Guild Wars 2

applied disbelief.8763:

Once you have acquired a skin and incorporated it into your wardrobe collection, does it still cost a transmutation charge every time you want to change the look on a piece of armor?

Yes.
Every time you want to change the skin of a piece of armor/weapon you’ll need to use a transmutation charge.

Temples are not timed events, those are triggered by players, Dulfy’s tool only work for the timed ones.
EDIT: I started to use it last night, it is awesome.

TheGaryTh.1649:

Purplish black with rose pink squiggly things

IMO looks like this ^.

Slither Shade.4782:

forget which temple but one picks you up and drops you causing much damage….use the trait that reduces fall damage by 50%….ive never done this myself but saw it mentioned in chat at the event

That is the Temple of Grenth.

Yes here: http://dulfy.net/2013/12/12/gw2-ascended-armor-crafting-guide/

Dulfy have guides for pretty much everything and all very well written.

EDIT: Ninja’d by Pirlipat >_>
:P

Yeah, you just need to change the skin and it will fit your guardian.

Astralporing.1957:

Can’t get into the game at the moment to check – are there any other new destroyer skins besides staff? If there are, then maybe it will be the new Black Lion set?

Sadly no, that “scythe” is the only different one for now.

Oh so you play as a warrior (I read your temple topic before this one )
So here goes the same suggestion, check the warrior sub-forum: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior

Not sure if you are a warrior or a guardian (both can use sword+shield and GS) so I suggest going to whatever class you play sub-forum and look for PvE builds.

Usually for PvE going full zerker gear and focus in highest damage is the way to go, but the details you’ll find in the sub-forums.

Rym.1469:

It’s not really a staff.

Well, same goes for Lawless armor.

It IS a staff, if you check the description of the weapon you read “Staff”.
In my guild we were talking about it a couple days ago, but we got no where :P so far there are 2 destroyer staff skins but that one looks exactly like GW1 Destroyer Scythe for the dervishes.

They reduced the crit damage and improved all the rest, the function is still fulfilled maybe not as well as before.
It was a balanced stat combo and it still is, the crit damage was an “exploit” imo.

EDIT: Exactly what Smooth Penguin said.

Xillllix.3485:

1- Celestial and Divinity runes do not fufill the same function as they did when we paid for them

Yes they do, its function was to give a balanced build, and it still does, if you bought/made only because of the crit damage, it is your problem.

Xillllix.3485:

2- Some of us spent real money on gems in order to accelerate the speed of acquisition of that gear

That is an option the player made, it can be done w/o spending a single gem.

Xillllix.3485:

3- Some of us spent months crafting celestial ascended gear (I didn’t fortunately) or acquiring laurels for celestial trinkets (that I did)

So? Same happens with the other stats.

Xillllix.3485:

4- We spent in average 60g on divinity runes, celestial ascended mats cost well over 200g

Again, if you got all that only because of the crit damage, it is your problem, celestial was meant to be balanced.

Xillllix.3485:

5- To those of us who had the gear match the build for precise stats our characters are totally broken (~40% critical damage reduction on a character using full celestial gear and divinity runes)

~40% depending on the build.
My engineer rely in a mix of power and cond damage and wear celestial set, my damage is around the same as before and my survivability is a bit better.

Xillllix.3485:

All in all I had to spend about 80g to re-gear my character to be playable again and I’m still not done yet.

Meta builds, traits, skills, etc … all can change anytime and you may want (not need) to change all your gear and spend a lot, but that is how MMOs work.

Xillllix.3485:

By the way, I’m still waiting for my special dyes replacements (especially my 3 charred dyes duplicates), customer support is really slow.

Imagine the list of support tickets they have, also they said that most of the tickets would be attended around May.

Yeah, looks like a bug, it wasn’t supposed to happen.

Each race have a specific prefix on their armor by default (you can see it while you are buying the armor), but after you buy the armor and unlock the skin, you can apply it to any armor with any prefix you want, obeying the race and weight of the armor of course.

Because in PvP you don’t get the status of the gear you have in PvE.
Only from the Runes and from the PvP amulet.

In the top of the screen there is a button “PvP Build” you only get the stats from the gear that is there.

Are you sure that both are rings and not a ring and an earring?
EDIT: Also, are you sure that both are ascended?

Daemon.4295:

What about new methods for obtaining pre-cursors?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Craft-for-Pre-Cursor
The OP of that topic ask about the same thing.

There is a topic for that already: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Game-Updates-Guild-World-Events-Megaservers-WvW

The “soon” part isn’t correct, they just said they have plans of making new legendaries, but there is no sign of when it could be implemented.

“only” 5 hours … anyway … you get Tome of Knowledge as reward in the PvP tracks, use one and you get the level daily, if leveler isn’t the current daily, save it.
PvP counts towards many daily things, daily dodge, daily kills, daily leveler (with the tomes) besides the daily matches, you can get 3~4 dailies every day from PvP alone.
Also I never got more than 45 minutes to finish my dailies.

People are not really sure (at least I’m not ) how to get those right now, you still get rank boxes from PvP and you get armor there (regular ones), maybe what used to be exclusive PvP skins is now in the loot list of those boxes as regular armor.

Well … they could, but add an extra info in every item to track the source of it when you acquire is a lot of data to store and process to do in the servers.
Like if you craft a legendary and then sell on TP the item would need to have stored that was made and not bought, then when someone buy that particular item the source would change from “craft” to “bought”, now imagine that info and the status change to every item craft/drop/bought in the game.

Lankybrit.4598:

Got it. Thanks. I did last night, and got tons of new skins. Shame you can’t get the skin if you sell on the TP.

That would be really bad. That way you could buy a legendary (or any other item from TP) and sell it right away to unlock the skin.

Veril.9408:

Belzebu.3912:

… (BTW I know the trick to have stack sigil in underwater weapon and stack in land but I don’t approve it and I hope Anet fix it soon)…

You don’t need to kill stuff underwater. You just need to start with 2 bloodlust and after getting 25 switch sigils on land weapon (switch weapons).

I know …

Veril.9408:

I assumed that because Strength and Bloodlust count as attribute enhancers they don’t stack (it says it right in the tooltip). Are you sure they both stack together?

Only sigils of the same name and stacking sigils won’t stack.
Sigil of Force and Accuracy stack, but 2x Sigil of Force won’t.
Sigil of Bloodlust and Perception won’t stack.

There is absolutely no new info about precursor crafting or scavenger hunt, so I wouldn’t hold my bets for those.

You can always try your lucky in the MF, just remember that RNG is … random.

If precursor is the last thing you need, then go for it, if not, get all the rest first, you can end having lucky with a drop or till then new info appears, who knows?

You can’t.

PvP and PvE armors are now the same thing.

Veril.9408:

Does strength count as an attribute modifying sigil?

Not really, the might it provides end modifying your power and condition attributes.

Can you use both Strength and Bloodlust together?

Sure.

Veril.9408:

Also what about sigils on the water weapon, do they affect your land weapon at all?

Nope, unless you equip bloodlust sigil in an underwater weapon, stack it underwater and then go to land. (BTW I know the trick to have stack sigil in underwater weapon and stack in land but I don’t approve it and I hope Anet fix it soon)

9 Characters
8 Level 80 (the other one is my key runner )
1 100% map (and other over 80% map)

Salvage: Yes
Vendor/Sell on TP/Mystic Forge: no

About vendor/mystic forge you can right click the item, select “Unlock Skin” then sell to NPC or use on MF, that way you’ll have the skin and still get the item/gold from it.

Teon.5168:

Esoteric.4395:

Banker golem only lasts 2 weeks, I want a sort of permanent solution lol…

My bad on not including the 2 week timer comment……but I still fail to see how going to your bank is such an incredible time waster. /shrug

For gear it isn’t a problem, but imagine this situation.
I have 8 lvl 80, most of them are parked in Frostgorge to farm ori/anc nodes, lets say I have an infinite mining tool, so I would need to:
1 – Login (loading screen) and get tool in my bank
2 – Go to Frostgorge (loading screen) gather nodes
3 – Go back to a bank (loading screen) to deposit tools
Repeat 1~3 6 more times, with an account slot in the inventory I could just put the tools there and save about 18 loading screens and WP fees.

Exotic … nope, you need to craft a new set if you want to change toon.
Currently only Ascended and Legendary gear are account bound.

Ranger is a popular class in every MMO, and it was always a popular class in GW2, the 2nd class made the most.
Now lets see how many of them will keep playing rangers after level 80.

Class: Ranger
Trait: Signet of Beastmaster
Skills: Signet of Stone + Signet of the Wild + QZ
Weapon: LB + GS
Result: Perma invulnerability + stability + quickness with infinite barrage and hilt bash + maul

Now you don’t need to guest, it is usually open 24/7 now.
I think the problem is that when you look at the Malchor’s Leap map when you are outside of it, all the possible contestable WP will appear as contested, but if you go to the map itself it will show the actual state of the WP.

Cost wise the only difference is in the Assassin you use Vicious Claw (40s each) and in the Zerker you use Vial of Powerful Blood (50s each) , the price difference is almost non existent.

The difference on DPS depends on your trait setup and trinkets, if in your traits you have low precision then Assassin make up for that, but if you have other sources of precision like foods, trinkets, sigil, runes … then Zerker will give better DPS.

Tempered Spinal Blades for sure, specially if you have the leatherwork gift of blade recipe.

Light of Dwayna is probably the most expensive one. 50 Icy Runestones and 15 Bolt of Damask are crazy expensive alone.

The rest are in the middle of those, I like the look of the quiver ones.

Follow the EotM train for a couple hours (don’t even need to be consecutive) and you’ll get a couple achieves that are exclusive there also sentries and keeps are WAY easier to get there, also try to bare with 1 boring ruins run, it sucks but it is really easy.
I don’t really like WvW but in about 15~20 hours of WvW gameplay I got the 10 achieves.

Belzebu.3912:

Apparently we’ll wait at least till April 15th, it may appear even later, who knows?

Yup, unfortunately I was right.
Who knows when he’ll appear? Maybe April 29 maybe after the WvW tournament, maybe in the end of Living Story season 2 …

Yeah, you need to learn to dodge better, also use things like mist form and obsidian flesh.
You can also mix a few pieces in your build like Valkyrie and Cavalier to have more vit or tou but keep the power and ferocity, but I agree that elementarist is a very squishy class.

Give a look in the elementarist sub forum and look for dungeon/pve builds, you’ll find good builds there for sure.

1 Yes torment is like all conditions, and it stack like bleeding, by damage and not by time.

2 Yes, if the target moves with torment it will take 2x more damage, so yeah, very significant.

Durzlla.6295:

So overall it’d be a major downside for you, MAYBE in a 5v5/other scenario where you’ve got 4 allies with you, it’d be a DPS increase, but idk for sure.

I really forgot about the healing bonus to power from BM, but a build this squishy needs to be with allies, this build won’t win most 1v1 fights, can’t hold anything so you need to be near your team.

Durzlla.6295:

1) No it’s not, it does equal damage to the shortbow against one target when the 2 is taken into consideration with 0 condi damage, and if it’s against 2 targets, or you’re in a location (IE near a wall or building) that allows you to get a double hit the axe becomes the strongest weapon in our kitten nal (even outshining the sword).

Finally someone who see axe like I see.
At 1v1 axe is out-shined by sword and GW at melee, but in 1v2 axe is our best weapon.

@OP, yes swap 1 of your OH axe for a WH (imo), axe #4 and #5 cooldown aren’t the smallest so while they are in CD you can use another weapon.
Also I suggest making a small change, remove 2 points from BM and add in MM for spotter, the damage you’ll lose from the pet and the Zephir’s Speed you’ll gain from the extra 100 power and 7% crit chance AND you’ll be helping your team with the spotter bonus, those bonuses will be up 100% of the time and more reliable.

Tamuraki.3851:

Neither Sigils of permament boost? Such as Sigil of Force.

Nope, if you have 2x sigil of force only 1 will be used.

Behold the mighty hunter of the snow, a true son of the snow leopard.

My new look.
Since I can use my Frostfang skin in my OH asc axe, I look like the ultimate snow hunter

My ranger after reworking my skins, and my toys

With the April 15th update sigils doesn’t share the cooldown, so now you can have both in the same set.

1) Correct
2) 2 sigils of the same name doesn’t stack
3) read answer 2

You just need to be in combat and be with a melee weapon to the trait be activated, no need to be actively attacking.

Amazing as always, great job.