Guild Wars 2

I would guess gem store purchases pay for gem store content and then some. Removing it would not give you gem store content for free, it would mean you wouldn’t get gem store content at all, and probably would miss out on some of the live content.

No subscription means that there’s no ongoing stream of income to fund the game except gem store. Working in the industry, $40 every 3 years is a lot less than it takes to pay for servers and development for a game like this.

I suspect the people who are buying from the gem store are paying for 9 months out of every 12 you play.

The only way to move away from a zerker meta is to make damage completely unavoidable with planning and skill, and doing that just shifts things to “Stack enough vitality to survive and zerker the rest”.

I think the tradeoff is not zerker vs other, but:

• Zerker + knowing class in and out + reading enemies attacks and dodging and kill in 15 minutes or:
• Not zerker + not knowing class as well + getting hit by attacks occasionally and recovering and kill in 30 minutes.

The problem is that everyone in the first class doesn’t really want to pay an extra 15 minutes of their time to support someone that is happy with the second class.

Not zerkers and Zerkers play fine in their own groups, but mixing is just going to be frustrating.

Do you typically have people on late at night PST, or is it primarily an active reset guild?

Thanks!

Experienced Warrior (Frac level 50) looking for semi-hardcore PvE guild that’s social and active later at night on the west coast. I’ve noticed it’s difficult to find an active guild this time of night (9pm-midnight PST)- I’m looking for something where people chat and have fun, but are competent and not carried (run meta builds)

I have run everything once, but some of the dungeons only for Dungeon Master
(lots of CE, SOE, AC, COF). By default I usually run a Phalanx Strength build with full ascended Berserker and max AR.

@Chaos: 8/10 for me, I really like the mood. You take good screenshot. I think it’s hard to tell it’s sylvari though at this point

@Anyandrel: 10/10. I love all of yours. You do a great job of picking a theme.

Here’s mine- a warrior, but built the character concept around kudzu (I love how it looks). I went yellow on a lark (such an awful skin color usually), but I have never changed it because it’s grown on me.

Thanks for all the advice!

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

For facing…we watch the enemy. Seriously facing is the easiest thing in the game to keep track of, because it involves only looking at the screen.

When to dodge varies with each enemy. Some windups are absolutely huge (Lupicus’ ballerina impression), others not as much (devourerer knockdowns/fears).

Right- the issue is that facing sometimes gets lost in the effect/model soup that is melee. I always play with the camera out as far as possible, and that helps, but on tiny bosses (not Lupi) it can be almost impossible to see facing. For me anyways.

Redxon.6832:

so what builds do peopel run in silverwastes? is zerk no longer good?

I like warrior sprint/sweet revenge on my warrior, as well as condi removal. It’s not the zerker meta, but SW is more solo anyways, so I like the flexibility (and not running back from the waypoint).

Survival recommendations:

• Have a ranged weapon for the thrashers. They run around too much and you can’t chase them.
• Always face the dogs. Always.
• Kill the menders first

I keep my zerker gear on though, just change my build a little. Oh, and ignore the “I have an easy time with this game so everyone who thinks it’s hard is stupid” people. They either are exceptionally good, have played for a long time, or are trolling.

In melee (or groups with lots of legendaries), I have a lot of trouble seeing bosses and being able to tell what direction they are facing, or when they do their attack telegraphing. This is especially bad on small bosses (Mossman, etc).

Is there any secret to being able to tell who a boss is targeting or what direction they are facing? I have turned a lot of my settings to low, and it helps, but there’s still just too much noise sometimes.

It’s frustrating because I’m trying to play melee (as I should be), but I can’t dodge or position if I don’t know what the boss is doing or which direction he’s facing because of all the effects (or Norn warriors/guards near me).

How do the people who are really good at GW2 do this? Is it timing? Are there secret graphical settings? Or do you just learn to recognize what’s going on in the flashy-models-clipping-through-each-other-tiny-boss-weapons-huge-player-weapons-chaos?

I feel like I still die more than I ought to as a melee, and feel like I’ve hit a bit of a plateau because I can’t parse what’s going on.