With the recommended dungeon build I find that I have survivability issues when I’m trying to solo bosses, and especially in HoT.
Any tips? I’ve already tried changing my utility skills, its just a minor boost. I was thinking about changing out some gear for toughness, but it would cost a lot of damage.
if i can make it through all the HoT content (pre-patch) with a zerker ele, you can make it through today
I can assume you made it through all of the content to 100% completion without dying a single time then.
Great job, you are the best there ever was.
Thanks for all the advice. I don’t think it would be as bad for an experienced player, but when I’m new to HoT and have no idea what any monster tells are then its pretty difficult to avoid being one shot.
The old problem of blinding spell effects obscuring animations is still there.
what profession are you playing with?
I have a level 80 Warrior, Guardian, Thief, Necromancer. And Revenant, which I have the least issues surviving on. But it is a very boring playstyle. They are all in full zerker gear, except the Necro which isn’t really geared yet.
Its mostly Silverwaste/HoT stuff that I have survivability issues on.
I’ve come to the conclusion that max dps zerker builds are not good for soloing the open world content. I’m not sure if its me or the gear/skills, but I’m looking for something with a little more longevity. Getting one shot or hit for 80% of my health constantly is not very fun.
Do you get these for every race or just once?
Well Fluff just helped me get nearly 200 points in a few hours. Thanks again.
I still think there needs to be a better way to get the mastery skills you need BEFORE you get to the zone for the first time.
I’m sure there will be some kind of update in the future after people get tired of grinding hero points on every alt.
Probly not. You can unlock an elite spec in about 15 minutes. There are tons of 10-point communes, most of them in VB (the first map.) I did it on all 9 professions.
It’s a shame you don’t want to learn the game well enough to play the new content. (I imagine you’ll take that as an attack because this is the internet, but it’s not meant as one.) There is a lot of fun to be had exploring the new stuff, and it’s really quite easy if you learn some basics.
I don’t take offense at all. I don’t have the patience to deal with these buggy new zones. I gave it another try and missed out on 2 events “due to inactivity” after I spent 15 minutes escorting the kitten thing across half the zone. I managed to find a reachable hero point and it spawns a champion that one shots me.
Its just a list of things adding up. If I’m not having any fun its time to stop.
What else would I miss out on if I never went to the HoT zones?
If you don’t really care about finishing maps, gliding is the main thing (IMO) HoT has to offer. There are also the mini-games known as Adventures. That’s the only other thing I can think of that you’d really miss out on.
Personally, I only like about 3 or 4 of the Adventures. All the others I find so stupid hard that I don’t bother with them. But the main problem with Adventures is they seem to be locked out most of the time due to events constantly going on, so you might have trouble even playing them.
I think I might just put the game down for now. I wanted to get my elite spec unlocked so I could finish the rest of Tyria on my Revenant with a swiftness ability, but its not worth the hassle.
I’m sure there will be some kind of update in the future after people get tired of grinding hero points on every alt.
I was in a map before with 4 commander tags on the other side of the map. Not exactly helpful for me when I can’t get there.
I logged out at a waypoint in VB and logged back in to get instantly killed by a bunch of random stuff from an event. My patience isn’t what it used to be I guess.
What else would I miss out on if I never went to the HoT zones?
I just want the hero points so I can use my elite spec, then I’ll never set foot in there again.
But I can’t get to half of them.
Let me start this off by saying that I hate every experience I’ve had with the new expansion so far. I did my story mission and traveled to Verdant Brink, and so far I’ve had very little fun compared to the rest of the game. I’m right on the verge of rage quitting and I’m just hoping that I’m doing something wrong.
The zone is devoid of players, and my path is blocked at every turn by group events and swarms of veterans. I can’t explore without dying to these, and I can’t do the events alone to clear them out. Every time I find something on the map I have no clue how to get to it, so I look it up and I need to unlock something else to get to it, but how the hell do I get experience to level my mastery to that point if I can’t get to anything to gain the experience in the first place.
This entire expansion feels like it was built backwards. I’ve been playing Guild Wars 1 and 2 for many years, and this feels nothing like either of the games. What happened?
Why do you all think you are going to be good after not playing the game in months?
LOL
You are competing with ppl who play every day for years – I have over 4k hours and many others have MORE
PRACTICE
You will suck for a LONG time and probably quit – But if you do not give up you might get good
I’m normally a pretty quick learner when it comes to MMO PvP. I have done well in every PvP game that I’ve played, from MMOs to FPS games. I have done WvW for years so I have a pretty strong grasp on the basic mechanics of the game. I see no skill gap in this game, just a class/build gap. Skill doesn’t play as much of a role as it does in other games. You can be the best player in the game and if a counter spec shows up your only options are to run away or die. That is not PvP, that PvCapturepoint.
I’m sure people will argue, and I’m sure there is a small skill gap in the upper echelons of rated arena and tournaments, but for the general populace it is what build they are playing rather than their own abilities. Its not like there are that many abilities to screw up in the first place. Trying to time dodges and counters in a game that has blinding particle effects covering every tell is mostly luck based.
I’ve never enjoyed the PvP in this game though. Its even worse than GW1, and there were far more cheese builds in that game than this one. Adding the downed system was the first nail in the coffin for an arcadey strategy-less hack and slash PvP system.
Thats pretty much the build I’ve been running on my warrior for years and loved. I assumed a purely offensive build would be bad in spvp, so I switched to the one in my first post.
I’ll switch back and try again.
It sounds more interesting than longbow/evis spam. I see no point in surviving if you can’t kill anything.
Yeah I don’t get it. I try to capture and I get zerged by 5 people. I try to defend and I get zerged by 5 people.
I try to capture a point with one ele on it and hes an immortal god that takes no damage at all. Then 4 people come and kill me.
I don’t think this style of “pvp” is for me.
Try putting an amulet on
I have one on, thanks though.
It seems like everyone uses some ungodly tank spec for every class now.
There was a necro with like 5 life bars that everyone was beating on until the rest of the team arrived.
I take it this game is not balanced around 1v1 in the least.
I haven’t done spvp since launch. I copied a warrior spec from metabattle and tried a match today and to say that it went terribly would be an understatement.
I could barely dent lifebars, people were basically immortal. My evis hit for garbage even when it was auto crit.
Is the spec bad for what I’m trying to do or is it me? I can’t see how I can do any more damage than I was doing.
This is the build I was trying. http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_Axebow
I was doing CoF story mode on my d/d zerker thief today and realized that its impossible to both survive and do damage on a specific boss. He did a constant AOE burn that cannot be avoided, and chased only me through the whole fight. I assume there are many other situations like this in fractals and other dungeons.
My heals are weak, roughly 30% of my HP every 15 seconds.
Am I missing something?
Time gating isn’t new player friendly at all. I’m not even a new player, just returning after a while. I already had a few pieces of ascended gear and its still discouraging knowing how long it will take to be on a level playing field.
It feels like a free to play game without the pay to win catch up mechanics that normally come with those.
I know the stat difference is minor, but it matters if you want to join a serious group.
I can understand time gating crafting/items when they come out, but time gating everything years later just leaves everyone way behind.
I have to wait months for laurels to get the recipes to make the ascended gear that everyone already has. Seems kind of stupid.
Do you have a large amount of processes running in the background? My win7 sits around 45 with MSI afterburner+rtss+wireless peripherals applications.
You could be eating up your cycles.
Nah I only run software for my mouse, MSI afterburner, and skype. I clear out boot items every few months.
Already running on an SSD and my GPU is a 770.
As I said from the start, there is no reason this game should be running at 20 FPS in LA.
i5 3570k
15characters
I’m already overclocked to 4.6, can’t go any higher on this cheap cooler.
Thanks that fixed it
I have a bank full of boosts from years ago that I never used. I opened a bunch of chests today and got the exact same boosts, but none of them will stack.
Is this supposed to make me buy more bank space or what?
That leads to wiki pages that lead to more wiki pages of items that I have to craft to craft the item I have to craft to craft the ascended item.
Yes, that is in fact how crafting works.
Its a confusing mess of a system.
Hey nobody is going to believe me here. Everyone thinks that software automagicly adapts to whatever hardware in the system. More cores are automatically better, more VRAM is automatically better, faster GPU is automatically better. But without understanding how code works from the client to the OS to APIs, I’m talking to a wall.
Hey I believe you. Its a far better explanation than I hoped for.
I just feel like I had better performance in the past than I do now. Its odd for a 3 year old game with subpar visuals.
That leads to wiki pages that lead to more wiki pages of items that I have to craft to craft the item I have to craft to craft the ascended item.
Are there any guides for the easiest/fastest way to get ascended gear? Last time I played it was mostly fractals and laurels, but laurel gain seems to have gone down with the new system.
For whatever reason I get terrible performance in LA and other areas with large amounts of players when I can run far better looking games with no issue.
Drivers are up to date.
Why does this game only use 40% of my total VRAM when it clearly needs more?
Lowering settings helps a bit, but its still awful performance when it shouldn’t be. Why isn’t it properly utilizing my hardware?
I don’t remember having these issues when I played the game last time, in mid 2014. I maxed settings with supersampling in WvW without too much issue.
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When did they remove auto balance?
Awesome, thanks guys.
Its been 2 years since I tried, auto balance ruined it every time.
I haven’t done much PvE in this game, I want to start doing more.
Any tips for starting so I don’t fail that hard?
It would be nice to have a toggle to mute all of the annoying sounds that people can do. In large areas full of people it gets ridiculous.
Mine is around 21GB but I have the English version installed. Localization of another language will certainly increase the size. Also, you cannot judge the final DB file size WHILE it’s downloading (GW2.DAT).
Please wait until the download completes before jumping to conclusions.
So my download has finished. 33 GB downloaded, 21 GB total folder size.
That makes absolutely no sense. I’ve never seen a game download so much more than it installs.
That doesn’t really help. It is the size of the total download that is the problem, not the .dat file. I’ve just passed 30 gigs downloaded and its still going with 51k files to go. My .dat file is only 17 gigs.
I’ve never seen a game download so much more than it installs. Normally it is the other way around as you download compressed files.
According to google posts the game was 15 gigs on launch and about 18-20 now.
I’ve just passed the 25 gig mark with 120k files to go still.
My download is broken.
Ah I completely forgot that they replaced the transmute stones with the wardrobe feature.
Thanks.
Do you think Hoelbrak would be a noticeable change versus 6 Ruby Orbs?
I’ve always used Bloodlust and Force sigils, I’m not sure if there are better options these days. I do indeed use the Rage elite.
Is there an easy way to get runes off for ascended gear? I don’t really want to salvage my transmog pieces. Runes are too expensive to buy twice.
Edit: Ouch, Strength runes are out of my price range for a while.
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Thanks for the reply.
Any more opinions? Scholar looks pretty good.
I always used mending in the past, I guess there are better options now. I’ll need to do some research I guess.
Some more opinions would be appreciated though.
I run a basic faceroll zerker axe build in WvW.
I haven’t played in a while, and I heard that runes were changed to actually be useful. My gear is still full jewels at the moment. Any recommendations on rune sets would be nice.
Also heal skill recommendations too, I’m not sure what all has changed.
At least other classes are playable in this game.
In GW1 one or two classes/builds were capable of farming the best areas. No one else was wanted.