The Guild Wars 2 Thread

[Average Manatee]

You need to learn to save your money

I have more money then I can spend right now. Even if I was EXTREME JEWING and trying to become the richest person in GW2 it would be far faster to make several gold in half an hour of trading spread over 20 levels (most of it while running from point A to point B anyway, so not wasting any time at all) rather then spend half an hour running back and forth across the map to complete a karma set I want and save 5s.

FWIW I do have enough money in GW1 to buy max armor for over 1,000 characters (I think it's closer to 10k but good luck trying to convert everything I have into gold). So I'm definitely at least an ULTRA JEW.

Uh.. Experience so I can level up? Money to buy things with?
Uh, no, you seem to be confusing the dynamic events (orange circles) vs the renown (heart) quests. The dynamic events are the ones that are similar to WAR's public quests. You do get specific rewards from these on completion often. I usually get a couple blues each time. AND I get money and karma. Sometimes you have to loot the boss or open a chest or something. But these do not make up 80% of the PVE.

You don't get specific rewards from them often at all. Only from chests that come from the end of the biggest quests in an area (usually a quest chain that only fires once every hour or few hours). The drops are also almost always crap, and even when they aren't they are merely the same stuff you get from drops everywhere else.

 

[Ulminati]

It just had to be a fucking midget, didn't it?

Now he just needs to make the other legendary greatsword, twilight and farm the ingredients to turn both of them into Eternity, which is Sunrise by day and Twilight by night.

I wish I was making this up.

There are unique, karma-bought level 80 exotic items in the game. For instance, the PVE Armageddon set is purchasable in one of the orr tempels once the event line is complete for ~60k karma per set piece. I got some pretty neat weapon skins to transmute for ~20k karma apiece.

So karma is not useless as a currency, as you would know were you not a monumental retard.

 

[markec]

Not to mention if you choose cooking for your crafting skill you need karma to buy all exotic and bulk package ingredients.

 

[Average Manatee]

So karma is not useless as a currency, as you would know were you not a monumental retard.

Useless unless you are a grind-happy MMOtard who wants pointless shiny shit. Is that good enough?

Maybe I should preface every post in this thread with this line since Ulminati doesn't seem to understand that grinding for hours on end is what idiots do.

It's also not a currency by definition since it can't be traded between characters (which would make those ridiculously high sets actually reasonable). It's more of a consolation equipment prize for people who haven't figured out how to access the trade post.

Not to mention if you choose cooking for your crafting skill you need karma to buy all exotic and bulk package ingredients.

Yeah, thats the "edge cases" thing. Crafting in general is useless for anything other than an (expensive) XP boost, so this still doesn't make Karma of much use.

 

[Mangoose]

The drops are also almost always crap, and even when they aren't they are merely the same stuff you get from drops everywhere else.

> Implying that somehow the dynamic event loot tables are shittier than the overland map loot tables.

Useless unless you are a grind-happy MMOtard who wants pointless shiny shit. Is that good enough?

> Implying that any other reward in a vidya game has a point.
> Implying that Thane Solus doesn't just want pointless shiny shit.

 

[Average Manatee]

The drops are also almost always crap, and even when they aren't they are merely the same stuff you get from drops everywhere else.

> Implying that somehow the dynamic event loot tables are shittier than the overland map loot tables.

They aren't shittier, but when you get 3 items for a long dynamic event chain but 15-20 items of the same quality along the way just from drops, the event overall isn't exactly adding much. And most events are giving you nothing at all.

Useless unless you are a grind-happy MMOtard who wants pointless shiny shit. Is that good enough?

> Implying that any other reward in a vidya game has a point.
> Implying that Thane Solus doesn't just want pointless shiny shit.

Could be skills or traits. That would make a point (GW1 gave skills for this stuff btw).

> Implying that I could give a fuck about Thane Solus or what he wants.

 

[RK47]

Got my first 60 tokens on Guardian.
Was pretty hectic run. Got wiped once in Honor of the Waves - but got the boss down. I popped Elite Heals cause doing damage seems like a crap shoot. Everyone's too busy trying to stay alive, so I might as well focus on healing spec in the future. We run with another guardian anyway, so it's best if he takes point while I make the green numbers float.
Satisfied with the reward overall, but not seeing the fun in here. Skipped all the cutscene cause the guild group was doing explorable, no sense in slowing them down.

Arenanet still doesn't understand 'fun doesn't mean loot' in instances. IMO.

As for Midget doing it - they need to compensate for their lack of something.
I recall even WoW had a faction farming quest to gain access to White Tiger mount and this gnome did that. Amazing what some people do online.
Just like that night elf chick bedding a dude for epic flying mount.

Woohoo.



Off to heal-spec I go in my Em Em Oh.\
Will this work?

 

[Thane Solus]

but based on how well you did in the PQ but i remember geting specific type of items if i played that PQ for more time

uh..karma is like...usable from 1-80. I still fail to see why this is a problem.
Isn't it great to have a reward that is never obsolete?

The problem is, that is did some event and i get Karma that i can use at some point, i want a specific reward even useless on that event. So i can remember that, and maybe even use it. Whats the purpose of doing those events then? Fun? They are not that good.
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well, then don't play the fucking game, usually games are to have fun with, not for receiving some virtual rewards, lol

I dont anymore, i was just wondering what you guys smoked.

 

[Konjad]

but based on how well you did in the PQ but i remember geting specific type of items if i played that PQ for more time

uh..karma is like...usable from 1-80. I still fail to see why this is a problem.
Isn't it great to have a reward that is never obsolete?

The problem is, that is did some event and i get Karma that i can use at some point, i want a specific reward even useless on that event. So i can remember that, and maybe even use it. Whats the purpose of doing those events then? Fun? They are not that good.
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well, then don't play the fucking game, usually games are to have fun with, not for receiving some virtual rewards, lol

I dont anymore, i was just wondering what you guys smoked.

Oh, ok then. I misunderstood you. Still, you shouldn't criticize someone for liking something you don't. I mean - damn, I'm fine with people liking Skyrim or Oblivion as long as they don't say these are great examples of cRPGs or start lying that they are complex or something. Everyone's has his taste, let people enjoy what they do.

 

[RK47]

Yeah, and fuck Dragon Age 2.

 

[Kane]

Still, you shouldn't criticize someone for liking something you don't.

Can I... Can I... Can I see you for a minute? What was that? WHAT WAS THAT? You wanna be a poster on RPGwatch? Because you're not. You see any actual content in your posts? We critize the shit out of everything here. Well, what are you gonna do? Gonna talk about gay romances and cutscenes? Gonna find a little thread and tell people to stop critizising poor developers for overloading their game with gay romance and QTE, because you like them? You thought? You thought! How is that working out for you? Not very well. I do NOT wanna have this discussion again.

 

[Konjad]

Still, you shouldn't criticize someone for liking something you don't.

Can I... Can I... Can I see you for a minute? What was that? WHAT WAS THAT? You wanna be a poster on RPGwatch? Because you're not. You see any actual content in your posts? We critize the shit out of everything here. Well, what are you gonna do? Gonna talk about gay romances and cutscenes? Gonna find a little thread and tell people to stop critizising poor developers for overloading their game with gay romance and QTE, because you like them? You thought? You thought! How is that working out for you? Not very well. I do NOT wanna have this discussion again.

Why do you criticize me? You shouldn't criticize someone with different opinion than your's. What if you'd hurt his feelings? DId you think about that for a while? Please stop saying such things carelessly.

 

[Ulminati]

Off to heal-spec I go in my Em Em Oh.\
Will this work?

If you want to healspec, y u no hold the line? Also, dump valor, pump virtues. And staff #3 is a really nice AoE buff/heal for support guardians in dungeons/tPVP

 

[RK47]

Not sure how to build that.
Meanwhile, trying to practice bunker guardian. Took second place with my first tourney run with new guildies.
Very lonely job holding a point...but the last map - treb is a completely different game altogether - I think I start to dodge on instinct when I hear the INCOMING. Tried Aegis and it didn't do jack when the Trebs came down.

 

[Ulminati]

Not sure how to build that.
Meanwhile, trying to practice bunker guardian. Took second place with my first tourney run with new guildies.
Very lonely job holding a point...but the last map - treb is a completely different game altogether - I think I start to dodge on instinct when I hear the INCOMING. Tried Aegis and it didn't do jack when the Trebs came down.

Bunker guard is a mixed bag. Some games nohting at all happens and you're just standing there. Other games, the enemy sends a bumrush towards your point and it's a non-stop chaotic actionfest. Just whatever you do, never wander off from your point. It takes a sneaky thief 5 seconds to decap it. And before you've killed him and recapped the point your team will have lost out on 30-40ish points worth of ticking.

The only way to survive treb is dodging. On Cocktower, there's ~4 seconds from the "incoming!" until projectile hits. Once you get the timing down you can last a little longer. But you're still going to need someone from your team to dismantle treb asap if you intend to hold ct.

But keep at it. Now we just need you, me excidium and phyxsius online at the same time. That'd give us a guard, a mesmer, a mesmer/guard/engi and a thief/necro/guard to choose from. One more bro and we got a full kkk tourney team.

 

[RK47]

but i'm in Crystal Desert server - would it matter which server I'm in?

 

[Ulminati]

we'd all to have to be in the same region (not sure if crystal deser is US or EU), but you can do cross-server tournaments.

 

[rashiakas]

I'd throw my mesmer hat in the pot as well for tpvp (name is pharasme).

 

[Excidium]

It would be cool if you could reflect trebuchet shots like in some pve encounters.

 

[Ulminati]

It would be cool if mesmer portal made you drop repair kit

 

[sea]

So guys, is this game basically just 1) run around map until you find mobs of your level 2) grind event near said mobs until level up 3) repeat? As much as I like it compared to other MMOs it is starting to get very stale about 15 levels in.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

So guys, is this game basically just 1) run around map until you find mobs of your level 2) grind event near said mobs until level up 3) repeat? As much as I like it compared to other MMOs it is starting to get very stale about 15 levels in.

It's been over a week now since I last played GW2.

 

[Excidium]

Why the hell are you doing the same events over and over?

It would be cool if mesmer portal made you drop repair kit

That would be a good change.

 

[sea]

Why the hell are you doing the same events over and over?

Because as far as I can tell it's the only real way to get decent XP early on? Sure, slight exaggeration in that there's more than one or two available, but fighting random enemies, finding new locations etc. really does not give nearly as much XP (and you're going to be doing all that anyway in search of events to complete).

 

[Darth Roxor]

Sounds like a real Guild Wars sequel and successor I don't know what you are on about






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[Excidium]

Why the hell are you doing the same events over and over?

Because as far as I can tell it's the only real way to get decent XP early on? Sure, slight exaggeration in that there's more than one or two available, but fighting random enemies, finding new locations etc. really does not give nearly as much XP (and you're going to be doing all that anyway in search of events to complete).

Sounds horribly inefficient to me.

You should concentrate on filling hearts instead of going around searching for events.

 

[Mangoose]

I've never done any event more than once (per character).