Guild Wars 2

If you buy the precursors yes. That is how you get the twice told title. Also, you can only make 1 of the newer legendary, if you try to make it again it will not let you.

Forgotten Legend.9281:

Elementalist: The Summoner

Forgotten Legend.9281 I guess someone has refined the summoner idea I was thinking of. Your going with the same train of thought. I was considering use an elementalist type pet but wanted to making it more temporary since a permanent pet would be to much like a ranger’s pet. A summons that would copy some of your abilities and detonate. While doing more control effects and lower damage since elementalist already have high dps.

Ulion.5476:

Elementalist:
Summoner, summon a variety of elementals focusing on control uses a Mace. Elementals can block terrain, chill, burn, or knockback enemies that try to move through them and buff allies that move through them. Traits buff elementals and glyphs.

Yea 6-8g to get one from a camp which flip often. I heard it dps faster than a sup ram but you can not hold a camp long enough for to pay for itself. Still roaming solo it is very helpful but in a small group is seems out of place. You move faster than everyone else and your friends will not be their to help you if you get into trouble.

Yea that the idea I think A-net trying to come up with, but whenever you mention Eotm style server group up it turns people off. Instead I think of it as a way to reduce the number of tiers in wvw. Your guild/server picks a color out of the 15 servers for the month and their should be a limit in the amount of guilds/players that a server can have linked to it. Either your guild is placed wih X new mega server or your server is placed with x mega server. Hopefully we will get more info on their plans tomorrow.

Eotm colors are deterred based on your server color for the week. The wvw server you are on will determine if you win or not. Some servers have more Wvw focused guilds than others.

I guess you are newer to wvw? It has been done before in the previous wvw seasons. Moving a server up a tiers is like asking them not to play for a week. Even thought wvw is in a downstate coverage gaps still exist.

For Ley Crystals, I go to TD 30min before the meta and stay 30min after the meta when all events are done. After that I leave because that’s the best time to farm map currency. The vendor after Chak Gerent sells vial of chak acid cheaper than the other vendors so only by from him. Near the flax farm on TD you will find 3 chest one on the updraft tree and 2 by the platform before the flax farm they will give you 2-5 ley crystal per alt. Should not worry much about auric dust or airship oil those are to common. Ley sparks are harder to get than any of the other items.

@Roul.3205
Well the fresh air build I use alternate between air/earth/fire so the fire cd trait is not that effective. Yea in a dungeon/raid setting you will have +5 boons so the bountiful power trait is always better than arcane precision. I have not looked at the Arcane tree much since becoming a tempest In fresh air overload build you are constantly dipping into other attunement to proc FA and reset your Air overload. A majority of your time is spent in air.

The fresh air buff will enable melee eles to be more competitive with staff eles for dps. This change will make me question using arcane for the ferocity buff vs fire. Fresh air builds do not camp fire, so some of the fire traits can be compared to the arcane ones. It will be interesting to test after the buff.

If you every get one sell and buy the 2 legendaries sets you want. Still you need 1000g to put it on TP. I love the trail effect.

•Diamond Skin going from condition immunity to condition removal (1 condition removed on a 1s internal cooldown). Health Threshold is now 75% instead of 90%. So rapid conditions applications will spike you down.
•Auras – duration and overall availability of auras too much since HoT. Overall uptime too high. We are reducing all the auras activated from skills/traits to 4s.
•Fresh Air – In addition to its refresh mechanic, everytime you reattune to air, you get 250 Ferocity for 5s. This bonus doesn’t stack in intensity. So you will be critting and then critting hard.
•Shatterstone (Water Scepter)– Reduced the timeit takes for the shatterstone to explode from two seconds to one. It has a small radius so the explosion would often miss. Cooldown increased from 2 to 3s.

So diamond skin was buffed imo, Auras got a cd nerf and Fresh Air HUGE buff.

Yea a lot wvwer are going thought the stages of grief. I have already accepted that this problem will not be fix anytime soon. I was hopeful that why I started to play WvW again before HoT. Now is just a few threads here and their about the same things that have been discussed for years.

Elementalist:

Summoner, summon a variety of elementals focusing on control uses a Mace. Elementals can block terrain, chill, burn, or knockback enemies that try to move through them and buff allies that move through them. Traits buff elementals and glyphs.

Spellslinger channel skills are instant cast increase cd by X% . Traits buff utilities effects(double cast, procs, duration). Uses a pistol offhand.

Conjuror enables you to summon conjured 2nd weapon. Traits buff conjurors and your attunement swap effects. No new weapon but opens up a 2nd weapon slot allow you to use 20 different abilities. HIGH skill cap.

Going to work do not have time to fleshout the overall ideas :P.

Not sure if they will change diamond skin to give us resistance. That would be interesting but it would be like the current diamond skin. Only more effective since you can easily get back upto 90% hp for another pulse of resistance. The change to diamond skin is more of a counter to the current bunker meta. Reduce the effect of some of the bunker meta builds. The change will make diamond skin more effect for none bunker builds.

I hope that the scepter skills will do the majority of its dmg, while improving casting times. Dagger auto attacks will still be the best but scepter burst skills should be able to compete or outclass it. Not sure how that will improve focus.

The new diamond skin will probably be something like remove some conditions every 5sec when above 90%.

Those were the good days. Friday night resets, seeing the same roamers everyday and having a large hammer train guild. I remember hitting Gold Knight 2 years ago and getting the 3rd zap to drop for me while roaming. I remember the server vs server threads provided interesting entertainment outside of the match-ups.

I remember a lot of discussion on how to improve wvw and now the WvW forums have died down. Still reverting back to Alpine Bl will not bring a lot of players back. I am looking for something that will make people excited to player wvw, not a minor improvement (stuff that A-net should have done years ago) but a major one that will make players say WOW this is awesome.

Just physical damage. Their also a food that reduces condition dmg as well as direct dmg. All of the best foods in HoT are account bound. The other food that reduce damage by 10%:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Mussel_Soup
Cost half as much to make in comparison to a bowl of lemongrass mussel pasta and a similar effect.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Curry_Mussel_Soup
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Plate_of_Mussels_Gnashblade

The 3 skill can damage gates/walls but its less damage than a ram. 2 skill can dps rams on a gate. Everything else will not work through the gate but will do the same amount of damage to a gate as your weapons.

It takes A-net too long to fix the issues Wvw players complain about for months. We are looking for major improvements to the quality of life in WvW. The new map added more issues instead of fixing old ones. Its harder to solo roam(auto upgrades), the event helps the winning server win faster, and it takes longer to move around the map.

Coverage gaps have been a problem the start, it became apparent to everyone during s1. Still we got 2 more seasons with the same issue. Either you are getting stomped or stomping on another server because of their playtimes. Wvwer did not get extra rewards with HoT, only more stuff that require a pve grind. Its harder for a wvw guild to upgrade their guild hall with wvw stuff than it is for a pve guild to do the same.

It easy to find zerg fights in t1 but what about the roamers/small group fights in the lower tiers? What about the solo player entering wvw for the first time? The new desert bl have a larger travel time, so find fights or objective takes a larger amount of time. The rewards you get in Wvw are lower than any pve event (unless you are constantly wiping zergs). In the lower tiers it is easier to see the issues in wvw.

A lot of people came back to GW2 hoping for changes to wvw and other things. We got a new borderland that discourages roaming. A new pve event in the middle of desert bl that helps the bigger server win more (something every wvwer asked A-net not to do). Towers that limit paths you can take to move around the map. Auto upgrades that make everything t3 even keeps servers do not plan on defending. Guild hall upgrade locked behind pve content.

For a solo roamer everything on desert bl is worst than alpine bl. Harder to travel, take objectives, and find fights. Things should be balance on a solo players coming into wvw not on having a guild zerg in wvw.

That’s the problem. In the early days of Wvw reset nights on all maps were queue until the end of the night. The wvw population has been steadily decreasing for awhile with underwhelming updates. After HoT the hypetrain came to a end.

That video made me search for my old RE videos, before culling was fixed and I upgraded my computer. It was a nice time even with the issues. Anyway a lot of wvw guilds formed off of the roamers wanting bigger fights. Like a snowball rolling down a hill, you roam for awhile everyday seeing the same people. Eventually you all become friends and make a guild. Then you get more organization. The problem is A-net keeps screwing over roamers make small group play difficult. Their is no build up in wvw only the few and proud hardcore wvwers.

Kumion.7580:

Anet said it will take a minimum of six months to max out a guild hall. It is not possible to max scribe within a week. Scribe is gated by guild hall upgrades, which are gated by aurillium mining, guild participation, material donations, etc.

As for scribing being more of a guild craft than a solo player one… well, that’s another issue that Anet should settle. If the guild donates, they don’t own the scribe. If the scribe switches guilds or quits, the guild has lost its investment in that player. Right now, scribe is in a weird place since he cannot keep any of the things he made; they belong to the guild. If the guild doesn’t donate to him, then he’s out thousands of gold. That is not an exaggeration.

By your own admission, scribe is not useful or important to you and you haven’t even tried it. You have only read about it a little. I challenge you to give it a try — say, level it to a mere 50-- and see for yourself how the costs and products compare to that of other crafts.

The first paragraph is an answer to my question? I was stating that scribing should take around the same amount of time to level as it takes to max level a guild. Not sure of the max max guild level atm the biggest one I have is at 42.

Both you and Malediktus.9250 make a good point about scribers and the guilds they are dedicate to. It is at an interesting you can be a part of 5 guild and be the scriber for all of them and get donation from all of them. A guilds loyalty come into question with how you use those mats.

Its not that I do not have the gold to get scribing upto 300-350 its more that it not useful to me atm. I looked at everything it could make and nothing was worthwhile to me. The consumable were useful but I can just get them from TP. Their is a nice sigil I can ask my friend to make it for me. Just not worthwhile for me to use gold on unless it is to help my friend.

Malediktus.9250

Of course Anet is driving the economy, by setting the droprates and creating the demand by setting the recipes. Calling GW2 a player driven economy when everything is handcrafted by Anet is nonsense. I bet John Smith can predict the stabilized price of an item by +/- 15% in prior to any update happening.

Just like they predicted that silk would grow to an enormous price after ascended craft? That has kind of been balanced with HoT but it increased the price of leather and the overall cost of ascended armor. You can make prediction but it does not always work out the way you plan.

It takes a couple of month to max level a guild even an large active one. Do you want scribing to be max within a week like the other crafts, when it takes longer to even max level a guild hall? Scribing is more of a guild donation craft than a solo player one. I am not worried about scribing that much. It mostly has cosmetic items not immediately useful to me. I have only read about the prices of some of the high level items.

Raiding or PvE you do not need any defensive stats. Just have to learn the encounters and went to dodge. You only need defensive stat in WvW and PvE.

A-net is not driving the prices up its the players. We got a new crafting profession that everyone finds useful. So those items are in very high demand. Once more player max scribing the prices for all of those mats will drop. Still only the very rich players with 4-5k spare gold should have maxed scribing by now. A-net could increase the drop rate of those mats but what would happen when every maxes scribing? Those items would become worthless.

A-net thinking about it in the long term not short term. They want items to still be valuable and not have a stockpile of mats on TP that have a higher vendor value the sell value. Like silk/thick leather were before ascended gear or Blues/Greens before Luck.

I do not have an issue with the banners. 15min timer, that person can not build/drop siege, and if they are down the banner is lost. Once wvw guilds do enough pvp :P, every server that can at least hold their keep should have a guild with one. Turtle best support, Centaur melee lockdown, and Dragon range dps. I still have not been able to get onto an assault roller yet.

Riss.1536:

Ulion.5476:

Their are no raid bosses that currently clear conditions so stacking condition professions with easy dps rotations works in the first wing. A lot of ways A-net can count stacking X class for raids. Make a boss that removes boons, clears conditions or stacks disabling conditions (chill, slow, cripple) every few seconds.

Yeah… Do this and we will be back again to conditions are useless, just go berzerk.

Talking about a raid boss where it would not be as simple as it always removing all conditions. It would just be one of the mechanics of the fight. Like a boss that swaps modes between high toughness or immune/clear conditions.

Their are no raid bosses that currently clear conditions so stacking condition professions with easy dps rotations works in the first wing. A lot of ways A-net can count stacking X class for raids. Make a boss that removes boons, clears conditions or stacks disabling conditions (chill, slow, cripple) every few seconds.

In pve I am still glassy either full berserker/assassin or berserker/celestial. The tempest traits give you enough vigor/reflects to survive most mobs Still Earth/Water/Tempest is the current meta and one of the best sustain builds. I never like going full tank spec even in pvp, so I swap Water out for Air.

Its about the same size as the other map but the verticality and blocks make you take a longer path to go from north to south. Overall it takes 6m instead of the 4min to go from camp to camp as a roamer. The towers barricades blocking the easy paths going north to south can be destroyed with siege. Still you have to plan to be on that map for awhile for that option to be worthwhile. Also of places to hide in which is ok. The air side of the map is the worst side no easy paths, only jump pads that aid you if you have the keep and knockback winds that hurt everyone else trying to navigate up to the keep.

Some players may get amber/diamond on a different profession then the one they are currently playing. Other may get carried by their team. Still you should expect them to have a understanding of the strategies involved in pvp. I know once I hit amber I will swap to my noob Enginner/Rev.

Its the biggest statue up top. I did not have an issues with that part.

Did heat sync use to copy all boons? I did not play in the beta.

So 2 roaming, 1 zerging and 1 skillful play improvement. Glad that auto upgrades are getting a nerf, it will promote defending dolyaks. Still Wvw needs more to get players to come back to WvW or try out the Desert Bl. Still hate the Air side of the map.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Life_stealing

EU is fine because the wvwer are spread out into multiple servers. its not the same with NA The gaps between tiers tend to be 100pts vs 25pts in EU. Swapping server will not fix the issues since everyone has friends/guilds tided to their server.

You know if you click on the people in you squad after a failed attempted you will notice that half of the players do not use food. Some are using farming food. Food add 5-10% dps, if half of the raid does not use food that’s 3-5% of Gerents HP. Still I am curious why players in HoT are not using foods. Food increases your experience gain for faster mastery leveling? The event is as complicated as Tarir it is just on a map that no one likes.

Probably due to the areas players are farming now. Mob drop other t6 mats instead blood.

Most of the time the event fails before dps matter because no one understand how important getting chak gerent to emerge is even on maps that are trying to organize it. It should become easy as more players because comfortable with the map/event. Would help if it did not have a long wait time inbetween the meta event. In AB I can run constant events before Tarir. In TD, I have nothing to do 30min after Gerent.

All of the map meta’s in HoT are not hard its just that some players do not know the mechanics of the fights. The event depends on the amount of people, time of day and if players listen the people organizing it. Other players want to afk and let people carry them throughout the fight. Midday(3-6pm server time) tends to be the worst time to do any map event not enough people and they do not listen.

The fight is simple main priority is to get Chak grent to emerge some players/lanes still have issues doing this, even after you make it pass phase 1. Kill chak so they do not destroy the cannon. Try not to cc it, otherwise those slowly expanding blue instant death AE will be everywhere and you will have no where to stand. Finally try to take +30% of grent hp each phase.

In that order Get grent to emerge, kill chak and avoid cc. Not as complicated as people think. Its just like Tarir only the map is more difficult to navigate. Some players do not know that the lanes are link by nuhoch wallow to each WP. When they die they wait for a rez.

In comparision:
Tarir: remove layers, dps octovine, cc adds move triggerbloom
TD: get grent to emerge, kill chak, no cc and time dodges

THIS IS VERY COMPLICATED

You know past 225% luck it takes over 250 of those exotic lucks to get 1% of magic find? Still their are not enough people with max luck to require a luck eater. What would you get from one anyways? I mean ~10luck from a blue, ~30 from a green, and ~100 from ecto ( never worth salvaging for luck). If their was a luck eater it should give exotic/unique equipment or higher.

Artaz.3819:

The green reclaimed is probably around 1% maybe 1.5%.

Its higher than that, out of the ~40 plates I gotten all were from blues/greens but the last one. When I was deciding how to get reclaimed plate I did some test. Most of the time I was getting more reclaimed plates from salvaging a large amount of greens for the same value as a rare reclaimed weapon.

Salvaging green reclaim weapons in bulk is the cheapest way to get a lot of plates. Only need a 3% salvage rate for greens to be cheaper than buying rares for reclaimed plates. The salvage rate for reclaim platse from blues is to low in comparison. Buy and salvage a rare weapon only if you just want one of the plated/machined weapons.

^^^ Go to TD right before Grent begins(15min or so) you will get a lot for crystals for failing the meta. After that you get to start all of the event in lane. 30m to get the map to t4 after that go do something else. Wait another hour or so to come back and do it again.

Even though I mess round with TP I mainly just craft for a profit. Buy cheap mats and craft a slightly more expensive item. Doing this in bulk with a 10-50% profit margin adds up. Some markets are overcrowded so profit margins will be low. After an update thats when you here about players making hundreds of gold off of a cheap item that becoming a highly demand one.

http://www.gw2spidy.com/
http://www.gw2shinies.com/salvage.php
https://gw2efficiency.com/currencies/spirit-shards

Tangled Depths is a painful zone to be in. Takes awhile just to get the Wp you need to navigate the zone. Even if you have the WP getting to a event in time or finding people to do the event is difficult. You do not get Chak Acid for map participation and getting ley line crystals to buy chak acid is difficult. It does not matter if you see crystalline caches everywhere if you can not open them and you need ley line crystals for other things.

The Meta event is to easy to fail. Their are is no recovering for one lane not having enough people unlike AB or DS. It requires high dps and not breaking the break bar just to increase your dps. The break bar is suppose to increase your dps or provide you an opportunity to do dps not the opposite.

http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/

Check for Dragon Stand groups around the time it starts. I always to get a few DS events everyday.

The players that wanted a nightfury already bought what they needed. It will take awhile for anyone else to consider buying a nightfury. Their is no demand for it anymore. The supply would have to drop before the price will increase again. Just like the other one time loot items (monocle, jetpack, esc).