Guild Wars 2

MrSmiley.1543:

Just curious, why do I see people go condition/precision instead of power/condition? I don’t know the math behind it and am new to 80

• Chaotic Transference give 5% of your toughness is given as a bonus to condition damage.
• Rune of the Undead give 5% of your toughness is given as a bonus to condition damage.
• Master Tuning Crystal give Condition damage equal to 6% of your toughness and 4% of yout Vitality.
• Confusion bomb builds have often 20 trait point in precision for Deceptive Evasion (create clone on dodge) and they unlock the trait 15 too, Sharper Images (illusions apply bleeding on critical hit)

Imho with a Rabid set (condition damage + precision+ toughness ) you can have more condition damage.

If you have a power based build, try Runes of Centaur,

13 stack of confusion, (scepter + confusion bomb) ,even with nerf, are still nice.

Necrid.2705:

Exotics give between 0-6 ecto, plus t5/t6 mats. Badges are easy to gather so there cost is practically 0 and are not counted as part of the cost when comparing conversions styles.

6 ectos? Oh, you are right.

Well i finally found a way, Reddit is always useful, thanks Darabolok.
Buy a Fine Trasmutation stone, buy a Black Lion Salvage Kit, buy a Blue lvl 80 weapon
Trasmutate the wvw weapon choosing the blue weapons stats and the sigil (the skin don’t care), and i can finally salvaged all.

Necrid.2705:

Salvaging for ecto’s is why you’ll never be able to salvage those.
(unless they up the price to 2+g & badges.)
Toss them into the forge to spit out an equal (but sellable/salvageable) counterpart.
Or hang on to them in an invisible bag for when you (undoubtedly, eventually) need to have that same weapon back.
Most Sigils are cheap enough to get and replace anyways. (with the exception of a few)
Sometimes, all you have is the Forge (aka Mystic Toilet) to rely on to un-bind your items. Fractal Exotic Gear is this way. Come out of Fractals AB, but toss them in forge and viola! you have something you can actually work with!

Salvaging an exotic weapon give you from 0 to 3 ectos + a some t6 material.
An exotic Invader Weapon cost 1G + 132 badges so, it’s quite fair for me but hey … np.

My topic was for the sigils, not for the crude salvage.

I actually have 1 bloodlust, 2 energy, 2 Fire and 2 corruption.
And honestly i can’t put even 2 corruption and 2 energy in the forge for a replace, it’s really a waste of money.

Bloodlust is THE exception for the Mystic toilet, that’s why i discover this “feature”.

:|

I don’t understand why we can’t salvage invader weapons.
If we need the sigil placed in the WvW weapons, why we must buy other sigils and put these in the bank?

Invader weapons cost 1 gold (plus badges) and don’t have any embedded sigil.
It’s impossible to do a salvage abuse.

When we change build we often use different weapons , and we can’t pass the sigil from a sword to a greatsword even with a Trasmutation Stone.

Transmute the sigil from a WvW weapon to another weapon, then salvage that, don’t work it too.

That’s really annoyng; it’s a waste of space, money, and time.

selan.8354:

but what if u fall behind?it takes forever without focus to get to places.I used to run without it and it was a pain!

Just take one focus in your Inventory.
If you are running with your guild you are not in combat, so: open inventory, double click on focus and use Temporal Curtain.
You can swap again or use the focus until you approach the enemy.

selan.8354:

nah in wvw its sort of a must to have a focus as u have to run all over the place so no torch for me..it’s not an option!I’m not sure if u are more a pvp player but wvw is a complete different game u can’t just blind everyone and run through and all that don’t forget that in wvw u need to be able to fight through 30 to 60 + people.conditions are very useful there if u can apply it to multiple targets.

Uhm no, it’s just an option, your opinion.
If you play Shatter condition with your guild you don’t need the focus, and the Prestige is perfect for approaching the invaders and use a Confusion bomb.

It’s just a different gameplay, imho.

Perfect, thank you!

Using Cry of Frustration with Master of Misdirection, how much condition duration my clone will apply on target? 3s or 4s (3s + 33%)?

from Wikipedia:
Master of Misdirection
Confusion YOU inflict lasts 33% longer.

Confusion from the following sources is lengthened by 33%:
Cry of Frustration (if Illusionary Retribution is not active)
All shattering skills (if Illusionary Retribution is active)

… i’m a bit confused honestly ..

Cond/glam with 20/20/0/0/30 is nice with large scale fights too.
With Confusing Enchantments (domination, VIII) + Dazzling Glamours (Illusions, VIII) + Blinding Befuddlement (Illusions, IX), try to Cast Feedback and Nullfield into the blob.

Oh, now because i have a mesmer, i can’t answer? Very funny.

1) There are more guardians and ele than mesmers in WvW
2) Ele do more ranged damage
3) Warriors do more melee damage

Nice try, you can troll better.

Actually I love my Hybrid build

WvW – Hybrid : 20 ( V, VIII ) | 20 ( V, X ) | 0 | 0 | 30 ( IV, IX, XI )

Come on. Stop trolling every mondays …

1UP! Even without fast updates … it’s still funny!

Trendy Ideology.1034:

… cut …

http://www.hark.com/clips/zgcjjfqsmb-sad-trombone

This is a Lottery, and you can play well without the Fused weapons …
Honestly, read the whine is really funn, GG Anet

Thanks a lot for the suggestions Sub! Very useful!
Yes i was looking about a Dazer – Stunner build against medium groups in wvw, my mistake sorry.

I’ll update the first post. Thank you

Ross Biddle.2367:

Bah, slow builds = complainers.

Good boon duration + focus swapping + 1200 blink = faster than your zerg spamming speed skills.

Your typical mesmer:- 0% boon duration + no focus (or a smart one who swaps to focus when travelling, might even be traited) + no, or 900 range blink = complains on the forums, or takes runes of centaur/air much to the hate of mesmers who believe it’s a silly sacrifice to have to make.

All this to say that, sure there’s a problem, but there’s something to be said about the players build that’s a part of it. Also, leave Signet of Midnight alone. That’s 10% more boon duration right there!

Here’s a pro tip: 2x rune of monk, 2x rune of water, 2x rune of speed = 50% boon duration to speed (+30% to every other boon), + upwards of 30 points in chaos trait line = +80% swiftness duration (and 60% to all other boons).

Personally 50% bonus swiftness is plenty for me. I prefer a bonus 20% might duration instead.

Best answer ever.

Hi, i was looking for a WvW dazer build but don’t find infos.
I do a theorical build, and i’d like to know if i can find useful suggestions or links about a dazer mesmer.
wvw group dazer build

The mesmer (invisible) would rush in the middle of the invader group, place 3 clones, shatter with Diversion, teleport back or start a portal bomb BEFORE the engage.
My purpose is interrupt the pre-engage casting (heal polls, protections … etc)

Like a sudden Blackout.

Can someone help me?

My build is similar too.
I play with a hybrid build “shatter cat – glamour”, very funny and versatile, imho.

Build link

I change Mirror Images with Portal Entre or Veil when are more useful
Same for Mass Invisibility with Time Warp.

You just need to find the right gameplay. Confusion is perfect, imho.

After the Lost Shores update, the Torch skills with Cleansing Conflagration trait don’t remove condition anymore.

Can someone confirm this bug too? Thank you.

Cutterslaine.2689:

cherrie.8907:

Xpiher.5209:

Cutterslaine.2689:

Sky.9347:

Jezath.7395:

Sky.9347:

Jezath.7395:

Sky.9347:

Namu.5712:

fixit.7189:

Ok you take one group with 36% more stats over all due to having full sets of new gears/weapons vs another group that does not have that stuff….

Tell me, who will win in pure numbers?

Oh you say it’s only 2 rings and a back slot, silly! Then I point out they explicitly said they are not only adding a full set with accompanied weapons but ALSO with mutiple ‘tiers’ and more legendaries on top of that.

So now you want to not play and not be left behind in stats or gear… oh dear… C’mon if you dont play the gae for 3 months or whatnot ofc you will be left behind, thats perfectly normal and expected…

This game becomes Gear Wars, just like that other game and all it’s clones.

That would be a no thank you for me.

They said it in their announcement post that the gear wouldn’t all be released at once. The only ascended gear being released today is a piece or two…. ill go back and read maybe ive been up to long and im off my rocker o.O. But if they release say 2 pieces every 3 months….. the situation you outlined above is really not gonna happen because most will go after the new pieces.

Most who are at the level cap, who have full sets of good gear (rare or exotic), who enjoy dungeons, who want to grind for Ascended gear (which based on their reasoning will be more difficult than exotics, less than legendary), and who have the privilege to play the game over the next couple months.

Anyone who does not fall into ALL of those categories will be left behind.

Look… If you expect to NOT play this game and still be on par with everyobne your having a pipe dream. I cant beleive that anyone would egnuinley think that would be acceptable. If you dont play the game EXPECT to be l eft behind its perfectly natural. This smacks of people who want everything but dont want to put the effort in.

“It all gets back to our basic design philosophy. Our games aren’t about preparing to have fun, or about grinding for a future fun reward. Our games are designed to be fun from moment to moment.”
Mike O’Brien
President and Co-Founder of ArenaNet
Executive Producer of Guild Wars 2

And this is true. The game will still be fun from moment to moment. It still doesent mean u can not play for 3 months and remain at the same level as everyone else.

“So if you love MMORPGs, you should check out Guild Wars 2. But if you hate traditional MMORPGs, then you should really check out Guild Wars 2. Because, like Guild Wars before it, GW2 doesn’t fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn’t suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn’t make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun; and of course, it doesn’t have a monthly fee.”

Mike O’Brien
President and Co-Founder of Arena Net
Executive Producer of Guild Wars 2

Does that mean I can have my money back if I wanted, if they go down this progression route?

Sadly no.

Actually – yes.
If you purchased directly from Arena Net.

I did … Excellent. I’m even more interested now to see how this unfolds.

Sure, with +300 gameplay hours … you want your money back lol … oh please take this chupachups -.-

Tha Asura Tier 3 Peacemaker sword is still bugged and don’t make any glow.

Tested. I prefeer the new FoV

The Guild ladder was so important for the success of Guild Wars and the lack of ladder of GW2 makes guilds less prone to competition. Some of my guildmates have been disappointed about that, and I wonder why Anet didn’t do anything until now.

The idea is simple, create a guild ladder, splitted by WvW, sPvP and PvE, using the exp that you already earn (maybe with some fixes), and in WvW and PvE cases, divided for further server and global ladder too.

The ranking can be drawn up on the basis of a score, for example:
sPvP – The guild score would be like the GW1 system

WvW – The guild score is the sum of the exp that the guildmates earns in WvW.

PvE – guild score is the sum of the exp obtained by guildmates in PvE, completing dungeons, events, points of interest, waypoints etc…

A chart like this puts the largest guilds in the top of the ladder (that it’s correct: 100 inexperienced players of the guild [AA] in WvW do more things than 10 guildmates of the guild hardcore[XX]).
In any case, to emphasize those small hardcore guilds, it would be essential to add a new parameter in the ladder: the performance, dividing points scored by the number of guildmates.

Example:
The guild [AA] have 500 people and 20000 exp, it has a performance of 40 (20000/500)
The guild [XX] have 50 people and 5000 exp, it has a performance of 100 (5000/50)
In a ranking, ordered by points, the guild [AA] is ahead, but if you order by performance, the small guild [XX] will be on top.

The performance is useful to highlight those small guilds that specialize on a particular game mode.

Why this will be good for GW2?
If you wants to be very competitive in WvW and you’re looking for a guild, then open the ladder, choose whether to go in a small guild with a high performance, or choose a guild that has a high number of guild members, being sure that for PvE, who is interested in dungeons or making gold for the Sunrise will choose a PvE guild, choosing between efficiency or points.

In WvW would be better for a guild to play in a server without too much pro guilds: less invaders, no enemy towers to conquer, and no towers to defend means less points for WvW ladder. This will balance the servers too.

I hope that this suggestion can be positively shared with others and Anet will take a look, IMHO it would be great

P.S. Sorry for the cross-posting but here is more visible
Thanks Xalias

The Guild ladder was so important for the success of Guild Wars and the lack of ladder of GW2 makes guilds less prone to competition. Some of my guildmates have been disappointed about that, and I wonder why Anet didn’t do anything until now.

The idea is simple, create a guild ladder, splitted by WvW, sPvP and PvE, using the exp that you already earn (maybe with some fixes), and in WvW and PvE cases, divided for further server and global ladder too.

The ranking can be drawn up on the basis of a score, for example:
sPvP – The guild score is the sum of the points obtained in the guild tournaments, with bonus points for every tounament victory and highest tournament positions.

WvW – The guild score is the sum of the exp that the guildmates earns in WvW.

PvE – guild score is the sum of the exp obtained by guildmates in PvE, completing dungeons, events, points of interest, waypoints etc…

A chart like this puts the largest guilds in the top of the ladder (that it’s correct: 100 inexperienced players of the guild [AA] in WvW do more things than 10 guildmates of the guild hardcore[XX]).
In any case, to emphasize those small hardcore guilds, it would be essential to add a new parameter in the ladder: the performance, dividing points scored by the number of guildmates.

Example:
The guild [AA] have 500 people and 20000 points, it has a performance of 40 (20000/500)
The guild [XX] have 50 people and 5000 points, it has a performance of 100 (5000/50)
In a ranking, ordered by points, the guild [AA] is ahead, but if you order by performance, the small guild [XX] will be on top.

The performance is useful to highlight those small guilds that specialize on a particular game mode.
If you wants to be very competitive in WvW and you’re looking for a guild, then open the ladder, choose whether to go in a small guild with a high performance, or choose a guild that has a high number of guild members, being sure that for PvE, who is interested in dungeons or making gold for the Sunrise will choose a PvE guild, choosing between efficiency or points.

Why this will be good for GW2?
If you wants to be very competitive in WvW and you’re looking for a guild, then open the ladder, choose whether to go in a small guild with a high performance, or choose a guild that has a high number of guild members, being sure that for PvE, who is interested in dungeons or making gold for the Sunrise will choose a PvE guild, choosing between efficiency or points.

In WvW would be better for a guild to play in a server without too much pro guilds: less invaders, no enemy towers to conquer, and no towers to defend means less points for WvW ladder. This will balance the servers too.

I hope that this suggestion can be positively shared with others and Anet will take a look, IMHO it would be great

P.S. Thanks Xalias

NO. No need this useless things on Tyria.

Thank you. Finally.

Lol. It’s hard, not impossible. Honestly, Donkey Kong last levels are far harder

I love this events, and my wife (low level pg) love it too …
P.S. I have family, child and job; i’m not an hardcore player, and my son love to watch me do the Clock tower (he builded a Lego clock tower too).

Honestly, it’s fun for every char level, imho.

After 20 failed jumps from the stairs (latency problem) i finally reached that clock. (no Boosts)

14th jump times… it’s like an invisible wall. Now i jump far early (i hit the clock same time he’s broked) … but still nothing. bah, i’ll try to log off …

(and remove the FOV beta)

i do it Cerise … my pg jump into the clock face and fall down, every time … i’ll try for the 11th if it’s not a bug

well, 10 times is strange honestly… dunno, honestly, 10 times, really 10 times …

There is something strange but when i jump toward the broken quadrant of the clock, i don’t enter. i jumped TEN TIMES … someone have the same problem? or i’m doing wrong something?!?!? O_o’

Don’t Feed the troll pls.

i hope they fix soon.

Terrant.2903:

Just keep in mind that even if 10,000 voices are wrong; when they’re the majority they’re right be virtue of being the majority.

There are not 10,000 voices. There are just some shatter and crit illusion players, crying because they can’t own every mob in PvE like 2 days ago.

Terrant.2903:

And I’d agree about those builds limiting pvp diversity. but now, as a response, Anet appears to be limiting PvE diversity. I feel this is not the proper response

You wrong. Having 2 OP builds limits PvE diversity.
Balancing means than you can choose other builds without losing efficency.
Before patch, using a different build from shatter or crit illusions was not good in dps.

@Godmoney, i don’t believe you ever tryed a Mesmer with a nice Mantra build.

With “Harmonious Mantras” and “Restorative Mantras”, “Mantra of Recovery” heal you when charge (2620 hp AoE) and every 1 of 3 “Power Return” casts (2620 hp) = 10480 hp.

You can charge others Mantras for heal yourself and allies (2620 hp AoE) meanwhile the Mantra of Recovery is in CD (and you can still cast instant skills when charging a Mantra)

The Mantra Mesmer is not a healer; he is a tough boy, with a little, but useful, support. IMHO

This is my actual build
http://en.gw2codex.com/build/19840-mantra-hybrid
Take a look, maybe you can modify and raise healing power (i suggest no, the difference is really low).

same map, this group was killing in circle.

Yakkington’s Toil
I tryed to reported all, but it’s quite impossible

This is hurting everything.
The top servers will have more queue time in WvW.
The low ranked servers are starting to be desolated.

Yesterday a lot of FoW guilds tranfeder to Ring of Fire, and the diaspora is just started…

As expected, After the WvW list, a lot of people and guilds are moving from the last position servers to the top ones.

Is it possible to stop this diaspora, maybe removing the free world transfer?

I noticed the same bug.