Guild Wars 2

Oh, thanks a bunch for those links! Interesting reads, going to look over them a few times.

And I see, ah well, mainly interested in sPvP so the boost was useless anyway

I’ll give that a look, thanks. I was thinking of looking into guardian/DH in general anyways, works out!

And I was unsure if I needed to manually acquire pets for PvP of if Ranger would get them all for PvP.

And I wanted to get rid of that shared inventory bit too soooo

Greetings folks

Wanted to ask some Beginner PvP questions and what not.

First and foremost, PvP guides/resources, I’m looking through metabattle’s guides currently, and reading over some builds, but I’d love to have more resources.

Class-wise…

I’m leaning towards Support-DPS, I like being able to provide healing and cleanses for my team, but I don’t want to be just a heal bot.

I’ve played a few games as Scrapper, and just made a Ranger/level boosted them with the HoT boost.

Aside from Scrapper and Druid, what other classes can supply good support/heals along with some DPS? I’m not particularly good, so I don’t know if being too involved with melee combat would be the best (albeit, I’ll do my best when it comes to Scrapper, they’re pretty fun/satisfying to use)

Thanks for taking the time to respond! Much appreciated.

Well, I planned to stay far away from ranked until I’m actually competent ‘3’ no worries there

I’m pretty new to sPvP so…no clue whatsoever!

I’ve ran around in hotplay with a few characters but not much else.

I’ve mainly always been a Thief and Necro player, want to like Warrior and Engi as well, but I always muck up as the latter. The former never really stuck.

I’ll probably be jumping around Thief/Necro/Revenant to see what’s what, and I may look into Mesmer and see how things have changed.

Neat!

iirc, I have a Necro, Thief, Mesmer, and Engi at cap (though that doesn’t matter iirc?) And a Warrior. Was thinking of making a Revenant and picking between Necro and that.

Is…Is MM Necro still a thing? Or are most builds locked Reaper? Excited to give it a shot since I have yet to experience all the HoT changes and stuff, anyway.

Greetings!

So, long story short I’ve been hankering for some PvP and fishing around with my options. GW2 came to mind and I remembered that WvW has always been pretty shaky (at least since I started) But structured was fun.

Not needing to grind up a character and things of that nature (…right? Or do we need to do PvE content to participate efficiently now?) actually fits amazingly well with my now pretty limited play time.

What’s the current state of PvP, as a whole? Is it active? Balance and meta stuff is actually way above me, and I have no big preference so I could run whatever interests me of the “better” builds.

Thanks a bunch for responding! Hope to see you all around.

Thanks you two.

Hmm, I suppose I should say, I know I’m bad but I am looking for something that will reward someone that actually learns how to play it. I’ve played a little bit of Necro and I enjoy them (mine was so fun to dress up >3>; ) but I dunno, I only really felt good things from MM

Hm…How does Guardian perform and build and stuff? I never really looked into them much and I guess I should try them before going all out into another character :v

Evening all

So I picked this game up a long while ago. I only have 4 characters capped (Mesmer, Thief, Necro, Engi) and I still just cannot think of who to play.

I enjoy PvP/WvW, but I feel like I’m much too bad at the game to play any of the characters I picked. (inb4 thief and skill stuff)

So I’m kind of lost. I’ve joined guilds but my inability to do much of anything in WvW roaming, makes me feel bleh when I roam, even in a group. The same goes for SPvP

So, I’m trying to finally sit down and pick, and better myself. I just don’t know who to do it with. I’m wondering if I should pick one of my current characters or try a Guard/War

Though I am aware of the stigma towards Warrior and that is kind of a turn off, but their versatile play style may be just what I need. Though Guardian seems interesting too since I enjoy semi support roles in other games.

Any opinions? Anything at all is appreciated. Thanks for the reply!

Interesting, never thought of Well of Darkness.

The choices get even more difficult :P

Ahh sorry, WvW.

More so for Small groups and roaming with my guild.

Hey all, been trying to figure out my utility setup for my powermancer,

I’m running D/F and Staff

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAodWjc0UcbnNu0whbCchC63MAahoCBqbjz4ZB-TFyEABkittenASR9nQVCSkyPN0Hkz+DAY+LgnAAhAEtAA-w

I like Spectral Walk and plague…kind of, but my third is bugging me. I’m not too keen on that well, since no one is really oblivious enough to sit in any of the offensive wells.

I was thinking Well of Power since I’ve heard that the Necro receives the wells effects whether or not he remains in it (ie, Well of Power will keep changing the casters condis to boons, even if they aren’t in the well) If that is true then WoP sounds nice

I was also looking at Spectral Armor and Corrupt Boon. Any tips on utilities would help. Thanks

Edit: This is for small groups, solo roaming, and running with my guild groups

Thanks for the builds, :P I don’t know if I can survive in full zerker’s though, but I’ll definitely look over the choices and what not.

Hello all, so after playing/capping a couple of characters I feel like thrashing something with a large sword so…I turned to Warrior.

I have little to no idea what I’m doing with this WvW focused build. All I really know is that I want to use a Greatsword and have my second weapon set be more focused on defense/preservation. (Although I can’t say for sure after seeing Axes burst damage, how would solid is Axe+Shield?)

Anyway, the build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAR5ej8c03ZbHmhQHaAggC1LYuBCgpX9Zc7jBA-TlCBwAYOIAHV+J5CAgT9HAPBAVaESpLIh5vJKBlt/AhAEtAA-w

Any tips are welcomed, feel free to laugh at the utility choices. I’ll swap out the Banner Elite for the Signet one in super small/solo roaming, but anything more than that will call for the banner.

Thanks for the assistance/tips

Well, I’ll try them both out and see how they work. I’ll probably report back here with which one I prefer.

I see…

Yeah, this is a roaming build. Me and my friend are going to roam our MM and see how it fares.

Instead of Spectral Wall, how would the Flesh Wurm work as a stun break? I get to at least keep another stun break and I get to keep a minion on top, but it might not be the -best-

Thanks for the input!

Is terror worth it? I can only fear them in Shroud/Staff 5 (well, and when downed too) where as the 30% boost is constant

Thanks for the Sigil of Geo too, definitely putting those on

Hey all, so I’ve been messing around with a MM Necro but I can’t decide which way to build it.This is primarily for roaming in WvW btw

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQEQNArYWjM00WbTNe1webiQ6R0o20mU8NwBpw9SD-zECBoOCi0CRkkGITqIasVTFRjV3ATxiIq2joIa1ECQxcA-w

I’m focusing more on the Condi’s that Staff and Scepter/Dagger give me but I don’t know if I should just go Axe/x Staff with power instead of condi dmg. Would that yield more damage? I figured the more condition damage I had, the stronger Death Nova’s poison would be as well…

Oh and pay no mind to the 2 sigils of corruption, still trying to figure out which weapon set I tend to be using when I kill someone.

Thanks for the input!

As of now I can’t modify much with equipment… I bought 2 daggers and a Shortbow, going to try them out and see how they fit the overall style. As for Condi removal…I’ll probably just deal with it until I amass more funds.

I’ll put those suggestions in, thanks a ton for the help.

Hey all, so I’ve recently returned and decided to brush off my Thief with a S/D build but…
I’m having a little bit of trouble picking some skills

I’m trying to figure out which heal, I feel like I don’t have the proper main weapon set to utilize Signet of Malice properly but on the other hand I enjoy being able to switch to P/P and use unload for a life saver. In that same fashion, Dagger Storm has saved me quite a few times already when paired with Malice, which heal would you all recommend? If not Malice I may change my Elite over to Basilisk.

The second thing being…Signet of Agility, thoughts? I like its passive (9% more crit is nice x-x) and its active but I also enjoy Ice Drake Venom/Infiltrators Signet to help me stick onto enemies.

So which skills do you all think? ShadowStep and Roll for Initiative are most likely there to stay though.

The only real problem I have with the build is lack of Swiftness but eh, can’t have it all I guess.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vYEQRAsY6al8Mp0p9OxwJ0PNhs9onqQey7BZNWmlWBaC-z0yAYrBRTWCMRIiJPBxsnya9sIas6FMVJgycR1ejg5OWUNhACNBA-w

Only thing I’m wondering about is, why go for IX in explosives? Unless I’m reading it wrong, that’s a 4% crit chance. I think getting 20% Reduced CD on bombs or the 10% damage increase would supply more oomph than such a small chance of dealing burning.

Other than that, seems solid

Thanks for the replies so far everyone.

Can’t send any mail as of now, need to wait 2 more days it seems. Could you mail me some more info tree? Have a guild site I could visit, perhaps?

Well, I haven’t decided on one yet, I wasn’t too sure I’d be wanted so I figured I’d keep my options open and wait to pick my server based on whatever guild wanted me.

Greetings!

Yep, as the topic states I’m a GW2 newbie looking for a group that wouldn’t mind helping me learn a bit so I can take my steps into WvW as soon as I can.

If anyone would like to tackle the challenge, I just ask that there be a nice EST presence, and if you all could tolerate my newbie-ness. (I am a fast learner though)
(Oh! Voice Chat is also nice, too.)
As for what I plan to be, I’m shooting for Thief (Dagger/Pistol seems the most interesting so far)

So, if anyone is interested and would like to ask some questions, ask away. I’ll be here and all that.

Thanks for stopping in.