Guild Wars 2

Yeah if it really worries you that you might end up being sub-par then change the profession. If you just want to have fun then stick to whatever is most fun to you, for me it’s the engineer
You can do explorable dungeons just fine with the engineer, and you can have fun in WvW too, but if you want to get to the higher Fractal levels or be great at 1v1 in WvW then it’s not that great.

Hobocop.1508:

I’m not seeing the problem here, since I’m pretty sure those weapons simply have unique appearances with exotic stats, and exotic statted items are very easy to obtain elsewhere. Ascended weapons aren’t even in the game yet as far as I’m aware.

This is exactly the kind of RNG grind that’s appropriate; for unique cosmetics.

I guess you’re right but I would like to have some sense of progression toward my goal when grinding, for example by gathering tokens, instead of hoping for a random drop that will suit me and can never happen.

Yeah but I would really like to have the new pistol skin, and with this system I am not guaranteed to get one ever, I can just keep getting weapons I don’t need/want and I can’t sell/exchange them for the ones I initially wanted – they are just useless to me.

I just did 4 fractals with 2 different PUGs everyone being at difficulty1, it took me less than 5 minutes to assemble the party. It’s not that hard yet.

I know, but it doesn’t mean that they aren’t bound on accuire :P

Please don’t make bound-on-accuire weapons that are a random drop :C It’s awful not getting the weapons you need time after time after time and getting practically nothing instead because you can’t sell the drop and you have no use for it.

We tried to do the dredge boss (it was actually the elemental boss that time) with a 4-man PUG and failed, but I definitely want to try it again.
Another PUG (5-man) got tired of the wisp carrying and re-rolled the dungeon, it feels like you just have to memorize where all the traps are to avoid them, don’t like this design much but it’s ok.

After that we did the Asuran lab and the Volcano fractals, both were excelent and very fun to do.

Can’t wait to do the rest of them

Nothing beats the Rascal armour (although I wish there were some kinds of jackets in addition to coats).

Depends on what ‘smart’ means in this context.
Asura might have the highest IQ, they are all mathematical minds, but they’re very childish and seem to have problems with concentration (all those experiments gone wrong). The Charr on the other hand are very practical minds, constant war fuels their technological advancement. They are in the worst situation of all the races (fighting Branded, Flame Legion, ghosts and just until recently humans) and yet they come out on top.

I’m never the one to whine when changes are introduced but this…
I played GW1 because I liked the philosophy behind it’s design and I play GW2 because most of this philosophy got carried over.
No gear/lvl grinding, just max your character and once you do this the character is finished forever, you will never HAVE to do something, you just play whatever is fun. This is why I never played any other MMO, because those games feel to much like work with the endless grind.

And now they are starting to introduce gear tiers? If they really do this I wouldn’t be surprised if each expansion introduced another tier and more levels, just like WoW. This goes against what I loved about GW.

IF this new ‘Ascended’ tier is just a one-time thing, and there will never ever be more gear tiers/level cap increases after that… then I guess I’m okay with that, but I really doubt this is the case.

The rascal armour doesn’t clip, it goes to the sides of the tail.

The Jolly Fellas started out a small but active guild of close friends but over the first months most our members stopped playing due to school/jobs or they just got bored with the game.
Currently we have very little active members, there is rarely more than one person online at a time, so we want to expand!

We’re doing all kinds of things in GW2, almost everyone in the guild plays both WvW and PvE and there are some sPvP players as well (we even done a few guild tournaments before school started). We’re mostly adults (20+ years) but we don’t have any special age requirements for new members.

If you’re looking for a friendly, casual guild to play with every once in a while, we are what you’re looking for. We don’t require you to participate in anything, just log in whenever you feel like playing and hopefully there will be other guildies online to play with

We are international in nature but speak English in the chat.

If you want to join contact me at:
Netsu.3769
main char name: Triggerfinger

The filter should really be more context dependent… there is a tremendous amount of letter combinations that may be offensive by themselves but can be found in perfectly normal words too.

Off the top of my head:
a/s/s/a/s/s/i/n
p/a/k/i/s/t/a/n
c/o/c/k/t/a/i/l

If the filter can’t differentiate those words from the offensive ones then it doesn’t really help anything and instead stands in the way of regular polite conversation.
This whole topic shows it.

I really hope they’ll make more references to the choices you make in the early personal quests in an update or an expansion. Building my own warband, member by member, was the best part of the whole story. I really felt like the choices I make matter because those guys were staying with me, under my command, each of them having a different personality and bringing something new to the table.

I wish I could meet with Dinky and the rest of the guys at least to hear how they are doing without me around :C
Ideally I’d like some kind of a repeatable story mission similar to a dungeon, different for each race and dependant on your story choices – so for example a charr repeatable mission could be taking your warband on a mission into the dragonbrand or something. That would rock.

What do you guys think? Would you like to see your favourite warband members again in some way?

I don’t play sPvP but they are really useful in PvE and not bad in WvW either. In dungeons there are many bosses who pull you in, knockdown/stun and than do massive damage, with rocket boots you can just launch away even if you missed the dodge. In WvW you can launch yourself back behind your teammates if you happen to push too far into the enemy and get CC’ed. The toolbelt skill is my absolute favourite, AoE 5 second burn on a 15 sec cooldown (if you have point in the tools traitline).

Just mix and match to get the stats that your build needs the most.

Your second guess is almost right. Those are two individual 60% chances, but they can never both proc on a single crit because there is a hidden cooldown, and it is shared between both sigils.
If your first sigil triggers the bleed than the cooldown starts and none of the sigils can apply another bleed for the next few seconds (5 seconds if I remember correctly), but if the first sigil fails than you can still apply the bleed from the second one. This gives you 84% chance for a bleed total (60% + 40% * 60%).

And both sigils work on all your weapon skills, mainhand and offhand.

You can’t currently. And I doubt they’ll change it.

Yukishiro.8792:

Trying to stack bleed duration on engi is sorta silly. Engi bleeds arn’t long enough duration or a big enough part of engi dps, even for a condition spec, in the first place to make it worthwhile.

Necros, rangers, condition thievse – there bleed duration may make sense. Not for engis though.

I’m not so sure, if we’re talking single target and I’m nearing 100% burning uptime and already has 100% poison uptime then I can either focus on bleeds or on power. I can’t really boost my power much just with runes and sigils so I am left with improving my bleeds.
Even if extending my bleeds by 50% will cost me 200 condition damage (that currently the runes of undead grant me) I’d say I’m gaining more damage than I am loosing.
Against larger groups the extended bleeds are even more important, piercing bullets+P1+sharpshooter can trigger 4 or more bleeds on a single shot.

I’m currently considering a rather costly (for me at least) option of going:
2x Lyssa + 2x Krait + 2x Afflicted + 10 in explosions + napalm specialist + sigil of smoldering

This gives me +50% bleed and +50% burning, making it easy to keep up burning even at max range. What do you think?

Pannonica.5378:

68% condition duration
108% burn duration

Or doesnt it make sense trying to maximise duration of a condition that ‘only’ procs 33% of all crits?
Anyone care to crunch some numbers?
How much precision would one need to make this worthwhile?

Thanks!

Well considering you also get +68% condition duration overall, it’s pretty sweet, extending just your burns if your only burn is the trait doesn’t seem that good to me.
Also, remember that the rune of the mad king is now available, giving you +10% to all conditions at second tier.

I’m renaming the thread to be a general condition duration one

coglin.1496:

Noble helm is the same monocle.

Exactly, the crafted Noble armour has the exact same monocle. Also, the crafted Leather armour has a slighlty different model of a monocle that I actually like better than the starter one.

Thanks for the writeup Casia, it looks like I’ll try out getting Afflicted+Krait+Sigil of Agony to reach the +50%.
But I wonder, where did you get the skill power multiplier from? Is the 0.324 for P1 just from tests? I was looking for some info on this but never found it.

I know it may sound stupid but I don’t want to be food dependant
Anyway, to those that actually tried it, is it worth going for +50% bleeding duration? Or is it better to just concentrate on condition damage?

coglin.1496:

You have to remember also to keep in mind that duration on conditions only work when you get the duration to the next tick tier.

That’s pretty much what this whole topic is about

It should work with all crits, I’m sure I saw it triggering on pistol skills 1 and 2.

It has a cooldown, but I think there are no sources other than tests. Due to explosive shot and piercing bullets I can get more than 6 crits in a single shot yet I never saw more than one person burning at a time.
I believe someone said the cooldown is 3 seconds after doing some tests.

Both sigils have a chance to trigger upon critical and the cooldown start when one of them does. As far as I remember the cooldown is 5 seconds.

So assume you score a critical, first you check if your first sigil triggers, you have a 60% chance for that. If it triggers then you apply a bleed, the cooldown start and now the second sigil can’t trigger because of the cooldown. If the first sigil doesn’t trigger than you have another 60% chance that the second sigil will trigger, also starting the cooldown for both of them.

Two sigils of earth means a higher chance to bleed (because even if the first sigil fails the 60% chance you get a second roll for the second sigil) but you won’t be able to get two separate bleeds because they share a cooldown.

Thanks for your responses
Currently I have 1300 condition damage with the full Undead runeset, but I still have a few non-exotics.
So basically pushing bleed durations isn’t worth it? Ideally I would like to do perma burning and poison as my main sources of damage and just forget stacking bleeds, but between the bugged flamethrower toolbelt skill (it only applies to one attack not three) and my preference of shield over offhand pistol I find it hard to keep the burn up. Maybe this is where I should focus on extending duration? I could swap rifled barrels for napalm specialist and get a total of +30% burning without runes.

Akaterina.4276:

4x MAJOR Afflicted —- Will not stack together.

What do you mean exactly?

I’m running with pistol/shield and rabid (cond/tough/prec) stats wherever I can.

Up to now I was using full Undead rune set (counting everything in it gives me 253 condition damage and 50 toughness) but now I started thinking about increasing the bleed time.
I have 10 points in explosives, so that already gives me 10% condition duration, but this doesn’t help with my bleeds because I need full seconds.
At first I thought I’d go 4x Afflicted and 2x Krait, this gives me +30% bleed and +15% poison. So now I would have +40% bleeding total which means:
- 2.8 sec bleed on autoattack (so zero improvement over default 2 sec)
- 4.2 sec bleed from the trait (this is 1 bonus damage tick)
- 7 sec bleed from sigil of earth (2 bonus ticks)
The sigil of eath has in ICD, so it’s not a huge difference but from what I noticed the trait has no cooldown and with piercing bullets it procs really often.

But seeing this 2.8 seconds on the autoattack I thought why not go all the way to +50%? I could equip 4x MAJOR Afflicted and 2x Krait, which will give me +40% bleed (no poison duration though) which then totals to +50% bleed duraton giving me:
- 3 sec bleed on autoattack (finally an improvement!)
- 4.5 sec bleed from the trait (still the same as above)
- 7.5 sec bleed from sigil of earth (no change either)

So basically my options are:

Full undead
– 253 condition damage
– 50 toughness
– 10% bleed duration total (no improvement)

Afflicted + Krait
– 111 condition damage
– 40% bleed total (improving two sources)
– +15% poison

MAJOR Afflicted + Krait
– 85 condition damage
– 50% bleed total (improving three sources)

So what are your suggestions? Has anyone tried improving bleed durations? Has anyone gone to 50%? Is improving bleed duration worth it at all for engineers? What other rune combinations would you suggest?

Oh, and a bonus question:
For conditions that stack duration, if I apply a 2.5 second condition (for example poison) twice, would it tick 5 times? Or is each individual application rounded down to the full second?

I use pistol/shield and ran sigil of earth and sigil of ice, until I realized they share a cooldown and conflict with each other, so I switched the sigil of ice for a sigil of accuracy.

Wizardauz.3761:

Wall of reflect, Sanctuary, Retaliation, Protection, Shield Bubble, Constant Regen, and Aegis. (And those are only guardian moves, as you can tell im a guardian)

This is just from my profession alone. Imagine 40 people taking advantage to this.

Even if you did get a shot in with out it being impeded. Retaliation is up 24/7. hitting 10 plus people would probably hit you back for about (267dmg(base dmg for retaliation at 80) x 10) 2,670dmg. And they dont even need to target you. Imagine what happens when they notice the “Hero”.

One person will target you. 40 people press T and you be dead. Simple as that.

(didnt mean to burst ur bubble about ur idea, but im being realistic)

Oh wow :C

All those AoE buffs (and preferably bubbles and walls) should really also be limited to 5 people as long as the damage is.

I certainly don’t like the idea of turtling as it seems unintended and unfun, but I really would like to encounter one of those groups and try out my piercing-bullet-explosive-shot which deals one AoE for each target it pierces through. Does amazing things to tight groups of 10+ risen in Orr, I guess it would be no different here.

Actually, if I could change medkit #3 I would put a second antidote there.

Medkit.

With 30 points in tools the cooldown is crazy low. Fast kits + stimulant give me not only perma swiftness while travelling but also a little buffer to start a combat with. While running away I switch to medkit and just throw everything I can at my feet, makes me very hard to catch in WvW.

I’m also completely not interested in the alchemy traitline.

Ianervan.3415:

But if I treated other players like garbage only because they’re worse than me in a videogame, that would be “right”?

Displaying an EMOTE in a game is treating someone like garbage? Really? I understand if someone would insult other players on chat but this is just an emote, does it really ache you so much that an in-game character laughs at your demise? You must’ve hated Duck Hunt.

Veenix.5248:

i just wanna blow /kisses to the ladies(or manlady) players i beat :/

That would be so awesome… new emote suggestion?

I’m not doing it to feel better that I won or to rub it in really, I just do it for the kicks. I for sure am having more fun when I see opposing players do emotes instead of just running away, makes the game more engaging.

It doesn’t really matter much if they bow or laugh or dance or vomit (this must have been hilarious though), they’re not doing it to me, they’re doing it my character. I mean come on, we’re killing each other in this game for points. The lore isn’t really all fluffy and nice either, I’m pretty sure there was some spitting on corpses mentioned by a charr at least once. But it’s not okay to laugh when you’re victorious?

Some people seem to think that if my character is laughing or dancing upon killing an enemy then I must be like a 10 year old bully that spills other kids milk and laughs.
I understand that in sports such behaviour would be rude, but this isn’t a sport because
a) WvW is full of ambushes, traps, uneven numbers and chasing down people that are clearly unwilling to fight, it’s not a fair fight
b) it’s a fantasy world full of monsters, the lore can be pretty brutal
c) it’s a video game, the atmosphere is relaxed, if I’m competing with my friends in something no one would mind some trash talk or rubbing your victory in, because it’s all fun and we’re all friends

@Terrahero: You only read the topic title, didn’t you?

I recommend rascal armour, it’s crafted and could be bought dirt cheap just for the skins. I actually like it better than any other armour, so I even transmuted my lvl 80 exotics into it

Winning a 1v2 or higher means a mandatory /laugh over the corpses, especially on my male charr.

It’s also important to have level-apropriate gear as you level, preferably blue or green. If you’re at 58 then you might have problems using gear of level 50 or lower.

Are you sure you have valid target in front of your character when this happens? For me the short cooldown triggers when the skill is unable to execute, for example because my target is behind me.

The continiously flashing icon is due to lag I believe.

The best charr moment in my gameplay was when I was doing a DE in one of the higher level Ascalon areas, it involved two old charr trying to do things ‘old-school’, against the will of their younger superiors. Upon completing the DE they said to each other something along the lines of:

You can use Crest of the Rabid for upgrades, it doesn’t have as many stats as the best jewels AFAIK but it is indeed rabid.
As for armour, you can buy Vatlaaw set on TP or buy the Orr karma set, both of them have rabid stats.

You fire your offhand weapon by using the offhand abilities.

Thank you fellow seafarer

I’ve been reporting this as a bug since the first beta weekend, unfortunately I don’t think anything will be done about this. All we can do is wear shields and armours that minimize this effect. As far as I know it happens to all races.

Pukknub.7368:

There’s also a set you can buy in trading post. Vatlaaw’s set. A bit more expensive than normal gear but it makes gearing up faster than just buying with karma.

Oh, that’s great, didn’t know that. Do you know what skin this armour uses?

Most people go for Rabid when building a condition engineer, myself included. It gives you more condition damage than Rampager and toughness is much more useful than power for a pistol build.
Unfortunately Rabid is quite rare, you can buy a full exotic set for karma in Orr.

I would love a short jacket for a medium armour. Maybe we’ll get one in an expansion.

If it hit you while standing still then how would you drop it for others or for later use?

I just came here to say I like downed state and it’s a great system, even in WvW.