Guild Wars 2

Sinister and Viper stats are a great addition for condis. The first gives condi/power/precision, while the second, gives less condi/power/precision, but adds an extra stat that gives condition duration. The trick is, use viper gear until your condi duration is maxed(don’t forget that you can get +30% from foods) then fill out on sinister. The only way to get viper accessories is by raiding, so usually every1 has sinister accessories, because theyre easy to get(living world 2- chapters 5-8)

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

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You wanna get a legendary? Play 10 mins a day and save gold for it. In 3 years you’ll have it.
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Could you go into a little detail how to accomplish this?

Which map to go?

What event to join at what time of the day?

What can accomplished in 10 mins a day then log out?

How much gold is expected to generated in 10 mins?

This could be the most helpful post ever.

Thx.

buy 30 fractal encryption keys at 20s each, ..

Fractal Encryption Keys are Account Bound.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Encryption_Key

And can be bought for 20s each(30 a day) +1 fractal relic

So how much time does it take to farm 30 fractal relic a day?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Relic

lvl 2 fractal+lvl 10 fractal+ daily fractal. anywhere from 15 to 30 mins, depending on yourself. you get around 45 relics this way, 4-5 extra gold from loot and matrices, a few more keys, and a shot at ascended stuff

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

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You wanna get a legendary? Play 10 mins a day and save gold for it. In 3 years you’ll have it.
..

Could you go into a little detail how to accomplish this?

Which map to go?

What event to join at what time of the day?

What can accomplished in 10 mins a day then log out?

How much gold is expected to generated in 10 mins?

This could be the most helpful post ever.

Thx.

buy 30 fractal encryption keys at 20s each, ..

Fractal Encryption Keys are Account Bound.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractal_Encryption_Key

And can be bought for 20s each(30 a day) +1 fractal relic from the mistlock observatory. Do I have to mention after each post that you’re a noob?

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

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You wanna get a legendary? Play 10 mins a day and save gold for it. In 3 years you’ll have it.
..

Could you go into a little detail how to accomplish this?

Which map to go?

What event to join at what time of the day?

What can accomplished in 10 mins a day then log out?

How much gold is expected to generated in 10 mins?

This could be the most helpful post ever.

Thx.

buy 30 fractal encryption keys at 20s each, buy 30 fractal encrypted boxes at 17s each, open them all, have anywhere between 2 and 5g profit, it took you 2 minutes
buy order all the mats needed for crafting teh daily time gated mats, it took you 5 mins
craft all 4 ascended mats, it took you 3 more mins, profit is minimum 13 gold maximum 24gold depending on market price that day. Please learn to play, you need it bad.
Stop trying to act like a good player

Soon.5240:

Healix.5819:

For HoT experience? Run through the adventures each day.

Do you find this fun? Not being snarky. Really curious.

I know this wasn’t addressed to me, but I will respond anyway
I feel that adventures are by far the most fun addition to this game(I’d say gliding but gliding is included in adventures :X)
They’re so fun, they’re so short, you can always resart one whenever you feel like, their rewards are very good(getting ~55k exp and 3 chests for doing a 2 min gold adventure is very welcomed)
Me and my whole guild have had a blast doing them since release, and we still have fun, sometimes few members doing the same stuff at the same time to see who gets the better score. I really hope we see more in the future updates

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

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And again, 99% of the negative posts are made by people that lack quite a lot of brain cells.
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This is the state of the game so far

Many of the negative posts were made by players with thousands of hours in this game.

So are these players lack brain cells to start with? or lost them in their thousands of hours of playing?

When people with 3k hours in the game insist ….call the game a grindfest, then yes, they lack brain cells

It appears the defender of the game is a new player with a short forum history while many negative posts were made by players with thousands of hours in the game. Yesterday, a player called himself, “King of BG”, with 13 legendaries posted quitting.

Maybe when one reaches 3k hours playing in the game, this “grindfest” could be an obvious conclusion.

So are players lack brain cells to spend thousands of hours in a game? or lost them in their thousands of hours of playing?

I wanted to start GW2 in 2013. I never did because when I start a new game, I read the forums for a few days before deciding. These forums made me not start gw2 at least 10 times. And when I started, I realised that I should’ve never listened to the forums, because nothing that I cared about(gold grind, boredom, uber difficult content, gear grinds) was real. So yes, that’s why I’m “a defender”. Because if there’s 1 player- 1 single kittening person- that would like to pick up this game and reads the forums, I feel that it’s my duty to show him the true face of the game, dismiss any false complaints, and maybe give him the incentive he needs to play the game.
I don’t want that any gamer that follows my mentality of research-before-play to be turned down by the game because the forums are a giant pile of kitten where noobs and lazy people spread false information. Cheers mate

Lord of Rings.5371:

Raizen.7981:

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And again, 99% of the negative posts are made by people that lack quite a lot of brain cells.
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This is the state of the game so far

Many of the negative posts were made by players with thousands of hours in this game.

So are these players lack brain cells to start with? or lost them in their thousands of hours of playing?

When people with 3k hours in the game insist there’s no way you can raid without being an elitist in full ascended and stat infusions, yes, they lack brain cells

When casuals playing for 30 mins a week can’t understand why they can’t go through time-consuming stuff(legendaries,raids,gear gathering) and why is anet “hating on them”, yes, they lack brain cells

When people say the only way to farm gold in the game is SW trains, and when I tell them i make 100-200g a day they call me gem buyer, then yes, they lack brain cells

When people try to get done in a month content -that’s been designed to be done in much longer- call the game a grindfest, then yes, they lack brain cells

Doing daily adventures will max your masteries in a few months. This will take 45-60 mins /day
There is no grind in this game. You make it grindy. I’m at 2/6 HoT masteries, I’m in no rush, I have fun with events, I run a few adventures, exp piles up.
Again, the only grind in gw2 is the one players bring with them. Spend 15 mins a day in HoT, and I guarantee, that you’’ll max out your masteries 1 year before HoT is going to be obsolete and some new expansion will take its place.
You want to rush through long-term stuff, stuff that you’re [not] supposed to get very fast. Then you call it a grind. It doesn’t work like this

I didn’t enjoy the last chapter because it bugged when rift-ing the 4th NPC mordre summoned(in my case tybalt) so I had to restart. But this coming from a pure damage burnzerk with literally a passive 389 heal/second as sustain, the chapter didn’t take more than 45 mins, 0 deaths(both runs), nothing ever took me by surprise, mechanics were easy as hell, even the thing where you have to fly was extremely forgiving(like 5 seconds before he starts casting- and he doesn’t even 1hit you, you got like 4-10 more seconds to take flight depending on health pool). His damage was very low(800-1800 hits every – wait, almost never).
So yeh, I gotta disagree about “not knowing what to do”. I suppose it’s because I got ~12 years of gaming behind me that made every single step in this chapter predictable.
But I agree about the lenght, because many(myself included) experienced bugs that needed restarting, so having to restart a 45 min fight after being 30 mins into it – it’s just a giant pain

Palador.2170:

For this story to end, Trahearne really did need to die.

The big question is: “Can the sylvari be trusted?” Trahearne, firstborn and most well known of all sylvari, proved that they can with one of the few acts that would really prove it, giving his life to end Mordremoth. His death is inescapable proof that the sylvari can fight it off and stand with the other races. His death saves them from being held responsible for the sins of fallen sylvari.

Treesus indeed, it seems.

[Treesus]
i. kittening. died.
10/10

Please don’t judge the game by the forums. Because you’ll see 100 guys complaining about stuff and none cherishing anything. And you’ll go on to think “wow, this game is crap/dead/not worth it”. The forums don’t show the ~million players having a great time in the game with no complains.
And again, 99% of the negative posts are made by people that lack quite a lot of brain cells. Read them yourself, they’re all aberations. The only true posts would be – balance some PvP stuff, and balance dungeon rewards so they see some action.
Stuff like
a) “grind”
b)“needs ascended”
c)“gold is hard to get”
d)“hard content”
e)“vanilla was so much better”
is extremely subjective, not at all true, and is spread by players that can’t make those 2 braincells work.
a)nothing is grindy.
-You wanna get a legendary? Play 10 mins a day and save gold for it. In 3 years you’ll have it. You wanna get it tomorrow? Then yes, it’s a huge kittening grind.
-HoT mastery grind? this content is supposed to last few years. you wanna get it done till 2018? kill a mob a day. you’ll get it. Wanna get it tomorrow? then brainlessly farm events, call it a huge kittening grind, finally end the grind, then cry 2 years for lack of content

b) nothing requires ascended gear, it’s been confirmed that all 3 bosses can be done in FULL exotics 10 man raid

c) learn to play. you’re delusional if you think it’s hard to get gold in this game. by far
d) central tyria was brain dead easy. HoT is still easy for the average player. nothing is hard in it, and the end-game shouldn’t be solo-ed, so there’s that
e)PvP- still there, we even got leagues
WvW- can’t compare pre-HoT 24/7 zerg rushes with the actual “have a strategy” meta
PvE:
-fractals same as before, less time consuming, no one forces you to spam swamp
-raids – awesome new addition
-dungeons – same as before, less rewarded gold make people say that dungeons are dead- they’ve been dead. they were only done for gold. Who did them for skins will still do them for skins. Who did them for fun will still do them for fun
open world- HoT events are very fun to do, except if you’re a kitten farming 12 hours a day for your mastery and calling them “boring and repetitive”. 4 areas, 4 metas lasting ~2h each, thats 8 hours in total. There’s no way in hell you can get bored by doing 8hrs of unique events in a casual way

This is the state of the game so far

These guys make revenant sound awesome and complicated at the same time. And I have to admit, on paper, it’s the best class in the game. But this is how it really plays out:
Glint/Shiro:
Turn on facets, activate Elemental blast, spam sword1 for 9 seconds, switch to shiro, use impossible odds, spam sword1 for 9 seconds, switch back to glint, repeat
Glint/Mallyx:
Turn on facets, activate Elemental blast, spam sword1 for 9 seconds, switch to mallyx, use Embrace the Darkness, spam sword1 for 9 seconds, switch back to glint, repeat
Shiro/Mallyx:
Turn on impossible odds, spam sword1 for 9 seconds, switch to mallyx, use Embrace the Darkness, spam sword1 for 9 seconds, switch back to shiro, repeat
SOMETIMES you’re required to break some bars(this is where you’ll be using your axe offhand for like 5 seconds every few weeks).
On paper- rev is incredible strong as in very high damage, incredible support, very fun to play
In reality- rev is incredible strong as in very high damage, incredible support, the most boring class that is currently in the game, due to the fact that in a full minute, you spend 54 kittening seconds auto-attacking(aka mashing sword 1), given you do a perfect rotation.
*I got a reve, I love it in short fights, I raid with it, but everything that doesn’t die in under 20 seconds makes me log my condi warrior so I don’t fall asleep"

Cerby.1069:

I wanna try something new. Basically I’m tired of dps melee. I’m tired of not having high damage ranged and aoe attacks. I’m tired of not being able to do condition damage.

Few fun facts about condition warrior:
-is ranged
-has incredible strong AoEs with high uptime
-we have the top single target damage in the game currently
-20k health pool
-heavy armor
-constantly shoots bolts of fire and fire fields
-awesome “I’LL KILL YOU ALL” shouts when entering berzerk mode
-brings banners to the team

some not so fun facts:
-to be this awesome you lack sustain, so either be good or die a lot
-we’re slow, you gotta be in your other set(we use longbow+ sword/torch so sword/torch is the other set) to gain 25% move speed – otherwise you’ll die of boredom
-damage builds up slowly- you’ll start seeing 10-20k ticks only after 10s+. That doesn’t make us viable for low hp targets(my reve does 8k damage a hit, while my war has to build up for 7-10s before killing a normal mob)

this is all i can come up with atm

PvE – condi war has insane amounts of damage, brings decent support, but it’s survivability is close to 0 – thank anet for 20k hp and heavy armor
PvP- yeh, what every1 said.

My opinion: you should roll whatever class you’d like to PvE with. Because switching a toon in PvE(re-doing 79 levels+ gathering gear) takes far more time than making a level 1 toon and starting to play PvP with it. My thief is level 2 and I’m on 92% win rate with it, yet I absolutely only play power herald and condi war in PvE

Khyan.7039:

Raizen.7981:

I wouldn’t tbh. With all the possible dailies, we already get like 5-10g in around 45 mins for almost no effort. I wouldn’t recommend adding more rewards to fractals, since the dungeon community is already kittened

I don’t think you can reach 5-10g even selling matrices per day. Tell me how you doing that because I never see 5-10g in my bag after all my dailies.

I think you are lucky every day then. I earn almost nothing doing fractals.

oh, well you don’t get 5-10g from matrices alone, i meant you get that with the rares/exotics you drop along the way to completing your dailies. Sorry, should’ve been more explicit

YaYa.5879:

MrTree.4890:

Khyan.7039:

MrTree.4890:

IntheCoconut.3497:

Thanathos.2063:

Read the last page. Yes, the rewards will get changed on today’s patch.

I didn’t see anything that says it will be in the next patch. What WAS said was:

Gaile Gray.6029:

I just checked with Production, and everything is on track to see the introduction of fractal changes later this month.

And in another post he already said that some changes wont be rolled out in the next patch, but instead throughout the following WEEK. Sadly, there is still the possibility that the fractal changes wont happen until the end of the month.

And thats exactly what i’m saying. ty for stating it too!
We are fed up waiying and not even knowing until when we have to wait.
And the dev won’t even post on his own thread. That while he was practically lauging at us for speculating on the wrong datr last time.
Well i think us speculating is less of a joke then the crap they released when HoT thorns went live. And i can understand that. But what i don’t understand is the lack of couunication! And it’s starting to look like you devs are just a bunch of kids whi don’t want us to know anyrhing :o

But there is a source…. http://dulfy.net/2015/12/11/gw2-guild-chat-wintersday-preview-livestream-notes/

Fractal rewards “fix” is today.

Still he made this thread i hope to inform us but he rather posts on reddit! And yes might be condirmed but not in his very own thread! Why do you make a thread on upcomming fractal changes and then rather post on an other forum?
Isn’t that an example of bad comlunication or am i wrong about that?
I’m happy to talk to a dev about it if he’d like to.
I know thats never going to happen, that conversation would either not go anywhere if they agreed to it since the they wil probably be talking to an emotional mad person. Or even worse god forbid they’ll encounter someone who askes them serious questio s in an adult manner and they have to admit to having done something unrzspectfull :o

This is so insulting, the communication is so bad, the devs are so bent on ignoring us, that they won’t even post information on the forum but somewhere else.
Si disrespectful
So glad i uninstalled this game

You claim to have uninstalled almost 3 weeks ago yet you post on a daily basis crap about the game. Uninstalled or not, you’re so clearly not over the game, and your age is showing. Nothing constructive ever comes from people like you. You are a nuisance and you’re starting to become toxic aswell. Please leave for real. Thanks

I wouldn’t tbh. With all the possible dailies, we already get like 5-10g in around 45 mins for almost no effort. I wouldn’t recommend adding more rewards to fractals, since the dungeon community is already kittened

Bumping with information:
3 hours 11 minutes -me- 232% magic find: 6 shards
3 hours 11 minutes -a mate- 282% magic find: 4 shards
2 hours 17 minutes -a mate- 488% magic find- 13 shards

Lvl 52 fractal, just kill the grawls, reset instance when fireboulders come down. Getting everything I need for infusing 2 rings and a backpiece in barely 3 hours and something is incredible nice. Also made around 5-10g selling rare mats. Hope this piece of information will help any1 thinking about grinding that place

Gaaroth.2567:

Raizen.7981:

Thief can play venomshare or DD, warrior is awesome as condi. Those classes have a choice at an alternate harder/more rewarding spec. You as a reve either tank or play glint+ shiro/mallyx.

Funny enough that you list 2 possibilities for thief and warrior (assuming condi warrior opposed to power) as good variance but 3 possibilities for rev are not enough alternatives

Anyway yes, revenant rotations are really easy and straightforward, but that’s because the class plays reactionally and won’t just burst through CDs (like my off main Engineer, which is completely opposite in playstyle).
Sure you can have good dps while afking AAs, but you won’t be a good rev if you do not manage all other skills, support your party and have energy to shoot out eventual CCs.
In simple words, has a low skill floor, but high enough skill ceiling.

The only difference between those “3” specs is that you use different buttons to empower your auto attacks. Just because instead of using impossible odds you use the +10% stat from mallyx thingie for your auto attacks it really really really doesn’t make it any different in gameplay. I meant that thief and warrior had alternate [completely different specs] which are better or at least on the same level. Yes, revenant has them too, I sometimes play jalis for the [i don’t get damage muwahahah] thingie or ventari to have some heals, but they don’t really count in group content because other classes do it waaaay better, or because auto-attack herald is so huge over them, they’re not even worth taking into consideration.

When [probably never] Rev will have viable options including Ventari, Jalis, and I hope a good condi build in Mallyx, Rev will be played a lot more, because a class bringing so much diversity, while being good at everything it does, would be really really popular. So far, mash sword1 to win. That’s a no-no

Misguided.5139:

Raizen.7981:

It took me around 4 hours of reve game time to play the class at full potential in a raid. See you do that with an engi or chrono.

Who cares? No one is claiming that their enjoyment of the profession demonstrates how skilled they are (or that no skilled player could possibly enjoy the profession) except you.

If you find it boring, feel free to go play something else.

I’m having fun, which is all that matters to me.

I’m not contesting you having fun, I’m contesting people that claim revenant needs more than half a braincell to play well. This, after all, was the thread’s subject.

Reading comments and thinking about running the 52 fractal- however, curious, how much magic find do you guys have? Is it relevant anyway?

Thank you for this op. Sick of this forum being littered with people complaining about “ascended only” and stuff like this. It’s been confirmed already that 10 coordinated people in full exotic can clear all 3 bosses. That’s why it’s called [guild] wars. +1’d

Everytime I see people trying to defend revenant “is more than 1 button” I get cancer. In any instanced group content, you either have to turn on fury and nature, or maybe might and nature, maybe protection, while keeping your elemental blast on cooldown. That’s mashing 1, pressing element facet twice, and every 10-20s changing stance, pressing 2 more skills(either nature+some other facet, or daggers+ impossible odds). A rotation using 4 buttons(6 in ultra hard content like raids- loljk) isn’t hard, doesn’t make you good at all, and should stop make you feel like a good revenant.

Just because 1 player in 1000 that play reve isn’t kittened and can do his AT MOST medium-difficulty rotation right, doesn’t mean he is a good player. I managed the revenant rotation perfectly(both glint/shiro and glint/mallyx) in 10 mins reading Obal’s guide and 5 more mins on the dummy in the PvP area. It took me around 4 hours of reve game time to play the class at full potential in a raid. See you do that with an engi or chrono.

Thief can play venomshare or DD, warrior is awesome as condi. Those classes have a choice at an alternate harder/more rewarding spec. You as a reve either tank or play glint+ shiro/mallyx.

Anyone who can’t get past Vale Guardian in full exotic gear is just bad and should shut the kitten up.
Sabetha is a bit harder, yet, still doable in exotics.
Gorseval is the only boss requiring ascended, since its a pretty big DPS check.
1 boss out of 3 requiring ascended gear DOES NOT MEAN YOU NEED ASCENDED FOR THE RAID. Okay. You got 2 other encounters. Chances are, you’ll get
ascended pieces off boss 1 and 3 anyway.
Raids aren’t entirely a gear check(just said 66% of the raid isn’t one), it’s just that people try to justify their lack of skill as a gear check.

Look at some raid revenant PoVs. I can link you 2 different runs in an instant, of 2 different revenants, using sword auto for 7 minutes straight, not a single other skill(except glint facets – not even activating elemental blast) and outputting around 17k dps when target is over 50%, then having around 23k when it gets under 50%. For a class averaging 20k dps from using auto attacks, you can see why so many, including me, rerolled. Don’t get me wrong, I love my revenant, I faceroll 99% of the content in HoT(I got a shield so I basically have facet+shield5 = 2 safety nets that make me unkillable) but its skillcap is very low(yes, even when SUPPORTING and dpsing it’s easy as hell, stop trying to justify reve as being hard to play- you know who you are)and the huge downside is that it’s boring as hell when it comes to long fights.

TL;DR even if reve is OP as hell, no good player wants to play a class that only auto-attacks any target from 100-0.

Malpractice.7850:

Raizen.7981:

Longbow+ sword/torch. Condi Warrior is the top dps in game, and it also brings banners, making it very popular in all sorts of PvE. There’s 2 ways of playing it:
a) Arms/Zerk/Tactics and camp longbow(2 burn stacks on lb autos)
b)Arms/Zerk/Discipline and swap to sword/torch when berserk is on cooldown. This build has around 1k more dps in a raid setup, so that’s around 300-500 dps in a regular PvE setupd- negligible. So play whatever you enjoy.

This isn’t exactly true. Its top DPS in game vs a non-moving target that you can effectively land more than 1 square on, such as sabetha (requires skill in placement) and gorseval. However, I tihnk the highest average DPS vs most things is condi engi, if well played.

That being said, the ease of use of warrior is what really makes that dps shine.

The amount of targets that don’t move is <1%. Also, any warrior that hasn’t started yesterday can EASILY hit a small target with 2 squares. What if it moves? If the tank is going to pull X forward, just see where X will move, and aim horizontally, so X walks on the line between 2 squares. It is extremely hard not to hit 2 squares, given you had practice. Targets you talk about (Gorseval- lol) are 2 guaranteed squares, with 3 depending on your position.
Oh, did I mention we bring banners?

IllegalChocolate.6938:

ChrizZcE.5981:

Thaddeus.4891:

ChrizZcE.5981:

The most skilled players that do the hardest content in the game are always broke while the people that run from chest to chest and hit “F” for hours everyday have the best in slot gear and the coolest looking chars.

It´s nuts.

Do you consider yourself one of the most skilled players? I certainly don’t. But all the skilled players that I know are richer than me.

…and they would be a lot richer if they spent all their time chest farming instead of doing content.

chest farming is a bottom of the barrel money making scheme that you do if you dont want to think.

people with skill will use skill to understand a concept to make money, for example, playing the BLT

i’ve been telling this to every kitten complaining about gold in this game, they never get it. Oh well, more gold for smart people

spoj.3175:

I have to say i am enjoying the gallons of fresh tears every day.

The rage posts are quite a lovely example of how toxic the “casual” community can be.

/thread
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ChrizZcE.5981:

Raizen.7981:

ChrizZcE.5981:

yep, having to grind the Silverwastes for 100+ hours just to save up enough gold for ascended gear and then having to wait 3+ months to get enough laurels for ascended trinkets sure sounds casual friendly.

And that´s just to gear one char.

100+ hours in the silverwastes for ascended? Farming materials gives around 15g/ hour. Salvaging stuff on the TP gives around 80g/ hour, around 200 if you buy order everything. That 5 min crafting daily gives around 12-14 gold. Farming fractals gives 10-15g an hour.

Also, let’s not forget that you can get ascended drops for every single game mode in the game. This is why the game seems hard in terms of gearing. Because people have no ideea how easy getting gold is. How much time have you spent researching how to get gold in GW2? Around 2 vids on youtube right? Serves you right, go back to your 100 hours in SW, that’s why casuals are going to complain and smart ones are gonna keep enjoying the game

200g/hour?

I´ll have whatever you´re smoking.

I’m smoking a Viper(Yassith’s) ascended set done in 13 hours of game time

No. There’s 3 types. Elite, casual, and dumb noob. The problem is, every single dumb noob thinks himself as a casual, or worse, as an elite. That’s why the forums are littered with threads like “omg you can’t get gold in this game, economy sux, I barely get 50 silver / hour” while every one of us who isn’t kittened casually makes 5-10g+ / hour by doing fun stuff

ChrizZcE.5981:

yep, having to grind the Silverwastes for 100+ hours just to save up enough gold for ascended gear and then having to wait 3+ months to get enough laurels for ascended trinkets sure sounds casual friendly.

And that´s just to gear one char.

100+ hours in the silverwastes for ascended? Farming materials gives around 15g/ hour. Salvaging stuff on the TP gives around 80g/ hour, around 200 if you buy order everything. That 5 min crafting daily gives around 12-14 gold. Farming fractals gives 10-15g an hour.

Also, let’s not forget that you can get ascended drops for every single game mode in the game. This is why the game seems hard in terms of gearing. Because people have no ideea how easy getting gold is. How much time have you spent researching how to get gold in GW2? Around 2 vids on youtube right? Serves you right, go back to your 100 hours in SW, that’s why casuals are going to complain and smart ones are gonna keep enjoying the game

There’s a HUGE difference between a valid post and a noob kittening about something irrelevant

>took me 3 hours to fully get my berserk elite in HoT, with literally 6/189 Tyria points
>dungeons are still there, no one forces you not to do them
>dungeons gave around 4-6 gold an hour BEFORE the nerf, half the activities in the game give around 10 gol / hour now EASILY

Sounds to me that you’re the average bad player that thinks he’s a veteran while he knows jack kitten about how the game runs. Sorry bro, your dungeons are still there, if you miss em, run em, no one is making you do anything else

People who complain about raiding are usually the ones that pug along with 9 more players, have a terrible experience due to lack of coordination, then come to the forums and kitten about how poorly raids are implemented, about how YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY HAVE 5 ASCENDED SETS in order to BE allowed to join a pug group, and other sorts of bullkitten. In fact, feel free to check the forum list, to see how many bad players complain about non valid points.

People need to understand what you wrote OP. Raids can ABSOLUTELY be done in full exotics, if there EXISTS coordination between players. That’s the whole paradigm of raiding. Lesser gear high skill/coordination WILL complete a raid, while HIGH gear and total chaos will make raiding a horrible experience. Raiding should be done with friends, guildies, people around yourself that don’t annoy the hell out of you in the first place.

In a few months, when the raids are going to be casually farmed by the most part of the playerbase, the raiding experience of a new raider will improve a lot, because chances are, in those other 9 pugs 5 know the raid, and 2-3 have already ran it at least once.

Raiding is implemented very well in this game, you can literally do it without a single ascended part in your squad whatsoever, you just need coordination.

Note: all my points refer to a well-composed 10 man squad. I’m not talking about tank and 9 condies for gorseval squad, but i’m talking about something that isn’t 10 zerker warriors camping greatsword. Peace y’all, well said OP
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How much magic find? Sitting on 111% and can probably reach a bit more with consumables

Asato.5479:

Revenant condi is way better ! Pain absorption + resistances you get from other mallyx skills make really the difference, imo.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahaaaaahahahahahaha no.

Longbow+ sword/torch. Condi Warrior is the top dps in game, and it also brings banners, making it very popular in all sorts of PvE. There’s 2 ways of playing it:
a) Arms/Zerk/Tactics and camp longbow(2 burn stacks on lb autos)
b)Arms/Zerk/Discipline and swap to sword/torch when berserk is on cooldown. This build has around 1k more dps in a raid setup, so that’s around 300-500 dps in a regular PvE setupd- negligible. So play whatever you enjoy.

MaximillianVonSchatten.6278:

As a guardian main, I have recently been trying out berserker in HoT PVE and have been very underwhelmed. As a AH guard, mediguard, or DH I can breeze through HoT content with no problems; with berserker it is a real struggle. Perhaps I need to tweak my build, but it doesnt seem like warrior has any “bailout” skills to recover and heal up, and has to rely on a high health to get by. And where is the dps?

On a guard I can heal with shouts, heal with meditations, or just flat out blow the enemy away with dps on DH. Also I have ranged damage available, which seems to be becoming more and more important.

I’ve tried hammer, I’ve tried GS, I’ve tried longbow, and I’ve tried sword/torch. What am I missing to make this berserker build viable (and fun)?

Have you tried playing condi? My 1200ish burnzerk takes 3 seconds to fire up all his 4 skills(lb2,lb5, shatter, 1x burst) and then i switch targets. Mob dies b4 reaching me. Also, burnzerk is the 2nd highest dps in game. Warrior’s in a very good spot in PvE right now.
I also have a Revenant. While it facerolls mostly anything, soloing champions(most of em) is way too easy and the class feels 0 skill uber high reward. Yes, we know it’s a marketing gig, but as most people did so far, I also rerolled and abandoned my revenant, because it’s literally no fun playing a class that turns on his almost passive boons and spends tons of amounts of time auto attacking(and MAYBE using unrelenting, but in the jungle, that thing bugs more than it should)

You still need more fractals for the legendary backpiece. Also, you gotta complete each fractal from 1-100 for the achiev. So other fractals still count for something, I suppose

saturn.4810:

Dante.1523:

While we’re at it could we please introduce a solo mode for WvW as I don’t want to rely on on others?

That’s already implemented, just join the new borderlands.

Anet’s gonna need serious condi removal for that wicked burn

Hey all, got a question about the new stats which can’t be found on most trinkets.

I’m talking about ascended gear(trinkets). As far as I know, the only trinket with the Viper stats is the Mordrem Loop(if you select vipers). Nothing on back/rings/accessories. So there lies my question: Is it intended to be this way(can’t get a full ascended Viper set), or there’s going to be future updates bringing us more ascended Viper trinkets?

Hello fellow revenants. After more than a month of reve play, I finally started playing something else. I sure hope I’m not the one feeling this, but revenant is…boring as hell. And of course, I’m talking about our strong power herald.

With a full rotation, meaning facets>UA>swap to shiro> quickness buff till energy over> repeat till X is dead, roughly 95% of our attack time(counting out UA, the strong Elemental Blast and MAYBE axe skills if breakbar is needed) is spent auto attacking with sword. Which makes it incredible boring.

Yeh, yeh, I know, I’m the guy complaining about a class having 100% uptime on most boons while heaving t2 health, heavy armor and around 20k dps(i’m getting to 19k in my full rotation, not backpack yet).

Would calling for nerfs on sword auto attacks and improving our Sword2 skill be reasonable? I’m complaining because what rev has doesn’t seem like a rotation, it seems like doing the best you can in order to have the most boons for you and your auto attacks. Or, the other reasonable thing to do would buffing other parts of rev, since no other reve build comes close to the damage+ utility that a power herald brings.

Also, it’s little to no challenge in group content with Mesmer. Why? Cuz alacrity is useless on us. All other classes(except thief- but again, I did say classes not junk) benefit from it, and some players enjoy the new challenge, as in “managing our way faster cooldowns to do the best we can”. I’d like hearing opinions

TL;DR reve is boring, rerolled to a condi war
Edited cuz paragraphing was horrible

Condi zerker is almost on par with condi engi. Less than ~1% in dps. And it brings banners. Haven’t seen a single raid without a condi zerker so far. Zerker thief is weaker than other DPS’, and it bring 0 utility, so it’s completely useless imo. Staff DD(zerk) or venomshare build are used in raids pretty much(if the raid leader isn’t some sort of noob thinking thief= instant cancer). No clue about others

I hate people complaining about raids, but this guy has a point. Take RIFT for example. The level 65(cap) raid(The Rhen of Fate) is a 10 man raid. There’s the raid(easy- only raid currency, normal, and hard which gives extra loot) and duo mode(can be normal/hard) which can also progress your story, in case you don’t have the gear/don’t wanna learn to raid. I suppose something like this should be implemented in GW2. No chievs, no currency, just a solo/few people instance with the raid stuff hardly nerfed down, for people that want to see the story unfold, but for whatever reason don’t want to raid.

ZERONIX.5873:

Let’s look at nearly every mmo out there raiding is what runs off the average player since new players must spend months and months getting geared to try to kill harder bosses to advance in game. Now we are seeing this in gw2 the same reason I left wow was lack of raiding group players you can’t depend on. Gw2 since heart of thorns attitude has changed it’s no longer fun to play with others. As I feared raiding plagues so many mmos with eliteism and then begans cursing in chat player arguments kicks destroyed friendships and so on it’s just a downward spiral. True a lot of these aren’t a nets fault but why antagonize these players to act in such a manner. I’ve always had issues with 10 man raid content since my normal online group of friends is 4-5 players picking up pugs always creates issues. Is this what the average players want in game though. raid content will be unreachable for new players so they will see as I saw in wow these set groups and guilds are created then no new players are accepted into them creating aurmour sand weapons that half the community can never get or have a chance at. getting. Gw2 has made a bed I’m not sure they want to sleep in they would have done far better to create 5 man content more challenging or make ascended aurmours easier to obtain for new players having over 1500 gold is required at this point just to began raiding. I’m all for challenging content but are they going about it the right way. You risk destroying the average player base let’s face it every player wants a chance at a legendary set should it only be able to those elite guilds and no one else. We have seen no new dungeons no new fractals no 2-5 man content at all in heart of thorns 90 percent of the pllayerbase does not have 10 people online to go . The main change has been a friendly mmo turning sour seemingly overnight . I just feel gw2 is taking a very dark turn.

Aside the fact that I might need some serious condi cleanse for the bleeding you’ve just inflicted onto my eyes, as any person who read the forums for 20 mins before posting(not you, obviously) knows that you need exotic armor, ascended trinkets(cost nothing) and ascended weapons(200g, not 1500). If you got 4-5 other friends, you can easily start your own raid and require whatever you want to require. No one is forcing you to do anything

Amineo.8951:

Raizen.7981:

Amineo.8951:

Raizen.7981:

Started playing after HoT came out. Got to level 80 a few days ago. Spent 2 full days learning how the TP works. Had 31g at lvl 80. 255g today. Buying low and selling high. Getting my first legendary somewhere next week. I’m currentlly getting 60g/ hour, and the more gold I have, the more gold I can make. Play smarter or grind for 3g an hour like a pleb

You’re lying, I’m sure you bought gems and exchanged these for money, there’s no way you can get a legendary in a week that way and that’s not playing…

Because you’re not smart enough to get where I’m getting, it doesn’t mean I’m lying. Also, grinding a week of TP and not having to worry about gold for the rest of my gw2 experience is kinda 10 times better than logging in gw2 and spending 5 hours worrying about gold per hour, like you seem to do

That’s not being smart, I know how it works, a guildie have almost all legendaries doing this and he did it with other guys to maximize profit by manipulating the market at the same time, others just buy gems first to get a decent amount of gold to start with this nonsense…

If this is playing, then I’m better off playing something else where skill and experience nets you proper rewards, which isn’t the case here and never will be even with Raids…

You sound like the player that kinda wants to get rewards for sitting on their kitten . Raids not taking skill? Manipulating a hundred thousand market doesn’t take skill? Are you for real

Amineo.8951:

Raizen.7981:

Started playing after HoT came out. Got to level 80 a few days ago. Spent 2 full days learning how the TP works. Had 31g at lvl 80. 255g today. Buying low and selling high. Getting my first legendary somewhere next week. I’m currentlly getting 60g/ hour, and the more gold I have, the more gold I can make. Play smarter or grind for 3g an hour like a pleb

You’re lying, I’m sure you bought gems and exchanged these for money, there’s no way you can get a legendary in a week that way and that’s not playing…

Because you’re not smart enough to get where I’m getting, it doesn’t mean I’m lying. Also, grinding a week of TP and not having to worry about gold for the rest of my gw2 experience is kinda 10 times better than logging in gw2 and spending 5 hours worrying about gold per hour, like you seem to do

Mallis.4295:

I don’t think PR affects chests of the mists at all. I do wonder how FM3 affects them though.

Did some excessive reading, and users said that FM3 makes Chests give more +1/encryptions. Nothing about how it affects ascended gear so far

Hey guys, new player here, started fractals few days ago(as soo nas I got to 80). Question:
Okay, so as far as I’m concerned, all types(Adept/Veteran/Regular) Have a shot at Ascended gear(rings mostly, and the level 51+ one at other gear as I read). Got 2 rings so far(out of like…10 boxes) so I know the drop rate is decent.
As far as I know, all Chest of the Mists rewards are affected by at least one thing: Recursive Resourcing(fractal mastery 3).
My question is: How does personal reward level scale into this? Any effect at all? Since I just found out that mastery affects Chest rewards, I will just hoard all my Chests until I unlock it. So I’m curious if it’s worth opening my Chests at my level 13 reward level, or just hoard them until I’m on level 100
Cheers