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Trying to make some gold off the festival, but prices for Divine envelopes and those champion boxes you get 3 of per day have already dropped to "barely worth it" levels. Think they'll bounce back up once the gamba people get going or am I wasting my time and gold?
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Luggage posted:Trying to make some gold off the festival, but prices for Divine envelopes and those champion boxes you get 3 of per day have already dropped to "barely worth it" levels. Think they'll bounce back up once the gamba people get going or am I wasting my time and gold? I mean it's not as big of a profit as last year but it's still pure profit for very little work
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Jan 14, 2023 08:10
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Luggage posted:Trying to make some gold off the festival, but prices for Divine envelopes and those champion boxes you get 3 of per day have already dropped to "barely worth it" levels. Think they'll bounce back up once the gamba people get going or am I wasting my time and gold? You could always just put them up for sale at whatever price they were a few months ago. Then when the festival supply drops off you'll make a lot of money
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Jan 14, 2023 08:22
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Hm, okay. So as long as prices don't reach 1,17g, put them in the market.
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Jan 14, 2023 14:23
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Found out you get the champ boxes in story missions too, that was a nice bonus for trying to get some return to achievements.
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Jan 14, 2023 19:38
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binge crotching posted:Found out you get the champ boxes in story missions too, that was a nice bonus for trying to get some return to achievements.
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Jan 16, 2023 09:59
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Luggage posted:Any particular story missions with lots of quick champs? the fastest way to get it imo is to head to the aerodrome, start a squad, head into the mythwright gambit (left most door, covered in gold,) tell Qadim to shut up, raptor across to the boss arena, dodge the slam, the kill 3 swords
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Jan 16, 2023 10:03
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If you’re going to do celestial challenge daily anyway, do it first since you have a chance of getting 3 champions as one of the random options.
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Jan 16, 2023 14:44
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So I want to get back into the game after leaving in year 2. I logged in and got 8 birthday gifts and there is a lot of new things that aren’t explained. Would it be worth making a new character over? I don’t even have a mount yet. 
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Jan 16, 2023 15:28
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If you haven't played for that long, yes. Though the game still won't really explain anything to you.
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Jan 16, 2023 15:35
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just don't delete your current character so you keep getting new birthday mail every year
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Jan 16, 2023 15:35
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Depends on how much you remember. The vast majority of new stuff is aimed at maxed level characters, so levelling again won't teach you a whole lot more than it did when you last played. Some people recommend even new players boost to 80 and skip the base game entirely anyway. Join the guilds and start asking questions in guild chat and in here and people will help with any particularly confusing bits. Either way, don't actually delete any old characters, those birthday presents have free dyes and occasionally some other cool stuff.
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Jan 16, 2023 15:36
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Mr. Neutron posted:If you haven't played for that long, yes. Though the game still won't really explain anything to you. Good deal! It has to explain at least a little bit more. Right? RIGHT??? Any suggestion on a profession?My current level 80 is an engineer and I’m thinking about going to my GW1 roots and being an elementalist. But necromancer looks near as well Truga posted:just don't delete your current character so you keep getting new birthday mail every year Also good advice!
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Jan 16, 2023 15:38
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i'm biased because elementalist is literally the only class in the game that can hold my interest for more than a week, but also elementalist is the runaway best class by far you'll also hate anet though because they'll make you work really hard to do anything at all with it
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Jan 16, 2023 15:41
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FlapYoJacks posted:Good deal! It has to explain at least a little bit more. Right? RIGHT??? FWIW Elementalist and Engineer are generally held to be the most complicated and difficult classes in this game, and I should note Ele is pretty different from it’s GW1 incarnation. Necro on the other hand is generally recommended for beginners. It’s an extremely forgiving class to level and learn on that has some very nice newbie crutches in the form of pets to aggro for you and a whole second health bar and some nice built in sustain. At endgame it has a nice variety of viable builds—variety not just in role but in basic play-style, which is nice. None of them are really top tier and it’s been that way for a while, but a well-played one is always welcome and balance shifts pretty dramatically with patches, generally. All that being said, Ele is my favorite class and my main so if you find it vibing with you then hell yeah, take obe to 80
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Mover posted:Necro on the other hand is generally recommended for beginners. It’s an extremely forgiving class to level and learn on that has some very nice newbie crutches in the form of pets to aggro for you and a whole second health bar and some nice built in sustain. At endgame it has a nice variety of viable builds—variety not just in role but in basic play-style, which is nice. None of them are really top tier and it’s been that way for a while, but a well-played one is always welcome and balance shifts pretty dramatically with patches, generally. I mean, Scourge has been pretty broken-overpowered since its release. Heal scourge is the ultimate group carry. It just doesn't neatly fit into the support-heal, support-dps + 3 dps meta group compositions. But yeah, all professions are viable - you'll have no problem in any of the content in the game if you spec and gear properly and know what you're doing. I'd say elementalist is near the bottom of the pack at the moment, at least in PvE, but that doesn't really matter for anything.
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Necro is very forgiving. Base Minion builds, and Scourge Minion builds are both nigh unkillable. Your damage isn't amazing, but you're such a beefy boy that nothing can bother you. It's so reliable in fact, that people afk farm with necro minions.
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Jan 16, 2023 18:10
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Condi Reaper puts out a lot of damage and cannot be killed. Exploding ice everywhere!
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What's a fun and agile thief build for leveling? Don't want to boost, just do adventure guide stuff. At 80 I'll switch to condition P/D to farm up HP, but that doesn't isn't valid until triple stat gear comes into play and there are way too many hearts requiring me to destroy objects in core Tyria.
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Jan 17, 2023 09:32
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Doors, the bane of condi builds since 2012.
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Jan 17, 2023 09:55
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good news, in modern content many doors can be burnt down or bled out! why they do exceptions like this, rather than just change the property for all yellow objects remains a mistery though
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Jan 17, 2023 09:58
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Im in the "after doing world completion on a mechanist everything else is just a chore" camp >< and i need to make my legendaries!
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Luggage posted:What's a fun and agile thief build for leveling? Don't want to boost, just do adventure guide stuff. At 80 I'll switch to condition P/D to farm up HP, but that doesn't isn't valid until triple stat gear comes into play and there are way too many hearts requiring me to destroy objects in core Tyria. dagger/dagger shortbow
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Luggage posted:What's a fun and agile thief build for leveling? Don't want to boost, just do adventure guide stuff. At 80 I'll switch to condition P/D to farm up HP, but that doesn't isn't valid until triple stat gear comes into play and there are way too many hearts requiring me to destroy objects in core Tyria. Dual pistols is pretty silly and does well against the objects that are still immune to conditions. Downside is that it doesn't have any movement skills so you'd have to rely on your other weapon set or utilities to zip around. As for traits, going down the Trickery line to grab the boons on steal traits is pretty handy. Lets you rip protection off the annoying dredge.
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Meskhenet posted:Im in the "after doing world completion on a mechanist everything else is just a chore" camp >< Sobering reminder but, there's no sub to this game. If you're feeling like the game has become a chore to play, then take a break. We're in the middle of a long content drought anyways. They've given no roadmap update or set dates for the next Living Story, so the next thing is just SAB in April; you won't miss anything.
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The recent content droughts are really one of the most disappointing things to me about the game. I wasn't playing back then but HoT - S3 - PoF S4 must've been a great time - a new story with a new map, among other things, every couple of months...
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I just got the urge to start playing again for the first time since before EoD came out and wow Cantha is pretty, and also Virtuoso is real fun. I really wanted to actually play a power build for once but condi Virtuoso is so drat strong and survivable it's hard to justify going power build instead, at least for open world. I imagine it has its benefits in group stuff. Being a Mesmer is the best though, what a good profession
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AmbientParadox posted:Sobering reminder but, there's no sub to this game. If you're feeling like the game has become a chore to play, then take a break. We're in the middle of a long content drought anyways. They've given no roadmap update or set dates for the next Living Story, so the next thing is just SAB in April; you won't miss anything. I wasnt too clear. world completion on any other class seems like a chore. Mechanist can just churn through the kill hearts like little else can.
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Meskhenet posted:I wasnt too clear. I did my first world completion on a pre-HoT Mesmer. No mounts, no faster movement speed from Chronomancer, just intermittent swiftness from Signet of Inspiration. After that, every other spec or profession feels like a vacation
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I did it back when you had to complete the WvW maps. 
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Harrow posted:I just got the urge to start playing again for the first time since before EoD came out and wow Cantha is pretty, and also Virtuoso is real fun. I really wanted to actually play a power build for once but condi Virtuoso is so drat strong and survivable it's hard to justify going power build instead, at least for open world. I imagine it has its benefits in group stuff. I want to make an Asura Mesmer because the thought of a goblin magic trickster is very funny to me. Character slots never go on sale when I want!
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Kassad posted:I did it back when you had to complete the WvW maps. Yeah that was my first too. That was insane. There is still 1 vista in EBG that i just cant do (bottom left? ) Getting my catmander tag was a nightmare too. I think the top left desert map changed colours about 9 times before i was able to make that jump
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Inzombiac posted:I want to make an Asura Mesmer because the thought of a goblin magic trickster is very funny to me. They're on sale right now though
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Actuarial Fables posted:They're on sale right now though That's not when they want it though.
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So I've been trying to work out "the usual thing" on a daily basis. So far I've got: Do dailies. Do EoD dailies. Do daily T1+rec fractals. Go hit fireworks to get festival daily. Pray to the gods that maybe you score a group for a daily strike. If you get groups for both, buy a lottery ticket. If a group for multiple non-daily strikes happens, go do that. After that I'm kind of lost. Do ya'll just check the timers and roam the world looking for commander tags to hopefully get in on some metas? Do public strikes ever actually happen? Meskhenet posted:Im in the "after doing world completion on a mechanist everything else is just a chore" camp >< While I have appreciated it learning the ropes the pet AI is just dodgy enough that I wish my first character rolled Guardian. I figured I'd see an abundance of Firebrands running around because they're so ridiculous but there's so few of them and so many mechs. Also open world people really, really hate mechs for some reason. Maybe it's a WoW hunter thing.
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Lately I've been doing Drizzlewood Coast. But I don't play every day, and I'm mostly just enjoying fighting mobs and getting decent rewards for it, so 
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Engineer's in a weird spot. Base engineer kind of sucks rear end and most of the hard stuff you could do with it also sucks rear end but you can get away with a basic flamethrower or bomb kit setup, Power Mechanist is easy, Scrapper is really simple, Power Holosmith is mid level tricky, then Condi Mechanist suddenly goes through the loving roof and to the moon with difficulty (relatively, at least). Elementalist though is either fire only and is pretty simple or you go john loving madden and its stupidly busy and hard.
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Mailer posted:So I've been trying to work out "the usual thing" on a daily basis. So far I've got: You might consider grabbing the World Boss Portal Device from the gem store. It's a free teleport to whichever world boss events are about to start, so there's always a thing to do.
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Harrow posted:I did my first world completion on a pre-HoT Mesmer. No mounts, no faster movement speed from Chronomancer, just intermittent swiftness from Signet of Inspiration. After that, every other spec or profession feels like a vacation This is why both my elementalist and warrior were my most played and only 100% world completions, they could just spam skills to get across the map and elementalist could even cheese their way into places they shouldn't be because of lightning rush and the underwater air bubble teleport that used to persist above the water level and get you into all sorts of places that you shouldn't be, like getting into the green keep in ebg in wvw, or the end chest at the puzzle in bloodtide coast south of lion's arch.
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Here's a list of daily stuff organized by minmaxing nerds: https://fast.farming-community.eu/farming/daily
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