Guild Wars 2

Hours played: 2500
Achievement points: 7150
Precursor drops (Mystic forge or mobs): 0
Real money spend on gw2: 0
Legendaries obtained: 2

I guess i’m not a quitter like most of the people in this thread.

It’s been a year now after launch, so I wouldn’t expect them to fix the load on our cpu’s.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhEmmbxRywjDIkCng4hF4AcY5xMsD2AA-jEyAYrgQWQoCAJ/ioxWGLiGrqGQbjpiXUtMAMLA-w

Had this in mind for my ele.

The 0/30/0/20/20 build has been on my mind as well. I keep hearing that evasive arcana is the ele’s best trait, but honestly i don’t see a lot of use in it when you’re trying to be on a safe distance with a staff. The scepter/dagger would perhaps compliment staff more, while d/d is a bit too melee compared to staff.

Thanks for the comments.

Hi,

Been messing around with my elementalist to try and make it as effective as possible for my way of game play. I was 0/10/0/30/30 (original daphoenix build). Nothing wrong with that build, but i’m trying to make one that suits the staff a little more, while still keeping it viable for d/d gameplay.

What i’m trying to do is to bring the dps ability of staff up as much as possible while keeping d/d still viable. The staff is especially meant as behind frontline big zerg battles, doing damage, controlling the battlefield and support allies with fields. And use d/d for mobility purposes outside big battles.

Build i had in mind
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|6.1g.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.7e.1n.7e.1n.7e.1n.7e.1n.7e.1n.7e|311.0.211.0.311.e17.211.e13.311.e17.2v.0|0.a6.a6.k58.u58b|2e.1|1l.1u.1o.1t.0|e

Basically in short summary, it’s a 0/10/10/20/30 build. Knight armor and 6x scholar runes, celestial ascended trinkets. And berserker staff/daggers.

Depending on either being d/d or staff i can switch a little with trait skills.

My biggest doubts are the runes. Not sure if scholar runes is really the way to go. Right now i have monk, water and major water. Boon duration runes are great, but not sure what’s better when it comes to dps. So hoping someone could enlighten me on this subject.

I would gladly like to know what experienced elementalist’s think of this build, and if there are any flaws for WvW purposes.

Thank you in advance

ChaosDoom.8459:

Unfortunately I am not pro enough to survive throughout FOTM without dying when I am in full zerkers full glass traits. Therefore I prefer tankier build. I am just a old man with slow fingers. Cheers.

Why do people see things so black and white. There’s also a middle ground between pure zerker and full ptv gear.

Also, warriors who blindly take over other people’s builds are usually worse then warriors who made a less effective build but got to it on their own. Reason is called playstyle.

Eitherway, dodge is often looked over by many while it’s really one of our most important defenses. Even ptv gear can’t fix that. Also there are builds who deliver the damage but arent as squishy as pure zerkers. A shield can help a lot, and a ranged weapon is a must in fractals.

Getting both BP and HF moved to the grandmaster traits is a good move in my opinion. But i wish anet gave us a bit more love when it comes to CC and mobility in return.

Areann.1304:

Folk.2093:

A transmuted legendary item does show up on the vendor list.

That must be it then, I did transmute the Bifrost with my Lionguard staff for the sigil.

/facepalm

I see why people are complaining.

Personally i’m quite excited about these changes though, but i don’t run a greatsword on my warrior. I was running axe with anti condition stuff like dogged march, melandru runes etc. The changes to the skills and traits only helps my warrior perform even better when it comes to axe and condition removal. Building adrenaline is fast, and these changes makes conditions even less of a problem.

In PvE it’s an improvement for my warrior. WvW is another story and i’ll have to see how to built for that. Perhaps sword/shield(axe) and hammer for zerg play with different trait built.

I don’t care about PvP, rather play other classes in there :P

I wonder how these changes is going to effect CoF.

Why is axe mainhand no good anymore?

I know about the change in #1 chain, but i don’t see much issue with that inside PvE. But in pvp i see why that’s bad though. Is there anything else that makes axe mainhand worse now?

What i did was make use of the guesting feature. Since you can guest on 2 servers, it’s 9 effigies per map on 1 char in a couple minutes time.

In PvE it wouldn’t be bad to see this nerf happening, when a certain dungeon is preferably ran by one specific class AND build you know something is not quite right. But i don’t know about PvP though.

I’ve had a lot of types of armor, even the cult t3 human chest, pants and wrist. But got bored of those.

You can also use cheap skins and still look “hot” :P

In a way, these RNG crates/chests/boxes is a good education for the complaining kids here what gambling is like. So they learn it’s not quite profitable…

RNG in this game is not as bad as in other free to play games. In other games it’s also a pay to win situation IF you get something from it, while in gw2 it’s only cosmetical.

But i can see the frustration though on skins you want that can’t be sold through the TP.

After a while i probably figured out what the cause is of my monitor shutting down. When it happens, my sound also stops after a few seconds. At first i thought it was my PSU who was a tad too low for my 7770 radeon videocard, but getting a new PSU didn’t change a thing. Most likely, and I’ve been watching the temperatures, it is the CPU getting too hot. Even after blowing, vacuum and what not to clear the fans from dust, it can still get too hot.

GW2 is very CPU heavy, so while playing, the CPU load goes up A LOT at boss fights and inside dungeons. This causes the cpu to rise up in temperature, eventually reaching it’s limit which shuts it down out of safety.

Probably the only solution for me is to renew my motherboard + CPU now…. Because anet won’t be fixing the cpu load on the game.

OP will quit the game before he can make a twilight is my guess. Unless he or she learns to enjoy the game by finding out on his/her own what there can be done at lvl 80, and enjoy the content first before even worrying about a 1200g+ item.

What i find most important in farming in general is variability. You won’t last very long if you do the same thing everyday.

Every day, I farm nodes (orichalcium, saplings, omnomberry) in Orr. I do it with 4 characters. I have to admit that some veterans have been made a little too strong maybe to solo in the last change of Orr. But other then that, i run a ranger, mesmer, elementalist and warrior through malchor’s leap and cursed shore without dying.

If you want to play it’s content on Orr, I know that on malchor’s leap and cursed shore there are usually always big groups of players somewhere. Especially when an event is up with an end event chest, like melandru, dwayna and lyssa. But maybe it also depends on the server?

A traited rifle does alright damage. In my experience any ranged weapon is subpar to melee weapons. My guess is that rifle does more damage than longbow. But the difference is small.

It’s highly recommended to trait into either rifle or longbow, depending on what you use. I chose for longbow because of the utility it offers. I find that more useful in party and WvW while my melee weapon offers me damage.

As for stats, any stat helps you on both weapons to do more damage. I have like no condition damage, and longbow does great. As for sigils, i like the fire sigil in ranged weapons. It’s well worth it if you have a good amount of crit.

It’s a bad suggestion alright.

The fact that this thread is a flamebait proves that fact. Any item that grants you lvl 1 to 80, or any other form for whatever stuff defeats the purpose of the game. If you’re lazy (busy) go craft. Other then that, just play the game like we all do, and if you don’t like it, don’t play at all.

Eleri Tezhme.3048:

I’d like a hotkey to change it. And could we pretty please not change back into our armor if we fall? Drives me batty.

Agreed with this. Right now any damage done changes you back into your armor. It should only happen if you’re actually under attack by something, which is impossible within towns.

It surprises me that anet hasn’t introduced more towns clothing yet. I know this other game where the world is not so perfect who utilitizes their boutique with a looooot of good looking fashion (anet can learn from them). It’s one of their biggest incomes probably. Anet could make a lot of money by introducing more towns clothing.

I used a rifle for a very long time on my warrior. But eventually i switched to a longbow and tried that out for my ranged weapon. And after a little bit i found out that i like the longbow better :P

Never get a type of weapon only because the legendary looks so great. You actually need to have fun using it.

jknrich.1549:

Hello guys. Warrior is a class I know nothing about. And to be honest I always thought it could be a boring class to level to 80.

Looking at it I may have been wrong but I am still unsure. I am looking for the pro’s and con’s to this class.

I want to build something different and something that would be fun to play.

I like to be able to give a lot of damage and take a lot. I am also torn between a Thief build.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks.

Simple answer to your question is that it completely depends on what you like. I’ve played mesmer, elementalist (was my first main), guardian, ranger and in the end i keep coming back to my warrior. Because i simply like playing warrior the most somehow. Before i’ve never been much of a heavy armor type of person in an mmo, and played the magic classes. Still fun to play but my preference goes to warrior in PvE and WvW.

If you think warrior is exciting or boring also depends on how you play it, and what you do with it. Great thing about a warrior is that it has a lot of viable builds. GS can be fun on a warrior, but dont just take it because you think it’s the only viable weapon out there.

Legendaries are meant to be money sinks. Any idea that prefends anyone from throwing a lot of gold into this legendary project is a bad idea in general because that’s not what arenanet wants.

Arkanis Drako.5169:

I´d rather they reduced the cooldown.

To block two more seconds would be nice,
but in my opinion Warriors should primarily hit instead
of getting hit.

Shield Stance with a lower cooldown would enable
warriors to use it more often, when they need it,
instead of blocking for a longer time, without dealing damage.

I agree with this.
Besides all the good ideas here, wouldn’t it make sense if damage done in the direction of the shield, that everything behind the shield (player + allies) get protected as well?

Warlord.9074:

But in all honesty running dungeons isnt about how much DMG you can do on your warrior when your on the ground all of the time becasue your defense is now less than an elementalist in decent armor with less sustain than them too. Its not a good combination for runing dungeons. Get your self to 20+ FOTM and try that set up you wont last that long, if you don’t have someone to tank for you lol.

I’m not really trying to troll you I’m just saying gotta use some common sense. Its not all about OMG I do 30,000 dmg with hundred blades Its about staying alive and supporting the party. As a warrior your job really is to Off tank most of the time or tank when there is no guardian.

Well said, and i totally agree with this. Although it’s up to anyone on how to build your character, i enjoy the game the most when my group is able to keep alive in tough situations, no matter how much dps it does. Especially guild runs are fun since everyone is more or less balanced. In the end, running smooth dungeons runs with balanced characters is more fun and usually faster then a run with just zerkers. CoF isn’t the only dungeon out there.

My armor is mostly all zerker, except for 2 knight gear. I’ve had soldier runes, but changed to melandru (reason is obvious). That and 30 points in defense and 0 points in strength gives me enough toughness to keep my build balanced in my experience.

It’s a fun weapon with interesting and useful skills. But it’s still lacking too much to make it worthwhile to actually use.

Main reason would be the possible damage it can do. The amount of damage it does in the #1 skill chain is fine and shouldn’t be changed. But the cast time of the 3rd hit (pulverize) is simply way too long. 1 whole second is enough for anyone to just step back and not get hit by it. If you look at the animation when slashing, it looks abnormally long to hit as well. Even normal humans wouldn’t take this long. :P

Changing the cast time of pulverize by reducing it to 1/2 seconds would be most welcome, and i wouldn’t mind if the weakness buff on the 3rd hit would have a shorter duration to compensate the faster chain.

Also the #3 skill, pommel bash, it would be nice if the daze effect would work on at least 2 or 3 targets at the same.

Mace shouldn’t exceed hammer when it comes to CC, and it shouldn’t exceed axe when it comes to damage. But right now it’s way too underpowered.

Lots of fun ideas are mentioned, but before they would pay attention to them, they should atleast finish some of the existing legendaries. Some still need polishing in my opinion.

The damage on mace has to be buffed up. Either more damage per hit, or more responsive, and lower channeling on the 3rd hit in the #1 skill chain. It takes too long before that one hits. For the rest it’s quite solid, with a strong focus on control. It simply lacks damage, which in return causes you to get hit more since you kill a lot slower, defeating the purpose of a defensive weapon.
I feel safer with an axe….

Doomguard.5094:

Player housing is already being worked on, guild halls as well.

Can you link a reliable source to proof your statement?

I don’t expect anything from anet, because of what olba said, it’s not an event that matters to americans or other countries. Maybe anet could make some stuff orange for a day, like orange flags and such.

I’d like to bump this thread because I get the same idea about this trait not working like it should?

Or does the trait overwrite my current crit rate? Meaning it does not add up. And how should this trait work according to arenanet?

Very bad idea actually. You don’t want possible new WvW players getting upset with long que times. Besides, it’s just stupid to think that those who played a lot should have easier access.

Was wondering how people felt about a mace on mainhand in PvE and WvW.

I’ve always shunned the idea of MH mace, but i’ve tried it out, and found it rather interesting. Disadvantage is the lesser damage you do with it. About 30% less compared to the axe, but the 2 blocks and 3 stuns is what makes me interested when mace is combined with shield.

I know hammer is also amazing when it comes to control, but has no blocks really. With mace/shield, i could keep myself alive inside a zerg.

Mace seems a bit useless on bosses, but overall in dungeons i can see the benefits. There’s always an axe when mace doesn’t work.

It has also cosmetic value though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaF4I4aHtaM

800 gem is very expensive. If i buy 1 ori mining pick with 100 charges a day, it will take about 400 to 500 days to get to a total of 800 gems worth of mining picks.

Only worthwhile in the long run if you still play this game in 2 years and mine everyday.

Olba.5376:

lordkrall.7241:

And who are you to decide if the items are “finished” or not? Or if the are “legendary” or not? Isn’t that all a very personal thing?

I guess he wants all legendaries to have footprints and some kind of on-equip effect on the body of the character.

But it is true that some Legendaries are easier to spot than others. Weapons like Dreamer, Twilight and Sunrise are much easier to spot than something like Incinerator, Juggernaut or Frostfang.

I thought GW2 was a finished product.

There is no such thing as a “finished MMO”.

The body effects and footprints, or any other feature like with the dreamer and the arrows they shoot, is what’s lacking on a few still. It’s those effects that set it apart as legendary compared to others. The legendaries i mentioned all lack these features that a legendary should have in my opinion. Why else go for a legendary when there’s other weapons with the same limited effects already. Also i’ve read somewhere that anet wasn’t done on all legendaries because they didnt expect people to get their legendary so fast.

Nope, MMO’s are never finished, but if you implement a feature that is mostly based on cosmetics right now, shouldn’t those cosmetics be finished by now? it’s been over a half year since we’ve seen the first legendaries.

Was wondering when the unfinished legendaries get updated ingame. A few legendaries are still simply skins and don’t have the “looks” or “status” of a legendary. The Minstrel is by far the worst legendary. I never seen anyone walking around with one, and i fully understand why. It’s simply far from finished.

Other legendaries, like Meteorlogicus and Flameseeker Prophecies are only skins right now with particle effects added to it. They are good looking skins, but the shield Eidolon is also a pretty looking skin with particle effects. There’s a good reason why you never see these two legendaries, they don’t make you feel like you’re carrying a legendary. Meteorlogicus i’ve only seen once, and that’s because a guildie has one. He’s dissapointed and quit the game. The shield i seen like 2 times, one of them because another guildie has one. He regrets that he went for the shield.

I thought GW2 was a finished product. Sucks that when you spend over 1000 gold (and a lot of time) on a single weapon gives you a half made item.

almost my entire guild disconnected and can’t log back in while doing missions now.

Seems like the OP wants to make the warrior rather OP.

Berry.3186:

@Star Ace
But to have my 8 characters well equipped I need to do this.

That’s absolutely not true. There are many different way’s. CoF is one of the easy ways though, no matter which kind of build or group you’re in, aslong people know what they are doing, the run will be fast and smooth.

Xystus.3241:

The common thing across this thread seems to be the 7770 series cards, correct?
For most, it started recently and one of the latest patches? Was it the March patch, or one of the march patch fixes?

This could have something to do with the CULLING code changes. Which may require more card resources; who knows bringing a issue with the card to light.

I wouldn’t be surprised since i seen it happen the most when i’m shortly in LA around the mystic forge area. And thus the card somehow can’t handle big numbers of people?

Neuroscar.4028:

Well I should note that I’ve tried a few other recent games (Left for Dead 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive) and I’m having the same problem. I suppose it’s safe to assume that the fact that this started happening after I downloaded the patch last night is a coincidence. I’ve tried a ‘Clean Boot’ and tried loading the game that way but still the same problem. Going to try windowed mode now (It’s now doing it in the character selection screen so it’s difficult to even get into the game now).

Edit: Windowed mode gives me same problem.

Windowed mode fixed it for me. No black screens yet while i’m in LA all day, where it usually happened. Your problem might be a bit different and more related to your own hardware if you see the same happening to your other games.

So far it seems to work for me when I changed the settings of the screen inside gw2 to windowed mode today. I always played fullscreen mode when it happened to me.

I’ve been having the exact same problem since the latest patches end of march. My videocard is quite new, used it since january and never had problems. But now since these last patches, i get the symptom where my monitor gets no signal from the desktop computer and the only thing i can do is reset the computer.

My videocard is an AMD Radeon HD 7770, right now the temperature of my card is 24C. And while playing GW2 i never really reach 40C.

I’m kind of at a loss on what to do because it’s incredibly annoying. It seems to happen mostly in Lion’s Arch or during heavy fights. One time i had a blue screen even from it i believe. Not sure if it has something to do with it, but the error message gave me a LiveKernelEvent.

I did already try to downclock my card. But i don’t think that improved it any.

Anyways, i don’t know if it’s the driver, hardware or the game itself. The only thing i know is that it started since the latest patches and that i’m apparently not the only one who has this problem.

I saw someone with a “possible” fix
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Black-Screen-Crash-Issue-I-just-want-to-play-my-game/1800736

I’ve yet to try it, but i could only find one folder.

Is it just me or does caring about damage go hand in hand with immaturity.

I done the fast 4 warrior and 1 mesmer runs, but my fastest runs were mixed groups.

To be nice i’ll give my axe/shield+rifle build as example of how you can use something else besides GS to deal decent damage, and at the same time have the ability to stand your ground and chooce to go ranged when needed. I run all zerker gear. You can easily exchange shield for a mace and change the defense traits accordingly.
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fIIQNAneUnkOk8YzDSBxEhABzALuCThi4ogKCQ9h2A

Amicable Pugs.4503:

Thing is, you do less dps with ONLY axe/mace. If you wanna maximize your dps you should use gs for HB -> whirlwind -> swap to axe -> 6 normal attacks -> swap back to gs for HB. Also if its a normal mob then use axe 2 and mace 4 for vulnerability. If its a boss and you’re the only one doing vulnerability then its pretty useless, you’re losing dps while casting those two skills. But yes, that guy was a jerk for kicking u.

99% of the GS warriors, don’t do this. They just spam HB in the hopes it hits. But perhaps you should be glad to be kicked. People who are unaware of a weapons ability are probably not very good players to begin with.
Often i been in a group with people who think they were good, to the point that they were telling me what to do. But then they failed hard them self.

Also, funny enough joining a “speed run” often turns out in a “crap run”. pug’s are always a surprise. I’m thinking of recruiting based on achievement points, 4000+ or go home.

A mesmer in general kills not so fast as a thief or warrior. But you can kill really fast if you time your skills right. Besides our shatters, the phantasms are our biggest damage dealers. Besides the phantasm, each weapon combo has 1 other skill that does some decent damage.

I like using staff in wvw and pve. In pve it lets me solo many mobs at the same time. Sure you don’t kill them fast, but the utility on staff makes it incredibly fun, and you’ll notice that once you get used to the staff, you’ll kill faster.

Sword/focus is always solid as well.

A combo that kills fast for me is leap to target(sword 3×2) > mind wrack > blurred frenzy(sword 2)
If you don’t have 3 illusions active yet, use an utility to get there, like using mirror images. In PvE you can easily add phantasm warden to start with this combo before using the leap for even more damage.

Nevhie.6079:

rchu.8945:

does Nevhie has a youtube channel with all her videos?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Video-MSS-GreatSword-Mesmer

Dozo~

Those video’s showed me a mesmer with a greatsword, spamming damage abilities while taking the full load damage on him/her self. So in short, it’s pretty much a good video to show what a greatsword can and can’t do.

GS is not a bad weapon, it depends on your playstyle mostly and what you prefer. GS is great on range, and even though all abilities are offensive ones, that doesn’t mean it’s effective if you’re an offensive player. If you’re aggressive you’ll get into bad positions more easily, and that’s what sucks about the gs, you have to be very aware of your position.

swinsk.6410:

HB hits it. I’ve killed it solo with GS and HB, the bubble that is, not the boss.

It was a level 1 fractal and you killed him when he was down at 20% or even less i bet :P
And i pity the groups you go with at 20+ without AR. But then again, ressing gives your group experience.

Either way, shaman isn’t very difficult until lvl 18. At that level and higher, the moment the wurms spawn and the boss puts up the shield, that’s when it can get tough. While you try to hit it 30 times, you’re basically forced (depending on your group) to lower your defenses. I’ve seen people in 20+ pug’s who couldn’t handle it. They either die, or dodge away and don’t hit the shield on shaman, letting it heal back up.