Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

so I’m in the process of gearing up my necro with ascended stuff. I’m planning on doing fractals and open world PVE… with most time probably spent on open world.
I do fractals casually, and I dont feel like spending too much on consumables. (though I do plan on taking on T4)

with that in mind, is this a good condi build? (gear wise, I’ll probably do some variation of curse blood reaper on traits)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYGA-TRSAQBYT5VEV/RBHCAbqEEAPAgAqPoH7PItzAQIViAA-e

after doing a lot of reading, I came to the conclusion that capping 100% bleed duration is more important than stacking condi damage.

I’ve seen plenty of reaper power builds taking Soul Reaping adept Unyielding Blast, which makes shroud 1 attacks pierce and deal 2 stacks of Vulnerability.

How does the “pierce” component affect reaper 1, since it cleaves in the first place?
Or was it taken only for the vuln stack?

any reason why you mixed sinister and rampager gears?
I always thought that the highest condi damage comes from full sinister?

is the dps from the extra crit chance + barbed + sigil of earth greater than having extra condi damage?

always upvote mainhand pistol for mesmer

Hammer Time: Stops your target and deal damage
Cant Touch This: Evade all attacks while spawning a clone

Sorry bad joke. It’s late. Bye.

but but… cries..

o well, hopefully there’ll be some team support on tomorrow’s demo.

Chilling Victory, Reaper’s Sweep, Melee sweeping AoE Scythe attack? Aw Yisss!!

Good job anet, you just combined 2 of my favorite GW1 professions, and now I’m redownloading GW1.

IGN: Cream Pudding
Server: Gates of Madness
Playstyle: PVE (fractal, dungeons, world boss), WvW
Timezone: GMT +/- 7 (depends on the time of year)
Role: Scholar

alacrity and F5 sure sound interesting.. but I wonder how long their newness will carry them

not happy with the lack of a new decent main hand. it’s been a well known gripe for many mesmers for so long and it’s not being addressed. the fact the new weapon is an offhand even amplifies the problem, ie: too many cool offhands, too few mainhands to pair them with!

please please please give us a ranged direct damage mainhand weapon…

all these cool offhands to choose from, and we can only pick one if we’re going for a ranged fight.

seconding this so hard.

ar the moment, to play as direct damage build, the only way to be ready for both melee and ranged fights is to equip sword / x and greatsword.

greatsword has its uses, I’m sure. But with all the offhand options available to us, the lack of a ranged direct damage mainhand weapon feels very limiting.

The choices available to us are: take two cool offhands and prepare to only melee, or pick one offhand and a greatsword for ranged.

I am currently experiencing this bug (missing challenge mote)

Not sure if these are the steps to repro, but here’s what happened (lengthy, but hopefully this helps in figuring out what’s wrong)

Been away from the game for a while. Jumped back into the game and I only had the Point of No Return episode. So I completed that chapter on my mesmer, and bought the rest of the chapters via gems. (Kinda forgot if I completed the last chapters first or bought the rest of the chapters first)

And then, still on my mesmer, I proceeded to complete all the chapters sequentially. After that, I started completing the achievements for each chapter starting from Echoes of the Past (Ep 5) through Point of No Return (Ep, and loop back to Gates of Maguuma (Ep 1)

Then I switched to my necro, and completed Ep 5 – Ep 8, Ep 2. I also started Ep 1 and 3 (but NOT Ep 4).
Switched to my engie and completed Ep 6 – Ep 8

After a while, I switched back to my Mesmer, and I saw in my Hero’s Living Story panel that chapters 5 and 7 are showing the “This is your most recently activated episode” icons. I also noticed that my mesmer is experiencing the “unable to talk to Ogden” bug as reported in here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Hidden-Arcana-quest-wont-advance/first#post4577418

Then I continued getting story achievements for Ch 2, Ch 3, and Ch 4 on my mesmer, which is when I encountered the issue that I’m reporting (missing challenge mote). Mind you, at this point my Necro still hasn’t done Ch 4.

On my mesmer I tried: logging out and back in to restart the instance, running out of the instance area and recreating it. I even tried guesting to another server. Still, no mote.

Then I completed Ch 4 on my necro in hopes that the mote will appear… but alas, no mote.

I’m going to try completing Ch 4 on my engie and see if she gets the mote to appear.

This is pretty much the only living story achievement that I’m missing… so I’m hoping this will get fixed soon.

Edit: adding detail that all of the above were in solo conditions. The eligibility buff was there for both the mesmer and the necro.

Thanks!