Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone.

I stopped playing Guild Wars for a while for a bunch of reasons and now thay I’ve come back, I feel like a noob… so I have a few questions (please excuse me if I sound like an idiot).

1. What is ‘living story’?

I hear people constantly saying it and I know that it involves these new bi-weekly expansions, but are they events which link with one another or are they individual events? (Ie should I go watch the events I missed on YouTube to understand it?)

2. How do you get Ascended gear?

3. Are Guardians a pretty good choice for mainly WvW aswell as some PvE?

4. About the Living Story, is all of the content going to be temporary?

5. Is the Belcher’s Buff achievement stuff permanent? (I really want the Omnomnivore title.)

Thats all that I can think of at the moment.

Thanks loads,
The baws.

Welcome back.

1. You can find a summary of the Living Story events here. It’s mostly laying groundwork at this point for larger story arcs.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Living_Story_Summary

2. There’s a number of ways to get ascended gear – laurels, fractals, guild commendations and badges of honor.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ascended_gear_by_stats

3. Guardians are awesome

4. Some of the content is permanent, some naturally goes away as the world and story evolve.

5. Belcher’s Bluff is permanent.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-July-9th-2013/first

Wrong forum section, next time posting in “players helping players”. Karizee answered your questions pretty well, I just wanted to add that currently most of the episodes seem disconnected but there are plenty of unanswered questions and Arenanet stated that they are connected somehow. You may want to read a little about past chapters, but it’s not mandatory to understand what’s going on currently.

Alright that answers a lot thanks

What profession would you guys say is best for roaming etc. In WvW but also alllrightt in PvE?

I was thinking Mesmer but after their nerfs etc. I’m not sure any more.

Guardians are great in PvE, but weak in solo-roaming due to low mobility. They get exponentially better the more allied players are around.

Mesmer is good in PvE/WvW and one of the best duelists, but their mobility sucks possibly worse than Guardians. The strongest roaming professions are Elementalist and Thief, but they don’t shine in PvE.

Anyways, you know how MMOs work: one day you are on top of the food chain, the next one you are at the bottom. My personal suggestion would be to play the class that you like more, regardless of balance that may or may not change.

Great suggestion, thanks

I have a 80 Warrior at the moment and I find them to be very one-trick pony (blow up or get blown up), is this just me building mine the wrong way or is this generally what they are like?

Also, what class would you guys recommend for roaming, general WvW and decent in PvE? (Emphasis on the WvW, and just decent in PvE.)

To answer your last question: Elementalist. They can be good supports or deal tons of AoE damage, they are fun to play (imo), they are good both in large/small scale WvW (with different builds) and are decent in dungeons/pve. You can’t go wrong with an elementalist, but keep in mind they are a difficult profession to learn.

As for Warriors, their glass cannon builds rely on “do or die” skills like One Hundred Blades (Greatsword) or Killshot (Rifle) but it’s not the only role they are effective at. In fact, I’d say that one of the most common roles for Warriors in large organized WvW is to be ultra-tanky CC machines with Hammer and I’ve seen some nasty 1 vs 1 builds with mace that stun you for the longest time. Then again I don’t play Warrior so take this with a grain of salt.