Guild Wars 2

I haven’t played in like, half a year. I come back and I’m just super lost.

I tried to read some of the emails they sent me about what was new but even those were kind of vague and didn’t explain much.

Basically I’m trying to understand how this new gear stuff works in sPvP. When I left, we had NPCs that sold gear in sPvP, now I do not see them. There were like 5 of them, and you had to rank up before they let you purchase items from them and then you took those items and you combined them to make new gear. So how are you supposed to get gear now?

And the new transmutation? I’m am so lost right now, I don’t even. Does that mean we’re supposed to get our sPvP gear from playing the story mode and then transmute it to PvP gear?

Hi, just a really quick and easy suggestion. I’d like to be able to see my current move speed in the stat window next to all the other stats. There are several passives, traits, or whatever that effect movement speed but I can’t really calculate it because sometimes it doesn’t tell me how much it increases my move speed by and there’s no stat in the window that I can look at to use as reference either.

I’m a Deer rank Mesmer looking for a guild that does a lot of sPvP. I’m on pretty much all day. If there are no guilds, and someone is reading that would like to start one we could do that as well. I plan on making YouTube videos and things like that with the guild such as montages of our PvP matches. I’m on Stormbluff Isle and my IGN is “Starcsmer”, PM me in-game or we can talk here if you’re interested.

It’s no doubt that GW2 is a competitive game. With that said, I’m wondering why there aren’t more PvP modes.

To start off, I’d simply like to see a simple death match mode. I want to be able to team up with 2 or 4 friends ( for 3v3 or 5v5 ) , fight on a map to the death, and then be done. No trebuchets, no capturing points, no running to get buffs, just plain fighting. I don’t even care about an ELO system, I just want to be able to have structured PvP where all I have to do is defeat my opponents. Capturing points is getting repetitive. Make sure the maps are balanced – enough room to make a tactical “getaway” and elevations in the ground or objects where ranged heroes can attack safely and melee heroes can take cover and obstruct their enemies’ attacks.

Another thing I’d like to see is duels. Sometimes I don’t want an entire team encounter at all. I just want to fight one person without other people interfering. Also, Capture the Banner seems like it would be extremely easy to make. Each team gets a banner, when you pick it up you gain an entirely new set of skills ( we don’t want flag carriers going invisible or teleporting away ) and you have to make it back to your base alive. Defend the Yak may be fun too. This is actually an idea from TF2, if any of you have played that, there’s a mode where you have to push a cart all the way to the enemies base while the enemies try their best to slow you down so your time will run out. We already have a slow-moving Yak animal in the game – just throw him into this new mode idea and voila.

Overall I don’t expect these modes to be added ( because I don’t know ANet is one of those teams that has a suggestion forum but only implements like one thing from it a year ) but hey, worth a try. My point is I’m ready to do something besides capture points. Of course I could WvW, but where’s the fun in smacking a gate for 10 minutes?

I’m curious. Does anyone else play Mesmer for the sole purpose of being an annoying, diversion-y time-waster guy? Right now, my Mesmer’s traits are 0, 20, 30, 10, 10. Basically, I took pretty much every possible clone/illusion ( not phantasm ) bonus there was. I don’t do a lot of damage, but I have to say, I survive a lot more fights than I did when I was a Guardian ( which I assume is supposed to be a lot more tankier ). I’m finding it really easy to just throw enemies off – and that’s all I’m focusing on doing. I don’t really care about damage numbers and high crits and all that nonsense, I just want to pester my opponents. This build is also good for defending, although I am having trouble against people with AoE attacks ( they are able to destroy 2 or more of my clones with one skill ).

Not only is this build very clone-focused, but I am also very difficult to kill. Even when my clones are not up, I stealth when I hit 25% health and again once I hit 10% ( with Rune of Infiltration ) . I also have the cloak bonus which lets me stay invis one second longer. Not to mention my Elite skill is also the one that makes you and your allies invis. Basically, I go invisible more often than a Thief does. I also took Blink which I find to be incredibly useful if they get me locked down in a stun. When someone comes to cap my point, I pop all my clones instantly ( takes about 5 seconds to get them all out ) and if they just so happen to kill them and get me low to HP, I just blink out, heal, rinse and repeat. I love this style of play – as I said before, I’m not usually getting the highest damage numbers or scoring all the kills, but I can tell I’m making a difference in team fights. Enemies have to deal my harder-hitting allies AND about 6 or 7 little Asura-dudes jumping towards them and they just start panicking, popping their heals and trying to barrel roll away. This class is the only one I can say I really feel “satisfied” with in PvP.

Ah, okay. Well I just tweaked some stuff and I’m up to 670 burn damage. Mainly I was just curious to see if someone had reached a higher number.

Hi, I’m Rare and new to the forums. If you’re confused by the title, that’s simply a spur of the moment name for my build. Basically I dual wield daggers with elementalist, I use Fire element pretty much all the time, and what I do in PvP is basically apply burning to as many people as possible and watch them drop like flies after 10 seconds.

My question however is, since I’m a noob, I’m not really sure if I’m really doing as much damage as I can. So here are the two main details: my burns do about 630 damage per tick and last about 10-11 seconds. I don’t have any Rank 10 gear or anything, this is just the regular gear you get when you make a new character and go straight to Heart of the Mists.

Has anyone achieved higher burning damage than this with a new character? Or is 630 pretty much the most I can reach until I get some better gear from the Rank 10 etc. vendors?