Guild Wars 2

Yea… I just don’t want to buy more gear just to stick Altruism runs in. And that I stuck Kasmeer’s staff on my healing one. Thankfully runes are cheap as heck, and I had some old SF gear I could swap for more damage. Or just go with healing armor and damage weapons/signets.

Well and here I am fully invested in Cleric’s and Magi gear already.

I went with 10/10/20/30/0 cause that 20% signet redux sounded nice. Mantra heals make use of the +healing I have. But the roaming ability is pretty kitten without the crit damage from a zerker set. And I guess more utility other than aiming to spam boons every 36 seconds is more useful.

GS is non reflectable ranged attack. And power precision based. So if you built in any way in that direction you have no reason to be using a staff and scepter is only barely useful for you. You don’t main it but like you bother to main any weapon here. You do whatever keeps you alive.

New torment sigil worth much or just earth works better.

So I know I can swap languages in my chat with Ctrl+Space, and this lets me switch with the Chinese language enabled on my computer. But I just ran into an issue where I apparently swapped to the Japanese language keyboard and that one disables Ctrl+Space for apparenly just space. Is there another binding that can swap keyboards that could be bound to change this so I don’t have to go about restarting the game?

Ctrl Space is language swap. If you have another language on your computer it allows multilingual input. Ctrl Space should switch it back.

So I started running this build with a swap of MoPain for MoResolve. I feel like I can either get cleanse on heal and just that many forms of condition removal or keep a heal on mantra charge just to get a third heal out of my MoRecovery, since I lose the MoPain spam. Is the spam for mantras low enough to switch it out?

SO I have banked perplexity runes, but that move speed on travelers is freaking tempting. Still need to get the armor. Too cheap to spend all these free Badges for it.

1) Yes, lets have the one thing we have to bring to the boss be a ranged channeler that won’t move on demand that will disappear when you need it. And then reappear on the other side of the room.

2) Lets make the boss throw the target he’s following in the direction we don’t want him to go.

3) If you wipe with the shield up, he keeps charging and releases it the moment you re-engage.

Just give us 1 hologram in each corner, and properly reset him after a wipe. Then maybe I might go back in.

No path, even learning, should be a 4 hour deal. Not for just dungeons. This is a raid game, we shouldn’t be spending raid hours.

And why the freaking hell does he get to charge up after a wipe? That thing needs to be cleared off.

Why do strikers spawn at the last boss? They always stay too far from the boss to blow up properly, and don’t move at all when you try to run away.

Give us some freaking better leeway in executing these darn strats. Its completely frustrating to miss thing by the smallest of margins.

On the other hand, Mantra of Healing works great with the Remove Condition on heal trait. Add in heal on matra cast and that’s a 3 part health recovery skill.

Makes sense. Your only other choices were dampening or manipulation. Fall damage is situational. On down or rez as well. Clones probably don’t stay too alive but without Illusion traits you have lots of time between available shatters that something is going to die.

Well sounds like something I can farm the Queen’s Gauntlet for.

Just wondering if I should spend the sprockets and whatever lodestone it takes to make on for whenever I get a condition set going.

Whirl from iWarden seems to be more effective.

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

@Ast, you could always try the build with a set of rare gear, it would yield similar results, and if you decided you don’t like it/like it you can just salvage the rares and get most of your money back from the ectos.

Point. I have some con gear sorta lying around I picked up for something else, and I have bunch of extra fractal rings as well. Since I only main one character really I have no problem dumping cash into her, since I got not much else to do.

I’m guessing precision is a point for sharper images, and toughness for defense. I think most of my stuff is carrion base though. I’ll see what I can do.

Looking at WvW builds right now. I have yet to play a condition mesmer, and have the large number of wvw tokens from achievements just sitting around. I’m also the kind of guy to defend points over running with a zerg, which leaves me alone most of the time. So staring at your build and wondering if I should spend my laurals on those bits.

Just ran into a bug where the grawl shaman stayed at the top of the ramp instead of running down during the boulder stage, which resulted in the second event would trigger without the shaman in the right position. We would have had to run boulders all the way up to the start to throw at the shaman to break the shield which takes too long while the other shamans sacrificed the humans.

Annnd it was in Mount Maelstrom. Cubular Fells in the NW corner.

I have that marked on my map as well. Don’t remember when, but its there for some reason.

Just found Aurora’s on mine, but I also already have Serpentwind. I went through the region maps and I seem to have everything, so I’m not sure what else I’m missing. What other weird places could exist?

Huh, which sigil would I want on which weapon? I feel like battle on both with life on the focus

Phantasm survival is pretty darn situational. wrong place and wrong time is dead phantasm. WvW is even less reliable because they lose the health boost from PvE. Your best bet for regeneration would be with staff 3 or pistol 4. Ranged Phantasms tend to fare better.

Mantra of Resto with Clear condition on heal makes for a great emergency healing spell.

Right, that’s thinking WvW at least. I’ve been mostly thinking PvE 5man sized stuff, so not a lot of thieves, and not a lot of stealth there either.

Does make interrupts more reliable though.

So looking at this I feel like Prismatic understanding is good enough just for decoy and I don’t have to find myself a pretty torch to play with?

Sounds good and more importantly I don’t have to buy more items to make it. Well, will have to change Valkryie gems with runes, but hell.

I run Knights gear with valkryie orbs, and I feel like I’m missing out without a rune set.

Looking forward to it. I’m looking at 0/20/20/30 and get the healing mantra or good shatters.

The abom’s overhead swing hits to his side by a good 4 character models.
What’s up with that?

Hell I’m at a shortage of crafting materials for the backpiece, but once that’s done they’ll be useless once more. We should be able to smash rings for materials, and use materials to craft skins.

What I wanted was a back with Cleric stats (Power, Vit, Healing) but apparently it doesn’t exist.

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnd dulfy says the only mats that don’t work are Totems and Venom Sacs…

Syn Sity.5826:

Sometimes you just need to close the mystic forge and try again. It’s a bit buggy.

I tried it a few times and it doesn’t look like it was registering the materials. The Totems don’t highlight when I place the other stuff in.

I’m trying to make a healing backpiece for my Fractal set, and from what I read on the wiki I should be able to take a vial + ectos + crystals + t6 fine mats to do so. But its not working in game. Any reason why?

There needs to be a target cap on some of these AoE attacks, especially the unavoidable ones.

I don’t like how everything has to default to dodging to avoid. It becomes a pattern recognition that punishes risk more than it rewards.

When a champion chicken can launch a 30k egg at you with no warning hidden in spell flashes.

Storm yourself. abuse leap combo fields. Let conditions take care of themselves.

I only don’t use staff because you don’t get first tag on mobs in events with it.

It’s pretty kinda balls that this can happen at all. Everything is one single list, their names are of no indication of what kind of item you’re going to get. The order isn’t even in some kind of grouping either. There really needs to be an emergency refund option for these kinds of sales. Hell, why wasn’t there even a confirmation?

I meant to buy “The Golden Lotus” but accidently bought “Star of Elona.” This took 30 Laurels which would be at least another month to collect again. Any chance I could get either this item replaced or refunded?

Combat mode for the win. Also played a good 3 months of TERA prior to this game, so the transition from that game’s action combat to this one with combat mode was cinch.

Right now I have a shortage of shards, and what I want to be able to do is smash these rings I don’t need for them.

If anything have relics + essences + maybe globs + mats to make skins.

Event will go on forever because the Risen count will never reach zero as long as one shows up seconds before the last one dies. Takes too long to finish.

Used Sword 3 and got myself stuck in here. Couldn’t use any ability to get out. Only got out after downed.

Eh, GS builds tend to be zerker oriented, so any other stats seem to be a waste, especially if those stats are more or less the focus of the rest of your gear, even if it’s valkryie on knights. You will get a good hundred so toughness off your sword, but I don’t think it’ll add much compared to the rest of your gear.

I think Knights would work just for the precision, as crit chance outweighs crit damage for low to mid range values of crit.

Wooboost.8527:

Boon stripping & cc – spam it asap

It’s reapplied immediately. No one has boon stripping that can work at the rate it builds back up. To have this mob require raid wide attack stop as an open world mob is stupid.

She gains a fire shield when sitting on her circle
She takes reduced damage and gains might while the shield is up
To remove the shield you have to lead or push her out of that circle.
She gains stability the moment her might reaches 25.
And then there’s defiance.

The level of coordination required to do this is high, and gets worse as more people show up.

Remove the stability so we only have to worry about defiance.