Guild Wars 2

The story and the maps flow driectly into one another. As soon as you land you meet NPC X. You do the story, and learn about NPC X and what he is doing. After the story ends the very first dynamic event is helping NPC X explore and establish a camp. If you run that event chain from start to finish and kill all the mobs then you unlock gliding. This allows you to proceed to the next mission where you meet tribe Y. You do tribe Y’s mission and you finish it and see there are a ton of bouncy mushrooms all around. You also unlock the myshroom mastery. If you help Tribe Y and do their full chain of events and a sequence of night time events then you get bouncy mushrooms.

This continues throughout all 4 zones. If you follow the story in the maps then you will never hit a wall (now that poison lore was removed)

Sytherek.7689:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

According to the dataminers in the nightfury search these aren’t possible to obtain yet and are part of an unreleased upcoming living story patch.

Which data miners? Source?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3q5usx/datamining_upcoming_features_from_hot_part_1/

They seem to be coming with the next set of gem store updates.

There are very few scribes right now, and I don’t think there are any level 400 scribes yet.

It currently costs about 2000g to level scribe to 400. You will need to wait for mat prices to stabilize before those sorts of items start showing up.

Nemesis.8593:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

So does anyone have any actual numbers, with proof about new reaper builds?

Pre-HoT my condition reaper was getting 7k dps with food, utilities, and self buffing only.

Proof: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Wow-we-do-terrible-dps/page/3#post5606619

I want to test this again with my reaper condition build, but i’ve been busy with HoT so it will probably be a few more weeks.

If you actually want real results then use a dps meter. There are plenty of completely legal ones out there for personal dps.

Reaper was not suppose to give the necromancer more DPS then it already had for single target, that would be ridiculous. We can go up to 12-13K as it is, in a 30+ sec fight… “support” warriors stop at 9K…

It will take a long quite some time before people come to the realisation that no one was doing 20K DPS… except for Icebows on large hitbox bosses… Icebows which are now gone…

I’m still surprised how many people thought they were doing 20K DPS… not even burst… but DPS. Even if you can BURST 20K DPS… you guys do realize WvW would have turned into a FPS game where everyone has sniper weapons right ?

You guys would be 1 shooting each other left and right… would actually be hilarious.

I will say this again… they lied… their “advertised DPS” is not real. Some of them even said “only morons actually believed us when we said we do 20K DPS”.

Without active defenses PvP is a FPS sniper game. Just stand there without dodging or blocking or invuln and see how long it takes an ele or thief or mesmer to kill you from 25k health. It is usually less than 1 second, hence why mesmer stealth daze builds were nerfed. Bursting 20k is easy, sustaining it isn’t.

However I have yet to see any actual dps meter readings on any of these fights/numbers. I doubt anyone is reaching more than 10k solo. With an optimized and buffed group you may be able to hit 14-15k.

I’d love to see people using dps meters to actively record their overall dps for an entire fight. I’ve found it very difficult to get people to do that though. I know I can hit 7k solo, but that’s really the only thing I am sure of.

dzanikken.2193:

Seriously, you need Nuhoch Proving (rank 5) in order to do the Nuhoch Wallows Hero Point challenge and thus complete the map (Verdant Brink)?!

Wow …

I mean, I get it why they would resort to gating in the case you guys were discussing above, but this is a “starter” HoT map, there’s no reason to lock it down with a rank 5.

Oh well.

It is to get people to go back and finish the map later. It helps keep the population moving between maps instead of just rushing through each map and never coming back.

It is in the chamber of the head exalted guy. I honestly can’t tell you exactly how I got there, but I know I started gliding from the north point and found a set of stairs that led me into his room and up a grand entrance hall into his chamber which had the mastery point.

Best set of advice is to start from the north city entrance and glide southwest and look for stairs northish of the mastery point.

Saw someone get one of these boxes yesterday, I think it was after the AB meta event succeeded.

These things are getting out of control:

http://i.imgur.com/zyVFoZq.png

The tag needs to be removed entirely, or only be allowed in starter zones.

According to the dataminers in the nightfury search these aren’t possible to obtain yet and are part of an unreleased upcoming living story patch.

It gives 5000 karma

So does anyone have any actual numbers, with proof about new reaper builds?

Pre-HoT my condition reaper was getting 7k dps with food, utilities, and self buffing only.

Proof: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Wow-we-do-terrible-dps/page/3#post5606619

I want to test this again with my reaper condition build, but i’ve been busy with HoT so it will probably be a few more weeks.

If you actually want real results then use a dps meter. There are plenty of completely legal ones out there for personal dps.

Hover over your mini map while in any of the new HoT maps. You will see two bars above your minimap appear. The top bar is map progress. There are 3 tiers to each map, with 4(?) blips for each tier. Every time your map does enough events the bar moves to the next blip and you receive a chest for each blip you pass. As you reach higher tiers the rewards become better.

The second bar, underneath the first, is your personal participation. The higher this bar goes the better your personal rewards. It can reach a maximum of 200%, which means you get twice the “normal” rewards for each bonus blip you reach.

Hope that helps!

Someone bought them all out. The price will fall back down because they are still actively dropping from Halloween. Just keep an eye on the price, or put in a lower buy order.

I noticed this as well. There is almost certainly some sort of technical problem with the mega servers not closing empty maps for some reason.

My guild captured our guild hall this weekend, and when we joined the map we ended up spread out over 7 different maps for 150 people. By using taxing we were able to get everyone into just 2 maps. The game is just not placing players correctly right now.

Anyone else noticed that all the HoT maps feel empty? I have a feeling that the megaservers aren’t closing empty maps like they should be. I am constantly finding my maps don’t have enough people to finish the meta events.

I asked in guild chat and I had 3-4 guildies all in different instances which were all almost empty. I have never gotten a volunteer message to move maps either, which makes me suspect that low pop maps aren’t closing properly.

The map meta events all require quite full populations, so fixing this would go a long way to making the maps more enjoyable.

Are you saying you completed one of the maps and got nothing, or are you asking if people get anything?

I think most of the maps have at least 1 level 5 mastery gate that delay completion. At least that is what is holding me back on AB and VB. It will be another week or so before i’m done with them.

The launch was delayed. It will be released at an unknown time in the future.

Probably in another 3 years.

For those confused about the axemaster you need someone in the fight with level 3 frog mastery for stealth detection. This will reveal him while he is casting his insta death mark, which can then be break bar broken to stop the attack. If no one can reveal him then you can’t see him and you can’t break his bar and you WILL die.

Give it a few more days until people have unlocked some more masteries and this fight is actually quite easy. (beat it in beta)

You making poor investments does not mean the economy is crashing.

I made a good amount of gold from these changes, my net worth is increasing, so therefore the economy is doing awesome and not crashing.

Shogun.7401:

ChrizZcE.5981:

yep, I sold all my crafting materials and decided to just grind the Silverwastes for gold to eventually buy a legendary from the TP.

It seems to be easier and faster that way.

What about the new legendary weapon? Like hope

These were pulled from the expansion and will be added at a “later” date. 3 years wasn’t enough for them to finish 3 new legendary weapons, they need more time.

You fight the physical dragon in dragon’s stand as part of the meta event. It is a pretty epic fight.

A bunch of trolls are spamming the metacritic site with scores of 0 and writing GRIND GRIND GRIND. If you average the actual nicely written out reviews the score is much higher.

Since condition duration is so much more valuable over damage I think it might be better to at least have Viper weapons to make up for the nerf in duration food. I’ve heard 15 points = 1% duration, so we’d need to make up 300 points to compensate for the food nerf.

Can anyone confirm if the 100% duration cap is still in effect? If there is no more cap then I think full Viper might be the best bet for condition reapers.

I got an exotic staff recipie.

It was 205 on the major stats (condi dmg and power)

And I THINK it was 113 on the minor stats (precision and expertise)

I wil check when I am at home later today.

Add 5% for ascended stats.

I’m curious as to what the other stat combos are. They said there were 6 and i’ve only seen 2.

Just missing CttB on my build now. Didn’t take too long. Tyria masteries are the real pain since nothing gives xp in tyria now.

Two new purchasable weapon sets, Chak and Plated, have been added.
Chak weapons can be purchased for ley-line crystals in Tangled Depths.
Plated weapons can be purchased for jungle map currencies and reclaimed metal plates in Dragon’s Stand.

Dragon’s Stand

Read the rest of the notes, another map is mentioned, it just doesn’t have a currency.

Well you are either trolling… in which case good job you got me…

Or I suggest actually reading about raids before commenting on them. Everything you’ve said is categorically false.

Runiir.6425:

You do realize that according to everything they have said, exp boosters will not function for masteries right? So your bonus exp for mastery is +/- 0% regardless of what you use. They allowed them to be used in beta so we could speed it up and test some of the higher masteries more quickly.

Though we haven’t had any word saying it was purely for beta, they have also chosen o not come out and state anything against the statement that experience boosters will not function on masteries that was given to us when they first showcased the mastery system.

My advice? Don’t count on the boosters to function, but be hopeful that they will.

lol 200,000,000 xp without boosters would be a very fast way to make sure HoT was a flop, but not even the devs are that dumb.

Raids are not launching for another 4 weeks.

I suggest getting your masteries up and asking around ingame for a raiding guild to join up with. Many guilds will be looking for people with high level masteries.

Personally I agree with you. I find the stream difficult to watch.

I would suggest using Dulfy.net for the information. She updates her site immediately following any stream with a concise list of notes and screen shots that have all the information available with none of the wasted time or jokes.

Going full Halloween until I get the bat shoulders and all the achievements done. Will also stay in tyria until I unlock precursor crafting so I can see what I need to buy.

Once I finish that up I will start exploring the jungle and working on masteries there. Should have enough Hero Points to unlock all my traits so I won’t need to grind anything there. The skills can wait.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Well, they are introducing a feature that allows you to salvage your Gift of Fortune for a 100% return on all the materials you used to make it. This is because, those same materials will be used to also make the new gifts for the new legendary weapons.

So going off of that, and how the Gift of Fortunes uses 77 Mystic Clovers, there is probably a high chance that the new ones will require them as well, since they went through the trouble of making this new feature to salvage the old Gift of Fortunes.

But it’s all just speculation. Take it for what you will.

I don’t believe they ever said 100%

I am betting it will be closer to 70% with some rng factor.

You say “bugs and crashes”, I say “business opportunities”

First 3 hours after a patch are the best times to make money. I feel sorry for anyone who can’t play at launch. The TP vultures are very fast.

The WH daze will effect breakbars so it may be worth it, but generally breakbars are either really easy to break (don’t need it, fear+chill is plenty) or super hard to break and your one extra stun won’t help you break it. Though it may be useful for raids where you need to coordinate stuns. It is certainly an interesting option.

Once things calm down a bit I will take a look at the math. It may be possible to get a higher dps spec based on burns but I am not sure. I had a fair bit of trouble keeping RS charged up in beta if I stayed in too long and stacked burning. Basically I would just pop in, spin my way to super poison, lay down a chill field, give myself frost armor, and get 5 stacks of burning, then pop back out. If you can stay in RS long enough then I have no doubt that balth runes would overtake everything else for dps, but I couldn’t stay in RS long enough using scepter/staff.

Jumping out of RS to use utilities, staff or scepter also means a minimum of 9s out of RS which means ALL of your burn stacks will be gone, even with the added duration. But the overall dps may still be higher since while you are in RS your dps will be much much higher I believe.

I have a working way to calculate my dps ingame now so I should be able to figure out the best build hopefully. And i’m sure others will do the same. Either way I think a sinister reaper is going to be a pretty competitive dps spec.

400 includes armor, weapon, rune, and sigil.

You only need ~170 for the traits according to the datamining.

You should be able to get all the traits right at 12:01am if you have all the tyria masteries unlocked.

Exciton.8942:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Exciton.8942:

Why do you even worry about it?

With the new ultimate-grind mastery system in place and making legendary requiring full unlock, it would take an enormous amount of grind before you can start crafting.

So by the time you finish your mastery grinding, they will probably have released the new legendaries if you haven’t afk’ed by then.

I doubt it will take me longer than 3 days to unlock the legendary mastery… With 250% xp boost, and Halloween active that 27 million xp is going to just melt away.

I think in the blog it says you will need to unlock all masteries not just legendary masteries.

But I did mess up my calculation a bit and assumed 10 times as much as it actually requires. I originally thought it would probably take me 2 years to unlock them all. Now it feels more like 3-4 months.

BTW, how do you get 250% exp boost?

100% Birthday Booster + 50% XP booster + 100% Kill Streak + 10% food + 10% utility + 10% banner + 15% Fortune + 30% Account bonus +5% guild boost +10% WvW bonus

= 340% xp boost from kills

only the 50% booster bonus applies to events though I think.

I believe we were told that Tyria mastery points would be granted retroactively for finishing various things.

How many mastery points should I be expecting to get assuming I have finished everything in the PvE part of the game?

Exciton.8942:

Why do you even worry about it?

With the new ultimate-grind mastery system in place and making legendary requiring full unlock, it would take an enormous amount of grind before you can start crafting.

So by the time you finish your mastery grinding, they will probably have released the new legendaries if you haven’t afk’ed by then.

I doubt it will take me longer than 3 days to unlock the legendary mastery… With 250% xp boost, and Halloween active that 27 million xp is going to just melt away.

I wouldn’t expect to see the next batch for at least 6 months. Possibly not until next year depending on what happens in the next 3 months or so.

Good news!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3pl7q5/visited_arenanet_today/

Looks like we will get to keep GD.

Lynnie.7213:

I’ll be using a similar build on my reaper, but i don’t see a reason to go sinister.
If you pick decimate defenses you’ll have 50% crit chance because you can keep by yourself 25 vulnerability stacks and +2% crit chance per condition on target, which is about +10% crit chance.
So you’ll have permanent 60% crit chance effortless. Assuming you are in an organized group, you’ll have permanent fury which is +20% crit chance, so you’ll have 80% crit chance.

Ima going carrion all the way.

PS.: on my own build i am still undecided between lingering curse or Weakening shroud.
With weakening shroud you’ll keep your target perma weakened which can help a lot your group, specially in fractal/raids.
I think lingering curse will only have usage to build your conditions but once you enter in shroud and start to auto atk it will lose its purpose.

At least in raids everything is completely immune to weakness. Might be more useful in fractals though.

I’ve never seen a single thread full of so many lies and misinformation before. I’d swear you guys have never even seen GW2 before if I was going off this thread.

1. Mastery points are NOT the same are hero points. There were no hero points in the BWE’s, you found mastery points. They didn’t show us the hero points yet.

2. 400 points is to unlock the ENTIRE line. This includes runes, sigils, weapon skin, and armor skin. According to the datamining it is 170 to unlock the traits, then you unlock the skills, and then you unlock the items. It will be closer to 250 points to unlock all the elite spec, the last ~150 points are just for cosmetics and runes/sigils.

3. Alts will benefit greatly from account bound masteries, making it very easy to get to the hero points on alts.

Please take these points into account when discussing the unlocks. If anything contradicts this post then it is a lie.

This is very similar to my build, though with a few differences. I’ll just give my commoents on what is different.

If you are taking master of corruption but only one corruption skill, it isn’t really worth it. Personally I take MoC, but my utilities are CPC,BiP, and then either epidemic for group situations or suffer for an extra chill.

If you switch out warhorn for dagger you don’t need you are all weaklings since dagger gives high weakness uptime. BiP also gives AOE might. That way you benefit more from MoC, gain extra bleeds, get an extra condition transfer, and an extra chill. All while keeping the same weakness and might uptime. The daze on WH is pretty useless since almost everything in HoT has a breakbar.

I found that I never needed the sustain from blighters boon in PvE. The one time I took it was when I was the main tank for vale guardian. You will do much better taking either of the other two GM’s. Damaging chill is pretty great, but quickly becomes useless if there is more than 1 reaper around due to the chill limit. Faster RS attacks is very nice for burning application. If you are the only reaper/engineer/ele in the group then I would take deathly chill instead.

Chill is much harder to keep on the target than you think. On paper you easily have 100% uptime, but in practice with the chill limit and short duration, I found chill frequently fell off. RS 5+4 seems like a good combo for chill but it is actually the worst thing you could possibly do for your chill uptime. The chills are very short and eat up your entire 5 stacks limit so that you can’y apply any other chills. Always use RS4 while standing in CPC since poison has no stack limit.

Also due to the 5 chill limit, I found that sigil of geomancy was better for my dps over hydro. Bleeds are always useful. I would suggest taking sigil of ice as your second staff sigil instead of hydro. In fact I would take ice +geo on staff and forget strength. You should only be in staff long enough to spam 2-5 and then switch back to scepter, which won’t be generating a lot of might anyway. If you take sigil of ice and then spam staff 2-5, that will give you 10s of chill on a 9s weapon swap cd, plus it works from range, not just melee.

Balth runes are good if you plan on camping RS, but that is still a dps loss from what I can tell. Better to just burst it every once in a while when you need to be in RS anyway. I found runes of the afflicted to be my best choice. It gets you to 100% bleed duration with food/utilitiy, but also gives you an extra 15% poison duration which really helps with RS 4 and CPC.

Anyway that is my advice and what I found worked best. Good luck!

Edit: I forgot to mention. In all organized groups you’ll have a warrior/herald providing the whole group with 25+ might. This renders a lot of the might generation useless. This is also why it is better to take curses over spite. Spite gains dps over curses because of its might generation, but in a group that advantage is lost and curses significantly outdamages spite.

There are new bat shoulders coming for halloween that have bats floating around you

Bats + ravens + staff = my new necro!

PlatinumMember.5274:

Yep, reaper will be nerfed to oblivion. Or you could simply take a chill pill and relax.

Like Dead said, if you were not happy with the Reaper in BWE3 chances are you will not like it at launch. They are not going to suddenly make enough changes to meet the launch deadline.

Given the amount of issues you have with the class, I suggest you pick a back up class. Chances are you will not be happy no matter what the end result is.

This is very random… I loved reaper in BWE3… I also loved Necro in the final BWE before the game launched.

Then they nerfed necro in literally every aspect. Before launch necro was one of the best classes and wanted in most beta runs. It wasn’t until launch where it was neutered and stripped of all its power that it became “useless”. It took us nearly 3 years to recover from that, and we STILL struggle to convince people we are worth a slot in a party.

Reaper is now following the exact same pattern. Got better and better in all 3 BWE’s and is considered one of the better specs prior to launch… then radio silence… Just don’t be surprised if you see things like: gravedigger given 20s CD and damage reduced by 90%. That’s what happened at launch with necro and it looks like it is going the same way so far for reaper.

Ayrilana.1396:

The first map has about 15 that you can get within an hour or so but you’ll need gliding for several of them.

You are thinking mastery points. As far as I know there were no hero challenges in the first map.

Unless mastery points also give hero points? if they do I didn’t notice.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Ayrilana.1396:

If you have the final back piece, email support and they will send you the previous version. This is what they have done in the past.

Exactly this.

This is what I did as well. Was able to get the green version mailed to me by support, since we couldn’t get it unlocked when the wardrobe was introduced. Seriously, just contact support and be nice and they’ll help you out.

Tried this 3 times, was told it was not possible to award it. So you are either lying or very very very lucky.

There is a LOT of misinformation in this thread…

1. Traits and skills are unlocked separately. There is one line for skills and one line for traits. Open up your hero panel and take a look.

2. The 400 points includes the following:
-3 minor traits
-9 major traits
-4 skills
-1 heal
-1 elite
– 6 runes
-1 sigil
-1 weapon skin
-1 armor skin

The initial investment is 60 points to unlock the trait line, after that we don’t know how the points are distributed. However we know that spending 400 points unlocks all that, so you will not need all the points. I suspect you will need ~170 points to unlock all the traits as this is what was previously datamined. The unique weapon and armor skins will likely take a larger amount of points.

They are also called ELITE specs, not CASUAL AUTO UNLOCKED SPECS.

It should be mentioned that this 400 points likely includes the runes, sigils, weapon, and armor piece that come with unlocking the line.

Additionally utility skills are in a separate line from traits.

You can most likely unlock the full trait line with <200 points.

Or you could unlock all the skills for <200 points

It will only take 400 points to unlock all the traits, all the skills, the set of runes, the sigil, the weapon and the armor piece.

Edit: utility not weapon