Guild Wars 2

Professor Sprout.1560:

Depends on how much you want to stay in flamethrower mode. If you want to use the flamer as your main weapon then I’d suggest something like the the so-called “Scrappernaut” build that uses a combination of Juggernaut, HGH, Mass Momentum and Applied Force to give you permanent might and stability. Right now the flamer is something of a hybrid weapon however so I can’t say whether this setup would do more damage using power gear instead (since when I run it I use celestial gear).

If you want instead to use the flamethrower as one source of DPS amongst others in your build you might instead want to consider something like the “Four Kits” build that uses flamethrower, bomb kit, grenades, mortar, pistols, Incendiary Powder and the explosives traitline to maximise DPS. That one requires cycling between a lot of different skills very quickly however so it may not be very casual.

Id like to stay in flamer as much as possible and just maybe open the fight with Pistol 4-3-2. Would you suggest I take Celestial over vipers?

I need some build recommendation for an engineer that I can run in fractals that is based around the flamer, I already have a full vipers set with 4x Nightmare runes and 2x trappers that I can use, but if a rune change is required its fine with me, vipers trinkets.

What would be the most suitable trait build for this its main purpose is just for chill runs on T4’s with friends.

Im a returning player and the environment maguuma is very hostile and also confusing, is anyone actively doing hero point runs on weekdays/weekends?

I was on hiatus from the game for the last 2 months and I noticed just recently that the game now uses a lot of the GPU, previously I had 970’s in SLI and it would only hit around 50-55% GPU usage and when I got my 980Ti’s I tested the game for a while and actually saw a drop of usage which I expected since the 980Ti’s are more powerful but just today I noticed that the game now puts both my cards to like 90% usage, did something on the rendering engine change to make use of more GPU rather than CPU ?

Im running Windows 10 64bit if matters.

Im looking at the best way to maximize gold from those bags

Im planning to open Embroidered Coin Purses, Heirloom Seed Pouches soon that I have hoarded on my bank, should I open these bag types on a 52 toon to get mid tier goodies like Linen/Plat ore on salvage or should I open it on a 80 for best results?

Selling Arah runs always crack me up

I was looking at meta battle and I dont fully understand how to use the Phalanx build. Can anyone elaborate further.

I’ve noticed that if I have something on target and I use the skill it fails to blast unless the target is also in range. This seems to be a bug.

RIP ranger runes, you served me for a very long time.

I mostly run wit pugs so the 90% HP bonus from Scholar runes might not be active in most cases unless its a very good pug, so Im looking at an alternative rune.. but it looks like there really so no good alternative to scholars unless I go strength and get a group that stacks them.

Centurion.7296:

Preferbaly buy ascended trinkets (rings and amulet) with laurels in LA. You can make exotic backpieces and then choose what stats it should have, but if you have guild commmondations then you can buy beserker backpieces at LA at the guild mercant if your guild has unlocked it. Ask if you need more directions.

Does the guild have to unlock the specific berzerker stats? I checked the guild commendation merchant and it only had assassins,defender and care taker.

Can anyone confirm if the mini’s still activate the 6th bonus rune?

Volrath.1473:

Takato.4976:

It’s OP at being garbage imo.

it is sarcasm and you can smell it miles away

IMO thieves don’t have much to complaint weapon wise. ALL weapon setups are playable.

As a PvP players only P/P does not “work” but in PvE I believe it works fine.

On the other hand, traps and poisons are still very sub-par…

I feel that P/P is pretty bad in PvE mainly because the auto attack dps is low compared to the auto on the SB, even with overload spam I still manage to get more dps on my SB this is with the 10% pistol trait. I only use P/P in very limited situations like I dont need to aggro anything else aside from a single target.

Even unload spam is terrible in PVE compared to the shortbow auto attack and cluster bomb

Getting an SSD greatly helps, There isnt any zone that needs more than 10seconds to load.. even with LA before it only took 6-7seconds with an SSD.. with a regular hdd it may take upto 1-2mins.

Id like to get some input if a full berserker set is still the way go to after the patch or do we mix em up with assassins stat to get a base crit of 80% (+20% from Fury)

I got this issue just recently,my isp is having connection issues atm and i switched to a prepaid mobile service which is through my phone then usb tethered to my pc. Im getting several of these in an hour of game play but never on my primary connection so im 100% sure its not hardware related. What can i do to resolve this? Im using a nexus 5 to tether.

Can the assasin and berserker orichalcum inscription be salvaged from weps/armors or are they only crafted?

Aside from black gate, are there any other servers that do the FGS train 24/7 ?

This is the diagnostic results can anyone interpret it for me?

= Tracing network paths
==================
—> pathping -w 500 -q 25 -4 64.25.39.1 <--

Tracing route to 64.25.39.1 over a maximum of 30 hops

0 Earl-PC [192.168.1.3]
1 192.168.1.1
2 112.210.32.1.pldt.net [112.210.32.1]
3 119.93.255.229
4 210.213.134.21.static.pldt.net [210.213.134.21]
5 * * *
Computing statistics for 25 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Earl-PC [192.168.1.3]
0/ 25 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 192.168.1.1
0/ 25 = 0% |
2 13ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 112.210.32.1.pldt.net [112.210.32.1]
1/ 25 = 4% |
3 13ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% 119.93.255.229
0/ 25 = 0% |
4 32ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% 210.213.134.21.static.pldt.net [210.213.134.21]

Trace complete.
—> pathping -w 500 -q 25 -4 206.127.158.1 <--

Tracing route to p4-23-c0-ncdc-pub.plaync.net [206.127.158.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
0 Earl-PC [192.168.1.3]
1 192.168.1.1
2 112.210.32.1.pldt.net [112.210.32.1]
3 119.93.255.225
4 210.213.134.5.static.pldt.net [210.213.134.5]
5 * 210.213.130.137.static.pldt.net [210.213.130.137]
6 * so-4-0-0.edge5.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.30.140.1]
7 ae-32-52.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.69.147.182]
8 * ae-2-2.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.54]
9 * * *
Computing statistics for 50 seconds…
Source to Here This Node/Link
Hop RTT Lost/Sent = Pct Lost/Sent = Pct Address
0 Earl-PC [192.168.1.3]
0/ 25 = 0% |
1 0ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 192.168.1.1
0/ 25 = 0% |
2 12ms 1/ 25 = 4% 1/ 25 = 4% 112.210.32.1.pldt.net [112.210.32.1]
0/ 25 = 0% |
3 12ms 0/ 25 = 0% 0/ 25 = 0% 119.93.255.225
1/ 25 = 4% |
4 32ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% 210.213.134.5.static.pldt.net [210.213.134.5]
0/ 25 = 0% |
5 32ms 1/ 25 = 4% 0/ 25 = 0% 210.213.130.137.static.pldt.net [210.213.130.137]
11/ 25 = 44% |
6 242ms 12/ 25 = 48% 0/ 25 = 0% so-4-0-0.edge5.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.30.140.1]
0/ 25 = 0% |
7 248ms 12/ 25 = 48% 0/ 25 = 0% ae-32-52.ebr2.Seattle1.Level3.net [4.69.147.182]
1/ 25 = 4% |
8 268ms 13/ 25 = 52% 0/ 25 = 0% ae-2-2.ebr2.Denver1.Level3.net [4.69.132.54]

Trace complete.
Section completed in 77.02 seconds

Reached 70% then the download stopped..

I am having the same issue, the patch is very slow.. between 10-30kb/s and stops at around 20% and says connection error. My internet is 100% fine and there are no connection issues what so ever, all of my other games are updating fine and I can download at full speed on other things. GW2 seems to be the only one with really slow patching/connection issues.

Whats the best method to do so?

Based on my experience they are not tied to the server reset.. I am still missing nodes today and they appear about 1-2hrs after. at times though I dont complete all of the nodes in 1 run, often I split them up in between world boss events.

So ive been doing this for the past 3 days I think.. and I noticed some nodes dont respawn.. is the mine timer based on when you mined it or during server reset?

Im not making a new character now but If you are interested in map completion I can join up when ever I am free, please message me..

Sera.6539:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1xffs0/permanent_rich_ore_locations_30_final_version/

For a map of the permanent rich ore locations (including iron).

Looks very efficient! thanks for posting this !

Ive been doing iron ore runs for a couple of days now and Im just hitting a few nodes, I am sure there is a very efficient way to do this and not just scout the entire map..

I normally go to Brisban, in the gallow fields and mine the rich nodes along with the near by regular nodes and then I move to Kessex to mine 2 rich nodes inside the centaur camp and the one at the waterfalls.

Can anyone else share more locations that you guys actually do or at least know that makes the run even more efficient.

Liegence.5216:

Farming Rich Iron nodes has become very profitable. Day 1 it will take some time to find all of the areas, but after that it is smooth sailing. They change up weekly I think. You can also grab orichalcum, ancient logs, lemongrass and vanilla beans. Some areas have just ridiculous mat farms like Brisbane Wildlands.

Can you share the other locations ?

Ghostwolf.9863:

25/30/0/x/x – Surely is max damage.

DA – Mug, Combined Training(S/x & P/P) / Dagger Training(D/x)
CS – first 2 dependent on build or what you prefer, executioner on grandmaster.

Acro – Whatever you prefer, none makes much difference.
Trickery – Thrill of the Crime or Flanking Strikes depending on fury uptime in group.

I personally play 10/30/0/0/30 steal and signet build, since it brings me some sustain, high damage, vigor, 50% group fury uptime.

What traits do you run with that build ?

chemiclord.3978:

It boggles my mind the people who sit on these time-sensitive things anyway. What’s the point in holding onto them AFTER the events relating to it are gone?

Maybe because not everyone has sufficient coins yet to trade them into the things they need ( tomes/shards )

Doggie.3184:

They usually leave NPCs like that up for a while longer before removing them. I don’t see why you wouldn’t just use them now though. I just bought tons of lvl up books for my alt, personally.

Not enough extra coins to buy the tomes yet

Didnt realize this was such a trivial question to some.

As per title, will the found belongings NPC be removed on the next patch ? I still have tons of those stuff and I am not yet sure what to exchange them for..

Signet build, whats that?

Alquinon.2957:

Run 25/30/0/0/15 if you want more initiatives/damage. Run 25/30/0/15/0 if you want more dodges.

I find s/p boring but the truth is it’s still the best for clearing trash mobs en masse. I use d/d for bosses or other single target fights. Hope this helps.

And what master trait to pick?

I got my thief to level80 last week and just playing around with it, Now id like to take it a step further and probably get advise on a really good PvE build my weapon preference is S/P and Bow ( mainly for tagging mobs and long range safe combat ) I might be open to using S/P & D/D if its better for dungeon runs. I would need trait suggestions.. Currently my gear is all berserker stats.

locx.6412:

HT doesn’t help much as it only adds threads, this game uses 4 threads heavily, one of which is the rendering thread and when that is capped it doesn’t help to add any more threads, so that’s that.

As for SLI, the performance of HD 7790 is adequate and after that the CPU becomes a bottleneck, GTX 780 is way above that so SLI shouldn’t help. Also the use of multi GPUs requires some optimization and if GW2 is lacking that you could possibly see a decrease. Hard to say since I only have 1 card.

Okay but does it add even though just a little bit more performance or none at all ? Have you done some testing ?

Purely considering the HT technology on the I7 4770K and 780’s in SLI has anyone observed a performance increase?

Personally I have observed enabling SLI (780’s) on this game would actually lower over all performance and have a bigger FPS drop which is odd but not really unexpected.

For HT, I have not noticed any difference at all.

Anyone else experience this issue?

Since the last big patch, I’ve been getting some ~1.5 seconds of pausing/hitching with GW2, all my other online and offline games run perfectly fine. Has anyone else encountered the same issue?

I have GW2 on my SSD if that matters, I’ve never experienced this issue ever since so Im highly doubtful that its my system.

Based on the response by the tech support representative and the link he/she has given its 100% safe to use the SMAA injector as it alters no file what so ever on the game client and it does not provide any unfair advantage or anything that breaks the game mechanics.

It seems like either Umbra is using a lot of CPU cycles to perform culling or the engine has no optimization what-so-ever.

There are several spots in lions arch that gives you a massive fps drop when there is a pool of water behind an object, if it is actually culled then there should be no performance increase/decrease when playing around with the reflection settings.

All in all, the quality of the visuals in the game does not remotely justify the really low FPS on such a high end hardware.

The quest objective does say “Find a way” and the game is full of jumping puzzles so I would say there is no valid ground for this to be bannable but if you do the double chest exploit then that is another story..

I’ve never been to Arah but I dont see how jumping by normal means is “glitching”

I’ve had this issue since launch! None of my tickets were given a reply upto this day!

Has anyone ever done the kaboomium part with out doing the chain death? Id like to see a video.

So the honor of waves dungeon remains unchanged, it still gives 26s and the same amount of exp with 20mins taken.. thats just 5mins more than CoF. I currently have 925 CoF tokens and its such a shame that I am unable to complete the CoF set since it now requires a skill with the player base of less than a few % in the game

what baffles me more is that only CM and CoF gets changed, the rest remain untouched.

Goomba.6248:

Really? I have completed CoF with a group with 0 wipes, in this new patch, what did we do, we fought. A very organized fight. everyone knew what they had to kill and what they had to do. it’s really not that hard, just time consuming. You obviously don’t understand how the game mechanics work, and you’re obviously not utilizing combo fields and mass healing. I really hate it how you people come in here and cry all day about useless topics, Yes the dungeon system has problems. Is this a problem? NO, its not.

So what you are trying to say is that dungeons are now only exclusive to those who are very organized (alienating the casual yet skilled players) and probably belong to established guilds and/or with communications software to properly coordinate actions?

If they intended CoF or any dungeon to be hard why do this now? Now not 3 weeks earlier.. Also there are several other glaring bugs that needs to be fixed as compared to “buffing” the dungeon.

CoF is not the only dungeon but its where the masses gather, Honor of Waves is actually a better dungeon and way easier than CoF with an organized group and earns you more money/loot per run at a speed of 20mins, why is that dugeon not “buffed” why did they only change CM and CoF?

Talk is cheap if you are able to beat CoF with your claims ( 0 wipes, not kiting the event before the boss fight and a well organized run ) then please post a video so you can be a solution to this problem, dont be a part of the problem as you already are presenting your self to be.

They should at least lower the token requirements if they plan to keep this dungeon buff and reward nerf.

Charge back guide anyone ?

They changed CM and CoF but not HoW which also has a speed run of ~20mins with even greater rewards, why only change a dungeon that is accessed by the masses?

A friend of mine who just tried CM for the first time after hitting 45 with his character told me that I ‘fooled’ him about CM being quite easy and rewarding. So yeah its gonna alienate the casual gamers from the really really hardcore.

Personally I welcome the increased difficulty, I dare say bring it! but nerfing the rewards is just plainkitten If they are nerfing the rewards then they should also reduce the tokens required to purchase those instanced based gear. Its pretty unfair for those who just started collecting the tokens and they hit this brick wall