Guild Wars 2

These are the titles I have accumulated. I’m at just under 9k AP. The reason why I have No Title selected is because I wish to not brag about my AP and achievements while ingame.

I do Arah, CM, CoF, SE, CoE, AC, HotW daily with pugs.

If I see people with titles such as Dungeon Master, God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals, or Champion of the Gods, then I judge them harshly. If they make mistakes, then they are bad players and deserve to get told of their mistakes.

Pretty much, the way I play is: Everyone sucks (including me). If you wear a high-ranking title, you best play it or I’m going to call you out on it.

And yes, I get kicked out of Arah runs on a near-daily basis (usually towards the end near the boss).

I also will assist players if they try.

Example: Arah.
If you fall down, I will port you up. If you die (in Path 1), I will port you to the group.
If, in Path 2, we get to the boat and decide to go off map to skip mobs. I will port you if you try. If you fall and don’t attempt to get back up, I will jump down and run to the boss. If you keep attempting to get to the end, I will port you after one or two more tries.

Tl;dr: I’m not going to waste my time if you’re not going to put in your effort.

Treat everyone as if they have 0 AP. If they wear a high-prestige title, treat them only as good as they play.

arjeidi.2690:

GSSBlunaspike.4153:

They become less impressive when players can buy them instantly on the TP.

Incorrect, they are just as impressive. They are simply less rare, but this doesn’t change how they look. The difference is that one speaks about a persons ego being more important to them than what they like. If you like something, great. If you only like it because it’s rare, that’s simply ego.

+1 to that. If people need to impress others by exclusion, thats pretty sad.

Otherwise, other posts in this thread talk about “ruining the economy”, and I see it a lot on these forums. What they really mean to say is “ruins my chance at becoming rich at the expense of others”, in which case thats a good thing.

My favorite weapon is the Wooden Sword. You can obtain it via crafting. Most people ignore it since it looks “stupid”.

Guardian shouldn’t be nuking someone down faster than they can run, however if you time your Hammer Circle and CC, you should be able to nuke them down in a decent timeframe.

I guess what I’m saying is that if you want to be a supportive guardian, you shouldn’t be focusing on doing all the damage. The same goes for the other way around (I guess for Ranger, hrmm).

I’m kinda tired so my train of thought is going tangential, but basically: Run Guardian. If you feel like you don’t do enough damage, work on a 3rd armor set (full or near full zerk) and then try going around with that. You may feel super squishy, but you should be fine in 1v1’s.

You know this superstar by now. Let’s hear it!

Our challenger better wrap things up quick.

Yes, you buy some ingredients, cook some food and sell the food on the trading post.

Which foods is up to you to figure out. Good luck, Chef Dionysios.

Runes? Sigils?

You can always swap certain items to be more damage based. The items slots that give the most Critical Damage per stat point lost (not including trinkets) are Gloves/Shoes/Shoulders. (Not that this has anything to do with your build)

Guardian hits like a wet noodle? You should change up your build.

Guardian

laokoko.7403:

I honestly don’t know how many people need celestial gear, even then, they really would just craft 1 set, and use at most 25 crystal per day.

Haven’t you read the forums? Everyone needs Celestial gear. It’s so unfair that it’s time-gated because I can’t finish my zerker thief build without having my Celestial armor.

/sarcasm

PMilkos.9103:

Starling.2769:

I would say earning thousands of gold in a few days with no risk falls in there somewhere…

I’d say fighting a boss that can 1-shot you, in an arena filled with mines that can one-shot you and while heavily handicapped does not in fact fall under the “no risk” category. Finding a way to circumvent those dangers while relying entirely on game mechanics is called a “strategy”, not an “exploit”.

Say, you were able to join the arena with 2 other people and all get the rewards or kill Deadeye Dunwell with 0 gambits yet get rewarded for 5 gambits.

THOSE are exploits.

Killing Dunwell while handicapping yourself, however, is not an exploit.

Yeah, I wouldn’t level a character to 80 just to fight Liadri. You won’t understand the fundamental class mechanics well enough to be able to beat Liadri.

Why buy Khilbron’s when you can just do dungeons?

Why not Zoidberg both?

nica.5829:

Inspect is an infinitely useful tool to someone trying to learn the game, as well as skin collectors. How many times I see someone looking awesome but afk T__T

Or you could have a build ping that would show you something similar to the sPvP skill preview thingy. I would like build pings a lot more.

I think they’re fine as is. If you want special effects get a weapon with special effects. If you don’t want special effects get a weapon without special effects.

If you’re going 20 in Dueling, you might want to go Rabid so your Illusions can apply more Bleeding.

Runes of Perplexity are good depending on your build. While they do, in some way, force you to pick certain weapons to utilize their effectiveness, they can also bring about large amounts of Confusion which is something us Mesmers never had access to (other than old Glamour builds). When comparing their DPS to, say, a full CondiDuration runeset, they are laughable, but that also implies a full duration tick. You can also use high condition damage runes for their utility, but it all comes down to preference, in the end.

Might as well add some sort of Gauntlet to allow an account access into WvW, but that would gate the entire content.

I’ve been in WvW on a level 1 character and had 2500 in every stat. Try getting that on a level 80.

Once you reach 500, a new tier of crafting materials will be available to you; this new tier of materials will be made by combining lower tier materials. This tier is time-constrained, so each item can only be made once per day in order to help give high-level crafters their own economy of items to build and sell that retain their value and rarity.

Everyone assumes this means it will all require T6 materials.

Personally, I believe that this means they will try and revitalize the lower tier items and do something like Cotton + Large Fang = Fanged Cotton or something silly like that.

Then again, we’re all allowed our own interpretations, so I don’t expect you all to believe what I believe, but please don’t just say that it will require T6 materials with no regard to any other opinion.

Also the real reason why the Legendary changed to Exotic was only when Transmuting. That problem has been fixed. The sigil was just a rumor spread around because of the transmuting problem.

Level 0 Aquabreather.

Egeira.3591:

Okiru.7635:

Because once my character has the gear with the stats I’ve picked to fit my playstyle, stats become an afterthought. I rather focus on when I need to dodge or which abilities to use to defeat my foes.

Which is exactly why content fail to scale efficiently and gw2 losing its longevity when it comes to PVE challenges. I wish to fight and struggle for new content and you prefer waiting. Lets agree to disagree.

So you’re saying the Liadri fight is more about stats then challenge and skill?

Additionally, you can beat Fractals with little to no AR, even high level (GHIJKL fractals) with none. I personally got to level 24 before getting any AR and I consistently do fractals much higher level than my own because I know when/how to dodge. The only part that automatically hurts/kills me is the Jade Maw but I can get ressed by my teammates and I tell them beforehand that I will die so prepare for it.

Expected a horror face gif. Was thoroughly disappointed.

Behellagh.1468:

I strongly disagree with A. You had to get the kite in the WvW jump puzzle to earn the meta achievement. This requires you to be good with JP and be able to survive players from other worlds killing you before reaching the end.

There were 26 achievements other than the Meta-Achievement. 24 of them counted towards the Meta-Achievement. The Meta-Achievement required 16 achievements.

Please explain why you needed to get the WvW jump puzzle kite?

We already saw some new weapons, I’m quite sure they’ll slowly release them over the remainder of the year so as not to make a largescale surprising disappointment and to allow easy balance fixes instead of ruining PvP in one swift patch.

You could switch to bursting/malice if you want, but Battle is fine. The only reason you’d swap it is if you didn’t enjoy them. For a Condition build, you don’t really need to get much more than what you have on sigils, so you should be fine.

WvW health bonuses. Today is Friday therefore the reset happened.

Master of Timespace.2548:

Carighan.6758:

Probably because as a whole, ANet – and players – are really really really afraid of Confusion.

The condition is quite weak – even before the nerf – due to how easily it could be avoided, but with the available amount of +conditionduration in the game – a general issue IMO – it can become dangerous in an exponential fashion (Confusion doesn’t scale linearly with duration due to opportunity cost of avoiding it).

In other words, if we were to remove the potential +100% duration we can get, we could easily buff it by 150% or so in damage.

But because of the way it works now, ANet is afraid of it. Hence most of our skills applying it are so weak.

It was just the glamour spec that was op. You couldn’t really avoid the confusion spammed through glamours, but of course Anet didn’t realise that this was the actual root of the problem.

But then they nerfed every aspect of the problem making a Glamour Confusion spec worthless along with any other Confusion Mesmer spec at the time. Heck, the nerf still exists pretty blatantly as most condition specs barely touch on confusion, since the applications of confusion are so far and few (and they last barely any duration).

And then this is where the new Runes come into play because they effectively grant a higher duration Confusion than a Mesmer could inflict at any point + it’s relatively easy to access, meaning that it looks at a nerfed build and then sits on a high chair and laughs at it.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

Levetty.1279:

I’d like to put forth my main hand shield idea again. Especially as a ranged 1h power weapon to go alone with GS.

I would LOVE a shield. The trouble would be as to how you could make it fit Mesmer. Hell with the fact that Greatsword is a range weapon they could do something insane/different for Mesmer

I would LOVE a skill that THROWS a Illusional version of the Shield at targets (like Mirror Blade) that bounces between targets inflicting them with random conditions and creates a Clone/Illusion that does some Shield charge

The 5th (or 2nd) skill would create An illusion that creates a Feedback bubble around the Illusion that reflects all projectiles that are that way. Another option would be a similar skill like the iWarden – the iGuardian (placement name lol) sends out shield blasts in all directions dealing damage and causing confusion to all targets hit

We’d probably get something like the Aetherblade Thumper’s bounce-daze but it would have a chance at daze instead of 100% daze because that kitten is op.

0/20/30/20/0 boon duration runes = AoE 25 stacks of might for 20 seconds.

Also lets me switch to a near-perma invis run build at will.

Good pug build, but I wouldn’t use it for anything else.

Melee pistol anyone? Cleaving bullets?

I’m ready!

Your sources are terrible.

If you want efficiency, go to Orr.

cranked.3812:

So does the Sigil of Battle stack? For instance, if I put it on GS and LB as a warrior, can I just keep switching every 5 seconds and stack to 25 might?

9 seconds is the cooldown.

Yes it drops from Frozen Maw.

Welcome to RNG farming. Something that is rampant in other games and only done in GW2 for skins.

Normal on-swap cooldown (9 seconds).

Did you have 25 Quartz on you?

Is going to be released soon. It’s in the files.

Mystic Forge recipe other recipes is wher eyou’ll finddddddddddit

Eleir.9325:

Homosexuality is already in the game in the case of the Sylvari I believe. I wrote this with intentions of having marriage open to people of all sex and race. I apologize for not stating that.

Sylvari and Asura have homosexual relationships.

I believe one of the leading factors as to why they haven’t (and for the time being, won’t) implemented it is because of the terse issue of homosexual, heterosexual, transexual and bisexual relationships. Within game, each respective race would have their own views about it, but there’s not much that they’re going to do about other races’ culture’s.

Adamantium.3682:

Oh I haven’t seen dev response. If it is an oversight then there’s a good chance we’ll get a title for this, that would be great.

A dev stated that when they add more to QG, he’ll try and see if they can retroactively add titles to the achievements because Liadri and Light Up The Darkness deserve one for their difficulty.

The Boz.2038:

shimmerless.4560:

You can write all-caps as much as you like until you learn to have an adult discussion I’m not really interested.

Brilliant conversation stopper.
You lose. Good day, sir.

Actually, I’m going to have to side with shimmerless because he made a valid point and you simply blew him off saying “YOU AGAIN, PSHHHHH”.

That is not proper conduct in an intellectual discussion. If you were, however, not having an intellectual discussion about the topic at hand, then please, move it to private messages.

Since Condition Duration is not a stat on armor, Condition Builds only need Condition Damage as a primary damage source and can relocate the 2 secondaries to vitality and power, power and precision, or precision and toughness. This is the fuel that drives the Condition meta in sPvP. You can be tanky enough to survive zerkernukes while maintaining full Condition Damage in your stats.

It’s like how, in PvE, Power + Precision + Critical Damage scale so well together that no amount of defense is going to stop someone like that from ripping your panties apart (unless you have other forms of mitigation along with your defense, but that comes at the cost of damage or other utility).

@Palu, sorry, I misread it.

Typically when people don’t get rewards, visiting the CoS will reward them with the items, regardless of having been there before.

Rox’s quiver will be on sale one day during a 10 day revisit sale very soon. Keep your eyes peeled.

The Boz.2038:

I don’t see how Power and Condition Damage have diminishing returns, could you please explain that?

They don’t. I think it was a suggestion to make them have diminishing returns (which would, inevitably, result in a stat cap for stats).

I don’t think that’s the way to approach it. I think just having a stat cap would be good enough because it would force players to mix and match. You can use Celestial as an example. Assume someone is decked out in full celestial, and that’s a good place to start (it’s not 100% in all stats, it would simply be about 80% all stats or something like that)… if you get what I’m saying…

See? It was the AoE cap. Too many oozes.

Isn’t that just the AoE cap? Shoulda kept throwing them rocks.

Yes, I have to scroll…

Dragon Bash will potentially re-occur as a themed festival, but it’s unsure of whether or not you’ll be able to receive these items.