Guild Wars 2

After the update yesterday, everywhere that my account name should show up, my email is displayed.

I was worried of people seeing my email and trying to hack it to reset my account password or something.

When I asked a friend, he said he could not see my email, but he could see his own.

I guess that’s okay, just weird, is it a bug? And for all those people that post pics and vids, now they will have to take extra time to blur out that info. It doesn’t feel safe for some odd reason.

Is now as fast as CoF p1

Which would make more more survivable in WvW?

I’m either going to go all toughness or a split of 50/50. Since toughness doesn’t help out with condition damage, I though some extra vitality might be beneficial. I tend to find myself in large skirmishes and usually hop in and out to deal pockets of good damage, but get downed to often.

ALSO, I love off hand axe #5 with omnom berries, but I’ve been reading off hand mace is becoming popular. Thoughts?

Mace IMO seems to be more situational, “i need to KO that line of ppl, now!” VS Axe, again, is just straight up more dmg, great for WvW zergs and dungeon trash, yes?

Just started lvling my warrior and will use him for dungeons and wvw mostly. I want to do significant dmg. Right now I’ve been using S/A for PvE. I love the sword burst skill (the immobilize part) and the number 2 skill to catch kiters. Once I’m lvl 80 with exotics, how much dmg will I be losing if I go with MH sword over Axe? Is MH sword even viable in WvW as a damage dealer?

^ Yes, over time it is the same damage with those traits. So maybe using eviscerate for one swift killing blow vs one more round of auto attack is the only time eviscerate would be fastest.

With that said, I wish they’d add some other effect to eviscerate to make it have some upper hand over the auto attack, like a 1 sec daze or immobilize.

Tybalt is arguably one of the best characters in GW2 and I was so sad to see him go T.T

I’ve decided to make a guild in his honor and wanted to know if anyone wanted to help get it off the ground or just join to be apart of the fun (Founded on Tarnished Coast but guild is cross server).

Feel free to post guild ideas or pictures of you and Tybs in this thread!

PM Beorn Saxon.4762 for guild invite and message me your guild commitment and lvl of rank you are seeking

This needs to change. Spent 3 hours in Arah p1 and almost finished it when the party leader rage quit and everyone was booted. This is ridiculous.

On a technical thought, I’m guessing the purpose of a party leader is that their character is used in all cut scenes, and currently if that person leaves the coding does not allow for another members character to be populated in. Also, if the leaders is the only one that has done story mode and then leaves, everyone probably should be kicked (this may have been the reason it was designed as is). But if multiple ppl have done story mode, then yes, it should just pass over.

Also, I’ve done all story modes and can lead any dungeon, but I play on Mac beta and currently get kicked quite often, so I refuse to lead bc I don’t want to get kicked and then lose progression. This whole mess is just sad.

I’m just now setting my Mesmer up for dungeon runs. I’ve spec’d into shatter spamming for good AoE with Berserker’s gear.

Time Warp is pretty awesome, try pairing it with Superior Rune of Lyssa and Signet of Inspiration for team spikes. Members should love that.

muCephei.9428:

As someone from TC, who was sitting in 2nd by only a few hundred points 12 hours ago…what the heck happened last night? o.o

I don’t mean this as infalmitory or anything, I’m genuinely curious what happened.

I was on from 12-2:30 am and we had no commanders on and no queues for any of the maps. Everyone just went to bed I suppose.

Paulytnz.7619:

I think what they are planning is better personally……..

Instead of having to FIND a group you will be able to go with almost anyone. That’s how it should have been in the first place.

This update is only for Fractals. There are 8 other dungeons. We still need a LFG system, and OP’s suggestion is valid in addition to the changes planned for fractals. The fractals changes update who you can go with for fractals only, but not HOW to find them nor how to find groups for the other 8 dungeons.

I agree with OP. I have a lvl 6o Mesmer and it’s just plain lame. The mesmer doesn’t pack enough punch to mow down pve mobs. All of my utilities are clones, I spam clone after clone along with my weapon skills and it takes forever to kill kitten.

I believe they were originally account bound, and then they were changed to be tradable, but for some reason not all previously opened endless tonics got changed (a bug) and they remain account bound. Sorry

I use “Retreat” with +100% speed duration mods and 20% reduction on shout recharge = 40 seconds of group wide IMS with an 8 second CD.

Hi there!

First off, when in PvP you have access to PvP gear, which is all max stats, free and easy to swap in and out. So you do not need to invest in PvP gear. (And I would suggest going to the mist to play around with the gear to see what you like and would want to purchase for PvE/WvW).

Secondly, I love my Guardian (also my main) but sadly they are sub-par for WvW. We severely lack in ranged damage. I still WvW a lot and typically take AoE shouts and boons and travel in a group.

Now we are down to PvE. Ultimately you should play whatever is fun to you! Take some time to get to know the skills and traits and make a complimentary build that suits you.

On either extreme Guardians have potential to be glass canons or extremely durable. You can also focus on group support, or a solo build. Guardians are usually sought after for there team support/defense/healing. Once you are ready for armor and weapons I would suggest farming some dungeons. You can farm a full set of exotic armor in about 21 runs (a run takes 30-60 mins). I’m in the process of finally doing this myself. Here are some great sites that have helped me:

www.wiki.guildwars2.com (search guardian skills/traits)

www.gw2db.com (search the guardian builds that are user created)

www.gw2lfg.com (find people to run a dungeon with quickly)

My current definition of ‘glass canon’ is to deal out tons of damage very quickly.

I’m guess you need to spec into either Power+Crit Chance or Crit Chance+Crit Damage.

Raggi.1735:

How is one Able to obtain these skins Without gW 1

You can’t, you must purchase and play:

1) Guild Wars: Eye of the North

2) At least one of the following: Guild Wars Prophecies, Factions or Nightfall.

Honestly, if you choose to do this it is semi easy to earn a few skins right away. Getting all the skins would take a couple of months, and to unlock all titles would take near a year. My advice would be to look at the rewards and see which ones you would want, then find out how long it would take you to get the amount of reward points needed, then decide if the time would be worth it to you.

There are no free skins for early purchase. Early purchasers got beta invites and a head start. Deluxe and Collectors editions get free in game items. Players that played the original Guild Wars are able to earn many weapon and armor skins in addition to pets, minis and titles. There is also a current Christmas promotion which includes a wizard’s hat.

You may have heard about either of these:

1) Hall of Monument rewards for playing the original Guild Wars.
http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/#page=welcome

2) The current Christmas promotion which features upgrade to the Deluxe edition and wizard’s hat.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/wizard-promo/

Boo. That makes me sad.

Is this possible?

I put an expensive rune on my dungeon armor, and now I’ve decided I want to sell the rune, keep my armor and put a different type of rune on it. Can I salvage the rune without destroying my armor?

“Used in the crafting of armor with +Toughness, +Healing Power, and +Boon Duration. "

Can anyone confirm the stats it gives for the exotic version, specifically boon duration?

BUT the rarity, cost and account bound are not!

I hate comparing this to it’s predecessor, but GW1 did this way better.

Mini’s in RNG had a 0.05 percent chance (IIRC), but you were able to farm a few stacks of gifts in a day. The RNG was was never the problem when there are plenty of presents. If arenanet wants to keep them in an RNG then please increase the drops and make them trade-able.

I talked to a guy that had gotten the quaggen, and he didn’t even want it. UGH. So unfortunate he can’t sell it to someone that does and has been trying very hard to get one.

Added suggestion: Make them drop as loot and increase the odds from foes that have been alive longer (encouraging players to off the beaten path).

Second edit: other than the minis, I LOVE Wintersday! So many improvements, you guys really do listen to us, thanks Anet

it’s called prioritizing. The majority of players play pve, thus it’s been getting the most love. Wvw and pvp are up next. Anet has already stated they will be getting big updates in jan and feb.

Slyder.9215:

I’ve never had eggnog before. How is it?

If you didn’t grow up on it, you might not like it. In either case, it’s delicious, just make sure to get the thick organic good stuff

Rebound.3409:

@Angel: U actually think the whole thing is not yet ready till now. U seriously buying that.

I only care about the patch notes…rest snowflakes and eyecandy like that….doesn’t matter for me.

So you think anet is just sitting on their butts eating candy and drinking eggnog? Of course it’s probably ready, but it does take TIME to upload and make it live on the servers. They have been at work for only a couple of hours this morning. And maybe there are some last minute patches trying to get approved so they can’t release notes until AFTER it’s live. Calm down.

I’m not a techy, but I don’t foresee to many issues since they already do this with overflow servers.

Hrm, maybe this should be moved to the ‘Suggestions’ area.

Welcome to the game, you’re going to have a great time. These forums are filled with all the neigh-sayers. All of the fun people are actually playing the game and having fun They keep having to increase server space because they all fill up on a steady pace. AND the Wintersday event is about to start tomorrow and tons of people will logging on over the next few weeks.

Guardian sounds like a great class for you. It is my main and he is awesome!

PM me once you get in game, I’d love to show you around

IGN: Breck

Tixx doesn’t show up in Tyria until Saturday at 10am PST. But holiday decorations and gem store items should be in tomorrow. Have no clue when that patch would come though. Tomorrow AM I’m guessing.

Maps from different servers that have to few people in them are put in the same instanced of the map! The opposite of overflow (when to many people are around).

Of course, you wouldn’t have WvW bonuses. Other than that…discuss!

Tyber Valens.5148:

Nemosis.5793:

For me id rather have power than precision (because power makes retaliation hit harder)… but my guard is a sPVP bunker… depends on your build.

I don’t believe the player’s power stat boosts Retaliation boon. I think it completly dependent on the sources stats.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Retaliation

“Damage dealt depends on the level and power of the retaliation’s source.” – Wiki

I love medium armor!

which is ironic bc my current two toons are heavy and light and I can’t find any armor for them that I like.

What a blast. Right now in the EB JP (TC v FA v CD) there are quite a few people sitting at the JP spawn. Everyone is standing in a circle, taking turns challenging people to 1v1.

Anyone not interested in dueling is free to do the JP.

Good times, numerous people were in a party with and invader to help keep communication clear

Makes me think that an arena where people can sit and watch would be a nice add.

What’s best for an offensive Guardian? I always use GS. Second set is usually Hammer or Sword.

I typically take spirit weapon utilities.

Mura.8673:

I like it. What armor set is it?

Thanks!

All heavy armor of course:

Feet, legs > SE dungeon armor
arms, chest > Arah dungeon armor
shoulders > Mad King Thorns (there are ~9 armors with this skin)

Arg, what’s the code to show an image?

I’ve been having trouble deciding which exotic armor to get my main, a Guardian. Today I finally came up with this that I am fairly pleased with. What do you guys think?

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/hishumor/gw002.jpg[/IMG]

I would let you through. Although, some WvW POI’s/vistas/SP’s you can’t get unless your server holds the keep. So even if we let you though you wouldn’t be guaranteed map completion.

1) You should NOT be able to kick people once you are at the end of the dungeon. It is just rude. People should get banned for doing this.

2) You SHOULD be able to kick the party leader without getting the team kicked. I’ve seen party leaders do half the dungeon then just AFK until the rest is beat, and if you kick them, the whole party get’s kicked. It’s lame.

Rising Dusk.2408:

Dicellol, what you’re saying is true, but it is unrelated to DR. Every dungeon path has a +40 token bonus for completion the first time per character per day, which resets at the daily reset time. That has nothing to do with DR, but is rather a bonus, so don’t get confused! The actual DR is described in my posts above (and in the posts of a few others).

Can you edit/add this into your original answer? Thanks!

I’m guessing this pick is a bug. It is obviously not working the way it was intended as all other picks for ori have a lvl 60 requirement. Submit it as a bug.

I love holding the EB JP. I specifically started leveling my Mesmer so I could port people.

But I’ve made it my rule that while I hold it I always allow Invaders through if 1) they are solo and just after chest/ori and 2) not a mesmer.

But today, I had only a few minutes, so I hopped on my Guardian (non Mesmer, no porting possible) and attempted the JP in my undies. It was heavily camped with invaders spawn camping, but I made it to the end of the dark room, invited myself to an invaders party and asked if I could pass through. They said yes, I proceeded, then they killed me. I tried a few more times bf I had to log out.

I will most likely continue to let invaders though on my part, it just makes me sad to not see the same courtesy.

I’m sure none of all yall agree with my philosophy. And maybe you’re right (it is WvW after all). But that’s my two cents.

The client you are downloading should contain all current patches (I believe). So hopefully you won’t have anything else to DL.

Nutbuter.3714:

So how much is a server transfer? Nah I’m sure I’ll make a nice home where ever it may be.
Thnx much for insights guys!

Server transfers are currently free, but limited to once every 7 days.

WELCOME TO THE GAME!

Right off the bat you’ll have access to all 5 racial cities, their corresponding starter areas, and Lions Arch, the central hub of the game. So you’ll easily be able to find people.

The starter areas are lower pop, but still used quite a bit by noobs and non noobs. Quite a few people are still in starter areas for lvl’ing alts and doing daily achievements. But yes, human areas will be more pop bc more ppl play human toons.

Also, Wintersday, a two week+ event starts at the end of the week, so tons of ppl will be playing and it’s a great time to get into the game. This will give you a few days to wet your feet bf the festivities begin.

SERVER: Here are the WvW rankings. Generally, I would stay away from the top ranked servers as they will probably full and more focused on wvw than pve/pvx (but maybe you want a wvw server?). I believe 4 servers, Isle of Janthir being one of them, are deemed oceanic servers and are a good mix of NA and Australian time zones. The rest are just typical NA server except for Tarnished Coast which is the unofficial Role Playing server. I am on TC and it has a great PvE community. And you can freely transfer servers once a week. So don’t feel to pressured on finding the perfect one right off the bat.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Updated-World-Ratings-Dec-7

I’m on the east coast as well. Add me once you’re in game. IGN: Breck

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

We’re sorry about the confusion, all. The items will be available when the Wintersday game update is live. We’re having our team correct the web page text so it’s clearer.

Thanks! I quickly logged on yesterday to check them out only to not find them there.

I would buy a kit if you could change your toon name too. Changing sexes is weird when you still have your old name.

Thanks. I’m unclear of your second statement, if you run a path 5 times in 2 hours you hit DR, when your first statement says that you hit DR after running a path 1 time, until it resets 2 hours later.

Also, is there a penalty for clearing it to fast?

Anet recently stated in an interview that they are working on this system. One possible fix they are look at may be to group levels into tiers. Example: FotM lvls 1-5 would be T1 and would all be able to group together.

I agree with OP, it is hard. Having not been at the Lost Shores event, when I hopped on a week later there were very few ppl LFG lvl 1

I’m new to farming dungeons. I want to earn enough tokens for multiple armor sets. How often can I do the dungeons in a row before I hit DR?

If I run SE path 3 with my Guardian, can I immediately run the same path with my Mesmer? How long must I wait before the Guardian can run it again w/o DR?