Lucy.3728

1 minstrel insignia, for 1 piece of armor, costs about 7 gold to craft. But for crafting you need to level crafting before. That comes on top. I guess about 14 gold for level 400. To stat swap any ascended armor and weapons for my mesmer or guard for support it'd be: 6 minstrel insignias = 41.50 gold 3 minstrel inscriptions = 18.80 gold About 61 gold just to stat swap. https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator/a~0!b~1!c~0!d~6-73227;3-72875 +crafting leveling and trinkets. Unfortunately one can't buy the needed trinkets for laurels.

pls fix that tyvm

You don't need a healer build for that. Mesmer is the tricky choice here. The sustain of a mesmer are its clones as a distraction/tank and to be a good mesmer you need to play the keyboard like a piano. Healer gear gives you heal and sustain but apart from puny auto attack damage you have nothing to take something down. Every newbie with starter armor kills the mobs faster than you. Healer gear is Minstrel. How do you do damage with that? All other mmo with something like the holy trinity have the same issue. In GW1 a monk had to skill to damage to do damage (and he was good at that then). You were no healer then. From all classes mesmer belongs to the difficult ones. If you had chosen warrior,. guard or rev, then you can do damage, heal yourself, have sustain and all without a healer build. Celestial equipment is the key there. Although I wouldn't do celestial warrior, for warrior I'd mix vitality and/or toughness in the dps armor (like marauder) and spec spellbreaker. Has good sustain. Guard and Rev can be played well with celestial equipment. Celestial has all stats.

Nope. You suggested throwing the ascended armor from the vw in the mystic forge to stat swap it. Or didn't you? Seen what a minstrel insignia costs? You can't buy it.

I'm working on the minstrel one. Too expensive for swaps. WvW is this easy. Unless you don't like wvw. On my main account: I need something ascended? I go to the wvw vendor and buy it. Just on my other accounts I'm not as much active in wvw and thus don't have the needed currencies in the amounts to buy it all. So I know how the OP feels there too. Sure if it's just Berserker or Celestial, then it's 2-3 circles of the vault. But for stuff like Minstrel, it's either expensive or time consuming. But I only equip my wvw characters with ascended stuff. The pve ones remain exotic.

To me that's a lot. Dunno what I needed them for, maybe the leg. runes?, but I even crafted armor and weapons to trade them at vendors in HoT for the tokens. 1 token for 1 piece of armor/weapon. I bookmarked several recipe lists like this https://gw2efficiency.com/crafting/calculator/a~0!b~1!c~0!d~1-46281;1-46040;1-46186;1-45731;1-45765;1-45622 (per vendortab, since only 1 item per tab can be traded) to determine what is worth to craft and what's too expensive or which can I craft to sell to get some money back. (And now I can just trade 25 of them for wvw currency every week xD But I only have a bit over 300 of them too since I need the wvw tickets for other leg. armor)

I set everything to best/highest quality and then reduce the character quality to lowest. Everything looks top notch. Just everyone but me is wearing boring default armor. It's not pixel eye kitten. The lowest quality is not poor quality. Only the models have been changed and some animations, like rezzing, are different too. Some individual back pieces, like wings, come through. And some full body infusions too. But not all of them. I also disabled post-processing for a year. The game looks and feels better. I think I started to change it about 2 years ago. Initially only because of the WvW, so that blinky flashy doesn't distract me. But then I kept it because it's more convenient.

But then you saw I wrote about the good and the bad? The unhealthy mindset is to expect an online game to change over time only to the extent that it remains supportive of one's investment. A game is a pastime in your own free time. It is beneficial to see the time spent playing as a fun pastime and not as an investment that you hold on to or even regret. Everyone has invested the time they needed for certain things. Exploring the world 12 years ago also took much longer and was much more time-consuming than it is now. So what? My first and only world exploration still included WvW. Should I demand compensation now? No. What's the point? That's just the way it was back then. Everyone had the same requirements. Later it just got easier. I lost my main wvw character due to changes, he fell out of the meta. It took me weeks to find something that I enjoyed and was still meta. I tried 3 positions and then I stayed with the Mesmer, but in the meantime he was also so nerfed that I could have saved myself the effort I put into my other accounts to raise him there. Now I'm playing Core Guard. Until it gets nerfed to extinction. And my old zerg Herold is still top, just with gs but double swords. I don't disagree with that. But you're talking about degraded game modes. And not about wasted materials. Giving 300 coins (back) won't change anything. Like when the relic was introduced. Those who complained because they could no longer get the 6th rune effect via a relic, ok. But those who complained because they thought that legendary runes were now worthless (as if there was anything higher to achieve than legendary versions of equipment) and there should be compensation... they have the wrong relationship to games. I find them disgusting people.

Pity, there's no gallery showing other races and other colors... not so neon'ish. The only 'just pants' I have among over 40 legwear are the Ascalonian Performer Pants. Only for light armor. https://i.postimg.cc/Dzp94gC4/gw467.jpg Medium armor has something close to just normal pants with the Buccaneer Leggings. https://i.postimg.cc/mrrxrqSG/gw485.jpg Heavy armor, no such thing so far. The Side-Lace Pants are some kinky version of normal leggings and can be used for every weight. Costs gems though.

Test I didn't even know that was still possible. But what a workaround to post a picture.

I've problems to determine whether the mounted player jumping towards me (I stand still) is an ally or a foe because the range the name/title loads is so short... almost dismount range. I can see players from afar but I don't know if they are green names or red names. Or green dots or red/blue triangles. Both loads slow.

I think that the power creep is intended to promote Soto. I liked my two swords too. My accounts 2-4 (no soto) are lacking in every class I play in wvw. Even in the more recent popular power core guard with hammer. One may think hammer core guard is for everyone, but longbow as second set is important. And that's all tied to SotO. Anet is so cunning. Even as a pure WvW player you are dependent on the expansions if you don't want to be left behind.

https://i.postimg.cc/WpKW7dFP/gw597.jpg Although in wvw I use an outfit: https://i.postimg.cc/RFVmwXsd/gw451.jpg, https://i.postimg.cc/rs0v9bS1/gw463.jpg

Ok, I misunderstood it then. Man, Anet really hates defence. Why is it even a task in daily/weekly rotation then? Needs to be removed there too. Better be replaced by: Didn't defend a single objective (as new daily and weekly)