From my experience all the classes can do ranged.
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From my experience all the classes can do ranged.
Guardian has the weakest ranged DPS options from what I've played (thief, warrior, guardian).
I guess I meant traditional ranged, magic user, ranger, etc...
There are builds for the warrior that are good for rifles and long bows. That's why I said that. I guess it depends on what else do you want to do? Want pets? Want to see a bunch of colors flying around?
It really is hard to answer. Necromancer is possibly the answer you're looking for, but they can be totally melee, too.
Melee is pretty pointless in the 3x Golem fight. Bring a lot of condition removal because there is a boss that does ridiculous burn damage.
dreamer3kx
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Just started this up, only level 4, should I level up before moving on with the story or does the story act as a tutorial, playing as human, haven't went inside the huge town yet right in the beginning.
The story tells you what level it's intended for- be at that level or above (or one below, once you get comfy) before trying a story quest.
CornBurrito
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Any chance for a link to your build?
Also does anyone have an idea of how good Guildwars2guru is as far as discussion sites go? I was looking at a few guides there. I'm not sure how good they are.
Funny? That looks awesome! I wish that transmutation stones worked across gear class, although it'd make recognizing people impossible.
Shrennin
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Funny? That looks awesome! I wish that transmutation stones
worked across gear class, although it'd make recognizing people impossible.
That's one thing I also kinda wish was possible along with transmutation stones allowing you to name your newly created combination (obviously if this happened the item would have to be soul bound upon transmutation, but I think that already happens).
So where is the games main playerbase right now? When I hit level 50 zones the other night no one was around so I logged on a lower level character. Am I low or high?
Ya I didn't mean funny bad. That was just the first one I clicked on there are probably really good light + heavy shoulder combos out there.Funny? That looks awesome! I wish that transmutation stones worked across gear class, although it'd make recognizing people impossible.
Being able to finish people from stealth can fuck right off anet. Such a joke. If they are allowing that give me an AoE fear so I can stop it. Finally rank 10 in sPvP though. God damn is that infuriating: Such bad gameplay mechanics on thieves the game simply rewards poor play.
If there is a couple of you, spam 2-3 and get free kills hurrar! :/
If there is a couple of you, spam 2-3 and get free kills hurrar! :/
There isn't one in the game at all with that combination, even in sPVP. Rabid is Precision/Toughness/Condition, which in PvE the only way I know how to get is the Orr temple armor.
RaptorGTA
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Thanks for the reply...seeing this and what other gaf member have been sayin makes me want this game bad. Ill hopefully be pickin this game up soon.
thieves in spvp literally make my blood boil. literally.
i just can't beat them one on one.
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Yeah I'm not seeing it. I think it's because he wants to always know if someone is stomping him.
You should ALWAYS be thinking someone is going to stomp you, regardless. Play like that and you'll be prepared.
Because they get you into the position to do so in the most stupid manner, and then on top of it, any chance of getting up is quelled by an invis stomp. Just wow.
Also I finally hit rank 10 aaaaand....the rank 10 glory vendor has now gone. Excellent
Edit: Wow they moved it to some obscure place. Bastards.
Of course not... why would you think that...
Yes, you can stomp while stealthed. Using cooldowns to increase stomp chance is a pretty basic element of the game. Stealth is less dangerous (and less common) than quickness or stability stomps.
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If we put clones aside, an effective use of the weapon skills is far harder to achieve with the elementalist than it is with the mesmer. There's a psychological effect with clones play, and decision making with shattering, but playing with your mesmers weapons is somewhat of medium difficulty and leads to good results with ease, especially for the swords. While a Mesmer can simply burst and be safe with a Blurred Frenzy, giving them time to breath, for the elementalists to achieve the same thing, they would need to switch to earth for their instant-cast earth invulnerable spell, only to attunement change again and chain two-three skills for an equal burst, and then they would be crippled by twice the cooldown rates, and that's not even considering if their fire attunement was already on recharge, which wouldn't even allow them to do any burst at all.
The psychological effect of clones is also not as important, in my opinion, due to their AI. The ways to trick your (skilled) opponent revolve around you playing poorly for a few seconds, and considering how easy it is to disable illusions, more times than not they are better used as a safe, extra "block" skill for the Mesmer, while the real complexity is on the timing and on the decision-making of the shatters before the illusions die. Elementalists do not have the extra HP nor easily-accessible, low-recharging spells that double as "block" skills like the mesmers have, which makes for a more restless experience for the ele player.
Attunements, like illusions and shatters, rely on timing, decision-making and chaining skills with unpredictable end effects. But more so than that, they rely on memorizing more skills and, due to that nature, the skills are crippled by higher recharges, higher casting times, and underpowered effects individually. For the mesmer, there's still the clone mimicry to play with (which, to me, seems situationally important at best), and mesmer's utility skills are generally more complex than the the elementalist's. Mesmers have more margin for error and room to breath.
Removes the risk/reward of the ability. With a good revive you can turn a 1v1 in to a 1v2 or keep someone off you long enough to get a revive off a team mate.
Having someone stomp you from stealth removes the risk for the thief and often provides them with a free get away too.
ColtraineGF
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It doesn't remove the risk, holy crap. You're not invincible when stealthed.
It's the level 50 weaponsmith crafted rare (200 skill? not sure), I transmute it as I level so I can keep the skin
It doesn't remove the risk at all. A stealthed player isn't invulnerable, just invisible. You can still knock him out of the stomp with any kind of AoE daze, knockback, blowout, fear, whatever. He used a cooldown to increase the chance of his stomp, so it is natural that he is rewarded with locking out some of the options of blocking a stomp. Like all cooldowns that work with stomps this way, though, they are all still counterable.
JustProgress
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Stop being silly, Anet makes no mistakes. Peasant. You probably suck and need to get better.
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People not realizing a mechanic is overpowered because they're bad is a real issue among plenty of players in plenty of competitive games though...
I've gotta say I'm liking the Scepter/Torch combo on the Guardian. Combine that build with a Greatsword Build and I think I'll be pretty unstoppable. Both builds use Zeal, Radiance, and Valor so there's some overlap there.
The Scepter build I'm using:
http://guildwars2grandmaster.com/builds/guardian-scepter-torch-ranged/
The Scepter build I'm using:
http://guildwars2grandmaster.com/builds/guardian-scepter-torch-ranged/
Teknopathetic
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The past 24 hours in WvW between HoD/JQ/ET were prettttty amazing. Photo finish from a 6k point deficit.
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