Guild Wars 2

Almost always dodge roll in – I love the asura flip

Hey guys – another thing I have been thinking about is running 30,0,10,0,30 with full berserker gear but using Superior Runes of Lyssa with flesh golem. Granted, fleshy can die pretty easily but I am wondering if it is worth it to switch from ruby orbs to Sup. Rune of Lyssa in order to have access to boons we have poor access to now.

Think I will buy a set when I get home…

wiazabi.2549:

Necro will slow down a dungeon group no matter what.
Would i have choosen another class if i knew the state of the necro ? yes but stuff were said about necro giving false hope.

You can hope for the trait patch coming soonish and stick with your necro og go with mesmer if you wanna help your group the best.

I havent ever gone through the math or timed the runs perfectly, but I do know that I have run the archetype “DPS” dungeon, CoF 1, multiple times with my dagger berserker necro and have never been told I was holding anything up. Plus, I am able to take down the gate extremely quickly.

Go full berserker with dagger main hand, trait 30,0,10,0,30, drop well of corruption and well of suffering and see if the DPS is low :-p

1. Different character profiles – x# of gems for each profile per character. In the profile, you can include traits, weapons, armor and trinkets. Lets you easily switch from one build to another

2. NEW EMOTES :-p

3. A form of transmutation stone that allows you to remove soulbound from items

It would be nice to have different trait/armor/weapon/trinket profiles that you can save for a toon and easily load. I would love to be able to easily switch from my condition necro for WvW over to my gc necro for PvE. It would kinda make sense to only be able to do this at a trainer, though, so people arent switching builds multiple times in a dungeon, for example.

Hey Nemesis – would love to help you guys out. I do have a full berserker necro that I have run CoF 1 with many times and actually like running with more than my berserker warrior. Just add me to your friends list and if I am around I am down

EDIT: Ahhh, sorry did not realize it was EU server. Can’t join then :/ But I would be down if anyone wants to do this on an NA server

DarnDevil IV.2143:

Please explain how do you damage warrior banners.

Haha… I was not sure if you actually can – I was just reaching for something with the warrior that you could use the skill with

Hey everone. So yesterday when waiting for fireworks in Lions Arch on Dragonbrand, an idea was going around on map chat. By now, we all know that inappropriate words on the forums are filtered and changed to Kitten. Can we please change “kitten” to “Quaggan”?

Hey all – I am stuck in a quaggan boring computer training session which is always the best thing to be doing on a Saturday morning. Since I am paying no attention to what they are telling us to do, I have been thinking about the necro. Just throwing around ideas, but how sick would it be to have a condition called:

Death Link
- All damage dealt to target is also dealt to the owner of that target

So, for example, when you damage a ranger pet, the damage goes to the ranger insead. When you damage a mesmer illusion, the damge goes to the mesmer instead. Necromancer minions, guardian spirit weapons, engineer turrets, thieves guild thieves, warrior banners and elementalist summons.

Think this could potentially open up some interesting gameplay.

Discuss

Hey all! Quick dumb question – does anyone find grasping vines (sylvari cultural skill) useful for keeping enemies in wells in wvw roaming? Have never rolled a sylvari but was checking out the culturals and it seems like it could be useful

Major thing I can think of right now is get rid of reanimator as minor, make larger radius of marks as the minor in that line and add marks are unblockable to the 20% faster mark recharge trait

etrigan.4213:

BUT presentation/attitude matters…and he only ended up alienating people. He’s an excellent commander and I don’t think he’s the “cancer” I was referring to…although he may need to tone it down to fit in.

Haha, I have only run with him once on EB yesterday. I was one of the 5 people who stayed stacked up on him. I gotta say, running with Novus and hearing him in TS was one of the most entertaining things I have done in WvW to date. He does have a unique style, reminding me of a kitten ed off football coach. I am not sure if he was stressed out the whole time, but some comments I could have sworn were to make us laugh and I was loving it.

One thing I can definitely say though is that I learned a lot about strategy during the time I did run with him which was very impressive. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

Haha – btw I did like the way Novus practices what he preaches. At one point on TS when a ranger expressed discontent that Novus told him to stack on him, arguing that he was a ranged character, the whole time I was thinking “you know you are saying this to a staff ele, right?”

cafard.8953:

If only there was a hard counter to lemongrass poultry soup… Something like Rare veggie pizza...

+1

Healing necro is a lot of fun and can do a decent amount of damage with dagger 1 if you are at all interested

This is a very stupid question but it came to me in the shower today. I’ve noticed that when people are talking about specs of characters traited for damage and running berserker gear, we usually refer to the warriors as zerker warriors and refer to thieves as glass cannon thieves. Sometimes, we will call them glass cannon warriors but I have rarely heard a thief be called a zerker thief.

Anyone know why warriors are more often called zerker and thieves more often gc?

1. Well of Suffering – I will never roll without this. Just all around good.
2. Well of Blood – I only avoid it when I am solo
3. Deathshroud jump/spectral walk jump – the only place I feel completely OP
4. Plague form in zerg vs. zerg battles – epic
5. 5 second deathshroud cooldown/heal when you leave deathshroud – love it
6. Build variety – only toon where I have like 4-5 different sets of armor. I generally stick to one build but its great to know that each is viable in its own way depending on the setting

I have been running a slightly modified version of nemesis healing build in wvw recently and love how it plays in evenly matched Zerg vs Zerg battles. The link to nemesis build is:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dv6pnXc_Rp3k

For my purposes in wvw, I swapped out lich with plague (I found it to be less targetable in zergs and love the utility of the aoe blind). I also run all cleric’s trinkets. I know that these 2 changes kind of waste the crit damage in soul reaping, but I am okay with that. I also run well of suffering, signet of locust (can’t do without increased movement speed as a personal preference plus it’s another small ‘oh kitten’ heal), and signet of undeath.

I have also been toying with the idea of switching from offhand focus to offhand dagger for some more group utility with the aoe weakness but done want to give up my focus 4 regen

When running with the Zerg, ill usually throw down marks and run in to res when we are not fully engaged but as soon as our commander runs in, throw down my marks, stack on the commander, throw down well of suffering, use ds4, throw down well of blood, then switch to plague on the commander for the aoe blindness. After this is up, switch back to staff, throw down marks and throw down another well of blood. When not in plague, I am jumping in and out of DS q5seconds for the heal and ressing teammates whenever possible.

Have been having tons of fun in wvw with this build and hope it is benefiting the group. If you’re interested in this play style, I would definitely reccomend it

Torvic.8256:

Conversely, something I’d hoped that GW1 (and now GW2, for that matter) would use from WoW is the onscreen real-life clock in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. That way, I wouldn’t need to constantly look away from the screen to see what time it is in real life.

You can change the server time clock in the lower right hand corner on the minimap to be real-life time. Changed my life

iPhone app where you can guild chat, use trading post and see your toon

PolawBew.2851:

anyhoo, here’s Dwayna… pales in comparison.

Don’t let malchor hear you say that

Two ideas, sorry if these have already been mentioned:

1: marked for death – puts a given number of stacks on an enemy. Every time the enemy is hit, the number of stacks is reduced by one. There is a timer on it. If you/your teammates get the number of stacks down to zero, they die. If you and your allies do not, two possible options (not sure which is more balanced)

A. You die
B. you lose 75% of your hp

2. Other idea is much more situational but it would be amazing to have a condition that causes the revealed debuff on a timer

Ooo, thought of another idea too:
3. Tainted healer – next healing skill causes damage instead of healing, reducing hp by the amount that would have been gained by the heal. On a timer

I had a few fun battles yesterday with a d/p (haha dp) thief. Lost the ones that ended, some were draws. Also, half the time there was another player on my server helping out. The thief was good. I am a 30/0/10/0/30 full berserker necro.

Things I learned playing this spec:

1. Lich was useless as an elite. Granted I could 2 shot him but he was always able to stealth away. Should have used fleshy for the potential knockdown

2. Once you see the smoke field layed down, dodge. You’ll avoid the heartseeker. Shortly after, dodge again. You’ll dodge the backstab. If your endurance is out, throw down a well of suffering, pop deathshroud and use ds4

3. Take this with a grain of salt because I never won, but using a gc necro, the best bet seems to be getting some damage off from your well(s) while dodging/DS eating the burst, then getting a good crit life blast or a couple lucky dagger auto attacks in

4. Watch out for the fear steal. If I had to do it again, I’d use spectral walk for the stun breaks

5. Always try to drop well of suffering in shadow refuge

6. Well of darkness seemed like a good idea but since I didn’t trait for reduced well cooldown, it wasn’t worth it to take it

7. I should have brought a staff

8. When the thief cannot take you down quickly, if the are a good player they’ll take it as a challenge and it will be much more fun

Again, I never won so I can’t give an easy answer but these were all things I have been thinking about for the next time

I like the idea of 1h sword but whatever weapon it is, I pray there is a leap finisher

A little off topic but not completely – what do you think about trying to use SB in a more support type build, especially for the spammable blast finisher

Hahaha pair it with superior runes of Lyssa and you’ll see why people take it

Just another bump to keep this up there. Sorry for the spam-ish posts

Bump to please sticky. Thanks for the work all – super helpful for this new thief

Hey all! Not sure if anyone would be interested in this but I would love if we could have a web based GW2 guild chat. If I have access to my home PC I cant see myself using it but for those times I have a little downtime at work or dont have access to my gaming comp, it would be awesome to stop in and chat with the guildies.

Hey all! So I just wanted to get your guys input on a build I have been thinking about. Rolled a ranger the other day after seeing one of my guildies with sword in action and have been wanting to level this ranger since. Problem is, I am more of a melee player. Range is okay but I love running around, dodging to avoid damage and being up in people’s faces.

Now, I was happy to see that there appear to be two major melee options for ranger – Sword and Greatsword. I wanted to start here. I probably should have read through tried and true build before posting this, but became obsessed at work and tried to come up with what I thought might be a viable build that suits my playstyle.

Build: http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.3|c.1g.h2.8.1g.h5|1.1g.h2|1n.7j.1n.7j.1n.7j.1n.7j.1n.7j.1n.7j|1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.1g.67.8c.67|k45.k24.k4a.0.a5|0.0|4h.4o.4q.4w.55|e

Some rationalization of my (probably) very poor choices:

1. Weapons
- Sword and dagger: I wanted to play sword for melee. Dagger because I like the idea of having relatively quick access to poison to reduce my target’s healing potency as well as having a cripple if they try to escape
- Greatsword: Again, for melee

2. Skills
- Heal as One because of short cooldown and vigorous renewal
- Signet of Renewal because of condition removal and stun break plus 20% reduced cooldown with signet mastery
- Signet of the Hunt: kind of ambivalent about this but I like moving faster passively
- Lightening reflexes: I am big on vigor, evades and stun breaks
- Rampage as one: For the boons, especially stability

3. Armor
- All knights because I needed toughness and need power and percision
- Rune: 6x superior rune of the ranger because I needed more precision and crit and the 5% damage at 6 runes can’t hurt

4. Trinkets
- full berserker for more damage

5. Traits:
Marksmanship 20
- skill IV for quicker recharge of SoR
- skill V to minimize chance of escape for enemies
- passives will stack 2 vulnerability on engage which helps with damage

Skirmishing 20
- skill II because hopefully there will be some crits and it is nice to have conditions for an enemy to worry about too
- skill IV because I like vigor
- passives are good because I will swap between gs and s/d

Wilderness Survival 20
- vigorous renewal becuase I like vigor
- martial mastery because I am using sword and gs
- passives work perfectly because I like to roll and will have lots of access to vigor
- needed toughness

Beastmastery 10
- skill V becuase I will use jungle stalker’s Mighty Roar

As of now, the way I expect to play the build:
Start with jungle stalker, F3 for might, Rampage as One for buffs, GS3 for gap closer, GS2, GS5, Switch to Sword/Dagger, S3, D4, S2->S2, S1 and stick to them until theyre down

If enemy is not down, switch to Jaguar, F3 and get out

So, like I said at the beginning of this post, I have just started leveling the ranger. I have no idea if this will actually work but I’d like to think that it might be viable. Was wondering if someone much more experenced than I with this class can take a look to see if this might work or if I am just wasting my time with a pipe dream

Thanks!

Thanks everyone for the feedback! I definitely think I am going to try out the melandru runes with bowl of lemongrass poultry for a while just to see how it plays. Will let ya know how it goes

Hey all. Think it is my first time posting in warrior forums. My first toon was actually a warrior but I floated around to a few other classes before finally coming back. I just had a question about reduced condition duration bonuses for warriors in WvW. After just coming off of playing a Guardian, one of the main weaknesses I have noticed with my Warrior in WvW is conditions. I have a difficult time removing them and even when I use utilities that help me to do so (e.g. shake it off, other shouts with 6 piece bonus from runes of the soldier, condition removal signet, mending), I feel like I am sacrificing using other utilities just to manage conditions.

I was wondering if anyone has played around with running Superior Rune of Melandru x 6 along with Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup. It seems like this would help to provide passive condition protection without taking up utility slots. If anyone has tried this, any experience with it would be much appreciated!

Gaudrath.6725:

The best thing would be a sort of counter gameplay… light fields cancel out with dark fields, water fields cancel out with fire fields etc. So you could cast a water field and actually literally put out that fire field a warrior placed on your allies. Or a necro could cast a dark field and have it cancel out with that Symbol of Protection a Guardian placed.

This is by far one of the best ideas I have ever heard on these forums. +1

Haha, isn’t one of the whole points of our class boons make up for low inherent hp?

Thanks for all the input everyone. A couple points about what I am probably going to do:

1. Keep all berserker accessories, getting ascended when I can
2. Make a set of knights gear and try it out for a week to see how it plays
3. Keep AH. I know that my build is not a true AH build but I am going to keep it. The main reasons for this are a. I want the toughness that valor gives me and b. since I am using all shouts anyway for condition removal (especially with the soldiers runes I will eventually get), I might as well get a little healing out of them

As far as my play style is concerned, I run around and dodge constantly which is where the clerics gear really shined with selfless daring. But, I still kind of suck and do like to have some toughness as I can’t mitigate as much damage with rolls as I would like

Hey all! Sorry for the very individualized topic, but I have been tinkering with my guardian build, have been debating which accessories to use, and was hoping someone more experienced than I am could help.

A bit of background:
Right now I am running a 0,0,30,30,10 AH/shout guardian. I have put the link to the build below. I have primarily been using it in fractals (mid teens now) and WvW.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUEQNAR7dlUgyC33xKEf4ERWhVi9AjZsjXPcIFZIA

Currently, I am using full cleric’s armor. I have also tried P,T,V but realized that I like cleric’s better for the boost to my multiple small heals. Right now I am running boon duration runes (2 s. monk, 2 s. water, 2 m. water) but may eventually switch over to soldiers.

Now, the question comes. With regards to accessories, I have been running full berserker stat earrings, rings and amulet in order to make up for some of the deficits inherent in my build (dealing damage). I didn’t really pay attention to my final stats at first, but after looking at them today, I realize that my 30 points in valor has already given me a decent amount of critical damage but that my critical chance is relatively low (crit damage ~60s, crit chance ~30s with all berserker accessories).

Would it make sense to switch over to knight’s stat accessories using the mindset that my crit chance is low so it would make more sense to add more toughness than to hope for crits to actually benefit from the critical damage? Or, knowing that the weakness of my build is damage, does it make sense to just keep the berserker accessories to get that boost in my crit damage when crits do hit?

Thanks for all the help ahead of time!

It should cost 100 gold plus 1000 BoH. Problem somewhat solved. A-net still gets their gold sink and we have some more assurance that the commander actually has some wvw experience.

Thanks for the replies everyone. Just to be clear, this thread isn’t meant to find all celebrities who play and ruin their gaming experience. Personally, I have always found it very cool when a celebrity talks about a game I love playing. Not only can it bring more people to the game, it also makes me more interested in their work

Devs! Do you have any info on celebs? Please

Hey all! Just thought it would be interesting / informative to throw this thread out there. I know there have been a few celebrities in the past who have publicly said that they play certain mmos so I was wondering what kind of a celebrity player base we have in gw2. Has anyone come across any interviews with people talking about gw2? Any celebrity forum lurkers who want to out themselves?

Ill keep searching too and post if I find any leads!

10 or so different borderlands maps, all in rotation, switching on reset day. Different battle styles based on map/setting (eg lots of cover and guerrilla style combat in a sylvari forest type map, norn type map with frost debuff requiring people to meet at keeps and plan quick sieges, etc).

Hey guys…. Would love to have you in our guild : ) Too lazy to type it all out again, so check this out:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Synyster-Legion-SYN/first#post1524701

Let me know if you have any questions and hope to see you soon!

Hey guys – sorry if someone has brought this up before but how sweet would it be if you could buy WvW specific infusions with badges of honor. For example, infusion stat would be +5 vitality, +5 supply carry. Like agony resist, it would only help in a very specific game type but would be an awesome bonus for those using it.

Robbyx.1284:

This is the first real content patch so far except for Southsun which was terrible (and no, events do not count, every single MMO does events and they dont count as content, they are fun fillers), anyway new content and a large section of players cant even participate…“you could if you really wanted to” i hear you say, yes i could join a large guild, i could grind influence, i could grind gold to buy it…but lets quote GW2’s motto “play it the way you want”….doesnt sound at all like what i want, so im effectively excluded from the content.

This is one of the worst instances and implementations of gated content i have ever seen, its not to late to turn it around, but its kitten close.

As further evidence….2 threads…

“This patch is awesome.”
“This patch is awful.”

Guess which one got locked .

Okay, so what I hear you saying is that you are frustrated that with this update and the new guild event system, particularly the fact that because you are not in a large guild it is excluding you from content. I can definitely understand that point and I cant imagine how frustrating it would be to put so much time and energy into a game you care about to find out that you are being excluded. The one thing I would just ask to do is give it a little time to see how things actually play out. If this does end up creating a long term gated content system, that is a problem and may need to change. If not, no harm done. Everyone should provide feedback but feedback after taking some time to see what repercussions, if any, the changes have had. At that point, we can all formulate a constructive criticism and hope that A-net (1) sees that we care and (2) takes it into consideration.

But I do feel for you man with regards to guild content. I am in a larger guild now (it has grown since it was a new guild my friend formed with a few of us following her from another guild) but can see where your concerns lie

Hey all! I seriously just randomly came across this post from work but have been a member of [SYN] since day one (or two maybe). Kyley and I were in a guild together and she decided to try her hand at guild leader. What I can say is that the experience in the guild has been awesome. There is a great community with people who I enjoy talking to in chat or on Ventrilo and any time I am looking for people to run a dungeon, roam WvW, run a fractal, etc, there are more then enough people to party up.

I’ve found that the people in the guild are not only very easy to get along with but also pretty good at the game. For example, I had tried running Arah many times with PUGs with no success and after playing with a few guildies, I wondered why it seemed so difficult before. There are also a couple WvW commenders who are great and can lead to some very fun fights.

As far as Kyley is concerned, she is the best guild leader I have ever interacted with. She cares a lot about the guild and the people in it and will always take time to teach people the ropes. Plus she is a girl which is a bonus for some MMO players, man or woman :-p

Any questions about the guild PM me but if you have been interested in joining a guild and dont know where to look, think about [SYN]!

Robbyx.1284:

You must be new to MMO’s….those of us with experience can see where this is going, and how hard the devs are working is completely irrelevant if their work is being greeted with disdain from the players.

Right now a fair sized portion of the player base is extremely unhappy, and yes you can spout nonsense about “forum minority”, but those that have been playing MMO’s for a while know that the forums do represent a large portion of the player base….CCP tested this not long ago and it nearly cost them the game, and did indeed cost them (reportedly) millions of dollars.

As for your ridiculous “dont whine” pearl of wisdom….letting the devs know how unhappy we are is the only way of giving them feedback short of actually quitting, we dont want to quit and we dont want the game to fail, which is why people are so vocal in their displeasure…only an idiot would not take heed and tell these people “if you dont like it, quit”….people who say that garbage should be banned in my opinion, they are a detriment and a drain on the game in general.

No, we will stay here as long as we can stand it and keep trying to push the game away from the brink of destruction, and make no mistake, thats where it is heading, ive seen it, we’ve seen it, this is no new thing but Anet seems oblivious to the mistakes made of other companies in the past.

All the signs are there, we are heading down the same road as the other recent fail games that refused to listen…but you go ahead spouting “dont whine” and “take a break”, while you’re regurgitating that nonsense, we’ll be here trying to save the game.

I’m glad that you are able to share your infinite MMO wisdom with me. Thank you for showing me what an oblivious moron I am and helping me to realize that people like me will be the reason for the inevitable downfall of GW2.

Now I do agree that we have to give devs some feedback. That makes sense. But what I see on the forums today is a lot of people having catastrophic reactions to changes that were made that they haven’t even experienced yet.

And seriously, “we’ll be here trying to save the game”. Seriously?

Quote my post next time. It will have more effect. Leave if you dont like the game. These guys are working their kitten off to try to produce a game that will morph into something that people attach themselves to. Dont whine, give them a break, let the game develop and if you hate it, take a break

They could have made it so that you can only get these items through guild missions. Instead, they made two different ways to get the same gear. If you dont want to do the missions, you can use laurels and Ecto. Or you can do both

It is fine. Theyre giving us a choice.

Patch is good. Like the changes every month. Always feel regenerated to pick up over the weekend. Thanks for giving us a fun game and working on more things to do in game

Easy solution

1. Buy gems
2. Convert Gems → Gold
3. Buy materials
4. Craft your toon to 80

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