Guild Wars 2

I don’t think pets or shouts are worthless at all. I think they are great. Situational, but great.

Change the class mechanic to something else? Sounds like you need to reroll if you don’t like your pet. Its not going anywhere. We are the pet class. Love it or leave it.

However, I would like a swarm of little buddies to zerg people with.

You do auto turn if your standing still. After auto turning tapping left or right will recenter the camera.

Berserker ranger is fine. I like it more then berserker warrior for sure.

Long bow AoE right on top of your self.

Traps.

Torch #5 fire field.

Wolf Aoe Fear howl.

Just a couple examples of things that can counter stealth. Troll ugnut or whatever its called keeps me alive against thieves. then I just make it dangerous to stand next to me in melee.

Even glass cannon build, I don’t seem to instant die against thieves, ever. Roll, heal, pew pew till they stealth, then lay down the AoE. Its not a guarenteed win, but definetly doable.

No stun break? Keep wolf on reserve with quickness on pet swap. When you get stunned, F4 then quickly F2. Wolf pops out and quickly fears them away, pop the 10 second heal, pew pew till stealth and then AoE.

Never limit yourself. Even if back peddling is not the ideal way of handling a situation, you’ll still find yourself needing to do it from time to time.

Personaly, I back pedal a lot. :p

yes, as someone said… it’s gambling. Never gamble with stuff you have no problems losing.

If want a medium armor character, go for it. Go into sPvP to try out the different medium armor classes before you decide to stick with one. (Can take a level 2 into spvp and play with level 80 traits, abilities, all weapons, lots of armor combos and stuff on the testing golems)

power/toughness/vitality is not well balanced armor. That’s tank armor. That’s THE tank armor.

If you want balanced stats, go for 2 offense stats and 1 defense stat.

Get precision. On crit effects are massive. Only having power serisouly gimps your options. There’s weapon sigils and food that have amazing on crit effects.

For my balanced warrior i went… i forget the name of the set but its, precision, condition damage, toughness. Then went with bleeds on crit(weapon sigil+trait) and life steal on crit(food). for me, that was the over all best setup when i played a warrior. dual wield swords and either rifle or bow depending on my mood. Duel wield swords could easily get a bleed stack maxed out at 25(3,000+ damage a second) with frenzy and that awesome F1 ability.

They have to condition clear fast, or they quickly melt away. Easy to reapply stacks, so clears were not a big deal. The toughness + armor gave me plenty of time to let the bleeds kill people. CC like kick, stomp, or rifle butt are great to give your bleeds a couple extra seconds to tick as well. And when your bleeds are doing

I found power by itself to be lacking in damage. Maybe i did it wrong, or maybe it’s just not great on warriors, but that’s my 2 cents. good luck!

I’d say about the same as any craft. But a tad more challenging. As far as leveling it up, its the hardest. Discovering new recipes is not obvious, and there’s no pattern to it like the others. Can be fun though, the recipes make sense, so combining different ingrediants often return expected results.

As far as making money, you have to do your homework. compare prices vs materials. As with any craft, there’s lots of money to be made, but you can’t just blindly craft things and sell for profit. What makes profit today, will be different tomarrow. The economy is in a constant state of flux.

It’s fun though for sure. The lack of patterns in discovery leads to more exploration and trail and error. If you like the idea of playing around in a virtual kitchen, definetly give it a shot.

There are solo dungeons. Check the wiki for mini-dungeon. There’s jumping puzzles, and more traditional dungeon versions as well with traps and bosses and such. They end in chests. Not all are up on the wiki yet, but it’s a start.

These dungeons are hidden in the open world explorable areas.

I’ve never had any issues with my regen spec’ed warrior. My regen has always worked fine.

What makes you think there’s a problem?

Try em all and experiment. Unlock all the weapons. All of em. Try them all out. Don’t need to settle on anything while leveling up.

Pick what sounds fun, get to 80, then when your experienced with the game you can decide what you want to do.

Honestly, when I was playing in yellows, i did fine. Fine in all the dungeons, fine in the WvW. Then I got exotics. Still did fine. Wasn’t all that big of a boost really. One tier of gear does not make that big of a difference in this game. You can do everything in exotics, and do it just fine. Or in yellows. Or even greens for that matter. All the content. Doable in greens.

Sure you can’t do fractals at high levels without the new gear, but thats a major grind just to get your fractals level that high in the first place, not for casuals anyways.

Worried about people not playing with you because your gear is not uber enough? why would you want to play with people like that anyways? Most people realise that player skill is vital in this game, and highly skilled player with poor gear can easily out preform a bad player in the best gear.

There is zero content that can’t be done by an 80 in greens. Period. High level fractals aside, you can still do fractals, all of em, in greens.

The point? Relax. This problem is not nearly as big as people think. Ascended gear is a great middle ground. something for the hardcore, but the casuals dont need it to enjoy any of the games content.

As long as they stop now, I don’t see a problem. If they add another tier of gear, or actualy restrict content based on gear then ya. But the game just came out, they weren’t happy with gear system so they tweaked it. Thats different then adding a gear treadmill. If ascended gear was in at launch no one would even had thought twice about it. But you know humans, terrified of change and always over reacting to stuff.

From what Anet has said, sounds like greens will be enough for all content, forever. Yes, there will be things like high level fractals for the more hardcore, but the fractal content is open to everyone. As long as they keep doing that it’s fine. Not only fine, its pretty awesome. The best of both worlds. Hardcore get lots of grinding and progression, and the casuals get to enjoy all the same content. Win win!!!

nugzta.8973:

Face.7032:

I love when people act like they are “old school” and say a game shouldn’t reward people but should be painful. You aren’t even to tier 2 yet, why would it be hard? It’s like complaining the first level of mario is too easy… Get to level 2 newb.

Did you even read the first post? I’m at lvl 7 atm, I would like to see more challenge into it. Perhaps you should go back to pre-school and fix your reading comprehension.

Level 7 is tier 1. level 10 is the start of tier 2.

Reading comprehension? He said TIER 2, you said LEVEL 7. Guess you’re the one that needs to go back to pre-school.

Tier 2 starts at level 10.

if its pure dps you want, then greatsword with power+precision+crit damage.

i beleive carrion armor is condition damage / vitality / precision. That will give you the build you want.

The primary means for gaining exp in GW2 is the dynamic events. There are tons of them, and they very often involve multiple branching paths, and are hidden all over the maps.

Some are obvious. Some you have to examine your surroundings and look for hints.

Its all about exploring around finding cool stuff going on. But there really are tons and tons of them out there. Pve is all about exploring in this game. Not running from one quest hub to the next. And there’s things like jumping puzzles and mini-dungeons hidden out there as well.

From what I understand, there’s a tax as well as listing fee. They add up to 15% I beleive. They should probably make it a tad clearer.

The shield is awesome. But it isn’t an automagic poof your a tank thing. It takes skill and timing to know when to use your skills. but that stun and block really do make a world of difference if used at the right times. Stun. Gap closer. And Invuln. Plus a decent amount of defense of toughness. It makes a difference.

yup. I love the kick, stomp, bull rush combo. I use the sword though. I use it with a condition build. Stack some bleeds, then keep em knocked em on their butts and let the bleeds tick away in safety.

Necro is not squishy. Do you have any toughness or vit in your build? Everyone is squishy if you don’t get defense stats, but necro’s can be very tanky.

And there’s a big patch coming in a couple weeks with lots of fixes and updates, probably some necro love in there. Classes change all the time in mmo’s. Best to stick to the one you like the theme and flavor of. Weak classes get buffs, strong ones get nerfs. whats good and bad now, won’t always be the case as this will always be in flux.

But if you feel squishy as a necro, something is not right. Try using a condition/toughness or condition/vitality build and see if that helps.

But fun is an opinion. Every class is loved by some and hated by others. And like I said, your only squishy if you spec squishy. Necro however, is one of the highest defense classes around.

If your not likeing the playstyle and flavor of the class, try something else. If it’s just defense your having a problem with, that can be corrected with some experimention.

rifle. I don’t like ever been stuck in a melee only build.

When I play glass cannon berserker/crit build, i accecpt i’m a free kill for thieves.

When I play my toughness/condition build its a fun fight. This build has stomp, its fairly easy to time since i have a feeling for the duration of stealth I can generaly guess correctly when they are in range. rifle butt too. And kick. The 5 ability on off hand sword is also a nice anti thief tool. Just wait a sec after stealth, hit five, and they either let their stealth run out, or they get countered for a nice bleed and I avoid the backstab damage.

don’t forget you can take a level 2 character into sPvP and try out all the build and stat combos you want to see if you like it.

You should also consider trying new things with your warrior. Greatsword build is ok, but thats not the only, or even best way to play a warrior.

From what I heard, the halloween map was a beta test for the upcoming moba mode they have been planning to add for some time.

Every time i play a mmo with tons of abilities, I just make macros and end up hitting 3-5 buttons anyways.

Judas.5432:

Pyroatheist.9031:

The steal/cnd/backstab combo is a massive problem for sure. The damage on that combo needs to be nerfed such that it is no longer viable, because while thieves are about front-loaded damage, that sort of burst should not exist.

There’s the problem right there. It’s not a combo, it’s a bug. You can activate C&D before steal and steal will proc first, allowing you to C&D instantly and remove any chance for reaction….especially with B-Venom.

ANet doesn’t need to nerf anything, guys, they need to fix Steal so it queues up like a normal skill instead of just working on a different timer altogether. This would allow everyone a full second or so of reaction time between steal and the crazy backstab combo hit.

I don’t know why it currently works like this but I can only assume they overlooked it’s functionality. Hopefully we will see a fix instead of a pointless nerf…..with a fix later anyway :-P

I think this guy might be on to something. I was noticing this very thing today. Insta dead. Look at the combat log and was like… WHA!? Something’s fishy here!

There is agro and “taunts” in a way. I forget the formula, but you can definetly manage agro.

People doing more dps generate agro. People who are closer. Holding a shield gives an agro bonus. So does having lots of toughness. Its all under the hood stuff. Might be on the wiki.

My toughness stacking, shield weilding warrior gets agro pretty easy, even with low damage, just from toughness, the shield, and being in the mobs face.

oh, and i hear reviving people is an agro magnet as well.

From what i’ve seen, any class can be super defensive. Defense is not always about taking small amounts of damage with mitigation or massive health pools. Thieves for example can spec into tons of stealth and health regen. Makes them very tough to kill.

If all you want is defensive ability, thats anyone. The question is, what kind of defense do you want? Gameplay wise.

But off the top of my head for other classes that are “tanky”, warrior and necro for sure. Lots of health. I think engineers can also be pretty beefy. I think necro’s have the highest base health pool in the game.

It’s so easy to make money. Average player can easily make a gold an hour.

If you can’t get gold fast enough, to the point where 3 silver is a lot to you, you need to focus your energy into learning how to make money properly. What to vender, what to salvage, and what goes on the trading post. Its not hard.

But instead of learning how to make money, you want to nerf the game. Wouldn’t you rather learn to not be poor?!?

But thats gamer’s these days. Give them any sort of challenge, and instead of learning and growing as a player, they just cry nerf to the devs.

I’m not even talking about hard core players. Casuals can easily make money. If you’re not, you’re doing it wrong.

What I find interesting, is people just refuse to learn. Instead of trying to learn to be successful like everyone else, you would rather cry to the devs to nerf things.

If everyone had issues, yes. nerf it. But most do not. But you don’t care?! You don’t want to make money? You like being so poor that 3 silver is a lot? WHY!? Why not try to improve as a player? Why do you refuse to learn? Why do you insist on staying bad?

This is no different then “I got killed by class X. Nerf them, they are op.” Or building a glass cannon build and then complaining there’s too much damage in the game and people die too fast because you refuse to put any defense in your build at all.

When you face a problem in game. Work to over come it. Learn from others. Problem solve. Demanding nerfs is the last step. Not the first.

This game is all about making lots of money, spending it all and making more. This is not just make money endlessly till your insanely rich type of game.

And why do people talk about money from hearts and events so much? Because they are bad. Your money comes from harvesting and loot drops. NOT hearts and events, thats a little bonus. Learn to loot. Learn to harvest. And learn to sell for maximum profit.

Luigio.3265:

LOL @ all the self entitled brats that just jump in here to tell you " l2p"

sorry but 80silvers round trip is NOT recouped on one heart, anyone saying otherwise isnt lvl 80 yet

i agree with the op, the game needs cash sinks but the higher than it should be waypoint cost DOES work against the social aspect of the game, if im halfway across the map when someone says " need more for fire elemental" you can be dam sure i wont be porting to it because its gonna cost me 40silvers even if im in the same zone, that is NOT ok in my book

i still play the game , but i can also say that it does deter me from moving around and participating in events or helping out guildies or randoms, i would port everywhere if it was a reasonable 25s capped cost but as it stands , its a wee bit too expensive for lvl 70 + characters imo

80 silver? I’ve never seen a waypoint cost more then 4 silver at level 80. What are you doing that requires 20 ports!? And to pay 4 silver requires porting arcoss the whole world, its much cheaper in the same zone. What is this 80 silver nonsense?

Camagee.5391:

I agree sword 5 needs a change..others are fine…i love the mobility of sword….be nice to have a cc put on 5…4 sec stun plz anet….yeahhhhh

Sword five hits AoE. My bleed on 5 is 10,000. That’s a nice AoE. I like it. Hit em with 4, let them hit and be hit by 5, then sword F1. No one lives through that without a fast a clear. Thats 30k+ in bleeds. (Sword F1 procs lots of bleed on crit for me as well.)

My warrior with cleric gear and heal shouts build, plus condition clear on shouts rune, heals for 2,000 and clears 1 to 2 conditions 3 times every 25 seconds. That’s to everyone around me.

That’s while being tanky enough to take direct fire and still rez people.

I have no problems with support.

If you are losing money on repairs, go to a lower level zone. The cost is fine. It’s your chain dieing that is the problem. Not trying to be rude, but it sounds like your over extending. Stay in areas where you only die sometimes and you’ll make money.

Or, upgrade your gear, change your build, or try something new if you really want to hunt in the hardest areas.

Have defense in your build? Don’t glass cannon with this much trouble. Build tanky. That will help a lot.

don’t neglect defense. A little toughness goes a long way. Defense spec’ed necros can be very powerful.

Ya, sounds like lag. None of this ever happens to me, havn’t heard of people complaining about it either. Might want to double check your connection stuffs.

Oh, and something that will help with thieves till the rendering thing gets fixed… You can target them before you see them. Mash your buttons! And you can see a swirl of smoke, they don’t appear like they should, but the smoke swirl is there, you can start firing at that point and hit em for sure. The game can see em, it will lock on fine.

I use toughness in my build. I don’t get insta gibbed. I can get cut down fast, but with toughness I always have time to react. Doesn’t always save me, but at least I have a fighting chance.

Before I started using toughness, when I played glass cannon, ya. I got insta gibbed. But I felt ok about it because I could insta gib others.

If your getting insta killed, but you can’t do that in return, your build is bad. Sorry. Maybe post your build?

Rankings are a complete joke at this point. People just all transfer to winning server anyways. Broken and unplayable at the moment. Please fix devs. I don’t want to server hope, this sucks.

With free transfers its pointless. Just jump to the winning server like everyone else. Its either that or get zerged to death because EVERYONE else is.