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.
@MrBluetini9 күн бұрын
When you say the rotation is hard, are we talking gw2 weaver level hard or just a fair amount of buttons.
@alcapitian4 күн бұрын
Id say close to weaver but when you want to hit top tier you need to double proc piercing cry on every hit. So if you have high latency like me its impossible to hit bench (playing from EU on US server) it's around 5 aps... So if you do a 20-40min boss fight, your wrists will hurt! Hahaha
@YWP4UL09 күн бұрын
Tyvm started recently and this guide help a lot
@alcapitian4 күн бұрын
I'm so glad mate! Will hopefully make more guides when I'm back 🙂
@valkyriealpha15 күн бұрын
As a new player, this might as well been in a different language. Will come back after playing a bit.
@Exirock18 күн бұрын
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.
@yeti223720 күн бұрын
WHAT COMBOS are u using?
@yeti223720 күн бұрын
like rotations
@doomsayr_x21 күн бұрын
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.
@farlonmuentes600423 күн бұрын
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.
@Gothstana24 күн бұрын
I'm starting to think everything here is strong and incredibly powerful and ridiculous.
@doble698Ай бұрын
Love The Bold haha
@Admori971Ай бұрын
hi great build i will try Is this work on wvw too?
@alcapitianАй бұрын
I would say so, if you want more survivability you can change a few traits to boost that but keep a glassy build. And then adjust weapons however you want to play... Like the 1v1 I would stay relatively similar but ZvZ I would go staff and axe/warhorn for range DPS and AoE fear
@drunkdemon1514Ай бұрын
Dam music
@mikevoosen5302Ай бұрын
Thanks for making this. Helped clear up some things for me, but it’s still a lot to take in as a new player.
@JndbrainrotАй бұрын
Newbie here, great video and great explanation!
@panaku3963Ай бұрын
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
@kurokokoro8472Ай бұрын
is this nerfed now?
@alcapitianАй бұрын
A little bit but still strong, but power chrono is hitting a little harder so more elite players play it but I feel more comfortable on this because I'm not as good as them 😅
@johnrichmond5342Ай бұрын
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
@Yaeshi2 ай бұрын
wait wait wait .. did I hear that right ?.... "better ERP" ????... my dude do u know what ERP stands for ?
@HorrorCrisisTime2 ай бұрын
while leveling should i wait to use hero points on traits and specializations first? or skills?
@alcapitian2 ай бұрын
I would save enough to max a specialization as soon as you can. Then I would fill out the utilities after
@HorrorCrisisTime2 ай бұрын
@@alcapitian thank you for the reply man <3
@RhoVabien2 ай бұрын
Thank you very much 😊
@HardcoreCasualGW22 ай бұрын
Crazy that reaper and untamed aren't on the list.
@DarcShinobi2 ай бұрын
33% less dmg not more
@iBaraban2 ай бұрын
MASSIVE
@johnrupesh45352 ай бұрын
Can't hear a damn thing you are saying.
@anannoyedpanda2 ай бұрын
Need a qued thing for endgame pve content. Ill die on this hill.
@Psoewish2 ай бұрын
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.
@shogenx2 ай бұрын
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
@Raseus12 ай бұрын
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.
@topgunner70822 ай бұрын
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 ?
@BoundingBeast2 ай бұрын
It needs to be traited to gain the reset. Specifically, you need 5 ranks in "Invigourating Anthems" in the yellow track.
@harrr532 ай бұрын
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?
@MG_2 ай бұрын
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
@Joromonni2 ай бұрын
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.
@Ojyh3 ай бұрын
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.
@MisterNo11113 ай бұрын
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
@BigXam3 ай бұрын
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. 😢
@Jaydo2 ай бұрын
Inventory management actually gets really easy and fast (seconds) when you learn the shtick, but the game of course never teaches you. I can't blame you for hating the randomly long story missions though, that does suck a lot when you're going in blind.
@christophersmith83163 ай бұрын
They should just make a soloable version of the dungeon for the lore with reduced rewards.
@pppp-dm4cj3 ай бұрын
what are you even talking about non meta buid / surface lvl gameplay 11k top dps
@pega75503 ай бұрын
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.
@jesseliddelow64093 ай бұрын
As a gw2 player who still does dungeons daily.....how dare you suggest they delete dungeons. What I would love to see is turn story truly into story. Make it a single-player instance. Explorable, don't touch them, leave them exactly as they are, but give dungeon tokens state selectable exotics through the vendor. Finally turn all the dungeon story bosses into lvl80 strike missions that also count towards dungeon frequenter.
@pega75502 ай бұрын
@@jesseliddelow6409 that's fair, but what would change if you were able to run the exact same explorable dungeon (maybe a bit more streamlined to fit all the explorable stories into one path) as a fractal instead? It'd be a similar experience imo and we'd get some usage out of these beautiful instances, instead of letting them collect dust. Completely agree to make the story modes a single-player instance so new players can experience the story when it's relevant and keep it untouched otherwise. I'd also agree on having those exotics be stat selectable. Saves a lot of space on the vendors as well. They should also get rid of the requirement to complete the explorable paths of a dungeon six times before you can buy all of the armor pieces of that dungeon, ascalon is pretty much the only dungeon being run more frequently atm, because it's the easiest/fastest to do... It's just a content type barely anyone touches anymore even though it's so good, so I want people to interact more with it. Even if it means turning them into fractals.
@PixTax3 ай бұрын
nah mate, taking the skill out of a skill based game isn't a good plan.
@shadowkiller32963 ай бұрын
all profeshions have easy mode builds already. and all do more than 32k dps as far as i know.
@joshuaherring96743 ай бұрын
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 ;)
@thornwolf42343 ай бұрын
I myself am a norn main. But I can agree with my charr friend here... humans are very meh in guild wars 2 lol
@alcapitian3 ай бұрын
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!
@joshuaherring96743 ай бұрын
I actually disagree with this point. I think having the Mastery Points locked behind an achievement or locked behind terrain puzzles in open world is great because it gets the player to interact specifically with that content. 🤷🏼♂️ Just my opinion 🤷🏼♂️
@alcapitian3 ай бұрын
@@joshuaherring9674 I agree to big part, achievement hunting and doing deeds is a big part of the game but I think giving the players who prefer not doing so much of that content the option to drop like 500 Astral into avoiding doing a deed, allows player to play the game the way they want to.
@H.S.D.813 ай бұрын
There is a problem in our world for some time... catering to the absolut masses... and trying to please everyone only works to a certain point... You step over that line and you dig your own grave because it is not how any society ... not the society of a country nor and subgroup like gamers work... In the end you will loose more people to their disapointement then you gain... My estimate would be at least half... half of the player base is what anet would loose to putting MPs in the vault
@GT-legendary3 ай бұрын
bro I need a PhD for this class
@collinrea61833 ай бұрын
nice! This youtube video was INCREDIBLY strong :D
@TobiNano3 ай бұрын
Swapping to EU from NA was the first time I saw a scroll bar in lfg.
@alcapitian3 ай бұрын
Hahaha! Top comment this! Pinned
@sdbana3 ай бұрын
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.
@alcapitian3 ай бұрын
I'm definitely going to get back into pvp, want to play a mesmer build. Not 100% sure if we get the new weapon combos but I'll try shield dagger or scepter build... been thinking of it a lot
@nielsjensen41853 ай бұрын
How I express that is that they wank over their rotations and have zero situational awareness.
@davesayersdavesseed43363 ай бұрын
welcome to EU, but underworld was it? not a strong server
@embreis22573 ай бұрын
only relevant for WvW and even that is about to change soon. btw, did you notice any WvW footage?
@dixieflatline11893 ай бұрын
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
@alcapitian3 ай бұрын
Funny cuz reading this when I got to SB, I was like Spell Breaker and Soul Beast absolutely rock in dps.... most of the time when people get too defensive on builds its cuz they average themselves... But atleast with gw2 there's so much content, raiding is probably less than 2% of player base, so I hope you've found a good line of content to enjoy
@dixieflatline11893 ай бұрын
GW2 raiding just falls into content that I end up not doing, rather than something core to the game or something I feel excluded from. It's 2% of the player base because it's not essential to anything else, whereas most other end game content / currencies interlink e.g. legendary weapons Something to think about.... If Anet had made Lego weapons need x250 currency only obtained by killing raid bosses for say Gift of the Mists - the raid scene would be core and much more healthy than today
@NeViKble3 ай бұрын
@@dixieflatline1189 Hmmm but raiding has legendary armor and a legendary ring you could work for! Before Soto you had to either do PvP/WvW or raid to get a legendary armor. I have to say I never raided so far but when that will happen I will probably only do it until I have one set and the ring.
@user-sf1wm8tr9l3 ай бұрын
I don't see the link to the LM.
@alcapitian3 ай бұрын
It's funny, like 4 people were recording the run and no one posted it in the end... I think with t4 and t5 clears so quickly after, they got over the t3 footage