Recent content by stardust

I can vouch for Windows 8. Been using it as my main OS for several weeks now. I'm using the RTM final build from MSDN. It works very well with all of my hardware drivers, including the all-important graphics drivers. That said, the OS does move a lot of stuff around that may confuse you for a...

I feel like Mesmers are in general great for WvW, with or without portal. They have excellent support skills, plus the illusions can confuse (no pun intended) enemies a lot.

You should be able to get enough gold via TP and general gameplay (getting lucky with unidentified dyes, or just selling all unIDed dyes for 4-5s) to afford pretty much anything on the gem store you could want. I got an extra character slot with 2g from selling a Black Dye.

Does WvW have a separate trait build? In other words, can you put traits in different things than PvE without resetting traits?

Exactly the same for me :) Thursday small group ftw

Is this 9am or 9pm EST? :confused:

This is definitely on my to-do list as well. I'll have to monitor this thread and try to hop on when you guys do this next :)

That YouTube Mesmer guide is very well done. I've watched all the videos, and it's clear that the creator of the videos is a much more skilled player than me, but I still think I could use his leveling build to good effect. I think the basic takeaway from his guide is that Staff is just too good...

I have long used Longbow as main weapon, switching to Axe+Warhorn when fighting multiple enemies or to apply the #5 skill buffs from warhorn. I am currently testing Sword+Axe as the swap set. I don't like it as much yet, but I want to give it some time.

Agreed. They are also improving it all the time. It's already a lot smoother and faster than it used to be.

Good points all. I think you are right that intervention is the right move early in the market formation, especially with all the abnormal circumstances surrounding the TP downtime. I was just thinking about the particular issue with Iron Ore, and I think the problem is that Copper Ore is only...

This is really impressive that this came out so fast, especially since Guild Wars 2 is a DirectX game.

Remember that when buying from the TP you should ALWAYS do an offer, not a "buy instantly". You will save money every time, and in some cases it's a huge amount. A related tip is that if you notice the offer price is substantially lower than the sell price, you can make some easy profit by...

And since it's not entirely obvious from the screen shot, the recipe is 1 Ecto + 1 Mystic Coin + 500x (two stacks of 250x) any of the other items shown. Anyone else find the interventionist policy of ArenaNet with regard to the economy somewhat troubling? They see Iron Ore/etc. is too cheap...

How is Windows 8 support for Guild Wars 2? I remember using Windows 7 RTM about 2 months prior to launch, and the video card drivers were spotty at best.