Joote.4081

Followed your directions and walked straight to it first time no messing. :) Thanks guys. How did I miss that. I have fought at that fort a million times. I spent all yesterday trying to find a way in. I should have just asked here.

> @"The Boz.2038" said: > ? > You can literally sprint through the cave in the lower left. I thought I had seen everywhere in the SW but never found any sort of way in. I have 4 level 80 characters that all have access but for the life of me I can't remember how they got there. It was around the time HOT first came out and I used the boost to 80 tickets. It was a long time ago.

How do I get a new character into the Heart of Maguuma without following the story? I tried the silver wastes but couldn't find a way in.

A AFK bed. When your away from your keyboard for say more then a minute your character goes to bed right there where they stand, along with little Zzzzzsss.

For me GW2 was always just okay nothing more. Since I returned to the game last month it has become my top mmo. I think the addition of mounts had something to do with it, it's a whole new game now. Now if they would only work on a few quality of life additions.....

> @"Pacificterror.7805" said: > > @"Yggranya.5201" said: > > > @"Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946" said: > > > Okay, I did it. I played through the mission on a toon in their underwear. 20 minutes 18.23 seconds. IN HIS UNDERWEAR. > > > > > > No trinkets at all, not food, no utilities, and no armor. I was playing on my Revenant Herald with two exotic Berserker's Iron Sword of Earth with Superior Sigil of Earth on both (because I bought them off the TP and didn't bother to change the sigils) and my Exotic Berserker's Lightward's Battlehammer of Accuracy with a Superior Sigil of Accuracy and a Superior Sigil of Force (because that's the hammer I have for when I run hammer on my Herald, so I didn't waste gold buying another exotic hammer). I waited until the airship gangway was down and I stepped onto the top of the pyramid to start the timer and I stopped the timer when the city gates fully opened and Kasmeer walked out. I did not use any mounts or mount skills until they would have been unlocked in the story, and even then only used raptor and long jump. I died 4 times - 3 against the stupid dogs - and was downed one additional time. I did not camp hammer, but switched back and forth as appropriate and necessary. Also, I did not use my glider to get off the pyramid faster, but I did use Facet of Elements for the running speed boost. > > > > So, was this your first try? No? yeah, it wasn't. Get one of your friends who desn't play GW2 to do it with any equipment and then make another post to compare properly. > > This post inspired me to do it last night to finally unlock the Raptor...the dogs were annoying/frustrating but I managed to clear it in 25 minutes. > > I consider myself to be a very clumsy/low tier player due to my poor reaction times etc. Tell me about it. I have 2 left feet where my hands should be. I do like to find solutions without putting another 000.2 on my armour or wash my sword in fairy liquid that adds a buff for 0000.2 seconds. In the open world it's easy, there is always a fellow comrade who will stop and lend you their sword/bow/wand hand.

> @"Linken.6345" said: > Shame I dident see this sooner OP there is a march sale coming up maybe you should have waited with buying this. Yeah it's okay I got them cheap. I think it was because I already owned some of the episodes. That's good of A-net. Other company's would have charged you for the full pack regardless I will definitely pick up 2 whenever there's a sale though.

> @"Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946" said: > > @"Joote.4081" said: > > Those flipping dogs. It took me a while to find a way to take those two down. When I did it was quite easy but what the heck 500 gigawatt laser beams, come on. > > The best class for completing that section I found to be my thief. > > Joote, in GW2 you cannot, CANNOT, just stand in one place. You have to move and you have to use your dodges, your blocks, and your evades to avoid taking damage. And, with proper timing, you can, at least sometimes, interrupt attacks to further avoid incoming damage. The only time you can stand in one place and just ignore incoming damage is when you are in an organized group and you have one or more dedicated healers that are there specifically to out-heal the incoming damage (along with the effects of aegis, resistance, and protection, of course) like in a raid or something. > > Lastly, whenever you are attacking something and it has a blue (looks more cyan to me, but...) bar underneath its health bar at the top of the screen, you have to use one or more CC skills to break that defiance bar. It generally provides a stun and increased vulnerability to the mob you are attacking. My main on my main account is a power berserker warrior with a greatsword and mace/shield. Between my weapons and my utility skills, I run around with access to 5 separate CC skills. If you don't know what your CC skills are, please go to the wiki and type CC in the search box, it will take you to a great article on CC's, tell you which skills for each profession count as CC's and what the difference between hard CC's and soft CC's are. But, but I run out of puff and can't dodge anymore. I know you can't just stand there, those lasers will kill you in seconds. How I managed it in the end was to run into the water . One especially didn't like the water at all and the the other just sniffed at it so while they were split up I jumped them and one at a time which gave them a bad day.

Those flipping dogs. It took me a while to find a way to take those two down. When I did it was quite easy but what the heck 500 gigawatt laser beams, come on. The best class for completing that section I found to be my thief.

> @"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. Oh and there's tagging along with a group and mount zerging. Now that is tops.

It was something along the line of 'Catmadejam' I'm not sure if it was in GW2 though.

> @"Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946" said: > > @"Joote.4081" said: > > It's a shame that most new and/or casual players never get a chance to play dungeons. I suppose that's were guilds come in. I just wish they had more dungeons for noobs. > > Unless you have played the game solid from release you get left behind like eve online. > > I have to completely disagree with this. I just last week boosted a character on an account that has been around a couple of years, but had never done anything. I boosted a necro and took it into HoT and unlocked gliding. Then I went to PoF unlocked the raptor. After this weekend, I'm 5 or 8 HoT masteries in and in PoF, I just got to Elon Riverlands in the story and I'm almost all the way through skimmer 2 being trained. I've been running all over without issues and have completed training Scourge and I'm part way through Reaper without any problems at all. Yeah, I don't have griffon, or skyscale, or roller beetle yet, but, I've only been playing on that account for 4 or 5 days, other than getting login rewards for the last two or three years. I don't feel left behind at all. No no, you have me wrong. I'm a sleepy casual but have no problem what so ever in progressing and gaining goodies. I was talking mainly about group dungeons. Each mmo plays group dungeons and raids a little different, and you have to know what is expected of you. You have to know your bosses and their dirty little tricks. If you never the chance to run one you will never learn. I played a mmo once, can't remember it's name. But there was no sort of party making system. You just arrived at the gate and as soon as the number of people in the target zone reached it's peak you entered the dungeon. It gave everyone young and old to enter dungeons without being a veteran. The elites could moan all they liked but usually would make a effort to teach you how to run that particular dungeon. Dungeon running with a group is massive fun. especially if people are chill and make allowances for casuals and noobs.

Like the raptor when it see something juicy to eat , it strains its neck round on the reins to eyeball it's dinner and it's so convincing. That convincing you physically feel those reins pull to one side as the raptor starts to stray from it's forward path. its not just the best mount I have ever seen, but it is also the best I have ever rode in a game.

> @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > Here's the aforementioned Guild Chat video: > > So, they went for, or planned it to do exactly what has impressed me so much. It wasn't just a accident. I have seen some of the other mounts Wizz by in the game but never had a chance to check them out properly. They all look excellent, even the bunny.

Right down to it's makings and rolling eyes. I think it must be the best mount I've ever seen in a game and deserves some sort of award.