Guild Wars 2

It’s a long CD

My buddy wants to delete his character and move his home world to mine so we can play.

Since currency is account bound now it won’t be deleted when he deletes his character right?

What are some guardian utility skills you don’t find yourself ever using and why?

I mostly do WvW and some PvE so the skills I like are with respect to those environments.

Generally speaking,
Meditations/shouts are great for solo or small group play.
Shouts/consecrations are great for group play.

Playing since release I haven’t found reasons to keep signets, except the healing one, or spirit weapons on my skill bar.  Both in a way seem selfish.  Spirit weapons are pretty squishy, and their special skills aren’t so great for the CD.

I’ve never been a fight and afterwards thought that the tides would have turned in my favor if I had been using a spirit weapon or signet.

Thanks, Oxxy.

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Does Pure of Voice work with Save Yourself?

I have no interest in buying these dyes due to the RNG element.

I never even noticed that they were doing actual cut scenes until I saw this thread. I’ve only done a couple of the new missions, too.

I definitely like the cut scenes though!

Damage revealing stealth breaks stealth.

Go play a Thief and you’ll understand.

Have you updated your video driver?

Sadly, it sounds like your issues are isolated to your computer. Something is not jiving between your comp and gw2. I wish I had more advice, sorry to hear you’re having those problems.

I haven’t really missed having a mount in this game.

Give them all a shot! It’s always a good idea to have each weapon in your inventory.

I like GS for solo PvE play, hammer for PvE dungeons, and staff with scepter/shield for WvW.

Your links are blank now for the builds, can you update?

I enjoy the new daily system since it varies. Dodger is easy in WvW, especially in seiges.

Anyway, I don’t really grind to get the daily done. I just play like I would normally. After a bit of playing I’ll notice that I’m missing a few things, then I’ll steer what I’m doing towards wrapping the daily up.

Is lack of on demand condition removal ever a problem for you? Is Smite Condition enough?

When you’re troubleshooting something, it’s best to focus on one variable at a time.

In this case, culling is causing the most issues with stealth since player’s don’t appear right away after leaving stealth.

So, first fix culling then observe if stealth still has issues. Increasing the Revealed debuff , having stealth break on damage, or any skill/rune that reveals stealthed players is completely game changing and potentially game breaking.

Having played several classes to 80 in WvW, PVE, and sPvP, including thief, I personally don’t have any issues with stealth.

Unfortunately, a lot of folks in this thread are drifting towards whining. The biggest issue with stealth is culling, that’s it really. Killing thieves that use stealth often involves timed dodges and CCs such as immobilize, snares, fears, and stuns. Essentially, smart play, which is what it takes to kill other classes, too.

Great thread! I tried a few versions of this build last night in WvW, and had the most success with this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYUQRAsY4YlUmiPHdy9E95Ey2jKUn4JuHFlR1UaFoJA

Seems everyone here has a slight twist on how to use S/D and D/D, which is really awesome. My way is working for me so far, though I’ll admit I feel like I’m still a novice PvPer.

I’m not too thrilled b/c it’s introducing a gear grind into WvW. There was a slight one already, but exotics were easy enough to get.

I think they should cap the stats somehow (only when in WvW). I don’t want to grind for gear in WvW personally.

This really ruins WvW for the majority of folks that flocked to it in the first place.

Will the new Ascended gear require WvW focused players to acquire it in order to stay competitive in WvW?

I hope I don’t have to run a PvE dungeon to get gear for PvP. I know you can get some of the Ascended gear through the Mystic Forge, but some of it also only drops in the dungeon.

I am having the same issue as Milamber.

This started occurring about a week ago.

Score update pleeeeease?

I’ve loved every dungeon I’ve done so far. I did them with friends, though.

They require a lot more thinking and activity than other MMOs I’ve played b/c there is no Trinity.

Pretty sure Sundial is chilling at work getting a laugh out of this, too. Just like most of us here are.

I know I’d be playing WvW right now if I wasn’t at work!

Orbs being glitchy is a normal thing isn’t it?

Saw this yesterday night where a red orb was in a blue (i think) castle.

So much passive aggressive stuff here haha.

I don’t really think Osskil was flamed, just asked why his sig had CD in it and he was here. Legit question really.

Osskil, you do realize though that it is possible to post/discuss things on the forums AND play the game each day? Just b/c Sundial posts here doesn’t mean he isn’t focused on winning.

Well, you folks were blabbing on about stuff no one besides yourselves care about. No need to get defensive about it.

Score pictures are actually useful. I check this thread maybe once a day while I’m at work to see how the battlefield has changed.

It’s been a fun week so far. Things are definitely more enjoyable when the scores are at least close between all servers.

If a video game causes you to feel this way, you need to seek some help.

Night capping is stupid to complain about. So you want people that are out of your time zone to not be able to play when they want to? That’s not selfish at all.

These forums in general have a lot of negative posts and most of them are from ignorant/lazy players. It’s really dragging this place down, pretty much to the point I don’t come here as much.

Most of the sub forums are riddled with baseless QQ posts and it’s difficult to find intelligent discussions.

At least allow us to see other folks in the guild we are currently representing on the map and mini map…

Usually when a person calls a build cheesy it’s because they have trouble dealing with it.

You basically said that any build a thief uses is cheesy. It honestly sounds like you have trouble dealing with the class in general. That’s not a bad thing, though.

I don’t struggle with thieves as a guardian, but I have issues with mesmers and necros. I’m not on the forums complaining about it.

What is your spec/trait set up, Daays? Could you post a link?

Have you tried using the Sigil that removes buffs?

As a Guardian, Necros really are a pain the in the kitten for me since they turn my boons into conditions. Anything in general that removes my boons is a pain. Would having a Necro on your team help?

Every class/spec isn’t going to be good against every other class/spec in every situation. Whatever build you’re running is going to have weaknesses as well as strengths.

Sorry, I’m coming into this thread late.

Another way Guardians can get Retaliation up:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_Sanctuary

Plus

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Monk

Plus, having some trait points in Virtue which increases Boon Duration, too.

These are some traits I use as a Guardian that give Retal, there are obviously more:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wrathful_Spirit
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Virtue_of_Retribution
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vengeful

The money and time was totally worth it! Everyone had a blast while also receiving a ton of Karma and XP for continually fighting over the Redvale and Godslore supply camps.

I actually walked away even on money spent, I basically got back what I spent b/c of all the fighting.

Yeah, that south gate we forgot to defend.

Our guild stuck around AB all night, there was an average of 10 of us. Toward the end when AB was taken we were probably around 7ish. We honestly forgot about that inner south gate, it was our first time defending a keep when it was mostly our guild doing the upgrades and directing siege equipment. Good learning experience for us. We had some good help from other BP folks, though I don’t recall any of the larger BP guilds there helping. That’s fine though, we still held that keep against several assaults from Devona’s and Kaineg.

Why didn’t anyone hold the keep? GOAT came back in and took it back plus the Orb about 30min after we lost it.

Overall, last night was a lot of fun and our guild really enjoyed it. Like I said, it was a good learning experience for HoM.

Please allow us to see all of our guildies on the map in WvW. Thanks!

DK laying the wood

We were in NSP fartin’ around until the queue for BP Borderlands popped.

Took FOREVER.

Those were some fun fights last night in BP Borderlands!

In dungeons, it would teleport me to NPCs that follow your group. Extremely frustrating and rendered the ability useless.

I agree it should be target ally, or fix it so it doesn’t target NPCs over PCs.

Good question, I’d have to test it.

Hammer #2 is an amazing Blast finisher since it’s on such a short CD.

OP:

Your definitions for casual and hardcore are not correct. Those terms relate to how much a person plays generally.

GW2 is skill based. How good you are at the game isn’t going to be strictly based on how much time you spend in it.

Playing more often will generally mean you get better. “Practice makes perfect”. Honestly though, “Perfect practice makes perfect”.

The explorable modes are hard, really hard. Get better at the game if you want to beat them.

Also, don’t start with the lvl 80 explorable modes, and try to play with a group of people you know.

Masterwork quality is perfect to start with.

Just a heads up, I bought my lvl 80 Masterwork quality gear for about 5 silver each piece. This is just a starter set of course.

So don’t get discouraged and worry you need tons of gold to get started once you get to 80.

I love Wrath. The Quickness ability is a huge DPS boost.

I’m using Wrath almost full time.

Overall, I’m happy with the Tomes. I haven’t used the 3rd skill except underwater.

You have “limited experience” with thief? Well that’s pretty obvious if you think they aren’t mobile.

Thief has tons of ways to move around the battlefield.

Athea have you actually played a Guardian?

They have so many heals, blocks it’s insane. If I had HP like a Warrior I’d be nigh invincible.

Paula Dean supports this change.