Guild Wars 2

Before mega servers there were several websites that would tell you what temples were open and on which server. From there you could just guest and EP to the temple and buy your gear. But with mega servers the timers are screwy and you can’t guest anymore. So do you just have to run around checking each temple and hope you get in the right overflow?

This happened yesterday in solo queue. I was playing s/d thief on nifhel and was taking the back route to far node. A hammer/axe warrior and d/d ele come right out the corner. I somehow avoid most of the warriors stuns and eviscerates and down the ele rather quickly. However im down to ~3k health with my heal and mug on CD so i know i cant stomp. The warrior is CCing the hell out of the area around the ele so i dont even try to go in. I drop my shadow refuge to get some health back and wait for cooldowns thinking ill just go to some other node. However as my refuge ends the ele vapor forms over right at my feet, probably thinking i dropped SR to stealth up and stomp invisibly. So i manage to stomp the ele and from there am able to deal with the warrior and stomp him rather quickly. This whole time my team has been running amok 4v3 for 5ish minutes and we got a 3cap. Awesome moment knowing i pretty much won that game for us.

Greenhill.8710:

thx a lot guys for the input ( to answer play how i want it doesn’t mean i can’t ask for advice to players better than me what i meant is that i don’t like to copy builds from internet like 99% of people i prefer to spend time and with other people advices do my own that’s it thx to all of you anyway

And i gave you advice. In fact the best advice you could’ve gotten.

MrSimpleMan.6194:

People are running S/D 2/0/0/6/6 thief, which one would you say is stronger?

Koroshi’s immortal condi thief or S/D one?

The 2/0/0/6/6 s/d build is for spvp. Koroshis build is for WvW. Since koroshis build heavily utilizes stealth to survive its horrible for spvp, because stealth decaps points

Greenhill.8710:

thx guys but can someone help me with my build i don’t want to copy and pastes others i would like to do mine

If you just wanna do a “play how i want” build then theres no point even attempting to use meta. Use w/e the hell you want and it won’t matter because “i play how i want”

In spvp thieves are absolutely essential, i dont think theres ever been a winning team without one. In WvW thieves are a great addition to any small group, but once the numbers get over 5ish people some other profession would probably be more beneficial. Thieves are amazing solo and small group roamers however

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE

Well when you say pvp it depends, do you mean WvW or spvp? In spvp thieves are all generally very squishy but do a ton of dmg. The role of a thief is to pick off the low health targets in team fights to swing the fight in your teams favor, and to fly around the map helping in outnumbered situations or creating outnumbered situations, with your shortbow and teleports. Most spvp builds will use Sw/d and SB

In WvW its a different story. Stealth decaps points in this game. Since there aren’t really any points to capture in WvW many thieves will run with d/d or d/p and go heavily into shadow arts to get really good survivability and sustain, while still going heavily into critical strikes to get some good burst as well. To stealth with d/p you drop the #5 (black powder) which is a smoke combo field, and then use the #2 (heart seeker) which is a leap finisher

Here’s my power build. Getting those 3 guaranteed crits every 10 sec when you switch to rifle is huge as thats where most of the burst comes from (overcharged shot, net shot, jump shot, blunderbuss) having all 3 of those guaranteed to crit is insane, especially since they have nearly the same cooldown as the sigil. You’ve also got perma fury from pack runes and hidden flask

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkr9dxELseRSbBFyJWRQlBRtxPXgAcUA-T1BHABOq+DQK/A4BAInOgW2fYgLAwTKBDAgAczbGAM0bO0EahAMPBA-w

I like the white/gold one a lot more. Should’ve made sunrise :P not a fan of the shoulders, gloves, or boots at all tho

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE

Try practicing your the shadow shot→backstab combo. That fight wouldve only lasted like 20 sec if you did

Omar Aschi Popp.7496:

Keys drop in-game? Since when?

Since launch. From your level 10, level 30, and level 50 personal story quest

Overdrive.9140:

I am actually astonished. After reading the forums, I just cannot believe it, the entire community is complaining about engineers now?
Did they get buffed or something?

I remember when I used to play everyone deemed them as useless, I even got mocked by several parties for farming for my endgame set on my engineer. What happened?

People learned to play the game

6/6/0/0/2 d/d for bosses, Sw/p for trash. Keep signet of agility at pretty much all times, other good ones are SR (for skipping) or smokescreen (for skipping or projectile reflects). Assassins signet is fairly good as well. Save the active on it for bosses <25% HP and spam heart seeker. All berserker gear, scholar runes, life steal food. Be aware the main thing a thief brings to a group is trash mob skipping, so know the places where thats helpful
Also the rotation for d/d is CnD?backstab?1 full auto chain?repeat. For Sw/p pistol whip does slightly more DPS than the auto chain, however the difference in dmg is very slight. On top of that the sword auto gives perma weakness, so that if an attack does somehow sneak through, its not going to hit hard at all. so youre better off saving your initiative to benefit from 25 in crit strikes, as well as the blind field helps your whole team stay alive. However if you do somehow get stuck in a boss fight with Sw/p pistol whip is the way to go, since bosses are basically immune to blinds. Dont just spam it tho, watch animations to get the best use of it. In case you didnt know, pistol whip evades all attacks for the second part of the skill. Signet of malice is also a pretty good choice of heal with Sw/p, due to pistol whip hitting multiple times, and healing up with crit procs and that is great when trash can’t even touch you cus theyre permablinded. Keep a shortbow on hand as well, just not as your main weapon. Cluster bomb is essentially a spammable blast finisher, which is awesome to use in fire fields to stack up might, water fields to heal everyone up, or smoke fields to skip a certain part of the dungeon (thats where smokescreen comes in) below is a video guide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoD6aOhzu7M

For up to 3 targets use Sw/p and just cleave stuff down with the autoattack while dropping black powder down. For more than 3 targets use shortbow

You need to be in combat for the might to show up

One last tip, when you use the birthday booster its probably best to use it on an up level and go karma training in EotM. That way youre getting benefits from every part of the boost. Not to mention leveling in EotM is extremely fast.

notebene.3190:

Ah, Ok. Thanks. I went ahead and bought both of those Midnights to go with my Abyss.

Out of curiosity, which goes with which material? Is it as straight up as light, medium, heavy, and one is best for each, or is it more a case by case basis and you just have to try it?

Youll have to test and see. I know on some of the more ruggedly leathery materials midnight fire is a brownish orange

Midnight ice, midnight fire, and abyss are all the blackest black. It just depends on the material

Its character age. So yeah in 2 dats youll get that scroll along with a couple other goodies

Sw/p. spam black powder and autoattack to death

Warrior is fine now.

First off, welcome to GW2! Here are some basics you should learn. Incoming wall of text.
Firstly, there is a huge difference between the combat here and the combat in WoW and most other MMOs. A few things of note:
The combat in this game is much more action-oriented- you can avoid attacks by strafing and dodging as you fight, and using skills to counter enemy attacks. It’s more important to avoid attacks than to heal them. You can avoid attacks via blind, blocks, teleports, and evades/dodges. Every class also has their own healing skill, which is your #6 slot.
There is no healer/tank/DPS trinity. Everyone is responsible for their own survival, for DPSing the enemy, for coordinating support and control to make fights more manageable.
Your success in this game depends largely on your skill as a player, rather than your gear.
I highly recommend giving this a read: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/GW2-Combat-system-101-Guide/first
In addition, GW2 is highly unlike WoW in many other respects. The game’s meant to be more of a journey- you take your time and enjoy the process of leveling, explore to your heart’s content, and when you hit 80, there aren’t tiers of raids and gear to chase one after the other. You pretty much find what you enjoy doing and do it.

Neokramer.9725:

Thanks for the feedback !

Is superior rune of the monk worth it? The number 6 ability seems like a good thing for a healer to have. I’d have to grind out the ascaleon catacombs dungeon though.

Has anyone used this rune that can speak to its usefulness?

Thanks in advance !

Monk would be ok. But if you use monk you lose the perma regen from Dwayne runes. Phineas is also right. Healing builds are useless in pve

Arah panties.

Gear up some alts in exotic armor

Bewildering ambush+krait runes

What game mode?

I’ve just got a few questions regarding S/d in spvp.

1. The first build i tried was 2/6/0/0/6 with pack runes and air/fire sigils. SB on swap. Is this ever better than 2/0/0/6/6? Whats the advantage of the crit strikes build over the acro build? In addition, whats the typical GM you take in acro? Im using vigorous recovery and power of inertia for adept and major slots.

2. What are some good combos? Im getting really good at reading the map and rotating properly with insane mobility, and i know this has been the reason ive won a number of matches. But i do sometimes have trouble 1v1. Not all the time, but sometimes it feels like i just he completely outplayed, and other times it feels like i completely destroy someone. Are there any combos that i can learn to help me 1v1 more effectively? Or is it just luck/bad matchups? I seem to have the worst time with d/d cele eles. Air auto destroys me.

3. Any other tips/tricks? I know thieves arent really supposed to be great 1v1 but are more there for the ability to pick off people on team fights and the ability to race around the map instantly. I have gotten pretty good at swaying team fights in my favor by being able to pretty much oneshot any other zerker. This has also led to multiple wins in my favor. But any tips such as when to push, when to retreat, when to leave and go somewhere else, etc. would be welcome

Thanks to anyone who helps me out! Im having a lot of fun in spvp on my thief, the damage, mobility and shadow stepping is just awesome. Halfway to champion shadow too! Thanks for any help

attrail.8613:

if Im ever accused of spamming, i usually just roll with it and tell them ill just spam more the next time i fight them, and you have to ALWAYS “lol” in /say after you down them , and spam said skill they accused you of spamming on their downed body.

This is the easiest way to induce rage upon someone who feels they must whisper you.

That sounds hilarious. I may have to change my tactics

In my signature.

Lucente.5071:

I guess the decision behind the condi dmg is to enhance the burn a bit, its the strongest scaling condi in the game and you’ll proc it on every sword auto attack combo. Its basically a bunch of free damage. Just another bonus from celestial.

Actually burning is the worst scaling condition in the game. But it does do the highest DPS per stack

Whenever people troll me i just say something like “ily” or “<3”. Just dont feed them

D/D celestial eles

Definitely get a cooling pad and/or a fan

Its a good build. The rest just comes with practice and experience

First off, welcome to GW2! Here are some basics you should learn. Incoming wall of text.
Firstly, there is a huge difference between the combat here and the combat in WoW and most other MMOs. A few things of note:
The combat in this game is much more action-oriented- you can avoid attacks by strafing and dodging as you fight, and using skills to counter enemy attacks. It’s more important to avoid attacks than to heal them. You can avoid attacks via blind, blocks, teleports, and evades/dodges. Every class also has their own healing skill, which is your #6 slot.
There is no healer/tank/DPS trinity. Everyone is responsible for their own survival, for DPSing the enemy, for coordinating support and control to make fights more manageable.
Your success in this game depends largely on your skill as a player, rather than your gear.
I highly recommend giving this a read: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/GW2-Combat-system-101-Guide/first
In addition, GW2 is highly unlike WoW in many other respects. The game’s meant to be more of a journey- you take your time and enjoy the process of leveling, explore to your heart’s content, and when you hit 80, there aren’t tiers of raids and gear to chase one after the other. You pretty much find what you enjoy doing and do it.

I’ve been having this issue since around the April 15th patch. The TP just won’t load. There’s no yellow ring, nothing, just a blank screen. Whats weird about it is ill randomly open it sometimes and it will work fine for ~30sec and then not work at all again. I’ve yet to decipher why this happens. I cant buy gems, buy/sell items, or look at my transactions. One thing i did was tested the TP on my desktop and it works just fine. I then listed some items, and a couple hours later on my laptop which has the broken TP my gold was ready to be collected. So it somehow still recognizes that.

As i said, it works perfectly fine on my desktop, just not on my laptop which is very annoying. I’ve searched and searched for solutions, and skimmed through the sticky, but to no avail. So, can anyone help me?

A 3 kit condi engi counters thieves pretty hard thanks to all the AoE condi spam and CC. Phantasm mesmers also counter thieves, somewhat less so since most are pretty squishy themselves. But hard hitting phantasms that can track through stealth are pretty hard to deal with

Anyone? Help!

Am i the only one that saw “you’ll often have 5/6 stacks of might” and thought wat?

I may get laughed at for this but playing minecraft hunger games has greatly increased my pvp skills. Mainly situational awareness, but its also taught me the importance of kiting, positioning, and patience.

Just do something else for abut. Dungeons, WvW, guild missions, w/e

Lamuness.3570:

Yishis used a combination of Zerker / Soldier’s for WvW, no? Is this still viable?

Not really after ferocity

How do you open the windows menu with windows 8?

I’ve been having this issue since around the April 15th patch. The TP just won’t load. There’s no yellow ring, nothing, just a blank screen. Whats weird about it is ill randomly open it sometimes and it will work fine for ~30sec and then not work at all again. I’ve yet to decipher why this happens. I cant buy gems, buy/sell items, or look at my transactions. One thing i did was tested the TP on my desktop and it works just fine. I then listed some items, and a couple hours later on my laptop which has the broken TP my gold was ready to be collected. So it somehow still recognizes that.

As i said, it works perfectly fine on my desktop, just not on my laptop which is very annoying. I’ve searched and searched for solutions, and skimmed through the sticky, but to no avail. So, can anyone help me?

Balthazar/grenth/perplexity/krait(with nades/earth sigil/shrapnel/sharpshooter)/scavenging/adventurer/antitoxin/tormenting. There’s quite a lot of good options.

You stack might through SA 25, power of inertia, and a strength sigil. Signets can just give you a burst of might

Tachii.3506:

^ Not true. Out of combat Fleet of Shadows is quicker than just Swiftness buff.

Its not