Guild Wars 2

Hi,

Recently came back to the game, my highest level ever is 44. So Im sure there is a lot of stuff I simply do not know. Anyways, was trying out the revenant and wanted to equip a shield. Under my build it says shield off hand is useable, but the shield itself says “not useable by your profession”..bug?

Also, above my ability bar, it says invoking power of legendary dwarf – what exactly does this do?

Next to it, are some arrow things and 50%, I assume this is the alternate resource bar, but there is no -in-game explantion of it and non-of my abilities seem to use it right now (I am level 8 and using Mace mainhand and Axe offhand).

Thanks for any help.

Miss Lana Too.5794:

Hitting a max of 12 KB/s, and been sitting on the screen saying “Connection error(s) detected. Retrying…” for about 10 minutes. I’m able to stream videos, chat on ts and play another game online with no issues.

Would like someone to please feed server hamsters. Having a billion people trying to download the same files at the same time would need more support than the poor hamsters are getting.

EDIT:
This worked for me;

Navigate to your Guild Wars 2 folder. By default, this will be C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2.
Right-click on “GW2.exe” and select “Create Shortcut.”
Right-click the shortcut and select “Properties.”
In the “Target” line, put whatever is currently there inside quotation marks, then add a space and -assetsrv 174.35.71.9:80 at the end.

This upped me from ~12 KB/s to about 80 KB/s. Not much better, but still better than getting connection errors all the time.

Can be found on https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/93290408-Problems-Downloading-or-Patching

Just tried this, also worked for me, back to my normal download speeds. Thanks

Thats pretty awesome, thanks!

New player question here, I see we get a second specialization at level 45. Does that mean we can have both specializations active at a time or it basically gives the option of switching between one and the other?

Ditto, only getting between 1-50 KB/s with occassional bursts in the 100s.

Never had this issue before.

Hi, relatively new player here.

Are naming pets bugged atm? I had two above ground pets, then charmed a third a cpl days ago, I have renamed all of them, but for some reason now, the dog and the leopard name’s have reverted back to “Juvenile <x> <y>”. I keep renaming them again, and when I switch the pets and summon them again, their names don’t stick.

Known issue?

Hi, thanks for clarifying, as a returning player, basically new, I was wondering about that as well.

I am thinking about taking advantage of the sale too, but I am still level 30 and have some remaining questions:

1) Living World Season 2 applies for max level I assume?
2) Is unlocking it account bound, or would I have to purchase LS2 for all my characters?
3) Is it worth it worth the current 40% discount? I’ve been enjoying the personal story stuff so far

Thanks for the serious replies. I have a couple melee toons I am trying as well, so I wanted a ranged one that wasn’t a caster archtype, hence the confusion on my part as why so many people looked down at Hunters for staying bow only. I have a 2 hander sword as my weapon swap, but I kind of only use that if melee is the only option and I can’t get back in range. Don’t even have a bear pet at the moment, using eagle, it seems to have a nice bleed special attack.

Also was wondering what “meta” meant, but from context, seems like it is the generally accepted go-to build for each class. I havent looked into it yet, was going to choose whatever played and seemed strong, then adjust later when I hit max level and want to do more group content.

Not F2P player, played back when the game first came out but didnt make it very far, returned recently.

Not a troll question at all, but there seems to be a lot of dislike for rangers, mostly around using longbow only with a bear pet.

Im still only level 20, but my main question is whats wrong with using a bow exclusively, it is a ranger class is it not? I guess the bear pet is a tanking pet, so people in dungeons may not like it, but why switch to melee weaps in dungeons and not just stick to bows?

I dont really understand how these combo field and finishers work. I went and googled it but not sure if I am doing it right. Can you do a combo field generator thing with one toolkit and then swap to another and use its finisher move to generate a combo ?

I just hopped onto my Engineer and tried Napalm (that fire wall thing) switched to my pistol and used fragmentation shot thru it. Wasn’t targeting a mob or anything was just doing it in the environment, but nothing special seemed to have happened. Like how do you know if you successfully did a combo?

Regarding Flame blast, when I use the ability, it seems to have 2 states, one when I use it and it rolls out a ball, then if I press it again before it hits the mobs it detonates. Based on what Oooops said above, does that mean this “finisher” has two ways to activate?

1 – Flame blast then press flame blast again to detonate

or

2 – Napalm wall then napalm ball to hit the wall and this would also cause the detonation finisher?

EDIT: Ok got it to work. First I misunderstood, and thought that the finisher gave extra damage or something, upon research I see it gives an AoE might buff. But I had to have the fire wall right in front of me with the mob standing in it AND I had to detonate the napalm myself (I thought the napalm just had to roll through it and I didnt need to detonate the napalm myself). Does that seem about right? Maybe in PVE with someone else having aggro, I can throw the fire wall where the mob is and napalm would go there and explode without me having to detonate it myself.

Projectile finisher using Fragmentation shot from pistol. Can the bullet just pass through the fire wall and have its 20% chance or same thing, I need to have the mob standing in the fire wall before shooting it?

Sorry for all the questions.

Yeah Im starting to get a hang of it, at least a newb understanding. Using DW Pistols which I think looks cool and is fun. Levelling wise in term of equal level mobs at 17 or so, I dont need to swap out my kit yet for single target. Pistol spam, Incendiary shot (that thing is great), let them get close, blowtorch, and kabam. I suspect will need to adjust accordingly once I hit more mobs AOE and higher level mobs in general.

Fun class, I quite enjoy it, if ya take the time to figure it out.

Oh – is going precision bad? I like the idea of crit, but seems most folks recommend Power and Condition dmg.

Awesome thank you all for the replies and taking the time. The GW2 community seems a lot nicer and willing to help then some other certain will not be named MMOs.

During leveling, although not strictly needed, I am swapping between kits to throw down my big hitters just to see if I can get used to it. Doing okay, but seems more effort for little less reward then other classes.

How is dual pistols, I really like the idea of dual wielding and the abilities seem decent too, esp blow torch and incen ammo. I guess in the mean time, before level cap, it doesnt matter so much. So i can open with pistols and maybe switch to Grenades, or FT if I wanted to change things up. I can see how the rotation in dungeon or raid play can be complex though at higher levels (not specific to Pistols vs Rifles but in general)

Well firstly, I am sorta new, I played GW2 when it first came out but my machine wasn’t very good, and got to maybe level 30 on my warrior.

I returned a few days ago, and figured since I havent played this in so long, I’d start from scratch and re-learn the mechanics of the game, etc etc.

Been trying out some classes, but this Engineer class seems so – slow in terms of damage. I only just hit level 15, but my rogue, warrior, ranger, guardian at the same levels kill faster and stay alive better.

Let me be clear here, I am not saying the class is bad, I am saying the player (me) is bad at playing this class specifically. There is a lot about the game and its mechanics I just do not know yet.

But help a newb out, I was reading the grenades is the best of one of the best DPS options.

At my level, I have the grenade kit, but number 1 doesnt auto atttack, I have to manually spam it, unlike the other classes, and its damage seems lower then others too.

But my question at this point in time, is how do I play, am I supposed to spam 1 and use my 2 and 4 abilities off of CD? Because that seems to get me killed / can’t seem to kill fast enough.

Or, should I open with my rifle, then weap swap to the grenades use those CDs then flip back to Rifle? Just a general guide on how people typically play this because at the moment I am kind of frustrated, but it seems like such a fun and engaging class at the same time.

Thanks

So I fully admit I am kind of confused here, and hoping you kind folks can help.

I just tamed two pets, a snow leopard and a Arctodus thingy.

Snow Leopard – non-special ability is a bleed, over 11s that does 817 dmg, and there is a number 4 in the bottom right of the icon

Arctodus – Special ability is a bleed, does 112 dmg over 6.5s, no number in the bottom right.

Which bleed is stronger? Snow Leopard is 817/11 = 74.2 dmg /s, Arctodus is 17.2 dmg/s

I’m not sure how the math is supposed to work here, SL’s bleed seems so much stronger, but it’s just a normal ability, whereas Arctodus’ is a special ability and weaker.

Am I supposed to consider the stack? So 817 with 4 stacks, so one stack is 204 for 11s, so that is 18.6 dmg/s compared to 17.2 dmg/s for the arctodus.

Am I looking at this the right way? Should I also be looking at recharge rate of the ability?

And how does the stack come into play – why does one have 4 and the other doesnt have a number? Does that mean one ability can stack up to 4 times (automatically?) and the other can not stack?

Help please..

Thanks.

Update on my issue:

They sent a response saying that I can purchase gems for 24 hrs. I did so, and purchased 4000 gems (extra, so I dont go through this mess again).

My issue is that I am currently living and playing overseas but used my US Paypal info to pay, which their support guy said was the likely reason why I was flagged.

My question is, outside the 24 hrs, what are we supposed to d if we want to purchase more gems?

something odd or something really minor is causing accounts to be flagged as high risk, and they won’t let you make purchases.

it seems their response is something really cryptic too. what is causing the restrictions? Perhaps if you tell us we can contact our bank/Paypal to resolve it so it doesn’t happen again. One guy said he was going to remove the restriction so the person can make a purchase within a 24 hr window um, ok wtf? What about future purchases?

This is why this game should have had an authenticator, that maybe you can slim down the security a bit, or everytime you perform a transaction, you have to submit your secutiry code from the authenticator…sheesh

Same issue here.

Ticket Number: 120905-003820

Bought 800 gems from the store a few days ago via PayPal, and no problem, went through pretty smooth.

Tried again maybe 20 mins ago, via PayPal, and am getting “Problem with finalizing your payment”