Guild Wars 2

Currently most of the maps are kinda empty, except a couple maps where people farm champions and the current meta event for the Living Story.
Lion’s Arch is the city where everyone meets, the place is never empty, even in server with lower population.
WvW is also a place where you’ll find many player for sure.

As you mentioned already, join a guild is a great idea, because even if you are alone you can all use the chat and that feeling of being alone vanish.

You want to change your finisher or how to actually use it?

To change you go to your hero menu “H”, and the 2nd icon from the botton iirc is the finisher menu, then just click in activate the one you want/have and done.

To use it you need to be against a target in downed state, in PvP/WvW it is every time a player is downed, then just get close and press “F” (or whatever key is bind to “interact”), in PvE only a few specific mobs have downed stat, only some toxic and watchwork mobs have it, and then it will be just like in PvP.

It will return for sure, but no one can tell you a date for that.

Timed ascended items can be crafted and sold with profit, specially deldrimor ingot and bolt of damask, the profit isn’t actually high, but it is still profit.
A few foods can also be crafted for profit.

Just the healing skill itself, not other effects or skills that cause heal.

aspirine.6852:

Isnt that the birthday present? As useless as it is, still a reward for hours.

Nope, it is for days.
If you have played 3 hours in the last 375 days, you will get the present.

I have 1.6k hours, 0 precursors drop and all that complaining people are posting, but I don’t think rewards based on game hours would be a good idea. That would incentive people get afk.
The achievement chests and the small rewards you get sometimes from buying gems are good so far.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I think it is pretty unanimously agreeable that the helmet removing Asuran ears and Charr horns is awful, though. They should seriously fix that.

In that part I agree, the aesthetic could keep the same, but be able to keep the ears/horns would be nice.

Nope.
After their announcement nothing else was told, all you have for now is, use all the glory boosters you have and get as much glory as you can.

Escoph.9876:

I might have misunderstood this, but are you saying that what i see on my screen, is differently from what other people sees?

No, what you see is different than what the SERVER sees, but other players see the way you also see.
The smallest asura and the biggest norn have the exactly same hit box for the server, so make an asura doesn’t make you harder to hit, maybe just harder to see.
Weapons are the same thing, it scales with size but the reach of the weapons are the same no matter or what.

Glory will be removed and because of that glory boosters will be useless.

They will announce beforehand when they will remove the Glory and the Vendor, they didn’t give a time yet, but those will be removed for sure in the future.

It is a matter of taste, I really like the Radiant helmet in my sylvari guardian, it fits really well the look of my character, but in my engineer I use radiant glove and shoulder but the helmet doesn’t fit so I use another thing.

Rangers have 1~2 great duelists build, and pretty much nothing else.
Those builds in a zerg fight won’t be useful, in open world PvE is almost useless, in dungeons if you are the only cond build can work but is far from be optimal, and in PvP you just can’t even make it.

Every time I read people complaining about precursor being craftable they think it will be easy to craft it.
Guys the possibility of craft the precursor is not to make it easier/cheaper it is just to have an alternative that isn’t random and doesn’t require direct gold into the TP.
I’m pretty sure that Anet is taking long to do that is to balance the difficult.

Mesmer is great with sword, and is used in many builds, and sword off-hand is also good, so you can dual wield and actually be effective.
Warrior is also good with swords, but is more used in condition builds, but also works in power build, sword off-hand is pretty much a control/condition weapon.
Guardian isn’t that good with swords, sure there are builds that use it but the other weapons are more effective.

You are exaggerating, I never had more than 600g and after I crafted my legendary 150g was my top and I crafted my ascended set.
What makes it expensive is if you want to make it fast, sure it is expensive and hard to get, that is the “ultimate” armor of the game, but it isn’t all that bad.

In the Marksmanship trait line there is a Major trait called Eagle’s Eye, it increase the LB range to 1500.

The image is very small, can you post a bigger one?

EDIT: It looks like the ascended heavy armor

Reverence.6915:

Belzebu.3912:

Not really, high pop server will still have a long queue to the real WvW, the EotM won’t cont for anything in the WvW, it will be just a lobby for people to wait.

Don’t know about other servers, but Blackgate hasn’t had queues for quite a while now.

In that case pretty much nothing is changed.

Reverence.6915:

I just hope EoTM won’t be like Obsidian sanctum, packed for a week or two, then absolutely deserted.

I think that will be the case, in the beginning it will be really popular and everyone wants to test it, then it starts to get “old” and the players will get back to their routines.

I really want to make a Tengu ranger with bird/moa pet and make him like the Quetzals from GW1.

I actually HOPE that Tengus share the same models for both genders, besides small characteristics just like Charr.

You are taking a very high standard to compare.
I play almost exclusively PvE and I’m not sure if I can make 30~35g in a week, even less in an evening.
People that make good amount of gold play the TP, and you can do that from WvW, also try to get all the materials from nodes when you are roaming, specially in the EB and iron/platinum in the BL maps, salvage all the light armors you get, cloth materials are in a quite high price.

I think it will work, the gem restriction is only the level of the item.

Savoy.6824:

now that you have taken away the only down side to being on a high population server

Not really, high pop server will still have a long queue to the real WvW, the EotM won’t cont for anything in the WvW, it will be just a lobby for people to wait.

Yeah, it seems random, during the Season 1 for example, HoD was never the red server, was green for 3 weeks in a row, I can’t see a pattern there.

I wouldn’t say that this pick is “P2W” but it is a step into it for future updates.
Anet need to see that this type of item isn’t a smart idea and can’t try to take more steps into the p2w items.

In game you can type “/wiki Name of the NPC” and the wiki page will open and show what is sold there/dialogues/trivias and everything.

If you are interested in a particular item you can also type “/wiki Name of the item” and see where you can get it.

OptimistPrime.9283:

Belzebu.3912:

stuff…

You are clearly being sarcastic but I want that so bad.

Yes I am, and I also would love it.

You guys are way off, that thing Scarlet saw in the Mists is actually Menzies, Balthazar’s brother, and we’ll go to the Fissures of Woe to give an end for this and while we are there , the Eternal Forgemaster will craft legendary armor.

You can get Natures Voice trait and spam guard, you’ll have perma swiftness.

Well yeah, the chances of be a legit case is almost none, and even if it is legit that player ego must be huge for think that the guild would give 46g to have the honor of having him in the guild, instead of him getting the gold to join them. Sure he could give the gold later but he could do the same thing and get the gold first.

Just like character names, the first one to create it have it, I can’t imagine a system more fair than that.
If the owner of the guild decide to delete the guild then the name will be available.

Besides, you can make a guild with similar name, like “The Ghost Guild”, “Ghosts Guild”, “Ghost Guild I”, imo what actually matter is the tag you pick, since the guild name only show up when you select the player and read that small font under the name.

But it is still a try of scamming, for example imagine that a thief try to rob your smartphone, but you don’t have it and the robber go away, technically he did nothing to you but it is still a try of robbery.

Devs can’t delete guilds just because it isn’t active.
For example I made a guild only to use the guild bank, I’m the only member and I sometimes get months w/o using it.

You’ll have to pick another name.

I would only change Oakheart Salve to something else, I suggest Off Hand Training.
You’ll get tons of regen already, it would be redundant.

Elrey.5472:

did you get the Aetherblade puzzle one? that’s easy to miss

… and hard to get.

Luckily I got it when there was tons of mesmers porting people around.

I was talking more in general, warrior in specific have plenty of better options for cond or power builds.

Oh thanks Kaos.
Hopefully there will be LS steps that involves be in the open EotM, but I think it be only instances there for the LS.

I can’t find the info saying that there will have LS content in the EotM.

I’m pretty sure that if they add LS content in the EotM/WvW you will be able to do the same thing in the open PvE, like the toxic alliance/pristine stuff, you could do that in WvW but not exclusively there.

Check that post in the Player helping Player section of the forum
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/New-Player-Outreach-Resources-Events-FAQs

A lot of info about everything in the game, if you need help in more specific things later, then you can make a post and we’ll try to answer it.

TooBz.3065:

They would work fine in any class, although they are better for power builds.

For condition there are strong rune choices, such as Rune of Perplexity, Torment, or Antitoxin or even Undead.

That is the beauty of the traveler rune, yes there are stronger condition rune choices, but there are also stronger power runes.
Traveler runes is kinda similar to Divinity runes, it gives bonus to every stat, gives a bit of crit damage, cond duration and the very welcome speed boost, so it fits most classes and most builds, making a high demand to that rune.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Do you have a source for the dominion being fully modelled?

Not sure if it was fully modeled, but a good part was, it is in the illustrated book that comes with the Collector’s Edition of the game.

Largos and Tengu are the only races I see that have a big chance to become playable in the future, specially Tengu.
Make a Largos sounds really awesome, and I love the voice acting of them.

Mounts in GW2 was suggested many times and rejected many times.
I’m on the side that mounts here wouldn’t be a good idea at all.

It would be fantastic.
I would buy it for sure and then I would buy the permanent gathering tools and the salvage-o-matic if that bag existed.

Lord Kuru.3685:

They’d lose some money from people buying multiple copies of items (salvage-o-matic, for example) for alts. Would people buying this bag make up for that? Only Anet knows.

I think the money they would gain from the item itself and the other permanent items people would buy because of that bag would be higher than the gold from the “rich alt freaks”

I would love to see how the same APB character creation engine would work with the other 4 races, maintaining nearly the same amount of customization to all races.

If a new class will ever get implemented in GW2, it will take a really long time.
Being optimist I would guess 2 years.

It is very likely you’ll see new maps, continent and races before a new class.

Hopefully a mix of levels.
Maguuma Wastes would allow lower level maps near Brisban and getting higher the farther west it goes.
Crystal Desert, Charr Homeland and Far Shieverpeaks should be level 80 maps.
If new continents like Elona and Cantha ever get released a range of level should be added.

The thing is, full zerker is used in open PvE and in some dungeons where it is very easy or the bosses 1 hit kill no matter how much defense you have.

Also if you want to use full zerker in dungeons like Arah and Fractals you need to be more skilled to dodge the damage and have better positioning, have a bit of survivability gives more opportunities for mistakes from the player.

You can add things like Valkyrie (power/vit/crit damage) and Cavalier (power/tou/crit damage) mixed in your set to give a touch of survival in the build, but you’ll need to get the precision from other places, like in food and banner and so on.

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Vael.9076:

Am I missing something here? Do enemies in fractals hit so hard that defenses are pointless? Or is this really just people being internet tough guys? There’s a lot of kittening on people who advocate some survival traits/gear for PvE and I don’t really understand it.

Yes, at higher level fractals stuff hit so hard that defense is useless, doesn’t matter if you are a full zerker ele or a full tank guardian, you’ll be 1 hit or at best will die for sure trying to ress the other players.
That is one of the major problems in game that made Zerker the meta for PvE.

Looks like that shoulder is the PvP stalwart one.