Guild Wars 2

Moonyeti.3296:

Clearly the GW2 player. The poor GW1 hero couldn’t even jump.

You can type /jump in guild wars 1 to make your hero jump

I’ve been trying to find a post on this topic but haven’t been able to find one. I won’t get too much into lore and speculation surrounding the two heros but class aside, who do you think is the more powerful hero between the GW1 and GW2 Player Character in terms of sheer physical prowess and even accolades/accomplishments.

For example, the GW1 player character killed a god (Abaddon), killed an army of mursaat, became ascended, defeated (but not killed) glint in the bonus of dragons lair mission, went to the underworld and killed a fallen god (Dhumn), defeated Balthazars rival and army in the fissue of woe, as well as killed an undead lich and shiro twice. He also defeated one of an elder dragons most powerful champions champion. While the GW1 Player character had heros and henchmen to accompany him, GW1 could be played solo without the use of heros of henchmen besides various missions and quests that required certain heros.

On the other hand, the GW2 Player character defeated 2 elder dragons, went up against a human god, killed scarlet, and was the commander of the greatest army (the pact) on Tyria. As said above I’m not getting into speculating whereas the commander will most likely defeat more elder dragons over his/her campaign. The commander has help from the pact as well as members of destintys edge and dragons watch which are comparable to the heros and henchman the GW1 Player character had but on a much larger scale.

What are your thoughts and options? Feel free to include lore and speculation in your answers as I barey scratched the surface of both Player characters accolades

Hawt take here. So in the OG GW1, Lazarus split himself into several aspects which he gave to several members of the broken up white mantle in order for him to survive the titans that were released on Tyria. In order for Lazarus to regain his true form, the host that held on to the aspect given by Lazarus had to die. Think of Harry Potter with the horcruxes. What if Caudecus WAS the final aspect. Once he was killed, the final aspect was released. Maybe Lazarus was able to be awoken using the other pieces, but it wasn’t his true, most powerful form. Caudecus could represent the aspect of power and greed which was absorbed into Lazarus after his death and ultimately corrupts Lazarus upon completing his final form.

So a few months ago when we got a free level 80 boost, I used it on my necro. After using the boost i got a full set of rabid armor, weapons and trinkets. Since using the boost, I’m currently using a different set of armor, weapons and trinkets so I put all my old ones in my bank. A few days ago while I was PvPing and dumping in some reward track stuff I noticed the entire set of armor, weapons and trinkets mysteriously disappeared. The only thing I could think of is I put a fractal exotic bag (the one that automatically stores exotic level items) in my bank earlier that day and it accidentally deleted those items. Has anyone else had this problem? I’ve sent in a bug report but have not heard a response yet.

Santa hat please! Else we all probably have to wait another 4 months to get one. And Marjory’s new outfit.

In one of that_shamans most recent Reddit threads, he posted several datamined images of upcoming weapons and back pieces. I’ll post the thread url below. The two weapons he shared were the envoy staff and storm bow skins as used in Guild Wars 1. These weapons are very nostalgic for any GW1 players so there is a lot to be excited about (minus the part where we probably have to pay with gems!)

Anyways, it made me think that maybe the weapons are also used by Kasmeer and Braham in living world season 3. Think about it, the gem store sold Rox’s bow and quiver, Kas’ staff, Braham’s mace and shield, Marjory’s axe and dagger. Since we still haven’t seen Kasmeer or Braham yet, and Marjory got a new look, maybe Braham and Kas did too. Since Braham is a guardian he could have become a dragon Hunter and use a long bow (storm bow) like Marjory became a reaper and used a great sword. Also Kasmeer could use the envoy staff as her new weapon. What are everyone’s thoughts?

https://m.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4wx10a/datamining_upcoming_features_from_the_august_9/?utm_source=mweb_redirect&compact=true

Recently, as small groups of destroyers have begun surfacing on the inside of the Dominion, some of the tengu have made tentative ventures into establishing contact with the outside world. After the defeat of Zhaitan, Izu Steelshrike mentioned that the death of an Elder Dragon may spark renewed tengu interest into joining the other races in their fight against the dragons. However, no such movement has been seen so far.

That was directly from the wiki

So now that we know Primordus is the next elder dragon this makes me excited for potential future races to progress in story. For anyone who played GW1 EotN specifically, we know that the dwarves used the Rite of the Great Dwarf to turn themselves into stone to prevent Primordus’ minions from reaching the surface and destroy Primordus’ champions. With the latest installment of the LW, I think it’s possible and plausible that we will see and interact with our old dwarven friends. If Ogden is still present and involved in the story, what is there to say other dwarves won’t be, especially now that Primordus is awoke.

A second possibility is the Tengu. Now I understand their stance is still one of isolation, BUT, with the defeat of not one but TWO Elder dragons might spark their interest and have them join the fight against Primordus. Since the tengu won’t really be influenced by Jormag, Kralk or the deep sea dragon due to geography, it would make the most sense that if the tengu are going to be involved, Primordus makes the most sense. It would be even more interesting if they became a playable race with the release of the next expansion pack (wink wink anet ). I understand there’s hundreds of lines of voice acting for male and female, personal story, armor, etc that goes with a new playable race but using past resources and how the Dominion of Winds could use some pretty awesome gliding mechanics I think it would be a great selling point for Anet now that legendaries are out. I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts. And yes, I know people want other playable races like Kodan and Largos but I’m talking about the latest LW3 and next xpac specifically

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but for those of us who have stacks of tomes of knowledge from pvp and wvw, it’s really annoying to have to double click and then accept that you want to use the tomes. I would love for a right click option to allow you to use “x” amount of tomes and just hit accept once. Almost like an exp scroll you get on your characters birthday that you can just auto level.

Thanks for the comment! And yeah I’m actually going for a Link cosplay hahaha. Wish I could attach my armor previews for it (I have a heavy and a medium set picked out) but I’m on my phone right now. Next month will be the half way mark till Christmas so I’ll try and be optimistic that anet will put it back up.

Does anyone know the last time the festive hat (Santa hat) was on the gem store? Is this item only on the gem store during Wintersday or is it in rotation as well? I’m hoping I don’t have to wait till next Christmas to get it.

Now that we know anet is capable of this, can we expect this or a similar item to become a gem store item in the future? Maybe just the instant boost to level 80 without the shared inventory slot and additional items you receive.

I would even be interested in a level 80 salvage tool. You buy a one time item for 800 gems and use it on a current level 80 to delete the character and give you a level 80 boost to use on another character. Maybe for 1000 gems they could include a better salvage tool that includes a feature to un-soul bound your equipment (weapons, armor, accessories) and transfer it to your new character or be able to sell or salvage. The equipment would be in the bag mailed to your account that also contains the level 80 boost.

My main reasoning for this would be those of us who regret the race we made and have no way of changing the race and probably will never be able to unless you started from scratch and leveled/used tomes. Feel free to leave any thoughts or comments.

Hey Everyone. I’m trying to put together a build/guide for DH mob tagging, specifically in Cursed Shore and Orr. Since the “guardian staff” build on metabattle is not the most up to date I thought we could use this thread to post some build ideas and suggestions.

After years of farming Orr and using the Magic lootstick, I really find a lot of benefit in adding traps as a utility. Events such as Plinx loot phase and Loana where you constantly have to cover multiple sides you can place your traps on one side and focus your 111111 on the other side while maximizing your tagging. Here’s the build I’m working on and feel free to give suggestions!

For the sake of the build we are assuming you are using full exotic armor/weapons/trinkets with no food/infusions/sharpening stones. The base stats will be around 2.5k attack, 54% chance to crit, 210% crit damage with accuracy sigils and flame legion runes. Scholar runes will bump up the crit damage.

Weapons:
Staff is going to be your go to tagging weapon. As for your switch, I use either GS or LB depending on the event.
Sigils-Fire and accuracy for staff (although unded slaying may be better than fire)
Force/Unded and accuracy for LB/GS

Armor:
All berserker with flame legion runes for better Burn synergy and 7% damage or scholar if you can maintain 90% health.

Traits:
Since the premise of the build is DH, my other 2 traits are Virtues and Radiance/Zeal. I really like the Virtues trait mainly for its passive AOE justice with Permeating wrath. Finally Radiance and Zeal both have their benefits. Zeal should be used with GS for the added synergy with zealous blade and the 7% damage from fiery wrath. Radiance, however, is an interesting choice. You get blind spam through justice is blinded and renew justice. Since you’re killing fast you’ll always have justice off CD. You also get fury from inner fire which Synergizes greatly with the flame legion runes and radiant fire. Radiant power gives you a flat 10% crit chance against burning foes so your base 54% + 20% from the fury is 74% + 10% from the trait puts you at about 85% for the majority of the time with supreme Justice from the a virtues trait since you only had to attack 3 times to get the passive burn.

The one biggest “flaw” if you will is spamming spear of Justice because you won’t get the passive burn effect which Synergizes with permeating wrath and supreme Justice. However, staff range is only 600 whereas spear of Justice is 1200. You also stack vuln and get a 10% damage bonus if you use spear of Justice on a mob which will recharge instantly with a kill so not only do you get extra range but you can also spam 1111 on staff for close mobs and spam F1 on mobs at a distance. Both work great together if used correctly. I know this isn’t a condi build so burning damage doesn’t mean much however aoe burn ticks can really help you maximize your mob tagging.

Dragon Hunter:
Piercing Light ( for lower CD and daze on traps)
Zealots Aggresion/Hunters determination
Big Game Hunter (Synergizes with Renewed Justice)

Virtues:
Unscathed Contender (nice to have extra dps)
Supreme Justice (3 hits to trigger instead of 5)
Permeating Wrath (AOE burning)

Radiance (the passive minor traits make this trait):
Inner fire (easy 8 seconds of fury)
Radiant fire (longer burning)
Amplified Wrath (increased burning damage)

Zeal is optional for GS and has nice dps boost with Symbols, fiery wrath and zealous blade.

Utility:
Signet of resolve
Procession of Blades
Test of Faith
Bane Signet
Elite: Feel my Wrath (more fury) or Dragons Maw

Hope you enjoyed the guide and please feel free to offer advice/provide math to make the build optimized. As said above this guide is mostly for Orr event farming/any other events where you are trying to maximize your tagging to get dat l00t!