Guild Wars 2

What about going for the Precision/Power/Toughness items like Protomatter Chain, Cirque of Arah, Band of the Brotherhood, Big Mama’s Tooth and Molten Ore? They don’t exist for back, but I have been calculating. The difference between power and precision as a primary stat is a total of 173 points, or about 8.23% chance of critting, so these items would have that advantage. (That’s 8.23% above the extra crit chance that comes from the 213 precision we would get from zerker on those 5 pieces.) They don’t add to crit damage percent, but mine will already be at plus 30 from Valor.

Also, the 213 toughness also will provide an extra 10.65 points to precision for a half percent boost there to my crit chance from Retributive Armor. (Not to mention the 213 points might make some hits a tiny bit easier to take.)

Between empowering might and vigorous precision the extra crit chance from the precision primary stat items could be the best of all. Thoughts?

I love my scepter/focus secondary, but it seems my mace/shield primary is not standard. Let me explain what I was thinking when I chose mace/shield. I was thinking pure survivability. Heals on 1,2 and 5 and protection on 4 (and possibly on three if the block doesn’t go through) I felt would make me a tanky support. I can take a lot of punishment with the build though I know the damage isn’t the highest. I also know that with many spread out fights, and not too many melee heroes per party, not everyone is getting the benefit of my symbols. I can see that. Perhaps I should try GS or hammer? I definitely have been enjoying the combo of pure of voice and alt healing. I guess it would work with another melee choice.

I have played with Greatsword a bit, but I mostly used it for zerg events. Things like Penitent/Shelter farming and when I was leveling up in Hinterlands. I guess I feel like I’m providing more for my party with Mace, but with greatsword I’d only be upping the damage a small bit at my parties expense. I did enjoy the weapon though. I’m getting from you guys that the greatsword is the standard melee choice for higher level FotM? Hammer I’ve never tried.

So as one of you mentioned, there is another choice as well for my ascended: Soldier’s. I do have my set of soldier’s armor though so maybe at a certain point that would be overkill? Or would having one tankier member provide more overall for the party?

Thanks guys for all the input so far! Now I have Zerker, Knight, Allstat, and Soldier to think about.

So I decided to gear up my zero AR (FotM lvl 19) guardian to get ready for FotM 20, but I’m going to have to make some serious choices in order to take the plunge into ascended gear. I don’t know how hard it’s going to get or if my build will continue to work, so I’ll take advice there too. Mostly I want advice on what ascended gear to get.

Build I used to get to lvl 19: Mace/Shield and Scepter/Focus with Altruistic Healing and Pure of Voice. Curing conditions and providing healing and boons to my team. My gear is Soldiers, but with ruby orbs so I can help a little on the DPS as well. Accessories are mostly zerker at the moment.

So I have to decide whether to get the all stat ascended (Solaria, Lunaria, etc.) or to go with something Zerker or maybe Knight before I go on. Need help deciding what to buy. All three sound good. All stat is most tempting, but I don’t need condition damage or magic find. Any suggestions? Also (but not as important) will my current weapon/trait setup still be good as I progress up higher in FotM?

@lcp I have found two rings (not much for all I’ve done) but they are things like condition damage. Not really what I want to focus on with either of those two classes.

I’m thinking right now I might go put my stuff on Guardian and use my Guardian to gear up my warrior (though I might change my mind still.) I like the sound of the all stat items (Solaria, Lunaria) especially since they got a boost in the last patch. The only stats I don’t need are CD and MF so the numbers seem to add up well. Right now my Guadian is in Soldiers with ruby orbs and that’s been working till I save up for divinity. With all stat trinkets, I think it would make for a good build.

For my warrior, I think I’d continue to build pure DPS trinkets. Then I could switch between Soldier w ruby orb and full DPS Zerker gear depending on the situation. This sound good?

Also lemme make sure I understand. When I get my ring, I can put the basic AR infusion in, or I can infuse the ring first and then put an AR infusion in for +10 instead? So if I plan to infuse the ring, I should not put the infusion in it first or I will lose that infusion?

Edit: More questions further down the thread!!

I currently have two of my characters ready to go on to FotM lvl 20. I have no AR on them, because I haven’t been able to make the choices I need to make to go on. (Not a complaint, just a fact though I do wish I could share my AR gear between the two characters.) So I need help deciding what will be best for going on to higher level fractals.

1st choice is Warrior or Guardian. Both are at FotM 20, so I just have to choose which one gets the gear. I have 2484 Relics (so I can only afford 1 back), 19 Pristine Relics (so only one ring, though second will be purchasable tomorrow), and 49 Laurels (so only one amulet.) Main question: Which is better at high level fractals? I do play the warrior a bit more outside FotM but I know fractals is about to get much harder than it is now (so I’d like to go with gear on whoever will be better for FotM.)

Then the next choice is which items to get. I know not to get two of the same ring (because I’ve been told I can’t wear both.) If I go Warrior I was thinking all zerker stat accessories. If I go Guardian then all stat gear or Soldier’s. I’m thinking utility slot for the amulet. How does this sound? I’m about to blow the fortune I’ve been saving up so I can progress and I want to get it right! (I know this is not considered a fortune to many in the game, but to me that’s a lot of tokens.) Suggestions?

My favorite of those combos would be Axe/Mace followed closely by Axe/Shield. I don’t care much for bleed unless I’m going full condition, and if I was I’d go Sword/Sword.

My three favorite professions are the Warrior, Guardian and Mesmer (and I have all 8 profs at 80.) For support I play Guardian or Mesmer, for damage Warrior or Mesmer, for heartiness Warrior or Guardian.

The game will go on but it would be nice if ANet could at least respond to some of the constructive and well thought out posts here such as this one: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-guild-missions-opinions-concerns/page/14#post1522077

Leohan.1096:

Here’s a concern.

Say everyone stops representing my guild, to do whatever I can not provide them the content they wish to do. How I am so supposed to let them know, hey “about to to do Fractal of the Mists”. Whisper all 50 people not currently representing at the time?

Not allowing people to view multiple guild chats at the same time, the “this guild does nothing” self fulfilling prophecy comes true, because if you can not see the guild chat, you can not see if the guild is doing something, or talking.

Not allowing people to view multiple chats has also caused some serious hard feelings between guilds and guild members going for the same bounty target on some servers. Guilds can’t coordinate with each other right even if they share some members. Members end up accidentally screwing over on of their guilds by attacking the target their other guild needs. There is a reddit thread about this on the front page right now because of such an incident. ANet really has to allow people to properly be in two guilds by allowing them to communicate with multiple guilds (especially in the new environment they’ve created.)

When Laurels were announced people told me the price of dyes would fall fast (since they could be bought with Laurels.) I quickly sold over a hundred dyes for under 12s each. The next day they were selling at 19. No one wants to use their laurels for dyes. It was a dumb panicky move that cost me a lot of gold.

I imagine all the profit raised by bots combined can’t compare at all to what people made off the cultural weapon karma bug. People were buy thousands and thousands of exotics for 12 karma each, and just tossing them into the forge at the beginning of the game. Arenanet unbanned them, but couldn’t track every item that was created, or keep tabs on where everyone had sent their fortune. The people that exploited the game early on will always be the wealthiest players in GW2, and no matter what they do, legitimate players won’t ever amass money comparing to those fortunes.

Items bought with tokens are soulbound. Not accountbound then soulbound upon equip, but only soulbound. I want to know the reasoning behind this. If I take my tokens to the bank, login with a different toon, and then buy something for that toon, it works. If I buy something with the character, don’t use it, put it in the bank, and try to use it with the other character, then it doesn’t work. This does not make any sense to me. What horrible thing are they preventing by making the items soulbound instead of accountbound and soulbound upon equip?

So today I bought two armor pieces for a heavy armor character, but I bought the light version by mistake. I paid a lot of attention to getting the right stats, but didn’t look at the class (light/med/heavy.) So I figure, no big mistake. My Necro has lousy armor and my Ele doesn’t have a set of power/pre/crit, so I could use it on either of them. No. The armor is soulbound. So my character bought two pieces of light armor that my character can never use, but only that character can use them.

So why on earth did ANet make them soulbound?

Sovta.4719:

Believe me, Arenanet is noticing it, that is why they are introducing these desperate “changes”.

Wait… Anet announced they were changing the system? When?

I would like it very much if ANet would respond to some of the well written and patient posts here such as this one(https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/New-guild-missions-opinions-concerns/page/14#post1522077). I understand that some people are angry (like myself) and may be saying things that are not constructive, but there are people trying to explain and solve what is a very serious problem here. Please developers, take some time to come here and respond to those posts. Explain the reasoning behind the choices you’ve made and lets work together to find solutions that are reasonable and helpful for all.

Think I received two chests as well.

My last two were Ambient and Leveler and it got it on an ambient kill. Leveler wouldn’t give me ambient so it must have went the other way around. I must have gotten ambient then immediately gotten xp, but then I shouldn’t have gotten xp from an ambient kill, so that doesn’t make sense either. Not sure what happened. Think I got rewarded twice so I’m reporting it.

Also, I think I only have 5 complete. Maybe if the 4th triggers the 5th, then the 5th and 4th both give rewards?

Arenanet should look into this seriously because people are going to find ways to get 2 (or more) daily rewards regularly.

I have a mace/shield build I love. Go 0/10/30/30/0 (though you can move the 10 into virtues for inpired virtue if you don’t want the slightly better crit chance and faster heal from Signet Mastery). Mainly we want Alt Healing and Pure of Voice out of those 30s. I use honor to also get shout recharge reduction and healing symbols. I use valor to get shield or mace bonus with purity for more condition removal. My main setup is Mace/Shield with Scepter/Focus for range. works great and my parties absolutely love me for the amount of healing and condition removal I give. Damage isn’t quite up there with greatsword, but it’s much higher than I thought I would get.

Thereon.3495:

Why are so many people moaning at having to work towards something?

I don’t think it is the “having to work” that bothers people. It’s that with more warning, the smaller guilds could have aimed for AoW5 instead of other things. Many guilds (including mine) would have been ready and able to do the content as soon as it is released. Now, even if we do gather up the influence, my guild will be unable to experience the content on launch with everyone else.

Is all of the guild content going to require at least 5 in some line? Do we know?

It sounds ridiculously cruel to impose something that keeps smaller guilds away from the content, and to make an announcement which guarantees my guild won’t be able to play on the day it is released no matter what I spend or do (there is a one week wait for AoW5.) Even if they said each guild had to pay $20 US to enjoy the new content, that would be better than this because there is currently NO way I can play upon release.

Maybe if we understood their reasoning? Has Anet explained WHY they are imposing this restriction?

Lots of people are talking about the usefulness of the shortbow, but what about choices for melee? What are the best PvE choices there at the moment for dungeons?

Wolfhammer.3140:

I hate the whole RNG bull so refuse to have anything to do with the Mystic Toilet.

Has Anet ever talked about changing this part of the process? I’d pay extra to remove the RNG part (cause I think I will be unlucky.)

gemmy.7415:

I got my bifrost done a few weeks back, now im working on bolt.
Then my meser is happy

But you’ll need a sword to go along with that pistol…

Yup, this is my favorite fractal. It’s fast, it’s easy and it’s fun. Most importantly it’s fast and I love groups who keep rolling till we get it first.

Edit: I usually run FotM 18 on my two toons daily. Maybe level of group has a lot to do with it.

No. I do not want to have all the work towards gear for all 8 of my level 80 characters to be instantly erased.

I think they are not going to be adding the new stat lines with this month’s patch. I think we would have probably heard about that by now. They have to name the new rings, come up with the individual graphics for the icons, and so on. I want to buy one right away too, but I think it just won’t be happening.

What I want to see:

Warrior = great DPS / Tankiness
Guardian = great Support / Tankiness
Mesmer = great DPS / Support

What I DONT want to see:

Necro (Guardians clear conditions faster, and condition damage takes a while to build up)
Engineer (Not really good for anything at the moment in my opinion)
Ele (They can dodge around with them two daggers all they want, but their damage is lower and their support is not the best either.)

Neutral:

Thief (Usually they die too fast, but if played right they can do great DPS)
Ranger (Can be good DPS as well too if played right)

Firegoth.6427:

Often script that happens to me in the game:
Random player: “nice weapon”
weapon switch
Random player: “lol… 2 legendaries?”

Someday we’ll find it
The legendary connection
The hardcores, the casuals and me

+1 for singing Rainbow Connection

As for the weapon switch, why not build two 1 handed legendaries! Then you can use them at the same time.

485 = 10*12 (for months) + 365 (for days). One year’s worth sounds right to me.

I went away for a weekend and came back to amazing fractal drops. Maybe it’s just random luck I had, but I recommend testing out skipping three days and coming back. I got 4 exotics, 1 ascended, and a bunch of stones from only a lvl 14 after my short break.

For the Maw fractal, it’s often acceptable (depending on your group) to put on your MF to clear the trash, then put your normal armor and jewelry back on after to fight the Maw. Those mobs drop a lot of globs.

Awesome! Thank you so much for the info.

If I do two FotM at level 10 each day on two different characters, do I get two chances at a ring? The only way to know for sure would be if someone did get two rings in one day on two characters. I figure this forum is big enough that it might have happened to someone. Anyone know?

Think he meant DR guys.

LF Guild for higher level PvE content. (TS, Mumble, or Vent a must.)

Hello. I am currently in a friendly guild that I like, but it is small and has no one doing higher level content. I’m more of a power gamer and min/maxer than the rest of the group, where many aren’t geared or max level.

I am working my way up in fractals and want to find a guild for higher level activities. I am currently on [IoJ] but could guest or switch at some point. I’m on every day at 10am eastern time (7am anet time) and also most evenings (10pm eastern and 7pm anet time.) I do some WvW but not too seriously. I’d prefer a larger guild, but it doesn’t matter as long as there are enough people going after high level content.

Qualifications:
I have a level 80 of all eight professions.
Expert at both Warrior and Mesmer roles in CoFP1 speedfarm.
Only at FotM fractal level 16 (but wish to rise much higher.)

What I want:
People doing higher level fractals on TS/Mumble/Vent so we can communicate for higher level runs.

Let me know if I would be a good addition to your guild.

I’d have no problem with this, but I would prefer a race exchange. I know there are personal story issues, but they could always allow it for those who have already completed their PS.

What sort of chance is it? Something around 20% for fractals 10 and up?

Just want to make sure I understand a few things correctly. I just started doing fractals ten and above. I have been reading here (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/AR) and here (http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/).

1. The ascended rings all have an infusion slot, however the infused ascended rings all have +5 AR and an infusion slot (which you can use to get another +5 AR.) I can buy the non-infused versions with pristine relics or laurels and then pay to upgrade them in the mystic forge. They may also randomly drop (and if they do drop they can drop already ascended thus giving me the extra +5.) I get one pristine relic from each FotM of level 10 or higher. The page (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pristine_Fractal_Relic) makes it seem like they do not drop randomly, you get exactly one per run. The page (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractals_of_the_Mists) lists it as a POSSIBLE drop which makes it sound like it either doesn’t always happen, or that you can get addional ones by chance. Any way someone could clear this up?

2. For the backpack I can spend 1350 +500 tokens, 250 ectos, and some mist essence to get a slot where I can put +5 AR. Or I can make the backpack in the forge for 50 ecto, some skill points and mist essence and then pay 500 tokens and 250 more with some mist essence to get thatslot where I can put +5 AR. Either way, once that is done, another 250 ecto and 500 tokens and some mist essence can upgrade that one to get a +5 AR on the item itself. Am I understanding this right?

3. For the amulets I can only get one by buying it with laurels or doing the very expensive triforge business. I can then get that up to +5 AR.

I basically have no idea what I’m doing with AR, but would like to keep going higher with my fractals (to 26 perhaps.) I’m looking for the easiest ways to do this.

Edit: Rewrote for clarity.

Vena.8436:

All events have DR on them if you repeat the same one non-stop, this has been in game forever and ever…

For example, say you did the escort the Quaggans, but between events the game didn’t register Tequatl as different from Quaggan, you could possibly bug into DR killing the chest.

So I guess my immediate question is: If you never repeat a single event, but do every event in a zone once, would you accumulate DR? I imagine no one may know at this point. When does one event count against another for DR?

Edit: Also, does switching characters help? Again, no one may know.

EndlessDreamer.6780:

you’re pretty much stretching your reasoning extremely thin from a single question that was meant to get information so that they would be better informed.

He does come out and say that it is possible to be hit by DR on a dragon chest if you’ve completed another event beforehand. From that we do know that DR can affect chests and either it lasts really long (from the last time you fought a dragon) or transfers from different types of things (like you could get the DR from fighting completely different creatures or doing completely different events.) I don’t think what I was saying is that big of a stretch.

Jason King.2647:

Did any of you do another event prior to fighting dragon? It’s possible you’re hitting the DR if you completed another event beforehand.

Interesting. So from this post, we know a few things for certain about the way DR works:

1. Chests are affected by DR.
2. Since dragons only come once every three hours (and only 3 exist) either
a. DR is independent of the creatures you are fighting (switching the type to dragon does not diminish DR.)
b. DR is really long. So long that the penalties last for many hours.

Now what I want to know is if switching characters or zones has any effect at reducing DR.

This first idea is brilliant. Things will balance themselves out on their own and Anet won’t have to balance rewards vs difficulty as it will self regulate based on which paths are hard enough to scare people away from.

Riselight.3695:

No you are not. Completing the January monthly will not give you laurels. Not before the 28th, not after the 28th.

Okay, thanks for letting me know! Now I can complete it with my guild run tonight.

I was going to finish off my monthly with a fractal run today, but then I realized that if I just wait till the 28th, I can get laurels for completing my monthly. Am I correct about this? Need to know, cause I’d rather get the extra reward from waiting.

The real question is will anything upcoming bring the price back up?

Once the scavenger hunt comes out, I’d imagine the price of precursors is going to shoot down. (Not because the scavenger hunt will be easy, but just having another option that many players will pursue will change things.)

I’ve been trying to use spidy to find some items to invest in, but the search categories are so broad. For example, if I want to search for consumables, it groups dyes, food, and recipes together. I want to further search through these separately. Is there any way to do that either there or on another site?

Calae.1738:

Having a lot of gold in GW2 is really awesome. There are so many interesting things to buy…

…

I think he’s asking about what to buy that might have a decent return in that price range. I have no idea.

Seren.6850:

Ok so unless your very tanky shout heal warrior your not wanting aggro in the acolytes room, so unless you have such a warrior or guardian in the group you will need to run to the cave or braziers etc, abuse spy kits

You can do these runs in 9 mins with support based parties with guardians etc, if your going to play glass make sure you can stay alive or your just gimping your group.

I’m used to 8 minutes or less in the good runs I’ve been doing. They work, I just hate it when I die and am not contributing to the next part cause I’m running back. I don’t like playing glass, but if you look on gw2lfg you’ll see parties demand Mes/War full DPS, and I’ve often been asked to ping gear.

I do run a lot and use caves, ledges in the aco scene. I can generally take one out safely and flee, but when I try to help further I always get caught and die in the Aco scene.

Wethospu.6437:

Posted this also in your guru-topic but gate-lock killer should kill lock in 5-10 seconds. If you can’t survive that long then something is really wrong.

I agree which is why I’ve asked for help. I’m trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Some people have posted good ideas involving my second weapon swap. Part might be just inexperience. I admit, I have no experience with glass cannon warriors or with GS warriors either. In fact guardian is my main and on warrior I’m more comfortable with axe/mace or axe/axe and not in zerger gear. (I only got the zerker gear and exotic GS to do P1 runs because parties were demanding Mes or War only and that the warrior must be GS.)

Overall the runs still go well. Even when I die, the controller part still goes smooth cause I’m usually just downed at the time the control hits 0 so the party can move on. But then to waypoint takes time and I reach the battle late. I’ve been on about 30-50 of these runs so far, and they go perfect except for these two spots. I just want to be better for my team and make sure I don’t hold the runs up.

What exactly do you do during those 10 seconds?

Edit: typo

Isslair.4908:

You can also try to run around the brazier but inside the fire cage, while spamming #1. This way mobs will lose time trying to get in position, and you’ll be hitting them anyways.

I’m usually focusing on dodging and trying to get all three in the same spot for 100b, but maybe running in a circle would be a better bet. I’ll try it next time. Thanks.