Guild Wars 2

That’s the thing, there is no ‘wheel’ for skills line there is for the regular skill stances.

I’m a long time player of the game. But this rev/herald setup is really confusing.

I’ve managed to buy the first skill, Infuse Light. But how to I buy the other skills? if I click the arrows over skill boxes 7,8,9,0 it only gives me the option to buy facet of darkness, facet of elements, and facet of strength. The build Im following doesnt use these.

It feels like there should be another bar in the skills section for Dragon Stance, so I can buy skills on that. I’ve got Dwarf, Demon, Centaur, and Assassin Training bars in the skills menu. So how do we buy skills for the Dragon stance?

I noticed on the build Brazil does, his specialisation picture is different than mine. He’s got a dragon face on his. On mine its shoulder armor piece.

So can anyone explain how we buy skills for the dragon stance?

My gf and I like to party up and in some maps we go wondering around. Usually I’d just be able to either look at the mini-map or the main map and see her blue dot.

But since HoT came out, with the changes to the guild dots thing, the party dots seem to disappear and re-appear randomly.

They don’t seem consistant anymore. Like, I’m in LA. I know she is here because her portrait is completed. Yet her blue party dot is no where to be seen on the map.

I noticed there were other threads about guild dot issues. But those threads were nearly a month old. Is this still a bug then?

I have 4 issues with HoT expansion.

1. The new map meta events can require too many players to complete. I think there is only allowed 150 people per map instance and this simply isn’t enough to actually complete the event. The 150 can include people who are just wondering around, doing the story or crafting. The map limit needs to be increased.

2. For Rangers, why lock some pets behind a 2 hour quest string? That quest is extra difficult because of the limited number of players allowed on the map instance.

3. The new maps themselves are confusing. The mini-map and main map are useless because they arent adapted to the multi-level maps, unlike regular maps like The Grove which is more adapted. Maybe this template can be used on the new maps. I spend most of my time trying to find a place, wondering around and having to kill the same mobs over and over just to survive.

4. The Mastery system. Why as this system got a 2-step lock situation going on. You earn mastery points quite easily. That’s not really the issue. But you have to grind exp all the time. This wouldn’t be a big issue if you could change what your researching and it allowed your current exp progress to swap over if you changed masteries part way through. Instead you’re having to start from 0 if you realise you started the wrong mastery. This can happen doing the story as it belated tells you what mastery you should be doing.

Overall, I think HoT is good. But could do with tweaking. Oh I haven’t even mentioned the revenant bugs in this post. But hopefully all these issues will be tweaked in the future.

On the dwarf legendary skills (skill 6,7,8,9, and maybe 0) are removed when going underwater. When I try and re-add the skills manually the ones I have are all X’ed out.

I luckily had opened up the assassin legendary skills, so I used F1 to change to that, and was able to manually add them to skills 6,7,8,9.

But it’s kind of odd that the default legendary skills can’t be used underwater.

I’m not sure if this is the same thing, but the original dwarf legends skills don’t work underwater at all. I had to change legends and manually select them to be used underwater. But its pretty bad that the default legend skills don’t work.

I think you can buy it via the website and give him the code. I got advised to do this by CS when I asked for my situation.

I went to wvw today to find the karma vendors.. But with the new map designs the vendors arent in their usual place.

Anyone know where they are?

There are 2 hearts in Wayfarer Foothills map that require the player to remove grawl symbols as part of these heart quests.

The problem is that the emblems don’t count towards the heart, even though they should.

I think the hearts are;

Fight the ice dragon’s corruption – and the emblem area is near the poi Heart of Corruption.

Disrupt Grawl worship – in the nearby cave.

Both these hearts have other ways to get exp, so I suspect not many (if any) have reported the problem. But it is strange how these emblems you can remove but don’t count to the heart.

Does anyone know the order that we’ll need the masteries for the story?

The way the story is setup I didn’t know that I had to train Exalted Acceptance until it finally said in the story. But from my training the previous mastery, and it asking me to pick another, I wasted half a bar on the uplifting mastery. I know it’ll be ok over all, but because the story is gated depending on mastery, I just wasted all that exp in the wrong one.

So does anyone have a list of the order of Masteries we need for the story?

Is it possible to de-select the current personal story quest (or other quests) so it will just focus on items that the player needs on the map?

When I’m completing the different maps its great at pointing out things I need on the map (saves me having to look up the locations via an external website). But as soon as a personal story becomes available, it is constantly directing me to that target location, which is annoying as when nearing the end of the map completion I want to carry it through.

So does anyone have any ideas how to change the direction focus?

Is there any support ticket system with arena net, or do we all just have to keep typing in the forum?

Well, I’ve made a revenant and have been leveling it up. I’m in Wayfarer Foothills. I’m now at half way through level 6. I just completed the heart: Honor the Spirit of Snow Leopard, and my skill 6, the health skill as disappeared. The box is empty and flashing yet it wont let me select the health skill.

Edit: Ok, it seems I’m not the only one. there is a reddit post with other people that had the same problem with the skill 6 healing disappearing. They only got it back when they got to level 11. Come on Arenanet, this is a bug.. why not fix it?
This reminds me of another issue a while back which I noticed the new patch notes mentions.. “Fixed an issue with Chronomancer and Reaper in which players could access utility skills before unlocking them.” .. Looks like its gone too much the other way!

Mine is slow too. Is this because the halloween patch is dropping at the same time??

They should have had the halloween patch drop 2 days ago in anticipation.

I liked most of the HoT beta experience. I like the characters and potential builds. But there was a couple of things I didn’t like.

1. I didn’t like the design of the map. I know it was to allow some glider action to go on. But I never really needed to use the glider. I never found a way up to the noble ledges area. Also though I didn’t want to learn updrafts I got stuck with them. I never saw any updrafts in the game. I’m assuming that they was somewhere. But I didn’t see them at all. Again, the map was poorly designed, and gliding seemed to have no benefit, as there was no direction. I don’t like jumping off the edge when I can’t see where I’m going.

2. The masteries. While I liked the concept of masteries I find the system very dated, especially in light of how the trait system was changed. This masteries system seems to be a throwback to the previous trait version, except worse in my opinion. It felt like you had to do two things to actually unlock only one thing. First you had to fill the exp bar up, and 2nd you had to actually earn a mastery point before you could unlock it. I also found that selecting which mastery point I was working towards to be confusing. I wanted to train the glider and the mushroom thing so I could jump on them. But after the glider one leveled, I thought I’d changed it to leveling the mushroom jumping one. Only to find later that it had kept leveling updrafts, which was useless to me. Overall I find the mastery section overly complicated, especially in light of the improvements made to other build pages. Also are masteries going to be refundable? Can we click to unlearn them and put them in different places like we can do with traits?

The only other bit I found a bit odd was that the beta mastery level was locked to only 2 masteries. I was unable to earn anymore. Or I couldn’t find them. I thought I’d saw a video on youtube were people were landing on them like vistas? Anyway, I couldnt find any and thought the map wasn’t that good at directing people were to go. I’ve never liked the jungle maps anyways. I thought the other maps silverwastes and dry top were better maps.

Also why was the progress we made on one character transfered to the other characters? On the first day the enemies I found to be tough if playing on my own, so exp would have been slow to get. But on the second day the enemy levels seem to have dropped (I know some complained about this) so exp was easier to come by. So the potential grind that I had feared on the first day had gone by the second. The problem with carrying over the progress of one character is that if you make a mistake on the masteries as I did, I’ve no way of resetting them, or trying out another character to pick again.

I’m not sure how to get to that place. I didn’t understand how to change the mastery point allocation so after gliding it kept on that section to upgrade to Updraft (Which I’ve still never actually see any updrifts – even though someone posted me a video the other day).

So can I get to noble ledges without using the mushrooms?

Thanks for the video. That was helpful.

Yea I was going to try and get the mushrooms one. But it seems that 2 mastery points are the max in this beta?

I’ve now got the updraft part with the 2nd mastery point. But I can’t see any.

I do have some of the graphic settings turned low so I dont get headaches when playing. I’m wondering if this as made them invisible.

Where are they? What do they look like?

I got in the beta for the first time today after purchasing the game a week ago. My gf and I went around to the different places and played with the revenant, as Norns.

I liked the charecter adapability, and that we can use lots of weapons and gear this time. I think some of the items do need some tweaks. But I’m sure that will come on patches.

The only thing that concerned me was these Masteries. The way the map is designed its difficult to actually get to the few events that are on the map, and I’ve found myself grinding to only get just over half way on the Mastery bar.

I get these Mastery points, I’ve got 2 available. But can’t use them to unlock anything with gliding. So my gliding is at 0/6).

Also these mushrooms bounce things. Apparently that needs to be unlocked too. But can’t be unlocked until gliding is unlocked.

So before I can unlock the mushroom things I have to have 2 levels of exp?

I hope that we’ll be able to get Masteries by doing ANY event in the game when it comes out fully. Because only getting them from the Beta map is very grindy.

I just wish there was more events to do.

What contributes to leveling gliding?

I’ve done the first section of the story and got a Mastery point, which unlocked gliding. It said I had 1 point available. Then when I beamed back to the map it give me another Mastery point, so now I have 2.

How do I spend it on the gliding basics? It’s still saying 0/6

Do I have to wait until I get 6 available before I can upgrade it?

Thanks mate. I wondered if that was the case.

I just upgraded to HoT today, and went to create a new character. I saw the Revenant in the professions screen. But its shaded out saying to upgrade to HoT to access it.

Am I supposed to be able to access it now, or is it locked until a closed beta happens and/or until HoT gets released?

I’m looking through my characters and I thought I’d try and level my thief up abit. Its the first time I’ve logged in on him since the patch update.

I’m looking for new builds for pve since the patch. But I’m struggling. There isn’t many people putting pve builds out there for the Thief.

Anyone recommend any builds I can play?

Thanks guys.

I found it. There was a point of interest square on top of it lol.

I’ve come back to focusing on GW2 again recently and I’m leveling my lev 21 necro. But I’ve noticed something odd.

There doesn’t seem to be hardly any trading post places. I’m stood in LA at the moment and there is none showing up on my map. There used to be a couple in the old LA. How come they aren’t showing up now?

Thanks for answering friend.

I’m in the UK and so far I’ve noticed Amazon UK only sell the standard version. Is there any news on if they plan selling the other versions?

Is it possible for me to buy my gf the HoT update, as well as buying the upgrade for myself?

I usually pay for gems and things like that for us both, so I’m wondering if I can buy 2 copies, one for me and one for her?

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance for any advice you guys give. I haven’t found this anywhere in the faqs so far.

It’s been a while since me and my girlfriend have played gw2.

We just logged in today and got our characters all updated stat-wise.

But I’ve noticed the friends window doesn’t show her as being online, even though she is stood right next to me.

Is this a bug that’s occured?

I think they should have let people spec up how they want. Also this new system is majorly lacking in explanation too.

The idea that you should have to go out and complete more skill points, well.. at level 53 with the wrong specs, the OP might have problems actually going to the more advanced level areas and be strong enough to get the skill points.

My gf and I logged in to the game yesterday and noticed that the trait system seems to be revamped as ‘Build’, with a new system for setting specialisations and all that. There also seemed to be a training screen too.

Though I haven’t had chance to play the game intensely in the last couple of weeks, I have kept an eye on developements. Though I’ve watched some videos about specialisation skills for some characters, I didn’t realise that the whole trait system would change like it is.

The new system isn’t as obvious as the old system. I suspect ANet have forfeited ease of use for a more adaptable system. I can see why they have done that. But I think they need some tutorials of how it all works.

So does anyone have any idea how this new system works? I’m not sure if you can post youtube links in the forum. But any good video would be great to see.

Thanks in advance friends.

Thanks!

I didn’t know that it was trait based. Yea, it is a bit odd that its not included in the base skill. But I can also see why they have it as a trait and not standard.

I’ve just started a new necro character. I do already have a level 80 but I wanted a second level 80 that I could experiment on.

I’ve been using a new build and one of the things I liked was that it uses Well of Suffering. I do use this on my current level 80 necro too.

But I’ve noticed that when using the Well of Suffering on my new necro, I press the skill key and it instantly does the aoe where I’m standing. On my high level necro I can move the target around and then click my mouse button and it’ll do the aoe where-ever I put it.

At first I thought I needed to change some setting in the options as I’ve heard there is one to select whether you want aoe to instantly act or delay until you manually target an area. But the wierd thing is, on my weapon skills I have 2 aoe’s there, and I can move the target around and put it where I want.

So have they changed the Well of Suffering to instantly act or is this a bug? Btw my girlfriend is also building her necro and we’re using the same build. The instant Well of Suffering acts like that too.

Hmm.. how can it be my client when all my other characters (and slots) work fine?

My necro is level 15. At level 13 slots 7, 8 and 9 opened. I can put skills in to those slots. But I can only change the skill in slot 7.

So if I want to change a skill I have in slots 8 or 9, I have to move it to slot 7 first (so the skills swap around), then change it via slot 7.

It looks like skill slot 8 or 9 have partially unlocked but not able to change them directly until as you say until I reach level 17 for slot 8, and 17(?) for slot 9.

They should have fully unlocked either at the correct level and not until.

To make matters more confusing my friend skills unlocked at the same time mine did, yet she can change all her skills, while mine seemed to be partically level locked.

For the record I currently have 6 level 80s already. I have made characters since the patch and never had this issue before.

Ok I was reading an old thread when still trying to figure out what is wrong.

It seems in order to change skills 8 and 9 I have to be level 24, and level 35.

This is weird because the skill slots 7, 8 and 9 unlock at level 13.

I did find it odd that I hit that level and suddenly not 1, but 3 slots became available. I was expecting the slots to open up one by one.

It looks like people arent supposed to have acess to skill slot 8 and 9 until later levels.

Though I have a friend also at the same level as me and she can swap skills 8 and 9 out easy.

I think this is a coding bug that hits some people and not others.

So if I hit level 24 and can then change the skills directly of slot 8, then its confirmed.

It seems a messed up way of doing things.

Well this morning it seems I can now swap skill 7 in and out, but skills 8 (Summon Bone Fiend) and 9 (Epidemic) can’t change.

I managed to get around it by moving skill 7 to skill 8 position. Then I was able to change Summon Bone Fiend when it was in slot 7. Then with Signet of Locust now in skill 8 position, I can swap it in and out. So I moved Epidemic in to skill 7 position and was able to swap that out too.

Once those 2 skills Summon Bone Fiend and Epidemic was swapped out, I can swap all the other skills in and out again.

It seems like a bug to be honest.

Thankfully I got around it.

P.S. sorry if thats a bit confusing lol.. I just read it back.

Ok I’ll take a screenshot when I next play.

I’ve had quite a few level 80s, including another necro.. but I was trying to make a necro so I can experiment with it more, just in case I mess something up lol

I used to swap out skills outside of combat a lot. That’s why this is weird. The little arrows are there. I click on it, select the other unused skill, and a click sound happens. But nothing changes.

Its strange.

I’ve bought the skill with skill points, and I have the skill slot open.. But I can’t change skills.

I can swap the skills already in a slot, but I can’t add another (that I’ve already bought).

The skill level rewards are more about unlocking the skill utility slot.

I have slots 6,7,8 and 9 open. I selected skills for each of them, and then wanted to change one of them with one I bought. But it won’t let me change any of the skills.

I did report it as a bug in the game. Is that the way to contact GM’s in Guild Wars 2, or is on here the best way?

I started a new necro recently and I’ve been slowly unlocking the skills I need for the build. I had to spend skill points to unlock the next tier of skills. One skill I bought was Summon Bone Fiend. I thought this would be useful until I got the skill I wanted, Signet of the Locust.

So when I unlocked the next tier and tried to change the skill I’ve found it won’t change it. I tried using another skill to change and that won’t work either. So I tried to change other skills and they are the same.

The only thing that works is I can move the skills around. But adding a new one won’t work.

I’ve never had this issue before.

Anyone know whats up?

Thanks.

Its a long time coming. I have quite a few level 80s wanting to complete it. I’ve only done it once with a group so far.

I was seeing in various forums and on youtube that the final personal story step would be scaled to suit the size of group doing it.

It was even suggested it could be solo’ed.

As this actually happened? As me and my gf went to try and do it and both got killed relatively easy. I noticed it was still asking for a party of 5, even though I’ve seen suggested it would be 1 to 5.

So hasnt the scaled personal story ending been scaled yet?

Ok, I’ve bought shovels, and I’ve got the keys. But where do I find the lost bandit chests?

I’ve never seen them.

Do I have to equip a shovel for them to show up?

I just realised you havent got to throw the boulder, but set it down. I did that and everything worked

I’ve been following guides on youtube about this.

I’ve got through the first gate and got to the part were you have to put stones on the 3 pressure pads.

No matter in what order I do them the second gate never opens.

I’ve noticed when I put the stone on the pressure point (the one near the second gate) a torch lights up next to it. Not sure if this is significant.

So anyone else struggling with this part, is it bugged, or am I doing something wrong?

I didn’t get one.. grr..

I think it would have been fairer to invite everyone from certain servers. Unless they have done that and arent telling people. If the servers are still split (which I believe they are) then that would have been the best way to do a stress test.

If you want to be playing the game while that file is downloading add the -StreamingClient on to the short cut.. i.e. “C:\Program Files\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -StreamingClient

My girlfriend and I are looking for a guild that is couples focused. While I’m in Europe and my partner is in the US, we both play on the North American Fort Aspenwood server.

We’re mainly play PvE content, with some casual WvW stuff.

We’d like to do guild missions and also some fractals/dungeons at some point.

Because of the time difference between us we only get to play in short bursts. When we’re online together we’re always logged in to the game and would help any other members.

At this moment we don’t have voice chat on the computer so it’s typing communication only for now.

We’re working to level all out charecters to level 80.

So if there are any couples based guilds out there we’d be interested in hearing from you.

I prefer to play with the golem and the wells. But I’ve been looking all over the net and I’ve not seen a good necro build that uses the flesh golem and wells post september patch.

Does anyone use a build like that, or as everyone got to the MM builds these days?

My partner is playing a norn elementalist at level 12. This is an alt character and we’re leveling her through wayfarer hills map. Things are going well until it comes to the skill points. None of them work!

She approaches the guy and can activate the conversation by pressing F. But the guy is talking like she’s already completed the skill point, when she hasn’t.

This as happened on all the skill points we’ve seen so far. On the last one when someone else started the skill point event, even though she helped, she didnt get credit for it.

So what’s happening?