Guild Wars 2

Fafnir.5124:

You could always reroll to advoid him considering swamp is always first you only really wasting what 2mins to avoid a fight you don’t want to fight.

And an unknown time rerolling.

Mossman is honestly one of the reasons I prefer to start on underwater Fractal.

Dee Jay.2460:

Could it be a thing for Warriors or is it too similar to Knight’s and Cavalier gear to open any new horizons?

Well Sentinel’s is a thing, Soldier’s just with Vit major. And there’s already a “Knight’s” with Precision as the major for trinkets. I can’t see why Power>Precision=Toughness can’t be a thing.

More armor stat variety can only be a good thing – of course unless they lock it behind stupid drop recipes and ridiculous time gated nonsense as they have habit of doing.

/15charrrequired

Ezeriel.9574:

while regening 800-1000 health-per-second,

Healing signet is 362 base i believe, which is roughly on par with most heals that only “heal” in terms of HPS. Adrenal health is 125/240/360 base at 1/2/3 bars of Adrenaline every 3 seconds, commonly believed to be every second. I’m not sure where you got 800-1k HPS from.

OP is being ridiculous trying to address a known issue, but if precursors were reasonable obtainable outside of the TP everybody would be complaining about T6, lodestone etc. prices.

Because the good MMOs get bashed all the time.

“OMG WoW sucks! only ****** play that game!”
“OMG GW2 was so bad its dead nobody played after 1 month!”

These kind of people are silly, insubordinate children who envy success. And blatantly lie to themselves in effort to hide truth

The rule is, the more successful something is, the more hate it will get. Be that for games, famous people, music, global corporations, just about anything.

dlonie.6547:

Flissy.4093:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Necros offer a few things. Massive bulk, good vulnerability, strong debuffs in general, and decent self buffing abilities. Problem is, most of these traits are useless in organized groups.

Blah blah blah, snarky response mocking above poster, listing standard reasons why necros suck in dungeon party.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Necros offer a few things. Massive bulk, good vulnerability, strong debuffs in general, and decent self buffing abilities. Problem is, most of these traits are useless in organized groups.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Problem is, most of these traits are useless in organized groups.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

most of these traits are useless in organized groups.

Reading is an exploit.

Way to be an kitten.

They’re useless in unorganised groups too. Or at least “not even close to as good as practically every other profession” level of useless.

Zach.3264:

I haven’t played my Warrior in quite a while, however.. I geared this build last night and so far it’s great.

• Great survivability.
• Great condition management through Cleansing Ire, Warhorn, Food & Signet.
• Good mobility and CC
• And ofcourse.. permanent Fury and +5% damage

Build

You may wish to drop Furious Reaction as you already get permanent Fury through cripple and runes. You could possibly take Furious Speed and then drop Warrior’s Sprint and use those 2 points elsewhere.

I may be doing this shortly, as I really like the Spiked Armour trait. it’s excellent on builds like S/P Thief, GS Guardian, GS Warrior where they do a lot of fast attacks.

@OP, note that the build that Zach suggested is a WvW build, and as your initial post is about PvE you shouldn’t use it. As a rule, just avoid having any points in defense for PvE.

Annoying, but we all are guilty of it too.

Nope.

But that’s what happens when condis are the meta. You build to counter the meta.

I guess you can make them seperately for 2 reasons:

1. Incase you change your mind after purchasing a regular weapon
2. Ability to purchase a Hero weapon this season, and then the Gift next season.

Ropechef.6192:

thats the thing Fliss,

everything Necromancer brings to the table is gotten better elsewhere.

organized groups or even semi competent groups don’t need a necromancer. they literally bring nothing to the table.

So many of us the have full ascended Berzerker Necromancers have them sitting safely at home for casual runs with friends or open world mass slaughter.

such as it is.

I acknowledged Necros have a problem that needs addressing in my earlier post.

xgmz.5674:

Alright, so S/Sh not optimal in PvE…is it optimal on WvWvW?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an organised zerg running sword/shield Warriors no.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Necros offer a few things. Massive bulk, good vulnerability, strong debuffs in general, and decent self buffing abilities. Problem is, most of these traits are useless in organized groups.

I’m not sure what you mean by “massive bulk”, but the vuln is outsourced. Especially with Fiery Exploit Sword on a Weak Spot Ele or Sundering Thief, and even without these you never need a “vuln bot” as any good build seems to have the appropriate vuln traits just by default.

As for other meaningful debuffs, like what? Weakness? Unnecessary outside of high fractals and Warriors/Thieves can deal with that while dealing more damage too. By self buffing I’m going to assume you mean BiP, where oftentimes most of those stacks will be wasted. Stability Well? Hallowed Ground.

A Necro offers nothing unique that isn’t better obtained from elsewhere. If dagger cleaved, I wouldn’t be so reluctant to accept one.

Oh, and dem poison/dark fields are so OP right?

What do you expect people to do when people put caps on APs to join any instanced content?

Engie is FOTM in PvP now? kittenmit, that’s the only place I played my Engie do I really have to hang her up for now? QQ.

It seems a little ambitious to try and counter a build who’s strong point is flinging you around like a sack of spuds with a class that has stupidly limited amount of Stability. You can’t apply your conditions when you’re perma CC’d.

More power to you, but I believe it will mostly be futile.

Knowing that they unlock for all weights, I need to get them now. 800 tokens for the skin of all weights seems much more fair than 2400 :o

My advise to everybody is buy the weight you are likely to use the most, that way you can at least save a transmutation charge.

Highchu.3806:

Theres also no real point to using a Shield since stuns don’t work on boss Defiance and you never really need to block when you could just dodge/strafe for free. We already have the highest base armor+health so survivability shouldn’t be much of an issue outside of really high level fractals.

Not to mention Riposte on the Sword is just so much better in 99% of the situations than Shield Block is. Impale→Rip is straight up OP too.

It’s up to the active Dungeon community to stop kicking Rangers/Engineers on sight. While neither are optimal, both have builds that do not warrant kicking (if you’re that min-maxy, why are you even PUGging). Then if they are in a junk build, kicks ahoy!

It drives the players who WANT to play a Sword/X FrostSpotter Bot Ranger away, or the Vuln/Might stacking Grenadiers, because they don’t even get a chance to show that they DO actually run their classes meta.

I know I fall culprit to assuming every Ranger is a bearbow, and every Engineer is FT, but I’ve kicked that habit and ran into some very good players in meta builds of both. Often what I find is players in meta builds, even if rare, of the “lesser” classes are so much better than just getting another “COF Zerk Warrior” off the LFG.

Necros can GTFO on the otherhand, a Necro’s support really does need seeing to as they offer literally nothing right now.

Vallog: I don’t like delays. Where are my slaves?

Exemplar Talie: Slavery’s illegal in Kryta. Even the animals know that. It looks like some animals need to be reminded.

Vallog: You’ll regret those words when I whip the skin off your bones!

galen ubal.2807:

Happy to be of service, Flissy.
Good advice, too. I’m guessing that the skin is unlocked when you craft the item? Not that it matters, I suppose.
Sounds like a plan – seems I ought to buckle down and start doing dungeon runs. Thanks, all.

**ETA. Doy. Yah, you can unlock the skin and still sell the item…

I’ll try to clarify.

I, for example, have Sunrise. I’ve had it for a few months. If I craft Twilight now, use Twilight to unlock that skin too, then craft & sell Eternity, I will unlock the Twilight skin, keep my Sunrise skin (but lose the Legendary weapon itself, obviously), and be able to sell the Eternity for more than Twilight would have cost to craft.

A lot of players in a similar to position to me seemed to not care about the Legendary itself, and chose to recoup some of their cost while unlocking the partner skin too.

It’s a little convoluted and difficult to explain, but that is the reason buying Eternity is a lot cheaper than crafting it (it costs approximately 5,000g to craft given “perfect” clovers, but only costs ~4000g on a waiting order).

This won’t always be the case, people in situations like mine will diminish in time and the equilibrium will re-establish itself.

IVIUIEI.9631:

I think u can transmute AC weapons with legendary weapons to get make some of the effects glow bigger but only works in the night and in dungeons because AC weapons glow during the night only.

And then be stuck with the worst stats of all time. Soldier’s, Rampager’s and Magi’s. kitten !

Also the attached screenshots were not transmuted onto Ghastly.

If you like it, yes. If you don’t, no.

If you get Legendaries that you actually use, you will just end up with the same ones you see on everybody and their nan in the towns. Bifrost, Greatswords, Incinerator & Bolt. And surely by now, those Legendaries have lost their taste and appeal to you because you see them too dam often.

Take into consideration “other options” too. For example as much as I love Kudzu, it will be my last for my Warrior’s set as Wings of Dwayna is far too close in terms of beauty for a fraction of the price (actually free, ty PvP locker \o/).

nearlight.3064:

Farming the gold boss blitz gets you tons of mats and money, thats what I’d recommend.

I’d agree, I was there for one afternoon recently, but those things are an absolute pain to get into, and it would make sense to just spend the $60 on gems than buying a new mouse as spam clicking “join overflow” is sure to ruin it :P

Sean.8274:

Saint.5647:

Sean.8274:

CoF 1 & 2
AC 1 & 3
SE 1

These are generally the fastest dungeons IMO and the set of them can be done every day in a little over an hour netting you 7.25 gold (excluding drops).

As for repeating the same path over and over; CoF 1 is the fastest/easiest to bore yourself to tears with.

Tip: To maximize your gold from dungeons, buy RARE light armor pieces with your CoF (and higher level) dungeon tokens and salvage for ectos/silk.

TA (non-80 paths) are really easy and fast too, but most people do not do them for whatever reason.
HotW 1 is pretty fast, last boss is a bit of a pain though.
CoE 1,2,3 are all about the same and once you are experienced, fairly easy.

AC and CoF 2 are actually some of the slowest paths you can do in the game. PuGs love them because they are very lolmode but they are the worst use of your time. Flissy’s breakdown is much more accurate for your time to gold investment.

You are of course best off running with an optimized team in a guild or with friends (and voice coms). You’ll complete much, much faster than possible in a PuG.

Fair enough; and I don’t PuG lol. My group finds AC quick enough and painless to complete in a relatively short time since every fight is stackable with FGS. Only slow part is the timed burrows in P3.

Quick boss fights don’t necessarily mean a quick dungeon. AC is practically all time-gated BS. Path 1 is not so bad, but P2 and P3 are horrible for it.

People see “oh man AC is so easy and it gives 1.5g”, but it’s still poor gold/time in comparison to most other dungeons. I guess a redeeming factor is it has access to Soldiers armor to salvage for the inscription? I never take salvaging dungeon tokens into account in terms of reward/time as I don’t ever spend them.

Everything is viable when PvE is super easy.

If you’re using an “I play how I want build” with sub-par weapons it doesn’t matter, just run whatever floats your boat as you’ll be surrounded by like-minded players in equally awful builds. But that’s okay, because you all agree to run builds you want.

I don’t know what I can suggest. Usually I’d suggest a sub-par weapon set to run a vuln/might stacking bot build with banners, but I’ve come to think what’s the point of stacking Might when you will be with the PHIW people who are spread out because “stacking is an exploit”, ranging from 1200-1500 range and dealing sweet F.A damage, and close to 0 multiplied by 1.25 is still close to 0.

It’ll work, just prepare your butt to be kicked from any experienced run and be stuck with the casual players who will drain your entire free time on 1 or 2 dungeon paths.

Just ask yourself, does using Sword/Shield REALLY make up for the fun you lose by playing with horrible players that just want to make you quit humanity?

Do note I’m not necessarily degrading people playing in whatever build they want, they are more than free to do so, but I cannot fathom how anybody would find groups like that even remotely fun.

Don’t make Eternity. It’s cheaper to buy Eternity off the TP than it is to make it yourself (this is because a lot of players “unlocked” Sunrise & Twilight skins, then made Eternity and sold Eternity to recover some money, while keeping the unlocked Sunrise/Twilight skins).

If you would like Eternity, sell Dusk, finish up Sunrise, sell Sunrise, then buy Eternity, you will save somewhere around 1000-1500g, even after taxes, than if you make it yourself.

If you insta-sold Colossus I think it may have gone to me having bought mine yesterday :P

tiersen.5314:

i think you got the point..im downed often enough so i lose much dps…well ill try your trait build..can you tell me which traits to use?

Learning the encounters and attack tells of the boss, then timing your dodging appropriately, is a much better defense than just increasing your toughness or vitality.

As for traits, if you click the link it will take you to a build calculator where I included the traits to use. But to save you doing that:

0|
6| V, X, I
0|
6| VI, VIII, XIII
2| VI

This kind of thread pops up everywhere almost daily, so I’ll give my standard answer:

It’s this way because people found ways to exploit using them. There is no comment on changing it, although many players agree that they should at least be able to salvage Runes/Sigils from these items and receive NO Ectos etc. and leave them as un-toiletable.

I use Berserker on everything. It’s both quicker, and more satisfying. It doesn’t feel like playing the game when you don’t actually have to dodge as you have stacked up on Toughness & Vitality. Some guys in rT guild have made a video of an Arah path using bonkers armor sets like Clerics, Magi, Soldiers etc. and completed without dodging, and to me not needing to dodge is like not playing the game, it’s just pressing a rotation which sounds like work.

I want to note I use Rabid on my Warrior for soloing Arah. In a solo situation, it’s more defensive and on par DPS with Berserker, while giving me a break from my normal playstyle.

• SE P1 & 3
• CM P1, 2 & 3
• COF P1
• Arah P1 & 2
• HOTW P1
• TA Up

Others that are “slower” but can still be worthwhile are:

• AC P1, P2 & P3
• TA Forward
• Arah P3

Note that these are done on “pug levels” and not using speed record, optimal group timings.

If you’re not playing for fun, why is working overtime not an option? If you’re hell bent on making money in a game, and you’re boring yourself to do that, why not do it in a time efficient and productive manner?

Just an FYI, you will be much happier playing for fun and taking 6 months than grinding through boring methods for your pixels, only to lack the will to play after 2 weeks.

Left picture is the aura from Bolt, the Legendary Sword, and the right picture is the aura from Sunrise, one of the base Legendary Greatswords.

a t s e.9614:

After ~2800 armor you don’t gain much damage reduction. The tankiest builds in the game have a lot of regen/protection and not much toughness.

While I agree having 4k-5k armor is a bad thing because of the diminishing returns, Warriors have very limited access to regen (unless you count OP signet) and especially to protection.

Miss 1 evade and your dead? On a Warrior? I think you’re exaggerating here chum.

Your gear just dictates how much damage you soak up and how forgiving mistakes are. If you’re struggling in Berserker, swap out to Knights and sacrifice damage for defense (big mistake, but I can appreciate not everybody cares about optimal play).

0/6/0/6/2 is a build that can really carry groups by keeping the entire group at 20+ Might stacks. It might suit you, it has +300 more Vitality than your 6/5/0/0/3 build. Strength runes are expensive, so Hoelbrak or Scholar are a more “budget” option.

What I would suggest is to try the build I gave in your Berserker armor, and if you’re still struggling even given the extra Vitality, then swap to Knights.

A few things to note about that build:

1. Very reliant on Greatsword for the Might stacking capability. You will seldom actually use a second weapon so can become quite stale.
2. Your damage is sacrificed, but your groups damage is increased. You also become more “tanky” because of the Vitality.
3. No fast hands. This can become a problem on more difficult encounters where you swap to proc energy Sigils. If this becomes an issue, just remove 1 point from Arms and put them into Discipline so the build would be 0/5/0/6/3.

It’s because the bads want to join the good groups so they can get carried.

mtpelion.4562:

Flissy.4093:

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

You misunderstand the market. If precursors suddenly fall from the sky for everybody, T6 will fly universally. Imagine if you can save 800g by crafting Dusk compared to it’s price now, the majority of that 800g would just shift onto the cost of T6.

To elaborate on this, since T6 impacts MANY markets, not just legendaries, the shock to the entire game economy would be pretty significant. Imagine exotic and ascended gear, top level potions, and sigils/runes being several hundred gold each (around what we pay now for Precursors on the TP) because of the increased material prices.

That’s why any type of Precursor crafting will come with a LENGTHY time gate.

You were exaggerating a bit on the non-Legendary front. As prices go up, demand drops, and supply will increase as people try to profit off the spikes, either by selling the goods they no longer wish to use, or actively farming for profit.

Sigil/Rune at “around … precusor” (which is a range of about 1000g+ btw) price would have maybe a demand of single figures which would be instantly filled.

T6 would fly up as shock demand from people getting their pres, but the other markets that use T6 would not catch up in time and certainly would not rise at the same rate. I’m unsure of the term, but I’ll call it secondary demand.

WingLegacy.7159:

I still say NO TO precusor crafting. Legendaries are common enough dont make it more common…..

You misunderstand the market. If precursors suddenly fall from the sky for everybody, T6 will fly universally. Imagine if you can save 800g by crafting Dusk compared to it’s price now, the majority of that 800g would just shift onto the cost of T6.

All this would result in the cost Legendaries with a cheaper precursor, Kamo, Moot, Minstrel etc. rising through the roof.

If I had to pick 1 comp for everywhere, 1 Guard, 1 Warrior, 1 Thief, 2 Ele.

PUGs always call me a noob for not bringing Warbanner on Lupi.

I actually prefer it when PUGs are dead for phase 3 so I don’t get bubbled.

When I send players a potion specific to the dungeon and they don’t even use it.

PUGs using Endure Pain to save them from needing to dodge.

People who run out of SR

This list will be endless.

You can just use Sunrise & Twilight if it bothers you.

I’m sick of such a huge time sink being spent on Eternity, it’s been changed at least 3 times that affects such a small (likely under 1%, but I don’t have evidence to back that) of the population. And even then, not all of those people like the changes.

Focus on the masses, not the tiniest minority.

Each in the gem store for only 800 gems!

Buy full masterwork rabid with superior undead runes, 2/6/0/0/6 and wreck the gauntlets face using s/s lb.

As a rule except particular encounters, I go Axe/Warhorn with Damage% Axe & Energy Warhorn. That way, I have Warhorn to help slowbies keep up in running sequences while having axe-auto attack if I need to swap for Energy sigil.

If I’m the “puller” in the group, I’ll swap Warhorn to Sword at bosses as #4 usually keeps aggro (I’m looking at you, Agent Spire) and allows me to pull without crippling.

Evalia.7103:

OldSomalia.6180:

They’re trash so you can pay 50 copper or 1 or 2 silver for a moderate buff rather than 12 to 15 silver for the non-welfare version/similar type of food.

Just go TP the ones you think are crap, then TP the ones that aren’t.

Some of the crap ones might be expensive anomalies due to whatever special ingredient to cook them.

It’s pretty straightforward.

Is that why the food that is quite straightforwardly better costs 8 times less(2.5 silver for Koi Cake as opposed to 20 for truffle burger)? Your explanation has zero sense whatsoever.

In the case of Koi Cake, it’s because they were an event item rather than a crafted one.

Are they possibly tooltip errors? Just a stab in the dark, this game is known for tooltip errors :P

Things like Teq and Boss Blitz are steps in the right direction. Punishing lack of coordination, with very fair and impressive rewards when groups coordinate.

The only thing I really despise about Teq is the time constraint that exists due to megaservers. If you don’t get their at least half an hour, if not one hour, before the event, you will likely join a poor megaserver and not even knock him down 25%. In that frame of mind, the reward is totally unsatisfactory for the time spent waiting and is reason I never do Teq outside of when someone in /g is doing a guild mission with someone else.

I tried Liadri with Squeamish, Frailty & On Fire & Hamstrung, the burning killed me before I even got her out of phase 1.

I doubt it’s possible.

Wanze.8410:

phys.7689:

TLDR, actual TP players lose little to no money, but gain money the overall. Whether the TP is a net loss in value for the economy is totally and completely irrelevant to whether its a net loss for players. TP players essentially suck money out of players who dont know/care to gain wealth.

Is this bad or not? thats up for debate, but dont try to hide with half truths, obfuscations, and double talks.

OK, i make profit by playing the game, just like anybody else. What a revelation.

“omg but tp isnt plyng the gaem, u paly tpwarz2 y u evn ply enymoar?”
-the majority, 2012-2014.