Guild Wars 2

Ok enough of the whining DS is the way it is right now and even as a conditionmancer I still use, granted I don’t use the skills but an earth sigil on a wep for on crit bleeds plus fury when entering DS thats free fury just for double tapping F1. No DS is not that great for some build thats true but if I can survive lupi’s death bubble just by hitting F1 then i’m happy

Also, only a mesmer can get nearly 10s of invulnerability through skills

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Only a Mesmer can take one screenshot showing 4 different outfits at once without editing.

Great job with that =)

I’d say necro since that was my main before trying a mesmer, spec’d right you can deal massive condition dmg to a large group of foes and now that inanimate objects take condition dmg you don’t have to beat at a pile of boxes for 5 mins to destroy em

I’d be very interested in this just started a mes a couple days ago and hit lvl 40 yesterday, running a shatter build currently 20 in dueling and 10 in illusion character name is korgin shadowmind.

Great idea btw!

Honestly I don’t understand all the bashing for not using a focus, I recognize the utility and usefulness of focus but would rather have a sw/sw most of the time

I take 30 in dueling so i can take the clone on dodge as well as +50 prec and 20% reduced CD on sword skills which makes blurred frenzy so much nicer imo

I totally agree with kai on that last point, I have an 80 necro that I used to love and since starting a mes I haven’t touched the necro except to craft armor/jewels for my mes. As far as lvling focus less on being able to take dmg and learn how to avoid/reflect it, I think this is key. Personally I run a classic 10/30/0/0/30 shatter build with a gs and sword/sword with a focus in my bag. battle goes like this: gs2, gs4, dodge roll mind wrack, decoy, switch to sword, sword 3-3, sword 2, mind wrack nearly any group of foes in pve will have died by that point if not switch back to gs and hit 5 before starting over =)

I run a 10/30/0/0/30 build with gs and sword/sword (I play pve) and find no faults with it plenty of direct dmg and if a foe gets close it’s switch to sword 2,4 dodge back and shatter and everything has died. Discussed viability of staff today with guildie and it reallly is based on how you want to play

great post, long, but good and food for thought. I like most of it and what i don’t like is really just my opinion coupled with personal preference. i really just enjoyed reading it

it sounds like a good idea to me, anything to get the loot tables up honestly. having said that i think the idea of vets being able rez each other when in a champ group is a little problematic, perhaps the champ could rez the vets or vets could only rez the champ promoting a kill agenda in that way?

@Hamish, I agree completely. I started doing fotm as something to do with friends/guildies where I could make money comparable to what i could make on the tp because i don’t want to have to sit at tp watching prices in order to make enough gold to pay for legendary, exotic skins etc. i have yet to find more than 2 rares in a fotm run and have nvr found an exotic. I would like to see that change

not really an idiosyncrasy in the game but i laugh every time a charr toon goes to sleep and curls up in the fetal position XD

I would really like to see an update to loot, i have an 80 necro that is almost the only char i have played since i bought the game, only other char is a 50 guardian. neither character has ever seen an exotic drop and even after equipping full mf gear, eating omnom bars, getting guild mf buffs and using a mf buff from the tp have never found more than 2 rares from any dungeon/fractal/orr event. all my money has been made on tp because nothing else is worth the time for the amount of money i make off it.

I like the idea provided the risen spawns on your ship went away or were less frequent/less risen as it could get really annoying to jump off a cannon every 10-15secs just to get smashed in the face by a cannon ball.

honestly dungeons are not that hard, me, a guildie and 3 random players did CoF p1 in 20mins and that was with ppl dcing, and going afk. i personally don’t see any issue with wp being too far apart as you can just equip a swiftness skill, run back and boom everything is fine again. i’m not saying this is just a l2p issue, perhaps you’ve just had incompatible group but the fault does not lie with the devs

I would be satisfied with the ability to just have a separate build that activates when i enter a dungeon. my main is an 80 necro and while i use scepter/dagg in open world i switch to staff support for dungeons and to have a separate distribution of traits for dungeons would be much appreciated