Guild Wars 2

I can only add the same experience as Gnome written.
Since hes really into the details, it saves me a write up
But what he wrote is true as far as i have seen up till now.
Im glad i joined the [CC] community, and im also looking forward tonight for my first ingame meeting / play session with these guys.

Regards,
Zhankou

Dear players,

Thanks for all the responses so far! Its nice to be welcome in so many different guilds. Really nice to see this kind of enthausiasm.

To get straight to the point however, i decided to join The Conclave.
They seemed most appealing to my needs, so i hope everyone understands my decission. Again, thanks for all your replies, and we will meet again someday.

Dear player,

I am in search of a nice and friendy guild.
I prefer a mature guild (older ppl), due to real life responsibilities that life brings compared to the younger players among us. Work, beeing a father etc.

I tried to create/organise my own guild, but due to a lack of time this wasnt really a succes. I play an average of aprox 1 – 3 hours a day during the evenining when my son i asleep (GMT+1, 19:00 till 21:00/22:00), and during that time i prefer to have an active guild to talk with. Imo once u have a nice and friendly guild, the experience of gaming goes up a knot to, and thats what im looking for. That nice community that makes me want to login a game, rather then play a game for what it offers.

Of course in the longer run, i would like to do guildruns for dungeons and such, and WvW, sPvP etc. But at the start, mainly PvE.

I have a level 68 Guardian, but that one is on a break (i to took a break for about 2months). I restarted with a new character, which is a Human Warrior right now (level 14). If you have any questions towards me, please ask so i can answer them.

Before finishing my letter, i am 27 Years old and from the Netherlands.
Regards,

Open and updated first post for new players! Feel free to ask any questions if u have any.

Not that i have read the books yet or anything close, but you guys are talking about unarmed combat and such, claws and teeth etc.. But dont forget NORN’s are able to shapeshift into Wolf / Bear etc. I myself am a Charr, and will stick to it (love the Gladiator feel from arena, Blood elgion etc). Just saying though.

Thanks alot for the comments/reply’s brutal! Sorry for my late responce.
You did a very detailed write up, and i really appreciate it.

Legends is recruiting new players to join our ranks!
We are an active and fun guild, with a member base of aprox 30 players now.
We are looking for more players so we can organise more events (dungeon runs), some sPvP tournaments and so on. If you think u have what it takes, make sure to tag along!
Our website can be found in my profile, if u have any questions do not hesitate to ask them either.

Regards

So i need to practice kiting within the symbol is what your saying correct? I think when i dodge out of the symbol after placement, that the jump from outside back inside is to long. It disapears in a fraction of a second. Learning how to fight within the symbol may be a good tip. Uhm, another thing that i was wondering. Im a really slow leveller, real life and stuff but i can deal with that I was thinking about power/vit/tough gear, and to only focus on these combined with 2 monk runes, 2 water runes and 2 earth runes. (so protection uptimes increased by 50%). Would that be a nice setup for PvE? Or are u still convinced that high crit is the way to go?
Sometimes i think im not good enough in terms of dodging / target selecting to play at full speed sortof. And that some extra vit/tough wouldn’t hurt me in terms of " oops, forgot to dodge, kitten " .
Last question, the hp ppl tend to go for is around 14-15k~, what is the highest dmg attack u ever received ingame? Im curioius about this, and this may be more valid for PvE then pvP, as i wont start PvP’ing earlier then when im in the 80ish.

Okay, so here are my findings (bear in mind, im only level 59).
I tried the 2h hammer in PvE with 20 points in the honor tree.
I tried LARGER SYMBOL as basic trait, and as major trait i was twisting myself to figure out the right one. Tried 2h MASTERY, Empowering Might and Writh of Persistance.
Still my conclusion was that W/O Writh of Persistance, i wasn’t able to time my MB after a dodge back into the field for the AoE retaliation, while with Writh of persistance i was able to. Am i the only one with this issue? is this bad timing from my side? Or is it incredibly hard to pull of the combo 1+2, dodge, 3, dodge, MB (back in the action), thus AOE retaliation. I wasn’t able to pull this off without the persistance trait. Any tips or suggestions?

Thanks for the headsup!

I would like to have an option to change my appearance of my character.
I feel like i went to the process of creating my character to fast and regret this right now.
Would feel better if i can change his appearance ingame.
Any idea if this is possible at all? or will be implemented?

The Vigil set (Power, Toughness, Vitality) seems like the best match in all cases.

Thanks for answering my question. The last 2 answers were bright clear.

When the boon Retaliation is active, does it reflect dmg when you BLOCK an attack?
Or only when the damage comes trough, and you actually lose a bit of life.

Its not really our decission or our efforts into judging what is hot and what is not.
I mean, the Devs are the ones making the call, not us. Its just a suggestion.

Not sure if this has been asked before, but i would like to know.

As topic says, instead of people needing to use Teamspeak, Ventrilo or Mumble etc.
It would be alot smoother, to add an ingame way of voice communication.
This should also be tweaked, so when someone speaks, that sounds get lowered from music or npc chat. I think this could be really helpfull when playing dungeon runs with randoms, but also in general for PvP etc. Ofc its still the players choice, but i think it could be really helpfull. Perhaps even for a GUILD?

Discuss~

Those builds are crap so far. Im used to alot of good stuff from Noxxic, but so far the builds they posted are a no go. Hope it gets better.

You are partly correct here, and partly off.

the basic multiplier (without increased crit damage) is already 1.5.
Thus a critical hit of 3000 dmg would be 4500. (with 50% increased crit dmg), it would be double, aka 6000 dmg.

Regarding the formula’s, your right. I have no idea how this is calculated, but i have seen movies of ppl doing 5000~ critical hits, so even then, i think my calculations can be pretty accurate, if not, better then expected.

Edit:
Maybe im wrong and your right in terms of 10% would be 450 rather then 600.
Im a bit confused right now i must admit lol.

The reason i started this is because of the armours that are offered on high level.
For example, knights armour gives 224 power/precission and 310~ toughness aprox.
I was wondering, berserker chest piece for example, gives 300~ power, 200~ precission, and 5% crit dmg.

At this point, judging by stats, i would say knights better (yields higher stats).

But according my theory (assuming 3000 atk is possible and that u have 50% increased crit dmg), a critical hit would hit for 6000 dmg. so 10% = 600~, and 5% crit dmg would represent 300~ power (or attack).

So Then berserker armour looks quite interesting, because converted to stats its 2 stats in the 300~ range, and one in the 200~, rather then 2 stats in the 200~ range and one in the 300~ range. lol, do i make any sense to u guys or girls?

In theory i can manage 100% critrate. 75-80% without buffs, with buffs (fury) 95-100%.
Berserker sets Amulets + Rings, 15% crit from Grandmaster Trait + 14,4% crit from radiance. More or less i end up with the above mentioned critrate.
So if u manage to get 3000 power, then my theory from first post would be accurate?
1% crit dmg equals 30 power = atk, 10% crit dmg equals 300 power = atk.

Could you please explain how u get your numbers for 15.9% overall dmg?!
I cant it figure out ;-)

Okay maybe the title is a bit off, but im still gonna try and explain what i thought is right.

When i assume a level of 80, combined with the amount of power a standard char has naked (960), and i supplement that with a weapon dmg of around 1000, my total attack is 2000~ (Aprox).

2000 dmg/atk on a critical hit would mean: 3000 dmg (1.5x multiplier).
So with this information, 50% increased crit dmg (2x multiplier) would mean a total of 4000 dmg.

Meaning that 10% critical hit dmg stands for aprox 200 atk “power” .
So 5% crit dmg is similiar to 100 atk " power".

This made me wonder , how good would VALOR be over all the others?
Oppinions pls!

Reported it ingame via support.

45 sec’s of cooldown?! Are u for real.
I mean whats the point of taking this trait?!
Correct me if im wrong, maybe im missing something here, but 45 sec’s seems not done.
Perhaps similiar as with sigils, 10 seconds would be approperiate. But 45? I dont get it.

Legends is still recruiting a few more players into our ranks before we put a lock on the recruitment again. For more information PM or Sign up @ website (application).
Or, u can just contact us ingame.

Edit:
Upcoming Thursday, 20:00 CET we will be doing a Guildrun in AC – Storymode.

I really enjoy the Torch as well in PvE. (havent done any PvP yet).
Sword/Torch seems like one of the best dmg/survival builds around.
the #3 skill of Sword, then activate the #4 while (AoE burn) #3 is going, then when #3 is finished u can throw #4 (spike+burn) and continue with #5 (Flamethrower xD).

But im getting a headache on deciding weapons, as yesterdays group kinda forced me into using a 2h Staff and going support build. And then i think about Hammer, and i cry about how slow it is.

Guild Name: Legends As told in stories
Guild Tag: [ATIS]
Server: Underworld
Website: http://www.legends-mgc.shivtr.com
Type & Focus: Casual PvX
Language(s): English
Location: Europe
Timezone: GMT +1
Voice Comms: TeamSpeak 3
Number of Members: -
Guild Leader(s): Ki Ai
Guild Officer/Advisor(s): -
Recruitment Status: Open
Minimum Age: 16

New Information (since 7 January 2013, since im back and active):
Since Legends didn’t really make it out alive from start, i decided to give it another shot. Im a casual gamer who plays 2-3 hours a day and would like to have more players to join our group. I restarted with an Asura Engineer to explore the game again, and would like to do so with others. Legends has an Guildbank and a few upgrades, but in order to grow i will need you among our ranks! If your interested, do let me know, and il send you an invite without the former needs of before. Remember, the more the merrier up to a certain point, but as long as that point isnt reached, it does not matter alot. In the long run, if the guild turns out to be active enough, then we will start serious work like Raids, Dungeons, organised PvP etc. Before that, Casual and fun are number 1 priority.

Regards,
Ki Ai (ingame name)