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Agent Kool-Aid posted:they're finally adding the outfit for the only actually interesting human god implying any of them are interesting
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Mesadoram posted:I really don't understand... Well you see, if you lower the cost of elite specs, then you don't have to collect as many hero points, so you don't have to play as much of the game. Which therefore means, there's less game in the game. The logic is sound don't question it.
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Oct 28, 2015 17:35
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CLAM DOWN posted:I actually have a couple vision crystals hanging around, so that's fine. Then I just need the ascended marauder inscription recipe, and the ascended longbow recipe, correct? I'm really fuzzy on how ascended crafting works to be honest, never really bothered as my main guardian was never a damage primary spec The major barrier to entry is getting the craft to 500; after that just craft the ascended mats every day until you've got what you need. If you actually buy everything from the tp it's daunting, but in practice if you have a bunch of poo poo lying around from years of play it's not even a hassle.
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Oct 28, 2015 18:38
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Uziduke posted:I am going to take my Rev tonight from 20 to 80, going to power lv weaponsmithing and artificer, they make the staffs right? I also got about 50 lv books. Artificer makes staves, if that's all you're making you don't need weaponsmithing. Crafting
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Oct 28, 2015 19:22
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Cyron posted:also he want on about how the story was so terrible he lost faith in anet. Only just now?
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Agent Kool-Aid posted:'generic story told very well' My observations support a 'generic & poorly written story made tolerable by fun missions' stance.
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Oct 30, 2015 03:56
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Plavski posted:I dunno... you used to have to be at a certain level to unlock the next part of your storyline too. The only hard gating I recall from GW1 was having to get faction rank in Factions and sunspear rank if you were a derv or paragon in Nightfall. Those were annoying too.
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Nov 2, 2015 17:52
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Bit the bullet and grabbed HoT, Rev is amazing. Are the items you need for the mistward collections guaranteed drops from the world bosses (i.e. does Shatterer always give you the glove plate)?
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Nov 3, 2015 18:22
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AmericanGeeksta posted:Got it. Will report back with my findings You can get a full rare set of armor from dungeons with 210 tokens; exotic, 1380. Weapons are cheap if you get them from WvW vendors or via guild commendations. Trinkets/rings are easy, grab some ascended ones via laurels/guild commendations.
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Nov 4, 2015 00:12
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Trebuchet King posted:Is there a decent rundown of the thief traitlines? More than just "acrobatics gives you this, deadly arts this, etc," but something a little more in-depth? Points out highlights, explains why bad traits are bad, etc. PvE? You always take Deadly Arts, Crit Strikes, and Trickery because those give you damage and if you not doing damage thief is sorta pointless. Substitute Daredevil for Trickery if you want to just flip around and look sorta cool but it's not great. You should be D/D + SB, Zerker, etc. If you want conditions there are other classes that do that far better; raw damage is what they're good at. You can put together a gimmick condition Daredevil but I didn't like it much at all, feels like something that'd be better in PvP but I know nothing about that. Deadly Arts:
Tier 2: Revealed Training. Both because it's a good damage boost and the other two suck, just read them to see why. Tier 3: Executioner. See Tier 2 comments. Critical Strikes:
Tier 2: Sundering Strikes if you're in a group lacking Vulnerability application, otherwise Practice Tolerance for damage. You'll never use pistols so Ankle Shots is out on that alone, but you have such easy access to cripple anyway that it's sorta stupid on its own merit. Tier 3: No Quarter for max damage, Invigorating Precision for survivability. Really up to you on which you need. Hidden Killer just isn't necessary. Trickery:
Tier 2: Bountiful Theft for boon stripping, I like Trickster just for making Withdraw better. Pressure Striking is for condition builds. Tier 3: Sleight of Hand is a useful daze and an even shorter cooldown for steal is really nice. Quick Pockets is nice for more init, thus more ability spam and more damage. Shadow Arts:
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OzFactor posted:I don't get why people aren't liking Daredevil, it's fun as heck (note: in open-world PvE, HoT specifically). I'm sure I'm suboptimal or whatever, but I can play the game like I'm playing Dark Souls: the only time I get hit is when I get lazy or overextend myself. I have three full dodges, Withdraw on a 15 second cooldown, all my dodges apply huge AoE conditions, I have an on-demand blind with Staff 4, a very low cooldown block in Bandit's Defense, I can't be crippled or immobilized (Staff 3), and I steal things constantly. Because I'm dumb and go for total overkill on dodging I'm using Adventurer runes, which means I get half my endurance back every time I Withdraw (again, every 15 seconds), and a Stamina sigil on my staff, which means I literally can't stop dodging. I'm whipping in and out of melee constantly, leaving everything in my wake crippled, bleeding, tormented, and swinging at nothing. It's rad. You can pretty much dodge around like whoa as a default thief anyway. Staff doesn't really do much the other weapon sets don't. Plus while a daredevil is flipping around looking cool, other specs are actually tearing mordremoth a new rear end in a top hat. Honestly the only reason to play my thief right now, mechanically, is because it's loaded with my only set of ascended gear. Otherwise I'd be Shiro/Glint Rev 24/7.
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Nov 5, 2015 23:04
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I like Shiro Rev because when playing thief I've always wanted Withdraw, Unhindered Combatant, and Physical Supremacy/Feline Grace all on one utility skill.
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Nov 6, 2015 18:43
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Harrow posted:Yeah, that's true. I'd forgotten the Mastery system's grindiness. Yea, I wouldn't care about the grindy nature of masteries if they didn't gate the story arbitrarily. I mean, it's done now and I'll never have to re-do them on alts, but first time around it's a little jarring to have the momentum of the plot killed by "go get 1 mil xp to continue" sort of stuff.
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Nov 6, 2015 19:38
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Kenshin posted:The only way to grind up those HoT masteries is doing those meta events over and over and over again. Or farm spiders if you hate yourself.
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Nov 6, 2015 19:40
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Alteisen posted:So they nerfed dungeon rewards and now nobody does them Working as intended.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:11
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lmao dota rules Actually sir, it drools.
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Nov 6, 2015 22:13
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LordHippoman posted:Finally getting a chance to play around with some of the HoT stuff, enjoying it, but it is a little bit of a grind to get the abilities. What's the quickest way to earn EXP on the Maguuma maps? I've just been event hopping. A little south of the Itzel village wp is a tree village full of veteran spiders, got through the plot masteries pretty quick running in circles with xp boosts. LordHippoman posted:Also plotwise holy poo poo, the sheer amount of things that could have been avoided if someone was smart Could just stop the sentence here.
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Nov 9, 2015 08:42
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Der Shovel posted:Sometimes I wonder if they playtested this poo poo at all. Well to do that they'd need a test server.
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Nov 9, 2015 21:21
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So, still no pics of the legendary armor?
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Nov 10, 2015 19:26
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Hefty posted:Is it this? because lmbo. Nah that's a mash of light armor.
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Nov 10, 2015 22:40
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AmericanGeeksta posted:Hmmm maybe I'll just go straight into HoT and potentially go back and do Living Season 2 when I can afford gems again. If you really need a summary of LS2 for HoT: Generic Octopus posted:You found an egg from Glint. Caithe stole the egg. Anet took a giant poo poo on Caithe in flashback missions. Mordremoth destroyed the pact fleet and started taking control of the sylvari.
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Nov 11, 2015 01:02
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Obviously SFD just needs to make a event night for farming spiders with Arus.
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Strategic Tea posted:I noticed maybe a half hour total of playing beyond when I'd gotten bored to get all the mastery I needed for the story... but then when I play, I just tend to wander wherever doing any event that catches my eye. I just didn't find a lot of the events that interesting (defend this camp! carry boxes from A to B!). I mostly just wanted to plow through the story to kill Mord and see who of this horrible cast would end up dead. Now I need to earn the right to buy poo poo from vendors for the mistward stuff and then also grind out currencies and I'm just sorta bored with it.
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Nov 12, 2015 17:57
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The mastery xp requirements seem like a half-hearted attempt to pad the play time so their $20-30 xpac feels like a $50 one.
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Libertine posted:I'm leveling up a new character in the main game and think I'm going to buy the expansion. Does the expansion have any pre-80 content or is that a dumb question (like usually MMOs don't). Is there any reason to buy it before I get this guy to 80 or just do it then? Revenant is incredible, and has the added bonus of no in-game explanation for the player character, so when an npc starts using it in the HoT story and everyone's all "Ooooh how you do!?" you get to sit the corner looking all  because apparently no one noticed you channeling dead spirits for the last ~2 years.
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ItBurns posted:Rytlock doesn't have a girlfriend. Logan???
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Relax guys, I'm sure anet will release an infinite rune extractor for 2000 gems.
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Nov 17, 2015 17:15
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Nov 17, 2015 20:05
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On the plus side, once you're leveled Rev is the best thing ever. Wish I'd made ascended heavy armor instead of medium; maybe some day.
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I'm disappointed that there aren't strength and dependence sliders for true customization.
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Nov 19, 2015 18:14
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Thyrork posted:Bring Back Elona. Can't wait to see the response to that xpac. A bunch of white human females gliding in on angel wings to save the proud Elonan people from slavery under the tyrant Joko.
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Nov 20, 2015 18:27
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Mikemo Tyson posted:So I've been splitting my time between a mesmer and a necro. They are both fun but the necro feels a lot stronger and having a permanent speed buff is nice. Will it be hard to find groups as a reaper or should I stick to my mesmer if I want to be useful? I don't really do PvP stuff. It won't even matter if you don't have ascended gear to pass the gear-check required for endgame content.
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Nov 21, 2015 03:48
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Maybe they should change the Mistward Headwrap requirement from Chak Gerent to something people actually do, because I this rate I'll never get the drat thing.
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Sprite141 posted:Got it like my first chak kill in the depths. I actually like that place, seems really neat. AzureSkye posted:Its 100% droprate I'm pretty sure, the problem is actually getting the kill. Yea, it's guaranteed. The problem is getting 4 lanes that all succeed. 4-5 attempts this week and it gets hosed every time.
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Farbror posted:Anyone have some advice for a thief wanting to raid? It's hard to find builds among all the people losing their minds about how much we apparently suck in other forums. Right now I think the meta thief build is to roll another class. I know that's unhelpful but I'm one of those people who find thief to be kinda bad compared to other classes post-xpac. I mean I still use it sometimes because it's got my only set of ascended for fractals but yea, way more into Rev in HoT. If I ever get ascended heavy, I don't think I'll go back. To be somewhat more helpful, psure the ideal thief build is still Power (Zerker), using Deadly Arts, Crit Strikes, and choice of Daredevil or Trickery.
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"Organized TD Meta/Gerent, please get on our guild's teamspeak and join squad and-" NUHOCH HAS FAILED "Oh well, nice try guys see ya in 2 hours"
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Magres posted:Did ascended gear recipes change when HoT came out? One of my friends has been talking about how ANet made them way, way harder to craft but they look about the same to me - just as miserable and time-consuming as ever. The new stat arrays are a pain to make iirc, and also they introduced Damask Patches (made from Damask & Elonian Leather) as a replacement component where just plain Damask used to be. It sucks.
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Alteisen posted:Can you buy hero points With like, money? No. But you can via WvW.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Yeah, instead of keeping me playing it's more it's turning me off Just run Chak Gerent until your soul dies, then you won't care about such thing. "Hey guys join our gerent guild, we got 3/4 lanes last time!" 
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