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We don't talk about the unseen ones...

Surprised a group assaulting one of our forts by building an arrow cart behind them on a cliff, and then raining fire down on them.

Seeing them scatter like ants... tee hee.

I should be getting Guild Wars 2 tommorow, can't wait.

Is there any details I should know that i've missed over the last 40 something pages of discussion to do with the Dakka Guild (If there is one) and what not?

Ask corpses for an invite. He should be ProfDrWarthog in-game or something to that matter.

Gather everything, crafting's worth it. Don't always sick to the hearts on the map, they're just a basic guideline, but if you complete one and go back to the person who is in charge of the heart you can get some decent gear.

Play whatever class you like, doesn't really matter, unless you really like melee, then don't go engineer.

You can deposit crafting materials into your bank straight from your inventory. Just right click on them and select deposit.

You can buy gems, which are the cash shop currency, with in-game gold. This means you don't need a credit card to get whatever you want, just means that you need some time to farm up the gold.

Buy trait books as soon as possible. There's no advantage to saving them for later.

For weapons, try to bring one melee set and one ranged set, and one of them should be aoe and the other single target. Remember you can swap in the middle of battle, but not constantly.

I dunno too much about PvP, but I do know that in WvW and dungeons, long ranged sustained aoe is your best friend e.g. engineer grenades.

That's all I can think of for now. Cya in-game. Most of use are on Desolation server.

The Mursaat are part of the lore for White Mantle and White Mantle is <insert generic religious opposition force> (and frankly high advanced/ascended humans aren't exactly original either).

Honestly the only reason I rolled humans was cause they were pretty.

 LordofHats wrote:
The Mursaat are part of the lore for White Mantle and White Mantle is <insert generic religious opposition force> (and frankly high advanced/ascended humans aren't exactly original either).

What is original then?

I mean, gak, everything has been done before. Its just tweaked here and there enough to make it different.

I'm a completionist so I kind of have to roll human (3 times in fact) to do all the story lines

What is original then?

Nothing really. Humans in fantasy get hosed by always being in fantasy. There's no new ground to thread with fantasy humans anymore (and some people are fine with that). We probably get a new interesting take on it once a decade if we're lucky. EDIT: Take the Sylvari for example. Plant people have been done before. But it's not really something that gets done a lot, so they interest me much more because I haven't seen it a hundred times already.

I wish I had more money, my ele seems to be broke all the time lol.

What do you have to buy that is eating up your funds? I've almost never had to use money for anything other than tin and kits.

Human interactions as the single playable race in a world with multiple races can work really well when you work on establishing the other races as something unique and extremely foreign to basic human culture. The air of mysteriousness and curiosity you can create through that can help make a really immersive world. In other words, start with what you know, and use that to introduce the player to a much more intriguing world. The limitation on the player's choice of race holds them at arms length, but keeps them always looking.

GW2 goes in a completely different direction, and eschews such a method of establishing atmosphere. It's not inherently worse, but I don't like the idea of more races being inherently better. This is regardless of how much one may like or dislike the available races.

 Melissia wrote:
I find humans in this game to be cool, but then again, I actually paid attention to the storyline in both GW1 AND GW2.

As sinful as it might be, I am afraid that I've jumped into this game with no experience of the prequel or any knowledge of the background whatsoever... Just like on WoW, I hope to piece it all together as I go along (I do have an appreciation for lore).

So I effectively approached the game with a fresh perspective. I'm afraid that the humans came across as your usual run-of-the-mill generic American accented lacking-in-personality sorts.

My main is a Norn now, though I am levelling up a human Thief close behind

 Ahtman wrote:
What do you have to buy that is eating up your funds? I've almost never had to use money for anything other than tin and kits.

Most of the money Iv spent has probably been on crafting mats from the trading center.

So, I'm level 76 now, and in one of the later areas, and I swear, the spawn rate is ridiculous for some parts. It's just impossible to get anything done in some instances. I can kill 2-3 zombies at a time, but just as many pop up (and if I'm really lucky, a veteran or two) just as I get those.

I'd like to continue in my story, but in order to do so, I need to cross a bridge. The problem is that the bridge (and its waypoint) are currently under siege by a bunch of zombies. The bigger problem is that although I, and perhaps a few others, are capable of killing our fair share of zombies, they immediately respawn at a rate that makes it impossible to actually capture the point.

I don't know whether this is just the high-level areas not being populated that's the problem, or the respawn rate just being way too high. Either way, it's incredibly frustrating.

 Fafnir wrote:
So, I'm level 76 now, and in one of the later areas, and I swear, the spawn rate is ridiculous for some parts. It's just impossible to get anything done in some instances. I can kill 2-3 zombies at a time, but just as many pop up (and if I'm really lucky, a veteran or two) just as I get those.

I'd like to continue in my story, but in order to do so, I need to cross a bridge. The problem is that the bridge (and its waypoint) are currently under siege by a bunch of zombies. The bigger problem is that although I, and perhaps a few others, are capable of killing our fair share of zombies, they immediately respawn at a rate that makes it impossible to actually capture the point.

I don't know whether this is just the high-level areas not being populated that's the problem, or the respawn rate just being way too high. Either way, it's incredibly frustrating.

That sounds awesome!

Sounds like you need to find a copy of the liber mortis.

Played some ridiculously awesome pvp the last couple days (basically powered myself from 69 to 80 in a day). My guild on Yaks Bend is pretty small, but the Pepperidge Farms Remembers are fierce. We're pretty much all 80 now and three or four of us have near complete sets of the 400 skill crafted armors/weapons.

Yesterday was especially fun - we had a huge advantage in raw points, but were getting pushed back on all fronts by another server (can't remember their name, referred to as Green). They had the garrison and we had Ascension Bay - middle west. They had four goddamned trebuchets set up on the top of the cliff inside the garrison that could range all the way over to the front of Ascension Bay (handy tip for anyone who wants it) and they kept knocking down the walls and door. It was a crazy ass take no prisoners general melee inside the walls. Thankfully they couldn't coordinate well enough to take the inner keep and the orb stashed inside. It was nuts though, my buddies doing spec op assaults out of the water, spotting for me so I could rain death with my mortar on the walls. Blowing the bejesus out of all the siege weapons they'd try to set up.

World pvp is the cat's freaking pajamas. I can actually see myself playing this one long term based solely on that.

Three of us went dungeon crawling yesterday, in Ascalon Catacombs. I took command because no one else volunteered, and despite a few hiccups-- mostly on the couple-- it went pretty well. Crushing King Adelbern again is always fun.

Sucks I missed that, it must have been like 3-4am here when you did that.

It ended two AM my time.

Also I handed out blueberry tarts before the dungeon, the +4% magic find for half an hour is pretty good.

Holy gak, more like 8am then

Sorry to ask this but is it possible I can join the Dakka guild anytime soon?

If so, how 'cause I'm kinda new to this whole scene.

What's your username?

 Fafnir wrote:
So, I'm level 76 now, and in one of the later areas, and I swear, the spawn rate is ridiculous for some parts. It's just impossible to get anything done in some instances. I can kill 2-3 zombies at a time, but just as many pop up (and if I'm really lucky, a veteran or two) just as I get those.

I'd like to continue in my story, but in order to do so, I need to cross a bridge. The problem is that the bridge (and its waypoint) are currently under siege by a bunch of zombies. The bigger problem is that although I, and perhaps a few others, are capable of killing our fair share of zombies, they immediately respawn at a rate that makes it impossible to actually capture the point.

I don't know whether this is just the high-level areas not being populated that's the problem, or the respawn rate just being way too high. Either way, it's incredibly frustrating.

Reminds me of the cave full of Wyrms in Wayfarer Foothills..

 Corpsesarefun wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
So, I'm level 76 now, and in one of the later areas, and I swear, the spawn rate is ridiculous for some parts. It's just impossible to get anything done in some instances. I can kill 2-3 zombies at a time, but just as many pop up (and if I'm really lucky, a veteran or two) just as I get those.

I'd like to continue in my story, but in order to do so, I need to cross a bridge. The problem is that the bridge (and its waypoint) are currently under siege by a bunch of zombies. The bigger problem is that although I, and perhaps a few others, are capable of killing our fair share of zombies, they immediately respawn at a rate that makes it impossible to actually capture the point.

I don't know whether this is just the high-level areas not being populated that's the problem, or the respawn rate just being way too high. Either way, it's incredibly frustrating.

That sounds awesome!

It really isn't last night I was stuck (along with a few others), and literally unable to proceed.

On an unrelated note, I love the quotes my necromancer says when my minions die. "No! I hand raised that minion!"

Mine is Vendetta.1603

And my character's name is Mortelupe

 Melissia wrote:
It ended two AM my time.

Also I handed out blueberry tarts before the dungeon, the +4% magic find for half an hour is pretty good.

It didn't seem so for me....

Would I be able to get an invite to the guild as well, I think I was in it at some stage but when there were the hiccups with guilds I think I got booted.

Username: xeriapt.4159

 JohnnoM wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
It ended two AM my time.

Also I handed out blueberry tarts before the dungeon, the +4% magic find for half an hour is pretty good.

It didn't seem so for me....

It's only +4%. But it's still a good thing.


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You guys want to organize guild pvp event?

After many hours of farming blood and cotton Im lv 200ish in tailoring. Now I can get rid of my armour that Iv had for about 40 levels lol.