We have a /vm/ guild that has been playing together for 4 years now, if you would like to join simply post your IGN to thread.>>2842073 Previous ThreadOur NF prog is running every saturday at 9AM EST, we're playing under a ruleset where the first 2 skills on our bar are randomly decided, and we need to create a build for that session using those 2 skills, I am posting weekly progress updates to thread for people interested in watching our progress.We've also been doing weekly HA again Sat or Sun at 1PM EST abusing minion factory before anet changes their mind and minions become useless in PvP for another 20 years.Pretty large balance patch and some new items added to shop, see change log here: https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260826Pirate Week starts on September 13th, farm your grog and laugh at all the players who yet again forgot to get their inf summon stone from last week's Wayfarer's Reverie.Useful linkshttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://gwsolo.wikidot.com/https://www.gw-memorial.net/https://tolkano.com/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[Baww] Approved Buildshttps://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/User:Baww_Way>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
>warriorMale>rangerMale>MonkFemale>NecromancerEither>MesmerFemale>ElementalistFemale>AssassinFemale>RitualistFemale>ParagonEither>DervishEitherI don't make the rules, but these are the rules
all GW female character models are pure sex and there's really no reason not to pick them, but if you wanna play as the Hunchback of Necrodame or wide Conan, go ahead.
>>2923521Necro is either scene girl or Jared Leto from Suicide Squad; there is no in between.
i will never play as a BITCH
>>2923682but anon, every character you play is a bitch
>>2923682idk your method acting is on point
do people not use that gwmarket site? never get a bite then again I probably don't know how desired any of the stuff im listing is I just undercut people by 1 and hope for the best
>>2923919I just have an alt I park in kamadan to sell big stuff while I'm playing on main or doing something else. I really don't bother selling stuff often especially if it's like random ass mods that go for 1-2e. Can't be assed to do that shit anymore.
>>2923919With toolbox I'll sometimes just afk in kamadan while playing a different game. If someone whispers me or opens a trade window toolbox causes the GW window to flash and can even send windows notifications. Otherwise everytime I login I spend like 1 minute checking current listings on trade menu and sometimes I'll sell something there.
>>2923919having never used it, i will confidently tell you that it's like most low-volume markets and the listed prices stay listed because nobody fucking buys at that
>>2923560I like the gigachad strongman male monksneed a lot of beef to carry entire teams
>>2925122The ones that are at best 5'4*?
>>2923521male paragon and male dervish are very zesty, yes
>>2925296They gonna make that shit look GOOD
Gonna start actually playing the necro I've had for ages. Which areas suck for playing mm?
>>2925709Nahpui Quarter, Ooze Pit, Oola's Lab, anything with lots of undead/ghosts (Kryta missions, SoO etc.), anything with Titans
>>2925709The last third of Nightfall isn't great for MMs. By then you'll have access to lots of alternative playstyles though.
LOG ON AND GRAB TODAY'S ZC IF YOU'RE A HAfag!
So update tomorrow(inshallah)What are we expecting
>>2926865more p2w and badly considered buffs
>>2926865- Inconsequential buffs to skills that nobody gives a shit about and will continue to not give a shit about.- More mobile client updates that nobody gives a shit about- P2W lockpick
>>2926865Last update was one week ago, not 2weeks.
>>2926865More cash shop items. You're not getting any major updates until the end of the year, maybe even past that.
>spend hours trying out different Ele builds>finally settle on 2-3 that play all right and do decent damage>log into my daggerspam assassin out of curiosity>my damage effectively doubles plus I can spam Save Yourselves making my team invincible>same for my ranger daggerspam and TaOJesus the balance in this game is so fucked
>>2926926DD+pet+ebsoh my brother
>>2926913Technically we're more on track for make updates at the end of each month. We won't get anything big until the 30th I bet
>>2926926That's the Ele and Monk life. Everyone who takes your profession as secondary (or not at all) can do your role better.
What more-difficult areas (farms, dungeons, etc.) do you like to do when you're bored and want to play GW?
>>2926926melee is just more fun to play with heroes
>>2926934Lately, I've been chipping away at getting my LDoA character's Devona to level 20.
>>2926936There's also a lot more support skills it gets to use. Splinter, SoH, judge's, withering aura all make melee go big. On top of that, the PvE skills you have access to are just busted and remove melee counters, so the balance point of more damage but more counters is obliterated
>>2926930>Call target>Cast DD on pet>Run backwards for some reason>Realize that my retarded bird got stuck on geometry and is 100 yards behind the partyAlso, I like that you'll auto cast DD on the nearest ally if you cast it without a target, but it's infuriating that the spell fails if the mob you're targeting dies.
>>2926930This and star burst were my most effective builds and yet they still pale in comparison to something like daggerspam. Too many ways in which DD can fail, plus it's way more awkward to execute
>>2926971Ultimately it comes down to what's fun. With meta hero builds, you can AFK and still win handily in most content, so either you create some off-meta Rube Goldberg machine or you play a build that you find enjoyable so you can pretend like you're making a valuable contribution to the team.
>>2926971I do think ele is weak and my biggest single frustration with it is cast times. Way too often do my targets die as I'm casting and so I end up doing very little damage. DD is at least a fun kind of retarded
>>2927018I was seriously considering an Of the Mesmer mod on my gear because I kept getting cucked out of Chain Lightning casts.
>>2927028If only there was a spell that was literally chain lightning but had a faster cast time
>>2927035My elite slot is already taken.
>>2927038Arc Lightning
>>2927038Then perish
consider the following
>>2927166You won't need MoP when the mobs scatter from Balthazar's Aura.
>>2927028I like to play Mindbender on necro builds, you can stack it with Of Mesmer mod to roleplay as an FC mesmer pretty effectively.
>>2926926yeah and if you download a gay dating app right now you could get your dick sucked in under 20 minutessometimes you have to make a choice, and it's not about what's easy
>>2927418>We choose to suck these dicks in this general and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard
i... became weak and bought the newest shop stuff (kits & bell). considering the time i wasted within this game already the money is practically nothing
>>2928665It felt dirty, but I did it too. Mostly just to give them some money, but the unbreakable kits are convenient. I don't use the devil's consumables.
its nice the stuff is atleast redeemable on every character and they didn't do it the gay ass gw2 way where you have to inventory manage 1 item across 8 different chars or paypig even more for a shared inventory slot
>>2928665I did too. If the lockpicks good I'll probably get it too. Should have been a way to get them in game though. Maybe as a reward for certain levels of treasure hunter and wisdom and shit like that.
>>2928665buying shit keeps the game updated
>>2926926The game's balance is centered around PvP.PvE falls apart unless you place a bunch of restrictions.
>>2928768>The game's balance is centered around PvP.Hell yes, my time machine worked!
>>2928768This game is balanced around who cries the loudest on the 2weeks discord and its a mess in pve and pvp want a good laugh look up word of censure spike
>>2929192They didn't need to kill my boy like they did
>>2928768Izzy, they already forced you to split PvE and PvP skills. Don't make me get the paddle.
>>2928768it was centered around pvp and theyre slowly doing away with it.
>>2930084They did away with it when they made PvE only skills and never made pvp only ones.
Fuck talus chute vanq. That was awful
Any sisters up for Magmussy later today?
>>2934878At reset?
>>2934885Sure
>>2934878Sure, I'll be running Over the Limit ele today, this dungeon has very few enchant strips as food for thought if anyone wants to run Arcane Mimic they could prob freely run it as well along with an elite of their choosing if they want to abuse some jank setups.
The guild would benefit from a female member, not for any important reason, just drama.
>>2935153LolLmao even
>>2935153the guild has at least 2 but they are late 20s early 30s hagmaxxing, don’t ask me how I found out
>>2935321how'd you find out
>>2923450Is this the same guild that did a factions run about 4 years ago?
>>2935365yea who else
>>2935325I stalk guildies with my alts
>>2935365We've done one every year since 2022 basically. I think kensuke has a gif or webm of some moments but I forgot to save it.
>>2935365yeah
Raving Nighteyes would like to return
>>2936219invite this man back, you guild officers
>>2936219ill get back on real fast and get you
>>2936219sent ;)
Almost forgot, happy 9/11!
The Searing was an inside job! Crystals can't burn tinder cities!
>The Charr have reportedly struck Ascalon with a second airship
>Duke (((Barradin))) inexplicably gives up the throne to the pretender Adelbern and takes out a massive insurance policy on the kingdom in the same day.Really makes you signets tingle.
The asura have been kicked out of a lot of gates, huh
>>2936436They need to be kicked some more, in all honesty
has LGiT really been around for 15 years? we goit any LGiT sleeper agents?
Why did ectos crash in price and why the fuck is superior vigor 36k?
>>2936760The regular buy downs went a little too frequent and popped the bubble. Smart money has been liquidating to gold in anticipation of the lockpick fucking shit up royally.
PROG in one hour. We're at the quest Attack at the Kodash.
LOG ON FOR PROG
And here are today's builds
Petition to change the guild tag from [BAWW] to [BEWA]
>>2938038And the skills for next weeks sessionToday was pretty productive we did both Jennur's Horde and Nundu Bay, we also did Dzagour Bastion as a bonus, and we stopped at Gate of Desolation mission. Pretty productive day.Next week will be Gate of Desolation + a lot of side questing for treasure. I predict our prog will beat NF in the next 3~ weeks.
>>2938263also HA in 2 hours from now, we continue to milk the minion factory builds.
>>2938311made for vaginal vore
i'll be honest, i still miss DoA ursanway after all these years. worst nerf of all time. after that came cry of pain and then esurge. damn mesmers.
>>2938268HA TIME LOG INWe'll also probably do it tomorrow at same time depending on if we have enough people
>>2938578I was out and got back late, should be good tomorrow.
Zesty missed out on the friends and deep lore we made along the way
>>2938432I remember Strong Like Bearway
>tfw a guy from 'back then' is back online but they deleted you from their friends listi cope by telling myself that they probably just gave their account away at some point
>>2939363I didn't even know you could tell who is a mutual friend on your friends list until I looked it up after your post, and now I realized that 2 people from "back then" have also removed me.
>>2939550>"look, it's the guy who keeps messaging me because he think's were friends"
>>2939667Why would a guy massage you if he's only a friend?
>>2939363>>2939550You guys have people from "back then" that still play this game?
>>2940052I ran into a middle school friend returning for Reforged shortly before Christmas.
>there are old friends that legit loved this game and were addicted back then that never came back for reforged
>>2940074they've probably got kids
my guild leader that quit 20 years ago will totally come back some day
>>2939363i wanted to reconnect with my cousin that i went to HS with and played GW with back in like 2008 but pretty sure he wants nothing to do with me D:
>>2940100shouldn't have molested him
>>2940115he has a comic book shop girlfriendi remember said comic shop girlfriend from going to said comic book shop around 11-12 years ago (to play some tabletop game) and i have a very vivid memory of my cousin vocalizing a "i don't know why she is with him, he. is. a. DICK." when she got up for a minute after her floater boyfriend eons ago left the table at the time.is he winning?
At roughly 12:30 am pst every Sunday and Thursday, a bot or something else has been massively selling off its ecto stock. This pattern has been continuing for a few months now, and I believe it's finally driving prices down for me than the initial day. Do with this info what you will.
>>2941430that's a fascinating observation anon good catch.Tempted to risk buying some in a few weeks I still think halloween will cause them to spike back up.
>>2941443The odd thing is that its not precise. It has a jitter of about 30 minutes, and earlier in may and jun there were thursdays and some sundays it missed. data doesn't go past march, but the pattern of selling isn't there. There is some evidence of purchase spikes at the same time but it's far less noticeable than the last month like in pic rel.
>>2941475
>>2941479yeah well, i don't care
>>2941475I wonder if someone is running a ton of bots farming ectos and every 24~ hours or so he shuts them off to collect and sell the ectos. The bigger question for me is what's he doing with all that gold, there aren't really any mats going up wildly in value nor runes. Perhaps he's turning it all into lockpicks?>>2941479to be fair a lot of that decline is a direct result of the horrid captcha implementation.
>>2941520could be RMTing the gold. Lockpicks maybe but with how much money that is, he's likely to an hero if that golden lockpick takes only 1200g.
>>2938038>>2938700Hey, didn't lose to wife, I was forced to go on business trip to Barcelona, chill on a boat and sip drinks with new coworkers.Will catch up and hopefully join for the next week's prog and let me know about the lore ;)
HA in 1 hour>>2941730Good to hear we weren't sure if it was vacation or wife found out he was playing with the bros again, we didn't do much yesterday so it should be easy to catch up.
HA LOG IN
>>2941769>>2941939its ogre
I just sold a crystalline sword I got from our HA minion factory runs for a pile of armbraces :)
I am still sad about PI recharge nerf
>>2942510I am mad as well.Let's be mad together.
thinking about doing a big caravan vanq on mesmer. what bar should I run?
>>2942885PI so you can share in the misery with the other 2 posters
>>2942885Symbols of InspirationYou will be entertained.
>>2942885If it's Southern Shiverpeaks don't do PI, too many baddies immune to knockdown.
>>2943149Just have a hero bring Earthbind
barely hit canthan carto. there's a ton of extra space. new TB module+compasses makes this shit crazy easy
>>2943809So what you're saying is post reforge doesn't count. You didn't beat the game
>>2945414Yup. They've systematically made gwamm easier (skill hunting nerf soon (it came to me in a dream)). I'll never beat the game now.
>>2945453They already reduced the cost of Skill Hunter by half.
>>2945453>skill hunting nerf soonI've always been of the opinion that skill hunter should be an account-wide title. I guess that would make GWAMM even easier though.
>>2945453Anniversary elite skills function as your skill hunter nerf.
So despite having almost 4000 hours of playtime I've never really played winds of change (I stopped pretty much before it came out back then), but now i wanted to do the ministry farm with my ranger. After making it work and doing it a few times, IMO it's not as great as it's praised to be, and Vaettirs are better for consistency.Now about the farm itself: I tried to adapt my heroes to the initial fight of the farm, which is not easy at all. After a lot of try and error, I came up with three crucial strategies for this fight:1) The enemy monks deal a lot of AoE damage through Smite Hex and Smite Condition, so the team shouldn't have many conditions and hexes2) For some reason, a hard hitting AoE Ele is super beneficial for this fight. I tried other hard hitters, CC casters and such but no, just give an Ele a lot of damage and that's it.3) The main reason for wipes were always the enemy channeling Ritus who deal huge amounts of AoE lightning damage. Including Mantra of Lightning has been the sole game changer for me.Thought I'd share my thoughts here since some of you are also into teambuilding. I think my build can still be optimized but it's working OK so far.
>>2945797Spirit Rift is no joke when the enemy is 8 levels higher than you. Same with the buffed RoJ, although that's more of a Factions/War in Kryta problem.
Heroes steal your loot if they're dead but still in your compass range, right?
>>2945832Yeah, that's true, the Afflicted have become a real pain in the ass because of buffed RoJ.I also feel like sometimes that all those PvE skills, consets and this stuff that buffs your character like crazy may be convenient, but it also makes me lazy and more stupid. I feel stupid that I didn't get the idea to use Mantra of Lightning earlier than I did because it's such a natural counter to those enemies, instead I relied too much on having a good all around team that usually deals with everything.>>2945864Yeah. They won't steal once they're out of range and greyed out in your party window, no matter if dead or alive
>>2945915i use paw-ned2, you can download it here: https://redeemer.biz/guild-wars/projekte/pawned2/
>>2945498Feel like you'd be better off replacing your prot 7 monk with a rit running resto + SoS/splinter weapon. The recent buff to protective was kaolai makes it quite a good party heal/self defense option. Running an ST + a smite monk with prots + a heal monk + a prot monk + watch yourself mitigation almost feels like overkill. Mend Body and Soul does Life Sheath but better, and you aren't getting great life sheath value due to Shelter + Union (if you have 500 HP, and you get hit, you take 50 damage, then minus 15 for union which means Life Sheath only heals for 35).With SoS rit you'll have 6-7 spirits on team making Mend Body a full cleanse, kaoloai is a better heaven's delight, and spirit light is a better gift of health. Plus splinter weapon will give your 100blades a huge boost and the SoS spirits will help increase DPS and spread some of the damage on your team out. In general I don't recommend taking a prot + ST as they tend to interfere with each other's abilities or can be redundant. If you really want to keep the prot I'd swap to either blessed light, aura of faith, or mark of protection. pic is what I'd replace with, you can run ancestor's rage + spirit siphon for big damage, bloodsong for more spirits to chip away at HP, a res like flesh of my flesh, or even something like SoH (run spirit siphon if you do), smite/remox hex for better hex clearing. It's a pretty versatile role and I highly recommend it when people are playing melee.
>>2946083wew why even name yourself that
>>2946121It's just how Warriors feel when Assassin and Dervish are them but better.
>>2946170>Cup's face when
>>2946170100b warrior is the protagonist of gw and that's a fact
>>2946521Your 100b representative literally dies twice nigga
>>2946175He's a filthy derv main, he'll survive
>>2946561the teacher must fall so the student can rise
I keep thinking about trying some deadly arts signet build but dagger spammer is just more fun
>>2947878what elite would you even run, Assasin's Promise?
>>2947901Yeah something like thisOwRS4ZCTLQuZDCgNKivZxk3k
turns out melandru is boring if you start anywhere other than prophecies
this might be one of my best drops yet, seems expensive. anyone knows what this could be worth?
>>2948641344 gold
>>2948641Time to go W/Me and strike the fear of lyssa into the hearts of your enemies.
>>2948641that's kinda cool, if this was back before the mesmer fast cast shield it'd probably be worth more. As it stands you might be able to get a few ecto for it. Might be kinda hard to sell though.
>Milo being silly on another board>>>/vrpg/4097766shameful shameful
How long till its back to a 100k
>>2951297Soonâ„¢. I shoulda bought more when they were 17k
>>2951297During big events like Wintersday when people are playing again.
>>2941430If I am right, ecto should drop tonight in about 15 hours.
hnnnnnggg
>>2952119God you got 2? I never get that lucky even with measure for measure.
I don't understand how I upgraded my daggers but they do the same damage, and so do my skills. Do I really need 5 dagger skill for them to hit harder with auto attacks or is that just the +hex damage?
>>2953279>Piercing DMG: 5-10 (Requires 5 Dagger Mastery)it's pretty self evidentthe +15% vs hexed foes doesn't require that, and your skill damage won't get nerfed I think, but the autoattacks will get cut
>>2953279if you don't meet the requirement the weapon does half the listed auto attack damagealso, +15% of 5-10 is just not a lot in terms of raw numbers (and that's not even considering enemy armor levels), realistically you might see numbers that are higher by 1-2 or somethingalso remember you can customize your weapon at a weaponsmith for another +20% attack damagedaggers have just never been a weapon that gets a lot out of auto attacking and weapon base damage
>>2953279oh yeah, and the +15% only applies to the weapon's own attack damage, it has no effect on your skills (which are improved by putting more points into your attributes)
>ZM: Aurora GladeI remember not liking this mission back in the Prophecies days.
>>2955492It's not too bad nowadays. You can just cap one point, plant your heroes, and defend until they stop moving in and then clean up the rest
At the moment there are long periods of Favor each day, I think there are many players who finish their titles now that the daily conset stuff was made available
I hate this game
>>2955816The carto stuff from TB and compasses is pretty big
>>2955896We purposely trained it wrong, as a joke.
Hubert covered a minion factory GvGhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqNxmnNX4OMDruid's Isle is probably one of the best possible halls to get for this strat. The setup they went with is really making me question some things in mine like the inclusion of Dark Bond and the heavy fiend numbers. Also I never considered that anyone who is playing tab target like mesmers has an absolutely miserable time trying to target necros in this comp lol.
>tomorrow's bounty is Black Beast of ArrghYeah that's gonna be a fat skip from me. I did it once with pugs never again.
New HUGE DICK Lightning Touch unironically saved my Aurora Glade zm
Am I better off playing Royal Gift gacha for Medals of Honor rather than buying them directly with my War Supplies?
>>2956751no, just buy them with war supplies. If you've beaten WiK and hearts of the north mini quests you should easily get 15 medals. If you need more oppressor's weapons than that I would convert war supplies to medals.
Looking like I won't make it to prog this week. Someone else will have to Vocal Minority those Awakened Cavaliers for you.
>>2957239I volunteer as tribute (I don't have any nightfall chars near there, but I still volunteer)
>>2957325come anyway, just bring a character with shit gear and roll for skills when you get there
might get another Mandy cameowho else will make a guest appearance during this weekend's prog?are we going to try HA again?
>>2957406haven't decided, but probably not we were short people 2 weeks in a row so I think interest in PvP has gone back to normal. I'm still messing around with those necro minion master builds though. Feel like still space for optimizing it even further.
>>2957325Just make a build with only core/nightfall skills and you should be good to hang with us
see you all tomorrow for progmaybelemme turn my alarm clock on...
>>2961575I had to drop out after the first day because shit was just too early
>>2961603what
What necro build do you think is the most fun?
Any thoughts of ellie fire support?
>>2962044does slapping GDW on a normal ass build automatically turn it into a support build?
>>2961628Dark Aura Blood Magic.
wow, this pay2win stuff is really going to get out of hand just kidding, this is obviously an AI edit
WE PROGGIN IN 15 MINUTES
p2weeks
>>2938263And here are today's builds
>>2962549>PI dom mesmer>PR scythe dervdaring today, are we?grenth's balance is based though
>>2962044You should be running ebsoh and either iau or ebon escape if you're running DD. Ebsoh especially boosts the fuck out of DD. You don't need the standard ranged fire kit you've got there. You can take pbaoe like flame djinn, inferno or flame burst, but that's all small fry compared to DD. You could split into like 8-9 smiting and bring SoH too. Maybe judges but that's a lot of pre cast and I wouldn't bother
>>2962549Here are next weeks skills.Today was the obligatory piss wurm day, as did Gate to Desolation and Horde of Darkness, kensuke had to leave early so we stopped at Ruins of Morah mission. We also did Rilohn Refuge.Next week hoping for full 8 man so we can do some side questing for treasure/elites/niche outposts
>>2962258Kinda, yeah.
this is a bit of a meme build for pve i made, but i think the general idea is interesting. spam ravenous gaze which has 1 energy cost, and drain everyone's energy otherwise. i probably wouldn't do HM with it, but it's fun enough. lots of room for improvement, though
today's ZB is Arachnii gotta say, Arachni's area at the end where you fight it stands out among most of the other dungeons for a cool fuckin arena
>>2963350>i gotta say, Arachni's area at the end where you fight it stands out among most of the other dungeons for a cool fuckin arenaYeah, but getting there is a pain. First you gotta walk to Narnia and then there's the dungeon proper. Pain.
>>2963018Energy drain team with necromancers, but not using Depravity, Malaise, Well of Weariness or Wither? Shameful. I don't know how I feel about this team. Feel like you're just better off running 3-4 mesmers with esurge to force enemies to be 0 energy to abuse mind wrack + famine. Quicksand, chaos storm, and energy tap are not going to be enough. The illusion mesmer might get some juicy value in melee heavy areas though.
>>2963576i get your points, but i don't agree with them. the point of this build is to spam ravenous gaze, thereby spend as little energy as necessary, while the enemy team drains itself already through quickening zephyr. i think your considerations make sense from a theoretical standpoint, but i don't think they would make this build more effective. in the end ravenous gaze spam does a lot of damage quickly while all the draining effects take time to fully work, time in which the group might break from too much pressure before enemies start going down effectively.actually, your comment and me writing this made me reconsider a few things. i made an updated version that focuses more on single target energy drain and does not focus so much on general energy drain.i tested this updated version with an easy vanquish, Yatendi Canyons, and it took me about 40-45 min without any consets. I wiped two times at an margonite ele boss because using quickening zephyr against a HM ele boss with aoe spam is not such a good idea in hindsight. otherwise it was very smooth.
GOING TO RUN ARACHNIS DRUNK FUN RUN IN 5 MINUTES LOG INOGIN
bots need to start farming runes again. fucking everything is sold out.
>>2964403If you're gonna do any more eotn dungeons call me in the thread ;)
is there any point in doing challenge missions in HM?
>>2963994If the goal is to spam ravenous that makes sense, my main concerns with the build is I don't think you'll be able to force enemies to 0 energy otherwise, a lot of this build seems predicated on enemies not capable of messing with you. I really like that change to the 2nd Me/R. I missed this last time but I'm not sure Boon Signet is right pick on this team. It's only works on Mend Aliment and Gift of Health. Your other 2 skills Heaven's Delight and Shield Guardian don't trigger it. Attached pic is my alternative suggestion, blessed light is great role compression healing but you could also swap it for Healing Burst which would be very good on this team, or if you want something more economical Healing Light probably gets some very decent value with how many enchants you have on team. I prefer Hex Eater Sig in ranged teams.I would seriously consider swapping Ravenous out of your 7th hero in favor of Shared Burden it should help keep enemies balled together, it's cheap to use, and it's excellent damage mitigation by slowing everything. Maybe change your Famine Me/R hero to be Me/N ravenous dom? For your bar I would consider dropping EoE in favor of something like Technobabble which is a hard carry skill, or even Ebon Vanguard Assassin so they stay grouped up a little longer for ravenous's to hit. Alternative you go with Ebon Battle Standard of Wisdom so your necros can spam ravenous more often. Those are just my suggestions anyway, spit balling ideas you're welcome to pick and chose any you like.
uhh its not economical to use res scrolls guys
Did Thunderhead Keep last night and it's amazing how powercrept that mission has gotten since the Prophecies days.I used to dread taking a toon through there to finish the campaign but now you can AFK while guarding the king.
>>2967023Quality built heroes really are something
>>2967023>toon
>>2967548That's right, fuccboi.
>Dunes of DespairIt's good to know that after all these years, this mission still sucks.
>>2967600
who got the last minute nick gift mats for me?
This isn't funny anymore
>>2967975>he needs a supvig
>>2967975time to cash out my 20 super vigor runes I've been stock piling on assassin heros for this moment
>>2967975Go farm missing daughter, halcyon job, courier, or feathers
>Prodigy's 8+ platProg run is going to have to deal with a subpar not-minmax mesmer DEAL WITH IT
>>2967960told kamaniggas hit my line they ain't replyineen checked d2 it's nothing bru shit got me cryin>>2968075>Prog run>caring about rune trader prices
>>2968126the anxiety courses through me veins
Hostile reminder to capture your uw skeletors for Halloween.
>>2967975I think there was a ban wave of rune farming bots. My suspicion is that's also why ecto prices have collapsed in the same time frame. The bots were selling runes and buying ecto. Not sure how this connects to the regular ecto price drop every Sunday and Thursday, but I'm close
god dammit i hate kormir>"yes i awakened an ancient evil in istan, so what">"i got blinded by a demon so i'm special now">"i don't actually don't do anything useful, EVER, but i'm rewarded for my deeds by becoming a literal god"and then she has the AUDACITY to not trigger my primary quest while i run into the gate of secrets, so i have to run the whole way again from the gate of fear.
>>2970322>colluded with an ancient evil>blinded and became special>basically a godKormir was Illidan this entire time, huh
What's the typical going rate on normal skill tomes?
>>2972214500g, mesmer is lower (cause vaettirs) usually like 200-300g
>>2972653Probably scythe?You buy signet of captures from skill trainers, but you probably have to get to Kourna first before you can start buying them.
>vanquishing Asura territory>dinos patrolling around at light speed>tengu cancer>the fucking monkeysAnet is contractually obligated to make any jungle zone a complete ballache.
>get on a prog char>go do the dead farm to get some insignias>get a q8 and a black day before even a single desired insignia dropsIm not complaining.
>>2972876dye*im retarded
>>2972214>>2972279500g-1k is fair value. Mesmer is almost worthless, assassin and necro tend to be on the lower end as well. Stuff like paragon, dervish, ritualist tend to be on higher end for value.>>2972653Welcome back, as always you're welcome to join the guild if you want people to talk to/ask questions ingame.
>>2923450translation: the game is dead with 300 players online please roll gw1
I feel like attempting melandru + dhuum again. Ele or Derv?
>>2973340ele has infinitely more build variety and is also a lot safer since you don't have to melee
>>2967740why do you hate it?i kinda like it, did it dozens of times by now and still can't figure out what the best strategy isyou either rush after the one boss attacks the ghostly hero, hoping you can kill at least two of the bonus bosses and kill their extra triggered spawnsor you split group and let 2 heroes deal with the extra mobs
dragon's lair daily
>>2973997I used the cheese strategy that teleports the ghostly out of the fort.
>>2974990dragon's lair is the most aesthetic mission in prophecies, imo. in 2005 that must've looked absolutely stunning. tyria in general is so nice because it has this d&d like fantasy theme overall. in factions and nightfall the environment is also nice, but it feels more like part of the story than its own fantasy world. i don't know how to properly describe it. it's like with magic cards where the oldest ones have this retro feeling to them through the art, even though later sets with better art exist.
Is the increase flight times of Flatbows over Shortbows noticeable in general PvE?
>>2978797if the enemies move, absolutely, you'll miss a lot with a flatbowwhich mostly means melee enemies or mobs scattering due to AoEs
>>2978797>>2978802It's most notable when you have run skills like dshot or savage shot which need to land as fast as possible in order to rupt the spell, or you are running any bow skills that fly slower than usual like Broad Head or Arcing Shot. But you can also use the slow flight speed to your advantage with stuff like ignite arrows, choking gas, determined shot etc... Or you can completely negate this by running Read of Wind or Favorable Winds. It really depends on what your build is to determine which bow would work best for you. But I would always keep a flatbow or longbow as a side weapon just for doing pulls.
splinter weapon should be an elite skill
>>2979439They really just need to lower how hard it scales. At 0 Channeling it does 5 (damage) * 1 attack * 3 targets = 15 potential damageAt 4 Channeling it does 17 * 2 * 3 = 102 PotentialAt 9 channeling it does 32 * 3 * 3 = 288 PotentialAt 12 channeling it does 41 * 4 * 3 = 492 PotentialAt 16 channelin it does 53 * 5 * 3 = 795 PotentialA single scythe swing could potentially detonate nearly 1000 AoE. The number of attacks should be locked to 5, and the damage should be cut in half so:Channeling: 0 = 3 damage * 5 attacks * 3 targets = 45 PotentialChanneling 4 = 9 * 5 * 3 = 135Channeling 9 = 16 * 5 * 3 = 240Channeling 12 = 21 * 5 * 3 = 315Channeling 16 = 27 * 5 * 3 = 405Alternatively swap the number of attacks and number of targets so it spreads the damage out to 5 enemies as opposed to 3. That might be a more enjoyable nerf. Still an S tier skill to run, but not as retarded. But there's really no point in talking about nerfing splinter weapon any further until anet does something about GDW. You cannot fix PvE weapon spells until this skill gets nerfed or deleted, or turned into an elite skill. If you asked me to pick a single skill in the entire game capable of carrying an entire party through an area, it would be this one. With a high enough SP you can maintain this on the entire party, it works on all weapon types (including casters) and coordinated enough you can perma KD an entire group of enemies down.
Looking for feedback on this, made a more modern version of the paraway team just without the TaO ranger, HR para seems way funnier. This build abuses a lot of the new para buffs, improvements to hero AI, and some other ideas I had laying around.HR should be super easy to maintain and will super charge my skills especially spear attacks. At 20 leadership "There's Nothing to Fear" can almost be maintained 24/7 for free damage 35% damage reduction, additionally "They're on Fire" also reduces damage by 45%, SY should also be extremely easy to maintain for extra 100 armor. The 2 command para's are pretty straight forward, Anthem of Fury feeds +5 adrenaline and fuels all the para attacks, the 2nd command para is abusing Flesh Wound which has a 2 second cooldown and full clears all condi's on an ally. I haven't decided if I want to keep Bladeturn Refrain or not, but it's too funny to not run it. The 2 motivation para's at 18 motivation can maintain Finale of Resto on entire party 24/7 (which heals for 87 every time a shout ends). Power is Yours + Energizing works as group BiP.This setup has my beloved elemental flame ele I keep trying to incorporate into teams. ele flame turns all water hexes into 5sec AoE burning and provides some decent support vs physicals. Not sure about this role, might replace later with curse necro I just think the extra burning is helping me more (to fuel the -45% damage reduction from They're on Fire). The objectively funnier option would be to replace this with a Angelic Bond burn para.7th slot is a prot monk using newly buffed Blessed Light, 20 prot magic goes kinda crazy with some skills. This is mostly a safety role and hex clearer. Might replace this with a mesmer (or the objectively funnier option a motivation para running Empathetic removal and remove hex).8th slot is highly condensed N/Rt SoS with melee blood support. This cannot be replaced by para sadly.Special thanks to Thunderous for theory crafting with me a week ago
>>2979625Consider this, or at least put it to the test.You have enough burning for ranged enemies with ele and 1-2 blazings can deal with keeping melee perma on fire.With how much damage mitigation the team has i dont think you need "stand your ground" its a nice bonus for the player para but i think it can be switched out for "find their weakness" which grants deep wound.Yes you will pop refrain/finales a bit less but i dont think it matters since "save your selves" and "go for the eyes" are gonna be popped as soon as available.Would be nice to somehow get access to cracked armor here as well tho i have to mull this over a bit more.Am a bit worried about the damage of the group because no TaO or EBSoH.
>>2980404I am retarded, Mark of Fury has cracked on it
>>2978802>>2979135I guess I will stick to Shortbows.I wanted a ready made Zealous bow and I liked how the Deldrimor Flatbow looked.
>>2980741just use a deldrimor flatbow as your pulling bowzealous is a meme now that +5sr is a thing
>>2980833I use both zealous and sr desu. Raw energy gain is so strong on ranger cause it was balanced around expertises discount and doesn't have much gain.
>>2980741flatbow is really good if you use Read the wind and/or Favorable winds, and of course against anything that doesn't move a lot (like enemy rangers or Ether seals etc)
>>2979625personally i would change the ele and the necro. i like the ele, though.with the necro i dislike order of pain because it brings the character down to casting this enchantment and do almost nothing else, i think the gain in damage is too small for that.my suggestion is pic related, which adds more "offensive defense", general versatility and much more cracked armor.on a side note, the monk might have very bad energy management even with the para support, if that's going to be a hero he'll spam protective spirit to no end.
>Game updates (Latest: September 1, 2026)
>>2982629>2weeks>Look inside>It's three
>>2980404I like that idea with hasty refrain on main, frees up 2 slots on heros. I'm not sure how I feel about Blazing Finale, I think with how much physical hate this team has (75% aegis up time for 50% block, 100% uptime on bladeturn which is 20% block, 50% uptime on swirling aura which is 50% block, and 90% uptime on blurred vision which makes phys miss) in addition to all other damage reductions on team I don't think the pulse adjacent burn will be worth it over something like Burning Refrain which I think will get better value in HM, both damage and mitigation. Maybe if I ran HR daggers instead... hmmmm shelving that idea.Yeah damage has me a bit concerned, I'm hoping HR + recent para buffs to spear attacks make it good enough to cover the lost damage. I wanted to fit EBSoH on this build, but without ST I'm pretty locked into the 3 PvE only skills (that and para heros are pretty shit at sitting in the EBSoH ward anyway)>>2981681In a team with 5 spears, that enchantment equates to roughly +100 DPS per second for 5 seconds para hero's tend to spike the players target so it can be absolutely brutal, on my ranger's TaO para team I've seen it instant gib enemies before. Totally worth it on any team with at least 3 fast hitting physicals.The additional cracked armor would be nice, I'm sorta tempted to drop Protective Spirit on my prot in favor of weaken armor. The problem with the mesmer build is shared burden doesn't do much for me in this team and it's adding more anti physical to a team already packed with anti physical, if I was going to put a mes on something like PI dom mes, hex eater vortex, or a VoR makes more sense to abuse HR and role compression big DPS. (20 fast cast PI is NO joke).
Any of you niggles want to join for any of these in normal mode? I'll be on for the next 4 hours
>>2979625#5's gonna be flat OOM all the time trying to run energizing finale. TPIY isn't gonna offset that when he's got so many cast time skills eating his adrenal gain. i don't think anthem of fury is going to do much for him either, because both tpiy and chorus leave him at -1 from being able to trigger it with an attack skill and he's going to be constantly interrupting his own autoattacks to cast.if you're worried about damage, consider bone fiends on the necro, something like thisconsider running one r/p with infuriating heat and slayer's spear, HR expertise can get it down to 2 energy which is pretty retarded
>>2983072It's been a hot minute since I've played with para hero AI I see they changed how they cast Energizing finale and it went from being fine to utter shit. I have a similar build to this on my TaO ranger team I don't remember it having issues with DPS/casting attack skills but I'll give it a whirl later this weekend and let you know. I might just need to swap it for energy spear skills. Appreciate the feedback, might swap out energizing finale depending on results.I actually am super nervous about the necro role, this team doesn't have much directed healing and with necro constantly saccing his HP for orders + 6/8 team members being above 80 armor but not the necro make this role super likely to get a lot of aggro. I think the necro role is about as role compressed as it can get. In previous teams I would split the role in 2 - an SoS resto rit, and a blood magic necro support.
>>2983294my experience with EF was poor before the change, i haven't tried it since. if the conditions on the wiki page are true, that's pretty fucking fussy.yeah as i was putting the bar together i was looking at the sacrifice percentages and thinking it might be an adventure. OoU's probably a step too far, maybe drop it for dark bond. bone fiends are probably the best single dps skill in the game though and HR makes them pretty easy to run.
>>2983480Imo this is too many short recharge skills that are gonna be conflicting priority for the hero. Splinter, order, dark fury, and minions is a lot of stuff with 5s
>>2983294>>2983072Went and did an easy low intensity test of the motivation paragon on my TaO ranger's para team and VQ'd like half of resplendent makuun in HM to work on some cartography. Lots of esurge Ether's and ruby fire djinn so enough stuff to pressure the healers.Top para DPS was my command Anthem of Fury para doing 11.0k damage (16.3%), lowest DPS was motivation "The Power Is Yours" doing 6.35k damage (9.4%). The motivation paragon did indeed cast Energizing finale off cooldown. Interestingly, he had a lot of restraint in the usage of Chorus of Resto + "The Power Is Yours" he still used adrena skills fairly commonly. Energy was never a problem, between chants and power is yours he rarely dropped below 10.However this does reignite some of my concerns about DPS without TaO/EBSoH boosting the physicals. I might need to swap my ele for a curse necro after all, sad. But on the brightside I can just put SR on monk and drop energizing finale from my para.
>>2985425Updated my team build dropped ele (big sad) for curse necro.>>2983642I'm actually inclined to agree with this, decided to split Dark Fury and Order of Pain onto 2 necrosDropped Energizing Finale on my para 5 for burning finale since ele is gone. Paras shouldn't have energy problems, nor the necros so I don't think energizing is needed.Going to put +5 SR on my monk for energy safety but HR'd power drain should be enough, dropped prot spirit since I don't think I'll get great value out of it.
>>2985685Another thing to potentially consider would be a signet of illusion mesmer for all the curses+blood spells. Could bring a few rupts too.
>>2985703Illusion has mostly anti melee skills which I don't need, arcane conundrum would be nice to bring but probably not worth dropping 20 curse magic PoD + e management of a necro. There are some potentially interesting dom skills. If this was pre reforged balance patch, or not in an HR team I'd be more inclined to agree I think. If you've got an interesting idea I'd be happy to consider it though this was the best I could come up with. Still makes me kinda nervous cause it's pretty energy hungry bar even though Arcane + Drain should do the heavy lifting for e management. Shelving the idea for later because I think PoD + weaken armor + SR will be more stable than this.(side note did you know Power Drain gives you 41 energy at 20 inspiration magic? Holy shit)
>>2982629They're done with skill updates for the rest of the year. Look for gaps in GW2's current roadmap to see when 2weeks might drop new content.
>>2986301why? none of the gw1 people work on gw2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33klPWo8faint watched this yet but might have something good in it
>>2986821>This video isn't available anymore
>>2986827https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33klPWo8fYQ
if my mostly tryhard team is >Para main>3mes lmao>bip>ST>2ele (lightning or 1lit1fire depending on how i feel)if im not running something hard then ill leave out the ST and run 3 ele or a MMany of these worth swapping out for a P hero?
>>2987156Sometimes I'll bring along Morgahn as a speed boost bitch
>>2987199My lightning Eles are /P for that purpose partly.
>>2987156i like having a command hero while playing melee. also they will put bladeturn on the whole team.
>>2987156IMO drop an ele for this unless you're running cons. The SyG can be replaced with something else if you're using Save Yourself.
i am a firm believer in droprate fuckery.i vanquished a lot with my main char and got 0-2 golds per area, favor or not. recently i switched to another character i haven't really played with in years, and suddenly i get 4-6 golds per area (with a group of 8) and even glacial blades from a locked chest, lol
WE PROGGIN IN 30 MINUTES
>>2962683Forgot to post today's builds
>>2988888hey 5 digits niceSkills for next week. This week we did a tiny bit of treasure hunting and beat Ruins of Morah and the Gate of Pain.Next week we finish the prog and beat abaddon. We will be doing DoA and FoW as part of our post prog activities, and we might do a tiny bit of extra treasure hunting too
Stupidly bought codes I can't useReforged Upgrade:1HH2F-DB83Q-1LP2M-2GLHC-JP4RMXunlai Panel:9223F-LKB28-GQ3C7-6N8L8-CH2GPGo nuts
>>2989499thx for the panel
dropped p2weeks waiting for wow forever
>>2989499grabbed the reforged upgrade one, thanks manwere you were full on storage?
>>2989538>>2989880Yeah I thought I had room for two more panels but actually only had room for one, which is probably why I couldn't use the re-upgrade. Then I bought two panels back to back without thinking to check.Glad they're not going to waste in any case
>lyric of zeal on the 'gon>give everyone a signetyup im a genius
I think I only like playing melee.
>>2991528All enemies having an inherent speed boost in hard mode is such bullshit when you're a melee.
>>2991556That's what shared burden on a hero plus deaths charge or drunken master is for. Or the daily cons now
>>2991556Making Churning Earth a blast
bringing a mesmer with panic to the secret lair of the snowmen is the funniest shit ever.on a side note, i've had a really high droprate for elite tomes from the chests there. like 4 elite tomes out of 7 runs or so in HM.
>>2991528Melee is more interesting than the majority of ranged builds in this game.
Why do Ritualists think it is okay to walk around with exposed womb tattoos? Is there some hidden lore surrounding this?
Nice environmental buff, Drought. It would sure be a shame if I used THAT.
Is a large energy pool of any use on warrior?
>>2999006On a hammer build? Not really, auspicious blow is crazy e management for warrior. If you had gotten a sword or axe with those mods it might be different. Also a reminder this weeks nick item is 5 elonian leather squares per gift, free money.
>>2999006if it was a bow mod I'd use it on my Flourish bow warrior to get some more expensive bow attacks into the combo
Fendi is up in a few days and it got me thinking:1) how far have some skills come (read: power creep)2) why does the game hate melee so much
>>3001249Melee does the most damage, so it has a lot of counterplay. I didn't think it's appropriately balanced though. Blind is overly punishing and snares are a little too effective on players and not effective enough on enemies
I was playing my Dervish yesterday to knock out some missions for Zcoins and I forgot how smooth brained this class is to play with a teardown build. Yet it blows enemies up while my Ele requires significantly more micro to do subpar damage.
>>3001937I'm that way with daggers. I like just slamming 123.
I recently got a good amount of arms from selling a rare item that I luckily got. I've never had this much "wealth" in the game before despite having played it for thousands of hours. I bought another obsidian armor that I was sure I would not be able to afford without extensive farming, then got myself a few tormented weapons. That's it, though. It kind of feels like cheating, in a way, and 'earning'* stuff in this way doesn't really feel fulfilling either. It feels like when you don't have the opportunity to just buy stuff then you crave it, but when you have endless opportunities nothing seems worthwhile.Anyway, I'm writing this because it really makes me think about my real life outside of the computer and my relation to money and making money.
>>3001937Crazy how prot monks have to play out of their minds just to barely get by difficult encounters, meanwhile you can play ST while doomscrolling on your phone and still outperform prot monks.
>>3002090The plus side is you never have to worry about haggling to save 1e on a one time purchase. Just take the listed sale price and save your time
>>3002276E/Mo is pretty much the same as ST though.
>>3002090I’ve never grinded for a big ticket item, always relied on finding a rare item to get a windfall
>>3002287Bonders at least have to spam skills to keep their energy up and have to monitor the party to make sure bonds aren't getting stripped. ST rits just keep their spirits up and maybe place them in such a way that they can body block enemies.
I am in need of someone to run me from LA to Thunderhead keep if anybody seeing this wants to do it later this week, willing to pay 10e
>>3003142With moladune for infusion or no?
>>3003276it'd be nice to grab the outpost on the way if possible but I can infuse myself
>>3002090yeah it's kinda gay being gw rich. that's why people play ironmanthere's always more stuff to spend real money on though, and being broke in gw is fun while being broke in real life can kill you. just don't forget to live your life
>>3002090Time to grind the Zaishen title
Just got this as a drop. Would this be worth anything? I don't think there are a lot of plants in the game so it seems kinda pointless.
>>3004868honestly not sure, there are a few plant farms in the game but I'm pretty sure most of those farms use +earth AR shields, it might have value for stuff like SC urgoz too but this item is so niche it's going to be hard to sell.This is probably a guild wars legacy item, I'd estimate worth somewhere around 20e+.
>>3005105I ended up asking for a PC on the legacy forums. Thanks for the estimate!
Guys>trying to pursue GWAMM>got all 7 protector/guardian titles>got all 4 vanquisher titles>got all 4 cartographer titles>got all 4 skill hunter titles>maxed out sunspear + lightbringer ranks>maxed out all 4 eotn race reputations>maxed out master of the north>maxed out survivor>only at 27 titlesSo what do I do now? I need some kind of get-rich-quick scheme to make at least 7000 plat. 2000 for the drunkard title and 5000 for treasure hunter.
>>2987156I like replacing the bip necro with a 'the power is yours' motivation paragon. Much more tanky, you can sacrifice half the extra tankiness for extra energy generation with aggressive refrain, and he doesn't kill himself every time he goes a little too hard with his well/bip.
>>3005146Farm money and wait until an event for cheaper party/sweet/drunk points
>>3005146Buy alcohol and sweets for 2e/250 points. Party title can be made cheap by buying Frosty Tonics for I think 1-2 e/stack and they even give 2 points per tonic. Only downside to this is you have to use an autoclicker to double click every 5.05 or so seconds because these tonics have a cool down. Then it takes like 20 min per stack to consume.That's the easiest and cheapest way unfortunately. My suggestion is farm something, I did mostly vaettirs and ettins, then make money through selling weapon upgrades mostly (little by little but people buy them consistently).
who's ready for todays update?
>>3005146Alc sweets and party titles. Buy stacks in kama ae 1 for like 1-2e. If you need money, get alts set up enough to do the easy zaishen stuff and turn in those on bonus weeks. Sell the gold zcoins
>suggest ooze pits in party search>someone shows up>turn on HM, think it'll be fine since I've done it with heroes before and it's 2 players now>go there>do first camp, guy stands there>think maybe he's a slow loader, and he hasn't loaded in yet>several rooms in, he's grayed out>walk back, he hasn't moved after spawning in>"Hey, you there?">"Yes, why?">take a moment to realize>"You're doing survivor title?">"Yes.">"Oh, I see.">"You need help?">"I was expecting to do the dungeon together, not give out a free carry.">"you need help, your heroes are bad">he leavesWhen partying up to do something like a ZB or a ZV together, are free carries a baseline expectation? Do I have to point out, verbally, every time, that it is NOT a free carry?Because if I was good enough to just carry people through everything, I would NOT do it for free.
>>3005545Lol nah that doesn't sound natural at all.
>>3005545Do people just not realize GoM exp farm exists
>>3005593I didn't know that either. I just got my survivor title today by running FoW NM 12 times and then turning in all my story books. But aside from that, partying up and doing anything hard mode when you're trying to do the survivor title sounds crazy to me.
>>3005146Time to grind your balls off capping skellingtons for the Halloween event.
>>3005613>But aside from that, partying up and doing anything hard mode when you're trying to do the survivor title sounds crazy to me.It is, I don't know what that guy was expecting.
>>3005545Sometimes you just meet a retard. It happens.
What is the name of the /vm/ guild?
>>3005804And is the guild kurzick or luxon?
Just checking if we're gonna be doing Fendi later to see if I should grab the zb?No biggie if not.
>>3005804FUN>>3005809Luxon
>>3005825Is there a kurzick one?
>>3005830nah dude
>>3005837Bummer, TY for letting me know
>>3005861Based Kurzick bro
>>3005414I'm expecting the lockpick and the infinite birds eye compass mtx
>>3006229I’m willing to give them money just to keep this game alive
>>3006262Unfortunately I am too, even if I fundamentally hate these business practices
>>3006229Fuck, lockpick might actually get me>>3006281Same. I haven't given them a dime in over a decade and get that they need to make money somehow but I think this is just going to turn off new players.
>>3006229Someone on plebbit showed an e-mail they got about the infinite Stalker Ration/Bird's Eye Compass.I was trying the Ration a couple days ago and I wasn't impressed. BEC seems useful though.
>>3006262I'd rather buy storage panes than overpowered items, although I guess there's a limit to how many you can buy.
I just wish you could buy these new items with gold like in GW2, even if it's a ridiculous amount of gold.
>>3006296No more wall scraping is a blessing. This isn't "skill" just a chore.
>>3006291new players don’t need this shit, veterans need the qol improvements
>>3006296titles are gay
>>3006334If you don't scrape you didn't beat the meat
>>3006356Yeah but just seeing that this kinda shit is being sold for real money turns people off.
>>3006325I think they should be gzcoins. They need more things propping up the value
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260930
>>3006521>$10
>>3006571I might not buy this desu. Compasses drop decently often and buying a stack is enough for more than one gwamm.
>If you have purchased the Merchant Summoning Item 'Purveyor's Bell' account upgrade, the Purveyor will hold onto your daily Reforged Coins for up to three daysJesus Christ, they needed to make the p2w part easier.
>>3006571less than a single big mac
For any of you who have gotten GWAMM on Monk, I salute you. I feel like I'm sitting in the cuck chair when any decently built hero can do my job infinitely better than I can.
>>3006700Alesia can do your job
>>3006700It's a lot of RoJ and empty palm
At this point it would be great if they could add the purveyor as a guild hall merchant that can be bought
Y'all missed out on your free vanquishes with the bugged build that was released earlier today.
>>3006836I'm using Wage of the Ntouka!
>>3005545that guy's retarded in like 5 different ways. should've flagged your mm by him and sacced it to death
>>3006571hard pass
>>3005146Halloween is coming up which is a great festival for both making money and getting party/sweet/drunk. It's one of the most profitable festival events to play during. I'd also strongly recommend you work toward Lucky/Unlucky the next time shing jea boardwalk comes up. They are easy afk account bound titles just remember to login during the festival.Another potential afk title is max Luxon rank, you just have to set it up and from passively gain lux faction and every 24 hours or so you dump your 40k and go back to the mission. >>3005593>>3005613Eternal Mobstoppers are the ultimate free survivor title accept no substituteshttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Every_Bit_Helps#Notes>>3005861There's basically no downside to being in a luxon guild while primarily being kurzick rank. The ONLY difference is you can't donate kurzick faction to the alliance which can be annoying for people min max kurzick title. If this is the only reason I don't mind having an alt set up a kurz guild for you to dump faction in and bounce back and forth.Our primary guild tag is either [Baww] or [FUN]>>3006571>>3006613>>3006955Compass/Stalker rations sell for 5-10e per STACK. That's enough to GWAMM 2 characters and the ingame price will likely go even lower now. I am actually totally ok with this being added to store (even though I would rather it be a gzcoin thing).The lockpick will be what pisses me off.
How do I avoid getting ripped off when I sell stuff in kamadan?
>>3007318price check with https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/
>>3007318Have an autistic knowledge of the ingame economy from 2008 onward and be aware of seasonal trendsAlternatively just put your item in herehttps://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/If you ever have any questions you can always post in alliance chat or on thread and one of the many autistic /biz/ anons can give you a rough estimate. GW legacy for the more niche items.
>>3007327>https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/TY
>>3007318Don't sell to Osiris Incarna
>>3007317>The lockpick will be what pisses me off.Depends on how the lockpick is implemented. If it lets you pick locks for no gold cost, that would be a mistake, since lockpicks are one of the game's bigger gold sinks. If it's just an infinite-use pick that charges an appropriate amount per use (with a chance to pay nothing), then that would be great, since getting partway through a dungeon only to realize that you only brought 4 picks sucks.
>>3007450Anything below 800g for lockpick usage will be very bad. If the price to use it is above 800g per usage (1k is probably the sweet spot) I'll have no problems with it, I was originally more optimistic they wouldn't fuck this up but after watching them give pre-searing infinite salvage kits my estimation on how careful they are considering things has gone down.also I forgot to include this image on this post >>3007332
>>3007504The smart play would be 1200g, the same cost that someone whose Alliance owns an outpost would pay at their discounted merchants.
>>3007450How about 1 skill point per lockpock use
>>3007693That'd be nice but abusable, they'd have to patch the infinite EXP at GoM mission. imo the best possible worthless ingame rare item they could add is infinite summon stones that cost 1 skill point to use. Make them rare dungeon drops or make them rewards for new content in the game. Stuff like tengu flares is a step too far, but something like infinite devourer summon, infinite snowman summon etc... would be a nice rare item to add to game.
>>3007768that infinite xp shit should have been patched decades ago
>>3007504It should be 1250g per "break" and just use your normal retention rate. 1200g kills one of the main benefits of holding an outpost and therefore AB.
>>3007972Alliances that hold towns get those towns running alts and bots in pvp if it fucked them over I wouldn't care really every member of alliances with over 50mil faction should get perma banned they all do it
>>3008089Actually wait yeah fuck them
DAY IS NEVER FINISHEDMASTER'S GOT ME WORKINSOMEDAY MASTER SET ME FREE
How long does it usually take for toolbox to get fixed after a patch?
Y'all seen what the utopia looking shit dataminers found in this patch? I don't want to get my hopes up but holy fuck
>>3009426I seen they found some new maps did they find more?
>>3009521Character models that match Utopia concept art, and music that sounds exactly like what you'd assume a mesoamerican themed guild wars expac would sound like. It's all in the gwtoolbox discord
>>3009426Infinite lockpick?
>>3009426we are so back
>>3009426Maybe we'll get a few more dungeons, but I wouldn't get your hopes up for a new expansion.
>new update is just p2wI came here to laugh at you
>>3009891This poster is a CHAR
>>3010275Kill all Charr
>>3009891it’s pay for quality of life improvement,nigga
>>3010275>>3010303CHAR and ROAST the CHARR
>Storage panes on sale for $2.40Why am I so bad at inventory management?
>>3010347once the infinite lockpick hits the market most weapon mods should lose all value
>>3010399Oh yeah? Does this lockpick give me magically good RNG that makes mesmer wand wraps drop 60% of the time?
>>3010415>mesmerFuck, I mean Necro
>>3010415I said most mods not all, nigga
>>3010399I'd be shocked if the Infinite Lockpick didn't have a per-use gold cost that was more or less on par with buying regular keys/lockpicks.Not THAT shocked, mind you, because they didn't make the Infinite Salvage/ID kits have a token cost of a couple gold, but Salvage/ID was never meant to actually impact the economy like keys and lockpicks were.
>>3010451If you have enough alts, the commendations/kournan coins/inscribed secrets/whatever you get from questing will subsidize a shit ton of ID kits and salvage kits.
>>3010320lol
>>3010347It's the least fun part of this game. It's not as bad as GW2 at least but still
>>3010347Because this game doesn't have an auction house
>>3010451it’s going to suck if I always gotta carry gold to use it
>release new mtx>put it on sale a day laterDevilish
How long is the sale on for?
Imperial Sanctum Day is one of the few days my Ele feels useful.
Today is Imperial Sanctum daily mission. With the Zaishen Mission bonus, it's a great chance to easily get 300 copper coins per mission/character.I just did this on 8 characters in times of 1:20 - 1:50 in HM, all but one in first try. I took pic related as a general build, though the melees are interchangeable. I just like those builds as general melee DPS so i have them on at least on hero each on all my characters.The build is FAR from perfect (the necros have Angorodon's Gaze but no conditions lmao) but it works well enough to get through the mission quickly. i used heroes without any runes and insignias on some characters, still worked well. just bring Pain Inverter and Strength of Honor on your character if you have, or do a lot of damage, and you're good to goIf anybody wants the chat codes:>[1) W/D Unknown;OQojExVYqS9VXgcfVidauFcFCA]>[2) A/P Unknown;Owlj0pjrpOGwHmOeAq/sw1YBA]>[3) N/Me Unknown;OAVDILxmRqQGCDNaANiVVdCCA]>[4) N/E Unknown;OAZDQmtHT5B7BlBdCNiVVIDCA]>[5) Mo/E Unknown;OwYT04HC1JuiM+I/OJSFZjoTA]>[6) Mo/Me Unknown;OwUTA13O0ZMuSgBQhlf9QLqTA]>[7) Rt/N Unknown;OASjQogLpOYzHn1DaSNNEdiLG]
>>3011010Based, TY
Sweet
I-is Toolbox back yet?
>>3012234yes :D
>>3012234Lolno
>>3009426>>3009577Would appreciate if someone could post some images related to the new assets onto thread for others to look at.
>>3012531trust me bro
>>3012531ENTER
>>3012572From this
>>3012572What is that... thing?
>>3012586That's Utopia concept art.
>>3012586He's literally me bro
My honest reaction
This Zmission has reminded me about how many of my characters haven't even beaten Raisu Palace. The days before you could bring 7 heroes were rough, man.
>>3012632I've tried to get most of my characters to have factions, nf, and eotn done just for zmissions. I'm 5/8 right now but I've lost interest on the other three professions
>>3012742Whenever I remember how much of a ballache everything after Vabbi is in Nightfall, I lose motivation to finish out the campaign. Meta hero comps and normal mode make it more tolerable, but still.
>>3010399I don't see why.
>>3012785I assume he's operating under the assumption that the infinite lockpick will just let you open chests for free,
>>3011933Very nice
>>3012801Even if that were the case that wouldn't change anything since lockpicks already are the only gold sink if you decked out yourself and your heroes. The problem is what you get from chests (purple grim siesta)
>>3012572>>3012599>>3012605It's not actually happening, right? They're just scavenging old Utopia assets for a new mini dungeon or something. That's all.Also is anybody else getting the captcha telling them to verify their e-mail or wait a minute before posting?
>>3013000>Also is anybody else getting the captcha telling them to verify their e-mail or wait a minute before posting?This is how you know the site is doing well, chud.
>>3013000My desktop randomly got hit with the fake ip range ban so now I'm posting from my phone
>>3013166Restarting the modem solves that problem
Mesmer here. I might be fucked for prog tomorrow. My main computer is acting like no hard drive is installed and telling me to select a proper boot device. I've used this SSD for 10 years and haven't had any weird problems. Computer worked fine for me last night before I went to bed.Any ideas? This fucking sucks.
>>3013566>computer is acting like no hard drive is installed and telling me to select a proper boot device>I've used this SSD for 10 yearsFearing the worst.But do go into the bios and check if the board even sees the ssd.
>>3013588Yeah I did that. The SSD is still recognized. I also double-checked the wires internally to make sure they weren't loose for whatever reason.
>>3013604Best thing you could do if you have a spare pc is to get that ssd into a spare pc and run some diagnostic tool to check on the wear of the ssd.I'm going to assume you checked the boot order/priority, idk why it would change all of a sudden but ye.
>>3013533>More skins for an underpowered attributeWhat's next, more primary linked staves? Life is a prison.
>>3013619I'll see about doing that. I'm on a spare prebuilt ATM that I inherited from a relative. I considered running a bootable USB drive and maybe trying to repair using the Windows installation tool.I'm so confused too why it would change in the middle of the night when I'm sleeping.
>>3013604>>3013647All me btw
>>3013566I've had SSDs randomly die on me, unfortunately.RIP
>always enjoyed playing my main>had a stupid cringe name because I created him when I was like 16>bought a name change because it was on saleI'm finally free
>>3013750Haha I loved animorphs
>>3013750RIP Biggus Dickus
>>3010959pls rspd
>>3013566you don’t got some old ass laptop to play a game from 2005 come on
>>3011010im retarded can I do this build hard mode heroes with just basic /bonus gear or amI stuck normal mode
>>3014179What's your primary? If you follow any amount of strategy listed here the mission is pretty easyhttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Imperial_Sanctum/GuideAny amount of anti melee hexes - especially Empathy absolutely hard carries the entire encounter. Or bringing stance removal to end battle scars/riposting shadows.Same thing bringing blocking (like ST with displacement) and running Shadowsong can make him utterly impotent. Shiro's only difficult if you go into it with 0 plan.
>>3014179If you can get Shiro to attack a spirit wall when he has Impossible Odds up, slap Pain Inverter or Spiteful Spirit on him and watch him instantly kill himself.
>>3014179i posted the build, it worked for me this way. on one char i had anton even have his stock daggers, which only have 10^50 bonus.you only have to deal a good amount of dmg with you main char, or have to have at least pain inverter in your skill bar. at best you can support the melee heroes with Strength Of Honor as a primary or secondary monk
>>3014179Go any/Me. Wastrels worry puts in serious work on shiro cause of the natural resistances cutting the duration to 1s. That plus empathy and pain inverter carry a lot of the fight
Membah when Empathy didn't lower damage output?
>>3014497'member when Mesmers weren't the end-all-be-all for DPS and everyone just transformed into a bear?
>>3014513I hate both periods but Ursanway was retarded full stop. Mesmers aren't nearly as bad cause it's largely contained to heroes. I see more melee players than I do mesmers when doing zdailies
>>3014529Hero mesmers perform better than humans because of their omniscient interrupt skillz.
>>3014539They're faster but have worse decision making skills. The comp works because it loads the team with so many that you near guarantee the important skill gets rupted, amidst all the unimportant ones that also did. A balanced human comp wouldn't need that many rupts or mesmers.
>>3014539that’s why I only like interrupts that do damage no matter what because im too slow to time that shit
Today's ZM is another proof that despite the game being out for 50 years people still don't know what the objectives of the missions are nor what snares are.
>>3014701Some of the objectives are finnicky in that one, and the inherent HM speed boost for all mobs makes things extra annoying.
>>3014529Ursanway was the best thing ever. The only time in GW when you could do a DoA fullrun with brain dead literal retards and still have an easy time, I miss it. Here, have a 18 year old screenshot (I like my old screenshots) when I did it with my guild. Actually this is where the healer bar from >>3011010 comes from lol
>>3014785>Ursanway was the best thing ever
>>3014785I do a DoA fullrun with brain dead literal retards solo these days
>>3014701Moddok is weird in that you don't need to follow the first 3 suggestions. And all you need is deep freeze
>>3014794i'm sorry for hurting your feelings, i want to make it up by posting my rarest screenshot, 08/31/2008. there were dozens of international districts at HA, and i happened to be in the right one at the right time.
>>3014843First R12 or something?
>>3014912the player who is highlighted was just by accident, you have to check the target at the top.first rank 15 (100k fame), it was kind of a big deal at the time and everybody wanted to see what the emote would be.i think near the end people in the hall of heroes just let his (Starcraft Forever) team win for hours on end just so he could max the title finally.
>>3013624Don't worry about it, you're going to see a new era of power creep now that the community gave 2weeks the green light for new skills.
>>3014966>new skillsWeird way to misspell "pay2win features".
>>3014843>French powerJE SUIS MONTE
>>3013533>we want the gw2 audienceit's over for you niggers
>>3015150Anyone with a brain has known that since seeing the reforged announcement.
So I played this game back in the day on CD, eventually bought the trilogy when it came to steam and played a bit on a new account. Never could get my original back since it's on an email lost to time, but I decided to start playing again anyway. I always mained ele, was always a noob that never did anything but the campaigns. Got myself a rt/n at lvl 16 in factions now, getting a little raped on the mainland. Any tips? Was gonna try a channeling build since that seemed cool, but it seems like spirits is way better for what I'm doing right now.
>>3015194Welcome back, getting raped by factions NPC's is pretty normal. What part are you stuck at?And if I can recommend something you should use the casters/ranged henchmen. The melee henchmen aren't great.If you haven't already you should go north to kaineng center and get max armor the difference between 40 and 60 armor is pretty huge (and god forbid you aren't still using starter armor).As always you're welcome to join the guild just post IGN onto thread. Can be helpful for tips and quick questions.
>>3015194If you have the old CD product keys you can probably get your og account back, but a very high chance that it's been hacked and stripped of cake, with potentially deleted characters. >at lvl 16 in factions now, getting a little raped on the mainland. Sounds about right. Do a bunch of the quests around kaineng center, the market place, wajjun, bukdek, the undercity. You can hit level 20 pretty easily with minimal combat and if you turn the imperial commendations into superior salvage kits and vendor those, you can get the cash to buy the armor in kaineng center. Take but don't do the quest "seek out brother tosai" to make a bunch of enemies in wajjun passive. I'd also say do at most only one of "the drunken master" or "the addicted guard" since you want one for easy vanquishes.
>>3015215>If you have the old CD product keys you can probably get your og account backNah unfortunately I do not. I remember the email but have long lost access to it. I tried to email anet about it years and years ago but no dice. It is what it is, I remember so little about the game that starting fresh is what I would do regardless. Sucks to have no skills unlocked but whatever I got to kaineng last I played and picked up a bunch of quests so I'll do that. I could get max armor but my autism wants me to get the imperial set since I like the way it looks the most of non-prestige stuff. Need to farm bones...
>>3015240>my autismWelcome, you're in the right place
>>3015240Bones are relatively common given the afflicted drops, at least. Putrid cysts and pulsating growths and augmented flesh all salvage into them (or dust which sells for a nice amount). Plagueborn armor doesn't though. Salvaging things that have iron is also decent money
>Do Tahnakai Temple mission>Everything runs smoothly>somehow Togo dies to Vizu for no reason at all right at the end, Vizu was at 5% hp (I just wanted to open a chest in the middle)>Second run>Everything runs smoothly until ALL of my heroes randomly decide to ball in one place at the ele boss, everyone dies>Third run, decide to use a conset because I've had enough>Everything goes well, done in 13 min>Except>Koss racked up -60% DP>For no fucking reason at all>He didn't even die in the runs before, only at the group wipe>Only one other hero died once, Koss died over and over again IN THIS SINGLE RUN>It wasn't even HMI swear that this is the most random ass mission in the game, or has become so because the temple guardians have been buffed to no end
>>3015534The Double Dragon buff makes the temple guardians and the basic bitch Jade Brotherhood guys really scary.
>>3015534>>3015562For me its the warrior boss room, and the rit boss room. You get choke pointed really badly there and the afflicted elementalists can just destroy your team, especially if they directly hit your ST spirits.
>>3015627Not to mention the fucking Monks dropping the Hammer of Dawn on you out of nowhere.
>>3013566make backups in the future if you care about your shitalso gw will run on a potato
>>3015534Using a warrior hero is self-handicapping.
what are actually fun ele builds to play?so far i've found playable>air magic, focus on dealing dmg to 1-3 targets>fire magic, just hope you meet groups of 5++ enemies to nuke them>water magic, snare enemies but it's only fun/useful when the enemies are balling>earth magic, support with wards, blindness, knockdown, but don't really deal damagethe problem is that all of them are subpar in damage when i compare them to a single melee class with strength of honor + judge's insight from a support hero. the enemies have too much armor (especially in HM) to really deal a lot of dmg, even with cracked armor, and casting times and cooldowns often feel super long. even playing a smite monk with RoJ feels better because that damage is armor ignoring.i also understand ele couldn't simply be buffed because the scaling with HM is absurd for enemies, when enemies will just put out quadruple or more of the damage of a single skill as compared to an ele with 14++ magic in the same attribute. the primary attribute doesn't help either, if you have good energy management then it feels pointless, and necro is way superior for energy management as a primary class.
>>3015240PROG IN 30 MINUTES
>>3017188didn't mean to reply to someone with this post oops.>>2989103Builds for today
>>3017176>enemies have too much armor (especially in HM)Enemies do not have increased armor in HM and haven't for like 15 years
>>3017176For me, it's usually the cast times that annoy me. It's not hard for ele to do more than the 50-60 area damage that post nerf mesmer does. Rodgorts will do that much over a similarly nearby range at 18 fire (typical dual attunement build) on targets with 110ish armor, doing more on lower. Typically only rangers, destroyers, titans, and specific elementals will hit that high of elemental armor. Where the issue with ele sets in is that every spell has 4x the cast times as mesmer for the trade of having the larger energy pool and stronger energy management. But that energy management is in the form of attunements which have to be recast and can be stripped, while mesmer uses inspo and gets a rupt or strip out of it. And ele spells are balanced to be more expensive so it's moot anyways. Bringing BiP heroes further skews this. I agree that every element does feel like it's lacking something. Earth has good damage and area but mostly lacks recharge and cast time for example. All of it feels very intentionally designed which is great up until we started getting poorly thought out balance updates for other professions
ty 4 the prog brosforgot to run gw with -bmp I'm gonna kms
Total skeleton wizard death. They are the most bullshit enemy bar none.
>>3017268And here are next weeks skills.Today we totally and completely legit beat gate of madness with bonus after a long struggle and having to VQ the entire map to clear our DP. Abbadon was quite easy by comparison. Next week starts our post prog activities which will include DoA and FoWAs a sort of early retrospective for this prog I think if I ever run this idea again I should ban usage of the skill trainer, NF progs usually last about 3 months which is enough time to gain 20-30 skills to chose from + whatever you get from skill quests by end of it and I think that would have made more interesting outcomes for builds and more exciting rolls.
Later virgins
holy shit shaman insignias
>>3017843play melandru bro, don't let yourself be distracted by merchant practices
>>3017984cutting yourself out of the economy is anti semitic
>>3017176If you want damage, you either do an Assassin's Promise PvE skill spam build with a couple of elemental skills for filler damage/utility, or you do the Double Dragon beastmaster build so that you can be a Temu melee with an obnoxious amount of micro and has to deal with pet jank (I actually like this one though).Elementalist does have a stronger place in 4 man content, since you have strong energy management options whereas a Mesmer is more reliant on BiP support.
>>3018115AP blows. EA fire or invoke/tclap are both easily superior.
>>3017176hm is where most professions rely on pve skills to have a comfortable timerun double dragon or otl
lmao wouldn't it be funny if a giant boulder rolled through this tight corridor and wiped your party? Oh, everyone except you of course, so that you can get saddled with some death penalty.
>>3017176over the limit arcane echo ebon vanguard assassin support
>>3018801I hate how loud the boulders always are, it's hard to tell how far away it is and where exactly it's coming from.
>>3018489I can't find an OtL build I like
>>3018810That's just worse AP
>>3018893explain why
>>3018917Both elites are just there to enable spam of EVAS, the actual workhorse of the build. AP doesn't fuck your energy and doesn't take a pve skill or two if you want your energy to be usable.
>>3018925ap is influenced by enemy comp (hex removal, enough prot/healing to prevent timely death, bosses with no adds, etc) while otl gets you six assassins every fight without questionthe energy isn't that big of a deal with glyph of lesser energy and auspicious incantation
>>3018957OtL is vulnerable to enchant hate, which is more common than hex removal.
Only got 3 professions left. Which should I play? Ranger, Monk, or Ele?
>>3019112Ranger, it has a wide variety of builds that can fit any situation and has a lot of drastically different playstyles for those builds, easy to find something you enjoy.I would only play monk if you plan to use it with real players in the future.
>>3019112You have one profession that's always useful because of TaO, and the other two if you want to sit in the cuck chair and pretend like you're helping.
>>3019132what about 55hp monk?
>>3019362Extremely niche use. VoS derv and SoS rit are superior for nearly any solo farm. The main farm monks do is halcyon job, but courier and missing daughter do about the same
>>3019112ranger has been my favorite to play since the game came out
>>3019362Powercrept hard after Nightfall came out and everyone went to 600 monk, then eventually got powercrept by other classes.
>>3019418I don't like any of rangers armor sets if I'm being honest. It's a big part of why I don't like em
>>3019675for male characters get a long coat, for female characters make her slutty. its not rocket science.
>>3019806Female Elite Druid Armor is the only valid ranger armor
>>3019830What are your thoughts on Tahnnakai Temple?
>>3019844Traumatic memories from henchwaying it back when Factions was current. It's not so bad now, even in HM.
