Guild Wars 2

Here’s the build I use for PvE/WvW. I like being self sufficient to handle any situation.
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.1|a.1b.h16.a.1b.h1|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.1h.62.1b.62|u59c.u46c.0.0.a6|0.0|2c.2v.2l.2h.30|e

Rabid weapons and armor along with carrion trinkets. Sigil of earth and sigil of accuracy on dual pistols and runes of undead on armor. I used to use all rabid but my damage was too low so I mixed in carrion to provide some power and vitality. This means all my gear has condition damage as the primary and a decent amount of everything else. I mainly use the pistols to fight and switch to elixir gun for elixir f+acid bomb combo. I use the healing turret offensively by doing the usual drop/overcharge/detonate for healing but it also does decent damage and knockback on melee. The personal battering ram is great for interupting melee and the toolbelt has good damage/slow on a low cooldown(and if those leaked patch notes are true, then both are getting an even lower cooldown). Elixir C is a great cleanser and toolbelt lets you cleanse others. In total there’s 4 condition cleansers from healing turret, elixir c, and super elixir.

Laptop gpus are nowhere near the power of desktop gpus even with SLI. So moving from 460m to 480m you will not do much. Do not waste your money.

I’m not suggesting that these kits actually gain the benefit of whatever classes’ traits. I could see that making things very unbalanced. The damage should be fixed based on level of user. Like warrior banners or elementalist icebows, you pick them up and use them for fun, but not a permanent replacement of your weapons.

There’s no need to keep it if you have finished all the story achievements and received Marjory’s Journal.

I’ve heard of NA players playing on european servers so I’m pretty sure you can. As for the lag, there is no way to tell until you play for yourself.

Monkey D Luffy.4856:

if it was like you said then why lowering our lvl keep it as it is .
Because part of the game is about showing off its cool to see your real lvl and other player see your title lvl purple walking in the game also when they lower our lvl the health go down

When was that ever part of this game?
How does one shotting things that can’t fight back show off how strong you are? If you want to impress people, go solo a legendary or cap a keep on your own in WvW.

There are only 2 regions for servers. North America and Europe. Every server in each region is located in the same place. I believe North American servers are in texas and european servers are in UK.

Do you have any of the graphic setting at the bottom of the menu checked?
-best texture filtering
-high-res character textures
-v-sync
Turn them all off and see if you get an improvement. These along with reflections/shadows eat up a lot of performance with not a lot of image quality difference unless you are pixel hunting screenshots. A lot of players tend to leave them on since they don’t think they are that important.

Also are you setting rendering mode on native or supersampling? Keep it at native because supersampling is a performance killer.

You will be able to. The mystic forge technically destroys the items you put in and gives you a new item. You will lose the wings skin.

Similar to banners and sword/ice bow that other classes can drop down for others to carry, I would like for engineers to be able to share their kits with others even if its only 60-90 seconds. They could change the “Always Prepared” trait to maybe drop an extra kit on the ground whenever we switch to it. It will have a cooldown of 60-90 seconds so that you can’t spam it. Thoughts?

Rocket Boots: I only ever used it for the toolbelt skill because it was a nice long burn to add on blowtorch. I liked that it was an escape skill but it was useless since you got knocked down from the blast. With the blast now pushing you forward, it becomes a closer rather than an escape which is nice since we have been missing one of those. I think I would have preferred the rocket boots to knockdown the enemy and push you back so that you have some time to run away. I guess I will have to keep using acid bomb.

Modified Ammunition: This trait does sound tempting because I mainly use my P/P to fight with an elixir gun for support, but I already take cooldown reduction, extra range, and coated bullets. I would only swap out the extra range for this one and I could only see this worth using in PVE where a mob would have every condition applied. In WvW, the extra range helps a lot to deal damage before they can close in.

If you feel that TC is dying then go guest or transfer back to another server. I’m sure there’s plenty of players that want in on TC.

Here’s the old wiki page for the old kit refinement.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Kit_Refinement&direction=prev&oldid=524947

Each kit had their own kit refinement cooldown so if you were carrying more than one kit, you could switch to several and get each of their effects. Then they added a global cooldown so you couldn’t spam the effects with several kits and then they finally just outright changed most of the effects to what it is now along with a global cooldown.

You can always transmute wing skin on your low level backpiece to a higher level item, but you will be destroying the low level backpiece in the process.

I believe you can, but doing so will destroy your current item which has the holowings skin applied and create the new upgraded item with the prototype capacitor skin.

It’s just the game taking time to load things into memory. It puts a priority on loading textures and players over sound/music. The problem is more with the engine than your computer. If you turn down all your graphic setting to the lowest, you will notice faster load times for sound because there is less things taking priority over sound.

I carry around elixir c, elixir gun, and healing turret. That’s 4 condition cleansers which are useful in all situations.

Self cleanse-elixir c
self + AOE cleansers-toolbelt elixir c, healing turret overcharge, super elixir

GW2 tends to run things pretty hot. Sounds like an overheating or power supply issue.

Whisper, I noticed in your screenshots that even with all your settings to low, you still have “Best texture filtering”, “Depth Blur”,“High res character textures”,“Vertical Sync”. Turn them all off and you should see an improvement. "Best texture filtering isn’t very noticeable but it eats up a lot of performance. “Vertical Sync” should never be on unless you are always above 60+FPS. Otherwise it will artificially slow things down. “Depth Blur” doesn’t do much but I just like sharper images. “Best texture filtering” is not a big deal unless you have lots of players on screen, which is all the time in WvW. You don’t really see an increase in quality unless you are standing next to them and honestly you don’t have time to admire armor in the middle of a fight involving 100 players.

The idea is for you to carry condition removal skills.

I’m seeing lots of players in all zones running around getting effigies. They stop and do events on their way between stuff.

Have you cleared your inbox? And is the investigative kit/tassi box in your inventory?

The main focus on the game is dynamic events. You don’t need to go to other starting areas to level up. Completing events near hearts will get you twice as much xp for doing the same thing. When I first started, all I did was move from heart to heart and the personal story. I avoided events and eventually hit a level gap around 20. Completing events and parts of the daily achievements(if possible) will net you the xp you need.

I don’t have much to say on the build other than pure berserker gear is never a good idea.

Most gw2 build calculator are designed for sPvP which has different gear than PvE/WvW. Try using It’s designed for PvE/WvW.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/

“update” I moved the URL out of the sentence to prevent any link errors.

We made plenty of threads when the change was first implemented. They destroyed the synergy that kit refinement’s spells had with their kits. For me, I was always switching between kit refinement and swift kits for my elixir gun. It gave me an extra super elixir for switching to it on a 10 sec cooldown. I think they changed it because a lot of people were using it to spam grenades or something.

It’s all about a carrot to some people. They don’t find joy in intrinsic rewards.

I notice that players can drop the investigation kits on the ground for others to pickup. It doesn’t make you lose the one in your inventory. I’m wondering if someone else picks it up, will it go into their inventory or only act as a temporary bundle.

Try exploring more of the map and look for scout npcs who have telescope icons on the map. New hearts will only reveal themselves when you are in the area or by scout npcs. Even though hearts are like traditional quests in this game, their main purpose is to lead you to areas with events. You will notice that completing events nearby will usually also complete the objectives of the heart as well.

I think we don’t use more rampagers because there is no survivability stats in it. It’s like our version of berserker gear. I run rabid on my armor and weapons and carrion on my trinkets. This provides max condition damage and rounds out my power, precision, vitality, and toughness.

I ran into a group of aetherblade pirates yesterday at the north end of caledon forest while running around for effigies. They were just standing around doing nothing. I hadn’t done the investigation instance yet so I didn’t know about the suspects yet.

I wear rabid gear and precision is great for condition builds. Stick a sigil of earth and a sigil of accuracy in your weapons and your pistol autoattack can stack 5-6 stacks of bleed easily. These are some traits that I use with my crit:

Incendiary Powder-100% chance to inflict burning for 4 seconds on critical hits. This effect can only trigger once every 10 seconds.

Sharpshooter-30% chance to cause bleeding for 3 seconds on critical hits.

Target the Weak-10% increased critical-hit chance against foes with less than 50% health.

Coated Bullets – Pistol shots pierce.

Coated bullets when firing at a single target along a wall or max range can double crit. Even better when firing into a group because each target hit will cause an explosion that hits everything around it and those explosions can crit.

I believe that you can respec outside of trainers by buying the cheapest training manuals.

I just use my pistols and an elixir gun and do just fine in PvE and WvW. I don’t find grenades or stacking might with elixirs fun for me.

Rama.6439:

Siphaed.9235:

Zero.6082:

Has anyone ever seen some one from anet actually play the game. Most of the time they talk about what is in the best interest of us or what they think would be more fun. But it seems to be going in the wrong direction cause everyone keeps complaining. I all most wonder if they even play there own game. I mean i wonder if they are satisfied with how it turned out.

Does everyone think that Anet or NCsoft or who ever makes the decisions is creating better content that the gamer actually wants or just easy filler to appease people cause they promised they would give us new stuff?

Are you freakin’ kidding me?! They do a 30min-1hr Live Stream every Friday of them playing the game. (Check their YouTube channel).

Most of the devs are members of the same guild on SBI server. I’ve played with a few in Dynamic Events, sPvP, and WvW when that server was my home.

As for people “keep complaining”, that’s because they’re a very vocal minority. You cannot please all the people, all of the time; you can please some of the people, most of the time. And right now, what they’re doing as far as the direction of the game and what’s “fun”, I think it’s brilliant.

You’re totally wrong on it being a vocal minority, it’s a vocal majority, just look at the forums, most are posts about what people don’t like and what’s wrong with the game, and where they see the game headed. The people that stick up for Anet in these posts, look at their post histories, I have they LIVE IN THE FORUMS, they can’t possibly play the game with the amount of time they spend on these forums, some people who stick up for the DEV’s post in almost every single post on these forums, now how does someone like that spend quality time in game and find the time to post on the forums all day? I’ll tell you how, they are actually Anet employees posting under their own game accounts, just like the the Anet employee in this post said he plays on his own account, employees are posting in the forums on their own accounts to look like regular players.

I know this for a fact cause I was banned for calling one of them out and posting his name I will not say who but it happened and I got banned from the forums for it, it was a temp ban.

I wish I was being paid to post on forums and play the game. A lot of players are students that have laptops in class to browse during the day and play at night. For me, I’m in an office with external internet access and I play when I get home.

I like that they have spread these out. It encourages players to revisit zones they fully explored or give an incentive for others to start exploring new ones. For those that need to have it right away, they placed each effigy very close to waypoints. For me, I noticed a lot more people in the zones doing events and helping lower level players. I could have just beelined it to each effigy, but I spent around two hours stopping at each meta event chain to help out and only got to 10 effigies.

justforgiggles.5024:

my problem is trying to attack and use buttons 1-0 while trying to run/dodge/ pan camera. i see so many people in pve and wvw casting spells, while still moving (and not in a straight line) where as i seem to have to stop moving, press 1-0, try to pan camera to keep eye contact on target, then try to move, and by then its too late, im trapped and dead. its just so uncomfortable

I just told you how to solve your problem. Rebind the skill slots to keys that are closer to your left hand so that you don’t have to left your hand. Hold down the right mouse button to look around and aim at things when fighting and left click to target.

Here’s my key layout for my engineer.
1=1
2=q
3=e
4=r
5=2
healing=g
7=extra mouse button
8=extra mouse button
9=mousewheel
elite=Shift+r

toolbelt skills=z,x,c,v

Other than my two extra mouse buttons for my thumb, there’s nothing special needed to play. You just have to find whatever is comfortable for you.

There seem to be a few of them on my server(Stormbluff Isle). I mostly see them in WvW and in random zones around the world levelling alts. During Southsun they were farming champion instigators with the zerg like the rest of us.

You don’t need a special mouse. Just use the buttons that are reachable to your fingers around WASD. If you’re mouse has any extra buttons, then use them as well and don’t forget that you can use the mousewheel. Need more? Then try Shift plus whatever keys I listed earlier.

Denwic.2607:

Meaning it’s based off of your power.

“The lightning strike has a 1.1 damage coefficient.” means for every 1 power you have, the damage of the lighting strike increases by 1.1

For example, if you had 100 Power, the Lighting Strike would deal 955(+110) damage.

If you want to figure out exactly how much damage you’d do, the equation would be 955 + (1.1 x [Your Total Power])

There is also target’s armor to consider.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion

Here’s a list of infusions. It seems like the higher quality infusions have +5 AR and another stat. And they can be found on both offensive and defensive ones. There is an omni infusion that only has +5 AR and can go in either slot. Existing infusions do not carry over to the next level of the item when upgrading so probably best not to put higher level infusions until the end.

Ethics.4519:

Nope, this is your responsibility to know. Plenty of sources out there, look it up.

MoP = Mists of Pandaria. WoW expansion. (you know, world of warcraft)

It’s no ones responsibility to know. You can make up any abbreviation you want. The OP didn’t say that they were insulted by others in the party for not knowing. I think it’s perfectly fine to type out abbreviations first and only type it out in full if someone asks what it means.

I haven’t seen it yet nor am I musically inclined, but some creative people may want a permanent instrument. I’ve read about LotRO having lots of instruments and players have created ingame bands to play concerts.

I usually figure out abbreviations quickly from the context of situations. You mentioned MoP being a game, so I guess it could be mists of pandaria. I have very rarely seen ooc, but my head just filled it in as out of combat. Maybe it’s from my WoW days when players typed oom(out of mana).

I run with everything you just mentioned. I use P/P and got a healing turret, elixir gun, personal battering ram, and elixir C on my build.

I don’t think the problem is deleting characters. But why would you equip these new characters that you made with the intention of trying out the class/build/story with rare one time soulbound items when you don’t even know if you want to keep them. If you don’t hit 80 with these alts, you shouldn’t be putting such rare stuff on them.

There’s two ascended versions that you can make from the original exotic capacitor. Each one has a different recipe ingredient. One will have a defensive and the other will have offensive infusion slot. From there, the rest of the recipes are the same.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Prototype_Fractal_Capacitor

Killing Joke.4371:

There are probably people better equipped to answer this, though I will tell you my basics minus some fancy mouse buttons i have.

Firstly hold down right mouse button at almost all times, this allows you to camera navigate with the mouse and changes wasd into strafe instead of turn.

Secondly using this method you can use your left hand to punch in skill commands using the number keys above your movement controls, though maybe that just works for me.

Thirdly bind q and e and any other keys close to your movement keys (c, r, x etc) to important skill slots (I’d use skills 7, 8, 9 or 0 as they are hardest to hit using this method, or even heal as its very important)

Fourthly I use middle mouse button as heal, though this depends on your mouse, some have sticky buttons, mine is very responsive. In any case don’t forget about it as an easy to use button you can bind.

These are some simple ideas I hope they help.

This is what I generally do too. Rebind the A and D key from turning to strafing like when you are playing a shooter. I rebound all keys around wasd to my skill slots starting from left to right is (1,q,e,r,2), healing(g), utility slots(mouse thumb buttons and mousewheel), elite(shift+R). I only play an engineer so we have toolbelt skills but every class has some sort of other f1-f4 skills which I bound as (z,x,c,v). For AOE, enable fast ground targetting so you can just fire off the skill at wherever your mouse is.

I just looted 2 off of random mobs. Either buy the wings off TP or wait until taffies go down to around 1 or 2 copper and then it will be 10-20gold.

You can also find them individually in other zones.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Modus_Sceleris

When they shadow refuge, you can drop a supply crate on them or knock them out of it by detonating a healing turret traited with acelerant packed turret. I sometimes use my personal battering ram but it’s a hit or miss because of the close range.