Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently dug up my GW 2 account from dark placec. Ain’t played it for like year or so…
Are there any important changes that are worth mentioning ?

I mean things like : Map changes, new areas, Trait/skill changes ? Any dungeon tweaks ?

I’ve tried to go trough forums but more I read new threads the more confused I am…

Thanks for help !

Ranger in it’s current state can preform with each weapon and each build around the same if player is skilled – IMO.

Ofc. some builds will be easier to execute like Condi/Tough/VIt//Healing rangers with SB/GS or SB/Sword/dagger builds with 30 points in bm. – Which is tanky ranger while pet deals most of dmg ViA conditions.

And some like full zerker SB rangers need more skill to be usefull and good in pvp/pve

just find what you like, go to spvp map – mists, try different builds, weapons, pets

shimmerless.4560:

I’ll wear my newbieness on my sleeve, I’m not much of a Ranger by any means and I only really play mine if I’m in a nature-y kind of mood, but I’ve never noticed most of the problems people seem to have with pets.

I mean, you look at your first skill tray while you’re levelling, and you suss, “Huh, obviously a lot of my damage must be balanced out in my pet”. So I just tried to figure out how best to manage it, and as it turns out you can make liberal use of the call/return commands to keep them out of harm’s way, as well as using your heal if only for them and less for yourself. I don’t really know if Rangers see it as a good skill or not but I found Sick ’Em was quite powerful at opportune moments. Lick Wounds is one of the strongest (if not the strongest) downed skills I know of.

AI is always going to be problematic in games and especially those where commands have to be relatively simple to keep bandwidth costs under control, but I still don’t think it’s even nearly as dire as some seem to believe.

Well pets and in general AI aren’t problematic in games But those MMOs that uses them have long Years of Knowledge and experience in that matter – Blizzard is best example.

While ago ( a bit while ago… ) In WoW pets were taking full dmg From Any kind of AoE skill so they died often, very often. You don’t have pet swap skills etc. So it was pathetic. At some poit Blizzard decided to implement 90% dmg reduction for Pets From attacks marked as AoE and PbAoE. In GW2 case it would be for example Elem D/D #5 earth skill, ranger #5 LB skill etc.

Problem in GW2 is that PET is FAR better – Read is stronger – as to comapre it to WoW.
In WoW Your pet in BM build did around 30% dmg at max with most skills taken for it. In usual Marksman build it did maybe ~10% dmg.

Here in GW2 Your pet Does at lest 30-50% of Your dmg. Im sometimes shocked when in tpvp/spvp with full zerker my Jag can CRIT up for 3-4,5k with his ~30Cd skill and does near to 1,5-1,7k Crits with basic ones. Add bleeds to that.

So now imagine that in GW2 pets would get 90% DMG reduction From all kill of AOE skills like:
Guardian: staff #1/gs #2/3/4/5 etc etc.
That would mean that in some cases even weapon #1 skill would not deal enough dmg to pet – the guardian Staff #1 as example. If You fight BM ranger in GW2 best way to win is to LoS ranger and kill his pet, and then after swap do the same to lock him up – which woudl be impossible as of how much of active dmg for some classes AOE means.

using only #1 skill on most weapons doesn’t bring enough dmg to kill pet fast enough.
I could bet that my Jaguar could beat 1v1 most classes who could only do dmg with #1 skill. Giving such dmg resistance ( 90% form aoe or even 50-60% ) is overkill for Ranger class and Would be such a great buff that rangers would be to OP.

In this case there are 2 options available because of how GW2 pets and ranger was designed:
1) Reduce Pet DMG with transfering huge part of it to ranger skills and then granting pet huge DMG reduction buffs from AOE skills ( for example pet: normal builds (non BM) 10% and BM 20% of rangers dmg ))
2) Allow pet to gain Buff like protection after it gets hit by AoE skill for short period of time ( 1-3s ) and give it Distorsion ( evasion ) for same amount of time that ranger dodge does. You could also try to fix ranger pet Death problem by allowing rangers to have 3 active pets. Assuming that each pet can survive ~15-25 seconds at tops in PvP, swaping 3 pets would mean that ranger always have pet in fight and ins’t handicaped – same solution would work for dungeons and WvW.

Also I would consider getting more Ranged pets. let’s be honest this is MMO, placed in fantasy world with wierd “rats” as asuras, huge golems etc. Im sure Anet can find some designs for more ranged pets ^.^ – also giving them 1200 range

Also Big problem also is WvW when Ranger is in offence or defence in POint/Tower/Keep. Cause Your pet in that time is mostly inactive which makes You handicaped in terms of DMG as Your pet does noone of it – and usualy it does a god part of it.

As for hitting moving targets -theres fast and easy solution to it. make all pet attack, shorter and easier animation or fasten it up. Cause most of thier skills miss because They can’t end animation fast enough, and then target is away to it fails to land.

I don’t know how to fix that because im not a programer, but surely some game did made totaly workable AI pets who don’t have any problems with hitting moving targets. Sometimes it’s nice to consult others

No. Stupid Idea.

Only Viable build would Be Zerker with some PTV gear for surv and eventually condi build.

Just let them fix pets and it will be fine. stop complaining on one of besr MMO’s in general mechanics – having a pet !

Well.
People still keep forgetting that ranger is heavily build around it’s pet rather then it’s weapons and dmg itself.

As You can notice, most of Ranger weapons are more Deffensive rather offensive to let you stay Longer in fight so Your pet can do more work for You.

-Exmaple Is Warrior GS vs ranger GS. WArr gs puts out more #1 dmg, But You in return get around ~1s evade on 3rd attack in chain. Warrior also doesn’t have 3s on move block with gs or daze. Also If You compare ( I personally did on Training golems in mists ) GS warr build with Ranger gs dps build – Using only #1 chain skill, ranger with pet kills golem faster. When you count other skills like #2/#3 for warr, golem goes down faster but remember that either in pve or pvp some skills are harder to execute and easy to avoid ( like avoiding 100b warr combo burst – simply block with GS#4 on ranger and ur safe) )

1 month ago I was like : kitten ranger suck, it’s kitten, pet is crap, weapon dmg is crap.

They I grabbed SB and GS gone full zerker 20/30/15/5/0 and Im really succesful.

Gs with SB provides enough of dmg from me and pet ( jaguar esp. ) is making huge dmg. While I can block, 2x daze ( sb&gs) evade with sb, cripple.

I run with quick zephyr/ trap/Lightnin reflex for okitten moments.

It’s really fun.

Reality is that The sooner You realize that Your not main source of DMG as player in ranger class and You accept partialy Fact that Pets AI is still broken in many ways Youll be really or should be really glad having a ranger.

it’s really fun class, just needs kind of getting used to it…

Who the hell while seeing thief going into stealth stays in place or rush into him to get backstabbed and then insta Hs’ed. Seriously whats the point ?

And I daubt You were took down in 2s period. and second of all IF a thief got you down in that time Your:
a) bad
b) totaly glass canon with no hp&toughness at all.

Also by the picture There is no clear sign of thief using Cnd or Steal ( for stealth ) so you must have been close to crowd or it was D/P thief using #5/#2 for stealth. Either way it’s your fault cause you did not pay enough attention to surroundings.

Im running full glass cannon ranger and never ( after playing thief for a while ) got 1-2 shot. As soon as i see thief running down the hill my pet goes on him, if he stealth just run away wating as he gets off stealth.

Your Necro… Use staff skills to slow thief down – frost condi so his range for HS will be vvery low. use Dodge first of all, lol.

Thief will burn trought HS his initiative really fast and then just die with no options left. If thief uses all his HS on you it means either that he is noob or You are because you can’t counter him by dodge/fear/DS/or any utilities You have.

Simple

Problem With ele Isn’t bunker build itself.

It’s WATER atu.

Yes You heard me.

With IT a good ele can go form 5% to near 70-80% each 15secs with additional heal skill.

This is why it’s so op.
No other character have such healing possibilities.

It’s like Elementalist Is DPS/healer Char. Because no matter what gear your in You still can outheal pretty much everything.

Oh and where did You see balance patch ? Cause tbh all i’ve seen in 26th patch was ele buffs.

Also people play Bunker/Power builds instead of zerker ( crit ) because it’s superior.
Ele Dmg is about proper skill rotation Use. Where Crit and crit dmg are near to useless because noone of those skills are spammable.

So it’s more reliable to have 3k armor and over 3k power with no crit/crit dmg and hit ~6k flame blasts or so, instead of being squishy as hell and hoping for 10k+ crits.

It’s not squishier. You may think so because of lower health pool that Guardian has comapred to WArrior.

Hammer ir good pve lvling weapon due to combo you can do with Greatsword for AoE dmg and massive Aoe farm : GS #4/#2 skills then #3 for blind and venu and switch to hammer for #2 bash.

I leved with GS and staff ( for speed buff mostly and might stacks for aoe when there were events with many mobs ).

When IT comes to build Fill first :

Valor trait line – it gives Your surv + Crit DMg which helps You kill things faster
then fill 10 points into randiance for Blind Exposure ( very usefull with GS #3 skill best to apply first – you can get even 12 stacks of venu when there are 4+ mobs for AOE ).

And then fill back Valor ( And I personally gone honor ).

My trait likes looked kinda likfe this :

lvl 21 : 0/0/10/0/0
lvl 31: 0/10/10/0/0
lvl 41: 0/10/20/0/0
lvl 51: 0/10/20/5/5
untill I got 30 into Valor (lvl 61)

I went only Meditation Build, because I felt better with it – condi removal on 20s cd + judge intervention for more aoe with save yourself for huge boons when I was in trouble.

My leveling was about mostly doing chain events ( like in norn starter area – Grawl cave / maw / dome ) i’ve stayed there till 30 lvl, then I done my storyline and ended up at around ~40 after few missions in order – Also norn starting are drops massively small totems etc ( mats for low profs) which sell really well. In 1-2 hours You can farm good amount of silver/gold.

I had enoug gold for cooking + artificing to 400 and done 20 lvls that to that.

From ~60-80 I’ve done low lvl enets and then 75-80 cursed shore with specter/focus and staff off hand.

If You want crafting profs use them to lvl yp and pick cheapest – cooking/artificing/JC are fairly cheap and easy to do. I found Armorsmith/wS useless for me as weapons and armors are kinda cheap on Trading post.

high toughness – low Dmg and still proper builds in dungeons : AH for shouts
0/0/30/20/20 or 0/0/30/30/10

will give you enough Healing to cover low Toughness.

Problem with guardians is that We don’t have huge base damage, So either You will focus on high HP + toughness sacrificing dmg Or go with VIt/ medium toughness and huge dmg

Choice Is yours tbh.

With Amount of guardian migitation abilities and Shouts with AH build Your hp in dungeons won’t go down even by 1% bth even with zerker build

If I were You I’d go first for zerkers to farm events and do solo farms.

Full zerker ( with low hp ) etc will give You that nasty good habit of doging. Trust me.

Later on You can start wtiching gear for those stats:
Power/Prec/Toughness
Power/crit dmg/Vit ( valkyrie )

This worker Out well for me, because first few days when I played in full zerk with 11k hp I was dying a lot, now when I got proper habit of using dodge I feel safe with my 16,5k hp

Im not an expert ( and i love crit dmg ) But I feel kinda comfortable with Medi healing build and these stats buffed – Crit / prec food or omno pie ( 66% LD/ 80 prec ), and 6%/4% to power from toughness and vit:

around 3,200 attack ( thats around 2k power++ ) with bloodlust rune ( +~200)
~2640 armor total ( it’s fine for me )
42% crit chance
94(102)% Crit damage depending on food.
and 16,5k hp…

While solo farming/dungeons it feels kinda safe, got a lot of healing from meditations as solo build so I can’t complain and still most stuff dies before they can seriously hurt me…

Highest crit with #1 chain I’ve noticed with bloodlust (25 stacks ) and 6 might stacks was ~3,5k, in groups (events ) with lots of might stacks ( from block ) etc and buffs I think I would be able to get over 4k crit…

But I love crit dmg

It’s just me or Anet claimed for over a month that Eles need nerf and yet they got buffs ?

seems like a crap still abilities and things that actually need fixing are left behind.

This is bullkitten.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Mrowqa.3861:

It would be more clear to just state it like this

NA – 26th
EU – 27th

because If they say that patch is 26th most People, and most common sense tell You that patch should go Live on 26th. So EU should have patch midday Accordin to EU timezone and not wait whole day – while wasting that day because we don’t get patch and have to wait for NA to kick in.

I would love to see this working other way. Forcing NA to wait 1 more day for patch while EU would have it faster. Guess americans have to be first and put thier terms on everything :>

It’s not that I have something against waiting ! I just want to see those patch notes already

I think maybe you should do some reading on Time Zones… The patch launches at the exact same time for everyone in the world. No one has to wait longer then anyone else…

In a way Your right, but still If we ( EU ) want to enojy patch in it’s first few hours we have to stay awake whole night up being kinda tired next day, while those who are barely waking up and getting patch it’s normal play day for em

Still as I said, it’s not like im having a problem with it just can’t wait for patch notes

BioFringe.7945:

Mrowqa.3861:

It would be more clear to just state it like this

NA – 26th
EU – 27th

because If they say that patch is 26th most People, and most common sense tell You that patch should go Live on 26th. So EU should have patch midday Accordin to EU timezone and not wait whole day – while wasting that day because we don’t get patch and have to wait for NA to kick in.

I would love to see this working other way. Forcing NA to wait 1 more day for patch while EU would have it faster. Guess americans have to be first and put thier terms on everything :>

Sure, they could state that it would be the 27th for EU but is that really necessary? Do people from EU really have such a difficult time figuring out that if a U.S. based company says the 26th then it will probably be the 27th in EU?

Why the snide American comment? You’re playing a U.S. based game. I wouldn’t in a million years consider making snide remarks about people simply because they get something in their country first, from a company within their own country. That just seems rude.

You clearly did not see sarcasm in there

It would be more clear to just state it like this

NA – 26th
EU – 27th

because If they say that patch is 26th most People, and most common sense tell You that patch should go Live on 26th. So EU should have patch midday Accordin to EU timezone and not wait whole day – while wasting that day because we don’t get patch and have to wait for NA to kick in.

I would love to see this working other way. Forcing NA to wait 1 more day for patch while EU would have it faster. Guess americans have to be first and put thier terms on everything :>

It’s not that I have something against waiting ! I just want to see those patch notes already

The problem with Anet patch isn’t patch itself But patch notes.

People are more curious about what patch will actually bring rather then patch going live itself.

Anet doesn’t release patch notes untill patch is aviable via download thats why there are so many questions about patch.

The only thing I don’t understand is why to keep patch notes a secret.

Blizzard for exmaple releases patch notes for further patches ( even those 2-3 months away ) as soon as they get an Idea to implement something.

So In case of blizzard You know patch notes, and stuff that will come with them LONG before patch will go live.

And thats a problem in this case.

Gues whats left is a race choice…
Human for awesome t3,
Norn for it’s set + awesome animation with 1 handers
or
Asura… hmm

I see Your point… So basically untill Anet fixes or gives Pets a 90% Aoe dmg reduction or something similiar to WoW pet resistance I should just go with build I like ?

Nerva If You had a lil time, Would You mind posting short video with SB/LB/GS skills hits/crits on P/P/C build ?

Would be great to see such video cause I cannot find any on YT or any other vid tube out there

Stupid Idea.

They could also Reduce Gem prices.

10 Euro for XXX Virtual currency which takes them to add only a click is far to much.

Im 100% sure they would get rid off gold sellers by cutting gem price by 60-70%.

There would be no reason for goldsellers to exist if there would be let’s say 3euro price for 800 gems.

Current price for 10/20g in gold stores are around now like 6-7$?

Putting 800 gems for 3 Euros/4.5$ would make things unappeling for goldsellers and they would stop selling cause they would make near to no profit.

Also this would give Anet much more $ income.

But as far as I noticed companies are hell greedy. They think that Raising Price trough the roof will give em more $ then putting it more then a bit down allowing more ppl to buy from them.

:> lower the price and be happy of no gold sellers :>

So basically what You say Meryt If i want piercing arrow + sb/gs Cd shorten ( 20/30/20/0/0 ) If have to go hard on P/T/V gear with some healing power in, but still it’s won’t give me as much dmg as 0/30/0/20/30 or 0/30/20/0/30 cause I will miss a lot of pet dmg, and pet will be dead a lot ( according to calcualtions pet can get much more hits with 30 into BM )…

That kinda suck, cause even with first build, I myself will get good proper crits ( but still lover to let’s comapare engi #1 rifle skill ( here comapring LB #1 )) and have totaly bad pet and be missing dmg from it because it will most likely be dead.

kinda suck..

Well for sure You won’t find Any raids ( 10/25 mans ) or anything near that.

Gw2 “raids” are more kind of world Bosses / events which are usualy unplanned etc, You just attend, try to not stand in crap, and if u die hope someone will rez you.

I kinda miss sometimes normal raid composition ( 10/25 ) with proper team play so You feel like You earned that kill instead of just hitting it and avoiding circple on ground. You could even go afk on thsoe events and someone still gonna rez you and you get that kill – thats not really rewarding.

Some people say that better “ranger” then actuall ranger in this game is warrior. He indeed have far better skills on Longbow weapon and addtional he has abilit to use rifles with Aimed shot ( huge dmg single target hit ).

So if You like having pet ( which is kinda broken due to AI problems in GW2 ) go ranger. But If you want a ranged class ( 1200 + range, hard hitting etc ) go either mesmer or warrior

Well i’ve done over 100 Spvp/Tpvp games with ranger with Power.prec.crit build with SB+GS ( 20/30/20/0/0 ) and untill someone focued me it was fine :P

1v1 fights weren’t that hard due to interrupts & block, but 1v2 was horrid and usualy result in my death…

Thats why I was wondering how such build would work in WvW…

btw. What crits/hits You do with LB #1/2 with that 59% crit dmg ?

The problem for my is that I cannot make or get those traits that I want without serious sacrifice to dmg or survival ( Arrow pierce/ 20% sb recharge/20% gs recharge) cause this build requires 20/30/20/0/0 and then my pet is next tu useless tbh.

well I was thinking about keeping Crit dmg at around 50-70% with 30-40% crit rating. With toughess ( total armor at around 2,5-2,7k ? ) with ~15k hp. Not sure will that work cause most vids – either show a total crit masters doing 1,5k dmg with SB#1 and getting 2 hit from most classes, or doing medicore direct dmg and having some better survival but overall effect doesn’t end well.

Good ranger vid ( turkish smth guy ) i’ve seen was running sb/gs with toughenss/healing/ vit gear ( 23k hp ) and some good condi dmg.

But still this comes down to healing power/toughess and condi dmg…

As far as I know ( 2x 80’s in GW2 ) and ( 3 years of wow, 8 chars to 85 ( stoped before mop release ) I can tell You 2 things.

PvP In this game when it comes to overall content ( Spvp/Tpvp/WvW ) is very weak as to compare to wow ( tho this game is still fresh tbh. ) but don’t expect hours of grind for gear ( Whn you join Mists – spvp/tpvp – you get ready gear and you just “grind” new skins – I didn’t like this Idea it’s hard to get used to tbh ). When It comes to WvW vs WoW Open world battles well it’s pretty much the same, with 2 exceptions ( WoW have no “Seieges” and walls to bring down. ).

When it comes to another aspect Battlegrounds is something that WoW had and made it work perfectly while GW2 lacks of something like BG’s – You got plain stright simple Combat mode in Spvp/tpvp which is capture point and hold it. after 2-3 hours it gets extremely booring.

Another aspect to comapre are Conditions vs WoW ( curse/freezes/dots etc ). WoW had that system polished, easy to put Dots on Your target but at the same time a lot of tools to remove those dots. In GW2 condition system is broken ( at least for me ) COnditions are far to easy to stack Doing tons of dmg and there are not to many ways to remove those ( here guardian class is king ).

A Wow hunter vs gw2 ranger is different story. WoW hunter had good pet AI with great utilities. here Ranger ( apart from Bunker – tank builds ) are as far as I read at bottom of food chain ( I’ve played around 100 spvp/tpvp games ( kind of arenas ) with ranger and really was totaly different story then wow – not sure your gonna like it ).

Tbh at this point ( 3 months into game for me ) I think that WoW offers far more top END content for max lvl players and it’s far more fun and balanced ( thanks to healers ). in this game Youll find yourself many times in spot lying down dead on ground trying to figure out what killed You ( Far to low HP pool comapred to DMG and burst going on ). And You don’t need to have brain to manage to do that with proper class ( like thief or warrior ).

Also after lots of time spend on GW2 at some point ( for me at least ) the game system which is having only – DPS tbh, because You can’t call that different way is totaly booring. You can ofcourse change your spec to be more tanky, or to heal yourself for more but don’t expect having totaly verstile gameplay of being able to only heal and be good at it gaining respect or be awesome/great tank. This game ( gw2) is not even about skill, 1v1 duels can end in 1-2 seconds with some classes outpreforming others. On top now are Thiefs/Eles/Warriors/mesmers when ti comes to dmg, they got also best in game utilities and as far as i noticed rest classes ( guardian/ranger/necro/engineer ) were added just to fill blanks and not leave game with only 4 classes.

If I were You, I’d seriously stay and stick to WoW at this point, but as far as You bought game already You can try to have at least “some” fun by doing personal story ( which is kinda cool ).

As for Guild wars 2 map, Zoom it out and Youll notice numbers over specific grounds ( like 15-25 ), You should aim for those zones.

personally I love to stay 1-20 in starting norn zone ( 1-15) because of best in game events going on there and overall good mobs setup for grind.

To travel to another location, move back to main town ( big ones ) and look for Pink circles on map – asura portals, they will take you to Lions arch to a place ( where you got 5 diff portals ) to other starting zones.

Each time You do a zone ( xx hearts completed ) youll reach end of map looking for exits from specific zone to another, simply if you find wrong lvl zone, move back and find another exit.

You don’t have specific route to follow ( apart form quests form personal story – which are marked by green stars on Your map “m” ).

So don’t worry, You can also level up your character to 80 staing in 1 zone it will take more time but meh

Hey,
I’ve just watched Your vids ( both of them ).

Amazing skill.

But got a qestiong ( im going to make ranger ) is there any way or place for high crit dmg mixed with Bm traits build for SB/GS combo in WvW ?

Hi.

I’ve read most of threads over these forums ( ranger part ) so Im kinda up to date.
I got now 80 guard and thief, but both seem not to fit my playstyle and aren’t that fun.

So I was thinking about making another alt.

My choice kinda stays in same place – ranger or mesmer.
I know most of You would say go pick warrior because it’s far better when it comes to dmg ( ranged ) and overall dps with any weapon, but I prefer Guardian far more then warrior in term of gameplay and overall skills and utilities, and still don’t think guardian is for me so no I won’t do warrior.

Tho im bit concerned about ranger.
PvE part seems kinda obvious when it comes to event farming and mob tagging – ranger dosen’t fall behind, putting some traps, arrow pierce, drakes aoe etc.

I’ve seen most rangers complaining about our DPS in dungeons ( I know about pet survival poroblems etc. ) and overall usefulness of ranger, but recently I found a team that runs with ranger cof farm runs and they manage to do it in around 5-6 minutes.
So hows actually ranger usefulness in dungeons?

So make things more clear for further questions im going to play mostly and probably only these weapon combos : LB/GS SB/GS LB/SB
Im not a fan of sword/torch or any other 1 handed combo.

In term of WvW im kinda worried about builds. I’ve seen tons of videos of good and proper rangers doing 1vX but 99% of those are Condi/Vit/toughness/healing power gear ending up with around 22-23k hp + with massive condi stacking…

It’s not that im not a fan of that specific build ( tho I love to see high crits ) – but I would feel kinda “chocked” when it comes to build as I was with guardian – to be any good you had to invest in specific tree 30 points otherwise you would underpreform…

So is there a place for a good power/prec/crit ranger build with some power/crit/vit gems in ? I was thinking about 0/25(30)/x/x/20(30).

It also seems that not going into BM tree at least 10-15 points seems like a bad build.

Could someone actually give some input on thier P/P/C rangers ? and how they handle with that specific gear dungeons and or WvW ?

Cause it’s really hard to decide as getting char to 80 would take around 3-4 days with some crafting done.

Im aware of all Ranger pet AI problems, I seriously hope they get fixed but I have a lot of experience of pet managing from WoW ( tho pet there and here is totaly different story… )

Codata.2019:

Its stupid that we can’t change the email, now if someoen steal my account i am not able to get it back… There should be a option in the account panel.

Actually if You think about it it’s not stupid.

Cause it prevents You from selling GW2 account.

If anyone Could change thiers e-mail at any point, Anet wouldn’t earn any money – due to many ppl leaving because of bugs etc. and selling thier accounts to those who want to try thier game.

In this case You would simply sell account and get “cash back” not giving anet a penny – cause other person wouldn’t buy new copy od GW2.

Every single corporation that does MMO’s Do this kind of trick – email change from support team, to prevent account selling options.

Blizzard for WoW on the other hand does not go with that policy cause they simply don’t care.
For them it’s more profitable to acclow player change thier info whenever they want and “sell” thier account ( even if policy says You can’t ) because new player who bought it will still play & pay for game ( monthly subs ).

:)

Also Im playing MMo’s for like 7-8 years now. And I’ve never been hacked or my account never been compromised. So I have no idea What things You’d have to do to make it happen. Seriously

You can close this thread Solved my problem.

Seems that everyone are having this issue – just looked trought some thief/ranger pics and every leather chest got that red line

Drivers reinstalling or reducing clock speed on GPU did not help. Still got same red line…

So anyone have any clue/idea why this happens only on thta specific armor ?

MaRko.3165:

A google search on ‘guild wars 2 performance issues’ shows that the issues you are facing were noted up to 6mo’s before release (while in beta) and here we are nearly 1yr later.

If you play many PC games at all you undoubtedly realized that for the majority of the titles (this one included) the “minimum hardware” listed will only allow you to install and run the game – however the results are more than likely unplayable.

The chances of GW2 “performance issues” getting fixed at this point is slim to none.

For older hardware there are many many quality (older) titles that are ether F2P or very cheap on Steam.

Write more bullkitten like this. Seiously.

Aion – even old Pheon x2/4 can handle game in massive sieges at 40-50 FPS.
WoW – Old athlons handle game at 60 fps in big open world fights. You barely see any FPS spikes.
Tera – another good optimized game.
Rift – No Issues at all with engine.
I could go on and go ON.

What all these games have in common ? That they are based on newer DX engine wchich allows CPUS to use more cores and make that efficent use.

GW2 uses 1 main thread and if it’s full ( working 100% ) You feel Spikes and lags.

It’s bad engine and overall code utilization which no other game ( MMO ) is facing nowdays.

Anet tried to save up some money so they released broken game. Instead of fixing engine first ( 4month after release and still nothing. To fullyenjoy game you need i5 for almost 250$. ) they go some minor glitches fixes and put out new events/small xpacks while still game is badly broken.

Hi.

I’ve noticed today strange red line on armor skin… First I thought it’s a Graphic card problem ( It’s OC’d – so could get some errors or so ) but I daubt it as:

Closer investigation prooved for me that it occurs on medium armor shoulders/gloves. Not all pieces and not all armors ( it’s seems that specifically only medium armors affected are: leather armor ( chest + gloves ) + whisperer ( shoulders ) )

Anyone got any Idea what might cause this ?

Cause it’s seriously annoying after while. There are no other “glitches” at any part of game – armors/any building in towns or anything like that…

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I recently made one myself.

For pve events farming and solo Aoe bow is best choice
for solo pve ( not aoe ) single mob killing theres no faster way then either backatb or unload from pistols.

Also most ppl who trow carrots at thiefs are totaly unskilled players who don’t know base mechanic for thief ( I was one of those till I done thief and learned how it operates ) and trust me it’s far more fun then ranger ( at least was for me )

Lvling is z breeze, easy, fast, mobs fall before you notice =]

Also i’d risk saying that thief is probably most safe character to play due to stealth. If something goes bad just use #5 dagger skill or any skill that makes you go stealth…

SB with healing signet and #2/#4 skills on SB gives u so much HP regen You barely die to larger groups… at 62 lvl im able to take 8-9 mobs at a time and not die.

Super mobility, great damage, Oh kitten button – stealth. Really looks like OP class.

But it’s far harder to play ( skill wise ) then ranger or guardian or warrior…
You need to be constantly aware of your surroundings. 1 bad move, low on initiative or cd on stealth skills and your dead.

Also some SKill challanges need you to think of tactics for them, cause not always taking them head on is good idea

Now TBH i really regret that I done My guardian first, then played some ranger, warrior, mesmer… I should go stright for Thief. Or maybe it’s good thing. Cause now I love thief even more because of how fun they are

Hi.

My question is simple. After 28jan patch does crafting several profs at close time range ( 2 hours x profs ) will give my same amount of xp as pre patch ?

Im asking cause it seems that after jan 28 if i do to many events I get dimishing return and get lower and lower rewards from it (xp / karma etc).

So Lets say I use crafting booster and will do cooking/artificing/jewelfracting from 0-400 in 2 hours. Will this still give me 28-30 levels as it should ?

Neutro.3079:

Hey guys,

I just wanted to say that even if I think that this daily event system is a good idea, the tasks that make these daily events are so borring!

Where is the fun in killing random stuff underwater? Where is the fun finding 10 dead NPC to revive them? Where is the fun finding a low levels nodes to extract from? Where is the fun waiting in front of a monster to attack you to get your 10 dodges?

Please give us some funny things to do, like “kill Priest of Grenth” or “kill Jormag”!

No and no.
Dailies are supposed to be easy and simple. Actually revieving allies is fun part. You can do it while fighting Your jormag or grenth not a hard job cause you still have to revie allies when they die.

A specific Kill X world boss daily would suck cause not always your able to acomplish that goal and actually kill it. Especially after grenth buffs which is now hell to kill.

Daily is made that way, that no matter what You do You’ll still make it. Cause Your still farming ores etc. You still kill stuff. Do events underwater.

Maybe stop treating a daily like Your rutine job and start having overall fun. Cause if You just try to do DAily It might seems booring to go x point then y then z just to do daily.

You got 24hours to do it So just chill and do what You usualy do and have fun

Hi, im having recently strange problem with GW2.

While I do events instead of full XP/karma/Coins I get like 1-2% of that amount…

Today I was doing maw, and instead of (at my 20 lvl ) 3,5k XP for whole event chain i got like 100xp…

Is this known bug or this is intended or smth like that ?

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Tbh I’ve lost count on how much XP i’ve lost because of this…

Hi, im having recently strange problem with GW2.

While I do events instead of full XP/karma/Coins I get like 1-2% of that amount…

Today I was doing maw, and instead of (at my 20 lvl ) 3,5k XP for whole event chain i got like 100xp…

Is this known bug or this is intended or smth like that ?

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Tbh I’ve lost count on how much XP i’ve lost because of this…

Imo COndi build thiefs are even more annoying then stealth backstabbers.

They stack conditions far to fast and are hard to counter. You don’t have condi removal on demand each 5 seconds.

Even guardian cannot remove bleed so fast as fast thief can apply it. and 10s passive remove ? 10s for bleed is around 20k dmg when Your full condi dmg build.

And still 99% of those thiefs run with healing on hit skill, apply bleeds and go stealth.

also the same warrior you mentioned You can beat in condi spec can just simply wait when You go out of initiative and eviscerate you twice in 2 seconds leaving your dead body on gorund. same warr can get shield block.

also those evasive moves are more op then stealth. they cost is low and they allow you to have almost constant evasion on demand. a stealth thief at least can get hit while his in stealth

DS is giving You hell of additional HP.

Downing necro in DS is kinda hard when his not using any abilities in ti and using it only to stomp.

wauwi.9162:

your CPU will definately bottleneck your GPU and you will most likely not get much more out other than a higher display quality.
also, if your mainboard got an older type of PCIe slot, your desired graphics card won’t even be able to pull of much of it’s capabilitys

you should also upgrade your CPU as well, if you have the money.
don’t bother asking for any advice what to buy…soon, this thread will be flooded with all kinds of people telling “buy this and this and this and that to play GW2 properly”

the general choice of a gamer would be a gtx660ti + intel i7-3770k + any good asus socket 1155 mobo designed for overclocking.
but it really depends on what you wanna spend and at which rate of quality/performance you would be satisfied with.
if you are shorter on money, more into AMD in general or more experienced with AMD, stick with AMD chips, similiar in performance.

if you’re not experienced in building your own PC, make sure to check out your nearest, trusted local PC store and ask for assistance there in addition to the advices you will get on the internet

General gamer choice would be i5-3570k which is cheaper then 3770 and has same performance.

Also Instead of asus mobo i’d say go asrock Xtreme version or MSI.

If You don’t have cash for i5-3570k You can try AMD FX 8350 ( Only that one. Don’t get any lower version or 8150 or 8320. ) And oc’ that FX to 4,5ghz ( fairly easy ). And You should see fairly good performance – BUT it won’t be even close to i5-3570k

Right overclocking non “K” version and putting your pc on fire because hell pump the kitten out of his buss speed – non “k” version can be ocd only by increasing buss speed which is in Ivy/sandy brige really bad idea.

Bedlam.3562:

silvershadez.8421:

But the biggest issues people have with thieves in general is their attitude and denial.

QFT. My 1st 80 was a thief and I am under no misconceptions that thieves are a scrub class and can pull of kitten other classes could only dream of. This is in a WvW setting.

I’ve been gaming since UO and you are absolutely correct. Stealth is a broken mechanic in this game. There are zero drawbacks to having it/using it. My thief can regen a kitten ton of HP, remove conditions and there ain’t kitten anyone can do about it since I can chain my stealth back to back when it suits me. I can do this and still dish out enough damage to kill decent players. And if I feel the heats getting too much I can always book it out of dodge and live to fight another day.

Don’t get me wrong it’s fun playing my thief, but I’m not disillusioned thinking it was all skill and not the class’ mechanic that allowed me to be victorious in a 1v3+ (competent players).

Anyone who does needs to wake up and I challenge them to try the same kitten on a warrior/ranger/necro (COMPETENT players, not underleveled, undergeared, underplayed, etc.)

Well. I played thiefs in most mmos ( apart form gw2 untill some time ago ) and tbh Thief in it’s current state need such possibility to stealth because we have no other ways to avoid serious damage and we have really low hp.

It’s not world of warcraft where You could get off stealth and keep up with warrior fighting 1v1 like a champ. Here a thief vs warrior with no stealth and all thief “fun” skills we would melt in a seconds just to for example double evisc which warrior can put out with 1 signet use.

Yes it may seem that thiefs are OP when it comes to stealth but if not that stealth we would die in blink of an eye.

You want to be less stealthy ? Tell Anet to boost our hp and give us more tools to evade attacks, like blocks etc. I know there are builds around blind but it’s not enough. blind works only for 1 attack and it’s not spammable…

Aion had interesting thief design. there was also stealth, backstabbs, but thief had many was to build around – also low hp, but thier dmg and crits were amazing. so even fighting 1v1 gladiator ( who had far more hp then you ) you could win because your dmg was twice like his.

Here in GW2 warrior power/prec/crit build with axe hit #1 can getdown thief in 1 chain. and this is not funny.

I’d like to see all thiefs running around with no stealth ( or stealth working like in WoW – prema untill combat + skill on 2 min cd for restealth ).

Every class seem to have flaws. Look at warriors. everyone are comaplaining on 20k kill shot hits. And you just have to dodge… thats it.. but still ppl are asking for nerf. same thing with evisc + 100b combo.

Thief needs to pick up 1 weak target in zerg to kill it. warrior just runs in with 100b + +quckness and watch ppl fall on floor….

same for guardians, ELES. yes ELES. Only classes currently that are weak and require some love are rangers and engis.

Also Non good or competent player in 3v1 fight would lose to a thief. If someone have brain he will easily kill You. I’ve seen tons of videos when thiefs gone to stealth and 4 “competetive” players were just standing there doing nothing watiting for thief to kill them.

Also WVW is not a real PVP. most ppl there are “PVE pros” who have no clue nor idea about PvP. go to TPvP. any even low skilled team wont allow you to do stuff that you cna pull of in WvW.

Shojen.2764:

I’ve read so many posts about how people think Thief is over-powered and not fair because of the high spike damage Thieves can dish out. (Can – has the potential to but only possible with skilled players and builds.)

I play a Thief and I really like it. I like to dodge, stealth, plan, and time my attacks. Sometimes I can really do some high damage, and sometimes it just doesn’t work out. A lot of times, my opponents are more skilled than me and have more experience and I die. I don’t complain that “Guardian’s are too hard to kill…” or “Mesmer’s are OP because…” or “It’s not fair that Ranger’s….”. Instead, I read up on the forums and try to figure out a way to come back at my opponent’s in a better way to yield my victory. I’m not the best Thief player, heck, I die so often in PvP or WvW. But I love the way the class plays, it’s fun! I don’t charge into battle, I hang back and sneak up on a player who isn’t paying attention to me and bam! Slice, dice and fillet! Then shrink back to the shadows and wait for another opportunity.

Are not Thieves supposed to be elusive, dancing in and out of shadows and being totally annoying rascals distracting and being a nuisance to give the advantage to ourselves, at least our allies? The Thief class was meant to peave people off!

Fine, a rant, I hate fighting “OP” Mesmer’s because I’m always distracted by their crazy freaking illusions… oh wait… that’s why they’re Mesmers, that’s why they’re awesome!

I just read a particular post, about a guy playing as Guardian in either PvP or WvW against a female Thief, one on one. He was complaining so hard about how the Thief was constantly running, or dodging, or invisible, and so hard to kill. How he would almost kill her and she’d vanish and re-appear with most of her health back. He would chase her down almost endlessly.

Well holy cookies batman! Isn’t a Thief supposed to do that? Did she distract you from guarding your post? Yes. Did she pull you away from your goal? Yes. Did you repair that wall? No. Did you guard that supply run? No. Did she even kill you? No. But are at whits end because she annoyed the heck out of you and you got nothing for it? Amen and hallelujah!

I’d love to play as good as her and then read the forums to figure a way to come back and back stab you… for ten OMG trillion damage… Firstly, that is what you call “OP”, secondly, that still wouldn’t kill you because you’re playing an “OP” Guardian, which make Guardians awesome!

Or an “OP” Warrior which could kill a Thief with auto-attack, and by-the-way, makes Warriors awesome!

Arrrgggh!!!!! Sure, some of my examples were off-the-cuff, tongue-in-cheek, but the story of the Guardian vs Thief is true and you can read it on these forums.

And I know that a lot of people are going to reply to this post and still complain about Thieves because their reasoning behind the complaint is valid. To them, and all haters, why can’t you just learn to beat us? It’s possible, we’re not invincible. Read your appropriate forum and change the way you play if you want a certain outcome, ie: killing a Thief. And if you have or can beat Thieves, then what are you complaining about?

Thats Guardian was me. And seriously I though Thiefs are OP untill I rolled and tried one.

Never though this class requires so much skill ( comapred to my Guard in staying alive ) and or killing someone. Sure walking around in stealth is fun But at same time I need to be aware of whos around me… cause eating 6-8k dmg form warriors whirl or guardian pull + WW isn’t fun.

I think now that most ppl hate thiefs cause they think they are very easy to play and Steal & backstab combo is really easy to do – and in some ways it actually is. But really all it requires is some Low aoes and im down because of hp pool…

If those people would roll a thief and try them out, see how hard it is to pull some combos off and at same time avoid heavy hitting attacks. With guard I could run in the middle of spvp fight, get few kills of and still be alive at the end. with thief it’s totaly different story…

HI everyone.

Im having hard time to chose from ranger / thief as my alt. My main is guardian.

So im here for some input on ranger class. I would be doing a lot of WvW/spvp and some dungeons.

As far As i’ve seen many ppl say totaly different things about rangers. Some say they suck, others proove them wrong. I’ve watched almost every single Spvp/WvW video with rangers and I really don’t know what to think…

Most builds I see are sword/horn / Gs / shortbow beastmaster builds.

Is it really nessesary to have BM 20-30 points into to be effective ?

Is there any place for Zerker SB/LB builds ? or Strong Melee GS + sword/dagger build which won’t fall down in matter of seconds ?

Most of those weapons are carried with Toughness/vit gear and toughness/bm traits… so is it only way to play ranger like this ?

Also hows ranger tagging in late game ( cursed shore ) ?

Hi everyone,

As for start I’d like to say that in most mmos I’ve played thiefs. WoW thiefs were fairly balanced and really rewarding. Smae thing gone to Aion Etc.

This game thief is really – by perspective a lot of fun.
But theres 1 thing that keeps me off thief.

Other people. Each time im in Spvp with guardian or Mesmer I see constantly :
“Noob thief spamming HS”
“Noob backstabber”
“Noob bleeder and then stealth and run – noob !” ETC.

So is there a way to actually play thief – one of most op classes in this game and don’t get flamed ?

I’ve watched many videos of builds and seriously there are only few solutions, either go backstab build or people stacking power+crit for HS spam…

Im kinda afraid that at some point those comments might seriously hurt my gameplay.

In wow each duel I had agains other classes were tbh fair duels I never tried to abuse class specific opness ( wow in that case was backstabb + (can’t remember name of that skill now ) for 30k+ n short time ) I used to play hemo thief ( kind of “condi build” ).

Here Any condi spec I see is build aroud healing skill ( x heal for dmg ) and massive invis. – put condi, go invis and wait for health to go up adn redo.

Is there any way to make a competetive thief that can fight 1v1 with people not abusing backstabb of stealth ?

Cause seriously I feel like im handicaped while Im not playing thief because of how “OP” it feels now…

cocaftw.4279:

well scriming in free sure we can do that aswell as helseth said BUT i want to test Temple map vs good teams ?! and thasts just not possible.

So basically everyone who Try 1v1 paid tourneys and made/random teams who just want to have fun should stay away from 1v1 paid tourney Cause You need to play agains good teams?

Your such an ignorant. And prick.

First of all instead of crying around that You meet bad teams and You stomp them You should rather create a post asking Anet to make rating system.

For exmaple total ranks added up devided by 5. Or ranks by QP’s.
That will let You play vs Your dream “good teams”

Also You should remember that You werent “pro” always. Theres a good quote about it but im not going to look for it.

In simple way you were at some point in Your GW2 “pvp” career where You were complete as You said “noob”.

And it makes me think. Instead of actually stomping those teams ( 500-0 ) and then coming and Crying around that You beat them, You could give them some advice on how to play or increase thier skill. In long run it would also make Your game better because You would meet better teams.

Buy hey Your total " Pro " You don’t talk with " noobs " as You called them.

pathetic.

Also Let’s not forget that this pvp have nothing to do with having fun.
Seriously watching constantly 2 bunker dnd Ele’s and guardian bunkers + 2 random dps poping Out each match is getting booring.

Im pretty sure that IF eles werent in thier state most of You so called “Pros” would roll bunker guards or bunker ranger builds.

Most of those “top” teams are top because of just simply op composition of classes in that team.

Same thing happened to WoW 5v5/3v3 Arena matches.
After each patch those so called “pros” who had each class brought to 80+ jsut switched to what was most op at the moment and created teams of most op classes.

Thats why top teams usualy had Shamans healer + Warlocks on Dots+mass fear and random dps ( which is almost 90% cases ) was Retri pala or frost mage.

So top tier ranking was made of 3-4 classes out of 10.

Now when mists are out and most of balancing is done facts are repeated. Top teams run most op Classes and switch them after each patch just to stay on top.

Same thing happened to GW2. Ele no matter what build actually stays totaly OP. Just grab dnd, get some toughness and spam skills ( I know that eles are on of hardest classes to master but thier abilities and boons and overall healing + surv is at this moment on top of everything. ). Same goes to bunker guard. You don’t need lots of skill to play one ( it’s probably easiest class to play due to second best amount of healing (after ele )).

Don’t get me wrong. But when You say Good team vs GOod team In my eyes it just looks like this :
team 1 ( 2 eles / guardian / and necro or ranger or thief or warr ) vs team 2 ( same composition ).

How much of different tactics ( that You claimed You can’t try out ) You want to try vs same builds/teams/classes.

This game is to simple when it comes to Tpvp. hols 2 points at all cost and if enemy team get somehow killed ( 2-4 players ) try to spawn lock then while keeping guardian/ele on 2 points and 1 ele running around from points to keep better def.

This game leaves You no tactics at all.

Tactic wise WoW was much better. And don’t try to tell me that GW2 is not WoW.
GW2 tries to compete with WoW. So it’s most common sense to compare both of these.

It’s just sad that after so many failures and mistakes made by other companies when it comes to pve&pvp still new MMo’s that come out after 2012 Just copy&paste same mistakes all around.

Best examples = AIon. One of better mmo’s out there fairly balanced. From pay to play gone f2p after 2 years. Swotr after probably 1 year gone to f2p model from p2p same mistakes. Now even TERA after barely 2-3 months in EU goes F2P cause noone want to play and pay for a game that repeats same mistakes all over again.

Wanna know why Blizzard keeps thier playerbase at 10 mln + ? because they actually read forums and fix classes/ make balance changes even hours after patch.

First thing that Anet should think of before Thinking of Tournaments (no matter free or paid or even hotjoins – in which theres alos lot imabalnce cause sometimes 1 team gets all 30-50+ rank player while second get all under 10th rank ) was implementing Rank system. But instead of that they though about Ticket system. Top teams farming free tournament groups ( in same way making new player Quit Spvp/Tpvp because they get stomped cause they can’t compete with teams on same skill level ) to get 5 tickets and then go to Paid tournament.

It’s sad system and should be redesigned 4 months Ago.

I was playing a lot of WvW and did not have any DC issues as 99% of ppl.

Guess that 1% are those who have smth wrong with thier connection and are blaming anet.

check You connetion first before blaming anyone ?
Because most of dc’s are caused by Your internet.

AS far As i see it for now.

This new 1v1 is best used by top teams who now can farm lowbies and get back thier ticket and get 1QP to thier stack.