Guild Wars 2

Use this link to cross check your map, you should find the missing area. One that is often missed in Maguuma is Aurora Remains in Brisban.

I am not an experienced sPvP or tPvP player so I’ll let others answer your two first questions. As for the third one, I feel I know exactly what you are seeking for, as I am quite a Diablo fan as well. The truth is, you won’t find this kind of item hunt in Guild Wars 2.

The game was designed with the intent of avoiding vertical gear progression, meaning that at max level, the best items are all equal in term of stat bonus. Take any exotic weapon, it will have three stats bonuses. Though the stats combination vary, the amount will not. See this page of the wiki for more information.

On the other side, I have learnt to love the progression that is offered in this game. Here you work for the look only. Run dungeons to have enough tokens to trade against a better looking armor or weapon. Wearing the best gear in the game is easy, the best looking is not, as subjective as look might be. On a side note, farming for items in the open world won’t reward you with exceptionally great looking items.

Try it for yourself, see if it suits you. I like it, but it’s a different enjoyment from finding a piece of an armor set.

Do you have any issue with ground targeting? If you do, go with the necro, at least there will be specs that do not rely heavily on it. I find engineer to be enjoyable with the grenade kit, and it doesn’t even have an auto-attack.

Aside from that, necros got a lot of much needed love in the last patch. They are now good for both roaming and zerging, depending on how you spec them. I play a power necro, but I have heard that condition necros and fear-based necros are pretty enjoyable at the moment.

Use this link and check every area with your map. That should help you locate those missing areas.

I have two characters I use in WvW, a necro and an engineer. Both are good in zerg if you don’t have any trouble with ground targeting. Both can apply loads of conditions as well, if this is your preferred playstyle. Mesmers are very useful in WvW for the utilities they provide (portal, veil, …) but this has nothing to do with damage, so ask yourself what you want to provide your team with.

Explorer achievement and map completion are not related. Map completion asks you to find all POIs, vistas, skill points and waypoints. Explorer asks you to uncover the whole map, so all the white names of all areas. Somewhere on your map, you must have a blurred area and you need to uncover that one.

Here is a useful link for explorers. Check the name of all Orr areas, you will find your missing area (Artesian Waters in Cursed Shore often).

I wouldn’t advise a specific profession amongst those you mentioned for fractals. Maybe thief would the most looked for, but what people really want are guardians anyway. With the latest patch, maybe they will start looking for necros but I highly doubt so.

For WvW, I am roaming on a necro and enjoy it, however, being an average player, I get destroyed when roaming on my engineer. He is not exactly built and geared towards roaming so that might also be the problem. Thieves are always a solid choice for solo roaming if you like that kind of gameplay.

Personnally, I would advise you test a bit your necro and find out if the patch offered you a gameplay you like, but that’s because I main a necro since I began. Otherwise, I don’t think you’d regret gearing your thief if it’s a gameplay you are able to master. I know I can’t, but I have been crushed by people that do!

Did you try the Chantry of Secret as mentioned previously? It’s in Bloodtide Coast and is a map of its own with only one POI.

There’s an area of the map you haven’t uncovered, my bet regarding Orr would be on the Artesian Waters in Cursed Shore.

Otherwise, I’d suggest you go on that page and cross-check all areas from your map.

As for the french version, it is perfectly acceptable, aside from some very rare localization bugs. Keep in mind that most language in a fantasy game may be somewhat old fashioned but still it will help you learn the basics of a language. Discovering the (right)Ctrl key taught me a few words as well, so I guess I would recommend trying.

I run in full bereserker, which is not that bad for 1v1, but you really need to focus when playing in the zerg. If you don’t fail your positioning, you can change the outcome of a battle (taking down the opposite commander for example). If you do, well, you’ll make enemy players rally…

I have a personal strategy that works well against bad thieves (and I haven’t seen too many good ones): pop Lich Form. Either he is aware this is bad for him and leaves, or he learns the hard way. Being a power necro, Lich Form hits between 4k and 6k on auto-attack. Any uninformed thief will melt after his first dodges and your health pool in lich form will be enough to take a few backstabs.

The suffix “of the Dolyak” is added to the item because there is a rune of the Dolyak in it. So the Carrion Barbaric coat is the base item, and the Carrion Barbaric Coat of the Dolyak is one of its numerous suffixed version.

A few pointers:

1) do NOT open the dungeon yourself (launch it for the group). Otherwise you’ll disconnect the whole group when switching.

2) Bring your alt on the map the dungeon is in before starting, so that you can switch without taking too much time. At the last bost of the dungeon, disconnect to the character selection screen, login your alt and after the loading screen, you should get the dungeon invitation popup.

3) I don’t know a better dungeon path than CoF p1 for doing this as it is the shortest in the game.

I won’t annoy you with the “leveling an alt without playing it is the best way to suck at a profession”, but I do think you’re not doing it right.

Ava Owns.9763:

Sacrai.6280:

Sent you a little something, tell me if you receive it as it wouldn’t be the first time one of my mail gets lost.

I assume u are Nyarla Tothep, i’ve recieved your mail, many thanks mate, I won’t forget this!

Indeed I am, you’re welcome. Enjoy!

Hum, “Been There, Done That” is awarded for 100% World Completion. If however you are going for the explorer achievements, read the post above.

Nuage.5230:

Can I send money to an EU server if I am on an NA server?

I would say no, but I can’t say I tried. I know you can group with people despite being in a different region, just not be on the same map, so it might work.

There has been a new one added recently in Divinity’s Reach as well. That one plus Gendarran Fields’ one, only one remaining? I remember one being added in Ashford and in Brisban, but that was some time ago…

Sent you a little something, tell me if you receive it as it wouldn’t be the first time one of my mail gets lost.

Before the WvW purist start flaming for taking a spot without contributing, let me add that this works only on moderately populated server. On my server, this would take me twice the time it takes to find a merchant to get past the waiting queues.

EDIT: Didn’t even make it before it starts :-)

Ava Owns.9763:

I die way to fast and take way to much damage.

Ava Owns.9763:

Second, my gear is just way underleveled. I got stuff from lvl 26 and lvl 18 and don’t know an easy way to get new gear.

You don’t have two problems, you have only one problem, the second quote is the explanation. The fact that you didn’t unlock your Master traits won’t help either.

If you are lacking money, I would advise you to finish low-level areas maps entirely. This will net you experience as well as some items and mats to sell if you need the money, or to help you craft yourself a new stuff. If you’re playing in a level 30-40 map with level 18-25 stuff, you’re going to have a bad time.

By the way, are you on an EU or NA server? I wouldn’t mind giving you a tiny financial boost so you can start enjoying the game a bit more if you’re in EU.

I would advise beginning with the engineer, as you will need a lot of patience… I despised getting mine to 80, yet I now enjoy him a lot.

If such changes were to be made, the whole meta game would need adapting. I’d like this to happen, I’m tired of the “DPS is all you need” trend.

Contiguous.1345:

Sacrai.6280:

What I don’t understand is, you are gearing yourself like a tank, and asking not to be one. What would be the purpose of having high armor and not being focused?

I can answer that one – because the concept of tank is not supposed to exist in this game. Toughness is just a survivability trait, not a dedicated bunker stat.

I knew using that word would trigger those kind of reactions but english is not my native language and I couldn’t find any other at the time I wrote this. What I mean is that I didn’t see any usefulness in gearing towards being the one with the most survivability capacities in your group and willing to keep those capacities to yourself.

Though I certainly see your points and find them valid, I feel like toughness (or armor) should play a part in the way aggro works. I do believe though that aggro should be droppable in some way, which is mainly what you lack. I don’t think the game would be that enjoyable if aggro was mainly random or based purely on DPS.

tattoohead.3217:

spoj.9672:

tattoohead.3217:

spoj.9672:

tattoohead.3217:

I have been playing Necro sense launch and not only is it not bad its kitten… Just to be clear i have a war and i lvled it (and a mez) just for speed runs, if your looking to run CoF path 1 over and over… well roll a war guardian or mes (tyvm devs for not fixing this yet…) The idea that this game runs best with pure glass cannon builds is just wrong.

My necro tts out really nice DPS not DPA like war but overall its stronger, i run PVT gear and have over 3500 atk my Axe #2 (yes i run Axe sometimes) hits for around 10k and its on a 6s cooldown switch to dagger for dagger #2 and #1 and i have a nice burst combo (not including wells) Plus i have 28k hp and 3k def

bottom line i will fight you, i will win lol =P

…and i dont care about speed runs so if thats your think then, yeah…

How are you hitting 10k with PVT gear?

the “P” in PVT stands for Powrer lol, jk jk. I was surprised as well but trust me with 3500 atk your pretty beast! Crit + Crit dmg ie zerker gear is better but i like PVT play style. ill have to find it but i recently watched a video of a necro doing around 30k with Axe #2 (it was obviously set up perfectly but still impressive) so its easy to see how thats possible and i should prolly clarify that it ranges from 8k – 10k depending on the mob.

Really i just want people especially new players to necro to understand thakittens a wicked powerful class and if its your style its a lot of fun but its really hard to master.

I asked because I run full beserker and I cant hit anywhere near 10k with 3500 attack unless I crit. PVT shouldnt be criting so you should be hitting about 4k. That video was a 30k hit on a risen beserker (has frenzy so it takes double damage).

I have about 1k more atk than i do in my zerker gear (my zerker gear is exotic my PVT is ascended + Frost Fang)

Can you post your build? I would be delighted to play a build that hits higher than my current power build (Nemesis’s) while wearing tank gear.

Just to be certain, which spell/skill are we talking about? Some skills can be traited to have a greater range. And some skills look quite the same as siege weapons attacks.

I’d say it’s one of the worst idea I have heard. Let aside the fact that this looks like an “exploit” (into brackets because highly inefficient), this will cost you money for the sake of not being patient. I doubt killing each other will grant you quick badges or even would be fast at all. Eventually, your server will be on the right color and your friend will get his POI at reset.

Now, if your server sucks in WvW, you might want to consider both transfering to a server where you might get your POI easily and badges because your team actually kills players (or event npcs).

ddoi.9264:

tl;dr – toughness needs to go way down on the aggro priority list, or just removed from it all together. Make aggro randomly rotate between players with a time limit. Or mob limit so no more than 5 of them chase a single player at a time. Anything, please.

Quoted only the tl;dr, because your two posts are too long to quote, but I read it all.

What I don’t understand is, you are gearing yourself like a tank, and asking not to be one. What would be the purpose of having high armor and not being focused?

Now, don’t misunderstand me, I am not one of those “zerkers only” player, I simply don’t understand the concept of gearing towards a play style, and then complaining about the results.

b) Definitely have to jump into it

I died once while jumping through one and I suspect it is because of the jump.

You specify that your warrior is wearing AC gear, but not the quality of said gear (I assume it is exotic), nor the stats on those. We will need informations on your build as well to help you more accurately.

This being said, I did find the warriors less tanky than the guardians, gear and builds evenly matched. The design of those professions explains it in my opinion.

I am pretty sure I have never seen Cavalier stuff drop outside of fractals, and I have never seen weapons drop for me that way. The ones that drop are account bound, so you wouldn’t find them on TP.

Other than that, I’ll look into Mystic Forge recipes to see if any of those greatswords match those stats, but I doubt it.

You can find the information at the lower left of your screen. Left number is your level, right numer (with an arrow) is your effective level.

Please don’t associate french speaking players and exploiters. There are morons in all sorts of countries speaking all sorts of languages. I have been lead to use that exploit by english speaking players, they are now in my blocked list.

Char mesmer as well, so you can have a lot of fun in those jumping puzzles.

Myxo’s second explanation seems the only reasonable one. You have that rune already on some other piece of armor, thus you lose 17 power to gain only 10.

I also agree you should make your checks at Lion’s Arch to avoid being downgraded, as I have no idea what the downgrade mechanism does to stats.

As far as I know, POIs in Shouthsun do not count for map completion, did that change with the last update?

Necro – 80
Warrior – 80
Ele – 80
Guardian – 80
Engineer – 80
Thief – 80

The others are under 40.

Not sure what is happening to you. I can only advise that you look again at every map completion tooltip while standing elsewhere than in Lion Arch (because it is often in overflow and I have often witnessed tooltip issues there. Also, you might find a tip by looking at your explorer achievements. If you have the explorer achievement for a region, it’s likely your missing POI are not there (not impossible though).

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough on the story quest part, I’ll develop a bit:
- You can always take part in other people’s story quests, you will get rewards at the end of it only if the story quest is the same as yours.
- Story quests are the same if you make the same choices when creating characters, but this does not include profession. So that means you could have the same story because you were both charrs, not guardians.

Most likely, you did his story quests. If that did advance yours (you can see progress in the upper right of your screen), your story was the same as his.

EDIT: For clarity, this is the page of the wiki about personal story. You’ll see it is divided in three arcs. As far as I can remember, the choices you make at character creation have an impact only on the Race arc (first one). Which means all story join at some point, where you have to make new choices.

Hi Klatshmohn,

I believe you didn’t post this in the right forum, given there most certainly is a german forum. In the event you understand english, here is my answers:

- There is a possibility to do personal stories together with other characters. In order to have the exact same, you will need to make the same choices at character creation (race, and answers to questions 6 to 9 I believe, mainly around your origin or totem spirit, …)
- The are few other “quests” than hearts and events. Living Story could fall under this category.
- There are no instances before level 30, which is the first dungeon in the Plains of Ashford.
- As soon as you are level 2, you can go to Lion’s Arch through the purple portal that you’ll find in your capital city. From there, you’ll arrive at a place with 4 other portals. Each of these will bring you to another capital.
- That happens sometimes, what you can do about it is either going to other races starter areas (see above), or perhaps try crafting to gain a level or two. Exploring cities also can net you some XP.

EDIT: I see you translated it, disregard my first comments and sorry if my answers are no longer in the right order.

First of all, everything you need to know about equipment is here in the wiki. As you can see in this page, karma armors only cover three combination of stats. On top of that, those are not really the most used combinations, but it can fit a build or two, mostly in the case of soldier gear. Note that there are more combinations for back items and accessories.

If you are not going for a legendary, then stuffing through karma is a good idea. I would personally go for 1 combination of stats rather than full sets because I like maximizing three stats more than averaging lots of them.

You can check availability of karma NPCs on some website or through the dynamic events section of this forum. On my server, they are available mostly in the evening, rarely during the day.

On the topic of WvW completion, there is no way to fasten the process if your server is not good at it. The release of the new APIs however, allow you to track closely which server owns what on the map, so I guess if you are reactive enough, you might get a chance to get some of those quicker than I did back then.

Website you could use: Live WvW maps

You should have checked the combat log, it would have told you the exact numbers and skills used.

I think you had a lag there, I play a build somewhat similar to the one linked, I wouldn’t imagine it to reach more than 8k on a player with the stats you mention. Even that number seems off to me, but I play mostly PvE.

www.gw2spidy.com can show you which weapons can “in theory” be sold for profit. In theory, because many weapons can be sold for a profit, it’s just that nobody will buy them.

The name of the file looks like this is an early concept from 2011. What makes you say this is new leaked content?

I’ll have to try it and see if it’s worth it (be it only for the purpose of being awesome). For the moment, there is no way I could do this as dodging and jumping are both binded to the space bar, with and without shift.

I am currently running Sonic Boon and thinking about switching to Strife’s build to test it as there is not much gear to change. I’ll see when I do if the damage is comparable or not.

From what I can tell, both builds nearly run the same utility so the impact on the party vs DPS should shift quite equally I guess.

Actually, I don’t find Sonic Boon to be a zerker build. You are going for 30 in toughness and are wearing runes that do not maximize damage.

Strife’s build is a dungeon oriented build and he is playing it in full berserker. So I guess it would be the best answer to this question if we are talking about dungeons.

However, I have no idea what build would be considered the cof p1 zerker build, and I honestly couldn’t care less as you could run that “dungeon” naked, it wouldn’t change anything.

This is Strife’s build, there’s a link to a visual build in the beginning. Be sure to read the explanations as well, a build only is not enough if you don’t play it right.

Strife’s build

I wouldn’t advise to go full zerk from the beginning, but he says this also.

The related official forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api