Guild Wars 2

Very well. Then I guess someone can give you a recap.

EDIT : Actually are you on EU?

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I can not + this enough!

You CAN however work abit on current ascended.

:)

Uhm wow. hahah you missed a lot.

Anyway, I would suggest you PLAY the content, you do not need a recap since all of it is available in game. :P

Much better. Anyone posting after me, PLEASE do not spoil for him unless he asks after this revelation. :P

EDIT : You may need to invest in some gems to purchase the content.
Alternatively you can convert gold or play it through while piggybacking with a friends story.

Keep it simple kitten.

What situation are you getting drop to 7FPS in?

Fluffball.8307:

Also this guide is just pointless. Who exactly is gaining anything from it and why would anyone bookmark it? In case you forget what supply is?

Now you are just getting petty, mate.

Take it down a notch. Its not personal.

The Llama Drama is REAL!

DarkSyze.8627:

Bertrand; So you say tanky gear is answer for not instant kill? Do Super Class use tanky gear for not instant kill? No! So it is ok for them to not use tanky gear and wrong for other class to not use them? I find funny because like rich example; rich say to poor, “It is fault for not have more”? who control instant damage? Thief, Elementalist and Engineer.

1 more thing JUST for you.

MOST WvW roaming builds are EXACTLY that, OFFTANKY.
Meaning they have 1 or sometimes even 2 of their stats are either vitality or toughness or BOTH.

I run Rabid gear on my engi at the moment and alternate it with Celestial gear, which both have SIGNIFICANT tanky stats.
With these stats I and pretty much any regular roamer is fully capable of stomping newbies to WvW in seconds.
That is just the nature of any form of Player to Player fighting. Do not go to WvW if it bothers you.

Where in heavens name does Ele and Engi come into this debate?
Neither of them have significant “instakill” out of nowhere mechanics.
Rangers and Mesmers do have this mechanic but no mention? LOL

Clearly the people QQing here about these “SUPER DUPER” classes have a L2P issue.

FYI, there have had been successive nerfs to the thief and I find them balance, if not under powered for the role they play in WvW.

Learn to deal damage with a build that can not just be blasted down.
Learn to MITIGATE damage via SO many ways that the game provides.
Learn to REACT to your opponent.

I laugh at thieves. They engage out of invis, I hit back, they run away or DIE.
They are an extremely predictable class since their weapons will tell you EXACTLY how they will react to what.

Tom Gore.4035:

Or you could make a handful of dungeon speedruns with 5 people and walk away with 10+ gold each.

Fair point, but after those dungeons?
I do daily speedsruns in about 2 hours.

But I will give it a test and see what profit I can make from it.

Tom Gore.4035:

It is still far more efficient to farm gold and buy from TP. Maybe one day the price of the cloth goes high enough that it’s more efficient to farm them directly, but that day is not here yet.

I dono, the current price is absolutely insane.
4+ silver PER SCRAP.

Hell you could probably go 3 man farm Hirathi and walk away with Gold profit as it stands right now.

This is your second post that has been copy/pasted….

Just me or are you trolling?

Alternatively to the above :

Cotton and SOME of the other 2-4 tier crafting mats can be quite easily farmed in Hirathi Hinterlands, near where the world boss Ulgoth spawns.

You can generally get 100+ bags an hour with an event or 2.
The respawn rate is fast on the centaur.

You will not get A LOT of cotton, but its the best I got.
And the other resources are worth selling.

EDIT : Just fixed a kitten word.

As one of the people that commie up and start off at Indigo on an almost empty map, progress to around 25% and then start taxiing in :
I find this a great idea!

That 25% sometimes can take up to an hour of running around.

CAN SOMEONE FIX THIS kitten FORUM BEFORE I BREAK SOMETHING!

Broken forum is so broken.

Shockwave.1230:

We’re comparing the impact of gear shield on it’s meta builds to the impacts of other effects on other meta builds and asking the question “is gear shield being what it currently is justified?”

Even worse comparison.

The meta is a constantly changing environment of changes, counter changes, and counters to counter changes.

If you are struggling to cope with your meta build vs another meta build, then CHANGE away from the meta.

SOoooooo, are we comparing apples with donkeys again?

Seriously though, we CAN NOT and SHOULD NOT compare individual skills as the classes are fundamental different.

The Shield and Gear Block is the Engi’s equivalent of Endure pain, Berserker Stance, ANY form of Stability, Shared Anguish, Blur, and a hundred other forms of damage negation.

Even considering the above statement calling OP!!!!!! on a skill is not possible by just going, oh look, a skill with same function thats weaker.

Gesuz people stop complaining about so much kitten.

Devata.6589:

Not to mention then collecting full sets of something is what for many people an mmo is about your statement only holds true f you would indeed look at one specific thing.

Yes if you only would like for example the dragon helm then it’s true, then it’s not that big of a grind and doable. It’s a grind but doable.

The problem of course is that so many things in this game are a gold grind so you might want this helm, the gloves from another set, a mini, a toy, the flying carpet and so on and so on. And that’s why it’s a never ending gold-grind even when you are no a collector.

It’s how the game is designed. Many items are put in the cash-shop so they require buying them (what is not playing) or grinding gold. Some items in-game tent to also be best obtainable with gold (or another currency) because working directly towards them (like getting them from a drop or a reward for completing a dungeon or a JP or whatever) is not possible or nearly impossible with most of the item.

Any new item added in this way simply adds to that grind and so you can’t simply look at it as that one thing that you would then have to grind 50/80 gold for once. It’s not how the game works.

“If you want to collect everything in an MMO, you cannot avoid the grind.” It of course depends on how you define grind but in many mmo’s you can work directly towards items, in case of rng drop that might still mean farming but it’s not so that in all those other mmo’s grinding a currency is the main way to obtain items or collections like it is the main way to do it in GW2.

Exactly. Simply just farming for what you WANT is already a massive amount of time and there is CONSTANTLY more being added.

All comes back to RnG being kitten and instead just getting gold to get what you want and not set rewards for certain stuff.

Rangers just have no place in a organized zerg, sad, but true, that is just a fault of ANET, not the community for noticing this.

ANyway! Bookmarked! Thansk!

loseridoit.2756:

Lian Olsam.9541:

So the problem is the game is not optimized multicore?

you have to wait until anet decides to add either mantle or dx 12 support.

Won’t happen.

So yes, the problem is game optimization, but if you think about it, optimization for 150-300 players on screen is a bit tough to do.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Keep in mind, that the Guild Wars (One) CS Team does not really read or respond to anything posted on the forums. The 72-hour ‘rule’ does not apply, and it may be some time before your friend can expect a response.

They will, however, assist him/her in the order of ticket received. He/she just needs a bit of patience. =)

Good luck.

Well its been a week.

Ticket was logged on the 13th and not bumped, new ticket was logged today.

Seems you are getting the expected performance.

I have a 3570K 2 4.7GHz and get low 20s.

Most games are not coded to use more than 2 cores of your CPU, since your graphics card is a HELL of a lot more powerful than this game needs, so you end up with a CPU bottleneck.

Nothing you can do about it unfortunately except lower some sets.

Hahah this thread is comical.

But that is to be expected from an OP with so much noobRAGE!!!!

Thanks. I have posted there on his behalf.

Hi forum and ANET support.

A friend of mine logged a ticket to support for assistance in logging into the original Guild Wars, however he is not receiving a response.
How can he proceed? All he needs to do is reset his password so that he can login.
The email address in question does not exist anymore.

Refs:
1131064 logged on the 13th of Jan.

He does have the original packaging with which to prove ownership.

Hi forum and ANET support.

A friend of mine has logged a call to support for assistance in logging into the original Guild Wars, however he is not receiving a response.

How can he proceed? All he needs to do is reset his password so that he can login.
The email address in question does not exist anymore.

Refs:
1131064
1147119

I am sooo confused…

Greatness! Wish I could join! I happen to be VERY far away. :P

Vikkela.7261:

OK here goes, here comes the truth that you didn’t expect:

It all goes back to the day when Mordremoth came up the idea of with leaving a few seeds of his to one day grow up to a huge Champion of his that is capable of spawning an endless amount of more smaller minions, which head he would insert full with false visions called “the dream”, which top priory was to take out a competitor located southeast of him.
Making this champion know – yet not know – it actually is his minion, letting them live in an illusion they have a free will, and this crusade of theirs is not steered by him thus gaining full trust of other Tyrians and joining forces to destroy Zhaitan (not him simply by pretending to be asleep)
After successfully destroying Zhaitan and all his forces that whole area he occupied is suddenly free for taking since Kralkatorrik is busy weeping in the desert and Bubbles is busy doing dragon stuff somewhere underwater that will forever be irrelevant.
Now has come the time to simply waltz in and conquer aaaaaaaaalll that sweet magic and land for himself, he proceeds in picking some random minion of his called Ce-rar—rarara-Cea? Whatever, he picks Scarlet as his nickname and to wake himself up, then continues to roll through Tyria doing whatever he wants, in the form of this one minion of his. All that destruction in that little form! Imagine him doing the same as himself.
Ok eventually when he has completed his mission some random guys come and 5v1 him on his drill, whatever.
Ok now the oooo-sooo-scary-pact who think they are doing things of free will fly towards him, time to flip the “obey-me”-switch to on his minions, SNAP no more Pact and all that land plus your minions belongs to you now

tl;dr; everything including Zhaitans death was planned by Mordremoth and you were mere puppets in his grand scheme of total world domination

Terrible syntax and grammar, but hell, was a good read.

Arietta The Broken.1875:

I think the problem isn’t that they are “OP” it’s that they are in such abundance.

Engineer has been daily nearly every day or every other day and people flock to this class and there is usually 2-3 per match. That’s 30% of the matchings when theres 8 classes.

Even beyond that, some matches have 2 engineers and 2 d/d eles on the same team. Having 4 bunker classes that have high damage output, aoe support, damage and conditions can be a very difficult team composition even if those 4 are soloQ.

The supply crate does feel a little bit strong compared to other elites.
2 second AoE stun
Blast finisher (might or heals or stealth or w/e)
AoE heals
General heals
Immobilize
Damage

If traited, they will explode on destruction – doing damage and knocking back

(Unsure if this applies to supply crate) – Reflective turrets and Self repairing turrets
Creates a reflective shield and they are “harder” to kill.

Cele amulet probably should get toned down a bit. Especially on classes that have insane amounts of heals and heal over time.

Again!!!, Cele gear DOES NOT need a nerf. MIGHT does, and Anet is doing just that in the next balance patch.

ArrDee.2573:

Almost halved!
Current mechanics are 9 might x 35 stats per might = 315
New mechanics will be 6 might x 30 stats per might = 180!
Almost halved!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Ah of course. I was comparing stack to stack and not the total stacks. To that specific mechanic, yes.

ArrDee.2573:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/preview-of-upcoming-balance-changes/

If these are the only Engi changes, then cele Engi will take a damage output hit but largely remain unchanged! The total power/condi gain from might stacks will be almost halved but they will still be really strong!

Scavenging Runes will be really good for condi Engi, especially if you combine it with Leeching Sigil! 62042 – Rabid Amulet – Elixir S/Slick Shoes + Tool Kit + Grenade Kit – Pistol/Pistol – Geomancy/Leeching

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Halved?
You sure about that math/

So a skill that can only be used 3 or 4 (max) times in a match is OP?
Tell me more…
If the stun misses, its useless. So easily wasted as well.

NOTHING wrong with Turret Engi, its a terrible build with obvious, glaring weaknesses that puts a team at a disadvantage on MOST of the maps.

However I will say that Cele has change PvP to a significant degree and does require a small adjustment to bring it back in line. But OP, no. If Cele engi’s were OP, we would see more Necro’s.

I dono, they are the easiest thing to just ignore, or even kill if they get annoying enough, id rather worry about the necro.

What class and build were you playing?
What weapons?

The immunities all have long cooldowns with a clear buff indicator, just watch that indicator while kiting him, then blast him to bits when it stops.
Hammes has VERY obvious telegraphed skill, so you can easily see which ones should be dodge.

Armor types mean nothing in this game.

Depends. EotM should be the fastest if that is what the map is already doing, karma and XP instead of PvP fights.

Otherwise, PvP gives A LOT of lvling tomes.

Danikat.8537:

My understanding is that Tequatl (like the Shatterer and the Claw) is a title rather than an individuals name. If I remember correctly Tequatl is a hylek word that means ‘sunless’ (which, since the hylek worship the sun is roughly the equivalent of ‘evil’ or ‘devil’).

So Tequatl is simply the strongest/smartest/biggest of the numerous undead dragons that can be seen in and around Orr. When we kill one another takes their place.

In theory with Zhaitan dead there is a finite supply of them and eventually they will run out. But enough that this won’t happen until long after the game time (or a very distant point when Anet figures out a way to make changes like removing the undead without breaking the game for new players).

Although another theory I’ve heard is that the dragon champions are the same race as the elder dragons and if they live long enough would become new elder dragons themselves.

Your reasoning makes sense. But 1 would learn from ones predecessor?
Pretty sure that THE Claw of Jormag and THE Shatterer and Tequatl might be titles but that they are not replaced that simply.

Safe to assume that its just another time lapse like Orr.

That last part is why I asked. Was thinking that WHO THE HELL is absorbing Zhaitans magic and “position”.

Not to mention they can seriously increase the consecutive selling limit to almost double the current amount.

Change your title to [suggestion] TP convenience changes.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Well he’s undead so he was dead to begin with:)

KEK. Cheap joke. :P

Tom Gore.4035:

Novuake.2691:

Tom Gore.4035:

Glorious armor too.

You can buy all the weapon skins from TP and they don’t even cost that much when the per 1 ticket is still active at the BL trader. Totally obtainable in-game.

Claiming anything else is just pure denial.

Fair point. So then we can go into the ridiculous grindfest to get them?

Glorious armor – grindfest? Agreed. Unless of course you love PvP, which many do.
Carapace – grindfest? Sure, if you want all the weights and pieces. Otherwise, nah.
Luminescent – grindfest? A-yep.
BL weapons – grindfest? If you need them all, sure. Just one, though? Starting from ~50g or even less on a buy order. Nah. If it takes you longer than a couple of days to make 50 gold you’re doing something wrong.

You ninja edited so I will too:

It all depends on your expectations. If you want to collect everything in an MMO, you cannot avoid the grind. That just doesn’t work. 50-100gp for an exclusive weapon skin is not grindy.

I normally agree with you, but the drop rate on tickets are just too low.
Gold is easy enough to come by, but to get just what you plan to use is costly enough to keep your pockets empty unless you grind gold pretty kitten a daily basis, that is not even considering the COMPLETIONIST way of doing things.

Simon.3794:

Novuake.2691:

Simon.3794:

Hambow is inferior in every way except when stomping
in the current meta.

The warrior is barely part of the current meta. Too sluggish.

yea, imo hambow is just out of the current meta by miles.
while shout is a nice replacement for DDs

Not even. DD has a lot more reliable damage.
ShoutBow just can not stick hard enough to a target, nor can it apply enough condi’s.
It great support though. But that is it, whereas DD can still handle themselves in defending point vs multiple targets, the ShoutBow build can mostly just buy time vs more than 1 target and not apply counter pressure to the attackers AND survive at the same time.

Tom Gore.4035:

Glorious armor too.

You can buy all the weapon skins from TP and they don’t even cost that much when the per 1 ticket is still active at the BL trader. Totally obtainable in-game.

Claiming anything else is just pure denial.

Fair point. So then we can go into the ridiculous grindfest to get them?

Should be obtainable to a reasonable degree. To do this they can increase the ticket drop rate so that each skin hovers around 50-70Gold @ 5 tickets.

Simon.3794:

Hambow is inferior in every way except when stomping
in the current meta.

The warrior is barely part of the current meta. Too sluggish.

Explorer outfits.
So that arctic and jungle.

Fancy Winter Outfit

Mordrem weapons, which call it as you want, is gated mostly behind gem store BL keys.

Wintersday Weapons.

Chaos weapons.

Just of the top of my head.

lordkrall.7241:

Novuake.2691:

kittenit in the Gemstore AGAIN… GEZUS.

1 for 1 PLEASE Anet.

I suppose we are totally disregarding multiple full sets that have been obtainable in-game during the last parts of S2..?

Which are those? Carapace / Luminescent.

What else?

Beldin.5498:

Vayne.8563:

Beldin.5498:

Spooksie.4930:

I don’t understand the need or role of the different armor types in a game that says the trinity is gone.

Its just the typical RPG flavour. The same like classes, races and different weapon types.

And different armor classes even exist in solo games where you also don’t have
a trinity.

And Gandalf can fight a Balrog alone just wearing light armor.

I call hacks.

Ok .. i don’t really get the meaning of that sentence .. is it just a joke about Gandalf is cheating .. or something else ?

If i try to translate it and then translate it back it could mean for example:
“I cry old weak horse”

Wut?

And yes, he is referring to a form of cheating.

kittenit in the Gemstore AGAIN… GEZUS.

1 for 1 PLEASE Anet.

Balsco.3682:

Tequatl is dead, in Tequatl Rising, Rox’s mission was to kill Tequatl and show proof of it to Rytlock, eventually you’d get a story quest where it was mentioned that she had indeed brought him proof.

Thanks! Could not find this info anywhere.

So its just that limbo time thing to keep a world boss.

Awesome, thanks again.

Hi guys

I only started playing in late 2013 and really want to know what the heck the conclusion of the story Tequatl Rising was?

Is he still alive (storyline wise)?
Does he require constant defeat similar to Claw of Jormag which isn’t killed completely?

aspirine.6852:

Margonites and all weird creatures from nightfall continued to live after abaddon was dead and gone werent they? The domain of anguish was one of the most popular areas in gw1 long after he was dead.

250 years.
Margonites were not immortal, they were humans that were sort of corrupted, without someone or “something” actively “corrupting” new margonites, they would surely have died out.

Keep in mind this is all speculation, although pretty sure that Abaddons exposure/corruption would not have granted them immortality.

aspirine.6852:

I am sure they COULD be written back. The problem is HOW.

ANET writers have a history of bringing things back for convenience, just because, instead of doing it properly.

So I would rather have them stay dead or “unknown” if the explanation is just going to be, "nah, they been there in Tarnished, just chillin’ ".

And no, the Margonites NEED to stay dead unless Abaddon returns, in which case there better be a HALILUVA good reason and explanation, not nearly as small as Mursaat returning.

She looks a little on the down syndrome side too…