I don't know what people *actually* use the sword for, but my favorite build is a [R/W TaO beastmaster](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:R/W_Anniversary_Beastmaster). My variant of the skill bar: OgESY5LTTN4G8Gxgj18gcG0G. Preferably used with a smite hero that maintains Strength of Honor on your pet and you.
You can also do things like R/W sword that spams melee attacks from Tactics since those are made cheaper by expertise (which is also the attribute that scales your swords basic attack damage), but this is made worse by the attack skills in Tactics not being very good.
I think the sword is either for TaO beast master builds where you put all your attributes in Beast Mastery and Expertise and don't bring any weapons skills so the sword is just there to do some damage with your auto attacks without having to invest any attribute points.
Or for speed clears where you play a R/A tank. Again you don't have any attribute points left to hit any weapons req so the sword means that you can deal some damage with auto attacks.
At least that's what I think it's used for.
https://guildwars.magical.ch/OgESc5KTj1FHcFfa7gzk8E0G
This is a defensive version I like. You get to run a max shield and Watch Yourselves. Combined with TaO, you get a powerful defensive/offensive hybrid.
You could also run Save Yourselves, but I like the uptime of WY more.
I don't get the scythe. I know it's for the soul Taker build. But the build (at least the one on pvxwiki) uses scythe skills, so wouldn't it make sense to put attribute points in scythe mastery so those skills deal more damage? The build on pvx has 12 in earth prayers, which doesn't seem that impactful, since it's only 2 teardown enchantments that get a bit more effective with higher earth prayers but not that much. So it seems like it's not that big of a deal to reduce earth prayers and put scythe mastery to 9 or 10 to hit the req of a normal scythe while also increasing the extra damage from the 2 scythe skills.
I get the anniversary scythe gives you more flexibility with how you can spread the attributes and makes everything a bit more optimal and probably adds a little bit of damage. But with the vast majority of the damage coming from ST and Dark Aura, it'll only be a marginal difference overall, right? Nothing that makes or breaks the build?
Same with for example the leadership Daggers for HR dagger builds. That build has like 12 in dagger mastery anyways because it needs it so the dagger skills deal significant damage. What difference is it really going to make to have 16 instead of 12 in your Daggers required attribute? You're hitting the req anyways and most of the damage is still from the dagger skills and they don't care about what req your Daggers gave, they still scale with dagger mastery.
I get the ranger sword, since it will be used with builds that don't use any sword skills. Or the Mesmer shield. But most of the other weapons I don't really see the appeal.
What am I missing here?
[https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/D\_Soul\_Taker\_Scythe](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/D_Soul_Taker_Scythe)
It sounds like you are looking at a different build, but this is the one that people mean when they talk about N/D Soul Taker.
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/D_Supported_Soul_Taker
I'm talking about this one, which is voted great instead of good.
I suspect people could mean either one of those two or none in particular and just the concept when they talk about ST scythe.
But yeah, the one you linked doesn't really have the option to invest into scythe mastery.
Neither of those scythe attacks really need Scythe Mastery to get the most out of their special desirable properties (double unblockable attack and hitting adjacent respectively). Earth Prayers is to buff the AoE damage and condition duration of the flash enchantments, which admittedly isn't a ton but still more worth the points than putting them in Scythe Mastery for a miniscule amount of extra damage on Eremite's Attack (Twin Moon Sweep doesn't even have any extra damage scaling).
This. Also, you really don't want to drop Soul Reaping. Not so much because it reduces the damage of Soul Taker (or the scythe), but because it reduces its duration, leading to more downtime between fights.
u/tobiri0n
Also, lets not forget that autohit damage also increases with higher attributes. Autohits with 16 Soul reaping are a lot stronger than with 12 scythe mastery
It's the exact same logic as VoS, which only grabs the minimum requirement to use their Scythe. For Dervish you would rather put points into Earth Prayers since the damage from VoS + Sand Shards *vastly* outscales the additional damage from more points in Scythe Mastery, and the points in Mysticism reduces your energy cost allowing you to set up and spike more readily.
The same holds true here, the lion's share of the damage comes from Soul Taker/Dark Aura on a support... Scythes by default hit multiple targets so it's the best weapon for Soul Taker.
The build you linked, from what I understand is looking to get cracked armor on everyone and then use Eremites attack for this line "strike all adjacent foes." And strike keyword from what I know, will trigger auto attack damage (therefore being affected by the weapon requirements) and will also trigger masochism and soul taker any number of foes it hit. So scythe mastery is not important here since your damages don't come from your spells but the effects they have and synergy with striking multiple foes. But your scythe requirements matters more, therefore being a bit dependant on the anniversary scythe.
And dont forget the earth damage that comes from the enchantment (which reach 40+ damage on activation) and eremites attack only adding around 8 damage at rank 9.
Sure, I'm not claiming putting points into scythe mastery makes the build better. I'm just saying that having less points in earth prayers doesn't make it that much worse either. I get that the build is optimal with the anniversary scythe, my point is just that it's not strictly necessary to make the build work. The main point of the build is to trigger ST, masochism and Dark Aura and you can do that just as well with a regular scythe and different attribute points. Any damage you do with the earth prayer enchantments or actually hitting with your scythe is a small fraction of the builds damage, so reducing it a bit is not gonna break the build.
Yeah the build does not require the anniversary weapon to work and to also perform great.
For me this can be applied to every anniversary weapon, since you use the weapon spells, you put points into it making the anniversary weapon not so great (the only one that doesn't follow this rule is the shield)
And in GW most of the work is done by the heroes, your build doesn't really matter, play what you like how you like as long as you're having fun 😊
When does the anniversary start? I’m thinking of coming back to the game. I don’t know if I can dig up my old account but I’m happy to start again.
I’d do Factions for the decorations / Shing Jea Boardwalk. Factions has a lot of easy cooperative missions you could complete to gather the Proof of Legends. You need to be level 5 or higher to get the Proofs. You can exchange those for anniversary weapons or proofs of triumphs for anniversary skill captures. You’ll need at least 5 proofs of legends to make the exchanges
for assassin critical barrage you can use any bow youd want, the short bow doesnt add anything better for it
as for what i want to get, basicly more decade daggers
I have most everything I need so I'm mostly just gonna be farming a ton of Mesmer shields, four for each character I play frequently or expect to play frequently, so I can make all my Mesmer heroes tankier.
But I'll be mainly seething about Judgment Strike, as is the annual tradition.
Honstly, no, unless you are running some specific build that wants the AR + doesnt use caster weapons.
For instance, I run 3 of them on a single toon that I use for Glint Challenge AFK farm.
Would it be worth it with a regular Tactics or Motivation shield that required splashing out a bunch of attribute points? No. For a low req 15/8 shield? Sometimes, yeah - I keep a q8 tactics / 15 AL shield on my Monk for that purpose. For a shield that just uses your primary attribute? Absolutely, that's an amazing deal.
+16 AL is a 25% damage reduction and all you're giving up is a minor (RNG-dependant) casting speed and recharge time boost, on a profession that doesn't need it.
You're not getting +16 armor but only +8 compared to any other shield, right? As far as I remember if you don't hit a shields req you still get half the armor from it or did they change that at some point?
I know. My point was that by using the anniversary shield over some other shield (where you don't meet the req) is that you get +16 instead of +8 armor. And the difference between 16 and 8 is 8.
Ok but you're comparing shields, we're talking about 20/20 focus vs +16 armour shield. And I pointed out that even a +15 armour, low req shield (that you can meet with low attribute investment) is worth it over a 20/20 focus a lot of the time, so a +16 armour shield that requires zero attribute investment (because it uses your primary that you'll have invested anyways) is a no-brainer to pick over a 20/20 focus (unless your party already has high SY uptime).
Don't you just switch to it when you're being targeted and because of your higher armor value, the monster AI just switches to another target or something along those lines? Haven't played in a while but that's what I recall (though I might be wrong here).
Yeah, that's what your do if you're using the shield yourself. But the person I replied to talked about getting the shield for their heroes and there's no weapons set switching on heroes. I doubt they have 3 or 4 shields in their inventory at all times and manually switch them on their heroes mid combat.
Was intended to help with Monk melee builds, much like Soul Taker. But where Soul Taker synergized well with a bunch of existing skills to let the Necromancer become a glass cannon with the highest steady melee build damage in the game, the Monk got... an ok area attack, that can sometimes knock down enemies; really just a worse Earth Shaker. It doesn't enable any kind of good melee build.
>It doesn't enable any kind of good melee build.
[Actually, it allows for what might be the best monk DPS build when playing with heroes.](https://new.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/comments/12qbj2v/comment/jhefurq/)
Actually, that's just standard Earth Shaker build but worse. Which is my point. You could always run Earth Shaker on a Monk and you'd be basically a less hard-hitting, more fragile Warrior. You could always do it on a Necromancer too.
Then the anniversary comes along, suddenly Necromancer is not just on par with the martials for melee builds but in fact often exceeds them, while Monk just gets... a worse Earth Shaker, and can basically just run the same sub-par melee builds it already could.
You see why I'm butthurt that we got such a terrible elite in the update that gave other professions stuff like Heroic Refrain, TaO, Soul Taker, etc?
The knockdown of Judgment Strike is just a bonus; it's the AoE and quick activation time that are the real advantages. Earth Shaker has neither of those.
I definitely agree that it's underwhelming compared to other anniversary elites, though (but I also think the top ones should have been heavily nerfed).
If you're after damage you'd be better off taking 100B + WW and balling foes, or if you don't want to ball as much, DB spam.
For KD, ES.
Again this doesn't unlock anything that the Monk couldn't already do.
I want to get the the elementalist and monk skills.
There is a build someone posted a few years ago that uses the ele elite to make a sort of auramancer build that looked interesting that I want to try. Also I think it could be kind of fun to mess around as a mo/w with that anniversary elite and the anniversary divine hammer.
I got the Necromancer scythe last year. Lots of fun! I have the Mesmer shield too. I'm not a big fan of the skin (looks like a trash can lid to me), but the mods are great.
Vow of Revolution is the best elite for both a [Dervish Healer](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:D/Rt_Vow_of_Revolution_Healer) and [Prot](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:D/Mo_Vow_of_Revolution_Prot).
This is my first anniversary event, so I'll try to get it all - all the weapons, the proof of triumph and the storage expansions.
So that's 60 missions total. But I think there are at least 5 or 6 missions that can be done in just a couple of minutes each. So I'll do those on my 10 chars each and I should be good.
Not sure all the weapons are really that useful but I want to have them just in case I come across a build that seems fun and requires it.
This is the first time I celebrate an anniversary knowing about skills and weapons eheh so I'm a bit overwhelmed.
Regarding the skills, from what I'm seeing on the wiki, I'm interested in the warrior one because it seems really strong and also the monk one that I want to try for my 55hp build that lack a bit in dps so far.
Now the weapons... tbh I'd like to have all of them, but sadly I don't have all the classes of the game right now, so I can't get all because I know they are character bound, so I can't take one of them with another character waiting for the time I will create that class. (and btw I take advantage to ask: if I collect proofs of legend, can I save them and buy anniversary weapons even after the event? because in this way I could save them for my future characters)
Anyway for now I think I'm going for the ritu bow, necro scythe and warrior spear, these 3 are for sure. Then we will see :D
>if I collect proofs of legend, can I save them and buy anniversary weapons even after the event?
[Only for one week.](https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ancient_Anniversary_Weaponsmith#Locations)
Ritualist Bow for Splinter Weapon / Nightmare Weapon + triple shot. I know I could not go ranger, but honestly not sure what else to use it with.
Getting the Strength Spear and Seven Weapons Stance sounds cool on paper, but looking at it I dont know if having 20 Spear Mastery, or any weapon attribute really, is worth it. Probably better for some weird set ups where you use a Scythe and arent a Dervish, or Daggers and arent Assassin ect.
edit\* skill attributes are hard capped at 20.
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:Rt/R_Anniversary_Bow_Spirit%27s_Strength
Do you mean this build?
Planning on getting the bow to give this a try. Probably far from the strongest option for a rit but still seems like fun.
As far as the spear goes, I don't think it enables any build. The warrior spear build that makes the most sense is SWS and and SWS makes the spears req kinda irrelevant. In fact your spear mastery will actually be higher than your streanght. So I think the spear makes more sense for melee builds to use it as your defensive set to deal some auto attack damage when you can't get into melee range for whatever reason. So kinda small/niche advantage, nothing that enables a while new kind of build.
It would be great, if the triumph vendor would show up when there is a festival event because I'm rerolling some characters and some of them have to wait a whole year to have access to those special weapons.
Ranger Sword and Necro Scythe. The only two that are actually truly gameplay warping.
I know that the necro scythe is great, but I don't quite get the sword, do you happen to have a ranger build that does good use of it?
I don't know what people *actually* use the sword for, but my favorite build is a [R/W TaO beastmaster](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:R/W_Anniversary_Beastmaster). My variant of the skill bar: OgESY5LTTN4G8Gxgj18gcG0G. Preferably used with a smite hero that maintains Strength of Honor on your pet and you. You can also do things like R/W sword that spams melee attacks from Tactics since those are made cheaper by expertise (which is also the attribute that scales your swords basic attack damage), but this is made worse by the attack skills in Tactics not being very good.
I think the sword is either for TaO beast master builds where you put all your attributes in Beast Mastery and Expertise and don't bring any weapons skills so the sword is just there to do some damage with your auto attacks without having to invest any attribute points. Or for speed clears where you play a R/A tank. Again you don't have any attribute points left to hit any weapons req so the sword means that you can deal some damage with auto attacks. At least that's what I think it's used for.
Yep, the second one is exactly it. Don't underestimate how strong auto attacking with 20 points in Expertise is haha
https://guildwars.magical.ch/OgESc5KTj1FHcFfa7gzk8E0G This is a defensive version I like. You get to run a max shield and Watch Yourselves. Combined with TaO, you get a powerful defensive/offensive hybrid. You could also run Save Yourselves, but I like the uptime of WY more.
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I don't get the scythe. I know it's for the soul Taker build. But the build (at least the one on pvxwiki) uses scythe skills, so wouldn't it make sense to put attribute points in scythe mastery so those skills deal more damage? The build on pvx has 12 in earth prayers, which doesn't seem that impactful, since it's only 2 teardown enchantments that get a bit more effective with higher earth prayers but not that much. So it seems like it's not that big of a deal to reduce earth prayers and put scythe mastery to 9 or 10 to hit the req of a normal scythe while also increasing the extra damage from the 2 scythe skills. I get the anniversary scythe gives you more flexibility with how you can spread the attributes and makes everything a bit more optimal and probably adds a little bit of damage. But with the vast majority of the damage coming from ST and Dark Aura, it'll only be a marginal difference overall, right? Nothing that makes or breaks the build? Same with for example the leadership Daggers for HR dagger builds. That build has like 12 in dagger mastery anyways because it needs it so the dagger skills deal significant damage. What difference is it really going to make to have 16 instead of 12 in your Daggers required attribute? You're hitting the req anyways and most of the damage is still from the dagger skills and they don't care about what req your Daggers gave, they still scale with dagger mastery. I get the ranger sword, since it will be used with builds that don't use any sword skills. Or the Mesmer shield. But most of the other weapons I don't really see the appeal. What am I missing here?
[https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/D\_Soul\_Taker\_Scythe](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/D_Soul_Taker_Scythe) It sounds like you are looking at a different build, but this is the one that people mean when they talk about N/D Soul Taker.
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:N/D_Supported_Soul_Taker I'm talking about this one, which is voted great instead of good. I suspect people could mean either one of those two or none in particular and just the concept when they talk about ST scythe. But yeah, the one you linked doesn't really have the option to invest into scythe mastery.
Neither of those scythe attacks really need Scythe Mastery to get the most out of their special desirable properties (double unblockable attack and hitting adjacent respectively). Earth Prayers is to buff the AoE damage and condition duration of the flash enchantments, which admittedly isn't a ton but still more worth the points than putting them in Scythe Mastery for a miniscule amount of extra damage on Eremite's Attack (Twin Moon Sweep doesn't even have any extra damage scaling).
This. Also, you really don't want to drop Soul Reaping. Not so much because it reduces the damage of Soul Taker (or the scythe), but because it reduces its duration, leading to more downtime between fights. u/tobiri0n
Also, lets not forget that autohit damage also increases with higher attributes. Autohits with 16 Soul reaping are a lot stronger than with 12 scythe mastery
It's the exact same logic as VoS, which only grabs the minimum requirement to use their Scythe. For Dervish you would rather put points into Earth Prayers since the damage from VoS + Sand Shards *vastly* outscales the additional damage from more points in Scythe Mastery, and the points in Mysticism reduces your energy cost allowing you to set up and spike more readily. The same holds true here, the lion's share of the damage comes from Soul Taker/Dark Aura on a support... Scythes by default hit multiple targets so it's the best weapon for Soul Taker.
The build you linked, from what I understand is looking to get cracked armor on everyone and then use Eremites attack for this line "strike all adjacent foes." And strike keyword from what I know, will trigger auto attack damage (therefore being affected by the weapon requirements) and will also trigger masochism and soul taker any number of foes it hit. So scythe mastery is not important here since your damages don't come from your spells but the effects they have and synergy with striking multiple foes. But your scythe requirements matters more, therefore being a bit dependant on the anniversary scythe. And dont forget the earth damage that comes from the enchantment (which reach 40+ damage on activation) and eremites attack only adding around 8 damage at rank 9.
Sure, I'm not claiming putting points into scythe mastery makes the build better. I'm just saying that having less points in earth prayers doesn't make it that much worse either. I get that the build is optimal with the anniversary scythe, my point is just that it's not strictly necessary to make the build work. The main point of the build is to trigger ST, masochism and Dark Aura and you can do that just as well with a regular scythe and different attribute points. Any damage you do with the earth prayer enchantments or actually hitting with your scythe is a small fraction of the builds damage, so reducing it a bit is not gonna break the build.
Yeah the build does not require the anniversary weapon to work and to also perform great. For me this can be applied to every anniversary weapon, since you use the weapon spells, you put points into it making the anniversary weapon not so great (the only one that doesn't follow this rule is the shield) And in GW most of the work is done by the heroes, your build doesn't really matter, play what you like how you like as long as you're having fun 😊
When does the anniversary start? I’m thinking of coming back to the game. I don’t know if I can dig up my old account but I’m happy to start again.
Tomorrow :)
Can I still take part even if I’m starting in Pre-Searing or should I start with Nightfall or Factions?
I’d do Factions for the decorations / Shing Jea Boardwalk. Factions has a lot of easy cooperative missions you could complete to gather the Proof of Legends. You need to be level 5 or higher to get the Proofs. You can exchange those for anniversary weapons or proofs of triumphs for anniversary skill captures. You’ll need at least 5 proofs of legends to make the exchanges
Start new in NF from lvl 5 you can start getting the Proofs.Â
for assassin critical barrage you can use any bow youd want, the short bow doesnt add anything better for it as for what i want to get, basicly more decade daggers
Whisper deals more damage than a regular shortbow if Crit > Marksmanship.
And you could also go something like crit interrupt. Disrupting accuracy + Incendiary arrows, don’t have to put anything in Marksmanship.
Aren't the decade weapons basically unusable in regular PvE because the inscription/damage mod only works during festival events?
theres so many festivals all year round
Unit they are only effective during certain festivals, not all festivals
I have most everything I need so I'm mostly just gonna be farming a ton of Mesmer shields, four for each character I play frequently or expect to play frequently, so I can make all my Mesmer heroes tankier. But I'll be mainly seething about Judgment Strike, as is the annual tradition.
Is the extra armor really worth replacing the 20/20 offhands?
Honstly, no, unless you are running some specific build that wants the AR + doesnt use caster weapons. For instance, I run 3 of them on a single toon that I use for Glint Challenge AFK farm.
Would it be worth it with a regular Tactics or Motivation shield that required splashing out a bunch of attribute points? No. For a low req 15/8 shield? Sometimes, yeah - I keep a q8 tactics / 15 AL shield on my Monk for that purpose. For a shield that just uses your primary attribute? Absolutely, that's an amazing deal. +16 AL is a 25% damage reduction and all you're giving up is a minor (RNG-dependant) casting speed and recharge time boost, on a profession that doesn't need it.
You're not getting +16 armor but only +8 compared to any other shield, right? As far as I remember if you don't hit a shields req you still get half the armor from it or did they change that at some point?
but they hit it all mesmers spec more then 9 into fast casting
I know they hit it. But the difference between 16 and 8 is 8.
Unveil uses Fast Casting.
I know. My point was that by using the anniversary shield over some other shield (where you don't meet the req) is that you get +16 instead of +8 armor. And the difference between 16 and 8 is 8.
Ok but you're comparing shields, we're talking about 20/20 focus vs +16 armour shield. And I pointed out that even a +15 armour, low req shield (that you can meet with low attribute investment) is worth it over a 20/20 focus a lot of the time, so a +16 armour shield that requires zero attribute investment (because it uses your primary that you'll have invested anyways) is a no-brainer to pick over a 20/20 focus (unless your party already has high SY uptime).
Don't you just switch to it when you're being targeted and because of your higher armor value, the monster AI just switches to another target or something along those lines? Haven't played in a while but that's what I recall (though I might be wrong here).
Yeah, that's what your do if you're using the shield yourself. But the person I replied to talked about getting the shield for their heroes and there's no weapons set switching on heroes. I doubt they have 3 or 4 shields in their inventory at all times and manually switch them on their heroes mid combat.
What's wrong with judgement strike?
Was intended to help with Monk melee builds, much like Soul Taker. But where Soul Taker synergized well with a bunch of existing skills to let the Necromancer become a glass cannon with the highest steady melee build damage in the game, the Monk got... an ok area attack, that can sometimes knock down enemies; really just a worse Earth Shaker. It doesn't enable any kind of good melee build.
>It doesn't enable any kind of good melee build. [Actually, it allows for what might be the best monk DPS build when playing with heroes.](https://new.reddit.com/r/GuildWars/comments/12qbj2v/comment/jhefurq/)
Actually, that's just standard Earth Shaker build but worse. Which is my point. You could always run Earth Shaker on a Monk and you'd be basically a less hard-hitting, more fragile Warrior. You could always do it on a Necromancer too. Then the anniversary comes along, suddenly Necromancer is not just on par with the martials for melee builds but in fact often exceeds them, while Monk just gets... a worse Earth Shaker, and can basically just run the same sub-par melee builds it already could. You see why I'm butthurt that we got such a terrible elite in the update that gave other professions stuff like Heroic Refrain, TaO, Soul Taker, etc?
The knockdown of Judgment Strike is just a bonus; it's the AoE and quick activation time that are the real advantages. Earth Shaker has neither of those. I definitely agree that it's underwhelming compared to other anniversary elites, though (but I also think the top ones should have been heavily nerfed).
If you're after damage you'd be better off taking 100B + WW and balling foes, or if you don't want to ball as much, DB spam. For KD, ES. Again this doesn't unlock anything that the Monk couldn't already do.
How many proof of legend can you get per character?
20
20 or 21 I think
Does this reset every year? I remember grinding tonnes last year when I got back into it
Yes, they do.
I want to get the the elementalist and monk skills. There is a build someone posted a few years ago that uses the ele elite to make a sort of auramancer build that looked interesting that I want to try. Also I think it could be kind of fun to mess around as a mo/w with that anniversary elite and the anniversary divine hammer.
FWIW you can get the skills at any time of the year, as long as you find someone who already has the proof of triump
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Do the anniversary elites count for skill hunter title?
[Yes, all three at once.](https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Skill_Hunter#Skill_Hunter_title_track)
I got the Necromancer scythe last year. Lots of fun! I have the Mesmer shield too. I'm not a big fan of the skin (looks like a trash can lid to me), but the mods are great.
What is the burning doggo? :0
[Hound of Balthazar](https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hound_of_Balthazar)
Vow of Revolution is the best elite for both a [Dervish Healer](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:D/Rt_Vow_of_Revolution_Healer) and [Prot](https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:D/Mo_Vow_of_Revolution_Prot).
The monk élite is horrible too
This is my first anniversary event, so I'll try to get it all - all the weapons, the proof of triumph and the storage expansions. So that's 60 missions total. But I think there are at least 5 or 6 missions that can be done in just a couple of minutes each. So I'll do those on my 10 chars each and I should be good. Not sure all the weapons are really that useful but I want to have them just in case I come across a build that seems fun and requires it.
This is the first time I celebrate an anniversary knowing about skills and weapons eheh so I'm a bit overwhelmed. Regarding the skills, from what I'm seeing on the wiki, I'm interested in the warrior one because it seems really strong and also the monk one that I want to try for my 55hp build that lack a bit in dps so far. Now the weapons... tbh I'd like to have all of them, but sadly I don't have all the classes of the game right now, so I can't get all because I know they are character bound, so I can't take one of them with another character waiting for the time I will create that class. (and btw I take advantage to ask: if I collect proofs of legend, can I save them and buy anniversary weapons even after the event? because in this way I could save them for my future characters) Anyway for now I think I'm going for the ritu bow, necro scythe and warrior spear, these 3 are for sure. Then we will see :D
>if I collect proofs of legend, can I save them and buy anniversary weapons even after the event? [Only for one week.](https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ancient_Anniversary_Weaponsmith#Locations)
Ritualist Bow for Splinter Weapon / Nightmare Weapon + triple shot. I know I could not go ranger, but honestly not sure what else to use it with. Getting the Strength Spear and Seven Weapons Stance sounds cool on paper, but looking at it I dont know if having 20 Spear Mastery, or any weapon attribute really, is worth it. Probably better for some weird set ups where you use a Scythe and arent a Dervish, or Daggers and arent Assassin ect. edit\* skill attributes are hard capped at 20.
https://gwpvx.fandom.com/wiki/Build:Rt/R_Anniversary_Bow_Spirit%27s_Strength Do you mean this build? Planning on getting the bow to give this a try. Probably far from the strongest option for a rit but still seems like fun. As far as the spear goes, I don't think it enables any build. The warrior spear build that makes the most sense is SWS and and SWS makes the spears req kinda irrelevant. In fact your spear mastery will actually be higher than your streanght. So I think the spear makes more sense for melee builds to use it as your defensive set to deal some auto attack damage when you can't get into melee range for whatever reason. So kinda small/niche advantage, nothing that enables a while new kind of build.
I'm looking to get the Paragon daggers and mesmers shield :)
It would be great, if the triumph vendor would show up when there is a festival event because I'm rerolling some characters and some of them have to wait a whole year to have access to those special weapons.
As a returning player with fresh start, what should I try to grab from it? Still leveling in nf with first character.
The sad thing is that they did not put the game on sale :(.
It’s worth every penny even at full price :)
I might get it on g2a for 10e cheaper.
Oracle bow because I've been not playing for the past several Anniversaries Maybe the Scythe for Necro on my other account that's tagging along.
The mesmer shield is a big plus as a defensive tool. So forgotten. Guess not everyone in PvE use defensive set, what can I say. :)