Guild Wars 2

It seems to me that I checked this during the beta weekend and the effect was only applied to my pet because of the short range. (I was using longbow so wasn’t close to him) I assume it would hit allies he is near, otherwise why be an aoe? And I think the ‘when activated’ was when my pet felt like using it himself.

You should check it out though in case I am wrong or it has changed.

That’s what I would do if in that situation. I would have 2 separate accounts.

I also think it would be too hard to control the variables. Who gets to decide what gets upgraded and when? If it’s automatic it could be at the worst possible time. IE: upgrading a castle that is low on supplies and being attacked.

I am quite poor by most level 80 standards but will throw upgrades that I think are necessary. Many many times I will see my investment lost in a matter of minutes. But did it serve it’s purpose? Sometimes yes.. it delayed the enemy. Sometimes no. Depending on the size of the zerg that came.

When more and more people hit 80 I think upgrading costs won’t be such a strain.

You do not need to group with them for them to get your benefits/buffs.

People who cannot afford the upgrades should not be qqing about them imo. I am one person and I will upgrade what I want upgraded by myself.

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc

armorsmithing is best for you. But cooking is easy xp. It can get expensive though so watch your cash.

Hit B click the wvw banner and queue for any borderland (Most people prefer Eternal battleground but the queue time is terrible) Do those events there. Follow the zerg and help take camps/towers/castles etc.

Work on map completion there too. Although the rewards for wvw map completion seem to bet set for 26.

The overall queue time is so long (Can be hours) you want to queue asap and then go about your leveling until you get in.

I like the crafted exotic gear because I can choose the stats I want. IE I want precision so I will make precision gear. I am not sure if the badge gear is better than the crafted or not as far as overall stats. It seems to me like the gear all had toughness and vitality on it (iirc) which I don’t want.

This has been occurring for a while now. If I use the Lick wounds ability while downed my cat starts attacking me. I have also seen other rangers being attacked by their own pets that SHOULD be healing them when they are downed. The animation is even the pet attacking them.

At low level you need to get some vitality gear first. Then start looking into toughness. Eventually crit is your friend.

For weapons: WVW Staff is preferable. Staff is fine for pve too. For SPVP sceptor/dagger or dagger/dagger are supposed to be fun.

Go up to my account (upper right of this forum) and click the security tab. Have there been unauthorized log ins?

I believe that the guy you show selling level 60 gear is the right guy. It might not show you the gear until you are 80. Yes, The gear is worth it imo. It takes a TON of badges though. My plan of action for gear so far is: I bought the level 80 Badge Longbow. (That’s all I had enough to buy) and will craft all my exotic armor once I am able to. I may spend badges to upgrade my other weapons as I can.

Yes, I got most of my cloth from salvaging light gear and cloth salvage items.

Map and team are the same chat and only reaches your map.
I am not sure of the maximum size of a squad.
For your 3rd question: Does this wiki answer it?
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Influence

Look at the banners you can get from guild upgrades.

edit: P.S. It’s WvW

My leatherworking is not giving the correct XP from discovery in the 380+ range. It gives less than a full point is 1 problem. The second issue I am not sure of.. but I feel like I have repeated 387 3 or more times.

We also have noticed this. Someone elsewhere commented that they thought it reset your place in the queue if you went to overflow while already queued. (They were guessing) People in my guild believe you will enter faster if you are in your personal story area. (Again, guesses)

What seems to be the pattern of people who get in sooner than later?

I am usually the one who gets in sooner. I am also the one who is busy map jumping to farm for maps in higher level areas. My brother who seems to always gets in last is usually just hanging around Lions Arch. It once took him an hour just to get out of the Lions Arch Overflow. We have a voodoo feeling that you will not be asked to join while in the overflow. Again, just wild speculations.

What have you guys noticed or observed?

sheep.3178:

regarding the badges of honor, where do i trade it at? where is the NPC located

In the starting area of all the wvw zones. weaponmaster and armor master? Can’t remember their exact titles.. but their names indicate they sell armor or weapons :P

Warx.8495:

shaidyn.4016:

Warx.8495:

And you’re saying that a game like WoW or SW:ToR didn’t have freedom when “choosing” what you want to be? I’d called that freedom.

If you want to make a dungeon group in WoW with 5 rogues, you can’t. Two warlocks, a priest, a hunter, and a rogue? Nope, can’t do that either. Warrior, DK, hunter, Mage, warlock? Sorry, not allowed.

In order to complete content in “holy trinity” games, you NEED tanks and you NEED healers. In a game like GW2, you need 5 skilled players. Any profession, any skills. As long as all 5 people know what the hell they’re doing, you’re golden.

I’m reading everything you’re saying, and I can see your side of the story. But really, REALLY, you shouldn’t be playing GW2. It doesn’t have what you want. You can rail and complain and mope about it, but they’re not changing their entire design philosophy to embrace a point of view they’re actively avoiding.

Sorry.

Well yea, that’s why you normally have 1 tank, 1 healer and the rest DPS. What is the problem with that? Why reinvent the wheel?

I didn’t enjoy waiting for a tank and healer before I could do a dungeon in other games. It also tended to make tanks and healers primo donnas. They had demands etc. “ohh don’t make the healer or tank mad or they will leave!” HATED that. (I mostly healed though and was not like that. But when I leveled DPS classes I saw how it was)

Toughness helps every class. If you want to be in melee range you will want more than someone who wants to be ranged.

That’s interesting Freyar and would explain a few things. People in our guild join for the same wvw borderland at different times. Many times I will get home, log in and try and join what they are already queued for. I will usually get in before they do and they have been waiting in the queue for a lot longer!

They have noticed that if they are in their story quest they seem to get called in sooner as well. So I will have to watch the overflow and see if being there does seem to effect it.

Warx.8495:

So as a warrior I should switch to a ranged weapon and start doing damage? There’s a reason I picked a Warrior…

You should if you are taking too much damage in melee. No one should be staying with 1 weapon fulltime. (Well- ele’s but you know what I mean)

It sounds to me like you are trying to play the tank. You have a ranged weapon that you should be using when are getting steamrolled in melee range. Weapon swap when appropriate.

I can understand your point of view, but I don’t agree with it. I am so tired of the holy trinity. It’s been done to death. The way GW2 does it is refreshing imo. For my 6 piece bonus I will be taking “Of the Flock” which heals people around me whenever I heal myself. I like the little things like that much better than blaming the healer for failing when it was the tank who stacked health instead of… blah blah blah..

You don’t. You have to jump in to see.
Also, why are you afraid of being put in the overflow while waiting for wvw? Has this proven to be an issue?

I will also add that in wvw you will randomly hear things from characters not near you. IE “I’m incapacitated!” as if you are standing right by them… but you are not by anyone. Happens often.

I recall reading that as well Judeobscure.

Yes. In wvw loot spawns at your feet. You also get cash, karma, XP from taking camps, towers, keeps etc. There are also mob events in all wvw areas so you get loot and usually trophy drops as well.

Save your badges of honor until level 80. At level 80 I still didn’t have enough badges to buy anything. Later the following evening I got enough to buy my exotic bow. (389 or something close to that badges)

You can play around and see what you prefer best.

My personal belief is that the top level story quests are just too hard. I play with guildies on skype and they too are having issues with the higher level story quests. We have a mesmer, 2 rangers and 2 elementalists. All of us agree that some of the quests are just too hard.

That is a bug. You should report it in the bugs forum with your screenshot.

There isn’t a way to what you want to do. I agree it is more than annoying. However once you both join you can hit B and if he is red and you are blue. Click the red + symbol to go to his team or vise versa.

You get the most XP from discovering. Open the discovery panel (above the production panel) and put in 1 insignia, 1 boot upper and 1 boot lower (or whatever it’s called).

The strategy here is to make 5 of each insingia. (Not at once of course because you won’t have the matts) Then discover one of each item. 1 boot with that insignia. 1 mask with that insignia etc.

Dabrixmgp.4758:

I just wish people would stop selling everything for vendor cost and sometimes selling stuff for a loss. Its great for leveling my crafting but horrible for trying to make gold.

Yeah, people fail at math a lot here I think. They never do the math of the listing costs so they lose money by listing it over vendoring it. Sorta frustrating.

I am at 391 lw atm. I am only being held back by trophy items/insignias

Trading post is cross server.

I know you get more XP for a mob that has been alive longer. That’s all I know about that.

Tailoring or leatherworking. Make your own
P.S. Take tailor if you wear light armor and leatherworking for medium armor. You always want to have the craft that matches your armor. At max level you will be making your own exotic gear.

I have read a lot of people talking about this so it must indeed be a bug. You used to be able to next page / previous page through it iirc.

Guardian or Ranger imo. Thief is a tad harder to level.

It should be showing up in your production tab. Sounds like a bug to me.

You used to be able to. Are you not seeing that option now?

No. you are never doomed as far as skills and traits goes. You can respec later.

I am only aware of the guild one. A perk built from the guild. Is there a feast from cooking?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AhoV2XWF-HY2dGszNkoxb01pT05jdlptQzRiako5ZkE&output=html

hehe they are never down long.

I tried playing necro but wasn’t good at it. I have been killed by necros in wvw and they bring a lot to the table I think. They have so many minions they can charge into a small group of enemy players in wvw and scare them off because it looks like you are being charged by 20 people.. but it’s just 1 necro and his minions :P Necros can shoot people through gates too.

I am not sure of their damage compared to like.. elementalists though.

Feywray.4351:

@ Setch- H? When I hit H in game it brings up my hero tab. Did you mean another key command?

Hero tab is correct. left is a pvp tab/ left bottom tab.

You cannot scale up, just down.
Believe it or not… I have played almost every mmo out there… but missed warhammer so I don’t have anyway to relate to that game.

WVW is 4 maps. (3 servers at a time) Ladder type rematching. Each a separate zone but they all work together. There is a center map called Eternal. All 3 servers have their own borderlands map. All 3 borderlands maps are mirrored. The key difference being the starting point at your own borderlands.

Right now they are rematching all the servers every 24 hours while they try and get servers matched up with similar servers. Once that is set, they will run each match for 2 weeks. The winning server then goes on to play other tops servers etc.

The size is… huge. I don’t know how to explain it.

Each map has supply camps, Towers, Keeps. (Eternal has 1 Castle that is unique called stonemist (sm) It generates the most points a tick (50points) (Each tick/tally is every 5 minutes ish) Supply camps are worth 5 points. Towers 10 and Keeps 25. In order to upgrade these places it requires supplies (and cash. new players don’t have this kind of cash) Supplies are created at the supply camps. You should always have 10 supplies on you at all times. (10 is max without a temp buff that allows 15)

Supplies are routed to the Castles and Towers via supply dolyak from the supply camps. Protecting your dolyak is a good idea. Killing an enemy dolyak is also good. Although you can take supplies directly from the tower or castles… it is best not to because it could halt an upgrade and leave no supplies there for repairs. You can repair walls /doors with supply as well.

Get to know the dolyaks route so you know the best camps to take etc.
There are many more things. (like creature events to help fight with/for you) this is just the basics.

Oh and siege weapons.

Are you running any other programs at the same time? Music? Mumble? etc?