Guild Wars 2

With Pro gone and pretty much every WvW guild gone from Gate of Madness im not sure if anyone is left. I know there are people out there. Someone is still holding forts and camps. People still like to do WvW and our population is not completley gone. We need to start a new. We need to start fresh and start to work together. Now is the time to rebuild. All those that love to do WvW really need to get together. Get some commanders together and try to fight back without jumping ship.

I don’t know about everyone else but im getting sick of what is going on in Gate of Madness. Im sick of the reputation, im sick of pepole not trying, im sick of people bossing around one another and not having fun in WvW.

Obviously what we are doing as far as tatics go is not working. Too many people are switching servers and no one is listening to anyone.

But for people that love to do WvW hear me out please. We can save our server. I know there are a lot of people that don’t like other people but this is suppose to be a collective effort. This is suppose to be working together as one getting along and re taking our server. These are our forts and camps being taken and we can’t even hold our own battle grounds. We desperatly need to orginize, stand up, and fight or go down swinging at least.

This is a message to all Gate of Madness. This is a message to all those that love WvW. To all our commanders and everyone lets work together. Lets orginize some nights were we go in. Lets help one another out and listen to one another. Create an open collective where no one is in charge but we work together as a whole to get what we need done. I know no one likes loosing but if we get together and orginize and get some actual tatics then we can still be a competitive force. We use to be in the top 5. Its not too late to fix things. Eventually they will lock free transfering and we need to bring back dedicated people to stay on this server and not jump ship. So if you have any interest at all in WvW lets get together. Post on this forum and say “Im gate of madness and im goint to kick some butt in WvW.”

This is not just for me thought I would create a topic about help with selecting runes for what you do. As more people are getting to 80 and working on armor its time to talk about what runes are good. Now I know there are some favorite runes that everyone is after but im after something a bit more specific. If anyone has any suggestions please respond. And in turn if anyone else is having difficulty selecting runes feel free to ask someone here as well.

So im a Warrior who focuses on Bleeds, Crits, and Vitality. I got a pretty good set up where i can chain the boon Fury almost consistintly. My bleed damage is hovering around the 100 per tick range. Condition damage 486 and Crit Chance is 41%.

I was looking at Rune of Rage, Rune of the Wurm, amd Rune of Divinity but of course those are rare and expensive.

So any suggestions or which are your favorite let me know and if you have questions please ask away. Have fun.

Machlor’s Leap Garden of IIya Skill point for the Gate of Madness server has been broken for what seems like the start of the game. If it could be fixed soon it would be greatly appreshiated.

Yhea I have a really nice Razer headset and I saw that the Asus Aeson suggested did seem to have some audio problems and not be the best on speakers. I still would like to shop around a bit but certinly thanks for the info. Sounds like Asus is pretty good. I have no real history with them. All i have owned is Dell and HP. Im done with Dell as too many have broken down on me. My HP is really reliable and has been good for 5 years without any problem. Its just not for gaming. I plan on playing Guild Wars 2 for a long while and interested in the new Neverwinter. Deffinitly a new computer is needed.

I only plan on playing Guild Wars 2. Im not a big PC gamer I just want to run Guild Wars 2 a lot better then I already am. I mainly do PS 3 and Guild Wars 2 that is really it. So I don’t need a super computer. It would be nice for sure but still need something that I can do word proccessor with as well as normal buisness computer functions.

Currently I have an HP computer HDX 16 Intel Duo Proccessor with a Nvidia GeForce GT 130 M

Im barley running Guild Wars, it runs but when it comes to WvW and the large events I get into trouble. Its playable but I certainly want to play it much better then I am.

So time for a new laptop. I don’t care too much about price im hoping for the 1000-1500 range. I would like a laptop though I know that an actual PC would probably be better but I tend to travel a bit.

I do like HP but everyone I’ve talked to say they are not ment for games. They have suggested Acer or Alien Ware. I plan to buy at Best Buy. Anyone have any suggestions? I read about the new Nvidia GTX 660. Im not very knowlegable about computer lingo so any suggestions that would be simple to understand would be appreshiated.

Anything with a shield in the off hand will give you some better defence. You really have to whatch the monster animations though to time your Stuns and your Blocks. There are some traits to block arrows too. Need at least 10 points in defence Missile Deflection.

Another overlooked weapon is sword offhand. The Riposte is nice cause if you start blocking and the enemy backs up you can always stop and gain adrenaline anyways. Plus using Implae Sword is a good immobalization. So maybe Mace Sword combo? I don’t know havn’t tried it myself but its something to think about.

I started out thinking that 2 one handed swords will not only look awsome but feel awsome. It was good at first but the secound hand ax skills were just too good to pass up. Sword in one hand and ax in the other give you 2 combo finishers and fast frequent damage.

So how do you top that all off? With a big hammer of course. Its too bad back breaker isn’t a reliable smash finisher combo. Only earth shaker is. I get a lot of shocked faces in WvW when I use whirling blade to gain up my adrenilin in a huge crowd then switch to hammer to smack them all with a 2 secound stun. Needless to say the aoe comes next from my mates and we tend to take out a large force with just a couple of guys.

I keep a mace and shield for tanking dungeons and a bow for ranged. I have tried some other combos but the one im using now I find I like the best. If your going to stick whith hammer though I know there is a rune out there for increasing stun duration. Superior Sigil of Paralyzation. +15% Enough time for people to react to what you just did.

I can see the dagger chain thing being a utility weapon to give a mid ranged weapon to the Theif but you got to think in a bigger scence of weapons that appeal to multiple classes. Not just a single thief weapon.

Example I think a Whip would work well for Theif, elementalist, ranger classes. They have the nightmare whips from the sylvari enemies it would be pretty easy to impliment.

Also dissapointed Theives can’t dual weild swords. A lot of classes are strange like that, they can have dagger in off hand but not in main hand. I understand that not every class can do everything but if you can wield a dagger in the left hand you should know how to use it in the primary hand. I know its just a game.

Have you done dungeons story and explorable? If your not into PvP then yhea there isn’t much left except getting all the hearts and exploring all the areas. There are constint events in the level 70-80 areas. So grinding some karma for the cultural weapons and armor sets might be a goal. The “end game” is just what you want out of it. Do you want phat loots or bigger challenges? All a matter of preference. The end game is what you make out of it.
Crafting too if your not up to 400 yet. Make some fine gold by crafting fine weapons.

Anyone else having this issue? I have fought the shatter 3 times and I didn’t get nothing for my help even though I was there the entire time. And just now I was doing the destroyer in the Volcano in Mount Malestrom and though i was there the entire time doing damage with my bow I still only got bronze.

Now I do admit I don’t have the best computer. Im thinking about getting a new one this winter but money is rather tight. I would love to play this game on a better machine as now im on minimum everything pretty much. I barley pass the minimum specs. So the game functions just not perfectly. I do have some massive lag when a lot of people show up. But im still hitting the guy, i still see the damage go off and im able to rez. I did fine in the event before I got gold leading up to the Meta. But when it comes to the boss i either get jack or get bronze.

Anyone else having this problem either with better computers or simular? I would really like to know what the deal is.

Dosn’t make scence for a mob to be invulnerable when they first appear. I’ve only run into invulnerablity when the game was detecting I was using a cheap way of killing the mob. Ex: Up on a high ledge the mob can’t really reach and he will be invulnerable and reset. That I can understand but durning an event? Sorry to hear what happened to you it kind of sounded awsome up to the point you died.
Invulnerablity is fine for proventing exploits and I like when you get rezed you get a few secounds to get out of danger. But if mobs appear or pop up like that you should only miss them if they are still coming up from the ground. If they are there and fighting you should be able to hit them.

Im thinking that both Dervish and Ritualist may be combined into 2 seperate new classes. Perhaps combine the Ritualist with the Summoner idea they had for Guild Wars Utopia. Thing is when you brought multiple Ritualist in a party 2 spirits of the same type couldn’t be used. So you had to have two seperate builds which worked too well of course. Even a third ritualist doing healing spirits was a bit op. There is no way they could do that restriction in an open MMO. So a possible 5 man team all Ritualist using the same best spirits? Way too hard to balance. But making it limited on the spirits would make it too much like the mesmer. Perhaps something they did with the minion skills.
As for my favorite class the Dervish bringing him back wouldnt’ make scence story wise. The sunspear order were praticaly whiped out. That knowledge lossed. What would be amazing is a daker version of a Dervish. Like an underground resistence forming in Elona. Dervish was all about tanky, high damage, and removing enchanments to make secoundary affects. Kind of like the Gaurdian but a darker version of the Dervish could be about conditions and high damage. Ripping boons off of enemies to power himself and allies.
As for who gets the sythe aside from dervish, Warrior, Necromancers, Theives

As the Skritt would say… “Gettheshiney!”

Yhea I stopped using banners cause they would get stolen all the time. Now only use them in Dungeons on ocation. Otherwise I stick with shouts.

Some get stolen by accident I understand that but most of the banners also have that nice run speed buff that people know about and thust take the banner and jet as soon as the fight is over. If you like using banners I suggest the banner 20% cool down trait in Defence so if it dose get taken at least you won’t have to take too long for it to come back.

Also another question the Elite Battle Standard says its suppose to Reviev Allies but it clearly dosn’t. Unless there is something I’m missing.

There is an entrence to the sewers a little east of there. Follow the river and look for an opening.

In case you missed this in your Contacts option which should be “Y” there is a looking for group option that puts a little member icon with a magnifine glass over your head. So if you see people running around with that wondering what that is, yhea thats what it is.

Karma dosn’t really come into affect till about 20 and up. You may or may not know this but when you complete a heart the person you helped becomes a karma vendor. Sometimes they have good stuff for you other times they don’t. Usually each area has armor though and the karma vendors that sell it will give you a full set of armor for that area. Usually starts with a low end part with the final part being high. So if your in a 25-35 area the boots will be 25 while the head may be 35.
So for early game again the 20 and up will help you keep your items in check with your level. Also some recipies for crafting can be bought at vendors. Either use the wiki or just keep an eye out as your doing hearts.
Some later areas have so many events going on that Karma dosn’t become a problem. I suggest Sparkfly Swamp and Hathari Hinterlands as those areas of events never seem to stop. I got 8k karma easy just following the events around. You want to save up karma for the good stuff later on but if you do these earlier events you can spend a few 400 here and there without loosing too much.

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EDIT: In response to the mention above that toughness doesn’t reduce condition damage—that’s it’s main weakness for sure. Vitality helps you soak more damage of all kinds, conditions included, but toughness doesn’t help at all against conditions. The nice thing about toughness is that it makes your healing stronger indirectly. If your healing skill restores 5000 health, that’s a bigger deal when you have 15,000 health and a ton of armor than it is when you have 24,000 health and no armor at all.

Good rule of thumb is that you should pack tons of condition removal in PvP anyway, and at least one condition removing skill in PvE.

I did notice a difference in my heal when it came to using Healing Surge with a high toughness. I usualy got up to full health with the one heal but I instintly droped down again as though the toughness wasn’t giving me any extra protection anyways. Lot a good info in your post though I appreshiate the help. Perhaps I’ll put more points back into toughness but mainly focus on vitality and percision as I do a lot of bleeds and their is a trait that give me more damage against bleeding foes. Its what I based my warrior on is to do bleeds and a lot of damage but be able to at least take a few hits. So I’ll just balance my triats a bit to give me a nice heal for when I get into trouble. Thanks for the responce.

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Maybe a silly question, but have you repaired your armour if it is damaged? what about keeping your gear near your level? maybe you are going up against mobs too far above your level?

Yhea I always keep up with repairs and im in an area that is actualy below my lvl at the moment. 65 now and working in 40-50 area trying to get down to my story quest. Maybe I was just trying to take on too many at once.

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I’ve gave my necromancer toughness and vitality stated gear recently and I have become a tank. I rarely die unless I get 4-5 enemies on me. I would expect toughness on a heavy armor wearer would naturally be higher than my light armor? It would help you a lot in my opinion.

As for it being bugged, I don’t think it is. Like I said, since I started using gear with toughness I’ve rare died since. I am currently level 42.

Thats fine for a necro I guess cause they can have a lot of health regeneration due to their blood skills and so forth but for a Warrior that dosn’t have a lot of regeneration it dosn’t seem to do a lot. I’ve tried banners but everytime I use one It gets used in one fight and its gone before I can pick it back up again. People like to steal it too much so i switched to shouts.
The Shout Heal Trait on Grandmaster Defence dose jack all. Only heals for 100-200 health and even if you use all three shouts for utility its not very effective.
Seems for a warrior at least you still need a good support behind you to survive. But going straight vitality seems a better option.

Picked Warrior for my class and my idea was double swords and tough as nails at first. Then i realized that the ax off hand skill whirling blades was awsome so i’ve been doing sword ax combo ever since. But when your spinning into a massive mob i know your bound to be hit so I put points into Toughnes but I still get squished even from the lightest of hits.
When i switched over to Vitality at lease I could take a bit of a beating without dropping imidiatly.
So the question is dose toughnes even do anything? Is it bugged, innaffective, not working right, or was I doing something wrong.
Granted I do tend to lag a bit but I have been dodging the big attacks pretty well.
So anyone focus on Toughnes find it affective? Let me know.