Guild Wars 2

the game is now Michael bay wars 2

it is indeed a very awesome update.

we celebrated in ratasum

im sure its still 21 prec for 1% crit. now we have decimals its the exact value and not rounded up or down to the closest 1%

you think that’s bad try being an engineer

im 100% sure it would be like this but with 200% more explosions and dramatic music and a plot that ended up giving you 25 confusion stacks

^—- this poster above me is a perfect example of what I was talking about

the new maps have been designed with gliders in mind. current maps have not been designed with gliders in mind.

im going to have to use World Of Warcraft as an example here. purely because it relates to this subject.

in the expansion cataclysim they remade the entire “old world” content. this allowed them to add flying to the “old world”.
now the “old world” was made for vanilla wow and all the maps was designed to be seen from the ground looking up. with the exception of the flight path system. u took a set route over the world that was designed for that.
so because all the zones was made to be seen from the group up they was not full fleshed out maps.

example. during the public test server for the cataclysm patch there was a bug that let players fly in the old world on our flying mounts. after we reached a certain height we hit the sky box (this gives the visual affects for the sky) and we could see how the map was made. unfinished and only the visible sides was created. the rest was just empty textureless low res landscape, or empty holes in the world.

TL:DR

the current zones are not designed for gliders and does not support them in both map textures or map engie physics to synergise with the glider system.

the new zone is a vertical map instead of being a horizontal map (curse shore, silver wastes etc), the new WvW maps are also a vertical map (it goes up and has high ledges / forts, normal WvW maps are spread out over larger land masses).

the birthday blaster is actually a very nice item.

+40 all stats
15% xp gain
10% karma gain
10 min buff unlimited uses

it is very awesome for solo / pugging dungeons. saves me a fortune on food buffs. (its only a little less then then +70 single stat food but overall more usefull)

here is a fantastic tip.

as all loot is personal and no one can tell what item u get. just don’t say or link anything that drops
these so called groups that “share 10%” don’t tell u about any decent drop either. they just use it to make 10% from you as you are silly enough to agree to share 10%

anyway congrats on the drop. it is indeed nice when u get something shiny drop. but the green eyed monster is a very high lvl and is highly aggressive and likes to fixate on targets. and is immune to all damage.

trouble is there is soo many ways in this game to do viable and acceptable damage in pve as an engineer its hard for the community to agree in a single unified build / set up.

so this is what I use anyway

full ascended zerk gear + scholar runes

rifle
grenade kit
bomb kit
rocket turret (the toolbelt in full zerk with 25 might crits up to 15k and exact same cd as grenade barrage and big old bomb, set these up nicely and u have INSANE BURST.

it would be BoB rocket + barrage then rifle 5 +3 just before the bomb explodes)
medkit (I normally play with guard + ele so condi removal etc is no issue)
supply crate

I then just rotate everything I have while stacking with the group and syncing all my fire fields with the group to maintain high uptime on 25 stacks of might or at the very least 20 + if the fight is longer (fractals)

I use 6/6/0/0/2 and focus on improving all explsovies dmg + rifle dmg.

oo and bomb kit + under water with the improved explosion range for bomb kit = insane fun. combine it with harpoon gun 2 + 4 for stupidly high dmg output. pro tip for harpoon gun 2. be in melee range of the target and double tap 2. it will cause all 3 mines to detonate right on your target for stupid high burst.

I would encourage you to explore and experiment with everything until you find the build and set up you enjoy the most in pve. if u have a friendly guild you wont be forced into anything in dungeons.

most ppl belive their build is best and if you don’t use it you are a noob. this is very true in pugs, I get a lot of ppl barking orders at me to use this skill and that cos they have a low lvl engie alt in heart of the mists = pro expert LOL

Micro Transactions

welcome to 2015

all aboard the hype train CHOO CHOO

ain had a similar system, it was called the abyss (I think) it was massive vertical map with PVEVP (Player Vs Environment Vs Player) and had keeps u could siege. it would either be player controlled withs npcs or npc controlled that both factions could capture.

only anet did WvWvW properly. its like WoW alterac valley only much larger scale and never ends.

this one time I did CoE and a precursor droped from the little zombie trash on the stair case.

true story

there is an option ingame to enable or disable red rings.

there is a “telegraph animation” bosses do to alert you to attacks with no red rings for example in fractals we fight that legendary cultist leader with the hammer.
he will twist his torso and raise his hammer before he spins around and fires off bolts in all directions.
or when he is about to leap at a player he will face them arch his back and raise his hammer above his head

basically learning the fight makes u better at the fight. once u learn to anticipate the attacks u can do “pre emptive dodges” which 90% of the time work. and u evade attacks.

also u can adjust the colour on your monitor, a lot of the time the “preset” colours are just off or not very well set. manually adjust colours until u are happy with the colour quality.
we all see colour in a slightly different way and have our own standard on what colours should look like.

fun fact we learn to link a colour with its name. try to describe a colour with out using its name or object / environment to describe what the colour is. you will find it impossible.

u see the colour then u think of its name. but if u raise a child to think red = blue and blue = green they will learn that anything that looks red will be known as blue. so red colours will be “blue for them” even thou its now a blue colour. cos we named it blue for them

I am rambleing and I don’t care. sundays suck for playing gw2. always get the bad players online : (

you can tell most of the ppl whining about paying for an expansion never played another mmo or guild wars 1.

its very common practice for MMO’s to charge for expansions. because they put very high amount of developemt hours into the expansion and have to make a profit.

guild wars 2 servers are kept open from a combo of game key sales and gemstore purchases. if they don’t have an income we don’t have servers.

they are a company and their goal is to make money. they do this by providing us with a service.

anyway either get a job so you can afford the very small price that expansions are. or save £5 a month in 7 months u will have enough to buy the expansion. and 7 months is a good time scale.

I blame the freemium app generation of teenagers who expect all games / services to be free.

btw free to play games are free for a reason. it gets u hooked on a basic version of the game then it forces you to pay for content to get access to everything. the only ppl who don’t pay are the ones who are considerd casuals and are of no concern to any one anywhere

have u never bought a game on steam and the next day they have a midweek madness sale with 75% off games you bought.

that’s something to cry over.

besides gw2 is a worthy investment that will give u years of content for a one of purchase. so relax.

could be worse. you could of belived the hype for Warlords of Dreanor only to find out that the team who made the expansion + new character models are just amatuers who couldn’t even get the models done properly even thou they had a team of over 250 ppl working on the expansion for like 2 years and being force with Siege of orgrimmar for 14 months.

yes I feel hurt by blizzard for what they have done.

oo and they added selfie camera to WoW which u can upload directly to twitter from ingame !!!

R.I.P WoW : (

I would like a make a point about ascended gear.

the devs thought exotics was to easy to obtain so they added fractals + ascended gear. the ascended gear was designed to be used with fractals due to agony and ascended having a slot purely for agony resistance.

then the WvW player base cried to high heaven how it was soooooo unfair that players who put time and effort in a PvE dungeon system had shiny gear that they could not earn in WvW (cos they suck at pve, yes following a commander and build siege takes little to no skill to do, yet apperntly its considerd to be onpar with pve :S ).

this led to WvW players beliving the “only” reason they lost in a 1v1 fight was due to that dude having ascended. this was based on some silly idea that they both did equal number of hits to each other and the only reason the dude won was he did a little bit more dmg.
which ment he killed the other dude and had like 300 health left at the end of the fight (haha I know how silly, its no way he could of just out played the dude or was just better, nope it was cos he ascended obv kitten )

so they then made ascended gear available to all. and such new players feel they need to get ascended gear to be “onpar”.

basically you only really need ascended gear for max lvl fractal runs or if u really want to min max your gear and get the +5 stat +5 AR infusions to get Best In Slot gear + stats.

as stated the difference between ascended and exotic is 5% stats increase which works out to an almost un-noticeable dmg increase. you will see ppl scream its a game changer but its not. its really not. its just a gold sink nowadays.

yay for the internet and every one being allowed to express their own opinions freely and not have any 1 force their own views by quoting your post then commenting under it cos they don’t like what u said or understand it ^-^

the only “dead zerkers” are the noobs who don’t know how to dodge or learn the fights they are doing.

once a fight is learnt and tactics are nailed down it will be zerkfest on most bosses. unless it requires condition dmg for certain parts. then it will be 2 groups. 1 zerk and the other condi.

again the only dead zerker is a bad zerker

warrior – cos its so easy to play guide included on how to play warrior effectively

one more thing.

in WoW gnomes are mocked.

in GW2 asura (the gnomes of gw2) are extremely popular and loved by all. (we are also better then every other race in every way you can imagine)

btw anet does not want to keep the playerbase poor. that’s just something poor players who make little to no effort in the game say to justify them being poor. all you need to do is learn to do dungeon speed runs or play the Trading Post and u will be rich.

if u invest 2 hours a day doing dungeon speed runs u can make around 100g a week just from 2 hours a day doing dungeons. it does not sound like a lot. but that’s 400g a month. and it does not interrupt real life or get in the way of your job..

u can even do it like 30 mins in the morning before you go to work then 30 mins when u get home and then an hour later in the evening, as long as u make the time u spend effective and efficant u can make easy gold every day.

plan your time well and u will be rewarded big time in the long term. MMO’s are long term things and not short term. so don’t expect to be rich over night (unless u get stupidly lucky and get a precursor drop and sell it like I did last month )

some easy way to make gold would be to do world bosses. once u learn their location u can chain them one after another u make average gold and it helps u get used to the games economy to.

dungeon running will be your main source of income around 1gold 50s per path (that are the short easy speed clear paths some give 3g but take hours to do) then u also have items that drop that can be sold. do this every day and in time u will have a nice pile of gold and after enough time and u got the best in slot gear u will find out gold soon becomes just “another currency” that builds up.

becoming self sufficient is a very powerful tool in an MMO.

as you are a former wow player (im a 10 year vet) I am sure you have experienced those “achie or no inv” players or those elitists who demand exsessive item lvl to join the group.
sadly some of them exist in GW2 they are known as “meta only” players in the pve LFG tool. they will instantly kick classes they deem as “unworthy”.

now with how the game changed over the years as long as every one works as a team and knows they class they play every class is “worthy” of coming along. 90% of guilds know this and allow any one to join.

in the last few months how ever there has been a big community push to purge these players from the game. and slow and surely we are seeing less and less of this and more open minded groups / players.

up until recently I found my self as an engineer getting almost instant kicked from groups due to players lack of understanding of my class. then some awesome person made a “meta” build for engineers and suddenly every one loves my engineer ^-^. only taken since launch of the game for ppl to like me. o well haha.

so

1. find a nice causal friendly guild (you are new to gw2 don’t set high standards for yourself as a gw2 newbie)

2. watch youtube guides on how to use combo fields in gw2

3. I would recommend u avoid the necromancer in pve (they are awesome for pvp) due to the lack of group boons they provide and other classes just stomp them in dungeons

4. for most classes its recommended using power toughness and vitiaty gear when learning to play your class in dungeons (you will die a lot less) then once you know every boss encounter and understand how the game works you can move on to “dps” stats such as power crit chance and crit dmg (again you need to learn a lot to use this gear effectively other wise u end up as “dat dead dude” on every fight)

5. woodenpotatoes on youtube is a very fantastic channel to learning the games lore.

a good starter class for you would be either a warrior or guardian when playing the game. they have high survival and low skill requirements to play in PVE. which make them a perfect starter class. then you can move on to the more complex classes of the game (like ele or engineer)

ignore the players that call u a noob etc they are just teenagers who play warrior / guard and have a “god complex” due to how easy and hardy the class they play are.

WvWvW is a bit complex to learn at first. but that’s ok there is edge of the mists map that is designed to help new players learn the basics of WvWvW and also get ranked up. just find the maps commander and just follow them, there are also plenty of guides on youtube.

youtube is your friend. if u need to know anything watch it.

this channel is very helpful to new players (its not mine, its just ahrd finding decent helpful channels on youtube).

asura power !

for a starter to this type of combat I highly recommend a warrior.

1. they are very easy and new player friendly
2. they have very high base health and high self healing
3. they are highly wanted in pve

if you have experience in mmo’s in general and understand the game I would also highly recommend an elementalist

1. they are highly valued in all aspects of the game
2. very high damage output and group buffs

but they are squishy and die easy.

the other classes need you to understand the core of the game before they would be worth while to play (like engineer for example – is very complex to learn but once you understand its basics is very powerfull)

anyway just avoid necromancer for PVE content its just not worth the agro.

DPZ = class that has damage sleep disorder.

basically he is whining that a game that is based on action combat with no tank / healer roles lead to every one just going all out dps.

basically those who suck at playing the zerk meta don’t like it ppl shun them and don’t want to play with them in dungeons for optimal runs.

atleast we can change traits anywhere we like for free.

once you learn all your builds you use. It takes seconds to set it up anyway. but yes I 100% agree for load outs.

and to expand on it. also let us save gear to the build load out so we can swap traits / builds and gear at the same time out of combat

after 500 fractals my achie stopped increasing. im looking at 900 + anyway most of the skins I have are from the old fractals (I actually had 2-3 of some and ended up salvaging them for ectos (but always kept one just incase) )

run 50 daily and got the short bow + focus in feb

here we go here is my pic.

a slightly more “dramatic” scene

world of Warcraft

deathknight playable class = undead

forsaken playable race = basically a zombie that is smart and able to think like a humanoid.

moving on

turrets are very very situational in PVE. used correctly are a powerfull tool.

how ever for world events you are better of using kits / elixirs for world events due to the fast pace movement and spawn locations of mobs. grenades and flame thrower are fantastic for tagging a lot of mobs. bomb kit also very good for close combat fights.

and relax you got a lot to learn. youtube has some nice guides for you. and do nto worry at all. engineer has the most “complex” rotations for guildwars 2. other mmos such as aion gives u like 5-6 skill bars worth of skills u need to manage :S so don’t let the kit + tool belt get you down.

learn to use kit swapping and toolbelt skills in combo with each other and you are on the right track.

so this will help you a lot.

1. learn the fights. watch youtube guides on how its done. where to stack and when to dodge.
2. learn spatial awareness. that’s the ability to look at the entire scene while still attacking the boss (its like driving a car u learn to be aware of everything ahead of you while still driving)
3. DODGE DIP DUCK DIVE AND DODGE !!!!! if you believe you are about to take damage then dodge. pre-emptive dodging is also very handy and a lot of the time saves u from attacks u didn’t even think would happen

zaced only noob players tell others to L2P and then give zero advice on how to improve or even learn the class. players like you are just a waste of server space.

with time you will get to learn the class better.

I wrote this for another thread that’s doomed to the pages of no 1 cares

1. use fast cast ground target with marker (lets u see where u aim and still be fast cast)

2. imagine you are playing a third person shooter and imagine the middle of your screen has a target reticule

3. learn all the arcs for your skills inc the rifle skills.

4. get an mmo gaming mouse (I use a razer naga) it greatly improves your ability to play mmos and classes like the engineer (keybind heavy / ability heavy class)

5. go to the pvp lobby and use those golems to practice aiming then u can go to wvw and practice on moving targets in a zerg

once you learn to control the grenades and understand the movements of your targets (in pve and pvp / wvw).
you can then anticipate the movement and throw the grenades ahead or behind the target or to the sides etc. get used to the flight time and arc of grenades and u will be able to make the most of it.

helpful tip each grenade thrown is able to hit 5 targets each, example grenade #1 can tag up to 15 npcs / players if u get a decent spread. grenade barrage is up to 30 targets tagged if u get a good spread.

its just recently uploaded so its not fully processed yet = grainy picture to any 1 who watches just after its been linked. sorry : (

also on a side note. this video I posted is all about manual aiming all abilitys. learning this makes u a much better engineer in terms of ability aiming and predicting.

also if u select your target and have the option “stop auto attacking on target change” unchecked it will let u target your foe start to auto attack then u can left click empty space to “deselect the target”
but your rifle auto attack will carry on. even if u change to a kit and use grenade #1 spam and swap back to rifle it will automatically auto attack

but don’t forget that with skills 2 3 and 4 u need to learn how to manually aim.

the reason for not harving a target “targeted” is it causes havoc with grenade ground targeting.
I am sure you all had that big boss dude and u targeted him with tab target then suddenly your ground target went from directly under the boss to just over your skill bar
or your ability to throw at distance is no longer possible due to the target frame obscuring the view preventing u from hitting the target from behind with grenades

well that’s a work around that lets u have all skills working with no target frame messing it up. the real fun begins when u learn to hit moving targets

give every one 250% crit dmg base line and boom zerk gear is no more and we are free to use any stats we wont.

most other mmos have base line crit dmg that’s flat even across the entire board.

and modify it for the SPVP ppl so its balanced and equal.

omg I just fixed the game

all hail me hero of GW2 design

but … but … SAB :’(

pro tip

do not bother asking for dx11 its not gonna happen.

but do ask for 64bit client.

SAB now or riot !

don’t forget engineers.

go all out explosives and shred the bosses. this would be using grenade kit + bomb kit + rifle and depending on the groups et up a third utility to suit the needs.

ignore anyone who says engineers cant dps. that just shows they have no understanding how the class works.

kit swap mechanic is the key to engineers in pve.

anyway next bit of advice

the forums are full or both smart and stupid ppl. and when asking what class is best u will get very mixed views. ppl who say X class is bad rarely plays It or does not understand its mechanics.
lets take the necro as example.

there was a time when no 1 ever took engineers / rangers to dungeons either. then suddenly every one relized we are super amazing in a group and when played right can really pack a punch.

long story short. research the class properly. watch youtube guides and read the class forums how to guides. ignoring the WAAA MY CLASS SUCKS post as 99% of the time its a l2p issue.

anyway if u like the class then play it. the “best dps” changes at anets whim.

when the game launched it was nothing but “4 wars 1 mes” and every one else was kicked.

then we had the FGS phase

anyway just enjoy the game in pve. and if u cant get a group MAKE YOUR OWN !!!.

no more

unicorn bows
party streamer guns
no more disco balls

im sure you get the point

any fractal weapon

cos they are the rarest and hardest to obtain.

o and super rifle on asura engineer = win

as an Asura

i think all races are equally lesser and equally stupid.

its only racist if u pick out a race on its own.

i have maxed out bank tabs.

half of them sit there empty gathering dust.

i do how ever have maxed out bag slots with 20 slot bags and can fill that up very fast. but that’s a different story for another topic.

more bag slots please anet. id like to have double the current bag slots. and yes i would pay real money for the bag slots ! (i have a job and can afford such luxuries )

is it not like pvp ?

dual daggers spam 2 till your finger bleeds ?

well when I fight a Mesmer my feelings are

KITTEN CLONES !!!!!

I guess a Mesmer would be

KITTEN TURRETS !!!!!

I CANT LIVE WITH OUT SPEEDY KITS !!!!!

all hail speedy kits

in speedy kits we trust

my engies name = Bombgineer (can u guess why)

there are ALOT we could possibly use but would be extremely inaproprate

so lets have some we could safely use

zerkgineer (berserker gear)
norngineer (norn)
plantgineer (sylvari)
bookahnieer (human)
kitteneer (char and not language filter)
blitzgineer (for all things explosive)
mechgineer (for turret engie)
techgineer
cogineer
nerdgineer
geekgineer
awesomieer

sooo many more but cant think of them

I would like to thank razer naga for the 12 key thumbpad on its mouse

edit removed video of my broken finger that was sliced open (i don’t want forum ban)

asura all the way. the very nature of the asuran culture is science and research.

engineering is a form of science. magic is also considered a form of science to asura and not just some mystical thing that is used for spells

the only question I have to ask about these new “boons” is

does it affect me in PvE ? if not I do not care

its still skill spam.

and I have spoken so it is relevant !

you are sooooo going to hate doing dungeons with me then !!!!!

some thing has to be done about them turret engineers in SPVP camping objectives.