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.>>2923450 Previous ThreadOur NF Prog is nearing it's conclusion, we are playing every Saturday at 9 AM EST, we are on post prog activities right now which means we'll be doing DoA + FoW in the coming weeks. Non prog members are welcome to show up if we have space and join us.Next week on October 18th Halloween festival starts. We'll be doing a UW run on both Oct 25th and Nov 1st, time is undecided but probably 2~ PM EST. More info to come next week.New items infinite stalker ration and birds eye compass bundle added to store for 10 USD https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260930Last major balance patch, see changes here https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20260826Useful 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
Maybe I should try a Ritualist.
>>3057122I think rit is kinda boring.
Game hates me
>>3057122rit is just a more boring ele and necro
>>3057122They're worth a try, but try not to limit yourself to ST and SoS as a player Rit or you'll get bored fast.
>>3060265Besides rit lord prot which is mostly the same as ST, and DwG bombing, what else is there? Spirit's strength?
what’s the least boring class?
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Feedback:Game_updates/20261013
what's next for the cash shop
>>3060703Sending money directly to Israel
>>3060546fookin rip
>>3060437Probably necro. Lots of viable playstyles.
>>3060356Wanderlust earthbind Ritualist. It's a niche build but really effective and funny against bosses like Dhuum, Kanaxai and Mallyx. It completely stunlocks them.
>>3061012Viable might be stretching it
>>3060546sheesh i thought this was an end of service announcement
>>3060437Mesmer
>>3060546i miss windows 7 so much its unreal
>>3060356three forge MM and xinrea prot (necro probably does it better)
>>3062838Same. Never knew we had it so good
>>3060437do you want build variety? ranger, ele, or necro. this comes at the cost of having only a few truly strong buildsdo you want to play in a way that rewards you for good positioning and understanding of enemy skill timings? melee, rupt bow, PI mesmerdo you want to be rewarded for playing build wars? mesmer
I'm bored, post your UI layout/customizations
I bought a rainbow phoenix for 15 gold zcoins because it’s pretty :)
>>3064082>stock UI>no toolbox>final destination>>3064205stolen valor
whats the chance we get something new for halloween?
>>3069316i would lose my shid if we got a new hat
Do any professions have a casting equivalent to like, TaO, ST, SS, 7WS(ish), Crit skills where they can shore up the issues with only being 12 in an secondary prof attribute? Like, Mesmers used to be good with fire magic because of fast casting, right? I've seen people say heroic refrain paragon offensive casting, but that sounds a bit too crazy? Maybe rits can do something with ghostly haste?
>>3070660Not nearly as common. The most you'll get is signet of illusions or symbolic celerity on mesmer, soul reaping being great energy management on its own, or the new over the limit being a sort of fast casting (at the expense of bad energy management).
>>3070660ST can't really do that to be fair, ST by itself doesn't do much but it requires you have your communing be as high as physically possible (which is why they use +3+1 for communing and only +3 for spawning). Technically you could drop your spawning to 9+3 but that's the absolute lowest you can go otherwise you severely impact your ability to perform ST duties.Agreeing with other anon, ESPECIALLY signet of illusions is the goto problem solver for wanting to do weird cross profession caster shit.Master of Magic ele is also a popular way, it works the exact same way as 7WS just only for ele attributes but it's more common to dump your spare attribs into ele stats incase it gets stripped.Dervish is probably the most meta example with Vow of Resolution dervish has a pretty compelling argument too because it has a lot of decent heal or support options.
WE'RE BACKwho running me through ruins of morah+ tomorrow
>>3071888>it works the exact same way as 7WSNot quite. MoM sets your attributes to those values, and 7WS increases attributes. MoM ignores runes, cons, and bonuses from skills like elemental lord or a mimicked ele attunement
>>3070726Darn. I guess that's some balancing thing? I hear spells are, on the whole, stronger than physical stuff, so they want to be more selective?How bad is the energy management with over the limit + soul ignition, actually? I hear that's the newest skill for the game by far, so I don't know how much testing it has gotten.>>3071888Interesting. Rit attributes seem to need a lot of delicate balancing. Like, it's the class I see the least 12, 12, 3 or whatever in.VoR seems so strong, but it looks really risky. It would always be the first to be stripped, right? I also wonder how Dervs felt when it was new since it's just a slightly different Lyssa's Aura.
>>3072936Its more the anniversary elites are NOT balanced at all. TAO, ST, 7WS all should never have been made.
>>3072777Neat, never knew 7WS was just adding to your attributes rather than setting it at a value. Thanks anet (why can't ele have that).>>3072936Rit has a lot more relevant attribute thresholds than most classes but ST especially, you don't necessarily NEED to have 16 communing 15 spawning power, but each point you drop out of either attribute potentially reduces the HP, level, armor, or increases the damage they take. The difference could be as small as Shelter only lasts 9 hits instead of 10 but in high pressure fights that extra bit can really help. HR boosted ST makes a massive difference in survivability. At 16 communing/15 spawning Shelter can activate 10 times. At 20 communing/19 spawning shelter can activate ~17 times. Almost double despite being boosted 4 attribute points.Also I realized you might have been talking about ST (Soul Taker) or ST (Shadow Theft) they're uncommon to see so when most people say ST they're referring to Soul Twisting which is a cornerstone meta build found in almost every hero team.Ritualist, Mesmer and Ranger have some of the most relevant attribute thresholds that min maxers pay heavy attention to. VoR getting stripped isn't a huge deal because dervish is a bullshit class that gets warrior 80 armor + caster +4 energy regen and then ontop of that gets discounted dervish enchants.
>>3072777>MoM ignores runes, cons, and bonuses from skills like elemental lord or a mimicked ele attunementcan't you cast mom then your ele lord/attuneheroes will fuck it up but for a human you just remember the order to reapply
>>3073079I was thinking about Soul Taker, but honestly, learning more about ST will be more helpful than me thinking about "who can be the best non-ele water trident spammer" or whatever I was thinking. I want to get all the skills on one character, so it would kinda fun for them to be able to almost sorta use them.Honestly, hearing about how stupidly strong HR is, even with just that ST example, I might just do that. A smooth first time through hard mode so I can learn the ins and outs wouldn't be so bad. I imagine it's a balancing act. The dumber my build is, the better my heroes need to be. If I want to run Teinai's Crystal/Ele Lord/Ele Attune with an of Ele staff Necro, my heroes will need to basically carry me. If I run an HR para, maybe I can get away with an oddball build here and there since my meta heroes are cracked.
>>3073292you can but that's really fucking annoying, especially considering the recharge of ele lord.
>>3073803Depends on what you want to do. I personally prefer running meta heroes and goofy player builds. Cause what good is it if my heroes are off meta when it means i'm stuck playing something boring as fuck like HR.
>>3073858I do kinda like the idea of being a leader, shouting orders, so I will give it a whirl at some point, but I imagine I'll enjoy something like focused anger or soldier's fury more. I hear that backline stuff is kinda annoying with hero AI, so I'm sure that won't help. (Unless HR is technically midline if you're not running a melee HR build?). Still, I think you're right. If I make my own bullshit, I want to play it.
>>3073886Running HR allows you to run fewer supports and bring another DPS without significantly sacrificing survivability, since you provide tons of mitigation and a bit of healing/energy management if you're running the motigon variant.
>>3073803HR is godly and you can use it to enable some truly retarded bullshit but I will warn that it is not very fun to playIf you want something easy to play that will make HM smooth I recommend SoS rit, bar is very flexible and can carry a team almost afk also provides good opportunity to escape from wipes or recover from near total wipe scenarios.If you want something more involved than that you could try Dervish, it's almost impossible to create a non meta dervish build and having a player melee to ball the enemies can really help when dealing with groups of enemies.If you want to play a caster and less afk than a ritualist, mesmer is the next best option large variety of very meta relevant builds and depending how well you know the class and your team setup you can easily hard carry teams. Good variety of builds both high intensity and low intensity.Honorable mention to HR para, but very few people actually enjoy playing HR para. Picture is my current HR para's team setup. Might replace blessed light with divert hexes soon or replace power drain for hex eater sig, haven't decided.
i play HR para by dual boxing with py4gw
>>3072936>I hear spells are, on the whole, stronger than physical stuffNot true at all.
>>3071888>>3072936>>3073079I wouldn't really put Vow of Resolution anywhere near the same level as skills like 7WS.Having a BiP Necro can give the same effect to your entire team including you, even a Motivation Paragon could provide enough energy regen to make it pointless. You will almost certainly have a better build using an elite skill from whatever caster class you are trying to larp as.>>3072936>>3074978Melee tends to be the higher damage but has to put up with so much bullshit anti melee hate it can feel like Spell classes are stronger plus most spells tend to be ranged giving it another advantage.
>>3075245>but has to put up with so much bullshit anti melee hateNot when ascan and iau exist. The only thing that fucks you are hex based slows and those get countered by shadowsteps or are fuel for shatter hex. Melee also has crazy strong support with splinter, SoH, the various necro spells.
>>3075280Getting a hero to use hex removals feels like the hardest thing in the game.
>>3075291Idk I've genuinely never had an issue with this. Granted I run 3 dom mesmers and usually one illusion so there's a lot of rupts and arcane conundrum limiting the amount of hexes. Obviously it gets retarded when there's like 3 mesmers in one pack and they instantly start to reapply what you remove. But if areas have that many hexes, HEV is a better choice than esurge. Idk it's just not been a pain point for me
>>3075291It depends on the hex removal spell. Something I've noticed while observing hero AI is several hex removal skills have different conditions for when NPCs activate them and who they prioritize.
is the prog still a thing tomorrow? I haven’t been paying attention
>>3075819yep prog tomorrow at 9 AM EST like usual we doing DoAnon prog people are welcome to show up and attend if we're short on people.
>>3073850they're both like 60 seconds. when mom is about to drop you reup bothnow arcane mimicking shit, that's annoying
Has anyone tried to pure henchway the campaigns recently? They buffed the henchies at some point, right?
>>3077342Only proph ones iirc.
>>3076423wtf are my skill rolls
>>3077764Was on last thread so I'll repost here
I'm gonna buy the paragon nipple armorwhy does the warrior version of every set look sick and every other profession looks mid
>>3078166Gladiator armor is mega gay
>>3078166Norn is pretty consistently good on most professions. Base kurzick is pretty good on most too. Warrior has the worst of shing jea and ascalon sets.
>>3077342The buffed the Prophecies henchmen. Factions and Nightfall henchmen have always been good.
>>3078483I'm a big fan of ancient armor, but norn armor is also excellent taste.Also NF prog in 1 hour
log in for DoA, Elonians and friends
>>3075819What is prog?
>>3079195We play through the campaigns like we're new players (new character, no banks, use only what is available in the campaign, etc.).We just finished Nightfall and are doing DoA with our prog characters.
>>3073079>Neat, never knew 7WS was just adding to your attributes rather than setting it at a value. Thanks anet (why can't ele have that).Fucking imagine a HM ele boss MoM +spare points for 22 fire and dropping Rodgort's + liquid flame combo.
>>3078080Skill rolls for next weeks session (somehow Duckroll got the same elite 2 weeks in a row, mesmer is cursed)Todays prog was pretty short we were missing people and were unable to get through stygian or city. Next week depending on turnout we might try FoW >>3079195Our /vm/ guild runs a weekly campaign progression where we go through campaigns as a group ironman and play the campaigns as they were intended to be played. Often times we do it with a theme for the run to keep things interesting this prog the theme has been every week I roll dice to randomly pick 2 skills for your bar. In previous progs we've done stuff like 50/50 where you need to split your bar between primary and secondary skills, assassin only prog etc... our next prog will likely be a Prophecies prog starting in January~ ish.>>3079295You silly goose, HM eles already have 20 fire magic. It would be 36 fire magic rodgorts + liquid flame combo.
>>3079195https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGE9Gi0bB0
>>3079310I thought attributes capped out at 20 no matter what?
>>3079581Yeah it caps at 20 (though you can technically hit 21 if you use a Of Master 20% +1 attrib mod)
Which is less boring to play, ritualist, necro, or assassin?
>>3077342>>3078977They buffed henchmen in the other campaigns as well in 2009.
>>3080940They are fun or boring as you make them.
>>3080940I'd say necro>rit>sin unless you really want melee>sinwith daggers there's like 1 top tier build and it's uninteractive, and then you can play melee from other classes with critspretty boring imo>rita lot of options, but many involve setting up spirits and sitting around. lets you prot, heal, melee, caster damage, summon damage, etc.>necrokinda comparable variety to rit, I'd say the most actively interesting builds (healing aside). you can also use your secondary more easily because soul reaping is good
>>3080940melee is just more interesting to play. rit and necro do have melee gimmicks however.
>>3081847and sin is the least interesting melee class
New-ish to sin. I know I shouldn't use an IAS skill w/ WotA, what should I swap critical agility for?
>>3083495Depends what you value more. Damage or survivability. If damage then run Asuran Scan because you are not going to get bogged down by blocking nor blind if survivability run I Am Unstopable makes you immune to kd and provides special armor. Or you can drop Critical Strike and run both.
>>3083515Not up to EotN yet, any suggestions until then?
>>3083518Could go Warrior as secondary and grab either Save Yourselves to provide great defense for the team or even grab Whirlwind Attack for good aoe and a quick way to dump Splinter Weapon on a ball. Other than those 2 you could consider something like a defansive shadowstep, stuff like Heart of Shadow/ Viper's Defens/ Return
>>3083535Thank you!
>>3083495Ascan or iau. Drop critical strike for the other once you get zealous dagger mod and or a necromancer soul reaping mod. That's the completed build. Swap wota to shadow theft later if you're using cons.
>>3083535>>3083537Antidote signet from ranger is pretty great too if you're not using ritualist heroes who have big mend body and soul
>>3083569>shadow theftI want it but I don't have a proof of triumph yet T_T
>>3083572True. His build as it is now (no EoTN PvE only skills) is pretty flexible when it comes to that slot. Can run pretty much what ever he wants.
>>3083575I can help you cap it
>>3083495>New-ish to sin>>3083518>Not up to EotNrun a different build bro, you have years of 123123123ing ahead of you
the heck is this
>>3060437monk
>>3083495consider elite shadow steps like wastrel's collapse or beguiling haze. same function as death charge but you can shut something annoying down like ele's
>Prophecies Skill HunterPlease god, save me from this hell
>>3084592Its genuinely so fucked
>>3084592just tome it as god intended
>>3084352That's a Banished Dream Rider and an Earth Born Titan though I don't know what that flame thing is.https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Banished_Dream_Riderhttps://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Earth_Born_Titan
>>3070660>Mesmers used to be good with fire magic because of fast casting, right?Mesmers used to be fun because fast casting affected everything regardless of base cast time.Getting buffed for PvE was the worst thing to ever happen to them.
>no Halloween content/update It's over. The Great Northern Wall has fallen, billions must die
>>3087630Still the most fun caster.
Why does my character's hair do this when I turn on antialiasing, and is there anything I can do to fix it?
>>3088534u wot
WotA or WoEP? I'm getting the same dps on dummies, do I just pick the one I like more or is there something I'm missing?
>>3089022Wota tends to be the more robust. Stance removal isn't nearly as common as enchant, though both are quick recharge either way. Zealous+of the necromancer makes the energy moot either way.
I'm expecting no more updates this year aside from during the anniversary of reforged in December.
I'm neither expecting not not expecting but instead a secret third thing
>>3089022Moebius Strike
>>3089022Locust's Fury
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HIROSHIMOOT REMOVE MY RANGE BAAAAAANNNN
>>3090186can't believe it was that easy
How do I pvp as a sword warrior
Halloween has started, as is our yearly tradition we will be doing 2 UW runs this year.The first will be this Sunday October 25 at 2PM EST (if people would prefer this be slightly earlier or later let me know)This will be a proper run we'll do the classic triple melee setup since it's pretty flexible and fun to run. The 2nd run Sunday Nov 1st, time undecided. The runs theme will be "bring something that will be funny to play with 20 attribute points" golden eggs, candy corn, grail and HR will be provided to all for total of +7 attribs. Use this knowledge to make something retarded.Also don't forget to do your UW halloween quests in prep for UW. https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/The_Waiting_Game >>3090617There's been some interesting 100blades builds creeping back up into the meta again. Not sure how viable it is.
>>3090984I tried 100b before changes and I got molested in RAs so I assume I'm just not doing something right
>>3091046I'm pretty sure 100blades is more of a 8 person mode build (specifically HA or GvG, but it'd probably function just fine in FA or JQ). I would not play sword warrior in RA
>>3091056gg
>>3091056>I would not play sword warrior in RAparry riposte warrior is very funny and deletes all other melee builds though
did they announce gw classic yet
this is the most random spellcaster item i've ever found in the game
>>3093219>she only has two professions
>>3093177so they can reintroduce nightfall and eotn, dragging it through the mud again?
>>3092416do you just go auspicious parry / riposte / deadly riposte? honestly seems kinda fun aside from the off chance you run into non-melees that can fuck you up without attacking you at all
Are we back?
>>3097009It's just your imagination.
The Wiki is downI repeat, the Wiki is down
>>3097283The jugadores got to it
>>3074483do you have some AI that runs your HR para in your second box?
>>3074483I am disgusted yet intrigued.
>New build of Guild Wars>Wiki is down so we don't have patch notes>Toolbox is broken again
New hideous costume in the store.
>>3099829>Wiki is down so we don't have patch notesfound it on ribbit>As many of you know, due to a PhP vulnerability, Wikis around the world are offline, including ours, so we're posting today's release notes directly to reddit.>The Guise of the Wayward costume is now available for purchase, just in time for Mad King's Day! This is the first completely new art asset we've shipped using our new asset pipeline. The old asset pipeline was based on 3DS Max and was completely non-functional.>The in-game store UI has been simplified and now has more categories which makes for easier browsing.>Fixed an issue where bundles held by players would sometimes not drop when the player teleported.>Joystick movement has been improved.>Movement gets canceled unexpectedly less frequently.>This impacts virtual joysticks on mobile and physical joysticks on gamepads on Steam Deck.>Mouse and keyboard movement and targeting are unchanged.
>>3099866WTF is that
>>3099866Has Anet ever released a GW1 costume that wasn't hideous?
>>3099927I liked Dwayna, Melandru and the Lich
>>3099927What the dresses are super cute
>>3099866looks aztec inspired to go with the utopia stuff that was datamined
>>3099829>>Toolbox is broken againReally? Mine is still working
>>3100397I guess it is. I suppose the .dll version failed to load like it does sometimes.
>>3099946>I liked DwaynaWonder why
>>3100696I am using Foul Feast!
>>3099866Put it on a ritualist without the head and we'll see
I did not realize how dependent I'd gotten on the wiki until we lost it.
What skills do you put on your TPIY Paragon heroes? I was hoping to fit some command skills in there to buff my Ranger damage but I feel like I have to fill the entire bar with Motivation skills just to come close to competing with what a BiP Necro can do.
>>3104851If you don't care about heals go 11+1 run TPIY and Aria of Zeal. Don't play Energizing Finale heros don't know how to use it effectively. I would also run Aggressive Refrain and maybe "For Great Justice".In general I don't like mixing Motivation + Command but you can probably make it work if you don't put anything into spear. Go 11+1 motivation,10 leadership, and 10+1+2 command.Never Give Up is a sorta weird option you could run. I would run at least 1 energy management skill on all hero bars or put an SR mod on them. Alternatively you could put 1 signet on all heros and run Lyric of Zeal on the para. You should be able to fit Go For The Eyes + Find Their Weakness, and maybe SYG or Fall Back too. You lose the healing BiP though in exchange for party energy support + physical support.
See you all for last prog day tomorrow at 9AM ESTWe'll probably do FoW
I've had the best idea ever and I should bring it to the devs:>New item: Xunlai Locked Chest>Available for free at every Xunlai agent>Second new item: Xunlai Coins, available at the in-game store (equivalent of GW2 gems).>With Xunlai Coins, you'll be able to buy Xunlai Keys ingame>Use the Xunlai Locked Chest (unlimited uses) to spawn a chest of the same name in any explorable area in HM >Use a Xunlai Key to open the chest and get 10 guaranteed locked chest drops from that area +10 points to the treasurer title>each opening costs the equivalent of 50 cents This would help with many issues>much better supply of rare skins with a small player base>saves hundreds of hours on wisdom title and treasurer title>more micro transaction to destroy any game balance>more pay2winThe free consets were a point of no return, so why not this next
hey, 6k+ hours here, how do I play this game without the wiki?
>>3106748consult the collective group of retards on /vm/ to see if anyone has the wiki memorized>>3106582 I generated a captcha for you to solve, please solve it at your earliest convenience.
>>3106748If it's skill build stuff, pawned can suffice.
soul af https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCIB2r5k7L0
>>3106190I slept the fuck in
>>3106582actually that idea could work well as a not so obvious p2w feature>chest can be bought from GW store>single item per chest opening>chest can be opened by paying 1.5k (so no lockpick retention) to make it more expensive than normal chest opening>slight cooldown of 10 sec or so for each chest opening
How am I supposed to know if it is worth logging in for today's Zaishen quests?
>>3109182Mission: Ruins of MorahVanq: Ice Cliff ChasmsBoss Bounty: Mohby WindbeakPvP: GvGGerman wiki is up and running btw (guildwiki.de) just in case you're desperate
>>3109193Thank you.
Hoy fuck how long do I have to defend Thunderhead Keep for?
>>3109289all day all long
it's time to get to work
>>3109408
there's arbitrage on nicksets however long the wiki's down because no one wants to look up how to run to turn them insunday night and people are still selling at bargain prices, buybuybuybuybuy
whats their endgame...
>>3111428Sex, probably
>>3106840where do I capture dslashI know it's in factions but I'm getting raped to death repeatedly in tahnakkai and I want some light at the end of the tunnel
>>3112560The Internet Archive still workshttps://web.archive.org/web/20260109195620/https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dragon_SlashI'm sorry anon, if you don't want to skip to EotN you'd better switch weapon...
>Ruins of Morah zaishen mission>"Hey this is a great opportunity to quickly make some money, I just need to cycle through some characters">"Oh this character's heroes don't have full insignias + runes, and they run on /bonus weapons">"Better invest in full gear so I'm set for the future">Repeat x3 or 4>Spend around 200k in gear for several characters' heroes (hello Major Vigor rune at 9-10k)>Gain 2 gold zcoins from everythingAt least it's a good investment I guess
>doing minister cho mission on a new character>get to that part>Togo : "With such a large group it is best to keep your distance and see if they will separate, giving you a better opportunity to strike!">Both Togo and Yijo proceed to automatically rush headfirst into the converging 3 packs of mobs at the same time
>>3112745Ruins of Morah doesn't really need that level of Investment.
>>3112755True, but it's not just about that mission. In the past I used to just give my heroes the /bonus weapons, then maybe add a rune to the headgear. It works in NM mostly without problems, but still it can add an unnecessary wipe here and there, and make you a bit slower.Now all the little time that is lost here and there, sometimes it's snowballing because of death penalty, just adds up. In the past I thought "It's way too expensive to gear up my heroes fully", but then wasted so much time with wipes. Nowadays I see it more like a time saving investment that pays off very easily because the saved time can be spent farming, or just playing more.
>>3112560>>3112705it's like 2 missions later
UW RUN STARTS IN 30 MINUTES
>>3114190nigga what
>>3114279see>>3090984
>>3114190I HAD WENT BACK TO SLEEPSORRY SPIRIT THANKS FOR MESSAGING
>>3112705>>3113990thanksI'll get it eventually, good to know it's at least before the faction grind
After a sketchy dhuum fight finished our UW run we had a DSR drop which is pretty crazy.Next week on Sunday Nov 1st we'll be doing another UW run upon request this time it'll be at 3PM. Run theme is "I am playing HR and distributing drugs, run something that will be funny to play with +7 attributes to all attributes"
The nigga who did the GoM farm autism dropped a good backup websitehttps://foogw.github.io/Doesn't have everything but it's a lot of the basics
>>3115679Useful, thanks.>>3114956Congrats to you guys, especially to Tahlkora.
>>3115679>GoM farm autismqrd?
>>3115679WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS SHIT?!
>>3116950Highly optimized setup to continuously kill titans at Gate of Madness to farm experience.
>>3114956i couldn't come yesterday but I'll try to be there next week.
>>3117555same
>>3117135I think that's German for anvil rock
>>3117135>Operation Barbarossa panzer tank movements, 1941 (Colorized)
>>3117915WHY ARE KURZICKS IN TYRIA
I feel like a legitimate drooling retard for asking this but what is the optimal skill sequence for SY shout uptime with dragon slash warriorFGJ -> stack adrenaline -> dslash -> SY -> attack -> dslash -> SY?
why do some people just seem to camp 24/7 in kamadan d1? are they just afk the whole day? do they have no life? can't they move on from their super special ingame characters after all those years? i will never know i guess
>>3119020Kamadan is packed with 45 year old autismos,
>>3119020they're AFK and want you to look at their characters while they're busy with other things. every MMO and MMO-adjacent game has these players.
Thunderous if you're free tomorrow lets finish the titan quest up
>>3119299which titan quests are you doingI still have Last Day Dawns from way back when and will come along
>>3119433not him but same actually i could never finish it no matter how many combos i tried :<
>>3119542I mean I'm not Thunderous either I just want to finish that damn quest (HM)
>>3119433we are doing the last one tomorrow at zaishen change but my derv is still on the one you are on from the last time we did this bull shit we ran from becons and cheated it on my war
>>3119546yeah would be nice to get it done sometime ever. maybe using pcons would be the trick
>>3119549The quest in Dragon's Gullet then?Well if you're ever going back to do The Last Day Dawns hit me up.
>>3119559will do and yeah its the gullet one
Is there a way to... import a bunch of template builds at one time?
>>3119576hmmm can i find a zip file of builds on PvX? maybe somebody can upload their builds?
>>3118918I'm not really a big warrior player but the optimal rotation is more likely to beFGJ -> stack adrenaline -> SY -> dslashFGJ doubles your adrenaline, SY costs 8 (4 hits) dslash costs 7 (also 4 hits). So not counting adrenaline gained by getting smacked, you should always have enough to cast SY. But even if you didn't, it's better to go for 1 more hit instead of dslash, use SY, and then go for dslash that way SY is instantly recharged and you can ensure there's no downtime. >>3119582This does remind me I really should do more with our PvX page, maybe on a day I am less lazy I'll populate it with some guild approved hero builds.
>>3119020>do they have no life?If they're afk 24/7 wouldn't that mean they have a lyfe?
>>3118918if you have a sr mod on your sword you can do sy>dragonslash>prot stike>sy etc i think haven't messed around with it in a bit but you will need sr mod for prot stike spam
>>3119671good idea, thanks>>3119801I don't have a necro sword but if I ever happen upon one then I'll look into PS, I know savage slash works similarly but it's a way longer cd
>>3119020Alt accounts and some people just don't log out of games and don't turn off their PC
should I feel bad for joining 10/80 runs?
>wiki still downis it the php thing? hows it taking so long to fix?
>>3121797small indie company
>>3121797This is a 15 year old problem effecting more than half the internet. It might be a while.
>>3121797loleven that russian steam forum was up after barely over a day
Let my lingering curse necro join your pve party
>>3122304Be glad the wiki is down cause idk how shit that skill is
>>3122387It's a mild health degen with a mild healing nerf.
>>3122400
last time i played this game i fell in love with a girl irl, most intense feeling i ever had for anything, most of the shit i see here reminds me of her, it's been 15+ years and it comes back in the wrong wayi can't hear words like kurzick, xunlai, lion's arch, interrupting mesmer etc.anyways hope this little game lives, turns out my bro who said mmo's never go down was right in this case
>>3123473
which title is the most autistic to progress in or to max?it has to be the treasure hunter, right? maybe with zaishen as a close second.the pvp titles take the most time but at least you're playing against others constantly. lucky and unlucky can be obtained by AFK'ing. wisdom and zaishen can be obtained by $$$. zaishen is pretty autistic but at least it shows you had a LOT of money, which more or less requires some skill to acquire.the pve titles are required for GWAMM, so it's logical to get them, not autistic.treasure hunter though, it requires - even in the fastest way possible - hundreds of hours of stupidly opening chests. if you want to save money then it has to be NM so in 99.9% cases the drops are trash. pure autism
>>3123874I'm grindan treasure hunter currently (just got past 5k) and it is by far the most mind-numbingly boring thing I have ever attempted in this gameonce in a thousand chests you maybe get a cool item that momentarily spikes your dopamine but aside from that it's pure muscle memory do-something-on-second-screen content, and I still have like 80 hours of it left
I thought the reforged badge was discontinued to encourage legacy players to opt in without hesitation? Why do I still see red badges on everyone's names
>>3124064The proposed Veteran badge was cancelled. The Reforged badge still makes you opt-in to the new content.
>>3124116Their decision to not do a veteran badge doesn't solve the problem that legacy players (or legacy characters) avoid the red cuck badge
>>3124014titles are worthless and I refuse to ever grind for one
titled up. badged up. idling in a hidden outpost. yeah im gaming big time.
>>3124141>t. mere mortal
was it worth the autism to get my first survivor to exactly 1,337,500 xp?
>>3126719no because you can just idle that title overnight
>>3128075if you got it while AFKing you didn't really beat the game
yoooooo who playing Adrullan Sunday
>>3128762real niggas get it by buying kath hammers fr fr
>>3128917Real niggas got this title back when one death meant you had to restart with a new character, and then deleted the character after you accidentally died from a disconnect due to early 2000s potato internet
running titan quest last days dawn and the gullet one maybe if you need log on soon
log in anyway if you dont need and experience the misery with us
>>3120093tested it out some its sy>prot stike>dslash but one you get going to can just spam dslash over and over pretty damn funny
Holy shit how long does it take to fix a fucking wiki?
>>3134065Migrate to new game, goy.https://wiki.guildwars3.com/wiki/Main_Page
As far as holiday events go, which events are the best for each consumable title?
>>3134065Wayback machine
>>3124129That 500g cap on skill costs was too tempting for me when I was going for Skill Hunter.Forgive me father, for I have sinned.
>>3134605I want Devona on my MA but bitches are never worth it!!!
>>3134605>>3134760I did it for ghost pussy
>>3134776Since I have legendary survivor already, I was wondering if I can now opt into cuck badge, run to get Devona and her 100xp, then immediately run back to opt out. But now that I see /age counts your cuck badge time, there's no way around it.
>>3134591Anniversary event in april for all by like a mile. But if we pretend anniversary event doesn't exist from there it's probably either Wintersday or Halloween, but probably halloween. It's easier to get ToT bags than it is to get wintersday gifts.
>>3134806is there an advantage to not playing the new content?
>>3135054Anon is worried that it will make his e-peen shrink
>>3135196it gives my main the ick
>>3135226is this ick the same ick that you gave those girls back in 2008 when you first told them you have a main character in an online game?
>>3136486nigga girls played guild wars and world of warcraft in pre-iphone days
Is there anything interesting to do on smite monk past RoJ / boon? I'd probably keep boon regardless because I think it's retardedly high value for one skill slot but I'm curious as to whether anyone here has cool ideas past laser beaming mob packs on cooldown
>>3137997blessed aura balthazar's aura
>>3137997i made this bar for fun. it is a bit energy intense so it works best with a BiP necro or a + 5 Expertise weapon. Not the most effective build but surprisingly fun to play. I just like playing Melee
>>3137997Hammer Monk is quite funWord of Censure can be strongMake up your own build
One thing i REALLY dislike is that guilds that hold factions' towns get discounted lockpicks, and that there is no other way to get discounted lockpicks. getting someone to sell them to you is almost always a big hassle then
>>3138998Every now and then we'll claim an outpost but it is kinda annoying. That said I don't mind selling some lockpicks to guildies for 1.2k each I usually keep a large supply just incase someone needs some.
>>3138998golden lockpick will rugpull them all
>>3137997For a hero bar? Nah that's kind of the bar. Judges insight if you give them a SR mod.Player? Throw some pve skills in ig
>>3138154Is that actually good? I'm already maintaining SoH so I worry about using blessed just for balthazar's aura>>3138770>>3138879I don't have anni stuff but when that rolls around I'll take a look at melee monk, thanks. What do you rune/insig for melee monk?I did also just cap word of censure, my only concern is that it's a spammable 10e so I might need a bip>>3139566what pve skills would you recommend? seed of life is just overall nice but I've been running 1 prot 1 heal anyway so I haven't really felt the need to use it
Honey, it's time for your 10AM skele farm
>>3139630>What do you rune/insig for melee monk?You don't need to get fancy. Anything that ups your armor. Anchorites is the obvious choice but the generic insignias work too.And yeah, Censure builds benefit from energy support. Castigation Signet can help some.
Invite my motivation paragon to your pve group
>>3139880Did you bring HR?
>>3139895even better. I brought TPIY
>>3139880say no more, that said our prog ended last week lol. Post ingame name if you want an invite to guild.Sometime in December we're going to do a paragon only urgoz run which should be pretty funny.Also tomorrow at 3 PM EST we are going to do our UW run.
How the fuck do I redo Blood Washes Blood again?
>>3140344scrying pool
>>3140344summon the bear spirit at the altar in the vaettir farm spot, get the quest from it, and then just walk back inside bjora
>>3140383How do you summon it?
>>3140392just stand on the altar and kill the mobs
>>3140302I'll ask for an invite once my paragon is actually powerful
>>3140377>>3140383>>3140416They should let me talk to somebody in an outpost and teleport to it.
>>3140548r u an ass
I dislike the sunspear general rank grind
>>3142364stop playing trash expansions then
>>3142522nf has skills I need so I must persist
Why am I supposed to dislike eotn again?>best skills>best zones>best endgame
>>3142745No gwen selfship
If anybody is interested in chest runs:I've been doing Cathedral of Flames chest runs over the weekend, basically this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_HaLgaJODQ with a slightly different build (I use "I am unstoppable" and Shroud of Distress). One note: It can easily be done in HM with Shadow Form, but it's slightly slower then. I do it in NM because otherwise I run out of lockpicks really quickly. I additionally use an Energy Boon Ele to support my health, just for extra security.TL;DR: The time estimate for 100 chests is ca. 60-70 minutes (including merch), the cost of lockpicks boils down to around 15-20k if you subtract profits from runes, materials and the merchant. My run time is about 22-24 min for 40 chests. At my title levels (lucky 4, treasure 5) It takes around 16 lockpicks to get those 40 chests, which puts the costs of lockpicks at around 20k for 40 chests.I make about 5-6k from selling the items. A lot of the drops are armors (10-25% ca.), and the runes+insignias are from all classes except for ritu+assa runes. The money from runes differs wildly, on average I'd say it's around 5k. I've gotten 2 superior vigor runes in about 1k runs, and every 5th run or so I get an expensive mesmer insignia.I'm not counting in all the upgrades I get. AnA inscriptions "feel" common (7 out of 1000 items or so), but they are a bit hard to sell atm. Skins are trash. If I'm a bit careful with Measure for Measure inscriptions, I can make quite some money from salvaging bones.What's extremely good about this is that it will quickly progress the Lucky + Unlucky titles. I expect to finish both well before I hit 10k chests. Only the wisdom title suffers because of NM.
>>3142780that's what presearing is for
>>3142745lazy dungeon designlazy story missionsextreme power creep from PvE skillsextreme power creep from consI actually like EotN but there are a lot of things that annoy me about it. Definitely some of the best zones though.
>>3140526No one cares if your paragon is janky. We just like playing together.
UW run in a hour and a half from now
Since the wiki is still down, does anybody know of another website I can look up armor galleries for each profession?
>>3144364just use toolbox to look at it in real time and dyed also
>>3144374I have toolbox but idk how to do that
>>3144377armory
>>3144378Oh this is great, thank you!
It's UW time log in
>Go into a dungeon>Realize 5 minutes in that I forgot to grab the quest and I can't progress furtherWhy, Anet?
>>3144925for me, it's finding the bloodstone where if you just see the door is open and walk in, you can't get anywhere and when you go back out your quest progress has reset and you have to kill the three fucking yetis again
>>3145017get anything good?
>>3142710>skills I needthis is a spook
>>3145442diamond
I want an earth staff for an earth magic build on eleIs galigord's staff (+5e 20/20/20) worth farming for? It looks like the most appealing unique I can get and I have no idea what the strategy is to get good components to make one myself
>>3146059are you a melandru's? because otherwise the strategy is to post "wtb" in kama and answer one of the 15 whisps you get in the next minute
>>3146103not melandru's but I'm a giga poorfag and I prefer getting my gear using non-trading options anyway since I think it's more fun
>>3146140For the time being, you should try to salvage a decent enchant staff wrap and grab a collector 20/20 earth staff (preferably from Nightfall/EOTN so you can slap an Adept staff head on it when you find one).
>>3146140I agree, but farming for mods is a little retarded and boring, so greens or collector weaps+random drops is your best betsucks that the wiki is down, because that's how I'd go about figuring it out
>>3146195I do have a 20% ench wrap, would I just want to grab any one of these that has open upgrade slots?
>>3146213is it actually worth buying keys just for the super rare off chance that a chest will pay out with sup vigor or a good mod or something? I've had really debatable luck in proph/factions since I get purple drops most of the time but I've yet to sink my teeth into HM lockpick chests which I assume have massively more valuable drops
>>3146059i have a perfect os earth staff sitting in my bank you can have it its the crystal skin earth staff from proph
>>3146222no. the way you farm for runes and shit is taking a solo build that's very hardy, balling up like 5 billion mobs, and killing them alllike this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u3Kh5Otx58
>>3146222and the only reason people buy picks is to get gold things to ID for progress in the "how many gold things did you id" title, or for rare skins
>do a shit load of skele runs on multiple characters>finally got my macro to mostly automate turning in the rewards>forgot my characters already hold 99 platinum
>>3146400Is your bank full too?
>>3146408doesn't matter now because all those repeatable quests i turned in snapped away the platinum payouts
>>3146418Oh yeah. I've probably lost some plat due to not paying attention, but eh.
>>3146216If you don't care about the auto attack damage, you can get a 20 hct 20 hsr earth staff from the weaponsmith at seitung harbor for like 750g and a few planks of wood iirc. It can take staff heads/wrappings too. Adept head is gonna be your goal and I *really* recommend just trading for one. Wrapping could be an "of the mesmer" or enchanting. Alternatively just make a 40/40 set in leviathan pits/vasburg armory. The enchanting mod is only useful if you're running stuff besides the attunements.
Are necromancer minions affected by para shouts?I thought equipping my MM hero with "Fall Back" would help the minion horde stick with the group instead of lagging behind all the time when on the move, but I feel like it's only made things worse, with the squad moving super fast and the minions staying even further behind
>>3147084yeah but they do a stupid stutter step thing that makes them lag anywayit does keep them healed though so that stops your BOTM caster and healers from falling way behind
>>3147084If it says Party, no. If it says allies, yes. So it will affect minions.
>>3146330Kinda tempting, how much do you want for it?>>3146389I might try my hand at that once I get a staff since I’d probably use OF/sliver to farm stuff, only problem is that I know you want ebon standard of honor when doing sliver builds which I don’t have yet>>3146498I’ll most likely either do that or just make the one for 5k at kaineng, my main concern is the energy versus the attack damage but I know the craftable foci at the maguuma jungle guy are only like 2 energy less than a perfect one
>>3147203Neither energy or the auto attack matter for elementalist. Caster auto attacks are pointless. You have so much energy from e storage that worrying about the +2 from wand+focus vs staff is pointless. Your decision between a 40/20/20 and a 40/40 should be based on you wanting the universal hsr or suffix mods of a staff and if not, running a 40/40 set. If you're poor, run with a staff from seitung until you can get a 40/40 or buy the good mods
>>3147553>Caster auto attacks are pointless.I will 1v1 you with caster weapons.
>>3147553>Caster auto attacks are pointlessTell that to my Unveil.
So what is the Nick item and weekly bonuses this week?
>>3147675Elonian Support/Sandblasted lodestones
>>3147553True but with the 2 energy from the kaineng earth staff I could take one point out energy storage and put it into fire magic for more flare damage
>>3147877I should beat your ass for speaking those words
Should I do mindless chestruns all week long to bring my treasure hunter title from 5 to 6, or should I actually play and bring the sunspear and lightbringer ranks on my 2nd main character to max? I'll do what the first person who responds chooses of those two things
>>3148097You should have done the chest runs last week.
>>3148151I did, I went from 3100 to 4400 or so with my Treasurer title
Wait, when does the Halloween event end? I thought it ended last night?
THE WIKI IS BACK
>>3147203nothing its been setting in storage for months now Arisen is ign pm me or i can get on and give it to you whenever
What is the quickest way to get to rank 5 Sunspear for non elonian characters?
>>3149064hello sir mister Aroused, i am not that guy you replied to, i am a total noob much more than the other guy. you should of give your valuable item to me instead, please be of supporting a total beginner like me
>>3147571>>3147592you people are why I keep +5 strength staff mods>>3148097I hate chest running so instead I do mob farms during golden egg week which also count as progress toward treasure hunter title.
>>3149233I always repeat A Land of Heroes that takes place in cliffs of dohjok. You get big points as long as you're below 1k when you start.
>>3149064I added you and I'll hit you up if I see you on, thanks bro
>>3149316last time i looked it up think it was like 15e so no mr new player in obi its not for you
What profession if I want to play a spellblade/melee caster or generally have the option to be either or? Just looking for something with the most build variety I guess. Assume I have no skills/heros/etc unlocked and no items in the storage
>>3150046Dervish if you want melee with spellsElementalist (specifically double dragon) if you want more caster with some meleeNecro but only with soul taker if you want essentially dervish but different
>>3150046Spellblade is literally Illusionary Weaponry mesmer.Almost any profession can do this sort of thing though.
>>3150071>>3150130Dervish is mostly just enchants and buffing your autoattacks yea? Between it and necro which would you say comes online with the least skills/items needed for this kind of variety? I don't mind minion master necro but I'd like some variety. I have a necro parked in post-searing I could try I guess. Assume I am a total newb btw, been a literal decade since I have touched the game
>>3150196Dervish is cast enchantment, which has an effect when it ends, and then use attack that gets a bonus effect when it ends an enchantment. Dervish does this from pretty much the word go, and there's a few different flavors of it. Necro would take doing nearly all of prophecies to get access to Soul Taker, which primarily is a buff up and auto attack type build. Illusionary weaponry mesmer is the same but way shittier performance but it is earlier. If you're looking for like "I cast big aoe spell in melee range and then bonk" you're better off looking at monk. Elementalist is the same with more spell less bonk.
How do we feel about resto magic rit spirits
>>3150218Hm, I've read that monk is kinda cucked/shit, is that not true? I'd try dervish since I love scythes but I kinda hate most of their armor sets and appearances unfortunately
>>3150046>>3150218Ele has a lot of decent melee options to be honest, people aren't giving it enough credit cause it's not super meta viable (which is only a relevant factor if you decide to play end game HM content, and even there you can kinda make it work).Lots of touch/point blank AoE spells. Conjure weapon spells are pretty mid/early proph. Lots of options for increasing your armor so you don't get wrecked. And the anniversary axe uses energy storage. If you want options and you don't want to be stuck playing a single build (illusion weapon mesmer, or soul taker necro) and you don't want to play dervish, ele is a solid pick.
>A new build of Guild Wars is available
>>3150725I mained ele back in the day so I'd consider it a last pick just so I can do something new, but I'll keep all this info in mind. Thanks anons. Any monk/ele/derv newb builds you'd recommend that don't require anything too time consuming to get?
>>3150788>Server maintenance build
>>3150828
Genuinely what do I do as warrior (pve and pvp)? I just recently got SoH and OoP heroes to roid me out which is fun
>>3150999Try to ball up mobs as best you can and hit them with AoE attacks, or try to body block melees to protect your midliners.
>>3150999learn to quarterstep
>>3150999Complete factions and get SWS. Warning, playing factions as a melee is miserable.
>>3150822I'll post some of the monk and ele melee range builds I have saved regardless of how easy they are to set up. It'll give you some ideas regardless.Some of these are designed to use the anniversary weapons, but usually you can supplement a standard weapon and it's ok.AP KD spam: OwcS4YPTLQ7i4OrR2k4EaNTQAnniv Hammer KD: OwET4YIOVKsIsOOS8JXUVUeYeAASymbolic Hammer: OwES4YITh1XFTioEWflEnEYcThe Infamous Ebon Dragon: OgJToYGaVCZgucIKXssCYzWg2AAMirror of Ice Axe: OgJTsYWaTiawZIX8ZQJiukmEYDARide the Lightning Axe: OgFTgUGLRioZUAdQpYHsbQV8tEARide the Lightning Dagger: OgdTgUG2ZioBdYUwhhhZ47g5tEASecond Wind Spike: OgpkkwKDTum01l2V21NDOIQU2QPIStarburst Spike: OgBCoMzkxAO4REvwtQwQZFuA
imagine trolling FA matches for months with ranger spirits and running heal area on lux side to heal kurz npc just because monks heal pvp community is schizo
New expansion pack announcement soon.
God, Skill Hunter is so tedious. Tyria and Cantha done, just need to drag myself along and finish Elona.
>>3152021qrd with healer pvp players being schizo? I’ve done a few FAs and haven’t had any problems
>>3152265https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjUyq9lirI
>>3152696Can't wait to beat the bigots
>>3152696content wow
>>3152696>RoguelikeIdk how to feel about that
>>3152696>It's real
>>3152696>Unlisted video>Posted 5 days ago>23 views when I first clicked on itWhich one of you 2weeks people is posting on 4chan?
>>3152744Guild Wars is well built for that kind of game mode, imo. Curious to see how they'll handle it, because it will presumably be designed to let you run heroes alongside you.
>>3152828>Which one of you 2weeks people is posting on 4chan?
>>3152696I hope that is an armor at 55 seconds.
>>3152839Preorder bonus outfit
>>3152842I'll take that I guess...
Hey 2weeks. If you're here, maybe make those eotn caster weapons not locked to the primary attributes(and inspo)
https://store.guildwars.com/en-gb/product/guild-wars-afterlifePreorder now live
>>3152696
Aztec / Maya aesthetic is peak and I will suffer no argument to the contrary
So how will lots of returnees affect the ecto market?
>>3152978Price goes through the roof as more players buy them for the obby armor they never had as a 12 year old.Price drops because some will realize they have very expensive prenerf items and sell them for multiple stacks of ecto and they liquidate it to buy retarded shitEither of those scenarios
>>3152696preordering this shit
>>3152744there's hundreds of skills and combos nobody use because they're not "optimal", being forced to get creative with the game's massive skill pool is amazing
>>3153092My main concern is: will all the afterlife content be roguelike or is there still going to be traditional content? I'm not sure how I'm going to feel if there's no traditional content and they go all-in on the roguelike stuff.
>>3152928>finally some substantial GW1 content>it's roguelike slopYou can't be fucking serious.
>>3153108If I had to guess, it's going to be small-scale and mostly revolve around the roguelike mode.
>>3152696Nice. I'll buy this without thinking about it. The fact that this game still gets some love after all those years deserves my money.The release of this DLC might become the first time in about 17 years that more than three people from my friends list will be online simultaneously, wow
>>3153108I think this DLC is gonna be exclusively or almost exclusively about this roguelike dungeon (though they do mention it can contain several different maps in different configurations)
>>3153117What were your expectations, honestly? A full fledged new expansion with new classes, dozens of broken new skills and people complaining they finished the story in less than 24 hours because they played with zero immersion? Thinning out the player base even more with 30 new outposts and missions? This shit just doesn't work at this point and would kill the game entirely. I think it's great that they take a different approach with this. The skill system is predestined for a roguelike mode after all
>>3152744Called it. Guild Wars is very well built for that so it's a no-brainer really.>>3153092This. I always enjoyed the "concept" of the Codex arena and thought it deserved a better implementation.>>3153108Probably all this roguelite stuff. I expect a majority of the assets already existed from Utopia.>>3153143GW:B style content would not be unwelcome
>>3153143>Thinning out the player base even more with 30 new outposts and missions? People don't want to admit it but we need some kind of matchmaking thing. Zaishen dailies don't really work for the guy trying to get through the story
>>3153143$5 mission packs
>>3152696What absolute dogshit. Charging so much for roguelike slop
I like the costume. Sexo tummy.>>3153134I expect that some people will bitch about it costing $30 for what I assume is only a roguelite mode and no real expansion. I guess they decided it's better to plan for the sales of the dedicated playerbase rather than price it low such that it might draw in outsiders.
>>3153172>GW:B style content would not be unwelcomeAs long as it's more like WiK and WoC and not like Hearts of the North
>>3152928preordered fuck yall
>>3153197I disliked HotN on release, but now I think the mini-missions are a fun diversion.
>>3152458its one guy who trolls matches with ranger spirits on kurz or healing kurz npc from luxon side he's been doing it for months a few hours a weekend turns out he's mad because monks heal
I'm not a footfagbutthe feet on the pre-order costume don't look good at all.
>>3153231The texture seems to not fit perfectly, but otherwise, it's par for the course for Guild Wars barefoot textures. They're always been boots-with-toes-painted-on feet.
>>3153239forgot pic, my assassin
>>3153239Maybe I'm just not used to looking at their feet. I dyed the outfit and noticed the boots/shinguards didn't dye, and then I saw the feet.
>>3153243This kills the footfag
>>3153185Gotta fund Guild Wars 3 somehow -_-
I'm a little worried if they add new skills
I want that new outfit.
>>3153299I'd be worried if they DIDN'T add new skills.
>>3153374The EotN power creep was bad enough, I would rather not go through that again
>>3153394I'm expecting some busted skills exclusive to roguelike mode at a minimum. Even the bonus mission pack gave us some wacky skills to play with in the various scenarios.
>>3153397>skills exclusive to roguelike mode at a minimumI'd be 100% okay with that.
Linsey Murdock in LA d1
>>3153439Daniel Frozenwind too, looks like they're ERPing in whisper
>>3153373don't combine it with the grentch cap if you get it
>>3153455zesty lookin buck
>>3152696I honestly wasn't expecting that, i'm preordering it.
Is there a hotkey that hides your UI?
>>3153532CTRL+SHFT+H
>>3153532alt shift h IIRCor maybe ctrl shift h
Surely this new "content" will be better than eotn right????
>>3153623It's gonna be fine but the next one will be gw3 toe in slop. This is scraping the bottom of the barrel for old utopia assets
>>3153623Depends on how much it's trying to sell the new furry races in GW3.
>>3153632I do find it interesting not only 2weeks ago (heh) they were saying we're launching a new costume because we updated our asset pipeline and now suddenly they're announcing a whole ass eotn-style expansion
>>3153641I wouldn't say this is an eotn style expansion. This looks like it'll be a single outpost that queues into the instanced content. I'm not expecting multiple zones, dungeons, or missions
>>3153652EOTN was $39.99 USD and this is $29.99 USD (msrp), that's insane if it's not new zones, dungeons, armor, weapons. What are we, getting $30 polymock 2?
>>3153657We're getting a roguelite mode that has it's own progression system and some extrinsic rewards like some skins.
>>3153669Actually I just remembered bonus mission pack exists. I suppose this is closer to that but BMP was appropriately priced at $9.99 USD msrp for essentially an okayish skin pack and shortcut to get max gold inscribable weapons in LA.
>>3153455yep this is perfect for buck broken paragons and dervishes
>>3153669My guess is we're getting gw 2 fractals with semi randomized gw 1 skills and a title track that is a copy of the hero/gladiator/champion title. With rank emotes as a treat.Probably one main outpost and a few ones for higher level progressions (those drive the story)
>>3153657Think about it instead that they have to pay salaries to develop this and hopefully continue into the future. If it's $30 and there are five guys working on it with $100k Washington state salaries, they need to sell roughly 15 thousand copies of GW:Afterlife to fund a year of dev time.
>>3153623eotn was good though
guys I just heard about the new expansion and I got hyped, but then I saw it's got a roguelite focus and then I immediately lost interest.
>>3152744this comment>>3153092is my vibe pretty much. I've hosted/ran so many progs at this point that I am beginning to lose count. I think this last NF prog was the 12th prog I've hosted? But one of the things I've loved the most about the progs is exploring unusual skill bars and seeing the crazy set builds people come up withI think there's a lot of cool potential with roguelike I'm interested to see what they come up with.>>3153134join the guild and maybe you can witness 4 people online simultaneous ;)
Was asking about prof recommendations for melee caster or general build variety and settled on monk. Any substantial difference between ascalon/faction/nf start I should know before I cuck myself? Is smite any good?
>>3153915Smite is good, but it's one line out of four so you're going to want to get skills from every campaigns to really fill out a smiting bar.You can get Ray of Judgement early in Factions which is the most foolproof elite and "meta" elite.
>>3153915>settled on monk/vm/ purposely trained him wrong, as a joke.
>>3153915i would not try to be a "melee caster" right from the beginning cause it aint gonna work
W/E or A/E Factions speedrunning to Star Burst will work.
>>3153652This is probably about right, but I think it's underselling the scale of it. The number of Afterlife maps that people have found by datamining the client is like 75% as many maps as there are in the EotN overworld. That's way closer to being EotN-sized than I think anybody would have guessed, even if the format doesn't include standard explorable areas and missions.
do you guys use a +3 or +1 rune for pve on monk? I’m currently doing +1+1 prot headpiece because I figure having higher hp to not get randomly blown up is better
>>3154055There no shame in a +1 if you want the health.
>>3154063Is the additional 75 health relevant in hard content in pve?
>>3154095Depends on how likely you are to get aggro and if you need extra safety for something like Dhuum's Covenant.
>>3154055HP is overrated. 75 hp is nothing, especially if you're using shelter or prot spirit/bond where lower HP makes the skills more effective. Double sup is sketchy without cons though.
>>3153926I chose monk mostly because of armor appearances really. I don't care if it's the best or not. >>3153927Yea I figured I'm not rushing it, just an archetypical idea I'd like to try out if I can
>>3154095It's always relevant. It could save you from a spike. That doesn't mean you might be better served by the +2 if you're not getting spiked.Just make two headpieces if you want to easily swap.
not preordering without gameplay footage
I bought the DLC instantly, zero questions askedAm I the perfect goy or a proper GW supporter?
>>3154236goy, honestly. If this were 2020 you'd be a supporter but this is just teaching anet they can pump out AI slop and be rewarded for it because they hold your nostalgia hostage.
>>3154298>this is just teaching anet they can pump out AI slopDawg I don't care I'm cooming to new GW content
>>3154306And that's why you're a goy
New costume is FIRE
>>3153455Not as good as the Utopia concept art.
>>3154236I'm probably buying itdoubt they drop the price to less than $24 first year of release, I want to play it, and it probably raises my lifetime gw price-per-hour-played by like a penny
which server should i play as a SEAfag? last time i tried NA and it was laggy as hell
>>3154780There's Asia districts, but I don't know where the physical server is located. If I had to guess, it's running on GW2 servers, so it would be wherever the GW2 Asia servers are located.
>>3154518offhand spears incoming
>>3154793GW2 doesn't have asia servers technically kek, all asia players either play on NA servers, or they are on china's separate version of GW2. One of the most important factors of winning WvW to this day is "which NA server has the most Australians" They have several different options for asia server, I think I remember a japan, south korea, and a china server while in a town go to districts in the top left and pick Asia.
>>3153915whatever you do do not start in prophecies
>>3153915whatever you do do not start in nightfall
>>3153915>I like building my character up slowly so I can experiment with new skills.Prophecies>I want to rush most of the leveling and get to build crafting fast.Factions>I want to grind mobs before I am allowed to have fun.Nightfall
>>3155527>>3155539nightfall genuinely is the most annoying starter campaign for me just because of the overhead rep grinding being so abrasive at points, I was so confused as to why I had to get like an extra 1.5k points to get general after I got to kourna but then I realized I could just do the bug grind for pointsI think proph is probably the best new player experience to ease into the game but it’s a very very slow roll compared to factions
don’t start in factions, too hard for noobs
if you're planning on playing all of guild wars then go in order to truly appreciate it. okay you can hop to nightfall to grab a couple of heroes when you get to lion's arch though.
Wow, I didn't realize people hate NF so much. I chose it as my starter campaign for 6 of my characters and I'd say it's my favorite of the 3 to start with. I agree the mandatory rep grinds shouldn't be there but I've never found that they take long at all.
>>3155891If you don’t know where to grind effectively it can take ages which was my issue, it doesn’t feel very good first timing
>>3156053Did you talk to the npcs at the shrines for the extra rep buff?I think if the game automatically gave you the extra rep buff w/o having to talk to them that'd go a long way to alleviate the rep grind.
>>3156081Or if it was EOTN style where you get rep for killing anything.
>>3155891The desolation is the worst area of the game bar none. Sure rep grinds suck but EVERYONE has to go through those fucking piss canyons
>>3156195That I will 100% give you, fuck the worms
>>3156195Heard you was doing good nigga.We bout to change that.
>>3155891The Desolation suffers from the Wyrm mechanic being mandatory, if you didn't keep having to do it just to get around it would be a pretty decent late game area. I wish it had been treated like Infusion. But other than that, Nightfall has really nice locations. It's also cool that you can see the distant statues in Tyria's Crystal Desert from Crystal Overlook.
>>3156241*casts Vocal Minority*nothing personnel
>>3156256>I wish it had been treated like InfusionI never even thought of that, that'd be great
Bit disappointed were not getting a new profession but hopefully we get some new skills.
>>3156261We still doin this shit nigga
>>3155891I liked it until I got to the Desolation, holy fucking christ do I HATE the Desolation. Once you get passed it and into the Realm of Torment it becomes fun again.The Desolation is pure aids.
>>3156276*casts Ignorance*
>>3156373You aint casting shit nigga if we on sulphur
>>3156380*drops Frozen Soil a mile away*
>get into worm>someone bumps into a small piece of solid rock and gets spat out on the sulfur
>>3156403>Click on the spoor>The minion master and resto rit take five eternities to catch up to the rest of the party and don't get in the worm, making you exit and re-enter
>>3156427You don't have to exit your wurm. Just click the spoor again.
Made a nightfall mesmer. I eventually wanna try that cool scythe illusionary weapon build, but I see that elite is late proph. So would Me/E be a solid secondary profession for now? I have a bunch of green staves for different ele magic in my bank
>>3156621Making a mesmer to play budget elementalist is retarded
>>3156630So what would you recommend as secondary prof then?
>>3156630OTOH you won't get cucked out of casts nearly as often as an Ele.
What are good uses for blessed aura?
>>3156621You should be a Mesmer Ranger so you can bring a cute pet
>>3156639You do because fast casting only applies to 2s+ cast times on non-mesmer spells. Air barely has any. Fire has a few but most of the bread and butter are sub 2s. Earth is your best bet, but they're the biggest example of a problem that basically every element has, which is every spell being overcosted on energy to account for e-storage and the attunements. >>3156621Gonna be real, IW scythe is kinda just ass. There's better auto attack builds out there on other professions. Ebon Dust Aura is my favorite of them.>>3156638Ele is a good secondary just for Glyph of Lesser Energy or Auspicious Incantation>Deep Freeze (you don't need points in water magic). I'd probably recommend ele over most other options for the initial playthrough just for those. Mesmer doesn't use its secondary very often outside of forcing a budget playstyle. Necro is firmly "okay" especially if you're doing it for conditions and fevered dreams. Fragility combos well with it too but fragility also kinda sucks even when built right. Honestly just go /E and pick up GoLE and fill the rest of your bar with domination/inspiration stuff.
>>3156775Air has plenty, like Chain Lightning, Lightning Orb, and Lightning Hammer.
>>3156775Is there some other illusion weapon build that's fun? I don't care if it's the best I just like the mesmor armors and like the idea of the build
>>3156788Its more IW is bad. Meme tier bad, unfortunately. I love the skill to death but it's just not good. You can do it, just know it's like below D tier type shit.>>3156787Mesmer can't really handle the overcast, nor can they stand gulping down 15e or 25e costs even with an attunement to refund them. And that's STILL just to do direct damage that respects armor. You can do more damage than those spells, in larger areas, for less energy, and fully ignore armor just with domination, which would be 16. Running those spells is exactly what we mean by "budget elementalist" cause you're contorting your entire build to force it and aren't really even a mesmer by the end.
>>3156864>Meme tier badThat's a shame. I'll keep the mesmer around for fun then and maybe try an ele out then. I was reading some earlier posts and guides saying it has most flexibility in secondaries. I also read something about a dagger ele build. Is that a thing? I've browsed the pvx wiki for stuff but it's hard to gauge what is current with reforged and what would be easier/later to set up as someone with little experience in the game
>>3156876PvX is decently current but there's some notably retarded opinions like E/A AP caller being higher than double dragon, dual attune fire, or invoke/tclap air. Daggers do work well, and it's usually with star burst on ele. It does fine, but daggers is boring when not on assassin imo. I just don't see the point forcing them when you got caster stuff. Mesmer is flexible on secondaries because it mostly just runs stuff from its primaries, and only dabbles in the secondary for 1 skill, rarely more than that. Domination magic is just really solid. Cry of frustration, mistrust, unnatural signet, chaos storm, empathy, backfire, mind wrack, spiritual pain, the two wastrels, shatter delusions are all great. You can more or less throw anything from that attribute on a bar and call it good. Enchanters conundrum, visions of regret, or obviously energy surge are all great elite picks. If you're gonna make a mesmer, play a mesmer.
>>3156913I'll keep all that in mind and pivot the mesmer to a pure caster. I'll try out an ele for now and see how I like it. Thanks
Today's Zaishen Mission is Abbadon's Gate, if you have a capable team for HM that's 150 Copper Zaishen coins in <10 min per character
>>3156913E/A AP caller is braindead to play, which still makes it a solid build, IMO. DD Beastmaster is fun, but is more micro intensive and sometimes gets hamstrung by retarded pet AI and your heroes ignoring pets for condi/hex removal.
>>3156996I can’t do teambuilding right and also I don’t have it unlocked so I’ll just kill myself
How are we feeling about this
>>3157476I personally don't like the magnetics or stone sheath. They just don't do enough to justify the skill slot. Earth in general feels weak but those skills particularly feel very underpowered to me
>>3157476Be wary of the long cast times on EQ/Eruption. Getting cucked out of 25 energy with no attunement refund sucks when your target dies before the cast goes off.
>>3157492I like magnetic aura more than I like magnetic surge so I might swap surge with churning earth or somethingI like stone sheath since it's solid aoe damage + weakness on balled enemies at range (and can potentially hit even more if they're near me and my ally) but I might consider swapping it for shockwave since shockwave is a ton of damage with the caveat that you need to be directly on top of them>>3157507I've gotten my attune removed a few times and it's a pain in the ass, not sure how I'd go about building around that though since the areas I'm in right now in mid-NF are full of the mandragor necros that can will strip enchantments off of me in bulk
>>3157476Fucked around with similar shit on heros, its decent tho it does need refining.
>>3157522Glyph of Lesser Energy is always solid when casting expensive spells.
what does roguelike mean?
>>3157534is obsidian flame better than EQ here? I'd like both just for super damage but it's kind of heavy on overcast>>3157542I like that actually, might drop mag surge and potentially aura of resto to use that and free up a slot
>>3157552Obsidian flame does decent armor-ignoring single target with a shorter cast time and much less energy cost, but its main benefit is as an overcast party starter for all of your skills that synergize with it.
>>3157552Id say yes cuz EQ costs 25 and its a 3 sec cast, super easy to rupt and will cuck you out of 25eObsidian tho single target deals 118 armor ignoring at 16 earh and it fuels the overcast things nicely.
>>3157552Aura of resto is good because its a cover enchant for attunement so you're not btfo'd by a shatter enchantment. Ob flame not being aoe sucks, but it's better than your similarly single target magnetic surge and even stoning by a good amount. You should run OtL, soul ignition and spam eruption
>>3157543You get random abilities throughout the run so you have to make builds on the fly.
>>3157573>>3157578Maybe intensity with it instead? Not sure how synergistic it is since intensity doesn’t have as short a cd>>3157580True, hmMag surge / aura also cover but they might just drop off and I get my attune stripped anyway
>>3157676Their uptime vs CD is horrible. Plus most of the utility is in blocking but displacement honestly covers all those needs and just works better than those.
>>3157676Intensity doesn't work with obsidian flame because obsidian flame is not elemental damage
>>3157676>>3157701Intensity is fine to use on stoning though, or on EQ.
>>3157543in regards to the guild wars expansion, random skills and random enemies. perhaps random objectives and random map layouts
>>3157697True but I don’t currently have a rit hero to run ST stuff on so I still get value out of magnetic stuff at the moment>>3157701Damn, I honestly forgot that’s how intensity worked>>3157706Yeah but I was thinking of intensity + obflame for big damage compared to EQ, I’m not sure where intensity would fit into my current bar unless I want to remove more stuff
I purchased Afterlive like a good little piggy but I don't see a key, or code in an email anywhere, how do i get the pre-order costume?
>>3156638monk so you can abuse reusable res and hard carry a team of retarded hench/heros. The other fun thing with mesmer is fast casting works on most res spells. I've seen people abuse it on builds like signet of illusions where you can full HP res someone in 2 seconds. mesmer suffers from having such a strong set of skills in addition to having fast casting (which primarily benefits mesmer spells) that there's really not much benefit to multi classing unless you're doing something specific (like IW scythe).That said, I wouldn't think too hard on this, you can always change it later.>>3156708you can combine it with +20% enchanting staff to abuse powerful enchants. I did this in FA once and made a build to almost maintain 100% uptime on spell breaker so nobody could target me and playing prot so Shield of Absorption and Guardian lasted 10 seconds and I would maintain this on the turtle. >>3157476I don't really like Stone Sheath for PvE unless you have some WILD setup on team to abuse the AoE weakness (more than just stoning), it's basically wasting an elite to cast a low damage AoE weakness and the +30 AR is not a huge factor if you're running an ST anyway, and most melee you would cast this on don't need +30 AR If you're playing with real humans they would prefer Gust for quality of life or Double Dragon for damage. Alternatively if you are DETERMINED to play earth, unsteady ground is much nicer to have on team regardless of comp, and if you're playing HM I would drop magnetic surge for Churning Earth. Churning absolutely fucks up HM enemies it's like the one good part of an earth ele.
>>3157809ST and someone running SyG is honestly all you need for defense
>>3157820Yeah ST is pretty much end all be all for damage mitigation I've always argued it's the most broken aspect of the GW1 meta (mesmers catch way too much flak because big number is obvious problem compared to smaller problem invalidating all damage mitigation spells).
>>3157843The issue is shit in HM generally hits too hard for heroes to prot correctly without shelter, or paragon stacking
>>3156876>little experience in the gamehonestly, just stop reading guides about what's good or trying to figure out what build you want to play 2 campaigns lateryou both won't have the skills to do hyperoptimized builds AND won't need them. if you want to play a caster who can do some close range stuff too, it's hard to go wrong until you get into endgame stuff (hard mode, elite areas and dungeons, etc) which is 20+ hours away per campaignpick a class, get skills from skill quests or new trainers when you see them, check the wiki when you go into an area to see if there are elite skills, cap anything that's new to you. make a build with it and the skills you have, maybe it's shit but you still scrape by, try something new next time
>>3157809you're probably right but I just like stone sheath for how much mitigation it gives, I'll probably swap it out for unsteady or shockwave when I get themmy main gripe with earth magic is that it has so many "thing on the ground" elites compared with damage+utility skills like stone sheath
>>3157787the code is emailed to you on the receipt of your order
>>3157917"Stand Your Ground" mogs the fuck out of it.
>>3157956do i need stand your ground if im running save yourselves
>>3157965No but are you now running stone sheath AND save yourselves?
>>3157956But elementalist can't learn SYG...
>>3158009Bro, your secondary profession?
>>3158017monk so I can be an emo
>>3158009You put it on a hero, numbnuts. you got 64 skill slots on your team. fucking use them
>>3157931I was being dumb and bought it through Steam, there isn't a code in there. I guess I have to contact Anet.
>>3158099why is the steam version so janky? its been like this since 2009
>>3158099Maybe it's applied automatically? If you go to the costume vendor can you pick up the costume there?
>>3157969im about to abandon command
every once in a while someone sells a black dye at the trader and i help myself to it
>>3158533on HR, yeah that's sensible. or if you're running a conset.
Somebody explain to me what Symbols of Inspiration does. Is it just designed to cuck your foe out of their elite?
>>3158167Nope, costume maker says I need to redeem my key in the store. Probably just Steam being Steam like anon said earlier. Dunno why I brainfarted on that one, everything else except for the base game I got through the store site like god intended.
>>3157843>I've always argued it's the most broken aspect of the GW1 metaSomething necessary isn't brokenThere was tons of ways to handle a Hard Mode that didn't revolve around "random mob will just 1shot you (and your party if it's a caster) for the lulz"ST is only "broken" because it makes the game playable at all in this paradigm
>>3118918You could also throw on Enduring Harmony to make FGJ and SY last longer.
>>3158555It copies the enemy's elite to your skill bar, so you get to use the enemy's elite.
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/A_Assassin%27s_Promise_Death_Magicorhttps://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/any_Order_of_Undeath?
>>3159239Minions are tedious
>>3159352I know, but necro and monk are the only professions I haven't played through the game with.
>>3159352On the flip side, AP caller is mega lame.>>3159361There is more to necromancer than minions.
>>3159452Very true. There's a reason my necromancer is unloved. I've never found a build I liked on it
>>3159452>There is more to necromancer than minions.What would you recommend? I'm not really interested in playing dagger necro because I want something different from my assassin.
>>3159491Necromancer is a great profession that shines in utility. This is especially apparent in the realms of condition and degen play and melee support functionalities. Of course, those play styles aren't very fun in solo PvE.Some thing that you might actually enjoy in PvE might be leaning toward direct damage options like Discord, Icy Veins, Feast of Corruption, Pain of Disenchantment, and Ravenous Gaze. There's also a number of strong punishment style elites you can build around like Spiteful Spirit, Spoil Victor (better for Hard Mode), Soul Leech.
>>3159511Thank you
>>3159239arcane echo + spiteful spirit combo carried my necro through late prophecies, could be worth considering if you like lots of numbers popping uponly issue is that it’s a late capture so you’ll need another build to get there
Why do so many people shit on Warrior? I think they're fun
>>3159720Modern MMO players aren't used to a class that spends a lot of time auto-attacking.
>>3159720I like make my own unique meme builds and Warrior and Paragon are by far the most difficult classes to create unique meme builds for due to their limited energy and primary attributes. I don't think it's that common to not enjoy Warrior though, it's always been one of the most played classes.
>>3159720It’s a ton of fun but I’ve had the most trouble playing the game by far with it, tahnakai temple was horrific and took me like 6 tries because mhenlo/togo suicided in and I couldn’t do anything about itI assume it’s mostly because assassin and derv both have super strong utility and energy so they might crowd out warrior a bit?
>>3159720It's not that warrior is bad, it's that everything it can do other professions can do better.
>>3159742Assassin has strong burst 100% of the time (as long as you can manage your energy), and unlike Warrior, you have multiple IAS options with zero drawbacks. Dervish has strong AoE and great flash enchantment utility skills that Warrior can't use because of its tiny energy pool and no Mysticism.
>>3159769My biggest whine about warrior is that all of its consistent blocking options are either weak or annoying to usebonetti’s is at least really high uptime but it’s a stance so no IAS and it feels annoying when I can’t use my skills, whereas assassin just has critical defenses I know there’s an argument for stance being much harder to remove than enchantments (and bonetti’s IS really good, don’t get me wrong) but I wish warrior had lower cooldowns on its other defensives like shield stance
>>3159720It doesn't really excel at anything. Assassin and dervish generally do any playstyle or farm better. There's some competitive builds but overall those other two do everything warrior would do but better.
>>3159742The secret to Tahnakai to not make Togo and Mhenlo suicide as a melee is to flag your heroes for pulls
>>3159769In Warriors defence they don't drop dead as fast as an Assassin can. what they lack in raw damage they make up with survivability.Still I do hope they give Warriors some love in afterlife.
>>3160051I think a lot of conventional knowledge about class balance at this point is pretty out of whack because it's based around what the game is like when you play on Hard Mode with a full loadout of maximized PvE skills and a fully-curated team of Heroes.Afterlife will almost by default be a lot closer to what the game is like when you play on Normal Mode using Henchmen and whatever skills you pick up along the way, and I think Warrior acquits itself a lot better in that scenario compared to the non-Core melee classes.
>>3160080I think Ele will shine in that mode too, since it has strong inherent energy management and it's easier to build for damage without centering around an elite.
>>3160123Idk if you have a run on ele where you don't get an attunement for the spells you got, you're kinda fucked
>>3160130I assume the preset basic builds you start out with will include an attune
>>3160130I'd be surprised if there weren't a couple of skills you could pre-slot into your bar before every run.
>>3160130I'm going to assume you don't go in completely empty, I bet you will pick a starting skill and go in with that. Most roguelikes don't send you in naked.
How do you guys think attribute points will work in the roguelike mode since you can multi-spec from different professions
>>3160326I really wish they would've told us how attributes & weapons will work in the roguelike mode. I know they just announced it but I think they should've done a stream explaining things already. Have a feeling that'll be in a reforged anniversary live stream or something.
Ranger has the best drip.
>>3159720overtuned for pvpits time to take the shackles off. paragon got enough love.
>>3160789ranger has the best obby
PvX really needs to reset its voting system, so many of its builds are really outdated.
i gave my ranger hero a bar like this (with a non pve skill rezz), and the damage is actually quite nice. since consets are now pretty much free, it's easy to get expertise to 17. At that level, the cost for 10 energy skills in this bar becomes only 3 energy, so they can be spammed. to be honest, i never considered bow heroes viable before because they either did no damage or less damage than other classes. this is fine though
>>3160326the skill values will be pre set
Is it January 13th yet?
>>3161183bow heroes have always been viable, especially with spamming interrupts, bleed, and poison.
>>3161183I keep wanting to change my ranger's hero setup from para heros being buffed by TaO + EBSoH to ranger heros being buffed by TaO + EBSoH but I can never put pen to paper and actually nail down what I want that sort of setup to look like. Similarly on my ritualist had a weird idea for a 4 ranger barrage setup where I abuse GDW to AoE KD groups of enemies.
>>3160326>since you can multi-spec from different professionsyou can WHAT
>>3162141The roguelike gamemode allows you to draw skills from more than two professions, unless I completely misread the trailer
>>3162192no I'm just dumbmulticlass, multielite
>>3162238That bar makes Hamstorm look 1000 IQ by comparison
>>3162274>use aura of the lich>heal minions with healing burst which heals your partySecret strats?
>>3162315minions are allies, sorry
>>3162325They can still be targeted by HB tho
>>3162274there exists a world where someone will be forced to discover how powerful hamstorm is when they receive hamstring followed by fire storm as their first rewards.
>127/140 for Elonian Skill HunterEnd my suffering
thoughts? hex removal?
>>3162547It's done. I don't have to capture any more of these fucking elites.
>started a Mo with the goal of using the DF hammer with Judgement Strike>got the hammer during the last anni>ha ha time to finish Factions and go get GS>somehow got it in my brain that you capped it from Raisu Palace>It's actually in Ruptured Heartfuck
>>3163273tbf, every character should finish factions, nf, and eotn for the fast zaishens, Augury rock too but that's a pain to get to sometimes
>Have to display every single statue to get the Hall of Monuments to update properly
>>3162938Don't really know how I feel about blessed aura on that prot bar. If you're going to play blessed aura you're almost better off going Mark of Protection so you can just make someone unkillable for 15 seconds. and maybe shield of absorption over shielding hands too. Though this probably isn't great either.If you have other hex removal on the team it's fine, but if you don't have any hex removal you should drop the res for Deny Hex that'll remove 1-2 hexes per cast depending on if Divine Healing is on recharge.
>>3163183Skill hunting is more fun than cartography.Tyrian SKill Hunter is the only annoying one even
>>3164544With enchanting staff it makes aura of faith like 8 seconds which I like a lotI will probably swap off res for deny hexes though, good idea. I already have a UA healer monk hero so I don’t really need to roll a res on myself
I'm playing icy veins necro, if I have a mm necro in my party what should I be swapping putrid explosion for?
Today's Zaishen mission is Augury Rock, free coins for everyone
>>3164859what funky math are you doing? 12 Divine Favor Blessed Aura (30% longer duration) * 3 seconds aura of faith = 3.9, which gets rounded to 4. 20% Of Enchanting * 4 = 4.8, which gets rounded to 5.
Afterlife isn't gonna be composed by soule.
souless
>>3165468shiet im gonna be rich
>>3165424You shouldn't be swapping anything because Putrid Explosion rocks.
>>3165781It's not gonna step on the MM's toes?
How much do gold Zcoins sell for?
>>31657976e-7e
>>3165801TY!
>>3165569I have no idea how I was remembering it as 8s but you’re right, regardless of the order of enchant bonus application it’ll be 5 secondsI just don’t really like MoP for the fact it disables your other prots, I feel like it’s kinda clunky to use even if it’s essentially a single target invuln for 15s or soWhat would you slot with it to not just be useless during the 5s prot downtime?
>>316582316 seconds technically with Of Enchanting staff, but yeah I don't love that build either just cause the downtime is sketchy. You could technically arcane echo it to get 2 people basically immune to damage and run all divine favor skills to heal inbetween downtimes. Running Blessed Aura for just a single extra second of aura of faith just seems sad. If you really like Aura of Faith you might even be better off just running Serpents Quickness so you can cast aura of faith every 5 seconds.
>>3165879I might replace blessed aura with RoF or something in that case, I just used it because it gives technically +25% duration on it since it goes 4->5 and that uptime is nice (along with it making seed of life / shielding hands slightly more effective)
I think I hate monk
I think I love Warrior
>>3165899supposed to be smiting
>>3165468ok friends, here's a quick tip for augury rock HM. make your second class necro and just take pic related as two skills (Awaken the Blood and Well of the Profane). The doppelganger will cast the enchantment and then the well eventually. He will reduce himself to 1 hp or straight up kill himself by doing this lmao.
>>3165913is it fast enough to get the bonus
>>3165918yeah it takes like 20 seconds max once you're in the arena
>>3165913What if you have more wells
>>3165927no idea but i think it's going to go well
>>3165923based
>>3165913>>3165918ok so i tested it with pic related and the whole thing, including running to the arena, took me about 30 s
>>3165953yeah get an assassin on his punk ass
>>3165927now after trying the mission with several characters, this is a really good point. the doppelganger doesn't cast the well reliably, so more well spells = higher chance of instant success
Think the wikis dying again...
>>3165790If you're in an 8 man party zone you'll have plenty of corpses.
>>3165953my doppel isnt welling itself
>>3166085try to add more wells to your skillbar and run into him
>>3166103I wonder if they changed the logic. he used to well instantly
>>3166085this worked for me just now, I assume insidious parasite works just as well as spiteful does (he didn't use well at all on me either)
>>3165899>monkyou're supposed to group up with multiple players, ideally as protIf you don't do this then your best options are to take up smiting or replace as much of your backline with damage dealers as you can handle
what's even worth buying with zcoinsI'm kind of eyeing up the light equipment pack for 1 gold coin
>>3166195bag expanders and equipment packs tend to be the main thing people buy.
>>3166195Bags. The 1 g zcoin ones are okay but honestly you could probably find them for cheaper in kama. The big ones are very nice
>>3166142>you're supposed to group up with multiple players, ideally as protThis never happens because everyone has a ritualist alt that runs ST so you're stuck on redbar duty.
>>3165899I genuinely think prot monk is the best designed healer role in any mmo game that exists
>>3166195I'd save up for the Large. 15 slots for 5 zcoins is a steal.
>>3166368I only have like 700 copper right now so it'll be a bit
>>3166388If you have alts, finish the campaigns with them. There are a few easy missions or vanqs (with the right quests) and you can hold the zaishen dailies until it's the right bonus week. Can get big zcoin gains by doing this. It's how I make most of my money
RNGsus was kind today
>>3166461I have a character for every prof but I still need to get into actually doing vanqs since I've barely touched HM content ever
>>3166520Bukdek byway (needs specific quests), shadows passage, and zen daijun (iirc factions characters only) are all extremely fast. Tahnahkai Temple can be a fast vanq but basically needs an alt dedicated to holding the quest that reduces spawns.
>>3166527do you normally need to run a specific comp for them?
>>3166630>Bukdek BywayHave a quest and it's one guy you kill. See the wiki for more details.>Shadow's PassageIt's just a tiny zone.>Zen DaijunFactions characters just zone in and kill am ambient creature.
>>3166637are there any bosses that are quick to get to
>>3166660Uhh, I know there are some farm spots in the Echovald, but in general findings bosses isnt as tricky in Factions and Nightfall as it is in Prophecies.
>>3166683I was thinking maybe molotov rocktail is an easy one
>>3166120I'm doing gold ol fashioned empathy right now and dodging the spear tosses
>>3166660>>3166690mobrin, korshek, grab the dungeon ones if you're gonna do them anywaybut really it's missions, the rare scam vq (bukdek, tahnakai) and HA. on days when there's HA zcombat you can get half a gzcoin in like 20 mins all day. free zkeys and hero title too
>>3166515'aving a blast?
They should add a damage reduction to Warriors strength attribute. at least then it might be able to close the gap between it and Derv and Sin when it comes to tanking.
>>3167776i had a similar idea maybe reduce condi and hex time with higher str someone else even suggested an adrenaline bonus with higher str
>>3167915Adrenaline bonus is an even better idea. that would make a lot of Warrior builds be on par with the other two martial professions.
HOW TO FIX RANGER>Expertise now reduces adrenaline costs too>make a bunch of bow and pet attacks adrenaline-based>turn Bestial Fury from just a boring duplicate into a self-buff skill that gives you all the adrenaline your pet generatesBOOM, a dozen new viable ranger builds using warrior, paragon, or even dervish secondaries, pets become more useful for both primary and secondary rangers, AND bow becomes more viable for other professions like warrior or paragon since it's not entirely gated by huge energy costs anymore
>>3168139I like this idea.2Weeks should do it as well as some preparation changes and maybe some better AoE on BoW after they buff Blood Magic some more.
>>3168139so long as they do pve/pvp splits for all affected bow skills.
Is SWS spear still viable or did the nerf finally kill it?
Reminder to stockpile some easy Zbounty quests on your alts so you can turn them in for Zbounty week.
>>3168958just use the anniversary spear
Reminder to turn in Zaishen Missions immediately and never stockpile finished quests because instant gratification is much better than letting quests sit in your quest log
Which campaign is the easiest to start with for smiting monk?
>>3171875Factions if you want to level up fast or Nightfall if you want heros quicker.
>>3171778Imo factions. Fast leveling if you know what you're doing. Quick armor. Ray of judgement is early. Access to a lot of skills as soon as you reach kaineng+kama+eotn. Probably the fastest ascension. I start nearly every character as factions for those reasons, though I don't always go past nahpui on them before doing other campaigns. Just the fastest to spin up a fully built and ready character.
Is Smiting Monk even fun?
>>3171928no
>>3171928I think it’s funroj does a ton of damage and if you run smiter’s boon then you can be a really solid healerOnly issue is that it does get kind of stale after a bit since you don’t really have anything to look forward to after unlocking roj
>>3171875Factions is where the only good smiting elites are
So is afterlife just a rougelike dungeon or will it have other content? I'm not expecting them to make a big champaign giving the new teams tiny size and i bet not that big of a budget.
>>3159720Dervish can do everything warrior can but better and with more fun gameplay, but if you really need to start on non-Nightfall campaign warrior is alright, i guess.
>>3172457It sounds like there's an overarching story campaign but it's all going to be told through the one main dungeon.There's like 14 Afterlife maps in the client already though, compared to I think around 20 overworld maps in EotN total? It looks surprisingly big for how many people they have working on the game.
>>3172457I DON'T KNOW
>>3172457I dunno, but it's literally cost more than the game itself and only 5 less than reforged+eotn+bonus mission pack, so they better actually do something fucking nice with it.
>>3173191just by announcing the expansion has exceeded my expectations
>>3171778nahturn in the lowest reward one, keep the rest
Why can't I add my elementalist's elite sunspear armor to the hall of monuments?
>vq>finish it in 30 mins>run around 20 more mins looking for the last mobFAGGOT MODE for FAGGOTS
>>3173613does stalker's ration fix this or no? never done a vq before
>>3173669Sort of, but they have to be relatively close (like 2 compass radii). It unfortunately also pings popup mobs who you haven't aggro'ed yet.
>>3173669didn't have one on me
>>3173539Make sure you aren't wearing a mixed set
>>3173613The worst is when its a burrowing one that you can't see until your standing on top of them. Fuck those assholes.
>>3173613How are you going about it? I found if I moved in a spiral from the outward in I stopped having runs like that.
Does the store do christmas sales? I want more character slots T_T
Is fiber gonna go over 2k ?
>>3175216what is this shit even for
>>3175326It's used to make res scrolls
>>3175339these nigs getting party wiped every zone or what
>>3175339I think I've used maybe 4 res scrolls in 20 years
>>3175392Bawww material, invite every single one of them
>>3175326Monk and Necromancer armor primarily
>>3175216how do I farm this effectively? I know mandragors and the factions plant monk guys drop it
>>3176187There's a quest people farm in echovald iirc
>>3175216why is this happening
>>3176202I'll look it up and try to come up with some farming build
>>3174774They'll probably do an anniversary sale in April, not sure about any time earlier gonna be luck, maybe if you get lucky they'll do a sale on expansion launch day in January.During april anniversary I give away like 100$+ of store items on thread and ingame be sure to check in.>>3176187There's a semi popular old school ToA farm as well you just kill the plants outside of ToA and rezone, not the fastest but it's pretty simple and rezone is quick. Would def recommend the echovald quest one though.
>>3176557Isn’t there a drop malus on the first mobs near a zone entrance? I remember doing that ToA farm for their trophies for GotT and there was a short route of them
>>3176616Pretty much all the popular farms in existence are affected by that. In general, yes but the overall consensus is that you can do these farms fast enough that you're better off just ignoring it and doing the farm multiple times with the malus compared to trying to do something fancy to get around it.The main benefit to ToA farm is that it's extremely accessible, runs are fast, requires 0 brainpower, and just about any valid farm build with spell immunity in the game is capable of doing it.
>>3174686in open space I was pathing back and forth in a grid to the edge of the map (far left, up half compass, far right), killing anything visible before returning to my line. where there were obstacles, I went in a one-way loop, ensuring I had compass-range coverage of any traversable terrain. there was a 2-mob fast-moving patrol that ran all the way out of my range on either side of my traversals. I've had patrols in the same direction before, who I only caught by stoppingit's just a gay way to play, and I need to stop forgetting and retrying it every couple years. no one would ever ever ever vq if there wasn't a name for it and you didn't get a popup at the end
can I replace inscriptions / mods with other ones without destroying the weapon? I have a shitty +13% stance damage inscription that I'd use if I can just replace it risk free later
>>3177103just apply over itinscriptions, weapon mods, runes, insignias. it'll destroy the thing it's replacing but the weapon will otherwise be the same
>>3177118coolI assumed as much but I couldn't really tell from my reading of the wiki and I didn't want to risk my epic awesome VDS
How am I supposed to win the norn fighting tournament as a sad pitiful warrior
>>3177400https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N5c0_pdCCA
>>3177422I'll need to grab ymlad, might just be the fact that I'm not interrupting his form
>>3177461leech sig, dshot, etc
>>3177532w/me secret strats
lads i think we need a new thread very soon
>>3179888yeah I probably shouldNEW THREAD>>3180518>>3180518>>3180518
