Guild Wars 2

Worth noting you guys have a commander who trolls Queensdale champ train. Hawk Ice I believe. Acts like a complete kitten , trying to ruin the train for everyone C:

Clumsy.6257:

BlueDragoon.1632:

Would anyone like to tell me how people are getting 100% crit chance if it’s gimping yourself so badly? -_- Full zerker EVERYTHING exotic level, mind you, you only sit around 55% crit chance. You need nearly 3.6k precision to reach 100% crit chance.
I’m honestly starting to feel like everyone’s who’s mentioned having 100% crit chance are being unrealistic. 100% crit chance is ridiculous, unless you’re meaning with fury factored in, still you need 80% crit chance which STILL isn’t realistic.

sitting at base berserkers and glass build im at 61% crit chance, with signet of agility ( a signet you should almost always be using), im at 70%, with fury (easy to get 100% uptime with 1 warrior and 1 ele) im at 90%, since the majority of parties have a warrior in them, im sitting at a little over 100% due to banner of discipline and if i wanted to get really fancy i could invest in 25 stacks of perception putting me at around 115%,, very easy to get over 100% crit chance

Jesus. I’m sitting at 45% crit chance with my setup, up to about 54% with the signet of precision. I’ve switched out some zerker gear for PVT to counter my squishiness. Despite people swearing by full zerker I don’t feel it’s viable. Just too squishy and go down too often, I’m not perfect with dodging boss attacks and there’s just some moments you can get screwed entirely. I’d rather be able to live through those with the 17.6k hp I have. I haven’t sacrificed too much damage and I live much longer in comparison. I just don’t feel the scholar runes or divinity are the way to go, though. 10% damage doesn’t seem to justify it when I won’t have it that often. :\

Would anyone like to tell me how people are getting 100% crit chance if it’s gimping yourself so badly? -_- Full zerker EVERYTHING exotic level, mind you, you only sit around 55% crit chance. You need nearly 3.6k precision to reach 100% crit chance.
100% crit chance is ridiculous, unless you’re meaning with fury factored in, still you need 80% crit chance which STILL isn’t realistic.

Clumsy.6257:

ruby orbs give 20 power, 14 precision, 2% crit damage, meaning 6 = 120 power, 84 precision, and 12% crit damage
That being said, scholar runes are the superior choice, power > crit damage, and you should be at 100% crit chance without the extra precision, and yes you should absolutely be above 90% hp for the majority of every fight, if you cant do this you still need to improve but even without that 10% damage, scholar runes are still superior to ruby orbs

travelers runes are utter trash and shouldnt ever be used unless your class doesnt have access to a 25% movement signet or perma swiftness.

Exquisite ruby jewels give 25 power, 15 precision, 3% crit damage, though. So you lose off on only 15 power in exchange for the crit damage loss (Which is hard enough to get on its own) and the precision. And no, you shouldn’t be at 100% crit chance, even with fury. 55% is plenty and anymore is pretty much overkill.

Okay. I’m very confused at this point. Everything I’ve read thus far about thieves and rune sets the general consensus is either travelers, divinity, or scholar. I’m pretty confused at this point because the ONLY one to seem to be superior to running exquisite ruby jewels could be travelers for the 25% movement speed if you WvW.
With the ruby jewels you get 150 power, 18% crit damage, and 90 precision. From what I understand crit damage is very important to your damage potential, so I’m confused about the selection of scholar and divinity. Scholars will net you 165 power, 8% crit damage, and the 10% damage increase above 90% health. You can’t honestly expect to stay above 90% health the entire dungeon or even boss fights regularly, so the 10% damage bonus is sort of very situational and can’t be expected to be maintained during the boss fight. You lose 10% crit damage and 90 precision for a gain of 15 power and a situational 6 rune set.

Now looking at divinity runes you lose 6% crit damage, 90 power, and 30 precision in exchange for the rest of the other stats (vitality, toughness, healing power, etc) and let’s face it That extra 60 vitality, toughness, or healing power isn’t going to give you as much bang for your buck as the crit damage loss, power, and precision. Now after ALL of this it seems like the ruby jewel is much superior to me, but factor in the fact divinity runes are 10 gold a pop and scholar runes are about 3 gold a pop whereas the ruby jewels are only 70 silver or so for the exotic ones.

Are there any reasons I’m missing for the divinity choice or scholar choice over the exquisite ruby jewels? Or do people just.. Well think the 10% damage for scholar is worth it and the minor stat increase in divinity is negligible for what you’re giving up?

I’ve figured out the issue is teamspeak related. The communications tab in sound already has been changed so it doesn’t lower volume and there’s no plugin in TS that I can see that does anything with volume.

Still no fix. The sound doesn’t seem to be present when I used speakers instead, though.

I’m pretty sure it’s only Guild Wars 2 at this point. The sound even cuts out entirely occasionally. In Dxdiag and the device manager it says both are speakers, though I’m using a headset currently. Could that be the issue?

I’ve just come back to Guild Wars 2 and have a brand new desktop running Windows 8.
I started Guild Wars 2 up and started playing once I got it all installed, etc. Once I started it became apparent of a bug with my sound. The sound fluctuates between normal volume to low. It almost sounds like it’s trying to do surround sound with All sounds, spell effects, game music, etc. If you’ve ever heard someone in TS and their GW2 sound comes through, it’s nearly identical. I do have a sort of expensive keyboard that I’ve plugged into the sound slots in the back (mic and headphone jack), then I plug my headset into the keyboard, it might have something to do with it, I’m not sure. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Still no luck sadly. Been messing around with my build a bit and can’t quite find anything that works.

I’ve recently gotten level 80 and I’m looking into starting to do more PvE oriented things. I’ve leveled up purely with WvW and some exploration. I’ve done AC about two or three times now along with CM. I’m still learning quite a bit about them ankittenrying to decide on my build. I’m not sure how well Condition Damage would do in a dungeon, considering I’m running a WvW oriented build focused on shattering.
I’m open to anything that will work well, rather it’s Staff+ Whatever else, or a GS. I’ve heard suggestions of going staff+GS but I’m not sure. I’d just like some advice on getting started and what gear to look for.
Currently it’s power/prescion/crit damage gear, so I believe I’ll need to look into more gear. I’m not sure if I’ll need survivability or not either. Any advice you can offer or links to an in-depth guide on it would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

I’m having some trouble with my choice of weapons and doing PvE in general. I feel next to useless just running around the zone doing my best to level. I have an ele friend I do most things with and it seems I can’t even compare to her damage. I ran a Staff/Sword+Focus build that focused on condition damage. It seemed slow, even on veteran/champion mobs she was doing more even after I set up.
It might of been my build considering it was 10 in power, 20 in chaos, and 20 in illusion but I’m not sure. I didn’t think it was worth sacrificing any points to just get bleed on my illusions crits, but maybe I was wrong. If that’s the case, please offer some advice.

I tried switching to GS also with 20 in dueling, 20 in domination, 5 in chaos, and 5 in illusion. It still seems sorta lack luster. I’m 60 now and I’ll be buying the last skill book shortly. I just wanted some advice on a decent build where I’ll get decent results. It seemed to take even Longer to kill mobs with my GS that my staff, which is fairly depressing.
I’m not sure what the problem is, but I’d love some help.