Guild Wars 2

Ascii, I want to say “Thank you!” for sharing your build and your reasonings behind it. This really helped me to shape and refine a Zerg/Well-Build to my taste and my WvW-environment.

Just to share my experiences (these are NOT recommendations for serious GvG-Actions on top-tier!) running with an angry mob in EU T2/T3 (no organised GvG):
-) I don’t use Melandru-Runes and Lemongrass-Food; I never felt that conditions are that much of a problem in my environment so I prefer Ruby/Beryl-Orbs
-) I do not own the set of ascended jewellery used in Ascii’s proposed build. I feel that Exotics are ok as long as you keep Ascii’s minimum requirements (50% critchance; 2700 attack/armour); crit-dmg is not that important. Currently I use Celestial trinkets (the only ascended ones I have access to atm), which is better than just exotics but definetly NOT RECOMMENDED.
I just want to mention this for all those who like Nemesis’ Hybrid-PVE-build as much as I do (—> you can use those celestial trinkets for WvW too…)
-) I like Well of Darkness instead of Spectral Walk; WoD does a good job at keeping my zerg alive; SW is only good for my own survival, which is not that important in WvW
-) I considered Well of Blood as healing skill. However, a reliable condition removal is really neccessary, so Consume Conditions is still my favourite.

Again, please take all this as my experiences in my WvW-setting and not as recommendations or Meta-something.

For solo PvE:
-) try the new Grandmaster Trait in Spite to inflict burning. It is so much fun to see a new condition ticking. Investing in Buff-Food giving condition duration makes much more sense with that, too.
-) you also might want to try out the Signet of Spite togehter with Signet Mastery (Spite IV). I’m not sure if it’s worth it, but it feels good

Give the Necro another try. You might want to look at Nemesis’ Hybrid-Build for an interesting PVE-experience. For leveling/hearts/Open-World-PVE a minion-master-build is nice to. (I do agree that full conditions gets boring very fast)

I’ve stumbled across this thread, because I’m thinking about getting a (wireless) gamepad to play GW2. The positive feedback here makes me want to try this even more, however:

I’ve absolutely no idea what controller I should get. I’ve never ever played with an xbox, PS or any other console. My only experiences in that area come from playing Super Mario on a GameBoy (the older ones amongst you might remember that one).

In short: Can anyone recommend a nice gamepad? Money is not so much of an issue, but comfort is. Thanks in advance for your help

Hi everyone!
I’ve got a few noobish questions (yes, I tried to get an answer using the search function and/or the wiki and sorry, english is not my native language):

1.) Regarding Sigils: is a sigil like Sigil of Accuracy effective, even if it is on my alternative weapon set?
2.) In WvW: When it is Zerg versus Zerg I often do not see any enemies (so far nothing new). People are telling me that I can tag them by using “tab” to target them, however, “tabbing” doesnt do anything. Reducing graphic details does not seem to help. Do I have to accept this “as is” or is there any workaround?
3.) Necromancer’s Epidemic Skill: AoE Skills are limited to 5 targets. Does this hold true for Epidemic as well (I really tried to figure this put by myself, but all those numbers popping up and being killed to fast kinda spoiled my efforts…)?
Thanks a lot for helping me out