Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone. I’m trying to forge my first (and probably only) Legendary, Howler, and I’m finding a bit difficult to get the gold to get the most expensive mats. I already have Gift of Wood, Wolf Statue, 77 Clovers, and I’m close to the Gift of Battle. 2/3 of my Legendary, according to gw2legendary.com

Can you give me some tips on these things:

1) I have somewhat plenty of T5 mats, enough to craft ~40 items right now to salvage into ectos. Does it worth it? Or is it better to just sell them and get the money? I still need 250 more ectos for the Gift of Fortune.

2) The precursor: I’m trying to stay away from the MF, the RNG doesn’t like me, but I’m getting AC and CoF tokens that I don’t need, should I buy Warhorns with the tokens and then use them in the MF, or save the tokens to buy exotics to then salvage them into ectos? Howl is not that expensive, 75g as I write this, and if the feb update doesn’t bring any surprises, it will go down a bit more (yes, I should have bought it when it was 15g, a month ago T_T)

3) I have a Ranger (with full MF set) and a Guardian. Does it worth to farm AC and/or CoF to get gold? Or should I find another way to earn it? Events maybe? I still need 100 Icy Runestones, ~170 of each T6 mat, and 250 ectos. That’s a lot of gold.

Any other tips that you can give me, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!

I use SB/LB myself, only for PvE and Dungeons, I don’t do PvP or WvW at all. This is my build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMMQJAVTjIVF2dW+Vs2CglCBDsVgTODDZ8LwVA1KcyE;TQAKYMwIgZMC

I use Pow/Vit/Cond gear with 3 runes of the Afflicted and 3 runes of the Mad King. For accesories, I use Pow/Prec/Crit on neck and earrings, and Bagh Nahk and Vine of the Pale Tree on rings.

I’m constantly changing utility skills, depending on what I need to do, usualy use Traps for PvE, and Search and Rescue for Dungeons, although I often use Signet of Renewal too, depending if I’m in a dungeon with plenty of enemies using conditions. QZ is the only constant.

I have three quickness resources (QZ, Shortbow sigil and Pet Swap), it helps to apply bleed faster, or to use the Longbow AoE quickly (with pet swap) in case you need it.

It works pretty well, although now that I see Dahkeus build, I might drop the Nature Magic points and see if the extra points in Beast Mastery are worth it.

Actually, Ancient Wood Planks take 3 logs, not 4. The only plank that takes 4 logs is Soft Wood Plank. I remember that in launch, planks took 2 logs instead of 3, they changed it like a week after launch, so it must have to do to balance the crafting materials prices.

Beyond that, yes, it’s kind of annoying, specially since I’m trying to make Gift of Wood for my legendary. But even so, the Ancient Plank is actually cheaper in the TP than the Ori Ingots, so it’s not THAT bad. In general, wood is way cheaper than metal in the TP.

Mine are references to my many years of WoW:

Marcus Ironfoge (Norn Ranger): I had a dwarf hunter named Marcus, and well, Ironforge is the capital city of the dwarves in WoW, so it made sense to keep the tradition. Also, my pet Brown Bear is named Ol Sooty, reference to the named elite bear at Loch Modan, Ol’ Sooty.

Kara Blackrock (Norn Guardian): references to my two favorites (and probably THE best) dungeons in WoW, Karazhan and Blackrock Depths.

I logged in just to make a similar thread. There’s should be an option to hide the tooltips, at least in combat, it can get really annoying and cripple your view of the battlefield. Please, get this implemented!

If you’re just starting the game and this is your first time leveling a crafting skill, I just recommen playing the game and crafting as you go, and try to enjoy it while you discover the recipes (specially if you’re leveing cooking).

In this case, ALWAYS go for discovery. Just craft the base components (for example, sword hilt, sword blade and an inscription), then go to the discovery window to combine the elements. Don’t craft the same weapon/armor/etc several times onces you discovered them, just keep discovering different items.

If you are already lvl 80 and have tons of mats hanging around in your bank, you can follow the respective guide from this site. I used it for LW and I was able to level from 0 to 400 in a bit more than an hour, with minimal gold spent (I already had almost 100% of the mats to do so).

http://www.gw2wiz.com/

Have fun!

Today, tired of hoarding Fractals tokens to get the ascended backpiece, I bought 3 uncommon bags (the cheapest ones) from the FotM vendor.

Just after that, one of the party members pointed out that the bags are “unique”, fact that I didn’t realize before buying them and equipped them, so I was wondering which is the bug, the bags having the “unique” text when they’re actually not, or the unique property not working properly?

My money is on the 2nd option, and I’m starting to worry that they might fix this after I spent 300 extra tokens…

Can we have a word from the developers?

Thanks man, disabled Ambient Occlusion and the problem went away.

Cheers!

Ever since one of the updates for the Lost Shores event I’m getting this constant graphic glitch that makes the textures of the terrain look transparent and start flickering. I don’t remember which update it was, it’s been for some weeks now, but I remember starting after an update a couple of days after FotM went live (my first FotM was glitchless, my second one not so much).

Here’s some screenshots.

Any way to solve this? Or I just need to wait for another update?

Thanks.

Thanks for your input!

I been thinking on trying Axe for AoE damage, but I honestly think in dungeons the damage is not that good, although it might have something to do with my build. And also, I love the LB AoE.

awe extender, I understand your “rule” and that’s what makes me think I needed to focus a little bit more on vit and toughness. I might try your build, although I would need to change almost my entire armor set.

Dahkeus, I like your build, but I think the traits your chose don’t got that well with dungeon runs. I’m not sure if Hide in Plain Sigh is usefull in dungeons, and regarding Primal Reflexes, as far as I know mobs can’t crit you (although I might be completely wrong). Nevertheless, I like the idea of your build, what stats do you use in your armor set?

Bump.

C’mon, a little help for a fellow ranger?

Hello everyone, I was wondering if you can help me create a good build for dungeons, because I’m not really convinced on what I’m building now.

Basically, my idea is to use SB for main damage output, and LB for AoE and some support skills.

My current skills and traits:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mmom0c0zMoFmvMMFGvMGpaaVcRMaoV

Regarding gear, I was thinking going half Pow/Prec/Crit and half Pow/Prec/Condition, with 4 runes of the scholar and 3 runes of the afflicted.

For accessories, a was also thinking going half and half, later I though about building a bit of tough/vit, but that would mean I need to do lot of WvW to farm tokens, which I don’t like.

On weapons, I though on going Sigil of Rage for SB, and something else for LB (don’t know yet).

The problem with this build, is that is really glass-cannony and I may die a lot in hard dungeon like Arah and high levels of FotM.

I’m not a stranger to dungeon runs really, but I haven’t done all yet, I’m still missing Arah, CoF, CM, and I found that is really hard to stay alive in TA for example.

Is it really necessary to build Vit and Though for dungeons runs? Or glass cannon works just fine for ranger?

I’d really appreciate your input. Thanks in advance!

Well, I guess I can try, here it goes.

I just came here to say +1 for noticing the Chrono Cross parallels between the Dragon Gods and Elder Dragons, I can’t believe I didn’t noticed it before, the Chrono games are my favorite games of all time.

I’m using of Rage right now, because I really like Quickness, and with a good amount of crit chance and the short bow speed you basicaly have a 3 seconds Quickness every 45 seconds, plus the quickness from switching pets plus Quickening Zephyr. You can stack bleeds fast that way too. Although I mostly do PvE, Rage is probably better in PvP too.

Here’s mine, with a combination of chest, shoulders and boots from HotW and gloves from CoE, I’m still looking for some cool pants to complement it, maybe from SE but none wants to run that dungeon.

Same here, I upgraded my account to the Digital Deluxe edition 5 days ago, and since then I’m not able to use the Mistfire Wolf elite skill with my now lvl 41 character Marcus Ironforge. The skill appears grayed out and I cannot select it.

I noticed that my other characters (Anneke, Tawnos the Thran and Ibn Fadlan), although they are not lvl 30 yet, the skill is NOT grayed out, so I guess I will be able to use it with them once they reach lvl 30. The character Marcus Ironforge was the one I was using at the time I upgraded the account, via the gem store.

I think we’d all appreciate some feedback regarding this. I sent a support ticket 4 days ago and still no news.

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