Guild Wars 2

Any advice people can offer would be much appreciated. XD

I’m primarily a PvE player – I honestly don’t care too much about PvP or WvW, so building for those is not too important to me. What I DO want to do is create a durable Revenant for PvE, one I can run in HoT areas without feeling like every random enemy is going to squish me. (My main character, a Zerker Elementalist, is… not exactly super-durable.)

I haven’t unlocked Herald – character’s still pretty new – but plan to do so in the nearish future.

With that in mind, does anyone have some advice on gear? I’m currently thinking about:

Armor: Sentinel gear (Vit/Pow/Tough), with Runes of Exuberance (+Vit, Convert Vit to Pow/Heal/Pre)
Accessories: Laurel-vendor stuff, maybe with Soldier (Pow/Vit/Tough) traits. Either that or back to Sentinel.
Weapons: Hammer and Sword/Shield. Not sure which will be my main.

Stances will probably be Shiro and Glint (once unlocked).

Does this seem likely to work for what I’m trying to do, or…?

As a moderately serious player, I’d just like to offer some suggestions on features and changes that would be most useful for me.

Achievements: I’m pleased to report that some achievement descriptions are very good. For example, the “Crusader’s Pack” achievement has hints for where each item can be found. That’s GOOD. Unfortunately, not every achievement has these hints, and I wish they would – when I’m trying to fill out, say, the Brewmaster achievement, it would be nice to know where I could find the components.

In other cases, the hints are nonfunctional. For example, in the Luminescent Headgear achievement, several of the parts say to double-click in order to locate them – but when I do that, nothing happens. Basically, the achievement system feels only partially done. More hints would be nice.

(Oh, and a small bug report – Master of Om’s text doesn’t show up in the categories menu of competitive achievements.)

Boss Timers: Currently, I use a website to check on when World Bosses are taking place. However, it would be nice to do this without having to exit the game – an optional alert box (similar to Daily Achievements, except slowly scrolling through when World Bosses are typically scheduled to appear) would be quite helpful for when I’m trying to match things up. It also lets me spend more time in the game, and less time focused on things outside of the game (leaving me vulnerable to monsters, etc.).

I would definitely want this to be toggle-able somehow, so it wouldn’t be filling up the screen when people didn’t want to use it.

Account-wide Harvesting Tools: As with many players, I’ve purchased endless harvesting tools. Of course, they can only be used with one character at a time… so if I want to switch characters, I have to mess around with my bank and whatnot to transfer items (and my Salvage-o-Matic when I’m crafting and such…). This is inconvenient, and I would find it very helpful if the harvesting tool slots could be account-wide so I could spend more time DOING things, and less time shuffling stuff around.

Thank you for listening, and I hope you take these suggestions into consideration when programming time permits.