Guild Wars 2

Ayrilana.1396:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Control_effect

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Defiance_Bar

That’s what I find confusing. The article on the defiance bar says that on two of the three stages, the character is immune to CC abilities. In the third one, the CC abilities don’t actually do their intended effect, and just lower the bar. Eventually stunning them and temporarily increasing damage received. So what’s the point in using CC at all? Why is it so important? Why can’t I just ignore CC and focus on DPS instead?

I’ve seen people say how important it is that people have CC abilities and damage break bars, but I can’t see why. Also, if you’re just running around solo, and break bars require constant CCs to decrease, how many abilities do you need to be able to keep chaining it whilst others cooldown? Each one has to replace an ability that could be used to deal damage, so it seems like an odd trade off.

I’m sure I can’t be the only one who doesn’t understand these two terribly well. Is there a good guide to them out there somewhere?

I’m playing a warrior, and fairly recently hit level 80. I don’t really remember break bars or CC coming up in any of the in-game tooltips much, and it certainly wasn’t anything that gave me a problem going through levelling, but now I’m finding the mobs in HoT almost all have break bars, are really difficult to beat, and I can’t really work out what to do, or find a good guide on how to deal with it. The Shatterer also has these break bars, and I’ve been in large groups that have failed to kill it because of them.

How are you supposed to deal with break bars? All I know is that CC moves are supposed to lower it, but how do I know what abilities are CC ones? What are the ones a Warrior should be using? I mostly spend my time wielding a Greatsword or dual-axes.

I’ve seen some mention of breakbars having timers or different states, too. How do you know when these are? What visual clues are there?

Sorry if it seems like I’m just unloading a ton of questions, but I really am clueless on this, and searching for answers doesn’t seem to have revealed much.

TL;DR – please explain breakbars and how to deal with them to me like I’m a simpleton.

OK, thanks very much.

I went into HoT to unlock the masteries. Looks like I missed out on a lot in the Living World Season 2 stuff. Looking forward too going back and playing that.

Just a thing I noticed, though. When I went into the HoT part, my EXP bar went back down to empty. I thought maybe it reset once you started that section. It filled up a bit as I did the first story chapter, but then when I returned to Lion’s Arch, it wasback at full again, and told me I could unlock a mastery. Are there two experience bars now, one for Tyria and one for HoT? Experience from one doesn’t carry over to the other?

Also, as an aside, the HoT maps are much harder than anything I’ve encountered in the rest of the game so far. I was trying to explore Verdant Brink a bit, but every monster I encountered could shoot me down much easier than anything in Tyria could.

Hi there. First forum post.

I own the full game with the HoT expansion, and I’ve just levelled my first character to 80, and completed the personal story. I noticed initially, my XP bar kept filling up, however, once it reached full, nothing has happened, and it’s stayed at the same level since, (pictured,) despite me earning a lot more experience throughput the final parts of the personal story. I assume that XP now goes towards the mastery progressions in HoT, but I’ve not unlocked those yet. Is any experience I earn until I have unlocked those going to be wasted? I was considering getting the Living World Season 2 content, as I know it leads up to the HoT content, but if it’s just going to give me a load of wasted XP, I might just watch a youtube summary of the events and go straight into HoT.

Or is the extra XP I accumulate stored somewhere until the masteries are unlocked?

Thanks