stacks of bows for "the war effort." i'm not learning anything from this. it's supposed to be a "journey" but i'm stuck on crafting 350 bows for whatever reason anet thinks this is worthwhile...
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>>558663916
go to lion's arch and ask someone to taxi you to random places so you get a semblence of what it's like to be invited and accepted into a group. stroke your penis the entire time while doing this, it's how i spend most my days
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>he crafts for himself instead of crafting to sell
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Anons, do you think Ritualist will make a comeback in GW3?
Summoning classes are so fun.
Ritualist leveling is quite hard though, never played before, don't have elite skills, still lvl 8.
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>make cool thing for that one time
>don't ever use it again
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>>558665471
I feel like the way how anet has build up the game over all these years, a GW3 would have to include every elite spec they have already created to satisfy the fans. Some of these elite specs have existed in the game for a decade at this point, and it would feel disappointing to go into GW3 where everything is core class again. So yeah, I would feel like Ritualist will persist on into GW3 and would hope Dervish would resurface as well
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>>558676435
gw1 to gw2 didn't do that for classes or playable ocntent, so you shouldn't expect it to be different for 2 to 3.
you WILL wait another five years after launch to be able to see elona or cantha again.
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>>558676435
If they adopt gw1's class system nobody would give a shit. And let's not pretend like the class quality didn't take a nosedive after PoF, EoD and especially VoE elite specs are absolutely retarded dogshit.
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>>558677385
depends, are you able to play wvw, or are you a pveasier retard who froths at the mouth when you have to actually use your brain for once and craft a real build for yourself instead of copy pasting a trash nigger pveasy build from a trash nigger website and interact with something that actually moves for once?
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>>558676435
GW3 is going to have to make a conscious effort to be as different from GW2 as possible to avoid this specific problem. If it's designed in a way where players are going to start expecting every class, every spec, every weapon type, every mount, every location, etc to be remade in a new game, then it's just going to die immediately as it gets sandwiched between a moron playerbase demanding to have the last game recreated in the new one piece by piece and the reality that the game stands even less chance than usual of being a successful post-2020 live service game if it isn't free to put most of its effort into making something new.
This is why nobody makes sequels to games that have been running for a decade and why every attempt to do so fails spectacularly.
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>>558638431
These are major inconveniences. Wasting hours of your time in your trivial little "2-hours per day after work" video game is a major inconvenience. It's only not if you're a poopsocker that plays like it's a full time job.
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>>558679085
if guild wars 3 were to be a CRPG I'd pog the fuck out. It wouldn't replace or compete with guild wars 2, and could be a really fun way to explore stories that are unsuitable for the MMORPG format or bring in players who might not be drawn to MMORPGs.
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>>558680438
Ostensibly it's for slower-moving threads that would get swept off of a more active board and have to be reposted multiple times a day, every day.
GW1 is a little weird because there's enough activity that it probably doesn't need to stay there, but that's a recent development since Reforged and will probably die back down, so they probably don't want to move.
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>>558679085
gw3 just needs to be like gw1 and it would be perfect for everyone
GW1 turns into a legacy nostalgia game, GW2 stays healthy because its still different and GW1 enjoyers can finally get their promised sequel
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>>558685234
They're definitely not going to make a fully singleplayer game or anything, but I do think they should make GW3 a smaller-scale game that's closer in structure to GW1 than GW2 and focus on making it more of an RPG with native multiplayer than strictly MMO, and then continue making regular expansions for both games.
The MMO business model that's proven to work in the modern day is having a network of games that all get supported, not just having a single flagship game that you drop everything to go 100% on. WoW's been having a bull run ever since they embraced Classic along with Retail, Runescape has been using that model forever, Path of Exile is making it work really well for them, Warframe/Soulframe are probably going to do the same, etc. ArenaNet's goal should be to have a GW2 expansion every fall, a GW3 expansion every spring, and then little GW1 mission packs or micro-expansions every so often to cover up their offseasons. Whether they're smart enough to do that as opposed to pretending it's still 2012 and betting the whole company on releasing a new MMO, who knows.
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https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Globe_of_Whispers
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Globe_of_Whispers_(Handiwork)
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>>558679085
ANet's always been about being contrarians and doing things differently (in good and bad). That includes internally, going from GW1 to 2 and between xpacs in 2. Colin re-iterated as much in that recent documentary thing and hyped how they're always innovating and wanting to do new things in the genre. Felt pretty obvious he was indirectly talking about GW3, so yeah I'd expect it to be radically different from 2. Ideally they'd want fans to play all three of their games at once too, so can't have too much overlap in gameplay style.
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mfw me thief cant 111 champions like me necro
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>>558680438
4chan admin team for ((reasons)) refuse to have a gacha containment board so everyone else has to scatter across different boards because the swarms of dopamine hardened porn addicts fill the board(s) with gachashit 24/7
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>switch weapon to scepter and celestial
>go back to champ 111 and 333
>take 80% hp
>le wild mesmer jump in pulling mobs
>die
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>>558689268
You get a weapon that can be changed into 7 different weapons for a fee of 1000 unbound magic from the NPC during the Knight of the Thorn side story. You can get all the skins from a single weapon by paying the recharge fee over and over again. You can get extra Caladbalgs by completing Heart of Thorns on alts and completing the side quest again. In terms of utility its stellar having a bunch of account bound ascended weapons that can be turned into 5 (now 7!) different weapons. If any expac's story is worth completing on alts, its HoT.
>t. Has done it 9 different times for 9 different alts
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>once a week iirc
Incorrect, it takes a mere 1000 unbound magic to stat swap with no limit.
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>>558701295
rit is very strong atm, new maps are pretty decent but have little replay value outside of mirror farm (profitable but boring)
is it worth 25€? if the rest of the expansion is the same quality maybe but we all know it's going to be garbage like soto and jw endings
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i'm home
i have more friends than i thought
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>/gw2g/ admits to being too much of a pussy to join a fun little contest because muh doxing
nigga u ain't giving out your SSN or anything
u ain't that important
show the thread how shit your tastes are damn
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What is the infusion or item causing this effect? I have been seeing it a lot more lately.
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Aurora/Vision/Coalescence.
One of them gives you purple/blue aura, two for light purple, all three for light blue.
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today I will remind them
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>>558722676
Evoker is the strongest qDPS in the game, Toad Evoker is maybe the best self-sufficiency build in the game, and regular DPS Evoker is on the high end of average. In no world could you call it a weak spec.
Elementalist isn't doing anything truly broken at the moment, but this is the first time it hasn't been since Janthir launched, and it's still performing really well, just without being a huge outlier.
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My druid outfit, I don't really get a chance to use it often anymore since I usually dps or play other boon supports
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STILL CRASHING OUT OVER ACHIEVEMENTS.
The Miasma mechanic in Escape from Lion's Arch is so bad that whoever designed it deserves to rot in prison for the rest of their pathetic fucking lives.
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU PUT NOT ONE, BUT TWOOOOO FUCKING EASTER EGG HUNTS IN A LIMITED-TIME INSTANCE WHERE THERE'S A FUCKING TIMER COUNTING DOWN UNTIL YOU GET AFFLICTED WITH AN INCURABLE POISON THAT KILLS YOU IN 30 SECONDS?!
What fucking idiot designed this?!
I want to strap the subhuman scumbags that dreamt this bullshit up and beat them with chains until they explain what the fuck they were thinking with this bullshit.
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>>558730534
The dumb assholes that edit the wiki also say "You can come back and find the birds and shit after clearing the Miasma" but that doesn't make any fucking sense because you're forced to leave the instance or die to the retarded poison.
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The stupid assholes put a golem with an hour's worth of terribly written story holograms in the next section, and a fucking medic you have to talk to THAT RUNS AROUND THE TENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CONVERSATION, BREAKING THE DIALOGUE WINDOW EACH TIME.
There must be some fucking limit to the incompetence of these fucking devs.
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I've completed SoTo and JW and now onto VoE and 4 chapters in it feels like the quality of content is far poorer than in the previous two, so far my time has been wasted by shitty Simon says minigames x 1000 in-between steps of fetch quests, does it get any better? I'm struggling to not switch to my alt and replay HoT, but I want to see what the deal is with the nu-skimmer
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>>558731554
Jesus Fucking Christ.
The boss fight on the Breachmaker is like a retarded child watched some videos of raid battles in WoW and FFXIV and tried to recreate it from memory and didn't do any QA.
Seriously, what fucking idiot put all those damage zones all over the floor?
What fucking idiot through that retarded light attunement bullshit in there with no explanation?
What fucking pieces of shit through any of this was good game design?
I'd quit the fucking industry in embarrassment and live my life as a walmart shopping cart collector if I designed and shipped an encounter this fucking bad.
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IM FUCKING LOSING IT
The last fight is against a downed enemy.
IM A SCRAPPER WITH A GYRO THAT FINISHED DOWNED ENEMIES, SO IT SHOULDN'T MATTER IF I CAN'T GET TO HER, BUT THE GYRO DOESN'T DO SHIT. SO SHE JUST SPAMS KNOCKBACKS AND ELECTROC SHOCKS AND TALKS SHIT AS SHE LIES ON HER ASS FLINGING GRENADES.
Who thought any of this was a good fucking idea?! Why the fuck is this nepo baby bitch HICCUPPING EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE NOW?
Please tell me Marj is permanently dead.
Oh my god, it's all so bad. It's truly one of the worst experiences I've ever had in a video game.
Someone tell me they got better after this because there's no fucking way I'm bothering with any of the expansions if this is how the story continues to unfold.
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>>558734043
Once you get to island and especially second map quests are a bit more exciting and story gets going, but there are two more artifact collections to complete lol.
It seems they've heard all the complaints about "fill green bar to progress story" from previous expansion and tried to change it to something else in VoE. But can't completely remove this filler, because the story length will be shortened significantly, which would look even worse with the portioned release schedule.
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>>558759445
sounds good. wish this game had an autoplay feature though so i didn't have to sit through the agonizingly boring pve trash. i used to have a an autohotkey script that just spams 11111111, used to just stand in pve events while playing something else on my laptop while the retarded pve fags spam their rotations for me. it just sucks when an even has you walk every now and then =/
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>we are still there front spawn
dude at anet: "lets add +500 all stats"
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dude at anet: "but let it work at spawn only so the enemy that got the keep can fill it with sieges and just farm when someone try to recap as usual"
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My FHD wife is E*onian btw, I can joke about it
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>>558772813
No, I asked them before in an email to see if they could contact someone that had my usual gamer name if I could gift them a name change contract to clear up the name for me. They said no because they wanted to respect their privacy and to give them the benefit of the doubt that they would one day log back on one day, that email I sent them asking to see if they could contact them for me was about 10 years ago
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>Didn't directly contact the person, instead tried to get the authority to pressure them
>My gift to them is the privilege of giving up the name
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>3 ways out of spawn
>always chooses middle road
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tag up and lure your spawn buddies out to a different road, take camps for sup, then take spawn towers, then siege your "keep" ? it's a start, at least try, or move to a different map and starve blue of content. they lose reward progress if there ain't shit to do.
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I tried contacting them for 3 years, they never logged on. In the case that they were just appearing offline I would send them mails every month and invite them to my group's guild, but I never got a response back and they never declined my guild invite. They simply made the account at launch and never bothered logging in after 14 years. So yeah, anet doesn't clear up inactive names unfortunately
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>>558778432
just move on? stalking is bad mmkay. i can sort-of relate, though. i had a similar experience on launch where i made a really sweet rp toon, all too perfect and in character. but some faggot reported my name for "copyright infringement" and proceeded to take my name, made sure he haha'd that he reported my name. dumbass. i reported him back for the same reason, and he lost the name, someone else yet picked it up. i'm not sure to this day how many accounts it went through, i assume hundreds. lmao ((copyright infringement)) on a name in a game that matters little in the grand scope of things.
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>>558783647
I'm going to rate it 60/40, being VoE to Janthir on the importance rating. VoE gives you new toys with elite specs that shake up the meta, while Janthir gives you land spears which 8/9 classes use as a staple for their top builds
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I like spears and cat mount a lot. Orrax was also worth it, despite being a pain to make. Another Convergence helps with making obsidian armor rn. I'd get this, since it's finished and you'll get some extra from Return to event.
But if you have a lot of characters you often play and need two legendary rings it's worthwhile to get VoE now. Skimmer is great alternative to flying mounts.
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>>558784195
It has some good stuff in it, but it's definitely the worst of the mini-expacs. I don't think it's an outright bad buy, but if you're going to skip something, it's JW.
Good:
- Spears are fun and good on most classes
- Revamped Warclaw is the best "normal" mount
- The three main Titan bosses are decent fights
Bad:
- Not a single map is genuinely good. The first doesn't have a meta, the second ONLY has a meta, the third is three event chains, the fourth is the worst map in the game.
- The story has some promise but fizzles even worse than SotO, and it's full of stupidly long conversations.
- The three main bosses are incredibly overused. You fight the same bosses in the story, in the open world, in the Convergence, and in the Raid.
In comparison, VoE's elite specs are better than spears, the Skimmer is a pretty fun revamp in its own right, both maps are very solid, and the story actually has setup, action, and payoff, and the loose threads feel deliberately unresolved instead of just having the story end before it's finished.
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>>558783813
I prefer the slow motion talking and doing events to progress 100x over dozens of 0 effort Simon says "mini games" and fetch quest collections
VoE also regressed back into whacky funky marvel quip writing after they actually managed to set a decent tone in SoTo and JW despite their stories being unfinished and cut in half
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>>558787752
Gyala is actually a decent map right up until the end of the first boss fight. The stupid gas mask mechanic sucks and having to gather a bunch of people to start the meta before anything happens were bad decisions, but they're not the end of the world. It's only the last part where they want you to get on a turtle and collect all the cumshots that it turns into a disaster.
>>558787942
Yeah, no way, this is all wrong. Having a bit of actual gameplay at the start where you investigate the lab, navigate your ship to Castora, etc might not be the most riveting gameplay ever, but the fact that you're actually DOING something instead of standing in a room waiting for people to finish talking is an enormous improvement.
And the writing is, at an absolute minimum, no worse in terms of Whedony quipping than SotO where the entire Astral Ward is written to sound like cool military commandos or JW where Poised Arrow exists almost entirely to be the "Well, THAT happened" dispenser of the group.
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>>558787942
Nah, everything in Janthir story missions is a nothing burger. At least in VoE tries to make proper adventuring story. Barely had problems with collections too, since I did them in the middle of exploring the map, so 70% were done by the time I wanted to continue the story.
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It's ugly as sin, it's one of those meta-centric maps where there's fuck all going on outside of the meta (apparently there's a champ train farm that is/was profitable, but nothing actually interesting), but then the meta itself is blatantly unfinished. The midboss is just Gorseval, not even reskinned, and then there isn't a final boss; the center lane pops pimples like the end of Dragonfall, and the side lanes fight an inanimate structure with no real mechanic besides a knockback that goes through Stability and pushes you off the platform every 10 seconds. The first time you run it, you get to the end and reach what appears to be a countdown ticking down to the start of a second phase or an actual final boss, but is actually a countdown until the map resets.
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>Not a single map is genuinely good.
Lowland Shores is one of the best maps in the game, just because it doesn't have a meta doesn't make it bad. It's well designed and looks nice and feels good to traverse on a warclaw. And Bog Queen is fun, fun enough that some autist on NA runs it for like 10 hours a day.
Rest of your points are valid though, except the VoE part. There's still two unreleased story updates, the fuck are you on about talking like it's already complete?
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No, the lack of a meta makes it bad.
It doesn't have to be a giant boss fight, it can revolve around silly minigame mechanics like the AB lanes where you turn into a mushroom or drop gliding bombs. It can even be a handful of smaller, more frequent metas like Grothmar. But maps need to have something to tie them together. And there's actually a lot of stuff to work with in Lowland, so there's no good excuse for not doing SOMETHING more to keep it active and replayable.
I agree with you that basically everything else about the map is good. And Bog Queen would be okay if she was like one out of four mini-metas like Grothmar. But the map is incomplete because it doesn't have a meta.
Also I very explicitly said in my previous post that this is comparing VoE in an incomplete state to JW after being fully released. >>558783813 The difference in quality is just that stark.
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>playing through story to get back in the groove of the game after years off
>get to Dry Top
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1/3rd of HP gone
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>have to actively fight every little tiny vine enemy as if it were one of the stronger Risen or Aetherblade enemies
I am beginning to remember why I mained a Frost/Fear Necro and a LB/GS Ranger before I quit. Everything is absurdly lethal in LWS2 and HoT, isn't it?
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>>558793882
You would be much more content with life and peaceful as a corpse, honestly. I can bring you into fractals or achivo hunting as my golem, if you want.
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I have the choice to pick my team for WvW but I think the teams are being remade in a few hours
if I wait for the new teams will I still have the option to choose?
I think they gave me the option because I haven't played in a while
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Best feeling GS is ranger desu Warrior gs is just ok.
GW2 loves subversions. Everything is reversed. Mages become battle mages, long ranged becomes some acrobatic mid-close ranged or melee.
War becomes a shit lol
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>>558805640
Berserker is a solid choice. Don't stress over it too much, because it's relatively painless to change stats on Ascended gear (you don't want to be doing it daily or anything but if you need to change armor or weapons once in a while it's no big deal).
Fractals are worth doing, there's pretty good gold in it, they're reasonably fun, endgame is generally populated.
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>>558805640
I had a lot of alts after unlocking major stuff with main. Having zerks ascend was very useful for switching things up. Condi is overall much pricier to gear without stat selectable free exotics.
Fractals are great for money, top choice. You need all pink gear to progress, so it's a good idea to invest into reliable, comfy character and gear for that. Power DPS is the classic choice.
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Berserker is a solid choice because every profession has some power build that will use it, and ascended gear is account wide, even if you can only equip it on one character at a time, so if you ever try out a profession of the same armor weight you can borrow the old gear from your current character.
Fractals are worth doing but don't worry too much about the "fractal level" as it doesn't mean a whole lot. It only controls which fractals you can start groups for, and it increases by 1 any time you do a fractal at or above your currently level, so simply join other people's groups and it's bound to increase over time, unless you stay content with the baby-tier fractals. Dailies and CM fractals give good rewards but it's a bit painful sometimes to pug those. Daily fractal pugs a complete roll of the dice when it comes to quality while CM fractal farmers are incapable of tolerating anyone who hasn't been farming the content daily for years and pulls 30kps+ on real boss encounters.If you just want to zoom through QP fractals for that high reward to stress ratio, that is 100% understandable and don't let anyone get you down over it
Viper is another good choice. Most condi builds will use Viper, only the weird ones use Sinister/Rampager.
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>have move that evades attacks
>have move that blocks attacks
>move to new story area
>enemies there routinely, constantly just ignore evades and blocks and spam knockbacks, cripples, and bleeds
>if you miss a 0.5 second wind-up animation you get hit for 12k damage and take 5 stacks of bleeding
God, it's just so bad.
Fuck melee. It's like playing with your balls in a vice.
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>>558812664
I wish they would actually work on Quickplay like it were actually a beta feature that's meant to expand. If they stopped pretending that party composition is this unknowable black box that could never be automated and just set it up to be able to do aHeal+qDPS/qHeal+aDPS, the same basic system could be used all the way up to T4 Fractals, most raids would be opened up to QP, etc.
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>>558790846
i don't know what a gorseval is, it must be just that bad, huh...
>>558791748
i have the gayla map but every time i go there, nobody is there at any time i try. must be just that bad, huh...
saves me time and effort, maybe...
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>>558813289
If you want to design NPCs to do it, you can't throw 8 mobs at you at a time, or arbitrarily make some of them "Veterans" or "Champions" or "Legends" with significantly more HP. You have to give them player-level HP bars, player-level weaknesses to CC, and throw them at players in numbers that a single player can reasonably handle.
In fact, I liked the Toxic Alliance storyline, even though you had to finish off downed enemies and they'd try to res each other. I wouldn't mind more of that. But it's ridiculous to spawn in a little Asura-sized enemy, make it hit for 15k, and give it 50k hp or something.
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LWS2 and HoT at the moment.
Just ran into a thrasher type enemy that ignored my block, knocked be down, stacked some torment, bleeding, and cripple on me, then smacked me for 8k damage a few times. I think it was just a veteran, but my build relies heavily on combos and you can't string any together when it can just knock you down mid-evade or mid-block and screw up your ability timing.
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>throw them at players in numbers that a single player can reasonably handle.
So part of the problem is youre trying to solo content meant for groups.
>complains about arbitrary rules
>lists a bunch of arbitrary rules himself
Your post reeks of git gud faggot. Truly skilled players can solo plenty of group content with the right builds/professions/skillsets. I solod the entire Wurm pre events for the Death Branded Shatterer yesterday on my Vindi, including soloing the garrison event chain including killing a bunch of elites/a champ with breakbars will being swarmed by countless supporting mobs.
Git gud you giant vagina. Youre the kind of player who cant into rollslop like dark souls.
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GW2 was WoW to begin with. They already took GW1, got rid of instances, and made a bunch of shitty non-human races playable. They only managed to make it good after a few years with HoT by making the open world worth a shit with meta events and by making the gameplay decent by adding actual structure to party composition.
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>>558817058
Seeing people complain about the mastery system is weird to me, only new people complain about it because its such a non issue in the long term once you have the mastery. Ive spent like 10+ years with all the HoT masteries so chak goop is such a nonissue to me.
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>my build relies heavily on combos and you can't string any together when it can just knock you down
Stability and stun breaks are your counterplay tools. If you dont have at least 1 stunbreak on at all times you deserve to get CCgaped. Adapt or die
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>finally craft Endless Summer
>realize I have to farm another 1.2 million karma minimum by the time the leggy PVE accessory drops
Can I get a karma *sips* post for good luck?
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I been gone a few months and just did a few quickplay raids, can I get a qrd on how the fuck this is even a thing and how the fuck its okay for reapers to be doing 3k dps? I realize theyre nerfed to shit but how the fuck does this help newbies when theres no roles and no dps checks and no retard alerts
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>10% karma deduction
Whatever, I'm still at a net positive
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>>558822883
Yes. And they're pretty dumbed down, but there are still instakill mechanics like Aetherblade's spinning circles. I'm just confused as to the purpose, it doesn't really teach you mechanics outside of a few like the aforementioned circles (since everything else can just be facetanked), and a fucking core necro can waltz in doing 3k dps and think he's contributing and can do the real thing next time. I'm just not sure where they were going with these, feels more detrimental than helpful.
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it's only strikes
it's the normal mechanics but everyone get picrel as buff
in my experience everything usually go smoothly, you just need someone to babysit a little for OLC
i had to solo the last 40% of BS once but luckily i was playing rit with zakiros
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Things like boneskinner or woj or OLC will still teach you the important mechs in handheld nodamage babby mode so you can graduate to regular strikes after you understand what to watch out for.
Also it's good because it demystifies the whole strike/raid content for the average retard and dilutes the speedclear raidtroon demographic with normal people.
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>at least one long range weapon
>at least one way to semi afk chores like teq spawns
>at least one weapon to mass tag enemies or at least a reasonable amount in places like labyrinth
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I do have a CC break on a 20 second CD, but so far I'm getting CCd twice as often as that, so I can break one but have to eat the other. Some enemies are worse. Many aren't quite so bad. But the veterans I'm talking about seem to throw out a CC every 10 seconds or so, and trying to dodge the attacks is wonky because the animation and the CC effect sync up poorly most of the time. You dodge the animation of the vine whipping through you but still get hit.
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>So part of the problem is youre trying to solo content meant for groups.
So part of the problem is ArenaNet designed loads of content for groups that no longer exist and now I don't have much choice but to try to solo it. Plus, previously, tackling 1-3 veterans wasn't a problem. I JUST finished the Scarlet storyline, which culminated in me fighting 4 Elites in the Battle for Lion's Arch at the same time.
As for the rest of your bitching and whining, I'm not even going to bother reading it. The start of it reads like just another inbred toddler shitting and pissing themselves because someone criticized their favorite game.
Oh? You can solo raids with enough trial-and-error and a few gimmicks in your build? Cool. Nobody cares. We're not talking about your pathetic coping skills. We're talking about the new player experience. Unironically, git gud at English, shitstain. Learn to talk like an adult. You sound like an exceptionally stupid 13 year old.
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>As for the rest of your bitching and whining, I'm not even going to bother reading it. The start of it reads like just another inbred toddler shitting and pissing themselves because someone criticized their favorite game.
>Oh? You can solo raids with enough trial-and-error and a few gimmicks in your build? Cool. Nobody cares. We're not talking about your pathetic coping skills. We're talking about the new player experience. Unironically, git gud at English, shitstain. Learn to talk like an adult. You sound like an exceptionally stupid 13 year old.
This game might be outside your skill level bro
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>trying to dodge the attacks is wonky because the animation and the CC effect sync up poorly most of the time. You dodge the animation of the vine whipping through you but still get hit.
is GW2 the darks souls of MMOs?
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You can get a ring in Bava Nisos for 5g+ map currency(just do one meta and you will have the currency) and a trinket+amulet from Bjora Marches for eternal ice after doing some IBS story/a collection. Help speed your gearing up
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For the Bava Nisos ring you can just port to someone with a teleport to friend and do the meta whenever it is up, but yeah you will need to do a bit of story for the IBS stuff. The IBS stuff is worth it though since the game shits out eternal ice
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>>558844542
Well, I was going to just get some exotic celestial stuff and see how I liked it, but then I found out it's extremely expensive because the subhuman jackasses that designed the game put an arbitrary, useless, pointless, stupid time gate on making charged quartz crystals, artificially inflating the price of everything made with them because now it takes like 12 days to get the charged quartz needed to make just the insignias for the armor, plus probably more for the weapons and trinkets.
Fuck, it's like ANet goes out of their way to turn every last little thing that could possibly be fun in this game to shit. Every time I think, "Oh, it'd be fun to try this out," I discover some piece of shit dev has come up with a stupid, lazy way to throw a pointless hurdle in my path because it's too much to ask them to make a good game. They have some mental illness that makes them think every game has to suck to be good.
They're the kind of subhuman fuckwits that think the relief you feel after getting past something bad is the point of doing things. They can't imagine what it's like to do something enjoyable and just have fun without having to go through an artificial dip to "earn" the enjoyment.
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There are some ways to get easy exotics with selectable stats, if you're into Heart of Thorns you can farm for airship parts and get bladed gear, I understand it doesn't really fix accessory issues but you can always get stat selectable ascended for that if you'd like.
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I've barely touched HoT, but I do have a lot of airship parts and itzel language mastery, so I went over and checked, only to find that each individual piece of armor is 500 airship parts. So I don't actually have "a lot" of airship parts. Somehow, 750 parts is a pathetically small amount of parts. Or it would be, if the average cargo drop didn't have like 10 parts in it.
Which reaffirms my point about every last little thing in the game being designed to be as tedious as possible because the shitstains that designed it can't comprehend the idea of letting people have fun without fucking them over for hours to make them "earn" it.
I could make some Viper's gear if I could make the insignia, but that also requires you to fucking grind Auric Basin for Aurillium. Over and fucking over again, everything in this piece of shit game other than auto-attacking skinks in a starter zone is gated behind a mind-numbing grind. Nothing worth doing is accessible. Everything has time sinks and gold sinks tacked onto it just to force you to play longer so you'll be more likely to throw money at the gem store.
We have peer-reviewed papers on this shit. We know now that these companies pay psychologists to tell them how to squeeze people for money, and making the main game tedious so people throw money at the cash shop to get a "replacement reward" is a common tactic.
https://www.darkpattern.games/
Nonetheless, thanks for the tips, anon. I think I'll just get some cheap Condi gear and work on HoT.
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50g is a ton when you're still new and average maybe 5g-10g per day.
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>>558847549
just play like 2 hours of wvw and get them for basically free nigga
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/TEID-07_Unified_Vendor_System
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>brokeass noob niggas when they can't fully gear in a millisecond in MMO and don't play wvw to just buy whole set for ~14 gold
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>>558849285
Goddamn. I have all of the currency for that already.
That's something I really hate about the game so far. Too many fucking currencies. Too many different little ways to get things and zero effort made to point people at them. Tooltips should fucking tell you this. Vendors should be located somewhere centrally instead of spread out across 30 fucking maps. I've been walking around with plenty of currencies for shit with no idea what to do with them because the retarded devs don't know how to construct token-and-reward systems yet insist on forcing them into every gameplay loop they can.
>>558849313
I used my boost because someone told me it'd free up my single shared storage slot.
>>558849515
>implying a new player knows about any of that
MMO players really are the same quality of people across the entire genre, huh? This is the exact same quality of reply you get in /wowg/ or /ffxivg/.
Lots of:
>just do X, Y, and Z thing that people that've been playing the game for 12 years know by heart!
>>558849649
That's what I've been noticing, but it also seems like half the time the meta events pop off, there aren't enough players around to do it.
>>558850768
>rapid fanbitches when anyone criticizes the game they no-life poopsock for half of their entire adult life
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>>558847549
cele is not very good, its a meme stat
>>558851564
because theres a million resources you can look up, this isnt the 90s anymore, its just kinda expected of you the research this stuff yourself online, you can literally type /wiki and bring up the wiki, unless this is literally the first video game you have ever played
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>>558851564
>>rapid fanbitches when anyone criticizes the game they no-life poopsock for half of their entire adult life
ehehehehehehehehehehehehAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
its funny you think that, because this isnt reddit
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>>558851564
Have you never played an mmo or something?
You always do things suboptimally or watch/read guides, choose. You'll be making so many 'mistakes' in the future while playing, due to your own incompetance or UI/UX.
Suck it up, keep playing or gtfo instead of posting ebin 'critique'
FF14 doesn't count btw, it's a shitty jrpg vn for the most part
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>>558846115
If you're looking for some easy gear, I would suggest this
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asgeir%27s_Amulet
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asgeir%27s_Talisman
If you don't need those, you can also just exchange them for LW4 map materials that can also be used for ascended trinkets
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>>558851564
>all that shit/wiki
>too many currencies it's too hard
back to roblox faggot it's just the right amount of various currencies for different types of content and its no one elses fault but yours for not learning how to use it
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>>558859719
It probably wouldn't be that niche if they hadn't gone with a stupid weekly timegate for the refined materials you need to build literally everything, AND made the refined materials inventory items rather than wallet currencies so you can't actually stockpile them.
On top of not being able to hold more than five people at a time, not being able to visit homesteads for people who are offline, not being able to refresh/extend the homestead rested bonus with a chair, and so on, it's just not something that lends itself to playing with casually.
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why does that matter
i thought you can stat switch asecn in the forge
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The homestead decorations that were available at launch were also really fucking shit. Regular walls weren't even available until they sold them on the gem store months latee, and we still don't have any culturally themed decos outside of a few one-offs.
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>>558863880
ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
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what happened now
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>>558864252
The orange retard bombed Iran for the benefit of the kikes
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Holy shit! For Tyriaaaaaa.
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>>558865348
Im gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume youre baiting
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>>558865348
yeah like dunno the terrible evil isis that hate israel to death like all the others evil terrorists but then accidentally land an hit on israel and apologizeand the others dont even go near
not weird at all
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>>558865713
wheres the lie
besides, my preferred option is nuking the entire region indiscriminately because theyre just problem people that cant get another with each other and if america has to appear it should be the hand of god and decimate the entire region like the biblical flood, except its fire instead of water
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thank you for destabilizing the entire world, very cool guys, truly the greatest empire
in other news, been playing tempest support in wvw for a bit now and besides it having the funny CC spells on staff, it's quite useful, but i prefer ele dps.
what's the most fun support/healer for wvw? i have thus far only tried tempest and ventari rev (which is alright and quite powerful actually, but in terms of fun, eh, it's ok, i like the high apm feel to it, but every primary weapon choice with shield is garbage. i have gotten used to scepter + personal target in order to apply more shields additionally to healing, but it's not satisfying and it's awkward to micromanage in combat, though way better than the blast finisher relic + mace, which has you leap into enemies during fights as a healer...)
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underage """refugees"""youngest one is 30yo and all males
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The squad filled up, everyone was just arriving late
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>>558872285
I have played with skilled players, ones that know their class in and out and pump damage. However, I have never seen them actually pull off any non-willbender gluts successfully. The way how willbender interacts with gluttony is retarded in comparison to anyone else
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>>558851708
No, I boosted another character, but haven't confirmed it yet because I wanted to get the storyline up to where the boost drops you off. I went into some HoT content and all the npcs won't shut up about "Scarlet" and "Fort Salma" so I want to play through those first.
>>558851828
>cele is not very good, its a meme stat
I'm looking for a meme build.
I'm tired of wearing full berserker and having to play like a korean e-sports competitor with 0.0005ms reaction times because a random moa bird will 2-shot me if I don't dodge.
I'm tired of thinking, "I can't switch my weapons and skill because the ones I'm currently using are power-based but the ones I want to try next are condition-based.
I'm tired of whipping out a staff on Druid, or a med kit on Engineer, or shifting to water on an Elementalist, thinking, "I'm in the mood to heal people during this event. I'll let them DPS while I keep people alive and res them," only to discover I can't heal for shit because my gear has no Healing Power.
I'm curious about the viability of just going full Jack of All Trades.
>because theres a million resources you can look up
I currently have 20+ wiki tabs open. I loved being able to /wiki things at first, and I still enjoy being able to pull up event timers on command, but the longer I play the more I feel like the wiki is a sign of severe failure in the design of the game. I shouldn't have to look up every new currency and every item I want and every other little achievement required to get said item. I shouldn't have to spend as much time "researching" how to play the game as actually playing the game.
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>>558852330
>Have you never played an mmo or something?
I've played WoW, where switching your build is literally just changing your spec and talents. Power and Condition Damage are essentially merged. You only need to pick up a set of different gear if you're trying to switch between a magic spec and a physical spec.
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I've only got core Tyria, LWS1+2, and some HoT currencies so far and I already can't see everything in my wallet at once and have to scroll to see it all, so you can fuck right off.
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>>558886856
>I'm looking for a meme build.
play minion necro, play unload thief
>I'm tired of wearing full berserker and having to play like a korean e-sports competitor with 0.0005ms reaction times because a random moa bird will 2-shot me if I don't dodge.
use marauders
>I'm tired of thinking, "I can't switch my weapons and skill because the ones I'm currently using are power-based but the ones I want to try next are condition-based.
you dont
>I'm tired of whipping out a staff on Druid, or a med kit on Engineer, or shifting to water on an Elementalist, thinking, "I'm in the mood to heal people during this event. I'll let them DPS while I keep people alive and res them," only to discover I can't heal for shit because my gear has no Healing Power.
then dont and stop whinging, im sorry the game is expecting you to be good or rub two brain cells together
>I'm curious about the viability of just going full Jack of All Trades.
its not, its a meme because it doesnt do anything, youre just really bad at everything
>I shouldn't have to look up every new currency and every item I want and every other little achievement required to get said item
you dont, they only apply in the maps theyre earned, youre needlessly complicating everything with preconceived notions that you should be grinding these currencies for future events that will likely never come to pass, and even then you would naturally accumulate enough of them for general use, if not at least, by just ignoring them. you only need map currency in vast quantities for legendary crafting, and even then that depends. for achievements the instructions on them that tell you what to do, if you cant handle that, thats a you problem, and even then you should only be looking up the ones that are esoteric and tedious
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>>558888379
Please understand that not everyone can just turn their brain off and unga bunga like you do. I never grinded anything. I played what game modes and maps I felt like playing and accumulated a bunch of random currencies and now have to open notepad++ and create a fucking planning document to figure out how to get the most use out of all of them.
I literally did what you suggested and just unga bunga'd my way through the game for a while, and now that I'm getting bored of just running around trying to maximize my direct damage and have to untangle a bunch of bullshit currencies and game systems, your dumb ass waddled in here like a special needs child to just tell me, "durrr don't do dat!!!"
Thanks, chief! That's a quality contribution, champ! Thanks for the input, little guy. No go sit down while the adults are talking.
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At the bottom right corner of your inventory. Grab it and drag it. It's almost like you're suffering from a ton of non issues
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>>558889048
youre literally bitching that the game is to hard for you, and now youre bitching because its too easy, make up your mind already, is the game too easy or too complicated
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>>558890279
Trailblazer's damage is only a little bit lower than Viper's. It has the same Condition Damage and the same Expertise, which are the only stats that actually matter for damage on a condi build. The Power and Precision from Viper's is less than 10% more damage compared to Trailblazer or Ritualist. A lot of the time Trailblazer is outright considered the meta pick over Viper on, say, Condi Weaver.
The real reason to avoid it is if you plan to do raids that use Toughness for tanking, in which case using Trailblazer is probably going to make you the tank rather than the healer. But if you're doing open world or stuff that doesn't use Toughness tanking, it's a perfectly fine tradeoff.
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Thanks. I forgot how HP bloated and how many enemies there are in LW1.
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>Charr subreddit
>no Charr porn allowed.
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>>558583974
There are currently 8 entries for the fashion contest. If you would like to enter, post the character you want to enter with "I hate E*onians" anywhere visible in the post.
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>>558900160
I've played for a while with only griffon, before getting skyscale the old way in lws4. It was good, I don't regret delaying. It's cheap and way less annoying to get than dragon. You do need to master it fully before it's useful tho.
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>picrel
Dumbass. You think I didn't try that? I have too many currencies to see even if I stretch my window to the maximum height for my screen.
>>558889996
>youre literally bitching that the game is to hard for you, and now youre bitching because its too easy, make up your mind already, is the game too easy or too complicated
I told you to sit down and shut up.
You should be humiliated that you're too stupid to comprehend what I'm saying. Stop embarrassing yourself.
Turning your brain off to unga bunga with full zerkers is retarded.
Saying that someone who is sick of that and wants to try something new is "complaining that the game is too hard" is even more retarded.
Bitching and whining about someone criticizing the retarded way gear acquisition is handles in the game is peak retardation.
So you a retard three times over. Tell your handler that it's time for a snack and a nap and fuck off.
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Thanks for the advice. I've been researching the topic and kept noticing that Celestial Ele keeps popping up, so I may just go that route.
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Playing for the first time since 2012, I got the raptor mount trial as a returning(?) player or maybe it's just given to all new characters even if you have an old character I dunno. My raptor is about to expire though and I don't wanna lose it. Should I just buy an expansion now or do they go on sale frequently enough that it's worth waiting for a discount? I'm playing a Mesmer so I have Swiftness 50% of the time due to the inspiration signet anyway.
Also, are there any cash shop QoL items worth buying?
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>>558916471
it's boring and unreactive, you spam your retarded rooted channel healmight like a cuck, where the real heal procs ten minutes after you need it and that's about the extent of its utility beyond the combo finisher on 2
I cringe every time I have to swap away from the soulkino that is mace-shield
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>Key gamba
Ah. Of course...
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Nothing like spending your laurels on ascended recipes only to discover the retarded devs didn't put the recipe you want in the fucking list. Fucking idiots.
And let's walk through how you discover how to get the recipes you do need.
>"I want to make a viper set"
>/wiki viper
>"ok, viper ascended gear is called yassith's"
>/wiki yassith
>click Viper's Intricate Gossamer Insignia
>click Recipe: Viper's Intricate Gossamer Insignia
>"ok, I need 250 lumps of aurillium and a vendor in auric basin, not sure how to get there or how long it takes to farm 250 lumps of aurillium"
>"wait, that's wrong, that's for the exotic insignia"
>click back
>scroll
>click Yassith's Viper's Insignia
>click Recipe: Yassith's Viper's Insignia
>"ok, that one costs much more aurillium and requires a mastery, but what about the armor recipes themselves?"
>click back
>click Yassith's Grips
>click Recipe: Yassith's Grips
>click Yassith's Armor Recipe Book
>scroll down
>is a chance to drop from three kinds of ascended chest
>"that looks unpleasant, I hope I don't have to RNG to get these"
>scroll some more
>looks like the recipe may be on the tp
>check tp
>costs about 2-3g to get all the recipes for one armor type
>"now I just have to figure out how to get to auric basin and farm hundreds of lumps of aurillium, which is something I'd really love to do in the set I want to play, but I'll have to go grind in a set I don't want to play just to unlock the chance to blow 100g+ on materials for the stats I do want to use.
All because the devs never do sensible shit like add new stat combos to existing ways to get them. They always gotta fluff up their new bullshit systems with gatekeeping.
No other MMO handles item creation this poorly.
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I'm proud to say I did another Dragon Response Mission in Icebrood (Snowden)
And it appears I only have three more Dragon Response missions to go....holy shit I could buy a bottle of pepsi and just get this shit done tonight
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>>558922997
Did you miss the multiple retards already in this thread acting like /wiki is the solution to all problems? You think they wouldn't just tell me to fuck off if I asked someone to spoonfeed me the information?
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Seconding the suggestion to just quit the game.
NOT because we don't like you or something, but because you should stop giving money to these retarded ass devs.
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>That's what I've been noticing, but it also seems like half the time the meta events pop off, there aren't enough players around to do it.
Press Y to open the lfg tab and find your map. Usually when metas start, you can find someone offering to taxi people to their map’s IP
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If you sell your matrices and infusions, it’s about that much, but you need to be doing T4’s to get that much
It’s well worth your time to gear up for them. A regular pug group can do t4’s+Recs in like 45 minutes
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Ritualist is already the Diviner equivalent. You lose MUCH less damage going from Viper to Ritualist than you do from Berserker to Diviner. They can't really do a 3-stat Condi/Expertise/Concentration or a 4-stat where the 4th stat is a relevant damage stat because at that point it would just be free boon duration without a damage penalty.
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>>558925813
Good point. That's what happened last time I quit the game. I realized I could just spend this time and energy on something productive, so I went and enrolled in carpentry courses at a local vocational school. Luckily, I haven't given a dime to ANet since returning, and I'm starting to remember why I quit last time.
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Forgot to reapply food and utility buffs, but the numbers roughly doubled. But I've heard of people doing 20k-30k, so I dunno if 15k is acceptable or not.
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Figure out how to play with all the boons and conditions turned on (technically there are a couple that are left off for benchmarking, but don't worry about that for now). It's easiest to learn under optimal conditions and then make adjustments to missing boons later than vice versa.
You'll go from 8k doing what you were doing there to 35-40k when you get good at your rotation on the golem, and then when you leave and go out into the real game, you'll find yourself only dropping to 20-25k or more rather than all the way back to 8k.
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>Had two Superior Sigils in Twilight (through legendary armory)
>Unequip and put on Incinerator (legendary armory)
>Hmm nvm I think I'll go GS
>Expect to have the two Sigils in my inventory to put back in Twilight
>Only one is there
What?
Whats going on
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Transform them into homestead materials weekly. Craft clothes into Research Notes.
Silk is the most useless out of the abundant material drops, there is nothing to sink it in unlike leather or mithril.
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30k is a safe damage number to aim for while you learn to hone your rotation. Golem damage is a good indicator at knowing how to play the spec, but you also need to be able to apply that knowledge to an actual live fight. T4s and raid dailies are nice places to actually practice your live setting dps until you get comfortable
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20k+ on the dummy is "good enough" for for most normal mode encounters but surely you can aim a little higher than that. In a real fight, it will be much less because you have to run around and there will be times you can't attack the boss, but everyone's will be less. A "good" amount of dps in a real encounter will depend on the encounter.
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I don't think it's fair to say that 20k is enough because, generally, if anyone is pulling less than 30k on the golem they should try pressing fewer buttons. Pretty much every build in the game can rely on auto attacks to get that much as long as you're still triggering modifiers. So getting less than that means you're actively sabotaging yourself.
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>>558946623
Not that guy but I also do it daily and I don't think it's one of those things where there's an especially good or bad timeslot for it. It seems like it's pretty consistently populated and it's also a huge crapshoot whether you get actual players or AFK turret Machinists.
I think you get fewer outright leeches if you do Octovine and jump over to Dragonstorm as soon as you finish looting, but you also risk getting into an unpopulated DS that way which can also be a pain in the ass.
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>>558886856
Friend, every character starts with 2 equipment tabs and can have up to 9 for a reason. The idea is to store different builds in those tabs so you can swap on the fly when it suits you. Cele is expensive and timegated on purpose to dissuade you from trying to be a generalist.
With that said, some classes do cele builds better than others. Tempest, firebrand, scourge and specter are great builds to carry noobs in quickplay raids. Scrapper and chrono/troub can sort of make it work but not as well as those four. Untamed and paragon/zerker are better in harrier gear. Don't bother trying with rev.
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>>558946902
You obviously haven't tried it for yourself. Chrono can get 33k just pressing f1, sword 2 and sword 5 off cooldown. As long as you do the bare minimum to trigger the modifiers in your traits you should be able to break 30k on any build. I'm not talking about 0apm builds but close to it.
Syrma's and Masel's builds are way better than the garbage on aw2.help
>https://syrma.cc/build-guides?mode=Group+PvE&role=DPS&diff=Low+Intens ity
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>>558886856
You absolutely can play healer with zerker gear if you just want to kill world bosses. You also don’t need to since anyone that knows how dodging works won’t need healing for world bosses, but that’s your prerogative
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All of my side toons are in random exotic from bank or wvw, have runes of infiltration, exotic accessories without socketed gems, often no relics at all, aquatic gear from level ups and weapons have a random sigil inserted just to remove that annoying red exclamation point.
Don't need much desu, I just love having fun :)
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>>558930953
This has always been the problem with GW2
On the surface, every little thing you do counts. But when you really want something special, you see the layers and layers of step by step bullshit required it's like you're applying for a phd research grant.
I would say just ignore all that, do your wizard vault for the ascended chests and then save up gold for whatever else.
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>past month I ran through all of LWS for Prismatic Champion's Regalia
>Figure I have enough mats for another legendary
>Turns out I have most of the mats for Endless Summer
>scroll down on gw2efficiency
>600 raw gold cost
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Honestly the one thing that keeps me away from fractals and raids is the fact that the requirements of Any Given scenario within each are so poorly communicated or contextualized. I literally don't know what you even do in half of the fractals, I have been doing them for months and all I really do is follow the group. I don't understand why we do certain mechanics or what they mean. I couldn't tell you what half of the mechanics in thomanova are because most of the time someone goes off solo and does like half the rooms while I just follow everyone else and press random bullshit that feels similar to what everyone else is doing. This is only worse in raids where mechanics and setups feel even more contrived, convoluted, and arbitrary. I would straight up just enjoy a solo training mode where some kind of narrator explains what each room is, what the bosses are and what they can do, and the expected mechanics.
>just watch a video anon
Yeah thanks asswipe most of the time explanation videos just tell you to do this or that without any explanation as to what you are doing or why it matters
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>>558953721
The vast majority of people in EXP groups are in the same boat as you, so take heart. Most people don’t know the details of the content they’re so experienced in. The thing they’re experienced at is following the repeatable set of steps to clear the encounter. If something goes off script they tend to fold and would rather reset than attempt to recover or carry on.
That’s why they hate playing with noobies so much. The noobies don’t know the script, or may do less dps and force these vets to deal with mechanics they haven’t seen in years.
Anyone who is experienced with w6 should try stepping into the arena from the right side and see what the players do.
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>>558953721
For Fractals if you want to understand what's going on, the best way to do it is probably to grab a friend and do them at T3 in a duo. At that point they're hard enough that you have to learn how they work to get through them, but they're easy enough that you don't have to be a sweat to clear them.
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>>558953721
true
the devs love their obtuse instance designs and often times it's not even fun, it's just weird busywork bullshit
silent surf is a good example, shit is just so obtuse and if someone is struggling to get through you can't really help them
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>go meele on zerg = instadeath
>use projectile ranged = reflect
>use non projectile ranged = crit 300
>use ground target aoe = NoLiNeOfSiGhT
>finally land a 7k crit x3 = hp barely go down then get 2shotted
CoRnErStOnE
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riveting side quests
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>>558717303
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>>558953721
I honestly don’t understand how you wouldn’t pick up on them after your 2nd or 3rd attempt
Thermonauva for example
>Heat room is easily soloed by just healing through it as you run
>Dorm room is just killing trash mobs
>Security room is straightforward, dodge the obstacles and open the doors
>oh, shit. After the ooze went flat, he blocked all our attacks and it dealt enough damage to kill the entire party once, maybe if we wait till he uses that and THEN use my abilities, we’ll beat it
>Hm, after a couple seconds of glowing, the tile I was standing on disappeared and I died. Wonder if this special action can help or maybe I should get off the panel before it goes away
Most of these are super easy and you should be able to pick up on them right away without needing to watch a tutorial
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>>558953721
I disagree, devs expect people to do training runs of instanced content so the players get knowledge and general idea of how things are and most content is self explanatory
The bad shit is having an unknown debuff and being unable to read it mid-fight, so you sacrifice one boss pull to read it, find what causes the debuff on the next pull and do this for every mechanic there is and eventually you win
But to have all that you need training runs and nowadays people dont have the patience to do it/are scared to post on lfg/too high on ego/dont want to waste time with 4 or 9 noobs/just want to leech and not learn/are just retarded
Also your thaumanova example is pretty bad, click four buttons -> kill boss, if someone can skip fire room they will go and do that, if no one can you just pick these cooling rods and walk to the button
If anet gave a tutorial on Uncategorized people would still end up crying because someone told them to /gg after Old Tom and they didnt ask their party why
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how the shit i miss poi wp hp in shit while using taco
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>>558975756
>I hate trannies!
>goes into the heart of a trannystorm and becomes one herself
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>>558953721
You start by trying out the lower tiers (usually Tier 1) and talking to people in your party about what needs to be done (or learn as you go along like everyone else) if you dont know or wont watch said videos
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>>558991804
all anet is teaching us about afking is to never shit or piss ever again unless you have a gamer bucket/chair, and if not, you're a bot! kick!
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>>558993473
put on your rod and fishing hat and in no time, all the fish are attracted to you!
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>>558993473
get all masteries maxxed first
>want money
pick a high profit map (careful about night/day cycle)
https://peuresearchcenter.com/benchmarks/fishing (ignore drizzlewood, nayos and other mackerel memes)
>want title
pick a zone you like and do collection
>i love gambling
starlit ward for infusion
fishing power is important (higher = rarer fish)
bonus tips: use zephyrite fish jerky
you can get +50 FP for 1h with the the fishing village heart in seitung
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>>558991804
>funny thing
600s cd when you put the wp
600s cd when you use the wp
>>558994841
is not that different unless you need to change stats, i made my first set light for pve while i was using medium in wvw, then i did the medium the only thing changed was the less shit in the inventory
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>>558993473
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RLJW0w0PdENbGRnvwecudaM-E4JbI1xhc9 rtmdfaQ9g/edit
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>>558979796
No need to have a melty just because someone criticized your favorite game. It could be worse. You could have a job.
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>>558995954
Good stuff, thanks! I have Zephirite jerky unlocked, probably some anon reminded me to get it during 4 winds. I'll start with knocking off some basic collections I guess.
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>>559001852
kekkkkkk nigga you are such a virgin that you extrapolate this onto a video game, or how else could you ever explain your neverending lust for handholding?
>ohhh noooooooo this video game didn't spell what i'm meant to do out for a retard or a toddler and i have to use my brain
>oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo
>what ever am i supposed to do
you're cringe and seriously handicapped, it's ok, i'm a tolerant person, just return to world of warcraft and use the new automatic rotation feature and turn off your brain while playing a game for retards.
you NIGGER
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>day 3 of running around for that GoE shit
>lots ppl of any lvl not moving
>some appear then disappear midair
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>>559004983
Didn't read. Try not structuring your reply as obvious tantruming if you want to bait people into reading your salty tears.
The game's got problems. Nobody cares that you've wasted 12,0000 hours of your life making this slop part of your identity. That doesn't magically make the game perfect.
If you can't handle any criticism of your favorite game, maybe try reddit, where all the critics get downvoted into oblivion by people like you.
Best of luck, anon. We're done.
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>>559003731
remember to follow the directions on the package before consuming the fish jerky. it has recommended consumption; right there on the bottle it says to sit in an anchored boat and eat as many as you see fit in one seating. i eat 2 pieces (50 stacks) and go from there. it will piss you off to no end if you eat 4 pieces of jerky and a map announces closure in an hour. "aaaand there go my stacks!"
if you eat it while navigating the boat or on land, you will not receive the fishing stacks, only the boat speed buff.
be careful out there, anon, you may see worse things than just a wriggling nightcrawler...
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>>559005579
You're not reading anyone's posts other than your own if you think people here don't criticize the game.
There's just a difference between criticizing a game for the game's flaws and criticizing the game for your own flaws.
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>>559005579
i don't give a fuck you retard, please just quit the game, i hate the off chance to ever get someone as unintelligent as you in my group. i'd rather have my game die than sharing a group with you. please email anet to delete your account and never come back. fuck you and your sub 70iq ass. kill yourself, and i say this in a friendly manner.
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>>558717303
Fine geez
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>>559006265
I can see how that can become a problem, yeah. I've fished till 99 stacks in rat city for memes, so far it was relaxing. I'll try and pay attention.
btw is it impolite to fish in the same hole other player is currently using? Are they shared?
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>>559009467
You won't be entered into the contest unless you type "I hate E*onians" (or answer yes to the questions). If you answer next thread, I'll count it since you already posted your characters.
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>>559015898
Just as nature intended.
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>>559013370
Sorry but that's stupid lol. I'm not gonna participate in your little edgy litmus test in order to talk fashion