Guild Wars 2

This is a short video on how to dodge Teq’s fear attack.
If you don’t have stability or a cleanse this can help you stay DPS’ing instead of running like a scaredy Charr ^.^

Don’t forget you can get additional character slots with in-game gold, a lvl 80 will help greatly with that.
After that bank tabs are helpful, individual bag slots are not worth it unless you play one char exclusively/most of the time or have all the other upgrades you want to get.

In the end, go with what you find fun ^.^

Crafting is good for the following:
You enjoy doing it, nice to have each at max eventually so stick them on relevant chars for some extra levels, leveling chars fast at the cost of gold, crafting gear with on-hand mats can be quick and easy, making ascended weapons to get a decent damage boost, making ascended armor that costs a small fortune.

Basically don’t sweat it til you have a reason to do it or enjoy it.
Ascended weapons are worth it and if you intend to make a legendary weapon multiple professions will need to be at least 400. Also this being your first char it will take a ton of time to gather the mats, getting 400 to 500 is much more difficult than 1-400 as well.

You can use the wiki to figure out exact uses, generally they are for ascended crafting or to go towards a legendary.

Yes most will require a crafting skill of 450 for dust/empyrial/dragonite to refine it to the first tier and 500 to use it for anything. Though the first two have ways of getting gifts out by feeding Mawdrey (takes a while to craft, may require living world 2) and the Wintersday quest reward (unavailable if you’ve not done it).
Clovers are quite rare, if you ever see yourself making a legendary hold on to them, even if it takes years to make one they can be handy to hold on to.

If you don’t care about any of this and are just staying in sPvP then feel free to destroy it all.

Specialized boon durations seem to be the way they want to go.
Don’t like that a few are only in specific situations. Example, Guard staff is ok but hammer has far more useful boons/blast finisher. The swiftness can be handy but the might duration is so low even with an extended duration.

And boon duration gear is.. well.. not the best, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Giver-s-Armor-reminds-me-of-the-old-MF-armor

Wouldn’t trust it w/o video evidence ^.^

Bellizare.5816:

Deedrick.4372:

Aidan Eighthrain.8612:

1. Wrong : Time is money.

WRONG. time is time, money is money, there maybe a correlation between the 2, but money is NOT time, and time is NOT money

With enough money, could I buy some time?

Do you do your own taxes or hire someone? Do you always cook for yourself or get something to go or at a restaurant? Do you clean your house or is getting a maid service temping? Yes, money can buy time.

My 7 main chars were created before the trait change so they had everything but the new ones. Making new chars taught me this was a good thing, hopefully they get grandfathered in to having everything with the new system as well. At the very least getting the few extra challenge things won’t be difficult to get back to the same point, more annoying to waste time doing so however. Even with no refund, doing them now and using the points to forge stuff could be worth it.

Haha, boon duration is being taken off trait points.

Wonder how this will all be in 6 months or when the core changes hit and if HoT will affect it at all.

Conncept.7638:

One of my favorite PvE builds and my absolute favorite PvP build is being flat out removed, with nothing remotely similar to replace it.

I run an elixir fused bomb build with clerics gear…

I may be the cause of that… killed Izzy on my Healbomb engy so it’s getting Smiter’s Boon’d. Sorry, my bad… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8clRuqN1n2w
It was fairly fun while it lasted.

(This post may contain high amounts of sarcasm.)

Can check if a guildy/friend can make them for you.
Send mats, they send it back, sometimes people even tip for the service which is nice.

Hit H to open your Hero panel.
On the left tab, around the middle is for your story, click that.
If you still have an active personal story you will need to open the living world season 2 list.
Now you can activate them in whatever preference you would like, linearly is suggested.
If you want to go back to the normal personal story make sure you activate it again.

MeththeMadman.7420:

I want to begin to collect these so that I can level my revenant quickly (but not quick enough that I don’t learn the class) when HoT drops.

imo the faster you have a lvl 80 the faster it is to learn how to play the class at that level. Certainly the gradual unlock of skills (previously it was better by skill use instead of level but I digress…) will lead to more use of them getting to max level however adding traits and gear to that equation can drastically change how they function. Especially when leveling and using a mismatch of gear.

For level tomes, yeah just doing PvP daily in practice/hot join will spit them out frequently. Also get 5 after defeating the last story mission (that don’t stack with the others yay).

Will be insta-80’ing a Rev when I can make one, gotta use the stupid tomes in some way ^.^

AoE anti Elite Elite.. seems better than Mes.. though mes is still better for single target. Even as a quick timeout during a team fight it could turn a battle or stop key heals/rezing.

Maybe I’m just overthinking it. Who knows the full change to supply crate as well.

Not only heal blasts, stealth blasts could become more of a thing on engies too…

The nade range nerf seems really annoying. One of the reasons to take them with the trait is for a good long range attack that also happens to be a skill shot. The skill shot aspect, predicting where a target will be, to me is the best tradeoff. The range nerf should get lessened imo.. but this is not knowing how mortar will be.

Mortar can be interesting. A mobile version that can be swapped to on the fly with no cooldown like a kit? Could actually complement a condi build well. Will have to take a wait and see approach before commenting more.

(As an aside.)Crate becoming an actual turret is really odd, wonder if it will be targeted and retain the stun, that was my main reason for taking it. If not then may use the other elites more often. Not to mention aoe moa…

Tequatl The Sepiaful (Sepia Wars, The Ele Strikes Back)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnFqbdxRIg

This is the last video of the Sepia Wars series of sillyness. The first three are more jokes in regards to how long a person can watch them while this last one is killing Teq with airplane mode engaged. Also no UI yay!

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Also Inkscape is a vector based open source drawing tool. Can grab it from the site above as well.

Official sites:
http://www.kitten .org/ (rofl at censor)
https://inkscape.org/

Ah yep, so about 29 hours.

Also for EotM the higher level you are the faster the next level seems to come. Anecdotal with no evidence that’s just the feeling I’ve gotten even in general PvE.

Here’s something different, a video test with 100% crit chance on wand air ele.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2XoifRhx1w

According to the result, seems likely to have 5s recharge. The last strike was not at 100% crit though the previous three seemed accurate.

Edit: also apparently kitten recharge is full of soft cuddles.

Ayrilana.1396:

… Edit: Here’s someone that got to 80 in about 28.5 hours. …
http://i.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1vr5s5/challenge_100_map_exploration_in_one_go/

Seems to be 32 hours. Perhaps I mathed wrongly from the table at the bottom of the post. Also left out the WvW mapping since that no longer counts.

Has anyone marked down the time it takes to level in Edge of the Mists? With and w/o cons? I’ve done it in the past but never payed attention to the time.
I find mapping incredibly boring. Need to be active while doing it, less annoying as vanqing in GW1 sure but there’s more involved than mindlessly running around EotM while watching videos/messing around in another game. Areas with on-level or close to level events that spawn often give the best exp for normal playing, mainly as an alternative to EotM.

When counting special events things do get lopsided. The Mad King’s Labyrinth time I mentioned was just that char’s /age on noticing it hit 80. Boss Blitz was also really good.. though it was more fun to solo the bosses

Have 10 80’s, rerolled 4 others, a bunch of lowers, and countless keyfarmers.
This has taught me: Levels are just a gating to content. It’s impossible to not gain levels by playing the game, do the funnest things while enjoying the journey.

When compared to faster recharge and cc on rifle having the ability to decap a point is more important.

The shield reflect/bounce/blast is good but main hand pistol isn’t too great, if engies got a different main hand could see more using it. Sure when going full bunker the condi’s can help just nowhere near as good as a condi build.

Just to add, I’ve run similar to the staff build for years and am happy with it. Rarely swap out, mostly when wanting to try something different.

Zerker armor with scholar runes and celestial trinkets/staff. Main difference is using 6/2/2/2/2 in PvE/WvW or 6/0/6/0/2 at world bosses. Arcane Wave and Glyph of Elementals gets swapped out as a situation demands though generally stay equipped. If you play with more organized groups often can swap out the cele to zerk. Been solid for me in living world story too so I can’t complain.

Can even take the build to sPvP… does reasonably well. Celestial or cleric over zerk though. Benefit: laugh at turret engies as you meteor their point ^.^

Hearts are the worst method of exp, do them for fun not the reward :P
They normally point to where events occur, doing the event around a heart will generally complete the heart as well.

Events should be the bread and butter of leveling.
Just killing mobs and events that spawned them took about 31 hours to make a lvl 80 during Halloween. That’s with stacked exp boosters as well. Edge of the Mists works well for alts. If a person finds sPvP enjoyable or simple does the daily in hot-join/practice a fair amount of level tomes come from reward tracks.

With that all said… some of the little stories around hearts are cute/neat/fun.

Been debating how to link these for a while now. Finally decided to use one topic for all and update as they go live, Will bump with vids as the topic falls off the main page since this section doesn’t move too fast. Have a fair amount of footage that needs to be edited and uploaded, may break some of it up to a weekly release while others will go up much faster.

The content will range from jokes and things that fancied my interest to ambiance and some nostalgia. The vids are currently added to a playlist with other content so I won’t link to it. If there’s interest will separate them.

Newest highlight:
365 Exotic Tequatl chests and 1095 more. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_zO2FRD1U0

Next vid eta?
Need to figure out what to work on next.

Past vids:
4th Year Bday – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srVSATBd2KE
304 Exotic Tequatl chests and more. – Pt1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTtlhiJPQQ | Pt2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_opqzsTeI
50 sPvP match choosing spins to some gw2 music. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_oR1rmlzQ
Ambience: Wintersday – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ7JzIBHx3k
Ambience: Halloween – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPsvMqECLUM
3rd Year Bday – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDH5wK4yxUo
Mystic Forging a Transmuted Blade Shard back. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTonenLtZBs
Chat about current PvE – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJp1GQULZz0
Nec is OP pls nerf 2.0 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSXDWhUo4fA
Nec is OP pls nerf – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjx_uHpO8A
Making of sPvP 100 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qh8snxusU4
Revolver of the Sunless – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1c1l4uDcg
Howto: DODGE Tequatl’s Fear – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN0BSQuZlxE
Tequatl, The Sepiaful – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnFqbdxRIg
Sepia Wars, Return of the Thiefi – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIMpQsErxW4
Sepia Wars, A New Engineer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMYYV_b_5E
Sepia Wars, Attack of the Thief – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxc6lHui3I
50 sPvP match choosing spins. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQgUp604vvs
Opening loot bags on a lvl55. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWaXtgSwSOk

Another month, another update.
Wonder if HoT will have more uses for commendations?

Welp. Poly + Radiant seems like it’s an off and on bug. No idea what is causing it, attached is a screenshot from a guild mission run with it working compared to it not working right now.

Actually Doubloons are odd.
Currently Copper lvl0 has 1%, Silver lvl20 has 2%, Gold lvl 35 has 3%, and Platinum lvl50 has 4%. Where are the higher versions? To continue the trend Mithril lvl65 would have 5%, and Orichalcum lvl 80 should be at 6%.

Fairly similar to how GW1 went…

For armor, my engy has thief runes as they increase similar stats that sinister does. (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Thief) For all 6 you get 175 Precision, 100 Condi Damage, 10% damage when flanking.

Can also get a skin or item name you like.
Got an Occam’s chest and used it for the dagger, having an Occam’s Razor is nice ^.^

Would be grand to get the easy key farming back :/
Only done it once since the change, more annoying now. Some extra passive farms would be nice, thankfully not many skins have interested me… Pact Fleet stuff I woulda went for the full set.

If you’re just playing games the i5 will be good, the K variants are nice if you decide to try overclocking stuff later on. I agree with others, get a solid state drive if you can. 120gb at least, chuck your os and GW2 on it. 240gb works for me. Just get a second normal drive with a few TB for other games and programs. For ram, 8gb should do it.
Also agree with others on gfx card, will eventually be getting a gtx 970 myself. A 760+ should be good for you, also depends on what resolutions you intend to play at.

Also handy to bring are the rez skills, use on people downed in the middle of a few aoe fields and bam they can dodge out back to fighting. Better ones work on multiple people, mesmer one is both hilarious and lame at the same time…

Permanent reusable versions for 1 mil a pop? I’ll buy 6!

Been trying to find either a download or a list of SAB sounds in the dat file for quite a while. Not the music, know it’s on soundcloud. Failed to find anything other than references to the critter rampage game and shop keeper sounds.

Would anyone know of a source of any of this, or at the very least a general idea where to look when digging in the dat file? Thanks. ( guessing I’ll just have to export all the sounds and sort through it :/ )

If Giver’s was changed to 2% on the base slot we would have, 6 * 2 + 5 * 2 = 22%.
6 armor slots with 5 trinkets. With 1% upgrades to the trinkets it would be 27%.

Have not seen a Giver’s back item, has anyone? Using a generic one with a Platinum Doubloon for the 4% on my Guard.

Ghosts of Ascalon, really enjoyed it.
Edge of Destiny, uhg. Skipable unless someone wants to know about their back story… still skipable.
Sea of Sorrows, liked this one as well.

Update to Poly-Lumi and Radiant armor, it now works again! Yay!

Platinum Doubloons in trinkets also gives up more stats.
In a weapon there’s a bit less loss but you can only put one in 2h weapons. Tested and one in a main hand and another in a focus and they counted for Attribute stats.

lvl80 exotic Explorer’s armor had a main stat of 3% MF and secondary Power+Precision.

lvl80 exotic Giver’s armor has a main stat of Healing Power and secondary Toughness with a 1% Boon duration.

I have a few sets of Giver’s (haha same with old MF gear). Mostly just for fun however my Guardian has a set that when combined with Altruistic Healing has amazing sustain/tankyness. However our current meta is kill it before it kills you. Might stacking does fairly well with Giver’s even after the nerf and it’s tons of fun sharing crazy duration boons… but wouldn’t the old MF armor be better stats wise?

Similar to the old armor is Sinister. Swapping out the MF for a main stat of Condition Damage. Sinister in WvW has been amazing, in PvE similarly amazing in farming situations and some low key group content. Many people would probably prefer taking a Berserker or Assassin stat over Sinister. In an organized group it could work well. In a pug you may fight for condi stacks, those zerker bleeds be op.

So why not buff Giver’s a bit? Could get the Boon Duration a buff to say 3%. Not sure how high it should go balance wise, Celestial could get a 1% Boon Duration to boot. The weapon variant gives 10% and 20% Condition Duration for single and two handed weapons respectively. Difference there is that it’s a main stat with secondary stats of Precision and Vitality. Would be interesting to change that to Boon Duration/Armor+Trinket stats and make a new line of items with main stat Condi Duration with secondary Condi Damage and.. something. Rambling here a bit, main point was the percent gives more on weapons, ignoring the different stats given.

As it stands, do people/you even use Giver’s Armor? The weapons can be amazing for certain builds. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I’d like to see what others are doing with Giver’s stuff ^.^

PS: Yes MF is now in a better place than what the old armor had. Can even spike it up around the 900 mark after opening a bandit chest… useful for those lucky envelopes.

Radiant armor is no longer affected by Poly-luminescent Undulating Refractor.

Previously the color shift would affect the radiant glowyness. Now the armor stays as its default. Not sure if this is a bug or intended feature change.

Late on updating, been busy with things and getting sPvP videos released ^.^.

Don’t see too many zerker off point nuker eles. The tradeoff seems too low, even using defence utilities you will melt.

Have ran a celestial on point staff with more offence utilities. Currently using the same build but cleric with aura share just for the earth reflect.
Both have worked well, leaning to prefer the support version due to longer life and holding/contesting points longer.

Regardless, dropping a meteor shower on a decap engy’s turret spam is glorious.

Don’t use the replay buffer at all, only recording and used to stream but 360p aint good for that.

Use FLV due to some crashes (not OBS, surprisingly hasn’t crashed much) as it can be recovered from an interrupted/unclosed file. Doesn’t take too long to convert back to MP4 with ffmpeg. Anything free I tried to use to recover those mp4 files never worked.

AAC 320, x264, 12000 kbps, 720p. 1 hour is about 6gb. Would go higher quality but Lightworks free only supports 720 and a reduced bitrate so it’s worked for me. Have older versions of Vegas and Pinnacle but they are just old and don’t really like win8.

http://obsproject.com may be what you’re looking for.
You can save from a replay buffer among other things. Also, free.

Could try the melee with a support trope as war/guard and ele.
Won’t exactly go that way as the roles can reverse but it should be solid for most of your game play.

Been playing on a mm necro with an ele new person and it’s gone decently so far.

iirc they added the limit based on what that account has legit earned over a period of time. Less restrictive later on.
Could try leveling to 80 in EotM then run a quick dungeon or two to ease things up or just ignore transferring for a while. Actually thinking about that, could also solo/4 man some dungeons to give the account exp/gold.

I tossed it on a blue trinket and equip it when it’s time to glow. Like that it’s still account bound to chuck on other chars.
Also make sure that whatever trinket you put it on can black lion salvage it out…

Xenon.4537:

Logically if a benevolent/ally dragon is replacing Zhaitan or Mordremoth, then their minions should stop being hostile to the players. If that were to happen, half the zones in the game would need to be revamped and filled with new enemies to fill the content void.

Unless many of the minions are more like an autonomous reaction. An external immune system to protect it and its interests. Some things could get ‘turned off’ while others may need to be diverted. And signs to the controlled area with Do Not Enter, Mordrem will Mord in the event of a successful conversion.

An instanced opt in meta event for people that have completed the story to that point where players need to work together in an entire zone to accomplish the killing/binding/dancing of Mordy would be interesting. Toss in some storyline and skipable cutscenes (looking at you Victory or Death and Point of No Return) before and after to round it out, things should be golden.

Tier 1 (just unlocking the ability to do it) hang glider seems good just to be able to move around. Then not too sure, wonder if tier 1 of everything will be good to get around better as well.

Legendary. Seems like it is per character (probably with account bound results) so my alts can grind those out before getting rerolled leaving the most used mains to get higher tiers within useful tracks. The pre market is crashing hard right now lol.

Gunna wait and see when more info comes out, plans will probably change.

Really wondering about this as well.
If it’s added stats to what already exists that will really suck. If it’s making them more effective via the mastery that would be ok.
Annoying but neat would be the ability to merge them together, +5 power +5 agony resist +wvw stat. Even better would be merging in special effects such as the Poly glows.

Plus what would be required to make any new infusions? The old one plus some relatively cheap parts or some more silly grind?