Guild Wars 2

It’s absolutely viable, but you’re definitely gimping yourself for it.

Elementalist is pretty much standard if one is absent. An absurdly potent class in the right hands.

If you like ranged combat, Elementalist especially. A Mesmer’s ranged options are simply awful outside of PvP, whereas Ele has the best DPS option in game on their ranged option. No, for those other than OP, Fiery Exploit Sword doesn’t count.

The forum necro is strong in this one.

Tachii.3506:

Staff/Hammer guard in CoE.

Is there a worse set up? :|

Someone who plays meta but is bad and is a corpse for 99% of the dungeon, but rages at the Warrior for not warbannering him because hes so meta.

Serves you right, account sharing is against the rules and you should be temporarily banned for it.

If I’m going to get a popup I may aswell get the message. I don’t want ANYTHING popping up at all.

I should just get the option to turn off whispers to all but friends & guild.

That was a precursor you lost.

Purple Miku.7032:

To hell with FotM. It’s such an insulting feeling to get the same trashy rewards you would have gotten had you done AC/CoF/HotW etc.

Except worse, AC gives 1.5g!

The issue is we’ve had nothing but stone cold silence since Scarlet died. They seemingly refuse to communicate with us, but don’t worry, there is always time to add more junk fluff to the gem store and leave us players in the dark.

WildStar at the end of the month, cannot wait, I’m not being a “second class citizen” to China just because I’ve already purchased my game any longer than that.

Datamined =/= going to be ingame. There have been polearms that were datamined since … launch I believe?

There’s the bitter, and then there’s those who are smart enough to realise that some players accomplishments do not affect others in anyway.

It’s just a cry for attention, but congratulations none the less, quite a fair feat.

It’s very important to have a Guardian, even if you don’t want one as your main. That way, you will never have to rely on PUG Guardians to save your kitten with timed aegis and reflects while running an AH build, because you’re in control of that.

Both Warrior & Ele are absolutely necessary in every good group, because of the offensive support from Warrior, coupled with very fair damage, and ridiculous DPS from an Ele even without the Fiery Exploit Sword.

Either of those 3, really, rest is just a mishmash and changes depends where you are.

Don’t forget you can carry an extra set around. Ascended will make a bigger difference in PvE than WvW, so make Ascended Berserker and carry your Exotic PVT around in your bags for WvW.

P.S. The harder dungeons are easier in Berserker, PVT is just false survival.

SE P1 is the best champ farming in the game. 5 champ bags in 5 minutes in an average group.

You rarely see PUGs actually doing this though, I’ve never seen an LFG for it. Interesting.

crosknight.3041:

like every other class, its mostly dependent on build
on my necro im running a deathblast build where i try to stay almost entirely in death shroud: combined with the trait that lets deathblast to pierce, its a nice cylinder AoE with nice DPS on each hit, this helps with the stacking stratagy: that and the 4 and 5 AoEs are pretty nice too

and lets be honest, (it feels like) 90% of the time people only care about ur outgoing DPS in dungeons

ATM, like ranger, necros are underrated

Nice DPS? Deathshroud build? Pahahahaha.

Joining a full Berserker party with a gear check on my low level Masterwork Thief using fake links.

CM is a scrub magnet because all the bad Berserkers on the dungeon train can’t handle the bleeds.

At this point, I just 3/4 man it rather than fill it up with PUGs because it’s simply quicker not having people kitten up stealth skips.

RoseofGilead.8907:

My favorite part of pugging CM is when the group decides to stack in one spot for Sure Shot Seamus in p3.

Hallowed Ground -> WOR -> Fiery Rush -> Dead. Stacking out of LOS ’round the house is a “sure shot” way to kill Seamus easily.

RoseofGilead.8907:

That works nicely if you have a thief in your group who doesn’t keep SR on his utilities at all times

I wish the Thief I play with could take SR off his bar, but it’s needed to double-skip far too frequently and is rarely off CD because of it.

Been asking since start.

+1, this shouldn’t be absent in 2014.

Perhaps it is you who pulls her, so you get the huge initial aggro that you can’t shake off?

Do mean targets you with all her spatial surges and illusionary waves, or teleporting to you with mind stab because you’re at a range?

If you do mean all the attacks, my friend, also a Berserker ele, notices similar things on Lupi where he gets targeted every single time, and I have no answers for you.

Aidan Savage.2078:

The main reason people champ train in Weeniedale is not because it’s a starting area, not because it drops t6 resources, not because it drops 5s a champ bag, but because it’s fast. 4 champs in 10 minutes. It’s hard to beat that sort of speed and still be efficient.

SE Path 1, 5 champs in about 5 minutes. Over twice as effective as any train there is.

Low level stats really don’t make much of a difference. But you should keep your gear at least close to your level, which does include armor too.

Your issue likely stems from inexperience with the dodging mechanic with slow reaction times on attunement swapping with poor cooldown management.

These are things you will just learn in time.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Mono.7320:

SrebX.6498:

Juggernaut. Dah.

i really want it but people say hammer sucks in pve :/ can i somehow run with it and maybe axe/mace and hammer?

Hammer’s not that great in PvE for a Warrior, but Hammer on a Guardian?….being able to keep up Protection and Retaliation while bashing skulls is never sucky.

It’s niche on a Guardian. Few encounters require it, and I don’t even think it’s used in high tier fractals anymore. But you’re right, for Warrior it’s junk.

If OP was going for one he’d use regularly, it should be Bolt. Borderline OP offhand on a Warrior, best sustained DPS on a Guardian, but no use on a Necro. The only weapon all 3 can use is the spear, so see my earlier post

No thanks. PvErs would still need to spend >100g crafting and >50g per weapon/armor piece for Ascended, while a WvWer would get it for 10g and, quite frankly, a pathetic amount of badges. Change this to ascended rings with a cost reduction and that would be fine with me.

Do note that PvErs don’t like crafting either, and it absolutely is not a PvE activity (there are crafting stations in home BL), but use 1-2 hours to get a worthwhile reward. Very few people actually do like crafting.

Tomes, WXP & Skillpoints sure. Not so much boosters, leave those to gem store only. Obsidian Shards? WvW already gives plenty of karma, so seems unnecessary to me.

Would be nice for WvWers to be able to obtain dungeon item skins, so they can get those skins without needing to do several dungeons.

It’s just another generic dragon model you see several of flying in Malchor’s leap.

robertul.3679:

So basically you took a meta build and tried to make it worse by adding bad runes and some extra swiftness?

Yes.

Ranged DPS? Engineer. Every other class’ ranged option is abhorrent DPS.

No.

/15char.

I’ll ignore Twilight Arbor as it’s a special case.

Explorable dungeons – which you can join without story mode completed, but to open the dungeon you need to complete the story mode on that character – have alternate routes and challenges available to choose at the start of the dungeon. Players have taken to labelling these “paths”. Path 1 is the top option, path 2 is the middle, and path 3 is the bottom (Ruined City of Arah has a 4th path).

Each path are all different to the others, with unique areas and encounters, but sometimes overlap with other paths. They do not share rewards, so you can complete all 3 paths of the dungeon in a single day and be rewarded for each of them.

jagabs.5086:

Having 3 legendary weapons (two are just skins but still legendary looks) and extra cash for the price of 2 is definitely worth it.

Subjectively speaking. When I craft Twilight (which will be after Juggernaut & Kudzu), I’d be keeping both Twilight & Sunrise. I don’t like Eternity, and I want a Legendary, not a budget skin.

Kamohoali’i Kotaki. Possesses a B.A. on-land aura, aswell as the most impressive Legendary effect there is. Not to mention the skin looks freakin’ sweet!

Making Eternity yourself is a massive loss right now due to all the people who had Sunrise or Twilight, then made the other recoup most the costs of their initial legendary after they sold Eternity.

Only make Eternity if you are in the boat where you already have one. Otherwise just purchase it.

GW2 won’t have enough players willing to pay to play. The reason so many of us still play is because it’s free, so we can do things at our own pace and ArenaNet can be irregular with content updates.

If players had to pay to play, most would either migrate to other P2P games which are better, or find other free options.

Even from a PvE perspective, could be good in builds that don’t use Berserker’s power (i.e. Empowered Allies builds).

Far better than some suggestions to alter it to something akin to “jump around and spin in a 1500 radius circle 1 hitting every foe. Grants 25 stacks of might, fury, protection & stability to all allies within the map while reflecting projectiles” with 1 bar of adrenaline.

This is why we don’t pay to play. There is enough content in the game to make the game one of the most cost effective games.

Just don’t sink any gold into the gem store until updates are more frequent.

Punch.3507:

OP here.

To answer everyone who is saying “just don’t stack,” it’s nearly impossible to find a group that won’t kick you unless you stack. It’s stack or gtfo.

Hammer & Axe/Warhorn is better than Hammer & Sword/Warhorn for Zerg content. I’ve never understood why so many use the sword, it really doesn’t offer anything other than a single target immobilize – which falls subpar to a decent damage auto attack when your Hammer CCs are CD.

BurrTheKing.8571:

Flissy.4093:

A bunker that won’t counter your long CD combo with stability/invuln? Please.

Your lacking stability and even a stun break (last stand doesn’t count, a 20 point investment on a 90 second CD you can’t even control). Using Berserker Stance for Adrenaline is a horrendous idea, given that most bunkers are condi at this point, they will just outlive your burst with stability/stunbreak/invuln, then tear you a new one while your stance is on CD.

Defiant stance is pathetic, btw, it will only help you against bads that you could have beat without using a single utility/heal anyway.

Just going to say that tonight I was pretty much MVP for every match I played…except 1 where it was 4v5 and everyone kinda gave up. Decap Engis were pretty kitten vulnerable to it because they have no invuln or stun breaks often times so if you pace it right they never get to heal.

MvP means nothing. Points doesn’t mean you were the best. I could defend a point for the whole map and it never gets decapped, but get no more than 10 points in a map.

Decap engie is a weird one. Sure, they probably don’t have a stun break, but if you’re Brush is dodged you’re kittened too as they fling you about like a hooker.

ProxyDamage.9826:

This kind of build was left in 2012 for a reason.

Can’t do anything, but you can make sure he doesn’t get anything out of it when it happens again by joining with a friend and then kicking him.

A bunker that won’t counter your long CD combo with stability/invuln? Please.

Your lacking stability and even a stun break (last stand doesn’t count, a 20 point investment on a 90 second CD you can’t even control). Using Berserker Stance for Adrenaline is a horrendous idea, given that most bunkers are condi at this point, they will just outlive your burst with stability/stunbreak/invuln, then tear you a new one while your stance is on CD.

Defiant stance is pathetic, btw, it will only help you against bads that you could have beat without using a single utility/heal anyway.

Advent Leader.1083:

If you need a class to PuG and have most utilities, I suggest rolling engineer. Not much DPS, but it can shoehorn in for a thief/mes/ele.

Edit 2: That’s might/vuln/stealth stacking.

Except you will get kicked for not being a Zerker Warrior or a Healing Guardian.

PUGs, ladies and gentlemen.

As said, literally only exploitable (which they really need to get off their kitten and fix).

Only Ele can legit solo I believe.

Brother Grimm.5176:

CrazyDuck.4610:

I honestly don’t get why we can’t salvage WvW gear, there’s no profit to be made if people wanted to buy and salvage…..

You do realize you get T6 materials (maybe T5) with possible Ectos and Dark Matter from salvaging an Exotic with no Rune on them….right? There is a reason they are not salvageable.

I agree there needs to be a solution to obtain the upgrades off the items, but the effects of potential exploiting needs to be considered (because it DOES exist).

WvW armor costs badges with gold sum (about 1g per piece, varies on the piece). So the Metal/Cloth/Leather is a reason they aren’t salvageable? It’s still a loss to salvage, even with 3 ectos.

Only if it’s like Howler’s but a golden light rather than a footprint. Otherwise no thanks, leave my Shield alone.

It didn’t, because doing tasks that bore you in a game is ridiculous, and what I find fun more than financially stables what I need in-game.

ICEing.9237:

Is the min-maxing worth it in this case for the versatile infusions? Or is the dps increase too minor for the price?

When people pay hundreds of gold for cosmetic side grades because there is little to spend money on, it is objectively worth the cost.

Stats > Appearance > Investments is my priority of how I spend money.

So I encountered something strange I’d like to be able to replicate when I was in Arah P2 – I had the frenzied fish following me even though I had Frenzy stowed on my secondary weapon set and had my Spear out.

I have no idea how I did this. Does anybody know how I managed to do this, and if it’s possible on-land? It would be wonderful to have my rainbow fish buddies follow me on land like super fish.

Ron Cordova.9824:

Renn.8241:

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

How someone can identify (claim) they are the #1 -insert class- is beyond me, also a world first in rank?
Where does Anet publish this info?

Before the feature pack, it was a bigger time investment to reach rank 80 so very few people reached it. Also, the game has leaderboards. “#1” and “first rank 80” are both objectively achievable things. I don’t know if Vee Wee actually qualifies for either statement (out of a lack of knowledge, not a lack of belief in Vee Wee), but your phrasing suggests that it’s impossible to claim either of them, which is untrue.

https://leaderboards.guildwars2.com/en/na

“Worlds first rank 80” was not achieved. Nobody was rank 80 pre-patch, and the patch pushed it so many, many people hit rank 80 at the same time.

GoldStaR.4305:

Flissy.4093:

a t s e.9614:

Ah sorry if this is for PvE then this build is not the best .

What are you on about? It’s basically the top DPS build for a Warrior, but with Signet Mastery instead of Empowered.

@OP You need to replace your Sigil of Smothering with Force. To improve further, put a Sigil of Bloodlust on your Spear/Harpoon Gun, then get another GS (as yours is only Exotic) with Force & Night/Fire.

Thanks! But why another Great Sword?

I don’t mean another GS on your weapon set, keep it in your bags. Get your stacks, then swap it out for the Force & Night/Fire one. With the stacking sigil on your underwater weapons too, you won’t lose the stacks when you unequip the GS you used to stack with.

The extra ~2m are fake 1c offers to push it up on the TPs most demanded list, so it’s seen by muppets such as yourself.