Nice guide! I play a similar open world Celestial build w/ Spite/Soul/Blood. Axe/WH + Staff. No pets and all ground targeted skills- Wells of Blood/Suffering/Darkness/Power + Plaguelands. You can swap out Well of Power for Spectral Ring (more fears for Dread) or Spectral Grasp for pulling mobs into your fields. It's definitely not a max DPS type build but just very well rounded with the CC and off-healing.

When you say the rotation is hard, are we talking gw2 weaver level hard or just a fair amount of buttons.

Tyvm started recently and this guide help a lot

As a new player, this might as well been in a different language. Will come back after playing a bit.

GW2 is a casual mmo i notice that has i played it, but sadly it has way too many aspect that ruin the expirience, the dev team is aware but dont seem to care much, for me i stopped playing cause i was tired of playing same game loop that after awhile makes no sense keep doing it, last expansion was a disaster i felt scam, the only thing that made me last that long playing GW2 is my guild that runs pretty much the only trains around the map so that new players can grow otherwise my server would be dead cause there is so much gatekeeping on raids and strikes that new players find themselves wondering what to do and we give them guidance and raids its something that my guild choose to not run to not feed those gatekeeping and selling their run services.

WHAT COMBOS are u using?

So is Power greatsword reaper and power dps reaper from Metabuild still a thing or is this the improved version? If this is better I'll use it.

When I got a certain Item that I was grinding for in this game, It felt like the journey towards that item is more thrilling than completing the item itself which is counterintuitive because if you were to grind for something it should be that item has a purpose but I didn't feel any stronger wielding that item. The boost in that item is so miniscule compared to what I was wearing that is just from playing the game. It is the main reason that I stopped because I was doing these events for these materials just to end up with an item that is just very so slightly better than the item that I was wearing during max level. I get that this is what the horizontal progression does but all you have to show for to another player that is newbie is that you have grinded for this item that isn't much stronger than theirs. The horizontal progression should be paired with a vertical progression like veterans who grinded for their equips should have a significant boost to someone who just wears their leveling gear and veterans who completed the gear on that tier would be on the same playing field but not with the ones who just maxed level so it would feel like there's really an accomplishment rather than just basically a trophy.

I'm starting to think everything here is strong and incredibly powerful and ridiculous.

Love The Bold haha

hi great build i will try Is this work on wvw too?

Dam music

Thanks for making this. Helped clear up some things for me, but it’s still a lot to take in as a new player.

Newbie here, great video and great explanation!

im a old player of gw2 got all the dlc. but i still can't decide witch spec to play or stay core.. for open world. i do mostly open world content. and play mostly dagger pistol and double pistol i like to have mobility i like to have the bonus of trickery. but if i go daredevil. either i loose the bonus for more damage or get trick to feel almost the same as core damage but a litle bit better ( and i don't really like staff.. either spam skill 2 and main skill is boring. don't know if dagger with daredevil is good or not for open world. but again problem stay i lost the ini and boff of trick. feel like steal feel pointless without the buff i try deadeye double pistol. it's good .. but getting boring to spam unload all day

is this nerfed now?

Was so happy when I finnaly got ledgendary weapons I know u got them at what lv 40 or something but I also tried to Smith my ass off too. I hope I can get back into my account when I finnaly find my computer

wait wait wait .. did I hear that right ?.... "better ERP" ????... my dude do u know what ERP stands for ?

while leveling should i wait to use hero points on traits and specializations first? or skills?

Thank you very much 😊

Crazy that reaper and untamed aren't on the list.

33% less dmg not more

MASSIVE

Can't hear a damn thing you are saying.

Need a qued thing for endgame pve content. Ill die on this hill.

Honestly for dungeons something that would go a very long way with extremely minimal dev resources is to just buff the rewards to be competitive with fractals, on a once per day basis. And then maybe have a "dungeon of the day" that is competitive with a t4 fractal in terms of rewards. From what I've gathered in all my time playing, there's two reasons people don't play dungeons, and it's not because they're not fun. People just don't seem them as worth the time spent, so they don't do them in favor of other content that does reward them well, and then the other people that don't run dungeons is those that want to, but find it impossible to find groups. Fix the first issue, and you also fix the second.

id legitimately cream my pants for some new dungeons, honestly dungeons were so unique, i mean their going back to raids but the issue with raids for me is the community for raids feels so gate keepy, i like how ff14 handles more dungeons an raids where it funnels players into them or at the very least allows you to take your own premade npc squads

You can play Fractals as soon as you enter Lions Arch. You get upscaled while doing fractals. Not that its recommended but you can do it.

Great video but I’m having trouble getting cry of the chorus to reset my anthems to get two up initially . It just doesn’t want to do it . Am I doing something wrong ?

Logged in my minstrel after a long time. I'm playing around with the skills, and I am either missing something, or they've changed things so that you can no longer do all the anthems before the fight and then switch to heals?

1. I kind of see where you're coming from with introducing Fractals early on. However, i do see the current dungeons at this point as the entry level to the 5-man content. While not perfect, they do meet the requirements as a tutorial. They've been made easier to access thankfully through LA outside of the aerodrome, and i appreciate Anet for releasing dungeon rush to pull people in temporarily. 2. This i totally agree. More UI options are good. They've only dine minor changes, but yeah this a sound one. 3. I think they nail this often throughout many segments of the game. For this expac, they missed the mark, but thus is more of a hit or miss thing in general. They do a goid job often enough and seen good set pieces in the past. 4. To an extent, Outfits kind of do the job to make yourself look good while leveling. Its hides your equipment and makes you look pretty badass. However i do get the idea of just wanting to have your own persistent combination at all times. Kind of like the Prism system in FF14, which honestly would be nice. 5. We call this Low Intensity builds. Many people in the community have created guides to make those kinds of builds. Its a matter of searching them or asking others. 6. This is a given. Guild Systems nowadays are a bit lackluster and does need a refresh. 7. They've kind of created solutions for that: Wizard's Vault weekly objectives, and Rush Events. Many players flock to older content when these events arrive or rotate. 8. I like your spirit with this idea, but im not quite sure what Anet could pull off to get people intrigued. Technically with the expacs system, they do launch quarterly/seasonal updates now. Its a part of a strategy to release more content more often which i appreciate. Im glad they've learned from SotO their strengths and weaknesses now, so i hope JaW is an improvement. 9. This I 100% agree. More emotes or improvements to the system. Hell, i want a GPose style system for photo mode, like in FF14. 10. Yeah about that... XD

Get rid of transmutation charges they're archaic, add other ways of earning Mount skins than gem store and black lion chest. I agree UI customization would be good, I mean GW1 literally had it before WoW did.

Two important things for me : 1 - Reworking and updating old content and systems. Make the old stuff feel like it's new and corrected (cause there are definitely things that are... poorly done, or unfinished). This is a crucial part of long term video games imo and arenanet almost never does that, which is pretty bad ! Also unify and simplify some needlessly complex stuff. 2 - Actually it could just be a sub category of part one, but I think that part needs a special attention, even if the two actually have to be done together. Completely redo the new player experience, the early game and leveling. Just erase what has been done for the steam release, its just super bad and doesnt help for anything in any way (excepet getting xp faster which is not even needed, especially not for a new player). Give proper tutorials to systems and gameplay. Use the whole free to play part of the game to introduce players to the rest of the game. They need players to actually learn via active tutorials and gameplay how the game works in general, and then be introduced to strikes, masteries, and things like that. Those two things actually include so much stuff it would be hard to sumarize everything here. This should be a big project taken by a whole dedicated team.

Interesting video, i like it. Especialy Nr. 7., i have enjoyed so much in Retourne to Achievement, before EoD come out. That wos one of the best contents i expirienced. Its personal and Group, so good. Thanx

Gonna be real, I got tired of logging in every day spending time cleaning the bags of my bags of my bags. Literally not what I want to do most the time, specially when trying to pound out story. I also hate that some missions are still sucky long and I don’t have time for them all in one sit and I don’t know the length of them until I try. So I quit. 😢

They should just make a soloable version of the dungeon for the lore with reduced rewards.

what are you even talking about non meta buid / surface lvl gameplay 11k top dps

I think it'd be nice if they keep the story modes of the dungeons and get rid of explorables, rework them into fractals, completely get rid of the dungeon tokens and add the dungeon vendors into the fractals with fractal currency. The "easy mode" builds are called "low intensity" builds, I recommend to look that up for some very easy builds. (some are literally only auto attack and deal nearly 30k damage) I think the guild reward thing is kinda difficult to do because you can join 6 guilds. Might be overwhelming for people if they gotta do those guild missions for rewards in all 6 guilds. i think it's fine if the guild is just a social gathering kinda thing. Plus, with the WvW rework the guilds gain another function aside from the missions, guildhall and social aspect. Instead I'd want them to rework the guild vendors, put some skins or loot in there that's actually worth going for with the guild tokens you get from completing guild missions. Also gotta get those missions reworked because some of them are really tedious and just simply bad. force people to do WvW missions in groups of 3 but base the WvW pairing on servers, gotta be a joke, I'm so happy it's gonna be based on the guild you're in starting friday next week xD Other than those I agree on everything else, great video ^^ Btw did you know they got a Sims4 dev to do the housing? I hope if whatever comes out of it is better than what we have with the guildhall customization they also rework that with the same tech.

nah mate, taking the skill out of a skill based game isn't a good plan.

all profeshions have easy mode builds already. and all do more than 32k dps as far as i know.

Ah…. I see you are a “Mostly/exclusively” human player…… I myself am a “Mostly/exclusively” Charr player….. Your fashion is better, but my lore is better ;)

I literally forgot one of the major points I been thinking about for the last few months! They should definitely put mastery points that you can buy from the Astral Vault! That way people that are missing 1 or 2 mastery's can get them from there if they want!

bro I need a PhD for this class

nice! This youtube video was INCREDIBLY strong :D

Swapping to EU from NA was the first time I saw a scroll bar in lfg.

in pvp i went to conquest in na with a free acc, now. in eu and from beta of gw2 , i main warr. and in eu i play SB. so when i made a free one in NA i had to use vanila warr, so i played him as i play sb macehammer cc build.. i broke ppls nerves... 5 games i finished with 0 deaths.... i took the same build. next day ( cause when i played in NA , it was really late in EU , and wanted to sleep) so next day afternoon , i did the same one in EU. they broke me in half. I could not do shit with it. So i think and believe that over all in Pvp Eu has more try hard , more skill if u will, and more passion for breaking each others skulls.

How I express that is that they wank over their rotations and have zero situational awareness.

welcome to EU, but underworld was it? not a strong server

Been MMO'ing for ages and raiding in some great guilds in different games over the years. GW2 raiding has never got me excited and maybe thats being older now, but i sometimes get nostalgic and have got involved only back out again. My last raid experience on EU = Sign up with training guild. Sign up to raid as healer (Chrono FTW). Pre watch videos a few times. Turn up on time and have comms working. Raid gathers. Them "dude can you go dps". Me "OK, but im much better on SB as dps". Them "we dont like SB in raids, just stay as you are". Get going, my dps is mid / ok. Them "dude, your dps is low - you got to do 10k better next time". Me "I was supposed to be the healer" 😇 Everyone is nice, but raiding brings out weird behaviours in people e.g. In peak litch king wow raiding caused spectacular & very public guild disintegrations. GW2 raiding isn't that - people are GW2 chill :D. But its also not something you have to do at all to have fun

I don't see the link to the LM.