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WvW-only (new) Elementalist with Questions

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Thanks, Zedd, next time I’ll try not to write wall of text.

WvW-only (new) Elementalist with Questions

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I have a new Elementalist (exotics only with 1 ascended ring, so far.) It will only be used in WvW. I am new to WvW and not in a guild. Though I got my Season 1 key (and learned a lot in the process) I still consider myself brand new and hope you will consider that if my questions seem stupid.

1. If you are D/D and find yourself on top of a wall, with a larger opposing zerg below trying to get in, are you periodically jumping down (trying pick people off) and scurry back in alive? If not, what role are you playing up there?

2. If you are a D/D and find yourself below, with massive AOEs keeping your zerg at range, are you simply healing/reviving? Or what is your role?

In both of those scenarios I find I am often trying to get out of combat and swap in a staff so I can reach up or down and do more.

3. If you are a Staff Elementalist and get blindsided by an invisible hit/lock down, then use your one utility stun breaker— and find yourself locked/knocked again, what are your next steps if you want to fight? What are your next steps if you want to run?

4. Generally speaking, how does a Staff Elementalist (using no speed runes or swiftness extenders) keep from becoming straggle bait when the zerg rushes a great distance or starts to scatter. I am finding Air 4 and Lightening Flash not enough to keep up in those scenarios.

5. If you use Signet of Restoration and/or that trait that makes Cantrips provide regeneration, how much Healing Power are you using to make those work well for you?

Last, can anyone recommend a build (any weapons/traits/rune/sigil/gear combo) for a person who is torn between the range of the staff but the movement/action of D/D. It may not exist but I know very little about scepter and focus. I am fine with a kill role or a support role, as long as I have a lot to do.

Thanks in advance!!!

Fish Heads DURING Tequatl fight?

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Please can someone verify that this a bug?

Fight going well, we hit 25% and are going to battery phase #3 and fish heads pop and insta-kill countless people. All three battery phases were successful. If this is not a bug, why are the fish heads spawning mid-fight?

clock tower bugged

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There is no pressure on that jump and it seems odd that you can do the same thing and get mixed results.

Last year my Norn could not get in no matter how I timed the jump or where I stood.

This year, my Asura just hopped right in, the very first time without doing anything special.

Right after that, my Sylvari failed to get in there 6 times. Now, she got in. I don’t know if it was pure luck but I had:

1. Turned my graphics down to best performance.
2. Turned off sound.
3. Pressed Control-Shift-H to get rid of UI.
4. Stood at very VERY edge of step, almost falling off, to get ready for jump.
5. Jumped (no dodge) the split second I saw face crack.

I LOVE this jumping puzzle but won’t do it anymore because of that face.

clock tower bugged

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Ok, now I’ve joined the club. Last year I could not get in. This year I got in on my first time up. Now, I changed characters and 3x can not get in. I have no understanding what is different. Turned down graphic seettings. Maybe will character swap again and see what happens.

Mad king clock tower bug!

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I hear the music, check your sound settings.

Best and Worst of GW2 Releases - Year 1

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Top

1. The beta weekend events

2. Tequatl – I STILL love this and look forward to more like this

3. Halloween, Mad King

4. Bazaar of the 4 Winds

5. Queen’s Jubilee

The only thing I didn’t like and didn’t participate in was: Super Adventure Box (SAB)

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clock tower bugged

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Maybe also try turning your graphics settings down to best performance, no shadows, no post processing. Maybe there is a graphic lag throwing you off.

clock tower bugged

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Last year I was jumping with a Norn and could not get into tower when lightening struck. This year I’m jumpint with an Asura and getting in. Shouldn’t make a difference, but if you can’t get in try a smaller character for the hell of it.

"The Reliquary" Instance is Bugged

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For those of you talking about restarting the instance, how are you doing it?

Rabid, just waypoint out and go back to the NPC you talked to in order to get in there. Start again.

"The Reliquary" Instance is Bugged

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After two failed attempts I followed Malkesh advice and it worked.

Achievement "Power Play" glitched?

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Servers that have beaten Tequatl add yours

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Yak’s Bend kill #3 about 2 hours ago.

[Help Needed] Not getting Power Play

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Finally, got Power Play and Sunbringer title and I don’t know what I did different. All I can advise others to do is to continue choosing 1 for each phase and staying there the whole time.

I tried to stay close to battery as I could, and hit as many mobs as I could, and hit the loot button if it appeared. I went West at 75%, East at 50% and North at 25% (though I doubt that makes a difference) and I didn’t go to Megalaser at all.

[Help Needed] Not getting Power Play

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I’m having the same problem. On our first server kill I split my time between 2 different batteries each time— getting 2 medals each time. I did not get achievement.

On our second kill I went to West-only at 75%, East-only at 50% and North-only at 25%. Was sure to kill mobs near every battery. I got a medals but no achievement.

I watched a video of our first kill. The person recording it hopped around to multiple batteries each time, and didn’t spend much time at any particular one. He got achievement. I’m baffled.

It’s the only achievement I have left for title and we are having trouble killing him again. I want to make sure I’m doing it right. Need advice.

New to GW2 -- What should I know?

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As an early player my recommendations would be to explore, explore, explore and try anything/everything. There is no grind here. I tend to play solo 99% of the time (unless I want to run a dungeon or kill a massive, epic, dragon) and I am thoroughly entertained just by running around doing whatever is around or whatever comes up. Often you will discover entertaining little scenes/scenarios, minigames, jumping puzzles or rewards, just by taking your time and wandering around.

If you want to fight the massive/epic thing you see in front of you then you can type in map chat to see who is around and wants to help. People will usually come for those as it drops a chest that gives at-level gear/materials. You will find level 80 people in the starter zones for that reason. Remember that your level changes to match the zones. Any/every zone can be challenging and rewarding and drop real-level gear depending on event.

Some characters can use multiple weapons, try them all out. For some everything changes based on a certain element or utilty skill. Experiement. Eventually you will find that all that customizing is golden and you can create a totally unique set of weapons, traits, skills and playstyle that works for you. If you click H and look at all the tabs you will have a snapshot of what that class can do.

You don’t need to be level 80 to participate in everything. For PVP you will be leveled up to 80. In fact if you want to play your low level character at top level to see what it’s like, go into PVP. (You can experiment with builds/weapons without having to actually fight anyone— or do the PVP tutorial or just go-for-it and try arena. All your starter gear/weapons will be free of cost.)

If you like crafting/exploring try cooking. All the foods give buffs that add experience when leveling plus it’s just plain fun to try mix/match ingredients and discover the recipies. It’s particularly good for people who would enjoy traveling the world to locate this/that speciality ingredient. I’ve never used my professions for income so can’t speak to that.

Know that you need to upgrade the axe, pick and harvesting tool as you get to better materials. If you are trying to mine and get junk instead of the ore, you have to upgrade your tool.

If you want to try dungeons, there is no LFG system in the game but there is a website called guild wars 2 lfg dot com (all abbreviated) that works well.

If you finish a heart, always talk to the vendor that opens up. They have some great upgrades you buy with Karma, you don’t need to spend gold.

Some of the middle and end zones have become barren. You will still be able to do things in them but you may not be able to clear every single thing in them without help. Type in map chat to see if anyone is there who wants to team up for something tough. Often they are in the same boat and appreciate the group. I’m told the drops are better in groups anyway.

My characters are all different races and classes and I can’t say that any one is better than they other. They are all very different which I enjoy. I did especially enjoy my Sylvari charcter story and love my Asura gestures/emotes. Know that Sylvari glow during all the night cycles and in dark places. Play with the light switch in the character creation screen if you make one.

Participate in all the Living Content and Holiday Events you can, they are usually very entertaining with at least one challenging event in them.

Sorry for the wall of text, I guess I like the game. LOL

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Straights of Devastation Events

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Are the Straights of Devastaion events working as intended? There are very few players in the zone (no chat in over an hour and only saw one other player in an hour) and yet there are group events spawned and conflicts at almost every location people need to get to in order to clear this map.

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Killing the Mouth of Zhaitan (spoiler)

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I am doing this for the first time on a 71 mesmer. From behind the pillar (the one just at bottom of hill,) one of my spells ported me through/under the floor— into water— where I get a message that I’ve left the instance. No matter how centered I made myself I was still under floor so it ported me out and I had to start over from beginning. /sigh If you are a mesmer try to use the far pillars just in case this is known bug.

The try before that I let my clones do their thing and they either killed all the little weapons or aggro’d them in such a way that all of them started attacking me all at once. DO NOT DO THAT! If you aggro them all at once they will keep you stunned and knocked down and it’s likely death and retry from checkpoint.

Let the weapons come to you, or try to aggro one at a time. I’m not sure if they come automatically or not.

I got it by trying to keep clones to a minimum— except if a weapon was attacking me— and trying to single target him while dodging goo and those fireball looking casts of his.

If you are a memser this approach is SLOW, because most our good stuff aggros many things.

After a certain amount of weapons come to you, you will get a chance to freely damage him. Your companions will even respawn at that point to help you. I was slow and had to go through two rounds of this.

NOTE: If you get hit with the fireball looking thing it will leave you with confusion. Destroy your clones/recall pets and stop hitting him. It falls off pretty quickly.

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Agony Resist Infusions

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Short Question:
Into which of the neck pieces could a person insert a BASIC +5 agony resist infusion?

Explained Question:
I am just returning to game and the ascended gear has me very, very, confused. I want to buy a neck piece and put agony resist on it. I don’t want to have to buy 250 tier 6 materials and use the mystic forge. I just wanted to put the basic resist on it. If this is not possible, then where can the BASIC agony resist infusion be used?

Thanks!

Ascended Gear question

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I am just returning to game after 9 mos. and am confused about ascended gear. If I buy a piece using laurels and badges of honor (in WvW) will the piece follow me into PVE, or it can it only be used in PVP?

Thanks.

Liadri P2 - guardian needs dps advice

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You have to form a party then target and CTRL+T

I asked people, they did not want to party (or revive for that matter.) I do lose her as a target ever few tries but even when I don’t I just can NOT kill her fast enough. I don’t know what the heck I’m doing wrong. I did better on attempts where I used my sword in P2 but it’s nearly impossible to see the adds/floor/orb when you try to melee her.

I’m not wearing any ascended gear (just coming back after 9 mos hurricane displacement) but 4 armor and 3 accessory are berserker’s exotics and should be able to kill her.

I give up. Having the floor drop out every single time has broken my gw2 spirit.

Liadri P2 - guardian needs dps advice

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Thank you all for the replies. I have to admit I “lost it” with this yesterday. Wasted gold on garbage. Grats to all of you who did this without losing your head and your wallet.

P.S. How do you put a mark on her head? On one of my best attempts I somehow managed to target wrong thing when she was almost dead.

Woomera that was awesome!!!

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Liadri P2 - guardian needs dps advice

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I’m getting to Phase 2 and staying out of the AOE and bombs but the floor keeps dropping out on me. I find that by the time I get conditions off or get to safe spots there is little time to damage her.

What weapon(s) are you guys using in P2 and how are you getting ample damage time?

Also, can you melee her if clones are not nearby? Or is she also a bomb?

Any advice/help appreciated. I really want to get this!

Subject 7 Queen's Gauntlet help pls.

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After wasting all my tokens I went and bought a food buff and the blob melted. :::facepalm::::

Subject 7 Queen's Gauntlet help pls.

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I didn’t have trouble with the previous ones, but have wasted all my tickets on this one.

I am trying to just stay on him. Should I be killing blobs?

It always ends the same— subject 7 has a sliver of health and I am used my last cool down then go from full health to zero in about 2 seconds.

Attacks Against Norn and Charr in the Tower

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To person who posted: Press Control-Shift-H and your UI goes away. You don’t need it for the puzzle and will no longer have to see anything anyone is typing. Do the same command your UI back when you finish.

Can two people jump into clock face and both get achievement/chest?

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Just happened again. I have a hard time getting up there because I often miss that narrow plank off to the left right before the big leap. When/if I do I make it I have no problem after that. I get so excited waiting to jump in but keep ending up back in room. I found this video. Though this is not me in the white/blue coat, I notice he doesn’t get in. It looks he’s a hair behind her in the jump and wish I could ask him if he got that same loading screen back to the room.

Does his jump look wrong to people? To me it looks right but I do notice he’s a half second behind her going through.

Can two people jump into clock face and both get achievement/chest?

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Ok, thanks divinier. I’m not sure what went wrong then. Will keep trying.

Can two people jump into clock face and both get achievement/chest?

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Can two people jump into clock face and both get achievement/chest?

I see conficting information on this. Some posts say whoever lands on the leap platform first will in and the other will not. Some say whoever enters the clock face a split second before the other, resets it for the other.

This sounds odd but I was just at top of the stairs with another player. He definitely got up the stairs before me but when the face broke we jumped at same time.

He got in. I got a loading screen back to room.

Why doesn't artificer "mystery tonic" work in halloween chest recipie?

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I don’t understand how anyone is supposed to know the difference? All three recipies are for “mystery tonic” and the recipie said to use “mystery tonic.”

Hope, at least, I stopped others from picking the wrong artificer recipie because those were nice materials.

How do you know what to do?

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There is an npc inside those doors who will take you to other events including the clock tower.

Why doesn't artificer "mystery tonic" work in halloween chest recipie?

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The recipe says “mystery tonic” and on my artificer I discovered 3 tonics called: “mystery tonic”

I made 10 of each but the forge will only take the round bottle. They are all “mystery tonic” so I’m confused. Why won’t the forget take them?

In the photo my cursor is not showing but I’m pointing to one of the bottles it won’t take so you can see the name. You can also see that both of the other shaped bottles (“mystery tonic”) don’t even show up in the discovery panel— only the round one.

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How do we get personalized ToT now?

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If you mean personalized trick or treat bags I’ve been getting them from giving the children in costumes some candy corn.

The happy thread

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The light fixtures over the trading post are really… BATS! It made me smile.

There are a million little details like that in this game that I love and Halloween just gave us more of them. Thanks gw2!

Pact Torch Weapon

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The pact torch does not shoot fire like the preview.

I used my pact token on this weapon because of the preview. In previews and in the (H) hero screen it shoots fire and illuminates the armor/character much like the hall of monuments sword.

I’ve viewed it from all angles and swapped weapons back and forth. It’s just not there. I can see the fire on HOM sword and COF focus so I know it’s not my video card.

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Weapon skins: Where to get the rentals -vs- perm?

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Thanks so much sarmach. Just two more questions for anyone:

1. Are the ones on TP are permanent?

2. Are there any other TEMPorary skins I can buy from vendor? I keep searching and all I find is short bow, shield and staff vendor at Mystic forge.

No Devil Horns in the Gem Store

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Still not seeing the devil horns even after the the restart-fix. Also my trading post and gem store graphics are unusual as if the tops of the letters are missing. All other game graphics working fine.

Weapon skins: Where to get the rentals -vs- perm?

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I see a bunch of notes saying you can get halloween weapon skins from vendors to try them out for a few hours. All I can find is a staff, short bow and sheild by a vendor at Mystic Forge. There has to be more than three weapons but I’ve searched all of Lion’s Arch and Rata Sum and googled and can’t find them. Please can someone direct me to other temporary skins?

Also, I’m not ever sure if all the permanent skins are only from mystic forge only, from locked chests only or from regular crafting or all three. Any advice appreciated.

the vendor only has a short bow, staff and sheild. The shield looks nothing like the one I’ve seen in pictures.

I know you can get some from the chests but I have no keys

Issues with the guild system: please post here [MERGED]

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Guild: Wing Kong Exchang (WKX)
World: Yak’s Bend

Last guild banner I was able to use was probably two weeks ago. I have all the right permissions. I click button they just don’t work. Yesterday I tried to stand down and then represent and the represent button would not work. Today I logged in and the represent button did work. The banners still do not work. This has been for a while.

Issues with the guild system: please post here [MERGED]

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For the last three days I was unable to activate any banners. I kept waiting hoping it would get fixed. By today I was frustraed, logging in and out, changing characters, checking the rank settings. asking others for help in map chat. Nothing worked. In between I noticed I had a guild invite I had not noticed. I declined it but that didn’t fix the problem.

Maybe it created the problem?

Tried logging out/in after that and then made a big mistake by clicking stand down because now the represent button does not work. Now I can’t use ANY guild function and everyone is off in another new game right now so I can’t get a reinvite. I see other guild banners around so I don’t know why our guild is bugged. Myself and othes were able to use them, and all the guild interface since release. This is new.

Destroyer Core

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I love to put the time in to farm all my own materials and level crafting so I can make everything I need in a game. I’ve been level 80 for a while and I want to make a destoyer weapon. I have all the other parts but no matter how many mobs or events I go to and kill “destroyer” labled mobs in I don’t get any cores. I know how to make the lodestones but I don’t want to have to buy all the cores. There are plenty on trading post so others have found them but no search has helped, no googling has helped and no one will say in game. I know I’m stupid for not finding them yet but it’s getting frustrating. Please can someone give me a hint on how they located them? Thanks.

Rare Quality Ghost Elixir Question

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Question: Do rare quality elixirs do anything more than transform you into an attackable player with no spells and skills to use, specifically the rare quality ghost elixir?

(I am a female asura. Drinking a rare, yellow quality, ghost elixir transformed me into something that looked like a male norn but with no effect/benefit and no skills or utilities to use. I drank it right before using a guild gathering bonus. While gathering I was attacked by nearby mobs but had no skills/spells/utilities to use. My only option was to cancel the transformation using skill number one. I’m not sure if this is working as intended.)