Guild Wars 2

Today ArenaNet has announced Mist Champions, an all-new element for the Stronghold PvP mode set to debut in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. Stronghold brings a new competitive experience to Guild Wars 2, introducing a PvP mode rich with lore where players fighting as pirates or knights infiltrate enemy lines and try to kill the enemy lord. The addition of Mist Champions fundamentally alters the gameplay associated with this power struggle by allowing combatants to purchase highly specialized champions which can be summoned to turn the tide of battle.

Mist Champions will give players three options to choose from, all of them with devastating super weapons at their disposal:

? Turai Ossa - Savour of Elona: This battle-hardened warrior can summon a protective barrier to aid the defense of friendly players and their Lord.

? Nika - Obsidian Flame Assassin: Long-time Guild Wars fans will remember this hero from another celebrated expansion, Guild Wars: Factions. Nika has the handy ability of being able to stealth a whole team at once, and their lord.

? Grymm Svaard - Sailor and Sword-for-hire: Supported by his flagship Nomad II, Grymm has the ability to call in cannon barrages which burn and knock down any enemies they hit.



A blog post from Game Designer Branden Gee and Stronghold Game Designer Hugh Norfolk offers more details about Mist Champions and each of their abilities, which include war cries, passive skills and elite skills. The post is live on the official Guild Wars 2 website linked hereMeet the Mist Champions! | GuildWars2.com.

Did run into a shadow behemoth couple days ago that was going to take more than 15 mins to complete.
But all the bosses I ran yesterday except teq and triple threat took around 10 mins to do, a few like fire elemental shaman and centaur take 5 mins or less. Some fights like golem suffer from too many idiots that want to stand on the box and hit 1. Jormag and shatterer have crit spots you can stand on to do more damage but as usual people want to sit in one spot and hit 1.

I though the T1 and T2 server leadership were rigging up the match so they can save their ecosystem? There was some drama not so long ago about this and it was hard for some X server commander to keep the balance.

They disabled the grenadier trait.

Yes T1 has been doing that for a year and half, making sure none of the 3 fall. BG even had push weeks in which they ppt'd hard to keep their ratings up, although the top 3 really have nothing to worry about these days since it's difficult for a T2 server to get enough ratings to get up there.
JQ was supposedly failing last year and [TW]Tempest wolves moved alts onto JQ from BG to help save the server. [ONS]Onslaught just just recently did the same thing and moved alts onto TC from BG, although TC wasn't really in danger of failing.

About time for the grenadier trait bug, it was known long before the guard symbol bug, they really couldn't ignore it any longer since they already took the first step with disabling the symbol trait.

T3 started the same thing that 2 week ago. One the T3 server didn't liked losing to u so when the other T3 server offered them to focus my server to get us out of T3 they accepted. TBH I don't care T4 is pretty fun right now. I see a lot less blob and it's easier to get good fight.

Didn't knew TW was multi server. This is funny. Do they still GvG?

heian_sl said:

T3 started the same thing that 2 week ago. One the T3 server didn't liked losing to u so when the other T3 server offered them to focus my server to get us out of T3 they accepted. TBH I don't care T4 is pretty fun right now. I see a lot less blob and it's easier to get good fight.

Didn't knew TW was multi server. This is funny. Do they still GvG?

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Not sure if they gvg anymore, I've read a lot about them dodging gvg's though lol. Doubt T1 has many gvg's, probably why [GS]Gun squad the top fight guild from T1 moved to SoS for T2 gvgs and the gvg tournament.

Also my main account is on SoS but haven't played sos wvw for more than a month, been playing my alt on Ehmry which just broke into T4, should be a good fight with CD and NSP! was getting tired of the t5 matchup with db(miniblobs that run away) and ar(the saltiest/cheesiest server I've ever played against).

Send me a tell if you wanna duel or something for fun. My account name is yanoch.7051. This also apply to all GW2 players on these board in the NSP range. I usually roam Wednesday, Thursday or my lunch break at work. The rest of the week I mostly run with my guild in WvW.

Rolled a thief up the other day, just hit level 30. Is there anything I ought to be doing on my path to 80 other than hearts in assorted zones? It seems like I wasn't getting enough exp following a "proper" progression, I've had to detour off to other zones. Been doing my story quest.

"Proper" progression has no part in GW2 leveling. Keep in mind there's 4 major over arching areas to explore, Maguuma, Kryta, Ascalon and Shiverpeaks. Each of those areas have 1-60 zones. Things will break up when you hit 70 and either have Frostgorge Sound in Shiverpeaks, or Orr down in the south. You should try to hit up as many events tied to areas as you can while leveling, it'll speed it up remarkably.

Above all, abandon the idea that there's a set path you need to adhere too for leveling, even going back to a newbie zone will get you a fair amount of xp, due to downscaling and the fact your xp per heart/event is tied to your level, not the zones.

I've just finished leveling a second necromancer and with xp boosters (kill ALL the things, the longer a mob is alive for, the more xp it's worth, so hitting up out of the way places is a great source of xp while moving), access to a fairly full crafting bank (two crafts to 400 = 20 levels), pvp dailies (Tomes of Knowledge = 1 level) and gathering, I skipped about 60% of the worlds content.

Feel free to add Torana.4978 if you need anything.

Yeah basically wander towards anything which looks interesting and see what's going on over there.

E: And collect armour/weapon skins so you can join therealendgame of Pretty Princess Dressup at cap.

but, then Pretty Pretty Princess Dressup is endgame, so not super relative to him leveling still. there are very few real options for him at that point.

As there is no race change service, I leveled a new Necromancer (Charr) from 0 to 80 in a few minutes with the help of ToKs. To be honest the new system is kindly slow at first but the information they provide each level is really helping and to merge everything into Hero Points provides good flexibility as you can now choose what to do. This time I go full Terrormancer ( my Asura neceo was a powermancer) and I enjoy the game again .... any rumors yet for HoT release ?

Damn what's a ToK and how do you instantly hit 80 with it

Tomes of knowledge give you 1 whole level. You can get them from login rewards, and from spvp dailies and reward tracks.
People usually just spvp and stock up on them.


I might have to try terrormancer again, necros were saying that the spec got nerfed because of certain trait placements. Playing signet mancer and getting demolished by thieves, they even rip through deathshroud easily. It's fun converting boons to condis on gaurds and eles, even if they put the boons back on a couple seconds later, eles so op right now.

bixxby_sl said:

Damn what's a ToK and how do you instantly hit 80 with it

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Tome of Knowledge , when you use 1 you get 1 level ... I had like 120 lying around in my bank ... you get them out of chest and from arena reward tracks in combination with the birthday gift you get for each character that is over 1 year old ( instant to lvl 20) you just need 60 of thos ToK

I'm saving mine for myshadowknightdeathknightRevenant

If someone wants to level fast I guess the golem week in 2 weeks and the Bday booster would be very great. Personally I don't know what to think about the upcoming Golem week.

I'm saving mine for... who am I kidding. I have like 250 ToK, over 1k skill"heropoints", even after trying to convert them to gold.
Black lion key farm really I suppose..

But that said, path of exile for awhile again as "main".

I had 9.5 million Karma and tried to turn it into golds. Got really bored after 2 million and stopped. I'm back at 8.5 million....

Wish I had 9mil left, spent about 4mil turning that into around 400g.