Warrior: More health (most in game), more direct dps. Better at ranged combat and easier access to CC skills. Also more of a straightforward fighter. He hits things or shoots things. The elite specialty (Berserker) also burns things. The warrior is easier to play.
Guardian: Least health of heavy classes. Depending on build, potentially EXTREMELY high burst dps. Also can focus on support and healing skills. Much more magic using class. While a warrior just hits things with his greatsword, the guardian can place magic marks on the ground to hurt foes, or hurl magical chains that drag foes to him with that same weapon. Not a lot of long range ability except for Dragonhunter Elite Specialty.
As far as simplicity- if you are focused on open world PVE, Warrior is a great choice. Guardians can do well, but their lower health makes them vulnerable to mistakes that a warrior would survive. If you are doing PvP or WvW, both classes get a lot more complicated.
All that said, if you just want a simple class to play, roll a Ranger instead. For basic PvE, there’s nothing easier to use.
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Are you running the 32 bit or 64 bit client? I ran into a similar issue with the 32 bit version. . I solved it by running the 64-bit client.
This is a HORRIBLE change that punishes just about everyone that plays WvW. There are MANY more situations where the fast decay hurts legit players than it punishes afkers. An issue I had BEFORE this change was accumulating participation if my world was doing well.
If I have to run 3-4 minutes across map to find something to kill, and then run another ANOTHER 2-3 minutes to the next target, and then YET ANOTHER 3-5 minutes to find something I can kill, the decay timer will take away ALL progress I make before I ever get a single reward.
If I’m running a 1+ hour raid, and take a brief break (5 min)to use the restroom and grab a snack, there goes MOST of my contribution.
If I’m losing contribution, I will most certainly no longer wait for roamers to catch up before capping an objective. Even a few seconds now could be too long.
Rally up the maps to recap a lost keep? Never again, it takes so long everyone will lose all their contribution.
All I can see this doing is encouraging bad behavior and discouraging WvW play. It certainly will drive away any casual players and discourage new players.
Alternately, pop the windows key off your keyboard. It’s what I’ve done with the past 3 keyboards I’ve owned. MOST desktop PC keyboards allow you to simply pop any key off with a flat screwdriver or a butter knife.
As I understand it, you get the loyalty bonus AFTER the third week. So NEXT week is when loyalty will start.
From the wiki: "Played on the same world for three or more weeks. " So week 1-3 you r qualify, week 4+ you get the reward.
WOW! A positive post! Incredible! I didn’t think they were allowed on this forum!
But seriously, 100% agree. The WvW update is awesome. As with all new things, there may need to be a few minor adjustments, but 99.999999999% of the update is good things!
Personally, I think the issue is less with the actual reward that high rank gives, and more with the relative reward high rank gives.
Let’s say I go out, solo 2 camps, defend a keep. and kill 4 dolyaks in 1 5-min period (yeah, that’s a lot, but do-able). I get 2 pips (silver) + whatever for score (let’s say 2 for average). A maximum rank player kills 1 dolyak and afks at spawn. He gets 7 pips + whatever for score. In other words, the most important factor for pips is not what you do, but how long you’ve been doing it. And THAT is what I find unfair.
A more fair system would not reduce the reward for high rank, but increase the reward for activity either directly (i.e. gain pips = to score value of objective) or by contribution level (i.e. +2 pips per contribution level over 3, which is minimum for any pips). That way players who are actually playing will get rewarded for their effort, vs being rewarded just for having a high rank.
Proof of heroics have a ‘consume all’ option.
Maybe proofs do, don’t have any in my inventory right now. Will double check next time I get a chest.
Badges DEFINATELY don’t. I’ve got 280 in my backpack right now, only options are “use” (which uses only 1 at a time) or “destroy”.
You have to individually click each and every Proof of Heroics or Badge of Honor you get in tiered rewards. They need to be like Luck, allowing you to Consume All to get the whole stack.
Yep, that is the WORST thing in this whole release. Everything else is great from where I’m standing.
1. Might applies only to attacks made and conditions inflicted while it is active.
2. If you have you options set to dodge on double tap, then using the dodge hotkey (usually V) will make you dodge directly BACKWARDS ONLY. If double tap is disabled, then V will make you dodge in whichever direction you are moving. Whether this is a disadvantage or not depends on what you are used to.
The event “Keep mercenaries from charging the lava with bloodstone magic” frequently stalls, with no mercenaries spawning. SOMETIMES it fixes itself after 15-30 minutes, other times the bug persists indefinitely. This prevents the following event, “Kill the bloodstone-charged lava wurm”, from occurring.
Revenant heralds can also get constant swiftness, and a properly traited Daredevil can use dodge to give himself near-constant swiftness.
Yeah, happened to me too. ALL guild commendation weapons are soulbound on acquire. I’d like them to be Account bound too, but not holding my breath.
Necro is a primarily offensive class with little to offer in terms of support or party healing. It does have a variety of viable builds incorporating either power or condition damage.
Revenant has a far fewer builds, due to the way it’s Legendary Stances determine all utility skills. Also, the Rev is almost always going to be a power build, condi is just not as strong. However, the Rev can fill a wider variety or rolls in a party. DPS? Boons? Healing? Yes, yes, and yes.
So. tl;dr: Necromancer has more build diversity, Revenant has more roll diversity.
XP Empowerment ? Really? The most worthless possible boost for endgame content? Karma Empowerment is 100x better. Balthazar as the big bad? REALLY felt contrived. Totally something pulled out of far left field just to be a “surprise”. Absolutely no story to back it up.
Plus, another hard to traverse map that makes it difficult to reach a boss fight before it’s over. IF you can figure out where the boss is in the first place! Which is also a comment on how quickly most bosses in the map melt to 4-5 players. Diving as a daily achievement? Also not cool.
I HATE the final section barrier mechanics. Once was annoying, twice was infuriating, and third time I saw a barrier I nearly ragequit. The targeting of the anomaly shot is HORRIBLE! It’s a gimic mechanic that should have been used ONCE at most. Making us do it 3x was just trolling the players.
Aside from that, great troll ANet! Letting me finish the story, only to DC me in the middle of the cutscene so I have to redo the whole episode all over again. You’ve gotten me and 3 of my guildmembers with the same DC troll, so cut it out and fix the instance!
In conclusion, this chapter of the LWS3 gets thumbs down from me. WAY too many severe negatives vs nothing really exceptional about the story.
I had completely finished Flashpoint, aside from watching the end cutscene. Then in the middle of it, I get disconnected and booted to character select. When I logged back in, I discovered I have to redo the entire last section all over again. Worse, on telling my guild about this, I find out the same thing happened to 3 of them. In 1 case, my guildy did the story twice in a row and had the DC at the same exact moment of the cutscene.
I’m going to assume the you (OP) are fairly new to the game. With that in mind, I recommend Warrior. I love Revenants, and I main a Rev. But getting a Rev to 80 and completing its Elite Spec is quite an unpleasant grind compared to the Warrior. Also, the Warrior has the highest potential health pool in the game, making it a lot more forgiving of mistakes than the Rev. And while the thief is great fun, it is a very fragile character compared to War or Rev.
All that being said, I would definitely recommend playing a Rev and a Thief at some point. Both classes are a LOT of fun once you understand and master the basic game mechanics. And the most important thing about GW2 (or any game) is that you have fun playing it!
When crafting a shaft for ascended scepter, I hit “Craft All” instead of just “Craft”, and wound up with 5 extra account-bound Spiritwood shafts.
“Am I doing it right?” is not the question you should ask. Instead, ask YOURSELF “Am I having fun?” If the answer is Yes, then keep doing it the way you are and ignore what others say. That being said, it sounds like you are doing fine in game.
Somewhere around 1200 g. Got incredibly lucky with a BLC drop. Previously hovered between 100-300.
While attempting to organize for Triple Trouble, it was discovered that there were 3 different map instances with exactly the same IP: 64.25.38.181. It was possible to taxi between the instances, but is confusing as heck.
The TTS guilds do VB night bosses every Thursday and Sunday after Reset. We usually get to T4 on the map, and we post squad in LFG.
The best bet is to check the official Wiki. If the item is used in a recipe, you will see it on the wiki page.
I add my voice to the plea. This rune would be AWESOME for PVE. Please add it to other game modes.
I love endless koda tonic, maybe tengu?
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
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Tengu is an achievable goal for a tonic, the animations exist. But what I WANT is a Quaggan tonic (actually, several to cover all the pretty colors that the ultimate race can have).
Severe lag showing up for me and all members of my guild online. DC for many of them. This smells like another DDOS attack to me.
Every Mon, Thurs, and Sat at 11 am Server Time (6 am EST), The TTS guild organizes to do Tequatl, Triple Trouble, and then Shatterer. If you are up that early/late, they welcome everyone that shows up. Just be sure to join in before TT is done, since they jump immediately from Bloodtide Coast to Blazeridge Steppe. I’ve been doing kitten with them every chance I get, and they’ve only failed to keep it grounded once.
Now, getting the Raven Mail Carrier again in the Wardrobe won’t award you a key. Weird. /shrug
The reason that the Raven Mail Carrier won’t give you keys is that it is not ACCOUNT bound. You can give/sell it to anyone you want, so you aren’t getting stuck with a useless account-bound item. The Raven Mail Carrier is SO common it’s virtually worthless on the TP, but since you CAN trade it, no free keys.
There already is something like this in food. Several foods reduce the duration of conditions applied to you. Shorter duration = less condition damage. Also, at least 2 Superior Rune sets do this (Hoelbrak and Melandru iirc).
It would be nice if there was an armor stat that did the same thing, and perhaps it will be added. If it’s not a new stat, I’d say that Healing would be the best stat to assign the roll of Condi mitigation. Toughness and Vitality are already desirable enough without additional benefit, as are pretty much all other stats. I hope that Condi mitigation is NOT assigned an entirely new stat if it is added at all.
The ring and the accessory are “unique” items, and you cannot wear 2 unique items with the same name regardless of stat choice. The only confirmed exception to this is if you infuse 1 of the rings, which causes the game to see it as a different ring.
Because Infused rings can drop from fractals, so you could wind up with 2 of the same type of Infused ring at the same time without buying/forging them.
I know that you can have 2 Ascended rings of the same name equipped if 1 of them is infused. However, is an Attuned ascended ring also counted as different than the normal ring or infused ring of the same name?
I.E. could I have a Ring of Red Death (Infused) and an Attuned Ring of Read Death (Infused) equipped at the same time?
Kinda strange, I’ve been using Rev in PVP forever, JUST noticed the nerf today.
As of the latest patch, the Facet of Light has a -2 upkeep instead of the -1 it previously had. This ONLY affects Revs in PVP. In PVE and WvW, the upkeep is still only -1.
This change has not been mentioned anywhere in the patch notes. Be sure to check all other professions for undocumented changes.
LONG time known issue, they share the same cooldown debuff.
Unbound magic and ore nodes do NOT reset at a fixed time. In fact, in some cases, they do not reset at all. However, the illusion that they reset is created when you get into a different instance of the map that has all the unbound magic and nodes in it.
To get the map to “reset”, you need to taxi into a different instance or use a different character.
Oh please, please, please, give me back Ricochet for my pistols!
While the guaranteed ToT bag is certainly annoying, what gets me is the “Every chest contains an item that will progress your account in some way”. That means I am almost guaranteed to get another Tome of Experience in every BLC. And I currently have over a thousand of the KITTEN things clogging my bank already. I’d rather get 2 ToT bags than 1 ToT bag and a ToE.
I’ve tried both Ember Bay and Bloodstone Fen, no credit
It’s not just you, and not just PvP. Both a friend and I were suddenly unable to move between maps, then were disconnected and unable to return to the game. We are both stuck at the character select screen.
Tough call. I’ve mained a Rev since HoT came out, and just started playing a DD. So right now, I’m having more fun with the DD since it’s new to me. But The Rev is my trusty fallback.
Fix please! Thanks!
It depends on what you do in PvE. Both classes are great fun. Both play very differently. Planning on doing raids? Rev is better choice. Want to solo a lot? Necro can melt hordes of enemies. It’s a hard choice to advise you on unless I know what your PvE goals are.
Alternately, do what I did. I have 2 revs and 2 necros (and 1 of each other class), and I play the Revs and Necros the most.
Darn it, there goes my hopes for a playable Quaggodan!
Legendary Armors, like Legendary Weapons, are prestige items with minimal mechanical benefit. They are cool, not powerful. If crafting them is similar to crafting weapons, they are meant to be a mark of achievement. Something to show off with a SLIGHT mechanical benefit that normal ascended gear lacks.
Going into the PvP lobby will let you test the Runes of the Scholar on golems there. However, since PvP zones remove all food/utility/boost benefits, it’s not useful to test foods.
The best way to complete this collection is to use the Maguma Waste reward track from PVP (and WvW iirc). There are several reasons to choose this way:
1. Chests are only available in small quantities for 20m per hour.
2. Drop rate is abysmal.
3. To get enough chests to get all the insects, you will need to spend TONS of geodes on Zephyrite lockpicks, and geodes take a TON of grinding to accumulate (hardest non-retired currency in the game to get).
4. On reward tracks, you are guaranteed a fossilized bug every time you complete the track, at the same time you will get geodes faster than farming them. And you will need the geodes to buy the recipes for ambrite weapons.
Check the wiki for data on the break bar. There is a lot of good info there that will help. Here is the page: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Slay_the_Shatterer
I feel your pain, happens to me often as well. Unfortunately, this is not a bug per se. Your dodge direction is determined by your character’s current facing, not your camera facing. As an example, your character is facing North and your camera is facing east, and you try to dodge forward. You want your character to move east. But since he is facing north, he goes north.
A “fix” to this is to tap the direction you want him to go before hitting dodge. This cause the character to turn in the proper direction before dodging. Obviously, this is hard to do in the heat of the moment.