Guild Wars 2

Hello Kaynarael!

I am slow on clicking so somehow understand your issues.

I would advise you to use tanky ranger (toughness, healing power are the best stats for this on a ranger) with two bows if you are comfortable to switch weapons. As pets I would recommend bears who are hard to kill and can be used as “tanks”. For utilities you can use traps for increased cc.

Using longbow and shortbow gives you 3 skills for crowd control and you will usually be at range. You will almost never wait for cooldowns because of switching between bows. The latter means decent dps output.

I would also recommend to reassign keys 6789 to zxcv and left alt to switch weapons.

Necro is very hard to kill at higher levels but is not easy to level early on. Its a good choice, however. You can gain a few levels by crafting.

Thief is very mouvement dependent and needs fast clicking. Thief is squishy as hell and generally is not a good class for PVE.

Ele is the most difficult to play. If you fell in love with it, play staff.

Guardian is easy to play and need neither much nor fast clicking. Weapons for pve are greatsword, staff, and scepter+torch. Traited for retaliation its very hard to kill and generally easy to play.

Two more things. I have a logitech G600 mouse. It’s basically like your naga. However, the scroll wheel can be clicked right and left. It’s very easy and gives two more assignable keys. I would recommend that mouse to you.

Finally, you can level up with crafting. You will need gold for that. I am willing and will be most happy to send you some gold/mats if you want to gain 20-30 levels with crafting. Feel free to send me a msg here and I will gladly help

Cheers,
Yassa

Something positive

AG Bl near garrison. Two d/d eles met and started a fair duel. After a prolonged fight the better of the eles downed the other. Instead of stomping me the winner went away and bowed. I rallied and bowed back.

That noble d/d ele was from Miller Sound, MYA guild. Utmost respect to this individual and his guild. It’s always a pleasure to meet any of you, guys

Cheers and thanks for the fight!
AG, DAWN guild.

We play WvW to have fun. Right?
We need other servers (their players) to have fun, right?
If ppl are bored to dead and stop playing we will not have fun, right?
Blob = skill lag, right?
Lag is not fun, right?
Blobs are fun-killers in the long term because they kill the fun.

Dear RS and AM mates, those of you that enjoy WvW should start doing something against blobing attitude (and AC use, overkill is not fun). Otherwise, in several months you will not be able to have fun at all because your numbers will become very low.

Good luck!

Again and again

Guys, estimated time can not be given because there is no way to know when someone will decide to leave an area.

You go in when someone goes out. How to predict when ppl will leave?

The only information that Anet can give us is how many ppl are queued at the moment we try to enter.

Cheers!

Hello!

L2P argument again, mhm. As a thief I would say it is very unfair. Don’t trust it, guys.

Anet will do two things in the future, I suppose:
1) they will nerf the stealth;
2) they will boost survivability of the class since without stealth a thief is a dead man walking.

As you see in order to preserve the class a very big revision of its mechanic is needed. This will take time.

Cheers!

So, gear and cosmetics in WvW. Possibly a really bad idea.

If the cost is very high (say 1k badges for one item) it will probably reward true WvWers and discourage PVE players. If the cost is low and the new items are shiny enough the PVE mob will come to WvW maps. You know what that means

So, hopefully Anet will either discard WvW gear introduction or the price will be very high (that is, the effort/reward ratio in PVE should remain much more attractive).

Cheers!

Hello!

I leveled up my thief in WvW. It is possible.

I played and still play a condition/vitality based build (carrion and PVT armor & jewels). My primary weapon was shortbow. Trait points were spent toward vitality and toughness (lines 3 & 4).

If you have karma to use, you can buy some low lvl yellow gear from WvW BL vendor. Note, that the price of rare WvW gear increases with lvl and becomes stupidly expensive.

Cheers and good luck

God forbid!!!

To put it bluntly – the less the gear rewards WvW offers, the less the grinders on battlefields.

WvW community has more than enough problems with ppl coming for JPs and map completion. We don’t need the gear obsessed maniacs as well. WvW has number restrictions, it is not CoF p1.

The reward of WvW is the fun obtained by coordinated play, large scale battles…the camaraderie, the sense of community.

We don’t need item rewards to be there

Only a WvW player feels embarassed while donating all his gold;

Only a WvW player rages at those who run jumping puzzels in primetime;

Only a WvW player is happy to run with a build that can’t kill a kitten;

Only a WvW player is willing to die in order to distract the attention of the enemy;

Only a WvW player understands why stealth thieves should be ignored and left without a fight. Hence only WvW players counter thieves with boredom;

Only a WvW player gives his gold to the commander because he doesn’t want to see his commander spending time in PVE.

I run, fight and die but I don’t use that spot. I don’t know whether it is an exploit or not but I do know it is not fair to stay there. Also, it irritates people. The latter is important.

For having fun in WvW players from other servers are to be there as well, right? They come to WvW to have fun. Hence, I will not ruin their fun because this will ruin my fun as well.

For the same reason I don’t run away from battles I will eventually lose. A good although lost fight is better than no fight at all

Cheers!

Hello!

I have three lvl 80s. I play mostly WvW. I will compare them in order to show that thief is very much OP.

1. Glass cannon ranger. I shoot, they die. They shoot, i die In short, it’s fair because I am really a glass cannon. Easy to play.

2. Bunker d/d ele. Purely support class. It’s impossible to kill me but I can’t kill you as well. In other words, they shoot, I smile. I shoot, they laugh Bunker ele is fair because compared to other classes it is very hard to master.

3. Thief. Damage – insane. Survivability – insane. Glass cannon – hell no. Fair – far from it. Very easy to play. It’s like: I strike, they cry; they strike, I laugh

Some observations. I was feeling OP in WvW at lvl 60 with thief. Underleveled and undergeared I have been collecting as many badges as with my ele. Without efforts though.

Killing a thief? Only if s/he is taking risks (that way one can die with bunker ele as well). Otherwise, a thief can not be killed, i.e. if played reasonably.

I, for one, play a condition based spec and I am not using stealth/backstab. My personal understanding is that currently this style of play is not fair.

Cheers!

P.S. My utmost respect for thieves running as a glass cannon builds with their organised guild groups. It is incredibly hard to survive and contribute that way and such thieves are really skilled players.

Guys, what I see is that most of you have never been part of a large organised group. Are you going to call the Red Guards guild 25 men group a mindless zerg?! Eh….

Being part of a large organised group fighting against another one is the greatest fun in WvW. It takes much more skills compared to small groups though. I suppose you just don’t know that yet. Hopefully you will someday and this will change your mind pretty quickly.

Btw, being a part of one of the several large organised groups fighting in coordination against several big guilds from the other servers is the best experience I have ever had in gaming

Cheers!

So, you propose to ruin the fun of all these people who love to play together as a zerg? Including as well big WvW guilds and all those community created large scale events.

Let me respectfully to disagree

Hello!

After the 28th January patch there are a lot of complains about the ways to acquire the new/old ascended gear. All these complains rely on the notion that gear is essential for having fun in GW2 while acquiring it is not fun.

I have to respectfully disagree. First, acquiring gear is fun as long as playing the game is fun. By the way, gear is very easily obtained in Guild wars 2 compared to all other MMO’s.

Second, gear is not essential in GW2. Let me repeat that: gear is not in way, shape or form essential in Guild wars 2. Not for having fun at least

What do I mean. If you are a newcomer to the game you probably dont know that the so called structure PvP has its own gear and it is given by default when you enter the mists (the PvP zone). No gear to acquire here. The part of the game most relying on gear – the competitive PvP – does not have any gear acquiring process. Go there at lvl 1, become immediately fully geared and lvl 80 fighter and have fun

Now, we are left with PVE and WvW. Here you can acquire gear. Do you need the best gear to be competitive and successful in PVE? No, you dont. You can do all the PVE content with green gear which cost close to nothing on the market. And that without being more than an averagely skilled player. The exceptions are so few (Arah expl or high lvl Fotm) that we don’t need to mention them. There are always exceptions. But in general 99% of the PVE content is doable with green gear and average skills.

On a side note, GW2 is not gear game but skill game. Having the best gear in Arah without being a reasonably skilled player will not help. You will die all the time. There is no gear for standing still and pew pew in this game.

What about World vs World, a big scale fight between three servers. Do we depend on our gear there as WvW is a sort of PvP? No. Some nights ago I played my fully geared lvl 80 elementalist. I earned approx. 70 badges (that’s a lot). The next day I played my low lvl undergeared thief. I earned the same amount of badges.

I am an average player. It hurts but it’s true – I lose too often against skilled players. I am saying that only in order to make a point: WvW success depends on skills and not on gear. Hence the equal amount of badges with geared and severely ungeared alt.

One more thing for the newcomers. Gear is not the way to increase your stats and performance in GW2. That way lies in boons and the so called combo fileds . With the best gear you get single digit percent increase of something. With combo fields and boons you can get a hell of a lot more which makes gear obsolete in WvW. If you want to do the math for yourself just see gear differences in power and then note than a single stack of might is equal to 35 power (having 10-15 stacks of might is not uncommon).

Cheers and have fun!

Great post,Michael! You are completely right.

The game is awesome compared to everything else on the MMO market. Most of the people I play with think so. Community on many servers is strong, helpful and friendly. This is because the game is very good.

Also, you are pretty right that we see the vocal minority here. Most of the players are far most respectful and informed. One can clearly see that in threads that are about builds, wvw tactics and matches, etc.

I for one would like to thank Anet for the game. Your efforts and dedication are highly appreciated

Ah, you are that ele Messi Seriously, you either do not know what are you talking about or you are, say, joking.

Hello guys!

D/D ele here. I just want to point something which escapes attention.

I read above that D/D ele is the most powerful class in this game. Lets assume that this is true /i.e many realiable ppl has played ALL classes and builds and reached the same opinion at the end /. Good.

I play D/D ele and I have been killed by thieves. Shame on me – I know . The question is why. The answer – because using the full potential of a d/d ele is incredibly difficult. It takes months to learn the craft, save you are an ele Messi. At least 90% of the players (me included) will never reach the full potential of the build. By the way, a gaming mouse is absolutely essential for D/D ele.

If you dont trust me – pls feel free to watch some of the daphoenix vidz posted in ele forum. Honestly, I have yet to meet a player who plays the ele as it should

That said, what about thieves? Are they difficult to play? We know the answer. Thief is extremely dangerous and easy to play. That’s why thieves are considered OP.

Apart from that to counter a thief you need to be aware of him. In WvW this is not exactly the case. A patient thief can ambush ppl with ease and most of the time with deadly success. And I don’t even speak for those situation when we are in fight and a stealth thief just appears from nowhere taking advantage of our already lowered HP.

Cheers!

ReqX.3178:

@Yassa, you can buy all exotic gear but legs from karma vendor. See http://dulfy.net/2012/09/08/gw2-templegod-karma-armor-sets/
Alas, you can buy all PVT gear (and daggers) from badges too…

Regarding design: that’s was transmutation is for ;-)

Yep, you are right. I wrote “some gear” because my point was an anti-grinding one, if you take my meaning, and I don’t expect to see ppl having 200k+ karma to buy 5 pieces

Alas, for the casual player to buy something meaningful with WvW badges will take ages with the current drop rate.

Anyway, you are right! Cheers.

Hello!

First of all, DaPhoenix, thanks a lot for your guide! I witness it works very well in both PVE and WvW (I don’t play sPvP).

I would like to propose you to add some gear alternatives to your guide since running AC only for clothes and daggers quickly becomes a real pain (grind).

So:
1. You can buy some pow/vit/tou (PVT) armor with Karma. If I remember correctly three pieces are obtainable that way.
2. Heart of the Waves dungeon has as well PVT daggers. They have a ridiculous and strange look being big and having blades formed of blue ice but still HotW is a nice change to AC.
3. [Not true, see edit.] If we go for boon duration runes once again running HotW we can buy two superior runes of sanctuary two of which give 15 vitality/15% boon duration. We can use these to replace the original Major runes of water hence gaining additional 5% boon duration.

It seems like armor of earth is now working properly. Still not the best trait around.

Thanks once again for your awesome guide, mate. I am anticipating eagerly your next writings

Best wishes,
A happy ele

Edit: My fault with runes. I haven’t really paid attention after seeing that major give +10% boon duration. Sorry!

Awesome tips, Doc, ty!

Awesome guide, the best information on Mesmer I have found around! Very well done videos as well. Thank you!