Guild Wars 2

So I decided to give thief a go.

The problem is I know next to nothing about the best way to build it for leveling.

It seems all the useful information, even general info that isn’t just for leveling, is at least a couple months out of date.

Any ideas on the best build to run for leveling?

I don’t want something boring though. I want something to keep me interested all the way to level 80 and beyond.

I found this build , but it seems to be just boring death blossom spam. Any other ideas? Thanks!

That is it though. The only two sigils I have, period, are sigil of strength and sigil of bloodlust.

Heck, even when I have my sword equipped in my mainhand with no other weapons equipped at all it generates no might in main hand. I move it to my off-hand and it generated might then.

EDIT: Ok this is what I had to do. I reversed the order and put sigil of bloodlust on mainhand instead of offhand, and then put sigil of strength on off hand. Works perfectly fine now.. though that must be a bug.

Ok, I tested more.

When the item with sigil of strength is in my main hand, no might generated. It only generates might when the weapon with the sigil is in my off-hand.

Is this somethign new?

So I have this strange issue, unsure if it is a bug or not.

I run sword/sword and sword/focus.

On sword/sword using sigil of strength, I gain might stacks without issue.

On sword/sword using sigil of strength on sword and sigil of bloodlust on focus, I gain no might stacks at all from the sigil of strength. I gain the bloodlust stacks without issue.

Is this normal, or am I missing something? I see many builds of people having their sigils set up this way.

Can you only activate one sigil at a time, regardless of what type of sigil it is?

While this hasn’t happened to me, I have noticed a large amount of people complaining about it in map chat during these events.

I forgot about how the party disbands when the leader leaves the party. I wish they would make it to be more like WoW in that regard, in which the leader role is just handed to another party member when the leader leaves. I am very surprised the game has been out so long and this fix hasn’t been done yet.

I am in a fairly large and friendly guild. It is just the guild at the time of me running fractals were more into going afk for an hour or more in Lorimar’s Pass, wating for the event, than running any dungeons.

I did Fractals for the first time ever today, twice. Started at level 1 of course.

Each time I was kicked from group seconds after boss kill. Didn’t even have time to loot before I was staring at the Lion’s Arch loading screen.

I have heard the horror stories of the rampant kicking of players, but I didn’t think it was this bad.

I know two isn’t a lot, but it is still startling to me that I have a 100% kick rate on Fractals.

Before anyone asks, I was not doing poorly. I went into downed state less than the majority of the group. There was no indication that the parties thought I was doing poorly. We never even wiped once on either run.

I certainly hope there are plans in the works to combat this random kicking people from group.

I would like to join.

Name: Faith Crane
Server: Kaineng(NA)
Playstyle: A little of everything, it depends on my mood.
Role: Scholar
Playtime: Usually afternoons and evenings during the weekedays. Any time of the day during weekends.

The link is valid, the forums just don’t like it.

Copy and paste it into your address bar.

Between my focus and the superior rune of the centaur x6 bonus, I basically have perma +33% movement speed on my mesmer. Add blink in there and my mobility is better than any other character I have.

In WvW I have to hold back or I will leave my guild’s zerg behind.

TLDR: What mesmer speed issues?

Sounds like you have a CRT monitor and you set the refresh rate higher than the monitor supports.

Doing what nate suggested should work, as that file contains the game settings I believe.

Reinstalling the game wouldn’t have resolved this, as uninstalling does not touch the files in your documents folder. This is so you will have the same settings the next time you install the game. Normally is is a convenience, but in this case it is a hinderance.

Is your computer wireless to the router/modem?

If it is wireless, you may be looking at interference and may have to experiment with changing the wireless channel on the router/modem.

If you have a smartphone you can get a wifi analyzer app to scan the channels and find the one with the least amount of interference.

If you have both a modem and a router setup, then you will want to try bypassing your router and connect straight to the modem, see if that makes any difference.

It could also be a problem with your computer, such as the network cable being loose in the port, a faulty NIC, or a software issue.

I make this look good.

I can believe him getting 35-45 fps on lowest settings with that setup. No was is he running at decent settings though.

I have a $1400 setup that is much better than his. Max settings I run at 60 fps with vsync enabled.

BCDragon, don’t get snippy because we say you paid too much. You did pay too much. $2200 should have gotten you a MUCH better computer. Instead of 35-45 fps on lowest settings, you could be getting 60 fps with vsync enabled on highest settings and been able to play the latest games at highest settings.

He also likes to mislead the opposing team into getting slaughtered by his guild.

You have to disable ambient occlusion through the driver settings. This resolved it for me.

Was your gear good for your level? Was his?

Sisho.5431:

People on other servers can NOT see what you are saying in /say chat. They cannot see ANYTHING you say short of coming onto your server. The only possible way to communicate with invaders/defenders is through emotes, which is shows still in the chat.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/5136/TwDhS.jpg

Say that again?

So let me get this straight, ark is allowed to do all the cross-realming he wants because he doesn’t consider us a threat; but you are also saying Ruin doesn’t cross-realm. Great logic.

Just say it straight out. Ruin will do whatever they can to get an advantage, no matter how large of an advantage they already have. They don’t care about fair play. They will do it as long as A-net lets them. They are an amoral machine. Say what you want about your “rules” but if the guild leader ignores them they may as well not exist. Saying that it doesn’t count because it is Ark is laughable. The guild leader is the most important member of a guild, in that whatever they do means the guild as a whole should be held accountable.

Even if he is just there to advertise, it has more effect than that. His mere presence makes people not want to post anything about strategy in chat. Because, let’s face it, if someone posted that they were going to take a supply camp do you really think Archaos will be able to keep his mouth shut in TS?

maximumpanda.5178:

Gentso.1852:

Another big problem is that ET has people transferring to other servers for information. Proof:

http://i.imgur.com/X6WXb.jpg

while i’ve got no clue what arch is doing over there (FYI hes our guild leader) i feel its neccessary to point out that hes not attempting to do anyting, and spying is kinda stupid when your wearing the most represented guild tag in the game dont ya think… given what is going on in the background.. it looks like he may be taking screenshots

He is entering OUR WvW to actively recruit. Something you said your guild doesn’t do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/This-is-what-happens-when-surprise-FREE-TRANSFERS/first#post144088

The screenshot shows it all. If he is your guild leader, this pretty much is official confirmation from your guild that you do exactly what you said you don’t. Entering our WvW queue. You said before this is against your rules and you kick people from the guild for doing it. Good luck with that.

maximumpanda.5178:

Sky.9347:

Small changes can have big impacts if designed correctly.

I think W3 needs a half dozen or fewer well designed small changes. Maybe one or two at a time for the next 2-4 weeks.

But I HOPE they at least talk to us soon about what they are thinking.

hopefully. also remember we still aren’t out of the WvW test period. until we have 2 week long battles, everything is still up in the air

Have they made a single change during these tests that make you think they will ever make changes? Maybe they did and I missed them. All I am seeing at this point is that they will need to make changes based purely off the fact the majority of servers are being stomped into the ground without any chance to fight back.

I would at least like A-net to make some sort of comment on the current state of W3, I got infracted for saying they must not care.. but I am seeing no evidence to the contrary. It has been nearly three days of the majority of the servers getting utterly destroyed. Surely there is a call for some sort of response.

A simple, “We are aware.” would be better than complete silence. Silence means we are able to just assume the worst.

I am expecting the next rankings to show a few really high scores for servers, with the rest being 1/3 or 1/4 the others. Something like:

1. 800k
2. 750k
3. 725k
4. 700k
5. 675k
6. 200k
7. 180k
Ect..

You get the picture.

I don’t think it is possible to have close matches these days. If one person starts winning it is an exponential increase due to the compounding rewards the winning server gets.

I don’t care if you just put three sentences in chat to recruit. You know who else puts three sentences in chat? Gold sellers.

Stay on your own server or post in the guild recruitment forum. It is there for a reason.

So it is clear, I also have a problem with the other servers doing it. Any guild that does this is being anti-competitive and should be disciplined. You just so happen to be here to post to.

I haven’t seen any fly hacks here on IoJ. I haven’t personally seen SoS do it either, but that is probably because you guys are smashing their faces into the dirt as well and I haven’t been able to catch a glimpse of a single SoS player all week.

I can see the temptation to hack/exploit in this situation though. If I didn’t have morals or common sense I would probably do it too.

Also as for you saying that you “diplomatic” missions are not exploits. Tomato, Tomahto. Yes, transferring to another server is not an exploit. Recruiting on your own server is not an exploit. When you are sending people to other servers to explicitly recruit people who can put up a fight against you, that is the line that you crossed.

If this were real life and you were running a company, you would be investigated for anti-competitive acts. Something that is flat out illegal. Be glad this is just a game and you can instead get your rocks off from ruining the enjoyment of others.

You are saying it is exploiting to build trebs on a cliff that only we can get to, when you could build siege to destroy it? I know what cliff you are referring to. I helped build a treb on the IoJ version of the cliff. It is a long walk, and took us half an hour to build one Treb due to no supply. Didn’t take long to be destroyed.

Also to say that we will be banned for it for exploiting, when the largest WvW servers are exploiting free server transfers to do the opposite of what A-net has stated they want, is hypocritical.

I think there is a clear line here. A-net hasn’t stated they don’t want us to build there, but they certainly have stated they want people to move off the heavy WvW servers. Who is doing the exploiting again?

MikeFerguson

Ideally, we would see some people move from worlds with extreme queue times to worlds that need additional people and start building up active wvw communities there as well. Having more worlds with heavily active populations in WvW will be a very good thing for the long term health of the game, and spreading out the population will help reduce the queue times on the worlds with the longest queues.

Psy.6153:

maximumpanda.5178:

i know we are sending “diplomatic” missions to other servers at late night to recruit for next weeks battle.

Really? Really? You guys go to recruit guilds from other servers to fight for you on an already 2 hour queued server?
People like you will be the death of this game and the death of the mid ranks servers, please quit the game and go diaf, this game is better off without you.

Yeah all the larger WvW servers do it, because they can. A-net would prefer the opposite. The larger WvW servers to send people to the smaller ones, but guilds like these don’t really care what A-net wants. They only care about themselves.

http://imgur.com/tRDwE

What they need to do is make it a dynamic player cap on borderlands and EB. Where no server can field more than the server with the lowest amount of players on the map.

Example: If the normal player cap is 150 per server but one of the servers only has 50 people on the field, the player cap for the other two servers will be 50.

Not only does this balance it out, but it also creates an incentive for people to transfer to the servers with the lower WvW population. Will this anger the higher WvW pop servers and cause extra queue times for them? Sure it will. In the short term it may cause issues for them. However, overall I believe it will resolve the issues.

Posting the exact story step? Are you serious? It happens on EVERY story step! EVERY conversation! Maybe not every line of dialog, but it happens at least once each cutscene.

If you really want me to post every story step, get ready for a huge wall of text.

maximumpanda.5178:

we do not play in the borderlands

I have no problem with you playing in borderlands, but please don’t lie.

I am in borderlands right now and Ruin pushing us back hard.

vrgadin.1943:

if we are average as you say….what does that make you, the loser?

From what I have seen so far, we are losing due to not having the population you have. Your sheer numbers are what has destroyed us.

We would be able to compete if we could keep our side maxed out 24/7 like you can.

For instance, a couple times I have been able to catch 1 or 2 Ruin without their massive army with my lowly level 20 PvE specced and geared mesmer and been able to take them out myself.

Of course in WvW that is not what matters. You can’t take a keep with just one or two people.

IoJ should never been in this matchup. We were #8 on the latest rankings, why would we be paired with #4 and #5?

Also, telling us that we should switch to a different server if we don’t like this is what has created this situation in the first place. Free server transfers should have lasted the first week. That is it. There was no reason to go past that, and is no reason to still have them. I hope Anet takes from this a very valuable lesson, and never repeats it.

JoolaPrime.6390:

How does that work when ET is a low pop server and both IoJ and SoS have an Oceanic presence?

If a server with a WvW focus faces off against servers who don’t they’ll always do well. ANet can do nothing about players choosing not to play WvW.

No but they can at least make it more fair for those that DO want to do WvW on the non WvW focused servers. Everything about how it is being handled now by Anet breeds the NEED to switch to the other servers. They say they don’t want that, but what they say and what they do are contradictory.

Again, remove orbs entirely. Make the outmanned buff actually useful. The buff may as not even exist. Talk about a waste of code.

I have been doing WvW for the past two hours now against ET. On the whole they are average, but their population in WvW is dwarfing us. They have the population to gate camp while simultaneously camp everything they hold, and even have a few left over to roam. They don’t have a lot camping the controls, but even 1 or 2 is enough to call in a wave of destruction if we try to take anything.

We take something and less than a minute later it is in ET’s hands again. Their server population may be lower, but they WvW population is overwhelming. They are at their population cap 24/7. While we are only fielding 30 to 40 most of the time.

The outmanned buff needs reworked, and the orbs need to be completely removed.

@ajpearman, they are doing the exact same thing to us here on Isle of Janthir. Every so often a splinter from us will break through, but there are still plenty of ET out in the field that get called in on us. Once we get killed it is back to being camped.

Fugly.5287:

I am on eredon terrace in this match right now.

We we have 30 people at each gate keeping you bottled up, and another 70 elsewhere farming or doing jumping puzzles. We never see more then 30 of you leave your spawn.

Where is your other 100 players?

We don’t have the population of hard core PvPers you do, hell we don’t have your population period. We can’t keep the WvWvW population capped out 24/7, and even then most people see the current score and say screw it and don’t join WvWvW.

Plus, even when we do push forward just a bit you have your reserves just teleport to us to push us back.

This is a battle of server populations, nothing else. The outmanned buff is a joke of epic proportions.

It is not a joke, and since Anet hasn’t responded if there is an issue.. it must be intended.

http://imgur.com/DYT75

I would not be surprised if this were happening here. http://imgur.com/DYT75

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro

“Guardians draw more aggro with less dps.”

Same problem. Hopefully they can get this fixed asap.. I was liking not having to read all the text. Not that I don’t like to read.. but I liked being able to look at other things during the dialogue.

200 hours in past 16 days

I only use spear as a thief. If you know what you are doing, you are invincible. I have soloed group event underwater champions with that counter attack and the evade attack.

I have this problem as well. I have it no matter which driver I use. I narrowed down when it happens though. If I have render sampling set to native and any reflections enabled, this problem happens.

If I set render sampling to Subsample or Supersampling, or I disabled any reflections, the problem goes away.

I noticed a slight drop in FPS myself. Not huge, but noticeable. I installed latest nvidia drivers and it resolved my issue.

Also to those who think installing drivers is tough. Mine took less than five minutes to download and install. While they were doing so I just browsed the internet and read forums.

That CPU and video card temp is fine. Also it is better to check the temp while they are under load. Like while playing a game go back and look at the temp.

A video card can usually go up to 80 to 90C at peak here and there, but shouldn’t run like that for an extended period of time. It is usually best to have it running at 50 to 70C under load.

A CPU is not as robust as a video card but it usually shuts the computer off before it gets hot enough to damage it. Under peak it is not unusual to see a CPU run at 50 to 60C.

Also what you are seeing would be a video card/driver issue. CPU would not cause visual problems usually. Try completely uninstalling the video driver, restarting PC, then reinstalling.

I am running with a 660ti overclocked. I know what you mean by turning lag. I get it on the first bout of turning after entering a zone. The way I figure it is it takes the first time seeing an area to load it into video memory. After turning and moving about in a new area, I get no more turning lag.

So when you enter new areas, try just turning around and looking at everything. Then check if that helps the lag go away.

I have a GTX 660ti, everything maxed out including supersampling I usually get no less than 40 FPS. Even in the most crowded and graphic intensive areas of the game.

That is being overclocked to 1304mhz core and 3580mhz memory.

Now don’t get me wrong. This is the only game I get less than 60 fps on, even BF3 is 60 FPS maxed out. Then again BF3 and most other games don’t have as many objects on the screen at once or as much overall area needing to be rendered.

I am sure anet is still working on further optimizing the game for performance, but personally 40 FPS is plenty for me in a game that looks this good.