Guild Wars 2 - my colon was impacted because we were raiding for so long

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Lyer: Feb 4, 2008

CLAM DOWN posted:

oh god what did they add

you basically just sit and wait for a boss to spawn, but it's not on an exact timer and there's a good chance the drat thing bugs out and never spawns at all, so you just sat there for quite some time for absolutely nothing

# ? Aug 10, 2016 06:33

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# ? May 25, 2024 18:14

lucifirius: Mar 7, 2016

Not quite sit and wait, you gotta kill the normal version of the mob to get the bloodstone crazy one to spawn.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 08:14

Lord Twisted: Apr 3, 2010; In the Emperor's name, let none survive.

So starfleet is on NA Maguuma? I have some gems kicking around since launch when I got compensation a gently caress up they did with my account, I could switch from EU if it isn't going to be laggy as poo poo

# ? Aug 10, 2016 08:51

Adhesive Gamin: Sep 29, 2010; Meatoberfest is in full swing.

lucifirius posted:

Not quite sit and wait, you gotta kill the normal version of the mob to get the bloodstone crazy one to spawn.

The problem here is that GW2 is a casual MMO, so any concept that doesn't immediately come across to the player can be considered a failure of design, since stopping to evaluate something beyond a first impression is an undue demand on a person's time.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 09:02

orcane: Jun 13, 2012; Fun Shoe

Adhesive Gamin posted:

The problem here is that GW2 is a casual MMO, so any concept that doesn't immediately come across to the player can be considered a failure of design, since stopping to evaluate something beyond a first impression is an undue demand on a person's time.

At least Waci and Nilgoow are funny when they troll...

# ? Aug 10, 2016 09:21

lucifirius: Mar 7, 2016

Adhesive Gamin posted:

The problem here is that GW2 is a casual MMO, so any concept that doesn't immediately come across to the player can be considered a failure of design, since stopping to evaluate something beyond a first impression is an undue demand on a person's time.

Well you gotta zoom in on the hologram that appears for 1-2 seconds, google a guide, copy-paste the waypoint code, and hope you got into a map that hasn't spawned the crazy mob. Good luck at figuring out if it has spawned, how much time is left in the window, and successfully tagging it before it's burned down.

If you're looking for a specific mob, it's gonna be 2 hours before the next 1 hour window, and you better not leave your computer because God knows that's when it will be spawned.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 09:38

where the red fern gropes: Aug 24, 2011

i have been waiting at the wyvern spawn and it has not appeared yet...

# ? Aug 10, 2016 10:10

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

Whoever designed this bloodstone creature hunt needs to be punched in the dick

# ? Aug 10, 2016 12:59

TeaJay: Oct 9, 2012

The hologram device doesn't even work anymore, it just fizzles and dies, kinda like this whole creature hunt quest.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 13:08

felch me daddy jr.: Oct 30, 2009

EDIT: nvm.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 13:28

Harrow: Jun 30, 2012

Thanks for the HP train last night, Schpyder.

Turns out Druid is pretty drat fun. Getting to seamlessly hop back and forth between slicing things up with a sword and raining healing and buffs on people is extremely my poo poo.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 14:14

Waci: May 30, 2011; A boy and his dog.

orcane posted:

Waci and Nilgoow

Oh god what have I become

# ? Aug 10, 2016 14:22

Sjonkel: Jan 31, 2012

Enjoying this game as a casual MMO thing, but have a few questions here. Currently I have a level 19 ranger that I enjoy leveling with. If I want to try out some pvp, what options are available now? I'm not a huge fan of pvp in general in MMO's, but it would be nice to experiment a little.

Secondly, is there some site like wowhead for GW2? Sometimes I get items that I have no idea what do, if I should try to sell them on the market, stash them in my bank, or sell them to vendors.

And lastly, are there any items I get while leveling or from login bonuses or something that I shouldn't open right away?

# ? Aug 10, 2016 14:41

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

Sjonkel posted:

Secondly, is there some site like wowhead for GW2?

yeah dulfy

# ? Aug 10, 2016 14:42

Kerrzhe: Nov 5, 2008

Sjonkel posted:

Enjoying this game as a casual MMO thing, but have a few questions here. Currently I have a level 19 ranger that I enjoy leveling with. If I want to try out some pvp, what options are available now? I'm not a huge fan of pvp in general in MMO's, but it would be nice to experiment a little.

Secondly, is there some site like wowhead for GW2? Sometimes I get items that I have no idea what do, if I should try to sell them on the market, stash them in my bank, or sell them to vendors.

And lastly, are there any items I get while leveling or from login bonuses or something that I shouldn't open right away?

you can jump into spvp or wvw any time. spvp will pop you up to 80 and let you try out all your abilities and traits and stuff. wvw keeps you at your level and gear.

and nah just open all that poo poo, no reason to save it unopened.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 14:44

Lonk: Jan 26, 2012; LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

Waci posted:

Oh god what have I become

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 14:52

Organza Quiz: Nov 7, 2009

Sjonkel posted:

Secondly, is there some site like wowhead for GW2? Sometimes I get items that I have no idea what do, if I should try to sell them on the market, stash them in my bank, or sell them to vendors.

GW2efficiency or GW2shinies are both good for looking up what to do with things. That said, the majority of the time you're going to want to salvage everything that you aren't actually using for yourself and sell the materials. You could keep them I guess in case you want to craft later, but I'd recommend selling them because it's an excellent source of money, especially when you're starting out.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 15:20

Mover: Jun 30, 2008

Sjonkel posted:

Enjoying this game as a casual MMO thing, but have a few questions here. Currently I have a level 19 ranger that I enjoy leveling with. If I want to try out some pvp, what options are available now? I'm not a huge fan of pvp in general in MMO's, but it would be nice to experiment a little.

Secondly, is there some site like wowhead for GW2? Sometimes I get items that I have no idea what do, if I should try to sell them on the market, stash them in my bank, or sell them to vendors.

And lastly, are there any items I get while leveling or from login bonuses or something that I shouldn't open right away?

So, there's a few different PvP modes, you can hop into any of them anytime and everyone gets scaled to the same level and such. Regular PvP is team based, and you can go for straight up deathmatch, capturing points on a map or defending an npc in a stronghold while trying to kill the other team's npc.

Then you have World vs. World, where huge swarms of players fight for control of a map. Your "team" is your server, and this gets really, really large scale. You'll be rolling around with an army of literally dozens of other people doing objectives and fighting and stuff. It's pretty easy to jump into and just find the mob and try not to die, maybe drop some buffs and stuff.

There's a lot more depth to WvW if you want to really get into it, too. You can build siege towers and assault golems, or go solo roaming around the map and assassinate stragglers or escort supply caravans and stuff. You get gear rewards pretty easily just by playing, and there are different "reward tracks" that you can select that let you get, say, dungeon specific gear or certain rare crafting mats without ever playing PvE content.

As far as websites, metabattle.com is a good place to go for endgame builds and wiki.guildwars2.com for gear, map and event info. You can even type /wiki [search term] in game and it'll auto pull up the appropriate wiki page!

e: actually, if you're on a free account I think WvW is locked until a certain level but I;m not entirely sure, I've had the core game since p. much release.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 15:27

Xun: Apr 25, 2010

Unfortunately I think Gw2 just doesn't have the population of spergs to keep a comprehensive website of everything alive, but on the other hand guild wars needs it a lot less. Item "priority" is basically

can I salvage? No -> can I sell it on the AH? No -> can I merch it? No -> trash.

This remains true basically for the rest of the game unless you're saving up materials for crafting, but at your level you reaaaallly don't want to bother since it's just a gold sink.

Dulfy is good for guides to new events and the HoT zone content, along with some other things I'm sure. The wiki is good for.....maybe lore things? Most times if I'm having trouble finding a specific point or doing a specific puzzle I have to watch annoying videos on YouTube since the wiki will be useless.

Idk what are you looking for from a "wowhead" type website? I always use it to find transmogs and see drop tables and locations of dungeons/raids and stuff, but that kind of thing is basically nonexistent in gw2.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 15:49

Waci: May 30, 2011; A boy and his dog.

Like someone said, Dulfy has dungeon/achievement/whatever event scavenger hunt guides and Metabattle has good but not necessarily best builds, and the wiki documents a lot of things to a reasonable extent.

I think sPvP might also be hidden away from free accounts until a certain level, so you might have to bind a key to opening the pvp menu or actually walk to the portal in Lion's Arch to get to the lobby, but otherwise you can jump right in. Both sPvP and WvW have at least some unique skins, and can get you dungeon loot without having to do dungeons as well. You also get level-up consumables from them at a rate that seems quite fast once you get a bit higher level.

Also, as much as people in this thread like to poo poo on sPvP, it's still much much better than WoW pvp.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 16:03

Bieeanshee: Aug 21, 2000; Not keen on keening.; Grimey Drawer

lucifirius posted:

Well you gotta zoom in on the hologram that appears for 1-2 seconds, google a guide, copy-paste the waypoint code, and hope you got into a map that hasn't spawned the crazy mob. Good luck at figuring out if it has spawned, how much time is left in the window, and successfully tagging it before it's burned down.

If you're looking for a specific mob, it's gonna be 2 hours before the next 1 hour window, and you better not leave your computer because God knows that's when it will be spawned.

Wait, hologram? I'd click on the thingy in my inventory, hurriedly close the window, and see one or two red, flickery pom-poms to either side of my character. If those were supposed to be holographic representations of the current beastie, then the Dulfy guide forgot to mention tribbles.

And then it stopped functioning entirely.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 16:22

CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

Having to wait for a mob for 1-2 hours does put it out of reach for people like me, as much as the socksshitters like to gloat

Lord Twisted posted:

So starfleet is on NA Maguuma? I have some gems kicking around since launch when I got compensation a gently caress up they did with my account, I could switch from EU if it isn't going to be laggy as poo poo

Yup! We have a ton of Eu and oceanic players who I've never heard complain about lag either.

Also waci is hilarious

# ? Aug 10, 2016 16:38

Dartonus: Apr 1, 2011; It only gets worse from here on in...

Bieeardo posted:

Wait, hologram? I'd click on the thingy in my inventory, hurriedly close the window, and see one or two red, flickery pom-poms to either side of my character. If those were supposed to be holographic representations of the current beastie, then the Dulfy guide forgot to mention tribbles.

And then it stopped functioning entirely.

It displays tiny models of the creatures to hunt, about the size of minipets. It does not, however, account for the ground, so often they clip through terrain and are unseeable aside from the red cloud effect that is meant to draw your attention.
(As an aside I first activated it right where you get it in the green Wyvern nest terrain and my colorblind eyes could not even pick out the clouds until I tried it a third time over on some rocks).

As for it ceasing to function, there are brief rest periods between each set of huntable creatures.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 16:47

Bieeanshee: Aug 21, 2000; Not keen on keening.; Grimey Drawer

So... two spots that distract your attention from a third spot on the ground, which may be underground or obscured by your character model.

This is why you don't let the interns do anything player-facing.

That's actually very helpful, thanks. I never would have thought of dicking around with the camera on top of the rest.

# ? Aug 10, 2016 16:57

Generic Octopus: Mar 27, 2010

Xun posted:

The wiki is good for.....maybe lore things?

90% of questions asked in the thread, guild chat, and map chat can be answered with "/wiki [subject]".

# ? Aug 10, 2016 16:59

Waci: May 30, 2011; A boy and his dog.

What do you get for doing the newest poopsocking?

# ? Aug 10, 2016 17:04

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."