Pirogen.9561

> @"Joote.4081" said:

> > @"Redfeather.6401" said:

> > It is a good system to get people to go back and re-explore old zones.

>

> Spot on. Since winning my mount I have found places I have never bother going before. No longer do you feel bogged down, mounts are the key to your freedom and I likes it.

>

With jackal you can find highways made of sand in the skys above crystal desert. Spooky and cool.

> @"Joote.4081" said:

> Yeah, it looks as if 3 and 4 would bring the most benefits even though 2 is more the story element. And I'm more interested in the benefits of loot glorious loot.

3 and 4 have lots of ascended loot. 4 even has Skyscale unlock. For story: you fight a god, crazy lich and a dragon. You even kill 2 of those listed.

Lots of content and profit.

S2 has none of that. For S2 story: watch a youtube.

> @"KelyNeli.4516" said:

> > @"Kodama.6453" said:

> > > @"KelyNeli.4516" said:

> > > I too love to get killed by any single breeze of air on my elementalist. I need to take some lessons with sasuke uchiha so i could learn sharingan, so i could play this profession effectively without dying to a veteran mob skill out of blue.

> >

> > You are doing it wrong. The trick is not to get killed by a breeze as the elementalist, but to **kill the enemies** with a breeze.

>

> That would be the case if ele had any good damage.

> Berserker has higher damage, higher burst and is like 3 times as tanky.

This [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lz2IuVLrnQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lz2IuVLrnQ) is low damage and squishy?

> @"Shooth.6817" said:

> So, my main mesmer is level 60 at the time of writing. ...

> ... mesmser's mirage spec. From what I read, daredevil comes from HoT and Mirage comes from PoF.

>

> If I want to follow the story, would it be more appropriate for me to play thief first all the way till I finish HoT and then come back to my mesmer when I get to PoF?

> or should I just focus on one character (the mesmer) all the way through season 2, HoT, season 3 and PoF before switching back to my thief?

> Lastly, I've been pretty much playing solo up till now - would I need a party to do all these? or can it all be done solo?

>

Mirage? I like this one:

Hard to die, does good damage, not that many buttons to push. Not super easy, but more on the beginers friendly build that can even solo kill scary group oriented monsters. Note: exotic gear is more then enough.

What I'd do(and did):

- get your Mesmer to 80

- while doing that, explore many core maps. You can fill like half of Mirage there

- start PoF to get Raptor mount. You need to do only 1st combat mission

- maybe do, maybe don't: run around PoF map(or two) to fill the rest of Mirage.

- go back and do story in "correct" order

Wood burns. Even stone can be melted with enough heat.

You could say that poison is a form of acid.

For living creature to bleed, it has to be damaged. Poke, cut.

Lets just say its "damage over time".

Gold:

- first time I got to level 80, I bought full set of exotic gear with "butter" and "iron".

- check your bank, sell crafting materials. Some sell for good money

- always sell on TP or salvage for mats(for sell or use).

- at this time Mystic Coins(you get them as login reward) sell for a lot. 2 gold for 1 MC?

- Mystic Coins are for Legendary gear. Thats a loooong grind. Sell a couple of MC and get yourself a nice exotic gear

Food:

- eat, drink

- proper diet is very important for an adventurer

- for start, get some food that gives health over time

Gear/build:

- start with something simple

- gear must match build. Power vs Condi

- don't look for Raid, Fractal builds. Look for "open world", "survivable"

- Marauder better then Berserker, Trailblazer better then Viper. This is for Open World.

- high DPS good, but if you are dead, you do zero DPS. So some extra defense(HP and/or Toughness) helps.

Combat:

- move, dodge

- do not "face tank"

- break bars!. You see "blue bar", nuke it

Mounts:

- get now!

- unlock atleast Raptor

Combat:

- active. WSAD based. Movement is part of combat. Not point-and-click.

- if you like being active(move) in combat you'll like GW2. If not you'll hate it

Classes:

- all classes can be traditional tank, DPS, support

- all classes can be melee or ranged

- because of that, you pick class based on unique class mechanics

- this are F# skills. By default they are bound to F1, F2, F3, ... keys

Mesmer: I pawn stuff with my clones

Guardian: I burn or heal or protect stuff

Necromancer: I suck life energy and morph into fugly monster that pawns stuff

Ranger: My pet pawns stuff ... sort of

Elementalist: I pawn stuff with all mythical elements

Warrior: I angry, I smash

Thief: gimme stuff

Engineer: I am Iron Man. Gadgets and stuff

Revenant: I pawn stuff with dead heros stuff

PvE has more then one mode. What is good for Raid or Fractal in not good for Open World(OW). And even in OW you have different situations. Trahs mobs, big bosses, meta events, world boss, legendary bounty, ...

General rule I have for gear for Open World:

- if Power build: everything is Marauder, but armor is Knight. Exotic is good enough. Upgrade to Ascended goes: Trinkets(farm Living seasons maps) -> Weapon -> skip ascended armor coz its so damn expensive.

- if Condi build: everything is Trailblazer or maybe Rabid if you get alot from criticals. Exotic is good enough. Upgrade to Ascended goes: Trinkets(farm Living seasons maps) -> Weapon -> skip ascended armor coz its so damn expensive.

Idea is that "if your dead you do zero DPS".

What I play most:

- Reaper: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSgAEZlJwaYOsLWJeeX1tUA-zRRYiRF2IxKkoSgIqgYDBPmlRdtA-e

- Ranger: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?POwAceNlZwAZbMNGKO0K2r7CM3B-zRRYiRH2IxKkIqgeDhmTAPmF5HtA-e

I like something like this, if Im in a ranged mood:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?POzAceNlZw4YdMQGKO0K2r/K+IF-zRIUR0xPIc5mpQkKw0A-e

Let your pet "Sic'em", pew-pew, swap pet(if low health), swap weapons, pew-pew ...

We heal as one is heal, but also boost. Use it alot.

Gear: you can start with cheap exotic berserker, but then upgrade to Ascended Marauder. Start with trinkets. Easy to get ascended stat selectable trinket in LS3, LS4 maps.

Get Raptor. The rest is under "whatever".

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> Be on low level maps gather kitten and sell to people that dont have the time to be on lower level maps.

What he said. When I started, I made my first gold by selling butter. It looks like it only drops in low level maps, but is required to make high level food. Iron ore is also very profitable.

But in general, whatever you find, check if you can sell it on TP for good money. If not, salvage, and then sell mats.

> @"maddoctor.2738" said:

> > @"Astralporing.1957" said:

> > Sure. In fact, the Strikes vere so popular, they had to introduce additional incentives to make people do them in this patch.

>

> Let's turn this around a bit. If the open world is so popular, why do we have to do soooo many repetitions of various achievements to complete the meta of an episode?

Padding. So "content" lasts longer. Old trick.

Rytlock has the sword that is required to fix ascalon ghosts. He's safe.

Bangar dies. Hes crazy and GW2 story is mostly "good wins".

Ryland may die or join Vigil.

Crecia takes over legion.

I have:

Resolution: Windowed Fulllscreen

Refresh rate: Default

Frame limiter: 60

...

Animation: Low

Antialiasing: FXAA

Environment: High

LOD Distance: High

Reflections: None

Textures: High

Render Sampling: Native:

Shadows: None

Shaders: High

Postprocessing: None

Character Model Limit: Highest

Character Model Quality: Highest

Ambient Occlusion: On

Best Texture Filtering: On

Depth Blur: Off

Effect LOD: On

High-Res Character Textures: On

Light Adaptation: (is grayed, cant click)

Vertical Sync: Off

Motion Blur Power: at zero

I also run Reshade to get more sharp image. LumaSharpen and Clarity filter. I hate "blur".

FPS is at 60 everywhere as long as its not big wide open area with big number of players. But even then its above 50 FPS.

The biggest impact, for my PC is: Postproccesing and Shadows.

Pick a class, or better to say, play style you really like.

Get a mount. Just basic Raptor will do.

Do stories in chronological order(as much as possible). Core, LW2, Heart of Thorns(HoT), etc ...

If you dislike super-mario(crazy jumping stuff), its OK to skip Heart of Thorns. You won't miss anything. Its a blend, rushed, low quality story anyway. But atleast unlock HoT maps.

Get Skyscale.

May I ask what kind of PC do you have?

Warrior, Axe/Axe.

Edit: Necro is good for what you want. But Reaper, not core Necro.

> @"notebene.3190" said:

> > @"coso.9173" said:

> > Most open world content and events require other people to complete. How is this any different? You travel to the place, more people doing the events, same as always. Just that it has a lower people cap.

>

> I guess the counter question would be: If it's no different, then why did they need to make it? ?

1. They refuse to admit its not working and they think "if we just make one more push it will work"?

Its an old human "bug". It goes like: when people invest into something, they don't want to lose it, even if its a fail. So they invest more into fail. And more. And more.

2. They think that "old" is bad and must be fixed. So dynamic events, group events, meta events are old and so bad and must be replaced with new shiny toy. The fact that events are popular is not important. its old, therefor bad. It must go away.

3. Its like tools. You use tools to solve problems. But they only know "strike" tool. So everything must be solved by "strike".

The whole HoT is a jumping puzzle.

Hero panel, build tab(second), you pick 3 specializations. Elite spec, like Dragonhunter can only go in the last, 3rd, line.

As long as it doesn't have HoT style maps, Im fine.

New class.

Like:

- martial arts. Kung fu, karate, taekwon-do

- shapeshifter. Many times while I play GW2, I get morped into bunny or chicken. Why not make it a profession

- shaman. Nature oriented caster/warrior that is NOT "weak excuse for a healer"

Paragon and Ritualist from GW1 would also be nice.

Story.

Skyscale.

Mounts.

For me the biggest "blocker" are stupid super-mario 3D Hot maps. Yes, I hate those things. I want to role play a necromance or warrior, not some jumping idiot.

Mounts make things easier. Atleast for me. PoF faster then HoT. Not because of harder/easier monsters. Its "map".

Ideal would be Skyscale. But if not, get enhanced raptor, enhanced bunny, enhanced skimmer.