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They will announce guild wars 2 server shutdown and guild wars 1 will resume development as the great experiment failed. They will hire back gaile gray, mike obrien, jeff strain and that other guy. Then they will update all the graphics. Do a full skill rebalance. Add in hardmode in presearing. Add all the god realms. Release an Orr expansion. Open all the prophecies arenas to level 20s and force players to play them. Give us mounts and jump. Add in extra hardmode. Make energy surge ear shot range. Make obsidian armor available in shing jea, ascalon city and kamadan. Make all dyes black dye.

But that's just my speculation to this totally original question.

For Dunes of Despair try a r10/r11 domination magic for wastrel's worry. It will eat these bosses and any wurm you want to kill. Can fuel the energy with warriors endurance and still play axe for deep wound.

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Excite Blue just break your leg kappa

Gotta play Pokemon for the next 10 hours...

It's just one of those days ._.

Well, that's it for the easy titles.

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After this project it’s time for new iron chart and do iron GWAMM !

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why?

This already is a real iron challenge.

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I've been to busy to play FA recently so I haven't seen this behavior. That said, that is super lame. Has it been going on for weeks or just this weekend? Maybe just name drop the person here, and in the lobby, so people can get them dishonorable consistently as soon as they que. You could also record it, and send it to Anet support. drstephencw is also reachable via various platforms and occasionally on in game. I'd imagine he would hear you out. Hope this helps.

Eh skill griefing been around for a long time. Used to be stuff like iron mist that eventually got functionality changed out of FA. The game mode has a small community so it likely could be possible for the GM to address this one person and/or have the pbaoe heal everyone skills pvp functionality changed.

I want to like FA but I dread waiting for match just to have the same people leaving them because "bad comp".

Yeah I don't like doing "no death" type runs as you end up playing safe and tedious in a not enjoyable way. If you are hiding in the backline and running away from a fight or porting out early because things are getting a little scary it doesn't strike me as playing better. Anybody who has randomly had someone leave a pug because "sorry I am working on survivor" knows.

Did you get dunes of disrepair?

Warrior is good for a normal mode prophecies playthrough, it is trash in hardmode. You get hard countered as a melee while still having to somehow carry the team. I can't imagine trying to 6 man deldrimor bowl as a warrior. Did it with necromancer years ago and it took me like 1.5 hrs. Eastern Frontier is another nasty one as 4 man against patrolling groups with 2 grawl healers. Ended up doing it as mesmer with signet of midnight on my bar for some reason I cannot remember why.

You guys doing gear/skill restrictions?

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And furthermore, why is it so goddamn hard to find a semi usable OS shield drop? Out of all drops I've had there was one shield that I'd use on my war, even though its Q12. Seems rare enough to even get a shield with two mods, but getting one that's actually usable has to be the equivalent of winning the lottery I'd appreciate any advice!

That's perhaps the main reason why in 2005 the green shields Grognar's Defender, Thorgall's Shield, Tanzit's Defender, Victo's Bulwark, Malinon's Shield were so expensive, since they were weapons that drop with perfect stats, and the Carapace Shields from the collectors Hagnon Warblade/Yorik Warblade in the Snake Dance were the another alternative.

I don't remember playing with OS shields back in 2005 at all, I think I always wielded random shitty shields until I was able to pick the Emboldened Carapace Shield in Snake Dance, and time later I bought the Victo's Bulwark. And I only used the Grognar's Defender or Malinon's Shield while farming minotaurs.

I remember thinking malinon's shield was the best shield ever,

for my monk 😂

I saw nothing to indicate they are closing anet/guild wars or are even thinking it.

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Got more?

I wonder what those scrolls are

Earth Scrolls.

Spear of Lightning

"Find Their Weakness!"

"Go for the Eyes!"

"Save Yourselves!"

"There's Nothing to Fear!"

Focused Anger

"Can't Touch This!"

"Don't Trip!" / Ebon Vanguard Standard of Honor / (elective skill)

Spear Mastery: 12+4

Leadership: 9+1

Command: 9

Get a shield with -20% blind duration and the rune Clarity. "Cant Touch This!" will block throw dirt and lightning touch while your double -20% will reduce other sources by 2-4 seconds. Most blind is 5-10 seconds.

Get 3 spears with fire/lighting/cold mods.

Spike with 1/2/3 stacked up and 1/3 otherwise. Buff with the defensive shouts.

If you were wondering, Spear of Lightning spike with the 2 shouts can crit 60 armor rating foes for like 150 and another 100 for deep wound. Important for when dealing with pesky healers.

Give your blood hero Mark of Fury. Easy adrenaline and cracked armor for dropping targets.

If you can afford it, get some Essence of Celerity. IAS/IMS/Recharge Reduction streamlines a paragon so much. You don't have to pop it for casual gameplay but for vanqs its wonderful.

Southern Shiverpeaks my favorite area 😥

TIL that my hero lineup is "rainbow".

You failed your other unskilled ironman last year. This is going the same direction.

Increasing monster levels to make hardmode harder is not how to do hardmode.

Presearing PvP arena is the most realistic thing on your list but it's balance would be garbage nevermind actually getting a minimum of 2 equal footing players wanting to participate.

I recall loot being generated on entering a zone. Its why you can see mobs carrying their potential drops before they drop it. So yeah death leveling for higher drops has never been a thing.

I remember when I started playing I got lost in the catacombs and couldn't find my way out. Got frustrated and logged out. When I logged back in later I found myself in town.

Give aurora glade a shot.

Check out vanqing zones like Eastern Frontier (4 man) and Deldrimor Bowl (6 man).

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Yes the envoy scythe is the biggest scythe in the game. However, the thread creator asked for unique items (mostly greens) that are bigger than their skin-sharing non-green/unique pendant. An envoy scythe, no matter if greenie or goldie, has the same size.

that's how you interpreted it

GW2 definition of harder encounters is bigger health bars to beat on and immunity to CC. They balance pvp with the same mindset.

guild wars 3 in a skyrim type scenario.

I don't think they will do to gw2 what they did to gw1 by killing their own previous game with a "better" version to replace it.

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I was one of those that defended GW or part of the game to become F2P, and its actually the worst thing that could happen to the game.

You make a game F2P when its in active development and u update the shop with stuff. GW is not in development and the shop doesnt get any microtransaction item, so ur basically gonna flood the game with more bots, and those buying accounts to bot or manipulate the game are gonna do it for free (so less income for Anet), also the ppl getting banned wouldnt buy more accounts. Its absolutly nonsense.

This game needs soooo many updates that you would need like 20 engineers to work for 1 year at least before starting puting content and promotion. Even in Gw2 its hard for them to update to dx11 and change systems, imagine in gw1 that is x10 more obsolote in all means.

They could do prophecies as f2p but instead of the 24hr period on new accounts they could make it permanent until purchase. Not sure that would do much for the game's population though.

Tell us what it is you are trying to accomplish and it would be easier to find ways to do what it is you are trying to do. If its so amazing you have to keep it a secret but turn around and have to ask for help to figure it out then is it truly something amazing you figured out?

Started in may 2005. Came from diablo 2. Had grand plans to screen clear with skills like maelstrom thinking it was a massive aoe skill. Little did I know... My first character was a mesmer fast casting ele aoe dot spells. Anyone else remember having to get to outposts like maguuma stade for skills?

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i get bored with repetition why I use cons & farm 2 sets charr vanguard quests i don't see the 2 bandits getting you that faster 2bh except for the many bots I see running out of foibles on a daily basis lol

Yeah I am not sure on the nature of his question. Mathematical or Opinion based. To burn to LDOA to go post searing or to drop the title into HoM with minimal game time investment. Or purely an academic question.

I am for example slowly leveling up my dire stalker doing 5/6 Charr vq. Its probably not the fastest but I detest pure exp grinding with no other tangible benefits.

The common "wisdom" is to farm the 2 bandits outside fobile's fair for fastest time.

To get to level 10 its Charr at the Gate + Oakhearts and easy Charr groups in The Northlands.

At this point in the game death magic will serve you well. Don't be afraid to acquire a +1 head gear and rune from ascalon city. If you are using death magic a lot you will want a minimum of 3 soul reaping to help with the energy cost.

I still name some of my pets after a presearing friend who passed away.

Not including presearing characters, naturally, what is the most developed prophecies character you have without having actually done the attribute quests because you were too lazy to go to the desert?

Mine is a dusty ele with elite pyromancers, elite luxon, destroyer gloves and destroyer staff.

108 hours, 173 months.

Just found it sad and funny that now today I decided to run myself to sanctum cay and sweep the desert and get those 30 points after so many years.

I want to hear your accidental lazy/noob story of skipping out on those attribute point quests

will buy the enameled shield 20e

ign: witch of drascir

check the talk pages too for the npcs. Somebody went through some of them at one point and listed there.

Does anyone know the name of the song that plays when you enter the Henge of Denravi?

I couldn't find it anywhere. Spent an hour sifting through gw music on youtube.

Yeah bots back then we're just straight selling thats why I assume they nerfed player 1 white drops idk.

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Hey, I know it’s not on your list, but I have a zodiac fire q10 with crippling reduction. Let me know if you’re interested, or if you’re still going for the platinum fire.

A good stepping stone so I will offer 30k.

Back in my day, I used to run people from THK to Marhan's Grotto on my spellbreaker monk to afford elite armor.

Mesmer is pretty gg and has build variety options. But if you want simple but a choice of running melee or caster I think assassin might make more sense.

Judging by that presearing skillbar, even with presearing's limited skill selection, your troubles with mesmer are due to not being very experienced at the game and that is ok. I played an Illusionary Weaponry mesmer build for a couple years. Its a mesmer melee build.

Can play assassin as dagger spam which is pretty simple hard striking melee damage with some aoe splash.

or

Assassin's Promise caster that summons ebon vanguard assassin support and norn damage shouts.

You can get pretty weird on sin too with its often forgotten caster attributes.

Before you give up on mesmer you should pickup some of the post searing mesmer skill quests in Ascalon. In the ruined Ashford Abbey there is a new named town called Sardelac Sanitarium where you can talk to Vassar to get more quests and skills. After the first quest you get a spell called Chaos Storm which will help you out quite a bit.

For everything guild wars,

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Main_Page

This mesmer is 168 months old and has 3,660 play hours but has only ever hit t2 survivor. 10 years ago I decided to "just" save up story books and turn them all in at once. Multiple maxed titles later and I finally had enough story books to get Legendary Survivor title all in one go.

Guess what my favorite campaign is?

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Bandit_Raid

Hard to top that shield tbh.

Maybe a +9ar vs charr and +28hp shield could compete but that's just trying too hard.