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[Piggy]

No, you're a slut. Welcome to the club!

[+Perfect72]

mattmatik, on 01 September 2012 - 05:05, said:

Reading all this, I feel like I have no idea how to play the game

Believe me, you are not alone. It has taken me lots of testing to get to where I am at, and I still feel like I'm not doing enough. But when I used to play WoW, back in 2005 and beyond, I had my own build. (0/0/41 Frost). I had a blast, then years went on and I got serious and went with cookie cutter builds, and the game became unfun. So this time, I refuse to look up generic builds and do like I did back when WoW was new, and make my own and make it work, regardless of if it is the best. It makes me feel more accomplished!

Piggy, on 01 September 2012 - 06:07, said:

No, you're a slut. Welcome to the club!

Somehow your avatar makes it funny when you say that, lol. I'm fine with it. I've watched my friends do it, and of course my friends wives. If it gets me ahead, then let the nerds fight over my wares and money.
But, shhhhhh, don't tell anyone!

[+Vice]

Back in the GW1 days I made some of the most intricate farming and run builds. 55hp monk farming, warrior farming, I would do runs from Ascalon City to Droknar's Forge with some of those builds.

Now with GW2 they have changed everything and I'm like a deer in headlights. I still don't quite understand why there seems to be three types of currency, Karma, Gems and Gold/Silver/Copper. In the original game it just had Gold/Silver/Copper and I think that was the right way to do it, this Karma stuff seems very anti-market to me. I don't see why I would want to trade for stuff when I need Karma and not Gold to purchase my armor and stuff, what's the point in having gold? - If anyone knows I'd like an answer as I'm not being rhetorical I really don't know.

[Osiris]

Hrmm interesting question. I would like to say yes but hey if they are silly/happy to part ways with their items for someone playing 'that card' then I guess it all works out.

[trag3dy]

Vice, on 01 September 2012 - 06:28, said:

Back in the GW1 days I made some of the most intricate farming and run builds. 55hp monk farming, warrior farming, I would do runs from Ascalon City to Droknar's Forge with some of those builds.

Now with GW2 they have changed everything and I'm like a deer in headlights. I still don't quite understand why there seems to be three types of currency, Karma, Gems and Gold/Silver/Copper. In the original game it just had Gold/Silver/Copper and I think that was the right way to do it, this Karma stuff seems very anti-market to me. I don't see why I would want to trade for stuff when I need Karma and not Gold to purchase my armor and stuff, what's the point in having gold? - If anyone knows I'd like an answer as I'm not being rhetorical I really don't know.

Karma items while functional/decent are just basic skinned items. I'm a level 70-80 zone right now and the stuff the karma vendors are selling use the skins you would find in the level 1-15 zones. To get the better looking stuff and exotic tier armor/weapons and legendary stuff you're gonna have to do a profession and run dungeons. Gold has it's purpose and so does karma. I think the system works great.

[+Vice]

trag3dy, on 01 September 2012 - 07:36, said:

Karma items while functional/decent are just basic skinned items. I'm a level 70-80 zone right now and the stuff the karma vendors are selling use the skins you would find in the level 1-15 zones. To get the better looking stuff and exotic tier armor/weapons and legendary stuff you're gonna have to do a profession and run dungeons. Gold has it's purpose and so does karma. I think the system works great.

So you buy your high level stuff using gold but it looks bad and then you spend karma to make the stuff look good?

[Blackhearted]

So i logged on just a bit ago, then had to check if i was actually awake cause i hit O and didn't see that picture of that damn quaggan.

[trag3dy]

Vice, on 01 September 2012 - 07:45, said:

So you buy your high level stuff using gold but it looks bad and then you spend karma to make the stuff look good?

No. You can't buy exotic armor and weapons with Karma, which is the strongest tier for equipment there is. At least as far as I know. You can only get it through drops, crafting, and dungeons.

[+Vice]

trag3dy, on 01 September 2012 - 09:41, said:

No. You can't buy exotic armor and weapons with Karma, which is the strongest tier for equipment there is. At least as far as I know. You can only get it through drops, crafting, and dungeons.

So you can't even buy armors and weapons with gold? Gosh.... what is the point of having gold then?

In Guild Wars 1 you could just buy armor. All you needed was Gold + The Materials to make the armor which you could buy with gold from other players or farm it from mobs. Is it possible to buy Karma?

[trag3dy]

Vice, on 01 September 2012 - 09:45, said:

So you can't even buy armors and weapons with gold? Gosh.... what is the point of having gold then?

In Guild Wars 1 you could just buy armor. All you needed was Gold + The Materials to make the armor which you could buy with gold from other players or farm it from mobs. Is it possible to buy Karma?

You're not picking up what I'm putting down. You can buy armor and weapons with gold from the market. You need gold to buy materials to craft with. And you get drops from dungeons and so on. Cultural armor is bought with gold, too.

The system works just fine as it is. All karma does is make people less reliant on having to have lots of gold and you don't need to spend a lot of gold to get decent gear. But if you want the best you're gonna have to pay for it with gold in some fashion.

[+Vice]

trag3dy, on 01 September 2012 - 10:08, said:

You're not picking up what I'm putting down. You can buy armor and weapons with gold from the market. You need gold to buy materials to craft with. And you get drops from dungeons and so on.

The system works just fine as it is. All karma does is make people less reliant on having to have lots of gold and you don't need to spend a lot of gold to get decent gear. But if you want the best you're gonna have to pay for it with gold in some fashion.

Ok. Just in your other reply it sounded like you couldn't spend gold on that stuff but ok.

[firey]

Vice, on 01 September 2012 - 10:10, said:

Ok. Just in your other reply it sounded like you couldn't spend gold on that stuff but ok.

There are multiple currencies, kinda like wow. You can buy stuff for gold, or honor (karma), commendations (exotic), etc. Same concept, different gear/better gear based on what you use.

[+littleneutrino]

fobban, on 31 August 2012 - 16:30, said:

How is the in-game store? Do you get lots for competitive advantages/faster xp/something else if you use real money, or is the game enjoyable without that too?

The store is engineered so that it can make you level faster but once you get to 80 it will not make you any better than anyone else. also the XP boost items are given to you throughout the game for killing things and completing events anyway so there is not really much of a reason to buy that stuff. Mainly the store just has appearance items in it to make you look cooler.

[trag3dy]

littleneutrino, on 01 September 2012 - 14:43, said:

The store is engineered so that it can make you level faster but once you get to 80 it will not make you any better than anyone else. also the XP boost items are given to you throughout the game for killing things and completing events anyway so there is not really much of a reason to buy that stuff. Mainly the store just has appearance items in it to make you look cooler.

In no way what so ever will any of the items in the store make you level in faster. The exp boosts only go towards kills, not exp earned from hearts or events. Which is where the majority of your experience comes from. It would take forever just to level up through kills alone.

[dead.cell]

trag3dy, on 01 September 2012 - 15:26, said:

In no way what so ever will any of the items in the store make you level in faster. The exp boosts only go towards kills, not exp earned from hearts or events. Which is where the majority of your experience comes from. It would take forever just to level up through kills alone.

Well, you could use gems to buy gold, to buy crafting materials in the trade post, but even then, doing this doesn't really get you ahead by much other than being able to make nice things.

Like that guy who got to 80 first through crafting having guildies feed him the materials, that just seems like a waste. I guess if he had fun, more power to him but that's not how I'd like to spend my $60 for the game.