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Rapier, I am curious why you don’t use Sigil of Ice on your weapon(s) if using the chill run in the Reaper line?
This is the PVE open world I have been using. GS/Sword/Shield Zerker or Assassin gear, strength runes, etc. Dom221, Ill122, Chrono333. A bit boring as you kill form distance mostly with GS and your phantasms, but effective. I usually run wells for tagging. Rarely die with this build.
Welcome to GW2!!! It is a big game and there is a lot to learn and do. If your friend is on the same server as you and is part of guild, I would see if you can join his/her guild. A guild is a great place to learn/enjoy this game. I am on Ferguson’s Crossing; you can PM me if you would like. I have been playing GW2 since the beginning:) I certainly will try to answer any questions you may have. Welcome!!!
Thank you. The reason I keep playing this game is it’s ability to have many, many different builds and hence styles of playing. This is a good thing. Everyone playing one META build destroys the great aspect of this game.
I did the same thing. The restrictions will ease, but still find you can only mail about 3 ‘letters’ per day. So I put what I really want in the first….mats and gold to make sure that one will get through. Haven’t been able to mail more than 20 gold at one time so far…
I had a similar issue with a Radeon HD laptop series. I had two gcards, so would have to disable one, then enable, and then disable the other. Sometimes that would work. Also, try rolling back the driver, as often times the ‘current’ driver would give me problems. Are you running Windows8 by chance? If so, go to AMD drivers page and run the auto detect program…it will give you the correct driver, which is not typically the newest…not sure why, but that always worked. I had the same issue, only affected GW2.
OP: Congrats! (now it is 15 characters!)
Missle Deflection on Defense line is always fun in situations like that…..deflecting an arrow meant for your knee into theirs:)
I always clear my way through the maps, killing and gathering on the way. You are going to do this getting all the waypoints anyway. By the time you clear the Norn map group, you will be 80 and make some gold on the way.
if you go staff + sc/t PU you honestly don’t have many sharper images procs anyway so dire is fine
Not quite accurate. You still get a quite significant amount of condition pressure from sharper images even without something like the iDuelist. On top of that, crits provide you with vigor through critical infusion, which ofc gives you more dodges and more clones to explode.
Dire can work, but you’ll just have less pressure and less mobility due to lack of vigor.
Fay,
What would you think of dire with rabid accs and weapons and enough rampager mixed in with the dire armor to get Crit at about 50% for PU build….napalm cat type? I run dire, but crit in low 40% range, and wonder if not using Sharper Images to full extent?
I would agree perplexity runes are an issue at this time. Yet, one could say the same for strength runes. It becomes a never ending cycle, once you begin tweeking runes/sigils. One gets nerf, sometimes in the process allowing another to become more powerful than intended. Everyone talks about balance. But really, true balance would become quite boring. There will always be some class/trait that is going to be harder to deal with for some other class/trait. I really don’t think you can, or would want, true balance.
Why don’t we just remove all forms of damage:) Then we could remove all forms of armor and wouldn’t have to worry about certain sigils/runes being OP. We could just all be clones of each other and poke each other with a point stick? Give me a break. Just as we all have to deal with hard hitting zerker classes, we have to learn to deal with conditions as well. It is what makes the game interesting. Learn to adapt your fighting style.
I leveled all my alts by map clearing. It is easy, relatively painless and gets you mats for crafting or selling. I actally found it enjoyable. Mix in Personal Story once in a while, and you can level to 80 quite quickly.
That is true, Lingering Curse will allow you to go over the 100% limit.
Well you wont be putting many conditions on with dagger/focus, so I would level up spite for power first and curses for crits. Death Magic and Blood Magic lines will help with staff/wells and dagger as well as toughness/vitality. If you are having trouble staying alive, Death Magic would be good as you would gain toughness and can get Staff Mastery and Greater Marks, which will help both offensively and defensively. Its free to retrait, so try lots of ways and see what fits your style……mostly have fun!!
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Yes, if you’ve ever been hacked, you tend to take it personally. But usually to the hacker you are just a nameless victem. I’m sure he will get it sorted out.
I believe that is what they are attempting…zerkers will have to worry about conditions now and conditions will have to worry about dps. And maybe somewhere in there, is the ideal middle ground, combined with your playing talent/ability, allows you to do well in most encounters. It would make the game interesting anyway. I think this change will be one in the right direction after all the initial ‘change’ wears off and people start digging in and enjoying the game.
Complaining seems to be the new ‘meta.’ I look at it as a chance to go try some new things, hopefully learn some new things, and have some more fun. Life is reacting to your changing environment, so change is good. Go have fun and let the complainers complain….they do seem to enjoy it.
So let me see if I get this right? Zerker’s complain now that they have no defense….‘we can’t kill you faster than your conditions will kill us.’ Condition builds complain that we kill too slowyly….‘we die to zerkers before our conditions can kill them.’ So, either this is what the game is about, finding the right build for you, and relying on skill for the rest. Or, we just all have one META build, and then…….what? Look at each other. Find a build you like and play it. The devs are not out to personally destroy your build. Life is about change, learn to deal with it. The game is meant for enjoyment.
You play this game long enough and read these posts long enough and you realize this whole game has become a meta this and meta that. Meta DPS builds or go home. Meta complain about everything in or not in this game. I would think eventually the Meta masses would realize that this new patch will give them an opportunity to explore new ‘meta builds’ atleast, and keep them busy for a while. If you don’t like change, then come back in two weeks and someone can tell you what to buy/build and you can be meta again. It’s a game; supposedly for enjoyment….
I’m leveling my last alt…a warrior. Level 23 now. I find the fastest way for me is to complete maps and do all the events, etc. Put the first 10 traits into Arms and take Deep Strike, then equip all sigils, and you will have a lot of crit chance. Put the next 10 into Strength for the extra power. I am using LB/axe/sword or sword/sword…depends on my mood. I carry warnhorn for speed burst between hearts. I usually re-equip wpns and armor at every 5 or 10 levels. I can usually get 5 levels per a 2 hour playing night, if you push into areas a bit higher than you. I also use 15% “Hallowween” food for the extra experience. It has always worked for me. I only craft along the way with what I collect…hate spending money on that….
Just my thoughts.
For what its worth….I’m leveling my last alt…warrior. Using sword/sword and longbow. Works nice. Can attack from distance and close in for the kills with sw/sw. I like the option of attacking from distance or in close. Have fun leveling, that’s what it’s about right?
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I have to agree with Spoj; we just have to enjoy the good changes when they come. I believe once the game moves through this max DPS funk it is in and it balances itself out into the wonderful game it can be, Necros will have their day in the sun….er…..putrid mist.
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Depends. My guild and my friends are all super elitists. But none of them have a problem with me taking my necro along in dungeons or fractals. I rarely do though, simply because I have more fun being much more useful (ele).
You make me laugh, super laugh
I did that a couple months ago as well, they gave me an accessory of equal value.