Guild Wars 2

Hey guys. What sigil do you recommend for longbow/shortbow in a Berserker build? Thanks!

The Wintersday baby quaggan miniature can also be crafted in the Mystic Forge by using any combination of miniature snowmen, infinirarium, or festive golems, and 50 enchanted stuffing (available in-game). The “mystery Wintersday box” is available in consumables for 100 gems each, or 10 for 800 gems.

I’m confused. So we just need one mini and 50 enchanted stuffing?

I wonder if we will see Toxx in the later instances?

Is Toxx voiced by who I think she is?

I hear Grenades are a nice setup. Just role condition damage and you’ll be fine. You can still apply Poison, Burn, Bleed stack, and Vulnerability stack.

You might also want to consider 30 alchemy for the Might stacking.

People are overreacting to the nerf.

LegoTechnic.5910:

Juggernaut gives a few stacks of continuous might, right? How much does it affect FT damage?

I don’t really want to buy new exotic gear, but I’m suspecting my berserker pieces are going to have to go (which is annoying). Also WTF am I supposed to do with my rifle? If I’m using any kit I’m obviously going to want two sigils….

Use your Rifle for its Immobilize, Close-Range abilities, and Overcharged Shot. Weapon kits barely have a cool-down, giving engineer extraordinary potential at all ranges.

Pistol suffers from being horrible damage against a single target. So using Rifle on bosses to fill the slot of close or long range is a good idea.

I have to agree here. I’m pretty blown away by how beautiful the event is so far. Everything is so upbeat and cheerful!

wintermute.4096:

With the state they are in now, who cares?

Please do not use this thread to complain about the nerf.

I need to know whether or not grenades are slower after this patch.

What determines the damage done by Sigil of Air? Is it preset based on my power stat, or the individual hit?

Meaning is it bad if Sigil of Air activates while using a multi-hit move like Hundred Blades? Does it deal 1.1x damage of the individual hit, or a set damage? Thanks!

Additionally, if I am using a longbow with the skill Rapid Fire, what sigil is better? Sigil of Fire or Air? Thanks!

Honestly, it isn’t that bad in my opinion. The 1 skill made Wrench and Bombs obsolete because it dealt just way too much damage.

And it’s not like the other Grenade skills were nerfed. Quite the contrary.. Shrapnel Grenade is still the same, and the poison+blind grenades were buffed to deal damage.

With the introduction of Sigils and the buff to Shrapnel (trait) grenades are still one of the most powerful means in the game of bleed, poison, burn, AND vulnerability on a foe all at once!

The notion that Grenade Kit is suddenly bad is quite silly. Further considering the fact that Engineer is now able to stack MUCH more might on himself and I don’t think it was nerfed that much at all! Conditions will be so fun now!

My concern is mostly about the speed. It could be just me, but the grenade kit feels sluggish now. But maybe it’s just me? I don’t think it’ll make a difference in dungeons where foes are mostly stationary.

Hey guys. Is it just me, or are grenades slower now? Both travel speed, and throwing time? It feels very sluggish and outright slow compared to prior the patch.

The patch notes mentioned something about combining the PvE and PvP grenades. So were grenades reverted to their original speed?

Bastionhawk.7120:

1. If your pets are dying instantly in dungeons then you are using the wrong pets or not controlling them well.
2. You can’t attack and damage walls in WvW either (without seige) so why should your pet be able to?
3. If you let your pet die or stay dead for a long time, then that is your mistake. You can avoid the 60 second timer most of the time.

I have to agree with what Bastionhawk is saying here. I’m an avid Dungeon runner myself and ran many dungeons while leveling my Ranger in Explorer mode.

I have yet to understand HOW it is people’s pets are dying so much? Just swap them when they are low HP, or call them when appropriate.

To be fair, I can see how pets would die easily against Subject Alpha, Giganticus Lupicus, and and the Fractals ice boss, but I still do not have complaints beyond those. Bears for one are quite bulky in my opinion with 4000 vitality, invulnerability, and swapping every 15 seconds. I’m sure those pets would be useful for those situations.

Kuyaai.3264:

It could help, but then you’re just potentially wasting a dodge roll on you’re pet when you might be sitting at range more or less free of danger.

It’s not perfect, but it sure solves the problem when fighting bosses like Kholer.

tigirius.9014:

you get there and typically people have mf on. when they start sure there’s a few drops. then it stops because of DR

DR only kicks in after 1-2 hours or so, depending how fast you kill the same species of foes.

Go do a dungeon with another species of enemies for about 30 mins and the DR will be gone.

If you’re on Northern Shiverpeaks you can come farm with me. The more the merrier for whoever wants to farm!

So I have one simple solution to resolve the pets and “AoE” damage complaints once and for all.

When the player dodges, your pet evades.

Simple. Yes? What do you think?

What? I don’t get it. Explain. And for what enemy is ANET using the texture of a naked sexy lady?

Ath.2531:

And keep in mind that those do not necessarily drop 1 lodestone/h

The RNG is strong within that spot, really strong

You’re right. Once I got 6 Charged Lodestones in 1 hour!

My suggestion to people remains the same however. Find something they like, and just do it!

Although another farm I’m eying out is grabbing a group of 5 people and farming the first part of Volcano Fractal.

People are complaining there’s nothing to farm. So I’m telling people things they can easily farm, and they still complain. What? No wonder ANET hasn’t commented…

Rangers. I’m serious! Birds and Cats are amazing with their 3.2k crits!

As for you, you can crit around 1.5k on crit using sword, which honestly isn’t bad considering you could have access to Quickness for 2 seconds every 15 seconds. Sword/Dagger gives you one of the most evasive options in the entire game!

Longbow is also pretty amazing for its team support, and its sheer damage at higher levels when geared properly. You obviously won’t be able to match a Hundreds Blades Warrior, but believe me, Longbow could reliably strike foes with Rapid Fire rather than pinning you in place. That in my opinion makes it the superior skill, especially at 1500 range.

Some people complain pets are glass, but I haven’t had problems. You need to swap pets wisely, as well as utility skills like “Guard!” and or your F3 to call them back when the boss is about to unleash an AoE. Swapping pets depending on your situation is also a must, learning when to switch your Brown Bear with condition removal for your Spiders with immobilize is pretty essential.

But overall, having actually experienced a Ranger in PvE, I recommend them for dungeons if you want something fun and efficient to play, but difficult to master!

TWMagimay.9057:

jaw drop Try this: Check how much gold you make doing what you enjoy. Set your expectations based on that. If you are not making a few g/day, you should probably realise that spvp doesn’t give you gold, because you don’t need gold in spvp. That’d make your time in GW2 a lot more enjoyable.

I kinda have to side with this guy. From just playing the game normally, you can make 1g/hour. The secret? Just casually doing dungeons and fractals. Sometimes when I’m bored I run “Tunnel Farm” in Cursed Shore when it’s not bugged (3g/hour) or sometimes I do Straits of Devastation meta events and help lvl70s with events.

Of course, from farming Sparks, you can also make 30g a day…

Come on guys. It’s not that bad.

What exactly did you do beforehand? Is this a new toon? Were there new events?

I am trying to dye 42k Medium gloves on my Female Charr Ranger to the “Pottery” color. However, whenever I do so and close the dye window, it defaults the dye to “dye remover”. Other colors such as Deep Maple work, but not Pottery!

However, if I unequip the glove while it has the “dye remover” on it, the game crashes!

I hope I was able to provide enough details. Please fix this! I love the Pottery color and cannot use it!

Detharos.3157:

Tybalt >>>>>>>>>>>>> Trahearne, nuff’ said.

This too. Tybalt was developing as a character quite nicely. And then they slapped us across the face with Saladhead.

Making matters even worse, the Sovereign Eye of Zhaitan teases us about Tybalt being under Zhaitan’s wing (and Sieran, but that is an inconsistency?)

Know what would be a cool idea? If when a player dodges, so does the pet evade attacks. That would be a nice trait or even profession mechanic for avoiding large AoEs.

Honestly, I don’t care if I see commander. To me it’s just someone who decided to buy a permanent spot on the map rather than a Jormag’s Breath. It’s nothing significant, really.

Although it is helpful if I’m showing people a PvE farm and we’re full. I’m still able to guide him and see where he is on the map even if he isn’t in my party. It’s very useful.

What I’m shocked most about though, is people complaining because of it.

So something which occurred to me when reading complaints about CoF Path 3 is the fact that voice is required to co-ordinate. But what if the team has a consumable to call out actions instead?

My idea is a “Signal Light” and “Targeted Signal Light”. To put it simply: They make a “Ping!” sound to everyone in your party and light up the area you activated them.

The Targeted variant of the Signal Light temporarily replaces your elite skill (so that you still have access to weapons+utility) in order to target a specific area to activate the Signal Light rather than activating it on your spot.

The signal light deals no damage. It’s simply an attention-grabbing effect to co-ordinate your team.

I hope to see more tools like this in the future to co-ordinate my party in dungeons, and it would certainly be a nice Karma sink if they cost only 10 karma each!

I think ANET designed the events with the complete opposite mentality they should have had. We should have been rewarded for DEFENDING the temples instead of assaulting them.

Hey guys. In your opinion, what is the best pet for DE/farming? Something with lots of tagging, and possibly AOE?

Need I say more?

Is condition damage on the ranger himself really worth specing in though? They all seem to have such short durations..

Also, how much toughness is the average needed from a Ranger to be considered “decent”?

Swimming at the top left of Malchor’s Leap somehow warped me to a completely different point of the map, UNDER the map!

So I finally reached level 80 on my Ranger. And so comes on the inevitable question: What stats should I be using on my armor?

The weaponsets I have most in mind to use are Sword/Dagger and Sword/Warhorn for close range and Longbow, and Shortbow for long range.

I was thinking of Berserker’s armor with Ruby orbs with Knight’s accessories.

Problem is, even with a full set of Knight’s accessories, I am worried I am still too squishy? Furthermore, are there other stat combos I should be looking into, such as condition damage? Thanks!

From what I gathered it turns the “1” skills into incinerators. Can someone please elaborate on this? Does it affect water, earth, and lightning too?

A lot of people complain how squishy pets are in PvE. So I have a proposal which may somewhat make it better:

A PvE-only buff where a pet cannot take more dmg than 25%of their total HP? Meaning in cases where a pet would normally be OHKOed due to their lack of dodging, they could survive another guaranteed 3 hits from bosses for you to heal it.

In other words, like “Prot-spirit” from GW1.

I really hope this is addressed in the December 14th update

As it stands, pets are squishy enough. It would be a shame if they cannot do higher level fractals too…

FIX AC STORY!!!

Laugh at me if you must, but I did AC Story again recently. It was harder than Arah p3, to say the least!

Maybe the people I played with are simply new or simply trolls, but I never had the problems I had in AC Story as I ever did in any other dungeon.

Seriously ANET. Foes can 2KO you? AND they have ridiculous CC-skills? It should’ve been the easiest of Dungeons. Instead it’s a chore! At least tone down their CC skills, please! You can’t even dodge some of the bosses because their stomp knockdowns are instant!

And please fix the “Door trick” at the Mesmer boss. If we pull them too far, they disappear. Considering you implemented a door hallway specifically for fighting this boss, it doesn’t make sense how they disappear if pulled too far into it.

arrownin.3128:

Kain Francois.4328:

I forgot who posted this image, but apparently the rumor is that Tixx is an evil maniac who transforms baby Quaggans into toys!!

That was my thread! Thanks for finding my picture, I’ll put it on the one that they added to wintersday.

You win the internets. We must save the Quaggan!

I miss GW1 very much. However, I do believe ANET should consider re-releasing an offline version if they do not maintain the servers, as there’s just so much content that would be a shame simply to see gone to waste.

What if they were context-sensitive mounts like Junundu from GW1? I would be very disappointed if in the Elona expansion we weren’t able to ride around in a giant Wurm…

Hi. I’m trying to go for the stereotypical “Flame” look on a Charr Elementalist with flame legion armor, Emberglow wands, Destroyer focus, etc…

However, what I’m wondering is what the visual effects of Incinerator are like on an Elementalist? From watching videos, it supposedly does some flame blast as a Thief.

But what does it do on an Elementalist? Does the element matter?

Thanks!

How about a Fractal making fun of test maps themselves?

Koss was reincarnated into an Ascended backpiece. I am not joking.

I would like to see a fractal where Karka rule the world.

After farming em for so long, I kinda got attached to those guys..

Maybe more “bonus” fractals on even fractals besides Jade Sea? How about the Abaddon boss fight in GW1 with GW2 mechanics?

Or what about a remake of a gw1 mission?

OOOOooooo how about a Fractal where Risen act like rich, fancy Gentlemen with a British accent? (Sort of like the Personal Story mission with the Mesmer Magic.)

Thanks! Any other guides for cheap leveling?

I forgot who posted this image, but apparently the rumor is that Tixx is an evil maniac who transforms baby Quaggans into toys!!

Since Windows 8 will apparently suck, I also believe 20013 will be the year of the Linux desktop. I dearly hope ANET reconsiders if Valve’s Linux port of Steam is successful.

Hey guys. Where can I find some guides for the cheapest ways to max my Crafting levels and level up to 80 with crafting?

Thanks!

It seems to me the issue with shortbow is all the other skills suck rather than 1 being overpowered. The 2 skill has horrible damage, the 3 is a very situational dodge too hard to time correctly, 4 is too slow and north worth using (the cripple may be useful in pvp), Only the 5 skill (daze) is admittedly decent for interrupting.

I say if we buff at least the 2 skill, it will be much better.

This is great news! Thank you Jon!

It feels really weird to have my Reef Drake display an Agony Resistance of 0 without any ability to change it.

Zhaitan Jr wants to do Fractals with his owner, but the Agony keeps killing him on Cliffside fractal!

Is there a possibility my precious lizard will someday be infused and resist Agony? Thanks!

Why even have the stat on the pet screen if they cannot gain agony resistance? Come on, ANET! Apply this to the 14th update!