Guild Wars 2

Guys would you please stop whining about ascended gear as you are doing it way too soon. The stat difference between exotics and ascended it very small, therefore no need to get them if you don’t feel like it. Also, people are talking about having to “grind fractals”. there are 9 different fractals with about each having multiple paths. Lets say you would have to play to level 15 to get ascended ring (by then you would also have the mats/gold to get ascended backpack btw). That would be 45 fractals + 7 times the jade boss. So about 5 times per fractal. To get full set of dungeon armor you have to play each path more than 5 times. Also, a fractal takes 10-30 min to play with a PUG, dungeon run takes at least twice that. So it really is not any more grind than if you want dungeon armor set.

Another point. You all want skill to matter, not gear. Fractals level 1-9 is the place where this is the fact. More than anywhere else in PvE. In each fractal you have to work with your team. If you are skilled, you can be the guy who makes the team work (saving everyone when you are wiping, or being the kitten who just outdamages the enemies. Here you have to be able to stay out of red circles. It helps if you can follow what the bosses are doing. In swamp you need 3 guys to take right skills and know what to do. In dredge fractal you need everyone to have good idea what they have to do.

Ascended gear was and is a thing gear grinders can look forward to. It add’s a lot to do and lot of challenges to them. If you don’t want to grind, you still don’t have to. No1 outside fractals requires you to have ascended gear. It doesn’t help.

Last but not least I want you to think this, whether you agree or not:
ascended gear might not be the perfect way to work as a middle way from grinding exos to grinding legendary, but if you screw the ascended gear, fractals are a great way to work towards legendary (farming ectos for example).

Same as alexander, the trait saves my kitten in fractals couple of times per run. Problem is only with big boss fights where the boss can hit even an warrior from half health to 0, there the trait doesn’t help at all, even if it procs it is over when the next hit comes. Very OP trait in smaller fights tho.

another option for the basic pow/vit/tough is the (imo superior) toughness/power/precision. It only requires that you have proper condition removal, which I do with “healing shouts” and runes of soldier (removes condition on shout). This also gets your support up as you heal and remove conditions from others too.

Tulisin.6945:

Unlike the other fractals, swamp is heavily profession dependent. A group with a bunch of mobility (thieves, mesmers) has a much easier time with this than a group of slower professions. In a 3-thief group that can just shadowstep their way home, I’ll take swamp any day.

I have seen lot of people saying it is profession dependent, but that really ain’t the whole story. Lemme give you an example how each profession can make it:
Thief: shadowstep, shortbow 5
mesmer: portal, blink
ele: Cantrips
ranger: Rampage as one
quardian: stand your ground, aegis, lot of condition removal and stun breakers
warrior (with warrior I usually run the furthest ones): balanced stance, signet of rage, shake it off
engineer: stability and stun breakers, be ready to change utilities
necro: run around like a crazy and do nothing, poor necros

thats 7/8 classes that have class-spesific skills that make them good for this fractal. So dont blame you class. Unless you are a necro. Poor necros =(

That is why I always settle for lower levels if I have to, by that one hour you spent searching a party you would have done level 3 already. Crashing obviously is annoying, haven’t happened to me tho.

I myself am not the biggest fan of mesmer downed state, but if you ask any other profession, many say mesmer has it good. In WvW, mesmers can waste 15sec of enemies time as they have to finish you at least twice, sometimes 3 if they are stupid. In PvE you get up really often as you can get out of the aggro completely or for enought time to get up or kill the target.

Other classes mostly have only interrupts, which you have to use in WvW almost instantly to prevent the first finish, and they can just run to you to finish the job. Only downed skill that really is IMO way too strong is warriors, as THEY CAN JUST GET UP, get half hp-pool and keep fighting! In WvW 1vs1, if you by some luck get a warrior down, they will first do damage when you are finishing you, interrupt at last second, keep damaging you and then get up when you almost have finished them. For me, 1vs1 vs a downed warrior is still very dangerous if I don’t have full hp…

I’m having the same bug, I suppose this doesn’t really happen often as there is no1 with solution and it still aren’t fixed =S

Protip: if you play WvW, join a guild. Guilds are the ones that do successful keep ovetakes, successful orb steals and at least my guild does, successful golem marches. Nothing is more fun than being a part of the golem siege capturing 3 keeps in 2hours.

No1 is allowed to trade in-game gold for real-life services, Anet can’t just say “hey, that is usefull for us, maybe just that ONE guy can do that”. Solution for the problem is, that you just ask money for the sites and then buy gold with the money if you want. Because in gw2 you can buy gold with money, which you can’t legally do in most of the other MMOs.

Ugh, so swordbreaker you mean you are not allowed to use gaming mouses with extra buttons in them?

And probably he is using fast cast, so he could with the macro hover his mouse over some place and he wouldn’t have to break his finger casting grenades. I’m not a mod but imo it doesn’t give him unfair advantage but just prevents gw2 injuries =D

I have some friends talking about how after long sieges their grenade finger is really hurting for all the spamming =D

Had the same problem, couldn’t log in even tho it worked yesterday jut fine.

Solution: change your password.

Why it works might be that they asked us a while back to change our passwords and I guess they are really making us do it now =D