Guild Wars 2

What server is currently the most populated one? looking to transfer server since Sea of sorrows is pretty dead during my time.

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Alright thanks for the info

Is sea of sorrows still populated?

Can you reccomend some populated servers?

I was pretty scared on coming back because i thought ill have no one to run low level fractals with

Hi! Im planning to return to this game.

I started playing during the release and quit playing after fotm.

I want to return and make a new character to once again familiarize myself with the game.

Is the game still newbie friendly? Meaning are there still people doing early game contents? Like the dynamic events on lowbie map, and lowbie dungeons?

Is the zerg in straights kf devastation stil alive?

What’s the rate of getting acsended rings from
Them? Ive been farming for 2weeks and only got 2 :/

thanks kitten have to build vit then and range

does the damage and hp of the mobs and bosses increases as the level of fractals increases? or only the agony damage increases?

I’m more of a pve player farming fractals. In PvP i know vit is useless for a DD playstyle, but for dungeon I’m not sure, so it would be great if those elementalists with high level in fractal can give their insights wether vit is important or not. I’ve been doing fractals below level 20 and so far I can survive them with my 15k hp. I Was wondering if it will be the same when i go to higher levels

earth is freaking strong though only 3 skills are useful the number 3 (for immobilizing the enemy) number 4 (knockdown) and number 5 (even without condition, the damage of this skill is just devastating) usually I set up the enemy by using number 3 on em to immobilize them so they wont move out of the way after i finish casting number 5

I am running a D/D elementalist with permanent fury buff.

My question is:

Is vitality a stat worth investing? Because I am wondering why there are only few ascended accessories which offer vitality and non of it are paired with useful stats. Is toughness a stat more worth it to invest into as compared to vitality?

Currently I am running, full knight armors and weapons while my accessories are power vitality and condition damage. But now I need to upgrade my gear for fractals and WvW the only way to go is to make these accessories ascended. But I am really confuse as to which accessories should I take.

I mean should I go for power toughness vitality? because this is the only accessory that has worth it stats paired with vitality. Or should I go with power toughness crit damage? or power precision crit dmg in order to boost up my dps capabilities greatly but by doing this, I will be losing around 2k hp and I’m afraid that maybe losing 2k hp will make me become like a glasss cannon where in i take a few hits and I die or will my 2.6k armor save me from deaths?

I am not a pro elementalist user but I do know how to play well.

if both PVT and Celestial have the same damage output then wouldn’t it be better to use PVT ? because PVT gives you more toughness and vitality compared to using all stats accessories. If the dmage output is almost the same then it’s better to have more survivability.

You can these by doing level 10 fractal each day right? is it the only way to get one? I mean I can only get 1 pristine fractal relic per character a day?

oh cool thanks i guess ill aim for 2500 armor then focus on increasing my dps after

i dont think healing power is effective,

My armor set is already full knights, but i was thinking what accessory should I get, wether i should get Power Prec Toughness, Power Vit toughness, Power vit Con dmg, or power prec crit dmg or power prec condition dmg.

How much toughness should I have before I stop increasing it? From what i’ve read, toughness has diminished returns, so what toughness should I aim for before I start pumping up other stats? I mean what is the most efficient number of toughness should I get before I hit the diminishing return

yup if you want to play elem you’re pretty much stuck in playing a defensive one. For me, I really enjoy playing my defensive elem than playing my GC Thief. Playing GC thief is just too boring for me. You just have to stealth then backstab people then HS if they are still alive. While playing my defensive elementalist I get to help push back zergs and is somewhat more challenging because you have to time your condition damage so they won’t get healed.

So I think your decision to switch class is a good idea if you want to play dps role more often in Wv3 because as of now there’s really no way we can beat the dps of any other classes in game except of necromancers not to mention their survivability as well

you can right click their icon in party and join their overflow xD

Oceanics in SoS are pretty solid so I guess in the oceanic peak times we will remain solid for a long time. But in NA, I think there are only a few solid guilds that plays on NA peak time and if they leave the server, SoS will pretty much fall back to where it is in the beginning of the launch.

I disagree with you bodhy, Elementalist can be played by any type of player it just takes more time learning them. I played all the classes as well, but for me it’s really fun to play an elementalist and I also think majority of the population of my server also feels this way. In wvwvw eles are pretty much everywhere. So I think elementalists are pretty okay as of now. I mean sure we are squishy and deal less damage from other classes, but when behind a wall, we aoe likes bosses. There’s no other classes better than destroying sieges on top of the wall than an elementalist.

You guys are just crying because you can’t play well with an elementalist. Either you guys can’t read skill descriptions or can’t read the forums on how to play them well or you guys are just really sloooooooooooow in learning a very versatile class.

Besides I do not know why they keep on making these threads, no one is really forcing you to play an elem, if you can’t play an elem right, you have the freedom to roll on a more easier class to play like thieves and warriors.

Because when you’re on top, there’s no where to go but fall down.

Not random. Deal more dmg to enemies you get higher drop rate of badges (I tried playing my tank elem and my Glass Cannon thief) It seems that my thief gets more badges than my elem and it isnt random. In fact, if you try to put a Ballista in front of the spawn port of your enemy server and ballista the hell out of the people in there ( when in ballista you deal 5k dmg to enemies) there you can see the the bags dropping in your side contains atleast 1 badge per enemy you hit with your ballista and dies

Besides if arena net do implement your suggestion, Then I think it will break the wvwvw more than it will benefit it. All your suggestions only gave buffs to the losing server and doesnt have an advantage on the winning one. If this has been implemented then other servers will just lose on purpose to get those buffs and dominate WvWvW when their prime time comes. Seriously, I think wvwvw right now is good as it is. Each server just needs to know how to organize their major guilds and just needs to have a good leader.

SoS just got lucky that we got PRX transfered to our server and they pretty much took lead in EB. Before without PRX, SoS is just strong during oceanic peak times but with them backing up our NA time slot, WvWvW just got pretty interesting 24/7

I’m not sure, in previous wvwvw we got stomped at the first day by SoR controlling pretty much the entire map. Sole reason is that most of the players in SoS enjoyed playing the halloween event. SoS was downed for like 40k points people in the server felt despair but then PRX never gave up in trying to take points and tried to talk to other guilds to cooperate with them to attempt to try to take control of EB and borderlands.

We are downed by 40k points, SoR has 3 orbs but then we still manged to defeat them because the major guilds in SoS talked to each other and cooperated with each other. Sure there are dramas going but in the end, they worked together and thus gave us a victory towards the end of the week.

So I think it’s not fair to blame everything in Arena Net and their wvwvw mechanics as to why your server sucks. Just because a server overtake you during the first few days of the battle doesn’t mean you don’t stand a chance anymore because believe me you can.

Without PRX, SoS was basically strong only during oceanic peak times and with our off peak times, we pretty much get stomped enemy servers taking 3 orbs etc etc but when our prime guilds logged on they take back everything. This only proves that your point in the orbs is dead wrong. Sure having 3 orbs makes you superior but it doesnt equate to instant / sure win. In fact, we even overtook SoR’s score while they have 2 orbs on their server and we only got 1.

If you want to win the wvwvw , you just need to rally your server talk to the major guilds to cooperate with each other.

In your other arguments you do have a point. But I completely disagree with your orb mechanic suggestion.

the only problem with elementalist currently is that it isn’t something a noob can use, you have to study it deeply in order to use it effectively, if you give up because you cannot fully utilize your elementalist that only means your level of understanding is much shallower than those who can use it quit effectively.

I actually agree with you that you should go back to games wherein the mage play style is really really easy and requires little to no thinking at all when playing.

evasive arcana pawns everything. Arcane in traits is worth to get.

Go mesmer. You can’t go dps ranged as an elementalist (the burst dmg kind). Well you can, but if you compare to other classes you are going to suck regardless of how well you play. Our dps right now is crap. Those who say DPS elem are beast most probably doesnt have any other level 80 characters or just want to comfort themselves so they won’t feel bad they chose the wrong class to go DPS with.

If you want to do damage as an elementalist only 1 path is available for you. Go condition damage build but again, it sucks compared to burst types.

go buy ash legion spy kit it will help a lot if you think youre gonna die use it to go in cloak then rethink your strategy

does the 6th effect of rune of dolyak the 30 hp regen stack with the water attribute’s passive regeneration?

How do you increase the regeneration value of water attribute’s passive regen?

How long does it take for it to respawn? Does it spawn in a fixed time in the server time? or its respawn timer is only going to start once you mined it?

if it’s on a fix time, what server time does it usually respawn? if there’s a respawn timer, how long does it take?

and also, when does the location re sets as well?

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I hope I win Been playing for 600hours already and I’m still lacking my exotic accessories :/ anyway Good luck to everyone who posted their screenies here

@OP

Good luck to your future endeavors as well and thank you for being kind enough to help the community

The population is decreasing i guess, even in lion’s arch there’s seldom an overflow unlike in the past.

Another way to make the game less boring is to provide us with character appearance reset scroll. In that way, we don’t get sick of our character’s looks. I myself love the aesthetic of this game but after playing my character for a long time it kinda gets boring.

Just changing the appearance is fine, no change in story etc. Just plain appearance.

Can you guys make it available in gem store please?

When playing ele, dont compare it to other classes or you’re gonna have a bad time. The only upside of playing ele is the fact that its skills looks great. But when you compare ele doing more damage or surviving more attacks then don’t cause im pretty sure every class can out damage an elem provided with same gear, and every class has more survivability than eles.

It stays on the old server. Once you transfered your guild will be back to 0. And no you dont have ot kick and residual inactive members. They could stay in the old world and you in your new world and still be guildmates. But the influence points only stay in the old world. It will go back to 0 in the new home world

You are right. Support tank is the only way. Never go glass cannon or other classes in wvwvw would just pass by you and kill you in the process that’s how weak gc elems are. If you want to go GC better go with thieves or warriors. They are stronger and can survive longer.

Yep it is, i have the level 80 story back armor , and its stats are lower compared to backpack not by much though, i think just a 2-3 point different in stats plus the fact that you have to buy an exquisite jewel to go along with your backpack but with the reward it already has the exqusite jewel

I have tried different classes as well and made them reach lvl 45 except of thief which i made it to level 80. All i can say is the hardest classes are elem and mesmers. But in PvP mesmers rocks no matter what build you go into. For elem, the only way to enjoy pvp is through tank/heal build. Other than that it sucks. I tried going for glass cannon, but every class out dps me and also has more survivability so why would I play a glass cannon elem wherein almost every class in game could just out dps me and can survive longer?

I feel your pain bro. Instead of Arena Net fixing bugs and glitches that hinders character improvement they focus on nerfing things. Instead of fixing skill bugs, they focus on nerfing skills. It’s funny how they are saying they are hearing out our calls, but then are still doing nothing. I see a lot of elementalists complaining since the release and yet i haven’t seen arena net take action. Sure they promised to buff the D/D class but well, a promise is just a word if not fullfiled.

Clearly those who are saying elems are op in pve / pvp with their glass cannon builds haven’t tried other classes yet. Elementalists are strong in pve / pvp but when compared to other glass cannon classes their like little kids trying to play with the big boys.

Sure it’s worth it if you compare it with other elem builds, imo the best builds for elem are just either dps or tank/heal.

But if you compare it to other classes, you will see that if you want to be the glass cannon type of class you better go for warrior or thieves. When GC eles are compared to these 2 classes, they have far more superior damage and even have more survivability than glass cannon eles.

IMO if you want to enjoy playing the class you have no other option but to go tank/heal or add a little damage but keep in mind to always put toughness/vitality as your secondary stat.

they will nerf every build that counters GC thieves and warriors. I guess in their point of view, this game should be battle of the glass cannon types if we’re not allowed to make tanky classes like tank guardian, mesmers and elementalists. Although it’s pretty clear who will win the battle of glass cannons. Compared to thieves and warriors we have lower damage output and lower survivability as well. Being a tank is what makes this class better than any classes.

And don’t give me some BS reasons like maybe I was building my elementalist wrong. I tried to build an elem with max dps output. (Berserker exotic set + accessories ) 30 fire 30air in traits and it’s still not near on the dps output of my thief which doesn’t even have a point in the power trait.

Relax guys, he said it in his post already that whay Arena Net do is compile what every player says and if majority wants it, they will add it / nerf it/ buff it.

About the ele tank thing, i dont think they will nerf it because most of us playing elementalist doesn’t want it to be nerfed and honestly, it is pretty balanced considered it’s the only available build for us right now.

Elementalist / Mages should be the glass cannon type wherein we deal a high amount of damage and in return we die in a few hits

The problem is that here in this game we aren’t even if we use full damage gear, we only deal little damage compared to thieves and warriors, not to mention the fact that these two have more survivability than elems.

and because of the overpowered dps of thieves and warrior, it’s impossible for other glass cannons to go head to head with them, so instead we created a counter which is the tank type to deal with these insane dps classes. So why would they nerf our counter against the overpowered class? if they nerf us, they should nerf others as well.

you lost me at sigil of might. Elems have low attack speed so that might buff won’t proc that much even if all your hits crit. I’d say it’s better to go with fire or air

i’m starting to think the same. When something hinders Glass Cannon thiefs they nerf it just to make GC thieves stand out more :/

So they really want to make elementalists useless huh?

When using evasive arcana in water attunement, how long is the cooldown?

i mean if i dodge twice in a row, will cleansing wave apply twice as well?

nope the glyph of elemental i tried it today, both doesn’t last for 60seconds, i even check if they just die but they don’t.

Not unless of course, they disappear once you get out of combat?

The tooltip says that it should last for 60seconds, my elementals both lesser and the elite one, doesnt even last for 30seconds is this a bug? or the tool tip is wrong?

Do the traits in arcane tree have cool downs? particularly, the one that gives arcane power when your hp is at 75% and the one that gives arcane shield when your hp drops to 25%?

I have a level 80 thief with signet of shadows it’s a passive that adds 25% move speed, i can say is that when i unequip it, i can really see the big difference.

Now I have an elementalist, with signet that gives 10% movespeed , trait with 10% movespeed when im attuned to air plus the one that gives 25% movespeed max as long as i stay attuned to air.

I’m not sure if it’s bugged or anything, but I can’t seem to see the difference on the movespeed of my thief and elementalist. My elem should have 45% move speed passive if I add everything and it should be noticeable. But when i’m comparing it, it’s as if my elem only have 25% movespeed because she moves the same as my thief.

Well I know a lot who already did, well not quit but took a rest. I have partied with a lot of people in game and I add some of them as friends. Most of them are bored at the game already because they already have full exotics and the wvwvw in our server is crap. The world completion is one the things that makes this game worth playing if you’re bored as hell in doing repetitive dungeons and going to wvwvw just to waste your money on repair cost.

I admit that my first paragraph is kinda rude towards dev. I’m sorry for that, Anger just took over me I guess. But that’s not really what’s important here.

Let’s just say that these SP bugs are really persistent and no matter what the devs do, they keep on coming back. I suggest a simple quick fix like a daily server restarT ( which won’t take longer than 5mins) to at least reset the skill point npcs.

This way, the people who are trying to do their map completion quest will not have to wait for 7days just to get the SP’s they’re missing.

Seriously guys, the bugged SP’s are still broken even after 3 weeks. That isn’t a short amount of time you know? have you guys really been doing anything to fix it? It seems to get fixed every restart but after a few days, it will become bugged again. I cannot complete my world completion because of this.

A lot of players are already complaining. I just wish you guys would fix it ASAP. and if you can’t ? then atleast do a daily server restart to quick fix these said bugs.

A lot of us can’t wait for another whole week just to get a few skill points. Really guys. A quick daily server restart would benefit us all and it should only take a few minutes of your lives.