Guild Wars 2

I didn’t use BLK many times so it doesn’t mean anything, but i can say that (would have to log in to be sure, but im positive) i have more than 1dark matter average with them, yet i only got Dark matter from Master’s about 3times. But again i only used the bl 14times max so i could have been just lucky with them and unlucky with Master’s :/

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

timmyf.1490:

Aidan Savage.2078:

timmyf.1490:

I just wanted to make a science joke. :-/

Most science logic in a game forces a “404: logic not found” error. Otherwise, how can you explain a character carrying up to 40 thousand gold ingots? Or 40 thousand planks of wood? Not only is the first example going to weigh quite a bit (possibly several tons), the second example is going to be awkward to carry considering the planks are going to be up to 6 feet in length.

Wormhole bags.

Duh. ;-)

Ok, that made me chuckle

+1

Andred.1087:

Well, also worth noting is that two sigils that both grant stat boosts on kill will not work.

That also applies if i have bloodlust on my main weapon set (lets say a greatsword) and life sigil on my second weapon set (sword+sword) ?

Are there any more restrictions how sigils work, namely those that trigger on critical and we want to have 2different ones on the same weap?

Just making sure…but not all the digital versions are either Heroic or Delux right? I say this because i didn’t get any of the bonus items, but i didn’t buy it from the Gw2 site as at the time it was more expensive (I got it roughly for less 40% than the Heroic’s version on the site and if it wasn’t for that i wouldn’t be playing this right now) but i didn’t know that not all the digital versions had those ’’freebies’’ :x

Just to confirm that this is due to my lack of knowledge rather than some kind of bug.

Would you say it is harder than Tequatl? Looked like it (today was my first attempt) and apparently some people mentioned how hard it is to get done. We focused just on killing the Crimson Wurm and we didn’t even took her down to 66% hp. Did anyone succeed on this since the megaservers? Any time of the day when we have more chances of completing the event? Tequatl already seems hard enough, specially if there are no commanders, but this one looks like may be even harder of getting enough ppl (and coordination) in order kill all the wurms :x

Thanks guys, you were helpful. Also did read the said guide and was a big help as well. Ill try some new stuff tmrw. I’ll also read ( or re-read, not sure) two other guides that were suggested on the Dungeons one.

Just to point out that on builds 5) you mention not using Mantras, but on the build editor you still have the 3mantras as skills being used.

For the reserved post we need to compile videos demonstrating specific examples where mesmers shine. Lupi suicide, portal botting, reflect uptime/dmg, boon strips, and clever timed mob control are a few that come to mind.

Would love to see that.

Pyroathiest.4168:

virq.4605:

In build 1, gwskills show 20s cooldown lowered to 12s on swordsman. In game i see 16s whatever i trait lovered cd or not. Am i doing something wrong or they changed it?

Edit: ok checked it, in game blade training doesnt stack with illusionist celerity.

It’s only a tooltip error. The game can’t handle double cooldown reduction apparently, but if you actually cast the skill it’ll have a proper 12s cooldown.

Oh, i did not know it was a error, i thought that’s how it worked. Then, it says 16sec but after 12sec you can use the skill again, but do you see the cd as fully refreshed after the said 12sec or you have to roughly guess (and use the skill once the cd is 3/4 refreshed)?

Quite good guide

Kirito.9207:

Grocen.7956:

mesmer is more than ele and nec..

Are you sure?
I know in PVE whenever I pug I rarely see other Mesmers.

From my experience you see N more than Me, but i’m not sure about Eles… Again i don’t do PvP, and im not thinking about WvW when i say this, just from my Dungeons experience.

viralthefrog.6130:

Pokecenter.3548:

viralthefrog.6130:

I hate when people say, “I can’t get this now. Anet is punishing me.”
They are not punishing you. You should have been actively participating at the time when exclusive skins were available.
They’re called “exclusive” for a reason,

Yet sooner or later they get avaliable again, being less exclusive – often tends to happen at least . Personally what annoys me the most is not the skins but rather the achievs i missed. They shoulda make an Asura create a time machine so we could experience old LS events once more lol.

I wasn’t around for the first LS, so I missed every single achievement and other exclusive items.
My only frustration is that they left no content behind. They could have permabarred the skins and achievements and left behind some content, and I would be happy. :P

Same here, i wasn’t around during that time. I wouldn’t ask for the skins (i believe that those that were actually around since the beggining should be rewarded somehow, and a unique title/skin seems a good way to do so), but indeed if only I could play that old content again i would be happy. Fortunately looks like a couple of old events will be back within a week

viralthefrog.6130:

I hate when people say, “I can’t get this now. Anet is punishing me.”
They are not punishing you. You should have been actively participating at the time when exclusive skins were available.
They’re called “exclusive” for a reason,

Yet sooner or later they get avaliable again, being less exclusive – often tends to happen at least . Personally what annoys me the most is not the skins but rather the achievs i missed. They shoulda make an Asura create a time machine so we could experience old LS events once more lol.

1 – What is the current meta for Mes? Should i change gear/traits/skills according with the Dungeon or party members?

2 – What about the weapons? I use sword+focus, currently Greatsword as well instead Staff, althought i loved my Staff and really disliked the GS, but now i find it fine and i believe it fits better with my Zerker stats. I like having a ranged weapon, i just think it comes handy quite often, but should i think about something else? I don’t think that – with my current build at least – scepter and torch would be an option, but i’ve noticed that some people here seem to enjoy sword+sword as well, and i remember to read a guide that – for dungeons too – suggested Sword+pistol. Should i really get rid off GS for sword+something?

3 – Just making sure, but Ranger runes work it illusions right? Then, it would be a better choice than scholar i believe? They aren’t as expensive, yet it seems to be easier to have Ranger’s 7%bonus (1illusion alive) rather than Scholar’s 10% (hp>90%).

4 – Talking about exotic only, but should i consider getting an assassin’s set to replace my zerker? It looks like currently it could be better.

5 – How should i rotate my utility skills? I just got too attached to null field and feedback, specially because they provide combo fields and with the right traits you can use them quite often. I personally enjoy the chaos armor and it gives a chance to all team members to get it as well and do some confusion bolts. But probably the good Mesmers at dungeons vary skills according with the situation, anything i should have in mind?

6 – Also i started to like the phantasm defender, i just like how it helps my party with the survivability, but how good it actually is? Because if he takes half of the damage directed at each of the group players, unless if he has a huge hp pool, in the end probably he isn’t that usefull i suppose?

7 – Are any of the illusion stats related with the character, or they only get affect with traits and possible boons?

8 -Does the feedback also reflect projectiles from the outside, meaning that if the players are inside the bubble and you have snipers ranging from outside you are safe?

9 – If we are stacked near a mob, and i use feedback, is it useless other than for the combo field? Seeing that the mob’s attack won’t touch the bubble/barrier, but rather directly hit us?

10 – I rarely use shatterer skills. I do use them every Dungeon, but like once or twice, most of the times im just trying to get illusions on the field and leave them to help doing damage or being just one extra target so that the mobs get distracted. Is this wrong? Should i always shatterer them if possible? or maybe it depends on the situation?

I didn’t intend to keep using my Mesmer, but in the end i got back to use him, so since it is my main i feel like i should understand him better. I’ve been into Dungeons lately and i would like to improve my game, so i would like to clarify the topics above.

Pyroathiest.4168:

Pokecenter.3548:

Pyroathiest.4168:

Retaliation is useless from a damage perspective PvE, and nearly useless in PvP unless you’re specifically built to make the most of it, which involves ultra-tanky gear. Don’t worry about retal.

Retaliation reflects all the damage you take? If so, could a vitality set with healing power but no toughness work out? What about an Asura Mesmer (for the extra pain inverter), could it make a retaliaton Mesmer any viable? Im not thinking about going there (I liked a guide i read, i believe it was yours, that used retaliation but seems that it doesn’t work anymore), but ive been wondering if it could work somehow.

No. Retaliation returns a static amount of damage per hit. This amount is some base + scaling with power.

Just confirmed http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Retaliation ty
I was hoping that it could at least decrease the damage you take by the amount that is reflected to the attacker, but just like this doesn’t seem that great.

maxinion.8396:

Pokecenter.3548:

Screw it, im not reading the second page. This thread annoyed me quite a bit at some point, but at least now i know that Mantras are not viable. I was curious about them, i only use the one to give me stability at certain dungeons, or the other to cleanse conditions. Still, i may try a more oriented Mantra build sometime later.

Mantras are super viable for dungeons, and appear in most of the maximum DPS builds. The lack of sustain doesn’t matter so much in PvE, where mobs won’t notice you channeling and might not even be alive long enough to require re-charging in fight.

Yeah, i know mantras can increase your dps in a PvE oriented manner, not being a hindrance, tho i never read a specific guide for that. Do you know any builds name that channels mantras so i could check it?

Pyroathiest.4168:

Retaliation is useless from a damage perspective PvE, and nearly useless in PvP unless you’re specifically built to make the most of it, which involves ultra-tanky gear. Don’t worry about retal.

Retaliation reflects all the damage you take? If so, could a vitality set with healing power but no toughness work out? What about an Asura Mesmer (for the extra pain inverter), could it make a retaliaton Mesmer any viable? Im not thinking about going there (I liked a guide i read, i believe it was yours, that used retaliation but seems that it doesn’t work anymore), but ive been wondering if it could work somehow.

Brother Grimm.5176:

How about a category field for each friend?

(and obviously a sort / display filter to use it).

Good idea, i thought that this thread was about that once i read the title. Im not one who takes the initiative and add people to friendlist, but im not one to refuse invites either and while i don’t have that many friends ingame most of them i actually don’t remember how i ended up adding them… also the different account/character name doesn’t help memorizing much. I guess that’s why you can set a nickname tho.

OP, I know how you are feeling. Im not as experienced as you, be it APs wise or Dungeon runs, but i feel empathy towards what you typed. I myself was thinking about joining a Guild dedicated to Dungeons but ended up not doing it, i only found 2 EU most seem to be NA and judging from their way of talking and/or advertisement/requirements it didn’t seem the kind of environment i would like to join (it is a matter of attitude and personality, nothing particular against the people of the said Guilds), and listening to what you said it reminded me of that. Then there’s also what you explained, about the newbies missing important points to make the run smooth (knowledge about the path, gear used, less efficient build) which could be greatly avoided if only they happened to communicate and showed some interest, which usually isn’t the case; or the opposite of the Dungeon expert who seems slightly arrogant, kitteny, impatient and rude. Despite getting kittened I try to understand since we are a community and just as in real life relationships everyone got a different personality and temper which tends to influence their gameplay as well, but i still dislike it.

I typed too much and ended up not saying anything : ) I just kinda agree with you. Feel free to add me if you want so we can do a couple runs.

In your case looks like Ascended is a better of a deal, but there’s another advantage about the Legendaries: if ever they create another tier of gear, something better than Ascended, the Legendary stats will be adjusted (increased) in order to still be the highest tier avaliable.

I started Dungeons a few weeks ago and there are a few that i wouldn’t mind having some mentoring – namely Arah 123 and TA 3 as i never had the chance to try them. EU, would appreciate an invite

Carpboy.7145:

Its a sigil on one of your weapons. Each time you kill something you get one stack. There are also sigils that work the same way but with power (bloodlust), precision (perception), and toughness (momentum).

healing (life) ? I recall to have seen something similar at least

As it was said it is a sigil, check both land a underwater weapons, remember that you have a second set of weapons and that you can have 2sigils be it a dual handed weap or 2x 1hand weaps.

Screw it, im not reading the second page. This thread annoyed me quite a bit at some point, but at least now i know that Mantras are not viable. I was curious about them, i only use the one to give me stability at certain dungeons, or the other to cleanse conditions. Still, i may try a more oriented Mantra build sometime later.

Didn’t Brazil said something along those lines on a Mesmer video he did after the April patch? About how good the Assassin’s+Ranger runes could be.

So much lack of love for the poor bearbow.

This post gave me a good laugh couple weeks ago. Felt really good to read it, glad you found your friend : )

Traits would help, and runes (and if your gear isn’t full exotic zerker mention it too). Remember that the critical damage you do will depend on your power, ferocity and target’s defense, so 5k may be good or not. I suppose you don’t mean PvP as gear wouldn’t matter, and since you posted here you mean PvE only, but i suggest you to check the Thiefs subforum where you will find a higher amount of Thief experts.

I didn’t do much with my Thief other than getting him to 80 so i lack experience, but there are some nasty stealth builds that dish nice damage. Thief should be the 2nd or 3rd profession with the highest damage output, so if you really have a problem should be related with your trait distribution.

I’ve been thinking about creating a similar post concerning this since i was curious as well. The way i see it, the best is to join a dedicated Dungeon guild after having some experience on all the Dungeons and read some guide online for further tips regarding each path (such as potions to be used), all this will increase your overall expererience while doing dungeons. Such rank is hard to classify because, if you do it with PuGs, it can go really smooth or really bad.

From what i’ve experienced, and i only started doing Dungeons other than story 3weeks ago, also not counting with TA p3 and Arah p123 as i’ve never done those, i would say that my rank goes like:
AC 3
AC 1
AC 2
SE P1
SE P3
CoF P1
CM P3
CM P1
TA up
CoF P2

In my case it goes roughly like this, they aren’t ordered by the fastest or easiest one, just by how much i feel confortable with each one (which is influenced by my PuGs experiences as well). The reason AC is on top3 is because the profit from that one is higher.

I also love the roundedness, tho that from my mmo experience i tend that it tends not to be that great. Would like to try a celestial set on some character as well

Aidan Savage.2078:

All skins in the pvp locker have been transferred to the Wardrobe. All it takes is taking each character into HotM. Some of them have had names changed though.

Regarding that, you only have to enter HotM and exit? Because i had PvP skins in one of my characters, or two, but i never did PvP, so i don’t even know where the locker is. I did notice that with one of those, i went and left HotM but my skin achiev didn’t go up, so my second question is do those skins count towards the achiev? Not sure if i did something wrong.. :x

I would say to look over Necro subforum as well. I don’t know specifics even having a Necro myself but im sure they can have some nice rabid builds.

Regarding Mesmer which i use more often, you can check the build that was suggested above or some other – that i don’t know the name – that was pretty defensive and focused on condis with rabid gear only, using staff as main weapon and scepter+torch. I remember about this one because i wanted to try it so i’ve been saving rabid gear instead salvaging to that once i get a full set i can give it a go.

As was said, condi builds are no good for pve, so if you want one be sure that it is more oriented for WvW or maybe PvP.

Im not sure regarding elementalist as i’ve seen good ele users complaining about how ele isn’t suited for wvw right now. Without any really knowledge on the subject, since i don’t use any of these two, i would risk Guardian or Warrior. They surely are great at pve and Dungeons, being able to provide great team play or being consistent as solo; as for wvw im sure they can do well enough, at least they are not horrible. As far as pvp goes i have no idea but i know till recently warriors were annoying quite alot of people with regen and hammer builds.

Melanie.1240:

Because when you buy a piece of gear with that account money you don’t get it for all your characters either?

This, tho now this does not apply for Ascended and Legendary. Honestly i would prefer if the tag was 200-300g but account bound, but again that could seem unfair for those who use 1char only. I believe commanders can as well set some symbols on the map for your squad to see, such as attack/defend. Also, it can be useful to organize larger scale events such as Tequatl.

What is the issue exactly? Switching weapons while in combat (swamping weaps)? Or you just want to replace your current weapon but can’t? Be sure you have enough level to use it and that your profession can actually use the said weap (Necros can’t use gswords, for example). Some weapons, like staffs, don’t allow you to hold on one more weapon at the same time.

Historical Achievements are the thing that annoy me the most in the game.
That aside, i didn’t know, i wanted to try it as well. I guess i only got the waves one missing then.

I believe the one in CoE doesn’t count, but i’ll check later. At least when i checked which Giants did count that one wasn’t mentioned, even if he does it is not a good way of farming that achiev. Thumbs up for the event one, i wouldn’t worry about it unless you had pretty much all the other achievs tho.

crimlet.9872:

Preventing players from trading is probably the worst way of preventing wts spam.

Obviously that isn’t true, as we don’t see WTS spams with the current lack of a user trade interface

Im not sure if that’s the reason, but it may be, i always saw it more like they forced players on TP as an efficient way of sinking gold. I don’t think it is wrong, and if you happen to sell or buy a really expensive item you could always use the said mail option. I wouldn’t be surprised if they added a trande option sometime later on, but right now it can’t be helped.

There is, you can mail one item and the said player sends you the payment, for example. I believe that’s how it used to work during the beta when there was no TP – but im not sure since i didn’t play back then, just saw someone talkin about it.

As you can imagine, while this can solve your problem it also got some risks, it is up to the player to either decide to do it or not.

I only noticed 1 in LA and 1 in Black Citadel, Im not sure if i missed them or they were added a few months later when used that char again tho.

You can do all the JPs daily if you wish, and they will be counted towards the daily/monthly, but you only get credited with achievement points the very first time you finish a certain JP – if you redo it sometime later, you can still get the chest but not the achievement points since you got them once before.

Im pretty sure there is nothing you can do about it, but wait for someone else to answer and see what they think.

Unless it is for the looks, i would rather get a backpiece from Orr vendors or – if you want the ascended – fractals. I didn’t try myself, but im guessing that getting enough blades won’t be easy.

Idc about this. Honestly, this isn’t for everyone, imo you must have a certain knowledge about the game (specially builds) before bothering about ‘studying’ this stuff, which is not my case. But i did read the whole thing and i found it interesting, good work there Im guessing this should be particularly useful for the Dungeon pros who may have the most interest about maximizing their dps in order to do them faster.

Now that i’ve read something like this i wonder…is there something i could read, on the same tone as this, but specifically about each of the professions? So that i can have an idea about how different are their stats at max level, and how can that change with the different armor (weights) and individual traits and/or skills?

I just became familiar with a interesting concept: Diminishing Returns, DR for short: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Diminishing_returns That’s important but not an issue since there’s always quite a few alternatives, and that’s what im curious about, which of the many ‘farm’ ways is the most suitable for each one of the things mentioned in the title. Reason i started wondering this – kinda late, maybe because im not really the farming type so far – is because i got Karma, Experience and MF boosters, and i wanted to make sure i use them in the most efficient/profitable way possible.

So from all the good ways to farm, that im aware about, we got:
- Frostgorge Sound/Queensdale trains, depending on character’s level.
- Temple runs at Orr
- Dynamic chain events that end up going against a big Champ in the end all across the world, specially Mega-events (Karka, Tequatl, Evolved Wurm)
- Fractals of the Mists
- Dungeons
- WvW
- Edge of the Mists

Some of these are related, I just mentioned them in separated points as they are slightly different. I don’t think that the Mega-events are a reliable source to get profit (remember the Boosters will last 1h only), as they are hard to organize, time consuming and bound to fail in many ocasions (unless if there is a server where you know for sure that they always do it on those days/hours). FotM, unless if relics needed, by itself doesn’t seem the best place to get loot, the Karma obtained is higher for higher PR levels (not my case), the gold is nothing to mention about, and the experience im not sure (but since i would use my Experience Booster on a low lvl place this wouldn’t be the place i would choose).

From those mentioned (or any other) how would be best used my Karma, Experience or Magic Find Boosters? My guess – not from experience but feedback i get from other players – is that would be EotM for Karma, Temples for Magic Find, not sure about exp.

Oh..not judging by no means, since if you using the forums there’s a reason, but i heard that Aurora Glade in EU is very friendly, and got a good amount of players. Personally i really enjoyed the times i guested there.

Also make sure that even if you are not on the same server you are on the same zone (NA/EU); the time when you usally play as stated is always important as people that only play at night wouldn’t be able to team up with guys that only play during the day (assuming same timezone).

Wanze.8410:

10) Yes. Once its greyed out, you get no more experience for crafting it.
11) Yes. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Crafting#Crafting_experience
12) Yes, unless you want to use the refining process as a source of experience for another craft.
13) I would use them for 400-500

I thought that would be the case, thanks! Ty for the link as well, will read it now : )

Twilight Shepard.2498:

I live in Mexico lol, but I always pick NA servers in every game, it’s sad you can’t jump from regions as easy as it was in GW1. In GW1 I tended to jump from NA to Spain all the time.

Yes, that’s the only problem. I belive theres one Spanish Server in EU, as well as many that speak English, so perhaps you would prefer to choose a EU server as your Home World so you could speak your main language; but i don’t know how much this would affect your connection – im assuming that if you have lag issues, since NA is closer, it could be better for playing purposes.

Pie Flavor.1647:

Pokecenter.3548:

3. Can you active it at anytime or it starts automatically on your b-day/as soon as you log in?
<- curious as well.

it’s activated at will, you can gather several boosters by just making a ton of characters and waiting 1 year

Thanks

Mazett.6128:

I’ve been having much the same problem. Though for me there is only one missing for each area… Shiverpeaks, kryta, ascalon etc… No clue how to fix it… 100% map and done all jp ;s…

Like i said, it is easy to fix…check the list on wiki and compare it with your actual map exploration till you find the zone you are missing.

NA or EU?
Yes, you can have people of different servers on the same Guild (even if you are NA and they are EU), and you can guest on other servers from the same continent and do your normal play as you would on your own server (you just can’t do WvW if guesting), which means that even if in different servers you can still do Dungeons, Guild Missions or regular quests together that applies for both guild members or just any other casual player you may want to play with.

Bump!

I wanted to know a few more things. I actually ended leveling 2 skills to lv400, I used roughly 10g and 2 Crafting Boosters. I was supposed to get two more to lv400 but i waited for Thursday for the bonus and ended up missing the chance (just forgot), and two more times i actually had to save gold to buy something so i ended up not doing it. But i would like to know the following:

10 – The color on the things you can craft changes as you craft more, does that means that when it reaches white you barely get exp for crafting that item?

11 – If i discover a low level recipe compared with my craft level, the exp i get will be lower than if i had discovered that same recipe when my craft level was low as well?

12 – Can i mass refine all the basic mats i got, or i may need them like that (example mithril ores instead mithril ingots) to craft something? I only remember to use refined versions of the mats and not the basic version.

13 – One of my following goals is to get my leatherworking to lv450 from lv400. I believe that lv450 is also when i can start crafting time-gated stuff, but i only got 4 Crafting Boosters now. It is more than enough if i gather all the needed mats so i can craft for 1hour straight, but i was just thinking that maybe i wasted those Craft Boosters to get my skills from 1 to 400 because getting them to 400 is cheap and easy, but getting them to 400-450 is more expensive, so a craft bonus during those crafts will be have more ’’value’’ than if i was crafting lower lvl stuff. So am i right and from now on i should save the Boosters to lv400-450 only, or from your experience keep using them for lv1-400 instead?

Romek.4201:

dont do this

when arenanet bring cooking lvl 500 they delete all your recipes 80+ again^^

Only those 80+
Will they make cooking and jeweler crafts to 500 for sure? and will the others go higher than 500 ?

3. Can you active it at anytime or it starts automatically on your b-day/as soon as you log in?
<- curious as well.