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CLAM DOWN posted:I hate MMO players Don't feel excluded just because you're trapped by your obesity. Try doing some arm circles or lifting a bucket of nacho cheese.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Nice, you got to see Nilgoow's basement! If only.... 
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Oct 22, 2015 22:57
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This is my exact face when playing the living story.
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Oct 23, 2015 11:26
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malhavok posted:Everyone keeps over rating the hero point grind and under rating the mastery one. Already almost maxed dragonhunter, starting from zero it should be no more than a day or so per alt. Thoom posted:Yeah, I'm super not worried about the elite spec grind. Once you have maxed masteries, a tour of the whopping 4 Maguuma maps to hit all the hero point locations on an alt shouldn't take more than a couple hours. The initial cost of the the Maguuma masteries still seems high to me if you actually need to max out the jungle masteries to get all of the hero points. If you don't then who cares. I'd agree that alts are going to be trivial compared to the first character however.
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Oct 24, 2015 01:35
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Alteisen posted:Mastery is account bound right? I can't tell. Yes.
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Oct 24, 2015 02:27
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Xae posted:It is ~500K per level of the Section. So Section 1 costs 500k, Section 2 costs 1M, Section 3 costs 1.5M (roughly). You don't need this though. You can finish the story and, as far as anyone knows, get a maxed elite spec without going anywhere near this deep into any of the trees. Not that 5 million XP isn't a lot, but the total amount available isn't really indicative of what regular players are going to going after as a baseline.
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Oct 24, 2015 03:33
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These are all projections based on what I have seen. The curves may change
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I would love for someone to make a 3D version of the zone maps for those of us cursed with poor spatial visualization skills, This is something that I came across a few months ago so I don't know how accurate it is. It's also not textured so good luck with that. Maybe you can cross your eyes and look at this and the mini map.  http://tyria3d.com/version_0.1.html
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Oct 24, 2015 16:37
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Has anyone found a map of hero points and where they are, what it takes to get them, etc? If not, I might throw something together where we can collaborate. Not that I want to spoil it for anyone, because exploring the new maps is some of the most fun I've had in a video game in a really long time. It's just nice to have a second option.
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Oct 25, 2015 01:06
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Mairn posted:Who would have guessed launching a patch at primetime NA on the weekend would completely kill the patch servers. Oh right, anyone with half a brain You're an abusive little guy, aren't you.
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Oct 25, 2015 01:35
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The story mode is craaaazy. 
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Oct 25, 2015 06:24
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Oct 25, 2015 20:40
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OzFactor posted:I'll second everyone else's frustration on the elite spec unlocking with my reason from my own stubbornness: I've waited a long time to play with a staff on my thief, and by god I'm going to do it, except now I'm running only two trait lines in order to use it. I am left with two options: play the old content with my elite weapon really, really slowly (i.e. one hero point at a time) or play the new content with my old weapons, which I have no desire to do. I just want to use a staff and not get my rear end handed to me. I don't see people using commander tags all that often unless I'm using one myself. You can't expect to be led arond in a zerg because there are just too many events going on at the same time, and people are generally off doing their own thing with small groups when there isn't a zone-wide event. nessin posted:Wow, I just hit 80 earlier today and went to the first HoT zone on my Revenant (I'd just done the intro quest one of my other characters) and after exploring half the map there is literally just one item I've been able to interact with, the Flamethrower challenge banner just south of the entrance. Everything else pops up a notice that I have to complete some masteries before I can use them or insta kills me when I try to approach it (a couple of the Mastery Points). Get used to playing with other people I guess. You can do most of the hero ones with 3 people, some are soloable with the right classes. ItBurns fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Oct 25, 2015 |
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mind the walrus posted:Isn't this assuming you already have all the masteries necessary to get to the various points? No. People will port you and we went in order from the start of the zone, so you don't even need any waypoints and will have them all when you're done. Stop crying.
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Eltoasto posted:I really wish I had spent more time in the betas trying out all the different classes. Now I am not sure on what to play and the elite specs are gated behind some poo poo. People are loving the chronomancer but I didn't play it and very few people stream it. Chronomancer is really good thanks to the reduction to the damage that phantasms take. They're pretty close to invincible now so phantasm builds are great for boss fights. Shatter is good as well thanks to the alacrity and crit chance you get from the chronomancer line, but you need to have a good many traits before it becomes useful. The shatter build is really active though, maybe on par with daredevil in terms of actiony goodness. I don't know what else you were considering but it's not a bad choice. You also get the fifth shatter right away.
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Oct 25, 2015 23:55
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Captain McStabbin posted:but why Daredevil is super good. Staff is great and it makes S/P and shortbow even better sets. Staff is also great but it lacks the CC of S/P. The blind is really useful though. ItBurns fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Oct 26, 2015 00:24
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Ciaphas posted:I sort of wonder if I should just go to another, simpler class before I get too invested in Engineer. Necromancer looks cool too now that I remember its Lich form thing. Reaper (Necromancer elite) is very braindead and is even better now that minion master is a braindead spec. Rev is also a literal medically induced coma if you like to activate your utilities and auto-attack. Options abound.
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Oct 26, 2015 06:03
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Baron Von Pigeon posted:Finally maxed out my first elite spec. Day 3 Brain In A Jar posted:I never thought I would say this but my elite specialization pick of the bunch is Daredevil. Yes, daredevil. Agreed. The playstyle is great and it's really strong. fadam posted:I quit playing this game a few years ago after I burned myself getting a legendary hammer (Juggernaut?). I know the expansion came out, but is now a good time to come back? Are they still doing the thing where they put content in the game for two weeks then remove it forever? That always bugged me. Yes. Game is good. Good time to play game.
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mind the walrus posted:Not only that but he's ignoring just how much you played per day. If you were only doing like 2 hours a day then that's pretty quick. There's also whether or not you were using goon trains-- goon trains are a great way to make lemonade out of the situation but they were definitely not how I was hoping to unlock elites and pretty much kneecap any sense of map exploration. Why did you do the train if you wanted to explore? Exploring the new zones and trying to find my way to all the hidden stuff is my favorite part of the expansion. It's kind of sad if you ruined that just to leapfrog the progression mechanic.
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Oct 26, 2015 14:42
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ITT we are genuinely disappointed that we can't just blow the entire expansion out of the water in a night so we can say it's bad. Living Story, how I long for your temporary embrace.
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Oct 26, 2015 14:46
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mind the walrus posted:Yes thank you for telling me how to prioritize what I wanted to play in the expansion and how I wanted to play it. You don't know how to have fun in a game and it's sad. You are the saddest poster in at least the last three pages.
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Oct 26, 2015 14:48
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Sjonnar posted:FTFY You still have the issue that the story is (was) gated by the masteries which nobody intended to level which required doing events in the zone that nobody intended to explore which is coincidentally how you would find the mastery and hero points that nobody wants. Why can't elite specs be a login reward for loyal veterans? Why did anet even make new maps if they were just going to fill them with so much content that it takes more than 3 hours to complete?
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Oct 26, 2015 16:22
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Azazell0 posted:I've been trying out Chronomancer, and it's fun, but on the other hand it requires me to give up some excellent traits. Basically I normally run a Domination-Dueling-Illusion shatter, and now I have to give up at least one line of excellent shatter traits. Domination has Imagined burden (and Mental anguish), Illusion has Master of Fragmentation (plus lots of good minor traits) and Dueling has of course Deceptive evasion. I've run that build open world for so long it's like my second nature. Without going too far into ~balance~, I'll just say that phantasm builds are absolutely absurd right now. I've soloed most of the champion hero points that people are complaining about using a signet build with phantasms (Dom, dueling, illusions). That being said, my shatter build is taking the normal Dom/dueling traits but then swapping out for the top three chrono traits to get that 100% crit chance. I'm using sword and pistol offhand with sword in both main slots. The damage is pretty insane and I can still slot utilities like blink/mantras that make getting around the new zones a lot easier. ItBurns fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Sjonnar posted:No, i said i'm interested in the new content, but i want to play it as a scrapper not become a scrapper at the end... wait, this is going right over your head isn't it? I'll try again. 
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treizebee posted:You have to slow your roll when This is good. Very good. Other guy, take notes.
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Ciaphas posted:Thank you both. I guess deciding on builds and gearing and such is something you don't really do until 80, right? I'm still just kind of picking whatever gear seems to have bigger numbers, whatever those numbers actually are You'll end up with all kind of alts if you get into the game. As far as gear goes, I wouldn't put too much effort into it besides trying to stack more offensive vs defensive stats if you feel like you're over the top in one facet. Engineer has great condi damage and power damage, so you picked a flexible if not difficult first class.
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I doubt it's the case, but I've gotten weird graphical bugs like this when running GW1 and GW2 at the same time.
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UchihaHirou posted: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. I agree. This is definitely the case if WvW is really that slow. I got like 70 points for my scrapper solo in like 2 hours including a few where I had to solo the champs because nobody showed up to help. The Dulfy guides make it really clear what to do (if you want to spoil it) so it's much faster to get points now if you were tripped up by the maps or mechanics previously. I'm going to try the trick with alacrity on the bacon one now that I have my chrono almost done if I can find a few brave dentists willing to be my guinea pigs.
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CLAM DOWN posted:What about the new weapon skins I saw on zone vendors, like the Auric? Aural? set, or whatever it's called, I don't remember You get your choice of 1 of 3 class-sprcific Auric weapons from the story. I don't think people are that far along in terms of knowing what you need to do to craft/buy stuff because even the poopsockers didn't finish the story until saturday and some of it likely lies behind the masteries, crafting, recipe drops, zone events which haven't been beaten. Full size expansion, day 5, etc. I think people will, in general, have to wait to see what the expansion holds rather than the normal expectation that the entirety of the content will be on reddit 3 weeks in advance with a zero day dulfy guide. Edit: Some of it is definitely crafting. There are vendors that sell 'gear' parts iirc and there are class-specific unlocks for 'gear' weapons in the elite spec collections. Training the masteries to trade with the itzel/nuhoch/exalted to get access to the vendors and seeing what currency they use and which parts they sell is probably a good start for anyone looking for a weapon skin. ItBurns fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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There are also Pact/Vigil/Priory backpacks, a unique weapon (no spoiler), a handful of trinkets, and iirc two bladed armor pieces you can get from the story.
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Do the elite spec armor pieces eventually combine to make a single hideous armor set? With 6 slots and 9 classes I would assume so.
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Cyron posted:I think most of them are helms and shoulders sadly. so you can't make a chimera armor class. drat.. At least that leaves a spot open for the knifedick piece. Schpyder posted:There's a new set of Guild armor as well, probably available from upgraded guild halls. Take a look in the wardrobe. There's also maybe a "machined" set of weapons that I only know about because they're listed in the collections for the upgraded elite spec weapons. Might just be collection trash and not actually usable, tho. This is the 'gear' set I was talking about. In that case it must come from the frog vendor and crafting because I'm 99% sure that it trades the Airship Gears from the cargo chests for a Machined Core or something. Maybe.. Machined Core + 250 Charged Lodestones + 250 Powerful Blood + ??? = Machined Weapon ItBurns fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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LordAdakos posted:Anyone want to grind out 400 HP for me on my engineer, necro, mesmer, and rev? How did you manage to hit 80 and not get any hero points?
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LordAdakos posted:INCORRECT ASSUMPTION.Though I did tome my rev to 80 so i have 0 extra points. Sure. Send me your login details and I'll gladly power level the characters that you don't actually play.
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LordAdakos posted:Man, you are all about terrible assumptions today. Those are the 4 characters I mainly play. drat I have never been so owned before. now I know why you are called Lord and I am definitely burned!!!
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Ciaphas posted:Should I be completing maps as I level or just moving on as I outlevel hearts? My norn necromancer's at 17 I think, in the second norn zone after 100%ing the first one. You'll want to get the Hero Points from all the zones, and getting waypoints as you level will save you headaches later on when you want to do guild missions, world completion, or need some random item from a vendor in the middle of the zone. I wouldn't worry too much about 100%ing every zone if it means doing some tedious heart.
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Great, now I can't play or have fun in a video game because I have too many points and anet will just ruin all the fun I already had by lowering the bar for other people. Where is the point refund for loyal veterans???
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Razzled posted:Does berzerker suck or something? It's not PS/EA soooo... Warrior is in the same boat as ele in the sense that they already have a ton of good spec. It's good, just not as amazing as other specs. It's also condi based for the most part. If you like sword then you'll like Berserker, but there is a notable lack of synergy since on is bleeding and the other is fire, generally.
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