Guild Wars 2

what about the pug unfairly matched vs premade guild?

when is next release?

Master of consecration should be baseline instead of consecrated ground.

Blasting staff became baseline because it was a “must have” on staff eles, same with necro wells.

However consecrated ground was not a “must have” for guardians that uses consecrations.

Also because a lot of guardians don’t use consecrated ground trait because it competes with good traits like absolute resolution, we are NOT USED to it. It feels wierd now to aim your mouse before using wall of reflection or purging flames. No matter how fast your reaction was, even .5 second delay because of aiming can make a big difference in some situations.

creepmatic.9435:

0/3/6/1/4 is my go to nowadays. Absolute resolution is very hard to pass by and Renewed Justice is a must for clearing camps fast.

As far as weapons go I pretty much value sword way more over scepter because it saved me a lot of times against for ex ranger LB burst and as for second wep swap, if i’m with a buddy ill def take hammer, if i’m solo ill probably get GS or Scepter torch depends.

P.S. Loosing Fiery wrath is worth it imo, I just get good food/stones and the burst is still strong with UC and Glacial Heart/Fury

hmm your build got my attention there, its true renewed justice is a must for fast camps and there are times i wish i had absolute resolution vs engi and immobilized lock double mesmer i might try that

can you explain to why would you get hammer with buddy bcoz i also roam often with my sister, and why sometime u go for torch over focus, etc. thanks in advance

yes its more on running camps but when i fight i mostly win, ofcourse i lose sometimes vs good good engi or warrior

im using an assassin like playstyle, so i can win outnumbered fights if i can kill the others fast enough to make it a 1v1 after.

i think ill get the damage although vigor is gonna help me on longer or outnumbered fights, but its to kill or be killed anyways

plus i wont be getting that vigor when the trait change comes i might as well get myself used to it

my build is full berserker traveler, gs(air,fire)+scepter/focus(energy,doom)
burst medi guardian for solo camp and roaming
i tried couple of traits like 2,1,6,1,4 and 0,6,6,1,1 but for my build im using 2,4,6,1,1 but 2,5,6,0,1 is also good for burst dps with the sacrifice of vigor. my question is which is more valuable to get? honor for vigor or radiance for 10% damage to conditioned foes?

well, i guess its goodbye gw2 for a while and ill see if hot will make my ingame friends back then ill come back also

Me and my sisters as of now are kinda tired of loging in nowadays, i dont see much of my guildmates anymore too, even if i want to do some dungeon the lfg takes a while to fill unlike what it used to do, there are many people at silverwaste but i always feel sleepy when im there idk, i dont really know what to do ingame now maybe i should take a break and comeback after expansion? but isnt that would make me feel left out once i came back? i love the game but its kinda sad the way it is now

fire got buffed
air got nerfbat
earth was nerfed
water got buffed
arcane got nerfbat

cantrip buffed traitwise
glyph still the same i use glyph of stoms btw
signets the same
conjures nerfbat mentioned
still no good elites besides sylvary racial

im not using elemental attunement in my staff dungeon build i use it on my second ele that was backline ele build, yeah i love ele that much that i made a second one

sorry if im jumping into conclusion or something and i know those changes are not final but this is what i feel after knowing those changes(?)

im a staff ele pve btw which mean the only trait ill care in air is bolt of the heart and tempest defense adept choices are pretty much meh, tempest defence got indirect nerf? i dont know if you can still deep freeze a boss or if it activates on the new defiance mehanix and the said icebow damage nerf considering how strong nerfbat hits fgs ill say goodbye to icebow

I remember the days i completely revamp my keybinds just to master you…
the days we roam with daggers and 70% boon duration
the days we unlimitedly blast might with our lightning hammer along with our old friend fire elemental powder ember
the days we fiery rush to the wall or lightning flash-rush with our enemy
and to these days we freeze our enemies and crush them with a massive icestorm.. sometimes i just want to breath some fresh air but looks like now i cant because of the bolt in my heart.. and it seem like cant protect on earth either, because id rather evade the pain and cleanse it with water…

what a dramatic farewell… ive taken interest on warrior or guardian because of the buffs,
i really wanna try the phalanx warior 2.0 and the damage modifier guardian

but i wont lose hope, just incase despite of all the nerfs, hopefuly we get a good elite specialization
tempest might be my new main..
i dont think air is good anymore to take, bolt of the heart is stronk but i think its not worth since it only activate at low health and we are force to chose cheesy adept and master trait just to get that
so i might take tempest, fire and water… but it really depends on how good tempest will be…

correct me if im wrong that air is not worth taking just for bolt of the heart(considering if tempest is good)

well i cant remember if it was on demo or live stream someone said that the range indicator of blasting staff was using the exact range(because now it uses the default range even when traited) this might actually because larger range became the default?

the falling damage trait it comes to my mind too, theyre not useless trait theyre not much used either, some wvw build take it and a must in a jumping puzzle build(usually mesmer) idk how anet will compensate them

as a staff ele i feel like this trait should be a default functionality like what they where doing for necros wells, i dont want to be forced into arcane line just to get this trait.
i want specialize water magic to get those damage modfiers 10% scholar rune-like with free water reduce cooldown, damage per boon and 20 damage in vulned foes while in water that is streamly stronk with frostbow.
but all of those will not happen if blasting staff stay being a trait because i hate using staff untraited.

Broken or not broken whatever u want to call it.
We DO need a reliable way to get cloths especially low level tiers. Even if you claim you can do some cheesy stuff like karma and alt for your source of linen or wool those are still not as reliable as simply farming nodes.
And for those who always say ascended armor should be hard to get endgame gear yes it should be hard to get but not expensive to get. 500 crafting requirement and vision crystal alone are enough to be consider them hard to get compared to exotics.

my post didnt say that damask is broken its more about suggestion that will we ever have different ways to get the materials for damask so we can farm them with ourselves in the new HoT system, im talking about masteries and map rewards theyve implemented in HoT not the one we currently have but i also agree in other comment that currently the ways of getting the material for damask than the amount of damask we need does not match.

what i wanted are some kind of HoT content like for say masteries to get cloth that you put masteries into it and get benefit for getting more cloth when you salvage. something like that or like when you finish a jumping puzzle or events on a certain map youll get wool as a “map reward” for your daily damask crafting. These kind of content is what i wanted to “fix” the lack of ways (imo) to get the cloths we need to craft our endgame gear not only for our mains which is mostly got thier full set but for our alts also

i dont hate silk although i believe 300 per day requirement is not good. the reason damask is so pricy is theres no reliable way from lvl 80 to get wool cotton and linen as lvl 80 get silk when they salvage.
make silk back from 3 per bolt to 2 reduce from 100 bolt requirement to 50 like others
give us reliable way to get wool cotton and linen

i dont get why other people wouldnt agree with this aside from the ones that using damask price for profit (eg.17k karma for 1g worth of linen)
well damask price will never go down to leather lvl considering the demand

the effort of maxing craft to 500 and timegating t7 mats alone i believe is enough for ascended considering the very little advantage ull get from it. i really dont think damask price became low considering how much demand that items has i guess buffing up the supply wouldnt hurt much.

will it be? cloth mastery? wool,cotton,linen on map rewards? they said they will find a way for u to get the mats u need for legendary with map reward right? does it include cloth too? bcoz the reason damask price is so high is that its hard for a lvl 80 to get woot,cotton,linen aside from buying them. can we get a cloth mastery like for example “u have a chance to get wool by salvaging any weight of armor” since all armor require cloth for insignia anyway so it will make sense. “put more point to unlock cotton option”, more points to unlock linen option. Anet pls

To be efficient you need to compress all combat keys as close as possible to WASD keys so u can move freely and cast your abilities at the same time.
1-fire
2-water
3-air
4-earth
run-w
strafe left-a
strafe right-d
dodge-s
weapon skill 1-left ctrl
weapon skill 2-q
weapon skill 3-e
weapon skill 4-v
weapon skill 5-b
heal skill-left shift
utility skill 1-z
utility skill 2-x
utility skill 3-c
elite skill-5
weapon swap-tab
next target enemy-r
move backwards-left alt

Your attunement will look like this
* * * * #
weapon skill will be like this
./ \,.
WASD is this
<^>
Heal and utilities
_ . . .
I’ve been using this since i started maining Ele 2 years ago.

It will be disappointing if we have to wait until January 13 to be able to get carapace/luminescent skin,
I have an 80 asura guardian but I made another Guardian but Human because carapace armor kinda looks cool on Human Guardian i used 20 lvl scroll and all my Tome of Knowledge to make him 80 as fast as possible so i can transmute carapace armor on him as soon as i get it.
I also grind Luminescent collection although i don’t like the skin but i really want that Bioluminescent Collection reward that’ll give me Ascended armor box so i can finally get an Ascended Chest for my main Ele because Bolt of Damask is way too expensive that its not worth crafting ascended light armor.

It’s kinda sad. I hope it’s not true

does blinking LFG is a bug? or not,
its frustrating that i cant join becoz it blinks every times sometime i join wrong group coz it blinks when i click the join button,

when i say blink it mean it automatically refreshes

Gunsnroll.2657:

The new icebow meta ? There is no such thing, it’s just that a lot of players still don’t know how to use Scepter/Hammer.
I guess for pugging a PS is great, because most of pug can screw up ele’s might stack.
But an ele will bring more dmg.
And you should use arcane brillance and arcane wave, it’s in the might stacking rotation.

no such thing or u dont know such thing? its not ppl dont know how to use scepter hammer its just ppl dont how how to play with someone using scepter hammer, the ice bow meta is just replacement of the good old fgs rush so now i cast all the aoe then the boss dies for 5 seconds stun of deep freeze instead of camping hammer auto which is boring IMO and not that worth when no one providing fire field to maintain 25 might

long story short
PS is great on pug, dps lost on organized which can provide 25 might easily

ele main here, im a staff ele btw so i dont provide much might stacks but i provide massive aoe so i prefer having a Phalanx warrior with my team esp when i puging semi organized group with my daily 3 CoE paths routine

so yeah being Phalanx is nice even there’s an ele or two coz as of now the popularity of the new ele ice bow meta

i accidentaly killed champion modniir at shaemoor, the elemental wont trigger how to fix it?

i just finished my achievements but when i check my inventory there’s no Ogden’s Gratitude

Thats intended becoz if not they’ll gonna change it right away. But the problem is their “intended” part. I believe they need to adjust thier intended standings.

About timegate idk if they’re just lazy to change it.

Refund maybe, if they werent lazy enough to do that.

Man my largest guild was just disband yesterday my brother stops playing too.

I wonder if losing players were also intended.

I understand the last feature patch focus on new players. But give some old players attention too.

Are there a chance near future that temples get timers like world boss does? They should have it from the start of megaservers imo.

When will silk scraps get back to 2 per 1 bolt, i understand the nerf back then when silk had such high supply and low demand, but now its different. Even other cloth material need to tone down or increase the salvage rate or make them available from salvaging all kind of armor. Ascended armor should be difficult to get but not expensive to. Just like the same reason u guys remove repair cost. being grindy is enough, becoz some poeple(not all) will just be contended to exotics.

Time gated stuff should be disabled after a month or two of introduction. Cough cough charged quarts xough cough… Ectoplasm refinement is just no need to timegate these days.

More collection stuff. this achievement is brilliant, need more goals and rewards tho.

Account unlocks, can be a new tab in hero panel and all infinite use items should be here and can be redeemed with all of you alts. E.g. infinite gathering, or salvage o matic, such a nice quality of life if implemented, may increase the buyers of these items on the gemstore side of view.

Charrbeque.8729:

I forgot to answer the OP’s question.

Silver-fed(does ppl actually buy this?)

Yes. I did buy a Silver-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, and others have bought it also.

I have no regrets!

[Runs away]

Don’t run! I salute you(and others) for donating gems to support our game.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

Riddle me this:

• What is the point of an infinite gathering tool, if you have to visit an NPC to get it out of the bank instead of having to visit a different NPC to buy a regular gathering tool?
• What is the point of an infinite bank from anywhere item, if you have to visit a bank to get it in the first place?
• What is the point of being able to teleport to and access an area with bank, trading post, crafting stations, etc if it kicks you out for not having the pass on your character and you can’t withdraw the pass from said area; but instead have to go to a bank to get the pass to use the area?

I have these “convenience” items on my guardian, my “main”. Why is my guardian a main? Because she can use these convenience items hassle-free, while none of my other characters can. Anet really should just bite the bullet with this one and make them account-wide unlocks; refunding gems to those who’ve stocked up on duplicates. The upcoming UI changes look perfect for this sort of thing as well…

Very well said, that’s exactly what i wanted to point out here. Thanks

I don’t really know why Anet still didn’t apply this. Maybe you’re right they think they’ll get more profit by having people buy multiple of these items. But maybe there’s no one suggested it yet. Even to you having this change may never get a hassle to let your characters to sit to bank everytime you log-out. It’s better to give your players quality of life changes rather than making others to buy multiple of your stuff just to get more convenience and other getting tired and leave the game.

There should have a new tab in hero panel that have these items once you’ve unlock them, then you can redeem it on any of your characters/

My guildies and friends advice me to not buy them on tp coz its not worth for having 8+ lvl 80s that you switch to play every now and then. And i agree to them i find it frustrating to visit bank, store these types of items then switch to my alt to play wvw, then do it again coz im doing world boss to my ele, then do it again with warrior for dungeon, then for guardian in fractals… this problem doesn’t do much to those who have main characters and probably won’t agree to my suggestion but this is what i have been waiting for this feature patch and its sad that it doesn’t exist.

Well this suggestion may increase how many players will buy these item rather than decreasing coz ppl, like me which don’t want to buy these coz these are not alt-friendly may actually buy and collect them…

Items that should be account unlocks IMO
Copper-fed
Silver-fed(does ppl actually buy this?)
All infinite harvesting items
Captain Airship Pass
Royal Terrace Pass
Permanent Bank Contract
Permanent Merchant Contract
Permanent Black Lion Trader
Banker Golem
All Toys whether its musical instrument, bubblehead laboratory, kite etc.
Home portal Stone
Feel free to add if i forgot something that should been in here.

*account unlocks tab, all gemstore essential stuff like copper-fed salvage, all infinite harvesting equipments, home portal(i forgot the name), infinite royal pass, stuff like these are should be accessible to all characters without hassle

*equipment inventory, different slot for only equipments, i mean your own gear and food should be there nothing else and whenever you unequip the gear should be right there not in the inventory with full of trash and sometime ur item icon is hard to find due to ur large inventory, and this would be nicer i we have a key to toggle this like “I” for inventory so u can toggle it equip staff eat food and toggle of

*temples should have timer like world bosses

etc…

http://dulfy.net/2014/04/23/event-timer/

ppl can follow, maybe its you that’s not

Make Orr Temples like World Boss does,

eg.
0:00 Balth
1:00 Lyssa
2:00 Dwayna
3:00 Melandru
4:00 Grenth
5:00 Balth
6:00 Lyssa
….
…
..

http://intothemists.com/guides/3612-letem_burnbeta

We are kinda forced to make condition guardian so i made this for fun.

Obviously not advisable to use on arena but if you just what to try something else and have fun, feel free to try it.

I need feedback about it coz I can’t play much right now.

Nice comments, very respectful

New Meta Build?

http://intothemists.com/guides/3535-stronk_warrior_hambow

I just tried it and win 3v1

That was originally Bountiful theft, maybe i just miss-clicked it.
How was the armor/trinkets? are they good enough or i missing something?

I love playing with d/p trickery build

but now i need help because I’m crafting my ascended armor for wvw
is it ok to go
Soldier+ Knights set with Traveler runes

My goal is to have fun roaming killing ppl without getting killed
I kinda aim for 3000+ atk, 40-50% + crit chance
2500+ armor, 15,000+ hp
Is this ok or im over-contributing to defense?

here’s what my build looks like
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYEQNAoaVlYmSO3eS6E/5Ey2jKUo4JvHkVZZWaFoJA-jkCBYfJD9TQkgAiIAkKQIL1sIaslhFRjVZDT5CQDbR1SBkyCA-w

Although I want to also complain about the dredge fractal it will be the
post #9728374987235.
Yeah because so many players specially pug reliant like me had posted that already.
But now i just wanna ask you guys how to deal with the current state of this fractal because seriously every time i rolled dredge fractal with pugs it was “gg guys don’t wanna waste time, seems we had bad luck today, see yah” then all quits out of frustration.

Of coarse some of elitist gonna reply to me “omg another bad player crying about dredge fractal, it was easy” I know i’m not that good that’s why i want to ask here what are your strategies to finish this fractal without problems in pugs.

thanks for advice mohagi and jonwar likewise i run 0/10/10/20/30 too and seeing both of your gear looks like i need a lot of test to know how much i need to sacrifice damage to defensive stat vice versa. need to wait till the changes to decide or hope them to release Power prec vit stats

as for lightningblaze you’re right i’m terribad at ele right now maybe because i’m used to my warrior and guardian

ok i need help about what stat to take into my elementalist for ascended armor i can play d/d s/d or staff but i like d/d + it will get a fairly good boost upcoming changes(extra evade and blast finisher) my dream stat and really suitable for me is POWER precision vitality which is sadly currently not available yet. because being power main + prec it will give good damage and crit chance which is essential to me/my build and vitality being personal preference because we have such low hp and toughness being useless vs conditions which is popular right now. But at the mean time there are choices available but i can’t choose
Berserker- no defense
Knight- power being minor stat and i don’t really like toughness since conditions are popular
Valkyrie+Serker?- don’t really like to choose between vit and prec because i need them both + crit damage being nerfed
Soldier – i need precision but its not bad i just don’t want to live without vigor
Zealot – really close and good but it only shines on guardian and other build but in my build it will only boost if im on water or using signet passive, but i really value vitality + scaling are bad
Celestial – probably best pic imo i’ll benefit with all stats being ele. downside is not enough power but can be solve by bloodlust + might

with all the nefs eles are now don’t deserve to have such low hp + light armor lack of base hp and lack of armor stat variation are the reason eles being left out
yes eles are left out to the point that i can delete mine now because other professions are better but i can’t since my ele was my 1st toon

Thedenofsin.7340:

SIGILS:

Independent cooldowns makes Warrior 15 point Discipline Minor Trait “Fast Hands” EXTREMELY POWERFUL

FAST HANDS = 5 second weapon swap cooldown

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fast_Hands

Basically this means warriors get double the sigil proc rate of any other profession.

Are you going to address this before it goes live?

the on swap sigil’s internal cooldown is 9s so it means that if you swap weapons if you have sigil of battle and sigil of energy, you gain 50 endurance and might then after 5 seconds when you swap weapons again, you won’t get anything until you swap again after the next 5 seconds because the cooldown fast hands give will not change the fact that your sigil’s internal cooldown is 9s

sorry for bad explanation but i hope you’ll get it

Please reconsider the base health of professions. The difference in armor (heavy,medium,light) is almost enough to balance their profession’s ability.
We need it to be like this:
High tier(18k hp) Warrior, Necromancer
Medium tier(16k hp) Ranger,Engineer,Mesmer,Elementalist,Guardian
Low tier(14k hp) Thief
The hp warrior and necromancer doesn’t really need a nerf because the problem is the other have way too low base hp.
Elementalist and Guardian need a buff from low tier hp to medium because yes elementalist have 20 abilities and guardians has access to blocks but if you had it all on cooldown, you’re dead
The only profession we can consider on low tier hp is thief because they have high access to stealth but 12k hp is too low making us melt so fast vs stun/disable and condition builds so we it to buff it to like 14k

18k necro
17k warrior
16k mesmer, ranger , engineer, elementalist
15k theif, guardian

also make POWER, precision,vitality

Hule.8794:

Zeefa.3915:

1. Don’t really get what you are asking for on this… some kinda account based hero panel?

He mean slot for unlimited pick,axe and sickle so if you dont need to deposit them into bank if you want to use them on alt.
Somehow i agree with this, maybe make it like skins from achivement chest, but players would spend less for those items on TP, so forget it.

You’re exactly correct. i wouldn’t mind if they made the gem price high. If they made this true those will be in my must buy list because of its cost effectiveness. But in they’re current state i don’t see reason why i will buy them yet because i love playing from alt to alt and this will be annoying. It’s good if i have dedicated character for gathering/salvaging but…

emikochan.8504:

Automating the lfg is a bad idea.

MrRuin.9740:

EARL.8312:

4. LFG Matchmaking version(not really necessary)- Instead of posting/joining. The system will automatically match you to the players with the almost same AP point with you.

Whats the point of this? Achievement points has no meaning whatsoever when it comes to dungeons or any case that you would need a party.
Achievement points show how well you have been able to grind the living story and do things like JP’s. A player can easily have thousands of AP’s and never have set foot in any dungeon.

I understand your point guys, that’s why i said “not really necessary” It just pop up on my mind when i remember my 1st time running into a dungeon or my road onto dungeon master title it’s hard to find teammate that’s willingly teach you or also newbie that want to explore the dungeon with you or something like that, because nowadays some elitist will kick newbies that doesn’t know what to do YET. I’m not referring to all of course. But sometimes it happens and giving bad impression to newbies. I’m not saying replace the current lfg either. It’s just “Match me with teammate” button in the corner. Since we don’t have MMR in Pve. Matchmaking will be based on AP or total hours played them game(?)

Well that’s a lot of work so I’m not hoping either, I just want to express whats on my mind.

Things I would Love to see in Gw2 this year

1. Unlimited Items in Hero panel- Put a tab in hero panel that allows you to withdraw Unlimited Salvage/Gathering tools and other unlimited items to be implemented in the future so you don’t need to go to bank and get your acc. bound unli-tool which is frustrating. And this is great for player who love and have many alts.

2. Traits Page- Allows you to save your trait, can be bought in gem store so you can set different trait build which may come in handy in different situation. You can buy multiple pages(like how we buy inventory and bank slot)

3. In-game world boss, temple timer

4. LFG Matchmaking version(not really necessary)- Instead of posting/joining. The system will automatically match you to the players with the almost same AP point with you.

5. Ascended quality Sigil/Runes- this sigil/rune have no stat and only gain stat base on sigil/rune you infuse to them. You can infuse multiple sigils/runes to them but can only use 1 stat at a time like a normal rune/sigil would but you can change the stats when out of combat(like how legendaries can change stats)

6. Of course… new legendaries and precursor crafting, pvp legendaries

7. Better Living Story- As an anime lover, I would like to see a living story which revolves around new protagonist and his/her adventure on tyria, making friends,comrades,rivals different villains, like villain that will became friends with the protagonist, villain that actually good, and a villain that would makes us rage. A good plot with some drama,comedy or even love story + some cool mechanics, encounters, achievements you want to enter into the game would be enough to make players attracted to the living story(asides from achievement points it gives). I don’t know if someone would agree with me in this one though..

8. Rework some dungeons make new dungeons or replace paths

9. New PvP game modes, like capture the flag, death-match, last man stands, defend ur base, jumping puzzle race etc.

10. New PvP announcer- new announcer voice or announcer voice pack that can be bought in gemstore. Announcer now have 3(or more) different tone of each line so it won’t be annoying if the same dialogue has said consecutively. Announce when a player is killed,revived or even stomp-interrupt(“DENIED”). I honestly would love to hear “first blood, double kill, triple kill, rampage, dominating, godlike, LEGENDARY” I know it’s not original though but it’s nice to hear something when you kill someone to make you feel rewarding right?

Fannwong.3059:

Hello Earl

That adds up to 80 skill points. Could you correct it? Would love to see you idea.

FW

EARL.8312:

Paladin Healway

Full Power Precision Healing Power Ascended

0/0/30/30/20

Necessary traits

oops didn’t notice that, it’s 30/20/20 because monk’s focus is grandmaster, might on crit and absolute resolution is both master, adept it’s up to you, since this build is for pvp/wvw. If u have friends with you i love knockback on revive it’s very helpful,

btw thanks for the feedback and correction :)