Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the reply guys.

Yeah so far I always get my dailies done, got 3 maps at 100% and about to complete 4th one. Personal story is at lvl 36, although manageable at lvl 32, I’ll wait until I lvl up a bit before I pick it up again (I truly enjoy the story quest! I’ts amazing, makes me want to lvl to 80 first and then do it all in one go, as I get disappointed when I have to wait to lvl up to continue the story, I really like it).

@Licth
Thanks for the tip about the +Bonus exp from killing mobs. I’ve seen those a lot but didn’t really understand how it worked or why it stopped working lol. I tried relogging once to see if it would reset hehe. I have a 1-hour exp booster that I got from somewhere (dunno where lol) so I’ll use that when I find a sweet area. I rather enjoy slaying mobs in masses actually, it’s the most rewarding activity; fun, money, items, familiarity with the class, all in one.

@WeLove Kanjimari
Thank you! I’m definitely gonna give this a try and see how it goes! Sounds like something I was looking for.

Crafting is out of question tho, I’m fairly broke hehe.

Hello,

First off, please don’t judge me or tell me “just play the game”, “enjoy the journey” etc. I don’t mean to be rude, but if you came here to say that then don’t say anything. I am enjoying the journey and taking my time when I can.

I’m lvl 32 Mesmer right now, but I don’t have a whole lot of time to play before I’ll become absent from the game for a while. So before I leave I would like to hit lvl 80 for reasons I do not find necessary to share. With my current pace I will definitely not be able to reach that level before I take off, and up until now I’ve just been doing hearts/waypoints/points of interest and main story quest alongside the random events that I run into as I move along.

Generally speaking, is there a more efficient/faster way to level, like only doing DEs (if so where?), only gathering? Only killing mobs(if so which ones)? etc.

Thanks for your time.

CC Eva.6742:

Hi everyone.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I will forward the information today to the forum team so this can be looked into.

Umm… we’re still having this problem.

mercury ranique.2170:

I do think you didn’t understood the upgrade system.
The rarity (rare, exotic, regular, etc.) of armor has nothing to do with the amoutn of upgrades slots. Each armor piece can only be ugrades with 1 upgrade (no matter what the rarity is). Sometimes the upgrade is already there and sometimes it is not (if it is there you can always replace it).

I think you are confused with the upgrades on the armor and the number behind it (e.g. 2/6 or 1/4 ) If you use the same rune on your different armor pieces, then the runes attached to it stack in a certain way. Take for example a superior rune of the baelfire: The description reads:

(1): +25 Power
(2): +15% Burning duration
(3): +50 Power
(4): 5% Chance to gain vigor for 10s when hit. (Cooldown: 30s)
(5): +90 Power
(6): 5% Chance to cause a fire nova when hit. (Cooldown: 30s)

So if you put this specifick rune on your chest-piece you get +25 power. If you put the same rune also on your skirt you get +15% burning duration. If you put it on all your 6 armor pieces you get all 6 effects.

Each armor piece can come with a existing rune. There are 3 kinds of each rune:
‘Minor rune of…’ can stack up to two times (so if you put 3 of them on 3 different armorpieces, the third won’t have any effect)

‘Major rune of..’ can stack up to four times (so if you put 4 of them on 4 different armorpieces, the fifth won’t have any effect).

’ Superior rune of..’ can stack up 6 times.
The kind of rune that is already attached on your armor doesn’t depend on rarity but on level. Armor for lvl 0-39 will only have a minor rune.

The major runes will start dropping and also be attached from level 40 and upwards (you can’t use a major rune if your not level 40 or higher)

The superior runes start from level 60 and upwards.

But it is very much possible to get a level 65 rare armor with a minor rune attached to it. Just get a supperior and replace it if you want to.

below level 40 you can have a rune on all 6 off your armorpieces, just make sure, you don’t get more then two of the same kind. (so 3 minor runes of Baelfire won’t work), but 2 of them and a rune of the centaur will give you 10 power (first Baelfire) + 10 power (first centaur) + 5% burning duration (second Baelfire).

Any questions?? just ask.

Great post. Didn’t know it worked like that hehe.

Here’s another question. In your example of this rune

(1): +25 Power
(2): +15% Burning duration
(3): +50 Power
(4): 5% Chance to gain vigor for 10s when hit. (Cooldown: 30s)
(5): +90 Power
(6): 5% Chance to cause a fire nova when hit. (Cooldown: 30s)

Let’s say I have 6/6 in my armor set. How much total Power would it give me? Would it be just the last number (90) or would it be all of them added up 25 + 50 +90 = 165?

Thanks!

If they had open world PVP with loot…we wouldn’t have this problem

I have to agree with the OP. I don’t think Mesmers are weak in PVE (or PVP), but they are fairly awkward in PVE. The biggest annoyance is phantoms getting 1hit before they fire off their round, happens often with multiple mobs. And 2nd biggest annoyance is Shatter. If they made shatter teleport all the clones to the target to explode, that would be awesome, or whatever other mechanic they want to implement to prevent clones from getting killed before they can get to the target.

Overall tho, I’m enjoying my Mesmer, even with the annoyances. I’m sure all the other classes have their own annoyances to deal with.

I don’t understand the current gem economy, something is broken with your formula ANet.

Apparently there is a HUUUUUUUUGE demand for “GOLD TO GEM” transactions. Evidence of this is that when I started playing, 1g would net 277 gems. Now, 1g gets you 170 gems. That’s a big change.

However, the opposite is not true for “gem to gold” exchange. If I spent 1g to buy gems now, and then I turned around to sell gems for gold, I would lose 30silver. This doesn’t make any sense to me, at all. If there is huge influx in “gold to gem” trading, shouldn’t it RAISE the price of “gem to gold” by like… A LOT as well? Shouldn’t gems sell for more if they cost more to buy? What gives? You don’t seem to want people to actually sell gems for gold.

Hence, enter the gold sellers, hence the economy of GW2 is in deep kitten.

Novalitus.7382:

Greetings all,

I could write a long story about who I am and why I post this all. Since this is technically my first topic I open here. But it is late, and I am tired, yet I feel the need to drop my frustration here.

After being killed yet AGAIN I feel too frustrated to continue playing tonight. Perhaps my build just sucks but when it is 1 on1 I cannot even kill succesfully. My DPS is so crappy compared to other classes. That would have been acceptable if I was able to defend properly, but no… all I can do is clone myself and run.. run VERY slowly. Not to mention all of my stealth skills only last for a milisecond, a succesful escape 1on1 is not possible. Once i am sighted by an enemy, i just know i am going to die unless I am in a big group, as ironically that is how Mesmers ’’hide’’ themselves, not among clones but among team members. Well, on my server we are heavily outnumbered during World PVP so that option is very limited to me.

I am upset that Mesmers got nerfed in the patch, simply because it already is such a difficult fragile and weak class. If anything, Mesmer should be buffed, with either better defenses or escape options, OR increased damage output. It is ridiculous that everyone can blindly kill a mesmer, and a disgrace to the entire class. There is a reason you do not see many mesmers in world PVP, and I am starting to understand why everyone roles Archer/Thief/Necro. To answer your question: No, I am not going to reroll, I want to play Mesmer, but they have to make it ’’playable’’. Not impossible to play god kitten

Ah… You’re doing something wrong. I’m lvl 28, and JUST TODAY got used to my weapon skill bindings and weapon switching, which allows me to execute any weapon skill w/out thinking what I need to press. So this puts me roughly at 30% effectiveness, I still have to mouse click utility/elite skills, never ever use shatters because it’s simply not a habit, and I don’t even know how combo fields work (they don’t seem to work for me lol).

But anyway, today I finally went for some PVP (sPvP) for the first time, once I figured out where to go to join a game, I joined right away. I don’t even know what my spec was, it’s the automatic one you get when you join, I didn’t change anything. And I tell you what, Mesmers are AMAZING in PVP. Sure I got killed a lot due to my fumbles, but when I got the hang of things a little bit, my Mesmer really started to shine! And this is what I consider being around 30% effective because I’m a noob and don’t really know the basic mechanics of the game yet and my other binds are not setup yet. So either I was fighting 21 matches against absolute worst players ever on the other team, or I was doing something right, but bottom line is I was pretty much owning, relatively speaking when everything’s considered.

I think you should shelve your Mesmer and play an Engineer. They’re so much better and the grass is always greener on the other side.

Thanks Embolism.

Also, don’t forget the Master Tuning Crystals if you are going that route. +6% Toughness as Condition Damage and +4% Vitality as Condition Damage for 30 minutes. With 6x Undead Runes, you’ll get +16% Toughness as Condition Damage and +4% Vitality as Condition Damage.

Hi,

Well I’m new to GW2 and started a Mesmer, but I’m confused about “condition damage” stat. How exactly does it work.

In your example, let’s say you put a bleed on somebody and it does 100 dmg per tick. Now you boost your “condition damage” by 10%, does that mean that bleeds will now tick for 110 dmg?

What about “confusion”, how, if at all, does “condition damage” affect confusion?

Thanks.

wow you are pretty delusional lackofcheese. Should rename to lackofcommonsense.

Do you really think that people who buy and sell gold are concerned about 1. Supporting ANet, 2. Security, 3. ToS. ? Do you honestly believe that? Are you really new to MMO market?

Whatever ArenaNet does, they will NEVER stop gold sellers, nobody can. They can make it really hard for them (banning being one of the best tools), but that wont stop them. However, what ANet can do is minimize the impact that buying of gold and goods can have on the game. How they do that is up to them entirely.

A+ for the videos. This should be stickied, or perhaps mods should make a “Link to guides” thread and sticky that and post this guide there.

My friend posted this on our guild forums.

I was curious after getting 80 last night why that zone was so lush with obvious bots. I have come to find out that this is partly why there are so many farmers in Guild Wars 2: Gems

ArenaNet Price: 4,000 gems for $50.00 USD
Farmer Price: 84 Gold for $47.39 USD

Current conversion is 1 Gold for 181 Gems (this is going to keep going up and up and up because nobody turns gems into gold as its worthless)

Farmer: 4,000/181 = 22.1 Gold per 4,000 gems

Therefore, ArenaNet essentially sells you 22.1 Gold for $50.00.

This breaks down to:

Farmer: 0.56¢ per 1g
ArenaNet: $2.26 per 1g

:saywut:

The prices won’t equalize until the gold for gem trading equalizes with ArenaNet’s selling price which is way higher than farmers. Prices will only equalize when gem conversion increases by around 75%, meaning…

82.25 silver for 100 gems.

So a Black Lion Key would cost 1.2 Gold.

Sounds like they hired their economist from Wall St. :rotfl: I’m curious to see how they deal with this, because it really leaves the players that don’t want to spend money on the short end of the stick as it pertains to the gem store. (which isn’t a necesary part of GW2, but they seem to be shooting themselves in the foot)

I got the same problem. I don’t think there’s a way around it.