Guild Wars 2

It has a low barrier of entry and a high skill ceiling. If you want to just world boss train and complain to all your fellow casuals how great it is to roll around in your own mediocrity, you will find a lot of people to do that with. If you want challenging end-game content, there is also a ton of things to do there and you can be as elitist and try-hard as you wish to be with it.

Post Asuras, faggots.

Also, except for bosses, other events, and dungeons and PvP, there isn't really a need to work together.
So the leveling experience can sometimes feel like there's plenty of people, but yet you're still lonely imo.

Runs well on my toaster, story mode is cool but a bit sparse, theres lots of things to do without being super grindy, and you can make a qt trap if you want to.

Also, crafting is more of a way to get exp than to get useful items, I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with both 40$ expacs and a microstransaction shop, and alot of things that are common in other MMOs are sidelined or replaced by features more in-line with GW2's preferred playstyle.

Got tired of logging in every day to do Dragonfall, so now I'm playing FF14.

People rarely craft so its a good way to make money too, which you can in turn exchange into the stuff for the cash shop.

I think its one of the only games to have an In-Game currency to premium currency transfer iirc.

You first fag

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Why are you doing dragonfall everyday.
I bought the path of fire expac when it was £25 but I could have gotten both heart of thorns and path of fire if I had bought them from cdkeys at that time so I fucked up. Mounts are fun and the griffon gave me an early reason to start making gold.

What actually is there to do at endgame, though? Are there actual raids and shit?

How's that work without the tank/heal/dps trinity

Just started a Necro and used a boost trial thing. Looks kinda neat but what the fuck do I even do

Fuck no, don't do it
For an example of what level the development is at right now, the latest patch added a slut outfit that you can only get from lootboxes.

I play whenever a LS update happens but other than that not much.

There are raids but I've never done one because it's kinda elite unless you find people willing to teach and help you. Classes and their specializations can carry out the standard tank/heal/dps roles often one specialization can be used for different things for example I main necro scourge and I can support or condi dps.

Honestly, I think anyone's first MMO, no matter what it is, is garunteed to be either fun, confusing, or both.

I'm pretty sure the first human zone is more
densely populated than the human city. The large town to the south-west in particular is filled with palyers of all levels doing profession, socializing, and doing the world bosses.

Like, imagine if Elwynn Forest and Goldshire regularly had content for high level players to do.

Speaking of, the Human city is way bigger than it needs to be. Same with charr I guess, but I'm giving them a pass since I like theirs better since it's more assymetrical.

Amen on the world design thing

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The playerbase is getting so fed up with this trash game that the subreddit mods decided to go full gestapo and start banning anyone talking negatively about it. They were so asshurt they even implemented a code of conduct "against hateful posts."

Is the subreddit official? I've never used it

>devs add beetle races
>in an interview they go on and on about how they spent months and months programming a back end system that lets them conceptualize, test and implement new beetle races in as little as three days
>not a single new beetle race since then

This is why GW2 sucks ass, the devs waste unimaginable amounts of man hours creating new system after new system for features that they immediately abandon. In a dev chat they even bragged about how seven artists spent almost six months making Kralkatorrok's full body model, and then you only see it in game for five fucking minutes. These retards have absolutely no time management skills at all.

Exploring the world is great, quest structure is fantastic and ensures you are always moving forward instead of running back and forth from the field to town. You get XP for just about anything so you are constantly leveling up which makes progression fun instead of a chore.

Story is alright, the cool part is how often you get to choose which path to take (lead an assault with ground troops or set up a fuckueg laser or wait or helicopters to drop bombs and shit) so you can play through the game multiple times, each race also has different starting areas and stories, those are actually more interesting than the overarching plot.

They've kinda fixed the 'no trinity' thing, support is much more viable than it once was but DPS is still the way to go. Combat is still really fun and active for an MMO.

There's plenty of end-game content to keep you busy for a few hundred hours at least. I think there's 8 dungeons in the base game, each with 4 paths, then a dungeon with like 10 stages that are randomly mixed up each run.

Cosmetic shit is great, you can apply skins to whatever armor you are wearing, so if you hate the look of your best armor you can just apply the look of a previous set over your current stuff.

PvP is pretty dumb though, sometimes it's just too fucking hard to tell exactly what's going on, really spammy. Granted I played a lot of GW1 PvP and that shit was amazing.

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I played GW2 in release and I was so bored by the combat system that I stopped after 3 weeks. I really liked all the possible combinations you could build in GW1 and that wasn't there in GW2 at all. Has something changed since then or is it still "faceroll all your spells on cooldown and maybe dodge once or twice"?

best male sylvari hair right there

Did they ever bring this back? It was pretty entertaining

youtube.com/watch?v=60TCwX11PVw

>In a dev chat they even bragged about how seven artists spent almost six months making Kralkatorrok's full body model
That's really not much, a single set of armour in an MMO can take as much as six months to develop. I'm assuming you're including concept artists, animators, sfx artists, etc. because I don't see how it could take 6 months just to model the body with 7 developers.

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SAB has become a recurring annual event, yes.

>so look at this cool tech we developed to make these Legendary armors with complex particles
>also here's some gem shop outfits that look better than said armor using the same tech because of course
>nothing new that is acquirable in game added with said tech ever again
it really is baffling

I grind for the dragon mount these days. Although there have been so many QoL changes that I get confused.

Cruising around on the beetle is a lot of fun. If mounts were in the game years back this game would... probably still be as it is now.

POUR ONE OUT TO MY NIGGAS WHO MAIN GS/RIFLE MAX HEIGHT MALE NORN WARRIOR

FOREVER KINGS, FOREVER FORSAKEN

Every year. Sometimes multiple times. If they ever close the game down I hope they isolate SAB into an offline build to give to customers.

It's a damn shame we can't talk about this on /vg/ because of a single autist

Explain yourself

What the hell do I do with a settler's insignia? Is there a good weapon or class its for or something? I got a leftpaw ascended setters insignia in my bank and its I have been staring at it for years.

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Fractals (mini-dungeons), raids, world-vs-world are what i spend the majority of my time doing and all have active daily players (other than raids which are on a weekly reset schedule). WvW is where i personally spend the most time

Yadda yadda yadda, he made a spam bot and bought a 4pass for it.

Took me a week to get skyscale as a new player, griffon actually took me longer because I didn't know how to efficiently make gold then.

How are Rangers in this game?

And is it worth to boost (I got two of them somehow, probably from xpacs?) or should I grind my way up

Also to add, there is a trinity in endgame, and if you dont use it youre going to have a bad time. You just dont need it in open world cause its not hard

with that you can craft a piece of armor with:
+Toughness, +Healing Power, and +Condition Damage
which realistically you'll only ever see use for in WvW and even then it's nieche, might as well just sell it on the tp if you can, otherwise into the trash it goes

>How's that work without the tank/heal/dps trinity
They realized they fucked up and added the trinity back.
Until you reach the content that expects it, you're expected to time your rolls and/or sacrifice offense for defensive stats. Or just play a braindead tanky class.

Both its elite specs are in the metagame right now, one a healer the other a dps class. Like almost every other class, the base class is mostly useless tho.

How's the trinity work? Guardians are tanks?

>elite spec
>base class
Esplain please

*cough*

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>Guardians are tanks?
No, ironically Guards are crap pve tanks, while the best tank(and some would claim the only) is fucking Mesmer

the gw2 trinity is this: dps, quickness, alacrity

in the current meta this means you run 3 classes:
Renegade (for Alacrity boons)
Firebrand (Healing/Quickness/Stability)
DPS (Dragonhunter, Reaper, Soulbeast, etc)

This basic setup is what "works" in every game mode.

Tanking is not a thing except for a few select raid bosses that aggro based on Toughness stat

You need to buy the expacs if you want to play endgame, basically

I have the Xpacs, bought them when they were dirt cheap a while ago. Still confused cause I haven't actually played it

What an angry retard. I have more sympathy for someone spamming 13 do 50 memes.

tfw can't remember my account and its from an email that is gone

When you get to level 80, you unlock a new traitline for your build you can use, called an Elite Specialization. For ranger, these are Druid and Soulbeast. Both are good if you know how to play them.

Oh so it's like class branching. Is it just a specific talent tree sort of thing, or does it branch out to an actual different class with new abilities?

Looks like you fit right in the gw 2 faggot community. enjoy the game.

Where can I check to find current viable classes and builds?

>ragebaby thinks he's not a bigger faggot than the dick cutters
At least try redpill some people about kikes and niggers or something functuonal if you're going to eat a ban.

yes, if you use it you get access to a new playstyle and new abilities. Soulbeast is particularly fun as your pet becomes part of your build and you can strategize with what pets you take with you

metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki
this is a good starting point but id encourage you to play around with what "works" for you and your playstyle

GW1 and its expansions were amazing, spent long summers playing them. GW2 had potential, but no trinity was a terrible idea.

GW1 didn't have actual tanks besides 55 monks and MM necros but at least there were didcated healers.

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someone just make a fucking gw1 clone already fuck

Fuck off retard. There is nothing in the rules where i cant say fuck. Im going to kill you for your post in minecraft of course. You retarded faggot.

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Worst MMO I ever bought in my life and its coming from someone that also bought SWTOR...

Is WvW still zerging in giant armies? I know they tried to fix it a couple years back but I haven't really paid attention to the changes to WvW

At the very least you didn't buy Wildstar... right?
I did

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If youre running with a guild or following a comm tag, ya its basically still that. Coordinated armies running meta builds win, thats how the game mode is

I sure did, really liked doing lvl 20 dungeons with boss fight harder than average WoW raid boss.

Too bad the game was too hard for the average shitter and it bombed. It sure was a hell of a lot better than GW2.

man I can't go back to questing after GW2... it's so dynamic and fun I just organically get involved in the world and want to explore

I wish WoW was like that because I give 0 shits about GW2's story or world

imo it's not worth getting into right now because it seems like anet is dialing up cash shop focus.

>but this is my first MMORPG
So the takeaway is Newbies love it, Veterans hate it.

How? Have they added p2w consumables? If not I doubt theyre any more or less than the last 3 years.

What profession should I boost?

What have you got at 80 so far?

..n-nothing

Last time I played it there was so many people playing it. It definitely has some severe issues but it's alright. The mounts are fun as hell but once I grinded the ones I wanted and the skins for them there was not many more meaningful things to do unless you're a mentally ill- I mean a collector.

Engineer or Necro, then play Holosmith or Reaper respectively

Congrats you just traded that in for doing daily roulettes every day for tomestones that get you gear that will be irrelevant in the next patch

There's really no reason to play the game anymore for me. This is coming from someone with over 1k hours in the game with one of every profession maxed out. And it doesn't help that I spent nearly twice the amount of time playing GW1 back in the day. I went into it with so much hope and was left utterly empty and disappointed.

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it took you over 1k hours just to get 250 HPs for every class? Do you have an intelligence disability or did you have brain trauma as a child?

Is Reaper fun?

What if I wanna be a minion master

>gw2
>minion master
heh

>t. child with a middle school level reading comprehension skill
Don't @ me again kid.

Is this the switch version?

Its probably the best class to "solo" with and still does considerable dps for endgame content. But no, you wont really run minions on any of the endgame builds for Necro in general. For leveling up the base class they do alright.

Dont forget your floaties, wouldnt want you sinking in the kiddie pool or anything

>be me
>download the f2p
>ok this is kinda fun
>interested enough to try and get it to run better
>make post on forum asking why it runs so poorly
>infracted daily until banned
and that's that.

what the fuck did they do to chronomancer

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its dead, jim. But like, actually dead this time. Not just meme dead.

They finally managed to kill it after spending multiple consecutive patches nerfing it into the ground in an attempt to pull it out of the raid meta.
Best bet for alacrity now is renegade

so a dev that mained it left?

left or canned with the other laid off employees, probably.

JUST BUY SOME NEW CHAIR SKINS OK

>quit game for multiple years
>xpacs come out, want to start playing again
>have two-step authorization for logging in on a new computer
>dont remember password, nor have access to second-step anymore
>contact customer support to remove two-step authorization
>use email to change password
>log in
that sucks user. Hopefully you didnt lose much

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The new raptor skin is super adorable, i bought it in a heartbeat. Isnt she just the cutest?

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How long did it take you yo craft those legendaries?

>cute
>those palsied front paws
HAH OMFG HAHAHA HAHHAHAHHAHA
they really know their userbase, i'll give them that.

i have 11 legendaries and i hit the 1 year mark like a month ago maybe

they even animated her ears to have unique movements for all the animations too, she is adorbs

>her
>she
all that needs to be said about the state of the game, for lurkers wondering.

I think I'll craft meteorlogicus first.
The fuck? so animals don't have genders now?

>The fuck? so animals don't have genders now?
that isn't a purchase option in the skin shop yet.
have you emailed NcSoft about it?

i made meteorlogicus, i really love it. its one of the few legendaries that changes depending on if its day or night. i wish you luck

I like the new outfit. Finally, some slut armor for both men and women of all races

To be fair
Guild wars 2 is exactly the kind of game that would attract these thin skinned bitches. All the gw1 chads left once they saw the limitations of the skill system

Pics?????

Theyve been teasing multi profession skillsets lately, what with that WvW event. When you killed a player, you got the option of inheriting the profession's utility skills. They've also been making shittons of adjustments to skill classifications, so multiple professions have the same skill types. (For example, Wells are no longer inclusive to necros, as mesmers and engineers have them now).
Im excited to see if they allow the other half of the skillbar to be a secondary profession. Synergizing quickness wells with wells of suffering, or even toying with the vast amounts of signets that are in the game.

i refuse to play firebrand, stop nerfing chrono for fuck sake.

the currents devs are not skilled enough to do this.
if they try, the game is dead.

>Gw1
>Dead game that not a single soul outside of Yea Forums talks about, and all GW1 threads are people begging others to play it while nostalgia babies cry about how dead it is
>Chads
Bruh

But user, Firebrand is fun

Renegade isnt tho. Renegade is terrible.

gw1 Yea Forums autist are the only ones that complain and jump into gw2 threads on site and shit them up with saying gw1 is better.
But when you say the servers are up they say "it's too small" or "It's not the same!"
Load of shit from people that played little of gw1 and 2 just wanting to be le oldfag

That same multiple profession event fundamentally broke the WvW system for the majority of the event and absolutely nobody was banned for abusing the bug associated with it.

I got it when it first came out, and it felt like a wow private server. It was clunky as fuck, the areas looked unfinished, the weird auto attack system threw me off completely, and all the npc vendors and shit were lined up like someone just copy and pasted rows of them. It felt entirely soulless. I turned it off and never went back. Maybe it's better now? But fuck that it was awful.

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I never participated in the event myself, how'd that go? What bug?

>Literally the best outfit in game

How can other oufits compete?

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>guild wars 2 trannies still shilling their dead SJW trash mmo on Yea Forums
god you faggots are pathetic

that's a lot of buzzwords.

>See outfit
>very feminine face, hair, colors
>wonder why the chest is so flat
>realize its a dude
Theyre selling the outline of the human body as an outfit. Thats awesome.

At least that one doesn't look as offensive as the blue one when they skip the helmet, but he's still a faggot for not wearing it.

Anyone running the holosmith spec was able to reset all cooldowns on their skills, including the skill that gave defensive buffs and 3 seconds of invulnerability. Which meant squads of immortals running around destroying everyone they ran across.
It was quietly patched maybe a week later and nobody saw any consequences for it.

>He doesnt have repressed sexual attraction to the silver surfer.

They did spend a long time nerfing it if you remember post HoT launch chrono
>signet of insp copies all your buffs at full duration
>shield phantasms keep perma alacrity just by themselves
>alac is 66%
>moa is still insane
I regret not getting that into the class at launch

>four ears

So it has come to this, Charr are now ridden by humans.

Maybe they enjoyed watching the chaos unfold? I know I would.

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My salt stems from the fact that I was working on gearing a Chrono as these nerfs were coming left and right, and as of last patch I've officially set it on the shelf to gather dust until I need a mesmer for whatever reason.

>"What's wrong Bookah? Want some of my McNuggies?"

>playerbase
raidfags. those are the ones so asshurt they used a bot to spam "game is dying" posts. that's what triggered the crackdown. everybody else just wishes they would go to XIV already.

is there proof of this?

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>playing pvp

literally every game is just people going afk for the daily, its absurd

that's a big gun

>barrel so massive you can launch norn thots

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>rifle warrior in 2019

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Rate me please

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thingken of life

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>people do this

you can do 11k nuke in one hit.
it's fun for potato unranked

The best gun skins are the basic weapons. Why do they have to overdesign everthing?

>jared/10

for me it's the whisper's secret rifle

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Literally every single rifle and pistol skin is bad. Even all the legendary ones.

I really don't like that you have to buy the living world episodes if you're a newfag, it's like they charge you for updating the game, really shit.

the ones that are tied to new zones are worth it. pretty much just everything from season 3 onwards.

Also whats the current way to go to farm money? I have both expacs and I hope it doesn't involve living world exclusive areas.

It's not like you're missing anything that valuable really if you're new to the game.

Farm bags, open bags, salvage bag contents, sell the materials on the trading post

They really need to make a designated pet class/specialization in the future. Necro and Ranger just don't scratch that itch. Honestly, most modern mmos skimp on the pet classes I'm forced to play ffxi to get my fix. There is one mission in Path of Fire that had you control hordes of zombies and it controlled pretty well. Just make that a baseline for a class.

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Daeolt is a DUMB INSECT

Based

Its actually the nude outline of any race. Its the closest thing to literal slut armor (other than stag armor for female norns) that this game will go to.

I'm all for it. Its great that it applies to both male and females, so no one will bitch about only one side being objectified

They're probably gonna go on sale this month

Is everything still time gated, all else be in the gemstore, and literally impossible to gain gold faster (without exploiting the AH) then the gem exchange inflation?

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I never would have thought shit grafix would make for a better screenshot

that's a big chicken

Basically, except it's not portable, and doesn't come with in-game mario costumes

Well shit, now I just want to know what it looks like with good grafics

I can relate

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>Basically, except it's not portable, and doesn't come with in-game mario costumes

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Now that's an ambitious crossover

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Any news about an addon or a new living story?