Guild Wars 2

WvW is dead on my server and now I need 1800 gems to transfer to one where theres actually people. Im not spending cash on them as Im about broke(both in game and IRL lol) so whats the fastest way to make enough gold for 1800 gems and how long should I expect it to take?

Id imagine on a very active WvW server you could easily get it in a single zerg battle.

I think maybe I have seen 2-3 of them and all were Staves. I know they are expensive as hell to craft but do a lot of people have them or are they very rare? I actually had the dumb idea to quit a class I liked cause the legendary for my weapon of choice looked dumb. Then I was like why did I do that when most people will probably never even have one.

Been running around with my newbie d/d ele and having a blast gotten 4 levels so far cause our server controls nothing so we taking everything now

Im still trying to figure out how SBI went from being the best server for WvW to now being one of the worst with hardly anyone ever on. Finally met up with the group and took everything back in our boarderlands. Hoping they will come to Eternal. The entire map is ripe for the taking.

jazzllanna.1278:

Well SBI is not “dead”. Smaller groups yes and we cannot cover all the maps at once- but this week has been a blast! And the chat for the most part is lively as well, no trolls, we are rooting for each other. Honestly I like it so much more now!.. We just need a nice win to boost that moral and we are set.. but this week even in 3rd we are playing and having fun.

We lost by 300k last week how is that “alive” I started on SBI at launch and it was so much fun. We always owned every other server in WvW. Now we are worse than WoW alliance. Just went into Eternal Battleground and we controlled nothing and not even anyone else there. Well I guess I have to enjoy it since you cant server transfer for free so I guess Im stuck here.

hugemistake.5317:

Guardian is pretty good and useful for the group when in the middle of a zerg

I dont want to be useful for my group i want to be detrimental to theirs.

Kirito.8796:

warrior/thief if you want to see big numbers

More than elementalist? Also how come a thief? Arent they gonna notice me when im trying to stab people with my daggers?

One thing I liked about DAoC was just running with a massive zerg and steamrolling everyone we saw while taking towers and keeps. Also running with AoE bomb groups where 8 people could kill 50 was hilarious. What would be the best profession for running with the zerg? I have never liked small man PvP or 1v1 crap. I wanna zerg it up and just drop AoE death on everyone and watch the numbers fly across my screen.

Because it would be so hard for an engineer to make some kind of portable dimensional pocket to store all his gear in.

If you go by the forums every class sucks. Hell even guardians are starting to QQ on the forums now saying all they have gotten since launch are nerfs. If people picked their class in any game based on the one with the least whiners no one would ever play anything. I have played 10 MMOs and never have I found a class that actually requires skill. And by skill I mean skill as in you need skill to do open heart surgery.

You dont need skill to play a video game. Just remember most people who play MMOs are downright terrible. Only a small minority of players would be considered Elite gamers. Play what you like and enjoy dont play something based on what everyone on the forums is saying. Hell take necros for example. Everyone knows minions are bugged and broken all to hell even people who dont play them know that. But people still play using minion builds and do so at max level.

How do you do WvW if your server is dead and you cant WvW when guesting? I think we lost the last round by 300k points.

From my experiences though usually your easier classes are played more and the ones that require more skill are played less.

Now Im sure this varies from server to server but for some reason I see a ton of Elementalists and Mesmers. The only class I see more of is obviously Warriors but arent those supposed to be the 2 hardest classes to play to their full potential? Yet why are there so many of them? Having played MMOs since ’97 I know the majority of gamers arent pros and a lot are just downright terrible and even with the multitude of class guides available on the internet they just cant play their class. Which brings me back to my little observation. Why are so many people playing the classes that a lot of people will agree are the hardest to master? Are all of them just pro-gamers and can juggle all of their illusions and shatters perfectly or hop through ever attunement like its nothing dropping spells from all of them?

Same problem in WoW too. Female Humans look like they can hardly hold 2 handed weapons and animations are terrible when they swing.

When I go to select my body type is this the second one from the left on the top row on the first page?

Oglaf.1074:

Yaki.9563:

Her boobs are too big.

They’re too round… Whoever runs the plastic surgery gambit in GW2 must be a richer than the Charr that owns the Trading Post.

Anyone happen to know the body type to use during character selection to come up with this masterpiece of a female?

I could care less about the other pieces just want to know what top that is.

I assume everyone can tell who Im talking about. She logged before I could ask, so what is this?

How do people farm so much gold?

Would something like a Guardian or Ranger work better?

When you see 4 Guardian/Mesmer groups doing speed runs like Warriors do then the class will be fine.

I keep reading how they have the worst AoE of all professions so how well will I be able to farm events for Karma and drops if I level a Mesmer to 80? I really want to try out a caster and didnt like my necro or ele after getting both to 30 I just deleted them because they werent fun at all. I dont know anything about any of the dungeons or FotM so I will probably be soloing for a while. Im sure no one wants someone in their group who doesnt know the dungeons and will just slow them down as it seems everyone wants speed runs these days. So are Mesmers a good solo class at least until I can get geared up enough and can start grouping?

Blow speed buffs and run the other way.

This isnt Diablo 3. A-Net doesnt flag accounts for bad loot like Blizzard did.

Blizzard managed to make WoW pets take hardly any AoE damage at all after years of justified complaining from Hunters and Locks

Even as bad as Diablo 3 turned out and as horrible as Witchdoctors were at launch they eventually made Witchdoctor pets pretty good.

So A-Net will fix pets its just a matter of how long.

So in order to put points into Spite what do I have to give up?

Out of the following which is the most useless:
Ground Target Wells
Staff skills recharge 20% faster
Wells recharge 20% faster
Increases area of Marks and they become unblockable

I read half the people saying its Spite (power) and the other half saying Spite is useless. Im confused which is it cause it cant be both. Im leveling using mostly staff and well of corruption and suffering and just pulling as much stuff onto me, dropping everything then going Death Shroud for Life Transfer.

Also looking at traits it actually does seem like Spits is 100% worthless if using Wells and Staff skills. I know I have to have at least 20 in curses for ground target Wells. Then 20 more points in Death Magic for 20% faster staff and Increased area and unblockable Marks and finally at least 20 in Blood Magic for 20% faster wells. Does that sound about right? So where do my last 10 points go?

GW3 will fix it

Would this be similar to a TBC SL/SL Warlock from WoW? Just facetank everything while draining health? It was OP as hell for PvP. It seems A-Net did their homework lol.

What is Engineer’s role in a group?

Trying to decide b/t Ranger or Engineer. Both classes seem to be atop the forum QQing so I will just ignore that. For ease of leveling and the best condition damage which class is better? Also once I hit 80 if I need some gold for maybe PLing an alt via crafting who will farm better? Finally which performs better in groups for both PvE and WvW?

Trying to decide b/t Ranger or Engineer. Both classes seem to be atop the forum QQing so I will just ignore that. For ease of leveling and the best condition damage which class is better? Also once I hit 80 if I need some gold for maybe PLing an alt via crafting who will farm better? Finally which performs better in groups for both PvE and WvW?

I was actually considering a shortbow Ranger as well. Do their bleeds stack up pretty high and do decent damage? Also are they any good for max level farming?

Have always liked DoT classes in every MMO I have played. What profession in GW2 does the most condition damage? Dont care about how many types they have just want the most damage possible even if its only stacking a single condition type. Thinking about either a Necro or Engineer. But all I read is how weak and hard to play Engineers are. Would prefer the easier class.

sonicsix.5713:

Go play another game until they launch new content. That’s what I am doing. I don’t like PvP or dungeons and there is nothing worthwhile to do in the open world.

So then what do you do in any game seeing how thats the end game in every single MMO.

I expect fixes to be pushed back to March/April

But I guess I can hope minions, all of them, will be viable. Still waiting for minionmancer to be a valid build for dungeons, PvP, and just leveling and grinding.

jdkentucky.2871:

I am thinking they made a new drop adjustment or maybe its just me.. Has anyone noticed yellow Items are not dropping as much. As for the person that says they only need 50 silver that’s good for you but not all the players would agree. I merch all the drops for my gear and you will need good gear and foods if you plan on advancing to far or you will be a ko farm and paying for repairs 100s times a day.. The game is like most games of this type getting needy for cash.. This is not the only MMO I play and others are like me we have and are seeing the changes that are going on industry wide.
The game is like life adapt and change is everyday..

I heard they adopted Diablo 3’s loot system where you play for 50 hours a week and end up owing gold.

Rustypipes.6238:

Grunties.6841:

The intent is to get folks buying gems with real money and converting to gold. Farming has been nerfed.

This is misleading, farming got nerfed because of exploits and bots, not because players were legitimately earning too much and Anet wanted to force them into their wallets.

There has to be check and balances or the economy will fail.

I wished you people with your tin foil hat theories would stop with this drivel.

Wait so they punish honest players just to get their point across? Awesome thats such a great position to take.

Snow White.9680:

You don’t need a lot of gold in this game. If you had 50 silver on you at all times you’d be just fine.

But what If I wanted to PL a few alts using crafting?

I have always made tons of gold or whatever the in game currency is in every single MMO I have ever played. And by tons I mean more than anyone could ever possibly need. For example when I quit WoW I had made over 2 million gold and had 800k in just gold with another 300-400k in either auctions or items in my bank waiting to sell or use for a later alt. But when I find youtube guides for level 80 farming people are bragging about making 6-7 gold per hour. Is that even worth your time? Is that some kind of joke or do you just not need gold at all in this game?

Setch.2398:

What time are you logging in at Dab?

Random times from 10AM all the way through 2-3 AM. I just picked the game back up so maybe I havent figured out when most people are battling and taking/losing control of things.

Yea Im on Stormbluff and every time I log in theres nothing going on. A few open field zergs here and there but no taking. But I remember at launch the reason we were beating teams by an absurd amount of points is because we had a bunch of people playing late night/early morning that just took everything then no one during the day had anything to do.

I played DAoC off and on with EQ for about 8 years and loved the RvR aspect of it. I really loved zerg vs zerg most of all. But where in DAoC Keeps and Towers changed hands pretty much hourly Im having a hard time finding a group of people taking stuff when Im online.

So minions MIGHT get a fix before the first expansion?

I mained a Necro in Everquest for 8 years. While the pets werent as strong as mage pets they at least did what they were supposed to. I cant understand how a 13 year old game has pets with less problems than one released a few months ago. It just baffles me they could figure out how to make pets work over a decade ago yet with today’s technology they cant. Also you didnt have to chose between pets and DoTs as you got both. Right now theres just no point in going with minions in this game if it means losing a strong condition build.

All minions need to be deleted and rebuilt from the ground up. Theres no patch fix for this they need a 100% complete overhaul.

Jonathan Sharp, Game Designer said:

Class balance philosophies
We normally try to employ metered and controlled balance changes with each pass, rather than huge reductions or improvements to classes. We want to get all classes on the same playing field, and we want to avoid “whack-a-mole” style balance. HUGH increases and HUGE decreases lead to meta instability, and thusly, we try to make multiple small tweaks rather than putting in massive changes that we have to later correct.
When designing and balancing the classes, we try to make sure that class roles and identities stay intact. So, in doing so, we make sure that there are rules and boundaries outlining the capabilities and weaknesses of each class.

Necro
The necro boasts the highest natural health of all the caster classes, and also has death shroud to extend that life total even higher. While they don’t have some of the escape or damage reduction capabilities that other classes boast, they do have a lot of ways to win attrition fights. They have access to poison on multiple weapons, they are able to combine condition damage with raw damage, and they have multiple disables to interrupt enemy skills. Necomancers also have multiple movement disabling abilities, while allows them to chase down enemies who are low on health.

So is it official they dont even acknowledge minions as even part of the necro’s abilities? They mention illusions(pets) as a major part of the mezmer but completely ignore minions when talking about the necro. The same with Rangers. They mention pets as being a major part of the class. So does this mean we should just give up on minions ever being worth using?

Did people not learn from mistakes made with SW:ToR and Diablo 3? I mean Trion pumps out quality stuff for Rift so fast why cant people just take after them?

So I took a break and when I came back cities are ghost towns and WvW queues are instant. When I quit there were tons of people at the crafting areas and by the banks and the WvW queues took hours. While its nice getting instant queues Im just wondering why I dont see anyone in cities anymore when there used to be people everywhere.

Monztor.9207:

Dabrixmgp.4758:

Might try a Fire ele out.

In my opinion, if you’re going to try ele, don’t waste your other attunements either. Elementalists give up a second weapon set for their 4 elements that they can use If you only use fire, you’ll end up using only 1/4th of your skills

Yea but im looking for faceroll easy here.

Might try a Fire ele out.