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I've found XP pretty easy to get post-patch. Put on your food and utility buffs for 10% each, guild XP buff, celebration boost, two kind of experience booster (mostly from BL chests/gem store), and then don't forget that there are two different kinds of lunar new year fireworks that each give 10% buffs too. If you can get an experience banner to throw down, even better. Have all of these running while you fiddle around in HoT zones and you'll have the EXP for ley line gliding faster than you can get the mastery points!
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There's enough mastery points from just the channels, story chapters and random discoverables (for instance, there's a mastery point tied to finding ten Itzel totems in Verdant Brink that can be obtained in under five minutes just reading a guide) that you can scrounge up enough without having to adventure too hard.
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Re: points, I have my HoT masteries maxed out and I mostly hate adventures. All I did was get gold on the ones where it's extremely easy to get it (I think only the car one once I had poison mastery and the salvage pit one) silver on most of the others except the ones I found difficult (scrap rifle, shooting gallery, fungus among us) and then picked up gold on flying circus because gliding is fun so I didn't mind redoing it. You get a ton of points from storyline + map exploration, and two of the story achievement points are more about doing extra content within an instance than doing anything difficult so they're easy to get too. I only had to start actively targeting points for my last couple of masteries and even then I stayed away from difficult ones like the mushroom jumping puzzle.
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knowonecanknow posted:After doing HoT story and the adventures I had so many mastery points I didn't know what to do with them. I see you creepin up on some of the Lifetime leaderboards, come at me bro Also this feels like a good time to advertise my Adventures Guide, which includes new videos of me doing the Adventures and some full video guides with on-screen tips and diagrams https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/players/Guide-Adventures-Silver-Gold-and-beyond
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thanks alot assbag posted:I've found XP pretty easy to get post-patch. Put on your food and utility buffs for 10% each, guild XP buff, celebration boost, two kind of experience booster (mostly from BL chests/gem store), and then don't forget that there are two different kinds of lunar new year fireworks that each give 10% buffs too. If you can get an experience banner to throw down, even better. Have all of these running while you fiddle around in HoT zones and you'll have the EXP for ley line gliding faster than you can get the mastery points! How much did it get increased? Before the patch, I'd do AB with dreggon and he showed me all the tricks like being on the dome at the top, I'd have so many boosts on, every single one possible, do the entire meta, and barely get a quarter of an XP bar. It was lovely and disheartening.
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i have gold on every adventure now  here are the hard ones in no particular order 1. shooting gallery pre-patch - complete bullshit, only active for about 15 minutes at a time, RNG dependent, now heavily nerfed and probably easier 2. floor is lava - requires you to learn the 'correct' routes so you can jump and hit things in 'working' orders to save enough time to pick everything up. latency can and will screw you here because of bouncing mushrooms and the spore things 3. fallen masks - rng bullshit, latency on bouncing mushrooms 4. fungus among us - i don't even know where to start here, the first time i ever completed this i got gold because actually completing a run at all is extremely difficult. by the time you're good enough to complete this adventure, you're good enough to get gold. 5. loving scrap rifle - the chak do whatever they want and i don't know how to fix this. luckily i don't have to
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May 2, 2016 17:23
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I suppose my HoT experience (lol) is quite a bit different from most people's due to my running something like 20 HP trains pre-patch. 
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Dreggon posted:i have gold on every adventure now 0. Haywire Punch-o-matic Battle pre-patch: The only Adventure where literally no one in the entire world could get Gold. Best was 221 in 2:00 when 230 was required.
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May 2, 2016 17:30
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Carrying pubbies through CoF story mode is just so... 
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I been playing around with ranger and so far i am enjoying the new sword auto attack, it makes playing a ranger so mush more enjoyable.. i also enjoy the durid bonuses since it give you a small window of a pocket healer.
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lucifirius posted:Carrying pubbies through CoF story mode is just so... Try buying more somethingawful.com forums upgrades until it's easier. Platinum alone doubles your advantage over non-members.
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May 2, 2016 19:39
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CLAM DOWN posted:How much did it get increased? Before the patch, I'd do AB with dreggon and he showed me all the tricks like being on the dome at the top, I'd have so many boosts on, every single one possible, do the entire meta, and barely get a quarter of an XP bar. It was lovely and disheartening. Something like 50%? Not totally sure, but either way you get plenty of experience now. It's much more tolerable.
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thanks alot assbag posted:Something like 50%? Not totally sure, but either way you get plenty of experience now. It's much more tolerable. That's awesome! Hopefully I'll get a chance to do it this week 
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i haven't messed around with it way too much but exp gain definitely feels a lot better. it's not super fast by any means, but compared to the relatively slow crawl before it actually looks to be going somewhere.
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The patch notes mentioned something about a 50% across the board XP increase. Worth noting that this is (or should be, I have no idea how it wouldn't be) an increase to base values, so it stacks multiplicatively with XP boosts. If you've got 50% XP boost, 100% from Killstreak, and 10% from guild hall you'll be getting a little under 5 times as much XP as you did before without boosts, for reference. Easy way to get XP boosters is to do WvW dailies, the Transcendent Chests from them give 20 minutes of XP booster. I hoarded them and popped them en masse whenever I did Dragon's Stand and it powered me through all the Heart of Thorns masteries pretty quickly. If you do daily Fractals it will quickly get you XP for Central Tyria masteries.
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Is anyone interested in doing some baby fractals to snag the mastery points from them? I haven't dabbled much in fractals and would love to knock some of those out to get my legendary.
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i always felt catering to the hardcore at the launch of HOT was very dumb, more dumb when blizzard did it with Cata since the game was "hard" before it went easy so i understand why they wanted heroics to feel heroics. but GW2 was always a casual game, it was pissing on the core playerbase of the game. i am not going to be welcoming our new overloads yet but so far it makes me happy that colin is gone, he seem like he had no clue what to do with the game and he changed directions every month.
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Cyron posted:i always felt catering to the hardcore at the launch of HOT was very dumb, more dumb when blizzard did it with Cata since the game was "hard" before it went easy so i understand why they wanted heroics to feel heroics. but GW2 was always a casual game, it was pissing on the core playerbase of the game. it's like the festering cancer that are wildstar employees metastasized by being fired and immediately went to work making GBS threads up other mmos
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There was nothing hardcore about launch HoT, the map meta timers were just inconvenient. Unless people are still complaining about the "difficulty" of HoT zone mobs, or reacting to the presence of raids without knowing anything about them, which are entirely personal competency issues.
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Magres posted:you'll be getting a little under 5 times as much XP as you did before without boosts Holy, for real??? Ok, I gotta try the HoT meta events again. Adhesive Gamin posted:There was nothing hardcore about launch HoT, the map meta timers were just inconvenient. The "hardcore" part of it that I (and others) strongly disliked and totally called way in advance was the time commitment. Sounds like that's been improved though, I've been WvWing since the patch and haven't really retried things.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:There was nothing hardcore about launch HoT, the map meta timers were just inconvenient. chak gerent was essentially impossible, hero points mostly needed 5+ people to do, you needed to do the zone meta like 5 times to buy the stuff for a single weapon. that's a good start CLAM DOWN posted:Holy, for real??? Ok, I gotta try the HoT meta events again.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:There was nothing hardcore about launch HoT, the map meta timers were just inconvenient. nah, they threw around mmo buzzwords like "progression" and "metroidvania" to attract the hardcore crowd during the expansion hype phase didn't work, but they tried
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May 2, 2016 21:59
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You also needed to do almost every single hero point in the HoT regions if you didn't have a full world completion character to get your entire elite.
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Ehhh I was able to get the full elite spec unlocked during the hp train on characters with like 10% world completion, and those trains just did the first two regions of hot.
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Thunderbro posted:hero points mostly needed 5+ people to do Eltoasto posted:Ehhh I was able to get the full elite spec unlocked during the hp train on characters with like 10% world completion, and those trains just did the first two regions of hot.
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Eltoasto posted:Ehhh I was able to get the full elite spec unlocked during the hp train on characters with like 10% world completion, and those trains just did the first two regions of hot. Before or after the patch that knocked it down from 400 to 250
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CLAM DOWN posted:Holy, for real??? Ok, I gotta try the HoT meta events again. Yeah - 100% XP Base, +50% for XP Booster, +100% for Killstreak Booster, +10% for Guildhall boost = 360% as much XP as before. Factor in that XP from everything has been increased by ~50% and that these are all multiplicative boosts on top of that and you get 1.5 x 360% = 540% XP (okay actually I did my headmath wrong the first time, it's MORE than 5x) compared to unboosted pre-patch. Without the killstreak boost it drops to a less impressive 390% (ie +3x instead of +4.5x). Doing a round of Dragon's Stand with Elementalist or Guardian lootstick is a really good way to get a ton of XP and to keep your killstreak booster topped off all the time. I think all that only applies to killing mobs though, so for XP I definitely recommend Dragon's Stand or Raids. E: I looked at the patch notes and the +50% XP change is for killing things, so definitely do DS if you want XP. Bring your boosters, get all hopped up on boosts, and dunk a dragon! Magres fucked around with this message at 22:59 on May 2, 2016 |
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Oh yeah, forgot about the pre-nerf hp nerf
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Lyer posted:nah, they threw around mmo buzzwords like "progression" and "metroidvania" to attract the hardcore crowd during the expansion hype phase Yeah when I think "hardcore raiding MMO", I definitly think metroidvania
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Can anyone recommend me any easy to play, easy to build WvW setups? Any class, though I'm partial to Engi, Rev, and Ele when it comes to pvp
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Elswyyr posted:Yeah when I think "hardcore raiding MMO", I definitly think metroidvania same but wildstar
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Magres posted:Can anyone recommend me any easy to play, easy to build WvW setups? Any class, though I'm partial to Engi, Rev, and Ele when it comes to pvp Solo roam or group? For group you can play the current Auramancer Cleric sPvP build in WvW, D/F or staff. Or just play the Zerk/Marauder Fire/Air Staff Tempest. edit: for reference, my Go-To build is Fire 112 Air 133 Tempest 133, cast Staff Air 3 and 5 and Earth 4 liberally aside from bombing people the gently caress out of the map with fire skills. AnacondaHL fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 3, 2016 |
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AnacondaHL posted:Solo roam or group? Awesome, thank you! Looking for both, actually, so if anyone has a good roaming build I'm all ears for that too.
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U.T. Raptor posted:Which they still didn't fix, by the way. I was sure they were going to knock all the hero challenge champions down to veterans, because making people beg other players for basic map completion is the dumbest loving thing, but they didn't because... reasons? They  Fixed that by throwing in a wiggle box repeatable reward (once a day?) for doing the group ones. Sure its not much but its something and depending on how hard it is to reach the hero point, people will usually come. Frogs in VB for example is a pretty reliable "Ill help!" if you ask.
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Magres posted:Can anyone recommend me any easy to play, easy to build WvW setups? Any class, though I'm partial to Engi, Rev, and Ele when it comes to pvp Hammer Rev. Reflect bullshit, smack huge numbers from huge range, buff your bros, and run really really fast at all times. It's a blast!
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Is the base game worth playing without HoT?
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Magres posted:Can anyone recommend me any easy to play, easy to build WvW setups? Any class, though I'm partial to Engi, Rev, and Ele when it comes to pvp quote:http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBIhZ4kjGolGsmGgeTsoNYxVwMYIcKAkAiAUZgUwiC-TFSBAB8pPoRlgP8EA6SJ1/7PclyFAOFAeq+DpAiYrF-w from sfd forums, it's what I run on bee man.
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objects in mirror posted:Is the base game worth playing without HoT? Yeah, but you'd be missing out on a lot.
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objects in mirror posted:Is the base game worth playing without HoT? Below max level you won't be missing anything except revenant. Once you hit the top you'll probably be missing out, though. Masteries, the new zones, new specializations and all that stuff.
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