Guild Wars 2

So after making mawdrey I decided to give her to my female sylvari since it suits her best in my opinion… looking at the Sab skins and certain Kodan skins made me realize… “want to practice with my mesmer” .. I just slapped on a swd/focus, and GS and left her as is.

Any play styles worth checking out in WvW or dungeon running?

I figure that glamour bombing isn’t a thing anymore I guess.

If the TP was an app……….

that’d be awesome

Kinda sad I missed out on the Quest line for that Wintersday. I hope an alternative comes out soon, or maybe an item that eats up dragonite.

btw, not sure if trolling lol.

BUMP

-game stuff
I started playing about a month or two after launch to join my friends since vanilla dioblow Tres was disappointing. My first character was a char warrior to get used to the mmo world . I later decided to make a female Engi because I wanted to stare at someone pleasant for hours on end (best choice evar, love the class). My ranger looks similar to me because I’m awesome like that. My ele is basically my dress up barbie doll (incidentally I like the play mechanics too).

IRL stuff
I like long walks on the beach. I lived in Illinois for a while, which made me miss California so much more when I got back. (no I won’t tell you where I am now.)
I used to surf alot, now I just live on a ship (no I won’t tell you why).
I’d have many side jobs growing up In life. Some examples include photography, modeling, and singing in public (yes I’ll sing for you). I was young and crazy back then, now I’m training to get that flat stomach again (definitely have a pillow in my belly).
Never finished college, but now at least I’m close to an AA degree in electrical engineering. I loved building computers, so IT stuff is a close second.

Love my family and adore my friends (both IRL and online). Love the night life. I lack sleep (4 hour sleeping days, and crash sundays). I’m single….. for a very good reason…. high standards :p..

back to game stuff

On Sea of Sorrows. My inactive guild is <SAO> Sword Art Online Kings. I spend my rare time off to do daily Spvp, hunt a world boss or too, and grind a dungeon or fractal if I have time to do so. I’m not the GL of my guild, but I’m a co-founder and plan to develop that sexy guild hall when HOT comes out.

TL; DR “Game awesome- Glad I came back, twas rewarded”

Now to carry on:

Now since I’m done with the initial glorious celebration of my return to the game and forum lurking (go team Engi). I decided to live a little and get my gambling urges scratched.

Mystic toileting a lot of the dungeon weapons AND armor netted me some awesome returns! The collections rewards thing is amazing which prompted me to also start nabbing the champ exos for the karmic converter for MF.
A freaking ZAP plopped out! I was screaming my face off in excitement! Not to mention a few armor pieces with expensive runes came out also (travelers, divinity, etc). My 9999 hours spent since playing finally felt justified! Thank you RNG and good luck those still looking.

I started Spvping more each day to brush the rust off these hands and now I’m close to getting that Balthazar Backpiece!

Eventually my Ele and Mes will return to WvW for SoS servers.

The mawdrey back piece Adventure was excellent. I enjoyed seeing old places and becoming very relevant to do. I missed Vexa’s lab, and Diere’s steppe.

ANET did a good job pulling me back in the groove. Now to revive my Guild.

New stats equals new experimenting you know

run on sentence

duel pistol rotation: 2, 5, 3. lala.

I can always go ape crap crazy with the stats after I make my cele armor. Zerker everything else is already on my War :p.

I just figured duel wielding pistols might be a thing again lol. One can dream. That was my beginning type of play back at launch.

Interesting I suppose. I was considering making a sinister ascended pistol or 2 to play around with. Granted with Hot coming up I could just be safe and finish my celestial gear with travelers.

As a returning player I’m glad to say I’m back! (Hot and mawdrey helped with that aspect)

anyways I noticed the new Stat combo and wonder if it has any viable use.

wvw, spvp, or Pve: Gimme the skinny.

What? No more undead slayers in the orr shores? Key farmers be kitten ed. Go karma train with your server already. Xoxoxo

As I grow my time grows scarce. I adore this game because of the social aspects. I’m referring to my guilds. I’m a proud guild officer of (sao) and guest member of (rx) and (sel) from the sos server .. what up!… Anyways, this game is pretty much my alternate social hub tool nowadays. I would like spruce it up in some way. I know we have a “guild page” where the permitted players can post messages and we have a “guild chat” to communicate with each other. It would be nice if we officers and guild leaders can build a “home” for our members. I want message boards, rooms, “dojos”, meetups, etc.etc. I want the “space” for it all. Alot of guilds already maxed out their influence and tiers for missions and pve/wvw buffs. We need another outlet. I know some people out there would agree we need this…. or not.. what you think?

Anyways, happy pk-ing in the wvw tourney. I’m looking forward to helping my server when I can and then switching to spvp … otherwise it’s administrative work for the guild.

Since I’m upgrading the Spinal back piece from exotic to ascended I want the stats to be at the best I can put them in..

Sure I can choose Beserker stats, but what about celestial or soldier’s?

This is a generic frost spirit/Spotter build that I use in WvW and world boss events

(also my next character to get 100% map completion since he got all the WvW points!)

Just a thought: What if the new stat that will replace critical damage also deal an “upgraded” condition burst damage or faster/more “ticks?”

It will help people that want to try hybrid damage builds and possible be a good way to compensate from the overall direct damage nerf.

Anyone else have any thoughts about the new stat?

…..I miss kit refinement too!!!

Still love my awesome Engi. Unfinished class is a good thing btw. That means they will always get some sort of wacky buff change for a trait/skill.

I think Elite supplies should drop more turrets and OVERCHARGE on arrival. That and make Mortar work on its own (my suggestion / opinion :P)

You happy now? It was alllllll a lie. It was a bug.

“The only good bug, is a DEAD bug” -some guy in a Starship troopers Commercial

Now start selling your quartz again :P

Hi fellow rangers! (granted I also heart by engi and Ele)

I decided to play around with some new skills and traits which are Frost, Storm, and water spirits. I also picked up Spotter and the trait that moves the spirits move.

30/20/0/20/0 (if I recall)

I don’t have a complete build mindset yet (alittle more leaning to WvW, world boss runs, and general open world content), but I have noticed how much more effective my character is now in groups…actually TONS better.

So far I’m also using a LB/Swd warhorn with a SB/GS stashed in the inventory.

any ideas to tweak this particular direction of the ranger to perfection?

Phineas Poe.3018:

I run Celestial + Traveler when WvW roaming and completing open world PvE. Perfectly suitable. And with Giver’s weapons, Koi Cake, and 30 Explosives, you can still reach 100% Condition Duration for WvW.

I would run Berserker in dungeons, though.

Oh wow … I never thought about running celestial with the Engi in WvW.. I already have an exotic Giver’s Shield and a Carrion Ascended gun in the making for weapons. I’m thinking more of a mixture of helmet and gloves for celestial and the rest either rabid or rampager with Traveler’s runes.

Xyonon.3987:

The mortar would be a great elite if it would autocast it’s 1-5 (whilte beeing mobile with you like Witaminka said) if you cast 1-5. Or simply – even if it just would use 1 whenever you use a skill for 30 sec? I mean god fix this elite already.

^ this ^

-Autocasting
-Synergy with turret traits
-allowed to crit.
-Explode (doing a blast finisher and launch effect) when destroyed

= awesome elite.

imho

(Bump for Glint’s sake)
We WILL keep graciously suggesting these suggestions until something is done.

-fix/tweak turrets
-properly scale kit dmg to include ascended weapons
-fix/tweak mortar
-Less gimmicky – more competitive changes to traits and skills

-Hobo Sacks- ANY of the suggestions toward sacks will be greatly appreciated and loved…… like “Throwing money at your sexy faces” type of love.

You tricked me! I thought you meant just grenades. Bomb kits work better in dungeons.

um…. Flamethrower works great on the Fractal Grawl Boss!

and duel-wielding pistols looks awesome all the time.

I do just in fine in WvW and Spvp. Its a highly competitive game :P

Engis need to play their strengths and drill it to the ground. Strategic planting of a fire bomb and B’O’B saves me ALL the time.

Grenades are better used for burst damage up close (like Grenade Barrage) to lessen the chance of them evading it. Try to focus on rooting or crippling enemies first before unloading on them. Glue shot, net shot, net turret…. other CC moves helps alot!

Writetyper.1985:

Definitely, if we have an ascended weapon in our hands then kits should scale to ascended damage too.

Also you want to be careful with buffing things related to condi engineer. It’s already VERY strong. Opening up alternate builds is good and you’re probably safe messing around in firearms GMs (considering it locks you out of Grenadier) but any improvements to stuff in explosives or straight weapon skills and we’re going to have one hell of a godlike class.

The engineer players deserve a god-like class. The Engineer players deserve it.

To my current understanding, The Dmg that our kits do is scale to Exotic lvl right? Wouldn’t it be fair to scale it higher “IF” an ascended weapon or a legendary is equipped?

Every other class have their cute little claim about what they can do best. That is just fine with me. I have so much fun with Katerina Chiara (my elegantly named Engi).
I can support the WvW zerg with my fire-water fields, CC, and long range condition spamming. Roaming is fun too for ruins and camp capturing.
I can pull my own weight just fine in dungeons using many different types of play styles (player-skill needed :P).

I believe this class has SO MUCH adaptability even with the plague of a few bugs and weak areas that the Engi will surely be improved in-time (FASTER if someone can bribe the Devs to tweak the turrets, support kits, and scale weapon dmg to all kits).

-Duel-wielding pistols is awesome. Make blow torch a knock-down move! :P
-Maybe adding additional condition duration per applied condition to modified ammo to make it a REAL GM trait?

Lets keep throwing those ideas in fellow Engis!

I’ve thrown this idea in another thread, but I’ll copy/paste it here to keep the ideas, feedback, and suggestions rolling.
::Re-working some moves to better fit and define the roles and usefulness of all kits::

Grenades for long distance condition spam and support:
Freeze grenade creates a 5 second ice field. (reduce to 1 grenade, 2 when traited)
Flash bomb a stun move and blast finisher (reduce to 1 grenade and increase CD)

Tool Belt Skill Grenade Barrage:
Throw ONE of Every type grenade to cause bleed, blind, chill, and poison. (launch 200)
Balanced by spreading the field placement the farther its thrown, and remove one “regular” grenade unless traited.

Flamethrower to be a mix of channeling condition pressure damage and CC:
Flame jet: cause burning on first and last tick.
Smoke Vent: stun move?
Toolbelt skill: Duration reduced to 6 seconds.. All attacks cause burning and blind

Elixir Gun could be improved by adding more effects to…
-fumigate: Also cause torment …. or chance to grant allies 1 stack of might and protection on condition cleanse.
-Elixir F: Also grant quickness besides swiftness

Toolkit:
Thwack: chance to cause knockdown on opponent with conditions (5% per condition).
Pry bar: chance to launch opponent with conditions (5% per condition)
Throw Wench: Cause knockdown

……Can’t be that crazy to think this aggressively?

This is GREATLY wanted by A LOT of people.

This would be a great opportunity for the Gem store too.

Have a guild hall that you can decorate with items gain from many different ways.
-Spvp gained rewards like a trophy.
-Holiday items bought with gems like mistletoe or Christmas trees. (You can also have a chance to screw with people by making it only show for a limited time or pay x-amount of gems to keep it up there longer)
-unlock merchants with merits and influence (but not with leveled tiers to help out smaller guilds)
-GvG can be possible in these areas if it is created in instances.

Captain Swag.5893:

I think that the Tool Kit should be less condition-based, and more power-favoring, as it is now. Engineers have a LOT of condition things as well, power needs some love too.

true true..

I’m just trying to keep some synergy to a crazy idea that Engineers can be just as dangerous as other melee class… If not for DPS, then for something that Engi’s are great at doing: Applying Control with Condition spamming.

…… also because people would consider Toolkit OP if those move changes “proc” so easily.

…..um… I’m not a fan of the grenade kit, but I LOVE the bomb kit (even before the range increase).

I believe certain moves in the kits should be tweaked in this way for these types of roles, in my opinion.

(here is your “nerf” applied with my idea)

Grenades for long distance condition spam and support:
Freeze grenade creates a 5 second ice field. (reduce to 1 grenade, 2 when traited)
Flash bomb a stun move and blast finisher (reduce to 1 grenade and increase CD)

Grenade Barrage:
Throw ONE of Every type grenade to cause bleed, blind, chill, and poison. (launch 200)
Balanced by spreading the field placement the farther its thrown, and remove one “regular” grenade unless traited.

Flamethrower to be a mix of channeling condition pressure damage and CC:
Flame jet: cause burning on first and last tick.
Smoke Vent: stun move?
Toolbelt skill: Duration reduced to 6 seconds.. All attacks cause burning and blind

EG could be improved by adding more effects to…
-fumigate: Also cause torment …. or chance to grant allies 1 stack of might and protection on condition cleanse.
-Elixir F: Also grant quickness besides swiftness

Toolkit:
Thwack: chance to cause knockdown on opponent with conditions (5% per condition).
Prybar: chance to launch opponent with conditions (5% per condition)
Throw Wench: Cause knockdown

……Can’t be that crazy to think this aggressively?

I think kessex hills might be semi-permanent to quell the questions of spores. I really like the new consumables. Its expensive to make, but it is a great way to burn bloodstone.
New cutting edge item buffs are great mat sinks for keeping ecto and crystalline dust valuable.

Frankly, I think the toolkit should do more damage since that is our “melee” option oriented kit.

I love the in-your-face option with the bomb kit, but toolkit SHOULD be dangerous up-close like a 15% chance of interruption or daze on 1# “thwack” or “whack”

maybe even make prybar a knockdown move?

Transmute could probably be tweaked more to 10%-30% with a 5 sec internal cooldown?

Mortar could be made useful if it had a passive “increased damage on structures” for WvWing :P

while we are throwing ideas around… how about changing one grenade move like flash grenade? Take away the damage by making it throw only one, increase the blind duration and internal cooldown, and make it a blast finisher?

Forget about Damage! Take Engineers down the deadliest CC class route!
……. balancing is hard work..

My lovely Katerina Chiara.

Katerina is often associated with the Greek word katharos, meaning “pure”
Chiara is an Italian baby name. In Italian the meaning of the name Chiara is: Light.

Pure Light!!

……… um… Go elegant if your Engi is a human female :P

like Valorie Story or Colette Whitt

Although my guild is Mainly PvE I’m interested in starting a sub-division for WvW season 1 achievements… Influence for ALL!

We are a multi-server based guild with Strong PvE elements with SoS being our home server. We also have Maguuma, Jade Quarry, and Dragonbrand branches which are ran by highly capable people.

Me alongside with a rag-tag group of friends within the guild just expanded to fit 500 people and I want to fill it with diverse people willing to group up and help defend the borderlands.

I want to personally support my guild through organized group efforts to help attain each others’ goals and still provide the strong support PvE aspect when we are on downtime.

As long as we represent the group we will grow as strong as the rest of people on our respective servers.

TeamSpeak and website info is available through the in-game guild page and will be utilized more as we grow.

AS always, Please msg, mail me in-game, or respond here for any questions.

I just posted a suggestion about the champ bags dropping an alternative reward when that NEW terrible RNG effect produces 0 money on a EXO-level champ bags. I just want loot. Everyone has different goals and different ways of gaining them.

What I DO dislike is the stealth nerfing. Seriously, We are more mature then that, but we are human (most of us anyway). Just let us know ahead of time or be UP-FRONT about it and we will understand (most of us anyway).

This is a wonderful game, just try to keep it that way.

In the words of Bill Joel I must say this:

Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you

fine.. take my money away…. balance it by increasing the chances for exo-level champ bags to drop T6 mats or more lower tier mats. Even the TINIEST bit more to justify the negative RNG effect that it sometimes drops ZERO money.

Reducing bloodstone dust is a welcomed change.
Reducing money drops hurts, but it’s understandable.

..maybe adding a chance to drop catalysts that the weapon vendors sell for refining metal in place for when Zero silver drops?

(Bump with more details)

Guild missions are held on Saturday (8pm PST).
Make-up missions are ran earlier in the week if enough requests are made.
Help us – help you.

Bump for Justice-

Once again please Msg or mail me in-game or the following people:

Remixed.7146 : Guild leader
PandorasBane.2319 or Chix : co-founder and Guild officer
——
Regular playing guildies in case we are not available:
Quix.6504
virulent.3475
Razandor.1320

Join Sword Art Online Kings [SAO] Today for SoS!

-All Guild missions: Bounty, Rush, Trek, Challenge, and Puzzle unlocked-
-All Guild Buffs (example MF boosts or Crafting crit.) available-
-All Guild banner boosters are kept fully stocked-
-Donated food, potion, and other shiny treasure collected in the guild trove available for contributing and trust worthy members.-
-Teamspeak3 and Forums are available-
-Guild Events like “Trivia” or “Human Dart” competitions are held at random times-
-Learning and Mentoring opportunities between skilled players and new players-
-We have girl members (and amazing humor)-

All casual, but active players are welcomed. Been around since launch. All game content is tackled by our inner core group of members and we branch out to the community with jumping puzzle assistance, guild events, Living Story, and always have great conversations game-related or not. Many of our veteran players are highly resourceful and can teach newer players with the game’s tougher content (when available and asked nicely).

100% Rep is not required, but highly preferred.

My main goal is having our members be able to keep up influence so the guild boost bonuses will stay constant and activated. Also, the more available members we have will increase our success rate for the higher tier guild missions like Challenge and Puzzle.

Msg me or our guild leader Remixed for any Questions or Requests.

Blast finisher on the Warhorn is one of the greatest changes for me!
The new changes are hilariously awesome!
I’ve BEEN happy with my ranger. I now am happier.

Although I need to craft or buy a Longbow now :P

Doesn’t your servers have the truce effect here? (no one attacks each other unless provoked?)