Guild Wars 2

so i’ve got tons of karma saved up that and i’m just wondering what i could use it for to get gold. not interested in legendaries

thanks everyone for all the info and support. i got a question for chaosangel though, i’m completely new as a mesmer and so i can’t tell the difference between those 2 builds you linked. what does each build specialize at?

can you guys go into details to what i should equip and such?

by best i mean the most viable/effective mesmer builds in SPVP solo que.

thanks for the info mate

looking for an active mesmer youtuber who does good spvp builds and is a skilled player. also was wondering what was the best/most effective mesmer build for spvp atm

sigh :/ really hope we’ll get another chance for the backpiece

so i’ve been back from a long break from gw2 and found out that the only back piece i’ve ever liked in the whole game is not attainable from npcs or sold on trading post. any chance we’ll be able to get it some other way?

i apologize about my earlier post, i noticed we already had different traits in spvp and pve, but the lack of a swap set option still bothers me. it’d be troublesome to change your whole offset, main set, and weapons everytime i went to the mists.

i’m sure everyone uses different sets and traits for pvp and pve. and since pvp and pve sets and traits are one thing now, just give us a swap option so we don’t have to click and equip all our items or reset our traits over and over

thanks a lot i’ll try obal for pve builds

one who actively does good spvp and pve builds

one who actively does good spvp and pve builds

nvm found out the channel “wooden potatoes” does that on youtube

so i’m currently looking for a nice and neat gw2 lore summary which explains the story from start to finish, video or written both work. thanks in advance

i remember watching a trailer which used to have this song playing a long time ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzWlxbg34Y
the visuals + the sound was really great and i can’t seem to find it on youtube anymore

so i’ve put GW2 on hold for a while now i’ve decided to get back to it. i’m currently on a limited internet plan with not that many gigs left, so i wanna know how big the update is gonna be. i’ve got 42k files to download, does anyone know how big that’d be?

i know this sounds weird but when i run guild wars 2 for about 1 hour it disconnects my router for about 1 minutes then the connection comes back. i know for fact that guild wars 2 is causing this because this only happens when i’m running the game, i can have vent, steam, or any other online game running for hours without my router being affected at all. i called my internet provider and they say there is no issue from their part, i also got a electric technician to check the wires in my apartment but he said there were also no issues. and actually, i haven’t been playing guild wars 2 for the past 3 weeks because i had nothing to do ingame and my internet never disconnected for the whole time , but i decided to log in today to try the new content and after 1 hour of gameplay the router crashes again for a minute and blocks all internet access.

i know this sounds weird but when i run guild wars 2 for about 1 hour it disconnects my router for about 1 minutes then the connection comes back. i know for fact that guild wars 2 is causing this because this only happens when i’m running the game, i can have vent, steam, or any other online game running for hours without my router being affected at all. i called my internet provider and they say there is no issue from their part, i also got a electric technician to check the wires in my apartment but he said there were also no issues. and actually, i haven’t been playing guild wars 2 for the past 3 weeks because i had nothing to do ingame and my internet never disconnected for the whole time , but i decided to log in today to try the new content and after 1 hour of gameplay the router crashes again for a minute and blocks all internet access.

making all dyes account bound would kill the dye market completely, so i’d suggest narrowing the favorite dye slots to 3 or 5 and making those dyes shared across the account

I’d personally love a DPS meter, first it tells you if a person can actually play their class and can pull a decent amount of dps, second it makes lazy kitten in groups do their job and pull some actual dps other than spamming their auto attack, third it makes people revise their build and improve because im pretty sure nobody wants to end up last on the dps meter. everyone who doesn’t like a dps meter is probably someone who could never meet its requirements.

good idea, or they could just enable macros and extra icon slots.

It bums me too, with 300 dyes unlocked on my main i hesitate on making an alt just because i don’t feel like spending all the gold i spent on my main again for the same dyes.

I love jumping puzzles back when i discovered wow i used to jump from a private server to another just to see if there were any to complete there. I once stumbled upon a private server with jumping puzzles so hard it toke a week to complete just one, i have to admit that was one of the most fun experiences i ever had in a mmorpg

Getting a exotic “endgame” set is currently way too easy which takes only 1 week or less to complete in gw2 and i don’t like the fact that making your character look good is the only thing to do in the game once you’ve hit 80 in PVE so what i’m saying is add a kind of long progression to ascended gear like complex boss encounters or timed world events which aren’t just “tank and spank” content like the 3 dragons so we’ve got something to do in the endgame content instead of just handing it to us for a week worth of effort.

well if they’re gonna make dyes even harder to get, i’d like them to be shared across account.

killing the 3 dragons was only fun the first couple of times but they didn’t keep me interested for a long time due to the drops and east fights.

Make duels available everywhere except the main cities but also create an area in those cities just for dueling and hanging out. in all mmos i played duels were the only thing to keep me entertained until something came up.

it’s confirmed that both me and my guild members can’t land critical hits on dummies in lion’s arch, is this a bug? if it’s a game feature, it’s a pretty useless one. how is someone supposed to see their max hits of we can’t crit?

Theplayboy.6417:

exionn.8152:

Ghoward.1306:

I could not agree less with the OP, grind is what made WoW the boring thing (not a game if it’s boring) it is now, so NO GRIND FOR GW2. And since progression IS grind, I have to say no to it.

You do realize that GW2 is a RPG right? it is supposed to have progression, people keep calling it a grind for some reason but it’s not, if you’re gonna call gearing up a grind then so are dungeons which are a big part of GW2, I guess you’d like a game where as soon as you create a character you hit level 80 and get a full set of exotics right away, don’t you? And the raid grinding is what made wow a fun and successful game

Exionn you’re playing the wrong game . Go back to WoW . There will be no further progression, especially in PvP . The gear grind is bad enough as it is and goes completely against the original philosophy of the developers. Guild Wars 1 had it right. It’s all you WoW kids that trying to ruin the second installment . If you want progression and raiding you’ll need to look elsewhere. The devs need to get back to their core competency and focus on balanced fun and engaging PvP with absolutely no progression; only titles and emotes.

The WvWvW PVP in guild wars 2 is POINTLESS, everything you do has no reward whats so ever, it’s only for “fun” and after playing WvWvW for a month and getting NOTHING out of it other than bragging rights it become just a repetative process for nothing, the only good kind of pvp in guild wars 2 is Spvp, it’s a lot more organized and you get something out of it. so you call me a wow “kid” because of what i said about it being a successful game which in fact it was and still is? you shouldn’t go around calling people from other game kids while they’re probably more mature than you’ll ever be.

Theplayboy.6417:

exionn.8152:

Ghoward.1306:

I could not agree less with the OP, grind is what made WoW the boring thing (not a game if it’s boring) it is now, so NO GRIND FOR GW2. And since progression IS grind, I have to say no to it.

You do realize that GW2 is a RPG right? it is supposed to have progression, people keep calling it a grind for some reason but it’s not, if you’re gonna call gearing up a grind then so are dungeons which are a big part of GW2, I guess you’d like a game where as soon as you create a character you hit level 80 and get a full set of exotics right away, don’t you? And the raid grinding is what made wow a fun and successful game

Exionn you’re playing the wrong game . Go back to WoW . There will be no further progression, especially in PvP . The gear grind is bad enough as it is and goes completely against the original philosophy of the developers. Guild Wars 1 had it right. It’s all you WoW kids that trying to ruin the second installment . If you want progression and raiding you’ll need to look elsewhere. The devs need to get back to their core competency and focus on balanced fun and engaging PvP with absolutely no progression; only titles and emotes.

The WvWvW PVP in guild wars 2 is POINTLESS, everything you do has no reward whats so ever, it’s only for “fun” and after playing WvWvW for a month and getting NOTHING out of it other than bragging rights it become just a repetative process for nothing, the only good kind of pvp in guild wars 2 is Spvp, it’s a lot more organized and you get something out of it. so you call me a wow “kid” because of what i said about it being a successful game which in fact it was and still is? you shouldn’t go around calling people from other game kids while they’re probably more mature than you’ll ever be.

Nothrath.5768:

personally i know my end game is getting the best possible looking gear you have to find what makes you happy to play the game, and if thats progression you probably are playing the game, as GW is designed to be constant end game imo. find something or move along, don’t know what else i can say :/

as i said above, achieving your desired look doesn’t take more than 2 weeks. there should be more to an end-game experience than that.

Olba.5376:

Those points don’t stand when the RPG is actually a MMO, you can’t focus on just the story in a MMO you need to give players something to compete and strive for, MMO shouldn’t be completed in 1-2 weeks like in GW2, it should take a lot more time than that. About the story you mentioned, GW2 doesn’t give us that much story in-game,(dungeons, dynamic events, etc) if you wan’t to learn something about the game you have to go google it, other than the personal story of each character which is only fun completing it once, we got no story left in-game.

But that’s exactly the problem. There’s plenty of story in the game, if you bother talking to NPCs, listening to their idle chatter and sticking around in places.

And personally, I think that the first 20 levels of your Personal Story are worth completing multiple times, because that’s when the choices you made at the start are played out. Heck, you pretty much need to play through the Order part three times to see the stories behind the three orders. But once you get to the Pact, it’s all the same.

Honestly, I like GW2 because it tries to break out of the standard MMORPG model. Most MMORPGs keep on pushing new gear, new dungeons, what-have-yous to keep you playing constantly. I don’t think the progression itself is necessary in the game, at least if I take a look at why I leveled my characters. When I got the game, I pretty much played 10+ hours a day for a week and got to level 80. I didn’t get to 80 fast because I thought that’s when the good part starts, but because I knew that there were certain things which I could only really grasp once I had it all unlocked, such as customizing my character to best fit the kind of playstyle I like, a playstyle I would have found while leveling. When leveling my second character, my biggest motivation with hurrying the levels was catching up to my friend, who was already level 20 by the time I started.

Sadly, GW2 has really nice combat. That’s a sad thing, because it breeds the mentality that used to plague single player RPGs: people skip things. Everyone who’s played games since they were like 12 probably remembers times when their favorite game had a cutscene or dialogue and you didn’t even read any of it, as you just wanted to get out there and kill stuff. And that’s really bad. It’s bad because that dialogue is part of the game. A very important part: it’s what makes it an RPG, rather than an action adventure or an FPS.

And that’s what I’m getting at. WvW is separate from the storyline. Same with sPvP. It’s the place where you go to enjoy the combat system and all the things you can do with it. The developers of GW2 are clearly focused on bringing back the RPG aspect to MMORPGs. With that said, it’s really not a big surprise if they handwave WvW. After all, it’s there only as a cookie to cover a very specific subset of players.

You said that GW2 lacks “endgame content”, but did you ever wonder why that’s the case? GW2 lacks endgame content because it’s not a game about endgame content. GW2 is much, much more focused on the world and the story than any other MMORPG. And considering how the areas are spread, clearly they intended for you to play through the leveling process on multiple characters of different races to experience it all.

You shouldn’t assume something about me without any information about myself. You’re mistaken, i toke my sweet time leveling up my character and listening to all the stories the game provided which toke me around 2 weeks. but sadly, all that stuff is only fun once, you can’t have that much fun listening to the same story twice, and the decisions you make in your personal story don’t change the end that much, i tried them all already. what i’m complaining about here is the lack of end-game content which ends pretty fast as i stated above.

Olba.5376:

exionn.8152:

Tarvok.4206:

Guild Wars 2 is explicitly designed to AVOID using “progression” as a speed bump. It is meant to be fun for its own sake, and avoid problems present in other games, my least favorite being the problem that you can’t just jump in and play with your friends; you first have to do the “progression”. In GW2, you can be 80 and acceptably geared within days (if not a day) if you’ve got access to some gold, which you do if you’ve got friends to catch up with and do whatever it is you guys like doing together.

In other words, the lack of “progression” is not a bug; it’s a feature. If leveling up and grabbing loot are really the only things fun for you, there are other games for that. In GW2, the only “grind” available is getting cool skins, particularly legendaries… but those don’t make your numbers go up, they just make your character look cool. GW2 is about the gameplay, not watching numbers go up.

Unrewarded gameplay is meaningless in a RPG, doing the same thing over and over and over no matter how fun it is without getting something out of it becomes boring sooner or later like WvWvW.the whole point of an RPG is the feeling of moving forward with your character. After achieving your desired look in GW2 which takes a week at max, the game becomes boring and there’s nothing to do anymore.

I have to disagree with you.

I think the point of an RPG lies in the world. The characters in it, their backstory, their issues. The world, with its religions, technology and magic. The story, that takes place in that world and with those characters, is what makes an RPG.

After all, RPG does stand for Role Playing Game.

Take any actually good single player videogame RPG. Most people will play it for the story: once they complete it, they move on. It’s generally considered “hardcore” for you to grind the best gear, maximized stats and to go kill every single optional boss. And majority of complaints about these RPGs lies in the characters and the story, not the progression. I have never seen anyone complain that it takes dozens of hours to get maxed stats in Final Fantasy VII, but I have seen people complain about how Squall was a boring main character in Final Fantasy VIII. Or I’ve seen people complain that Roxas did not get enough screentime in Kingdom Hearts II, but I have not seen people complain that it takes, again, dozens of hours to farm Star Charms.

Heck, not having played GW1 kinda scares me: I don’t know any of that ancient history of the world. I got asked about the origin of my character in a Personal Story bit and I had the options of Kryta, Cantha, Ascalon and Elona, and I had to look up to realize that Cantha and Elona were actual regions of the world not present in GW2.

Those points don’t stand when the RPG is actually a MMO, you can’t focus on just the story in a MMO you need to give players something to compete and strive for, MMO shouldn’t be completed in 1-2 weeks like in GW2, it should take a lot more time than that. About the story you mentioned, GW2 doesn’t give us that much story in-game,(dungeons, dynamic events, etc) if you wan’t to learn something about the game you have to go google it, other than the personal story of each character which is only fun completing it once, we got no story left in-game.

Tarvok.4206:

Guild Wars 2 is explicitly designed to AVOID using “progression” as a speed bump. It is meant to be fun for its own sake, and avoid problems present in other games, my least favorite being the problem that you can’t just jump in and play with your friends; you first have to do the “progression”. In GW2, you can be 80 and acceptably geared within days (if not a day) if you’ve got access to some gold, which you do if you’ve got friends to catch up with and do whatever it is you guys like doing together.

In other words, the lack of “progression” is not a bug; it’s a feature. If leveling up and grabbing loot are really the only things fun for you, there are other games for that. In GW2, the only “grind” available is getting cool skins, particularly legendaries… but those don’t make your numbers go up, they just make your character look cool. GW2 is about the gameplay, not watching numbers go up.

Unrewarded gameplay is meaningless in a RPG, doing the same thing over and over and over no matter how fun it is without getting something out of it becomes boring sooner or later like WvWvW.the whole point of an RPG is the feeling of moving forward with your character. After achieving your desired look in GW2 which takes a week at max, the game becomes boring and there’s nothing to do anymore.

Rin.1046:

exionn.8152:

What fun are you talking about? the endless zergs for no reason?

Do stuff that doesn’t involve zergs (supply camps, NPC camps, veterans, dolyaks, small teams capping towers, etc.)

exionn.8152:

the mindless running around the whole map?

Stop running round mindlessly. Give yourself a reason to be there or go somewhere else (dynamic events, dungeons, helping players in personal stories).

exionn.8152:

the not getting rewarded for winning 1st place?

Why do you insist on only playing if you get a reward? If the gameplay itself is not reward enough, then this game may not be for you.

exionn.8152:

the no advancement for your character?

Again, what difference does this make on how much you enjoy the game? What happens when you reach max level? Or max achievements? Or max gear? The progression on these things will ALWAYS end at some point, so stop chasing this endless carrot and just enjoy the content for the challenge or the fun of the combat or to help other players.

I agree with the first point, but unfortunately escorting dolyaks or gathering supply is not what i consider a fun experience. About your second point, what a nice surprise, i didn’t know they added personal story and dungeons in WvW. Your third point, WvW is supposed to be end-game content which means you’ll be doing it for a long long time, and doing it without getting any rewards is no fun. fourth point, I know that progression always ends, but it ended way too soon in gw2.

Ghoward.1306:

I could not agree less with the OP, grind is what made WoW the boring thing (not a game if it’s boring) it is now, so NO GRIND FOR GW2. And since progression IS grind, I have to say no to it.

You do realize that GW2 is a RPG right? it is supposed to have progression, people keep calling it a grind for some reason but it’s not, if you’re gonna call gearing up a grind then so are dungeons which are a big part of GW2, I guess you’d like a game where as soon as you create a character you hit level 80 and get a full set of exotics right away, don’t you? And the raid grinding is what made wow a fun and successful game

Rin.1046:

What is it with people who cannot do things simply for fun? I play WvW because it’s FUN, not because I get badges or levels or gear or any of that stuff. Sure, they’re nice, but the combat and tactics is what it’s all about for me. In the right situation, the game can be awesome entertainment and that, I thought, was the whole point in playing games.

Personally, I wish levels and progression were removed entirely, so that players didn’t get fixated on them, so they could just get on with enjoying the content. The problem with progression of any kind, is that at some point you will get to the end. And if you have conditioned yourself that that is all you must do (because you have done it for so long), you get disappointed when it ends and scream that there is no end game content. But you couldn’t be further from the truth. This game is packed with end game stuff, you just don’t want to do it because there is no progression.

Snap out of it man and enjoy the game.

What fun are you talking about? the endless zergs for no reason? the mindless running around the whole map? the not getting rewarded for winning 1st place? the no advancement for your character?

I’ve always found WvWvW unappealing due to it being linked to the PVE side of your character gear and trait wise and for other reasons which i’ll list later. Since WvWvW is such a major aspect in the game i feel it should have it’s own gearing and progression system. Let’s all be honest, guild wars 2 lacks end-game content, After 3 weeks of being level 80 a player finds very few things to do and WvWvW is one of those few things, the problem for me is that there’s no point in doing WvWvW since you’re already all set from your pve experience, you already got your build, your gear, and everything else you need to complete your character, and even all there is to wvw is making your server win and all you get out of that are bragging rights and some buffs, but that’s not my main point of the topic. in my opinion i’d feel it would be more fun if badges of honor drop rates were increased and that each character had his own world in WvWvW like it is for Spvp and that we would start with blue gear and use badges of honor as currency to upgrade our characters with skills, traits, and gear. i think this would add a little something to our end-game experience in guild wars 2.

Comeon arenanet, how is this feature still not added to the game? i hate the fact that i have to google an item to see how it looks from the tradepost.

will the superior sigil of generosity still be acquirable after wintersday? there’s nothing on any site saying if it will stay or if it’s a limited addition item.

domxnik.1453:

I wouldn’t mind it if target dummies showed total damage/DPS. But I feel it would add a unnecessary competition between players in PvE. Even if the meter did not show other players DPS, people would still be posting theirs and asking for others. I also feel people would pay attention too much to what their DPS is and go totally tunnel vision on something.

That’s my opinion though.

i don’t think that’s correct,when someone dies it means that they can’t pull the best dps and so this cycle will happen; a person will try wearing all dps gear with 0 thought about survivability and then notice that he isn’t doing too dps due to dying every second and other people which aren’t dying are pulling out more dps than him, then he will try out some toughness/vitality and see if it works, then fail again and then he’ll try some more until he finds the perfect balance for his character which makes him pull the most dps while dying as less as possible, which will result in better dpsers.

Omaris Mortuus Est.2738:

Arsenic.8259:

Add a dps meter please.

No no and no!

This is Guild Wars where the main point is that the community plays together.
This is not WoW where only those with specific titles and dps/healing point above an arbitrary number can join a group.

Guild Wars is also about player skill and tactics, not about overpowering the enemy (I know WvW is currently like this but let’s hope anet change that in February)

Tactics? don’t make me laugh, any dungeon in guild wars 2 can be done by any 5 scrubs lying around sucking their own thumb in lions arch. atleast a dps meter will make everyone pull out the best dps they can to be on top and seem useful.

i’d really like full dps meter like i had in wow. I’m a competitive gamer and i have to say that the dps meter in wow pulled out the best off me in-game, i always had to concentrate and keep my rotation going to stay on top and so did all the other dps members who wanted to stay on top and resulted in everyone competing with eachother and doing the best dps they were able to do, this also worked for the healers.

all norn hair styles are terrible, i wish they added some good ones

any dev willing to answer my question?

is the superior sigil of generosity gonna be obtainable or dropped after wintersday? or is it a limited item?

give us an option to resell an item we have bought with dungeon tokens or karma for 2 hours after we bought the item. it really gets irritating once you buy an item and realise you bought the wrong version

i agree with OP i always hated being forced to enter wvw for the monthlies

other than cooking what are the cheapest professions to level up with?