Guild Wars 2

Tired of GS and want to try something else. Axe+shield seems nice, axe autoattack is great and lot of enemis have projectiles which can be reflected. Healing signet + Adrenal health will heal for 580~ every second.

But i’m not sure about other traits.

It’s bugged for week already. Turret to break shield didn’t fix, NPC stays and doing nothing. Why just don’t restart server?

And by the way – party expecting from guard support and defense

So many argues.. You confuse me even more.

What about weapon? Greatsword or Hammer?

Oxxy.7068:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Oxxy.7068:

You can’t tank in PvE. You may survive, but tank? Nah.

You can, actually. It’s not 100% aggro, but toughness and number of hits provide more aggro. My rabid-necro always have attention from mobs.

So does my ele with 910ish toughness and LH (which is actually pretty slow). lol

aggro mechanic working very weird and not with all bosses, but it’s not completely random, not for all bosses at least.

Oxxy.7068:

You can’t tank in PvE. You may survive, but tank? Nah.

You can, actually. It’s not 100% aggro, but toughness and number of hits provide more aggro. My rabid-necro always have attention from mobs.

Too many bloody swords in game, stop, hammer time.

Antares.2586:

Celestial. Burning damage is cooler than you may think, especially in WvW, plus the resistance and vitality.

Zerker is overrated. Yes, it’s faster for dungeon runs, for now.
But seeing Twilight P4 design, dodging may not be sufficient in the future, to survive the content.
And when you can’t crit an object, you will cry as 2/3 of your stats are wasted.

Thats the point too.. Ofcourse i could collect both sets, but there is a problem – Charr looking good only in T3 armor and it’s cost 120g, i have to choose one.

And i belive too that A-net gonna get rid of zerk-meta runs

Obtena.7952:

Frankly, Celestial is an anti-choice. It’s just buffs your baseline for everything, which is basically choosing nothing. At a minimum, I would advice you only use the Celestial that is optimizing stat returns (Chest and Legs IIRC)

So zerk is only choice?

CptAurellian.9537:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Lot of chat-guardians votes for celestial, i’m already start charging quartz(

Great idea. Next time I’ll ask some random people in the city about the most efficient synthesis routes for some compounds I’m looking for. I’m sure they’ll have the perfect answer.

People on forum random too

CptAurellian.9537:

Still Zerker is the best option available for PvE.

Shadow.9641:

Hope you´re fine Aurellian, good old mate, most imba PvE-Zerker-Guard-EU

Now that’s flattering, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m just better than 95% of all those noob guards out there, but that isn’t difficult.

Lot of chat-guardians votes for celestial, i’m already start charging quartz(

Ehragus.5843:

Grew tired of t3, made another set which looks more evil!

Little hole in Vigil boots driving me crazy..

Talking about PvE, forgot to mention :/ Don’t want be zerk, i have warrior for this.

My guard almost 80 and now i need decide which armor make. Asking in guild they said Knight or Celestial and want to know pro guards opinion.

Charrs use pure technology. Asuras use magic in their technology.

If Dragons will ate magic – asuras lost every single machine.

Make skills special to reflect projectiles @ made them not reflect, anet logic.

It’s too low regen even when they hit twice. But siphon works good in minion build

Scepter should be main weapon for condition necro. Thats all.

Terrible and almost useless in pve, all of them

Seras.5702:

I got bored with my guardian. Yes, it’s highly valued in WvW and dungeons, but I just got too bored to go on.

Mesmer is cool, but I felt like I never used my utilities while leveling. They’re primarily used in dungeon situations and PvP. Just my take.

Thief is my fav of the 3 you listed. While the worst of the bunch for group support, they deal great damage, are viable in PvP and PvE, offer a wide range of playstyles, and have a dynamic feel that you don’t get bored with easily.

Bad thieves dies too fast, i’m afraid i will be one of them

Btw my guard 60 already

By the gods, why trader selling sylvari weapon?

I understand exact why reason, but still, should it mean the male and female charr armor have to look absolutely same?

Sacrai.6280:

Funnily enough, you main the same class as I do and go for the same alts that I went at first (and I also only play male characters). Go for a guardian. Unless your goal is to have all professions at level 80, then go for a mesmer. You won’t have the patience to level the mesmer if you don’t do it now. Thief is very easy to level, you’ll have a lot of time later.

Are you my lost twin brother?

clint.5681:

mower.3740:

I’m having the same issue with Battle of Claw Island. I’ve tried it 3 time so far, and it never gets past “Fall back to the central courtyard”. The dragon lands, then nothing happens.

Happened to me a few days ago, i just ran around and finally ran back and fourth under the dragon and he eventually used fear and got everything back on track.

Wow, thanks. Really helps

Crovax.7854:

Cultural armor is for asthetics, not for stats.

/thread

It’s kinda unfair for charrs, almost ALL of armor looks terrible on them, except cultural.

Clearly they’re feline, but which one part of?

Charrs can have faces which can be similar to lions and tigers, but one thing – only regular cats can have any of fur pattern. Tigers always red with black stripes, lion look same and only cats with thousands of their different breed can be so different.

So what is charr closest relative?

Exosferatu.2961:

It would make sense if Prince Edrick was invading in Kryta and primarily at Divinity’s Reach outskirts which is Queensdale. He is a rightful heir to Krytan throne after all. We have never seen an army of baddies marching towards a specific location like in Guild Wars 2 trailers.

I think we have enough invaders.. our world not that sweet. One invaders soon have to deal with others and civil war between different invaders will start.

I dunno why you don’t want deathly perception. Dagger damage CAN be higher, but necro don’t have access to fury.

Because you’re a charr and only charr-friendly armor is cultural

Seriously, why it is have so special requirments? Why you can’t buy it on TP or farm in dungeons? WHY ONLY THRU CRAFT? WHY IT IS ACCOUNT BOUND?

And it tooks 30 bloody days to charge all this quartz, which is not even exist in world (except home nodes, which not everyone have) MONTH TO JUST EXOTIC ARMOR

Terrormancer, i think. But personally can’t use it. MM is my choice.

Aberrant.6749:

Then make a guard

I didn’t like it at first either, but I grew to like it. My mes is my little barbie doll that I get to dress up… err… action figure… >.>

All my chars are male, i love to associate myself with them.

Aberrant.6749:

Guards are always good no matter what game mode you go into.

PvE you can carry a party easily with a guardian. The downside is that they are pretty boring. I use my guard in PvE to go run dungeons since I can watch a show and still support my team.

I used to play guard in WvW as well, but I moved over to eng and never went back… so idk about them in this current meta. I know they are wanted for large groups for support… but I don’t do that stuff.

Btw… scepter is a 1,200 range weapon on guard. They increased the speed on the projectile but it still is a little slow.

Guard doesn’t have a passive 25%, but can have 100% swiftness uptime and then you have leaps + teleports. Your speed just depends on how you’re built (same goes for mesmer).

Mes is also good in all game modes. WvW you’re kinda just there for your utility. PvE you can speed up runs with TW/Good pulls/roots/reflects/boon stripping/etc/ However as others have mentioned having more than 1 is a waste.

Out of the two I found mes to be far more fun. I gave bifrost to my mes. Rainbows + butterflies = alpha as kitten.

Theif… just isn’t that useful in most cases. PvE it’s nice that you can spam a blinding field, stealth past mobs, stealth revive… but it’s hardly necessary. WvW your best at doing things like scouting, slapping yaks, dropping supply traps while in stealth etc. Thief is far from best at actually killing anyone and in large groups you’re not very useful.

Thief has no 1,200 range weapon.

I really don’t like shiny-pink-rainbow stuff. All my current chars mostly in dark armor. Necro and War wear Arah armor

power builds are terrible in pvp, you just will die in a seconds. You can’t evade damage like thieves, wars, engis, mesmers, and DS drop really fast.

I need staff for my necro(

I have fully geared Engineer, Warrior and Necromancer (necro is main, i love him, both in pve and pvp, haters gonna hate)

And now i’m stuck. I want new alt and choosing between Guardian, Mesmer or Thief

1. Guardian – Pros: charr t3 heavy looks perfect. Lot of nice utility skills, very useful for party, great defensive ability. Strong in PVP too
Cons – no 25% speed trait/utility, which is pretty annoying, no 1200 range weapon
2. Mesmer – Pros: greatsword with light armor looks great, useful for party, great damage, high controlling perspective
Cons: purple and pink spells, really hate this
3. Thief – Pros: devastating damage, no cooldowns, lot of dodges and stuff, dual pistols
Cons: hard to play, easy to die

Probably i will start with charr guardian, but if you have advices i will listen.

As release page says – MAD KING HAVING FUN WITH PLASTIC TOYS and stuff, when Prince (not mad, probably sane, just evil) command army of the dead.

So with King Thorn we will have some mad fun and with Prince we gonna fight.

Greetings to Bloody Prince, what a favoritism)

Old halloween had different stages, this probably will be like all Living Story content – 2 weeks of same content.

Mini’s isnt better.

Will we be able to buy outfit from previous halloween? Or some new?

I wish they add new level of tower, but seems like it will stay same. It’s sad, i’m complete old tower like 10 times already.

Yes, greatly. 10 might add ~20 for bleed tick on 80

Title says second question, but first is – how it get fixed? In one of patches is just.. BANG! It’s here. And holoprojector gone. No explanation, nothing. It’s just happen.

And first weeks Ellen was standing in fountain water.

unleashed.8679:

Necro is also good at clockheart

mechanic

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because he can pull (spectral grap) or fear the projection/ghost to the clock heart.
killing it next to him resets the electric fields and stops his stacks
There is no massive damage needed

Only if grasp work.. Most of time mobs didn’t pull on completely flat floors

Heartlust.6140:

7/10, neat looking. Quite Tribal.

Mine is somewhat out of the norm.. atleast dye-wise.

Looks like Elementalist

Nononon, if you made minions scale to stats – bunker MM will die in pvp.

1) Lich form shouldnt scale from stats, it’s completely useless for any non-zerk build.

Mooncheesebaby.2853:

Are engineers able to escape if spotted by a small group?

Engi have perma-swiftness, engi have rocket jump

I think engi fit better for you. Strong in duels, massive aoe damage, great survivability and mobility.

For me (necro) ele is most untouchable class (if he knows how to play ofc). Even with engineers i don’t have such problem.

Ele have too many different block, knockback, stun, move skills. When he is on low hp – he just move in 2k range in bloody second and i’m unable to chase him.

I’m understand for being good on ele you have to properly use all 4 bars, but still, so OP.