Guild Wars 2

well this is rather annoying, on my own in the super adventure box, and guess what happens doing the mushroom cap jump trunk…. yep you guessed it lag….

definitley something wrong here, thanks for your input chrono, need more people to speak up with this issue,

Hi, ive been playing for about 6months, never had issues at all, my bandwidth is more than capable and my computer is way over the needed specs for full high settings.

In the past 2-3ish days started expirencing little spikes 1-5 second delays. thought nothing of it. then bigger spikes came in, to the point no skills work, all npcs stop, all players stop, or continue animation stationary.
This eventually leads to the client crashing and bringing me to the character selection page.
There are actually times when all is fine and can play fine, then suddenly BOOM!!! SCREW YOU HERE’S SOME LAG LOLS!. :S
So yeah anyone else expiriencing ridiculous lag spikes/client crashes?

P.s. before you ask, yes I have used the repair process and no it should not be necessary to re-install.

Could be some sort of an issue since new patch release? (obviously shooting in the dark here)

It doesn’t exactly matter the farming location as such, more so of the effectivness the profession at tagging/killing/mobility.
So far ive got a lvl 11 engineer, I do actually enjoy the play style and do plan on making it to 80. Guess I will watch a couple of engineer youtube vids for more, thanks for your input.

What is generally the better profession in regards to farming the most efficiently. Will be running full Magic Find set so its more about movement and tagging as much as possible while still doing events and staying alive.

So looking at: High mobility, Speed of killing, options of mass tagging in group situations and of course survivability.

At the moment I have 80 Guard/Necro/Ele, if you prefer another class please tell me why so I can decide which one to level and put full kitten set onto.

Thanks

Oh yeah also this is mainly for Open World material/gold farming towards finishing legendary Sunrise.

look through the individual profession forums, there is generally a few people who have posted a thread or 2 and show a video or explanation of their builds

alcopaul.2156:

make a warrior, and make it a glass cannon.

I have actually considered this, but have no inspiration for it, as their forum is chocked full of bad comments about warriors, with exceptions for solo pve dungeons and really big hits.

didn’t get chance to try out Haviz’s build but will tonight.

Bloodgruve.6038:

I have good luck with 20/30/20/0/0 using Sword/Torch and Scepter/Focus. Heal on Crit food is and precision oils are extremely helpful here. Damage is quite good and you still have decent survivability. I run a mix of zerker, soldiers, valks and knights to get the stats I want. Managing 2.9k Atk, ~70% crit, 45% crit dmg, 16K hps, 2.9k armor. Not full glass but I feel quite effective running it.

70% crit is over kill it will be kittening other stats.
Torch seems like a big nono, but together with scepter is the best ranged we have, will probably try a ranged cannon monster at somepoint but for now melee glass cannon.
Mix of zerkers and knights seems to look like a good choice for me, thanks for your imput.

Danicco.3568:

I’d say 20/25/0/25/0 or 10/25/0/30/5 are the best damage oriented builds.

The 30 in Honor is if you plan on using two handers, since you should be picking Empowering Might at Master tier.

This gives you +30% in bonus damage if you’re constantly dodging, or just +20% bonus damage if your endurance is full.
Greatsword Power is awesome if you want to run without Empowering Might (and you’re using a Greatsword, of course).

I have tried using empowering might before, but with little success, what sort of might stacks can I expect from a general encounter with 1 orr mob at 50% crit chance?
Yeah Greatsword, Hammer is what im swaying towards but fell in love with focus, so might be using GS – Sword(or scepter) + focus. Unsure on this for a great pve cannon though as most encounters are melee and need AoE, Hammer – GS has great AoE capabilites.

okay thanks guys I’m a fairly experienced guardian, in terms of WvW builds for suvivability, this will be my 1st attempt at a glass cannon build and just would love to see how it plays out, though many people seem to say glass cannon guardians are a nono, would love to prove them wrong :P

I think I will try Haviz’s trait build 1st as it seems more logical to have 20% two handed recharge rate, too many weapon variations though, I have no idea how well the endurance upkeep will be either

OZtheWiZARD.2401:

No, I thought that before I got it. That’s why I did it instead of complaining about it on the forum.

is it me? or does this make no sense?

Can anyone suggest a good glass cannon build? I would suppose full berserker’s as for gear, its more for dungeons/farming world so will need some kinda of dodge upkeep and still beable to dish out damage
Also suggestions on runes and sigils would be helpful

Thanks in advanced for any input

just have to hope some lucky chump buys a few boxes and tells the world they got a precursor, or even a lvl 80 exotic, then we shall know you can get a precursor for definate

Every thing you have suggested to your liking is in every profession, the only thing people can suggest to you is to level one you think you will like to around 30 (40 is usually where it gets a tonne better) if you don’t like it try another profession.

Elementalist’s are pretty fun to play, I would bet best AOE in the game extremely versatile and have 20 skills at their disposal, rather than most other classes that only have 12, but all in all if you like it you play it.
Most needed Profession in PvE dungeons and most useful in WvW I would wager a bet at Mesmer with portals and Time warp.
Warriors can achieve massive dps,
Theif is a good scout profession with crazy 1 shot abilities,
Necro is the master of conditions but not so great in PvP in terms of mobility,
Ranger I can’t say much not played one or will I ever,
Engineers are pretty dam fun,
Guardian in my opinion is the one with the most survivability and very good support

Elementalist was my 1st char I didn’t get a good feel for it so its still lvl 55 lol

Pick one play if for a while see if you like it
Good luck

Anet just failed to follow through with their initial ideas on how they told us we were going to acquire them, its too easy to just buy them off the TP. This doesn’t feel anywhere near the name of Legendary………

Really you would take RNG over a sure definate way of working towards and getting your precursor?
Then why have you bought yours off the TP instead of pouring the gold into the Mystic toilet?

I and most other people would be entirely happy with a concept like that of which you mentioned, would rather a more definite chance than an ever rising price or a 0.% RNG chance that you cannot determine or work towards. But this won’t come because the game needs gold sinks and precursors are extremely good ones.

People need to work towards something not just drop it in and hope that luck is coming soon.

The scavenger hunt:
This looks high in probability to be another disappointment, look at karka, mad king, winterday, they all had flaws, all had exploits in which some few got stupidly rich, yeah they did all have very fun aspects etc but lets not get into that.

All I have seen them say about it is you will have a Chance at getting a precursor, yes that’s right that magical word, if anything there will probably be only a small minority that actually get one.
In all honesty I think you might be right, it may make it worst. Still it doesn’t mean to say the prices on the TP for them are fair.

Best way? There are hundreds upon thousands of better ideas that could of been done.
Quest lines for a legendary…….noway
Massive amount of work to achieve certain parts in different areas, dungeons, champion kill tallys. There is loads of ways it could have been far better and for the word LEGENDARY.
But a RNG related mystic toilet such a cool way to throw away your monies

If they are not meant to be endgame, then what are they meant for? are you supposed to acquire them when you hit lvl 2 after 1st story quest? after you play the TP or buy a fat load of gems cause we all are rich IRL

Anet had a massive speech about how great legendaries will be and you would have to work and master across all aspects of the game to achieve one. FAILS!!!! “I can go on the trade post and buy it K THNX BYE”.

Market manipulation require very little skill more knowledge of the market, it comes especially easy if you caught on early using exploits to get precursors. You can achieve GREAT market manipulation schemes with little over 500g (no I won’t explain how. lol).
The legendaries are intended for everyone that is dedicated enough to go for them, meaning pretty much everyone at some point will consider going for them.

The system isn’t broken it just doesn’t work the way people where told it was, thus making people complain.

it seems rather ironic, that you transform into a living moving plague (a gas like form) and yet you can be crippled and immobilized? needs like 10% speed increase or something as well, seems near useless when people move away from you if you haven’t already spammed cripple on them.

you don’t need to learn the game to have a legendary, incase you didn’t notice, your OP basically says you can earn money and just buy it off the TP (in this case playing the TP to make gold) I.E. not learning the game just having a slight interest in a financial market

I believe they just need to implement a specific recipe for each precursor, like similar gift recipes.
Although with a difference, like a specific set of meta/events to accomplish to receive a part of that said recipe.
At this point I look down on people who buy precursors or even try to flip or even associate with the idea of making gold off them. They are a bad idea which feels like a very lazy concept. However the game needs gold sinks and the mystic toilet is great for this.

Ok…. the current precursor prices on the TP are fair (this is questionable)

the way to obtain them is fair?
a huge 0.% RNG chance. fair?
most of the prices are determined by gold sellers. fair?

Which one is fair?

In some ways yes you are correct, it is entirely possible to make enough money to buyout the precursor you desire, I personally have the money to buy a legendary straight off the TP, but the feeling of that would not be of accomplishment. Most people what to have the feeling of opening that mammoth gold sparkly chest and get a freaking epic awesome part of their legendary they have been working so hard towards.
The thought of encouraging people to buy precursors or gamble in the mystic toilet for that much of their gold is just pure rotten.

Thanks nemesis, I have actually ended up going back fully to this build, fearing with crazy damage is too much fun. Found the much needed pizza cheers

Was mistakenly using lich form when I 1st tried this, found it to be a big mistake in WvW as its like “hey look at me I’m a nice big target” using plague has changed it all completely much better survivability, though I feel it is fairly useless in the damage I can do with it, so only really use it as either a meat shield or an escape, dunno if I’m using it wrong? lol.

Upon looking over mobility, I don’t think I can do much else than keep swapping out Signet of the Locust but keep a bit of distance, This is the only part I actually dislike about the necro lack of mobility. Will have to try out spectral walk into zerg pop a few bleeds+ epid then hit the tele, I don’t think I have ever used well of power in wvw, will have to try it I suppose.

Guess im just to used to playing guardian and not dying at all lol.

Yeah its still possible to get them off the TP for around 100g, theres only a few left but no doubt someone will be holding onto them after supply is gone to further increase price.

Scythe Staff Skin

Believe me when I say this, every single profession forum you go into, there will be someone moaning this and that about everything.

I have a 80 guardian as main and love it cant fault it, I decided to play necro for an alt as it seemed the most complaints came from their forum, upon reaching lvl 80 and gearing up, I don’t see the issue, they are very fun to play very different and you can achieve allot with them when you learn the ropes as with any other profession.

If you like it, play it Win Win

I hate you (envious much?) lol

Awsome will spread this a little

Would be a great option for the bow to offer us a better ranged utility, the others im not quite so sure about. But then again I don’t even use the spirit weapons with the exception of the sword for a bit of fun

Yes you definitely will come across the odd well played player that you just cannot kill, but on the upside if your good aswell, they can’t kill you, so best to just leave them or tempt them into the brutal force of your teams zerg/groups, or have ready your sheild near a cliff :P

Iruwen.3164:

Noerknhar.3826:

Dear John,

while I appreciate that you jumped in our discussion, I am a bit disappointed that your only comment was about the definition of inflation. If you had a look at the completed transactions for t5/t6 materials, ectos, bufffood and ingredients in the most common/most used bufffoods, you’d noticed that those prices went up by a lot in the last 4-8 weeks. I think ‘inflation’ kind of is the right word to describe such a situation.

Even if not, I don’t want to discuss the definition of a word. I want to discuss the main point of my first post in this thread: (casual) players don’t really earn money as prices go up and up. They will NEVER get a legendary as the precursor is the blocking factor.
Those two points are what i wanted to discuss.

Ah and by the way: I think that orders are a good indicator for inflation and that there actually is no need to view the completed transactions as orders are always “close around” completed transaction prices. gw2spidy’s data is the best available and it’s not bad.

Dear Noerknhar,

casual players were never ever meant to get a legendary.

Best Regards.
Iruwen

Okay big fails here, I’m a perfect example to put this to, I play currently 2-3 hrs 5 days a week maybe squeeze in about 6-8hr sat-sun, I have banked over 3/4s of the ledgendary items purely by saving them up, I have the gold to purchase a legendary and or precursor straight off the TP, in my eyes this is an utter waste of game-play as there’s no achievement in buying your way through life. How ever buying the precursor seems the only efficient way of getting it.

I on the other hand will NOT buy any of the precursors or even try to flip or hold on to them, due to the fact that it messes with everyone else who wants/needs them. The prices are far too extreme, yes yes demand screams for higher price but its ludicrous.

I would love to make a vote so that no one even buys or makes orders on the precursors for a short period (though this will never happen), Just like a one day fuel strike.

This will reduce demand and so will reduce the price. So even the most casual of casual players can even work towards a not so never ending battle of price increases.
Though this would have to be done frequently to work, which also will never happen.

Oh yeah inflation…….. its partly inflation, but the most part is people using their money to buyout items to put them up to higher prices to make profits.

shouts my friend shouts, pure of voice converts a condition into a boon

Well it does say in the latest patch notes:
Transmuting weapons now preserves the higher rarity of the two items.

Still it seems people are very unsure that this is the case and are scared to proceed xmuting and if they will auto upgrade????

Yeah its kinda dumb how it doesn’t say “Sunrise of Strength” I mean why the name change with the change of the sigil.

I highly doubt we will be left behind in the ascended armour as in no clerics, they have been trying to push more people to use healing/clerics to some what of a failure.
I do truly hope they sort out the ascended gear, there are few armour titles none existent.

Oh yeah forgot to ask are you still using mango pies? or have found a better alternative?

well actually I feel as though using the soldiers Ascended rings has actually balanced the build out a little better for me at least in terms of not enough damage taken and done, I still have clerics weapons and probably will not even attempt to change. But as you say I’m a little bit unsure of what to expect when I get the soldiers amulet, my healing power might take a turn for the worst.
Still its an awesome build and the gear/traits and everything else synergies almost perfectly, its only down to your own reactions to do the rest

Also looking at a shortish period before I get my 1st legendary torn between sunrise and bolt, not liking the fact of them not being clerics stats either lol

I took your build and adapted it slightly so its not copying, been using it for about 3 weeks now.

But I have to say this build is AWSOME!!!! and can survive incredible things, swapping out the clerics accessories for ascendant soldiers has certainly pushed the bar up.
At first I was kind of disappointed with only doing like 2-3k bursting (on the learning curve), but upon the frequency and the addition of burning blocks, perma retaliation and the incredible rolling 1.5k heals we are freaking unstoppable, not had a one shot incident since using it.

My only concern is the worry of a nerf, but highly doubt it as upon a lucky chance of messing up concentration of hitting shelter or another utility at the wrong moment or forgetting to frequently dodge roll I MIGHT die lol

Thank you Christos de Soufre, and everyone else that posted input on this thread

I vote a sticky tbh and surprised it hasn’t been already +1

I’ve been following this thread for the past couple of days, I would love to see some details on SPESHAL’s build and gear, since he seems to go on………………. and on……………. about off topic material and hurling abuse at Nemesis, who obviously has put allot of time and effort into helping others achieve their best. I personally appreciate it as a new lvl 80 necro still learning the ropes, this guide is very useful and works wonders.

Im still working on exotic gear but got most of it, gear from TA, fractals rings, and just bought 80 rares off the TP to fill in the slots for the mean time. Played around with this fear build and loved it, my main is a guardian an I must have switched build around 100 times before finally landing 1, I started messing around with Lopez’s condition build which is similar to this minus the fears, I think I will land somewhere in-between but still will do some crazy damage from fears and live to tell the tale.

One thing I don’t like though and that’s the mobility, I play mostly WvW with guildies and do small group tactical work and we hate zergs, generally our objective is to divert the zerg. My trouble is I can’t seem to get away fast enough if im just on the edge of death and need an escape.

Also what food are you using for +condition duration? having trouble locking it down with my short casual game playing lol.