Guild Wars 2

As a PvE player trying to enter into the WvW scene, I don’t have much experience with WvW myself. I, like many others, understand some basics, but I don’t want to stay mediocre. I want to feel powerful and helpful, but I feel like dead-weight in zergs, just being a tank and taking damage.

I will spare the details, but my build isn’t complete, so I’m not really asking about that. I’m mostly concerned about positioning, when to fall back, etcetc. I know corridors are something to be wary about, as an example, but what should I check for? I also feel intimidated by the red names piled, not to sound like a kitten, which makes me think the engage is unfavorable. Anyway, I digress, any way I can improve myself? Not necessarily on these things, but I kinda want to learn the ropes of WvW after retiring from PvE for awhile.

Thanks, I’ll look into getting soldier equips, since that seems to be the go-to. I’ll be editing this if I have any other questions.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-t;4R2lN0e4RL-60;9;4JJ-T-28-09;217C;9;8FW0-T6I

So, this is my build for PvE, and I drag it along for WvW. I don’t usually WvW, but lately I’ve felt like I’ve had nothing better to do on my Warrior, so I decided to try WvW. Zerker Might Support is too squishy, and I require to get up close for the full potential, so I’m looking for a tankier build, one much more suitable for zergs. I just put my build up there to see what you’re dealing with. I literally have no experience with WvW, I’m only ranked 17 to give you an estimate. I don’t know if a hammer tank build would be good, warhorn support, I have no clue. If anyone can give me a good zerg build for warrior, I would appreciate it. Sorry for the rushed post, and thank you.

Interesting. Thanks for the tips everyone. If anyone has any other tips, I’d most definitely love to hear them.

mtpelion.4562:

Delta.4697:

How much gph would I be getting at Orr? Is it worth spending MF Boosters for? Also, should I aim for max MF?

The GPH will depend on the loot you get. As you improve your Magic Find, your GPH will rise.

Definitely use your MF Boosters, and use a class that can tag a lot of mobs quickly.

Maxing MF is expensive. Get it to about 100%, then let it grow naturally via salvaging.

So should I buy ecto’s and salvage them and sell the dusts?

How much gph would I be getting at Orr? Is it worth spending MF Boosters for? Also, should I aim for max MF?

I heard that frostgorge is pretty good, but is Orr better? Also, I heard about farming black lion keys, but is it really worth my time? What can I convert into gold out of those?

Thanks for all your input everybody. I’ll try to rack up some cash via dungeons, but one thing I’m going to hate after completing all of this is the lack of rewards after every dungeon I do. Are there certain ones that give a lot of in-dungeon loot that I can repeat? Or are there other ways to make money? I’ll get to dungeoning straight away.

Thank you for your reply. But does that include Arah, and things like fractals? From what I’ve heard, those aren’t worth the effort. Also, does that include repeating things like CoF?
I don’t seem to get much out of dungeons, but I might be doing something wrong. If you could do you do a specific dungeon path? If you could elaborate, that would be great, thanks.

TL;DR at bottom of post

So, let me start off by saying this:
Mystic Toilet is too op.

So today, I looked around on the TP for items to flip, but there didn’t seem to have any flip-able items, or atleast ones that wouldn’t take years to buy and years to sell to make profit. (Note: I am only working with 10gold, so anything to flip over 2gold is out of the question, etc)

So a brilliant idea was mentioned by someone. To forge 4 rare minis into an exotic mini to make profit.
Now of course, there is a gamble to it. But with only 10 gold, I did it, considering I had nothing else to do.

After a flush, I got a mini worth 40 gold. Using that, I got a Jack-a-lop, which is worth 60 gold. I sold it. Now here is my mistake. I kept on trying for more. I should have known. RNG gods dont like me.

I flushed +50 gold on miniatures with no profit.
I should have known that stretching my abundance would kick me in the kitten.

So now I ended up with less than 5 gold. I currently have 6 gold in my account, which means I can’t even flip anything fast. I got a few tips from a very nice bunch of people. One of them told me to craft Damask bolts, but in order to get to 450 tailoring, I would need a ton of gold.. I also got tips for dungeoning, but dungeons only seem to give 3 gold per day.
Per. Day.

Maybe I’m overwhelmed on negativity, but I cant seem to find any way of making gold. I’m not usually so gold-thirsty, but after that 50gold loss, I feel quite hit. I even spent 800 gems trying to get it back. Mystic Toilet just ripped through it. I don’t even feel like playing anymore.

And yes, before someone with like 3k gold comes here and laughs at how I’m kittened off at losing about 100 gold in total to the point where I dont even feel like playing anymore, let me tell you that I felt like an absolute god with 100g, and without it, I feel stripped of power.

So I ask of you, how do you make money, and how much of it? I desperately need to make my money back to trade it for my sanity. I feel dirty loaning 10$ from my brother to have it thrown away in a toilet and flushed and to have such great luck thrown away.

And yes, I do know that playing the TP is possible. I just don’t seem to get anyone to buy my listed stuff, or sell me what I want to flip. I haven’t gotten any success. How do you do it?

TL;DR: I lost my cash, how can I make it back?