you forgot about the best class in the game, now i'm deeply offended

I also really like Catalyst for Open World gameplay due to the trait Staunch Auras which gives you stab for doing Auras which you do a lot with Catalyst. Also the spheres can buff people around you as well.

Gw2's biggest taboo is horses, duh

It's summertime in europe now, so i play way fewer hours compared to wintertimes. Probably only about 3 hours/week and else maybe 10-20/week.

I just downloaded the game today haven’t decided on my race or class yet. I’m looking for something fun to play. I was looking at different mmos over the weekend and decided to give guild wars 2 a try. So many videos say different things I’m confused about what class is strong dps and everything.

For play time... I'm a teacher, so summer time I can game way above my normal in school year amount. In school, during the week is maybe 15 min a day before work. 8-10 ish hrs on a weekend. Summer however, I can safely do 4+ hrs a day with almost nothing in my way.

Love the series, here's a comment bro

I play about 2 hours a day and that already feels like too much 🤣 so 10 hours a week is pretty average id say for a working person with “some” social life 😅 even at this pace i already did everything in the game and have full legendary armor(all 3 weights and all trinkets) and full legendary weapons(1 of each type) over the course of like 16 months of me playing this game from scratch so you could most likely grind it much faster

I think my rough estimate is that I probably spend anywhere from 8-13 hours a week on GW2. Goes up and down depending on the week.

I would say 10-15 hours per week is a good representation of a good % of players i know. In my guild veteran players are usually log in few days a week to clear raid and strikes ones. Though i would say players commited to some kind of farm, like leggies or some titles, are usually do like 20-30 hours a week. I am more of the second group right now but i am mostly catching up with content relised after LW4 when i stopped playing GW2 last time. For Gemshop topic i think making gathering tools a leggy quality item would make a big sence in QoL espesially if you could make a preset of account options to use a specific tool on a specific node. Also my guildmates highly value weekly black lion support package keys for guaranteed unlocks.

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Those gems you're buying with gold come from other players who bought them. Anet is still getting money from the gems you buy with gold, just not from you personally. But somebody bought them.

About this weeks question, I am currently putting in between 1.5 to 3 hours everyday since I am grinding the Obsidian Legendary Armor. I have already done Gift of Mighty/Prosperity and a lot of the stuff that I could have farmed with just gold before the armor released, so now only the Kryptis Essences and map currency/completion remains. My current daily routine is first Dragonstorm after server reset followed by Convergence and then Amnytas, while doing Wizard Vault dailies and Greater Arcane Chests+Skyscale orbs(you can get 100 map currency from them) in between each meta, this all takes between 1.5 hours to 2 hours to complete, I sometimes do Fractals which adds another hour which I try to do right after server reset and before Dragonstorm. I do have to say the Return to Season 3 bonus event really threw a wrench in my daily schedule since there was a lot of Mystic Coins to be made so that added another hour to the daily grind. Once I am done with all 3 sets of armor, I expect to reduce my hours with GW2 down to only doing Wizard Vault weeklies on weekends, or perhaps I will start the grind for the upcoming legendary spear.

I'm like 27 freshly married and for now I spend like around 10-20 hours for gaming per week. 3/4 for GW2 and then rest for other games like now it is elden ring.

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I wish I could get the motivation to do map comps. Have like 3 starter kits but no gifts of explorations lol I like your idea for doing 2 maps/day

what is that marker?..is there something other than Taco/Tekkit?

me personally i spend 50 bucks almost every month, just to support the game

i felt cared like no other channel at the end, nobodys ever done that not that ive seen

the king themselves? lmao what a flag

poor warrior not even mentioned 😂

"Elementalist casually stays at the top of benchmarks" Silhouette: "Condi willbender is the top of benchmarks". Dude you are either avoiding elementalist or talking shit about that class when you are making class videos. Hate for ele is appreciated by ele mains thanks.

Kinda funny that I "main" two characters: a Guardian and a Revenant. I recently came back into the game, so I had no idea they were so good.

finally am at latest episode and caught up

almost done binging this series

i JUST realised but, using utils on default binds is some alien behavior bro pls

just run faster and map comp will only take 5 hours its that easy

Top 3 are ele thief and warrior😂

Top 3 are ele thief and warrior😂

recently found ur channel and im watching through the zero2hero 1 by 1

Switch out Guardian with Ranger. Firebrand is basically dead outside of fractals and even there you usually see Heal Chrono. DH is just a worse pSlb. cWb is nice I guess, but not enough to keep Guardian in the Top 3. One saving grace might be the Core Hammer Autoattack 1 button build. Ranger meanwhile has Druid, arguably the best solo healer. It has Soulbeast, the best pDPS if any Burst in needed and a braindead easy double Shortbow condi variant. And Untamed with it's near immortal Open World Build and Quickness Green Fart Machine.

I adore willbender personally. I solo things on that I never dreamed of on my weaver and with way more average DPS to boot. That said I always feel more useful on Chronomancer in general, but Willbender can throw out Alacrity really well nowadays thanks to Pistol being so good at proccing virtues.

PVE support Quickdps: Herald (power), Scrapper (power), Harbinger (condi), Firebrand (condi) HealQuickness: Firebrand, Chronomancer Alacdps: Spectre, Willbender HealAlacrity: Druid, Scourge WvW Main and off Supports Scrapper, Firebrand, Chrono, Spectre, Tempest, Scourge, Vindicator, Renegade spvp support not my cup of tea but, core guard is still strong to my knowledge. ...imo

Guardian forever from static firebrand, trap mastar DH to fricking jumping assasin willbender I love that class. Everything in one

Great vid. Thanks. Where's the best place to find these builds, most especially the rev and mesmer celestial open world builds?

I really like your take here, i know some spec and build are not the best or unhinged/off meta but guardian, mesmer and revenant can do all off them im talking about any dps, any boon dps, any boon heal its just those build have a wall like heal scourge needing todo a walk of shame just too provide a stability and so on. but if the fight dont need a specific thing on a spec then you can play them as long as it can do the job or reach good damage.

I am looking for some fun easy alternatives. I usually play deadeye dual pistol, just spamming 3 on auto repeat- it never runs out of energy. After each kill i can re-steal and get boons. + signet healing + relic of zakiros. Keeps me alive over others, so i can focus on dodging circles and ressurecting downed players, or just stand afk if the fight is easy. Single player mobs die instantly and i can get half my health back in 5 seconds. I just love pistols, what would be another proffesion that has a nice pistols build ? Or for harder metas like inner nayos inside end boss - i would like a necro build that can keep healing downed players, since they keep falling like dominos, while the fire circles around them.

Oh its here! Thanks for the video! Interesting hearing your thoughts on the different builds, this ended up being within what I expected from the 2024 meta. It will be interesting if the devs ever shake up the meta with more balance changes, but without getting new elite specs with the way the devs are making the new expansions I expect the current meta to last for several years.

Scourge low CC? You couldn't be more wrong. 200 on Pistol/Warhorn, another 200 on Torch 5. Golem charge deals 200 but depending on the size of the hitbox can hit multiple times dealing 200 each time. Finally you can bring Spectral Grasp and stand in the enemies hitbox and if all five pulls hit them it'll do 750 defiance damage. The only weakness of Scourge as a healer imo is stab but it more than makes up for it with the ranged revive and downstate pull on F4. Scourge has a insane carry potential in raid pugs or low exp groups but drops off as the group performs better. Healbrand is the opposite. It lacks the big green heal numbers you see from other healers and requires everyone to be aware of the mantra size/radius so boons are up kept. Inexperienced HB players struggle to maintain even boon spread and appropriate stab/aegis application requires that you already know the fight very well. A well organized and experienced group that uses HB to its fullest potential can pick and choose how to engage with particular mechanics. For example I've used it to aegis every platform wide fireball on Q1 CM completely negating that mechanic. Outside of particular use cases I never see HB played in raids and rarely see it in fractal pugs anyone. Guardian has really fallen off recently and to call it the king of healers is simply not true anymore. Lots of heal scourge, chrono, HAM, druid, and herald in fractals and raids these days.

6:00 The Harbinger is pretty cool too. It can be played as either Power or Condi and Quickness or pure DPS without having to use concentration gears. Plus, Harb is also one of a few ranged Power DPS left in the game.