Guild Wars 2

Anyone else?
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colesy is saying that all guardian weapons are useless, amazing.

Is this kinda of “hurr durr, zerk plz, no nubs, buaaaa” that is ruining this game.

But i agree that MF gear is stupid if you’re doing dungeons, Fractals.

Torch is crap, don’t bother with that.

So, is FULL GLASS CANON the perfect/ultimate build for everything in this game? I see everywhere people saying zerk this, zerk that, EVERYWHERE! So, if eveyone is saying that berserker gear is all you need for PvE, dungeons, Fractal and etc, this must be true.

But, what i don’t understand is, how can i survive in high level fractals or harder dungeons (Arah) if i’m going without armor and less than 10k HP? How people are able to survive like this? You don’t have unlimited dodges, and even with sigils of energy and vigor, you still won’t be able to dodge everything.

This is the build i’m using now

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.4|1.1g.a7|6.1a.h1j|1g.71h.1g.71h.1g.71g.1g.71g.1g.77.1g.77|4s.d1e.1c.9c.1c.9c.2s.d1e.1g.67.8c.67|0.a6.u56b.u2a8.0|1.9|v.16.19.18.1i|e

I do Cof, FoTM (lvl 12 is my max right now) and PvE with some WvW sometimes. It’s been working really nice, i rarely die and i love my increased duration in my boons (i was using full rubys on the armors, but i changed because i wanted more boon duration).

I’m currently working on getting only ascended zerk trinkets.

But, with all this zerk this and that, i’m thinking in puting more offense in my build, but my question is, how am i supposed to survive with less than 10k health and low armor?

>>In the trinkets section, i put the crest of the soldier because i could not find the azurite jewel on the buildcraft. <<

Where is that build variety if you must need to follow this zerk meta thing??

This colesy is a trully troll, or a hater of guardians, pathetic.

CM or HoTW?

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Dogger.8137:

I´ve been playing GW2 since the pre-order headstart and decided about 6 month ago i want a legendary. From this moment on i saved up every ecto and t6 mat i got during fractals, wvsw, dungeons etc. because i wanted to play the game “the fun way”. About 1 month ago i had Gift of Fortune, Gift of Mastery and Gift of Twilight and only the precourser missing.
Some guild mates were stuck on the same progress of there legendary. We decided to throw 625g togheter and put 2150 rare greatswords (all self crafted) into the mystic forge, from this we got 2 Dusk and exotic greatswords worth ~200g. From this point on we startet farming CoF p1 together and placed the money on our guild bank. Every time we hit enough gold we bought another precourser from the TP.
Right now we all have our legendarys and about 500g left to farm to even up the money each one of us has received.

U guys should stop complaining about the costs of a legendary, only cause it looks that mutch on the first view. Its a long term goal if u dont have 1k+ gold safed up from playing the TP but it´s doable. Maybe u should think about doing it as a group goal like we did, that makes it more enjoyable.

mfg Dogger

Do you know how hard is to find a friendly guild in this game? Also if you don’t have any friends or you’re not part of some specific group in the guild, FORGET about getting help. I’ve been in 2 large guilds, and every time i need something, no one is ever available to help me, but i see a lot of others members asking for help and getting helped.

This game is dead.

I vote for perma-aegis.

laharl.8435:

aophts.9862:

But guardians are not allowed to use scepter now?

There are about 3 fights in the game where guardian should use scepter. Staff is acceptable for running trash, pulls, Empower and a few instances where Line of Warding is useful, never dpsing. The other 95% of the time, guardians should be meleeing.

Well, i agree with staff, but scepter is very useful in many situation, and that it’s your opinion, not a fact.

Homonavn.6348:

Sly Fox.8125:

well my problem is i just made the gift of wood and feel like i’m commited to continuing this kitten project i started however i also remembered to buy all the exotic inscriptions for both professions and made myself my first exotic shortbow and was thinking maybe i should screw making a legendary just make my longbow instead the same way besides both long & short bow legendaries seem kinda i dunno the word for it….gay ? shortbow shoots rainbows & unicorns and longbow you walk around and makes a path of flowers/grass on the ground who in the hell came up with this stuff ?.

Oh, your one of the guys i read about… The 12 year olds that only like Black stuff… Let me guess, your armour is black and white or Black and red? Am i right..?

Personally, i LOVE both the bows

Arenadrone defending those pathetic and ridiculous skins. Those bows are ridiculous, even if you could make your character look like a kid, and for those who have a male ranger, i’m pretty sure they wouldn’t like to use a pink bow with a unicorn that shoots rainbows (unless they are gay, but not everyone is gay, yes, there are straight males in this world, if you are not familiar with this). Some Legendary skins are beyond ridiculous/pathetic, like The Moot, for me, that one is a kittening bad joke to the players.

The amount of resources you need to craft a legendary weapon is beyond ridiculous. The drop rate of T6 materials is abysmal, the precursors are a lottery or extremely expensive on the TP. If you gonna grind for the materials, it will take more than a year i think, to gather all the resources and you will need to count with luck for the precursor or spend a lot of gold (500 or more) for the precursor in the TP.

And yes, it is hard to make money in this game.

But guardians are not allowed to use scepter now?

Dolan.3071:

Don’t be such a girl, you want the boons get in there and earn them, get in there and melee you coward.

Dolan pls.

Yeah, it’s something that you will need to deal with. There’s a lot of good and friendly players in this game, tbh, this MMO has one of the best community i’ve ever seen. But there’s also the kittens too.

You want ugly models??? Are you crazy? Or maybe you have some kind of issue with your look…

During the Ascalonian fractal, i was transformed in a charr and couldn’t change my skills. And everyone knows that as a guardian, Wall of Reflection and Shield of Avenger are very useful in that fractal, but that was the second fractal and i was with other skills because of the first fractal.

Two other members of my group were charr too.

And please, redesign the drege and underwater fractals or get rid of it, THEY ARE HORRIBLE, EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING AND LONG AND BORING.

Wow, only vague tips and advices. I just want to be able to gain something with craft, could someone help me please? Are you guys afraid that i will stole part of your profit in this thing?

The problem is, there is no evidence, prove, that MF really works. Some people say it works others don’t. Guess i should just forget acquiring a Mf gear and just use food and count with the boost from the guild. About the MF gear, i wouldn’t use this kinda of gear as my main, or in the dungeons. it will be a alternative of course.

But i gotta say, one of these days i got 4 rares from a chest in a event, frozen maw i think. Then for the rest of my gameplay, like, 4 hours or something, even in events like Claw and Shatterer, didn’t get any yellow nor green, just blue. Also, MF really affects chests? WTf

Almost every weapon have this horrible and pathetic rusty/bone/wood/stone look!!!! Seriously, i just want some nice dark metal or blue thing idk. I’ts all with leather/stone/bone on the details, UGH!!

Where i can find good weapons skins?

Ok, Renewed Focus is acceptable, can save your life sometimes but it’s still boring. My main is a norn guardian, all elite skills are useless.

Do you guys really use the tomes in dungeons or even use them sometimes?

You know what is sad?

A norn guardian, all the elite skills are useless!!

Tomes are a joke, RF is good but it’s boring.

My main and only character is a (beatiful, hehe) female norn guardian.

Scepter is still useless, orb is too slow, 3 skill only with 2s of immobilization. Why Anet hates guardians? I just want to do damage but be able to have HP and toughness with boon duration. Should have picked Warrior as my main. Insane DPS and 20k HP, even with full berserker gear.

Who?

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Esplen.3940:

Cooking is very profitable. You must do a lot of research beforehand, but once you have finished researching, you can easily stockpile materials until you can craft a decent portion of them, then sell them for profit. Again, you must do your research beforehand to find out what is profitable and what isn’t, and also finding profit margins. There are many recipes which I’ve thought about doing, but have less than a 0.5% return, offering mere coppers for the price of golds (and not even guaranteed).

Remember, any sale you try to make is not guaranteed, so don’t go all in when profiting off of anything. It’s better to spread around your resources. If I could gurantee I make 10c off of a sale that that’s 50s, then I would use that in addition to my other sources of income, I wouldn’t rely on that as my only source of income.

Ok, but, i don’t know anything about eocnomy and all this stuff, also, i don’t wanna read about economy/market/ all this Wallstreet stuff, i just wanna play the game. Do i need to understand economy to make a profit in the TP?

I just have one character, a guardian lvl 80 with full exotic and one piece of ascended gear. I have acess to higher level areas and i do dungeons too, more AC and CoF (technically these two are the only ones i have done), i’m doing AC because i want the tokens for the weapons skins only. I earn some nice money and all, but not as much as i would like. How can i gain money with crafting? I only have WEAPONSMITH on 187 i think and JEWELER on 40 maybe. Which profession should i focus for profit? Jeweler? Is crafting still a money sink like people say?

Well, i got 2 in 15 minutes on Frostgorge Sound in that place with the colossus. I was with 100% MF i think. The funny thing is, i farmed for 45min one day before, nothing dropped. Then in the other day, in the morning, as soon as i logged in, i killed one colossus and one dropped, then 15min later another one. I tought fun because i farmed like a madman on the day before and nothing dropped, then suddenly on the other day, 2 in a row!

Sorry for my bad english.

Lol, do not even try to do AC EM on the recommended level, with a 35 gear you will be destroyed. They say 35 but it’s 80, actually.

Dungeons is all about DPS.

DaG.5103:

aophts.9862:

Legendaries are useless, i mean, they have the same stats as exotics and exotics cost wayyy less. Imo, legendaries should have better stats like 240 Power instead of 179 power and some unique sigils.

But i know people want the look/skin and all that, but, imo, almost all the legendaries look horrible, The Moot is pathetic, only the Twilight is nice.

I think an rpg made by Blizzard would suit your tastes more.

One of the selling points of GW2 is that you do not have to devote a massive portion of your time in order to enjoy the game. If Legendaries provided a higher tier of weapon (ESPECIALLY to the degree you are postulating), you will see groups excluding players who haven’t spent the requisite hours farming mats or gold to get one. It fosters an elitist mentality that is very off-putting to so many players. There is no good reason to do such a thing.

Groups excluding players and elitists it’s what this game have more, so, can’t be worse.

Legendaries are useless, i mean, they have the same stats as exotics and exotics cost wayyy less. Imo, legendaries should have better stats like 240 Power instead of 179 power and some unique sigils.

But i know people want the look/skin and all that, but, imo, almost all the legendaries look horrible, The Moot is pathetic, only the Twilight is nice.

rizzo.1079:

Best looking area of the game and once you know where the keys are it’s cake to get through. None of the JP chests have a good chance of anything good.

Sorry, but what is JP?

Is this some kind of joke?? I finally opened the chest after getting all the cantles and i get rewarded with 2 green crap itens. It’s no that easy to get the cantles and also you have to fight one guardian to have acess to the garden. The chest could at least have a rare or 3 or 4 itens instead of 2 crap greens.

A lot of people are saying that they can make 5g or 10g hour on Cof path1, but after the 3time you only get rewarded with 17s and the loot is kinda meh. How do you make so much money in this dungeon in so little time?

“hurr durr is so easy to me, i can pass that part with my eyes closed”

NO, you can’t, the controls underwater don’t respond quickly enough and you CAN’T see without those things, it is not easy.

Ok, so, how much MF do i need for good loot? Like rares and lodestones? 100%?

Yes, how do i see those white stats? They do not show on the itens.

They are random? How do you put those stats on a ascended item?

What needs to be changed it is that stupid part on underwater fractal, that dark path with kraits it’s insanely hard and frustrating, you can’t see kitten, you get stucked on walls, and the underwater controls don’t help at all.

Am i the only one who find stupid the 5 on torch? I mean, you spit FLAMES on enemies but they don’t burn them. ( – ____ – )

What kind of fire don’t burn? ¬ _ ¬’

Brutaly.6257:

@Iconik
Imo toughness is the number one stat for AH guardians since heals get relatively better with low health pools and high toughness. But its not the only statt and personally i think you have overdone it.

No those stats arent necessarily bad. Personally i have a build i play, see pic1, that i play wvw with that works just fine and that one is based on valkyrie, and mainly berserker.
Unbuffed ofc

@aophts
Running all knights will drop your dps due to lack of power and crit damage.

You could mix in some soldiers armor for power and toughness and replace the trinkets with berserkers or even better those unnamed thingys with precision/power/toughness.

Se pic 2 for a reasonable build that has both survivability and firepower.
Soldiers armor with rune of the soldier. berserker weapons, berserker accessories and pre/tough/pow in amulet and rings.
Add over 200 in power and 4% in precison from food and it becomes very viable.
Unbuffed ofc

Personally i would go for pic 1 in pve, with a composed group you will have fury 100% of the time and the bigger healthpool, compared to full berserker, will you give you room for error.

In open world pve i would go full berserker with swiftness duration runes for moving around

Both pics are 0/5/30/30/5

Well, i could not afford a whole new gear, so i used what i had.

I’m doing 0/15/30/20/5 with Helm+Shoulders+Coat+Gloves (berserker with ruby)

Legs + Boots ( Cleric with Superior Rune of the monk)

Trinkets full berserker and spineguard of the soldier with ruby.

Wepons ( GS and Sceptre + Focus) berserker with ruby, GS with Major sigil of bloodlust.

I’m using EM with AH and i gotta say, it’s amazing, i get 8, 9 stacks of Might and i also get healed because of EM and AH, i’m running CoF so easy now, FoM too, it is working like a charm for me. Staff skill 4 with EM i get 25 stacks of Might, is amazing.

Thanks for the help.

I’ve been reading a lot of topics and foruns about MF on GW2, and it looks like MF is not worth it at all, i mean, a gear only for MF. I already have a gear for PvE and dungeons, my main gear, and i was thinking in doing a gear only for MF, but all i’ve read till now just convinced me to not spend money and time on a MF gear.

So, is MF really works in this game? I know that MF only works on mobs.

colesy.8490:

10/30/30/0/0

I use II in zeal (10%+ damage vs. burning foes), II/VI/XI on radiance (signets recharge 20% faster, blind gives 3 vuln stacks, 1h weapons have 15%+ crit chance) and IV/VI/XI on valor. Most of the valor traits are awful but it gives me higher toughness and precision and altruistic healing is just awesome anyway.

It’s always good to carry all guardian weapons with you (except torch in my opinion) but I mostly use greatsword + sword/focus (hence the 1h strength trait I use in radiance) because it leaves me with 83% crit chance. Always carry scepter for a ranged option, staff has its uses before battle if you want to give 12 stacks of might to yourself and allies and hammer is useful against a boss like Subject Alpha if you find yourself in a pug that isn’t full zerk themselves.

To get a ton of damage, put up your shield with your focus, use save yourselves for fury (103% crit chance), teleport to your enemy giving them blind and 3 vuln stacks with your 1h sword, activate virtue of justice making them burn and an extra 3 vuln stacks, use zealot’s defense, leap of faith for 3 more vuln stacks then use whirling wrath. Your shield will have probably detonated by then dealing them anything from a 5 to a 9k crit along with your 6-9k burst from zealot’s defense and your 7k or so whirling wrath which is enough to kill basically anything that isn’t a vet, but a vet will just melt away shortly afterwards.

Sword + focus & gs is great in dungeons because of the fact that it gives you access to four blinds (along with the 12 vuln stacks) from your virtue, your 1h sword teleport, ray of judgment (4 on focus) and your leap of faith on gs which can keep the pressure from dungeon mobs off you and basically functions as armour for you since their attacks will just miss rather than you sponging. Then when you kill a mob your virtue of justice recharges, so you just drop it again causing AOE blind which then lets you “block” another attack.

Wow, this looks amazing and way more fun than the way i’m playing now. So, for gear, full berserker everything?

colesy.8490:

If you go full zerker, toughness doesn’t matter since you roll out of lethal attacks, and boons/cond removal doesn’t matter since combat ends too fast.

Go full zerker.

Ok, but, what about traits and weapons choices?

Ok, i’m gonna to create another topic because i’m still don’t know what do do with my guardian and i’m extremely frustrated with the situation i’m in.

All the builds and people asking for build here is only for WvW or PVP. What i need is a guardian for PvE and Dungeons.

What i want to be able is:

high DPS (or good, because dungeons is all about killing as fast as you can, that is the reason why so many “zerk warrior pls” – “only zerks” on the gw2lfg.com)

Be tough enough to not be killed in 2 or 3 hits from a dungeon mob.

Have nice boon duration, condition remover and good heal.

So, which gear should i get and which traits? I’m sorry to ask like this, but, it is because i have no idea how to build my character, i already tried and it was horrible.

Thanks antecipated.

First of all, thank you very much for the guide. But, i’m still having problems with the build and gameplay. Could you please rate my build/character and give me some advices/tips?

My char:

LVL 80 Guardian – 0/15/30/20/5

Helm/Shoulders/Coat/Glove – Draconic Exotic Knight’s with 3 Superior Runes of the Water adn one major rune of the monk

Leggins/Boots – Draconic Exotic Cleric – 2 Superior Runes of the Monk

Trinkets – Azurite Orihalcum of the Sentinel

Spineguard – Soldier Spineguard of the Soldier

I have one GS exotic – 128 pwr and precision and 178 toughness with major sigil of bloodlust

Hammer exotic – 179 pwr 128 precision 9% critical

superior sigil of bloodlust

Sceptre exotic 64pwr 64 precision and 64toughness and major sigil of bloodlust

Shield exotic – 64pwr 64toughness 90 healing power with crest of the soldier

Staff exotic – 128 pwr 128 tough 179healing power with superior sigil of life

Mace exotic with 64 pwr 64 toughness and 90 healing power with superior sigil of life

I use more shouts for gameplay, but with hammer now, i’m trying the signet of power.

What i want for my guardian is more power, more DPS. With 15 in Zeal i’m doing more criticals, but my normal hits are weak, i think.

What i want is be able to do a good amount of DPS but also have boons and healing power, you see, with hammer i only get 430 healing power. How much healing power do i really need?

I just do dungeons and PvE.

So, i just ignore healing power? I go PTV or PPT or a mix of both??

Nikaido.3457:

foofad.5162:

The only thing that procs off crit is EM, and that vigor trait that had a 5 second cooleown – and while EM is nice, AH without EM still works. I mean, to be clear, I’m not a huge fan of AH to begin with but it would be better than Battle Presence or PoV for him.

AH is actually very strong with both EM and hammer symbol proccing in a melee group. AH is not very effective without EM and without a group that stays in melee range. Even more so as it’s likely that many party members won’t be in range for your shouts/virtues either.

While AH is not necessary in most dungeons with a good group (I’d still take it for stuff like high lvl FOTM) for a guardian who’s still kinda new to dungeons it’s the best “almost tanking” ability of the game. I don’t think there’s another build or class that can take as much of a beating as a well built AH guardian. PVT and range negates the point of AH. You want to go melee and have some precision.
The extra vitality from PVT is useless if you can’t heal the health you’re losing.

Cleric gear is even worse than PVT though. Healing power barely affects AH so you’re losing precision or vitality for a stat that is nearly useless.

So, healing power and all my gear is useless???

My guardian is lvl 80 full cleric exotic gear – 0/0/20/30/20.

But still i get kitten d in dungeons sometimes, like CoF path 1. I’m new to dungeons and i have done just AC SM and EM and CoF path 1 and 2.

I use sceptre/shield + staff, i try mace/shield sometimes, but the enemies are so kittening powerful that is impossible to melee them.

I use 2 superior runes of the water, 2 superior runes of the monk and 1 superior rune of the guardian and 1 major rune of the monk. I’m using the guardian and the major monk just temporary, i’m looking for the sanctuary ones, but i need to do HoW dungeon. I focus on shouts and i always use food to get 14% boon duration. I have like 64% boon duration and 3200 of armor. Only 15k HP though.

But i still feel weak and i see warrios full DPS or glass canon, taking more damage then me and surviving.

Is my build broken? Did i kittened up my char? Also, it is wise to use 2×2×2 runes or should i go for 3×3?

Hi to everyone.

I will try to make this quick and easy to understand.

I just reached level 80 with my guardian and only character yesterday (i have 38% of the WM complete) and i don’t now exactly how to move on with my character. I mean, i need a kittenton of materials to craft decent gear, i bought 6 pieces of exotic gear (draconic coat and legs, staff, mace, shield and sceptre) because i could not craft due to my low crafting level and lack of materials (i trade my gems for gold beause i was poor to acquire the good gear, i know, pathetic), i just have weaponsmith and cooking on 200 i think, and materials are expensive in the BLTC and in the world they take ages to get, even with magic find. I have no idea how to fix my character, i mean, what do i need to focus now to be able to face these EXTREMELY INSANELY HARD DUNGEONS and get decent gear?

I don’t know if you are understanding. I’m in the end game but i’m so newbie yet to everything and i need help or a mentor, idk. Also, i need to be part of a VERY FRIENDLY DUNGEON AND PVE GUILD, which one is good? Someone please help me. I love this game so much, it is my first MMO actually, but there is so many things and i’m so kittening lost.

; _ ;

I don’t have tokens because people don’t wanna do EM on dungeons anymore? I’m level 60 right now with my guardian, and for my build i need some runes of the monk, but i need tokens to buy those runes, but i can only acquire the ascalon tears doing de EM on AC, but no one wanna do it anymore. Also i would like to buy some dungeon set maybe, but without tokens it is impossible.

I tried CM on story mode, and it was stupid hard. i feel like i won’t be able to acquire anything from the tokens merchants and also will lose a lot of nice loot because loot in SM in dungeons kitteni-n.g sucks.

which dungeon should i focus to do EM? I mean, which dungeon people do EM? Because AC is dead and it was the only one i could face without dying like hell.