Guild Wars 2

My groups have generaly been level 80s with level 80 gear, My gear is Toughness/Power/Precision, this is Rare quality gear. As an elementalist, I still die to most Dungeon mobs in 3-4 hits with inadiquate methods of avoiding getting hit. (No Agro control at all, in fact I think being an Ele puts me at the top of the agro list.)

Groups have been well mixed class wise.

Then you need to take a look at your player skill. Maybe it’s not dungeons being too hard, but rather you not having the appropriate skill to deal with them.

I’m level 80 with similar gear (a little bit better)

I almost never die in dungeons. With Scepter/Focus and a durability build I am almost always the last to go down. You should not be having that many issues as an ele.

I’m willing to bet you’re one of those elementalists that runs around CoF with a staff and when asked to switch to S/D or S/F you reply with “I only have a staff”

I don’t think it was because of this weekend. From what I understand, RUIN and other guilds moved to an EU server.

Also, you guys REALLY wanted that tower, probably the biggest fight I’ve seen over just a tower in a long time.

My only real complaint about this matchup is that it’s a 2 server match. I saw a handful of ET on Friday night and nothing since then.

Oh and don’t think you’re getting this keep anytime soon.

You’re denying the other servers siege equipment, how is that not useful?

It’s been pretty fun holding this keep for the past few hours, about to head off to bed.

Hopefully this weekend will give our server a wake up call. We’re easily a tier 3 server during the day, probably even tier 2. But at night or really anything that isn’t NA primetime, we’re like tier 5.

When Gods and Pro aren’t around there really isn’t much to fall back on.

Hopefully this will inspire us to work on recruiting some guilds that will be able to cover our non-peak hours.

Also our communication seems to be lacking a bit. Communication within guilds is great, at least from what I’ve seen. (I’m in gods myself), but communication between different guilds is mediocre at best. So things like a 20 golem train aren’t really an option.

And the week isn’t over yet. I don’t know about taking the lead, but don’t be surprised to see us closing the gap a little bit.

Hopefully we’ll learn from this and improve for next weeks match.

People who don’t carry supply

Maybe I’m crazy, but I think in structured PvP a thief in stealth doesn’t block people from capping points and can’t cap.

Dunno why WvW is different.

Had a blast this week.

I remember sunday night (or maybe it was saturday) at the maguuma borderlands.

Went to their keep, at the center about 30 maguumas standing around in the same area. A couple of us were on the roof above them, got about 20 kills spamming meteor storm and lava font

Went to defend our orb at one of our keeps. Large group was gathered at our gate trying to break through. Used my meteor storm/lava font/flame burst and ended up with about 30 kills in a period of 15-20 seconds, got 13 badges from it.

Is it possible? Yes. Killing players/npcs gives you experience, and the various events (defend/assault tower/keep/whatever) give a decent amount of experience, karma, and coin.

Is it ideal? Absolutely not. Running around and doing map completion/dynamic events will give much more xp much faster.

You know what I’m sick of? Mesmers. You get 2 of them against 2 of your team and it suddenly becomes 2 v 10

What server are you on?

I don’t get the opposition. It would be a seperate, new server (most likely set of server)

You wouldn’t be forced into it. You wouldn’t be required to play on any of the PvP servers.

So something that would not affect you in any way unless you choose to play on it and you’re like “nope, can’t have it, don’t want”

This thread is ridiculous.

Every time, in any online game, when something is a little bit too powerful, then the people who play that class/champion/whatever it is in that game, will defend it to the end of time. Most people will swear all day that something isn’t too strong and shouldn’t be nerfed. It’s completely ludicrous.

You can see it in any online game. In LoL people will spend all day defending a champ that they play that’s OP. Hell even when Xin Zhao was released the people who played him insisted that he wasn’t OP. No, he was completely broken.

Thieves give way too much reward for how easy they are to play. And yes, I have a thief. They are too strong, get over it.

I doubt that runes would be a good source of income for more than a few days, after that the market would be flooded and they would have no value.

I’m about to finish my CoF gear (just need one more run for the boots) and I plan on continuing to run the dungeon. I was wondering what would be the best way to convery my CoF tokens into coins. From what I can tell it would be to buy the cheap 30 token rare items and salvage for globs of ectoplasm

It’s more about build than gear. I can’t do it on my ele since I’m built for durability so we’re not able to kill the mobs fast enough. Though I can tank from 0% to 60% pretty easily.

I don’t think damage should be increased anymore because glass cannons already go down extremely quickly.

That’s kind of the point of a glass cannon

nope.

Only form of communication that works in WvW is emotes.

You need 100 to make a legendary, they cost 1 gold each

http://i.imgur.com/q0Nzk.jpg

I disagree.

http://i.imgur.com/9bPjE.jpg

The game tells me that I have 8 superior runes of melandru in my gear, even though I only have 2 (1 in the helmet, 1 in the gloves)

I think it might be because I have 6 in my PvP gear.

Played against SoS last week (fort aspenwood)

They take everything while we slept and then we woke up and took everything back. Except we held it longer as our primetime was ending. Each day we just got like another 10k ahead even though they had everything at some points.

Just play the game. I don’t even know what to do with my gold, I’ve bought everything I can with gold. My armor needs dungeon tokens to obtain, I’ve got full exotic accessories, I even bought the 5 gold rare back.

You don’t, HAVE to do it.

No one is forcing you to do it.

This game has PvP content. And some of the achievements will include that.

100% map completion means 100%. That’s it. Not 99%. Not 98%. 100

You shouldn’t get 100% map completion if you haven’t explored 100% of the map.

I’m not asking about runes for armor.

I’m going for a build focused on dealing damage and staying alive.

My traits are 20/0/30/20/0

My armor is power/tough/vit with superior runes of melandru.

For my amulet I have an emerald pendant (power/tough/vit) though I hope to upgrade to triforge someday. For accessories I’m planning on going for some healing power and vitality or toughness. Not exactly sure what I’ll get yet.

I’ve just started doing dungeons lately (about a week and a half ago) so I probably wouldn’t know.

But so far CoF has been fairly easy for me. I can get through path 1 with no deaths, and through path 2 only dying at the part where magg blows up the door. As long as a party is able to listen to and follow instructions then it’s not very hard.

Currently for my armor I’m using superior runes of Melandru.

I’m curious as to what other elementalists are putting in their accessories. I just started collecting mine today (got the emerald pendant and the guild defender, still deciding on what I want to get for the rest)

Staff is fairly inferior in PvE. There’s a few situations where it works but I wouldn’t recommend it. But really you should be carrying enough weapons to cover every possible skillset you might need.

I stick to Scepter/Dagger for the most part. Sometimes I’ll use Dagger/Dagger. For dungeons I use Scepter/Focus.

Your traits are a bit too much glass-cannon for my tastes. I’m currently using 20/0/30/20/0. Lots of toughness and vitality and ways to stay alive. For my gear I have a lot of power, a lot of toughness, and a lot of vitality.

I’ve only seen one situation where dying was inevitable for people, as in where if you go into that situation, you WILL die.

For the rest it’s about managing your cooldowns, kiting, and evading.

I think some rewards are bugged in terms of coins. Monthly achievements (at least when I finished september’s) give less than 1 silver while daily achievements gives 5 silver.

The karma train probably has more than double the players in all of melchors leap.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Bosses-and-chests-need-to-give-better-rewards/first#post384145

Made a thread on it in suggestions.

It can be crafted, purchased with karma in Orr, purchased with badges of honor, or obtained by running explorable mode in dungeons.

The easiest way is to purchase crafted armor off of the trading post. But not all stat combinations can be crafted.

So the best bet is to look around online to find gear with the stats you want, and obtain it the easiest way possible.

And then (optional step) you can find gear with the appearance you want to transmute.

For example, my gear was purchased from karma vendors in orr and farmed in AC explorable for light power/toughness/vitality gear for my elementalist. Then I farmed Citadel of flames and transmuted the gear with my power/tough/vit gear because the CoF light gear looks really cool in my opinion.

Start reading up on gear on the official wiki, reddit, various fansites, etc.

/map “LFM for ____ story mode”

I’ve gotten 1. I was doing the event chain to unlock CoF and a mob dropped an exotic torch.

At first I thought it was a bug.

Except you cant craft gear with certain stats.

I agree, remove it so there will be less PvE carebears taking up WvW slots that could be filled by someone who actually wants to play WvW and not run around filling in empty squares.

And chests should give a rare item at least 50% of the time.

It is. And you might want some of the Invader gear since not all gear with those stats can be bought at karma vendors.

For example, none of them sell Light leggings with power/tough/vit.

Sporadicus.1028:

I have an idea: Why not reward folks who complete objectives/events with a badge of honor or two?

They kind of do. When you take an area and kill the main NPC you need to kill, then the NPC can drop a badge or two. I think the one in stonemist can drop a ton.

Shadow Phage.9084:

Burl.9567:

Thieves are the most OP class there is right now. My ele was one shot last night for 14k. Brought back memories of a Inf popping out of stealth in DAOC.

Double post time!

14k HP is base. I don’t mean to be rude, but complaining about getting 1-2 shot in a glass cannon build (you’d almost have to be for that hp) is kind of…meh. If de-stealthed targets rendered properly (see my previous post), you’d be able to 1-2 shot any glass cannon thief you saw. Provided you survived their burst or were not their target.

No it’s not.

Base is more like 11k. With 20 in water traits (+200 vit) and my gear having mostly power/tough/vit I have around 15k hp.

I’ve got over 50 basic trans stones though, my alts will have more than enough.

You mean the diminishing return system that they just modified? That one?

And people over-exaggerated it. I was able to farm for hours without hitting the DR cap.

I was just thinking the same thing today.

Of course as soon as I did so I got a mail from a gold seller, but it’s my only one in days.

Oh and it would be nice if controlling temples in Orr was a bit more rewards. Like getting a buff when you’re in an area that has an uncontested temple, and it’s stronger if both are uncontested.

You aren’t able to enter WvW after transferring until it resets.

I’d rather they just make it so that if you transfer servers you can’t WvW until it resets.