Question about specializations

[King Slayer.9671]

Hello everyone, 

 

I have a ranger that just got lvl 80 and I chose soulbeast because I wanted a strong dps char. Problem is I really like to play healers too and wanted to go Druid but Druid can’t solo so I didn’t chose it. But one guy told me that I can switch to Druid later, is this true and how does it work do I have Druid gear in my bank and equip it whenever I feel the need for it? Please help. 
 

Also, which is the best way of making gold in this game? Sorry for all my questions but this game is awesome but a bit complicated for a newbie as it has so much to do (which is awesome) haha. 
 

Thankful for all your advices!

 

Cheers 

[Danikat.8537]

There's more than enough Hero Points in the game to unlock all the elite specs, and once they're unlocked you can switch between them any time you're out of combat, the same way you switch normal specs. Elites can only go in the bottom of the 3 speicalisation slots (so you can only have 1 at a time) but you can just click it and change to the one you want. You can also save builds with different elite specs, either on build tabs if you have enough or save the chat codes in a document to copy and paste.

It does mean you'll need twice as many Hero Points, but you can always pick the easiest ones from each expansion, or if you do WvW you can trade testimonies of Heroics for them.

You will also need to get a second set of equipment, because you'll need different stats for DPS and healing. But you have 2 equipment tabs by default so you can keep one in each tab. If you have more than 2 sets in total you can keep them in your inventory or the bank, you'll just have to switch it over manually, but again you can do that any time you're out of combat.

Incidentally druids can play solo in a lot of the game. GW2 isn't like some games where healers can't do damage (or do barely any), a druid still has access to all the core rangers weapons and skills, and can equip any stat combination. They won't hit the same DPS benchmarks as a soulbeast or untamed, but they can also heal and buff themselves which makes them more durable.

[Pirogen.9561]

Specializations:

• - press H
• - select Build tab
• - change it
• - done

Hero points:

• - you are suppose to unlock and max any and all specializations
• - game has enough points for everything

Money:

• - do stuff
• - sell loot on TP (bags, items, whatever)
• - its also OK to salvage items and sell materials on TP
• - never sell to NPC vendor

But first you want to unlock mounts. More is better, all is the best.

You really want mounts. You don't just "want", you "need".

[Buran.3796]

  About the gold, ways to make it (liquid gold is stuff than can be sold or crafted to sold and then converted to raw gold; raw gold is direct sources of gold coins):

* High level fractals (specially the daily ones) > fractals > strike missions (Dragon Storm, Marionette) > raids > dungeons.

* Farmeable map meta events, specially Dragonfall, Drizzlewood (South), Dragon's End, Gyala Delve, Aetherblade Assault, Octovine, Palawadan, Drakkar, Dragon Stand...

* PvP ranked reward tracks and automated tournaments.

* Farming raw materials (mining rich ores like orichalcum and quartz, gathering valued crops as falx and seaweed, choping ancestral wood, etc).

* High level fishing.

*Crafting and selling stuff (specially time-locked ascended components).

* Trading (buying materials at low price in anticipation of higher further demand; this is risky and requires to outpace the 15% tax system, so works better for players with lots of gold and good  knownledge of the market):

* Daily activities.

* Alt parking characters near to rich mining ores, chests of rewards, etc..

   Mind that some of those ways require specialized tools and knownledge to get the best liquid gold x hour. There's specialized pages as fast framing which would give you an orientation of the max potential gains in those activities:

 

https://fast.farming-community.eu

[Danikat.8537]

Importantly most gold farming methods in this game focus on items which can be sold in high volumes (which may not be worth much individually) like crafting materials or currencies which can be used to purchase things to sell, rather than trying to get gold directly as drops or getting rare items which individually sell for large amounts of gold.

There absolutely are items which sell for hundreds or thousands of gold, but that's because they're extremely rare and hard to get, which makes them impractical to farm. If they were farmable most people would get their own, or lots of people would farm them and then the price would drop.

For example you might do a meta-event which doesn't give you much gold directly, and few or no exotics or other unusual drops (and they might only be worth a few gold) but you'll get lots of unidentified equipment which can be salvaged into crafting materials and sold for more than you'll get as direct drops. That adds a step (or a few steps) to the process and can complicate things because to get the maximum profit you need to know what to sell directly, what to salvage (and with which tools), what to convert to something else etc.

But the important thing is don't be discouraged if you do a meta-event or other activity which you're told is good for farming and when it ends you've only got a bit more coin in your wallet than when you started.

[King Slayer.9671]

23 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

There's more than enough Hero Points in the game to unlock all the elite specs, and once they're unlocked you can switch between them any time you're out of combat, the same way you switch normal specs. Elites can only go in the bottom of the 3 speicalisation slots (so you can only have 1 at a time) but you can just click it and change to the one you want. You can also save builds with different elite specs, either on build tabs if you have enough or save the chat codes in a document to copy and paste.

It does mean you'll need twice as many Hero Points, but you can always pick the easiest ones from each expansion, or if you do WvW you can trade testimonies of Heroics for them.

You will also need to get a second set of equipment, because you'll need different stats for DPS and healing. But you have 2 equipment tabs by default so you can keep one in each tab. If you have more than 2 sets in total you can keep them in your inventory or the bank, you'll just have to switch it over manually, but again you can do that any time you're out of combat.

Incidentally druids can play solo in a lot of the game. GW2 isn't like some games where healers can't do damage (or do barely any), a druid still has access to all the core rangers weapons and skills, and can equip any stat combination. They won't hit the same DPS benchmarks as a soulbeast or untamed, but they can also heal and buff themselves which makes them more durable.

 

13 hours ago, Pirogen.9561 said:

Specializations:

• - press H
• - select Build tab
• - change it
• - done

Hero points:

• - you are suppose to unlock and max any and all specializations
• - game has enough points for everything

Money:

• - do stuff
• - sell loot on TP (bags, items, whatever)
• - its also OK to salvage items and sell materials on TP
• - never sell to NPC vendor

But first you want to unlock mounts. More is better, all is the best.

You really want mounts. You don't just "want", you "need".

 

9 hours ago, Buran.3796 said:

  About the gold, ways to make it (liquid gold is stuff than can be sold or crafted to sold and then converted to raw gold; raw gold is direct sources of gold coins):

* High level fractals (specially the daily ones) > fractals > strike missions (Dragon Storm, Marionette) > raids > dungeons.

* Farmeable map meta events, specially Dragonfall, Drizzlewood (South), Dragon's End, Gyala Delve, Aetherblade Assault, Octovine, Palawadan, Drakkar, Dragon Stand...

* PvP ranked reward tracks and automated tournaments.

* Farming raw materials (mining rich ores like orichalcum and quartz, gathering valued crops as falx and seaweed, choping ancestral wood, etc).

* High level fishing.

*Crafting and selling stuff (specially time-locked ascended components).

* Trading (buying materials at low price in anticipation of higher further demand; this is risky and requires to outpace the 15% tax system, so works better for players with lots of gold and good  knownledge of the market):

* Daily activities.

* Alt parking characters near to rich mining ores, chests of rewards, etc..

   Mind that some of those ways require specialized tools and knownledge to get the best liquid gold x hour. There's specialized pages as fast framing which would give you an orientation of the max potential gains in those activities:

 

https://fast.farming-community.eu

 

9 hours ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Importantly most gold farming methods in this game focus on items which can be sold in high volumes (which may not be worth much individually) like crafting materials or currencies which can be used to purchase things to sell, rather than trying to get gold directly as drops or getting rare items which individually sell for large amounts of gold.

There absolutely are items which sell for hundreds or thousands of gold, but that's because they're extremely rare and hard to get, which makes them impractical to farm. If they were farmable most people would get their own, or lots of people would farm them and then the price would drop.

For example you might do a meta-event which doesn't give you much gold directly, and few or no exotics or other unusual drops (and they might only be worth a few gold) but you'll get lots of unidentified equipment which can be salvaged into crafting materials and sold for more than you'll get as direct drops. That adds a step (or a few steps) to the process and can complicate things because to get the maximum profit you need to know what to sell directly, what to salvage (and with which tools), what to convert to something else etc.

But the important thing is don't be discouraged if you do a meta-event or other activity which you're told is good for farming and when it ends you've only got a bit more coin in your wallet than when you started.

Thank you all! This forum is the best!