Guild Wars 2

Mog.1589:

Build I run for WvW and Leveling, can be used for sPvP with some slight adjustments.

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Condition Based Trap build

Summary: High survival condition based build built around traps for CC and AoE Condition damage. This build offers good mobility with Warhorn and has lots of CC potential for kiting melee and staying at range. It also makes you a lot tougher and offers great sustained condition damage.

Weapons: Shortbow & Axe/Horn
Underwater: Preferred is Speargun

Shortbow is the better 1200 ranged weapon for applying conditions and it has good CC. Axe has a bleed and CC, paired with Horn for mobility and buffs. Sword would be okay if and when A.Net fixes the #1 skill or you could use it now if you want a melee weapon equipped. You could also use Torch (for burning) if you don’t care for the mobility offered by Horn. Speargun will be your preferred underwater weapon because of the conditions it applies.

Pets: I use Lashtail and Whiptail Devourers for several reasons. They are ranged, they have a knockback, they apply conditions and they are tanky so they tend to stay alive longer then spiders. In sPvP I would use Spiders because they do more damage and pets do not die as much as in WvW or PvE.

Healing: I use healing spring because of the group regen, combo field, condition removal and it has good synergy with the Adept traits I choose in Nature Magic.

Utility Skills: As this is a trap build you will use all traps. Traps I use are Viper’s Nest for the Poison, Spike Trap for bleed/cripple, Frost Trap for the chill. I prefer Viper’s Nest over Flame Trap because of the -33% healing effectiveness. In sPvP you should swap out Frost Trap for a Stun Break of choice.

Elite Skill: I use Rampage as One in WvW for the Stability/Swiftness. It is just way to useful to help get thru zergs into a keep or to run when you need to run. Leveling I use Entagle for the CC on packs of mobs and damage. In sPvP you could use either or depending on if you want more survival or damage.

Runes: Use what you like.

Sigils: Use any of the Malice Sigils. Your choice on what you want more damage, more toughness, more vitality or more condition duration.

Accessories: Rabid

Mog – what item types you run with this? ie knights, rampagers, what? Looks like it could be pretty fun.

PaybackPrahl.3192:

Allow me to explain. I understand how Crafting works – the basics of gathering materials, combining random mats in the hopes of discovering new recipes, following the recipes that are already given to you – but everything else about the system seems slow and unintuitive.

I chose to roll with Artificer and Tailoring (I play a Mesmer). I gather or harvest at pretty much every node I come across, and keep the vast majority of fine crafting mats that drop randomly. I head to the crafting station whenever I stop by a city or settlement that has one and – lo and behold! – I never have the requisite materials to make even the most basic items.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it just seems that the only reliable way to get crafting materials is through the Trading Post, and even then you’re dealing with the arduous process of planning out exactly WHAT materials you need to buy to raise your level exactly THIS much. It’s expensive, daunting, and frankly I don’t see the use.

Is there some easy, efficient means of getting past those first 30-40 crafting levels and actually unlocking interesting stuff? A better way to get your hands on large quantities of basic materials? I just feel like there’s an unintuitive wall preventing me from having any fun with it.

My recommendation at low levels is to salvage as much as possible, and kill as much as you can in the zones. I have a maxed huntsman prof on my ranger and it is fantastic to be making high lvl gear that not only you can use, but your guild and the rest of the economy can use as well.

Take some time, look into the recipes you can unlock, and just keep playing. You will get rewarded in the end.