Guild Wars 2

Greeting citizens of Tyria!

Tenloss Syndicate [HUNT] is looking for any aspiring and veteran Bounty Hunters for the upcoming PoF expansion. The guild aim is to act as a global hub and in game community chat channel for anyone interested in doing group bounty hunts across the Crystal Desert. Why you ask? Simple! Because everyone loves loot and who doesn’t like tracking down marks and beating the stuffing out of them as a giant mob

If there is enough interest we can also go for a guild hall.

If bounty hunting is for you and you want to hang out with a bunch of like minded people shoot Soren Always Lost (Soren.9316) an in game mail and I’ll get an invite out to you asap.

Cheers and happy hunting!

With the bundle you still get a petty dang good deal imho. $50 for both or $30 for PoF and even cheaper for HoT if you watch for sales. Added bonus of you don’t need to buy both to play. PoF and HoT are stand alone

FFXIV can’t really be compared. There you pay a sub, plus all expansions are needed to play SB. So you can’t play HW without ARR, and you can’t play SB without both HW and ARR (you can get a bundle of all 3 or buy the story skips but you still need all 3).

• Beautiful Map, nice to see 250 years of change reflected in the design
• Like the unid items. Saves so much bag space. Added bonus that id’ing items isn’t required to salvage
• Mount animations and control felt real. Those idle animations are so friggin cute
• Bounties!! Huzzah!!!

• Beginning mission and heart especially (I hate them tbh) felt to long and grindy, almost like it overstayed it’ welcome
• With maps as large as they are said to be I had expected more meta events and chained events/boss fights. Something to keep me on the map aside from bounties (well aware that they might be there and we just aren’t seeing them in the beta)
• Why no strafe on the raptor?

For power play you need to fight at each battery and do the min threshold of damage then move on. When I got mine I did it in this order -> During 1st Battery phase -> East Battery & North Battery (make sure you damage mobs, stomp grubs) -> During 2nd Battery phase -> West Battery & Mega Lazer (make sure you kill mobs).

As for the underwater chest, just before Teq’s first battery phase (75%) he will spawn whirlpools and you need to get sucked under. There is usually one that spawns by his right foot (south def side). Once sucked in swim to the very bottom. Listen for the audio cues and watch for the spawns, they are very hard to see when the zerg is hulking it out. If you don’t get them before that 1st phase you will more than likely have to try again at a different teq.

Good luck!

Amineo.8951:

My complaint about raids is how it destroys the idea of the “no trinity” in GW2, because now there’s one: Chronomancer, PS Warrior and Druid. Basically if you don’t have these, you’re not getting anywhere aside the easy encounters like VG, Trio or Escort and that’s a big shame.

I think this stems more from players perceptions of what a raid should be. GW2 arguably tried to step out of the box and have their raids not require a holy trinity. The problem here is any non GW2 players who are raiders already have a perception of what a raid should be and what classes they will need to succeed.

In my opinion, this is why we see such a heavy reliance on the meta. A typical raid requires 1-2 tanks, 1-2 healers and the rest is filled with dps when talking about raids in other games. So now, when those raiders come into GW2 and see there isn’t a trinity, they try to use the meta to prop up a pseudo trinity in its place – Chrono (tank), druid (healer), warrior (buffbot dps) – to maintain efficiency.

Another thing that I think hurts raids in general is that they are such a fundamental shift in the “everyone can play anything” philosophy players have been familiar with over the past 3 years. Now suddenly we have content that is vastly harder than anything ever put in game with skins, and rewards locked behind the mode. Not a big deal if you can get equivalent stuff by crafting or playing open world PvE/WvW/sPvP etc, but because raids don’t have that gear treadmill everyone is familiar with, players who can’t/won’t raid for whatever reason are feeling slighted. Skins are a big draw in a game that somehow has the nickname fashion wars… so when you gate legendary armor, white mantle skins etc behind an already controversial mode it’s no wonder people are upset.

As far as I know you need to do the following:
Chak Master Beginner – kill 1
Chak Master Expert – kill 10
Chak Expert – 50ish? I killed the whole room

One thing to note is that if you die you loose all achivo progress. Downed is ok, dying bad

Good luck!

Since we are celebrating what about the Celebration Cap!? I need more hats, caps, and t-shirts for my swag pile

Hickeroar.9734:

I’ve just come back to the game after being gone for about 2 years. I’ve got the elite specializations totally unlocked on my Ranger and Revenant now, and most of the important masteries unlocked.

I’d like to experience the raid, but none of the people I play with currently are into raiding.

How can I go about getting into a newb-friendly raid group?

Hi Hickeroar! Best thing I can tell you to do is to find a guild that does training runs or is looking to expand raid rosters and is noob friendly, otherwise if you are like me and play at weird times you can always LFG or start your own group. Some places that might help you get started are:

-ELRP (New Raider Discord LFG) → https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/ELRP-Raids-for-everyone
-The Kinghts of Jade [tkoj] →https://www.reddit.com/r/guildrecruitment/comments/4yikmi/gw2napve_the_knights_of_jade_tkoj_are_looking_for/
-Smart People Kill Dragons [SPKD] → http://spkd.enjin.com/
-Raiders of the Lost Guild → https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/NA-Raiders-of-the-Lost-Guild-is-open
-We Fight Together [ONE] (these guys are EU) → https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor/EU-ONE-We-Fight-Together-teaching-raids/first#post6137651

You can also check out the following as good resources for other guilds:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4pe4jy/can_we_get_a_directory_of_guilds_that_teach_raids/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/4y70rr/how_to_start_raiding_this_far_down_the_line/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor

Most groups will require you to have access and use either Discord or TS for communications. As long as you are open and up font about being new when you join/make/request a group you should have no problem finding a static

Like others above have mentioned, TD is far from dead, you just need to know when to be there. I generally will head to TD at the top of the hour and open the LFG → Open World → Tangled Depths. There’s usually 2 or 3 up and you need to taxi over right away. I play late NA/Early OCE and afaik it’s still fairly easy to get into an active boss map.

Crowd Control

CC’s are divided into 2 categories:

• Hard CC -> things like Daze, Knockbacks, Pulls, Launches, Stuns etc. (These take the most off the break bar in a single burst) http://guildwarshub.com/hard-cc-skill-reference-guide/
• Soft CC -> things like Taunt, Immobilize, Blind, Chill, Slow, Cripple, Fear (They tend to do DoT to the bar and take out smaller and slower chunks of the break bar)

What is, and how do you deal with Break Bars?
Breakbars have three states that are designated by the colors blue, grey and orange. Blue means the Breakbar is active, and grey means that it is inactive/can’t be CC’d. Sometimes the bar is active for short periods and requires players to break it fast with hard CC to put the boss in a stun phase (orange bar color). Other times the Breakbar will act like the health bar and you can slowly drain it down using soft Ckittenil it breaks. The behavior of the Breakbar depends on the type of enemy you are fighting, and is generally present for high-level targets like bosses, vets, legendries.

http://guildwarshub.com/breakbar-combat-tips/

Why Bother with CC Anyway?
Some bosses are immune to dps, or have extremely damaging attacks that will kill you or parties/squads if not dealt with properly.

Mordremoth is a prime example: If you fail to CC him in his third CC phase during the DS event he will eat a platform and gain ley energy and progress the fight towards its fail state. Lords in WvW are much slower to kill and do crazy damage if you don’t take out the bar. In the HoT story you can’t kill Mordy in the last phase if you can’t break his bar. In raids, you can’t move Vale Guardian until the break bar is broken, Gors does massive damage if you don’t break, and in Sabetha, Knuckles does a launch attack that can raid wipe a group if the bar is broken fast enough. So it’s best to get in the habit of breaking that bar as fast as you can.

Hope this helps!

Tiger Ashante.1792:

Cobrakon.3108:

I have a method that works 100 percent for the dive. Feel free to whisper me in game. Ill help you out. I have mesmer(s) parked there for this very reason.

This guys is super awesome! I’ve tried this number of times with mesmers’ help as well, but the jump itself never worked. I never thought i get it done, even with mesmer’s help, so ofc i was skeptical, but Cobrakon made it happen for me, i can’t thank him enough<3.

I can second this. Randomly met him when he was porting and with his advice, kitten ed if I didn’t get it on my second try.

Swagger.1459:

To be fair…

Light mention in 20k word patch notes that are easy to miss and don’t stand out.

“Once the reward track feature exits beta” is ambiguous.

It’s not ambiguous. They put up a poll asking if we thought reward tracks were good enough to come out of beta. The community voted yes, so ANet did exactly what they said they would, and logically did it in the next available update. GoB going to a track wasn’t a secret… If people can’t be bothered to look at the patch notes and focus in on the mode of gameplay they play in then that’s on them.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

X T D.6458:

Teon.5168:

nekretaal.6485:

Anet, add some WvW achievements related to the desert borderland already.

Intriguing. What sort of WvW achievments do you have in mind for dbl? I’m truly curious.

Fall off a cliff 1000x, 5mins easy

Fly like Rock, Sting like a Falling Corpse

zhonnika.1784:

UGH where the devil is the no DBL ever again option? Nobody wants that crap back!

Poll should have actually asked if we wanted it to come back, not how much of it we wanted. This is a really, really bad idea.

Whether you agree with it or not there are enough people out there that do like Desert Borderland, not to mention I can’t see Anet scrapping something they’ve worked on over a year. This poll is about appealing to both camps and letting the community decide how they want Desert back in. If you dislike it your best option is Simultaneous: 2 Alpine + 1 DB. This way you never have to set foot in Desert if you didn’t want to.

Well since everyone is giving a bit of basic info on Tyler’s poll list figure I may as well chime in too

Mixed Borderlands – Yes please. Call me crazy but I do like Desert more that Alpine, especially after the first round of changes. It was a shame to have it rotated out just as people were finally figuring out the lay of the land and how to work choke pts to their advantage. Ideally what I would like to see is Green always having Desert as their home map and Red/Blue having Alpine as theirs while EB remains as is (idea is to have green (winning server) work harder to keep their stuff while giving a slightly easier time to red/blue).

World Linking Schedule – I wouldn’t want it to be any less that a 3 month rotation. As part of a smaller server that leaves me feeling like I don’t matter and am just a free lance merc that can be shunted around on a moments notice. I don’t want to invest my time it figuring out how to run with my host server, join their TS, get confirmed on said TS only to have to turn around and do it all again in 2-4 weeks. Quite honestly I’d either just transfer to the host server or more than likely leave WvW all together if swaps happened frequently.

Deployable Mortars – No, their is enough siege spam already and we need to balance what we already have before anything new gets added. Looking at you shield generators…

Cannons – And you though people complained about AC spam… Cannons have better range and pack a much bigger punch. See above for response

Repair Hammer – As long as it was limited and count NOT fully repair a piece of siege

Chaba.5410:

All US people,

Petition your representative to support the removal of that bane of modern civilization: daylight savings time. It is a highly dangerous practice that needs to be stopped. Sleep deprivation is a real problem.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/03/time-to-kill-daylight-saving/387175/

As someone who lives in the CST time zone but who’s province doesn’t to the silliness that is Daylight Savings I endorse this message!

They said it’s a system limitation and if you want the new BL it had to go in with a major patch. So it was either patch on Tuesday and get Alpine or you don’t get it period. Honestly be happy you got Alpine back…. man it seems the more ANet tries the more it turns into a “kitten ed if you do kitten ed if you don’t” scenario….

Aha!! Finally one of your famous events I can attend!!! Looking forward to it! My print screen button is ready!

gloflop.3510:

Both projects in the survey sound nice. However, I have some doubts that they actually work as planned. E.g. nightcapping leads to the question what a fair distribution between day and night is. I mean, if a world captures a tower at 3 am, is it actually worth less than a tower at 3 pm? What shall we say to the players who work hard at 3 am to capture the tower? “Thank you for your effort. However, what you have done was unimportant”?“You dont have to go to WvW at night. It doesnt matter anyway”?

It is similar with the area control. It sounds really nice on the paper. However, I have some doubts that it works as nice in reality as on the paper… I wish arena-net all the best.

I want to chime in here and say I totally agree with what gloflop is saying. Is anyone who is not on during one of the 3 major prime time worth less? If I fight just as hard at 2am vs someone at 6pm is my time and dedication worth less? One thing to keep in mind that wvw is a 24hr thing and as such respect needs to be show equally throughout that 24 hr period. Certainly hope we don’t lean to far one way and devalue off hour players enough that they no longer wish to play.

Elementalist
•Removed fire attunement.
•Added dual keyboard support to better support proper elementalist key binding.

How many key bindings do you ele’s go through?

Dodging is a good way to avoid the monkey bombs if you need to. Also try hitting from the side or behind as an alternative to head on. If you look on the ground when the monkey I ready to throw his bomb you will see a red X. That’s where the bomb will hit so if you stay away from that you should be ok

The big key to SAB is patience & if you need to, grab a team! Don’t be afraid to party up with people in the lobby. There is always someone looking for a group

A few other places to stand that almost guarantee you get sucked under is right in front of T3 (where the finger spawns) and/or if in the zerg right in front of his right foot (the one closest to the zerg)

They spawn at 75%. the kicker is that the zerg often does enough damage that they 1) don’t spawn at all, or 2) spawn at the same time he flies off. My last 2 Teq events we spawned whirlpools because we had people ask. Odds are good if you get on a populated map and let them know you need the achivo they will slow down dps so the pools trigger in the first phase.

Thursday 11pm PDT is my event. Hit me up anytime or look for Pat Strife, Kenage, or the guys from [TEA]

If you’re playing condi necro you’ll want either sinister or a vipers set of armor → vipers is the meta atm. If you are in anything else odds are really good a pug group will never pick you up. Toughness is only good if you are tanking.

Weapons are generally scepter/dagger + scepter/warhorn… staff is more utility. Again all depends on what you want to run.

It’s random as to what you’ll get. So yes, you could be against a 5 man premade or 5 solo queues, or a 2-premade and 3 solo queues…. all depends on who has queued up in the system

A full party team (could be anything from 5 man premade to all solo queue or anything in between). Party Comp is not taken into consideration. That’s a total crap shoot. I’ve been in matches with a balanced comp on both sides and I’ve been in matches where my team was 4 reapers + 1 DH and the other team was 3 Ele’s + 2 Thief, and even other’s where between the 2 teams we had 8 necros…

If I’m not mistaken it’s at the very top of Morgan’s Spiral JP

You and whoever is in your party will always get put in the same match together. As for filling the rest of you team it’s just random and can be a mix of solo/duo/trio players in the queue. Same deal with a party of 3, the game will fill you open spots with a duo or solo player.

That’s good to know. Thanks for the clarification

Commonly missed areas include:

Kryta:
Queensdale – Demongrub Pits; Beggar’s Burrow; Windloss Delves
Gendarran Fields – Provernic Crypt
Harathi Hinterlands – Hidden Ourobon; Ourobore Caves
Bloodtide Coast – Momoztli Grounds
*Claw Island – Claw Island has four points of interest and this map can only be reached by undertaking your personal story at level 60. (Lot say this doesn’t count but I think it does unless something changed. Haven’t done story in ages)

Magumma:
Caledon Forest – The Rowanwoods; Dreamdark Enclave
Metrica Province – Inquest Outer Complex; The Serpentwind; Calx’s Hideout; Golemagical Institute
Brisban Wildlands – Proxemics Lab; Aurora’s Remains
Sparkfly Fen – Verarium Delves; Shimmerstone Cave
Mount Maelstrom – Dierdre’s Steps; Magmatic Conjury; Unguent Den; Cubular Fells

Shiverpeaks:
Foundation Stones, Sector Zuhl, Tail of the Serpent, Tribulation Caverns, Forsaken Hills & Lair of the Coil

Hope this helps!

1. Bring core classes back into alignment with their specializations. Right now if you want to be competitive you must be using an elite spec. I was always under the impression elites were supposed to be on a similar playing field with core.
2. Limit number of classes per team in a ranked match. It’s exceptionally disheartening to get thrown into a match where you team is 3 Reapers + 2 DH vs 4 Reapers + 1 Rev.
3. Need some sort of downed mechanic for Lords so they aren’t just insta dead.
4. Buff skills/weapons/traits that are barely used. Right now it seems it’s meta of gtfo. What happened to the build variety? I would like to see this come back and allow for more varied builds.
5. Need a better way to prevent blow out matches. It sucks being on either side of a 500-100 win or a 100-500 loss and this is compounded when it happens 4-6 matches in a row. Even with the comeback mechanic/win streak it’s really disheartening for someone with a lower mmr or les skill to be teamed against ELS or higher ranked players.

As Rose said in order to progress you will have to re-buy the Chest of the End and open the recipe on a toon with full weaponsmithing. That will let you craft the needed piece to continue on. After that’s been done you will need to unlock the 2nd tier in you mastery line – Master of Legends – and then you can start the 2nd collection.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guide_to_precursor_crafting
Does a decent job of explaining the steps involved in crafting your pre

Thanks so much Gaile! This is a great initiative and I know I was helped out and was able to help out quite a few people in return

You have to port yourself into that instance where the story can be activated. If you aren’t in there then you can’t join her story. At the very start of DS there should be a NPC with green story mote that you can talk to, too travel to the right place → Area with the spinning helix. You both need to be there, and once inside party up, then activate the story instance.

What I had to do in order to have a friend join me for that instance was:

• Disband the party
• Have both people port into DS the instance (not the DS map itself but the instance where you can active the story)
• Reform the party
• Enter the story

With any luck that should pull you both into the same story instance.

Embroidered pants are probably the closest thing to just pants you can get for light armor that are pretty basic unless you managed to grab Conjuror pants or unlock some of you HoM and grab the Heritage Skin.

Looks like you are missing one of the escort team. Swim back toward the last branch in the hallway and look to your south (minimap). When I did this there was an enemy trapped in the wall and the npc had a pathing issue that also had him stuck in the same wall. Eventually I was able to kill the baddy via ranged condi and the npc pathing eventually sorted itself out allowing me to finish the event.

Bring back mah Aviators!!

Feel free to add me and hit me up any time, I need loads of map completion ;_;

Kicker is I play pretty late, usually 8pm-12am PST on NA. Also have an EU account if you are over there. I have plenty of toons that way that need leveling lol

Mark.5348:

Ive been trying for these two for two weeks, sometimes twice in the same day. Nothing… Never seen a vortex and dodging behind his butt, under the tail, has yielded nothing but deaths each time I try. Stuff like this is not fun…

The easiest way to get the tail flail achivo is to stand behind him and get feared so your toon runs under his belly. The other thing to look for if dodging/jumping is to wait for the point when Teq rears up to slam the ground → this is when you need to jump/dodge (the point between when he rears and slams the ground)

I run this build (my weapons are ascended) when I’m not running DH and it is very nice for damage and survivability: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAS5flsAhmhY5QwQIQQEHxDVNA2y6F3DJxWYDhX4RB-TRiAABrorRn9H1foQJoWK/iwEkEXAANeCAQrRAgDCApA0TYF-e

The main idea is to drop a symbol with mace 2, follow with hammer auto 3 and then go to town on whatever need smashing. This lets you deal high damage combined with the support of permanent Protection and passive healing through Writ of Persistence while benefitting from Symbolic Avenger. Yes you loose the burst from GS but overall hammer does more damage over time (also has a blast finisher to combo off of purging flames for might bonus).

I’d check out https://laptopninja.io/finding-the-best-gaming-laptops-under-1000-dollars/

Asus ROG or MSI have my vote. Alienwear you are pretty much paying for the brand name and while Dell is a solid laptop I never found them really good for gaming. To many cooling issues.

Newegg.com is a great place to check out specs and builds

As an option if you guys play later in the evenings: I run a Teq event @ 10pm PST every Wed. Usually it’s 2 Teq’s in a row but we’ve hopped to Shatterer this past one for achivos. That said, if you are out an about on Wed look for SORC/GSCH Teq BBQ in LFG or hit me up. Then make a request in map chat. If I know people are looking for that particular achivo I’ll have the zerg slow down on that initial phase.

As far as I know he can’t trigger the guild hall mission unless he has HoT. Pretty sure F2P can’t partake in the guild capture either… though I could be wrong on this one.

To the person that sent me the Hawk Wings thank you so very much! I will be sure to pay it forward! You totally made my night!

There’s a couple options you could use based of utilites & weapons (I didn’t factor in traits):

• Guardian w Staff/Greatsword → Staff 3 (33% increase), Save Yourselves (33% increase), Retreat (33% increase), Greatsword 3 (leap)
• Necro w warhorn -> Signet of locust (25% movement passive) Warhorn 5 (33% increase)
• Mesmer w Focus -> Focus 4 (33% initial & 33% movement), Signet of Inspiration (swiftness as passive), Blink (1200 teleport)
• Warrior w Warhorn -> Warhorn 3 (33% increase), Balance Stance (33% increase) + Frenzy (quickness), Greatsword 5
• Ele w staff -> Lightning 4 (33% increase), signet of Air (25% movement speed passive), Lightning Flash (900 teleport), Fiery Great Sword 4
• Ranger w GS/warhorn + pets -> Greatsword 3 (1100 leap), Warhorn 5 (33% increase), Strenagth of Pack (33% increase), Quickening Zepher (50% quick), Signet of Hunt (25% movement passive)

Hope that helps a bit

I play at super odd times, usually around the 9pm PST or later crowd. Feel free to add me and if I see you online I’ll run with ya

EDIT: Thank you to the person that gifted me the hawk wings!!! I will pay it forward for sure!

This is a fantastic thread and a great thing to see going about the community!

crum.7126:

Could a very kind soul pls help me. New player is hurting for bag space. Need bigger bags pls. Greatly appreciated thank you.

Crum Shoot me an in game mail and I’ll see what I can do to hook you up with some bigger bags

Karka Queen needs some teeth first and foremost cause right now it’s a face roll. Then I’d like to see Jormag (all he does is fear), Mega Destroyer (no real danger until you need to loot the chest form the lava lol), Modnir (stack n kill), and Maw (stack n kill) get a boost.