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are you fething kidding me. this is the first time i've been able to go on GW and Desolation is full already.

Give it a little while, it'll clear out.

What server are you guys on?

Desolation.

Mmmmm GW 2 why you so good?

I already need to purchase 5 more character slots, I know that much.

You guys seriously need more than 5 characters?

I can't see myself making more than 3 or 4...

I could (but I'd never max them all).

 Karon wrote:
You guys seriously need more than 5 characters?

I can't see myself making more than 3 or 4...

I cna see myself making one for every class except ranger.

Currently I moved to Whiteside Ridge for a bit, just to hang with the Reddit community while guilds are acting up.

I'm solving the not-playing-all-my-alts problem by making sure i rotate my playing time of them whenever I log on. Every couple of levels or so, I swap to another character.

I totally just realized this game is out. Gonna give it a shot next paycheck. There's mining in this game right?

Yep, and you don't have to fight other players for the mining nodes, or any other.

By the way, the new guild works for me now. Joy!

Can i get an invite to the guild? Im friends with corpses so, names JohnnoM. some random numbers.

The random numbers are important

Guilds are now 100% fixed to I disbanded Dakka Korps Tyria and re-invited everyone to Dakka Korps. If you'd like to join either post your account name (including the random numbers) here along with your time zone or send the details to me in a PM.

Oh and everyone check your G panel for invites! You should be able to accept them now.

There's been another patch, guess that was the guild stuff? There was one last night as well.

I haven't been invited, my name is JohnnoM.5127.

Game says there is no account with that name, are you sure that's right?

Bought it. Forgot what server I rolled on but I don't think it was Desolation.

Level 3 Asura Engineer..... already not terribly impressed with the game, but it'd be pretty unfair to judge it based on less than an hour of playing. The dynamic event so far seem a bit clusterfethy, but the personal story is sort of interesting so far.

As I understand it, Engineer takes awhile before it starts to shine.

The engineer class generally kinda sucks at the moment

That's unfortunate. I'll stick it out for a few more levels regardless. Are guilds cross server in this game? If so, my account name is RatBot.9287. If not... well, that's still my account name and I'll roll up something on Desolation.

EDIT: Nevermind... I should really take the effort to read through the thread or at least perform some google-fu.

Just checked again, its Johnno.5127.

Johnno I've invited you now, Ratbot it's coming up with that's an invalid account name. Are you sure that's correct?

EDIT:

Don't worry, It's working now. Ahtman still isn't coming up though. So far MDS, slarg and wolf haven't accepted the invites.

All the classes I've played thus far have done perfectly fine-- warrior (greatsword, rifle), thief (pistol/pistol, sword/dagger), elementalist (staff), necromancer (staff, axe/dagger).

I'm about to add guardian to that list. Probably hammer and staff or greatsword. Eventually I'l probably purchase the slots needed for the other three.

Seems the guilds are still glitchy. Got an invite but would let me take it, saying it couldn't connect to server, though I was able to play the game just fine. Tried logging out and back in and it did the same thing. Tried one more time and when I came back in I was just in the guild without accepting, but if I tried to talk in the guild it would tell me that I was not a member of any guild. Good times. I'll mess around with it again later.

Make sure you're representing the guild.

 Melissia wrote:
I'm about to add guardian to that list. Probably hammer and staff or greatsword. Eventually I'l probably purchase the slots needed for the other three.

If you go GS/Hammer then I'll eat you; this town ain't big enough for the both of us.

And it ain't me who's gunna leave.

 Corpsesarefun wrote:
The engineer class generally kinda sucks at the moment

Disagree completely.

Grenade Kit is amazing inside and outside of water. Throwing them from walls, you can dominate WvW in defense.

Elixir B is really useful for noncombat and combat situations.

Engineers pushing Firearms and Inventions can do tremendous condition damage.

You can get a constant swiftness with Slick Boots, Medical Kit, and Elixir B.

While you're running through areas, Rocket Boots makes for a great escape, dropping any turret makes for a great bait to get mobs off you, Slick boots and Bomb kit can stop the more annoying mobs.

Kit swapping is actually fun.

Rocket Turret is the only truly useful turret, but overall great.

Overcharged Shot on the rifle is hilariously effective at knocking players off/away from things. I've gotten several kills in WvW with it alone and they're the most satisfying things I've done in the game.

You can consistently get gold participation on many DEs my simply laying down all your turrets and tossing grenades.

It's surprising how many Engineers I ran into in the higher-level areas. It's rather surprising.

Overall, the class is simply fun in its complexity. It's simply fun. Every encounter, I find myself reassessing the situation and changing up my utility skills and/or weapon in order to tailor myself for the situation.

What is 'condition damage' exactly?

I think it was Overcharged Shot that really made me like Engineer.

Condition damage effects the power of condition effects.

For example, bleeding damage.