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Mesmer is fun, Chronomancer is also fun. Can't say I ever expected to tank when I rolled this class, but it's an interesting switch-up. Honestly it doesn't play that differently than DPS and alacrity buffing the raid, it just adds an additional layer of timing and managing your many, many sources of temporary invulnerability. It is a fantastic class if you like pushing buttons.
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victrix posted:This is entirely my fault, but holy poo poo the official forums are horrid. Judging by them the entire game is awful in every respect and every class is bad. This is the reason I have yet to buy HoT. All "new" content is not fun, not enough content for the money, and there is no viable build for any class for any content... this, according to the official forums of course.
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May 1, 2016 16:10
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If the official forums are the reason you're not getting HoT, you're being silly. Official forums are always complete garbage
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May 1, 2016 18:54
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UberN00ber posted:according to the official forums of course. So do you just not play any video game ever created?
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May 1, 2016 18:58
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I think I'll level a mesmer next. And by level I mean use Tomes and various XP boosts.
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May 1, 2016 19:28
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treizebee posted:So do you just not play any video game ever created? I just usually don't read official forums. There aren't too many player created sites that actually have active forums for this particular game. Having said that gw2 is probably the last game is bought which was a few years ago.
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May 1, 2016 19:30
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HoT is pretty alright in general, especially with the recent update which messed with some of the exp values. official forums aren't a good metric to go off of. personally, i'd look for it being on sale a little bit just because, but other than that it's a good addition and definitely adds some cool stuff.
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May 1, 2016 19:33
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Having shelled out that 15 bux a month subscription per account in mmo's before (i had many at once) a one time charge of 50 bux doesn't seem that bad to me.
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May 1, 2016 19:42
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knowonecanknow posted:Having shelled out that 15 bux a month subscription per account in mmo's before (i had many at once) a one time charge of 50 bux doesn't seem that bad to me. The only reason i play guildwars at all is because it doesnt have a subscription cost; I play way to erratically to justify paying for game time. Heart of thorns was good in my books for the same reason
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May 1, 2016 20:07
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So are you expected to be teleporting between the various zones for a level bracket all the time? I'm not looking for power leveling or anything because I want to play the various quests and stuff, but the zones seem to be structured with each heart quest being +1 level from the previous one, while it takes a few to level so you get behind pretty quick.
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May 1, 2016 21:13
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Aphrodite posted:So are you expected to be teleporting between the various zones for a level bracket all the time? I'm not looking for power leveling or anything because I want to play the various quests and stuff, but the zones seem to be structured with each heart quest being +1 level from the previous one, while it takes a few to level so you get behind pretty quick. Yes. Go clear out all the zones matching your current level, and even the ones below - you will scale down but still receive relevant experience and loot.
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May 1, 2016 21:14
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Kessel posted:Yes. Go clear out all the zones matching your current level, and even the ones below - you will scale down but still receive relevant experience and loot. Zones slightly higher or any level lower are also fine.
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May 1, 2016 21:15
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Also if you're in either of the goon guilds, you should hit up the guild hall tavern and get the bonus experience buff. It adds a flat ten percent increase to all experience from all sources, which is a significant boost to how fast you level.
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May 1, 2016 23:28
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Good to know. I'm just waiting on getting authorized right now.
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May 1, 2016 23:50
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I know everyone else has probably had it for ten centuries, but I'm happy to gloat that I finally have a commander tag! Now I, too, can helplessly yell at people to co-operate with a tiny dorito on my head. All hail the Tarir post-patch megaloot.
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May 2, 2016 02:46
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I just figured out that Ebonhawke is a thing and it's pretty cool.
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May 2, 2016 03:43
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Hello. I am someone who hated thr launch of hot. I heard about how the new patch is better what is the thought of thid thread about the patch?
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May 2, 2016 04:54
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Cyron posted:Hello. I am someone who hated thr launch of hot. I heard about how the new patch is better what is the thought of thid thread about the patch? come back
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May 2, 2016 04:57
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Cyron posted:Hello. I am someone who hated thr launch of hot. I heard about how the new patch is better what is the thought of thid thread about the patch? Hi I haven't played in two+ years and GW2 is a fun game that is fun, hope this helps your life choice
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May 2, 2016 05:48
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Cyron posted:Hello. I am someone who hated thr launch of hot. I heard about how the new patch is better what is the thought of thid thread about the patch? I found it very much improved! There's no more "stick around for two hours to receive any rewards at the end" in the meta maps, they now throw loot at you non-stop and you can duck in and out a lot easier, 50% exp buff, WvW got a lot more popular and has a reward track, instant level-80 item and PVP map fixes mean I'd say come back. You don't lose anything by checking it out, after all.
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May 2, 2016 05:57
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New patch is fantastic and probably what HoT should have been at launch. Come back and try it out!
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May 2, 2016 05:59
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CLAM DOWN posted:New patch is fantastic and probably what HoT should have been at launch. Come back and try it out! I left the guild because i was salty about the xpack i wasn't thinking, time to rejoin.
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May 2, 2016 06:06
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Cyron posted:I left the guild because i was salty about the xpack i wasn't thinking, time to rejoin. PM me ingame and I'll hook you up 
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May 2, 2016 06:11
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CLAM DOWN posted:PM me ingame and I'll hook you up what is your account name agian? my account is Visadin.1485. i also have no clue what to play atm, i have a 80 everything but warrior, but my theif is my bank mule, my engi is my main but it seem like for engi it go condi or gtfo, i like ele and ranger but they need to get their class spec unlock and i hate the fact my plate classes are salads. oh and my mesmer is a rat turd. Cyron fucked around with this message at 06:24 on May 2, 2016 |
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May 2, 2016 06:17
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Cyron posted:what is your account name agian? my account is Visadin.1485. I invited you, welcome back dude!
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May 2, 2016 06:25
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CLAM DOWN posted:New patch is fantastic and probably what HoT should have been at launch. Come back and try it out! Are you sure? I don't really play right now (Black Desert is actually fun, somehow) and last time I played it was a billion XP just to get a vendor.
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May 2, 2016 06:52
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Inzombiac posted:Are you sure? It's totally up to each of us but for me personally, this patch addressed a ton of my issues (not all, in fairness) with HoT and I'm really enjoying the game again 
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May 2, 2016 06:56
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Cyron posted:what is your account name agian? my account is Visadin.1485. For what it's worth, I have a Scrapper alt and he's fun as gently caress.
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Cyron posted:what is your account name agian? my account is Visadin.1485. poo poo I remember you, welcome back.
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May 2, 2016 07:29
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ceaselessfuture posted:For what it's worth, I have a Scrapper alt and he's fun as gently caress. Scrapper remains fun as hell.
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Cyron posted:what is your account name agian? my account is Visadin.1485. cletus impersonator
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May 2, 2016 08:53
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Don't come back to this game, it will suck you in again and make you want to level your masteries, and realize you need to do a bunch of poo poo to do so, and make another legendary, maybe even 2 and oh god please help. 
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May 2, 2016 08:56
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Yeah I hope they sell mastery points in the cash shop at some point. Please.
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Yeah, Mastery is one of the things I still have issues with. Part of it is that I don't like adventures, and a lot of mastery points are locked behind doing adventures. I wish either: 1. It took fewer mastery points to level mastery overall, so you could pick and choose which content you actually like to do a little more or 2. That you unlocked mastery tracks by doing certain events (do the Tarir meta-event, unlock the Exalted track) and then leveled them purely through exp. Maybe a couple mastery points? But that brings me back to 1.
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Oddly enough, Dragon's Stand has a boatload of mastery points that are fairly trivial to get. Most of them amount to "do each path and the events on the way, and then win at the end." There's also stuff like the channelable points and strongboxes which are fun exploration things. That said, the points are still too grindy to get, considering that they're by far the limiting factor for me and not XP. Central Tyria is even worse in that regard, considering so many are locked behind grinding out every LS2 cheevo.
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May 2, 2016 16:04
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After doing HoT story and the adventures I had so many mastery points I didn't know what to do with them.
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Spookyelectric posted:Mesmer is fun, Chronomancer is also fun. I just maxed mine out and holy hell it's amazing. With Duelist and the illusion on roll thing it melts HoT mobs instantly. My other two max-level dudes are DH and Herald so it's a really nice change of pace being able to melee anything without having to worry about getting instantly owned in Berserker gear.
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Cyron posted:my engi is my main but it seem like for engi it go condi or gtfo Power Engineer is actually on par with Condition. It doesn't really break even on longer fights unless your group is putting up a lot of conditions already (Modified Ammunition is 2% damage per condition on your target), but as an added bonus this build doesn't use Grenade Kit, if your wrist was starting to hurt. You also don't lose as much damage as a condi engi from dropping a utility slot to help with breakbars or whatever. The only class that really needs to run condi for raids is Necromancer, and it's not even that great but can exploit fight mechanics well (jagged horrors and transfers), while power Necromancer has a bunch of stellar design points like 'interrupting your autoattack chain is a DPS gain'.
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Schpyder posted:Oddly enough, Dragon's Stand has a boatload of mastery points that are fairly trivial to get. Most of them amount to "do each path and the events on the way, and then win at the end." There's also stuff like the channelable points and strongboxes which are fun exploration things. That said, the points are still too grindy to get, considering that they're by far the limiting factor for me and not XP. That's weird, XP is by far my limiting factor, I have a ton of spare mastery points saved up 
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CLAM DOWN posted:That's weird, XP is by far my limiting factor, I have a ton of spare mastery points saved up yeah this was me too, i was (and am) swimming in excess points because obtaining them involves playing through the expansion content, which is... what i paid for to be drastically short on mastery points someone would have to completely ignore the story (which grants like 8 points), every adventure (silver on everything is easy and will get you at least 12 points; gold on some of the easier adventures will score you up to 20), and probably the entirety of dragon's stand which has so many things that throw points at you i can't count them this isn't even going into the other zones' points, or the strongboxes, or the mastery insights central tyria points are rarer but if you ignore legendary crafting you're not missing out on anything
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