Guild Wars 2

Legendary insight

Crafting materials and/or currencies (wallet or material storage)

Tenebrous/Shimmering/* crystals
Mystic forge stone
Blood Ruby
Petrified Wood
Chak egg
Reclaimed metal plate

Scraps that turns into something bigger (is considered crafting?)

Fractal Research Pages
Black lion ticket scrap
Writ of experience

Other
Doubloons
Bottle Of Elonian Wine
Unidentified DYE
+1 Agony Infusions

No really, where is the DPS buff from the release note?

It doesn’t matter, open world PvE it’s so easy you can do it w/o armor. But if you want to pe efficient I recommend start from this build http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Herald_-_S/A (works with exotics too, and take some Soldier trinckets instead of berseker until you do not die anymore – especially if you just started playing HoT).

Another player that it’s upset for the wrong reason. Why should ecto should be 50s? because it was valorous in gw1? Because your fake perceived value is higher? Only because the old ways of farming it was tedious and only the smart farmers like you were making money out of it?

Ecto’s should be 10s, so the content should be more accessible to new players (cool weapons, armors, guild upgrades for small guilds, etc etc). For you old 10 legendary weapons guys the balance can be made on other specific items, increase their prices, not the ectos.

I see how it’s an exploit (you should only open chests from your instance, because you only finished 1 event, not 10), but the reason why people complains makes me crazy.

Answer: nothing. There are tons of ways the devs could (quick fix) stop it but they didn’t, maybe because they don’t consider it an exploit, or doesn’t affect the game in any bad way.

0 – make the CURSOR more VISIBLE !!!

1. A way to not receive at all, or get rid of all non-superior sigils/runes
2. Cumulate maps currencies, there are too many (items, currencies, keys, chests, etc etc)
3. Wardrobe tooltips – how can I get that Item
4. Open all bags/chests option (like salvage all)
5. Salvage all misc items – ex I do not want to salvage dyes, just the armor/weapons/trinckets
6. Defiance bar mandatory tutorials
7. Popup question when replacing an upgrade (ex sigil on occupied slot)

FlOwMaKeRs.8623:

You can have 3 specializations available in your build and then only 5 skills on your bar, really? is that enough for you?.. is just boring to use the same 3 traitlines on a class and the same weapon for 4+ MONTHS. You can’t customize your primary weapon skills with your secondary, or vice versa. You can’t edit your traits and skills as you want. Everything is like in “automatic” just click here & click there, there you got, done.

I’m sorry, but I think this game is very simple to me.

Watch a sPvP match and try to describe what it’s happening in each frame. Try it, then return and say this game has a simple combat/skill/trait system. Then we will say you missed a 2-3 skills animations/combos in each frame.
Picture it like Starcraft (long shot but bare with me), everyone has the same UI,skills, but the complexity comes from the meta systems, and the synergy between players.

Beside the “esport” there are other positive side effects of this “simple” stiff skill system

• easier to maintain/balance game
• easier to replay / remember – you can have multiple characters there will all be the same UI skill order
• easier to explain to people (use your 2 skill to break the CC bar), instead of "long name fantasy of the skills)
• etc

alaskasnowgirl.6047:

So, I hope I don’t get too much hate for this because I understand that plenty of people enjoy multimap AB runs.

However, it has driven down the value of ecto in the market. A simple solution could be limiting chest opening to people who contributed to that map’s meta or making it so that only the first map of chests dropped guaranteed rares.

I’ve seen people posting about how they get entire stacks of 250 ecto from one AB multimap and I honestly don’t think it is at all balanced compared to other sources of ecto/rares.

I hope the devs see this and do something to address this issue. Also, other opinions are great but please keep it civil.

WUT? In your oppinion ecto is the god of the economy, and it should be at a fixed price (which you and other players) think it’s worth it? How so? Why should ecto price should be higher, because you got used to that price for a long period of time?

The ecto price it’s still very high as a crafting material, my perceived value it’s low so I think the economy it’s broken because ecto it’s above 20s, there, I said it.

They saw only 1 build in metabattle for rev and said: uuu 1 is too many, let’s take it away.

I felt the urge to make this topic after reading all the hate topics.

Context: returned after 3Y (left at LS1). Bought HoT and finish it along with LS3 ep 1&2 with my Guard in exotic gear. I play mostly PvE and love the GW lore. In my opinion a big pro of this game as a MMO and RPG it’s the number, variety and synergy between game mechanics.

I discovered HoT maps as the story progressed. I never had an issues with mastery points and XP (found bloodstone fen for xp farm), required for the story. I appreciated the new approach they took (new as in last 2Y): they make the players play all their PvE content (or replay) as much as possible (see masteries and current events). I think the game design was:

• play story
• find a new map
• you need to play on it more in order to advance to the next episode (unlock masteries)
• this way you are forced to play the current (or previous HoT maps)

I hate Tangle Depths since the first time I saw it. Fortunate enough the story was fast and easy in this map, it didn’t required for me to even explore it all (I got the mastery points from other maps).

Mastery points – I got over 20+ of them just by Commune . The bad thing: you need to watch youtube videos to find them (the game doesn’t help you much). I love exploring, I would explore all the maps, and find the masteries by myself but … the enemies are very tough and you do not have access to all the areas all the time (because of the meta events).

They learned from previous mistakes and experimented new things! I love the variety of new maps (HoT and LS3), one it’s small but with lots of floors, some are vast and you can explore, some are heavy on gliding some are not, some are in jungle some are with lava. Dragon stands (the new Orr) it’s just epic. Every MMO should have this!

The content it’s more difficult! Yes, It’s ok, it’s expected, it’s fine, it’s an evolution. Tyria it’s boring after few hundreds of hours, the game needed this. You can play WWW,PVP,Tyria,T1 fractals all you want, you don’t need HoT content, it’s an option.

There are also bad things on how the game evolves, the biggest problem I see is that, while the game population decreased (because the product it’s old), the devs keep adds new maps, so the density will be lower per map. The problem is that the new content requires lots of active players, at a specific time and place, in order to complete specific events/tasks, so you can cannot get loot, achievements etc. whenever you want/need.

So the only meta build available for the Revenant it will not be so useful, so basically Guardian can do everything better than the Revenant now. Great, switching back to guard.

Anyway, ArenaNet at GW2 launch
“Our professions aren’t dedicated healers, DPS, or tanks because frankly, we built a combat system that just doesn’t allow it.”

ArenaNet after 4 years
We made new content that it’s too hard, so we need a healer, so we made the holy trinity.

Garm was harder to kill for me then the last boss/dragon. I couldn’t melee it and cannot ranged it, it was faster then me and cannot use my skills backawards. Trough I finished the story with my guard I don’t think I’ll do it with my rev. The draft it’s still buggy I had to restart the mission 2 times because the glider didn’t worked.

Sorry this made you quit GW2, the content should be challenging, but not with bugs.

Hello, junior Rev here. I read, and now tested for my self that Staff skill 5 it’s very effective with defiance bars. Using the DPS/Support metabuild I carry staff almost only for this.
But Because of the CD of switching weapons:

• I lose DPS (because the staff low DPS, and cannot switch back to main weapons)
• most of times the defiance bar takes around 10s to refresh, it’s just about the same as the switch weapons CD. If my role is to break the bars I must stay 90% of time on staff.

It’s ok / expected from the Herald to do this things? Which is more important DPS or defiance bar. I suspect defiance bar because the entire party/squad benefits from it. What are the use cases. In harder content (ex raids) are specific roles or it’s expected all the time to switch to staff a defiance bar appear?

Thanks.

Gaile Gray.6029:

Krathor.9514:

Excellent, good feedback so far!

@Gaile: It’s definitely not exclusive to sylvari! I’m coming on my main human!

Good news! I’m glad that us non-veggies are welcome!

The best vegetable is pork meat, as least this is what I’ve been told, in this case humans)

More leafs the merrier.

I don’t know any profession that have valid meta builds with all their trait lines, so only 4 builds because of the Herald it’s ok, compared to the current state of the game. Compared to my guardian I have more viable options on my revenant in PvE.
As weapons they must be match with stances too, you must look at the overall number of skills available in a build, it’s bigger them most of the classes.
If they nerf the Facets what is the purpose of the Rev after that?

I love the permanent*passive*stuff. You can slack 50% of the time and still contribute. I love the exploration with him, especially with friends. I love the StarTrek visor/visual identity. I love the 60% very easy part (passive), 40% very hard to master player skill needed to get 100% of it, it’s a challenge.

Edit: OMG I forgot, I love the way it fights with a staff, I feel like in TMNT action game. Awesome.

Noob alert, I just got around with the Revenant, after lot of Guardian PvE play. Overall I like it even if I don’t have either the damage or survivability of my guard (yet), but I don’t have the last 5 training Herald traits yet.
Anyway, I did some DPS test to choose my weapon and from a preliminary test the most damage was from SW auto attack, if I used Axe or SW in offhand skills overall I would lose DPS (but gain other conditions). (compared with Mace).

For solo PvE (most of single target encounters) I couldn’t find a better choice than SW/Shield with Staff. Shield-compensate the lack of heal in dragon stance. Mace from what I see are for multiple enemies, or mobile ones (so torment can do its thing). Staff – break bars, remove CC and mobility. Sword 3 when I need more might, otherwise auto-attack.

I have a few problems:

• how the hell melee fighters survive in this game
• From where do I get a stability skill?

Daily: make the events by your (or below) your level https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers

Notice: not all the above tricks works for the free version (example: guild hall tavern is locked if you didn’t purchased the game), www etc.

Overall I think the NPC’s are balanced per each mission, in the Save Logan or Zojja mission my NPC were doing the heavy lifting, I was pretty much out of combat/trying to heal. But yes in the mission you specify Rhytlock is just for show/lore/fun.

I see only 2 scenarios
1. Make a new character, login with your main, buy a portal, move it to the new character, teleport.
2. Keep a stack of Teleport to a friend in your bank, solves a lot of problems.

I do not understand, why would you buy more scrolls than needed, and before you need them?

I think the name of the map says it all. I just ignore it and hate it when I have to go there. It’s easier once you get the hang of it and play it for a few hours, but doesn’t worth it in my opinion (time spent there vs reward).

To answer your question: they were thinking/responding to user requests (few years of too easy/simple maps of Tyria weren’t enough for hard-core players).

The real problem of these maps are population density per zone/events. Huge maps, with low population, because of the hard content/mastery requirements/lack of rewards will only make it harder for the new players, so the population is in decline. Probably they see this in their KPI’s and will fix this issues later on.

Playing HoT only for 2 weeks or so, just a few masteries farmed so far.
So far the best XP I got (in a 1-2hours interval) was in Bloodstone Fen because:

• Tons of fast events at any given time is at least 1 group event active, and they are easy to do! Unlike other HoT areas.
• it has a nice daily
• you can have +30% xp bonus from everything Empowerment
• Bonus: you get Ascended gear by playing here (rubies)
• The map is small and so you travel fast between events

Extra general xp bonuses:

• 10% guild experience boost (max GHall)
• 10% Ram’s Reward
• 20% from kills (foods)
• gems/laurels extra buffs

It’s this right? Am I missing something?

Hello.

I returned to the game after 3Y, now completing the content and crafting my ascendeds. Anyway I tested last night all the weapons with my new build 80% of http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Dragonhunter_-_DPS and got a big surprise, I will lay out the data and then ask a few questions

Using all (at cooldown) and only weapon skills, without any extra buffs, with bane signet and a few traits for extra damage (including Zealous blade ). Also the target was stationary Raid testing area (symbol is big part of the scheme).

Sword/Focus (sigil of accuracy only) 3000DPS Extra: mobility, regeneration boon, 8-18 vulnerability stacks on avg
GS (sigil of power + accuracy) 2900DPS : Extra: might on me, 6-12 vulnerability, heal on hit (trait), mobility/CC
Scepter/Focus (power + acc) 3600DPS : Extra: 12-22 vulnerability, Ranged/mobility Using the Smite on the enemy (using the smite on me for the might from symbol/trait lowered the DPS at half).

My guess is the Scepter did more damage because :

• 13% DMG bonus from Pure of sight https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pure_of_Sight
• almost permanent symbol (target was staying put) burn + vulnerability + damage + 10% damage bonus
• Spear of justice passive (burn every few attacks). Each Symbol pulse, Smite attack, and auto attack counts for an attack, the burn+cripple+vulnerability stack from traits stack up faster and more.
• Dulled Sense and Zealot’s Aggression makes that: every Spear of Justice passive activation puts vulnerability too on them, and 10% bonus damage because is crippled.
• this traits works best with the scepter https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dulled_Senses https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Binding_Jeopardy
• Switching to Radiance trait line will boost even more the Scepter/Sword damage

Are my guesses correct?

I usually use GS/LB (open world/www) and GS/Sword/Focus (harder content), but now I am having 2nd thoughts, with sword/torch and scepter/focus I will have more DPS and more utility to the team/more mobility.
PS: this research is for a build on dungeons/low lvl fractals/though champs

Thanks.

I wish we had a Button – destroy all non-superior sigils/runes/upgrades, like the Salve All Rarity button.

My silvary was recently reborn, after I returned to the game (also suffered a gender switch).
Old versus new, they kept all the memories and most special the blue skin. They were born to be guardians.

Because asura was my main, human are too same barbies like in any game, norns are overgrow stupid looking humans and charr ..I can’t do JP well with them.

And it works well with a guardian game style / lore.

Our currently weekly events are :

Wednesday 19:00 GMT – Mini Dungeon run
Friday 18:00 GMT – Treasure hunt open (see forum for details)
Saturday 18:00 GMT – WvW – open event for anyone
Sunday 19:00GMT – 2 x Jumping Puzzle contests with prizes (for members only)

Another big issue is the WvW right click contextual menu not working (on guild members). This bug is like the sound one, very old and unsolved.

Recruitments are open again and the guild went international.

As issues.. I have 2
1. one missing IMPORTANT feature : last logged time
2. randomly bug appears to different members, to members that only represent my guild but those who have multiple too. When representing my guild, when opening the guild panel is empty and guild name doesn’t appear in the left list, like they aren’t in the guild. From my perspective they are online and representing. Only solution is for them to relog.

Jinks.2057:

BeaT.3541:

Partying with an enemy..I see it like a bug, all other features were turned off except this one. You can easily spy an enemy zerg, just put your party spy in the zergs and watch them moving on map. That’s not the worst part, the kiddies duelers messing up is the cherry on top.

You know you don’t have to accept the join request…..

That being said most players you talk to are honestly looking for build/class help.

Great “feature” of WvW I must say

No you don’t, nothing at all indicates that a enemy could send a join request, and why not accept allies ? we’re there for a common goal.

Partying with an enemy..I see it like a bug, all other features were turned off except this one. You can easily spy an enemy zerg, just put your party spy in the zergs and watch them moving on map. That’s not the worst part, the kiddies duelers messing up is the cherry on top.

Partying with an enemy..I see it like a bug, all other features were turned off except this one. You can easily spy an enemy zerg, just put your party spy in the zergs and watch them moving on map. That’s not the worst part, the kiddies duelers messing up is the cherry on top.

Home World: Seafarer’s Rest
Guild Name: Mash Sanctuary [MASH]
Guild Website: http://mash-sanctuary.com
In-Game Contact: Beat Q/Adria the Ori
Focus: casual/semi-hardcore
Quick Notes: events and contests, daily CoF and WvW, fun, free drinks, permanent MF and karma guild buffs, only mature members.

MASH Sanctuary [MASH] Seafarer’s Rest

Hello hello

First of all who are we and what do we want to achieve.

First, we are a Community , then a guild in the MMORPG Guild Wars 2. MASH Sanctuary started off like most other MMO guilds, from a bunch of enthusiastic friends, then more joined us along the way.
As a Romanian clan, we grew and developed into an international European guild on Seafarer’s Rest server.
We are serious when we use our skills, but deadly sarcastic when we experience the game; we perceive GW2 as a game, a tool that we use in order to have fun. But we want to and will win regardless the costs.

Most of MASH Sanctuary members are semi-hardcore players and have a casual game-style, we would like to be hardcore but unfortunately we have to work during day and play in our free time. The average age is around 22 years and our favourite nutritional source is..around 10kg of alcohol per month.

Requirements to join Kodan ranks

In order to join our beautiful bad kitten guild you have to be special:
- speak english (at least to write and read)
- have any level/profession in GW2
- played at least 3h of GW2
- be* mature*, at least in thinking and behaviour
- be a funny man
- be or like drunk people :lol:

Our community actively supports the newbies in game, with loots, advices and parties. We do not run any interviews. and new arrival do nor require references, but there will be a probationary period (1-2weeks newcomer rank).

We offer

Like every gaming community, fun and companionship stay at its foundation. We try to create all sort of events, we level our alts too but we also desire to focus our activity on
- daily WvW
- daily CoF and weekly dungeon speed runs
- weekly jumping puzzles and swim parties

We also try to raise a SPvP team, but that’s another story.

Our secret location

Server : Seafarer’s Rest (EU)
Website / forum http://mash-sanctuary.com
Timestamp 17-22 GMT as daily peak activity
Ingame : Beat Q/Adria the Ori or any member for invite

Rules

Usually here is a 3 pages text wall that only the author reads it, so I`ll keep it short We do and will not tolerate :
- rudeness
- bad jokes
- asking for material help

Breaking these or the common good sense rules will bring bad karma/chi upon you and loose the Kodan status.

If all of these sounds like a joke to you, well we are deadly serious when we play and we always win !

Have Fun !

Last change : 6 jan 2013

No, it doesn’t work like in other games, had 0 deaths with random professions, last one was a random run with 2 necros, 2 eng (one was me) and 1 warrior, few deaths in party but no wipe and me not killed.

Amen.2630:

So now this is the trend,
Even i myself only invite people to party with me for dungeons only if they are at least lvl 70+

its easy cake:
get 1 memser with speed buff for whole party so bosses dont take forever,
get 1 necromancer with they minions they are some nice distractions,
get 1 thief to rez everyone
get 1 guardian to put up shields against projectils
get 1 good damage dealer (avoid engineers they just dont do enough damage, and eles are just too squishy)

it rocks, you die only 1-3 times and dont get eaten by mobs for like 40 times, i wish someone would have given me this advise earlier :P