Guild Wars 2

Aww ok I see. Thanks a lot. I run every class except ele but wanted to see if that worked to use my ranger a little more cuz even though guard is my main, this was my first character. But thanks a lot for all the input

Hey guys, I’m at work so I can’t post too many details but what do you think of Rangers with Healing based stats? I have been testing mine with Cleric Armor with Crest of the Magi and 30 points in Beastmastery and it has worked pretty well for me so far in terms of survibability and overall damage since one of the minor traits in BM converts 10% of the Healing into attack so we are looking into a little more than 100 power while keeping high healing which can serve to heal allies with well, as well to help ur pet.

Has anyone tried something like this in dungeons and such?

Comments are greatly appreciated.

Bump this up! Any comments about this?

That seems to be the case. Thanks a lot.

I also hope the issue with the rewards is fixed soon since I guess that was what the hotfix was all about and did nothing.

Hopefully some dev will look at this.

Hey, so I have this very confusing situation. I have no idea how this is supposed to work or what and I dont see the limit on the patch notes at all.

I did the instance with my Guard before daily reset and got the Exp, Karka Shells, Gold, etc.
I did it on my Warrior before daily reset and got all of the above

I entered with my Guardian AFTER reset and it didn’t work (Well they hadn’t hotfixed yet)
After Hotfix I went in my Guard again and got all the rewards.
Went on my Warrior 2 times after reset and got nothing
Went on my Mesmer again and got nothing.

One day I got 2 rewards, the other got just one even on different toons. Anyone knows how this is supposed to work?

TL;DR: How the hell do the rewards work for the solo version?

Thanks a lot in advance.

EDIT: As a side note. I don’t know if this is meant to happen, but I have died a few times for mines going red after I turned them green almost immediately and several times in a row. (Not when he is activating them)

I do a lot of DPS running the Knight’s Ascended items (That give me crit damage too)
Berserker Armor, Runes od Divinity and Sigils of Strenght and going Staff GS for the Speed Runs. And going with the AH build to not die lol

Don’t take me too seriously since I don’t play much PvP or WvW or anything like that.

I enjoy both Condition/Crits and Full Power/Crit builds

With Rampager Armor or Berserker Armor.

Berserker will give you a lot of damage by itself so you can trait to be a little more tanky and/or depending on the weapons you use. (Like if you use bows to get trait to pierce targets, etc)

If you go condition, Rampager’s is really good since it gives you both power with Crits and the Condition Damage. For this, I believe going Axe/Torch and Shortbow is the best. Again, build survivability, mainly for your pet, on traits

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Faux Sheaux.6179:

Kudzu. In fact, you can buy mine. I’ve been trying to sell it for 5 months on the TP.

how mutch for the kudzu?

Don’t mean to be an kitten but I think u guys should keep the conversation about sales outside the forum, lest you be apprehended by admins :P

I currently run a full berserker Ranger and I’d be lying to you if I said they survived a lot, BUT they do deal a lot of damage. I run LB/GS tho and spent 30 into Beastmastery so my Bears can tank for me while I run around

And yes, Stick with Rampager’s. For runes I’m not sure either. But if u go Crits, you can use Runes of the Ranger (Since you ALWAYS have a companion lol)

You will see a lot of raging around the forums about them not being good, but if you like it, roll it. They are really fun to play in any form of the game.

I’d suggest to check the AH guide that’s sticked on the forum

haha I see :P Thanks a lot. Will try to find my way there

I feel ignorant. I have been playing since december with 3 level 80s now and I have yet to see a Karka lol where are they? Once I find them, I will give ya more insight on this xD

Currently I have only 2 ascended items but I plan on making my accessories and rings Knight’s Ascended, the back item and Amulet berserker to not lose damage and I switch armor depending on situations. I currently have Cleric’s, Knight’s and Berserker’s

Well I have had some luck with PVT (Soldier’s) in WvW. I don’t die as often and can still hit kinda hard with my kind-of-AH build with a Staff and a GS. while staying a live most of the time and with the 30 points on Honor I get enough Healing to stay alive.

And yes, I will second the motion that going Zerk on WvW will only get you killed as a Guardian lol

Hey thanks a lot for the info, spoj.

I will have to check because the Crit Damage and the DS thing sound good but I mainly use DS as a second Health Bar now :P so I might invest in someting like Vitality and Healing specially if I’m going Knight’s

@Thor: Thanks a lot. I will have to review that. Nobody wants to do AC anymore and getting PVT for my Guardian was a pain in the kitten to buy with Karma and wait for tempels to open lol.

Hey Guys, I am trying to play Necro in a way that not a lot of people like to play them but I personally love it.

I like to play Power/Precision as I see their life melt with my Dagger and slightly slower on Solo, but great in groups with my Axe and probably add some Healing to it for the Siphon Life on Crit Trait.

So I’m currently level 25 but I’m gonna speed level the hell out of my Necro so I want to know what I should go by on Traits and maybe armor.

I am thinking of maybe Knight’s Armor since Berserker would make me kinda squishy just for the extra damage, but the Toughness from Knight’s can combine well with the large health pool necros have.

As for Traits I have no idea at all on what to run, my choice of weaponry that is probably not gonna change even if it’s too Single-Target Oriented is this:

Dagger/Warhorn: More Mobility, an Immobilize, Some Life-Leeching. Mobility + Cripple in a nice AoE and a Daze, AoE again.

Axe/Focus: Vulnerability, high Damage with Axe2, Cool AoE and Retaliation stacking with Axe3, AoE bouncing Scythes lol and a Chilling attack.

:D

Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance!

About the Survivability what I do is have sets of everything. When I’m with those tough minibosses that lower your life like crazy (See Slave Driver at CoF), I use Cleric’s Mace and Cleric’s Focus, still with everything else the same as Berserker’s

That helps me out in the Toughness part, still keeping my Power and giving me a little extra healing for the dodge rolls and the Symbol. (Plus, I use Water Sigil on Mace and Blood Sigil on Focus).

I hope this helps.

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So i guess my 3622 Armor with Shield and Mace is a waste?? i didnt know that armor didnt work above 3k armor or am i not understanding. The way i understand it is anything above 3k armor is a waste is this correct or not?

It’s nto exactly a waste but after 3k, the bonuses on damage reduction get decreased by a lot. (If you have played League of Legends you will know what I mean)

I run Human Guardian and I like it a lot.

I run AH build only on Dungeons but I mostly play Solo so I go
30/0/30/10/0

Taking extra damage to burning foes, more GS damage and GS attacks heal me.
More Toughness and CDR for Shields, toughness into precision and Altruistic Healing for me, mostly lol) Every little bit helps.
And take the Shout CDR

I run a lot of weapon sets but for roaming PvE and PVP I go either GreatSword/Staff or Greatsword/Sword and Shield

Mine is called Zatannya Wulfborn

Needless to say, she is norn lol. And the Zatannya is a combination between Zatanna (DC Comics) and Satania (Spanish Song)

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It’s fine to only have stacking on one weapon, but you need to make sure you switch to your staff once the enemy goes into a down state. I’m not sure if you need to auto-attack once.

You can tag stacks with staff #2 and #3 easily in zerg v zerg as well.

You’re right, but the point I was trying to make is that you need the weapon out during the death in order to get the sigil stack. If you hit someone with the staff and then finish them off with a sword you won’t get a stack.

This ^

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If you think it’s too easy and you don’t enjoy it, don’t play it.

Dude, you took the exact words out of my mouth. I hate people kittening about how the stuff in the game is too easy or too hard.

As you said, “if it’s too easy, don’t play it. There are 2 more paths.”
And well, if “it’s too hard, learn to play. Because other people do it, why not you?”

I think that should be the mentality of everyone. However, I know, nothing is perfect in this world so this would be asking for a lot.

Oh yah I know. I’m nto correcting ya, I’m just confirming it xD

But yah it’s really weird. Anyway GS is the way to go for ranged and end of story haha

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How are you shooting past your target? GS’s auto-attack doesn’t pierce past enemies. Unless you’re clicking other enemies by accident during the fight you shouldn’t have issues, worst case you’ll hit enemies between you and your target.

As you mentioned, you can hit enemies that are behind, that if you position well and move along with them, you can pierce for a lot of damage on multiple targets while your abilities are on CD.

Yah, it depends on what u wanna do.

I don’t think stacking is good on the Staff (Personally) Since I only use it to Empower ppl, hit a few guys, put the symbol and maybe the ward and throw the ball then immediately change for aggro to my Hammer/GS/Sword and Shield/Mace and Shield/Sword and Focus/Mace and Focus depending on the situation.

If you are gonna have them on the staff tho, use them as well on one of your weapons when u swap.

I wish it was how I used to do it on my Ranger but I don’t know if it was a bug or an update that doesn’t allow it anymore but I used to have 2 Bloodlust Sigils on main and off-hand and they stacked 2 on 2 haha. But yah go with what DeathPanel said!

Yah, if you are looking for the looks of the Karma armor u can do what I did and still purchase a whatever helm, run AC a nd get the helm, then transmuted it lol

Edit: And well the build does work. For Dungeons I usually run Full berserker or Berserker/Valkyrie Armor but at least for the first kitten boss on CoF (Slave Driver) I had to start running my PVT armor with Cleric’s Mace and Cleric’s Shield for the Heals, protection and overall tankiness. Before he used to kill me in like 4-5 hits but now I can facetank that SoB lol while the rest of my team either comes in melee afterwards or just ranged attack him but either way is fine because of the heals.

(And I change my traits on the Healing Tree to favor Symbols on that fight and some others)

I change in between Ruby + Blue Ice and (Something) Tea that looks very very dark and Royal Blue

And very rarely I use Royal blue + Blue Ice and Stream

Getting temple armors I think u only miss the Helm. 4 parts u get from Melandru and the boots from Grenth

Hey!

In Knights of the Cursed Blood we are a very small guild that was originally my and a few friend’s guild along with my 2 brothers but due to work and stuff they don’t get on much lately.

I am active almost all day every day (When I’m not working lol) and I vary a lot between random PvE, WvW and farming SAB (While we are on April) and farming dungeons to get cooler armor/weapons, etc. (Plus the gold of course)

So even tho we only have like 2-3 active members in total in our small guild, I am looking to extend it since I already have some upgrades going on like Armor Shop and other stuff, and well, didn’t wanna make the cool Guild Name go to waste!!!!

Of course, since I already have maxed 2 characters, I do have a lot of things in mind to keep improving but I am open to go in to whatever you need help with and we are looking for people that think the same way to do Fractals, regular dungeons, partying up for WvW, etc.

Let me know by here or PM me to my main: Vyktoria Valkyrie

:D Hope to see ya there

da hell with the video.

So yah pretty much it’s just me then xDD

Sure thing, at work now so maybe I can have someone send it to me in a bit :P

In 2 maps so far, Divinity’s Reach and Hoelbrak, I have an issue with the points of interest.

For example Hoelbrak, I compared the PoI with the ones on the wiki and other websites, and also went myself and counted them one by one and I counted 24 but it says I have only 23.

I even wrote down the name of each one to make sure I was not counting it twice, but still have 24 and this thing only shows 23.

I guess I will have to leave map completion aside until this is fixed (Along with the Bear Shaman Skill Point in Wayfarer Foothills, etc)

Bugged on Kaineng as well, been like that for about 3 weeks now

Haha ok I thought I should post this here cuz it’s been 5 days and it’s becoming kind of annoying but at the same time Hilarious.

I do my runs with my 5 characters every day and I can run without hitting any monsters, or maybe just one or 2 because the ones that ARE in the way, usually stay still so I just run through.

With the ranger tho, every time I walk near a monster they immediately notice me and start attacking lol so I’m not sure if this is just a coincidence or the hate the devs seem to have against rangers in general just put into SAB as well lol

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I’m at about chest 250.

I looted a scepter 8 hours before reset. Then after reset, I looted a sword on my first run. On my third run, I looted a sword and a greatsword. I am now rich. Thank you SAB.

On that note. I’ve never looted any skin from the chest in the 3rd zone. Never. Has any one else?

I have. Yesterday in my first run of the day I pulled a Shortbow AND a Greatsword skin from the third world Boss Chest. That was hilarious xD

Haha I have been doing SAB for about 3 days. Today I did my first run (EDIT: Today) and the last chest dropped me 2 SKINS xDDD

I thought it was just one cuz I rapidly pressed F to get it, then when I went to the BL to see how much it was selling for I saw that I also had the GS one too hahaha!

Agreed. We should be able to use Bows

Oh totally forgot Consecrations LOL

But yeah, go with Lonewolf. Use at least Stand your Ground! and/or Save Yourselves!

I think Shouts would be the way to go since the rest of your abilities are either Signets (Passives already) and the Meditations (That focus on removing conditions and healing mostly) and the Spirit Weapons that don’t give you any Boon at all.

If you do want to keep Boon Duration I would use something like Staff + GS for Might Stacking

I have about 20 gold on each of my 2 80s and about 1 gold on each of my other 3 alts.
My 2 80s with 2 Exotic Gears each with some of those expensive runes and sigils (Runes of Divinity, Sigils of Strength, etc) With about 3-4 weapons each.

For Gold I usually either farm materials when I get bored of CoF but what I do is:

Go CoF, Take Omnomberry Bar and my full Exotic Gear with Runes of Scavenging and sometimes when I also find one of those banners for extra gold from monsters. It is about 80 silvers per run including the coin bags, drops from monsters and the dungeon clearing money. CoF can be done in about 10 mins with a good team so that is almost 6 gold per hour. (With the chance that you also get rares from chests and drops with the Scavenging Runes)

I always get error messages after selling more than 5 items at a time and then I have to close BL, open it, sell an item, then close it then open to sell another one and so on or it will give me an error

1UP

Some have mentioned that this is not a game to have stuff like this other than in Holidays but, it’s not as if you are going to play only SAB forever. I mean, as they themselves mentioned, there are other things to do as well xDD Ppl are just spamming it now because they said it was limited and everyone wants Skins

I thought it was just me. I hope this gets looked at soon.

I can’t tell how many times I have died because of this but, on the first “Jumping Puzzle” Right after the first Checkpoint, does anyone else’s toon get stuck, making you jump into nothingness? Like they stop running and start walking making you jump to your death.

Not sure if just me being extremely noob (Tho hard to say since I don’t even know how to make toons walk if at all possible lol)

not sure of trolling but still…

Reason it shows like that is maybe because u have them on your PvP Armor that even though the events dont count in PvE, it lets you know that you have them in PvP too.

Pretty much.

Although I will admit that even if I have that on my Guardian, my Ranger showed the same thing and he has never gone to PvP xD so dunno

This is my current build, and although I’m not doing A LOT of damage. I can keep it consistent with pretty decent damage and I am tanky as hell, as well as my pet.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mVom0M0zMoRgvMMRgvM9MfpxoVsMab08khA707khA7070M7kNf70M7kNh70M

I get Decent Power from Nature’s Wrath and Strenght of Spirit paired up with Reyna’s Armor for Condition Damage, Vitality and Healing Power. Boosting my survivability as well as my damage with those 2 traits and giving me condition damage since my actual Power won’ be that great.

I have been trying this for a few days and I can tank most of the mobs face to face like nothing xD (And of course my Healing Spring and my Moa Healing me help a lot too, plus the passive Regen fro the Signet)

EDIT: And all this without trinkets since I haven’t had the chance to get them yet so I’m still with like level 80s Masterwork Magic Find Trinkets lol, and without runes as of yet since I just spent a lot on my berserker armor and runes too but I might get rid of those to finish the trinkets since Pure DPS on Ranger seems to have been depleted by a lot anyway xD

Well I main a Guardian since a while ago (Not an expert, but still here are my 2 cents)

I run the AH build because it not only makes me extremely tanky, but the utilities from traits in those 2 trees are awesome.

Like:

2H Weapon 20%CDR
Altruistic Healing so u can hit most mobs in the face without even having to dodge.
Remove Conditions from Allies (Including you) when you shout.
Shouts have 20%CDR
5% of toughness given to Precision
Lose a Condition Every 10 seconds

And well going Valor Tree will give you the 30% Extra Critical Damage you need to get more DPS anyway. (And getting the Toughness will give you more Critical Chance with one of the traits)

I currently run FULL Berserker’s armor and one of my trinkets has become Ascended Already (Working on the rest)

So far (I don’t remember my current Power but) I have about 50% Critical Chance and 100% Extra Critical Damage so sometimes I hit like 7K with Hammer2, Hammer1’s last AA and Hammer 4. (Without Empowering Might)

For damage I like Hammer and Sword but always side a Staff for the Utility, Heal, and Might.

EDIT: This is more or less how I have my Guardian, although it doesn’t reflect the actual stats coming from Berserker’s Armor
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmcz0V9cmNvGMmNvGM9MxxaVoqMsqM8khT707kii7070M7kGL70V

Again, think of your Critical Damage. If it’s high enough, then it’s worth it, if not, then dont bother xD

I really like precision, but that really depends. Ask yourself: Is my crit damage high enough to sacrifice my power for crit chance?

Cuz in my case it is. I am sitting at somewhere around 40% Crit Chance with 100% Extra Crit Damage so more Crit Chance with whatever is welcome, however if your crit damage is not high enough, I would stick with Power