Guild Wars 2

Bump. Just wanted to welcome our new members Konid and Barel.

Is there another way to get my obsidian shards besides balthazar? The event is clearly broken for too long and no one even cares that much of the karma gear or temples.
I’ve got 525k karma waiting for balthazar to get my shards for gift of mastery…….

Synaesthesia [SYN] Recruitment Page!

Synaesthesia is a very small guerrilla type Wvw oriented group.

“We are small, but deadly. Strike swiftly and vanish, leaving our foes breathless.
Moving as a unit is vital, and listening to orders is undisputed.”

We sound very hardcore and serious about the game, We are.
But let’s not forget it’s just a GAME.
We are also a family. Coming from different places, cultures and habits.
Our family does many things together, from drunken nude parties via skype to real life hang outs and oversea meetings.
I personally know every single one of my members down to their bones.
We’d like to add a bit more people to our family and core environment.

• World vs World

What we do in WvW is different than most guilds you’ve seen before.
While coordinated with the commanders on our server, we decide which area is best to cover strategically.
But we don’t usually do keeps nor towers; We assault zergs from behind, escort doly’s, re-cap camps, support our zergs with siege weaponry, and support our server jumping puzzle areas (just for the heck of it).
For our big events Friday nights we capture either a keep or a tower and hold it for as long as possible.

We are also farming dungeons and helping our members to farm for their Legendary weapons.

• Dungeons

We run story mode events where we group up and complete all story modes one by one.
We farm for the tokens needed for any gift and we help people get their desired items.
Same for lodestones ^

• Synaesthesia?

If you google’d Synaesthesia you would receive many results. To me it means :
“A sense of satisfaction in a body part other than the part being stimulated.”
The guild is called like that because we usually hit smaller objectives,
such as camps, cows, flags (and more) in order to help our towers&keeps, block their zergs and let ours take over the big objectives with ease.

• Recruitment

Our requirements

- Must be 18+.
- Must be 80 for our Wvw/Dungeon groups.
- Must be skilled with your main class.
- Must Represent our guild at all times.
- Must be active in-game and participate in events.
- Must be active on the guild website and forums.*

• Rules

- Be friendly and polite to each other. Any act of attitude would lead to a ban from our guild.
- Religion, Faith, Culture, and hatred discussions are not welcomed in Synaesthesia; leads to drama.
- If you are gone for a while, you have to notify the guild leader or one of the officers before your absence.

If you fit the following requirements and agree with our rules you can leave an application on this thread or in a Private message.
(Until we get a website for applications)

• Application

[In-game name]:
[Age]:
[Location]:
[Class]:
[Tell us about your gaming past]:
[Tell us about yourself]:
[What do you expect from Syn and what Syn can expect from you?]:

• Notes
  - Working on a website.
  - Getting a TS3 server.
  - Since we just transferred to Gunnar’s Hold our guild progression is reset.
  - I’ll keep track of this post for the time being until the website is ready. Until than, applications go through here or private messages.
  Important
• We are from Gunnars hold.
• We will not transfer to merge with a different guild.

Thanks for reading and we hope to see you in our roster soon,
Satoncald.

drkn.3429:

Gunnar’s Hold would suit you best, then. No other language than English on /m and /t, active PvX community. In regard to W3, we got to t2 some time ago but the strongest W3 guilds left for Blacktide, going after points seen after pressing B rather than staying for the community, and we’re still reorganising our W3 forces. You’d not only found yourselves on a decent and active server, but you’d also be a valuable addition to our W3 team.

Sounds sweet, I’ll definitely check it out. Do you guys support guerrilla groups in /t chat or just zerg groups? Cause on SBI it seems like all they care about is the zerg and the commanders.

RMStrooper.7291:

Gandaras majority speaks english and is medium-high populated

How is the wvw and pve?

Also I love how they said “we’re going to fix the precursor market issue” and giving it only a temporary solution.

Bump for my guild sake please xD.

Very disappointing from Arena-Net. I was doing fractals and got stuck on the loading screen, logged off and the log-in servers went down. Tried to log in for 4 hours (was during the event) and it just wouldn’t let me. I opened firewalls, changed ports and everything! Gave up on it, today I log in and see everyone with a precursor……
It’s the only thing I’m missing from getting a legendary and last night I could have a chance to get one. Prices went down – sure, but in a tiny bit they’ll get high again.

My guild is a small WvW oriented guild doing some dungeons as well all together. We are looking for a EU server that is high-medium population (for recruitment matters), be International or have a majority of English speakers, and the community will have interest in WvW (not t1 or anything like that) and has a medium-high population enough for farming.

I know it sounds like the ideal server and it’s what i’m aiming for my guild and I hope I could get some assistance with this from the user’s opinions.

Chaosbroker.3860:

I actually use this setup for pve and wvw and it puts out solid damage while being relatively hard to put down.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNAR3engO08YyDSBxEZA4ogKmUKgru0jyQLNA;TsAA2CooyyklILbWuskZtEZQwmAA

With full “knight’s” armour and weapons and “berserker’s” trinket slots it sits at about

2850 power
49 (54 with sigil)% crit chance
52% crit damage
2700 toughness
23k health

Basically you can maintain perma fury through your utilities, 10+ stacks of might through weapon swapping and heavy condition removal and bonus healing with your shouts. It is a pure melee setup though which isn’t everyone’s thing plus some bosses really do need a ranged weapon. You can always swap out the axe/shield for a rifle though in these situations so it’s not crippling. Also with the high crit chance omnomberry pies will go a long way to extending your survivability while adding more precision to help your damage along.

Your build sounds interesting to me and it fits my needs for wvw, but the link isn’t working.

I think were in a good spot in PvE and PvP (tiny bit underpowered against some builds), we do have a few bugs that needs to be fixed than we’ll be the most balanced class in-game. For those saying warriors are op, you’re a bad player.

I think most tier 3 cultural armors are well worth the price for their style and uniqueness, but the stats should be par with that price – Instead of using transmutation stones, just offer us with bunch of different stats and please at-least make the gear exotic.
Making it Legendary stat sounds off a-bit but really for such kind of rarity, i’d like to keep my gear stats par with the best in slot gear.

Prima.3512:

from the wiki – “Magic find is applied when a foe dies”

Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer Isaiah Cartwright 16 hours ago : “Everytime you kill a monster you roll on a number of tables, inside these tables are different rarity categories. Magic find increases the chances you will get higher categories. For example if there is a 1 in 10 category, and you have 200% magic find you will have 3/10 chances to get that category. This improves not just the rarity of the items you get but can also improve your chances at getting trophies and rare crafting materials like lodestones.”

But do you have to wear it while hitting the mob or just looting? cause saying it applies when it’s dead is not answering my question :P.
Also I know the mechanic of it pretty much but I was asking for the users opinion on it not stated facts I didn’t ask for.

tomlin.8204:

There’s still much at work here I’m not aware of, for example I get the impression we’re limited on a weekly or monthly basis in terms of DR, or rather how long we’re allowed to stay in the “magic zone”.
For example, my first level 80 character gets to Orr, equips a MF set, gets 20+ Rares in a day. DR kicks in and I’m getting 1 Rare every 4 hours. No matter what I do, this doesn’t seem to improve. I can go to another area and kill things that aren’t Risen, I can PvP, WvW, even log off for 24 hours, but whenever I come back to Orr it’s the same. I hear people saying doing something else for an hour resets it, but it doesn’t.

My second level 80 gets to Orr, equips a MF set, and the fun begins again, only to fall into the exact same pattern. I get the occasional bout of picking up Rares, but it’s still amongst tonnes of Porous Bones, and this is with mostly full MF set with Superior Sigil of Luck and Omnom food, sometimes even cash shop boost.

It seems to reset sometimes, but I can’t figure out when or why. Is there any official word on this that I haven’t seen?

I feel exactly the same about diminishing return and especially the fact you get reduced drop rate after being a while in orr compared to your first time in it.
When I started I was only chilling at pentinent and the spider camps and I gained a ton of rares, now I rarely get any. not to mention the ectoplasm rng is getting worse than ever before, right when rares are expensive than usual.

I have questions related to MF since I didn’t go too deep on that subject and only used it for cursed shore.
I wonder if the MF applies only IF you kill your foes with it, or just when you pick up the drops.
[Devs] One more thing – Are you guys going to implement a stat rate so measure our MF/Drop rate?

For the users, do you think MF is a good mechanic or something that needs to be worked on?

I have a question related to MF since I didn’t go too deep on that subject and only used it for cursed shore.
I wonder if the MF applies only IF you kill your foes with it, or just when you pick up the drops.
One more thing – Are you guys going to implement a stat rate so measure our MF/Drop rate?

Hasek.6807:

Yeah i am at work. Like i said you can follow our little gathering of warriors every night at twitch.tv/irajaxx (I am European btw)

And my name/server is in the left or in my tag!

I’d gladly help out with any questions you might have.

I wrote this in the “i have problems with condition thiefs” thred but, having melandru runes and -40% condition duration racks up a wopping 65% minus to all conditions on you! Equals to 65% less dmg from bleeds and a 10 sec cripple turns into a 3.5 sec cripple! Just examples!

And just a tip!

Guess i’ll wait when you get back.

Hasek.6807:

And what is wrong with greatsword btw?
I run 4 parts soldiers 2 parts knights gear with soldiers/berzerk jewelry with 30 pts in defence and melandru runes.
I am not some full mong in 5 signets and zerk gear. Greatsword has many versatile and applicable builds!

Not trying to bash my favorite weapon, but the damage output from 100b with shout and defense builds doesn’t seem to par well together… I havn’t tested it myself (going to) but it just doesn’t feel like it does a significant amount of damage to carry it compared to a bow or s/s that has alot of mobility and effectiveness in zergs.
I’m trying to work on a new build mate and I cud use some help, tried to add you ingame but you’re offline.

Tell your guildies to simply lower their sound volume if they don’t like being buffed.
Honestly, listen to some music like “Two steps from hell” while you’re playing a warrior, who the kitten listens to what your character says xD?

Attic.1562:

I dropped my warrior ages ago because the mesmer is just so much better at engaging in hit and run tactics in WvW (which is the only thing I care about).

But I’m really bored with that class and don’t have the cash available to craft my guardian, thief, ele, or engi to 80 and exotic them out so I’m looking towards my warrior once again.

Here is the question I posit to you, gentle forumites: what are some specs that specialize in running into enemy zergs, AoE bombing, and then getting the hell out of Dodge before they get ganked?

Currently I’m using a hammer & sword/shield build, but it doesn’t feel like it does enough significant AoE to justify the slow attack speed. But I can’t tell if that’s due to the crappy AH greens or not.

Your build is more of a control build, and it has a lot of AoE capabilities, you’re probably not using them effectively. I think greatsword tagged with a hammer would fit for AoE ‘bombing’ and getting the hell out although i’d recommend a bit tankier gear (not berserker) for survival.

Still working on dyes and I’m not sure if i’ll keep the boots. As well as getting one of the legendary greatswords. Probably the twilight.

If you have any boots to suggest for this gear let me know.

But won’t I lose a kittenload of damage resource by doing that? I mean the runes sound neat, I sort of need that tankiness in me but the traits.. It seems like you don’t have any precision/power at all, and for the build mentioned isn’t cleric gear better?

Hey guys.
Today I crafted my own knight’s gear. I’ve been playing as a beserker cannon-glass for a while now and I’m sick and tired of getting owned before I manage to land a shot.
I’m also considering to buy the commander title so I can’t set an example of exploding in people’s face – because that’s what cannon glass warriors do .
I’ve been using 20/30/0/0/20 classic build with the GS + Rifle/Hammer. I don’t mind swapping weapons at this point as well as switching up my traits as long as i’ll have more survivability without a major loss of my damage.
My jewel set is berserker but I’m not sure if I’m gonna give it up yet, I can be flexible with the weapon stats. I’d really like to balance it out.

So what am I asking here :
What runes should I use?
What traits should I use?
What weapons should I use?

In order to be able to deal sustained amount of damage (preferred with crits) and keep myself ALIVE.

If you have an idea, please leave a comment to help me out here .

xvalkyrie.6742:

We’ve found that getting her killed while the fight is in progress seems to work. When you run in, run to the far door. This gets the npc at the top of the room by the jotun stone. Then go to the center and stall the fight until the fire ring kills her by closing in slowly. Kill the stargazer, the fire ring will be closer to you and the npc’s dead body will be outside the ring of fire. When the stargazer dies, she pops to life and opens the door.

Until they make her invulnerable to fire, it’s really the only option for finishing this path.

I’d like to say 2 things :
1. I LOVE YOU.
2. After long long 10.5 hours with alot of pugs, bugs, server build, frustration, sweaty balls, no food, no coffee, no shower, I MANAGED TO FINISH THIS PATH!!!!!
This was definitely worth it, I got another step closer to my dungeon master title, and the pants I bought feel godly, and they fit me perfectly!

HATE YOU ARAH!

P.S : Do I have to mention it was all pugged T_T?

Eva I’d love to see that kind of a post on one of the endless ‘Arah gate bug’ topics.

Server : Stormbluff Isle
Dungeon : Arah
Issue : The meta quest for opening the gates won’t trigger or bugged for a while now. Please fix this Asap so I can farm my sexy legs already -.-.

So I tried to transfer to Stormbluff Isle to play with my new guildies, finally it wasn’t full and I did the transfer, It closed the game, I waited about 5 minutes and logged back in, still in Desolation ><!
Been trying the same process about 5 times and it seems bugged. Can I get some help on this matter :x?

Bump! Need a few more to get a WvW group going for this friday!

Synaesthesia [SYN] – Desolation is a brand new guerrilla type guild.
“We are small, but deadly. Strike swiftly and vanish, leaving our foes breathless.
Moving as a unit is vital, and listening to orders is undisputed.”

Our goals are different but the same as many other guilds, We want to have a great time with guild wars 2, meet new, strange and wonderful people from all over the world and play the game as a group ; On the battlefield, we want to wreck supply camps and assault towers, never thinking big (keeps/castles) and hit our foes where it hurts the most. We’d like to keep it simple, and small – 40 active members at most is my personal goal.

What we’ll do besides WvW is a-LOT of farming, dungeons, and sPvP. Other than the usual stuff, we’ll do drinking events, tournaments, and play other games together from time to time.

If you’re interested joining you’ll join as a recruit, we’ll watch your steps carefully and figure out if you fit in.
The requirements are simple :

- You must be 18+.
- You must speak English, I don’t care how terrible it is, as long as we can understand you it’s fine.
- Must be active and attend our events.

To contact me, Satoncald/Meigui – Desolation. Mail me if I’m not reachable.

Things to note :

• Working on a website.
• Getting a TS3 server.

Azelroth.6801:

The thing I’ve noticed is that the precursor’s are popping up much more commonly now that the new updates to the mystic forge has occurred.

My thinking is that the prices are going to be slowly dropping now and hopefully within the next month or so they may hover around the 200 Gold mark. One can only hope.

In the mean time my question is this, have you got ALL the other necessary components for your legendary yet? If not, then I would not even begin to worry about the precursor because you have a heck of a lot of work to do before it even makes a difference….

Gift of fortune and Gift of Mastery are the requirements for every legendary. I’m going for one of the greatswords, and I really don’t mind. I’m waiting for the precursor to move on for the next component and all I need besides the dusk/dawn is either charged or onyx lodestones so… you are not 100% right.

The “Skill challenge : Defeat the ancient sharks” in Sparkfly fin has been bugged for a day & a half, dozens of people stuck at 98% zone completion while these sharks are humping each-other T-T.

Btw I’m more into the twilight (atleast for the first weapon). Is it the same path as the sunrise?

Cool cool. So any of you got some progress tips for creating a legendary? I’m considering the Greatswords for my warrior so any tips on what order to do stuff would be nice

The question is, is there a cap for the ‘leveling’?

So crafting a legendary requires 200 skill-points – I didn’t realize it (wasn’t even planning for it till I got to level 80), I basiclly spent all my skill-points over my utility’s. Is there a cap for my skill-points or If i’d like to make a legendary I should re-roll?

biscuit.5091:

Server: Seafarer’s Rest
Guild: Satoncald Army [SCA]
Leader: Satoncald or biscuit.5091 (me).

Issue #1 :Yesterday I created the guild and my friend used his tome, got us the 1k IP and we used it to buy politics upgrade level 1. The entire upgrade would take 16 hours, it’s been 16 hours already, But we did not get the upgrade, lost the 500 IP and it doesn’t appear to be on the queue list, either any removal history.
Issue #2 : As a leader, I can’t even edit the ranks.

Please HELP ><!

Issue #1 is fixed.
Issue #2 is still going on.
Issue #3: I can’t buy new upgrades for some reason?

Server: Seafarer’s Rest
Guild: Satoncald Army [SCA]
Leader: Satoncald or biscuit.5091 (me).

Issue #1 :Yesterday I created the guild and my friend used his tome, got us the 1k IP and we used it to buy politics upgrade level 1. The entire upgrade would take 16 hours, it’s been 16 hours already, But we did not get the upgrade, lost the 500 IP and it doesn’t appear to be on the queue list, either any removal history.
Issue #2 : As a leader, I can’t even edit the ranks.

Please HELP ><!

Last night I upgraded politics for my guild, and it’s been 16 hours for sure, I can’t see the research que nor a upgrade removal on the history tab.
It’s just not there and the IP is just gone…
Any ways to fix this?

Cool thanks ;D.
Now which profs would be good for a thief and a mesmer?

I just noticed Teamspeak news theres a program that let’s you do bunch of stuff while ingame instead of having to alt tab all the time and It looks really cool.
My questions are, Is it safe? and does anyone else use it for GW2?
On it’s website it says it’s supporting it.

As the title says, I’m new to crafting. Do I need to salvage all the items I don’t need? I know about the salvageable trophies, and junk goes to vendor, but Items should be salvaged or sold in the trading post?
And basiclly, Is it worth the effort end-game?

I seriously prefer having to check on my email every time I log than crashing and having to run a varification archieve patch during the last match of a spvp tournament >.<!

It doesn’t give me any limits to my gameplay, but it crashes my game and whenever I log I gotta go through this email sending process for varification but it never sends it.

And again. The game actually crashed this time and showed me that the game-data is not varified and I could send a report and I’ll get a message on my email (NEVER GOT ANYTHING FROM YOU) – Help, SoS… anyone T_T?

I’ve been doing the story mode today and 3-4 scenarios are not full. For some reason the conversation stops and continues after the muted line.
Is it just me or it’s like that for all players?

And it happend AGAIN, I’m sick of it folks – I’m not willing to re-patch the game every time I log off. I logged off the game since you warned for AFK bans which I think is absord… But comon, I’ve played Aion for a while and compared to gw2 management with these sorts of issues, gw2 is dissapointing so far.
Please, sort things out even when it concerns 1 member of your community.

I’d even pay 10$-2$ for it.

So, I did as you said, changed my email and password to secure my account best way possible; But my account has yet to be autherized by you. Every time I launch the game it says my account is not autherized and when I send the varification email, It will not appear!
Today I relogged since the trading post was bugged and It had to run sort of a test, an archieve varification. It was done and I got in but I don’t want this to happen once more, so please, send me the varification email to my email adress manually.

Now I have a suggestion to sort all your hacking problems. Create the option where a costumer could have pin codes for logging in from different computers, different characters, and banks. I think this can solve alot and people will feel alot more safe.

I really doubt you can support much as a thief. try to look around for some bow builds but again, I doubt that.
Thieves exceel at dealing loads of damage in a short amount of time, being very mobile and avoid all sort of stuff…
this build you’re having is basiclly a mobility type which makes no sense cause another prof would do the support role much better and you’ll pull more dps for the both of you. Just my opinion.

Some people here are mad. Steal is a great ability and it makes thieves actual thieves as we STEAL STUFF FROM OUR SURROUNDING.
- We get to use some high burst abilities.
- Boons.
- Combo fields.
- Replenishment for ourselves and more…
Not to mention it shadowstep you right next to the target which can put your opponent in abit of confusion if you do it as he follows you, AND you can spec into it making it deal damage, poison and bunch of other stuff that makes the steal ability a big part of the thief.

I agree about one thing though with the negative side of this discussion, which is if you’re using a ranged weapon it shouldn’t shadowstep you cause you can get downed by bosses and such at melee, but the game has been out for 2 weeks now and it’s still going under some development, and skills are being changed daily.

As for using it, really once you use it alot you’ll find steal a really big part of your thief, and you’ll always have it on cd in combat.
Honestly, do you have another unique F1 ability for us thieves that isn’t a skill on any other mmo? For me this type of steal is a first.

So I just completed Gendarren Fields on a 100% and got the chest, and I thought I got a glove and pants but in fact… My pants are acting weird :P.