Guild Wars 2

I would prefer the PPPUE Poisonous Plant People Unification Effort

fine fine
PPPUESSS
Poisonous Plant People Unification Effort for Support of Serpentine Survival
or for short PUs

personally as an engineer I would prefer a mace to go with my shield and THIS is just the most perfect skin

If you use the virus removal software Spy Hunter 4 it seems to block your ability to access the trading post.

If you want a similar feeling in mechanics you could go for an aura sharing ele, they are pretty survivable with dual daggers and FGS is still solid DPS through its 3 and 4 skills.

I didn’t realize the non existent footfalls from my FSP or its abundance of particle effects when I throw it to be so offensive…but no really I think it would be a good thing for people to have the option to turn off the massive visual strain of legendary weapons, then again as an engineer you will almost never see mine.

on uneven ground it seems like this skill will often not activate and just kinda fall through the ground setting it to its full recharge without ever creating a smoke or reflect wall.

just a note for you here if you can use heal turret instead of elixir H, removes 2 conditions from all allies
1) drop heal turret
2) overcharge heal turret
3) detonate heal turret (blast finisher in the water field u just created)
4) regenerating mist (healing turret’s toolbelt skill applies regeneration and creates another waterfield)
5) used shield 4 twice for a quick blast finisher

This sequence can be used in about 1sec without any healing power should heal 5 allies around you for 5000~(not counting regeneration) health and remove 2 conditions (allies other than the first 5 should be healed for about 2500~ health).

Edit: also without trait healing turret is on a 20 second recharge compared to elixir H untreated is a 25 sec recharge

What would you add to make dungeons more enjoyable?

Add three things you think could be added to dungeons/bosses to make it a more challenging/fun experience

1) Rather than just increasing a bosses vitality have some that have increased toughness
2) Bosses with incredibly fast attacks the only examples I can think of this are Frost and the flamethrower charr in CoF path 2
3) Boss with special effects/unique abilities or defenses (ex. Kanaxi had in GW1 had to knock him down to start moving his health down again, but when he was knocked down he spawned a bunch of adds on your head)

personally I have read all the short stories and I dislike her for the same exact reason I dislike Trehearn, they are both more scholarly type ppl who somehow gain a strong army with no experience as a general and have no idea how to lead it, meaning they cause tons of extra casualties to their own side because they don’t seem to even have a basic understanding of tactics…

here you go
that is the build I run for most open world pve as you have three block skills
1) gear shield
2) static shield
3) elixir S
but you also have full zerk so your damage should still be pretty good so you can wipe out whatever is blocking the node you’re after. This will also give you permanent swiftness and vigor.

Edit: link should be showing slotted skills now sorry about that.

selfish self promotion :P

No but this is a dungeon idea I had a while back and because we are focusing on krait again Ill repost it HERE thought it fit in with the lore of sparkfly fens pretty well but please correct me if you see anything that wouldn’t work.

I don’t really see this as anything new there are already several heals that can remove conditions from those around you while sacrificing very little if anything at all. ex. engineer heal turret

I could see toxin/ the old disease condition from guild wars one being great ways to break up zerg ball tactics in WvW.

@Xae Isareth.1364
the krait kill for a few reasons
1) sacrifice to assist their prophets that have ascended
2) food
3) natural enemies (ex. hylek)
4) defending their religion from those who would defame it

speculation:
also their sacrifices may have become more often in an attempt to get their prophets to return quicker, as they have been pushed out of their old land (area of the sea they controlled) by the minions of the DSD. They believe their prophets will return with great armies and conquer the surface/drown the surface, which they may feel they are in dire need of as they are losing ground against the DSD.

yeah saw the root things coming out the side and how it looks a lot more structurally sound than anything else we see the krait build. Will this be something along the lines of a dark tree(opposite of the pale tree) it says on the official release page “A toxic seed has been sown. Guarded by magic, fed with evil, it grows.” sounds like it could be a tree? also very disappointed that they are having the krait work with other groups, if it is truly the case /sigh.

It is a fair reward will be nice for anyone who is crafting celestial gear, personally I probably will use it rarely if ever but glad to see you are so happy about it.

nightmare court/scarlet or not hearing that it contains nightmare court from an unofficial source, and that the official site says nothing about it?

on a side note what is the krait’s relationship with leviathans? concept art

hmm alright thank you all for the feedback, I had another question though with the moment of clarity trait is using hilt bash followed by maul a pretty decent amount of damage or better to move those trait points elsewhere? is moment of clarity 150% extra damage on your next attack for you and your pet or just 50%?

thank you glad that someone liked the idea

Ranger build for dungeons

I have had my ranger at level 80 for over a year now and he has just been sitting in Southsun cove up by the champ kraka mining the orichalcum, so I am looking for a build to pull him out of the mines and do something useful with him in dungeons possibly, this is what I came up with build please pick it apart and tell me what is wrong or what could be changed to make it better. Thank you for your time.

ps. on a side note is the call lightning from the storm spirit any good for damage or better to just scarp it?

very possible but I would assume that the priory would be taking bloody prince thorn’s sarcophagus thing to their HQ in lornar’s pass. (possibly easy to get it in transit) also other than vigil keep lion’s arch has no real fortifications to the north seems like an easy way to get into lions arch and eat up a king thorn.

I have had my ranger at level 80 for over a year now and he has just been sitting in Southsun cove up by the champ kraka mining the orichalcum, so I am looking for a build to pull him out of the mines and do something useful with him in dungeons possibly (I know a lot of people may say that ranger isn’t any good in dungeons) but I came up with this build please pick it apart and tell me what is wrong or what could be changed to make it better. Thank you for your time.

ps. on a side note is the call lightning from the storm spirit any good for damage or better to just scarp it?

any of the dragons tried to eat mad king Thorn?

He is a mass of magic/energy nowhere near their power, yet it seems like he has enough power/magic to give them motivation to devour him. If this were possible would the dragon gain some power from thorn…a way to enter the underworld/mad realm. Or even bloody prince thorns madness casket seems like it would be a powerful enough magical artifact to be sought after and devoured.

1322(ascended trinkets/backpiece)
+763(exotic armor)
+288(orb in armor)
+1400(traits)
= 3773(total)
1300(maximum possible wvw buffs)/3773(total BiS stat points)=34% more stat points

no I was just stating the most unbalanced situation with it possible, someone with max buffs and BiS gear vs. someone with no buffs but BiS gear is somewhere between 30-50% more stat points (don’t have the numbers for armor or runes close to me atm)

guard leach= 100 condition damage and 100 power
applied fortitude= 250 vitality
guild buffs= 40 precision, 40 power, 40 vitality, 40 toughness, 10% more health, 10% more healing
blood lust sigil = 250 power
Superior Borderlands bloodlust = 60 power, 60 precision, 60 vitality, 60 toughness, 60 condition damage, and 60 healing power

grand total of max additional stats in wvw that these can give 1,300 stat points + 10% more health and 10% more healing power.
a full set of ascended accessories only provides 1322 stat points.

Sorry I must really be explaining this horribly and sorry about that. I understand that the field on bottom is the one that takes priority, but when a fire bomb is place it doesn’t immediately become a fire field, it has a delay before it explodes, and that is when I keep getting dark fields put over the top of it, once it has been set but has not yet exploded. LOL perhaps I’m just whining too much.

Edit: to better explain I can drop a fire bomb first but If a necro puts a well on top of it before the bomb explodes even though it was laid down first the field started second. and given that the dark fields for many wells last for 5 seconds while fire bomb’s fire field only lasts for 3 seconds it can completely block the fire field from blasting.

No I play an engineer and the fire field I generally use is from the bomb kit, to maximize blast finishers in the bomb kits fire filed I drop the thumper turret first followed by big old bomb, fire bomb, then magnetic intervention, overcharge the thumper turret, detonate the turret and then use rumble…I suppose the problem is coming in that after I explain this to the necro(s) in the party they still often do it, the fire bomb once laid down a necro can put their well over the top of it as it last longer than the bomb kit’s fire field it essentially cancels it out. I don’t place these directly in melee or onto of mobs either I generally try to set these all up before a mob is pulled.

I know this probably isn’t the best place to put it but here goes…Necros please stop putting your dark fields on top of my blast finishers/fire fields in SE, when fighting dredge the last thing I need is my blast finishers being wasted on an aoe blind that would have given the party might stacks. (I think it would be best to assume when someone puts down a thumper turret in dungeons that it is about to be used for blast finishers)

alright thank you for your help, now I know that my estimation was just far off lol

personally the first time through the living story that I saw Risen Ferghen I thought that he was going to have a much bigger impact on the story than what he did…oh well missed opportunity I suppose.

edit:
Ah here we go an alliance between the Lost, and the Apostate after having both turned away from abbadon. it looks like the forgotten will soon win their age long war against the margonites Commander Thurnis seeing this as an opportunity to wipeout this wicked race from the world, he orders his troops to fire on the Lost, he is pinned to the ground by several arrows and left for dead, but he survives later finding the Apostate the only other living margonite. the Apostate begins to feed the Lost information on how to this used to be the realm of a different god before abbadon and with a certain magical artifact (ex armbrace of truth) to resurrect her and punish the traitors who left us for dead. Together they venture to the spiders heart…

yeah I ended up droping 40g and mystic forged 8 mini caithe got back 2 comrade molechev

Could we use Claw Island as the basis for a new WvW map more focused on water objectives/Island fortresses, it is only used in two story quests and it would be a great area to hold and defend/attack. possibly including new types of siege ships and submarines with functionality similar to that of a golem I suppose.

my bet would be on scarlet not being in the next Living Story but sorry can’t put any money on it trying to buy up all the putrid essences in existence I got a long way to go Im only at 30K

I completely agree with this as an engineer if one of my grenades from grenade barrage misses I think I should be allowed to use it again on a 4-5 second recharge…grenade barrage mash ftw.

The inscription on the shield is in New Krytan, and seems to have been written by the Mad King. It says:
“Dedicated to those clumsy oafs who tumbled off my tower last halloween. Thanks to you, I had a delightful and colorful corpse pile to gaze upon.”
its from the wiki

edit: Ah I see I was too late

readin aint nevr don nobdy none gud

hahaha /mustache twirl obviously one of the krait prophets is returning and kessex is drowned in water scarlet is somehow pulled in by an undertow and is the first to be sacrificed the perfect ending.

…not sure if you are being sarcastic or not?

Just as a note you do realize that the next set of achievements in the living story area is completely related to WvW and leagues right? it even has a mini dolyak if you complete the meta. Personally I feel there is nothing wrong with this as PvE has gotten the largest share of Achievement points(if that’s what you are going for) by far while WvW gives almost nothing in comparison for the amount of effort needed to complete them.

eh idk I just feel like I lost a bit of utility for it, I generally used it in AC path 1 to drop behind me crippling the gravelings while using heal turret to remove allies conditions. Still not a huge deal.

1) what caused the seer race to decline other than their war with the mursaat, and can they be brought back to prominence (like the naga from factions, I know incredibly unlikely but I still have hope)
2) how are the leviathan’s faring against DSD, as we haven’t seen any around the surface and the one is the SoS book was pretty amazingly powerful.
3) How long can a/the pale tree survive according to its size being far larger than a redwood I would guess a very long time 1k-10k years??
Edit: removing my #3 and replacing it with watchtower coast from GW1 this area was filled with towers assumingly white mantle, does the mantle still hold all of these fortifications, what is the state of these fortifications (could’ve put some good dungeons in there).

I’m a bit disappointed that this skill now puts us into combat when it didn’t prior to this update I understand that other classes have had similar things happen to some of their skills that don’t deal any direct damage. I just feel like it took away a lot of the usefulness this skill gave to escape. That being said tool kit is still an amazing kit which I will probably keep on my bar most times(when not in dungeons). Just wondering how other ppl feel about this I suppose while letting off a little steam.

I heard people say that (correct me where I’m wrong on any of these)
1) Mesmer theirs had the buff to their clones earlier
2) Necros minions were buffed
3) Guardian spirit weapon’s health unbuffed
4) Engineer turret’s health unbuffed
5) Elementalist haven’t heard if their elemental summons were buffed or not
6) Ranger’s pets had their health buffed
7) Thieves haven’t heard if their Thieves guild/ambush trap pets got increased health or not
8) Warrior as far as I know they are the only profession that doesn’t have any pets, they have banners but those don’t have any health.

don’t worry you can hang out with us engineers our turrets didn’t get a health buff either, the new targeting system is a bit…off, we have a traitline basically dedicated to these “inventions” trait line, and our minions can’t move. So I truly feel your pain and hope your spirit weapons are brought up to snuff as well as our turrets. Best of luck to you…but don’t hold your breath.

did you notice the fairly low prices of mini caithe, and mini holo scarlet…they were down to something like 6 gold each…they are rare level minis can they be mystic forged?

I only read through a bit of this so sorry if I’m off but engineers using white weapons will make no difference other than the stats off the weapons, kits are already modified to exotic pistol damage, this of course is based on using grenades/bombs to apply vulnerability, rather than something like the utility goggles toolkit. This may change your results.

I personally used to really enjoy Orr when there were more mobs, and more pulls. I got to orr within the first few days of the games release, when you were truly and completely alone on these maps, and I loved it made you truly feel like you were going behind enemy lines and securing objectives, and taking defensible locations to provide a safe path for the pact’s reinforcements. Now they are no longer an angry army you have to push through to secure a path through so you can move enough troops and materials to attack the dragons and “cut the head off the snake”, but rather a group of shambling unorganized undead, if you get attacked its not by a group of them that makes you feel like you’ve been spotted by the enemy but rather an annoyance that is just getting in your way as you are passing through. Maybe my perception has just changed but that’s my 2 cents.

the second paragraph was directed at the post directly above it
Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981

The future of the Charr is to be a servant race of the Asura.

As everyone else.

We are nothing if not fair.

ah that quote was by Voltaire "This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. "

The reasoning on the holy roman empire is completely off though
1) I say that it is not an empire because the definition of empire is “an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly esp. an emperor or empress.” and while they did elect a monarch it never had the same unification of its political structure as say the French. The nobles still retained de facto sovereignty within their own territories, so even though they owed the holy roman emperor their allegiance, he did not have supreme authority…thus not an empire
2) I say that it is not Roman, as it may have included part of Italy, and parts of the former Roman empire, but it never included the City of Rome. (except for short periods)
3) Holy this one is a bit different but I think it comes from this “Before 1157, the realm was merely referred to as the Roman Empire. The term sacrum (”holy," in the sense of “consecrated”) in connection with the medieval Roman Empire was used beginning in 1157, under Frederick I Barbarossa (“Holy Empire”) — the term was added to reflect Frederick’s ambition to dominate Italy and the Papacy; the form “Holy Roman Empire” is attested from 1254 onward." the definition of holy “dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose; sacred.” and while crowning by the pope may make one a “divine right monarch”…I suppose if that’s what you were saying I would agree on that point.

don’t have time to respond to the rest at the moment, but would enjoy discussing this more with you if you have time later. Lostwingman.5034

Sorry I definitely steered this thread off topic