Guild Wars 2

Really appreciate the responses some good things to start with there – Silberfederling i’ll add you in 5 minutes, appreciate the offer bud

Hi,

New to Warrior (used my boost) and enjoying trying out a bunch of different builds at the mo and working out the mechanics. Played Engi & Druid PVP main for a while but branching into Rev & Warrior recently.

Was hoping people could list their tips & tricks (simple or less well-known) for PVP (and also PVE) with Warrior that would speed up my learning of the class – apart from the main skills I don’t have a great understanding of how to play my role optimally

Thanks to anyone who contributes

Ridiculously heavy handed and dumb nerf. Embarassingly poor.

“permanent 100% crit chance on a highly mobile, bursty, heavy armor class was a good idea. Permanent 100% crit chance. Permanent 100% crit chance.”

Big fan of the frandliest person on NA…but it’d be nice if people could read.

This isn’t 100% crit chance. It’s 100% increase in the effectiveness of Fury, aka Fury does 40% increase to crit chance instead of 20%

I don’t play a Rev but I don’t think they need any changes at all, they get absolutely melted by condis and can be focused easily enough once you have avoided attacking them in Glint heal, plus their decreasing dps in team fights, with minions/pets close by…even boxes on Khylo. It’s all L2P issues once again.

Just a small Q i’ve never been sure on,

In a PvP setting with a Glint/Shiro build obviously starting the game in Glint to buff your esteemed teammates is the right idea, however how do you guys enter a fight? Do you put all buffs on until energy depletes then enter fight in Shiro for the mobility? Do you use Facet of Nature with buffs until automatically switches off to avoid longer cooldown?

I realise there’s probably different ways to do it depending on the variables but I always feel kinda clumsy going into a fight in Glint, slowly running up to enemies to get in Sword range etc.

Any recommendations appreciated!

Yeah I agree #FirstWorldProbs and all that but the main problem for me is that the Elite Wings of Glory style, of almost ‘stained glass on fire’ looks EPIC and then as soon as you upgrade to the Legendary version its back to Anet’s favourite Feathery Wings version 703_rev4.png

If it wasn’t for the pointless need to show off my kitten to people on an MMO that neither care nor will remember, I’d keep my Elite Wings of Glory equipped full time.

arKRazor.8654:

Other pulls require your opponent to stand on top of the outermost crenelation in order to be effective, the mesmer pull doesn’t seem to care most times.

That said, different doesn’t necessarily mean OP.

“Crenelation”.

Just wow. Fantastic word. Well played my man/woman.

declan.3968:

I’m curious, do people still click F to eat food?

I usually drop 1-2 Cake feasts in the middle of enemy zerg, but never stick around long enough to see if I’ve cost someone their 20 silver.

Hahahahahahaah man that really made me laugh. At work. Which is dangerous.

Tip o’ the cap to you sir.

OP = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iMye3_bxgY

Thanks Naqaj, hadn’t considered that – yes it would need to be the base duration of course…seems simple now. Thanks for your help (and yours Tom – top pedantry there, haha)

Hi Wolf

English is fine! I think you are referring in general to the hobosacks – currently a big discussion with lots of people agreeing with you here – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Hobo-Sacks-A-Terrible-Fashion-Statement/page/14#post3834344

Last I heard there was a teasing hint that the devs may be doing something about it but wouldn’t expect it for a long time yet!

Rgds

I’ll keep it short, one thing I can’t seem to find detail on;

For example, if the bonuses for runes go like this…

Rune 1/6 – +25 of x stat
Rune 2/6 – +10% burn or bleed or chill duration (example)
Rune 3/6 – +50 of x stat
Rune 4/6 – +10% burn or bleed or chill duration (example)
Rune 5/6 – +100 of x stat
Rune 6/6 – *inflict (the above cond) on heal/hit etc. for 5 seconds

is the duration of the condition applied on the 6th rune already accounting for the boosts in durations of the 2nd and 4th rune? I’m assuming that’s how it works just can’t find it confirmed anywhere. So the 5 seconds wouldn’t be boosted by a further 30% duration as to get the 6th you obviously have to have the prior runes equipped?

Thanks

Man this hurts, these all look so good and I have to run in WvW (pretty much all I play) with character models turned to LOWEST so I can’t even see everyone’s pretty amours!

(My laptop can run Far Cry 3 / BF4 on Highest settings absolutely fine but in big zergs it’s down to <10fps if I have settings past Low)

:(

Thanks again Bombs, you’ve been a big help since I’ve been trying to re-educate myself.

I was really liking the look of sigil of Torment – however with the Battle sigil the 9sec cooldown on that would make it basically pointless? in between all my many kit swaps? Am i getting that right?

So yeah, Battle/Corruption looks like a good choice, pending any changes I haven’t heard about on 15th.

Cheers

Hmm. Wasn’t thinking along those lines for a Condi Dmg engineer….but seen as I’m 9-months-out-of-game-rusty and I’m reading your signature I should probably give it some thought….

Cheers

Hi all,

Been out the game for a while and trying to pick (in my head) sigils that i’ll potentially invest in after the changes on the 15th. These will be used on my Pistol/Shield Engineer which I mainly use in WvW.

Wondered what people are currently enjoying out there and if a few folk could throw their opinions in the hat.

I’ve read up on the Sigil shared cooldowns etc. and think i mostly understand the jist of it.

Currently considering a Sigil of Fire on the Pistol and a Sigil of Bursting on the shield (+6% condition damage).

Thanks a lot!

Doesn’t everyone kind of RP in a small way in their head whilst playing though? Maybe that’s just me then. Surely RP’ers can merge the necessities of successful PVP play with a bit of RP’ing within reason, without anyone spitting their dummy out coz they’re not ‘elite’ and serious enough.

A group of engineers could no doubt RP while staying more than competitive/useful to their server as a roaming group supply capping etc. Hell of a lot more beneficial to the overall performance of the server than people entering just to lounge around at the BLTP etc.

^ further to the good points these guys stated, I’d say there’s lots of opportunities for RP type Engi-roles in WvW.

I can only speak combat wise, but as an example, last night playing for Desolation in Baruch Bay (I think) we had catapulted that corner of their wall down right at the left hand side of the map past the supply camp (can’t remember the name of the keep?)

Anyway, we had catapulted the wall down and moved further in ready to launch an attack on the keep. Enemy zerg were trying to push back in, but we had them bottlenecked through the hole in the wall we’d created.

I posted up on the top of the enemy wall right above where the bottleneck was and spent 5 minutes just raining grenades onto the bottleneck with the odd break to chuck a Supply Crate Drop or an Elixir Gun 5 down for the friendly melee fighters below. Held wave after wave off with a smaller force and managed to take the keep.

Was good fun and a good example of how if you play smart, play different and position yourself well constantly, you’ll always have a kinda Engineer-y RP situation to invent (see what i did there) in WvW.

OK I Did It – Thanks a lot for the heads up, have deleted the attachments, hope no-one tries to steal my account :S They won’t find much gold on it anyway, haha.

Fairly sure the Nvidia card is running – tried to update to the most recent drivers a few days ago but installation wouldn’t complete properly – apparently a problem a lot are having. Will look into installing the 331.58 drivers later today – can’t be any worse than current crash-frequency.

MrYoso – Would you be able to explain what Msi Afterburner is and how I control it? I swear if I could get no crashes on this game it would relieve an unbelievable amount of stress from my gaming

Also have this bug, especially annoying when we struggle to get a few gaps between us and a chasing zerg etc. I just assume the bug is going to happen everytime e and really quickly double tap the right mouse button to keep the forward momentum going.

Hey-ho…we shall overcome etc.

Covis – looking in the top right corner, what am I looking for? I’ll get this ticket business right eventually, this is my second try at submitting a request for help!

Sirsquishy – I don’t know what either of those things are so no, at least not intentionally?

As per a very helpful gent on the forums yesterday recommended, I updated the drivers for my Intel HD 4000 something or other and only crashed once in about 4 hours last night which was pretty great. Still, s*ds law would have it, it crashed after 60 seconds in Eternal BG after Q’ing down from near 100, haha.

Bombsaway -

Some good food for thought there. At the moment I’m running Grenades/EG/Rocket Boots. May consider swapping out EG for Bombs eventually as it feels fairly defensive/weak (even though has some good utility).

With smoke field from the Bomb into Stealth – there’s smoke bomb + rocket boots/shield (4) x2/big ol’ bomb – as potentials, any i’m missing?

I do enjoy the bombkit now and again. Even if it means having to try and get all up in the enemy zerg to make most use of it and suffering 3 FPS the whole time, haha.

I’m picturing running into zerg, placing big ol’ bomb and trying to rocket-boot out of there could be pretty fun. Max targets on BoB?

Cheers

Have re-posted in correct forum. Thanks for the pointer on the graphics chip mate, will look into that tonight and hope for some advice from Tech Support. Appreciated

Apologies, I wasn’t sure if this was where it was supposed to go. Will delete it in a minute and re-post where you’ve instructed. Cheers

(Will also look into updating the Graphics chip later (i’m not a very computer savvy guy) i’ll do some reading up on it)

Hi,

I hope this is the right way to submit a ticket for this issue but I’ve put up with random crashes on GW2 for over a year now and finally getting too much so going to dedicate some effort to trying to fix it.

I sometimes crash for no visible reason, sometimes crash in WvW zergs. Often will spend 45mins queuing for WvW and crash within minutes of joining, leading to start the whole process again, really starting to get me down.

I’ve got an NVDIA Geforce card and I’ve followed the instructions on your website regarding switching it to Best Performance, I’ve got all my settings on Low & Lowest (even when I can run Farcry 3/Battlefield 4 on my laptop very smoothly on med/high settings) and it still crashes so regularly.

I get the following crash box sometimes – https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/78392/errror.jpg

Or sometimes just a black screen with the music still working. Which needs me to Ctrl, Alt + Delete out of there.

Your GW2 Username – GorgeousDave
Your serial code – Am currently at work so don’t have this.
A detailed description of the issue that you’re experiencing – as detailed above^
Any error code that you are getting – as detailed above^
———————————————

Have also attached a diagnostic from the GW2 diagnoser & one from running Razer Game Booster diagnostic tool. (Don’t always use Razer, but crashes with the same regularity with/without using it).

I’d massively appreciate any help as it’s been going on for so long now.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

Sorry mate, was thinking of Rocket Boots, had myself mixed up. I don’t have Power Shoes in my build, I’m one of those frustrated kit swappers with Speedy Kits & I can’t afford Traveler Runes (currently saving up – hoping they will be cheaper when changes to Runes come in). Will be great not to need to swap kits all the time, even if Speedy Kits is 33% increase and Traveler Runes 25% – it’ll be a relief not to be constantly switching!

Adamantium – one more thing, what you said re: Traveler runes, confused how that allows you to get rid of Power shoes? Did you mean Speedy Kits?

Power Shoes seems really useful for that instant repositioning in WvW/CC’ing and chasing etc. Can’t see why Traveler Runes would mean that wouldn’t be needed any longer.

Thanks

Haha, right after I called you the man Carpboy you go and make a mistake like that – you’ve ruined your legend! (jokes)

Will get rid of empowering adrenaline and probably throw in forceful explosives alongside my IP. Feels like it would be better in shorter fights in WvW etc.

Btw what are your guys thoughts on the 30 in Explosives.

If an Engi is running a Rabid condi build (30,10,0,20,10) – what do you recommend choosing for the Explosives traits? I’m terrible with maths and see a lot of conflicting talk regarding Shrapnel/Incendiary Powder.

I think at the moment my instinct tells me to run Empowering Adrenalin for +5% dmg when endurance isn’t full (seems like that would be more consistent than shrapnel but who knows, with Incendiary Power…. (plus obviously the Grenadier trait for Grandmaster).

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Carpboy is the man Alfieb i’d give whatever he says a try, haha.

Would also recommend checking out Koroshi’s videos and tutorials on t’internet. Learnt a good few tricks and general combos there.

Take care

Hi Alfieb,

I’ve recently came back to the game after a long hiatus (6mths) and after getting a few recommendations from some great people on here I’m running with Grenades, Elix Gun, Rocket Boots with (30,10,0,20,10) on traits.

-(Shrapnel/Incendiary Powder I can’t make my mind up on, Explosive Powder & Grenadier)
- Hair Trigger
- Invig Speed/Backpack Regen
- Speedy Kits

Like I said, i’m no pro but have found myself doing well in Small-ish groups & zergs with a fair amount of AOE attacks and in small groups, good CC etc.

Always feel fairly underpowered in 1v1’s (which is unsual for an Engi? – as I said, i’m pretty rusty after the break) even with full Rabid/Dire exotic armour and same w/full Ascended accessories/rings etc.

Will be good to see what people say.

Bombsaway – thanks, that’s great stuff. Not going to read any other threads & confuse myself until I’ve had chance to try yours & Coglin’s advice in-game…

Will not touch any runes until the changes come but i’ll give those builds a go later tonight.

Thanks for your detailed reply Coglin, should really have mentioned my wep preferences amongst all that waffle, haha.

I dabbled in Rifle in the very early levels & then never touched it against once I found p/p & p/s. So I suppose I’d feel more comfy with a build that used either of those. I honestly might just suck it up and start the Celestial slog!

I am a big fan of the Traveler’s Runes although I know they’re expensive and Xyonon is right – by the sounds of it Winter Big changes is a coming! so will hold off on purchasing anything major until the reworks hit.

Hi all,

I’m a born-again GW2’er, freshly back from an 8 month break. I have a level 80 Engineer but had only just levelled it to 80 when I first took the break so wouldn’t class myself as the best, but do mostly know what I’m doing.

I’ve spent the last 2 days reading the build sticky and lots of other builds from Carpboy(i think his name was) amongst many others and whether it’s my OCD or just because there’s so many different ways the Engineer can be played, I honestly cannot choose a Build for how I fancy playing now I’m back on the game.

I’ve read through all the builds on this forum but still can’t decide on which one I should trait & equip for with limited funds, so wondered if people could recommend a build/playstyle if I tell them what I hope to do in-game? which is mostly Wvw (with zerg and the odd-roam to cap the odd area).

I honestly start sweating when i think “OK i’ll try this one”….30 seconds later…“hang on this guy also makes some great points…i’ll try that build….but what about that one….” etc.

If I could get a build that starts off with a fairly balanced Damage vs Survivability orientation, that allows re-jigging for extra Damage and Survivability through Skill once you become fully comfortable with the build – that’d be amazing.

I’ve also read about Celestial armour? (missed the event) it sounds good as it allows you to change your playstyle on the fly without worrying about re-equipping. Then I read how much it actually costs/time-wise etc. I (regrettably) gave all my gold away when I thought I was leaving the game for good and so Celestial armour looks out of my reach. Any further pointers on fairly balanced gear would also be a big help.

Anyway sorry for the waffling, thanks for any replies I get.

Essence Snow.3194:

Have a large guild that’s been together for over 6 years. They are the real assets. All the gold and crap in my bank can’t compare.

Boom. That’s the one.

I agree this definitely needs a title.

“Palest Person Ever”

(lol just kidding, well done & I hope you get your title)

Playing around with the Build Editor on that…sounds extremely tricksy and dodge/evade heavy. Still, giving up Executioner is going to really hurt, haha.

Thanks for all your replies guys, really eager to get back playing after such a long time now.

Arganthium, i understand when people want to keep their original/self-designed builds under wraps a bit but would you be able to give me any indication of the exact traits you use in 10,0,0,30,30 build? It’s so different to anything I’ve played with S/D & SB before – feel like due to being so rusty at the moment it’s a good time to try some fresh styles of play.

Thanks

Haha, respect for your individuality Arganthium – that’s what it’s all about innit!!

Jhughes – i’ll give you a shout in game next week when I get online! Thanks again

Lux/Jhughes, thanks very much i’ll check it out!

Hi – i’ll keep it very short

Haven’t played for 8 months-ish…used to be an S/D thief – we were always few and far between and sure no-one thought we were too overpowered, but i’ve heard even tho the 3 skill has been fixed…S/D is now nerfed even more? Can anyone clear this up for me?

Thanks!!

I’m in exactly the same situation as you mate so will be interested to hear what people think. I was playing s/d thief before and I think they’ve fixed the 3 attack…so might be a little more viable now!

Good luck and welcome back anyway

Right thanks for all your replies, I feel confident enough to press log-in now, let’s do this, leeeer…nope, wrong game, sorry.

Naevius, i’ll see you in Lions Arch, haha.

As the title says, I haven’t played since August 2013 – I tried to check for any other recent & similar posts but couldn’t find any. Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction to where I can find a simple guide to the new stuff?

Or recommend some things to start me back gently into the game? I’m guessing there’s about 92 different currencies now, i’ll probably just get straight back into PVP and see if I’ve lost all my skills, haha.

Thanks

Haha, right thanks Donari & co, I may have second thoughts about it now as have got bored relatively quickly over all the other tonics I’ve got, may be worth keeping the laurels for kitting out a new character now my confusion mesmer is apparently going to blow after tomorrow!

Much love

Hi.

I am a mesmer. And extremely, extremely slow.

I also have approx 104 laurels. And kind of like cats.

If I purchase the cat tonic, are there any ‘run faster’ skills I could use in WvW while travelling or am I still forced to keep weapon swapping to a focus every now and again for the ‘4’ skill?

Probably still going to buy the cat tonic, just wondered if i’ll get a bonus to run speed through it.

Thanks!

Dave

Should have clarified – i’m a sword/dagger thief – so I see myself as on a level of respectability far above the double dagger backstabbers!

Ps. Due to recently being kicked from CoF parties due to having the audacity not to have chosen a Warrior (haha), every time I tie a Warr up in knots on WvW with Sword/Dagger I do sometimes wish there was a /hump /teabag emote but no…I will stay classy haha.

I play an Asuran Thief on Desolation (I wear all white t3 & a Dredge helm, give me a wave) and amost always give a /bow to defeated opponents in WvW, especially if it was a great fight, not seen any other players do it so nice to see there are others staying classy

/bow-ing is for the men, /dance-ing is for the Call of Duty players that somehow ended up on GW2 I reckon.

Need to try this party trick tonight…I click on the wvw invader and press P and that’s it, they get an invite? Awesome

Haha, Mif, not into any of that roleplaying stuff (in-game at least, haha) although if I was, it would be with a char like yours, you could pretend to be an Asura gold digger and I could be the lonely, 80 year old asuran millionnaire with a dodgy ticker, it’d be fun times all round.

Thanks Cord, hadn’t really considered buying gems but I might do, blow it all on this Wintersday event or something, go broke in a blaze of rng glory.

ASB – ascended? Infusions?? Wash your mouth out with soap!!