Guild Wars 2

Pensadora – Thanks very much for the link. I’ll check those forums out.

Mysteriax – Thanks for the reply. I’m currently planning on staying on Blackgate as my brother is there as well. if I can get him to play again!

Old player returning with some questions.

Is WvWvW still a decent part of this game?

Is BG still a Tier 1? Or have we gone K-mart?

Are there any Blackgate WvWvW Guilds recruiting?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

Thank you all for the tips…you gave me some good direction for this toon.

Thanks very much…. I really appreciate the tips! And have some direction for my poor rifle warrior!

Thank you very much!

One question. Why take rune of the pack over rune of str? u dont seem to have a way to generate swiftness. Or are you relying oon team mates for that?

OK…. my 1st toon was a warrior…I got him the endless gathering tools….when they were only available soulbound. I bought him extra bag slots.

I made and sold quip, cuz well, it was quip.

I now have the Hunter and can pretty much make Predator

Please HELP! I need some kinda of build that uses rifle for wvw/pvp that does…OK?

Any advice?

Just applied. Hopefully, you will think me a good fit. =D

Hi folks!

So I was wondering if Sigil of Intelligence works the way I was hoping.

If I play double longbows with sigil of intelligence on both weapons and hit one auto attack to get in combat and switch weapons,and then rapid fire, will all of my rapid fire hits critical?

If that were the case, I was thinking I could play with virtually no crit chance and instead prioritize power and ferocity and still guarantee rapid fire crits.

Does this work this way?

Thanks for your opinions!

Hi folks,

Through stacking ferocity, can Critical Damage go above 200%? Or is that the max?

Thanks for your help!

Heya,

Thanks for the feedback. You make good sense. Any idea of a way to use an engineer with pistol and apothecary gear?

Or is it just not a mix that will work?

Hi folks,

I seem to have a great many ascended apothecary jewelry and almost have quip, and am looking for a good way to use both!

I’m playing around with a build idea for spvp hotjoin and wvwvw based on settlers/apothecary gear.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqalUUpArVVx2KseNCexE6N+/EQPQCB8p8B-TJRAwAsLDA4BAwc/hAnAAA

Would this do anything decent? Or have I created a laughable mess?

Any suggestions to make this idea workable?

Thanks for your opinions!

OK. This is probably a dumb question, but I’ve honestly never noticed.

Do on crit sigil’s work in deathshroud?

With all the black smoke I can’t tell of my lightning or fire sigil’s ever go off.

Thanks for your answers!

Hi folks!

I understand p/p is a bad idea for wvwvw. But for some reason I still want to try it.

I’ve whipped up a build, linked below. It seems to look OK to me on paper.

Could someone please let me know where it falls down?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQJAqalsMp8pdPxzJsPNBPBtdCOQA4sETwzS3EA

Thanks for your opinions!

Hi folks,

I’ve bee playing a necro with most focus on DS.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fRAQNAW3Yjc00TbLNG3wfjinhSyIIAmKEgKIp+HGiQF

Currently I use a mix of P/V/T and Berzerker gear. I mostly focus on wvwvw.

Would it be worthwhile to craft celestial gear for a build like this instead?

Thanks for your opinions!

Hi folks!

Noob engineer here. I know it’s too much to hope for, but I have to ask.

Does anyone know if wvw abilities like Mortar Mastery & Siege Might apply to our Elite Mortar skill?

So I like the idea of this build quite a bit.

What kind of stats should I be aiming for gear wise?

Thanks for the feedback folks. I at least know what I’m getting myself into now.

I’m gonna give it a try using stances and bulls rush and see what happens.

Hi folks!

Can anyone reccomend a good axe/axe wvw build?

Or is it a complete trash way to go?

Thanks for opinions!

Thanks for the feedback. I play a meditation guardian. The problem I have is that they just keep resetting the fight until I’m occupied with something else and jump me lol.

I just have difficulty killing them before they “poof” away. Maybe it’s a L2P issue =D

Hi folks!

I roam a lot solo, and thief’s drive me nuts with their ability to reset fights and pretty much follow you around until they can kill you.

As a solo roamer, is there a class/build that can win against the thief and still tak out supply camps etc alone?

Do I need to play a thief in order to solo against them?

Thanks for your opinions!

Hi folks!

I’m looking to find a guild on Blackgate made primarily of grown ups. I’m 41 (ewww).

My ideal guild would be a PVX one with a decent population made up of mostly adults who play to have fun, chat, and enjoy the game, without a hardcore mentality.

I’m a casual player, mostly weekends. I play a great deal of wvwvw, and would be interested in exploring dungeons.

At this point I haven’t done ANY dungeons, including the last step in my story quest.

I do hop on TS sometimes, but there are times that I can’t as I gotta keep half an eye on the kid.

What I bring, a winning personality (My mom told me so.) , a willingness to help out, and way too many years of playing MMO’s (DAOC was my first true love…there were games before, and games after, but Midgard will always be my home.)

If you have a guild that might fit, I would love to connect and see if we are a good mix.

Hope to hear from you!

Thanks for the great advice guys. I might actually live a little longer now!

Hi folks!

I suck at wvwvw.

I’m playing a fairly standard guardian meditation build, Sc+ SH/ Sw+Focus.
Z0
R30 -VI, X, XI
V30-I, X, XII
H5
V5

Any recommendations on gear stats to shoot for?

Hi folks!

I seem to be a magnet for finding clerics gear.

Any opinions as to what classes/builds get best use out of Clerics Gear?

Hi folks!

I’m trying to put together a scepter/focus build for Guardian WvWvW, roamer & zerg follower

So far I’ve been going zerker stats, and upon crit abilities. I’ve got the remove upon a condition upon shout armor sigs and have SYG, Save Yourself and Retreat shouts.

Is this even remotely a good idea? Is there a better way to incorporate scepter into a wvwvw bui;ld?

Thanks for any advice!

Hi folks,

I’ve been using a condition/shout build sword & sword/longbow.

I’ve focused on apothecary gear, which is super heavy on healing power

I mostly roam wvwvw and pve.

Is all this healing power a waste? Should I be skipping that in favor of another stat?

Thanks for your opinions!

I’ve always wanted to try and create a build around arcane power and arcane blast, with the idea that you don’t need lots of critical chance, and can instead dump into critical damage.

Sadly, this never seems to work out for me.

Anyone have success trying to do something like this?

Thanks for the tips folks! I’ll try them out.

Hi folks!

I’ve built some kind of weird condition/shout build. It’s not as effective as I’d like for solo roaming wvwvw and I’d like some advice on how to fix it.

The build and wvwvw stats link as follows:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAscUngO08YUQKPwEZABpQDzijikIATPED0INA-jUyA4MBRKAIVJQ5xioxWNLiGrqBTjSEV7RIiq9KYA-w

I kind of like the idea of sticking with sword/sword condition build.

Am I wasting time and slots trying to do a shout heal build at the same time?

Should I remove the + heal for another stat? If so which?

Any advice is appreciated!!

Hi folks!

I’m sure this info is somewhere in the forum, but I just can’t find it.

Does anyone know if the life force pool in Death Shroud is a fixed amount, or based on your vitality?

I ask, because I’m working on a deathshroud build and if it’s a static amount, it seems I’d be better off putting more emphasis on toughness rather than vitality.

But if t\it’s based on our normal life pool, then vitality would seem the way to go.

Anybody know?

Thanks for the help!

No offence taken. I appreciate the advice.

I’m actually currently sporting a rifle / axe&shield burst build, and notice I’m squishy, and was trying to come up with a good roamer option.

I’ve tried warhorn before, but I find that signet of rage typically gives me the speed I need, and thought shield would give me some more defence.

Thanks for the replys.

I was thinking of a build something like this.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/warrior#8|0|11|919|65|317|246|0|0|0|0|10|1525|0|0|10|1541|0|0|30|1516|2417|1850|20|1545|1553|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Any obvious flaws?

Hi folks!

I’ve got it in my head to make a roamer build on my warrior using longbow/ sword & sheild.

Can anyone advise as to gear? Berzerker or should I be going for bleeds?

Would it make more sense to be glass cannon or build into toughness etc?

I’m a little lost as to which way to go.

Thanks for your opinions!

Thanks for the replies. I specced opportunist ’cuz I figured it complimented the cripple in rifle and axe.

I’m on the fence as to if I should use sword/warhorn instead of axe to take advantage of the sword bleed. The tossup is that axes cripple is 900 range while sword cripple is melee.

I’m seeing this as a www roamer spec. Mostly a range warrior thing.

Hi folks!

I recently came up with this Rifle/Axe-Wathorn Build, which I’m sure someone already thought up =D.

Any suggestions on how to make it better and/or what kind of gear to go with?

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/warrior#14|0|10|259|65|227|246|10|836|0|0|30|1975|1519|1524|0|0|0|0|30|1518|2417|1507|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Thanks for your opinions!

Thanks for all the great feedback folks.

Durzlla – Would you mind linking your build or if not, give ma an idea of where to start in creating something similar?

I tried searching the forum, but came up empty.

Hi folks!

I’m new to rangers. I kinda want to try dual wield axes, pprimarily for coolness factor.

Is there a way to make this work buildwise? Or are axes a bad choice atm?

Thanks for your opinions!

Hi folks!

I’m trying to figure a way to use all of those little arcane abilities we get with the idea of being able to not need to put any points into precision or crit chance, but instead invest heavily in crit damage.

I was playing around with builds and came up with this:

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/elementalist#6|3|1052|3986|3975|3983|1027|10|917|0|0|20|1887|2249|0|0|0|0|0|10|1673|0|0|30|1838|1627|2250|0|0|3|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Has an Arcane build like this already been used and dismissed? Is there any way to get something like this to work?

I’d love some input as I’m pretty clueless whhen it comes to build creations.

Thanks for your opinions!

Wow. That’s embarassing. I didn’t even consider retaliation.

Thank you for mentioning it. I’ll probably still try out flamethrower. But now I’ll at least now why I’m dying so fast…
=D

Thanks folks. Some good info here.

I was playing around with the skill calc and came up with this.
0/30/20/20/0 build. Thoughts?

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/engineer#10|10|1207|4682|4641|4062|4065|0|0|0|0|30|1433|1881|2265|20|1013|1464|0|20|1880|1863|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

Hi folks,

I understand that FT is considered pretty poor. I still would like to try it out, just cause I dig my bunny sporting a flamethrower. =D

With that said, can anyone reccomend a flamethrower type build? And what stats should I focus on to most benefit this kit and style of play?

Thanks in advance for your opinions!

Please give Necromancers dual wield axes with offhand range 600.

Just because it would look kitten cool.

I swear I’ll use them!

C’mon…we deserve a gimmee.

Sincerely,

Travesty

Hi folks!

I currently run a GS/Rifle build that I used for leveling. It’s based on having full adrenaline, releasing with rifle F1, and then using the skill to refill adrenaline.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/warrior#7|0|11|919|227|65|246|20|836|1499|0|20|1525|1846|0|15|1084|0|0|0|0|0|0|15|1109|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|

I fully admit I have no idea what I’m doing. Can anyone offer advice as to how I should adjust this for WWW?

Thanks in advance for your opinions!

Hi folks!

I’ve been leveling using a GS/Rifle build, and now want to get my feet wet in WvWvW.

I was thinking of switching to longbow. Any ideas to a good second weapon to go with it? Stick with GS?

Also, any build recommendations?

Thanks for your opinions!