Guild Wars 2

Hi folks. I was wondering if anyone could give any thoughts on which +stat infusion they decided to go with for their ascended gear (assuming you bothered to). I am planning to purchase a few of the WvW ones and am trying to decide which will give better mileage in the long run.

I’m already somewhat inclined to one of these two but I’d like to hear some of the conclusions or arguments you guys had in favor of one or the other. Perhaps there are insights I missed or did not give enough weight on.

Thanks in advance!

“Bifrost’s projectile animation now affects Meteor Shower.”

Banzie.5248:

Wait it isnt this right now? … IoJs been playing wrong by capping all of HoD and SF things paper then and constantly just letting them recap for wxp?

To be fair, IoJ is ahead by like 120k points. Really not much point to upgrade much on the final day of the week. It think what the commanders are doing makes sense.

EDIT: What I mean to say is keeps/towers are actually upgraded/defended more vigorously earlier in the week where points are close and less when the win in secured (such as when you currently have almost double the amount of points as the next server on the last day before reset).

I’m actually tempted to swap out my Runes of Divinity for Traveler.

Master of Timespace.2548:

Sigils of force do not stack. Not even if you mix them with differend damage sigils such as Night or minor versions.

From what I’ve seen in the limited testing I’ve done, Sigil of Force stacks with Night and other +% damage sigils. It does not however stack with another Sigil of Force (i.e. a Sigil of Force in both the MH and OH).

TGSlasher.1458:

@Vyx, they buying gear of the TP is for less skilful players, the ones that get killed a lot.

You don’t say…

It might help to run with the two glyphs for Elementals (specifically Earth) and use one or the other depending on which isn’t up. Their CDs/durations last long enough to allow you to have at least one out most of the time.

At lower levels, attunement swapping is not that great with low Arcana. You’re probably better off spending your trait point directly into Fire/Air for direct stat damage increases, spending most of your time in those attunements while saving Water/Earth for emergency situations or summoning Elementals. Do not necessarily get used to this play style though as it is different at 80.

Arcane Wave/Blast are great for increasing damage.

Also, upgrade gear often (at the very least every ten levels going for at least masterwork when those become available).

The difference is that it’s fairly easy to get the same BiS exotics from the TP as from dungeons (and even some karma merchants). You can run many of these dungeons in greens/rares. CoF farming for instance will easily yield the very popular Zerker gear.

Of course it’s easier if you have the gold to just buy the gear from the TP but it’s far from impossible (or even unlikely) to get it from other sources.

In other games like Diablo 3, the only way you’ll ever really get the best gear is if you spend gold or real money on it.

I’m doing it for the gift as I have already used up the two gifts my main got. However, I only do it every few days or so as I find the whole thing tedious to do.

Avatara.1042:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Avatara.1042:

Lord Kuru.3685:

Two handed weapons already have higher stats than two one handed weapons combined. It seems Anet is satisfied with this as compensation for the sigil issue as they’ve never done anything about it.

I guess they are satisfied with all the bugs, as well as the other balance issues in the game then.

/rollseyes

Considering the amount of glaring super-easy-to-fix bugs that have been in the game since launch, I’d say that in a sense, they are satisfied to have those left in the game.

You are confusing incompetence with acceptance.

The same could be said about your statement by the way…

Don’t you remember all the DRAGONs we BASHed not too long ago? That was it, I think.

But to be serious here, I don’t think the dragon’s stories will continue until an expansion comes out (or at least start at a pre-expansion LS). The thing is, if they release such content in the LS now, they would have a lot less to sell later on when they finally do get around to releasing an expac.

You know… just play the game.

Really.

Fact of the matter is I probably would not play this game if all the characters and skins were ugly.

I wish they’d replace is with something, even if it’s a non-combat stat.

Like +Gold Find or +Experience.

Hell, +Sparkles even.

They will likely be Account Bound as the resource needed to craft them is supposedly gated similar to Charged Quartz Crystals.

Delvoire.8930:

Sigils do boost stats…..

Superior Sigil of Bloodlust gives you +10 Power for every kill.. (max 25 stacks)
Superior Sigil of Perception gives you +10 Precision for every kill.. (max 25 stacks)

Now you’re just being silly…

Anyway, I have another important question though, how will Infusions factor in for 2-handed weapons. Will there be two infusion slots (i.e. we can socket 10 agony resistance) or will we be stuck with a max of 5 agony resistance unless we dual wield two 1-handed weapons. I’ve already felt the pinch with being able to use only one sigil but will we get the shaft with infusions also?

So it seems the update on Sept 3 will remove MF on gear. What will happen to MF on Celestial? It’s going to be really annoying to me if it just goes away without any replacement at all…

Thanks LightningBlaze. Is there a strat for Subject 7 though? I have been banging my head against Deadeye and I’ve come to the conclusion that latency is far too much against me (and that fight depends too much on not lagging). I figured Subject 7 is a lot friendlier to higher latency connections (despite the fact that other mobs spawn).

As an added note, is it intended now that they enter combat as soon as you enter the platform…?

Does anyone have any good builds/combos/tips that can be used for this achievement? Perhaps even a video guide? It’s becoming quite frustrating – and expensive.

Lingering Elements has been broken since the beginning of time.

To quote the bug thread:

Lingering Elements — Function Issue/Tooltip Issue
Only Flame Barrier, Zephyr’s Speed, and Soothing Mist 5 point minor traits are affected by this trait. Does not work with Stone Flesh minor trait or other traits.

So yes, I too would change LE for almost anything else.

NdranC.5107:

I would like to know everybody’s opinion on this as well, both for pve and pvp. Seems like dropping boon duration would cause fury uptime to drop significantly and in longer fights I wouldn’t be able to keep up 20+ stacks on might on everybody around me. That’s one of the problems I have with my elementalist’s builds, since I always roll with friends, it feels like dropping aura share and/or boon duration is too big of a dps loss for my whole team while I gain a decent but probably not comparable amount of damage.

By the way, I don’t know if I interpreted that part of your statement correctly, but do know that boon duration on allies are determined by their +boon duration even if you applied the boon to them (i.e. if you have 60% boon duration and you apply a 10 second buff, it will last 16 seconds on you but still only 10 seconds on an ally that has +0% boon duration).

Therefore, dropping your boon duration runes will affect the boons on you but will have no effect on boons you apply to allies (in this case, “your whole team”).

I wish Chain’s initial damage was significantly higher at least making it a decent single target option. Something like instead of 100-100-100 on the bounces, it would be 150-100-50. Of course, the overall damage done would still be weak but at least it would be a little more decent for single target.

hihey.1075:

The only Celestial piece I always carry with me and which I find to be kind of OP is the headgear.
1% more critical damage than the berseker is enough for me to trade that power and small precision loss with toughness, vitality and, why not, healing. Condition Damage is a bonus.

The chest and pants also have 1% more crit than zerker, by the way.

I would like to thank the 10 or so DH folks who I passed by today in the EB jumping puzzle. It was the first time I’ve ever seen the outmanned buff in the jumping puzzle, making it exceptionally tense. It was very nice of you to let me reach the top. I never start a fight in the jumping puzzle even if my server outnumbers the other(s).

I think a special mention though has to be given to the one person that DID attack me. A thief who was waiting at the top, near the chest – who by the way got his kitten spanked by my Staff Ele.

I’m 99.99% sure that you can’t.

I assume that’s a different weapon set since it makes no sense with staff (which is what I use). Hehe.

A fully upgraded camp is quite easy with staff (even with hyleks, etc). Hardest part would be making sure they don’t all swing at you at the same time.

Anyway, I think we’re derailing the thread.

Fuzzion.2504:

You are best of using the water elemental. Its not the best healer, or not even a decent healer, but it sure locks down your target and can tank much more since they updated the pets.

The earth pet tanks very well but its a waste unless you are PvD. But even for solo camp tanking, the water elemental can do the job.

I dunno… I feel like my Water Ele gets slapped around easily when I solo cap upgraded/special vet defended camps whereas with my Earth Ele, I don’t even have to worry about it.

Thank you covenn for attempting to provide a screenshot. However, Caffynated is right. I know Meteor Shower can hit for that hard. However, the OP’s claim was that auto-attacks were hitting for 9-10k on a target that’s not even knocked down.

Bluefox.9580:

Using this build, I’ve hit knocked down targets under 33% hp for over 12k with my auto attack alone. A normal hit was roughly 9-10k on the same target not knocked down.

I don’t believe it – unless maybe he’s a level one running around attacking rats.

Does anyone have tips for soloing the T4 events of Kiel/Evon as either staff/scepter? Perhaps you have (or know of) a video showing how it can be done and with what build/gear set-up?

Due to latency issues, I can’t resort to a melee build (D/D, Lightning Hammer). I have tried and my character ends up swinging her weapon with the plunderer right in front of her yet getting “Miss” messages.

So the only way I can do this is with ranged weapons or if I resort to groups. Any help would be appreciated.

I’m sure he had a focus and sword at one point. He did use Temporal Curtain’s pull followed by a Blurred Frenzy immediately after. However, we fought each other at least three different times (where I was solo defending a camp in our BL) so it IS possible he switched his secondary weapons (to torch) to combat me specifically in between our fights.

Yes, he was solo roaming (except for a few times he had a thief with him to try to take the camp I was defending).

I’ll take a look at that build you mentioned Colly. It’s possible that it’s that. I must admit, I’ve never used a torch before (except to level the skill) so I’ll look more into it. I just know it felt like he kept pumping out so many illusions that it was annoying.

I’m not sure how you’re achieving 9-10k crits with Staff auto-attack… Could you perhaps show a screenshot of this happening? Or better yet, a video.

He definitely did not shatter his illusions. The only time I ever took a huge hit was when he popped Chaos Storm over where we were fighting (possibly Phantasm crits?). I do not have the logs anymore unfortunately. He stayed mostly in staff though. I am not sure though if his damage was mostly from conditions or physical (I would assume conditions).

Also, he seemed to be turning invisible a lot. I assumed it was due to Decoy but thinking about it now, he should not have been able to stealth that often.

Hi folks. I’m looking for this particular Mesmer build/gear set up which was used against me in WvW earlier.

Some of the key things I noticed were:
- Staff and (possibly) Sword/Focus
- A LOT of Illusions
- Decoy seemed to have a really low CD. Same with Phase Retreat.
- He seemed to heal for a lot as well (though i don’t know what the source is).
- Deceptive Evasion
- Also seemed to have a very high amount of Endurance

Although I know it would be very hard to state exactly what his build or gear was. I was just wondering what it more or less was. Perhaps there are others who use a very similar build that can enlighten me. Thanks!

Rixxon.7531:

would love to see more of the MAIN storyline, not these side stories. The new patches feel so irrelevant to the actual game, it feels like that things that happen in the living story don’t even matter in the end when it comes to lore. Its just pure fillers

QFT.

Hi akamon. Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify, I am quite familiar with Fractals already as I do them at lvl 38 on my Ele with PUGs entirely (my guild just has no interest in it). >.<

That link to guildwars2guru.com is exactly what I need to get started though. Thanks!

Hi. I’ve seen the advantage of having one or two guardians for fractals especially the higher level ones so I’m thinking of gearing up my 80 guardian alt to do fractals. But the truth is, I really don’t know where to start.

Is there perhaps an updated guide I can begin with that focuses primarily on building/speccing a guardian specifically for high level fractals?

If not, perhaps those with experience can answer a few of these questions.

1. What build would you recommend that I follow? I assume every good fractal build would at least have 10 in virtues up for the ability to spec into Master of Consecration (or fights where reflect would be quite useful).

2. Which utility skills are most useful for fractals? I assume Wall of Reflection is a must for some fights. How about Sanctuary? Would the rest be shouts? How about signets?

3. What weapons would be most efficient to use?

4. For gear, I’m inclined to think that a full Knight’s set would be most effective. Is that accurate?

Thank you in advance.

That is a very different interpretation than what I got from the wording. It seemed like if that was implied then the words they used were inappropriate in the wiki.

So consequently, I decided to test the theory out anyway with two Sigils of the Night and it seems that they do indeed stack from the limited testing I did.

(At night) I used Scepter Lightning auto-attack and compared the (total) damage on a practice dummy with a (1) OH Dagger with a second Sigil of the Night, and (2) a Focus without a Sigil of the Night. Both items had the same stats (zerker) to prevent that from influencing the result and the (1) option seems to put out consistently higher damage than (2).

However, I only did this with a sample of 10 full channeled attack per offhand (as I have limited interest in theory crafting) and got bored with it quickly.

I found this guide helpful for my ranger:

http://www.guildwarsguidebase.com/professions/guild-wars-2-ranger-build/

You might want to take a look at it. Of course there are many ways to level a ranger but this is that site’s suggestion.

Also, it’s probably best to stick to zones for your level (the map tells you what level is appropriate to each zone). Do your story quest as your level reaches the level of that mission.

Do hearts/dynamic events as you come across them in a zone and generally just have fun exploring.

Ex. Do two Sigils of the Night stack?

GW2Wiki has this to offer:

Static bonuses stack with themselves when used on dual-wielded weapons, except for Superior Sigil of Force (only +5% bonus to damage) and Superior Sigil of Accuracy (only +5% bonus to crit chance).

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I would like to assume that it means the answer is yes, Sigils of the Night stack, but I’ve come across several threads now (on other sites) that seem to suggest otherwise. Is the wiki information still quite accurate? Do two sigils of the night give +20% to all damage at night?

Something like that would be fine then. I just wish Anet would confirm it already! :P

Hi, this is just a basic query on whether or not those two items will be returning to the Gem Store? I was not able to purchase them at the time they were out due to lack of funds but I am now interested in buying them. I recently bought the Chop-It-All axe via gems purchased and would like to also buy the Pick and Sickle.

Has there been any word (or any plans) for this? Thanks in advance.

Sounds likes ome people feel they are “entitled” to be the only ones with the title.

dbgfeller.8120:

Why can I only take one new dagger skin? I play d/d Ele and there is no point of having two different daggers for me. I love the Zenith-skins, but only if I can have two of them. And why are they soulbound? Why don’t u just make tickets like before?

Why, Anet.. WHY?! Even if you make great new content, these dumb little things are destroying my motivation to play gw2!

Open your achievement panel, click dagger skin, click withdraw as many times as you want.

I am not encountering this issue with staff and FGS.

LordByron.8369:

PvE
0/20/0/25/25

is the best adaptation imho.
At least for dungeons and fotms

What traits did you get with Dueling?

Hi. I’m looking for some suggestions on a Phantasm Mesmer build post-patch. A lot of the guides are ideas are based on the 5pts minimum investment in Illusions but that skill has since been moved to the 25pt level. I was using the 20/20/0/25/5 build but that’s obsolete now. Any suggestions?

I liked the first boss.

I disliked how long the second boss fight was (the mechanics were fine – it just seemed too long, like the cannon phase).

Uhm… what? This seems like a pretty good dungeon to me. The only part I dislike is how much health the last boss has. Feels like overkill.

Yeah, I was under the impression Sigil of Fire won’t be too great since it’s based on crit chance and doesn’t hit for a large amount (besides, staff has a lot of AOE already).

I am currently using Sigil of Energy actually but I feel like I might be able to let go of the extra endurance it gives in many fights. I already have Bloodlust on one weapon and am just curious what the swap weapon should be.