Guild Wars 2

Hi all, came to the server because of some friends. Looking for a PvX guild to introduce them to the game with and generally for people to run WvW &/or fractals with myself.

Discord would be a plus. Thanks!

Hiya, I’m looking to startup my ele soon and occurred to me, what if we had the ability to weapon swap out of combat only (or lock it when an arena pvp match starts)?

(I know weapon swap has been brought up in the past but they were all about 9s swap cd in combat.)

That would be a huge QoL change from having to open up inventory and double click weapons to swap for lets say staff air 4 and then back to x/x… can get annoying when 2 items get separated as well.

Would make the ele alot more fun as well as would promote different weapons in open world. Now I won’t be forced to use my staff because I don’t of even thinking of using d/d for this encounter because i’m already so used to using staff as a primary, or even d/d to s/f.

This wont affect PVP cause the swap will be locked on start and we can already swap weapons out of combat for WvW.

Thanks!

Yeah, I think this is actually known though. It’s been that way since release but I’ve never heard anything official unfortunately.

If that’s the case I was wrong then. I tested in FOTM 40 on the molten boss, berserker, and firestorm and it didn’t affect their break bars. Thanks for the clarification!

Hiya, since the last update, my Temporal Rift is not affecting break bars. I didn’t pay attention to Precision Strike, but I think that might be broken too. Thanks.

Honestly, If you already have 500 weaponsmithing and farm your own mats then its worth it to make your own ascended even if you are planning on getting a legendary version of it. Building a legendary can take months easily as opposed to getting an ascended in 1-2 nights.

I made my ascended hammer and am farming to make ascended sword and axe. I already have Bifrost but never use it on my rev. I find the wood to be the hardest/most annoying.

Also, if I ever make another legendary, I’d go with bolt because of the cooler effects.

Just wondering, has anyone tried a full cleric / staff / herald build with the regen heal yet for solo pve ?

I was wondering how effective it is with survivability especially doing hot open world content.

Right now I’m running around in full zerker and I love it, but was wondering if I should make a healing set or a condi set next.

Thanks!

If you were local, I’d buy you a beer. Thank you!

Anyone remember 2handed shadowblades in daoc?

IGN: Nerves
Yak’s Bend
Game Modes: WvW=sPvP > EoTM > FoTM > Other Dungeons > Misc > … >Living Story

Hiya, I was playing around with the build editor and thought this might be a decent frontline build that I might try out. Has anyone ever tried something like this?

• 2k AP, 50% crit, 214% crit dmg
• 14k hp, 3k armor
• Lots of self healing (Signet of Malice, Invigorating Precision, Mango Pie, Dolyak Runes)
• Lots of evades (S/D)
• Lots of blinds via stealthing

Some traits can be interchangeable obviously but what do you guys think? I’m going to try it after work tomorrow.

Link:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAsYVl8Mp6pFOx7J0PNhMRt9xNBZIn5wLoZBEAA-ThCBAB8oqSlqVkmSQvU+BwZAIPtApoLghDBgM7PEwDAIAACQ2MAOaj2o5m38o38o3sUAmpMC-e

Check this out, covers some of the bigger pvp changes:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pvp-reward-tracks-and-gear-unification/

Ohhhh…… I didn’t put two and two together to realize that’s whats been happening with my queues. My brain has been hurting because of the matches recently. I understand vets trying new professions or builds, that always happens. But the new players should have requirements imo because its not fair for the other vets because at that points its no different than an outnumbered game.

Not that it matters anymore because its too late, but I agree to the above that there should be a requirement to do arena’s (ranked and unranked). Ex:

Unranked Unlock Requirements:
• Attain Rank 10 PvP
• X Total Matches played
• Complete a special one time reward track

Ranked Unlock Requirements:
• Attain Rank 15-20
• X unranked matches played
• Win X unranked matches
• Complete a special one time reward track

Etc…. this way people are forced to have atleast a little bit of experience before going right into the arenas. Those people who go through something like the above I have no problem helping them because I know they have some experience.

Honestly, I don’t blame the new players for queing arena’s day 1 of getting the game either. If thats the case, I’m sure they came from other games with pvp arena’s that they do all the time and wanted to do the same expecting to be able to jump into it. Unfortunately, GW2 is pretty unique compared to other games and has a learning curve.

Well, thats my 2 cents… and goodnight all

Edit to Add: But if you do something about custom arenas before adding restrictions to arenas: Please fix custom arena matches. I personally only do them to test stuff out, but its ridiculous and not fun if you actually try to play the match. People leave when their team is losing, and people always spam click to swap to the winning team. I’ve watched a game turn into a 5v1 before it auto swaps people, then people who get swapped to the losing team leave >< It’s near impossible to get a good game in one of those.

Oh and a cool signet for wvw would be:

Passive: Allow movement while channeling abilties. (Ex: Meteor Storm/Earthquake)
Active: Next ability cast is instant. (Ex: Meteor Storm/Earthquake)

Hiya, I just wanted to add to the conversation and give a few of my opinions which I think are pretty cool. Some of it was just repeated from previous posts. Please read alot of these as just examples; I know some of them are too strong.

Elite: Arcane Obelisk
• Generates a tower at the casters feet that does aoe damage every second for 12 seconds in 800m radius and based on attunement:
• Water: Healing Aura – Generate XX HP for friendlies in range.
• Earth: Knockback enemies in range every 4 seconds.
• Fire: Burn Enemies in range for 4 seconds every 4 seconds.
• Lightning: Stun Enemies for 2 seconds every 6 seconds.

Elite: Arcane Guild
• Summons allies of each attunement to help out for 20 seconds that have all staff 1 auto attacks plus:
• Water Ally: Grants Regeneration to all allies in range.
• Earth Ally: Grants Protection & Stability to summoned allies.
• Fire Ally: Grants 1x Might to all allies every 5 seconds.
• Lighting Ally: Knockback/Stun an enemy every 10 seconds.

Elite: Signet
• There are so many options, so I made a list of some possibilities for actives/passives.

Passive Options:
• Reduce attunement swap by 2s. (All)
• Gain 2s quickness on attunement swap (2sec cd – so can’t stack). (All)
• All projectiles now have the staff water 1 ability with a small aoe heal. (Staff, WvW)

Active Options (non attunement based):
• Attunement Swap has no CD for 12 seconds. Swapping attunement causes the evasive arcana trait to occur. (Regardless of trait).
• Set off all Evasive Arcana Abilities at once.
• Reset attunement recharge.
• Reset weapon skills.
• Clone last non auto attack.

Active Options (attunement based (or not!)):
• Fire: Reset Fire Skill Cooldowns.
• Water: AOE Heal / Condi Cleanse.
• Water: Ground Target AOE Rez. (ex: warrior banner)
• Lightning: Teleport.
• Lighting: 6s Quickness.
• Earth: Earth Shield.
• Earth: Stability.
• Earth: 5 Sec Invuln.

ELITE CRAFTING SYSTEM
AND FINALLY….. it would be nice to see a custom elite signet creation system where we can set actives and passives. This could work like the new traits to unlock actives/passives for it that we can adjust in an interface, EX:
• Event completion based
• An XP based system (specific options need PVP xp, WVW xp, PVE xp, etc)
• Achievement Point unlock.
• Laurel purchase.
• Obsidian Shard purchase.

Would be really cool to see a UI for something like this. It would be flexible and open to all classes, with some class specific abilities. This would be an account wide active/passive unlock that needs to be initiallized on each character with a 100pt skill point purchase from the abilities menu.

Thanks

Thanks for the feedback guys. I did some research on the dev stream for the upcoming patch and saw that changes on the runes, looks like I’m going to have to wait to see what’s going to be available to me. I’d hate to lose the boon duration option.

Regardless, I’m just going to keep on collecting the cooldown ascended mats for the time being and wait for the patch before I start working on anything.

Also, you say crit dmg is going to get nerfed, but I dont the nerf is going to be enough for me to drop it even more. I honestly welcome that change because to me i see it as a buff against taking burst damage.

Also… I’ll try out putting the 10 in earth with the boon duration, that actually looks very appealing.

Thanks again, I guess all I can do now is wait

Hey guys, right now I am running this and am looking to get out of it:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhMmkbwx5wjDAkHucCLiCPUekzM2A-jEyAYrASQAoPgJ/ioxW1KiGrqOp6aMlrgMA-w

So I was playing with the editor and came up with something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEQQJAoYhMmkbwx5wjDAkHuYCLiCPUekzM2A-j0DBYfAYLgEEA0HgZnJNBNiJpBrMMIVXRr8KsabYqYER1WzDRzgG2iGVGA9xA-w

I know there will be changes in next months patch… should I wait before I make any changes? I guess I can just make exotics for now but don’t want to burn my commendations and find out I have to refarm them again.

I really wanted to up my toughness for the zerg-surfing. I also came across a thief that downed me in 1.5 seconds flat when I wasn’t expecting/ready for it ><

Any opinions/feedback are greatly appreciated. I don’t really want to change the traits and lose my playstyle though.

im disconnecting every 30 minutes or so….

Bump…. still happening, any advice at all please?

Gave it a shot… still crashing. Please help ><

ty ceal I will give it a shot, have to ask my landlord to reset it ;x

This is getting very frustrating. Happens about 5 times or so within every 2 hours or so. I’m mostly in wvw or fractals when this happens, but it happens everywhere, whether its a dead zone or Lions Arch.

To be clear on the problem, I’m logged in and playing just fine but it get a pop up in game saying it cannot connect to the login server and the game screen goes black. I just alt f4 out. I double click on the gw2 icon and the news fade displays that it cannot connect to the server for about 2-3 seconds then displays everything as normal and I am able to login again.

I missed a few tower caps and boss chests because of this. Whats most frustrating is when I’m fighting someone, this happens, and I login dead.

Also, I’m not experiencing the skill lag that others are mentioning in other posts below.

Awesome, ty guys TBH, ill end up having multiple builds and sets but need something to get started and building ranks with. I will toy with that symbol build as well.

Hey guys, I just picked up my guardian and I’m love him more than my Ele and decided to main this guy. Basically what I’m looking for is something that is very tanky, some decent healing, and can be decent at roaming (skill aside) if I’m not following the zerg.

Anyway, I’ve been playing with the character builder and came up with something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQJARWlYgqCnFSKEf4ERWhVi9AjwvjXPSIFZIA-j0xAYLA0GUCsIasV2ioxqsxUvDpWDDBA-w

Granted, that’s with exotic weapons, no weapon sigils, and no food buffs… I’m going to keep a few different ones handy to stack those +10 buffs before running out.

If this isn’t good, can anyone point me to a decent build for what I’m looking for? I’ve seen the healway, commando, celestial, and a few other builds and I don’t know if they are appealing, granted I never tried them.

Thanks in advance for all the feedback and support

Ursan.7846:

Vaiye.5709:

Will there still be a Karma cap of a million? (or so I’ve been told there was one, sitting on hundreds of different kinds of karma jugs in bank so I don’t overcap and incase my alts need karma)

I can confirm that there is no Karma cap of million. I’ll even provide you a screenshot, if you wish (can’t right now, at work =3)

Thanks!

Will there still be a Karma cap of a million? (or so I’ve been told there was one, sitting on hundreds of different kinds of karma jugs in bank so I don’t overcap and incase my alts need karma)

Hmm, my dilemma is two fold now with the recent news update:
• Introduction of Ascended Armor (Am I wasting my infused quartz & superior divinity runes?)
• Removal of MF from Gear (Loss of value in celestial gear)

I already crafted the celestial helm, put a Superior Divinity Rune in it, as well as used the light dragon helm skin from a previous LS in it. I have two more Superior Divinity runes saved. Just stinks though wasting the skin, I know I can always farm more runes.

The issue is though, I have 10 infused quartz saved, are they going to be a reagent in the ascended versions? Like someone above posted, I don’t want to wait 30 days to make the armor, then have to wait another 30 or so days to make it again.

I’m going to assume it’s not going to use infused quartz and continue making the armor, but now I don’t know if I want to waste superior divinity runes in it if I’m eventually going to replace the armor set.

Can we get an official response on this? Just letting us know if the infused quartz will only be for exotics at least? The more information the better please, a lot of us are left hanging now, even though not everyone is posting

ETA: Also, is the exotic celestial gear only temporary? Will we still be able to obtain quartz after the LS ends?

ETA2: Maybe we will need the exotic to upgrade to ascended in forge?

Bump and +1, from a happy and proud member of the Yak’s Bend community.

Bump, please find the issue and fix this one asap, its really frustrating. I missed an SM cap, as well as a few tower caps.

At first I thought it was something to do that involved lots of people, but my last crash, all I did was zone into EBG and run out of the starting area.

The game hard locks, but I can still ctrl alt del to get to task manager and end the gw2.exe process.

Edit: This only started happening since last update.

Hi guys, I just hit 80 on my ele and need a bit of advice on gear set(s). I’m mainly running bunker d/d for roaming and zergs and always keep other weapon sets handy in inventory.

I just want to say, the recent nerf wasn’t class breaking as far as I can see, I have alot of fun in my full greens and handle my own very well.

Ok so I’m having trouble finding a good gear setup for the ele out on the net because its all old information. Im thinking full knights armor with the 2/2/2 runes, and what should I do with accessories? Thinking of mixing them up between Soldiers/Clerics/Knights/Berserkers but don’t know how to distribute them and what orbs to put in them.

Also, any opinions on weapons? Thinking PVT (soldiers), or Berserker. Also, What sigils would you say I should use? I see different sigils in different builds. (I like my ele alot for their surviveability and mobility, regardless of the RTL nerf, but besides of the fact he’s a bunker, I like doing decent damage.)

Thing is, I don’t know what numbers I want to aim for on my stats.

Thank you for all the help and responses guys

Please, this would be huge where we could pull up a calendar and see all the posted events and have members sign up so we can see who plans on attending.

(apologies if this was already posted)

Hello, I’ve been playing GW2 pretty hardcore for about 2 months so far, and I have to say, love the game Now, I don’t know if these were already mentioned or discussed, so I apologize if I touch on something that was already mentioned already.

Here are some of my suggestions which I believe most people would agree with:

• When you have your bank open and you double click something from your inventory to deposit it, please have it check to see if there already is a stack and have it add it instead of just moving it to an empty bank spot.

• I would love to see an account wide currency system implemented that doesn’t use inventory for dungeon tokens and badges. For example, have dungeon tokens and badges show up on the bottom of the inventory with laurels and gems. If that’s a no-go, then please increase the stack size on these items to make inventory organization easier to manage, among other reasons.

• Give us the ability to use waypoints to major cities from the outside for free. We can pretty much already do it for free, but the problem is we have to sit and stare at a few loading screens which is very frustrating on slow computers/connections.

• The new WvWvW ranking system is awesome. We should be able to respec our abilities for a badge cost, as the system is new and people are going to want to test out the different abilities.

• Daily Character Journal would be amazing! Something similar to the achievements tab, but logs all the mega bosses, jumping puzzles, and dungeon paths you completed that day and resets with each reset. This will give more insentive for doing these at 80 as I don’t have to write down what I did on who or try to remember even.

• Trading Post: I would love to see a subcategory back on there for accessories.

•Allow us to set the default armor/clothes to display when entering a city. Right now, town clothes feels pretty useless otherwise; I would never swap to town clothes manually.

I have a bunch more suggestions, but will save them for another time. Thanks for your time