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goattrails posted:Someone in the old thread talked about it being difficult to activate the scrappers function gyro to revive people. That's because I'm an idiot trying to target a mesmer in the middle of an Arah bossfight while also throwing grenades. Turns out I'm bad at clicking things!
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Jerkops posted:Unlikely for those reading this thread but I wonder if I'm the only one here who logs in (when I remember to) for the chest, has a pang of ennui and logs out again immediately after That's how I felt for a while, but then my friends started playing again and we had a lot of fun with the beta weekend. Now I'm having fun leveling a necromancer even when I'm playing solo. If nothing's grabbing you, take a break. It's not like you're losing out on a subscription fee!
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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. I just used my usual 3 Kit build: Rifle + Zerk/Valk/Knight/Cav gear + Grenades, FT, EG, Mortar. Explosives and Firearms for the extra vuln on explosions and Juggernaut. Then I swapped in some scrapper stuff, used Hammer with Recovery Matrix, Mass Momentum and Perfectly Weighted. It's nothing special, but I enjoyed it. It worked well enough for a 3-person Arah P2 run. (Stealth drone was occasionally amazing for the stealth sections.) You could get it really tanky if you swap some traits around.
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Krakatoah posted:Would you mind if I joined starting over with you? I want to give this game another spin since the expansion is coming up soon and I hear Engineer's had quite a lot of changes...Could someone go over them for me and maybe other changes to other classes I might give a spin even though Engineer is likely to be my 'main'. There have been so many changes, both large overhauls and minor tweaks, that you're better off just approaching the class as if you've never heard of it before than trying to compare it to what you played before. Obviously the core class is the same, but if you stopped playing before any of the major trait overhauls, that alone will be a lot to explain. Or you could give us a more specific time period and we'll try to catch you up to what's changed since then. /r/GuildWars2 has a useful wiki page for returning players, too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/wiki/returningplayers
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Degs posted:As for engi, I was wondering why he felt just substantically weaker than my ele. Turns out when I left he was in full MF gear and I never reselected stats for his gear. Wheeeeeee grenades for daaaays Engineer does great with condi builds, and pistol/shield (or pistol/pistol) are the weapons of choice. Dire fits in pretty well with that, though not as good as Rabid or Sinister would.
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Harrow posted:I said earlier I want the Chronomancer runes, and I do, but weirdly enough I think they might actually be better on Necromancer, since Chronomancer can give out a good amount of Quickness as it is. Scrapper runes would also work well for a tanky Reaper build, since you're going to be in the thick of combat. The stats are the same, anyway.
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Ciaphas posted:Reposting 'cause I don't want to drop 50 bones on this if nothing's really changed for me If you literally don't have a single character at level 80, then there's nothing in HoT for you. Pretty much all the HoT-exclusive content requires being level 80.
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Ciaphas posted:Oh well. Thanks for saving me 50+ bones You're welcome! I hope you find a class that clicks for you. You're missing out on a lot of content in the base game alone...
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Harrow posted:Yeah, it's absolutely the only option. I do wonder if they're planning on giving us something to spend those extra 150 points (that I admittedly don't have yet) on or if it's just "hang onto them for the next expansion." Considering map completion would leave you hanging around with 200+ points before HoT, I'm guessing they're happy to let the hero points sit on your character until the next elite spec.
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Xae posted:Pretty Princess Chat: Necromancer Edition I haven't seen the reaper's hood, but the Flame Legion Vestments look downright ragged. Unfortunately, they also make your arms fiery (and tail, if you're a charr), which doesn't necessarily work well for a necromancer.
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J3ng4 posted:You get these from the frog dudes like everyone says. Also the recipes don't just require normal Gossamer Padding or whatever they use Oiled versions which required Linseed Oil (a new crafted material). I made a set on my Mesmer last night and as of right now I would NOT suggest it unless you have ~110g+ as the new materials are expensive as gently caress right now. You can get the Inscriptions from doing the Story Achievements and random drops. Apparently you can farm Linseed Oil by doing one of the HoT story chapters, I think the first chapter? (Not the prologue, the one after.) One of the paths in that chapter gives Linseed Oil as a reward. (So says the wiki.) Generic Octopus posted: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. All the time gated stuff is a pain, but yeah, it's not really that bad once you get crafting to 500. Solumin fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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ItBurns posted:People either missed this or are ignoring it because ~lol meta~ but no, sinister is excellent on a handful of classes and passable on a few more. The new Viper's stat set (Condition Damage, Power, Precision, Expertise (condition duration)) could supersede Sinister for some of these builds. From what I've seen, you trade a little bit of Condition Damage* and Precision for more Power and Condition Duration. It's pretty attractive if you have direct damage. I'm planning on outfitting my Reaper with Viper's weapons and trinkets, which when combined with the condition duration foods (which have been nerfed) will give ~50% condition duration. Add in Runes of Grenth for 100% Chill duration! *I'm not entirely sure of the numbers, but the 4-stat sets have ~85% main stats compared to the regular 3-stat sets. So an Ascended Sinister pistol has 125 Condition Damage/90 Power/90 Precision, while an Ascended Viper's pistol has 108 Condition Damage, 108 Power, 59 Precision, 59 Expertise. Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I don't know if you saw but training the first rank of dragon hunter unlocked a collection for an ascended long now you can choose that stats for. Do we know which stats you can choose? Usually you're limited to the default ones, but being able to choose Sinister or Viper's would make it worth using...
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Uziduke posted:Are you sure its ascended? On my warrior when I unlocked zker I got a exotic torch. You get an exotic weapon when you start training, which unlocks a Specialization Collection that gives you an ascended version. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Specialization_Collections
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forkbucket posted:Wouldn't you be able to use the mystic forge thing to change it like any other ascended weapon?  I didn't know that's a thing!!On the other hand, all of these collections require Level 4 in each of the HoT masteries, as far as I can tell.
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Your Computer posted:What's the best course of action when it comes to excess materials for someone who doesn't have the Are you talking about crafting mats? In that case, refine them if possible, which will at least give you time until your material storage fills up with refined mats. If it's stuff you can't salvage, can't sell on the TP and can't sell to vendors... well, destroy it if it's nothing useful.  If it's things that could be useful, get a 15, 18 or 20 slot invisible bag and stick it in there.If it's stuff that you can use, then use it! Especially boosters. The bonuses are so minor that it doesn't really matter if you have them or not. (Except crafting boosters. Those are useful if you're leveling a crafting discipline.)
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I said come in! posted:Are there known issues with Guild Wars 2 on the Nvidia GTX 970? That's the only recent upgrade i've made and Guild Wars 2 is now unplayable on my PC. It ran fantastic on my previous card, GTX 460. The load times have also massively increased, over 1 minute. I just upgraded to a GTX 970 too. I never had trouble before this, but now I'm getting black screens and occasionally full crashes. It happened once (or twice) before HoT, too.
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Harrow posted:Stop temping me to finally get an SSD. I drop enough money on my silly gaming hobby as it is. Seconding getting an SSD. I have one just for my OS, and it makes a huge difference for boot times. There's an SSD megathread in SHSC, but they're going to tell you the same thing Arus is: A Samsung 850 EVO (or 840 EVO) is your best bet. (I should totally upgrade my SSD...)
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LemonAIDS posted:Just beat the story and I felt like some parts were unique to being a Silvari. Are there any differences in the story if you are/aren't Silvari? Yes, a lot of the story is different based on your race. Obviously in HoT, it's going to be way different for sylvari compared to everyone else. It's one of the subtle, cool things in GW2.
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brainSnakes posted:Are any of the new stat setups cool? I've been as happy with my assassin's gear on scrapper as I was power rifle, so I haven't really looked into them. I did find some book to let me craft minstrel chest pieces in some ship wreck pod, though. Marauder's (Power, Precision, Ferocity, Vitality) and Viper's (Power, Condition Damage, Precision, Condition Duration) are both looking really good. Minstrel (Toughness, Healing Power, Vitality, Boon Duration) was popular in PvP until it was banned, afaik. They provide an interesting balance between the old 3-stat sets. Marauder's is basically Berserker x Valkyries, for example, while Viper's is great for hybrid builds. The added condition duration and boon duration on the other sets are really nice for some builds, too. Here's a full list: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3pwdzu/new_stats_and_specialization_runes/
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Rakeris posted:Man ya'll making me want to level a necro now just for reaper. I did, it's worth it. But then again I love shout builds just for the sheer silliness of them.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Edit: screw my Rev and a hypothetical Guardian, I'm power-leveling my necro I did exactly this and haven't looked back. Reaper has some incredibly good traits to complement some really powerful skills.
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I'm doing a hybrid power/condi (i.e. viper's) build. Right now I'm in all Carrion gear and it works fine, but i'm going to upgrade my weapons and trinkets to Viper's. A power/crit build (Lots of power and ferocity, some precision) also works great, considering how easy it is to get >100% crit chance with Reaper. Throw in some Vitality (Valkyrie, or Marauder) and you're pretty much set. As for runes... I don't know, Grength or Ice if you want to do chill stuff? If you're good, Runes of the Scholar are still the way to go, especially since the bonus is based on your health. Trigger reaper's shroud while your health is above the threshold and you'll get the damage bonus the entire time.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:Chill is less useful in PvE now, enemies with breakbars (which is anything that you'd want to chill up their cooldowns) now ignores the effects of control conditions, where they didn't in the Defiance system. Other way around, actually. "Soft" CC like Chill definitely does affect break bars, but not as much as hard CC does. Try chilling a rolling devil, for example. AFAIK soft CC didn't affect Defiance at all. Plus the Deathly Chill trait turns Chill into a damaging condition with pretty great scaling. On the other hand, it's competing with Reaper's Onslaught, which is amazingly good too.
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Ah, OK, I see what you mean. I agree with you on the runes -- you get an extra 20% duration bonus to Chill anyway as a Reaper minor trait, so boosting Burning or condition duration in general is a better idea. 4 Runes of the Nightmare + 2 Runes of the Trapper gets you an extra 10% condition duration at the cost of 75 condition damage, compared to 5 Runes of the Nightmare. Or you could throw on a Black Diamond (viper's jewel) for the Expertise, not that it would help much. Solumin fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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What kind of nice things do you want? Your best bet is to find something you like on the wiki, then find out how to get it. There's galleries for all the weapons (check the subcategories) and galleries for armor. (Check the side bar for your race + armor class.) After that it's just a matter of farming the necessary resources. Edit: Fixed weapon gallery link Solumin fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Spooky Bear Ghost posted:E: this only really counts for verdant brink. Auric basin and Dragon's Stand require you to be in an organized map. Twisted depths is a whole other can of chak that i havent mastered gently caress Twisted Depths. I cannot figure that map out and I kind of hate it right now. Maybe it'll be easier once I get Nuhoch Wallows? Who knows. I like Auric Basin a lot, but at this rate I'm never going to get the last 2 hero challenges. One of them Leyline Gliding, and the other requires successfully clearing the map's meta event.  (There's one more that requires Wallows or Leyline Gliding. I'll get it soon enough.)
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CLAM DOWN posted:If this is the one west of the falls, you can get there with an experimental rifle. Check dulfy for the video. I knew about that, but haven't grabbed a rifle because I'm lazy.  That, and dulfy suggests having multiple players tackle it... Though maybe I can solo it as a necro!
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YoshiOfYellow posted:I think the only thing they'd need to do to tune mastery experience to something not rear end is to just tone the requirements down to what a typical level's worth of EXP is and then scale up gradually from there rather than starting at the relatively huge numbers and going up to insanity. The masteries are equivalent to a couple levels each. You need 254,000 experience to gain a level when you're at level 80. Level 1 masteries are 508,000, or 2 levels. Level 2 masteries are 4 levels, level 3 are 7 levels... OK yeah, that's a lot of experience. The last tier of the Legendary Crafting mastery is 20 levels worth of XP! So really they could cut the XP in half and it would be more fun, probably. Farbror posted:Unrelated to HoL really, but I can't find good info on this on the wiki and I'm dumb. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_trinkets
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Fractals are fun if you just started doing them  One fractal at a time is much less overwhelming than having to run 3 in a row or whatever. AmericanGeeksta posted:So I'm relatively new to this game, and I'm about to get my first character to 80 (a warrior). What are common mistakes new/firsttime 80s make? I don't think you can really make mistakes in this game? I don't know, as long as you're not doing anything like, say, selling all of your mats right before you start crafting things. You could get the Mentor icon from that one Mastery instead of a commander tag.
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I have a few small goals I want to reach, like pretty princessing, crafting certain gear, or doing certain content. Sometimes I want to level an alt. If friends are playing (I'm not in the goon guilds) then I'll do what they're doing. (And if I seriously wanted to play when none of them are interested, I know I can hit up this thread and find people.) Otherwise? Well, GW2 is free. There's no obligation to keep playing if you're bored. I've already got my money's worth for the base game. Play other games. Don't burn out on GW2.
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Reaper. Two gigantic health pools, plenty of healing, and insane damage. Not to mention pretty great utility: GS 3 gives 12 stacks of Vuln and refills your life force, GS 4 is an area blind, GS 5 is a big pull that can grab multiple targets. Not to mention the sheer joy of yelling "YOUR SOUL IS MINE!" or "NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU!" as you cut down swathes of enemies  From what I've heard, Ranger is ~ok~ in HoT, and the new pets are really cool.
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Ciaphas posted:I'm closing in on 80. What should I do first to get on track to opening up Reaper? I'm proud of you. Only thing you need to do to unlock Reaper is to train everything else in the class, which you will be able to do with all the hero points you earn when you reach level 80. Laphroaig posted:11/04/2015 – November 4 Release Notes I'm quite possibly the only Reaper using this trait, and I can't tell if this is a buff or nerf or just a simplification. The base damage used to be 194 (290 if below 50% health) at level 80. The extra condi damage multiplier is nice though, that brings it up to +30 damage for every 100 condition damage -- that's nearly double the damage from burning, though Chill doesn't stack so whatever.
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Considering I keep crashing in the first 5 minutes of the game, I'm not sure my issue is RAM. (The issue is probably my graphics card  sometimes I make it an hour or two in though, and I've only had a real "GW2 has crashed, send error report?" deal once in HoT.)malhavok posted:I like that trait too and i can't make heads or tails out of that either. I understand a fair bit of it, but I don't have enough numbers to figure out exactly what the change is. Or if "adjust the damage ratio" is something separate or detailed by the subsequent sentences. I was writing up a whole post about math, but the wiki's been updated: Base damage is now 202, with +30 damage for every 100 condition damage. (Or, 30% of your condition damage is added to the chill damage.) 300 condition damage will put you at the same damage chill did when the enemy was below the threshold. In fact, at 1500 condition damage (a pretty solid number) you'll be doing ~the exact same amount of damage per second. So yeah, it's basically a slight simplification, a nerf if you don't have condition damage, and slightly worse downscaling. Edit: Assuming the wiki is correct. Harrow posted:I'm very glad that I chose male asura for my Necromancer, because he seriously nails all of the shouts. The male charr also does a great job, he's very threatening!
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I'm running a condition build but I still agree with the above. Reaper's Onslaught is the way to go unless you're really focusing conditions, and even then getting another Soul Spiral quickly is pretty awesome. The only reason I can think to take Deathly Chill over Reaper's Onslaught is when you're fighting a boss/champion with few adds and you have some condi damage. There you might find the +15% attack speed doesn't outweigh the extra chill damage, maybe. Reaper has some incredibly good traits.
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