Guild Wars 2

Thank you Fatalyz,

Will it be faster in WvW or in Magumma?
If the difference is small – i will choose wvw ofcourse
but if its a huge difference, i will have to do some pve

What do you think about the gear? Soldier will feet? Damage will be too low?

Thank you for the answer.

I dont like daggers much… it feels wierd, fast weak attacks :/

Please try to refer to my other things i wrote .

and i will check for “proof of heroics” – not sure i have any.

Hello everyone, good morning.

So i will try to make it short,

I just came back to the game after roughly 2 years out.
I have played Warrior and Guardian before, but now i really liked the Melee Necro (Reaper) concept.

So my questions are:
1. Fastest way to unlock Reaper? (i’m 80 with only 30 hero points or so) so just run in Maguuma to collect 250points or there is another way? (i REALLY hate pve/leveling)

2. WvW – assume i’m a Reaper already – i though about running with Soldier gear (i like to be tanky esp’ if i’m playing melee in some cases) what do you think about it?

3. Staff & GS and Lich form. Staff and Lich form for range fights and ofcourse GS&RS for close fights (which i like a bit more then range fights) -

4. Wells – basically because of the AOE damage in WvW.

5. No doubt GS benefits from Power, but how about Staff/Lich damage with Power (Soldier) ? Do they benefit from it aswell?

6. Any good build for a noob player for WvW ?
I though about: Reaper – Soul reaping – death magic.
I know its a bit defensive and much less damage. but dead player in WvW does 0 damage

I hope i set my questions right, any additional tip will be grateful.

Hi guys,

i will try to be short:

Every time i run the client – it try to redownload the whole game again.
I tried to uninstall and reinstall, but i cannot install it since the Gw2setup.exe crashes.

Other games works fine (everyhting else works fine)
I disabled firewall/antivirus just in case
I have reinstall windows (without format).

Any other idea ?!

Thanks.

Can you provide me with decent wvw build? mostly tanky build.

I though about running GS/Staff in wvw and Dagger+warhorn/Staff in spvp.

A build will be great!

Hi guys,

So i’m a nub and trying some spvp as reaper.

Something is just feeling wierd, when i go GS/Staff – i feel that i just cant hit things

Every fight, i feel that i do some damage (not enough) and after few moments i die and my target have 90%+ health.

Is it just me?
120 ping is too high for spvp/wvw ?
Any simple and usefull build for new player?

Vukorep – you are awsome! thanks!

About D/D might stacking – i didnt used pyromancers puissance so i guess this is why i had hard time in stacking might (Tried to use it with blast on fire fields only).

Now i’m trying to learn the D/D abilities – what’s the “more frequency” abilities to use for high burst/damage ?
and more frequency abilities to survive? defend my self?

When i’m saying “more frequency” i mean that this is the combo abilities u will use incase everything is off cool down, the most effective abilities to that metter.

Thanks!

Thanks for the help!

I know i’m weak in WvW, that’s why i’m playing only in part of big groups and not alone. i dont mind it takes longer, i learn the class in the area i like.

How D/D in 1vs1? must stuck might to be viable? do you stuck might during the fight or before?

The main thing that kinda make me worry is the surv’ in zergs/any wvw fight.
For example – i played warrior had high armor and high health
Guardian – had high armor and lots of defensive abilities
Necro – had high health and “secondary” health bar.

With the Ele – i feel i dont have much as Staff (or even d/d) – low health, low armor, and it seems that the defensive abilities aint that great.

So how do you survive? or what i miss in Ele’ aresenal?

Thanks!

I hate pve. even if it will take me much longer i will stay away from PVE :/

Hi Guys,

So my Ele is now 56 and i have started to do some wvw.
I need some advices with:

1) How do you survive? d/d is nice damage but low armor+health – i die alot
(i’m used to play Necro, and i manage to survive damage) – speaking about zergs

2) Staff Ele – my single target damage feels very low. any ideas? or its a aoe weapon mostly?

3) Do i have to stack might as D/D to make it effective? any advices how to do it?

4) Any suggestions for wvw builds (D/D & staff) will be nice.

Thanks!

Hello Rangers,

So i’m pretty nub in this game, until now i played Warrion and Guardian to 80
Ele’ at 56 or so and that’s about it.

Anyway, i’m interested only in WvW and sometimes Spvp. No pve atall (except for leveling ofcourse).

So, Rangers looks fun and LB with 1500distance looks like huge advantage in zerks fights.
Druid also looks nice.

So my questions are: LB+Staff will work?
I dont want to be healer – mostly for self surv’ and some team support but not “main healer” role.
Also, i hate pets/minions – how much i gonna suffer with ranger ? =\

Any extra information will be great.

Thanks and good night!

p.s – sorry for English mistakes.

Hi guys,
So i installed new windows (without formating).

The wierd thing is, i download the 64bit client and the game download has been started.
When it reach 99% it got stuck, did not created any folder in my program files/64bit
and did not find any gw2.exe file in my HDD.
The wierd thing is, i could play the game (!!) because at 99% you can play, seems that it downloaded enough to play but after i exit the game, i have no GW2.exe nor launcher
so i need to run the client and to download the whole game again.

Any idea? (reinstalling windows did not helped – maybe full format?)

First of all, thanks for all the info’ !

Now i do prefer melee overall, i like the damage my warrior could do back in the days

but in WvW i prefer to “survive” more then do damage, and as Warrior i could not survive much.

So to make it easier, I guess my options are:
1. Defensive Warrior/Guardian-
* How much “defensive” they are? They survive MUCH more or just a lil bit more?
* How much their “offense” is lacking? They do MUCH less or just a lil bit less?
(Hope you understand where I’m going here)

2. D/D Elementalist and Staff Elementalist:
* How is the D/D damage compared to his defense? Is he good at surviving big fights?
* How is the Staff damage compared to all other classes? Because it felt really low to me.

Sorry for all the questions, but I will do 1 more :]
How is the new class? Revenant? (Wvw of course)
Is it melee? Physical? Magic?

Thanks!

Hi guys,

so i played abit 1+ years ago and i would like to try this game again (mostly because of the new exp’)

Anyway, i dont do pve atall (exept for leveling ofcourse)

My only interests are WvWvW mainly and some structed pvp.

I kinda have hard time picking a class now, i like melee but i feel they are weak in wvw (big fights)

So i tried Elementalist but D/D is also melee and staff feels abit wierd, dunno why.

I have 80 warrior & guardian and 51 elementalist.

Any suggestion? fun class that can preform well in WvW.
Some noob friendly class (elementalist dosent feel like noob friendly atall)

I heard that guardians can hold bows now? maybe 2H + bow guardian?

Any advice will be great!
thanks!

Well, i’m new to this game, came from wow a month ago.
i have now 80 guardian (first) and 80 warrior, both of them fully geared.

My own opinion is that warrior are just more fun. all their abilities/trairts going around damage mostly, while guardian have much more of group abillites.. support..

its up to you, damage wise only, i guess warrior will do much higher
(even in wvw.. as Guardian i could not slow my enemy, i got kited 24/7)

i just liked the feeling of warrior more, phisical, brute, big numbers, longbow/rife much more fun then staff.. (and have larger range)

it may sound stupid, but i like to “improve” my self.. let the other around me do the buffs and support, i want evertyhing to my self! :]
while as Guardian every second trait is a group improvment, i felt its not big deal for my self, i didnt really felt that improvment (ofcurse there is, for a group, not for you only)
as warrior, every trait felt much stronger, because its mostly solo trait.. not group.

Well, i might be wrong, but that’s my overall feeling..

Yeah, i understood this part :]
i just also mentioned that i did lots of damage, but i guess to diffrent players
thats why i didnt recieved any loots, because i didnt do enough to a specific player.

owh, thanks Liq’ i guess that was the main problem, because i ran and hit diffrent groups every time :X

Will make it simple, how this system works?

today, huge zerg vs zerg fight (tier 2 servers), i did tons of damage, mostly aoe

in the end of the battle, 1 loot bag while my friends got 10+ each.

how this is works? why they get and i dont?

Thakn you and good night.

what do u mean one trick pony?
it kills.. and fast dosent give your enemy time to react :X

Thanks for the posts.

still cant decide.. i want the damage, but i’m afraid i will get bored when i’m 80 :[

btw, saw some videos of warrior crits 20k+ with 1 rife shot (guess it was that kill shot)

Hey guys, will try to do it short.
after playing Guardian, i really want something with high damage.
i’m doing mostly wvw.. i’m thinking between Warrior and Ele’

Warrior : really like the high damage, high numbers, malee range
cons : i’m afraid they lack abilities.. something that will make them boring.
also… i like malee range, but i think range is better in wvw..

Ele : lots of abilities and options, something that can make this class kitten ring, can be malee (d/d) or range (staff)
cons: die fast (?) die alot while leveling, not high numbers/burst like warriors..

i know each one of u have his own opinion, but it will be still nice to hear more ppl thoughs.

if i could just know that 1) warrior is not as boring i think 2) they can do pretty well from range (wvwvw)
i would have choose them.. but its not the case :X

Something is wierd here guys…
i have AH, and i just dont feel i get health back.. atall -_-

i was about 5k health, “save yourself” got like 8(?) boons from it – and i’m sure i recvied 0 heal.

i just dont feel it works.. in suggestion?

(ofcurse i give might every time i crit – using knight set)

thanks for the answers.

problem is, i HATE dougnens :P (hate pve allover)

so i though mybe it is easier for me to buy gems (20$?) and get around 30-40g from it
it will be enough to get the exotic from trading post.
i dont mind paying only 20$ if it will save me hours in doungens.
payed 20$ to wow in the last 6 years so one more time aint big deal.

No i dont, and i dont have gold to lvl it.

Hello,
So in another theard ppl told me to get the Knight armor (for 0/5/30/30/5) build

now someone in the game told me there is no diffrence in the stats between the armor.. only the look.

i am a bit confused.. can someone tell me how the gear going on here?
diffrence on stats?
and where\how do i get that armor sets?

Thank you,
Sagi.

lol, that’s great mate, i got everything you wrote.

i am 74 now, so soon will have to decide i guess.

i did lots of wvwvw latley and my new mainly concern is my ping/ms .. i wakittenting someone ON him.. and i got “miss” all the time, someone told me because of lag, i get tho’s misses… not sure if its because where i live, or because we fighted 3 servers on the same spot (huge fight)..

anyway, if this my internet just weak for that, i’m afraid i will have to play range class ;[
(my wow ping is about 70-80ms so its not that bad.. its wierd we cant check ping in the game)

wow – lots of info. thanks alot guys.

so if i understood right – Altruistic Healing build kinda works like that :
i crit = i give might
i give might = i get lots of small heals.

So this works only if:
1) i crit
2) there are alot of friends around me to get the boon

what is the radius that my teamates need to be to recieved my boon (so i get healed) ?

second thing :
if i run Altruistic Healing build, will be much diffrence between hammer/Gsword or going for sword/shield ?

with shield i might have 2 def’ abilities, but with greatsword i will hit more = crit more = more healing..

Sagi.

Ok,
first of all, thank you Arch for this fine answer!

Well, i’m lvl 68 now, so i know a bit about the game (skills/weapons swap and stuff)
and i know there is no “tanking” in doungens..

but i talk only about wvw, i want to “tank” there.. and when i say “tank” i mean survive longer (in the cost of lower damage ofcurse)

To be honest, i just feel that using shield aint reward enough.. getting 2 abilities with huge CD.. mybe it will be better to just use another “offensive” wepon there?
or just 2handed instead of gimping your self with sword/shield.

well, this is just my thinking..

About thougness (increase armor right?) does it lower magical damage aswell?
(in wow armor does not lower magical damage, only phisical)

Thank you,
Sagi.

Hello guys,

i will try to make it short.
i’m a wow player for the past 6 years,

Now i want to ask few simple questions, to make it easy i will sort them by numbers.

1) Is there a PVP gear and pve gear? (like resilence in wow?)
2) If i use a shield, do i get anything else exept the 2 abilities? (in wow, in the moment u use shield, u have X% to block attacks)
3) ^ if not – what else shield gives exept the 2 abilities?
4) If i want to be def’ Guardian, low damage, high surv’. should i go for thoughness or vitality as main stat? Sentinel or Knight gear?

Any tips/good builds for def’ wvw Guardian will be great.

Thanks and great night,
Sagi.

Hey guys,

i am playing on window mode (only that way), and the brightness is just TOO low..
when i’m in dark places/night i can bearly see anything.

someone told me to get the desktop brightness higher, but i need to make the desktop
TOO bright so the game is running normal.

i cant change the desktop brightness everytime i alt-tab to the desktop..

Anyway to increase the game brightness WITHOUT changing the desktop brightness?

*Tried SweetFX, but it tells me some Directx file is missing from my computer – i have windows 8 with the latest dx..

thanks for all the comments.

in wow (atleat pvp, i dont pve) u use 80%+ of your abilities
ofcurse you wont use “teleport: Orgrimar” when you are in the arena xD

Anyway, i find lots of good things in gw2, i just hope my guardian wont bored me soon..
(i’m only 16 but i feel i saw all he have to offer, and from now on, its only numbers improvements)

agree.

they put so much work on everything in the game, from gfx, animations, sounds (npc talks!) amount of great and the look of the gear on each players..

but it seems they just forgot about the class it self.. every class in the game could use 3-5 more slots in the action bar.

I did played ele’ just because i felt they have lots of options.. but i just hate playing casters.. i like toe to toe fights :\

Another thing – you dont need tankers/healers in pve, u also cant see the dps of the group
so how you tell which player is good in pve or bad?
how can you tell this group will do X doungen much faster then Y group?

So what keeps you in game?
i allways liked that i have lots of options in the heat of battle..
to go fully offensive or change to def’ in seconds… that i have abilities agaits X
and abilities agaits Y..

right now i feel i use the main attack (1) while keeping the rest (2) damage abilities on CD.
its just really bothers me, because outside of that, the game is really looks great, i just afraid that i will get bored fast after X time of doing the same.

Hey guys, so i came from WOW to gw2, and like it saw far.. everything is new to me and its great. gfx is AMAZING :O

Anyway, 1 thing that bothers me is the amount of abilities on each char’

for example, with my guardian now (greatsword) i have 4 abilities that hits mybe with a side effect and a grab(cc) ability.. and ofcurse 3-4 more from the one i choose my self..

as a hunter in wow – 3 full bars (3X10) abilities that i just use in fight, and 5-7 more less common.

i just feel that i allways repeat the same buttons..

So please, tell me, is it feel like that at 80? classes gets more deep?
and for ex wow players – esp’ in pvp – what did u like here more then wow?

i need some motivation guys, help me with that.

Sagi.