Non-elite builds are still part of the meta for some classes (Elementalist, Mesmer, Guardian, Necromancers). But the elite builds tend to be more powerful and/or versatile for many of the classes, so you’ll see more elite builds than non-elite builds in the meta.
In short, non-elite builds are still viable, depending on the class, but generally speaking elite builds are preferred because they are nearly always better.
So I have an 80. But I still can’t access gliders. Anyone want to explain this to me?
I think you need to go somewhere and complete a challenge to get access to them.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gliding
You may need to complete the second chapter of the Heart of Thorns story.
You have to go to the HoT area (Verdant Brink is recommended) and gain enough experience (and 1 mastery point) to unlock the Gliding Basics mastery. I’ll be glad to help you in Verdant Brink until you get it, if you want.
Friendly reminder that, if you haven’t unlocked Episode 1 of the Living Word Season 3 yet, today is the last day you can do so for free.
Episode 2 comes out tomorrow and I’m really excited about that. ;)
S03E02 is now out, login in the next couple of weeks to unlock it for free.
Halloween is coming! And it arrives on October 18th in Tyria, apparently. ;)
The Mad King is here!
Release notes: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-October-18-2016
The third episode of Living World Season 3 arrives on November 21st. Trailer and info here:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/watch-the-trailer-for-a-crack-in-the-ice/
Great! I just finished the last one. <.<
They just sent me 5 emails about this in the past 15 minutes. One was in German, one in French, one in Spanish, and two in English, haha.
They mentioned that on Twitter. It was an error and that shouldn’t happen anymore. Hopefully. ;)
Episode 3 of Living World Season 3, “A Crack in the Ice”, is out now!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/november-21-2016/
And Wintersday is here!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/december-13-2016/
Patch notes:
Heads-up: Wintersday ends tomorrow, so if you want to get some more gifts or enjoy the snowball fights, you have only a few hours to do so. :)
So Wintersday ended, but the Lunar New Year festivities just got started (yesterday)!
Quick news about Episode 4 of Living World Season 3 (and paging @Fishbreath since he asked me about it in another thread) :
We’re wrapping up work on Episode 4 of Living World Season 3 and expect to launch it in February, hitting our normal cadence of a new episode every 2~3 months. I want to give a quick heads-up here on a few topics that I know the community is anticipating, things that will and won’t be bundled with this episode.
This release will include the promised fix to AB multi-looting. The fix is simple: you can loot each of the great and grand chests once each time you complete the meta, once per map cycle.
This release will also include a new, challenging group-farming spot for leather.
This release won’t include legendary armor. We’re getting close to completion, though, and may be able to ship legendary armor with the Ep5 release.
This release won’t include a skill balance update. As we did last time, we’ll ship the next skill balance update off-cycle from Living World releases.
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Quick-note-on-Ep4-bundled-updates
More news on Episode 4: it’s called “The Head of the Snake”, comes out February 7th (one week from today), and you can watch the trailer and get more info in the link below:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/watch-the-trailer-for-the-head-of-the-snake/
Brilliant. Thanks for the heads-up—I just finished E3 the other night, so I guess I’m right on schedule. Maybe I’ll spend some time over the next weekend or two hunting mastery points…