Guild Wars in the title EditionWe have a /vm/ guild that has been running near weekly events for over 3 years now with over 60+ logins in the last week in our alliance for anyone interested in doing endgame content, new players are always welcome and no prior experience is needed..>>2282897 Previous ThreadOur Assassin Prog is finishing up, we'll be doing a Deep/Urgoz run on the 28th and 29th, all are welcome to come, but priority slots will be given to anyone who can bring an assassin.In other news next month the 21st anniversary starts April 15th, I will be giving away store codes in thread and ingame, anyone is welcome to claim them, more details in next thread.If you want to join guild, post your IGN.Useful linkshttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://www.gw-memorial.net/https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/PvX_wikihttps://wiki.fbgmguild.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttps://party.gwtoolbox.com/https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/https://ascalon.gwtoolbox.com/https://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome>Having trouble figuring out what is worth keeping?https://youtu.be/CnBjJnxC-s0>New player and not sure what profession to run?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQQe_3P1P0>GW Reforged Announcement Posthttps://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/announcing-guild-wars-reforged/
>>2314719Also I have set up Bawwbuilds for us but it is an empty page, so for a thread topic if people could post builds they think we should put on there that'd be much appreciated.Once again REMINDER: Deep/Urgoz March 28/29 2 PM EST
>>2314725is deep/urgoz assassin only
>>2314762no, but if you have an assassin you better bring one
>>2314719wwd after the sin shit, just anniversary ha>>2314762>>2314719>Our Assassin Prog is finishing up, we'll be doing a Deep/Urgoz run on the 28th and 29th, all are welcome to come, but priority slots will be given to anyone who can bring an assassin.
>>2314767FA until our eyes bleed
>>2314719Now when the dust has...dusted? Is GW really better than GW 2?
>>2314855>Better build system>dual classing>no yiff fags>no erp fags>no trans faggotry>no faggots at allyes that's better bitch!
>>2314725/u/post THAT build
We own a luxon outpost come buy your lockpicks>>2314767There's going to be a HM DoA run either next weekend, or weekend after that I haven't decided yet. During Anniversary we'll be doing 2 special Deep/Urgoz runs like last year I'll post more details about it later, but prizes will include ingame items and store items, daily HA, and maybe I'll plan some other stuff, depends how burnt out I am feeling/if they do a sale I am tentatively planning a FoW heroway competition. Also I just noticed, the wiki page for anniversary says it starts on april 15th on upcoming festivals, but the page says april 22nd. The 20th anniversary was on april 15th so I guess we'll see if the devs revert to the old date or stick with 15th.
Just blew 1500 plat on lockpicks. Should I run Ice Cliffs and hope for good weapon mods to sell, or Raisu Palace and pray for a godly OS that will fund another thousand lockpicks?
>>2315021Go for Magmashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQPqmS5iGzY
just boughted myself some lockpicks :-D
So I haven't played since 2007 and got the bug last night. I logged in on my old ass char and I'm trying to get some cash together to fund a new character. Is this worth anything?
>>2315068i'll give you 3.5 ectos for it
>>2315068that is, in fact, ridiculously insanely valuabledon't sell to anyone making private offersmake an account on Guild Wars Legacy and ask for price check and/or organize an auction and never worry about money in-game again
>>2315079>>2315082Sold it for 60a, think that should be enough for now. Thanks.
>>2315068why are you stealing people's screenshots https://guildwarslegacy.com/forum/thread/8452-kromp/
>>2315179That thread is making me weep
>>2314725>>2314882As requested, here's my elite paragon build.Equipment is a spear (preferably silencing) and a melee weapon (preferably anniversary daggers).Spam the first two skills, Spear Swipe and Sneak Attack, off cooldown, then spam Extend Conditions on them. Use Anthem of Flame and "They're on Fire!" on cooldown.If you're in the groove, you can catch a whole enemy blob with 100% uptime blind, dazed, and burning as well as 33+% less damage to your party from "ToF".OQWjMwlDKT1UiiEhVY9YZAAhybA
>>2315179you must be fun at parties
>>2315215Correction: 100% uptime on Blind, "near" 100% uptime on Daze, 60% uptime on Burning alone and scales with more party members with attack skills.
Is this enough lockpicks to survive the apocalypse?
>>2314719If we're changing that tatty guild cape for a more kino kool kape heres a design your own cape sitehttps://www.gw-memorial.net/guild-banner-designer/also can we put this site in the op its a quite interesting pvp sitehttps://tolkano.com/and this guy soloed all profs in prophs (no henchies or heroes)https://www.youtube.com/@SerialExperimentsGW1/playlistsshould be an official game mode badge
>>2315250I too dumped a whole stack of ectos into picks.
>>2315383we should have a plain black cape with the two crossed swords in red make it all Strasserist and shit since the guild is obviously National-Socialist
>>2315426>Guild Wars>national socialistSteadman is that you?
>>2315426We must secure the existence of our people and a future for Ascalonian children.
>>2315430>Hitler in the same sentence as Strasserismwhy are burgers like thisEvola was right when he wrote "The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.">>2315432preach soul brother
>>2315434he was just a troll in the early days leading up to the launch of GW2, did this whole Nazi persona but with Charr
>>2315068req8 weapons should be made available again somehow
>>2315480you can still drop some max req8 items
put about 250e into picks. could maybe find someone to buy stacks at 3a/ea i guess
>>2315492Okay?
>>2315495just letting you know, bro
>>2315499Thanks for this valuable piece of information.
>>2315503anytime
How good is this weapon? Gifted by a veteran player. I'm at Frost Gate, level 11. How does runes works? I got one from a salvage item but apparently you have to use the Super Salvage Tool, rather than the regular one, so you can extract the rune?Prophecies has been kinda boring so far, but I read it was slow, so I'll endure it. At least all the skills I've been unlocking have been useful, I was kinda expecting the early ones to be kinda filler. Well, some are.
>>2315583Its a max stat axe with a good inscription and kinda mediocre prefix/suffix. Nothing crazy in the grand scheme, but it's as mechanically good as you're going to get for a long time. Replace the prefix and suffix with more useful options as you find them.
>>2315583It's a good max-damage axe with good mods. It's not extremely valuable or anything though.On your armor you can place Insignias (prefix) and Runes (suffix). You can salvage them with an Expert Salvage Kit.
>>2315590>>2315599Thanks bros. Probably should customize it, right?
>>2315649Sure.
I'm going to buy a dakimakura so I have someone to talk to while playing Guild Wars©
reminder: deep in 30 minutes
>>2315714who are you deep in?
your mom bro stfu
>>2315383>>2315426
>>2315905
>>2315923
>>2315926How do you guys call yourselves r9k and not have a frog represent?
>>2315936the guild predates the frog
40kbros
cool idea though if I had the texmod skills I'd do a Space Marine power armor for the Elite Platemail Warrior set and re-model one of the hammers for a power hammer
>>2315714How did the run go?
>>2315952impossibur
>>2315978kanaxai reached through the monitors and entombed them all in the jade, I barely made it out alive as the sole survivor
>>2315923>womb tat capebruh
>>2315962habsburgbros...
>>2316193its fine dude r9k respects women
>>2315978We had about 7~ people show up I think people forgot since today isn't a normal prog day so we're going to do Deep tomorrow at 2PM EST, and urgoz next weekend.
why are the henchmen stealing my gold??
>>2316438they're henchmen, not slaves
>>2316442Where do I get slaves?
>>2316438Did you really think Cynn's services are free
free use Cynn while Mhenlo watches from the cuck chair
Cynn's panties
>>2316468sorrow's furnace or vloxen
>>2316483sooner or later this image would prove useful
>>2316477seek God dude please
>>2316508for making a joke when the anon above talked about Cynn's services being free?
I like this. I also got level 10 and some new armor. I think I was using the starting stuff until now. Still in Ascalon, I really want a change of scenery.
>>2316522dude
Just got my first of the profession drop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>2316619oh I see what this iswell Mhenlo, if you're gonna make the girl wait while you run around Jamei and the twins, I'm gonna steal your fiesty blonde.If you're gonna sleep on her I'm gonna sleep with her
>>2316624I got a wand wrapping of the warrior
>>2316666so sorry to hear
Why isn't there a global chat? :[
spooky door
>>2316534>>2316859I can only assume you're new to Guild Wars. If you like taking screenshots then I'd suggest playing around with the FOV slider in F11 and gwtoolbox.exe has a /cam unlock command.
>>2316534first time you get out of the gray ash is greatI love all the mosaics in pre/post ascalon. I think that one's on the western edge of the map in pre
I finally made it!>>2316897Thanks I'll check it out. I'd started to look at mods this afternoon but just kept playing instead.
>>2316919If you have the GPU overhead I would recommend using driver 8x MSAA with 8x supersampling to fix the nasty aliased foliage
REMINDER, DEEP 2 PM EST TODAY
>>2316919Yak's Bend... home
>>2316953game has more soul with jaggies
I haven't done my nick gifts in like 6 months
you know, I like critical agility as a source of mostly sustainable IAS on my assassinbut that +25 armor actually causes some problems>jump to enemy before my group catches up with me and try to attack them>they're busy running towards my casters which even with armor insignias are still lower than my 95 ARthe aggro system in this game is pure shit unless you have obstacles to body block with.
>>2317835Are you bringing SyG somewhere in the party? That can help a lot.
>>2317838yeah, my illusion mesmer has it, but apparently doesn't use it right away I guess.I thought initiating by shadow stepping while I already had a speed buff on to be a few steps ahead of my party would help keep things on me even if I'm in an open roomnope. They ignore me and go to the backline.
>>2317835use Flurry or Flail/Heart of Fury with a +5 Strength/Mysticism dagger mod
deep in 20 minutes log on
Why does this always happen
>>2318066Yo you weren't supposed to screenshot my goonerposts you fuck
>>2318066I've literally never had that happen and I make female characters all the time.I've had people complement my character's designs (not that GW1 allows for much there) but never hit on me I'm glad for it just wonder why other people end up having to put up with it.
I once fleeced some dude for some rare items because he was hitting on my character (wasn't even leading him on at all).
>>2318222where would we be without that fds
>>2318066all I get
>>2318222beat me to it. Our group of 9 assassins, 2 autistic assassins, and a ritualist who got lost and found our group managed to clear kanaxai NM in 41 minutesNext week same time we'll try urgoz
LA is doing a bunny adoption
>>2318244otw
>>2318244yus
https://store.guildwars.com/en-usSince the current 40% spring sale is running until April 16 now, and with the Anniversary allegedly moving up to start mid April, is it much more unlikely we're getting a 50% off anniversary sale now?
>>2318268just buy shit you cheap jew
>>2318269rudegw is built on the backs of autistic econ shit
>>2318271he right
Saw ectos were selling for 10-11k at vendor and sold a bunch for lockpicks. Have they been that high regularly since reforged came out, or is this unusual?
>>2318278they were like 3-4k a month or two ago, good time to cash out and picks are always the best thing to store gold in
I never have freaks whisper me about my female characters
>>2318306same but I don't have female characters
>>2318311why
>>2318306I feel like the inverse is about to happen to me, their formation feels a little predatory
>>2318363
>>2318268what sale
>>2318448The game sale ended a few days ago but the mtx stuff runs until April 16
>>2318244What's this? I'm leveling through Shiverpeak I might make it to LA tonight I want a cute minion
I like this
>>2318508shiverpeaks are very cozy
>>2318508>>2318540but what do they eat?
>>2318543there's bears
>>2318474FUCK
>>2318543yaks
>>2318484Are you online now?
>>2318484I'm not >>2318765 but I'm going to give away rabbits because I have four of these furry fuckers
>>2318448oy vey
>>2318306Not only whispering but sometimes they open trade and give me items for no reason
>>2318765I am now. I can idle in Frost Gate. Anna.
*pops collar*
A rolled a bag load of everlasting tonics and giving away most of it to new players. When I have to hand out Norgu to female mesmers I feel a little conflicted.
>>2318938What if we cuddled to stay warm? That would be gross haha
bringing the bun along
>>2318945burying my face between my ranger gf's modest breasts that smell like damp earth and trying not to think about cynn
Any base professions that get especially more fun in Factions/Nightfall compared to Prophecies? Just realized I've really only ever made characters in Factions/Nightfall as their campaign-specific professions, so I've never experienced the skill progression for the base professions in those campaigns. I'll be working purely with what's available from quests and at skill trainers.
>>2319295factions gives you every skill except elites once you get off shing jea, and has like 5 skill quests total. nf does stagger skill unlocks at trainers, but has no skill questsso nf is your best bet, and the base professions are all about equal there, though fewer skills than para/derv. personally, I just take them through proph first to level-match and get skills gradually, then cap every elite I see in factions or nf and force myself to build around those. gives a similar feeling imo, and the campaigns are built to bring characters into with the way you get rushed to lvl 20 content
>>2319295Monk has all the fun elites in factionsMesmer has lots of interesting NF skills.Necromancer has a bunch of fun elite skills in NFEle is kinda weird, earth and fire magic tend to have the more interesting elites in factions, while water magic is best in proph. Air and energy storage are better in NF but I'm probably just biased.Ranger sucks in proph imo, it has a much better skillset to pick from in NF/Factions.Warrior is weird. Hammer I like the Factions skill set better. Same with sword, proph sword just feels bad to play. Proph axe is kino unless you enjoy AoE axe more in which case factions is alright. Tactics is all proph. Strength I feel gets the best of it's skillset from NF.
>>2318972soul
>>2319323>>2319324NF necro it is, then. Kind of disappointing to learn there are so few skill quests though. I saw how many quests those campaigns have and assumed there were a lot of skill quests. That's something I wish they'd have preserved more.
>>2319295I think nightfall has a good skill progression for mesmer, and kind of okay for elementalist. Warrior is kinda retarded in a couple of ways though. Wild blow isn't available until fucking gate of torment, for example. Don't really know for monk ranger and necro. At a glance ranger seems okay, but I think factions is better for it. NF has pretty good elite progression for all the progression imo. Monk and ele maybe have a better time in factions.Factions giving you everything at KC is nice if you're rushing but it also means your build is largely done outside of elites before even hitting vizunah. It's got really nice elites after pongmei though, but there's remarkably few elites in kaineng cause it's all the same 8 afflicted bosses.
>>2319758>Wild blow isn't available until fucking gate of tormentwow that's retarded. especially when you can soc it right outside kamadan, when all the other professions get their equivalent so early, and when there are 9 billion blocking rangers before that
>>2319842Yeah looking through the list, that was likely the most egregious case. Proph ele attunements being so far in also sucks, but both later campaigns clearly offer them and EA much earlier.
>>2319856>Proph ele attunements being so far inat least there you have other elements to use and it's not mandatory (gole or whatever). if you play melee with no stance remove you just sit around and wait
Anyone got one of these bad boys?https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Stygian_Spear
>>2319877Oh another retarded one, frenzy is only available at kodash, unless you're unlocking warrior secondary at the command post, where you get it from profession changer. So secondary warriors can get it earlier than primary. Can get it by soc in marga coast too but still, nf warrior is retarded
>>2319903seems like the devs never really considered people starting out from scratch with NF as their first campaign unless they were doing derv or para
>>2320008truly buck broken expansion
LOG ON FOR ZB (RANDY IN DUNCANS) IN 15 MINUTES
>>2320236randy in duncan's what......
>>2320237funny guy over hereMai come back I was alt tabbed
>>2320304yo I used to be in that ally
this is what you get when you listen to Wawaa and log in when he says so
>>2320355Salvage it
They should make an Elite version of Elementalist Ascalon armor.
>>2320360Done but it makes elementalist necks even longer
>>2320365They need it to look down at the lesser classes.
WHY are the female necks so long!?!
>>2320373They need it to look down at the lesser sexes.
>>2320369Why do you how single out necromancer like that
>>2320394so only male monk manlets?
>>2320355merch it
>>2320355eat it
>>2320355>req10
should I keep the purples I find as I level if I think I'll make more characters?
>>2320725nah low level gear really doesn't matter that much
>>2320658wangah
>>2320835I know it's q10 but those mods are basically perfect for a PvP axe.
since it's free UW/FoW week, would anyone like to farm UW with duo trappers oldschool style? it's lotta fun
>>2321199I'd like to duo farm UW by standing around doing nothing while you do all the work.
>>2321205that can also be arranged but you have to be a tall ele lady with no armor on
>>2321207Damn, mine hasn't left Pre-Searing yet.
https://youtu.be/yLRHd6eUcio
April Fools tomorrow. GET READYMaybe 2weeks will grace us with something fun. There's obviously going to be the Annihilator quests regardless.
>>2314725>>2312952>>2313549GW art uses that square/rectangle brush with the fuzzy sides. Christian Young on youtube uses it to draw on MS Paint. You can use his videos or use the brush and try out some Bob Ross videos to get used to them. For real paint, it'd be like Bob Ross using a stencil to scrape the paint.
>>2321256kinda kinoI wish gw gear swapping was easier, I don't keep an artificer's insig set on hand
just saw two monks rezoning in toa and going back into uw to farm with 600 smite I wish I had a friend bros...
babe wake up new peter kadarkino droppedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvxBBQrsaKU
anti farm code DEBUNKED and FACT CHECKED by real HUNGARIAN guild wars players
>>2322300based
>>2321541Sad that previous april fools aren't on a cycle like everything else
>>2322300>debuff from farming the same thing over and over isn't real>debuff from not partying only matters for whites and golds>first enemies you kill do have debuffed drops, taking time to kill other enemies does increase droprate>aoe mass kills do reduce drops by up to7x compared to individual kills (mostly in whites, blues, purples), but it can be so slow that the benefit is lost and you usually want golds anyway. possible lurking variable of time spent in map>no data, but he believes other players farming the same mobs decreases drops, doubts changing characters or districts matters>favor is good, probably doubles only gold rarity drops>special event drops don't replace or remove other drops, just a bonus
I'm getting fucked by the anti farm code right now 9 runs not a single obby shard
>>2322328i believe all of this except for>debuff from farming the same thing over and over isn't realspecifically regarding raptors. first few runs always get big drops and then it falls off a cliff after five or six. i swap two accounts when i'm farming them during favor or for events and it consistently goes like that.
>>2322345he did 2x60 runs of raptors
>>2322345I also disagree with this finding as if I farm say the Charr bosses in pre searing northlands, the first few runs each boss drops usually 2 items each.But after about 4-5 runs, they only drop 1 item each and then they start dropping nothing, consistently, run after run.
>>2322398i've probably never done 60 in a row but i've done a lot more than two sets and i keep telling myself it's just bias and i'm seeing what i want to see, but it keeps happening. i'll do 20-25 runs in a row and they consistently drop half as much or less after the first five, then i switch accounts and it jumps right back up for another five runs.would be really funny if there was a few sets of anti-farm code based on an account seed or something.
>>2322439That use to be the rumor. Of "lucky" or "jewed" accounts. Some people just get all the drops regardless while other get nothing. I honestly believe this theory as I have farmed pre for 20 years and have never received a charr mod over 12%. Meanwhile I know a person who has personally dropped multiple 18% for each weapon including hammer.
>ectos now sell for 12kBOGGED AGAIN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>2322472I just sold 3 million plat worth at 9.5-10k.....
>>2322493i sold 275e at 10k
>>2322439write down how many drops you get in a notepad file, hit enter twice on new days or when you swap, and post here when you've done like 200 runs total
i refuse to farm
one of you farm me one of these >>2319902*cracks whip*
>>2322546you actually want the green, not the gold?
>>2322566yeah the skin looks cool and i need (something like) it to run the ex-convict build
>>2322300I'm really glad he made this video, I've avoided talking about the anti farm code much because a lot of it has been myth and confirmation bias from people who do a handful of runs>>2322546>>2322578Checked my bank of green weapons and I happen to have one if you want it
>>2322504perhaps
I failed The Frost Gate twice. Yesterday I overpulled doing the bonus and lost the npc and all of my party that had resurrect. Today I got the bonus done then could not kill the group right after with three fucking healers one being a named npc. I need to look at my skills and see if I can make some helpful changes. I quit and made a Nightfall character to check out the starting zone. It's nice here.
>>2322675Do you want help?
>>2322677Not tonight, thanks though. I'm going to sleep.
>>2322675>I quitI didn't hear a bell
>>2322675Frost gate is the ultimate early game proph filter mission, don't feel too bad everyone has fucked that bonus at least once lol.As recommendation don't talk to bonus NPC, instead clear that area out first so he doesn't die.Don't run warrior henchmen on this mission, they tend to over aggro. Flag your henchmen at the top of the hill, use your bow to try and attack a single enemy patrol and run back to top of hill leading the single patrol back to you and your flagged hench, you want to pull them the MAX DISTANCE you possibly can this might take a few attempts don't rush it, if they won't go back as far as you hope flag the hench a smidge closer. You may need to use yourself as bait and let yourself be smacked few times by warrior.When combat starts, focus the warriors not the monk. The warriors need to get into melee range, which pulls them further away from the other monk patrols. If you focus the rider first, it may cause the other patrol monks to run over and heal them, this is not as likely to happen if you focus the warrior. After killing an enemy consider disengaging to regen energy if you're having issues, if your party starts looking rough don't be afraid to disengage and try again, if you accidently pull too many patrols don't commit to the fight unless you can get a kill just disengage.It's a tough bonus that requires you to be very patient with your pulls.
peterchad clearing fow solo on derv CLICKING skills on the AMERICAN serverhttps://youtu.be/hVrmV-5WFLQ
>>2322675In addition to the advoce of the other Anon, keep in mind that Prophecies bonuses are tracked separately from mission completion. Now that you've done it z you won't have to do it again. Another pro tip for Frost Gate: you won't have to remain standing next to the chains as they roll open, so feel free to back up if you've got them all started opening.
neat get from the ice cliffs
>>2322933>vow of silence, grenth's aura, vow of piety, aura slicer, reap impuritiesCLASSIC peter
https://x.com/GuildWars/status/2039357373417177260Pre dungeon release soon!
>>2323315why would they put an announcement up like this... that people are actually waiting for.. on April 1
>>2323321they have a sense of humor
>>2323330yeah but because of this date I'm now disappointed like "oh so we're not getting a presearing dungeon, it's an april fools joke"
>>2323332that just makes tomorrow's patch even more a surprise
>>2323338truecan't wait for the mod merchant
>>2323315pre sear chads..
i wish the weather being 90F were an april fool's joke
>>2323338and by tomorrow I mean RIGHT NOWhttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260401
>>2323441You can identify all unidentified items in your inventory with a single button press.This will consume identification kits.You can transfer all crafting materials in your inventory to your Xunlai material storage with a single button press.neat>Decreased cooldown for Smiter's Boon (PvP) by 1 second.
>>2323445does it consume appropriate numbers of ID kit charges when identifying a bunch of items at once, or eat an entire kit to do the mass id once?anyway, great QoL features that were in GW2 too, very nice to see em backported
My UI scaling is far too large for deforged mode.
>Devona can now be unlocked as a hero for characters in Reforged mode>by completing the new pre-Searing dungeonSo this actually helps out on pre-searing world exploring.What is this new captcha? Anime weeb testing?
>>2323474tested it, it does indeed work correctly and only consumes kit charges as needed
>>2323478Azumanga is older than both this website AND Guild Wars, my new friend.
>>2323481I only watched the anime over 15 years ago. I only remember "America Yeah" from it.
>Devona is reforged onlyFuck off.
>they changed her description"calling her a baddie is exactly like how GW1 writing always was"fags eat shit.
>>2323484you can get her in Lion's Arch without reforged modealso, you can toggle the mode on and off at any time
>>2323492>you can get her in Lion's Arch without reforged modeWe are so back!
presearing has been kind to me
>>2323484Reforged Chads we won!
>>2323491Did anyone seriously think that description was gonna be the live one?
so what's this mean for ghost Althea if Devona became an actual hero?
>>2323533she'll unlock from the post version of the dungeon
>>2323533>>2323556>Razah will finally be free from Mesmer and stay a Rit like god intendedNice
>>2323530People here were defending it. Probably tourists.
>>2323491the old description was better
>>2323597I just thought it was obviously a joke I thought they weren't even going to be real heroes just dev test heroes.
>gold weapons can drop in the presearing dungeonWhat the fuck
>>2323638this is gonna fuck the economy up
>pre dungeon is reforged onlyi will blow myself up
>>2323650just activate the badge, ass
[Baww] has the new dungeon on farm!
>>2323651no
What do I need to do for this?
>>2323662run around to the left and pick up the crystal
pre-searing heroes was a mistake
>>2323492I think they changed it. I got her on some of my character when the update dropped but now I can't on the rest.
>>2323653then you don't get the new content
>>2323671that's stupid
>>2323492>>2323496>>2323669you _can't_ get her without reforged mode, but you can>walk to the nearby shrine>activate reforged mode>get her>deactivate reforged mode againlol
>>2323676I don’t want the sanctity of my character to be fouled
>>2323672cry more faggot
>>232253310k hours here and not a single one spent farming
>>2323672your stupid
>>2323681you are black
>>2323668wait waityou can give devona all skills? awesomeSoS spirit spammer is the strongest warrior hero build
>>2323690>you can give devona all skills? awesomeno it breaks pre completely they should just add cons to pre and xp scrolls while they are at it fucking idiots
I just went out of town the for week and they release a new dungeon wtf REEEEEE
How long til autists start doing speed clears of new dungeon?
>>2323694isnt the whole idea of presearing that you just sit there and do nothing after you've completed the same quest over and over again until you are level 20? whats there to break?
Are pre-searing items supposed to be able to have inscriptions?
>>2323709no
>>2323712nice
>>2323707Like 2 hours
>>2323718wtf prophesies as well as factions shouldnt though?
>>2323441>>2323478>Note: Reforged mode is still in Alpha and there are some known issues, most notably being able to take both the hero and henchman versions of Devona into some missions.wtf lol, how did they forget how to do the "shining blade necromancer," "luxon ritualist" duplicate shit
>>2323731I got it from the dungeon chest while my friend got a diamond. Maybe the recent hotfix fixed the chest dropping non-pre stuff.
>>2323684my stupid
>>2323718I got one of these earlier
>>2323668oh my fucking god 2weeks are retarded
>>2323743I hope you didn't expect anything else from ANet or those involved with it.
>>2323735from what i've heard GW1 is one big spaghetti code>>2323743what does it matter?
>>2323743oh no not the hecking comfy chungus tutorialino zone!!!11!! the balance of farming level 2 bandits is completely broken!!!!!
>>2323743I want more
>>2323783i want to vanquish pre searing
>>2323763>>2323779you guys are so smart, nothing matters, the feelings and experiences people get from pre are a random inexplicable phenomenon that came out of thin air and will never end. add expert salvage kits and runes of holding to the pre ascalon city merchants, put in some xunlai chests, maybe tomes and elite tomes too, add a profession changer, move michiko in next to gwen while you're at itit doesn't make any fucking sense, they added new content that you're intended to group up for, but your hero with access to every skill in the game is going to be better than anyone you add. they could've just made it melandru's style where you only have access to pre skills you unlocked
>>2323638it got patched out fastoh well at least I can have speed buffs in pre now, I'm giving Devona the bonus spear and some para shouts, I don't think there's much other use for her on my pre char.
>>2323679>>2323672imagine being so permanently contrarian as to die on this hill
>>2323735I mean...
>>2323694>>2323743do people really truly care about "balance" and "challenge" in the tutorial zone?when you're level 19-20 in the zone there's no balance anyway.Most people will still go through it not even getting Devona since they'll want to get into the rest of the game not stay in pre.Perma pre is just bored vets.
Just got home from workOkay so only neets and yuropoors get Devona in LA without red cuck badge? How is that FAIR
So now that presearing is ruined, what is left to do in this game
>>2323838>turn on cuck badge>get devona>turn off cuck badgeWhy wouldn't this work?
>>2323838Devona is for European Chads only.
>>2323840I'm 99% sure that once the cuck badge stains that character, it will forever be cucked out of the future veteran badge
>he had to use the cuck badge to get DevonaShe will never love or respect you.
>>2323708yes that's the idea, don't touch it>>2323779>>>/vg/gw2g>>2323792TRVKE
>>2323815it has almost nothing to do with balance or challengeeither pre isn't special because of the limitations and what it is, in which case they would be focusing on shing jea and istan too (or anywhere else), or it is, and they're fucking with that in a way that doesn't fit the area. there's no middle ground where it's appropriate to add in a hero who can use elite rit skills
all they had to do was make this the skill pool
>new accounts can't trade for 24 hoursgoddamnit
>>2323839wait for izzy to buff a random ranged class beyond mesmers and watch as the hero meta shifts
They say there's going to be a post-searing version of the new dungeon. I'm guessing that'll be how we unlock Althea's ghost.
>>2323859We should get a LDoSJ and an Aeson hero actually.
>>2323859desu I was just using Devona to carry speed buffs, especially now that I see that after the first time through the dungeon it spawns level 18's so I'd level and lose my impso I'm not gonna continue to farm the dungeon, not as things are now at least, maybe if it's actually worth losing the impSoS is okay I guess on her but you lose aoe damage from the imp.and gain.. random single target damage.
>>2323978>Aesonyijo tahn
>>2324001Does he get to keep his explode on death ability?
>>2324001Nigga got flicted
like geographically this makes zero sense but its still mind blowing that they opened up the area behind piken ive only ever explored this zone with free cam in the past
>>2324019I was just staring at this and wondering how this works. That's the Charr staging area in GNW mission, where you see Bonfazz and he sends fifty kajillion Charr after you. Off to the West is the Hydra shithole tarpit, I think. Dragon's Gullet?
I'm too scared to do the annihilator quest, I'm still working on survivor and I had no idea this quest is filled with level 20s
>>2324015althea dieded, and they're adding her ghostgoogle what afflicted yijo tahn looks like>>2324035watch your hp and f12-c out if you get lowif you do the 2nd one it's almost impossible to fail if you move hard to the right as soon as you get into the catacombs, and the golem runs off on his own
>>2324019Ah, yesz the lost Sea of Surmia.
warrior or ele for melandru + dhuum?
>>2324098ele
>>2324098warrior
>>2322675I finished The Frost Gate easily today. My mistake yesterday was killing the guys at the ballistae here so the door opened and brought the named healer dolyak through and then I couldn't split these groups up and fight one by one.I like this cave.
>>2323985so this update is cucking imp farmers? sheeeit
>>2324192I guess, I mean getting level 20, losing the imp, and replacing it with a warrior hero who takes half your loot and goes to single target damage doesn't seem like there's much reason for me to keep doing that dungeon.
I'm so close!
>>2324153bunch of cavekino in proph
>>2324205yeah but arent the drops better in there
>>2324214Pre-searing's underground area has some really nice shots as well. I really love that area for the scenery. Sucks horribly as a necro since everything is far and most mobs are undead so you can't army summon.
>>2324216not really if you're only getting half by having a hero with you rather than a summoning stone
>>2324216you can get max-stat purples out of the end chestand there's two bosses (level 14 and level 12) that can drop charr boss loot
>>2323685and yet I get to play and have fun with the new content and you don't
>>2324413do we really have black people in the guild
>>2324400>max-stat purplesthey either stop fucking it up or put restrictions on trade between badgies and purebloods otherwise they might as well just add mesmerway to pre already
>>2324529see >>2323779
>>2324529people can and do already use max damage bonus weapons. I fail to see what makes this new change a big deal in that regard
>>2324544see >>2323792you got bodied brother sit down>>2324548bonus weapons are blue, customized and have preset mods, dropping max (pre) fire staves and such is its own microcosm with a separate community that will be decimated if 2weekstourists won't stop, of course you fail to see it if you're not a pretard if they leave inscs in and don't rollback the bug that people could drop golds from the new dungeon chests they don't have the slightest clue what they're doinghttps://www.presearing.com/weapon-mod-pricing look at the big red wording up topalso>Important Note: Reforged Mode is currently in Alpha. When fully released, we intend to enable Reforged Mode for new characters by default and switch the option to "opt out." We will eventually retire the Reforged badge and introduce a new Veteran badge (or similar name) for characters not opted into Reforged Mode, applied retroactively. The Veteran badge will only appear on titles where all progress toward that tier was made without Reforged Mode. This approach allows us to release opt-in Alpha-level code for players to experiment with while we verify the tool pipeline. We continue to monitor adoption of Reforged Mode.I'm just not getting vaxxed
>>2324560nooooo not the tutorial zone market that's been stagnant and ran by orrian bankers for the past 15 years!!! game is DEAD I'm gonna kill myself my black dye savings are worthless noooooooooooooooo
try harder
>>2324572Honestly I can't tell if people are baiting for replies or if they're dead serious about "muy pre searing experience"I genuinely have no idea what people are talking about when they say "it's ruining the pre searing experience". Brother anet ruined "muy tutorial zone" more than a decade ago when they added fire imp, and max damage /bonus weapons. The pre searing experience was ruined when they added vanguard quests. The modern day pre searing experience prior to this update was you hide behind your /bonus fire imp while it solo's the game until you reach level 10 in which you spend 10 hours doing the farmer hammet quest until you are level 20. After that you sit in Ascalon all day trading black dyes while speculating on if coal will one day be the totally new legit currency that'll replace black dyes while occasionally going outside to one shot all the enemies with your max damage /bonus weapon. If by pre searing experience you're referring to the pre 2011 experience, I will respect your opinion, but if you're a fag bitching and moaning because you think the "pre searing experience" from 2012 onward is now ruined, you're just a tourist newfag. It's been dead for years anon.
>>2324560>oh no a handful of gold weapons got into preNobody tell him about the tomes still floating around from years ago.That patch fixed the problem same day btw. At best there's a small handful of golds floating around and will likely just become new uber valuables as the economy adapt's to their presence. New things for the uber rich to throw money at.
>>2324621>Nobody tell him about the tomes still floating around from years ago.I'd struggle to find a single person at this point who doesn't know about the gh glitch fiasco>>2324616I look like this but say the exact opposite
>>2324616Pretty much this. If you ever used the imp, a bonus weapon, or ever did a single daily quest in Pre, you have absolutely no right to be complaining about this new update.
>>2324636>it was made shittier so I have no qualms about drowning it in shitreductio ad absurdum is retarded and so is acting like a bonus weapon is equal to a hero with _scaling_ armor and post skills
>>2324645Running a hero is worse than imp, because hero steals your drops AND your XP. I can already 1-2 hit every mob in pre searing, what do I need a hero for? If you're running one for char bosses you're just sabotaging your own drops.Hell the fire imp alone can solo most of the char bosses at a certain level.I really do not know what you're talking about when it comes to pre searing experience. Are you worried that the people spending 10 hours farming farmer hammet by rezoning every 30 seconds might be able to do it 6 seconds faster?
>>23246481. The goal of pre (save for point below) is gearing. By introducing a 100% max drop at the end of the dungeon and inscriptions, you are breaking the dynamic completely. There is no difference to post where you can get your max weapon and desired mods in a literal (literal) minute. In addition to this change in the main incentive, you are also breaking the economy. This is inconsequential to the few people who are hoarding GH bug items and are RMTing for crazy $$$ - they will hoard the yesterday's gold drops the same. 2. The reason pre became what it is right now is that it is a parallel experience that is wholly barebones. Introducing heroes who can spam spirits breaks (1) the immersion in this setting - which is the reason you have a perma pre char in the first place - and (2) comes closer the shrinking the gap between pre and post. I understand that to many here this makes no difference whatsoever and are totally dismissive of this. It's fine since you are not the target audience and are not autistic about this the way a sizeable community is. Mechanically, it would work if the alpha testers (i.e. Reforged players) were put in a separate instance where they cannot trade with regular players. This would alleviate a portion of the first point. Question is if the changes from yesterday are ones that the current dev team intends to keep for good and roll-out globally, and if it is an indication of their vision for pre in the long run. Ideally, they would test stuff on Shing Jea or Istan but we are way past this point. The silver lining is that they have learned how to create instances and we might in time see a new dungeon or an elite mission.
>>23246581. Bonus weapons ruined gearing for 95% of the pre searing playerbase. My /bonus bow will kill enemies just as fast as the best 18% charr slaying bow you can find. Because in the end, it only takes 1-2 hits to kill every enemy in pre searing.2) Just don't accept the quest reward if seeing devona be an optional hero is so offensive to you, play melandru mode so she's stuck using a build that does 0 damage. Using her in any capacity (while leveling or loot hunting) is a MASSIVE nerf to you because again, she takes half your XP and loot drops fighting against enemies that are already a joke to begin with.Again I'm not understanding something here, you mention immersion but nobody is forcing you to take Devona into your party, hell doing so is a net negative. If 1) Adding Devona breaks your immersion2) She ruins your loot and steals your XP3) Is not needed to beat literally all of pre searings content which is trivially easyThen why would you take her to begin with? If you told me I could run 7 hero mesmerway in pre searing, but the above 3 points still exist, I would not run mesmerway, because there's no benefit to running it. Can you think of ANY benefit to running Devona in pre searing?
Devona does not ruin pre, unless you mean she ruins your drop rates.Level 19 + imp > Level 20 + Devonaliterally the only thing that could possibly be "ruined" is people being trade barons over good purples and 18% char killing mods that now might get mogged by the inscribable purples but who cares if you're perma pre there's really nothing to buy with all that money anyway.
Give me perma shing jea
>>2324678It's about the drop, not dps. This should be obvious enough (otherwise you wouldn't have a separate OS market in post too). If anything OS purples will be even more expensive now, time will tell. For 2>but how does this affect you personallyI did write that it may show the dev team's intention regarding future developments and I find it concerning. There were ways to make it less... chaotic but since they did not take any precautions I can only assume that they do not care - which in itself is a concern too. The overarching sentiment remains that it should be left alone and here they are adding heroes and shit and whatever. I see your point and there's nothing else to discuss.
>>2324846doesn't work the same way, shing jea has xunlai chests, it's not self contained like pre is.
>>2324678the only one I could possibly think of is using her for speed buffs to reach the cauldron or dungeon entrance faster, and then flagging her out of range for leeching drops
>>2324834I think people are underestimating what a grind it is to level her to 20 to begin with. She starts at 5 and will only ever get half xp for everything because she always has to be with you. And you have to be fairly high level to do the quest to acquire her as well. She's first and foremost a fun toy to mess around with for people who already have LDoA, not something that makes leveling easier or lets you do something you couldn't already easily do before.
>>2324854Just fuck my chunc life
>>2324864yup, the hero is kind of a nothingburger, and the dungeon while it can have good drops will make sure you won't be able to run fire imp anymore so it's kind of a loss if you're farming things like charr kits and runes.I barely ever do any farming on my pre character anyway I have a small stash of black dyes and like 20k gold I feel like I'm probably fine.I only made the character because we were starting to get new shit for pre that I wanted to check out.
assassins, rits, dervs, and paragons should be added to pre
>>2325031If they could go through the effort of actually adding tutorial quests and skill progression through the campaign? Hell fucking yeah. Since everyone owns every campaign by default now, you should be able to make any profession in any campaign. Doubt the work needed to add that is within the scope or abilities of the current team though.
>>2325045no + you have AIDS
>>2325045I'd agree, but it's not to run paras in pre so to say, but more so we get some new faces/hairs for those classes.There's only 1 non negroid face for Nightfall classes, and the lightest skin tone is still pretty tan. What if I want an Asian Dervish?The only non negroid Female Dervish face is kinda shit.
>>2325065chad ascalonian paragon taking the fight back to the charr would be dope
>>2325111the one white man face for Paragon is pretty Chad, I'm not disappointed in that like I am my fem derv face.
>>2325031those classes were a mistake to begin with. keep them out.
secondary profession changer should be added to pre
They should allow elonians to time travel back to pre, actually
>>2325157ya and when they leave pre they wake up in kamadan as normal
>>2325157spamming semicolon space
>>2325162Shieeet
>>2325150This and also a Xunlai storage chest
maybe a good thing all the autism in this thread gets directed toward game changes instead of each other
I don't have enough deeps to out damage a 5 group with two shadow monks, helpplaying regular vosilence
>>2325205pop your legionnaire stone
>>2325210I don't have one -_-
>>2325215commit /resign and whirling farm
>>2325181pre should have its own storage just for ease of transferring stuff between characters so a single pane would be fine
>clear everything around rastigan>clear toc>that one group with two monks won't break and they gang him at the tower gatefuuuuuuuuuuu
now I got stuck running to smite crawlers enough for today
anyone wanna do gates of kryta hm
>miss 40% sale by one day>i'll wait for the anniversary sale>damn it's getting close i want at least one character ready to go for the anniversary skill grind, i'll just buy it now to be safe>miss 40% sale by one day
>>2325380I used the -40% sale for an anti semitic name change
As a reminder on Sunday at 2 PM EST we're going to do an Urgoz run bring assassins like last week
really wish diamonds and onyx gemstones weren't 90% of the loot out of dungeon chests
>you will never ever again run DoA with [Baww] again before the irl Searing
>>2325528why isn't [baww] doing doa anymore?
>>23255561) Weekly prog taking up our normal timeslot for doing stuff2) We recruited a lot of people during reforged we've been regularly having 9-12 people show up to weekly events and it's hard to manage and ensure the group quality of 2 groups when I can only be in one.There will probably be a DoA in a week or 2 from now like I've mentioned in previous thread, right now we're just finishing up post prog activitity - namely Urgoz this sunday.
>>2325556baww isn't doing shit anymore it's over
>>2325622baww cleared the new dungeon!
>>2325622We only do fashion competitions now
I put gw on my work laptop for travel this weekend but it looks like ui settings are stored on anet servers?? pain in the ass to move everything around. very sad.
>>2325467Subsay is Easter
>>23257342005
can this chill
>>2325909you had me thinking sell prices were 15k, it's only 11kanniversary in <2 weeks might drop prices
why is the identify all button located there of all places and it's not even aligned
>>2325953I get that that's the inventory screen which makes sense but why up by the armor/weapon and not by your bags? It's just an awkwardly placed and looking UI elementit'd be better if you could right click on an ID kit and have that option like toolbox.
Update April 2, 2026Hotfix:Fixed dungeon scaling to properly align with lowest level party member.If any member of the party is not in Reforged mode, the key to reach the second floor of the dungeon is not available.Dungeon spawns correspond to the earliest quest in the quest chain. Players with quests further in the chain will not be able to complete their quests.Boss key now appears on the ground instead of from a chest, which makes it available to anyone.Legacy "enter mission" button now only shows for party leader.
monkchads we are backhttps://youtu.be/asCPmEA7zw0
>>2326303real 2006core music too
>>2325752fugg I forgot what this weekend wasthis may affect our plans lol.
>try to farm a specific boss for a green item>go there with hero team>kill everyone except for the boss>flag heroes away to kill boss solo>heroes get stuck>half of them die anyway>healer stays back to heal stuck hero despite being flagged away>all of them run into compass range again randomlythis is purely rage inducing
>>2326774I feel like hero AI has gotten even worse recently, peeling off to nuke spirits in slaver's from half the floor away is annoying.
thoughts on value here?348 gold or more?
>>2327011probably 348 gold, strength shields aren't super rare like Leadership shields are.
>>2327011single mod, so it's worthless even if the mod wasn't useless
https://youtu.be/G0CXgaLeykIpeterbros we are live
>favor on>clear toc and some battlefield>zero shards or golds>clear chamber and all smite crawlers>zero ectos or golds or anythingfucking gay nigger game
>>2327053Some people like the +1/20% mods and it's a q9 new skin, but I agree single mod makes it worthless.
>>2325380third worlder?a character slot is dirt cheap either way
>>2327472yeah im american
i just took halls lol
again
>>2327472it's about the principle
r8 hero here desu
>>2327748>wolf /rank niggas bragging
>>2327754omw r9 doe
>>2327673Why didn't you bring me
>>2327815no one is online
do you think he is jewish or arab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyBgb00jw-choly kino
>>2328489or Ukranian
>>2328616there's no war in ukraine though
>>2328623>Day 1500 of the 2 day Special Military Operation to Denazify the country led by a Jew
I haven't been keeping up with the discussion, but I've been wondering what the endgame is with Reforged. It would be one thing to hire a taskforce to ensure the game keeps working with modern hardware and make it future-proof, but having a dev team even if small that makes new content and stuff sounds like a much bigger investment.Speaking from ANet's pov, they expect to make a return from this but realistically GW1 is too old and niche now to make a profit from this, they could make a safer return on investment allocating this money pretty much anywhere else. So I've been coping, since we know GW3 is in the works, maybe they plan on having GW3 interface more significantly with GW1 to the extent they expect that when GW3 comes out or leading up to it they will drive people to get GW1 and not just for another HoM system, but something more significant?I mean I'm happy to see they're supporting and expanding GW1 in 2026 but at the end of the day a business is a business and there must be an expectation to make their money back from these investments.
>>2328670I think you're undercounting how profitable it could be, and likely has been. Obviously we're not talking about AAA blockbuster money or anything, but the initial Reforged relaunch/rebranding seems to have been pretty gigantic relative to what it cost. I wouldn't be surprised if the first month of Reforged paid for like 1.5 to 2 years of a 2weeks-sized operation, and I'd bet that continued sales of character, mercenary, bank slots, etc is at least coming close to breaking even on month-to-month operating costs. I think that eventually, once the development tools are modernized, they could absolutely put out Mission Pack style updates that make back their money, and I don't think it's entirely impossible that they could actually do a small expansion.Even if that's not the plan, though, I think there's a couple strategic reasons they might be putting resources into this: First, they're definitely making GW3, but I don't think they're going to stop making GW2 to do it, and would rather be a multi-game company the way that WoW Retail/Classic, OSRS/RS3, PoE1/PoE2, and so on are all actively being supported. If they're going back and supporting GW1, that gives them a lot more credibility against the inevitable "GW3 is coming, so GW2 is dead, stop spending money on it" headlines.And second, one of the things they said when they were first announcing Reforged was that they wanted to use their improved logging software to see where new players were bouncing off the game, and what was making them quit. If GW3 is a little closer in style to GW1 than GW2, then having that data would be really useful for them - especially if they can gather it while getting some good publicity for the franchise and engendering some goodwill from their players.
>>2328670I imagine the current goal is to get back enough into the groove that they can start making and selling BMP-sized DLC and start getting stable GE1 profit again. ANet's and NCsoft's goals are likely to have all three GW games active in parallel, and showing that both GW1 and GW2 are still supported even when GW3 comes out in a year or two.
>>2328670They want to drum up interest for Guild Wars 3, it's so obvious!!! Totally not a new timeline :^)
>>2328718slow pacing of proph is probably a major factor they already know about, hence all the focus on Prophecies in particular.people do proph because they want "to see the story" but proph tends to bore people before they even hit Lion's Arch
>>2328786We VILL save Ascalon from the Searing, we VILL genocide charr to the last one,and we VILL Make Humanity Great Again!We even VILL allow elonians to ride on the front of the caravan.(And now on a more serious note - there was a whole post Searing recreated in pre map leak and seeing how they can add new assets - like buildings etc. - there is a big chance to go alternate timeline)
>>2328798Imagine NOT enjoying post-apocalyptic scenery of Ascalon skulking around for quests and map exploration while weeping over destroyed kingdom.Imagine NOT enjoying the sheer cold atmosphere of the Shiverpeaks while you're comfy gaming in your cozy room.And lastly, imagine NOT enjoying seeing Kryta for the first time as you descend from the icy peaks to see the sandy beaches, turquise water and lush greenery land.Fucking newgen I swear to Abaddon....
>>2328636>day 25 of planned 4 days of the operation Epstein's FuryAmericans are elonians of the wooorldYes they are... think about it...
>>2328636two thumbs up buddy keep up the good fight
>>2328816it's the slow pacing, like you do go through all these explorable zones like 2-3 maps over to reach the next mission, and the xp gain feels low so it feels like you're spinning your wheels and not going anywhere, people buy runs in proph in particular just to skip past a lot of the boring areas with 4 party member caps and low level henchmenFactions and Nightfall only have 2-3 missions and about 5 maps total before you're at max level with max party sizeProph you are only like level 12 (so only a bit over half way) to level cap with 6 low level low party size missions under your belt before you reach the main hub city, but then you go through another 8+ missions before you reach level 20 and 11 more misisons before you can have max party size, leaving only 2 regions of zones where you're at cap and with 8 member party.It just feels slow and mission outposts are empty so people get bored.
>>2328827go look at a listing of all the Iranian leaders that have died in the past month.compare to the stalemate in Ukraine
>>2328827Hit him with the >Ukraine in 48-hour ultimatum to east's pro-Russia activistsand he's gonna have a melty
Will Baww ever see the inside of Domain of Anguish again before WW3?
really cool if you guys could cut the /pol/ and GW3 talk and log on the motherfucking game I swear
>>2328834why would it feel better to hit level 20 and then never level again than to gradually level up across the campaign? the only reason factions and nightfall race you to max level is so you can play through them on a character from a different campaign
>>2328847because the fun part of Guild Wars isn't leveling, it's being at max level with your max attributes and making builds.Making low level builds with really low attribute spreads isn't very appealing
I do think the Reforged changes are going a little too far. I did Fort Ranik with a Reforgie and my henchmen were level 8... against a group of three level 5 enemies?
>>2328786There's a chance it's a prequel to gw1, and reforged is to have tie in material. I don't put that chance much higher than like 15%, since anet is a just outside of Seattle and it's likely full of retards who don't want to give up the sparkledog garbage setting they built with gw2.
>>2328786It's totally coming, bro! Check out these vague job listings :)
>>2328840I am at work ;(>muh /pol/NIGGER THERE IS NO BOOGEYMAN HERE, IT'S NUCLEAR FUCKING HOLOCAUST YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!!!>mfw Earth will have its own SearingZozzle
>>2328857I'll die happily knowing I never opted for the mark of satan (badge)
>>2328850Levelingfags get excited for +1 number but don't process that enemy gets +1 number so everything's the exact same. The fact that this game doesn't fake gameplay by having scaling is exactly why I like it.
>>2328857>say nigger>monitor everybody else to make sure they don't say niggermain character job
Wait enemies have better energy regen than players? No fucking wonder esurge is meta as fuck.
>>2328851I don't know if there's really a perfect solution there. Prophecies exists in a really weird space where if you're just zooming in and looking at one specific mission then, sure, it's kind of cool to get the 'low-level D&D' experience of being challenged by three level 5 Charr, but then if you zoom out and look at the campaign as a whole, it's just paced SO slowly and the number of levels you gain feels way too low for how much stuff you actually have to play through.If they keep working at it, I can see it turning into a thing where they go back and adjust the levels of post-Searing upward so that Ascalon is like levels 5-12, North Shiverpeaks is 12-18, and you're pretty much hitting 20 by Lion's Arch.
>>2328876I never bought into the "prophecies feels too slow" thing, I think it's great and you really have to take it slow and think about pulling, your bar, your party comp etc. Factions and Nightfall you're just zooming around without a care in the world. Sure it's put a character together with access to DoA and Deep/Urgoz in less than 20 hours if you know what you're doing, but for a new player Prophecies is the best way to understand the game. Casualizing it will bring nothing good - I'd rather have 100 real ass niggas than 20000 GW2 transplants.
>>2328885I think you're contradicting yourself there. Prophecies being "the best way to understand the game" entirely on the back of just being so slow that even a dumbass is going to absorb information by osmosis by the time they get through it IS "casualizing it." And Factions, at least, is infamous for having a huge difficulty spike for new players, not "zooming around without a care in the world."I can understand liking the slow pacing just for the sake of enjoying slow pacing, but past that I think you lost a plot a little bit.
>>2328862yeah low level cap and a lot of the game spent at max level just making builds is why I like it
>>2328918>being so slow that even a dumbass is going to absorb information by osmosis by the time they get throughI think this is a good thing and I disagree that this is casualizing it. Prophecies was built with slow pacing in mind if they change it any further it won't feel right. Factions was indeed built with that spike in mind and feels right - I agree on the zooming part I'm speaking from my POV and not a new player's.
>>2328875Esurge is meta because heroes can't really fuck up using it, it always at least provides some benefit on use. either it's a solid aoe armor ignoring damage, or at the very least even if it does almost no damage the enemy is tapped out on energy and can't use a skill for about 5s.There are better skills for players to use though
>>2328862but prophecies and factions don't feel exactly the same at allwhat prophecies does well is gradually introducing everything (health and attribute points, skills, enemy complexity and difficulty, elites, armor, everything). it's a great first campaign for a character and a mediocre second or third one, which is what makes it strange that some people adhdrush to make it feel like a second campaign
>>2328876it'd be ideal to scale so that you're level 20 by Lion's Arch and 8 man parties, you can tune the missions from Lion's Arch forward to account for this but something about the crawl at low levels with small party sizes makes you burn out in Ascalon after your first time or 2 doing it.
>>2328932cause that only works for exactly your first character on your accountafter that you're familiar with the basics of the game and just want to get to where you're capping cool elite skills that define entire builds and shit.
>>2328932I don't feel like Prophecies actually does that, though. It introduces things at a slow (but nice) pace through Ascalon and Northern Shiverpeaks, but then it just stops as soon as you get to Lion's Arch and doesn't really show you anything new until you get to the Crystal Desert where you start to see elite skills, the attribute quests, secondary class-changing, and a step up in overall difficulty.If I imagine a version of Prophecies where you get to level 20 at Lion's Arch and then you've got elite skills to capture (and make builds around) throughout all of Kryta, all of Maguuma, probably more than just one single Elite per class through the whole Crystal Desert - THAT'S a much better campaign to play through for a first-time player, and even more of an improvement for a veteran.
>>2328863I'm white&based&ascalonian&chud after all ;^)
>>2328943Things like condition removal (Antidote Signet, Plague Touch, Mend Ailment) start getting introduced alongside more dangerous conditions that you don't get hit with before then (burning, blind, dazed, etc.) as you get through Kryta into the Maguuma.Same for hex (Smite Hex, Hex Breaker, Holy Veil, etc.) and enchantment stripping (Rend Ench, INspired Ench, etc.) which starts in the latter portions of the Northern Shiverpeaks and continues into early Kryta.Kryta also introduces skill capture.The Maguuma in particular is great for showing off skill combinations (devourer with Enfeebling Blood alongside Thorn Stalker with Stoning), complete enemy group compositions with the White Mantle, and held items (Vine Seeds, crystals).Then of course you get to the desert which introduces PvP, Elite skills, secondary professions, etc.Bascially, Prophecies is VERY carefully and particularly arranged with skills and enemies, which is why messing with it too hard will throw it off balance.
>>2328994I think each dole out of those things gets a bit long in the tooth.like it should maybe be 1 mission for each thing rather than 3.
>>2328994>>2329001and mind you I say all this because I watch noobs burn out in proph all the time.You might appreciate the slow pacing out of nostalgia, but new players pick the game up from reforged hype or a sale or something and end up quitting early in the game cause it feels like they're not getting anywhere.But they won't start in factions or nightfall because "I want to see the story"
>>2329003I have a growing hatred for storyfags in vidya. I put a lot of the blame for the current state of the industry on their asses.
>>2328940it works fine. if you get every skill after 2 missions like factions then you never get familiar with them. if you play prophecies doing skill quests you learn every prophecies+core skill for your professionunless you're making duplicate characters, but I've never done that>>2328943enemy bars change, very noticeably compared to factions or nf where you get balls of 8 different professions that are harder to read and understandI think they could've put some of the worse elites earlier, but I don't think they needed to flatten levels or party sizes
>>2329016>ROLE playing game>I hate stories and shitbro?
>>2329026role playing game where the role you play is "pawn"
>>2329026Nigga so focused on the first word that he can't read the last one
Proph pacing is very malleable and depends a lot on how many side quests you do. Ascalon in particular is filled with them and if you only do the missions you can kinda speed through pretty fast.Proph also has a lot of optional and "secret" stuff like the whole high level Kryta areas around ToA (special lvl 28 boss motherfuckers in the Black Curtain are so cool), The Falls and Totem Axes, alternate paths between regions (Majesty's Rest to Maguuma, Dry Top route to Denravi, Snake Dance/Lornar's Pass connector), or just huge optional zones to explore (80% of the Shiverpeaks in general).It's a campaign that's as slow as you make it, pretty much.
>>2329016story is fine it's just that new players don't grasp that Guild Wars campaigns are not "expansions" and each one is written from the perspective of a player just starting out, self contained storySo they aren't "missing out" by not doing prophecies first.So you could start in Factions or Nightfall just fine storywise.Factions difficulty spike after fresh getting off Shing Jea might consider giving it a pass cause it was designed for people coming over with veteran charactres from Proph, up to and including Vizunah Square you might want some tuning changes, I dunno. I handle it fine now but everyone notices that it's quite a step.
>>2328994>Bascially, Prophecies is VERY carefully and particularly arranged with skills and enemies,It's really not. I played in the closed test before Prophecies released and saw a lot of the iteration and changes they did there. I'm not suggesting that they rolled dice to design the game or that they weren't talented designers or anything, but Prophecies was not deliberately designed to teach players a consistent stream of micro-lessons on the game mechanics or anything like that; any perception that that was the goal is inventing patterns out of chaos.Prophecies's length is because there was an initial assumption that people should have the same attachment and investment into every character that you'd get out of a full singleplayer RPG, if not an actual EQ-era MMO, and that that attachment would mainly come from a lengthy playtime. It was developed at a point where the idea was that there would be no such thing as a "PvP Character" and that GvG was going to be the centrepiece of the game as a proto-eSports title populated entirely by characters that people manually leveled, captured skills on, and geared up through the PvE campaign.In a very general sense, yeah, things are meant to get more complex as you go, but the specific way it ended up was largely just "that was the most recent revision before they had to call that part of the game ready to ship." It's not meticulously balanced in any intentional way.
>>2329028maybe you're RPing a pawn all my characters are stone cold killers>>2329040game? yes I do
As a heads up I'm making the executive decision to cancel tomorrow's urgoz run on account of me being a retard and forgetting it was Easter.If we end up having a lot of people free tomorrow around this time maybe we'll do something smaller like a FoW or DoA run so I can get people to stop bitching about it lol. But no promises.
>>2329066But anon you the game
>>2329054the story focused missions layout of PVE is what ended up appealing to PVE players and made the game not the esports PVP game they initially desired.Thankfully Anet decided to build around the audience they attracted to the game rather than be stubborn about it and try to force a PVP audience after you'd attracted a PVE audience.It could have just killed the game entirely if they'd really tried hard to keep forcing an esports focus.
>>2329066time for your story installment honey, get in the "now we go here because I say so" machine
>>2329083Keep bitching and log in tomorrow. Got it!
Thinking about buying it, I really like that the combat looks like Lineage 2, will I enjoy the PvP?
>>2329323The PvP is great, except that the population is low enough that most modes are only going at certain times the community sets up to play together. It still happens often, but you can't just hop into any PvP mode at any time.You're also going to be playing with people who have been doing this for 20 years... upside though is that you can still make a wacky build and fuck with people in new and exciting ways,Anniversary is coming up in a couple weeks so we're going to be doing one PvP mode, Hero's Ascent, every day during it.
>>2329368Just bought, made an assassin, should I just focus on leveling to 20, is it necessary I get some of the addons like 'eye of the north'?
>>2329696nah you can play that campaign as its own thing all the way through, I'd beat it before moving onthe things you shouldn't miss are the attribute quests and armor. after both your first 2 missions (minister cho's and zen daijun) there will be an npc who gives a quest that says "15 attribute points" as a reward, and you really need those. then buy armor in seitung harbor or get some from collectors, it makes a big difference
>>2329696You don't need Eye of the North any time soon, if at all. The base GW Reforged game already comes with three full campaigns that all have a ton of shit to do and things to explore, and you could probably play a couple hundred hours before you really started to run out of stuff you haven't seen.If you want to get it because it's on sale and it's cheap, then it's not a terrible idea. You'll be able to get some extra skills, more Heroes, and EotN has a whole fourth campaign that's entirely made for max-level characters (though to note, the Factions campaign is like 80-90% max-level content, Nightfall is probably like 75% max-level, and even Prophecies is like 30% max-level).But I'd probably wait and see if you still want more stuff to play after you're done with at least one of the base campaigns.
>>2329696Eye of the North is the only expansion.Prophecies/Factions/Nightfall are all individual campaigns with their own story that you can start any time.
>decide to do new pre dungeon >Level 11 solo the entire thing to get devona >End chest drops 200gSeems about right.
three hundred and seventy four damage invoke lightning
>>2330277shidded on em
Good morning I hate the infinite favela, the ministries, and chinks in general
>>2330293Tengu hands wrote this
>>2329696As always feel free to post IGN for an invite to the guild.Of the 3 campaigns Factions is one of the more difficult ones to start with because it ramps up in difficulty pretty quick, I wouldn't worry about EotN until you finish the 3 primary campaigns.
>>2330342the roost is part of the favela, fuck that place
this game can actually make someone hate getting diamonds
>>2330349To be honest I completed most of the quest and I'm now level 7, I dont know where else to quest.Abby Valkard (not a women)
>>2330385>(not a women)sorry pal girls ONLY
>>2330384Blame the stupid Vabbi set and it counting as its own one point towards the HoM.
>>2330385>not a womennot yet at leastjust kidding, this is not guild wars 2
>>2330384for real this game can make a nigga hate gettin iced out for real for real
>>2330393no sapphires and rubies are great.diamonds are near worthless.nobody likes making destroyer weapons (even though they're a point on HoM too, people just like Vabbian armor for their looks), and diamonds have like a 40% drop rate on dungeon chests, onyx gemstones another 40%
>>2330409bust down edit of the prophecies box art warrior when
>>2330385gw has an almost completely linear story you follow, consisting of consecutive primary quests at the top of your quest log (L) or missions which show up with a different, blinking icon on your map and which you start with a button on your ui in that outpostyou should've done the quests for your primary profession, then talked to togo and done the ones for your secondary, then been brought to minister cho's estate for your first mission. if you got lost somewhere in that chain, you can find the missing link in https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/List_of_Factions_missions_and_primary_quests#Shing_Jea_Island
have you guys ever seen this before? I just noticed passing by
>>2330444yeah, they stand next to the other option for their respective class.and Cynn's murderously jealous of Mhenlo talking to other women
>>2330444>>2330447and if you go to Umbral Grotto there's a 3 way argument with Cynn standing between Mhenlo and Lina
Longeye Ledge has Cynn looking at Mhenlo talk to Devona, and she sulksRata Sum has Eve, Herta, Lina, and Devona all spamming /pickme while looking at Mhenlo, while Cynn is being sulky while he's trying to console her.
>>2330461I would like this kind of subtle storytelling and visual variety and charm retrofitted back into the campaigns. That one dev must've had fun implementing these.
>>2330385You've probably unlocked Minister Cho's Estate outpost, the campaign has multiple instanced mission outposts sort of like dungeons where if you die, you wipe. Go to the outpost and look at the top of your screen for the Enter Mission button. Sent you a guild invite as well
>>2330481seems like they only really did it in EotN outposts, I don't notice anything like it in Factions at least
>>2330793The henchmen don't "interact" but they have things to say if you talk to them.
>>2329696Prophecies was the first campaign. It ramps up to level 20 slowly over most of the campaign. Factions and Nightfall coming later meant they rush the leveling phase so that most of the game is level 20 to accommodate players dragging across campaigns. In Factions, you'll probably be around level 16 by the time you get off Shing Jea, and you will be thrown into a total meat grinder on the mainland. Just make sure you upgrade your armor at Seitung and again on the mainland and the henchmen will carry you the rest of the way as you get to lvl 20.BTW suggestion is to make a new character for each campaign or you'll miss the lower level stuff (skipping campaign from Factions into Prophecies is especially bad, drops you half way through into level 12 content).
>>2330799in some outposts, but not all, and a lot of it is pretty generic.I just think by the time they reached EotN stuff they'd had enough Cynn/Mhenlo jokes baked into how all the women seem to go after him and Cynn's jealousy that they just ran with itI think it's funny that even Devona, who you'd think would know better being that she's traveled with Mhenlo since Ascalon is doing it.
not that I ever used hench in EotN but I kinda wonder why they picked just the handful they did for EotN. Only Herta from Elona, 2 warriors (hammer and sword/shield), 2 eles (fire and earth), 2 monks (healing and prot), 2 rangers (just dps and an interrupter), 1 mesmer (illusion), 1 necro (blood) I'm surprised no rits but I guess they only wanted core professions.But why only 1 from Elona? Why 6 from Proph? They could have used Kihm instead of Lina for a prot hench
>>2330816The others are clearly just messing with Mhenlo and Cynn.
>>2330837I used hench back in the day before 7 heroes
>>2330904no they had sex
so i now bought like 5 new character slots just because of the updates and badgesis the new pre searing content any good?
>>2330943yeah sure I guess I can't even remember which 4 I'd have used though, Cynn and Herta I'm sure but who else? I know I wouldn't have used the warriors and rangers so I guess Lo Sha and Eve
>>2330837>why only 1 from Elona? Why 6 from Prophare you actually asking why devona, aidan, mhenlo, eve, cynn continued to be in every single campaign? they were in elona too
why is Factions almost entirely escort quests/missons
>>2331143no those 5 yes.but Lina is the one that makes me wonder why her, she was a rando in proph
>>2331145those are 5 of the >6. there's 1 proph exclusive henchman, 3 factions, 1 nfalso obviously people will care less about the henchmen from campaigns with heroes
>>2331153I guess if you want to see those 5 as "core" maybe and then Lina's just only 1 from proph, now Factions seems like the one with too many exclusives, we could have traded one of the factions hench for a 2nd proph maybe. Herta's all the Nightfall we need I guess. Ditch Lo Sha and bring in Durham, or ditch the Tengu and bring in our boy Little Thom
>>2331145>but Lina is the one that makes me wonder why herLina clearly slept her way to get the job promotion
>>2331086I was a retard back then so I thought warrior hench were good, and talon was my favorite hench so he definitely was there
>>2331180yeah I may have brought Talon too thinking "I need a tank"
