Guild Wars 2

you can skip on the divinity runes. Honestly if you play well you can run full berserkers in most dungeons. Use ruby orbs instead of divinity runes.
I personally run 20 in air (glyphs recharge faster, glyphs give boons) and 30 in water (cantrips grant regen+vigor, cantrips recharge 20% faster, regen removes a condition). I find this setup to be ideal.

ele’s have several stuns in underwater combat. Use them

Those items are expensive because they are meant to be expensive. If you think those are expensive, try getting a legendary.

I’m fine with the current defiant mechanism. It takes coordination to interrupt a boss’ killer move.

Poor advertising is definitely an issue. I’ll be on websites looking at gw2 stuff and be getting non-stop advertisements for WoW lol.

I have no problem with targeting, but then again I’ve been playing ele since beta so perhaps I’ve just learned how to do it.
It’s much better to be able to place the aoe and be able to lead mobs/enemies with it than to have to autocast somewhere you don’t want it to be. Eg. placing a snare field between yourself and your enemy as opposed to on your enemy, it would only be 50% as effective at keeping them from you.
Btw when I place a ground targeted aoe I press the button, aim it with my mouse, then press my button again to cast it. Maybe that’ll help.

They are not cancelling out so much as they are on the same internal cooldown, so if you switch to your +3might you’ll get the might, but if you swap to your energy with 9?seconds you won’t get the energy. If you switch after 9sec you WILL still get the energy. Also neither effect triggers outside of battle.
Edit: unless they are on the same weapon set.

yeah that would be cool. With ratings and leaderboards

The scavenger hunt was mentioned a while ago but afaik no one is working on it, despite several posts requesting that this problem be looked at. Several solutions have been brought forth, most simply requiring new mystic forge recipes which is almost no work for anet. My guess: they won’t impliment it for a long time

giman.4983:

So after opening 174 jugs of karma and some other assorted karma potions with a +90% karma boost*, I had 2.095 million karma. I bought 460 orrian jewelry boxes and used all karma from those boxes to buy more boxes. In total I opened 1594 boxes. Here’s what I got:

26 Balthazar minis
5590 Unidentifiable Object (worth a total of ~28 gold)
214 Obisidian shards
51 lodestones
6 piles of putrid essence
2 cold potions
1 warm potion
1 charged potion

*This is what I used to get +90% karma:
+50% karma boost from a black lion chest
+15% from karmic infusion
+15% from a guild boost (Thanks DHE!)
+5% from ice cream
+5% from a guild banner (Thanks DHE again!)

http://i49.tinypic.com/vnk0gg.jpg

On guild wars 2 wiki there is a place put put your drops into a table for drop research here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lost_Orrian_Jewelry_Box/Drop_rate
Please enter your data

That’s rediculous

Forever. And I’m still learning. I’ve put in almost 1300hrs, not including beta, and I’m still learning how to play characters and new weapons/trait combinations I want to try, especially in pvp.

Are commander icons soulbound or accountbound? I’m pretty sure they are soulbound. So if an experienced commander jumps on an alt, no one should listen to them?

The whole point of wvw is to work hard to take points and hold them. It would be silly if all your hard work was wasted every 20minutes.
There are strength in numbers.
In the real world, what do you call 20000 soldiers marching? An army. I don’t understand why people comment on zergs in wvw like it’s a bad thing.

My suggestion? Leave guild and form a new one. If your guild leader doesn’t manage your guild, it’s not much of a guild.

WyldKat.4712:

If the target being stomped gets stealth, then the stomp fails. Blind on the person doing the stomp, I believe does not prevent the stomp.

Blind definitely prevents stomp; I’ve used this several times to save my teammates.
I agree that going stealth should not prevent a stomp. Stealth does not prevent damage from being taken, why would it prevent a stomp?

laharl.8435:

www.gw2lfg.com

/15 char

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Wethospu.6437:

Quick Mouse.7635:

Barely. As Strife mentions in the comments, the nerf to reckless dodge means you need to switch frenzy for endure pain or w/e. Still totally doable.

Good luck with that tactic. With just Endure Pain I estimate less than 5% chance for success (with perfect play).
Fight is already quite taxing. With Reckless Dodge fix you have to save Shield Stance, can’t just reflex dodge everything and need more defensive utilities which make it slower which increases chance for mistakes.
Also food-change makes some difference.

As you can see from the vid it really just takes well timed dodges and knowledge of the mechanics. Nobody said it was easy, but the point is that it’s entirely possible.

The only thing they did wrong was giving the baby gravelings knockdown. That was over the top imo. The new boss mechanics are fun.

quickness was OP everywhere from pve to pvp. I’m glad they nerfed it.

The devs have said that legendary weapons will scale up to ascended once they release ascended weapons. How they will achieve this is up to them to figure out.

I guess we’ll have to wait for the April update.

the daily reset does not take into account daylight savings. This could be why you are confused.

Nunganok.4590:

Quick Mouse.7635:

I was just thinking how cool it would be if, once you hit rank 80 in sPvP, you could start crafting a Legendary weapon for PvP. What are you thoughts?

You realize hitting rank 80 takes years right? If you earn 7k Rank Points a day 365 days a year it will take 6-7 years to hit rank 80.

Although it is a great idea. I would love to see some spvp love beyond balancing and maps/tournaments. The initial grandeur of the aesthetics is wearing off after 7 months and could use a boost like this.

Pretty sure there are people in the 60s already. I would expect the first people to hit 80 in the next 1-2 years. Either way, with all that effort you deserve -some- kind of reward. What else are you going to go for in sPvP once you hit rank 80?

Vanthian.9267:

Quick Mouse.7635:

Nope. Definitely not a thief. There were no thiefs in the game

Well colored me surprised…. no Thiefs. Sounds like a dream land you live in. (I am assuming you were in Hot Join).

That I was.

I was just thinking how cool it would be if, once you hit rank 80 in sPvP, you could start crafting a Legendary weapon for PvP. What are you thoughts?

Nope. Definitely not a thief. There were no thiefs in the game

To clarify, in the battle of khylo, I was outside of the clocktower, downed. Someone from INSIDE the clocktower used a finisher on me. I can’t beleive this is intended, since I felt like I managed to get away.

You can use a finisher on somebody on the other side of a wall. Is this intentional?

d/d eles pretty much already have permanent fury/swiftness.

The slotted signets are weak at best. Signet of restoration is the only good signet. Cantrips with 30 in water is much more powerful anyday, sorry to say :/

QWERT → skills 6-10
ASDFG → skills 1-5
1234 → class skills
ZXC → strafe left, move back, strafe right.
V → dodge (will rebind this to my mouse once i get my gaming mouse to work in game)
\ → autorun
turn and move forward with mouse. Adjust your rotation speed.

zamalek.2154:

Khyber.2693:

Cof path one runs.

This is the best at the moment.

Quick Mouse.7635:

AC, CM

These are no longer straightforward. AC is now significantly more difficult than CoF – even for level 80s (actually I would say especially for level 80s, had way more success with 35 groups since the patch). Notwithstanding that it does yield almost a full level of XP all the way up to level 73 or so; still worth it if you are looking for levels.

I am not entirely sure about CM post-patch, I played it enough times to realise it’s all about graveyard zerging and now just avoid it entirely.

Finally, you should only be salvaging exotics. Everything else is vendor trash (not destroyed, sold).

AC takes slightly longer than it did, but the thing that makes it appealing is the number of boss drops. The sharred path has 2 (or 3 if troll spawns) bosses which will net you 20-30silver ignoring food and additional drops. Once you relearn the boss mechanics it can be done almost as fast as before.

You should not be salvaging exotics; most are worth more on the tp than the ectos you would salvage from it, even if you do get lucky. Account bound ones can be salvaged or chucked into the mystic toilet.
Rares should be salvaged unless they can be sold for more than the price of an ecto.

2 main methods
Farming easy/quick dungeons. Examples include AC, CM, SE and CoF. Be sure to buy gold find food.
Playing the trading post. Requires start-up capital and market savvy.
Alternative method
Pray to the RNG gods day and night.

Interesting proposal. Don’t think they will impliment it though. Maybe. Who knows?

khefka.2804:

Unless you want to have to constantly rebuy the utility infusion then why would you put it in an amulet you want to infuse? You may as well buy a second amulet, one for fractals/agony and one for utility world pve/dungeons. There isn’t a reason to infuse an amulet with a utility infusion in it that I can see.

Because then I would have 35 AR (a good amount for fractals 30-39) while have the 20% gold find (for farming regular dungeons)…

LeSigh…Do I just got ahead and the my gold find infusion then? =_=

Didn’t they say that recipes for infusing the amulet will come at a later date?

So I would like to apply my utility infusion to my ascended amulets, but the problem is that the recipe to infuse the amulet is not available yet.
Now if I were just putting the 75 relic versatile infusion in there, it wouldn’t be such a big deal. But since I want to put the utility infusion in there, I don’t want to lose the utility infusion when I infuse the amulet in the mystic forge. Utility infusions are 20 laurels, and since I want to have utility on both my mains, that’s 40 laurels or a months worth down the drain if I apply the infusion before the recipe is released.

Solution 1: release the recipe so we can get on with it.

Solution 2: Read the infusion in the amulet and simply return it when the amulet is infused in the MF. (i.e. return two items, the infused amulet and the utility infusion).

If solution 2 is going to be the path anet chooses (which I beleive is the correct path; imagine all those poor souls who lost the +5stat infusions without knowing), could be have a dev or mod confirm?

Cheers
MOUSE

Make sure you roll assassin

I can’t wait, when will they release new worlds >:O

Same here…Have everything only 6/7.

Chaosky.5276:

I want solo ranged combat, dagnabbit.

staff ele is actually pretty good solo in pve.
Step 1: Round up some mobs
Step 2: Drop water 4
Step 3: Drop sandstorm
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit!

Staff ele is super useful in organized WvW. Play in any high-end WvW guilds and you’ll see that mostly run staff eles, guardians and mesmers.
D/D is better for solo roaming/un-organized play, but the staff ele’s access to multiple combo fields is indespensible in organized WvW.

Mighty Assasin.3816:

Running signets.

This. Except signet of restoration. That’s the only good signet.

Also if you dont’t swap attunements you’re not getting as much out of your character as you could. Even if you’re not taking damage, water applies vulnerability. Earth has tonnes of combo finishers, and considering ele is one of the best classes for laying down combo fields, you’re losing out on a lot of might stacks. Air has spikes. Sure you can sit in fire for the better damage, but someone switching all attunes will be doing more damage due to might+vulnerability+air spike.

Not entirely sure I agree. I’ve played staff ele since beta, some 1200hours. It used to be top of the game in spvp until they nerfed evasive arcana.
The only 2 skills that root you in place are meteor shower and healing rain, and for good reason.
The only thing i think could be improved is the after-cast delay. A little too long imo

Yes. It was completely broken.

Say YES to haste nerf.
TY BB.

Makes me wish I still had jps to do :P
Guess I’ll go back and get them, since from the hints, this jp is going to be epic!

DigitalKirin.9714:

You would NOT have access to it, because your guild upgrades and bank are Server bound. If you left, you’d have to start over with the influence. But if you went back to your old server, you’d find all your old stuff waiting for you.

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