Guild Wars 2

I agree. This change was so bad, now I can’t really play my ranger without feeling so strange to scream Strenght of the Pack! we want the old name back plz anet.

JemL.3501:

Malediktus.3740:

Why would someone do this if a gift of exploration is worth 1000g

you cant trade/sell it

i have sitting in bank

could use in alts

Craft a legendary weapon (you’ll need the Gift). Sell it. How do you think people make profit off it?

Just logged in to comment. I got stuck in this quest as of today. Here’s what I could gather:
Skipping cutscenes doesn’t matter. I did skip all because I knew them already, and still succeeded.
I got stuck in the part where Zott has to revive Ellie in the water. About 3 times.
1. After you finish the goo and plugging thing, go back to the deck, try to finish off any remainig cata/wall before they become invuln and untargeteable. (Doesn’t matter if you don’t I still had all catas up and 1 wall up right when ships appeared, it’s just that I tried to kill em and nothing happened).
2. Turn around and kill the 2 ships.
3. WAIT FOR ZOTT TO GO IN WATER FIRST <- This is crucial, if you don’t let him first, you’ll get stuck.
4. Try to keep Zott close to you while swimming to get Ellie, don’t leave him behind.
5. When you get to Ellie, he’ll ress her and the rest of the squad will be able to be ressed, then you can proceed as usual.

Didn’t have any problem with the rest of the story, just follow Zott and mark the catas to be destroyed, that’s it.

Can confirm. Not sure if working as intended, though.

Cloak and Dagger
Damage increase: 20%
Range: 130 → 170
Vulnerability: 3 stacks(5s) → 5 stacks(4s)
Stealth (on hit): 3s → 4s
Blind (only when CnD misses): 4s to nearby foes on 240 radius. (Is not a smoke field).

There you go, fixed and not broken.

Hey guys. So I’m building a new computer and I have to decide what processor to get. Currently I’m stuck between 4th gen (Haswell) and 6th gen ones (Skylake). Some people say there’s still compatibility issues with Skylake, but they’re superior in performance, so I really don’t know..

I’m aiming for i5 6600 Skylake (6th gen). Should I go for it?
Does GW2 have issues on that processor?

Also what would be a good chipset for that processor?

Yeah I got overheat once when creating a complex character, but I usually leave it idle at any PvE map even when nobody’s around, or PvP lobby, or LA, really, anything crashes me

I’ve played Gw2 for 10 hours straight and no crashes. But whenever I leave it idle for 5-10 mins, screen goes black and I can’t seem to make it go back, I can hear my fan and HDD keep going but the screen is just black. This only happens when playing GW2. I tried disabling all the power-saving settings but still no luck.

Windows 8, AMD. I don’t think it’s overheat problems or 10 hours of continuous playing would have noted otherwise, it’s just leaving the game idle what crashes me :/

Instead of fighting with each other, let’s propose a fix to this change:

1. Re add the vendor for 1 week so people can make use of the Badges for one last chance.
Why? I think Anet communication with this wasn’t clear and noticeable enough, doing this would ensure everyone is happy with a last chance.

2. WvW reward track vs PvP is REALLY slow, WvW should be buffed to PvP level.
Someone made calculations early, I’m okay with the participation stuff and time ticks, but make it go up to 500 EXP per tick so that’s on par with PvP level of progress. You can go +100, +200, +350, +500 progress scaling with participation. Right now WvW track progresses TOO slow and requires to waste a LOT of time doing something you may not find enjoyable.

Those are my 2 cents and I bet a 100% that’s a change everyone would like.

There is a sticky about this so I suggest everyone posts there: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Help-I-m-stuck-in-a-PvP-Match/page/10#post6206687

It seems several people’s games crashed.

Stuck in a match, unfreez me plz-.

As title suggests, me and the other 9 people are stuck in a PvP match. None of us can leave it, even when logging off, swapping characters, etc.

Do something fast, I’m losing precious time.

Hello there. As title says, I’m new to Necro. I used the Lv80 boost Anet gave us a while back on a Necro, but now I’m totally clueless on how to play it so I need various builds:

1: for Tier 4 fractals. I’m looking for the best POWER and the best CONDI builds so 2 builds. And which is the best of those two. Best being highest DPS and being able to survive in T4 stuff.

2: For solo-roaming in HoT or in small groups. I don’t care if it’s power or condi, I just want to be able to deal the highest damage while not dying.

Thank you very much! Also, for general open world, looking for the highest mobility build since I feel Necro is a slowish class.

Play whatever you find fun imo. The content is not really a challenge until you hit 80 and you go in hard areas like HoT.

Try out al the weapons and find what you like best.

for PvE when not wielding staff I like: D/D and S/P.
Both options are fun, but D/D may be a little hard without traits early

IGN: Hazde
Thief Type: Scholar
Server: Blackgate
Experience with thief: My first characte and main ever since 2.5 years ago.
-Lots of PvE
-Lots of WvW
Interested to learn all about the Thief since I want to excel

Shalien.9018:

I’ve taken the liberty to take my example UI a step further. Now it’s broken down into two images.

• In the first, you see what it looks like when you have a dodge selected
• In the second, you see what it looks like while selecting a dodge

This needs to be baseline for Daredevil so that we have the same access to Tier 3 Grandmaster Traits as all of the other elite specializations.

I agree over 100% this. The CORE of your specialization should be made baseline and we should be given new GM traits worth just like any other class, as of now, Thieves feel the most underwhelmed executed spec.

This NEEDS to HAPPEN along with the rework of idle, running, and combat STAFF animations.

Please listen to the animation posts.

All Staff animations are kind of silly, besides Vault.

You should really consider making new animations for melee staff that could easily work for Revenant too. The spin on staff’s auto is just SILLY and the shovel animation is silly too.

I’m pretty sure you can make staff look pretty AWESOME since it’s one of those styles that people crave for in games, but you’re executing very poorly at it by reusing animations not even designed for a MELEE STAFF.

This needs to be looked at

I did log in during the bugged patch and:

a) My thief (oldest character) doesn’t have it, but it did bug with the reset traits.
b) Mesmer and Ele have it, and they bugged with resetted traits too, but theyre younger than my thief

some historical achievements are broke too (aka they disappeared)

Some historical achievements have disappeared aswell, take a look

All progress didn’t reset. I believe it’s more just visual bug, which is annoying.

Some of the historical achievements got removed aswell, go check yours. Blood and Madness, some EotM ones, etc, etc. I don’t recall all, but I do remember some of those, and they’re not there today. Some WvW ones (historical).

No Withdraw heal fix (Still 100% rather than 110%)
No initiative upon entering stealth fix

As a thief you don’t need Vitality or thoughness. In a good group you’re just melting bosses everywhere and you just need to learn how to dodge the one shot attacks.

Full ascended Berserker is the best option, it gives near 60% crit with MAX power which is the best DPS.
In a good group, you’d have Banner of Discipline which is 170 more precision, and if running with a ranger you also have Spotter which is 150. Also Signet of Agility is ran 100% in Dungeons. You’d have about 98~% crit chance with Spotter, Banner, Keen Eye and Signet of Agility, if you want to reach 100% crit, the magic number is: 2171 Precision. With just full zerks and signet of agility you get to 2141, so you’re only 30 points away from it, just use precision infusions and you’re set to go.

whoops I think I posted on wrong thread

None. Thief is not viable WvW anymore.
Coming from a main Thief player, the latest rebalance patch just destroyed us.

What achievements are those?
Are they all achievements? or just a few? or just a single instance giving trouble?

I’m leveling up a thief at the moment and to be honest I find it far more enjoyable to level up by doing Personal Story and Map Completion. I don’t like mindless silly leveling in EotM or WvW, or by crafting since it requires too much gold.

I run Sword/Pistol + Shortbow and it works for me, works good for mobbing and as of the utilities just use what you find the most fun..

If the channel has started and you then stealth, it will keep hitting you, yes it sucks but it has always been this way.

Also, the nerf on Shadow’s Embrace is just sad, I agree.

Shadow’s Embrace won’t remove a condition upon entering stealth no more. Along with the few condis it removes now, sucks.

being looked into? bump

Is this being looked into? or is it going to be this way from now on

Shadow’s Embrace: No longer removes a condition upon entering stealth, now you must wait 3 seconds before it removes a condition. It used to be 2 in 4 seconds before, but now it isnt. This just makes it harder to recover from condis now that Anet decided to remove cripple, chill and immobilize :/ and now Slow.

Shadow’s Rejuvenation: Same as Embrace, no longer restores an initiative upon entering stealth, now you have to wait 3 seconds before it kicks in.

If you change the key binding of any skill that appears in the HUD like all weapons, f1-5, utilities and elite, it doesn’t change it in the HUD.

It does change the key binding but doesn’t graphically in the hud, and it’s quite confusing.

I believe they must have normalized it.

Precision – 841.xxx – 74 (which is the difference from 1000 to 926) / 21.xxx
It makes 4%.
Tested with 1090 precision, and It shows 8.28% in my panel, and it works with the formula, so I believe they did that.

I think they wanted it to stay at 4% for the base precision.

I traited for Mug and Stealth and it worked just fine using the PvP weight golems, and the profession bots. Is there anything I’m missing?

I don’t seem to suffer from this problem, it may look simple but I don’t know, I always exit GW by pressing Alt+F4 and this thing has never happened. However it did hard crash my game when I installed Mumble, and running Mumble causes the game to act weird, sometimes it won’t launch because of some “no 3D” error having something to do with DirectX, even though all drivers and programs are 100% updated.

Would like to know this as well.

If it’s only a single serial, you might need to link it with your existing account to access HoT, and no “separate game” since you already have it.

Just a reminer that this haven’t been fixed. Annoying just closing inventory and opening it again to see it smaller in size, I don’t know what is causing it but it’s clearly a bug, and it’s not even being looked into.

I’m looking to craft an ascended armor since I have all the mats for it, along with weapons and trinkets.
Would you guys post an effective D/P buildpage for WvW? Like exact armor stats, weapons, sigils, runes, food(preferable), TRAITS and utilities. Need to study everything a little before starting to craft since ascended is pretty much end-game and costly (at least for me) and I don’t wanna mess up. I’ve got 6x Strenght runes already if that helps, but can easily use something else.

They should just rollback the whole patch since it seems it broke a LOT of stuff, it’s easier for them to roll back and re-implement the whole thing (THIS TIME STRAIGHT) rather than trying to fix stuff. It’s not like it was a BIG patch anyways, the most intensive thing was the stability stack changes.

I don’t think there’s any besides doing left click but entering in stealth should stop all actions (unless Last Refuge). If you want to de-target to use HS and escape then I guess the only way is deactivating autotargetting in options and just left click to lose target, that’s the way I do it.

It’s not like left click takes time to do since you’re on your mouse all the time.

Yes it does happen often even when if you don’t auto-target or have any mob targetted. It usually happens if you start spamming the skills too fast, or different skills too fast.

For example it rubberbands if I do many SB#5 in a row, or when I start Heartseeking out of play and it turns exactly the opposite direction even without a target selected.

It sucks.

D/D = Best burst damage for PvE and WvW (for thieves at least).
D/P = More control of the fight, doesn’t rely on landing CnD and can enter Stealth on will, has better matchups against melee and stuff like that.
P/D = Best condi pressure in WvW at the moment behind Engis, it’s simply too much for enemies to handle.

P/D is the easiest and strongest of all hands down, which makes it cheesy as hell.
D/D you gotta have the skillz to land your CnD and backstab like there’s no tomorrow
D/P is aimed at more controlled fights with backstabs and shiet.

Pick the one you want. I’d stay away from Swords in WvW, as condi is pretty dominant and Sword has like, little access to stealth and condi cleansing bar #2. Unless you trait 2 in SA for condi cleansing and go S/D. But it’s nowhere as bursty as the other 3 sets. I believe SB should always be the offset, it’s simply too much movility and our only reliable AoE besides Swords.

As you said stealthless is hard to go in WvW, sure it does have tons of evades and movility but it’s not as forgiving as other builds.

Imo S/D is something that should be kept in PvP, I also tried it in WvW but I didn’t like it at all.

P/D is the best build for wvwing at the moment (I agree it is cheesy), D/P is gimmicky but also works, D/D is outdated, but also works. I’d use S/P as an off set if I’m going D/P or D/D first set, other than that, I don’t like sword in wvw.

Thief vs Warrior race

/thread

and the thief wasnt even using signet of shadows, even though they both didn’t dodge, the thief has endurance refill when dodge, swiftness, vigor on heal, etc. (if traited purely for racing)

Valkyrie but not everything.

Take this advice for WvW:

You CANT go full berserker in WvW, you’ll be dying a lot. Backstab thief is not what it used to be, it is less bursty now and fights can get prolonged.

Knowing this, you better get some survivality right?.

Now, knowing this, you have two choices of runes: Strength and Scholar. If you plan to PvE A LOT too then you might as well get Scholars since they’re pretty good for dungeons, however, in wvw, strength are the way to go because being realistic, you won’t be above 90% HP if you can’t one shot your opponent, so the 7% damage is actually better than 0%. Not to mention your might lasts longer. (You do lose some ferocity but it’s like 4-5% something like that.

Usually D/D thieves opt for Hidden Killer trait (I like it better), so you can spend some into Vitality while having 100% crit from stealth. The magic number is 45% critical chance, and 1767 precision is the magic number to reach that without wasting any point (formula).

This build focuses on: Max power + 1767 precision + pump everything else into vit

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fZEQNAoYVlsMp0pdOx7J8PNBNBtdFGeI4uGrYGaFAA-TlSBABWq+AN7PQpKMmpE8KlKRcKAwSZFe6DW4IAAwDAIAACwNbz28mBO6RP6RP6R7m7cn7cn3sUARsMC-w

The runes of choice were Strength runes, and as of food you can use any power/vit food you want, I chose the 100 power and 70 ferocity one for dmgs.

edit: err sigils on daggers should be fire and air or air and force. I like fire + air better nw though.

D/D survivality is only a problem when:
a) You burned your Steal
b) You burned your Shadowstep
c) You burned your Shadow Refuge

You’re facing heavy condi builds (Necros, P/D Thieves, Engis).

If you’re fighting around an area that has mobs in it, use them to your advantage. With Shadow Rejuvenation you can just CnD off the mobs and stay in stealth for long periods of time.

Also, timing the CnD is the KEY to successfully stay in stealth, if you’re in stealth they can’t hit you at all (bar aoes or point blanks). If you time the stealth, you can enter stealth via CnD without getting the revealed debuff.

I main D/D and I’ve played D/P. I just didn’t get the hang of D/P, it needs too much initiative to work and more keystrokes to enter in stealth.

D/D just feels swifter, if you wanna try it out I can share you my build.