Guild Wars 2

Thats good to hear guys. Out of curiosity, what do you mean by tanking in a GW2 context?

Greetings Forum people! I am bored at work and have GW2 on the mind, and I have questions for the people who have run a lot of dungeons.

GW2 doesn’t have dedicated roles for it classes, so any class can do anything. My question for the (relatively) experienced people that have run a bunch of dungeons is this: does it seem to work better if everyone in the group has a balanced build making them able to both stay alive and do some decent damage? Or is there some benefit to having, say, a player with a healing heavy build, a player with a defensive build, and some other players specced to dish out a lot of damage? (i.e. an old fashioned mmo grouping). Or some other combo? Or are there some new unusual fight mechanics that require coordination in a way that I haven’t seen before?? (I’m hoping that one). Basically I want to know if dungeons really require coordination to complete. I like to be challenged!

I’m asking this because I feel like there isn’t a lot of group coordination required. I feel like it’s too easy for a group to walk down the dungeon halls, attack stuff, and then keep walking some more. As long as everyone is able to dodge and use their heal spell they don’t need to do much else besides attacking. But then I have only done story mode on a few dungeons, so I hope I am wrong!

Thanks, and keep it clean people.

Hi all,

I am thinking about building a new computer, and naturally I want it to play GW2 very well.

I will re-use my case, PS (750W), CD drives, etc and will be buying a SSD and 8GB of ram. So what I need advice on is basically CPU and GPU selection.

I was thinking about the core i5-2500K for the CPU and a decent Gigabyte mobo. (Is it worth the money to get an i7?). As for the GPU, I haven’t kept up with the latest products and I don’t know what is best for this game. Something with good driver support, compatibility with GW2, and preferably no more than $300 would be great. What has been working well for people? What has been a disaster?

I’m also curious about mouse delay. I used to play wow, and that game had awesome responsiveness with the UI. Has anyone achieved this kind of responsiveness with GW2? If so, what kind of setup do you have?

Thanks!!