Guild Wars 2

I hate this heart achievement, only thing left to legendary armor.

Today i was screwed in one last “greens” i used the special skill to go a green and stay stucked in the same place without can move and with the special skill animation running.

Im i the Cairns club too, i have all the items from the collection minus Jade Hearts. I can only play raids 1 day at week so is a pain. I Will try it again this saturday.

Yes , you need less people in Green circle yeah, but you have less people to go green circles too. When you need 4 people and some one fail to go you have 5 people for backup. If 1 people fail there you only have 2 people to backup, the rest of the party need be more alert that in the 10 players mode.

Gorseval is the same, yeah less spirits only 1 less, but if someone have issues doing soft CC and stoping his spirit you have less backup to, but well you can have 4 spirit too, 3 soft CC and 2 people doing begging the DPS rotation and killing orbs same time is not a big change, the spirit part in gorseval is really easy with 10 people too.

The rest of the boss are timer and HP changes to escalate the DPS from a 5 member party how you said, no change in the “real mechancs and dificulty” that is what is supposed to make funnier the raids, no timers.

The boss with 10 people = super fun but if you have the same boss with the same mechanic but for 5 people = pinata ?

Sorry but to me this is only a lazy excuse, the dificculty of the bosses shouldnt depend quantity of players fightning againts him.

The rigid setup issue exit in 10 people group too, you still have to wait for a chrono tank, or a druid healer, or a revenant, or a PS or a Tempest etc… The issue with the setup is not for 5 or 10 or 20 players mode, people will always try to go with the most optimized setup, and this is for the lack of balance in PVE with GW2, the last patch updates are balancing for PVP league instead split PVP/PVE/WVW like did in GW1 because they think that we are too stupid to read the skills, but well, that another story.

Would do ?

VG exp will be only 2 people in green circles, but if some of this 2 people file = wipe, and escalate HP of Red, Blue and Green guardian to a 1 , 2 , 2 split. Yeah you can think that will be more easy if only need 2 people instead 4, But if someone from this 2 members fail you only will have 2 backup players ( i dont count the tank )to go the green circle instead 5.

Mathias to me will be more easier to make it a 5 encounter member, the Poison, red aoe, hadoken , and CC sacrifices, reflects will be the same . The only especific attack that will be more “easier” will be the targeted AOE bombs because the floor will be less covered for the split, make them bigger in 5 group mode and you have your answer.

Gorseval, the only change where will be in the ghost split, make 3 ghost instead 4 to 2 members made soft CC, 2 member DPS rotationa and the last member to destroy the darkness orbs. The rest will be same, gorseval is basically a DPS check, the glide, CC and eggs attack will be the same.

Sabetha will need change the spawn cannons to rotate the cannons with less people, the champ spawn, the flamethrower etc….dont depend if the party have 5 or 10 members, is only dodge AOE and dps check againts the champ.

Sloth still will have 1 random tank, 1 grub the only change will be less player making DPS and CC to him, reduce HP and CC to escalate to less players with less grubs because you will have less reflects in a 5 players member.

I dont know, i dont see a really big change to the boss mechanics in a 5 players group.

I have completed 1 and 2 wing, to me the hardest part is not play the raid, is prepare the raid and find enough people to make good tries.

More than a easy mode the raid need a 5 players to little groups , all mechanic bosses can be translated to a 5 member party right now without made a easy mode. With a 5 players casual the access will be less restritcted to small groups or guild that cant find enough people and they will able to play and practice the a real raid enviroment instead waiting for find a group and never get a real experience of bosses mechanic.

To me the fist issue with raid is not the dificulty, i love the difficutly but i would love a 5 players mode to faster tries and when you and your group of players have a job and only can coincide with 4-5 friends, right now is too time consuming, and this is bringing the same issues from GW1 and when arena.net needed launch the Heroes in GW1.

I remember when Arena.net announce that GW2 will not have healer and the classic holy trinity and post this webcomic in his articles:

http://gw2101.gtm.guildwars2.com/global/includes/images/en/healing-death-comic01.jpg

Well now that exact my exp when try to do raids xd, not the difficulty trying to kill Mathias or Sabetha.

Like Obal said previously, the meta dps build for guardian has been update and include DH replacing Radiance:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/page/8#post5684551

Thx Obal for the build, really surprised seeing Bow replacing Mace+Torch in rotation but at same time happy to have a new useful and fun weapon to play in the meta build.

Well im go to bed, after wait for 17h for a fix bug tp the prologue mission i give up, very dissapointed with arena.net that i cant play HoT in the launch date after had prepurchased since day 1.

Did you:
Crash out of the mission?
Quit out of the mission? Also how did you quit out if so?
Lock up from no cutscene playing?
Fully patch client or still streaming?

-No
-Yes, i quit the mission to help a friend, i quit it simple using a different zone Waypoint, they are enable.
-No
-Fully Patch

I thin that doesnt matter if crash or quit it, simple if you leave mission for any reason you are srewed. I dont understand the reason to an “automatic instance” to make the quest, why not a “map star portal” like the rest of personal story missions.

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Shadogate.9124:

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Shadogate.9124:

Lauren Kamieniecki.6245:

Hi dudes -

I am reading the thread, and the testers are too. Some of the first few pages:

1. No extra character slot! – These are added once per week. Please submit a CS ticket if you don’t have one after a week has passed.
2. Stuck/frozen in Torn from The Sky – If you have not fully patched the client you will freeze when hitting a tripwire while the client downloads the missing cinematic. Solutions are to fully patch or wait for it to download. I know the waiting looks pretty sketch and you just want to push the close button or force quit.
3. Missing Achievement Points – We think this has to do with Halloween Achievement points from 2014 being reset in 2015. Investigating.

But no mention of anything about the VERY FIRST MISSION locking people out of the rest of the content..

Ah yes, I was only on page 4 when I read this – I have finished now.

Locked out seems to be solved with zoning from Silverwastes to Verdant Brink and then starting the mission again from there. It’s not confirmed yet to work, I only post after internal confirmation and that is in progress.

My original report is on page 1… Plus how can we solve it by zoning to Verdant Brink when we haven’t even got there yet..

The tester’s theory is this will work, but he’s not 100% sure yet.

Im stuck in the first mission with the state mission “Gather at the rally point….” we cant access normally to Verdant Brink, we can go throught the portal because we dont have complete the mission.

I use the “teleport to a friend” to access the first Verdant Brink tp without unlock the Masteries and test your theory. I quit the chapter, went to Verdant Brink, active it and go back to SilverWasters throught the portal and can confirm that this NOT work.

I go back to Silverwastes, no to the instance mision and there no NPC or mark to enter.

No more theories , the Expansion is out almost for 10H with no answer about this issue until now, there were minor updates but only theories how to fix a gamebreaking bug that dont let me play a game wich i paid 100€.

Another update, not fixed, still stuck in Prologe: rally to maguma mission, i cant enter to “instance” zone to active the mission after crash the game.

I know that arena.net is looking this, but i spend 100€ to play the game, and a devoleper answer for a Gamebreaking bug that dont let you play the game with your character will be good.

Still bug , please fix it, i cant enter in the expansion with my main character.

Same issue, reset in prologue and now im stuck, cant reset the mission to restart or enter in again instance zone.

Yep, i dont have the locked spot for Royal Guard either.

I suppose is a bug

edit: Ok fixed, here is the weird thing, i double click, show message of Royal Outfit unlocked like another skin but sent my outfit to the bank( no, i didnt have the bank open when double click it so is double weird) I pick it again, unlocked with right click and worked.

I recive the outfit but i double click to unlock it, dissapeard and is not in the Outfit Hero panel to choose , i suppose that they unlock it next days :S

Really sad to see how we lost our only new source of bleed in the whole class, now back to only burn.

I dont really like how necessary is take heavy light to take benefict from the rest of long bow traits using knowback→cripple, i really dont like the random auto-knockback, i want to choose when knockback my enemy and no punish my melee team mates auto knockback a enemy that they are hitting, and if i get another trait instead heavy light my another traits like dulled sens and zealot agresion are practically useless. Sorry but i think that if 2 trait are useless if i dont take a third one thar is a really bad design.

Traps are still useless and we lost our only bleed source, sorry but i agree that right now our DH is a big mess Karl and we need a lot of revamp design and not only a few touches to fix all. I think that the thematic traits of robert with reaper, chrono and bersk with a whole new traits will improve this.

The new things that will improve a DH in a guardians are the thibgs that we lack, we alredy have a lot of support , defesnive and melee traits, i will go with 3 thematic trait lines like robert spec, 3 traits to improve traps and add new condition damage guardian with all weapons like bleed on crit, confusion on blinds etc…, 3 traits to improve lb and range combat, and 3 to improve our new virtes and with senergy between them but not dependent to mix them, that all give DH reason to play it, but sadly right now i think that right now we are only try to fix a wreck building when is much better destroy it and build a good new one from scratch.

Same here, and all my collection were erased as well, i have 0/0 in all my collection, good patch xd

I test it my support build in PVE and i preffer run Radiance now instead Valor, right now the Valor only give us Strengh in Numbers/Stalward defence, and right now both us a little underwhelming.

Now with Radiance you can get a little free 15% critic with Mace who help to proc Vigorus Precission and using Selfless Daring more often , with Justice is Blind and Renewal Justice you can spam blind in pack mobs to help your party. Finally get Perfect Inscriptions using Courage Sigil and Cleric your sigil heal 2K each 10 second and “only” have 144 CD , 36 less second.
In PVE your party have to stack and most of your heals have to be in melee range so 300 range doenst matter to me.

Honor can be good in WvW or PVP where the extra defense can save your life but i found that in PVE right is not worth, maybe if the shield trait would give aegis …

Obal form DNT has updated his build for the new core spec traits

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

The mace is fantastic, the simbol damge is pretty good, and proc the new Radiant Fire to use with torch pretty fast.

Thx for the update Obal , interest the new combo with the combo using torch and Radiant Fire trait to use a 2x Zealot Flame, is a shame that the sword is useless now compared with mace.

I found that feel much more comfortable using Absolute Resolution instead Supreme Justice almost always, i dont know if is a important lose of dps.

If necro especialization have shout need be songs and would be called Necrodancer

Awesome game

Hi

In the Ready Up Karl comment that this trait will be likely get changed because is a bit is a bit redundant, then my idea is why not merged it with “Big Game Hunter” ?.

We have 2 Grandmaster trait to improve our new virtues and 1 to improve bow but nothing about traps, our new mechanic skill, only a adept trait, so if merged this two trait now we had a empty GM trait put a trap one.

Traps are our new door to condition damage using adept trap using Piercing Light to put bleeding and only have one trait to improve trap, so i would put a new GM trap that improve 20% recharge of traps and put another different condition like confusion or torment, i love particullary the torment idea in traps, if they want to get out of a trap they will recive more damage, of course too many stack of torment would be too OP but with a short torment duration i think that will improve traps more and Guardian damage condition if you want go a trapper DH.

I like the idea but i prefer Signter of Courage go to Shout, and “Feel My Wrath” a signet.

Signet are in the offensive trait line of guardian, so the traits to improve a “offensive” Elite will be better there, and shout are in the “support” trait line, so much better to a heal/support elite.

I had about 4500 hours in my guardian and i was so dissapointed in this announcement, longbow is Ok but the issues is that arena.net take teh easy way, put it traps and now you are a blue glowing ranger called Dragon Hunter using the same Barrage animation and putint glowing traps, seriously ?.

First all the name is so cheesy, and if the reaseon is for the rumor that Braham take the Eir bow and now will be a dragon hunter will be worse, the lore behind will be awful, Tentonhammer wrote an article about the Dragon Hunter and i cant be more agree.

http://www.tentonhammer.com/editorial/guild-wars-2-thoughts-dragonhunter

“We’re all hunting dragons in an effort to protect the world and yet a guardian and all subsequent guardians now share this highly specific and slightly unimaginative title. It would be like calling the necromancer specialization Vinehunter because one killed Marjory’s sister.”

The chronomancer fells unique to mesmser, and his skills are skills that seem that only a mesmer could use, but the skills from a Dragon Hunter feels like another profesion like Ranger, Thief, or Warrior could use, the only difference, the blue glowing, and that is.

And if you still want GW2 skills from another profession improving offensive support from backline using chants like Paragon from GW1 or another GW2 skills like offensive group Mantras, spiritual soldiers to buff alias similar to banners etc.., that improve damage or add new conditions , still skills from GW but more Guardian flavor related.

And the name….that name…..sigh….

I will wait to today Twitch but im pretty dissapointed with arena.net and Guardian designers, with my 4500H from guardian im seriulsy thinking of changing my main character so if arena.net wanted to be the Guardian players excited sorry, im out that train.

After the last update still same crash in Fullscreen, still FPS drop and no word from arena.net.

Same issue here, before update work without issues, i just hope a word for Arena.net because i preffer have the old camera and can play in Fullscreen and have my previuos FPS back.

Alredy reported

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/GW2-won-t-start-screen-flickers/first#post4883377

Temporary fix, launch game in window mode puting this -windowed in the launcher adress

Example:

“…\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -windowed

And in window mode the game work fine, after this you can select in the Graphic Options to Windowed Fullscreen and still work, but if you select a custom resolution in Fullscreen crash again, so you can play in Windowed Fullscreen until there a fix.

I have a friend with another different usb head set and have the same issue.

Hi

I had a MAD Catz Freq 4D USB headset , before the patch just work Ok, the game recognize Ok in the F11 audio menu, and i can switch between my sound devices, but now i only recoginize “default device” and cant change betwen my sound devices and i hear the game only for my speakers.

Of course the headset work Ok with any another software like always, just issues in GW2 after the patch.

Hi

I had a MAD Catz Freq 4D USB headset , before the patch just work Ok, the game recognize Ok in the F11 audio menu, and i can switch between my sound devices, but now i only recoginize “default device” and cant change betwen my sound devices and i hear the game only for my speakers.

Of course the headset work Ok with any another software like always, just issues in GW2 after the patch.

Yes , thx a lot

Hi

Im searching for the tittle song used in Ascalon zones, usually is played in Fields of Ruin or Blazeridge Steppes and it seems to use some masculine chorus in some parts.

I have heard the whole Soundtrack a couple of times trying to find it but i still have no luck.

Edit: Is not the song used in Wayfarer Foothills Svanir Shaman world boss that use chorus too.

Yeah, still bugged, the ladder is wrong right now.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/eu/wvwgold

Is just me, or the many servers dont recive his points in theTournament Leaderboard update today, for example in Europe Gold , Baruch Bay should have now 8 points and be 2/3 tied with Desolation,

I think that arena.net should said something about this, i know that they are reading the feedback etc, etc…

But a word if they are thinking to change at least the new respawn timer before 15 April should be good because now are awful.

-1 boss each 5 minutes or groups of 3 bosses at same time each 15 minutes with max respawn of 1H – 1,5H like now, would be better, at least you can chose what bosses you could kill in a 2 hour gameplay session.

Is worse than the dynamic bosses with Api Times webpages without Megaserver, but at least better than 1 boss each 15 minutes with 5 hours respanw like the Golem MKII.

I just wish that kickback the megaserver of their planning.

My major worry is the Boss Event Timers, is one of the few things who i enjoy to play when im alone between updates, i had 3XXX hours played, a few legendaries and ascended armors and farm like GW1 is one of few because i still play, and if they nerf it the ecto will skyrocket by the way.

I know that today will explain the new Events i will wait , to my arena.net should put a timer ingame for each server and this will “fix” it.

I

I love Guardian because is the most closest thing to the GW1 Paragon, and i love it :P

To me Communal Defense will work great with a Mace Support Guardian, Mace 3# has a 15 sec CD block, so will have always a block ready to spam Aegis each 20 sec.

1 : Can every player participate into this tournament?
A: Yes, you can subscribe to the tournament, you want to play it, be the best in your continent, and this is the hard part.

This is no a normal reward for PVP and no a incentive to play PVP, this torunament will play people that alredy play PVP for thousand of hours., this is a Continent Tournament.

You cant compare the LW rewars that are really easy to do to this with this Tournament, of course that reward are worst, and you cant compare the quality of PVE rewards using only LW because PVE is much more than this, if you want your legendary only playing some hours at week to get LW who are really easy to get all PVE people will have a legendary weapon.

If reason of people complain is because they want a pve “free legendary” too and all this is for jealusy, well they have 2 options, play a lot of WvW and PVE and not only LW, or be the best in PVP.

And i know what im talking about when im speak about PVE rewards, lw, legendaries etc.., after all my time playing this game, and this is nothing compared to win a Continental Tournament.

Seriulsy, this is a Continet NA/Europe tournament, only the best team of Europe and NA will win the legendary.

This 1000xtimes harder to farm a legendary , and i alredy have 2 ( Sunrise and Flameseeker )and almost the third one complete ( Bifrost ), and i almost play PVE exclusive, but i dont understand the angry for this.

I laugh when people tell, “only 5 match of PVP”, seriusly, hey, im going to win the Superbowl with my friends, because i only have to win 1 American Football game, and after this, im going to win the Uefa Championship League because i only have to win 6 Football games.

If the winner team gain 30.000$ like another Esports like Lol in a continent Tournament is great, fair price, but a legendary, a ingame item = comunity rage.

Its funny to people react “Hey they win a Legendary for win a EU/NA Continent Tournament” its no fair.

Seriulsy i have 2 legendaries, and almost the third one complete, and i think that is totally fair, is 1000X times most hard be the best Eu/Na Team to win this tournament that farm a legendary.

I dont knot if people only read the part of “win a legendary” and think that this is a nourmal tournament that people playing a 1 week of PVP could win or they give legendaries every week or something.

Th major nerf is in the trinkets, the crit.damage in a Berseker armor set is almost the same, maybe 1% or 2% less.

Same issue here

Same issue here, and the new lion arch scene dont start either, just another polished patch.

ArchonWing.9480:

A recent thread may be of help; more than what I could do.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/World-Vs-World-The-Guardian-and-You/3750026

I prefer setup #2 if you’re going to zerg. More soldier. IMO too much precision for an AH zerg build is not good because the extra precision isn’t that helpful and you need a health pool to deal with conditions. You’re not running empowering might to power your AH, so the crit is not as useful and even if you did 35% crit with occasional fury buffs from people is more than enough. Thus drop Retributive Armor for Purity or Strength in Numbers. Defender’s flame is a bit dubious too, so if you want to keep Retributive armor, drop defender’s flame then. Personally I’d stick both Purity/Strength in numbers in. Passive condition removal + extra armor is worth the crit chance loss, plus SiN is good for allies. Taking 5% less direct damage while having those offensive stats still is not a bad idea I’d say.

I do not think Divinity runes are a good idea as guardians don’t really benefit from “all stats”; condition damage is utterly wasted. You’d be better off with soldier runes/melandru runes to boost your condition removal and survival or something like hoelbrak if your intent is more damage. Although since you have them already, I guess you could still keep them.

Lastly I’m not a fan of untraited purging flames. It seems like the cooldown is a bit too much and it leaves your POV shouts to be pretty weak.

If you are small grouping though either 1 or 3 is fine. Maybe 1. You’ll need to figure out which activity you prefer more.

Deathmond.7328:

Guardian without 1000 healing? Seems you are playing solo or too selfish.
I see only one really good choice if you wanna to be guardian – cleric + soldier\sentinel
If you wanna to play with high crit\crit damage just go and play for warrior.

Cleric mace guardian is solid in wvw, but there’s a reason why soldier AH guardians are considered standard in big groups (the 0/5/30/30/5 is pretty much the meta build in the OP) and highly sought for. . “Selfish” Ah guardians provide front line support while still being able to do some damage; it’s not just a dichotomy between damage and support just like wvw is not, contrary to popular belief, just about solo play and blob vs blob.

Besides, there’s better things to use than AH solo…

Thx

The traits were a little messy because i put them fast to calculate the gear stats, i never use Defense Flame :p

I change a little the Build 2 to put Soldier runes and without lose too overal stats from Divinity Runes like %Critic and C.Damage.

No Food Buffs or Infusions:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vUAQJARWlsApVo1CxYI8DRRkLwWA2DMC/Oe9IhUkhA-zUCBYfBiIAI1EK7kIjtyqIasKbYaXCy6XoaYIAA-w

Power: 1877
Attack: 3032
Critic: 46%
C.Damage: 65%
Armor: 3022
HP: 17105

Another variation:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vUAQJAxelsApVo1CxYI8DRRkLwWA2DMC/Oe9IhUkhA-zECBYfAEBApmMasZnAVWFRjVZDT7Ky6XCpAA-w

Power: 1887
Attack: 3042
Critic: 45%
C.Damage: 56%
Armor: 3025
HP: 18175

1K more of HP but less C.Damage

Hi

Im crafting my ascended Armor to WvW after get the PVE one, and have some doubts between 3 gears, i alredy have the trinkets for the two options and the runes from the my previous exotic armor, the only left is craft he Ascended one.

The 2 builds have the same traits, weapons, NO FOOD BUFFS, skill etc.. the change is in the Gear/Trinkets.

First , my previous exotic one converted to ascended:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vUAQJARWlsApVo1CxYI8DRRkLwWA2DMmxOe9QhUkhA-zECBYfBiIAI1EK7kIjtqpIasKbYaXCy6XJFA-w

Power:1937
Attack: 3092
Critic: 51%
Armor: 3001
HP: 16055
C.Damage: 77%

Second one, 1K more HP but less overal stats:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vUAQJARWlsApVo1CxYI8DRRkLwWA2jKmxOe9giAAAA-z0xAY/AREAyeFRjtqVENWlNm2FQ/uoaA-w

Power: 1917
Attack: 3072
Critic: 48%
Armor: 3002
HP: 17175
C.Damage: 60%

Third Bonus one, have a little variation from first build, 5% less critic but a little more power, HP and armor.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vUAQJARWlsApVo1CxYI8DRRkLwWA2DMmxOe9QhUkhA-z0BBYfBiIAI7sIasVNFRjVZDT7SQW9KpAA-w

Power: 1969
Attack: 3124
Critic: 46%
Armor: 3031
HP: 16495
C.Damage: 77%

I know that the difference is minimal but i want to know if you will change 1K HP for other stats in WvW before craft it, and help another people who have doubts too about what armor craft to WvW.

Thx all

edit: Add a third bonus one.

Same issue here, after this patch if you have the game in Spanish the game select automaticly the Spanish/ Text Selected in Audio option wich dont exist.

In F11 General Options select Text Language in Spanish , and change Audio Language to English and work ok again.

To me they are the Irrawady Dolphins heads with legs xD.

Ok thx a lot , i stick to 10/30/0/5/25 then, i was using your 20/25/0/0/25 and i really like to dynamic event with GS and easy dungeons where we dont need vigor and i was searching something hybrid to do Arah and Fractals without Hammer without change the build many times , its a shame that we dont have any fast change build method like the GW1 templates.

Hi

This days im just using much more GS that 1H sword in the rotation or indungeons or Arah and just for fun in PVE events, im thinking to change from 10/30/0/5/25 to 15/25/0/5/25 to win Weakness in GS symbol over the RHS.

Should i do this or stick to 10/30/0/5/25 or change it ? Another option is go 10 honor for the shout CD trait.

thx