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It’s going to be tough to immediately get into raiding from having done only pvp unless you have friends or guildies who can teach you. I’m assuming you aren’t in that situation since you are asking here.
Generally getting into a guild that has a raiding community is a good bet, but it may be hard to get into one with zero ascended gear (though you probably have a couple boxes from pvp? I’ve gotten two and I play only infrequently). Ascended trinkets and weapons are much more important than armor and they’re fairly easy to get. Rings from fotm; accessories from laurels/guild coms + ecto, or fotm if you’re lucky; amulet from laurels/guild coms. Weapons you will have to craft unless you have boxes, but they’re actually pretty cheap (~90g) if you already have 500 crafting (which I’m assuming you don’t). Ascended backpack should be ridiculously easy for you since you play pvp.
Octovine multi-mapping is all the rage and can net ridiculous amounts of gold per hour, easily enough to level your crafting and make ascended weapons within a couple days. It’s not exciting but if you want to get into raids you should at least be moving towards ascended gear and this is the fastest way to do it. While you do octo, you can also periodically check LFG to look for training runs. There are also many guilds that have training runs once or twice a week (check that reddit thread from a while back about directory of guilds that do raid training runs).
Once you actually start raiding you will start to get ascended gear as boss drops or from magnetite, and gearing up characters will become much less difficult. The ascended gear itself isn’t horribly important for actual raids but it does provide an indicator to other players that you are more serious about pve.
The most important thing is to have a good attitude. You know that guy in pvp who rages at his team whenever anything doesn’t go right? Turns out no one want to raid with him either. Stay positive, be willing to learn, and take constructive criticism well. You may have to deal with some people that are jerks but the vast majority of people I have encountered are friendly.
Good luck!
Whats Octovine multi-mapping? (And I also know that annoying pvp rager very well
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I know this is the millionth time that this has been posted, but apparently the devs wont get the message, so there is no point in not trying.
Remember the days when you could run power in pvp or wvw. You could run condi in addition to this as well. Remember when there were not just two viable builds for a class. Remember when all that there was to pvp was perma cc then condi bomb. Remember the talent system before the june 23 update? Well, none of this is around anymore, and pvp is a clusterfuzz of condi and cc. Engis hit like theives but heal like a vanilla bunker guardian. Necros cleave the hell out of everything, while condi bombing with unblockable 900-1200 range aoe. Warrior is spamming primal bursts to light people up in seconds or disintegrating them with condis. I mained, and still main, a power warrior in pvp, and I have drawn myself away from berserker because it is not as fun compared to warrior for me. I cant do ranked because power warrior is not too viable as of now, and whenever I do ranked I always switch to berserker so I am not obsolete. I am forced to yoloq in unranked where I have 3v1ed in some instances, to noobs on the same cookie cutter build. If I see a ranger, they are either a pew pew or bunker druid. Never any diversity. The devs need to stop this bullkitten of narrowing our builds and options.
1. Condi dps should be more like decay them over time, and have a more sustained build, throwing dots everywhere in team fights. Now condi just disintegrates people faster than a full burst thief or warrior. Every season there is a super bunker condi build that annihilates everything and is super tanky.
2. Bring back the old talent system
3. Nerf elite specs to be level with the other talents, only use them for synergy with other traits and a weapon, not just to be viable.
So many people have left the pvp world, it needs something new in it, like 3v3 arenas or 1v1 arenas, and for the love of god let us que outside of the heart of the mists.
That is my spiel, comment all you want. Thanks for reading
So I decided to give GS/Hammer a whirl, but with a berserker variant.
I’ve never used Hammer before, and I’m fairly terrible at it. I’ve been running GS/Rifle all season. Anyway, playing in Diamond, I certainly miss the extra options I have on my rifle, however I can’t complain about Hammer’s ability to shut down Ele’s hard, and pretty much dish out some terrible pain in a team fight. It truly screws with Necro’s too, and under team focus you can pretty much lock someone down. Of course I run signits to boost the crit chance, and have double unblockables to make sure everything hits through all that Aegis/blocks.
Needs a half decent team comp though, as it won’t carry on its own vs various opponents you might face.
It is designed for just big dps, and is a blast in a wvw havoc in a group of these. In a group of 5 wvw players you can cc a zerg down in like 15 seconds.
The only issue with a berserker variant is if you sub out disc for arms you are forced into cleansing ire, wich defeats the ‘you cant get cced aspect of the build.’ I will try some experiments with arms though and see how well they work out for me.
I tried you build and it works well, just a bit too little stability for my liking. I will use it in the future though.
here is another variant of the build for heals and dps and stuns http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAseSnMdAlCideAWhAcighpgCf8II2zPIsbh7ICgWH-TJRAQBopMAAeAAX4EAAw9HAA
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