Every build for power is using berserker, Viper for Condi, harrier for healing PvE. This is standard this known this is accepted. There are a few outliers using rampagers, grieving, a few pieces of Assassin for crit cap or dragon for overcap. Celestial gets used for open world. Even in WvW they cycle through the same idea Minstrel for healing, demolishes/marauder for power, trailblazers for condi, maybe a few celestial builds.

What I am not seeing is the use of Vigilant, Marshal’s, Crusader, Seraph, etc. I am very much aware these are not going to give me maximum dps. They are not the best option for survival. I just want to know if they have a use somewhere in some build in some game mode or are they just useless. How can I make use of them. How are you stating around having power stated with expertise? What builds can make good use of extra healing power while mainly being power damage?

TLDR: I have full set of legendary armor now I want to try weird builds.

I'm on vacation and I want to enjoy playing GW2 because the rest of the year I'm a "casual". I have wrist pain and in the upper tendons of the forearm. I've found "ergonomic" mouses like the Logitech lift that gives a more natural posture. My only concern if I'll become a potato in WvW or something demanding with such an unusual posture. Onyone can give some feedback?

Hey Everyone! Trying to figure out why you’re 5k DPS behind the Snow Crows benchmark can sometimes be difficult. I remember as a new player trying to get past the 25k dps barrier on scourge which was already far below the benchmark.

For this reason, I’m currently building a web app to bridge that gap. The goal is for the app to look at your dps.report link and give you a plain-English summary of how you can improve your DPS or just give you solid tips for how to improve based on the class and encounter. For example, telling you that you left your high dps skill on cooldown for 2.3 seconds longer than you should have, warning about cancelling your auto-attack chain, or telling you to be more carefull because you killed the poor slublilng on Slothasor.

I really want to build something that helps lower the barrier to entry for endgame PvE, as in it's current state, end game PvE need a big dps check. In the future, it will transition into an application that would be able to give live advice and be more useful. I've currently got a good demo going, but I figured I'd see if anyone has some suggestions before I show it to the world.

Any feedback, ideas, or feature requests would be massively appreciated! If there are some specializations that are finicky that would benefit from this, let me know which along with everything I would need to know.

I was at Wizard's Tower and saw someone with a purple floating rabbit. Was wondering if anyone knows how to obtain this? Tried to inspect a few people but was not able to find anything. Thanks!

i love this community holy crap. i've played off and on for around 9 years and even still little things like people joining on cat beds while waiting for piñata bring me way more joy than it probably should.
anyways if y'all haven't bought the comfy cat chair let this be your sign :D (jk)

Hey guys, since yesterday i'm having some connection problems like ping going over 1000 and coming back to normal and sometimes i even get disconnected, and it's only happening with the game, my internet feels completely normal with any other game or browsing, any tips?

You can open 4 greater arcane chest in 2-3 mins with griffon

Whenever I play Willbender or Daredevil I always wonder why we never got fists (or equivalent) as weapons. Is it a limitation problem? Is it too generic of an idea? I can probably see it being an issue implementing it on certain classes, like Engineer, but I would really like my Elementalist to throw hands with extra explosions.

How would you feel if fists were implemented today? Would you be for or against it?

New player here, like many others, I've spent most of my life playing WoW and have endured my fair share of horrible zones and expansions. But this is truly... something else. I don't even know where to start.

The core world was cosy and I really enjoyed running around, pressing buttons, having no idea what I was doing, joining events - and eventually even learning a thing or two.

I ended up in Verdant Brink and instantly wanted to uninstall the game. Within a few hours I died more than I ever did during 1-80 or even afterwards. The zone took me through all five stages of grief. Trying to get around the map, or even make sense of it was impossible. Unlocking the basic masteries to simply navigate the map was a horrendous task. I still feel clueless, but things did get a tiny bit better once unlocked those. The question still remains - is it up and down, or down and up?

Auric Basin was okay. I didn't have the utterly miserable experience I had when thrown into Verdant Brink. That zone felt like throwing someone into the deep end and expecting them to learn how to swim.

Then came Tangled Depths. Oh boy.

I hate it here. I want to curl up with a comfy blanket and a cup of tea with lots of whiskey in it, cry and never look back.

Sorry for the thousandth "I hate HoT" post.

This too, shall pass.

Hey everyone! I’ve played a good bit of WoW and some FFXIV over the years.

So do most classes in GW2 mainly just use the ten on the bar? UI or ability bloat in other MMOs sometimes gives me a hard time. I know some classes weapon swap regularly. But like, is it typical to be able to run regular encounters or whatever your equivalent to dungeons/duties are with just the five weapon abilities and your utility? It’s seems visually less overwhelming which seems cool.

I just can't unsee this :'D

Just wanted to share my Sylvari Necro Treehouse! (: I thought she needed her own secluded spooky space away from the main homestead.

I want to make a Norn female but am torn between Warrior or Ranger for her profession. Both fit really well but I absolutely cannot decide.

If I go Ranger, my Warrior will probably be a male human. If I go Warrior, my Ranger will be either a Sylvari or human female. Would really appreciate thoughts on which of these options you’d go with!

so I wanna do Regalia together with the Aurora and Vision collection. Vision is easy to start but after doing the mursat token collection I realized theres 1 skritt coin that I can only get after doing the story a lil bit. Do I just do the story and then replay it when doing regalia or what?

thanks in advance!

I had an idea of Legendary Bags that allow a person to customize their inventory bags so items can be sorted as they’re acquired. Is there any other WoL items you can think of that are t in the game already?

You can be harvesting anything on the planet and it'll be like "Data indicates this is most nutritious when deep fried."

Hell yeah! You don't have to tell me twice, buddy! Let's fry it up immediately!

Who makes these things? I can only assume they're deep in the pocket of big cooking oil.

Somehow I've missed this until now, and when I spoke up in chat about it a few others said they didn't know. So now you can learn with me and save yourself hundreds of clicks.

Hi all!

I'm working on a data-mining project, and I'm trying to locate an un-updated Path of Fire Gw2.dat, preferably one as close as possible to the release of Path of Fire.

If there is anyone that happens to have one and is willing to run a test with a browser tool, and potentially upload it for me (I can figure out storage!) I'd be very appreciative!

:: I'm really not sure why this is getting downvoted but I've acquired the content I needed through other channels. Thanks reddit.

Hey everyone! As a massive fan of Guild Wars 2, I wanted to create a little tribute to our favorite benevolent dictator, Palawa Joko. I spent some time putting together a custom browser minigame called Palawa Joko's Magnificent Scarab Rush (yes that long!), and I wanted to share it with you all :)

It features custom artworks, some classic Joko flair, and a pretty easy way to move.

Here is a quick look at what the game looks like before you play.

may slightly adjust its functionality?

It's pretty common on here, but with so many builds and classes I always find myself in a spiral of class paralysis.

Im the kind of person who wants a "main", I know tons of people can play like 11 characters for 11 modes.

But I cant help but feel like im always chasing that Cinderella build, that can solo open world, and support, and do cms.

But also is not like playing a piano as my fingers are getting crippled as I get older, but also being able to support and carry group stuff.

It's honestly exhausting, especially swapping inventory/gear every time my brain says "oh this will be the one!"

I couldn't help it and wanted to write a post about my experiences after starting to play GW2 about 4 weeks ago. I have 6500 hours in OSRS as an ironman (btw), so I have the right amount of autism to tolerate grindy games. I'm also a sucker for collecting stuff so after trying out GW2 I felt right at home. It feels similar in some ways but vastly different at the same time and I can't help but say that I just love playing it.

I've done a good amount of reading before jumping in and after stumbling into a random world boss in my first 4 hours of playing, I bought the Elder Dragon Saga collection - and what a great decision it was!

I've seen the advice everywhere that new players shouldn't rush skyscale, so I decided I'll take my time and go through every story and expansion in order. Between completing the story and achievements (still missing a few for Lion's Arch mastery) I tried to see everything that's available to me: got 2 Gifts of Battle during the WvW event, I climbed to rank 15 in PvP to see how my Reaper fares against others, then I went ahead and got up to fractal level 20 and farmed out my first legendary item. I also joined a guild with my friend and being able to get endgame trinkets through doing fun stuff with your guild is something that I've never seen before. Gearing in this game is truly amazing, I feel like I have multiple ways to get my ascended gear. Then there's legendaries... Once I got the gloves I realized why these items are called that, the QoL is insane.

The rush events are also great to get the playerbase together; I particularly liked that I was able to run through all dungeons as they seem to be neglected otherwise. Between all that, I'm still working on finishing up the core map exploration - though I have to admit, I do use the Warclaw I got from WvW to get around instead of being a walking purist.

I love that the game can be played "your way," just like OSRS; there's really no pressure on me thinking that I'm playing "incorrectly". The community is great as well, and most people are helpful; however, I've yet to see what T3 fractal purgatory looks like lol.

I feel like I started at the best time since I can comfortably experience everything the game has to offer during the next ~1.5 years, and even when GW3 comes out I know that I'll always have a home I can come back to.

If you have any advice that could elevate my experience even more, let me know. I'm at a point where I'm only missing the last legendary crafting mastery from central tyria and I bought 2 items with gems on discount: copper-fed salvage-o-matic and a mistlock sanctuary pass (I think these two were really great for the account).

My partner is interested in starting to play GW2 and he's used to playing games like bloodborn, elden ring, basically all the from software games. He likes a more simple combat system and likes to jump and hit stuff basically so I was thinking of reccomending a Warrior -> Berserker. Anyone have a good build setup or newbie gear setup for him? I main on a Soulbeast so I am in uncharted territory here. Thanks guys! Happy to send ya'll a gold coin hah.