Guild Wars 2

I agree that IDing gear is the better way to go.

But even then, you’re never required to ID gear. Some folks will prefer salvaging some will prefer IDing.

No need to ID every day, just save up stacks beforehand to save the hassle of IDing everything. I don’t understsnd why it’s an inconvenience if you can just do it once a week after farming.

Excellent Name.9574:

RedDeadFred.1256:

I’m happy with it. Saves a ton of space and when I salvage them I don’t have to worry about a bunch of useless sigils clogging up my inventory. You guys are acting like this is anti-consumer, but I’d say it’s the exact opposite. You should never feel tempted again to buy extra bag slots and you can play longer without having to go to a vendor.

IMO, the pros vastly out-weigh the cons.

If this is a solution to overfilling the inventory it is a “Great” one. There are at least several in my mind as I am writing this that would have been far better and would not ask for 1.68 silver for each salvage, basically defeating the salvaging purpose.

It costs 1.68 silver to ID the gear not salvage it.

This is why this system is good—if you don’t care about rare/exotic drops you can just salvage from the get go. If you’re farming your inventory will never get clogged up with sigils and runes, and then you can ID the gear for a chance of getting higher tier gear.

Think of it this way, you have to option to turn the unid gear into mats, or you can play the feelin’ lucky card for a chance at Rare or Exotics. Two options.

You can also save up the gear until you have multiple stacks, from which you can then ID them.

Thanks both of your guys’s suggestions, will take for granted!

The problem with Self-Regulating Defense is it interferes with AED. I WANT to die with the heal active.

I took Elixir S mainly for the on-demand, non-passive invuln, as well as the stealth.

I thought that Rune of the Speed helped max out mobility even with a swiftness proc, though perhaps Leadership is better?

As for Scrapper, Hammer is so much better than Rifle, the Superspeed/Swiftness regen is amazing considering the build has so many in the first place, and Adaptive Armor helps greatly with sustain in general.

I tried condi but maybe I just play bad with it, IDK… Didn’t have much success. I’ll definitely try your build out though.

With the new gadget change I thought the Rocket Boots would be a game changer so I came up with this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASnUIC9dh1XBeeB0ehlJjac9qgzS8ZOgAg+vr79G-TJBTABAs/A3PAgkLDQ9FAAA

Any ideas on how to make it better? So far it’s been really fun using it (Rocket Boots!!!)

New meta, which is a lot.

You have to wait for some to pop up. There are 3 boards.

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

The idea behind the new icons was that we weren’t pleased with the readability of the old ones. As others have noted, you had to already know what the rank art looked like to know whether someone had achieved a higher or lower rank.

That being said, considering the feedback, we’ll revert them.

Thank you.

I too found the icons rather bland and I’ll be honest—it was harder to distinguish the new icons to their ratings compared to the old ones.

I thought the blue one was for platinum, and the bronze one was for gold players. Then I noticed the “pips” on the sides of the icons which showed the status of the ratings. Problem is I still don’t think newer players would be able to differentiate them.

I think newer players always had a hunch that legendary rating was really good prior to the change, because people have asked what my rating was when I wore the legendary badge.

Additionally I’ve even had people in PvE blatantly say things like “what’s a leg doing here” or “grats on the leg” etc, and those people themselves didn’t appear to have any badges or anything. I mean it’s easier to know what the ratings look like by going into the PvP panel and seeing all the icons right there.

As a player who also enjoys being led to the most efficient way possible, everything came to me on its own. Of course, I did look up guides on the wiki out of sheer curiosity, usually for the most trivial things.

90% of the things I do in GW2 come from self experience and word of mouth. Guildies sometimes share important info when I ask a question. In your case I strongly recommend joining a guild and asking some questions to know what to do.

You’ll quickly realize what the “best” method is of doing so and so.

Best farming = Silverwastes all around.
Best skilled farming = Level 40 Fractals
What to do with mats = sell the mats that can be sold on the TP that cost a lot, but also sell materials that have hit the limit (250, etc.).
Hearts = all of them in any order, why would you think that matters?

In some cases you learn on your own what’s the most efficient way of doing something. For PvP/WvW my best reward track for gold is Lake Doric since it nets the most Unbound Magic and has a chance of getting ascended mats, Maguuma Lilies, Freshwater Pearls, and T6 materials (Magic-Warped Packets/Bundles).

Just learn as you go, look up things you are iffy on, but most of all try not to stress out and enjoy the detail put into GW2.

Fun, stressful, interesting.

The meta this season for Thief was condi hands down. Nearly every game this season had one of those which was frustrating but really interesting that Thieves had two viable options this season. Comes to show how just one little trait and skill adjustment can completely alter the meta!

For the first time ever I reached legendary rating using a bunker Mesmer. Bunker mes is completely underrated since people think “that” patch killed Chronobunker, well the truth is a few trait/skill/stat changes did the trick for me in bringing chronobunker back. It’s not a true bunker, more like a bruiser ala Druid / Scrapper.

Oh and after the elite change for Ventari revenant, a lot more of those too. On that note condi Revenant has made a fair comeback. All in all this season was interesting—a couple shakeups in the meta but similar to the last two.

Wildfire always goes first, then DT, then Phoenix. If any of those are on CD then skip them absolutely do not wait for them to go off CD. Reason being is that when you swap to Air attunement you get permanent precision bonus but more importantly a temporary gain in Ferocity from FA.

I enjoy Sc/W much more because of the range which makes it a lot faster to breeze through mobs since you don’t have to time your attacks as much. Plus Phoenix has incredible cleave especially if you place it well. Another tip, you CAN cast Phoenix while swapping to Air, but you probably need to hit the key really quickly like 2-3 times just to make sure Phoenix goes off.

That’s why you don’t solo queue. If you have a duo who understands what he/she’s doing then the odds of you winning are much greater.

Let’s say the three pugs on your team feed mid. You and your partner can grab sides and win 1v1s if both of you are good, allowing for the enemy team to rotate out of mid and make it easier for your team to win teamfights.

My comment wasn’t intended to be in a dismissing tone, rather a curious one. I’ve never seen a bot but I want to.

Egrimm Van Horstmann.7921:

I don’t know how well the Weaver will work, but given the current complication of elements increasing the difficulty by 2 in getting what you need when you want it is going to really make this class very tenuous for multi-toon players. Tracking 32 combinations for each weapon set? Good luck remembering that when you play another profession.

Ele has always been “that” class with a ton of skills.

I don’t see this as an issue at all. If you’re going DPS you’ll probably take FA which will make the 4 and 5 skills basically on-demand.

If you’re a healer or a tanky spec then the 3 second wait (or 2 3/4 sec wait) won’t hurt.

I still need to see this. Surprised there arent any vids on it.

I can almost feel the annoyance of enemies gliding away. Gliding will break WvW unless you aren’t able to use it in combat. Otherwise, love love this addition.

Edit: after seeing the territories map I don’t think gliding will be that bad tbh. Defenders still have a huge advantage.

NotASmurf.1725:

Abelisk.4527:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Nothing.4953:

We’re getting 9 new specializations. How is that not new content for PvP? It’ll take a long time for everyone to figure out what’s what again and enjoy new metas.

It will take a week at most to work out the broken specs. Then pvp will suck for the next 3 months until anet finally nerf those things. Then pvp will be semi-bad due to the power creep.

We still haven’t figured out all the builds we could make with the HoT elite specs.

LOL of course we did. But nobody played or talked about the bad attempts, so 2 years later the forum finds the garbage ones because people are 2 years behind. That’s not what “new” is. GW2 build crafting is very limited, there is nothing to discover.

Not true at all. My Mesmer build that I’ve been running in PvP has led me to Rank 6 and I doubt any of you have heard about it.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Nothing.4953:

We’re getting 9 new specializations. How is that not new content for PvP? It’ll take a long time for everyone to figure out what’s what again and enjoy new metas.

It will take a week at most to work out the broken specs. Then pvp will suck for the next 3 months until anet finally nerf those things. Then pvp will be semi-bad due to the power creep.

We still haven’t figured out all the builds we could make with the HoT elite specs.

Serophous.9085:

Abelisk.4527:

I like the idea of mounts because they make it easier to navigate the in-between areas of waypoints. Hugely beneficial in some of the Orr maps.

Except they doubled the distance, essentially making it moot

You mean in the new maps? Not quite following.

I like the idea of mounts because they make it easier to navigate the in-between areas of waypoints. Hugely beneficial in some of the Orr maps.

Nyx.6532:

mounts are just another kind of mastery movement system mate.
it is not like “mounts” you know from other games ^^

i am ok with it when it is done like this. although i feel like cutting off areas untill you grinded the right mount might be going a bit far
and if they are only usable in these area’s it is a wasted as learning to fully utilize them is pointless after that one map.

It’s confirmed they are usable in core Tyria.

Loved everything I saw so far. No huge promises were made which shows that ANet learned from HoT.

I like the way the Mirage looks. Just as I imagined it.

Swords?? Skill combinations?? Hype!

Every PvP game’s Ranked mode is stressful for a lot of players—League of Legends, Smite, etc. The point of Ranked is to climb as high as you can, yet the majority of players sits in the average area which provides the said stress. Players always want to be the “best”, hitting top this and top that, yet when they’re in the average zone they realize they’re a loong way back from where they want to be. Plus, people get really salty in chat.

So when these players lose a game, they get really stressed out because they get held back from hitting the top rankings.

It’s not just GW2, every game has something like this…

Okay so now on-topic, a lot of plat players are pretty average especially after the ranking threshold adjustment. Just practice, get better specs, find a good duo, and carry your way into victory. I heard somewhere that players can queue with other players within 700 rating from their rating so don’t be surprised if you’re put in a high-end or low-end game. The population isn’t high.

On that note, you said you wanted to learn how to play better. Unranked is better for that IMO. Grab a group of players/people you know and queue into unranked for practice. I recommend playing Ranked after you’ve mastered the builds you run.

Fenom.9457:

It was specifically designed ONLY for the absolute top JP players, and yet now you require it of anyone.

Legendary items should have value, and this JP just increases that value.

https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/item/76063-Vial-of-Liquid-Aurillium

Good: The Shining Blade & Sharur, Aurora, new Fractal, QoL changes and bugfixes, skins, Arm of Abaddon JP, instance subtleties/details

Meh: New zone (I just don’t like the Orr theme, the updrafts in the SW area of the map are annoying and make my head hurt especially since you can’t control the dash skill, and the ways to get up to the upper areas of the map are tedious, AND the NW area of the map is too tough), story (I have a sensitive but lowish standard for stories, but the one in this episode hardly made me feel hyped. In LS2 I felt a sense of urgency and awe at the end but in here I felt confusion with some hype. I felt like LS3 in general was grasping at random plot threads and cutting them off for no reason while making new ones out of the blue… IDK it felt weird).

Bad: none, despite some meh impressions I didn’t see anything that was abysmal.

There’s a sword!! I was waiting for this. Thanks anet

I played Living Story 2 AFTER HoT, and lemme tell you, the finale of LS2 blew me away. I was like “Ooooh this is exciting” but then I remembered I already played through most of HoT. Even then, the way the finale built up for that ending was phenomenal. The cinematics were really emotional (the Pact in VB, the xpac teaser trailer) and even after playing through HoT I still had that feeling of great anticipation. I really hope all the elements – art, music, gameplay, story – come together tomorrow like it did for the LS2 ending.

I think you may be confusing me with somebody else. Only things I said were “gg” and “hi mes”, nothing else. My apologies if someone on my team started it.

I might have thrown a statement during AT but that was after all the whispers to our team. I never whispered you in the first place so it was probably someone else. :/

Ithilwen.1529:

Here’s my most recent match. I’m the Mesmer, ( currently in Bronze because I abandoned ranked PvP for the season.)

We’re facing 3 + Legend rank players in a premade of 5. One of them whispered me after the game expressly to call me bad. One did it in game.

This, ANET, is why people don’t want to play PvP.

I’m headed back to Elona to farm Lightbringer promotion points. Hard mode is sometimes excessively hard… but I know that I have the same chance as everyone else.

I understand your frustration. We were practicing for the upcoming AT. It was not a premade team whatsoever.

Also, we only had one legend on our team, not three. The rest were in gold/plat.

I could easily point out the other side of the argument (why we badmouthed you in the first place) but that would either give us a warning/ban or risk closing this thread.

PvP isn’t “dead”. Dead would be 0 people in HotM, and eternal Ranked queues.

Dying yes, but it could be a cycle. Season 5 had an influx of players, but with the deletion of PvE rewards in S6 all those players decided to leave.

The next xpac could be interesting for the PvP scene, since there’s more potential synergy between the HoT and papaya elite specs.

Zaraki.5784:

Arden.7480:

In my opinion it looks really great. Similar to the current leg hammer but with better footsteps. I like the gold and everything.
Anyway the best legendary in ls3 so far xD

Ah! Nor at all, best one was Eureka imo.

Shooshadoo is my favorite. Huge icy blast on draw, a friggin fishbowl, and a Quaggan. Plus when you stow it you hear a Quaggan sound. Oh and it’s a huge shield, probably one of the largest in-game models.

So the tablet is only pidgeonholed into WvW. Great…

Which is my point.

Ik about the timing aspect, it’s just that sometimes especially when you’re under pressure controlling the tablet feels too slow.

A ground indicator is a great idea since players would know where to receive the heals, but I feel if the tablet teleported players would react more quickly and wouldn’t need to predict how far the tablet would go. Sure it’s an advantage in blobs for WvW but in PvE and PvP there are less blob formations of players.

Instead of having the tablet hover to its destination, what if it teleported instead?

The concept of ventari’s tablet is to provide support and heals from an external source which is an amazing concept. It also fits with Rev’s high skill floor. However I think that the tablet’s potential is lost because the tablet is too slow when it moves across the map.

Should the tablet teleport instead of move? Would that reduce the clunkiness of the build?

To compensate perhaps add 1 or 1.5 seconds to the CD. This also encourages players to use Natural Harmony more for the alacrity, speeding up Ventari’s Will.

I mean with builds like auramancer ele or support druid the support revolves around them (the players running those builds) so it can basically be instantaneous support, while the tablet has that slow-moving “lag” which just makes using it annoying.

Duo queue.

If you solo queuing you are basically killing yourself.

Also power rev is mostly good except against condition comps.

ANet has always been really simple with their naming “Guild Wars, Heart of Thorns, Nightfall, Factions” so that a majority of the audience can get a quick idea of what the expansion is gonna be themed on.

PoF just screams “Path of”, as for the “F”, perhaps faith, though that doesn’t really present a solid idea of what to expect for newcomers. Path of Flames maybe? :O

Path of Flames. Yep. Calling it now.

“Path of Forgotten” sounds cool and all but it also doesn’t give a good idea. Plus, it would be “Path of the Forgotten” not “Path of Forgotten”. Path of forgotten what? Exactly.

Yep it’s Path of Faith.

flog.3485:

Hmmm my first guess would be: we are ont the middle of July and people take vacations/summer job which results in an even worse matchups than before due to population being lower than normally. Did you play off-peak hours as well ? Other than that how can you be sure that the guy wasn’t just trolling you ?

It was at around 1 P.M. pacific time.

I, like many others, have summer break. I don’t think low population is an issue, but you never know.

I’m sure the guy was dead serious. He was a mesmer who died to their revenant in a 1v1. To add to that, I 1v2’d their gs Druid and condi Thief at home and WON (even tho the point got lost), and yet, our team got wiped in a 4v3 at mid. It was one of the cringiest matches I had this season…

So today, I solo queued with a 1800+ rating, and ended up with a player who said it was his first time playing Ranked this season. Turns out everyone on the team was really low in rating too… why and how is this happening? Thank you.

DakotaCoty.5721:

even though the leather farm will yield more gold from time to time.

The latter is simply untrue. You’d need to make 166 t6 leather per hour to equalise the gold, and 167+ to make more profit than Silverwastes.

Which is why you sell the hides. Salvage items will always be more pricey than the salvage results, otherwise players will make a profit from buying salvage items off the TP and getting more mats than the salvage item worth.

In an hour you typically get around 200+ hides with a good squad which if sold from setting a sell order will net around 30 gold.

DakotaCoty.5721:

Abelisk.4527:

Oh this is awesome!! This means:

1. More zergs in Lake Doric
2. Lower hardened leather price
3. A potentially outprofitting farm over SW

Im gonna farm ASAP

Except, the more people that believe this notion, the more the price will crash, thus, keeping SW the highest profiting non-instanced farm method in the game currently.

And given more time, more people will forget that notion, and the price will rise!

The cost of t6 leather and bloodstone-warped bags has appeared to stabilize as of now, but if more people do it then the profit is sure to plummet. SW is the “go-to” farm that will likely always be profitable, even though the leather farm will yield more gold from time to time.

I don’t think there will be a lot of people farming Doric though, since it’s behind a LS episode, and many people still don’t know why leather crashed. I talked about it in two guilds with a large amount of players in both and none of them knew about the hide salvage change. Some people still don’t know what the leather farm is.

Oh and another thing: more precursors/exotics/BLC keys! Someone in our squad a few hours ago found a BLC key. Within an hour you’ll easily have defeated 300-400 mobs (with a good group) which is a lot of chances for high-end items, compared to the 80 bag (and 50-100 mob) total you get from a typical RIBA SW run. The DR is a shame though.

Oh this is awesome!! This means:

1. More zergs in Lake Doric
2. Lower hardened leather price
3. A potentially outprofitting farm over SW

Im gonna farm ASAP

Duelist generally refers to something that can duel many opponents and win, generally non bunkery opponents. In that case, Mesmer all the way.

I am investing in the upcoming gen 2 legendary sword weapon. I am currently working on Mystic Tribute. Question, will the upcoming gen 2 weapons need:

• Mystic Runestones
• Visionary Inscriptions
• Mystic Curios
• Shard of Precursors (Shard of Endeavor, Friendship, Man o’ War etc.)

I’m wondering this because I don’t want to buy things beforehand worth a ton of gold only for it to go down to use for another legendary I don’t really want. Thanks for anyone who answers, if this has already been answered, or if a dev answers.

Bunker rev isn’t even that good. It offers little in comparison to other support roles.

Look at these testimonials and tell me ventari is OP:

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Herald_-_Ventari_Bunker

ugrakarma.9416:

Condi is a fix to the boring power-bunker-stun meta. “nerf” is never a solution, diversity is. u should be more diverse and think of some anti-condi button. and is very simple since condi builds, requires “constructon” to stack significantly amount of condi. To necro stack 30 bleed on someone isnt just press 1 button.

Except that the condi change was introduced with the HoT specializations. By removing condi out of the way people will play around with HoT builds.

Not to mention a ton of the HoT specs provide a lot of condi cleanse. Nerfing condi stacking would allow for core builds to shine more.