Guild Wars 2 Catch All

I'm going through everything in order, except I went through the first PoF mission so I could have a cool mount. Currently I'm on chapter 6 of Living World Season 2. Then I'll go back and finish HoT (just got Glint's egg) Season 3, and then PoF.

I'm having lots of fun doing it this way.

Same here Todd. Dr Awkward and I just finished up LS2 last night. Just starting up HoT. Gotta grind out some XP so I can fly, that's next on the "to-do" list.

Yeah I've 100% all the HoT maps except for the last. Some of the points need ley land gliding which is the last gliding mastery

Also some extra mastery (not HP) points need poison resistance. So you may need some help for map completion if you don't want to get those masteries.

All I have to say is WOW HoT is pretty cool. The whole "Gain 10 mastery points" is great. So much better than hunting them down 1 by 1. I got gliding, it's amazing and fun. So far a huge step up from LS2.

I just finished HoT's story, and wow, that was a disappointing ending. I mean, the story was good, and the boss fight was much more engaging than the one against Zhaitan, but that's the first GW game/expansion that didn't have a little denouement "party" where the major and minor characters congratulate you and/or talk about what they're going to do now that the immediate threat is over. I went right in to season 3 of the Living Story, so I know they've incorporated it into that, but it's just a bad decision. I can only imagine how badly it sucked for people who beat it before LS3 started.

So I did something totally insane and started playing the personal story of the asura elementalist who I boosted to 80. I love the priory storyline vs vigil and also the smug superiority of the asura.

I figure I'll bounce around with my main in Elona and go back and finish the main story and HoTs with shorty.

Awww, now that is a GREAT choice, Jdzappa.

I have my girlfriend and a coworker just diving into GW2 now with PoF and mounts, so I am looking forward to joining them for their personal story content. Good times!

I really appreciate the little things, like finding an altar to the gods in Amnoon where someone put an upside down basket over Balthazar's head with googly eyes drawn onto it.

Eleima I remember you posted that you made multiple legendary weapons??

I did not realize how long it takes to get charged quartz crystals! Ugh!

Get a generator for your home instance. That'll give you some guaranteed every day. Costs Karma and around 15 gold from a vendor in Lion's Arch.

Ok, thanks!

Spoiler:

The vendor is in the area where the portals to dungeons are, on the outer ring. Kind of on the way to the Lighthouse.

I have like 1.2 million karma so I'll be glad to actually spend it on something.

karmajay wrote:

Eleima I remember you posted that you made multiple legendary weapons??

I did not realize how long it takes to get charged quartz crystals! Ugh!

Oh heavens no!!! I “only” have Sunrise which I crafted before HoT came out. I was gonna go for Twilight, but ... yeah, that did t happen.

When I do log in though, I’m glad to have my Sunrise though, it’s so pretty.

(Yeah, I went for a deluxe PoF which I still haven’t fired up)

The sword I'm trying to make it a "Gen 2". So I'm crafting the pre-curser but the next jump you have to have all the masteries leveled which can be a challenge and takes a bit. I do a lot of meta events in HoT. I may have "The Golden Child" title by the time that occurs!

Then I really, really can't help you, because my knowledge is incredibly obsolete.

Currently on LS3. About halfway through I believe. Still loving the game. I've been doing all story stuff with Dr Awkward so when he's not on I'm exploring and completing zones. The further I progress in the game, the better things look. The world is mind-blowing!

It's huge, and there are so many ways to play. Recently I found an achievement that has me killing small head-crab type things hiding (and I mean *hiding*) all over Lion's Arch. I have about a dozen more to go. Just one of the many, many things to do that don't track with traditional MMOs. And I love that about it.

Ooooh, i remember the crab hunting!!! I did that as soon as it was available in “New” LA and it was lots of un. Be sure to use the sound of the critters to help pinpoint those you can’t find.

Yeah, I cranked the environmental sounds way up. That helped. It's definitely fun, although the last few (especially the last one in Sharkmaw) will be a pain to find, even with a guide. But I did find out that Sharkmaw is not just the maze, there's a jumping puzzle and a timing puzzle too, so... that's good.

Finished up the insanely long quest to get my griffon. Very cool stuff and wow to an epic questline!

I'm just starting in on that. The combat always seems to frustrate me, but I do want that super-gliding Griffon.

just did the Dragon's Stand meta for the first time after mostly ignoring the map as a whole.

went fairly smoothly, got a bunch of achievements and managed to complete the map as well.

I think at this point I'm 14 Maguuma Mastery points away from having all the gameplay requirements cleared to work on a gen2 legendary.

Nice that is the only area I have not completed yet. I've been working on the gen2 legendary also. Don't forget you have to lvl up a normal mastery to buy the blueprints for the different precursors as well.

DeThroned wrote:

Currently on LS3. About halfway through I believe. Still loving the game. I've been doing all story stuff with Dr Awkward so when he's not on I'm exploring and completing zones. The further I progress in the game, the better things look. The world is mind-blowing!

Crazy what happens in a month

Yeah... Was he part of ZOS? We should let them know, if that's the case...

Robear, he was.

fangblackbone wrote:

Crazy what happens in a month

You can say that again!

I tried logging in but going through LS2 all the way up to PoF with Dr Awkward (he got too weak to login and never did get to experience PoF except for getting the raptor mount), it feels really weird to play without him around. Just kind of empty and not the same

I am not giving the game up for good but for now have to play some other games and possibly come back to this in the future.

Aw, that makes me sad. And guilty that I still haven’t completed LS 2 & 3, nor touched PoF.

The farther along the story lines that you go, the better they get. LS2 was ok, LS3 was great. HoT could suck it, I hate those zones

Now that I have the jumper mount it probably wouldn't be so bad but navigation in those vertical zones was frustrating.