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Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will introduce Shards of Glory, a new tradable crafting material obtained through PvP. Because Shards of Glory are going to be a part of legendary crafting—which you’ll learn more about in the coming week—we’re updating all reward tracks with them. To accommodate this change, we’re replacing two of the four transmutation stones on each reward track with Shards of Glory.

Trogdos! posted:

From what we know, the specializations are going to be very hero point intensive. So if you stock up now, you don't need to farm them at launch to get your sweet engineer hammer or w/e. I 'm guessing he means that.

Inzombiac posted:

In the last beta, did anyone come up with a fun Scrapper build that didn't utilize the drones much? I didn't like any but the spinning one and it breaks my loving heart.

Generic Octopus posted:

How it works right now: you have a Personal Reward Level that starts at 1 and goes up as you do fractals of your level or higher (so tagging along on higher level fractals is fine). The relics/pristine relics you get for completing fractals & fractal dailies will let you get oodles of AR via Versatile Simple Infusions from the fractal shop bot. It's so trivial that you can't even call it a barrier to entry; the only real limiting factor is how much armor/weapons/accessories you have to slot AR into.

The wiki is your friend, give it a quick read.

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048 posted:

There are two components I can mention right now, the rest you’ll have to wait until the 23rd to see:

Gyros should be a good bit more snappy when it comes to staying near you and are also going to experience some additional survivability.

Rocket Charge will have the leap play at start rather than finish (like other leaps) and isn’t going to be so erratic once you’ve closed to your target.

midnightclimax posted:

Yeah I noticed that, so I switched. Just mentioning Mesmer because watching people go for his illusions was frustrating to watch.

Gwyrgyn Blood posted:

Are the gyros effected by the new 95% untargeted damage reduction for minions?

PseudoFaux posted:

Didn't Anet say that Revs are disallowed from using anything but boosters for the first few months?

Azazell0 posted:

Thanks for the tips on Chronomancer, but now I'm even more confused. Both archetypes of the build work so well. I wish you could change on the fly, with GS/S+(shield? focus?) for the AoE type situations with lots of shatters and the S+S/P for when you want to put up phantasms and make single targets suffer. Or at least that's what I feel it's like.

I gotta experiment with ItBurns's the whole "top options from chrono line" suggestion some more. Lots of slow and crtit chance? Plenty of options on that traitline, I'm really positively surprised.

Gwyrgyn Blood posted:

It's pretty great and makes the game 100% less annoying on your hands. It can be kind of tricky if you use a class with a ton of manual ground target skills though (like Grenade Engineer) but there are some lock-on hotkeys that help.

Gwyrgyn Blood posted:

Yeah I feel like they need a 'cast on yourself' modifier key or some other way of helping you target stuff very close to you without having to wobble the camera up and down.


There is actually, in the keybinds there's a hotkey to hold-toggle the 'lock AOE on target' on/off.

Priapus Unbound posted:

I felt really accomplished by soloing a group of four of those loving rear end in a top hat dagger/dagger shortbow hylek with the stuns and ridiculously powerful poison pool attack. At first I died a lot, now I don't, and I feel really good about how I've gotten better at the jungle!

Your Computer posted:

New demon race is looking pretty slick.

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malhavok posted:

The jetpack could be an actual jetpack.

treizebee posted:

You were so eager to tell us.

For those at work :
The recap is fewer required hero points, refined adventure minigames, and fixed a setting that caused low player population in the new zones

nessin posted:

Except those loving frog assassins and the couple packs of 10+ mini-raptors I've seen.

nessin posted:

Have you hit the large packs of mini raptors that are difficult to avoid? Off the top of my head there is a tunnel running south on the west centerish side of Auric basin that you have to run through or divert through the city to get around, but the tunnel has 15 or so mini-raptors. They shred you nearly instantly, I only got through by loading up on condition abilities and having them burn themselves out so I'd keep rallying after falling in the first couple seconds.

Ghostpilot posted:

Very nice, what are the other pieces?

Rakeris posted:

Man ya'll making me want to level a necro now just for reaper.

Harrow posted:

Come to think of it, we should've gotten masteries the same way we get hero points in Heart of Thorns.

AmericanGeeksta posted:

So I was watching Chaithh stream today, and he basically said that he never does PVE. So how does one never do PVE and still manage to pretty princess themselves?

CLAM DOWN posted:

Arus has become the God of the Arena through the discovery and use of the Arus Maneuver™ to vanquish his foes repeatedly upon their mere entry to the field of battle

CLAM DOWN posted:

True Shot is totally going to get nerfed

Generic Octopus posted:

So, still no pics of the legendary armor?

Generic Octopus posted:

Nah that's a mash of light armor.

Solumin posted:

Looks like the Trickster's armor with Carapace armor shoulders. Could be wrong about the boots though, and I'm not sure if there's even a helmet in the picture.

Kerrrrrrr posted:

Also gently caress Chak holy poo poo.

Illuyankas posted:

I actually liked thinking about the mastery stuff in terms of levels, like how the level 1 ranks are two lots of the exp needed to level at 80 in the old system. How much attention did you pay to levelling up at 80 beforehand? That thing that happened 2/3rds of the time you did a dungeon, or at a Teq? Now instead of ten meaningless things for every 2.5 mil of exp you never bothered counting before, now you can do exactly the same stuff as before only now you get to fly a glider forever, which is nice.

CLAM DOWN posted:

Swapping your runes for different fights is a pretty min/max sperglord thing and there should definitely be a cost to it.

Sprite141 posted:

Eltoasto posted:

I read it as one bag slot and was excited. It'd be cool if it was a bag slot.