Guild Wars 2

1. When did you begin playing? (post bw’s)
two weeks after launch
2. how many hours total do you have? (/age)
about 800
3. What’s your most gold banked so far?
I don’t bank gold
4. Do you have a max level character (s)? (number if more than one)
I have 2
5. List 1-3 areas / zones / events / tp; where you spend most of your time for income.
Plinx (RIP)
Dungeons
FotM
6. Do you mainly use MF or not?
Only on Plinx, not anymore.
7. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a mob? If so, how many and total?
Only in FotM, a few.
8. Have you ever got an exotic weapon from a chest? If so, how many and total?
See above. Plus one in AC and the karka event chest.
9. What’s the most number of rare weapons you have looted in one day or 8hrs time?
About 50? I miss plinx…
10. How many rare or exotic weapons do you “expect” to loot in one hour of time?
about 5?
11. How many lodestones have you looted total so far? (all types)
Dunno honestly. Used to get a lot of onyx lodestones in the early days farming TA.
12. Do you craft? If so, do you have a 400 crafter? if so, how many?
I have 6 maxed between 2 characters, I think.
13. Do you sell your looted crafting mats? (specify optional)
Only when I have more than 250 and not going to use them anytime soon.
14. Do you feel your return, (in terms of items, completion, income, etc) for your time, has been worth it?
Ehhh, dunno I just play for fun and farm when don’t have anything better to do.
15. In ONE word, what needs improved most; from your perspective?
I don’t like ascendeds, but now that they are here; moar stat variety for rings please.

Raito.2471:

If you don’t want to use grenades at all and use the elixir gun mainly, what’s a good build for that? At least 10 tools, but does the elixir gun scale better off of condition damage or power? And is investing in inventions for the bonus to healing a worthwhile thing to consider, or just go for traits that are helpful?

Elixir gun doesn’t scale well with anything.
You can’t make much stacks of bleed and your poison has short duration/long cd.
The most damaging abilities (elixir F and acid bomb) hit for less damage than a bomb/grenade auto attack.
You use Elixir gun for a good aoe heal, 2 aoe condition removals, the regen buff and the perma weakness in auto attack, not for damage.
About healing is up to you, but super elixir scales superb with healing power. The fact that every pulse increases it’s healing really makes a difference.

Mesmer→MH pistol. I honestly don’t know why they don’t have it already. They already have OH pistol that shoots pink magic bullets, and no other weapon, other than maybe rapier, represents better “dueling”.

Engi→Vehicles. A tank, a barrel jet-pack, , A submarine… Just think about the possibilities.

Ele→MH torch. Green flame for earth, white flame for air and glowing ice for water.

Necro→Dual axe. Because looks awesome.

Thief→Rifle. Even more sniper like than the warrior’s. 1500 range with high damage and very long recharge time sounds good.

Ranger→OH dagger? Can’t see them using anything else.

Guardian→MH torch. Not enough burns.

Warrior→ kitten off.

urzen.7096:

I did Grawl yesterday at level 1 and thought the final boss was super easy. Maybe because it was level one? The worst part was avoiding falling asleep while burning down the boss for 20 mins. Most of these bosses have way too much HP.

Grawl starts as easiest, moves to average and ends as hardest as you advance in the scales.

So, I’m currently 30+ in fractals and since I haven’t noticed any big differences compared to 20-29 (Besides the increased agony damage) I think it’s safe to rate the different fractals.

**** YES tier:
-Underwater: You may die a lot on dolphin, the boss takes forever. But there is just no way you can fail this fractal
-Swamp-Bloomhunger: Ok, this boss actually does damage unlike jelly, but this fractal is so short and easy when coordinated that deserves going here.

Easy enough tier:
—Swamp-Mossman: Mossman can 1 shot you and is kinda hard to dodge, other than that very easy.
—Ascalon: If you keep the npcs alive and avoid being 1 shot by the warriors, not much can go wrong here.

Annoying, but easy tier:
—Asura: You better get a lots of reflects if you don’t want to lose your hair because of the knock back balls. Whoever thought tons of knockbacks in a jumping area were fun was right
—Ice: Everything on this one is so easy… but then you get to the Ice elemental and you feel like you are inside a pinball machine.

Mid tier:
—Colossus: kinda long, but not hard overall.
—Jade maw: If you don’t have enough agony res, enjoy wiping after every phase change., Other than that, not hard.
—Dredge-Ice elemental: Long dungeon. bomb path can get hard, last boss is quite easy.

Decently hard tier
—Dredge-mining suit: The agony is challenging to dodge and you need good team coordination. Nice battle.

OH GOD WHY tier
—Grawl: tons of grawls, all with pulls and binds, forget about fighting them all at the same time. After that, teleporting monkeys making it impossible to teams with no damage to save the captives.
Last but not less the flame shaman; lava floor, agony arrows with no cast time and no red circle and a huge amount of lava elementals that root and do massive damage make this battle the hardest of FotM. Can’t count the amount of pugs that have ragequit at this battle. Of course with some coordination this fight is very doable, but is definitively the bane of most PuGs

And, that was my opinion regarding the difficulty of the fractals…

I’m at level 31 of FotM and run a build very similar to yours op.
Instead of protective shield (that is not very useful in pve imo) I take energized armor for extra damage.
Instead of reinforced shield (I spent much more times on kits than pistol/shield) I take Elite supplies.

Also I have 0 in tools and 10 more in explosives for short fuse (more smoke bombs).
Instead of elixir B I take elixir R for stun break and revival (you can even use it for self revival!) or you can try kit refinement too for extra super elixirs.

My gear is soldier for armor and cleric for trinkets. The extra 800 healing power really makes a difference, especially on super elixir, that thing brings people to full health in just a few seconds.

The only problem I have with this build is the minimal damage on range. Melee is no problem since bombs have massive base damage.

Have you done it in 20+? 30+?
The 1 shot kill move is very hard to dodge. You need perfect timing in two dodges to soak the damage.
Still, grawl shaman final battle is harder IMO in higher levels, but mining suit is still a pain.

A non RNG system for the rings would be great, but the fact I’m stating is that rings with cleric (and some others) stats just DO NOT exist at the moment. Having to farm them is a secondary concern at the moment since the ring I need doesn’t even exist.

Are there any plans to make them soon?
Currently I’m forced to run fractals 20+ with an suboptimal build because there is no ascended ring with “cleric” stats. Since fractals are becoming harder and harder not having the stats you need doesn’t help being an extra handicap.

It’s just too ridiculously easy to obtain. I doubt it will ever be profitable.

I use pistol/shield on my tanky/support build, mostly because the great utility of the shield (stun, double daze, reflect, aoe knock back, blast finisher to combo into aoe heal/stealth…)
Engi shield is just amazing. Much better than warrior and guardian imo.

Dungeons are easy, stop being bad.
Also people should learn “achievements” are called like that for a reason. You have to earn them. If you don’t want to do them no one is forcing you to.

I did up to lvl 20 with no agony resistance at all. Except for maybe Jade maw, all agony is avoidable. Now I got a pre-infused ring, but 10 agony resistance is not doing much in 20+, still most agony hits like a truck. So better learn to time those dodges.

Join me for working overflow

crashed too…….

A Mesmer with teleportation guns, teleguns are banned from wvw though.

overflow is full, but you can try join me if you want. no PMs please.

Anyone in US overflow inviting?

Are the overflows NA or EU?

Anyone’s overflow still running?

Invite please

I was completely opposed to dungeon finder, but it is a must for fractals.
If you think finding group for level 1 is hard, you haven’t seen the upper levels.
Only mid tiers are easy to find group at the moment I guess.

Still waiting on official response…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/iberserker-doing-significantly-less-damage/first#post751904
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Overview-of-mesmer-bugs-after-patch/first#post751916

Basically you kittened up all the GS mesmers for the upcoming dungeon, I doubt any group will want a piece of dead weight on their teams, please fix it.

Please look at the damage of iBerserker and make the line of sight nerf only affect WvW and PvP. Terrain is just too buggy in the game and you get “obstructed” half the time.

I’d rather play as Moa than how is the mesmer now.

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Never.6014:

The real Million Dollar Question is “Will they make another tier with better stats than Ascended?”

If no, then we have nothing to worry about.
If yes, then we have a problem.

They have the wildcard of “Legendaries will be always as strong as the most powerful gear”, so yeah, in theory they can make unlimited tiers between ascended and legendary and keep scaling legends.

I’ll laugh so hard if they make a way to acquire non-account bound lemons.

it’s not only a +2, ascended gear has built in stats superior to exquisite jewels in addition to normal stats.
A full ascended gear gives you + 60-100 in every stat compared to full exotic with exotic jewels.

Exotic ring: 48 power
Exquisite Jewel: 15 power
Total: 63 power

Ascended ring: 50 power + 18 power
Total: 68 power

So, ascended items give 5 increase in a single stat compared to exotic ones.
Let’s move on.

5 extra power per trinket
5 trinket slots
Full ascended trinkets = 25 extra power

Now, in the future when they release ascended armor and weapons.
6 armor slots + a weapon slot
At very least +5 power per item
that’s 35 extra power

So, not counting backpack, full ascended gear it at least 60 extra points per individual non % stat.

Of course this doesn’t take runes/sigils into account, but jewels are equivalent in power to runes/sigils. Armor/weapons aren’t realeased yet either, but it’s an insight on what may be coming.

Hope this helps

3% extra magic find per trinket, a whole 15% magic find with all ascended trinkets. GG.

I want a refund.

I wonder if NSP will ever get tired of spamming with the arrowcarts on the JP arena.
So cheap.

Oh well, time to find a new game. I can always come back if they decide to fix this mess anyways.

I run 20 power, 20 precision with berserker/knight/valkyrie gear and sword does pretty awesome damage.
Keep in mind that sword attacks much faster than GS, that’s why sword attacks do less damage.

You are missing the whole point of the of-hand sword.
Riposte does amazing AoE burst damage when triggered, the clone/block is just a plus. If they don’t attack you you can cancel riposte and turn it into a ranged daze, an INTERRUPTION.
iSwordsman may see bland at first, but it has the lowest recharge rate of any phantasm. it can attack twice in the time iDuelist can attack once. The fact that it dodge after each attack make him very likely to get at least 2 hits before he dies.

Of course pistol is much better against fleeing enemies and paired with a scepter, but in most cases I like sword a lot more.

Don’t use your account password anywhere else (guild forums, fansites, etc).
Be careful with suspicious sites or sites with low protection.
And of course, don’t visit gold seller sites, those are full of malware to steal your account.
If you can do all that you should be relatively safe.

Maybe it will be from the new dungeon on mid november patch.

I want more female largos.
Dem Sayeh al’Rajihd tights.

Engi shield is amazing. So much versatility on only 2 abilities.

A popular theory is that Sylvari are minions of Mordramoth (possible 6th dragon with nature theme, check CoE) and the pale tree was “corrupted” by the ventari table becoming good. With the nightmare court being the true nature of the Sylvari.

I would love a hammer.
I already play melee with the bomb kit so…

Yeah, got the “Alipheese Fateburn” I wanted so bad.
Now to wait for the “Name Change Contract” item to be obtainable.

pistol/shield-bomb/elixir gun engineer.

-Healing turret (also removes conditions)
-Healing mist
-Regenerating mist (also can be comboed with shield 4 for a huge aoe heal)
-Elixir gun AoE healing field (also removes conditions)
-Your main attack(bombs) is a small AoE heal every second.

Not only you have a crapload of heals/regens, but you are also one of the best mitigating damage in the game. A lot of dazes/blinds. Smoke bomb is the best damage mitigation in the game IMO, 5 seconds blind and the AoE is HUGE.
The damage isn’t bad either since with your trait lines you can pick toughness to power and healing power to power.

If you like something more straightforward, a Mesmer with restorative mantras (trait) using mantra of pain, has a huge aoe heal with 4 seconds cast time and no cooldown.
Basically let you spam heals forever. I don’t like that build though and its usefulness is questionable.

I got 10 rares on ONE run of Plinx yesterday, so I doubt it.

Trahearne is the final boss. That’s why they make you hate him.

Never join groups asking for only dps.
Those groups are always full of noobs that can’t stay alive and start graveyard zerging. Same guys that later come to the forums saying that dungeons are too hard.
Groups asking only for warrior/guardians are not different.

Sorrow’s Furnace is pretty great for dungeon runs. I have done over 100 dungeon runs (all with pugs) with no problems at all except for my very first times(hahaha). Specific class lfg are almost non existant. At most “lfm CoE that know how to dodge”, but that’s pretty understandable.

There’s a Quip on my server, so yes, someone has made it.

Lore wise, wait some months/years and you will see why Sylvari are so humanoid.
If all the theories regarding Sylvaris are proven to be true, I ensure you they are by far the most interesting race in the game, much more that typical dryads.

As a Sylvari player I vote for Mordramoth. Vote green!!

“Jotun, mursaat, forgotten, seer, dwarf. Five against six. It seems so unfair. And, yet.. "

Indeed it was unfair; for the 5 dragons. Plant dragon joined forces with the 5 races to defeat the other elder dragons.