Guild Wars 2

You wanna outrun angry mobs and zergs while soloing supply camps? How about killing supply yaks and resetting you hp (ooc) in front of the enemy’s face? Perma-contesting enemy waypoints like nothing?

I’ve got just the right build for you, my friend. This build is has the best mobility in the game while doing great sustained condition damage. The only thing that comes close in mobility is a Sword/Warhorn + Greatsword warrior. Engineers mentioned above don’t even come close.

It’s a pistol/dagger condition build for thief, great when outnumbered even better in a 1v1. Use Shortbow as an escape tool and for shadowsteps. With this build you have MASSIVE survivability dude to the large amount of evade, vigor, shadowsteps, stealth and permaswiftness you get. Damage comes mostly from pistol bleeds. It’s a reliable way to kill off most people in wvw. It ain’t no “zomg dps 15k backstab hurr durr” but it gets the job done while giving you best mobility in the game and general survivability.

With the mobility, you have full control of engagement. Trust me, if you’re the solo roamer type you’ll want this. The ten guys struggling to keep up while you ooc will too. If the 1v1 you’re fighting suddenly becomes an angry mob of 10, you can hop out of there with incredible ease. If you hate waypointing back to the keep right after being run over a zerg, p/d thief is the way to go.

Like you, I never enjoyed zerging or being part of a blob. It seemed so meaningless and boring being just one person in a blob. Just reply with your preferred gw2 build calculator and I’ll show you the ways of the mobile p/d thief. Lately I’ve been lazy about recording my gameplay but I’ll upload some old footage.

How about making “Stow Pet” ACTUALLY STOW THE PET?

One reason I don’t like roaming with ranger is because thieves can easily CnD off my pet for free stealth. The pet becomes a liability. It is also the reason why I see all rangers in WvW as free kills while roaming on my thief.

It’s too bad ranger is such a bad profession.

Thief. Best mobility in the game. When roaming, Mobility > Everything. You need to be able to escape zergs and angry mobs after you’ve ganked that lone straggler or contested their keep. You need to be able to kill that yak and move out.

Sword/Warhorn + GS warriors come close to thieves in mobility but they get leaps instead of shadowsteps. Leaps can easily be defeated by chill and cripple.

Forget about signet of shadows 25% speed increase. Centaur runes and Withdraw for permaswiftness, 33% speed increase.

I know for a fact sigil of agony stacks. I play p/d bleed thief and have to calculate condi duration so that none goes to waste if rounded down.

Actually the longbow looks nice. It would go well with CM medium armor.

I haven’t gotten a BLSK from daily in months.

However, I have gotten multiple BLSK’s in a row previously. I still have them in my bank to this day and only use on exotics or salvaging upgrade components.

RNG is RNG.

Ooh! I love consumables! Really hope they didn’t remove this. Then again, they banned like 95% of consumables in WvW. Oh do I long for the days when Pirate Peg Legs and Planks dominated the Obsidian Sanctum.

This is important! When the league starts, my friend will be stuck in that server!

Stooperdale.3560:

“Nodes will also change locations if a map is completely empty of players. "

Which is probably why Southsun changes almost every day.

This makes sense. I was perplexed yesterday while mining ori and ancient in southsun on my ranger right after mining on my thief. The locations had changed! There was no new build and it was after daily reset time.

I have heard this answer a lot but it isn’t true. The node locations change way more often than that.

Tom Gore.4035:

Location changes once a week. Respawn time is 24 hours.

Once a week? Which day?

How often or when do Orichalcum and Ancient node location changes?

How often do Orichalcum and Ancient nodes respawn?

I have have gotten so many different answers from people and the wiki I don’t know what is right. From my own observation it seems they change locations randomly and they respawn randomly.

I need a straight answer from someone who ACTUALLY KNOWS.

Ill be honest here.

This was once a problem when the game released. This type of bug rarely ever happens to me nowadays and I am relatively familiar with the distance required for you to OOC.Very rarely the game will keep me in combat for a unusual amount of time but I usually disengage eventually.

Protip: for puzzle jumpers in combat, use Jump Dodge (Jump and dodge button pressed at the same time) to jump until you are ooc. Jump Dodge rolling speed and height is not effected by ooc or even cripple status.

Ill take http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dash for thief!

TheJokester.4672:

Phoenixfudge.5290:

I’ve always like Cloud Kingdoms ever since I got to the Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger. The Zephyr Sanctum kinda counts as one I guess, I really enjoyed that release. Maybe the Zephyrites have a main sky kingdom island they live on?

Also, Seas/Island It’s time to explore the unknown or what was once known.

We need some brave explorers to step up to the plate and chart the Unending Ocean, perhaps they’ll find Cantha. Perfect excuse to reinstate the hero system.

Living story is perfect for opening up new regions. I’m tired of festivals and SAB. Nothing would make me more happier if they added new explorable areas and made exploration meaningful.

God no do not listen to this guy on reinstating heroes it killed gw1 imo I hated the fact there was no player interaction then leave hero system dead or lose players yea we don’t like playing solo but adding heroes still makes it solo imo they don’t interact with you. You can’t start talking about last nights football game or animes no just no let dead dogs remain dead they are not touched by zhaitan

on topic Cantha please or stir something up to allow us the players to assist the tengu that might add some more things maybe as far as landscape who knows just I am dieing to give you my money for some in game lore that the tengu provide in their interactions that tell us about talon and cantha and the years after shiro

Forcing people to party for exploration is a bad idea. Dungeons are bad enough in that you have to find a group. I could understand forcing a party for dungeons but not for exploration. I personally hate group/party gated content. People can still interact with whoever they want. Nothing is stopping you from trying to interact with other players to form a party. Hell, a good player party is most likely better than having heroes anyways. I just prefer to have some npc’s than some incompetent pug, mind you. Hero system is needed.

I don’t know about you guys but I see an increase of ecto rates. That being said, a thread like this pops up every week. They won’t touch the salvaging rates.

Just stop.

I’ve always like Cloud Kingdoms ever since I got to the Kingdom of Zeal in Chrono Trigger. The Zephyr Sanctum kinda counts as one I guess, I really enjoyed that release. Maybe the Zephyrites have a main sky kingdom island they live on?

Also, Seas/Island It’s time to explore the unknown or what was once known.

We need some brave explorers to step up to the plate and chart the Unending Ocean, perhaps they’ll find Cantha. Perfect excuse to reinstate the hero system.

Living story is perfect for opening up new regions. I’m tired of festivals and SAB. Nothing would make me more happier if they added new explorable areas and made exploration meaningful.

Yeah, I’m also sad I can’t play belcher’s buff with enemies in wvw.

I have enough gems to transfer a friend over to my server but there doesn’t seem to be any sort of gift option for transfers.

/laugh, /sit and /dance over my enemy’s dead are becoming a little bit dull.

It would be super awesome to add some more spice to the mix. I suggest the “Well! What is it!” taunt from Dark Souls. It’s hilarious. A taunt like this would be a great addition to any pvp and especially WvW.

Video of said taunt:
http://youtu.be/oyA8odjCzZ4?t=1m20s

No because I want to min/max and get 25k backstabs on uplevels.

Yeah, it happened to me as well. I wish they let us buy and use more Scarlet’s Boxes or something.

http://youtu.be/AM3poo8RqKQ

While taking a dump at the mystic toilet today, I couldn’t help but notice it had a new sound effect.

It used to be a splash sound but now it’s a whole new flushing noise! It’s perfect.

The new flushing noise of the Mystic Forge is the best ever. Also, props for having the SAB pistol make a pew pew sound . Now you just need a proper sound effect for the Whisper’s Secret Pistol!

So I bugged into a wall and had to quit the game :/

Is there a way to reset to last checkpoint from a menu or something?

Suicide pills would have been nice…maybe you can let us buy some more of Scarlet’s boxes? Those would have been perfect for this situation.

In any case, Ill have to backtrack the beginning of world 2 again.

On another note, I managed to get first person view camera lol.

video footage so that maybe the devs can hotfix the area.

This keeps happening to me as well. Very annoying. Sometimes I will be able to drop down but when some1 starts attacking me I will crash which results in them getting a free kill and me having repair bills. It really kitten es me off.

I don’t recognize that place. It kinda looks like Skyhammer or some Inquest lab or something.

Yes you probably will as all the other living stories persisted another two weeks when a new release comes.

Sanctum of Rall. No success.

People just want to farm.

edit: I just did it! Was akitteng in Lornar’s pass cause I power up my quartz in the priory base. I come back and we have 8 mins and the final minion bar is at 30%. I can’t believe we actually did it!

Disagree. I see this as one of the worse living story releases. The story segments and soloable parts (Scarlet’s Playhouse) were fine. I enjoyed the cutscenes very much. However, the main part of this release, the invasions were terrible. They served nothing but to cause inflation and quench the thirst of mindless farmers.

First of all, you get the same end rewards whether you kill Scarlet or not. Since not killing Scarlet give you more Champions and more loot, farmers will fail the event for the loot. What a terrible design, rewarding failure. I can’t get an achievement because of this.

The actual invasions themselves are not fun whatsover, it’s just like an other zerg fest and gets boring real fast. Do you know what I did to get my achievements for the invasions? I entered the invasion zone, tagged a couple of mobs and then AKF for 40 minutes. Yes that’s right, AFK for 40 minutes. I’ll get the same rewards as the rest of the zerglings, right? and no matter how much effort I put into it I, a single person, cannot get Scarlet to come out so why bother trying after I’ve already tagged my mobs? I have to rely on the zerg to make Scarlet out and the zerg would rather farm Champions.

I don’t blame the farmers for failing the event for more loot. Who could resist? It’s anet’s bad design that led to this. Hopefully they will learn from their mistakes.

Pelagato.6092:

So confuse… What are you talking about…?

It’s just a bad attempt at trolling. Move on.

I didn’t choose the Charr Engineer life….

The Charr Engineer life chose me.

Yeah, I wish my Whisper’s Pistol had a suppressed gunshot sound effect. It does have a suppressor on it…

Celestina.2894:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78bDZGiPYO8

That’s cool and all but I am frankly disappointed that a “sad tune” was not played.

Not exactly needless hoarding. I prefer having the stacks upon stacks of Watchwork Sprockets in a compact form as they took up a lot inventory space.

20g isn’t even that much for me but hey, I’m glad my misfortune brings you sad people some joy. I just hope this influences the devs in a positive way so that this type of thing doesn’t happen again.

So I had about 175 upopened Resplendent Watchwork Boxes and 90 gauntlet tickets from farming deadeye over the weekend. I come back today and now they’re worthless.

Thanks anet. You could’ve a least a warned the community or coded a separate item for the newly nerfed bags. Just a suggestion if you plan to nerf these type of things in the future.

Warrior TRIPLE WEAPON SWITCHING. We are the kings of weapons.

I’m assuming you are talking about Deadeye. The people you seeing “blazing through and killing him effortlessly” have developed builds and strategy that focus on killing him as quickly as possible. They are farming him. If they do any other boss they will die.

All professions can defeat Deadeye though some can do it faster. You simply don’t have the right build.

Firebaall.5127:

I think the trouble is, that Anet pays their programmers less than their city’s regional garbage men.

….literally.

How hard would you try at your job with a degree, when the guys taking away your trash earn significantly more?

I’m not happy with team of programmers earning less than industry standards, neither are they. It’s showing up in the product that we pay for. That’s a fact.

Source.

deadeye’s killshot seems to be random aswell.

Also, his mines don’t seem to damage ranger pets anymore.

Looks like someone is jealous that he doesn’t have the right profession or build to farm. What if I told you that increasing his health wouldn’t deter farmers? They’d just make a better build that focuses slightly more on sustained damage vs burst damage.

Nope, RNG. Yesterday I threw in 50 rare greatswords and I got a bunch of exotics in a row (about 5) and then Dawn suddenly appeared. Later that night I threw in 50 more rare greatswords and got only 1 exotic.

Wow, interesting. I did not know that. Thanks.

Yeah I personally thought this was very unfair to thieves as we can’t use our builds to a full extent. I’m not sure whether it’s a bug or intended seeing that the perma-debuff was unique during the “Deadeye” boss.

Nonetheless, I was able to defeat all the enemies with my pistol condition build.

Hopefully, it is a bug like when they removed orichalcum ores at one point. I see no reason for BoH’s to be removed from the chests.

Lets be honest. It is indeed disappointing they are removing the coin drop from bosses thus removing the point of gilded infusion. However, those of us who got it early definitely got a good use out of it during the time it was useful.

Although I wouldn’t mind a refund, I highly doubt anet would do it.

edit: excuse the typo in the title. I thought I corrected it but I guess my keyboard was in overwrite mode or something, who the hell even uses overwrite mode.

I should’ve said this a lot sooner but the way the vendors have organized the sPVP runes and sigils is absolutely terrible. With all the different tabs of categories, it takes much much longer to find your runes and sigils now.

I like to hot join sometimes and test different builds. That means I’ll be going through different runes and sigils, this new layout is bad and takes longer to find said runes and sigils.

There is one simple way to solve this issue. Make a separate tab for “ALL” runes and “ALL” sigils. Heck, I wouldn’t even mind if it was in ABC order.

Condition thief can solo supply camps pretty easily.

Wish it was a real voice instead of a robot one. I did laugh at “magnus’ lapdog” though haha.

What if I told you…

Alienating zerker “elitist” from your group simply cause they’re zerkers makes you an elitist yourself?