Guild Wars 2

yeah I forgot about thieves, they are best for dungeons like CM where stealth is so useful (I should probably level one soon). I think mesmers are now only useful for dungeons like Arah, where reflects are OP especially at boss fights like Lupi. in other dungeons reflects got nerfed, however none of this impacted warriors. In fact they are even more useful for boss fights like Malrona and Spider Queen. they are also an excellent choice for Arah and dungeons in general, 99% of those whom I usually see carry at Lupi are warriors. So stick with warrior for now, the mechanics are straightforward and you usually spam one or two buttons so if you get bored with that, you might want to look at an Ele—they are probably the most interesting class in the game imo. Plus even better than warriors for speedruns.

I have always heard necro and ranger are sub optimal for dungeons, which is why I have leveled neither. Warrior, guardian, ele, and maybe mesmer are the classes you should be looking at, with warrior being a solid choice as they are average or above average in all areas.

specifically when soloing Arah P1, which i thought I’d try it on my mesmer. the thing is I suck at mesmer and know absolutely nothing. with a lot of difficulty I managed to get to the crystalline entities, but I can’t kite them for kitten and literally do like 0 dmg even when i do. I’m using a typical 6/6/0/0/2 build and I tried with sword/focus and sword/sword but it was hard to run and my illusions did 0 dmg. then i tried GS and staff and doing a little bit more dmg but still very very slow. any tips?

my skills mirror images, blink, and signet of inspration.

The CoE P1 Mark Golem boss seems to be bugging out a lot, had this happen 3 times in various groups alrdy. He does not become hostile when we’re supposed to fight him, and nothin we do can unbug him. had to just restart entire dung bcos of this and now most ppl I know given up CoE because they say it just not worth it to work halfway through a path and have some stupid new bug that cmae with the patch just ruin the entire run. pls anet fix

maha.7902:

3. spider queen drops poison in melee

of course, this goes both ways. groups with bad dps will end up ranging the boss with bows, groups with zerker will end up bursting down the boss but most or all of them dying at the end. in both cases, it’s now more time lost. continued whining of zerkers being OP will only lead to more waste of time, for all groups regardless of their gear.

^this is exactly what I mean. I have 10 or so stacks of empyreals and bloodstones sitting in my bank, but am severely lacking in dragonite ore. I know WvW is one other way, but I am usually doing PvE these days (dungeons mostly) and its very inconvenient to watch for the megaboss events and be on time for them. I would say I make it on time for maybe 2 events a day, not much ore at all. I wouldn’t complain so much if I was also able to do temples like I used to, but I don’t even know when they start now.

Berserker doesn’t need a nerf. Many times I join zerk groups on the LFG only to find that almost all of them aren’t, or at least they have no idea how to maximize their dps. those groups either end up killing things just as slow as a pug, or they all wipe on some random part (for example in CoE, the first alpha fight) because they are ‘zerk’ and thus have no idea how to dodge or mitigate any dmg. Zerker doesn’t need a nerf, if anything it is the experience and sensibility (ie. those who actually read posts, as opposed to the ones who join posts for which they don’t meet the reqs) of common players in the LFG that needs a buff.

I’m really behind on all my ore, I will need like 500 ore for my wep and a couple hundred more to finish my ascended armor set. I wish there was an alternate way of getting dragonite ore, like maybe paying karma for it or buying them from the tp, I would even be willing to pay as much as 1 gold each for them. You might say ‘play the game and do the events, ore is easy to get’ but the truth is that theres only one site that I know of for the megaboss events, I struggle to do them every day and sometimes I log in too late and miss them altogether. I can’t even do the temples anymore because there’s no site which tells me which ones are active.

Besides even for crafting legendaries, there’s always alternate ways to get things. don’t want to buy T6 mats from the TP? you can get them from the MF with the recipes for promotion. don’t want to pay laurels for obsidian shards? you can get them easy with karma instead. and badges of honor for Gift of Battle? you aren’t forced to do WvW y’know, you can instead do JPs like Obsidian Sanctum and get them from the chest at the end. You can also buy WvW ranks with badges too (talk about easy). So why is the only way to get dragonite ore currently by doing megaboss events over and over again?

theres the Obsidian Sanctum JP too if people are running it, they always thank me when I port them and sometimes I get tipped 1g or so.

Arah story is one of the easiest.. like half of it you don’t even have to do anything or show any sort of skill, you’ll either use the guns on the ship to protect against the dragons or go AFK while it moves you around the map at a really really slow pace.

thanks for the reply. I was wondering if it would change my wep in any way, or just remove all the upgrades from it. Will I still be able to combine it in the MF to get Eternity?

so I’ll be upgrading to Eternity soon, is there any way to save the infusions and/or sigils from my GS or will they be lost when I upgrade it? the reason I ask that the infusions cost me around 100g to make.

thanks.

try to check some other commonly missed areas other people have trouble with:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/111q0i/wich_are_the_most_difficult_places_to_find_i_am/
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Krytan-Explorer-Stuck-at-174-175/first#post1647404

Failing that, you can search for the completed maps with all areas listed and compare it to yours. If you see an area’s name on your map that means you already have it. Also don’t worry about the wiki, it might be wrong since its not completely infallible.

check commonly missed areas for Krytan Explorer:

• Windloss Delves in Queensdale
• Chantry of Secrets

You also can’t swap it to mainhand or offhand, and you can’t replace it with another wep of the same sigil.. which I think is something they should fix.

Note i said they ‘usually’ out dps eles/thieves for solo situations. Also I did say Eles are highest dps for speedruns, so you’re not proving anything by showing one of a group with 3 of them. and of course, you havent rly proved anything just by a lupicus solo on an Ele, besides the number of people that can pull that off is very small. Some other solos in which warriors will out dps other classes:

also why don’t you list an Ele solo for Alphard and see how it compares to warrior time. I don’t see one anywhere…

petyr baelish.9675:

Both ele and thief have the highest potential dps out there, this is due to multiple damage multipliers in their traits.
Despite what most of the community thinks warrior dps is mediocre and the only reason you have them in your party is because of their banners.

don’t listen to this guy, he doesn’t really know what he’s saying. thieves only have better single-target dps, and aren’t useful for most dungeons except when needing to stealth through mobs. Eles have probably highest dps potential for speedruns, but they are squishy as hell especially if theres no guard to mitigate dmg for them. Eles are actually less useful for pugs because for the harder content (not including AC) they are downed or die a lot, so stacking warriors is better then. Warrior dps is far from mediocre, in fact for solo situations warriors usually out dps eles and thieves, because they can stack might/fury easier and sustain it longer. With phalanx trait, warriors can also stack more might for the group than Eles. so the argument that the only reason to bring warriors is for banners is wrong. In fact other classes wouldnt reach their highest dps potential without a warrior in group. For pugs, I’ve seen stacking warriors (3 or so warriors in group) leads to much faster times than stacking guards, thief, ele etc. in the end it doesn’t matter which class does most dps but which is more useful for situations.

Usually zerk stats for all classes. I think assassins is something like 0-1% better than zerk at best, so just go with power/precision/ferocity with power as main stat. Now that I’m comfortable with Ele I can go full zerk, but I know some like to add some toughness/vitality because its very squishy otherwise. try something like knights (power/precision/toughness) if you are starting out.

atm its very annoying to use stacking sigils, especially if you tend to swap weps a lot. I only use it when I can get full stacks off a single mob. check out this related thread to see what the main issues are:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Fix-stacking-sigils-pls/first#post4069141

This is worst on Ele who can only use 1 wep set, but in general an issue all classes have:

1. Swapping a weapon with stacking sigil to mainhand/offhand, causes all stacks to be lost.
2. Swapping in a weapon with stacking sigil to replace one of the same sigil, causes all stacks to be lost.

I like teh shinies. Incinerator and Sunrise (soon to be Eternity). I think engi is one of the only classes that legendary would not be best on. I don’t have an engi but I can say most of the legendaries for engi aren’t rly worth it. warriors can use Rifle but most times bow>rifle, wars and guard can use shield but again rarely needed (I don’t use it at all now). I never really liked Bolt’s effects or care much for it, wars only need it for mobility.. but I know its very popular among mesmer/thief. I like Incinerator because it looks great, and I almost always use it on ele. If you do want to get a legendary for engi, go for the weapon you use most often.

This happened yet again, on an all path run for CoE. right after we finished 1 path, the dungeon is contested and takes 30 min to open it. you can see how frustrating this is for speed runs especially..

Its partly megaserver’s fault. If I had known the group was that bad I wouldn’t have even bothered. Instead we waste more than 30 min to do the event that opens it, and then disband halfway through the dungeon because some of them mess one part up. maybe its just bad luck, but almost every dungeon I join is contested. for a cof p1 fast run, the event to open it takes like 10 min… we could’ve finished the run by then. Before megaserver, we could just guest and open. Now its a real waste of time…

CoE I think is the worst.. its usually always contested and the event usually takes like 30min to open it. One time i joined a pug, wasted 30min to do the event and when we’re halfway through p1 I realize they’re all noobs. We end up wiping and the party disbands.. huge waste of time. pls remove contested dungeons or at least do something about kittenin megaserver. the entire party is usually stuck in the same map, and its almost always contested when i join.

Bawi.9541:

Warrior gets above average results in pretty much every game mode for below average input/skill/knowledge. Your statement that this is a player-issue is wrong. It is ANet that has given warriors the toolkit that made them what they are.

There is barely 15% dmg reduction from light to heavy armor, there is nothing anet can do about that. In recent patches they have also nerfed HS and buffed ele skills, but I guess people will always find something to complain about. I guarantee its a player issue. If I am PvE on glass ele I’m rarely downed anymore, even without a guard. Yes you will need to put more effort to stay alive (that’s why I prefer warrior most times) but its basically the same survivability on both. Besides you see bad warriors all the time.. not like every warrior will run meta and full banner. some like to go full sig and die a lot. even a warrior in arah pug who died every time, maybe 10 times on the last run in p2. someone told him the defensive utilities to get, he refused and complained everyone told him what to do. his exact words “i’m not getting skills that i haven’t traited for” …

I can understand warrior is kinda boring to play, doesn’t mean all are incompetent and don’t dodge/use utilities at all. we are a signet based class for the most part but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other options. Healing Surge is an active heal skill that is actually better than HS for burst heal or if fight lasts less than 20 secs. also perma swiftness is easier on warrior than ele, don’t know why there is misinformation.

I ran arah p2 with pug today and an ele was constantly dying, me (warrior) and 2 others had to carry at lupi. of course this doesn’t mean that ele is a bad class, its just dependent on skill/experience. For dungeons I use my ele for the ones it is best for, usually AC and CoE. for the harder content I use warrior because a glass ele is still squishier, no matter your level of skill and use of heals/invuln you will usually need to rely on a guard to mitigate the dmg. For speed runs it might be better, but when starting out most usually die a lot on ele (I still get downed sometimes). Besides most ele don’t even know how to might stack or use any active defenses. Some will even stack like 6 might with a staff, and think they did a good job. bottom line its harder to screw up as warrior because its an easy class that you can faceroll (won’t deny that), but you will also have to dodge/use defenses since they are not that op.

I have both, but I haven’t been on my guardian in months. Tbh I find warrior is more useful for groups because they provide better dps support (better for speed clears too), such as empower allies, might/fury, and banners. Warriors also have better burst, useful for cases where they just need to HB down mobs. Most groups only need one guardian too, whereas most good groups have 2-3 warriors for higher dps (and 2-3 ele too). Guardians also have good dps, but they have way better support boons for groups. Its also a class you have to be more skilled at, you need to constantly provide the right boons for your group if you want to be a good guard. All warriors need to do is FGJ and drop banners, and GS burst down mobs (and knockdown if needed). In some cases warriors have better survivability than guards. For instance when sustaining burst damage, because of their HS and large health pool. Also for fights like alpha in CoE, guards need vigor to dodge if fight takes longer than normal (warriors don’t). However a guard who knows when to use the right boons for the group like reflect/stability at the right time is more useful, really the only support warriors have is warbanner to rez downed allies. warrior is the class for burst/mobility, guardian has great support boons that help groups a lot. Imo warrior is more fun simply because its more relaxed, you don’t need to worry about a lot other than GS burst and banners (if its needed).

you could try the mystic forge way. for instance cores to lodes, though last I checked its only useful for something like Powerful Blood which costs so much if you were to buy normal. my average when using MF to get full stack Blood was 8 stacks. so you would save around 25g to get full stack this way.

you can also do dungeons, you will get a lot of mats quite easily due to loot/champ bags. also you don’t need to do 12 hours per day (i dont think I did that much even when i could farm cof p1). you only need to do max 2-3 hours to get about 20g/day. just do the dungeons that you think are fun, and leave the rest. for instance, I usually skip SE, CM, AC P2, COF except P1, etc. Even though most are usually fast, I don’t like those dungeons.. like SE which bores me to death. If I do Arah and some of the others I usually make enough.

For PvE I just use d/d for most fights, mainly as stacking weps though. d/d also has 1-2 more blast finishers than staff (they added one the last patch) and it also helps with evade, if you are fighting alpha or something. I’ve been playing ele for a month or so and I’m still not sure which does more dps, staff fire or d/d when stacked in corner. I have to assume it’s pretty close though. I like the d/d playstyle more (both for WvW and PvE), its much more active than sitting and camping fire 2 on staff. Staff is still useful, though I only use it for dungeons like AC.

saikodan.6721:

If I want an exotic staff(a generic one, say for using in the mystic forge), is it best to buy it on the TP for 2-3 gold, or craft it?

neither. the cheapest option is to buy the staff with tokens from a dungeon vendor. i got a dusk drop months ago by throwing in 4 exotic gs that i bought this way.

I’ve been playing for a year or so and only have a little more than 5k AP. Important thing to do is to not stress out about it… I’ve never really had to work hard to get them. I haven’t done any dailies for like months now, and the last LS I attempted was the battle for LA one (which was about a month ago I think). Like most people said, it doesn’t really matter how much AP you have, or how many legendaries or how much gold you have. Its just that if you have really low AP, people will assume you are new and treat you that way.

For instance when I was starting out for months I had below 2k AP, I would get kicked a lot from groups for making small mistakes, and most times I didn’t even deserve it. Now if I join a group and see someone below 1k AP, I’ll assume they’re new and we have to carry them. It sucks to label people this way, but thats usually how it works. For the most part though, AP doesn’t mean much. I’ve seen people with 10k screw up something or not know what to do (like for console in CoE P1) and we have to kick them to save us from a wipe. Just don’t stress out about it, most groups usually trust anyone with 3k+ AP to know what to do.

ah.. sorry, didn’t read the OP closely enough. thought he meant on a daily basis. finding which dungeons/paths you are missing for the ‘dungeon master’ title is actually easier than this. Go to the achievements tab where you find the ‘dungeons master’ title (Dungeons -> Tyria) from here you can see which dungeons you have completed and how many paths you have left to do for each (total of 4, except Arah). Like someone said earlier, a good way to check if story is one of the paths you have done is to see if you can open explorable mode. That leaves 3 explorable paths, though you have no idea which ones individually you have done. Usually you will remember if a path from a dungeon took longer than usual, this is probably one of the least run paths (examples: se p2, cof p3, arah p4). Also, if you can remember specific details or encounters from a path you ran, you can use the wiki to find out which path that was.

You can use something like this for now:
http://tinyurl.com/dungeontool

until anet actually decides to implement something like this. I know I also forget I already ran a path and accidentally do it again (that sucks).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trait#Trait_points

you don’t get any at lv 76. dont worry, you still have 4 more to go.

Hayashi.3416:

No.

Ele has the easiest permswift, Lightning Hammer’s skill 5 creates a static field, blast it with whatever blast finishers you have. You should be able to get at least 3 finishers off.

That gives 1 minute of swiftness every 30 seconds unbuffed.

I don’t see how Ele has easier perma swiftness than warrior. If you are running around map, its still inconvenient to drop LH. even with 3 blasts you only get 30sec swiftness and LH has a 60sec cooldown. meanwhile warrior gets 1min swiftness easy with only 3 skills, and they don’t need to blast any fields. i say untraited, because the current warrior build (for PvE at least) usually has 0 in discipline. its not needed anyway.

I just finished crafting Incinerator for my ele. I could’ve done it maybe 2 months ago since I had the gold, but I was waiting for prices to drop low enough for the precursor. So I ended up saving around 250g on the precursor alone (price has gone up again). A few tips, from personal experience:

-running dungeons is a great way to farm gold. 20g/day is possible with less effort then it used to be months ago (farming brain-dead cof p1 for instance). you also get mats from loot bags that can use to craft legendaries.

-for some mats, its cheaper to mystic forge them. cores to lodes, for instance. and also powerful blood, since its so costly—its defnitely cheaper to get them through the forge. Also check sites like gw2spidy to see the trends on item prices, so you know when its best to buy them.

-once you get enough tokens from dungeons, buy out rare or exotic GS from the vendors and throw them into the forge. you never know, you might get lucky. I got an unexpected Dusk drop a few months ago by throwing in exotic GS this way, and I sold this for an easy 800g or so.

Warrior’s sprint is pretty bad, its only useful if you take warbanner instead of SoR for whatever reason (like say for Lupi). perma swiftness on warrior is actually very easy, just pop SoR and warhorn and don’t even need to trait. Other classes can also get perma swiftness too, though I believe its a little trickier. Eles for instance, can also get perma swiftness without needing to trait, but they need to be camping staff and have their arcane skills slotted.. which is inconvenient in most cases.

On the 4th page, for some reason ‘search forums’ never works
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Cancel-casting/first#post3938417

Why do you need a seperate build just for temples? seems pointless since most likely you will down if the champs/bosses target you anyway. I run the same zerk build for temples, don’t notice any difference. Just switch some skills around for survivability and condi cleanse if you need it (Endure Pain, Signet of Stamina, Shake it Off! etc.) and ooc if you need to get your health back up. GS and longbow is fine, its what i use.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83915-axemace-dps-build-for-dungeons-and-fractals-041514/

‘Main’ warrior (axe/mace+sword): 4/6/0/4/0
‘PuG carry’ warrior (GS/axe): 6/5/0/0/3

Above builds assume you run zerk gear, if you want a PVT build or something ask in warrior forums. Sword/shield also does not have a place in PvE except for trash runs, but if you want to run sub-optimal gear then feel free to ‘play how you want’.

Brother Grimm.5176:

If you are level 80 and need to “farm” for 3g, you are in sad shape. In any event, “farming” for that gold would also get you lots of other items you likely need once you reach LVL 80 anyway. If you just go clear zones you can get 3g in a few days of moderate game-play.

I had lvl 80s that used to used to ask for gold (before the patch) because they didn’t have enough to repair their gear. I ran with a guard for TA a few days ago who didn’t have a staff, when asked he said he only had scepter because he was too poor to buy anything else. If you run any dungeon (2 paths at most) you get 3g easily…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Trait#Trait_points

This shows at what levels you unlock trait points. The only thing that’s changed is there is only one trait point now for every five of the old points. It used to be you’d get one every level, starting from lvl 10. There might not be trait books anymore but you still need to visit your trainer if you want to buy the manual for a GM trait (or you can just do the event that unlocks it).

Once you hit lv80 I recommend running CoF P1 for tokens then buying a zerk set from the dungeon vendor (this way it basically costs you nothing). Especially with warrior, having the highest base health and heavy armor, you have little excuse not to. I use dps gear on warrior for open-world PvE and don’t have much problems. For weapons, mace and hammer are CC weapons but mace is not so good for PvE because its autoattack is so slow. It’s still useful if you need to keep stuns on a target but thats about it. I won’t lie sword/shield does have its uses in some parts of PvE, dungeons mostly. TA and Arah, for Arah you can use either offhand if meleeing Lupi (hes a tough boss). Mainhand sword is good for mobility and to run through mobs, in combat its basically as useful as mace. Axe is the best mainhand for warriors in PvE, you get good autoattack and cleave that with the new patch now beats GS burst. The current meta is axe with mace or sword offhand, but GS is still the best 2h weapon.

Lil Puppy.5216:

You gotta do it twice with Hundred Blades, it refuses to cancel the first dodge and doesn’t recognize movement at all. It’s the only one I have a problem with because you’re in melee range just to use it and if the target decides to stomp you, you just got stomped cause you can’t cancel the skill fast enough.

Another trick to use, whirlwind into the mob if this happens and you will dodge it. in addition to cancelling the HB burst.

the Esc key works to cancel a skill, but I use dodge to interrupt because I’m used to that way. For some of the channeled skills that have you rooted to the spot (hundred blades, ice bow 4), you can also use the movement keys to cancel casting.

MokkoriChance.5170:

Ain’t gonna waste any more gold or effort to put one on underwater weapon seems it looks like a bug that will be fixed.

You don’t need to waste any gold tbh. A trick i used, since I already had 2x bloodlust on my stacking weps before the patch, just use Mystic Kit on them to salvage the sigil, then use it on another one. I did this 3 times on two alts, was basically a 100% salvage chance.

why the heck are most of the WPs on maps contested now? If I want to open AC for instance I have to take the WP on the far west, then WP again to the dungeon entrance. this seems pointless. same thing with contested dungeons/temples…it’s even more frustrating than before.

So lately (I think with this new patch) I see this bug that says I have Signet of Might, even though I don’t even have it equipped. not sure what is causing it, but it usually goes away if i relog or map change. any ideas?

You don’t need any help for skill challenges, they’re all soloable. I’ve done them all with my zerk Ele without needing to ask for help once. the ones with champs guarding them are usually places of power, you don’t need to fight anything. I don’t know what class you are, but generally block/invuln when you are using it, and you wont get interrupted.

legsofsteel.1064:

But when i go back to a town after dying a couple of times and ask people for help getting to the skill point or if they know the route to a vista i always get awnsers like ‘’f-off noob’’ and ‘’kiss my a**’’ so it’s a bit hard to get EXP points with those events.

and you can look up how to get to a vista, if you have tried and can’t figure out how to get there (use youtube).

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Suggest-me-a-class-please/first#post3710301