The more simpler, the better imo. Back in my competitive shooter days, I preferred an ancient high key keyboard.
Using a random 12 euro logitech keyboard atm.
The promised pictures! Gratz, it looks awesome.
Way I do it is just jump straight on, hold forward and jump at the same time for the same amount of time.
Once you get the timing down. You just hold forward + jump, release. Hold forward + jump, release.
Get’s really easy and you can do it 100% of the time.
Pretty much this. I don’t like swiftness, it messes up my rhythm and I overjump. I never use any “exploits” there, like the safespots on the wall or portalgun etc, since everything eventually gets fixed and imo it’s always better to be able to do things the intended way. I never remove my armor, so I’ll get “punished” when messing up. I fail there once in maybe 1 out of 50 runs, 100% success rate is a bit much.
Painful to watch how you fight mesmers. You can’t find your target from clones and on top of that you try to stomp a clone. Next time, watch out for the big red arrow. I must admit it was equally painful to see how those necros handled your conditions.
Subpar gameplay, opponents are mostly underlvld and oblivious/bad players, obnoxious attitude from emotes. Pretty much a random bad fotm player, you’ll probably move on to the next fotm build/prof soon and be equally bad at it. Please don’t make videos atleast.
No thief hate, I know they are ridiculously good roamers/1v1 spec in wvwvw due to the culling atm. Been roaming with a daggadagga spec for the past 1.5 weeks. Ganking/spiking someone is ridiculously easy and hate to admit it, but it’s good for relaxing and doing some solo play. Would choose something else for groupfights though.
I ran into this type of group recently when doing a random pug. My response for people asking me to get on the stairs: “lol no”. I had a swell time in melee alone.
They are gimping themselves trying to finish easy fights with an unnecessary exploit and get roflstomped by harder bosses or when they fix those exploits. I have seen so many “speedrunners”/kholer skippers who now get pulled each and every time when fighting him. Good times, good times.
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919h+ on main, 1172h or smth overall, player since beta. Who cares how people obtain their legendary, they can pay for it if they want to, I finished my Sunrise last week and I know how much effort I put into it, so it has a much bigger meaning/value to me. I think it took me around 2 months. It’s not a status symbol, you won’t get any more respect if you suck. It’s just a nice looking skin that only costs a lot of money and RNG.
About the unobtainable legendary for casuals, I have a full time job and I enjoy my weekends, there are times I don’t have time to play at all after work. Since I value my time I have for playing, I spend it only on stuff I enjoy. For getting the mats needed for legendary, I didn’t farm Orr, never touched TP, did flipping/etc, never spent a dime on goldsellers/gemshop. I don’t enjoy that. It’s like having a second job, that actually doesn’t give you any income. I got all of my gold/karma/half of lodestones from dungeons and casual gameplay. Also jumping badges ftw.
It required quite a bit of dedication and more grind that I liked, but OP is wrong, you don’t need to be some überrich/TP playa/goldbuyer to get yourself a legendary as a casual. Since the addition of karma jugs/dungeons giving karma/etc 1mil karma is supereasy to obtain. Skillpoints are a bit of a problem, but you should have enough as a long time player and you can always use fractal tokens to get those faster aswell. Alternative is just to create a new character and explore a bit. Atleast 1/4 T6 come from clover recipe, depends on how unlucky you are with clover RNG, rest can be bought from TP. Ectos come from random rare/exo drops from dungeons and guaranteed rares you buy for dungeon tokens. Getting 100g for icy runestones shouldn’t take you more than about a 1-2 weeks of casual gameplay. Lodestones/precursor are definitely the most painful part of legendary. I’ve pretty much mastered CoE thanks to farming charged cores/lodestones and I know the pain to buy them from TP. I lucked out with the precursor, since I got it for free and I didn’t have to spent time with it. Would have probably added another month in RNG/gathering gold for it, but still doable.
How did you get 100g as a casual gamer enjoying the rest of the game without farming? I have about at most 3hrs a day to play, I don’t really like to farm, so I keep switching characters, from my main to my other 2. And there is no way that I’ve made 100g in the 3 months that I’ve been playing, let alone in 1-2 weeks.
When I started I didn’t want a legendary as it meant PvP for both world completion and badges of honor. But I’ve managed to do world completion without actually having to PvP (I decided on this after I completed the PvE map,) by switching servers. And I found out that you can get badges from the jumping puzzle.
But to me nearly everything else for a Bifrost, seems to be way off. 500 tokens from Arah Exp? Then there is that 77 cloves, 500 ectos, etc.
But seriously I would really like to know how to get 100g from 1-2 weeks of casual game play. Dungeon running? 25s per run?
I pretty much only ran dungeons for gold. As I said, I really hate mob grinding and dungeons/social interaction with guildies is one of the things I enjoy the most in GW2, so it didn’t feel like a grind. I admit 15g~ per day is not casual anymore, but anyone should be able to get 7g per day from completing 2 dungeons every day. For example AC is about 1g per path if you don’t skip moneymobs/bosses and get only bad blue drops, more if you get some decent drops. If you’re finished with ectos, you can use tokens from CoF and upwards to buy 6 rares per day, get some ectos out of them and sell them. For the “useless” tokens, save them up, buy 4 exotic weapons, MF and get min 2.5g or so out of that. Also a free shot at a precursor and some named weapons sell for quite a high amount.
If you’re not going after Sunrise/Bolt, then definitely do CoE p1 for profit aswell, that’s faceroll and should be doable for anyone. Cores are still like 1.5g profit, lodestone up to 4g. If you’re going for one of those 2 legendaries, then just cry yourself to sleep when you calculate how much potential money you’re wasting by keeping them.
I’ve always stayed away from the TP, because I lack the knowledge/patience for those kind of things, only exception is probably on halloween when I made maybe 10g profit with some random skin. I much more prefer to get my hands dirty for my gold.
919h+ on main, 1172h or smth overall, player since beta. Who cares how people obtain their legendary, they can pay for it if they want to, I finished my Sunrise last week and I know how much effort I put into it, so it has a much bigger meaning/value to me. I think it took me around 2 months. It’s not a status symbol, you won’t get any more respect if you suck. It’s just a nice looking skin that only costs a lot of money and RNG.
About the unobtainable legendary for casuals, I have a full time job and I enjoy my weekends, there are times I don’t have time to play at all after work. Since I value my time I have for playing, I spend it only on stuff I enjoy. For getting the mats needed for legendary, I didn’t farm Orr, never touched TP, did flipping/etc, never spent a dime on goldsellers/gemshop. I don’t enjoy that. It’s like having a second job, that actually doesn’t give you any income. I got all of my gold/karma/half of lodestones from dungeons and casual gameplay. Also jumping badges ftw.
It required quite a bit of dedication and more grind that I liked, but OP is wrong, you don’t need to be some überrich/TP playa/goldbuyer to get yourself a legendary as a casual. Since the addition of karma jugs/dungeons giving karma/etc 1mil karma is supereasy to obtain. Skillpoints are a bit of a problem, but you should have enough as a long time player and you can always use fractal tokens to get those faster aswell. Alternative is just to create a new character and explore a bit. Atleast 1/4 T6 come from clover recipe, depends on how unlucky you are with clover RNG, rest can be bought from TP. Ectos come from random rare/exo drops from dungeons and guaranteed rares you buy for dungeon tokens. Getting 100g for icy runestones shouldn’t take you more than about a 1-2 weeks of casual gameplay. Lodestones/precursor are definitely the most painful part of legendary. I’ve pretty much mastered CoE thanks to farming charged cores/lodestones and I know the pain to buy them from TP. I lucked out with the precursor, since I got it for free and I didn’t have to spent time with it. Would have probably added another month in RNG/gathering gold for it, but still doable.
LOL dude 1200 hours in a game thats not even 5 months old I call shenanigens on you having a job or “enjoying your weekends” unless your job was gw2 and enjoying your weekend meant playing it.
Sorry for knowing how to manage my time effectively?
Do you want my yearly income as a proof or smth?
I lucked out with the precursor, since I got it for free and I didn’t have to spent time with it.
You`ve got lucky, is all – you could easily skip all that “I am a casual, I have a life” stuff. I`ve actually waited for something like this when I started reading your post.
Are you only missing the precursor? If not then start working on other stuff first, precursor is only like 25% of the time/gold you need to spend for legy. Since they promised scavenger hunt sometime in the future you’ll have good chances of obtaining it some time in the future. In the meantime spend AC/other useless non 70 tokens on the weapon you want and throw them in the MF, you’ll atleast get some extra gold from that if you fail.
So, I just bought Guild Wars 2 (it’s downloading as i type this), and I was wondering if any of you had some tips for me, as I’ve never played Guild Wars before, though I have played plenty of MMOs.
So I was wondering about some things:
What is a good starting class and/or race for someone who has never played GW2 before?
Any general tips on questing/dungeoning (or instances, whatever they’re called)?
Should I join a guild(or faction, whatever) right away or wait a bit?
Can I solo most of the normal story (excluding instances and the like) easily or should I party up with people?
As you can see, I don’t even know the proper terminology for the game, so correct me if I got stuff wrong.
1. Best solo classes for PvE are ranger, warrior, guardian. Dungeons are dominated mostly by warriors and guardians though. Some other classes rule in pvp for example. I’ve mained warrior since beta, so feel free to PM me if you want to get started on that class, I can give you one of my solid builds. Otherwise there are a lot of guides/builds on other classes on this forum. Race beside some of the racials and storymode has no effect on your gameplay, profession skills are usually much better than racials anyways.
2. Dungeons are split into two types, one is story mode, which doesn’t offer that much in rewards and is meant more of a visual/lore experience and is considered as “easy mode”. After completing story mode (or if anyone in your party has completed one) you can enter explorable mode which contain different paths you can choose in the beginning of the dungeon. Explorable mode offers a bit of a more challenge, but also the rewards are much better than story mode. The difficulty cap between dungeons and open world PvE may appear really big at first, so it’s good to get an experienced&helpful party/guild to guide you through. Though it’s easier at lvl 80 with max gear, it’s not required and you can do them if you meet the min lvl and have up to date gear. Note that since downleveling you’ll suffer greatly when you don’t use up to date gear. For example a lvl 50 with lvl 35 gear has worse stats than a lvl 35 with the same gear.
3. Joining a guild isn’t required, but it will help you make friends and is usually adviseable. The added bonus is that you get to run dungeons with people you know and don’t have to rely on randoms who’s skilllevel may vary dramatically. Also having a little community to relieve stress with is always a nice thing to have.
4. You can solo almost everything except some champions in open world PvE and everything in Personal story. Though partying isn’t required, it’s usually easier to do dynamic events when you have people around you. Since there is no mob/node tagging here, i.e everyone gets xp/mats, you don’t have to form a party, you can casually meet someone, do some events together and after that both go on your own way. Making friends and socializing is always advised though, most of the community ingame is wonderful here.
Personal tips:
1. Turn off double-tap to dodge and bind your dodgebutton. It is your best friend. Autotargeting is a personal choice based on the class you play. I prefer to have it off, so you can use your weapon movement skills for mobility.
2. GW2 plays more like a shooter than a traditional MMO, it’s more reflex/positioning based. For example most melee weapons don’t require a target.
3. If you run into something overwhelming, try seeking for help/tips, rather than saying it’s broken/impossible. There are some parts that require experience, some skilllevel and knowledge of the dynamics to overcome.
4. Take your time in the world. There is no rush to get to 80 and the best way to learn the game is by first hand encounter. The content is filled by little surprises and is very beautiful. Also best way to gain experience is by exploring and doing some events on the way anyways. If you feel that you’re a few lvls short from going to the next lvl area, go back to one of the other races starting areas that are below you and get the missing lvls there. It has no effect on your xp. Mob grinding is not an effective way to gain xp.
5. Set goals for yourself, play like you want and don’t feel rushed. Endgame gear is easy obtain here and it’s all about looks and vanity.
6. Avoid adapting to bad behavior/gimmicks when you run dungeons with PUGs, just because someone claims some way is the only way to do something, play nice, but always keep an open mind to other options.
If you’re EU, add me. I’m always happy to help new players.
The mystic toilet finnally had mercy with me. (first try with 4 random exotic hammers of the day)
Gratz! I just finished with Sunrise myself and I’m also thinking of going after Juggernaut next (need a short break from dungeon farming though). Post some pics when you’re finished.
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Thief actualy brings the best damage.Anyway ,the game is about preventing getting hit and Thief does it best so don’t say melee is easier on Warrior because its simply not true.You’ll have a much easier time whit Thief than Warrior anytime of the day.
Judging by your description you’re looking for something around an elementalist or thief.
Thief is more offensive and Elementalist is more supportive.Both great proffesions for dungeons and really fun.Only sword has frontal cone auto and sword builds can’t match the damage of a warrior. Thief can spike better against single target and that is possible only if he has outside buffers/debuffers and isn’t focused, warrior can keep 25 stacks of might on it’s own, facetank a lot of stuff, heavy CC on demand and give the rest of the party pretty much permafury and loads of mightstacks. A glassthief can’t carry like a warrior or a guardian can, will die to a sneeze when focused in melee or AoE and is inferior in obliterating a huge group of trash like a GS warrior (example multiple AC breeders, CoE p2, dredge fractal, all Arah paths). Unavoidable conditions like burning on hit/retaliation/etc destroy a thief (example CoE story/exp golems), while a warrior at the same time can shrug it off by superior vitality. This is why a warrior can pressure better in melee. There’s a reason why most thieves swap to ranged on some bosses and why people prefer (or rather want) multiple warrs/heavys to multiple thieves in a party. And that was from a pure glasscannon viewpoint, on the other spectrum or even hybrid point of view, thief can’t even come close to the warr’s supportive powers.
Thief is a good class, but a selfish one, which fits ideally in either pvp or roamer/soloplay pve.
And OP, I’d go with either condi ele or necro (prepare for bugs though), they are loads of fun to play. And with ele you can always respec to bunker in pvp and dominate.
Wrong.
From a glass cannon perspective indeed,
You can’t facetank as a Warrior as much as you would wish too.If the mobs target you , even whit their superior vitality and armour ,they’ll go down just as easy.Thief never gets targeted whit stealth.
The most important fights are single targeted and single target DPS of a Warrior doesn’t even come close to Thief.
There is nothing I couldn’t melee whit my Thief and did it on my Warrior.
Aoe shortbow is better than greasword because you wont last much in melee against too many trash mobs.And don’t underestimate shortbow DPS.
As for support Thief is not selfish at all , I’d love to go into details but this is realy not the place.A 10/0/15/30/15 P/V/T shoutbuild can facetank pretty much anything, tried and tested. Currently on my extreme glassbuild I never switch out of melee, only except when singling out certain pulls. Superior AoE damage will deal with huge groups, it’s all about positioning and controlling the fight. I have a thief myself btw so I know the pros/cons firsthand. :P
And thats not glass cannon and that makes your damage bad.Glass Cannon Warrior is way less surviveable than a thief.There will be a lot of situation when you’ll be forced to retreat from melee or just die.You can’t stay in melee range against huge groups as a Glass Cannon Warrior.A few seconds whit endure pain maybe ,then run.
In fact , you were mentioning facetanking multiple breeders at a time , which is ridiculous.You can’t even survive 1 breeder at a time if he targets you whit auto atacks.The only chance of facetanking it is when he spawns the hatchlings.
No warrior should ever use Endure pain in PvE (maybe except meleeing lupi, but the bubble can be dodged out of anyways). Will record smth for you about the breeders, we do AC daily.
Thief actualy brings the best damage.Anyway ,the game is about preventing getting hit and Thief does it best so don’t say melee is easier on Warrior because its simply not true.You’ll have a much easier time whit Thief than Warrior anytime of the day.
Judging by your description you’re looking for something around an elementalist or thief.
Thief is more offensive and Elementalist is more supportive.Both great proffesions for dungeons and really fun.Only sword has frontal cone auto and sword builds can’t match the damage of a warrior. Thief can spike better against single target and that is possible only if he has outside buffers/debuffers and isn’t focused, warrior can keep 25 stacks of might on it’s own, facetank a lot of stuff, heavy CC on demand and give the rest of the party pretty much permafury and loads of mightstacks. A glassthief can’t carry like a warrior or a guardian can, will die to a sneeze when focused in melee or AoE and is inferior in obliterating a huge group of trash like a GS warrior (example multiple AC breeders, CoE p2, dredge fractal, all Arah paths). Unavoidable conditions like burning on hit/retaliation/etc destroy a thief (example CoE story/exp golems), while a warrior at the same time can shrug it off by superior vitality. This is why a warrior can pressure better in melee. There’s a reason why most thieves swap to ranged on some bosses and why people prefer (or rather want) multiple warrs/heavys to multiple thieves in a party. And that was from a pure glasscannon viewpoint, on the other spectrum or even hybrid point of view, thief can’t even come close to the warr’s supportive powers.
Thief is a good class, but a selfish one, which fits ideally in either pvp or roamer/soloplay pve.
And OP, I’d go with either condi ele or necro (prepare for bugs though), they are loads of fun to play. And with ele you can always respec to bunker in pvp and dominate.
Wrong.
From a glass cannon perspective indeed,
You can’t facetank as a Warrior as much as you would wish too.If the mobs target you , even whit their superior vitality and armour ,they’ll go down just as easy.Thief never gets targeted whit stealth.
The most important fights are single targeted and single target DPS of a Warrior doesn’t even come close to Thief.
There is nothing I couldn’t melee whit my Thief and did it on my Warrior.
Aoe shortbow is better than greasword because you wont last much in melee against too many trash mobs.And don’t underestimate shortbow DPS.
As for support Thief is not selfish at all , I’d love to go into details but this is realy not the place.
A 10/0/15/30/15 P/V/T shoutbuild can facetank pretty much anything, tried and tested. Currently on my extreme glassbuild I never switch out of melee, only except when singling out certain pulls. Superior AoE damage will deal with huge groups, it’s all about positioning and controlling the fight. I have a thief myself btw so I know the pros/cons firsthand. :P
Edit: About fight controlling and etc, here is a 2 months old video, where I played a balanced dps build (20/0/20/0/30) http://youtu.be/NYcWNcOr6hU , necro is fulltank. I’m playing extreme glass now, since it has double the damage (highest 100b crit I’ve seen in AC was 14.4k, ) and my skilllevel has increased a lot in those 2 months, so I can pull it off effectively.
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Thief actualy brings the best damage.Anyway ,the game is about preventing getting hit and Thief does it best so don’t say melee is easier on Warrior because its simply not true.You’ll have a much easier time whit Thief than Warrior anytime of the day.
Judging by your description you’re looking for something around an elementalist or thief.
Thief is more offensive and Elementalist is more supportive.Both great proffesions for dungeons and really fun.
Only sword has frontal cone auto and sword builds can’t match the damage of a warrior. Thief can spike better against single target and that is possible only if he has outside buffers/debuffers and isn’t focused, warrior can keep 25 stacks of might on it’s own, facetank a lot of stuff, heavy CC on demand and give the rest of the party pretty much permafury and loads of mightstacks. A glassthief can’t carry like a warrior or a guardian can, will die to a sneeze when focused in melee or AoE and is inferior in obliterating a huge group of trash like a GS warrior (example multiple AC breeders, CoE p2, dredge fractal, all Arah paths). Unavoidable conditions like burning on hit/retaliation/etc destroy a thief (example CoE story/exp golems), while a warrior at the same time can shrug it off by superior vitality. This is why a warrior can pressure better in melee. There’s a reason why most thieves swap to ranged on some bosses and why people prefer (or rather want) multiple warrs/heavys to multiple thieves in a party. And that was from a pure glasscannon viewpoint, on the other spectrum or even hybrid point of view, thief can’t even come close to the warr’s supportive powers.
Thief is a good class, but a selfish one, which fits ideally in either pvp or roamer/soloplay pve.
And OP, I’d go with either condi ele or necro (prepare for bugs though), they are loads of fun to play. And with ele you can always respec to bunker in pvp and dominate.
When I completed this path, it was with guildies and subpar DPS. We had 1 glass warr (me), 1 mesmer (glass), 1 ranger (tanky gear), 1 support ele, 1 hammer guardian. I agree 100% this would have been so much easier with heavy dps. Sparks are unreliable/sometimes buggy and overall a source of much frustration, even if you do the runs correctly and run them right past the traps.
Explaining the 4-1 method a bit:
- DPS simin to 45%
- Run 4 sparks in so all 5 shields will go up
- Wait till she regens and unstealths
- DPS her down to 45% again
- Quickly run one spark in, make the shields explode and unstealth her
- Mad DPS (if you have high DPS party, like a bunch of zerker warrs, you can finish her off on this go with timewarp)
- On lower DPS you need a near perfect sparkrun now, if you mess up, it’s better to start again and not waste time/frustrate yourself
- Pop timewarp, final mad DPS and hope for the best
Things to keep in mind:
- Pick your spot where you fight her and stock up on tears
- It’s a good idea to fight her a bit away from the shrine, so her/other than runners won’t aggro the sparks
- Swap out your armorpieces that spawn pets (rock dogs, golems, etc)
- Have rangers stove pets, they can randomly mess up spark aggro
- Glass > tanky, she doesn’t do much damage, so more pew-pew is preferred
- Have the two lowest DPS party members go on petrify aggro (guardian is perfect for it) and the other on tear duty
- Your rate of success with this path will be much better if you have a mesmer for timewarp spike damage, someone to stack vulna and more than one zerker warr/thief in party
This is a high level DPS check boss. You can’t damage her anymore when she is invis, so ignore any tips that suggest using poison and so on. Atleast on the other hand, she’s the only hard boss in this path and you can faceroll the final one after you’re done with her.
Good luck to everyone with her, it’s a long, but fun path overall.
i spend time to get money. much less time then you spend to farm to get the same stuff as me. now i dont mind people who actually have fun at farming. but from my experience you only farm to get the ressources, its a means, not an end. and if people could pick up 1 gold instead of farming orr for an hour they would do it, that is my judgement. so whatever your definition, you cant deny i got an edge on you by paying euros and putting my real-life-weight in the ring. and its not like i find that a good principle in gaming. for me it should be the one putting most time = the uber hero, not the one putting most money. i just put some euros because i couldnt for the hell of it be arsed to spend 100+ hours farming orr to get a commander title.
if you had full exotics on hitting lvl 80 you didnt rush there.. i arrived at 80 completely broke because i put focus on full exp and only got my grandmaster book at around lvl 78. or you are just lieing or talking about an alt-char because that sounds pretty much like bullkitten to me. you need around 200k karma, 300 pvp badges and 12g to go instant-exotics. if you got that on hitting lvl 80 you really went out of your way to get karma and gold.
I’m a player since beta and I entered release with quite a sufficient knowledgebase about the game. I was far away from broke once I hit 80. No gemshop user ever had an advantage over me, because it took quite a lot of time after I was 80 and geared for the TP to eventually start working.
I’ve never farmed Orr, not in the past and not now, because I dislike it honestly. I’ve never worn karma gear, nor wvwvw one (it’s ugly). I crafted my first gear myself, got some mats cheaply from mapchat and I was full exo within one week.
Now, since I have one lvl 80 as main it’s even easier to gear alts, usually my alts have their endgame gear already in their inventory once they hit lvl 30 and that is by playing them the most casual way possible.
But honestly, if you still believe GW2 is P2W, come take your char with real life money spent on lvling to spvp, show me your P2W and how that will make you “win” with your money vs time. I’ll be looking forward to it. :P