Guild Wars 2

Oofda 1v1? I’m probably not the best to give advise as far 1v1 goes…Probably all professions are better at 1v1 than Both of these professions at least with my experience but my guard is built around WvW so naturally not good at 1v1. 1v1 is really just about meta. All classes have their weaknesses but for 1v1 I have a harder time with playing Guardian but alas that is probably a gear issue on my part. I’ve had better luck using my necro for 1v1. And Guardian has lots of toughness yes but Necro has tons of health and DS and if you go Plague form you get like 5k toughness. So they both can be very tanky if you want them to be. I know in sPvP necros are pretty dominating with condition builds right now. Minon Necro can be a real pain to kill too but they don’t work in all situations naturally. Honestly I love playing all professions though. I have level 80 for all 8 and leveling a second Necro for the ascetic value. Honestly you should go level them a little bit in PvP to get a feel for the profession and builds. Take them into WvW a bit to get a feel for how to use them in a group or roam. Play both, why the heck not eh.

Reroll a Black Lion Trading Post flipper. They are the people with the most legendaries and thus the best players. Warrior and Guardian are still amazing imo you just can’t go wrong. The other professions are fine to but people are just made they can’t feel like a god like they did in Skyrim. Haha okay, in all seriousness though if you can push buttons in the proper order and dodge when needed and have good position awareness you will be just fine no matter what you play. Still though, Warrior and Guardian are great.

I honestly wrote up a long list of pros and cons but deleted it. Level them both up and you will likely lean to one more or level them both equally.

Guardian is tanky, supportive, well liked by groups, good pve and wvw. However really lacks ranged and condition builds.

Necro is tanky, good at debuffs, okay dps, great conditions, kind of the emo profession not everyone understands, has variable builds, great range. Problems arise with not being amazing at group support.

Honestly, they are both great professions and no reason why you shouldn’t level them both. Guardian will likely by more useful to start out with though.

You should really put this in the Engineer section. Tons of helpful people willing to help. Celestial gear with Traveler Runes would be super expensive but I bet it would be a Wonderful build! Engineer has an incredible amount to versatility so builds are all over the place. In my opinion, if your going HGH with Rifle you probably would also want Nades. Especially use nades if you have Celestial gear with Travelers as you will want to utilize the conditions on top of your dps. I wish I could afford to test the build out though!

I don’t really know about anything lore wise or anything much about guild wars storyline for that matter but are we ever going to see more about the Largos? I have to say I loved the steam punk theme of the Aetherblades and the steam creatures but Largos are still my favorite creature. I would love to see more of them besides the three locations you can run into an assassin I know of. Would they be at all involved with the water dragon?

I got the new Dwayna Back piece! Yayyyy and wait for it……My crappy hobosack the Charr made covers the darn thing up!!!!! I am a proud Asura and demand to look spectacular! I want a kitten refund if I have to still look like a mini kitten Charr.

Oh man I had the total opposite reaction! I only made one set of celestial and thought about making another. Started getting Charged Quartz and thought SWEEEET Free T6 Mats to help me level crafting to 500!!!!!! I just use them to craft for the exp and then salvage the gear back. I don’t have anymore bank space to hold this stuff.

I guess see them as free Exp (as you can’t sell them or anything) for crafting and ignore the sweat and tears you spent trying for them earlier in the year?

I just gave it very quick trial run in WvW with my Bomb heal build. Zergs collide, after initial push I popped the AED heal, hit second push and was pretty much at 25% health. AED would set off its heal and I would normally be back up to 90% health. Did this a couple times. It was fun but for running in a group or even roaming Healing Turret seems much better still. AED seems like it would have its uses but without healing bombs and E.Gun for the healing during the long cooldown I’m not sure it would be that great for a heal skill.

What do people find the most useful in WvW for an elite skill?! I’ve just been using the Human elite Reaper of Grenth to chill and poison people or Melandru for Immobilize/support but is there a particular one people find more useful? Or is Ele totally lacking on a good Elite?

My general experience:

Elementalist:
Tornado: Go into Tornado and become the target of everyone’s conditions and die
Glyph of Elementals: Summon Elemental to die immediately
Fire sword: Good for a gate but really not that useful compared to losing all your other abilities. Useful to escape.

Human:
Reaper of Grenth: Passive effect to cause extra dmg and cc on enemy zerg
Melandru: Put binding roots on enemy zerg when they run into the AoE fields

I leveled all professions to 80 to know thy enemy…I ended up really enjoying all the professions but they all have issues that drive me crazy. I’m mostly a WvW player so I may have leveled a profession once in PvE but the rest have been in WvW. So what kept me leveling them was the enjoyment of a new style of play and learning the pros and cons of the profession.

Favorites:
Engineer: can do anything your imagination can think of as long as you build for it. Engi profession is like legos and playing it is like playing a piano.
Guardian: Immortal zergling and team player. Equip a staff and point and shoot. Hammer for blasting fields or GS for pulling enemies into them.
Elementalist: Staff support, Good at being both support, CC and Dps at the same time. Not good at 1vX most times so don’t get serrated.
Warrior: I’m at odds with Warrior these days. Its good at everything, I mean everything. Super high dps, Survivability, Decent support, Amazing Conditions dmg, Amazing CC, Insane mobility, AoE attacks or Single dps. This class has it all but because of that I have started to really dislike the class because it is just silly easy to play.

Truly though, a norn’s only weakness is the occasional lack of grace and Asura. One day in Tarnished Coast I was sitting on a fence post minding my own business waiting for someone to help me with deal with Cadudecus when this Bookah Norn came over. So being an Asura and knowing Norns inability to jump I bet him to walk across the fence. If he failed he would have to help me. Well as you can see he took two steps then slipped and crotched himself. The sad part was he started crying….the best part was taking a picture to rub it in.

Dont get self conscious! Get sexy!

And gosh darn it I miss my quaggan friends!

Oh okay, I was thinking since the skrit and centares send troops in to harass the north camp they would be considered merc camps. That is too bad. In EB we mostly avoided the merc camps because as soon as you walked in there the Toxic event would make a large group pop swords so there was no way to do it quietly and the toxic event made it difficult to do it solo. Merc camps and Obsidian JP was the only thing I didn’t get in season.

Did the Horse people and Rat people not count in the BLs?

I always thought it would be cool if you could store your pet which would buff you up (since half your dmg/tankiness comes from your pet) and just play the character in WvW. I say this because pets normally die pronto when fighting a large group and pets are not that great at hitting anyone that is moving around a lot. Trap Ranger with the binding roots is very effective when groups collide though. Nothing kills me faster than being immobilized in the middle of red circles and not being able to cure the condition.

I ended at 48/50. Most of the time I would flip the camp but not receive credit.

Maybe the Season 1 “Reward Chest” was a troll but maybe there are better things to focus on. WvW players should have expected a lame reward as that is the custom in these chests. I have Never ever ever gotten an ascended or even a precursor from wvw….well actually I’ve never gotten one EVER Anywhere. I sit at 42500 kills and 550ranks so maybe not the highest but still I’ve been doing this primarily for 14months now and have learned WvW isn’t about personal wealth.

Sure it would be great to get a nice reward chest. Maybe the point of Season 1 was to get more people talking about WvW and server ranks and how WvW could be improved. We all know by now that they only work on things that the majority of people complain about. Kind of like how human warrior gets so much attention.

So my theory is, season 1 was just trying to get more and more people to be interested in WvW whether it is good or bad so they had enough interest and push to work on fixing the broken system that is in place right now.

So troll away about reward chests good people of Tyria but at least WvW is getting more attention to continue to be improved (hopefully). And thank you Anet. Although the reward chest was basically just a rank chest with no badges of honor, I did enjoy the hundreds of easy noobbags you brought me this season.

Hahaha I love this and hate this at the same time. Of course I would complete the achievements! However, I would put zero caring into completing them as it would just happen in a couple weeks without any effort anyway.

Awhahaha Well anyone that is WvW focused should have completely expected to get crappy loot and well hey at least we FINALLY were able to get a WvW title after over a year of play. The rest of the titles will still take at least a good couple months to years.

Congrats to the winners, losers, whiners and everyone inbetween that got lucky enough to accidentally get something good in their chest.

Darn it! Its cosmetic junk like this that makes me sad I made an Asuran Necro…or an Asuran anything. Well except Asuran engi…kitten hobosack kitten thing needs to go away.

I agree with most people in the thread. Ascended is just Way too expensive to afford for the minute amount of bonus. I have yet to ever get an ascended anything as a drop outside of fractals and I play too many different characters to care gearing up with ascended junk. Not to mention having multiple sets of gear for each character just would never happen. All the power to the people that play one toon and like shinnies though!

Nice! I am excited to see how your build pans out with the buff to the healing bombs. I use Settles trinkets for the healing but hadn’t thought about using celestial gear. That stuff is expensive! I’ll for sure check this thread out again once the buff comes into play.

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Every time I log onto my Engi I think, hmm toggle on/off switch or new skins yet? Nope…got to go check that forum topic again.

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I have to agree with OP. I try to enjoy fractals especially because I love the weapons but nope, still not enjoying this content. Skipping this living story and enjoying WvW happily until maybe better content. I personally have really enjoyed most of the living story ideas especially the Sanctum stuff and Aetherblades but so far Fractals is still just way to frustrating and relies too much on group composition, everyone knowing exactly what to do and when to do it. Its just too “pro” for someone that likes individual skill challenges and the occasional pick up groups.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Wiseman.4075:

Hahaha I had to check PvP out after reading this thread. Jumped into a random match and had to fight a condition spam: Ranger, Warrior, THIEF and 3 Necros. After dieing repeatedly from CONSTANT conditions over several matches it just made sense to tack on AR. Easy and understandable decision for an engi.

Maybe just figure out how to play a hybrid Necro…

Explain how to play a hybrid necro then? The scepter/d and staff dont scale AT ALL well with power. So hybrid really cannot be good until this is remedied. Unless you want to run dagger main hand and staff. Then you are power though and not hybrid at all

Here happy to do your homework for you…

Watch the video. Pretty much amazing break down of how to play your class.

Hahaha I had to check PvP out after reading this thread. Jumped into a random match and had to fight a condition spam: Ranger, Warrior, THIEF and 3 Necros. After dieing repeatedly from CONSTANT conditions over several matches it just made sense to tack on AR. Easy and understandable decision for an engi.

Maybe just figure out how to play a hybrid Necro…

It’d be cool to get a griffon.

Durzlla.6295:

Wiseman.4075:

urieldhynne.2743:

You need to stop shooting and spamming longbow #4 for doing damage.

Seriously, you need to stop.

You save the enemy from a lot of CC all the time.

Every profession has knock backs and is used by people that aren’t thinking.

Well, not EVERY profession does….

lol well everyone but thief and necro but necro has fear which is basically the same sort of thing. The point being, don’t blame the profession for their one knockback that they may or may not use. Anyway, this is an annoying thread.

Hahaha yeah I love the idea of sword/dagger with all the evades and entertaining fighting cinematic but I agree, evades are slow in response to when you need them and the freaking leaps on the sword tend to throw me every which way. It is difficult sometimes to keep track where are going with multiple enemies and trying to do a dodge when sword #1 is going is never guaranteed to work when you hit it.

I’ve heard you can change some setting with targeting to help but I think that causes other problems and have never tried it.

Totally agree that the sword and response time of evade skills and dodges need a bit of a rework.

urieldhynne.2743:

You need to stop shooting and spamming longbow #4 for doing damage.

Seriously, you need to stop.

You save the enemy from a lot of CC all the time.

Every profession has knock backs and is used by people that aren’t thinking.

I received an achievement chest today but it in my bank to enjoy later without realizing it was soul bound to a character I deleted….Why would a living story achievement be made soulbound in the first place and How do I get my chest open now?!!

Thank you and patiently waiting for the key.

I just bought a new screen and now almost every time a skill is used in game my screen dims. Is there some setting that stops this? I’ve messed around with the in game settings and nothing seems to help. Maybe this is a setting with the screen itself?

Maybe they just really wanted people to go play the new PVE content?

haha in our match up we kept SMC so we shall see which battles override what. What a goofy mistake.

Now can we kick “Guests” and “AFKer” out of our map so the rest of TCers can get in?

…….I havnt seen TC’s server map since this patch and no overflow has gotten Teq even close yet.

Jormag is normal. Golem killed me and everyone there repeatedly but we beat it in the end. Not sure on rest yet.

I will see you on the 17th!!!!!

Enough is enough! Engineers are already made weaker than other classes due to large amounts of variability and now our kits are only exotic stats while others get ascended! Our kits are hideous and weak now, we dont get legendary goodness and are generally openly ignored because we represent a smaller part of professions! Which is becoming more and more apparent as they openly say they will only work on human warriors because they are the most played…please…this is just racism and profession discrimination and sends the wrong message to our youth! Somebody think of the children!!!

Oh…well if there is no extra laurels then I peacefully await Engineer’s kit fix and account bound wxp.

Otherwise, Great job on the new content Anet! Love the ascended weapons!

I don’t think anyone denies how wonderful this game is nor would deny the great content that gets sent out. However, as stated before, being a member of the community that CONSTANTLY has an unfair disadvantage of getting anything to go our way (non-human engineer), its easy to get overly worked up when yet again getting screwed leads to an answer of “sorry about that but you get nothing.” This monthly laurel loss is not the first time and the response seems a little too “cut” and “paste”

Yeah sure its really not a big deal in the end. Just like being an asura is not important to the developers because not many people play them. Just like being an engineer not being fixed because not many people play them. That will also remain true because thats what they flat out tell people therefore no body wants to play the broken race and certainly not the broken profession. This also is not big deal just like playing alts in wvw but having soulbound wxp so no matter what you are always weaker than someone who plays 1 character.

So add it all up:
+ Asuran Race
+ Engineer Profession
+ enjoys playing alts in wvw but is screwed due to wxp
+ finds Laurels precious for at least getting Ascended gear for alts
= getting annoyed with constantly getting the short end of the stick in this game and getting told that either I’m going to continue to be ignored and/or left out and thats just the way it will be for the year.

Just so inspiring to continue to be on the leaky boat that constantly misses out.

Extra monthly achievement awarding extra laurels is super unfair! That is TWO free ascended recipes or several free t6 mats. This is super unfair and I can’t believe this has happened twice. At least give us a heads up. I would have easily made the monthly had I known I had to get it done in 2 days but now I find myself doing everything all over again from the beginning AND no free-bee t6 mats or recipes during this point in time when they are most crucial….is there really no way to fix this?! Really sucks…

I would be happy if WxP was made account bound. Wxp should be based on you as a player’s dedication to WvW not your dedication to playing only 1 character. I love and play wvw daily and almost exclusively but I feel as the months go on I am less and less competitive due this wxp soulbound junk. I like playing different roles in the zerg but due to this soulbound rank I am not sure if I will ever achieve that through wxp in the time frame I ever care to play this game the way WvW is set up right now.

Its really frustrating to have my favorite part of the game slowly get pulled away from me and other people that like playing Alts….

Nah you get all or most of the mats in WvW from my understanding. Also there is a chance for Ascended drops where you get to pick the weapon of your choosing.

I got a recipe from a bag to “double click a stack of 250 Shoulder scraps to turn them into a shoulder piece”. So you may need a recipe from the random chance bag. I came here to ask what do you do with the extra scraps? I have a stack of 240…so 10 away which I will most def have too many now. What on earth do you use the extra for? And if you need a recipe from a random bag than why on earth would you care to collect a stack of 250 with extra useless junk left over when you might as well just get the 13 maps of random bags and more than likely get the shoulder piece?

Just checked it out at PvP and yes it does

So having both static discharge and turrets you could use 3 toolbelt skills both offensive and cc which proc SD and then drop all your turrets and when your ready blow them up causing 3 more SD procs.

Can turn into some large amounts of dmg I’m sure.

Another type of build to consider when looking at the Tool kit is the Tank/Condition builds. Pry bar and wrench can dish out some rather large numbers either as a zerker or conditionalist. If you go condition tank, i think Melandru or Perplexity are both valid depending on your preference of defense or offense. Perplexity can work wonders either with Toolkit, bombkit, pistols or going with Toolkit and Turrets (if turrets are traited with the explosive knock back). Nothing like slinging out Burning non-stop with rocket and flamethrower turret but when the turret gets destroyed it also launches enemies causing int interrupts with put on more confusion.

Hey, I recently read a build here on the forums that would work for you possibly. I think he called it a Tesla build or something. It looked mainly at setting turrets and using turrets as a main but I think you could incorporate the tool kit as a your main along side it. You could use your wrench for fixing the turrets and and pulling people back to you for more thwacking! I’ve personally be thinking about trying to utilize this build but haven’t got around to it well enough yet.

As far as a build goes, just utilize any traits that increase your Turret or tool kit abilities and there ya go! Obviously you would have either Defensive turrets or Offensive turrets that either throw out condition, direct dmg or crowd control, healing, curing conditions. Plus, one turret has a stun break making them more viable not to mention Supply crate would greatly benefit from your wrenching turret awesomeness.

I may have to play around with this build tonight and maybe we can help each other out.

Hahaha I never use spear gun #1! It sucks, I agree! I almost always spec into nades if I know I’m going underwater. Otherwise I like to use E.Gun since it has long range and shoots fast but not too much dmg either.