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Make legendary armor/weapons and salvage all the useless ascended armor/weapon drops you get. Several hundred notes per item for something that had 0 value. Other method I used at start of EoD getting research notes to make money crafting T10 jade cores was crafting and salvaging mithril jewelry. Probably more people that figured it out and not as good anymore though.

You can ”downgrade” the testimony of jade heroics to desert heroics.

1 dodge is enough to dodge the whole combo you described for vindicator and it costs the vindicator all of its energy in shiro. Meanwhile if you don't have a block skill you need to expend both dodges to avoid the soulbeast combo and the soulbeast is at a safe range. Also on the topic of the vindicator combo being "unblockable" cause of phase traversal, it only gives 2 stacks on unblockable attacks, so only the first 2 hits from greatsword 5 will be unblockable not every impact from the skill. Both have their pros and cons, would not mind seeing both of them adjusted a bit. Do remember though that the soulbeast combo was fully unblockable for almost 2 years before anet changed unstoppable union so won't mind nuking soulbeasts for the next 2 years to come.

My druid is themed for the bioluminescent weapons. https://imgur.com/a/8UxiBPi https://imgur.com/a/aGayQHG I usually start with which weapons the character will use because you cannot colour weapons while you can armor.

Mounting up and then dismounting makes alliance stance always default to Kurzick abilities rather than remembering which skills were active before mounting up. Happens even if alliance stance was not the currently active legend when mounting up.

Any healskill works, I picked signet of ether cause it heals for a decent amount, gives 1 second invulnerability, some agis, passive healing until you need to use it and it recharges your phantasms. Also method of madness is a good trait for when you need to use your healskill cause of a bad situation you get some extra boons.

The least painful option will be for you to buy some gear from the trading post to update your current one. This is also a good time to learn how to use the trading post properly. Open the trading post and click on the item you are looking for, in this example I will use armor. Next click the cog icon to the right of the search bar, an advanced search window will pop up. In the advanced search window you select what you are looking for. Given your original post about mesmer with staff and condition damage plus having some trouble surviving I will recommend a stat combination called dire in your case now to start out with. Dire stats combination has Main stat condition damage: Increases the damage you do with conditions. Minor stat Toughness: Increases your armor rating which makes you take less damage from physical attacks. Minor stat vitality: Increases your health pool. Your search will look like this. Note how you are filtering for exotic rarity and only for lvl 80. With the advanced search options set click the price button so you are sorting for cheapest first. Now buy some gear, in this case you will find that the named armor set "Jatoro's" will be the cheapest. You would not have found this if you had just searched for "Dire". Do step 1 and 2 to get a good staff and trinkets. Below are some more screenshots of me doing this search for staff and rings as an example. Ring staff You can also upgrade your armor, weapons and trinkets by putting upgrade items in them. For armor runes are always the best and there are many options. For you I will just go ahead and recommend some good cheap ones: Superior Rune of the Lich. For weapons sigils are always the best, and there are many options here too. I will recommend some budget ones that are good for your condi mesmer: Superior Sigil of Demons, Superior Sigil of Corruption. Exotic trinkets can be socketed with different kinds of gems and other items to give some extra stats. I recommend you skip this step for now, they are the least important for the price but get them later! Here is a link to the full build I had in mind when writing this post. It is designed for you to survive by having a lot of utility with stunbreaks, sustain, condition cleanse while allowing you do kill stuff. I only assumed a staff since you did not mention another weapon. If you want to use your weapon swap to a secondary set try scepter and torch or scepter and pistol. You don't have to use what I suggest but use it as a guide to get you started in HoT. The build

No PvE grind needed to use elite specialization in PvP. You can create a level 1 character, go into the pvp lobby, and use the elite specs no problem as long as you own the expansions. People who bought the base game back in the day got to play it for years and it is only 15€ to get both expansions, they come on 50% sale quite often and buying PoF gives you HoT for free.

Most zerg Commanders will kick you in no time... From the times I do join the tag I see them ending up top/close to the top in damage.Something like this: https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Guardian_-_Burn_Guard Also I cannot think of a core class I would rather have in zerg fight.

I would say play what you want to play not what others say is good. I for example run a core revenant even though no website lists it as good and I’m doing great with it. If you do want to run a from the internet build here are some suggestions: WvW zerg: burn guardianWvW roaming: thief, necro, guardian, warrior, mesmer.PvP: ranger, necro

This game does not follow the triangle of tank-dps-healer appart from in some modes that require a healer and specific encounters that has someone play a tank role. I would say if you want light armor try the 3 light armor classes and see which ine you like the feel of.

Try the guardian, they have quite a few builds going for them. Power dps with core or dragonhunter, condi dps with firebrand, quickness firebrand, healing firebrand.

It doesn't matter that they're 2 different skills. I don't care what they call it. It needs a CAST TIME! Then I want the dmgYou have longer cast range instead. Fair trade given that rev sword 3 often fail to cast cause people move out of range.

Since this is an action based MMO support players cannot (in most cases) make people who don’t dodge key attacks immortal. Suppors heal the party so they do not die from the attrition of the fight and bring utillity to the group. For example a support could apply aegis before a big attack (if that attack can be blocked) to block the hit for the group. Open world gameplay is not well-suited for this kind of combat because as you mentioned there is a lot of people, and if they die they can just waypoint. You will enjoy playing your support much more in T4 fractals, strike missions, raids or why not try the competative PvP and WvW modes.

PvE uses megaservers so for PvE purposes swapping from one EU server to another will have no effect. What might have an effect is swapping from EU to NA. However I have no idea if it would be better or worse. Maybe there are some australian guilds you could join to get into contact with more people in your timezone to do stuff with.