Guild Wars 2

Ashen.2907:

On a more serious note, the rain storms here on the US west coast have been pretty significant over the last few days and weeks. Flooding, warnings, etc. Hope everyone up at Anet’s home facilities is alright.

At least the drought’s over right?

I’m ok with a late patch, odds are I would have been trying to run through as much story as possible while getting irritated while making my self 15 minutes late to work.

drunkenpilot.9837:

Mea.5491:

Fixing forum bug.

I’m sorry to post an off-topic reply, but I see this kind of post as the first post on page 2 of many threads and the curiosity is driving me nuts.

What’s the forum bug that everyone seems to reference with these posts that start a new page?

It’s really a kittenroach that’s running around inside the server that hosts the forum.

Looks like the German GW2 community figured out that this delay was caused by the dastardly deeds of an evil gaming competitor!

I get it, unforeseen circumstances, how ever why not lift the gag order on places like MassivelyOP or MMORPG.com so that we can have some info appetizers to nibble on while we wait?

I want to tank, it seems that Mesmer is pigeon holed into tanking. Is there any other class that can tank in GW2 in Fractals?

Hamoi.1352:

http://qtfy.enjin.com/builds is where the good builds are.

Thank’s for the link, I’m looking at the Warrior builds now.

savacli.8172:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

I see now regarding the Meta status.

As far as Valk stats I use that for survivability, with the Reaper I can get Crit capped any way just through traits, my weapon and accessories are all ascended zerker.

Sure, I’m generalizing, but there’s your first problem: taking survivability stats; there are other team members that will keep you on your feet. If you are still going down either you’re doing something wrong or your support members are doing something wrong.

To address your original point though:

The word Meta get tossed around waaaay too much and, while Metabattle had it’s time of glory, it doesn’t hold quite the prestige that it used to. Nowadays qT are the go-to kids on the block because they not only post the gear, traits, stat distribution, but they also goes as far as putting videos together demonstrating the strength of the class they are showcasing.

Specifically, when it comes to Power Necro? Personally, I don’t bring them along, not even in fractals. I’m sure that there are players that have min-maxed that class to the max and can bring some amazing things to the table….but for the general player-base it’s an underpowered build. As in, what does the class that another class isn’t already doing if not doing it better. Other classes do more damage, offer more healing, etc.

Now, while Condi Necro was gutted there is definitely still a spot for a Necro because of how well they can manipulate conditions. pair that will tele-revive (which power necro does share), and you have a pretty good team player.

Ultimately though, you’re at the mercy of the group you are trying to join and what their play style is. Sure, any class/build is viable. I mean, you have top guilds beating bosses with as little as 4 players in a 10-man encounter. But not everyone that plays is as precise as top-guilds. Thus, each raid group will run with what they feel will best get them through the content.

Sure, a good portion of groups want to get thing done but also want to get them done quickly. Thus, they will go with “meta builds” which have more potential than your potato builds (woodenpotato pun not intended). The difference between a “meta build” and a potato build is that the meta build can outperform any other build if played to the precision and accuracy of its potential. Though in there lies, the problem, if you can’t perform in the meta build you’re gonna be hurting the team.

Thus, you have teams that don’t abide by meta simply because they know they cannot perform it to the precision needed, are uncomfortable with the build, or otherwise don’t care to run those builds. That’s where you lie and need to find a guild/group that shares that same mindset.

I guess I’ll just focus on my Warrior, in group content I assume the support will keep it healed, in the open world I’ll just trait the defense line since that’s solo with no pocket healers.

I’ve got to say though trying to do open world with a Zerker Berserker feels like trying to carry water from a well with a leaking bucket, at the end of any fight with 3 or more adds the guy’s losing health like a gunshot wound.

I see now regarding the Meta status.

As far as Valk stats I use that for survivability, with the Reaper I can get Crit capped any way just through traits, my weapon and accessories are all ascended zerker.

Sectry.1236:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Sectry.1236:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Shikaru’s advice is apt: look for groups that meet your needs. Or start your own. Be willing to adapt; be flexible early before asking for permission to do your own thing.

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The issue has never been what builds can succeed at raids. Anyone who plays this game enough knows that mechanics and coordination are more important than builds. For pick-up-groups with unknown experience/expertise or any others struggling to succeed, it’s important to eliminate as many potential obstacles as possible.

Among the biggest impediments to success are:

• Unwillingness to adapt to circumstances — people are looking for flexibility.
• Unwillingness to follow the leader’s plan. Raids need everyone pulling together.
• Difficulty in communicating. There’s a lot of read-aim-fire (or even fire-aim-fire-ready-aim-fire), which means lots of instructions/suggestions; people have to trust that everyone understands.

Insisting that you want to bring a non-meta build before the raid has begun suggests an unwillingness to adapt and/or follow the commander’s lead.

Anyone can be a communication bottleneck, whether squad leaders, members, or potential recruits. The OP is probably well off being insta-kicked — that probably indicates a commander who’s unwilling to listen or work with the OP anyhow. By the same token, folks who justify their build with a phrase like “that’s just the way it is” aren’t going to be welcomed by a lot of groups; not many are willing to deal with someone who stopped listening before the conversation started.

tl;dr it’s your right to insist on bringing your choice of build; it’s also the commander’s choice to not welcome someone who does so. If you want to insist on insisting, then be very selective in the groups you join. Or better yet: start your own; you know that there are plenty of like-minded people who want to run their own build.

To be fair if the builds are on METAbattle then they are Meta.

No no no, that’s not true. There’s only one meta build for raids for Necro and it’s this one
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Viper_Horror

Why does everybody swear by it then, if it’s such a bad site then where is the GW2 equivalent to WoW’s Icy Veins?

No one said it was a bad site, but not every build that’s listed is meta. A lot of the builds are experimental, in testing, or in progress. The meta builds are marked as such. They usually say “Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating.” but I assume that since Necro has fallen out of the meta due to the jagged horror nerf, they took off that line from the Viper Horror build. It used to have it before that patch.

So in other words a whole entire class is excluded from raiding, that doesn’t sound toxic or anything.

Sectry.1236:

Oldirtbeard.9834:

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Shikaru’s advice is apt: look for groups that meet your needs. Or start your own. Be willing to adapt; be flexible early before asking for permission to do your own thing.

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The issue has never been what builds can succeed at raids. Anyone who plays this game enough knows that mechanics and coordination are more important than builds. For pick-up-groups with unknown experience/expertise or any others struggling to succeed, it’s important to eliminate as many potential obstacles as possible.

Among the biggest impediments to success are:

• Unwillingness to adapt to circumstances — people are looking for flexibility.
• Unwillingness to follow the leader’s plan. Raids need everyone pulling together.
• Difficulty in communicating. There’s a lot of read-aim-fire (or even fire-aim-fire-ready-aim-fire), which means lots of instructions/suggestions; people have to trust that everyone understands.

Insisting that you want to bring a non-meta build before the raid has begun suggests an unwillingness to adapt and/or follow the commander’s lead.

Anyone can be a communication bottleneck, whether squad leaders, members, or potential recruits. The OP is probably well off being insta-kicked — that probably indicates a commander who’s unwilling to listen or work with the OP anyhow. By the same token, folks who justify their build with a phrase like “that’s just the way it is” aren’t going to be welcomed by a lot of groups; not many are willing to deal with someone who stopped listening before the conversation started.

tl;dr it’s your right to insist on bringing your choice of build; it’s also the commander’s choice to not welcome someone who does so. If you want to insist on insisting, then be very selective in the groups you join. Or better yet: start your own; you know that there are plenty of like-minded people who want to run their own build.

To be fair if the builds are on METAbattle then they are Meta.

No no no, that’s not true. There’s only one meta build for raids for Necro and it’s this one
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Viper_Horror

Why does everybody swear by it then, if it’s such a bad site then where is the GW2 equivalent to WoW’s Icy Veins?

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Shikaru’s advice is apt: look for groups that meet your needs. Or start your own. Be willing to adapt; be flexible early before asking for permission to do your own thing.

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The issue has never been what builds can succeed at raids. Anyone who plays this game enough knows that mechanics and coordination are more important than builds. For pick-up-groups with unknown experience/expertise or any others struggling to succeed, it’s important to eliminate as many potential obstacles as possible.

Among the biggest impediments to success are:

• Unwillingness to adapt to circumstances — people are looking for flexibility.
• Unwillingness to follow the leader’s plan. Raids need everyone pulling together.
• Difficulty in communicating. There’s a lot of read-aim-fire (or even fire-aim-fire-ready-aim-fire), which means lots of instructions/suggestions; people have to trust that everyone understands.

Insisting that you want to bring a non-meta build before the raid has begun suggests an unwillingness to adapt and/or follow the commander’s lead.

Anyone can be a communication bottleneck, whether squad leaders, members, or potential recruits. The OP is probably well off being insta-kicked — that probably indicates a commander who’s unwilling to listen or work with the OP anyhow. By the same token, folks who justify their build with a phrase like “that’s just the way it is” aren’t going to be welcomed by a lot of groups; not many are willing to deal with someone who stopped listening before the conversation started.

tl;dr it’s your right to insist on bringing your choice of build; it’s also the commander’s choice to not welcome someone who does so. If you want to insist on insisting, then be very selective in the groups you join. Or better yet: start your own; you know that there are plenty of like-minded people who want to run their own build.

To be fair if the builds are on METAbattle then they are Meta.

This is how it should have been implemented, how ever the Raid Team is very very very small and this is the real reason.

Look I know I’ve come across as a salty kitten (I didn’t even bother typing what I wanted so I auto censored my self) but I’m at a loss, I really love this game and as my Grandfather put it when referring to his ex wife as much as you can love something there is ample room to loath.

I realize there is a culture of META think that resembles The Functionalists in IDW’s Transformers canon but there has to be a way to raid with out being one of the few preselected professions.

Now look I’m a GS Reaper, that’s just the way it is and if you look at METAbattle there is clearly a Reaper GS Support build.

Here is the link

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Reaper_-_Offensive_Blood_Support

Is there a directory of training folks so that I can learn to carry my weight.

I also have a Warrior but it feels very squishy when running Berserker Spec (at least in the Open World).

I happen to have a DH Hammer Support Guardian with Clerics Gear, I suppose I could swap it out for Valk.

I also happen to have a Ranger but Healing does not appeal to me if anything I would rather Tank.

I layed the Saltiness outside the door folks, even Woodenpotatoes claims any Profession is viable to raid.

beatthedown.2651:

Sorry to ruin the mood, but I want to say something about the dailies. Logging in and doing the same thing over and over nearly ruined the game for me. If you play gw2 for the dailies only, play mobile game instead. I just can’t stand this mentality to force yourself login and doing the same thing over and over, especially if you don’t have a certain goal in mind. The game will get boring quickly. I was at this point and I stopped playing for 1,5 years.

Thankfully a friend brought me back, and learned how to pvp. We played a lot of games and eventually became decent.
Before HoT came out I set myself the goal to craft all HOT legendaries(even if I did not own a single legendary before). I farmed quite a lot, learned how to invest and also made a lot of precursors in the MF when it was profitable. Also crafting and selling old legendaries brought me a lot of gold(who buys these?). Now I’m waiting for number 7 to come out and join my collection.

What I want to say is that this game could become so much better if you have healthy goals. If you aim for ascended gear, think about how you want to use it.Fractals? WvW? Or even raids?

Please don’t be the sort of player who(as an example) logs in, kills the warg in WvW, flips a camp, runs away from enemies and log out. Don’t be that guy. If this sounds like you, don’t play gw2, don’t game at all. You should spend your free time for better things

Sorry man this is the chill room, just sit back in yo bean bag chair and get your drank on while killing your warg while avoiding PVP.

tontonUB.4687:

Hello,

Instead of saying again how bad necro is nowadays (imo), here’s an idea for a necromancer elite class :
THE DEATHKNIGHT (fit perfectly with necromancer death theme)
main theme = poison damage / frost (chill)
>>> no new utility skill !!! (may be fix some of existent ones, and add some viable elites, like an elite signet ? )

Minor traits :
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1st/ change Deathshroud
- renamed KILLING MACHINE
- no longer replace skills #1 to #5
- apply a pbaoe direct damage (low damage), pulsating every second
- radius 400
- duration : 0,5 sec for every 1000 lifeforce gauge when activated

2nd/ allows to wear axe as off hand
- Ice reach – new axe skill #4 : 600 insta TP – chill target for 1 sec + low direct damage – CD 10 sec
- Frost breath – new axe skill #5 : range 600 – affects up to 5 targets – direct damage – medium damage – CD 20 sec

with axe as off hand (effectively worn), axe mainhand skills are modified like this :
- Rending Claws – attack speed 0,5 sec (instead of 1 sec)
- Ghastly Claws – cast time 1 sec
- Unholy feast – instant cast

3rd/ allows the character to equip heavy armor (we’re talkin’ about a knight!)
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MAJOR TRAITS :
——————————————————————————————
A) 1st – THE DEATH CAN’T DIE
Under killing machine effect : 50% damage reduction

A) 2nd – VENOM STRIKES
Rending claws now applies 1 stack of poison for 10 seconds on critical strike (5 sec ICD)

A) 3rd – ICE FLOW
Increase Ice reach range to 900
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B) 1st – DEATH ADVANCE
Under Killing machine effect : gain 3 stacks of stability every sec
AND remove all control when activating

B) 2nd – DEADLY BLIZZARD
Frost breath range increased to 900 – add a venom effect (poison damage) on each target for 10 sec AND apply chill for 3 sec

B) 3rd – POISON IN MY VEINS
Poison applied to character don’t harm, and heal him for a small amount on each tick
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C) 1st – ICEMAN
Chill effect applied to character give 10 sec of regeneration (and up to 5 allies in a 600 radius)- ICD 10 sec

C) 2nd – ICE AEGIS
Entering / exiting from Killing machine give one layer of aegis for 9 sec (for whole team) – ICD 10 sec

C) 3rd – SINISTER URGE
When exiting from killing machine, gain speed and quickness for 6 seconds (for whole team) – ICD 15 sec
——————————————————————————————

IDEA FOR SOME ELITE SIGNET

Undying Oath (60 to 90 seconds base CD)
>>> passive effect
- improve condition damage by 180
- 3% life force generation par second (in and out of fight)
- exiting / entering shroud (death / reaper shroud or killing machine) heal character for a medium amount (team included)

>>> active effect
- regenerate 66% life force
- give regeneration and protection for a few seconds (team included)

FINAL THOUGHT :
I really think reviewed / slightly enhanced signets could fit Death Knight theme and gameplay.

Thank you for reading.

I thought Reaper was the GW2 version of the Death Knight, you’ve got a Blood variant that plays like a Blood DK with out Death Strike, Reaper has chill built into it like a Frost DK, hell you could go all condition with Minions to mimick an Unholy DK.

I am definitely casual, I find it unfortunate though that there is no story mode version of the Raids so that us casual folks can just fool around and have fun, no legendary insights maybe just champ bags and a chest at the end like an open world meta chain.

Point being it’s ok to hardcore players if there’s a sight seeing version of their hardcore content as it shouldn’t take away from their immersion.

Except for raiding, and class balance which gives rise to the BS meta. WoWfor all its staleness at least makes every single class and spec viable in the first couple tiers of PVE content.

This is why GW2 Raids need to have at least a lower tier if not 4 like Fractals.

This game used to be a place where casuals could come and be welcome, and run things for fun with moderate stress free rewards (no I’m not talking insights, though in a lower tier an insight drop should be as likely as an Ascended chest in T1/T2 Fractals.

This guys got all bladed armor except the Reaper hood and carapace top, Mursaat back piece dyes are Harrowing Maroon, Molten, and Shadow Abyss, Gargoyle Great Sword.

Sarrs.4831:

I want Silver Satin, mostly because satin is comfy.

More seriously I’d love to see a breakdown of the differences between these new dyes and standing dyes.

Also how many people just decided to get Shadow Abyss from their 4th bday?

I bought mine on the BLTP back when it was 200g.

Bummer, I was hoping the dye would be an Enameled version of Shadow Abyss;
glad I saved my money.

If anyone’s like me then they change due combos, Outfits, and Weapon skins so often that locked in dyes might. E more of a pain in the *.

OriOri.8724:

Adry.7512:

Lordareon.6851:

Hi! i played Guild Wars 2 until just after the expansion was released then i stopped because of Real Life work.
I’m going back now and i found out that Colin left ArenaNet and he was such a great guy, i’d like to know how GW2 is doing without him

Its doing way better without him. They actually created a fixed blueprint for creating content. Meaning that now they know how to structure everything, allowing them to work faster and better.

You can’t be sure that this wasn’t already in development by the time Colin knew he was leaving.

Colin was a great guy with cool ideas, however he was spastic in the way the game was handled as he would jump from idea to idea while dropping a project in progress, or frankly stretching the devs in too many directions to accomplish anything. While Mike might not be an idea man he managed to take all of the moving parts and make a stable functioning game that has a solid plan for the future.

I’m leveling a Mesmer and I’m currently at lvl 21. I use Sword/sword, healing signet, the signet that gives quickness, Mirror Image, and Defender. I usually spam abilities until I get 3 clones then hit shatter, rinse repeat.

I thought Mesmers were supposed to be hard, am I missing something?

Night and day.

GW2 runs like a balanced machine, meaty content packs every two months, new legendary every 2 months, Fractals are getting content, two new PVP maps, PVP ranking system revamped, WvW some progress.

I used to be the same way, if you work at it you can change it around, I can’t imagine playing as a keyboard turner again.

This game requires some twitchy reactions, I’ve got my dodge hotkeyed to the side of my mouse which makes movement easier when you use the mouse to move.

I would like to disable it for Tricky jumps.

Here’s my take on why we had two crumby quarters, a lot of skillless casuals that were used to facetanking Core Tyria mobs/events/World Bosses got angry and quit the game after Heart of Thorns was released. Granted all I have is assumptions but let’s think about this here, Season 3 was delayed because a ton of man power went into the April Duct Tape patch which made major corrections to experience gains for Masteries and major difficulty reductions for open world Maguuma content ( you can’t tell me they did this and delayed Season 3 for laughs), why nerf your expansion content if your cash shop is making money and people are playing it, then the other quarter was crumby because again Season 3 was delayed for almost a year. I have talked to a fair amount of former GW2 players through MassivelyOP a lot of them quit because they felt GW2 had turned their backs on them in favor of a Hard Core minority due to harder Open World, less maneuverability dictated by masteries and convoluted path ways (think Moria expansion), and Raids which were the only new content for almost a year.

Money Talks,
Yours truly the Gray Knight (meaning I’m a fanboy but I won’t blow smoke up any ones *).

Neither they have Golems which they reach out with to manipulate the world.

Working a hour in the real world then cashing it in for
Gems, that nets me between 300 to 400 gold per hour depending on the exchange rate.0

Happy Festivus folks, unfortunately we can not do the feats of strength on the forums how ever the airing of grievances can commence!

ANet get rid of the butt capes and please reconsider your position on story mode Raids!

I’d buy this outfit but you guys botched the landing for female characters with that out of place butt cape so keep it I’ll save my money.

Gerrand.3085:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Gerrand.3085:

Go look at the light armor “Flame legion vestments” in the wardrobe. Its a chest piece that replaces both the chest and legs but allows you to equip different boots, shoulders, gloves and helms – a half-outfit if you will.

Anet keeps claiming clipping as the reason that armors take so long to make but judging by the flame legion vestments, it should be possible to create chest-leg single pieces – bypassing the issue of clipping completely.

That Anet hasn’t been doing this seems a deliberate ploy of mis-information to promote outfits as a necessity :/

Clipping is a minor side issue. The main issues seem to be dye channels that are not compatible (non matching dye channels were specifically mentioned in a post that discussed why armor can’t be made to mix and match) and different weights having different meshes.

I either don’t understand your point or we are talking about different subjects. I’m talking about making weight specific half-outfits. I believe you either talking about multi-weight half-outfits or swapping skins across weight divisions.

He’s talking about having Shadow Abyss looking really dark on one piece of armor vs, dark gray on another.

I agree down with the butt cape, why hide my female characters curves when they obviously have junk in the trunk!

ANet please make more Outfits, preferably some heavy looking skins, I love how they don’t clip and how I can change them when ever at no cost.

My wife is obsessed with making one of these things and the only info I can find on the wiki is outdated by years, how do you make this thing and please tell me it’s not RNG gated because if so I’d rather not bother.

You’ve got a good point, I just assumed it’s on the weekend and just because it was 10PM to 11PM EST doesn’t mean it isn’t way earlier in the evening on the West Coast, just saying. Funny enough after complaining about VB I log in to see VB is the event daily so naturally there were people around for a change. The LW Maps are active so I guess that’s the new it girl in GW2.

Half the time I don’t see any one doing the Heart of Thorns maps either, granted I do play on off hours but it used to be that Auric Basin and Dragon Stand always had active maps.

For example last night my wife and I were pushing AB and by the time the assault portion started the map was D E A D, we even got another option to switch to a more populated map which again was D E A D.

Keep in mind AB is the place to go where gold rains from the sky it seems so If I’m in AB between 10PM and 11PM on a Saturday night with a dead AB map then Houston we’ve got a problem, I was flabbergasted and apologized to my wife because I had been hyping this thing up.

Keep in mind this isn’t the first AB I’ve seen dead maps. I’ve also yet to ever see one of these fabled Verdant Brink progression maps, ever, nor have I ever seen advertisements for the map in LFG.

So if you buy the expansion you’re going to have one hell of a bad time trying level your masteries unless you’re lucky and you fall within the slim window of prime time.

Perhaps this can be explained away by Wintersday, but then seriously it’s the same old stuff every year with a new infusion to RNG for.

Perhaps all the masses are doing Season 5 PVP, personally I never saw the appeal, I mean if I wanted to play a PVP game I’d play League of Legends.

The only thing I know is that I never see the zergs that I used to in HoT areas, or Orr.

I’m not even going to offer a Salty response like play something else because frankly even with other GW2 competitors they do not hold a candle to this game, how ever we need P E O P L E in order to make this game POP!

Hirasaki.6208:

Do yourself a favor, just do Fractals/PVP/WvW. Raids in this game is just not worth it. Unless your going for the legendary armor, which tells everyone, your nothing but a PVE’er and you needed 9 other ppl to carry you thru “hard” content.

I support some of this sentiment, Raiding was designed as an exclusionary activity that thumbs its nose at the soul of this game, the only way to ever make this right is to make a story mode Raid that offers rewards equivalent to lower level Fractals but offers a small minuscule Chance at ascended chests and insights just like lower level Fractals chance for higher level rewards, have the same weekly lock out as well.

Chris McSwag.4683:

Because 90% of the game is “press 1 to win” already.
Raids are meant to be hard and should remain that way. It is therefore up to players to practice(can always make own group), wipe a bunch of times, and eventually conquer the content. The question about different said difficulties have been dealt with 3647485635 times on this forum already(more specifically the raid sub forum) and there is no point of discussing it more.

PS, none of the raid bosses require strict meta as long as people have a clue what they are doing

Because the BS precious Meta excludes whole classes from raiding, take Necro for example a class that arguably has a higher percentage of player than most classes except for Warriors, but because of shoddy class balancing and dev design flavours we’re left with a class like Necro that brings nothing to the table.

With that in mind yes we need teired difficulty content so that unwanted classes like Necro can actually play the game they paid for how they want to play it (remember that good old quip, play how you want to play?).

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Perhaps, follow the advice Jeffrey (Dev) posts in the threads.

Good luck.

I made it through, I just expected a bit more polish after years of playing that other game (that if I named this thread would cease to be).

WTF is wrong with this?!

I get to the part where I’m supposed to help Ellie below decks and there is no door leading to the hull to go down there, I jump off of the ship thinking perhaps I have to do something from the out side of the ship only to get transferred back to the deck.

There’s no walk through online,

Further more there’s this bug thread that states this quest has been broken since 2012.

Seriously why hasn’t any one disabled this story path if it isn’t fixable?

So I’m basically stuck forever with a character I’ve spent a ton of time with only to be stuck in a story loop for ever?

Wow this is very very shoddy unprofessional work.

Eleazar.9478:

Exotic s/a, the difference between exotic and ascended isn’t that much.

Auto attack, use path of scares when it’s off CD and whirling defense is a nice burst with quickness.

I love gs but it’s a better weapon for pvp/wvw

Would I be able to get into raids with only ascended Back/Neck/Rings/Trinkets, they’re zerker as well so is that acceptable as a Power buffer Druid?

I’ve got about 80% of Druid unlocked and I’m sold, glyphs are easy to use, with signet of the wild my health stays in decent shape, my greatsword seems to put out respectable DPS, the Staff shines like a rockstar in any group so far even with all Zerker gear.

My question is what’s going to pump out more DPS an ascended Great Sword of exotic S/A?

I’m running a Power Glyph build.

Where did this guy come from? The other two lane commanders from Dragon Stand have some Background but not this guy.

Weo weo.6378:

Disclaimer These are some builds for Open World PVE. As Em said almost anything works as long as you have Defence. These are simply some of the more effective self sufficient builds to play. Group might stacking/ some personal DPS is sacrificed for all rounder traitlines, much similar to a pseudo roaming build.

Generic all rounder build. Works in WvW too with a bit of sigil tweaking. Doesn’t have to be restricted to what you see, just switch out traits and utilities if using differering weapon combinations. The reasoning behind Eternal Champion over Bloody roar in solo is simply for self mightstacking/ stability and reliability over a bit of extra CC and 1.5 second burst increase. However in a group content like dungeons, I’d most likely use bloody roar over it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR5enMdA9kidhA2dAElilqA790mantK9gYXMApA0ACAA-TVCEABtpbIiDCwWKBTU9nJOCAAcBASZ/BmU+lwDAAA-w

Non HOT version
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR5ejMdQbH2FC2dAnIGKCKbAegAALhWIE0uI6jCA-TFCEABtpbIR1fSZ/htUCykyvEeCARcQAA4CAAA-w

If you’re really having trouble with keeping regen, eat a mango pie or something. I’m assuming you mean an all rounder PVE build. If you want raid/ dungeon build, better off to follow the metabattle ones, especially for raids.

Condition variant:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAsfTnckCtkidhA2dAEliFoA7t1Wb3tKHhd3Q4IBGASZA-TFSFQBE4QA0O9BNUZX/U/ZkKBhz+DA4JAQMlCAA-w

Slightly less weapon choices but imo it’s basically PVE on easymode. Follow Metabattle version for group content and if you’re somehow having trouble staying alive, switch out one of the non special traits for defence. Again, something like this can be used in WvW too with a few adjustments.

Can you use that first link in casual low level Fractals or do you need to
Drop Berserker, I assumed that if you wanted to
Survive open world and still
Provide utility you would go Strength/Tact/Defense unless you need Berserker to offer utility?

What happens to Dragon Minions after their master dies, I assume that undead would be automatons that would require a Lich to utilize, how ever all those Mordrem were alive and capable of critical thinking; do you think the Nightmare Court could recruit the Mordrem since they’re dreamless?

What do you recommend for a GS skin for the Braham Outfit I mentioned above, I’m using Shadow Abyss for the bone/Metal parts, Harrowed Moon (kind of like a blood moon) for the fur, and shadow gold for the clothing part?

So far I’m using the Shadow Great Sword Skin (the one that makes the blade look like black smoke).

I would prefer weapon skins that would fit the Norn Culture though.

Goldfox.5729:

Are you with a good group that knows how to CC, heal, buff, coordianate, stay alive and get stuff done as efficiently as possible? Run the meta build and learn to run it.

Are you with pugs that don’t mind taking 2 hours completing T4 fractals? Run whatever you want!

Well considering I suck and I only successfully evade half the time even after playing this twitch box game for 3 years then yeah I’ll go with option 2 with the rest of the unwashed masses.

I prefer outfits, no transmitting charges to worry about, clipping is minimal, and you can have a lot of variety/uniqueness through simple dyeing.