Guild Wars 2

ukuni.8745:

Wolfar.6508:

ukuni.8745:

try and get runes of aristocracy, so you can stack 12-15 perma might off that sigil of battle and potentially 20+ if you use your skills right which i think trumps undead runes

you could also try going full dire with runes of scavenger and a sigil of leeching its alot more tanky and dishes out a surprising amount of damage when you factor in all those leeching strikes

Balthazar is actually a better option. If you run Aristo your damage will go down as the extra burning duration of Balth already wins from the Might if you get one extra second of burning off. Scavenging is a bugged rune, if you get downed the (4) bonus stops working.

pro tip: don’t get downed
I kid I kid, I heard about that but I thought it only affected vampirism runes, either way it’s still a very strong build, as for Balthazar runes by the time you get to that extra second of burn my higher power/condition damage from a more higher stable amount of might stacks has already out dps’d your 1 second of extra burning

The amount of extra damage you do thanks to Might is that small that it requires a lot of seconds before you got the upperhand. A simple flamebomb tick with Balthazar Runes on already gives one extra second and so assuming it does not get stripped in time.. the damage easily wins of the extra might. You also got the extra burn with the Healing Turret in case your target strips condis a lot, something aristo can’t offer and thus it’s extra damage.

Just calculate an aprox of 9 extra might in condition damage calculators and you see how little the impact of the extra condition damage is.

Now in a situation where the opponent doesn’t care about condis, chances are aristo does more damage but we can assume that most people are not like that.

ukuni.8745:

try and get runes of aristocracy, so you can stack 12-15 perma might off that sigil of battle and potentially 20+ if you use your skills right which i think trumps undead runes

you could also try going full dire with runes of scavenger and a sigil of leeching its alot more tanky and dishes out a surprising amount of damage when you factor in all those leeching strikes

It’s better to go with Balthazar Runes though as one extra second of Burning already wins from the extra might you generate with Rune of Arist. Rune of Scavenging is currently bugged so I wouldn’t go with that also running Full Dire.. is kinda meh.. you want a little bit of precision to proc IP.

For Celestial I usually run a 3kit setup. In PvE that consists of the Bomb Kit, the Grenade Kit and the Elixir Gun (link). Although keep in mind that for PvE there are simply better options which is currently Zerker. I personally would choose to go for Zerker (something like this)

For WvW my spec usually consists of the Grenade Kit, the Tool Kit and the Elixir Gun (link) and for PvP it’s the pretty much the same as WvW (link). For WvW and PvP Celestial really works well as we can make use out of every single stat, mixing celestial with cavalier etc might be better though if you are into min/maxing.

lord painn.4782:

its been a long time since i played my engineer and i been seeing a huge increase of engineers kinda bored of warriors now so i want something new for wvw…..so been wanting to try my engineer again can someone give me info for engineers wvw like armor…..weapons…..traits all that

I have a few builds on both Roaming and Zerging, it depends what you prefer the most. You can find those builds right here. Hope it helps!

I believe this is because of the many youtuber that play Engineer. Names like Teldo, Koroshi and Yishis are quite big. I am not aware of a lot of popular youtubers that play another profession other then the DnT guys (Oh and Sizer on twitch).

Other than that.. I don’t know.. people might want to challenge themselves nowadays?

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

With 50% crit chance you have a 30% chance per hit to proc Strength sigil. Throwing grenades at a single target = 3 hits per second lining up with the ICD = about 65% chance per toss. That’ll get you to 3 stacks in about 4.5 seconds, and you should cap around 6.5 base before factoring in boon duration. Battle will get you to 3 stacks instantly but you won’t get any more until 9 seconds in, after which you sit at 6. If you swap perfectly on cooldown you can get then get 3 more stacks for 2 seconds before you lose the original two; that’s a sustained 6.6 on average which means the two sigils are equal in the absolute worst case scenario (no extra precision, only one target, enough ramp-up time for both).

In practice Strength will almost always be better due to AOE, the fact that you will usually have more than 50% crit chance (via fury, banners, Spotter, consumables, etc.) and the fact that engie actually attacks faster than 3 hits per second thanks to stuff like Mine Field, Grenade Barrage, Fire Bomb, etc. giving more than 3 hits per second. That’s even factoring in that you may have to dodge or stop to res someone. With just fury or two targets, you’re hovering in the 8-9 stacks range already.

Also I did the calculations since I was curious about this myself, but it seems the extra 3 stacks of might party-wide is almost never worth the DPS loss from having a rifle, even if you don’t trait it with Rifle Mod. If I recall correctly, a party of 4 other players in exotic Knight’s gear would have to have an average personal unbuffed DPS of about 2.5k for the gain in damage to them to offset your own loss in damage, and that required number gets even higher if they’re in zerker or soldier gear. This is getting pretty math-heavy but suffice to say that the average knight/soldier-wearing pug doesn’t get that high in numbers.

About Sigil of Battle, with the Extra Might duration from Rune of Strength the might will last for 29 seconds (if not counting anything in alchemy). So that means (if I think of this correctly) that you are able to maintain 9 stacks and are able to get 12 stacks for 2 seconds before losing the first one. Correct me if I am wrong on this one but I believe this is how it is.

The big issue is indeed that Sigil of Battle takes time to stack up which could be too long. I never really took this in consideration which clearly makes the Sigil of Strength better.

For the shield, I was referring to using it beforehand and then swapping back to Rifle once done with the Might combo, in that case it should always be better. I made some weird connections to Rifle Mod which made no sense and so thank you for correcting me on it and doing the math.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

You have Fast-Acting Elixirs instead of Invigorating Speed on that link just so you know.

Overall I’d say rifle with Rifle Mod (instead of Infused Precision, unless you need the vigor) is the clear choice 90% of the time, as the extra DPS is pretty significant and far outweighs the extra 3 stacks of might from Magnetic Inversion in most cases. I almost never use my shield now in fact.

Also Strength is clearly better than Battle now, it’s virtually a guaranteed 9-10 stacks.

Oh, I used to run Elixir U. I forgot to change it around, thanks for letting me know.

I wanted to have a decent uptime of Swiftness so you are able to kite certain monsters or keep up with the group, I therefore took Infused Precision. This one could indeed be switched with Rifle Mod and then take 2 out of Alchemy for 2 in Tools for Speedy Kits. 3 Stacks of Might for every party member is still pretty good though, when you are the only one getting it it isn’t even close to worth it yes compared to Rifle Mod.

Sigil of Battle with Runes of Strength makes you able to maintain 9 stacks of Might permanently. This is more stable than Sigil of Strength because once you stop hitting enemies the stacks drop rather quickly (short duration compared to sigil of battle’s might stacks) while Sigil of Battle can be maintained rather easily by swapping kits. I personally did not experience a higher stack count than 10 (not that you say so though) as therefore I find Sigil of Battle a more reliable and better Sigil.

I will add some more details to the page, thanks for your great feedback!

• The Grenadier
For sure a strong spec, I believe it is reaching top DPS for Engineer right now. Make good use out of every kit, the Elixir Gun’s Acid Bomb for example does a ton of damage.

Rozbuska.5263:

Rabit will be probably better choice while turret damage dont scale with power or even with might, condi damage on other hand..:-)

Turrets do scale with power, change the knight amulet to rabid and you will see the damage done drop by the turrets.

The ‘fearsome engineers’ don’t play so well because they know their class so good, they play well because they know the enemy’s builds. The Engineer profession isn’t that hard in the end, it just feels hard because you need to be able to respond to an enemy’s his moves while with (some) other professions you can simply continue your combo and still do well.

kristof.7182:

Hello Wolfineer! Thank you.
Wow, such fame.

I tried sd (my first build ft + sd) but sometimes sd don’t hit or hit the ground. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. And if someone have build with reflection it can be very painful.

And I’m not runing with EG because auto-attack is with condi and I hate condi. It’s kitty as stealth thief is. But it’s just my opinion. So if I’m not going to use EG in the right way (condi) I thought it’s a waste to have this kit in my build.

Still, I’m not experienced as you are.

SD sometimes hits the grounds if you use AoE or Active abilities (think of Regenerating Mist from the Healing Turret or the Toolbelt skill from the Flamethrower). If someone runs with a lot of reflects (I think you mean skills like Shield #4) you simply have to wait for a bit until it runs out, playing well is pretty much 80% knowing your enemy’s abilities and 20% of knowing your own profession.

The Elixir Gun isn’t necessarily a condition damage weapon. Sure the AutoAttack is mainly condition damage but the #2 skill is a more power oriented skill as well as the #4 skill. In the end the Elixir Gun is more for support than for damage as your autoattack on Rifle is a lot stronger. Another option might be Rocket Boots for you!

This is what I run myself when I play Static Discharge.
It depends on the encounter if I go for Elixir Gun or Rocket Boots. The Rocket Boots toolbelt skill does ensure a SD hit while the Elixir Gun toolbelt skill does not but Rocket Boots lowers your active defense.

EDIT: for some of examples of this build you can check either this video or this video. Hope it helps!

Why would you not use Elixir Gun? The stunbreaker is so good as well as the condition cleanse. Why not just go for a SD build with Rifle Turret, Tool Kit and Elixir Gun. Incredibly easy to play yet effective.

ukuni.8745:

try and get runes of aristocracy, so you can stack 12-15 perma might off that sigil of battle and potentially 20+ if you use your skills right which i think trumps undead runes

you could also try going full dire with runes of scavenger and a sigil of leeching its alot more tanky and dishes out a surprising amount of damage when you factor in all those leeching strikes

Balthazar is actually a better option. If you run Aristo your damage will go down as the extra burning duration of Balth already wins from the Might if you get one extra second of burning off. Scavenging is a bugged rune, if you get downed the (4) bonus stops working.

PierPiero.9142:

which builds do you think will be new meta for engeneer ?

For PvE it will be a Zerker 3Kit build with Grenade Kit, Bomb Kit and Elixir Gun. 6/6/0/0/2 or 6/6/0/2/0 traitwise, Runes of Strength as Runes and Sigil of Battle + Sigil of Air on weapons (could be different)

For WvW it’s Condition Damage (this build most likely), there are a ton of variations on it which include 6 in Inventions for Fortified Turrets. I also think the Celestial Engineer will be a thing.

For PvP it’s Condition Damage (this build most likely), again with a ton of variations. I also think the Celestial Engineer will be a thing here as well.

paleeshi.1924:

I like your 3kit celestial build. Thinking of running it with zergs (with minor alternations maybe). Whats your thought on that?

It is perfectly set for Zergs just the way it is right now. You could go for 6/6/0/0/2 though while Zerging for extra damage. If you are looking for something optimal I would suggest Knight/Cavalier though.

You can maintain permanent Might easily so you will get that Sixth Strength buff with no issues. Now, Scholar gives 10% more damage WHEN above 90% of your health, if you generally get lower than 90%, go for Strength els I would personaly suggest Scholar.

I believe that Scholar is only better if you stay above 90% of your health around 60% of the times.

Who are you?

My name is Wolfineer, I am a YouTuber for Guild Wars 2 which focusses specifically on the Engineer profession. I have been a YouTuber since June 2013 and I am really enjoying it. I am also known for having an Engineer Guide (Wolfineer’s Engineer Guide) which a lot of people are using. Read more about me here.

What did you create?

I created a wordpress.org website, thanks to /u/mKeRix (from reddit) as he helped me out with both the hosting and coding. An enormous thank you to him. The website is dedicated to provide you with all the Engineer News and Changes released by ArenaNet, Engineer Guides that explain you how our abilities work and what they are used for, How to Fight certain builds, Engineer Tricks and TONS of Engineer Builds.

Why is there an Advertisement box? Why do you run ads? Are you just in it for the money?

There is an advertisement box as I am planning on having a single ad on there to generate a little bit of money to pay for the costs I had (only domain costs). I have been doing everything for Free and I am fine with that but if I am able to generate a little bit of money whitout harming you guys then sure.. why not take that offer?

I am not just in it for the money, if I was I would have made a guide for League of Legends as a lot more people play that game. Hell, I would be better off just finding a job.

Conclusion

I am really happy with the website and I hope you guys will enjoy it. I will be updating the page regulary with new content when ArenaNet releases new information or changes to the Engineer. Enjoy everyone!
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The Website: http://www.wolfineer.com/

Introduction Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Z8oeZjcOs

Hellooooooooo everyone,

As I saw other people opened threads about their profession’s new traits all over the place, it is time that we get one for Engineer aswell. Let’s talk about the new grandmaster traits for the Engineer. You can find them here. My opinion is in the video I created about them, explaining them aswell as talking about the usefulness of them. You can find the video here!

Now, as I mentioned in the video, I would love to hear YOUR opinion on these traits. Do you think they are utter crap or do you absolutely love them? I wish to discuss them as I am a fan of build diversity!

Dredd Spirit Caller.4082:

dude we need to put an engy guide with all the builds who works and all the videos we know for PvE, PvP and WvW
u and other ppls got builds and videos for that XD

My guide is around for quite a while now (4 months or so), haven’t seen it? http://theengineerlegion.boards.net/board/15/wolfineers-engineer-guide

Phineas Poe.3018:

It’s nice to see everything all in the same place, but you might want to make a point to update some of these builds. 30/5/0/10/25 hasn’t been the proper grenade build in PvE since after Modified Ammo was buffed.

30/30/X/X/X is also vastly superior to 25/20/0/0/25, even if you’re just wanting to sit in the bomb kit.

Oh, that is silly, I actually have the updated version right here in my notepad, instead I copied the old one. I update it now, thanks for notifying me!

Hello everyone!

Let’s start of with a little bit about myself. My name is Wolfineer, I created the Engineer Reddit Guide and also am the owner of this youtube channel. I wish to help out as many people as I can. Ofcourse I don’t know every little detail of the profession so this is an excellent moment to start a guild to help me with just that!

This guild is focussed on the Engineer profession. Ofcourse if you play Warrior or something from time to time it is perfectly fine just don’t expect to get a lot of advice when it comes to building your Warrior as it is still an Engineer guild.

What I want to accomplish with this guild is getting people to understand the profession better and to (ofcourse) have fun together as fellow Engineers. I am sure I can learn a bunch from you guys and I hope you can learn a bunch from me!

If you are interested, just leave a comment or whisper/mail me in-game. My name is ‘Wolfineer’ (accountname Wolfar) I hope I can make something out of this guild more than just ‘another’ guild.

Thank you for your time and I hope I can accomplish something with a guild like this!

Guild Information:

- Name: The Engineer Legion

- Tag: [HGH] (clever.. right? right!?)

- Location: Aurora Glade (although Server-Wide)

- Guild Leader: Wolfineer

- Restrictions: Pretty much none, I do expect you to play Engineer though!

- Representing: I do wish you to represent a good amount but if the guild is quiet and nothing is happening feel free to not represent ofcourse.

- Focus on: tPvP/sPvP and PvE. We will play WvW from to time but due to this being a server-wide guild this barely happends until we get bigger.

I want to share my complaints and suggestions for the OS Arena.

People wish to duel and do GvGs in the Arena. Sadly that often gets ruined by groups of players who like to run around in the Arena just attacking anyone they see and finishing them off. This happends in the Arena itself and just outside of the Arena.

My suggestions:

Duels

Let the OS Arena be PvE only (all friendly) until you /bow or /duel PlayerName. This makes the arena a real dueling arena, you don’t have to worry about hitting anyone els and you don’t have to worry about getting ganked. People can’t touch you except for the person you requested a duel with.

Remove any Loot or WXP from the bodies in the Obsidian Sanctum, people will be less likely to ‘gank’ players since they won’t be rewarded in any way. I am not sure if this will do the trick though since some people are just plain evil

GvG

OS Arena will stay a PvE Zone

For GvGs we can have a ‘GvG Register’ that only the Guild Leaders can use, with this function you can set a date for a GvG to be played at. This needs to be signed by one guild leader from X guild and one guild leader from Y guild. Also to stop abuse make it like 15 people from both guilds need to sign it.

Let’s say a GvG can’t take place from X time till X time (usually an hour or so), the Guild Leaders can just remove it by both agreeing to remove it. (both guild leaders need to accept). If they forget about it, the GvG will be thrown away after 5 minutes when there aren’t enough players of X or Y guild in the middle zone.

If for example Guild X has 10 people while Guild Y has only 9 right before the GvG starts, Guild X will get a pop up like in PvP Hotjoin to ‘Volunteer’ to be excluded of the GvG.

When the GvG starts, no one can enter the zone anymore. Once all Guild members of X or Y guild are downed the match will be done and there will be one point handed out to the winning guild. This continues for one hour or so or until the Guilds decide to end it.

For the duelers there is still plenty of room to duel whitout entering the middle zone.

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What do you think about this? Any suggestions are welcome. Also posted here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1tlyk6/my_suggestions_for_the_os_arena/

Phineas Poe.3018:

You may dish out more direct damage in Celestial than you would in Rabid, but your conditions will tick for a lot less.

I’m not exactly sure what else you want to know. Celestial is an obvious loss in DPS in exchange for a gain in survivability and support. How much that gain/loss fits the results you’re looking for depends on a lot of external factors including your traits and utility skill selection.

I recommend just continuing to compile your set and seeing how the damage visibly compares with your build.

I compared both stats and I have to say when it comes to Direct Damage Celestial set is A LOT better. The downside is that I lose a lot of condition damage.

I am still going to create the set and create the perfect hybrid build, right now it looks great.. Keep in mind I am a very experienced Engineer, I know how to adept so It should be no problem.

GW2Buildcraft.com was an excellent site for me.

Hello everyone,

I need some help with some Math. I am an Engineer running full Rabid gear (Wolfineer) and working on Celestial gear.

I would like to know what I lose exactly and what I gain and if it is worth the swap. I like my Rabid set but I l rather be a more Hybrid character aswell. I am running a Pistol/Shield with Grenade (or Toolkit), Bomb kit and Rocket boots.

The traits and skills choices are all good, I can swap it around if I like, I only want to know if going for Celestial will make me weaker or stronger (mainly) damage wise. I know that when fighting big bosses Condition Builds normally don’t work well so I already got an advantage with Celestial there.

Could someone who enjoys doing math help me out?

Hello everyone!

I have an Engineer orientated channel called: ‘Wolfineer’. I am posting videos on the channel every 1-3 days which are anything from PvE to WvW to PvP. I make Guides, PvP Montages, WvW Montages, General PvE/Living Story and much more.

This is a little bit of promoting my channel and a little bit of sharing the information I provide with my channel. If you feel like the stuff I release is garbage, please tell me why. I could understand why people think it isn’t that great.

If you are interested in my content you can click on the link below!

- Wolfineer’s Channel

While you are there, make sure to subscribe if you like my content.
When I gain more Subscribers it gives me a reason to keep going and make my content better and better, I like to record and edit so.

Thanks in advance for checking out my content,

Wolfineer

I posted my builds on a Build Editor website, you can find the links in this video.
Builds are up! [Announcement] [GW2]

This is my PvE/WvW Build Video
Engineer Condition Build [GW2]

These are my PvP Build videos + Combo Tricks
Condition Engineer PvP Guide & Combo Tricks [GW2]
Combo Tricks (Advanced) [GW2]

Hello everyone!

I have an Engineer orientated channel called: Wolfineer. I am posting videos on the channel ever 2-3 days which are anything from PvE to WvW to PvP. I make Guides, PvP Montages, WvW Montages, General PvE/Living Story and much more.

This is a little bit of promoting my channel and a little bit of sharing the information I provide with my channel. If you feel like the stuff I release is garbage, please tell me why. I could understand why people think it isn’t that great.

If you are interested in my content you can click on one of the links below!

Wolfineer’s Channel

WvW Playlist

PvE Playlist

PvP Playlist

- Wolfineer

Hello Dutchies/GuildWarsers/Belgium players,

We are a new guild called De Vliegende Hollanders [VGH] on the Aurora Glade server. We are looking for members on the Aurora Glade server who are either Dutch or come from Belgium and speak the Dutch language.

We are friendly guys, play actively and are experienced.

Though we are very new.. we will grow slowly to become the biggest NL/BE guild on Aurora Glade!

/w Wolfineer or Mail Wolfineer!
You can also reply to this topic!

(This part is Dutch)

Hallo Nederlanders en Belgen,

Ik ben samen met een vriend een nieuwe guild begonnen genaamd De Vliegende Hollanders (VGH). Dit is op de Aurora Glade (AG) server.

Er zijn zeer weinig NL/BE guilds op deze server en leek het ons het ideale moment om een NL/BE Guild te starten!

We zijn nog maar net begonnen dus verwacht een kleine guild, maar wij kunnen razendsnel groeien aangezien we één van de enige NL/BE Guilds zijn.

Heb je interesse? Stuur mij (Wolfineer/Wolfar) een /w of stuur me een mailtje.
Je kan natuurlijk ook een bericht hier onder laten, daar zal ik zeker ook naar kijken.

Hopelijk tot snel!

Wolfineer.

Hello guys,

I am looking for a NL/BE Guild on the server Aurora Glade (I am a Dutchie myself).
I have been playing since release, I am a experienced player and currently have mastered the Engineer profession.

Please whispers me in-game or send me a mail if you got THE guild I am looking for! (/w wolfineer)

- Wolfineer

Lupanic.6502:

no offense. I play condition engi by myself.

Running to reset the fight like in Mesmer #1 video (third fight) is ok. But if you run and just try to kill the clones the F2 is more then useful it makes 1k damage. Also you sometimes force your opponent to dodge.

Sometimes you interrupt your poison shot by yourself. It his planned? You press #2 and #1 after that.

I do not know what kind of build you are playing. But what do you think about :
Rune of the Guardian? You block a lot in 1on1 and maybe you should think about the set of this runes.

Yeah I got a bit offended for no reason, sorry for that. I normally interupt my #2 if I see it’s out of range and I already applied a fair amount, this makes it go on cooldown which means I can use it again faster.

Good point on the Wrench, I can try to make them believe it’s a very damaging spell which is not true. I did not know it hit for that much actually. Ill try my best to use it more often.

I don’t like to changes runes vs a player. That reminds me of Guild Wars 1 where people just completely countered the other after 1 fight. That’s unfair to me. I am using Rabid gear with Undead runes and 30/10/0/20/10 set-up. I like the Undead runes but there are a lot of other viable options like the Guardian Runes. Got a little build video about my build.

Lupanic.6502:

You nearly never use your F2 or F4, and only from time to time F1 and F3. Against the mesmer… just let him burn. All you do is try to escape and hope he will die because of his mistakes.

Anyway well done

F2 is a pointless skill for a Condi Engi, it’s a combo finisher but I don’t see how it’s worth using that much. I use it from time to time.. I know I should use F4 more, I start using it a lot more now. I use F1 always after my Heal so it’s quite nonsense to say I use it from time to time. F3 is more used to trigger a combofield or to knock him down.

The ‘all you do is running’ is nonsense ofcourse. I am a condition Engineer. You should analize the fight a bit more.

Hello GuildWarsers and Engineers,

I have a channel called Wolfineer that is dedicated to Only-Engineer videos. I make WvW/PvE and PvP videos on the channel.

I have been doing some PvP duels over the last couple of days and I recorded them to make videos out of them. Before I go any further, so far all the players I fought against are very good, I am not trying to claim I am better.

The videos I will be posting below have 2 wins and 1 loss from me in it. They are seperated per player and I will expand on it if people are interested in watching them (That includes the YouTube Community) and if people want to duel!
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This is a duel versus a very good Necro called Mistress Lanaya!
Wolfineer vs Mistress Lanaya
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These are 2 duel videos with Nolix, a very very good mesmer! I like his playstyle!
Wolfineer vs Nolix (Engineer vs Mesmer) #1
Wolfineer vs Nolix (Engineer vs Mesmer) #2
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Hello guys,

I am working on making an Engineer only channel for Guild Wars 2, for the people who are interested, come check the channel out! I will be posting more and more aslong as it is rewarding for me (gaining some decent views/likes/comments).

My channel is all about the Engineer class, I do loads of things with my Engineer and I will post a variety of different content like Living Story, WvW, tPvP, Dungeons, Glitching, Build Videos and a lot more!

I do apologize if this is against the rules since I am advertising my youtube channel.. although I don’t make money of it anways so… It is technically.. not advertising(?)

You can find the channel here: Wolfineer’s Channel

If you wish to have a look at it and give some tips it would be nice, though don’t have your expectations too high, I am not a YouTube Celebrity !

- Wolfineer

Hello,

I am a dutchie who played GW2 well over 1100 hours and I am looking for a NL/BE guild that does a lot of Guild Missions etc.

This Guild needs to be mainly on Aurora Glade because that is the server I play on and have all my characters on.

Kyllaa.1385:

Have you tried running game advisor yet to see if it pops any issues?

http://us.ncsoft.com/gameadvisor

Sometimes it helps diagnose.

When you say “deleting the corrupted files,” what do you mean? Which files are you deleting? Corrupted files in your gw2 folder generated by the game?

Make sure your windows is fully up to date (including optional files).

But if nothing works, it does sound like a failing piece of hardware.

Post back with updates when you can.

I added a screenshot showing you the corrupted data files I keep deleting because it fills the folder completely when it crashes like 2-3 times a day.

My Windows is fully up to date, it is downloading and installing the patches whenever there is anything available.

I think it can’t be my hardware because this is the only game that crashes, every other game I played from BF3 to Need For Speed never ever crashed and I played those games for a long time.

I will run a diskcheck now, Ill keep you posted.

Xystus.3241:

We Americans use weird date formats.
The dates are August 5th, not May 8th

When: 2013-08-05T11:44:33Z 2013-08-05T13:44:33+02:00
Year – Month – Day: Time in Zulu Year – Month – Day: Time in local

Try deleting C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Guild Wars 2\local.dat file
Run the game

It’s because I have been deleting the ‘corrupted’ files over and over again because I thought they would cause more harm than good.

I will try and check if my disk is working correctly but I don’t think it will find any problems since I do things like those a lot.

Hello,

I have been having problems with this game since.. May. I have been playing since release and never experienced problems but at the moment my game crashes a lot. It does not happen when my fps drops or anything but just at random moments.

This is what I did so far:

- Update Drivers
- Update DirectX
- Reboot multiple times
- Reinstall
- Opened Support ticket, nothing that worked.
- Repair the Client with the ‘-repair’ command.
- Removed any unwanted startup programs that might stopped it.
- Went into NVIDIA control panel and changed settings, did nothing.
- Did not use overclocking AT ALL
- Checked Overheating, was no problem + RAM/CPU Usage wasn’t high.
- Ran in ADMIN Mode, changed nothing.

Specs (Laptop):
Intel Core I5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHZ
NVIDIA Geforce 540M
4.00 GB RAM

I added the Arenanet file.

Please, what is there to do?

Fellow Guildwarsers,

I have A LOT of Fortune Scraps and even 3 Golden Tickets.. I don’t like any of the skins that they introduced so I am curious if I can use it for anything els than the skins and if in the future more stuff will be added to spend the fortune scraps.
I know I can also get recipes from the materials but I already got most of them if not all.

So, should I save them or is it a now or never thing?

Thanks in advance.

Craig.2403:

I recently (yesterday) tried out a pistol/pistol build for dungeons and it worked great. In a pug it is actually better, because you will most likely be at ranged anyways during tough bosses. I then tried it out in WvW. The damage is nice, but it has issues with facing more than 1 person, simply because it is so squishy, and there’s no evades on your weapons. Just pay attention to buffs so you don’t kill yourself through retaliation or projectile reflects.

Hmm, that sounds quite great. I am a solo’er when it comes to WvWvW. I mainly focus on capping camps and killing Guards/dolyaks. I think if I play a long time with it I can find the most optimal way to fight 2 or more enemies. Thanks for the comment!

What do you guys think about Pistol/Pistol in WvWvW/Dungeons?

I like it so far but my thief is only at level 25. I know it will never reach the damage a d/d Thief can do but that does not matter. This game isn’t all about dealing as much damage as possible (luckily it isn’t).

I like to fullfill a DPS role as P/P ‘Gungslinger’ Thief.

Pilipala.7219:

When you traits 0 for defense and tactics you will have bad time dealing with condition damage because most our condition removal trait are in those 2 trait line. So your built will be solely depends on your slot skill on condition removal.(Trust me it’s not enough with just slot skill in PVP)

For PVE it’s good for dishing out damage but when you try melee(Face tank) a Karka with such built you will be dying off very fast. Not a very good built imo but if you have someone to tank for you while u focus on dealing damage it’s a different story. It all depends on your play style.

I agree with you on the condition removal part but I really can’t agree with the tanking. I have a good amount of Vitality and Toughness and it is mostly dodging the damage. Tanking is not something which happends quite often in Guild Wars 2 since it is barely possible.

Please look at the Sword Warrior changes first before commenting on this build.
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Hello awesome gamers,

Currently I am running a Sword/Sword build based on power/prec/critdmg.
No not a Berserker build, It’s based off Knight and Valkyrie with Berserker Rubys and some Valkyrie ones.

I am specced 30/20/0/0/20. I feel like this can be a viable build since the new patches to the Warrior swords. I am thinking about using for example a Rifle or Axe/Axe as secondary weapon to use the finisher on that weapon since the sword finisher should only be used to keep control since I have barely any condition damage, only from the Arms Trait (200).

This build is at the moment only used in PvE but I think this will also be viable in PvP though it needs some changes then obviously.

What do you guys think about this? Do you think it has it’s potential or do you think it will be complete rubish? Also, could you tell me why it could be good/rubish?
It would be great if you guys could rate this build, somewhere between 1 and 10, 1 being very bad and 10 being amazing.

All tips and ideas are welcome! (if this gets popular I might even make a build for it!)

After like 3 weeks farming I finaly got the Volcanus!

It was alot of effort for me. I know alot of people might find it nothing but I think 450g is alot of money!

I required the following:

- 1 Eldritch Scroll (50 Skillpoints)
- 100 Mystic Coins
- 1 Vial of Liquid Flame (250 Ghost Peppers, 100 Molten Lodestones, 100 Destroyer Lodestones and 1 Gift of Baelfire)
- 250 Molten Lodestones

To create this was around 150 skillpoints for me and ALOT of Money.. like 400g I think. It felt like a big challenge for me and since I don’t like Sunrise and Twilight it was a good option for me (:

I even made a little video about it showing my love for the Volcanus. Thank you Arenanet for such an awesome game!

—> Obtaining my Sweet Sweet Volcanus!

Rennoko.5731:

I believe it falls along the same lines as accidentaly blinking under the map in WvW. You didn’t intend to get down there, but hey, why not poke around and see what you can see.

I believe where it would become a bannable offense would be what you do from there. Under the WvW map you can’t do much, but you can attack certain players and they cannot attack you back.. that for instance would be reportable/bannable, as you are abusing the fact you are under the terrain, regardless of how you go there.

I can’t really think of an open world situation that would be bannable, unless you were using the edge/under the map to harvest ore nodes/etc, while avoiding mobs.

Then I am doing completely legal things (:

I am mostly moving around on mountains at the border of an open world map, checking out random things like half a flower on the edge of the zone and stuff.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Hello,

I like to be going to places that should not be accessible normally. I don’t use this to my advantage since I haven’t found a single spot that give me an advantage, I know that is called exploiting so to clear that out, I am not doing that.

I am finding spots where I can move out of the original map like there is a spot in Orr where you can get out of the ‘map’. Standing on ground that is completely flat.

Is this a banable offense? If so, I want to know why it is. I am always reporting when I find something like this but I like to run around in it, see the game from another angle.

I never ever intend to exploit anything when being there also I never saw a way to actually exploit when going out of the map.

Sorin.4310:

I don’t have all the dyes unlocked, so there may be something better. But I think the starter dye “dijon” looks pretty similar. Peanut butter is also kinda close.

I’ve attached a Screenshot with dijon on vigil leggings to show the comparison. The boots and gloves have peanutbutter on them. Hope this helps.

Wow, that is pretty close indeed it might even be the perfect match!

Thanks mate!

Fellow Guildwars addicts,

I would like to know what Dye Colour the Lionguard Shield has. I like to match it with my Vigil Armor but no colour I have seems to work and asking around in chat does not really help either..
So what is the name of the Dye that matches this colour?

Here is a link to help: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lionguard_Shield

Thanks in advance,

Wolfars

ZaxanRazor.6235:

The only thing you can really do is to make sure they’re not fragmented. Type “defrag” into the start menu.

Meh, my Laptop gets defragmented daily so.. Well whatever, thanks for the help. I can wait that extra seconds, atleast now I know what the reason is.

ZaxanRazor.6235:

Ah – yes OK. It will be 5400rpm then and that’ll be why the loading times are a tad on the slow side.

It might also improve with a better internet connection too, but you’ll be limited by the HDD speed.

Will cleaning up my HDD’s by removing unwanted files speed it up a little? Or won’t it be affected at all? I’m not getting new HDD’s just for a loading screen, find that a waste myself atleast.

ZaxanRazor.6235:

What’s the speed of the HDD (yes, that’s the right abbreviation) in rpm? 7200 or 5400? It’ll be listed on your documentation that came with the PC.

Alternatively, you can download a program called Speccy that will tell you.

5400, think it counts for both?

It’s a Laptop, if that helps.