Guild Wars 2

salameri.3768:

Unless you are using a Hammer/mace-mace build drop your shouts for PvE. Place 30 points in precision and the rest in power. Get signet traits like…“For how ever many signets you have passive you gain {this much} precision” Equip nothing but signets to your 6-10 slot skills. You could maybe drop one for a skill you have fun with. In PvE its kill before you are killed. Even pop in endure pain if u need it for a oh crap button. Equip the Greatsword and either axe-axe or rifle. You could even go hammer/mace-mace build with the healing shouts BUT you will kill alot slower but have more cc ability.

I don’t recommend this. The 6 signet build loses it’s effectiveness at 35 and then only gets worse.

If you want to kill things fast in groups of 3 or less, then go Greatsword 30/30/0/0/10 (80) and get either Knights or Zerker armor. For utilities its kinda general rule to have Frenzy/Endure pain for crazy Greatsword burst.

Elite, Signet of Rage hands down for non-group play.

2ndary weapon is your choice, I reccomend Rifle as it’s the best kiting tool a warrior has.

Rate My Build!

My build is based on the idea of a Condition Tank warrior. Sword/Shield/Longbow

Traits: 0/30/20/20/0

Arms: Deep Cuts, Blade Master, Furios.

Defense: Missile Deflection, Shield Master.

Tactics: Stronger Bow-Strings, Burning Arrows.

Heal: Mending

Utility: Balanced Stance, Frenzy, Endure Pain

Elite: Signet of Rage

For gear, I’m using all Rabid set items, with Superior Runes of Undead for the additional Toughness, Conditions Damage, and the 5% of Toughness converted to Condition Damage (6/6) perk.

This build works very well in dungeons, can maintain aggro of bosses and stay alive with ease, while putting out some serious damage with Bleed Stacking.

For sPvP and WvW, its still undefeated against anything I’ve come across 1v1 aside from a mesmer.

This is my personal experience with the build.

Joker Thornblade
Race: Sylvari
Profession: Warrior
Level: 80
Armor: Sylvari T2 Cultural
Weapons: Sylvari T3 Cultural

Ya, I’m just that sexy :P

I personally am running Sword/Board 0/30/20/20/0 with Rabid Weapons/Gear w/Undead Runes. My 2ndary is Longbow with Heavy ConDam with perks to the Longbow from the 20p in Tactics.

Focused on bleed stacking and control, It’s highly effective in PvP and PvE for me. Also, I enjoy this build a LOT. The high Toughness makes me very very durable and high ConDam makes my bleeds (with Sword, Burst, and Bleeding perks. You can get 10 stacks of bleeding in a few seconds and maintain them very easily for lots of consistant damage and it’s a great way to maintain aggro in Dungeons) tick for 100+ consistently.

My Utilities are all Stances with the Trait that increases Stance Duration by 25%, I use Balanced Stance, Frenzy, and Endure Pain. My elite is SoRage for the might that adds ConDam.

This is my preferred build and of my own creation.

Rocklin.4106:

Raptor

/15char

I want Raptor pets… soo much win imo lol

Ya, just lost a few minutes of my life I’ll never get back… but my 2cents is this… In gw1 the ranger had an pets as an “option” those of us who are long time Guild Wars players would just like to see that again in GW2, it was a wonderful class design that is sad to see missing from GW2.

rchu.8945:

hi,

you guys have any active FOTM groups?

Hey rchu! We are running FotM starting at level 1 next weekend to get people working on the dungeon.

This weekend we will be focused on Wintersday Events.

We are always looking for new members, come check us out!

Recruitment is still open! All are welcome!

New Members! Keep them coming!

Recruiting for more players interested in WvWvW! Send a whisper or mail in-game.

Idk, I’ve only found the $10/800gem to be the lowest option using my CC, or PayPal.

No doubt this topic has been brought up before, but I’ve noticed that the starting rate to purchase gems are at 10$ for 800gems.

Thats excessive for what I want to purchase, could this be added?

Would a 5$/400gems option be bad? if so, why?

Our Roster has grown, we have our guild setting up for WvWvW and Dungeon runs, and our Upgrades are steadily being worked on. Recruitment is still open

Our Upgrades are being built and getting our perks back. Our roster is growing with great players, and the future is bright for Reawakened. Join us!

Blighton.6425:

Step #1 get a small pet, like a raven, eagle, or Snow Owl
Step #2 Set pet to Passive
Step #3 Ignore Pet

there is your Pet Stow workaround

Lol, this is only a temporary fix and really hurts us. Pets are speculated to be around 45% of our damage output regardless of build/perk/traits. So by doing this, you’re “ignoring” 45% of your damage potential.

Salt.6794:

To all the people asking for no pets: it won’t happen. That’s the profession. I’m sorry, but roll something else if you don’t want to have a pet.

That being said, pets and their contribution to the rangers overall damage do need to be addressed and adjusted. I’m not sure to of the accuracy of this claim but I’ve seen the pet claimed to be responsible for 45% of our damage. That is absurdly high. The pet shouldn’t be nearly half our damage as that dramatically raises the skill floor (in situations where the pet is able to be on a target) and lowers the skill ceiling (in all situations). I think something in the range of 20-30% would be much more reasonable, but that’s for the developers and their internal testing to decide. Additionally I think pets should attack on the move. Why not? If their damaged is lowered I can’t see any issue with this. A penalty might be in order to the pets damage while it’s moving, however. PvE AoE damage on pets should also be reduced if the ranger is to be competitive while also maintaining the pet as an integral part of the profession.
Increase ranger damage; decrease ranger pet damage; pets attack while moving; pets take less AoE in PvE.

Another issue is with making spirits more beneficial to the ranger. Perhaps giving the ranger and his pet a buff in addition to what they already grant. I’d love to run a buffing/support ranger (I like to in every class).
Make spirits more appealing and better able to facilitate a support role.

The shouts give me mixed feelings. I see how they’re useful but I don’t think I’d choose any of them aside from “Protect Me!” I’d like to see “Sic ’Em” also grant stability to the pet.

I really enjoy how the weapons work, but I’d like to see an increase in longbow damage (as would a lot of people!). Perhaps stacking buff for remaining in the same place (more crit, more power, ignore a percentage of armor).

The option of making the Pets optional are already 1/2 way there. The stow button, it has the potential to be the bases of what we ask. Make the Stow button work, even if in combat and give us a damage perk to make up for the damage lost from not having a pet…. which in all honestly would be an improvement because of how poor the Ai system is for pets, they don’t do much damage now. In WvWvW they offer no benifit, and because of how pets are fundamentally designed to be a large solid portion of our damage output, we only LOSE damage as it is.

The idea about making the Stow Pet a lasting effect, and then add the option to bring the pet back out just by hitting the “Stow” button, not automatically summon upon going into combat would be very easy to add into the games coding. In addition, have us gain a 10-20% damage increase passive effect while pet is stowed. Problem solved right there, no longer restricting people, like myself who LOVE the ranger class, but dislike the Pet mechanic to being forced into be penalized for it. Yet leaving the option open to the players who do enjoy the addition of a pet for combat untouched.

Everyones Happy.

New players, and Old pro’s are all welcome to join [RE]!

For the love of god, can we please get rid of the pets? They seem like a hindrance to the class and causes our group efficiency to go down the toilet.

I absolutely love my ranger, I’m currently running a Trapper Build (20/30/20/0/0) and it’s soo fun.. but regardless of the build I’m running. My pet only gets in my way, the only pets thats been tolerable are Devourer/Spiders. if given the choice, I’d stow them away permenantly.

Make pets a skill choice like how “Charm Animal” in GW1 was required to be equipped too get an active pet. Forcing us to use these pets are really only hurting the class. I’m not alone in this, I have soooo many people on my server who agree 100% that pets should be choice.

signal.4813:

Sign me up; I am a WvWvW focused person; but also enjoy the occasional dungeon run !

please send me an invite

So glad to see you’re interested in joining [RE].
I’ve sent you a mail in-game.

We hope too see more people show interest in joining [RE] and helping us take our place as a great guild of Sanctum of Rall!

Highvoltage.7946:

what guild upgrades do you have? and what are you focusing on atm?

Hey Highvoltage, we just transfered to the server from Dragonsbrand, so sadly we had to leave our upgrades behind.

Currently, our main focus is re-building the guild’s upgrades and getting back on track.

Like in the original text, [RE]’s long-term goals are to really step up as an active guild, by that I mean hosting guild events, structured WvWvW teams, Dungeon Runs, and overall guild unity in both fun, and progression.

I hope this answer’s your question, if not please feel free to send me a private message on here or in-game

Hey Guys! We’re new to the server, join us to help us grow and make our presence known!

But where is the best place to go for the Events? I also am only at 4/10 Events (Tier V)

I’ve been failing at this all day… took a break, came back a few hours later. After 10 more attempts…. I GOT IT! Christ sakes this ones a toughy, But it SHOULD NOT BE EASY! Easy Content ruins games. There NEEDS to be content that is out of reach of an “Average” player because if it was too easy, it wouldn’t be nearly as rewarding.
Advice:
- Don’t give up, if you get too frustrated, take a break.
- If you have the “Speed Boosts” from Black Lion Chests, USE THEM. They work.
- If you feel that framrates are an Issue, change your graphics settings to “Best Performance” Ya it’ll look like crap, but it helps. It worked for me.
Hope this helps at all, best of luck!

I’ve been failing at this all day… took a break, came back a few hours later. After 10 more attempts…. I GOT IT! Christ sakes this ones a toughy, But it SHOULD NOT BE EASY! Easy Content ruins games. There NEEDS to be content that is out of reach of an “Average” player because if it was too easy, it wouldn’t be nearly as rewarding.

Advice:
- Don’t give up, if you get too frustrated, take a break.
- If you have the “Speed Boosts” from Black Lion Chests, USE THEM. They work.
- If you feel that framrates are an Issue, change your graphics settings to “Best Performance” Ya it’ll look like crap, but it helps. It worked for me.

Hope this helps at all, best of luck!

I’m at 2/4 as well.. I’ve played multiple rounds of the Village Survivor one, Completed the Clock Tower, and have played 2 rounds of Rumbler. I’ve Explored the labrynth (for the 150/150 Halloween Huntin’ Achievement)

I’m only 2/4 “It’s a Mad King’s World” achievement and I’m confused on how to get at least 3/4.

After many many attempts at this… more frustration than ever experiencing…. I can’t WAIT for the next epic jumping puzzle. I finally completed it not to long ago and it felt good lol.

Keep up the epic content, and let the babies QQ about “it’s too hard, pls give me easymode!” ignore them, they ruin good games..

I’ve been at it for 2hours+, easily 50% attempts and I can’t outrun the acid. My best attempt has been to the twin beams that require you to drop on to the floating gear with a hest on it.. The acid hits me before I hit the platform… 90% of the time I’m the last one standing.

2 Hours+ of this, no one in my groups have had any success. This Clocktower is simply too difficult for the average gamer.

Azalea Skie.9714:

Has anyone tried this solo as an Ele? I tried and it is way to hard solo. I can’t even get past the mob at the defending the gate part.

I seriously hope this is fixed soon, as I would love to progress in my story line.

I wouldn’t say this needs to be fixed, as it’s not a bug lol. Done this on a thief, war, and now ranger. Each one required a different tactic but the missions can be down if ya don’t experience a bug, like what this thread is about.

As too why I’m here, this is my 3rd time through this story mission (as noted above, Thief, Warrior, and now my Ranger) And for the first time, I’m experiencing a bug preventing me from completing the mission. It’s the same one as the OP’s, I start it off w/out issue, but after I defend the camp, I then have to defend the gate.

I then Run too the gate with NPC’s in toe, and as I approach, a small pack of Risen spawn. About four I think. After I dispatch them, and the initial pack of risen that attack the gaurds at the gate…. nothing… just some pretty background music and a butterfly or two. No risen, now I know the gate is supposed to be a losing battle spoiler and a large risen force is suppose to spawn and overpower the gate, but they never show up. Hope this gets resolved soon.

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+1 to this post, my Shortbow “Wilderness Survival/ Skirmishing” trapper ranger would benifit most from the Rabid (Condition/Precision/Toughness) Prefix Items, sadly they can’t be crafted so I’m forced to do dungeons.

I’ve settled on Twilight Arbor (Exp) for the medium set, since it’s Rabid stats, but the sets looks are not really a look I like. I know i can transmute the armor to a different look, and thats more than likely what I’ll be doing. TA medium > Sylvari Cultural Tier3.

Would be amazing though if I could craft this set ><

Aedan Xaelan.2174:

I support this! And also… this link

Thx for posting that link! Now we just need an admin to Merge them!

YES! just YES! I want the ability to dye my weapons like in Guild Wars(1).
Got my vote 110%

I know this isn’t a “OMG WE NEED IT NOW!” kinda thing but I would love to see the ability to show more info on active guild members on the Guild Roster.

Like, How much Influence that individual has earned for the guild. I would LOVE to reward the more active members for working so much to benifit the guild. But I can’t do that when the only info I can get is “#_ of members have completed events earning #_ influence.”

When was the last time they logged in. (So we can kick the people who are truely inactive, inactive players makes it difficult to recruit when they log on and see a long list of offline players.)

I like how they show the Crafting Skills/Levels.

I don’t get the point of showing Achievement Points, unless there is some relevancy that I’m failing to see that related to a guilds progression from Achievement points.

These things are minor, but would make running a guild much more efficient and easier to run.

This is my opinion.

IDICERI.4268:

Send me and invite =)

Glad to have ya on board

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Guild Name: Reawakened [RE]
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Focus: PvX (Casual)
Quick Notes: Small Friendly Casual, we’re looking to just enjoy the game with like-minded players. We use Vent for VOIP, mostly east-cast players.

Reawakened [RE] Is a causal and friendly guild.. We promote a friendly casual community looking for more like-minded players who want too enjoy the game. Help us grow, and become Reawakened!

Ok, enough of the adverts. [RE] is a small casual guild of friends, we are active but maintain a casual “fun” feel, most of us come from extensive MMO experience.

We are mostly East Coast (US) time zone, and we tend to be most active on weekends.

We have a dedicated Ventrillo Server available to all members.

We currently are focused on dungeons, WvWvW, and looking for new friends to party with.

100% Sanctum of Rall roster, we don’t require 100% representation but we do encourage it.

Upgrades
Art of War II
Politics III
Economics III
Architecture II

Perks
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If [RE] Sound right for you, feel free to contact us in-game.

cyanidedragon.2813 – Brigade General [RE]
Joker.5016 – Lieutenant [RE]

Just got the key for it today, went to the Lab all excited… same issue. Can’t interact with the Matrix Lock thingy ><

I’m experiencing the same issue. I’ve used Mumble and turned all the suppression options off for Mumble and GW2’s VOIP Ducking. Still, GW2 has too be nearly muted with all sound options set to MAX w/out Mumble blowing out my speakers, or turning off Mumble and blasting my speakers just for GW2’s volume to be “normal” volume.

This issue is truely annoying, I absolutely love the soundtrack of GW2 but I kinda rely on VOIP with guild for pvp and other events.

Really wish to see a resolution to this issue soon