Guild Wars 2

i’m getting a new one now too. it’s actually been OK the past… two days.

7:5:1:332:101 is what i’m getting now.

TheQuickFox.3826:

Can you try disabling WiFi and use wired ethernet instead to see if this solves your problem?

i haven’t been using wireless. i’ve always used ethernet.

they’re fine.

if you aren’t doing raids or super-high level fractals, you can probably get away with whatever.

Anjo.3170:

When you get disconnected is there an error number?

yeah, it’s 7:11:3:191:101 or something like that.

funny enough, it doesn’t happen in WvW that much.

i’m honestly not sure what to do.

i’ve gotten CONSTANT disconnects ever since i returned to the game about 2-3 weeks ago. i’ve made sure all my firewalls are letting GW2, made sure my anti-virus isn’t blocking GW2, made sure my internet isn’t capped, nothing is downloading, etc.

nothing helps.

i’m getting disconnected at least once every 5-10 minutes, sometimes shorter. i disconnected three times during the Amber Wurm fight.

in fact, as i’m writing this, i’m disconnecting. i’m super frustrated. i’ve tested my internet; it’s working fine. i’ve played LoL, OW, For Honor, Battlerite, FFXIV, etc. without any issues at all.

i’m seriously not sure what to do at this point. if it makes a different, i have Comcast in Sacramento, CA.

MichalAniol.5807:

i plan on swapping out one of the trait lines with Firebrand when it releases, but i’m undecided on which. opinions?

You can put FB only in last slot so whatever you put in there will be changed for FB.

yeah, i knew that, but, i was wondering which of the three trait lines would be the least useful compared to the others. my gut says Honor, but, i’m not sure.

alright, so, i’ve recently decided to start playing my Guardian again for PvP/WvW and i’m going with a full support build. so far, this is what i have:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAreWl8AhWhYzQwMIQTEHJEVeG+vS4usBwBg3gQIFA-TlyFwAaNh5SdFaKhmq8AgSQoKRQcKA+oPwkKFG3fIAACA/8n/8nRIAkLAA-w

i’ve done some google searching and saw that the recommended gear is full Celestial; however, i don’t have money to just acquire full Celestial, so, i came up with a combination that hopefully measures up at least somewhat well. i did check out a full Ascended set and my set has more power/toughness, but, it’s really lacking on offensive stats. i can always slot in another piece or two of Soldier’s (or another stat combination) for more health if need be. here’s the Celestial set for reference:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAreWl8AhWhYzQwMIQTEHJEVeG+vSAvBhQKcX2A4AA-TFyHABdp+zkKBB4UAsl+Af2fYJlP8oESLTYBAQA4n/8n/MCBgcBA-w

i’m not entire sure what my other runes should be, but, i’m set on Energy runes because being able to dodge roll is always good. i know the boon duration on weapon swap rune is generally the best one, but, i want a cheap alternative because i’m going to have to get all this gear from scratch, since, i haven’t played my Guardian in… three years, at least, and i currently only have Masterwork armor on her. i’m using Water runes for cheap boon duration/healing. is there a better alternative?

the three Ascended Celestial trinkets and the random Ascended Apothecary ring come from my other characters. the Apothecary ring is from a random WvW box and the Celestial neck/ring is from another character. also, does attuning/infusing Ascended gear lock it to a character or does it just give you another slot? i actually don’t have that mastery yet, so, it’s kind of moot, but it’d be nice.

overall, i’m just looking to fine tune what i have before i start going all-in on buying gear/equipment. i think i have the right traits as well, or close to it.

i plan on swapping out one of the trait lines with Firebrand when it releases, but i’m undecided on which. opinions?

if you just want the FDS, you can get it in around 20-30 hours easy.

you can also solo 30/50 HoMM.

GW1 is… different, but still good.

has anyone tried this out yet? i’m at work, so, i can’t check it out right now (unfortunately), but, with the tomes, mantras and all that jazz, support firebrand seems like it’d be awesome.

shield.

oh wait.

but, torch or focus, i’d imagine.

Cyninja.2954:

nvmvoidrays.2158:

alright, cool. thanks for the help ya’ll.

what ascended accessories should i shoot for? i think i have enough laurels to buy a full set. i guess i could just save them until the expansion dust clears since i probably won’t really need that extra however-many stats for a long time.

None, use the Living World Season 3 maps to get all trinkets. Save your laurels.

Stats, can be berserker or commanders (personally I’d recomennd commanders here as addition to berserker weapons/armor which will most likely be exotic).

yeah, i already have berserker weapons/armor and i’m currently using soldier accessories because i had the mats laying around, so i was able to save 30-40g. commander was power/percision/toughness/concentration, right?

alright, cool. thanks for the help ya’ll.

what ascended accessories should i shoot for? i think i have enough laurels to buy a full set. i guess i could just save them until the expansion dust clears since i probably won’t really need that extra however-many stats for a long time.

so, i recently came back from a year and change break and i’m looking to get my Mesmer ready for the next expansion. they weren’t quite 80 when i quit, so, i’m trying to get back into the groove while leveling.

i plan on going a supportive spec with Chronomancer, so, i was wondering what type of gear i should be looking for. i remember, back when HoT first released, Celestial seemed to be good, but, it’s been a year and change since then, so.

i’ve done a few google searches and it seems like Commander is the most ideal set, so far, but i’ve seen things about Ministrel’s and others.

i have a bunch of laurels too, but, i have no idea what to use those for.

i… also kind of forgot when the ideal time to shatter Phantasms was. i’m guessing after they attack.

EDIT: i just realized that commander’s armor is super expensive to make. what should i be using in the interm? i was thinking Knight’s w/ Traveler’s runes and Soldier/Berserker accessories.

i love this build.

i’m still working on getting up to chronomancer. other games have me… distracted.

but, what would you use as an alternative to defender runes in PVP? i remember them not being available in sPVP… unless they added them during the expansion. do you still use a zerker amulet in sPVP too? for some reason, the gw2skills link isn’t working atm, so, sorry if you answered it in that.

Linken.6345:

Nope buy new ones only armor and weapons can change stats

that’s what i thought, but i wanted to check anyway,. thanks.

i’m guessing its a flat out no, but, i figured i should ask. i tried googling, but it didn’t tell me anything about reroll ascended accessories. it only mentioned weapons/armor.

RoseofGilead.8907:

No, it does not teleport you to the dungeon. You don’t have to walk all the way to the dungeon, but you do need to be in the same map the dungeon is in to join your party inside said dungeon.

ahh, i see. thanks.

alright. i quit around the time the tool first came out and recently came back due to expansion hype.

my question is: does the LFG tool teleport you to a dungeon or area when you join a party or do you still need to physically walk there?

i have no problems with needing to walk to a dungeon, mind you. i just wanna know so i don’t make my group mates wait however long it’ll take me to get there on foot.

i’ve just come back from a one or two-year break from GW2 and i’ve decided to hop on my engineer. its not 80 yet, but i’m really close.

with that said… i have no clue how this spec is built now-a-days. traits have been removed/changed, you’re locked into a specialization now instead of being able to distribute points around, etc.

how i did originally play it was like similar to a bunker/sustain build with condition damage. i could survive basically forever 1v1 and hold points like a champ. i still like that playstyle, both in PVE and PVP. i hate being squishy.

with the upcoming scrapper talents, it seems engineers will be even tankier with adaptive armor and other traits interacting.

what gear should i be looking into getting? apothacary looks good… but there’s also mix sets too, or just straight out celestial.

Linken.6345:

BarnabeJonez.6023:

Hey! Welcome back! If you’re thinking about starting up a new crafting class, I would advise you not to overwrite an existing one. Each of your characters can have 2 different crafting skills. Other characters’ crafting level is not limited by their character level so feel free to start or get on an alt and level another craft if you need/want it.

Abit wrong information here you can never overwrite a existing one you can have all crafts on the same character.

You can only have 2 active at the time tho more with crafting licenses or pay to switch out witch 1 active for another active.

So if you are weaponsmith 500 armorsmith 500 and want to do chef.
1 gold to switch armor for chef.
find out you want to do armor gain 1 gold. ( when you switch back armorsmith will still be 500)
Its probabely not 1 gold since i never switched but just as an example.

i remember that. it’s rather useful.

that said, how is the ascended crafting? crafting a weapon doesn’t seem… too bad… but armor crafting seems like a PITA, if only because you have to do it 6 times.

heya.

i’m back from an extended, one to two-year hiatus and i’m wondering how weapon/armorcrafting professions changed, other than the inclusion of ascended crafting, which, seems like an incredible timesink. is it even worth going after the ascended armor? i know the weapons are probably worth it simply because the base damage increase is pretty big… but, what about ascended armor? is there an alternative way to get them, other than crafting?

i’m curious because i want to go back to leveling my engineer. i have 325 huntsman and 200-something leatherworking. i was thinking about swapping the LW to chef. i was curious what i’d be losing, other than the ability to craft exotic armors and the aforementioned ascended. i could always get it to 400, craft exotics, then swap to chef.
i did see you can buy additional profession slots, but ehh…

that said, i was also wondering if there were certain armor/weapon combinations that were crafted-only, or, are they all available on the TP?

title.

its probably due to my lack of experience with the class, but… i can’t find anything that seems to mesh well with the Ventari. same with the weapons. they seem cool, but, nothing just.. clicks, i suppose.

i don’t know. call me cheap, but, it doesn’t seem to be worth it to waste the money on the superior sharpening stones (6%/4%) vs the hardened sharpening stones (5%/3%), especially considering the superiors are so much more expensive. maybe i’m just a cheap/lazy kitten, but, for my build, i only get around and extra 30 power, if that.

Fuzzion.2504:

Been using it for 1 year now. Havent changed it since nothing else really works in WvW roaming and grps

what gear type do you use?

back in december, PVT gear + accessories were pretty much king.

i can buy the entire PVT orr armor, currently, and i’m working toward getting enough for an ascended amulet (likely gonna buy a celestial statted one) and i have cleric daggers, simply because they were the cheapest exotics i could afford when i hit 80. aren’t soldier weapons only available through dungeons or WvW, iirc?

ah, good ol’ 0/10/0/30/30.

i didn’t think anyone ran this build anymore.

Eetog.4185:

While working on my timing, I’m pulling all sorts of adds with trying to max my mobility. Veterans or more than 2 mobs, forget about it… I’m toast. I get so frustrated that I just end up going back to my warrior. I thought I did my research upon recently coming back, but I’m doing something wrong somehow. Should I just go fresh air / LH build and just deal with inefficiencies?

this is what really gets me: how are you dying this fast, apparently?

i can pull half a dozen normal mobs and come out of the battle with 75% health or higher. i’m running the 0/10/0/30/30 D/D build that was popular way back in december of last year and has been subsequently nerfed many times, apparently.

hell, today, i was able to solo five aetherblade pirate veterans during the scarlet invasion by myself; my only exotics are my daggers, which, are cleric. the rest of my equipment is masterwork and this is at level 80.

honestly, i don’t know what to tell you. practice more? get better? roll an alt? you just seem to be frustrated with elementalists.

EDIT: i just saw you said S/D and not D/D; the rotation, tho, and play style, seem to be somewhat similar to each other, so, idk.

see topic.

i loved this build back when i played regularly, about nine or ten months ago, because i love the aggressive style and my personal play-style focuses less on burst and more on having enough sustain to live through almost anything. i love the bruiser/tanky-esque styles and the 0/10/0/30/30 D/D bunker build of yore let me do that.

is this build still effective now-a-days? i haven’t been keeping up with the patch notes, so, i dunno if they’ve dismantled it completely or not.

i’m playing less, but not due to ANets decisions or anything, but simply because real life kicking me in the nuts.

signet of restoration is weak during the lower levels.

once you hit higher levels, it definitely scales much better. mine is healing for almost 300 per attack as D/D with a mix of carrion, soldier and cleric gear. i have around… idk, +700 healing power of the top of my head.

plus, you have to also consider that everything you do counts as a spell cast: dodging heals you, swapping attunements heals you, etc.

plus, elemenetalsits have a lot more skills to work with and use. you should be constantly switching out spells and shizz. you’ll heal for a lot more.

^ up we go, friends.

i’d add some PVT gear in there. pure condition builds aren’t that good in groups and the lack of vitality means that conditions will destroy you since they rip right through toughness.

LightningLockey.5938:

Elementalist is just plain ruined at the moment. I have a level 80 that has armor with toughness/vitality. My game ended on the Straights of Devastation because the damage output was very weak and my character had a 25% chance of dieing on a 1v1 and a 90% chance of dieing on 2v1. 3v1 it is run and with a 75% chance of not being able to run away.

The class needs to be totally reworked at this point. I mean remove everything and start from the beginning. Maybe in 2-3 years ANet will finally have it playable. In the end, I have a level 80 mule

you’re doing something wrong.

i was in straits with a fresh 80 today (elementalist with cleric/carrion gear, 80 master works) and i had no trouble taking on groups of mobs.

were you using a staff or something? low level gear?

oh and yes, elementalists are worth making. anyone that says otherwise are jaded or extremely angry.

yes, i’m keeping EA.

the dodge roll survivability from water is still good. i’m apparently the only person in the entirety of GW2 that read the healing ripple change too.

it would’ve (and already started happening) regardless of ascended gear being added or not. i saw people doing it for the mad king dungeon; i saw people doing it for certain explorable paths.

this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. people did it in GW1 as well.

did you seriously compare a different classes completely different weapon to a conjure? i don’t think you realize what elementalists give up to use that.

lightning hammer is:

- limited by 15 charges (or 25 if you want to waste a major trait slot)
- removes the ability to swap attunements
- removes utility, healing and elite skills
- conjured weapons can’t use sigil and have no base stats (which means you lose power/toughness/vitality for using it), but, the base stats they added recently.

you’re comparing apples and oranges. neither weapons are anywhere near similar.

i’m confused by your post and the linked post.

are you complaining that dumb people are comparing two completely different weapons to each other from two completely different classes and expect them to be similar/same?

i think its obvious he doesn’t realize what using a conjure does.

general question:

what gear set would you suggest going for while getting the PVT armor? i went with a mix of carrion and cleric armor, since, they both have stats i want. cleric gives me PTH whereas carrion gives me PVC.

Rafe Mathews.2308:

Just rolled a warrior in order to try and discover why they are so popular and loved. I have to say after wiping the floor with mobs pulling 5 at a time and soloing champions, how the kitten are they not determined OP by the vast majority of players and the devs? Is scaling so horrendous that they’re less useful at 80 or does the profession maintain the pace of slaughter throughout the levels? Sad to see the void between my Ele’s performance and the way the Warrior purely excels at seemingly everything.

Comparing d/d ele to gs/lb warrior.

it’s because warriors don’t do anything useful outside damage. that’s literally all they’re good for. i remember how people whined and kittened about warriors being OP throughout all three BWEs and then up until a month or two after release and without any changes, they suddenly became mediocre/bad.

i can solo champions and groups of monsters on my D/D elementalist. i will agree that warrior is much, much simpler and easier to use/understand then elementalist… and getting the same sort of damage from a warrior is easier, safer and simpler then any spec an elementalist has.

sucks, but happens.

Sequekhan.2091:

I don’t know much about the end game phase of play, but here is where my current Elementalist stands.

I was level 60 yesterday trying to do my story instance, which was scaling me down to level 50. I died exactly 18 times, all my armor was destroyed, and I have zero money.

Out in the open world, I’m afraid of skill points because I might have to fight something, and I tend to only join in on world event bosses if I’m confident I’ll never pull agro.

What build works? None.
Why can’t you kite? CC skills lame and I can’t run and I have no health and no defence.
Why not just kill them? I just used every skill on all my element sets and its still alive.

IDK how a publisher can release such dross. How can EVERY other class be better in EVERY way?

Sorcs one-shot world bosses in Aion, Elementalists one-shot rabbits in GW2. It’s the worst bungle I’ve seen in a game since Stalin vs Martians.

i don’t want to say this, but: L2P.

i was wandering around straits today on my D/D ele. i don’t have great gear, either, all master work level 80 greens (carrion/cleric combination) and my only exotic is my main-hand dagger.

i was doing completely fine. i was taking on 4-5 monsters without falling below half health and still had my heal and all three utilities available… well, not arcane wave, but, i still had mist form and earth armor.

OT: the blast finisher on EA was obviously some kind of bug. iirc, the tooptip for the trait didn’t say anything about it. also, the earth finisher isn’t churning earth. it has the graphic for it, but, its more in line with ring of earth (D-MH “2”)

since the monk/water runes got nerfed from 15% -> 10% in PVP, how is stacking boon duration now? it’s only a 10% nerf, but, if i’ve learned anything from PVP games, the smallest nerfs can have a much larger effect then on paper.

i’m just going to stay off the forums for a month until people can actually discuss and act rationally.

are you serious?

warriors are pretty much completely average. i’d be surprised to see them nerfed.

you do realize that outside of the fractal dungeon, using ascended gear won’t be optimal, correct? infusions (as far as we know) only effect agony.

exotics are still going to be king everywhere else, but the lower-level fractal where the resistance to agony is needed.

why?

runes and sigils. people don’t realize how much benefit runes and sigils give. if you people want to run around with a couple dozen more stat points, go ahead. i’ll keep using my runes and sigils.

derLoko.2185:

@OP: I know what you mean, but that’s not how it works.

Ascended gear has better base stats AND additional stats via infusions AND protection from agony. It’s significantly better than exotic gear.

massively has a preview of the patch up and (from what they said), infusions only give protection against agony and no addition stats.

that means exotics are still relevant and aren’t outclassed by ascended gear.

that’s not to say they can’t simply add in infusions that give stats + agony resistance, but as it stands, the information we have now says that ascended gear is useful for the fractal, but nothing else.

“For 75 relics you can buy a Simple Infusion that grants you +5 resistance to Agony in a defensive Infusion slot, or you can go big and spend 225 for a Versatile Infusion that also offers +5 Agony resistance and can go in any sort of Infusion slot.”

if that’s all infusions are, that’s even more proof of that exotics are still relevant, especially if you can’t put runes/sigils in ascended gear.

what i did was choose a main weapon and then, around level 30, i unlocked the skills for each attunement/weapon then. it takes one kill per to unlock each weapon skill.

i was done in less then five minutes. it only takes absurdly long if you want to unlock every skill right at level 2.

TerryLong.9561:

Condition Damage ignores all armor. Might want to take that into consideration. As well as your play style. Do you like to just stand there or move around alot? If you move alot, I would go with some condition damage. Bleed em/Burn em, etc…

i’m always moving (and grooving and shaking and baking).

nice vidya.

i do have a question: i noticed from your WvW commentary videos to these new ones, you switched around your spells a bit.

you’re using cleansing flame, mist form, lightning flash and tornado rather then earth armor, mist form, lightning flash and elemental(iirc). is cleansing fire really that good and is tornado worth using just for the stability over using the elemental?

and, color me curious: what foods do you run? judging by the increase in health, omnomberry bread or cookie?

EDIT: i also love the whisper you get about the ranger saying his team thought you were hacking, l0l.

Wreck.2634:

Has anyone done any kind of hard data testing on this?

on power vs corruption?

i was just thinking that using the corruption sigil would be better because boosting condition damage from nothing (or almost nothing) to medium would be a better boost then making power go from high to higher.