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Posted by: Phit.3560

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Hello! I’ve been playing quite abit lately and am interested in exploring more of the game. I’m having some trouble figuring a few things out. A few days ago I started looking up some builds to run fractorals, raids and dungeons. I was excited to start working towards minstrels armor and leadership runes. I soon found out that my 100 gold went to 40 gold to build one piece of exotic minstrels armor. This also took me from 0 to 450 tailoring. I also found that the leadership runes are from Dragon Stand or WvW. I have spent three evenings in Dragon Stand and have not witnessed ONE meta event. In DS its always “rally at the bases”. I’ve ran around but only found a very small amount of noxious pods. I now have 49 Crystalline Ore…..need like 600 for the rune set. I have searched online but cannot find a way to get the Proof of Heroics in WvW.

As for weapons is the only way to get Minstrels weps from crafting? I have seen someone post regarding getting minstrels weps from PvP and or dungeons?

Currently I have a full set of Soilders gear, plat double boons in soldiers trinkets, amulets, and rings.

I have one exotic minstrels chest.

I guess my question is where should I start? What should I do. I’m having fun doing world completion and running all the dungeons. I’m having fun doing Spvp and running around in WvW but I have zero direction on how to progress in gear. Also I have no idea how to find groups for Fractorals…every time i search for a group nothing comes up.

Thanks in Advance.

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Posted by: rabidsmiles.5926

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Our Wiki will tell you when a new DS map will open: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dragon's_Stand

You can usually find a group in the start right before the new map opens or look on the LFG is someone is posting for a meta map.

As for the Minstrel’s questions, honestly I made my zerk/commander’s ascended set first so I could run t4 fractals and slowly got box drops for my Minstrel’s set. Sorry I am not much help but I think all Chrono’s should have a zerk/commander’s set ontop of any other ones they carry.

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Posted by: Phit.3560

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Ok great! I see at the bottom of the wiki it shows the timing on the event. That’s great to know. When you say zerk/commander’s ascended set how did you get it? Did you craft it? Also how many pieces of bezerkers and how many pieces of commanders?

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Posted by: Fay.2357

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Yeah, there’s no need for you to rush and make a set of minstrels. That’s honestly the absolute last set you need to be worrying about. Get a zerk set first, then commander’s maybe, then maaaaybe minstrels.

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Posted by: Phit.3560

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should I go for exotic bezerkers set? weps, armor and trinket, rings, earrings etc? I have a full set of soldiers right now.

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Posted by: Fay.2357

Fay.2357

Yeah, soldiers is totally worthless. Exotic berserker’s is what you should aim for first, and then start converting to ascended. Start with trinkets, they’re very easy to get from the new living story maps. Then get weapons, lastly work on armor.

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Posted by: Cyninja.2954

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Yeah, soldiers is totally worthless. Exotic berserker’s is what you should aim for first, and then start converting to ascended. Start with trinkets, they’re very easy to get from the new living story maps. Then get weapons, lastly work on armor.

This.

Personally I would recommend for you to first learn how to run a utility mesmer before attemtping to run a chrono tank. Minstrel should be some where at the very end of the list, no worries, the gear you have so far is not wasted.

Now as far as stats go:

- Soldiers/Knights is totally worthless on mesmer
- aim for berserker and/or assassins gear as first set so you can fill an utility slot.
- chrono tank is only a thing in raids so this should not be a priority for now

For gearing as Fay mentioned, do the new maps for the trinket slots. Shouldn’t take to long to get full ascended there. Exotic armor is more than fine for a start. Ascended weapons are recommended. Your best bet is to finish your specialisation collection for the shield asap. Rest fill up as you go.

As far as Dragon Stand goes, make sure to actively look in the LFG once the map resets (check reset times corresponding to your local time zone). It’s every 2 hours, half past the hour (aka 10:30, 12:30, 14:30, etc. actual hour might vary with timezone).

You might consider running WvW parallel for an alternative method of buying leadership runes. If you do not want to go leadership runes you could swap to Superior Rune of Water temporarily (-20% boon duration, better than nothing while you work on leadership runes) or Durability (not recommended if not tanking due to toughness). These runes will underperform compared to leadership though.

Superior Sigil of Concentration is a thing but with your budget I’d stay away from it for now. Try to get high boon duration via other means (platinum doublons, other gear with concentration, etc.).

If you absolutely want to tank or your guild/raid requires you to fill the tanking role, here is a budget build which sort of works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOeRhzoSKsk

Realise though that this is a budget build and will vastly underperform to regular builds, still intersting to figure out if you actually enjoy tanking. If not, don’t waste time on getting Minstrel gear.

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Posted by: zoomborg.9462

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If u cant find groups for fractorals in lfg there’s something wrong…

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Posted by: rabidsmiles.5926

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So the very basic Chrono gear should be:

Armor
Commander’s – Leggings
Berserker’s – Helm, Shoulders, Gloves, Chest, and Boots,

Trinkets –
Berserker’s – Amulet, Rings, Earrings,
Exotic Berserker’s Back with a Platinum Doubloon

Weapons
Berserker’s – Sword, Sword, Shield, Focus, Scepter (if you want to have a ranged weapon)

This is your no frills basic Boon Share Chrono build – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAs+dn0nBlfiFoB+fCMrhFVjiMAGhi7MJGiprOZn2qF-TRSBQBA4kAMxHAA/2f4bTQok6LRQJ4VU+hH9CHUFCSBE4UL-e

If your budget doesn’t allow for the Bountiful Sharpening Stones (usually the meta builds use them so they can add more zerk and less commander’s), you swap the Amulet for a Commander’s Amulet and you use Commander’s for the weapons. I hate those over priced and soul sucking Sharpening stones so I use the Commander’s Amulet and weapons for my build. I lose a little bit of power but at least I get to keep my gold.

This is the one I run to keep myself away from those kitten stones – http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNAs+dn0nBlfiFoB+fCMrhFVj6MJGipjMAGhirOZn2qF-ThSBQBUS9lLqMICKBPoKEfbCy90LMxHAA/2kitten9AwJBgUABOGA-e

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Posted by: Phit.3560

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Thank you guys for your responses. I’ll read them on the way home and post again. Looking forward to adventuring!

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Posted by: Phit.3560

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Ok i got it. I was in the right direction. I really love tanking but ill start with a basic setup of commanders zerkers. Thank you guys for the help!

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Posted by: rabidsmiles.5926

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Ok i got it. I was in the right direction. I really love tanking but ill start with a basic setup of commanders zerkers. Thank you guys for the help!

You can tank in the basic gear set up, all you do is swap out the rings for Knight’s rings, this will place your Toughness to over to 1400 needed to tank.

Minstrel’s is fun and all, but the basic Chrono zerk build will take you through all content smoothly and without complaints.

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Posted by: Moa Lith.8140

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I also found that the leadership runes are from Dragon Stand or WvW. I have spent three evenings in Dragon Stand and have not witnessed ONE meta event. In DS its always “rally at the bases”. I’ve ran around but only found a very small amount of noxious pods. I now have 49 Crystalline Ore…..need like 600 for the rune set. I have searched online but cannot find a way to get the Proof of Heroics in WvW.

You earn from 2 to 10 Proof of Heroics by ranking up in WvW (GW2 Wiki article on Proof of Heroics).

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Posted by: Phit.3560

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Thanks everyone! So I’ve now found out how most of the meta events work and their timers. I’ve done DS a few times and wow what a blast! Looking forward to getting on tonight and doing some of the others. I think I’m finally getting a grasp on things.

I have since gotten rid of my soilders gear, not sure if destroying it was the right idea but I have to keep my stuff organized. I have crafted a full set of exotic zerks gear minus rings, ammulets and stuff. I have 460 tailoring and 400 chef on my Messer, on my Ele i have 400 jewlcrafting…going to go with weaponsmith so I can make most of my own stuff.

Thank you everyone for the info. I’ll be blinking around doing meta events, world bosses, map completions, random crap and hopefully some FOTM soon!!

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Posted by: Phit.3560

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Ok so I’ve made myself a full set of exotic berserkers armor/weps and trinkets. I have plat doubloons in my trinkets, the 3sec sigil of concentration in my main hand sword. What runes should I run? I have a set of travelers in my armor now, monk in the bank and 2/6 leadership runes….working on 6/6 obviously. I feel like im starting to get the hang of this. I’ve been completing Living World Season 2 and having a blast. Been taking breaks to do dailys, PVP a little, run dungeons but no FOTM yet.

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Posted by: bulauchenka.5382

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Durability is a good option.
But i suggest use cronomanser runes and run zerg build.

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Posted by: Cyninja.2954

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Ok so I’ve made myself a full set of exotic berserkers armor/weps and trinkets. I have plat doubloons in my trinkets, the 3sec sigil of concentration in my main hand sword. What runes should I run? I have a set of travelers in my armor now, monk in the bank and 2/6 leadership runes….working on 6/6 obviously. I feel like im starting to get the hang of this. I’ve been completing Living World Season 2 and having a blast. Been taking breaks to do dailys, PVP a little, run dungeons but no FOTM yet.

Get Herald (or monk or stick with traveler) runes 4/6 and use the 2/6 Leadership runes, then eventually replace with more leadership. Traveler 6 piece bonus is useless when running chrono since your last minor trait gives you 25% movement speed.

Then focus on your specialised collections for the ascended shield (your pve setup will always be Sw+Sh/Sw+x) and complete the Caladbolg questline for an ascended sword.

Keep collecting unbound magic and materials daily from the Living World 3 zones for when you want to upgrade to ascended trinkets.

The small sigil is a start but with 3 seconds every 10 seconds of boon duration increase you’ll struggle.