Guild Wars 2

I’ve used this build since Level 1 in both PvE and WvW, and have loved it: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcMM9cz0MoGgmMoGgm0GGx0oaMoMoa

The main benefit to running a build like this is that you really have no weaknesses. I run it with 6x Superior Runes of Infiltration (for the extra aggro reset when I get low), 20k hp, 2.3k armor, 40% crit chance, 52% crit damage, and 3.1k+ attack.

Also, after a little practice, you can figure out which wisp locations are hard for you, and which are easy. You can pick up a wisp, then immediately drop it to reset the locations until you get something favorable. This will cut down on the amount of time you waste.

Barionic.5904:

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I wasn’t the one dying. All it takes is one person to slip, which causes another to try to rez, and it can snowball out of control.

That’s honestly how it is at higher Fractal difficulties for a lot of bosses. For example, the final Grawl boss is very punishing if anyone in your group goes down. If anyone goes to res, not only is he likely to lay down AoE on the downed person, but the person ressing will take constant fire damage from not being able to move. On top of that, it’s very hard to dodge his Agony attack while ressing because you can’t dodge while channeling the res (have to spam keys until the game decides that it wants to let you stop channeling).

What’s the solution here? Make sure no one in your group goes down. GW2 puts a lot more emphasis on personal accountability than a lot of other MMOs. If someone in your group constantly goes down, then you’ll probably need to replace him. If your entire group is failing, then you probably need to get a new group.

Most dungeons are actually pretty mind numbingly easy (even on explorable mode). The fact that the higher difficulty Fractals can be fairly challenging (at least for someone like me who isn’t amazing) is pretty awesome.

In ArenaNet’s defense, you do get Fractal Relics that you can use to craft an Ascended back.

I think that it’s a good idea to force players to experience the Agony mechanic without having any resistance at least for a few levels. This way, they can truly appreciate how amazing Infusions are. That said, RNG based progression is just silly. Yes, I realize that you don’t need rings till later on, but it’s conceivable for someone to NEVER get a ring.

- As of the latest patch (Nov. 15th), Elixir X is no longer affected by Fast Acting Elixirs. Prior the patch, Elixir X had a 96 second CD. Now, it’s 120 seconds regardless of whether you have the trait.

- Elixir S is still not affected by Fast Acting Elixirs, even though the patch notes state that it now is. The tooltip states that it should be a 48 second CD. However, it still takes 60 seconds to recharge (nothing has changed).

It’s amazing how little they know about their own game. Nothing has changed. Tooltip still says 48 second CD, actually CD is still 60 seconds.

Sarahphim.1308:

Not sure if this is a bug — but on the harpoon the net wall seems to have too far a distance to actually work as a net shield. It always goes through the target and explodes behind. Not useful.

You have to manually detonate the net wall; it doesn’t actually have any kind of collision detection. Basically, you fire the net, and when it gets close to your target(s), you press your keybind for the net again to deploy it. The range on it is pretty large (the enemies don’t even have to touch it to get netted) and enemies can get immobilized more than once if they try stay near it too long or try to swim past it again the other way.

Torvarren.6295:

Don’t forget about PVE items you can use in WvW for some fun affects.

You can no longer use most PvE items in WvW.

One thing that I do love using is 6x Superior Rune of Infiltration. While using all 6 pieces, you gain a few seconds of stealth when you are hit below 10% health (90 second CD). It has saved my life many times.

I did a search but didn’t find anyone post anything about this:

- When using Jump Shot, you sometimes jump far away to a random spot even if you stacked the end point with your start point. When this happens, your character still behaves as if you didn’t go to the random point (if you blunderbuss, you’ll hit an npc for 4 stacks of bleed even if you look like you are far away on your screen, for example). After about 2-3 seconds, your character will sometimes teleport back to where you were supposed to go. However, if the initial buggy jump took you to a random spot off a cliff, you will take fall damage, and you will never teleport back up. This only seems to happen if you try to target the Jump Shot on top of an enemy who is right on top of you already.

If you get the first invis well in the jump puzzle, you can pretty much walk past all of the traps. Also, any kind of stability let’s you walk past log traps.

You can stealth through pretty much the entire puzzle without having to worry about campers! Shameless self promotion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo2DAWy2W_4

Frustrated that there are people camping the Eternal Battlegrounds jumping puzzle 24/7? Really want that awesome loot, but can’t get enough people together to kill the griefers? Well, there is a solution to your problem! All you need is this: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mad_Memories:_Complete_Edition

Here is a video that I made showing you how it’s done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo2DAWy2W_4

Personally, I use this:
http://www.guildhead.com/item/30107/enforcers-shotgunhttp://www.guildhead.com/item/30107/enforcers-shotgun

I’m fairly certain that you can’t slot gems into gear anymore. If you looking for a cheap(ish) alternative to eagle and divinity, check out infiltration. You swap they crit damage for extra damage to hurt enemies, and get auto invis at 10% health. In pve, that’s an instant agro drop.

If you want to play an engineer build that can deal with both conditions and burst, while being able to do damage, rifle with full elixirs is the way to go. Elixirs B, S, and C, with cleaning formula, protection when disabled, and invis when rooted. The build works a lot better in WvW, since you can tweak your pve gear alot more.

Were you higher level than the other in your group? A huge amount of NPC aggro depends on what level you are relative on everyone around you, even if everyone is downleveled.

The quote system is broken again (imagine that), so here goes:

“We do have a combat timer that prevents players from logging out or using a rally point. I’ll check into making sure this timer is getting applied to players in a down state as well.”

There are NO timers whatsoever that prevent players from logging out while in combat. None. Zero. Zilch. Log out to the character select screen is instant. Your character logs back in with full health. Why is it that an ArenaNet representative (and by extension ArenaNet) has absolutely no idea how this game works? Have you guys never played the game? Was there no testing done at all before you replied? Am I the only one that thinks this is a huge problem?

Free server transfers pretty much makes any kind of match making data that Anet has completely worthless. Hopefully this sort of silliness will get sorted out once the 2 week matches start (and transfers are restricted).

P.S. These guys will probably leave SoS just like they left their other servers. Maybe Kaineng has some hope?

What does this response even mean? If you guys forget to code in walls in certain places, and we can simply walk through the world, does this mean anything we do as a result of this is not considered an exploit?

Edit: Just to be more specific, you can enter keeps in WvW without ever having to break down walls/doors simply by walking through terrain that Anet didn’t code properly. According to the post by CC Eva, this wouldn’t be considered an exploit (since walking isn’t hacking, is it?).

sPvP armor isn’t the same as PvE armor. In sPvP, Berserker gear allocates some of your stats for vitality (at the expense of crit damage). In PvE, Berserker gear only has Power/Precision/Prowess. If you use all Berserker gear in PvE, you essentially add no vitality to your stats.

Personally, I mix in a few pieces of Power/Vitality/Toughness (Soldier) and Power/Vitality/Prowess (Valkyrie) in order to boost my HP up to an acceptable level. What survivability stats you stack comes down to personal preference. Personally, I find having 20k health and 2.3k armor seems to hit the sweet spot for survivability, while still maintaining 40% crit and 52% crit damage.

All those big guilds have already decided to move. Good riddance to bad rubbish. I can’t really say that I’m surpriaed though. There will always be summer soldiers and sunshine patriots. As for me, give me Dragonbrand, or give me death!

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

@Jois, We don’t control hackers. I wish we did, I’d put them all in the jumping puzzle just to give Dragonbrand’s 20-man camper squad a taste of it’s own medicine.

But you guys do like to hold onto stolen orbs with both hands and enjoy the benefits.

P.S. You guys did have a teleport hacker port a siege golem above the beast pit a couple of days ago. It was pretty funny how he couldn’t do any damage to use even while teleporting.

I just want to point out how utterly bad CD players are even with 3 orbs. The trick is the catch them without the zerg

The funny thing is this bug has been around since the Beta Weekends. We’ve reported it repeatedly. I love how they pretend that this is something new and somehow surprises them. What can you expect from a developer that refuses to properly test content, though.

The problem is you don’t even need third party programs to get inside some keeps. There are so many ability bugs/terrain glitches that you just physically run into keeps.

And yes, this is what happens when a company tries to build hype by having Beta Weekends instead of a real Beta. When you refuse to properly test your game, why would you be surprised that it gets broken?

Don’t worry, we stole the orb back for DB so everyone has an orb now. And yes, we had to guard our pedestal while a CD teleport hacker kept trying to fly in and steal the orb. He eventually just logged off after about 20 minutes of dying repeatedly.

I’m not a big fan of Coron, but I’d rather have him than worthless commanders like Soutalgon. At least Coron actually tries to lead instead of spending all his time stroking his ego while doing absolutely nothing like Soutalgon.

Edit: I do agree that the whole “Tsym blahblahblah!” in chat is pretty annoying. It’s like the [DUEL] kids barking out orders and taking credit for assaults while they failed in the jump puzzle. If you want to lead, fine. No one wants to hear you scream about your insignificant guild.

It’s your fault for making WvW so much fun! Shame on you!

In all seriousness, though, I hope you guys can come up with a good solution to the queue issues without compromising the essence of WvW. I know it will be tough, but I have faith in you!

The only solution would be to dynamically create new borderlands based on the number of people waiting in queue. However, then you would have people complaining about being outnumbered.

Puzzle camping is honestly done more by Maguuma/Tarnished Coast than Dragon Brand. Just yesterday, I ran into 8-12 people from the guild KJAR on TC trying to camp the area past the well. Good thing they were all terrible and died in clumps of 1v3.

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All Elixirs, all the time!

When entering the jumping puzzle in Eternal Battlegrounds, I get an infinite loadscreen about half the time. This forces me to close the client, and then requeue for EB.