Guild Wars 2

To force players to log in each day. Pretty much all online games do this one way or another.

In a case of GW2. Your timegates usually involve the TP, either buying the materials, or selling your refined Bolt/Ingot/Plank.

What happens when you bring up the TP? You get shoved to the gem store, waving their latest items in your face. You never miss an offer on the gem store if you log in every day.

Also, artificial longevity to take away from the fact there is very little of interest to do at this point in the game unless you’re a new player – about 3 hours new content fortnightly at most.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

Inimicus.7162:

in GW2, they would have had all their ascended weapons and armors done on day 1 without time gating for example.

Except they already did and only slowed down the less wealthier players thats all it did.

It’s better for less wealthy players. They can use their “time gate” to make absurd profits from the rich rushers by selling “time” when the time gated items are massively in demand. For example, I sold my Bolt of Damask for 15g profit on the first day.

Yep, it sucks. I can’t link a source, but I do believe they are changing it so WvW isn’t required for completion (not that knowing this helps your situation now).

You’re pretty much boned until you’re that colour/you have a tower while you’re already in WvW.

Failing that, if you have a commander buddy convince them to PvD a particular tower. I did that and it saved what would have been 4 weeks of waiting.

Skillwise, Norn are objectively the best. They have a racial skill that is actually worth using – Leopard Form in WvW. Humans/Asura are all bad racial skills and not a single one should ever be used.

Buy all the T1/T2/T3 for kittens and giggles.

OmniPotentes.4817:

Let’s face it sunrise and twilight are a dime a dozen.

Everything is dime a dozen now. Even underwater ones – I’m seeing many underwater auras being bugged on land daily.

Roll your face on the keyboard, then hit F to stomp.

Don’t forget to type /laugh.

I want to add a quiz when people hit join on my LFGs

On the TP, you can find things like Tiger Charr Backpack Set and Pink Quaggan Backpack Set.

Backpack Sets come with the Backpack skin, aswell as Backpack Straps which are exactly what you are looking for – white, account bound, and can be transmuted on to make a desired skin account bound.

If you purchase, say the Tiger Charr Backpack Set, you will get these white straps and the Tiger Charr Backpack Cover which can be sold on the TP for minimal loss, literally not even 1g.

darkace.8925:

Vol.7601:

Map completion is the most difficult, and I think I would value alone at 300g.

I wish to God I could sell some of the 10 Gifts of Exploration I have sitting in my bank for 300 gold apiece.

Really? You could probably make 600g using only “layman” money making methods in the time it’ll take to get 100% map completion. Granted if you had 10 you did it for fun, and it’d make sense to bung some off for 300g ^^

Looking at crafting cost and the middle of the buy/sell offers on TP for a number of Legendaries, it seems to be about 600g for the luxury of not having to get the account bound stuff yourself.

Zepher.7803:

Flissy.4093:

Panda Shepard.1248:

Buttercup.5871:

People with an unlimited royal terrace pass (me, me, and me. Did I say me?) always have the forge at their fingertips anyway.

Yeah, that’s what confused me about this. I’ve got the unlimited pass too and this conduit thing just seems silly.

I guess the conduit’s good if you’ve got a ton of gold lying around?

People just want what’s expensive rather than what’s practical.

I want a permanent Royal Pass! didn’t know there was such a thing.
was it a gem store item?

It was available for 1 day only. I believe sometime during new years sale?

Yep, you heard me, 1 day only.

But you can bet your kitten it’ll return at some point.

Lol this is funny. Very funny.

Panda Shepard.1248:

Buttercup.5871:

People with an unlimited royal terrace pass (me, me, and me. Did I say me?) always have the forge at their fingertips anyway.

Yeah, that’s what confused me about this. I’ve got the unlimited pass too and this conduit thing just seems silly.

I guess the conduit’s good if you’ve got a ton of gold lying around?

People just want what’s expensive rather than what’s practical.

Ensign.2189:

Jeweler is ok when leveling but doesn’t really offer anything unique at level 80. Just buy the jewelry you need and skip it for now.

Jeweler is the craft required for the dungeon recipes, which are largely profitable – especially ones like Vallog’s, Plague, Bloodstone etc.

Miguel V.5203:

Flissy.4093:

You can always buy the Desert Rose. It’s just a recolour….

I know but I REALLY want Fervid Censer !

Well sucks that you didn’t play then. It’s a giant middle finger to everybody who did and earned their skin if it was tradable.

You can always buy the Desert Rose. It’s just a recolour….

I’m rerolling a level 80 Guardian in Ascended Trinkets/Weapons.

It’s never too late.

Hi, I’m new to Engineer – both in a PvP and a PvE aspect – but looking to banish this once and for all by playing Engineer in sPvP. I’m pretty bad at PvP but I’m looking to play something more challenging than a Warrior, Necro etc.

I’m after a standard condition build, currently using this, but looking for possible tweak and tips on it.

• I know to swap Backpack Regenerator for Protection Injection against stun-heavy teams.
• I know Tool Kit is a “loose” utility, and currently trying that and Elixir Gun.

There are a few questions I would like to ask:

• Where does my condition removal come from? All I know is using Cleansing Burst but surely more is important against condi-heavy meta?
• Cleaning Burst’s water field – I have no idea how it works or even any indication of it triggering, nor its duration. Everytime I use the skill and then blast I get no AOE Healing.
• Are there any skills on specific kits I have that are “not worth using”?

Thank you to anybody taking time by offering tips.

Stonish.7532:

Flissy.4093:

Is having 300% Magic Find base not enough of a reward for you?

Not rly since I can not prove in any way to people who do not believe me that I actually got it done.

You do realise nobody else cares that you have 300%, right? Showing off in games is … a bit pathetic.

My Necro, Mesmer & Thief are stationed at the OP JP in Malchors.

My Ele/Warrior/Guardian are all busy bees being used for dungeons.

It’s not necessary at all. The game lacks gold sinks as it is, we don’t need even more money being pumped into the game, especially into the hands of the champ farmers.

They were introduced this year. They are at their low atm, due to only being worth 1 ticket each and will likely increase to 3/5 tickets after the event is over. Of course, this means the TP price gradually goes up with them.

It seems to be tickets are worth ~60g each on the TP if you buy 1 ticket weapons. This would mean if you wait long enough for the supply that was bought at 1 ticket to drop, you could expect to see them eventually reach 150g+

It’s always great when you see an “exp” group with 2 Wars/Guard and an Ele and think “oh boy, this could be a good group, an Ele in that comp? But be a might stacker!” … nope, just bought for Fiery Exploit Sword.

These types have guilds never last, we’ve seen dozens come and go on this subforum over the time. They just end up as the same 5 people playing together because nobody wants to pester someone else.

Doggie.3184:

I had 200~ or so Boosters. I’ve used a ton of them already ever since the first announcement about them removing it months ago. Have maybe 50-60 left probably. All you can really do is just spam them like crazy till patch comes. :P

Indeed.

Only doing your daily today? Kitten it, use a glory boost.

a t s e.9614:

Honestly they only need to delete healing signet . Bad players will get rupted and stomped without it .

Bad players get stomped with it. Only a bad player will lose to a bad player, unless its a seriously hard counter to whatever you’re playing.

Is having 300% Magic Find base not enough of a reward for you?

haviz.1340:

Off-hand axe can you give a lot of sustainability. Just ask someone to put down a water field.

This means we should all use a Hammer so we can Earthshaker the water fields in our dungeon groups!

This thread again?

If you salvaged any less than 5 figures, you have no claim.

Nice try.

ArenaNet would never do something as logical as fill in the “blank” elite types they are missing, i.e. Signet Ele, Shout Warrior.

Drecien.4508:

So Lions Arch has most of them, but they were constructing more on the east side of the city…to where?
Rata Sum has a few that are under construction too…
Thoughts on this?

It seems logical that 3 of them were to the Vigil/Priory/Whispers HQs, and 1 more to Fort Trinity. The last 2 I couldn’t fathom a guess.

Whitey.6185:

I personally think Skyhammer is the best map in the game. Worst map IMO is raid on the capricorn, can’t stand water combat so I never even bother going to ruins.

I honestly haven’t died on Skyhammer by falling off that many times, and I have killed quite a few people with my mesmer knocking them off, but nowhere near as much as normal kills.

I find it annoying that Skyhammer and Spirit Watch are not in team arena, although I rarely play team to be honest.

Honestly don’t know why Skyhammer gets so much hate.

It’s because so many people don’t want the “pressure” of getting pinged off the edge by a Hammer Guardian/GS Mesmer/LB Ranger etc. People just don’t want to be aware of their surroundings and will dish out any argument against the map that they can think of.

Getting knocked off the edge is a mechanic that people need to learn to adapt to in order to prevent, rather than flaming and abusing those that cleverly take advantage of it.

Skyhammer is fun, but really should be hotjoin only.

I imagine everything will just be obtained in a different way. It’s pretty obvious that is the case, even if we don’t know how.

Match reward chests will still be openable and give rewards, just no longer obtainable.

I imagine Glory boosters will just become null and void, and no longer worth anything or be able to be traded in.

Anything you craft is either unbound or account bound, so just get 2 fresh ones on each character as there is really no bonus to having particular crafts on particular characters.

Armorsmith/Weaponsmith if you don’t already have them on other characters, though, as those are used to make your BIS gear as a PvE Warrior.

spoj.9672:

Well theres not really any other choices in air magic and seeing as you are going 30 points then you should take that trait. So if you then go earth you get an extra perma 10% + the 10% while attuned to air. And seeing as dmg multipliers are multiplicative having two 10% is better than one 20%. Plus earth gives condi dmg which is a bit more dmg than vitality and healing power.

30/30/10 also gives you the flexibility to swap to d/f fresh air build. Which incredibly useful in less than optimal conditions.

Putting it simply 30/30/10 does more dmg than 30/30/0/10.

Honestly, I put the extra 5 in Air for the 50 Precision/5% Crit :P It just felt like 30/30/0/10 would be more to me, since the extra 10% crit damage from Arcane Lightning and the 20% from Water would outweight the earth build.

But I’ll trust your judgement, and noticing Keyz has a 30/30/10 D/F build.

EDIT: You know, for some reason I forgot to consider the 10% from the earth trait

spoj.9672:

Air attune for dmg.

Can I ask why Mr Spoj? Is the reliability on Air Attunement worth the 10% damage loss?

As my Ele is strictly PvE, It’s a fantastic heal as I get 1-shot/2-shot anyway, with no heal giving me an extra hit, so I may aswell use my heal to get 3 more Might stacks.

But I guess this thread isn’t about PvE, as it’s no revelation that it’s good for that content.

ProxyDamage.9826:

No. He’s right. Off hand axe in is completely useless. In PvP especially.

• OH Axe has…. #5 is supposed to be … Something… An AoE DPS skill I guess, but the damage is miserable. It has no burst (too slow) or sustained DPS (too low DPS in general).

I do want to remind you that Whirling Axe does deal 50% more damage in PvP.

Not that that makes it any good, mind you.

Imagine CM, High-tier Dredge Fractal, High-tier Mossman and High-tier Grawl Fractal with no reflections.

Ouch.

hellsmachine.4085:

Flissy.4093:

Norjena.5172:

Dual Axe=Kick. Complet useless offhand, worst warrior offhand in all gamemodes.

Agreed. It just shows a complete lack of knowledge and you bet their kitten they are x/x/30/30/x even if they link to prove they are Zerker.

hellsmachine.4085:

or when a player is low on health and evis is on CD, or if you just want to build up adrenaline for Evis.

Using eviscerate is actually a DPS loss.

DPS alone won’t help you win in PvP.

Why on earth did you think this thread is PvP related?

My group is always lacking both Fury & Vuln, so I kinda need to pick up both. What build would you recommend with S/F & LH – 30/30/0/10/0 (Water Attunement for damage with a “useless” 3rd air trait) or 30/30/10/0/0 (Air Attunement for damage)?

Post #29173 regarding dyes not being account bound is surely the one that will change it all.

All hail post #29173!

Norjena.5172:

Dual Axe=Kick. Complet useless offhand, worst warrior offhand in all gamemodes.

Agreed. It just shows a complete lack of knowledge and you bet their kitten they are x/x/30/30/x even if they link to prove they are Zerker.

hellsmachine.4085:

or when a player is low on health and evis is on CD, or if you just want to build up adrenaline for Evis.

Using eviscerate is actually a DPS loss.

The only thing wrong with Warrior is their mobility and their simplicity to play well. But the bads need something to play, right?

If you have completed every meta achievement of the Living Story, you will get Living Story Season 1 Reward Chest Key!

When opened, the chest contains:

*A mini Colin Johanson
*500 Essence of luck
*100 Empyreal Fragments
*100 Dragonite Ores
*5 Scrolls of Knowledge
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*5 Greens/Blues

All this is to thank the players for their hard work!

Absolutely, as long as you are not greedy.

Last time I was greedy, and got burned by my collection dropping 700g overnight.

Because Keg Brawl is so bad.

Velimere.7685:

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

Thief: Highest single target damage in the game.

I’d like to see any Thief out-DPS my Elementalist on a single target; Cloak and Dagger into Backstab has absolutely nothing on Lightning Flash into Fiery Rush.

You can’t seriously be attempting to use an exploit to claim highest DPS can you?

So standard flipping yet you call it a new way to make gold. Okay.

And realistically, the profit on that item would be barely 10s, not 20-25s.

I dont know how serious someone can be at advising TP usage when they ignore TP taxation.