Guild Wars 2

With Halloween only a couple of months away now and with the expansion distraction between now and then, I thought I would ask what are seen by people as the best farming builds for this year. I know in the past it has been the guardian “loot stick” but I also understand that the range on that has been nerfed.

I thought maybe a flamethrower engi for my basic tyria account but for my main I wasnt sure if there was something out of HoT or PoF specs that made something a good ToT farmer. I am a bad theorycrafter but I do like to get prepared as we are all going to be busy elsewhere in 3 weeks ^.^

Any input would be welcomed

Kind of pointless, they killed the smaller servers with the linking – all the home servers were then full and then they wont even give you a free transfer because of the way they just dumped us into matchups we didn’t want to be in. ie we screwed you but you have to pay in order to correct it.
anet should just man up and close the small servers instead of this stupid pretence of linking. 2 month changes wont revitalize them.

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Kraggy.4169:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I thought I read you now have 2 hours before you’re forced to update.

Yes you did, you’re correct, that message appeard in-game the moment the build became available .. 1 hr 45 mins message appeared as I’m typing this.

@Lycan Nibbler, the dailies are valid for 24 hours, so leaving it till the last 30 mins is really leaving yourself no room for any sort of delay, isn’kitten.. although this is going to delay it in any case.

That may be ok for the people that dont have RL but many times during the week the only time I have is getting home and reset.
30 minutes is ok most time but having to do a reset on the laptop I am currently having to use means at least 5 mins+ of that is taken to sign off, get the new build (that almost always stalls coz of so many people doing it and then logging back in with a crappy slow video card) and then its getting matchups in pvp that will finish in time or wvw ones that can be done.
while it isnt a big thing most times, it seemed much more sensible when they did any update at reset.

You get kicked out at the end of a pvp match so you have to take the new build in the same way you get kicked out of wvw – the 2 hour leeway is only for pve.

Just seems a silly time when people are trying to get their dailies/other things done before reset. It seems to be a regular occurrence now.

Vennyhedgie.5369:

Johan Skold.4708:

Vennyhedgie.5369:

I never used the 64 bit client cause it crashed on startup. Now I literaly cannot play the game?

How do I launch the 32 bit client only now?

There’s an FAQ coming up in a while, but you can force it to stay on the 32-bit client by adding -32 to the command line.

That said, I’d like to know why it crashes on startup for you. The vast majority of the crashes in 64-bit on launch right now appear to be caused by other software. As a concrete example, Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware has been known to cause GW2 client crashes for a long time.

Thanks. Apparently it doesn’t quite crash, it just whitescreens for a really long time when loading character select now for some reason. Why though, I’m not sure as I dont have said Ad-Aware.

Same here – I do have Ad-Aware but havent had the issue in the past. 32 booted up just fine for me after the change though.

Johan Skold.4708:

Vennyhedgie.5369:

I never used the 64 bit client cause it crashed on startup. Now I literaly cannot play the game?

How do I launch the 32 bit client only now?

There’s an FAQ coming up in a while, but you can force it to stay on the 32-bit client by adding -32 to the command line.

Thank you, that worked for me.

I want an answer to the same question.

I also need the 32 bit client option, I cannot run the 64 bit and do the other thngs I need to do on my computer. I want the option not to have this forced upon me like it is being.

Interesting… dont know who TRA are on Mag and why their players think its ok to hack into places they shouldnt be – is this how things are getting flipped so quickly?

Anet have shown by not being able to guest between EU and NA that these two are distinct and separate animals. Therefore there seems to be no reason for them to have the same start time for WvW matches.
I agree the EU times were terrible for reset and needed to be changed. Moving them to say 17.00 GMT or similar would make it much better.
However changing the times on NA to 3pm PST means that anyone working on the west coast (myself included) wont be able to get on at reset and if I dont get on at the start, then I have a several hour wait to get in on a Friday, hence meaning that Friday WvW play is no longer an option.

I never type in the forums but this topic has forced me ^.^. The OP is absolutely correct, there is no need at all for a server reset. Lets just look at the servers that have had (in my view watching from inside WvW and the matchups every week) large alliance movements:-
Based on the “old” matchup system scoring"
Kain – Moved up several tiers, this week in tier 3 with expectation to go to T2 next week
Answer – correctly balanced
DBrand/Mag – Moved up a tier or two over the past weeks into T3
Answer – Correct position for these servers currently
CD Appeared to lose some strength and has dropped down to T4
Answer = Correct Tier
SBI/IOJ Lost major guilds which caused rapid drops from T1/T2 down to T4/T5
Answer = Within a tier of balance, maybe SBI is T5/T4, maybe IoJ is T6/T5 but they are relatively competitive in this weeks matchups.

Same with EU servers, Arbor and Btide had already lost matches and were headed to the bottom 2 tiers already which would have been completed this or next week .

The ONLY reason I can see for an adjustment of the scoring system is to stop the bottom Tier becoming “marooned”. My suggestion to this would be for the bottom Tier only to have a “winner gets promoted system”. This would at least give the bottom tier something to fight for each week rather than knowing no matter what happened theyd be facing the same two forever….
I did consider forgetting the scoring system completely and saying top goes up a tier, bottom drops a tier but although it would make different natches every week for everyone and possibly more interesting, the downside as I can see it is that the 3rd placed Tier would get ganged up on to keep them down which is not a good result.

I really just hope there is a math adjustment to help T8 without the reset everyone to 1500 which will be a total fiasco. Having looked at the Mil predictions for next week (if they are correct), I see only one match that would possibly be competitive and that is the way to kill WvW anet…….