Guild Wars 2 finally starts to come to life

Boo to Neo-Mallyx!

I want to do them in order so I'll have to wait and see when there is a Twilight Arbor group around.

Or wait for Guesting.

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I've actually been finding the Warrior the hardest to play out of the classes I've tried (others are Guardian, Thief and Engineer), which I know is silly as he's not meant to be an expert class and plenty of people talk about him being easy and overpowered. I think I am in too much of a Guardian mindset with him. Finally found a rough build idea that I can work with but I've gone the wrong way with traits and skills so it will be a while re-jigging him.

It took me a whole to get Engineer right as well, but I still got something working waaaay quicker than with my poor Warrior.

Twilight Arbor is great. If guesting gets in any time soon I will happily do that one with you - I've done story mode on it twice and I sure wouldn't mind doing it again (doubly helps that I know it very well now). I'm actually waiting for guesting so I can start doing explorable as one of my friends who's on Desolation also really wants the Nightmare armor so we decided we're going to farm it together.

Also, I'd say that the Fire Golem boss in SE is worse than a Mallyx-type, as the dungeon leading up to it isn't terribly difficult at all (and actually quite funny), the boss directly preceding it is fine, and the final boss is supposed to be great...but the Fire Golem is just terrible. Think the Fire Elemental in BWE3, if you fought that at all.

(amusingly enough, I did that again recently. So much easier than before, but still hard. I wound up walking the group there through how to defeat it and we took it down in 15 minutes, with minimal deaths once I started guiding people as to what to do and where to go.)

I'm having the most trouble with Thief, myself. Which is weird because as how I play my Mesmer, you'd think I'd be used to such hyper-mobile combat...but I'm finding that my Thief feels way squishier than my Mesmer did at that level. Maybe once I level a bit more and have more pumped into my traits (I'm speccing toughness this time around, I think, breaking my habit of going all out glass cannon as I usually do), so I'll see if that helps...

Ranger is stupidly easy to play once you get a longbow, btw.

My Thief is on top of his game right now, though he is only level 30 and I am sure things will change later (I had to shift my Guardian style radically after level 30 and things got tougher, though I am very happy with him now).

Doing the Charr Order of Whispers line, my Thief got attacked by a tornado of Risen that I know 100% would kill my Warrior stone dead in moments, but a caltrops drop and throwing knives was sending up so many damage numbers that I couldn't see where the bad guys were. I don;'t mind being squishy if I can at least make up for it that way. My Warrior, however, was generally just dying as well as failing to kill things.

I made some drastic changes in my mesmer about that level as well, so yeaj, I'll see. My thief is only level 24 and most of that is due to crafting. I haven't actually played her a huge amount.

On that note, if anyone needs light armor or accessories, let me know. I'll craft them for you if you send me the mats.

Where are you on cooking, Ush? I broke 125 yesterday 😄

I am far enough up on Cooking on my Warrior that I have had to stop cooking because he's too low level to eat anything he makes and I am out of inventory space. I refuse to throw away good food...

I bought an extra bank pane and promptly filled it. I've started just mailing stuff to guildies at random, haha.

Sending to others? But I cooked it! (hordes food jealously)

Originally posted by Peach

Ranger is stupidly easy to play once you get a longbow, btw.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Sending to others? But I cooked it! (hordes food jealously)

😛

We've got a nice exchange system going on with my guild. I think the only crafting discipline that doesn't have someone with it maxed out is weaponsmithing, so I think I'm going to start on that one soon. We all craft each other stuff all the time. I was mailing jewelry out left and right as I was leveling that one. One of my friends crafts all of my magical weapons, and I make all of his armor and accessories 😄

So when are you planning on making a sylvari? 😛

Originally posted by Lek Kuen
I've been considering switching to Long Bow since I've begun to get caught alot with my short bow. And not not that all that used to evading effectively.

I haven't tried out shortbow yet, simply because I haven't picked one up yet. Longbow is great and, quite frankly, somewhat overpowered. Between the 2 skill (can't remember the name), 4 skill (also can't remember the name - yay knockback!), and Barrage, you kill things ridiculously fast. Plus you get amazing range which is always good.

Originally posted by Peach
Farming in this game is so useless, unless you plan on going for full-out magic find gear and sacrificing a lot of damage and survivability. I did craft myself a magic find set, and it wasn't until I runed it all up with superior pirate/traveler runes and was using the MF buffs from food my norn made that I started seeing any difference. I've got a ton of Opal crystals, I'll make a set of MF jewelry as well and see if it helps any. Still, I got two golds last night in Orr, which considering that up until that point I'd only gotten 4-5 the whole game, is pretty good.

Also one was a piece of armor that was 1) useful and 2) a skin I like, which is rare 😄 I had transmuted my MF set back to my dragonfly armor (because the karma tailoring recipe is ****ing ridiculous), previewed the pants I got with it, and went "...I really like this." and so I am wearing it.

http://i.imgur.com/YW8ml.jpg

Now if only the exotics I had gotten for completing Straits of Devastation been things that were at all useful for me...a warhorn, medium armor piece, and t5 crafting materials I'm already overstocked on. Wooo. Give me some damn gossamer so I can start making my exotic armor!

BTW, Ush, I don't know how far you've gotten on dungeons, but you'll hate Sorrow's Embrace. There's a rather Mallyx-like boss in there. It's the first time I've been completely stonewalled by something in this game. We couldn't beat it even respeccing ourselves as best we could with being unable to actually reset trait allocations.

When I say "Farming" I actually mean farming dragons haha. As I have those guys on timer. I'm on my elem about 70% of the time spamming "LFG any explore" tbh.

Edit. Also, I sometimes (when bored) farm low lvl crafting materials so I can lvl up all the crafting proffs. Kinda my thing now.

Profs leveled to 400:
-Cooking
-Artificier
-Light Armor
-Heavy Armor
-Jewelcrafting (ow, pricey)

Edit. Also helped a friend (by gathering like 90% of his mats requirement) lvl his huntsman to 340.

You found jewelcrafting pricey? I didn't spend a copper on that one until I was doing the last few levels, and that was because I needed an ecto for the karma recipe and hadn't gotten any yet. If you mine every node you come across you get loads of jewels. It's so easy.

That sounds really boring, to be honest. I'm pushing more for map completion myself. I would have finished Iron Marches the other night, if not for a bugged heart and skill challenge.

Originally posted by Peach
You found jewelcrafting pricey? I didn't spend a copper on that one until I was doing the last few levels, and that was because I needed an ecto for the karma recipe and hadn't gotten any yet. If you mine every node you come across you get loads of jewels. It's so easy.

That sounds really boring, to be honest. I'm pushing more for map completion myself. I would have finished Iron Marches the other night, if not for a bugged heart and skill challenge.

Yeah, meant the push from 375-400. Costs gold to do. Other proffs were mostly gathered. 😛

"Boring" is a relative term, I like fighting dragons and running dungeons. Clearing areas (via "farming"😉 gives me the feeling that I'm clearing out areas for other ppl to cross (much what my fighter did during my D&D days). Leveling profs is just a natural result of all the farming. What you consider "boring" might be fun for others and what you consider "fun" (map completion) might be tedious to some.

I didn't have to spend anything until 395 😛 I still have loads of crystals, in fact. I don't feel like transmogrifying them into orbs because I don't have the ecto to make exotics.

Dragons and dungeons are fun, but farming and doing anything repeatedly I just cannot understand how people enjoy it. I'm putting off TA explorable for the armor, for example, because they're going to increase token rewards and make them account-bound. The fewer runs the better!

Originally posted by Peach
I didn't have to spend anything until 395 😛 I still have loads of crystals, in fact. I don't feel like transmogrifying them into orbs because I don't have the ecto to make exotics.

Dragons and dungeons are fun, but farming and doing anything repeatedly I just cannot understand how people enjoy it. I'm putting off TA explorable for the armor, for example, because they're going to increase token rewards and make them account-bound. The fewer runs the better!

Yeah, there were a few gems that I didn't have 4s and I was low on ore cuz of lvling my armorcrafting. Guess it was pricey cuz it was the one I didn't have sufficient mats in stock of when I decided to do the lvling.

Farming is fun for me, tbh. I like the constant combat, hurling spells destroying mobs and the feeling of a job well done when you look around an area and see that it's clear for other ppl to pass thru. Also, it's something to do while waiting on events. ;P

Cleared out areas? Try that somewhere that is 70+. It will never, ever happen 😛

Originally posted by Peach
So when are you planning on making a sylvari? 😛

That's actually just a matter of me wanting to try another profession.

I think you might like necro, actually. They're a bit odd, but I find that so far I'm enjoying it way more than I had expected.

They're currently fairly buggy, but more interesting to play than eles are and much easier to figure out than mesmers.

Originally posted by Peach
Cleared out areas? Try that somewhere that is 70+. It will never, ever happen 😛

Do it quite well with my warr. My elem can't tho. Specced healer/support/CC.

Don't clear out whole maps, tho. Just small areas that tend to have enough mob density to block ppl's (explorer's) progress thru the map.

Yes, I might consider it.

Though another couple of crafting jobs would make it more attractive too.

Originally posted by Nibedicus
Do it quite well with my warr. My elem can't tho. Specced healer/support/CC.

I'm doubting that, because of respawn times in the higher level areas. Orr is completely insane because of that.