Guild Wars 2 : Random Question Thread

**Kiarax** · 2012-09-14 15:30

There's no way you live through 20 people focusing you for any more than 5 seconds (outside of shit like Earth Armour that makes you invincible, but for what... 3 seconds?), sorry. Like I said, you can make it work, but jumping head first in to huge groups is gonna get you killed unless you know what you're doing (IE when it's safe to go in, etc, which the way I see it isn't jumping in head first). I've only ever seen you in WvW once so I don't really know how much experience you have there, but if you've ever fought inside Stonemist Castle you'd know the kind of clusterfucks I'm talking about. Fighting against large zerg groups = good fucking luck meleeing anything but stragglers outside of the pack. And yeah, ranged options on Guardian are far worse than GS, Staff is trash (Scepter is the ranged DPS weapon, Staff is support with minor damage) comparatively but it does the job for stuff like defending against sieges. Gates get non-stop spammed with aoes, if you happen to jump down and try to melee those hitting the gate... yeah, you're just gonna insta-die. You can head for the ranged people and down a few of them, but whilst you can burst a couple down you'll get immediately focused and killed before you can finish any of them, so they'll just rally/rez. Exception being if you can manage to convince other people defending to jump down with you, but good luck with that part.

As for farming karma, running with the zerg group in WvW is usually a great way to get karma, used to be able to get tons even in small group(s) thanks to caravans, but the rewards for those are still disabled so your best bet is defending or attacking locations. If the zerg is being stupid and just fighting in one spot nowhere near a location, don't waste your time since you won't get any karma for that. You can take over supply camps with just a handful of people, as well as the monster camps (Dredge, Ogres or the Quaggans), so those are good at times like those.

**Katlan** · 2012-09-14 15:31

There is a mesmer trait that does "5% increased dmg to inactive targets"

What does this mean? Do I get to do more dmg to afk people!?

**Kiarax** · 2012-09-14 16:33

Pretty sure it's any kind of stun. Knockdown, stun, daze(?), immobilized maybe? Some of the descriptions for traits and stuff are very non descriptive... sucks.

**Amiricle** · 2012-09-14 16:39

Originally Posted by Katlan

There is a mesmer trait that does "5% increased dmg to inactive targets"

What does this mean? Do I get to do more dmg to afk people!?

Its when your target is not using any skills. Basically the reverse of confusion which punishes your target for using skills, this punishes em for not using skills. And yea with a stun/daze/etc you can force him/her to be inactive.

**Slynkee** · 2012-09-14 20:42

Dunno if anyone knows the answer to this question yet, but I wanted to start working on a legendary when I hit 80, and was thinking of doing axe since im loving axe/axe on war.

Now can I do two of the same legendaries? So I could dual wield legendary axes?

**Zzsark** · 2012-09-14 23:36

I have yet to see any reason why you couldn't if you want to put yourself through the pain of going through that process twice.
(I still think the imgs and numbers ppl are showing of legendary stats are out of date and that they will be identical to exotics but I guess we'll see, not that that is why you want to make them)

**Shiyo** · 2012-09-14 23:47

Can you salvage rares from badges(the rewards from doing dungeon explorer modes)?

**Kiarax** · 2012-09-15 01:18

Answered it yourself in game, but for anyone curious yes, you can salvage dungeon equips from tokens. Just got 11 helmets (30 tokens each) myself and salvaged them all for Ectoplasm.

**Purrrfect** · 2012-09-15 01:21

How do you WvW as engineer? I feel like whatever I try to play towards I end up just being meh performance. The most notable thing I've found is that the knockback mine is good for knocking ranged off tower/keep walls. And sometimes I can get lucky and find a shady spot to set up a rocket turret if we have a position we a re holding well. I'm only 33 also, and find that I go down awfully quick if i get too close to front line.

**Kiarax** · 2012-09-15 01:30

You will go down quick on just about every class unless you're specced for toughness and vit. I haven't done WvW on Engi, but I've heard good things about grenades in WvW. Large range and you can trait to make them stronger.

**Katlan** · 2012-09-15 16:17

Originally Posted by Purrrfect

How do you WvW as engineer? I feel like whatever I try to play towards I end up just being meh performance. The most notable thing I've found is that the knockback mine is good for knocking ranged off tower/keep walls. And sometimes I can get lucky and find a shady spot to set up a rocket turret if we have a position we a re holding well. I'm only 33 also, and find that I go down awfully quick if i get too close to front line.

Keep in mind that while you are boosted to 80, your weapon and armor isn't "magically stronger" than it was before. So when you are going against naturally higher leveled characters (and a lot of 80s now) they will have significantly better gear than you w/makes a ton of difference in how much dmg you receive/dish out

**Rhyis.** · 2012-09-15 16:37

Getting pumped to 80 is just so you don't actually get insta-gibbed.

**Kiarax** · 2012-09-15 22:37

It's not just gear either, they have far more trait points than you, as well as trait bonuses themselves that may help survival.

**arus2001** · 2012-09-16 11:19

Anyone on a server with Durios Gulch controlled in Eternal Battlegrounds? Last vista/PoI I need from WvW, but not looking like Rall will get near it anytime soon. And I guess also wondering if the maze and pirate ship SPs on Orr are bugged at wherever, too.

**Kachiko** · 2012-09-16 11:59

Ehmry Bay has everything.

**arus2001** · 2012-09-16 12:20

Found 'em on Northen Silverpeaks, too. Added bonus of not waiting on queue with them being low pop. Still need those stupid SPs in Orr, though. ;_;

**Kiehl** · 2012-09-16 19:36

Finally got this game. Are there any good things to study up on, or should I just enjoy it for the first 3/4 of the game and play blind?

**arus2001** · 2012-09-16 21:11

Play blind, should do fine.

**Greedouw** · 2012-09-16 23:37

How are most rangers playing?

Longbow? Shortbow? GS? Been running around with a longbow up to lvl 50...

**sedna** · 2012-09-17 00:06

Originally Posted by Greedouw

How are most rangers playing?

Longbow? Shortbow? GS? Been running around with a longbow up to lvl 50...

Haven't toyed with PVP much on ranger yet, but for PVE I'm in love with Shortbow for anything single target. Usually go Axe/Warhorn for multiple targets, but I'm considering trying a few different mixes for PVE. Definitely feel like Shortbow/Axe/Warhorn is where I will at least start with PVP. The distance granted by both options is hard to ignore, on top of the condition options, I'm pretty happy.

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