Guild Wars 2

From what I’ve experienced I would say that number of badges per bag is the same. But the number of bags is much lower.

1mesmer 4guardians (you can change up to 2 guardians for warriors).
Did some fractals with a group of 2guards 2wars + ele/thief 2 days ago (no mesmer unfortunately) and it was just pure fun and pleasure. I could actually give some attention to the environment details

EDIT: One thing more, Necros are GREAT for all dungeons including fractals. I did not give them for my “best” team as I love close combat.

It’s quite easy to do within time that you have if you have some players that do not focus only on risen waves for farming but actually at least ~4 players sacrifice and keep running around(!) square and keep killing spawning risens/sparks. Not sure if you still can do it but it’s possible to get eye of Z outside of the red/blue area – this also helps a lot.

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Once at Jormag I stood around AFK and ignored all the first events, and only on the last one where he is standing where the chest spawns I grabbed a bazooka and fired at him the whole time. This time I got no chest. Maybe you could going in and and attack the dragon instead of use the siege weapons on adds.

I always make a point to do that. The support on the adds is auxillary, I only do that shortly after I’ve done around 30k to him with my longbow.

30k dmg is nothing. I can do it in 10sec when he’s stunned. I strongly believe that dmg made to his minions and crystals counts. So you can make hundrets of thousands dmg during the fight. 30k is probably not enough.

Could not agree more with idea to make story mode dungeons possible to complete alone or with a group of npc’s. I’m tired of looking CoE team for 3-4 weeks already…

BL → Dawn (if it’s not your homeland)
EB → Green Keep.

They are like gremlins. You should not feed them after midnight.

Happened to me few times while fighting Shatterer (and only him). Gold medal and no chest. But never seen this issue since like 2 months.

Was mentioned above I believe but just to be sure that you mention it in the video
For corrupted lodestones there are 2 incredible farms: elementals during the fight with claw of jormag (doing it very early in the morning with ~10 ppl can get you >1) and temple of grenth event – also elementals. Go for AoE dmg as even this small elementals that are summoned by huge ones can drop them. When I was farming them I loved when we kept failing and repeated the event again and again – max dropped was 4 I believe and it was within 1h.

I may be wrong or something could change but I believe golems cause stun and I think it was 7 golems to do so. And it makes complete whole event MUCH faster then just shooting him without being stunned.

Mesmers. Because I almost never can kill them (most of the encounters end with no death). I love the challenge. 2nd place thieves as they are my nemesis. 3rd place warriors (I’m a warrior as well) – because almost always the encounters are extremely even (many times they ended with my oponent going for revenge in downed state, putting me into downed state and dying).

I’m playing warrior and I hate and love thieves at the same time. I love fighting them even if I loose 75% of the fights (1v1). If I see them coming from distance I can escape or I have like 50% chance of winning. If they attack me from stealth I usually die but well this is thieves ONLY true andantage. Only concern is that no one should kill 1v1 other class in 1sek if the victim is NOT glass cannon. I play with full knight and solider runes (trinkets are rubies) and it always takes few seconds to kill me. I’m not a great pvp player so I’m not nervous about it. And thief should be able to escape in stealth. It’s the only way for them – really they are VERY easy to kill if you are good pvp player or at least survive 1v1 encounter (as stated before I’m not among good pvp players )

The best is jewelry, later on all kind of armor making. Good thing is that after some (in my opinion) smart moves that A-Net made, prices in AH are actually a little bit higher not only for mats but also for items that you craft. I’ve finished tailor and leather worker in 1 day from 0-400 using only stuff that I’ve dropped (sorry I spend like <1g). Selling all rares (I didnt make any exotics, I just wanted to level crafting to 400) for all possible levels (usually I created 5-6 rares per crafting level/mats tier) gave mi around 11-12gold. So if I would focus on things that give most money I would be able to make even more. So right now, when you grind and farm, when you mine and chop everything on your way you can actually make money from it.

Deleting bots and making new gear that needs a lot of t6 mats was probably the only way to make market normal. These prices are right now as they should be (they will go a little bit lower probably in next months). And I’m one of these people that do not have them stocked so I’ll have to grind/buy them for ascended/legendary items. But at last I can also make some money on the market.

180%MF is still not the highest possible. You can easily get it higher so I would say it’s a great outcome.

They way it was, is really ok. BUT it could’ve been better. In my opinion at the end of such event should be a choice – so you can choose 1 of ALL precursors. So you can get the one you want and need. But having a chance is still better then nothing.

My one concern is (sorry if it has been addressed already) how long will events be working on friday and saturday. So if let’s say I’m not at home today evening will I be able to play the content and complete 1st event until saturday 21:00 CET?

This patch looks like a balancing one more then fixing one. And as ANet said it in the past, they are happy with warrior as a class. And I agree with them. It was my main char and it will remain as one. We need fixes but when you will look closely to patch notes for other classes – we were not nerfed and many of them were.
Why they did not fix but tried to balance – new dungeon. For me it was made not to make any class “mandatory” which is a huge help for us – warriors.
Still waiting for fixes but this patch was probably mandatory to be released before new contend arrives.

In my understanting when you will have 5 people who reached let’s say: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 level, it will start for their team at 4th one. As all of them reached this level.

FireSnake – by reading latest post from devs on ascended items I believe they will be adding more in the future. So amulets as well probably.

It is possible to go from 0 to 400 within 1h and crafting booster even if you have to buy some mats. I’ve done leatherworker 0-400 and tailor 0-100 within 1h. I had to go to get some mats 3-4 times. Most important thing – as mentioned above by TWMagimay – is to know how crafting works. Discover everything, remember to have enough mats for rare eg insignia etc. Btw some places are a little bit better if you dont have all mats. I believe assura city has everything VERY close to each other (I usually craft in black citadel – BL is far away from crafting stations but there is way point very close to it. One thing that I would advise, if you dont have all mats, check each tier before you start crafting for 2-3 cheapest components (usually bones/claws and sometimes venom sacks). Discovering all 6 kinds of armor for 3 components should be more then enough to level up, but remember to have them enough to make rares as soon as you can.

Dragons should scale much higher then chapms. When I fight Claw of J. i hate when zerg numbers cause champs to 1 hit me. If dragon would do that – well it should be like that. Still the best dragon in game for now. At least you can actually die there.

I’m just a noob in wvw, but it was strange to me how easy it can get few days ago. Now I’ve fought Kodash. Best fights ever. Full respect for you guys

Not only spawn time should be different but also places. I still remember trying to do plinx event in Cursed Shore. Well it was completed each time with bronze medal. I didnt know the spawn locations at the beggining but what I’ve noticed was that before mobs spawn I can see traps/marks at certain locations. A little bit later rain of the arrows and fire from the sky. Next thing that I saw were dead bodies of mobs. Actually apart from vet/champ mobs I’ve seen possibly 5-10 mobs during 3 runs with this event. And as there were 30++ players I think there were hundreds of mobs.

I’ve read that on some server players bugged skeleton that should appear near to the coffin by standing on it. Not sure if it’s true but I’ve seen few replies that were confirming it.

Not only that. I believe that bots are responsible for destroying Grenth temple events chain. It was said in the patch notes that this has been corrected but unfortunately bots did not agree. When I’ve logged yesterday I’ve seen 2 bots that I see next to the cannon (from event chain) for few days already and of course event was broken already. 2 bots. Destroy my favourite event probably for few days.

I will not judge PvP or WvW, but dont say that warriors are bad in PvE. I run with FULL magic set and I do not die if I don’t make a mistake. I used to run with full berserk before crafted MF armor and trinkets and of course it was easier but I just want use MF and there is completely no issues with that. Of course in dungeons I use knights set (but with ruby trinkets) and have no issues with fights. If people are dying I’m dying with them but usually at the end (except for Guardians but it should be that way).
From my point of view (so basically PvE point of view) the only thing that is really bad is melee fights in general when it comes to strong bosses/champions/dungeons. I like using rifle but I would like to swing my GS more often when I’m in epic fight.
Also I cannot agree that our utility skills are bad. We just should have like 5 more to give some diversity and more possibilities. And possibly some work should be done with banners. To many times staying in 1 place mean death (but whole idea of banners is really great).

EDIT: One utility that could help for example would be protection for let say 10s at least. It could be separate one or added to some signet when it’s activated.

Wow.. I forgot that we have a spear gun.. Now when they’ve reminded me this and gave me completely OP skill I’ll go and kill some barracudas! HAHAHA!
But I’m happy that they’ve started to repair bugs. Gives hope for the future.

I cannot imagine 100B being a mobile skill. I use GS myself and it believe that it would make this skill completely imba. I love it. I use it. But no way you can make it mobile skill. And GS in general is awesome when it comes to mobility with weapon. I would only change a little bit 5th skill to make the attack much quicker when you connect with the enemy as I hate charging mobs and wait for 1 after I “connect” with them to see the strike.

I would advise to skip vengeance. As per weapon use what you like You can have fun with everything and manage to do explorable dungeons modes so it’s just your choice. For trash mobs exes will be great just like a GS, for bosses, well most of them need range weapon so exotic one with a nice sigil will be great. If you want to highly participate for the team go for healing shouts but you can skip it if you will not like the build with these (like me). I really like defense trait route so I have 30points there and also I use knight’s armor set for dungeons – works really great. Lately I’ve added superior runes of soldier and I just can wait to see mu shouts remove 1 more condition each time I use them (didn’t have time to test it thou).
As per skills Mending Heal is in my opinion superior to healing signet but with current runes I may change it (just need to test first). And again signet of rage is just to awesome not to use it (again my opinion and play style) but I do not use any other except for few bosses when I need additional condition removals or 2nd balanced stance). For utility skills I have 5 from which I choose 3 and change them during dungeon according to situation (boss/trash or boss dmg → dps/condition). These would be: endure pain (I love this one, because it let’s me make a mistake and do not die), for great justice (really needed in some situations but not always), On My Mark (if your team do not have other ways to put 25stacks of vuln. on boss or chapm, this one is remarkable, useless for trash), Shake it off (must have, for me always – also it’s great for team as it removes condition from party members as well), balanced stance (situational, for some bosses or areas where you need to move swiftly with no interruption). Now I’m not fun of banners myself so will not be able to help with these

I would have one question about this event. I’ve tried doing it 5-6 times and we’ve managed to do it just once when I was exploring area for the first time. So being honest I wasn’t exactly sure what should I do. Later on I’ve never seen it completed successfully. But my main question is.. who should be focused. Should we start from the champ or from the boss. I ask this question because during the event I hear both. Some “scream” kill the abom first other say no, we have to focus on the boss. (I know that most important thing is to teleport to WP when you are dead and run back)