Guild Wars 2

Guys anecdotal evidence is not evidence. Just because your guild is failing or your server is failing doesn’t mean the game is failing. People change guilds all the time, entire guilds switch servers all the time. People stop/slow down playing. New people buy and join the game. Such is the flux of an mmo.

Just find an empty sPvP server and join in with your friends. Really not hard.

Here’s the build I run
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImmbwR5wjDIkHnQGyCCFVAFUUMD7AA-jEyAoLA6TQyeDZNBGxGRR0Y11Ya3kqhFkBA-w
Here’s the build chemsorly runs, one of the ele’s from Red Guard (famous WvW guild).
http://intothemists.com/guides/guide.php?id=107#weapons_and_skills

http://www.gw2spidy.com/

This would be a nice addition. Another idea I had would be to have different commander types and squad size limitations:
Eg.
Main Commander – Blue, unlimited squad size
Defensive Commander – Yellow, unlimited
Havoc Commander – Purple, squad limit 20

Gw1 had some really nice observer info tabs like party health, deaths and points. It would be interesting to see similar thing in gw2.

Joe.8142:

Ok thanks for the help everyone! Just another quick question.

Whenever I go to enter a fractal, the highest difficulty scale I can go to is 2. So I guess this is the equivalent of my fractal level but if I join a group doing level 5 when I finish will my scale go to 3 or will it stay at 2?

Anything at or above your personal level will increase your personal level when you finish. Also the difficulty scale that you can start is based off your personal level. However someone of higher level can start anything up to their level. And if they are in the same map as you, you can start anything up to their maximum level as well.

eg. You can start a level 2 fractal. Someone else who has personal level 30 can start anything up to 30. If this person is on the same map (same instance of LA), then you can also start anything up to their level.

It will be coming before the end of 2013. They have done most of the coding for it (as has been shown by data mining) and they’re just testing it now. I agree it should have come sooner, but there is always: gw2lfg.com

I’ll run a level 8 with you
There are always people doing fractals <20 because people make alts all the time. I’ve been leveling my mesmer in fractals and have had no problem finding teams for level 8 dailies for the past week.
About agony:
You don’t NEED agony resist until you hit level 20. Before level 20 you can heal through most agony attacks.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony
The most popular levels to run are 8, 10, 18, ,20 28, 38 and 48 because those have the highest reward scaling without crossing over to the next tier of difficulty.

I hope they fix fractal rewards as well. Currently not worth the time invested if you already have your ascended gear.

It would take 300 rank points to max out this ability line…for a whopping 5 supply.
Seems way too expensive for the bonus it gives.

Don’t forget to eviscerate

gw2buildcraft.com will calculate EP, EHP etc. for you. Very useful

Omnitek.3876:

So, you cant use a mass AoE skilln into a zerg as a ranger/ele/engi?

That’s exactly the point.

Omnitek.3876:

Every one of my cleaving auto attacks triggers just as much retal as one of your attacks.

Wrong. Cleave hits 3 things. Each one of my meteors hits 5 things. And I drop 24 meteors from one meteor shower. If each one of my meteors hits 5 targets, and assuming retal damage of 330 (1800 power), that’s 39960 damage. And once it’s cast, I can’t stop it.

Nikaido.3457:

This is what everyone should run in fractals 48.

Can you post this link without tinyurl? thanks.

I have a feeling these will be craftable by jeweler when the cap is raised to lvl 500 since they are part of the regular crafting types, but I could be wrong. Fingers crossed

Try playing ele or engi.

I have a legendary
My mom says it looks cool.

Actually t6 materials have been more or less stable in price for the last 7-8 months. There is a small drop when some exploit is found. Once that is fixed it goes back to stable prices.
The biggest increase in t6 mat prices came when they banned something like 50000 bots. If you want cheaper prices on the tp, ask for anet to let bots back xD

DelOnasi.6051:

Vashoom.8512:

hmm.. did i miss anything off?

A gem currently on gw2lfg: “PING GEAR WITH EXPERIENCE”

I guess “experienced” players weren’t enough, better bring your experienced gear. Or does that mean you have to be experienced at pinging gear?

The best are the ones that say gear check no noobs experienced only in all caps, and post under the storymode section LOL

Yeah the recent changes to their traits made them a lot less viable. They still play pretty much the same, but they have very little access to condi removal unless they spec into cleansing shatter. If they moved some of the traits around a bit, this class could be a very good counter meta.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Cleanse-Shatter/first#post2501921

nooooooo alright alright here you can have my money, just don’t hurt the asura :o

This post made me lol

Nuka Cola.8520:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

But you can advance

you can’t do pairs and some1 needs to have levels above 50 unlocked. that’s not what i would call advancing.

You won’t be able to do the even levels 50+ but you can do the odd ones, which will advance your personal level regardless. So once they raise the cap you will be ahead of the curve

I wanted to make a fat female asura ranger with a pig pet (do those exist?) and call it “Honey Pew Pew” but the name was taken…grrr

Nikkinella.8254:

You don’t have teammates who can strip/corrupt boons? Sounds like you guys just aren’t very organized. You should have people backing you, either by removing boons or healing you, ready to deal with stuff like that so you can nuke safely. You can’t mindlessly shoot everywhere into a zerg. that’s what arrow carts are for. You’re there to CC the zerg and nuke them down, but your team needs to support you in that.

Is the only aoe boon removal null field on mesmer? Corrupt boon I’m pretty sure is single target, wouldn’t really help in this situation.
This still puts me in the position of having to rely on another person using their skills wisely in order to even be able to use my skills.

It happened to my guildie also. She was in the wall in the boss fight (note: not in the ice, in the wall of the room). I have screen shots on my other computer i"ll update when I get home. I think it was due to the boss’ teleport. We could not portal her out and she couldn’t lightning flash out either.

If you go to your achievements tab under the summary section, it should be listed there. I’m pretty sure you can’t accept the reward without choosing a skin. If this doesn’t work, submit a ticket.

Yep, they said they fixed this a while ago, but I’ve recently re-encountered this bug. It seems like the projectiles are passing right over the enemies head and not hitting. It happens anywhere really (I was in the water in Orr, nowhere near a wall).

There may be some bugs when they first release ascended weapons or add the swap stats functionality, but I’m sure these will be resolved.

I agree. Karma is the forgotten currency.
It seemed like a good idea at the start, but once you’ve spent all u need on obsi shards or cultural armor, there is no sink besides orrian boxes.
Here are a few that I’ve found:
You can buy greens from merchant and mystic forge them to try to get rares. Works best for amulets (some rare amulets sell for more than 1 ecto).
You can buy alcohol to get your thirst slayer achievement (if you don’t mind a little carpal tunnel lol).

azizul.8469:

learn to read enemy’s buff….

I know what retal is, I know what the buff looks like. In small encounters or in spvp it is not a problem to watch buffs.
I can’t look at the buffs of 50 people in a wvw encounter to see who has retal and who doesn’t in order to place my aoes so I don’t get hit for 10k from retal.
Again, this goes back to the question: am I just supposed to sit there until retal wears off, being doubly punished for being an aoe class (5 person aoe limit + massive retal damage)?

The current work-around is to move your minimap to the top right of the screen. If you don’t like it there, you can move it back down once you exit.

Player Character.9467:

Flissy.4093:

Quick Mouse.7635:

Imo the +5 stats are not worth the investment. Save the mats for your legendary instead

Your logic is incredibly flawed, it’s not worth a statistical upgrade, but worth a tiny portion of a cosmetic sidegrade? Gotcha.

ascended level stats

Yep, soon to be ascended level stats as well as interchangeable when out of combat. Much more worth that +5 stats. Plus looking awesome-sauce

Also refer here:
http://dulfy.net/2012/11/17/gw2-ascended-gear-and-infusion-recipes/
It will take 1350 + 500 to craft the first ascended backpeice but another 500 to make the inherently +5AR infused backpeice (to give you +10AR total).

End-game atm has a few avenues:
Achievements: with the newly implemented rewards system, there is good reason to complete as much achievement point-related activities as possible.
WvW: New wvw ranks allow you to access wvw-specific skills like increased seige damage and stat bonuses.
PvP: Somewhat related to achievement points, but ranking up in pvp is end-game too.
Ascended gear: Currently accessories and backpeices take a while to craft. In the future (sometime in 2013) they will be adding ascended weapons and armor, which will be craftable with a new tier in crafting disciplines (500).
PvE: Fractals (edited).

Crawford.4135:

Quick Mouse.7635:

Maskaganda.2043:

yes, please make it so people can spam mindless aoe some more.

Am I supposed to just stand there not using skills because retal will kill me?

No, you’re supposed to use Tactics until the “Fist” icon (the one that gives the Retaliation buff to the player) to wear off. If you are unable to defend against it, then you need to move around more tactfully and avoid them until it wears off.

As a Thief I keep Malice up when I run with my Guild, so any Retaliation to me is fixed by heals per hit I do. When I don’t use this and am out soloing I still do not find it to do that much damage to me, but I try to work around it, too.

That doesn’t really work when the enemy stacks 30+seconds of aoe retal using light fields + blast finishers. That would mean I have to stand there not contributing anything to my team damage-wise until the retal wears off.
Again this doesn’t apply to people not using aoe characters. A thief or warrior is not going to take much retal damage because they only hit 3 people on a cleave. One meteor shower will almost insta-gib a staff ele or a few nades for a nade enig.

More lvl 80 maps and lvl 80 dungeons.

Nikkinella.8254:

Retaliation has been nerfed severely to the point it’s only dangerous to stupid people who mindlessly spam skills. It’s not even a threat anymore. I’ve never been killed dropping meteors on a group. I have no idea what you could possibly be doing that it’s killing you. Even before the unnecessary nerf it wasn’t that big of a deal.

Correct I am a stupid person that mindlessly spams skills…. -.-
So every high tier guild that stacks as much retaliation as possible before an engagement is doing it wrong?

MiLkZz.4789:

Play clever, I have never had trouble with retal. They nerfed the damage by 50% it is fine now.

Are you talking about playing aoe class like ele or engi, or your warrior (just assuming because of tag).
I can’t really like on each individual person and see who has retal and who doesn’t.

I loved body blocking in gw1 but in gw2 it’s just not feasible. With the already present skill lag, imagine that but with 100s-1000s of collision detections going on simultaenously. Not to mention, imagine how impossible it would be to play melee.

Maskaganda.2043:

yes, please make it so people can spam mindless aoe some more.

Am I supposed to just stand there not using skills because retal will kill me?

This is the relic vendor in the fractals entrance “waiting room” area

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/BUY-4373

Once you have crafted your backpeice and got all your +5AR infusions, and nice way to spend the relics is the 20 slot bags

I take more damage on my ele and engi from retaliation than from any other source. I can practically kill myself from 1 meteor shower or 1 grenade barrage. The damage from retal also ignores armor.
sPvP and PvE this skill is totally fine.
There should be some cap on the number of targets that can proc retal. Our aoe skills suffer from aoe limits. The same should apply in the reverse sense.

Legendary Champion title I think is a great idea.
I also think there could me more achievement points available for pvp. Things like:
Trebuchet master: kill xxx people with the trebuchet.
Cannon master: kill xxx people with the cannon.
Lord killer: kill xx lords.
Skyhammer slayer: kill xxx people with the giant gun on skyhammer.

Things like that

Diaspro.8529:

If you see a player that is downed in the middle of a boss fight with no AoE around him at least try to help him.

No fire, no wire, no gas, no glass => res!

This skill is perfect the way it is.

OMG!
This is by far the most fun I have had playing a warrior since gw1.
Thank you soo much for making this class relevant!

I’m wondering if you get a double proc from illusionary persona?

I wonder if anet has any stats on this.
Would +10 stat points make it worthwhile? +15? I’m not sure.