Orack.9756

> @"Victros.8154" said: > After my other post about dodging, I think that I'm going to be able to pull it off (just doing solo world content, nothing difficult), but I also think I'm not going to be great at it. Would someone be so kind as to suggest a class and build that will have very high survivability, something that will be very forgiving if I miss dodges? The simpler the description, the better. I bought the game years ago but never played much, and I don't understand the complexities of builds yet. > > Thanks for any help! Hello, Here is a scourge build, it's almost impossible to die with it, and no, it's not an exageration. I build it for a friend who is 60+ yo and who was struggling since she discoverd HoT. Now she roll on content and can beat most champ. And if you'r younger, you won't beat most champ, you'll beat ALL leg/bounty and champ you will encounter. Rotation ? => Always 3 shades up (15% dmg reduction) => don't use F2 you don't need it, keep Life force for F3 - F5. F4 when CC is needed for breakbar + elite skill. Don't made the 2 minion explode, use the shadow fiend skill on CD. For weapon skill, spam all on CD, use Torch 5 the least to gain more might. It's not a raid or fractal or even dg build, that a pur solo build. Can be use in meta-event, shade are great for tagging, add a Staff + epidemic for more cleave (only in meta-event). Hope it help you as much as it helped my friend. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSABs+tjlFwmYgsK2IWKPlvTA-zxIY84fMylqdqK9zivTbA-e (Exo work too, just a bit less stat)

> @"Tazer.2157" said: > I would think Ryland is cool if I was 8. Sadly I’m not 8 and Ryland to me is a kid with daddy issues. Bangar was a better antagonist. Bangar had a genuine reason for wanting a dragon. I still don’t know why Ryland became Jormag’s champion and I don’t think the game knows why either. It skirts around the issue in the DRM with Caithe but it doesn’t tell us much. All Ryland does is make some angry noises and snarky comments. Just end the story and I really agree. Bangar was imho a very good character, like an old patriotic guy stuck on the past, all his doing his (in his head) for the best of his people and I really loved this side of him. The face design, actor voice and so are very good for him. That because of this char, for the 1st time I was in the story and wanted to know more. Until now, all story of this game was pretty meh to me (don't judge me, I played teso for a long term and I'm now used to more when it come to story in mmorpg). And tbh, the middle/end of this story-arc was extremely disapointing so far.. I mean, I see what they've tryed to do, but it was so badly introduce that it killed all the good about this story for me. (Hope everything is readable, my english is not that good so dunno if I've succed to explain how I feel about it)

I killed the demolisher yesterday with a friend, so, not bugged. Dunno about spawn rate or so though, just came accross randomly.

> @"Firebeard.1746" said: > Still though, this guy (who I believe is different than the others), with max magic find, opening 6k+ didn't get a SINGLE 8g ornament. That's broken. > > It's more about them advertising a drop and it not showing up at all with max MF on massive quantities and the few times we actually see it is on lower MF. > > I open 8 blue lucky bag and get 1 mini-pet, I've sell it 77g in TP. Luck / Random is like this. Got the same thing at wintersday even, open 77 gift and got the infusion, selled for 330g~ Don't expect something when you play with luck and you'll never be disapointed.

~~Yeah that it, was not sur about the translation since I play in French ^^~~ Edit : @"Aharex.9528" Nvm, it's Shader, I mess up. Here is a screen of the same mount with shader off : >!  >!

That because the post-traitement on this game is bad, remove it and you'll not have these reflexion who always have the same pink to red shade whatever color you put on them. But w/o it, it's also less beautiful imho, so you've to made a choice :/ Got almost the same color choice as yours ^^ >! 

still not fixed... Edit : Wordcobbler message helped me, thx. Nvm animation play but frost wall still close...

> @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said: > Here's a bit of information: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Eyes_for_Ears#Notes > > Good luck. Yeah I know about that, someone explained to me in-game. But it still a bug and should be fixed. Player shouldn't have to try many time a day in the hope the instance will work :/

> @"Wolfb.7025" said: > > @"Orack.9756" said: > > ^title. > > In core tyria it's "ok", but when you start HoT, uuuf, the worst experience I had with a class by far. > > I can't even solo most HP because the dps is so stupidly low than the time ran out... > > This took my attention, i'm a holo main 9k+ hours playtime only on that class alone and I can't solo a HoT HP, lol Don't give up it's just about practice, Holo have enough tool to do it unlike the core spe, take time to look at boss atk and once you know them it will be easier to no wast an important skill and staying alive to kill it ^^ Avoid full zerk however, most HP in there will kill you if you're not a minimal tanky (marauder for exemple).

Hello, I feel you, I used to love Chrono and GS, but for open world it's just not good enough. I finaly switched to Mirage after testing way to much chrono build, and I never come back, Mirage is amazing, kill trash and boss fast, ton of evasion, utility and pretty easy to play. The only downside : torment rune are very expensive. But you need them to made the build that effective, however, you won't regret it I promise. It a fast and dynamic playstyle and yet very fogiving if you do error. Here is the build I run on it : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PiABc+drlRwSYQMEmJWyP6vOA-zRRYcxHHZQjlRXVVmpq3zivTbA-e (you only need 1 axe) If you want to stick on chrono cuz you love it I don't really have solution, it's a good class but for solo open, lot of thing will be unbeatable with it. S/S are good in raid/fractal or some meta where you can stand close with not to many risk, but most of the time for solo open world it's just bad as soon as you try something harder by yourself. The problem with chrono is : the burst and especialy aoe is a fantasm on GS, and against a pack of mob like raptor, if the main target die, then the skill end too which let you with no defense. TLDR : for easy open world content chrono is fine, for harder solo, forget it, majority of other class will do way better. Like I said at start, Mirage is one of the king of open world. But please, don't use staff build. It's can be good for lazy people, but it's just bad. Damage are abysmal compared to axe/torch. Once you get used to axe you'll never come back, it's stupidly strong, I still don't have find any encounter I can't solo with it.

EDIT : Nvm I was just a noob ! The 2 sigil I've change help me a lot (leeching+energy) and now than I'm finaly familiar with all the new spell I noticed the 2 evasion, that help me a lot too now than I don't wast them. All test-champ done easily now :) Thx for the build, very funny to play. Last question I guess : Why the weakness trait in weaver instead of hp ? For now I use the hp one since I lack some dire part to reach 20k, but I'm curious about yuor choice :)

> @"Raubtiercheen.8925" said: > Hello there. > I played GW2 a few years ago, before the Expansios came out. I played only for a few weeks and wanna give it a try now again. Got all expansions now, But I really can‘t decide which class to play. > I‘m more a noob here, so I guess a simple class would be better for the start. To figure out how this all works =) But it should also be a class, that I can play in every game mode (is there such an Allrounder class?) I would like to join WvW then and be able to survive solo there. > Maybe necro or ranger. Or also engineer, but I guess engi is too difficult. But I like the idea with an hammer wielding charr :3 > What do you guys think would be nice choice ? > Thank you very much for your help. <3 There is nothing difficult about any class, it's just about personal feeling. Many people will said warrior is easy, yet I struggle with him in many encounter. Was afraid to play Ele or Engi because of what ppl said about them, well, It took me 1 day to understand and play Ele well enough to solo champ and leggy.. Engi is "hard" but not because of his playstyle but because he's really lacking of good spell and have to compensate with kit spam, which get resolved when you get elite spec who are more efficient and fun to play. So, don't be afraid about "difficulty", just read, look video, try them (go lv1, do tuto, tp in PvP, here you'll be 80 with all skill and elite spe, so just try them). Once you find 2-3 you like start leveling and by playing them you'll find what you really love. Every class have build for every content. Some are better in some aspect of the game than other but that all, nothing it's unplayable. So, really, try a bnit and pick what look fun to you :)

Thank, I'll definitly try it :)

Oh didn't see this thread ! Some of mine ^^         And finaly, my lil'boy :) 

Does this last version is the best balance between dmg and resistance ? I would love to try weaver to see, so far, like expected, most build I see from some website or youtuber was very bad for soloing a bit more difficult thing than trash mob.. Maybe I'll try a Dire version 1st to save some money ^^ You was the one who answered me about Ele on a thread I made long time ago and give me the faith to go with it. And I would like to thank you for that it's now my main. I play mostly fresh/air tempest but not the usual, I've made my personal and I've solo every champ you did + more and even some leggy. I recently killed the bandit "the quick" and the leggy who came after ^^ I've try condi tempest for a while, it's not bad but find the air one better and more convenient for the rest of the content while condi tempest is only good on boss (lack good aoe, can't reset overload and really need this + signet to get the most dmg), that why I'm curious about condi weaver. My build have less burst/resistance than yours but many recover option and distraction with both elemental glyph pet (earth one are so tanky, even the little, it's easy to end-up with 4-5 pet at the end and can swap the big one for a water to get even more heal). I'll let it here if some people want to try a fresh/air that is not in paper (perma protection + 2+ pet + many aoe + mid-range). Cast glyph in earth when you need more protection, heal glyph in water only if you take a very big it, otherwise, earth. Very easy to use, 3 heal in water with water field and explosion combo + water overload for even more (most of these skill while also heal your pet) Overload are stun-break so I don't need more of them since I overlad very often and can easily delay it a bit when I know a stun is coming. Break-bar from elite water/earth, 4 from air, 4 from water, 3+5 from earth, less ele glyph in water if need more, earth overload.. yeah, that plenty) Staff is for meta farm only. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PGwEsEmpMBWDbhVxIxS55rtD-zRJYiRX/p0kIoMhQEKiKkIGdW+dZD-e Happy new year and thanks for sharing your experience with other :)

> @"Local is Lekker.2970" said: > I played at the start of the covid pandemic, and after a really hard time got my Engineer to 80. I started working on map completion and used the hero points I got to unlock and learn Holo. I started playing again a few days ago and decided to instead go scrapper. That was a huge mistake unfortunately. My engineer is now extremely underpowered that I have finally gotten to the expansions/living world. It is really hard to kill things, and I die very easily, even with Dire equipment. > > To be honest, if there isnt a way to fix this, my alternatives to is delete the character or stop playing again. I hope you can give me a possible solution on how to reset the hero points I have spent somehow. You can change back to Holo when you want with no restriction. If you need more HP and are on EU, hit me up I'll help. Also, Dire are not made for Engi build, they tend to be more power based than condi for open world at least. Condi engi need static fight which rarely happen in open.

1 - Exploration, that the main thing that made me enjoying this game each time I log. I rarely plain anything, just log, hang out on a map, join the meta on it, then sometime I'll find a weird thing/item/place and will go look at it and most of the time find some hiden success, puzzle and so, it's amazing. Once I fall of the sky from the 1st map of HoT (don't remember the name in English) and I've land (well, crash is the most accurate word) near something I didn't now in a place where I've no clue how to acceed outside of crashing, a friend ttryed to join me to rez so we can look at it and it was a tiger nest and end-up to have a full success collection around it hidden in the world ! I've ton of exempel of that, it's amazing if you love explore map. Look at Arch lion, I know their was a pirate theme puzzle and was fun to do, and years later I find the whole lion's arch was also a puzzle ! And 1 weak ago I find a 3rd tiny puzzle again in this aera xD Well, you get the point. It's easy to find game with beautiful landscape, way more than this game (TESO, BDO, AA, etc..) but it's always easy and empty, not living at all. GW2 is for me the most succesful open world ever made in an mmorpg ^^ 2 - Mount / glider : The feeling you've when you use them.. The job they did.. It's just insane especialy when you look at the release of this, the feeling is incredible, all feel so natural. The beetle and griffin are incredibly fun and fast, love using them just for the fun of it, though jackal still my favourite with the Skyscale <3 3 - Open World Challenge ; ok, not in core Tyria, but in HoT & Pof +LSx, the world is fun and dangerous, HP become true challenge especially when you solo them, then bounty, random champ or leggy, meta event, all these thing, for most of them can be soloed with the right build and that one of the thing I enjoy the most ! That not some easy challenge even with the right build/gear many of them are still incredibly hard and will kill you over and over at the 1st little mistake. 4 - Community ; I've play many mmorpg, most of them at high level chasing the hardest content and leaderboard, and tbh, GW2 have by far the most amazing community I've ever seen on a mmorpg, really. OFC their will always be some ***, but the very far from the majority, most people will help you if you ask about anything in chat, wil happily having fun saying some stupid thing will doing event in squad, rez ppl they come accross or help a guy who struggle on a boss/mob fight naturally. That really not like this everywhere. 5 - The staff/dev does a good job. I see many complaint on the forum, but don't listen at them. If you've play many other mmorpg, you can easily see how dev actually care about there game + community and I can easily understand how hard it can be to invest in a game that old and thus how dev need to deal with low budget to keep making good content. They speak to the comunity, they fix most of the annoying bug despite what some people said, really, if someone complain about dev on this game they just have never play mmorpg that much to understand the luck they have to get dev like this in GW2. No mmorpg is and will ever be perfect for obvious reason.

> @"namelesswc.9217" said: > > @"kharmin.7683" said: > > Stat swapping, outside of legendary, is a gold sink. I think that's by design. I don't see the pressing need to alter it. > > The result is that players don't swap unless their the meta build is suggesting a different stat. > > The ability to tryout otherwise never used stats or weird stat combinations or sigils is withheld for players with legendary equipment. > > There is this cool wintersday sigil which launches snowballs on foes. Who wants to try that out if you have to buy a new 5g sigil of force or 9g sigil of malice after throwing some snowballs? Snowball is amazing for a confusion chrono build :) And to answer the TLDR : Lazy ppl won't try anything. I'm a casual, I play here and there with long break. I tested and still do many MANY build for most class, lot of them to solo hard thing. If you're afraid to "waste" gold, then, yes, don't do it, but then don't complain. This game is incredibly easy to farm and get money to try out thing. I mean dude, you don't even need to buy/farm multiple gear each time you want to try another build ! Have you ever play another mmorpg to complain about this in THIS mmo ? I highly doubt. The only rune who was stupidly expensive was the torment one, and even then it took me just 1 day to get the gold for them.. How is that long or difficult ?

Finish my explo on my Tempest and playing only him now. Wasted to much time choosing a main class. Starting S5 story and waiting patiently while having fun with friend for new chapter release. There isn't any game that will look good in 2021 for mmorpg so I'm sur to keep playing gw2 who is the most fun to me on the market. 2022 maybe if Pantheon : Rise of the fallen release (but probably not since they're again in pre-alpha), then I'll go cuz it seem to have all I ever wanted in a mmorpg.

Oh s it's not my Internet for once, was weird I got freeze and sometime DC. Looking at my internet 1st cuz it's often shitty but everything else seem to work fine.. So, now I understand.. Hope they fix this fast, I don't want a TESO v2.. I've leave for this exact reason..

Also, for Ambush it's the time you've to use it. And for cloak it is effect duration.

NP it helped me a lot. Can't help more sadly, I'm not that good with optimisation too that why I watch guide like this to keep my pc up ^^

> @"Sleepwalker.1398" said: > > @"Leonidrex.5649" said: > > @"Veprovina.4876" > > > 3 GS 3 is fine, I find nothing wrong with it, its a throw away skill that is quick to cast, easy to land and deals alright damage, plenty other classes have similar skills. > > It could be just me with Aussie lag but whenever i cast GS3, i feel like i'm immob in place for 1 second or something. > > I'm in France (EU server so good ping) and have the same feeling with this skill, pretty weird

Volatile, good money maker, can buy some jewel and since S3 is so easy to farm you don't really need bound one. Just my opinion though.

> @"Uden Reavstone.3426" said: > During the Black Friday sales, I bought a handful of level-80 boosts. Now I'm trying to figure out the fastest and easiest way to get 250 Hero Points on my new characters. I know that HoT and PoF give 10 HP per challenge, but what are the best ones? If it helps any, I have all mounts except for the Skyscale and Warclaw, and I have been to all expansion and LW locations on other characters. Like said, PoF are easier but their is less HP point. Most of the time I do the 2 1st maps from hot and 3 1st from PoF to unlock both e-spe. Also, the good thing about HoT is they are many HPs run group and despite the fact than these both can be to hard to solo for some player, just ask in chat and you'll get help very fast. I love hot map and I'm often around, I go help every time someone need help ^^