Easter! Guild Wars News!

It's Easter and it's a cold one too! I bet most of you readers have had a great week or just a weekend.

Nothing special has happened in my end, only that I've started on my legendary in guild Wars 2.

How is it going with the legendary project?

Good, I've started on the mystic clovers to hope I could get the tier 6 mats instead of clovers every now and then, but NO! I've tried 8 times and I've gotten 50 mystic clovers already. And the chance for mystic clovers are 1/3 ratio or 33% if that's better understanding.

In other words.... I got quite lucky on the magic clovers.

I just need 27 more clovers, but I'll be aiming for 30 more so i have a better chance of getting mats I need for the legendary. I'm using the 10 clover recipe instead of the 1 clover recipe

And I'm also close to finish of the Gift Of Battle, which requires 500 badges of honor. The only way to attain those are from WvW jumping puzzles or by defeating players.

Since I hate WvW because of the zerging all the time, I'm just doing jumping puzzles! Which then again makes it fast and....painful, mostly because of the people who can kill you before you reach the end, over and over again...

The tier 6 mats ain't going so well because of the amount i need, I need 250 of each tier 6 and by now I got around 26-46 of each item.

And now for something completely different:

Fire and frost

The latest news are of course the new update that gives us some new living story content, we will learn more about the molten alliance and the norn and charrs problems with them. We even have new weapon skins; fused weapons, you need a Fused Weapon Claim Ticket to buy a skin. Where to get them? In black lion chests, rarely. 

April fools' day

Yes, April 1st is coming to guild wars 2, if you change your date to April 1st and then log in to guild wars 2 you'll hear something special, 8-bit music of GW2! Yeah! Not only that but there is a machine in Rata sum that requires continue coins to use it, the machine is called "Super Adventure Box".

I've done some research on it and I've seen some skins that have 8-bit looks, is it from the "SAB"? Can we use it in the world of Tyria? or is it just for Super adventure box? 

We will know tomorrow!

Bugged event in cursed shore

The bugged Event in penitent camp in cursed shore was bugged for at least a week, thanks to the update it got fixed. What was really happening on the broken event was quite simple: the npc's who were trying to build the camp back up again just stopped building. They didn't do a thing, but the risen spawned again and again in a pattern so you could just stay there and gain xp and loot, no karma is possible on that event because it never ends.

But the amount of different loot you could gain and even the rare items makes this broken event a huge money making machine. After the time i spent on farming there ( at least 2 hours per day) I gained 340 heavy moldy sacks, around 190 per tier 5 item and 16-43 per tier 6 items and 40-42 rares which resulted in approximately 50-56 glob of ectoplasm and last but not least... 25 gold gained.

Now then, as i said this is now fixed, but maybe one day it will get bugged again and you should be ready to get in there and gain some loot!

That will be all for now.
Keep on playing!

Guild Wars 2: My Character, my goals

All right, here we go. A post about my character and why I play that certain class and everything else.
Hopefully you've read my Introduction to Guild Wars 2, Leveling through "Questing" and Events and Leveling through crafting and maybe caught an eye on the norn characters in one of the pictures, well that's me and a friend. 

The Past: first Character

When Guild Wars 2 started I made a human female Mesmer, I fell in love with the class in the beta and I was leveling with friends and had a good time, until my first Dungeon run.
It was horrible and it was a slaughter, the combat mechanic was so different from any game I tried so I felt like a total noob running around there. Thankfully we had some patient random players with us that explained boss fights, traps and certain mobs (NPC enemies if you didn't already know that). Sooner or later I got the hang of handling my class and it was even more fun! 

Later on I started studying on how Mesmer actually works; What's the best stat, how should I use my skills and when to use them. Sooner or later it all fell into my fingertips but I still feel that the class was a glass cannon, too fragile but massive on damage.

After a while I started to get bored with my Mesmer and started leveling up a Thief, Guardian, Ranger and an Elementalist. Thief, Guardian and Ranger is now lvl 80 and I'm leveling my Elementalist but I still didn't find the "right" class for me. Once again I made a new character, watched every class closely and wondered what would fit me since I'm mostly a supportive/assisting/tanking/healing kind.

This game don't have the "specific" roles to the classes, by that I mean we don't have the typical "priest healer" or "Warrior Tank" type. In Guild Wars 2 even a warrior can be a healer and Engineer can be the "tanky" type. it's all about how you gear up and spend your traits.

Then one day, I made a new character with a friend and I figured I wanted to try out the Warrior class, in my eyes they seemed too simple, "wield some weapons and just mash your face on the keyboard = Win" But i was wrong, so horribly wrong it's not even funny. I had a blast running around with dual axes and my greatsword, butchering through any enemy in my path. For each level I gained, I felt new doors opened up for my Warrior and I had some challenges with certain events or Story Line, but I learned from my mistakes and improved my tactics.

And finally, my Warrior reached level 80, I could now finally craft and equip the armor with the orange text, Exotic. I started grabbing all my mats and craftet Helmet, shoulders, chest piece, gloves, legging and boots. Finally, my Warrior was prepared for the Ruins of Orr, no enemy should stop me from gaining better loot or karma!

....or so I Though. The first thing that happens to me in Cursed shore is that I get so horrible crushed by the horde of undead roaming the place while I'm just trying to make a living. They just send me to the grave, over and over again, I got frustrated and called for backup, I gather my friends and started to head from North of Cursed shore to the south.
We had a good time, but we felt that something was wrong, we couldn't quite do enough damage to finish of the undead fast enough or nuke the target when it was needed. 

Then I figured that the problem was me. Truth be told, after all those hours playing warrior and I thought I had the hang of it, I didn't. I might have used some of the right skills and utility skills, but i still missed on how certain skills worked and how it affected to the party.
So I started to research, reading and watching how others play their Warrior and get some information on how to improve myself.

Thanks to Dontain, A commentator(?) who plays Warrior with a Legendary (thanks to fans and friends) two-handed Sword "Twilight". He have so many videos about what type of build you want to go with your warrior and gear, the looks on certain weapons and gear, how to get the items and he even have videos on his progress with the Legendary. He has done so much for the subscribers with the videos about tips n' tricks, not only with the warrior class, but with the game itself! Do check him out!

The present: My Warrior

After all the research I've done I have now finally found my build and gear. The Dungeons goes smooth and fast, I'm still a glass cannon but not as one of my friends put it: "papercannon soaked in gasoline", hehe, I must say that made me giggle the first time I heard it. 

So then! Now that I've found my Gear, traits and playstyle I started to wonder: 

"what should I do now?"

I started spending gold on random things that I wanted but didn't need, sooner or later that wallet got empty. Even how many dungeons I did, the mats and gold always got spend one way or another. suddenly a friend of mine got awesome look on the character, and I got informed on the "Cultural Armors and Weapons" which is a look for the certain race. 

I had a goal to get all the tiers of the cultural armor and merge them into different stats, so they weren't only for looks. After a day I had Tier 1, and Tier 2 came close by in a week or two. but then it was the most expensive one, the grand price! Tier 3.

Let's sum it up on the costs for all  cultural armors:

Tier 1 =     2 Gold 88 Silver

Tier 2 =     7 Gold 10 Silver

Tier 3 = 119 Gold

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Total   = 128 Gold 98 Silver

And you have to add the exotics i've made to make them useful in combat.            

Let me show you how they look:

DOLYAK (TIER 1 Norn)

To be honest, i got this gear already around level 50 and was running around looking awesome! This is my first cultural I transmuted into Berserker gear and spent a lot of time in it. Now it's my Magic Find armor, it's still Berserker stats but with Superior rune of the pirate in it.

EAGLE (TIER 2 Norn)

This is an armor I'm not that pleased with, sure it looks awesome and cool, but it lacks the "warrior" feeling to it. The armor it self looks more for a class like the guardian or something "holy" if you want. I've made this my "Tanky" armor, when i need more thoughness and health.

STAG (Tier 3 Norn)

Now this is my pride and honor! The Stag armor is the most expensive one since it's the top tier of the cultural armor but it looks so AWESOME! sure the colours might not match that great since i'm in the phase of finding the right "theme" if you want. It's matching my Greatsword and it's not too dark, or too orange.

It felt horribly satisfying to finally have all the Cultural Tiers on my Warrior, now i could take a break on the farming and grinding for the certain Items I wanted.

Once again, So I thought!
Now that I've gotten everything I wanted, I started searching for something else to get my hands on. I started a Collection of Axes, which will be completed sooner or later, but I wanted a challenge, something that takes time to do. 
ah yes.... I want a legendary to complete it all, you probably think I'll go for Twilight or Sunrise.

You're wrong, I'm aiming for this beauty!

Frosfang (Wikipedia picture!)

The deal about this axe is it's a frozen weapon with awesome graphical looks:

• The arm holding Frostfang is covered in ice.
• The user leaves icy footsteps.
• The "mouth" of the axe opens and closes and emits an icy breath.
• Some skills differ slightly, such as Life Blast (Necromancer skill) which has an icy effect.

So this ends this post about my goals in GW2, I will write more about my progress, and the ups and downs with the farming for it. 

UNTILL NEXT TIME!

Guild wars 2: Leveling through Crafting

I've covered how to level through with assists and Events, so i might as well just talk about the crafting while we're at it. I'll try to cover it as good as i can! Let's DO THIS!

CRAFTING

Crafting is a great way to level up your character from 1-80, bear in mind you need to level all crafting profession to 400 for this to work. It's also a nice way to earn money by making the items and selling them on the trading post, but you need to look at the price for making it and the price for selling the final product.

There is 8 Crafting professions, and here's the list:

Armorsmith - Makes heavy armor for the Warrior and Guardian class. from boots to helmets.

Leatherworker - Makes Medium armor, Recommended for Thief, Engineers and Rangers.

Tailor - Makes Light armor for Mesmer, Elementalist and Necromancer.

Jeweler - Makes Jewels (duh!) and gems, you'll be making earrings, rings and amulets.

Weaponsmith - This profession you'll be making Two-handed swords and hammers, one-handed swords, axes, maces, spears and shields.

Artificer - Makes  Staffs, Scepters, Focus, Tridents and potions

Huntsman - Makes bows, rifles, pistols, war horn and torches

Chef - Makes Food with boons (buffs), from magic find to power and crit. you can even have tray of food for a certain meal/dessert/snack.

Choosing the correct crafting profession could be a headache at times since your class needs weapons but also needs the armor, or even the Jewels. If it's your first character I would recommend you to stick with at least 1 profession and max it out so you can make gear for yourself and others for a fee, or just sell it on the TP (Trading post)

If you are one of those patient ones who can actually Farm for a Legendary, i would recommend you to do some research on the Legendary you want and how to get it, because every Legendary needs a certain Crafting profession to make the unique item needed to merge it with the rest of the materials needed.

DISCOVERY

Discovering items in the 'Discovery' tab is a nice way to gain a bunch of crafting skill level. So if you miss those 3 levels to craft new items, try to discover as much as you can. 

To be honest, try to discover more than you're crafting the finished products, since they yield more xp for the profession than the items themselves. Also try to get as close to the appropriate skill level you got.

For an example:
If you have 120 in Weaponsmithing, try to make items as close to the level, preferably 100 and closer. 

CRAFTING  FINISHED PRODUCTS

How to craft a weapon or something may sound "simple", but it's more of a chain of items needed. The Chef profession is the perfect example of it, but I wont use that of an example, instead, I'll use Weaponsmithing for now.

If you want to make the "Berserker's Pearl Broadsword (Exotic)" you'll need the "Berserker's Orichalcum Imbued Insciption (Exotic) which then again needs 5 "Orichalcum Plated Dowel (Master)"

So it goes as followed:

You need 5 of these     ------->             To make 1 of these     ---->             Which then makes the final product

So this pretty much covers the crafting part of Guild Wars 2, next time i might talk more about the WvW part and how it benefits your world(server). If you like what you read, feel free to toss it around on the Internet! Share it away!