Guild Wars 2

May i have your condition build ? Please
Trying to build one myseft

Anet please VB is one of my fav meta map, it teach ppl they need to work hard on their own and listen to other to get the map win !!

Please put the portal somewhere else !!

If you have HoT Expansion then I do not recommend Warrior for some reason, Berserker is not really amazing right now, If you don’t have HoT then Warrior is a choice but this class have boring animations.

If you do open world solo PvE alot these are my order :

1. Ranger/Druid nothing can beat this class in solo open world, after HoT condition build on ranger is awesome, and i think we do have a place in Raid because our Healing is best.

2. Revenant this class somehow can replace Warrior in HoT because it bring so much better team support with Glint, strong damg output.

3. Guardian one of the most strongest class in game, if you have HoT then definitely have to try out, but the weakness is this guy is the only class in game doesn’t have 25% movespeed benefit from skill nor trait.

Note : Warrior can have 25% movespeed but with berserker you either have to sacrifice movespeed to get dps or dps for movespeed so they pretty much the same with guard but guard can do just better atleast for now. A lot of ppl waiting for Warrior fix.

4. Necromancer i know you don’t prefer light armor class but Necro/Reaper have very high HP pool and with elite specs you can pretty much kill anything stand in your way, good AoE, HP regen, minions can keep aggro very well, strong survival. But Necro are alway been a selfish class not much team support tho.

If you are new stay away from Thief, Engi, Ele

I missed Mesmer but sorry i did something stupid with mine mes so i won’t talk about mesmer.

Go Rev
If Anet give Guard 25% move speed definitely Go Guard

Race whatever

I got the Nature Spirit in just 3 Oakhearts killed in Hinterland, Queendale has too many ppl hunting around so it kinda hard to get the item.

For the mushroom i have to kill like 5 to get the right collection

The worst path for me is the Machined Weapon i have to complete 2 hours chain event in DS to get what i want and it’s RNG but luckily i got it

Final item i need is the Auric Stone, right now i try to grind as much as i can to get Exalted Gathering

Next will be Glint’s Bastion…

Why don’t we wait until raid come out ( soon ) and then talk about this later ?
Elite specs are messing up with many classes right now until we experienced what/how’s raid going to be, there’s no certain answer.

My answer is quite different as you expected

- First you can’t do anything above with 150g, ascended will give you 15% stats boost in total and the purpose mainly for high lv fractal outside of that i prefer exotics with 4 stats on it like Viper, Marauder etc. For legendary…not even close btw they just nerfed dungeons to the ground so you’ll be fine with full exotic running in HoT.

- Second be for you go further i strongly suggest visit Ranger, Ele, War forum and learn more because some of them are not worth playing after HoT, for me personaly i play condition ranger atm and it amazing in HoT contents

- Final Raid is coming but we don’t know what or how it’s gonna be so just relax for a bit and wait maybe there are some good news.

1. I don’t have thief i can’t answer your question.

2. Good like it’s alway been, more newbie friendly.

3. For story line, cosmetic prob you missed out a ton, but for gears and stuff like that it’s much more easier to get for newbie, gw2 is a skill based game.

4. Yes you will kill yourself if jump right into expansion without any preparation.

5. Start with another class, thief is not a newbie friendly class imo, guardian, revenant, ranger, warrior are easy to play and very strong in expansion zones, if you heard something bad about class just ignore it, prob a bunch of whining kid. Some other class also strong with elite specs are necro and engineer. Get a class to 80.

6. Not so bad some elite specializations worth it but some still need a fix from anet,
masteries is grindy but not a problem just don’t rush the game.

I use marauder gear with zerk weapons/trinket, scholar rune and it was better than full zerk the extra vitality/pre are very useful in many situations, looking forward to replace 2 zerk ring with assassin and see how thing work out.

My answer is still Ranger ( Druid ) with 33% passive movespeed you can build your skill in many different way without using signet, with Druid healing melee, condition ranger is now viable in PvE and very strong and fun to play you don’t need longbow anymore

But to get there you need to full Druid first

I think Viper is no need for this because the main point of this build is the great survivability but still maintain high Bleed/AoE damg.

It’s true that Viper do more dps than rabid but the loss of vitality/toughness will make it just like zerker build and more important healing abilities go best with toughness and we have a ton of it.

There is a class call " Necromancer" you guys should check it out !!

Extra : for those who can’t use gemfx anymore that because you use 64 client and you have to select “64Bit – Application”

What class are you playing ? Some builds and gears for certain class CAN’T be used in HoT zones, mobs in HoT is much more tougher than core game you might get yourelf killed in 1v1 combat with a single mob.

For first map of HoT Verdant Brink, first thing you need to do is explore all wp within this map then visit this site and learn where are HP at then get them http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/

Verdant Brink ( VB ) has one meta event seperate into Day and Night cycle.

- Both Day and Night map have 4 Tier, if your map get it to Tier 4 you get big reward

- At day you run around the map and do events ( maybe with tag or zerg if lucky ) and get Day map to Tier 4 before nightfall

- At night things get a bit more harder with tons of mordrem mobs spawn and there are a lot of rally point that you need to defend them from those mordrem after that run supplies by spread out and search for pact supply crate > bring it back to your rally point in order to upgrade it, higher tier rally point = faster night map get to tier 4

- When the clock at night count down to 20:00 choppers will begin to appear near some rally point, this is the boss phase use chopper to go up, there are 5 bosses in the area, some of them require masteries to fight like updraft and stealth detection

- Hover your mouse to mini map to check map tier and how much you participated in the map ( max is 200% ), if you get it all done then just wait for the reward when day come back again.

- Verdent Brink is not a zerg event, b4 bosses phase if you stick toghether you LOSE.

I tried your build and it really work out pretty well, too well

Finally got mine today with three DS run.
First run i got crashed right after we defeated last boss
Second run i ran around like an idiot for 15m luckily found tiger at the last 10s before map close
Last Run everything went smooth and got my Wyvern right after killed boss.

Extra : after get wyvern in action!! i really just want to smash the keboard onto the screen not worth all the time and effort i put in it.

Dropped mine since HoT released, came back to see what new about war and it remain the same with boring mechanics, animation, moved all stuff from my War to Rev but will wait and see what changes they going to make in future, i’m not giving up on War – Yet !!

Here is all you need https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Svaard%27s_Marauder_Insignia

Rev is like a power house with perma swiftness fury might tons of damg output plus 80%+ crit chance all the time, their play style might be limited but effective by all means and you don’t have to worry about survivability on rev cuz they have enough healing for themselves, the only downside is they still have a lot of bugs right now for they are new.

Guard in the othehand is most balance class in game DH is great tho but sometime you will frustrating about move speed unless you use 25% move spd runes or don’t mind about timing to re-buff swiftness and they have lower HP pool than Rev

Both DH and Herald by far are some of the best elite specs in game atm
But i will say Guard for now because they are balance, Rev is new and it good but might get some fix soon for around atleast 2 months after the released

First im confused about this thread
I have no idea what are you trying to say, the title and content has a big difference and because you already answered the title question so i’ll just leave it be.

If you ask what is good for Daredevil you should ask it in thief forum

You can use all kind of " Longbow Only " no matter what rarity it is or what stats.

depends on what class are you, vanilla is fine but HoT some mobs hit like a truck even with heavy ascended gears you can skill got killed by a single mob if careless in battle.

Yes like Boysenberry said practice is a key to survive in HoT map, and gears stats i recommend Marauder with Power Precision Vital Ferocity and zerkder trinkets/weapons or mix between zerker trinkets with some defensive stat trinkets if you feels like your hp is too low ( seriously you might get 1 shot in HoT )

Exotic doing just fine in HoT, try to gear up, learn your class, you can buy gear via trade post or badges of honor vendor or by crafting and Marauder kinda expensive to craft

Yes it is possible to kill all 5 bosses, not with organized map but organized + skillful ( ppl know what to do ) i got my chest piece yesterday by killed all bosses thank to good communicate map chat and leader, i know this seems hard to you but it suppose to be end game contents so cheer up and keep trying

A normal spec vs an elite spec, kinda funny when i saw this thread

We don’t need more weapon, all we need simply is a button that switch between range hammer to melee hammer and melee staff to somekind of mist magic that function as a “staff”

I personaly choose rev because in pve wide rev is much better than war, fury for us is 40% instead of 20% then we have 100% uptime fury, swiftness, might, regen or even protection, more dps than war, hammer is just great and most of all rev is more fun to play than war.

They already fixed some HP Challenges, i feels a bit hard to get max on my elite spec at first but that was b4 they nerfed 400 HP, i know some of you feels this expansion is hard but please there must be a limit for this kind of thread, they already gave you a nerf of 400 HP.

In the last 2 days i was lucky by got into a zerk and a nice tag who willing to lead us do all HP in all 3 maps except Dragon Stand it took around 2h – 3h to get max elite spec, if you feels unlucky cuz the wait or no one come you should learn the road to all HP first then start a zerk do all of them in one run and Anet also gave us a free tag too..

For years i played gw2 i’ve seen ppl show that they can solo champ/dungeon/wvw/ etc contents of the game but this has to be stop ppl clearly don’t care for each other if everything soloable, harder content for me means bring ppl together

Few hours ago b4 patch i was so happy to get my druid maxed and a lot of fun with it then took a break and woke up and see this….Yay free coffee ( punch in the face )

I roll a Warrior and found it boring, strong class with high HP pool but poor skill animation, have a decent move spd tho

I roll a Guardian and found it more enjoyable than War, good skill animation, can have perma swiftness with proper setup but sadly i don’t use that setup all the time so move spd for me is slow and low HP pool alway annoying me

Then i roll a Revenant and found it a lot hella fun than war, good skill animation, medium HP pool, the heal is just perfectly enough, perma swiftness ( WITHOUT RE-BUFF ) Rev is the middle choice between Guard and War for me and i love it.

I can’t even login into my main which stay at Field of Ruin last time i log out it said " Network Error "

Annoying

I play Revenant recently i really love it but here is the thing when i hit 80, i did some research but no clear infomation so far on rev stats guide so i want to start a thread that talk about it.

What stats should we use in :
- PvE wise
- WvW/PvP
- Runes
- Sigils

Back story

As a returning player i finally i saved up enough money to buy HoT few days ago and kinda excited but well…things turned out as you guys already know !!

I don’t have much time to play because i just got my new job but really don’t want to waste money either, i really love this game since the first time i play it.

As i mention above i need some good advice about which class should i spend my time into and get it to max Elite spec first, I have :

Guardian
Warrior
Necro
Ranger
Revenant
Extra Empty Slot

Which class’s elite spec really worth time and effort ?
My playstyle : mix between WvW and PvE, im a solo player ( mostly ), in group i play 2 role support and full dps or both if needed.
Note : I need a clear answer not something like “play what you want” or “all elite spec are good” that’s only make my desicion becoming harder

Any serious advice would be appreciated cuz i really don’t have much time to play and 400 points are pretty painful.

Thank You !!!

I strongly suggest duo Guard or 1 Guard 1 Ele since guard have a ton of good defensive abilities + strong def + high damg and Ele can bring massive aoe damg not to mention these 2 classes can provide nasty might stacks and Ice Bow is one of best summon weapons in game you can watch each other’s back.

Engineer turrets is good for lvling but they are useless and squishy in high lv contents and very complicated gameplay so i won’t recommend engi.

Plus high toughness can hold aggro and Guard/War might fit for that job while your gf can deal damg.

Or you can play War replace Guard/Ele, war Phalanx Strength can provide pretty nice might stacks too ( but cost gold alot )

that would be 16

When do we have access to our elite specs ? This is the only thing i care…

May be i will like Rev when they release all content about this class now…meh and celestial gear make it even worse.

I created Engineer because this class fit perfect for celestial gear…..omg…why celestial WHYYYYYYYYY

It seem beta was activated by accident so chill out

At low lv ranger kinda lack of skill when you hit at least 31 run full power/precision/ferocity ( third stat will appear at 6x call berserker ) gears with full traps utility with Troll Unguent healing, use LB/GS or LB/Axe/Torch or GS/Axe/Torch you can skill a group of mobs with no trouble – don’t depend too much on your pets and use dps pet instead of tank one.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/List_of_pet_locations

Prefer Jugar, Lynx, Devourer for Aquatic combat use Armor Fish and Shark btw ranger is really good at underwater fighting.

Thing will go different at high lv where

Not until you hit 80

Hint : http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

This is the pve build i currently use on my necro ( very expensive stuff )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60q8pb6NiM
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/New-Power-Condi-Hybrid-Build/first#post5054185

Please stop just stop answer to these kind of topic there are already a bunch of answer you can find on the internet this is not how players helping players box work teach them to learn.

Want proof ?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Just-hit-80-now-what
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/I-hit-level-80-Now-what
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Fresh-level-80-necro-now-what

You have to do the chain event help keeper Jones Dead Run kill high priest of grenth and retake the temple in order to un-contested wp.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Temple_of_Grenth

In your picture you were going the wrong way it’s hard to tell here just ask on map chat or wait for grenth event pop up.

Why ? Are you get in somekind of trouble with survival or you lost your way and confused ?

Most of ppl here have their own stuff to do if you have a problem with your adventure tell us in detail so we can help don’t just ask for help like that.

Here is your answer !!

https://www.google.com/

Type Guild Wars 2 level 80 now what > search > more results from forum-en.guildwars2.com

Latest topic like these just 5 days ago and if you even can’t find that 5 days old tell me i will give you a direct link.

I tried non solo stuff already but no since i can make alot more profit in open world than in dun and other grp content ( not fractal ) it’s fun but not everyone like it and i’am one of them.

Ranger clearly no.1 choice for you i did map completion on both my war/ranger and yeah ranger is more stable and take control better than war in some bad situations came up during the adventure, ranger got alot of hate in this game but who care when it came to solo content first class i want to take is alway ranger don’t let bad cmt about ranger get in your way you can alway re-roll after your ranger hit 80.

Warrior yes this class is strong and one of my favorite but i tread him like a tool not as my main char cuz war are good in group play stay 2nd place in solo content ( but if solo dungeon it will be placed at 1st ) strong def/regen/damg but will not stay alive better than ranger in some emergency situations.

Guard like war but low hp pool make thing a bit harder in some way and more deffensive than war.

War strong def / high hp pool / very nasty regen ( about 600hp – 700hp per sec ) / very high damg / boring gameplay / poor animation / can’t have both regen and big heal at the same time.

Guard strong def / low hp pool / good regen /good damg / interesting gameplay and animation / can have big heal and regen at the same time / utility skill make this class more survival than war.

Ranger good def / medium hp pool / nasty heal over time skill / better damg come from melee / best survival ( pets ) / feel like true adventurer.

One more thing in solo it’s not about the damg ppl said kill thing faster than it kill you yeah they were right but for me it’s about how well you can control your battlefield now i mainly play mesmer but nothing can touch me or bring me down in solo content it will take longer fight but i enjoy the way i control my enemies and ranger can do the same nothing in open world content can bring you down….well may be there are some but just a small chance.

Btw stay away from engi/ele/thief those classes is not for you they are fun yeah i agreed but seriously don’t.

Zex i did tell you to try out mesmer last time we talk you can stick with ele if you want don’t try to ask around will only confused you more follow your heart

You said you like mage stuff then one thing i can guarantee you that both Ele and Mes are worth your time.

Use this http://gw2crafts.net/ very useful but you have to learn where to craft and how first with wiki/google.

Stay away as far as you can from crafting if you are new even if you getting familiar to the game don’t touch craft if you are poor crafting only use to create end game gears otherwise not worth it beside it give you about 7 – 10 lv per 400 – 500 job.

Look down into community corner you will find the answer better than ask here..

Tips
- Sell everything to Trading Post ( Press O ) for better price
- Deposit all crafting stuff you looted from your adventure
- Don’t sell mats unless you in need of money, they make alot of profit in future
- Don’t feel too bad if you’re not get the answer you want from map chat it full of troll.
- Google Heart of The Mist test all class before you go further – Time is Gold
- Do not listen to any bad cmts about the class you like – Follow your heart
- Find a nice Guild – If you ask many time and no one answer or too few active member ( Check first ) – Just leave and find another Guild don’t waste your Guild Slot.
- Optional ( not recommend ) Find a mentor who willing to teach you everything about the game.

You want a class in both PvE and PvP and most important of all you just starting out

1/ Thief might be the class for you but you will find yourself having a hard time because this class require a bit skill to play, thief is not really bad in PvE and of course one of best class for PvP.

2/ Ele best class in every aspect of the game but very very hard to play if you still want to continue on this class don’t be surprise you might end up sucked at everything or struggling to survive but clearly if play well the reward is amazing.

3/ Ranger most easiest class and newbie friendly in game easy to learn easy to survive good in both PvE/ PvP and please don’t let some crap on internet fool you about this class dps, their solo capability is one of the best but some group will not want you in their team cuz a lot of ranger hater out there, the true problem cause this class have so much hate is you become lazy with a tank pet and stay at max range with tiny damg. Ranger true dps come from their ability to use both range/melee weapons and how well you can master this class.

Ranger is Jack of all Trades and would be your best choice if you are new to this game, easy to learn game mechanics and IF you like the class plz just go on with it don’t let the bad cmts about this class ruining your moments and very reward gameplay if you stay away from bad ranger build.

Mesmer this class is fun, very good utility and if you get used to the game mechanics, combat, knowing boons/conditions then survivability just a tiny problem to mesmer but lvling one is really a challenge, i used to say meh to mesmer at first but after so many try i finally got it to 80 and end up playing mesmer most of the time cuz…well no spoiler…

One thing about mesmer you might mistake the damage mesmer provide is not great that doesn’t mean you playing it wrong or seem underpower compare to other…no just no…mesmer is all about how well you can control your enemies and the battlefield nothing can touch you or bring you down so easily if you play mesmer well.

Ele…same as mesmer but harder and more reward if mastered.

Guardian low hp is fatal but in return they have strong def very strong healing capability and defensive support, nice damg most well balanced class in the game easy to play not so easy to master but everyone love you kinda like pally or holy knight, you should have atleast one guardian or warrior or both in your family ( doesn’t have to be main tool but just in case you need to learn something hard while not familiar to game yet )

Mesmer and Ele can learn too but require more knowledge before you feel comfort to learn stuff with those classes

Ranger…this guy can do anything since you have pets to hold aggro for you but beware bad ranger came from rely too much on pets and distance.

Since you just came back to the game i suggest start a new character and it alway good to have more than 1 character so here is my suggestion

For very casual PvE and grp activities ( with friends )

1/ Warrior easy at everything strong and straight forward, offensive way
2/ Guardian easy like warrior but low hp, deffensive way
3/ Ranger Jack of all Trades fun with some ppl but not everyone like it
4/ Above all Mesmer can provide you a ton of fun just like engineer and very good in both pvp/pve.

Engineer is good in fact they are master class but not anyone can master it hard to play like ele they are both the hardest – seriously and you may not be welcome at some places if you are an engineer.

Expansion is coming you should check out Anet review clips about class elite specialization so far we have already known

Mesmer – Chronomancer
Guardian – Dragon Hunter aka Dohvakiin
Necromancer – Reaper < you must have this class no matter what reaper is so cool.

Place your guild spirit in your heart then find another guild….there is no way to bring a dead guild back to life among thousand of guilds in gw2 if you try to inv ppl in clearly they just stand down the whole time cuz nothing to catch their interested > back to the grave again.