Guild Wars 2

Kind of annoying when I have the 15% gathering buff with 2 minutes left on it, and it won’t let me get 30 minutes of 10% buff until it dissipates and then the banner disappears.. Not asking for every gathering buff to just be 10% (worst case scenario), or even all to be 15% (best case) but maybe let 15% buffs get refreshed by 10%s I don’t know.

Blarg, just… blarg.

Alright, thanks for the tips guys!

I’m trying to make a good WvW ele roaming build. I’m thinking about going with the typical x/x/x/6/6 build that seems fairly common with the evasive arcana and condition clears. I have heard that going full celestial is not a good idea since you just don’t put out enough damage, but if my weapons are berserker and so is my accessories/rings/back/amulet, is that enough power to make up the difference?

I am also thinking about runes and 6x runes of perplexity might be my style since thieves have been my bane when roaming and 5 stacks of confusion could at least make them back off for a bit.

I have heard about the fresh air build and looked into the traits that make it up, but I don’t get why it’s so great. Renewing air element on critical sounds decent, but not grandmaster level. It’s not like it renews all the skills in air too, does it? I’m not an experienced ele so that might be why I don’t get the practicality giving up either evasive arcana or some of the condition clears for it. This is just a bonus question, feel free to answer it or don’t. Feel free to answer either question or don’t, actually.

Thanks!

Well, I’ve been looking for information like this too lately. The best I can find at the moment is a site called metabattle.com where they have meta builds and for your particular inquiry (same as mine, actually) they have this:

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_D/D_Roamer

I would like some feedback from those here if this is a good build or not before I spend 3 weeks charging quartz to get the Celestial build that’s recommended.

Zaxares.5419:

Geodes can be traded for Clay Bricks, which are used to make Clay Pots. Clay Pots can be sold on the TP for upwards of 10g, so depending on how cheaply you can purchase the other ingredients, you can make quite a lot of money on those.

Thanks!

laokoko.7403:

Is it even worth it though?

There are ways to convert 20 geodes to 1 gold. So you are essentially trading in 1 gold to buy a key.

Unless you are collecting Umbrite weapon, I dont’ see the point on trading 1 gold for a chest.

I’ve been researching for a bit, but I can’t seem to find how you do this. Do you buy a bunch of recipes and throw them in the mystic forge or something? I’d love to find out since apparently this doesn’t rely on opening storm chests.

I have heard that thieves are probably one of the most excellent damage dealers, if a little made of glass, but that eles can actually surpass them with the right build and skills. I’ve been searching around this forum for damage dealing builds, but they seem more about defense and staying alive (still important) and I could not really confirm if they were the best damage dealing builds or not with my limited ele experience, or if they were based on old information.

Also, what sorts of skills should I be focusing on? I’m not that great of a player, so if such a build focuses on dodging at the right times or chaining your skills in just the right way, how best could I practice these?

Thanks!

Ayrilana.1396:

If it’s like all of the other armor boxes, which I’m 99% sure it is, you’ll only get one armor piece.

Bah… it almost seemed worth doing until now. I guess if you enjoy PvP this is a good reward to work on while doing what you’re going to do anyway.

Hmm, good point. I forgot about the Ambrite Sheets (pieces). A bit of research shows you get a lot of sand from doing the reward track. There’s a rare chance at getting raw ambrite from that which salvages into 1-3 pieces.

(back like, 20 minutes later)

I just did a spreadsheet of the rewards for the Maguuma track, assuming the data on the wiki is right, you should get 2650 silky sands, 210 geodes and 9 lockpicks. With 2650 silky sands and a 13.35% chance of 10 of those turning into a geode, 1.53% chance at a lockpick and 0.76% chance at a lump of raw ambrite, one “should” get an additional 35 geodes, 4 lockpicks and 2 lumps of raw ambrite. I think I did the math right. Perhaps the lockpicks, when used, can make up the difference for both ambrite and geodes?

For those curious about my spreadsheet, if any, here it is:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wJeP1CnPeqA9frflixi6sSjm7WwvVT6iEWWeN0AxTWo/edit?usp=sharing

I wasn’t sure where to put this, but since one of the primary ways of getting Ascended armor is… crafting it and that is my main alternative if this turns out to be too tedious or RNG then… yeah.

With the new Rare Collections achievements one can get a box of ascended armor (whole set, right? not just a single piece?) if one collects all of the Ambrite weapons. Each Ambrite Weapon doesn’t look too hard to procure the materials for, a fossilized insect, the tier 6 crafting components to make the weapon, and a Nomad’s Ori Inscription. At first it seems the hard part is the fossilized insects since those only come from Sandstorm chests (need zephyr lockpicks to open, need geodes to get lockpicks) or from scoring 40k sPvP rank points toward the Maguuma Wastes region rewards (but then you get to pick the fossil, it’s not random).

I’ve heard that the rate on the fossils is pretty different from person to person, some getting 2 out of 5 chests, some getting none out of 200, but I haven’t been able to find drop rate research.

My other issue is that the recipe itself for each weapon costs 400 geodes, and for 16 weapons, that’s 6,400 geodes, or about 25.5 stacks of them. That’s a LOT of geodes, guys!

I didn’t think this would be easy, since the reward is quite good (if you get the whole set, anyway, and even then you have to go all 6 pieces as the same stats). Is there an easier way of doing this? I’m going to get on and play some sPvP for a bit just to see how long 1k rank points would take me and extrapolate from there.

Mostly, I wanted to ask if this achievement to get Ascended Armor is even more tedious than I think it is, or if there is a much easier way, OR if one should just put all their effort into making gold and just buying the dang ascended armor materials and crafting it.

Your thoughts?

I noticed a lot of lower level stuff from gear to crafting components has gone down a lot lately. The only explanation I can think of (and that’s not really a lot, there are likely more possibilities) is the recent Chinese/Asia in general release, which would explain a bit in that since a lot of new players are in the lower level zones, earning those low tier crafting components it would drive the price down. This can’t be if the markets are not even connected, though.

So… I want to know, why do you think the prices of some lower ranked gear and components going down and do you know if all markets are connected (particularly North America, Europe, let’s not forget Australia and Asia)?

Leather rare (yellow) armor tends to still be around 30s though, so is there an ecto difference or is the smart money on breaking those down for ectos? Or maybe it’s that leather as a material is less valuable, thus it’s better to get Ori or Gossamer from other items?

Thanks for the response!

Particularly the one handed sword, but a few others have gone up quite a bit too. The usual price used to be 40-50 silver, but now it’s like… 70 silver, and I remember a time when all yellow weapons were about 30-35 silver.

Is there a much larger demand of precursors now or what?

The title used to say some rare (yellow) weapons, but the 45 character limit ate that, so don’t hate on me for generalizing falsely.

I just found some interesting sources that tell me how to play well-known tunes on the flute or lute (or others, but these interest me most). However, I have to wonder if there is any danger of getting banned for playing certain songs because they are copyrighted or something…

Anyone know?

I just got enough material to make a set of ascended armor and now I am wondering what stat set to go with. At first I was thinking berserker for pure damager, but then several months ago I started doing a backstab build, but doesn’t really require precision as much. Thus, I kinda liked Valkyries for +HP instead of +Precision.

Should I go with Berserkers? Valkyries? A mixture? Some other set?

I just want to know what would get me the most versatile use all around, but be particularly good at WvW.

Thanks!

I killed the troll when the game came out, and since I never looted the body (haha, I was so green back then…) the body didn’t disappear.

I came back during the assault and looted the body, so now it’s gone.

Sorry!

Title length too long, but I have just got enough resources to make a set of ascended, and I decided on Warrior. What stat set would be best for PvE content?

I was thinking Berserker, since it is the highest damage and I would like things to die fast. I will be doing fractals, dungeons… other sorts of hard PvE content.

What stat selection would be best? And if I were to mix and match, what mix should I go with? (My only problem with mixing is the fact that I’ll have to get multiple recipes which cost more laurels)

Thanks!

Hi! I’m looking for a Warrior build that maximizes (or nearly maximizes) effectiveness in PvE (things like Fractals, Dungeons… anything tough that PvE throws at us), but also does good in WvW (I’m guessing that the best PvE build may not work as effectively against players who can dodge and in general get out of the way rather than face tanking your entire 10 second death-burst).

I suppose what would have to remain static across all situations is the armor (I only want to make one set of ascended, it’s costing me my savings already…) and runes, but I suppose I would not mind having to change my traits with each transition from or to WvW, though if I can keep the points in the same trees and just change the majors, that would be great.

As mentioned above, I would like to know what stats I should aim for on armor… I’m no expert in the field of Warrior (or any field, actually), so what may be obvious about taking, say, healing power over toughness is not obvious to me.

Please and thank you in advance!

Actually, that’s another reason I made my topic but I forgot to post it:

I never played GW1 so if anyone who did could tell me if they saw or heard of foxes or even fox references, well, you’d be doing me a solid. It looks like SingerOfTheFall has already done that though.

Also, Thief Spear has an attack called “Nine Tailed Strike”… not EXPLICITLY related, but… it’s something?

As you may know, there is a trio-set of minis up for sale on the BL market. 500 gems gets you a beagle-looking puppy, a deerling, and an arctic Fox kit-

Wait, what? A fox?!

I haven’t seen foxes anywhere in this game up to date, not in the wild, not in people’s homes and not even really mentioned in any sort of side lore (you know, I am Greg Daniels of the Black Fox Squadron or something) so to me, this meant that maybe the cute little orange things didn’t exist in this universe.

But now there’s a mini-pet of one.

What does this mean?

Foxes will appear more in the future now that we have something of a model to go on?

Half-Life 3 confirmed?!

Lucky.9421:

Haha this reminds me of a GW1 inscription that had no effect and was not discovered for like 5 years(can’t remember which).

Use Skale venom.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Skale_Venom_

Sickness, flesh wounds, there is no ailment that can’t be cured by my krait oi… I mean skale venom.

“Oh c’mon, like that’s going to work on me.”

I made a level 1 Necromancer and boosted him to 20 with my experience scroll, but now he is not earning any exp from dailies (none whatsoever, but it should be 5% per category); not from recycler, daily activities, DKV, nothing. Is this a bug or is my character somehow loaded with “exp debt” to pay off from using the scroll?

For the record: I DO get exp from the daily chest, but my daily categories do not give me any exp. Also, my other characters DO earn exp from the daily categories, but they’re all 80s and it doesn’t feel as rewarding.

Thanks!

Good to know, I had no idea this happened. I usually just pay with one coin at a time. I know it’s an extra hassle and even makes it more likely I might get kicked out and lose my progess (if my computer randomly decides now is the best time to minimize the game to tell me about Java Update Checker, or I minimize it on purpose to check on something else), but still, I find it to be a better exchange rate.

10 continue coins once = 51 lives

1 continue coin 10 times = 60 lives.

Hiya! I was wondering if anyone was able to not only jump to rock in front of the chest in 1-1 Tribulation Mode, but also do it on the one run they’re allowed to with a key (because if you die in an unreachable place… no more key) and could tell me what the contents of the chest is. I’ve spent about 7 continue coins just on jumps to the rock in front of the chest (on top of a plateau, surrounded with spikes and two monkeys) and didn’t even make that. If it’s just the same contents (20 baubles?) as normal mode, then fine, I can let it go without me ever opening it. But if it’s something else… I don’t know.

Just wondering.

Yeah, sorry, it was just a frustration topic. I missed a big opportunity here and whatever. You can just ignore this topic, I just really wanted to say something. (also I’m not actually expecting anything of this)

But I was about to. It took me a while to make my way through the gauntlet up to him, and even beat Subject 7 last night. I was looking forward to making some money as I saw this to be my one shot at making “real money”. Everything else I tried wound up in miserable failure or only panned out just a bit of money. Flipping, world bosses, you name it.

I was about to farm this guy for 5 hours, which would net about 100g on average.

Please just send me 100g, Anet, I didn’t get my piece of this pie.

/frustrationtopic