Guild Wars 2

Hi, my account has been suspended and i’ve no idea why as it doesnt state there,

i already sent a ticket, is there anything else i can do?

How long will it take? I’ve done nothing wrong, and now when i actually have free time im unable to play.

Thanks

Hi guys, for some reason i keep having lag issues in gw2.

Its always 100+ sometimes reaches 200ping, always varying throughout the gameplay.

I bought HoT some weeks ago, and im enjoying it alot, but with this lag i think ill have to quit, so i am here as a last resort asking for some help.

I live in london if that matters.

On my connecting setting(wi fi status) it says that my connection speed is something around 300/400mbps.
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when dowloading something i can download at 2mbs secs and yet i always have problems playing the game.

Back in my country portugal, top speed i could download was around 800kbs and yet i never had any issues with gw2.

Please i’d really appreciate your help as i am loving the game, but with this lag its starting to get unplayable

If that matters if someone can help me solve my problem , i can give some in game money or something as a thank you, Please help me :/

Share the build please,

Im also new to thief and always open to try new stuff :P

Hi guys,

Would you please post a picture on your General options , combat/movement tab? Things like ground targeting.

Im curious on how other engineers play, and if possible get some tips on the way also.

As the tittle says, what are your opinion on its current state? pve, spvp, wvw wise.

Hi guys, recently came back to gw2 and bought the expensaion,

But now i am kinda unsure with the class.

I am in between druid or reaper.

I want a class that would be good for all ‘phases’ of the game, such as wvw roaming, pve fractals etc, and spvp.

Can someone give me some more information about the state of both classes, and which one would be the best for me?

Thanks in advance

Yeah, i don’t know what are they doing, took them 1 whole month for this minor changes, they didnt even fix our most bugged skills.. Oh well 1 month waiting for nothing

Discuss the updates.

In my opinion, we had no nerfs or buffs, only some bug corrections, which will not drive me away from playing my elementalist.

Elementalist

Fixed a bug that caused several spells, including Tornado, Arcane Shield, and most frequently Whirlpool, to sometimes fail to display any graphics.
Arcane Power: The number of uses on this skill’s effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.
Arc Lightning: Fixed a bug which would cause this skill’s animation effects to continue playing after the skill ended.
Evasive Arcana: This trait no longer enables players to break knockback effects.
Glyph of Renewal: Increased this skill’s cast time while underwater from 1 second to 3.5 seconds.
Ice Spikes: This skill now appropriately displays area-of-effect rings.
Rock Spray: Skill facts for this skill now display the proper distance and bleed damage.
Vapor Form: This skill will no longer allow players to rally off of kills that grant zero experience. This skill will now also properly restore death state on completion.

I must disagree with that nuka cola, there are lots of people streaming wvw, in big zergs, 40 vs 40 and so on.

Enhanced performance in WvW

If i am not mistaken, this means that people who don’t have 10000€ computers will finnaly be able to be inside a zerg of 20 people or so?

Thats exactly my case, i can run everysingle game there is out there, in max settings, assassins creed, crysis etc etc, and yet, i can’t perform well when fightning with a zerg, trying to capture or a keep or something, even on the lowest settings.

This is a big improvement to my staying in guild wars 2, since i enjoy wvw, but due to not be able to contribut in any of the objectives, i just don’t go there.

Sry but i saw nothing special about it, most of the guys you killed werent in level 80, and also didnt even use any revelant skill when they could. I’d like to see you trying that on me for instance

Also on that elementalist kill, the phoenix did 4k damage on you, whch is quite alot. You wouldnt last more than 5 secs agaisnt my elementalist, even if you were invisible.

Never had any troubles with thieves, never died to one on a 1v1 fight, and most of them either die at my feet, or just run away with invi and then logout/waypoint.

Not charr, mine is a charr and i regret it, there are almost no light armors that look good on charr.

Charrs are made for heavy armor, they are brutal and so are their armors, if you want to wear light armor go for human/silvary

I don’t want to be mean or anything but after watching second vid streaming, with Sceptre/dagger, i was really dissapointed.

You didn’t play bad or anything, you were using those skills, trying to aim them and so, but i coulnd’t see anything besides you running around and healing the damage done.

I understand that you are trying to do some damage since you are using valkyries, and only have 14k hp, but still i don’t see any damage comming from you. I was watching the numbers, and i barely saw any, you were hitting 600 with 2 lighting skill, barely hit 1k with ur auto attack from air, and so on, I really didn’t see any damage comming out from you, better switch to dagger/dagger, scepte dagger really seems to be useless. You could’ve done alot more with dagger dagger

Can’t find any good light armour set besides dry bones, can someone tell me some that look good on charr?

My paint skills are awesome i know, left (almost) no tracks behind!

Shaka , for gear i am using pvt armor and weapons, with cleric jewels and the standart 10 air 30 water 30 arcane build, mostly daphoenix build, with some adjustments of my own.

So guys, i just made beat my record on CoF path 2 ‘survival’ today, im happy with it, i know its nothing special or anything, but i enjoy it.

I’d like you guys to post your personal records, and what build did you use, so i could try new setups.

The pic could be indeed fake, but it isn’t, i did it from 0% till 75%, survived 3% more after the screen.

Couldn’t get past 40 with any of my other alts, elementalist rules indeed.

PS: that guy got in at 70%, i can’t really say i soloed till 75, but its pretty much the same. I don’t really mind if you think its fake or not, just wanted to show my personal record. Post yours with your build!

I dont want to be disrespectful, but i don’t think its true you got those stats, maybe you can put a screesnhot?

IT seems to good to be true, very balanced between damage and defense to be true.

Actually you want to like this, after burning speed use fire grab if you hit the mob with the burning speed, then use ring of fire, switch quickly to earth, and use magnetic grasp , earthquake and then chucking earth.

This way you are stacking might and fire aura, and since you probabaly are using 10 points in air trait for the zephyr boon, that aura will give you mspeed and fury

So guys, i have the zephyr’s boon trait, but im wondering, how can i achiev perma fury?

i know about using the ice aura, the schocking aura , and magnetic grasp combo with firefield, but where else can i get more fury? i’ve noticed i can keep it for long time active, but don’t really know from where besides those 3 skills.

D/D

Thanks

So guys, i’ve been running d/d with P/V/T, armors/weapon, and clerics trinket, the survavability is good, but in higher levels fractals seems that i can help my team more if i just go DPS build.

Somtimes Its hard to stay in melee range with double daggers on higher fractal levels, so i’d like to make a staff or sceptre DPS build, can someone gimme a help here?

Thanks in advance

PS: If anyone can link a video of elementalist on higher fractals levels i’d be thankful!

Strifey.7215:

Splody.2640:

I dont know how can you do that path in HOTW in 15min, if it isnt by skipping, which i dont agree with, bosses are there for a reason, to fight them, not to simply avoid them.

In that case i could just do some of the dungeons jumping over the walls, instead of killing the mobs.

Again this is my point of view, feel free to post your opinions but keep it clean.

See I agree with skipping, because if they put pointless bosses with way too much hp and no good loot tables that don’t actually need to be killed why am I going to waste my time killing it in the first place?

If they want me to fight trash and bosses, then make it worth it. If they are just there to waste my time then I’m going to skip them. I don’t get a gold star and an A+ from some Anet Teacher for being a good boy and killing everything in the dungeon.

And I’m not talking exploits like jumping over walls or weird pathing glitches, I’m talking about simply running by some mobs or the first dog boss in the case of HotW 2 because there’s no point to kill it and I get nothing out of wasting my time, no one I ever play with wants to waste their time, and Anet doesn’t care if I waste my time or not.

If you want to waste your time or if you think you just have to kill all the bosses because some dev at Anet decided to make a “boss” by adding a purple border around it’s picture and giving it tons of hp and one move to artifically slow people down, then go for it. But alot of people don’t think like that and don’t want to do pointless stuff for no reward.

And I agree with your original thread title, it would be awesome if every boss didn’t have insane hp to make up for boring mechanics. It doesn’t mean I’m going to fight boring bosses and silver mobs in the meantime when I don’t have to though.

THat is exactly why i want them changed, and im not fightning them till it is.

I said that I wouldnt run that path on hotw till the bosses are fixed, IF they were balanced people wouldnt need to skip them, and thats what i am asking, a fair fix on every boss that people feel they are useless, and take to much time to kill, plus there is no challenge in fightning them.

I said i was agaisnt skipping , because it shouldnt be needed, if bosses were fixed, and thats what im trying to accomplish.

BUTTERBLUME.3217:

Splody.2640:

I agree that that p1 is a good path, like i said above, but instead of giving the last boss so much hp, give him some deadly attacks and a few less hp, something to make him harder, and not just spam all our skills on him, with no risk of dyeing, i can just stand inside his aoe full time and still survive.

You have way too defensive gear/ traits if you feel that way
The boss takes 1 minute with a damage specced group, and the spells actually do hurt you after 2 rotations if you do not dodge/block them.

OK then, p1 is fine, now fix the rest

Path 1 CoF, was jsut an example, there are other dungeons with issues too

I agree that that p1 is a good path, like i said above, but instead of giving the last boss so much hp, give him some deadly attacks and a few less hp, something to make him harder, and not just spam all our skills on him, with no risk of dyeing, i can just stand inside his aoe full time and still survive.

I agree with that, more phases on bosses is a good thing, at least more challenging them attacking them for ages with no risk of deying.

I dont know how can you do that path in HOTW in 15min, if it isnt by skipping, which i dont agree with, bosses are there for a reason, to fight them, not to simply avoid them.

In that case i could just do some of the dungeons jumping over the walls, instead of killing the mobs.

Again this is my point of view, feel free to post your opinions but keep it clean.

So guys, this is just a suggestion from my POV, you see, many of the dungeons in this game are boring for a reason, bosses take to long and just stare at us with their lowsy attacks that deal 1% of our hp

Most bosses i fight in dugeons i just use my ultimate skill fiery sword, swap to water attunement(regenaration) and alt tab, till the boss is dead(I did this with my guardian aswell).

Example is legendary dragons from Honor of the Waves, you must kill 2 of them, and they takee around 8min each i think(i’ve only done once), and the underwater boss in the same path, is another stupid thing, 15min just for him.

Another example is last boss from path 1 CoF, yes this path is really fast, but whats the point on having a boss that takes around 5min or more, with no challange at all?

People don’t want to be randomly spamming keys or auto attacking bosses for over 15min, people want challeging dungeons and challenging bosses, thats where the fun comes from, you don’t need to make a dungeon take 1 hour long to call it difficult, you can make it take around 15min-20min but, where we can really find a challenge thats worth the fighting.

I don’t want faster dungeons so i can farm faster or anything, i want a challenge.

Most of the time i go to dungeons i find myself thinking about something else thats not the dungeon, not focused at all, since its so easy, i just have to use my skills randomly, and i will still end the dungeon.

You could take for example 50% of each dragon on honor of waves or even more, and make us fight both at same time, but with improved attacks, that could actually kill someone, some stuff falling from the sky, i don’t no, something, that would make me enjoy fightning them , and not just go alt tab.

I think its about time to change some bad content you have added to this game. I will never, EVER do honor of waves p2 or p3( can’t remenber), again, till its fixed it took way to long, and was way to boring, one of the worst experience i had in this game.

When i play GTA i do all the missions with a little killing and so, but once i end the main story and had my fun killing people, i put the game aside, but GTA isnt an mmorpg, GTA isnt a game meant to be played over months, like GW2.

Again, i don’t want to farm gear like i said, but i feel there is some improved needed about end-game content

Sorry to dissapoint you, but i’ve never played wow.

What i said up there, was this: If i had to farm, i would be better of farming gears, than farming mini pets or gold to get all 8 proffesions maxed like the other guy suggested for end-game.

Karizee.8076:

Plenty of end game!

Dungeons – collect all dungeon sets, get Dungeon Master achievement
Fractals – see how high you can go, get Ascended gear
Level all crafting disciplines, you can learn all 8 on one character
Mini pets – collect them all
Achievements
Titles
Build a legendary weapon
Jumping Puzzles
WvW – join your server’s Teamspeak, help your server win!
sPvP & tPvP
Exploring, finding/triggering obscure events, open all mini-dungeons
Find and collect all the toys and shapeshifter items in game
Organize or join a raid to take the Temple of Lyssa in Malchor’s Leap
Get a couple friends and try to control the Jump puzzle in Eternal Battlegrounds (I’ve spent many a fine evening doing that, fun skirmishes & mesmer portal play)

I hit 80 months ago, haven’t run out of stuff to do yet

Most of the stuff you said there, i can’t consider it end-game, i consider it completing 100% a game, thats something you do on your playstation game for the max level difficulty or something, not in a mmorpg, i can’t consider getting all achivements, titles or collecting whatever is there to be collected endgame.

Collecting all pets or getting all crafting disciplines to 8, i consider it as grinding, and if i am playing a game to grind, i prefer to grind it for gear, not for mini pets collection.

Nothing about farming gold to get max level discpline is fun, you do it to get the proffesions you want and think are needed and thats it.

One thing for sure i don’t like about this game is the lack of viable builds you have, of course you have many weapons and utility skills, but for utility skills only 5 out of 20? are worth using, the others are just there so we think we got more option, when we don’t, since they are practically useless. Weapons i feel the same way, i really hate anything besides d/d on my elementalist, and on my guardian anything besides hammer/GS.

The improve on fractals is indeed a good deed,making it easier to find groups, and since i enjoy fractals it is a good thing for me.

I am not really bored about the game, i just feel that there aint much to do on the pvp section, its lacking some content i can’t really explain what.

I enjoy doing fractals, but it takes longer to find a group than to end a dungeon, even if i find a few friends in-game to do it, its hard to be online and in the mood for fractals at the same time, my irl friends dont play gw2 so it makes it even harder to find groups.

I really dont know what is the solution but i feel that there is nothing to keep me playing on my lvl 80. It is true that the game is young and i hope for improvements as the time goes by, but in order to do so, we must discuss whats the problem and how to solve it.

Like i said, i really dont know what would make me keep comming back to my level 80 that wouldn’t be unfair in pvp and so on, i like games where pvp isn’t based on gears, but this game doesnt take that much skill to make it very different, and the ACTUAL viable builds are very restrictive.

Just throwing something out here, but i think all weapons should be playble by all classes, this would make an large number of different viable builds.
On the spvp issue.

I created a warrior, never played one before, went spvp , with the default builds and utility skills, and after reading a bit of the greatswords skills on the discription i went out there, killing some people and so, i wasnt the number on on any of the teams, but i had around 150 points, for the first time on a warrior. Spvp takes no skill to play, the random pubs, and thats probably the main reason, why i get bored after a few matches on my main char.

As for wvw, well like i said i find no fun in breaking doors, for over 5min, and when inside, there is no1 else left, besides npcs to kill, while doing it we are losing some other castle. Its fun for awhile to fight other zergs and so, but after a few kills and a few deaths there is nothing left to it..

keep the discussion going, i’d like to hear more opinions,

Whenever i reach level 80 , and after a few days farming some dungeons for the exotic gears, i feel there is nothing left to do.

Spvp, is fun for 3 or 4 matches a day, after that it gets boring.

WvW, i am roaming around either alone or with a zerg, and i feel there is nothing special about it, that it should be considered end-game content. In zergs i feel that i am just one more dude around with the crowd, i even try to avoid big fights since my pc can’t handle on the lowest settings those 40vs40 fights, and even if i could, its just to random do be considered fun, people are just hanging there spamming whatever they can and so on, castles also takes ages breaking those doors, and after that the enemy just runs. If i am alone, i kill a few , die a few, just to random, nothing special about it, just like Spvp, is fun for half an hour.

FRACTALS. I get home, try to find a party for the level i am currently in, either using lfg website, or spamming in different overflows, it takes ages, today i’ve been for over 2 hours trying to find a party and still couldn’t.

Like i said whenever i get 80 and get my exotic set from dungeons, i feel that i should start a new char, since there is nothing else fun to do.

This is not any kind of rage message or anything, just statting my opinion, i dont usually buy games and when I do, i want to make sure they are worth doing it, and i was expecting alot more from gw2, i keep trying to find some stuff to do, but besides creating a new char, and do it all over again, there is nothing to do.

I never said I would run full berserk, i said about mixing a little, but after thiking a bit, i feel there is no need for me to get more damage, as long as my party knows i am there ALIVE dealing a mediocre dps, feels right for me, this ofc for d/d, which is the only setup i like for elementalists

Thanks for the answer guys, and after ive been thinking about it i think i will stay with pvt armor/weapon and clerics jewels.

The question was only to dungeons, at pvp there is no question that i am using this setup, which really works for me. My question is mostly fractals, and i think that little damage, won’t help as much as me staying alive almost always. I am still able to do nice dmg with 3k power, even though i wont be critting.

The issue that led me to thinking about swapping a few gears, was to make use of that fury that we get for free, but ill just ignore it, and stay focused on my survivability with some nice dmg from 3k power.

I feel that there is no need to put more damage on me,, so i guess ill stay this way, again thanks for the feedback!

Hey guys, i am using the standart 10 air 30 arcana 30 water build, with PVT armors/weapons, clerics jewels, and i’d like to know if its viable to go P V T armor, with berserk weapons and jewels.

I dont really like sceptre or staff in any ways, so it would be only D/D, mostly for dungeons and fractals, i feel that i can put some more dmg, i just dont know if its viable to do so with D/D, i can manage myself very well with d/d already, very used it to it, the only problem with this would be the lack of defense.

Would i drop very fast using this berserk weapons and jewels? Is it viable to be dps d/d or only staff and sceptre?

With all the mobility i got with d/d i feel i can put some more damage in dungeons, since i can easily run back and evade major damage, and come back really quickly to do dmg again.

Any help here?
Thanks in advance!

Yeah after awhile, you don’t really have to think anymore, you just know what you are doing, and keep swapping with no problem. At around level 30 i had no more problems with the swap.

You should adjust your hotkeys, cus for me it was hard to tell the diference beetween f2 and f3 without looking, so i changed them – F1=\ , f2= Mouse 3, f3= Mouse 4, F4 = middle mouse, now i am pretty used to it, and have no problems at all.

I’ve actually never had that problem as an elementalist, never died instantly or in less than 10 seconds to a thief, maybe i just fought bad ones but idk.

I think the key is to dodge right when you see him coming out of invis, or even before, if you evade that major damage is easy after that, they might start jumping on you with heartseeker, but wont do much dmg, you can just heal that up, and then counter attack, since he has no more innitiative.

Then wtf am i doing in wvw, i dont get anything, the sence of winning isnt there… oh well, pvp for pvp id go spvp..

Over 2h killing people on wvw, most of them on my own, over 30 kills, aand not a single badge, why is this?

Also i kinda miss the point whats the objective in wvw, i dont get anything(anything good), and most zergs only kills zergs and after that run towards a new zerg, don’t capture any castle or anything. Is this suposed to be fun? there is no sence of winning or losing in wvw, there is no objective in my point of view..

I hope i am not saying anything stupid here, since i got no experience in this, but i agree that it should be removed OR at least there should be another slots for magic find gear, with no stats, only the magic find one, and they could be a little more expensive than they already are.

This way we still had magic find, and we wouldnt be restricted from our main gear

Hey guys got a question here about my equips,

I am running a 10 air, 30 water, 30 arcana, build, D/D for wvw and pve dungeons, I am going to gear myself up now, but i am conserned that i will have no damage with the following gear ; AC’s armors ( Pow, Tough, Vit), Sapphire Cleric jewels( Pow, Tough, healing), Weapon( Pow Tough VIt)

What do you guys think? This is my first elementalist lvl 80, so i dont really know what to do now, I feel that without crit chance or crit damage i will be weak in damage

Any help?

Could you please post your option here? Im having problems with targeting and so on, could you show me your Combat options? what you have marked and not marked. thanks

IF im not mistaken , you haven’t yet posted your build right? If so, could you do it? thanks

OH thanks for the answer, about the link, I think the forum is blocking it, but if you acess it in a new tab, it is working.

Again, thanks for reminding me of that, might be it, but still, i’d like to hear somemore feedback.

Hey there guys, this seems to be an active forum so i decided to ask a few questions of mine.

I am currently using this build at Spvp, and i’d like to hear some toughts about it, mainly if its a good build that can work : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARWlYg67WFSKEfIFSWBDsqQ8gpQjyorHOEFxQA;TMALIGWMhA

It is a greatsword, sword/shield build.

For runes i am using Frezze after swap weapons and +5% critical chance on the shield.

About Ah, i tested it with a friend to see if it was worthy on pvp, and i find out that i was getting about 77 heal every GS hit, and not only on the third hit which gives might, can someone explain this? I think i wasnt applying any other boons to myself so i could heal.

Another thing, is it worth getting that trait on pvp?

Thanks guys and i hope you can help me!

PS: The more replys the better, i really want to hear other’s opinions :p

Could you post your build?

Newbie guaridan here trying to see what i want