Guild Wars 2

Ive mostly been a WvW’er since the launch of the game and I have always been on FA but I feel like its time for me to transfer. Im looking for a low to mid ranked NA server. I want something with a small but pretty tight nit WvW community where I can roam and get some smaller scale fights. The two servers Ive been thinking of are either DR or FC but info on any lower tier servers is great!

Tier 2 and tier 3 mostly consist of zergs and im just tired of fighting in them. I don’t mind fighting them with lesser numbers but I don’t care much for running in massive zergs.

Edit: After thinking it over I decided that ET would be the best place for me so that’s where I’ve transferred to. We had a great reset tonight and i’m looking forward to WvW’ing with you guys!

The first thing to really catch my eye about the new living story is a conversation about the player character being the pact commander. Really makes the “living world” thing seem dynamic and connected. Nice to see that Anet is paying attention to details in the story.

I joined RET in the first few of weeks of Guild Wars 2 almost two years ago. At the time WvW was new and hardly anyone new what they were doing but RET quickly proved to be unique. Fighting against groups far larger than our own RET would come out on top do to its excellent leadership and great players. Over time RET grew to be one of the best WvW guilds on FA, but also so much more. RET was an experience. The friendships that I created in RET made Guild Wars 2 the best gaming experience I have ever had.

I stuck with RET until the end of WvW season one. At that point the game was starting to get old and I needed a break. I left Guild Wars 2 and didn’t return until the first week of june. I soon found out that RET had left Fort Aspenwood. After doing a bit of digging I discovered that RET had not only left but had disbanded, only a week or so prior to my returning.

I don’t know how many former members of RET still play Guild Wars 2, but I feel like I owe it to the amazing group of players I had so much fun with for almost a year and a half to say goodbye.

Farewell Zoel, Stawker, De Sade, and all the rest of RET. You guys have made my time in Guild Wars 2 one to remember.

~Dameus Geargrinder

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/14u07l/death_of_a_dolyak_love_and_tragedy_in_wvw/

Remember the dolyak parade. Never forget

Unknownhero.6745:

elitegamerz.4965:“Um…You do realize that rangers can use great swords right?”

What really, we can??? After over a year, now you tell me (insert sarcastic face)…
I guess you totally missed the entire point of the post, and you missed the fact I called myself a “ranger” not “melee ranger” but thx for the tip Im sure you were trying to be helpful…

I was trying to be helpful actually, but the term “ranger” doesn’t refer to someone who fights from range. It refers to someone who ranges, roams, traverses land, etc.. Melee or ranged combat both fit the outdoors man archetype the class is suppose to fill

DarkWasp.7291:

elitegamerz.4965:

Unknownhero.6745:

So, a new event brings new skins…hard to get as always but always cool!
As usual the GS (Chiroptophobia in this case) gets all the love. How cool are the bat animations!
Sadly however Im a ranger, and cool skins are so hard to come by, (I refuse to wear flowers or unicorns If i was a big tank dressed in metal i would have a handful of cool GS skins to choose from..
So i was pretty stoked to get myself a cool Araneae spider bow. I was pretty happy with my new toy, until some big Charr came by sporting his bat sword, with sweet animations :/ … creepy little bats flying around
Even the Bloody Prince scepter got some animation…
How hard would it have been to show the bow a little love…just once? How about it drops little baby spiders when wielded?? or even cooler make it shoot webs when fired…
So thats my beef… just once… show us rangers an act of kindness and give us something cool too …

Um…You do realize that rangers can use great swords right?

Not worth dropping a 1h sword to use a GS skin.

Depends on the build, GS is better than the 1h in alot of situations

Unknownhero.6745:

So, a new event brings new skins…hard to get as always but always cool!
As usual the GS (Chiroptophobia in this case) gets all the love. How cool are the bat animations!
Sadly however Im a ranger, and cool skins are so hard to come by, (I refuse to wear flowers or unicorns If i was a big tank dressed in metal i would have a handful of cool GS skins to choose from..
So i was pretty stoked to get myself a cool Araneae spider bow. I was pretty happy with my new toy, until some big Charr came by sporting his bat sword, with sweet animations :/ … creepy little bats flying around
Even the Bloody Prince scepter got some animation…
How hard would it have been to show the bow a little love…just once? How about it drops little baby spiders when wielded?? or even cooler make it shoot webs when fired…
So thats my beef… just once… show us rangers an act of kindness and give us something cool too …

Um…You do realize that rangers can use great swords right?

Alkaholic.3875:

Hunter.4783:

Bullkitten. Check the last fight, vs 4 people. No matter how skilled you are you can’t hope to troll around wvw with that many people wailing at you and coming out unscathed. Do you understand that any of his opponent in 1v1 STOOD NO CHANCE?

Its 1 thing to be able to beat someone 1v1, its another when your opponent might as well drop dead. Don’t be so biased please. 550hp/sec regen on signet of healing is OP no matter how look at it.

Ummm, check BAMF Joe’s vids. He takes on even more. He’s an engie.

^ Ive had entire zergs of 15 or 20+ chase me across a map on my engie and i can come out of it alive. Not dying to 4 people chasing you is nothing

Here’s my zerker static discharge/grenade hybrid. It works really well with zerkers gear because you can stay at 1500 range and still have plenty of burst when someone gets a little too close.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUl0pyUX7SiF17IyoHk2EuZgKoXfewWtFEC-w

If you don’t like the static discharge aspect of it you can swap it out for speedy kits then swap out rifle turret and utility goggles for something more defensive like elixir s or rocket boots

Middzz.1490:

elitegamerz.4965:

electriette.8952:

This thread has been great. Don’t ruin it now please.

Share the words of Jedsus Chris/Charr Jezus/whoever FA’s deity is.

FA has no deity, we just really like loot bags (and quaggen…)

…in that you resemble them ?

I wish we all looked like quaggen, it would make killing dolyaks even more hilarious

electriette.8952:

This thread has been great. Don’t ruin it now please.

Share the words of Jedsus Chris/Charr Jezus/whoever FA’s deity is.

FA has no deity, we just really like loot bags (and quaggen…)

Engineer with a rifle static discharge/grenade hybrid build and zerker gear. Prepare for loot bags galore

Im going to go ahead and suggest FA in what was formally tier 2 before the wvw match up system changed. We have a strong, dedicated wvw community, were always looking for more people and we LOVE to fight. Our primetime at 6:00 est to about 11:00 est can get a little zergish but theres always a map without the zergs to roam on. We have seen and fought some of the best guilds wvw has to offer. I think it could be a great place for you guys. We always seem to have TC or DB in our match up and those servers have some pretty good small scale roaming guilds to fight. (They also might be servers for you to look into)

Here is the shortbow/sword dagger build i use for roaming. For skills you want healing spring, guard, signet of renewal, signet of the wild, and entangle. For pets go with a canine (wolf or fern hound work best) and a brown bear for its f2 ability. For gear you want full apothecary. For food use koi cakes or rare veggie pizza.

It has great healing and support, good damage from conditions, good mobility, and some nice cc with entangle.

Here’s my ranger pretending to be a ninja after a guild mission

Dadnir.5038:

loseridoit.2756:

Errr…. condition removal is not evenly distributed among classes. If you want a quick explanation, then here it is.

Just… No.

All classes are equal in this regard. It’s right that some classes have to trait for while Necromancers have to trait for things that are a given for other classes. But that’s the way of this game. You have to adapt your build to cover your weakness. If you only boost your strenght you’ll just ended frustrated.
I play a vampiric power build and yeah, I’m really weak against condition damage. A P/D thief kill me in no time just like he will kill any other classes that don’t build against condition damage.

I’ve seen that you play a warrior. You’ve got tons of traits to prevent conditions. Adapt your build.

I really think condition removal is the problem. I mainly play a bunker condition/regen ranger in wvw and i have to devout most of my traits, two utility skills, and a pet to condition removal to remove conditions effectively while other only have to take a trait or two. Conditions just fall off my engineer even without cleaning formula 409. Like i said earlier my ranger heavily uses conditions and so does my engineer so necro’s really aren’t that overpowered, its just necro’s are more consistent with keeping conditions on people.

CHIPS.6018:

TC probably have the best mix of PvEers and WvWers overall. Both populations in TC are huge. You can find players to do both fairly easy.

There are also plenty of guilds that do both PvE and WvW. PiNK and RE comes to mind.

The op wanted a mid tier server, TC is a tier 2 server and runs a lot of large groups (I’m on FA so our servers know each other pretty well)

Id like to see a nature styled quiver for my sylvari ranger. Maybe have it made of tree bark with vines wrapped around it and hanging off of it.

Maybe the F skills should offer different fighting styles based on the one your in, for example:
F1 Balancing stance – Enter a stance that offers moderate damage and attack speed with no drawbacks
F2 Attack stance – Increases power based on current level, slows attack speeds but increases damage
F3 Defensive stance – Increases toughness based on current level, attacks deal less damage but with a chance to block
F4 Quickening stance – Increase attack speed, lowers armor rating. Endurance regenerates slower

Elite: Masters stance: Enter the masters stance for 15 seconds gaining all benefits from normal stances with none of the drawbacks

Esplen.3940:

Mist Y.5214:

Weirwynn.2390:

I don’t think it would be unbalanced, but blast on swap seems kind of conceptually weak. It would make more sense if it was a chance on hit, guaranteed on crit, etc. (though those would obviously be more difficult to use.)

Next hit after you swap weapons has 100% chance to trigger a blast finisher. Or however you wanna word it. Problem solved.

Minor/Major/Superior

Your next attack after swapping to this weapon while in combat has a 100% chance to cause a blast finisher. (Cooldown: 27/18/9)

I like it

It was just an idea i had while playing my ranger. The class has one blast finisher and its very unreliable because its an AI controlled skill used by drake pets. The sigil would make certain builds that lack finishers a little more viable while not giving them any real advantage in pvp. I went with on weapon swap to give the player a bit more control over the sigil and still making it useful to players with low crit chance

The idea behind this would be to add a new sigil to the game called sigil of blasting. It would create a blast finisher at your location that triggers on weapon swap in combat and would have a 10 second cool down. (if the 10 second cd is a bit to short maybe give it a shorter internal cd and a chance to trigger the blast finisher). This was just a little idea i had that i thought would be pretty cool. It would also help classes with little access to blast finishers (Yes im looking at my ranger here). Anyways, thoughts? Personally I think its a good idea for a sigil and would be pretty balanced.

Any guild doing a bounty sometime today that wouldnt mind if i joined? I need to do one before the reset. Please send me a whisper in game if your planning on doing one soon and dont mind if i tag along.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQFARjIVB2JWGWo2Bi1DC5nBxUooD9UEr1XyoqA-j0xA4LAqAQ2rIasF3ioxqXw0lER1ujioVLFQEjBA-w

This is my spvp/wvw roaming ranger build. The build mixes a pretty high amount of damage with decent survivability. The main focus of the build is to use signets to buff you and your pets damage (as well as survivability) to burst down enemies quickly.

What makes this build so great are signet of hunt and signet of the wild. They work really well with the crit on opening strike trait to deal a massive initial blow. It can easily get someone down to half health before the fight even begins. Since the first strike will always crit a high amount of crit damage is recommended. Not only will these signets affect you because of a trait, it will buff your pet too. So thats two huge crits at the beginning of the fight.

You should begin the fight by popping signet of the hunt and signet of the wild. Once your signets are activated you should open with maul from your greatsword because it already is a hard hitting skill. Since you will be using a canine for your pet it will usually open with another hard hitting skill, brutal charge. Not only will this deal lots of damage, it will knockdown your enemy making for an easy entangle target. Signet of stone should be used as an emergency skill or for stomping because it is a great invulnerable skill (similar to a warriors endure pain skill).

Feel free to use the build and modify it, if you can create a better version of this build please post it on this thread. i would love to give it a try. Also, any feedback or comments on the build is welcome.
Edit: This can also work well in a perma regen build as long as the traits dealing with signets stay in the build.

The engineer starter goggles have both lenses

digiowl.9620:

Heh, this inspired me to test out turrets for holo farming. Found the flame turret to be the best bang for my buck. Ok cooldown on pickup, damage cone and burn.

Not really sure why ANet put such a long cooldown on the thumper…

The turrets with alot of cc have longer cooldowns than the straight up damage ones (rifle and flame turrets)

notanewmethod.8267:

Subsampling on a 560 is blasphemy.

I know, I have the same card and won’t be caught dead with textures like those.

Textures really dont look that bad for me, screens always look worse than it actually is in game when i take them. I use custom settings with most effects and shaders turned off (I dont like them anyways) but the textures i keep on high. Regardless of the screenshot quality, its still pretty funny

Kharr.5746:

elitegamerz.4965:

Here’s how NERF does Dragon Bash: Bringing an army of turrets to kill one holo

The blurry textures, they burn. Are you running GW2 on an integrated GPU or something?

Edit: It makes me think back to 1999 when such graphics were “awesome”

Im using a GTX 560 graphics card, I generally keep the game on lower settings to help with lag that comes from large WvW fights (This is gonna happen no matter what card im using)

Here’s how NERF does Dragon Bash: Bringing an army of turrets to kill one holo

Last night me and about 6 guild members were able to ram down the outer upgraded gate of DB’s garrison with just one ram. No zerg came to kill us. We only died when a group of random defenders came after us on the inside. No where near a zerg though

(This was in tier 2, where you would expect everything to be zergs)

Ive been thinking about going for a legendary for a while now and I was wondering, do the predator and quip still have unique animations for grenade barrage?

Both replies are very good. I have played SD builds in zerker gear but im not sure how it will do in pvt. I will look into it though.

The control build seems really interesting too, ill play around with it and see what i can do with it.

Alright, Im looking for a rifle build that uses pvt gear and can do well in 1v1 situations. Ive tried an all elixer build and the rifle but I really didnt like it. If you have any builds or ideas please share them.

Rozbuska.5263:

elitegamerz.4965:

I would really like to see Arena Net take some ideas from this class and use them with the engineer.

I hope not..

Why? It would be fitting for the engineer and would offer more options for weapons instead of just rifle, pistol/pistol, or pistol/shield

So recently ive been getting bored with Guild Wars 2 so I decided to play a little Dungeons and Dragons online. When I get in the game I started playing my Artificer (The only class I loved everything about in ddo) and I started thinking, “what if the GW2 Engineer was like this”. In a nut shell the Artificer is a steampunk-ish caster who wields a mechanical repeating crossbow and a magically engineered gauntlet that shoots magic bolts. It even has a mechanical pet dog to tear through enemies along side his creator.

The gw2 engineer just seemed so underwhelming compared to the artificer. I would really like to see Arena Net take some ideas from this class and use them with the engineer. Maybe not the spell caster stuff but definitely the mechanical crossbow and the gauntlet (It could be some sort of Asura created device?), Plus who wouldn’t want a mechanical dog? We could keep it alive by beating it with our wrench? Anyways, what do you guys think? I would love to see some of this stuff on the engineer in the future.

Legendary stats have always been the same as exotics….

Okay, so I have two level 80’s, an Engineer and a Ranger and im going to level a 3rd. The two classes im torn between leveling are Guardian and Necromnacer. I mostly do wvw and both seem really viable for large scale group fights. My main problem is choosing between playstyles and visuals. After medium armor classes I tend to like light armors. If I go with guardian I will probably want to play him as a mage like caster. Is there any armors that look similar to something a battle mage wears? Also legendaries are a big concern of mine. I really like the legendary choices of the Guardian but the ones for Necro seem to be lacking.

Stat wise im a little bit concerned about the Guardian. I will probably roll a symbol healing build focusing on high healing power and toughness, will the low health pool of the Guardian be a problem in large scale group fights or would the tanky-ness of the Necro be a better choice? Im not really sure about what build I would use if a go with a Necro, any build suggestions are welcome.

Feedback would be much appreciated.

With bombs and elixer s my engineer could probably get past the defenders. Any class with stealth can its just difficult

I bet all servers are having this problem but only on the red borderlands. Please fix it Anet, makes that borderland unplayable

Okay so the queue for wvw was about 20 minutes late and when it finally reset alot of us keep getting dc’d, for many people its happened 2 or 3 times. Is this happening on DB and TC also?

Edit: I renamed the topic because it seems alot of servers are having this issue and not just FA. Ihope it gets a fix soon

Here’s my first and favorite character. Dameus Geargrinder, Engineer extraordinaire

For some reason I thought of sheogorath from the elder scrolls series when i read the posts about the gods being dragons. He was forced ever so often to become to become another deadric prince and destroy his world. Maybe the same kind of thing happens to the human gods but only they come back as dragons.

Anyone tried The Viziers Tower in straights of devestation? There is a poi, a skill point, and I think a vista there. Also, an event spawns there where a pretty big chest (cant remember what kind) spawns at the end. It also has several items you can look at that give lore and backstory. Im pretty sure one of them mentioned something about someone stopping at the tower to “rest” and that he didnt think he would make the journey back.

Thanks for all of the good information. very good ideas and strategy. Ill definatly start doing these things, wish me luck, and again thanks.

Revan.6259:

elitegamerz.4965:

Im mainly making this thread because i need some advice, What are some good ways to make gold, whats the best way to farm onyx loadstones, bestway to get a precursor, and what should i generally get done first?

Making gold – sell everything. On blue and white gear, salvage and sell mats, and vendor greens. Sell anything higher on the TP. Run dungeons and fractals. And frankly, playing the TP is one of the best ways of making gold.

Onyx lodestones- get gold and buy them off the TP. Farming them is usually far less productive, as the drop rate on them is so low.

Precursor – when you figure this out, you can tell the rest of us. Mainly, the only way to do this is to either be rich so you can TP it, or to get extremely lucky with the MF.

What you should do first – whatever you feel like. Focus on whatever interests you the most.

Thanks for the insightful answer, i guess ill start with map completion and then work torwards farming karma. Hopefully it wont take to long

I made this post in the player helping player section but i figured it would belong more here. Okay, ive been level 80 for a while and ive finally decided to go for a legendary. The legendary i plan on getting is The Predator (for my engie). So far i have 55% map completion, the gift of battle, 190 skill points, and about 130 obsidian shards. My main problem is gold, i have like 3 gold right now and have alot of trouble making it (Most ive had is around 20). Karma seems to come easy for me but gold doesnt. Ive tried to play the trading post but I seem to lose more money than I make, prices are just to high it seems to risk buying and re-selling.

Im mainly making this thread because i need some advice, What are some good ways to make gold, whats the best way to farm onyx loadstones, bestway to get a precursor, and what should i generally get done first?

Okay, ive been level 80 for a while and ive finally decided to go for a legendary. The legendary i plan on getting is The Predator (for my engie). So far i have 55% map completion, the gift of battle, 190 skill points, and about 130 obsidian shards. My main problem is gold, i have like 3 gold right now and have alot of trouble making it (Most ive had is around 20). Karma seems to come easy for me but gold doesnt. Ive tried to play the trading post but I seem to lose more money than I make, prices are just to high it seems to risk buying and re-selling.

Im mainly making this thread because i need some advice, What are some good ways to make gold, whats the best way to farm onyx loadstones, bestway to get a precursor, and what should i generally get done first?

Silver Chopper.4506:

I went to the mists and tried a build in max exotic gear. Full power, precision (49% crit chance) and I was doing 550 dmg (850 crit) to heavy golems.
I had about 2000 armor which is probably the definition of glass cannon.

But this still seems quite weak compared to other classes.

I don’t know. I’m going to test it some more in the mist. Hope I can find a balance with it, because I don’t like it right now.

On my engineer i do mostly wvw and i get a 1.5 to 2k auto attack on my rifle with a 5k jumpshot. I have 48% crit chance and around 19k health. Just need to put more into crit damage and pick traits in that boost presicion and crit damage. Try looking up some of the static discharge rifle builds here on the forums, the burst you can put out hits like a truck.

Well wvw just crashed a few seconds ago, i was in eb and got kicked along with my guild back to the loggin screen. I was able to get back in the game but wvw is down. Just posting to bring it to everyones attention.

Looks like just EB is down, borderlands are still up

This is just one possible location (maybe a clue to where the staff is) that i thought of. In lions arch their is a secret underwater tunnel system that leads to a secret order of whispers base. When you talk to the keeper there you say to her “I came to discover the undiscoverable” and she mentions a hole that smugglers cut into one of the columns in Agora that leads to the sewers in which the smugglers used to transport contraband. She then says that the order doesnt know the location of the column. I think this is all part of a secret quest chain in lions arch that plays out sort of like a scavenger hunt. (this is all just an idea I had, it could hint at the location of the staff but it more than likely doesnt). There is also some priory people at a digg site in LA that talk about unearthing artifacts from old lions arch. The have cry bars laying around that can be picked up and used under water (maybe you have to break something with them). There is also that pirate ghost in the maze place that may have some importants. Maybe following this "chain all the way through may end with a chest possibly containing the staff. Like I said before, this is just an idea I had. Their could be no chain at all and this could all be random stuff in LA just for fun with no meaning or importants. What do yoiu guys think? Here is a link to a video i found showing the location of the underwater tunnel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anF3pKLcgu0