Guild Wars 2

Well, ultimately you’ll have to try Elementalist and Mesmer for a few levels to decide if you like them.

As someone who has played a bit of Mesmer, a lot of thief, and very little with Eles, I say stick with the thief. While the new Daredevil spec. Isn’t as flashy or shiny as Chrono, Herald, or Reaper, it is INCREDIBLY fun to play.

Since you seem to be concerned more with PvE than WvE or PvP, again, thieves will always be competitive thanks to multiple group stealths and safe rezzes and very high DOS potential.

I want to start this off by saying I am in no way complaining about this system in any way, it just popped in my mind.

So, has ArenaNet said why we have to use the new elite specializations in order to us the new weapons and Skills? Wouldn’t allowing players to use the new weapons/utilities without an elite specialization promote more build diversity?

I realize that the lines have traits that improve the weapons and utilities, but there are plenty of builds in this game that still use utilities/weapons without using the corresponding traits to make them better.

Again, I’m not complaining or even suggesting this should be the case, I’m just wondering what Anet’s reason is for not allowing them, since I don’t follow every announcement they release.

Thanks guys!

Thanks for the answers!

The Situation: Say you are in Melee range and your clones are 600 units from the enemy.

The question: If I use F2 for condition pressure then immediately use F3 to interrupt a heal, do the clones running in eventually explode based on the first or last shatter input that was given to them?

Absolutely not. If that were the case, no one would ever die in a fight with a Mesmer around.

Besides torch, Mesmer stealth skills are long cool down skills. While they’re stealthed that’s your opportunity to heal up, or disengage a bit. Open up some distance, so you can see a burst from stealth coming.

Knee jerk reactions like this are bad for everyone in the community.

I’ve been using this build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vhAQNArfWlknhG1YtawMNwsGLvGk5KWWNLnQvjGaAyZTA-TZRHwAC3fIwhAAZZABnBAAPAAA

I absolutely love it. It goes against popular convention, and doesn’t even use PU, so I don’t even feel cheap using this condition build!

Awesome! Thanks! I wasn’t aware they were doing this, and though that was the main incentive to buy the $75 version of the game that comes with a character slot.

I logged in this morning to find a new character slot. Does anyone know why? Obviously, I haven’t bought one recently, and I only pre-ordered the standard HoT version.

Should I go ahead and make a warrior? Or will this go away? I was saving my last Character slot for a Revenant, but now this extra one will allow to finally have a warrior as well!

Did anyone else try this? I was running with the knockdown physical utility, which seemed to almost always interrupt, then while they were knocked down, then use the “Fists of Fury” utility and follow up with a Palm strike. This resulted in have the delayed damage debuff to stack twice and go off twice. Did anyone try to stack this higher?

If this effect can stack, I think this could be a very potent interrupt build thanks to Pistol 4 and steal.

Here’s a quick build I just made: D/P for on demand stealth so you can switch to staff and use the 2 second knockdown. OH pistol also lets you spam interrupts for pulmonary impact.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQNAoaWn0MBFmiVmCmOBkmiFYCzLNcGaDzhwTYLULBEA2NA-TJhFABAcKAAvMgAHBgZ2fAA

That’s a valid point, however, the people playing many of these specs don’t fully know what they’re doing either, which means the damage is going to get even worse as people figure out what does and doesn’t work, and as rotations get cleaner.

This weekend, with everyone playing the new Elite specs, damage is out of control. People are dying before they can even have a chance to dodge. Some of the most prominent examples I’ve found were:

Dragonhunter. If you can land your traps, and keep them inside (Extremely easily with Elite trap/Bow5/hammer 5/ GS5), they’re going to go down, and there isn’t much they can do about this.
Chronomancer is burst mesmer on Steroids. I was trying out a full cleric druid, and There was absolutely no point in trying out that build, because nothing can stand up to their burst.
Daredevil can really lay on the hurt, and when they use their new elite skill, you stand there, just scratching your head, unsure of what happened, because you had 33% of your health left.

I haven’t faced a Scrapper yet, and every time I go up against a Reaper, they’re with a Chronomancer or Daredevil so I can’t speak as to how big their damage its by itself.

So, how can I start defending against this? Specifically Chronomancers? I can kill a DD in 1v1, but Chronomancers still leave me scratching my head because I lose most of my health before I can dodge roll.

Thanks for the advice, guys!

Yes! Luckily for me, however, I never let them get above level 30. I made close 6 of each class that I currently have at 80 as difference races/looks for a few levels, until I was absolutely 100% sure I loved them.

I like it! What are the green dyes you’re using?
Yeah, I haven’t been able to find a medium armor headpiece that screams,“WOODSMAN”. I like the pirate hate, the only issue is it cuts off all character’s hair, so It’s a no-go.

Hello folks! I’ve found a look I really like for ranger, and after a few hours of playing around with the dyes I have (I have a ton), I just can’t find a combination I like! So, I need some assistance from people who are good with colors:

My ranger is a female Human, her gear is as follows:

Noble Coat
Stalwart Shoulders
Whisper Boots
Sneakthief Pants
Mistwalker gloves

I am looking for earth-tones, but I am not having much luck in a good combination.

Can you guys help me out by giving me some recommendations of dye combos for this gear or some screen shots?

All your help is greatly appreciated!

Some abilities are instant cast that don’t have an animation, and you can link several of these together.

In the case of a Mesmer: they can use sword 3 to create a clone, if they already had 2 clones up, they’ll use sword 3 again to root you AND teleport to you. From there, they’ll activate a shatter (hits 4 times, each clone and the player), while using sword 2, and if they had Mantra of Pain charged up, they can also cast that at anytime during this rotation without interrupting themselves.
The combo can result in a huge burst.

Dagger/ Pistol Thieves can also do a combo like this: they use pistol 5, then dagger 2. This makes them leapt through the smoke field to gain stealth AFTER THE ANIMATION (this is important to remember). Then,, they can use steal to teleport to you mid animation.
This combo results in the damage from mug(if traited, steal does damage), dagger 2. They gain stealth right on top of you, since stealth is gained after the damage, then they will throw a backstab in before you can roll away.

All classes can do this to some extent, but the classes that can do this the most are thief, ele, and Mesmer.

I’m going to have to agree with the other guys in this thread. You’re trying propose a fix for something that isn’t broken.

It’s similar to how someone in the Thief forums proposed getting rid of weapon swap CD for thieves, because they don’t have weapon cool downs anyway.

Thieves do not need Heavy armor. Actually armor classes don’t matter in the slightest in this game. D/D Elementalists are one of the tankiest professions despite have the absolute lowest Health pool and armor class in the game.

If you’re having trouble with D/D, switch to S/P in dungeons for PvE and use the 3 evade spam or 5 blind spam.

MaineDutch.8352:

I am currently having this same issue. The launcher just disappears after you are clicking “play” correct?

It doesn’t even show up in my Task Manager after I hit it. The launcher just closes.

Yep! This same thing happens to me. I’m at a total loss what to do.

Hello! The launcher works fine, but once I log in and click “play” nothing happens. Even after sitting for a while, the game won’t launch for me.

Any tips?

I run 5/6/0/0/3 in PvE with S/D and D/D. Use signet of malice. If you land a cleaving Pistol Whip, that’s almost a full health pool. Pistol Whip is also evade spam, so that should help you survive too.

You don’t need to be so Toxic OP. This is an MMO. Builds get gutted and new builds become viable every update. That’s just how it works. Stomping your feet and yelling at members of this community won’t change anything about that. The only thing you can do is figure out how to adapt. I’m sure you’ll find a new build, eventually. After HoT comes out mesmers look like their going to be in a very good position.

I wouldn’t worry too much.

Well, the good news is, a full set of exotic gear is cheap. And if you can’t afford it, you can get the stats you’re looking for from dungeons and PvP tracks, with patience.

As for Ascended, if you made a full zerker set for PvE (The only place it is required only in high level fractals), then you’re still going to be fine. Ascended is not mandatory and you are perfectly fine with using Exotic armor.

If you didn’t make a zerker set of ascended, then you are still probably going to be fine. Most builds look like they will be even stronger after hoT releases, and even if they aren’t going to be stronger, they will be still be viable.

Thanks! I missed the listing fee, since I paid it up front. Wow, it’s not very clear about what happens to your money.

Hello all, last night, I sold a weapon skin for 125.5G. This morning I logged in to see I had 112.95 silver waiting for me. While this was great, that’s 90% of 125.5. I thought the TP put a 15% tax on everything, so I was expecting 106.67

What happened to the 5% fee?

Thanks all!

How do you guys like the new Balthazar Weapons? I’m not a fan of the sword, rifle, and bows. However, the Great sword looks amazing! It looks like it’s the perfect balance between a Hilt and blade. The blade isn’t too long or wide either!

So, stealth isn’t applied until the end of the leap. If you notice you can black powder→Heartseeker. Your heart seeker will do it’s damage THEN you are stealthed. So, you can combine your leap through black power with steal to apply heart seeker damage and mug damage before the stealth takes effect, putting you in a great position to backstab.

As for gear: I have 3 main sets.
Rabid gear and trinkets for a trapper build I use in WvW
Berserker gear and trinkets for PvE
Soldier gear and berserker trinkets for WvW Zerg play.
I have a zerker GS, Sword, LB and war horn.
I have a rabid Sword, Dagger, Torch, and Axe for my reaper build.
My last is star dust, a celestial SB. Fairly cheap on the TP too!

Learning the “tricks” is pivotal for playing thief. Most of them are simple too! For example:
Start casting Cloak and Dagger (precast) and right before the cast bar is finished, use steal.
Always use mug. Always. It’s one of our best traits.
For d/p: cast blinding power and leap through it with heart seeker to gain stealth. Note that the stealth is applied at the end of heartseeker, after the damage is applied. This means you can lay down black powder far away, use heartseeker, then during mid cast, steal. This will damage the opponent with mug, heartseeker, and blind them. You’re also positioned well for a quick back stab! That’s a lot of burst pressure with one combo!

For sword teleport:
If your behind a column or rock, and have an enemy targeted, you will teleport through the object to your opponent. This means you can potentially surprise them and then return to a spot they can’t see!

Hello everyone, I would like your thoughts on a double Melee build I made.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAR8YjEq0waLLesw1aAAhaVA0OHahn19RsDj9JrIKTA-TZBHwA42fowBBgwVAAwDAoZZAA

I really really enjoy this build in Duels, and I would like to use this build on regular sPvP. I’m just not sure how to contribute to the team with it. I was thinking about using it similar to a thief, Back capping and +1 fights. It’s strengths are tons of evades on weapon skills, reduced damage from bark skin, and good condition removal/fury uptime with SotF. I don’t have problems with people kiting me either, since I have chill on swap and so many immobs/cripples.

A plus side to this build is it is not meta, or even close to it, so people have no idea how to fight it, since they’re expecting LB pew pew when they see the GS.

I’m excited to see the critiques!

I main a thief.
What’s wrong with Phantasm builds? I play phantasms on my Mesmer with iDefender, blink, A mantra (pain or cleanse, depending on team setup). I love the rotation I use after baiting out some dodges with GS auto. GS4→5→3→sword/pistol→4→5→3→ 3→2 is great CC/damage pressure; then I usually pop iDefender to get some damage reduction for their counter attack.

I’m just curious as to why no one ever plays a phantasm build? I never see other Mesmers using them.

Necro is the most straight forward, then Elementalist. Finally Mesmer is the hardest, just because a lot of their skills are weird (in a good way) and unique.

The hardest thing about elementalist is learning what your instacasts are that you can just during channels, and how to blast your combo fields effectively.

Fortunately for you, no class in this game benefits from standing still and attacking! In this game, as soon as you stand still, you are dead.

As for your classes:
Elementalist is strong in every game mode. Their D/D builds are bruiser builds that are highly mobile. They also have staff for extreme long range. That satisfies both of what you described.

Mesmer is a lot of fun. And they arguably have one of the best ranger weapons in the game, GS, since only one attack is a projectile that can be reflected. Member sword is great too. It’s Auto attack rips boons, and it’s 2 skill is a burst+evade. They have lots of I combat mobility and are a good class if you ever want to be out of the box. Noobs will also think you’re the most overpowered class in the history of MMO’s, which is funny.

Warriors and Guardians both make great squishy bruiser characters. The difference is, Warrior has more passive defenses, while guardian has more active defenses.

Ranger is great as well. I’m sure you’ve already discovered just how potent the LB is. Ranger Melee builds can get nasty too. Using a sword/Dagger + GS is a lot of fun, especially when you can rely on your pet to use immobilize.

TL;DR, I would probably recommend either elementalist for you, or ranger. finally, don’t let anyone tell you a class is useless. They are all viable in PvP.

Keep in mind, I don’t WvW, I mostly PvP with my thief, but for me, the answer is always berserker. S/D accro gets so much vigor and so many dodges, you don’t need toughness when you’re completely negating so much damage from dodges.

Also, instead of using pack runes, I use Air runes. I love forward withdraw+swiftness at the start of a match, and for getting aroudn the map quickly. The damage proc on the runes will stun the enemy if you have Basilisk venom up too. This is really useful if someone catches you unaware. They hit you while you have Bask venom up, the proc goes off for ~2.5k and they get stunned from the Venom! That gives me enough time to either get out, or re-position to a better spot. It also disrupts their rotation a lot.

That’s why I use S/D too. You should definitely use stealth, because you can, but a lot of times, you won’t be able to, due to either CD’s or too far away, or initiative issues. That’s why S/D is so strong. You don’t need stealth to survive when you can dodge!

Dodge spam is why S/D is so good in PvP, no to mention it’s unparalleled mobility.

As a note, I’m a bit weird. I don’t use SR. instead, I use Blinding Powder, Scorpion Wire, and ShadowStep.

Hardly any one uses the scorpion wire, so no one ever expects it.

Without looking at your build (I’m on mobile, so I can’t.), the meta S/D build is 2/0/0/6/6. As for burst, S/D is on the lower end of the spectrum, just because it doesn’t have damage like backstab does. It’s main strength is the daze pressure it brings. Instant daze on steal, and daze from stealth. You’re going to catch a lot of necros trying to get their heal off while you’re in stealth for a perfect daze interrupt.

One mistake I made made early on, is I would waste intiative and never land #3 while trying to set up Larcinous Strike. Now, I just the 3 skill when I need an evade and attack at the same time, otherwise, I just go for dazes. Apparently, people don’t like the daze spam. Haha.

Truth is, I feel dirty when I take a gulp of plasma in a 1v1. Thieves already do enough damage to meanders, without insult to injury!

Being able to save bundle would be amazing, however, I feel that would be way too overpowered! Even if you did prevent using 2 bundles back to back.

How much does the Gunk tick for per second? And is it 1 condition per second?

I’m just curious to what the community’s opinion is on stolen bundles! This has nothing to do with who you enjoy fighting the most, just their bundles!

My least favorite: it’s a toss up between the ranger and engie’s stolen item. Both form combo fields I don’t want. I primarily play S/D, so I can’t really use the Combo fields, but when I play as D/P, I want my smoke fields, not a water or ethereal field!

My favorite: Guardian
I feel like this one is a bit odd. But, my favorite way to play S/D is the daze spam, which really kittenes people off (and I love it!). So, more daze is always good! And it’s a freakishly long daze, to boot!

So, what are your favorites/ most hated bundles?

In short, Yes. Some builds are. Turret builds are borderline broken in bunkering points in PvP, but useless in every other game mode.The Cele rifle might stacking is also too strong. But that’s not the class, it’s the over powered Celestial amulet that’s breaking PvP atm. S/D builds are fine. They’re easy to kill, but they kill easily and you have to play smart.

Have you tried a double Melee ranger? GS+ Sword/dagger? It works great! Pop hydromancy sigils and use muddy terrain to keep on enemies. Sword auto also has a cripple on it, in addition to being a leap chain- no one will get away from you with MH sword. You also have dagger 5, it’s a ranged cripple to catch up to fleeing prey. Both weapon sets have a gap closer, and both evade spam.

Just got out of a game with an invisible ranger. We obviously lost while He was goading us the entire time. This tells me he was intentionally cheating. How can I RELIABLY report him? Because I don’t have any faith, what so ever, in the in game reporting method.

Aeicaan.4309:

I haven’t played for over 2 years and recently came back, leveled my engineer to 80 and done various stuff but now I would like to level another class, it’s between guardian and warrior for me. I mostly do spvp but I dabble in wvw and pve as well.
If any experienced, mostly spvp, player would be so kind to tell me how the meta has changed during the months/years it would be appreciated. I’ve tried most builds from metabattle.com and I dislike shoutbow, the whole cele / bunker thing isn’t my play style per se but I did like hambow and I do like medi guardian. I don’t have a team or anything serious but I play with my friends and I would like to stay updated with whats good or not so my question is again.
How has the meta changed for warrior and guardian over time and any idea where it will go?

You don’t actually have to play meta builds to have fun, you know! I have lots of fun, and good success with a trapper ranger build I made. It excels in situations where the enemy has to come to me (treb duty/skyhammer, etc.).
The point is, try them both out. If you don’t enjoy warrior meta builds, and can’t find any builds that work and that you enjoy, it sounds like guardian is the way to go.

I run 5/6/0/0/3 in all things PvE
S/P for evade spam with healing Signet. I don’t have any problems at all. If things get hairy in a mob of enemies, switch to SB and empty your initiative with poison cloud. The conditions, and damage ticks from all the fields will heal you up freakishly fast with the signet.

They can potentially daze→switch wolf for controlled knockdown→ fear → daze again(if lucky)
It is a bit much. However, warrior’s downed state is nothing to scoff at. Especially if you build for reviving on a kill while 3 is active.

Some professions just have a great downed state. However, I don’t believe Rangers should be allowed to switch pets while downed. It gives them too many CC’s when trying to stomp.
Warrior’s 3 downed state can be pretty great at securing a draw as well. Mesmer’s downed state is strong in a group fight. .
For combat, the theives downed state is bad. It’s great at disrupting stomps, but can’t defend itself.
Ele’s 2 skill is incredibly powerful in WvW but not as useful in PvE.
They all have strengths and weaknesses.

This game isn’t like other MMO’s. There isn’t much of a gear creep. ArenaNet has made it pretty clear that Exotic will stay perfectly viable for a long time. That being said, Fractals are still end game. They have also introduced Ascended armor and weapons. While the armor has slightly higher stats, it requires an immense amount of time and resources. A casual player like me wouldn’t even begin to consider crafting a set. It just isn’t required. Exotic will still be more than enough to even play in high-end WvW, if you so desire.

Right now, The new story content is a bit tougher than Orr, but it is still level 80.

Shadow step does wonders to combat this. It gives you 2 stun breaks in one skill. If you’re getting juggled, use it. Then stealth up and run away, and strike when it better benefits you.

Now that I think about it, I did have them in an invisible bag. That would be why putting them in my bank and pulling them out fixed the problem. I had no idea that putting items in an invisible bag would prevent selling them on the TP! I always thought it was for just vendors.

No, they’re in my inventory. My only options are “Use”, “Mail To”, “More more at the TP”, and “Destroy”

EDIT: I fixed the problem! For some reason, storing them and pulling them out of my bank twice fixed the problem… weird bug perhaps.

Hey folks, any idea why I can’t sell my perplexity runes on the TP? I bought them a while ago and was hanging on to them for a price surge. I haven’t equipped them in any armor or anything.
Thanks!