Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the info.

Although i will not main my DH, because DH is strange to me…, i will main a Druid, since Druid is all about healing and support the party.

Thank you all for the info and help

Hi all,

Returning to GW2 after some time out, i’ve start’ed to look at GW2 from a different perspective, going full lore story PvE content instead of PvP, the game mode that made me quit.

So, i want to make a character, or continue an old one, that fits in the story and i can have that sense of being part of it. My initial choices are:
- Revenant / Herald
- Mesmer / Chronomancer
- Necromancer / Reaper
- Guardian / DragonHunter
- Ranger / Druid

Revenant/ Herald: I thought i would see my Ritualist bringing back to life, but i was, somehow disappointed, but very excellent class for the party.

Mesmer / Chrono: I love mental magic chars.

Necro / Reaper: Dark Knight with death magic, yes i also like.

Guardian / DH: Well, since i’ve allways liked white magic, the Guardian was the main choice, but…DH is strange…i dont know what it is…

Ranger / Druid: I think Druid was like my first class of RPG playing, D2 LOD, loved the theme, although this kind of Druid is not like that, the name and what it means is important to me.

In GW1, i could choose my party in order to be the only class, but with GW2, is a different story. Every class is in the party and my sense of being part and unique to the lore falls completely. So, i need your help in order to choose a class/race for a full lore experience in GW2.

Thanks

Hi all,

After some time (months) away from GW2, i’ve come back to it. I’ve played a little since HoT with my new 80 Rev, atm doing map & story(Zhaitan).

But my Rev feels a little, clunky and unfinished(minor bugs) and since i dont have that much time, i’ve came here seeking help.

My question, is Rev a good class atm or should i focus on other? I have a Reaper and DH, but i want a fresh start. So among these 3 (Rev, Mesmer, Ranger), what’s the good all around class for PvE and some WvW?

Sorry for asking this not-so-easy question, but i’m out of the GW2 loop information (Updates & etc).

Thanks

Hi all,

Like many in Gw2 i’ve come back to it and looking at the Revenant as my main character.

Due to pvp, i had alot of books to level my revenant all the way to 80, but what build to use it?

Can you help me? I know that’s still early to say that “this build is the way to go” but what i’m looking for is some guidance.

With my support part i was thinking of going like condition/support or is power better at this stage?

Thanks in advance ;D

Edit: The build is going for pve part (Dungeons/Fractals/PvE in general) and WvW with the guild

In Guild Wars 1 Eye Of The North, you fight The Great Destroyer, it is a destroyer and not a dragon but it is the general of Primordus who appear’s to awaken after we defeat it (The Great Destroyer).

The thing about the difference in Guild Wars 1 to Guild Wars 2 is the lore. GW1 has a beautiful and rich lore and its something that all the Gw1 players tought it could be in Guild Wars 2, but for the time being, the only thing we’ve getting is “new” lore and the great lore of Gw1 is somewhat post aside.

And that is what you feel about the difference in the journey and adventure on killing the main antagonist of Guild Wars 2. It’s not new and everybody knows that Gw1 was better than Gw2 in terms of lore

Im no expert in ranger but i think its because most rangers that i encounter just go bow and dont even change weapon.

I play a Condition RRR ranger and i dont have no problem 1v1 and sometimes 2v1 (depending on the 2 classes) but tPvP is a team effort game and i offer resistence to my party, regen, dps and condition area and i think that thats the point on PvP’ing.

Ranger’s are very viable in every mode but depends heavly in the player gameplay, if the the ranger just press 1 on bow than i think its doing wrong…but then again, i’m no expert on the matter.

Yes there is better classes that can do what we do but i think that the way of thinking about rangers are wrong, it can be a great addition to any team.

Hi Al and thanks for helping me.

I’m gonna try your build once i’ve train myself to be better in the arts of thievery ;P .

Another question, although i know that thiefs can’t be more supportive because of their nature, is that is this build good for dungeons or we have something better, keeping in mind with the condition spec.

Thanks in advance,
Have a nice game

Hi all,

I’ve been messing with some builds in sPvP and i’ve tried condition d/d with carrion and nightmare rune.
Im using this build:

Deadly Arts : III
Acrobatics: II ; III ; VIII
Trickery: V ; VII ; XII

I was kinda suprise that i could actually survive some encounters and team fights in yolo’s, leaving caltrops and death blossoms in the middle and this leads me to my question.

Can anyone help me to create someting similar in PvE/WvW?
Is it a good build or does it need some tweaks?

Thanks in advance,
Have a nice game =)

The problem isn’t “zerker’s”, the problem is that GW2 dungeons didn’t came out as expected.

In order to stop using “zerker” gear Anet needs to implement new and improved dungeon system’s, no need to make new dungeons, just innovate the ones that we already have.

I guess that the development team needs to think outside the box in this aspects. Maybe they need to reach the “trinity” line but not cross it or, for an example, do something like this:
- Boss react’s to the party stat’s ( i think that’s already implemented but not sure ), if “zerker” gear is in the five party member’s than the boss will be tougher, hit harder and take more time to finish.

But this will be contradictory to the “play how you want it” (not entirely true, but that’s for other post’s) and in time someone will master that system and break it with that same “zerker” armor or with other stat’s and then maybe the new discussion theme will be about that different stat’s armor and we will come here and try to have these brainstorm sessions.

I do not use “zerker” gear in any of my character’s. I find more fun using a mix of healing power/crit dmg on my Guardian, in this way i can still hit hard and have enough survivability to save some, not all, of my “zerker” friends =).

I don’t know who has this ideias, it may seem good on paper but in the game are horrible.
Now i’m not playing how i want, i’m playing how they want…wich seems contradictory with the manifesto…yes the manifesto…that chapter is buried and long gone, i guess.

Clearly you didn’t earn the respect of Flesharizard. You have to remember that only by colecting badges you can earn he’s respect.

x)

Necro AI minions is broken since start and i dont see it being fixed in near future. It’s not easy..

I think the problem is that thieves normally think that they can beat anyone on 1v1 or that they can manage in a 1v1 situation. Not saying you are doing it and i dont know if you are good but normally average thieves in the processing of learning do not start 1v1 situations, simply because you loose your element of suprise.

When doing pvp, i want to be the guy that they don’t realize that im there. Allways running around and see group fights and then i choose my target, put him down and move to another. If i start being the center of attention i try to leave or go to stealth, but that’s me who’s still learning and can’t bring someone down in 2/3 hits. Maybe because of the build.

I’ve been seing that condition turret engis can go down pretty well with condition or like Mystogan said

I’ve been experimenting on a power P/D and the output in tournaments is really something. Still experimenting and i do some errors but i’m learning.

I know that S/D is in a good spot right now but most of the thieves are running and the “fun” is lost somehow. You are not forced to play any build, you have to consider what your good at, what’s your playstyle and if its good for your purpose (WvW, tPvP, PvE).

Went tournament PVP with a condition build and that reminded me why i stopped playing GW2 and PvP. Warriors? Yes i can evade and stay way from the hammer combo, thats not the problem…the problem is the bow.

Almost every warrior that i have encountered in today’s tournaments had the stability on when changed to the bow. Immobilized me, fire and hammer combo return…i can endure a little of 1 warrior let alone endure the pain of 2 warriors tag team me…With luck i could get the stability off but it’s not enough.

Guess im done with PvP. Going go try out roaming WvW…

foofad, i lvl’d my guardian into a AH road and i did exceptionally well. Even against those vets and champions, altough i admit that AH relys to heavily in traits.

But nevertheless, going hammer/mace&focus as main will help you to resist some/a lot of damage. Just pay attention in those dodges and you will be fine.

Also, try mace/focus and staff or hammer. Mace will give regen and some healing while focus gives you more regen, blind to enemys and some blocks.

For the build, you can check the AH and its variations or a Healway build. With these, the chance of dying is pretty low.

Hope i’ve help’d =)

In a recent tPvP, i went close and then help middle. Saw that our creature was full hp and no one did go to kill it, so i went (being low dmg output).
When i was killing it, i saw an enemy elementalist thar burst me down and finish the job on the creature, and then i asked, why didnt anyone killed the creature? Got a response from a rank+50 guy stating that this wasn’t PvE and i was a noob… .
We we’re losing and then i saw this +50 guy not moving and saying that we were noobs and to go back to WvW..
I wonder how did this kinda of guys, because he wasn’t the only one, to have that ranks and bitc**** about the team and do nothing…

Leeto that’s a great great build. Try it out in tPvP and man its so fun to play it! Seeing the enemys panicking because of the DS blast crits its just rotfl.

Instead having dual dagger, i did put a focus on offhand, still trying to see what it fits better, a focus or a warhorn. But nevertheless, great work man

Sorrow, the 2 necros were MM so i couldn’t really tell if they were skilled or not =(. But the thing is that the team started with 4 and then 3

Yes… not broken at all

When i tried the MM in tPvP, i didn’t pop ds only in my dying moments. When i reached a zone where my team mates where defending i pop’d DS and hit #4, gave them HP and help them with my minion’s stressing the opponents. Delivered’ some fears and toss’s. And to the run away guys i just hit torment, that gives a immobilize and fear again or hit the minion skill to hold them in the ground.

I guess it depends of the person that it is playing and i think that the rage that is going here its because all new pvp necros go for this MM solution so that they can manage to hold in tPvP.

Let’s be sincere, the management of the team composition in tPvP is broken…and you can see the +30 ranks destroying,for an example, new condition necros that don’t have any experience in this particularly type…so where’s the fun in that? So they try this “meta”.
I’m just guessing here.

Although i find this build kind of fun, i prefer my retaliation Guardian in PvP =D

Shortbow spirit Ranger, 2 MM’s Necros, 1 Mesmer and a Turret Engi! Best team eva!!!
Now we can only hope that spirit weapons can be good so that we can fit a guardian in there.
Beying a Guardian Pve/PvP/WvW, i’ve tried this MM necro in pvp and lol…besides having 25/26K HP and 3.5k power i just let my minions to do the job, pop DS and #4 with transfusion to the extra health to my team mates and this is actually fun to play but at the same time its just sad

I also like the sword but Scepter works so much better in PvP and with right hand strenght hits like a truck

This guy is a beast in pvp =). Fought him with my Guardian (Staff/Hammer) and with this build, staff was a no-no but i didnt had any other choice but to engage him.
GJ on that meditation build. Hope to see you again ;D

Anicetus, can you post the build please?
The build seems very nice and it’s a breath of fresh air in the guardian world. Many of the builds are focused in the same core but with different meanings and names.
I would like to experiment that build.

Thanks in advance

Me and the rest of my guild try really hard to push Underworld in WvW alongside with a Portugueses alliance but it isnt enough, the moment we take out camps and towers and put up a fight we see ourselfs to be out of the things we conquer.
They just have more numbers but in a even fight most of the time we win, we have more experience but we lack numbers so we just have to try and hope for the UW players to join in.
Most of the times it isnt fun…the fun factor in WvW disappears when numbers like 20 to 70 meet….

ohh one thing that i forgot, looking also for advice on the runes for the set =)

Hi there,

Please don’t mind the title, i know lame one -_- lol, but the reason im posting this is to try out a build that includes phantasms as source of damage and stealth to get yourself out of danger.
This is just theorycrafting and i didn’t have the time yet to test it but i wanna know if you guys can help me out in this.

So here’s the build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQRAsd8alwzipXUTsGb9IipHBHFCcnZAdLX5DzGA-jUCBYLBCfJ0UgBiwI0pPFRjtmpIasqFYKTER1+EFRrWKgRFGB-w

And the first thing i’ve notice’d was that i dont have enough condition removal, im trying to fit in it some, altough i have one condition removal, but i just can’t see what i can do.
So looking at it , and keep in mind that i didn’t tested yet, what do you guys think? The build is meant to WvW and PvE.

Thanks for any advice you guys can give me and have a nice game =)

For my point of view and experience i think that it doesn’t matter the traits you have at lv 40, you dont do a build just by the traits you have to get the armor and trinkets for the same build.
In my opinian i would advise you to get used to the weapon’s and they’re skills. Try the hybrid build with conditions and raw damage, scepter/dagger; axe/focus with this you can give a good amount of conditions and change to the axe to skill #2 and finish him off.
Check the Necromancer tutorials, that will give you a good insight of the Necro profession

I also run cleric gear with healway build but lately i’m experience less support for my party than AH with zerker, although i like very much the boon duration and heals i just can’t give that much to the rest of my party/guild, i mean that i can’t expect that my group just stand there wating for my dodge/heal.
With the normal AH with some variations i can provide much more boons and the same condition removal with more heals and in zerker gear, but my question is can i mantain the zerker gear with my 3 runes of the monk and water? The same for rings and etc can i mantain them?

Count me in and im going to pass the word to the rest of my guild.
Kensei Hikaru → Guardian (healway build with clerics) full exotic with some ascended.

Like Chaos answere’d you will barely notice the bleeds and poison, in sPvP/WvW i only use a shout to remove conditions when bleeds stack at 8+ or when immob also with the stamina regen for dodgin you can use, if im not mistaken, 4 dodges to get 2k of heal each dodge.
In a 1v1 situation you wont get killed since you can heal without using any heal skill and can last long enough for the oponent to flee, on a 1v2 situation if its double team condition dmg then you will have some work to kill them.
The strip boon spam, you can have almost perma retaliation so i dont see the problem there, if he strips your retaliation you can switch to gs and have some more and hope for the thief to be noob and attacks you. Overall its a great great build for holding out and outlasting your opponents ;D

Chris does this work with a scepter/focus?, in the moment im using sword/focus but i think the only purpose of using a sword its because of the blind, am i right?
I have 2 skills with blinds and with scepter i have the chance of immob the target.
Have you already test it and didn’t like it and went to sword or is it viable?

Thanks =D

Hi and let me first say thanks for those that answered my topic about the ascended trinkets for my guardian.
So i read and hear much about the “pro” guardians and that they walked into a different path of the AH build, using different weapons instead of using the Hammer/GS combo and my question is what do you ( who don’t use the AH ) use now?
I try to maximize my Guardian in party (pve/WvW) in order to be useful to them but i’m using AH for some time now and don’t get mt wrong, i like the AH, i like offering boons and support to my party but i wanna try something different.
So what do you advise me?

Thanks for reading =)

Hi and first i’m sorry to create a topic for this but the open’d ones dont have the info i’m looking for.
So as the topic says i have a guardian with berserker set and berserker hammer and greatsword, my build is a AH build and my question is what ascend items do you ( experienced guardians) recommend?
Now im running with power vitality and critical dmg trinkets and i don’t want to make any mistake and trade the wrong ascended trinkets..

Can you help me out? If its better to stay with this kinda set or change to other?

Thanks in advance,

Kensei

First of all i wanna thank ANet for this event that has been proving himself different from the others.
And that video of Logan and the other character talking man i was like oh my gawd this is like Sincity ( with no violence version :P) but still pretty impressive.
Keep them coming =)

Nemesis i wanna thank you for helping me coming back to my necro, i’ve watched the necro guides that you did and i gave my necro a chance and since then i didn’t let him go.
Of all the build you did, the one that i like’d was the hybrid. So i got to CoF, did some gold with drops and sells and bought weapons and trinkets, etc. I have berserker weapons with rampager CoF set.
I did change the utilitys, running with CC, well of suffering, darkness, spectral walk and lich form, so i want to try out something different but not running away too much from the original concept.
Flesh golem its still most of the time away from the fight and altough the lich form does excellent damage i can be locked and be downed in no time, so with the same armor and weapons and build i want to ask you if with some minions the hybrid build would still shine?
Giving the same amount of crits with my dagger and getting the help of my minions to do an extra damage.

Thanks in advance,
Keep up the good work and videos =D

lol…before choosing a side i normaly choose the loosing side, because it provides more action and usually alot more difficult…but that’s what you get for Hot joins…. .
I think ANet could implement something like locking the switch sides, tier battles 0-10; 11-20 and so on…players rank1 fighting rank 40 are no fun…
Let’s hope it will get better

Mesmer was a little bit of a pain to lvl then my necro and i think i offer more to the party with my necro then my Mesmer, but it reallys comes down to your playstyle.
I usually run a hyrid/power necro with wells and i can say that its pretty fun to play =)

Hi and good morning guys.
First of all thanks for the info and sorry for not respond earlier but college exams kept me from being here…
I will try out the Necro well build and Mesmer phantasm build for party functions. So what do you think its better or more reliable ? I’m tempted to go Necro all the way, start evolving my 80 to get ascend items and pvp’ing in the tournaments with him.
I was thinking about a build like this:
10; II
10; II
10; V
20; IV
20; VI; X
With this build i have in mind the use for wells for the party and boss/mobs blinds and vun. while keeping my DS for dmg and more vun, for weapons i was thinking axe/focus and staff. What do you think?

Hi and first let me say that i will put the same question in the necro forum to compare and choose my main.
The situation is that i have this 2 classe’s at 80 and i need to choose one to be the main. I want to use him at Dungeons/ WvW/ tPvP and who do you think that will shine here. ( i know that its a tough one to answer )

@ Dungeons: i want to be a support kinda guy
@ tPvP: Necro and Mesmer can be anything
@ WvW: just follow the zergs and collect a lot of badges, can do a solo thing once or twice

So can you help me out?
Thanks in advance and sorry if my english is a little incoherent…only had 4 hours of sleep… xP
Saludos,
Kensei

Hi and first let me say that i will put the same question in the necro forum to compare and choose my main.

The situation is that i have this 2 classe’s at 80 and i need to choose one to be the main. I want to use him at Dungeons/ WvW/ tPvP and who do you think that will shine here. ( i know that its a tough one to answer )

@ Dungeons: i want to be a support kinda guy
@ tPvP: Necro and Mesmer can be anything
@ WvW: just follow the zergs and collect a lot of badges, can do a solo thing once or twice

So can you help me out?

Thanks in advance and sorry if my english is a little incoherent…only had 4 hours of sleep… xP

Saludos,
Kensei

Brutaly can you post again the AH builds? I can’t see them.
BTW does this builds works well in WvW/PvE in general? In sPvP i use silven’s build with meditations because i can’t find a good balance in AH in sPVP.

Maybe if Cantha is released..who know’s

Jax let me start by thanking you for help me with your guides/build on my new Guardian and let me say that you’re balanced roamer build in pvp is a must! Great balance in offence and defence and single target…let the crits fly.
I wanted to ask you one question, in PvE what i should use? I will try it in PvE the same roamer build and what stat’s the armor must have and the type?
Thanks once again keep up the good work ;D

Same here….have to go to work in an 45 min and i guess i cant have a little time for playing before that… -_-

Another update to this post, due to the latest news and circunstances.
If you’re wanna join our guild you can pm/email:

- Spartacus The One, Kensei Caelum or Kensei Mitsuo, Dluis PT

We’re looking for PvP players to join our PvP team and active members in PvE too ( fracts/ dungeons/ Etc).

My guild lost a few active member’s that joined to an bigger one, leaving us almost empty but we still have the true believer’s, the true members that stay’d with us. We will not bow to A-Net for this new guild mission’s, we will handle thing’s on our own and it will come the day that we can do this, if we can’t, we will do other stuff. We won’t join another guild, it’s not that we dont socialize with other but we want to mantain our image and ideals even if we’re a small guild, and i hope that other small guild’s mantain their image, their essence and not force join bigger guild just to do this..A-Net will see that this is not the answer to have bigger guild’s and will have to adjust this guild missions.
So to other small guilds..don’t lose the thing/image/ideals that led you to create your own guild.

Chronomancer i guess

Well, you could do the 100% map, putting the 2 professions to 400, do the jumping puzzles, do fractals and if that is not enough, you could help your server @ WvW