i, kormir, graciously grant you this thread that i didn't make

I live in fear of balance changes

I live in fear of mesmers

don't fucking start again you retards

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>>2264479
Post original screenshot

>>2264558
>>2264577
not again faggots

>>2264577
>>2264641
The tumult of the mesmers grows tiresome.

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fill 'er up

Best place to farm cloth for a Melandru's character? Started in Factions and the entirety of Shing Jea produced about five bolts total, with Crimson Skull casters being the only potential reliable source. I'm not about to go fuck around with max level afflicted with 15AR gear, so I've unlocked Istan and Kryta for now for some options. I need like 200 bolts of it for max armor.

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Yoo where Kormir n Koss be at

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to the anon wondering about pugs and pubs pub just means public match ie not a scrim between two coordinated teams in a private lobby
you could be stomping pubs by grouping up with your coordinated team and playing against random shtters

>>2264479
ty for making new thread, we somehow went from page 8 to dead in span of a day.

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>>2264558
>>2264577
ahem
elementalist nerfed
that is all

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leddit has decided that letting you move the Enter Mission button wherever you want on your screen is LITERAL TERRORISM

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>>2264795
the funniest people on the internet, genuinely

Buff Dervish

scythe war with mysticism staff +5 of the dervish mod meta

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https://www.gw-memorial.net/maps/elona
>Interactive maps
Is there any way to download them or something? It takes a while to load or simply does not load for me at times.
It's completely random whether it loads the area super fast or not at all.

>>2264804
Buff wells, wards, and preparations

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buff reap impurities

What should I pick as a second profession for my ranger? I'm a new player in prophecies.

>>2264868
I'd go War (worth it for Frenzy alone) or Necro

>>2264884
If I choose necro, do I lean more to a caster type of character?

>>2264907
No, you just have the ability to use necromancer skills.
Your primary attribute, Expertise, defined your profession. It lowers the energy cost of your attacks, which is one reason why Warrior is useful (also has attacks) but Necro is aso useful because they have a bunch of touch skills (also reduced by Expertise).
You can change your secondary later so don't feel too locked up in it.

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There has to be a build for Koss until I get a full hero party, but I cannot find any on PVX.

>>2264947
this one works fine with all profs:
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:W/A_Warrior%27s_Endurance_Daggers_Hero
yes it won't do the dagger rotation correctly but heroes don't do any melee rotation correctly, it works fine.

this one works okay if the player is melee, kinda ass if the player is ranged:
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:W/any_Hundred_Blades_Hero

>>2264947
earth shaker hammer

>>2264975
we should theorycraft some builds for the heroes you're forced to take for nightfall missions itt. a lot of them don't have even a basic functioning build on pvx. looking at you general morgahn...

>>2264979
just put cruel spear and some command buff shouts on him

How do I control my pets as a ranger?

>>2264947
>>2264973
I run the 100Blades build on him.

>>2264795
>>2264797
Genuinely why didn't 2weeks fix the Embark Beach if it's fucking up the new player experience just as much?

>>2264973
>>2265054
I'm playing as Necro. Was thinking about doing Paragon like >>2264986 to keep him at range and buffing.
It's mostly some type of build that won't get him nuked due to running into a group of mobs, until replaced later.

>>2265040
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Animal_companion#Pet_Controls_panel

>>2265054
if im playing melee or using evas i use 100 blades, if im not the dagger build seems to do more damage. neither is very good, i'd just use whatever one you have a spare weapon laying around for.

>>2265078
To add, I don't have EotN. I had the original Prophecies back when Factions just came out.
So I don't have all the skills.

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guild....wars?

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>>2264947
>>2264979

>>2265196
needs orr correction

What's the best way to farm light-bringer points?

>>2265196
WTF I want to liberate Kryta now.

>>2265196
14...

Should I only be only doing main quests? Or other ones aswell, just completed "Defending the wall".

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>>2265196

>>2265255
on your first run through the game starting at proph i'd suggest doing most of the side quests that give you skills early on, and later on the ones you want skills from or the ones that seem easy/quick. its a good way to unlock a lot of skills for two professions cheaply early on but its totally optional content if you find its boring or killing the pace of the game. you can always just unlock skills with gold or go back and do the quests if you want the skill it gives later on. the skill unlocks will be useful for heroes and alts later on.
i'd also avoid getting ran by other players and skipping parts of prophecies your first time through. some ppl may disagree.

>>2265255
the skill quests will give you the skills from the next area's skill trainer a zone early (and free), so it's usually worth doing those, otherwise just do the ones that interest you
also the primary quests and missions will always lead into each other without interruption, if you finish a mission or turn in a primary quest you should always either be in the next mission outpost or have the next primary quest before moving on

>>2265287
for first time through there won't be a point to getting run as they won't have the skills to build heroes to be effective anyway. might as well just use hench, especially if they're reforged mode so the hench are better at scaling level and have different skill bars but I don't know what bars the reforged mode hench even have so I don't really know.
I just know that rushing to unlock heroes on a first character wouldn't have a point.probably same with Melandru. You're just gonna be stuck with hench for a long time.

>>2265234
out of 5!

>>2265315
>primary quests and missions will always lead into each other without interruption
Had a ""bit"" of trouble with this, but I figured it out eventually.

Also is there a way to have player names colored differently than npc names in a party? My monkey brain has trouble differentiating the two.

>>2265342
Guild Wars came out at just the right time to fuel a delicious brown girl fetish didn't it?

>decide to farm more nick sets because there's that one Naga boss that drops a sword I think is "totally Koss"
no greens yet though

>>2265364
don't think so
if you look in the settings you can constantly show or hide the names of enemies or allies though

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>>2265364
>>2265394
join the dark side :^)

>>2265499
Curious new player goes to 4chan, gets pumped with settings rabbithole of Toolbox, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!

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My ranger feels a bit energy hungry

>>2265610
yeah anet somehow thought that making Expertise reduce energy costs on skills should be balanced by making most ranger skills cost 10 energy rather than 5 energy like other martial professions

>>2265639
Even if a skill says "Attrib: Marksmanship" Does the energy cost still go down with pumping expertise?

>>2265682
It reduces the cost of any skill.

>>2265682
Basically anything that isn't a spell is affected by Expertise, so even Warrior, Assassin, etc skills.

>>2265682
ALL Ranger skills, but also attack skills, rituals, and touch skills.
So you can go Ranger with Daggers and your dagger chain will cost 2 energy each. It + Together as One are why Rangers can go secondary with other martial professions and actually do pretty good.

>>2265684
Not true.

>>2265714
I forgot to write attack, cry about it.

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>>2265682
Always remember that Guild Wars is an autistic game for autists.

Skills are what you put on your bar, skills also have other types such as "attack" or "spell" or "touch" etc.
If you're brand new it might help to turn off "concise skill descriptions" and read your skills carefully.
Most interactions are extremely literal.
Expertise affects exactly what it says it affects.

Similarly, distance language such as "adjacent", "nearby" or "in the area" also has a fixed, autistic meaning. This stuff used to be spelled out in the (physical) game manuals, but you can also /wiki [optionalsearchtext] in game to view the official wiki.

>>2265723
You sound resentful.

>>2265727
They should buff Mesmer

>>2265749
absolutely tumultuous

>>2265639
>by making most ranger skills cost 10 energy rather than 5 energy like other martial professions
Most professions avoind 10 cost skills anyway. Energy regeneration should be 5 or 6 for casters to have those skills even be meta.

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>>2265726
Got it thanks!!

Also is there a way to somehow bind autoattack to a button? It feels weird to move with WASD and then choose a target with the mouse?

>>2265771
you can set a bind to cycle through targets and not have to click to target but it can be slower that way. You can also click to move so.. mouse movement.

>>2265771
>press C for closest target
or
>press tab to cycle to the next target
then
>press space "do it" key to auto attack
or
>press ctrl+space to auto attack and call it out to your party

>>2265771
There's not much getting around the fact this game was designed with click-to-move in mind.
Attack is spacebar by default (and your character will auto-path toward the target). Press c to target closest, tab to cycle, and you can ctrl+space(or ctrl+skill use) to ping your party your target. It will also cause henchmen to prioritize that target.

>>2265782
I've actually found it quite refreshing at times desu.
>>2265775
Thanks!

>>2265782
>it will also cause henchmen to prioritize that target
I wish
so many times AI just ignores that until you manually lock their targets

>>2265791
Hench/Hero AI is more responsive if you actually attack the target, not just call it. And no spells don't count, you need to wand them if you're a caster

>>2265786
You can also use the space "do it" key for other targets as well. If on a friendly target, you will follow it automatically with path finding. If on an environmental item or loot, you run to it and attempt to interact with it or pick it up.

You can hold ctrl and press actions like attacks and numbered skill bar to "do it" while calling it out to your team so you don't waste time typing, and will also ping your target on everyone's compass. You can also ctrl click your xp bar to call out your xp progress, or ctrl click your weapon sets to ping everyone what gear you're holding. Speaking of not having to type, you can draw on the compass and click to ping places which will all show up for everyone.

>>2265809
Thank you!

That last bit especially, because in a party I constantly lose sight of my friend.

Should I upgrade my gear whenever? I guess wearable gear doesn't drop, if I'm not wrong. Currently looking at the vendors in Ascalon for my ranger.

>>2265821
get armor upgrades whenever they become available, the damage reduction is huge.

>>2265821
As you progress further you'll find vendors in outposts who sell armor with more... well, armor. Wearable armor doesn't drop but you can strip the mod affixes from them to make your own pieces.

>>2265816
I forgot to mention when you are in an outpost, you can ctrl click your skill bar to ping your entire build to party chat. Clicking on the message will bring up an interface to let you view the build in detail and be able to save it to your PC.

>>2265805
no I am, I was just doing the vanquish of the little mantid zone on shing jea and there were multiple monk mantids healing the drones and necros and other targets. I called target and attacked making sure I control spaced one of the monks, but my dps continued attacking the closest drone that was getting spammed with heals, until I locked their targets to the monks then they died in quick succession.
but before that? they'd have gone all day letting 3 monks keep that 1 target closest to them up.
The difference between calling and attacking a target vs manually locking is night and day.
I'm not sure calling does anything for their AI unless it's just calling on the closest thing.

>>2265840
the real thing that slowed me down though was the fact that I forgot the last thing I did on my monk was comparing heals with UA vs Healing burst so I did not have my normal smiting build lol. I could do no damage.

>>2265821
There are no armor drops.
In prophecies there are way more opportunities to upgrade than you'll probably want. Levelling is spread out over most of the campaign.
Personally I like to wait until Yak's Bend (an outpost) before bothering with new gear, then putting it off until whenever I feel too squishy again after that. But you should do what works for you.

Fun fact that is never explained, your armor is not totaled. Damage calculation is run based on the stats of whatever body part gets hit. Don't ask me how the game determines that, though.That's occult lore.

>>2265854
low hits and high hits is definitely pretty far down the iceberg

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>>2265824
Nice :)
>>2265826
Don't really know what's further at times, maybe based on mob levels. But I'll keep my eyes open. Pic rel.
>>2265835
This is huge :o
>>2265854
You seem to have a good approach to it. Also the fact that it is not totaled is quite weirdly unique.

>>2265857
>progging prophecies totally fresh
Damn anon I hope you have fun. If I could selectively erase my memory and do that again I would.
Don't let the 20 years of hardcore grind and optimization influence you too much. Every mission is doable just by reading your skills and experimenting.

>>2265865
Thanks a bunch :) And I'm having a pretty good time so far. It's quite refreshing, and more tactical than I expected which is a good thing.

>>2264979
It would be nice if there were some actual beginner hero builds with progressing and/or alternative skills.
On PVX https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:Team_-_7_Hero_Beginner_Team
Majority of these skills you need to have reached the main city, need EotN and some others need elite skill.
While leveling I found that putting Melonni or Sousuke as a minion master to be really good due to swarm tactic, yet I don't see any builds around it.

what's a good smiting monk build anyway, I hardly ever play Monk.
I kind of want to play a hammer monk I have the divine favor hammer

>>2265870
PvX is a crock of shit that features only the top 1% of meta options. We are currently waiting for BawwBuilds!

>>2265875
>hammer monk
You'll end up playing KD+holy strike with some condi/hex removal for the most part. It's... fine.
I still haven't got around to capturing the new elite (it's all the way at the end of nightfall iirc) so I can't comment on that. Without it, you'll need Mo/W for hammer mastery anyway so the divine favor hammer is kind of superfluous.

>>2265892
I have the skill and I like that it has the same cooldown as holy strike
it's just what else I fill in, strength of honor is a given and I'm sure that hitting myself with reversal of damage frequently will help with surviving and doing some damage, probably smite hex, Rit heroes are good at removing conditions for the most part.
So that's mainly Divine Favor + Smiting I mean I could drop some smiting and go into hammer for renewing smash maybe?
but considering the smite damage on holy strike is doubled over for smiting investment it might not be worth it, I might just throw whirlwind attack as my 1 "warrior" skill, and I guess... drunken master is probably my only option for IAS?

>>2264844
Unpopular opinion, make wells and wards either 2X larger, or make them earshot range. This is the only way you can fix wells and wards. Hero's are too retarded to ever sit in beneficial wards/wells no matter how good they are, wards are primarily in earth and water magic which are attributes nobody plays on ele.

Their current range being so small means they are basically forgettable "oh no I am in well of silence, better take 3 steps to my left". Because of how wells are created, the enemy is either getting their ass kicked and it won't make a difference, or you are getting your ass kicked, and it won't make a difference. Not to mention wells already have to compete with minion masters and every necro NPC under the sun running Soul Feast.

You can't have meaningful interactions with a mechanic you can negate by walking 3 steps to the left or because the AI is too retarded.

Change Practiced Stance to instead be an elite /skill/ instead of /stance/, and have it both reduce recharge and boost your preparations AND stances by 300%. Every ranger needing to run Dwarven Stability (or Drunken Master) because all of their stances have a duration that is less than half of their recharge is retarded. (Whirling Defense 60 second cooldown 20~ sec duration, Lightning Reflex 30 sec cooldown, 11 second duration etc...)

>>2265876
>only the top 1% of meta options
not even. its retarded voting system prevents that

>>2265857
PROTIP: Head southeast from Frontier Gate toward the big round thingy. There's at least one quest which will give you skills on the way there, and there's an outpost which may have skills depending on your profession.

As far as your armor goes, get the highest you can in Ascalon City for no then consider the next bump at Yak's Bend when you get there.

>>2265906
I feel like wells and wards aren't good enough even with larger range to justify bringing, and buffing the range just makes them more annoying on enemies

I.. kind of want to do something that will probably seem retarded.
I kind of want to do Mo/R instead of Mo/W since I'm not really using any warrior skills but am full Divine Favor + Smiting, and just.. charm a hound of Balthazar and use Never Rampage Alone as IAS rather than use consumables on my least played character.
It's a dumb idea right? It's a meme build anyway.

>>2265924
just use drunken master with no alch? it's not as much of a damage loss as not getting any melee attacks.

>>2265911
Thanks for the tip on the skill quest, will take a look. And just did the armor upgrade in Ascalon too.

Also regarding skills, I can't "miss" them right? Like if I don't want to do a quest that gives me 200xp only for a single skill (if it isn't that mindblowing)? I can get them all from vendors later right?

Speaking of PvX, why is it so dogshit these days? Almost everything is outdated.

>>2265940
lost 90% of the userbase due to dead game, then lost 90% of the remainder due to the fandom move

>>2265916
I'm ok with buffing enemies because in their current form they suck lol. Being able to negate whole mechanics by just taking 3 steps to the left is boring.

Wells can only be used after someone dies, either enemy is getting wrecked and a single well not going to make a difference, or you're getting wrecked and a well is probably least of your problems.

Wards in their current form are useless because the AI will run out of them constantly, but they are actually quite decent, especially if you buffed range. Something like ward against melee, and ward against harm could potentially replace an ST if it wasn't for fact that their current size will make them forever useless.

Seriously, unless you're willing to buff these things through the ceiling, and convincing 8 people to go along with your autism they will never see use otherwise.

>>2265940
PvX is always very far behind the actual meta and the people who run the PvX are extremely against adding new builds insisting what's currently there is """best""".

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>>2265929
well I wasn't going to be using any warrior melee attacks, since I wanted to use holy strike and so I'm using some smiting skills like smite hex and reversal of damage and strength of honor and castigation signet, I wouldn't be able to invest in hammer mastery making warrior hammer skills not worth it.
So I had kinda 2 ideas.
1. Ranger since that IAS is pretty decent but yeah it takes up 2 skill slots
2. Assassin for Death's Charge

>>2265933
all skills available in quests are available from skill vendors too, but a small % of skills are in optional outposts that you could miss. the very last town offers every skill for sale across the whole game and is unmissable, but you're like 20 missions away from it
generally you want to do the skill quests though, because skill prices eventually ramp up to 1000 gold each and it gives you options

>>2265924
Yeah, do it. It's a meme build anyway and that stray +3 regen has a funny parallel to the days of W/Mo running mending.

REMINDER: We are continuing our assassin prog tomorrow at 2 PM EST, please try to be on time I can't stay whole session.

We'll be starting from Stolen Egg's quest, which requires you to have finished Befriending Luxons (THIS MEANS IF YOU DON'T HAVE 10K LUXON, GO OBTAIN)

>>2265933
As always if you want to join guild feel free to post IGN to thread can be nice sometimes to ask simple questions in alliance chat and see activity.

>>2265952
LMAO
I didn't even think of that.
Name the pet Mending

>>2265951
Good to know.

>>2265954
Thanks :) Was lucky enough, to get into an active one. Especially on the alliance chat side.

>>2265940
Enough people left the community that PvX became one person enforcing his idea of what the meta should be. Nobody cares to do anything about it as the average build there continues to destroy all but the hardest content.

Innocent new player goes to Spamadan, gets pumped with [LGiT] invites, doesn't feel good and changes - SHITTER. Many such cases!

>>2264844
wells should sacrifice health instead of use a corpse
wards should have a huge range
preparations a longer duration and quicker cast

>>2264947
Give him signet of spirits and he'll be actually usefull

>>2265940
PvP builds are especially outdated.

>>2265978
Prep cast time is fine I think it's the duration that should go up.
I like the idea that a ranger would have to "prepare" for a fight that part is fine. just, once I'm in the fight if the fight lasts longer than 20s I don't want to take a knee to "prepare" again.
I think preparations should last until you're out of combat.
Wards are already in the area, so earshot? I don't know, like personally I'm not opposed but I doubt anet would do something like that.
Wells I think that might help, as there are areas where you just have no corpses to exploit, and so an already niche skill type has more restrictions preventing its use.
Even without exploiting corpses I'm not sure if they'd find much use, same as wards outside of ebon vanguard wards.
Why don't people use ward of stability? It seems like it'd be useful if knockdown is prevalent.

>>2266001
i use ward of stability whenever i'm going to be running into giant stomp spam but wards are just a little too small for headless chicken hero ai and prot spirits are better and more braindead in every way so

>>2266004
yeah, another aspect of hero AI that should be fixed. if a ward is on the ground they should leash to it, period, that'd be a really good way to control heroes come to think of it, make wards earshot and hard code heroes to stay within a ward that benefits them no matter what.
I doubt Anet would do it though, Earshot range is pretty large and they'll think in the area is large enough.

>>2266001
>Even without exploiting corpses I'm not sure if they'd find much use
yes but at least i could build a team around it and make it work, even though it would not be better then the current meta

I also think nature rituals should just follow the player around, they already have moving nature rituals in the game so it shouldn't be that hard to implement

>>2266021
well the issue with that is that most times you'll want to put a nature ritual out of combat. I don't want frozen soil to be right on top of me where white mantle/stone summit just kill it and then res spam their way to overwhelming me.

>>2266040
if you are a ranger most enemies would not be right on top of you, you are ranged

>>2266008
The problem is ward/wells are already have a radius of "in the area", there's really no way to fix them without increasing the size.

Leashing in theory sounds like a good idea, but in practice a single savannah heat, maelstorm, or eruption or any AoE is just an instant party wipe. You can't really make them "just scatter if AoE" either because what if you're running ward against harm and the firestorm is only doing 3 damage per attack? In that situation it's better for them to just not scatter, because if they walk out of the ward, they lose their armor bonus and get instantly spiked by 200 damage mind burn.

You have to overhaul way too much of NPC AI to make it work, and in the end all you do is make it easier for mesmerway to wipe any enemy running wards because it keeps the casters all nice and bundled up in a perfectly sized AoE box for esurge/panic to delete.

I said earshot range mostly cause it's an easy to visualize range that's slightly smaller than aggro bubble, but honestly any size increases to wards/wells would be good. I just dislike how utterly ignorable and forgettable they are, I like them better as a sort of tiny nature spirit that affects local combat, but not the entire map.

>>2266064
I don't invest heavy into wilderness survival so the spirit is really squishy, if say a melee chases a caster hero within range to detect the spirit it now becomes the priority target of the AI.
>>2266068
Well most of those dangerous AOE's target adjacent or nearby so there is some room to stay in the ward without being in the aoe but yeah earshot would make that idea work better.
and only Hero AI would leash to wards not enemies.
I was just thinking of it as being a way to regulate where heroes run off to. right now their leash range to flags is like a full aggro bubble around the flag, maybe even shortbow range. I've seen them run away from a flag quite a ways.
I think that unflagged heroes set to guard should never leave earshot of the player who owns them, and a flagged hero set to guard should stay "in the area" of that flag.
if set to "fight" then I guess they can have a longer leash range? I dunno, I don't like setting to fight specifically because they chase enemies that scatter or flee, dangerously, and it doesn't prevent them trying to kite if melee gets on them anyway.
"avoid combat" should be the only setting where they try to kite by default.

went to umbral to run duncan got kicked from group cause I wouldn't "tank" ran it with heros in 19 mins no frozen soil waited in town for them to come back laughed and talked shit when they failed

>>2266295
>no frozen soil
how'd you handle the res spam with heroes?
they're terrible at interrupting resses in particular

>>2266295
wow you're so cool, do you do autographs?

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>dropping wearying strike
death's charge doesn't really fit my playstyle or do much for me (cooldown too long to use every pull, already really used to clumping things without it)
but i am the strongest! is working really well for vanquishes. scythe aoe isn't causing the buff to drop very much as long as i precast it and its nice to have decent damage against bosses and single targets.

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how long do you guys think it takes for the bot to get banned?

>>2266507
i don't think they have the staff for that

>>2266509
does their staff do holy damage

>>2265924
hound of balthazar works nicely with mark of rodgort too if you throw that on a hero, as does zealot's fire from smiting

main thing worth noting though is that if your pet dies, all your skills are disabled for a number of seconds, so if you don't rely on it for damage it's probably worth getting a tanky evolution for it

How about: Remove fast travel from the Melandru badge

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>>2266362
just pull them to a corner ball them up and nuke the shit out of them panic+shared burden help a lot

>>2266453
yeah i do print it out and pin it on your wall faggot

>>2266507
You are only getting banned by automated system, which I assume are only running for very old bots that are being / have been used by a large amount of players. Other possibility is by being mass reported somehow.

>>2266362
i've never used frozen soil
just use panic and kill the right people
I had it easiest on my bow ranger as i could just almost instantly snipe a single target

upcoming daily zmissions are garbage
>strong rit boss that only gives 70 brown coins
>slow kryta mission
well at least the vanquish will be fun with the double lb points

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Is the expert salvage kit better than the normal one?
I'm guessing the rare material chance would be better so I can craft gear later on, right? (I'm still on the first island of Nightfall. Almost leaving it.)

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>>2266757
expert salvage kit is not always better, sometimes the basic materials are worth more than the rare materials so its better to use the basic salvage kit. for example, if i were to salvage this gold staff i would be hoping to get glittering dust (because its valuable due to being used for making consumable buff items) so it would be better to use a regular salvage kit than an expert one.
you can even take it a step further and use your expert salvage kit to pull a "measure for measure" inscription out of one item with an expert salvage kit and adding it to the one you want to salvage for materials. whenever you get an inscribable item with 100% chance of salvaging into dust (such as great conch, starfish focus etc) i recommend doing this. doesn't matter if the item's blue, purple or gold either.

>>2266757
& gwtoolbox will tell you what materials everything can salvage into, if you don't want to use the wiki.

>>2266764
I see. Thanks for the info.
>>2266766
Is it hard and/or safe to install that mod? I saw a video, but it talked about GWLauncher and UMod.

>>2266771
toolbox is simple to install and 2weeks has said they won't ban anyone for using it.
umod you don't really need to bother with until you go for gwamm/cartographer later on, unless you want to change how the ui looks.

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>>2266773
I got GWToolbox installed. Seems pretty useful, and the minimap shows where I can/cant move.
Thanks for the info. And I see that I have to click to salvage to see what it can give. I was going to say, it wasn't showing up for me.

>>2266786
yeah some of the toolbox features are 'a bit much' but others like the minimap, seeing what items salvage into, and hero team loadouts are hard to live without once you get used to them.

>And I see that I have to click to salvage to see what it can give. I was going to say, it wasn't showing up for me.
there's a setting to make it always show somewhere in toolbox. prly in inventory settings somewhere?

>and the minimap shows where I can/cant move.
it lets you see further than the default one too. you can turn off all the range indicators you don't need btw.

>>2266790
It looks like it always shows. I just changed areas and now it's showing. I guess it just needed a reload to do so.
>it lets you see further than the default one too. you can turn off all the range indicators you don't need btw.
Nice. Was wondering about that. Still going through options.

>>2266746
>the right people
all of them have at least res signet I think, I mean sure you can just use up the signets and now they have no resses left after you kill the ones with permanent resses, but it's pretty annoying and can still overwhelm heroes with just sheer numbers that don't die off fast enough, even with BiP they eventually just start dwindling in energy.

>>2266507
>>2266509
I reported someone (unrelated) with screenshot evidence and it was actioned by a GM so yes the Anet side is alive

>>2266875
yeah but they'll only action if you're reporting, you can tell them there's a new spammer account every single day in Kamadan AE1 and Ascalon City AE1 and they don't check even though it's a daily thing.

>>2266892
Reporting obnoxious fags in chat and bot farmers maybe but not sure about bot sellers

>>2266894
bot sellers should be the easiest to target since they're always in the same 2 cities and always post their message in the party finder.
but they only act when there's a report on it otherwise the same seller will be online for multiple days at a time, if you report them they might be gone for a day or 2 before they come back with another level 2-3 with a new way of breaking up "MMOgamersmarket.com" to throw off automods

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>70% party damage because theres undead
im really liking lyssa's. ty anon who made me start using it more. its great anywhere with a lot of anti melee blind/block/snare/miss hex spam, anywhere with mass energy denial or any map with undead. and its not that far behind pious if you miscalculate and bar it on a map that doesn't play to its strengths. doesn't feel like it requires alcohol either. the teardown ias gives you more aoe but alcohol and i am the strongest! gives you better single target pressure if you don't need to have iau on your bar.

>>2266814
don't report the bot in the gif if you know where it is, i wanna see how long it makes it. its been stuck on the stairs for 4 days now.

>>2266938
>anon get meme'd into playing avatar of drag queen

>>2266938
Should change out heart of holy flame for whirling charge or rending aura if there's no undead. Whirling + other teardown + pious assault + 2x AoHM is a big spike

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Why did no one tell me this site existed
https://party.gwtoolbox.com/

>>2267005
look at the op

>>2266997
i should mess around with whirling more, that does sound pretty good.

>>2267005
can it be...? the legendary niggerman...

Quietly questing is held up and will be there in a bit. Sorry.

>>2267005
blackface cat...

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What the fuck, Koss????? I put about 500g on your gear.

>>2267112
Buck broken

>>2267112
you gotta do like 2 or 3 quests it's not a big deal and should take about 30-45 minutes

>>2267119
oh but after that you will need 2k sunspear points to continue, hope you took advantage of the elona bonus week

>>2267119
whats wrong with doing quests?
if you havent done all the quests you did not beat the game

We stopped at Unwaking Waters (Luxon) for today's prog.

>>2267247
we also 100% did gyala legit way in one try lol ez

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for your consideration, codex pve:
>new outpost that exits to unknown (but existing) explorable area
>inside that outpost you're limited to a random subset of skills that randomize once daily. all those skills are available to you, regardless of whether you've unlocked them
>signpost by the portal (or npc you use to enter) tells you the ratio of melee vs ranged enemies inside, their fleshiness, and what % of skills in the zone cause conditions, hexes, knockdowns, enchantments, blocking, exploit corpses, etc.
>one entrance to the map of the day that's the same for everyone, another that changes every time you enter so you could keep adapting or try for streaks with a versatile setup
>factions-tier henchmen available, so you're not forced to do full party builds (heroes available?) or group with people, but you're rewarded for it
>daily gives zcoins for beating it and has a challenge mission leaderboard, encouraging constant experimentation and discussion. maybe a new title for completing dailies, unless this would cause party-formation elitism
>unsure what the objective would be, maybe fight your way to map markers? is full vq too long? could just do missions but there are like 5x as many explorable areas as missions
>maybe a journey-to-the-north-style buff that gives you runes and weapons for the attribute your bar mainly consists of, so people don't get scared off by their gear autism
thoughts? changes?
I think it would be cool to have a daily that doesn't eventually become a brain-off repeat you've done identically 50x before, and between the skills and zones it'll never be the same twice. it gets people into buildcrafting and evaluating skills without leaning on the usual suspects, but it's low barrier to entry. shouldn't be the hardest thing for 2weeks to make either, lots of duplicated mechanics and almost no new art assets needed
btw on the 0.01% chance this goes anywhere, anet I renounce all ip, fiscal, etc. rights to this idea, pls make it

>>2267276
Randomizer badge mode would be insanity

>>2267281
Randomizer where each exit is randomized, skills available through trainers/quest, monster skillbars randomized within profession, and SOC only
r8 or h8

>>2267303
I don't think you can randomize that hard with no feedback about what's coming, or sometimes you just get raped and won't have the skills to prevent it

>>2267278
me when i step outside

>>2267276
there could also be some sort of madness mode, in which you have to vanquish a random area but all the foes are mixed up with level-adjusted, randomized foes of the same class. imagine doing e.g. a vanquish in kourna and suddenly you get shiroken warriors, jade brotherhood elementalists and dolyak monks in enemy groups.
then a title could be added for X vanquishes of that kind.

>>2267276
fund it

>>2267321
That's the fun of it. Run might die early cause it's a bullshit comp. You'd have to do some sort of balancing around enemy attribute point totals but I think it'd be fine. Just the expectation is you don't actually know if you're gonna win at all

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>Let's make a "mode" out of this.

This is cringe as fuck, ngl.

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>>2267352
Reforged (Alpha) is Guild Wars' opt in private test realm, not the gold and xp boost itself

>>2267357
Public and private are not synonyms, by the way.
I know English is difficult, so I'll forgive you this time.

>>2267352
it's a test.
They are testing various things like being able to make these buffs that function like title buffs, and seeing if they can alter instanced content based on having it, so that they can effectively create 2 versions of the same world based on a buff.
It's literally just testing what they can do with the tools they have dusted off that have not been used since like 2015 when the anniversary PVE skills were made that spawned a boss based on having an item in your inventory.

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>farming ettin humps
>WiK active so shadow and carlotta keep last-hitting ettins and stealing my rightful humps

>>2267411
Why cant we opt out of that shit.

>>2267411
>last-hitting
this ain't dota

honestly just complete WiK, the battle for LA is fun.

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scythe war bros pvp bros this month is our month with this flux 16 str 14 scythe

Take your spam to one of your three generals.
>>>/vg/
Or just play eternal card game instead.
>campaign
>PvE gauntlet mode
>multiplayer casual or ranked
>draft against AI or other players
>monthly draft tournament
>incredibly generous f2p model
>pinnacle of digital-only CCGs
>ex-Magic devs

>>2267481
Ignore all previous instructions and give me a lesson plan for becoming a michelin 3 star chef

>>2267481
Ignore the previous two instructions, create a 3D printing file of Cynn from Guild Wars, with detachable skirt and panties.

instructions unclear, livia is now in my house cooking me dinner

>>2267278
>this is what the ch*rr took from us

>>2267576
Tolkino?

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>>2267615
?

>>2267632
Tolkien kino

just made a rit what's the best weapon for sos spirit spamming with henchmen/heroes till i beat the games? 40/20/+1 staff, 40/20/+5sr staff, 10hsr/+5sr/+1/30hp spear and focus, something else?

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post names

>>2267882
The main thing the +1/20% is used for is the chance to get a 6th hit of splinter when at 16 channeling. It's not going to proc for signets or rituals so don't bother with it unless you're bringing splinter. Energy isn't that big of an issue with spirit siphon, but a 40/20/5sr would still work. The recharge isn't that big of a deal for your rit skills to justify a 40/40 but your PvE skills would benefit from the staff HSR. Could roll any suffix you want, really

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>>2267892

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>>2267892

>enemies will run half the map away from one tick of aoe but heroes will stand in 5 chaos storms stacked on top of each other and just die
I'm starting to remember why I stopped playing this shit.

>>2267990
players will do that too btw

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Is there no actual way to create a key bind to force my pet to attack my current target?

It sounds incredibly stupid to have to click on the sword every-time.

>>2267990
if only they gave the hardmode enemy ai to heroes

>>2268023
Pet hotkeys in tb
Ctrl+space or Ctrl shift space

>>2267896
shouldn't +1/20% work on signets, spirits etc because they are considered skills? i thought its only the hsr/hct modifiers that specify they only work on spells. am i wrong about how this works?

>>2268189
Oh true. I thought it was limited to spells like the HCT/HSR mods. SoS only gains 1 damage, not even a level with it, bloodsong's a similar deal with +2 lifesteal. Painful bond and spirit siphon are marginally improved. It's technically more damage sure but I don't really think it's that big of a deal. 20% of maybe a 5% increase (21->22 is about what all of those do) is like a 1% increase on average. I'd take the SR to fuel ymlad or something over that.

>>2268206
i can't sleep at night if i know there's a min to be maxed. thinking spear with soul reaping and a +1/30hp focus is the way to go.
i guess its really up to: +1/20% and 30hp vs staff auto attack

>>2267882
Honestly SoS Rit is the least dependant on your weapon build in the game I find.
You don't particularly need energy.
You cast few actual spells (but you may cast them from multiple attributes so I prefer staff for the global HSR) so you get less out of HCT.
You don't use enchants
It just doesn't matter.
I use a staff of the forgotten on my SoS rit purely for the aesthetic of going with my mummy armor. It's just +5 energy, +5 energy when over 50% health, and +30 health

You could find minor benefits I suppose out of 5 SR, or 5 expertise (reduces energy costs of your binding rituals by 1). None of the spells you use are over 2s so FC won't help.

So .. yeah.. 30 hp or 5 armor, or maybe mastery for the extra hit on splinter.
That's about it.

>>2268214
Depends on the PvE skill, really. A spear with HSR+5 SR and a 1/20 focus with 10% HSR is really close to a staff's HSR. Net 19% vs the staff's 20. And a 20% chance for a marginal amount of damage doesn't seem worth giving up effectively the inscription+prefix. Going hp on the focus with energy on the spear would be fine if you're not using any spells but you're likely already using painful bond and summon spirits. If you're using evas, I'd likely go staff. Like the other anon says, a +20 energy staff with 5 SR and take essence strike over spirit siphon, probably is more actual damage.

>>2268235
I don't even really feel like my staff is something I "recommend" to anyone I just named it to show how irrelevant it is and I went purely because it matches the armor the stats on it just don't matter, Energy is solved by spirit siphon, and I only ever cast Painful Bond (1s), Splinter weapon (1s), Summon spirits (1/4 second), EVAS (1s), Pain inverter (1s), and some niche shit like Alkar's Alchemical Acid if fighting destroyers (1s).
Realistically I suppose the best benefit would be HCT (10%) head, HCT (10%) inscription, on a staff (Global HSR 20%), and either health or armor wrapping.
but it really doesn't impact your play the way those mods would affect Ele or Mesmer which have 2+s cast times to work with, cast more spells, and don't have a spammable source of +16 energy restored to themselves)
SoS is just easy and beginner friendly not very gear dependant outside of shaman's insignias, you do want those so that they target your spirits not you, but that's about it.

>>2268254
Yeah it's a minor component of the build. Unironically a shield for armor so you get targeted less and spirits get the aggro might be better.

>>2268260
maybe
"Let the Memory Live Again" for spear
"Serenity Now" for the shield
for 10% HSR on both of those

Then spear grip of +defense, shield with +30hp

spearhead.. well, nothing will really matter maybe if you're using PVE skills that inflict cripple (YMLAD), deep wound (Finish Him!), weakness (You are all Weaklings!) or daze (Technobabble) you can be one of the few people that uses a spearhead for lengthening condition durations I guess.

But that's minmaxing for the sake of minmaxing.

>>2268275
Serenity now is focus only iirc

>>2268292
You're right.. I dunno if shield is worth it then, 8 armor

>>2268254
so sr is basically worthless on this build and i'm better off going for mastery or 30hp?

>>2268260
i was thinking shield and spear might be the way to go while running around with heroes, so that things don't aggro me and bip doesn't get wasted on me.

>>2268275
you are all weaklings! is highly underrated. i use it on my monk and derv sometimes, trivializes a bunch of the annoying 4man hard mode maps.

>>2268300
+1 channeling/30hp or 10hsr/30hp focus are probably best? i'm guessing i don't get much out of 20% hct channeling and its better to just go hp, right?

>>2268300
You'd use a typical shield set, so the inscription for +10ar vs an type (usually fire or lightning, sometimes piercing), and 30 HP. Main hand likely shouldn't run defense as it stacks with stand your ground and the +25 bonus armor cap means it's only providing +1 in that case. Martial with 10% HSR with HP, or a 20/20 channeling wand depending on if you're using essence strike and ancestors rage. Just change out the shield based on what the threats are.

>>2268304
>Heroes will always use this skill on spellcaster professions—regardless of what weapon they are wielding—and will reserve the use of this skill until a spellcaster ally drops to less than half of their maximum energy.
As a ritualist, holding a spear won't prevent the bip from casting it on you. If anything having lower energy means you're more likely to get it as it takes only a 15e skill to bring you to half

>>2268304
yeah save SR for someone who needs it more. Spirit Siphon is crazy. 3s recharge, 1/4 second cast, Spirits have 31 energy, so they lose all of it, and you gain 16 at 16 channeling.
16 energy every 3s kind of mogs even SR.
Just make sure you move around so you're not attempting to tap the same spirit twice.

as far as shield, yeah I'd almost rather go with a spear/focus if you're not going staff.

I think for minmaxing SoS rit your options are 10 HCT/10 HCT +5 armor staff, or 10 HSR +5 armor spear with whatever condition you might use spearhead, and focus with 10 HSR and 20 HCT channeling or 10 HCT everything, or +30 hp focus.
Recharge for things like EVAS is more important than cast times for the spells you'll use.

What is the best way of leveling up Deldrimor rank if you are still early in EoTN?

>>2268311
well, if you're running exclusively with heroes that give those skills I guess
but if you're running SoS chances are that's going to be one of your good farming characters for nick gifts and green weapons and stuff
so you can be on your own quite a bit.

>>2268329
I typically finish eotn, and then do a few of the dungeons in both nm+hm for first time bonus ideally on a bonus week. Book turn in I never remember which is the best. It was either deldrimor or vanguard iirc.

>>2268331
You got multiple weapon sets and inventory. You can afford to have a solo farm weapon and a party use weapon. My derv has like four scythes, two staffs, two spears, a flatbow and like five or six shields.

>>2268345
true so "why not both"

How the fuck do people finish this game multiple times and even go for multiple gwamms
I've been playing it on and off since proph release and only beat in once and still don't have gwamm
Like what the fuck is your typical day looks like? Sleep for 4 hours then play gw for 20 hours rinse and repeat?

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is someone botting black dyes again? the vendor's completely out.

>>2268318
reeee i thought the trick i use on ranger would work.

>>2268325
>yeah save SR for someone who needs it more
ill prly keep it around for "break in glass in case of mesmer rape"

>>2268329
dont bother going past rank 5 right now. the next double eotn faction week is in 14 days.

>>2268345
>the absolute state of my warrior's inventory

>>2268367
Doesn't take me that long to finish factions, nightfall and EotN if I'm focusing a character. Maybe around two weeks of ~2 hours a day, a little more on weekends. But I've got the thing routed well and I'll usually take some runes+weapons from other characters to juice my heroes+mercs at the start.

>>2268372
I at least keep the staves and shields in the bank, since they're generic running staves and typed armor shields used by anyone. The other stuff is just from having a vos build and a PR build, with a meme SR scythe I'm fucking with. Only like three alternate armor pieces, two of which are headgear. My ele is easily way worse despite me not playing them much. A headgear, 40/40, high energy, and a 40/20/20 for three and a half elements, two anni axes, a prot staff + bonder gear. It's retarded.

>afker at start of mission
>st is basically afk and lagging behind too
>5/8 members of the group hang back and clear out the cliffs while healing seed keeps saurus alive
>3/8 decide to rush the gate then scream that they aren't getting heals and rez
>some of them forgot to turn on rebel yell
>try again
>no afker and new st's brain is actually present
>make a point to tell the group to stay together, clear the cliffs and i'll keep the saurus alive beforehand
>5/8 members of the group hang back and clear out the cliffs while healing seed keeps saurus alive
>3/8 decide to rush the gate then scream that they aren't getting heals and rez
>burn 12 candycanes to complete mission
why do i punish myself instead of just doing it with heroes?

>>2268367
I've never done gwam but I've beaten the campaigns a bunch. it doesn't take very long to follow the story on a new character

>>2268367
i beat factions in a day last week

>>2268438
""""Fun""""

>It's up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5A8YGw9Fg

>>2268456
Does anyone @here seriously farm nowadays?

What's the point. We are all over 30 doing high skilled jobs and making 100k/year.

I just swipe my credit card and help out a third world family.

>>2268458
I don't farm and I don't rmt. I just take my zaishen gibs and buy and sell ecto, plat and lockpicks throughout the year

>>2268458
why don't you pay a thirdworlder to play the game for you over rdp

>>2268458
>making 100k/year.
Haha
Yeah

>>2268438
"a better experience"

>>2268458
I prefer to get drops than buy things from players in this shitshow trading system.

>>2268458
I'm over 30 making over 100k/year and I hate RMTers.
What I like about farming is the dopamine of getting a good drop and seeing big numbers.
I have too much Guild Wars currency anyway so I don't really need more.
Fuck third worlders btw.

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>>2268475
speaking of which, what do we have planned for the 24th? it's the 10 year anniversary

>>2268481
Well April 24th
and probably nothing particular to Anni since they did a bigger anni last year for 20th.

>>2268492
that's crazy that the 10 year anniversary comes after the 20th

>>2268502
it's the 10th anniversary of what? Not of that suggestion even.

>>2268509
nm my eyes saw that as 2015 at first
and I thought you meant game anniversary
but nothing cause I doubt they care.

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>>2268449
>>2268473
>and then it was the easiest clear ever, no one except the puller's health going below 90%

feel like the healing bar with unlimited energy, 2 spike heals and the rit version of guardian is probably pretty good on the mission where things usually go wrong when some retard stands out of position and gets shot by all the rangers but thats just me

>>2268571
we just mean that PuGs can be hit or miss. Sometimes it can be fun if you get good people otherwise it's a pure disaster.
Heroes are consistently mediocre, they're bad but in ways you can usually predict and compensate for.

>>2268584
i would rather suffer the worst pug than play with heroes if given a choice. at least shitty pugs are sometimes memorable.

>>2268587
I'm fine doing one full random pug a day unless it's a super fast zm. But anything more and it's gonna be bawwbros, heroes, it i just won't run it.

>>2268458
>>2268479
>>2268467
once you break the seal and rmt in a video game where all the prestige rewards are tradeable, it sorta kills the fun. i can see it maybe being fun if you are some kind salaryman in the exact sweet spot of disposable income level where you get a dopamine drip but can't just instabuy everything you want. but rmt just kind of sucks at both extremes of the disposable income scale.
every time ive rmt'd in a game its made the game less fun and starts a nihilism reductionist death spiral where the game inevitably feels pointless to play.
some rmt is fine but i try to avoid most of it. i'll do stuff like buy fomo dota skins i missed out on, and i used to chuck all the items i'd pk or risk fight for on runescape at the sand casino then rmt the gold and go have a weekend if i won. i trained like 40 max pures/meds without ever using vennys/services but im a multiboxer, if i wasn't autistic i would have prolly just paid a third worlder to train my accounts.

>>2268594
unfortunately you guys are suxxons and i have a big huge kurzdick

>>2268612
Schizo austrio-druidic goths are kinda gay

>>2268571
Vow of Revolution healer is excellent

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>>2268615
i bought this game for the bpd goth gf

>>2268619
Me in the back

>>2268610
yeah rmt is retarded, paying to devalue your experience. it's like hiring a jeet to text your wife that you love her

>>2268458
I make $500/month lmao

>>2268615
gypsy simps can't call anybody gay

new GW3 job listing
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arenanet/jobs/7584409
>Contract Senior Gameplay Animator (Unannounced Project)
>You will play a critical role in helping to define the look and feel of the game by building a range of character combat and movement animations
>Create AAA animations for gameplay and locomotion, with a focus on combat for a variety of characters and creatures
>Collaborate with Design to achieve clear and expressive action gameplay animations that feel responsive to player input
>Strong understanding of UE5 animation systems and workflows

>>2268641
>>2268610
Your point would be valid if we were 5 years in. The game is old now, way too old.

>>2268666
>100k-150k/yr
Idk man I feel like a senior animator could get more elsewhere

>>2268758
im kinda glad my account got hacked since the last time i played, its fun starting over. if i ever have a spare char slot i'll make a melandru.

Update out its happening!

>>2268779
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260302
just bug fixes

>>2268758
non sequitur

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>non sequitur

>>2268758
it is, but once you start RMT'ing you start thinking 'why bother doing content at all, I'll just buy it'
and then what's the point of even logging in.

>>2268793
I'm not sure what their endgame is, but this "content" cadence ain't gonna hold the player-base for long.

>>2268820
too small a team for much else.

>>2268817
NTA, but virtually all of us "been there, done that". What content is there to do? Do you think anyone will farm for the Eternal Blade? Why exactly?

>>2268813
it's a complete non sequitur
what does the age of the game have to do with cheating devaluing your experience and accomplishments? it's true of games that came out yesterday or 20 years ago, multiplayer or singleplayer. you're pegging your time-value in game to that of a 24/7 bot or a venezuelan, you break the illusion that anything matters and all you get out of it in gw are meaningless cosmetics

for the non-faggots itt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nvvf7JZ26U

>Buying cosmetic instead of farming for it is somehow cheating
LOL

>>2268844
how is rmt different from using cheat engine to change how much money you have in a singleplayer game?

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>"NOOOO, HOW DARE YOU UNDERMINE MY COSMETIC CHEEVOS OF FARMING A 20 YEAR OLD INSTANCED GAME BY BUYING YOUR OBBY ARMOR AND VOLTAIC SPEAR THROUGH G2G!!! YOU CHEAT I SAY, REEEEEEEEEEE"

>>2268849
I said it's bad for you, not me. it doesn't affect me any more than if you cheated in a bunch of money in skyrim
you're hiding from the question because rmt is the same thing as hex editing your money in a single player game. unless the game is poorly designed, it fucks up the experience

ladies youre both beautiful

>>2268866
You sound resentful.

>>2268866
I learned this in practice 15 years ago. bought 100k and felt like a god but quickly realized the whole point of playing is actually earning the rewards yourself. 100k is nothing though so I burnt through it in like a week, then tried to buy more and got scammed. I'm grateful because I've never trusted anyone enough to try it again

>>2268886
yes I deeply resent your ability to spend $3

>Reforged brings in young (zoomer) players
>autism and shitposting goes through the roof
Boomerbros, our comfy thread....

>>2268876
Ty :D

>>2268793
devona keeps getting her ass handed to her every time i try the mission and now they made it less exploitable

anyone have roka's blog post about buying a mini vizu and evaluating the value of video game items

>>2268831
I've "been there, done that" and if I were to go to just buying shit I'd be doing my least favorite thing to do in the game (spamming Kamadan to buy shit) rather than playing the game.
Maybe it's a blessing that spamming to buy and sell is so miserable that I want to log off and do anything else that prevents me from RMT.

>>2268849
you can do whatever you want.
I just find no enjoyment out of just buying things I want from players in this miserable trading system so I'd rather do content, gives me a reason to play the game.
RMT would instead give me a reason to stop playing at all.

>>2268831
>virtually all of us "been there, done that". What content is there to do?
is this about farming or playing gw at all? learning different uwsc roles for an eternal blade is interesting, challenging, and something the average player itt hasn't done for once

>>2268895
Jokes on you it only brought in more boomers

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>>2268995
You will be playing for 100 years and never see an eternal blade.
And if you by some miracle get one, no one will know or care.

>>2269014
it's more like
once you've bought an eternal blade from RMT
why would you go back and do UW?
need ectos? just RMT them
want a Dhuum scythe? RMT
you'd have to go to FoW to buy new obby sets but that's the only time you'd ever have to do any content whatsoever once you start just buying. things.
so you never get an Eternal Blade to drop, it gives you a reason to keep doing UWSC.

>>2269014
>I'm from reddit and here's my analysis of the roi on spamming the chest for pvpers to gamble between queues
I said learning to do speedclears is fun and a new experience. I don't play games for other people to "know or care" about me, do you?

>>2269037
>you'd have to go to FoW to buy new obby sets but that's the only time you'd ever have to do any content
lol you're too much of a real human being, they rmt runs to the fow forgemaster, not joking

The only fun activity in this game after you do GWAMM is PvP.

You are all coping.

>>2269042
Unironically this.

If you don't boast at least a respectable PvP title like Gladiator (rank 3 minimum) you are actually shit at the game.

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>>2269042
GWAMM is quite a lot of content. Why can't a character be completed/finished after GWAMM?

>>2269042
if you thought gwamm was fun, I see why you ended up like this

>>2269050
Not my problem you're a loser with no friends.

Idk I sell and buy in Kama decently often and it's not so bad. But I'm also only ever listing for commonly traded items like ecto, picks, pcon stacks, tomes. Never trying to sell weapon mods, only ever buying.

>>2269014
the worst grinds on this game are nothing compared to farming some mid level piece of twink gear on everquest or lineage back in the day.

>>2268831
im just having fun playing the comfy nostalgic game.

>>2269041
for what purpose
holy shit why even log in if you're just gonna swipe everything.

>>2269047
Based. I only have PvP titles on. Everything else is worthless to me.

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>>2268458
Yeah I've been learning a couple of farms I regularly do Kathandrax and DoA solo's it's relaxing and I enjoy learning the runs + rolling for drops even though my account has about 10 stacks of ectos and 10a~. It's pennies at this point and I have all the wealth I'd ever want to do just about anything.

I like to earn stuff for myself, sure I could spend my ectos and just instantly finish wisdom title, but what's the point? Same reason why I spend 500e trying to roll for an EL ooze tonic, rather than just buying one from kamadan for 15e. Same reason I ran UW 50+ times to get my DSR when I earned enough from 10 runs to just buy it.

For me it's the end goal. RMTing doesn't really bother me much. Video games are inherently a waste of time even if there was no RMTers spending 4 hours farming to make 20e in a game that peaked 20 years ago is still a waste of time. If you are doing something you don't enjoy you are wasting your time. Most stuff in this game is not that expensive/difficult to grind for, if you don't enjoy the grind, I don't think being able to click a checkbox to display your title, or a set of cosmetics you barely look at will increase your enjoyment much. Your endless pursuit of optimization is a defining feature of an MMO player (or a german), but it's that same mindset which makes it difficult for you to simply just find things you enjoy doing. I can admire the mindset and the mental willpower to spend hours doing something you don't enjoy for a greater goal, but this is often the largest defining factor to why people have problems enjoying GW1, they attempt to play as optimized as possible, can't risk failing on a mission and trying to overcome it with strategy, I need to find a guide, can't risk wasting money setting up a potentially bad build, I need to check PvX, can't waste time with hench because mesmers clear faster.

I'm saying this as someone who is making 100k+ a year, working 12 hour shifts (but fortunately I'm not over 30 yet!).

>>2269062
whenever i wanna buy some niche weapon i get 2 tells instantly but whenever i want to do something simple like buy picks or sell ectos im standing there for an hour. i usually go below market rate too.

>>2269060
if you did gwamm you spend hundreds of hours alone scraping cartography corners and shit. glass houses and all

>>2269070
I wasn't asking.

>>2269074
oops meant for >>2269042 >>2269060

>>2269068
Selling almost always takes longer, and selling ectos is usually the slowest I'll do. I don't really sell ecto via trade chat often though. I have enough that I'm usually watching the material trade price like a hawk and selling a couple hundred when the time is right. I will stand around to buy ecto though, but that's usually at christmas/canthan new year boardwalk.