Guild Wars 2

I’m from Brazil and my internet isn’t best, in total I didn’t get gold in 7 adventures (of the 15 available), but still I’m at 173 mastery and I have 13 points unspent, so you can still get enough points to unlock everything with 0 golds in the adventures.

EDIT: There are 160 available points for a total of 124 mastery, so not being able to get gold in adventures isn’t an excuse. Removing 14 from Raids and 15 from adventures you still have 7 extra points.

ubersoldat.1093:

Belzebu.3912:

Better trinkets and put runes in those armors will improve your damage by a good margin.

Also, the stats are all very defensive and in case of your ele just wrong, but still … the runes and trinkets alone will improve it.

What you are experiencing is not only players with better gear, they also have better builds and the synergy of the gear + build makes the damage WAY higher.

Any quick recommendations to my builds then?

I suggest checking the sub forum of each class for better builds, but you can check these links:
For meta builds: http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki
For more diverse builds: https://www.reddit.com/r/GuildWars2Builds

Better trinkets and put runes in those armors will improve your damage by a good margin.

Also, the stats are all very defensive and in case of your ele just wrong, but still … the runes and trinkets alone will improve it.

What you are experiencing is not only players with better gear, they also have better builds and the synergy of the gear + build makes the damage WAY higher.

You can’t.

Check the wiki for more info about pets: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pet

In GW2 all power builds are crit builds.

When you think in a power build you first try to reach 90~100% crit with buffs, you need to account the buffs because crit rate above 100% is useless.

With that said, currently staff daredevil or dagger/dagger thief and tempest are top tier DPS classes.

Fix it.

Guardians: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Post-a-Screenshot-of-your-Guardian

Warriors: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Lets-see-your-Warriors

Revenants: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/Let-s-see-your-Revenants

Other thing that this numbers doesn’t account for are cases like myself, I used to post a lot here in the forums but now I post more on reddit, my interest in the game is the same, my post volume is almost the same but in that graph I’m part of the people that “left”.

Have you seen a apparation? If so describe it.
Yes. Looks like the anomaly from the running man event but human sized.
I’ve seen it on Bloodstone Fen, Snowden Drifts and in a 3rd map but I can’t remember witch …

Have you completed the S3 Chapter 1 Living world?
Yes

Have you done events in Bloodstone Fen? If so, about how much.
Yes, a few times per day since release.

Have you raided?
Yes

Something being hard or not depends of the time too.

If you search old GW2 video you’ll see people complaining that AC explorable was impossible, in GW1 UW was considered too hard and punishing but now you can solo it with heroes, the devs can make a content that they think is so hard that they can’t beat it, later there will be people farming it.

Look at our raids, it was supposed to be hard for 10 players in full gear, now we see party of 4~5 players killing many bosses.

You need to make a PvP team (in the guild panel UI), add the members in that team and then enter the matches.

You select the nuhock lore to learn and then you just start to progress …

Click in the right bottom corner icon, a list of mastery lines will pop up and one of them is nuhock lore

Lalainnia.3598:

Half the ppl upset haven’t tried the changes I think like they see moa and go no one uses moa who cares. They should honestly try it along with the other fixes/updates to skills/pets warhorn actually does pretty sweet damage now on top of the vul application.

The moa change made them close to the usefulness of cats and drakes?

The WH buff made it better than axe oh for power builds?

For every dull buff rangers get many severe nerfs are made …

Linken.6345:

Well yes and no, is it one that you chose stats on before like book of yakkington or spinal blades?
And then yes you can if you havent infused it yet

Nope.
In those examples you aren’t changing stats, you are selecting the stat it will have.

Also, the OP asked specifically “like with armor and weapons”, so EW’s answer is 100% correct.

Engineer as you mentioned is a sure bet.
Elementalist and Necromancer are also very fit, since it involves the study of the elements or the death.
Ranger for an asura that is focused to the botanic or biology seems like a good option.

Just remember that asura is focused in the search of knowledge in general, not only build stuff, it can be knowledge in magic, war strategies, mechanics, and so on, even one of the leaders of the Vigil is an Asura (Warmaster Efut) so even a warrior can be a good fit for an asura.

3,249 hours since head start

mid~back usually, but I accept frontline suggestions

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

If the devs are unable to fix different kinds of Lv20 scrolls existing, they should quit their jobs. (Before anyone jumps at me, I’m saying they’re definitely capable of fixing it, otherwise they wouldn’t be working on the game) Same with plenty of other fixes.
It’s just a priority matter, and those things really have no high priority.
As for the boosters, they have different durations and whatnot, so it’s expected that those don’t stack.

Stuff that you think that is simple, may not be that easy to change.
Maybe retroactively change the ID of those items will make the track of how, when and who got those items desapear and that information may be used somewhere else and a cascade of issues and bugs happen because of that.

Resuming, just because you can doesn’t mean you should

Hi guys.

I have a set of exotic celestial armor in my engineer and I’d like to use her as WvW character but I don’t want to change the armor, I can change everything else and I have scrapper fully unlocked and access to pretty much any ascended weapon and trinkets.

My goal will be in zerg fights or maybe small groups, I’ll never roam alone.

Can you guys post or link me to a good build that attend me needs?

Thanks.

I used to do the daily PvP ones in the daily rooms (takes about 15 mins to do all 3~4 dailies) and I get the AP and the PvP tracks and now I also get 2g on top of that, it is working wonders for me.

Is using sword #2 on CD a DPS loss over Equilibrium? Because with glint’s upkeeps + sword #2 I can never be over 50% energy.

Agree, I finished the HoT story with all classes and it didn’t feel so bad, meanwhile the Personal Story … I did it 3 times and I’m not sure if I can do it anymore, and I play since the betas.

You need to use the dragon hunter line as your 3rd trait line.

My updated look

Yes.

The guild weapons are soul bound, so you need to buy with your crafter character, the result weapon is account bound, so you can give it to the character you want it.

I bought the sword on my warrior but the weaponsmith is my guardian, so I had to buy a 2nd one, craft and then pass it to my warrior.

The Guild Defender isn’t available?
That sucks, the only piece I wanted from the old PvP skins was the Guild Defender Shoulder piece … I hope that Anet finds a way to add those other skins.

Heraldusluminare.2946:

Side topic: Some people have trouble dodging the hurled rocks. …

There is a branch in a tree in the north part of the map where you can glide to and just stand there and do regular dodges when the rock comes into your direction.

People are really asking to receive less rewards?

I like the way it is now, and receive the rewards per character.

Anogy Infusion is what you are looking for.

I’m pretty sure that the taunt is cast by your pet in those cases, so cond duration won’t affect it.

You need to have above 50% until you truly reach 50%, at that point you reached your skill cap.

Joxer.6024:

On my Druid I can do more dps than on my reaper (full ascended) plus I bring a good knockback for seekers, back up heals for when GC team gets stupid and even some decent cc to help with BB with SB5.

You either doesn’t have your reaper properly geared or you know an amazing druid build that no one else figured out yet …

Anyway, in a pug group a cond druid will never have the healing to sustain the group, so they either run 2x cond/heal druids (even so the group needs to be good) or 1 full healer + 2 meta cond class (no space for a cond druid in that scenario).

Healix.5819:

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Naesjasper.1863:

what do you mean by don’t be an idiot while using it? Well I do lb 5 then 2 then swap to s/a am I doing it right? and about condi build? is it viper armor? Sb and axe/torch?

You are doing the correct LB rotation.
He meant doing things like using LB #4 and auto attacking in melee range.

Gemstones are only in armor and trinkets.

UnitedChaos.8364:

ANET confirmed ranger dps 1/5 elementalist.
Also, why is everyone putting every buff on, every condition on, and considering it a realistic test of dps? Yea, I know you run in groups most the times, but that’s not very realistic of your build’s capability.

Because they usually test for raids and there you usually have all those boons.

Ryou.2398:

Why are they not good in fractuals and open world? My ranger was doing great in open world when I played before?

Because other classes are better, and open world all it matter is have fast AoEs to tag as much as you can, I particularly like axe mh with fire sigil
You can do perfectly fine as ranger in any place, but in some you could be much better as other classes.

Druid is in a pretty good position for raids and PvP, fractals and open world not so much.
Ranger is still in a “meh” position, but today we heard great news about sword not rooting you anymore.
I have no idea about WvW

This is amazing!
And took only 3.5 years :P … but still, great news.

1) Kinda, Season 2 was never free, it was given for free if you logged during the 2 weeks after its release, after that it cost 200 gems

2) I think it is, the mission and story is nice, the luminous set and the trinket you can get from the achievements are pretty nice too.

3) If you don’t care about the armor and story you can skip to HoT story, but personally, I would get Season 2.

4) Technically HoT happens after season 2 but doesn’t count as season 3. Season 3 will be released later.

After reloads (map change, when you get out of the water, after you stow …) you always get to the top pet from your list, so change the order of them in your list.

Things I try to use, my real life last name (Bardy) or my internet ID (Belzebu) and also fit the game name conventions, here is my list:

Bardy Belzebuson – Male Norn (Fit all my criterias)
Valkiria Ravenkin – Female Norn (Fit Norn name convention)
Barddy – Male Asura (My last name and fit Asura name)
Oogah – Female Asura (Fit asura name, kinda of homage to Oola after a few tries)
Baridy – Male Sylvari (My last name and I remember that Barid is Bard is celtic, I just added the “y”, so fit the convention)
Bardyne – Female Sylvari (My last name)
Sir Belzebu – Male Human (My nick and also my GW1 main)
Raquel Bardy – Female Human (My last name)
Belz Ironsoul – Male Charr (My nick and also charr name convention)
Ahiru Darkwing – Male Tengu (Yes, I have a tengu name saved, it fits the name convention and it is a homage to Darkwing Duck )

Celtic Lady.3729:

Belzebu.3912:

events that are chained to the failure of previous events

They didn’t have to do this. It never made any sense and I have no idea how they could have ever come up with this, anyway. It was a mistake that was completely avoidable, unlike a lot of the other bugs.

They probably just overlooked that, I strongly doubt they intended to add a collection progression behind the failure on an event.
I imagine they have a list of all the events of the game and they searched one that fits the collection theme, but they didn’t check what was the requirement to trigger that.

As already mentioned, the weapons itself are no problem, those could be easily added, but the collections tied to the precursor and legendary are the tricky part.

You can see from those 3 new weapons all the issues of events that bugs and block the progression of he journey, events that are chained to the failure of previous events, balance of required items and the impact in the economy, all that seems to be a huge problem with the apparent spaghetti code of the game where if a change in one thing can and probably will break other thing that seemed to have no relation.

Business strategy and fairness are 2 totally different things.

Company offer a discount for the “veterans” would be fair for sure, but they know that the majority of the current players would buy the expansion no matter or what, so why offer an discount?

They only problem I saw was that they didn’t give any bonus at all to the veterans while new players would get the core game for free, they should have given the extra character slot before all the “fecal storm” :P , that way players would have the illusion of a fair trade.

I’m actually curious how it works.
How blind are you? What level of details can you see?

In PvP, you joined custom arena, unranked or ranked maches?

InPvE, how you joined the dungeon group and what you said to them about your condition?

I did the same, I bought the guild sword on my warrior (the one that will use the final weapon) but my guardian is the weaponsmith.
All I did was to buy it again on my guardian …

Exotic you need to craft, recipe you get in the Tarir vendor.
Ascended, amulet you can get doing all the HoT story achievements. The rest of the trinkets you can get from drop/vendor in raids.

This season I went from amber to ruby playing almost exclusively as Druid and I think I lost 2~3 matches.

Druid is great in PvP, I feel so bad that I can’t like it in PvE.

Gift of the competitor you get by finishing all the 4 “Year of Ascension” achievements.
The precursor you get by spending tickets that you get from crossing the PvP divisions.

That pretty much sums it all, really.

Open the achievement list and see what you need to do for the “Year of Ascension” and the tickets will come naturally from playing Ranked matches.