Guild Wars 2

[Icepaw]

I don't know why this is so funny to me. A mesmer having troubles with their clones just randomly deciding "nah, we ball now" and fuck things up, lol.

I'd find it funny if the fact my mesmer is blood legion that for some reason is why her clones are blood thirsty, but yeah I wish I was lying but yeah nah her clones thirst for blood at the craziest times

 

[Icepaw]

So Idk why it took me so long to realize this but I found out how the trading post works recently. When you sell something to the trading post and they offer you a default amount of money that amount is what someone put in a order to pay for that item. By quick selling you're actually just helping the trading post fill orders and if you list the item yourself they'll put your item up for that price for others to buy. I found this out when I tried to sell something I could make for cheap and make a lot of gold for..only for the price I'd get after the first one sold dropped by more than half so the last two I was going to sell went from giving me 98 gold to only 40g so I listed it a gold cheaper than the other high price listing. The item was a thing called a Mystic Fountain Node (or whatever it was exotic quality and parts were dirt cheap) that allows you to access the mystic fountain from anywhere for free and unlike the yellow quality part used to make it it was endless use. Really nice item I hope mine sell but I don't use the fountain that much as is so I don't need a portable one that bad.

On the Wiki page when you see it talk of trading post and prices the top one is what people are currently asking people to pay for them and bottom is what people got orders to buy if you sell one for.

 

[Extra Floof Taur]

I just quick sell for, well, quick cash out... never had the patience to wait, which sadly might be the cause for my tanking money...

On another paw, I found a dual-wield crowd-control build for Warrior and I am absolutely loving it. I got way too much stability and quickness for my own good, using two maces to beat up everything senseless.

 

[Extra Floof Taur]

I just quick sell for, well, quick cash out... never had the patience to wait, which sadly might be the cause for my tanking money...

On another paw, I found a dual-wield crowd-control build for Warrior and I am absolutely loving it. I got way too much stability and quickness for my own good, using two maces to beat up everything senseless.

The other day I was doing the meta at Bava Nisos, where everyone was fighting that tentacle monster (the first boss before moving in to destroy the 3 organs). We got wrecked because we didn't manage to break its defiance bar in time, and someone said something like, "nobody runs CC in open world". Boy, do I have good news for them, lol. My current Warrior build WRECKS defiance bar and disables enemies like nothing, while giving me quickness and stability to just stand there and tank it all, without worrying about being interrupted. Against champion-rank enemies in open world and not part of meta, this build can easily break their entire defiance bar in 2-3 hits.

I decided to change all my Warrior's equipment stat from Berserker to Dragon and Marauder, for some extra vitality for better survival. Armors get Marauder stats, with the Spellbreaker rune ; weapons and trinkets get Dragon stats.

In fact, I'm also gonna change equipment of my Mechanist and Reaper, from Berserker to Dragon and Marauder, to get the extra vitality.

Though, I already know what I want to do (or rather, avoid) when I get back to GW2 : NOT touching WvW, ever again.

I said it before, I absolutely hate Tangled Depths (Heart of Thorn) and Bava Nisos (Janthirs Wild), and I still do, but those 2 maps are now slightly more tolerable with Blish HUD to help me navigate. However, WvW has taken the cake now.

Every new day, I open the game already dreading, what do I hav to do in WvW for Wizard's Vault daily objectives. Every new Monday, I dread even more at the weekly objectives. Whatever it is, I have to hope I don't run into enemy players, or at least enemy players that also know that I don't wanna fight, only want to complete the objectives and be done with it, because I cannot PvP for the life of me. I don't have the reflex or build for it, and my laggy connection does not help either.

I really like GW2, but I hate WvW mode, and I don't want to feel like doing a job I hate when playing it, so I'm avoiding it like a plague from now on.

Another thing I should mention, is this.

So, apparently Wizard Vault has the option to show objectives for PvE, PvP and/or WvW. I never knew that, and always thought I had to do some PvP and WvW too, just to clear the objectives, which quickly led me to try, and HATE WvW (still hate it).

Now that I only need to do PvE, I feel a lot better. No need to worry about stupid PvP or WvW anymore.

I'd rather grind for mastery points.

One last thing I wanna bring up, is mastery points. The most difficult one for me was Icebrood Saga ; some of the achievements are just purely luck and not worth it, and I hate them.

~ Party Guardian : I have to find and kill all 6 champions that spawn after each festival event in Grothmar Valley... right now I only have Ghost Mage left, but it never EVER spawns. I've been trying to camp it for days, to no luck.
~ Koda be Praised : I have to finish all unique prime challenges in Bjora Marches, and right now I only have one left, something about stopping the Svanir patrol. The ONE FUCKING TIME it was on, the event was bugged. There was not a single Svanir in the area. Just awesome.
~ Luminiferous : I have to finish all the Raven puzzles in Bjora Marches, and some of them are just fucking awful. I have to navigate the light, rotate the mirrors, AND try to avoid all the enemies in the area. It's not fair, it's tedious, it's bullshit, it's not worth it.

However I managed to make up for it with others.
~ Grinding Dragon Response missions : I completed the challenges of avoiding the shockwaves with the final boss challenge activated. I think I got lucky because I really did not know what would count as the shockwaves to avoid, but I still got it.
~ Grinding Dragonstorm and Storm of Winter meta : Tedious and kind of time-consuming, but at least it's certain I'd get the damn mastery points at the end, instead of having to hope I get lucky.

There were more but those were the achievements I remember for now. But, now that I've got all mastery points for all of Icebrood Saga, I don't give a damn about anything else. I can just do whatever meta I want whenever I want without having to look at my EXP bar stuck, and that's good enough for me.