RagiNagi.1802

Hi, I think i want to try an engineer (holo) for open world and instanced content play. Can't decide on race (and armor combo) though. Any suggestions on what race/gender/armor should I use. I kinda feel like all cool medium armor is sneakthief focused. And thats not very engi to me 😄 But maybe i am wrong. Thanks!

yeah, dual wield shields for warrior. Lets go!

Im glad that you are not the golden standard for game design. if you want game without variety - play tetris. You can still use the turtle fine, nothing has changed. And as many others have pointed out, the turtle still performs way better damage wise. Turtle was and still is a niche mount. If you have fun with turtle play with it. But don't tell others what they should consider fun.

Is there a way to somehow view weapon collections based on their associated campaign? I definetly noticed the theme in PoF with Arabic & African weapons. But i must have missed it in IBS and HOT. Cheers.

Siege Turtle has always been a meme mount anyway. I'm happy they took this route with skyscale. Now i don't need to bother with unlocking the turtle. yay!

I share this view. However, I would be willing to pay more if they finally decided to fix the quest/collection system. And promised not to have the so many unusable items clogging your inventory. Apart from that I like it. Every expansion has focused on something. HoT did gliding, PoF did mounts, EoD.. yeah that did nothing, SOTO has given freedom of builds. It's very refreshing to see that many more profession builds are present now on build pages such as SC and others. I think the price per content ratio is quite ok, given that there is no monthly sub for this game. And there is soo much to do.

well yes.. and no.. I would like to have the possibility to switch up builds on the go for my main char. Need support? - lets go Harriers Quickbrand; want to play condi? - lets go ritualist firebrand; feel like power in open world? - do the berserker one. A game is well designed, when you can efficiently run and change up at least few builds on the go. And I understand that there are two ways you can be flexible with gear is either grind out legendary armor, or grind out the 'exotic' recipes and put the items in purchased equipment slots. And don't tell me that its easy to gear your char in ascended for T4 fracs, because it is not. one set, yes. But if you want variety it is a chore. With all the currency framing for trinkets and time-gated materials. It is a chore, where it shouldn't be really.

but I can't go trough life with only one zerker build. I want to try out the gameplay of other builds. And for that I think I would need to have as close stats as possible to builds on the build pages. well yes.There is a difference between vertical and horizontal progression. Maybe what Im seeing is not a treadmill up hill, but hecking hike over a very large desert. The desert has several mountains - 3 class legendary armor, legendary trinkets and legendary weapons. And for someone who likes variety and not being 'stuck' with one profession, these hills are quite the distance from one another. This is probably addressing the inventory space issue. But not the acquisition. I will have a look at it, didn't know this exists. Yup. Thats the case. I have several toons. And i play on and off. Pretty much get trough the new LS chapter and park the game for a moment. And I'm also often super confused with all the collections. There are too many for me to keep track of. Something for the ring, something for armor, something for amulet. They all take storage space, need to be crafted. And the inventory just gets more cluttered, with other insignificant collection/story items that i'm always wondering whether to destroy or not. Well thanks everyone for the answers. I see that Legendary Armor is the ultimate goal, that should be reached to have the build flexibility on the go. Suxx that you have to chose the set, as I do like Guardians, Rev's Thieves and Necros.. I don't know, maybe I just have to get set on one toon. But maybe I will just continue to sulk 😛

Heyo! I've been thinking on this quite a bit lately and I can't stop but wonder where did Anet go from their selling point of GW2 not having a gear treadmill. First years it was awesome. On one hand it still is. My Thief has had berserker armour for ~9 years and I have been able to clear pretty much any content with just a few tweaks. On the other hand, once you want a bit variety, something that is not pure zerker, thats where the fun starts. I was doing raids/fracs just this summer on power WB. Geared him up and was ready to go. Now with the August patch, for some reason damage was not enough and all the meta plays required power WB to go full assassin. Ok no problem - Assassin is an easy to get stat on both exotics and ascended gear. But its still a massive investment, especially if you want to clear t4 fracs. Where it gets more dicey is with the new stat types, like Ritualist. If you want a support build and do some damage, pretty much every build asks for Ritualist gear. That is somewhat pain to get. Another thing are those Jade Bot Cores. I understand that you can do without Jade bots, but you need to get them to max level on every character. But ok, good thing is that there is no variety in bots at the moment. You max out one char and you can pretty much live like that. And Relics. Man.. relics. I still don't understand how to get them or where to craft them. Im just running with the 3 boxes i got per char and using those. Otherwise I need a relic storage. I hate to keep several stacks of gear in my inventory just to be somewhat flexible with builds. I am not complaining about the gear variety or difficulty to acquire per se. I'm just mildly frustrated that it's difficult to a) test builds without dropping like 100g (in exotic runes/relics/gear); b) there are too many unique ways of acquiring gear; c) that gear takes so much space in the inventory. If you want to run two different builds on a single character you need about 14 inventory slots to hold your gear + the consumables. That's hecking ridiculous. Especially if you want to play more than 1 character. I am guessing that the only way out of this is getting full legendary - you are able to switch stats on the fly and have all the stats available. Which will be very difficult for me with my limited play time. And I quite sure that acquiring legendary shouldn't be the only escape from gear treadmill for (semi)casual players. Thanks for listening. I will use any tips you can give me to avoid cluttering my inventory with gear and decking out my toons.

I never thought of it. But man sometimes this game gives real positive vibes. I was killed during Matthias Gabrel fight and when he transformed, i thought to myself that I have seen that character mannerism somewhere. Name - not so much, but doesn't hurt to check right. So it turns out Nemesis from Resident Evil was played by Matthew G. Taylor. There are some similarities in armour/visual thematic - slick leather trench, corrupted flesh, increased size. Matthias is infected by bloodstone same as Nemesis is with T-virus. Leets go! This is it I have found my Easter Egg on Gw2. If anyone noticed this before, cudos to you! Cheers!

I'll be honest, I haven't played trough it for good 6 months. But in general, yes, I like the way Fracs and Raids tell the story. I like custscenes. And I like when the story is tied in the gameplay, yes. I just finished LS1, killed Scarlett. Was fun, a lot to know about it. Was cool how Kas was distracting her. That i thought was a decent way to give this info to me. Now as I'm writing this reply im in After the Battle instance. Just standing there, waiting for people to come in the bar and tell some lines. And just met another character - Marjory's sister. Well thanks for the introduction.. The more i think of it, reading the replies on this thread, the more it seems that what flies over my head are the characters and their interactions. I simply don't care that much about their personal lives 😄 Its cool that Marjory and Kas like each other. But I don't need more details on that. Or Brams interactions with Taimi, all clear, bro. Just tell me the story. If i will be interested in trivia I will follow up on it on my own time. When I don't want to game. Do you like to stand around and wait until these characters finish their lines? haha, ok ok. I meant that Kuunavang is the same dragon we were fighting in the last EOD instance, the bubble dragon.

but this is the pinnacle for cheap ways of making an non-interactive experience. Listening to odd dialogues with monotone voice acting.. if you turn away, you don't even hear what they say. You simply have to stand in the room with right cheek towards the npc and wait for them to tell you something. 😄

No, I just don't enjoy standing around and listening to dialogue. I have nothing against D&D type of dialogue that you can read at your own pace. Or video instances that you can watch. I just don't like being time gated on the dialogue. GW1 for example had it somehow worked out. There ingame were video cutscenes, and text that you can read on one page. I never felt lost in the story or anything. GW2, had me lost after HOT really, I see recurring characters, but have 0 sympathy to them. Eir's death was the last story instance that i remember. Do you consider story a filler content? I have no issues with RPG, but pacing and delivery of the story, characters etc. I just can be bothered at all. I bet that there is a lot of potential there, but currently there are no memorable characters, aside from maybe Rytlock. I legit finished EOD story and still think that Kuunavang is the same as that Saltspray dragon. Just bring cutscenes back. Come on.

Hi, I have recently gotten back to game. And just finished EOD. And to kinda get back in the lore, started playing trough LS. And man I have to tell you. The story/lore while interesting is delivered in such an odd way. Im now doing that Scarlett Instance called - Connecting the Pieces. Im in the bar, and have to inspect 10 items and give my thoughts on them.. man wth.. or that piece in EOD where you have to eat Sushi or whatever, or that odd quest where you travel around in a skiff checking for explosives under bridge, or where you had to talk with everyone at the end of EOD for achievement and to get some more trivia tid-bits. The story it self is fine i guess. But the delivery completely kills it. I end up watching YT videos on side and just clicking trough the dialogue. I feel like it was not like that for the base game, or HOT. What happened? The endless unskippable dialogue options and voice acting in game is my guess. I just cant be bothered to go trough that, lol. I have very little hope for the expansion. Good that GW2's gameplay loop is quite engaging.

Thanks! It is a bit frustrating to run around the whole place searching, only to realize that the quest is active only once a certain story is active. Anywho, moving on to the next weird quest item.