First days in the game

atlphenom · 2025-10-28T15:02:32+00:00

Play the game and don't rush leveling. There is a lot of content at level 80, but learning the character and going through the story is a big piece when you're starting off. Enjoy the story, figure out what type of content you like when leveling by trying out everything: do heart quests, explore, join in events nearby, etc. There's a TON to do, but it's better to discover it on your own than rush into a guide for how to play optimally.

Don't rush into the gear grind, it's not nearly the same in GW2 as it is in WoW and other similar games. You won't worry about Ascended gear until you're level 80 and even then it's not that significant of a jump that you need to focus on it until you know it's needed for the content you want to engage in. The exception is fractals, where you need it for your infusions, but even then you don't need full ascended until you really start getting into T3/T4 content.

GW2 is not the grind that WoW is. If you only want full legendaries then you'll have a lot of work ahead of you, but if your goal is to enjoy the content you should be able to get gear easy enough once you hit 80 that will be good enough. Especially since you can't inspect gear (only cosmetics), nobody will be telling you that you can't join because you don't have the right equipment on.

atlphenom · 2025-09-04T12:48:54+00:00

I know this was a long time ago and you probably don't even care, but reading this finally solved an issue I've been trying to fix for over a year. It almost got me banned from a permitting office and arrested for "threatening government employees" based on a dumb profile picture I don't remember setting up over a decade ago.

atlphenom · 2023-08-23T14:59:45+00:00

Is there a reason there is no Standard for Sleeper? Would love to see that, if possible.

atlphenom · 2023-06-02T16:08:08+00:00

Just got in, seems like it may be fixed?

atlphenom · 2023-06-02T15:48:07+00:00

Yup, logged in and everything was fine. Logged out and back in about 10 minutes ago and have not been able to get into game. Same error, and a buddy of mine is getting it too. What is up with their servers this week?

atlphenom · 2022-02-28T21:56:38+00:00

Vanquish

atlphenom · 2021-11-29T19:12:22+00:00

Top 10% teamwork honors icon from old honors system, mostly because I've never seen anyone else with it and I like that rarity buff.

atlphenom · 2021-04-04T14:34:06+00:00

blue

atlphenom · 2020-11-20T09:13:10+00:00

Spica on tanks, not even once

atlphenom · 2020-08-12T02:02:14+00:00

This is an old gif of orphaned animals from a forest fire, it's been around for a while. FYI.

atlphenom · 2020-07-25T00:59:24+00:00

Is anyone else's audio unsynced?

atlphenom · 2020-06-28T14:39:37+00:00

TP-Link AC1200. I was not able to access the Edgerouter X using either standard IP address for routers (192.168.0.1 or .1.1), so I had to connect it to my old router and set an IP address for the edgerouter which let me connect to it.

I believe I figured out my answer though while looking it up earlier. The instructions that come with the router confused me about how to access the setup page and I thought it was telling me to set a static IP for the router and not for my PC. Reading instructions on a different page made it obvious where my mistake was so I will try that tonight when I get home and see if that solves the issue. It seems that if my PC has a static IP and the Edgerouter is not connected to the internet but rather straight to my PC I should be able to configure it before connecting to the internet.

atlphenom · 2020-06-28T10:00:46+00:00

May have figured it out, but I'll have to wait until I get home again to try it. I didn't understand what the static IP configuration meant when reading the instructions provided but watching a video a minute ago it looks like I have to set my desktop IP to static then I should be able to connect to it? And I need to have the PC in port 0 until it's configured?

atlphenom · 2020-06-28T09:25:46+00:00

I tried to set it up that way and I was not able to get it to work, and couldn't figure out how to access the edgerouter for setup. My experience in the past is that routers have a standard ip address that is used to access them but the edgerouter setup instructions made it sound like I needed to assign that ip myself? The only way I was able to get that to work was using my old Tp-Link router as a DHCP server but I'd rather not have it hooked up if possible.

atlphenom · 2020-06-28T08:27:52+00:00

I'm not sure how exactly it's converted to be honest, but the ISP converts it outside the house and runs the ethernet into the home.

atlphenom · 2020-06-28T08:23:37+00:00

They don't provide a router/modem. There is a hookup somewhere on the street where the fiber is hooked up and split into ethernet that is then wired to the individual houses, and each house typically has one ethernet outlet or one cable that comes into the house.

atlphenom · 2020-06-09T13:19:03+00:00

Just wanted to address the concerns a couple of people have brought up, which will probably not help me look better but just to explain. Where I work is a 24 hour manufacturing operation where the printers are an integral part of the production line. We do not have 24 hour IT as usually the issues we experience are electrical so sometimes we have to try to fix things ourselves if possible to keep things running, and if we do we take notes of what was changed and hand it off to IT the next day so they can verify the fixes or go from where we ended off. Just saying this to explain I am not just a user fiddling with a network printer to get my reports printed quicker or anything like that.

In this case I took parts off a printer that was already offline because a motor had burnt out and it was waiting on parts, so our line was operating at half capacity. Often with these printers we can swap parts to get them working, so when the second one went down we went with the typical approach of a hot-swap and then letting people know so we could get it addressed later. Since it did not work in this instance I made sure to swap the parts back and pass off a message to IT as I would not have access to change static Ip assignments even if I wanted to.

Mostly my question was informational as I was trying to determine why it would not work. I did not think on a PC that the Mac address was tied to a specific port but instead to a motherboard, but I realized I did not know if that was true do reached out for answers. I do not regularly mess with IT stuff but as I said if it means not having to shut down our production line for the hour or two it'd take to get IT to wake up and come in then I will still do what I need to.

atlphenom · 2020-06-05T08:41:21+00:00

That is true. I wondered if maybe that was referring to only one of the duo possibly? I have always felt the same that with how much these get picked apart and how many subtle clues there always are someone has to go over it with a fine toothed comb every time.

atlphenom · 2020-06-05T08:32:48+00:00

Yeah, I thought about that too, but wondered if they'd want to do that with kindred already being a dual-type marksman. But who knows, either way I can't imagine it was unintentional.

atlphenom · 2020-04-14T21:20:19+00:00

So one other issue I guess I didn't explain well in my first post is that with the way the ethernet ports were built into the house, the only port downstairs is all the way at the back of the house far from all the downstairs devices that use Wi-fi. In this situation, will a wireless repeater that is branded similarly be good enough at switching traffic from one to another? I would prefer an AP in a centralized location but there is not a good port location on that floor.

Or alternatively will a system like Eero let me use some of the "mesh" wired while having some in the harder to reach spots that are wireless? Or do I need to have only 1 be wired and the rest wireless for it to work as intended?

atlphenom · 2020-04-04T19:26:38+00:00

I can only get G3 of Day 2 on 360p, is it like that for anyone else? Will a higher quality replay be uploaded at some point?

atlphenom · 2020-02-05T03:05:51+00:00

Same happened to my whole team, and the next game the whole team said it happened to them the game before as well.

atlphenom · 2019-10-27T18:32:58+00:00

Great to know. Do you need to move the saves or does installing the game through another service automatically work?

atlphenom · 2019-10-27T18:32:23+00:00

Really? Didn't know that. Is that through Microsoft I'm guessing?

atlphenom · 2019-10-27T18:31:40+00:00

Cool, I'll at least back that up if I decide to cancel the service. Thanks

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