Guild Wars 2

Howdy folks. I’ve just come back to GW2 after about a year and a half away. Besides login on and discovering that I have NO idea what the hell any of these buttons do I’m enjoying tooling around. My question is are there any current builds to just stay away from or are we in a better place than when I left

Thanks for the reply. Looks like i jump in the deep end and learn how not to drown. :-)

Right, since apparently i’m not going to be viable to run condition builds in dungeons or fractals i’ve decided to take the plunge and try sPvP and WvW for the first time. While i totally expect to be running around with the “free kill +1” tag above my head for the first few weeks I’d like to know if i should be focusing on a condition type build or am i still looking at a dagger/warhorn/focus type build?

Thanks for taking the time to answer the Noobs questions.

Well to be honest im not sure just how horrible i am at it. Part of my problem is im a long time MMO player and i have that perception drilled in that if someone goes down its because either they did something stupid or the party did something stupid like pull too many. Still i had rather hopex that minions or conditions would be viable. To me that is a necromancer after all.

Good afternoon folks I was hoping someone would be nice enough to help me out. I have just come back to the game after a long break and am looking to get my necro some shiny equipment and maybee a legendary or two. I have almost gotten world completion and am looking to start Pugging dungeons and fractals. I undersand that necros can be somewhat lacking in that department but no other class seems to hold my attention. Im currently running a vampiric well mancer wigh axe/focus/warhorn. If i understand thr forums correctly dagger would give me better DPS however my dodginv needz work. I am looking for a decent entry level build that i can offord and that would let me keep some range to increase my survivabilty. Thanks fof any advice

Howdy folks, recently decided to return to GW2 after a few months away and chose to reroll a guardian manly because being a 9 foot tall plate mail wearing cat doing his best impression of godzilla makes me giggle in an unmanly fashion. Now i understand from randomly perusing the forums that sword/torch may not be optimal for running dungeons but my question is simple:

For story mode leveling is min/maxing really that important? One of the mistakes i made last time around was not running dungeons because i was under the impression that in order to run them properly you had to run a certain build, and that really killed the enjoyment for me. I understand that if i start running paths i may need to tweek while i’m doing them, but can i get away with SM with a “fun” build?

Thanks for any answers.