Guild Wars 2

So what legendary(s) are you going for?
Kudzu
Gonna sell it hopefully and get my friend a precursor then turn to investing my money

How close are you to your goal?
All I need are 50 bloods, 47 claws, 200 scakitten

lt or Incinerator? (Just help me out here K?)
Neither, but gun-to-head, incinerator

How has your day been going?
Crappy. I think they may have ninja nerfed moldy bags in orr. Usually I average 20+ in melandru meta but I only managed 5 this time. Usually get 15+ in Lyssa, got 3.

I’ve been playing mesmer a long time and I’m fairly assured the answer is
“We’re not capable of that”, but I’ll ask anyways.

In large scaled ZvZ(vZ), how do we tag effectively, large numbers? I would assume we still use the glamour confusion build even though it was nerfed but are there any other ways? I’m used to playing thief/ele/ranger where I can either press a button and tag half the zerg or dive in and spam all my buttons.

Any tips/tricks you can toss my way would be helpful.

I won’t play asura or charr because they actively kill skritt and I find them adorable.

I have a build that’s 2500 attack, 57% crit chance, 1800 toughness, 99% crit damage (all unbuffed), it’s in the way you theorycraft. Thief can absorb a little damage but we have RFI, SS, and IA for a reason. To book it if things get bad.

I came here to farm dusts because the price is kittening stupid. I’ve been sitting on TC for the last 40 minutes and it hasn’t proc’d once. For an event I remember procing every 5 minutes, I’m fairly certain this is bugged.

Writetyper.1985:

I’ve done some studies and it looks to be a signet warrior.

Do not be alarmed. I have called emergency services and they are on their way now to remove it from the premises. Stay safe.

Vigil here! Let’s smack it with a hammer and see what happens. If that doesn’t work, let’s move to phase 2 and hit it harder with a hammer.

darkace.8925:

I never really played WoW (free trial, that’s it), but I spent six years in FFXI. Can anyone explain to me like I’m a six year old what exactly raiding in an MMO is? Is it essentially a dungeon run with more people?

Raids are essentially what Sea, Sky, and Salvage were to us in FFXI. Nice to meet another player.

I’ve been playing since beta, always looking, always searching, always trying to get my precursor. I refused to buy one, I wanted to earn it. Well, I found my precursor and now I’m working on making Kudzu. There’s a slight problem though, I’ve farmed to hard so quickly that I started losing motivation.

I have all the materials for my 2 specific gifts, I have gift of battle and exploration as well. I completed my clovers and have the 500 deadly blooms. I earned my 250 ancient bones and have most of the skill points for my bloodstone shard. I’ve done this all in about 2 weeks and burnt myself out. Ever since I got my precursor I’ve felt almost compelled to get the thing finished. I know people will say finish at your own pace but I’ve been chasing it for so long, wanting that icon filled that I can’t stop. Again, however, this has burnt me out a bit.

Help give me a little motivation to keep going. Something funny or cool or anything. I’m 347 gold out from finishing this and I want to keep pressing on.

Thanks for anything you do to lift my spirits.

The thief who runs in and destroys them both

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.5|3.1g.h1j|c.1g.h14.g.1g.h1j|1c.a4.1c.a4.1g.a4.1c.a4.1g.a4.1c.a4|41j.0.21j.0.31j.0.31j.0.21j.0.1i.64|u4ab.k1a.5.0.f6|2e.1|4i.4w.4o.4q.55|e

That’s the “building blocks” of the build I started up. This has been fine tuned since then but it’s served me extremely well.

Ryorn.3740:

Is it open on Fort Aspenwood?

Just failed, working on redoing it

I just want to clarify this. I realize how suicidal it is at times due to the animation locking, but running dungeons today I was talking to a warrior and they commented that I’m one of the few who runs the 1H sword build. They also said it’s the “highest single target DPS” in the game. I thought thieves followed by warriors held that title. Where abouts do we rank on the list?

Jrunyon.3012:

KeyLimPi.9031:

Eh here I thought you went with the obvious direction but you chose, as Randulf said, a desperate measure to get log ins.

I wouldn’t be against being able to purchase a lotto ticket for 50silver, one per day, and then each day there’s a drawing for the ticket number. Every 50 silver is added to the pot, 1 dungeon run is over 50 silver, it’d be easily accessible to everyone and still a solid addition. Limit the ticket, as I said, to 1 per day so even newbies have the same chance to profit, account bound.

That is way too much money to give away to one single person. What happens if 50,000 people buy tickets? would that one person get 25,000g?

Either it would have to be spread out among a whole bunch (hundreds) of people or it would have to be that that one person gets like a 1% payout from the pot (Which I think would be an extremely effective gold sink, which is never a bad idea.)

Yeah I thought about that too. You can make this a real effective goldsink. 50silver for a shot at like, 100 gold or something. Still, it could be helpful

Eh here I thought you went with the obvious direction but you chose, as Randulf said, a desperate measure to get log ins.

I wouldn’t be against being able to purchase a lotto ticket for 50silver, one per day, and then each day there’s a drawing for the ticket number. Every 50 silver is added to the pot, 1 dungeon run is over 50 silver, it’d be easily accessible to everyone and still a solid addition. Limit the ticket, as I said, to 1 per day so even newbies have the same chance to profit, account bound.

All the warping is over~

Last I checked (last night) it was. I haven’t moved my mesmer since I got her up there a week ago.

I’m tired of farming for my Kudzu T6 materials. Giving portals to the glitched Diessa Plateau Vista for an undetermined amount of time. Atleast 1 hour.
1) Guest to Tarnished Coast
2) Go to the base of the tower
3) Send me a PM for a free portal Liluminei Hymn / Pandora Hymn
4) Get your world completion done
5) Enjoy
I’ll post when I’m done but I’ll be doing it for at least an hour.

I’m a heavy WvW player as well as PVE so I’m having a little difficulty choosing which stats I want on my armor.

Zho’s Armor (named) looks good with Main healing Sub Power/Tough
Soldiers with Main Power Sub Vit/Tough
or
Knights with Main Power Sub Prec/Tough

Which do you think works best for the ranger going for a power build? I hear to stay away from berserker since we rely on our pet’s for the majority damage so I’d appreciate any help you guys have.

I agree for the “most” part. Though I would like to point out that in the personal story you have a chance of literally killing dozens of YOUR pact allies due to betrayal and a mesmer spell.

KeyLimPi.9031:

The one thing I miss more than anything belonged to Silkroad Online. The “trinity” job system. You had traders, hunters, and thieves.

Another thing I miss is the ability to trigger guild wars between guilds. You found a guild, sent them a war declaration. If they denied it nothing happened. If you accepted then it was a open world pvp arena. Every kill was worth X points, each player in the guild was a target, no matter level or zone or anything. War was War. You could place money bets on the war declaration as well. God…I miss this game.

The one thing I miss more than anything belonged to Silkroad Online. The “trinity” job system. You had traders, hunters, and thieves.

Traders would travel from town to town carrying “goods” in order to sell them. The goods would rate from 1 to 5 stars and if you carried more than 2 stars player thieves could attack you. NPC thieves would periodically spawn to harass and try to kill the transport holding your goods. Depending on how far you took the goods your price would increase. Town 1 goods sold decently in town 2, but if you made it to town 3 they were worth SO much more. Adding in the “trading economy” where if a town was oversaturated with a certain good you wouldn’t be given as much this was extremely fun.

Hunters were the body guards of the game, hired to drive away both NPC thieves and player thieves. Not much to this but still insanely fun.

Thieves however, my favorite… you would don the pure black thief outfit that screamed death at the enemies. Roaming the countryside looking for hunters to kill was a blast. If you found a 2 star or above trader you didn’t even think about it. You looked at them, they looked at you, battle commenced. You would NOT let them go. After you killed them and their caravan you would summon your own transport and steal their goods. When you were all loaded up you would pop a “thieves portal” scroll. It gave you a 5 minute countdown. After that 5 minutes you would be teleported to the den of thieves to sell your goods. During that 5 minutes however, oh god…it was a free for all. You knew the trader was coming back to get his stuff. You knew he was going to hire a hunter to find you.

Objective 1: Hide
Objective 2: Prepare for battle
Objective 3: Learn when to cut your losses

It was an open world pvp system that wasn’t required to be done! This meant people who had no interest weren’t effected, yet it held dynamic game value. Who could resist the taste of easy money? God some of the fights would be so epic when you got full on job wars outside of towns. Or when a guild of traders would caravan together forcing thieves to group up and ambush them.

I really miss this and I would kill for anet to place this in the game. It was SO MUCH FUN.

Portals still going on~ pm me if you need it

I’ve gotten 10-15 people up so far but yeah, I’ll be providing this around peak time as well

Still here providing warps, come one come all~

Yup yup~ Enjoy and let anyone who needs it I’ll be here

Of course~ no need to rush yourself, I’m not going anywhere~

Bump so more can take advantage this

Just letting the community know that for the next 90 minutes or so I’ll be providing free warps to the top of the tower so people can finish their map compeltion.

Guest over to Tarnished Coast
Get to Moorwatch Tower
Shoot my forum account number or “Liluminei Hymn” a PM when you’re at the bottom
I portal you
You complete it
Everyone’s happy

Taku.6352:

You lucky kitten, I’ve thrown about 4-500 self carfted/bought rares and got like 8 useless exos…

Hah, say what you will but I’ve been playing since the beta’s daily and this is finally my first precursor. I was telling a friend I didn’t care which was my first, if I got one I would make it on the spot.

Then I started looking at the legendaries again and thought, wow, Kudzu has a lot of subtlety to it…let’s try that. Put 8 rares in and boom! Kudzu~

This being said we’ll ignore the 150 gold I spent in combining rare daggers last week and the fact I’ve been flushing the mystic toilet since day 6ish lol.

By some twist of sick irony I think I’m meant to play Ranger. After discussing this I decided to try my stupid luck in the MF and on my 2nd batch of level 75 rares, after playing since pre-release I got Leaf of Kudzu! I need to finalize a solid build now it’s official, becoming a ranger!

Lert.6287:

What is burning my eyes is that there is absolutely no condition cure (neither reduction).
If you’re going for such high critical damage, I’d consider it dropping for case of critical chance (knight items).
Anything else LB/GS experts will tell you. I’m rather SB/S&Wh fan.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.5|3.1g.h17|1.1g.h14|1c.7j.1c.7j.1g.7j.1c.7j.1g.7j.1c.7j|4v.0.21j.0.31j.0.31j.0.21j.0.1i.64|k2a.k1a.a6.0.k67|2e.1|4i.4x.4o.4q.55|e

Something more like this?

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.5|3.1g.h17|1.1g.h14|1c.7j.1c.7j.1g.7j.1c.7j.1g.7j.1c.7j|4v.0.2v.0.3v.0.2v.0.3v.0.1i.64|k2a.k1a.a6.0.k67|2e.1|4h.4x.4w.4q.55|e

I whipped this up as a theory craft build when I was bored. I’m fairly certain I want to persue re-making my ranger and give it Kudzu so I thought I would ask. I could put it on a warrior but I have a bloody hatred for heavy armor. How does this build look to you? I’m trying to keep myself buffed fairly high up while still giving my pet high enough buffs that it won’t be dead weight.

Since I’m here I might as well ask. How is ranger atm in WvW? Is the pet AI any better? Do pets still leash all enemies within a 2 map radius?

Anything you could tell me, critique me for I would appreciate~ thanks!

If you want mana, play thief. intiative is basically mana without potions

I don’t agree with the “loot hunt” per se. You’re not forced to do it in this, but I will admit there’s a severe lack of goals. I’ve been working on a legendary and only just now realised how limited they are. Unless you want to join the Dusk/Dawn club which goes on 80% of classes, the others are way too limited.

Flameseeker: Only avaliable on WAR/GUA/ENG and ENG doesn’t even get to see it 75% of the time.
Moot: WAR/GUA
Juggernaught: WAR/GUA
Kudzu: WAR/RNG

A little disappointed at how much WAR biased this game has. Since I have an irrational hatred for heavy armor I’m pretty limited on what I can get. That slashed my goal to pieces and now I’m having difficulty holding interest. Not to mention about 1/2 the legendaries are completely underwhelming and you can find better exotics for them.

I don’t know, it’s hard to get motivated anymore when heavy armor gets majority access to the only things I wanted.

We should band together and guest raid a balth temple. Anyone up for it?

To be fair, I’m asking if anyone has a mesmer parked so~ please don’t close this lol

I only have 1 more “guest” privileged left for the day and I need to save it in case someone has a mesmer parked up there. General consensus is that all NA servers have the cattlepult bugged…

Noone has a mesmer parked on the tower? =(

I finally decide to do the deed and get my world completion done. Three days of consistent effort, never faultering, never detouring, not even doing my normal dungeon runs or helping with my typical world event farming.

The moment comes, one map left.

One area left

One vista left

One, unreachable, glitched vista.

So now I sit here in Diessa, staring at the cattlepult questline. Wondering where my life went wrong. Staring at the inevitability of failiure, softly crying in the barn…wondering what could have been. This is the most demoralizing thing I’ve encountered in GW2. I don’t suppose anyone has a mesmer parked up there?

I run S/D and P/P since the patch mostly because I like being hyper aggressive. P/P lets me unload and get rid of aegis quickly while still hurting as well as track thieves through their cloak attempts. Not to mention the stealth x5shot. Unload/stealth/x5 shot/unload before the enemy even gets near you. That’s a metric ton of damage before they can properly react.

But I do agree I run this for extreme fun and aggression whereas bow is safer, has more utility, and you don’t need any traits for. Though 2-3 thieves running together spamming Unload is the funniest kitten ever

Sidenote about the “Wouldn’t be legendary if everyone had one”

They won’t. This is only a static way to get a precursor, you still would have to farm every bit as much to make it.

As someone who instantly preordered the 100$ version of this (not relevant) and has played each beta and the 3 day pre-release I can’t even describe how painful it is knowing that I’ve spent enough in the MF to straight BUY a precursor, maybe 2 since the beginning. Meanwhile, I have a friend I bought the game for maybe 4-5 weeks get a dusk drop and then less than a week later get another dusk from the MF. It’s stuff like that which kills my motivation.

Biased Opinion here, but as someone with 5k+ points I would drop to the ground and praise ANets name on high if I could be given a little “Mail” from an NPC at 5k points saying “You are truly a hero among the people! A legend of our time, and you deserve to pursue that legend! Come to ‘X’ in order to claim your reward”. Then you go off and redeem a single, instantly account bound precursor.

Chrissay.8931:

I’ve been hit by 16k dmg by 10 hits of trickshot, do the math there..1.6k per shot

If you’re running glass cannon and the thief in question is running glass cannon then 1.6k crits are completely possible. That said, it’s your fault because if a thief doesn’t even have to swap from his bow to kill you, that’s on you.

I didn’t honestly care about any of the changes thief received because shortbow was my favorite weapon…then I saw and experienced what happened. I have 3 shortbows, all 100+ gold on each skin because I adored my thief bow. Now I just…don’t know. I feel like this was wasted effort.

Noone complained or called the shortbow OP, why would they change it? Anet is taking the RIOT way of balancing. Is something balanced? Smack it with a hammer until it’s useless. Class useless? Do the same to another class so it doesn’t seem UP again. Atleast riot has the excuse of having 100+ champions to balance.

Last I remember Anet made no sub classing in GW2 so they could balance properly. Instead of nerfing everything, how about you start buffing? This patch alone had 4 of my classes nerfed… don’t punish me because I don’t want to play a bloody warrior.

We/They did. I have a thief as well as a necro and trust me, the burst went down a good 3-5k per “mug” on average. Due to the S/D you may just see them building differently.

While RP’rs and casuals get endless tonics as well as endless holiday based tonics I wondered. Why haven’t the hardcore pvp and wvw players gotten the ability to get “Endless Finisher” based items? It seems a waste with how wonderful some of the finishers are. Not to mention buying the ones from gemstore last a pathetic 1 hour. 1 hour is a trivial amount of time in both situations, if it was a day per finisher than MAYBE it would be worth considering.

It’s a shame too, I really like the mock-8bit nuke

I was thinking about this because I couldn’t understand why thief didn’t have access to a rifle. Engi’s use it as a shotgun, warriors pretend it’s a battle rifle, thieves should use it as a sniper rifle. I made a random set of skills, let me know how you would mess with it. Damage isn’t included.

1 Piercing Shot – Normal Auto Attack with direct line piercing.
While Stealthed – Ambush : Deals Heavy damage in a straight line, applies vulnerability.
2 Phosphorus Round – Ignites (burn) and blinds the enemy. 3 initiative
3 Heavy Caliber – Loads a heavy caliber round into the chamber. 1 second cast time, knocks down and cripples foe. Deals Large single target damage. 4 initiative
4 Roll into Cover – .5 second cast time, 3/4 second evade into 3 second stealth. 5 initiative
5 Take Aim – Character lies on the ground, aiming at target. “Holding” channel with 1 second intervals. 5 initiative
1 second – Wild Shot: Cripples Target. 2 seconds – Center Mass: Applies Vulnerability. 3 seconds – Headshot: Stuns target. Automatic critical and increase in applied base damage.

Don’t worry about it, some people just troll because they have nothing else to do. Keep improving. I’ve had a Mesmer, Ele, and Thief since the first month and I only recently started my thief. The other two were too easy and forgiving, with thief sure, you have stealth but if you’re caught, you’re done. Keep looking for new ways to play and don’t be afraid to experiment!

I’ve been playing mesmer a long time now, yet I still have trouble with this problem. I don’t quite know where I fit in.

When I play on my ele I’m in the back with staff popping combo fields and sharing aura’s. When I’m D/D I’m in the fray unleashing all the skills I can causing havoc. When I’m on my thief I’m picking off stragglers or using malice+dagger storm.

With mesmer…I’m not quite sure what I do. I mean the obvious would be sit in the back and spam GS1 but that doesn’t really benefit the group. Veil and MI Are more tools for an organized group. I mean there’s null field and feedback but it’s not bringing much to the group as a whole. How do you play your mes in a zerg situation?

I don’t know where the complaint comes in. My Mesmer is at 2.2k Toughness, 17k HP and 115% crit damage. It’s all about building properly and being willing to go the extra mile. I still do 4-6k Blurred Illusion with 1-2k clonesplosions. I’ll help you out, mix berserker, valkyrie, and cavalier gear. You shouldn’t have any issues with warriors or thieves, ever. Engi’s are a different story though.