Guild Wars 2: The One Thread

[Edge-]

I don't know if they benefit people, make the story feel fresh, whatever but Anet has been adding achievements to Soto since launch. They also keep adding new 'special' objectives to the Wizard Vault system. Good way to keep the game fresh in between releases.


A month after release I still have a bunch of collections in interested in completing. The Wizard Vault is insanely generous, maybe too generous? I've capped it several times at this point, sometimes only logging for 30 min at a time a few times a week. Every cosmetic that I wanted (all but some of the weapons) , done. Bonus build slots, done. A legendary weapon worth of Mythic Clovers. Random number of Mystic Coins I bought to get under cap. Maxed out on the cheap bags of gold. Ill cap again this week if I decide to finish my weeklies.

It's almost to the point where there's just too much AA available, lol. We're up to a dozen special missions all rewarding 300+ on top of our regular daily/weekly gains. I doubt it'll be like this each "season" or whatever, but even if it's not we're not even halfway through this one (I think) and I've already basically run out of stuff to buy.

Got every single cosmetic, got all the cheap gold and elixers and shit, got the legendary starter and the ascended gear (I've now got almost a full zerker set which is nice!), now I'm just blowing AA on obsidian and clovers and shit because I genuinely don't know what else to really buy. I'll just be dumping AA on the expensive gold and T5 crafting mats by the time this shit wraps up.

Which is great though, because even if they do dramatically reign in the special missions it means that we won't have to worry too much about farming a lot to at least get the cosmetics from a refresh. And it should make earning some older stuff that's in the "vault" a bit less of a concern, too.

[Lotus Victoria]

Gearing up is not as bad as people here are making it sound. I don't know what kind of mega hardcore groups you people are a part of, but getting exotics and even ascended gear has been pretty easy in a number of years now, either by map completion, TPs, NPC Vendors, PvP/WvW and so on.

Also, never hard to deal with a group that asked me for full legendary armor or even full ascended stuff. The community is pretty chill, and I've played this game for 10 years, so I don't get the fuzz.

[Lotus Victoria]

Been grinding IBS Mastery Points to get to 514 (currently 502). I don't know how the f* GW2 kept going after Champions. It is truly the lowest point of this game.

And to think IBS started so promising...

[Edge-]

Been grinding IBS Mastery Points to get to 514 (currently 502). I don't know how the f* GW2 kept going after Champions. It is truly the lowest point of this game.

And to think IBS started so promising...

I caved and ended up getting a few of those final points from collections. I'd been sitting on the last IBS mastery since the last update shipped at least and just have never had it in me to do the grinds to unlock some of the others, or just never ran the strikes. Thankfully you don't need IBS masteries for anything other than your own sanity, tho.

[Lex Icon]

gotta go visit that event again

[Edge-]

Oh that's a nice little video. Grothmar Valley is a really nice zone and was one of the highlights of IBS IMO. Got some apparently good little GW1 nods, some good events, a nice JP, a meta with some surprisingly legit metal, and it's just darned pretty. I do hope we get to go more into races cultural stuff with these expansions moving forwards, especially if we can face things...less kinda "reality ending" or similar threats.

I'm still into SotO and all and am here for the update (Tuesday, btw!), but sometimes you just wanna have to head off something comparatively simple like a civil war.

[Edge-]

I have finally been blessed with the choco charr. They were in Mistlock in all white dancing around. Today is a blessed day.

[Haytham]

I think I tried playing this game around 3 times since it launched.

Played thief and elementalist. The classes felt ok but what really put me off was the character models and the story.

Areas themselves were ok but that alone could not keep my interest for long. I may try it again,it's been many years but it's always a pain to join a MMO late in it's lifecycle.