Guild Wars 2

Permanent Quartz Node.

You’re welcome,
~ANet

Disclaimer: I am not ANet.

Well that sucks :/ you can see the seam in the skybox HDR texture. I’ve seen it in screenshots I’ve taken before, but none this apparent.

Just read the title, but I’m going to assume that Living Story runs a mega zerg all day and spawn camps Permanent Content while they run very few small team tactics and Price sits in the corner eating glue because nobody cares about it. Also they lost Garrison.

The beta login screen :/

Guardian>D/D ele>Condi Engie>Necro bunker>BM Ranger>Other thieves>Warriors>mesmers.

I run a weird build that works better when I’m fighting more opponents, so I take down the bunkers first and leave those who will tick my healing more for last, which is why mesmers and their clones who stand in my caltrop stacks and tick SoM are always last and great.

And so the rocket jump was born…

Also he spawned the Harrier and cheated to own all of San Andreas :/

Warrior: Antique Gold, Ebony, Calfskin.

Warrior 2nd set: Celestial, Lead.

Warrior 3rd set: Steel, Taupe, Calfskin, Lead.

Thief: Oil Slick, Olive Shade, Midnight Red, Silver.

Time to get to 10k and get me that title :x

Warrior’s hammer burst is the same as jump shot, only you need to build adrenaline (two sources of adrenaline gain without being in combat, mind you.)

Flyingfrenchman.6315:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Celestial and silver with my radiant shoulders/gloves.

That would look really nice on a character with heavy armor (like a guardian, but everyone knows that :P)

I’m actually using it on my thief who’s also wearing the Inquest Reward Coat, Pants, Shoes and Arah Mask all wrapped up with the wind aspect backpack. It looks quite nice/

Celestial and silver with my radiant shoulders/gloves.

I can get well over 500 in a day roaming with the zerg for 12+ hours. All it takes is large AoE to keep on tagging as many people as you can.

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

Viking Jorun.5413:

I run a solo roaming condition bunker and it’s a hell of a lot more fun being able to sit there and melt entire 20-man zergs with conditions while I maintain 100% health while I watch them drop like flies as they stand in my caltrops. The hype behind GC builds is so overrated. People respect the fact that I can still take them down and I don’t go with the “M” word.

I advise that you try everything before you settle down with a build.

Back on topic, I see no reason why you’re running dagger offhand. You have no condition duration to increase dagger 4, no condition damage for LDB to actually be useful with your build and the only thing useful is CnD. I’d run pistol offhand with that build personally. The applications for GC builds are far greater and you still have a stealth with the BP/HS combo, as well as CC for survivability and heal hate, and D/P dual hits harder than a truck and also acts as a gap closer.

Take it how you will, but dagger offhand isn’t the best choice for that kind of build.

PVT gear isn’t great on thieves IMO. Thieves have the lowest Diminishing returns on toughness due to our low health pool, you’d be better off with cleric’s gear if you wanted a higher EHP (more toughness plus healing in stealth = higher effective HP and lower incoming burst damage). Just make sure to keep Condi removal in stealth traited and you’ll have no need for vitality either. In my experience, healing power is a far greater asset with thieves than vitality, which only acts as a buffer which you’ll never get back until you’ve died or you’re out of combat.

Rambling over, good day!

Cheers. I tried to do the whole BP + HS for stealth proc and it is something I would definitely need to get use to. I was looking up Shadow’s Rejuvenation to make sure it was worth picking up and it seems, if i read this right, I can potential earn back approx 1300 health if I stay in stealth for the full duration. I wonder if this would actually make my Hide in Shadows slightly stronger on top of the normal heal + regen?

That’s correct. I find Shadow’s Rejuvination much more effective than most thieves however since I use apothecary gear, which has healing as a main stat. If you’re using HiS, the normal heal would heal for the full amount and the moment you entered stealth would start regenerating health. That’s why I said to run cleric’s if you’re still looking to do damage with the extra power stat and healing to make your SR highly effective. Just make sure to keep 2 sources of stealth (one small, like HiS and one big, like Shadow Refuge) to maintain your health while your heal is down.

If dailies were removed I’d win. End of story <_<

Vote for Ellen Kiel! Down with Waypoint costs! (Especially in labyrinthine cliffs)

Esplen.3940:

Viking Jorun.5413:

I’ve always had friends, but it’s taken until just a week ago to find that good friend that you’re partied with 24/7.

I couldn’t imagine playing this game without friends. I mean, I still do my achievement whoring without them but playing the whole game without a single good friend? That’s madness!

I have no friends.

I may not be able to see it from your point of view. I have an intense form of Agoraphobia to the point where I can’t be alone ever without turning to my phone or some sort of media involving other people. That’s why I play GW2 whenever I’m home. I’m sorry that you have no friends. I’d be terrified if I were you.

I’ve always had friends, but it’s taken until just a week ago to find that good friend that you’re partied with 24/7.

I couldn’t imagine playing this game without friends. I mean, I still do my achievement whoring without them but playing the whole game without a single good friend? That’s madness!

I run a solo roaming condition bunker and it’s a hell of a lot more fun being able to sit there and melt entire 20-man zergs with conditions while I maintain 100% health while I watch them drop like flies as they stand in my caltrops. The hype behind GC builds is so overrated. People respect the fact that I can still take them down and I don’t go with the “M” word.

I advise that you try everything before you settle down with a build.

Back on topic, I see no reason why you’re running dagger offhand. You have no condition duration to increase dagger 4, no condition damage for LDB to actually be useful with your build and the only thing useful is CnD. I’d run pistol offhand with that build personally. The applications for GC builds are far greater and you still have a stealth with the BP/HS combo, as well as CC for survivability and heal hate, and D/P dual hits harder than a truck and also acts as a gap closer.

Take it how you will, but dagger offhand isn’t the best choice for that kind of build.

PVT gear isn’t great on thieves IMO. Thieves have the lowest Diminishing returns on toughness due to our low health pool, you’d be better off with cleric’s gear if you wanted a higher EHP (more toughness plus healing in stealth = higher effective HP and lower incoming burst damage). Just make sure to keep Condi removal in stealth traited and you’ll have no need for vitality either. In my experience, healing power is a far greater asset with thieves than vitality, which only acts as a buffer which you’ll never get back until you’ve died or you’re out of combat.

Rambling over, good day!

Are you kidding? The charr land mine has a 26 and 1/2 second cripple, I couldn’t imagine how that isn’t a little bit OP.

I like the new one. I can actually see the total required for each achievement rather than what’s at the next tier. The only gripe I have now is not being able to see past the next PvP rank.

Dedlaw.9130:

matemaster.2168:

IMHO
condition damage was not designed as primary source of damage for any class

Can you look at a Necromancer and say that with a straight face?

I read that as a condition thief as well. Dealing 4k per tick with 25 stacks of bleed is far greater than any straight DPS build, it’s only a matter of getting and maintaining those stacks

There are only 2 permanent minigames. We were promised one in each city at launch which never panned out (and Bar Brawl has been in the achievement panel since – still no sign of a planned launch for the actual minigame).

I’d be happy with more, especially if they were tied into their own leaderboards and prizes (like we were also promised before launch).

I’ve already bought my PvP skins and dyes as well as the wind aspect backpack for my thief in preparation for the arrival of these skins.

I wish they’d do the same with one time stat items (cough sclerite Karka shell is the only ascended/exotic apothecary backpiece)

I was a victim of this just passing by shortly after the update. Went back to watch it and not am I glad I missed it

To those claiming that the skins are good enough: they aren’t. There is no prestige involved in the skins (except for 25-30 which were actually hard to obtain) which anyone could have gotten 5 months into the game. The time it took to invest 50/50 was immensely satisfying, yet you see another Champion Of The Gods title nearly everywhere you go. I feel that this minor boost (yes, minor) gives some leeway to those of us who dedicated our time to the original game. When I logged in after the patch, I found myself caught up to my friends who had only finished more dailies and nothing else than I (now we’re all around 7000 AP).

I hope they don’t revert this. I really do.

Sorry to sound like the dumb one, but where did they ever say that they were going to create a PTR?

With the shear amount of deaths that occur from falling and the necessity to waypoint back, I’ve already spent nearly 1g on Waypoint costs in the first few hours of the game. I don’t know if it’s possible to reduce them for this area, but something has to be done.

Broke already,
~Ferrum

Celestrial (yes, that’s how it’s spelled) gear doesn’t really have a niche per say. In all of my experience in hardcore WvW/PvP guilds I’ve only come across one group who uses said gear, and those are elementalists. They don’t use it for a purpose, they use it to make the game more challenging because PVT bunkering is too easy, and most people use it as a crutch.

Tera has blood effects that are scalable. It’s also rated M.

DrDivine.5378:

Danikat.8537:

DrDivine.5378:

Danikat.8537:

The black widow wasn’t exactly easy to get in GW1 either. You had to either finish part of the Underworld (end-game zone, it’s a bit like if you had to get 1/2 way through Arah explorable), or pay a small fortune to the Zaishen Menagerie.

If you’ve been playing GW1 for years it shouldn’t be that hard to get a black widow in this game. You’ll probably have a lot of points already (in fact you can get some for putting your original black widow in the Hall) and you’ll be in a good position to get more. This guide gives you a good idea of how you can get them: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide_to_earning_Hall_of_Monuments_rewards

I’ve gotten over 30 points and the only ones I really had to work for were some of the destroyer and oppressor weapons and vabbian armor (just because I would never have gotten that set normally, and paid more than average because I got it just after the calculator came out).

If I could I’d give you my black widow. I’m arachnophobic so I couldn’t stand having a spider running around after me. I paid the Menagerie to unlock and level both of them so I could complete my collection and have never used the one in GW2.

You paid someone to level your character to get the points? I’d be willing to do that xD, I miss my spider.

Really? You’d probably hate my house then, in real life I have pet tarantulas, scorpions, snakes, praying mantises, etc.

No, I paid Zaishen coins to the NPC in the Zaishen Menagerie in GW1 to unlock and level the black widow and moss spiders for me. I think most people don’t bother because it’s quicker to level the pets yourself than to farm the coins, but it is an option for all pets and very appealing when seeing your own pet behind you freaks you out.

(I’d love the snakes, praying mantises etc. though, it’s only spiders I don’t like.)

If you mean the part where I said I only really had to work for some points I don’t mean someone else did it for me, just that most of them came from things I did anyway, even before I knew about the HoM, like finishing the campains and maxing titles or getting armor sets, minis etc. I liked. I don’t count that as time spent working towards my HoM points because that wasn’t what I was aiming for when I did it, I just wanted that armor set or title or whatever, being able to add it to the hall was a bonus.

Ahh that makes more sense, although I have level 20 characters on GW 1, I didn’t get any points from any of the compaigns because I completed them before I bought eye of the north and they didn’t register, I’ve beaten prophecies, factions, nightfall, etc. but didn’t get any HoM points from any activities.

You have to physically go into the hall of monuments and tell the monument you completed the campaign.

To those of you clueless people: the Triforge Pendant isn’t a Zelda reference. Triforge Industries was the name of ArenaNet before it became, well, ArenaNet. They may have thrown 3 triangles into one just so that others would get that there was an Easter egg there, but the initial intentions were an Easter egg devoted to ArenaNet’s homage.

Danikat.8537:

The black widow wasn’t exactly easy to get in GW1 either. You had to either finish part of the Underworld (end-game zone, it’s a bit like if you had to get 1/2 way through Arah explorable), or pay a small fortune to the Zaishen Menagerie.

If you’ve been playing GW1 for years it shouldn’t be that hard to get a black widow in this game. You’ll probably have a lot of points already (in fact you can get some for putting your original black widow in the Hall) and you’ll be in a good position to get more. This guide gives you a good idea of how you can get them: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide_to_earning_Hall_of_Monuments_rewards

I’ve gotten over 30 points and the only ones I really had to work for were some of the destroyer and oppressor weapons and vabbian armor (just because I would never have gotten that set normally, and paid more than average because I got it just after the calculator came out).

If I could I’d give you my black widow. I’m arachnophobic so I couldn’t stand having a spider running around after me. I paid the Menagerie to unlock and level both of them so I could complete my collection and have never used the one in GW2.

Why on earth would you pay the menagerie to level them? Death leveling existed for a reason!

I just pay my bills, I don’t look at them :/

As I recall, the ele doesn’t have melee, either. You’re taking advantage of the 300-400 range on dagger mainhand, but really you aren’t up and personal. That and guardians have almost no range (scepter is a joke).

Hermes.7014:

The Zenith weapons sure look like they’re made of some sort of crystal. And since we all know that Quartz is a crystal and it is being introduced in this update, it wouldn’t surprise me if the two are actually related.

Maybe just a coincidence, but both have something to do with watches. Zenith, beside being a term for the highest point reached by a celestial body above the place of observation, is also a famous swiss watch manufacture, and quartz is commonly used in the construction of clocks and watches.

Ah, inductive reasoning.

“Because A=B and C=B, A must equal C through relation to B”

English 101, just because said things have some middle ground in common doesnt make them related in any way.

Step 1: transfer to TC
Step 2: claim a location for your guild
Step 3: have a dispute with another guild as to who can “own” said location
Step 4: GvG in a custom arena
Step 5: Be the ball
Step 6: ….?
Step 7: Profit!

Reminiscing back to the days of Guild Wars 1, I recalled how difficult it was to get to level 20 (max level back then) in that starter area.

I’m challenging those of you brave enough to reach level 20 within your race’s tutorial instance in tribute to the Legendary Defenders of Ascalon. If you’re able to do it, you’ll recieve not only bragging rights, but the utmost respect from every Guild Wars 1 Legendary Defender.

Now I know that there aren’t events in the tutorial areas, so you’ll be stuck with your starter weapons and leveling solely on starter mobs within the confined instance area. Good luck, and godspeed.

Nuage.5230:

marnick.4305:

This game already has 60 levels too many.

More like 79 too many, haha.

He was referring to the fact that GW1 only had 20 levels, and they weren’t terribly hard to achieve (unless you wanted to become the Legendary Defender of Ascalon, in which case all mobs stopped giving you xp after level 10 and your only resource to xp was completing daily quests once you’d done every other quest in Presearing Ascalon. Imagine a very limited tutorial where you had to get to the max level in.)

We’ll miss you :\ I enjoyed my fights with Maguuma and remember a very annoying condition mesmer constantly being on our kitten. Sorry to hear this, and best of luck

Currently we’ve been playing content every month that’s been given 2 months to develop.

No, we’ll be playing content every 2 weeks that’s been given 4 months to develop.

I’m going to go with option 2. It’s best in every way.

Where do people figure they can get 10 runs in an hour? That’s only if you have an extremely hardcore farming group and it’s never contested. Ever. If you’re lucky you’ll get 6-7 runs in on average, even when hardcore farming with a decent group due to contested points, the need to sell, etc

I’ll quit. I’ve invested too much time to have it all put to waste.

I work and buy gems now. After 2 months of hardcore farming and nothing else (had no life for those 2 months, ill admit it.), I can’t grind anymore. I’d rather spend my hard earned money than spend hours upon hours to earn what I can buy in 2 seconds on the gem store/convert to gold option.

Can nobody do math? 200% coin from kills is only 2x the coin from kills you currently recieve without boosts. With all of the gold boosts you have a maximum of 250% or 2.5x the gold FROM KILLS per hour. Each CoF run produces on average 80s per run not including drops, and only half of that is from kills (quick 8 runs confirmed this)
40s x 2.5 = 1g + 40s, so it’s 1g 40s per run, not 15g. This doesn’t include the end reward which varies depending on DR, but there is no way without drops to get 1.5g per run as it is with the current limit of +50% coin from kills maximum buffer.

Quaggan a are considered one of the lesser races, just like Skritt, Ogres, and Kodan. They’ll never be a playable race, sorry I disappoint.

The Tengu, however, aren’t considered a lesser race. This has been discussed and widely accepted as the next playable race (if any)

Dedlaw.9130:

Ljiona.9142:

Warrior and rangers are the baseline classes. If your class can kill them, it is balanced. If it can’t, that class needs a buff.

By that standard no class would need to get any more buffs.

Ever.

By this standard every class would need a buff. Learn to play, as terrible as it sounds.

I use both on my DPS/Condi build, but I only use Precise Strikes on my Condi bunker. It’s a no, I’m sorry. You aren’t going to Hollywood :/

I received my precursor as a gift from Gate of Madness back in November in thanks to organizing the server for WvW. I’m proud of my legendary that I crafted it into, and even if nobody else sees the sentimental value in that,, it’ll always be my pride and joy. People like you anger me when you assume that we (those of us with legendaries) obtained them illegitimately, and didn’t work our kitten off. I farmed for 18 hours a day for 2 months straight to get everything for my legendary not including my precursor, and even considered quitting the game after getting my legendary. I’ve felt no greater sense of achievement in this game than placing those 4 items in the forge and seeing that beautiful purple-embossed legendary weapon rise up.

It is legendary. Less than 1% of the entire population has one, so I’ll leave you this.

You may get frustrated, you may want to quit, but earning that precursor at the very least is a rite of passage. We of the 1% are waiting with open arms.

vorpal.1497:

Actually I dont think warriors are good in sPvP in a general sense. But this one aspect of heavily punishing enemies trying to rez, and getting your own members up, is something my warrior outperforms any of the other classes I’ve played so far.

So what I am suggesting is a sort of philosophy of how to play in the current state of things of; go to the main teamfight, play conservatively with regards to cooldowns/keep your distance (like a thief basically, dont brawl), then when someone goes down bring the pain like an angry bull.

That’s definitely one way to do it. I personally have my own build that I developed specifically to keep me in the fight, even if it’s 5v1. I can preach shout heals all day, but most warriors won’t listen. I do agree that, if you’re playing a DPS build it’s a necessity for any class to play conservatively like a thief, and most warriors don’t understand that. When in melee you want to stay behind your opponent at all times, or he’s going to lock you down.