Guild Wars 2

we have a system in our guild that involves sending in-game emails asking if they are still around. we kick them from the guild with an open invite back if and when they return. so far this has worked out well for us. The only drawback is don’t do this all in one go or have several officers send out emails due to the spam cap.

I wish they dropped from mobs with the same rate as unID’d dyes. Think this would be an acceptable adjustment and still give you a sense of accomplishment and reward.

RNG is RNG. a promise to get one with each chest would go against everything this game is trying to do. (please do not remember what comes in your First Birthday Gift for this argument to remain valid)

you don’t need to buy a book to retrait.

they have this option in the gem store. it’s silly. and it’s meant for changing your build mid-content exactly as you described.

it would be nice to have at least one more “slot” for builds just like we have for weapons. this should apply to armor as well.

given the nature of the gem store and the economic direction of this game, I simply don’t see it happening. just learn to plan ahead. I almost never change my traits once I have found “that build” that I enjoy to play and is also effective everywhere for my play style. adapting to different situations in dungeons and other content is what utility skills are for.

Ive never found this to be a problem myself. Typically I use skill 2 to blast finish only since it does little else. It has a niche use that’s effective, but little more than a bonus. The slight delay has never been an issue in any situation where I needed it.

Hammer 4 isn’t about kiting and chasing someone down at all in my experience. You stay in one place and either keep enemies away from you (so why chase them at all) or keep them from getting away (so you no longer need to chase them). The skill works great for what it does. Removing the rooting would only make the skill redundant.

they added fury for guardians? huh? I’ve always had fury on my guardian..

but I did make the right choice and made it a charr.

=P

as for other traits, I recommend the radiance line up to at least 15. you apply vuln on blind, F1 does blind (and vuln now) and F1 will recharge on each enemy death.

add a paltry 5 points into Virtues and you can add area stacks of might to the above. with this you can still trait full 30 into symbols line and 20 into Zeal for some extra damage. You miss out on the 25 symbol damage boost trait, but the extra might you will be generating more than makes up for it. Ive played it both ways and the extra 5 in virtues just does more damage for everyone and increases survivability. everyone wins.

trait into symbols for hammer bashing. you really only need to use skill 1 with any regularity. spam that protection symbol and everyone else in melee rests easy. If your symbols are traited, they are larger, do vuln, and heal allies as well as doing more damage.

some guardian hammer tricks:
learn to love consecrations. using hammer skill 2 while standing in hallowed ground or any other fire ring style skill will product an Area Might burst. you can also do this with hammer skill 5 or any other symbol you produce for an Area Retaliation burst as well.

I almost never use skill 4 unless its to watch an enemy fly like a golf ball. It is hilarious.

as for a second weapon set:
if you are traited into symbols a mace is always a welcome addition. sword or scepter won’t benefit from your trait line at all. shield is a somewhat lackluster weapon on paper but does have it’s uses. you can reflect, heal, and crowd control all with one skill, and do cone damage / protection with the other. It also provides with some good combo fields for any class with a greater range than you, which is everybody

hammer is all about pressure. you are a slow, heavy attacker but the damage will never stop ticking. ride skill 1 and use others sparingly as the situation warrants.

storm is alright if you’re running around by yourself. hit an ambient creature and free switfness 70% of the time on crit if you’re traited right. cheaper than traveler’s runes.

I didn’t even know this was a part of the game until I got a newer graphics card. Put your settings on low, and no more bubbles!

ya, I know, the rest of the game will look crappy too, but you will accomplish what you’re asking for

if the current behavior is acceptable I’d hate to see anything worse.

someone please fix this behavior. I shouldn’t have to “break the game” to do something I’ve been intended to do. You don’t have to turn off your system every time you want mario to jump.

Nike Porphyrogenita.8137:

Mesmer is literally the most survivable class in melee range. If you are struggling to stay above 90% on a Mesmer you won’t be able to do it on any class.

This is truth.

instead of orbs and such, I suggest going for boon duration. Sure, you lose out on a little power, but you can keep your might up much longer if you rune it right. (up to 50% increase) In my experience might that lasts half again as long is worth more than 100 power. You end up hitting the diminishing returns less often since you’ll undoubtedly hit it with the might on it’s own anyway, and your other boons will last longer as well (regen, stability, etc).

Its now how fast you kill it, but how long you can keep killing everything.

I don’t know what half the bosses in this game look like because everything is always on fire. I’m sure they look cool, and I’d like to give props to the team that modeled / designed them… but I have no basis to form an opinion. They are all particle effects (with the Limit option turned on)

also: please allow me to move around more of my UI. I have always hated stuff in the bottom center of the screen. in GW1 everything was shrunk and pushed to the sides. I’m here for an experience in a living world, not account / database / resource management. (true, its not nearly as bad as most other mmos, but this was easily customizable in the last game. don’t take things away from us)

I run dungeons almost nightly with my guild on my guardian. here’s my experience:

traits are 20/15/0/30/5. Notable traits are vuln on blind, extra damage vs burning targets, symbols are larger and heal allies, and your F2 virtue spreads to your allies.

If its an “easy” dungeon path, I run zerker gear with GS / Staff or Hammer. If it’s something more challenging (like 30+ fractal runs) I use Scepter / Shield and Mace / Focus.

Your utilities will always depend on what you are up against and who is with you. if you have a necromancer who is drawing conditions, do not cleanse them yourself: they are using them to heal and you will mess them up. If the boss is ranged bring reflection. If there’s a ton of knockdown or control effects, bring extra stability. Since the traits are focused on your weapon skills you have a lot of freedom to adapt to any dungeon path with ease.

I use 2 of them for the boon duration along with 2 sup. water and 2 sup. monk. with reduced shout recharge I have unlimited swiftness. It’s incredibly nice, and the extra healing doesn’t hurt either.

Anyone else experience this?

I had the hammer during this fractal, (level 30 difficulty) and at some point I fell with it. Died of course. I respawned but the hammer didn’t. I was told everyone had to jump and die at once, then no one was to res until the respawn at checkpoint prompt came up. It never did.

The instance owner stayed in while the rest of us went to character selection. A few things happened then:
-2 of us reloaded in and were able to respawn at checkpoint.
-2 of us reloaded in and were not able to respawn. 1 of these got moved to where we were and we’re able to res him. 1 was not.
-the instance owner was still stuck.
-the hammer respawned, but it did so twice, so now we have two hammers we can use independently.

Eventually, those that were stuck relogged and were able to get back up finally. This whole process only took moments (just loading times) but was very awkward.

I’m assuming this is a bug, and not a feature. Is there any fix to this sort of behavior in the future?

Guardian: make Smite a symbol already

I’ve never understood why guardians feel they need swiftness in combat. 2 teleports, 2 leaps, 2 walls to keep them in place, and you can use almost all of these at once with the right weapons / utilities selected.

cripple has no place on a guardian. they have plenty of mobility built in to their skill use. by that argument neither is swiftness. Sure it’s nice to travel faster, but in combat there’s no reason for it. At times my thief and warrior feel LESS mobile than my guard.

I feel like I’m a very “defensive damage” guardian with my build. Symbols and Consecrations, perhaps a signet, and boon duration runes. Zerker gear, Clerics trinkets. I out heal everything and I keep respectable, sustained damage.

The game changer tho, is the constant might / vuln / blind. With these going all the time, everyone benefits. My warrior cannot do that whilst doing 2 other things. My warrior cannot juggle party role responsibility the way my guardian can in the span of a single fight.

Im happy with the changes we know about so far. Still a great class to play.

Just wish they’d give us a longbow or something.

lol at kitten -3 being hit by the kitten censor. wut?

With that build in mind? The middle one for sure. With GS / Hammer and any fire fields you can stack might and make up for your lower crit chance. Apply fury from anywhere and it hardly matters what you bring.

As a beta-guardian and main guardian I have the following opinion:

Staff
Greatsword
Hammer

I’m traited 20/15/0/30/5, all symbols, full clerics. These are your most important weapons. Mace will do in a pince, IF paired with focus. (sword and torch are basically novelty weapons, and shield will have it’s uses in specific fights but that’s it.)

You don’t do as much damage as a zerker warrior. Thats not what you are there for. Constant vuln, blind, might and healing. Battle grease. Get 2 of these together with 3 zerkers and you can take down any non-world boss in the game.

I like this idea, but I feel it would have the opposite effect of what you’re going for. Yes, some people will go and hang out in their favorite zone based on whatever they like (snow, trees, crabs, no one else is here, etc..)

However, if the dailies were specific dynamically to whatever zone you were in, I think a majority of players would just stay in their farm circles forever. Why would anyone leave Queensdale? I can farm all the champs AND get my laurels in 20 minutes without ever doing anything else.

This would be really, really useful, but only in a few situations where a transmutation stone/crystal would not do the same job.

Soulbound dungeon rune / sigil drops.
Soulbound Ascended drops (fractals, ect)

and even with the ascended drops, they are account bound on aquire and soulbound on equip. the only in-game item I can think of that you are stuck with regardless are the dungeon flavored rune / sigil drops.

and even with those, yes, you can apply them to some white / blue weapon and give them to whomever you want.

I’d love this feature as well it nothing else than for the convenience (which people will pay gems for: see unlimited harvesting tools) Otherwise I just don’t see it happening.

nope. never noticed my tail appearing out of my armor in an incorrect way. also never noticed my horns disappearing. I just assume the hats have holes for the horns. Otherwise the hats would look stupid.

oh.. while we’re on the subject:

show me 1 image in game of a character wearing a hat where you can still see all of their hair. it’s a hat. it covers your hair. the design is intuitive. this happens with every race. >_>

I think the designers have done an overall outstanding job with the modeling in this game. There are so many combinations it’s tough to keep up with everything. Yes, there will be clipping here and there. Yes, at times things will look a little goofy. Know what? you can look however you want. in fact it’s the only REALLY viable “end-game” content in this game, is fashion.

The nice thing about this is, it’s only as frustrating as you make it to be.

while I agree, I feel that older links to the previous game are best served in story only and in new fractals.

I want to know what’s north of Divinity’s Reach. or whats west of Rata Sum. or what’s east of Mount Maelstrom. new lore breathes new life into the story. just going over older story stuff is almost pointless. links here and there are great, but if you want a full game of that content it’s still there, and it’s called GW1.

This is a horrible practice and those that do it should be banned. unfortunately the only way to get proof is to start spamming screenshots of the chat screen the closer you get to the end of a dungeon run.

Mesmer sounds like it will be rewarding for you. Here’s why:

You set up good combos with thieves, and if you duo with a thief often you both have stealth mechanics (excellent for roaming in WvW)
You have a wide variety of interrupt potential, regardless of how you trait.
You have a more complicated-to-play class that is much less fire and forget style you experience with warrior or guardian.
It will be more about set up and planning than reacting, but the class still allows you the freedom to hit the panic buttons and cause a lot of random mayhem.

You might also look at ranger, oddly enough. With a greatsword and a longbow you can interrupt and increase your mobility tons.

sadly there is no way, but it may help to remember key points and ask those that have done them all. compare notes on bosses or key points of interest (the one with the jellyfish, the one with the burrows, the one with the giant hammer ooze of pain, etc..)

the only way I keep up with it is by picking a day with my guild and running all the paths in that one dungeon in one day. keep it fresh and its harder to lose track.

I have a couple charr and an engineer (one character is both of these things) I haven’t noticed any glaring issues or bugs. In my opinion these issues with how low the number of players using them can be summed up honestly like so:

Charr don’t have cleavage.
Engineers take more effort / patience to play like other classes.

Same reason there aren’t as many Mesmers. It’s a complicated class that’s less rewarding up front.

my haircuts are free, but they are done in-house.

now, if my character could craft hairstyles…THAT would be something. (ascended jeweler rank?)

inb4 halloween patch and thread with title “green glow again?”

cannot please everyone, but if you could dye your weapons or weapons’ effects then you could please a vast majority and cut down on some of these complaints.

Dunno..I think Scarlet’s insanity and simplicity is a nice change from the poetic stuff. Love the lore, but you need variety. If it’s all trying to be shakespear with nothing to balance it out, everything suffers for it.

Free content every 2 weeks and you don’t want it? No one is forcing you to participate. I tried Teq a couple times during the last update and guess what: lost interest. Did other things. Really looking forward to the new TA path. I’m in the minority that enjoys that dungeon’s flavor and what is has to offer. The nice thing is, these updates seem to be sticking around.

More permanent content is the answer. Not less content.

Our guild just did F/U path in TA nights ago. It was the last path one of us needed for the achievement. We went in with 3 guardians, 1 mesmer and 1 ranger. We chained all the reflection we could. Took the boss out super-fast, and the black widows almost never touched us. The hardest part of the run was getting everyone through the invisi-goop.

Won’t miss the path either, and am thankful for new content, but that path wasn’t nearly as hard as some made it out to be. Certainly a challenge, and it definitely required specific tactics, but it was not impossible.

There is a problem here tho. There can be more than one dragon that LOOKS like the current Shatterer without having that rank. I bet we are seeing all the dragons in line behind the current Champion that we keep killing / driving off every 3 hours.

There is nothing in the lore that says all of the different ranks need to appear different. All branded basically look the same except for their original form. It would hold true the same with the dragons. Just because one of them is called Shatterer, and he is the current Champion, does not mean there aren’t others out there that look the same. The only way to be sure is if you can target them. Can you target them to find out?

I farmed these too for a few months. >_< CoE was the most reliable source. Upgrade cores in the forge. I tried farming sparks and even dumped a bunch of karma on orrian jewelry boxes. The number of lodes I got from both of those methods combined were still a 1:5 ratio compared to CoE drops.

Jade maw chest also has a chance. If you get enough of the wrong kind of lode, they can be sold to make up the cost of purchasing the charged one you want. Out of 100 lodes I had for the Gift of Light, I’d say 5 came from sparks / jewelry boxes. maybe 20 came from chest drops directly (jade maw, CoE). Everything else came from upgrading charged cores. Spend your skill points with abandon and save your crystal dust. I actually salvaged ecto to do this regularly. (cries)

Guardian: Longbow
Necromancer: MH Sword
Mesmer: MH Pistol
Thief: OH Sword
Engineer: Hammer
Ranger: Rifle

I dont see the point of the timer to begin with. Is this just so you can swap it between characters to farm a node as fast as you can? If you want to transfer it from one character to another, and you know where you want it to go, why bother with the timer in the first place?

^ if everyone only got exactly what they needed out of resource nodes or drops, there would be virtually no trade economy. That’s part of the central problem surrounding ascended mats. They are account bound. There is no way to get rid of them except for using them yourself.

I like everything but the timer.

Example: I used a Trading Post consumable 1 minute before the TP went down for maintenance. It was completely wasted and I could do nothing about it.

Someone could use one and get disconnected, or crash, or anything and then they are right back where they started.

we were just in fractals. didnt lose our place thankfully.

Our server has disconnected completely several times in the last hour. our whole guild goes offline then back on. guild members on other servers at the time are just fine.

?!

I’d like this, but I agree that the prices are way too high. 10 silver tops for a masterwork. 30 – 40 silver for rares, 1g for exotics, 5g for ascended. I think legendary items should be exempt from this personally (it represents that character’s long term efforts) but a good price on that would be like, 10g to 20g.

I’d prefer this were an in-game merchant service instead of a gem-store item. The crafting idea above is also cool and makes sense with the mechanics of the game.

I like the ideas, but here comes the predicted post from a full clerics guardian spec’d for boon duration.

I am not useless. Every fight I’m a part of sees 3 things that any of my other characters never witness.
-the fight is much faster overall
-everyone’s health bars are green
-no one hardly ever has conditions

With my particular trait set up, the more enemies there are, the more effective this is.

The only way I’d be please with a change like this is if it were incorporated into the already existing boon duration, replacing it entirely, and leaving healing power totally separate. The support boon would be nice, and allow for more powerful boons, but given my experience I forsee a problem as well:

It would make an already easy fight a yawn-fest. No danger would ever be felt again, and every dungeon group would require someone to be a boon effectiveness build. Speed clear meta’s would just tack this on with 3 zerker wars and 1 reflection cannon mesmer and be done with every fight in the game. As it stands now there is still some amount of challenge to me.

Excellent ideas tho, and I hope to see some fine tuning like this in the game in the future.

I’d buy an upgrade to get the stacks up to 1000 personally. Just for the bloodstone dust. and I’d STILL have extras.. For a lot of the other mats it’s just not needed (chilli peppers?) but at least for the Ascended mats where it takes more than what you can store just to make 1 item, it only makes sense.

took the test. got Thief. I have a thief, but I just can’t seem to get into the class. I really want to like it tho.

my fav is guardian followed by mesmer. Hmm.. can I like black, sharks and dragon and still enjoy a guardian? or am I some kind of outlier?

I always have trouble with the enrage stacking ogre in the swamp, south corner of Gendarran Fields.

Risen Knight, that one requires you to make like a sunspear and never go alone.

tips I have used for recruitment:
find your server’s forum. every server out there has one. post on it. keep it updated.
make a facebook entity for your guild. a lot of people use it, and its an easy way to stay in touch.
come up with a short paragraph on what your guild is, does, and has to offer. go to each zone in the game and put the message up once for each zone. you will generate interest.
do events and invite the public. put out boost flags so people can see your symbol and form a relationship. try to pick a populated area (Lions Arch) or where they are needed (currently: along the Frostgorge champ farm or wherever Scarlet is attacking that moment)
make an entry on the guild recruitment section on this forum. keep it updated.

the fastest way to ascended Trinkets is to do the following:
Guild Bounty once a week.
Guild Rush once a week.
an Even difficulty level 10+ Fractal run once a day.
do your daily, every day. (this should take between 10 and 30 minutes, tops, depending on the dailies)
do your monthly.
20 days and a monthly finished you will have enough laurels for 1 item, and enough pristine fractal relics two more. For every 10+ run you do in fracs, you have a chance of getting one by default from the Jade Maw chest (hence the even numbered difficulty). it may not be one with the stats you want, but you’ll have one regardless.

if you do 20+, your rings have a chance to be infused already, saving you relics down the road.

It sucks, for sure. It’s also, unfortunately, the way things are. It took me months to finish it, but I checked every other day or so and when I had the time and opportunity, took that point that I needed that day. If you can rally some people behind you to help you out, you may even contribute to your server’s fight.

If you do this often enough, you may even have some fun by accident in the process.