Guild Wars 2

What’s the weekly cap for personal commendations?

If I were in 5 guilds and were able to run all of those guild missions, would I be able to get them all?

Serious Thought.5394:

After about a year. I encountered 3 players on my map and I believe 4 on Devona’s. I can’t believe its dead. It happened… Not trying to be pessimistic but holy kitten.

Edit: Oops pronouns. I mean Sanctum of Rall. Not WvW. Idk higher tiers headcount.

Yup. Totally. SoR is just sitting on their kitten.

Not sure where you were looking :P

My lvl 80 Herald

Hey all,

After a while running around in black/red, I was hoping for a lighter, happier colour scheme.

My armour revolves around the wings, the cof headpiece and the arah leggings. I aim to keep these but change the dyes around so they go well with white feathered wings instead of black.

Any ideas?

Do you guys enjoy Obsidian Sanctum? Not the actual JP, but when you’re defending it from a zerg or something. I find it amazing (the defence aspect), but that might just be me.

WvW/Fractals/Dungeons are dead. What is left in GW2? I don’t care about the story and for the moment, I have no goals apart from getting insane amounts of gold to unlock gems store things which isn’t plausible.

What do you guys do atm?

heh

/15 chars

Farm fractal 40 over and over again

Which is better gold wise per time spent ( include time spent to get 200% participation ) ?

Of course not. OCE Servers would be stupid.

But, we need better ping, improve servers, honestly, we’re getting 350 min. EVERY OTHER GAME GIVES US 180. Infrastructure needs to improve on their side.

Do hearts till lvl 10. To personal story till 14. Craft to 20. Do personal 20. You are now lvl 24.

Goto EOTM until lvl 65.

Farm CoF from 65-80. I got around 13 levels an hour that way

Just thought it’d be helpful for new players to see what they can do with the Elementalist and appreciate the versatility it offers.

Leave videos that you’ve found helpful in the past that have shown you the cool things you can do with an Ele.

( pretty cool, didn’t know some of these, not my video ).

IMO

You just need to be tanky as possible ( sentinel/soldiers etc ). You’re a commander, if you die, the zerg is stuffed ( usually ). Lots of people, myself included, run dedicated support builds when zerging, don’t think you should be worrying about that, just stay alive and call for fields/boons

That’s exactly the point. It’s so you can’t going in, wiping, going in, wiping etc. Incentivises playing more carefully. It’s good for fractals ( was ) now they’re so easy but it’ll be good for raids. Also, it’s ( putting on my tinfoil hat ) a gold sink. You usually wp to use it or in difficult content, pop a repair canister which is like 20 gold in gems.

And they do this with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate coming out on the same day as well as other games coming out on the same day. People were looking to see what to spend their 50$ on, nerfing the core game, meh, who cares, we’ll just play another game.

The expansion may be good, but the ANet wrecked the core game, nerfing dungeons, fractals and SW in the long run ( this is just a fraction of the total ). The expansion has created a massive gap between core/xpac players as the xpac players get better rewards, more classes, more of everything. Sure, it’s an xpac, but when you have to buy it in order to get Legendary Backpieces and decent rewards , the line needs to be drawn

What should I do to maximise time spent there? What are good things to farm? Good things to unlock eg) limited time recipes, that sort of thing.

Tyaen.5148:

I’m still on the fence, but I’m thinking about this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlQQNAS5unvN2gS6JvQRVlbosryPUYW5IKYs8ElFUlhNpmiKNgCWw+81nH-TVyCAB1pDAgjAgLaGO+BAo8+Deq+TiKBzS5HFXEgAAIA7cnBAH9oH9oH9olCYshRA-w

I pretty much only WvW. I think it’s got enough damage and sustainability, and I plan to use the hell out of phase traversal.

I’m also really unsure about whether Corruption or Devestation is the better choice, I can see benefits to both.

Your build is far from optimal stat-wise, you might want to look at that.

Brusier Revenant

Don’t mind the sigils/foods or whatever, it’s mainly the armour weighting that’s optimised.

So would it be more profitable to use a crude over a basic?

Please read everything before commenting Don’t tell me basic for blues/greens, masters for rares etc.

Apparently, when opening SW bags on a lvl 53, it’s better to use crude over basic so that you have a 0% chance of getting elder wood over hard wood – which is sells for more -.

Can anyone confirm this or explain more in-depth

Just wondering. Have droprates been touched? Why have certain blacklion things dropped in price?

If we’re going to need that much healing for raids, why can’t we just use IB and Dark Fields for lifesteal? It heals, deals damage and is a viable alternative to having full healers like the Druid.

Is this a fair assumption or a completely ignorant deduction?

Bump

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TheFamster.7806:

Lot’s of attention has been brought to dd ele and its going to literally gut Elementalists out of pvp. So I discussed some changes that should happen with DD ele WITHOUT touching water and arcane traits.

Cleansing fire trait should give 1 stacks of might per cantrip used instead of 3

Blinding Ashes should have 10 ICD

Drake’s breath should apply 3 stacks of burning instead of 4, and burning reduced from 3 1/2 to 3

Ring of fire burning stack reduced to 1 stack

Earth traitline is a different matter, but I found my friends agreeing to the changes that I proposed without touching water and arcane trait line, maybe Soothing Ice trait by removing the frost aura.

Where did you get all this info from? I can’t seem to find any mention of Ele nerfs in the patchnotes.

My Warrior is currently in Hoelbrak and won’t load. Whenever I try, it crashes and says " I/O error, the game will now exit ".

I can play all other characters just fine although I haven’t tried waypoining to Hoelbrak using any other characters in case.

How can this be fixed? Can a mod tp me out just like they did to the guy in SAB

Notes.

You can still finish the scavenger hunt and feed Grawnk the delicacies after Wintersday 2014 ended. When you go to your home instance, Grawnk and the orphan will still show up. Talk to Grawnk and he will tell you where Sous-Chef Seimur Oxbone is and you can still find him, although his icon won’t show up on the map like it did during Wintersday. After feeding him three times, you will still get the collection unlock item and you can then go do the jumping puzzles to get the ornaments. Once done, you will receive credit for the achievement and get your home instance node and the Orphan’s Generous Gift.

When you get bored in LA

Here’s my speculation.

Precursors are easier to get via the new method, but they’re account bound. However, less people will need to buy precursors, so demand will drop but supply will stay even. The price will drop slightly.

However, if there are less people making them because they can get them from crafting or whatever, then supply will drop and the price will rise.

Sooo, the price will stay the same overall. Unless precursor crafting is only available to purchasers of HoT in which case it will affect the precursor economy because those people are mostly higher end players with the resources for that ( even though HoT is coming with the core game later on, the new players won’t be able to craft it until later ). But you can only craft ONE precursor and I’m pretty sure those who have 2 or 3 Legendaries of the same weapon ( and then sell it on the tp to make gold ) forge their precursors ( those are the guys who have lots of buy orders). So in total, small price drop, nothing to be afraid of.

I hope my message is coherant, I’m sick at the moment, feel free to ask me to clarify anything.

https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT

All good! Restricted TP access, can’t access guild bank, can’t mail items, restricted access to chat so no bots. It’s fine, this will work out.

THE ONLY REAL PROBLEM, IMO, IS THAT NEW PLAYERS DON’T REALISE THAT THIS IS A TRIAL/RESTRICTED ACCOUNT, MAKE SURE TO LET THEM KNOW AND DON’T OVER DO IT ON THE REMINDERS TO BUY THE CORE-GAME, IT GETS ANNOYING AF

Apart from that, good move anet, make the trials account thing upgrade as accessible to players as the gem store, small reminders but not annoying popups every login. Also, make sure that you have restrictions on the gem store or the playerbase who has the core ( not trial ) game will get kittened off as gem prices will definitely rise. Also, make sure you can’t get the core ( non trial ) game off the gem store or everything you just did was for naught: They don’t pay money and they negatively affect the economy/gem trade ( if everyone who has trials does it ). Unless you want to make it expensive ( 150g ) but not overly.

Peace

What are the most mobile classes from best to worst. I know Warrior/Mesmer/Thief/Ele are all very mobile, but I’m interested in the other classes. I find myself enjoying the mobile ones more to be honest.

It’s just for priority on the wifi, not just GW2. When I do work, my brother is usually watching youtube and the bandwidth just gives up on me.

I set my traffic as EF ( expedited forwarding ) and left everything as default. However, I was wondering what traffic type GW2 is. VPN? VoIP? Telnet? WVW? IGMP? FTP? I have honestly no idea. Also, if any of you know how to properly configure QoS, help would be appreciated, I used my MAC address for it.

Thanks all

So it’s pretty much lemongrass and passion flowers that are worth gathering? Pretty much, what are the ingredients that are worth 6+ silver.

Are there any materials like Passion Flowers that take 3 seconds to farm and are worth quite a bit and that can be repeated daily?

I haven’t joined up in a Guild who does regular dungeon runs, so yes, I was predominantly asking for PUG runs.

Thank you so much for the quick answers, I think I’ll run SE 1, CoF 1 and TA up/fwd and then SilverWastes to finish off my gold farming

I know AC P1 / SE 1/3 / CoF 1 are all viable, but which 3 are the fastest in order, unless there is a dungeon path that is very fast that I’m missing?

Hey,

So I have a restricted amount of time I can spend on GW2 a day, what is the best way to make gold?

I used to run dungeons ( AC P1, SE 1/3, CoF P1 ) but that’s only about 6gold ~45mins ( PUGS are slow, don’t have a dedicated guild yet ).

I’ve always done Tequatl, simply because I have great luck with the chests and it’s usually 4-5gold in profit.

But recently, I’ve found out that the Silverwastes might be a better place to farm, averaging 8-10 gold an hour. Should I stop running daily dungeons and do Teq + SW or should I do AC P1, SE 1 and the rest SW + Teq or something similar, I’m all about optimisation.

What’s the most efficient way to make gold? Is there other any viable way?

Thanks

Nice montage You might want to check out this build ( similar to your’s ) but more optimised for your style of gameplay.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYhcMoyhFOwzB0RMQAYUT4IMEiCQAIIWrhkYZA-TFTBAB3pCBN7PwlyA+0BMqqKopE8KlMdpUqjTAQlqFgoWAAeAABAQAuZdGADdoDdoFa38m38m38mlCgJlRA-w

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYhcMoyhFOwzB0RMQAYUT4IMEiCQAIIWrhkYZA-T1SBAB3pCBkKBpZ/BuUOxnOgRVV5KlMdcCAqUtAE1CAwDAIAACwNrzAYoDdoDtQ7m38m38m3sUAMpMC-w

I think this might have higher dps ( switched out cavaliers for knights ) I’m sick, my mind is befuzzled; is the way you see the modifier of your crit chance ( eg, 20 % crit at 200% damage = 10% modifier ) is crit *crit damage/100, right? If so, the second build has maybe 2-3 % more damage, if the crit chance hits EVERY second attack ( for 50% crit ) and not rng. I’m not sure whether I should trust statistics or rng, technically , the second one is better, but practically, having consistent crits that correlate with crit chance never happens

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vFAQJAoYhcMoyhFOwzB0RMQAYUT4IMEiCQAIIWrhkYZA-TFTBAB3pCBN7PwlyA+0BMqqKopE8KlMdpUqjTAQlqFgoWAAeAABAQAuZdGADdoDdoFa38m38m38mlCgJlRA-w

How’s this? It’s got everything you need … power, toughness, vitality, crit, crit damage.

I’m hesitant between Cavalier’s Back vs Knights back, but everything else is pretty much optimised.

Thanks

Staff isn’t my sort of thing while soloroaming but I’ll start running that build just too try and motivate myself. It looks insanely fun, and the second one looks pretty troll which suits me ;D

I’m actually fine with spending tons of gold, I just want to have ONE set that’s good for WvW and can be accepted for PvE. I’m looking for DPS but also survivability. Celestials gives that, but no enough dps imo. Knights/Valk does, but there are cons that I can’t remember as of right now.

Anyone? I’m open to other options, but i’m focused on a soloroaming dps build ( for killing players and camps, not just camps )

Bump

/15charcters

Hi,

I was wondering choosing between This Celestial Build versus This Valkyrie/Knights . The traits and sigils won’t be the same, but I’m hoping to have a set of armour that can be used for PvE/WvW ( any map ) without having to have sets to switch around from. I’m not too fussed about PvE dps and the like because no one really cares unless it’s a speed run or high level fractal so I’m more towards 75% WvW adapted, 25% PvE suited.

Any ideas? Which one would be better? Are there better sets I should be using? I don’t aim to be zerging a lot with a staff, but rather d/d doing objectives and the like.

Thanks for your time

Fiery is good for escaping, Glyph is good for 1v1s?

Could someone evaluate pros/cons of both in PvX? It would be very helpful as I’d like to know your opinion on both. Fiery sounds good for solo roaming ( mobility ) but Elementals is good for it too ( extra damage/healing … )

I plan to buy an 80gb SSD for GW2 and some other games to improve my load rate.

Apparently SSDs have a limited read/write amount, how significant is it? 5gb in 5years will cause it to expire. How many MBs does GW2 use in 1 hour just running around, joining a few instances?

Help appreciated

Could you guys please tell me why gossamer scraps had their prices increase by quite a bit. Did ANet announce something? Did someone just buy a whole lot in speculation?

Should I use a Fine or a Crude salvage kit to salvage fines/masterworks? Is there a notable difference? What does 20% for rarer materials mean? A % chance of mats of a higher tier?

I ask this because I run a ton of dungeons and I always salvage the fine/masterwork drops but I want to be getting the most out of them.

Thanks : )

Hey,

I’m planning on deleting ALL my characters in order to transfer for free to another server.

Is there anything I should do before that? I was thinking…

Salvage/Sell all Fine to Exotic pieces ( or store )
Turn skill points into something useful later
Store valuables ( non soulbound stuff )

What else am I missing?