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Oh sorry, temporary insanity. I was confusing it with the Mesmer trait that gives mantras multiple casts. Guardians can make meditations instant and recharge 20% faster.

There's a Warrior Signet that upon use refills your Adrenaline meter. Very useful for burst.

This is balanced by Engineer only having one weapon set.

I'm not saying this invalidates it as an example, but it's a bit of an extreme case and is balanced accordingly.

Edited, Oct 23rd 2012 8:52pm by Spoonless

Poor Necromancers.

Blood Magic is apparently bugged to a degree where your life siphons are also healing the enemies.

Edited, Oct 25th 2012 2:44pm by Mazra

Yeah. Since the life siphon is so damn low (another of the Necromancer complaints), it's not exactly game-breaking, but it doesn't help with the already low damage output we have. I'm just amazed that no one picked up on that bug earlier.

Edited, Oct 25th 2012 4:59pm by Mazra

It was reported before the Halloween patch, so it would be a month old at least, right?

There are minor patches every week, possibly multiple times per week. Any of those could have broken things, even if they weren't balance.

I'm 6'2", large build (the kind that makes people think I used to play football, very wide) and I once rode in the back seat of a VW bug. Never thought I'd find that kind of experience again until I tried to take a Norn into a jumping puzzle.

GW2 is pretty unforgiving when it comes to learning about all the stuff you can do in the game.

I created a new Norn (because why not, right?) and ran into a dude with a creepy voice and a mask on. Talked to him and got transported to some village haunted by ghost players. I had no idea what the hell I was doing or where I was, not to mention how to get back again. Good times.

Also managed to get to the PvP area (something something Mists) and was taught the basics of PvP before being guided into a larger area full of people running around and chatting with each other. Never actually got to the PvP part of the thing as I decided that two hours at level 1 wasn't the time:level ratio I wanted.

Last week I found out that you can level pretty much by just doing the race specific area - and yet, not entirely. My level 17 was running around in some area she definitely shouldn't have been in at that level, so she went to the Norn area and got a couple of levels just doing the starting stuff there before going back and finding a new area where stuff was level 18. She had to go back to Norn land at level 19 to get the last couple of thousand XP to level 20. Got those last thousand XP running to the Norn area.

That's when I decided to reroll my Necromancer as a Norn instead, because I missed my Carlton dance. True story even.

In short: There is so much stuff in this game! Almost too much stuff.

Edited, Oct 27th 2012 3:53pm by Mazra

According to theorists on reddit, its a FOV bug, or the achievement...or maybe a hurricane....

I read it auto level's you to 80 also, so lets grab alts!



Edited, Oct 28th 2012 4:27pm by Drulian

5 of us did it earlier.

You scale up to 80, yeah. The fight itself isn't that hard. There's a LOT of ground AOE that needs to be avoided. But barring that, he doesn't have TOO much health.

Only really important thing is to keep away from the edges, because he CAN CC you off. The fight also has three "phases" where he'll move down to a new level and it's a short jumping puzzle to get there. These two factors are really all that killed our group.

Never even really payed attention to our group make-up. At least two Guardians. I was specced full support, so just alternated between Mace/Shield and Staff.

Definitely not a hard fight at all, but it's easy to get yourself killed.

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2 more things.

1. There's an Ascent to Madness guide on Dulfy.

2. Ascent to Madness is only available until the beginning of Act IV, so get on it. Act IV is Halloween, so you only have a few days. AtM grants a 10 slot bag, and the chest has a chance for rare skins, so it's worth going for it.

Edited, Oct 28th 2012 6:26pm by idiggory