Guild Wars 2

Ropechef.6192:

just one, on the second page, but it mostly is for path 2.

Ice,
for me at least, It depends on the path. and then knowledge of the path. Generally i still keep 6,6, and then float the 2 points for different encounters. Such as path 2 Belka, i put the 2 in SA for the condi removal. But i generally fight her double dagger vs the pistol dagger suggestion in the other thread.

for Lupi there are a couple different ways to go I think, taking x,x,x,3,3 for the Vigor on dodge and the extra initiative is the defensive and safer route. but that will ultimately depend on how you want to run it.

nuts and bolts to it. Because of the ability to change traits on the fly it has opened up so many variances to the world its just up to you to experiment with it and learn more about what you are getting into and what you can do to mitigate the threat.

if you come across a specific thing you are struggling with, come back here and see what they have to say about that specific thing. and go from there.

regardless though. GOOD LUCK!!! is good times in there.

I see. Thanks for the reply. I’m coming from being able to solo arah on warrior to a whole new class that’s a lot more of an active play style. Def will have fun working on mastering thief probably lupi and alphard will be the biggest problem.

I’m a new thief and was wondering what the optimal solo thief build is for arah.
I know the meta atm is 6/6/0/0/2 but was wondering if there was a solo build out there and what traits would I be bringing and why.

Thanks in advance!

Smooth Penguin.5294:

ICEing.9237:

What’s the best way to farm in dry top?

Follow the zerg. There’s a pattern to the events, with some showing up one after another.

Otherwise, do World Boss runs each day. I’m overflowing in Dragonites, with twice as many Dragonite Ingots than Empyreal Stars.

Haha my problem is reverse where I’m swimming in Emp Stars and poor in the banana ingots

What’s the best way to farm in dry top?

You think it’s worth to farm? Or eotm still better?

Someone told me you can get a ton of drag ore in Dry Top. Is this true? And how does it work?

I love this game too. It’s refreshing to read this on a forum mostly filled with complaints about little things.

Sera.6250:

i think he’s insinuating that warriors who can’t be kittened to spend 5 seconds telling someone what they’re running are not interested in contributing to the party as a whole

Bingo

Purple Miku.7032:

I’d never under any condition bring EA in a pug team lmao.

Pretty much never going to convince me to go into the tactics trait line unless I’m going for like, a record speedclear with rT. I remember not too long ago someone asked me in swamp for a level 18 fotm pug if I had EA and I said “nah” so I wonder if you’re referring to me?

No it was a lvl 49 fractal.

But still I mean, i know it’s a pug and all and shouldn’t expect much. But I still try to at least contribute. The banner thing is another pet peeve of mine. Too often I ping ban of disc and at the next boss I’ll see 2 of em.

It frustrates me when I casually ask “Hey so is any warrior running ea?” Before we start and I’m met with “…”

Like I just asked a noob question. Obv no we all go dps right? Right

I’ve noticed more and more warriors even with high ap in high level fractals and such don’t bring Empowered Allies. Everytime I join a group I make sure that it’s covered, but I seem to be the only one who even cares. I’ll ask if any warrior is running EA and I’m either met with silence or “nah”

I feel the sacrifice in dps to trait this for support to my party and team is positive. It increases our overall damage output over 1 warrior going max dps. Isn’t it vital that we still value our contribution to the party?

So anyway I just keep EA on my build right now since most warriors I meet don’t like to use it.

You obv can’t do arah and want Anet to nerf it so you can stop wasting money buying paths.

I used to get the agony particle effect which looked like purple spikes coming of of my character. All of a sudden I never see the effect anymore even though I get hit with agony. Any way I might have changed something in the graphics settings?

What do you think is the best tier of fractals to get skins? I hear fractal 50 actually isn’t that great. And that the best is round 20-30.

I’ve never gotten a skin drop and was wondering what your success stories are as in what tier of fractal were you doing? I know the RNG for the skins are horrible.

I agree that gw2 needs new content. Like expansion worthy. I feel if they don’t release something soon or mention that they are, it’s going to die fast.

I’m a new thief mostly playing meta build in PvE and was wondering how to deal with conditions and stability in dungeons? I seem to die so quick from them.

Ok thank you. One last question. What should be my typical rotation for DD and Sw/P?

With DD should I be auto attacking a lot till less than 50% health then spam Heartseeker? should i be using any utilities in conjunction with DD?

And with Sw/P what is the best way to clear out mobs? Should I always pistol 5 first to blind em and shadowstep in with number 2 sword?

Ah ok and what traits should I be taking?

Trying to get back into thief. And the traits are 6/6/0/2/0? And what traits will I be using?

This is for PvE

Oh and what utilities should usually be brought with for dungeons and fractals? And solo situations?

Thanks in advance

With all these class specific tooltip edits!!

Be in a party
Call target on her
GG

That whiny ghost is Grenth’s dad? I didn’t know this. So what happened lore wise?

Are any vids up for watching? Missed it live

Oh last question I have is what to put bloodlust on? Since now you lose the stacks if you swap your wep out.

I guess axe?

Purple Miku.7032:

When you swap to axe/sword it should pretty much only be for the block/extra dodge, however using impale (and rip) and cyclone axe before swapping back is a good way to make the best of the 5 seconds you have without GS.

What’s the best way to make use of impale>rip? Should it be impale, let it sit for torment?

I usually impale, Axe auto, rip

maha.7902:

I would honestly swap out rending strikes for furious speed if you’re practicing so that you never have a reason to eviscerate – and if you do use a burst skill, cast your signet of fury to regain your berserker’s power.

my opinion is:

don’t be afraid to hundred blades more (like, a lot more, hb/ww is the whole reason camping gs is a thing), and don’t use burst skills for endurance, deal with your situation as if lupicus is doing nothing (so canned, vacuum dps rotations) until he actually does something – then take evasive measures. that’ll cut your kill times by like half – speeding up your kill speed is literally all in your rotations – barring the force and night sigils, we are all playing with exactly the same gear and build, just some people do it better.

Should I take out dual wielding too since I’ll be camping gs? And won’t the loss of rending strikes be a dps loss?

But yeah ima try to HB more. My prob is I think : “I have to wait for him to do a claw swipe, or life drain before I HB, otherwise Ima just have to interrupt it then auto attack”

I need to stop that thinking

Purple Miku.7032:

I watched it and have some specific advice for ya.

First of all your best phase by far was phase 1, good job. There’s not a whole lot that I can say for phase 1 other than this:
1) try to dodge into him instead of outwards, as it’s noticeable that you have to spend a second or two repositioning yourself before attacking again. Because of this, you aren’t able to begin a hundred blades channel without interrupting yourself with a whirlwind or dodge.
2) Try to stand outside of his red circle when the swarms appear because you’ll be able to hit them with your GS autoattacks along with lupi but without draggin lupi left & right. Ideally you’ll be able to take care of them quickly with 100b+WWA but sometimes it’s not the case when you get more than one.

Phase 2:
You started getting a little shaky with pushing him back into the wall, which is understandable because it takes a lot of practice to do. I understand that the main reason you were autoattacking with GS so much and not doing 100b is because you were struggling to get him on the wall, but the reality is that the phase went pretty slow because of it. Practice pushing him— there are a few awkward spots in the arena where he doesn’t move properly because the terrain is uneven. You’ll get a feel for it and it’ll become second nature at some point.

Phase 3:
This phase I think you need to work on a lot more than 1 & 2. You spent a lot of time autoattacking with GS which is actually really slow damage. You didn’t use hundred blades much at all which is your main source of damage along with whirlwind. Remember that if you click on whirlwind, it’ll go in the direction your camera is facing so you CAN use it as an evasion instead of a dodge roll. If he’s against the wall, you should never ever eviscarate. Unless you accidentally waste all of your dodges, it’s never needed and will hurt your damage.

I guess that’s all the specific things to mention. For reference, I’ll link you to one of my best kills with the least amount of mistakes in it so you can watch and try to see what I do. Hopefully it helps!

http://www.twitch.tv/purpleishawt/c/4510594

EDIT:
I’ll point out some mistakes that I made for you. In phase 1, I wasted 1 dodge roll. In phase 2, I tried to bait out his swipe at the start assuming he was going to, where I should have simply began a 100b channel + WWA instead. In phase 2, the second frenzied blast (AoE barrage) I was a little clumsy with because he did it a little earlier than expected. Phase 3 I caused him to heal 4 ticks total excluding the very final life drink that I went all-out on to finish him.

By the way, it might be really helpful for you to try to find each of the mistakes of mine that I outlined here by watching the video. It will be helpful for you to learn the rotations and figure out what to do… at least I’d think so. Let me know if it helps.

I see, thanks for your honesty. It’s what I need right now. For phase 3 I get very nervous I’m going to get bubbled or blasted so I feel the need to evi for the dodge just “to be safe” but I’ll try not to next time.
Would you recommend I focus more on hundred blades or axe auto?

Thanks for the advice!

And ima go watch the video now.

I see warriors killing him in 5-6 minz I want to get to that time

EcoRI.9273:

You stayed too close to lupi when you were trying to push him to the wall during phase2. The best way to do it is back up a little bit and walk around him where he only turns and not walk. Keep doing that until his back is facing the wall and then you go back into melee range.

Yeah i was getting a little frantic with pushing him back to the wall.
What do you recommend for faster times? Is fighting him off the wall faster?
I know I was missing bloodlust stacks too

I did it successfully but messed up a couple times.
Any feedback?

http://youtu.be/wpQplhIzuok

TheKillerAngel.3596:

When he does AoE lifesteal, GS3 out of it and dodge once. Switch back to your axe/sword and you will have full endurance. As soon as he does the single target lifedrain, dodge twice, then switch back to greatsword. Repeat.

That seems interesting ima try it. Any other tips?

Yeah I can solo lupi no prob with stamina sig. But without it I seem to run out of dodges. And I don’t want to use endurance food since it’s a dps loss and then I might as well use stamina sig.

I just want to replace it with FGJ

I was wondering what I can do to solo lupi without signet of stamina? It seems like I NEED this. I can get by phase 1 and 2 without it but phase 3 is near impossible. He aoe life steals into the single target life steal and that’s so many dodges In a short amount of time I don’t have enough stamina even with a sig of energy on off hand sword.

Is there a rotation you guys do that helps? And using adrenaline for a dodge back doesn’t give u a whole lot of stamina either and I see that as a dps loss.

Yeah my post today was about the lfg suppression actually. Inspired me to make this as I can’t advertise my party.

Awesome, thank you

Has it gotten worse? It seems like it has

All the ones I know are outdated or not working. One that is updated with the most resent patch change

I have Eternity and am trying to stack it on itself. So just weapon swap when wep is drawn?

Do they still work? I thought they didn’t? How do ppl stack auras nowadays? I only have 1 legendary so I don’t know how to stack 1 multiple times. Tonics don’t seem to work anymore

Yo I want to make two handed warriors for weapons to be one handed so I can dual wield eternity so I can hundred blades while I hundred blades.

Summary of this thread:

“I don’t have a legendary and don’t want to grind for it, so I think it’s silly to get one and I can enjoy the game without getting this shiny I want to get”

Or

“I have a legendary and it’s no big deal, even though when I didn’t have one I was desperate to get one.

People will never stop complaining

Oh sorry. PvE mostly

I’m starting a thief and was wondering what the meta build for thief is currently?

Is armor berserk or assassins?
What weapons, traits, sigils, utilities, etc. is there one meta build or a few?

Thanks in advance

I remember reading about the new trait setup for new players and how characters created BEFORE the update wouldn’t have to go through the new system of getting traits.

My question is: If my character was created before the patch, yet doesn’t have any traits yet, when he unlocks them, will he have to acquire the traits the new way?

My thief was created before patch but is only level 9 that’s why i was wondering.

Logan had t3 before it was cool

I’m sure he can solo arah with just a warhorn under 7 minutes.

I like these a lot. Normally I use abyss celestial but everyone does that. Or celestial/illumination

Twitch night:
A new legendary only craft able by a transmuted dusk. Nobody has discovered until now.

Trying to find good ideas of mix and match ascended or some clever dye use to make ascended armor look good. Heavy human male here

Tired of abyss/celestial

Wow. Sir you have achieved an accomplishment that every woman wishes in a man.