Guild Wars 2

Wigns.7580:

4 dungeon exotics will still take long to get + im an engi so gs will do nothing

No, do great sword. Sell it if you get dusk/dawn and buy hunter. Same chance to drop as hunter but worth more money. So you end up with hunter and a pile of gold.

I have Sunrise, I regret making it. I feel it spoiled my enjoyment of the game in the long run too.

I recommend that you try for the great swords, regardless of the precursor you want. They are the most valuable and have the same chance to drop. Also I tend to use exotics bought from dungeons to make attempts. Instead of blowing money and resources on the weapons you are about to toss away you will only make a profit. In addition you will make money in the process of getting the tokens you will need. 2 full clears (all 3 paths) will net one great sword. I do 2 different dungeons per reset so I get to make a try every 4 days (though I am not exactly playing anymore).

The reason you want to only go for great swords is that you will make FAR more money than you need for the one you want if you get dusk or dawn. You can buy the one you want and have a ton left to spend on other mats for your legendary. You have the same chance to get one as any of the others anyways.

Edit: Forgot to add, if you make an attempt with the dungeon weapons, sell the exotic that comes out (and you will get an exotic). Don’t save it for the next attempt. The idea is that you will eventually either get one, or save enough from the dungeons/exotics that come out to buy your precursor. Will it take longer? Maybe, but you won’t lose money.

No sub fee, fire it up and try it. Leave again if you don’t have a good time. Don’t let other dictate your gaming decisions based on random forum posts.

Not everything you read will be true.

I find ascended gear makes no difference as its not a big enough bonus to care about. People blow things out of proportion a lot.

I have always been in favor of shorter, more challenging content as opposed to very long, boring grinds. Make several challenging encounters/challenges that must be soloed to replace some of the more “grindy” parts of the process. Make these encounters so challenging that only a small percentage of the population could hope to complete it. Make them truly legendary in my opinion. I have Sunrise and don’t feel like it was earned properly, it was just long and easy the whole way through.

The charged lodes for Infinite Light would cost someone 1100g right now, that isn’t the one you are going for is it?

This was my guard when she was level 2. It is simply through the use of transmute stones. Tip: if you have a high level item that won’t let you transmute because of the rune/sigil make sure the lower item you are moving it to has a low level rune/sigil so you can use that instead of the high level one. I had to do that for the HotW pants in the picture.

You can even do this with a legendary item if you wanted to, though I would not recommend it.

Items pictured:
T2 shoulders, gloves, boots
T3 Chest
HotW Koda pants

When I finished my clovers I had about a 60% success rate. That is highly unusual though. This was around mid November.

I use 0/0/25/30/15 for fast hands and use Hammer/GS. It’s more of a PvE build but I am able to control enemies very well in WvW. The fast hands is great when I need to switch to my GS for more damage or mobility. I can survive well under fire as well, but don’t get too comfortable as excess crowd control will cause you problems.

Gregorius.1024:

Condas.7056:

It may be my build but in PvE I have just a bit more staying power on my Warrior than my Guardian. While my guard still needs a few more exotics to be fully geared (just boots, legs, and gloves), I can’t see that making her much more durable. My guards is a perma protection build with a hammer by the way.

After playing both a lot yesterday I think the main reason is mobility and control. I have a ton of abilities that move me around fast on top of perma swiftness. I also have a lot of control and damage negation on the warrior. I have my shield and endure pain that protects me a lot. The hammer shuts up dangerous mobs for a good duration also.

My guard feels like I am walking around with concrete shoes and while I may be able to take more unguarded hits, the warrior is better in the long run because I can evade more of it.

If that’s the case, take GS on guardian he moves around the battlefield alot.

I have a GS, that is one mobility skill to the Warriors large array of abilities. This compiled with perma swift on me and cripple on the enemy, the guard cannot match that.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Condas.7056:

Here is one, this is not my video by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iR8jjDlM4rs

I’m realizing that I need to find some Ele/Thief 1vX videos just to set a standard. Again though, this video has some entertainment value, but doesn’t impress me on the 1vX stage. Many of the fights seem to start with an 8k volley on an opponent just running through. Many also involve a Frenzy burst tearing through one of the two, or sometimes both stacked on top of one another.

Maybe he can 1v3 when one of them is a Longbow Warrior, but pick any random set of 3 with any sort of CC and how long would he really last?

Same could be said about the other classes. A lot of these situations has to do with the players behind each character involved.

Here is one, this is not my video by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iR8jjDlM4rs

Best part is at 5:45, 1v(4?) and he walks away with them all dead. Though it is a close call, very fun fight to watch.

I have not seen one since beta to be honest.

I simply don’t need them. That, compiled with the fact that I only remember that they exist when I see someone with them. I think “oh yeah, I still need to get some food”. That thought quickly vanishes far before completing whatever activity I am doing.

I am also unable to create the recipe at the mystic forge to start crafting these.

I got three, I sold them to go towards building Sunrise (finished on the 10th of December). I got them all from generic level 80 mobs.

It may be my build but in PvE I have just a bit more staying power on my Warrior than my Guardian. While my guard still needs a few more exotics to be fully geared (just boots, legs, and gloves), I can’t see that making her much more durable. My guards is a perma protection build with a hammer by the way.

After playing both a lot yesterday I think the main reason is mobility and control. I have a ton of abilities that move me around fast on top of perma swiftness. I also have a lot of control and damage negation on the warrior. I have my shield and endure pain that protects me a lot. The hammer shuts up dangerous mobs for a good duration also.

My guard feels like I am walking around with concrete shoes and while I may be able to take more unguarded hits, the warrior is better in the long run because I can evade more of it.

Banners on your back would be an interesting change. Would need some thought on running multiple banners though. This would be a way to make having them as part of your build less irritating.

I think it looks great. I love my Sunrise.

I use them for white items, vendor blue and green, and black lion kits for rares. This seems to be the best option for profit.

My warrior dominates all the PvE content I have tried so far. I would say it is worth it.

Account bound, not soul bound. You spend that much time and effort on making one you should be able to show it off on all of your characters.

I finished my legendary recently and had little issue with the game until then. Was it the most fun I have had playing an MMO? Well, no it wasn’t. It wasn’t the worst either. First thing I did was run around playing with random people and having fun. I did an instance or two when I felt like it, you know… Played like “Anet” intended, nothing serious or hardcore. It wasn’t until this point that I started to realize, the game isn’t very fun. There is little to do here that keeps me here, I am starting to feel less and less interested in playing. I am thinking about going for Bifrost now, but after thinking about it I came to the conclusion that I didn’t enjoy getting Sunrise too much either. Keep in mind when I went for Sunrise I got a LOT of lucky drops (several precursors) and wasn’t gunning hardcore for it till the last week. I think a good MMO needs something to keep you occupied that does not have to do with getting things in return, something to make your presence worthwhile though. This is in my opinion the only way to find true fun in a game.

I did some WvW, it’s okay… I don’t feel like I am making an impact and I don’t feel like anyone is benefiting from me being there. No satisfaction. SPvP is okay again, but there are other games, mainly other genres that do that type of game play better. I know RPGs give a unique combat experience, but I also feel it sacrifices the quality of competition in my opinion. Either way instanced PvP is not my idea of a good MMO feature.

To this date my best MMO experience was in Pre-BC WoW (BC was the first expansion). Many may not like this, but I will say; this is for reasons you would not expect. I did not participate in instances. I did not do battlegrounds (instanced PvP). I did not do quests. Did I like leveling? No, 1-60 was like sticking a dagger in your face over and over. It was horrible. Once I hit 60 I found a purpose, something that made me feel needed. I spent all my time hunting down people who had an obsession with killing players who couldn’t defend themselves. People would call them “gankers”. Many people would not be able to progress their characters if players like me were not around to stop people from camping them till they log off. I got a lot of fun from this. This way of playing the game died fast with BC and lingered for a while before dying out. Instanced PvP and rewards from it drew everyone out of the world into instances and I was no longer needed. It wasn’t fun anymore. I quit.

I feel like, now that my personal goals are completed, I am not needed. I never was needed here. I don’t enjoy anything enough to be logging in consistently any more. Two days ago I played another game for the first time since GW2 came out. I see it becoming more common quickly.

To be honest, once you hit 80 its all about getting exotics. Both are easy. Once you get your cosmetic gear, the next goal, what then? Alts? More cosmetic gear? There is nothing here you can really do besides work (either hardcore or casually, grindy or passively) that you can do for pure fun that will actually last you.

That said, I feel I got my moneys worth. However, a MMO is meant to keep you. Something I think GW2 fails to do. If you don’t play much I can see it keeping you around for a while, but I think they could have done a LOT more with the game than they did. It feels like a big show up front, with a hollow emptiness underneath.

Bifrost is now up as well.

Bear on the job.6273:

The thing I don’t understand with Twilight on the TP right now is someone actually paid the listing fee for a 9500g item…The listing fee costs you 5% of the price up front. 5% of 9500g is 475g.

Someone paid 475g just to post an item that will never sell?

I thought it was odd they posted so high. I don’t see anyone paying that much, regardless of it being a legendary.

I was able to list my Sunrise prior to the wintersday patch (granted I did not actually press sell). I had the interface open with it in the sell box for setting prices. No one ever tried to list them, that is why we never saw them there before. There is even a legendary sort function on the TP for searching.

Hevosin.9187:

Condas.7056:

This is intended and we were made aware before launch. All guild achievments are by server.

I followed everything ANet ever said about GW2 for 2 solid years before the game came out, I never once read or heard anything like this as intended. And if they did they really need to make it more obvious to the player base, or at least to GMs

I followed them fanatically as well. I also missed details. This one made waves a while back, surprised you missed it. Anyways I disagree with it in some ways but at the same time it makes some sense. It keeps members from another server from using influence earned on another. Though to be honest the idea of guilds being game wide is odd to me. I doubt they will budge on this one.

Also, there is no need to be rude to the guy. He missed a bit of information and to be fair there are no obvious ways to obtain said information that I am aware of anyways.

This is intended and we were made aware before launch. All guild achievments are by server. If you were to add someone on your first server all the purchased upgrades would be there along with the stockpiled influence for them to use. You could always transfer back if it is that big a deal.

This was moved to suggestions probably because it would be a suggestion to make guild accomplishments game wide as opposed to server specific. Though it is possible to mod did not read the post correctly.

Losing one or two for Maw is no big deal. I did it with 3 once or twice with little issue (highest time being FotM 9). However I do agree that it is more than a bit annoying when people leave for random reasons so often. I think all my runs 5+ have had at least one drop out for any number of reasons.

ref.8196:

We took balthazar with 5 people.

It is probably easier with 5 than 20.

You guys do know Balthazar is always locked because it is bugged right? It is hard to complete without running into a bug that prevents its completion.

Also Orr is teaming with players on my server. We still have so many people at some events that it is near impossible to tag mobs without belonging to a party.

I also have been looking for something like this.

Cthulhuslawyer.8491:

Honestly , im a fan of the Space Wolves from 40k…. so jumping into a Nord Warrior was only natural

Very much this, but space marines in general. I was planning to name my norn Leman Russ but it was taken.

Zones other than max level are rarely populated in any MMO. That being said, I went to Queensdale a few days back and did the wasp queen 3 times. There was 30+ people each time.

FaRectification.5678:

OP, I believe you are a veteran, however if you’re going to turn this game into WoW, you might as well have the developers give you the Sword of Judgement at lvl 1 and just turn everything you see in front of you into dust in a matter of seconds.

The point is not to make the game easy, to the contrary, it’s to make the game as challenging as possible but still balanced for all skill levels.

Don’t you want to feel a sense of accomplishment when you achieve something? Sure, you’ll be let down from time to time, but that’s in the nature of things.

Nothing he said related to WoW.

I would change the questions to which is easiest as they are both fairly easy to use. Unless you talk SPvP, there will be a ton of debate there. I cannot say though as I have only played a couple random matches in SPvP. Of the few matches I favor the glass warrior, but I want to reserve my judgment on the guard until I try a bunker build for her.

In PvE I prefer my warrior as of now simply due to the fact he can take and deal more. My guard has some gearing to do still so its again not a 100% fair assessment.

I have more experience in WvW. While my guard can survive in WvW, I cannot kill anything as they can break combat and flee at will. The warrior can also survive, but don’t try to run away unless there is a wall of bodies close to escape to as you will just die tired and frustrated. Warriors control is superior here. Oh, and don’t forget the guards lack of decent ranged weapons, another important part of WvW.

Oglaf.1074:

Sustain is Guardian territory, sadly.

I get more survivability with a more offensive built using Omnomberry Pies than when trying a “healing” Warrior.

I plan to change for a more DPS spec soon and will try this, but I would be surprised if it is true.

I do 0/025/30/15 and can sustain very well with either shout or banner healing. I use signet of healing, shake it off, and signet of rage elite. Other two utilities: Banner (tactic, endure pain) shout (for great justice and on my mark).

I like either hammer or GS with sword/shield second set. I carry a rifle for some specific instances where it is needed.

He said “viewed as” not that they are cheese. Basically falsely labeled cheese. Which is true.

I also get this. Don’t know if this is correct but it seems to be when I press a movement key after the dodge starts.

This is a known issue and there are several new threads on this a day. I saw anet respond to one yesterday (no, I am not going to find it again) saying they are working on fixing it.

I got Sunrise on the 10th and suffer the same issue, btw.

Heh… My chat was suppressed once for two LFM group calls spaced 5 minutes apart before. Blocked for something like 1H. I was a little confused.

Are these suppressions automated based on player reports?

Nonlinear.9823:

Condas.7056:

Nonlinear.9823:

Condas.7056:

I use full Cleric everything with 6/6 water runes. My build is 0/0/25/30/15. I carry either a GS or hammer and a sword shield for the second set.

I can do banner heal/support with signet of healing, shake it off, tactics banner, endure pain, signet of rage. I have near 100% uptime on might/swift/fury from signet of rage. I heal around 350hp a second from my banner along with maybe 260 from healing signet and more from adrenal regen trait. I do strong damage and can take huts very well. If a healing aura ele is in the group I regen so much a second its ridiculous. I use this for dungeons.

I switch to shout heal for roaming PvE using the same traits and gear, so only one purchase of equipment is necessary as well as no trait respec. I just switch the banner CD and regen slots for the shout CD/heal. This build does even more damage with 8-12 stacks of might. I change tactic banner with for great justice and endure pain with on my mark. I lose some swiftness uptime but not much. I love this build.

This might tickle your fancy. I find my 80 guard cannot outperform my warrior for durability and staying power in PvE.
Edit: Or damage for that matter.

This is for PvP, right?

Full clerics in dungeons you hit for like, what, 500 damage with a GS?

How does this build fare on SE p1?

I can hit for 750+ with auto attack and 100b for 10-14k especially if I am not the only person passing might around. The damage will vary based on your group, keep that in mind.. I wouldn’t use that build in PvP, you would trade blows with bunker builds till you both get bored and leave or get chewed up by a glass cannon unless they are bad. The build is stacked with power and keeps near 100% uptime on 8 or so might and fury. I have not done SE1, I did SE3 though. I felt like MVP there just like everywhere else. I never go down and can get others up with little worry.

When I do SE 1 with more than 1 shout spam heal warrior DPS slows considerably, enough so that you have to deal with at least one extra set of adds while trying to dispatch the golem.

I love SE 1 because it is a real DPS check that can’t be GY zerged or beaten through attrition. SE 3 is a joke you can AFK on two “bosses” and practically AFK the one before them.

This build isn’t meant to be a dps beast, its intended to survive and sustain. It does decent damage though for a non-crit spam build. Sorry, never been to p1 as the only reason I even did 3 was to help someone, I have no interest in the instance or any of its gear.

I have done FotM up to 10 with ease (could easily go further, just have not had the interest to do so) and HotW (my dungeon of choice) is also an easy run.

Also, I would avoid multiple shout heal warriors too. No need to do that, perma prot guard would make a good running mate though. In my opinion guards and warrior have good synergy.

At least for exotics, every time I price check crafting items it results in small or large loss of profit. I leveled my crafts for my legendary, which is probably their only real benefit right now.

Couldn’t you just take those picks the the eternal battleground jumper for the two ori nodes? Probably easier to do.

Abigor.4952:

You ain’t getting a thing! You know why? Santa is not real! (As well as Christmas and New Year) =P

I got what I asked for, came home and Balthazar was open the day I posted my wish. It sure is a beauty.

Vane.2387:

http://www.gw2armor.com/norn/male/k4/heavy/display_looks.php

Has places you can get at the bottom of that page, heart/karma vendors from blazeridge steppes, sparkfly fen, and a few other zones.

Thank you! I love these pieces.

Edit: Changed pants for Vigil. It looks great!

Vane.2387:

Condas.7056:

Heavy plate chest? Isn’t the one in the picture the Koda one?

Nope! It’s Heavy Plate – here’s a shot of it with Abyss dye:

Where is the heavy plate from btw? Only search result I can find is the SPvP set.

My Norn warrior, Garviel Loken.

Edit: Updated my armor today.

Showing some love for those who lost legendaries. Side note: those should not be salvageable/deletable lol

There has to be a way to verify that these people produced them. I couldn’t imagine the frustration if someone lost their legendary this way…