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Ciaphas posted:I'm closing in on 80. What should I do first to get on track to opening up Reaper? 100% map completion will get you about ~200/250 HPs for reaper and/or you can join the hero point trains people are running to get all the HPs you need in HoT.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Don't you want your game to not look like it's filmed on a flip phone from 1999? B-but my texture filtering  (I actually tweaked my settings since I posted those oversaturated screenshots and it's better now!)
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11/04/2015 – November 4 Release Notes Halloween: Shadow of the Mad King Mad King Thorn and his Lunatic Court have returned to the Underworld; Lion’s Arch has returned to normal. BALANCE, BUG-FIXING, POLISH Items Fixed a bug in which the following items were tradable rather than account bound: Nuhoch Hunting Stashes Fulgurite Chest of the Casual Fractal Hero Chest of the Core Fractal Hero Chest of the Elite Fractal Veteran Chest of the Fractal Master Profession Skills Mesmer Into the Void: This skill now pulls foes to the center of the wall rather than to the nearest point on the wall. Chronomancer—Illusionary Avenger: Increased the distance traveled for this phantasm’s charge attack by 346%. Chronomancer—Seize the Moment: Updated this trait to count the player as an illusion, as do other similar traits. Chronomancer—Tides of Time: Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to destroy unblockable projectiles. Necromancer Signet of Spite: Fixed an issue causing this skill to not play an animation while equipped with a greatsword. Putrid Explosion: Fixed a bug in which this skill’s blast finisher activated several seconds after the UI icon for the finisher appeared. Reaper—Chilling Victory: Updated this trait’s skill fact to correctly show 8 seconds of might duration instead of 5. Reaper—Soul Spiral: Fixed a bug in which this skill would not display a skill fact for the casting bar or casting time. Reaper—Deathly Chill: Removed the 50% health threshold on this skill so that it now does the same damage at all times. Adjusted the damage ratio. Decreased the base damage from 40 to 10. Increased the level multiplier by 25%. Increased the condition damage multiplier by 87%. Revenant Fixed a bug in which upkeep skills would turn off when crossing certain parts of maps. Warrior Berserker—Dead or Alive: When activated, this trait no longer ends berserk mode. Berserker—King of Fires: The burn duration increase modifier has been increased from 20% to 33%. Berserker—Eternal Champion: In addition to its previous effects, this trait now also grants 3 stacks of might for 8 seconds when you break stun. Berserker—Rupturing Smash: Added 0.5 seconds of daze to this skill. Increased immobilize duration from 1 second to 2 seconds. Berserker—Fatal Frenzy: This trait now grants 6 seconds of fury in addition to its previous effects. Berserker—Bloody Roar: This trait no longer grants fury or inflicts bleeding. This trait now increases all direct damage dealt in berserk mode by 10%. Berserker—Always Angry: This trait has been reworked so that it now grants an effect for 15 seconds when entering or leaving berserk mode, increasing outgoing damage and condition damage by 7%. Berserker—Outrage: This skill can now be used underwater and while airborne. Berserker—Blood Reckoning: This skill can now be used underwater. Berserker—Scorched Earth: Updated skill facts to show the correct number of hits. BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE New Items and Promotions A new set of Glittering weapon skins is available from the Black Lion Weapons Specialist for 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket for a limited time. A new Exalted Glider is now available in the Upgrades category of the Gem Store for 400 gems. A new Mini Bonebreaker is available in the Toys category of the Gem Store for 350 gems. Laphroaig fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Totbot posted:What does everything think the "easiest" class for HoT content is so far? My wife might be interested in playing again. She's only gotten to lvl 20 or so in the past, but I'm afraid that if she does get into the game this time around that she'd hit the HoT content and get frustrated by the difficulty spike. She is gonna get frustrated by the difficulty spike, poo poo I'm frustrated by it and I've been playing the game for 3 years. That said, yea Ranger is a great class for a more casual player, guess a high toughness pet so the enemies tend to go for it and have at it. SHINY SKINS ARE HERE, I need to get one of those, they're so gorgeous.
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Ciaphas posted:I'm closing in on 80. What should I do first to get on track to opening up Reaper? I'm proud of you. Only thing you need to do to unlock Reaper is to train everything else in the class, which you will be able to do with all the hero points you earn when you reach level 80. Laphroaig posted:11/04/2015 – November 4 Release Notes I'm quite possibly the only Reaper using this trait, and I can't tell if this is a buff or nerf or just a simplification. The base damage used to be 194 (290 if below 50% health) at level 80. The extra condi damage multiplier is nice though, that brings it up to +30 damage for every 100 condition damage -- that's nearly double the damage from burning, though Chill doesn't stack so whatever.
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Laphroaig posted:Mesmer All of this is amazing and I am extremely pleased.
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Lion's Arch loads for me like in quarter of the time it used to take so I'll say it's a win/loss.
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I never really bothered going for Black Lion Claim Ticket stuff from the chests. How rare is it to get a scrap? Is it sort of a "please don't buy gems to try to get ticket scraps" kind of situation? I really want some of those Glittering weapons (less than I used to, now that I've seen the Ley Guard's Revolver, but I still need a nice Mesmer-y greatsword). The shield is nice, too. I am also definitely going to get the Exalted glider skin because I have some gems sitting around anyway
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Those berserker buffs, goddam. I guess you could say that the berserker meta is here to stay 
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Harrow posted:I never really bothered going for Black Lion Claim Ticket stuff from the chests. How rare is it to get a scrap? Is it sort of a "please don't buy gems to try to get ticket scraps" kind of situation? Easier to buy them with gold.
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Solumin posted:
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YoshiOfYellow posted:I request weekly episodes of "Will It Blend?". This week was "Savagehenry the Scrublord: Will He Blend? YES OF COURSE!"  Next week stay tuned for a surprise
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CLAM DOWN posted:Post your RAM usage, please run the screenshot through instagram first thanks. I will be posting all screen shots with sepia tones and vignetting from now on
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So have been casually glancing at the expansion coming out for the game I haven't played since the first 5 months after launch of vanilla Gw2...how's the endgame PvE nowadays cause that poo poo was rear end in my opinion back then, what's changed? Also any EU goons playing on Mag that can give me their 2 cents regarding latency and what not? Cheers.
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Boogiewoogie posted:So have been casually glancing at the expansion coming out for the game I haven't played since the first 5 months after launch of vanilla Gw2...how's the endgame PvE nowadays cause that poo poo was rear end in my opinion back then, what's changed? Also any EU goons playing on Mag that can give me their 2 cents regarding latency and what not? Cheers. What parts didn't you like? It's the same endgame as before. Dungeons, fractals, WvW, sPvP, legendaries/ascended gear getting, pretty princess, map completion, etc. The only new part is that raids are coming and we don't know how good those will be yet since they're not out.
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CLAM DOWN posted:What parts didn't you like? It's the same endgame as before. Dungeons, fractals, WvW, sPvP, legendaries/ascended gear getting, pretty princess, map completion, etc. The only new part is that raids are coming and we don't know how good those will be yet since they're not out. I think the "no trinity" thing messed with me a fair bit...but it might just have been how broken and buggy some dungeons were at the time. I did enjoy the overall lvling experience and running around and exploring poo poo for no other reason than "I am gonna climb that loving mountain over there". What's fractals though?
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Those patch notes. Warriors aren't happy with something, ohmigod quick, break out the buffs! Good to see the old Anet balance philosophy remains unchanged.
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Boogiewoogie posted:I think the "no trinity" thing messed with me a fair bit...but it might just have been how broken and buggy some dungeons were at the time. I did enjoy the overall lvling experience and running around and exploring poo poo for no other reason than "I am gonna climb that loving mountain over there". What's fractals though? Read the OP!  CLAM DOWN posted:[*]Fractals: Fractals of the Mists is a special type of dungeon that consists of an array of mini-dungeons called fractals, where each fractal has its own story and environment. Characters are adjusted to level 80 within the dungeon. The dungeon is one of the primary sources of ascended equipment and provides materials for crafting infused equipment.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Those patch notes. Warriors aren't happy with something, ohmigod quick, break out the buffs! Good to see the old Anet balance philosophy remains unchanged. to be fair, berserker is genuinely really lackluster to the point where no one is even caring to make builds for it
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Agent Kool-Aid posted:to be fair, berserker is genuinely really lackluster to the point where no one is even caring to make builds for it So like daredevil but without the rest of the class being awesome to make up for it.
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Agent Kool-Aid posted:to be fair, berserker is genuinely really lackluster to the point where no one is even caring to make builds for it Nah, I know they needed it. And I'm not crying that someone else got a cookie and I didn't, just amused that they're always ready to come running with a band-aid and kisses whenever a warrior skins their knee.
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Agent Kool-Aid posted:to be fair, berserker is genuinely really lackluster to the point where no one is even caring to make builds for it I posted a build for it a while back. If you want to get the attention of goons in this thread you'll need to get DnT or wooden potatoes to make a YouTube video for it.
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I just tried Reaper for the first time (I didn't bother before bc the person I tend to play with had decided to main it). Holy jesus you all weren't kidding is there a  /  combination emote because now I feel like there needs to be.
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Totbot posted:What does everything think the "easiest" class for HoT content is so far? My wife might be interested in playing again. She's only gotten to lvl 20 or so in the past, but I'm afraid that if she does get into the game this time around that she'd hit the HoT content and get frustrated by the difficulty spike. Another vote for Minion Master necro with or without reaper when you hit 80. Hands down, the easiest thing to play and still do well, you get two life bars, and even if you're not paying the most attention to what to kill your minions keep hitting/gaining you life. It was night and day getting into HoT areas as my engie and barely being able to survive swarms of stuff vs my necro being in a 'rough spot' if I had to resummon a minion I didn't self-destruct. ItBurns posted:wooden potatoes That guy is annoying/a bad commentator. I mean I'm sure he's autistic enough to be good at some game he dedicates his life to, but I clicked his video comparing the Chinese client and US client and it was all "HEE HEE HEE THE TEXT IS IN SQUIGGLY! HA HA HA I CANT READ MOONTALK WHAT SERVER SHOULD I PLAY ON?" "I think this art is changed wait no it might not be I can't tell. They took out skulls and bones maybe? Hey the people look asian, can I make someone not look asian, oh I like this. Is that music different? <note his mixing is poo poo and you can't even hear said music. Not that he ever shut up.>" So I'm not sure he could actually communicate how to play or do something.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I just tried Reaper for the first time (I didn't bother before bc the person I tend to play with had decided to main it). Holy jesus you all weren't kidding is there a Speaking of condi damage and the change to the chill damage trait, I briefly looked at it in game before I left for work and it looks like it's an overall buff if you're condi (795 on the tooltip vs 850 before but half the time it was doing 450 so that's a nice net gain) and a nerf if you're power (who were using it in the non shroud builds). Mercurius fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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I've been trying some of the 10vs10 pvp (why do some servers let 20 people join but only 5vs5? Stupid) and it's nice that I can get a full dungeon set after a week or so of maybe an hour a day playing, but Is anet going to balance it at all? Win trading is encouraged but the mechanics of switching teams via the volunteer balancing are clunky and also eliminate any fun of pvp and turn it into a purely annoying grind you're trudging through, instead of doing a fun activity with a nice reward after a while. And if I go on a serious server, my lv60 mesmer gets killed in about 2 seconds by guys with legendaries and the elite specs. It almost makes me want to just do the dungeons, but you have to run the same one so many times for a full gearset.
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Coolness Averted posted:That guy is annoying/a bad commentator. I mean I'm sure he's autistic enough to be good at some game he dedicates his life to, but I clicked his video comparing the Chinese client and US client and it was all for the life of me i'll never understand why people actually like watching dumbasses like him but apparently he makes lore videos or some poo poo which is why most find out about his stuff. i'd rather just read the drat wiki
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effectual posted:I've been trying some of the 10vs10 pvp (why do some servers let 20 people join but only 5vs5? Stupid) and it's nice that I can get a full dungeon set after a week or so of maybe an hour a day playing, but Is anet going to balance it at all? Win trading is encouraged but the mechanics of switching teams via the volunteer balancing are clunky and also eliminate any fun of pvp and turn it into a purely annoying grind you're trudging through, instead of doing a fun activity with a nice reward after a while. And if I go on a serious server, my lv60 mesmer gets killed in about 2 seconds by guys with legendaries and the elite specs. It almost makes me want to just do the dungeons, but you have to run the same one so many times for a full gearset. Gear/level is normalised in sPvP so everyone is on the same footing so you being level 60 doesn't make a difference in the slightest and if you have Heart of Thorns you also have access to your elite spec (in the third trait line). I'd suggest you go and take a look at the Conquest (point capture 5v5) and Stronghold (MOBA-lite) sections of [url="https://"http://metabattle.com"]Metabattle[/url] and see if you can find a build that'll suit how you want to play your Mesmer and then make sure you set up all your traits/skills/runes/sigils/amulets in the PvP Build window (icon at the top of the screen in the middle).
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I wonder if the 64x client would improve FPS performance on my laptop. With everything on Low, I get ~25-30 right now. Edit: RE sPVP. Yeah don't do hotjoin, it sucks. Unranked is your best bet, plus you get all the specs unlocked in Heart Of The Mists. I spend a lot of time in there, and generally have a lot of fun even solo queuing. High House Death fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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AmericanGeeksta posted:I wonder if the 64x client would improve FPS performance on my laptop. With everything on Low, I get ~25-30 right now. The move to 64-bit won't necessarily help your performance. Especially on a laptop. What it does is increase the amount of RAM available to the client. This could have the effect of improving some areas of performance as it can store more pieces of the game client in memory at a given time. But, it might also do nothing at all for you.
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CLAM DOWN posted:The move to 64-bit won't necessarily help your performance. Especially on a laptop. What it does is increase the amount of RAM available to the client. This could have the effect of improving some areas of performance as it can store more pieces of the game client in memory at a given time. But, it might also do nothing at all for you. Ahhh got it. Well I have 8 gigs of RAM, I guess I can give it a try.
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AmericanGeeksta posted:Ahhh got it. Well I have 8 gigs of RAM, I guess I can give it a try. At the very least it should help with crash issues, as the client's memory leak will have to fill up 8/16/more GB of memory now before crashing as opposed to 2-4 before.
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