Guild Wars 2

I don’t understand why people say Ele doesn’t have burst options, did people forget about the Fresh Air build or did I miss a change that made that build worthless. In the current situation that reason would be the “bunkers everywhere” thing, but that won’t be the case anymore.

I don’t really understand why people say ele doesn’t have a busty spec. What happened to the Fresh Air build that I don’t know of?
If other classes would keep their own tanky stuff I can see how that wouldn’t work.
But They won’t have that anymore either.

Ok, so I was playing today, decided to switch to my NA account for the daily, logged out off of there and suddenly my game download was at 100%. I highly doubt this was because I switched from EU to NA, that just doesn’t make any sense. I would say it solved itself like plenty of other posts I read.

I hope the same happens for everyone else here!

ZeddBv.1487:

ZeddBv.1487:

I repaired the game, didn’t work.
I reinstalled the game, didn’t work.
I changed the language from English to French (waited to download) changed back to English still had 1 file remaining.
I also tried -assetsrv 62.154.232.187:80 (this didn’t work, didn’t launch the game), -assetsrv 151.249.90.138:80 (this launched the game but 1 file remaining)
Though it might be a connection problem because it started downloading with 1kb so I tried cmd: ipconfig /flushdns
I did try to go to Documents and find local.dat but I cant find it.
So what can I do? I cant play the game because of the constant download that makes me lag.

UPDATE: I will to a recap off all the steps i went through, maybe this will help some of you.

First being to clear your cache file:

Completely close the game
Go to temp folder by going to start/run, type in temp and hit enter
Browse to the folder gw2cache-(guid). Example: “gw2cache-(50641E0B-3AD4-1601-081E-6450D43A0116)” 4.. Delete the whole gw2cache folder
Restart the client and see if this may resolve your issue.

Next is to delete more cache files directly tied to the launcher and updates (this will have you restart the update from ground zero):

Hold down the Windows button on the keyboard and hit the “R” key.
Paste in the following line: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2 Click “OK.”
Delete the local.dat file located here.

Hold down the Windows button on the keyboard and hit the “R” key.
Paste in the following line: C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\bin
Highlight every item in the folder, right click, and select delete.
You will also want to clear your Recycle Bin.

Navigate to your Guild Wars 2 installation folder.
Right-click on “GW2.exe” and select “Create Shortcut.”
Rename this shortcut to “Guild Wars 2 Repair.”
Right-click on this shortcut and select “Properties.”
Edit the “Target” line to include -repair at the end. Note: Please make sure -repair is outside of the quotes -- Correctly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe” -repair -- Incorrectly Formatted Example: “C:\Games\Guild Wars 2\GW2.exe -repair”
Once completed, click “Ok” to save your changes. If you get an error trying to save, your target line may not have the correct format. Please try Step 5 again.
Right-click “Guild Wars 2 Repair” and select “Run as Administrator.”

Click the “Start” button to bring up the Start Menu.
Type in CMD into the “Search programs and files” field but do not hit enter. Doing this will change your start menu to show the program “cmd.exe.”
Right-click on “cmd.exe” and select “Run as Administrator.”
Once complete, type “netsh winsock reset” without the quotes. When the command is completed successfully, a confirmation appears, followed by a new command prompt line.
Try connecting to the game again.

Tried this as I hadn’t seen this method before, didn’t work though.

I’ve tried several of the IP’s from http://gw2status.de but to no avail. What I did find out however is that I can also play the whole game regardless of the single yet to be downloaded file. Still, a solution for this would be nice.

Have been looking all over for a solution but every possible one I come across does not work. I wonder what causes this last file to be such a pain and hope it can be fixed at some point, it’s been known to happen (or at least similar problems) since the launch of the game. But sadly no consistent solution for this problem.

As my hard-drive died I had to reinstal gw2 as well. And just the same after downloading everything up till the last file at a speed of 2 to 3 mb/s, it drops to 0 mb/s at the very last file. I have tried several things as well but nothing seems to help. This is also the second time I’m downloading it, uninterrupted, the first time I had paused it once (I read somewhere downloading uninterrupted could work).

Dragonhunter;
- Longbow, even though in general it is Really fun to play with it for me there is one giant annoyance. The AoE’s can’t be aimed behind you, sometimes even in a small arc in front of you (Deflecting Shot), logic speaking it makes sense without a doubt. But comparing to both Ranger and Warrior longbow, it feels annoying. Warrior can shoot both the F1 and #3 anywhere they want and Ranger can place and shoot 5 while walking and standing still and they turn to wherever you aim ( I have to say this is the same mostly for longbow 5 on Dragonhunter, but often it cancels out without having stood still to cast it). #4 and #3 simply have no line of sight, even though #4 can be closely resembled to both Warrior longbow #3 and F1. I feel that desperately needs changing.

Other than that I don’t really have a lot to note. I played with Greatsword and Longbow in PvE, Zeal, Virtues and Dragonhunter, 2 traps and the heal trap (they are pretty fun to use, especially because they are more damage oriented traps than condi). In PvP I mixed Mace/Focus with Longbow and used Meditations and one trap, Light’s Judgement. Fun to play and both bursty as survivable because of Mace/Focus and the Meditations. My trait lines were also Zeal, Virtues and Dragonhunter.

Chronomancer;
The only class I only played in PvE. I really enjoyed what I played of it. Glad Phantasm/Shatter is finally a thing with this and the Wells are pretty cool too. Can’t really comment on anything that would need changing. They seem to be useful in the current PvE meta. And in PvP I didn’t find Chronomancers that were more lethal than the regular one shot from invisibility shatter mesmer. Only more annoying with teleports and traveling back in time and stuff. But maybe I just haven’t run into good ones, or ones that figured out what to do and how to do it properly.

Reaper;
I don’t really have too much to say about it, despite the bugs here and there with traits (Most importantly Reaper’s Onslaught) I had a blast playing it. I am unsure whether the Greatsword skills should be faster here and there, for PvE they are fine eitherway, but in PvP it can be hard to hit at times because of the decently long cast times (Maybe Reaper’s Onslaught can affect Greatsword as well?). I’m not entirely sure what to think about the shouts. I feel the cast time takes away, at least for me, some incentive to use them. The only one I felt could have use was “Nothing can save you!”. And that would only be in PvE.

I know the beta testng is also for the new zone, the events and the Masteries but I chose to not do too much with them to keep them new and fresh for when HoT actually releases. I gained the ability to fly after playing through the intro with 3 characters if I recall correctly. I am unsure if latter tiers of a mastery take the same amount or not, if so, that may be too easy to complete. But I’m guessing (and hoping?) the higher the tier gets, it takes a little longer each time to get all the points? I’m not really sure what would be an ideal spot so I can’t really suggest anything here either. The part of the new zone we played it was cool at least, the events seemed cool as far as I touched them and the enemies there were pretty fun to fight.

I think that’s about it, thanks for reading if you stuck through all of it.
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Here’s a few thing that stood out to me while testing the elite specs and the Revenant.
Do let me know if I claim anything here that is incorrect and let me know what you think if you feel like it

Revenant;
- Sword #1 chain damage felt slightly low.
- Hammer #1 while doing ok damage (1.5k crit with Zerker) along with the piercing effect felt like it could use a teeny bit of a faster attack rate.
- Ventari heal heals too little, either it needs to heal more or needs to be instant with a 1 second cooldown instead of 2.
- Shiro heal also felt liked it healed way too little. For something that heals while fighting, so also while taking damage, I would say it should be something you actually feel healing from instead of no effect at all.

Even with those things in mind I dare say I really enjoyed the Revenant, it feels fun and the skills are quite awesome. I found Sword/Axe with Hammer or Staff (OMFG I LOVE STAFF BTW, melee Bifrost <3<3<3 so cool and brilliant animations), or just Staff with Hammer was also really fun. While Shiro is awesome to use I feel it’s more of a PVP legend than general PvE. Ventari seems like it can be useful and the same goes for Jarlis (I personally think Ventari/Jarlis seems like the most useful combination for PvE, however, I am not one to make meta builds I feel that would be the more obvious choice).

Tempest;
- Warhorn just felt lackluster overall. I would love to say I could or would prefer using it over any other off-hand but I really don’t.
- Shouts have a way too long cooldown for what they do, and no way to reduce it (could be implemented in Tempestuous Aria maybe?)

The traits overall seem to offer fair synergy with old stuff, but it seems the ones that could be used most are Fresh Air overloading or Aura sharing (by far the superior synergy, maybe even the whole goal of Tempest?). Still, I don’t see it have any place in the current meta. Mostly what we have in Pve at least, I don’t see Tempest line replace Air, Fire Or Water because of what they provide over Tempest. And in PvP it would mean being up against what you use in the Celestial D/D build. Though I tried Water, Arcana and Tempest, which worked decently. Making a semi traditional Cele D/D ele with Aura Sharing and the Nados, was fun, but not as effective. In PvE I made a Fire, Air and Tempest build. Again, Far from as effective as the regular staff meta build. But it was fun to play. Though I didn’t use Warhorn, it worked with Staff, Dagger/Focus and Dagger/Dagger. I really hope Tempest will be tuned here and there, because it Can be quite fun to play.
1/2

I am excited personally. It may not replace the meta but I doubt it was made for that. If anything it may expand on it and I’m certain some aspects will be useful in the current PvE and PvP. And regarding the elite, because so many complain about it. I think it’s ok, it may need some adjusting, we’ll see. But it’s an elite that will be more useful for general use than FGS, GoE and Obviously Tornado.
In the end we will all have to give it a try eitherway, or leave it up to the people who make the meta. Whatever floats your boat.
What people also need to keep in mind though, I think, is that the hardcore content they’re working on supposedly needs the two other parts of the holy trinity. And so far with the Elite specializations, it seems like they lean towards supporty play in one way or another. So I’m looking forward to how it all comes into play with that.

I have a Human (f) and Sylvari (f) Elementalist, Norn (m) and Human (f) Guardian, Charr (m) Necromancer, Norn (f) Ranger, Asura (m) Engineer, Asura (m) Warrior, Human (f) Mesmer and a Sylvari (f) Thief. I don’t really care about class being related(ish) lore-wise to the race. So it will depend on the weapons they will be able to use. Though, assuming what weapons Rytlock used in the trailer were two of the weapons Revenant will get, I’m still unable to decide what race I would make it.

Bol.com is a Dutch Amazon. They’ve never guessed release dates before so I’m doubtful where this really came from.

I have been able to open some information behind the email using google chrome, saying it’s from “Guild Wars 2” with as subject “Accounts Questionnaire”.
You can view the message source and it shows all kinds of nifty information that I mostly don’t understand, but what I do know is that it shows the IP address it is sent from.

I know it is possible to send e-mails under a different one than your own. And I don’t know wether you can legally do anything with the IP or anything but if so I hope it helps figuring out who is behind this.

Edit:

Just got another e-mail sent under the name “Arena Net” with as subject “Account Security Alert: ArenaNet” from a different IP.