5941

Ebay apparently got a kill in the spawn before reset. I managed to join in after reset and was present for a fairly close 1%.

EDIT: So the third tequila after reset tonight was a successful kill, after two 1% runs after reset. 3s on the clock. Whew.

5942

I’m just starting this but got frustrated with the giant in Nageling. That thing has been there for ages and nobody wants to take it down because the reward is worthless and he’s got a bazillion hitpoints.

5943

Would it make you sad to know I have solo’d this champion? :) Although I haven’t done it lately as the reward vs time invested equation isn’t so good.

5944

Yep, he’s definitely soloable. Many champions are, actually - they’re either (close to) melee with minimal AOE and thus kitable, or have long/obvious tells and thus dodgable. Giant being the latter. But yeah, soloing them probably is not the “best” use of time.

Can be fun once in awhile to do that though, or with one or two other people.

5945

Yeah he can be a pita. The first time I killed him I was running him around the central building and managed to get him into a spot where I could hit him from behind the walkway railing but not get hit back. The second time when I was much higher level I just dodged around him and managed to kill him eventually, just took forever.

I haven’t been able to get into a good instance for Tequatl all weekend. Every overflow I’ve been in has like 40 people and about a quarter of them are afk. Ah well, at least I don’t feel bad about using those fights to try and knock out some of the achievements.

5946

Logged in last night and saw someone in Lion’s Arch broadcasting a WvW group starting up, so I figured what the heck and went to dip my toes into WvW. I spent my entire evening zipping around with this one zerg from place to place. I was surprised to see just how organized the zerg was. Just about everyone was on TS and the commander kept things very focused.

We were vastly outnumbered most of the time. Maguuma had roaming packs of people two to four times the size of our group and just rolled over us about half the time. The rest we either managed to break them up and beat them down or danced around each other until one group or the other decided to move on. Had no idea what I was really doing most of the time, but I had an absolute blast doing it.

5947

So I get this email yesterday and at first I admit that it almost got me to believe it was real. I was going to come here to double-check, but then I noticed an IP address as part of the link. I looked up that IP and it said it was from Kuwait, so I believe I have confirmed this is a hack attempt for me to log in so someone can steal my account info.

Greetings!

It has come to our attention that you are trying to sell your personal Guild Wars account(s). As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement. If this proves to be true, your account can and will be disabled. It will be ongoing for further investigation by ArenaNet Entertainment’s employees. If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.

You can confirm that you are the original owner of the account to this secure website with:

https://account.guildwars2.com/allow-login?token= {–bunch of stuff–} ip=62.150.38.163.html

If you ignore this mail your account can and will be closed permanently. Once we verify your account, we will reply to your e-mail informing you that we have dropped the investigation.

Regards,

Account Administration Team
Thanks! --The ArenaNet Team

Anyone else get these recently? People here are pretty savvy, but I wanted to post it just in case for people to be careful. Also, I know we have some GW2 dev folks here, but not sure you can do anything when people attempt things like this.

5948

There’s phishing emails like that all the time about WoW. I guess GW2 is big enough these days to draw hackers too. You’re not ever going to get an email like that from the actual account management folks. For starters, even if that were the basic format (which I doubt), they would tell you to go to the account management website and log in yourself, not ask you to click an email link.

(Also, I’ve had my WoW account banned and they never contacted me at all.)

5949

I am extremely late to the game on this one. Been looking for a new game to try out so I picked up GW2 from Amazon (they were having a 20% off sale on all digital download games).

So far, I’m not sure how I feel. The combat seems kind of…shallow. I’m only level 12, so that probably has something to do with it, but only having the base weapon skills (no choice, you get what the weapon type has) plus 3 selectable skills just doesn’t give me much button-pressing variety. Especially since half of my optional skills have ridiculous 30 - 60 second cooldowns on them.

At the same time, the game itself is so well done. They took the best part of SW:TOR (the personal story line) and embedded it in a game with so much to do. The random events are well implemented and worth doing. The implementation of the dailies and monthlies is also interesting.

Their “we don’t want to be a WoW clone” mentality goes a bit far though. I don’t understand departing from convention on weapon rarity colors. White is “normal”, ok, got you there. Blue is uncommon, green is rare… wait, why swap those from everyone else’s implementation?

My initial thoughts:

Pros:
Good story implementation
Dynamic events well executed
Unique-feeling world
Races feel truly distinct (despite being no real advantage of using one over the other)
Enjoying the currency implementation (the “karma” implementation is great; reduces the “I don’t need this quest gear” pain by letting you keep your karma and spend it later at a quest merchant that has something you need)

Cons:
Not liking the skill system so far
Horrrrrrrible documentation. Even the online manual is useless. I shouldn’t need to use wikis and Youtube to figure out how to play your game (combos, “conditions”, talent system, skill system. None of it is intuitive and the in-game info is sparse at best)
Controls don’t feel smooth; turning and jumping is choppy

Not regretting the purchase. It’s good enough that I’m going to keep leveling and see where it takes me. Hard to decide on a game based on the first dozen levels.

5950

Keep playing to you unlock weapon swapping and a bunch of utilities. The number of combinations are fairly deep

5951

JFrazer, I feel you on the blue-green rarity swap. I came across an ARPG that did that and it was infuriating. Blue is rarer than green, dammit!

5952

Yeah that was kind of a dick move; a “change just to be different” kind of thing. Like it or not, the Green > Blue > Purple > Yellow progression is pretty much universally the MMO/ARPG standard.

I spent a couple of weeks playing GW2 stacking blue gear because I assumed it must be better somehow.

5953

Diablo says you’re all wrong. :)

5954

No no no no! [SUB]We should head for the armory[/SUB]

Whoever came up with that “standard” is insane and obviously never looked at a color line. It makes no sense!

[SUB]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Linear_visible_spectrum.svg[/SUB]

Blue < Green < Yellow < Orange < Red makes sense. And while Purple for legendaries break that, at least it’s adjacent if you wrap around. None of this jumping around crap please =p

5955

Good call, fdsaion! Now please plug that directly into my brain somehow.

-Tom
5956

The Halloween event just started yesterday too in case anyone was waiting for it.

5957

Finally got to 75 with my engineer. The end is in sight. I’m really digging on WvW these days.

5958

Do stick with it; the build/skill system is deep in a subtle way that it takes a while to get used to, but it’s definitely absorbing when you get into it. I think they must have spent a lot of development time on refining the skill system and balance, and it shows. Classes play distinctly with different types of rewardingness, and even within classes there are distinct builds which are all pretty effective. I think most of the people on this forum who play it love it. Much as I enjoy my games like TSW, STO and NWO, GW2 is without a doubt the best “current” big tent MMORPG out there, IMHO, mainly (for my money) because it actually feels like a virtual world.

Also great: you can dip in and out of it whenever you want, and the limitations on active powers that you mention makes it quite easy to get back into (unlike something like EQ2, which is a completely baffling nightmare if you haven’t played a toon on it for a while :) ).

I have a “falling in love with GW2 all over again” phase every couple of months, and the nice thing is that the world is always a bit different when you get back to it.

5959

New living world event started yesterday. Tower of Nightmares! The Krait and the Nightmare court have teamed up and are dropping toxic spores everywhere. I did a pretty long session last night and finished up all but two of the achievements for it. There is a new healing skill you can get (25 skill points or 250 spores and 5g) plus some new recipes of course (250 spores and 1g each). Also if you need or want the achievement for playing Mad King says for the Halloween event, it’s only available through tonight or tomorrow I think.

5960

Can I do mad king says anytime or is it only top of the hour or something.