Guild wars 1 is very much alive, we have a /vm/ guild that has been running near weekly events for 2.5 years now for anyone interested in doing endgame content, new players are always welcome and no prior experience is needed.

>>1754525 Previous Thread

Our prophecies 50/50 prog continues from bloodstone fen. We have plans on Friday 18th to play some AB at 2PM EST, be there so we can win for glorious luxons. We do other PvP and various ZB/ZM stuff as well just watch thread for plans.

If you want to join guild, post your IGN.

Useful links
https://www.gw-memorial.net/
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/PvX_wiki
https://wiki.fbgmguild.com/wiki/Main_Page
https://party.gwtoolbox.com/
https://kamadan.gwtoolbox.com/
https://ascalon.gwtoolbox.com/
https://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome

And fix your sound!
>https://guildwarslegacy.com/forum/thread/10525-announcing-dsoal-gw1-3d-positional-audio-and-eax-effects-for-everyone/

What is DSOAL-GW1?
>When GW was released in 2005, the audio component of Microsoft’s DirectX API was something called DirectSound. DirectSound had a 3D audio component called DirectSound3D, or DS3D, that could pan and amplify/attenuate sound sources based on their position relative to the camera in the game’s 3D world. PC’s with a high-end Creative sound card also had access to EAX, an extension to DS3D with a suite of hardware DSP effects for occlusion, obstruction, reverb, echo, etc. Like most games of its era, GW’s audio system was designed around DirectSound and DS3D, and owners of high-end PCs could get the “definitive” audio experience with EAX.
>All that ended in 2007 with Windows Vista. Vista completely broke DS3D and EAX. Rather than fix it, Microsoft deprecated DirectSound and pushed developers to adopt its new XAudio2 API for future games. With DS3D and EAX broken, GW hasn’t sounded “right” in any version of Windows since XP.

Sorry it took me so long to post new thread, meant to do it yesterday but ended up forgetting due to work.

>bought some character slots during sale
>rolled up female nf ele
It has been 72 hours and I still have an erection. I am uninsured American I cannot see a doctor. Can ele mains chime in, should I be worried or is this normal ele experience?

>>1854514
Typical straight male experience when dealing with Obsidian Flesh.
Also, get some Obamacare ffs.

"Hello," muttered the Paragon in a BOOMING voice.

k*nsuke where is the gif-webm for the previous session
>>1854514
>american
>nonstop erection at sight of an el*nian
it's terminal
>>1854477 (OP)
do you have an interesting team build for ab

>>1854772
This is the setup I made last thread. The 2 warrior builds are abusing this months flux which gives you stacking damage increase (up to 30% bonus damage) when you use a different attribute skill then last. You basically cycle between penetrating blow and symbolic strike, using battle rage whenever it runs low to maintain +30% damage on your attacks. Symbolic strike will slap people for nearly 100 damage and you can spam it basically every other hit.

The necro is a melee support curse necro pretty good enchant rip and condi removal. And barbs + defile + cracked armor can create unexpected melee spikes.

The rit is a pretty standard channeling support rit this set up is very energy efficient so it should be able to just spam skills off cooldown. Ancestors rage can set up some 200 damage spikes if it happens to explode while the warrior is doing a symbolic strike.


I thought about doing a silly hex spam setup since most teams don't seem to run heavy hex clear but this seemed way funnier.

>>1854772
I've been busy as fuck, I think I got ascalon ones I didn't make yet
hell I think I have caps from the last prophecies campaign for webms I didn't make yet

what a crappy op pic who made the thread omfg
also I suggest for the next op to include links to gw launcher/daybreak and pvx links to HUD/carto mods for completion and maybe that guy's youtube channel who frequently posts POV vids from gvg scrims so people can get acquainted with that

>>1855779
too autistic, just play the game

>>1855811
"no"

>>1855779
I try to always make each thread with a different OP picture unless I really specifically liked one of them, after making these threads for almost 3 years I am starting to run out of pictures lol always open to community submissions for what OP should be. My only requirement is that you can easily tell it's a picture of guild wars.

I'll consider adding links for gwlauncher/daybreak but desu the vast majority of people aren't multi accounting in this game so feel like it'd be a waste of space, carto is probably a good idea though, I'll add that next thread. The OP already has PvX links. I like Hubert (gvg scrim guy) but I don't really want to shill for the guy but if people are alright with me including it in the OP I'll include a link to his channel.

>>1855822
You can use the meme skill icons if you run out of pretty pictures.

>>1855822
it's not only for multi launch, you can load multiple mods at once, e.g., toolbox and umod and do stuff like autologin etc

>>1855935
>autologin
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments#-password_.3Cstring.3E

>>1856206
Thanks!

>>1856206
i tried doing this manually and it wouldn't work for some reason >__<

Is it possible to do the Prophecies campaign solo if there are no players around? Grew up with that and am all up for some nostalgia

>>1857133
Henchies, bro

>>1857109
Which part did you have trouble with?

>>1857133
It is possible yes: you can simply use ai-controlled henchmen
I am currently doing just that, it's fun
But holy shit was I bad at the game when I was a kid: I remember struggling on some missions for days with friends, while I complete them easily with henchmen now

>>1857109
You need to input both your email and password, plus a character name. E.G.
-character "Wam Mo" -email sealclubber@4channel.org -password s3cr1tklub -

>>1857176
>>1857309
I use the client so no need now

>>1854862
battle rage ends on using non-adrenal skills
flux resets on using same attrib
this means interrupts cannot be used without losing ias and ims? i feel like i dont understand something
how about this change?

>>1857796
90% of the time you are bouncing between symbolic strike and penetrating blow for this build. Without battle rage you need to attack 4 times to build enough adrenaline to use it. With battle rage you get double adrenaline from attacks so every 2 attacks you can spam out 100 damage. Because battle rage takes 4 adrenaline to use it is extremely easy to fund it, so even if you wanted to use a signet (which you shouldn't it's generally not worth it but maybe there's some devestating skill you can rupt) you can just immediately use battle rage again.

The signets are almost purely on the bar for powering up symbolic strike, but they are versatile in that you can spam that before entering combat to build up your flux bonus to 30% before moving in for a single strike.

example video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOsiR_jIWzI

tl;dr the signets on this bar are almost purely for powering up symbolic strike and battle rage exists to fund your ability to spam symbolic strike even faster.

>>1858915
oic its unga bunga

>>1857727
??????????????

>>1854862
>ancestor's rage (pvp)
u aint gettin no spikes

wtb 5 nick items

>>1859682
nvm

>>1854477 (OP)
Fellas, I'm in a particular bind. I recently picked up a couple pretty complete-in-box collectors edition boxes of Factions and Nightfall for cheaper than fast food. Obviously the code's are long gone but the discs are all there. Are there any private servers that let me skip the authenticating process, like what WoW private servers do?

>>1859823
No. The boxes/discs are collector items at best and trash to most.
You can buy literally everything in GW1 (masterpiece collection) for $40 from the official store right now. You just missed the most recent sale when everything was like $20. They do these sales often enough.
It was $8 for the 20th anniv earlier this year.

>>1859829
I'm not spending $40 for a 20 year old game.

>>1859833
Then wait for the next sale.

ab starting soon come bash niggers in the head

>>1859833
You've managed to miss 2 sales one that happened earlier this month/last month that had game discounted up to 50% off, and another in april/may which had the game 75% off.

If you're lucky there might be another sale in August for wayfarer, I'd recommend just wishlisting it on steam and waiting for a sale.

>>1854477 (OP)
wtf that combo of 2 spellcasters and 4 bandits keeps raping me, do i even push into this mountain
>>1857133
if you want we can party up but i just started tonight, level 6 if that matters, just walking around doing the introductory quests before i pick a 2nd class
How's quest progress handled here anyway? Clears the quest for both of us?

>>1860554
Quests that update by themselves update for everyone who has it in their log.
If you particularly need to talk to someone or do something then everyone has to do it separately, but you don't have to leave the same instance.
Example: If the quest says to go kill McNigger, pick up his watermelon, then talk to Chuck to turn the quest in, everyone who has the quest will have it update when McNigger dies, pick up a separate watermelon, then everyone has to go talk to Chuck to turn it in. You never have to leave a zone or duplicate effort for people in the same party doing quests.

BTW, yes, at level 6 you should be totally fine going up the foothills in WIzard's Folly. Try not to over-aggro. Bandits are only level 1 or 2 there.
If you want some help I can hop on and follow along with you.

>>1860573
I could handle the elementals easily, i think i need to get the upgraded armor boots and helmet , maybe some new skills from the warrior trainer as i didn't talk to him yet. I just get nuked since i draw aggro instead of the panther and the healing can't catch up LOL.
It's fine for now, i don't think i need to reach the top (yet)

>>1860587
Keep in mind that you're going to basically be taking double damage while activating Healing Signet because of the armor penalty. You might get better use of the Ranger's Troll Unguent while you're actively being attacked.

>>1860595
Additionally, if you're using Frenzy, be careful of a similar effect on that skill too.

>>1860595
Sadly i switched to the elementalist trial skills so now i have the aoe Fire shower, ranger seemed the coolest as a sub class.
I try not to spam Signet/Rage in combat too much. I think what happens is i stay in the NPC's fire shower and that just chunks me.

>>1860606
Yeah, step outta that shit, dude.
Ranger is one of the more straightforward secondaries for Warriors, but every profession can synchronize in unexpectedly awesome ways.

>>1860606
if you're in pre I can goof around with you if you want, are you on now?

>>1860615
Actually i went back and just did it, so what i did was break the pack of 6 into 2 by using the meteor spell, the spell that chunked me is Flare, deals ~16 on first hit then 30~50 and my HP is 240, crazy damage even when i split them up.
>>1860634
I just started in prophecies, wiki says thats pre searing, i guess that's what you mean, im on atm, but clearing the mountain to reach the wizard (assuming from the quest description lol) char ign: Kerch Thunderdon, on eu 1 atm

>>1860645
go head with the wizard then and enjoy

>>1860658
k got carried away exploring the left side of the map down the mountain im in ascalon europe - english - district 1, can switch to america if u want, my ping is around 110ms in instance

>>1860645
>Kerch Thunderdon, on eu 1
even euros play on aed1 I think
I might be wrong (na so don't personally need it) but that sets the town server, not the server once you're out in the wilderness. eed1 ascalon city will be a ghost town, aed1 will have like 40 people in ut

>>1860694
Ah i was thinking active sets you up with a random channel, so if district 1 is available to pick, then it throws you there and there only. It seems that's the case after checking the upper left menu, its 1 AM in eu atm so its pretty empty anyway (Your party is already in an active district). I'll be chilling for about 10 minutes more for the other anon otherwise i'll go farm my boots

>>1860701
Oh i got what you mean now after rereading the post, what seems weird to me in that case is that when it picked america for me the ping was 110ms on the lower right green button, but if i went to EU it was 40ms, even if it was a solo instance in a exploration area.
(I switched because some clipping happened in combat where i rubberbanded a few times)

Posting for the new guy

what could have been bros...

Is it possible to find groups for low levels ingame (without using 4chan - sorry I don't want to play with /pol/)

>>1861670
>sorry I don't want to play with /pol/
we're pretty tame desu
but no, unless you plan it, you have maybe a 1 in 15 chance of seeing someone at the same level who's amenable to partying up for a mission. and if you're the euro, eu towns will be pretty much empty

>>1861651
How do you get that recycle info? Mod?

>>1861744
gw toolbox
if you get it you should turn off the quest marker line thing though, it turns the game into even more of an exercise in brainlessly looking at your compass

>>1854477 (OP)
proph prog tomorrow, is everyone able to make it this time?

>>1861917
ye

>>1861917
I have a pool party, so no.

What's up boys

>>1861917
yep, since we have 1 at pool party we'll put off doing rotscale for another week.

Tomorrow's goal will be Bloodstone Fen + Aurora glade, and we might do a little bit of side questing to get some skills + outposts.

>>1862087
not much bro yourself?

for my birthday, i want a pool party with pale goth ascalonian femnecros

>>1862326
Can we invite tight Canthan assassins and voluptuous Elonian elementalists too?

>>1862393
We cannot invite elonians to a pool party anon

>Zaishen Mission rotation comes up with one you remember taking 10+ tries before beating it the first time
>Now it's so trivial you can unga bunga and don't even pretend to give a shit about separately pulling groups

>>1862608
none of our characters can swim either
>>1862638
you gotta nerf yourself a bit

>>1862648
Yeah I'm starting to fuck around with embarrassingly bad hero team comps. Right now I'm working on putting together an all martial heroes setup where they all also have pets.

>>1862668
You joke but that's guess nuts with TaO

>>1862134
looks like the login server for GW1/2 is down so I can't get in currently

bit late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhW4tPpDzA
jesus

>>1863715
Respect. I do not have the fortitude to spend 5 hours edging myself through The Deep.

i have completed all side quests on my prog character except kessex peak
it's a pretty nice feeling. opening it and seeing nothing.
i was just thinking earlier how sitting in gw is kinda nice. just the visual setup of tiny character in big world, low poly/high definition, low amount of things i have to do high amount of things i can do. very opposite from modern mobages which have a bajillion checklists and a bajillion rewards on a bajillion timers. so many things to do but doing any of them doesn't mean anything. but in gw nothing moves unless i do something.

>/u/ being a meaniebutt
classic

>>1864416
honestly gw quests stress me out a little because they're one-time only and actually mean something. having this quest will ferry your party into an area. this quest is the best way to farm x items. even ones with no external use like wik, it feels bad only being able to go through it once per character
it's more of a personal issue though, I do like that gw isn't a treadmill where you grind and slop your way into exhaustion

>>1864797
fuckers lol

>>1864797
normal cups day
i can't find my cups cap so have something else
>>1864838
i get stressed when things don't mean things because i continue doing things until something is meaningful, and when nothing is meaningful the only thing that stops me is said exhaustion.

>>1864838
There's maybe 2-3 quests in the game that are actually useful for ferrying, and only 1 people actually care about (consulate docks). As far as farming quests there are a few but most of the best farming spots in this game do not require quests the only ones worth caring about:

-A chance encounter (WoC for ministrel commendations)
-Farmer Hamnet (Pre-Searing XP)

Honorable mentions:
-Chasing Zenmai + Afflicted Guard + Drunken Master so you can clear bukdek byway for vanquish fast the 1-2 times per YEAR it shows up (during this ZV you can easily find a group to do it on all your alts).
-Drakes on the plain if you are a speedrunner who gives a shit about getting drake kabobs (just buy them and farm literally ANYTHING else)

All other farming quests exist to farm nick trophys once every 3 years, or are farms that were useful in 2006 such as the ascalon settlement feather farm.

I don't think there's ever been a time where I've completed a quest and later went "oh damn wish I still had that" and I use to farm nick sets every week for months.

tl;dr don't stress about it, the farming quests aren't that important and are usually eclipsed by non quest farming spots.

it's free obby shards this week get your rangers out bros
>>1865126
there's the slave spirits for q8 farm in nf and that one quest around the marketplace for jade q8 farm too

never again i said after derv kill me

>>1865158
The Wurms being mandatory after the first Desloation mission was pretty disappointing. It's the only thing I don't like about any of the locations in Elona.

I am planning on a full gw1 playthrough with 2 other people and am wondering what the better (or best in case i end up playing when we are done) solo classes are that also excel in small groups. I am currently leaning towards ranger or elementalist but i know absolutely nothing about the game. one of them is planning to go mesmer I think. also which class has the best slutwear.

>>1865276
Mesmer, Ranger, Necromancer, Warrior, Elementalist, in that order is my experience for carrying solo play with Prophecies starting classes. Elementalists are glass cannons so they need to be looked after, a good Warrior player in the party is great for herding enemies. I haven't created a Monk character so I can't say, but if the idea is to play with friends any of them are good choices. The fun part is, with Smiting skills and secondary classes, you don't just have to be the party's heal daddy, so consider that if anyone has reservations about playing a Monk.

Female Elementalists are the sluttiest by far, especially the Nightfall sets. Although the Mesmers get a straight up nightgown as a prestige set
https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Elementalist_armor
If you fancy playing ele, a quick rundown for the flavors of magic is:
Air magic is usually for single-target damage with armor penetration, and some spells have conditions like blindness and cracked armor.
Fire magic is a big 'ole bucket of AoE and almost always applies a burning condition to target and nearby enemies
Earth magic is a mix of offense and support in that it uses a lot of knockdown, slowing, and wards in addition to damage
Water magic deals less damage overall and has a lot more party support / enemy control.

I strongly suggest playing the game blind, but when you are hitting a wall check out the wiki and pvx for info & builds to take inspiration from.

>>1865126
it's not rational
it's about having the option. there are a bunch of random maybe-but-never-actually useful quests (e.g. tele into vizunah local quarter) and the reward is usually just xp, so it's easy to give up

>>1865143
don't get me wrong, I like q8s as much as the next guy but thats such a hyper specific farm you're probably better off just farming GotT and then buying the q8 you want rather than trying to farm a specific q8 attribute.

>>1865386
If you're really terrified of locking yourself out of quests ask yourself "is this character a character I will use to solo farm?" Just don't complete quests on derv/assassin/ritualist etc... I don't really think you'll be solo farming mobs on your paragon lol.

>>1865386
>"Poor people often have hoarder behaviors related to saving trash so they will never need to spend money buying, like, new bags or rubber bands. Then they end up buying 5 of everything else because they can never find it in their drawers and closets stuffed with trash"

>"Hoarding and consumption are the same root cause. A simple policy which requires no judgment or determination of value."

>>1865431
I said it's not rational
I've always been like this, I hate item durability and nonreplinshable consumables

>>1865460
thanks for the unrequested psychoanalysis and calling me broke, but it's only a thing in video games, I'm pretty unattached to stuff and keep a clean house

>>1865276
You can choose any profession for solo play. It doesn't matter. You only have one direct damage skill line on monk (can use secondaries too of course), but it's also actually fun and useful to heal/prot with real prayers.

Mesmer has classy slutwear, like the hot librarian who takes off her glasses and is a 10/10 who sucks the life out of your cock. Elementalists has the nasty slutwear like some hoe you find stoned at a concert who you rail behind the porta potties and feel like you need to get an STD panel done the very next day.

Guys I keep getting filtered by the skeletal ice mage packs on The Great Battlefield, what do?

>>1866140
when they cast maelstrom, don't stand in it

Just don't do optional quests that aren't attribute or skill quests. It's literally that easy.

>>1866140
join us on our annual fow run
currently scheduled for early december

>>1866140
>>1866321
The only annual thing we do is UW in October for Halloween :P

That said, we always do a FoW after everytime we finish a prog since I think it's a good level of difficulty for typical prog rules. I predict we'll finish this prog sometime in October. If we have space you're welcome to join us.

>>1865519
examples are for illustration and that's the one that came with the logic in this instance. if it actually matched you in real life, then that's where it's useful. if it only matches you in videogames, then that's where it's useful. you could even be super rich in games - the logic presented is, if you didn't have this impulse, you would be even richer/enjoy having things more.
i don't think anyone on 4chins cares about social status. i am interested in solving problems. and you seem to agree that this is a problem, so i presented a quote i saw recently that suggests a possible path. it is possible the logic is wrong, that hoarding occurs for some other reason, or that fear of use is something else. but i can't add to that unless you want to discuss it.
>>1866554
is HA not annually in april
speaking of endgame stuff how come i never hear about sorrow's furnace anymore?

>>1866620
true I forgot about HA

We use to do SF but toward the end of progs we typically have high burnout and I got pretty lukewarm responses when I asked in the past if people were interested in SF coupled with rewards being kinda meh, and the difficulty having a large range from kinda boring to god awful, on a bad day SF can take 2 sessions to complete. I'm always open to it but if we're interested in doing more than just FoW post prog, I think ToPK would be a better area.

Just started playing again for the first time after the release of gw2. Unfortunately I lost access to my original account and bought the game again in the sale.

It's crazy how much fun this game still is. I tried so many online rpg games over the years including gw2, but they all kinda suck. I think I stopped playing gw2 after a few weeks post release and I never really found a replacement for gw1. But I'm still salty I lost my account, not that it had much valuable stuff. But still things I worked hard on and a few meta classes from back then and such.

btw. I got super lucky and found a black dye in pre searing I think on the first day of playing again. Any tips on how I can safely sell it for post gold?

>kessex peak
>infinity aloes
>the falls
>infinity spiders
i think kryta is a bad place

>>1866554
i was merely jesting since we haven't done anything since anniv HA and last pve doa iirc

>>1866994
We did GvG stuff, but that was a while ago now. I'm up to anything so long as I can make the scheduled time

>>1866908
>btw. I got super lucky and found a black dye in pre searing I think on the first day of playing again. Any tips on how I can safely sell it for post gold?
Make that a perma-pre character (you've always wanted to get LDoA anyway, right?), put it on your armor, and style on all the plebs in Ascalon with it.

>>1867375
I'm considering it, but I already accepted some quests and stuff I think. Not sure how bad it even is honestly, you can still do the dailies. So it might simply cost me a few more days. I'm certainly going to do it anyways, but not yet sure with what character.

>>1867412
I didn't even bother "saving" my quests. It just gets you to the dailies faster IMO, and from there you can grind it out at your leisure.

>>1866908
>Any tips on how I can safely sell it for post gold
guildies

>>1867791
I'm intrigued to join a random 4chan guild, but I suppose you guys are ameriburgers? And also kukluxons? But I suppose at least I could say mean words without being cancelled?

>>1868088
I meant your guildies but yeah, we won't scam you either
we're majority na yeah, if we schedule stuff it's been at 3est sundays, or 9ish cet. post name if you want an invite

>>1868098
thanks for the offer!

times wouldn't be impossible, I might come back to you. But I'm currently playing 100% Solo Wars anyways, until I get all heros and stuff. So I'm not really ready to participate in anything.

>>1868278
do you have a guild? there's no requirement that you have to come for stuff

>>1868278
join us we aren't many euros here but we're like the shadow government

>>1868287
>>1868292
ok I suppose it can't hurt then. My name is "Add Me For Erp"

>>1868333
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>>1868088
In theory we have euros in the guild who ask for euro friendly timezones for stuff, but in practice whenever I try to set things up to be a euro friendly timezone only NA people show up and then I question why I planned a game for 3PM EST when no euro's show up.

>>1868333
Invited, just watch thread for when we schedule stuff I try to remember to update the MOTD but I forget... a lot. No pressure on joining this current prog, I've got some fun ideas for our next factions prog after we finish this one and I might try to schedule some endgame stuff later in august or september.

>>1868400
we could just move it now that we're like halfway through to some other time.

>>1868484
I wouldn't do that to our single euro who actually showed up (mae), that said the time seems to be working out for the moment, even on bad days our prog is missing 2 people at worst.

Also I might not be here on Sunday to run the prog, I'll be on vacation and no promises on whether or not I'll be able to join on my laptop. If I'm not here the session's plans are Aurora Glade + Riverside Province. Unlock Maguuma Stade and Fisherman Haven if you have spare time.

>>1868400
thank you accepted. We will see ofc I will try to participate in what I can. But like I said, I'm currently building account. Just started like a week ago.

im an arm baron

>>1868919
Me too. I've got like 3

>Pogahn Passage
What kind of build do you guys run on Margrid?

>>1869128
energy surge

>>1869128
B/P

>>1869050
i have like 90 or so but nothing to spend it on

>>1869128
like every mission where I am forced to run a warrior, a ranger, or a paragon, I just throw some random skills on the bar

>>1869128
Oops all interrupts with a recurve bow.

>>1868796
I'm on vacation too, questionable to make this week. would be fine deferring to next week if other people aren't free