Guild Wars 2

Combine 2 of them with an iron ingot in discovery. Makes a Minor Sigil of Luck ^-^

P.S. There is a crafting forum just so you know

If it was karma bought gear you cannot salvage it, otherwise yeah you can.

Glory does yes, karma does not quite though. Glory is account based, karma is character based only.

Since PvP is probably a separate server for them it is likely easy to make glory account bound. We are talking about a number currency, and since glory replaces your exp bar in PvP, this couldn’t replace it though because you still use and get exp in WvW.

While there are likely spy/saboteurs like that on all servers just about because of free transfers, those people at the Skritt area are bots. They have been reported on nearly all servers, dunno if you noticed but they are likely running in a circle, jumping every now and then, and just auto attacking.

http://hom.guildwars2.com/en/

Put your character name in, that will tell you.

Actually…that sounds like a pretty darn good idea to me lol. Not only would it be quicker for the loot gain since it could just come straight to you, you’d save an inventory space. I dunno if they can do that though, because the other forms of currency, gold and karma that is, are character bound things, so I’m not sure if they can make account bound currency like that since badges are account bound.

Mercurial Wit.9450:

She did answer your question though, with her first post no less. PvE loot doesn’t scale to your level so all you have to do is go a zone where tier 2 mats are dropped and you’ll be able to get it off any cloth armour you salvage. That being said, I’ve noticed that chest rewards have scaled but you generally don’t want to salvage them anyway so it isn’t a huge issue.

That might be what she said, but I know for a fact this is not true. On my level 80 I have gone back to level 1-15 zones and such to play with friends or my girlfriend and found level 70+ items off these mobs. That sounds like the loot is scaling up to me. Sure the loot bags and stuff are standard but while I do find a few low level items here and there I find equal amounts of my level items and such, and have in all areas I’ve been to.

I am pretty sure what was meant if you read the post is that she says that ALL loot in WvW is supposed to scale, but not in PvE. So in other words, ALL loot in PvE does not scale, but still a fair amount does.That should answer any questions here. In reality though, it would be ineffective to farm wool on a level 80 to whoever is needing it since you will still be finding level 70+ gear in there. I suggest you either get a new character up around level 25 or so and just go farm it on them for a while, or just buy it off the TP when it is up…the stuff is pretty darn cheap lol.

The steady weapons are for testing DPS on your build. They have no variance in their power.

Not stacking them is an easy fix…just make it so only one affects you at a time. See? Simple.

It does sound like a half decent idea though, and could barely tip the tide in some of those more intense battles. I would love to see more stuff in WvW for sure though.

Yeah I wish more people would understand this. No doubt you will be bombarded with hate and people complaining anyway. Honestly though my server is wining by a landslide now, we were actually down by like 10k points on the first couple nights into Saturday in our match, and I didn’t see anybody on the opposing servers complaining then, nor were we. So our alliance had a meeting and we organized, rallied and got our oceanic guys up in arms as well, and we turned around and our oceanics went and took most of the stuff then.

Now I also hear some of our opponents start to complain about our night team night capping them. Well you know what, I was there fighting your server as well on Friday and Saturday night as well, and I am NA, was up til like 5 AM fighting, and guess what. You guys had just as much resistance and people as we did. I don’t want to hear crap about how we outnumber you so much, you DID have a good overnight presence, and we had some amazing fights at night. Now, I know that Blackgate did end up losing at least one major guild, and that particular guild was one we saw a lot at night, so yeah that might have hurt you, but you know if you aren’t willing to get out there, find oceanic guilds interested in a good server, and organize yourself into at least a semblance of an alliance, there is no reason to be complaining.

When you befriend them in that manner they send out a squad to a nearby supply camp or keep and either defend it if you own it or attack it if you don’t. Controlling the actual nodes cause a lightning storm on whichever side of the map you control one on, and the lightning hits enemy players for small damage and a couple second daze.

If you are a level 75+ tailor you can get the recipe for Shadow Armor which is the exact same looks, for level 25 characters. The recipe is from doing the heart event in the south western section of Snowden Drifts 15-25 area. I believe the other heart merchants also sell individual pieces in that area, but that particular one sells the recipe for every piece.

It is for map completion yes

They stated that the server would be down for up to 60 minutes possibly.

I use Ether Renewal on my Ele almost constantly. It is the most powerful condition removal I’ve seen so far considering it is a 15 second CD heal. Heals decent and removes conditions per pulse, and pulses like 8 times all together.

Particularly effective ones in small groups are putting down fire fields + blast finisher for 3 stacks of area might. Another really awesome one is a Light Field + Blast finisher for area retaliation. Shooting projectiles through any kind of poison or fire field is useful for added conditions, and personally I like making a smoke field for projectiles as the constant blind is very useful against bosses. A mesmer putting down whatever the field type their Time Warp Elite is and firing through it is nice as well as it puts on confusion (No idea what kind of field that one is). Putting fields down near a dual axe warrior or an axe off-hand ranger are nice as well because their whirl attacks put off flaming and such projectiles from their spin. One of my personal favorites is using frozen ground on my Ele and having someone fire through it or use a blast finisher. First one chills enemies it hits, and since it stacks duration someone firing rapidly through it gives really awesome chill which is incredibly useful against just about anything, and the blast finisher gives area frost armor which also chills.

There are still plenty more combos out there, but these are ones I actually use or come across a lot. As an elementalist I can put a ridiculous amount of combo fields and “bases” down for people, and my party members always make excellent use of them in dungeons. Sometimes I also carry around Arcane Blast as a blast finisher, and I use my rock projectiles from my scepter auto-attack through any field I can, even though it is only a 20% chance it is still useful.

It is flipping when you are beside or behind your target always if I am not mistaken, and that is when the auto attack on the shortbow causes bleeding with every hit.

Look, all you guys complaining about how CD is beating you guys down at night and capping all your stuff…this is not the thread for that. There is another thread about night capping in the WvW board, and I ask you to please go there. This thread is for us to recruit more guilds to our server to help us during both earlier days and more for nights. This is not so we can stomp you guys in Blackgate and Gates of Madness down further, you are missing the point entirely. This thread is so that we can fight back against the other top 3-4 servers in an even match up and give them a run for their money. Please stop posting over and over again about how we are night capping all your stuff and how it is unfair. You won’t be facing us next week, you will be facing other servers without a large oceanic presence, so please quit complaining and let the ranking system do its job.

What Igolbug said.

And Sam, yeah, we do have the Synergy Alliance, doesn’t mean we’re ready to take on the top servers just yet. We are preparing for the eventuality and getting ready for one hell of a fight that is bound to come at some point.

Has nothing to do with the servers we are playing right now Clex, we are trying to make it into the top 5 and want to make sure our server is capable of holding our own against the top servers, at all times of day.

People on other servers can NOT see what you are saying in /say chat. They cannot see ANYTHING you say short of coming onto your server. The only possible way to communicate with invaders/defenders is through emotes, which is shows still in the chat.

Not sure, personally I use WSAD for movement, 12345 QERT for my skills, then I have my dodge, elite and F1-F4 on my Razer naga.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t use one or don’t, I’m just saying you don’t need one, and at least with the mouse you’ll still use it all the time instead of getting the gaming keypad and only using it for this pretty much. I am extremely mobile in combat since I got this mouse, just because I don’t have to worry about F1-F4 primarily (I’m an Ele) and it gives me a reflexive dodge and hitting my elite is a tad easier (Was using F before)

Yeah the only problem with reducing scores at night is just that then you make Oceanics feel like there is no real point in WvWing because they can’t do anything. I mean sure my server does have a fair number of Oceanics, but I’m saying this just for their benefit, not my servers WvW score. If I was in Aussie or something and was told that pretty much anything I do in WvW at “night” is just pointless and barely gives anything, why would I play? Why would you deprive thousands of people the right to play the game to its fullest?

Sorry but this is definitely not the answer. Sooner or later all the servers with high Oceanic presence will only have each other to fight, so just calm down and let it come to pass.

TheAltarBoy.3176:

lolitsage.2185:

Plague.5329:

What actually is the story behind that image is ET beats the crap out of SoS, which has been cheating with flight hacks for the past half week. After it becomes apparent that even if ET handed over all territories to SoS and stopped playing for the rest of the week, SoS could never win, Ruin’s leader heads over to SoS’s server to take a picture of the golem group from SoS’s perspective. SoS then uses this one screenshot to invent a convoluted explanation for their own terrible performance.

Hold up, are you accusing SoS of using flight hacks? If so thank you for making my day, 10/10 would read again for a good laugh.

If they aren’t using flight hacks I’d love to see a video of how they got a treb to the left of the waterfall at their base. I have never seen anyone get up there before. I’d be genuinely interested in see a “how to video”. Is it even possible for enemies to get up there?

If you are talking about the place I think you are, the waterfall mountainside just to the left of the northern spawn in Eternal Battlegrounds, just north of Mendon’s Gap, then YES it is possible to CLIMB up to that cliff, no hacks needed. A lot of people have done it, that spot was credited as legit by quite a few people, and I have been there myself this morning while my server was dominating the map to check it out for future reference.

Slartibartfast.2170:

I am curious as to how they are recruiting players to another server when in WvWvW you cannot talk to each other?

Unless I am mistaken, which I don’t think I am, when I use /m or /s in WvWvW, people cannot see my chat unless they of my server.

There are screenshots of someone from Eredon Terrace having switched servers to SoS to recruit people, so he was in their server pretty much. (They know he is from ET because he is from a major guild there)

You don’t one of those gamepads. Just a Razer Naga or one of the new Logitech MMO mice works just fine for this for instance. So long as you map keys in a way that keeps your fingers on your movements keys the majority of the time you should be fine.

The reason you cannot see WvW from an overflow is because ALL servers are in overflows. There can literally be people from any server (NA or EU), on that server with you. While your character might be from a specific server, you are not currently on that server, and I imagine the stats are probably kept specifically on the server, not on your character.

Also supporting the Synergy Alliance from BIO. We could also still use more North American guilds as well! While more oceanics will most definitely help, a few more good North American guilds would do wonders as well. Our server is doing pretty well after our Oceanics got hold of things last night and helped us finally get a good solid lead.

No, gains you 2 stacks per kill instead of 1, still stops at 25

Condition Damage/Toughness Scepter/Dagger Elementalist works amazingly. I run it, that is all I run, with Glyph of Renewal for added support if needed. We ran Sorrow’s Embrace Story yesterday with 3 Elementalist, my fellow guild member using almost exactly the same build as me, and the other being a pug (No idea what he was running). Pretty much 30 Fire/30 Earth/10 Air. Use Earth for increase damaged against bleeding foe, 20% CD for your earth attunements (Spam the hell outta that blind and knockdown on bosses). I take the 10 in Air for 20% CD on glyphs, since I use glyph of renewal and glyph of Elementals for my Elite (Those Earth Elementals really can take a beating). In Fire I have the 30% burn chance on crit, 5% more dmg to burning foes (I run signet of fire), and gain a fire shield on using signets that can burn foes.

Essentially I can keep constant Bleed/Burn, up to 12+stacks of bleed by myself easily, on enemies at all time, and I watch for a good chance to use Churning Earth safely for that nice 8 stacks of bleed. Also try to run Glyph of Storms, in Earth attunement it does a sandstorm that constantly blinds and bleeds, it is amazing in dungeons, indispensable against bosses and provides amazing support for your melees.

They are fine in PvE. Please do not let anybody tell you otherwise. I know at least 3 builds that are more than viable in PvE, including dungeons. Personally on my level 80 ele I enjoy condition damage, using a scepter/dagger in earth, as it can spam bleeds like no other, and you are actually fairly durable. Wear Carrion armor or something for the added condition damage as well as vitality. Obviously you want runes that add condition damage/bleed duration. 30 points in Earth/30 points in Fire/10 points in Air has work exceedingly well for me (The 30 points in fire I use to do more damage to burning foes and 30% burn chance on crit since I use signet of fire as well)

Just yesterday I ran a dungeon with some alliance members and we had 3 elementalists in the party, one of which was a pug, as well as a thief and necromancer (No heavy armor at all). The dungeon was Sorrow’s Embrace Story Mode for those of you that might try to say we did something easy. We only wiped completely one time and that was to the golems because they kept coming and we weren’t ready for them.

A side note: You CANNOT take damage. With the rock barrier on scepter earth and your traits you can take a bit more of a beating than most Elemenalists, but you cannot take prolonged damage at all. Make sure to learn to dodge, and make use of your utilities and such to keep mobile at all times, pay very close attention to your enemies movements. Also, I suggest Ether Renewal for healing against any form of condition damage since it removes conditions like nothing I’ve ever seen.

Some servers (Or the people on them I should say) Have taken the liberty of creating a forum for their server so they can organize stuff and talk WvW and such.

If you are looking for a decent server for WvW Crystal Desert is only 9th in total ranks at the moment and winning our current match and it is a really good fight so far, very close between us and Blackgate. We also have the Synergy Alliance if you are interested in that as well, and queue times are normally not more than an hour that I’ve seen, and we have a fair oceanic presence as well to hold the fort overnight.

Yeah the only abb. I’ve ever heard for it so far is Dub v Dub

Yeah superior rune of the pirate is very clearly OP. I mean a 3% chance of shouting Yarrr and granting might to nearby allies? I mean what does your opponent do to that? They hear you shout Yarrr and just kind of stand there dumbfounded. Way too OP and needs to be removed from game.

On a side note, hadn’t realized that you get full value from each rune you have in, nice to know.

From what Team Legacy says, 1 toughness per 10 vitality seems to be the “sweet spot” to be for optimal survivability.

Well I can say the Synergy Alliance is out there almost all day long. We’ve got players from all over and our oceanics have done an amazing job holding Blackgate at bay despite the fact that their night crew seems to outnumber ours, but yeah this screenshot is from only a few minutes ago, second night in already and yeah after they had capped most of the map Friday Night.

Crystal Desert’s match-up with Blackgate and Gates of Madness has been pretty good actually. I’m thankful we got a non-crappy match up where one side is dominating. It isn’t even fun to win like that at all to me. Blackgate has been holding their own, in the afternoon as well as the late nights. It felt like Gates of Madness was trying at first, but then they just seem to have fallen off, dunno what the deal is with that though.

My little level 80 Asuran Elementalist. I have yet to actually see a headgear I like on an Asuran Elementalist >.<

I agree, it has some tuning and things that do need to be fixed. Several classes do actually, the Elementalist needing a bit more than the others, but it can hold its own if people actually stop and think of different builds. Currently they are awful glass cannons, they really are. I tried it, I could barely stay alive, it just doesn’t work for them unless they are specced with extremely mobile and survivable utilities.

Oh, and I almost forgot, everyone says the Ele is broken underwater…….Wow lol…just wow. Do you have ANY idea how much CC the elementalist has underwater? Here I’ll just list some…off the top of my head. Rock Anchor weighs an opponent down sinking for 2 seconds. The number 4 in air attunement makes then rise for 2 seconds, we can use our Signet of Earth for an immobilize, number 5 in air is an area stun field, now that we have our elite we can use it to suck opponents in for damage. Oh it also has lovely evasion too that is amazing. Ice attunement does insane amounts of damage underwater when comboed correctly. Ice wall makes you evade backwards for one, which you can promptly detonate for a nice area chill, and then you can use number 5 (Which does tons of damage by the way) which makes you charge forward through the water, and your number 4 makes enemies fall helpless down for a couple seconds as well. Oh…did I mention all of this is while I’m specced into condition damage? So the damage I’m doing underwater isn’t even as powerful as is possible. Also…fire attunemnt underwater sucks, just don’t use it, if you are only using that and complaining about underwater ele then yeah, you’d be right, but you need to use your other attunements. I can gather up and kill Barracudas (Who for those of you that don’t know spawn up to 2 more for each original mob) in groups of 10+…easily.

To those that have issues with Elementalist and don’t like this guys build, you might also consider a variation of a condition damage build. As long as you build your condition damage up (30 points in Earth which also gives a nice amount of toughness) on your armor and traits it does over 110 bleed damage per tick per second. Not to mention if you roll scepter/dagger you get a ranged bleed which I’ve found can bleed some out quickly, especially warriors and the like that enjoy running around with their melee only builds. If they get close you have a varity of ways to handle them. The Earthquake is an easy knockdown if they aren’t running stability, then you have the signet of Earth, which not only improves your toughness by a few hundred, it gives you a nice immobilize. Other utilities are really up to choice, but I definitely suggest something like Armor of Earth, Cleansing Fire, or other such stun breakers in PvP (Not needs much in PvE).

To those of you complaining about Elementalist in PvP, yeah, it isn’t the best, it can be squishy, USE YOUR UTILITIES AND DODGE. I strongly suggest Glyph of Storms against Melee opponents. In Earth it does a sandstorm that blinds and bleeds opponents. To those of you complaining about them being weak in PvE…you guys are nuts. I have NEVER had an issue at ANY point in PvE, not in Ascalonian Catacombs explorable or any other dungeon. I have noticed bosses tend to really like targeting me, likely because of light armor, but I pay attention, if I pull aggro I get it off me however I have to. YOU ARE NOT A TANK. The toughness off my traits and being in earth attunement, combined with Carrion armor that gives Power, Vitality and Condition Damage does make me much more durable, but I can still go down, it happens, but not often.

@OP – Definitely a nice build, not one I had thought about, not much of my playstyle though either lol.

I can tell you straight up I do waaaay more damage than that without changing attunements, ever. I am a condition damage Elementalist, with roughly 1300 condition damage and I do well over 1500 DPS steadily with bleeds and burns. Each one of my bleed ticks is at around 110 and I can easily get 12 stacks of bleed one, though typically I get it upward to 20 using Churning Earth or my Glyph of Storms which does bleed/blind. This is a Scepter/Dagger build btw, in which I can spam the auto attack and stack 12 bleeds by itself. Then my crits have a chance to burn as well as having signet of fire which is like 11 seconds of burning. I think 1500 might be a little low I’d have to check the numbers again sometime since it has been a while since I looked at the numbers coming up since nothing lasts long against me anymore short of bosses and other players. I think it is closer to 2000 DPS honestly.

Igolbug.7295:

Guilds are only temporarily going to be winning, if anything your server will become better if it doesn’t have the guilds because you will talk to each other and develop your community and work together whereas the guild will most likely always work with themselves and ignore the pubs.

That’s not true at all, guilds will still have the advantage if they are any kind of good. Anytime I take my guild into WvW or even my fellow alliance members guilds go in, we rally the pugs every single time under us and make sure everyone is coordinated, not just our guild. If the guild is any kind of serious about WvW then they realize that the pugs are far more important than their own members (Unless they happen to literally have 50+ people all in at the same time, which even our larger guilds typically don’t manage). One of our alliance guild leaders purchased the commander tome as well so as to better rally the pugs, which has been working quite well.

NixZero.7540:

orbs and undermanned buffs should be switched around, they are just some kind of sadistic pun (the side already winning get a power bonus, the side that cant win because is undermanned get a gold/xp bonus to what they cant win).
this said, why the side with less and worse players should win?

I agree with this, that actually makes more sense than a lot of the drivel I’ve seen on here. Orbs would be a nice little perk for those winning, while the outmanned buff would actually be useful for once lol. It could scale with the amount you are outnumbered and such, and you could get like 10% MF per orb or something like that.

It is because you are not wearing max stat level 80 gear (Exotic/Legendary). The stats of a level 1 scale up to be the same as someone wearing level 80 gear at level 80. If your gear is not literally top notch, you will “technically” be weaker than a level 1; However, your level 80 would stomp your level 4 because you have all your utilities, your elite, and all your trait points. Those make the huge difference that no amount of stats can fix. I go apekitten on anybody I see with that little upward arrow next to them name. Sure they might be level 79, but they might also be under level 30, and therefore weak prey in WvW. I stomped a Necro who was camping the waterfall jumping puzzle waiting for people to jump down the other day. I jumped down, already having seen him and his marks he tried to use to trap people when they landed, but avoiding them, and with half health, proceeded to kick hiskitten on my Elementalist lol. Dunno what level he was or whatever, but I’m sure level did have some degree on my advantage over him, considering my health was likely much higher than his as well. You also have to keep in mind that it doesn’t scale any particular stat higher like a level 80 would have, and balances them fairly evenly

Gomly.6128:

Stick with it.

Hopefully things will get better and this is coming from an Underworld player currently being slapped senseless in our spawn points.

Unfortunately this isn’t the case for a few of the servers. If you are literally one of the bottom rung servers and are getting your butts handed to you right now, you likely will not ever enjoy or be ranked higher in WvW unless you could convince several large guilds or an alliance to move into your server. I’d say not to tell these people to “stick with it” unless they are somewhere closer to mid ranks where they will be moved down after losing and stand a better chance next week. If they are at the bottom there is nowhere for them to go down, and that means no easier servers for them lol.

You would be welcome in Crystal Desert, it is current 9th in the rankings before the weeklong matches started up and we don’t quite have a full 24/7 advantage yet, but we do have quite a few people on at night, namely ones from the Synergy alliance along with a fair few pugs.

Well, while you can’t literally bring the PvP armor into PvE, they have said that any armor in PvP has a PvE duplicate somewhere, you just have to find it. Dunno if you already knew that and were just complaining that you wanted to bring it straight out of PvP or what but yeah, you can find that armor in PvE if you go out looking, some of it is actually just cheap karma armor you get from heart vendors.

Umm that is correct for the future, at the moment however, with transfers still being free, you can change as much as you want from what I’ve seen. If it is a specific server you are waiting to get into, and you have the chance to stay up a bit late, I suggest just trying over and over again a few times first, and if that doesn’t work just try again in about 4-5 hours, which is when you can usually slip into the more populated US servers.

Speak with Miyani at the Mystic Forge, she sells stuff from anywhere to 1-200 skill points.