Guild Wars 2

Congratulations to Anet for this amazing mini game/dungeon!!!! Too bad it’s temporarly, I don’t know if I can finish the 3 worlds in time, but still, an amazing idea, with amazing effort and results!

Is it too much to ask if it can be left in-game permanently? Hehehehe

I go for 0/0/30/20/20

Bunker Meditation Build

Valor: Meditation Mastery, Focused Mind, Monk’s Focus
Honor: Wrathful Spirit, Superior Aria
Virtues: Vengeful, Absolute Resolution

Healing: Signet of Resolve

Utilities: Judge’s Intervetion, Smite Condition, Stand Your Ground
Elite: Renewed Focus

Weapons: Greatsword/Sword+Focus

In WvW I go with Soldier stats and Knights Jewelry + Runes of Earth
In sPVP I go with Cleric Amulet + Runes of the Dolyak

Who said you can’t kill anyone with x/x/30/30/x? In 1vs1 I have absolutely no problems, even 2vs1 and if the enemies are bad, even 3vs1. This build focus on stacking up Retaliation and being a super tank/bunker. Your damage output will be little, but the HP of your enemy will go down quite fast because of Retaliation+sustained burning.

Wisely use Smite Condition, which removes a condition every 16 secs and deals damage + heals you. If you have alot of conditions on you, use Virtue of Resolve, which removes 3 boons and heals quite a bit. Use Virtue of Courage to block massive attacks, and when in need, use Renewed Focus to reset the CD on your virtues, and so on.

I’m loving this build, I’ll never trade it for anything else.

The problem is back…….

After a certain hour, for some players, the game becomes unplayable…

Fix it one more time Anet…. pls!

Oh no! Not again!!

Same here btw, Switzerland, and since yesterday I have big lag problems, especially during evening time.

We Swiss people and many others had the same problem many months ago; starting at 20:30 ca untill 11:30 (GMT+1) the game would become unplayable. Then, Anet did some work and fixed it.

Please Anet, fix this problem again!!

One thing that you must absolutely check out is a Guardian’s retaliaton. Don’t burst out your quick and fast attacking skills on Guardians with retaliaton up, or they’ll loose nothing but few HP, and, without realizing it, your HP is alredy at 30% or so

so, you stopped playing a Guardian in WvW because you can’t escape a fight? And you’re bragging on this thread and saying that people should stop playing Guardians because YOU can’t escape a fight?

This thread should be closed, like right now ^^

or maybe it’s a joke, I don’t know….

There is a way to avoid such bug to prevent you from completition.

It’s what my guilides and I did today (yesterday we encountered that bug) and it worked.

Basically you defeat the Gorilla boss, after that, clean the next room, the one filled with the spiders. Before proceeding, the player being followed by the NPC waits BEFORE the last discovered Waypoint. The remaining 4 players collect 6-7 Reflecting Crystals, go to boss, defeat him (standing close to him) and voilà! The NPC will spawn next to the door, without dieing cause of flames and you will complete the dungeon.

Me and my guildies went through a tough time, trying to complete Arah Explorable Path 1, and after defeating the last boss, we found out that the last door that should have opened to complete the dungeon didn’t open, the NPC wouldn’t trigger no cinematic or nothing…

After two or three DCs, and finally finding the perfect overflow server (no lag, yay!!) my guild and all the other people we were zerging with, finally beated the Ancient Karka (darn you, Reinforcement part!!!!)

Same. So, have they released the patch?
If it’s not working in some minutes, I got to sleep and check it tomorrow

Happened today too, on Gunnar’s Hold. And it’s even more frustrating, because the Pact group stopped right before the waypoint! Seriously, they needed to take a step more and they would have triggered the next part of the event, but no, they decided to troll us ^^. I need the Obisdian Shards too, I hope they fix/reset it soon enough

It should grant +30 Toughness to nearby allies, but it seems to have no effect. Only during combat maybe? Or is it bugged? Anyone knows?

rune of the guardian! Since I’m a guardian..

it’s for the high toughness and healing power

Twilight Arbor heavy armor looks pretty amazing imo

Edan Oberon.6174:

I will add my two cents to the “Hate the CLOCK TOWER” forum. I am a lifelong gamer, I’ve been gaming since I was 5… That’s over 25 years of gaming, starting with Space Invaders and Battle Tank on the Atari, moving up through Super Mario Bros…. Sonic…and so on, I generally stick to PC games, though I started on platforms. I consider myself an experienced gamer and a pretty good one at that. I try to give good feedback about bugs/botters and other in game flaws. I’m a huge fan of the Guildwars Series. I have completed many jumping puzzles in GW2 already, and I enjoy all of them. UNTILL I came up against the clock tower, and guess what; it’s been made an achievement. I’ve now completed all other Halloween event tasks available, except the jumping tower. I don’t think I will ever complete it; I’ve spent 2 days trying. All of the problems have already been laid out in this forum. So I won’t bother posting the fact that it has issues, the biggest one being a group event rather than solo instance. Also for those of you elitist people who call this whining, this is a special event, it shouldn’t been an elitist event. It’s already limited, why limit the playing field that much more by making it so difficult that people are willing to pay others to take over their account just to get the achievement. It is not fun, it is a chore, and it has been made a chore, because of the achievement tab and the difficulty. IF I ever complete it, I won’t feel a sense of satisfaction, it will be anger in the fact that I wasted 2 days trying to complete a WAY to difficult jumping puzzle because the game designers didn’t want to feel the game was too easy. IT’S A SPECIAL EVENT. It shouldn’t be the hardest jumping puzzle in the game.

I’m sorry, but you’re not as good as you think then….

Awesome event, as majority of people think. There alredy is a thread with people that are not capable of beating this jumpin puzzle and call it “poor designed and horrible event” I suggest going there, and cry with them…

Some of those people even said it’s only doable with speed boosts and it’s class dependant (some profession will make it through and some are doomed)… ahahahaha LOL I really lolled at those comments

Of course you can! Event are worldwide spread across servers.

It’s correct to open a thread alsot to thank Anet, and not just complain and whining.

Persoanlly, this Halloween event is the best event I’ve ever experienced in any MMORPG (I played Aion, Rift and WoW during this holiday, and no one had good content put in it).

So.. Thanks Arenanet! Keep it up, now I can’t wait for Christmas period ^^

1st, most of the people love the Clocktower Jumping Puzzle.

2nd, people complaining here are people who couldn’t finish the jumping puzzle and are frustrated….

3rd, it is not profession dependand, lol you guys, did it with my Guardian, 0 boosts, 0 speed boons/buff or whatsoever.

4th, I did it with lots of Charr and Norns, yes, it was annoying, but 100% doable, just concentrate on yourself

some people alredy have 3/4.
Do you guys who have 3/4 “It’s a Mad King’s World”, have you done the Carving Achievement also? Seems it’s related to that…

Male Sylvari
Guardian
no boosts

I have 2/4, where is that 3rd location you got there?

OMG whiners and complainers are becoming dumber and dumber.

1st this is Act 1, it INTRODUCES Halloween in Tyria, with the 1st main quest (the 6 pages of the book) and it did it quite well, I had lots of fun brawling, chaning my costume, going around searching for pages and mining candies,

2nd It is a much better content than many other MMORPG have. Deal with it, little kids.

Happens to me too, only in WvW and in events with lots of people (Cursed Shore events).

i7-2600 3.40 Ghz
8 GB RAM DDR3 1333 Mhz
GTX 560 (304.79 driver)
Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1

Waaaat? I love the animation of Empower, Sylvari Male here. It looks like he’s charging superior Soul Power to burst it out and empower (lol) your allies around you.

Saying that TA is one of the easiest, it’s obviously trolling.

However, it’s not that difficult as the OP says, you just need to master the dungeon, which may require more runs that, let’s say, CoF or AC

Hello my dear friend!

I am too swiss, and up until today I suffered from severe daily (yes, every day) lag issue, occurred from 20:30 ca untill 23:30 ca local time (roughly something like 11:30 server time to 14:30 server time). But as for this evening, like they promised, they fixed it, or at least, I didn’t suffer from lag issue today (I’ll keep checking every night). They are working to fix this, they are monitoring swisscom ISP, and they are improving it. If you are still suffering from this kind of weird lag, the least I can tell you is to inform Arenanet about your current situation. Use also the "Network Lag [Merged] thread to post your problem, as far as I know, that is the offical thread where to post this kind of problem.

Best Regards

I have problems with any driver above the 304.79 (Beta). I have a GTX 560. Perhaps, that’s one of the reasons?

Well, this is excellent news! Let’s hope Arenanet finally fixes this IP problem

Switerland too, Swisscom IP.

Server: Gunnar’s Hold

Around 20:25 (local time) the game becomes unplayable. Huge lag, rubber banding, and disconnections occour permanently, from the start (20:25) until 23:30. It can’t be the IP, since during that same time I play Battlefield 3 or Starcraft 2, and they both run perfectly. During the day, Guild Wars 2 runs PERFECTLY

Snaff was the best

I think many have noticed this bug, but when you open the Achievement tab, under the Monthly Achievement, the Eperience Survivor text, instead of displaying the current status of your experience gained, it just shows ? ? ? ?
I hope Arenanet fixes it before November, because it’s the only part of the monthly achievement I’m missing in order to complete it ^^

What driver do you have installed? I had that problem too, and I solved it installing the 304.79 (Beta) Nvidia Driver. Anything above that driver causes that texture problem.

I’ve been experiencing weird lag around that time, every day. I play the game fine the rest of the day, but not during that time, especially inside dungeons, I get bad lag, and eventually disconecctions.
I don’t think it’s my IP, since in normal maps I don’t always have lag, just in particular situations.

Anyone else is suffering from daily lag?

Same problem as many other people are having. This early afternoon the game was running perfectly, but towards evening (around 18:00) the game started to lag in a terrible way, couldn’t perform any action, huge rubber banding and disconnections.
Switzerland, Swisscom internet provider

Kidel.2057:

Necro gets 20 toughness from each minion and 400 while channeling (leeching health or life force). Also the damage you can sustain is given by:
(hp + healing received) * armor stat

Necro has twice the hp of a guardian + death shroud (we can say almost 3 times the hp of a guardian, with death shroud recharging during the fight) + lich form (double hp, if it wasn’t enough) + fear and a lot of damage mitigation.
I’m sure the outcome is way higher than anything a guardian can hope to reach, also because almost every class is highly individualistic. The guardian is the class with the highest number of aoe boons, meaning that while a guardian gives power to every other class, it doesn’t receive anything, not even from other guardians (since aegis doesn’t stack). So the guardian gives aegis/heals to an already better necromancer/guardian.

However, do you want a heavy armor tank? Warrior.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fIEQJASUjgOtwBPGPMxCA0DryaLTBjOFgSVwuUhyA;TYAKoMQJgyClDKJUA

Again, can’t be compared to a guardian once they’re both buffed.

And don’t misunderstand me. I want guardian to be fixed. I feel pidgeonholed in a support role, while ANet said that there are no fixed roles in this game.

How can you hope to tank when you have the same health of a thief/ele and all your allies get your same boons?

The only way to fix this is to give guardian at least the hp of a ranger and a stat reward whenever an ally is buffed.
Also a ranged weapon and a fix on elite skills wouldn’t hurt.

Ugh, I need to completely disagree.

While it’s true that Guardians have lowest HP compare to other Professions, it’s also true that Guardian suvavibility is pretty high. I run a full support build for PVE, and I am (almost) always the last man standing in case of bad pulls/overwhelming forces in dungeons. I have the full exotic (crafted by me) Draconic Cleric’s Heavy Armor (why would a guardian run around with precision or critical damage lol?) and my Toughness is darn high, providing an excellent damage mitigation.

Mace/Shield + Hammer is the weapon combination I prefere using (in dungeons, not solo), and it does a great job to rise suravibility with this Profession.

With the right traits, Guardians DO benefit by sharing their boons with other people of your group.

Don’t forget, it’s the only class that heals decently (I’m not saying other classes don’t heal well, in fact I love, for example, Engineer’s healing turret) but from my experiences, Tome of Courage and Virtue of Resolve are major life-savers.

The only fix a Guardian needs atm is to be provided with a good ranged weapons: scepter is a good CC, but lacks good outburst damage and long-range attack variety.. and staff is mid-range…

Ingram of Haz.5987:

as long as it does not end up being that we have to buy arrows lol But that being said if they added one like the back brace option for as Aesthetics that may be interesting. i just cant imagine how frustrated people will get as rangers if all the sudden in the middle of a dungeon they run out of arrows and their basically done from that point on. that would be the end of bow wielders.

As I said, just as an aestethic item. It won’t have any impact with your profession.

Corsix.4895:

Does it matter where they get the arrows from? It wont run out. I think this was brought up during beta and shot down because it would require re-skinning a lot of armor for just an aesthetic, and they wont draw from it anyways because that would require re-skinning and re-animating every attack for every race/bow using class in combination.

Ofc it doesn’t matter, it was just a fun statement, but seeing the amount of detail that some professions have, it seems quite strange that they didn’t add a quiver for these professions. And as for the re-skinning problem, they could do a normal quiver, with the option to dye it, so you can match it up with your current armor

NO, no no no and no! No DPS counter, no gear score or other crap things that could ruin random encounters with people less devoted to the game.

Just as an aesthetic item/feature. Ranger, Thief and Warriors, where are you taking your arrows from?

It depends on what kind of Guardian you want to be.
Wanna be a “selfish” straight out damage dealer? Go for Power (at most), Precision and Condition Damage (your burning will inflict loads of damage)
If you want to become a support/healing guardian, go for Toughness and Healing Power.

If you are dieing more oftenly that other professions in any situation, don’t blame Guardian’s HP. Blame your playstyle. I’m (almost) always the last man standing in dungeons/events/pvp (well, in pvp it depends if I don’t get nuked by 7 players simultaneously). Use any kind of Aegis smartly, not just spamming it randomly. Same story for Virtue of Resolve…
Guardian are very well balanced, no need of higher Health Pool

I have a GTX 560, and I have issues with the 306.xx beta/WHQL drivers.
I’m sticking to the 304.79 Beta driver, which works perfectly

Good. Seems like the problem is gone/solved

GTX 560 with 304.79 driver
the game runs perfectly

As I said before, I DON’T have the problem, but I want to attach my pingpath too

All the support necessary to help my Swiss comrades getting back into game!

So many swiss people 0.o!

I’m too Swiss, and I have no problem, altough my sister is playing and she has this problem too!

Playing of the same router (Swisscom ofc)