Guild Wars 2

Sorry how does a single ranged 1 attack kill a turret? They usually take a few hits to go down I find.

How do you know the changes to the engineer? Were they released somewhere?

An easier build for PVE roaming is an HGH rifle. Put that on and you’ll have a lot more health and condi removals to play with. I don’t personally like ’nades, I take bombs any day But personal choice on that one, most run nades I think.

Conncept.7638:

Nezia.8154:

• The combat system itself. Can dodge, can move while casting, fast paced!

Agree on all counts but this one, the dodge system just is not done well , almost immediately after launch ‘you can dodge’ became ‘there is no point to investing in any defense or utility except dodge’, completely ruining build and play diversity.

Meanwhile more and more games adopt some kind of active dodge system. Neverwinter and wildstar have the exact same system as GW2 (except without the ability to move while casting in the case of neverwinter), while DCUO has an improved system where blocking and dodging can be pierced by certain skills, all while allowing movement (even climbing, flying, and using super speed) during casting, and it came out a year before GW2.

I always thought block worked out pretty well… just saying.

I don’t think it’s happened to me but really I wouldn’t notice as I flood the thing with random knick knacks I pick up. Can you be sure in a million sales that it’s never happened? Or can you only say you haven’t noticed it happen?

Just unlock the secret three toed tootsie mount. You may be lucky enough to see me burning by you someday on it. To achieve all you have to do is beat her in a race around dry top.

FinalPatriot.8034:

Subutex.2416:

My favorite so far is The Blazing Light

I always really liked that one too because of how hard it is to earn. I have no idea how many times I did that last boss fight just to earn that title. I honestly cheered IRL.

Me too, I litterally shouted in triumph when I finally did it after all those tries. I’d never done anything but PVE before that, prior to that couldn’t see any point in food. Hell at the time I had a warrior in mostly soldiers with the ascalon monk runes. I actually bought 3 whole pieces of zerker gear just to beat her. Made me play my warrior far differently than I’d ever considered before and litterally took me 100s of tries. In retrospect i had about the most ludicriously bad build possible. I recall knowing the various possible sequences those bloody orbs would pop up in, and cursing every time lag hosed me when I bent down to pick up a ball to throw at her.

In celebration of my victory I gave away my pricey food (like 12 whole silver) to someone who was watching me try, healing me up, and cheering me on again. Was smiley the rest of the night. Each morning prior to that I’d be aware the event was going down in a few more days and promise myself that today was the day Lliadri would pay for mopping the floor with my face. And how lag wouldn’t save her this time!

EG is always slotted on my engi. It offers condi removal, cripple, poison and acid bomb for huge damage to an area that you are simultaneously escaping from. It’s toolbelt skill is a stun break. I just love the thing. So flexible. IN sPvP if you’re squishy like me and want to kill off a downed character, you run over, drop acid bomb, and it sorta takes care of itself from there. Oh A.B. is also a blast finisher to fire into your healing turret for area heal. In PVE group play it’s saved the “stack” many times with it’s condi removal on the entire group and blast finishing of water fields/ might stacking.

Did you ever hear the Eddie Murphy (or was it Cosby) stand up comedy routine where he’s like “This is ma house, you don’t like it you get the….” anyway reminded me.

OK so I actually run zerk rifle and have found it a good training exercise. In general I don’t find warriors to be my biggest problem, in fact I find I do sorta well against them. (stupid pew pew rangers can really hose me if I don’t spot their snipe location) and my build’s weakness is lack of a block.

Some tips, you’ll find a surprising number of warriors aren’t running stability. In this case the CC your rifle offers is great fun. You do far more damage at range so make use of this while they run up. When they do finally make it to you a big ol bomb is always a nice present and you have 2 good moves to increase range again the #5 on rifle and your elixir gun acid bomb. Added bonus is acid bomb does terrific damage so match it up with say a glue bomb first.

When stuck in melee I rely on bombs and running circles. I switch to rifle and net / overcharged/ and blunderbuss when available. When available I’ll cripple with EG bouncy ball. and make my various blasts hit my fire field or water fields as necessary.

HGH is great for newer folks. Put my GF on it and she runs dungeons and fractals now with some survivability as an engineer. She now likes Engi more than her alturistic guard, and she’s somewhat useful at helping to stack might and provide boons with thrown potions. It’s a good in the middle build for people like her.

Ash Klaatu FTW. And I carry a shotgun for those of you who watched the orig Now they just need to allow me to off hand a chainsaw.

ukuni.8745:

shion.2084:

Definitely Phoenix Hammer Skin. Only one I ever bought.

did you get it befor the price spike? it hasnt spiked very much yet but i imagine that there is going to be some huge spikes in rarer hammer skins when hot hits.

I actually used my only black lion claim ticket on it when it originally came out and I still thought hammer bow warrior ruled

group role in one sort of activity PvP? Fractal? Dungeon? It sort of matters. I am definitely not playing the most optimal build, but I have the most fun with bombs, EG, and might potion, with 6/6/0/0/2 for all formats. I do find even without bombs my rifle can do quite a bit of damage and the CC is great for PvP

Definitely Phoenix Hammer Skin. Only one I ever bought.

Well in PVE you can get racial elite abilities, but you can’t use those in PVP. In PVP all races are on equal footing, unless your really splitting hairs and considering things like angles on blast fields due to toon height.

I can see a gem store hyena re-skin comming down the pipes

CureForLiving.5360:

maddoctor.2738:

Just remember, the most important aspect of Taunts in other games is how they put the tank on TOP OF THE THREAT LIST. We have ZERO information what GW2 Taunt will do to Threat generation.

It’s been described as a reverse fear, so the enemy will attack you for 1-3 seconds (probably) and then go back to old threat model.

Being reverse fear does that mean instead of being unable to use any skills but interrupt, you can use all skills at once against the taunter…. Awesome!

Heh, Hyenas are perfect the way they are, i’ve seen them in south africa, they ain’t pretty. They are also a very interesting (in a sort of creepy way) animal. Take this for instance… http://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/10/worlds-weirdest-giving-birth-through-a-kitten/

Hey out of interest, what’s valuable about this coat box? THink I got one and it was an a rare soulbound, I salvaged it and got the skin. What else are you supposed to do with them?

Incidentally, if I look up the one recipie I made with pears before I ran off to kill world bosses, I can see that it says I have 73 pears left. This is really quite annoying.

So there are several ingredients that I have but cannot see in the discovery pane. For instance I have pears, and regardless of whether I deposit to inventory or have them in my actual backpack they are not a food that shows up in the discovery pane. However they were their before I ran off and did some world bosses. I really can’t figure this vanishing unusable food thing out but it totally wasted one of my crafting boosts. Anyone else see this odd behavior?

EpicHenchman.6594:

As Pifil mentioned, some things are once per account/day rather than character/day purely because it would stop people from creating extra characters solely to farm these rewards and have unfair advantage over someone who wants to focus on one.

But when it comes to the ascended materials i think it is due to Anet wanting ascended to feel more like a personal long term goal like legendary rather than just another gear tier that is required for the harder parts of the game.

And as said before they are all account bound, so outfitting all your characters in the same stuff is redundant. I also have to clarify, all other gear tiers give a +25% increase over their previous tier, ascended on the other hand only gives a 5% increase over exotic. That shows that it is more of a bragging right rather than a necessity. So if you really don’t want to take the time to get it then don’t bother with it because nobody is forcing you and the actual benefit is marginal.

I thought the same way regarding ascended… but as it turns out my swapping ranger and engi don’t quite use the same superior runes… just saying.

As each dungeon has it’s own “looking for” would you be happy if they just had a pvp group sub-category?

Figure I’ll use my 400 Gem stones acheived through my AP milestone (5k?) to buy her the rose boquet…. just in case have backup real dozen roses, but I know which I’d prefer The chocolates have nice shrink and grow effects though……

Oddly enough this has actually been a very informative post. I’d never come across the star crossed Bandito and Seraphette before.

segman.3560:

i’ve got a musician perfect for the situation!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILcBuUjmsJI

ok that was truly awful.

So my girlfriend suggested a romantic valentine’s day in Tyria (it’s really cold here in the real world). Although it was somewhat of a joke it got me to thinking… what are the most romantic vistas, and activities to partake in. Suggestions?

Incidentally whats the going rate in gold to higher a quartet of musicians to play a romantic ballad, and what instruments would you want in the group?

Thaddeus.4891:

shion.2084:

So basically the Assassin meta relies on the fact that you are using nades? I run bomb/EG/random as I disilike nades. So would it then be suboptimal for me? I do take traits that proc off crits, like burning…. My thought had always been this is an only if you run gernades thing…

I didn’t do the math for a non nade build and never saw trust worthy number for non nades build. After all ppl that take time to that kind of stuff try to do it for optimal setup. So I can’t tell you if you are better with assassins or zerker for your build.

My instinct tell me that Zerker will be better for you (I could be wrong on that), but keep in mind that whatever setup or profession you are using the difference between Assassins and Zerker is ALWAYS pretty small. You can either go zerker gear or assassins gear and still do pretty decent.

Cool, it’s not like I’m cutting edge anyway but yeah I’d always sort of suspected the Assassins is better thing would somewhat depend on what kind of engi you were using, espescially if the reason given was based on crit chance when that could be made up for with other utility skills

Incidnetally to keep my crit up, I ususally run with the elixir that grants might and fury… so I do have around 74+ crit chance when chugging.

Thaddeus.4891:

Because the PvE meta is build around procing as much as possible with your nades. There is two main things that you get from procing with the pve meta build.

1) Vulnerability : The engineer is the best at stacking that. Against regular mobs that’s not a big deal, but bosses with unshakabel decease vulnerability duration by half, which mean that most group won’t be able to cap it at 25 stacks. Two way around that, either an organized group or a engineer that can keep between 10-20 stack by himself depending on his build and if he’s good or not with his rotation. That’s a huge boost of dmg for him and for the whole team.
2) Bleeding. That’s sound weird, why bother about bleeding on a power build? That make no sense at all. But still, 20-25% of your dmg will come from condition (mostly bleeding).

Keep in mind that the difference between both is not that high. In zerker you will hit harder, but give less vulnerability, so in the end you will do a bit less dps. But the difference in dps is not a big deal, you will mostly notice the difference in the number of stack of vulnerability that you can keep up against a boss.

So basically the Assassin meta relies on the fact that you are using nades? I run bomb/EG/random as I disilike nades. So would it then be suboptimal for me? I do take traits that proc off crits, like burning…. My thought had always been this is an only if you run gernades thing…

Victory.2879:

When you can farm this many bags it’s no wonder the actual loot will be nerfed to hell.

Don’t blame Anet, blame the farmers for forcing ANet to nerf drop rates in order to preserve the economy. It’s a shame that rampant farmers so badly affect the more casual players, maybe they should look at ways to nerf drops just for the farmers or put a hard cap on the number of bags you can get per hour/day.

You know, they could deal with farming simply by counting how many bags you open in a day and then nerfing the odds after you pass thresholds. Thus the first couple, that most people who don’t farm will get, have decent chances. For all you know thi sis the case. I wonder if the poster kept track of what he got from the first 100 openings vs. the second one hundread etc.

Once you go to the sack… you’ll never look back

Oh would need to spend money to try out the new character class that’s offered, not really very economical to destroy one of my existings with their various craftings at 500.

Just out of interest, if I put the money in for this expansion, do I get some character slots like in the old GW1 expansions? Otherwise I’m going to be annoyed that to keep using my account I’ll have to fork over 800 gems when you can get five character slots on a new account for 9 bucks.

yeah kinda don’t know what to do with mine now when I get them.

ah maybe it’s stored up extra key presses on the 4 that I’m mashing when down. Even though I don’t press when I revive, I perhaps do it once during the animation of rallying or something. Thanks!

Has anyone noticed when they get revived from down that they suddenly trigger the overload rifle 4 effect. Flew off a cliff once after someone revived me because of this, but happens quite frequently to me when I do down (sometimes launching me into an AOE field or whatever have you). Sometimes I can account for this because I had used say 4 right before being downed… but sometimes I haven’t touched the skill at all and it still happens. Really wierd and mostly inconvenient.

rotten.9753:

glock.6590:

The talk is big but nothing happens. Still fighting full premades while im yolo Q’ing.

Rome wasn’t build in one day.

Dude this is GW2, you should say… Lion’s Arch wasn’t repaired in a day

I have one … wil start doing guided tours of my home instance with a one silver park visit fee

Swagger.1459:

Jana.6831:

Swagger.1459:

Jana.6831:

Swagger.1459:

Jana.6831:

Azhure.1857:

TheBlackLeech.9360:

At very least the game should still show damage splashes on opponents which have been struck.

(this, of course would not apply to projectiles or ranged attacks)

I agree here. It makes no sense that stealth is more than simple invisibility. If I strike an invisible opponent with a melee weapon then I should know that I hit them, instantly.

My L2P advise: equip a superior sigil of fire.
Edit: And there are in fact 17562481756234 indicators of where a thief is: best indicator is that thief is a melee class. So where can the thief be?

can you explain exactly how having a sigil of fire equipped is beneficial?

ok so the indicator is this???… assume that the thief is in melee range and hope that your melee weapon is equipped so you can spam #1 and pray to hit said invisible player?

Sigil of fire triggers a fireblast when you hit the opponent (with a critical hit).
Any yeah, fighting melee classes with melee weapons is a good choice – you can always go ranged but that won’t do much good against thieves.

ok so you hit the thief while they were visible and your sigil proc but they reapply stealth, now what?

ok having a ranged weapon is useless so you are sol if you don’t have a melee weapon. gotcha. playing ranged is an insta loss scenario.

stand there swinging a melee weapon around is the best anti-stealth method. so “swing and pray” is your l2p advice. seems to be a great and well thought out combat mechanic…

You can also spam aoe you will hit the thief 100%.
Edit: And they have no blocks or anything.

can you tell me all the spammable aoes per profession and build?

also, you didn’t answer my question.

I actually find it sort of fun as an engineer to play the thief guessing game… but I play with explosions and increased radius. When they vanish and I guess they’re coming for me, I give it a few seconds, turn a random quarter turn, do my 5 on rifle, and proceed to drop bombs. When I’m meleing them and they go stealth, I switch to bombs and run about hitting 5 (glue) then burning then usual. But this is abnormal for most classes and only is slightly viable for engi.

Plus I’m not very good at PVP yet so maybe when people are better I’ll just get creamed.

They also have an annoying return to start mechanic that can get them away from me, while leaving me immobilized and my AOE centered on me useless. That’s sorta annoying…

I suppose you could swap out the quickening zephyr for the signet that does condi’s…. and the zephyr gives you a stun break… but still doesn’t seem to be enough condi removal / speed. I ususally main an engineer so I’m a bit spoiled in carrying my Healing Turrent and EG around with speedy kits.

Incidnetally, with that build in meta-battle, how are you dealing with mobility (speed) an important aspect for dungeons at times, stability, and condition removal?

Would mixing in some Assassins not be a bad idea when looking a that metabattle build ? Notice that it’s all zerker. Whats the crit %?

Ranger seems a logical choice, There’s not as many buttons to hit and long bow is reasonably effective. You can assisst with spotter and frost spirit. You’re right in that to play many of the engineer builds you’ve got to have some serious ADD.

or you could face roll a guardian build and take the traits that do things like remove the groups conditions with shouts. That’s what I have my GF run and she’s always the last one standing.

I always carry E-gun…. but I PVE and fractal. Take one of the more vexxing bosses, Mai Tran.

If your fighting say Mai Tran, who does a tonne of damage via condtions, you can stand second row and do fumigate (while causing poison). You can crippler her with #2 while speeding all your allies (keeping her crippled helps quite a bit). You can acid bomb leap escape when she comes to you (does terrific damage). You can also from second row remove a condtion and give regen to a fairly large area. I also pair with bombs and the Might/Fury/Stability elixir in my build. I think the weakness hit from option 1 doesn’t work on her… but I may be incorrect.

The other nice thing about the weapon is that many of its effects are pretty useful regardless of what you trait. The acid bomb is decent damage regardless, and a great blast finisher with a water field. The cripple and speed are useful to me, the poison, adds to my power builds traited +2% per condi on an opponent, weakness is great fun (especially on ice fractal when the guy yells out your weakness makes me skick… and for meta humour I immediately pelt him with weaknesss… hehehehe). Finally condi removal, who cares how you traited, it;s condi removal and a bit of regen. Finally the toolbelt is a stun break. I run 6/6/0/0/2 typically. Assassin and zerk mostly.

1. Having played GW1.
2. the above was because of no subscription fee.

Logos.1306:

Before Sylvari players rage, let me say that I am kidding

Then one day they will come back with ravange. Asura will know about this and will form Arcane Order. Asura players who will join this group will hunt and kill all sylvari.
We will use new Arcane outfit because it look like Jedi robe. We would have secret meetings and things like that

Wouldn’t it be fun?

What will they do with this ravange item they found, and how did they get it?

Who cares about those potatoe heads anyway. (see what I did there)

Whispers is a better storyline anyway Sorry about your trouble.