Guild Wars 2

Monthlies are not required. This isn’t a job, it’s a game. Play for your enjoyment not to chase gear or achievements.

Good hunting!

This may be a dumb question.

I have never looted an exotic. I have 2 level 80s characters. The only exotics I have are from completing high level maps. Never looted one. I have been fairly fortunate and I have been able to equip about half of these and the ones I couldn’t equip I sold for enough gold to buy exotics I could use.

But I can’t help but feel I am doing something wrong. I play most of my time in Cursed Shore/Malchor’s Leap. I do lots of events, generally have a good time. I don’t generally play WvW or dungeon instances due to a sub-optimal gaming PC (my framerate in WvW is less than 1 FPS, same in most dungeons).

Do exotics drop from random mobs? Am I just unlucky? Is there something else I should be doing?

Thanks in advance!

I dig my ranger.

I didn’t start reading these forums until I had gotten comfortable with how I play my ranger. I didn’t realize I was broken until I came here I use short and long bows. I use two spiders for pets.

I love the bows for moving myself and targets around. Plus bows feel right for a ranger. I tried all the other weapons but I prefer the ranged attack style. Which leads to my choice of pets. Spiders help a lot with movement control. Additionally they poison. More conditions are a good thing. My only beef with the spiders is the poison is AoE and when PvE it can pull in non-aggro targets if I’m not careful.

I use Sharpening Stone, Flame trap, and whatever the poison trap is. The exotic I use is the Rampage as one or whatever it’s called.

The big problem I have with my ranger? I have 70+ unspent skill points. I have no idea what to do with them.

Is it worth it? Depends on what your goal is.

I made a habit of taking my low level toons into WvWvW often. I died a lot. My goal was to learn about WvWvW. Which I did. I found that even at low level I could and did contribute.

Some things to do if you’re a low level in WvWvW:

Run supplies: take from supply depots (never the towers) and build stuff, repair stuff. This is a task that almost always needs to be done. You get exp for repairing walls, gates etc. You get exp for building siege weapons.

Small encounters: I spent time attacking the road sentries. Even at low level I could kill those pretty easily. Kill the sentry, control the point. You helped your team.

Escort dolyaks: Boring, many players don’t like to do it. Unless the opposing teams are targeting your yaks you should be safe and even if they are targeting them you are likely going to be just 1v1. Even if you get owned you can sound the alarm that the supply lines are being cut.

Play defense: This was my favorite part. Get into a tower that is likely to be attacked. Get up on the walls and pull out your AoEs and long range attacks. Pick off attackers without putting yourself at too much risk. Learn to use arrow carts, cannons, trebs, oil. You don’t have to be a level 80 to man a siege weapon and pound the bejesus out of the opposition.

Know that you are likely to die a lot. You’re going to lose money on your repair bill.

Have fun

I name whatever pet I have out “generic pet”, my water pet is always named “generic fish”

Hi all,

Semi-casual player. Highest level character is a Ranger, currently 65 with decent gear for my level. Love playing it. A couple times I have gone 1 v 1 against mesmers in WvW and got absolutely owned. I fare pretty well against other classes.

One on one against a mesmer what I have found happens is that I quickly find myself looking at 3+ clones, the mesmer and one or more phantoms on me. I am unable to determine which target I need to hit and am dispatched before I can accurately determine who is a clone and who is the mesmer.

Any suggestions for a ranger versus mesmer?

Thanks!