Guild Wars 2

I’d show off my pet quaggan if I could. However, I did give it a name: Miniatures have been hidden due to rising player population.

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Skill interrupter: run around Southsun Shoals and daze or whatever interrupt any karkas trying to unload their barrage, without killing ‘em to save time unless there’s daily kills/krytan kills. Yeah, SS is a part of the Kryta region.

Daily leveler: Run any quick dungeon path.

Here is my hastily compiled list of quick ways to get your PvE daily done.

It has gotten to a point where I only log in to do dailies for the laurels so if you’re in the same situation, this is for you.

Feel free to share some of your own.

Getting these done should merely take 10 to 20min, depending on how much you alt-tab out of boredom while waiting for respawns.

Recycler: Buy a full stack of a salvageable item such as hard leather straps, keep in bag.

Cond remover: Karka spit barrage applies cripple each hit, go get pounded by one and spam cond removal. (CAUTION ELES: A FULL BARRAGE WILL LIKELY KILL YOU)
If you’re scared of karkas, there are some spiders in Gendarran – east of the entrance to LA in a small forested area.

Skill interrupter: Those mobs mentioned above are easy to interrupt. Personally, I run around Southsun Shoals and daze any karkas trying to unload their barrage, without killing ‘em to save time unless there’s daily kills/krytan kills. Yeah, SS is a part of the Kryta region.

Daily leveler: Run any quick dungeon path.

Cond applier: idk, just target smth and press some random buttons, you have a wide selection of 1-5.

Dodger: Dodge karka spit barrage.
An alternative for those with karkaphobia: Dodge the cripplinggroundelestaffnumber4skill the earth elementals use outside Black Citadel in Plains of Ashford, they’re above the vault or smth.

Daily kills: Go on a rampage in any low lvl zone, the Queensdale swamp is a nice place filled with squishy fireflies and other pests. Perhaps find some wolves that summons additional ones, barracudas does that as well I think. Line ‘em up then wtfpwn and you’ll have 50 kills in no time.

Daily zone-specific/aquatic kills/: Same as above, go nuts in lowbie zones.

Ambient Killer: Plenty of stuff in QD swamp, especially in the middle scattered around the house.

Skill pt accumulator: Save all scroll of knowledge you get, I always keep a stack in my bags.

Gatherer: Get the stuff in your home instance (assuming you have some nodes), there’s always a rich copper vein in the ettin cave near oak in QD or w/e fav spot, these are my usual destinations.

Events: Anyone know some spot with lots of events for that daily? They usually take too much time/too boring tho.

Reviver: Same as above: boringtimeconsuming, if you insist or simply enjoy ressing, goto the reactor where the fire ele spawns – wow, how could the name of that place slip my mind. However, I’m sure there are probably way better and less crowded spots.

Happy dailying

Meh, can’t wait for next set of fiery weapon skins from the bl chests or armor/wep reskins

Throwing out some thoughts I’ve had on ele:

Add weapon swap button usable ooc

Summoned elementals endless

Traits for buffing elementals stats (perhaps 30ish in air or earth to make it perma)

Held conjured weapon does not expire

Increase base hp

Increase auto attack damage for staff & scepter or make other skills land faster

Redesign focus skills, needs water field

Yes, I realized that after reading more carefully, strange that you have to type it twice.
Waiting to get my flamekissed armor refunded.

I filled in all the required info correctly but I’m always getting: “Request could not be created as:
Guild Wars 2 E-Mail Address (Account Log-in Name): is invalid”

I even copy pasted it from the account page!

Anyone else got this problem?

ThiBash.5634:

Tom.8029:

I liked the Elementals in PvE. But I really only used them for leveling as a source of mitigating damage by keeping the AI occupied.

They can be so much more than that.

I like the earth elite ele, makes a great meatshield against projectiles.
There should really be a trait to make the elementals endless.

Sandstorm is awesome too. I even have glyph cd reduction just for this!

I’m torn between my ele and mesmer, but my ele, main and 1st char has the best skins and expensive dyes (3+ F&F dyes) and Bifrost. I like both chars equally, sometimes I get frustrated over how squishy ele is, how my fav builds and staff are so weak.

You kinda have to use D/D, conjures to keep up with the others, defense is lacking as well. I do fine most of the time in dungeons though. I’m the best IB&FGS dispenser

Oh that’s too bad. Conjures hammer It’s hammer ti- …out of charges -_-’

Didn’t it use to lose a charge after every 3 swings like after the blinding strike? Now it consumes 1 charge each swing. Even with the trait, it runs out in a few seconds. Q_Q

I’d like to nominate Kittipie (Kittikai.6045), a very kind and helpful person that runs her own newbie guild. She picks people up in the starting zones, places banner boosts on the Queensdale train route, teaches basic stuff and helps directly and indirectly by putting daily tips into the message of the day.

Also offers to take people to story mode dungeons and explains difficult parts, she plays a tanky support guardian and keeps everyone alive. Hosts free raffles with armor, basic crafting mats or bag prizes.

Go Kitti!

Buy all the flame dyes! Another T3 set for my ele, guess I could try cond gear for once.

This has been brought up before and I’d like to bring it up again. Out of combat weapon swap for elementalists, will it ever happen?

Here’s a friendly suggestion for you, a-net:

Add customization to the weaponskills tab. The potential in this feature is almost endless, think of all the fun! Why deny us that instead of having this current clunky system.

Example: Unsteady ground, option to switch between either the knockdown or cripple effect for it. I’d prefer cripple effect in PvE so I’m somewhat against the change.

More flexibility, uniqueness, better gameplay, less dull and everyone will be happy.

There’s so much more that could be added into the game. I could list tons of more nice ideas but it’d turn into an unreadable wall of text.

/Sad staff ele.

I’ll tell you the reason of the price drop: Combustion.

Made lots of gold salvaging those when champ boxes were introduced. $_$ Heh heh..

Torch, you had one job, only one job! To lit up the dark room in Obsidian Sanctum JP and the super skin disabled the only function I was using it for.

Anyway, I now have a new torch, though not as cool as the (now banked) super torch but it does its job.

Just a heads up to the devs, thanks for reading.

I was also let down by the projectile change on elementalist. There should be at least some difference in size or glow depending on attunement IMO. The normal fireballs looks alot bigger and cooler than the rainbow bolts.

I bought x3 5 pack, got 3-4 rares that were like 40s each, rest were blues. This is the very first and last time I buy anything that involves RNG from the gemstore. I’ve resisted all temptations until now and learned my lesson, at least I’ve supported the game.

Some feedback on the living story & updates:

IMO these living story updates aren’t very ‘living’, all the NPC’s forgets who you are and that you’ve met before. There’s so much room for improvements if they weren’t rushed and released so tightly one after another.

In this update for example, fending off the invasion forces threatening the whole region and its inhabitants/NPC’s doesn’t care, they’ll fight you (the heroes) together with the robotic invaders whom are trashing their places, I mean just spawning then standing there doing nothing till you zerg them.

There could’ve been some dialogues & interaction with a centaur leader for example for a temporary cease fire and make them neutral in-game during the event but you can still fight them if you attack first.

Also, instead of the short stories posted on the forums which I think not many people will read anyway, how about you make some short cinematics in-game or flashbacks during a dungeon.

When I heard about Scarlets playground I imagined it’d be a new place like a house with traps/wacky stuff in DR or something but nope, it’s the pavilion. That’s fine though, I shouldn’t have high expectations.

More development time and quality over skin cash cow events mainly consisting of killing a large amount of enemies and doing a bunch of achievements.

These were my thoughts. Idk what you others think but the living story is very shallow.

Yup, it’s filled with bugs. Had several fights with perma knockback as mentioned above.

Got the ooze achievement even though I killed some. Also fought it with oozes lingering from the previous fight.

Just now I tried to take on Dunwall but he decided to go perma stealth. Queen’s Gauntlet you say? Unfinished Gauntlet I say.

Solo’d T4 with knights geared ele using scepter/focus. Snare and burst then lose aggro to make the mobs run away to the treasure piles. Don’t chase plunderers, you can finish them off on their way back.

Can we get companions or henchmen we can hire?

Hoping it’ll be implemented some day.

Arkham Creed.7358:

ATC Alpha.4098:

Just took me a few tries to beat, 0 cheats. Used boast, counted how many times he drank so you can predict belches and heals. Easy content for me at least, no troll.

There should be at least some challenging content to satisfy all types of players.

There is a difference between “challenging” and “entirely dependent on luck.” Go try him again, I bet you’ll have different results.

I’ve beaten him once BEFORE it was patched and another after, 2-3 tries at most, not luck dependent IMO. Just pay more attention and be observant.

I think some achievements should actually have some difficulty in them, luck or not.

Got my hard earned Omnomivore title and satisfaction from successfully beating it with skill and cunning. People shouldn’t expect facerolling and being entitled to everything by mindlessly pressing some buttons.

Just took me a few tries to beat, 0 cheats. Used boast, counted how many times he drank so you can predict belches and heals. Easy content for me at least, no troll.

There should be at least some challenging content to satisfy all types of players.

They either look out of place or I have prettier weapons that fits my chars more.
I’m using the staff so far and picked the scepter as 2nd. The SAB ones are cooler though and I’m using nearly all of them.

I noticed the SAB skins prices dropped a bit, at least the GS.

Would be convenient if lootable corpses had toggleable text like chests, objects and gathering nodes.

Would be nice with more daily options added into the rotation like:
Complete specific long chain events, kill boss X, complete a mini dungeon.

I’d like to have:

Armor sets
Dyes w/o RNG, dyes with different patterns
Kasmeers hairstyle
Animation replacers (combat, casting etc)

Hiya A-net,

Can you put whatever the NPC’s are wearing up on the gemshop? It’s already in the game sooo Y U NO GIVE? Also, new hairstyles are needed IMO. Kasmeer’s hairstyle for example which I’d totally pay for, sure the “new” hair colors are nice but more styles please.

Could also add dyes with spots, squares or even camo? Just something new, anything!

No.. I don’t want another back piece skin.

How about.. wait no, put those RNG chests away I’m not buying them at all, stuff with fixed prices suits better, for me at least.

Thanks for reading.

Glenstorm.4059:

If you don’t like GoEP as a stun-breaker (I’m not in love with it myself) check out Arcane Shield, which this patch made a stun breaker, without actually mentioning it in the notes.

(Another stealth buff: Healing Rain is now cast-able on the move! Woo!)

Yeah I noticed it when the patch was released, gotta get used to it, but 75s CD is a bit long and feels a bit useless since it’s not often you need a stun break PLUS those blocks at the same time. Ah well have to adapt, I’ll definitely use it though.

I run with storms glyph, signet of water and I swap the last slot to whatever is needed (arc wave, flash, air signet and included arc shield now.

Just saying that stun break on ele power glyph doesn’t make any sense, IMO. Not sure I’d use it anyway, could’ve kept a stun breaker on one of the cantrips instead.

Perhaps they’re trying to decide whether to put em in RNG chests or not. Maybe waiting for people to buy gem cards for the armors then release the weapons so they’ll have to buy another card! It could be any reason.

Depends on how they look since I haven’t seen em yet. The Dragon Bash skins were nothing special and shouldn’t have been in chests if you ask me.

My opinion on this patch and suggestions (hope a-net is reading this):

As a PvE staff ele(main) and mesmer (my only 2 chars), I like this patch so far.
Fire traits could still use some improvement to match the benefits the others give.

Stun breaker on Glyph of Elemental Power? asdfglolwat

Haven’t looked at my mesmer yet but I like the summons buff.

All pets should get HP buffed in PvE like the mesmer’s summons did. Turrets, ranger pets, elementals, minions etc. Just in PvE though, perhaps not wvw.

I think more buffs should be given in PvE!

I feel sad for SB rangers even though I have no interest in the class. At least their auto attack should have 1.2k range or something.

Can anyone give feedback on the mistfire wolves?

That’s all for now.

My opinion on the DB achievements:

Clever money sinks, some players may spend alot WP’ing to holo nodes and burning effigies. Getting the wings is a long and boring process. An item like this should have a long interesting and captivating story or something that doesn’t make you fall asleep.

I shouldn’t expect much from these short RNG money-grab events anymore.
SAB and F&F ending was nice (excl. chests). Just outright sell the skins in gemshop,
if you start selling anything good for once maybe I’ll consider purchasing some gems.

Semi – Akitten and dance with your legendary weapon in LA.

Edit: why is *A kitten censored lol

Edit2: srsly… *away from keyboard

I was thinking about this too, have the high level champs drop X t6 mats sounds completely reasonable. For example the spider champ’s spiderlings doesn’t drop anything anymore so instead of just getting a blue from the champ, drop some mats!

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

Well, with that new light, are we sure you are running the latest Nvidia drivers? Perhaps doing a clean install will rid yourself of the issue. I’m not sure what your operating system is, but you can get the latest drivers to download here:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers/beta-legacy

Yes I have the latest drivers.

I’ve now capped and disabled the auto OC feature but I still get crashes. Sent support a new crash log and discovered:

“I took a look at your crashlogs again and found that the file that is causing you to crash is nvd3dum.dll. This is a dll file that is associated with your graphics card drivers. The issue you are experiencing is called a TDR or Timeout Detection and Recovery error that happens with the Windows Vista/7 and the Nvidia Drivers. For more information on this error, please go to the following link:

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/389688/geforce-drivers/nvidia-statement-on-tdr-errors-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-/

As you can see from the above article, this is not an actual issue with Guild Wars 2, but with the Nvidia drivers and will have to be addressed and corrected by Nvidia. "

Since a few days ago when I got new hardware, Gw2 started to randomly crash.
It could be from 1min to 30min-ish of playing time.

Spec:
AMD FX-8150, 8 core 3.6Ghz
Stock Core Speed 3600 MHz
ATM running at 4306,9 MHz according to speccy.

SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0
GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST
8GB RAM

I’ve been in contact with support and it lead to that overclocking is causing the crashes. However, I haven’t overclocked anything at all or messed with any settings.

Anyone got similar issues?

They could’ve increased the cd on burning speed and the earth one instead of this RTL nerf. I want the short cd back in world PvE.

Also, want staff buffs! Reduce activation times or something, anything!

“Comet skill: Blast finisher now occurs at the comet’s location rather than at the elementalist’s location.”

Okay so it’ll heal at the target location if you stand in a healing field, no blast finisher benefits for the user. (Nerf) What’s the point of this?

QQ @ RTL cd, no more zooming across the world in PvE. It could’ve been made seperate from PvP as well, same with the mist nerf. Q__________Q

Y NO staff buffs.

I needed to vent. Kay, moving on.

Abilities like ice spike and eruption are canceled if you’re knocked down. For example, you put down a healing field and eruption for a healing blast combo and just after placing eruption and you get knocked down, nothing happens. No damage from the eruption, no healing from the combo blast.

Same with ice spike, place it over a mob and it’s hovering over it, you get knocked down during the hovering animation and the ice spike is simply nullified.

Happens with dragon’s tooth too and shatterstone as well I think.

It’s sad to see such basic abilities still being bugged all this time.

I’d like to see a survival mode type dungeon in the near future where your group gets to fight against waves of different kinds of enemies with unique skills and abilities. Perhaps some defend objective mode of some sort and you hold a chokepoint vs. mobs.

I liked the christmas toy event, something similar can be done but with all your professions’ abilities available instead of tools/wep pick ups. That’d be a kitten load of fun.

Would be nice if it was placed in Southsun Cove because it looks pretty.

Feel free to input positive comments, negative ones aren’t welcome.

IMO, remove the skins from the vendor at the end of the month but keep the instance open for roaming and replaying. Perhaps put the skins on sale for gems.

Anyone tried the lesser kits? I get about the same amount of ectos using basic kits on CoF rares as I do with master kits. Usually use master kits for rares with upgrades.

Haha that’s hilarious. Actually I feel really sorry for you, I had to wait a week to get my last tower but my server is doing fine and wins sometimes. I almost considered swappin’ server. Seems like your only choice if you’re going for a legendary, otherwise it isn’t important at all. Unless you’re an achievement kitten. xD

I just bought a Bifrost from the TP today, I converted a few thousand bucks into gems. Totally worth it. I’ll also be buying about 1000 BL keys to get all the fused skins to match my eles fire theme.

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JK, played since launch n casually got all the gold to buy all the stuff I needed, the hardest/most annoying parts was COOKING and WvW world completion (so gheey), but I got that last EB tower in the end.

So yeah, legendary isn’t special at all, didn’t really want it I just happened to have the resources one day n decided to craft it. I was satisfied with my good old Emberspire but w/e I got swag now, YOLO.

SoggyFrog.4170:

You say you’re on Gandara? We’re fairly high in the ladder, so flipping enemy objectives isn’t all that easy. Activity is relative. We’re the lowest-ranked world in our tier but we’re placed in the 3rd highest tier (out of 9) Bring some friends, 20+ gold, pick a late night/early morning and we’ll do an omega golem rush. Sound good to you?

Yeah that’d be great. So far I’ve gotten all the points I could get, what remains are a few towers, garrisons and eternal battlegrounds. I’ve got all kinds of siege blueprints, golems, trebs you can have it all! I just want those vistas.

Thanks for the replies, I wanted to know what viable options I had.

Any tips on how one could get world completion in WvW? I’m having trouble grabbing points/vistas in hostile held areas and I’m eager to get them done to craft my legendary. Should I join up with a WvW guild? Transfer to a server which controls most territories?

Help greatly appreciated!

Sidenote: I’ve avoided WvW almost the whole time due to lag and haven’t bothered exploring them in the past since I didn’t think I’d ever craft a legendary weapon.
My home server is Gandara and its population doesn’t seem active in WvW judging from the world map.

You need alot of patience and wiki skills to enjoy what the game has to offer imo.