Guild Wars 2

Therefore, I would gladly appreciate your help

(I play a lvl80 Warrior, lvl 33 PvP)

1. Im trying to craft a legendary and get obsidian shards. Everybody says go to silver waste. I went to SW and couldn’t even get enough Shovels to dig out those chests. How the heck do I get them? Events dont lend me enough of them. Will joining a ‘taxi’ group let me collect the shards without having to get shovels?

2. Would crafting Sunrise—>Selling it—->Saving 1500 additional gold be an easier, quicker, cheaper way to get Eternity, or should I just selling everything and buying with pure gold be a better way? Also, is there an achievement for crafting (not only wielding) a legendary weapon?

3. I play a GS Berserker warrior, but I got tired of having to use that charge skill (5th GS skill). I heavily dislike the “linear” feeling of the charge, I feel stuck using it. Any other (perhaps better?) weapon for a Warrior?

4. I have 300k Karma currently. What would be the best use of it? Buying Obsidian Shards for the legendary?

5. What the heck are fractals? “Raids” ? Supercharged dungeons? How do I join one and what should I know?

6. What the heck is the goal in WvW? I see numbers changing and people running everywhere, I can’t feel a distinct goal. Is there any? When (and is there?) a winner declared?

7. Who do you think is going to win the 2016 UEFA Euro? I have a gut feeling for Wales.

Thanks for helping a noob out.
Much appreciated!

1. If you join a group only need keys others dig the chests out.

3. Gs is incredibly boring, I prefer axe myself.

4. I think a legendary cost 1 million karma in total, without buying shards. Just get those in SW.

5. Raids are very hard battles you will need to be built perfectly for. I’d suggest checking dulfy on guides.

6. Wvw is mostly just for fun, xp, proofs of heroics, being on a winning server, and nice little cash flow

Sylent.3165:

1. If you join a group only need keys others dig the chests out.

3. Gs is incredibly boring, I prefer axe myself.

4. I think a legendary cost 1 million karma in total, without buying shards. Just get those in SW.

5. Raids are very hard battles you will need to be built perfectly for. I’d suggest checking dulfy on guides.

6. Wvw is mostly just for fun, xp, proofs of heroics, being on a winning server, and nice little cash flow

Oh I see. thanks.
What do you use as a secondary weapon? Torch? Shield?

Hmm why would a legendary cost 1milion Karma? What do you need the Karma for that you can’t use with other currencies?

When you say raids, you mean Fractals?

Nope, fractals and raids are very different! Fractals are for parties of 5, all reached by the gate in the southern part of Lions Arch. There are multiple fractals with different stories and mechanics, repeated to make a total of 100 ‘scales’ or levels. Each fractal is available at several different scales – the higher the scale, the harder the fractal is. Eventually you will need ascended gear with agony resistance to survive, but below scale 20 you don’t need any special gear and it’s pretty easy to get started.

Raids are for 10 person squads, and are designed to be the hardest content in the game. A boss may have a six minute timer, but squads could easily take many hours of practice before they kill it once. Raids are only available if you own Heart of Thorns.

Ok Thanks.

One more thing about Guilds. Last time I was in a guild was when I played WoW 10 years ago. We were the second guild to down Ragnaros in our servers, and it was a blast. Yet in Guild Wars, ironically (due to the game’s name, which implies the importance of guilds within it), I have never been a part of a guild. So where do I begin? I couldn’t find a function to search and filter in/out guilds that would fit. Do you have a recommendation on how to join a guild? What are its main benefits? Should I open one myself anyway and spend the guild commendations and decoration items in? Overall, what would be the top 5 things I should know about guilds?

Thanks again fellas, you are awesome.

These forums have a looking for guild section so you can look through recruitments. To me the main benefits are having people to play with and chat with and feel connected to, but there are also game mechanic benefits of various types. Top things to know, hmm. I’m so steeped in this game it’s hard to consider what’s different from WoW, but I did play WoW for 7 years so here goes:

1) You can be in up to five different guilds. That is you, the player; all your alts will be in all those guilds. You bring up the guild panel and on the upper left is your list of guilds. You tick the box for the one you want to actively represent at the moment.

2) Guild chat is now available even when you are not actively representing. Each of the five has a chat channel you can toggle on/off in the chat panel settings. Your currently repped guild will show up in a brighter color than your other guilds.

3) Guilds have huge halls, currently two options, both in HoT maps. Even if you don’t have HoT, you can visit the guild hall of your currently repped guild by clicking the button in the upper right of the guild panel. Halls offer a number of amenities, depending on what upgrades the guild has installed, though some of them such as karma or gathering boosts are not available to non-HoT members.

4) Guild halls are expensive. You will not be able to solo upgrade, thanks to the sheer amount of mats needed as well as the need to build Favor through group guild missions. My very small main guild with maybe 5 active players at most now has just made guild level 18 in the hall, though I am also peripherally in a more active guild that has reached 42, I think, with all the amenities I could ask for.

5) Guilds will have various foci of interest. Some will be aimed at WvW, others PvP, others raiding, others RP, others a mix of some or all of those. Some will demand that you rep them 100% of the time — I personally would not join such a guild or impose such a restriction on people in my guild, but some people like to be in a tribe or similar focused social group and have all the members working only on the one guild hall.

Thanks a lot! How about just opening a guild with my brother so that we could share materials and things between us easily? does it make sense?

Oh, and the legendary – is it quicker to farm for mats or to farm for gold and buy it?

You won’t be able to share mats and other tradeable items any more easily if you make a guild unless you manage to upgrade to having a guild bank. People who had small “bank guilds” before HoT got grandfathered in to having the bank pre-upgraded for them but new guilds have to build them. And when I say expensive, I mean it. I don’t know what the bank in particular requires, but the volume of mats you have to sink into any one upgrade is prohibitively high until you have dozens of people doing it and you have to do a number of prequel upgrades before you are allowed to make other ones such as banks.

Legendary: If you mean one of the 4 HoT ones you can’t buy it, though you can buy a number of the mats needed for collection pieces leading to it. If you mean one of the original ones then it depends on how fast you can farm gold. The most gold I’ve ever had at once was over 700, but that was from selling off hoarded BL skins to get components for the Nightfury shoulders. I don’t know that I could ever farm up a few thousand gold, thus foregoing all interim purchases, to get just one item.

But others seem to rake in the gold hand over fist over paw, via selling off all their loot and/or TP flipping. Some manage to have tens of thousands of gold, so I know they’re faster than me at accumulating it.

Personally I think making the legendary myself makes owning it far more satisfying. I’m not one who feels the need for BiS gear. I waited until there was a legendary I liked (HOPE) combined with a journey I wanted to experience. Having made that one, I don’t know that I will ever get the grit to make Bifrost or Kudzu even though I like those, let alone Chuka and Champawat which I don’t want for the legendary but do want the tigers.

Still I suppose farming for gold will be faster merely because you can turn everything you do into gold and farming for mats means having to specifically target the ones you want, or spend time converting one thing into another via TP trading.

Holy * thanks man! But where’s the guild recruitment section? I looked all around the forums and couldn’t find any.
p.s – did you get an achievement for *crafting thanks man! But where’s the guild recruitment section? I looked all around the forums and couldn’t find any.
p.s – did you get an achievement for crafting the legendary?

6) The point of WvW is, basically, just for fun. The rewards for winning a matchup are pretty negligible, although the rewards for participating are good now. People play it because they enjoy fighting other players in big or small fights, enjoy the strategy of attacking and defending structures, and competing with enemy players in that way, or even simply because of the sense of community, which since the onset of megaservers in PvE, only really exists in WvW.

All the servers are ranked from 1-27 (or 1-24 if you’re in NA)** but the only real purpose of the rankings are to try and make the matchups as even as possible. There’s no prize for being the number 1 server.

There are such things as WvW tournaments, typically lasting a few weeks, where winning is more richly rewarded, but there hasn’t been one of those for well over a year, and isn’t likely to be one soon.

**Although there are 24 NA servers and 27 EU servers, ArenaNet have introduced a system of “linking” servers together, so in some cases it’s 2 servers per side in a matchup, to try and make matches more populated.

7) My heart says Wales (I’m English, but England will be knocked out in the quarter finals so there’s no point hoping). My head says Germany.

1) Are you doing SW just for the obsidian shards? Chest trains are sometimes advertised on LFG, but they aren’t as common as they used to be. I personally find it easier to go to the Balthazzar temple and buy the shards with karma. This is where the 1 mil karma cost comes from. It’s not an unreasonable amount; many players have several million karma which they don’t have any use for.

2) No achievement for just crafting a legendary, you need to unlock the skin by account-binding the item (i.e. you can’t sell it). However, achievement points are given for the precursor collections.

I’d suggest looking at https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/ to see how much a legendary costs on the TP vs crafting.
Also you weren’t clear if you were crafting just the legendary, or crafting the precursor too. If crafting a precursor, aside from the material cost, you’ll need to complete a ton of collections, which does include doing fractals.

PS: you should only get a legendary if you really want the skin. If you just want the stats, get an ascended instead.

There used to be a Legendary weapon icon unlocked on the character selection screen. Was that removed?

Regev.6971:

where’s the guild recruitment section? I looked all around the forums and couldn’t find any.
p.s – did you get an achievement for crafting the legendary?

You need to scroll down the forum list but it’s in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor

I don’t think I got a particular achieve for crafting HOPE. I mean I might have, but I didn’t notice in the midst of my frenzy of shooting blue and red laser bolts all over LA. AP weren’t my focus when working on the weapon.

hmmmm nice, thanks!

How hard is it to start and build a guild from scratch if you’re a casual player who plays for about 6 hours a week?

I don’t know as I haven’t done so since before HoT and even then it was a personal bank guild, not one with other members.

I assume you mean a guild with other people in it since no way are you going to be building a solo guild up. Maybe a very rare person could do it, the same way rare people level to 80 in the training start or level to 80 without ever attacking a single mob. It isn’t doable in normal game play and certainly not 6 hours a week.

So the answer depends on how charismatic you are. Can you recruit and keep members who have fun being together in and improving the guild even when you’re not around very much? Can you use your six hours to run events and activities for the guild so the members enjoy things enough they want to stick with you rather than joining larger guilds with fully operational guild halls? Running a guild takes effort in any game.