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IBS masteries suck rear end and the grind just to get the points will probably give you actual IBS
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Staff Spellbreaker is pretty fun (open world), very active and engaging without requiring really complicated rotations. I don't have any proper gear for it (I guess it should just be celestial because I'm lazy and boring) but it sustains itself (and everyone in the vicinity) quite well anyway. I'm doing: Staff / DD Tactics 2-3-3 Discipline 3-3-2 Spellbreaker 2-3-3 (maybe better with GM 2 if you're with friends) You can pretty much just burst and full counter with the staff over and over again between autoattack chains while mixing in staff 2 and 4 and you are just a fountain of green numbers. Staff 5 is a long block followed by a totally massive heal if you get in trouble. And then you switch to the daggers when you want things to die.
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Mar 8, 2024 01:48
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Staff for open world should be berserker, marauders, and/or dragon gear. Celestial is bad if you don’t have condition damage to scale. You can use defensive traits, sigils, food, relics, etc if you need more sustain
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Mar 8, 2024 02:31
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Celestial is bad for power-only builds but it's very good for condition builds or weird poo poo that's part power part condition. For example, warrior sword's 1-3, or guardian torch.
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Mar 8, 2024 02:33
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OzFactor posted:Update: they let you skip to the new release once you get through chapter 6 of the Secrets expansion. I have no idea what the gently caress I was doing (there are good kryptis? i guess?) but I did it and now I have new weapons for all my characters! if you play through the whole story the good kryptis still don't make any sense hope that helps
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Mar 8, 2024 03:06
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Am I doing leyline gliding wrong? Watching other people I kind of assumed it just like, sucked you in and shwooped you off to a new destination. But when I glide near one of those things I just kind of bounce along it in the least effective means of transport ever.
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Mar 8, 2024 04:11
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Sometimes it's more effective to lean in or out but no, that's leylines for ya.
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Mar 8, 2024 04:30
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gandlethorpe posted:Speaking of long term goals, does IBS offer, uh, any? Besides being a part of the legendary amulet collection. I don't know if it offers any but I wouldn't give up eternal ice shards for the world, personally
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Mar 8, 2024 17:22
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there's the mastery grind, get dragon slayer completed and you can get some really good poo poo from dragonstorm...at a minuscule drop rate lol
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Mar 8, 2024 17:37
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Dragonstorm itself is like a daily 5-6 gold for like 10-15 minutes of effort and that's insane
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Mar 8, 2024 17:39
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whydirt posted:Staff for open world should be berserker, marauders, and/or dragon gear. Celestial is bad if you don’t have condition damage to scale. You can use defensive traits, sigils, food, relics, etc if you need more sustain I'll think about the gear but I think Berserker is boring, I like Full Counter a lot and want to keep doing it. I'll tinker with it. The next thing I tried was Ranger maces, which is definitely getting nerfed, right? It feels like way too much damage for that many boons and stuns... and then you reset all your cooldowns and do it again.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:02
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If there's a nerf I hope it's on the weapon. The last thing just about every class in GW2 needs is a nerf to its core attributes / trait lines.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:05
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Completed "Skritt Hot" (dodge Primordus's "Apocalypse Rain" 25 times) for an IBS mastery point in the absolute stupidest way. I hate the IBS achievements so bad. I entered the Dragonstorm Story instance. Progressed the fight until you break up the champions and fight them on opposite sides of the field. Then instead of actually fighting I hovered above Braham on a skyscale waiting for Primordus's "Apocalypse Rain" attack (shows like 5 AOE circles that boulders eventually fall on). Primordus telegraphs it by leaning down to grab a mouthful of rocks then spitting them upwards. So when you see the AOEs dash down dismount, dodge, and remount before dealing with any other mechanics. Not sure the same cheese works in the public instance, but in story mode you can idle in the proper phase of the fight while NPCs whittle away at Braham. DARPA fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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Mar 9, 2024 05:11
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This has taken me altogether too long to finish but I finally made the stupid sword: Gen 2 legendaries are a lot more annoying than Gen 1.
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Mar 9, 2024 06:14
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Mercurius posted:Gen 2 legendaries are a lot more annoying than Gen 1. Agreed, but I prefer them a lot more.
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Mar 9, 2024 10:26
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I finally finished getting all the masteries from LW1 to get the lion's memory (and just AP in general) and my final review is : this was mostly okay. A lot of it doesn't linger, the worst is dealing with janky poo poo with axe on thief (because of how the weapon interacts with older mobs in general), and Battle for Lion's Arch not being the greatest recreation, although I can hardly fault them for that, considering how that piece of content worked back then. Tower of nightmare can eat a bag of dicks though gently caress that place terribly genuinely unfun Reoxygenation fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Mar 9, 2024 |
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Mar 9, 2024 14:12
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Reoxygenation posted:Tower of nightmare can eat a bag of dicks though gently caress that people terribly genuinely unfun 
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Mar 9, 2024 14:47
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First time around all I remember is following a large zerg through the place after it was mostly empty or filled with people farming sections instead of a small group going from start to finish.
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Mar 9, 2024 15:12
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Bleh. Living World is such a slog to me already and I just started the episode with the Tower of Nightmare. It’s been nice to get more 20 slot bags at least.
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Mar 9, 2024 16:12
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LW1 and 2 are still trying to figure out what they're doing but it does get better after that
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Mar 9, 2024 16:16
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DARPA posted:Completed "Skritt Hot" (dodge Primordus's "Apocalypse Rain" 25 times) for an IBS mastery point in the absolute stupidest way. I hate the IBS achievements so bad. I didn't even think to do the story instance. Gonna give this a shot!
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Mar 9, 2024 16:38
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Trip Report: The strat works! The dodge timing is awkward since you have either try to watch the falling rocks by moving your camera in a weird position or just guess when to dodge since there's no circle filling indicator. Thankfully, I got a couple double evades to make up for it. The timing on the Jormag side looks even more awkward. I tend to dodge too early if there's not a timed indicator.
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Mar 9, 2024 19:02
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Tower of nightmare at launch was loving stressful. Like it sucked and it loving sucked. And this was with a massive zerg. Its probably when i bailed now that i think of it. I never saw what happened after. Logged in sometime after to a destroyed LA, that i hated because i didnt know where anything was, and bailed for 8 or so years lol
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Mar 10, 2024 00:03
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Re-release was the first time I ever played it and with a fully decked out character with a lot of stealth it was tolerable.
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Mar 10, 2024 00:57
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Power-creeped celestial open world builds make it fine-to-tolerable, which is what I did, but man was it still rough, thankfully did get a bunch of the stuff done with the LW1 re-run a while back for the hardest stuff
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Mar 10, 2024 01:04
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Wow this black lion dye canister you get from chests now sucks and is stupid. I wish I'd known they replaced the free exotic item with this before I used my one key 
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Mar 10, 2024 03:06
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Nuebot posted:Wow this black lion dye canister you get from chests now sucks and is stupid. I wish I'd known they replaced the free exotic item with this before I used my one key you can preview black lion chests to see what they give. you can preview the top bag/dye canister too.
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DARPA posted:Completed "Skritt Hot" (dodge Primordus's "Apocalypse Rain" 25 times) for an IBS mastery point in the absolute stupidest way. I hate the IBS achievements so bad. you can do it on a skimmer and just hold the button when the rocks come
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Mar 10, 2024 06:37
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Speaking of the old LA, I miss the old sPvP hub
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Nuebot posted:Wow this black lion dye canister you get from chests now sucks and is stupid. I wish I'd known they replaced the free exotic item with this before I used my one key It's not like the exotic weapon grab bag was much better, especially for a festival chest. The dye canister in the chest does mean that getting the four unique dyes will be cheaper during this chest cycle, so maybe look and see if those colors are something you want to get.
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Mar 10, 2024 15:41
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where the red fern gropes posted:you can do it on a skimmer and just hold the button when the rocks come Reddit post says this was patched out a couple years ago.
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Actuarial Fables posted:It's not like the exotic weapon grab bag was much better, especially for a festival chest. The dye canister in the chest does mean that getting the four unique dyes will be cheaper during this chest cycle, so maybe look and see if those colors are something you want to get. the exotic grab bag was at least some toilet fodder or whatever with a tiny chance at a legendary. The dye canister just offers to sell you dyes if you open more chests and get more canisters, basically.
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I wasn't sure how good of a deal the storage bundle was. I got one because my alt kept getting full and the shared slot is nice. Bank and mat storage was less of a problem, but it doesn't hurt to have less overflow on characters.
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After finishing Aurora and Vision on top of getting Lion's memory, feeling kinda burned out from the game. Will see if the patch notes and gameplay feel of some changes shake things up but it might be time where I go back into hibernation and maybe just do weeklies and leave it at that for a while...
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Mar 13, 2024 02:30
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shooooot I left my unbreakable mining tools on one of my alts... which one....
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StrixNebulosa posted:shooooot I left my unbreakable mining tools on one of my alts... which one.... If you have gw2efficiency.com set up, you can search it up easily. If you don't have it set up, it's very nice to have, especially for big crafting projects and finding things lost somewhere in storage.
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There is also a blish plugin if you don't want to leave the game, but it's not as nice as the efficiency site.
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Mar 13, 2024 17:34
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The fact that GW2 is mostly very alt-friendly makes the corner cases of character-bound stuff stick out that much more.
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Mar 13, 2024 18:04
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Im a bit surprised no one mentioned legendary crafting tools yet (unbreakable of course)
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wish they did, one of the big reasons i don't log into alts for open world poo poo ever is that i'd have to juggle the tools i bought way back when they got first introduced the other is waypoints, but that's easily fixed by the gigantic stash of free teleport to friend i hoarded over the years. i'm not giving anet cash for shared slots just so i can effectively use something i already paid money for in the first place, just make them legendary already anet
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