Guild Wars 2

Avatar of Nyx said:

What's the elementalist build you're using, Tuco? My progress through the story content has been super slow but I finished Living World season 3 and am trying to decide if i wanna try to switch to an elementalist or stick with the mesmer as I head into PoF. The Ele build I originally came across uses the same Ascended set as my mesmer build (Svaard's set), so if I decide to swap classes I can hopefully just move the gear over and only have to worry about the weapon.

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condi weaver:
(not me in this vid)

I hear a lot of whining from elementalists about being underpowered. I don't know enough about the game to say whether it's true and don't play at a competitive level. But I feel like an absolute monster with my weaver. I can blindly charge into the PvE encounters and dodge-evade-iframe fuck them as I learn the fights while deal enough damage that I feel like I'm cutting through them OK. I usually place top 5 DPS in zergs on ArcDPS, but I don't know how trustworthy that is.

Gear-wise, unless you're doing fractals and need agony resistance a full set of exotic Dire gear is super cheap.

I've also thought about trying out a more glass cannon condi weaver build like Condition Weaver | Snow Crows but am not sure when I'd use it since I'm not playing with any coordinated groups that would be able to support me.
When I'm playing I basically never think, "Man I wish I could exchange half of my survivability for 20% more DPS" or whatever it'd be.

Mahes said:

Now I have to finish up the story line for 4 and then finish up the basic exploration for the 100% while also leveling those masteries because I seriously want "Auto-Loot".

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I recently got that and now that I have it, I think they should make it a default feature instead of locked behind a fairly long mastery grind that competes with a whole bunch of other critical mastery grinds.

I really like that you can hit 80 and get geared enough to do any content outside of end-game fractals, but it sure fuckin' sucks not having mounts, auto-loot and even the EMP.

ShakyJake said:

That's what I love about this game. Tons of stuff to do but you never feel like you're "falling behind". Except for maybe the story, of course.

Speaking of which, I wonder if I should at least jump to Season 5 and complete what's been released to this point? Although I've completed HoT and PoF (albeit on different characters), I wanted to go back and finish all other seasons and episodes in chronological order. However that's going to take me forever since, quite honestly, I don't really enjoy the story portion of the game that much. Don't get me wrong, it's well done and all, but I'm at a point where I am way too impatient to read dialog / listen to characters blab, and also annoyed when forced into contrived combat scenarios.

Lastly, do you lose anything by completing seasons or even episodes with different characters? I know map completion only counts across one character, but not sure if something similar exists across seasons.

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As a returning player it's been super confusing jumping around doing the different living world seasons and expansions. My route has been PoF > Season 4 > Season 5. There's so much re-use of characters in the story that old friends show up and I'm like, who the hell are you guys?

I decided to go back to Season 2, complete it and then do HoT just for some continuity in the story. Started the first episode and almost fell asleep. Shit rewards too

so anything I shouldn't miss out on doing for wintersday? I don't really like the events and don't even know what to do with all this karma and it seems like the primary rewards for wintersday are karma.

Dom said:

Can't comment on the event, but Karma can be converted into gold

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cool, I knew there were ways but the top rate of 37 silver / 1k karma is better than I thought.

I heard there are good karma generation strategies for wintersday, I wonder what gold/hour you can get.

Daidraco said:

I went so far as to reinstall GW2 a few months ago and couldnt even remember what half the shit in my inventory was for, much less how to play. Think I'll have to make a new character if I ever want to play this again.

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Yeah when I came back I rolled a sylvari reaper. By level 10 I pretty much had the hang enough and jumped to my main.