Guild Wars 2

I haven’t been playing Guild Wars 2 for the last 2 years about, and have really been wanting to get back into it. I don’t really know where to (re)start with all the updates I have missed. I purchased Hear of Thorns, and since I get a level 80 booster, I thought it would be a good time to perhaps start a new profession. I currently have a level 80 ele and necro, level 60 something warrior and everyone else is basically level 10 or less. I prefer to play ele but I honestly want to play a class I won’t get constantly steam rolled with. I prefer WvW and like the idea of raids as well as some PvE. What would you all think would be a good class and why?

Thanks

I can only run bunker now, thanks guys. Can’t use Fresh Air D/D anymore.

+1 for Guild Wars 2 on Linux

No clue XD probably the static discharge…I never played engi so I’m very clueless but I’ve never seen such an effective spike! I play ele..50% berserker 50% PPT. I do good against most classes…but I’ve never seen anyone run that build, caught me off guard haha!

I think I just found a wicked Engineer build..5 seconds into the fight I see my health drop from 15k to 3k at the blink of an eye then bam, dead…kind of strange, engineers used to be easy =P I’m fairly tanky too

Saw it and thought it was more useless than a glyph trait. You will never get me to use that trait. Don’t nerf the current fresh air build please. It’s the only fun I really have left on my elementalist. Also, I got my Warrior up 5 levels today. Thank you ever increasingly useless elementalist.

Aaaand 7/10. Typical half nude armor, but I like the colors

As soon as the update to WvW kicked in NSP lost everything except a tower and maybe a couple supply camps here and there. I think I quit Guild Wars 2 altogether right now. There’s class imbalance and now there’s WvW imbalance and Elementalist is still barely playable…yup…all my favorite stuff is ruined. I’ll check back in sometimes, but for now, this game isn’t fun anymore. This WvW update was the last nail in the coffin.

roamzero.9486:

Some of the Warrior’s mobility moves need to be given the Ride The Lightning treatment I think (double cooldown if not used as an attack)

Please no >.> No profession deserves that treatment. I’m not even a big warrior player. That extreme of RtL nerf is part of what screwed Elementalist.

Hey guys I decided to get back to leveling my warrior, but I’m bored out of my mind at how slow it’s taking! I’m currently level 37. Any suggestions on a build(s) and leveling method?

I haven’t been able to land churning earth lately…maybe the rare occasion. People are getting smart to ele’s big hitters and they know when to stun me

TGSlasher.1458:

Killing Is Heroism.8429:

Yeah I found sPvP irregularly easy…the class I had trouble against was a couple engineers..I swear the people I faced last night sucked. I hardly had to do the dance and they kept running

0 15 10 15 30 would be a D/D build I would run if I could play D/D.
Zerkers?
0 15 0 25 30 was my original build, zerkers with doom sigil. Watch the old FOTM eles melt away as they couldn’t handle being burst and poisoned at the same time.

As to the quality of players, I was in a few 5v5 matches (hot join) and the enemies there seemed to be pretty new. Me and a warrior went to attack another warrior and a engineer. I sig of earthed 1 and he bolased the other and well lets just say the following 100 blades + dragons tooth – phoenix was spectacular.

Eventually me and my friend started playing a few games. Had some nice 2v3 and 2v4s where we could hold our own, but eventually we found some harder guys to beat. The 2v2 was fine, it was when their thief friend showed up that everything went down hill.

I think I’ll try full zerker next time. I did PVT but the jewel I had was zerker and I used sigil of battle and the one that did 5% crit damage. I enjoy the 100 more toughness, more damage in 600 range from earth. I adore the air burst from 15 in air

Yeah I found sPvP irregularly easy…the class I had trouble against was a couple engineers..I swear the people I faced last night sucked. I hardly had to do the dance and they kept running

I hardly do sPvP at all, but I decided to give it a try with D/D and…I was actually doing pretty decent. I was in the top 3 each round for an hour worth of rounds. Running 0/15/10/15/30

I’m not sure if this was intended or not, but it really bothers me. If I target a player and just because they dodge me or I become blinded I’ll miss and the skill takes 40 seconds to recharge. Really kitten es me off. Wasn’t the intent of this nerf to make it harder for us to run away and not lose an entire skill for the duration of the fight?

I was talking to a friend today (doesn’t play the game) but I explained to her what the “balancing” status was with the game and how many nerfs the ele got. My friend started laughing so I asked her why she was laughing and she said, “I’m laughing because I can’t figure out why anyone would want to play that character anymore” …valid point.

I’d love to continue ele but…I’m starting to fall into the “this profession is becoming crap” camp. Staff means nothing, scepter is better but still bad, focus….we have a focus? D/D has lost its touch. I just find myself running into a fight and running away healing hoping I don’t die it seems now. Starting to like necro and warrior now. I’ve decided to put my ele on the backburner as of tonight.

kinda reminds me okittengdom hearts chain of memories….love the game but nahhh not here

I only got rewarded to the 3k mark but I still got I think 800 (somewhere around there). And I really don’t like the skins much for the badges. at least the weapons. they aren’t worth that much effort and gold

I like the suggestion

Bring back the dervish and I’ll pay double for that addition ;D
That was my 2nd favorite class (elementalist first)
I miss swinging a scythe around and becoming an avatar. In my opinion, it was the coolest class they made

I find staff to be crazy fun when facing zergs in WvWvW or taking out catas and arrow carts with meteor shower then running. It’s decent for small groups too, but zerg is where it’s at. I can heal up my team and tear people to shreds at the same time

I’ve pretty much become a staff only elementalist since the recent updates…in WvW at least. I do 25/0/0/15/30 and I do half berserker and half knight armor. I have a funny set up..but it works great! I do a lot of CC and team heals mostly. It’s funny to drop meteor shower and see an entire zerg move away. A lot of times I can snare a couple people and kill them. Like everyone is saying, it’s for support and CC.

Killing
I named him Killing because my Elementalist’s name in Guild Wars was Killing Is Heroism and Killing became my name known in my guild up until present time.

LightningBlaze.4913:

My ele is op with its burst and survivability if you don’t have over 3k of armor and various heals you stand no chance to survive.

Yup. One build wonder and it still sucks unless you’re a champ on the learning curve.

I’ve given up on ele. Played it since open beta and it keeps getting worse the better I do and the more bunker I get. I have been able to last longer, but that’s all I can do. Last longer. Fights get close but it’s so much easier to win on my warrior. My ele will just be set aside for a while.

I started off playing betas as a necro, thinking that would have been my main (being it was my main in GW). I chose to make an ele first to get the name I want (everyone knew me and my elementalist as Killing in GW and “Killing” was the name I wanted on my ele) and i leveled him up to 80 first. I got addicted as an ele. We’re squishy…totally squishy…in fact, from my experience in playing and what I see/hear from others, the only safe route to play as an ele is a bunker. You need high heals and high vitality and toughness. It’s really fun and a great challenge. If you like pain in the butt, high risk low reward playing then you’d like ele. I have troubles playing at times but as I play more the more dominating I see the ele as being…specifically bunker lol. Anyways…I say either ele or mesmer!

I live on the USA Pacific Coast. I think the time the dailies reset is the worst possible time of the day. This has happened to me a few times this past couple weeks where I will get on, ALMOST finish my dailies then BOOM it resets and now I have to restart. Why does it change practically the middle of the day? It would make so much more sense to do it at a time like 4am where either people are done for the day and sleeping, or they’ve probably been up playing since 10pm already. It’s frustrating to get on and almost finish then I have to restart. My suggestion is to move the time to something more reasonable since 5pm (seems to be) is very illogical. A lot of people who play this are getting off of work or coming home from school and don’t want to see x hours of their time destroyed by a horribly placed reset time.

Problem solved. Failed SSD. If you’re having a similar issue, it’s probably your SSD. My computer decided it does not like OCZ solid state drives, or solid state drives, hard to say. Sticking with the HDD

Some more to add…I used to play GW2 on my laptop. So I updated the game on my laptop, put it on an external HDD and transferred it to my PC with the issues. I’m getting corrupt files. The client asked for repairs and such (not repair data archive) so it scanned all the files, downloaded a few and went straight to the game. I played a few minutes then the game crashed. This is repeating for the 3rd time. game crashes after a couple minutes. making progress though

I wanted to add I uninstalled the game and when I tried to reinstall with the CD it got to about 7%, said there was not enough space to install gw2 (i have 94GB empty), my background disappeared and then I got the BSOD and the missing boot drive.

Hey guys! So I built my own computer and for 4 months things have worked happily until my SSD (OCZ Vertex 4…yeah…) crashed. So I got an RMA and got it back, installed everything fine – Win7 64 bit home, drivers, etc.

I used the CD set to install GW2 this time instead of doing a full download. After the CD install was complete it jumped straight to downloading 8GB of updates, so I let that sit overnight and install. Came back in the morning, all was done so I shut off my computer and went through my day. Came back to play at night and it said there was an installation error so the program ran through all the GW2 files to look for errors, then it went on downloading again, so I walked away, and came back to see that my boot drive vanished (apparently this is common OCZ drives). Eventually my drive was recognized again and I went along my merry way. I was leery of trying to finish the GW2 install since this update and the update before it crashed the first time has killed my SSD. The repair data archive begins running so I sit and watch and my computer freezes part way. I can use my mouse and click on other programs but nothing initiates. So I manually shut down (did this 2x) and my OCZ is unaffected.

I can’t figure out why GW2 won’t install..it just keeps freezing. I read that irregular volt levels can fry an SSD easily so I checked those and they’re within the safe range so I’m ruling all of that out. I NEED HELP!!! I miss playing my game :P

System specs:
Windows 7 64-bit Home
850 Watt Antec PSU
Asus P8B75-V mobo
8gb ddr3 1600MHz (G.Skill)
Intel i5 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz
MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Asus DVD drive
128GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD

My only issue is that Guild Wars 2 won’t install. Leery of my SSD again since it did vanish once on day 2…

I’d like to share my Canthan experience.
Factions was the first Guild Wars expansion I was 14 and told my mom just to get Guild Wars and I would pay her back. I started on a computer that couldn’t run it so I upgraded the RAM and barely got by. With all the suckiness of 10fps at lowest settings, I THOROUGHLY enjoyed Cantha, it’s gameplay, and storyline. I was obsessed with the whole Asian feel to Cantha and playing through the whole game on my Necromancer was one of my greatest ingame experiences.
It was in Alliance Battles where I met the guild I have stuck around with since 08 and continue to play with in Guild Wars 2. It was a great way to connect with some awesome online friends. The Luxon/Kurzick battle was really my favorite part of the game because the whole battle and picking my side (I used to be a diehard Luxon) was the best and it was very subversive.

I also HIGHLY INCREDIBLY hope you guys bring back Elona. I liked the storyline, but my all time favorite part about Nightfall was the Dervish! Please bring back the scythe master some day

All in all, I want to see Cantha and Elona return! I played Guild wars for 4 years. I think if we don’t have any return of the other continents Guild Wars 2 could lose its flavor really quick, and I’d sure love to stick around and keep playing more Guild Wars 2!

I just got the Guild Wars 2 Steelseries mouse, and for some reason in Guild Wars 2 I can’t set any hotkeys on Button 6 and Button 7 on the right side of the mouse. The buttons work in Borderlands, which is currently the only other game I play. Is there something I’m missing that’s locking these buttons?

It took a few days for the achievement to actually apply. Wondering if my bug report to ANet did anything

I’m trying to sell a celestial dye. I took it out of the TP once and I’m trying to sell it but the button to sell is grayed out. Is this a glitch? I tried with another item and it didn’t do this and nothing says soulbound or account bound.

Dell XPS L502x
Hardware Spec:
CPU-i5 2450M 2.5GHz
GPU-Nvidia Geforce GT 540m Underclocked (to keep it cooler) Driver: 9.18.13.623 (so says Device Manager)
Motherboard-Whatever Dell put on this laptop
RAM- 8gb ddr3 1600Mz
OS-Windows 7 64-bit
Hard Drive- 750GB Hitatchi
Game setting
Display Resolution: 1366×768
Graphic Settings: Medium-Low
FPS Value:
_PVE: 60fps
Cities: 45fps
PVP: 30fps
WvWvW: 30fps
GW2 build# 15,977

Hi there! I wasn’t sure where to put this, but I’m getting a new computer and I don’t want to have to download the game client all over again. Is there a way to transfer the data between the 2 computers with some sort of a link? They’re both Windows 7 computers.

I don’t use a Mac for gaming (that’s just silly), but I do use a laptop for gaming currently (again, not quite the smartest choice entirely) and I use a cooling pad that works great! drops my temp 10 degrees and the fan isn’t blowing all the time. I say try to get a Cooler Master pad. They’ve worked great for me! Sorry disregard my tease. Again try the cooling pad

My thought on this is prices need to be reduced. I was doing a dungeon and knew I would die constantly, so I didn’t repair my armor at all since it would have cost me well over 30s in the end, so i let my armor break until red. I think the incredibly high costs keeps people from wanting to actually repair the armor because dying is very common and easy in this game. Honestly, you have one heal and that’s pretty much it. Compared to Guild Wars where a team of 8 would typically have 2 healers and each healer had 3-5 healing skills alone. Then dying was a lot less likely and penalty was less. Now it’s significantly easier to die and the penalty is far worse. I don’t think money pit really begins to define how awful these costs are. If anything, the cost of armor repairs should be half of what it is now, then people still get penalized and it’s still fun

I actually like chedder’s idea. I’d rather put some $ into a repair kit I can craft and be able to carry it around. I wouldn’t miss that extra slot for the kit, and you can always go to the actual repair people too.

I used to complain about this too, but once you play around, you realize the class does well enough to not need weapon swap. I can use a staff for close range and long range. I can do the same with scepter/dagger too. Dagger/dagger is close range only but he has more than enough dmg to obliterate and skills to slow or keep the target off of him. If I do it properly, I can take down a melee character and take minimal damage or keep myself above half health most the time as I’m taking him down. Casters aren’t too much of an issue either I’ve found

I love my elementalist. I just got him to level 80! Downed state is all right, minus the death penalty each time you use mist form. I find him a bit more squishy vs my other casters however. Focus off-hand skills suck royally I think, so I just do mainly staff. I often switch to D/D or S/D. I find that staff skills could possibly use more damage. I find myself at level 80 only hitting 300s and my power is HIGH. However, I do hit 700s with my crit so maybe it’s normal in general? The thing I love though is how challenging it is. I like having to switch between the elements and I’ve worked out a good system that keeps me from taking much damage at all. I’ve managed to take down some difficult skill challenge bosses on my own using D/D. I’d say just fix the bugs and see what happens.

I’m doing the Survivor monthly achievement, and I’ve done well over 140k exp without dying. I’ve gotten 1/4 of the way through level 62 to half way through level 63 without a single death OR last stand, and my survivor achievement hasn’t budged. By now I should be starting my Tier 4 and it isn’t.

I say keep the waypoint costs, but cap them at about 75c-1s. But! They should make teleporting from a city to an explorable area such as Sparkfly Fen free. But have it so you can only teleport to a waypoint by an entrance and vise-versa. From the explorable area to a city, perhaps even just Lions Arch only. As someone said earlier, who wants to pay 2s to teleport back and forth from a city way down to a zone far away?

I want to say I’m having the same issue and have been for over a few weeks. Some times I can play for 30 min and other times it’s no more than 5 minutes. NEEDS FIXING!!!!!!! Error code 7 and disconnected to character screen as well. Just thought I’d post to show there are more with this issue!