Guild Wars 2

sevenDEADLY.5281:

Closed when there was still an hour left on the meta timer or closed because the timer reached zero while you were still in the meta? It can close mid meta if you started the meta late, that’s 100% working as intended.

I know how the meta works. The map didn’t close to due failure, it booted us. The Event had about 50 minutes left to go.

> Over an hour into the event, doing the circling part, going great.
> The map shuts down randomally, spreads everyone across different dead instances.
> Over 100 people wasted over an hour of their time on an event that was meant to succeed.

Are you addressing this? This is by far the most frustrating thing that has ever happened to me in this game.

I’ve another question. What about the other items that can be applied to multiple collections and are MUCH harder to get than the mushroom? Will I have to get them multiple times too?

Thanks guys, I hope that for future generations they will let us apply it on our own..

Can you only get one mush per day?

I found an Invisible Mushroom Spore (Treasure Mushroom drop) that I intended to use on my Glint’s Bastion collection, instead it was automatically applied to my Wild Abbadon collection. All my other collections don’t have the mushroom applied to it either.

If you intended us to have to get a new mushroom for each collection, you should have given us the choice of where to apply it, unless I’m missing something and in that case I’d like to know.

Also Logan and Zojja are there and not missing, and Trehearne is still alive and well (sadly).

Great move and a very quick response to the playerbase’s dissatisfaction. You guys do a great job.

I like the maguuma maps, very challenging in both mobility and combat. The masteries are a nice add especially now that they’re going to remove the storyline gate. The elite specs gate are simply a nightmare. Overall 7/10.

This is infuriating. I’m not even mad about how long it takes to get the masteries up, I was prepared for that and believe that it should remain, but full map completion+maguuma PER CHARACTER you want to elite spec? I HAVE SEVEN LV80’S, I also have school, a girlfriend and a social life. Why do I need to repeatedly grind it again and again just to get a traitline? I’ve been playing GW2 for 3 years and I’ve only fully completed the map once on my main because I did not find it enjoyable or entertaining to repeat this content, why am I being forced to spend what seems to be about 30-40hrs per character to get these specs? I sincerely hope that you guys come to your senses and realize that most of your audience is not into that stuff and make a more reasonable way to unlock it.

Chaba.5410:

These full knights builds for WvW with FT/EG/Slick Shoes remind me of my first year of this game when I was trying out different frontline engi builds. Omnomberry Pie please.

This build did not use full knight, but OP is happy to help you reminiscent.

DISCLAIMER: OP knows that he has infact not invented the wheel and many of you have used similar builds during this beta and are planning to use them in the future.

This is the same old FT Juggernaut+HGH build, that is now extremely amplified by the Scrapper traitline, Mass Momentum allows us to stack even more might than before with the FT equipped (about 16 stacks just from sitting idly by with a FT equipped, twice than before) and Adaptive Armor gives us enough sustain to handle most builds I had a chance to come across this beta.

PvP Version :
BUILD

Notes:

• I found that this build works better with a Rifle than a Hammer for the range capabilities and control, you can still use the Hammer (replace Skilled Marksman with No Scope) if you insist.
• While Sneak Gyro is pretty stupid and wanders around like a severely kittened puppy (hopefully it will be fixed soon), it’s toolbelt skill is the absolute best reveal in the game and is extremely mandatory against thieves and mesmers. I strongly recommend not replacing it. The Gyro itself can still be useful for resing allies or retreating.
• Using the Scrapper traitline means giving up the Tools traitline, which means that we have to let go of Streamlined Kits and Adrenal implants, this costs us in alot of mobility and endurance. Bare in mind that Heavy Armor Exploit+Invigorating speed are not enough to compensate for it.
• Slick Shoes are the offensive choice and can be replaced if neccesary by Elixir S for extra sustain and condi removal or Toolkit for the block and magnet.
• This build truly shines at Skyhammer due to it’s perma might and many available CCs, especially when decapping the laser. Use the stability from FT and change rapidly to rifle and use #4 to use it without the self knockback effect. Elixir X is also an option for that map if aiming specifically for decapping the laser.
• Rifle’s autoattack is far superior to that of the Flamethrower’s in most cases. However, since FT’s autoattack is cone shaped AoE and covers alot more ground it can be used against a group of more than 3 enemies, Necromancer with minions, a bulk of mesmer illusions, etc.
• Don’t neglect the Elixir Gun, it is your only reliable condition removal. Use #5 and #3 to support your team and #4 to gtfo when necessary.

WvW Version :
BUILD
-This build fits for anything from small scale roaming to “guild sized” raids (about 20ish), for builds suitable for larger scales I suggest looking for mortar/nades based builds.

Notes:

• I do not recommend replacing the Rifle with a Hammer, the mobility from #5 and long range CC from #2 and #4 are too valuable to forefit. (and I don’t find Hammer #3 as reliable). It can still work for small scale roaming.
• The Mortar Kit is essential for long ranged AoE damage during group battles, if you are doing small scale roaming or soloing you may want to consider taking Stealth Gyro instead.
• It is possible to take more Berserker armor pieces over the Knight ones as long as you can actually survive it. I do not recommend taking anymore Knight pieces than suggested.
• It is possible to replace the Hoelbrak runes with Strength ones if you feel like you can handle losing the 20% condi duration reduction.
• You can replace Elixir S for Toolkit for it’s utilities, you can also take Elixir B for the extra might and swiftness or Elixir U to combine with your Mortar Kit and turn it into a machine gun and the possible reflect.
• This setup has 3 waterfields available for use, that is alot more than most classes bother to carry especially for an offensive build and it can almost rival an elementalist. Be kind enough to use them.

GLHF.

I think the adrenal health thing was intended, but i’ve noticed the burst mastery issue aswell..

I haven’t played in about 6 months, last time I was on pvp was all about hambow and axe/sword bow and WvW I can’t even remember.. what are the current trending builds for WvW roaming/zerging and pvp? also what has changed in the class? thanks.

WHY NOT BOTH? I use Hammer/GS for almost everything.

I’ve played TESO, it’s not nearly as good, smooth or fun as GW2 and the endgame is horrible, and that’s why they’re going halfprice on steam right now.

ok.. and HOW ABOUT NO.

I’ve been told that there has been a thread about this subject already and it’s been ignored by the Devs, so I’d like to renew the discussion.

Why is Charged Crystal production still limited to one per day? It would take 30 days for someone to craft a full exotic set. 30 WHOLE DAYS, assuming you can log in every day. Celestial is just another type of stat now and I see absolutely no reason why should Celestial users be punished like that over the other ones. Please fix that.

Would make creating new characters a bit too easy.. They were already trying to make you spend more SPs by making traits cost them.

Because the amount of BT players including myself who are english speakers outnumbers by far the polish speakers. BT should remain an english speaking server, you could ask for a [PL] server if you wish.

IvanTheGrey.2941:

Try to save your karma, as it’s harder to come by these days, and you may want to make a legendary in the future. Same w/ WvW tokens for “Gift of Battle” (also used in Legendary weapon forging), but you can get a discount on your trinkets using them.

Both Karma and badges are very easy to come by to a point where I make about 200k karma a week from WvW and casual PvE, and I don’t think that making a legendary is very relevant atm to a casual player who just hit 80.

Personally, I play with half berserk/knight armor and knight trinkets with strength runes, this works for me on both PvE and WvW as I serve the same role in both (mightstack), It also works fine for solo play though I’d recommend Hoelbrak runes as they’re cheaper and make you a bit tankier. Don’t worry about Ascended gear yet, the difference between Asc and Exotic is hardly noticable.

I’ve given it some thought and given that warriors can only apply one type of combo field with a single skill and that arcing slice is absolutely useless right now that it makes sense that AS would be a some sort of small radius combo field but absolutely not Smoke. Maybe Lightning?

Was aiming for a “prince of darkness” look, I’m skeptic about the gauntlets and pauldrons, maybe the breastplate. What do you think?

http://s9.postimg.org/4pbnus42n/dawn.png

http://s9.postimg.org/sucdchod9/dawn2.png

Head: Glowing Crimson Mask
Pauldrons: Inquest
Breastplate: Inquest
Gauntlets: Dark Templar
Leggings: Grasping Dead
Boots: Primal

bigmonto.4215:

Given how many conditional users there are these days, going any types of power build is not a good idea unless you are just that good (which you won’t be asking this question) or like to run a lot.

The most popular WvW builds right now are GS/SW-WH and Hambow and both of them are power builds.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJARTjMdU2ZhHudwJaAmgCZnPBHjgAQdVMFLBA-w
Zerk/Knight on all gear. It’s very similar to what the others have posted and I’ve been using it for a long time now. Very solid for all purposes.

Though it would be nice to stare at thieves and mesmers trying to seek me out from stealth mode, I’m afraid that this would bring (justifiedly?) a rain of nerf whiners upon us.

I run exactly half Knight/Zerk on all my gear, hoelbrak runes (may end up switching to strength runes), GS+ either hammer or LB depends on my mood and group. Just like you I recently came back from a break, this mixture is still a solid choice

Cygnus.6903:

Segev.4108:

It’s a Burst based build………(Using Power/Vit/Tough gear)

That does not work.

What set would you use then?

Ok, so I’m going to start again on my warrior after being inactive for a good few months, last I’ve been active was around the time that Cleansing Ire was first introduced and Ascended weapons came out (summer 13’?) and I wanted to know what has generally changed in the game and specifically for our class. What skills and traits are good now? What builds are people mainly using? I’ve seen that new traits came out.. are they any good?

My main worry is my build. I love WvW and this is my main activity, my build used to be a beast and I wonder if it’s still valid. It’s a Burst based build that revolves around mobility and mobbing like a motherkittener while removing conditions with fair ease (are conditions still the metagame?).
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJARTjMdU2ZhHudwJaAmgCZnPBHjgAQdVMFLBA-w
(Using Power/Vit/Tough gear).

Thanks ahead

Unlike in WoW race doesn’t really matter in terms of gameplay, so pick whatever you find fit. Many people go for Asura because their racial background fits the class and being small has it’s obvious perks in competitive gameplay.

My advice – Engineer is a pretty difficult job to control so settle well in PvE, complete events and renown hearts and learn how to control all your skills and kits, find out what you like the most and go with that.

I like vulnerability for the overall damage of my zerg, this is WvW after all and I’m using a high crit rate set anyway.

For the build; first of all, I really don’t get along with healing turrent, despite all the regeneration (LOVE the toolbelt skill) it just gets wrecked way too fast to be combat effective at WvW. I love Tool kit but to be honest I don’t think I’m good enough at this class yet to control 2 kits and a weapon set, which makes me want to withdraw to a simple HGH grenade condition build for now.

@Sagramor
This is a build based on Koroshi’s with a few changes
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-V;4cPVg0263UFx0;9;4T9-J947A4;308-5;0TJ;4NX8aNX8aQ-ki-M;4Vb-gWlXpYw3159eWPc5e0;9;9;6FFFFFF;9;9;7V6s5i

Still not very sure about the P/S and I’ll have to see how TK and healing turrent work (never have tried them before), but the build seems to have a problem with cleansing massive conditions especially when mobile/on the run.

What do you think?

@Sagramor, if you mean this build:http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83126-koroshis-engineer-build-confusion-all-the-way/

I agree about bomb kit and can’t see myself using it. Tool kit is a good idea especially for WvW (pulling ranged people down from their tower) but I don’t understand why elixir gun and grenades don’t work together (even the guide says it could). I also think that rifle is a better option for grenades despite not being a condition weapon because of the 10/8sec cooldown immobilize and the AoE ground shot for the extra mobility.

@Bloodgruve, I play FoW, small group skirmishing is most of what we got. I rarely see big zerg fights unless its a weekend and a very busy hour. So I guess it’s alright

for the record, I do have enough funds for another exotic sets and was intending to buy a sentinel and some sort of power sets anyway.

Hi, I’m fairly new to engi and mildly confused by it’s mechanics. I’m looking for a WvW build that focuses as heavily as possible on condition damage anr revolves around grenade kit and maybe the healing support of the elixir gun. I intend to use a precision/toughness/condition armor, not quite sure about runes, sigils and accessories yet. I’m open for all other suggestions and tips, help me out.

Endure pain is not very useful for most aspects of pve I can think of and you’re using soldier runes without a single shout in your build is what I meant, even if you want a defensive set of runes you should have gone for dolyak or something.

Also, you don’t really need vitality for pve.. I use a few armor pieces of power/tou/vit and the rest is berserk including trinkets and lyssa runes. It’s more than enough to survive pretty much anything.

No offense or anything but it looks like you just clicked a some sort of “Randomize Build” button and posted it. Either that or I’m really not getting what you’re trying to do here. Anyway, from what I can see this build is way too defensive for a pve build, if you don’t like the traditional GS build I suggest going for an adrenaline axe/? build with a longbow as a secondary weapon.

Depends on the situation. If its just you against a single target then rifle takes the cake, its what rifles do best. If youre in a dungeon with another 4 people fighting against a boss then you’re better off with the longbow for the area might and combo field.

Warrior – high dps in terms of raw damage, potentially the best mobilty in the game, lots of party buffs like banners and healing shouts, very useful for pve puposes, longbow is like a nuclear bomb firing rocket launcher against wvw zergs.

However.. low sustain, kind of squishy considering the heavy armor, have a big problem with certain conditions like blind and torment (now less with the new berserker stance), generally bad pvp performance, lots of bugged or broken skills that could otherwise be extremely useful like bulls charge and rush.

I don’t know much about guardians, but they seem very formidable and party supportive especially when it comes to keeping everyone alive, however kind of slow.

Crafting is very dull to me.. though I want to level up fast, I don’t want to power level myself in a sickening way. The WvW idea is awesome though, one of the reason I want a Necro in the first place is the huge zerg nuking, inspired by my warrior’s longbow.

I’m going to start a Necromancer for more pvpish purposes as a secondary character to my main warrior which will remain for dungeons and world bosses, so I need the most braindead, overused PvE build there is for this class after the recent buff. Not because I’m a dummy but because I need to level my new Necro as fast as possible. I sadly do not have time to “smell the flowers” due to my military duties and don’t have the time to enjoy the whole leveling experience again. I’d also like some tips on the class especially on how and when to use death shroud which is entirely different from my previous combat mechanism.

Thanks ahead.

Apparently warriors lack mobility now.

Overly attached disciples.

Sylvari skills:
Summon sylvan hound – pretty much the same only with bleeds and poisons instead of chill and burn.
Summon druid – an oakheart that applies regen to allies and takes away conditions. Also immobilizes and AoE enemies. Lasts for 60 seconds. Would be the most viable option if it wasnt for the enormous countdown, till more viable than the others.
Take root – Immobilizes you for a few secs and spawns 5 turrents.. kind of nice for pve sometimes, cant really see how it fits anywhere else

I use midnight fire as the main color, wrath for the chainmail and redemption for the decorations on most of my warrior’s heavy armors.

zeromius.1604:

Akragth.2350:

Same on SOS, at Jormag too.

I wonder what people will call the Claw of Jormag when the real Jormag is in the game.

Claw.

There should be a trait (adept or master) that removes blind and torment when dodging on a 25~ sec cooldown, purity in unnecessary. And an arms master trait that yields 7-10 seconds or so of fury upon using a burst skill on a 20 secs cooldown.

How do you even scam in a game with no p2p trading system.. did he promise to do something in exchange for you mailing him an item or coin?

Dude.. that leap into the bridge should give you an “Alex Mercer” title.

It could be awesome if warriors carried their banners on their backs though.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlTOfl9F2w

specially made for asura.