Guild Wars 2

You realized your enemies drop bags for you to loot? Where did those loot bags come from? They are originally your property and your enemies STOLE them from you! Those kittens! Kill them to get back what was yours!

JustTrogdor.7892:

I am a bit of a loner and like to solo a lot. Will this work out past early levels given my great sword weapon set?

Greatsword is a staple in many Guardian builds, and some absolutely swear by it. Whichever build you end up with at level 80, Greatsword continues to be a viable weapon option.

Do guardians have to be able to fly around in circles while pressing every attack key without having to look which ones they are pressing?

There are not many keys to press really: 1 to 9,0, F1 to F3. You will get used to which key (which skill) to use for which situation. I don’t think it will be a case of facerolling the keyboard and pwn players – you will have to be aware what you are doingm if you want to play well and support your allies.

What do I have to look forward to playing a guardian as opposed to other classes?

Great survivability is what set Guardian apart from other professions (classes). Guardian has more damage-mitigation skills than any other profession and provide great support via boons.

What will I probably dislike playing a guardian past L10?

The very limited range option. Also, Guardian doesn’t have many options to move quickly across maps.

What should I certainly start doing right away with my guardian aside from just running around killing stuff?

There are more to leveling than just killing stuff. You should gather every nodes, discover and conquer new areas, points of interest, vista and jumping puzzles. Do some crafting in between if you like. This applies to any profession, not just Guardian.

What should I focus my weapon and armor upgrades on (I didn’t even know they existed until today lol)?

You will be changing weapons and armor pretty frequently as you level. So feel free to slot in whatever runes or sigil you find in your current setup. I would advise not to slot crystal but save them for crafting. At this point while leveling, the upgrades will probably won’t affect how you play significantly.

Also my early impression is that crafting is kind of more work than it is worth. It seems I can find just about any item I want in the trade store at a good price. Is there more to it later that makes it worth doing?

Crafting at this point, is a mean to gain XP, that’s all. As you said, you can probably find anything you want on the TP anyway, and cheaper than if you craft them. At level 400, you will be able to craft exotics, which will be useful if you want a specific stat combination which you can’t find on TP.

I think many posters misunderstood the intention of my original post. I am not saying don’t discuss about the profession/changes/nerf. I am not saying don’t voice out your concerns about them or let Anet knows how the nerf/changes impact or affect their game-play. I am not saying “heck, let’s just suck it all up in silence”. I have already explained I am not that kind of casual players where I value the social aspect of an MMO (i.e., “chillin and making friends”) more than anything else in the game, including game play.

I am “casual” because I don’t take GW2 as life and death, like as if my best friend just died when my ele’s RTL got nerfed, or Anet just stole my credit card when they implement boon hate while I mainly run Guardian. I don’t rage in a fit and say “Anet you betrayed us” or “Anet you don’t care” or something, then post some cleverly-titled goodbye thread on the forum, giving Anet an ultimatum – “my way” or I am on the way out.

It is the attitude and mentality I am talking about here.

You can try to level up a few more in another race’s starting zone. That way you will still be able to fight mobs that are level 1 to 10.

Also, don’t forget you can dodge, run away, etc.

LordByron.8369:

To OP.
The difference is between having in game friends or not.

Chilling with friends and making new is the ultimate goal of casual players.
When your class becomes unfun and not desired due to overnerf they just take away your fun.

I am not “casual” as in “casual about game-play or the game itself”. I read up about the professions, pour over the notes and posts about the various builds, etc. I enjoy tweaking my character, play with the mechanics that the professions offer, test them in PvP, PvE and WvW. I play to have fun. The difference is that:

I don’t have the Best-In-Slot gears (a.k.a ascended)? That’s OK.
I am not in the top half of the leadersboard (in whatever form)? That’s OK.
I do not have more than 100 gold on me? That’s OK.
I am not a Commander? That’s OK.

Fun for me is not only when I can pwn the other player in WvW, or I can kill the boss very fast. If fun is only about pwning, then of course you will be miserable when the nerf bat comes. Fun for me is how many ways I can kill that mob/player? How will the Mesmer do it, compared to the Thief? Can I do it without being a glass cannon?

In actual fact, though I belong to a large guild, I am usually solo-ing, by myself, except when I am running dungeons or participating in guild events. But because of the way I look at the game, and the amount of time I spend on it (though those time are certainly maximize as much as I know how), I would categorize myself as a “casual” gamer. I don’t let GW2 take over my life and then get upset when things don’t go my way.

sostronk.8167:

All I got was you spend 2-3 hours on a weeknight and up to 6 hours on a weekend playing an MMO when you have a family and a job. I think you need to think about that a little more rather than why there is all this apparent hate and/or rage in a gaming forum.

Typically, not religiously. When there is nothing planned for the nights or weekends (such as movies, shopping, night out with friends/family, other appointments, etc.), this is what I do, in between catching up news on TV and other good programs. I believe I strike a nice balance and I am not worried

Anonymous.6935:

Vayne.8563:

People who leave over nerfs to a profession probably aren’t worth trying to save. Just saying.

People like you should perhaps spend time enjoying this “great game” rather than typing to strangers in the game’s forum? Or maybe spending time with family and/or become involved with real life situations? Your forum history quite frankly speaks for itself, so i’ll leave it there! Thank you.

You sound so angry. I don’t know why. GW2 is just a game. Why do you sound so angry?

Anonymous.6935:

Guess this game is for full on elitists who have nothing better to do with their lives, spending every waking minute on this game (and the forums too it appears looking through people’s history).

Bring on the fan boys flaming me now! Life goes on, people will quit, doesn’t matter though as you can still play this broken game for however long it’s going to last. Or even…yes even walk out of your current accomodation and get back to the real world.
:P

These forums very much amuse me! Ha!

So you are not an “elitist who has nothing better to do with their lives”. Then why do you sound so upset about what they are writing here in the forum? Why do you care? I would think if you have better things to do with your lives, you would either already playing the game (or not), or doing something “useful”, and not ranting here about “elitist” and no-lifers. Clearly you cared, because you are also one of the “no-lifers”.

Maldavos.4871:

I’m not sure how the rest of us will go on without you. You’ve caused a number of sleepless nights, my friend.

You said it, Maldavos. WvW will be so much different without OP’s elementalist. The server is about to lose massive points if he quits. Please don’t quit!! Pleeeeease!!!

Sib.1236:

This is quite confusing (ok that’s really not hard with me)

I have a superior rune of the Ranger and it reads 7/6 (in red) Yet i only have one piece of armor with this rune …………. o.O

I bet you are a ranger.

Ranger come with a default 6-piece Rune of the Ranger in PvP (In the Mist). The 7/6 (7 pieces out of the 6 necessary) includes the one you get in the Mist. Unfortunately you can’t use the PvP version in PvE, even though they include them as part of the count.

Rhysati.4932:

If you care enough about stats to get ascended gear, then why did you never bother to find out what the ‘Unique’ part on the stats meant?

And if you care about 12 guild tokens and 5 gold, you should really bothered to find out that out.

Latorn.4209:

Haha, but really, why not try and put together a community event and use the money for prizes?

Because … asking what to do with his money was not the real purpose of the original post. I thought it was obvious.

Lévis.5489:

ITT . Thinly veiled bragging thread with no substance.

Thinly veiled? You are too polite, sir! The original post even comes with a screenshot. So …

Chase.8415:

There’s no such thing as “Nothing to do” with money.

But … it would make a perfect excuse to brag about it in forum, no?

OP you might want to try Mesmer. The profession is great with Greatsword or Staff pew-pew-ing from a distance while spawning clones to distract the enemies.

As someone mentioned, GW2 has a very different combat mechanics from traditional MMO. I also usually go for caster class in other MMO I played, especially mages, that can throw big damages from a distance, bringing down fire and brimstone. But in GW2, standing and casting stuff like a stationery artillery does not work. Hence the popularity of the D/D in-your-face elementalist.

Try joining a guild. That way you can chit chat while doing your solo leveling, or find someone to adventure with.

Jax pretty much list out the stuff you can do in PvE without dungeons. I would also add leveling alts. I don’t grind dungeons (though I sometimes join guildies for a few runs), I don’t do lots of WvW, I don’t do PvP. But I love to level alts simply because I like to play around with different professions.

Dodging is an important mechanism in GW2. You will need to learn how to time your dodge and manage your endurance. You also have 2 kinds of heal-in-demand – the hotkey #6 and your virtue of resolve – use them.

Don’t worry about dying often at lower levels while learning to play the profession.

Once you are all in the same zone, you will be able to see each other’s portrait. So, just talk to each other (using Party chat) and make sure everyone goes to the same zone! Once everyone is in the same zone, you will be able to see blue dots on your map, which tells you where are they exactly in the zone.

mrauls.6519:

You’re definitely not playing right

But don’t tell him that! He is an old-time gamer who has played thousands of games since Pong.

Sil.4560:

What I always found funny is that you can disable it in the game, but apparently are not able to on the forums.

Probably because you can stop a 8 year old from playing the game (change their password, for example), but not stop them from reading kittens on a forum on the Internet.

Also, are we talking about mobs or players?

Probably worth repeating.

" If something is making you so upset, then I guess that something is not for you."

Applicable to talking about the profession Guardian or the game Guild Wars 2.

Kain Francois.4328:

But if I use cleric’s gear, wont I have a low crit rate?

It really depends on your build. Do you need a good crit rate? Is crit rate important to you?

A healing build, which I assume you are trying to use, would sacrifice DPS for more healing and survivability. Since DPS is not the top priority, POWER would be more important than Crit rate and Crit damage, as your source of DPS. Cleric gear will give you the Power, Healing and toughness you need. Sure, you will not hit as hard as others, but you will survive longer, and support and heal others better. It is a trade off.

If you are really worry about crit rate, then perhaps mix and match might be the way to go – mixing Cleric and Berserker, or Cleric and Knight.

OP sounded so angry at Guardian .. lol.

There are a lot of good information on the profession, on this forum, in other parts of the Internet, and on the Guild Wars 2 Wiki. It is no coincidence that Guardian is a highly respected profession among the GW2 players – it is the most balanced profession compared to other professions, and it is highly wanted in dungeon runs and party (and not because a Guardian can deal OMG dps).

Learn the mechanics of Guardian. Learn why a profession that wears heavy armor has the same base HP as a cloth-wearing Elementalist. It would seemed you have grind through 80 levels without really understand how Guardian works (which, is highly possible with the easy PvE content).

So, go do some reading up. Talk to a veteran Guardian. Run a few dungeons with an experienced Guardian. Don’t go all postal on a profession you don’t understand. If something is making you so upset, then I guess that something is not for you.

Fantastic post and a moving story. No other words necessary.

If you are planning to grind for your lengendaries, you will need lots of skill points (in the magnitude of hundreds) to buy some of the the necessary ingredients.

There is no Hammer-specific skill that has a symbol that heals allies, unless you are talking about the Honor trait “Writ of the Merciful” which cause all your symbols to heal allies. In this case, when your Hammer skill 1 creates the Symbol of Protection at the 3rd strike, the symbol also heals.

Not a great way to rely on for healing support, but if you really want to do that (spam Hammer skill 1 to heal), then the Cleric gears will boost your healing instead of the Berserkers. Also, in order to survive better (so that you can continue to spam Hammer 1 to proc those healings), Cleric gear will be better than Berserker gears (with the Toughness stat).

What is “Healing Circles”?

This … is more hypnotic than Psy’s “Gentleman”.

HawkMeister.4758:

Temporary content is FLUFF, plain and simple.
A waste of precious dev time IMHO.

ANet has to start getting much smarter with their Living Story Event system. So that all this content doesn´t just vanish uselessly after some time.

How?
As I´m the one paying ANet to come up with good gamedesign, I don´t really see why I should do their job in this regard too.

To borrow what kokiman posted earlier: “Entitlement overload at its best.”

Why can’t you level? Is it because you ran out of quests? Try visiting other races’ area to get more heart quests. Do your personal story. There are plenty of XP. I generally use the follow wiki page to help me see where are the zones I can go for quests at my level.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Zone

Leveling with Guardian the natural way (quests, gathering) should be easy.

Orangensaft.7139:

…
the game is ALL about skins…
and if a skin is worth 700g then it is inequality!

the game is ALL about skins … to YOU. I am enjoying my game of GW2 and I couldn’t be bother with grinding skins.

Would OP be even starting this thread if he had a precursor dropped on his lap after say, using the Mystic Toilet for less than 5 times? He is starting the thread because he is angry and bitter. Angry and bitter because he spent so much effort, time and gold and no precursor, while his neighbor has the precursor drop on his lap just like that.

I know GW2 is a game. So is the national lottery and millions of people who spent tons of money on it without getting any returns and their neighbor who got the jackpot price after just two tickets. So is the Jackpot machine in the casino where people has spent thousands of dollars on it without getting anything while the dude next door got jackpot on his first try.

It is call KITTEN luck. It is life. Get on with it.

Edit: I’m sorry if I sounded harsh. It is just that … this generation of gamers … sigh. Now get off my lawn.

I would say wait for a few more hours and see if you get the gold. Sometimes the income is lagged (happened to me a few times).

what profession are you in and what weapon were you trying to use?

I generally use virtues as a mean of popping boons to feed my Altruistic Healing in a group setting, as I have 5 points in he Virtue trait line (the best 5 points to invest in a trait, IMO) .

Virtue of Justice is also something I pop quite often as the cool-down is relatively short and help with that little bit more DPS.

Virtue of Resolve and Courage, together with the elite skill Renewed Focus, is my “Oh-kitten!” button. This has save my Charr butt countless times.

Katai.6240:

I don’t understand why so many people are interested in making this game a pay-to-win scenario.

How does gathering nodes “pay-to-win”? Unless each ore you mine also gives you a stack of Might boons that last 15min.

This is also good:

http://gw2.guildex.org/

As I reach the cage boss stage at zone 1 of Super Adventure Box, the camera will automatically zoomed all the way back, which is good since it allow me to see the boss on top of the cage. But after the boss is killed, the camera remains at that bird-eye level. even when I exit from SAB and back to the game world, the camera remained bird-eye and I am unable to zoom it back freely. I had to restart the client to cancel that effect.

This is quite a different game, and “training” usually means something else here rather than meaning “grinding levels”. But I know what you mean.

However, my advice would be to do the opposite. Don’t grind levels, don’t rush to level 80. Take you time to explore the world, do personal story, join dynamic events, level naturally. You do not need to be level 80 to do most of the content in GW2.

If you treat GW2 like other MMO where you think the “real good stuff” are right at the end of level cap, you will be disappointed when you reach there.

Dasorine.1964:

Yramrag.3026:

Markadis.9012:

.. but somehow that seems like a waste of a Token you spent your whole character career building up to.

I didn’t spent my whole character career building up to dungeons and tokens, and I do feel there are a lot more to dungeons and tokens for a level 80. So with that perspective, and the fact that you can speed farm COF1, I don’t find it a waste to spend tokens on rares and salvage for globs.

Wrong tokens, talking about the singular pact token you get at completion of the personal storyline.

I have not heard of any plans for more stuff released to spend it on, nor any way to get more

Oops, my bad for not looking at the thread title properly. Well, pact weapons seemed to sell OK in TP, you probably make more gold selling it than salvaging it for globs.

Markadis.9012:

.. but somehow that seems like a waste of a Token you spent your whole character career building up to.

I didn’t spent my whole character career building up to dungeons and tokens, and I do feel there are a lot more to dungeons and tokens for a level 80. So with that perspective, and the fact that you can speed farm COF1, I don’t find it a waste to spend tokens on rares and salvage for globs.

I can’t think of any other ways to help another person level faster (without crafting and WvW) except the usual sidekicking with them in PvE events and hearts, and partying them in personal stories.

However, why do you want to help your guildies level fast? I am assuming they are not leveling alts here, but their first character. One of the things I tell my guildies is that you are not getting your money’s worth by grinding levels and trying to reach level 80 as fast as you can. There is a world to explore in GW2, and you get more fun out of exploring the PvE world naturally, discovering every nooks and turns, exploring the lore of the zone.

About the only advantage you have as a level 80 is that you can wear exotics and hopefully do better in WvW and some dungeons.

I would recommend a Guardian in your pair setup – IMO Guardian complements very well with any other professions (class):

1. High Survivability – Guardian wears heavy armor and has many damage-mitigation skills. Guardian provides the “tanking” support when you need it.

2. Great support – With boons and heals for allies aplenty, the Guardian is a great support in helping party members survive better, and fight betters.

About the only glaring weakness of a Guardian would be their limited range attacks.

I am flabbergasted – people are still arguing about this pick?

Do you guys know how much typical legendary cost? The time, the effort, the gold, the sweat, the tears? For what? A weapon that is as powerful as another exotic weapon that you can buy with a few gold? Why do people even do it?

Because it makes them HAPPY.

Why do people splash 800 gems to buy pick that proves it has some not so great animation effects (to some), that gives you an ROI only after 26 years (someone calculated), and is character bound? What were they thinking?

Because it makes them HAPPY.

Why is this so hard to understand?

Sacrai.6280:

If low density means that not much people play it, then warrior is the exact opposite. If you really want to build around ranged abilities, I would go for a ranger. The bear type pets give you a decent survivability. Might not be a profession most wanted in elitist groups but do you really care about those?

I wanted to recommend Ranger, then I saw “Wanted in groups”.

Racial skills are usually meant (ANET meant them to be) to be just some fun distraction – they are usually not something you design a build around. So I would think traits has no effect on racial skills.

Sounds like warrior for you:

- Viable ranged skills
- easy to learn (so maybe not much a challenge)
- No idea what low density means
- Decent survivability
- Wanted in groups – very.

Or, you can go with Mesmer.