Guild Wars 2 PlansFollow

Are you just not representing, maybe?

I chase butterflies in this game so much more than skyrim.

I think it's because of how easy gathering and selling is. And cooking! Oh god, cooking.

Edited, Nov 16th 2012 10:45pm by IDrownFish

I love crafting, but it's really, really not worth it. I used to buy loads of salvaging kits and got on a SALVAGE ERRTHANG!! spree once in a while to fund my crafting, but then I realized I could sell the stuff at the nearest vendor instead and just buy the items off the Trading Post. Crafting cost me money (because sometimes you need 40 tiny scales and you only have 11 and can't be ***** farming a million drakes for the last 29) while I'm now turning a profit just vendoring crap.

Should probably sell stuff at the Post, but I'm not sure how it works and I'm seeing 1000+ available for most items, so I don't know if it's even worth it.

The only crafting I'm doing anymore is cooking, which is actually fun. I tried some of the others and hated them. I suppose at 80 I'll want to pursue them again to get useful items, but that's a problem for when I have the time and gold to care.

I also sell all the non-food mats and I love how with the ordering system you can sell things immediately and walk away with your money rather than post stuff and wait for people to buy it.

I tried WvW for the first time yesterday though and I have to say it turned me off enough for GW2 to lose some of it shine for me, since that's one of the few big things there is to do at 80. Endless running around a gigantic map that's way too big for the extremely low number of people playing (and this was a weekend!). They put icons on your map to show where the fights are but that's not much use when the running around takes so frustratingly long that the fight is over by the time you get there. Then on the very infrequent occasion I would get to a fight, I'd get two-shot by a warrior before I could even hit any of my buttons. I'd seriously rather do Warsong Gulch than this nonsense. Maybe it gets more fun... some day, somehow? I imagine they designed this big empty place with gigantic battles in mind, over-assuming how many people would be playing their game. But it still might improve if I knew what I was doing more.


Edit: It also appears that the "scaling" to level 80 in WvW applies to your character's base stats only, not to your armor or weapons. Can anyone confirm? If that's the case, combined with my traits at level 45, the two shotting makes a lot of sense and I don't feel as bad. :)

Edited, Nov 19th 2012 8:28am by teacake

The only problem I have in WvW is player culling. I never really go run around solo. Groups of 5 or so can be very effective, assaulting supply camps and pack doylaks. The travel time is obviously intentional, to make buildings closer to your spawn point easier to hold and those far away more difficult to get reinforcements to. It can be pretty fun when there's a large group of players in there.

It seems that a not insignificant portion of the WvW community has left CD. Now, there's typically one or two full zones during peak times during the week, and the other two or three will be fairly low. I'll usually just queue for one of the full zones if I feel like playing, though getting together a group of 5-10 to go raid the more empty maps would likely be easy and fun.

So here's my thoughts on the event and new content, since feedback's more useful than *********

The good:
--Everything in the Ancient Karka event that didn't involve fighting a bajillion karka. I particularly liked using the flame vents to push forward while dealing with reasonable spawns of karka, it actually had progress. The Crocomire death scene was cute as well.
--Fractals in general. Clever dungeons, good variety.
--Extra note, cat golems. :3
--The donation was nifty, and it would be nice to have that in some form later. I could walk out with a bag full of junk and turn it into a yellow weapon. Admittedly it was better to vendor the junk and buy 60c armor to donate, but the idea still stands. That would be an argument against making something massively powerful easy to get should a similar method be implemented later, though. Since using those 60c items for tokens gave 1g keys, 17s rares and 4.5g epics which was on par with other methods, I'm guessing ANet thought about this.

The bad:
--Lag in the first event. Today's had issues but that seemed to be cleared up.
--Rendering players before enemies. The bomb-setting was particularly bad because there was no room to dodge the doom-rolling, and people would push too far into a bajillion more invisible karka. Then we retreat and hit respawned champion at the entrance.
--Kill-counters that went past "long" and "unending" into "cook a meal while you gain an inch." Ancient Karka's were infamous, and Bomb-laying often had 4-5 veteran karka rolling over us. Scale health or scale numbers, but scaling both is very annoying.
--Kill credit. Not sure how it was being calculated but I probably got credit for less than half the karka I killed. Better visibility/rendering priority for lootable corpses would also be good.
--Getting people into the same fractal. Can't have any party members on a different overflow server. Can't being anyone new in if somebody leaves. If it dies it dies.
--Fractal difficulty levels. This may or may not turn out to be a big deal, but the guys being ******** about it are the most visible part. I'm not sure how to fix this one, but for those of us with altitis it means that when deciding who we bring we also need to remember every alt's fractal level. When guildies come back to check the dungeon out it would be nice to start on level 3-4 rather than everyone else needing to ratchet down to 1. Maybe allow access to fractals based on the party average?

The neutral:
--"Change the face of Tyria forever" = "something in Lion's Arch will be broken."

Ranger Ding!

Bought him his last skill book and now I can start (maybe) figuring out some ranger builds. I was really liking the damage from 20/20 in pow/prec lines, and the traits were nice for how I play him. Of course I forgot what traits I was using but I'll figure that out heh.

This. Ive been playing a bunch of Borderlands.

What? WHAT? You can't just say that without a link, now I have to go and Google. I can haz hair change with this? Are there any new hairstyles??

Edit: yeah okay, or I could have just looked at the front page.

Edited, Nov 28th 2012 10:29am by teacake

I didn't end up liking GW2 at all. I may just not like the cat people's story.... too war ra ra ra... but I wanted the look. Sucks you can't pick the race you want without being jammed into a story you don't like.

Yes, some of the personal stories seem too erratic. When I was leveling my necro (and the same with the ranger), it's like your stories are just all flavor, with no real story arch other then getting to know a few side characters. I do like that it's optional, and you can just do them later at your leisure really since they have no impact (other then maybe running Arah at 80 to get your 80 backslot item).
But later in levels, around 50 or 60, I saw the stories actually having more of a steady connection to each other.



I don't know if you are interested in getting a legendary anyday, but if that interests you, you may want to see what crafters you need for the other gift... if that's not something you want then I really like Artificing as my 2nd favorite craft. Potions stack with food buffs, so the xp buff is nice.

So last night I got one of those "Please authorize this new login" emails because someone was trying to access my account from China. That email authentication thing is great, but the whole thing is curious because it means someone had my GW2 password even though:

1. Neither Norton 360 (yes, I know you hate Norton) nor Malwarebytes found anything questionable on my PC.
2. I check that little Save Password box, so a keylogger, which I understand is the most common way of getting people's passwords locally, wouldn't do any good anyway.
3. My password was not GW2PASSWORDLOLZ.
4. It was a password that I tend to use for all MMO's, but GW2 is the only one I've had active for quite some time.
5. I do not use that password anyplace else, including internet forums, email accounts, etc.
6. I am not going to finally reveal 18 posts down-thread that, well yeah, I did go to that one site and buy gold and give them my account information, but I'm sure it wasn't them because they seemed really nice, you guys.
7. I am not going to finally reveal 18 posts down-thread that, well yeah, I did give my password to my cousin's girlfriend but I'm sure it wasn't her because she seems really sweet, you guys.
8. Nobody has my password. Not even my husband. Because what good would it do him? He knows all my characters in every MMO are always broke.

So the million dollar question is, how did they get my password?

Meanwhile I feel so violated. And I'm kind of worried that Norton and Malwarebytes are both wrong and someone is about to get into my bank account.

Edited, Dec 7th 2012 8:28am by teacake