Guild Wars 2: Post-Release Discussion

[Kuishen]

Starting to get legitimately annoyed with Trading House and Overflow still not working. I'd rather have shit be intermittent than just plain not working for 4 days straight.

[Ohemgee]

Yeah its really a drag trying to sell gear via shout.

Just hit level 30. Anyone have any first impressions for the AC dungeon?

[Arcana]

catacombs is harder than manor on story mode, its enjoyable but you'll need to think when it comes down to boss strats.

[niwaar]

Starting to get legitimately annoyed with Trading House and Overflow still not working. I'd rather have shit be intermittent than just plain not working for 4 days straight.

Yeah its really a drag trying to sell gear via shout.

Actually, I would rather have stuff work period. The overflow issues DO work most of the time, you just have to work the system a little. Biggest problem with it is if you are queued for WvW you can't really use the "fixes" because they involve relogging. Most of the overflow issues involve server "location" lag. Meaning the server doesn't see you have zoned for several minutes so your party members can not Join In because it sees you as someplace else.

The Trading Post may come up with tonight's maintenance so cross your fingers. They seem to have fixed most of the guild related issues.

Selling stuff via shout? Not like we haven't been there and done that. Their major flaw of course was not allowing for a way to trade money via a CoD option. I realize they are did the no trade and no CoD thing for a legitimate reason, but the solution makes things worse.

Here's to hoping we get a stable game with fixes to the big issues so they can start fixing the quality of life things people really want.

[Kachiko]

Good God, please let the TP be fixed with this maintenance. Most of my gear is 10 levels lower then my current level, making it a bitch to kill stuff for my story quests and equal level mobs.

[tol]

Just hit 45, done Catacombs a couple times when we hit 30 and while a few parts where challenging, overall it was very manageable. We were a guild group though and have been raiding together in swtor for a while so it wasn't really a test of trying to pug it. Overall though, pretty solid impression of the first dungeon. Going to try Manor tomorrow or Thursday.

[Alderaan]

Good God, please let the TP be fixed with this maintenance. Most of my gear is 10 levels lower then my current level, making it a bitch to kill stuff for my story quests and equal level mobs.

Karma vendors sell you green gear. It's how I've always geared up.

[Lucavi]

What level is each instance anyway?

[Alderaan]

What level is each instance anyway?

Ascalonian Catacombs - 30/35
Caudecus's Manor - 40+
Twilight Arbor - 50+
Sorrow's Embrace - 60-70
Citadel of Flame - 70
Crucible of Eternity
Honor of the Waves - 80
Arah - 80

[warc]

Has anyone done the goonies style jumping puzzle in Lion's Arch? Also the sewers one as well. Doing those with a friend was probably my favorite part of gw2 so far. Went in looking for a vista and ended up on a 2 hour quest to find pirate treasure. Awesome.

[Eanae]

Got hacked. How do I enable email authentication? Was that beta only?

[Kachiko]

Karma vendors sell you green gear. It's how I've always geared up.

I might if they had stats my build uses but I'm always seeing healing or condition damage. I'm almost 35 so I'll probably go back to Divinity Reach and buy the Karma weapons and buy some of the race armor, depending on what I need. At least my jewelry is up to date.

[Eanae]

Hmm. Reading up on things I'm not sure if I was hacked. I got password reset emails but I panicked and just changed the password right away. It seems people have been being spammed with these emails. So I won't know until I get home. >.<

[Dantrag]

I might if they had stats my build uses but I'm always seeing healing or condition damage. I'm almost 35 so I'll probably go back to Divinity Reach and buy the Karma weapons and buy some of the race armor, depending on what I need. At least my jewelry is up to date.

Wait til 40 and get tier 1 stuff.

[Rhyis.]

So here's a RvR update on this crazy Henge of Denravi server. 2 out 4 of our camp entrances into the zone are now farmed by a wall of trebuchets 24/7 (could be bots? dunno). Could be happening to the other server as well, not sure.

Anybody that has to fight Henge of Denravi in the future, I take pity on your soul. These dudes are pretty damned hardcore.

[Celeras]

Starting to get legitimately annoyed with Trading House and Overflow still not working. I'd rather have shit be intermittent than just plain not working for 4 days straight.

Three of which were prelaunch? I'd love to wrap my mind about how people can even give a shit about a trading post in a game thats been out for today. Blows my mind when people are 'legitimately annoyed' about something so trivial.

And overflow has worked flawlessly for me since the sunday patch.

[Dantrag]

Three of which were prelaunch? I'd love to wrap my mind about how people can even give a shit about a trading post in a game thats been out for today. Blows my mind when people are 'legitimately annoyed' about something so trivial.

And overflow has worked flawlessly for me since the sunday patch.

Try to keep up with crafting without the trading post. It's a pain in the ass. I spent probably the last 6 hours in game in low level zones farming tier 1 mats.

[niwaar]

This guy has a number of good tips, thought I'd quote it. Original post is here.

• Harvest everything you see, you get 0.5% to 0.65% (for comparison a mob gives 0.125%) of the area level in xp when you do this (0.5% of your level in WvW), it's always worth it to go out of the way to get these.
• Try to not level crafting skills till you get to level 50+, the content becomes harder and there are less hearts to complete while crafting xp stays the same (its % level based).
• Do WvW but only to get full zone completion, I managed to clear full zones in under two hours for close to a full level at 80 (includes the awesome xp from gathering). Even without doing the zone completion WvW is amazing xp if you gather every harvest node you see.
• Cooking buffs are amazing, not only do they give you bonus xp but they give great stats/boosts. Itt's very easy to get your hands on food (a lot of vendors in lions arch have them), if you want super cheap xp boosts get a bag of rice balls from the cooking trainer (costs 25 karma) and give you 250 minutes worth of xp boost (be warned it deposits on depositing all).
• Try and level with friends or in a group/zerg as much as possible, not only does it make it so you can kill dynamic events (group ones) that you couldn't if you were solo but it helps speed up hearts as well.
• Try and do dungeons at the right level, the xp from clearing is based of the level of the dungeon so it doesn't scale but if you want to help a guildie or friend out I would go for it, its still decent xp and gear drops that is your level.
• Have one AoE weapon and one single target weapon, clearing 2-3 non-veteran mobs with aoe is very easy and swapping out to a single target weapon for bosses speeds things up a lot.
• Check karma vendors (hearts) for upgrades all the time, you should be able to buy one blue item every time you unlock a vendor with karma you get from normal dynamic events.
• If you don't mind missing out on some gear try waiting till level 70+ to do full map completions. The xp you get will always be 10% of your level so it's better to do it at higher levels when the content is harder.
• Explore a lot, the bonus xp you get from killing mobs that haven't been killed in a while is amazing (some mobs with the bonus gave me around 1.4k xp per kill at level 80), not to mention you find a lot of things to harvest while doing so.
• If you're solo don't try to do hearts/dynamic events that are 3+ levels higher than you are, try going to a different zone (even if the other zone is a few levels below you).
• Personal story is not that great for xp but its a lot of fun and worth doing, if you want to rush to 80 asap I would just wait till 80 to start working on it.
• Clear farms that are in zones your level (or even a few levels lower), for those of you who don't know about them each zone has a "farm" where there are 8-10 plant nodes to gather. This is awesome xp and rests every 24 hours so if you can't spend a lot of time on each day and still want levels I would check out the farms in each zone.
• Don't worry if you have to go back to other lower level zones to level, you might be a few levels under but the xp is still very good because you can clear stuff faster.
• Rez everyone (even ranger pets) the xp from reviving someone is great and you're helping some one out.
• If you have extra mats sitting in your collection but can't use them for your profession, spend a few silver to swap over to something else and use up all those mats for some quick xp.
• Weapon ruins that give +(3/5/7/) damage on kill and stack to 25 are amazing for making things go a lot faster.
• Skills that give you bonus move speed are amazing to help you get from place to place faster.

[Siya]

Auto-Balancing is fucking bs. My team is ahead 100 points, I just soloed Svanir and I get booted to the opposite team, so now I'm against everyone I just got the buff for

[Rhyis.]

Happens in shooters with CTF/CP/etc. You get used to it.