Guild Wars 2

@OtterPaws, @Garambola: The chests that you get from PvP Rewards? How often do you get gear and does it come in random pieces? I haven’t started opening mine yet.

@Astralporing, @pdavis: Sadly I didn’t unlock many, maybe a few. So that sucks!

After coming back to Gw2 I noticed they got rid of the PvP gear. What do people do now for nice looking gear, for those who strictly PvP. Are you forced to now go PvE to farm for gear/gold that looks nice just to use for PvP?

Looking for some advice. I was just going to buy gems and get a few armor skins from Black Lion, but then I thought about the lack of weapon skins in the store.

I have an i7 4790K,

So I should be okay with getting a 970

So when the fart is ArenaNet going to optimize WvW? That has been the main thing I wanted to play ever since the dang game came out. I still haven’t experienced it yet, LOL

Can you even play properly at 20 FPS?

I currently have an i7 and R9 270 and I only get 30~40 fps in the mist, so I know kitten well I can’t WvW with that GPU

Ah… so wondering if I should just go yolo and get the 980

960 4 GB? Where is the 4GB one?

I would love to see player’s combination of CPU & GPU and what FPS they get in WvW; Roaming vs Zerg

Anyone have a i5 (CPU) and GTX 960 (GPU)?

Thanks for the suggestions!

Are Phantasm builds on par with Clone builds. What I mean by that is…

Phantasm builds: Letting Phantasms doing most of the damage

Clone build: Positioning Clones to setup a shatter burst

I guess this is how they’re played. I am not that knowledgeable on Mesmers, but I want to play the more. I like having summons/pets, but I don’t want to play Necro/Ranger, because they’re way too many of them right now and I want to be a bit different.

Thanks people for all the suggestions!

Thanks people for all the suggestions!

I just came back to Guild Wars 2 / sPvP. Didn’t bother reading patch, but instantly noticed how quickly I melted to a thief. Holy crap, what did they do? I’ve also seen a thief run around smacking people with staff like it was nothing.

I haven’t played Guild Wars 2 for almost 8 months. I am back again for the PvP specifically. I have so much to learn, especially with the Trait system and Specializations.

My first question to the experienced PvP players…
1. What profession can Tank/Bunker the most efficient now? I mainly like playing with high sustain and good crowd control or support and healing.

Most of the time before the new system my playstyle/build was always defensive; high sustain, slowly chipping away health, crowd control usually going all the way down the Vitality line and putting the rest where I see needed. Never would I be squishy, even as Thief, my favorite build was built around Caltrops/Bleed and Sustain.

With all the new stuff I can’t see my playstyle being viable anymore or at least I can’t find any solutions. I feel no matter what I build, it gets melted. I guess since I haven’t played in months I am not used to the new meta/playstyle

Anyone care to enlighten me?

I could say that about any other game. I have the original 270, not the 270x and it plays pretty much every game on High/Ultra. Guild Wars 2 though? Nah, lol. At least not WvW. I’ll have to try again, maybe some optimization was done through Gw2 or the current drivers for AMD.

@SkyShroud Yes, this I know.

@Ghotistyx Meh.

Guess I’ll have to mess around with settings. I still might end up getting a Nvidia graphics card anyways…

When I first quit I had a AMD A6, but I attempted to try WvW even after.

@Ghotistyx, @Behellagh

CPU: Intel i7 4790K
GPU: Radeon 29 270
RAM: HyperX Fury 8GB

I can’t remember the FPS I had last time I tried WvW

I will try WvW once again. I currently have a R9 270

I’ve been able to play mostly every other game with no problems, so that is why I haven’t bothered buying a new card.

Has there been any Optimization towards WvWvW since 2013/2014?

I stopped playing back then because it was not even possible for me to do anything when a wave of players appeared on my monitor.

Would switching from a AMD to a NVIDIA graphics card make any kind of difference?

Thanks for all the advice

Thanks for all the replys

I will cheat and put my top 3 picks, but I still want others to continue giving their view.

Guardian > Elementalist > Ranger

I even started thinking about Thief because of the great mobility it has, which would be nice for traveling throughout the map while farming materials.

@Rainu You say Elementalist is good at dungeons? How so? Is this Solo or with other players? I am not that social, unless someone initiates first, so most of the time I will be playing solo.

Yes, I have ready several posts already throughout the forums and also searched Google for this. Yes I know it is about personal preferences, but if everyone does not mind, I will still like to create this post for more suggestions, advice, and opinions.

Thanks!

I would LOVE to hear everyone’s suggestions, advice, and opinions on the best professions for PvE. I have a few choices of my own, but I CANNOT decide, lol. When it comes to making decisions for MMO, it takes me hours, maybe even days before I can decide, unless I can get help from others.

As I searched more and more into this, I found and thought about more things, like… Mobility to move from core to core to farm materials, the ability to tag in DE, the ability to solo, the ability to do dungeons. I just can’t decide what I want to do the most.

Sooo…

Which profession do you’ll think would be best for farming in PvE (Dungeons, WvW, Dyanmic Events, Etc)? Please explain why and what type of farming you do more with your choice of profession.