r/Guildwars2

Basically title. I am a New World refugee (RIP sweet prince) and have been loving GW2 as my new MMO of choice. But one thing I am missing a bit, is the chase for higher tier rare gear. I know the horizontal progression thing pretty much nullifies this, but is there anything you can grind for drops wise for raids, fractals, dungeons etc- that aren't the long grinds of crafting legendaries? Sorry if dumb question. Still under 100 hours so I'm still learning every day!

I haven't tried proper instanced content yet besides T1 Fractals, but I want to dip in them once I feel confident in my quickplay raids.

Anyway, even though GW 2 is very unlike my title, I still want to feel the thrill of rare (Ascended) gear drops from repetitive grinding of a boss/dungeon. However, from what I gathered a lot of it is Daily/Weekly and then dip. Is there such content where you can grind it out until you roll over and die?

Edit:

Probably serves as a response to current comments: guys, I hear y'all, and I know what you're saying.

To elaborate on my post because I stupidly didn't, I'm looking for Ascended gear drops specifically from instanced content where rewards don't fall off a cliff after getting the daily/weekly done.

IMO Engineer is the coolest. Idk why in a world of magic engineering speaks to me but it does. I like the Witcher sort of aspect to it, taking potions and relying on weapons, accessories, gadgets etc. It's cool. And obviously SLIME TIME.

However, I need it blunt. How good is this class for PvP / PvE? What does it excel at?

I normally like playing 1v1 duelist / 1vX classes in games with high mobility and outplay when mastered. So in PvP what's my classes strengths and weaknesses? Does it shine in sPvP / WvW / Roaming?

From what I understand in PvE everything is fine. What's the actual likelihood of playing raids / CM content / high fractals as a engi though and how useful will I be? or am I completely outclassed by other specs?

I am getting the feeling that the profession is the jack of all trades, master of none.

It would be nice to know how the profession has stood the test of time historically too?

And for further information if anyone knows any engi pvp mains like Boyce for ranger or something like that I would be grateful. Can't seem to find any and would like to see a pro play it as a main.

Hi,

I play chrono heal and I like it for its simplicity. I can stay rifle 100% of the time. I just need to shatter but boon uptime is easy so I don't have to tryhard on shatter timming. This is great because I can focus on the bosses, use my amazing utility skills when needed or even take the tank role easily.

I look for a second class. I tried scourge a bit. It seems not too hard and has great utility too but the F skills are very spammy and need to be aimed correctly which is sometimes hard in chaotic fights. ==> It seems not that easy...

Before committing to healer gear for this class, I wonder if there are other easy heal classes? That don't need to swap weapons, or have very simple F skills.

Thank you.

Edit: context is fractals and raids.

I'm expecting this to be a pretty niche problem but I've recently installed Bazzite with SteamOS on my PC and set up GW2 as you would with the Steam Deck, but the issue is whenever I touch the touchpad on the controller while in game, the whole screen turns black until I take my finger off the touchpad. Has anyone else run into this issue and/or have an idea how to fix it?

Cheers

Most recent patch nerfed the mirrors again. Before the nerf I would get a lot more rare gear than after the nerf. Idk if it was just bad rng or somethin but it was pretty low. Objectively has the mirror farm gotten nerfed to the ground or is it still prtty good?

So I started playing the game again after several years and I was always pretty particular about which personal story branches I had my characters do just because idk it’s fun to get a little immersed in the rp and all that.

Anyways I’m pretty behind in the story journal and want to seriously catch up but irreversible decisions make me anxious lol. And I like to at least know they’re coming so I can kinda look into the outcomes ahead of time. From what I understand they’re pretty few and far between as most story content is replayable after the initial campaign? But I also know they pop up occasionally like the beginning of PoF has the non-replayable instance where you decide which flags Amnoon flies.

I’m basically just wondering how many ACTUAL decisions like that come up throughout the story, or if anyone has an unofficial list (if there are any more) because it’s not exactly something that’d be on the wiki.

Hopefully I don’t sound insane, obviously this doesn’t impact the game that much but hey it sucks to sink time into a character and then be like ah I should have chosen this other thing!

As someone who returned last year after a 5 year break, I enjoyed the updates the game has gotten. But what got me hooked more this time around was the Wizard's Vault reward system. Before that we had this thing, which kinda sucked and wasn't engaging enough: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Log-in\_Rewards

I remember just logging in, getting the stuff, then log out. At some point, I just stopped logging in because there was no incentive; it was passive rewards rather than proactive rewards, which Wizard's Vault has. I can get what I want immediately rather than wait for the 28th day reward.

This is going to be the longest reset period ever....

I keep jumping between classes because everything feels fun for a while, then I get bored and switch again. Now I have a bunch of half-geared characters and no real “main.” Part of me feels like I should just commit to one, but I can’t decide what. Do most of you actually main one class, or just play whatever you feel like?

Just noticed we can do this

https://preview.redd.it/y72dt2twgd2h1.png?width=932&format=png&auto=webp&s=9824f3a4478a4064b231db65da8819889515cadb

When I try other specs I usually sweating keeping my quickness up, but with revenant I don't even have to look at the buff bar, any other specs with super chill quickness upkeep?

Hey folks,

so I crafted the new legendary Strife unending and was quite happy to get the kills to up its animation which looks awesome but I came to the sad realisation that the animation resets everytime I log off or swap maps or even after death? Unsure

I didn't know about this and mainly got this trinket for the animation, now I'm quite sad about it and probably should have been paying more attention how it truly works

So yea, I guess this is on me. If I would have known I wouldn't have crafted it

Cya folks and good luck out there!