Guild Wars 2

This is a guild thread posting pictures of the different adventures we’ve gone on over the course of time. Currently small, it will grow with each passing day!
Since they don’t allow you to show images, we will set links to imgur.

We had a large turnout of players today to participate in The Shatterer world event. 14 players in total, though not all in the picture, it was truly marvelous.

The Shatterer

The Kalstein[God]
We are a growing WvW/PvP focused guild. With currently 62 members and still growing, we hope to become a force to be feared in WvW. We have an active and kind community that are willing to help other players in any aspect of the game!
We have a vent and are currently working on setting up a website. We are on the Maguuma server, english speaking. We have many people from many timezones, allowing it to be possible to say that someone will always be on!

Things we are about

PvP

• The main focus of the guild
• We constantly form groups for WvW
• We do sPvP
• We believe organization is the key

PvE

• Not the main focus
• We enjoy doing world events
• We do dungeons
• We constanly have adventures. Check out the picture thread to see the places we’ve gone!

General

• We like to party and help other guildmates as much as we can.
• Influence earning rate is good. Thanks to our belief of grouping when possible, we can achieve large amounts of influence.
• Need help with a build? We have plenty experience players ready to give their views on builds and classes.
• An active guild chat. We always enjoy talking with each other

Though not many, we do have rules

• We are a primary guild. We request guild members to be representing us at all times.
• Please be nice to your fellow guildmembers.
• Be active

Joining The Kalstein
To join our guild, you can either talk to Relyt Bandor or Lady Kalstein for invites. You may also apply on here. To apply on here reply with your in game name, your level, and your class. We request that you be level 25 or above.

In guild wars 1 they have PvX builds. Do they have a similar website or area to find great builds for professions?

Basically what the title says. I’m just wondering, because i’m going to hate having to level up a crafting to get legendaries.

When trying to access the TP, any part of it, instead of the usual setup, there was just a Error: Invalid Authorization

I was using a flamethrower build. They nerfed the trait juggernaut so that now it only gives you might ever 15 seconds, which I think is a nerf from what it had before. I’m not sure about other things though, since the notes don’t mention class changes.

Tried this trait out with grenades in WvW. They weren’t healing at all. Am I doing this wrong or is it glitched. I’m mad that they nerfed engineers last night and I’ve been trying to find a new build. I wanted to try my hand at support and thought grenade healing would be amazing in WvW.

Karma venders are very broken right now in terms of Prices. Another thing people don’t realize is you can use karma items for the mystic forge. So instead of paying ridiculous amounts, buy like 8 or 12 of the cheap ones and combine them at the mystic forge. I did that with my rifle and got 4 yellows, then combined to make an amazing upgrade for my level. I am not level 80, but yeah. It also my be cosmetics.

The group you escort came across an “Annoying Fire legion shaman” and he was invulnerable. So the escort group just sits there trying to attack him.

Seems to be a pathing issue with one of the veterans. He just runs back and forth into a wall in the middle of the room when you first enter.

Found the event, it is stuck. Not spawning any waves any more. 4/8. Just at a standstill.

So the mystic forge, when you combine 4 items of the same they should output the same item. I’ve tried putting 4 green medium shoulder pads together and it always gives me a light back. light green, light yellow. I believe it might be the same for heavy and light. Now it seems when you put in something of different armor values, light heavy or medium, it considers it random. Like if i put in 2 light shoulders and 2 heavy, it considers it random and will give me a random armor piece. So i believe that it is supposed to be outputting medium shoulders, and it is not.

As title says.

One member is recorded in the world event as being downed, but we can’t find is body anywhere and the event is stuck.

The best i’ve done is a Rilfeman auto attack crit/grenade kit build. Great critical strikes and using your grenades you can have some good debuffs. The rest aren’t so good. I’m currently doing a tanky flame thrower build just to mess around with people.

Uh the ones in WvW and a kind really short one in snowden drifts by a vista. Its a couple jumps, but not really a puzzle. Nice boss event and a chest at the end though.

How many times can you switch? if you don’t mind me asking.

So one of my friends was talking about how he was able to switch worlds for free. Does anybody know if this is still going on, and if so how long?

This early, they aren’t going to be a lot. Your best bet is to ask on here. Just give it a couple of months and you’ll be able to find good ones.

Mesmer I’d say. But mostly because people are telling me the Elementalist is pretty bad in PvP areas and late game.

Join a guild. The dungeons, all of them, are meant to be for non casual players. Hence the difficulty. They also to promote this by giving guild members who do dungeons together more influence.

If you’re talking about when you die and you are in the Rez state, let me start out by saying how much I hate this in PvP. PvE its ok, but in PvP where you try to play serious, it just seems stupid, and takes the skill away from the game. Why? Because you go through all the trouble of killing someone and then you have to kill them some more after you “killed them” or run up beside them and push F. If there is an actualy single target rez spell, that is better, but this stuff is just stupid.

As a side note, for the engineer they have a 7 or 8 second cooldown before they can use their explosion. SO even if you down them, if you manage to cast finish them quickly, you can usually down them.

I’ve seen a lot of post about the badness of the engineers, so right now I am just trying to use things that are cool and fun to use. I’m not going to look into PvP too much and I am mostly doing PvE and using skill builds that are really cool to use.

One I tried is the Flamethrower/Tank Engineer. This guy maximizes his toughness and vit. his abilities maximize the Flamethrowers damage, recharge rate, and give you an extra i think 200 toughness and the passive buff to not be able to get knocked down. I invested more into the regen when using a kit and made it so when I crit, it gives the person vuln. This is a very good dps support build. The Napalm bomb crits for 2-3k for me on spvp if not dodge/used correctly. Basically if its a group of friendlies vs a group of enemies, i am very useful. One round of my auto attack, and almost everyone in the enemies group would have been hit, might have burn, and vulnerability. I just spam that and do close to 2k damage per attack. I am also very hard to take down. I’ve survived a considered amount of time 1v5. Even though I lose, it still takes them a while which is also funny. I have yet to try it in WvW, but it will probably do amazing.

I tired a full tanky/turret build. This is mostly for PvE. But I built my guy to be able to take a lot of damage and block a lot while my turrets output DPS. Though it is not good, still an interesting change of pace.

A build I want to try is the pvp support. With exilier guns auto attack making it so they done recharge endurance fast, i think it would be very useful.

It is true, engineers are underpowered. But it is like this a lot at launches. It’s always going to be like this. One class will be op, another will be up (underpowered). They will buff the up and he will be op now and the op will be up and another will be op. Rinse and repeat. So until they buff us, just try to have fun in PvE or join WvW where you follow the zerg and just leech of them.

It was like this in Guild Wars 1. Very hard on some of the endgame missions. If you didn’t have enough people in your group or the correct setup (Having a a healer or a monk was a must) or the correct build, you had to research to figure out a solution. I don’t really mind, but I hear the rewards aren’t that good either. In GW1 things like tons of exp or money or even the ability to get primeval was the incentive.

Hello, so today I tried for the first time exchanging some silver for gems, just to see what it was like. I bought 10 silver worth of gems. It took my money away, but nothing happened. After a few seconds a red Error appeared next to the box that you hit to buy the gems and I never received gems.

Mesmers are pretty good, mostly for their clones and escapes. In terms of PvP i think thief and ranger are the most broken. The DPS they can put out and stuff they can do is insane. Necros are pretty op if played right too, though they are moslty condition based. Engineer needs A TON of work. Engineers are the class that has all these really cool spells and things you COULD do. But once you do them you realize hey, they suck and the other classes kill me. Guardians and Warriors seem alright.

Imagine it like a stock. The time increases from let to right, the little up and down bar shows the price variation. It list the lowest its been in the past day and the highest and then it shows the average. it goes by server time, so turn on your ingame clock via the options if you want to know. More people buy gems the price for gems goes up, more people that sell gems for ingame cash, it goes down. So theoretically speaking, you could “invest in 200 gems” for 50 silver, wait a bit and sell it back when the price per gem is higher and make 15 silver if you’re lucky.

I play a simple build and I dominate against most classes, but mostly melee (not theif). I do rifle/ grenade build. Engineers do a ton of crit damage and can crit A LOT. So most of my damage comes from auto attacks. I debuff using a grenade cit when I hit the person with a net shot, interrupt when needed, and I have the potion that restores endurance. I do agree with you though, engineers are the most underpowered class.

Let me explain to everyone something about Anet. They aren’t like traditonal MMO devs. They weren’t with GW1 and they still aren’t. In GW2 they tried to appeal to a larger audience by making most PvE and leveling/world event experiences easy to find, get into, and have fun with. They did a terrific job on it. Lots of people who hate mmos that I know actually enjoyed this one. But theres one thing I’d like to mention first. In GW1, they also had unique Endgame. What they had were one the PvP (Guild vs Guild, faction battles where you could own towns, guild halls, and all other kinds of pvp) and it was the main focus of the endgame. The PvE portion of it was really about finding new items without going into “dungeons”. They did this with areas that were unlocked after beating the game and they were very hard to play solo, even with Heroes. But the rewards were great. Another part of the endgame was acquiring armor. It took me about a month to get the Prime evil armor and some other armors were also very hard to get.

Now in GW2 they made it so that some of the PvE areas are a bit tougher to complete, but they also tied in the Mystic Forge. Right now hardly any recpieies for the end game items are known. This is a good place to spend right now, trying to find out how to make these special weapons that can only be acquired via mystic forge. Also gaining armor, but it is much easier in this, in my personal opinion, than in GW1. Another big portion of it is with PvP. To all those who’ve reach level 80, have you reached the highest glory rank? No? Then you aren’t complete yet, that is one avenue of “end game” that you could have. Another is becoming a dominate guild in WvW, becoming popular. There were a few guilds back in GW1 that people knew who they were. They were the best.

Now I’m sure Anet will add things in the future. Maybe a way to hold towns again, Guild vs Guild, Guild halls, etc. But right now, until all the mystic forge recpies are known, till you’ve reached level 80, gotten all the best gear you could get, and then became the highest glory rank, you can’t really complain. IF you do, you simply reached level 80 and expected a WoW setup of endgame, which GW2 is nothing like.

Well what you’re trying to make sounds like a legendary. Look at the legendary recipes, find patterns, and experiment. If you find it, please post a reply into the thread I posted. I already know in future there will be ton of mystic forge questions. Id love to keep them confined to an easy access page instead of there being a bunch of threads.

Please go here, I made this post for these type of questions. Look at the information and the links, i am sure it will be answered. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Mystic-Forge-Information-Known-Recpies-Thread/first#post18146

Imagine the heart quest are more of side quest you have to find. I usually do a mix of fun world events, heart quest, and WvW to keep my interest. They are some great world events like the dragons or Kol.

The mystic forge, is well, pretty mystic and mysterious. Not all the recipes are known, same for all of its uses. So please, Post any recipes, things you’d like to point out, or even just how to use it and any questions you might have. Also if a mod could sticky this, that would be awesome. Please go to http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge#Recipes for the wiki to some recipes. Also http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zfr9x/mystic_forge_recipes_and_research_it_makes_exotics/

So this is what i’ve found out so far about the mystic forge in terms of how you use it.
You first need 4 items. You could do random items, but they need to be the same rarity. So if i get 4 green armor peices (lets say gloves, chest, helm and boots) and combine them, ill get a random armor peice (any one that you can wear) and it will either A. be better than the greens i put in, or B. Have a small chance of producing a yellow). This concept goes for all equipment.

However this is something I should note. I was experimenting with shoulder armor and I found that if you do different levels of armor, such as 2 lights and 2 heavy peices, then it is considered random. However if I put in all heavy shoulders or all medium, i kept getting light pieces. No idea why, it might be a glitch at the moment. You also can use the MF (mystic forge) to produce special cooking items called feast and armor satchels. However, from what I understand, these give you the recpies, so unless you have the correct level of cooking or whatever armor the armor satchel has, you won’t be able to make it.

1. Karma items. Not many people know what to do with karma items, but you can combine them in the mystic forge. I need a weapon upgrade and instead of going to a karma vender that sells yellow items for 10k karma, i bought about 5k worth of green rifles (about 800 each) combined them and got 4 yellows. Then i combined the 4 yellows and got a really good yellow level 60 upgrade.

2. You use the mystic forge to create special cooking items called feast and armor satchels, explained above before the list.

3. You can transmute materials. Refer to the wiki link to see some known list.

4. Jewels, armor upgrades, save them. You can combine these in the mystic forge to create higher level ups. SO i’ve been saving mine since level 1 and combined them all to create upgrades and so on till I get them to level 80 and they are usable. They work the same as armor items. But you can only combine 4 upgrades, not upgrades and jewels. So 4 green jewels can produce a better green jewel or a yellow jewel.

5. PvP mystic forge I hear is pretty simple, refer to the wiki page.

6. Legendary items. I was talking to some level 80s and they explained to me that the Legendary items are unique in appearance and stats. You can’t get them in PvP either.
However to get them, it is very difficult. When you reach level 80 you continue to get exp to gain more skill points. Some of the materials required to produce such items are bought via skill points by the girl who stands next to the mystic forge. You usually need a good amount of coins and a scroll on top of a large amount of 2 other items. Refer to the reddit link for a few known ones.

That is most of all I know right now. If you have any known recipes, questions about the MF, and things like that, post them in this thread.

Updates: Journeyman, Fine, and Masters salvaging kit plus 3 mystic stones yields a mystic kit with 250 charges.