Guild Wars 2

I would probably only ever use Settler’s for a Shout Heal build, but I think even then Apothecary is preferred.

“Deals damage every second; heal potency decreased by 33%; stacks duration.”
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Poison

Booxos.8715:

Ok Thx for lecture as i know it shows me the gam? a bit better… its closer to League of Legends than the standard tank/healer/dps MMORPG. now i am stuck with Engineer and Warrior. But as i read tons of forums both players ar? complaining about those classes. Is it possible to make a good suppoort warrior with Shield and som? shouts? Or Engineer that willl bring som? support?

This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, but the forums are where people come to complain.

Actually if you were to build a support Warrior you’d take Warhorn over Shield with the trait Quick Breathing.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

Is a good place to get an idea of what builds are looking like.

$2k is a little steep for a GW2 machine even if you factor in mouse, kb, display and speakers/headset.

Because you’re hurling a Greatsword as if it were a boomerang (but in a straight line) without the aid of magic.

@ Booxos I think you may need to read up on GW2 combat.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combat
More specifically combat roles, since you’re not going to find a parallel in other games you’ve played.

Combat roles in GW2 are Damage, Support, and Control compared to other games like WAR (only game of those you mentioned I played extensively enough to comment on) where you have Damage, Heal, Tank.

Yup. Without the Grenadier trait do not use Grenades.

smhtjoa.7159:

That’s why figuring out your play style and what you like is so important. Seek out all the advice you think you need, but don’t take it as gospel and, when all’s said and done… don’t forget to have fun! (ooh, that rhymes…)

This.

Nothing beats taking the time to figure out your play style and having fun in the process. You may discover you hate both and end up playing another prof altogether.

That being said I’ve started and deleted 3 Guardians so far (only prof beating that is Mesmer with 4). My current Guardian has been sitting in some level 20-something area for the past few weeks untouched. Just goes to show different strokes for different folks. My Warrior was the second toon I got to 80 after my Engi. Still having fun with him.

Rozbuska.5263:

Sagramor.7395:

The only stat like that in GW2 that I’m aware of would be Crit chance (Precision) with 100% being the cap, or 80% + Fury.

Also condi duration have cap on 100%

Yes and I’m always curious how that works against -condi duration. Say you have over 100% condi duration (rare for the most part unless we’re talking Bleeds). If your opponent has -condi duration is your condi duration beyond 100% used?

Toolkit is in just about every PvP/WvW build. It doesn’t get featured in (m)any PvE builds though.

Diminishing returns on stats doesn’t exist in GW2 like in other games AFAIK. In GW2 once you get to a certain point in a stat, let’s use 3k Armor, increasing it further may have less value in the grand scheme of things, but you’re still getting increased armor. In other games there are caps where increasing a stat beyond that number will give you no increase.

The only stat like that in GW2 that I’m aware of would be Crit chance (Precision) with 100% being the cap, or 80% + Fury.

You could always try a 0/6/6/2/0 Trapper build with LB and Axe/Dagger taking Hide in Plain Sight (now that they’ve fixed it) and a Siamoth. Would be a pretty trollish build with all of the stealth, but could be fun. Not sure what gear I’d use for it though, Celestial perhaps?

For leveling PvE Zerker with Bomb kit and a Rifle. First trait you should shoot for is probably Speedy Kits followed by Forceful Explosives. I always liked EG for champs while leveling. FT is great for tagging in events. And Rocket Boots are great for getting around faster when they work. That’ll get you into the 50’s by then (hopefully before) you should have a good handle on your preferred playstyle. Stay flexible and don’t be afraid to change things up as the situation demands.

There are no Hit or Evade stats in this game because it’s more of an action combat system than you’re used to coming from a game like WoW.

Silly me I never asked which game mode this build is for. Open world PvE, Dungeons, PvP, WvW roaming/havoc or WvW zerg?

Short answer:

• If you’re using Sharpened Edges then Rabid/Celestial.
• If Keen Edge then Celestial/Dire/Settler

Upgrading or building from scratch?

Regarding Condi and Toughness are you asking for diminishing returns threshold? If so i’m not sure there is one/it’s up to you. As for Precision it only affects your chance to crit. YOU are the only thing that affects your chance to hit. Sigil of Earth will proc when using a kit, although Sigil of Tormenting is generally preferred.

Might want to take a look at this.
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Engineer_-_FT_Condi_Roamer

This is your quandary as far as I can tell.

LazerCatPewPew.6708:

I just kind of want to play and so does she. We both don’t have the time to really sit down and read and try to figure out a whole new game. We are hoping we can just figure out by playing.

So stop wasting your time writing walls of text on the forums. Log in to the game and have some fun with your girlfriend!

There’s nothing stopping you from logging in, starting up a character, and just having fun. In fact that’s how the game was designed and meant to be played, and that’s how myself and probably most of the player base started out. If you need a specific question answered down the line that has Google or the Wiki stumped (don’t bother trying to use the forum search) please ask.

That’s the beauty of GW2. The game doesn’t “start” at max level like in WoW style MMOs so take your time leveling, exploring, crafting, doing dynamic events (don’t ignore these), PvPing, taking part in WvW, and in general learning the game as you go. The least efficient method of leveling happens to be grinding kills. How’s that for a breath of fresh air?

The only hitch to your plan will be playing separate races and hooking up in game so I’ll lay that one out for ya.

• Whoever wants to meet up with the other go to your capital city (you start right outside it).
• Inside there will be a portal to Lion’s Arch. Find it and Jump in.
• Find portal to your sig other’s capital city and jump in. They’re easy to identify since standing right in front of each are members of that race.
• Exit capital city #2 and enjoy.
  Fun fact, you’re eventually going to want to do it anyway so you might as well explore all capital cities relatively early since they give you a nice chunk of exp. Unless of course you’re unsure about your race/profession choice in which case you may want to wait until you’re settled so as not to “waste” any time.

There are no “builds” for anything below 80 for the most part. They generally require synergies of all of the talents, sigils, runes, consumables to be a complete build.

If you love Longbow prioritize Power > Precision = Ferocity and mix in Toughness/Vitality if you need it. I can’t remember what level you start getting triple stat gear (Berserker, Valkyrie, Soldier, etc.) so just follow the aforementioned prescription.

While you’re leveling don’t worry about trying to take traits found in lvl 80 builds. Just take traits that will be most beneficial for you at that moment since they’re free to reset.

One more thing. Do yourself a favor and try as many different weapon, stat, trait, pet combinations as you can dream up. Bearbow is dreadfully boring and leveling as such generally doesn’t promote skillful play.

You can start doing dungeons at level 30 with another being added every 10 levels (until 70 where it’s more frequent), but I’m not sure if you could complete them as a trio as soon as you have access to them. As suggested maybe fill the holes with 2 pugs until you’re at a point where you feel you can trio.

What you may be interested in to get started are the mini-dungeons.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini-dungeon

Just log in and check it out.

Current meta builds can be found here:
http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

The vast majority of the time I’ll be using Drake/Spider/Canine, but then again I play almost exclusively WvW so YMMV.

• Drake’s awesome for the cleave, self heal, blast, nice balance of tank/dps. RaO with River Drake F2 will give you a nice bunch of Might.
• Spider ranged hard hitting attack, immob, poison, highish HP.
• Canine cripple, KD, and really solid F2s for the most part. Some people say they’re a good balance between damage and survivability, but I’ve always found they’re pretty squishy.

GrandmaFunk.3052:

5 stacks of Applied Fortitude can make all the difference.

Applied Fortitude boosts Vitality, not Toughness, so you shouldn’t be hitting for any less no matter how many stacks.

Only thing I can think of is that you’re either missing gear or you have the wrong pieces/set on.

Could be a quirk of the calc, but the toolbelt Hidden Pistols doesn’t seem to be affected by toolbelt recharge reduction baking it a poor choice for Static Discharge if this is the case in game.

I’m also going to assume slotting Blood Injection was an error?

And is this going to be for open world PvE or dungeons?

Cygnus.6903:

You need to let go of this idea though. You can not find a build that is good at everything. Mediocre, sure, but not good. If you insist on doing all variants of combat in WvW, get variable gear.

Pretty much this….

Something that would help immensely would be to do a write up of what you’ve tried and what you did and did not like about each.

While some profs/specs may have a bigger cushion, dodging is an integral part of not dying in this game.

However, like Frotee said, if you abuse the crap out of Deathshroud a Necro can handle a lot more facetanking than others.

Investing that heavily into Healing Power or that deep into BM is usually not a good idea. I would probably take 2 pts from BM and put them in WS for Empathic Bond/Barkskin. Also swapping wolf for murrelow since with this build youll want to be swapping pets often, and a wolf will not survive long on the front lines. Celestial accessories may be okay. Perhaps something like this with Exuberance if its in the budget.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNBHhFakRlGW7XxlFuWDYJUtTgAYUfeqtqzSICSZWj4JWA-TVCHwAAOEAhU/xuSwZ7PY4BA4U5XY9BJOBADOCAkCIltAA-w

I would also recommend looking at that Frontliner thread, and as you’ll see I don’t recall any builds there going I to BM.

Shoutbow and Hambow are two very different builds.

Well it’s largely irreplaceable in PvP only due to it being the only F1 skill that can’t miss, which syngergizes well with Cleansing Ire, and F1 provides great area denial by covering an entire point in PvP.

In PvP and WvW it’s not used nearly as often. In fact not at all for dungeon runs for the most part.

There really isn’t anything that fits your description of wanting to plan ahead and not having to react on the fly. That’s not how this game works. Its not turn-based combat. You have to actively dodge/evade and apply a buff/activate a skill to block. Not only that, but those things along with other factors will determine your offensive skill usage as well.

Dojo.1867:

I think condi ranger needs a good way to access out of combat swiftness. Soooo slow.

There’s the shout heal build for perma-swiftness. But its much more bunker than other condi builds.

Why Kick over Bulls Rush?

Cygnus.6903:

Try my Critical Hammer build. It’s on my channel, link in my sig.

Truth be told, if I had Hoelbrak I’d be running this instead of Berserkers Power. Glad you finally made a build video.

Full Berserkers is so that you can actually kill something while roaming and skirmishing as GS/Hammer. Naturally high armor and HP + melandru, soup, DM and CI should be enough for that. Swap in Soldier accessories for zerging as necessary.

Are you not utilizing dodges/evades properly, are you getting overloaded with condis, and/or do you just not have the support required to sustain a Warrior in a zerg?

xDudisx.5914:

lighter.2708:

Strength traitline is not joke.
it’s pretty good high skill ceiling offensive trait line.
except the fact that power warrior is not viable

but there are variation of meta builds that goes to strength for some nice utilities.
some hambow goes to 20606 instead of 00626
and tarcis shoutheal is 10263.

and fully defensive traited zerker build is always easier to pull off like 20606 axe/shield, w/e build

If it was a good traitline we would see a lot of players using it in spvp. Everyone is running a copy paste shoutbow…

This thread is about WvW not sPvP.

GROMIT.7829:

Ranger = Roaming.
Warrior = Roaming, Blobbing and everything else.

Rangers are one trick ponies.
Warriors are swiss army knives.

Glass Bow Rangers may be one trick ponies, but the Ranger as a profession is far from a one trick pony.

Your original build is similar to the Hammer/GS roamer meta. Only with Hoelbrak over Melandru and a lot of PVT to fatten you up for zergs which severely decreases your effectiveness in small scale fighting.

Also GS doesn’t really play well as a zerg weapon since that weapon set is more for mobility and 100B after an Earthshakers/Bulls Charge.

So here’s my input, if you must. One set of gear but two trait & utility setups. You could also swap in a few Soldier accessories for the zerg build if you have them.

Zerg: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJARSjMd04ZZIehQHigfgC9t3C5gpAQZak7pOCA-TVSHABueEAI4CAw8DAIl9HcSJ4PK/+Q9HI0FAwhAgMALbB-w

Roam/Skirmish:http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQJARSjMdU2ZZIehwJagfgC5t3CmDgBoBUmG5OA-TVSHABueEAI4CAw8DAIl9HcSJ4PK/+Q9HI0FAwhAgMALbB-w

For dungeons max dps is going to be Axe/Mace + Greatsword.

Essentially anywhere else in the game you can use Sword/Shield. Open world PvE you can really play whatever. It pairs well in a power build with GS or Hammer in WvW. As for LB see my previous post.

Sorry I wasn’t more clear. While I know the gear you’re using is weaker I should have instructed to pick the weakest piece with the proper stat distribution.

My point wasn’t so much that your gear was too weak for 80 content, but that the stats are all over the place. And I could tell you weren’t aiming for a poor-man’s celestial.

The general advice should be something along the lines of:

• You’ve been playing the game long enough that you should have an idea of what type of Elementalist you’d like to be.
• Look up some guides relevant to your desired play style and/or just start experimenting with the builder.
• Hit up the vendors/TP to outfit yourself accordingly. And scoop up any trait points you might be missing.
• If you change your mind or simply want to try something different experiment away.

I really can’t say which is best. These days out of the two I’ll usually end up playing my bow-less Power Ranger.

I’ve started to fill in a character builder for you as best I can based on the info given. If you could fill in the blanks as best as possible on your gear that would be great.
That exercise alone may give you some hints as to why you’re having a tough time.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQFAWhUM6ZW4w6Bf0ADAGxW4RIYA4AUOO0FWDA-T1iAABEYDQBuAgEXBImFCdAA8AAucBhjUJAIVIUcRgfURgylAAA-w

Danikat.8537:

I use rabid on my ranger. It’s pretty much perfect for me since I wanted a condition/critical hit build with toughness as a 3rd stat. (Although I do use other stat combos on trinkets, particularly to get the ferocity to make critical hits worthwhile.)

I can’t imagine how Ferocity would be a good investment when your primary gear stat spread is Rabid. Unless of course you’re playing a poor-man’s Celestial build and using some Rabid while you build up enough crystals for Celestial gear.

Tman.6349:

Anything but Ele and Guardian can make good use of Rabid.

The only profs I would say that could use Rabid would be Engineer, Warrior, Necro, Ranger and Mesmer. Outside of that there’s really not much of a use for the crit. Even certain condi builds eschew crit when “bleed on crit” traits are not taken.

So that bumps the list up to Ele, Guardian, and Thief.

Congratulations. Just not my cup o’ tea that’s all.

That weapon setup involves conditions, yes, but they will not likely be your primary source of damage with Sword #1 being our highest (Power) dps weapon.

Shortbow, however, leans a bit farther onto the condition side of things with #1 applying Bleeds if flanking.

What might be worth doing while leveling is prioritizing Power but equipping a Condi Shortbow. Experiment with different setups and see what works.

Hope this is what you were looking for.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pet#Swapping_pets

Bran.7425:

After they placed stealth on longbow they should have thrown the camouflage mechanic out the window and just reworked it as stealth.

And why they didn’t follow this logic from the start the world may never know.

Sigil of Doom, Poison Trap, Spiders, Marsh Drake, Murrelow, Devourers, as for using the Evades offensively I don’t use them often enough to offer good insight there. However, we have plenty of immob/cripple/chill too to keep them in place if that’s the issue.

I’m not sure how Axe #2 would help you land Dagger #4 since it only applies Bleed in an fan.

As long as you’re not doing dungeons Rabid is a viable stat for most professions (yes Warrior).

Basically if you have a “Bleed on crit” trait then Rabid or Rabid combined with Carrion/Dire can be put to use. Most commonly in WvW non-zerg builds.