Guild Wars 2

I havn’t played in a while and noticed the attack stat is now gone. What is a good baseline for power builds, based on the power stat instead of attack? I used to shoot for at least 3,000 attack.

I can’t remember where I’ve read it, but I did read somewhere that they’re going to be making pet abilities into instant moves. I also heard that the 1h-sword 1 ability will be interruptable via dodges and other skills, which makes me happy like you wouldn’t believe.

Seems kind of cool, but do we know if they’re moving traits or reworking them along with the new GM traits next Tuesday?

Is dire gear worth getting on a necro? I’m currently using full rabid for my condi build. I know they’re making a lot of the ‘on crit’ runes into ‘on hit’ runes. But I still feel like losing all that crit is too big of a loss.

I guess I’m just asking is, should get it now for later or get it now for right now?

I’d also like to add that the game is nearly unplayable in WvW, which is the sole reason I even play this game.

I used to run WvW without issue!

I was just wondering if the devs are aware of/ working on the lag issues in game. Many people (myself included) are getting horrendous lag even on high end rigs. I’ve read the forum posts in the tech support forums and devs haven’t responded to any of them pertaining to this.

I’m not asking for a help with an issue here. Simply asking if the development team is aware of and/or taking care of whatever got messed up in a patch.

I just wanna chime in and say that I built a pc specifically for GW2 during beta. I had no issues running the game until about 2 months ago when everything started playing out really choppy with horrible fps.

Also I’m not going to bother posting my pc specs since it’s not the issue here. I do use an nvidia gfx card though.

Booting someone from a group for not gearing the way you want is dumb. However, arguing that people should put up with people they’d rather not group with is equally dumb.

So please stop shooting idiot pistols at one another. You’re missing your targets and lowering the collective I.Q. of the community around you.

I’m pretty sure they’ve already said they weren’t planning on making Cantha/Asia 2.0

I’ve not had this problem in any other zone in the game. I’m not the only one either. Others have been getting disconnected with alarming frequencies in Queensdale. Just tonight I was disconnected 6 times within about 45 mins. It’s not truly a full disconnect either. Just a boot the the character select screen.

I could see a guardian using an offhand mace over an offhand sword. Dual maces seems like it would fit but dual swords doesn’t seem right.

I don’t run sPvP but I do a lot of WvW. I’ve been running a 30/20/0/20/0 build using carrion armor with rabid trinkets. 5 runes of the adventurer with 1 rune of the undead. Hybrid power and condition build using wells. Axe/focus for boon stripping and higher direct damage when in death shroud. Scepter/dagger for quicker condition application. Sigil of earth and sigil of accuracy in main and offhands respectivly.

I’ve had pretty decent success with it sitting at about 1200 condition damage with 2700 attack and 46 crit. 22k health with 2k armor. That part kinda stinks but I’ve barely noticed it. I though about taking 10 out of curses and putting it into death for protection on well use. May do that tonight to test.

Just thought I’d share my build.

More like Ranger Rick. Ooo! Maybe the ranger from Yogi Bear! We should play like him. Aragorn is overrated gimme Ranger Rick any day.

Does well of power have any stun break effect on allies? It seems odd to have a stun break with a casting time on it. It’s only one quarter of a second but I imagine it’s still kinda hard to cast after yer stunned/knocked down or whatever.

Wow… posted this on my lunch break. didn’t expect people to actually pay this much attention to my stupid thread.

Go go gadget forum warriors!

Pretty much in the title. But if you can’t figure out what I’m trying to convey by that then just know that “Ranger” isn’t in reference to the word range. A ranger is a woodsman, outdoorsman, or someone who acts to protect the wild.

Just figured I’d post this. It’s annoying reading the forums and seeing people say that we should be the longest range or best range class when to justify how they think the ranger should be played.

I’m just posting this to see if there’s anyone else who’s as excited as I am. I already can’t wait to get home from work tomorrow.

The queue exists to limit larger servers in wvw. It seems dumb because of the old wvw ranking system. But with the slightly more random match up system that they’ve switched over to the queue will stop a complete take over of every map by servers who have overwhelmingly higher populations.

Mist form is the devil! I for one will not stand for elementalists finding intelligent ways to use their downed skills! How dare they not stay in one place for me to murder! And thieves they take things and stealth it’s madness! I once saw a thief stealth only to pass my entire zerg and reappear on the walls of the tower we were mindlessly headbutting! It’s all too much! I demand change!

When elementalists enter mist form they should die instantly because of the wind! Thieves should be visible all the time and unable to teleport all over like nutcases!

VOTE FOR ZUER!

If raids became a thing in this game I would still run WvW exclusively. If gear progression became a thing it would blow WvW balance to hell and I’d be forced to quit. So raids, whatever, swing for the fences. Gear progression, no.

I had to take off somewhat early last night which sucks. But I’m pretty sure it’s safe to say the BURN enjoyed our first reset on Mag in our BL last night. Hope to see more great battles in the coming week! See ya on the battlefield!

I actually really like that idea. Make it happen cap’n!

I’m at work right now otherwise I’d just check for myself, but has there been any improvements to the life siphon trains in the vitality trait line at all. I honestly havnt been paying attention to the necro sections of patch notes. I want to get back into my necro and its been a while. I’ve been playing my engi and thief.

I won’t be on for the reset, but I just wanted to hop on the forums and wish everyone the best of luck for tonight’s reset. Hopefully we’re all in a better balanced match this upcoming week.

Havnt played in a while but I can’t wait to do some wvw when I get off of work! We’re not facing ehmry and AR?! GREAT!!! Sucks thakittens apparently so uneven though. These sorts of matchups are usually pretty dead by midweek or so.

Just wanted to pop in and say way to abuse a bug EBay. Using the leg specialist trait on the warriors to lockdown people with the AC’s. It’s a bug and you’re abusing it. Classy.

I actually use a S/D, SB build on my thief for solo roaming. Difference is I use full berserker’s gear and weapons. It’s great for getting in and out and shadow stepping out of your opponent’s line of sight then seeming coming out of nowhere to muder them.

http://youtu.be/29M_VElHoFI

I wouldn’t mind the channel if we weren’t rooted in place for it. Thief is about mobility. Make the stun a daze and make movement possible during the channel.

Not to mention that you can’t use any of that stuff in WvW.

Sword/Dagger
-Infiltrator’s Strike
-Steal/Mug
-Auto Attack
-Recall back into your zerg.

Use the immobilize on Infiltrator’s Strike to help kill the other thieves or warriors that try to sneak into/bull rush your zerg. Or just hang back and plink some jerks with a short bow!

I forgot runes and sigils. But I switch them out too often for anything definite. I’m trying to solidify that part of the build still.

20/0/30/20/0

20 – venomous strength, quick venoms
30 – slowed pulse, leeching venom, venomous aura
20 – power of inertia, assassins reward

Gear – full clerics (armor, weapon, trinkets)

Skills – signet of malice, ice drake venom, spider venom, skale venom (I usesignet of shadows in WvW for the movement), basilisk venom

You won’t have a very high health pool and there’s really no stealth aside from CnD and the D/P combo field, but I’ve found this build to be very useful in PvE and WvW. I don’t do sPvP so I don’t know how well it works in that respect.

I’ve found P/P works great with this build because the dual ability gives great heals. Sharing venoms with allies helps a ton in WvW and also gives allies might.

I just thought I would share my build. Feel free to leave feedback and what not. But I won’t get back to it right away since I’m posting this on my lunch break at work right now.

Last night I finished getting my PVT armor set. I started using that with knights weapon and jewelery. Everything augmented with ruby orbs/jewels. I’ve been running it in wvw and loving it with a 10/30/0/0/30 build! Decent damage and not super squishy.

I usually roll with a condi turret build (that I still love) but this is fun as hell!

Faux Salad

Cause you’re not actually a salad. :P

Is there karma armor leggings with the Power/Toughness/Vitality stats for medium armor wearers? I know there’s the WvW armor but I was hoping to spend all this karma on armor and can’t seem to find the legs.

I was hoping to use my WvW tokens on a weapon.

I use a 20/10/30/0/10 build with full rabid gear using dual pistols. The condition damage works out nicely with turrets actually. It would be 10/20/30/0/10 but I felt I had to put the extra 10 into explosives for accelerant packed turrets. So in the end I agree with your suggestion. While I doubt it will happen, I do agree.

1-UP

The SAB allows the programmers to put new fun things into the game that have absolutely nothing to do with the lore. There’s a lot of potential in keeping it around. I wouldn’t be surprised if they kept it around but closed it for certain intervals to update content or maybe even just to keep it interesting. Maybe have SAB weekends or something fun like that!

I can’t believe someone could be so negative about one of the best events they’ve done so far.

I’m going to beat up monkeys, snakes, bees, turtles, alligators, rabbits, and frogs with a stick. Have fun not beating up 8-bit nature with a stick.

Konami code? Eh? EH!?

Would be funny as hell though. Hahaha!

I was originally 10/20/30/0/10 but put 10 from firearms into explosives to get the explosive turrets trait specifically to use on people on tower walls. They’re way less effective if you can knock them off the wall even if only for a little bit.

Also I’ve found that having the turrets set up you can use them sometimes in place of a stun break for those 100 blades warriors. It doesn’t specifically break stun but you can detonate a turret while knocked down to knock your opponent away if you fight near the turrets.

((Edit: making myself sound like less of an idiot. Crazy, I know.))

So I’ve been tooling around with turrets in WvW and I’m really enjoying it! I’m running a 20/10/30/0/10 build with full rabid gear. Its working out great! Being able to throw turrets on twer walls to attack people on siege that would normally be inreachable is fantastic! Using the rifle, net, rocket and healing turrets. I lack stun breaks and condition removal but its so kitten fun I don’t care at all! I’ve tried power turret builds and not liked them as much. The extra condition dmg really helps out. I also use veggie pizza so I’m at about 60 condi duration. So prolonged immobilize from the net turret too. All in all just fun as hell!

Why is this warrior garbage on the Engineer forums?
Am I missing something?

Does anyone know if Superior Sigil of Generosity and Superior Sigil of Purity share a cooldown?

So I got one of the character name change things and I wanted to change the name of my engineer to ‘Oiled Cog’. I didn’t mean it in a dirty way or anything. It was meant for the fact that I change his spec to however he is needed for the situation in WvW at that moment. Also it sounds really engineer-ish.

A guild member told my that I may get in trouble for it because of sexual connotations. I want to make this name but will I get in trouble for it sounding sexual? I don’t want to waste my character name change sheet.

It doesn’t matter what you use on your ele. Elementalists can access 20 different weapon skills and still take whatever they want for utilities. If they had weapon swap they would have access to 40 weapon skills.

Also engineers could really benefit from having weapon swap. It wouldn’t be over powered. It would just make use what arena net actually wanted us to be, versatile. Because as it stands there’s nothing an engineer can do that can’t be done better by another class. I love my engie but show us some love, devs.

I think the majority of animations actually are based on your race.

Do Signet of Malice and trait X (Assassin’s Reward) in the Acrobatic line benefit from +heal gear or are they just a fixed amount?

How well does healing scale with Shadow Refuge?

Just made 80 on my thief and I’m just looking into some things.

That looks like it’s hilariously fun to play and I CAN’T WAIT to try it!

Thank you for sharing!

So I read somewhere (I forget where. I think it was on the general forum a while back) that even though there are no announced/planned expansions at the moment they have been looking at possible new equipable weapon sets for classes. Not new weapons just access to weapons that can’t be used currently.

I used to play City of Heroes (R.I.P.) and loved the feel of archery defenders in that game. They had flash arrows, explosive arrows, flaming arrows, electric arrows, etc.. but they felt like I feel the engineer should be in this game. Maybe not quite so techy and what have you but just FULL of gadgetry. As far engineers go I would love to see us gain access to some sort of set like that.

Just my two cents. I just think access to something other than guns without having to use kits would be excellent.