Guild Wars 2

ah… thank you

Salutations,
I have recently returned to the game and I would gear up my engineer midget for PvE.
I have asked in zone chat and I’ve been told: Temples of CoF.
CoF requires too many tokens for now and I would go for the ones for Temples.
Why would be the downsides?
I understand that that gear cannot be salvaged, but my questions are:
When / Why would I want to do that (salvage the zerk armors)?
I don’t have the means to craft ascended now, maybe in the far future…

Jerus.4350:

But then there’s structures… the bane of the condi build.

what does ‘structures’ mean ?

still looking…

Centurion.7296:

Do you mean that you play between 15:00-17:00 [GMT+0]?

give or take, but usually yes,

I have returned to GW2 after 1+ year of pause.
I have 2-3 hours / day for the game.
I want to gather enough gold for 640 crystals for the Living Story package (~110 gold).

What is the wisest/fastest way to get them?
Silverwastes? Dungeons? World bosses?

I have been away from gw2 for almost 2 years.
I enjoy both thief and mesmer but I would hear your thoughts on this matter before I invest my limited spare time into one of them.

Thank you for your input.

I have been away from gw2 for almost 2 years.
I enjoy both thief and mesmer but I would hear your thoughts on this matter before I invest my limited spare time into one of them.

Thank you for your input.

I recently started to run dungeons with my necro… I use full zerk gear, but whenever I see an ele dps-ing it just seams Way Way stronger than anything I can put out…

so I came here looking for answers

WvW:
How do WvW rewards work?
I am alone (no party) and I follow our army. Fight begins (aoe and stuff) and I hit a single enemy for 50% of his HP.
Will I get a reward only if that guy dies or will I also be rewarded for being near my fellows and for their kills?

PvE:
I need to decide what to stick to: ranger of thief (dungeons / world events).

Salutations,
I have played at launch for about 1 year, then real life took over.
Now I have decided I shall try GW2 again.
My time frame is around 17-20 GMT or 12-14 EST.

If you guys could clarify a few points, that would be great:

1). I don’t remember on which ‘server’ I was, but I remember that server transfers were expensive. Should I look for a guild based on a certain server, a timezone EU or US, or how should I go on looking for one?

2). I remember having difficulties joining my guild for Guild Missions because of the time frame. I suspect this will still be the case, since I don’t have a lot of free time. What is your advice regarding this point?

3). I am looking for an easy/fast leveling journey now, since I remember taking a lot of time leveling a Thief and Ranger. I shall start a new toon, but I don’t think I have the patience to follow the story again (I remember having difficulties in Orr for example). So, should I stick to the story again, or?

Thank you, and see you in game, hopefully.
Have a nice day.

Northernnliht.9514:

what the chanses are that they will add an X-Pack in the near future

same as they have been for the last 2 years.
IMO.

also make it melee, I mean how can you steal a wallet/a banana from 1200 meters, amirite?

any of them for solo pve / exploring / etc.

war / ele if you plan to run dungeons. necro has no decent contribution in a dungeon, and it’s the last class I would pick.
IMO.

ele / necro for WvW, if you are into that. As far as I know warr WvW requires more… skill.
IMO.

Any of them if you are into PvP.

that may be, but I don’t believe in such generalizations
what’s certain is that we had that buff that sais we are very few

Phoenixlin.8624:

It is an overflow map.

what does this mean?

good one Jayce

Coldtart.4785:

Nothing will ever stop pve from being mindless.

Relax, WvW is also brain dead most of the time.
PvP has it’s moments, but how rare are they?

Azhure.1857:

I do not share that opinion. My faith is still strong that MMORPGs will continue to evolve.

I am glad that you generalized the statement so I can agree with you.

munkiman.3068:

It’s pretty important to note that many of the OPs points are points that continue to be brought to the forefront.

They will still be, as they been for the last 2 years.

It does not mean that anything will be done about it (and it is my personal opinion that it will not).

At the end of the day, GW2 is just a game. For me it competes for the spending of 1-2 hours with my books, music, wife, friends, etc.

currently on Gandara…

As a low level player there is no point of joining EOTS for leveling purposes. We get stepped on every single time. I managed about 1 level (20 → 21) in 2 days; I could only stomach a couple of hours of ‘fun’.

As a lv 80 player, why would I join EOTS? Part of the ‘zerg’ feels the same as a lv 1 player, every time we encounter the enemy we are bags, and as solo I could make no difference. So I joined WvW and capped a few things. At least I felt that I did a minuscule contribution.

Not sure about fractals, but for normal dungeons (I run 2-3/day) I encounter an ‘able’ ranger about 1-2% of times. Maybe.
I play a thief, and I usually say ‘thx for no spotter / frost spirit, bb!’ at the end of the dungeon, so I would not get kicked for being a smart-kitten / etc.
Yes, I always pug.

I only visited the ‘home instance’ at the time they introduced that sprocket-rewarding minning pick.
I quit gw2 shortly after since I think it was a kittened thing to sell in gem store (the pick).
never went back since.

sigil of generosity is so kitten expensive

Khenzy.9348:

-Long cast time.
-Long Cooldown.
-Low damage.

= useless.

fix Stacking?
AN?

lol.

I run around daily cutting trees and harvesting stuff.
When I stealth, the mob chasing me stops running towards me, but remains facing me. Once stealth expires it comes for me again.

TL;dr: it depends on what you are looking for…

I understand what you say. Many points are subjective. Still:
- once you payed for it, you may return if you want. True, but after 2-3 times when one has returned and found the same kitten, it’s true, returning gets… difficult.
– I also joined at launch, expected a revolution and so on. It was cool at first, then it got dull. All my friends went back to UoU, me included.
- real life changed it’s course, I quit UoU, tried GW2 again. Did not like the fractals / southsun(or what the name was), so it was bye bye time.
- 1 year later, I still log in to GW2, daily if I can, cut a few trees, mine a few nodes, run 1-2 dungeons. In the weekends I try to WvW a bit.

All in all, it’s a decent game, IMO, for one that has 1-2 hours to waste every couple of days.

I agree, for the past 2 years, GW2 has had mediocre skill tunning, no big add-on and so on. Compared to other MMOs it is changing at a snail’s pace (check Older Skrills Offline patch notes, you will see what I mean).

It’s ok. If you do not enjoy it, don’t play it. Posting here or anywhere else will not drive AN to change things.

The community has had a very very very minor influence so far, and IMO AN has very few… staff members / devs / etc and they don’t have the man power / knowledge and most of all Will to change some of the things the community has been asking for for the past 2 years.

as a thief I got the same ‘issue’
maybe she just hastes asura?
what race are you

Well with such replies, I understand why AN did not introduce the option.

how does ranger sword aa compares to thief sword aa in terms of damage vs a static target?

@Swish
ranking necros before thiefs and saying ‘Over reliant on stealth and don’t do well in long melee combats’…
uh

How about an option to skip them (without the gameplay interruption and clicking ‘skip’) once one has run the story / exp mode once?

frost.

Kythan Myr.4719:

Will the devs ever learn?

They don’t care. If they wanted to ‘learn’ or improve anything (related to this topic) they would have.

Life goes on, farmers farm, ppl buy gems, a minority is unhappy, but still the money comes.

It’s how they acted so far and IMO they will never change / improve / evolve.

robertul.3679:

It is a lot less dps. But then again you insist on being wrong consistently and when proven so you argument it with “but it’s fun!!”.

1). “a lot less”? Pray tell what that means. 50%? 75%? 5000%? Where and how did you test it and you saw that I was wrong?

2). Again you fail to understand the “MY best x/x setup” part. Can you grasp this concept? No you cannot, apparently.

3). I never talked about what the ‘meta’ is, and the fully dps focused setups that are meant to deliver the most amount of damage in a perfect situation while in a perfect party.

4). I did enough (again, enough for me) tests in the mists, in Orr and in dungeons, so I Know what each does and why. I also know what I like, what I prefer to play while with pugs, and so on.

I pity people who are stuck with their tunnel vision.

Should I be wrong and you are not one of them tunnel vision people, please do post your test numbers, that you tested Yourself.

Olba.5376:

Because percentages are relative.

you work in a bank, right?

Arikyali.5804:

What if venoms are meant for PvE?
/shrug

I doubt they put that much thought into this ‘skill balancing’
IMO they are meant for niche pvp / wvw setups… immo / etc.

from a Thief pov, my best P/P 1000 range setup does not output a lot less dps than my best melee setup.

pug dungeon wise context.

IMO.
I would like to be part of a party that has a

Guardian (reflects / stability / all the other good things the cheating guardians bring)
Ele (fire/etc fields and them magic bows)
Thief (blast them fields, stealth ze party)

I was never able to run consistent guild dungeon runs…
May be the guild, may be my limited time / patience.
I Always pug… most are fine, some are kitten.

Purple Miku.7032:

rogerwilko.6895:

I still don’t know why would someone else except grenade spamming eng chose Sinister stats.
And for what content.

Pretty much nothing besides Lupicus solos on a warrior.

good to know I’m not to only one who thinks about this.

MF = zero, IMO.

New recipes not good?
We have 2 years old recipes that no one uses because they are stupidly expensive.
Why would you be surprised after all this time?

that baby stealing dingo.7216:

If it’s anything less than yellow, salvage it and sell the materials for more coin.

This is usually a money loss, IMO.

isn’t Exposed Weakness something you want in a power build?

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I can take a vantage point with my ranged weapon…. and I was wrong. Monsters go invulnerable if they can’t reach you.

Yay, 2014 MMO!

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

I’m sure in about 4 years the necro should be just fine.

You are more optimistic than I am.

one more question, if I may.
What kind of food should I run, in dungeons for example, to supplement the potions specific for every dungeon (outlaw/dredge/etc slaying)? Something with lower condition duration? I care nothing for MF, I just want something that will help me(low-medium skill) perform better in a pug.

thx for this, I was just looking for a Sword / something setup for PvE.

A question: for… underwater combat… I sometimes spot a rich ore node in Orr and there are plenty of undead around. Do I want to pew pew them? What wep should I use / what sigils? Or just go in mine and get out?

I still don’t know why would someone else except grenade spamming eng chose Sinister stats.
And for what content.

Gave up playing Charr some time ago.
Armors / skins look pathetic. Unless you want something with lots of spikes and random kitten coming out of different places.
weak.

Minigrump.4961:

Stacking doesn’t really happen that much in dungeons anymort fyi.

Oh yes it does.
For example in AC & CoF & CM & SE & TA & CoE & Arah.