Dayra.7405

Yes. the categories are there, but I always get the same 3-4 JPs/Mini-Puzzles over and over again. I had the Obsidian sanctum 3+ times, I had the Boarderland JP 3+ times, I had Highest Gear once and Retrospective Runaround once, but no other JP I had the Vasburg Armory, Spirit Vestibule, and The Long Way Around several times, but none of the others ...

Hm, the task selection (so far I strongly hope) is just ridiculous arbitrary small. I think this is unfinished work. I don“t want the old system back, but I want hundreds of new tasks (including many of the old) added, such that the repetitiveness of the small amount of currently included tasks goes away. Why does it only include a small amount of JP's and mini-puzzles? (and why are the WvW JPs repeated so often? I even had do 1 WvW and 1 PvE JP in the task list of one week) Why are map/region specific tasks generalized to do it somewhere Why is "The Battle for the Jade Sea" the only meta I got as task so far? ,,,, I also wonder why I get now (since 1-2 weeks) quite often 3 wvw and 1 pve task as daily instead of 2+2?

Since years, it is a normal story-instance star (and partying it works as for all other story instances) on the map, if you have if active.

ANet was 2 weeks closed over X-mas as every year

An acient way of getting Ecto's was the World Boss tour. Each WB gives you at least 1 guranteed rare per day and account, and a rare give you 0.9 (0-3, 0.9 in average) ectos on scrap. But that's acient, never had a need to get ecto's since years. And yes, Ashantara.8731 is right Tarir and several other meta's give 10+ rare to be salvages by Mystic Salvage Kit or Silver-O-Mat for 0.9 Ectos each. Depending a bit on the rare, but generally it is currently much cheaper to buy rare's in the TP and savage them than to buy ecto's (all rare's cheaper than 0.9*Ecto_price-salvage_cost). To me it looks more like the ecto increase and rare decrease is based on the laziness of the current player base, selling rare's instead of scrapping them. Buy the cheapest (lvl 68+) rare's on TP and salvage them with Mystic_Salvage_Kit

I would feel more (and better) retro if all elites would be disabled.

Lol, OP you are one of the reasons why I think the game would become much better, if there would be a hard cap of damage at 20k DPS. Just because something isn't optimal according your preferences, doesn't mean that others should have the same preferences as you nor should they select builds according to that.

„We are temporarily disabling gliding in WvW due to a crash issue“ and caused a large player crash issue 🤣🤣 In German this ambiguity reads even funnier: „Aufgrund eines Absturzproblems haben wir das Gleiten im WvW vorübergehend deaktiviert“

nowhere in time🙂

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Meelee vs Range is not a feature of the class, but a result of the weapons you equip. All classes can go Meelee or Ranged or Mixed. In group content it doesn't really matter, you have to stack with all the meellee chars to get bufs & heal. Outside group content you can play it nicely with 1500 range as well, just a small irrelevant dps loss in current balance.

I had, but then came the Rift Scanning, didn't really checked, can you bind more than one key to these actions (boat, jWP, Rift Scan, Fishing ...)?

For this the position rewinder is much better, you can reall even while falling out of the wrong door (but no longer once you die hiiting the ground).

You can port to it 😀 I use it quite often to save a point (e.g. the parking-place of that char on that map) I want to return to after action. E.g. on Skywatch Archipelago a rift-hunter char is parked at the tower entrance, a good starting place for my griffon, when I am done I port back. A shorter CD would be nice yes.

Since this DX11 port I made 2 chances in the graphic settins: I set postprocessing to low, because I hate this shiny effect I set light adaptation to yes, this improves light/contrast alot, at the cost that it takes a moment. With these 2 chances 11 looks nearly as good as 9.

Hm, I cannot login with firefox now as well, but Chrome works.

You disabled scripting in your browser?

The first places in a 1-80 speedrun are so much faster and so boring, no one want to see a video about. Use the Instant lvl 80 scroll from shared Inventory even before tutorial from buying an expansion or bought at gemshop Use a lvl 60 birthdayscroll and 20 Tomes from shared Inventory even before tutorial Use a lvl 50 birthdayscroll and 30 Tomes from shared Inventory even before tutorial .... .... Use a lvl 20 birthdayscroll and 60 Tomes from shared Inventory even before tutorial Use 80 Tomes from shared Inventory even before tutorial The only thing that really takes time on 2-7 is getting rid of all these lvlup chests.

BTW. All 4 references are from the precursor collection. They aren’t blocking the legendary as you can buy the gen-1 precursor for much less than the crafting costs and 0 effort in the TP.

That should be past, no dungeon is locked behind map status anymore if you use the (quite new) lionarch entry.

The game starts when you reach lvl 80, lvling is just a little tutorial 😉

There are millions of ways to play the game once you reached lvl 80 and they are all good, they just have a different focus. You have to set your goals, and best you set long-term, mid-term and short-term goals, e.g. a long term goal: I want to play all the story from start till end, an intermediate goal: I want to gear ascended, a short-term goal: I want to play this instance today and want to make today's dailies. If you want ascended, don't forget the Wizard Vault WV (press shift-H) aka Dailies/Weeklies, you can buy there 3 ascended armor pieces and 1 ascended weapon quite cheap per quarter, just do the offered tasks. You can also get laurels via Wizard Vault to buy an ascended amulett, you can play Fraktals Tier 1 (lvl 1-25) for ascended rings, for other ascended jewelery the best way is LS 3 or 4 map currencies, e.g. winterberries or join a guid and play guild missions for ear rings, you can also play WvW or PvP instead. Earning money is much faster than "6 hours do get 7 gold per day." Do a Tequatl (1g+loot incl chance of asended in 15min) and the Anomaly once per day, do daily fractals even on T1 thats around 4g in 30min. Doing 3 of the 4 WV daily tasks gives you 1g extra, if you do a lot dailies/weeklies you can also buy gold for the Wv AA reward. Also have a look into your material storage, this can accumulate gold worth mats quite fast, depending what you do.

Reasons I can imagine: They are new to the game and don't know how to earn money in GW2 (or even if they already know, they don't reach it so far) This was a good way to earn money in (one of) their previous game(s) Epidemic Spread: They see the afk farmer and think: When so many are doing it, it must be lucrative 🙂

Afterlife? We are in an infinite revive on next WP loop 😀

Yeah, in lack of a good way to do an initial placement, faster sorting seems to be the solution. In the end @Dawdler.8521's proposal of return (that's how WvW-matchmaking was started) to Glicko with glicko-score-reset on every relink (that was missing from the initial system, such that it created barriers between tiers after 9 month running) and my Swiss-Tournament (as we had it in WvW-Tournaments) proposal, will do more or less the same over the 4-5 weeks of a linking Period. I think @Dawdler.8521's is the most elegant 🙂