Guild Wars 2

i actually got someone who was playing a condi guard once

If you’re looking for ghetto alternative, Flame Legion, has some crappy effects on it, but it’s a super cheap way to get +Power and +% Damage (Since you’ll almost always be running with a guard)

If you want a real meta build though, you gotta pay for it, no way around it.

NA here, but my times are a bit random sometimes

Prefer to run Warr Axe/Sword;Longbow, I could do Ham;Scepter/Focus guard but I’m not very good at guard

Level 50 fractal, get inquest fractal

guy picks up a cooling rod

“What’s this for?”

it’s a suppository dude

Updating this a bit since it didn’t work so well the first time, too many words and made me sound meaner than I really am.

bad language (most four letter words) gets filtered to “kitten”

So I’ve been gone from the game for quite a while, all my friends and guilds are long since gone.

Server: Yak’s Bend
Interested: Fractals, Dungeons, World Boss Raids, Casual/Semi-Casual
NOT Interested: PvP, excessive WvW, RPing, Speedrun only
AP: 5k (I’ve taken long breaks and don’t care much for achieves)
AR: 80~90 Guard/Warr, ~65 Necro/Ele
PR: 50
Representation: 100%
Timezone: EST
VOIP: Will use any, but prefer music unless doing something important / guild event
Titles: The Blazing Light, The Sunbringer, Journeyman Toymaker, Master Crafter

I don’t mind casual runs at all and I don’t mind running with people playing non-meta characters, not looking for a super serious speedrun guild though, so spare me the tryouts please.

I’m cool with bad language and use a moderate amount of it in my normal speech.

I’m cool all types of people as long as you’re not a kittening rager or something.

if you want to be super lazy and run your wvw/pvp set in pve too, go with what ednaralva said about the axe stuff

as long as you’re not joining any speed runs, most people won’t even notice your trait build is non-ideal for pve

in horrik phase, everyone stand in a different corner of the room, one person in the middle

don’t leave your spot and just dodge slightly out of the circles to avoid, returning to spot when possible

if you run around randomly the AoE pattern superimposes and becomes more difficult

tl;dr:
Warrior looking for:

• Lots of fractals.
• Daily 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, and 40-49.
• Big and active guild

Warrior not looking for:

• RP
• PVP
• Small family guilds
• Uber hardcore min/max speed runs

long version:

I’m an American, currently playing on EU server, but all my friends have left.
I’d rather stay on EU servers, but wouldn’t mind NA either. Will transfer anywhere.
My work schedule is very erratic, but I always tend to work weekends.

Looking for a large guild to run fractals with, some dungeons as well. I’ve always been on smaller servers so WvW has always bored me, and I have no real interest in PvP. Mostly interested in fractals.

Frac level 50
Main full zerk axe/sword warr 66002, and run this char in pretty much everything (switch to soldier’s where appropriate)
I also have a Necromancer and Guardians which I rarely play, but can play okay. (I also have an ele which I never touch because I’m terrible at it)
have ts3, skype, vent, whatever the hell you use

I run meta builds, but I’m from EU servers, so I’m not terribly hardcore/speed runner, as I usually play with people who don’t speak english anyway. I would expect fractal guild to be able to complete any fractal/boss, regardless of whether you always roll swamp and end up fighting jade maw.

So I don’t give a kitten what you play as long as it gets the job done. If it doesn’t get the job done, we might have problems, but if you can run 49 Mai Trin on a necro, more power to you imo.

Not really interested in hardcore speed runs and trialing for guilds, because kitten that, but please no nomad hammer shout warrior pve guilds, because kitten that too.

I enjoy the company of women, drinking moderately to heavily, ford trucks, classic country music and metal, and cats, not dogs.

Please take care of me senpai.

if you are planning on running it regardless, i believe it does cleave unlike other melee adrenaline attacks

I was on a break from the game whenever this was implemented as a story quest, but I read the text from it, and it’s obviously something weird that happened on a convergence of the ley lines

is the anomaly itself at all significant to anything else in the game or referenced anywhere else?

(it’s just kind of a weird and creepy boss, so you know)

it’s more for pvp/wvw

4 sec immobilize and 8 stacks of bleed can be nasty kitten to someone not prepared to deal with it, the damage is respectable for what it is in that context, because ideally the target is held there for the duration of it, whereas you’re going to be lucky to connect a lot of auto-attacks

if you want to use sword in pve, i’d use it offhand with an axe main hand. Rip is pretty powerful, and the block is always useful, and it counts toward dual wielding trait unlike shield

Final Thrust isn’t bad for pve, but i’d run it as an alt weapon with GS main if you wanted it for that + movement from #2. HB + FT would kill about any normal mob

the bonus actually applies to the F1 attack, making it so builds that use the F1 skill will take it too

15% damage on something like eviscerate is not trivial

axe and rifle builds using adrenaline would want to take it (maybe sword too, not sure how sword works, don’t often use it MH)
hammer, mace, and bow would typically not take it due to their adrenaline skills being utility/CC
gs is really just kind of meh regardless of the trait or not

wintersday jump puzzle fractal

Ayrilana.1396:

I lagged so badly that I spontaneously died and everyone on the map left me all alone…

i’ve got one too, everyone abandoned my frac and

[9:26 pm] No one hears you.

…

i was in the middle of a frac, started lagging before my party, couldn’t see chat, was getting errors, they all quit and think i’m bad now

i hope the lag gets them too

i’d just point out that warriors would do well in celestial BUT NOT IN PVE

pve warr should never touch anything besides zerker’s, there’s just no reason at all for it (other than backup soldier’s for dragons)

they have some of the highest natural survivability of any class, making the toughness and vitality redundant, and healing power on a warr requires one of two very specific builds (shout or banner) both of which are totally outclassed by having an ele or guard support, and warr condition in pve is just kind of bad

that would actually be cool, maybe then i’d have something other than a bunch of chests of healer gear sitting in my storage

The NPCs go on about all this stuff about what sylvari are and are not like, kind of ignoring the fact that there’s one standing right next to them.

Also annoyed about the ending where you have to schedule an audience with the pale tree. “I don’t think your reputation will be enough” or something like that.
Actually, I think it would be, considering the player character is pretty much the champion of the grove who was entrusted with one of the most difficult wyld hunts ever. I mean, you’re like her #3 buddy after traehearne and caithe, and resident expert on dragon killing.

And when you’re all like “Oh my god it’s full of stars” no one really cares that you are essentially Scarlet 2.0

I know they’re just writing one-size-fits-all quests for the most part, but sometimes it’s kind of silly.

Why’s everything always got to be human pov?

i think in theory yes, but in practice, you almost always hit a kittening cultist or something

but the seals are still pretty easy to hit

Any food I eat with it running just has normal time left.

I think relogging, server reset, or switching foods while under metabolic effect is what triggers it.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na/wvw

not that this has any bearing on how good they are, but aspenwood and sea of sorrows are both tier 2, but stormbluff is tier 4

(though they’re all quite a bit better than ferguson’s crossing!)

usually the bigger servers are the better wvw servers, so they’re likely to be better at pve (though less relevant with megaservers) and less likely to be rp servers because rp players don’t wvw and if they do are not good at it

one of the recent dry top quests actually mentions scarlet coming out to look for meals i think

ability to choose an instability in order to increase rewards and additional achievements a la liadri imo

it’s not changed that much, i did one earlier, i missed twice, once on the legs and once on the chest (someone else in my party had a hell of a time with the chest, but if you sidestep into the fire it’s not a big deal and i think they were just stupid)

someone actually missed the final seal, but it was the same person and they were having as much trouble hitting the enemy as the seals, so yeah

but those were the only misses i really noticed

all in all, the angle thing is really not a big deal, you may notice a miss here and there, but it really doesn’t change much in the way of strategy imo

golem is used pretty much always in uncategorized fractal

100b crit is going to shine most in pve, you could run it pvp/wvw, but as you mentioned, there are just better builds out there for both of those

I got one of these the other day, decided to try it out

now… “ANY food eaten while the primer is active will have the SAME DURATION AS THE TIME REMAINING ON THE PRIMER. Does not stack.”

so yeah, I go to fight a boss I can’t crit, so I switch to sustain food instead of crit food, and it just stops working and anything i eat after the first food is only 30 mins

is it supposed to only just work for the first food you eat?

i was under the impression by “any food eaten” if i eat one with 12 hrs on primer, it’s for twelve hours, but if i go do teq or something, and switch my food with 9 hours left on the primer, the new food will have 9 hrs remaining

am i bugged or is this how it’s supposed to work?

you’re pretty much set up full eviscerate, the 5% off of dual wielding may be more useful than the 10% off the gs damage since you’re using your gs as an attrition/movement weap and switching to axe for burst

i know the 10% gs is technically more dps on immobile target, but dual wielding may be more dps in practice, dunno for sure tho

when two sylvari both say the same thing at the same time

they knock on each other

Seraphina.6859:

The face of your sylvari is so beautiful Sera!

thanks sera! x)

these people just do not understand the fight, do not want to understand the fight

pugged it today “why are you not res’ing the downed?!”
because you’re just feeding her, seriously, it’s a level 19 fractal and you all are getting OHKO’d every time mai looks at you wrong, and if i focus on res’ing the downed, that’s pretty much all i’m going to be doing the entire fight

i did mai 49 pug 25 mins, did mai in a 19 pug and it was like 1 hr +

change your build, change your skills, learn the tells

hm, maybe it’s just psychological that i die more then

should count my deaths both ways, i suppose, and see if it really does matter before anything

your auto attack almost does more damage

i mean, if you really want to make use of adrenaline actively, you could maybe try eviscerate, but every time you do it is one less time you could swap to bow and throw a fire field, so yeah

What’s the best possible DPS build to run dual-weild that includes adrenal health?

0/6/4/4/0 empower allies?

6/0/6/0/3 ps?

6/5/3/0/0 ?

i always play very early morning and have to pug stuff with two staff zerk eles, condi damage guard, and bearbow necro, and i’m really just not a good enough player to run ideal meta zerk build 66002 without eating the floor all the time

so what’s the best i can pull while keeping adrenal health?

“He nomad”

lol!

- no
- no?
- no??
- not really?
- maybe?

i’m typically running 6 in arms, yeah

started using axe/sword because i was getting cheesed off about the poor control on the mace 5 and alting mace/horn or longbow depending on frac, learning to use the block is not a bad thing

i think he’s insinuating that warriors who can’t be kittened to spend 5 seconds telling someone what they’re running are not interested in contributing to the party as a whole

please don’t run a ‘tank’ build in fractals, there’s almost no reason for it, some arguments can be made for soldier’s in some cases, but soldier’s is as tanky as a warr should go

if you’re set on the idea of it though, i’d maybe do like soldier’s gear, Axe/Sword, 2/6/6/0/0 and utility slot Endure Pain and run Mango Pie food

that’s maybe the best you’re going to do for a “tank” build without getting auto-kicked for being basically AFK, but that’s grotesque overkill for pretty much all game content

Purple Miku.7032:

I have this problem often. It’s either when I’m trying to LOS mobs around an object and my tab targeting is glitched and won’t target the mob that I’m trying to, or when I’m kiting something and trying to use tremor at the same time. It won’t work.

yeah, i notice it a lot while kiting

what’s “better” to run OH then (do a lot of fracs) assuming I don’t need the block from shield/sword, would i be looking at warhorn? (i’m assuming axe 5 is still a dps loss over AA?) warhorn would lose 5% from dual wield, guess sword for the block is good enough

been almost a year, redesigned my char in the time since then

prefer a more understated plate mail type look

hm, okay, i wasn’t sure really what qualified as a “large” elevation

i always run EA and attribute the lack of response to inability to actually read what i’m saying

love me some stances in all content, other than that for pve, barring special situations where bola/kick is needed, FGJ and one banner in addition to the situationally relevant stance (usually endure pain or stability)

tend not to trait any of it though, if anything, trait the stances imo

about half the time i use the mace 5 skill in combat it does pretty much absolutely nothing except trigger the full cooldown

anyone know what is causing this? is it elevation issues / target issues / mob soaking it up / ?

yeah, me too :[

guess my last post was too long for people to read

if you’re pugging it, just have someone stand at range and focus on tanking her pulls, that pretty much removes the OHKO mechanic and lets the other four people bumble around until her shield falls

also spam minions and clones to soak up a lot of the projectiles

some guy in my guild is crafting an ascended set