Guild Wars 2

So basically, it comes down to the same thing as living near Volcanoes in that most of them live near the Dragons because of the Energy they emit. I really hope this Expansion moves into Kralkatorric’s territory next. :/

I was thinking about this earlier. Are there inherent benefits to living close to them? Such as living close to a Volcano gives you beautiful scenery and extremely fertile land?

For example:
The Human City of Arah was right on top of Zhaitan.
The Norn were living close enough to Jormag to be forced out
The Asura were extremely close to Primordus and built their central transit hub on top of him!
The Krait have been living close enough to Bubbles to force them out.

Kralkatorric I don’t know enough about (Despite being my favorite). Same goes for the Jungle Dragon.

Thanks Aaron! That actually answered all of my questions!

Why is he special and get so many champions? I just finished the Stormy Mode! And after hearing people bashing it, I must say, it was much better than any of my expectations! The air battles were awesome! I had been wanting to be in an air ship fight since I first saw Fort Trinity!

Also, I killed the Mouth of Zhaitan. Does he just have more than one despite the game implying there was only 1?

And can someone summarize what exactly happens with Destiny’s Edge to get them back together (I don’t have enough time to do all of the Story Mode dungeons. ).

I just tried it, and I don’t think it gives the same regeneration time either. I’ll have to try it out some more.

What about the different stacks of bleeding? Is it intentional, or a bug?

Are there any internal cooldowns not mentioned with this trait? It appears to only go off sometimes. Also, I’ve noticed it adds 2 stacks of bleeding instead of 3. Is this a bug?

I main a ranger, and based on that, I find it funny that you complain about thief mobility. My sword 1 literally makes it impossible for my opponent to run. It has two leaps (TWO) and a cripple in the three attack chain. And if a thief stealths? Entangle. If I need to get away, sword 2, turn 180 degrees, and press 2 again.

Now, to address a thief’s stealth.
-Guardians have symbols they can lay down and their shield bubble to push out and away of a shadow refuge. If you’re in a pinch, pop Sanctuary or hammer 5.
-Mesmers can stealth too! If that doesn’t work, laydown a chaos field and have a picnic. For shadow refuge, yank them out with the focus.
- Engineer’s can lay down a mine and face their back to it and then throw out a mine field, just to be safe. Or hide in a elixir gun puddle. Or a glue puddle. Or run around using the flamethrower cone to find them.
- Warriors have their huge longbow AoE field and invulnerability with Endure Pain.
- Necromancers can just sit in their marks and/or wells.
-Ranger can use muddy terrain, any of their traps, their longbow 5 to damag and cripple.
-Elementalist- Focus earth invulnerability, staff meteor shower, earth staff crippl line, mist form invulnerability. Don’t forget about their stun field on staff either.

Each class has multiple ways to do damage to thieves in stealth and/or create a place to hide in while the thief sits in stealth if they don’t want to take damage.

synk.6907:

Has there ever really been an MMO wherein the PC can be “bad”? I mean, more than just saying a few mean things or being a jerk to a companion NPC.

Play the Sith in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Some of the stories in that game were absolutely incredible! I still play the story, just to experience the story lines(I treat it like a single player MMO.).

Seriously though, playing a Dark Side Sith Sorcerer was INCREDIBLY satisfying! Being very different from this game, the voice acting is VERY well done in that game.

Agreed. I’ve always had this notion that I need to be using a Longbow in a zerg, just to the fact I associate long range with a classic longbow. Up to this point, there really wasn’t much of a point in using a longbow over shortbow. Now we have to choose, which I feel like is good game design.

I have no qualms about this change. I feel like this is how it should have been since launch. It makes no sense, and it has always made the Longbow obsolete.

His fire shield was his sword 2 skill and Great sword 3 skill, both are leap finishers. This means he was also probably using torch as his off hand because the 5 skill creates a fire field. What color was the cat? If it was black/dark grey it was the jaguar. Squishy, but hits hard and auto crits during its stealth.

Sorry for the confusion! I’m planning on doing WvW mainly.

I appreciate the reassurance Cufufalating. Could you clarify why it’s better for us than other classes?
Thanks! I’m going to go with the Reyna’s set first, and slowly build my way up from there. I’m going to have to settle for sub-superior corruption runes for the time being, until I can find an exotic torch.

The Video you posted, Cempa, was incredibly helpful. Wow! Thank you.

Thanks! I think I’ll go for power, the gearing definitely seems a lot simpler for it. Any recommendations on runes to use? Also, should I go full Soldiers, or mix it with another set?

Fresh 80 ranger here! I’m not really sure where I want to go from here. I don’t really have the time or the resources to try on my own either, I’m afraid.

I’m not really sure what the pro’s/con’s of running a power BM bunker versus a condi BM Bunker. I see people saying you need Apothecary for a Condi BM Bunker, but everyone I talk to in game mentions how horrible healing power is. If this is the case, I can just run Soldier’s gear and a power bunker.

Next, for my traits: I have 0/10/30/0/30. Is this the standard build? Should I move my 10 points into skirmishing into nature magic? Neither Skirmishing, Marksman, or nature magic’s 10 traits look very good to me, so I must be missing something.

As for my weapons, I’d like to keep some form of ranged weapon, since I’ll have to use sword/dagger. I’d like to use Shortbow and then switch to longbow when I’m with a group. Will this work? Even with a power build, The shortbow seems like it can hold its own with damage from the autoattack, with out the bleed.

All of your input is much appreciated!

Hello! I’m looking for some good looking longbows, which seem to be desperately lacking in this game. I can’t afford the Ice bow, or Azureflame, otherwise, I’d be all over those.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Also, am I the only one that thinks hardly any of the current long bows look remotely decent?
Currently I’m using a krait longbow, and I’ll probably just transmute the beaded long bow once I find an exotic that has the stats I need.

I suppose I’ll have to give both heavy armor professions a try! I’ll see what I like better. So far, I’m really enjoying building up my crit chance and using kill shot.

That’s disappointing. Thanks for the replies everyone. I’m still having an enjoyable time using the rifle to snipe enemies. Guess I’ll just jump on the band wagon!

Hello everyone! Lately, I’ve found that I prefer “the best offense is a good defense” type of play in this game. However, I haven’t seen any bunker builds on this forum yet, it’s all ’Zerker this and ’Zerker that.

Do any decent bunker builds even exist for warriors? I keep hearing about how squishy they are, despite having high health pools. Healing shouts and Apothecary gear definitely interest me too. Will I be forced into having to use berserker gear to be competitive in dungeons and WvW?

Thank you for all the replies! It makes me feel a lot safer after hearing from you all. Just going to stick with my axe/torch and SB!

Nice to see that I’m not alone in my scorn for the sword!

Hello everyone! I currently have a level 60 ranger. Lately, I’ve been using short-bow or longbow and axe/torch. I’m eventually going to be traiting to be a BM bunker build (slowly making my way there now). Something I’m a little apprehensive about is being pigeon-holed into using a sword. I really don’t enjoy having to take my auto-attack off, and even when I do, it’s still a pain to dodge. I don’t like having to rely on skill delay to dodge. Will I be at a major disadvantage without using a sword? I’m a very casual player, and I play what I want to. I’m not focused on solely doing WvW or PvE.

I have been to ebonhawk actually! The main gate is awesome! What is the historical significance of the city though?

Hello everyone! I’m posting here because each race has different recruiters. What is the black/brown color he uses on his order of whispers coat? I want it!

Thanks! So would it be probable for a street rat or commoner to learn magic, or is it something that the powerful tend to have due to something like a monetary cost? I’m just trying to figure out if from a lore-point, my Mesmer makes sense (He’s a street rat)!

Is magic learned or inherited in Tyria? For example: Are you born being able to summon a blood fiend or born being able to create illusions?

The wonderful thing about humans is that every profession makes perfect sense. Noble story line + Warrior/Guardian,Thief+ Street rat, and commoner+Ranger make the most sense to me, however.

Something I just noticed. Both the Human Tier 2 medium and heavy, and the Tier 3 heavy all have wings/bird motifs. The t3 cultural weapons also have a lot of “Wing-y” looking parts to them. Is it because Dwayna is the “head” god?

The only thing that worries me about a MH pistol, is it still does nothing to supplement our lack of AoE. I’d like a weapon that will give us more AoE.

The core of the Mesmer class is to confuse your opponent. :P Everything your asking for the Mesmer has! The Necromancer is the summoning class (You can have 5 minions following you around!).

Throwing Knives!

Who is Mordremoth? I tried searching for him on the Wiki, but nothing came up.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infinite_Light

Found it! I’m not level 80 yet, and I haven’t fooled around with the Mystic Forge, are these ingredients difficult to find?

Thanks! Are they attainable for players? If so, where can I get a pair like his?

Search for “Acolyte” light armor in the TP It’s the exotic Acolyte light armor that goes as low as the low 70’s. I dye’s wonderfully!

That’s an awful lot of purple and butterflies for a necromancer!
Also, can you get the swords he uses in game?

Yes, this is a popular topic when it comes to new potential weapons for the mesmer. I for one, would like to see throwing knives (Daggers) to supplement our lack of AoE (Bouncing attacks, barrage-type attacks).

Hello! This is my first attempt at a build. Now that I’m level 73, I need to start thinking of one. The build relies on phantasms and conditions from staff for damage, but It’s primary role is to help healing and overall support for the group During Dungeons and for WvW.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8al4zioXVTlGaNJhJF9G5nUAdnjqA2LpA3xG;T8Ag2yrEMJhSdlCKqbM3Iuxuj7G5OrSGLs3A (You will probably have to copy/paste the link)

First off, Would this build even work??

Second: For my stats, is my toughness too high? Should I put more into healing power?

Also, would it be possible to only use Mantra of healing and Mantra of pain for the healing from mantras and replace the Stability mantra with portal or Blink?

Thanks for your opinions!

Thanks for your advice everyone! I’ll continue using it as a defensive tool! I’m really enjoying the survivability that comes with Necros!

Hello everyone! I just made a new necro, and was wondering how to use the Death Shroud mechanic properly. The life force for it drains very fast, and the damage seems pretty pitiful compared to my axe or staff (Currently lvl. The only skill that seems useful is the “4” skill because it’s an AoE life steal, which is pretty cool!

Thanks for the advice!

Legendary weapons are supposed to be ridiculous. That’s why it’s optional and not required to be optimal. If want an awesome pistol, check with the Order of Whispers or Vigil. Glyphic pistols look pretty great too!

Edited the original post a bit to make the “2” skill more interesting and more balanced. Thanks Electro for the suggestions!

Electro.4173:

Giving 2 seconds of immunity to all damage (other than DoT’s) to every ally in front of you every 6 seconds would be broken as heck, I think. I appreciate the thought behind the skill, the idea of using a unique aspect of Mesmers to buff other players, but Distortion is just too powerful for that sort of thing. While its more boring, it’d probably be better to stick with a “random boon applied to allies” sort of mechanic ala Chaos Storm. And probably kick the cooldown up to 8 seconds.

You could make the skill a little more unique by having the daggers thrown into the air and then fall down in a spread pattern and burst on impact, with each creating a small AoE (would be ground targetted). It wouldn’t be random, would have a set pattern of 5 blasts in a ) shape and the ground targetting would reflect that shape like how something like Fire Wall shows you the area the wall is going to cover. Though that would make the buff aspect less useful as allies would need to be at the point of impact rather than just the general flight path and it wouldn’t allow close-range stacking on enemies. But if you’re looking for a less “Ranger Splitblade made purple” while still working a multi-dagger angle it would work. Could bump it up to 2-3 stacks of confusion to make up for the lack close range stacking

Having a clone that applies cripple using a basic ranged attack also seems like it could be a tad too powerful. Get a couple of those out and you’ve got a self-sustaining perma-cripple. Maybe just have the dagger stab itself apply a cripple rather than the clones.

Other than that, looks like a pretty fun and interesting moveset.

I appreciate you critiques! I was just throwing ideas out there really, I didn’t even think about being able to keep your allies invulnerable 1/3rd of the time with that either. It would be broken as heck! I would like a way to pass distortion to allies in some way (Since it’s specific only to mesmers). Even throwing The dagger up in the air and have them “Rain Down” for a targeted AoE would work, with a cool animation to boot! That way, it wouldn’t be nearly as hard to hit allies with the buff. Ultimately, everything would be left to the developers, I’m just throwing out ideas for a cool weapon to augment mesmer’s lack of AoE in the game currently.

Thanks for supporting! I have always thought throwing knives were the coolest type of weapon in fantasy games, and it’s a shame more don’t have them!
The difficult thing about it is making it unique to the mesmer and not too close to any class, thief especially. I actually feel my “2” skills is wildly uncreative (Just taking split blades animation and making it purple essentially) .

Hello everyone! I know that a lot of players are asking for a mainhand pistol option for Mesmer, however, I fail to see how a pistol fits that class description. When someone mentions daggers for an illusionist, throwing knives immediately come to mind.
It would be both off-hand and mainhand weapon. Mesmers are severely lacking in the AoE department as well, and this would help to fix that.

Mainhand:
1.) Dancing Dagger- A simple bouncing attack that bounces twice (maybe even three times)
2.) Barrage- Raindown illusionary daggers on a targetted area for 4 seconds. Allies caught in the effect are granted random boons, while enemies are crippled for the duration. 10 second duration
3.) Vanishing Act (Or something creative like that, feel free to give suggestions on any skill names!)- Stab the foe with a dagger, and blink behind and away from the foe leaving a clone that uses dancing dagger and inflicts vulnerability. Leap combo finished 10 second cooldown (with out the trait)

Off-Hand:
4.) Blade Wall- Conjure illusionary blades around your self, granting retaliation. This skill can be activated while the Blade wall is active to blow back enemies, provide protection (5s) and distortion (2s) for allies nearby, and act as a blast finisher. 20 second Cool down. Detonating the Blade Wall increases the cooldown by 50% (30s).
5.) Illusionary Cutpurse. Phantasm. This Phatasm has a recharge of 15s. He will attack enemies from behind inflicting random conditions (Chill 4s, Weakness 5s, 3[Maybe more?] stacks of Bleeding 5s, Burning 5s, or Fear 1s) while doing decent damage for every attack. 25 Cooldown.

Thoughts and suggestions are appreciated thanks for reading!

I’d personally rather have daggers (off and main-hand). I think they fit extremely well with the whole “Carney” theme behind the class.

I don’t necessarily see a noble when I think of a mesmer (Which is why I made mine a baseborn-smallfolk). Mine is more of a robin hood type illusionist. The kind that enters a noble’s party under the pretext of a fool and while his illusions dazzle them, he walks around cutting purses. Dagger fits this idea of the mesmer quite well.

Alberel Leonhart.9640:

Mesmer and engineer are probably the two best professions underwater at the moment. Most of the others see an exceptional drop in damage output.

As a tip for mesmer though, use the spear for the illusions and the trident for ranged attacks. The illusions on the trident aren’t that great but the ones on the spear are incredibly potent.

I don’t even switch to the harpoon anymore on my mesmer, after I realized the basic clones from trident inflict confusion with their auto attacks!! :O That is an incredibly powerful debuff! Only thing is that when you use it on an enemy that is affected by the anchor (skill 5) then there is a bug that gives the confusion a chance to reflect back to you (I have never gotten more than one stack on confusion on me for this though, so I still use the hard CC regularly).

Hello! I was looking into make an Asuran Elementalist. In the character creation, when you choose your college, it doesn’t really explain what it does. Where as you know what your choosing for when you choose your Charr and Human story line (it explains blood legion and iron legion etc. and explains the lost sister/ looking for your parents). What do the colleges for Aurans specialize in?

I’m really interested in leveling my level 20 sylvari thief, the only problem is is that I’m not really interest in PvP. I know they don’t bring much to a group besides DPS and am wondering if a support thief is actually viable.

Thanks!