Guild Wars 2

For lvling, skirmishing rocks.
+10% crit dmg, Pets heal, and you bleed on crits. Makes axes godlike lvling/pve.

Also, Precision+Crit dmg > Power!

Idk, maybe im doing something wrong? My necro doesnt seem to be able to HEAL beyond his heal skill very well xD

ive decided between 2 classes for my ALT. My main is a guardian.

Id like to know the pros/cons of Engineer and Necromancer.
Which has more survivability? Which has more dmg (burst and sustained?)
Which can farm well/wvw well? (since wvw is really just zerg farming lol)
Also difficulty. Ive heard necro is hard, but idk how?

PS: I know that every class CAN BE BUILT TO DO X. :p
Thanks

Im not wanting to play on highest Just best performance lol

Well, im assuming the GPU is still good?
So id LIKE to stay under 500$.
for mobo/ram/cpu..

Currently, this is my system.

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128455

Processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727

Video Card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130690
Kinda like that one. Cept not refurbished, and its a cyclone (better fans) and its overclocked by 20% atm.

Ram: 8gb (2×4gb) 1600 ddr3

Other things: My case is good. My hard drive is good. My PSU is 550. I dont have a internal CD rom. I have no use for it lol. Nor a dedicated sound card. Im also using ethernet, not wireless.

Id LIKE to be able to play at a higher FPS during huge battles. But $ is also an issue :/ So its like…. How/where do i upgrade within a decent budget?

I place a ballista and get more than 10 badges.
you can buy exotics with karma btw.

and drwookie I’m sick of people qqing about guardian with blanket statements like he made. guardians CAN do all the things he said.

Here im going to answer a ton of requests with the way fixes should be implemented.

1) I have a long queue. Please let me queue for everything, so that i may get in sooner.
Fix) Move (back or to) your low pop server, and gtfo off henge/SBI/ET/JQ.

2) Week long matches are too long. We are losing. We cant win.
Fix) Learn from your mistake. Open a public VOIP/Forum, and organize an alliance. Maybe you wont win next time, but youll sure as hell hold one borderland instead of none. Progress is progress until the “elos” are better figured out. Maybe drop out of your 5 man guild and join a 50, so that you can be better organized.

3) THEYRE STEALING OUR PEOPLES OMGOMGOGMOMG
Fix) Use teamwork, stop running around like idiots. People are less likely to leave your server if theres positive attitude and progress toward the future.

4) Im healing and dont get $. // Please dont make me pick up bags for loot.
Fix) Use siege for $. Or dont die. Autoloot is nice.

5) Overnight capping too stronk qq
Fix) Join IoJ or SoS, who have insanely strong night crews. Or maybe a EU server? Everyone begs for EU/Aussies/koreans to join them — why not go to where they are? These 2 servers have no queue and no leadership in primetime.

6) Theyre camping the jumping puzzle.
Fix) Bring a friend or l2p. Really. Its not hard to knock people off ledges, fight them, escape, use traps… Or just plain and simple wait for friends. Fighting in jumping puzzles is my fav thing, tbh. You can keep people wrapped up in there a long time with very few people.

7) We’re being camped WTF
Fix) Theres another exit out of your base. Look for it. Bring your guild. And take out something.

8) Invisible players
Fix) You realize youre invisible too, right? Okay. Now, if you have map awareness, youll know where theyre coming from. Be on vent. Now start backing up when others do. Theres a reason they are.
Fix #2) Use siege. You can hit invisible people with a treb.

Remember. World vs World vs World is just that. Its not about personal prestige, or the gold you get (u can easily get 2g/hour running cursed — enough to cover…. what…. 100 hours of wvwvw in repairs?)

Its about whether YOU feel your presence made a difference, and if YOUR WORLD won the fight.

“I still die in a matter of seconds when using a melee weapon against more than 2-4 people. "
No way. Wtf is your build and gear? You must be pure offense, or yuou suck, honestly.

1) Siege weapons = ranged option. GTFO.
2) While your busy healing? You heal passively with resolve, symbols, and when you PROC resolve again. All for yourself, not your team.
3) I tank 5-15 people without dying. L2properly use your invuln ult, Shouts, wall of reflection, #5 shield, #2 hammer, #2 staff…

This is a classic case of QQ from a noob, from what im seeing.
If youd like me to fraps, i will.

And im from stormbluff, im fghting henge. Its not hard to survive. You need to l2roll, l2use weapons that give u another roll on swap. Each roll HEALS you. Each aegis HEALS you. Each symbol HEALS you ontop of protection/swiftness/regen and othr buffs it gives you.

Guardian is fine. Youre not.

I use
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MmcV0cM0mbNGMmbNTM9MGxGmRcabos

I push for my team, and i cut people off (staff wall) and launch people around (#5 shield)

I heal a ton, cure conditions, and tank amazingly well. I hit almost everyone via spamming 1/2 on mace, and 1/2/3 on staff. I get TONS of xp (but admittedly, not much loot) every fight.

I always bring ballistas with me. And i utilize themfor sieges/locations. This helps mitigate the lack of RDPS we have.

I also love to run around in raiding parties taking out objectives, with 5 or 10 people. Its amazing.

Lofty.8759:

Same can be said for the winning team, im on HoD and im just farming mats for now.

No. Youre just unable to get in cuz u followed TA to get carried.
You dont even have stonemist, we do. And its a close fight, if JQ actually did more than vulture off our hits and attacked you…

Lets not go overboard and act like youre bored in wvw.

We just owned yourkittenbase in the HoD borderlands, too.

The only way youre ahead, is because JQ cant keep up with you.

Psy.6153:

It kinda sucks as Guardians have to run around with 15k hp if they wear Berserkers, where warrior can put the same set on and have 23k hp, and theres no gear ingame which reflects Knights amulet so we have to choose gear with toughness or healing from crafted and karma

really gay

1) Gay isnt bad.

2) Youre absolutely wrong. Yes, they get 8k more base hp. But we get as much health via throughput. We have heals, and we dont have to really spend much to get them. Your signet is better, you can go meditations and heal for 2k hp each cast (can cast like 7 over 45 sec) while going high condition damage.

I use of the undead in pvp, this gives me toughness and condition dmg. It works great.

Furtthermore, in wvw, i use Power + Toughness + Healing. So idk where youre getting we dont have the combo, we do. And not everything has to “stack perfectly” you could use amulet to offset a weakness in your build/other items.

We can certainly take more punishment than a warrior.

I can tell you this much:
JQ Borderlands: Half their fort is owned by HoD.
HoD Borderlands: They have 1 supply camp.
SI Borderlands: They have DFB.
EB: Half their land is owned by HoD

285 HOD, 260 SBI, 150 JQ.

JQ basically loses to HoD or us, but theyve ceded more land to HoD than us, for whatever reason. We dont lose land.

Furthermore…. They bad bro.
Get them out.

DeadlyGuz.2730:

Malpractice if u can’t handle fighting bigger numbers theirs this thing called Spvp it has your name all over it. You should take yourself and your friends who can’t handle being outnumbered there

thanks bye

Let the thinkers do the talking.

WvWvW, much like Daoc and UO, isnt meant to be fair.
This is part of war.

Youre afraid of being outnumbered?
thanks bye

They removed it because of “leet speak” within “inb4”
Take your troll elsewhere.
Its a viable strategy, and you are just sour.

And no, im not the only one.

Id like to offer a potential alliance between IoJ and SoS during NA primetime hours.
Our combined scores is less than ET, so lets be honest, its smart., and we both hate ET. Its a crappy, old movie.

lets see if we can start doing /salute or something, and focus purely on hitting ET.

Fury.6248:

Malpractice.7850:

So.. you have coverage for like 6 hours atm :p
i ask because we’re moving from HoD to dragonbrand

Please don’t. We have horrible queues as is. Goto low pop servers. Dragonbrand holds its own vs any server. Till night time that is. We have a horrible late night player population.

What are you on? ha ha. We got in within 15 mins of entering queue for a Borderlands, and about 30 mins on EB. (since u sit in Borderlands, and wait for EB to pop) during peak hours.

Thats like 10% of HoD queue time.

I mean, Sea of sorrows looks good (oceanic wise) too.

CharliePrince.2071:

Malpractice.7850:

So.. you have coverage for like 6 hours atm :p
i ask because we’re moving from HoD to dragonbrand

shoulda moved to Janthir

Dragonbrand can’t match us at all they were good but i think a buncha players transferred off there

and not sure what you mean by we have coverage for 6 hours..

our dead zone is 11 hours which is awful

Well, we’re willing to move anywhere atm.
Were just looking for a good, organized community that can grow.
When we tried IoJ, when anyone tried to lead last night, everyone trolled them and did whatever. Thats not a great community from what we saw, at NA peak hours.

Their logic is “ATTACK F DEFENSE… O CRAP WE LOSING REGROUP AT WAYPOINT AND FIGHT AT T HE SWAMP TO TRY TO TAKE OUR FORT BACK”
then everyone trolls them. gg wp.

So.. you have coverage for like 6 hours atm :p
i ask because we’re moving from HoD to dragonbrand

No, i mean getting GOLD, not a gold reward.
And you only get badges if u do X amount of dmg.

I do more than just heal on long cooldowns.

Seriously. I play guardian, so im slightly biased, but there is NO REWARD for healing.

Every class has ranged options to do dmg, get badges, and wrack up the exp — besides the guardian.

The only way guardian really gets rewards, is if were on siege engines or running around in wolf packs. While fun, I want to be able to heal/remove conditions/buff/bubble/rez my allies in a zerg too, without feeling like im spending more on repairs than i get back in gold.

its ridiculous that theres no rewards for assisting with kills, or healing.

JemL.3501:

its already very reliable seriously

No, its really not. I gain a level every 30 mins or so on my guardian in PVE.
When i go into wvwvw, since we have almost no ranged attacks, and dont deal enough dmg to really get loot — our exp is limited to whether or not I get into a siege equipment and a few events here and there.

Its not that good for guardians.

We should get exp for healing/assisting. More exp.

If only there was a “players healed” achievement…

soonkyu.1275:

Stormbluff Isle has easily earned recognition from multiple guilds and players on HoD. They have a very scary force in War Machine (WM), EviL, and SiN. Underestimating them is not a good idea.

This is the truth. Theyve done better than ET and JQ in recent days. Theyve improved a lot. and war machine is a beast at night.

Kellnor.5428:

Been playing w3 for what seems like ages now and nothing really bothers me more than seeing obvious server alliances. The one I saw tonight between Henge and SB made me sick. The coordination between the two teams was absolutely obvious, you would see large groups from both sides run alongside each other to target JQ players or a group of Henge run over the “downed” bodies of several SB’s to finish 1 JQ then leave the SB “downed” players alone or even defend them from other JQs!! I have friends on Henge who have told me that there are Vent and TS servers set up for Henge and allied servers to communicate with.

In short, I think that the true number 1 server wouldnt have to resort to forming alliances with another server.

Anyone else tired of alliances?

P.S. this is NOT a troll post. keep trolling to yourself!

Im sorry, a FFA and War was meant to be fair?
News at 9.

like 50 of us :p
We’re all at the same university. And game together a lot.

idk im on IoJ atm and i can tell you….. These pugs dont listen and just do whatever lol

Narrowed it down to Aspenwood, IoJ and dragonbrand… Anyone got any info on them?

Jade quarry or kaineng.
Wouldnt matter which.

Looking to transfer off of HoD with friends. Long queue times, and a non-competitive game has made me want to go towards the more competitive area.

So, anyone have any info on these?
IoJ/Sea of Sorrows
Crystal Desert
Dragonbrand
Fort Aspenwood

Im looking for info like
Whether theyre organized, or not. And if they treat their pugs like crap >.>
And lastly, What their night presence is like.

Thanks for anyone that gives any info

PS: How are matchups in your bracket? Even? a landslide?

2v1 is extremely valid. I remember back in UO when it was 3v1 for the orbs at times.

Hell, id rather have them 2v1 us (im on HoD) than us steam roll more :/

Okay, Im going to make a list of Queue times on servers, so that people can stop QQing about long Queue times, and rather, potentially travel to another world instead of sitting on top servers.
Please help me update it, but BE MATURE. Edit what YOU feel is the average time. Please be reasonable and dont make stupid claims.
This is for the entire community to use.
(If anyone wants to add EU at the bottom, or add a server i missed, feel free)

The current “share” link is this

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/64383-trying-to-make-official-na-queue-time-list/

However it doesnt let anyone open it from this site, so you need to go to Gw2 guru link ill provide, and then follow the link.

Nokaru.7831:

I just server transferred to [Insert Server] and I am now full of server pride.

i started on [insert server] because i love the name. didnt play beta, gw1, or know anything about who was going where, or what server was good.

l2p

Again, dont discount the militia.
They make up 50% of the fighting force, at least, at any given time

bump for people to talk about their server!

also, fyi, im looking to transfer of hedge with a few buddies.
But theyre simply the best server.

You do disrespect. You just said “YOU ARE BY DEFINITION CANNON FODDER” Because what, were not in voip? We are securing objectives, and defending them, without voip. That says a lot.

ET has always been elitist and hate their pugs, though.

Youre just sour cuz you havent won vs us…… ever, eh?

We dont need to have people in VOIP because our pubs know wtf is going on and dont zerg. We do our thing, TA does theirs. We work together and communicate. And we dont build kitten inkitten spots, nor take supply before its a good time.

Given ET is losing to us… On their own BG, when we have NO TA here, says a lot.

The doors that way. JQ gives a better fight than you guys.

Pugs alone are winning in ET BG atm. Theres no TA here. Furthermore, We took stonemist without TA around.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/64137-hod-vs-et-vs-si/page__st__60

That entire page is about how good HoD militia is.

Furthermore, we are wrecking atm, and its 11:30pm. So i guess we will just continue to steamroll 2v1, during primetime.

Currently, we just wiped 13 people with our 7 at their supply. All pugs

So, hey, maybe you should l2p. The “alliance” functions just fine with pugs, and we do just as much as they do.

its people like you that ruins your servers WvWvW because you treat pugs like theyre cannon fodder. GTFO

I can tell you this much about guardian.

Yes, your buffs are nice, but theyre on LONG cooldowns.
WubWub on your staff is like 24s, and your shouts are long.

Youll end up, basically, doing some buffs/bubbles here and there. Dropping walls. Doing minor snaring. And a lot of siege work in the zerg fests.

But youre a god at raiding parties.

HoD Claims victory to the game until defeated.
ANet might even need to make them fight 3v1 instead of 2v1.

Its part of war, yo.

JoolaPrime.6390:

ET has a good group of Oceanic’s…will be a good fight.

Would be a better fight if HoD wasn’t in the mix tho. Those guys are boring.

Why boring

Raptor.9863:

Velron.3729:

They don’t need a merge, they need the not so smart people sitting in their queues every night to transfer to them.

I agree with you…I just don’t see the 8 hour queue guys packing bags and moving over to NSP and/or Kain. It’s frustrating as hell to see. We could have a very healthy WvW scene across multiple servers if they would just make the move.

Actually, we’re thinkinkg about leaving Henge to join a lower pop one.
Atm looking at Dragon, or IoJ.
But who knows. convince me to take us there :p

Boggler.7519:

Dragonbrand is right in the middle of the pack here with about 10-30 minute Q’s on average. We also have a very solid group of WvW guilds on our server.

Hows the organization?
Are you guys winning?

Anyone know anything about isles of Janthir?

Would like more info on servers if anyone has any!

Im from hedge, with some friends. Were looking to transfer to a diff server.
I’d like to try to get onto a good server, with not so long Q times (3-5 hours is not okay, lol)

Anyway, anyone have info on:

Stormbluff Isle Gates of Madness Isle of Janthir ??

Their Q times arent up on the Q time list forums, however, they seem much shorter than HoD. Is this still the case? Anyone know about them/if theyre organized, etc?

Also willing to look at other servers, Just really want organization and whatnot and wins :p

Sanzul.9268:

It’s entirely doable. Not just at night when no one is around to defend; I’ve seen it done at peak hours too. Doesn’t last, though, because there’s no way to hold so much so far from your own waypoint and so close to the enemy’s.

Mesmer portal alleviates this, sadly.

I feel like a easy fix would be make guards % stronger if outnumbered by %, so that its a challegenge, still. Walls/doors, too.

Not a totally 100% fix, but easily implemented, bandaid fix that would slow down the overnight rolling.

Why are you King Kaide, if your account name is Kaine?
Just curious.

You still havent beaten HoD. Until you do, youre a false king.

Edit: Dug these up for you, mr false king:

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f359/LaylynLafae/gw030-4.jpg
That was you getting stomped by ET yesterday.

This is US stomping them the day before.
http://i.imgur.com/vtj3t.png

(By yesterday, i mean the 10th, and the day before, the 9th.)