Guild Wars 2 : Random Question Thread

[Belragga]

There is no traditional "tanking" in the game. There are people better suited for the task of controlling a mob though. Many professions have a decent amount of control. The thing with doing the GW2 dungeons is that people think just because there is no trinity that they can go in and be successful in any old trait/weapon combination they feel like. That is not the case. While you can clear Catacombs with 5 people who don't try and take care of each other that simply will not work as you go on.

Professions that have a lot of control should use it. Guardian is an awesome choice for this. Sword/Mace + Shield gives you a lot of support options as well as a couple of control options as well. Staff can be a life saver if used properly as well. Remember they didn't give you all those knockbacks and wall moves just for PvP/WvW. They expect you to use them just as effectively in PvE.

Does this mean my Elementalist can be a viable tank? Lot of it's Dagger abilities seem very useful in those regards.

[Lucavi]

Silly question, but can you trade with other people in this game? The mail server is down and I want to give my brother two bags, but I can't find a trade option for the life of me.

[Prothescar]

What's the Hero's Ring from? Kinda confused why I got one, I didn't preorder.

[Rhyis.]

Silly question, but can you trade with other people in this game? The mail server is down and I want to give my brother two bags, but I can't find a trade option for the life of me.

No. Mail only.

What's the Hero's Ring from? Kinda confused why I got one, I didn't preorder.

You haxxed the game. Only supposed to get it from pre-purchase.

[Eanae]

Anyone know what armor that is?

[Kiarax]

Yeah. If you go to the support page they say it's a known error and they're working on fixing it. Just gotta wait til then. Might be able to send a ticket and see if they can do it manually but I'm not bothering personally.

Working for me now, might wanna try again Cleverness.

[niwaar]

Anyone know what armor that is?

Would be easy to figure out, just preview every armor in your pvp locker. lol

Seriously though it does look cool.

[niwaar]

Does this mean my Elementalist can be a viable tank? Lot of it's Dagger abilities seem very useful in those regards.

Like I said... there is no "tanking" in the game. But yes, an elementalist is a viable control option, even if we are not as sturdy as some professions and do not have as many control abilities. The focus has more abilities to protect yourself than the rest of the weapon choices. I wouldn't want to try and flat tank something with the profession though. I get downed a lot as is when fighting dagger/dagger cause of the shitstorm that is melee damage. Because the game is more fluid and fastpaced than the combat of say Tera, its harder to avoid some attacks. Not every attack has a "red eye flash" to know when to dodge/block like Tera, lol.

[Amiricle]

Like I said... there is no "tanking" in the game. But yes, an elementalist is a viable control option, even if we are not as sturdy as some professions and do not have as many control abilities. The focus has more abilities to protect yourself than the rest of the weapon choices. I wouldn't want to try and flat tank something with the profession though. I get downed a lot as is when fighting dagger/dagger cause of the shitstorm that is melee damage. Because the game is more fluid and fastpaced than the combat of say Tera, its harder to avoid some attacks. Not every attack has a "red eye flash" to know when to dodge/block like Tera, lol.

When I go 'tanky' mode on Mesmer I feel like I'm playing some weird hybrid of WoW arcane Mage & FFXI ninja & am really hard to kill except when a champion does an all melee must die now move I don't see coming. Fuckin love it lol.

[arus2001]

Guess I wanna get PvP monthly kills out of the way since it's all I have left. How does one get to the prep area or whatever so you can set up skills and shit?

[Sci]

Guess I wanna get PvP monthly kills out of the way since it's all I have left. How does one get to the prep area or whatever so you can set up skills and shit?

It's 50 WvW kills I thought, maybe sPVP counts as well. To enter WvW, you hit B to bring up the menu. For sPVP, bring up your Hero screen with H, and it's one of the tabs on the left of the window, you need to find the page with the button "Enter the Mists" or somesuch.

[supercoco]

is our personality important or i can be an aggresive charr for example

[Amiricle]

is our personality important or i can be an aggresive charr for example

Its just flavour in how certain npc's respond to you or how you get them to do something.

[Rhyis.]

My Charr is the angriest necro around.

[Prothescar]

Anyone know the approximate time between big zone events? (Shadow Behemoth, Fire Temple)

[Aevis]

depends on people doing the DE chain leading up to it. we just did fire ele back to back in about 45min but everyone was doing the DE asap.

[niwaar]

Anyone know the approximate time between big zone events? (Shadow Behemoth, Fire Temple)

Its supposedly based on overall player activity in the area. The less people the longer between events.

[blindSharingan]

During the beta all the dungeon gear vendors in Lion's arch had unique skins and now they are all the same skins from each vendor. Is this a glitch or an intended change?

[Kiarax]

During the beta all the dungeon gear vendors in Lion's arch had unique skins and now they are all the same skins from each vendor. Is this a glitch or an intended change?

The dungeons can drop generic gear like that that now, click the tab at the left hand side to see the better drops with unique skins.

[Halion]

Has anyone experienced issues right click camera turning? I see a lot of complaining about it on google but no solutions. A lot of the complaints seem to think it's a razer issue but I do not have a razer. It seems to be worse since the last 1 or 2 patches to the point where if I noticed it before I could deal with it, and now doing a dungeon was like rage-inducing. It seems to have something to do with targetting, like if you're too close to a targetting box it won't register the click to the point where it seems like even when an npc or a treasure chest is blocked by the environment somehow it will fail. Either there's more to it or it's just like 75% of the time or something, I'm not sure because I can't reliably reproduce it just standing around right clicking on things. Perhaps character movement affects it as well, either way I'm willing to try any suggestions on how to fix this because keeping my face to a mob while dodging and using movement skills like ride the lightning when I can't camera turn reliably is driving me pretty crazy and I definitely did not have this issue in the betas.