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Community => Other Games => Topic started by: Peregrine Falcon on December 05, 2012, 06:46:16 AM
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I know. I know.
I'm a traitor for wanting to buy GW2 because NCSoft will get money. Personally I don't feel the need to punish the folks at ArenaNet for the actions of NCSoft. I understand if you don't agree, but I'd rather this thread not be about that.
Anyway, myself and a couple of my RL friends are planning to try GW2. We'd prefer to join a guild of City of Heroes players, especially social ones that chat over a voice program, Vent, Teamspeak, etc.
So is anyone a part of a GW2 guild that would like to invite three more former CoH players?
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Personally, I'm not avoiding it for some sort of boycott or grudge against NCSoft. I just had such a bad experience playing the first game that I'm not bothering with the sequel until there's a free trial.
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Yes, bit the bullet and got it this week (sale at BestBuy, I have two RL friends wanting me to join them since "your game closed" :gonk:).
Still learning the ropes. Only character is a Norn Mesmer. Got her to level 7 so far.
It's a heck of a lot more polished than City of Steam, so far no "MUST TEAM" quests/missions/tasks. Nothing game breaking for me yet in terms of controls, except snowball fights required a bit more coordination other than tabbing to target and pressing 1.
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Been playing it for a couple of weeks now and it's enjoyable, great active combat system and good looking graphics. Loving the weapon system where it determines your abilities, helps create a bit of variety, especially with the utility slots.
My only problem so far is that i'm finding it impossible to settle on a character, none past 30 yet.
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I'm on Sanctum of Rall as Sithrose.5168 if you want to join our little tiny guild. It's a fun game. I don't feel guilty about playing it - I bought it before the shutdown was announced, and I'm not going to waste my money. I just hope that NCSoft doesn't screw ArenaNet over too.
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It's my choice and my preference, but nothing with an NCsoft logo, no matter how far removed, is going on my machine. ;)
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I played up 2 lvl 60s and did about 15 ranks or so of pvp in gw2. It's a great game the first play through, and it was alot of fun when I started, but after you get 1 character to 60, the game gets stale very very quickly. Leveling is the same for each and every character, and it becomes just alot of running around to the same places in the same way for the same goal over and over.
PvP is pretty fun too, and if I ever went back to gw2 it would be for that reason, as it doesn't get stale anywhere near as fast as the PvE does, however I don't see alot of general population of coh being big on pvp, ymmv.
The dungeons also need alot of work, and they're no where near as fun as coh TFs were (they can actually be downright unpleasant at times). Every dungeon mob spawn and boss essentially works the same way: You either dodge roll the 1 shot mechanic and live, or you don't and die. Then if you managed to survive the 1 shot mechanic you better be prepared to do it again in 5-10 seconds, and hope you don't run out of vigor.
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I buy it before the big crash because some of my friend was there and I just can say that this is one of the boring games I ever played. Always the same stuff over and over again, always the same armor I have to wear and nothing special happens when I have a level up... Why teaming? To collect something in a team to fit this mission bar, or smashing some mosters with wild hacking and bashing? A lot of fun... zzzZZZzzz
My only motivation to play was the %-counter on the map and then there was all this crashes. I deinstall the game around level 50, after the story mission where I always crashed, so I didn't see a way to go on. It was like a sign from heaven: "De-install this game with the NC-Soft sign, or something bad will happen..." :P
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My girlfriend and I, and a few other ex-CoH people, have a small guild on Gates of Madness. We wouldn't mind more people. We do dungeons every week or so. We have several level 80s, one person working on a legendary, and chat over Skype.
Main characters: Sudona Forte, Flora Nuali, Victoria Noir
(I don't remember my global number but those will add me just fine)
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NEVER! >:(
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The SG I was a part of on Virtue (Justice Corps) moved to Devona's Rest in GW2 (Justice Company). As nearly the entire core of the 'Corps made the move over we have a lot of people on daily. As we're just getting the hang of the game recently we've started filling our weekly schedule as time permits.
I'd say to look for me in-game but my personal gaming PC is down for some stupid reason and in the shop at the moment, and I can't play from this one. So instead check out justicecorps.guildportal.com if you'd like to see if you'd fit in.
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i bought gw2 because i wanted to see what it was that took the place of the game i love coh... and to be honest it was a complete let down... i have tried Team Fortress 2 and its alot of fun and tankmmo.com is fun aswell also combat arms is pretty fun and league of legends... all are free to play. im still hoping someone will pick up city of heroes... anyone playing anything out there thats fun? please let me in on it.. thanks
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I saw gameplay in guildwars 1 from a friend....thought it was one of the worst looking games I ever seen and hated it.
Not gonna play it ever...
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I would rather go back to playing on Intellivision..
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Arenanet =/= NCSoft.
Wishing them illwill is the same as wishing Paragon Studios ill will because of Tabula Rasa. It's understandable, but unfounded.
That said, I was really into GW2... until I got kinda bored. The personal story takes a huge nosedive once the Mary Sue takes over and it ceases to be your personal story. The dungeons are fun, but the nature of how you acquire legendaries means that explorable modes are made to be grinded... which I don't really like. iTrials are quick (usualy... UG/MoM, lookin' at you!) and exciting. Dungeons can be exciting, but to do them that much, when they can feel so long, is meh to me.
I have a level 80 Warrior on Tarnished Coast, but the WvW mechanic for 100% map completion meant that I needed Red Borderland - but it kept being Yak's bend, and they held their garrison pretty hard for three weeks in a row. Eventually I got upset and switched servers, then switched back.
It's amazing how may gameplay features I wished were in CoH (moving while attacking, being unable to grief other players because of shared enemies, cheap easy respecs...) and yet how many things just bug me. They keep doing one off events that are buggy at best. They seem to care about trying to fix lost rewards for players, but I'd rather just have FUN. At worst when Warwalkers hit Atlas I was lagging in game, I wasn't feeling like my computer was about to explode and unable to get credit for my contributions.
So, GW2 was insanely fun for me, bought before the announcement, and then... I just don't see a lot of reason to keep playing except occasionally. I hate not being able to really fulfill a role solidly (I can't tank! Auuuuugh!) and the lack of healing feels more frustrating than positive.
Was worth the initial cash dump, but not worth more.
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I would rather go back to playing on Intellivision..
I'll do you one better and say I'd rather go back to playing the Fairchild Channel F.
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My wife and I bought it in April. We did the BWEs and have been playing it since early access 3 days before launch. Even though the story lines were alright I didn't really care for the gameplay in GW1 much, but GW2 is very different gameplay wise. I've already leveled two characters to 80 on Tarnished Coast (the unofficial NA RP server). We've both been getting a little burned out on the game lately, though, so we went back to our other fall back game since CoH is gone and have been doing holiday stuff in EQ2 a lot the last couple of weeks.
Thankfully you can level a character up completely in WvWvW instead of PvE if you want so having to do the same content repeatedly isn't as much of a problem in GW2. Also, once you get to the Orr zones there are no more hearts to do. It's all DEs and there's a lot of them. It can still get repetitive like any other MMO content, but it's a bit interesting to watch points on the map change hands. I also like exploring in these games so things like getting map completions and doing jump puzzles makes me happy :P .
Overall I think the game is better than most at launch. The community on my server seems pretty decent and it looks like ArenaNet are committed to working on the game and adding more to it. So I don't regret the purchase even though I'm not sure I would have made it if I had foreknowledge of how NCSoft was going to handle what they did to what has been my overall favorite game and community in 14 years of MMOs.
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Sad thing for me is I was going to Buy GW2. Brought up the NCsoft webpage to get it... then noticed the announcement for the closing of City of heroes. Didn't think about GW2 again.
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I saw gameplay in guildwars 1 from a friend....thought it was one of the worst looking games I ever seen and hated it.
Not gonna play it ever...
GW 1 and GW 2 are completely different. I played and ragequit GW 1, but love GW 2. It has a ton of the things I loved about CoH that I thought no other game would ever do right. In fact, the devs have openly said they took a lot of inspiration from CoH, from things like open-ended, role-free classes to sidekicking.
So, GW2 was insanely fun for me, bought before the announcement, and then... I just don't see a lot of reason to keep playing except occasionally. I hate not being able to really fulfill a role solidly (I can't tank! Auuuuugh!) and the lack of healing feels more frustrating than positive.
Some classes have more ability to support than others, although the game is intentionally designed to not have a "tank" or a "healer." Classes like thief and ranger don't do much to keep allies alive, but engineer, elementalist, and guardian can. But really, each character is supposed to be a self-contained character who can do damage, heal and buff themselves, and potentially support other players. It's more of a CoV mold than CoH. I always much, much preferred the hybrid do-it-all CoV classes. But I know that's not true of everyone.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
For those of you who didn't read the OP, this thread is about myself, and a couple of my friends, looking for a nice group of fellow CoH players to join with in GW2.
Please stop with the anti-NCSoft posts. That's not what this thread is for. There are 100 other threads out there for you to make those posts.
To those of you who've offered to take me and my friends into your guild, thank you very much.
Our copies of GW2 arrived just yesterday, and I'm really enjoying it so far. It looks like we'll have to do a server transfer at some point. We rolled our first characters on Borlis Pass before we understood that you only get one server.
Give us a few days to de-n00bify and then we'll try to figure out how to make contact in game. Thanks.
- Sean, aka Peregrine Falcon
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Just let me know if you'd like to hang out with a small group of long-time friends who migrated from City. :D
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I found this on another thread -- monetizing GW2. FYI only: http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs.cfm/blogId/1209/entry/24237/utm_campaign/MMORPG%20Daily%20Digest%20Email/utm_source/MMORPG/utm_medium
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Been playing for several months...
Have done just about everything (Been there done that), loosing interest...
found myself playing minecraft again...
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I found this on another thread -- monetizing GW2. FYI only: http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs.cfm/blogId/1209/entry/24237/utm_campaign/MMORPG%20Daily%20Digest%20Email/utm_source/MMORPG/utm_medium
Yes we know, there's a thread about that over in Save Paragon City.
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I found this on another thread -- monetizing GW2. FYI only: http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs.cfm/blogId/1209/entry/24237/utm_campaign/MMORPG%20Daily%20Digest%20Email/utm_source/MMORPG/utm_medium
And here's my reply to this link in the other thread:
The problem is that, like Father Xmas says, the article is untrue.
The monetization manager who worked at Nexon? Was hired last MAY. She's been there the whole time. She's probably the reason the GW2 cash store is mostly boosters and gamble boxes and is very skimpy in the things that successful American-MMO cash shops (COH, LOTRO among others) are full of - cosmetics.
There IS no pay to win. You CANNOT buy the Ascendant gear. You can't buy it with Gems (Paragon Points equivalent) and you can't buy it with in-game gold. You can't buy it. You have to play the game for it.
Is the Acendant gear a departure from their earlier philosophy and is it too grindy? That point is very debatable, and in their latest AMA, the dev in charge of it has said they rolled it out poorly, and it's being re-evaluated and balanced.
But it is NOT pay to win.
This article is a pile of debunked garbage from someone with an axe to grind.
As for "don't get attached to GW2?" It has EXACTLY the same payment system as GW1, which rolled out shortly after COH and is still running. Server cost is almost nothing to maintain an MMO in skeleton mode (which is part of why I was so pissed they didn't do that with COH - it doesn't cost anything to leave a server running)
GW2 continues to make gobs of money, and GW2 is rolling out brand new content every single month so far. They plan to have expansion-level stuff every 6-8 months. And they've added content to the gem store with every content - most of it limited-time gamble boxes, true, but containing a chance at some very cool skins. I know a lot of people who've sunk a lot of real $$ into gems for those things.
GW2 is healthy and doing fine.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
For those of you who didn't read the OP, this thread is about myself, and a couple of my friends, looking for a nice group of fellow CoH players to join with in GW2.
Please stop with the anti-NCSoft posts. That's not what this thread is for. There are 100 other threads out there for you to make those posts.
Thanks for posting that. People drive me crazy :-/
Yes, I'm playing and loving GW2. I'm over on Tarnished Coast, which is the best game server I've been on in any MMO since Virtue. It's the "unofficial RP server" and just full of helpful people and tons of events going on every day. Also we kick butt in WvW :)
I've got a fantastic RP guild that I love tons, lots of ex-COHers in it too :) Anyone on TC who wants RP - or on another server and contemplating a move - drop me a PM and I'll hook you up!
I'm also totally willing to answer noob questions and whatnot. Since my friend started playing (older lady, first video game was Minecraft and GW2 is her second, so QUITE a learning curve!!) I've become sort of an expert at playing noob shepherd :D
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My PC has been back for a few days AND I bought a new graphics card, woot! The game is gorgeous now. Anyway, my handle in-game is adelante.5763 if you want to send me an in-game mail or message. My guild is on Devona's Rest and is primarily comprised of the Justice Corps. SG from Virtue.
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Sad thing for me is I was going to Buy GW2. Brought up the NCsoft webpage to get it... then noticed the announcement for the closing of City of heroes. Didn't think about GW2 again.
Same here.
I will not be buying GW2 under any circumstances.
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I have this and to be honest, it's making me realise how good the writing and storylines in CoH actually were. Along with reinforcing many other things I already knew but still. I'll admit the story missions are good, but they don't flow like CoH did because every other mission you have to stop and go help random people with random things for a while before you're high enough level for the next one.
Sure, in CoH there was no grand overarching storyline declaring me the chosen one who'll save the universe from evil. But I never wanted that anyway, and I still don't think it belongs in MMOs despite every major MMO lately having some such thing. And every last one of them doing exactly the same thing wrong - stopping the story I was just starting to enjoy to make me go do random throwaway quests for people who aren't relevent long enough for me to care. While in CoH, when I started a story arc I could play to the end of that arc with no interruptions. I didn't have to leave just after I'd found out the Rikti were planning another invasion to go bash Circle of Thorns heads in unless I actually wanted to. (Which sometimes I did, because teams were always more fun.)
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I'm going to talk about some differences between GW2 and CoH.
And BTW I'm currently on Sorrow's Furnace, seemed like the right place for an ex-CoHer. My one character is Anchoret Wolfsbite. I don't know if that's how you can friend me or not.
The Marketplace.
GW2's player market isn't either an auction house or a consignment house but a straight up marketplace.
On the buying interface there is your usual set of filters for level and type/subtype of item but unfortunately not character class, which I find very annoying because I don't want to search through three pages of boots in my level range for the 4 my class can wear.
When you click on an item that you would want to buy, you are shown something around the dozen lowest prices that players are offering the item at plus the number of those items available at each of those prices. Buying is immediate unless you put in a bid at a price less than the current lowest price.
Selling is also different. First you can tell right away if there are nobody looking to buy. Second you must sell your item for 1 bronze higher than what NPCs are willing to buy the item for. This can mean that including fees from the market you will earn less that what an NPC will pay you for it. Third the interface presents you with three (or four) options, sell to the highest bidder, set you price to that of the lowest seller, set your own price and optionally add the item to your already existing sell order for that item at the same price. So if you are already selling 10 watchamawhosits for 50 bronze apiece and you've looted another dozen, you can add them to your existing sell order also at 50 apiece.
I have no idea what limits there are on total number of buy or sell orders you can have on a character.
Also interesting is you can bring up the market interface anywhere, and post orders at any time, any where. However you have to show up at one of the market locals (with exception of special item drops that could summon a rep to a location for 5 minutes) to pick up your money or items. Find armor you can't use due to class or that it's weaker than what you have, NP, fire up the market at sell that sucker and poof it's out of your inventory. However unlike CoH, there is no storage at the marketplace. You have to put it up for sale and pay the posting fee of 5%. Selling fee is 10% and they get you coming and going. Sell something for 20 and it'll cost you 1 to post and 2 more when it sells.
Not all loot is sellable at the market. Some are broken junk that's meant to fill your limited inventory space just to be annoying. Some will bind with your character upon equipping and then you can only sell them to NPCs and not other players. Of course if you don't equip it, you can sell it via the market. There are some items that are salvage only, and when you do they then create items that you can sell.
What's interesting is the transparency of this scheme over the traditional auction or double blind consignment house. When buying you see the price from a number of sellers and when selling you are shown the current high unfulfilled bid as well as the lowest seller. It gives you a lot more useful information than our last five transactions. But it does prevent selling an item much less than what an NPC is willing to buy it for and a seller can't get lucky.
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Hi all. Sorry it's been so long since I responded. I hadn't forgotten this thread.
When we first made characters my friend transferred to another server so we could all be together. So we had to wait for 7 days until he could transfer again. Plus, as I said, we wanted to spend some time learning the game so that we could make some informed decisions.
I showed my friends this thread last night. Later today we're going to discuss it and decide which of the offers to accept and then transfer to that server.
Much thanks from myself and my friends to those of you who've extended the invitation to join your guild.
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I have no problem going to wherever, I just thought Sorrow's Furnace sounded like the perfect combination of depression and rage that I felt at the loss of CoH. Plus it wasn't full when I signed up ... :-[
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Same here.
I will not be buying GW2 under any circumstances.
Please, can we keep this sort of thing out of this thread? This is a thread for those looking for a home specifically within Guild Wars 2. There are many other threads to discuss boycotting NCSoft products, there's no good reason to make other CoH-ites feel like traitors in this thread.
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I am thinking of buying GW2 tomorrow. I have played COH for 8 years and am looking forward to a new game ( not that I didn't love COH, its just time for me to move on until the game comes back). I had a free trial of GW2 and I did enjoy it. I made a human. My question is, if you make another race, do you do different story arcs or is it the same with different NPCs?
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well I'm not avoiding GW2 because of the actions of anyone or entity or company or corporation, it's just the game didnt catch me eye. I might eventually get around to giving it closer look when I get around to it. So far the content/style/type of the game doesnt look like something I would be into.
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Please, can we keep this sort of thing out of this thread? This is a thread for those looking for a home specifically within Guild Wars 2. There are many other threads to discuss boycotting NCSoft products, there's no good reason to make other CoH-ites feel like traitors in this thread.
Traitors?
That's not a word I have used about anyone who chooses to play another NCsoft game.
I only stated that I will not be buying GW2 under any circumstances, due to my thoughts on how NCsoft went about there business with CoH.
It just feels wrong to give them my cash under the circumstances.
Others can do what they feel like. It's a free country.
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Traitors?
That's not a word I have used about anyone who chooses to play another NCsoft game.
I only stated that I will not be buying GW2 under any circumstances, due to my thoughts on how NCsoft went about there business with CoH.
It just feels wrong to give them my cash under the circumstances.
Others can do what they feel like. It's a free country.
And again, can you keep it out of this thread? This is for people who are PLAYING and ENJOYING the game. If you're not playing it and don't want to, it's clearly not a thread for you, so can you stop crapping it up with passive-aggressive insults and go away?
On a happier note,
Just hit my third 80 (elementalist, mesmer, then warrior, whee!) and still loving the crap out of this game. 10 character now... *hides* I'm totally obsessed with the roleplay possibilities inherent in sylvari, which is probably why I have 4 of them!
The holiday content is just outstanding. This is the amount of content other MMOs have put into expansions, just for a holiday! I love it!
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I loved GW1 (and still play, although infrequently these days). I elected to pass on GW2, for multiple reasons, the NCSoft connection being only one of them.
I'd say the biggest reason is because I've become quite taken with TSW, and have been devoting most all my gaming energy into it. I also have been pretty burnt out on the high fantasy genre for a few years now (one of the reasons I only log into GW1 about once a month these days). Even a world I already knew the history of wasn't enough to make me really want to jump into a fantasy game. Additionally, my current sketchy finances mean I didn't really need another fairly expensive B2P box to buy.
And yeah...NCSoft.
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And again, can you keep it out of this thread? This is for people who are PLAYING and ENJOYING the game. If you're not playing it and don't want to, it's clearly not a thread for you, so can you stop crapping it up with passive-aggressive insults and go away?
On a happier note,
Just hit my third 80 (elementalist, mesmer, then warrior, whee!) and still loving the crap out of this game. 10 character now... *hides* I'm totally obsessed with the roleplay possibilities inherent in sylvari, which is probably why I have 4 of them!
The holiday content is just outstanding. This is the amount of content other MMOs have put into expansions, just for a holiday! I love it!
I think my Norn mesmer is up to Level 49 now, simply by exploring the various Level 1-15 areas off of each major city fully. Leveling is easy. Leveling your crafting skill, now that's hard, well annoying at least. And you thought unlocking the crafting table in CoH was tedious work.
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I think my Norn mesmer is up to Level 49 now, simply by exploring the various Level 1-15 areas off of each major city fully. Leveling is easy. Leveling your crafting skill, now that's hard, well annoying at least. And you thought unlocking the crafting table in CoH was tedious work.
Crafting in GW2 is extremely easy. Basically, they work like this:
Everything aside from Jewelcrafting & Cooking: Discover recipes for the cheapest things you can make. Level up your crafting doing this until 375, at which point use karma recipes for Rare equipment (preferably stuff you can use or sell) to hit 400.
Jewelcrafting: Ingots, ingots, ingots. If you have a full stack of ore (250) you can easily get 15-20 crafting levels just from making the appropriate ingots. From there make certain you craft 10 or settings while you get XP for them, as well as the bands & hooks to go with them. Then discover recipes using the gems you have until you have either gotten to a new tier or have to repeat items. Don't forget to engrave/gild etc. with the filigree and then craft with the filigreed gems. If you have to repeat, go with earrings as they are the cheapest to make resource-wise. At 375 you're again going to start relying upon karma recipes, but they are stinkin' expensive to make. Only make things that you're going to use here, or can sell well, because they're too expensive to let go to waste.
Cooking: Cooking is all about repetition. Starting out you're going to want to make sure you have 250 sticks of butter - you'll go through every last bit of it. Make at least 100 balls of dough - you'll need more, of course. From then on it's discovering things that you can make relatively cheaply and in bulk. Generally this revolves around different fruits (Strawberries, Blackberries, etc) which you use to make Cookies for 25 levels, then Tarts for 25 levels, then Pie Fillings and Pies for the 25 levels. If you have the ingredients you can go from 1-400 in about 20 minutes. Cooking is different from the others in that you don't get the bulk of your experience from discovery but from repetition of recipes, so keep that in mind.
I generally go with Cooking on all of my characters to level them up some before switching to one appropriate tradeskill and Jewelcrafting. Jewelcrafting is another of my leveling skills that I use a lot.
I rather enjoy crafting in the game, if for no other reason than it's relaxing to do while you just chat with friends or listen to music... and your characters still progress.
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I'm as artificer, because I was a mesmer.
The problem I'm having was the recipes I know quickly no longer earn crafting XP, can cost a whole lot in supplies quantity needed so gathering (time) or purchasing the supplies and right now it costs more to buy the supplies than I can sell the final product for. However I just broke level 75 (of 400) so I now have unlocked new recipes that will allow me to make new stuff that I'll get crafting XP for.
It reminds me of making say Fear enhancements back in the CoH days. No way to recoup your investment but you needed to make them for earn the portable crafting bench.
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Yeah, as a non-Jeweler, non-Cooking thing you should be getting the bulk of your crafting experience solely from the Discovery panel.
You get this by using the insignias. It's been a little while since I leveled my Artificer, but I think the best recipes to make cheaply were the Focus & Scepter, but I could be mistaken. So every time I got new insignias... or are they called something else? I think they are. Heck, I'll log in and see. No backspacing though, that's for quitters.
Inscriptions! That's it. And I made Tridents too, I had a buttload of metal to use. But yes, generally I'd make 3 of each inscription and then discover the recipes for the Trident, Focus, and Scepter for each. That was generally enough, though I would sometimes resort to making large batches of potions when the opportunity presented itself to be cost-feasible.
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Yea scepters are good, at least you can make more with the same about of planks than staffs and they sell for not much less.
Yes I'm using the discover function but I still haven't found a lot that I can make more than one of without seriously depleting my stocks which have taken me a week or so to gather.
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I gotta say, my advice is to avoid crafting at all costs.
It's expensive, it's not that useful, and you can sell the mats for mad money to other people who haven't figured out crafting is a sink.
I stopped crafting when I realized I could literally buy the exact thing I wanted to craft for pennies on the TP, rather than dumping a ton of money/time getting Fine Materials to make it myself, because crafters dump them on the TP just to get SOMETHING as they level.
The only crafting I touch is cooking, because with about a gold you can bump up 10 levels with it. I've used it a couple times to catch up to a dungeon I want to run, or go from 70-80 in an hour just to cap off a character.
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Honestly, without crafting I would have stopped playing GW2 faster than I did.
Crafting is fun, and the effort to do so isn't too terribly bad. I've maxed out weaponsmithing and armorsmithing, which allowed me to make some nice boxes for my guild in addition to making them the exact weapons/armor they wanted. Plus, achievement points.
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Short update.
Sickness and the holidays intervened but now that's over. My friends and I have transferred to the Gates of Madness server. I'll try to contact you later today Dispari. I'm Peregrine Falcon.5496 in game.
Thanks for the invitations everyone. Have fun! :)
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And again, can you keep it out of this thread? This is for people who are PLAYING and ENJOYING the game. If you're not playing it and don't want to, it's clearly not a thread for you, so can you stop crapping it up with passive-aggressive insults and go away?
You won't find any insults from me - passive aggressive or otherwise.
You're perfectly entitled to discuss GW2 and so is anyone else.
The fact that I refuse to buy or play another NCsoft product because of the way they treated us shouldn't bother you in the slightest.
It's just an opinion.
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OK, just stepping in for a moment in response to a request via mod report. I don't see that anyone's broken any specific rules, but I think we've pretty well established by now that some of us have no plans to ever play another NCsoft game. Let's allow people that are playing GW2 to have a thread where they can discuss the game without having to talk about that and go about our business.
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Short update.
Sickness and the holidays intervened but now that's over. My friends and I have transferred to the Gates of Madness server. I'll try to contact you later today Dispari. I'm Peregrine Falcon.5496 in game.
Thanks for the invitations everyone. Have fun! :)
I haven't been on much in the last couple days (holiday, etc) but I'm on today and got your message. Tried sending an in-game message but I guess I missed you. I sent you an invite though. You should be able to invite your friends after that.
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OK, just stepping in for a moment in response to a request via mod report. I don't see that anyone's broken any specific rules, but I think we've pretty well established by now that some of us have no plans to ever play another NCsoft game. Let's allow people that are playing GW2 to have a thread where they can discuss the game without having to talk about that and go about our business.
I'm ok with that.
I think my point has been made.
I'm done with this thread.
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What I found amazing was the inability of so many people to simply read.
Guild Wars 2 wasn't actually even the subject of this thread. Something so many of you didn't realize because you simply didn't even read the OP.
Son, I am disappoint. :(
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On the bright side, it looks like you did at least manage to find yourself a guild. Mission accomplished! :)
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I know. I know.
I'm a traitor for wanting to buy GW2 because NCSoft will get money. Personally I don't feel the need to punish the folks at ArenaNet for the actions of NCSoft. I understand if you don't agree, but I'd rather this thread not be about that.
Just to give my 2 inf:
You are not a traitor.
You have a desire/wish.
So nobody should stop you. It's everyones own decision.
And at least you support Arenanet. And supporting a dev can't be that wrong.
If I wouldn't be bored of GW1 and the additions of GW2 would be more "whoa!", I guess I would play it too.
But at least everyone has todo what makes himself happy :).
Have fun in the GW2 world ;). Maybe when it less expensive I will buy it myself.
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What I found amazing was the inability of so many people to simply read.
Guild Wars 2 wasn't actually even the subject of this thread. Something so many of you didn't realize because you simply didn't even read the OP.
Son, I am disappoint. :(
I read the OP very carefully and I understood every single word.
I also meant every single word that I wrote in my posts.
Your disappointment is misplaced.
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I read the OP very carefully and I understood every single word.
I also meant every single word that I wrote in my posts.
Your disappointment is misplaced.
Yet you are still here with your disapproving presence while giving all of us playing GW2 the virtual stink-eye.
Now shoo ... I say shoo boy you're botherin' us.
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Yet you are still here with your disapproving presence while giving all of us playing GW2 the virtual stink-eye.
Now shoo ... I say shoo boy you're botherin' us.
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Actually, I was finished posting here.
I only responded to the drivel that Falcon put in his 'disappoint' post.
I actually bear no ill will to anyone playing GW2 - honestly.
My distaste only lies with NCsoft, so I'll happily cease posting in this thread ... unless someone else decides to have a pop at me of course.
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And again, can you keep it out of this thread? This is for people who are PLAYING and ENJOYING the game. If you're not playing it and don't want to, it's clearly not a thread for you, so can you stop crapping it up with passive-aggressive insults and go away?
On a happier note,
Just hit my third 80 (elementalist, mesmer, then warrior, whee!) and still loving the crap out of this game. 10 character now... *hides* I'm totally obsessed with the roleplay possibilities inherent in sylvari, which is probably why I have 4 of them!
The holiday content is just outstanding. This is the amount of content other MMOs have put into expansions, just for a holiday! I love it!
I'm loving the holiday stuff. I think they learned a great deal with how well (poorly) the Halloween event went over and applied that to the holiday event.
Also, I'm currently on Darkhaven with the bf, but after reading this post, am contemplating a move, but to where, I don't know yet. I'll entertain any suggestions offered. :) If you want to hit me up ingame, an email to Babylon Project or Trick Candle will get to me (those are my two current projects. Heck, you could even send it to StormVyxen and I should get it, but she's lower on my project list.)
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I just hope the 15 item box is permanent, this is my first event in GW2. It does remind me a bit of the ones in CoH. I like the variety of beasties found in a gift box but those little princess dolls are the spawn of Satan. The rest I can usually solo but those dolls ... shutter ... with their tiny little screams ... just run, save yourselves.
I enjoy making snowmen, not too clear about the usefulness of some of the gifts and the ugly wool sock market has totally collapsed, made some nice coin with them during the first 12 hours.
Guitar Hero was bad enough with 5 keys but 9 on the bells challenge, I never was coordinated enough to pull that off.
Over all the event has been enjoyable. I do miss the ski slope and bobsled slide though.
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So my friends and I did indeed get into the guild. And while we haven't seen many of the members on yet - because of the holidays I'm sure - we did team up with one of the guild members and run the first dungeon. Ascalon Catacombs.
We're still new and getting used to GW2's action combat. In particular my friends aren't yet used to the idea of having to dodge-roll to avoid big attacks and I wasn't happy about my Guardian (tank-ish class) being rag-dolled across the room so often. It was kinda frustrating.
The guild member, sorry I've forgotten his name, was very friendly and patient with us and helped us to learn a lot. His help and advice turned what would have been a horrible experience into a fun learning one.
I'm really looking forward to teaming up with more of the people once the holidays are over. It may be awhile before I can talk my friends into running another dungeon though. :)
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Leveling in this game is maddeningly fast.
You gather basic resources, you get XP.
You heal a fallen NPC or another player, you get XP.
You get to a POI, you get XP.
Yesterday I started at Level 50 and when I was done finishing exploring the area I was exploring I was level 53. And that's with me taking something like an hour to figure out how to get to one vista (usually a high point that triggers a pretty camera flyby of the nearby areas you can see from that point, plus a bit of XP). The most challenging Vista I've been to so far (the Breached Wall vista in the Diessa Plateau region).
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Speaking of vistas, I don't know how many times I have fallen trying to get to one. More than I can count. I find myself, jumping forward in my chair, just trying to reach the next step, like that is going to help. LOL. I can imagine how hard the upper level ones are, considering I am only lvl 17.
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I find myself, jumping forward in my chair, just trying to reach the next step, like that is going to help. LOL.
I do this too. Like a child flailing around with their console controller or tilting their handheld. <3
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Speaking of vistas, I don't know how many times I have fallen trying to get to one. More than I can count. I find myself, jumping forward in my chair, just trying to reach the next step, like that is going to help. LOL. I can imagine how hard the upper level ones are, considering I am only lvl 17.
They're a test in patience. I'm not afraid of heights, and yet there are vistas and jumping puzzles that leave my palms sweaty and wanting to be afraid of heights.
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There are other threads to discuss NCsoft's nefarious past. Please do so in those threads. This thread is for people playing Guild Wars 2.
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I'm Mysterious J.7541, on Crystal Desert with some other CoX refugees (unfortunately, our guild seems to be dying out as folks get bored with GW2). So far I'm having a good time with my altitis: I've got one of everything except Ranger, but none higher than 43. I've done one dungeon so far, and hated it, so I'm not sure what if anything I'll do if and when I exhaust the rest of the PvE content.
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Which dungeon was it that you hated? There's a steep learning curve coming from CoH to the dungeons in GW2. They can be pretty daunting at first, but once you get the hang of the mechanics they can be a real hoot.
Also, to those looking for a home: On Devonas Rest my guild (Justice Company) has merged with a larger guild called GASM. GASM, despite the puerile name, is made up of helpful gamers with varied in-game interests ranging from exploring to World v World v World combat. If you are looking for a busy & exciting home, we're it.
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Whatever one unlocks at 30... AC, I think? There wasn't anything about it I thought remotely fun, or worth doing a second time, let alone over and over.
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So far I haven't done any of the dungeons. I just been methodically working through, exploring every zone.
So far I've completed the six major cities. All of the 1-15ish zones off of those cities and currently working on the 15-25 zones, two completed, one more than half way done on a third.
I'm Behellagh.1468 on Sorrow's Furnace.
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Whatever one unlocks at 30... AC, I think? There wasn't anything about it I thought remotely fun, or worth doing a second time, let alone over and over.
Ascalonian Catacombs (story mode) is pretty fun for me. The fights are varied and serve as a launching board towards the new fight mechanics. The story isn't bad, either, all the dungeon story modes link together to form the story of the reformation of Destiny's Edge.
The explorable mode is pretty brutal your first time out, at least one of the paths is phenomenally difficult with a horrific DPS-test against objects that due to wonky hitboxes can be hard to hit with melee.
Story mode, though, that's pretty fun. For instance, fighting Master Ranger Nente you will probably have to split your group up so that the melee fighters can hit him on his pedestal in the middle of the room while the ranged fighters hit him from the sides. When he spawns a companion you have to quickly switch targets and kill the companion before fighting Nente again. This helps teach players about the "add" control that's absolutely vital in later-game play. The fight against Kasha Blackblood teaches players about avoiding the 'red rings of death' that foreshadow impending area effects as well as the effective use of condition-removing powers. Fighting the dual-challenge of Ralena & Vassar is important to teach players how to divide and conquer when faced with multiple opponents. If they get too close to eachother the bosses gain massive buffs. Separate them with crowd control and effective use of aggro management and it's a cakewalk. The final fight with the King is a pretty straightforward fight where you have to avoid the attacks immediately after his 'buildup' animation as well as the deadly blue flames on the ground (kind of like the Apex TF).
I guess I'm just kind of fond of the story mode of that dungeon as it serves as an effective tutorial without holding the player's hand and force-feeding them instructions.
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We're still new and getting used to GW2's action combat. In particular my friends aren't yet used to the idea of having to dodge-roll to avoid big attacks and I wasn't happy about my Guardian (tank-ish class) being rag-dolled across the room so often. It was kinda frustrating.
The guild member, sorry I've forgotten his name, was very friendly and patient with us and helped us to learn a lot. His help and advice turned what would have been a horrible experience into a fun learning one.
One thing is to get out of your head that guardians are a tank, or even tank-ish, class. They're not. The game is literally designed AGAINST any form of aggro control or tanking. Your guardian actually has the LOWEST hp of any class, and the BEST support/healing abilities (though, like COH, there is no healing class either.)
Build for survivability (armor, vitality and toughness) on EVERY class and stay mobile at all times. There is very little in the way of a gear/stat gate in this game. I've yet to find a single thing I can't do in greens, though you should try to keep your armor within 10 levels of your level, don't sweat it while leveling. You will ALWAYS do enough damage - build to survive the inevitable bomb you can't dodge out of.
Dodgerolling is life. Learn it, love it. Do not be in red circles. When you can't dodge, circle. If you stand toe-to-toe fighting a mob, you will die. The game is not designed with static combat in mind.
Keep a stunbreaker on your bar.
I'm in a really awesome RPing guild on Tarnished Coast (the unofficial RP server) and have done most of the dungeons at this point - I'm glad to help folks out whenever I can! PM me if you want my global :)
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For leveling I generally just go for Precision & Power, as Precision affects your chance to critical hit and Power makes you do more damage. I have little trouble staying alive while leveling, and I find it is more helpful for my playstyle to simply kill the enemies quickly rather than outlast them. Especially with some of the gonzo-bananas respawn rates out in the wild.
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For leveling I generally just go for Precision & Power, as Precision affects your chance to critical hit and Power makes you do more damage. I have little trouble staying alive while leveling, and I find it is more helpful for my playstyle to simply kill the enemies quickly rather than outlast them. Especially with some of the gonzo-bananas respawn rates out in the wild.
I really have not noticed enough of a difference in killing speed that way to make it worth while. An extra cushion of hp/toughness always helps me more in a gonzo-bananas (lol!) respawn area than a little extra damage, frankly.
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Anyway, GW2 was fun at first but then got boring in about a week IMO same PVE as the first in regard to run all the way here, click this, hunt this etc. The graphics are GREAT! I really enjoyed the new graphics and also new combat system. I haven't played it much since I got bored with it, has nothing to do with my animosity towards NCSoft, I just got bored with the PVE, it wasn't anything special IMHO. The pvp is addictive but gets a little boring when people play the same things. I am in a guild, not for COH'rs though and I honestly don't even talk to them or chat much on that game at all and i'm a serious chatter!! All in all it's an ok game not a waste of money since it's a one time fee, I hope you find a guild and people you like to play with. GOODLUCK!
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Anyway, GW2 was fun at first but then got boring in about a week IMO same PVE as the first in regard to run all the way here, click this, hunt this etc. The graphics are GREAT! I really enjoyed the new graphics and also new combat system. I haven't played it much since I got bored with it, has nothing to do with my animosity towards NCSoft, I just got bored with the PVE, it wasn't anything special IMHO. The pvp is addictive but gets a little boring when people play the same things. I am in a guild, not for COH'rs though and I honestly don't even talk to them or chat much on that game at all and i'm a serious chatter!! All in all it's an ok game not a waste of money since it's a one time fee, I hope you find a guild and people you like to play with. GOODLUCK!
I've been enjoying all the zone events and I go out of my way to do all the various missions (hearts on map) in every zone. I enjoy the puzzle aspect of getting to some of the Vistas but my jumping skills on keyboard aren't all they are cracked up to be.
I've been playing for about a month now with a single character, something I wouldn't have done in CoH due to CoH's character creator and ideas for a new hero, and I don't find GW2 game play any more boring than CoH.
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In any case, I'm a bit disappointed with my Guardian. I knew about the dodge-rolling, I knew about the lack of the trinity, but I created this character thinking the Guardian was the closest one could get to a tank class. It turns out she's more like an old AD&D Cleric rather thank a tank.
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In any case, I'm a bit disappointed with my Guardian. I knew about the dodge-rolling, I knew about the lack of the trinity, but I created this character thinking the Guardian was the closest one could get to a tank class. It turns out she's more like an old AD&D Cleric rather thank a tank.
You *can* build a Guardian like a tank. Guardians get enough boons & heals to support themselves in battle and draw enemy aggression. You just have to experiment and discover the builds that work best for you. There are so many builds out there, so many viable builds... that's one of the major reasons why I love this game.
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Post about playing Guild Wars in this thread.
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You *can* build a Guardian like a tank. Guardians get enough boons & heals to support themselves in battle and draw enemy aggression. You just have to experiment and discover the builds that work best for you. There are so many builds out there, so many viable builds... that's one of the major reasons why I love this game.
Well, different mobs have different aggro formulas. The way to draw ire with one dungeon won't necessarily work in another.
It's been determined that your highest chance to draw aggro is affected by having low hit points, low armor, rezzing someone who's down, proximity and applying conditions. That's not universally true, but generally so. So the mobs are actually smart enough to go after the squishiest folks. Rolling back, getting out of proximity and breaking LOS are good ways to drop aggro, though again, it's not 100%. They deliberately did not want combat to consist of "heavy armor guy stands here making fun of monster, healer dumps hp into heavy armor guy, DPSers kill monster," which I'm thrilled about.
I'm not sure why someone would WANT to simulating tanking in a game that specifically gives freedom from the same, but I've seen it done. I've got 2 very good low-hp guardians who do an amazing job of kite-tanking (which is really the only viable way to tank - you are NOT gonna stand there getting hit, you will die quickly and no one has big hp-dumping heals to stop it) and putting up reflective walls and boons and doing really amazing things. I'm not sure why they WANT to do it, but they do a good job.
IMO, it's best not to build a character for a traditional "role" (tanking/healing/cc/dps) but instead to build a character to be able to react to situations. Swapping your utility skills in and out depending on the kind of mobs you're fighting is super important. Just having a good grasp on your class and what it's capable of and how you feel comfortable playing will pretty much allow you to slot into a group and do a great job. I've taken level 10 characters into the Fractals of the Mists dungeon, which a pretty rough place - with GOOD players behind them - and we've come out winners without too many hiccups.
I've actually done an all-mesmer Ascalonian Catacombs run, which means we had class anyone would consider either a tank or a healer. It was pretty amazing and hilarious and full of pink lasers and butterflies.
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So far I have one of every class. I'm playing guardian now. I have necromancer, thief, warrior, and engineer at 80. I would say thief was the hardest, but it can be fun to play. Necromancer was by far the easiest, even though the official forums never shut up about how necromancer is crappy. But I had that experience in CoH too. I was always enjoying undervalued classes and sets.
Anyway, my girlfriend and I just finished moving so we may be in the game more now. We've been pretty absent through the holidays up until now. But now I've gotten used to not playing so I may not be as active as I was before.
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I tend not to use the official forums because everyone seems so bitter there. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
People that say Necros are underperforming probably aren't playing them very well. I did some Twilight Arbor runs the other day with a couple guildie Necros and we absolutely murdered everything in our path, it was pretty darned cool. The team was 2 Necros, 2 Warriors, and an Elementalist. Both Warriors were Berserker build w/axes (one was me), the Necros were both about conditional damage, and the Elementalist switched around a LOT but put down an impressive amount of damage.
I really like how good teamwork is rewarded here.
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My friends and I are always in game mondays and fridays, sometime between 6pm - 10pm Pacific. Generally we're also on a couple days other than that, around the same time, but mondays and fridays you're guaranteed to catch us in game.
You gotta join us on Skype and run around with us, once you get settled in. Show us the ropes, share your wisdom, take the n00bs on a dungeon run, etc.
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I see the logic in making roles removed from straight up tanking or healing. Lets face it, bringing up a baby emp defender was a pain in the arse. I played all the ATs in CoX and found that I was useless as a scrapper or blaster, then came brutes and corrs ;D Yes, I loved to go "play"with GMs with my stone/stone tank, but it was always a draw.
If GW2 goes F2P, I would consider checking it out. Now that I know that former CoXers (still hate saying that >:() are playing it makes me hope the community spirit we had may be infectious.
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If GW2 goes F2P, I would consider checking it out.
GW2 doesn't have a monthly sub, if that's what you're talking about. If you're talking about the "buy box to play game for free" concept, considering how long GW1 has gone without ever going truly F2P, it's unlikely to ever happen. Anet has a system, it works, and they're unlikely to deviate from it.
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GW2 doesn't have a monthly sub, if that's what you're talking about. If you're talking about the "buy box to play game for free" concept, considering how long GW1 has gone without ever going truly F2P, it's unlikely to ever happen. Anet has a system, it works, and they're unlikely to deviate from it.
Ah, I was unaware of the 1 time purchase (guess I should have read more of the posts). I think I should just look into the youtube vids to see the play style and environment and decide if I want to front the cash. Just wish it was a F2P so I could test the waters to see if I like it. Thanks for the info and you were getting "hat head" from having to put the mod hat on so many times in there ;)
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GW1 eventually had a free trial. Which is how I came to play it and discovered I hated it. GW2 has a few things that interest me, but given how distasteful my experience with the first game was, I'm waiting for a free trial.
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I think they've had one free weekend thus far, don't know if there are plans for a trial. Thing is, the gameplay is completely different from the first Guild Wars.
The first Guild Wars only had hubs where you could meet with people you were not grouped with, the missions and explorable areas were all instanced for your party. In GW2 the world is open for everybody on your server, though there are "overflow" servers if an area is too populated. The only thing that really ties the first GW to GW2 is the storyline and maybe sPvP, but I haven't really gotten my feet wet in that mode yet.
Pretty much everything in PvE is designed to be co-operative, you don't compete against the other people in your server for resources, enemy spawns, etc. Dogpiling enemies is not frowned upon, it's a legitimate tactic in this game as everybody gets full experience and the same chances for loot. You see a node of Copper Ore, but someone is already going for it... no biggie, they get theirs, you get yours, everybody gets theirs from it and every resource node.
If you're an achievement/badge whore there's a metagame just for you as well. While there are very few titles in the game there are a buttload of achievements, each of which gives you a bit of points that everyone in your guild can see. It basically shows how much stuff you've done in the game. Whether it's doing Daily Achievements, Monthly Achievements, or just the various achievements such as killing certain numbers of enemies, exploratory achievements, etc.
The only solo/group instanced areas that I can think of are the dungeons.
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Yeah, I tried GW1 and hated it. GW2 is completely different in feel, and has taken a lot of cues from stuff in CoX (badge-hunters paradise, I tells ya, plus the beauty of exemping down). It's not supers, which is a strike against it, and you can't do nearly as much with your appearance as I'd like (but you can divorce appearance from gear to some extent, so you don't have to dress like some crazy warhammer dude just because you like the warhammer-esque armor's stats), but it is casual-friendly...and since there's no monthly fee you can pick it up and put it down as you like.
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Let's see, a few more differences between GW1 and GW2...
In GW1 you had some quests in instanced explorable areas and then you had the larger scripted 'missions', also instanced with lobbies in which to form teams. In GW2 you have Personal Story missions (with various branches that reflect your personal choices, but the very end is the same regardless) that are instanced for you and your party but the majority of the game is played in the open world with other players. I say "open world" but really every zone is its own instance with as many players as it can hold. There are "Renown Hearts" which are public quests with personal progression. When you fill the Heart to completion you unlock a merchant who will barter your Karma (a currency gained through doing different things) for different items. There are also loads of world events that happen with pre-ordained triggers. Some of them trigger from Renown Heart completion, some trigger from interaction with players, some happen at set times of day. Some chain off of previous world events as well. But these (Personal Story missions, Renown Hearts, and World Events) are the primary source of experience gain. You also get experience from exploring, gathering, crafting, defeating enemies (NPCs or other players in WvWvW), and finishing tasks such as "Zone Completion". To complete a zone you have to find every point of interest (POI), finish every Renown Heart, view every Vista (sometimes found at the end of platforming puzzles, they give you a panoramic view of the surrounding area or a key point in the game's history), finish every skill point challenge, and unlock every waypoint. Each of these actions gives experience individually as well as a bonus upon zone completion. The bonus varies, but generally it is 2 decent pieces of gear, some karma, a nice chunk of money, and occasionally something that you would otherwise have to purchase from the cash shop such as an experience booster.
I guess that's just one difference, really, when you think about it. There's just a heck of a lot to do in the game. I leveled my second Warrior to 80 recently and have begun getting good gear for him. I initially wanted him to be just support-oriented, but then I stumbled across a build that I really like. It's still very supportive with massive buffs to group damage and some crowd control but it also deals substantial damage to single-targets through bleeds & critical hits. I'm pretty pleased with it. So now I have a Warrior that is just pure damage dealing with no real group support and a Warrior with heavy support and nice damage too. I am constantly getting praise from group mates when the enemies just melt in front of us.
Edit: Thought of another difference. In GW1 you generally clicked to move and this could be troublesome. In GW2 you use mouse/keyboard to move and there is an active "dodge" mechanic tied to endurance so that you can not just spam dodge, but you can use it to get out of sticky situations. It makes for a much more active gaming experience.
Another difference is the way skills are handled. First off, your primary 5 skills (1-5 on the skill bar) are determined by your equipped weapons. Every class has 2 weapon sets aside from Elementalists & Engineers who only get the one (one for normal combat, one for underwater combat still). You can switch between them at will or with a small cooldown during combat. Your number 6 skill is a healing skill. Most only heal the user but some have bonus effects for other players, especially with unlocked traits. You unlock the 7 slot at level 5, this is your first class skill. At level 10 (I think) you get your second class skill slot (number 8) and then at 20 your last one (number 9). At level 30 you can purchase an Elite skill for your number 10 slot.
The slot skills are purchased with skill points whereas weapon skills are unlocked through gaining experience from combat with the weapon equipped. There are no respecs for slot skill purchases but you will gain far more skill points than you have skills throughout the game. There are 3 tiers for the skills that reflect their cost in skill points. The first tier skills cost one skill point apiece. The second tier unlocks when you have purchased 5 skills from the first tier (generally at level 7 or 8). Second-tier skills cost 3 skill points apiece. The third tier of skills opens when you have purchased 5 second-tier skills. Third-tier skills cost 6 skill points apiece. Elite Skills have 2 tiers, and to purchase second-tier Elite skills (which cost 30 skill points each) you will have to have unlocked 2 Elite Skills from the first Elite skill tier.
It sounds ridiculously complicated when written out but it's amazingly simple and the game walks you through it easily.
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It's worth noting that out-of-combat you can change out your equipped weapons completely (as well as the hotswapping back and forth between two sets that most classes have) which completely changes your skills bound to 1-5 and you can completely change which skills out of your bunches that are bound to 6-0 and you can change up your "Traits" (kind of like being able to select IO set bonuses independent of having actual IO sets). IOW, you can almost completely change the powers and style of play whenever you're not in combat. If that's not enough you can also get respecs, which allow you redo all your Trait selections if you want to specialize in different lines. So there's a lot of flexibility in trying out various builds and changing them up depending on what you're doing.
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So far, I am loving the game. My only problem I am having with it is the limited number of slots available. I know I can buy more but for me, that is very hard to do. My altitis is really suffering in this game. But I am liking my Elementalist (my highest toon at 27) and my Guardian (lvl 12) the best. I did recently find out that depending on the zone you are at you are set down to the relative level of that zone. I was wondering why my lvl 25 (at the time) couldn't plow through the lvl 10 baddies like I could when I was in CoH. It does give a nice spin on the game though. All zones can be a challenge and that is kinda nice. I have finished two zones totally, Queensdale and Kessex Hills and I am on to the next (I forgot the name). Most people I have encountered on the game have been really freindly but I do miss the chat channels CoH had. Overall, I am most pleased with my purchase of the game.
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In GW1 you generally clicked to move and this could be troublesome.
I immediately turned that crap off. Cannot stand CTM in any game.
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I immediately turned that crap off. Cannot stand CTM in any game.
Me either... of course, for me it's because it complicates the process of adapting the controls to a gamepad.
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Just getting this on this page.
Now it's on this page twice from my POV.
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You can move with the keyboard as well in GW1 you don't have to use the mouse i know i didn't.
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Guesting is finally coming on Jan. 28th, along with the removal of free world transfers. They'll be a paid feature at that point.
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Guesting is finally coming on Jan. 28th, along with the removal of free world transfers. They'll be a paid feature at that point.
I'm actually looking forward to guesting.
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I'm looking forward to guesting too, mostly because it will likely make finding groups for playing a lot easier.
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And it only took them almost six months to get the feature in that was supposed to be in at launch....
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And it only took them almost six months to get the feature in that was supposed to be in at launch....
Less time than it took to get the last 10 levels into CoV.
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What is "Guesting"? Teaming up across servers or something?
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What is "Guesting"? Teaming up across servers or something?
Yeah, basically temporarily moving to another server.
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Well my first character hit 80 last night. I still haven't explored half the world. I still hadn't finished up my "personal story" arc. At least I contributed to my guild by getting a 100 "influence" reward in one of those reward chests that open with a key you would normally buy with real money. I got one as a reward for completely exploring a zone (they often give you a hit of a real money consumable as a free reward).
So go go Heroes Of Paragon [COH]. Maybe someday we'll be able to afford something.
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Less time than it took to get the last 10 levels into CoV.
Did Cryptic ever claim CoV would have those last ten levels at launch, though? Cause I'm pretty sure Arenanet claimed guesting would be in GW2 at launch or very soon after.
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Did Cryptic ever claim CoV would have those last ten levels at launch, though? Cause I'm pretty sure Arenanet claimed guesting would be in GW2 at launch or very soon after.
IIRC (which I may not), it was present briefly at launch, but buggy...so they deactivated it and made server transfers free until they could fix it.
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Did Cryptic ever claim CoV would have those last ten levels at launch, though? Cause I'm pretty sure Arenanet claimed guesting would be in GW2 at launch or very soon after.
there was a lot of groaning out there especially in the pvp areas, when villians was limited to 40 and heroes had extra ten levels. Even though the level sets were 25 30 and 35 iirc. But those extra ten levels is said to make a big difference not to mention the ancillary pool powers that heros got that villians didnt have. SOme felt COV got shafted from the get go and never regained that momentum and the side switch thing was basically a bullet in the head for COV.
IIRC there was a post that stated that originally there was supposed to be 50 levels for villians but the 40-50 content would take a while longer and cause delays.
By definition, they kept their word in GW2. It was available at launch but just didnt work as planned. Hey they never promised it would be running now and forever. They just said available at launch, which it was. Meaning even if it was shutdown 1 sec after launch, they would have kept their word by definition.
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By definition, they kept their word in GW2. It was available at launch but just didnt work as planned. Hey they never promised it would be running now and forever. They just said available at launch, which it was. Meaning even if it was shutdown 1 sec after launch, they would have kept their word by definition.
Actually, it was sort-of in the whole time. The problem was that it only really worked in LA. My guild doing fractals or RP in LA has been able to party with and pull people into our overflow instance from other servers. It just wasn't a gamewide "you can quest with anyone" sort of thing.
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Actually, it was sort-of in the whole time. The problem was that it only really worked in LA. My guild doing fractals or RP in LA has been able to party with and pull people into our overflow instance from other servers. It just wasn't a gamewide "you can quest with anyone" sort of thing.
well then. There you have it, folks.
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Apparently the guild my guild/SG from CoH merged with has up and decided to change servers. Frickin hell.
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Apparently the guild my guild/SG from CoH merged with has up and decided to change servers. Frickin hell.
Ouch. That sucks, bigtime.
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I long for the day when the title of this thread becomes 'Anyone Still Playing Guild Wars 2?'.
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Well, I stopped playing it after a couple of weeks personally.
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Reminder that this thread is here to discuss playing GW2. Take your anti-NCsoft/anti-GW2/not-playing-GW2 elsewhere by mod request.
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there was a lot of groaning out there especially in the pvp areas, when villians was limited to 40 and heroes had extra ten levels. Even though the level sets were 25 30 and 35 iirc. But those extra ten levels is said to make a big difference not to mention the ancillary pool powers that heros got that villians didnt have. SOme felt COV got shafted from the get go and never regained that momentum and the side switch thing was basically a bullet in the head for COV.
IIRC there was a post that stated that originally there was supposed to be 50 levels for villians but the 40-50 content would take a while longer and cause delays.
By definition, they kept their word in GW2. It was available at launch but just didnt work as planned. Hey they never promised it would be running now and forever. They just said available at launch, which it was. Meaning even if it was shutdown 1 sec after launch, they would have kept their word by definition.
Part of the irritation was that those ten levels meant that Heroes could use HO's in their builds, while villains couldn't.
I did play GW2 for a bit (pre-purchased it before the whole mess), and while I love some of the mechanics and innovations they introduced, the game didn't manage to hold my attention for long - I will probably revisit it at some point though, as I'm sure part of the reason for my lack of interest was CoX's pending shutdown...
I'll probably reroll a human noble and get a refresh on the story so far.
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Guesting is supposed to be coming today. Should be interesting, I'm looking forward to doing more dungeons as a result.
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I've been playing for about a week or two. I love the CoX community and figured Id check if anyone else is up for saving the world heh. No matter what game we're still heroes right? My highest character is currently a lvl 32 Guardian, Michael Arcanis. My handle is Lastjustice.3264 and I'm on Borlis Pass. I'm running in a guild one of my real life friends made, and could definitely use some more quality people. Let me know if you're interested. (except for Tenzhi..because he hates everything heh.)
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Another friend from coh I know is on a different server and tongiht we are going to meet up and see how the "guesting" goes. I hope we can figure it out. Anyone know what to do?
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Thank you Father Xmas!
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The guesting was very easy to do and I had a great time teaming with a former COH buddy. Now I know that I can team with anyone at anytime. Its a great feature that they have added.
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If people wanna group up, let me know. I'm still on Devona's Rest and I guest on Dragonbrand where most of my guild went. That leaves me another server to guest on.
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My friends and I still play Guild Wars 2, but it seems that our fellow City of Heroes players in the guild we joined do not. :'(
We've been having fun with some of the jumping puzzles and we're getting ready to start trying out the dungeons again.
If anyone here still plays let me know. We'd love to guest on your server, or vice versa, for some GW2 fun! ;D
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I stopped playing GW2 for some time because the zones outside of starter were empty and it got repetitive.
If anyone wants to team my username is willywonka.3810
I'm not gonna go in depth as to how I got that username.. simple flaw with overlapping of two accounts that never got fixed. It's a joy of having a younger female sibling..
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My friends and I still play Guild Wars 2, but it seems that our fellow City of Heroes players in the guild we joined do not. :'(
We've been having fun with some of the jumping puzzles and we're getting ready to start trying out the dungeons again.
If anyone here still plays let me know. We'd love to guest on your server, or vice versa, for some GW2 fun! ;D
You are a member of Heroes of Paragon [COH] or another former CoH guild? I had a blast last weekend with the guild. My problem is right now I'm still focused on exploration and doing the daily in the very limited time I have playing so joining in on reindeer games with the rest of the guild is a tad problematic.
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No. I just realized that I forgot to include in my last post, but we're in Despari's DUSK guild on the Gate of Madness server.
We should be on tonight. I'm Peregrine Falcon there too. We should be in game tonight around 7pm Pacific. I'll see if I can message you guys and/or add you to my friends list then.
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I am still playing GW2 and am enjoying it. I have a lvl 45 Elementalist. I really like the dual daggers and earth combo. I am still soloing and exploring all the zones. So much to see.
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I'm still playing and I'm perfectly happy to run around with some fellow CoHers. I'm on Devona's Rest but I'm happy to guest anywhere.
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On Devona's rest myself.
Account name is Lolliad, I'd be proud to join the COH guild :)
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My friends and I still play Guild Wars 2, but it seems that our fellow City of Heroes players in the guild we joined do not. :'(
We've been having fun with some of the jumping puzzles and we're getting ready to start trying out the dungeons again.
If anyone here still plays let me know. We'd love to guest on your server, or vice versa, for some GW2 fun! ;D
It's been weird. We were playing hardcore up until my girlfriend and I moved. We had 6+ people who would be on daily and were doing dungeons at least once a week. We got to the point where we had to do more than one a week because we had too many people for a single run.
After we moved, it seemed like nobody was on. That's about when you guys joined. I had taken time off due to the move, but now our regular leader and some of the others haven't been on. Since you guys joined I've tried to be online a couple times a week, but nobody is ever on when I am.
Sad times. :-[
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I still play every day but with the way the game is set up, its just not the same with teaming as it was in COH. I am perfectly happy just soloing everything. Maybe when I have a lvl 80 I will want to team more. It seems the higher zones are more empty than the lower zones but maybe everyone starts going to the charr, asura, norm, etc. zones when they hit the 40's, where I am.
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I'm on frequently, but not in a guild. I need to find a decent PvE/WvW guild though, especially with the guild missions. I can never find a team for a dungeon, but I need to run them all. I've enjoyed the 2-3 story modes I actually got to run. I'm on Sea of Sorrows, but can guest or transfer to another world.
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I'm on frequently, but not in a guild. I need to find a decent PvE/WvW guild though, especially with the guild missions. I can never find a team for a dungeon, but I need to run them all. I've enjoyed the 2-3 story modes I actually got to run. I'm on Sea of Sorrows, but can guest or transfer to another world.
I'm on Jade Quarry (shakes fist at SoS). >:(
I got killed by you guys like a dozen times last night trying to run you off our home area (and complete the map for the bonus). At least you weren't a member of the guild that goes by the tag [SEXY].
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Since you guys joined I've tried to be online a couple times a week, but nobody is ever on when I am.
We play every Monday and Friday night, roughly 6PM to 10PM Pacific. And we often play on Wednesdays and Saturdays, same time frame.
Hoping to see you guys back on! :D
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I'm starting to feel the GW2 itch again, I'm not sure just how many of my SGmates are still around Tarnished Coast though. Is anyone else there?
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I'm starting to feel the GW2 itch again, I'm not sure just how many of my SGmates are still around Tarnished Coast though. Is anyone else there?
I'm on tarnished coast.
But have not played in a while. kind of lost interest just before Christmas.
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I had an idea for an RP character so I rolled a human mesmer on Varnished Toast. I should've rolled one sooner, this class has got potential.
... Note to self: Bring up the cloning/illusion system to the MWM folks.
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Guild Wars 2 is now offering free server transfers until April 1st.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/free-transfers-to-medium-populations-worlds/
Now you still only get one per week so if you transfer for free you won't get a transfer back for free. If you'd like to join us on Gate of Madness server though I can get you into a big guild which has a ton of active members. And my friends and I are still on almost every night from roughly 6pm to 9pm Pacific.
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So, has anyone tried the adventure box yet? I did it on "infantile" mode and made it to the end but didn't know what to do then. Then I died and didn't have enough baubles to continute. And boy, those chests are hard to kill everything if you get those monkeys. I am going to try again in the lower zones where there are more people around to help kill them. Oh, and I like the retro look and music.
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I did a run through the box last night, first as a full group then solo in infantile mode. So much fun! But you really have to be into jumping puzzles and quick on your feet. The chests out in the world are kicking my face in! Not something to solo. All in all though, great fun, I need that backpack. And hopefully the promise of more weapon skins will come true. I needs me some guns!
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I did a run through the box last night, first as a full group then solo in infantile mode. So much fun! But you really have to be into jumping puzzles and quick on your feet. The chests out in the world are kicking my face in! Not something to solo. All in all though, great fun, I need that backpack. And hopefully the promise of more weapon skins will come true. I needs me some guns!
I didn't have much of a problem with the frogs but the monkeys were a pain in the butt. My current MO is to pull them into groups of critters that are ambivalent toward me so they help me wear them down.
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Ah, altitis, my old friend. I'm still trying to find a class and concept that I can main with. Right now, my new sylvari thief is pulling ahead, I like his look, I'm utterly adoring the sylvari as a race, and he's got some pretty nifty tricks he can pull.
Someday. Someday I'll finally have an alt past 40...
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I never, NEVER like thieves or rogues or assassins in any game I've ever played.
My highest character in GW2 is a Sylvari thief. She's awesome. The Sylvari are my second favorite race (I *love* the Asura - I have been coveting them since the first concept art showed up) - although you wouldn't know that to look at my character list (all Sylvari but one Asura) lol.
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I have a level 80 thief, haven't done much with him after getting him to 80. But then, I haven't played a whole lot lately. My gaming time for the last few weeks has been mostly Dungeon Defenders. If I could get a regular group together to do Dungeons in GW2 I'd love it.
Basically my impression of the Thief in GW2 is that it's great for burst damage but is a bit squishy.
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I've been thinking of rolling a thief next, simply because I keep getting ganked by them in WvW when I'm not zerging with the team.
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I have a human thief right now, at lvl 8, I think. I am not sure if I like it or not. I also suffer from altitis but my main (human elementalist) is lvl 70 now. I noticed that in the higher zones, they are pretty much empty. Maybe its the time I play (6-8pm pst). I am soloing most events. I do like the drops in the higher zones though.
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My thief is a Charr and I'm having a really hard time getting into her. She's still just a baby though (level 15). I think I need to try all the weapon combos again.
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So far, I can't get into the Charr. I have made two and deleted them. I am on my third and she is lvl 4. And she might be on the chopping block if my altitis comes back.
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Charr are easily my favorite race. But also the most difficult for me to play. I only have the one and that was really only because for my sake of completeness I needed to have one character from each race. At the moment though I have more Sylvari than any of the others. That will change though when character slots go on sale again. I can't help myself.
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The character slots go on sale? So far I have bought two (bad altitis). I guess I can wait for the next sale and maybe then buy 2 more. So far, I have mostly humans. I know that starting zone the best since that is what I do the most. I do like the sylvari race too.
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I've been playing about 6 months now and I think in that time they've gone on sale once, maybe twice. My favorite start zone seems to be the Wayfarer Foothills. I certainly spend an insane amount of time in the zone. My least favorite is Metrica Province. I don't know why but every time I play there for more than a half hour I start getting sleepy and uninterested. I've only completed it once out of nine characters.
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I've been playing about 6 months now and I think in that time they've gone on sale once, maybe twice. My favorite start zone seems to be the Wayfarer Foothills. I certainly spend an insane amount of time in the zone. My least favorite is Metrica Province. I don't know why but every time I play there for more than a half hour I start getting sleepy and uninterested. I've only completed it once out of nine characters.
I started a Norn as my first character and the snowy part of the Wayfarer Foothills is still one of my favorite areas. And I've explored them all.
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My elelmentalist is 72 now and I still only have 42% of the map done. My goal is to do "everything" with her. I hope there is an excellent prize for doing every map and everything on it.
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Other than the chests you get when you clear the zone, I'm not sure. I just have one WvW map left and it's about half done. They're the toughest maps to clear because POI, Vista and Skill areas there are likely under enemy control.
You will get something you will need if you ever are going to craft up to legendary weapons. And a star next to your character's name.
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I'll say this. At the point in time that I boycotted NCSoft, I wasn't interested in any of their other games anyway. The last fantasy MMORPG I'd played was Ultima Online, and I've played quite a few MMOs over the past 15 years (so for those who think you can't dodge the fantasy glut--where there's a will there's a way ;D).
But my time post-CoH in LOTRO and the Neverwinter Beta has opened my mind up a bit to the fantasy MMO genre. And after hearing friends and Titan folks talk about GW2 and Wildstar, and after seeing gameplay footage, these look like real fun titles and I am really hoping I can play them some day. And, we boycotters talk, and so I know I'm not the only one. Yes I'm one of the boycotters. But out of the two super groups I had characters in during City of Heroes, one of those groups moved almost entirely to GW2 when they found Champions Online unpalatable. I see them sometimes in CO and NW but not often, and I miss them. In my very first emails and letters to NCSoft, I gave them my word that if they made this situation right, I'd buy copies of Guild Wars 2 and other games (like Wildstar, looks cool), and spread flowers and praise anytime NCSoft and their games came up in threads or conversations. I said that in good faith, but now I really want to be able to buy these games! For many boycotters, our boycotts are not just NCSoft's loss, it's our loss too.
#CallJack and #SaveCoH :-\
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Captain, I totally understand. I kinda fell into GW2 and I really enjoy it. I got a free trial from ymy sister. I have found a few people from the Justice United chat channel from COH and we chat. Its a fun game and I hope one day that things will be right with NCSoft and you can try it out.
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I Play GW2 and I like it, I may hate NCsoft but i don't see or have any reason to hate Arena Net. I was a Virtue Player on CoH and I play on Tarnished Coast (The RP Server) in GW2 with a Ele as my main. I Open up a GW2 Chapter of the Justice Girls in GW2 (Yes even in GW2 the group was called The Justice Girls) and We were doing good, a good size group, Doing Armor (Costume) Contest. But We hit a wall at somepoint and Merge with another Group a few weeks ago. needless to say, I'm having a good time in GW2. Plus if let go or don't think of the NCsoft BS, GW2 is a great game.
I do miss my DP/Ice Techno Organic Ice Succubus Blaster and CoH, But i can't let that bring me down.
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Hey there Maya! Captain, good to see you! And all the other CoH refugees as well.
It's Elltenia from Virtue and the Legionnaire's!
So, when CoH was closed down, I had a lot of mixed feelings about it. But as I have said before, not going to blame ANet because NCsoft apparently didn't like Paragon Studios and City of Heroes. (Lets face it, that's what it sure looked like to me...)
So, I play Guild Wars 2, have 3 level 80's and am still playing it, working on a 4th now...
It's not perfect. And some of the things ANet is doing with it's Living Story baffle me (Why oh why do you keep making everything temporary??) but the game is beautiful. The combat is smooth. The character progression is fairly simple, yet is still deep enough (for me) to allow for some variety in builds.
One thing I do so terribly miss is the ICON from CoH... There are more armor combinations then you can really shake a stick at, but nothing even remotely close to what we had on CoH. What the game is missing is more normal looking 'town clothes'. You you start out with a set that you can customize the colors on, and you can buy more from the Trading Post, but that costs Gems...
And on the subject of Gems... This alternate currency seems like a money-grab by most people when I talk about it. Truth is, they are basically like Paragon Points in that you need them to buy new shinies (like the aforementioned town clothes...) and other neat stuff. And yes, you can pay real money to buy Gems...
A couple of things about this though...
Yes, you can pay with real money. And that's really the easiest (and quickest) way to get Gems. But, you can also trade in game gold for Gems. so if you never want to spend another dime on the game after you buy it, you don't have to. Mind you, gold doesn't just fall from the sky like Inf used to seemingly do... But really, it's not that terribly hard to get either
Also, there is nothing you can buy with Gems that will make you better in the game itself. Nothing will make you stronger, faster, tougher or really, make it a Pay2Win situation. The Gem Store is completely and totally optional, and you can never touch it at all, and still be just as effective as the guy who spent $100 there... (In fact, I'd say you might just be better off, because you are possibly a $100 richer then he is... >_>)
Like I said, the game is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. But if I was looking for the perfect game, I'd never play any of them out there. The lack of the Holy Trinity is kind of a mixed blessing at times... Yes, its a different take on the tried and true (and some might say over-used) game mechanic in MMOs, but sometimes I feel that they neglected to really put anything in to replace it. Sometimes I /do/ miss the ability to run into a group of enemies, pull aggro and tank them all. You try that in GW2, and you'll quickly get pummeled into the ground... That being said, I have to admit that I love the feeling I get after taking on a bunch of enemies and coming out on top after a fierce fight!
Okay, this has rambled on more then I expected to. <_< Theres more I could say, but I didn't mean to give a full review of a game that a lot of people are probably familiar with by now...
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What server are you on? There are a group of us mostly on Jade Quarry. Our guild is called Heroes Of Paragon [COH].
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I ended up on Tarnished Coast. I can't complain about the community here. Generally pretty friendly and helpful.
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HEY ELLY! It's great to see a Legionnaire here. :D
Glad to know you're still having fun over there. And don't worry, this is a rambling-encouraged zone, and this is a good place for full reviews. With all the games coming out lately, and everyone exploring around, you'd be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't) by all the people who haven't tried out any given MMO yet.
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I'm three months now with my Sylvari thief, Skoryy. He dinged 80 a month back, he's got his endgame gear, he's been actively keeping my altitis at bay, he's getting into a lot of fun RP, and with the latest patch I've finally made him into the John Woo action hero to put all my CoH/CO DP alts to shame.
The game isn't perfect, and its not City, but its delicious fun. And Tarnished Coast is the best server. ;)
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I Play GW2 and I like it, I may hate NCsoft but i don't see or have any reason to hate Arena Net. I was a Virtue Player on CoH and I play on Tarnished Coast (The RP Server) in GW2 with a Ele as my main. I Open up a GW2 Chapter of the Justice Girls in GW2 (Yes even in GW2 the group was called The Justice Girls) and We were doing good, a good size group, Doing Armor (Costume) Contest. But We hit a wall at somepoint and Merge with another Group a few weeks ago. needless to say, I'm having a good time in GW2. Plus if let go or don't think of the NCsoft BS, GW2 is a great game.
I thought the Justice Girls sounded familiar. Who'd you merge with?
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Well I can't speak for everyone that was in the Justice Girls, but I know that Maya and at least 2 others joined the guild I'm in, 'of Quiet Resolve' [QuRe]. It's a pretty active and helpful group, though at the moment, it's rather light on the RP... I'm (slowly but surely) trying to help fix that...
Not that I think it should be 'IC all the time every time!' mind you, but I personally like getting into character at least once in a while...
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Yea the Justice Girls Merge with 'of Quiet Resolve' [QuRe] and i say around 2/3 of the group join them. I'm also a member of a Jade Quarry Group call "Heroes of Paragon" [COH], My home server is Tarnished Coast The RP Server. The server Feels almost like Virtue, And i do miss using ICON but I always find a way to make my characters look good. The Living Story Arcs (GW2 Version of CoH Signature Story Arc) are good and help make the world feel more alive, While most it is temporary they leave a permanently changed in the GW2 World. And i guess the reason why its Mostly Temporary is because Anet really wants to make the World to feel more Alive then all the other MMO Plus some of the things from the living story is Staying too like the Aetherblades (Sky Pirates with Steampunk Armor). Its a ongoing evolution. Oh yea and as for trying to tank in GW2, Try to keep this in Mind "your Not Super anymore, But you can Give it all you Got and Show them You Don't need super powers to be the Best!" Playing that Your the Best Song may help too. :D
PS: one more thing about trying to make your Character look good with Limited Armor Sets, If there a Will, There is a Way... A WAY TO MAKE YOUR CHARACTER LOOK GOOOOOOD! XD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjcOJmoJwpk
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My Elementalist with Staff and Glymph of Lesser Elementals and Greater Fiery Sword (names might not be totally accurate), I can take down a Veteran solo, no problem. Some are actually easier then others for some reason.
I still have 32% of the map to go too. And I have jumping puzzles. I did finish the Dragon Bash but then they came out with the Pirate thingy. So much to do.
I do collect the dyes and get as many costumes as I can. I wear different ones in the lower zones where I know that they will suffice for the baddies in that zone. I miss COH's costumes creator. But I do the best I can with what I got.
I sure do miss my Ice/DM tank a whole lot though.
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My Elementalist Also use a Staff too and is my Main Using Knight set Armor with Sentinel/Soldier Jewels I got my Elementalist set up good. I Build my Elementalist to be a All round type of Elementalist from PvE to Dungeon to WvW and is my most used Character too.
And I do miss my Dual Pistol Blaster and using a HVAS on missions too.