Guild Wars 2

Ilithis Mithilander.3265:

It’s not random :p The local.dat file is located in your ‘my document’s’ in a folder named Guild Wars 2. It holds all of your current settings and resets everything back to default (settings-wise). Sometimes this file gets bloated or corrupted and just needs to be refreshed by deleting it and when you launch the GW2 launcher, it recreates the file.

Ah okay thank you I will give it a try

Thanks for the advice but what is the local.dat? I’m a bit wary about deleting random files.

Hi, not sure if this is a bug or not but everytime I play my warrior my game crashes and I get corrupted files and need to keep running repair. It is only when I log on my warrior it happens.

I have happily levelled my guardian and elementalist with no issues what so ever.

I must have repaired these “files” about 20 times and it all just seems to be on my warrior even though I play my elementalist the most.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

My thief is the same. I am starting to think I am doing something wrong too as I see other thiefs pulling a group of 4 things and nothing being able to even dent their HP

My elementalist seems to take more damage than my thief can

Shimond.2478:

As to whether you like the class or not, nobody can tell you that. You’ll have to start one and see.

This. I have now tried every class in the game so far (ele being the last one) and I am now wishing I just rolled one to begin with. For me so far the profession is just so much fun and kicks out some very nice condition damage. Which is what I was looking for in a class.

My friend now owns guild wars, I built the ele up alot and he tried it and well … hated it. His main is now a guardian.

No one can say what you will like because every class and even weapon skills make you play differently. You need to try them for yourself and see what one “clicks” for you.

Yes, that has given me some much needed advice and helped me alot. Thank you

Hi all, I have been around these forums trying to get help with some classes that I enjoy and one that I wish I had been playing from the start is my elementalist.

I have been looking for builds around the net and it seems that D/D is the way to go for the best mobility. and I will probably use those weapons but I notice that as I am leveling I get absolutely creamed if something just lays it’s finger on me.

So from this I have decided that I want a kinda tanky build that is still capable of doing some nice damage and came up with this:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mzbzz9Mz0ooLvMooLvoG0xG0mVcabcs

I am wanting advice on if this build will actually achieve what I want.

I want to do:

Good skill damage (not glass cannon like damage).
Some nice DoT damage (same as above).
Be able to take some hits.

That is all I really want for my elementalist.

Any help and advise is appreciated.

Thank you.

edit sorry just realised that I never had Cantrips active in that build please asume that they are in place of “glyph of elemental power”.

Hi all just wanting to ask if dual axe can perform well in WvW?

Me and a friend are levelling together with a focus on PvP at the end and WvW is great and I will be doing alot of that. I currently LOVE dual axes and just wondering if this build will be viable:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mVRzzm9coRogmoRogmxpf9MMRmcVM

Maybe could even change Turtle’s Defence in the defence traits for Cull the Weak.

Any advice or discussion is helpful

Hi all just a small update. Trying out my necro again with sceptre and dagger OH and I am soloing champions etc. Perfect recommendation. Thank you for all the help

Hi all, got the game for Christmas and am completely new to guild wars. Must say I am loving the game so far except for one thing.

I find myself character hoping ALOT, I simply cannot find a profession that really excites me yet.

So far I have tried every profession and quickly change because there is something I don’t like about them. I want to level and focus on WvW (hense why I posted in this section).

But anyway on point, what I am really asking is if anyone can advise me on a class that would closest match these criteria?

- Condition damage based.
- Can take a bit of damage and not just get one shotted by everything.
- Ranged class.
- Not have alot of AoE that I would need to activate then aim at the ground (more bounce attacks or cone based attacks would be fantastic).
- Not have pets.

So far the professions that appealed to me most have been:

Ranger, Engineer, Necromancer, Thief and Mesmer

I prefer the ranger most of all because of the shortbow but I really hate the pets that I need to use.

Engineer would so far be my perfect class with the dual pistols but the whole thing where I need to throw elixirs at the ground to buff things etc is just not for me. That bored the hell out of me doing that.

I am still leaning towards the engineer at this point but I want to know if anyone out there can help me. Is there a build for an engineer that doesn’t need to throw all those elixirs around?

Thank you for your help.