Guild Wars 2

I saw that in the Show your mesmer thread. It does look nice but doesn’t the staff clip against the leggings? It’s basically the thing I am trying to avoid. I think that Embroidered legs would go well with the Vigil top you have..

http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/asura-light.htm

I myself miss a few AP till I can get another zenith weapon.. First one I got was an Axe.. Wish I could un-do that now.. Thinking pistol, torch or (great)sword.. I’ll probably end up getting the torch as it looks very cool and I will be using a torch quite a bit. Thanks for the pic

Cheers!

I have an Asura up to level 35 now and I’m slowly thinking of re-rolling to human due to so much clipping everywhere. I’ve been sitting in the mists trying to get a combination that I liked. Full Koda set is nice but it still does clip. Haven’t really found anything else I liked. Even after matching armor.. I need to see an Asura that will make me go wow and make me want to get my little guy to 80.
Cheers!

I have an asuran mesmer named Monns I’m still levelling (2nd mesmer, 1st one deleted sadly), I plan on doing WvW (roaming and when I get my commander tag, zerging from time to time) and PvE as in map exploration, CoF, FotM & Living World stuff. I play a lot, but once I get geared up, set on gear ect, I’ll tone it down a bit most likely.

I’m interested in everything: Learning about the class, testing out builds and organizing events. I’m in Gandarra.

Oh also, to avoid the work of re-making an entire races armor, keep the human, but add some touches, like Devout armor has, make a slot in it to avoid the tail from clipping and make the slot move around in sync with the tail ect. That would also be great.

How is re-designing armor a tech limit? Some of the clipping, ok, but I’m positive that a lot of it could of been avoided. Simply changing the angle how Asura have greatswords holstered can get rid of all the greatsword clipping.

I’m playing an asura mesmer. Got it to level 26 and I do not like it anymore because of tons of armor clipping. I’m having a hard time finding armors I like that does not clip. Going to end up re-rolling. Second option is charr, again, tons of clipping issues. That is exactly why people (like me) don’t want to play Charr. Maybe they love the idea of the race but when you get all the armor issues ect, it takes a lot of the pleasure out of the game. Take a bit of time to design actual charr (not stretched human) armor that does not clip and people will start playing them a lot more. Same with Asura.. Fix the weapon scaling, give them some good armor that does not clip with every weapon set and that will draw some people back that left “the pack” due to armor clipping issues. Please! The game has been out for too long that those kinds of issues still exist.. I did not mean to offend you guys at ANet in any way, if something does sound rude, it was not meant to be that way, my apologies for that.

Okay. That’s still good. Minus the 4.5 seconds of blocking is 13 seconds of retaliation. 7 seconds with no retaliation, 4.5 more without due to blocking and 13 seconds with retaliation that is 11.5s vs 13s over 50% retaliation up time.
Cheers!

EDIT: Pressed the wrong keys in some places..

Retaliation is 3.5 seconds. If I get hit 10 times in the 5 seconds mimic is up, that is 35 seconds of retaliation. Minus the 4 .5 seconds of mimic, that is 30.5 seconds of retaliation. By that time, mimic is already re-charged and I can repeat the process. I’ll have perm retaliation on me in that scenario (Unless it doesn’t stack which now when I think about it I’m not sure if it does, does it?). Of course that is an ideal setting but if it happens it will pay off.

Thank you a lot for the reply. I do realize that I’m supposed to always be the last man standing, that is why I went for Dolyak runes & mostly defensive stats, I wanted to, aside from that, have some great group utility.

I took your build and played around with the traits a bit to try to even further increase the damage output.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQJAWblwzSpXVznGbNJhJFEH5oKcdSPKNqXdpC6G

I went 10 in Dueling for Retalitory Shield since the build will block a lot and that way produce a ton of retaliation damage. The final 10 points go in Illusions for Master of Misdirection since I’ll have confusion from Confusing Enchantments. That will add 1 more second of confusion and the confusion will deal a bit more damage.

What about sword instead of scepter for the blur from Blurred Frenzy? Offhand sword to make up for loosing that block that torch provides? Torch instead of focus for even more burning + blind + invisibility? Thank you again.
Cheers!

EDIT: Fixed some spelling errors.

Hey all. I just made a mesmer a few days ago and I’m really enjoying the class. I’ve only had one lvl 80, been playing since beta (re-rolling A LOT + this is a new account, brother has the old one now). This is my second mesmer (I deleted my old one because of not knowing anything about the class, been only up to lvl 20). I’m planning on buying a commander tag for zerging in WvW when I won’t be doing fractals or small team roaming and generally will be in the mood for zerging. I know it is too soon to think about that but I like to be prepared in advance. I’ve tinkered a bit with the builds and I’ve come up with the following build. I did not include portal as I think there are far more useful utilities to use. I was thinking of a mantra build (heal allies for every mantra use, remove conditions, grant stability ect.), but that would require me to go into domination for the 3 casts and that is something I don’t really want to do but I think a mantra build can be very, very good. I took torch instead of focus because I should be getting speed buffs from my zerg and I find the torch has more utility (stealth for me, blind burn for foe + the retaliation phantasm). Signet of inspiration for boon sharing. Illusion of life will be uber useful since a lot of enemies keep dying in zerg fights, when people in my zerg get downed, all they will have to do is tag and they’re fully up.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAW8flwziqHQTnGb9IhpHEH5A/kCl3cUK6O4B-jECBocCyUgwkDBKNqIaslNFRjV1ATnaR16XAA-w

If it’s not clear why I took some of the things in the build, ask and I’ll explain. I’d like help/advice/criticism. Anything that you think should be changed, please do say. Thank you for the time to take a look at the build, have a wonderful day, cheers!

The problem with death shroud is that it’s a tool for you to survive during 1v1s and something to make us an attrition class, but what happens when we fight 1v2? 1v3? 1v4? If DS was made so we can fight 1v2, 1v3, 1v4, 1v5 or anything else but 1v1, we’re overpowered in a 1v1 situation. I like the class a lot and keep making one, getting it to x level then deleting it again because these issues bug me a lot to the point where I don’t want to play the class anymore… We really need ANet to do something about this..

I really loved GW1, enjoyed every second I played. There are so many things which I thought would be in GW2 and were really cool but are not.

Capes
Where did they go?? They were so awesome.. I know we have guild armor but that is no match for guild capes.. A small thing, probably shouldn’t take long to implement. (Judging by the little programming experience I have)

Some classes are gone???
I really miss dervishes, paragons and ritualists.. It would be extremely cool to have them back.. Dervishes especially. They were just so cool with their scythes.. This would most likely take a long time but I think it would be really nice to at least add two of the lost classes..

Giving minipets a purpose
I’m not sure if this is from GW1 or some other MMO I played but minipets had a purpose, they ran around and picked up loot for you which I believe would be a good thing to implement. Would also be relatively simple to code and implement.

Bring back some weapons from GW1
Some weapons in GW1 like the BDS, ALL the tormented weapons (especially the shield – http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Tormented_Shield ) were really nice, I’d love to see them back in GW2.

Take some time to watch this video, please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zKIo4MlZ9U

I’m a huge fan of Nemesis, and he shew you guys some bugs here and made some pretty interesting comments and made some good points, I think it would really be good if a dev or two watched this video and have a discussion over this and see what the dev team can do to fix what is really broken.

Thank You a lot for taking the time to read through this and watch the video, I hope that at least something from this post (and the video from Nemesis) will be implemented/changed. Have a wonderful rest of the day, cheers!

Oghier.7419:

Thanks for posting. A few comments to think over:

- Valkyrie Armor must be considered for a backstab build with Hidden Killer. You keep the crit damage that Knight’s lacks

- If you are going to mix armor types, where some slots do not have +crit damage, then it’s important to optimize what goes in what slot. Different slots have a higher stat cost for +1% crit damage. Read post #2 by Loperdos here:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84827-thief-armor-berzerker-knights-valkyrie-mix/

- The Shortbow is a fairly incredible offensive weapon. It is not just for utility. If you’re just after overland speed to run away, you’re better off spamming Heartseeker with no target. SB teleport is mostly useful if you know the spots where it will allow you z-axis mobility

- Hidden Thief is pretty cool. But there are so many great traits in SA, you might want to consider an alternative way to gain stealth on steal. From range, start CnD, then immediately steal to the target. You’ll finish CnD when you’re there. CnD’s cast time is not interrupted by the teleport. This is a pretty useful trick for a dagger thief to learn

- Critical Haste has a downside, in that it can mess up your timing of revealed. Once you have played a dagger thief for a while, that timing becomes muscle memory. Haste mucks it up

- Retaliation doesn’t hurt any more on a backstab than it does on an autoattack. It’s not a reflect. Though it always hurts, backstabbing thieves are far less likely to do real harm to themselves than, for example, their unload-spamming P/P brethren

Finally, when most folks post builds, they add a link to the completed version so people can see the whole thing at once (and tinker with it). For example, here is my current WvW build:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAoYVlUmiO3eS+E+5Ex2jeuTiy9wpJtpdFwKA-jEDBYfBCbBkoAksAiIAI9pIaslhFRjVXDTVSpW5KQmzCaeDK1SBonwI-w

Just some things to consider. I fiddle with builds more often than is probably healthy

I’ll put in valkyrie armor in the OP then, thanks.
I’m not really going to mix armors. You have the options which you can use. Only thing I’ll be mixing is the accessories, only two types. The armors you can use a full set of any of those and still preform well.
I didn’t know about that trick, I’ll re-visit the traits for a little while.
I’d still like some boons to be removed from the player. If he has protection, that would mean 2/3 of the damage I could do so I’d still keep it, I said it’s a free slot (I think) because I really have little to no clue what to put there. Forgot about the link, thought of making it but forgot by accident. Thanks A TON for the list. I’ll get right to it Have a wonderful day, cheers!

Forgot about food.. Just use anything that gives you power, toughness, vitality, crit damage, up to you.
Cheers!

Traits

We’re going for 0/30/20/0/20

Critical Strikes – Going 30 into them. Traits are: IV, X & XII

1. IV – Concealed Defeat, this is a free slot, place whatever you want, I found nothing else I really found useful. You may say “Why not get Furious Retaliation or Side Strike?” You don’t need it. You should see yourself why after you ready the entire guide.

1. I – Furious Retaliation, when your target reaches 50% HP you will gain fury, upping the crit chance, more possibility of causing a lightning strike, more damage.

1. XII – Hidden killer, 100% crit chance in stealth will ensure a crit on our backstab. executioner is an excellent trait but it’s not as good as hidden killer in this build.

Shadow Arts – We’re going 20 into them. Traits are: VI & VIII

1. VI – Cloaked in shadow, you could use master of deception but this trait will blind your enemy whenever you enter stealth, so if it will be mobile and able to hit you it will miss the first time, equals to less damage.

1. IX – Leeching Venoms, we will be using venoms so we will openly welcome the extra 1k damage that those 3 venom uses will do while healing us for 750HP. You can use what you want here, a lot of great traits, Patience, Hidden Thief (will eliminate the cloak n dagger + steal combo) Find something here that works for you the best.

Trickery We’re going 20 into it. Traits are: IV & VII

1. IV – Flanking strikes, we do more damage on our backstabs, really useful.

1. VIII – Bountiful Theft, this is a free trait slot. I prefer to use VII because if the target has retaliation or protection on it, it just rips it off.

Slot skills

1. Hide in Shadows – Your heal + stealth, no other healing skills is worth using, trust me.
2. Shadowstep – Super useful for escaping a fight, you can also return to confuse the enemies on your positioning, a must have in every build.
3. Devourer Venom – 2 second immobilization x2 (=4 sec) gives you the ability to hit him once after your elite has been used to further keep him non mobile, second time you cloak and dagger and he stays immo’d for the backstab. The most important skill in the build
4. Shadow refuge – Useful for stacking up stealth to hide from zergs or enter fights un-noticed. Can also be a panic button. Very useful skill
5. Your elite, Basilisks Venom – This will be the first skill you use before you engage your target. Will be covered in the rotation section.

Finally, the rotation

First thing you do is /wave at the guy.
Use cloak and dagger followed by a quick steal so you cloak and dagger on the target quickly. Backstab him which will turn him into stone for some time(because of the elite skill). When you see the stone going off (gonna be quite quick) pop the devourer venom, auto attack one more time, this will immo the player for two seconds. Now it’s time for cloak and dagger, this will put one more two second immo on the player (The venom can be applied two times) allowing you to put in the final backstab. If the person is still not dead, heartseeker in an attempt to finish him. The rest is on you to improvise and tune what you do to the situation.

Closing notes

I still havent tested the build anywhere but the mists and it was really successful without any accessories, gear or weapon stats, I imagine it will be killer once fully geared and set up. I’ve taken down the heavy golem in a few seconds using the rotation, again ,with no gear so I can only imagine what it will be like when the character is fully geared up. I’m open to suggestions, criticism (Feel free to criticize, I’m not going to get offended, no worries about that), reviews. I really like how the build went together. I’m not sure if there are any other builds alike, I’m not really active on forums. Have a wonderful day guys, thanks for checking this guide out, cheers!

This is the complete build, exactly the way I’ll be using it:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAoYVlUmiO3ey1E+5Ex2jeOUiypIpQ1TBYHLA-jkyA4rAixgIKgkFIqAQ6rIasl1ioxqWwUnER1ujioVDA-w

-Jurica

Hey all. I’ve been playing around with my thief a bit and I’ve come up with something I think is an EPIC build. Has great survivability, huge damage and is quite hard to counter. I’m not an expert by any means but I really like what I’ve come up with.

Weapons

Dagger – Classic DPS weapon for a thief, has the most damage.
There are two sigil combinations.

1. (superior) sigils of force + air – We will have 0 in Deadly Arts so the extra 5% damage is useful. The air sigil is just a little bit extra DPS, 30% chance on crit to cause a lighting strike. A bit more damage every 3 crits, can’t complain.
2. (superior) sigils of force – Again, 0 in Deadly Arts, if you want, you can swap the air sigil for another force.

Two weapon type combinations.

1. berserker – Classic burst stats gearing up for most DPS, not really needed in my opinion.
2. valkyrie – Power, vitality and critical damage, vitality will be useful, power we need to buff and crit damage is always welcome.

Shortbow – Classic.. ¸Infiltrator’s arrow for extra mobility, we won’t have a passive (nor active) speed buff.. We can also use it for some AOE damage with it if required for anything.

1. (superior) sigil of hydromancy – We’ll be using the SB to run away from zergs so when we switch to it after killing a player, it’s useful to have the guys chasing us chilled. It will slow them down. We won’t be using the SB for anything offensively orientated so there is no point in getting a sigil of force or accuracy.

Armor

Armor rune:

1. (superior) rune of the thief – We get precision from it, the condition damage is not what we’re after, it’s just there and will aid the poison that our auto-attack applies but it’s about it. Why we’re really going for it is +10% damage while behind or beside a foe. It will make our back stabs more powerful and will really pay off.

Stats:
Multiple options..

1. berserker – Again, classic DPS gear..
2. valkyrie – It’s similar to knights but has vitality instead of toughness. We will be getting toughness from our traits + the weapons so why not spring for HP a bit. If you have high toughness, no vitality, the toughness means almost nothing, vice versa.

Accessories

Again, multiple options:

1. berserker – Classic DPS
2. knights – Again, same reason as above
3. valkyrie – Aand again, same reason as above.

I’ll be using knights with valkyrie jewels.

Ended up with an Asura dude. Thanks all for the replies, really appreciate them! Cheers!

Wow, I didn’t know you could pre-view the armor that you don’t have in the closet. Thanks for that, I’ll go and check it out right away! Thank you guys a lot for helping me out. I’ll post my final choice here by the end of the day. Have a wonderful rest of the day, cheers!

Yeah, I’m in for something a bit more unique. Thanks for the reddit thing, I’ll go through it. I’ll still see but if I find an armor combo that I like for Asura, I’ll spring for them. Have a wonderful day, thanks!

I prefer tight clothes on female characters. I really like that, if I’ll end up with a human female, I’ll be mixing up T3, Duelist + a few dungeon pieces together. I’m still curious about Asura armor combos.. Thanks, have a great day!

I’ve been re-rolling since beta and gone through all the classes hundreds of times.
I really enjoy the thief playstyle (hate iniciative so far, I’ll get used to it though) but I thought it was really bad at dungeons which would be my main activity.
That eliminated thief for me sadly.

I had only one character in GW1 which was a female assassin.
I watched a few videos of GW1 FoW and decided to take a give thieves another chance and after going to the mists, playing around + watching a few videos,
I’m convinced that thieves are able to be extremely useful in dungeons. (Not talking venom sharing and party stealth..) I instantly decided to roll a thief.

I’m eyeballing human females for the sexiness and a asuras because I simply love their animations & dialogues.
My fear with asura is that I won’t be able to find a good look for it in the end. I’ve looked at the entire thief SS thread and am still not convinced. Can the guys that have asura or human female thieves please post some SS of them to help me decide between the two? Thanks a lot, have a wonderful day guys!

Ended up as a thief. I’ve found a really awesome dungeon build that actually has more support than just stealth and venom share that I really think will be useful and still decent damage. That will cover dungeons. I put together a small roaming team for capturing camps with my friend and I’m excited. Only thing is iniciative but I’ll get used to it with time I suppose. Now all I need is a race, gender and name. Thank you a lot! Have a wonderful day, cheers!

I tried every single class in game. Warriors are nice. Simple to play but it got boring by level 5. Thief, Necro and Mesmer were my favorite and most fun to play.. Mesmer above all but I just got so frustrated on it that I deleted it at level 33 now like an hour ago and I don’t feel like re-making it, though I could go for a female this time.. I don’t mind being squishy as long as there is some way to cover that up. Thief has stealth, Mesmer has the clones BUT whenever I used clones, mobs always went for me and completely ignored the clones like there were none and I always ended up getting wiped quickly because of the long cooldowns on heal, blink + relatively poor mobility. I had masterwork gear and was using a staff + sword/torch(for the retaliation phantasm + extra stealth).

Okay.. I’ve had an Engineer to 80 deleted it as I started hating the playstyle, had a mesmer up to 33 but deleted it due to the squishyness and was beginning to be bored on it.. I’ve been eyeballing the Thief and Necro for a very long time.. I played an assassin in GW1 because I really enjoy the mobile and stealthy playstyle. Necro I’ve seen epic builds and I also enjoy the condition applying then just watching the zerg of mobs melt. I want to do both dungeons and WvW small team roaming. I’ve read countless topics and still can not choose. I really need help.. I keep wasting gold (and time) on powerleveling by classes by crafting to end up deleting them after a certain period of time and I’m not having fun at all playing this game anymore because of that.. My issues with necro are that I kind of dislike the death thing it has going and with thief, iniciative and I’m afraid that I am not capable of AOE damage and will have hard times leveling.
What do you think would suit a guy that wants easy leveling, fun/active gameplay, both AOE and single target damage + reasonable survivability? Have a wonderful day, huge thanks!

I just can’t play a class if it’s not Asura for some reason hahaha. The little boogers really grew to me..
I have re-made at LEAST 40 necros so far.. Asura then human the asura then charr then asura then norn ect. and it keeps coming back to Asura.. I just love them haha.
I have only one issue with them which is light armor .. Which armor combos that aren’t hard to get do you guys use? I dislike most of the Asura light armor..
Dry bones shoulders + named everything else is what I’m planning on using but I’m sure that there are some better combos..
Can anyone post some pics of their Asura in light armor + the pieces of it? And yes, I’ve already gone through the “Show off your Asura” thread. Have a great day guys, cheers!

Heya all. I’m an engineer and recently made a necro.. The engie is gone now. I’m still very low level (lvl 20) but I played a lot of sPvP (I usually hate it but it was tons of fun with a necro). I’m looking to do WWW (zerg ofc. 1v1 almost never happens..). I invested over 100g in the engie so now I only have 10 gold.. I’m broke. I’m looking to find out how much gold will I need to get all the necro gear so I’m already looking for a build so I can start saving up asap. Which build would you guys suggest? I’m thinking of a fear build from Nemesis (In the sticky) but I heard it does not work anymore(?). If so, which build would you suggest? Also, I’m out of laurels, so I’ll have to use exotic gear all around, is this a bad thing, does the build really require ascended items in order to work? Cheers, have a great day guys.

I agree, would be good to have.

Hey all. I’ve been pretty much re-rolling since Beta. Went though A LOT of characters. From necros to warriors to thieves ect. I made an engie a while ago, got it to 80. It is the first class I ever got to 80. I really enjoy playing an engineer but I hate the fact that it’s not fantasy enough. Modern weaponry is something that bothers me. I tried a Mesmer out in sPvP. I really liked it and found a great mesmer build that is easy(ish) to play and is epic in WWW. Pwns 1v1 or in zergs. My problem is I DO NOT want to have two characters. It’s just too much to be handled financially and time wise. It takes me cca 2h to get started on it and then 80h to get it to lvl 80 then we have the money for the gear and weapons.. I really don’t want to delete my engineer as I love it a lot and I’ve got 50 gold into him, but I also really want a mesmer.. So I a) keep my engineer or b) make a mesmer, delete the engineer (will also delete 90h of my time + 50-60 gold). What should I do? Cheers.

IMO, Engineers and Necros are the best for dungeons. Necros can stack so many conditions AOE it’s crazy! They have a ton of condition removal too! Engies can do all other classes can but it’s so neat that you take up only 1 slot instead of two or more. Warrior shouts are great and guardian support is great. IMO the perfect dungeon group would be:

Voun/Might Engie
Condi Necro
2x Warrior
1x Guardian

I agree with you. I don’t really mind the melee thing as why would you want to go melee on an Engineer? You have so many cool things you can use to take people down from range and to get them disabled quickly if they get too close to you. I don’t really think engies need more weapons. You have all those tool kits it’s really too good. When you swap to granade kit, you swapped weapons. You can have 3 different toolkits on at one time so you have 4 weapon sets at your disposal (p/p, p/s or w/e + kit 1 + kit 2 + kit 3). I think the takes more time part is actually a pro. It’s such an OP class when played right.. It’s also a lot more rewarding to play. Yishis is a great demonstrator of that (YouTube) he takes down multiple opponents in WWW (up to 4-5) at once with an Engie with no issues. There are also a lot more good videos on youtube demonstrating out true powaah!
Cheers

Hey. I re-installed x64 now and after ~10h of trying to find the correct drivers for my PC, tracking down which graphic card I have and installing that, I finally am done.. It doesn’t say which graphic card I have.. I even took it out of the housing and it still for some reason didn’t say what I had.. All it said was Gigatech. Went on their site and looked at all the graphic cards they have. Went throught each and every one of them until I found the one I had.. Huge PITA.. I’m now downloading GW2 and will post here how things are going once I get it all done.

I at first was all in on Asura, but when I made a Human Thief just to try it out, the weapon size really appealed to me on the human and I dropped Asura since.. I’ve been re-rolling since Beta pretty much and I settled on an Engineer a while ago. I highly disliked guns so I used the small weapon scaling that the Asura has to my advantage. I also don’t see any other race as an Engineer. Asuras cultural armor is perfect for an engineer, they are the magitech type which is good for me as I hate playing tech classes. The magitech thing kind of fixes it for me. And hell, it’s an ASURA! lol. They’re my 2nd favorite thing next to Ettins in GW2.. Just love all the anims, the voice acting ect.. Cheers!

OK. I didn’t know that. You learn something new every day I just checked and my PC has got 4GB of RAM which isn’t that great but meh. My bro picked up a virus while downloading Microsoft Office off a torrent (My bro as in me lol.) and I have to re-install windows now. I’m going for x64 this time. I checked in the CP under “Performance Information and Tools” for my PC ratings..

Processor AMD Athlon™ X4 740 Quad Core Processor 7,2
Memory (RAM) 4,00 GB 7,2
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 6,7
Gaming graphics 3313 MB Total available graphics memory 6,7
Primary hard disk 390GB Free (477GB Total) 5,9

I hope GW will run better and crash less once I upgrade to x64. Thanks guys, have a great day, cheers!

Yeah I see what you mean.. Didn’t think of that really. Still, players I don’t think will be loosing too much. I still think that this should be added because if we decide to change builds I don’t think it’s really fair that we need to re-buy the entire gear and just trash the one we had even though that’s 40g going down the toilet. That’s where we’re loosing. That could be balanced out by removing soul and account bound but that would get the entire economy down the toilet. Cheers!

Yeah.. I’m using x86 Windows.. Why would that be the issue? As far as I’m aware x86 is better for gaming than x64? I haven’t been online today so I haven’t but I get crash logs often, but I don’t really send them out or look at them.. Cheers!

How I got to the idea
I just spent all the 40 gold I had on my engies gear. I got berserkers gear for a granade power build. I did a bit of WWW with it. The dmg I was hoping for wasn’t there and I was easily killed despite having full lvl 80 exotic gear on me and playing everything right. I also got 1 shot in dungeons quite a bit..

I want to switch over to a condition type WWW and dungeon build that has good survivability , mobility and a bit of party support to that. Problem is, that would mean spending 40g again for gear when I just cashed out all my money for the gear I had. What now?

Idea
How about crystals, transmution stones or whatever you want to call it that can change the stats of gear from ie Berserker to Dire?
Why don’t I just buy a new set of armor and transmute it to get the gear?
That would be more expensive. The transmution crystals alone will be a lot of money, then another 40 gold for the Rabid gear itself.

More indepth
What I have in mind is that these crystals, transmution stones or whatever can be gotten from salvaging rares or exotics. You would have like 5-10% chance of getting it depending on is the armor rare or exotic and the salvage kit you use. It could also be gotten from world boss drops, completion chests.
An obvious thing but I feel like it should be mentioned, if you salvage Berserker gear you should get Berserker crystals/stones.
Please don’t make it only available in the gem store.

Important thing
The crystals should be priced so that 6 of them shouldn’t go over 10-12 gold or else they won’t really be that useful to buy. I think a good price for one would be around 2 gold. That way if I for an example got exotic lvl 80 gear (1 piece of the gear is around 4.7g if I remember correctly) I don’t get a whole new set. Because if one crystals is 4 or 5 gold I might as well buy another set of gear and salvage my old gear.

I don’t use in-game sound. I disabled everything in the sound part. master volume all the way down, all the quality to lowest as I don’t ever use the game sound. I usually plug my phone in my PC and listen to music from my phone while doing anything on the PC, unless if I go watch some videos. I’m not sure on my PC’s specs. It was a gift to me from my dad who had a friend of his who is a teacher in the class where you learn about computers (not sure what it’s called on english, not my native language) for high end gaming. I’m more of a software than a hardware guy (I script in C++ as a hobby and will learn Javascript when I get to college.). I have a 4 or 6 (I think 4) core processor. I know that doesn’t mean much since processors with less cores can do a better job than 4 core processors, but I know it’s a very powerful PC as soon as it can run some of the newer games on the market at max graphics with no issues. I believe GTA IV is a much more demanding game to process than GW2 lets say. Cheers.

I’m on Win7.. Soon will be transfering to 8.1. Cheers!

Hey devs of GW2. I’ve noticed that GW is crashing A LOT (12 times today so far) lately. It’s not my PC, I’m 100% sure. I can run GW2 at max graphics + have music playing in the background with zero lag, twitching ect, everything running smoothly. I still play at lower graphics just in case and don’t have anything else running in the background. I can run various other games at max graphics with smooth operation. Def. not my PC. I don’t know why but it just likes to crash when Behe is done or getting killed. I don’t think it’s the player count since I do other world bosses which I’m pretty sure have more or the same amount of players. Crashed 8 times in a row (past 8 days) just as Behe was killed or at like mid HP. It’s still crashing often no matter whatever I’m doing. I’m curious to find out why is it crashing so much? Anything I can do to help keep GW from crashing? I appreciate any help. I don’t know if this means much but when it crashes the following happens: It freezes for like half a second and then it says “GW has crashed unexpectedly” or sometimes it completely freezes so I have to start task manager to shut it down. Thank You in advance. Have a great day, cheers!

Hey all. First ever class I’ll get to 80. Been re-rolling since Beta, tried an engie, never looked back.
I’m 65 atm. Will go with full berserker gear + ruby orbs. Superior sigils of accuracy and of force on my (berserkers) pistol/shield. Granade + bomb kit + elixir gun + supply crate. Power/crit build with a ton of burn condi dmg, some support and CC. which I tested out in the Mists and kick kitten . I’ve yet to get the Holographic Dragon wings but that will come last as I still need like 35 gold to get all the gear I need.

Gandarra, Cream Camel (stupid name, I know, will be buying a re-name kit and come up with a good name.)
Edit: Won’t show the picture for some reason..

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YES, YES, YES! You could do that in GW1 while in GW2 you can’t and it’s a thing that I (& a lot of people I’m sure) miss a lot.. Please do do this. One of the reasons I didn’t make a thief among the iniciative is the fact that I look like an ele running around with daggers which looks stupid to me. Would prefer that every profession has it’s own set of armor. Starter/ascended/legendary..

Deleted.. Gonna stick with my engie I guess.. Did a bit of researching and trying out things and I think it’s the best so far..

Hey all. I’ve been a re-roller since beta (been playing on another account, just got this one) I’ve never really made it past lvl 30 due to re-rolling. My two highest leveled characters were a thief and an ele. Got a thief to lvl 30 then got bored, with an ele, got to lvl 17 and got bored. I really enjoyed playing them until that point. The thief was beginning to be annoying because of the iniciative also just too easy in a way, the ele I felt was like spamming AOE skills while kiting and avoiding. I got a Necro and an Engineer to lvl 11 multiple times and enjoyed playing them but always deleted them because of an issue I had with them. My problem with the Necro is that I could never find a good name/look for it (Final look, not talking during leveling) + I don’t really like the dark aura thing that goes with it, skills I love though and the Engineer I like all about it but two things: I don’t like guns in an MMO. I hate them to be more precise. I don’t think they fit in an MMO and that all I can see as an engineer are charr and asura. I had an asura multiple times but it’s too small (weap scaling and the character itself, don’t like the armor ect.) while the charr is too big and has the armor issue. I really like the engineers versatility, skills, active gameplay ect. Ele and Engineer are off the list for me at the moment since I don’t really find the ele that much fun and with the engie the look and the gun thing bothers me really, really bad. What I’m basically looking for is a class that doesn’t require you to shut your brain down in a way, that you have to think, that it’s a bit harder to play, that I can WvWvW roam with it and not get pwned 90% of the time while still being able to do dungeons. I want to be able to contribute to the team like an Engie, Guardian would do. In GW1 I played an assassin, doing FoW non-stop. I really enjoyed doing that but I also really want to get into a bit of PvP which I think WWW is a great start. I’m currently at necro vs. thief but if you have any other suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

Hello devs. I’ve been playing GW for A LONG time. I’ve been playing GW1 on my brothers account, had a multiple lvl 20 characters, played for over 3 years. I played GW2 on my brothers account again since the beta weekend (We pre-purchased) I now got my own account (finally) and I’ve started to notice a few things that bug me.

1. A well known issue is that the charr light and medium armor clips through a lot and doesn’t look well, you should consider re-designing it for it to look and fit better. Generally all races but humans have a lot of weird looking armors.

2. I really miss a part of the simplicity of Guild Wars 1. To me, mostly what I miss is that every class had a role and in my opinion the game was much more straight forward in that aspect.

3. Guild capes, where did they go? They were so cool.. I really loved having a cape behind my character, looked cool when you were hopping around with an assassin. I know we have guild armors but capes just add to the experience a lot more in my opinion.. They also make the character look much better than a guild armor IMO.

4. Classes should have more weapon options In GW1 I as an assassin did FoW a lot, was the Tank 2 setup. I used a BDS (Bone Dragon Staff for those who don’t know what it is) I think it would be cool if all classes could use all weapons. I really liked the way assassins ran with staffs.. A small thing but a huge pleasure for a long time. This could mean either more skills for classes or that you can have a secondary class. Same like in GW1.

5. Guns and bombs IMO don’t fit here.. I know most people won’t agree but I feel like I’m playing a mix of GW1 and BO2. I really enjoy playing my engineer, I find it a ton of fun but I just HATE the guns. I just think it’s really awkward and doesn’t fit in.

6. Where did the Dervish, Paragon and the Ritualist go? I understand that you kind of fused Dervish/Necro (Into a Necro) Paragon/Warrior (Into a Guardian) and Ritualist is basically an Engineer but I really do miss the classes, the spawing ghosts to attack for you ect. It was great fun. Maybe you could remove the guns and replace the Engineer class with Ritualist. Re-name the class, replace guns with some other weapon like some shaman sticks or staffs, re-name the skills, give them other animations and replace turrets with ghosts.

7. A sort of a pre-searing that is longer than the one we have right now would be cool. In GW1 you could level up to lvl 20 in presearing doing the charr runs ect. Could be another activity for players like dungeons, WWW ect.

8. GW1 Minis! Seriously, how about some minis from GW1 (Mini Rurik ect.) for nostalgia sake?

9. Each class has a specific set of armor. I know this would be a lot of work but in GW1 each class had its own armor. Mesmers had theirs, Assassins theirs ect. Now to me a human thief looks like an ele in GW1. Assassins in GW1 had tight suits, looked really cool.

10. Re-do the human female voice, please! It gets really annoying. When I played an ele a lot of the times I wondered if I should use a speed buff and risk a “I can outrun a centuar” (probably spelled wrong) line or just fail at kiting and die. No offense..

11. Re-do the necro sound effects. I got tired of them quickly.. I muted my PC because when you hear “Shh” “Shh” for 15 minutes straight it gets annoying.

12. Get rid of the beer belly on Asuras.. If you look at an Asura from the side, it has a normal upper part then it belly pops out which looks bad.

13. The game crashes quite a bit. Its not just me because it happened on my brothers PC too and he’s got a really killer setup. He can run any game he wants at max graphics.. It just freezez when loading certain areas like going from WP to WP and stops responding or simply all of the sudden closes and says it crashed..

14. Verification is a pita. I don’t know why, my IP doesn’t change much, only like 2 times a month (as sometimes my internet goes down so I have to re-start the router) but the verification thing appears over 5 times every day and then I have to wait 2 minutes for it to arrive to my e-mail which isn’t a big deal but still..

These have been my retrospection to GW1 ideas and general bugs/annoying things, now for some ideas that GW1 didn’t have and GW2 doesn’t either. I’ll update this post with them over the next 2 days. No offense to the dev team if any of this seemed offensive, it was not meant in that manner. I have only half an hour of free time left and I want to play GW Cheers dev team, have a great day! Thanks for the game