Guild Wars 2

You do realize that 400 spirit shards is worth approximately 200g.

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wow, that sucks…

@Zenith.7301

fair enough, if you already are maxed out or close to maxed out in ascended sets then SW-farming is the most effective way to go about it. however, If you are looking to craft multiple ascended sets then fractal 50 and 40 is by far the most effective way to play. And even if you are unlucky (statistically) you are still beating the SW-farming.

@NeoVaris.4806

yeah, it’s only 15%-ish chance at getting an ascended piece but considering that each piece is worth approximately 100g on average this results in 15g / run on average if you need all the asc pieces. factoring in my general experience in what i usually get in a run would be approximately be an additional 5g or so. and then there is the mythical ~3‰ chance of getting the legendary fractal tonic which in my opinion is invaluable.

and as a side note regarding SW, i’d rather work 1h extra and buy the gold needed rather than SW farming in 10+h depending on salary and efficiency on the SW-farming

Zenith.7301:

You have to learn that with this game, doing things yourself is rarely more efficient than just farming gold/AH trading.

Ascended gear is actually one of the few exceptions to this rule. Farming fractal level 40 and 50 nets you more ascended stuff/h than SW-farming → buy mats → craft.

It is however time gated and might give you multiple ammont of the same armor piece. But if you want multiple sets, that isn’t an issue.

wrong sub-forum

Server: Aurora Glade
Map/location: Lions Arch (around Lion’s Court POI)
Character info: Elementalist main-hand dagger(the rest is irrelevant)
How to reproduce issue: walk to Lion’s Court POI in Lions arch and use dagger skill earth 1 (impale).
attached picture shows that the impale animation plays as normal in the air (3-4 m above head head)

other notes: I’m to lazy to make a video since it’s so easy to reproduce…

considering that you have 2 kids and a job, these are my tips:

i’d strongly recommend against farming in the silver wastes unless you enjoy it. if you feel that you are limited in gold in the game just buy some gold. spending 10$ and buying gold for gems is equivalent to approximately 15h of pure farming.

So having that cleared out of the way. we can get to the actual recommendations:

If you enjoy PvP play PvP, If you enjoy WvW play WvW, if you enjoy exploring/storytelling/lore go explore some maps, if you enjoy dungeons/fractals go ahead and find a nice guild to run them with.

it’s really that simple. however, if you want to prepare for HoT then i would strongly recommend fractals since it is by far the most efficient way to get ascended gear while still training your mechanics so you are ready to play in the new raids or on even higher difficulties in fractals. ascended gear only provide a 6% stat increase however compared with exotic gear so it’s absolutely not necessery to have ascended, but if you feel you want to prepare, that’s the area to prepare in.

Pvp will be mostly the same in HoT and so will WvW. otherwise it isn’t much you can do now to prepare for HoT… maybe do living world season 2 if you want to know what’s up lore wise in the world atm.

From wiki:

Metagaming is any strategy, action or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed ruleset, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. Another definition refers to the game universe outside of the game itself. Metagaming differs from strategy in that metagaming is making decisions based upon out of game knowledge, whereas strategies are decisions made based upon in-game actions and knowledge.

In simple terms, it is the use of out-of-game information or resources to affect one’s in-game decisions.

end quote.

the wiki says it really well… not much more to add but in our case the out-of-game information is the fact that people know that the optimal group is full dps groups with some stealth, missile reflection and might stacking. this makes that setup meta.

either

A: change the stat tool tip to something like “percentage of the multiplyer on the damage inflicted by dealing a critical hit”

or

B: modify the stat with -100 percentage units. (meaning u start with 50% and a normal zerker build will have around 120-130%

A is less coding required but less clear while B is more coding required (depending on their code) but a lot clearer imo.

Sooo, i was boored yesterday and decided to read some random kitten on my charachter screen and i noticed that the tool-tip for critical damage said “percentage of additional damage inflicted by dealing a critical hit”

As a person who knows his ways around maths pretty well this is confusing since it is the multiplayer that is listed under critical damage and not the additional damage…

My character have 225.1% additional damage on critical hit which would suggest a multiplier of 325.1% which isn’t the case…

would be nice to have this cleared up.

the prices on these wings will increase. it might be a slow start in the beginning but after some time, i’d say 2-3 months, we are looking at a wing price of 30-40g, maybe 50g each. that’s usually how it goes. however, now they are introducing a “upper limit”. the price of the wings can not exceed the price of 120’000 zhait, and if it does it will quickly be corrected by market players. it’s hard to manipulate aswell for the cheer size. 2,7mill takes around 9 almost maxed out accounts to store. and considering that most players have around a stack on them at any given time, you simply can’t do it. and even if you could, it’s extremely risky for just gaining controll over one market.

it’s a great mechanic, the recipe is not ment for the average gamer, it’s dedicated to TP players who will keep the price fairly stable.

not only would they need to fix the supply and/or the demand of these items, they would also temporarily want to increase the demand in order to deal with the huge supply witch is growing by the hour. they might might consider opening up the mystic chests or whatever they were called for a few days when they release a patch for the silk supply/demand. the thick leather have always been at 8c except at the release. but fixing would probably be a good thing. but it’s not that high on the to-do-list.

EvilSardine.9635:

GW2 is my first MMO. Before this I was playing BF3, BF2, BF1942, and HL mods, . All FPS games.

Whenever one of my buddies mention another interesting MMO, I search up a video on youtube to see what it’s like. All MMOs seem to have terribly boring combat mechanics, lame clunky animations, or are super extremely grindy. Either that or they’re ruined because they have subscription fees or are “pay to win.”

I would not play any other MMO out there at the moment.

you must be longing for destiny then? i sure am, if they do it right i’ll probably join it, tbh GW2 isn’t rewarding to do challenging stuff like high level fractals. the combat is the best one out there, but i just feel they have to nail the reward balance aswell. imo: time + skillfull play == the best g/h.
time + mindless grind == less g/h but still good, maybe 80% of the skillfull play g/h
but atm CoF farming is untouchable.

it’s still a great casual game witch i will enjoy for the most part.

the only game that i know of who does/did (i don’t know how it is now) this is leauge of legends.
in LoL, you get refunded the difference if you bought the champion within a month of an unannounced price*reduction*, i’m not sure if they do it with the weekly skin/champion sales. but i don’t think so

but tbh, LoL is a completely different game so i dont blame gw2 if they don’t do it.
worst thing that happend me was a steam sale. they had a unannounced steam sale and i bought a game for about 30eur and 5h later (not yet started the game lol)it get sold on a sale for 10eur. now thats tough luck xD.

I agree with OP and others that agree on that charging for something that should be encouraged is bad. yes, it’s a gold sink, but it isn’t a very big one but most importantly its a constant fee. and if the fee is that needed then increase the repair fee by 5%, that would cover it.

and remove the god kitten trainer. that’s the reason why i don’t change my build because i have to go and see a god kitten NPC, do it like they did it in GW1, while being in a city you have full control over your build, and while being in a combat zone the build is locked. i mean having the “training area” and the proff trainer on completly different places is just counter intuitive.

while golem chess is great fun for a while it’s not that fun once you’ve figured out the game and learned it, it’s pretty much rng of where the powers spawn, where the player who starts get a upper hand because he is close to 4 squares where the player who is second only get 2… the game isn’t hard to master and thus the starter winn about 70% of the times.

the devs blew this one, this content was added before the genius idea of tickets, unfortunately they haven’t taken time to update it either, my fractal weapons are still waiting to get traded into somthing i can use… yeah, mace on ele!

i think tho OP is refering to the weapons that cant be bought in any other way other than via this “lottery”.

OP, i see where you are coming from, but i think that a few things have to be locked in rng like these weapons are or some armourpiece. it’s what makes them exclusive and rare. you could argue that making them not acc-bound would solve the problem, but that would just make the entire thing pointless more or less. as it will essentially boil down to winning lots of money or not doing it.

see this type of a lottery as a “winn a signed t-shirt by [insert popular singer]” type of lottery. you can’t really buy it for money. hope you see my point. rng is frustrating sometimes, but it’s something we have to deal with as mmo players, it’s a essential part of the game.

yeah, i’ve been inactive for a while because i got burnt out, and i need some help to find my way back into tyria. so here is a few questions i hope to get some answers to, so if you know any of them please help me out here :P

• what achievements can i no longer complete? is it all the southsun cove, frost and flame and the special event that i cant complete?

• how many ascended pieces are out atm?

• anything that i should do now? witch i cant do later during the current event? or is the current event continuing for a few weeks?

MisterEction.9382:

Waraxx.4286:

D3 failure lied totally in the auction house existence (imo, and the bots ofc). the reason behind this is that the AH offered way better items and items that suited you better thn those that droped for you. i.e i played the game for a good 400h after max level on my barbarian and at max i had 1 item on me that had dropped for me or any of my friends. the rest was bought of of the AH. this made me very detached from my character and thus i lost the immersion of building a character witch always was the strength behind the diablo games.

How much stuff on your GW2 character did you get from drops? Except for one alt with a couple trooper armor pieces from quest rewards, all of my characters are wearing stuff I bought from the TP or gem store. I don’t have a single weapon skin I use from drops or rewards. I’d love to get something really nice for a character from a drop or quest reward.

good point. however, despite that, i don’t lose my immersion in the character because GW2’s main purpose of building a charachtar is not in the gear, it’s in the story and the things you’ve done with it. while in d3 the only thing you could change was gender and name, so every character was the same, the only thing making you unique was the your gear. here in gw2 gear is a small portion of the game, and can become completely ignored if you choose to just after a few hours played. alot of things makes you differ from other characters because the story isn’t as linear.

hope you get my point.

tp have a bugg atm witch only allows the top 20 listed buy/sell orders to appear and the supply is counted on these when you click on the item. ie, atm there is around 45+ unbreakable choir bells on the market according to gw2spidy.com and accordingly to the tp untill you klick on the item where it changes to 21 in supply ( 1 available at 19 different prices and 2 available at the same price)

more regarding this topic i refer to the “only 20 listings for tradingpost” topic
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Only-20-Listings-for-Trading-Post/first#post1713075

Ensign.2189:

D3 doesn’t have rampant inflation. Seriously.

It has a problem of never sinking items, and having zero horizontal item progression. As a result, all the value of items in the economy is concentrated in the very best items.

You could have an economy with 1000 items changing hands at a price of 1 gold each, or an economy with 1 item priced at 1000 gold and 999 with a value of 0. The aggregate price level is identical, but they are very different economies.

That’s what happened to D3. As time goes on, fewer and fewer items you find will have any value at all, but the value of the few items you do find that are better than is what already on the market will be worth more and more. It is exactly what a basic macro model scribbled on the back of a napkin tells you would happen, and it is exactly what did happen.

It’s very destructive to the economy. But it is not inflation.

I agree with what you are saying regarding where the location of the money is, however i’m afraid that D3 have a horrible inflation.

as you are saying, all items are constantly losing value because more and more items enter the system without any items disappearing. and you are right, this is not inflation.
so what is inflation? ok, i’m no, economist and i don’t know how the exact definition follows, but i’m quite sure it’s in the lines of: “if a currency is losing value towards time spent then the currency is inflating.” so if it takes 1h to make 1$ in day 1 and it takes 2h the next day then it means the currency have lost 50% of it’s value over 1 day.

ok, so what stops or slows down inflation in a game like d3 or gw2?

-coin sinks
-lowered rewards ( or lowered drop rate of gold)

in d3 there is only 1 major coin sink. it’s the 15% listing fee (there are other but they really fades away in the magnitude). now, the 15% listing fee is great, because the more money that gets traded the more money gets flushed down the sink. so at some point the inflation will stop right? because at some point the 15% listing fee will remove as much g/h as the player base generate, and thus we have a equilibrium.

however, that’s not how the game is built, the game is built to increase your g/h as you progress into the game. simply put, the more gold u have, the better gear you have and the higher level you can farm = more money as the gold rewards increases by level and by gear ( gold find). so once you can farm the highest level you can start replacing your gear with equally strong gear but with extra goldfind/magicfind. getting to max gear and max stats is basically impossible. so thus pepole will always increase the g/h and the gold will thus lose value. ergo, inflation

yes the inflation isn’t as crazy as it was when it began, but there is still a inflation, and yes there is a inflation here in gw2 aswell ( as you might have noticed on the legendary weapons) but the inflation dosen’t hurt you as much because it’s slowing fast because more and more people are hitting the max g/h that they can produce. this is because it’s very easy to get max gear and farm the highest rewarding content witch is something that isn’t true to D3.

TLDR
there is a inflation in d3. because the g/h generated in the player base will always increase

i read the 2nd one but i couldn’t suffer through the first one. ( i gave it a honest try)

maybe you could give a TL;DR version of the blogs and maybe highlight certain quotes to make it more clearer of what you are pointing at.

are you trying to say that the BLTP is ruining the game? or that it’s uncontrolled?

and i can’t find the similarities between the two systems.

D3:

• single player game
• poorly designed economy and have huge inflation problems (intentional?).
• it’s a online auction house.

GW2:

• MMORPG
• balanced economy, and they have the tools to change if something is not woring as intended.
• It’s a trading post.

D3 failure lied totally in the auction house existence (imo, and the bots ofc). the reason behind this is that the AH offered way better items and items that suited you better thn those that droped for you. i.e i played the game for a good 400h after max level on my barbarian and at max i had 1 item on me that had dropped for me or any of my friends. the rest was bought of of the AH. this made me very detached from my character and thus i lost the immersion of building a character witch always was the strength behind the diablo games.

D3 fail because it’s a AH in a single player game where the content was not designed for a AH.

TL;DR
maybe i’m missing something, but it would be nice if you made clear of what you ment with your post

Brewergamer.8357:

Waraxx.4286:

Brewergamer.8357:

Lol there was 5 other people spamming meatspin.com in the chat so I decided to post one as well. None of them were suspended. Not a single one other than me and approximately 5 other players were spamming it.

as of now i cant see any1 posting porn site here. and just because others do it dosen’t mean you can do it. if u realy want to link a porn site in a game like gw2, there are way better ways of doing it im sure other than on ALL chat

Point is there was an entire group of people doing it, and they chose to ban me. It could be anything as small as saying “jewel” in chat and they would ban you for it because it has ‘jew’ in the word which to them is a religious reference and a ban without warning.

i think it’s you who don’t get the point. i.e
if there is 5 ppl killing 5 other ppl irl. should it be ok just because others did it?
yes, all should be punished. and we have no proof of what you are saying is true. maybe they got banned maybe not, we don’t know because alot of what you’ve said here on the forum is total BS and lies.

Jigga.2607:

gassy.8975:

Usually when I see a thread from someone complaining about being suspended due to a name, I can easily see the justification. But I just don’t see it here. imo there’s nothing at all wrong with “Torry Hellheal.”

Do you have any other characters on the account that could have been reported instead? If it really was for the name you listed, I am hoping they reinstate your account sooner rather than later.

heres the list of all my character names: Torry Hellheal, Torry Hellfire, Foxxy Poison, Jigga Thief, and Jigga Know So…

please tell me if my names are offending in any way shape or form.

still can’t see it

Brewergamer.8357:

Who says “hellheal” has anything to do with religion? Lol I got a 7 day suspension for having a character named “Jbrewer Godofpvp”.. You know Arenanet wonders why this game is dead, and why WoW is SO much more successful? Well it’s mainly because Blizzard doesn’t go around banning their paying customers for tiny reasons like Arenanet does, Arenanet rewards the groups of players that go around trying to get people banned by reporting as many people as they can, IN FACT I know of a guild on henge of denravi that used to just spam reports on a commander on an enemy team to get them banned and they literally successfully got several commanders banned. And that ruins the community of a game when everytime you interact with a player in any way they find something wrong with you and threaten to have their entire guild report you. With a game like WoW you are treated better as a customer, you aren’t going to get a 7 day suspension for having “god” in your name because banning someone for 7 days for something THAT SMALL is ridiculous and any professional company will agree with that. Arenanet has probably banned more than half the community of this game roflmao(and they keep wondering why it’s dead), they really show how immature and unprofessional they are by not caring that you are a PAYING CUSTOMER and just issuing bans to whoever gets reported for the SLIGHTEST reasons. And in fact I can see them giving me a forum ban just for saying what I said here, just for voicing my opinion. You did not deserve a ban and neither did the other 90% of players they have issued bans to.

/quote
First, you were suspended not just this week, but in November, December, and twice in March.
You demand details. Here you go:
You chose a name disallowed by the Naming Policy.
You used offensive language. Multiple times.
You posted a link to an pornography website.
You propositioned players asking for things not discussed in polite conversation.
You were reported multiple times, and were suspended — not for “no reason” or for one of “the smallest reasons” — but because you deserved it.
There’s your mature, professional, and competent response. Now, consider the suspensions and the reasons for them (which I believe you well knew before demanding details). Reconsider your in-game (and on-forum) behavior. And conduct yourself more prudently in the future.
/quote -Gaile Gray (ArenaNet Support Liaison)https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Proof-of-offense/first#post1707462

remember this kitten? yepp, your case has been answered to and the case seems rather clear. please stay out of this topic as this OP actually have been reported wrongly

Amos.8760:

Would be awesome if a red came in here and told us all the real reason for the suspension.

usually red’s are quite fast to respond to these accusations. its now been 14h. and i’m starting to get suspicious.

i like imryledien or however it is spelled. it looks sweet and is rather cheep. some of the dungeon staffs are pretty kitten aswell.

Jigga.2607:

sostronk.8167:

Do you get banned for an innappropriate name without being given an option to modify/change your name? Seems a bit extreme.

yea i was in LA and it just kicked me from game and said inappropriate name.. 72hr suspend

wow, just wow. either Anet suspension system only count the amount of reports and not actually looking into it or someone at the office had a really bad day and was being kitten for some reason.

callisto.7184:

Seriously Anet, start do some with loot fractals skins, i have mace 5th time and alway drop on lvl 20. Not 30+ 40+. Also i have 3x warhorn. Is realy awsome loot table. If noone developer can fix this crap. I have idea for u. Players can use mystic forge, put 3 skins and item what want to last spot. Because is pointless have 15 useless skins. And go milion time fractal for staff, which i need://////

I’ll trade you my staff if u have a hammer or a knife… oh wait you can’t trade.

this is what’s kitten me of:

• it’s 2 types of RNG, first u need to get a weapon and then the right one.
• you can’t buy it.
• you can’t trade it.

having 2 of those criteria for a skin is ok, but all 3, then i consider it to be a grind.

now i’m not against RNG in and of itself, BUT when they put RNG in RNG ( yo dawg) it’s way to much.

• RNG decides if u get a fractal weapon in the first place, (i’m not against this)
• RNG decides what weapon you get and you can’t swap or sell the one you get. (this is the problem)

my favorite professions is guardian and elementalists. receiving a pistal or a rifle is no less than a humiliation to the amount of time that i had to put into it. why can’t i choose what weapon i receive? like you did with the fused weapons.

this is stopid, i gave up playing fotm long ago realizing the amount of time i had to put into the dungeon to get 2 daggers for my elementalist and a hammer for my guardian. so far i’ve been lucky to get 2 drops that i can use ( staff and spear) but i have way cooler skins than those. so they’ve just ended up in my bank sitting there for a day when i feel that i want them.

wierd because i can infuse my back piece ( Halloween skin) atleast the back piece can be combned with the ingedients, i havent tried in fear of losing the skin so idk.

Brutaly.6257:

No its not mathematically possible, its on the end of the standard curve. The fact is that with one hit every second and with 5% probability to procc the average time until it proccs is 10 seconds.

Now add in the internal cd to that (it cant procc when on cd) which means with that the procc will be activated every 20 seconds.

With 2 hits every second its 15 seconds. So if you are hit twice every second you will have 6 seconds uptime every 15 seconds with 20% boonduration.

in open world pve you dont need it and in bossfights you will be hit less than once every second or you are doing something wrong.

You get the picture, trust me i tested them and they arent worth it.

Regarding other runes that give more healing, i suggest you search the wiki.

for open world pve you can run in all blue and still find it rather easy to play <.<. this is more for harder content like fractals or other dungeons, lets take the fractal for example as it is the hardest dungeon.
imo the bosses aren’t that hard. if you know how to dodge they are easy. just go range and dps and dodge all attacks and you’ll be fine. so you shouldn’t have your gear focused to boss battles. imo the hardest content in fractals are content when there is alot of enemies, like underground mining fractal, or grawl last boss when the adds spawn. allot of enemies= allot of incoming attacks = more procs from on struck runes.
yes this rune suck for boss battles, but as i said they aren’t that hard anyway.

i hope you see the uses of this rune now.

i’ve tried to find better runes but i can’t find any. so why can’t you tell me about the runes you were speaking of, you know, those that would grant me better burst,control and healing capability.

ok, 60% uptime is impossible but it was only a rounded number. its more like 55% with 20% boon duration. sorry for my misstake.

however you’r math is incorrect about the average amount of hits it take before the rune get proced. im not going to turn this to a massive math post so i’ll just put up the right calculations and i hope you get it.

how many hits does it take to activate the rune on average?

there is a 5% chance on activating it on every hit taken. thus there is a 95% of it not to activate on every hit.

0,95^h=0,5 this equation will give us the amount of hits (h) it takes to achive a 50% chance of not procing the rune thus 50% chance of procing the rune.

some simple algebra makes this equation solvable.

lg(0,5)/lg(0,95) =h = 13,5134… rounded to 13,5

so there is a equal amount of chance to get the rune proced after 13,5 attacks that it is to have it proced before 13,5 attacks. thus on average the rune will be proced every 13,5 attacks taken.

Brutaly.6257:

for it to have 50% uptime, 5s duration with a 10s cd, it has to proc everytime the cd has run out. Which ofc happen from time to time (but rarely, in fact in 5% of the hits received) but even if you where hit 20 times (5%=1/20) a second the nature of probability (its called that for a reason, and not certainty) will make it so you always have less than 50% uptime in a given timeframe. Its physically impossible to have 60% uptime with 5s duration and 10s internal cd and it doesnt matter if you have 15% in 2*rune of the monk.

i am running a AH build, so having 5points in virues is mandatory giving me 20% boon durtion (15 from monk and 5 from virues) witch makes 60% mathematically possible but in practice impossible. 60% was just a round number, or would you like me to us 57,644% instead? despite i did say 30-60% and not 60%.
at 15 attacks there is a 50% probability of the rune to have proced and 15 attacks can easily be dealt to you within 5sec (3 attacks per second) meaning that there is a 50% chance the rune get proced within 5 seconds. witch give us a 33% uptime of the boons. (without boon duration)

And regarding AH its like 20 hps (assuming 50% uptime which is impossible and one ally in range) even if it is 3 boons. Tbh i cant recall how it worked when i used it, i might be wrong because i only recall getting one random boon but its along time ago, but its still kind of useless since swiftness and fury should be permanent in wvw, and even more so in pve, in any competent team. Which leaves you with one stack of might.

like i said, this is not a wvw or a pvp rune, i know that. having thise rune in pvp or wvw is stupid.
this rune gives a 15HP/s for every ally within range ( if it proc every 15seconds witch we worked out to be the average)
i havent tested the rune out either and i am only theroycrafting.

The nature of probability also makes it so for long durations of time you wont get it to procc at all and this lowers the total uptime dramatically. The practical internal cd is infact much longer since its a procc with 5% chance of triggering if you are hit.

i know this, and on Average this rune will proc every 15 attacks from the moment it can be activated again. average is the only thing we can calculate towards when dealing with odds. and yes there will be times when i wont get it to proc in perhaps 50 attacks but it will rarely happen. and sometimes i get procs within 5 attacks. its chance.

Compare it with EM that has 100% prcc chance with and 1 sec internal cd. lets assume that is 10 stacks of might per 10 seconds with 1 attack per second that crit . Now we take rune of the pack and assume one attack per second, this means it will procc once every 20th hit in average.

on average you will proc the rune every 15 attack ( or more precisely 13,5). and one attack per second is very low. considering you will be in the front line having aggro from alot of enemies.
and what makes you think i dont have EM allready?

You get the picture, you need a huge amount of hits for it to procc consistently and this only occurs in open world pve (you dont need ah at all) and in stacked aoe in wvw or when zerged. And you have no guarantees it proccs when you need the health

as mention this rune should never be used in pvp/wvw. and this “huge amounts of hits” is about 15.

Overall we are talking about a very poor uptime/number ah proccs.

If its the AH proccs you are looking for then there are other runes that give you more effective heals per minute and also has more “burst”, control and also support your team.

i’d say it’s a quite strong number of AH procs considering that there is shouts that have less boons/s.
please, share your knowledge about these runes that you talk about.

It might be an option for soloplay but then it would be for fury i would look for, since that is a boon guardians lack.

why should it be for solo play? considering that it’s a aoe buff.

But by all means, invest in it, but im gonna tell you “i told you so”. :-)

….right.

no balancing, just fixed a few things that was annoying me.

seems like they focused on engineer this patch. he.

I’d like to see your source from the numbers and facts that you present.

4*rune of the pack is actually kind of weak, in wvw you should have perma swiftness and fury from your team and the might from rune of the pack is just overall worthless.

fair enough, it’s useless in pvp or wvw, but i kinda knew that i just forgot mentioning that im mainly pve dungeoning.

Brutaly.6257:

Might look good on paper and in pugs but that is about it.

We are talking about approx 10-15% uptime on one random boon. That is 1,5 seconds fury/might/swiftness per 10s.

actually it’s 30-60% uptime of three boons and fury being one of them witch is quite hard to get as a guardian.
according to the wiki, when the rune proc you get 5 seconds of fury,might and swiftness. and not only to you but to nearby allies, witch i must say works very well in combination with AH.

Brutaly.6257:

2* superior rune of the monk and 2* major rune of the monk gives you 5% less boon duration on all boons as 4*pack and 2*monk. Just as comparison.

i don’t understand this comparison but ok.

Brutaly.6257:

Overall i think that setup actually gives more much more boonduration uptime than 4*pack and still enables 24/7 swiftness!

of course it gives more boon duration, but if it’s boon duration i want i would have gone with 2x water 2x monk and 2x(cant remember the name) to give me 40% extra boon duration, and i could care less about the swiftness as this is a pve build and swiftness doesn’t play that big of a role.

the entire purpose of having rune of the pack is to get more AH procs. 3x boons to nearby allies is alot of boon. and 10seconds is a rather low cd.

goals you should achieve (imo)

• get a guild
• get max exotics or close to
• planning for the future as there is little endgame stuff witch you can grind to, most of the stuff in this game is time gated over real time ( dailys , weeklys, monthlys) and not so much ingame.

very very very rough summury of the pve changes

• added endgame dungeon, this dungeon scale, once you’ve completed lvl1 you can start at lvl2. every level takes 20-60 min to finish depending on group skill. the higher up you go the harder it gets. from lvl 10 they introduce agony to the bosses witch is an incurable condition and deals a set amount of % of your max hp and can only be reduced via agony resistance. highest possible lvl to reach is 49.

• added some ascended gear. its a new gear tier basically. its like rare armor is to exotic armor. there is only rings,back,assec and amulets ascended gear atm. this is heavely time gated. i.e if u make 20 dailies in a month and the monthly you can afford 1 piece.

my advice if you like pve and playing dungeons is:
to get atleast a exotic weapon and rare gear. look up a guide on the profession topic and see what build you want to roll with. start playing some dungeons. either with your guild or with pick up groups. if you want you can start with fotm, lvl 1-10 is realy simple and you quickly get a hang of it. maybe in your freetime use the wiki to check up on a few stuff that you have questions about. my recomendation is to start reading about fotm and ascended gear.

try fractals 30+ with no planning and see how well it goes.

and if you complain on lack of technique, planning and skill then trinity i the opposite to what you want. trinity is there to tell people to do one simple role. dps, tank or heal. there you go, everybody knows what to do. where is the planning in that? here some planning needs to be done, here the game doesn’t tell you exactly what to do it just tells you “here bet this boss”
because this “no trinity” game play is quite new the designing of the encounters are still in its testing phase. thus the encounters doesn’t feel as crisp as they do in a trinity game.

if you feel the game isn’t challenging enough go play fotm that’s where the really challenging pve content is. some of the dungeons and the guild missions are designed so that ppl with lesser gear also have a descent chance so when u come in there with max gear of course you will find it easier.

and no kaeden there is no trinity, not even the support, dmg, control that you propose. why? because the definition of trinity is that one person fill one role and one role only. so if there was a trinity in this game then guardian would have 0 dmg and 0 controll and all he can do is support. witch is not the case. no matter how deep you go into the support role you will always have some dmg and some controll that matter. so everybody is contributing to the support/dmg/control areas and not only to one area.

pvp wvw or pve??

pve and wvw:
well, you want to have the celestial stat combos from ascended. but they are quite hard to get so i assume from items you can buy.

going with pvt/berz with ruby jewels is the optimal i think. mybe have a few more berz than pvt and let the rest of the gear be pvt gear. jewels and accesories are the gear that scale the best with crit dmg.

i’d suggest switching to divinity runes. if you can’t afford them, save. divinity runes are beast on almost all ele builds.

as for pvp

IDK, lol, i’m still a rabbit. flies away

… err. did someone google “greatsword vs hammer Gw2” or did someone go waaaaaay back in the dead-topics-archives?

Kangataz.6842:

radiance is precision&cond damage. Doesn’t this mean the burning inflicts more damage per tick, but doesn’t actually stay on longer….

buuurrrrrrrrn

get it? burn as in burning and burn as in humiliated.
ahhh… i’m hilarious.

timecookie.8570:

What makes a difference is Master of Consecrations VS. cooldown reduction on your signet.

actually it’s

Master of Consecrations and boons on virtue activation VS. cooldown reduction on your signet

mrauls.6519:

Are you using runes of the soldier?

no, why are you asking?

i’m using 4x pack and 2x monk

oh and, i’m a pve player. going 0/15/30/20/5 in pvp would just be stupid. as for pvp i cant speak. as i’ve played approx 0 min of pvp as a guardian.

on the other side of the spectrum we have the elementalists who stack healing power and stays in water 99,99% of the time.

once i found a staff elementalists in a Pug and i realized halfway through the dungeon that i had not seen a single meteor storm, i asked him nicely to throw down a few meteor storms to help out with the dps but he simply says “no, then i lose healing abilitys” note that this is AC pre patch and we never were below 75% of health because we had 2 guardians.

so yeah, i prefer a 100% fire ele above a 100% water ele anyday of the week beacuse they actually do something <.<

when i play elementalsits i usually am 50-90% of the encounter in the fire mode because its AA is the only one that is good enough, sure earth weekness is ok but it isnt aoe. also fire 2 is realy nice dps wise and fire field. in some boss fights i never exit fire because they are so simple. i.e frostbite last boss fractal or AC bosses pre patch.

as far as i am aware it will always deal a set amount of your max hp no matter how much hp you have when you received the agony condition.

so i assume that the amount of dmg you recive will be higher if you go into i.e lich form.

I rock a 0/15/30/20/5 build. i only change it ever if i go to fractal lvl 30+ where i change it to a 0/10/30/20/10 or a 0/0/30/30/10 because i think the consecration abilitys are really nice at high fractals. otherwise the 0/15/30/20/5 build will be able to tank enough dmg in any dungon and the consecration trait isn’t as usefull.

the resets you get from minor trait II is actually pretty nice. and grants you some serious survive-ability because you grant everyone 3 stacks of might whenever you kill a foe basically. witch not only gives alot of dmg but also a lot of hp from AH.

as for the 2 trait set-ups you are choosing between. i’d say the 0/0/30/30/10 build is superior because it will grant your team alot of boons from the minor triat 1.

imo. go try the 0/15/30/20/5 build because i prefer the renewed justice over 2 handed mastery in 75% of the fights.

isn’t 4 rune of the pack + 2 monk runes viable or am i missing something?

4 rune of the pack will give u a 5% chance to apply 3 boons (fury swiftness might) to nearby allies when you are getting hit. 10sec cd. giving that you are tanking you should be taking a few hits and proc it rather often.

some quick math gives us that there is a 50% chance of procing it if you get struck by 15 or so attacks from the moment it can be reactivated. 25 attacks give a 75% chance. but on average you should get it proced around every 15 attacks. 15 attacks can easily be delt to you within 5seconds giving us a proc every 15 seconds or so. all the boons have a 5sec uptime and with 20-25% increased duration ( 5-10 from trait and 15 from monk) gives another second.

it sounds as if you are impatient.
do math, be patient.

playing the TP is nothing you can start doing over 5 min or so. first you must find a niche and then once you’ve found it you play it. finding a niche can take everything from 10min to 1 week. depends on how lucky and smart you are.

and if you don’t want to camp the TP 100% of your gaming time i would suggest long-term-investing instead of playing the TP.