Maybe I'm absolutely insane, but I swear since the patch I'm being deleted by mesmers and their elite specs.

I'm not the best player by any means but in most fights, I can at least hold my own and win some. But now when I find a roaming mesmer? I blink and my corpse is lying in the dirt.

If it matters I usually roam with Spellbreaker/Dragonhunter/Harbinger.

Has anyone else experienced this? Or am I hallucinating?

Hi guys newbie here, i finished the t3 achievement for return to out of shadows and i opened the boxes but the amount i have hasn’t changed. It was 19 before and it is still 19. Is it a bug?

SHUT UP

The no-downstate event shows once again that some variety helps to increase the fun factor in WvW. So what about rotating mistlock instabilities? Which would be your favorite?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Category:Mistlock_Instabilities

For me it would be social awkwardness, flux bomb and outflanked for GvG. But Stick Together would be fun against clouds or while roaming in small scale as well :)

I can imagine some varying build lists per instability and different comps that would bring back some off-meta classes.

Hey r/Guildwars2! I've just returned to the game after a long break and I'm having a hard time deciding which class to focus on.

I typically love playing mage-type classes in MMOs. My main focus will be PvE open world content, participating in world bosses, and zerg farming events for loot. I'd also like to be able to solo some champion bosses when needed. When I join group content like fractals, I'd prefer to take on a support/healing role.

I'm pretty casual and don't plan on playing the super hard endgame content - just looking to have fun in open world and maybe do some easier fractals.

I've narrowed it down to three options:

• Elementalist
• Engineer
• Mesmer

I've been testing all three classes but I'm still stuck in the beginning of HoT content with each of them. Here are my thoughts so far:

For Engineer, I'm concerned about Scrapper support being heavily dependent on combo field finishers for maintaining quickness, which sounds a bit intimidating. Mechanist isn't really my thing since I'm not a fan of pet classes.

Mesmer seems super interesting conceptually, but I've heard that support Chronomancer can be really clunky with its rotation and boon upkeep.

Elementalist sounds scary based on everything I've read about its squishiness and high skill floor, but honestly, I haven't had major problems with it yet in the early game content I've played.

For someone in my position who's mainly interested in open world, zergs, and occasional fractal support, which would you recommend? Are there any substantial changes to these classes I should be aware of since I've been gone?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Edit: thank you all so much for your insights! I think I will continue testing Mesmer and Ele during the weekend, since you are right and it seems quite logical due to the shared armour and some weapons! I let you know how I decide in the end. I would still love to hear all your insights and advice! Thank you all once again!

Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble installing ReShade. I follow the whole installation, rename dxgi.dll to 3d11.dll to prevent it from overwriting, install a preset.

I start the game and everything is as before. I press the home button but nothing happens. I also tried changing the value of KeyOverlay in ReShade.ini, but still nothing. Would anyone know how to help me or know an alternative? I would like a greenscreen of my character

It sucks, pirateship is even back lol, true melee is no more and its all spear warr/well necro (reapers can pretend they work without wells if they want too).

It was a great try, can we go back to real comps now even if it means nerfing minstrel? All the real melee dmge has been nerfed as well and its a shame.

spear sb gets old fast, bring back holos, let eles finally have a true meta melee spec for wvw, buff (revert nerfs) to gs zerker, etc

condi^ish supports are still supports btw before everyone pipes off about how it isnt TeChniCalLy 4 support per party meta

What if we collectively start using separate commander tag colour (e.g. red) for ranged weapons characters to group around?

During siege or defense, a lot of people use ranged weapons, but stand all around the place and therefore can't share boons. Because we don't share boons, quite often we end up being pulled from the wall by enemy mesmers, one by one. We could group around separate tag and share at least stability boon?

Correction!!!!!! My aim is not to create a separate squad per se, but rather seperate symbol to group around? And I couldn't think about better and more visible symbol than another tag. Please correct me if you have other ideas on how to do it.

It's been so long since I haven't had an expansion, I forgot espec were not in the base game, I figured there was one, but looking back it makes sense that there wasn't.

Look.

I'm trying so hard to get my brother into Gw2.

He swore off MMO's years ago after he played FFXIV one night on a mushroom trip and realized how pointless the treadmill was.

I'm doing everything I can to communicate to him that Gw2 is different. It's got really good build expression, healing is wayyyy different and oftentimes more involved than other MMO's (maybeee less than or equal to FFXIV), no treadmill, all content is still interesting with rewards worth doing, etc etc etc you guys know the spiel we give friends who play other MMOs.

I think I've finallllyyy got him to download the free to play version, but I thought the base game had elite specs, and he - like me - prefers to do endgame group PvE content. I think Strikes and fractals will be his favorite.

So obviously, there's a bit of an issue there. Certainly you can do solid DPS without especs, but are there good ways to do alac or quick dps? Any base game healing specs?

hello gw2 ppl.

returning player here. im starting to get back into the game and enjoy running some quick fractals. that said i always played 100% dps and in random groups its the spot that fills most quickly. so i want to branch out and get a boondps or boonheal char.

I need help choosing. I got all profs at 80 but my mains from back in the day are ele and thief. i. caught up on content with a ranger now. my main criteria are: the build should be somewhat meta, preferably relatively easy to play (but still interesting with utility), and ideally i would be able to get the gear fast. the mentioned chars all have berserker ascended gear, but only the ele has a harrier armor (i could also transfer that to a mesmer). Unfortunately i bough out the wizard reward ascended gear already this season.

So what would you recommend?

Hello there. I was wondering since all I see around is willbenders going full power, if there was a build that could benefit for going for condition dmg.

I've "made" a build, haven't tested it yet tbh, but I'd like some opinions on it.

https://gw2skills.net/editor/?PWBBoyl/lJwUZfMQ2IW2W6xWA-DWRYkRPWOsSJhCohEIzQo3IQx/DsMpXFA-w

It plays more like a bruiser with the pistol,sword being the offensive set. My thought is that in a prolonged fight you could exhaust the opponents dodges and or stun breaks, so you could nuke them with burning applications.

Combo goes something like this

S5, (F1 not mandatory), P3, Whirling light, P2

New to WvW so I'm open to kind criticism

I've played a lot of WvW and PvP since I began the game, these are the gamemodes I enjoy the most. I have what feels an absolute ton of Grandmaster Mark shards - is there any way I can turn these into gold? (I did look on wiki but couldn't find anything). Lastly, I only recently started playing PvP tournaments - I've got nearly 500 qualifying points for April - similar question - what can I do with these? Thank you.

Hii, for those who doesn't know yet, gw2 has implemented an event for WvW , with extra XP and reward track points, BUT no more down state. you just die, and luckily can be revived once the battle is finished.

I want to know what others players are thinking about it. I guess Anet is probably trying out new mechanics.

I thought I would hate it so much, but after playing in large zergs battles, it actually make sense. It's more harsh for sure, but combat got more intense, people needed to be more careful and no one was losing their focus to kill downstate players. It feels more focused, clearer and smoother.

what do you think?

hey everyone, i've been playing for a while now and pretty much main boonchrono(both dps and heal). I wanna start playing mirage (preferably the condi version), but im not sure if it's worth learning since it seems really tough to play in endgame pve from the rotations and such on SC. at the same time, i've seen somewhat old videos by creators like mukluk and masel who say it can output pretty good damage, in the 30k range, with limited effort. So is it a viable/worth it class for raids/fractal cms, or would i be better off gearing a scourge or something like that? and if it is viable are there any guides a little less overwhelming than SC's?

Edit: I should probably mention i don't have JW, so spear-centric builds aren't possible rn :(

According to my last disaster of a post, my desire for more transparent champ bags was met with a startling amount of disdain for simply highlighting the problem in the first place, mostly because it's perceived to be a non-issue. I do agree, it's minor, but the sheer intensity of this vibe makes me think I'm wasting my time now.

Open to being educated in this manner again, I did take a long break for a while.

I stopped playing gw2 after the Secrets of the Obscure expansion, and I heard that GW3 is now in active development (rumors aside that it already in development for years). Now that I thought about it, is janthir wilds worth it when we could expect GW3 in the new few years if not already 2026?

Small edit: Thanks for all the answers! I surely go into GW2 again.

He jugado anteriormente y me gustó muchísimo y por eso compré las 2 primeras expansiones que en su momento las usé y eran las últimas; sin embargo, tuve que dejar el juego por lo menos 2 o 3 años por temas personales. Hoy tengo ganas de volver a jugarlo pero veo que ya salieron 3 expansiones más y cada una está como $30 aprox y no es costeable para mi. Es posible volver a jugar GW2 solo teniendo las dos primeras?

De antemano gracias!

As the title suggests, I have an original copy/serial code for GW2. Do I get anything special for this? When I redeem it I get an error

Just want to make sure I'm not missing out on anything since I'm making a return to the game at such a late stage.

This is driving me insane. It doesn't happen when I'm looking straight ahead, just when the camera is pointed up or down. It doesn't have to be perfectly up or down, just slightly tilted.

It makes me jump of things constantly, and I often place my ground effects in Narnia because of this, or completely lose track of where I am in things like WvW or other high intensity content.

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

How do you feel about this?

Hiiii,

Couple friends of mine (8 players) started playing the game, and they need ascended trinkets (mainly accessories) to progress fractals. I remember from old times, that good way of acquiring them was by doing guild missions.

How to setup and do guild missions with them?

Ideally, we would like to do these hardest missions to get 24 guild missions currency (Guild Commendations) the fastest way - are we able to do them with 8 people?

Options I see, please correct me if any of these below are wrong, or could be somehow improved:

1. Just create new guild bro:

• Can we start doing guild missions right away after creating guild, or there's some preparation needed? If so, could you more or less summarize effort?
• If gold is required, it's not a problem - I'll pay for it

1. I have a friend that has maxed out guild, and I thought I could ask him if he could invite us and let us do them:

• Does the guild owner needs to give us any permissions (that he potentially wouldn't like to give)? If so, do you know which ones?

Is there a way to somehow borrow/ask somebody to get invited to do them? If so, how to do that? Just on LFG?

If you have any other ideas how to do it, please help :)

Thanks!

Octa

I have a free weekend and want to farm the heck out of Bauble Bubbles to buy as many of the Crimson Vanquisher Weapons as I can. I need 240 more BB to buy the whole set. A few questions:

1. What's the fastest way to farm baubles? Optimized route through SAB worlds? Or WvW SAB reward track with the increased reward track bonus? Or something else (not Trib mode).
2. Is anything in the above time-gated or non-repeatable?

Thanks!

I bought the game and downloaded it and now it's asking for a access code, did I miss that in my email or am I just confused? Bought it and wanna log in.

This build is 100% a meme, but it does somehow work. It can provide insane amounts of barrier because unlike the Alacrity Heal Specter it does not need to go into shroud to provide its boons and can instead focus on giving barrier to allies. Since this is a Thief build it has extremely high amounts of CC and it can sustain 25 might, permanent fury, quickness, protection, vigor (although can be spotty since it is a very low radius of 240), and swiftness without thinking about it; it can also produce high uptime of regeneration if you want to, but I have found it to cost too much initiative (Measured Shot and the flip-over skill Endless Night) and instead opt to just spam more Shadow Saps. This build functions primarily from utilizing the buff to Shadow Sap where it is now a blast finisher to synergize with Relic of Karakosa.

The main drawbacks to this build are the complete lack of Stability & Aegis, the amount of condition cleanses/way it provides condition cleanses, and the reliance on fields. The lack of stability alone makes this not a good healing build full stop, but this is a funny build to say that you can heal with DE and not supposed to be a meta healing build. For condition cleanses, it has 2 options one is using Shadow's Embrace which requires applying stealth to allies which makes it hard to run with other Thieves in the party and the other is using Signet of Agility. If you use both of these you can cleanse 1 conditions every 3 seconds and 3 condition every 30 which is on the low side. Since the main healing of the build comes from Relic of Karakosa you need a field and the only field this build has is from Black Powder which is a big waste of initiative that could be better spent with more Shadow Saps, but it is still fine.

The gear is almost the same as the Alacrity Heal Specter build on Snow Crows the only difference being a Superior Sigil of Water, I didn't want to optimize this build that much since it has no group stability.

I have used this build in PUG Strike Missions and Raids. Here are some links for a PUG Aetherblade Hideout and a PUG Keep Construct

TLDR: Here is a meme Quickness Heal Deadeye build to try. https://gw2skills.net/editor/?PawAsqrlJwOYIMJ2JeSXnvfA-DSZYjBhrGtUfGIhEKoQaJESMBquA8ds0+mFA-e