Guild Wars 2

bumping it up, anyone?

Hello guys, as the title says I’m looking for a guild with players with a decent experience to prepare for the future raid content.

I’ve been playing since launch (although on and off until 1 year ago), have 9223 AP and can multiclass: I can use every class apart from ranger, my best being thief, followed by ele and war, and worse being mesmer and necro. My medium and light classes are full ascended and my heavy are exo with ascended trinkets and weapons.

I know most dungeons by heart but I want to make it clear that this would be my first hardcore pve guild, I have lots of personal experience but am noobish when it comes to group tactics (but very very willing to learn), and although I am interested to get into the speedrun environment I also look for a guild with decent people cool with chilling in the guild chat and possibly without toxic players, I believe this is the most important point since guildhalls are coming and all that.

I’m kind of a beginner in the fractals, personal level being 22, but I’m a quick learner and with a good group I’m sure I would make a nice addition.

And of course what made me decide to give this a chance are the raids coming soon.

This should be all, I hope someone will be willing to pick me up, I look forward to meet you ingame

Hi all, so, my first char has been an engi, but after hitting level 45 or so I left it behind for my thief.

Recently I got it to lvl 80 but I’m unsure on what to do with it, my thief, ele and guardian all seem to be more efficient depending on the role they need to fill for dungeons, and as much as I see it’s usefulness in PvP using him only for that feels kind of a waste, so I was thinking, maybe WvW?

If that’s the case what kind of role does it fill the best? Can it be used efficently for solo roaming or in small groups or is it better for zergs?

Please avoid comments like “it can fill every role everywhere” ’cause as much as it can be true a direct dps class will be better in 90% of the situations in dungeons and so on.

tl;dr What kind of role do you think the engineer is the best at and what kind of gear should I get for it?

DeceiverX.8361:

For PvE it looks fine.

For WvW stabbing, an optimized damage build is 5/6/0/0/3 for ToTC and bonus initiative so that the 5 pt in crit strikes actually does something for you.

Valk is almost always a better armor choice.

I was actually thinking about the standard 26006 for WvW, the Bountiful Theft trait is just too valuable to give up for dagger training, and the 20% reduce recharge rate of steal with Sleight of Hand is better (IMO) than the 200 extra power from revealed training. I mean, I can steal every 20 seconds, which is great in case you need to deal with multiple opponents or in case you need to reset

Thank you all for your suggestions, at the moment I was thinking of going with something like this
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAoaVlsMp7plPxzJ8PNRLRtdIEdvAXDh2PQAEiA-TVCEABLq+DBPAAmUmZwpAoJlG4s/AgKBbTfAAHBgAAHA/23++bgzP/8zP/8+93f/93fLDQ+WA-w

The crit chance seems high enough to still be useful for dungeons/fractals and the vitality seems ok to survive a couple of backstabs in WvW, what do you think?

Hello, so: I’ve been playing for quite a long time and right now I decided to stick with d/d for pve (including fractals) and d/p for WvW, and I decided to make my own ascended armor, so I was wondering, is it worth to go full berserker?

Considering that I don’t die that often as things are now, is it really the best choice? Or is it better to put some Valkyrie stats in it too?

In the end most of the damage comes from the backstabs and the Hidden Killer trait (although in dungeons I do stick with shortbow for long times), which is the critical chance considerable “enough” before going Valkyrie?

Or to put it simple: which part of my armor/trinkets should I make zerker and which Valkyrie for max efficency?

nvm, solved it, thanks anyway

So, I recently decided to start crafting my own mawdrey, I’ve basically got all the pieces for all the three steps (lots of gold investwed too), problem is: I’ve got Ley Line Infused Stone, I go to the bottom of the Wreckage of the Breachmaker, and it doesn’t let me interact, I tried clicking the item an going all the way around up and down, closing the game, logging out: nothing happens, any help please?

Just dropping by to say a big THANK YOU to A Net

Time to start collecting those minis

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fZAQNAoYVlsMp8pdPx0J0PNxOBtdAq9E4+EdoEd1CA-TFDFABrpF4Q1Ikb/BAOFAXpEEJlPC8EAQRlgkUClhmg00BoiqKBAOA+tvBwzx588wDP8wDXKgn2CA-w

In my opinion this is a fairly good burst build for roaming that also grants some survival capability.

Credits to Yishis

I found this useful in many situations in the past months, it’s great in WvW to attempt some ambushes: if someone is following you, just place it to somewhere they will need to go through (a bridge, a small passage, a door), and as soon as they trigger it shadowstep to them, they won’t expect this and they will drop dead as soon as they understand what’s going on, in 1VS1 it is really useful for some extra power and stealth, VS zergs place it somewhere outside the big fight and when you see your health is going too low jus shadowstep to the other side of the map and continue for your road.
The only bad thing about this is probably the cd and the small time to activate it when someone step on it (many times I won’t notice) but it is really useful in many situations, both for offense and defense, you just need to analize the situation before you jump in.

So, had a long chat with Anet support and they were not able to locate any problem with my system, even though in the last month my fps dropped from 50 in best performance to 5-20, I guess I just have to stop playing then.
This sucks.

Yeah, I’m just talking from a personal point of view, it used to run kinda good, I loved and love this game and spent over 100 euros on it and gladly supported Anet, but this situation is just making me sick of it, from 20 fps in Lion’s Arch with everything on max it has now dropped to 5-10 fps with everything turned off to the minumum and subsample in dungeons, it is just horrible to look and to play and I am sincerily sad for this ’cause I would have gladly invested both more time and money in this game if only Anet would have gave a sign of working on this problem.

I will also buy a new computer ONLY for this game, if even that doesn’t solve it then i will be out.

I would enjoy something along the side of the greatsword Twilight, a trail of drakness would be great for a thief’s dagger, we actually have really few “thiefish” weapons.

P.S. this is actually a sword but imagine how cool would be something like this http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X9-kUd4qVJo/UaWj9Z0LOtI/AAAAAAAAA5M/TBc8sBr9i2s/s320/Sword+of+Light+and+Shadow.jpg

Having only one character to 80 I really think that it would be a great idea to have “Build Sets” or whatever, possibly including armors, this way you could switch traits and armor without loosing half a hour just to go from PvE to WvW for five minutes

I also plan to overclock it, anyway if it never drops under 30 it is still fine, thanks for the help

So, I have an Alienware M14X-R2 / i7-3630QM / 8GB RAM / NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, yet lately I have been unable to run this game with more then 10 fps with best performance (I used to run it on high with 20 or more fps), it’s making this game unplayable to me, and the issue is only with this game apparently, yet after triyng to fix this game in every way that it was suggested to me without getting any results I decided to sell this laptop and assemble myself a tower.

I was thinking oh using an i5-4670K, Geforce 780 and 16 GB of RAM, overclocking it in the future, yet since I am buying this almost only to play this game in a decent way, can please someone assure me that will I be able to run it on at least 50 fps with everything on high/ultra?
I would hate to waste my money again.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/New-fps-problem/first#post2514194

Same issue here

Oh, and it dropped even more, it is now around 10 fps on best performance

I used to get 20 fps with almost everything on max, now with the latest patch performances dropped even more, with “best performance” I get 10 fps.

This is just ridiculous and it’s ruining the game to me.

An easy way to fix lots of problems, IMO, would just be putting revealed if you miss/they block you while in stealth, if they are able to predict you and you are stupid enough to burst out than they deserve to get it.

Windows 7 and not Adobe, anyway i tried everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, related to the software, so either the problem is the hardware (which differents scansions seems to negate) or it is GW2

Heat is fine (68c max CPU temparature, GPU aroun 60c), tried uptading drivers, but it still had the old problem (the one that slowed me down randomly) so I just formatted it and it worked fine for two days, then this fps drop, sometimes it gets high fps for the first seconds I enter the game, then they horribly drop.

On medium-high it is around 4-8 fps, on low it is 10-18, if I also put subsample it gets to 25-30 but it is really horrible to look (before the drop it used to get around 60fps with subsample)

Yup, same here but I have never stopped playing, in the last days it just sucks, I was fine having 20 fps, it didn’t really bothered me, but now it is 5 fps max unless I turn everything down, and even in that way it is around 13 fps max, it makes it just unplayable and it makes me sad since I invested more than 100 euros in this game

So, with the new skills and traits coming I thought it could have been interesting discuss some ideas!
I think the new skills will be utilites so let’s keep on that track, here is an example: I think the thief is actually a thief only on the concept, so it would be cool to add things to make it feel a bit more like it

Extortion (50 sec cooldown, duration 10 seconds): substitute your opponent’s weapon with a branch and arm yourself with the weapon they are currently using.

It would be something like the moa mesmer’s skill but in a thief style and with some offense utility and variation in gameplay.

Once again, this topic is to suggest and possibly doscuss some original concepts, don’t post some fixes or rifinement of the existing skills or some new weapons skills, only utilites that could be integrated with what we already have!

So hello again, I opened a topic a few days ago about my game slowing down all of a sudden for no apparent reason.
I solved it formatting my PC, still don’t know what was causing it (probably the new Nvidia drivers, but still) and now here I am again.

Everything was doing fine, I run with almost everything on high apart from stuff like shadows and such, and it usally is 18-27 fps.

And now bam, with BEST PERFORMANCE it is on 15 fps max, with my usual settings 1-4 fps, this from this morning.

I have an Alienware M14X, i7 processor, 8 GB RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650M with 2GB of Video Memory.

Yep, I checked it to be on “high performance”, I tried turning it off for a while and waiting a few hours but the problem persists, I have no idea what is causing this either, as I said everything was doing fine since I formatted it a few days ago.
Do you have any idea?
Please, any help would be appreciated. What should I do?

I seem to have fixed it by formatting the whole system, so it wasn’t an hardware issue, yet I still don’t know what the problem was.

Ok, seriously, I don’t get, I changed stuff such as postprocessing and shaders from low to high and the fps went UP, from 15 they passed to 25.

I’m not even sure the problem are the fps themself, I wouldn’t know how to explain it, for example: I’m running normally, and then at some point it’s like if my pg and the whole world would slow down for a second or two and then go back to the normal speed, if I’m using a speed buff it’s even worse.
It’s not like a lag, it really looks like if it is “slowed down”, I wouldn’t know how else to describe it.

Both, the GPU is usually lower than that anyway, I’ll also try the repair switch next.

Anyway, I setted everything to the lowest settings, I just find it weird that the second before is 50 fps, the second after 5, than 15, than 30, than 10 again, and it just continue going up and down again, I also found out that in WvW it appears to be a little more stable (except for zergs obviously), in PvP it is really unplayable and in PvE it’s also kinda bad.

The point is that be it lowest or highest settings it doesn’t change much, it also doesn’t matter if I am in combat or not, it just keeps being that unstable (many times it has lowest fps when I am standing still that when I am running).

Flatley, what do you mean by “repair”? Deleting it and downloading it again or what?

And Ilithis, I already checked the internal temperature, I also uses external fans to keep it cool, it never goes over 68c.

Thanks for your suggestions for the moment, I’ll try disinstalling completly the drivers before reinstalling the old ones although I doubt it would make any change

Hello, I have an Alienware M14X, i7 processor, 8 GB RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650M with 2GB of Video Memory.

I never experienced any particular problem, I used to play with almost everything on high (few things apart) with 18-23 fps in most populated areas (WvW included), until today, I updated my Nvidia drivers and this problem appeared.
My game do works kinda fine, yet there are costant drops in fps which slow down my pg in a terrible way, making me impossibile to take part to any sort of competitve game, be it PvP, WvW, Dungeons or even the new race mini game. This seems to happen even when using the lowest settings.
I also tried to go back to the old drivers but the problem now remains.

Please help me overcome this, it’s really getting me frustrated.

Hi everyone!
Let me start saying that I really love this area, the scenarios, the art, the minigames, but most of all what I really enjoyed is the “living world” feeling I got from this.

I never really cared about this thing, I love the lore of the game but I always found lacking the way you explained it to the player ingame, I know this as been broght out from Anet since the beginning as something rivolutionary, but, honestly, levelling and exploring I never felt it as a living world, just as some event either spawning randomly or on a timer set.

But here, it felt totally different, the dialogues are various, there actually are exotics items around the merchants, and I tried many times intereacting with them to learn where they were from and BAM I summoned a demon (the reaction from the merchant was priceless http://puu.sh/3HAcY.jpg ), when I found the teacher speaking with the babies about the dragons I just had to /sit there because I didn’t want to break the moment and it was so interesting to hear, I could speak of many more examples but the point is:
please, don’t keep hiding the lore, make it so that if someone wish to learn about it he doesn’t have to go on the wiki, this has been so nicely done that I just wanted to tell you how much I liked it.

And one more thing, please, don’t put the dialouges inside the dungeons, at least for the living world content, I often have to play with random parties and to not slow them down I need to skip the dialogues and it just breakes the moment for me.

Sorry for my english and thankyou for the awesome content Anet!

In game name: Nox Intempesta
What class(es) do you play as your secondary/tertiary: Engi, Necro and Mesmer
Are you applying as a teacher, or a student: I would actually like to do both, I beilieve I am a good thief yet I am willing to improve myself and learn what others can teach me
How many hours on your class do you have: 450~
How many builds have you theory crafted: I created four “originals” builds, meaning without basing them on builds already existing,and tried at least twenty different ones, I’ve mastered, d/p and s/p, I’m good with s/d and d/d and in general venomshare builds but i lack in condition damage builds like p/d and p/p.
In general I think I could be one of the few the uses thief in PvE dungeons so that could be interesting
Would you consider yourself a good contributor to your community: I believe I could, I like to share opinions both with veterans and new players
Are you friendly/helpful: as much as my possibilities allows me, yes
Would you be willing to prove your skill/knowledge ingame: sure.

At first I was not sure but now I am, I’m not getting my laurels from dayles?
Neither from the ones of yesterday nor today, neither from PvP nor from PvE, what’s going on?
Are you aware of this, and is it only a problem of mine or others noticed this too?

Well we have both Thieves Guild and Ambush which summon “clones”, and they also continue to attack while downed

You apparently have been able to even troll someone, gg

Please, I know it has been brought out quite a few times, but please, change Signet of Malice.
Either make it life absorption or change the mechanic so that it heals you based on the conditions you or your opponent have, or something like that, as it is right now it just feels wrong to use it and it synergies well with only really few specific builds

In my opinion thieves are the easiest class to use for killing noobs, they just don’t know how to react to all that damage and what to do when the thief “disappear”, on the other hand, if you are a good player thief is one of the easier class to kill/make run away, you just have to make them waste they’re ini in the firsts seconds of the fight trying to dodge everything and then hitting hard and spam your aoe as soon as they stealth, and it’s done, it just requires a little to get used to the timing but once you are able to do that you won’t have to worry about thieves anymore, the most difficult thing to do is understand that it has a totally different mechanic compared to other classes

I have to say that I haven’t done all the dungeons yet, but my first impression was similiar to yours, I couldn’t really “get in” the feeling of actually doing something important, then I played Arah, that (in my impression) is how every dungeon in the game should be, talking about p1, it sure takes a lot of time to be completed but it really requires you to learn and play smart, not just spamming some random button as in most of the pve content, you have to coordinate with your party and learn the tactics and even think about some yourself, and it makes you feel really rewarned once you do it.
I just loved it.

Please, Anet, make more dungeons like this one.

Please, try to fix this, I played the whole arch to get the gauntlets but seeing how bugged they are when I stealth makes me want to remove them, please :c

I’d love to see Signet Of Malice changed from how it is right now to Life Stealing, it would offer so many interesting builds.

Hi everyone!
First thread here, let’s just swap the part about me saying how cool I think this game is (my first MMORPG) and get straight to the point.

So, I’ve been trying this build for almost two weeks trying to refine it as much as I could and I think I almost got the right combination http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.7.3.10.20.0.0.0.0.0.156.176.174.165.179.0.0.0.453.0.0.466.471.476.481.483.491.0.0.0.0.0.0.10.30.30.0.0

I run this with 4 zerker pieces and 2 valkyries with 3 beryl orbs and 3 emerald (maybe I’ll go full emerald in the future), atm full zerker jewelery but may swap it later, sigil of blood on s/b and sword, accuracy on pistol, for the food omnomberry pie.

So, the point is: I still deal lots of damage in melee (7000/9000 crits on pistol whip) while evading just standing there spamming pistol whip (obviously you have to learn how to time it, but still) and regenarating lots of life, I’m almost always full health and if things get bad I can access stealth and regenerate health in few seconds while building up might before getting in action again.
I think it works great and if you have anything to suggest is obviously well accepted, but here goes the question:

Do you guys think that for the second weapon would be better s/b or p/p? I’ve almost only used s/b as second weapon ‘cause well, it works great, but what do you guys think? I already have many ways of taking care of large groups with s/p and occasionally dancing dagger, I believe that p/p could come more in hand if, for istance, I have to get ranged for any reason against a single target and build up lots of heal while keeping my kitten safe. Plus I deal very low condition damage.
Hope I didn’t forget anything, sorry for my english and thanks for your help, cheers