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explosivo posted:

So when do I get my mount as a level 80 going back through the old content? I got one on the alt I made within like an hour so I feel like I should be prioritizing whatever I need to do to get the basic mount.

According to the wiki, you probably don't (for now), unless you unlock any expansion. Looks like the permanent, account-wide raptor unlock at level 10 is only for expansion-havers.

Otherwise, each character gets a 10-hour trial raptor when they first hit level 10 (or the next multiple of 10, for older characters). Since your old character is already 80, you might get it by earning a spirit shard from xp or you might not get it at all.

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 20:28

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iGestalt posted:

I'm a little torn on what profession to play. I've never been a fan of Thief in GW2, so what I'd normally end up playing is right out.

Instead I was thinking Warrior, but I can't help but feel it's a bit.. bland? I'm torn on what else I might enjoy - but nothing really appeals. Does Warrior become more engaging at higher levels / more flashy?

Revenant or Guardian makes for a flashy Warrior, they combine magic effects and heavy armor. Engineer gets all sorts of things that go boom.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2022 18:11

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iGestalt posted:

I was contemplating Guardian. I don't typically go for 'Paladin' types but it looks like it could be a little more engaging than a Warrior would be. Ideally something that can use two-handed weapons (GS / Hammer are good fun on Warrior) is a plus.

I love hammer on Guardians, even though it's not really part of their meta right now. They get a leaping overhead smash on a short cooldown and another attack that launches enemies into the air.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2022 19:22

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Mr. Pickles posted:

HELLO KITTY PRINCESS HOOOO

I am also playing this marvelous gem of a game

Considering Birthday dyes, should I just opt for the best looking ones for myself, or just get the most expensive ones to sell? Should get more than 100g if I sell, but wondering if gold in this game is a priority or not

Dyes received from birthday gifts are account-bound, they can't be sold.

Personally, I look up the birthday dye pack on the wiki (for example, here's the fourth birthday dye pack: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jubilant_Dye_Pack) and use my API key to see which ones I don't have yet. If there are any that I want, I choose one of those. Mostly, I just pick whichever one is the most expensive, on the basis that it saves me from having to buy it later if I decide to do something weird like a complete dye collection.

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# ¿ Aug 30, 2022 08:57

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Luggage posted:

Regarding mount skins: are there any that make Skyscale or Griffon smaller? I always like flying mounts that take up as little screen space as possible, like flying discs or clouds.

According to the wiki, mount size actually scales with the height slider from character creation. So you could use a makeover kit to set your height and mounts to the smallest size. Assuming you haven't already, since you might also prefer characters that take up minimal screen space

# ¿ Aug 31, 2022 20:38

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Luggage posted:

I wish there was another way to get your hands on Glyphs for infinite gathering tools other than drop luck from BLCs or buying them at horrendous prices from the TP.
I don't mind G.o.Volatility only paying for itself after 28k+ strikes and G.o.Watchknight after 20k+ strikes, but the upfront cost of (at the time of writing) 650 gold (i.e. $ 40+) for three is intimidating for someone without thousands of hours in the game.

That being said, can someone recommend a cheaper glyph (up to 50ish gold) they found useful for specific ingame farming goals other than "additional gold per strike"? Right now I am eyeing Timekeeper and Scavenger.

Some of the cash shop gathering tools come with glyphs attached, which you can remove and put on other tools, if you want.

My personal preference is for Industry glyphs on my mining and logging tools, which generally allows me to land my skyscale, gather, and remount before nearby mobs can get a hit in. Given the large number of times you can find plants nearby each other, I use a Reaping glyph on my harvesting tool.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2022 13:21

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Canach? He's a villain-turned-ally introduced in Southsun portion of LS1, which hasn't been restored yet. He's generally regarded as the least annoying of the PC's companions.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2022 05:49

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trunkh posted:

Dumb question, but how many dailies are there for what content?

If I can only get 1 done a day I rather the one with the best gold return

You can do every daily available, if you want. There's just a 2 gold bonus if you do a total of at least 3 dailies out of the PvP, WvW, and central Tyria PvE ones.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2022 03:14

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CODChimera posted:

the jade bot upgrades being character specific hurts

Definitely more of a pain in the rear end than swapping gathering tools, but at least they're account bound and not character bound.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2022 18:51

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Mr. Neutron posted:

Vindicator is getting second dodge back. Not sure how I feel about that.

a double jump?!

# ¿ Sep 16, 2022 21:29

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HampHamp posted:

Cheers for the tips, but I'm a bit weird and don't even like seeing the new zones until I get to them through the story.

You're not the first to say that in this thread. To the best of my knowledge, the rate of people who later post saying they regret that decision is close to 100%.

efb

HampHamp posted:

Maybe I'll give core necro a try until I've got a few more points to spend. The reaper elite spec was only going to be temporary until I do group content, as scourge seems better for that, so it won't be a huge deal. Although I did like swinging a big sword around!

Any suggestions for a core necromancer spec?

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Necromancer_-_Core_Minion_Necromancer

# ¿ Sep 19, 2022 18:49

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Mr. Neutron posted:

Whatver they do please don't let it be time travel.

They only revived LS1 so the next LS can be time-travelling back to prevent young Scarlet from going bad and bringing her back to the present day to deal with the Void. Scarlet and Taimi will be the PC's constant companions in every episode.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2022 19:02

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GetDunked posted:

Char engineers that are just cats with mounted rifles/pistols

Stray MMO lookin good

# ¿ Sep 30, 2022 20:30

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Ineptitude posted:

I too have a mountain of spirit shards.

Never done any spirit shard conversions to gold before, though i have heard of mystic forge gambling.

Threw 4 stacks of bronze ingots to make iron ingots. Got 40 ingots 4 times, literally the smallest possible amount 4 times.

8/10 name-post combo

# ¿ Oct 2, 2022 00:46

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Grizzled Patriarch posted:

lol there's currently an organized mourning for the loss of Black Citadel Core 2.0

idgi

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 00:31

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Kris xK posted:

Also we need them for the Legendary Ammy which I realized today.

There's also one you can make with sPvP rewards, if you're into that

# ¿ Oct 7, 2022 01:49

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where the red fern gropes posted:

unless you're legitimately a god gamer i wouldn't bother, this thing has at least twice the APM of any other spec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD-lFDhGcHA

If you're just looking for a Ranger spec instead of an EoD spec, power soulbeast is still an avalanche of burst damage. The nerf a year or two ago just made them not completely overpowered.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2022 15:35

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Dzurlord posted:

So I got my first character to 80, and am messing around with Pink Floaty Knives. Which is fun and all, but I've just gotten through the first Thorns map and it seems like I'm really feeling the lack of non raptor mounts, and the jade bots seem helpful and... so should I jump through some living world or other xpack content and then come back? Something else?

Definitely get the springer or skyscale for getting around HoT. Springer is much less time investment, but skyscale w/ masteries you can switch between mount and glider and back to hit updrafts

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 17:28

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I feel like there's a great alternative, but the folks who run the wiki probably won't go for it

# ¿ Nov 1, 2022 16:01

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drat Dirty Ape posted:

The achievement I was going for was 'Leave No Survivors'

I got this cheevo a few weeks ago on my condi virtuoso and it worked okay for me. There's sufficient space between the spawns at 7 & 10 that you should be able to trigger and kill 7 without worrying about 10. I approached 10 from the northwest and it triggered normally (ie standing on the floor) without aggroing, so I was able to go wax the spawns at 11 before coming back to 10

# ¿ Nov 4, 2022 18:28

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where the red fern gropes posted:

the playable character is the second one from the left, not sure what the devs were thinking with the naked guy

That's not Braham?

# ¿ Dec 6, 2022 17:55

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big cummers ONLY posted:

Thanks for all the tips, I joined a guild and played a bunch tonight. I think I will purchase content because I like the game and want to use the AH. What's the smart way to buy in? There seem to be a lot of things going on.

The first two expansions (only available as a bundle) may still be on sale? If not, they almost certainly will be for Xmas. That will unlock permanent account-wide mounts and let you collect Tyrian mastery points so you can grab the autoloot mastery, which is a game-changer

# ¿ Dec 10, 2022 07:46

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haven't really been into any of the other plushie things they've done, but I do like that turt

# ¿ Dec 13, 2022 21:16

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Firebrand got a pretty major change in the latest round of patches, so I'm not sure any site has an updated build right now.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2022 00:49

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The EoD one is pretty good. Besides the regular cities portal (and "return to where you left" like mistlock and guild halls), the fishing zones portal can take you to something like 16-20 different maps. Jade bot workbench, fishing vendor, and the zipline to the fishing portal will charge up your jade bot.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2023 06:20

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Mailer posted:

Yay I failed over to the good thing!

I don't ever see myself as the guy with all the legendaries because A) no raiding due to timeslot and B) I left my tryhard endgame raider status in TBC-era WoW, so I'm happy just completing things and playing lots of classes/roles and stopping at pink gear. Once I have a handle on all of the mechanics I'll probably roll a second character for a more dedicated support using whatever is the FotM at the time.

Unless you particularly want the armor skins or ring visual effects from raiding, you can get legendary gear other ways. Armor can be had from doing a lot of WvW or sPvP, and the ring from WvW isn't unique, so you can make it twice.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2023 22:40

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Mailer posted:

It's not really my cup of tea, but I used to do my dumb pvp requirement every week in Destiny 2 so I'm not above doing it for loot. How much of a participation trophy can I walk away with from PvP/WvW in random matchmaking?

If you WvW'd for about 4-5 hours a week, it would probably take less than 4 weeks to get the currency (Testimonies of Jade Heroics) needed for enough hero points to complete an elite spec on a character.

It would take a bit more net WvWing time if you tried to do it all in 1 week; the early tiers of the weekly skirmish reward track take less time to complete.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2023 05:53

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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

If you didn't care about doing the story in order, what would you say is the optimal route of unlocking the game and masteries to get the most important stuff unlocked on a fresh account?

I'd say probably PoF until you got raptor/springer/skimmer unlocked and upgraded > HoT until you got gliding and updraft and meta waypoints > EoD all the way to the end for globalization 30g a week and jade bot scavenger loot > season 4 > icebrood saga for drizzlewood and essence chests and grothmar events > season 3, particulary bitterfrost for filling in ascended trinket gaps > everything else for return achievements.

Am I far off on that?

I don't know when Central Tyrian masteries unlock these days, but I'd pause all that to immediately beeline for autoloot.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2023 22:54

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Luggage posted:

How long would you estimate does one full EoD story run on one character take and how much more per character I'd want the Jade Bot on after that?

Jade bot cores and the other 2 upgrades are only account-bound and can be shuffled between characters, like gathering tools and most ascended gear. You just need to go somewhere with a workbench, like SFD guildhall or the crafters area on the second floor of Arborstone

# ¿ Jan 9, 2023 12:39

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Mailer posted:

* In big zerg swarms for a public event, ALWAYS tag the big beefy boss or the mobs that come to attack the escort or whatever quest-relevant enemies exist. Otherwise you don't get credit. Conversely, if you've already done a bunch of damage to the boss/mobs, maybe hang a bit and don't be a dick who deletes everything asap before anyone else can even react.

As far as I can tell, the key to getting kill credit is to use anything besides the auto-attack. Hit them with the mount's engage or weapon skills 2-5. Autoattacking after that is fine

# ¿ Jan 10, 2023 03:19

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Mailer posted:

So I've been trying to work out "the usual thing" on a daily basis. So far I've got:

Do dailies.
Do EoD dailies.
Do daily T1+rec fractals.
Go hit fireworks to get festival daily.
Pray to the gods that maybe you score a group for a daily strike. If you get groups for both, buy a lottery ticket.
If a group for multiple non-daily strikes happens, go do that.

After that I'm kind of lost. Do ya'll just check the timers and roam the world looking for commander tags to hopefully get in on some metas? Do public strikes ever actually happen?

You might consider grabbing the World Boss Portal Device from the gem store. It's a free teleport to whichever world boss events are about to start, so there's always a thing to do.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2023 03:12

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whydirt posted:

I think the closest style is https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Profane_armor

I was thinking the same thing for the female set. To me, the armor that seems closest to the male set are the refined and perfected light envoy sets.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2023 01:48

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gorrick gonna stuff his brain into a golem and wear a huge-brimmed hat

# ¿ Jan 26, 2023 20:32

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kirbysuperstar posted:

Conditions are annoying for any structures or whatever for events/hearts that don't take them I guess

Also, pre-expansion destroyers are immune to burning and there's a few hearts that require killing them.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2023 16:24

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Do wvw weeklies reset at the same time as skirmish track (Friday evening, US)?

# ¿ Jan 31, 2023 22:56

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AmbientParadox posted:

Guild Wars 2: The MMO for Bottoms

seems legit

# ¿ Feb 11, 2023 18:45

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Meowywitch posted:

Trip report: I have no idea what I'm doing on Rev but I push a bunch of buttons and things die so that's cool

If you've levelled up enough to unlock elite skills, going for a mace+axe tanky condi build and swapping between the dwarf hammer aura and the demon elite torment aura while using weapon skills 2-4 off cooldown is still pretty boss. Keep a staff as a backup weapon: staff 5 + dwarf chains will destroy pretty much any breakbar

# ¿ Feb 25, 2023 07:30

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Giving another non-thief initiative? Seems legit

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 18:18

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Seconding tanky condi rev for wvw for those bad at pvp. I win fights far more often than normal (ie more than not at all) just using my general pve rev build.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2023 01:36

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 20:28

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Or TSW/SWL. The player character doesn't talk, but every quest giver goes on for a while about every single quest.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2023 00:41

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