Guild Wars 2

1) Yes, but usually as a cond build, there are better power classes out there.
2) By harbinger I’ll assume “herald”, it handles solo content very well, easy to self buff, perma swiftness and fury, glint’s heal depends on damage you take, and mobs won’t stop hitting you, sword #3, shield, hammer #3, all gives evade/blocks, so survivability isn’t an issue even in full zerker gear.

EDIT: Those are also my 2 main classes, I’m not sure which will be my official main character, I’m more inclined to Herald, but my Reaper has more map unlocked so I end using her more often :P

assasin oates.3018:

No thanks, I’d rather not have people from cuckchan attempt to greentext and insert their unfunny forced memes on here like this:

Belzebu.3912:

>Here’s an idea. Give us the ability to sage.

Implying that the devs can change the forum tools, like search for example?

;)

Actually I think there are about 80 Chaks there.
And yeah, just keep kitting then and killing one at time, also Brahan helps by tanking some of them for you.

For high ping against Gorseval , cond builds is the best imo, since even if you fail to dodge the KD attack, your DPS will keep quite stable , but a power build will have the DPS drop to 0 while you are knocked down.
Against the other 2 bosses go for anything, there are nothing that rely in such fast responses.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

piza.9310:

So… you made a post saying that they Anet needs to fix bugs…

Guild Wars forums really needs sage

What is sage? (Besides an herb)

When you make a post, the topic is “bumped” and rise in the forum page, with “sage” function you can tag your post to not bump the topic, usually used when you want to express your idea to a topic you think it is not worth the attention of others.

>Here’s an idea. Give us the ability to sage.

Implying that the devs can change the forum tools, like search for example?

Yeah, the few options you have only affect the same instance the option occurs, the following instances won’t be affected.

HoT is the same story for everyone, also no story branches, perfect for groups

You do get reward from the personal story, IF you also need that story for yourself.
Example, if you and your friends are all humans/street rat/missing sister and later join the same Order, you can do all the story steps together and be rewarded, if you all picked different stuff, try to join the same Order, so from lvl 30 forward you guys can do the story no matter the race.

There is no way to share exp, but exp from kills is just a small part of the leveling, go do whatever you guys want to do together, events/hearts/story all will come naturally , also you guys may try WvW, quite nice exp and as a team you’ll have advantage while roaming, since most roam solo there.

I’m an hoarder in game, so what I suggest it, create a new character, buy a couple bags and send those items to that character.
I have a dedicated mule character filled with those kinds of items.

Celestial Avatar is a mechanic that only the Druid can use … so yeah, Druid has the best CA

ElPewPew.6784:

MamaGumbo.3982:

You have to complete the chapter before you can do achievements on it, though you don’t have to beat the entire season 2 story line to start them.

I see, I’ll try to complete only the chapters I need since I think some of the challenges will be easier on my warrior or ranger.

Thanks!

By the way, you need to try the achieve with the same character you finished the chapter.

Firebird Gomer.9563:

Belzebu.3912:

Raid only takes time when you are learning it, after you can handle it consistently you can:
Knowing that Vale Guardian fight last for 7 mins, Gorseval also last 7 mins, and Sabetha is 10 mins?
Raid state only resets once a week, so you can enter Monday and kill VG, lets say it takes 30 mins for about 3 tries, next day you try Gorseval since VG will be dead, and you try for 30~40 mins, and the next day you kill Sabetha and done, you finished the weekly raid playing around 30 mins a day and only 3 days in the week.

What about the time taken in between each boss? The three before VG, The Capture points followed by the run to Gor, Followed by whatever you need to get to Sab.

What are the times on each of those?

I do think your off the mark time wise by quite a bit.

The thing I LOVE about dungeons is that most times at the most even in a bad group it would take you 40 mins. I have a life outside of GW’s 2 and yet I want to do the stuff inside of GW’s 2 because I’m not locked into it for HOURS on end. And yes I understand what your saying about 1 at a time per day. HOWEVER what happens when you have someone new in the group who needs to get VG done before Gor.

There is even an achieve to kill the 3 “bosses” before the VG under 10 seconds (between the death of the 1st and the 3rd, the fight last about 1~2 mins) …
The torch, capture, wall break before Gorseval takes ~10 mins and the bandits before Sabetha also takes about 10 mins, so it will increase about ~30 mins (counting possible mistakes and breaks) in the whole week.
Well … about the new player, it is a different issue, Raid takes almost no time after you learn it and the group is consistent, just like dungeons was, in the beginning of the game, players said that Ascalon Cataconbs explorable was impossible to complete, look at it now.

What I’m trying to say is, raid doesn’t lock “casual” players because it demands a lot of time, it locks because of its difficult, if you are very skilled player with little time to play (I’m talking about 3 hours per week), you CAN raid without any issues, just like if you have all the time of the world and is not very skilled/organized, you won’t finish the raid.

Moondancer.3874:

What about for people with disabilities is this still illegal?

I’m pretty sure it would still be illegal.
What can be done is 1 button do different commands every time it is pressed, in that case it would be a macro, but only executing 1 command per click/press.

You can try your luck, I agree that it is almost impossible for Anet find out that you are using a macro from your gaming Keyboard or Mouse since from the server side both are identical, BUT if for some reason Anet discovers that, you’ll be banned and you won’t be able to complain at all.
So it is a matter of risk/reward balance.

Eponet.4829:

Belzebu.3912:

Nope, I think all auto attacks that cleave are capped at 3 targets.
Only AoE skills hits 5+ targets.

So solar beam follows the same standard as other skills.

I think Reaper Shroud’s autoattack hits 5, and most piercing projectiles do, but I’m not sure about anything else.

True, most piecing skills is 5 targets, but there aren’t many AA that pierces by default.
RS #1 I personally consider a skill, but yeah, it enters as an exception to the rule

Frostfang.5109:

As what I know of (correct me if I’m wrong) all weapons that hit multiple targets hit 5 targets.

Nope, I think all auto attacks that cleave are capped at 3 targets.
Only AoE skills hits 5+ targets.

So solar beam follows the same standard as other skills.

Arkimedes.8730:

I mostly play solo, though, so without my own fire fields there’s no real way to blast might. I’m now wondering if I should swap elixir gun for bomb kit or flamethrower.

No need.
Thanks to HGH, Elixir gun #4, #5 and F# skill (Healing Mist) all grant 2 stacks of might besides reducing the CD of all of them, and I personally like Healing Mist and EG #5 a lot, it grants so much sustain and helps to hold a point for the whole team since it is an unique source of healing, making it stack with regen and being a light field end giving retaliation to your team.

No need to ask a dev, they gave the answer already:
Policy: 3rd-Party Programs; Multi-Boxing; Macros

NEOCROM.8957:

One more thing. Fastest ways to get lumps of aurillium, airship parts, leyline crystals and the others which you can buy from vendors, craft, etc?

Doing the events and opening boxes of each map.
VB: airship parts
AB: lumps of aurillium
TD: leyline crystals

If you paid for HoT with Raid in mind and isn’t part of a guild that try to raid, then I really don’t know what to say.
I strongly suggest trying to join one, your vision of the whole thing will change for the better.

Raid was meant for organized group, but as a pug the difference is that you’ll take much longer in the learning phase, but after a while many players will know the mechanics and the chances of succeed will increase, also the raid instance is tied to the commander that generate the instance, so if you succeed, talk with the squad commander and schedule another try.

Raid only takes time when you are learning it, after you can handle it consistently you can:
Knowing that Vale Guardian fight last for 7 mins, Gorseval also last 7 mins, and Sabetha is 10 mins?
Raid state only resets once a week, so you can enter Monday and kill VG, lets say it takes 30 mins for about 3 tries, next day you try Gorseval since VG will be dead, and you try for 30~40 mins, and the next day you kill Sabetha and done, you finished the weekly raid playing around 30 mins a day and only 3 days in the week.

Thanathos.2063:

It’s not a real problem if you, for example, complete VB on all of your chars (I have 9 and it gave enough XP to get me way ahead of what was needed).

True, that may be the reason why mastery was no issue for me, I also have every class and played with them all unlocking the elite specs and doing the story.

If you explore the maps, do the events, do the story and move on if you find a barrier, you’ll get exp enough to get the needed mastery when you go back to the maps.
It is only a grind if you want it to be, like if you make that “I’ll only leave VB when I map it 100%”, if you impose yourself such condition it will be a really boring grind.

GUN EM DOWN.4078:

They have a chinese server don’t they? i think its just hidden from other regions. They could just make that an OCE server

You realize that the Chinese server is pretty much a separate game, right?
They can’t change to NA/EU servers, they get other mechanics, items, events, etc … it is not even Anet who runs it.

So, you would quit your current GW2 account and buy a new one and start from zero to play in a OCE server?

TexZero.7910:

Ping is a measure of time, not distance. Yes distance can play a contributing role in slightly above average times but it is not the end all be all factor. The most common cause for higher “ping” is actually poor infrastructure and BGP’s. Congestion may also play a role, though its unlikely that congestion is occurring nationwide.

What he meant is that distance is a factor that define your minimum ping time.
Like, I’m from Brazil and due the distance to the server I’ll never have less than 150ms, no matter how good my ISP is, because my data will need to travel through several servers until it reaches the destination.
Meanwhile someone with a REALLY bad ISP that lives in Austin will have a really bad ping of 80~100ms , but on normal days it will be around 15~20ms

Central Tyria mastery also counts, so those with 100+ either played A LOT or farmed CoF for the Central Tyria and then played a good amount with several EXP boosters in the new maps.

TD is the Order of Whispers Cannon, where you need to kill all the Chak Gerent.
VB the Night events are the main ones, where you need to kill all the Bosses in the canopy of the map. but for that you need to secure some points in the map to allow the choppers to land and grant access to the canopy.

Another thing to consider that most of the burn sources has lower duration, and also there are many more sources of bleeding.
I agree that burn should be lowered but burn damage should be higher than bleeding for sure.

Serious Thought.5394:

@Belz- you aren’t flipping. You are farming a map.

OH, I see.
You 1st check the items that in high demand/price and then farm it, I assume also using the weekly map bonuses.
That is quite clever.

Many people knows that playing with TP nets a lot of gold (I’m sure that most, if not all, the richest players gets their income from TP) but for many it is extremely boring or either they don’t quite get what and when to buy materials to flip it and end losing gold instead.

Sigil of water is a good call.
Depending on your build on crit sigils also works well because of the solar beam hits fast.

I personally like the Glorious and the Asura T1 cultural armors.
But yeah, pretty much every medium armor are trench coats.

So … you are begging for gold?

I also crafted my only legendary all by myself and I’m FAR from hardcore, I’m just consistent (I player 30 mins ~1 hour every day since game launch), so if you don’t have the items/gold for the legendary go try to play other parts of the game that gives more gold like Silverwastes or something and get what you need.

Also, any sigil you put in the weapon will be lost.

They could at least make that effect more translucent instead of current bright blink one.

Rabid is the best cond gear you can get with badges of honor

Dojo.1867:

Damage is almost equal to longbow and propably beats GS by a large margin.

What?
I think you are just looking at the numbers that the AA makes and thinking that is actual damage.
Open a tab in the chat box to show the damage you deal and look at the solar beam damage.
Staff damage is VERY low, but it is fast, so as suggested previously, great for on crit stuff to proc.

Are you trying to solo champions?
If so, there aren’t many classes that allow that, and if there are any you need to be a really good player.
Rev/Herald is VERY strong, I finished the story, fully unlocked herald, and all my raid tries were as rev and I go with a pretty glass build, survival was never an issue, specially after herald unlocked and the Glint’s healing.

I think one of the reasons of why people are raging is that the precursor collection should be a very harder but a little cheaper and sure way to get a precursor, but instead now we have 2 options, you either have the expensive but easy way (buy from TP) or the hard and also expensive time gated way (collection), besides the journey itself there is no reason to do the collection.

But the staff AA is an unique source of healing, meaning that stacks with regen, water field blast, the staff #2 wisp, water sigil.
The staff AA healing seems low when you look at it alone, but among all the healing druids can provide the AA is ok.
I only think that the AoE line that it heals should be wider, but the number itself feels ok.

It would BUT:

• Ranger already have lower damage coefficients because of our pets
• Ranged weapons have lower damage coefficients because of the lower risk in fights
• Staff was designed for healing/utility and that usually lower the damage of the skill

Sum all that and you get a VERY low damage weapon by design.

Most players in my guild are over 25 years old, so most has full time jobs, family and stuff.
So we all try raids on weekends.
Also, the raid state only reset on Mondays, so if you kill Vale Guardian on Tuesday, when you log on on Thursday VG will be dead and you can try to kill the 2nd boss.
So Raid is quite nice even for players like us

Name your pet “Ill” upper case “i” + 2x lower case ‘l’ :P

Kinda …
You need one of your characters to join the order to be able to buy the collection unlock item, after that the collection is unlocked account wide.

Are you trying with the same character you did the story mode?
The explorable mode is character bound, not account.

In that case Clerics or Apothecary are excellent choices, I would personally go with Apothecary since power alone vs cond alone the cond causes more damage and also makes your sun spirit much more powerful since the burn proc’d by sun spirit uses the ranger cond damage.

Not much.
For GPU I recommend at least the R9 270
For CPU go for an i5-4590, AMD’s CPU for gaming have a good gap of quality behind Intel

But if you can’t pick both, I would pick the i5-4590 and the r7 250, that way you can turn down a couple graphical settings but the overall performance would be good since GW2 is more of a CPU bound game.

Exactly.
Yeah, if there are other cores it is undocumented so far, currently you can only craft the Auric. At least those weapons are all good looking imo,

After every relog?
That must be other issue, pet’s name only resets when you change pets, like you have a wolf and lynx both named then you change the wolf for a bear and later back to the wolf, in that case the wolf name will be reset.

The recipe I meant for ascended.
The exotic weapon is a discovery, but the only possible one is the Auric version, a “simple” marauder weapon doesn’t exist by crafting.