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Mounts were a mistake.
what I never understood is how everyone seems to be jerking themselves off over GW2 DID MOUNTS RIGHT!11 when it was crap
yeah, on paper turning them into metroid-gatekeeping for exploration isn't to bad, but
a) constantly having to switch around is annoying and tedious
b) mounts inevitably will replace one another because most people use a mount to get faster, not jump higher (that's why you make every ability available to every mount so people have a choice).
c) it's even more retarded when you remember GW2 sold skins per type - why would I buy a skin for a mount I hardly use, even if I wanted too?
d) iirc most of them got replaced anyway by a multi-purpose mount. great fucking design and planning...
 
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what I never understood is how everyone seems to be jerking themselves off over GW2 DID MOUNTS RIGHT!11 when it was crap
yeah, on paper turning them into metroid-gatekeeping for exploration isn't to bad
The bullshit mounts crap ANet added had gotten worse as time went along, even if they've gotten replaced with something else
 
The mount system is good. The raptor and springer are definitely outclassed once you grind for the griffon, beetle and skyscale but they’re very useful to have to get around in the meantime and far more accessible to new players. The jackal and skimmer are still used for quick land travel/shields/underwater riding. Warclaw is ass and I never unlocked the turtle so I can’t comment on that one.

It’s not perfect, but it’s much more engaging than press button, wait for cast bar, get on mount that moves exactly like your character but faster and doesn’t have any presence or effect on the world besides 160% speed increase.
 
Hijacking this thread to ask if anyone here has managed to get their GW 1 account back , they did some kind of security sweep long ago and locked like hundreds of thousands of accounts. Ive lost access to that email so I don't know what could be done to fix it.
 
Hijacking this thread to ask if anyone here has managed to get their GW 1 account back , they did some kind of security sweep long ago and locked like hundreds of thousands of accounts. Ive lost access to that email so I don't know what could be done to fix it.
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Maybe someone else does. GW was such an awesome MMORPG and it has no monthly fee, I used to visit a few days a year every year but havent been able lately. The graphics still hold up.

I remember logging in two years ago and the big cities were still full of people! Ascalon and Krya or something?
Tried to pvp but did I get recked.
 
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Maybe someone else does. GW was such an awesome MMORPG and it has no monthly fee, I used to visit a few days a year every year but havent been able lately. The graphics still hold up.

I remember logging in two years ago and the big cities were still full of people! Ascalon and Krya or something?
Tried to pvp but did I get recked.
No
 
Against my better judgment I’m gonna reinstall GW2, mainly to see how it runs with Crossover.
Was looking at what it would cost to get back up to date content wise and holy shit I’m not paying the best part of £100 to get everything after Heart of Thorns.
My question is, can I get a key from another region and add it to my account if I log in using a VPN or are accounts locked to a specific region? I don’t really want to lose my GWAMM and legendary weapons.
 
Against my better judgment I’m gonna reinstall GW2, mainly to see how it runs with Crossover.
Was looking at what it would cost to get back up to date content wise and holy shit I’m not paying the best part of £100 to get everything after Heart of Thorns.
My question is, can I get a key from another region and add it to my account if I log in using a VPN or are accounts locked to a specific region? I don’t really want to lose my GWAMM and legendary weapons.
Accounts are region locked, unfortunately.

If you purchase just one post HoT piece of content to start with, make it the Path of Fire expansion. Great bang for your buck with the mounts plus elite specs and it goes on sale often.
 
Accounts are region locked, unfortunately.

If you purchase just one post HoT piece of content to start with, make it the Path of Fire expansion. Great bang for your buck with the mounts plus elite specs and it goes on sale often.
Isn't it still a waste when dealing with its identity political storyline?
 
Accounts are region locked, unfortunately.

If you purchase just one post HoT piece of content to start with, make it the Path of Fire expansion. Great bang for your buck with the mounts plus elite specs and it goes on sale often.

Fuck that noise. Path of Fire alone costs £15, I can get the whole Elder Dragon saga with Living World for £10 if I pretend I’m from Brazil or some other South American country with a shit currency. Ill just buy that and make a new account if the game runs well and I get back into it.
 
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Isn't it still a waste when dealing with its identity political storyline?
If you play MMOs exclusively for their stories, yes, because the writing is 100% retarded. Not even just the faggots and faggot accessories—if you remove those, it is still 5 IQ, uninteresting and full of ridiculous inconsistencies.

Luckily, if you are interested in literally any other part of the entire rest of the game, it’s a pretty good game, and there’s 10 years of content to play.
 
If you play MMOs exclusively for their stories, yes, because the writing is 100% retarded. Not even just the faggots and faggot accessories—if you remove those, it is still 5 IQ, uninteresting and full of ridiculous inconsistencies.

Luckily, if you are interested in literally any other part of the entire rest of the game, it’s a pretty good game, and there’s 10 years of content to play.
Yes, but this type of shit still bothers me
 
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Hijacking this thread to ask if anyone here has managed to get their GW 1 account back , they did some kind of security sweep long ago and locked like hundreds of thousands of accounts. Ive lost access to that email so I don't know what could be done to fix it.
Contact their support, every experience I've ever heard about anet support in regards to GW1 is that they are very forgiving and understanding about account recovery... perhaps a bit too much. the more stuff you have to prove you own the account, the better your odds are. Having the original game code is gold standard, but having original email, same IP, I've heard of people getting their accounts back with nothing other than knowing the character names.
 
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Today in "What the fuck anet" Cassiano was unbanned.

Now for a history lesson. For those of you who may not know him, you probably know of his actions if you were playing 4 years ago, approximately 4 years ago Cassiano was a member of Guild MM, a guild of rich "Barons" and other rich players was kicked from the guild and banned from the overflow trading discord due to allegations of RMTing. In retalation he put up a mystic coin buy order wall to drive up the price of mystic coins to lower the profit margins of legendary crafting which many other barons did to generate their wealth. You can actually see this activity on any TP tracker which I've included below. This drove the price of mystic coins from 1.5 gold to as high as 2.5 gold

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Approximately 8 months after this buy order wall went up during a stream Cassiano accidently opened his guild bank on stream without realizing it and quickly ends stream and tries to delete the VOD but it was too late and users had already took pictures of it's contents. While the infusions themselves are extremely suspicious because he had more infusions than were even theorized to exist, the black lion exclusive chest was the biggest red flag. Even if he was the mother of all whales and bought millions of dollars in gems and bought every single black lion exclusive off the TP he would have a magntitude more than had even been generated. (they were made easier to get in 2021 or 2022 I think).

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This was the final straw on the camels back for anet who had ignored months of evidence of reports regarding his RMTing activities and numerous reports that people believed he was duping, anet stepped in and banned him which resulted in a million buy orders of mystic coins vanishing causing the value to plummet.

Normally you'd expect a story like this to end here, however it gets MUCH more retarded. A few days ago users on gw2efficency (an API website) noticed out of nowhere one person suddenly had hundreds of multiple different infusions which were released before 2021. Initial belief was that a new dupe was possible however people noticed something interesting, on their block lists Cassiano's account name was gone and a new name was there - alejandro.2093 if you attempt to go to casiano's gw2forums account https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/profile/23990-casiano2705/ it redirects to alejandro.2093 confirming that he has changed his account name.

I've included some pictures of gw2efficency API. See if you can guess which account is Casiano's (hint it has 32,030h played)
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And of course it wouldn't be a total anet clown show without them deleting forum posts and banning users about the issue! You can still find the post archived in google search.
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It's unclear exactly why anet let an infamous duper and RMTer get unbanned however given their track history in banning known RMTer's (MAT PvP seller Naru who has been proven multiple times even recently to still be selling MAT's for real world money and who was previously perma banned is also no longer banned AND IS AN ANET PARTNER) it's also unclear if they even bothered to wipe his duped items out, or if they missed some. Either way, get ready for infusions to tank hard, casiano has since deleted his gw2efficency API key so people can no longer see how many he has.
 
Remembered this game existed last night, got the hankering to check it out. Haven't played since Path of Fire or whatever it was.
 
Still can't believe the game is 12 years old through. Aboslutely loved it when it came out and the much needed injections it added to the MMO gene (jumping puzzle, quest system, gears, etc). Feels way too stagnant now along with the devs just getting completely pozzed.
 
Its pozzed, but honestly I do not care. The storylines are fucking shit, woke or not. Its just really badly written "with power, comes duty.....the duty.....of the powerful!" epic shit music that is just some swells on what sounds like EastWest Orc Silver package if you ask me. The upper strings have that tell wobble on the trills you can catch. Quite cheap default sounding.

Anyway, the new bear areas are pretty good. I enjoyed them. I like everything but the storyline in this game, even the PVP is much better. Someone said that its no longer esports or actually competitive, which has been a blessing as people can roll with crazy builds for fun. People still try to win, just not every fucking meta build and nothing else.
 
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>'Complete Collection' €20 on their own site
>€50 on Steam
I played GW1 for hundreds of hours in my teens but had nothing to show for it. The GW2 pre-launch event with adding feats into the website, I had basically nothing to add. I'm tired of WoW and having to install a secondary launcher and shit, so I'd honestly be fine restarting entirely on a new GW2 steam account, but every expansion rating is negative and I know GW2 just doesn't have the same.. 'open world' feel. I prefer having to do long quest lines to unlock content etc, but the neon cosmetics and korean-esque cosmetics just ruins gw2 for me.

In a world where WoW didn't exist I'd probably consider gw2 more closely. Anyone -actively- play this and enjoy it, social guild and all?
 
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