Guild Wars 2

What’s bothering me with the medium chest armor is the belt bug. If you wear any boots other than the legendary ones, the bone belt on the waist doesn’t disappear. Wearing legendary boots fixes the bug. This ruins any kind of fashion wars if you don’t want to wear the legendary boots.

Heavy: I like it, though I most likely will get it last if ever.
Medium: Looks promising, really looking forward to seeing it in action and on human models! Definitely getting it first.
Light: I really like the look, although my mesmer is an asura so looking forward to seeing that too on asuras.

Haven’t posted in a while so here’s a few pics of how my druid looks currently.

I heard there is an NPC where Seis used to stand who gives out the tracking buff.

Sammpo recorded some of my 1v1 games, where I was just having fun with random gimmick-y builds. Surprisingly many are still recognizing me and sending whispers or mail.
And during HoT beta I was told I was in some necro gameplay vid by Hollts(?) playing beta rev.
As for streams that I know of, I’ve been on Sizers.

cascaid.8379:

Does crossing the legendary divisions count towards the League Elite achievement?

I only started in this season, so have a bit of catching up to do, but can’t find anywhere if going for example Legendary-2 this season, would mean only needing diamond next season.

They do count.

Didn’t see any other post about this so I want to thank Anet for finally fixing the trails on Golden Fractal weapons. The wait was worth it.

@Shadelang Yeah that I agree with, if someone wants to play a pure dps class then Druid is not for them. What I meant to say was we aren’t completely useless even with our low dps and we must still bring dps, the unique buffs can only get us so far.

No, there are dps specs. It’s just that while we don’t bring the highest dps, we bring unique buffs. So all our dps specs need to bring those buffs first, then we can focus the rest of our build to dps.

I mean, you wouldn’t want a Druid with 5k dps because he’s a ’’support’’, when you can have a Druid with the same supporting capabilities with 15k dps.

SB/A+T is the highest condi dps set we currently have so yes, it’s decent.

New hair new toy, will probably makeover soon.

I’m not that fond of LB either so I usually run fracs with s/a+staff. Iirc there has been only one time someone mentioned about my staff. The 5+3 combo on it can help in higher fracs, but other than that I don’t really swap to it during a fight. Traited Healing Spring is more than enough to generate AF along with glyph seeds and Cultivated Synergy. Or you can sacrifice some dmg and slap a Water sigil on your sword.

Oh and don’t forget to bring Frost Spirit+Spotter. If you don’t, well, that will more likely be the reason for getting kicked than using a staff or not healing

What StickerHappy said, but I’d like to add I once managed to proc Allies’ Aid without triggering Search and Rescue on the player I tried to rez.
What happened was I started to rez an ally who was nearly up, and just as I pressed the rez button they got up. I heard the shout proc but there was no one to rez for the pet. So few seconds later when another ally went down they instantly ported to me and the pet was ressing them.

So you can port players from range with Allies’ Aid, it will just probably never happen as the conditions for it need to be just right.

(For Fractals/Dungeons)
Don’t think of Druid as THE healer. You are just like the other players, there to DPS… plus you can heal if need be.

The skill 4 in CAF heals all your allies and gives them full stacks of Grace of the Land (party wide 15% dmg/condi dmg increase), which is why I pop in CAF whenever I can, just for that one skill.
Skill 3 is useful for breaking breakbars and/or giving that bit of extra healing to allies who need it.
Skill 5 is only a DPS boost if you are using longbow and waiting for weapon swap.

Glyphs do heal a bit which again can help pugs. You should be running with at least Glyph of Empowerment, traited with Verdant Etching (seeds give Grace of the Land).

I haven’t personally witnessed any ‘’blame the healer’’ if the party wipes.

You don’t gain AF from the amount you heal but from the number of applications, which is why constantly ticking heal from Dolyak runes is better than 1 heal every 15s from Monk’s. Also 10% outgoing healing isn’t going to improve your AF generation.

Just… wow.

If you initiate combat with LB, you will proc Quick Draw upon entering CAF. So when you cast CAF skill 2, it will get 66% CD reduction which is quite un-noticeable. You’d then need to spend 9 seconds in CAF after which leaving the form will proc Quick Draw again.

Astralaria should be getting a draw animation on offhand.

UnitedChaos.8364:

Eurantien.4632:

I didn’t expect someone to figure it out that fast but I was gonna add things like you don’t need precision, or that I meant by ancient seeds and 2 buttons I meant that as the ONLY trait, no runes, etc.

Entangle is 1 button press with mad king rune effect.
I still don’t see how your actual answer is correct though.

Concussion shot or Glphy = stun on up to 5 targets, fine. (0 bleeds).
Poison volley = (0) bleeds but triggers ancient seeds (5) bleeds per target, if it hits everyone simultaneously. So if you hit 3 targets concurrently it’s 15 bleeds, not 20. Unless I’m missing something.

It works even against 1 target. Hitting Poison Volley on a dazed target in melee range procs 5 roots on that 1 target, causing them to gain 5 stacks of bleed each second, which adds up to 20 fast.

Shortbow 2 Poison Volley.
Edit: Shortbow 5 Concussion Shot or Glyph of Equality used first.

Fix coming ’’soon’’
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Option-to-Display-Over-Head-HP-Bars-in-PvP/first#post6120272

Fluffball.8307:

Dojo.1867:

The main problem is that druid/staff is just too kittening strong compared to core ranger and sb does not fit druid playstyle well since there are no real hybrid damage builds possible.

Didn’t EU run hybrid druids for a long time? I very rarely catch their matches, but I thought sword torch was a big thing over there.

I think there has to be a viable build in this somewhere, even if it’s not something you run in ESL or whatever. I haven’t tried anything so it may just be wishful thinking though.

From EU here, and I played from sapphire to legendary x5 with staff+s/t mercenary’s. Most Druids I saw were playing either staff+lb (as I did at first) or staff+s/d (ESL copypaste, which I think relies too much on pet dmg). The s/t condi hybrid worked for me.

Few skills had breakbars but Anet decided against them in HoT beta.

I don’t see the problem here. Coins are super easy to get and being able to buy them with baubles is just extra.
And you don’t need to complete tribulation for the shop achievement. Just get to one shop in one zone, which is easy enough if you follow a guide.
Lastly trading coins for clouds is available for everyone, just check the raid decoration vendor.

@Shadelang I believe the problem here is the division crossings. He’s got 3 crossings in 2 seasons, and now he has to get 7 crossing in 2 seasons.

@OP if you aren’t good enough in PvP, you shouldn’t get the PvP Legendary.

Popular for Druids: Staff
Popular for Rangers: Greatsword or Longbow

shagwell.1349:

Looks like he is in the spawn area and in downstate

He’s at mid.

Probably the problem is with the necros.

Tinkerbee.2873:

From what I understand, you need to finish part IV this year to be able to get the legendary because next year we get a new item to work towards.

Yes, next year we do get a new legendary, but anet did say there will be a way of obtaining previous years legendaries in the future. They weren’t specific how, but you’re not out of luck if you don’t get them this year.

SlyDevil.3952:

Dinosaurs.8674:

have your rev use mallyx group resistance skill before shake to give a little extra time to condi cleanse people who are hit.

If you run jalis you can lay down a yellow brick road granting the same allies stability which will prevent the fear ever being applied, rather than delaying the effects and still needing a cleanse at a later point.

He meant the condi bomb shake that starts at ~45% HP, where giving extra time to cleanse is critical when you can have 5-30 stacks of bleed+poison+burning+(torment?) on you. I’d rather take Mallyx for that ability and let the tempests auto clear the Fear phases with Gale Song.

This is why it’s better to use different on-swap sigils on you weapon sets, as you may be able to switch legend or weapon and get nothing from doing so.

Are you sure you had completed Part III Division crossing achievement already? I’m guessing your 2 crossing went there and completed it, and your third started Part IV.

Dont’t know about Lingering Light, but Grace of the Land is only triggered by Avatar Form skills, and traited glyphs (which summon an Avatar Form skill).

Jhonathan Ilsydor.5472:

EllieP.3174:

You have to get 3 RANKED victories in a row. You have 2 ranked and 1 unranked.

The reason you have 3 pips is because you got 2 from the first win (breaking a 3+ loss streak) and then another pip from the second win. Good news is, if you win the next game, you get 2 pips, and move up a tier.

ok lets make mats
2 pips for loss streak
1 pip for second win … then 3 pips
and the 3 win was for fun only ???
i should have 4 pips… yes 4 (2+1+1)

No.
2 pips for ending loss streak.
0 pip for second win, it was unranked, not ranked.
1 pip for third win, ranked but no win streak.
2+0+1=3

StickerHappy.8052:

Furajir.3815:

I have zero issues on my Druid in pvp. Can solo necros, Revs, pretty much any class 1v1 and do fairly decent in 1v2 situations. Love it.

If you do well against revs, you are not fighting very good ones, no offense.

Druid can 1v1 any class, except for a very good thief or Rev.

If you can start the 1v1 with at least some Astral Force, the duel is manageable. Starting a fight with zero AF against a good Rev usually leads to death.

I think I’m missing something too.

Last season I got to Ruby, so 3 crossings.
Now I’m currently in Legendary, so 5 crossings.

Yet according to the achievement, I only need 1 more Division crossing, so I need to get to Legendary x2. But that would only add up to 9 Division crossings instead of 10.

Strange.

Lexander.4579:

+1 this should be added

i’d block all diamond and legend players to stomp baddies all day long with pleasure

I think the idea was the blocked players won’t come to your team, but they can be on the enemy team. So blocking all diamond and legend players causes you to never play with them, but you might go against them.

Does crossing from Legendary x1 to x2 count as a division cross for the achievement?

There is a ~20min window for getting in a good DS map. The map resets every 2 hours on the 30min mark, so 10min before and after is when you can search for a DS map in the lfg tool.

The tower part is the second last event of the meta chain and is fairly easy nowadays. Just join a squad and follow the players through events and do what the commander says.

New toy for my Druid and after 16th makeover (might need 17th to adjust minor things on the face I’m not happy with :<)

Edit: Makeover 17 and new bling.

Hey everyone, I’m really close to finally finishing Nevermore and I only need Amalgamated Gemstones for the Crystalline Ingots. I have 60/250 Ingots so any number of Gemstone donations are welcome, up to the max 190 Gemstones. I’d really appreciate the help.
-EU player

IIRC the pet had to run to the downed player first, now it just appears and rezzes immediately.

This one?

Alacrity is not a boon. It behaves like one, but is not affected by boon duration.

I didn’t get the DS item either but did get Tequatl’s. Didn’t get Thaumanova one either. So it seems it’s either bugged or RNG, I’m guessing bugged.

@Tom Gore I think the airships in Arah story actually move (the ones before Zhaitan fight).

Belzebu.3912:

My Sweet Lily.1952:

This is basically what I’m running currently in dungeons/fractals, maybe raids.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8Xn0rC1siVsAuqActgl9ADOueX3rL3uAwoj5CEwGBnskwJB-TlRBABXt/o8DPdDAcRAe4JAQp6PmpEEA-w

Without staff can you build AF enough to justify the use of Grace of the Land instead the other GM traits?

Yeah sure, as you use the Glyphs on cooldown to make seeds+the heal heals allies+Cultivated Synergy procs yet another AoE heal.

I use CAF mainly for 4, so instantly leave CAF when Rejuvenating Tides channel starts and you don’t actually need to channel it. You get 5 stacks of GotL while using sword 1 and the Tides charge even more AF as it ticks. You only need to charge 50% AF always as you spend like 1 second in CAF so it’s pretty easy and fast to load it again.

Mind you the Rejuvenating Tides might be bugged so that tactic may not work after Tuesday’s patch (Tides channels even when canceled).

Also the seeds from Verdant Etching proc Grace of the Land so the party almost always has stacks of it, even if it’s just 1 or 2 stacks.

This is basically what I’m running currently in dungeons/fractals, maybe raids.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8Xn0rC1siVsAuqActgl9ADOueX3rL3uAwoj5CEwGBnskwJB-TlRBABXt/o8DPdDAcRAe4JAQp6PmpEEA-w

I’ll put this in spoiler so read at your own risk :P. These are the things I remember off the top of my head.

So yeah it’s pretty different as a Sylvari.

Press the helmet icon on top of the screen to open your PvP Build panel. From there you can choose amulet, runes, sigils and traits.

I got the Nature Spirit after farming Oakhearts for 1h in Harathi Hinterlands.

I’m a fan of LB/S as well but prefer Marauder over Celestial. I haven’t tried your build yet, but I definitely will later today so I can see how it feels compared to mine

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWTnEqAVsitsAOsActglMBDem2THqOJuEQjrJZFAOAlMtKA-TpBFABiXGggDBwCXAgEeAAtv/AAHBAA

Edit: Ok so after testing, I’m with jcbroe here, dropping Marauder for Celestial is worth it. You do see the loss in damage but the Celestial just offers more. And the might stacking reduces the gap in dmg.

My only gripe with running a Celestial build is the need to spam heal for mobility. That may be a part of why I can’t maintain might stacks that well, I don’t want to use my heal at 20k hp…