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Hakarne posted:It’s time for another build post that no one asked for. I've been playing around with the new Shadow Arts and I found a really fun, powerful, and low-intensity build for Specter! I'll also include the easy and strong WvW roaming build that uses the same armor for no extra charge! just quoting this so I can easily find it one day, thanks!
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Also just tossing it out there I tried the very recent Specter build post and I am enjoying it in PvE so far despite not having fully finished my sigils and my celestial trinkets. I enjoy it a good deal for PvE for sure.
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Hakarne posted:It’s time for another build post that no one asked for. I've been playing around with the new Shadow Arts and I found a really fun, powerful, and low-intensity build for Specter! I'll also include the easy and strong WvW roaming build that uses the same armor for no extra charge! Honestly, thanks for this man. The builds pretty interesting and I love me some unkillable rear end in a top hat setups, even more than I like big numbers dps.
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Celestial is indeed the answer to all open world woes. I can't think of a spec it wouldn't be good on.
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Mr. Neutron posted:I believe that to be right around the time mightyteapot (the biggest GW2 streamer) specifically mentioned the Arborstone vendor on stream. It's entirely possible many people simply had no idea you could basically get 5 of those weekly for nearly free and sell them for 30ish gold. oh yeah that'd do it.
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Mr. Neutron posted:Celestial is indeed the answer to all open world woes. I can't think of a spec it wouldn't be good on. Almost all power-based builds, to start. But there you can use Marauders and Dragons stat items. Honestly with the new Jade Bot and anvil defense buffs, even full glass cannon builds are reasonably durable now. Use some life drain sigils and food and you’ve got decent sustain even on builds that lack it innately.
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So I gather the hero points for the path of fire/heart of thorns class builds will come from doing stuff in those areas, but Im not done with my personal story from the original game despite being 80. Ignoring things like dungeons and raids or pvp which I'm generally not interested in doing right now anyway, does it make sense to just finish off that story and then do path/heart in order and build up all my available classes?
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fast cars loose anus posted:So I gather the hero points for the path of fire/heart of thorns class builds will come from doing stuff in those areas, but Im not done with my personal story from the original game despite being 80. Ignoring things like dungeons and raids or pvp which I'm generally not interested in doing right now anyway, does it make sense to just finish off that story and then do path/heart in order and build up all my available classes? The expansion hero points are generally harder to do than core Tyria ones, and also give you 10 pts instead of 1. But for optimal game experience, I'd honestly play through things in order. Especially since the re-release of living world season 1; I would have really liked to have played that in order, but I only came in just as HoT was starting up. The central Tyria content isn't tuned for having a fully optimised, elite spec'd, hero-pointed-out character. I'd argue you'd have a much better time just playing it through in order, rather than jumping forwards in the story just to get hero points. Certainly if you've never played through the story before! You can certainly do that without doing dungeons or raids or pvp (I did), though you might want to consider going and doing the story dungeons in order. I never did, myself, and I've only recently been going back and doing them 7 years, 12 characters and three expansions later, and they do fill in some cool story points I didn't really know about. I will say, though, that the original Zhaitan storyline's writing and voice acting aren't really super great compared to the later stuff. Still worth playing through though imo.
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yeah I'm not necessarily in any great hurry to bust through everything but its intriguing to get to play with a greatsword for example playing through in order seems the way to go though so I'll do that. Do I have to buy something else to do these living world things?
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fast cars loose anus posted:yeah I'm not necessarily in any great hurry to bust through everything but its intriguing to get to play with a greatsword for example Yeah, something I really like about GW2 is that for every class, every weapon's abilities are unique. Without playing a new character, you can change your weapons and your 1-5 skills will be totally different, sometimes a drastically different way of playing the game. I remember on my first character I had one of everything they could equip in their inventory, while I was swapping between them and seeing what I liked... quote:playing through in order seems the way to go though so I'll do that. Do I have to buy something else to do these living world things?  The way it works is that if you were online while they were current, you get access to living world forever. So you probably have the LW1 re-release, because that was recent, and I think the window for "log on and get this" is still going, but I might be wrong. LW1 directly follows on from the end of the original personal story campaign. e: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_World#Unlocking_Living_World_episodes it looks like you can buy each season, or even each episode, using gems. Or you can buy the whole shebang, expansions and all, at https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/27271/Guild_Wars_2__Complete_Collection/. There might be other bundles or combinations or whatnot. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Nov 24, 2022 |
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Reaching 80 inherently gives you enough Hero Points to max your core traits. Any Hero points you gather in core Tyria content will be usable on unlocking Elite specs once you hit 80, assuming you own the relevant expansion. The expansion Hero Points earn you 10 instead of 1, so they are far faster at unlocking your Elite, but exploring the base game world will still make progress towards that goal.
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LW1 is a permanent free addition to the game, they’re not going to start selling it later and you can’t miss out on grabbing the episodes by not logging in now.
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honestly core story is pretty forgettable and I didn't get much more out of it than if I had read a plot summary. the order mentors have more personality than like anyone else in core but that's like the only positive takeaway I had. the writing quality jump from core to LW1 was massive.
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Guest2553 posted:I bought a new relased-this-year GPU and CPU today. Last time I did that was the summer GW2 released. Looking forward to see what the game'll look like after a decennial tech refresh GW2 art team did an amazing job at making the game look great at most levels and the engineers made it run well on a toaster. I'd love to see what they could do making a sequel using UE5 but that's probably never gonna happen.
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Hyperlynx posted:it looks like you can buy each season, or even each episode, using gems. Or you can buy the whole shebang, expansions and all, at https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/27271/Guild_Wars_2__Complete_Collection/. There might be other bundles or combinations or whatnot. This is really dumb; the gem price is way higher than the price in this bundle, but you can't just buy living worlds separately you have to buy this bundle, but I already bought the first 2 xpacs because I was gonna wait and see on End of Dragons, but then this bundle doesn't want to discount me the price of the expansions I have already so I'd be buying them again. If I really like this game after the first two xpacs I guess I'll sigh and eat the cost but this is a baffling set of choices made here
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You can get the living world packs (don't buy the episodes individually, this is the worst deal) in the in-game gem store and they go on sale for 20-30% fairly regularly.
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fast cars loose anus posted:this is a baffling set of choices made here you've just summed up the last 10 years of this game's life
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CODChimera posted:just quoting this so I can easily find it one day, thanks! Lonk posted:Also just tossing it out there I tried the very recent Specter build post and I am enjoying it in PvE so far despite not having fully finished my sigils and my celestial trinkets. I enjoy it a good deal for PvE for sure. Perpetual Notion posted:Honestly, thanks for this man. The builds pretty interesting and I love me some unkillable rear end in a top hat setups, even more than I like big numbers dps. I'm glad people like it, thanks for the feedback. I also made a Demon Hunter-themed P/P build for Open World (to go with my crossbows you see) that uses the same armor. If there's interest I can make a post for that too. It's basically the WvW build crossed with the Specter build to give it decent PvE damage and sustain.
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Lpzie posted:Wow I didn't know PVP was basically DOTA 2!! If this is the case this would make me want to play PVP… how does PVP work?
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weast posted:If this is the case this would make me want to play PVP… how does PVP work? Gear is equalized and it's heavily skill based. ...so mostly deserted, because of those two reasons.
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To clarify the DOTA 2 comment, each of the maps in PvP have a particular gimmick; in one map, that gimmick is hiring NPC door breakers and damage dealers to run down a lane and help you break the gates to storm the opponent’s Stronghold and kill their Lord. You win by killing the lord. Only one of the PVP maps uses this gimmick, the others are standard Control-Deathmatch types with some other gimmick like a high power cannon you can fight for control of.
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I like fighting other players but I stick to WvW for it because nobody there cares when I inevitably get stomped.
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So, gearing at 80. In WoW the gear path is the only thing going for you once you hit max level, whereas I have the stories from living world 1-4 and two expansions to do. My understanding is those will give gear good enough to finish them without me trying to do things like craft legendary weapons, or gear up in dungeons and/or raids. Is that right?
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fast cars loose anus posted:So, gearing at 80. In WoW the gear path is the only thing going for you once you hit max level, whereas I have the stories from living world 1-4 and two expansions to do. My understanding is those will give gear good enough to finish them without me trying to do things like craft legendary weapons, or gear up in dungeons and/or raids. Is that right? 1) lol, wear what ever you want. seriously, if you are in a group in open world, noone will care (and you shouldnt either) 2) if you are doing fractals, you will want ascendant gear, and probably a 'proper' build' 3) if you are really wanting to gear, use exotics, and choose something. It used to be either power or conditions, these days celestial is pretty propular too because its not exactly wrong. You can buy off name stuff for a few gold to fully kit yourself out. Stories can usually be done in greens and blues as long as you know the mechanics and can do them. id even say 9/10 times its your build that needs tweeking and not your gear for stories. legendary stuff is SUPER QoL and on par (as in exactly the same stats) as ascendant. just, so much easier for multiple toons. Ask people to ping their underwater helm. and dont laugh when its their lvl 7 one they got 5 years ago and completely forgot about.
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fast cars loose anus posted:So, gearing at 80. In WoW the gear path is the only thing going for you once you hit max level, whereas I have the stories from living world 1-4 and two expansions to do. My understanding is those will give gear good enough to finish them without me trying to do things like craft legendary weapons, or gear up in dungeons and/or raids. Is that right? Level 80 exotics can be outright bought on the trading post, core stat combos have named versions (eg. "Zhed's ..." for light armor with berserker stats) that are usually much cheaper than the crafted- or special skin variant gear. Most activities in game have vendors that will sell you level 80 exotics with various stats for various currencies (usually those earned by the activity the vendor is tied to, eg. map vendors on the HoT maps) and if you need specific expansion stat combos, you'll be a bit more limited in what gear sources will help. In general, you'll be looking for stat-selectable items for the latter, because crafting them can be very expensive. The wiki has a few guides but I like the structure of the one on metabattle better: https://metabattle.com/wiki/Guide:How_to_Gear_a_Character
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Ascended/legendary gear is only a touch better than exotic. I think the figure is 5%? You do not need it, from a stats point of view. The only reason you would actually hard need ascended gear is to be able to play high level fractals, because fractals require increasingly high amounts of "agony resistance" which is stuff you only get from socketing certain enhancements into ascended armour. And it only applies to fractals. But you *get* ascended equipment as loot in fractals, so you don't actually need to make it ahead of time either. It's more or less just an endgame goal to progress towards, rather than something you need. So, just get yourself exotics. It's almost always cheapest to get them via the trading post (and if you do, don't just type in "Berserker's" or whatever, because there are some items for sale with the stat combo you want but don't have that in their name). There are karma merchants in Orr who will sell Berserker's and I think some other stat combos, but it costs a lot of karma, to the point where it's cheaper to buy off the TP. And it is seldom cheaper to make equipment yourself, if you're wondering that, but https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator can tell you for sure. e: huh, from the link in the post above I see it's 12.5%, not 5%. Still, not strictly vital. Your build and playing it well matters more than going from exotic to ascended. Hyperlynx fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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fast cars loose anus posted:So, gearing at 80. In WoW the gear path is the only thing going for you once you hit max level, whereas I have the stories from living world 1-4 and two expansions to do. My understanding is those will give gear good enough to finish them without me trying to do things like craft legendary weapons, or gear up in dungeons and/or raids. Is that right? full set of devona's (heavy) or nika's (medium) or zhed's (light) is zerker stat gear on the cheap probably varies based on class, for open world you can get away with zerker on warrior, revenant, engineer, and necromancer trivially. it also works well for ranger and guardian although you're a bit more fragile, and thief/mesmer you'd better try real hard not to get hit because the sustain just isn't there. if you're playing elementalist god help you
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Cool thanks for the advice. Im still on the "ill play this in my spare time and finish stories" track rather than wanting to do anything with groups so ill just buy myself some zhed's since Im a necro
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