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UchihaHirou
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I hope so since I'm still on vacation on day 1, none of you should get to play until I get home on day 2.

Edit: if anyone finds a new mangogeddon involving clever use of game mechanics, please post in this thread tia.

UchihaHirou fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Oct 16, 2015

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UchihaHirou
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While I'm waiting for my plane to go home, I found this while roaming some street markets:

I hope you have something like this in real life Bird.

UchihaHirou
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I HOPE THE SERVERS GO INTO MELTDOWN AS IM ON A PLANE FOR THE NEXT 16 HOURS. NO ONE GETS TO PLAY UNTIL IM HOME!

UchihaHirou
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Gem pact assemble:

BLACK LION TRADING COMPANY GEM STORE
New Items and Promotions
The Crystal Arbiter Appearance Pack contains an exclusive new outfit and matching glider, as well as your first chance to get an Immortal weapon skin. You’ll also get 5 Flame Dye Kits and a Total Makeover Kit to look your absolute best with special hairstyles and colors. The total package is available in the Style category of the Gem Store for 2000 gems.
The Bat Wings Glider Combo is now available in the Style category of the Gem Store. Unlock a giant set of bat wings for your backpack and a matching Bat Wings Glider for 600 gems total.
A new set of Improvised weapon skins is available from the Black Lion Weapons Specialist for 1 Black Lion Claim Ticket.
A new Character Jump Start super-value package is available for one week, containing everything you need to equip a single character for extended play, including four bag slots, a Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, harvesting, logging, and mining R-tron tools, transmutation charges, and experience scrolls. Buy it for one character or split the goods across your account—it’s over 40% savings either way.

UchihaHirou
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Mesadoram posted:

The kind nerds over at DnT posted a video on how to squeeze a good amount of DPS out of the Dragon Hunter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWKSOGhLDi8

Seems like good stuff, got me back in the mood to grind for the HP to finish out the tree. Took me about an hour to get 10 HP from WvW, I think that is going to be the best method to grind it out.

No, that sounds dumb. If it takes you an hour to get 10 HP from WvW, its better to just run to the soloable HP in the new zones and spend like 10 minutes for 10 HP. The Dulfy guides for the first three zones have enough soloable ones that you can probably get like 120 in like 2-3 hours depending on whether you have the gliding, updraft and mushroom jumping.

UchihaHirou
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Lonk posted:

http://imgur.com/a/FNPJG

I think I'm gonna do something like one of these with Gonk

My vote is for the 2nd to last one, pointless blades everywhere.

UchihaHirou
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New gemstore items:
http://dulfy.net/2015/11/10/gw2-gemstore-updatelyssas-regalia-and-gathering-flutes/

UchihaHirou
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I don't understand the obsession that people are expressing that we need to max out every mastery available. I'm playing the HoT living story 16 times on different characters to get all the Auric skins without having to craft them. That's a real grind.

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Don't post something like that without a source, jerk.

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Liberatore posted:

They said no raid-specific infusions or anything like that, so my bet is on the former.

There is a huge difference in damage output, durability and utility between certain classes and builds, so yeah the idea that ascended gear will make that crucial difference is nonsensical, but who cares? Either it matters (raid-specific infusions) or it doesn't, and we'll know the answer soon enough.

Duh, its going to be mastery driven. Level your mastery in Spirit Poison Resistance: allows your agony resistance to apply against Spirit Poison. Spirit Poison: Does damage equal to a percentage of your maximum life every second. Better get your gear infused and filled with agony resistance to be raiding.

Edit: I forgot about horizontal progression. Level your mastery in Spirit Juice: Your constant presence in the Spirit Vale has made you immune to its weakening affects, you are not longer affected by Spirit Sickness. Spirit Sickness: Your damage is reduced by 33% and you cannot benefit from the affects of Might.

UchihaHirou fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Nov 16, 2015

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Dreggon posted:

i got ley line autism tonight and went to hit up that JP in auric basin above the RC golems

it's a really weak JP that only exists to jerk off its designer, relying overmuch on the ley line aspect and not actually being challenging or interesting at all

arus, this is the one you missed, and you didn't really miss anything, it took 3 minutes to do and most of that was chatting in guild. i'm really hoping there's more to do with this mastery that i'm missing.

Ley Line makes jumping from island to island in Dragon's Stand really fun and easy. Lets you tag more events, that's right up your alley.

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Patch Notes posted:

Fixed a shameful error in the Rata Novus study guide book “The Human Gods” that stated Kormir took Dhuum’s place rather than Abaddon’s.

Praise Kormir!

Patch Notes

"Guild Fixes posted:

Players will now earn personal rewards on guild rushes as soon as they cross the finish line.
Players will now earn personal rewards on guild treks as soon as they interact with the trek icons.
Does it fix it for everyone to get credit? Who knows!

UchihaHirou fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Nov 17, 2015

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New Plasma Weapon Skins in Gemstore:

Lightsaber


Riot Shield


Pew Pew Rifle

UchihaHirou
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How do you know we're the highest level guild? Is there a ranking or something? I assume any outlets like reddit is just self-reporting.

UchihaHirou
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Certainly World First for being broken people.

UchihaHirou
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100 Crystalline Ore for 100 gems! Problem solved.

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Aesis posted:

True in PvE. Strength/Arms/Tactics works wonders and there's no reason to take Berserker.

You know that Always Angry is a 7% dmg boost with 100% uptime right? And Bloody Roar is another 10% while in Berserk. Its better than Arms's Bloodlust.

UchihaHirou
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Look, if you aren't playing Skyhammer and knocking people off the cannon platform with Wild Blow, you aren't playing Warrior correctly.

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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

That aura goes really, really well with Infinite Light.

Shut up. I don't need a distraction as I make Astralaria.

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CLAM DOWN posted:

Why can't we have both, like we have in all the zones from the original release....

Straits of Devastation, Malchor's Leap, Cursed Shore

Hearts are only palatable if there is a concurrent event that gives participation for the heart. Completing hearts without an event is really boring. I sure love watering the same 5 plants 25 times to fill a heart. /s

UchihaHirou fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Dec 10, 2015

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CLAM DOWN posted:

They'd give direction in messes like Tangled Depths, and at least would give something to do at my own pace, because I can't set aside 2 hours for poo poo like Dragon's Stand meta.

It's not like you do anything other than hang out naked in the guild hall, or RPing in Rata Sum/Divinity's Reach anyway.

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malhavok posted:

At 50 crystalline ore i don't think most are worth it. I got the reaper great sword because it is absolutely bad rear end, but none of the other weapons really stood out.

Its an ascended weapon. Its cheaper than crafting it, if you need that particular weapon type. If it doesn't offer the stats you are looking for, you can mystic forge it to the particular stats you need.

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New hairstyles!
https://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/photos/a.135044094208.103264.114036714208/10153429273064209/?type=3&theater

UchihaHirou
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New Timekeeper Weapon Skins
http://dulfy.net/2015/12/15/gw2-timekeeper-weapon-skins-gallery/

Rifle, Pistol, Sword, Focus look pretty good. Hammer isn't bad either.

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The engineer’s Grenade Barrage will once again use legendry weapon effects.

Is xmas saved yet?

UchihaHirou
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I'm so sorry Kerrzhe:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3wzkv4/soft_wood_planks_now_require_2_logs_only/

4 soft wood logs to 1 plank is now 2 soft wood logs to 1 plank

At least I'm with you on the soft wood grind, I just converted 1320 logs to planks yesterday T_T

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Probad posted:

They should just enable golem madness on the new bls until they get around to doing something with wvw.

They should remove the upper range limit on catapults and trebs, as well as increase damage by 10000%. Then everyone plays catch.

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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

In other raid news, some people are figuring out the fastest clears with crazy damage, enough damage to kill gorsveld without using updrafts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3xubpi/vc_vale_guardian_312_and_gorseval_322_speedkills/
Hint: it involves lots of warriors.

Looks like it's still the berserker meta.

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CLAM DOWN posted:

^^^ but cletus wvw is good and cool


Do I ever :allears:

I definitely understand that dragons stand is great xp, the problem is that due to the time required for a run of it I've only done it 3 or 4 times since release :(

The best and least stressful way to get exp for HoT masteries are the easy as gently caress adventures like scrap in VB, Wings of Gold in AB, Leyline gliding and Drag Racer in TD. Just do them once per day and earn a fuckton of exp for the time spent (<1 min per adventure).

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Softface posted:

After helping some goons reach that HP in Verdant Brink Auric Basin without ley line gliding or a Mesmer I've decided to make a picture guide for you.

Fixed that for you.

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learnincurve posted:

I went for ranger because I played druid healer for years in wow and my hunter PvP battleground tactic was beastmaster with various spirit beasts - raining arrows on people who were clearly googling what the hell my pet was was a great source of joy in my life along with my BG warlock and I have no regrets.

Thanks for triggering my PTSD of camping those drat Spirit Beasts to tame them.

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CLAM DOWN posted:

Xushin is Maguuma's dad, and yeah SFD usually flocks to him for non-WvWednesday WvW sessions. Highly recommended A+++

Congratulations! When was the ceremony?

UchihaHirou
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Softface posted:

Yep, still a pretty good time to play a warrior.

4 Berserker warriors + 1 Mesmer still relevant.

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Schpyder posted:

Oh my god, a home for my copper-fed

:homebrew:

Edit: yeah, it's kind of a steep price, but that's literally the only thing I wish every character had access to (gathering tools are too much of a hassle to remember to unequip and move around).

It's really intended for the dumb amount of zone specific keys when you have multiple characters: Crowbars, Auric Keys, Chak Acid, Machetes, Zephyrite Keys, Bandit Chest keys.

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CLAM DOWN posted:

He/she probably bought into star citizen too

Like looking in a mirror eh?

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Visidan posted:



SFD hit lvl 50, the crystal thingy is getting a bit less wonky.

I hope it turns into a raid boss at level 100 that kicks us all out of the ghall each time we enter it unless we feed it a stack of butter and salt. It's like having a guardian Arus for the guild hall that is useless for anything other than a garbage chute, kind of like the real one.

UchihaHirou
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Rifle changes underwhelming. They should honestly just make the auto-attack Gunflame, then people might start using it lol.

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Fixed an issue in which players could stand on the roof of the Mossman’s hut to avoid damage in the Swampland fractal.
RIP swinging at air high level fractals.

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The Oni Blade can now be obtained from the Mystic Forge.
Time to make the new Hanzo steel.

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Xenix posted:

There's a group of us in GOON who still run it fairly regularly. I'd argue that all you need everyone to bring is a small amount of CC or missile block (every class has this) and enough awareness to body block projectiles. We recently completed it with all warriors, all thieves, all guardians, and all tempests and had no glaring issues with any of these classes.

I won't disagree that it's poorly made: last night when we ran it, the lava elementals attacked the ranger pet the entire time, allowing us to casually walk the oozes to the gate.

The pet probably had the most toughness in the room.

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Tivac posted:

I never stopped reading it. It's a bummer, but a strong understanding of how the game is perceived is important.

It's really because Arus stopped paying the tuition for Tivac's children.

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