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Deformed Church posted:You're really making me miss old LA. I wish they made a Mistlock Sanctuary style teleport pass to old Lion's Arch.
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xgalaxy posted:So I’ve kind of wanted to get back into this. Rough guide as a suggestion:
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trunkh posted:Dumb question, but how many dailies are there for what content? The End of Dragons dailies are worth taking a look at; for the 'Wandering Cantha' achievement you gotta do them fifteen times (not in a row) and the achievement rewards you with the choice between some very nice skins. The EoD dailies are usually things like 'catch four fish in <location>', 'kill x of y in <location>', 'do a heart', 'do events', that sort of thing. Not hard at all.
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xgalaxy posted:So I’ve kind of wanted to get back into this. just play engineer -> mechanist
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cyclical posted:The End of Dragons dailies are worth taking a look at; for the 'Wandering Cantha' achievement you gotta do them fifteen times (not in a row) and the achievement rewards you with the choice between some very nice skins. The EoD dailies are usually things like 'catch four fish in <location>', 'kill x of y in <location>', 'do a heart', 'do events', that sort of thing. Not hard at all. Oh no way, I didn't see this before now I gotta go get that lamplighters torch it's adorable!
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Would anyone be willing to link up with me and sell me a unique companion on GW1? Seems like an easy HoM pip, and I have like 20 platinum (though I don't know how much money things are worth) e: Oh I could do the black moa chick questline-- should be p easy. I am looking for a destroyer, a tormented, and 2 weapons that would count to the statues, though! jokes fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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I finished Chalice of Tears last night, something I was worried about doing for the Return achievements I'm finishing up. I tried doing it all myself* but ended up using 2 mesmer ports. One to recover from a short drop in a moment of frustration, and one up the final spire because I had company coming over and didn't want to restart from scratch next time. I had a bit more time than I thought so I dropped back down to where I took the port and made it to the very last jump before forgetting to set my rewinder and accidentally flinging myself off the mountain somehow. My love for jump puzzles is only exceeded by how randomly terrible at them I am. It's common that I get stuck for ages on a part I'd smoothly negotiated the previous few times, or my character decides to leap to certain death rather than hopping up a simple ledge. I was surprised at how many people there were. That zone was the daily a couple of days ago but there were still at least two dozen people crawling and dying around the inside of that volcano, and I saw 2 people advertising help in chat. I turned away a few offers to port me through to the end, and saw lots of people assisting in various ways. One mesmer was saying they run it daily for fun and to help people out. I'm sure I missed some collectibles in there, had someone point me to one of them, so I'll be back in someday. Maybe they'll do a return to return to living world. *doing it myself, but with a video guide and a position rewinder. I got "blind explorations of mmos" out of my system ages ago, too many invisible walls, and too much impassable terrain that looks passable and vice versa. This game gets credit for having checkpoints on some of them at least.
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bagrada posted:I'm sure I missed some collectibles in there, had someone point me to one of them, so I'll be back in someday. Maybe they'll do a return to return to living world. The Aurora collection requires running it 2-3 more times. One of the precursor items has some tiny coins inside the jp. 1 coin is far away so you need to leave the entire jp to get it. 1 coin is inside of a hole that, without a teleport, requires starting over. Lastly, the actual Aurora collection needs you to finish it.
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https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/profession-balance-update-preview-livestream-this-friday/ posted:Please join us this Friday, September 16 at 12:00PM Pacific Time (UTC-8) on the official Guild Wars 2 Twitch channel for a preview of the October 4 profession balance update!
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Whoever is responsible for the mastery achievements in the back end of LS4 going from "fun, interesting ways to approach objectives" to "what is the most tedious, least fun way you could possibly play through each mission" should never be allowed near a game development job again. Just pure dogshit.
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End of LS4 and then IBS is when loving around with side projects and pretending GW2 will never need another expansion again was starting to bite them in the rear end and cheevos became even grindier than usual.
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bagrada posted:I finished Chalice of Tears last night, something I was worried about doing for the Return achievements I'm finishing up. I tried doing it all myself* but ended up using 2 mesmer ports. One to recover from a short drop in a moment of frustration, and one up the final spire because I had company coming over and didn't want to restart from scratch next time. I had a bit more time than I thought so I dropped back down to where I took the port and made it to the very last jump before forgetting to set my rewinder and accidentally flinging myself off the mountain somehow. My love for jump puzzles is only exceeded by how randomly terrible at them I am. It's common that I get stuck for ages on a part I'd smoothly negotiated the previous few times, or my character decides to leap to certain death rather than hopping up a simple ledge. If you can, use the prototype rewinder https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prototype_Position_Rewinder
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It was a lot more tolerable with the rewinder and TacO overlays which show you the right way. Could never have done it without them.
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Meskhenet posted:If you can, use the prototype rewinder They mention using that multiple times in their post 
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Where is that item from? The wiki surprisingly does not show.
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It's sold by a heart vendor in Sandswept Isles (75 difluorite crystals + 175000 karma).
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TeaJay posted:It was a lot more tolerable with the rewinder and TacO overlays which show you the right way. Could never have done it without them. I have no idea how people finished it to begin with. I used a video walkthrough pausing step by step but could not figure out a single path on my own.
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Kassad posted:It's sold by a heart vendor in Sandswept Isles (75 difluorite crystals + 175000 karma). That is bizarrely cheap and easy to aquire. I have heard of the item before but i just figured it was a rare BL item or something involving a legendary level grind.
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Yeah I'd just burned all mine on the skyscale since you need a chunk of each LW4 currency for it, but conveniently the return achievements hand you those. So I did a few rounds of events while harvesting any nodes I came across to get the rewinder. Didn't take long.AmbientParadox posted:The Aurora collection requires running it 2-3 more times. One of the precursor items has some tiny coins inside the jp. 1 coin is far away so you need to leave the entire jp to get it. 1 coin is inside of a hole that, without a teleport, requires starting over. Lastly, the actual Aurora collection needs you to finish it. I figured there was something like that. I haven't looked into any legendaries yet, besides the return to living world one I may get soon. That's my current project. 3 LW3 zones to go, then solely the storyline in LW4 and I'm done. I'm going to switch back to my guardian for LW4 since I've already done them on my revenant. Then I plan to do the recent LW1 releases and get back to world completion on my guardian (still 96% done. During vanilla I had the charr zones to go plus some in WvW. I'm not sure if the expansion and living world zones count now? Plus there are multiple wvw battlegrounds?) This game certainly does not lack for things to do, and I love that you can mostly do it in whatever order you want with any character for the most part. No chance I'd still be playing if masteries were per character.
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Did wvw with a guild I'm in and actually bothered to use discord.... Holy poo poo that's intense and fun!!! Switched to all minstrel and actually surviving while buffing as a Scrapper. I am loving it!!! Still considering switching a different server for more focused wvw, waiting to see how often we are at the +6 pips instead of +7 or +8. That adds up lol
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I may have been too harsh on sPVP. It is wildly imbalanced, but Staff Reaper has been just stupid amounts of fun down in the small animal leagues of unranked.
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sPvP is honestly pretty fun *if* you can avoid getting tilted by how incomprehensibly dumb most of your teammates will be. People that haven't learned the basic map mechanics after 10 years, people going AFK the second your team is down by 5 points, people changing their spec before a match and then forgetting to equip weapons that they can actually use... The actual meat of the game mode is pretty fun and it's a shame they just abandoned it completely after the embarrassing e-sports thing.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:the embarrassing e-sports thing. Elaborate!
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:sPvP is honestly pretty fun *if* you can avoid getting tilted by how incomprehensibly dumb most of your teammates will be. People that haven't learned the basic map mechanics after 10 years, people going AFK the second your team is down by 5 points, people changing their spec before a match and then forgetting to equip weapons that they can actually use... ime it's not hard to have fun in spvp playing mirage because it's really hard for players that aren't coordinated to pin you down and prevent you from carrying a bad team on your back
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Ineptitude posted:Elaborate! At launch, Anet went hard on the idea that spvp was going to be a new, popular esport. They put a lot on the idea that people were going to stream it, there would be tournaments and it would be popular outside people that like/play the pve element. This did not happen at all, and anet dropped the mode out of embarrassment for a few years
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Ineptitude posted:Elaborate! They made a really big deal out of how PvP was going to take the e-sports world by storm and have like tournament prize support and constant updates and a big streaming audience but then it turns out that making poorly balanced PvP that is incredibly hard for spectators to follow even if you didn't also have so many particle effects going on that it's impossible to see anything that is happening in a teamfight does not actually make for a very good e-sport. As soon as they realized it was not going to be a new cash cow they completely abandoned it and have been alluding to "upcoming" changes for several years. There hasn't been a new map added in 4 years and that one (yes, one) is arguably the worst conquest map in the game. Before that I think the last new map was added in 2013? The truly pathetic thing is even in this sorry state GW2 still has by far the best PvP of any modern MMO. I really miss GW1.
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Could be the melancholy talking, but OG GW PVP was pretty 🔥 as well. Other than WvWvW, GW2 PVP felt like a step down. Vvv Also true, but I like to occasionally fantasize about what GvG, AB, or HOH modes could have been. Probably abandoned, like dungeons. Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Sep 13, 2022 |
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GW2 SPvP is good, dumb, fun. When people (including yourself) care about it and start thinking about it, it's ruined.
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Yeah I don't like pvp but it can be fun if you're just goofing off. Tab-targeting in a competitive game feels godawful to me.
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hey, there were tournaments! people did stream it! None of it worked out, and it almost definitely lost them money, but who cares about all that, right? I'll out myself as being someone who followed it and actually enjoyed it, I kind of miss it. I'm skeptical that it would ever have been really big, GW2 just wasn't a big enough name, but Anet just barely tried. There was so little content support, and they were constantly alienating the fans they did have with god awful balance patches and technical issues. It's still my favourite game mode. My controversial recommendation is that people should care slightly more. Get into ranked, it won't take long to surpass the rating of all the people who straight up do not understand basic gameplay mechanics (albeit you're exchanging them for people who don't understand how not to swear at you in chat, but you can just laugh at them). Learning and mastering a build in sPvP is still the most rewarding experience in the game imo, and when it really clicks you can just clown on people.
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Inzombiac posted:Yeah I don't like pvp but it can be fun if you're just goofing off. Good news: action cam is a thing.
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The only time I had fun with sPvP was with Lazy's sPvP Sunday (was it Saturday? it was so long ago!). But I generally don't like (MMO) PvP so that was a huge achievement.
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GW2's PvP beta was extremely fun because nobody had done any meta-analysis or whatever to determine optimal builds, engineer's turrets were good, and everyone was bad.
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Some random thoughts after playing for a couple of weeks (previous time played was shortly after HoT release): Love all of the new elite specializations, though it is a little conspicuous just how many mechanists there are around. I'm already looking forward to gearing up a deadeye spec and a mirage mesmer. I recently started running the spectre build from the long effort post on page 2 of this thread and it's been really great. I can tell because even though I am still bad at it I can still solo champs that I couldn't dream of handling as a 'core' thief and my gear is still pretty suboptimal (one ascended birthday talisman, the celestial exotics that the 80 boost comes with, and whatever exotic scepter weapon you get when you first fully train the spec). I also want to make a deadeye WvW roaming build but gearing up is going to be challenging. Do people consistently run dungeons? I need the currency for runes and sigils. I heoped to do this with a dungeon mastery track in WvW but I've nearly completed a track and I really haven't gotten much currency (maybe 180?). I have not started PoF or EoD or any of the living seasons yet but returning to the Verdant Brink and Auric Basin and I just love those zones. Great music, great theme, and super fun and engaging to explore with lots of rewarding events. The currency bloat DEAD GOD the currency bloat. It is really hard to keep a handle on the dozen different things I collect in each zone. Gearing is pretty complicated but I guess this is sort of the end game so I'm ok with it. The personal story was better than I remember it. I haven't been able to complete the final mission due to a bug disconnecting me which is annoying but I've since moved on and finished living world season 1 episode 1 and wow, what a jump in difficulty and mission length. The Molten Furnace mission just seemed to go on and on forever which was frustrating because I had some other stuff I needed to do. I wonder if this is the norm going forward or an outlier? Also Goons are pretty great and thanks for hooking me up with Teq and naked magic man quests for most of the week. I wouldn't have known about them without the heads up.
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Be thankful to whichever dead god you pray to that there is a currency wallet now and you don't have to physically carry around your currencies and keys around taking up slots per-character and needing to be brought to the relevant merchant with stacks in inventory and not just in your bank.
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