Guild Wars 2

[maun]

I'm no pro at the game, but am up to 29 on my ele. My advice would be not to try and tank anything, keep running in circles and avoid as much damage as possible. I am fighting 2 things that are a 1-2 levels higher than me and coming out at 100% health a lot of the time through avoiding damage.
I do agree though, we are very squashy and will get 3 hit's and your dead a lot of the time, but trying to avoid the damage is a good chunk of the fun with the combat

Thanks for the reply/help.

I am finding that it just takes 3/4 hits and im dead lol, i need to get into the habbit of moving/dodging more it would seems etc.

Is there a stat which lowers the incomming damage at all? or would that just be better armour/armour rating etc?

Thanks again

 

[Xordium]

I seem to be struggling with my Elementalist all of a sudden

I got to level 20, and im struggling to stay alive. Has anyone else noticed this with another cloth wearer? (im prolly just doing something silly)

Let's say you are using a staff - attune to fire. AOE (5) on your immediate area, use the 2 on the mob then spam 1 - the mob will then come in burning into your aoe - at that point 4 therefore you roll back leaving another wall of fire for the mob to run through.

Don't forget that you get a root through the earth signet you can attune to air hit 4 and get some good distance etc

You've got dodges but tbh most melee mobs can be avoided by walking backwards circle strafing them.

You'll get it -its part of being the glass cannon - if you lose control then you lose the fight. Alternatively you could switch to 2 x daggers etc which I tend to do if soloing and keep the staff for WvW and group work.

Speccing for earth will help you take damage. Just read the tool tips and read up on a build and see what works for you. For levelling I see no reason not to whack everything in fire whenever possible, but a lot of your defenses come from the 6,7,8,9.0 buttons as they open up - eg you can move into a mistform immune to all damage for 3 secs and it breaks all roots, snares etc so you use that to escape and then use your heal when you come out of mist form.

I guess at the end of the day you can't expect to stand and cast - it's all about mobility.

 

[No1newts]

Just monitor your emails, if your getting spammed with password reset emails, just check your account.

When you say check the account what can I check?

Hope they launch an authenticator, that = problem solved.

 

[LateX'Dog]

When you say check the account what can I check?

Hope they launch an authenticator, that = problem solved.

If you log into the guild wars 2 site and into your account, there is a security link that takes you to a site which tells you the IP address, physical location and whether they logged in and off. This should help you identify if someone is gaining access to your account or not.

But then you have the email verification option and the password tips from everybody here. You should be absolutely fine.

 

[Nemeses]

You can be in guilds even if you are on a different server, which makes Immortals hardline stance even more baffling.

O give it a rest its our guild to run as we see fit if you don't like the rules don't ask to join its pretty damn simple.

These rules have beem in place for about 10 years love the way a few whiners want us to change our guild rules to suit them.

I, like I'm sure 90% of this thread must be sick to their teeth of people having a whine about The Immortals, and no this is not the same as posting about recruitment on here.

If you don't like me, tough, if you don't like The Immortals tough, but for god-sake stop whining on here about us, we don't whine about you please pay us and the rest of this thread user the same courtesy.

No one has to join us, our rules are there to keep exactly the type of people whining about us out.

read our rules, don't like them just move on!!

 

[chid76]

Thanks for the reply/help.

I am finding that it just takes 3/4 hits and im dead lol, i need to get into the habbit of moving/dodging more it would seems etc.

Is there a stat which lowers the incomming damage at all? or would that just be better armour/armour rating etc?

Thanks again

I think toughness will help reduce the incoming damage and vitality will improve you health pool.
Personally I have tried to keep my stats balanced when it comes to collecting rewards from quest, but have been leaning towards precision to help with crit, because the more I crit the faster the thing dies
Just make sure you are going back to the heart quest people once you have completed a quest and keep your gear upto date.
I find that I am using the sceptre and focus most of the time for medium range running around pew pewing stuff and swapping to staff for AOE goodness when its a big group quest.

 

[Rainagul]

So people who exploited should make up the top 5% of the wealth, and not those who earn it? Nice logic. This is why Diablo 3's economy was completed ****ed, because people exploited it and Blizzard didn't give a ****, in-game money worth plumetted, and only items had any value.

I'm sorry if you think that the money pumped into the economy via an exploit should stay, but it will only damage the game over time, it needs to be removed, and people should count themselves lucky that ANET are giving only a 72 hour ban and reversing perma bans.

Normally I would completely agree with you.

However, the fact that this "exploit" was literally people using Karma to get weapons (as intended by ANet) and choosing the sell them instead of using them makes me question Anet.

I honestly don't see what the issue is, Arenanet should have been aware that the weapons could be sold for so much and could have caused issues.

Also this would be a non-issue if everyone was doing it since everyone would be benefitting.

Just as a side note: I played GW1 back in the day when someone actually EXPLOITED guild wars by hacking the game and changing the prices of rare materials to nothing. That is what I call a proper exploit and Anet did a rollback. I don't see why they couldn't have just done the same here.

 

[TheBrooder]

Is anyone getting decent fps in large WvW battles, if so what spec do you have?

On the lowest settings I can drop to around 12fps which is a pain. I only have a 6850 and i5 750 @ 3.2. I'm not sure if it's lack of optimization though.

 

[Nemeses]

Normally I would completely agree with you.

However, the fact that this "exploit" was literally people using Karma to get weapons (as intended by ANet) and choosing the sell them instead of using them makes me question Anet.

I honestly don't see what the issue is, Arenanet should have been aware that the weapons could be sold for so much and could have caused issues.

Also this would be a non-issue if everyone was doing it since everyone would be benefitting.

Just as a side note: I played GW1 back in the day when someone actually EXPLOITED guild wars by hacking the game and changing the prices of rare materials to nothing. That is what I call a proper exploit and Anet did a rollback. I don't see why they couldn't have just done the same here.

wow really people could clearly see that this was not intended yet they went ahead and still did it, only bad think here is they reversed it.

If anyone in our guild was found to be involved in this there would definitely be no second chance, its a mentality thing that makes people cheat, you either have it or you don't.

 

[Rainagul]

wow really people could clearly see that this was not intended yet they went ahead and still did it, only bad think here is they reversed it.

If anyone in our guild was found to be involved in this there would definitely be no second chance, its a mentality thing that makes people cheat, you either have it or you don't.

Why wouldn't it be seen as intended? Selling something you've earned in game isn't exactly gamebreaking.

 

[Shamikebab]

Why wouldn't it be seen as intended? Selling something you've earned in game isn't exactly gamebreaking.

Selling hundreds (in some cases thousands) isn't intended and is clearly cheating.

 

[RDM]

Normally I would completely agree with you.

However, the fact that this "exploit" was literally people using Karma to get weapons (as intended by ANet) and choosing the sell them instead of using them makes me question Anet.

I honestly don't see what the issue is, Arenanet should have been aware that the weapons could be sold for so much and could have caused issues.

Also this would be a non-issue if everyone was doing it since everyone would be benefitting.

It was blindingly obvious that it was a bug. Tier 1 weapons? Thousands of karma. Tier 3 weapons? Thousands of karma. Tier 2 weapons? 21 karma. The three vendors are right next to each other and the weapons are for a specific level range.

 

[Rainagul]

Selling hundreds (in some cases thousands) isn't intended and is clearly cheating.

I have hundreds of auctions of WoW every day, I sell probably upwards of 200+ trash items a day. Is that not intended?

I am firm in my belief that this is a shortcoming of Anet, they should have just made the weapons worth nothing from the start to avoid this.
People are just using the in-game selling mechanics as they were intended and implemented.

"It was blindingly obvious that it was a bug. Tier 1 weapons? Thousands of karma. Tier 3 weapons? Thousands of karma. Tier 2 weapons? 21 karma. The three vendors are right next to each other and the weapons are for a specific level range. "

Then I would critisize Anet. For all the beta tests/alpha tests of the game and they couldn't pick up on something that "blindingly obvious", seems a little weird to me.

 

[Nemeses]

I have hundreds of auctions of WoW every day, I sell probably upwards of 200+ trash items a day. Is that not intended?

I am firm in my belief that this is a shortcoming of Anet, they should have just made the weapons worth nothing from the start to avoid this.
People are just using the in-game selling mechanics as they were intended and implemented.



Then I would critisize Anet. For all the beta tests/alpha tests of the game and they couldn't pick up on something that "blindingly obvious", seems a little weird to me.

lol cheaters always find a excuse for why they cheat.

 

[Mockingbird]

lol you joking right, so you so its OK to cheat, and get just a slight slap, if people cheat they should get a perma ban ,, they deserve it, and more to the point when they don't other people tend to not want to play the game as its ruined by the low life cheats.

Problem is, see an opportunity, take it (to personal gain) = exploiting. It's not cheating, it's exploiting. Significant difference. Either way, perma-ban = they just took £50 from you.

Personally, I wouldn't use an exploit like that to make money. I can't say I wouldn't snap one up for my character (same as if I saw a i5 processor accidentally listed for i3 money IRL I'd probably buy one and wait for it to ship before I emailed the company unless I knew someone there/had a good history with them) but I wouldn't bulk-buy to make cash.

I think a MUCH better solution would be to permanently disable all the characters currently on the account, delete the bank contents and gift them that many new character slots. Essentially, they have to start over, they lose their ill-gotten gains and EVERY TIME THEY LOG IN they are reminded that they got busted.

 

[Nemeses]

Problem is, see an opportunity, take it (to personal gain) = exploiting. It's not cheating, it's exploiting. Significant difference. Either way, perma-ban = they just took £50 from you.

Personally, I wouldn't use an exploit like that to make money. I can't say I wouldn't snap one up for my character (same as if I saw a i5 processor accidentally listed for i3 money IRL I'd probably buy one and wait for it to ship before I emailed the company unless I knew someone there/had a good history with them) but I wouldn't bulk-buy to make cash.

I think a MUCH better solution would be to permanently disable all the characters currently on the account, delete the bank contents and gift them that many new character slots. Essentially, they have to start over, they lose their ill-gotten gains and EVERY TIME THEY LOG IN they are reminded that they got busted.

of course its cheating, nothing but cheating and it take as mindset that I will cheat when ever given the chance, its just how some people are made.

No the best thing here was to ban them for ever that sends out a clear and strong message, as cheats will always be cheats.

 

[Utnac]

People getting mad that they got banned?

It's not the act of selling Karma-purchased items, it's the act of doing it with an item that was obtained on the cheap, in the 10s of thousands through a bug. You exploited, deal with it.

 

[Raumarik]

I actually like that ANet are heavy handed with exploiters and bot users. Makes a change from the usual of doing nothing!

They aren't subscriptions based and dont' want the economy wreaked so it's in their interest, unless subs based games where it's an extra "customer". Totally agree though it's nice to see!

 

[ThomBassmonkey]

lol you joking right, so you so its OK to cheat, and get just a slight slap, if people cheat they should get a perma ban ,, they deserve it, and more to the point when they don't other people tend to not want to play the game as its ruined by the low life cheats.

That excuse its utter rubbish, did not think it thought but I thought it through enough times to do it 30 times over!

One thing worse that cheats is people like you who apologies for them.

It's no wonder your guild is a hub for drama when you tell someone that they're worse than a cheat just because you disagree.

Nowhere did I say it's ok to cheat.

The thing I think people are missing is that you can use multiple items in the forge in Lion's Arch to get a better weapon. You put in 4 weapons and a random better weapon comes out. My point about getting carried away is that it's obvious some people would get carried away trying to get a lvl80 weapon they want and create multiple weapons (using a lot of the bugged weapons in the process) whilst they're getting items that aren't useful to them (or are useful to alts).

I'm not saying it's ok at all, the people that had suspensions are well justified. I just don't think even at it's worst it's as bad as botting which requires people to go out of their way to download a program (which opens up it's own risks of hacking and encouraging people to keep making such programs) specifically for the purpose of cheating rather than just taking advantage of a bug that ANet created.

You're welcome to disagree, but please don't post agressive posts for the sake of arguments.

 

[Greenja]

Normally I would completely agree with you.

However, the fact that this "exploit" was literally people using Karma to get weapons (as intended by ANet) and choosing the sell them instead of using them makes me question Anet.

I honestly don't see what the issue is, Arenanet should have been aware that the weapons could be sold for so much and could have caused issues.

Also this would be a non-issue if everyone was doing it since everyone would be benefitting.

Just as a side note: I played GW1 back in the day when someone actually EXPLOITED guild wars by hacking the game and changing the prices of rare materials to nothing. That is what I call a proper exploit and Anet did a rollback. I don't see why they couldn't have just done the same here.

From this post I get the impression you don't fully understand what has happened with this exploit.

The problem is not that people have just decided to sell them instead of using them... thats pretty obvious that people might sell them or salvage for mats.

The problem is the weapons were to be sold for 2100 Karma. All the weapons from the vendor were for 2100 Karma apart from ones that were mistakenly (and its quite obvious it was a mistake) listed for 21 Karma.

People then went and bought loads of them, when its clear as day that it was not intended to be 21 Karma, and profited.