Guild Wars 2

Thanks, I’m gonna wait to upgrade gear/ do HoT zones until after I’ve cleared the Orr zones for gear

Look here, it was linked in a thread I posted yesterday and contains a tonne of helpful info

http://dulfy.net/2014/07/21/gw2-mesmer-pve-class-guide-by-sanderinoa/

OriOri.8724:

stealth.5482:

Also, I need a hell of a lot of HERO points to fully unlock Chrono. I have around 5 – 8 Tyria Maps left to explore (at work cant view map). I have also noticed since I last played there is a lot of new 80 maps coloured pink, I guess these are all HoT zones?

I there a lot more Hero points on the HoT maps? As I’m only getting around 6 per day at the moment doing the Map completion

So heres the thing about HP. Its impossible to max chrono without getting some HP from HoT maps (you fall 30-40 HP short if you just use the ones from core tyria. Getting all the HP in WvW will make up some of that, but not enough to complete the chrono line). However, the HP in HoT maps are much more difficult than the ones in central tyria maps, so they award 10 HP each. This means that if you fully map complete core tyria before stepping foot in VB, AB, TD, or DS, you will only need to get a few of the HP in those maps to be able to fully unlock Chronomancer. On top of that, if you do WvW you will get a few Proofs of Heroics. These can be used to “buy” HP from WvW vendors. Its a 1-1 trade, you “buy” 1 HP with 1 proof of heroic, and then 1 of the HP in core tyria you haven’t finished yet is automatically finished for you and you are given that HP. This also works for HoT maps, but since those hero challenges give 10 HP each, they cost 10 proofs of heroics. Note that which one it “completes” for you is random, so I know some people will get all of the easy HP in HoT maps and then use Proofs of Heroics to skip the more frustrating ones (like mushroom queen in TD).

As for skin unlocks, like Fay said its a broad topic. There are over 4,000 skins in this game. Some (~290) come from dungeons, so its unlikely that those make up a substantial portion of the cool skins that you see people wearing.

Ah ok, so is there certain skin (Karma) vendors in one place or are they spread out around the various maps?

Ok so I guess my plan is to complete this 55- 60 map, get 375 WS and then go Orr and complete those 80 maps for exotics/rares. Then I’ll have a look at the HoT maps and hit some dungeons this weekend

thanks

Also, I need a hell of a lot of HERO points to fully unlock Chrono. I have around 5 – 8 Tyria Maps left to explore (at work cant view map). I have also noticed since I last played there is a lot of new 80 maps coloured pink, I guess these are all HoT zones?

I there a lot more Hero points on the HoT maps? As I’m only getting around 6 per day at the moment doing the Map completion

OriOri.8724:

Try dungeons! They are in a pretty perfect spot difficulty wise imo right now. For players who are new they can still be deadly, but if you pay attention and learn the fight/your class well enough they are pretty easy to fly through.

Also try fractals, and definitely explore the HoT maps. If for nothing else just do it long enough to unlock lean teahniques mastery (which increases your gliding endurance).

Open up the LFG tool (default ‘Y’) and hop on a world boss train.

Do the LW story (HoT, LWS3, and LWS2 if you have it). It gives you a lot of good experience playing with your class with reasonably difficult mobs, as well as gives out free goodies (and mastery experience, which you could put towards gliding or anything else really).

There is so much to do in this game that sometimes it can be hard to know what to do next. But I say go out and try everything, see what you like. Don’t focus just on map completion, its a great way to burn yourself out on this game (unless you are one of those people that loves it above all else) because it can get tedious at times.

If you do want to continue to do map completion, then I say the best place to start is to go to Orr and do those 3 maps. Not only do you gain a lot of karma there (which can be used to buy lots of skins, as well as exotic temple armor), but the event chains there are among the most difficult in core tyria (though still pretty easy honestly) which is just a great way to learn how to play mesmer better. Plus I think those maps are some of the best in the game aesthetics wise.

Best thing you can do is twofold. Try out a bunch of different types of content, and then set goals for yourself. They could be map completion, getting all exotic/ascended gear, collection achievements (or achievements in general), dungeon completion, world bosses etc…. Just pick something and go for it

I did wonder where everyone got all these cool skins from. Are they the ascended armour or are they skins? I got my weaponsmithing to like 340 today, so I think one more 60 map will be enough to farm the mats required to able to use the mats in the Orr maps. The last time I played there was an app for tracking when the world events were happening, however, it wasnt very accurate.

Thanks for those links, thats a great place to start!

Ive now completed all maps upto 6o and am currently progressing through 55 – 65 before going 60 and 60 – 70. What other content should I be doing, keeping in mind my low gear level?

Should I hit dungeon spam or do HoT content or carry on as I am with Maps?

Thanks

Djeraya.4379:

I think you don’t need to change your zerker/assa pieces, but you should try to get a rune with boon duration plus a bit additional duration.

http://qtfy.enjin.com/mesmer

The build/guide is already being updated to reflect the patch changes.
Above linked optimized version has legs as commander and 1 berserker exo-backpiece with platinum dubloon, rest full asc zerker.

Farming for leadership rune (30% boon duration) could take a while, so meanwhile getting 20% could be an option, for example through 4x traveler, 2x water (costs: 3g overall).
Other than that sigil of concentration gives 33% (use weaponswap to proc boon duration).
For tanking you just change 1-3 zerker trinkets to knight’s.

You can play around with this editor, for example if you want to keep as many of your current gearpieces as possible to see the differences or if you want to take more boon duration via platinum dubloon etc: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/

That link is exactly what I’ve been looking for, thanks a lot!

Hi,
I made my Mesmer a litter under 2 weeks ago after around 2 years afk since playing my ele. So far I’m loving Chrono, but I’m not 100% on what to do next. I levelled purely though Map completion which is now roughly 70% and I havent touched anything above level 60. I did the first part of HoT to unlock masteries as all the guides suggested as soon as i hit 80. Today, I bought some Berserker Accessories as they were all lacking. I’ve been doing the Map completion in order to try and farm materials relative to my crafting levels which is 200 ish for both weaponsmithing and artificer, as the end goal is to craft Bolt.

I did a couple of Dungeons today and they went pretty good, was in a strong group. And here in comes the bulk of questions:

Im not 100% sure on what I should be doing, ive basically been Summoning adds, shattering for quickness buff and using Con Split prior to using Timewarp and (shield thing forget it’s name)Shield reflect so I get the second charge. Ive tried switching between Illusion/Dom and Insp and not really sure which is the best to use. Also It’s going to take some time before I fully unlock Chrono, im around 38% at the moment.

What is the better 2nd weapon? Ive read staff, GS and sword/sword which has me confused. Using a staff at the moment purely because it was the highest level item I had at the time

https://gw2efficiency.com/c/Anemoí

Thanks

Im running a 1080 and with a 4790k @ 4.6ghz, absolute max settings at 1440P and i sit between 100 and 200 FPS, depends whats happening on the screen.

Ok great, think ill stick to levelling the Mesmer if that’s the case and see how it goes. Are they needed for the 5 man?

Hi, I originally played GW2 as pre-order and beta. I played a thief to 80 but got distracted and quit for a long time. When i returned my Thief was on a NA server (no idea how this happened). So I started again and levelled an Ele to 80 which is now in full Zerk crafted gear. I’ve just come back after probably another 2 years and ordered HoT. It’s been so long since i played the ele that im not even sure how i would play it anymore.

So at the moment im stuck.

a) try and learn the Ele again and try and hit some dungeons etc. I was thinking of doing this and grinding Bitfrost.

Ele toon:

https://gw2efficiency.com/account/character/Ay%C3%A1o

b) I fancy a new character to get to grips with the game again, been looking at Chrono (Mesmer currently 15 started yesterday) and Necro (currently 6).

I was all clear on Chrono and then i’ve read all kinds of stuff about nerfs to Chrono boons making them less viable and nerfs to Necro cond builds. As I dont play a high level char im not sure what to make of these nerfs or how they affect actual top level play. I basically liked the look of the time aspects of the chrono, but dislike the low damage. How does this affect solo open world play?

I dont want to play a class that is getting dumped from groups, pretty just had that with Warlock in WoW with the new Myth+ dungeons.

I wanna play long term this time, there’s a lot more going now at top level than there was previously. I’ll be like 90% focused on PVE content.

Also, is there any new version of the original Legendaries introduced with HoT or previous patches? Or should i just pursue the original one?

A lot of questions, i just want to make sure I make the correct decision before dedicating a tonne of time into a toon I don’t enjoy/cant get groups with

Thanks in advance