Guild Wars 2: The One Thread

[qwerty123456]

I'm hearing hopeful things about the Underwater Skimmer mastery, guessing it's not as huge a grind as the others then?

The achievement is really easy. I used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXf5RfMhnCk

I have every path of fire mastery skill finished and would consider myself casual so I ended up needing to find i think 6 mastery points for it which were all pretty easy things like /kneel at the human god statues and stuff that you normally wouldn't do unless you are looking at the achievements. Still need to grind out the exp tho which i think should be pretty easy just doing the story on an alt or something.

Was thinking of maybe skipping it but that turtle skin was just too cute to not wanna swim underwater lol.

[Lazuli]

Well it took me and my guildies like an hour to do the skimmer collection, but I was really drunk so maybe longer xD 2mill xp is nothing after that.

I started playing my rev , and holy fucking christ is heavy army just awful awful AWFUL in this game. 0 good looking regular leggings, have to use a full costume all the time. I can't believe how bad heavy armor has it when I figured medium had it the worst with trenchcoats and buttcape aids. Now I have to grind mistshard to get semi-acceptable looking leggings and it still looks hilariously bad. I've played this game since beta, unlocked most skins, and have to do some out of the way dumbass grind to unlock decent legs.

Its like I've accomplished nothing , and same issue with medium I am still using my gem shop combo since first year of the game. When will they add actually decent looking armor in this game.. maybe cantha? LUL what a joke for a game supposedly based on visual progression. As a mainly pvper I don't care usually, but fuck it really gets to me how against good looking armor ANet is with GW2.

[Svifnymr]

Main issue I run into with heavy armor is that there is a hard line at the waist that needs to be planned around, but otherwise I've got plenty of heavies with a variety of styles.

The skimmer achievement took me about 20-30 minutes, though the last step was glitched first day so I did the race the second day. Got it on first try though, so not a problem. Frostgorge event was having issues, but a quick groupfinder look had "frostgorge skimmer unborked event" and I hopped to that server and got it quick. Krait took me about 15 krait to get the drop, not too bad.

[Cattleya]

Started Heart of Thorns today after finally finishing LW season 2 (and 100%ing all core tyria maps including the LWS2 ones + Southsun), honestly after hearing so much about these maps, so far I'm pleasantly surprised. Verdant Brink and Auric Basin are so much more enjoyable to me than Drytop and Silverwastes were, even with the hero challenges being group events.

[Svifnymr]

Drytop was pretty fun when it first arrived, it was even done in stages. So the little path in the house to get to the rest wasn't there, and the higher vine bridge wasn't there.

Now, yeah nothing great there. You still find folks doing the meta stuff sometimes, but it's a bit more mechanical than release. Silverwastes was always pretty mechanical rote.

Hell, back in the Ancient Days of The BeforeTimes, the Temples of Orr were a pretty organized thing, and karma trains in Orr were how lots of folks wasted time.

Auric Basin was usually pretty fun, and still folks doing the meta. Dragons Stand too, especially if the daily is "Dragons Stand Events". Tangled Depths is bleh, Verdant Brink is just boring for me, but was certainly a bit more of a pain in the ass before getting various Masteries. (Stupid frog ninjas!)

[Edge-]

Teaser for the new fractal coming next week, forgot it's already almost here!

Edit: Finished the latest LS episode and...mmmmmmeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Knew it was coming, but the hard-turn to "YEAH BOI, YOUR BOIS THE ELDER DRAGONS ARE STILL HERE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MOST BORING ENEMIES!"

I really, really enjoyed the non-dragon related episodes. The Char zone when they got together was great. The first part of the civil war was great. I still need to do the new meta (I haven't been playing much), but returning back to yet another "DRAGON GONNA KILL US ALL!" storyline is just so...bleh. I'm fuckin tired of killing boring ass dragons, this will be what, the fourth one we have to kill already? Give me more Joko. Give me more Balthazar. Give me more racial stories and conflicts between races, not just dragons.

As much as I enjoy the story in this game, it follows the same narrative wheel of WoW in that it seems to largely retread the same general theme over and over. Big dragon comes. Big dragon surprises the races of Tyria. Commander and ragtag group must defeat big dragon while some form of other larger army is involved in distracting them elsewhere.

I just wanna know what happens with Taimi. I know they hinted that she's basically gonna die of whatever disease she has, but damnit she's my favorite and I miss her.

[Katchii]

Teaser for the new fractal coming next week, forgot it's already almost here!

Edit: Finished the latest LS episode and...mmmmmmeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Knew it was coming, but the hard-turn to "YEAH BOI, YOUR BOIS THE ELDER DRAGONS ARE STILL HERE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE MOST BORING ENEMIES!"

I really, really enjoyed the non-dragon related episodes. The Char zone when they got together was great. The first part of the civil war was great. I still need to do the new meta (I haven't been playing much), but returning back to yet another "DRAGON GONNA KILL US ALL!" storyline is just so...bleh. I'm fuckin tired of killing boring ass dragons, this will be what, the fourth one we have to kill already? Give me more Joko. Give me more Balthazar. Give me more racial stories and conflicts between races, not just dragons.

As much as I enjoy the story in this game, it follows the same narrative wheel of WoW in that it seems to largely retread the same general theme over and over. Big dragon comes. Big dragon surprises the races of Tyria. Commander and ragtag group must defeat big dragon while some form of other larger army is involved in distracting them elsewhere.

I just wanna know what happens with Taimi. I know they hinted that she's basically gonna die of whatever disease she has, but damnit she's my favorite and I miss her.

Shhhhhh, I just got to the second zone in Path of Fire and FINALLY unlocked my Springer mount, lol. No spoilers.

I didn't realize how tired I was with the whole Elder Dragon stuff until I started NOT dealing with them. Really looking forward to the rest of the story.

I'm enjoying myself a lot more now that I fully unlocked Reaper, bought myself a full set of Exotic Berserker gear and can basically roflstomp any open world content...it's so refreshing after the huge difficulty spike in HoT BS and my experience with some of my other more squishy classes (I hate when open world "easy" content gives my obviously OP savior of the world character any trouble).

[Svifnymr]

(I hate when open world "easy" content gives my obviously OP savior of the world character any trouble).

I always thought it'd be fun to have reverse agro in lower level areas. Where my Asura riding a dragon while wearing flaming armor rides in and the Queensdale Bandits run away...

[Edge-]

Shhhhhh, I just got to the second zone in Path of Fire and FINALLY unlocked my Springer mount, lol. No spoilers.

Sorry, I'll try but it's hard to spoiler everything that's over a year old >.<

I didn't realize how tired I was with the whole Elder Dragon stuff until I started NOT dealing with them. Really looking forward to the rest of the story.

PoF has a pretty decent storyline. Balthazar isn't the most exciting of dudes but he's at least not a dragon. Joko though...you'll have more fun with Joko if you get that LS episode.

I'm enjoying myself a lot more now that I fully unlocked Reaper, bought myself a full set of Exotic Berserker gear and can basically roflstomp any open world content...it's so refreshing after the huge difficulty spike in HoT BS and my experience with some of my other more squishy classes (I hate when open world "easy" content gives my obviously OP savior of the world character any trouble).

Ye, getting a proper build helps mountains, and thankfully kitting it out with full exotics is very doable for casual players given how cheap it is. Reaper is so much fun when you line up debuffs and some buffs, pop your shroud or whatever and hit the spinning attack (4th ability) and just watch the numbers skyrocket. "Oh, you had life after your breakbar? Well, you had life, it's gone now."

[Katchii]

Sorry, I'll try but it's hard to spoiler everything that's over a year old >.<

Was kind of kidding, I don't expect stuff that's this old to be spoiler free, it's my own "fault" for not playing it sooner. =)

PoF has a pretty decent storyline. Balthazar isn't the most exciting of dudes but he's at least not a dragon. Joko though...you'll have more fun with Joko if you get that LS episode.

I have everything unlocked and ready to play, just have to get there. I just finished the part after where you go to the Mists in PoF and everyone scatters to try and find the next lead. Still excited.

Ye, getting a proper build helps mountains, and thankfully kitting it out with full exotics is very doable for casual players given how cheap it is. Reaper is so much fun when you line up debuffs and some buffs, pop your shroud or whatever and hit the spinning attack (4th ability) and just watch the numbers skyrocket. "Oh, you had life after your breakbar? Well, you had life, it's gone now."

Well I tried a condi minion Reaper with GS and Scepter/Dagger at first because it was what I had the gear for going in to HoT, and honestly didn't like it. With how hard stuff was hitting, how many enemies there usually were, and how many damned AoEs and shit things threw around and how "slowly" things died to conditions rather than raw damage they weren't dying faster than I could heal. Also, Scepter/Dagger just wasn't gaining Life Force fast enough to replenish Shroud in the amount of time to make it feel good to use. And honestly GS while amazing looking, has abilities with cooldowns too long to make it something to use often unless it's a big enemy with less than 50% health. Switching to Power Minion Reaper with full Berserker and GS + Axe/Focus changed my life, lol. It's just so much smoother, easy to use, feels so much more powerfuland with full Vampiric Runes (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sup...e_of_Vampirism) I almost can't die and things just melt.

Breaking an enemies Defiance bar (if they have one) shrouding, using 2 to get to them quick, GS 5 then GS 4 just decimates everything. Since everything dies so quickly, with the Vampiric runes healing me for 10% every time something dies it doesn't matter how much health I have, I almost always have full health or in tougher fights, 50% or more so I'm rarely at risk of dying. Even the fight with Balthazar and Vlast where Balthazar is apparently supposed to one shot you to end the fight......he had to do it three times, lol.

[Svifnymr]

I enjoy a minion build for running around and tagging a bunch of stuff during events and letting minions murder stuff. Usually axe or whatnot.

For actual killing stuff, Reaper is fun, but I still haven't figured out how to enjoy the Scourge. I assume it's a raid type deal.

[Greyvax]

I've been playing for a little over 2 months (Never played before this) during a break from WoW. Thoroughly enjoyed it. However, 600+ hours in, i've completed all of the stories + LWS's, crafted a legendary (Astralaria), and now feeling burnt out. Guess it happened just in time for shadowlands.

[Zmagoslav]

Wait... so now they are pushing story forward via Fractals?
Never played one... what's the deal with them?

[PACOX]

Wait... so now they are pushing story forward via Fractals?
Never played one... what's the deal with them?

The main story is not told via fractals (unless you count the copies of the season 1 instances)

The fractal is an 'alt reality'.

[Zmagoslav]

The main story is not told via fractals (unless you count the copies of the season 1 instances)

The fractal is an 'alt reality'.

Phew... and it doesn't complement it? (like story quests and world events usually do? with happening at the same time, just telling an event from a different perspective)

Another question; Wouldn't it be time for the next episode of living story again? They usually drop every 2 months.

[PACOX]

Phew... and it doesn't complement it? (like story quests and world events usually do? with happening at the same time, just telling an event from a different perspective)

Another question; Wouldn't it be time for the next episode of living story again? They usually drop every 2 months.

Yeah story is about every two or three months but they are also going back to add all the old VA so it might be delayed a bit. They haven't done their quarterly newsletter/announcement yet.

Also I completely forgot that the fractal with Joko is directly story related, but they did say this one is sort of an alt reality while being a bit of a teaser at the same time. It doest take long to do. It's basically just 3 boss battles with very little trash in between.

[Edge-]

Yeah story is about every two or three months but they are also going back to add all the old VA so it might be delayed a bit. They haven't done their quarterly newsletter/announcement yet.

Also I completely forgot that the fractal with Joko is directly story related, but they did say this one is sort of an alt reality while being a bit of a teaser at the same time. It doest take long to do. It's basically just 3 boss battles with very little trash in between.

Ye, some of the story in fractals does connect with the main storylines but it's pretty much all minor/additive stuff rather than anything one "needs" to see to understand the rest of the story or fill in a gap.

And did they confirm that they're already working on adding VO back in? Hadn't seen any news about that in a while.

[PACOX]

Ye, some of the story in fractals does connect with the main storylines but it's pretty much all minor/additive stuff rather than anything one "needs" to see to understand the rest of the story or fill in a gap.

And did they confirm that they're already working on adding VO back in? Hadn't seen any news about that in a while.

Around the time they started previewing the fractal they said they were working on VO. The fractal had priority with the rest of the missing voices being added in October.

[Ashleyxoxo]

Phew... and it doesn't complement it? (like story quests and world events usually do? with happening at the same time, just telling an event from a different perspective)

Another question; Wouldn't it be time for the next episode of living story again? They usually drop every 2 months.

They gave us an “Epilogue” already. I think they’re shitting themselves knowing that we’re expecting more episodes.

[PACOX]

They gave us an “Epilogue” already. I think they’re shitting themselves knowing that we’re expecting more episodes.

Theyve always told us what episode was the last one. I don't think they suddenly forgot to mention it eight years into the game.