Guild Wars 2

If 3 french servers get locked in 1 server they can nicely PvD without ruining the fun of other servers

Well you gotta admit you just want your stuff to show..

YAY A very nice backpiece suiting the engineers. BUT Like with legendaries. It would be a shame if you were not to see it 50% of the time…

I feel like again engi’s are somewhat disregarded.

Zenith.7301:

Do you actually play PvE? Condition builds are a nonstarter — they deal significantly less damage to berserker gear.

This is why this game needs DPS meters, so people can’t claim ignorance as cover.

You probably play a zerker warrior?

Or if you like traps like me go shortbow trapper!

Generally speaking for pve, dungeons/fractals I’d go full rampagers gear and going 30/20/15/0/5.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlODbkoKxuvywi1SAseQYgD2PoJThhM+FUwnI-jAzAIMAkWkpKAEIYSEU+rIasl2ioxqux0mJV9GZFMgDJpA-e

Insta bought. epicxxx

I also feel like these changes are not too big but good for the area’s where they are done in. Signets feel on par with other classes signets. Shouts still feel kinda meh and so do spirits. But the main thing Anet still needs to adress imo, is they way pets are used. The buff is nice but in alot of cases, is not gonna cut it.

I’d make a few slight changes to this build, here is what I’ve run and found doing extremely well in PvE.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMIQJAVTjAVR2VW+VsWCi1j90nA1PwJmC+zovgSUlUA-jwxAYrAREAoCQZvioxWULiGruGT5SEVDA-e

Basics of this build are simple. You stand from afar and rain terror on your foes. Start a fight out in your shortbow wait for the correct moment, swop to longbow, use QZ drop barrage and rapid fire (pointblankshot if needed) and swop back to shortbow.

The changes in your build I’ve made are 15 into wilderness survival. The extra 50% endurance regen = NEEDED. And with the 2 sec protection on dodge. It will save your kitten more then once. This build however negates your pet completely. It will be weak and it will die. I personally use only ranged pets with like poison to weaken the foes, boss or maybe a blackbear for aoe weak. But I don’t count on them for damage.

As for armor. I’d say it’s up to your preference. I’d go somewhere around 18k health with decent armor and rest just full zerker. I think I ran full pvt armor with zerker trinkets back then.

I hear what ya’ll saying and personally I don’t mind that it takes the 20 seconds longer or whatever. But there will always be people that will whine omg ranger with pet bla bla bla. It’s annoying and either they need to fix that Jade Maw doesn’t target the pets or make the player able to reflect for their pets.

So I play a ranger and we all know at the jade maw rangers/necros/mesmers are hated for their excessive pets and clones that take up the targeting needed to kill the Jade Maw.

Now I was thinking what could be a solution?

I thought that if a pet/clone/whatever gets targeted the player that owns that pet should pick up a crystal inorder to reflect it.

We do the missions with 5-15

GJ EXG. Time for a naked zerg!

Barrage works – axes work – traps work

I play an Elementalist and when I use ride the lightning or lightning flash. Sometimes after the usage my backpiece doesn’t show and takes a while to reappear again.
Anyone else having this bug or is it my graphic card or w/e?

Thank you mate!

So with the last update your daily laurel has become available by doing your PvP daily. Now I was wondering if your monthly laurel award has become available through the monthly pvp daily?

Where the F does SFR and Viz get the numbers from at the mornings lol. Been running around with 4-10 people… Gave up around this time lol

Good fights in with SFR inSM tonight!

Alright and how is this for dungeons?

So is this still viable with the retalliation nerf?

emikochan.8504:

dungeons should take more than 6 minutes – how anyone could possibly think cof1 is intended is insane :p

Ofcourse and we all agree on that but the thing is there is no rewards worth doing longer runs for. and there is nothing to work towards to.

drkn.3429:

Done fotm32 on a guardian, gs / scepter+focus, but using mainly the gs. Had no big issues with going melee most of the time – just don’t waste your dodges and blocks, and when you go berserker on stats, bring defensive utilities and traits. Use proper food and potions of X slaying, too – the potions help tremendously.
And i can’t agree about high fotm not yielding decent drops – had many exotics from fotm26+, not to mention the cool fractal skins. Many rares, cores and lodestones, too.

Still, it’s really down to the fact that if you’re playing an MMO for rewards, you should rather play one of the Zynga games. MMOs are unique because of their social take, and GW2 is simply great fun to play and explore, without being reward-oriented all the time. The graphics are stunning, the gameplay is awesome, mechanics mostly are really decent and enjoyable, and the social aspect certainly has great potential.

It’s not about the virtual pink circles or virtual gold unless you make it so, and if you do – yeah, i guess you will get bored and frustrated fast.

Yeah you’re a guardian you’ll survive of course. But even the most tankiest builds (altruistic healing) will have problems on that level. But what about the greatsword warriors, the dagger dagger ele’s, the dagger dagger thieves, the greatsword rangers and so on. They WILL die.

And on the reward thing. I think 75% of the community expects to see rewards come from the dungeons you do and in comparison to the difficulty of the dungeons the rewards are kitten. So you do 3 paths of CoE. Most of the time you will get blues and greens, maybe get 1 rare and a charged core. That took you about 1 1/2 hour approx.

Well thank you! 2 gold that’s only 2220 gold to to my legendary!

Atherakhia.4086:

This whole argument is kind of irrelevent. While not ideal, everyone should have enough karma by the time they get 80 to get a reasonable amount of PVT/Condition gear as well as be coming close to getting their amulet through laurels or the guild system. The dungeon pieces are there to supplement this and the gains aren’t that significant. Fractals is no different. By the time you’re level 10-15 you’ve got the points for the agony resist.

The other issue I have with these posts is these supposed new people we’re talking about aren’t new at all, but rather alts. So they never get a chance to level in higher level zones, don’t loot higher level loot, and don’t have the mats for higher level gear at 80 because they’re left buying all the mats off the AH and it’s quite expensive.

Overall I think it’s being blown out of proportion though. It’s quite easy to get gear. It may not be the most ideal gear, but it’s easy to get and tide you over until you can swap out pieces for berserkers or whathaveyou. People will continue to run CoF after the nerfs because CoE is too hard for a lot of people to dodge properly. I wouldn’t worry about it.

Dude are we on the same topic? Of course you can get gear. But the if dungeons are getting harder where is the increased loot that comes with it? Atm we have dungeons that offer no reward. Higher level fractals you CAN’T go melee and I will repeat this once more for those who apparently can’t read.

No matter how tanky you are, how much AR you have, how defensive you are specced, In higher level fractals 28+ You will get 1-2 maybe as a guardian 3 shot.
Fractals get harder and harder by the level. There is just no inscreased loot that comes with it.————

So all your jabbering about agony and pvt gear with karma is nonsense and not the point at all in this thread.

kenshinakh.3672:

danbuter.2314:

kenshinakh.3672:

By the way, melee isn’t so bad. I play full zerker thief in up to fractals 16 and I rarely die or get downed. It’s just a matter of learning the dungeon and dodging at the right moments.

So you have no idea what you are talking about, you just wanted to defend anet “just because”.

No, I have an idea. But I haven’t gone past fractals 16 yet to see. I know for certain that Agony hits melee and ranged for the same damage since it ticks a percent of your health. Now, is it easier for range to just avoid agony straight out vs melees? Maybe, but playing as thief for so long, I’m quite used to dodging because hits usually take me out regardless. I have a dual ranged/melee build anyways so I switch to whatever I see fit. I completely understand how it can be difficult for melees at close range in fractals for others though.

Personally, I think it’s okay for a nerf because there’s an issue with an easy dungeon for farming. People flock to it and farm and farm and farm. Anet has a few choices they can do to make less people do that. They have to nerf loot there so that people go to other dungeons and that rewards you with things that equals your time and effort, or they revamp CoF P1 to make it take as much effort as any other dungeon paths. Revamp is a much nicer solution than nerfing loot if you ask me.

Clearly, if something is easy, people are going to choose that path for farming aren’t they? It trivializes all other dungeons in a way because people run only that dungeon… Wasn’t the point of dungeons were to have fun and gear up, not to farm repeatedly for money?

It’s not like it will be terrible though. If you guys seen AC after the revamp and bug fixes, it’s a lot more interesting to play through. That’s like new content technically and I ran that place to see how the bosses changed. So if they do revamp CoF, I have no problem with it.

Also, to address the topic, I think the current state of the game is usually improving. We don’t lose content, but we gain content and new things to do with each patch. And the direction? I don’t think it is bad. It’s a response to some rather large issues the game had at the beginning.

Edit: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony
300% agony damage sounds a bit too high according to wiki.

Obviously you still have no idea what you’re talking about. We’re not talking abuot AGONY we are talking about normal mobs in level 28+ that will one shot you.
No boss no agony. 1 normal mob will 1-2 shot you. What does this mean? no melee in higher fractals.

And as for your argument on the farm nerf? I think you are right it does deserve a nerf and to be made harder. but Anet must change the reward accordingly. Currently alot of daily dungeons are just not worth it for 60 tokens and a few silver. No thanks Anet.

cesmode.4257:

For so long I came to these forums to defend the game. Now, I really give my opinion here. The current direction the devs are taking this game is to the pits, and in my humble opinion the game lost its uniqueness on November 15th, and then again when they introduced Laurels. And then again with guild missions. This game is no longer unique, it is like every other mmo out there, so why do I bother to play? I might have logged in for an hour in the past 4 or 5 days.

I’ll wait until they do something about precursors or if they begin to turn around to their original design philosophy. Until then, it is shelved right next to WoW, Tera, and Rift…I might log in when I am really bored, but it will not be for long.

I feel the same way I have defended the game aswell. It has alot of potential bla bla bla. But the way things are going I don’t like it. I feel like the next 2 patches will be either the game maker or the gamebreaker. They’re gonna lose alot of people..

kenshinakh.3672:

Well, I got 5 AR so far, and it’s not too bad. AR affects all people similarly though since it ticks a percentage of your HP, not a set amount. By fractals 30, I’m sure you’re supposed to have quite a lot of AR already.

What exactly do you people mean by nerf though? CoF loot is pretty normal compared to all other dungeons. It’s just really easy to complete P1 quickly.

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CoF path 1 can be cleared in 7 minutes and gives alot of liquid cash using omnomberry bars. it’s about 10G per hour if you do it right.

16 fractals is doable without AR we are talking about higher level fractals. You won’t be able to melee there mate trust me. And the nerf of CoF is another dagger to the overall loot you get all round. Let’s be honest the loot is kitten compared to some of the prices.

Oh yeah forgot about that. So they would get little bit more viable in fractals though I have doubts minions will stand in lvl 28+ against mobs.

So I have decided I want to roll a necro see how it goes. Being a GW1 player I like the minion master build alot. I have read some stuff about the viability of it and I have some questions.

First off. Has the agony resistance been fixed?

Second. Are minions viable in higher level fractals say 28+? Because squishy ele’s get one shot there. I am guessing minions too.

I fully agree on this. I think that 90% here want their character to stand out and style him up good. We lost that ability then they took away our class armors.

A-net go work on it!

Onshidesigns.1069:

Why not make it 10 weapon sets? Out of those 10, you would pick you 2 main weapon sets for playing the game.

2 main weapon sets
8 attentive weapon sets in your hero panel

This would give players a reason to collect all the exotic weapon types for each character.

Well yea I didn’t name a number, 4 was just an example of GW1 but like endless weaponsets is great because then a warrior could collect all the weapons and also carry them with him and easily swap.

Still looking for a similair friends guild to ally with!

Hello guys n gals.

Weapons are important and even specced into a certain weapon I carry around all weapons for the occasion. They take up space in my bags and are annoying to organise and equip and dequip out of combat.

So I was thinking about implementing weapon sets where you can put your different weapons in and you can click to swap out of combat.

So you will have your 2 combat weapons which you can swap in combat (1 if you play ele like me) and some other sets you can swap to out of combat and they don’t appear in your inventory anymore.

It’s a bit like GW1 where you had 4 weapon sets.

Let me know what you think.

Asura.4709:

The ele class needs a rebuild from anet. There is absolutely no incentive to play an ele, regardless of weapon choice. I have spent well over 1000 hours on my ele, I have always loved ele’s in RPG’s, but when my ele does less dmg, less consistently than my gaurdian or warrior and can only take 2 – 3 hit in a dungeon; there is no point in frustrating the hell outta yourself because you can’t keep your ele alive. With all the builds out there the crit builds seem to be wining, where a crit ele can potentially do massive amounts of dmg, with a staff, to STATIONARY targets, 9 times outta 10 your targets have moved out of your AoE and will take no dmg at all. Then there is channeling time, in the time it takes to drop meteor shower a guardian with a crit build could have already pulled 5 targets done a 3 hit gs combo and whirling wrath; dealing 12k + dmg. All in the time it took you just to channel meteor shower and do 0 – 2k dmg. Anet seems to think that this is ok, that ele players still have the edge of versatility, well versatility doesn’t count for much when you are spending your evening dead, observing other players beat the dungeon. If Anet insists on keeping, my favorite class of all time, as squishy as an ambient rabbit then I respectfully request double if not triple the dmg out put with 1/3 the channeling time. That way while I’m watching everyone else beat the boss I can at least sit back and chuckle about how I took him down to 3/4 of his over all health before he killed me. And it would still be a challenge to pick the ele back up without wiping, maintaining the aspect of team play and banning together to get through tough spots.
I really love my ele, but I refuse to play her untill something is done about this unscrupulous disadvantage that no other class seems to have. Like I said, there is absolutely no incentive to play an ele, all it does is raise your blood pressure and drive you to early an early grave.

I understand where you’re coming from and I feel the same. But in overal I feel like the elementalist is more challenging at the moment and for me, more fun to play.
I do agree that they should get a bit of a rebuild because the damage is to mediocre for what in each game that I’ve played should be one of the highest dpsing classes. Also the fact that mobile targets are virtually un-hitable by most of your skills is very annoying.

Hey Guys. I’m Feros Flamecaller from Legends of Prophecies, Desolation based.
We are a small friends guild that focusses on community. We are not big and not looking to expand quickely in order to keep the community good.

However we are looking for a similair kind of guild to form an alliance with.
We are not looking for a big alliance. This alliance will only consist of the two of us.

Please mail me ingame or whisper me and have a chat about things.

Greetings,
Feros Flamecaller

Raif.9507:

Stats (with food, no fury):
Armor: 2379
Health: 16005
Crit Damage: 72%
Crit: 35%
Attack: 2848

May I ask what your armor set is?

I agree with Krag go full zerker gear use all your weapons and bring a pvt set for when needed. Seems like the way to go.

For engineers I really feel they should make legendaries that affect Kits.
As an engineer I would feel screwed over.

The way I run now. Is staff nuke with full zerker gear. Traited into arcana for perma vigor. Using a sigil of stamina. Alot of damage and alot of dodging. And of course I swap my weapons when the occasion arrises.

LordByron.8369:

Luimes.4281:

Healing is non existent. (get hit, you die).

agree on this…not completely but mostly.

You cannot contribute enough as PVT, you need damage at 30+ (max i did atm is 38)

Imho is better to run balanced D/D as starting build.
common build is good but more aggressive equipment is needed

i change weapon according to fractal:

Ascalon:
D/D => boss staff

Volcanic:
D/D => scepter focus at first boss encounter till end

Uncategorized
S/F excluding 4 Champions rooms where i prefer D/D

Swamp
meh…..S/F at mossman, staff at bloomburger

dredge
S/F for first part.

D/D for Killing dredges

Staff for cannons

S/F for doors

S/F or D/D on champion

D/D if you are on switches staff if you are not

underwater ._.

You won t believe me i use trident here…..unless Dolphins

cliffside:
D/D
In case of lag or use S/F at first boss
In case of bad Group use S/F at arms seals.

Snow fractal:
D/D because i want to….
Maybe there could be something better for ice elemental but i m lazy :|

jade maw:
D/D, staff on boss

Sigil are important:
Staff and focus OR scepter with sigil of energy

Daggers:
hydromancy, strength

atm i use (but i play mostly pugs, i would go even more offensive otherwise):

Knight armor
Runes of the pack
All stats trinkets
PVT backpack
berserker weapons

P.S. obviusly you can see how hard we have to try comparing to “some” other classes :<
We need damage buff and no more nerfs for pve.

So you run d/d in lvl 28+? Aren’t you getting 1-2 shot by normal mobs?

I’m talking about 28+

It should be implemented, as for all legendaries should be implemented in all skills that use the weapon skill.

So I’m starting the thread for us Elementalist to discuss the viability of the elementalist’s weapons and builds in fractals. From my experiences and from what I’ve heard in higher fractals staying ranged is vital. Healing is non existent. (get hit, you die).

So what I’m running now is a full zerk staff nuke with cantrips.
What do you guys think about the eles in fractals and what are you guys running?

Greetings,
Feros Flamecaller.

Hello guys and girls. I’m from Legends of Prophecies (Desolation EU). We are looking for new fun people to enjoy content with. We are currently a small guild with a tight group of friends looking to expand due Guild Missions. We like to joke around and have a laugh. Feel free to whisper me and have a chat.

Greetings,
Cenric Lumes.

Thank you this has comfirmed some of the thoughts I’ve had about the shield warrior and makes me confident I can make it work. Thank you, this has been most helpfull.
Cheers!

Hey guys. I’m a big Prophecies fan. And my intention was to make a warrior in honor of Rurik and Prophecies. This means getting the legendary shield and playing a shield warrior.

The problem is I’m getting told from multiple angles that a shield warrior will not be viable in high level fractals and that I should roll a guardian.

I’m looking for help on a build. It doesn’t matter what it does since I don’t mind playing any kind of character.

I got this standard idea of a tanky build but then again there is no real getting aggro in this game.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNAseTncOk8YUQOPgDZAA9ArrAwU4n0DyQLNA;TEA7NA

Any advice on what I should do?

Many thanks.

Es gibt zu viel nachtkappers!
Es ist nicht gut und ich muss ganz viel weinen.

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