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Alteisen posted:What gear? Maybe druid is just a bad fit with a condi build. 2 carrion, 3 beserker, 1 rampager. Just threw on the carrion pieces to get a bit more vitality.
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Your Computer posted:I just spent a couple of hours in the jungle doing events on my Rev and all I got was 300k exp. Out of 1 million. At level 3. I knew it was bad, but drat Mastery level counts points committed, not tiers completed (e.g. completing a 5 point mastery would put you from 10 to 15), and people have found creative ways to fill out the Pact Tyria masteries quickly.
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Hey guys! Good HP training earlier today. I also figured out how to get that HP south of the Eastwatch WP in Auric after we disbanded (needs mushroom jumping). FWIW, I have some sort of mental disease and have 13 alts with 100% MC, all of which I'm going to be running that train with, so you've got a couple weeks where you can get in on getting most of the HPs in Verdant Brink and Auric Basin in the evenings. The ones I ran today only needed gliding for about 90% of them, and the ones that needed mushrooms or exalted markings had mesmers to port people past those obstacles. I can tell you for sure that once you get the first rank in all the Maguuma masteries, it's much much faster to just run in a train to get HPs than when you're just starting out in HoT. Also, Chronomancer owns owns owns.
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ijyt posted:This just convinced me to use my last slot for a female human mesmer, goddamn. There go my gems and oh my god the weapons http://dulfy.net/2015/10/25/gw2-upcoming-gemstore-items-from-hot-patch/
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Adhesive Gamin posted:Mastery level counts points committed, not tiers completed (e.g. completing a 5 point mastery would put you from 10 to 15), and people have found creative ways to fill out the Pact Tyria masteries quickly. Oh, that makes more sense then. In unrelated news, I just got my preorder character slot: 
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Schpyder posted:Also, Chronomancer owns owns owns. not emptyquoting
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I'm also a fan of the Strength Norn story, and the Infinity Ball Asura story. Infinity Ball I'd say has the best climax episode, but all the buildup episodes are totes dull.
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I really wish I had spent more time in the betas trying out all the different classes. Now I am not sure on what to play and the elite specs are gated behind some poo poo. People are loving the chronomancer but I didn't play it and very few people stream it.
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Eltoasto posted:I really wish I had spent more time in the betas trying out all the different classes. Now I am not sure on what to play and the elite specs are gated behind some poo poo. People are loving the chronomancer but I didn't play it and very few people stream it. You could just try 'em out in PvP, that's what I'm doing 
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Your Computer posted:You could just try 'em out in PvP, that's what I'm doing I tried that with Revenant, and decided the art style is just too emo for me. Feels like I should cut myself and listen to Linkin Park on cooldowns.
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Eltoasto posted:I really wish I had spent more time in the betas trying out all the different classes. Now I am not sure on what to play and the elite specs are gated behind some poo poo. People are loving the chronomancer but I didn't play it and very few people stream it. Chronomancer is really good thanks to the reduction to the damage that phantasms take. They're pretty close to invincible now so phantasm builds are great for boss fights. Shatter is good as well thanks to the alacrity and crit chance you get from the chronomancer line, but you need to have a good many traits before it becomes useful. The shatter build is really active though, maybe on par with daredevil in terms of actiony goodness. I don't know what else you were considering but it's not a bad choice. You also get the fifth shatter right away.
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Alt guild chat rules "it's like the human centipede of guild chat" -some gross person in SFD mumble
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Kitty Fantastico posted:There go my gems and oh my god the weapons Welp... I hope those blue dragonfly wings are there otherwise I most likely am going to blow my gems on some weapons :x
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Patching at a blistering 1 kb/s. Edit: It's up to 20 kb/s now.
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Captain McStabbin posted:but why Daredevil is super good. Staff is great and it makes S/P and shortbow even better sets. Staff is also great but it lacks the CC of S/P. The blind is really useful though. ItBurns fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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The only "staff" thieves need is the people answering phones at Suicide Hotline
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mike12345 posted:I tried that with Revenant, and decided the art style is just too emo for me. Feels like I should cut myself and listen to Linkin Park on cooldowns. While you as a goon should be doing this already, the only Revenant stance that's close to that aesthetic is grim, dark, grimdark, Legendary Dark Grim Demon Mallyx. Herald is bright and flashy colors, Jalis is neon blue and Guardian-y, Ventari is wait what's that's tablet thing, did the mob summon it?, and Shiro is super anime assassin ninja green. All the base weaponskills are white/gray/black/sometimes a little red.
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Kerrrrrrr posted:I got this bitchin' new skull bow and updated my outfit to match. I need this bow for my grimdark skull charr. Where did you acquire it?
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Azazell0 posted:My guild tried to reclaim the Guild Hall, but it might've been a situation where there was too many of us, since we got over 10 maws and a stupid load of adds with them. So it might actually be better with less people? Doing the claiming of guildhalls scales awfully over about 40-50 or so, at the current tuning. 70 players was "die, respawn, run back to the mob, die again" every three minutes for my guild, wheras 40-50 (we'd tried for long enough that some folks wandered off after a few tries) was just death in the enclosed areas before the mobs were cleared because of the sorta-psychedelic AOE spam. So yeah, pretty sure upscale is a Thing with the claiming process.
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Chronomancer is definitely the best elite spec. It's just so complete and it fits into Mesmer so nicely. I wish I felt motivated to finish unlocking it now though 
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Flytitle posted:Doing the claiming of guildhalls scales awfully over about 40-50 or so, at the current tuning. 70 players was "die, respawn, run back to the mob, die again" every three minutes for my guild, wheras 40-50 (we'd tried for long enough that some folks wandered off after a few tries) was just death in the enclosed areas before the mobs were cleared because of the sorta-psychedelic AOE spam. So yeah, pretty sure upscale is a Thing with the claiming process. That'd explain why a bunch of nerds managed to do it with 0 coordination beyond "These colors go here, and you stick with this color"
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Harrow posted:Chronomancer is definitely the best elite spec. It's just so complete and it fits into Mesmer so nicely.  . Also, as far as I can see, nearly all of the hero points that are hard gated by stuff like Poison Mastery and Ley-Line Gliding don't seem to require a group to do so don't worry about those ones when doing group stuff.I'll be honest though, as efficient as the hero point trains were I actually think I preferred running around with 2-3 other people exploring stuff and doing challenges as we found them.
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Mercurius posted:I'll be honest though, as efficient as the hero point trains were I actually think I preferred running around with 2-3 other people exploring stuff and doing challenges as we found them. That's what I'd much prefer to do, but I really want Chronomancer fully unlocked as soon as possible. At least I had world completion to give me a head start and I have it in an almost usable condition right now, but I still only have the first column of major traits. I think that's why I'm so upset about how many hero points elite specs require. I'd love to just run around and explore and have fun, but I feel this pressure to unlock Chronomancer ASAP because I'm so excited about it. It's a tension I don't find fun, but I'm sure I'll get over it eventually. Gliding is really fun, though. I love that I can basically fall from any height I like as long as I tap the space bar before I land.
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Eltoasto posted:I really wish I had spent more time in the betas trying out all the different classes. Now I am not sure on what to play and the elite specs are gated behind some poo poo. People are loving the chronomancer but I didn't play it and very few people stream it. You can play each elite class in pvp, just go to the pvp lobby, and then select your pvp build.
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Dreggon made the world first guild hall jumping puzzle e: 
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Kerrrrrrr posted:2 carrion, 3 beserker, 1 rampager. Just threw on the carrion pieces to get a bit more vitality. Interesting combo. What runes you rockin Azazell0 posted:My guild tried to reclaim the Guild Hall, but it might've been a situation where there was too many of us, since we got over 10 maws and a stupid load of adds with them. So it might actually be better with less people? Might be, my embr buds did it with like 8 people and the monsters you can summon with the powder and whistles
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Hi Goons! There was a LOAD of confusion with the new guild missions system tonight, so I'm going to explain how it all works. The guild can select whether it wants a preference of PvE, WvW, or PvP missions, or no preference at all (which gets you extra favor). We're mostly a PvE guild, so that's what we're focusing on. ANYWAY. If you open the guild panel and go to the missions tab, this is what you'll see:  There are three tiers of mission difficulty, each of which have a single mission rolled for it each week. In our case, we rolled an easy bounty (random, but easy, we got Poobadoo), a medium challenge (Quaggan rescue), and a hard challenge (Southsun Crab Toss). The rolls for each slot are RANDOM for both mission type and the specific mission, but will always be of the appropriate difficulty. So you can expect to see, say, Scratch Sentry Defense as an option in the easy slot, or Crab Rush in the hard spot. Once the roll is made at reset (sometime on Sunday, not sure when, it was before server reset), the missions are fixed for the week, and can be restarted at will by an officer with appropriate permissions. Just click "launch mission" on the bottom and the mission goes live. The locked slots under each difficulty unlock at different guild levels. I don't know whether you can get more personal rewards by running all of them, or if it just gives you more choice of what to run. I expect it's the latter. There are also permanent PvE/WvW/PvP slots that can be purchased from the guild hall vendors. These SHOULD give more rewards, being different tiers entirely. I'm not sure if favor rewards are repeatable, but I expect not, and there's a weekly favor cap anyway. Once all that is done, and you go to a non-bounty mission, EVERYONE NEEDS TO INTERACT WITH THE MISSION MARKER. This puts everyone in an instance for the mission, and once there, it can be started by talking to the Guild Initiative Rep. Yes, everyone needs to touch the thing, but only to get into the instance. Bounty takes place in the open world just like always, and should NOT be touched until everyone is ready. It's less of a disaster if you do, though, since guilds don't need to build missions anymore, and they can be restarted really easily! Rewards are similar but not quite the same. Easy gives a rare, some resonating silver, 50s, and 1 comm. Medium gives 1 or 2 rares (I forget), some resonating silver, 50s, and 1 comm. Hard gives 2 rares, some resonating silver, 50s, and 2 comms. So at the start, we're now limited to 4 comms per week, but that may go up. Well, hopefully that explains the new less-random-but-still-random missions! Schpyder fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Alteisen posted:Might be, my embr buds did it with like 8 people and the monsters you can summon with the powder and whistles I expect the GOON hall expedition Friday is going to be an ENORMOUS clusterfuck but really, if it was anything else I'd be disappointed
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I haven't made it halfway through the first zone yet. I log in, walk in a random direction because hell if I know what all these new map icons are (that one's a building, this one looks like a man taking his padlock out for a walk, what do they mean?). Then some ankle biter mini-mobs turn me into a fine paste. So I go back and take it slower and try to kill my way carefully through things. Then some mushroom dudes that apparently have the power to spam endless death zones all over the ground and chain pull me into them more times than I can handle even with all my dodges and dodge-like skills kill me again. At this point I usually say 'gently caress this' and go play another game. How do I make the pain stop, goons? Also I get that masteries are a thing you have to unlock with points, but the game is not doing me any favors as far as explaining how they work. It tells me I have so many central Tyria points, presumably from old world completion stuff I did a year or two ago, but it doesn't tell me how to spend those points on anything. My old saved hero points gave me enough to get about halfway through my elite spec, which is neat I guess. I'm still kind of sad that ele got a boring rear end warhorn of all things.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Also I get that masteries are a thing you have to unlock with points, but the game is not doing me any favors as far as explaining how they work. It tells me I have so many central Tyria points, presumably from old world completion stuff I did a year or two ago, but it doesn't tell me how to spend those points on anything. My old saved hero points gave me enough to get about halfway through my elite spec, which is neat I guess. I'm still kind of sad that ele got a boring rear end warhorn of all things. You have a bar, that fills up with exp. Once it fills up, you can activate it with your mastery points. This lets you gain the bonus for that level of track. You can't use either without the other, and one is governed by map exploration and achievements, the other by
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PRINCESSING HOT EDITION! Var Steele, Char Engineer.  Please do not stare at the floating shoulder. Tea time with friends! The perfect Catnap spot. Xeyan, Salad Necromancer  Not the best screenshot, but the best I had. Vas Reverati, Norn Revenant.  I really like how my "edgy spikey" look ended up turning out.  Dramatic Posing! More Dramatic Posing! Even More Dramatic Posing! Thyrork fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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