Guild Wars 2

Hey friends I am back to the game after a long break. I have not been back since raids have been added but I cannot wait to try the raid or new fractals and whatnot. I am looking for a guild that would be patient enough to teach a fast learner the raid and show me the ropes? I am open to using Discord, or teamspeak or whatever. Thanks all and just PM me your server and introduce yourself.

Hey friends I am back to the game after a long break. I have not been back since raids have been added but I cannot wait to try the raid or new fractals and whatnot. I am looking for a guild that would be patient enough to teach a fast learner the raid and show me the ropes? I am open to using Discord, or teamspeak or whatever. I NEED FRIENDS HALP!!!! Haha thanks all and just PM me your server and introduce yourself.

Coloxeus.3480:

il giv u an idea. watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgRjkziDDM&list=UU-SjU98hzx0-TdRsxXuf6kg&index=12

LAWLS that mesmer was the worst mesmer I have ever seen!!!! Video is not valid sorry

Ok to the people whining about right click in pvp.

Left Click = Select target ONLY

Right Click = target selected and auto attack starts so you can continue calling target for focus and using your skills!

Its funny how all the non pvpers come in here and whine about it.

Evan please fix this bug today. Its really messing with me in tpvp!

Gergolot.4217:

Thank god! Thanks Evan.

I personally like having right click to target, it is the same in virtually every game, and makes it far easier to play at high speed. Hope it gets fixed asap.

There should be an option to turn it off, for the weirdos who don’t like it though

AGREED! I NEED my right click and BAM attack and concentrate and other skills and target them for focused teamwork.

Stealth.9324:

uberkingkong.8041:

I think right clicking someone shouldn’t even target them at all, it should be used as moving the camera only. Very annoying when I move camera and all of a sudden im targeting something completely different.

If I want to target something, I press TAB or left click, none of this right click bullkitten.

Fighting with Mesmer or Minions Necro are a nightmare with this Tab Click method but right click target is the worst. You should lock on the target, no matter which button u click, the target still has to be locked on, except press Tab for changing targets.

This doesnt make sense. If they are so hard to target why would left click be better than right click? When you left click they are selected and then you have to push attacks. When they are right clicked they are selected and your autoattacks start. I am not seeing the big kitten here.

uberkingkong.8041:

I think right clicking someone shouldn’t even target them at all, it should be used as moving the camera only. Very annoying when I move camera and all of a sudden im targeting something completely different.

If I want to target something, I press TAB or left click, none of this right click bullkitten.

Ok this has been in game since day one and I am not sure how your targeting others when your holding down the right click the whole time. Sounds to me like your releasing and hitting a target sometimes. just make sure you hold it down and be careful. I NEED right click target and attack asap. I think most good pvp’ers do.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/BUG-Right-Click-attack-and-target/first#post2109099

Thank you for quick reply Evan

Fix please. Right click on players and attacking not working please fix

Fix please. Works for everything but the actual player!

Lol I am the mesmer you dueled earlier!

Off hand sword here I come!

Thanks for the advice Ross and Thor. I guess I just wanted to know if the build I was using is not completely hopeless. I think thats why I am getting racked with ele’s because my clones and phantasms are dying so fast with AOE’s and well necro’s also.

Hey mesmers first of all I want to thank you for clicking on my link because this is very important to me and I do not own alot of threads.

I am an officer in my guild and we have a really great Tpvp team going. I just hit level 13 (Deer Champion Slayer) and I really feel like I am starting to understand my mesmer as far as going up against classes and different situations. I just wanted to state a couple of classes I am having trouble with in Tpvp.

First I will explain what I am running. I will post build and then explain as to why I use it. Please if somethng does not make sense in the build help me with constructive criticism. I did not copy paste a build (maybe I did and not know it) its just what i sort of came into from doing pvp and what I felt comfortable with as I played more pvp.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsaWlwzKqnUTqGZ9IiJF9GyhSB25dlewb52FC-ToAg0E1oqxVjpGZN2aGYsKZCC

Ok now…thank you for looking at my build. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Phantasmal Duelists!!!! They are my main source of damage. I try to get as many of them out going all the time. Secondly I use the staff because I feel capping a point with greatsword is just counter productive and when I need to defend myself I feel my staff is amazing! I used the traits to make my phantasms recharge quicker for obvious reasons. And about choosing all the weapon cooldown traits I feel I cannot move away from the, because I feel I need them. I am trying to get to where I can cap a point and kill at the same time. At the same time saying that….I feel like there is something I can do to do more damage….maybe another build perhaps? I have youtubed for hours and scoured different builds, but I keep going back to this one.

I run with a bunker hammer shout warrior whome I usually cap points with. A condition ele, two dps thieves. Who are all great players and great friends of mine over vent.

The classes I am having trouble with the most in bunker ele’s and sometimes a good ranger who seems to perma immobilize me and pick me off gradually. Besides that I am ok. Every once in a while I have trouble with a good condition heavy necro. Thieves are easy kill for me almost all the time along with warriors and engi’s and guardians (even bunker guards I find easy …just a longer time to kill).

I guess TLDR I am looking for more advice that applies to the deeper mechanics of a mesmer against said classes and also….is my build just kitten and I am beating a dead horse and got lucky with all my kills so far???

Thank you very much mesmer community!!

P.S. I wanna thank Pyroathiest, Osi the shatter master :-P, and all other mesmers who have posted in the build thread above…you have helped me tremendously!!!

I play quite a bit throughout the week.

I was more attracted to guild wars 2 because I was tired of standing still spamming same auto attacks in WoW. Also I was tired of going and getting X of these for X person. And I was tired of all night raids.

I interact over vent 100 percent of time when on gw2. It is a mixture of friends in real life and others across nation.

In game me and my guild wvw, dungeons, tpvp, and be goofy in LA haha.

PearlGore.7419:

It would be nice if we did not have liars in here, would help the discussion on gear.

I agree. I would love to see FULL zerker people in 40 plus fotm not get downed all the time. They told you to practice earlier right??? Haha these newbwaffles would get downed in a heartbeat.

I am doing 40 plus fractals atm and those are challenging to me. I have played and beaten Demon and Dark souls but I can also say that this would be counter productive to players and the devs. There becomes a point in a game if it is too difficult it becomes tedious. ALTHOUGH there is a perfect line where a game can be challenging yet fun (ala Dark Souls) also but this is hard to create for most devs I think. Looking from Anets shoes they would lose player population quickly and you(OP) would be hard pressed to find other players that could meet the challenge of this harder difficulty.

I named my female mesmer joker Deceptor

I use Axe/Shield for Pve and Rifle. Knights gear with a bit a vit in jewelry with rest zerkers. Cannot go wrong!

Knights gear with my mixed up ascended jewelry and fractal backpiece (precision here crit dmg there toughness here) With my AC weapons are working wonders for me in high level fractals. My toughness is 3100 with 45 percent crit chance and 62-70 crit dmg depending on weapon usage. I LOVE it.

Oh yea and Eagle runes

swinsk.6410:

HB hits it. I’ve killed it solo with GS and HB, the bubble that is, not the boss.

I use bow+GS. I usually aoe with the bow and then drop the area might, swap to GS and HB down the bubble and then finish off the adds. I just auto-attack with bow and run around.

Personal level 21, highest completed 28… 0 AR

Feel bad for your party I bet they rezzed you alot.

Vanthian.9267:

As someone who has put in 1000+ hours into a Warrior and around 300+ into Guardian: Don’t do yourself the disservice of choosing a Warrior over Guardian.

Guardians are better support/sustain for groups/self and are a better class overall in comparison to Warriors. Warriors only have high damage that will get them no where in high level FotM or in sPvP/tPvP. In fact, Warriors have no place outside of Hot join sPvP for a reason. The Warrior class is crippled by most conditions (weakness/cripple/chilled/blind are the major ones).

Where as the Guardian profession is a NEEDED part of any tPvP set up. It is rare for a high level tPvP team to roll without a Guardian. In PvE 30+ FotM it is also rare for a group to roll without a Guardian.

Now with that said, I do enjoy my Warrior greatly even though they are sub-par as a profession in comparison to the others. If you are looking for a effective profession that is needed and has great ability to do whatever you want in the game… go with the Guardian. Warrior is fun to see big numbers, but outside of that they offer very little.

Please note: The Guardian is at a disadvantage when in a ranged fight. That is the only weakness they suffer as a profession. Specter is okay, but that will not compete with a Ranger shortbow/longbow.

Hope that helps.

Sorry but I disagree. So I will start how you started your thread. Warriors also have support if they want. Ever heard of shouts and banners? Also what if the guardian your with is running dps build and cares nothing for support? Whilst guardian is “supporting” should not someone …ahem warriors….do the damage.

How are warriors crippled by conditions!!! LOL I eat them for dinner with mending and shake it off every 5-10 seconds between them. As far as “seeing big numbers” is it not nice seeing the enemies hp bar fall quicker? Not only can warriors do damage but we can survive it. Equip Knights gear with some crit dmg here and there and MAYBE a lil vit….we are machines. Go to Guardian Thread guardian troll.

So you guys are all those people I keep having to rezz in PUGS. Get real people. Wear exotics and quit screwing around. Its not fair to others who are staying alive to have to waste time and doing dps and risk ourselves and armor repair prices to ressurect players who cannot equip exotics.

Kuldebar.1897:

salameri.3768:

So people complain about having to put time into a game that is fun and beautiful to explore? What game isn’t a time sink?

Beautiful, maybe; fun is debatable, hence this forum topic.

salameri.3768:

If you want immediate rewards for casual play then MMOS are not for you sorry. I earned my kitten asceneded gear did you?

Maybe not everyone is a loot-centric grasper of carrots, may be some people want to play a game for fun and not for endless progression based on loot.

How about make content fun, and reward players by having them gain abilities or skills in a horizontal type or broadening method?

Why resort to gimmicks like gear-gated content, or make on dungeon (or any dungeon for that matter) completely central to a players measure of success.

The player should be able to freely set their own goals and achieve them without ANet telling them to specifically play the game a certain way in order to be successful.

Ok so play it casually for fun. Ascended gear stats do not make you SO MUCH better than a toon with exotic gear. Exotic gear is still REALLY good and easy for “non loot centric” players. You can set our own goals now. The new daily system you can pick and choose what you want to do and to be quite honest my dailies are done just by me playing how I would play regularly. My daily chest would pop up and I would be like “oh yea I forgot I had dailies”. The dailies are so easy and effortless. Did you see the monthly this month? omg thats an easy batch of laurels right there. As far as dungeons go. I dont know what to say back to your comment about them but …this is a fantasy game rpg…Its gonna have dungeons.

Kuldebar.1897:

I used to log in to GW2 and feel I could pretty much do anything I wanted based on my mood or whim, regardless of which character I logged on.

I could roam and explore, craft, WvW look into new skins for my armor/weapons. Just wandering around bumping into events and hidden “quests” was very rewarding. I got karma, coin and some XP and another notch toward some achievement.

Now, I have a daily system that has a nice reward but I can’t stand half of the taskers, and let’s not even talk about the monthlies. I don;t like GW2’s dungeons, none of them, ANet does awful, un-fun tedious dungeons.

My opinion was fine, never bothered anyone, until ANet decided to make dungeons mandatory for progression.

The game is getting more and more hoop-driven.

ANet is social engineering players to the point where: who the bloody hell is playing this game, me or ANet?

I also realize that I will never, ever have Ascended gear on my characters. I had been content to know I could acquire exotics and have the BIS items for the game, but that’s toast now.

I acquire karma, but what good is it after you by exotic armor? Where are the exotic weapons to purchase with karma? Or skins? Or things other than basil?

The proliferation of in-game currencies is a tell-tale indicator for how the game is creeping into that very familiar place all MMO’s tend to go.

And, the game’s not even a year old yet.

The dungeons are so different and some more challenging than others. Sorry but in about every mmo I can think of you must do dungeons to progress in gear. Its a FANTASY game/mmo. Sounds like you have burned out just take a break my friend and come back to it.

So people complain about having to put time into a game that is fun and beautiful to explore? What game isn’t a time sink?

I like the idea of having to do my dailies and monthlies and fractals to get my sweet ascended gear because. TOO BAD for casual players who wanna just hop in and easily get their ascended gear! If you play casual then your gonna have casual gear. If you want immediate rewards for casual play then MMOS are not for you sorry. I earned my kitten asceneded gear did you?

To OP also just let your friends play a bit at your computer to see if they like it. If that is not an option then why do you bring up dailies and “grinding” to them first? Tell them that there are awesome races and professions to play with all different play styles and its hands down one of the most beautiful mmos to date and that the combat is amazing and makes WoW combat look like a sorry game of bingo.

Watch good War pvpers over youtube…….alot..

Ok that’s easy to keep rumblus from aggro on Warmaster but how does he stay alive when he is always running right up on rumblus’s grill? Also, there are players that like depending on npc for shelter? And Guardians being forced to use certain abilities and weapons for a certain path and boss. Admit it….they screwed up Rumblus. sorry.

Edit: As stated by community manager up there ^^^^^^ you cannot CC him before he does his seismic attack. Anet messed it up. Hopefully a fix is inc.

Exactly Shiren. I could understand this if warmaster could live. Even then do we want to dpend on NPC?

Um am I the only one raging about rumblus?

Dude warmaster grast dies in one hit from rumblus. Have you even done it yet? What can you do for the NPC when he is perma knockdown? Why should we have to depend on npc?

Edit: Just tried sticking with grast……guess what …he just got destroyed by Rumblus in a millisecond. But Of course “Just stand under gigantic shield”

1st bug- Path 2 of AC on Ghost Eater. Whenever he is in ghost form he just stands there and doesnt aggro to anyone so we can de buff him when we work HARD powering up the pillars!

2nd bug- Gravelings are causing frame rate drops through out AC. Fix please.

3rd- Rumblus on Third path is just a joke now. Is AC supposed to be a 35-40 lvl dungeon? Rumblus hits too hard to fast with the seismic activity and if your wanting us to work with NPC warmaster please buff him to not die after two hits from Rumblus.

Lots of bugs in this patch

Anyone else tried to kill Rumblus now? Anet screwed the pooch on that one. Should not be that hard to take down Rumblus. The seismic rocks are to OP. I am on Coordinated vent guild with guardians and wars and etc…..Rumblus is broken ANET FIX HIM

I would like to join this group. I am 80 warrior with two ascended rings and full exotic knights gear. I need to run arah and am familiar with the paths. Very experienced warrior. I speak English and Spanish.

Mesket nice look! Very different from what I have seen!

Hey guys I am sure there have been tons of threads on this but I am bored today and figured it would be fun to see different Warriors. Also if you want tell us what Dyes and armor skins if you want.

I am using Midnight ice and Winter Sky Dye with a mixture of CoF shoulder piece, Aurora Chest and Arah Leggings. My helm (not shown) is just Heavy Aurora helm.

Joker Deceptor lol

Hello fellow face smashers!!! Wanted to start a thread on something that’s been on my mind whilst doing high level 20+ fractals and dungeons. I have a p/v/t warrior with exotics and ascended rings with some power Pres crit dmg gear running healing shouts. I have found from testing by doing the typical zerker GS I seem to get more aggro then if I was the top toughness (even with other heavies running toughness) than with highest toughness. As a matter of fact I cannot pull aggro if I tried whilst running the “tank” warrior. I realize there are many angles to what could cause this but I wanted to share and see what you guys have been dealing with. Is is absolute fact that toughness gets aggro? Because I am seeing differently. Thanks warrior community as I have found so much help since my beginnings as a warrior.

Sorry for grammar I am on my phone

yea you can move around with shield block and I think it even blocks from behind and everywhere.

Hey fellow warriors was just kind of thinking about traits and skills and obviously the shield. I wanted to see how much warriors were using this off hand and what they trait wise to support it. I myself have been level 80 warrior for about 4 months now and can say I am used to most dungeons. I am a shout support tank warrior and in pvp I run between glass cannon and bunker depending on what my team needs.

For just about everything (wvw pvp pve etc…) I use my shield to hold off attacks while buying time for shouts to pop back up and mending and well….to mitigate dmg but I was taking the clock tower the other day in pvp with the always annoying ranger that places himself on the roof opening and launches arrows and I found myself thinking man I was I had the trait for reflecting arrows. Has anyone actually put this trait to good use and if you have what kind of reflect dmg it did. I am guessing it does the dmg of his dps?

Anyway using the shield with activate endure pain trait and the 90+ toughness and 20 % cooldwn is a win for me! What do you guys think? I also maybe think they should put a special number 3 skill for certain weapons? But I guess that would take away from the skills that are already there.

TLDR Thoughts on the shield and if/how you use it!

Mending FTW! My shout warrior eats conditions for breakfast!

Hey guys is there a quick link on needing and taking step to get this awesome sword?

Chi Malady.2015:

Too bad the tPvP experience is awful. If you’re lucky enough to find a team that wants a warrior over a thief, you will be pigeon-holed into a GS spec.

PUGing with rifle is loads of fun, but it doesn’t have much use in tournaments unfortunately.

If a TPvp group wants a thief over a bunker shout heal warrior they are nuts….thiefs will kill and die rinse and repeat….if you want a spot held down for good then you need warrior….thieves are over rated

Yaki.9563:

Monki.5012:

Everytime its the same: After a dungeon everyone says “Nice healing back there Guardian” but noone seems to notice the 15 stacks of might I keep up more or less constantly on near players using Bow Blast and Hammer skills and shout.
Noone seems to noctice the 10 stacks of vulv you pop out of the blue onto every mob around

Maybe they don’t notice because you’re not actually doing all that.

Warrior is good because they do the most damage of any class and “support” skills are, in the end, just there to help weak groups. Guardian is good not for their group healing but for their ability to grant the group stacks of might while doing decent damage and having very good survivability with their stupid overpowered self-healing trait.

The problem with this game is that “support” isn’t really all that good because once you know the encounters well you basically just dodge the bad stuff and DPS has a much higher return in investment. You can see this in the current meta-game shifting towards Warriors + full glass cannon GS builds.

Yaki good point I never really thought about this as a “tank/shout heal/ hammer” warrior….BUT I am just got my first whole exotic set of AC armor and I am still gettin used to other dungeons so maybe for the newer player a tnaky war is better to stay alive to see what bosses and certain phases do? But I will probably ease my way to DPS ing again due to your comment because it does make so much sense!

Never noticed…..

I had the same problem as you my friend. Let me tell you that I leveled my warrior to eighty and my guild loves me in their group because of my tank heal shout build. Another thing is you see guardians everywhere as the warrior is a bit more rare. In high level dungeons I keep my party alive and condition free. I am always in front lines not dying and smacking foes with my hammer or axe/shield and its a blast. Try and find info or vids on bunker shout heal warriors. The downside is you cannot get shouts heal till around level 40 or more I think so PVE wise you will concentrate on dmg precision and power. Find a guild who will run you through dungeons so you start getting used to them.

Thanks guys I am really glad we could discuss this pathway of the warrior together and put some ideas together. I will def try some ideas you guys put on here and thanks for considering mine!

And to Chimerael I am Dragonbrand Server cmon guys step it up in WvW!!! LOL kidding

hey fellow wars! Like most warriors here on their way to 80 I toyed with about every build out there to try and choose my favorite. I see lots of warriors doing the signet build with axes and great swords and other various dmg builds. Which I myself also love seeing the big numbers a lot also but I have grown very fond of this build I run with my guild in dungeons and even WvW and PvP (Various skills and traits varying a bit but not much).

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mVRzcc0zMmaRnmmaRnma0xx0cMsaoRb

Now Obviously this build is low on dmg but man in dungeons I live longer and also heal other while “tanking” some tough encounters. Not to mention my guild mates and friends love having me in the party. I was just wondering if there is any other warriors are doing not the EXACT same build but something similar.

And another question I thought as I was typing this thread…. To you veteran warriors out there is there any suggestions on finding a medium for dmg and mitigation on this build? For instance keep the idea of this build but raise the dmg a bit?

Also I am running with full AC exotic gear with runes of the soldier.

Thanks again guys! Lets talk about this!

Thanks alot and thanks for the link. I guess I gotta save gold to buy the armor that I wanna transmute if I dont like any of the dungeon sets? Also the Twilight Arbor Set isnt bad seeing as I am Sylvari!