Guild Wars 2

Utility from staff is way way better then greatsword. I’m an aggressive player, and that’s exactly why i use the staff and sword/focus. It let’s me get into the enemy’s face with the ability to retreat right away if needed. The staff is great for both close and ranged combat which makes it a good weapon to switch with sword in any situation.

underwater combat is fun. Only issue i have is when mobs reset out of the blue.

They used to be more common. Even exotics were more common then rares nowadays.

It’s more profitable to do world bosses with the upgraded chests.

It’s been about 2 months ago that ANet has updated many legendaries, like the mace, the rifle, shortbow and many more.

Scepter, shield, focus and harpoon gun remain i believe?

Personally I think it’s very dissapointing that ANet is unable to deliver full legendary graphics to these weapons. Even humiliating… knowing that people who get these legendaries spend as much time and effort into these then any other legendary. Except they are rewarded with nice graphics, but nothing like a real legendary.

I wonder if ANet is going to care and deliver… it’s simply taking too long now.

A storyline while making a legendary is actually a pretty good idea.

They should have made it so that once have made your precursor you are given the option to start a quest by paying it with the precursor (decides which storyline and legendary). Each time you advance in the story, you’re asked to give something in order to proceed. Once finished, you’re given the ACCOUNT bound legendary :P
Just a silly idea.

Wish they actually updated the remaining legendaries (shield, scepter, focus, harpoon gun) like they did 2 months ago with many other legendaries.

Last month or so, only stuff i get from chests in fractals are blue’s and greens. 1 out of 10 perhaps a rare. And that’s at 20+ fractals. Doing it since i need more relics, else it’s simply not worth it.

Play what you think is more fun. Both guardian and warrior are needed since they both offer different stuff. Guardian is more support, their damage is crap compared to that of a warrior. GS on a warrior is probably more fun, since guardian has more uses with different weapons. But GS can get a little boring though, on both warrior and guardian.

Osicat.4139:

Think Im fighting a loonly battle for Rune of Air. My oppinion is still thu that the mobility with Air, staff and blink is enought and the dmg of rune of Air is unbeatebal by any of the mentioned runes in wvwvw.

/Osicat

Rune of air looks good. I’ve been thinking of rune of the scholar as well. Just not sure if i would benefit from the increase in critical damage too well. With fury right now i’m at 50% crit chance.

Wondering which runes people use on their mesmer and why. Especially interested in WvW.

For WvW, I’ve been doubting between

Rune of the pack
Rune of the fighter
Rune of the Centaur
Rune of Divinity

Anet has to look into the focus Bloodseeker as well

The red glow on the focus is not located at the right spot. Even though in preview mode it looks like it should, in real it doesn’t.

The focus Bloodseeker has a red glow around it however, it’s not displayed around the bloodseeker itself, the red glow is placed below the focus and thus not correctly located.

Scottikitten148:

As of 3/9/2013 4am EST
Anvil Rock has it open

Closed in anvil rock as of 3/9/2013 4.45am EST

Anyone know if another server has it opened?

To be honest, i’m not totally sure if it’s bugged or not. But I’ve done this story mode part 3 times before with 3 different characters, and was succesful on all of them.

Today i done it for a 4th time on my mesmer. First you clear the docks, then you setup the trebuchets. Once that is done, the quest asks you to clear the courtyard. While doing this, at some point i saw all of the friendly npc’s ded. around me, while more and more risen mobs were spawning. At some point it was like 20 risen vs me. I saw npc’s walk up to the yard, but the npc’s kept it.

Also it simply takes too long to kill one veteran before 10 risen have spawned on you. The leading figures of the orders weren’t even fighting.

I had to give up on it.

Reckless.6325:

If you want survivabiltiy, check out pyroaethiests immortal mesmer build, otherwise i think seven mirrors build is for you. It has high dps (70% crit dmg/50% crit chance) with 2.8k armour and its a shatter build

I’ve taken other people’s build as “inspiritation” and example to see what i want for myself. I don’t copy people’s build very quickly. If i did, i wouldn’t have to post here.

They are great builds though, just not for me. Besides, i dont think i would need a 100% bunker mesmer when i spend a lot of time with a zerg.

Been thinking on how I want to play my mesmer. Thought of many possibilities, and I think I’ve finally figured out what I want. But now I’d like to ask if it’s any good for what I want to do with it.

Mesmer is going to be for WvW and a bit of PvE. The biggest trouble I had, was with the choice of weapon and traits.

Traits:
10/25/20/0/15

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fgAQNAsaWl0zqpHTzoGbNJiJFEHyh+g2RqQrVmBvdhA

What I like to achieve with this build is a mix of dps and survivability in WvW. I didn’t go all out shatter build because I find surviviability important. Also put some attention towards confusion in my traits since it seems like a fun condition to play with.

The armor I’m going for is soldier’s armor (power/toughness/vitality).

Now my question is, will my build work for WvW, and what runes and sigils would work well with this build? Any advise is welcome.
Thank you!

If pre cursors would be made account bound, nobody would be able to sell them in the first place. If you mean that precursors now in people’s hands wouldn’t turn into account bound, their price would actually go up, knowing that account bound can’t be sold and thus not bought, and the ones being able to be sold would become rarer.

I think precursors should have been account bound at the very start. But that gives us another issue. How to get one? Right now the only way to get one without buying is with testing your luck on chests and mystic forge. That’s a huge RNG that people wouldn’t accept if that was the only way to get one. So if they become account bound, there should atleast be a sure way of getting the one pre cursor you want. Of course doesn’t mean that a sure way has to be easy.

I don’t think it’s realistic to change pre cursors now. Except, add in a new way to acquire one (e.g. scavanger hunt). And perhaps only make those you can acquire through sure way methods, account bound.

JJBigs.8456:

If people skip kholer, I dont mind if they are level 1. If there is lower levels, bring a ice bow. If we fight Kholer or Troll, automatiically makes me want 80’s, warriors etc because its so painful usually.

This is exactly why i always ask to kill kholer as requirement before i join a group. It’s to avoid insecure/crappy level 80’s or whatever who believe that kholer and troll are hard to kill bosses.

Troll hits hard sure, but that’s why you kite him. Any lvl can do that. And kholer is easy aslong you know when to dodge, and any level player can dodge.

How come it only effects european players?

Im from EU

Playing on:
US – Sanctum of Rall

build: 16732
Error Code: 42:0:9001:4105
and after trying again right away
Error Code: 34:4:5:920

It doesn’t matter really to me who is in the group aslong they know how to play and contribute to the group. I have to admit though, thief is the class i got the worst experiences with. So if i join a group with 2 thiefs in it, I usually leave it right away. No offense to thiefs, and some are really good at playing them, but atleast 80% simply suck at playing dungeons it seems.

My perfect group setup would be….
1 Guardian (support)
2 Warriors (Damage)
1 Elementalist (Damage and Fields)
1 Mesmer (Timewarp and fields)

I understand when people want to have only 80’s. AC may be a low level dungeon, but the difficulty of AC explore surely does not reflect that. I’ve ran many many many AC runs, and most lvl 80 players simply suck. So there are a lot of players who want to be carried by lvl 80’s actually.

The ones who whine the most about low lvl players are most likely the worst players among us because they don’t realize that you can easily run AC with 2 or 3 low alts.

If you don’t want low levels on your group, atleast ask if they have a lvl 80 they can use and have the dignity to apologize before you kick.

Nevarato.3178:

Retsuko.2035:

Nevarato.3178:

From my personal experience fire block is amazing. As well as burning is my main atk condition.

Shouldn’t expect much from burning condition as a warrior.

Blocking can only be done every 24 seconds, and the damage(including burning) from a long bow isn’t exactly great, so how do you expect to beat people in PvP ?

The dmg from a longbow is actually quite nice, combustive shot does 6k burning alone, arcing arrow gives might and does 2-3.5k dmg, and fan of fire if used like a shotgun, is 3 atks in one which comes out to 1-1.5k + 3.7k burning on a 6 sec CD. The longbow’s default atk is meant for stacking conditions through fields.

And the long CD block is why u save it for high atk speed skills, as it doesn’t matter what is blocked, it will still do the same amount of burning. And when you’re blocking, your not taking damage either, so it’s free dmg on the other person. (generally when you finish your rotation and swap back, your block is ready to be used again, but you usually finish the fight before that happens)

It actually works very well in pvp, the only classes i have a problem with killing are stealth thieves, cause stealth and blind, and fights with regen eles and crit rifle engies are 50/50. The rifle engies are a problem cause low atk spd, high dmg, but that’s only if the engie can keep his distance, and even then it’s about 50/50.

This asks for fraps :P

There are surely people who let themself die on a burning condition, and in pvp you’re not alone. So aslong you stay ranged and keep yourself safe, you could say you contributed to a fight. Would love to see you stand your ground in a 1vs1 tbh, and how that works out.

Nevarato.3178:

From my personal experience fire block is amazing. As well as burning is my main atk condition.

Shouldn’t expect much from burning condition as a warrior.

Blocking can only be done every 24 seconds, and the damage(including burning) from a long bow isn’t exactly great, so how do you expect to beat people in PvP ?

I know, sword/shield is quite rare. But not that rare. It’s a very viable weapon choice in wvw.

Anyways, if you want your build to actually be more effective i’d start with spending more points into arms. Either 20 or 25, where as 25 is prefered because you’ll do 10% more damage to bleeding foes. And all your foes will bleed.

To get 25 arms, you can easily lose 10 points from strength. The 10% more damage will make up for it big time. As for defend tree, i’d lower it to 25 atleast. So that would give you 15 points needed to get arms to 25.

Also i’d consider swapping your long bow for rifle. A rifle is a lot more effective with your build (rifle has bleed as well), and with atleast 20 points into arms, you can have Crack Shot which is great for rifle.

Also i would drop the carrion armor. You need precision to get those bleeds off, power is always nice and condition damage is welcome. Vitality is one of the stats you need the least. Toughness is a lot better if you want to stock up on survivability. Maybe get a mix of rampagers and knight armor/accessories?

Smart people think ahead and don’t use expensive infusions (one with 5 AG and +5 of another stat) before you made the backpiece/ring “infused”.

Versatile simple infusions only cost 75 relics and no cash.

Axe/Shield Burst Warrior

This is a good mix of DPS and survivability with axe and shield. And the reason i’d call it a burst warrior is because my adrenaline bar is filled up before the cooldown on eviscerate/kill shot is over. So every ten seconds you can deal a big blow.

It works well in PvE and dungeons. Next to DPS and survivability it also gives a little support with condition removal (soldier runes). And you can always go for a banner utility if you want to.

You can even pick up a greatsword and change furious into forceful greatsword (this build isn’t meant for GS as main), or even pick up a mace if you prefer that over a shield and change the traits in the defense tree accordingly.

Weapons

Main weapon set:
- Axe (sigil of fire) / Shield (sigil of force)

Secondary weapon set:
- Rifle (sigil of fire)
- Greatsword (sigil of force)
- Axe (sigil of fire) / Mace (sigil of force)

Mostly use rifle on my secondary weapon set. But can easily be switched for greatsword or axe/mace in combination of trait skill change.

The type of stats on weapons:
- Axe (power/precision/CritDamage)
- Shield (power/toughness/vitality)
- Greatsword (power/precision/CritDamage)
- Rifle (power/precision/CritDamage)
- Mace (power/toughness/vitality)

Armor and Accessories

Berserker Armor/Accessories: (power/precision/CritDamage)
- Helm
- Gloves
- Legs
- Boots
- Ring 2x
- Amulet
- Accessory 1x

Knight Armor: (toughness/power/precision)
- Shoulder
- Chest

Celestial Accessories: (ancient karka shell)
- Accessory 1x

Runes / Jewels:
- 6x Superior Rune of the Soldier
- 2x Exquisite Ruby Jewel (rest of Accessories are ascended berserkers)

Utilities

What I mostly use:
- Healing Signet
- For Great Justiuce!
- Frenzy
- Shake it Off!
- Signet of Rage

For WvW or other situations:
- Endure Pain
- Balanced Stance
- Battle Standard

Traits

Arms – 30
- Rending Strikes ( V )
- Crack Shot ( VII )
- Furious ( XI )

Defense – 25
- Missile Deflection ( V )
- Shield Master ( IX )

Discipline – 15
- Heightened Focus ( V )

I agree that the burst damage increase is laughable. It’s definitely not a reason to trait into discipline. I understand their reason to nerf it though from the 1% per point. My warrior uses axe, and i get easily up to 90% crit chance. That means that pretty much all my bursts are also a crit. The discipline tree increases your crit+ damage. If they did not nerf it, then 20 points into discipline would basically mean a 40% increase in damage on a burst.

I have 15 points into discipline, and i enjoy eviscerate, especially since i can usually use it with full adrenaline before the cooldown is over.

I do NOT agree with nerfing eviscerate and kill shot. Right now, those 2 skills work as intended with or without +burst damage. Both are meant to deal high damage without any other effects to them. It wouldn’t make much sense to weaken a good working skill where you’ll be forced to trait into a tree to get it back to it’s current strength. Otherwise it’s a pure waist, and like you said, other traits in this case that would benefit from full adrenaline would be better then using a nerfed burst that is only worth it with points into discipline.

Only solution i see if something can be changed (not like it’s needed really). Is to increase the 0.1% to 0.2%. So with 25 points into discipline, you still have 5% increase on a single skill of your weapon which seems very reasonable.

Other ways would be to change the +burst damage stat for something else, like more adrenaline per hit (already under traits), or lower the cooldown on burst (also under traits i believe?).

So probably the 0.1 to 0.2% seems to me the best option.

Orr farming is so 2012.

btw… Axe and GS users are easily trolled

But seriously, if you use an axe, why care if GS does more damage?
Fact that you grabbed an axe means you’ve found other ways to play a warrior.

Personally i think that WvW should remain part of map completion. Think it’s a good challange to ninja your way up into enemy territory to get your vista’s and skill points etc.

But i do agree that some vista’s/skillpoints/poi’s are too difficult or simply impossible to reach in a certain timeframe. Sometimes your server remains the same color for weeks. What i would suggest is to remove vista’s out of keeps, and make poi’s obtainable by standing outside the keep, without having to get inside.

OP is either trolling, or he has yet to understand the mechanism of this game after getting kicked around in pvp for 1k hours.

Knighthonor.4061:

Healing Surge doesnt say in the description but I notice that it heals over time when cast as well. whats the based on?

Ok found the issue above. Adrenal Health trait is triggering off of healing surge heal. not sure if thats working as intended based on trait info.

to test this, I let the mobs beat on me while getting a few hits in Rampage. then stand and take hits to half health. no green numbers. pop healing surge and the passive heals start. not sure thats intended.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adrenal_Health

Blacksarevok.8104:

Realistically A/ prolly does more damage, GS prolly stays alive better. As said already, it boils down to which playstyle you prefer. I’d say both are pretty much equal in strengths and weaknesses.

Whether axe has worse or better survivability depends on the offhand weapon.

greatsword has very good damage, especially with 100b. But their attackspeed is as fast as a mace. Axe has a bit less damage then greatsword, but has the fastest attackspeed of all weapons and at the same time, you keep slashing your enemy when you move around which makes it the most reliable weapon probably to use.

I’m on Sanctum of Rall and i don’t consider the server to be dead at off times. And usually if i want to find a group for a dungeon or fractals i use gw2lfg.com.

I’m dutch, and thus european. But the language barrier with most europeans is one of the reasons i joined a north american server.

Another reason is that i enjoy north american gaming communities much more compared to european ones. Friendlier, more helpful and more social.

Auesis.7301:

I want to send my excess rings to guildies who got the RNG-bat. It’s almost frightening that I have over 30 excess rings and some guildies have had ZERO, and had to make their own 2 rings with Pristine Relics after 500 Fractals’ worth.

2 rings from pristine is only 20 fractal runs. That’s 20 days for 1 fractal run a day. I almost have 2 rings that way, but i dont have enough vials/globs/shards to upgrade it into (infused).

What is 2hs? dual sword?

In that case i’d say axe/mace has better dps and more uses.

Why not salvage and have a chance to get globs/vials/shards of mist essence.

Drop rate isn’t very big on them, and they are useful if we want to upgrade our rings to infused.

The combo finisher had to be the LAST hit on the target before it died to make it count for the combo part in the daily yesterday.

You could use your combo finishers during the fight, but aslong it’s not the last hit on the target it wouldn’t count. It’s much easier to lay down a field, and wait for people to make the last hit through it with a finisher. Warrior doesn’t have many fields though :P

You can see within the description of each skill (when you hover over the skill) if it works as a finisher. You got projectile finishers, or leap finishers etc.

I just used the F1 skill (Field) from my longbow. Seemed to work nicely.

I’m quite sure that the minstel will get an update. Honestly, it’s a bit of an insult though to keep this focus the way it is after people put a lot of effort into getting them.

Glad to see that legendaries are being worked on. But hopefully the rest of the legendaries won’t take too long. We’ve simply spend too much time on getting them, and it would be fair if everyone gets a taste of a real legendary after so much effort.

Legendaries i think needs work:

Meteorlogicus (no body effects, no footsteps)

The Minstrel (no particle effects, no body effects, no footsteps, needs a huge polish upgrade)

Flameseeker Prophecies (no body effects, no footsteps)

Maw of the Deep (not sure about this one?)

Maybe a silly idea.

The shield has this ultra shine that sometimes radiates from the book when using skills. I’d love to see this same radiation from my eyes when wielding this shield. Besides having footsteps and all of course :P

I agree, flameseeker prophecies should have footsteps and perhaps another effect, like a big glow on the arm that carries the shield or something.

Each legendary should have footsteps, since that’s the only trademark that sets a legendary apart from other pretty skins. Flameseeker right now is just a pretty skin.

As for footsteps on offhand weapons. The warhorn has them now, and the torch has always had them.

Hi,

My videocard (9800gt) stopped working. It gave me error 43. So now im looking for a new videocard. And i was wondering if a Radeon HD 7770 would perform well enough for GW2?

If i had the money, id go for something better. But this choice is based on price vs performance. So hopefully this card would work well as a replacement.

Thank you.

How long are que times?

And recruiting bandwagoners isn’t the best idea, they will leave your server when times are rough.

Would love to see player housing.

If it’s getting implemented, the things you could perhaps get, or the size of your house should be linked with your achievements and the amount of achievement points I think. And achievement points should in general have a place in player housing. Why else get the achievement points? So far i see no merit in getting achievement points.

Player housing is fun for role players, but it should also be interesting for others, like “farmers”. If you add things to your house, like a garden where you can harvest some of a certain plant daily, it will give many people a purpose to actually use it. I’m sure there are a lot of ways to make housing interesting for many.

If GW2 adds housing (don’t even know if they ever will, since i never seen them say they would), they will most likely make it so that everyone’s house acts as a personal instance like with your home instance now.

The trait skill Missile Deflection in the warrior’s defense tree is not bad.

I keep reading about blackgate being in Tier 1 for WvW. But I thought blackgate is going back to tier 2 next week?

Gothir.3604:

Verdican.5138:

I have 1 question regarding the water traits .
Cleansing wave and cleasing water seems to do more or less the same no ? as they both remove condition when attuning to water ( with regen popping up when attuning to water from the elemental attunement from air )
So isent the cleansing wave a “lost point” ? or is it purely focused on group condition removeing ? Or do they stack maybe ?
Personaly i can see alot more benifit in cantrip mastery then speaking from a Spvp PoV .

Those 2 traits actually stack with each other. So when you attune to water you remove 2 conditions, heal yourself, and apply regen…all in an aoe around you. Plus it allows you to remove a condition everytime you use a cantrip since they apply regen to yourself.

I’ve been using this build, and it’s really great so far. Both in PvE where i mostly use d/d, and WvW where i also use staff.

But I came to the same conclusion when it comes to the water trait. Since this build has so many ways of removing conditions, i don’t see any harm in having one way change from removing 2 to 1 condition removed to get lower CD on cantrips.

Would love to see shield to be more useful then it already is.
Maybe a new trait skill?

I’m using the missile deflection trait, and it’s really good. A young karka almost kills itself from it’s own ranged attack just by 3 seconds of blocking.

Maybe give shield stance the same CD as the engineer’s one?

Needing gold to buy it defeats the purpose, since you can already buy it with gold. Just some are more expensive and some are really cheap.

Karma is not a bad idea, i wouldn’t make 2h weapons cost more however. A precursor is a precursor.

Fractal relics should stay for the purpose for ascended gear, and not legendaries in my opinion. Of course, an item needed that costs some fractal relics, which you need for your pre cursor could be a good idea.

Ideal would be if you need a couple items you need to farm, like stuff that costs karma, skill points, dungeon tokens and something else which would make your precursor in the mystic forge, just like you need to make a legendary, but with less items.

Whether or not your precursor should be account bound or not is another discussion :P