Guild Wars 2

Is the greatsword berserker mesmer no longer viable? I always remember being able to take down people fairly well but now I lose every single fight.

So I went into Corliolis Plaza in Lions Arch (the place with all the empty portals) and 3 portals were active but had crosses thru them. Literally a minute later they weren’t active at all. I’ve noticed that 1 or 2 are randomly active at times then won’t be later. Anyone have any ideas what’s up with this?

Can you still get the Sovereign weapon skins from a merchant somewhere? I know you can with all the others (dragon jade, sclerite, wintersday, etc) from the BL weapon specialist.

I’ve been debating on this combo for awhile now. Does it sound really dumb having such a short guy being a warrior? I can’t really decide.

When transitioning from water to land the footsteps sound is glitched and sounds as if you’re still in water. It doesn’t always happen but is frequent. I recorded a small video and put it on youtube.

Btw I tried posting this bug last night on the forums and I kept getting a server error and then suddenly there were 4 of the same post on the forums and I had to delete all of them. Made it look like I was spamming it.

Natebert.8432:

It’s not the GS casting sound itself, but the terrible sound it makes when it hits a target.

Yes, that is what I meant. It’s very distracting.

Please revert the main attack sound on a greatsword to before the 10/1 patch. Attacking anything sounds like a rattlesnake or shaking a maraca. It’s really annoying sounding.

I’d like to see a book where you can retrait as many times as you want. Something like 600 gems on the tp seems reasonable. It really helps when you need to retrait while in a dungeon or trying to avoid overflow.

Whatever the next race is, the dance should be the choreographic dancers from Ylvis – The Fox.

I was wondering what everyones favorite weapon or weapons combo is.

I’ve been wanting an fps mode also. Guild Wars 1 had it. I don’t understand why they removed it. Sometimes I wanna record something in game without my character in the way all the time.

The red poison AOE’s are really difficult to see near Tequatl because they are often half submerged in the water. Very often I’m running into some place I think is safe but it’s not simply because I can’t see the red circle. The circles need to be on top of the water as well. Also I think replacing the poison circles with actual poison instead of huge direct damage would make this fight a bit more fair and fun.

Now the scores are messing up all over the place. Here’s another screenshot about 5 minutes later. Check my previous screenshot and look at the scores vs this new one. Wtf?

Yes Im seeing the same thing. I’m in Maguuma and now we’re suddenly against SF and HoD. I looked at the WvW score not long before the patch and we had +450. Now SF has it yet we were never even against either of those servers this week. Now we’re +120 instantly after patch.

Same here. I was in Sparkfly Fen overflow, just running around randomly, then kicked off. Got some connection error message. Tried logging into any character and would stop at loading screen with connection error message again. I rebooted my computer and it fixed it, but then I couldn’t get into WvW until I did a map change.

I noticed just as of today 9/15/13 that there seems to be a bug with the report function ingame. Normally when you report someone it’ll say “Choose a reason to report: whoever.0000” But the name of the account is no longer showing up as you can see in the screenshot I took. Yes I blurred out the chat box and player names for privacy. I don’t know if this actually affects the report function or not since their name is not showing up.

Warlock.2461:

I recommend Greatsword and Sword/Focus. Greatsword allows you to keep range, and the 4 phantasm hits hard (does AOE) and cripples. Sword has 2 attack which hits pretty hard and gives invulnerability on a short cooldown. Focus gives you the warden, which does nice AOE damage and protects vs projectiles; it also gives you some speed via 4. I assume you are using minor sigil of bloodlust; it makes a big difference having your power from stacks.

Try following this guide – https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Lazy-Kai-s-Guide-to-PvE-Leveling-Guide-Update/first

Thanks for the suggestions and link.

Xyonon.3987:

You should try every weapon, research all their skills. Also, I would prefer staff over greatsword IF you are completly new. Conditions just scale bad into lategame (80) but deal a big amount of damage in early game, since they deal fix damage and you don’t have as much power as one lv80. Don’t think much about my sentence, just go for a staff first, it deals same damage as the greatsword but has much more utility. later, just keep both
as offhand for leveling, sword and focus. The focus 4 is a nice speedbuff and saves you plenty of time for traveling. Also it has a great damage output combined with sword 3 Its much information I know but keep playing your mesmer, about lv40 you will become MUCH stronger. Its because of your traits (passives)

are you EU or US?

Thanks for the suggestions. Im US

so ive played a mesmer up to lvl 10 now but im struggling alot. i feel like my dmg is very low. also my clones never aggro so i feel like they are pointless. im also very squishy. should i be going for power/toughness strictly or toughness/conditions? and what weapon(s) are good for noobs like me? im seriously at a loss here.

So I’ve noticed when I’m in a large group of people my FPS drops dramatically. Earlier I was doing one of Scarlets Invasions. There was probably 50+ people in one area and I was getting between 7-14 FPS. Auto-detect sets everything to High which is what I always use. High settings is fine when I’m with no more than 15+ people. By myself I usually run anywhere between 60-90 FPS, sometimes higher. So why would it be that when there’s a large amount of people my FPS drops so badly? I doubt it’s my internet connection cause I get 25 mbits/down and 10 mbits/up with an average of 35 ms for ping. Also I’ve noticed ever since Culling was completely turned off that load times, especially into Lions Arch is even slower than before. I timed it and on average it took 30-40 seconds to load into LA. Anyone have some suggestions for tweaks that won’t affect the graphics quality so dramatically so that it runs smoother? Listed below is my systems specs.

Intel 4-core i5-3550 3.3 ghz cpu
8 gb ram @ 1333 mhz dual channel
Nvidia GTX 660Ti overclocked by MSI
1 TB HDD @ 7200 rpm
Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Champion sound card

I transferred this past Friday from Sorrow’s Furnace to Maguuma but I still am not getting the WvW bonus and it’s now mid afternoon on Monday. Do I have to wait till this match up is over?

Yes as long as you have a Sclerite ticket. Take it to a Black Lion Weapon Specialist above the Trading post in Lions Arch.

Marge.4035:

I was scared this is the issue too, but if you approach a Weapon Specialist while having the ticket in you inventory, additional dialog option will be available and you will be able to trade your Jade ticket.

Ahhh! Ok I see it now thanks! Why would they change it though? Meh!

I noticed in a recent patch that the Black Lion Specialist doesn’t carry Jade Weapons anymore. Were they moved to a merchant elsewhere or….? A bug maybe? Or just completely removed? I still got a ticket! Boo!

It was supposed to help make it so that your character could be more visible during huge zergs right? I don’t notice any difference at all. I took this screenshot a few days ago during one of the champions in the Scarlet event. Look at this. How can I possibly find my character or the enemy for that matter?

I just noticed recently that everyone I see in a town is holding their weapons but their animation isn’t the wielded one. They appear to be standing normally except they are all holding their weapons. Check the screenshot.

lol. I just posted this same bug. Guess I should of seen if there was already a post. Oh well. Glad to know even more people can see it. It’s super annoying and kitten y looking.

I logged onto my Charr today to find strange polygons sticking out of his shoulders and arms. They are mostly the same color of his fur but when running around sometimes change to sky blue color depending on the angle I’m looking at him. I took off the Medium armor Vigil top and it went away. I’m not the only one who is seeing it either. I took 2 screenshots to show with the armor on and without. I am guessing it started with the most recent patches including the one on the 20th since I haven’t played with him since about the 18th. I am using an NVidia Geforce GTX 660 TI. Others who have seen it are using different cards so it’s not just my model. My driver version is 320.49.

In the PVP locker there are 2 weapons that are not correct. The Molten Shortbow and Polished Shortbow are both called Longbows yet they are not. Check the screenshots provided to see what I mean.

I would like to see several of these nodes throughout Tyria. Not just 1 in your home instance that can be mined once a day. If you only mine once a day and get 3 crystals per day, that means in order to make 1 Charged Quartz Crystal it will take you 9 days. That means 45 days to make 1 Celestial piece of armor or 270 days for a full set. That….is ridiculous.

Cody Crichton.7516:

Hi Circuitnerd. Please help answer a few questions so this can be looked into:

Does this happen with a particular PvP map, or all PvP maps?

Does this happen with every match that you play in maps that are affected?

When did this start occurring?

What profession are you?

Can you confirm that there either is or is not another Elementalist in the map when this occurs?

It happens in all maps.

Yes all matches are affected.

This started with the patch on the 20th of August.

It happens with all professions I have played in SPvP. Engineer, Guardian and Thief

Yes, everytime there has been an elementalist or 2 on the map. Either enemy or ally.

I also just experienced the same in PVE. I was inside the Ascalon Settlement in the Gendarran Fields. There was an elementalist nearby but I’m not sure if he used ride the lightning. Nevertheless it was the exact same bug. Sounding as if they were directly on top of me. To me, it seems like any elementalist within the area. I recorded a clip of someone who helped me out to demonstrate the bug. The youtube link is listed below. Sorry for the visual quality.

No matter where you are in a map of an spvp match you can hear someone ride the lightning and it sounds as if they are directly on top of you.

Just recently the skyhammer map in spvp has been causing players to lag excessively to the point of their client losing connection. This is not just me but all players and it has been on different match servers as well. All other maps are functioning properly.

Please allow influence to be multi-server. I joined a guild that is intended as my night time guild but they are on a different server. I found out that my influence is only good on my server. Thus making it useless. And I don’t wanna spend a huge amount of gold just to transfer especially since I have a day guild on the server I am on. Hope this makes sense.

Do you prefer greatsword or hammer? and why?

Making another post as why I think it’s too OP. Just look at this screenshot. And you can clearly see I’m wearing tough stuff.

I know that orange is supposed to mean on a different server but what does the [D] mean? Also I don’t understand WHY the guy who is on Anvil Rock is orange anyhow cause I play on Anvil Rock.

Are solo join tournaments random players from your server or all servers such as hot joins?

Kootje.9271:

As said in another thread:

hoewhoew.4619:

you can buy it in PvE, in Lions Arch with the guild commendation trader.
There you will find the item you are looking for.

Then i googled and found this:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Guild_Commendation_Trader#Guild_Back

cool thanks. im guessing the ones in spvp are from reward chests or something then.

A few times now in SPvP I’ve seen some players with what looks like little flags as their backpiece. Sometimes it has a guild symbol sometimes it’s blank. Where do you get one?

GreenNekoHaunt.8527:

circuitnerd.5863:

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I read somewhere that soulbound items become account bound when you place them in the bank and the delete the character, so that seems to work for at least some items (like starter gear?) but I haven’t tried it myself.

Nah it doesn’t. It is still soulbound to your deleted character. I’ve done it before. Nothing left to do but destroy it, or leave it there for posterity or whatever.

Some soulbound items can be recycled or sold… still better than destroying.

really? oh. i guess just all the ones ive had were destroy worthy

I agree the auto-targetting is kinda messed up at times. I used to have a serious issue where if there was a group of monsters I would constantly lose targetting until I changed some settings around. Idk if this will help at all with your situation but try this out.

Go to your options
First tab (wrench symbol)
Combat/movement – Everything checkmarked EXCEPT Disable area of effect rings and Fast-cast ground targetting

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

I read somewhere that soulbound items become account bound when you place them in the bank and the delete the character, so that seems to work for at least some items (like starter gear?) but I haven’t tried it myself.

Nah it doesn’t. It is still soulbound to your deleted character. I’ve done it before. Nothing left to do but destroy it, or leave it there for posterity or whatever.

I use….
Guardian 80
Ranger 80
Engineer 28
Mes 2
Thief 2

My main for a long time was the elementalist but I eventually deleted him cause I got so tired of using 20 skills all the time and just wanted to have fun without mashing so many buttons. Some people prefer the faster pace of an ele. My guardian now is my main. Very healy and tanky with fair damage. My ranger is high health with lots of condition damage on mulitple targets. And so far my engineer is sort of in the middle. Pretty good condition damage, kinda squishy, but plenty of utility.

I guess if I were you I’d go with another melee class since you have 3 that are ranged (assuming you use mostly daggers or sword for Thief) unless you like that alot. Idk. You can always try it and decide from there.

nope. nothin hit me at all. i was completely alone. i was very observant of my surroundings

So I completely agree that those who log out while killing them should be dead when they log back in. However I think this should only be when you’ve taken damage. Not just cause you’re in combat. I was attacking a trebuchet with no one else around, full health. I got disconnected and woke up dead in Lions Arch simply cause I was in combat with a trebuchet.

Ok, maybe I’m crazy but didn’t there used to be the titles such as paragon, magus, phantom, etc? Now I only see Champion ones and the wiki doesn’t say anything except champion such as Champion Paragon.

People either hate the Meteorlogicus or love it. I personally love it. I don’t mind it doesn’t have many effects. It simply looks cool imho. My friend says it’s ugly as hell.

Is it me or did the undead in cursed shore get hella buffed? I’ve never seen people wipe at penitent camp or shelters and I’ve been doing it since September. Now it happens all the time since the April 30th patch. My armor is 3000 and hp at 19.5k and “unkown hit you for web pull 1,500, 3,000, 2,100” in just a couple seconds. And I’m usually the last to get killed.

I’d like to still be able to send and receive whispers while in the character selection screen. Perhaps have a popup window with whoever messages you? And when you talk back to them it shows you as your account name