Guild Wars 2

Siks.1978:

Try this website

https://gw2style.com/search.php

Never heard of this thank you!

Hello friends!!!! So I leveled an engi quite some time ago but I made it a sylvari and dont like how it’s themed compared to asura engineers. So I’ve made the decision to re level a new one as an asura. There’s a problem though, medium armor on asura is in my opinion the hardest armor and race combination to make look good. I really need some help with this one lol, I’m doing Scrapper of course and I wish there was something that looked Alittle heavier then the usual trenchcoat. Please help me make my asura look decent =(

Omniboss.5134:

oh, got it. Thank you so much meeflak.9714

No problem bud! Good luck on your legendary!

Omniboss.5134:

As the tille, i got this item when play “Bugs in the Branches”. Unlucky, i sell it to NPC vender for a long time. I don’t know it’s oneof the materials to craft Sun God’s Breath Flask. I tried to play “Bugs in the Branches” but can’t get this item. So please tell me how to get this item again. Thanks for your view.

The legendary vendor you buy your tier one book from for the legendary, Hobbs, in lions arch will have it for sale for karma for you if it is something you need for crafting =) he’s in the crafting area of lions arch next to the Armorsmith and weaponsmithing tations

You can stat swap in the mystic forge extremely easy. It will require you to craft the insignias but it’s fairly cheap and worth the effort. But you will need 400 crafting

Engineers across the board honestly.

Isn’t jalis and glint the norm for pve?

From what I understand for power builds is running glint and jalis. Who are you using with glint?

Get a group and all will be good. Also, if you kite it outside of its little cove you can jump on top of the ledges around you to get more room to fight

Krispera.5087:

Not really hoping a change from ANet since the last minimal balance patch, but I’ll give my 2 cents.

1) Ricochet : Keep the damage buff, give the 2nd bounce back.
2) Splitblade : Give the Poison Volley treatment (boost on damage) or make it a real narrow cone attack like Guardian Staff Wave of Wrath (Poison Volley too)
3) Winter’s Bite : Make it AoE baseline and buff the damage. I want it to be a targeted AoE, but some people won’t like it.

It should make Axe just fine.

4) Path of Scars : Bigger and faster.
5) Whirling Defense : 5 targets. Stability.

I very much agree with winters bite being targeted aoe

Hey op. So I’ll go into better detail with a response

For general pve content I would strongly urge a condi ranger.

few reasons
1. Dps- condi isn’t just slightly higher then power, it’s significantly higher. In benchmarks done from multiple sources and testing done by myself, condi ranger is among the top five dps builds while power Druid is among the bottom five.

2.the argument on utility. Condi ranger lacks utility this is true. But you still have decent access to cc through your pet and shortbow 3. But power druids only real extra add to utility is CA form and gotl. So if you really feel the need to have those, I. E. Raid party, go condi druid for a slight loss in dps but that added utility to the group that mirrors the utility of power Druid while keeping the dps.

3. Open world pve.. I was a power Druid for quite some time ( I crafted kudzu 3 years ago and had a hard time letting to) and recently switched to condi ranger and I honestly regret not doing it sooner. Open world pve is much more than being able to dish out the damage in a much more engaging rotation. And once again your lack of sustain can be made up for running condi druid at 0 loss to power druids utility

This is just my insight I’m sure people will disagree. But the undeniable fact here is condi has significantly more dps then power at very little loss of utility. Especially if you go condi druid over condi ranger.

Edit

Wanted to address two things. First. I see a lot of people saying that moving mechanics on bosses makes power Druid more viable in certain situations, Ive found from personal experience that the loss of dps from missing aoes isn’t enough to out condi ranger under power Druid, not by a long shot. You can. Still maintain a crazy amount of bleeding stacks from your shortbow and Axe weaponsets unlink with the commonly ran traits, lynx, sharpening stones, flanking. Your dps is still higher then power rangers from what I experienced

The other thing. It is harder to get into condi builds since vipers is gated behind a crafting / currency wall. So you could always power Druid to see how it feels then move on to condi St another time.

Prophet.1584:

in PvE duration can provide more dps than pure condition damage even with the added 5%. I’d still run with the nightmare/trapper over berserkers, I need to get 1 more nightmare rune myself to complete my set.

Yea I did some testing now that my set is done and it did come out to be better then the Berserkers set.

So I decided to make my ranger a condi ranger, got full viper’s ascended armor/weapons. Working on the malign infusions. Got the exotic trinkets (I’ll work towards ascended sometime not raiding yet) I’m currently running superior rune of the Berserker and I finished my set of night mare/ trapper runes but I haven’t equipped them yet.

So. Berserker runes

1): +25 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(2): +35 Power.png Power
(3): +50 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(4): +65 Power.png Power
(5): +100 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(6): +5% Damage and +5% Condition Damage.

Nightmare / trapper runes

(1): +25 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(2): +5% Condition Duration.png Condition Duration
(3): +50 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(4): +10% Condition Duration.png Condition Duration

(1): +25 Condition Damage.png Condition Damage
(2): The Condition Duration.png duration of conditions you apply last 10% longer.

with Berserker runes you have 175 condi damage and 100 power plus 5% dmg and 5% condi damage.

with the meta nightmare /trapper you have 100 condi damage and 25% condi duration.

Is Berserker still a good alternative and does the extra 75 condi damage with 5% added make up for the lack of condi duration? Or is the condi duration required to keep stacks up ultimately making the damage higher.

Do you have any other rune sets that work well on a condi build?

( I know the rangers biggest condi problem is there lack of condi duration)

Hornets sting should also interrupt auto chain

Haku.1648:

Hello,

Well, I wanted to do fractals and raids with it, but it seems far outclassed by condi builds. I hope they will buff power druids/rangers in a next patch :/

I don’t like Ele and thieves power builds. It seems that condi thieves were buffed, maybe it will be finally good for raids!

Otherwise, I’ll play healer druid, even if I really wanted a build with the longbow. But as you said, condi ranger is just better.

Thanks for your quick answers!

I’m right there with ya. Running condi right now because it’s just undeniably better damage. But I’m patiently waiting for my power ranger/Druid buffs.

For general open world pvp feel free to run pretty much anything you like lol. There’s no harm in it. Power Druid is still fun to play but is not optimal for things like tier four fractals or raids. Condi ranger/ Druid is the optimal dps build, only being outshined by two professions, ele and Thief.

We’d need to know what content you are concerned about but honestly as long as you know your mechanics and class dynamics you can run everything but raids pretty successfully. I’ve tier four’d fractals on a power Druid countless times and I’m currently running a condi druid (way more dps) but the decision comes down to what you want.

Best forumer NA lol!!!! Too funny xD

Axe torch shortbow is our only viable condi build. Go ahead with the rework but keep it condi or rip every ounce of damage a ranger can do.

Edit: autocorrect op. Pls nerf

Another edit: please don’t call for a change away from condi lol. Not until we have something else that’s viable for condi damage. I agree a re work would be nice but we absolutely need it to be a condi main hand.

BlaqueFyre.5678:

meeflak.9714:

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Raids aren’t the sole way to get them….. LS3 gives back a ring and an accessory, now they are unique but the rings can be attuned/infused to bypass the unique aspect. Tune of the trapper can be crafted

Well i didn’t know you could get them through ls3. GG. And I was considering trappers gated through crafting, easy/reasonable that’s why I wasn’t qqing over them just stating

Well I’ll be moving into ls3 when I’m done grinding then thank you

No problem, you just have to grind the map currencies for the trinkets amulet ring and back are in Bloodstone fen and The accessories and another back are in Ember Bay you will only be able to use one of the ember bay Accesories

Thanks man =) thought I did my research before QQing but I guess not well enough. I’ll grind for that soon!

BlaqueFyre.5678:

Raids aren’t the sole way to get them….. LS3 gives back a ring and an accessory, now they are unique but the rings can be attuned/infused to bypass the unique aspect. Tune of the trapper can be crafted

Well i didn’t know you could get them through ls3. GG. And I was considering trappers gated through crafting, easy/reasonable that’s why I wasn’t qqing over them just stating

Well I’ll be moving into ls3 when I’m done grinding then thank you

So before I begin I love gw2 I’ve been playing steady since Launch.

But what’s up with this hard cap on ascended viper’s trinkets? Why is raids the sole way to gain them besides the amulet… I think this is kinda ridiculous. I’ll be stuck running exotics until I can get myself into raids. I’m currently crafting astralaria and have no desire to dedicate my blood and soul to raids rn…

We are already requiring raids for legendary armor and I just feel like making an ascended stat set pretty vital to condi builds gated behind raids is kinda ridiculous.

Most of condi stuff is gated for that matter.

Runes of the nightmare gated… Trapper gated… Sinister gated.
Kinda silly imo

Edit:I’m only qq’ing about the ascended trinkets, that gate feels a little unnecessary

What’s WvW?

/15charr

To each there own man. Some will like it some won’t, The quality of the armor is completely subjective. We all know this art team can do some absolutely amazing work, and the effects on that set are bad kitten imo. Even if I don’t like the spiked armor theme.

Typical no constructive insights or idea kitten post

All I want is sword Axe to be viable…. Such a fun weapon set

Yea Axe still not competitive. Rip. Axe needs to become useful on something before I finish astralaria (I don’t play Berserker)

Quick reference to the necromancer patch notes for you……. "" ""We feel that necromancers have been faring quite well gamewide, providing play and counterplay in many spots over the last few months. In addition to a couple of minor bug fixes, we wanted to improve the viability of necromancer power builds, which have been somewhat lacking in presence.
Rending Claws: The damage of this ability has been increased by 15%.
Ghastly Claws: The damage of this ability has been increased by 13%.
Unholy Feast: The number of boons converted to conditions has been increased from 1 to 2.
Fading Twilight: The aftercast of this ability has been reduced by 0.11 seconds.
Chilling Scythe: The aftercast of this ability has been reduced by 0.06 seconds.
Death Spiral: The damage of this ability has been increased by 66%.
Blood Is Power: The recharge time of this ability has been reduced from 30 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP only.
Signet of Vampirism: When the Signets of Suffering trait is equipped, this skill will no longer corrupt boons on players who evade it.
Lich Form—Jagged Horrors: These minions will no longer lose health over time and will instead die 30 seconds after they’re summoned""""…..

So with the Axe buffs. Do you think we will see Axe replacing Gs or dagger in power builds? Of course we need to play with the numbers a bit, but I’m excited to get home and out the Axe to the dps test and see what comes of it. The faster attack speed with the %buffs could be enough to push it a little higher on the dps list. I don’t think we’ll see dagger being replaced because of the life siphon and dps above 50%health

TheFantasticGuy.7206:

meeflak.9714:

Am I the only person who thinks sword/Axe power glyph is pretty good dps?

No, but you’re in an extremely small minority I’d imagine. So, serious question, not mocking or anything, but you do play any other classes in ascended power specs? I ask because I do so I can see, first hand, how the Druid DPS specs pale in comparison.

No matter the build/stat combo I can’t make my Druid kill things in PVE very fast at all… which is why I gave up on it and run a magi wearing glyph buffing GOTL build and don’t care about DPS… It’s just pitiful. My zerk necro kills things in PVE a helluva lot faster than my Druid. It’s very very noticeable.

Yeah I’m not trying to say it’s competitive against other dps builds. Alls I’m saying is it’s still viable. I understand it’s not better then really any other power class out there, but it, in my opinion gets the job done. I have all level 80s play them all pretty consistently and all of my power builds out dps my druid. Including my Reaper (who I normally run generic condi anyway). But it’s definitely good enough dps to run through a lot of pve on its own. Sure when I go into a tier four fractal my team is sacrificing some dps, but I don’t cripple the team in anyway. Could I run my Berserker? Yeah. Do I need to? No

Am I the only person who thinks sword/Axe power glyph is pretty good dps?

Avster.1935:

Might have to start wearing Zealots now.

I’ll cri.

Viper and Berserker druids are still going to be viable.. The thing to look at here is the fact that those two specs are fitting a dps role not a support role. The healing for these roles were always looked at as a minor source of support ONTOP of a really great amount of damage adding some good support to a group without sacrificing much dps. These two specs will still be doing the same amount of damage and ancient seeds is still going to be as op as it is now so I can’t see us losing our place in the meta. Upkeep on Astral force will be important so we can go in and do our standard rotation and that’s about it. I can’t see us falling out of the meta. We’ll be around for a while

Power / condi druid still mvp

I also just started playing HOT and can say I disagree on every point. I just finished map completion on verdant brink last night working for astralaria and not once did I have troubles gathering people to do certain events with me. A simple /m hey can you help me with “x”? Or /m anyone want to get an HC train going? Is all you need. The maps of hot seem extremely active and nine times out of ten the map im in usually goes for a tier four and I can hop right along with them, and if I can’t because my map is dead I can always look at the lfg for open world and get into a more populated map. All of that on top of playing with good friends makes hot an fun, rewarding, and challenging clear and I can say coming back from a year break to play it was well worth the time and I’m completely in love with this game again

Gorani.7205:

Ideally, there would be a vendor to upgrade them to a higher status, especially the Lvl 20 variants that do not stack for whatever reason.
4 lvl 20 => 1 lvl 80
2 lvl 20 => 1 lvl 40
2 lvl 30 + 1 lvl 20 => 1 lvl 80
1 lvl 80 => 80 Spirit Shards

Yea this is a perfect idea. Gives you some good pay out for dedicated play and clears out some inventory.

So we have the ability to consume tomes for spirit shards, but experience scrolls are slowing stacking in my inventory, I’m at about 12 total. I think it would be a good idea to make them consumable at level 80 for spirit shards as well. I understand 20-40 is a pretty good amount and may seem unbalanced but I’d be happy seeing them payout for 5-10 per sroll. Idk I think it’s a good idea lol. What are you opinions? Does it kinda frustrate you seeing them sitting there in your bank account? I have 10 level 80s and no intention of making any more so they really do serve no use.

Edit: autocorrect op pls nerf.

Guild wars recently had it’d four year anniversary and Im just here to say how proud I am to have been apart of the games community. I was playing since launch, but haven’t been able to log in for a little over a year now… I’m just here to say that this game and it’s community are the best thing to happen to video games in recent history. The community is amazing. The devs are amazing. This game was crafted beautifully and I hope to be able to return to it soon. Congrats on four years. I wish you many many more

1. Druid- healing/pure support is my favorite playstyle, I like the pressure of needing to perform to keep the party alive. Looks like a good amount of active playstyle will remain.
2.chronomancer- thematically the best, most creative elite spec, as well as tying in perfectly with it’s base class.
3.reaper. just ridiculously awesome feel to it

Proud owner of kudzu. This is just a perfect legendary to me. It fits its theme perfectly, the flower effects for the body of the bow are amazing, and the gold projectile looks perfect.

I feel like it has the perfect balance of prestige and subtlety. The over the top cartoony ones feel more like random gem shop skins.

The moot … Quip…..

I agree with both of these. I’d also add one to the list

Stop saying a push toward supportive roles is a push for less engaging combat.

I see a lot of people saying that adding an incentive to run a healer/tanky/not zerker build will ruin the combat. It’s just a silly argument to me.

For those roles, the"*engaging combat"will move from active mitigation and the understanding of encounter mechanics as they relate to you as an individual, to active mitigation, positioning, and resource managment / prioritizing as they relate to your team.

We don’t know what raids will bring us. But if they are done right, playing a healer will benefit your team greatly. But still be as engaging and challenging as any other role you could bring into the encounter.

If I drop a heal at the wrong time, if I’m not positioned correctly, If I miss a Condi cleanse, a reflect, whatever and my team wipes, then these instances were designed perfectly and that’s what I’m hoping for.

Sure, push for more supportive roles into the Meta, as long as it’s done right it will still be a challenge. It will still be fun.

1. Reaper
2. Druid
3. Chronomancer
4. Scrapper
5. Berserker
6. Herald
7. Daredevil
8. Dragon Hunter
9. Tempest

I’m the most excited for druid, not the best in my opinion, but I’m very excited to see it in action against the new content coming with hot.

Adalyn del rayna
Server: ehmry bay
Game type. Pve (soon to be raid primary focus) and quite frequent PvP

ImTasty.2163:

Why does the Offical GW2 forums drinking game not have a spot for Trinity threads????

On a serious note Anet has never opposed a trinity. They stated that a bunch of times. They are against a hard trinity, as in you NEED a tank, healer, and dps. What Anet has is more of a soft trinity, where there are defined roles that people can play (support, control, and damage) without making any role mandatory. I know someone is gonna say “Well everyone needs to deal damage” so I will clarify that when I say damage role I mean people who forsake skills that offer high control/support for skills that maximize on dealing damage.

The problem with the game, that again Anet has mentioned that they know it’s a problem and they hope to fix with HoT, is that right now mob AI doesn’t really make a need for control/support heavy roles. Most mobs can be killed using auto attack and that’s something Anet is trying to break away with HoT by introducing something like breakbars that adds a desire for high control builds to stop a boss from using big attacks.

I agree with this for the most part.

The only thing I’d say differently is this. Anet has never even stated they are against roles, it’s never been stated that they are against healing/tanking/dps/control/support, or any other role someone can come up with. The idea of a “soft trinity” wasn’t to cut out healing/tanking, or to make the trinity support control damage. It was simply the idea that no one is locked into playing a certain role because of there class. Any class IN THEORY should be able to fill all roles. Not all classes should be able to fill all roles at all times.

I dint think it was ever the intention to cut out roles completely, just make them accessible easily to all classes to keep the game " play how you want" but keep your playstyle/role important.

You see many replies to this thread. And threads like it saying “everyone can do anything, this makes roles pointless” to a certain extent that’s true. This is how I see it.

You can build zerker . All damage , and still have enough survivability that your not sacrificing Anything for going full dps, making the decision to build anything but dps sub par.

I don’t think the idea behind anets take on the trinity was to cut out roles…

Just to make them open to all professions easily so no player is locked into any one playsyle.

I feel the problem lies in the current state of the game, where there’s no content that puts an emphasis on any other role then dps, (a few expentions is in PvP. Which is why I love PvP.)

If raids or any other content are placed into the game which bring the necessity for these roles forward. I dint think they will be adding a hard trinity to guild wars, sure you may need a healer to do x raid. But who’s going to be your designated healer? The gsurdian? Rev?ele? No.

Its going to be whoever wants to play a healer. I don’t see this as an introduction of a hard trinity into the game, just opening up the combat system to include all the pieces it was built around, and I’ll welcome that with open arms Any day.

( horrible scaling on toughness and healing power is also a problem)

That’s all I got <3

Deth.4109:

meeflak.9714:

“Hardcore” player here.. I only call myself that because of my ridiculous amount of time in game and knowledge of it.

I hate the elite ist mentality and thankfully it isn’t too Much of an issue in gw.

Raids should definitely be puggable “casuals” should definitely be allowed to clear raids.

All players should be able to include themselves in all content.
Such a silly argument

I dont agree. I think if raids provide something as important as legendarry armor things of incredible value that can effect the economy of the game by removing the need to ever buy any stat set of armor there should be no barrier to attempt it but certainly barriers to success. puggable raids just seems kind of wrong from that perspective.

How so? What’s the difference between having a group of hard core players clearing a raid vs. A group of casuals ? If both can finish it then both deserve the reward.

Your being rewarded for having the skill to clear the raid, not dedicating x amount of time to gw2 .

If the pugs can clear it then they deserve whatever the dungeon has to offer. And I feel like saying they shouldn’t be alllowrd to get the legendary armor just because they put in less time then us is wrong.

Anyone who puts in the work to clear the raid. And craft the armor deserves to use it.

Hardcore. Casual, vets, New players alike

“Hardcore” player here.. I only call myself that because of my ridiculous amount of time in game and knowledge of it.

I hate the elite ist mentality and thankfully it isn’t too Much of an issue in gw.

Raids should definitely be puggable “casuals” should definitely be allowed to clear raids.

All players should be able to include themselves in all content.
Such a silly argument

Gaile save me

/15 char

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey, all,

We know you’ll have a lot of questions about GW2 and our opportunity for folks to join the community through the Play for Free initiative. I’ll point you to a comparison chart here: https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157?_ga=1.243374597.1017581385.1401897416

Gaile I’m so sad. =(

Someone explain 15 char to me…. Please

I’m actually completely ok with this. Hopefully it’s enough to get the population back up and staying =)

I’m dying. Please save me arenanet

Edit. Three days.

The unrivaled world design, gaming’s greatest community, and the most fun and engaging combat system ever seen in an mmorpg 2800 hours and counting =).

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36349

And I must say…..good job in this one. Sounds absolutely amazing.
The hype is real.

Edit. Wanted to say something on the torch,

I had previously posted I was affraid they’d drop the ball on Torch, like I felt they did with warhorn. But this is pretty awesome and I’m very excited !!! =) gj on torch, CHANGING YOUR BURST SKILLS WHILE BERSERK?! WHAT?! that’s awesome.

The rage skill example .. knocking foes back into eacbothrt to knock foes back… Awesome..

So awesome

Vox Hollow.2736:

I don’t want to add aspects being something you channel, to receive boons/buffs/ect. Related to the animal.

I agree, that would really bum me out.

“Here’s this button that has nothing to do anything, but we gave it some animal themed visuals so it counts as broadening your profession mechanicokaybye- "

Regular Swap gives me that vibe on a bad day, I can’t imagine if they dropped even the flimsy pet health pretense and just shamelessly tacked on an island of a button.

yeah this exactly… there has to be something else added to make this thematically and mechanically pleasing,

like ive said before, a shape shifting idea does sound really cool, and the aspects are something that you take the form of, glyph skills changing to reflect that, but i highly doubt we will see this. all signs point to a toggle skill.

if this is the case i will be very underwhelmed. and considering this is my main, and more cherished class (although not my main throughout the whole game, engi pvp for life) its going to cut straight to the heart if this is just not good xD im not saying its doomed to be bad. but adding something like that will leave a very sore taste in my mouth (im a salty person as it is.)