Guild Wars 2

I had not noticed this. If I use steal and it immediately goes into cooldown, I just assume I must’ve used the stolen skill right away by accident. Do you still shadowstep to your target?

First of all, I know there is a quote/unquote ‘legitimate’ way for this to be achieved, and it’s not really a hack. But why should it be possible at all?

A fully fortified keep can have all of their siege destroyed by a handful of arrow carts, and there is no real method to counter that. Any siege built to take out the arrow carts will just be destroyed – along with anyone trying to built it. Tell me how a fully fortified keep, stocked with supply, with 90% upgrades, and set with cannons, oils, mortars, AC, siege, etc, defended with people and a commander, can get flipped in a few minutes, just because people can shoot behind the wall? I should be expecting golems against a guarded keep, not rams and long range arrow carts.

People can shoot behind the gate and walls, keep an army from defending, and it’s allowed? Why is this still happening? It’s not the same as mesmer portals or cata/treb spots. You can counter those. You can’t counter ‘zoom hacked’ arrow carts.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

You know another thing comes to mind. Women don’t exactly wear plated armor in public but they do wear mini skirts, tube tops and other apparel that leaves little to the imagination. Then, when it’s mirrored in a video game suddenly it’s impractical and too revealing?

Oh come on. You seriously think all women wear that? Right now I’m in jeans and t-shirt. Irl I don’t wear skirts. They’re a nuisance and completely impractical.

I’ve seen guys go out jogging bare-chested, as much as women in mini skirts at the mall. So hello, where is the eye candy for the ladies?

The number generated on your last screenshot…

Coincidence, or omen?

I have been patiently waiting for the gemstore to add an awesome looking light armor for my mesmer – I’m still waiting. I want her to look like she’s ready to kick butt – not go to the ball. It’s very time consuming to make armor that makes female look awe-inspiring.

You have any idea how long it took me to mix and match a medium armor set that made my thief look ready to kill? Quite a while. At least medium armor has several trenchcoat looking designs to pick from, all of which I liked. But it wasn’t the variety that was an issue, it was the designs in general. I’m always jealous of how a male toon looks, because it’s portrayed so well. They have flippin blades hanging everywhere.

Zero Day.2594:

If you really need a justification as to why rifles…
Assassin -> assassinating people from high-rise building windows (like the movies!) with high-powered sniper rifles….
In-game, it would give us a (I hope) a 1200 range weapon. This point alone should trump staffs (which might fall into the melee category, depends on how developers tilt their heads… martial artist ninjas or spell casting ninjas).

I gotta disagree with rifles. To me, the concept for GW2 rifles are loud, noisy, and cumbersome. Trying to snipe someone miiight set off alarms everywhere. At least pistols are easy to conceal.

If we want to take this honestly, real world ninjas didn’t run across rooftops in full black, throwing shurikens and disappearing in smoke. They would dress as common folks, and fought with whatever tools they could get their hands on.

Don’t our thieves use whatever weapons we can steal off of our enemies?

Aside from fighting, try going out in WvW with groups of 2 or 3. It’s a bit more forgiving if you have friends watching your back. Also learn when to run from a fight – yes, I’m serious. Thieves are dirty fighters, and resetting fights is one of their greatest advantages.

If you don’t feel confident in full zerker, start off with training wheel gears, like Valkyrie or soldier. You can get soldier gear for karma in Orr. As you get more comfortable roaming, swap out to higher damage stats.

Melee staves wouldn’t be far-fetched. Heck, Mesmers take the greatsword, go “kitten melee” and fire a pink laser from it.

As long as it can be a legit martial arts styled weapon. It will irk me to no end how usoku’s needles are called ‘daggers’.

Desktop is usually the best choice for gaming in general. If you need to upgrade one part, you can do it easily. For a laptop, you’d need to buy a brand new one for a hardware upgrade. Laptops also get their graphic cards updated less frequently than desktops.

I will say this: I play GW2 on a laptop, and only on very few occasions does it give issues. I’m a college student and I move about the campus a lot, so getting a laptop > desktop. GW2 with a non-gaming laptop is very possible, just that desktop is superior in every other aspect.

Very old.

(15char)

That tree is a thief steal skill, when stealing off of a ranger. You can’t use consumable weapons in WvW. (which is where I’m assuming you saw it)

Edit: Ah sorry, took a second look at the screenshot. Since it’s not WvW it would be the consumable healing pod. I think you can also steal them off plant-based enemies? I’m not sure though.

Nice combo for an armor-wearing mesmer. It gave me some pretty good ideas

Think you can do a female asura look? Most of the armor is the same for both male and female asura.

Here’s Avkii, my little elementalist. I have 2 new requests

First request: A design that can relate to her Asuran background, perhaps with magi-tech influence. I especially want an elegant look, nothing rugged. She prefers the element of fire, so armor should be in bright colors of red, gold, etc. The limitation is a total pricetag of 20 gold, but I’ll allow a max of 35 gold if it really looks well. And, no gemstore items, unless spare pieces can also be used for my mesmer’s previous requests.

Second Request: I have this hat for her – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Wizard's_Hat and I want an outfit to match. Let me see what you come up with! Limitation is the same as the first request.

Collectible minis, maybe…then people can trade for the ones they don’t have in their collection. But anything else, why? We have gold-to-gems, so by theory, you can already ‘purchase’ what you want with gold.

I’m sure it makes a very important gold sink, but I don’t feel like going through the logic process to verify it.

Rox Quiver and Kasmeer’s staff. I would love to see those.

Oh, and a light armor outfit that looks like legit robes, or traveler clothes, for females. No more dressy ballgowns, please? I’m going out there to kick butt, not dance at the ball.

I could not believe it was even remotely possible for you to turn ‘dumber’. I was convinced you were already at the lowest possible level of intelligence for our race.

Are you perchance, related to skritt?

Well, at least this time, they have noses..

(heard this ingame) What did the farmer say when he saw his barn full of rats? “Oh skritt!”

I’m sorry, but I…just don’t see what all the uproar is about for Illusionary leap. How long are you actually going to wait to swap places with that clone anyway?

My only issue is when the clone dies the millisecond it was summoned – but if it got bursted down that fast, did I really want to be in its place when it happened? And I’m not quitting my mesmer just for this one update. Just…roll with it.

(That’s not to say I don’t wish there were a couple of other things that could have gotten attention)

Without this horrible lag?

Anywhere else, I have no lag. I don’t have the best system, but it still meets the standards. But Dry Top just kills my framerate.

Are more updates going to be like this? Am I eventually going to have to fork over $600 for a new system?

This poor creature. , Someone, or something, hit it, and it managed to survive. how is this not at full health, yet not dead?

Such docile creatures should die in one hit. But not this fella. It must be one tough little deer. But it wouldn’t even regenerate health. I was half tempted to put it out of its misery.

Alright, here’s a challenge for you.

I got a couple requests for my Sylvari Mesmer. You ready?

First request:
Cultural armor look – however, not something with all the leafy-flowery-dressy looks. I don’t know if it’s possible, but I actually want her to look more sturdy than what the cultural light armor reflects. Most of it looks like the armor would snap off like twigs. And I want something that would cover her up. It doesn’t have to be restricted to cultural armor – if you can use non-planty armor, but pass them off as planty designs, go for it. But, she has to wear a mask.

Second request:
An outfit that would look more like medium/heavy armor, to compliment a sword fighting mesmer sylvari. I’m tired of all the dresses! I’m not going to the ball, I’m going out in the harsh unforgiving landscape to kick butt.

Third request:
Let me see if you can improve on one of my own designs. I went for a legit robe-like outfit, and it took me a long time of mix and matching to accomplish that. However, I am searching for more intricate gloves and shoes (and possibly shoulders) that can stand out.

You are free to use anything, including ascended armor. (I will say that I do not like the ascended leggings, because it makes my sylvari look…chubby). I like the colors pink, purple, red, and gold. She’s an evening bloom, so I try to keep her with darker tones, as opposed to lighter ones.

Let me see what you come up with.

I don’t think Aerin is the cuprit at all. Yes, he went crazy, but I think there’s more going on.

It was hinted that Aerin was a soundless, but if I remember correctly, back at the Bazaar, he was acting very different from your general soundless Sylvari. He was excitable and cheery, and made several reference to the Pale Tree and the Dream. The Soundless are very quiet and contemplative, and want to be separated from the Pale Tree and the Dream.

Someone’s pulling the strings…

outside of Dry Top, my game can run just fine. I don’t know if it was a recent update or something, but Dry Top is the only place that lags me now. It’s still annoying.

Glad to hear I’m not the only one. My FPS is unbearable in Dry Top. 2-8 fps.

I know I have an older system, but it’s still meeting the minimum requirements. I don’t want to go out and purchase a brand new desktop just for one update..

Belzebu.3912:

You can still upgrade to ascended with the new skin you added, what counts is the base item.
If you really want, you can’t undo it, but you can transmute again to the previous skin.

You sure? The description seems to say otherwise.

(Apologies for low quality picture. The screenshot looked odd, so I had to tweak it to be legible.)

Is there a way to undo transmutation? I transmuted my advanced spinal blades backpiece to another skin, but now I want to upgrade it to ascended. Would transmuting it back to its original version, allow me to upgrade it in the mystic forge?

So, how much PTV can be statted on a thief, to be useful enough, but not cut into too much of the damage output?

I’m gonna assume the OP is talking about zerging, or large havoc fights. d/d does its best the more targets there are. But if you can’t safely get close enough to CnD your one target, you’ll lose the upper hand.

I play my thief as a havoc/scout in WvW. Long story short, I ended up with 2 PVT ascended trinkets and the only toon that could put it to good use is my thief. My other toons either don’t need it, or already have what they need.

Perhaps I can mix zerker and PVT for zerging? Or get full PVT and be cheesy? Toss me some ideas. It’d be a shame to waste this lucky find.

Odd as some may think, thank you for being direct. I want to hear constructive critique. Now that I know it sucks, I can go back to the drawing board.

My human thief shouted this (or something like it) while summoning her thieves’ guild. It stuck me odd, since I never heard her say anything of the sort before.

Has anyone else heard this? It seems a bit out of place for the skill…perhaps it’s an easter egg reference of some sort?

Update for me:

Total: 2505 gauntlet chances
Favors: 7
Toxic Skin: 2
Mini Hybrid: 2
Chaos of Lyssa: 2

Ironically, no monocle. Did they increase the drop rates, or are more people simply farming them? Lyssa’s recipe dropped in value.

I’ve just been playing around with the build editor, and wanted a few fellow mesmers to critique what I came up with:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhUQNAsdWnsISHaWkGmqB3aGZ1YMVLo+qqSr0bkdAA-T1CBAB7oqCLaCg4BAE0+DAcCAyS5HjKB9RtiU0DwwRAYjDBApA6TYF-w

To compare, I’ll drop a generic zerker build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhUQNAsaRnsISBa2pGmqB3aGp0gQ1aIdAuQRL9JaxHA-TFSBwAPOCAmVCeV53N1fQpPYxDAo5+DAOFAkCIPhVA-w

In exchange for losing 4%-8% crit chance, and ~25 critical damage, it gains about ~500 condi damage and ~2,600 health. Do you think it could be a viable shatter build for WvW?

Disclaimer: I don’t know if someone already made this build or not. But if they have, credit goes where credit is due. This is just a build I’ve been theorycrafting – I haven’t tried it out myself yet.

Very, very nice. you make it look so easy.

Was it easy? xD

It’s still odd that the text shows up in gray, not white. It sets them separate from other junk.

I’m talking about these: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unidentifiable_Object

What are they really, and what makes them unidentifiable? They’re not like other npc junk. You know what a dandelion is, and the text is marked in white. That kind of junk is used to add flavor in the game, and just give a sense of where you’ve been. These ‘unidentified objects’ are all texted in gray. And they look like…what? And story-wise, why would a champ carrying a bag of loot, bother with some wierd npcable junk?

I got a theory that these were potential loot drops (lodestones, bloodstone dust, exotics or rares) where you just didn’t have enough magic find luck to unlock upon opening the bag/box. Thus, you can’t identify what the heck it is, and might have npced a precurser.

Any others have a possible idea? Or are they really just random junk tossed into the game?

Cufufalating.8479:

No specific thief advice since I dont play it, but if you are struggling you can always pull the 2 ranged defenders out from the others as long as you are fighting at range too.

Just draw agro and then move out of they mods “zone”. The melee ones will leave and the ranged ones will stay because they can still hit you, so you can then just SB spam them and then take on the other 2 after.

Not as fast as stacking them all behind the nearest building and AoEing them all at once, but easier to do if you’re struggling.

That is what I used to do, but I have to flip the camp quickly if I want to be effective. too much time on one camp means less time scouting and roaming. It might also attract other roamers to my position, and I’d have to fight them and the camp.

I need advice on one of the fundamental tasks for a WvW roamer: flipping camps solo. I know it requires S/P, spam Blinding Powder, SB to pull the aggro, and withdraw heals back into a wall, but I’m obviously missing something if I’m not flipping the camp. I can get rid of a decent majority of the camp’s occupants before I go down.

1. Each camp has a different place to stand, but where are the spots?

2. How can you draw the ranged guards close enough to your position, in order to blind them as well?

3. Knockdowns and stuns seem to be more consistent than my stun breakers. I usually want to take the dolyaks out first, but I’ve seen other thieves take them and the camp.

4. What traits can be used?

5. I immediately avoid camps that are upgraded, if I’m solo. but is it possible to flip those as well?

Any advice given will be greatly appreciated.

Hey, it bothers some, doesn’t bother others.

But you know what else would irk you? That black lion lock looks like a mouse..

Short answer: yes. You’ll be glassy, but zerker covers all the basic needs.

In PvP, the equipment is of no cost to you. Do you mean WvW? Depending on if you want to roam, havoc, or zerg, different stats would suit different needs, but zerker can work regardless.

shadowpass.4236:

this probably isn’t exact, but you could try this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAT8YjEq0ya/Kesw1ag/ga9BUABQrdw9/2DldJXqB-TlCEABaq+zTKpI4iA0lSQmUqYwTAQKlBdobIn9HA4ABQKgBWGB-w

That is quite an interesting build, thank you. I do remember that his/her damage was fairly consistent, and lacked burst. It was safe for me to keep the fight going and stave off heals.

Let’s see…I’m not as familiar with rangers, but I’ll give what I do recall.

1. Can’t say what condi removals they used, but would quickly get rid of blinds. I focused more on the ranger than the pet.
2. What is the cooldown for pet swapping, both traited and non-traited? He mostly kept to the drakehound for our fight.
3. Likely swiftness for weapon swap.
4. Had cripples and immobilize, used them often
5. Uptime on boon protection was pretty consistent.
6. sharpening stones – I’m trying to remember if they popped up in lieu with my health. I want to say they did.
7. What do you mean by fast moving arrows? Rapid fire skill?
8. Piercing arrows, yes
9. Opening strikes in the middle of fights, gained from stealth.
10. I think he had decent boon regeneration, and did not use healing spring.

gawker.8340:

Ah, he/she has an elegant choice of pets. Not sure what it is but it could be BM bunker if it took 3 thieves to down. I would be more certain if you can confirm the off hand was warhorn.

It took two thieves. Our fight had turned into a 2v2, but the other opponent was a warrior whom we dispatched quickly. I do remember the ranger had very good escape, even through water, and I had to shadowstep quite a lot to catch up to him.

I also do not believe they had any signets on them, if that helps narrow down the setup.

I ran across a ranger in WvW, and much to my pleasant surprise, put up quite a fight. I’m very interested in finding out what setup they were probably using.

1. They had a longbow and sword/x – he/she kept mostly to the longbow, so I didn’t see what was their offhand when they did swap weapons. The pets were a krytan drakehound, and black widow spider.

2. They were pretty tanky, but still did decent damage. 1v1 we couldn’t down each other. We both got to critical a few times, but he recovered quickly, before I could burst him down. He also had a nice array of escapes. It ended up taking 2 thieves to down him.

Auesis.7301:

Arikyali.5804:

Wasn’t there a pvp setup with traits and stats, that actually worked with HS spammage? It was a troll build, only used the mainhand dagger.

No. It should never “work” against anyone. If they actually die to it, they should uninstall the game immediately.

I love when Thieves spam HS. Free kills.

I swear, I actually saw it work! It was both shocking and hilarious.

Granted, this was months ago, before patches changed thieves. I haven’t seen a 1 hand dagger thief since…eh.

But yes, like everyone said, HS spamming = easy kills.

Most of my gear are already zerker. Would others please critique this build I made on the whim?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fhAQNArfWnsISBa2pGmqB3aGB3YM5Efg6f25pSGwvA-TFhFwAAUCaU5XL1f6oPAA-w

I never use a concrete build for my mesmer, which is why I’m looking for gear that can easily be flexible, depending on the situation at hand. I swap between everything except trinkets.

Arcanis.8049:

Thank you for all your advice!
I’m encouraged to have so much support from the community.
Unfortunately I have tried probably close to 100 times and still no luck.
On the other hand, I leveled a warrior from all those boss blitz and beat Liadri with it…
Doesn’t feel as big of an achievement. But, mesmer will stay my main so I’ll go back to Liadri after taking a short break.

I’m gonna finish up the achievement with my mesmer for now. Feedback works on the gunner for 3 gambits?

Not for his insta-kill shot. Ow.

One piece of advice I can pass on: don’t abuse stealth. If you stealth at every chance you get, you’ll train yourself into a ‘comfort zone’ and end up relying heavily on it. It’s not a good habit. Learn how to use it offensively as well as defensively.

Try taking MI as your ultimate. Drop it once you enter phase 2, and use it to help gain a better positioning before starting your attack. It helped me immensely.