Guild Wars 2

So I completed the Bava Nisos meta tonight and map completed the area hunting down all the mastery points in the area, the meta is a waste of time. Normally at the end of the meta event there's a bunch of treasure and you can loot chests to get loot...after the bava nisos meta there was no boxes, so either it doesn't fully complete or it's as worthless as the zone is stupid. Once my mechanist finishes the story I'm never touching that place again as what's the point if it literally awards you nothing. The last chapter for sure was rushed as even the mastery achievement for the chapter gives you nothing...the chapter as a whole is a huge waste of time for zero reward.
 
Yeah Bava Nisos is on par with Dragon Stand : you need to complete the meta to fully explore the map, and it's just crap. Gyala Delve (End of Dragon) is the same, you cannot explore safely until after a successful meta, but Gyala Delve has a heck ton of loot, only limited by how many keys you have with you in the run.

Bava Nisos is worse as you mentioned before, the enemies are packed together and their respawn rate is nuts, meaning if you don't have good DPS to take them out quick enough (and hope you can survive them in the process), you might as well just run, don't even bother with NOT-group events. Even the veteran ones can give you headache.

Only my Ranger has finished th Janthir Wild story. Next would be my Necromancer, then Warrior (Almorra). The rest of my cast just gonna chill at Lowland Shore and Janthir Syntri if I feel like it.

I still can't get over how anticlimatic thee final chapters are... I've said this for how many times and I still feel disappointed at how unimpactful it was. There was so much they could've done, yet I only had to fight 3 "tormented souls" to seal the Mists gate and call it a day.

I don't exactly look forward to next expansion. After my break and I get back, I'm getting back to my objectives listed earlier, then grind for other mastery points in Icebrood Saga to get it done as well, and that's it.
 
Gyala Delve at least was interesting but Bava Nisos is a huge waste of time if you're trying to get achievements as the legendary boss requires a ton of people to kill him but even then is aw groups of twenty instantly die as he doesn't televise his moves so he'll suddenly drop a curse or a huge insta kill AoE that the achievements demand you avoid all of. Not sure if I honestly began to lag but I never saw highlighted areas of where the move is going to be he just slaughtered like forty people in an instant and we somehow managed to kill him. What is insufferable about meta events these days though is people refuse to release and run back, I'd find people just laying there as if they went AFK the second they died but you can't just revive them as the boss hones in on anyone trying to revive someone. It's worse with that issue in the meta for the demon realm of Secrets of the Obscure as you'll have dozens of people just laying there and I've never beaten that boss fight as people keep doing that. I'm praying at this rate for the developers to never make a meta feel so worthless again though... we beat the organs and the heart and the objective tells us to just talk to the people in the middle of the field but the meta was over and nobody, not even the groups doing the meta got anything. It's like your reward is getting to finish exploring the map for the last 3 minutes before it throws everyone out and restarts the zone
 
Icepaw said:
It's worse with that issue in the meta for the demon realm of Secrets of the Obscure as you'll have dozens of people just laying there and I've never beaten that boss fight as people keep doing that.
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Oh my fucking goodness YES. THAT. I hate that shit.

There's the emergency waypoint in the map, not that far away, and its icon is THE BIGGEST of the map too. Also doesn't cost money. And if you teleport there, you can use the ley-line ride move with the skyscale to quickly get you back to the area to get back in the fight.

But no, people just lay there like deadweight, despite numerous times of me and others telling them, DON'T WAIT FOR REVIVE, TELEPORT BACK.

I've managed to beat that boss fight several times, but it's always infuriating whenever the meta fails, because some people decide to just be lazy fucks.

Icepaw said:
I'm praying at this rate for the developers to never make a meta feel so worthless again though... we beat the organs and the heart and the objective tells us to just talk to the people in the middle of the field but the meta was over and nobody, not even the groups doing the meta got anything. It's like your reward is getting to finish exploring the map for the last 3 minutes before it throws everyone out and restarts the zone
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As we all agree together, this map in particular and the near-end chapters of Janthir Wilds feel awfully disappointing and underwhelming...
 
The demon meta one especially as I've never had a run of that where people didn't just run back as if you stop doing DMG or moving in general the boss or his adds will slaughter you, then all the buffs come with down sides... I fear I'll never get the achievement for kicking his butt before finishing that area's story. Here's to hoping they'll realize Basa Nisos one is beyond stupid and fix it to at least award loot as defeats the purpose of doing the meta if you get nothing for it, so it's especially BS when the map is so beyond complicated and stupid. Does seem like you can just skip that whole chapter though as finishing the last chapter of Janthir awards you barely any achievement points and nothing else...maybe a title but after getting that once you get basically nothing. I managed to not get knocked down by the three white mantle folk on my mechanist by using a pistol and shield and having the mech do most the close range fighting...so I've basically full cleared the achievements for the last three chapters
 
I returned to GW2 way earlier than I expected... but, as I mentioned before, I paid no attention to WvW objectives in the Wizard's Vault anymore, and don't care if I don't have enough for the daily or weekly chests. I feel a looooooot better now, just doing what I like instead of trying to do those objectives like chores.

Also, dunno if I've said this before, but Scourge with Berserker gear is my new favorite for DPS. Its shroud mode (F5) doesn't disable your weapon or utility skills like Reaper or Harbinger does, and you can use other shroud skills (F1 - 4) anytime you want, without having to enter, well, shroud mode. I'm having a blast with it.
 
Quick update : I finally finished ALL masteries of core GW2, AND I have enough points for ALL the remaining masteries in Janthir Wilds !

Now I just need to unlock the beetle (praise fuckin Joko !), and work on Icebrood Saga, as well as the legendary amulet, and I'm good to go.
 
I changed all my Engineer's gear to Berserker, and changed up my build...

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With this, I get a ton of Explosion, which causes lots of bleeding and burning, which gives me tons of Might and Fury as well. Shift Signet also copies all my boons to the mech, which means even more DPS with it. Insane damage, and most of the time you only need Rifle 1 and 3.

Not very guaranteed in terms of survivability though, because it's purely DPS...
 
I forgot when, but I noticed that I missed a lot of ascended back items for living world season 3, so I went to grab them... most of them. Still have one at Bitterfrost Frontier left. But, I managed to get all the 'relic' back items at Siren's Landing, and got the Relic of Abaddon~

I'm not gonna use the Abaddon one, though. Just gonna keep it in my bank as a one-time collection, same as the Warmaster Vigil one. If anything, I'm just gonna farm for other relic back items, and change the skin ; I got my Guardian and Warrior stationed there, and it doesn't take very long until I get enough Orrian Pearl to buy one. Plus, I have like over 1.5 million karma anyway...

My plan for my cast, with the 'Relic of God' back items ?
  • Warrior : Balthazar
  • Guardian : Dwayna
  • Ranger : Melandru
  • Necromancer : Grenth
  • Mesmer : Lyssa
  • Engineer : Abaddon

I'm not confident enough with Elementalist, Revenant and Thief to invest ascended back items for them, yet...
 
A long, long, LONG journey, from the beginning at Living World season 1. all the way to the end of Icebrood Saga... months after months of tears and sweats (half of it being lag as hell, the other being goddamn jumping puzzles and bounties)... I have finally fucking got it : the legendary amulet, Prismatic Champion's Regalia

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With that, I officially declare : one-month break from the game...
 
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With that, I officially declare : one-month break from the game...
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Nope, no break for me just yet...

After dumping all of my money in to help my son craft the legendary dagger Claw of the Khan-Ur, I was down from around 650 gold, to... I forgot, 18 ? Yeah, I'm broke. It doesn't help that I just wasted money trying out the Berserker gear for my Guardian, only to see that it did not do as much damage as her Carrion gear. Eh well, lesson learned.

I dunno why, but Berserker gear still does insane damage with condition-heavy builds that I'm going for, such as with Engineer (bleeding), Warrior (bleeding), Ranger (bleeding), Elementalist (burn, bleeding) ((yes, ELEMENTALIST)), and Necromancer (bleed, chill, torment, burn, etc.). In fact, Berserker does a lot more damage than Carrion for these classes.

Yet, for my Guardian, it's the opposite : Carrion is much better than Berserker. Eh well, at least I have a solid playstyle I'm comfortable and confident with, and no longer struggling so badly like before.

As for the current spooky season of Halloween ? This is where my Necromancer shines~ that Mad King ain't got nothing on my chill/bleed Reaper.
 
So I've been playing some of the new expansion and I just got a few details to note, island so far is beautiful but mastery points once claimed from the map turn blue like Janthir for some reason. Without ruining the story I'll also say the Inquest are such a pain in the butt, I fear they're a lot more trouble for the arcane council than we know given those Asura gotta deal with their nonsense on a regular basis. Luminary btw is honestly kinda fun and it's a charr themed elite spec given the lamp that grants the powers is a fusion of Iron Legion and Flame legion tech. You still get three virtues as a guardian but the elite spec gives you a blue fiery shroud that allows you to wield a fiery hammer, a fiery staff, or a fiery shield & sword and each combo has its own abilities like staff removes debuffs and heals you and your allies while the hammer stuns foes and does AoE fire damage. Oh and I took a peek at the abilities the troubadour gets and they got a ballad skill honoring Almorra
 
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It's almost been a month since my last update here, it seems.

So, I was in a guild discord server, when I saw someone saying that "story ends with End of Dragons", and everything that happens after that doesn't seem to stick... and, I gotta agree with them.

Though, for me personally, the story concludes after we take down the Void monster, and Soo-Won is finally freed. I don't know what to feel about the Ravenous Wanderer in the mine afterwards. It also feels odd that there's still... that, when you already get the credit rolls after the battle with the Void. They could've probably just ended it there, and concluded with Aurene finally having to go into a slumber, I dunno what's the deal with the mine afterwards.

Icepaw said:
So I've been playing some of the new expansion and I just got a few details to note, island so far is beautiful but mastery points once claimed from the map turn blue like Janthir for some reason. Without ruining the story I'll also say the Inquest are such a pain in the butt, I fear they're a lot more trouble for the arcane council than we know given those Asura gotta deal with their nonsense on a regular basis. Lamplighter btw is honestly kinda fun and it's a charr themed elite spec given the lamp that grants the powers is a fusion of Iron Legion and Flame legion tech. You still get three virtues as a guardian but the elite spec gives you a blue fiery shroud that allows you to wield a fiery hammer, a fiery staff, or a fiery shield & sword and each combo has its own abilities like staff removes debuffs and heals you and your allies while the hammer stuns foes and does AoE fire damage. Oh and I took a peek at the abilities the troubadour gets and they got a ballad skill honoring Almorra
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When this new expansion Vision of Eternity is fully released AND on sale, I'm probably just gonna get it for the new elite specializations and the improved skimmer mastery. Story-wise, I think I'll leave it there for a while. But, just from the launcher alone, with the raptor, and not looking into anything on wiki yet... I have a feeling we're gonna see absolute war crimes with those Inquest experimenting on live specimens because of course they would. We already got a load of it with the scarab plague back in living world season 4 so what are the odds ?

Not sure how the elite specializations gonna play out until I can try them... but I'm not gonna hope too much, anyway. There's probably gonna be a ton of balancing, buffs and nerfs, and I don't want my build fucked up because a single trait is changed...

But, regarding builds :

My son got me the legendary shark spear (I forgot the name) for my early birthday, and I have never been happier... and to top it off, I found condition-damage Mechanist with spear to be super fun~ really nice damage output (tons of AOE too), AND good survivability. Even better : if the mech is too damaged and has to be sent off for repair, it still bombards the enemies with orbital strikes, so I'm not totally out. Super happy with this.
 
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