Ah, I see what went wrong. The portal to Rata Sum is located behind me after the opening story line cutscene. Doh.
I saw it when I first entered, but didn’t think it lead anywhere (thought my character came through it). In fact, I never bothered to check it out and eventually forgot about it! It’s too bad the first story line NPC doesn’t mention the location of the city (I don’t remember him doing so), since it’s not even shown on the starting area’s map (I think the Human city is).
Thanks, mystery!
I have to say, I can’t wait until I get medium armour headgear for my Charr ranger that isn’t a SARs mask… Sadly, that’s probably a way off as I’m only 4 or so levels into getting my first headgear ever.
JPR
3423
I have F1-F4 on my mouse – forward, back, shift-forward, and shift-back.
Also, Tom, I’m surprised that someone who likes systems as much as you didn’t put in the work on the combo system until you were already 40 (but I’m glad you and Jason are spreading the word). Most classes can synergize their own skills to a limited degree, so it’s easy to start there.
Also, you said on the podcast that you think a lot of the build designing is in the sigils and runes. Though there is a fair amount there, it is really in the trait system, and if anybody has been ignoring that because it looks boring or complicated, take the time and give it a hard look. Especially if you’re playing one of the less straight-forward classes, looking over the trait options (you can see them all without having to unlock anything) should give you some ideas about what your Mesmer or Necromancer really is capable of.
I don’t think that’s what I said. At least, if that is what I said, it’s not what I meant. :) I was talking more about moneysinks than character builds.
What I was getting at is that unlike other MMOs which dictate the long-term moneysink – usually as a mount or travel speed boost – Guild Wars 2 lets you pick your moneysink: storage, character slots, what have you. For me, I suspect it’s going to be runes to optimize my character build. The trait system is absolutely an important part of that, but you can do some really cool stuff with runes, sigils, and jewels.
-Tom
Chaplin
3426
OMG. I feel dumb. It also seems like you have a maximum of 10 mail messages. I was keeping them around and reading them now and then for just story background, but all that lost money…
Good tip, thanks!
Yeah, I was really considering a Venom build but haven’t played with one yet – thanks for the tip, I’ll let you know how it goes!
Wolff
3428
Have to say I am pretty disappointed in the thief in dungeoning. I can add dps but beyond that very little to do except try to keep up blind. Melee is a clock waiting to be downed by pbaoe. I am currently playing a balanced build will try full survival later.
How many people take reckless chances exploring areas far above their level? My level 20 Sylvari Thief just ran from Bettletun Farms and passed through Guardian’s Pass, Nebo Terrace, The Bloodfields, Ascalon Settlement, Gendarran Fields, Brigantine Isles, Newbeach Bluffs and finally arrived at Snowblind Peaks, where I have decided to emasculate myself even further by stopping to ask for directions to my intended destination. Gained nearly a level and completed my Daily Gathering requirement on the way. Saw my first pirate and scored my first pearl, too. Only died three times – no combat the whole time.
Simplifies things somewhat when the reaction to every potential confrontation is, “Run away!”.
And the journey continues…
I don’t think anyone has posted these yet. I got myself kind of lost and gave up on the official wiki for navigation help.
http://gw2cartographers.com (still in beta and obviously needs work, but shows promise.)
http://www.ign.com/wikis/guild-wars-2/interactive-maps/WorldFull
RichVR
3431
Does anyone here know when one might actually buy the game?
Target? Listed online, anyway.
Some players react poorly to seeing other players whose characters are so much lower than theirs are, hanging around and following in their wakes as they carve their ways through territory. Needless to say, my only motivation is to move from Point A to Point D. I’d be all over helping these higher level characters in any and every way that I can but of course, being ten levels below them there’s very little that I can actually do other than run along behind and hope for the best.
If you don’t try to get ahead of this by communicating proactively in a diplomatic/parental fashion, I’ve found, they tend to get rather upset and become distracted to the point where enemies in the world start taking advantage and wipe them out pretty quickly and easily, as they focus on harmless and well-meaning people like me. This happened to me at least six times, tonight. I feel kind of bad because in many cases, in my experience, the other players died only because they were so distracted by my presence.
To be clear, it’s not that I’m actually benefiting from their kills. I get nothing until I actually reach a destination, and then I only get the waypoint credit.
Sepiche
3434
This.
My friends have been talking it up, so in a fit of boredom I thought I might grab it tonight only to be told they won’t actually sell me a key. :|
I think by this point just about everyone is out of digital copies and they limited the initial sale of them to maintain server stability, but if you can find a box the key will work fine. I think Amazon still had boxed copies, and so does Gamestop.
Reemul
3436
Time to visit the high street, exactly what I had to do in the UK to get a copy, something I havent done in a long time.
Now that they’re making trait changes, it would be really nice to start getting detailed patch notes… Just saying.
So far I know that the latest patch has removed a bunch of the cooking ingredients from vendors (boo!), and the engineer’s Juggernaut trait has been completely changed.
Man I had a rough go of it last night. It started with running ALL over the borderlands looking for the crew, I swear I must have just missed you guys a few times. Then Tom started organizing a dungeon party, and I got all excited and warped to the dungeon in Queensdale. After waiting out the 15 minute que to get out of overflow, nobody was there either, I had just assumed he was talking about the lvl 40 dungeon but they were actually running the lvl 50 dungeon… which I was .25 lvls away from being able to run. So I decided to finish up the Harathi Hinterlands map exploration, but could not for the life of me find the last little stupid point of interest. Throw in a falling death trying to get to a vista, and getting ganked WvW stlye by a zerg of centaurs and lets just say my blood pressure was running high.
But despite the comedy of errors I learned a couple things about playing my profession, got some sweet gear, fought some awesome mini-bosses, and was up till 2 in the morning playing even though I had to wake up at 5 for work. I haven’t felt this way about a video game since I was 12. Thanks for ruining my social life and turning my wife against me ArenaNet.
Level 25 now, and encountered first (what seems like a) bugged quest last night (Helping the two researchers in the bottom left of the Sylvari 15-25 region). Pretty good going.
Seneca
3440
We can now craft directly with the items stored in the collection tab! No more juggling items back and forth into our bags.
