This has been a good weekend! I managed to unlock the Griffon (and I’m already on the process of unlocking its final mastery), experimented a bit with the Mirage (but went back to Chronomancer for now), and finally figured out how to play the Holosmith effectively and I’m loving it. Might well be the PoF equivalent of the HoT Daredevil for me, in terms of “new class/elite I fell in love with”.
In fact, I liked Holosmith so much that I’m now considering working on the Collection Achievement to get an ascended sword for him. One of the requirements is complicated though - you either have it dropped (by luck), or buy it from TP… and current price for it on the TP is 68 gold. Ouch. After spending so much on the Griffon, I don’t think that’s an option… but maybe I’ll try to do the other stuff and leave that for last.
Anyway, PoF is great. Mounts are much better than I expected them to be (and they change the game in a fantastic way), the new maps look awesome, story is good… it’s great. I can’t wait to see what Living World Season 4 will add to that, but I expect it to be amazing.
I joined an HP train last week to unlock everything on my holosmith save for the last ability, and I enjoy it a lot more now that I have access to the utility skills.
How do I participate in the Halloween stuff? Do I just head to Lion’s Arch and let the game guide me?
Well, it affects more than just Lion’s Arch. Of course, many activities happen in Lion’s Arch - Mad King Says, access to the jumping puzzle, currency merchants, etc - but many enemies start dropping trick & treat bags, you’ll find candy corn things to mine, and areas around Lion’s Arch will see otherworldly doors appearing out of thin air, that you can use to get bags, fight enemies, and even go to places like the Mad King Labyrinth (also acessible from Lion’s Arch, BTW).
That said… there might be changes in this year’s event. The small clip I posted shows someone flying over the Mad King’s Labyrinth, something that wasn’t possible before. And considering how in lore there is a dispute between the Mad King and Palawa Joko, and considering how Palawa Joko is a big part of Path of Fire… there might be some surprises this year. We’ll see.
Hey, I barely used the griffon around you! Jackal is a better choice for most parts of the Wayfarer Foothills. ;)
But yeah, I’m using every opportunity I have to show it off, because, you know, it was perhaps my biggest achievement in GW2 since I started playing. ;)
The trick is to turn Photon Forge on before engaging; engage with Holo Leap and immediately follow with Corona Burst. You want to build more heat for bonuses to other skills, so use Holographic Shockwave and Photon Blitz if needed/wanted. If you’re getting hit, you can use Spectrum Shield (make sure you do after your heat reaches 50%, since that cuts the recharge by half) or Flash Spark to protect. Once you get close to overheating, turn Photon Forge off; you can then use skills like Laser Disk or Hard Light Arena to take advantage of the heat bonuses, and if you want to attack, open up with Radiant Arc (for quickness) and use the auto attack. As soon as heat gets around 50%, reactivate Photon Forge. And so on and so forth.
The AoE is amazing, I see crits all around much when I’m engaging, and that build (with that rotation) has pretty good survivability. You just need to be aware that if you’re getting a lot of damage it might be good to disengage, but that comes with time.
Of course most of them have legendaries and stuff. And I got used to seeing lots of people with legendaries when I don’t have any. So it doesn’t sting. At all.
Ok, let me get into the game, take my griffon, and dive into a river of lava somewhere. Yeah.
So is there some trick to accumulating candy corn quickly? Because apparently the currency you actually exchange for stuff has a 1000 candy corn to 1 currency exchange rate and that means the cool toys cost like 110,000 candy corn. I’ve earned…maybe 80 so far?
Check LFG under “Central Tyria - Squads” and look for “Lab Farm” entries. Go with the mob tagging enemies and whatnot. You should make about 1000 candy corn per 15 minutes or so.
Yes it is, which is why you’ll see tons of farming squads for weeks. I don’t personally like that kind of mindless farming, so you won’t see me with Halloween miniatures anytime soon - but I’ll try to at least get a candy node for my home area.
