Guild Wars 2

Well those one shot S/x build are not made to take damage :P.

In spvp elemental need 15 water or 30 arcane to survive damage. People use cantrips or focus to help negate damage. Arcane skills are great for burst specs.

I have gotten maybe a dozen ascended items in wvw since they improve the drop rate. Wvw rank are just about time spent in wvw. I slow down on the amount of wvw I have been doing since season 2. Before it was 40-50 wvw lvl a week, now it is 4-5. After gold invader I realized their is no progressiong left in wvw. Without my wvw guild I would have stop completely.

After season 2 the angry people left wvw and gw2. Months of no response from A-net on what they are doing to improve wvw. No quality of life update for wvw. That should have happen before s2 or shortly after it but nothing. Wvw has died down alot.

Do not make alot of money in wvw. If you mainly zerg and you guild is the dominate zerg on the map you can otherwise no. Lucky to get 2g a hour in wvw. Mess with TP or do pve stuff to make money.

The balance change I would love would be to make the 3 point traits in the fire, air, earth, and water lines passive. Then replace the 3 point traits with a -1sec cooldown reduction for that attunement and eliminate the ready to use cooldown of that attunement. It would slightly increase elementalist damage and make use less reliant on 3 water traits for survival. But that is a long shot for that to happen. Overall I just expect staff, focus, and scepter buffs.

With focus fire shield, gale and freezing gust are the abilities I would change. Everything else works fine. Fire shield it just a strange skill, it has a internal cd so you can not get stack mights or place burns on multiple targets. Fire shield is the only aura that does not work well against groups of enemies. Gale should have a longer knockdown or shorter cooldown. Freezing gust should be changed to create a small frost field around the target or be a fast moving projectile that creates a frost field in a line similiar to how you use burning speed.

1.Item skins, the ones in high demand are rarer and harder to get.
2.Getting basic exotic gear, easy enough to buy those from TP.
3.Getting ascended gear, grinding to level up crafts.
4.Finishing a Legendary, it mostly takes determination and time.

Should not necro a thread that has out of date info. 1 year old, 1 Year Old, 1 Kitten Year Old.

Most builds can work for roaming. Its hard to have a build without 15 water or 30 arcane. The extra heal is needed to survive in most fights. That is a interesting mix set but it has a good balance of stats. Condition build will give you some issues.

Strength is better because in PvE you are constantly doing damage. At most you can get 9 stack of might from sigil of battle but it takes 30s to build up. with strength you can get that in half the time. In pvp it is the opposite since fights are shorter and people can dodge your attack.

Yea Earthen shield and flame axe are not used much. Tried earthen shield for a condition build, it does not work out well. Flame axe can but used for might stacking but their are better ways to get might.

So you want less intelligent fight and more afk fights? That make no sense. I remember when the southsun event first came out and everyone was dieing to Kraka until then learned about their mechanics. If you can not remove the retaliation stop attacking.

PPT is a good measurement of how active a server is in wvw. Still your reserve force (the pvers) can drastically change number. Also, mega-server give a false impression of server population. Coverage>population>skill.

Any heavy earth type build will still need 15 water or 30 arcane for survival. Tested a High armor build before and it works only if you have the healing to back it up. Using a 0-30-25-15-0 S/F build for Spvp atm. High burst, low condition removal, ok recovery, good armor.

I would prefer a mace/sword main hand weapon to another 2h one. Focusing heavinly on control/conditions. Main hand mace should work similiar to the koda hammer in Eotm. Main hand sword would add a much needed condition based weapon. It will be awhile before A-net adds another weapon set for all classes. Curious what they would do for a warrior? Add a new auto attack combo per weapon set?

It has been talked about before. A-net can not do anything about it. So they invented wvw season which give wvwers easier achievements. All of the wvw objective base achievements come from a pve point of view. Assuming you do not kill players and pvd doing the entire match. The only wvw achievement that is possible is the 250k kill one.

Nope months without anything. Still surprise A-net has been ignoring wvw for so long. Thought wvw would at least get one of those before/after season but no.Not even a minor update.

Signet of arcana active is OP but I could not think of anything else that would be using within a 60s cd. Most elite signets have short cds. Arcana type skills are focus on direct damage but signets are defensive in natural.

The state if T1 is just a coverage problem. JQ SEA has no competation, it is not that JQ SEA is good just numerous. Havoc during that time is like 2v7 alway downing 4 before you die. Before season BG would be able to limit how many t3 keep JQ would have by EU/NA but that does not happen now.

If BG/TC recruit for that timezone the new guild would be one of the handful of guilds active at that time. Focusing mostly on defense which is not that fun. Also, they would have to be willing to lead the militia which is difficult.

Well OP just described glyph of elemental power. Anyway a new elite would have to be a signet or arcane skill.
New Elites suggestion:
Arcane Retailation- 120cd Chance to proc arcane waves whenever you are hit. 1s internal cd 5s duration.
Arcane Overload -120cd 5s duration 1s internal cd. All spell have a chance to proc arcane blasts.

Signet of Arcana – reduce attunement cd by 1s. 60s cd On use all skills/attunement resets their cooldowns .
Signet of Elements – Gain a aura based on your attunement every 15s, 3sec duration aura. On use Daze, weaken, chill, and burn your target and nearby foes. 240radius 1200 range 60s cd.

Wvw is not suppose to be balance. Uplevel vs full ascended, guard stack, 3 bl buffs. Spvp is were you go for a mostly balance fight. This does not happen in wvw.

Well farming is like a bell curve eventually you will get dimishing returns and stop earning the same amount of gold per hour. With TP is scale exponentially the more time you put into it the more money you make. Do not see a good way to stop flipping, not that it matters.

RNG when a drop rate is so low that it is difficult to impossible to farm for that item.

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why is fresh air build a problem? it dies basically in 1 atk, its kill or get killed build

Well if the combo hits correctly a Fresh air build can take a non tank build full hp to dead is 2-3s. So not much you can do to counter if that is your first time see it happen. Stability helps to prevent the disable that allow for the full combo to hit. If you dodge at the start of the combo you can stop it too but you have to know whats coming. With lightning flash that is not always possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gAif9qE4WY

It took my 1 year to get 10k yaks. Yakslapper is a slap in the face title, no one will ever get it. 1million yaks, yea right :P. I wonder who thought it was a good idea to have the objective achievement 4-10x the amount of the kill achievements in wvw.

That depends on how many mobs you kill and if you have been active during most of your time playing. I played ~5000 hours found 3 precursor drops all in wvw (zap, the hunter, the colussus). Got very lucky with The Legend when I was mystic forging 300g( The Legend was 700g at that time). Bought 4 others with the money I saved up. The most expensive precursor I buoght was the spark 600g at that time.

You can flip camps within 30-40s before anyone has time to see or respond to the white swords. Fully upgraded camps you can solo in 2-3 pulls but someone tends to always guard those. Hard enough to solo a upgraded camp and it only takes 1 defender to make that impossible.

For pvp you can use focus as a subtitute for cantrips. It is great against ranged enemies and the daze/knockdown can set-up a large burst combo. It lacks mobility in comparison dagger.

Interesting mine build. Curious about what type of gear he is using to have that high of a crit rate. Probably close to full berserker with that amount of hp.

Wardrobe is why the precursor prices jumped. Their is an illusion of control over various markets on the TP. No one can control a market for a prolong amount of time before the prices hit their equilibrium again.

A water/arcane build have a difficulties doing enough damage to kill some healing signet warrior builds. S/F Fresh air builds work well against them. You just have to time your dodges to avoid his bursts. It tend to be a balanced match-ups in the solo arenas coming down to both of our timings.

Having a long term goal makes the game more enjoyable.

A-net takes a pver’s look at wvw. Instead of listening to the wvwer that have been playing since launch. A month ago A-net stated they would start a CDI on wvw, but they are to focused on the new LS season and china’s release to pay any attention to the concerns of wvwers. They are trying to match china’s updates with NA/EU updates which has delay any effort to improve wvw. The Devs I normally see on wvw forums are the ones that trash the match-up type threads. S2 burnout, wvw being stale, and it being summer time(new games/family) has decrease the number of people doing wvw.

Nothing worthwhile is easy. Buying a bitfrost from TP my seem like it was something that is easy to do. Still earning that much gold is alot of work/money so it is up to you. Making one is cheaper but buying one will enable you to avoid the pve stuff.

It is more that a thief can disengage but can keep you permanently in combat. Even if the theif can not win a fight they will annoy you until they get help. In spvp theives are not that big of a problem but in wvw it is.

Curious is a greatsword build good for tagging in zergs with a mesmer? I would think that the auto attack, bouncing attack and phastasm would be able to tag alot of people?

No, only long term reward for wvw is hitting 1300 wxp and maxing all wvw traits. A-net did mention a CDI at the end of s2. It has been weeks since A-net stated that and nothing has happened. So nothing new, no idea of what A-net is planning on doing to improve WvW.

NECRO TREAD…… Anyways do wvw for karma. Most of the wvw I know have million of karma with nothing to spend it on. Highest karma I have heard of was 20million.

S/D has the most healing and best burst but low auto attack damage. D/D has high auto attack damage and a good amount of skills to keep people in melee.

Exploration mode is suppose to be hard mode. Still people have done the dungeons enough that they are easy.

Old Old video outmanned vs a few FA zergs. Quantity matter more for the ppt race, but everywhere esle it is about quality upto a point. A guild should be able to wipe a militia/unorganized group twice its size. Once the enemy group start to get 3 time your size you need to surprise attack first to win. Chances are that will not happen.

Armor stripping trap- Puts 25stacks of vulnerability on all enemies within 1200 range for 20s.

Boon defiance trap – For 10s no boon can be apply to targets in 1200range.

Jack in the Box trap – Spawns 6 jack in the boxes that knock up enemies within melee range of each jack.

It seems like the large wvw updates happen once every 6 month after they have tested the map changes. The minors ones happen 4 or so times a year. I do not expect A-net to put in any major wvw updates until fall :P. We may get a minor update like 2 new wvw traits.

Yea see alot of map blob (+60) dropping AC against guild groups in t1. Guild zerg are better than a militia zerg that has twice your numbers.

It is not that their is more gold in the market, more like their is less supply and the demand is staying about the same. Banned bots prices increase, nerf champion farming prices increase, so on get the idea? With the champ farming nerf, more people are doing dungeons for gold instead of open world farming. Open world farming is were a a majority of the common crafting mats come from. In a dungeon you kill a few mobs but in open world you hundred of them. It is just a decrease in the available crafting mat on the market.

Yea you are right but renew stamina can give you permanent vigor as long as you have enough crit. I like mystogan idea of condition remove with fire shield or other auras.

The idea of getting vigor from a aura does not make since. A aura is used when you are about to get hit to help yourself. Not when you are about to dodge.

Well thats about right when it comes to wvw bugs. Reported a year ago and no fix. It is a limited problem but annoying when no progress has been made to fix it.

Flame barrier is a aura and aura do not stack. It is the worst aura too, Might(~1%dmg) and burn, the barrier only last for 3sec. It has a cd as long as frost aura(10% dmg reduction and chill) 7sec duration but a worst effect. The effect does not seem to work on multiple enemies. The internal cd seems to stop flame barrier from giving you might, if you have 3 people attacking, you should get 3-9stacks of might (if you survive the dmg). The flame barrier trait is useful for a aura build but you still need 3water or 6 arcane for survival. One of the build I used for wvw roaming was a 5-6-0-3-0 S/D build with arcane/signets for utilities. Which tended to be a good burst build.

When it comes to rare skins, some players are impatient and sell to soon. Then a few months late the prices increase again. People are just dumping their supplies thinking this is the highest price the item will be. The supply is about to become very limited after the next season starts.