Guild Wars 2

I was surprised when I saw there were no server specific forums. I think there’s a lot lost by not having them:

Building community – having a place to talk to the general server community.
Organization for Events (Temples, etc. . )
Guild Recruitment: Having all the guilds, across all servers, on one page? It’s just a mess. It’s impossible to find anything, it all gets lost in the flood of posts.

I guess I could understand when there were open server transfers, but now that people are locked into their servers, there’s no real justification for it – especially when it’s an incredibly simple to fix.

Bump. Man these forums move fast.

Hey Nides,

I’m on DB looking for a guild too. I figured I’d join in your thread rather than add another to the board. Hope you don’t mind.

I just hit 80 on my first character, a Mesmer, and am leveling a Warrior with my GF (a Guardian) who would join as well. Veteran MMO player (WoW, DDO, Ultima Online) and she’s played Aion for several years. Both friendly and helpful, looking for a similar guild – she’s interested more in open world PvE, I’m down for WvW, Dungeons, and pretty much everything. Looking for a medium sized guild with mature active players. Enough to do Guild Content, but not a zerg with a guild tag.

We’re both still learning the ropes, but play regularly (daily, several hours). Message me on Anarkin or Shade Zeal or drop a response here.

Don’t see why you couldn’t do the first two. Would kind of defeat the point.

The TP is cross server, so no matter what server you are on, it’s the same TP.

The only thing you can’t do while guesting is WvW, I believe.

World completion is by character, not account; however, I believe the “award” icon on the selection screen is account wide. So, if you get completion on one character, your account gets the award, but you have to get the whole map on just one character.

I’m kind of in the same boat. My GF gets her game this week and I’m starting a new character with her. Figure I’ll just go for completion on my main when I’m playing without her rather than worry about starting all over.

Same issue. PC, spent a total of 5 minutes in the mists since I started.

@Tshik: What do you mean "without the options in the shortcut’?

Ever since the last update I can’t access the trading post. It says Please LOGIN.

When you click on the LOGIN link, it gives a “page not found” error.

It’s pretty much made the game unplayable for me, as my inventory is now full, along with my bank, of stuff I need to sell.

I submitted a ticket, but still no response or fix.

Rebind your keys. Don’t use WASD for movement. shift over one key towards the center.
Use ESDF.

This increases the number of keys easily reachable by your hand. This may be really difficult at first if you’ve played a lot of other RPG’s like Skyrim that have WASD default, but it is worth the frustration a thousand times over. Stick with it.

Unbind Turn Left and Turn Right. Bind Strafe Left and Strafe Right. There’s never any reason to use your keys to turn, it’s slow and clunky. Always use your mouse to turn.

Remember your mouse scroll wheel click can be bound. If you weapon swap a lot (and you should), rebind it here. If not, think of the skill you hit the most, chances are it belongs on your mousewheel.

Salvage everything you can’t sell for a profit on the Trading Post. Crafting materials are worth a lot, often more than the items themselves. Remember to click the "bags of pilfered goods, etc. . .) they’re not vendor trash (learned this the hard way). They contain valuable crafting materials.

Don’t blow your karma. I know it looks like you have a ton more Karma than gold, and it’s tempting to spend it – but you’ll find better uses for it at high level and good items require a lot of karma.

Complete the maps. It’s well worth it (reward wise) and often a lot of fun.

Complete City Maps, Lions Arch, Rata Sum, Divinity’s Reach, etc. . . they’re easy as there’s no combat and you get some transmutation tablets (so you can keep gear skins you like as you level).

Do your story quests a level or so under. The exp is good and the items are good at early/mid levels, but you want to be using it as soon as you can. An item is only good for ~5 levels. So if you are doing lvl 35 stories at 45, the gear will be useless, but would have saved you cash and time if you’d had it right at 35.

Don’t use a lot of way points. The cost really adds up after a while. Often, you’re better off running place to place on the map gathering crafting materials (and gather everything, always). Don’t rush, rushing is a bad time/money investment, running and harvesting is a good time/money investment. Obviously, if something is really far, use a waypoint, but if it’s on the same map, chances are you’re better off running.

To find back slot items search for “spine” in the TP. There’s no filter for it. As a matter of fact, the filters on the TP are kind of poorly implemented in general. Keep that in mind.

Level scaling doesn’t mean lower level zones aren’t easier when you go back to them. you still deal much more damage and have more/better skills. Oddly enough, if you’re level 50 ish and go back to a beginner zone and kill mobs there, they still drop level appropriate gear. . . (I learned this farming for Jute Cloth, since as mentioned above, I didn’t salvage enough and sold goodie bags). You kill things much faster, and get more loot. Also, the price difference between mid level crafting mats and early level ones is not on par for the ease in collecting lower level ones. You will also still level often from fighting lower level mobs because of level scaling (+exp food helps as well). Keep this in mind if you find yourself needing cash at mid levels. also, keep in mind, if you grind you will level, so it may make certain zones less attractive to go to (and you’ll miss a lot of cool stuff).

On the TP, you lose 15% on any sale. Never sell something for less than 16% more than you can get from vendoring it. Save your greens and toss them in the mystic forge in Lions Arch to get better gear. Check the TP first, but just because something is green or yellow doesn’t mean you hit a pay day.

Good advice for any class: Rebind your keys.

Don’t use the WASD and 1-10 set up, by moving in one step you open up a lot more keys you can easily hit. For example:

I have:

E: Forward.
S: Strafe Left.
F: Strafe Right.
(you don’t need to turn, mouse turn/strafe only – and I don’t have back movement. It’s slow and if you’re doing it in combat you’ll get hit)

That opens up W, A, Z, X, C, V, F G, R and T as well as 2-5 all in easy range.

Bind Weapon Swap to Mouseclick. Trust me, it makes a world of difference with swapping.

I use W for auto attack, Q for target closest, R, F and G for utilities. T for heal. G for my Epic and have my shatters on Z, C, X and V. D for interact (spamming it during events makes sure you grab all of your loot).

If you are going to take Tailoring, salvage every piece of cloth gear that won’t make you a decent profit, same goes for Leatherworking I imagine.

Hey, was just wondering what everyone thought the best class to Duo with is?

I just started playing the game recently (I have a 36 Mesmer I plan on taking to 80 for WvW) and convinced my GF to play as well. She’s decided to play a Necromancer, and I was looking for a good compliment -either heavy armor or medium armor. I’m at a toss up between Warrior, Ranger and Guardian. We’ll be playing mostly PvE.

Ideally, what I’m looking for is something that can exploit my duo partner laying down lots of conditions. So far it seems like a GS/Sword Warrior would work the best. I was wondering if I’m on track that the Warrior has a good condition build or skills/traits that exploit conditions. Would the warriors shouts/banner buffs be worthwhile on her pets or does it scale poorly to summons?

I was thinking going for a Hundred Blades/Sword build so I can pick up the burst from GS and the Condition damage from Sword offhand. Is the warrior a good compliment to the Necro, or should I be looking at a different class?