Guild Wars 2

Yeah, I wasn’t really sure if the Ancient Karka Shell was salvageable, but the “Slot into particular exotics to allow it to be shared, but not recovered.” would be your best bet imo.

Yes there is an official answer.
People that got into the 1st beta received an e-mail saying that it wouldn’t guarantee a spot in the next betas.

EDIT: So you need to keep farming if you want to be in the next beta even if you joined the last one.
And we don’t currently have news about what will have in the beta, but probably the new specialization system will be there.

It should be posted here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor

Since it is a guild looking for players.

Good luck with your new guild

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Wow those seems massively powerful… I hope all classes get skills with that much power…

Some may not be as powerful, they said previously that the classes that only gets an off hand weapon compared to others that get a 2handed weapon will be compensated with mechanics, and seems that mesmer is being rewarded

Chronomancer seems to have a very active play style, can’t wait to play it.

You know that grinding or not, you’ll play the new content sooner or later, right?
Keep playing the game normally and if you end getting the portal, good, otherwise just wait and see.
Chance is that nothing much will be added in this beta.

JohnBourke.8941:

According to this site: http://www.mmoga.de/Guild-Wars-2/Guild-Wars-2-Key/
it will costs about 40 $

You know that site have nothing to do with ANet, they have no info and their guess is as good as ours, right?
Anyway, I think 40$ sounds like a good guess, it will probably be around that.

The /rank isn’t to show your rank finisher, it is to show your rank, but they decided to make that animation a finisher too.

But yeah, I would like to have a /finisher command to show the current one I’m equipped.

Some does, some doesn’t, currently Remorseless has no ICD, let’s see if it will remain like that till launch.

Yes

Oh armor no, just trinkets with laurels.
For armor you either wait for RNGesus hear your prayers or you craft it.

EDIT: You can get 1 guaranteed piece of asc armor of your choice by completing the luminescent set, but the work for that is WAY higher than craft a couple sets.

Motodew.5639:

if I were to purchase a set of cultural armor does it behave like other pieces and unlock the skin accountwide?

Yes, but it keeps race locked to use.

Motodew.5639:

Also, let’s say I have two characters in the priory, buy one set and unlock the skins, it would be available only to my other characters of the same order correct?

Not only to the same order, but to all your characters.
If you want you can use priory chest, whispers helmet, vigil shoulder and so on.

Murderin.8269:

Its a confusing mess of a system.

Yup, the confusing way is the fastest.
The easiest is by laurels, which by the way got higher with the new system if you pick the laurel bag in the 28th day of login reward, but that is the slowest way.

Resuming: If you want it fast you need to work hard. If you want it easy you need to wait.

I was not thinking in the stack buff 1 hit, the OP comment was about stacking before a fight or something, like pop RaO, the sigs , and other party members giving fury then your next 25 attacks have the 100% crit +25% damage.

That is very subjective and also depends if you’ll end playing more PvE, PvP or WvW, but overall I’ll say that guardian, engineer and rangers are really fun to play and have pretty good damage.
Elementalist and thief does a lot of damage but they are too squishy for my taste, you may end liking, who knows?

I don’t think it will stack, but since it only last 1 hit, stack would be kinda OP.
Just pop RaO and go frenzy with all your Opening Strikes

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

This would be any ring, amulet, accessory, or back-item with the following characteristics:

1. Has an upgrade slot of L80 or better.
2. Is at least rare quality.
3. Is account bound.
4. Is salvageable.

Only items that have an upgrade slot are exotic or lower and starting from masterwork all are soulbound.
Ascended are account bound but isn’t salvageable or has a upgrade slot.
So such item doesn’t exist.

EDIT: Actually I have an item that fill all that, but you probably can’t acquire it anymore Ancient Karka Shell , oh apparently you still can, read info in the link.

Razor.9872:

I think we can all agree A-net hates Necromancer.

That is more close to the truth.

Rangers are getting some nice changes lately and this next update looks good, most traits I read I see as a good candidate to my build.

Greyhound.2058:

RoseofGilead.8907:

So yeah. Practice.

*and friendly mesmers

That is how I finished that JP, but I died at the dive spot and as the OP, I’m at 37/38

The problem with this JP are the things that shoot you up.
For players with a bit more latency the sling effect starts to act because that movement is calculated by the server and then sent to your client, so you can’t see precisely where you are and where you are going (it is always a gamble), and in such place the slight mistake you fall and lose all your progress, and all because something you have no control.

Same effect happens with the Dry Top sun/wind/lightning elements, the wind one is pretty bad sometimes, I had a hard time in that 1st JP in Dry Top because of that.

They never followed a pattern, usually previous weapons changed from 1 ticket when a new set is released.

For this particular one I’ll say that the discount will end along with the 10th anniversary events from GW1 in May 6th, but there is nothing official, it is my guess.

GW1 spirit was indeed stationary and the range affected by them was HUGE, it would be the equivalent of a 1500~1800 radius in GW2.
But the trick in GW1 is that spirit effects worked for everyone, including enemies, so you had to be prepared, like a spirit that gives ice damage, everyone will cause ice damage, but if your team have ice defense the spirit will have bonus for you.

Anyway, as mentioned before we just know that spirits will be stationary, we still don’t know what other changes they’ll have.

MrInfinit.1864:

We can play the logic game if you really want – you just have to be a bit imaginative!

Poisons? Easy peasy – a corrosive poison eating away the turrets! Bleed? Pretend you’re causing said machinery to leak vital fluids/lubrication/etc, leading them to overheat or jam up.

Imagination++!

I really like the way you see it, and totally agree.

About fear, a dev said that they won’t move, but the interruption and damage in a necro is traited for it will be applied

Logic never existed.
I can make rock golems bleed, fire elemental burn, ooze poison … since day -3

Ahh, I can’t wait to leave work to play and finally finish the luminescent set.

sarasvatri.6871:

Can I just take the AA off auto and hit it manually (assuming fingers of steel) to better be able to dodge at will? Does that even make sense?

Yes, that is how rangers bypass the sword crazyness.
AA manually but don’t just smash it, otherwise it will create a skill queue and the dodge frames will be gone.

It is disappointing now, when it was released it seemed quite nice.
New skins that you could apply for free, pvp skins and wvw badges from all your pve efforts , free gold, gems and laurels, also when it was released many players already had a lot of APs so in a matter of weeks people got tons of rewards from no where.
The problem is that the economy inflated, better rewards is easily obtained and the AP chests keep the same.

Oh the beauty or learn the forum filter, from now on many things you read here will make more sense now that you know the kitten secret.

My female norn mesmer will look so awesome with sword and shield

dobri.7820:

My Q was: Why don’t make 1 core Spec- elite?
so we can’t get -for example arcane and tempest at the same time

Why would they reduce even more the build options?
Arcane would be locked from Tempest just for the sake of Ele exclusivity?

With such build Barbarian, Sentinel and Soldier amulets are good call, since it will make the “above 90% HP” for bark skin have a bigger range.
I can already see a good potential in this build, specially because it use weapons that I really like, GS and Axe

Yeah, depending on the item that was in your deleted characters, they can recover the items, but the character is just gone.

I think you missed a bit of what specialization mean.
The Core Specialization you can pick any 3 of the 5 trait lines and you’ll be specialized there, Eles for example can be specialist in Arcana, Fire and Wind or Arcana, Fire and Water and so on.
Elite specialization will only add a new weapon, you won’t lose the ability of use your old ones (in your example, you can be a Druid with Staff + Longbow), also what changes is that instead of pick 3 of 5 traits line, will have 1 fixed elite trait line and pick other 2 out of the old 5 traits you had.

Guardians are in a great spot right now and I’m sure they will keep in a great spot after the expansion, you can make one without worries of it being useless or weak compared to other classes.

I agree with Mervil, eles are being used a lot as example so it is a safe bet to say Tempest might be the one shown in the next article.

PS: Tempest was one of my favorite Prestige Class in the D&D 3.5 ;D

Yeah, the thief equivalent is a bit better but not that much.
Poison master affect the ranger so all poison applied by the player will have the 50% extra damage, the pet’s poison is just an extra tick of poison.

In a cond build yes, I think it can compete, and that thait in both cases are GM tier.
In a high cond build 50% increase is A LOT, specially now that stacks will be in intensity.

Wuselknusel.4082:

Wow. The new thief trait will give them 50% more damage and 33% more duration.
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/gw2-thief-deadly-arts-specialziation1.jpg

The ranger trait gives you 50% more duration and poison on first hit for your pet.
http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/gw2-ranger-wilderness-survival-specialization.jpg

Don’t know about you, but the thief’s trait sounds more potent to me.

I think you read it wrong.
Ranger poison master will rise poison damage by 50% and pet also cause poison on next attack.
Since condition stacks limit will be removed and apparently all conditions will stack in intensity and not in duration, it is great to have poison from 2 sources.

LughLongArm.5460:

I wounder if this trait will work with swap to the same weapon, it might open up strange 1 type weapon builds. Like RP-> swap to 2 LB -> RP -> RP = 3 RP combo. Same can be done with LB 4.

It may work but not as you imagine.
When you have the same weapon in both sets (or 1 weapon and none in the other) the CD doesn’t reset, so in your example that is what will probably happen:
RF → 10s → swap → RF → 3,4s → RF → 10s → repeat : total 3 RF in 23,4 seconds
Enter combat → swap → RF → 3,4s → RF → 10s → repeat: total 2 RF in 3,4 seconds

Viable in my example is “competitive builds that aren’t meta”.

WereDragon.6083:

Odd I was able to do it just fine a couple months back, I have my full lumi set.

Yes, before the bug. Now you just can’t access the challenge mote at all.

IMO the current scenario is that you can make 2000 different builds but only 4~5 are viable and most classes have 0~2 meta builds. After the update it seems we’ll have like 500 possible builds but 8~10 viable ones and 2~3 metas, that is a RISE in diversity for me.

Yeah, kinda misleading tittle.
Numbers matter for sure, only the current ones are’t final.

If you notice, that post was made 2 years ago … crit damage is the old name of ferocity.
But answering, yes 20% crit damage in the equivalent of 170% crit damage
And yes again, if you have 219% crit damage, that means you have 69% extra crit damage and you use that value to use the chart.

I’m more interested in 5s Path of Scar and point blank shot
Target will keep being pushed back and forward all around

khani.4786:

Ground targeted traps? Did they remove that?

It will be default now, no trait needed.

Oh, good question, I’m not really sure how it will work.

Sina.9208:

Belzebu.3912:

How you would make the post below better w/o using “soon”?

This would have worked with me:
“We cannot promise an early fix, but we understand the seriousness of this blocking issue, as such we will remove the Unforgiving Infiltration achievement from the Seeds of Truth Mastery & try to push this change to live as soon as possible”

You just added more words to say “soon” again.
I know it is frustrating, I also just need the Unforgiving Infiltration for the full set + title + asc piece and so on, but we need to understand that there is a limit on what they can do and say, at least now we are sure that they are working on it.

From what I understood, in PvP all traits and skill will be automatically unlocked, no need for extra gold, points or whatever and if you buy the HoT the elite specialization and related traits/skills also unlocked.

Obtena.7952:

I’m not excited about it. From what I hear, the changes are much more radical than I anticipated. Trying to relearn all this AND do new (supposedly harder) content is going to be interesting at least.

That is probably why the new system will be implemented before the HoT release, so people can get used before the new content.

Yup, I just read about it on reddit, it is amazing

Manuhell.2759:

Hobosacks will be gone, like tears in rain. Time to die…

Nice reference.