Guild Wars 2

You also have to give https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unstable_Cosmic_Essence to him.

Stalvros.9217:

Keeping in mind that you’d need about a minimum of at least 2 Seasons of PvP (due to the restriction of ‘Daily League Participator’ to craft the legendary PvP Backpack ‘The Ascension’

and

A minimum of at least 38 days (due to the need of Fractal Pages which can only be obtained max 3 per day) to craft the legendary Fractal Backpack ‘Ad Infinitum’.

So…….. to sum up……
- Ad Infinitum (Legendary Fractal Backpack) = 1 month+ of game time
- The Ascension (Legendary PvP Backpack) = 2 months+ of game time (Assuming it takes 1 month+ before next season start)
(Assumption based on https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/PvP_League)
- Warbringer (Legendary WvW Backpack) = 4 months of game time

Is this about right?

Incorrect.
-Ad Infinitum = 4 weeks(4 fractal pages per day). ~1h per day for 100cm + 3 rec.
-The Ascension = 2-3 seasons. ~30-45 min per day.
-Legendary Armor = 12 weeks. 3-4h per WEEK.
-Warbringer = 16 weeks, 2-3-6h per day.
Grinding required for Warbringer is truly absurd.

I would prefer some level of clipping

Zeek.6743:

Whats the build i should be running on necromancer in high lvl fractals? Viper? Weapons set? I have no idea lol

Full viper, except rings and amulet(sinister).
Runes – Thorn.
Weapon – Scepter/Warhorn + Scepter/Dagger.
Something like this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNBLhjakhG6uxmbw6GYvxSxgF3DLiJxoAwAIBMtCmBxAA-TBiHQB7S5B9U/5d7PAgHCgGVCSrTAA50LQQlYAA-e

Good find, but completely useless in raids.

Sorry for misunderstanding.
I’ve checked some builds now. Condi damage stat depends on build, class and weapon. For example ranger have 1402(1553 a/t) condi dmg with food. Necro 1957.
ranger build
necro build

With “real” buffs max condi damage is something like 35k/sec on dps test golem, which is a bit less than power.
I don’t know how you managed hitting 1700-1800, it is super easy to stack up to 8-10k bleeding/poison/burning.
May be you mean power damage on condi build?

First of all. Don’t use dagger and sword together. Sword is a power weapon, dagger is a condi.
Take warhorn/axe in offhand if you run power build.
Even if you can’t position yourself correctly(can’t flank) shortbow deals more damage than dagger. You just have to use quickdrow correctly.
Start with sb, press 2 and swap to axe/torch. Do a/t rotation, swap back, and press 2(DON’T use another SB skills(except auto) while quickdrow is active, you will waste it. ). after 2 press 4 and do auto unless 2 will recharge(~2.6 sec). Then swap weapon when you can and repeat.
This rotation+utility skills allow you to deal really extreme damage(~34k with realistic buffs).

MachineManXX.9746:

White Hunter.3416:

Logos.1306:

pvp and fractal vendor require you to craft these 500lv craft tokens. That made it way more expensive now.

So why raid vendor dont requite that ?

Its not because its time-gated, as getting fractal pages is also time-gated for example.

Isnt it unfair?

Let’s do some math.
Ghostly infusion price is 1000 Magnetite Shards + 20g. You can sell it for ~250 gold in trading post. That makes ~200g profit for 1000 Shards. 20 silver for a shard. Ok.
Cheapest armor piece is 150 Shards + 5g that equals to 35 gold for gloves or boots.
As you can see it is already very expensive.
I didn’t mention 150 shard cap per week. There is a lot of cheaper options in game.

So, what are these cheaper options?

Well. I’ve looked closer to the prices for Grandmaster Marks(especially Leatherworker). It seems that buying cheapest armor pieces for Magnetite Shards is better option. But price for chest/leg armor is higher than fractal one.
You can check prices yourself:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Grandmaster_Leatherworker's_Mark
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magnetite_Shard
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ghostly_Infusion_

gin.7158:

Hi guys. Is there any recommended pet for DPS PVE condi ranger if wyvern is not needed?

It… depends.
Tiger deals a lot of condi damage and provides non stop fury for 5 players around you. Use it when heal druid/rev is not present. Your damage loss will be much lesser than damage increase for the over players.
Pink Moa is an another option for cc on small hitboxes. Useful when cc is critical.
Fern Hound is a good party heal. Very effective under high pressure.

Logos.1306:

pvp and fractal vendor require you to craft these 500lv craft tokens. That made it way more expensive now.

So why raid vendor dont requite that ?

Its not because its time-gated, as getting fractal pages is also time-gated for example.

Isnt it unfair?

Let’s do some math.
Ghostly infusion price is 1000 Magnetite Shards + 20g. You can sell it for ~250 gold in trading post. That makes ~200g profit for 1000 Shards. 20 silver for a shard. Ok.
Cheapest armor piece is 150 Shards + 5g that equals to 35 gold for gloves or boots.
As you can see it is already very expensive.
I didn’t mention 150 shard cap per week. There is a lot of cheaper options in game.

This is not a QoL improvements, but balance changes(bad, I can say).
Few examples:

First: Add a Shadowstep to crippling Talon. You throw the Dagger and teleport to the target damaging up to 3 foes arround you.

This will make it super annoying to use in melee range for condi builds when flanking is hard/impossible.
Spirits:

Sun: 10% condi dmg increase

Matthias says hello.
Chance to apply burning gives more damage for fast attacking classes.
Your suggestion is just a plain nerf.

Earth: 10% dmg reduction

This is equal to remove this spirit completely from the game. Absolutely useless.

Nature: 10% Condi duration decrease, 10% more boon duration

Another nerf of a powerful skill. This will make it useless too. -10 condi duration/boon duration is just a plain joke. In current state spirit feels like a real elite and very flexible skill.

InsaneQR.7412:

If the ranger goes downstate all spirits are lost and do not make any effect

Have you ever did self-res?

Remove new annoying shiny birds from critical hits with Nevermore. At least with “effect LOD” active checkbox.

Can confirm that.
Also Wargs in escort event in Stronghold are bugged too. It is unplayable for now.

1. Connect controller and install software.
2. Setup controls.
3. Join Matthias Raid as mesmer
4. Watch Lion’s Arch Airodrome loading screen after 2 min of fighting.

No.

Stitch.1794:

As far as I know, those weapons aren’t used as crafting materials for anything. What are you trying to craft from them?

This

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Contact support; they’ll put it right for you:
https://help.guildwars2.com/anonymous_requests/new

I know what I can do this and get a refund. But why soulbound item can’t be used as a crafting ingridient by an another character? This is looks like illogical and pointless limitation.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Soulbound Wiki contains no info about crafting limitations of soulbound items.

All guild weapons http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_weapons are soulbound on aquire and cannot be used as a crafting ingridient by an another character.
I’ve just wasted 10 commendations and 6 gold for skins I don’t need at all, without ability to craft another one:

0) Prepare to wait more than 2 hours without doing anything at all. It is harder than kill the boss.

You’ll get another LS episode. It is a good compensation.
Cmon, does the another useless gold sink more important than story?

Right direction. Living story more important than another fluffy gold sink item.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chat_link_format#Item_link
Just link them as much Insigths as they want.

This kitten JP harder than Spirit Vale. And you have to repeat it 3 times -_\\

1. Block
2. Move on.
Problem solved.
PvP is a best way to expand your block list.

Wanze.8410:

Aleksandr.9281:

Yes, I am sure. http://buy.guildwars2.com/store/gw2/ru_RU/html/pbPage.heartofthorns?_ga=1.246295815.2006591260.1445852060

Sanctions??? What are you talking about? Do not believe everything you see xD

Yes, if i see it personally, i believe it. If soneone just tells me about it, i question it.
On that note, your link provides an english site for me.

Probably because i am not located in russia.
But i am curious?
Does it give a purchase offer in rubel or EUR/USD?

3500 Rubles. 70 R per 1$. Not cheap.

Any nerf of this skill will make hammer useless in PvE instantly.
L2p. Learn to evade. It is easy.

TheRandomGuy.7246:

Legendary fractal backpiece is locked behind fractal leaderboards so I guess they are not in the game yet.

@OrionXnAsh https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ad_Infinitum Wiki has the recipe.

Prooflink? I can write anything about this. “Fegendary backpiece locked behind Raids” or ""Fegendary backpiece locked behind Aetherpath". Better?

Well, Visual “nerfs” is a very good thing. Finally they are reducing this crappy screen clutter. Game becomes more playable now. More nerfs please. I really like them.
Next thing to nerf: effects size resiseing on big enemy.

Very simple.
1. Remove all dungeons.
2. Rework their content.
3. Add back as Fractals.

Fluffball.8307:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Yassith's_Viper's_Insignia

DO NOT craft this. This recipe requres 75 Fulgurite for each Ascended piece. This is a crazy grind.
Craft non-hot ascended chest with any another stat, then change it in the Mistic forge to Viper’s stats via this http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge#Ascended_equipment_prefix_change recipe. you need only Viper’s exotic insignia instead of ascended.

Dragon’s Stand.
Extremly boring mob+event grind. And you forced to play it for legendary.

“Ascended Gear is now the necessary meta.”
Armor not, weapon/trinkets yes.
“Ascended armor isn’t that big of a difference. (like 2% or something)”
0.7 – 0.5% difference. Yes. Between zero point five and zero point seven. People should use calculators a bit more.
“Ascended Gear from Fractals was nerfed tin-foil hat territory for its drop rate”
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Upcoming-Fractal-Changes/first
“dungeons are the only reliable source for Empyreal Shards.”
Facepalm, really. Go, run some cf in SW. Boring, but you’ll get ~1000 shards/hour

Can’t Join Raid after character change or even log out/log in on same character. It loads back Verdant Brink.
Can’t leave squad. Error message “The player or channel can not be found”

beefjus.9347:

The title says it all. How does one with no armor crafting go about acquiring Marauder and Viper gear?

Without armor crafting?
1. Drop ascendent chest.
2. Select armor piece with any stats
3. Craft Viper/Marauder insignia
4. Change stats on armor piece.
Looks like it is a best way to get gear with this stats.

1. Reduce graphics settings.
2. Use 64 bit client. If you can’t, see 1.

Final boss fight is ok. But really bad design is a events before.
Follow the line, kill mobs, few bosses, collect junk. Boring. TD events, for example, much more better.

6. Extreme time requirments, even for good play and good coordinated groups.
They MUST not take more than 2h to complete.

I have a suggestion to TS to change thread name. New one:
“Destroy the game, please!”.
If you want monthly sub, just delete this game and play some Korean p2w grind pseudo-game.

Looks like that game crashes regardless on your PC’s configuration, if you have High or Ultra graphic settings.
Same issue for me. Constant crashes on PC with High setting and zero crashes on bad laptop with Low settings.

2 crashes(1 in AB at the end of event and another in WvWvW after win cap) in ~3 hours playng on my PC. System? I have 70+ fps EVERYWHERE with it’s spec’s. OS, ofc, 64 bit, Windows 7.
0 crashes in 3 months on my laptop. Avg FPS is something like 20-30 on low settings.
Something is really wrong… Every crash reported. OS 64bit WIndows 8.1

Can not speak to scout Acan to continue story. It completly blocks progress.
Relog at him causes teleport to LA.

Your BrainHex Class is Mastermind.

Your BrainHex Class Your BrainHex Sub-Class is Mastermind-Seeker.

You like solving puzzles and devising strategies as well as finding strange and wonderful things or finding familiar things.

Each BrainHex Class also has an Exception, which describes what you dislike about playing games. Your Exceptions are:

» No Mercy: You rarely if ever care about hurting other players’ feelings – mercy is for the weak!

Learn more about your classes and exceptions at BrainHex.com.

Your scores for each of the classes in this test were as follows:

Mastermind: 16
Seeker: 14
Achiever: 8
Daredevil: 6
Conqueror: 6
Survivor: 4
Socialiser: -8 lol!

Use correct numbers.
~12.5% diference between exo and asc. exo trinkets WITHOUT upgrades.
~7% difference comes from weapon
~5% trinkets
0.5% armor.

Paul Ella.2037:

Xbon.9086:

Rising Dusk.2408:

Non-commander raiding squads are available for all players to set up raids for free. You’ll have access to all necessary functionality without buying a tag.

Not all functions though.

This is correct. The only functionality you will have is the ability to form a squad and move yourself between subgroups. All other functionality (Ready Check, Broadcast, making private squads, etc. etc) will be restricted to Commanders with tags.

“Pay 300g to PUG Raids”? Is it true? Or we will be able to use lfg to find people without tag?

We have no info about new fractals.
Let’s just wait a week:)

17M exp it is a just 944 events. If you did 10 events per day(what is not so much) it will take you 3 month to get full mastery. And don’t forget about exp from killing mobs/exploring the world/story.

You can craft exotic sinister trinkets.

We have MUCH more better things than Chineese players.
Our game version designed for Amrican/Europe market(no/much less grind).
No censorship.
b2p.
Free pre is a crap if you compare it with subjects above.

Grinding is just a bad game design. No exceptions.
Silverwastes cf is one of the most boring things in this game. It is a good way to start to hate playing GW 2.

I am sorry, but there is no way Ascended is going to be required for raids unless Anet ads in a mechanic similar to Agony.

10% stats above Exotic is just not game breaking enough for the masses, so requiring BiS Ascended is not going to make/break raiding in this game.

To be honest, the most grinding part is only an armor. But armor makes a 0.5-0.7% difference between exo and asc. Yes. Zero point five/seven percent. So. Ascended armor don’t required for raids. Forget about it.

I don’t like WvWvW a all. It looks like:
1. find zerg
2. join them
3. find enemy zerg.
4. cast Meteor Shower
5. collect rewards
6. Die in lags.
7. repeat p1.
So. How many times i should repeat this for legendary?