Guild Wars 2

Thanks for all the tips/ideas, everyone. I have had MUCH more success today and yesterday. I toyed with some of my keybindings so they’re a bit more familiar to me and just pretty much slammed my face against some practice arena’s until I felt like I had a better idea what was going on.

Next step: Stop using dodge roll to re position myself instead of evading. It’s going to take a bit to learn how to watch a player instead of my bars; i’m hoping that that sorta thing comes with practice and time.

Thanks again, everyone! Have fun and if you see me on the battlefield, watch out. xD

Thanks a lot for that link, the video led me down another rabbit hole which lead me to a very helpful, “THIS IS WHAT A BLAST FINISHER MEANS” and it turns out i’m not as stupid as I thought.

I still haven’t a single clue about anything except for the fact that the sky is indeed, above me.

Thanks again, everyone

I will not pretend to be an expert on this (I just leveled an elementalist to 80 in about a week) and I just focused purely on power and precision. The little understanding I had led me to believe that the proper points in fire and earth were going to be enough for me to kite a mob until I could burn it to death.

I had some great success even soloing a few champions on my road to 80. One of the first things I went after were under the Glyph and Cantrip training. Even the lesser elemental was amazing when I bit off more than I could chew. Letting him tank for me was a major boon while I switched back and forth from water/earth and fire. The Cantrip’s just seemed to make kiting/staying alive generally easier.

I hope this helps in some way Good luck!

GlitchyBat.3682:

Elakah.9217:

Celestial is a word I’d heard before but didn’t fully understand. Essentially it’s just a general damage/surv stat? Sorry, I just leveled my first professions to 400 and I don’t remember seeing anything like that.

Celestial is just another prefix for your gear. It’s not as accessible as typical stuff like Berserker or Soldiers or whoever. You need a specific recipe and it requires Charged Quartz which, with a low supply and high demand, has gotten expensive lately. Unless you go WvW, you don’t really need to worry about it since PvP lets you access Celestial stats. It’s basically a jack of all trades stat choice instead of a focus on three stats that most prefixes are.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Item_nomenclature#Triple_attribute

(WvW regs please correct me if Celes isn’t normal there as I know jack meowers about WvWing decently)

Oh wow, that link makes a world of difference. I’ve been scouring the wiki and it’s been a sort of rabbit hole of gibberish. I remember seeing an amulet in the pvp area that had fewer of all stats, now! This is exactly the sort of direction I needed, thanks so much.

Yeah, the switching from one element to another is something I’m quickly learning. (I’ve been playing just over a week) but I did have one particular duel with an Elementalist that resulted in me learning a TON while just watching her movement/playstyle.

I’d have thanked her if she wasn’t trying to kill me.

Celestial is a word I’d heard before but didn’t fully understand. Essentially it’s just a general damage/surv stat? Sorry, I just leveled my first professions to 400 and I don’t remember seeing anything like that.

Hello everyone

So, after 8 years playing a specific MMO (that I will leave unnamed) I decided to heed several of my RL friends advice, and give this game a try; now I’m 80 and desperately trying to feel around blindly in the dark. I am extremely (IMO) competent when it comes to these types of things, but given my total lack of in game resources I hesitate to just blindly throw on whatever stats I’m told by map chat; or by any of the several profession resources out there.

I will first mention that I am extremely interested in the wvw/structured pvp. Sadly, all the attempts I’ve made thus far haven’t been wildly successful. I won’t pretend to grasp even the obvious concepts of my profession, yet, but I am learning enough to see the big picture. My goal now is (stat wise) to get to a place where I can go toe-to-toe with any class and not melt the moment they get their hands on me; as well as be useful to a “roaming blob” (I heard that in map chat…) I’m well versed in playing squishier classes and I wouldn’t call myself a terrible pvper, but even one v. ones are resulting in my running back to base or dead, especially against thieves and mesmers!

I would like to just build vitality and toughness 100% if only to spite the jerks that have been bullying me, but I know that’s silly. (Seriously, just kidding) Is there a balance to damage and survivablity? Some magic number or build that isn’t going to leave me lying in the dirt, every time?

Thanks a lot for any and all help, in advance. This community seems to be much more productive and thoughtful than others I’ve experienced; really looking forward to getting to know more about the game!

TL:DR – I really don’t know what direction to take my stats in in order to stay alive long enough to put up a fight in wvw/arena’s.