stainer wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 1:58pm:

meh, after the first quest, its easy to go to the hall of honor and get to lions gate, and then the world is open for anything.  Make whatever you think is cool looking.  I really wish my guardian was an Asura at this point.

BillDoor wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 1:50pm:

The instance free mechanic makes the whole server your party.  There's always people running around so you can run around by yourself with virtually no problems.  Your storyline is also solo - you can take group members in with you, but if they have the same storyline as you (i.e. same race and starting choices), your choices won't effect them; they'll still have to run it themselves.

Eladiun wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 2:04pm:


I don't care about Von3 as a 7 min TR XP farm.  The quest was not designed for multi-TR twinked toons with greensteel.  If they scaled it to that audience the quest would be impossible for newer players on non-TR's with at level gear.  As level 9 flagging quest to the earliest true raid, it's fine.

Now the House of Rusted Blades and Death Undone thing is stupid.  No way an EH (level 23) quest should be so easy.  I'm OK with EN being somewhat easy, but not a 2 minute completion.   EH should require some coordination and tactics.  EE should be something you have nightmares about. 

I agree that the challenge level of the game has dropped dramatically.  I'm not sure if that is because of the power creep on the player side or a weakening of the mobs/quests.  They could definitely use to re-balance the challenge level offered at EN/EH/EE. 

Just planning contingencies if the current trend of the code going down in flames continues.  Not ready to go out and drop $60 on a whim quite yet

livefreeordie wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 3:06pm:


It hasn't been that long. It's only been at the point of really interfering with game play for the last couple updates.

livefreeordie wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 3:06pm:


Eh, he's either masochistic or had his nuts replaced with balls of granite.

OK, that one was weird.

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Depends what you mean by monklike.  No, there is no monk class, or unarmed fighter.  Yes, there are alot of classes that focus on melee dps and high survivability.  The thief or a mesmer with Sword/sword would fit I think.

There are no announced professions yet.

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Apparently, many of the skills, spells, and abilities are tied to weapons. 

For example, your caster (an elementalist or necromancer, most likely in GW2 terms) gets access to 5 spells depending on which element they are attuned to (Air,Water, Fire,Earth) for each weapon.  If you aren't holding the right weapon or currently attuned to the right element, then you can't cast a certain spell.  Like healing rain.  You can only cast that when you are water attuned and holding your staff.  If you are fire attuned or holding your dagger or sceptre, no dice.  The dagger is mostly single target/close range stuff.  The staff is AoE/long range stuff.  The sceptre, kinda in the middlle.   

Given that this is the case, I'm not sure how unarmed combat would would work.   

Vag1nasmasher wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 4:38pm:


It depends on what you have equipped. And you have two weapon sets that you switch between to handle different styles.

Hell. Sometimes It feels like I only cast three spells in an entire quest on my wizard.

JC wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 4:48pm:


Yes.  Player skill is clearly a factor.  Some cannot handle more than 3 spells.   

BillDoor wrote on Sep 14^th, 2012 at 4:54pm:


In every quest, my FvS uses Heal, Cure Serious, Mass Cure Light, Mass Cure Moderate, Mass Cure Serious, BB, Implosion, Cometfall, Searing Light, Divine Punishment, Divine Favor, Divine Power and Destruction.  That's just off the top of my head.  There are probably a few others.  But then I melee, have a high necro DC, evocation DC, high Spell Pen and occasionally heal people.  You might play your divine caster differently.