Guild Wars 2

Fluffball.8307:

For PvP or WvW, using anything other than a wolf is borderline unacceptable. It has 2 interrupts and a cripple. That’s why he listed it as god tier. It is REALLY good.

Drakehound is probably the closest second, but immobilize can be cleansed and it is hard to hit fleeing targets. (Fear can be cleansed but it’s too late by then.)

Dogs also are sturdy and have good autoattacks.

Good to know, thanks!

I am trying a condition build in pvp (not spirit) and would like to know what you recommend as a second pet next to wolf? Drakehound seems to be my potential 2nd choice but I am not sure because I am still a noob when it comes to ranger.

Tier 1 for me in PVE: Jaguar and sometimes moa, birds, depending on the situation.

Eggyokeo.9705:

From a wvw roaming prospective

God tier: Wolf
Tier 1: Spiders, Dogs (except fern hound), Cats and Birds
Tier 2: Drakes (great for flipping camps)
Tier 3: Pigs (have nich spots)
Junk: Every thing else

From a wvw zereging prospective

God Tier:
Tier 1:
Tier 2:
Tier 3: Drakes, Dogs
Junk Tier: Every thing else

I mostly agree with your choices, but can you tell my why wolf is god tier for you?

It has an aoe fear + single target knockback + cripple, is there no pet that has better skills than this?? (Not saying its bad, just curious)

Electro.4173:

Its specifically limited to 1, so I’m pretty sure its intended. If it were a bug there wouldn’t be a limit.

Definitely out of the blue and for seemingly no reason, though. And not even promoted on the website or the Gem Store front page.

it’s nice for beginner’s

Don’t know if intended or not, but thanks for the gift!!

o.o

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Played 450ish fractals.

Received 2 x ascended weapon boxes.
2 x Fractal weappn skins.

My personal reward level is 30.

Ascended weapon drops/fractal skins can be obtained from levels 20 and above.

I will add though I usually get emphy shards, and every time I do I feel let down with this reward. Pristine relic+ 29 emphy shards+1 gold is pretty sub par when your playing level 30.

Fractal skins can be obtained from level 10 and above.. just so you know.

That’s why I don’t go further than level 30 because the time/reward and risk/reward is just not right at the moment.

LordByron.8369:

You get a fractal weapon chest when you get in the top ten of fractal leader board.

I see what you did there…

Shpongle.6025:

You could also add some more waypoints you know :x

No. Just no.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

They said, a week or so after fractured release, that they said “fractal weapon boxes as rewards for higher levels”. They then clarified it to mean, higher levels than currently available.

I find their wording to be VERY misleading… I am just dissapointed.

Where are the promised fractal boxes?

It was THE selling point for me to try out fractals… Is there any official statement to this?

We haven’t forgotten.. I know you are working hard but it’s been a while now.

Some people call it stupid and lame, I call it strategic. You can pull/push people from bridges and narrow paths, if they stay on them, its their own fault.

Also, its kittening funny to see 5 bodies falling to death.

RedStar.4218:

Why don’t you buy it on the TP ? Under “Vallog’s Demise”. I admit that it’s a bit expensive.

I have been searching all day, must have missed that one, thanks a lot!

Even with those available, they should add normal “Dire” trinkets, just like soldier, berserker, and so on… So people do not get confused like me.

Small, yet an important thing.

Howdy,

I think It’s been more than 5 months ago when dire gear has been introduced.

Now, for completing my set I still need the trinket’s but I can’t buy them anywhere… Only the ascended version of course, but ain’t nobody got time for dat…..

Also, I am mainly a wvw player and if I want to craft those dire trinkets I need to run dungeons… many dungeons… in order to get the recipe. Again, ain’t nobody got time for dat.

Please let us buy the trinkets on trading post or in WvW, Arenanet.

In WvW you can only buy soldier trinkets, adding the other trinket set’s and backpieces would be a great benefit.

Edit: I found an amulet and ring’s on tp, name: Traveler’s…. The accessory is missing, though.

Yeah, I agree with the OP. I mean, many of us have received a torch at queen’s jubilee and I have yet to use it, because there are almost no dark places in the game.

Juunro.7082:

If I may be frank?

We will stop blaming other players when other players stop being to blame.

Today, we had a group manage to somehow wipe on the very first champion; the south path had a platform with 5 people on it all somehow die to this boss. Not just fail the mechanics, but fail them so hard they actually wiped.

Time and time again, myself and many, many others have been in a situation where 4 platforms of any boss have perfectly completed the fights with a full minute left and then find themselves staring across at a platform with two rangers and two thieves playing Kite the Minelaying Boss In Circles. Or a platform with all melee in zerker gear that charged into the third boss and kept chasing it in circles directly into the highly visible and easily avoidable hover bombs. Or a whole group that utterly ignored the ground AOE’s on boss 4.

And so on, and so on.

If they are not to blame for their own complete lack of basic competence causing the rest of us to fail an event and thus get dramatically lower loot, then who is?

This. Give this man some bitcoins or a medal, whatever!

Steve Blum is still King! The english voice actor for Rytlock.

Trahearne is really boring to listen to. Sometimes I even turned dialogue off because of him.

Edit: I would kill to get a voice like Blum, but I guess I had to smoke 50 cigarettes a day in order to achieve that.

I love to play with the focus! Too bad it’s not that strong as it should be. Fire #4, Fire #5, Water #4 and Air #5 need a buff.

Please ArenaNet.

And you are wondering why you are having permanent overflows… Hahaha….

Banzie.5248:

I don’t know how it works on the NA servers but no one on EU seems to bother even attacking the enemy keeps because it’s just not worth the time and effort.

Yeah, rrrright! Whatever mate, speak for yourself.

I’d love to have more runes that have build defining #6 effects like perplexity runes.
You try to interrupt the enemy as much as possible in order to get the confusion stacks.
(I know this rune is slightly op but I am just giving an example.)

Having more such runes and sigils that create unique effects would give each class more build diversity.

Just a few examples:

1. Apply 5 seconds of weakness after stunning an enemy. (Build-specific sigil)
2. Call your thieves guild for help when below 25% hp. (Class-specific runes)

and so on….

I know many traits cover such effects but it would be great to have more of these with the runes, so runes feel like an actual “set”.

I hope you know what I mean, english is not my native language.

Warrior Idol… I don’t even…

“When [Living World Season One] ends [on 4th March], we’re going to take a break for a little bit and then we’re going to do one really big feature patch that is more akin to what people see from some of our [MMO] competitors,” said Johanson, "where they bundle a lot of features together into a really big patch every now and then.

“We’re going to provide that experience and have this huge feature build that has a whole lot of gameplay-changing elements, a lot of quality of life improvements, a lot of features bundled together into one big patch. And that’ll come some time not too far after Season One completes.”

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot

(yeah I’m being optimistic)

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

This food is very overpowered and enables heavy condition specced classes to faceroll others in wvw. I used this food on my warrior and necro for some time in wvw and it was VERY easy to win 1v1 and sometimes even 1v3 or if I was lucky 1v4 fights.

Now I refrain from using the 40% condition food. I generally don’t play my condition specced characters anymore.

To all who disagree with a nerf are either one of those who take advantage of it or are wannabe elitists that say learn to play.

For the love of balance, you gotta nerf this to at least 20%.

Impressive fights, although I gotta say that Yak Bend’s roamers are freaking slackers.

I like people trying out new things, but I gotta be honest, I stopped watching right after I saw the signetmania.

1. Adjust the rally system
2. Disable ressurection during combat
3. As selan already said, wvw exclusive items
4. CC Diminishing returns, like in many many other games (how the heck is this not implemented yet?!)

That’s all.

The only reason I don’t play spvp in this game is because it has only 1 game mode. Yes, 1 game mode, that’s it…

If I want to play “Capture A B C” and hold it, then I can play Call of duty or Battlefield which is 5x more fun than this.

Unless they add more gamemodes, such as Deathmatch, free for all, king of the hill, Cage matches (that kind of stuff) then I will play it for sure.

Is the Confounding Suggestions trait really worth it in a 30/20/20/0/0 lockdown build?

If yes, why? I find it a bit lackluster to be honest.

Ok, you guys convinced me to use offhand Sword.

The block is very good and the phantasms hit squishy targets like thieves very hard.

I’ll use GS/sword+sword for now and sometimes swap to Staff/sword+sword if I want to play defensively.

Thanks for the advice!

The graphics are just awesome when you turn on high settings…

Unfortunately I myself play on low settings so I can’t experience it. When I was at a friends house we played it on high res and I was like WTF this is a different game!!

Too bad I can’t buy a better computer.

Thanks a lot for your input!

More suggestions about the off hand choice are greatly appreciated.

Edit : By the way, is the Grandmaster trait Confounding suggestions worth to take?

It has an extra possibility to cause an extra stun after a daze… what do you guys think?

Howdy folks,

I am currently running the 30/30/0/10/0 build for the interrupts and extra condi removal in the inspiration tree and I am struggling a bit. (sometimes I run the 30/20/20/0/0 as well, depends how awesome my day is)

My utilities are blink, decoy and mantra of concentration. My heal skill is the mantra heal (traited to have 3 charges.)

My weapon choices are GS for the damage and the interrupt and other set is Sword / X.
I am mostly a solo roamer, sometimes with 1-2 friends and I don’t know if I should pick the off hand sword or the pistol???

Could some1 tell me what is better in WvW roaming and why? Both have about the same range and both have a 1 second daze.

Thanks a lot guys

oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Zerging with mace/shield and staff is possible against pug groups. Against organized guild groups you will be moving around all the time (at least you should be) and thats why I would pick a hammer/staff or Greatsword/staff combo instead. Mace/shield is too stationary in that case.

For small skirmishes mace/shield and staff works too but I won’t use it anymore unless they buff the shield. (It kittening sucks)

The problem with this game’s PVE is that many enemies don’t have interesting and varying mechanics.

The new toxic mobs are a step into the right direction. The knights can dodge and leap at you, the kraits pop bubbles to reflect, that kind of stuff. Or the veterans in the nightmare chambers are a + too.

We need more of this, not brainafk kitten.

Of course it needs an improvement. A necro can ress 3 downed people in a 3 second cast time and a GUARDIAN (I repeat, a guardian!) can only ress one person in a 3.75 second cast time. Where is the kittening logic?

brainfart.3756:

I just had to start this thread with the awesome Millers’ Dolyak herd
Deal with it

Nice one Millers!

CryxTryx.9208:

Any Asheron’s Call fans out there?

I think guild wars 2 needs a dark tide server.

Here is the gist of it.

All zones are PK Free for All zones. There are no safe areas.

You drop items on death – the most valuble items from your inventory go first up to a certain value, if your inventory can not provide the required amount you will start to drop equipted items.

I would love a free PK server, but dropping items on death is just stupid.

Carpboy.7145:

Way to post the condi build everyones been using for months…

Says the guy that copied “his” build name from Christos.

We also just had a huge lag during a big fight in garrison, after that I couldn’t use my skills anymore and was able to do unlimited dodgerolls.

It really should scale with healing power imo, not with the lvl.

Dawson.3491:

Wow the Guild [WvW] from Ruins have a own blobb.
You do not dare get out from under 40 people or?

Are you kidding me? Look at your numbers before talking such nonsense.

Also, stop being provocative on the forums, you are only making a fool out of yourself.

Slender Khaldran.3297:

Kraljevo.2801:

First (virtual) world problems… Disgusting.

I for one played WvW every day in the season for about 3-4 hours each night. We had a lot of >>fun<< (yeah, some of you forgot what that is) battles and the loot was good as well.

I agree on the fact that the rewards could have been more WvW-specific, like blueprints or whatever, but I am completely fine with the current reward. Why? Because I played WvW for >>FUN<<. (Yeah, here is the word again!)

This new gamer generation is… What is this I don’t even..

So Kraljevo you’re so GENEROUS ! You’re a member of WVW Health Organization ?
You spend all your money to upgrade camps and towers ? You’re a so perfect player…

You are nothing except yourself, you’re the disguting problem here. You judge people without knowing what they do. On every serious WvW server, every one are complaining that they expected a skin (i don’t speak about ascended weapon or armor, i admit it’s ridiculous…). And in any case, i don’t care about your advise. I (we) just expect an awnser from Anet ! At the moment we prefer an answer (positive or negative) than anything.

Hey, come out of your gamer cave before you take that tone with me.

I didn’t judge anyone, I am just speaking the truth. I’ve done a lot for my server myself and we were on the 1st place as well, so I know what effort this is. My point is that I know Arenanet (after several years of GW1) and didn’t expect a big reward, therefore I played for the fun and I think that a game is all about that.

First (virtual) world problems… Disgusting.

I for one played WvW every day in the season for about 3-4 hours each night. We had a lot of >>fun<< (yeah, some of you forgot what that is) battles and the loot was good as well.

I agree on the fact that the rewards could have been more WvW-specific, like blueprints or whatever, but I am completely fine with the current reward. Why? Because I played WvW for >>FUN<<. (Yeah, here is the word again!)

This new gamer generation is… What is this I don’t even..

I run 0 / 30 / 20 / 0 / 20 with rabids gear. (addikt-gaming build on youtube)

Why I think this is better than apothecary?

More crits > more adrenaline > more burst > more condition removal = better sustain.

Also, you get lots of bleeds on crit.

2 superior sigils of doom overwrite each other, because the cooldown is 9 seconds. Therefore , I suggest you to take only 1 or choose S. Sigil of earth, which I find superior.
(You can’t have 2 On weapon-swap sigils, unless you dont trait for the 15 trait in discipline, then its ok)

Apothecary is lame in my opinion. With this build you will eat every apothecary war, I’m not kidding.

Kind Regards

EDIT: I just saw that you are not traiting for fast hands trait, therefore the 2 doom sigils are ok!

Apparently they are going to show us in the new year why Scarlet has done all those things. (blogpost)

Eagle.7208:

Great defence on the Eternal Battlegrounds keep Indeed.

We did not leave anything off your keep stand up, breaking 2 Doors, 5 Walls ona T3 keep. Whilest you’re being hit by both Underworld and Dzagonur zergs.
Surprised you all managed to held, I know that that line of Superior Arrowcarts in the back have got something to do with it, but still. You managed to hold!

- Archi
- Underworld Commander

Thanks for the fun and your lootbags!

Vetrie.7804:

Can you chnage platform that www servers runs on now?

Lag? The lag has been fixed in a previous update. Even though my computer is bad, I don’t have any lags at all now.

Hey guys :-)

On the new preview page of the release there is a link that leads to this forum post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Dec-10th-Balance-Preview-Updated-Nov-6th

They said that the changes are not final yet and we will see them upon release. I am a bit confused now, are these changes in the forum post the final ones or are we gonna see them next week?

The reason I’m asking is because I am curious what things are gonna change.

Thanks in advance for you answers

Verow.6904:

thats a shame is it really that hard to prepare 1 page with a little text and a few pictures on?

You clearly don’t know how marketing works.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday pushing things back further than anticipated, the page will go live tomorrow.

Sorry for the confusion.

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