Guild Wars 2

Many thanks for the responses guys!

I was aware of that thread but it seemed more PVE/WvW oriented, so was stuck on what to use :P

Will try something out as some I play against are very good/take a while to die, where as months ago Ele’s were seen as awful/nobody would play them at all really!

Cheers.

No responses? It’s hard enough to find tPvP matches the majority of the time – I didn’t expect these forums to have died this much too!

Any help would be great! I have searched and haven’t found anything about this D/D build in PvP with good combinations to select. Most links to these “build editors” seem to not work for myself either.

Thanks.

Hi,

Well I stopped playing this game for a good 3-4 months but have recently been trying to get back into it. Been playing some tPVP with my Elementalist and was wondering what the best build seems to be at the moment?

Seems like everyone goes on about this “D/D 0/10/0/30/30” build. Could anyone tell me more about it?

What sort of Amulet & Jewel/Sigils/Runes are people using these days?

Any help would be appreciated, back in the day Ele’s seemed extremely “squishy”, as alot of people put it…so anything that helps to change that would be great :P

Many thanks.

Haha Dusk! I like checking these forums on most days – I’d much rather spend time on these forums than play the game itself. Far more entertaining seeing people such as yourself proclaiming how wonderful and how good n’ dandy the game is. When somebody says otherwise, your inner fanboy comes out which is ofcourse when the defense begins and you start coming out all guns blazing.

Anyways, take care bud!

farmv.1204:

im sorry.?!? is that supposed to be fun??

Don’t know what else to suggest really, purchase some other games or something and play them. This game is very lacking when it comes to fun once level 80 has been reached.

And I agree, WvW queue times are pathetic

Sorry but just stop playing the game like many others. It’s not going to improve unfortunately, it’s just the way the game has been created. I expect they’ll release some expansions soon that you’ll have to pay for though (if you want to pay for content that should have already been included ofcourse!). That’ll maybe make things more fun for a few more hours atleast.

It’s never good to just stick with one game anyway, switch it up a little bit! You’ll need to once you’ve hit level 80 on this game as there’s nothing to do really that can be considered anywhere near remotely “fun”.

Attila.6348:

I love how people brought GW 2 for PvE reasons. This is like buying chocolate and complaining why isn’t there more strawberry filling than there is actual chocolate. It doesn’t make sense. GW 2 premise is based on teamwork and WvW. ArenaNET delivered on this. The fact you brought the game for wrong reasons is your fault.

What a silly thing to say Attila. PVP is where this game fails. Sure, the WvW concept is a great idea, except the way it’s been executed is poor. I’ve played it about twice and have never been able to get in since due to pathetic queue times.
sPVP is the worst i’ve played on any game as i’ve stated before due to many many things.
Also why would anyone craft the legendaries? I think the majority look very silly anyway. I would be embarrassed to even wear one as it would show that you have way too much time on your hands! Will take a long time to do everything required to get one

DusK.3849:

Duveth.5742:

people who defend level 80 lategame arent 80

Hi. Level 80 for two weeks here. Game’s fine, deal with it.

You would say that Dusk, you’re on here all the time defending the game, where as i’m telling it how it really is, level 80 and there’s quite frankly nothing to do once you’ve explored everywhere, unless as I always say, you want to shout out in map chat to grind dungeons, queue up for hours and hours for WvW to attempt to play, or play a bit of sPVP with unbalanced professions, four maps with the same game mode repetitively.

Have fun anyways I guess.

Your title is incorrect.

Game HAS lost it’s appeal. You get to 80 and there’s quite literally nothing to do, except shout about in map chat to hopefully find a group to do dungeons with, and grind and grind them.

Or queue up for WvW for hours and hours on end and never actually getting in at all.

Or playing the very unbalanced, mediocre four maps with only one game mode sPVP, which becomes boring and frustrating after a short while.

Or do some exploring of zones which are all exactly the same thing with similar caves etc doing the same “go there and kill something” renown hearts whilst passing by bugged dynamic events which just spawn mobs of the same creatures you’ve been killing anyways.

Or perhaps I should head over to level 80 Orr zone which is full of bugged events but also these bland, fast “risen” which bombard you every second wherever you go, and do throughout the whole game such as story mode – a very boring experience that was too! By the time I got to Orr or the risen areas, I just explored them and never want to go back to them again! Very lazy just to get every creature in the game and slap “risen” infront of their original names too!

I’m sorry but the game is fun for a shortwhile, but once you’ve fully levelled, there’s nothing more to offer, and nothing in terms of being social and having fun, and i’m sure MMO’s are supposed to make you want to play them and enjoy yourselves for a long time to come, yet having levelled to 80 and done everything that can be done, it’s now another one of those “perhaps i’ll come back to it” games that’ll I expect i’ll never go back to.

Yes the game has been out a month now, that’s a long time, fed up of people who say that it isn’t really. That’s one WHOLE MONTH of simple bug fixes and many other issues not being fixed – things that shouldn’t need fixing anyway. It’ll be months before they’ll improve the game at all in any aspect. Given the amount of posts in this forum from people who are complaining and are bored etc, I can’t see this game being anywhere near as successful as these “fanboys” like to make out it is/or will be.

Suppose the good thing that’ll come out of this game is that other MMO’s can make sure not the repeat the huge failings in this game.

I completely agree with the OP too, along with many others it would seem. Still some people who may find things boring and tedious, others may enjoy it, so it’s upto other people to make the decisions for themselves I guess.

For me this game could have been alot more, and i’m sure can be alot more when they’ve finally sorted out the very buggy game that people are playing at the moment. Maybe then they can focus on improvements and adding in elements that should have been in from day 1.

Amiron, sorry you don’t agree with my opinion. If I was to get really bored I suppose i’ll get back to the unbalanced PVP and play the same small amount of maps (3 maps is all I seem to play) capturing the same points and at the end of it all, for no satisfaction and no fun at all. That along with no leaderboards to show where I stand or the ability to play casual games with friends, the worst game mode i’ve ever played. Was really looking forward to it myself, but what a let down, at the moment atleast!
Or perhaps I should get back to standing outside of dungeon entrances and shouting in the general map chat to attempt to find myself a group (and most likely failing such as on previous accounts?).
If you disagree with any of that then I guess you’re “on drugs” as you so nicely put it, but each to their own, someone elses fun certainly isn’t what i’d consider fun. I’d much rather play other big multiplayer games that aren’t of the MMO variety for fun now this game has nothing more to offer.

That’s true! Amen to that one.

I think you did well just to get half way through haha! I expect they’ll get around to adding in a “dungeon finder” as they did in Guild Wars 1, just seems strange it’s not been in this game from day one, would make dungeons alot more accessible I imagine.

Thanks for sharing

First and foremost I must apologise George that I wasn’t more indepth with my description for yourself regarding story mode. I am just going from the first couple of missions really, and other peoples opinions regarding the matter. I’m not really one to watch two charactors side by side rambling on and with terrible looking animations. Very poor start to the story indeed. I got the jist of things to come around mission level 50 onwards or so, that was just to keep on killing every creature this game has to offer with the word “risen” infront of it. A horrible experience and one i’d never like to replay through again.
Having a quick scroll through the “my story” section is enough to show you the lack of substance and any meaning to it all. I must also point out the very last mission and the ending to the story that was such a drawn out process, almost laughable, our group actually was laughing as to how terrible it was. We had one person leave due to you needing to have five people in the group which made it much harder, and after all the hard work, all we had to do for literally 5 minutes or more was tap the number 2 button to shoot cannons at Zhaitan, the dragon. Never seen anything quite like it really. I’d much prefer a proper co-op story than this so called “personal story” too, or atleast the option (not everyone likes a single player story, which is technically what it is!).
Despite a small few others saying you can do the same story with a friend per say, I wasn’t able to accomplish this, it would only ever register for the party leader. All in all had to do the majority of the same missions twice one after another.

Those are my reasonings as to why story mode for me was a poor experience overall, however, if you’d like me to scrutinise the story further, more to your approval, please don’t hesitate to let me know! Many thanks for your input.

I guess i’ve just had bad experiences on that account then, unfortunately after a first failed attempt due to random quitters and multiple failures of finding groups it’s just completely put me off attempting to shout out for a group again. I think a nice lobby/matching system, whatever you want to call it would improve that tenfold. Until then I just don’t even want to attempt it again, it’s a shame I know, but first impressions have ruined any enjoyment I may have had completing some dungeons.

As to tournaments i’d rather not get into that sort of competitive PVP, i’d like to casually play a few normal PVP games with a friend which isn’t possible unless lucky on the team changing.
Haha fair enough, i’ll be willing to try dungeons when I can just easily queue for what dungeon i’d like to do, at the moment i’ve given up trying as people left TWICE in one dungeon so just gave up, and from here on in it’s extremely hard to get a group together or to join one as a Elementalist as i’ve said previously, due to (and this is words from others) they’re too “squishy”.
Not to worry though, i’m sure these will be sorted out some point in the future.

Pmiles that’s not really a constructive comment. If i’m missing out on the fun that this game has to offer now i’m level 80, please do share! That’ll be more helpful than just saying i’m wrong with nothing to suggest otherwise. I’m sure there are plenty of other people besides myself that would like these enjoyable fun things to do. Cheers.

Thanks for your responses. Regarding the editting option Kaboo, i’m awfully sorry but i’m new to these forums. Despite having multiple problems logging on in the first place here due to 404 errors not enabling me to accept the terms of use, I also have no editing option appear at all on my page at all. However after i’ve made another comment it appears, but as I type currently, I see nothing.
With your superior knowledge to that of my own, please point me in the correct direction as to how to make the quite obvious editing option (when it shows) show up. EDIT: Just finished this post, and the editing option has appeared after I made this reply, if I click off this page and come back on here, they vanish. Any help regarding this good sir would be appreciated.

Glad the majority of people here agree. Some people have had better experiences which is nice to hear, however once everybody reaches level 80 there really is nothing to do in all fairness.

The next step is to perhaps get a full set of exotic gear, some costing around 1-2 gold each on the trading post, certainly not a hard thing to accomplish. Then the only other thing I can think of is grinding and grinding to make a legendary weapon that’s slightly better than a exotic.

Obviously some people will disagree with me here but doing repeated events etc and no proper queuing system in normal PVP, dungeons etc, there’s no replay value, and no fun to be had.

Even map completion is boring, every zone is the same, same dredge caves just placed differently elsewhere, same quests etc. Also in terms of the renown hearts you have to do, extremely tedious and boring. May aswell say for all the renown hearts “just kill something nearby” as that’s pretty much all there is to it.

I find playing this game a drag now, which is why i’ll only occasionally come on to do some exploration as a last resort. The level 80 zones are a pain to get around with being bombarded with risen everything, I was sick enough of “risen” in the story mode to be honest. Seems very lazy to just take every creature and throw it back out at you with the word “risen” infront of it as if it’s completely different.

And to be fair I think i’ve heard enough “I can outrun a Centaur” comments and “Excelsior” that NPC’s repeatedly say too! Yes we all know that you can outrun a Centaur ok!

Righty ho, on with the next game I guess, i’ll still be anticipating new content and updates for this game however long that may take – probably takes a few months to sort out all the bugs first however, a month down the line next week since release and the same bugs are still everywhere to be seen. Appears more so for me than others though, I must be one of the unlucky ones!
Many thanks for everyones input again, I like to hear varying opinions regarding this game.

That’s good to hear! See what your opinion is like once you’ve reached level 80. I only paid £23, around 28 Euro I guess after various cashback and discount codes etc so I guess I can’t really complain regarding value for money.

Seems the spam issue is something everyone is experiencing, fingers crossed they’ll get that sorted sometime soon! Maybe a long process though

Just don’t see any replay value though, it’s quite easy to obtain exotic gear it appears, after that there’s no fun element to make me want to continue playing, for now atleast!

Hey Dusk! Didn’t know that was possible, we created the same character race, same answers aswell, and started the story together. We tried a mission together (we were on the same mission and were going to do all together), however, once it was completed, my friend left the “instance” and I left also. Once leaving, the same mission was still there on my screen waiting to be completed. Don’t know what else I could have done as followed what I would on any game. There on in we just had to do the majority of missions twice despite being on the exact same story, one time for myself, one time for my friend too. Shame really if that didn’t have to be the case!

You must be one of the lucky ones then. If you’re trying to complete zones or perhaps hopping from one zone to another, you tend to notice them more and more – not only this but people complaining about them in general chat bringing them to light.

Thanks for your response and constructive feedback! My lack of mention of WvW was because i’ve barely played any until today actually. It could be a good fun game mode perhaps and will probably play more in the future, but thus far queue times have hindered that possibility at the moment. From what I did do however our server was being beaten very easily and thus probably didn’t seem as fun as it could be – the constant dying and repair bills (why does it cost to repair) was becoming annoying.

I’m hoping that the majority of the issues I have will eventually be sorted out or implemented within the coming months. Until then, I have no replay value for the game at all, which is a shame, as was hoping for it to be the great game everyone was suggesting it would be.

Sidestep: Didn’t see your post, I have to agree though on your points. It would be nice for me to try them, but from what I have tried people leave all the time, and being a Elementalist, there seems to be this stigma that they’re too “squishy” people have put it, which I guess I can agree with, so they don’t want to play with you in the first place.

That’s the only good thing I can say about this game really, it’s graphics! Looks great in my opinion, everything else has just slowly unfortunately fell way short of my expectations.

Agree 100%. It’s pathetic really and has ruined the game for me in general. They also recently boasted about the “dynamic ever changing events etc”. They don’t work most of the time, it’s disappointing.

Oh and don’t get me started with the constant barrage of spam messages in my mail and general chat trying to sell gold etc. That problem needs to be sorted out as it’s all I see these days in my general chat box.

I think many people can share that same opinion Untouch. Deeply frustrating, many others have gone down the route of changing world servers to attempt to complete any bugged skill point etc but sometimes that’s just not possible either.

Can’t edit the post but need to add that the sheer amount of bugs etc i’ve come across is quite terrible given the amount of time this game has been developed and tested. Events and skill points aside…getting stuck into parts of the environment, specific moves not working as they should along with the animation that follows not working correctly either. In PVP there are alot of balancing issues that need to be corrected aswell in terms of most people swaying to be thiefs or warriors more than anything else due to the quick succession of damage they can manage to do in comparison to perhaps a elementalist. There are many other things aswell but don’t want to complete clog up this page with issues :P . Thanks!

Well where to begin.

Story mode; Very lacking and boring to say the least. The ability to not be able to complete the same story with a friend like many other games was hugely disappointing and led to me doing the majority of story mode missions twice (once for me, once with a friend. Why is this? Also repeated several missions various times due to bugs occuring where the next segment of the story wouldn’t continue. The story is barely personal anyway, and I skipped all the “cinematics” if you will as all they were was just two characters stood side by side talking, no captivating videos or great story line, nothing to want you to follow the story line. To me the last half of the story missions was just constant button taping killing risen characters of all types, a very dull experience. The last mission was ridiculously boring and the worst of all, shooting cannons repeatedly at Zhaitan for 5 minutes was a terrible experience and pretty much summed up how bad story mode actually is. Me and others were pleased to get it out of the way as the only reason I wanted to complete it to begin with was because you cannot complete certain zones as particular points of interest can only be explored in story mode.

PVE: The sheer amount of bugged events and skill point challenges has really ruined the experience for myself and others. Trying to complete zones and not being able to due to that odd couple of skill points not working is disappointing really, there’s not a zone i’ve gone into without atleast 2 events being bugged – some of which are used for renown hearts and makes them harder to complete. I’m level 80 now and feel that exploring zones is all there is to do, game’s becoming more of a grind now.

Dungeons: Barely done any dungeons really, having to stand outside of a entrance just to try and get a group together is not my idea of fun. A simple matchmaking system that other games have incorporated for years would definetely improve that!

PVP: PVP is the worst aspect in this game. The bare minimum of maps along with boring repetitive capture the flag game modes is the start of it all really.
You once again cannot play a few casual games with a friend which is immensely disappointing. I understand their reasoning behind that, but there’s no reason why maybe 2 friends can play with eachother rather than being forced into tournaments, which leads me to my next thing.
Tournaments, never tried them as I don’t like the idea of shouting out for groups, it’s too tedious and can be a long process, again some form of lobby or queuing system perhaps.
Leaderboards, why are there no leaderboards for anything? Be nice to have stats of where I stand etc otherwise feels like i’m accomplishing nothing, same with WvW as what’s the point in previous days if we will never remember what’s happened?
The “play now” system is one of the worst i’ve seen in any games. A list of servers which don’t update themselves accordingly so when one server says there’s 14/16 players there, you can find yourself clicking on it and getting into nothing (although it queues you into it without telling you), a small annoyance. The whole server list etc looks terrible aswell and feels completely unfinished.

Generally now i’m 80 there’s not much else to do but grind and grind for that slightly better looking gear. There’s no fun element to the game anymore, and with the only dynamic thing about events being that they could become bugged and stop at any second, and all the other points i’ve outlined above, I find myself not wanting to play anymore despite the game only being out for a short space of time.

Now I know these comments are going to split opinions here, would just like to know what others think about this game and where improvements can be made to make it a more enjoyable game to play in general . Thanks!