Guild Wars 2

Swoo.5079:

You are missing the little fact that the items without any upgrades are better than the items with upgrades.

Basically the Ascendant tier WITHOUT UPGRADES is HIGHER STATS than the Exotic tier WITH UPGRADES

I fully understood that fact. My point was I use Superior Runes on my character for the Bonus of them. (i.e Solder for Shout’s removing conditions) etc.

I lose that on the new armor.

So I still fail to see the complaints.

So there is fancy new armor with “better” stats where I can’t use my Runes that I typically used over stats anyway?

I have to grind this armor in the dungeon where the armor is needed and will be there anyway?

I’m failing to see what all the fuss is about.

So I’m a bit new to the Engineer, had some extra gold so Crafted up one to about 70ish to get a feel of the class.

Super simple question, I keep reading a lot that Rifles are the only weapon that benefits from Power and it confuses me a bit (I thought all weapons in this game did?)

Do pistols only benefit from condition damage than or is there some otherwise flaw in this weapon? (Or have I mis-understood the context in which the Rifle statements were being made)

I am liking P/P or P/S a lot and want to stick with it so was a bit curious.

I prefer 0/0/30/30/10

I switch the major’s out depending on the situation (shout cooldown, altruisitic healing and toughness>precision are always there though), not to mention having amazing survivability and overall durability.

Usually keep Retreat and Hold The Line on my bars at all times to give me two shouts I can use. (The group Aegis comes in handy so many times, coupled with our F3 skill for even more damage negation).

Last skill I use Wall Of Reflection a lot. With the 10 Point virtues to make it last longer it is amazing on far to many situations. I’ll usually swap that out with a stability skill depending where we are and if we are running past mobs we don’t need to kill.

Heh, in a way I liked the Bots in this sense than since Players do nothing but try to overprice and manipulate the market making its frustrating to actually get things.

Tier 5 Mats as well. I was buying most of them after the DR Change for 20c a piece and having a blast crafting stuff and gambling with the forge. . Now they ALL are 70c-1s again.

What the hell happened since Halloween ended???

I’m lucky to have an active guild I joined so I take most of my characters (Guild/War/Necro/Thief) with a bunch of different builds at various times to any dungeon.

Our time to complete the dungeon is pretty much the same no matter what.

Builds don’t matter much, the person behind the keyboard does though. Granted, there may be some things that are “easier” with certain builds or classes but in general, you can do without it. (Example: Sometimes we run a healing ele, support guard, shout war, and 2 dps wars. Things melt and there is so much protection/healing going out with condition removal you can just tack on the boss and afk attack away)

Oh, another program that people want a “Dev response” on if it’s bannible?

If you have to get a response, you most likely shouldn’t be using it in the first place.

MF is great for open world, solo grinding.

Actual gear is better for anything else.

Asura, because why wouldn’t you want your character to pole dance when using an ability?

While it may not be intended, and has been stated in this thread, you do have to give up potentially negating damage just to get quicker attacks in.

I like to keep at least 1 dodge active at all times to use to escape bit hits or a PvE Gimmick.

So in essence it’s a fair tradeoff. Potentially take a lot of damage, to do slightly more damage.

Also probably very low priority for Anet to actually fix.

I love scepter 2 and 3. But the base attack leaves a lot to be desired, kind of wish it had either more oomph to it or added another condition to the target of some sort.

So I want to fiddle with some 30 Pt Honor builds that I was seeing from some other threads (just to try new things). I had a question though which I couldn’t find an answer to on this forum yet.

I run 6PC Superior Rune Of The Soldier, which gives my Shouts condition removal. Which I love.

My question though does it stack with Pure Of Voice? For instance, with a single shout will it change 1 condition in to a Boon, and remove a second condition?

Or does this combo not actually work (stack) and only one condition gets removed?

akamon.2769:

@exphryl – i used to live by renewed justice. it truly does work great in PvE. however, i took the dive and went 0/5/30/30/5 and debating trying 0/0/30/30/10 just for a test. i thought i wouldn’t be able to give it up, but it’s actually been working out great so far and i feel the choices i have in the honor line outweight the benefits from the radiance 15. i’d say give it a shot, in the mists perhaps and see how it works for you. my reasoning was that mainly for dungeons or WvW, i don’t kill fast enough to make the best use of that trait.

What are you using for your third major trait in honor?

I did the dungeon and I liked it.

I do though, have no idea why Act 3 was 2 days and Act 4 is 6….

I run 6pc Rune Of The Soldier. Ends up being +165 Vitality, +50Toughness, and removes Conditions on Shout. (I’m a firm believer of you can never have enough condition removal)

@Trung. Be curious onhow that works out. Personally, I have a very hard time giving up 15 Points in Radiance. Not for the Crit, but for the Virtue of Justice renewal. That thing is pretty clutch in groups with AH and Inspired Virtue. Can chain those for a lot of extra damage and Heals if I’m lucky

Also, Grats on Sticky

I’d give a lot for my Guardian’s 1H Abilities to be comparable damage wise to my Warrior’s Axe. Not sure where you would say they are equal. War Axe > Guard Sword or Mace. (Also Axe gets Eviscerate so even more damage on top for having that equipped in the MH).

Not to mention if you build a Condition Damage Warrior MH Sword can pump out a lot of damage in terms of bleeds.

They would need to make it so nobody can benefit from speed traits. (i.e elementalist) if they ever were to add such a thing.

Sinanju.8456:

Which one do you guys prefer

power,toughness,vitality or power, toughness, healing power

Maybe a mix of both?

I go for a mix and it works well for me. I went for 3 pieces of of the HOTW gear for Armor, specifically Chest/Legs (For largest values of Viality) and then boots. The rest of my gear is all Knights, with all weapons being Berserker (minus the staff which is Shaman purely since I only use that if I need to pop out some heals)

Using Soldier runes for more Tough/Vit, and Condition removal on Shouts. This keeps me pretty sturdy with a “good” health pool and defense amount, and my damage is still pretty high even though it’s a more defensive based gear.

I like to mix both. AC/HOTW gear for instance (power/vit/tough). More tanky but gets the job done for me.

Same. And I was not running the Beta FOV

A bit disheartening waiting for that and not being able to see it fully

Reize.2176:

doesn’t think things through like a mature adult

Couldn’t help but laugh at the irony.

I had no issues doing it on my Asura =/

Keiran.1896:

It wasn’t amazing to me… It was just glitched, I saw no Mad King, just a big hole, and we had nothing else to do than watching this video…

Seriously, they shouldn’t had so teased us just for this…

Yeah, for me I didn’t see the Mad King himself, although others in my Party did. I mean it was still cool, but probably would’ve been 100x better if it worked properly.

Note: I’m basing this off of PvE since that was what was mentioned in the original post.

I am enjoying this thread, but I get confused when I am constantly seeing “Warriors won’t get back to 100% HP”.

Regardless of the dungeon, on my Warrior, I have zero problems getting back to 100% HP (which in my case is 24k). I do play my warrior slightly more survivability, in the lazy mans way (Passive Signet Heal, Adrenaline Passive Healing, and I’ll throw in some food to add a third passive healing, it adds up you know). Add in if I want to lower my dps just SLIGHTLY I could add in Shout Heals too. Warriors are in a great place to Regen health.

Don’t get me wrong, my Guardian has great healing as well (Altruistic Healing is probably my favorite trait in the hole game). And I love the class just as much as my Warrior.

But otherwise, this is a silly argument to throw out in an otherwise well thought out thread.

@ Luthan

Yes, the reward is based on the class completing it

Beaten it on all my characters (Warrior,Guardian,Thief,Necro,Mesmer) now. Speed boost isn’t even remotely required.

Very very fun Puzzle, hope we get more like this.

Do the new items only appear in chests that drop new?

Or if I just bought some keys for gems and opened up chests I have already I’ll still have a chance for those items?

For my Sylvari alt (4th char) I found a sure fire way to choose what options I’ll find most fun

Option A> Do Something
Option B> Do something that Involves Trahearne.

Always choosing Option A

I’ve been enjoying my Necro. Coming from previously all Melee classes (war/guard/thief), I found this “clothie” the most fun for my playstyle.

I did have a few questions though, and at least from what I could tell the tutorials at the top were mainly discussing 80 builds and such.

- Is it worth it using minions to level? I seem to enjoy using more spells and laying down fields with my skill points than summoning my Fiends. They seem to die to fast and the cooldown on them makes me detest them just a bit. (But maybe I’ll be able to spec in to things later that fix that?)

- Right now for the most part I’m using Dagger/Dagger, with a swap to Staff if I need to AOE things or generally, get help making distance to get away. I do read a bit about Scepter/Dagger though so wondering when does that become worthwhile. For my lowbie it feels like the damage just isn’t there right now. (I’m not up to the 3 statted Armor yet so perhaps once that opens up this will be a little better)

- For all my other classes i’ve done great leveling doing Precision > Vitality > Power Trait lines (Ignoring the others usually). Does this mentality work well with Necro leveling also?

Tried to keep these simple

I usually hover at most around 40G.

Than my addiction kicks in and 200+ Unidentifed Dyes later, not to mention Forge Gambling, i’m back to about 5g until I farm more Ore/Run Events and do Dungeons if I feel like.

Gold actually IS easy to come by. It takes time. It does NOT take a lot of effort.

Drekor.5217:

Asura pole dance… yep.

This 100%

I dislike my Asura choice on my Guardian so so much. But equipping a staff makes it all worthwhile. I also propose the Asura Whirling Blade be a hurricane kick off of the hilt of the greatsword in a similar way.

In Solo play, I feel Signet Of Rage is absolutely amazing. Probably one of the best Elites available.

In Group Play, to me, it’s useless. Fury Might are pretty much up all the time anyway pretty high, and swiftness? zzz not needed really. So I usually switch to Banner which even than it’s lackluster.

Be awesome to have something powerful like Dagger Storm or Thieves Guild (which both I love on my thief)

But for the most part pretty much all the elites are terrible. Mesmer’s at least get two good ones that people consider Overpowered.

I think getting in to special areas do not increase or hinder yours or another persons gameplay.

The only thing that would be considered an “exploit” i’d say is if you find a way to use terrain as a way to hit opposing players or mobs without them able to attack you back.

Or if you use terrain to bypass intended events.

I’ve been leveling an engineer and am enjoying the class for the most part.

My question though, is how often should I be using my Grenade kit compared to my actual weapon? It feels at least right now, using the kit seems more advantageous (although I feel it’s a bit clunkier than an obvious auto attack type weapon).

Am I doing it wrong ?

Looking for some assistance here, mainly because I hear mixed things from people (mainly leading towards the negative), on the farming capcity of Elementalists, and I’m trying to decide if this is the right Alt for me.

This is purely a PvE question.

I currently have a War/Guard/Thief and I enjoy those. But I need a caster to round out my classes here and I enjoy what the Ele can bring to the table in terms of group benefits.

But I like to farm, I love to pass time beating the same type of mobs senseless for materials for crafts or to help out my guildies or to just take a break from heart / event grinding and to still get some experience.

I keep hearing (in game that is), how bad an Elementalist is at handling multiple mobs. (Which really, once you get to Orr you are basically always fighting multiple mobs).

How much truth is in that? Also, obviously if it is true people are overcoming it, what are some strategies that you’d use to combat groups of mobs?

Figured I’d throw this, in this forum being the only suggestion forum.

But I was wondering if there was a way the forum developers could set it up so me, the viewer, can have an idea of what posts are “Dev” posts and what posts are “Mod” posts.

I gravitate towards posts that have the little red icon next to them with excitement if it’s on an issue I am looking in to, only to be dismayed when it’s just a comment about “Keeping the post on track/ Keeping the discussion civil”.

Which is fine from a Mod perspective to keep that handled. But I don’t think it should be listed as being an ANT Post on the Board itself.

Maybe I’m just a bit OCD

This alone makes me hate underwater combat 99.9% of the time.

I feel trolled at times.

Get the veteran mob underwater down to 5%, “lol nope! Invuln”.

:(

Question on this. So my jeweler is at 389 . having ectos isn’t the problem (although I’ve been banking them to make some armor and some forge stuff so a bit sadfaced there at using them).

What’s the best way to use the LEAST amount though. I see the rare discoveries require 3 actual Embellished gems to make. So I’m assuming it would take at least 6 ectos for me, if I get lucky, to get to 400? (6 Gem Crafts and than the 2 slot pieces).

Looking to level a Necro as my clothie. (And mainly get an Artificer/Tailoring alt)

I didn’t see anything really on leveling right now after skimming this forum a bit. (Not to say there isn’t one, but most of the posts seem to be issues with the class. heh).

So as a baseline what are some things I might want to focus on to make leveling as painless as possible?

Maybe he is playing the class to get an idea of what a regular person experiences? The trials and hardships of learning how to excel at PvP and what can be improved for people without making the top players absurdly great.

The ANet team each plays a lot of classes, there are posts littered around with them commenting on an Alt or another class. Hell, I hardly see regular gamers be excellent at more than one class. It’s noticeable when they are not on their “main”.

/shrugs.

Axe #5, Is good to keep though from a pure adrenaline building standpoint. Least that’s my impression of it. I don’t think we have any other abilities that build it as fast.

So you could theoretically do Axe #2,Mace #4, Evis. Weapon Swap, Axe #5, and get another Evis off before the durability leave (which in a short time span is a good amount of damage on a target)

Is it optimal No. Is it the most terrible thing in the world? Not at all.

I’m not a huge fan of Condition damage in PvP due to how easy it is to negate a 25 stack of bleed. It works well in PvE since you can kite and mobs won’t cleanse themselves.

I’d rather go for burst damage when it comes to Players though.

Corian.4068:

However, since the game has been out for a year and a half now those issues may be settled. Bottom line, Rift is worth trying, especially if you liked WoW as they’re essentially the same game, just be aware of Trion’s sometimes-bipolar method of altering the game.

haha for sure. I think there was a month and a half straight, that every week there’d be a change for my Warrior making Dual Wield the Best, then it’d be 2H, then DW, then 2H. Ended up just sticking with one and hoping for the best

Can my 100b give me evasion like PW does? Since everybody likes to compare the two, would love to have that feature on my warrior.

Can’t say for since I left Rift after Hammeknell.

I liked the game a lot, having multiple talents on the fly was great. I was a Warrior so I would Tank for raids, (I had two specs for tanking depending the encounter), 2 DPS Specs for things, a Farming AOE Spec etc. It was pretty cool and yeah, there were issues with trying to make things work together but Trion did a relatively decent job for the PvE aspect of things in that regards.

PVP Balancing was beyond terrible though (Maybe fixed now?). They were previously WAY to slow to fix many of the issues that drew some people away from PvP.

Oddly enough too, I always felt they were adding content too quick from release tothe time I quit. I was in a hardcore progression guild for our server (Shatterbone) at the time that cleared the content very quickly, but it was a month or so before something else came out to make what we had relatively worthless when we didn’t even have enough time to gear up our entire raid.

Was a bit demoralizing because of that. I believe they slowed down a bit after Hammerknell from what I’ve been told but perhaps a recent player could enlighten me on that.

Agreed. Non-Warriors should not be allowed to bask in our glorious thread of love for our class.

I have multiple 80s. I am having a blast playing this type of game though (Previously a “Raiding Elitist” as I like to say). So having a game I can log in, play for fun or to do different things is great.

I have multiple gear sets for my character depending how I want to play, which changes the dynamic of the game for me.

I love leveling in GW2 also, I always pick a different race and story progression to see new things so It keeps me excited.

Personally I enjoy GW2 not feeling like a “Job” like previous MMOs I’ve partaked in. Scheduled Raid days, and dealing with loot drama or “I didn’t get invited!” drama is something I am done with for quite awhile after 10+ Years of hearing all that BS.

Are there bugs in this game? Yes. I do feel ANet is doing a fantastic job comparatively at addressing things, even if some do take longer than one wants.

Also, to repeat what gets stated a lot, what is End Game when it’s not a Gear Grind? I’ve never seen a plausible answer to that question that ISNT a gear grind. Developers can’t magically have new dungeons and content every week for you to play so some things will be become stale from repetition. You want to PvP for fun at 80? Go for it. Want to go craft and mine/harvest stuff? Go for it. Feel like traveling the worlds and interacting in events and meeting new people? Yup. You can go do that too.

GW2 is a different animal in the MMO Market. It will take a bit to get adjusted to for people that are used to a different format.

No. Dying sometimes can bug out a story quest, but that’s about it