Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the answers
@Xiahou Mao I didnt mean that, i meant that on the wiki page there were 3 different colours given for 1 single dye, but now i know why.

Another question; If i unlock e.g a norn cultural armor skin with a norn, can i apply it with transmutation charges with an other race? (same type e.g: medium-medium)

Nope, cultural armor is race-locked , you can’t even preview it with different race, but you can use in another character of the same race and armor type.

And while it wasn’t actually asked, just in case it’s not known – cultural weapons (bought with karma) do not have that restriction, only the armor is race-locked. You don’t even need to be a particular race to buy the weaponry.

Thanks for both answers. Well i didnt even know that there are cultural weapons, so an extra thanks for you MasterJedi

Sorry for the doublepost again…
So new questions…
1, I noticed the builds for pve and www are different. Now the question is, how many different builds are there? Does PvE involve every single PvE, involving dungeons? And is there a seperate one for pvp? So pve, www, pvp is that it?

2, How can i play a sPvP, (how to get there, since i cant play it from the pvp map- heart of the mists?) and whats the difference between that and ranked pvp?

SkullProX.7083:

1, I noticed the builds for pve and www are different. Now the question is, how many different builds are there? Does PvE involve every single PvE, involving dungeons? And is there a seperate one for pvp? So pve, www, pvp is that it?

PvE builds are usually for dungeons, open world is usually so easy that any build you use will work (including dungeon build).
Yes PvE, WvW and PvP have different builds since the playstyle and objectives are different among them.

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2, How can i play a sPvP, (how to get there, since i cant play it from the pvp map- heart of the mists?) and whats the difference between that and ranked pvp?

sPvP stands for structured-PvP, ranked and unranked ARE sPvP, they call it sPvP to separate from the PvP in WvW.

Ohhh thats why…. i was wondering for quite a while about this sPvP…xDD
Yeah i know open world is easy, but i meant that if there is still a different build for that and dungeons.
Thanks for the answer

Not really, the builds for dungeons works more than fine in PvE.

Before a few updates ago World Bosses couldn’t be critically hit, so set with precisions wouldn’t be the optimal to fight world bosses, but dungeon build would still work perfectly, now not even that difference exist anymore, so just go for dungeon build and be happy in PvE

Thanks

What determines WWW colours of each server? I thought its by ranking, but now my server, SFR which won the last 3, turned into red from green suddenly, why?

Probably frequency of the colors they have played.

Before relatively recently map complete required the WvW maps and it was much easier to secure the corner of the map you started on especially on the Eternal Battlegrounds map.

This isn’t a thing anymore but I would imagine the code they added, because long, long time ago it was rankings and I remember JQ being stuck on Green seemingly for months being an issue, to fix this is still there because variety is the spice of life.

There’s some randomness added to WvW matchups. Basically, a random number (1 to 50? 1 to 100?) is rolled and added or subtracted from each server’s rating before each matchup starts. That variance will allow the colours to change from time to time, but the higher-ranked server is still more likely to be green, and the lower one red.

Oh, i see thanks.

I know that legendary/ascended weapons are not soulbound, only acc bound after equip, so why are many exotic items soulbound on use?

Ascended were originally soulbound but the amount of effort it takes to make one made it prohibitive for people with a lot of alts. ANet converted them to account bound as a QoL thing (and lo, there was much rejoicing).

Exotics are so plentiful and easy to get that it is easier to specifically gear up each alt with the set of your choice than to do bank swapping.

Yeah, but if i get a nice looking one, i would use it on more charas just for the skin Spending a trans. charge because its soulbound is my problem, not that its hard to get :/

Some questions about pvp: Are the gamemmodes always the same, or they are chaning by time? Because once i played an unranked deathmatch game, and now every unranked is that kill the enemy lord thingy.

Also in ranked, are there any tips how to capture the points, when to go for which one effectively?

In the PvP window there is 2 check boxes in the top right side showing “stronghold” (the kill lord one) and “conquest”, you can uncheck the stronghold option if you don’t want to play it.

I strongly recommend to not play ranked before you are fully aware of what is your role and strategies in a match, keep playing the unranked until you are more familiarized, the only difference between them is the amount of gold you get if you win and the win/loss in the matches in the ranked counts towards the leaderboard, so if you are still learning and lose a match you are lowering the rank of all the players in your team, while unranked doesn’t matter for the leaderboards.

Okay, thanks i will stop playing ranked then.
What is this leaderboard, and where can i check it?

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/pvp

It is under the “Community” menu in the top of this page.

Thanks, now my only problem is that everytime i try to log-in that anet panel comes with my account info, and there is no way that i could go back to the leaderboards…. and if i do, then im logged off again… it is really annoying that i cant stay loged in the website, is there any way to do it?-.- And how to check my infos, if i cant log-in to the leaderboards?:/

I’ve one particular question which may or may not be relevant, but, I was wondering what class is heavy or based their power on conditional damage increases? For some reason, I am having such a drawn attention to increasing conditional damage output on most of my gear-which may not be the ideal thing to do, but just being curious.

Well in my opinion, ele, necro, thief, warrior, maybe mesmer and ranger too got nice condition damages (if built that way). Well if it fits your playstyle more, a power-precision-condi damage might be as good as a berserker (power-precision-ferocity) one.

@SkullProX Sadly the leaderboards are bugged right now, so you just can’t check your info.

@Shujinko Engineer, Necromancer and Rangers have really good cond builds. I’m not really sure but I think mesmer also have a good cond build.

EDIT: Thief , ele and warrior also have good cond builds but they perform better as power build.

Oh, okay :/ Thanks.

A last question for a while if i dont ask for too much.
Could someone write the possible/viable sets for each class? (with name+stats if possible, since i dont know most of it :/ ) I know that berserker is the meta, but there sure have to be some more viable builds for the classes, if they want to go a but more defensive. I would like them only for PvP atm, since im pretty squishy and useless with my zerker thief, since im not that experienced yet. (Im also planning to play other classes on PvP so thats why it would be nice for every class.). For PvE and WWW im fine with the zerker, since im unlikely to die in a 100+ zerg (SFR) on www, and for pve zerker is the most effective, to do dungeons and open world content so thats not a prob.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki
Check the “Ranked Arena”, those are all the meta/great/good builds for every class with tutorials and everything, best start place for builds and PvP, after you get used to all that you can try to change some builds to fit your playstyle better.

Thank you, thats also helpful but i meant the armor set builds, like berserker, soldier etc.

You find it too in the link I posted.

I might be blind, but only found weapon stats on that site, but nothing for armors :/

For PvP you must look for amulet stats, armor have no stats there.

So the stats my armor have which i wear doesnt matter in pvp?:O

Few more questions.

1,If i want to get every exclusive reward from gw1, titles, max AP, special pet, mini skins etc… which expansions should i buy? All of them?
2,Will ls2 stay after hot release? Someone told me it wont..
3,I want to use free camera, but since my A-D buttons are not turn left-right , but walk left-right, the left click was my only way to turn while running, now if i use free camera, i cant do that anymore… any tips?

1 — You do need all of them to max out GWAMM so far as I know. I only have 4 HoM points myself but I did buy all of them so I could have my guildies haul me around in GW1. Alas the one organizing things there had a baby and has other things on her plate now.

2 — It absolutely should stay. The whole point of the new design was to allow people to play/replay the story whenever they want. It makes money for ANet. It’s the story that leads into the HoT story so people need to play it to understand it. When ANet is able to, they’ll reintroduce LS1 story as well (though that’s a huge undertaking and won’t be soon). Why on earth would they remove LS2?

3 — Can’t help you, I’ve never used free camera.

Thanks:D

There are these weapon skins for the black lion ticket sometimes, and there are always new sets. Will every set return to the game to purchase with tickets ever again? Or its just 1time and then you can only get it from the TP?

Just a few skins can’t be bought with tickets but still every once in a while Anet release those skins back, but no one knows when or which skill will be.

Ticket weapon skins rotate in and out. For example Dreamthistle skins are back after an absence which ticked off the speculators.

Thanks, i will wait for the ones i need then

If i reach the max level in PvP, do i still get a rank-up chest if i level up again?

SkullProX.7083:

Thanks, i will wait for the ones i need then

If i reach the max level in PvP, do i still get a rank-up chest if i level up again?

Yes you do.

For the Black Lion skins. We never know when they will return. But if you want skin like Scientific, Balthazar, Shadow, Mordrem, Pact Fleet, Tempest or Chaos, you better buy them now. They were 1 ticket not so long ago and probably won’t be available at 1 ticket for a long time (maybe a year or something like that). So they will go higher and higher in price.

Can i have – rank points in pvp, or 0 is the lowest i can get?

You never lose rank points at all, so yeah … 0 is the minimum.

I mean the ranked pvp points, which got a leaderboard, i will you loose points after a lost game there

OH, the system for the leaderboard is quite weird, it counts win/lose ratio and also the amount of matches and also against who you were fighting.
Take a look here for more info: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Leaderboards#Player_vs._Player

Why couldnt anet make this f2p model for a few months only, and not ‘forever’?
They only purpose is to get people buy the x-pack, so why not just use this system a few months before+after hot release?… Would be much smarter, and there wouldnt be many upset people, like myself. (And older, veteran players would feel less betrayed aswell.)

SkullProX.7083:

Why couldnt anet make this f2p model for a few months only, and not ‘forever’?
They only purpose is to get people buy the x-pack, so why not just use this system a few months before+after hot release?… Would be much smarter, and there wouldnt be many upset people, like myself. (And older, veteran players would feel less betrayed aswell.)

I don’t feel betrayed and I love that they implemented that. Everysingle thing they will change in the game will have people that like it, people that hate it and people that don’t care.

SkullProX.7083:

Why couldnt anet make this f2p model for a few months only, and not ‘forever’?
They only purpose is to get people buy the x-pack, so why not just use this system a few months before+after hot release?… Would be much smarter, and there wouldnt be many upset people, like myself. (And older, veteran players would feel less betrayed aswell.)

The system was implemented to allow players that don’t have the money to buy the game up front to try the game before they put that money forward. If they like the game, they will likely buy the full edition. There won’t be many that will stick with the wholly free edition, particularly with HoT on the horizon.

I do not feel betrayed by this model at all. Existing players that are getting upset about this business model are comparing it to other free to play models; this is not the same as other free to play models.

SkullProX.7083:

Why couldnt anet make this f2p model for a few months only, and not ‘forever’?
They only purpose is to get people buy the x-pack, so why not just use this system a few months before+after hot release?… Would be much smarter, and there wouldnt be many upset people, like myself. (And older, veteran players would feel less betrayed aswell.)

Because they need players in central Tyria once HoT goes live. Plus F2P is a way to get new players interested enough to buy HoT. And that, getting new players interested as they rotate out of their other MMOs looking for something new will always be there. Not just a few months before and after.

So new question again.
I got 2,256 power as a lv80 thief, with full exo set, and scholar runes, is there any way other than ascended to increase the power? I feel like my damage is kinda low…

SkullProX.7083:

So new question again.
I got 2,256 power as a lv80 thief, with full exo set, and scholar runes, is there any way other than ascended to increase the power? I feel like my damage is kinda low…

You can use food and oil that has the power stat on it. Also check your trinkets to see if they have power as their largest stat (with berserker trinkets as an example, which is probably the best gear stat-type for physical dps output).

Also consider your precision as well as power, as Berserker-stat gear will give you both power, precision and ferocity which could give you frequent critical hits which really increase your damage output more than simply stacking power.

Hello!

So my issue is that i just cant set my logitech rumblepad2 controller for gw2… I have the logitech gaming software, but it cant recognize my controller… Any ideas how to set it up?