Guild Wars 2

thank you for your explanations.
I’m trying to join the EU team but we are not enough for now.

Were you close to start phase 2? Was the boss life decreasing fast?

FYI, here is my condi build, it is as efficient as engi

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAV4YnMJC1NhFNBONB8PhjWiyXGtRKyX0joI0BQXsAA-TByBQBdRpi0UWBgLCQjUCusnAoRgZ6Cem6PGc/BSBooyK-e

Of course venoms sharing is mandatory +33% damage via poison and condi duration makes 10-12k/seconds for 20sec every 32second (ignoring the direct damages, only poison)
Torment, bleeding are very low compared to poison so spam 1 dagger allows +15%
damages if you don’t spend any initiative (see trait).

Sinister stuff allows direct damages to be quite nice even if focusing on the condi role.
The pet trap is also a nice trick, it synchronizes well with the venom CD.

2 thieves + their 2 pets with shared poison makes most of the work for phase 2 & 4.
My mate and I handle phase 2 in 50 sec. Compared to 3 engi doing it in 40s, it’s not that bad.

Basilik MUST have for stun requirement but 2 guys taking are enough.

Venom heal is mandatory, very nice sustain don’t forget we have no healer.

About the red orbs, use as much traps as possible, mainly needle and tripwire (+ needle on heal trait), with 10 thieves, there could be 10 traps and that will slow down the orbs. One thief specialized in “immo” could also take care of the red orbs

What time was your try? I could try to join you next time.

btw, we need to be perma fury which can be achieved using the “steal” trait, so prefer thrill of the crime, it will also give you an extra stack of might (which is 5 stack if all thieves take it).

Vuln is mostly done using the torment venom (thanks condi thieves)

all DPS must have signets for power and accuracy boost, then everybody taking heal and another venom + shared venom to proc might and sustain would be nice

here is my build as condi
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAV4YnMJC1NhFNBONB8PhjWiyXGtRKyX0joI0BQXsAA-TByBQBdRpi0UWBgLCQjUCusnAoRgZ6Cem6PGc/BSBooyK-e

Of course venoms sharing is mandatory +33% damage via poison and condi duration makes 12k/seconds for 20sec every 32second (ignoring the direct damages, only poison)
Torment, bleeding are very low compared to poison so spam 1 dagger allows +15% damages if you don’t spend any initiative (see trait).

Sinister stuff allows direct damages to be quite nice even if focusing on the condi role.

The pet trap is also a nice trick, it synchronizes well with the venom CD.
2 thieves + their 2 pets with shared poison makes most of the work for phase 2 & 4.

Basilik MUST have for stun requirement.

Venom heal is mandatory, very nice sustain don’t forget we have no healer.

Might on venoms = we don’t have revenant nor war to provide buff, it will nerf our composition we need to find ways to buff us.

Any idea when the EU try could happen? I need to organize myself.

Btw, don’t forget poison makes more damages than bleeding when enabling the +30% poison damage trait.

BlueDragon.7054:

DasPatAttack.2516:

Hi Rogues,
you can add me as Condi/Venom share on EU.

We did some tests here and note that 2 thieves condis might be be sufficient for phases 2/4 as soon as
- they can pop a mob to share venoms (the mob trap does the trick).
- there is an extra mate to get the venoms (the healer?)
-> that makes 5 people receive the venoms.

Character name is Steph La Dude.

Maybe it would be better to have 3-4 venom share thieves for the party might stacks, the 4th could be the tank.

Not false
I also think the lack of might can be an issue, we can also stack personal might using traps + trait or signet + trait, really depends what sacrifices we do at the build level.

Btw, 4 healing venoms + regular leeching venom is perfect for the healing part.

How would you handle the red balls? Regular move/dodge? Cause they can OS class canon.

Hi Rogues,
you can add me as Condi/Venom share on EU.

We did some tests here and note that 2 thieves condis might be be sufficient for phases 2/4 as soon as
- they can pop a mob to share venoms (the mob trap does the trick).
- there is an extra mate to get the venoms (the healer?)
→ that makes 5 people receive the venoms.

Character name is Steph La Dude.

same problem here, second attempt

code=7:11:3:191:101
note for developers that may help:
- one of my character cannot start playing at all
- another can do PVE, eternal battlefields
- 3rd can only do PVE
Unpredictable.

tons of problems this morning
able to go to eternal battlefield but not frontline maps.
Then not able to login anymore

same problem here

Hi,
I carefully double checked what the poison formula is supposed to do and I’m 99% poison is totally broken.
It’s doing much more damage than expected even with a low condi stat.

Did anybody notice that?

Of course we’ll never ask ANet to implement a brand new character with his own story, voice…

Could be anything:
- a vendor refactored with our friend’s armor and name
- a tombstone with his character name
- maybe the best way for everyone would be a way to customize a NPC in the new Guild Hall, that way every single guild could keep a missing friend with them.

Friends,
thanks for your support and kind words.

I’m Steph, co-gm of [Tz] Team Zaishen will never die.

Some more words about our brother who died, about us.
We used to be the biggest guild of our server, hundreds of members.
For many reasons I’m sure you may experience, the guild was disappearing in summer 2014.
We were only around 10 players left, roaming at 5-8.

Glace Cassis was one of us, a friend, so kind and always smiling.

Spring 2015, the guild was growing again, 80+ members and a really friendly spirit.
I was so proud of [Tz] I decided to design a funny video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1fYaiSJOg).

This video was published April 18th. Even if the texts are mostly in french, I’m sure you’ll feel our spirit, understand our history.

At 3:50 “Glace Cassis” is listed among the 9 players who rebuilt our guild.

He died April 24th, he was only 27.

What we are doing here is not for fun, not for playing, not a challenge, we are just lost and would love to meet him again somewhere in Tyria.

We won’t be angry if our request fails, we just “try” to keep him somehow alive in our virtual family home.

Peace,
Steph.

don’t forget one traits triggers heal as soon as you have 2 stacks of bleeding…. might help too.

Hi Messiah
I’ve been playing exclusively venom share thief for months now.
This is awesome support for dungeon, fractal, triple trouble event. 8 stacks of might (triggered by 4 venoms) is always appreciated. 16-20 stacks of Torment is just awesome.
I’m wondering if you manage to synchronize your effort with a necro and his epidemic skill against a bus ?
Let’s say party with 4 guys including a necro.
1- trigger 3 venoms (torment, poison, giver), I’d avoid basilic a this particular time and immo since it reduces the torment impact
2- confusion
3- necro should target the same enemy to notice the “confusion” stack -> trigger epidemic

Have you tried it against a bus?

By the way, I’m always amazed to read about “condi” build for pvp and WvW that doesn’t use at all venoms.
Condis is not only about bleeding, Torment and confusion ARE a nightmares and when you know your party can instant stack 20 torments, you quickly understand where the power is: collaborative play.

Good job, would love to join your party as a second venom thief, that would mean perma torment, poison, weakness, giver if we synchronize our efforts, 2 necro for epidemic and a guard and we’ll be terrific.

Cheers

so yes, pure gambling, its place is definitely in the first trait tiers, not master

anyway thanks for your explanations

Hi
Thief Trait VII (Improvisation) of Deadly Arts is supposed to recharge all skills of one type while stealing.
However it randomly picks one type among all types where it should grab one from types actually enabled by the character.
As a consequence, it often does NOTHING.
We are talking about a Master trait here, I can’t believe it is supposed to be so useless.

Kind regards

Ashley Segovia.8276:

For any of you getting this error code, could you please post your system specs (CPU, RAM, GPU, OS)? Also, does this happen when you just click the names of the dungeons or when you click to join a group?

In the meantime, I’d also advise sending in a support ticket as well.

Hi,
issue happens on 2 distinct computers (i5 + gtx770 + 16Go RAM , Xeon + integrated GPU + 12 GO RAM) so this is not at all hardware related.
Might be the OS, both of mine are running win7 64bits.
Way to reproduce as soon as many people are playing:
- open lfg tool
- choose ascalonian dungeon
-> you won’t even see the list of pending groups, it will crash.

note that this doesn’t happen during low activity hours.

note: I systematically sent the error report yesterday.

Fingolfin.7451:

EvanTeicheira.3962:

Additionally, it may be worth trying to add the -repair flag to your client shortcut and allowing it to check your .dat file for any errors. It may not address the problem, but only takes about 10 minutes to verify the integrity of your game data.

How to use the -repair parameter

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For Windows Users:

1. Make sure you create a shortcut to your Gw2.exe file. This can be placed anywhere on your computer.
2. Right-click the shortcut, and type " -repair" (without the quotes at the end of the Target line. It should look something like: C:\Games\Gw2Dev\Gw2Dev.exe -repair
3. Hit ‘OK’, and run the client. It should automatically check and repair any damaged files.
4. Remove the -repair flag once it has finished, then try running the client normally. If this does not solve the problem, be sure to provide as much information as possible in the crash window.

Worst-case scenario, we are aware of the issue and tracking a fix! Thank you again for the reports, and good hunting!

When i press “OK” i get this message “The name ‘path\Gw2.exe-repair’ specified in target box is not valid.Make sure the path and file name are correct.”
What should i do?

The name ‘path\Gw2.exe -repair
not
The name ’path\Gw2.exe-repair
there is a space
BUT it seems this doesn’t solve the problem

getting je same issue, always reproduced by
clicking lfg
choosing 1rst dungeon

Be aware that this also happens randomly while playing (not only related to lfg tool).
The recent update broke something, this is happening on 2 totally different computers at home.

hi guys,
thanks for sharing your API knowledge.
I was wondering how the karma cost and vendor cost can be found? I manage to get all the information using the official APIs and spidy APIs, but no way I can get these remaining informations.
Any idea would be appreciated.

thanks a lot, going to try that ASAP.

DarkSpirit.7046:

1. Obtain a higher privileged session key that has access to your account transactions, etc. :- You need to login with your GW2 client then obtain this session key either through fiddler or through other means (e.g. reading it off the GW2 client process memory or reading it off the GW2 browser cache).

Awesome job guys.
I’m actually interested in knowing how to pass the higher privileged session key to connect and get my personal ackitten info.
I manage to get this session id, I’ll find my way fining the well formed url to get my specific user account transaction details but I’m missing the way to connect to your services using the higher privileged session key.
Could you help?
Thanks a bunch.