Guild Wars 2

Daggerstorm is certainly mine. Get three thieves doing this at once and watch the mayhem!

Or just triple backstab and be done with it :P

But yeah, daggerstorm is cool. I prefer basilisk venom, but i used daggerstorm for a while. I just found the locking animation deadly in the type of fights we are taking.

Backstab is single target. Daggerstrom is AOE . Daggerstorm has stability. Try it in a lords room when you try and defend it or take the lord down and there enemy around.

Hmm. . . have to do this by class and I’m basing it on what looks awesome vs what is the best or most effective skill

Eng. . . Big Ol Bomb is hysterical but supply crate is just unique and classic.
Ranger. . . Barrage just seems so right with all those arrows falling down on you
Guardian. . . Any of the tome animations. Just reading a book is awesome for a fight
Thief. . . Unload is just such a great animation too
Elementalist. . . not sure yet

My favourite skill for Thief is definitely Pistolwhip. What’s not to love about an evade, stun and lots of damage? Oh that’s right you can also precast it and teleport as well. This skill is the only reason I was able to farm r50+ in pvp. And I had heaps of fun doing it too with signet of malice killing noobs in hotjoins lol. I really miss 8v8s.

i’d say, fav skill. Lynx/Snow Leopard Feline Pet F2 and Conjure Lightning Hammer #2 on female human.

Guardian Hammer 4 against asura

Don’t have a favourite skill. I do have a favourite combo.

Magnet pull into jump shot.

Spectral walk is hilarious, Nothing funnier then being chased by a group of people with them right on your heels and then porting and running the other way.

Xaragon.3520:

Spectral walk is hilarious, Nothing funnier then being chased by a group of people with them right on your heels and then porting and running the other way.

Decoy while targeting a Moa then use blink?

I havent seriously used it in over a year, but hands down its gotta be

Epidemic.

Wish it got a longer CD in exchange for necros getting enough defense to able to run it. And maybe not being useless in 1v1.

Esplen.3940:

Xaragon.3520:

Spectral walk is hilarious, Nothing funnier then being chased by a group of people with them right on your heels and then porting and running the other way.

Decoy while targeting a Moa then use blink?

Oh god yes. Watching people chase after a clone and then have it blow up is hilarious.

Xaragon.3520:

Spectral walk is hilarious, Nothing funnier then being chased by a group of people with them right on your heels and then porting and running the other way.

Sure there is. Jumping off a cliff, then seeing how many idiots think they can survive the same drop.

Burning Speed……nice animations, movement feels good….nice utility as an evade/fire field……….will love it even more when blinding ashes becomes an AoE.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Xaragon.3520:

Spectral walk is hilarious, Nothing funnier then being chased by a group of people with them right on your heels and then porting and running the other way.

Sure there is. Jumping off a cliff, then seeing how many idiots think they can survive the same drop.

That does sound awesome.

life siphon (necro dagger 2) now it just needs to be made useful

Goldenrevolver.4371:

life siphon (necro dagger 2) now it just needs to be made useful

With 2-3 points in Blood Magic, you can easily heal for around 1k off of the skill. Nice as a heal in between healing skill cooldowns.

Steal – it’s “useless” untraited and “underpowered” when traited.

But it’s my favorite skill.

Goldenrevolver.4371:

life siphon (necro dagger 2) now it just needs to be made useful

It is useful, but sadly to slow for this game. That it didnt get the rapid fire treatment is probably a reason for the disappointment of necromancers since most did expect it.

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Steal – it’s “useless” untraited and “underpowered” when traited.

But it’s my favorite skill.

LMAO, I do not think “under powered” means what you think it means. or you might just not comprehend what the skill is capable of. .

dancingmonkey.4902:

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Steal – it’s “useless” untraited and “underpowered” when traited.

But it’s my favorite skill.

LMAO, I do not think “under powered” means what you think it means. or you might just not comprehend what the skill is capable of. .

stick to target
poison/weakness
damage/2k heal
initiative
aoe fury/might/swiftness
etc etc etc

indeed… “underpowered”

Portal, or blink.

I love Updraft on the Elementalist’s dagger. That skill can be such a troll thing to do to an enemy near a ledge. It’s a launch, it’s an evade, and it’s a source of swiftness. All the things you need in life!

Sir Vincent III.1286:

Steal – it’s “useless” untraited and “underpowered” when traited.

But it’s my favorite skill.

Steal is medium without traits, like most other mechanics.

With traits, mostly the stabilty interupt, are defenition of everpowered.

WvW Wise: SIC EM hands down.

PvE Wise: IDK i dont do pve.

SPVP Wise: Look at PvE Wise.

anything on fire or explodes \m/ ‘o’ \m/

There are my top 3 skills:

1. Phase Retreat (if traited to 6s cd)
2. Decoy
3. Blink

If decoy cooldown is not traited Blink will be 2nd.

Me Games Ma.8426:

There are my top 3 skills:

1. Phase Retreat (if traited to 6s cd)
2. Decoy
3. Blink

If decoy cooldown is not traited Blink will be 2nd.

I loved old Phase Retreat with the stunbreak. 6s stunbreak that also repositioned you?

I purposely used the terms “useless” and “underpowered” for a good reason.

Chaos Storm!

Great to see such a nice GW1 skill return. Love the sound effects, love the visual effect, love that it buffs and debuffs. Really fits in with the mesmer’s play-style by warping a patch of reality in an unpredictable manner.

Whirling wrath!

Rocket Boots!

Fun to use, a great mobility tool, and also useful in combat thanks to the blast finisher.

Ok, so for Elementalist I like Dragon’s Tooth and Phoenix. What’s not to love about them.
For Guardian, I like Smite plus Virtue of Justice with Supreme Justice trait plus Orb of Wrath. All this equals perma-burn!
For Necromancer, I love the utility of Locust Swarm. PBAoE damage, cripple, and Life Force gain plus a speed boost… Ya. So many uses all pact into one skill.

Hmm. If I’d have to pick, I’d go with a few.

1. Fevered Dreams
2. Virulence
3. Soul Twisting
4. Avatar of Balthazar

Honorable mentions

• Vow of Strength
• Avatar of Grenth
• Soul Leech
• Spiteful Spirit
• Aura of the Lich
• Insidious Parasite
• Mark of Pain
• Arcane Echo
• Fragility
• Shelter
• Signet of Spirits
• Xinrae’s Weapon
• Explosive Growth

…. Oh, you mean Guild Wars 2… Consume Conditions….

Meteornado! Oh wait…

No love for portal?

warri: whirling axe, evicirate, tremor, bull charge
guard: gs 2 and 3, offencive tome skill 5
thief: daggerstorm
ranger: actually alot, but duno the names qq. GS with bear, sword with snake etc
necro: death shroud transformation
engi: blunderbrass, jump shot, rocket boots

Moa Morph.

It’s the only skill which actually feels a bit like CC. I come from a history of MMO gaming where I used to control hue amounts of enemies on my Enchanter in EQ1 while the group slowly killed them off. Sometimes I’d say “Run for the zone!” and people would just do it. I know I screwed up the refresh, they’ll come free in 20-30 seconds.

That is the kind of CC I’m used to. Keeping 2-3 enemies out of the fight permanently as long as I can work unhindered. In DAoC instant-cast AE stun at long range was a thing. Annoying, but hardly overpowered. People are so… “fickle” when it comes to CC nowadays.

Blurred frenzy.
Fits the profession perfectly.

Epidemic, easily. Never try to rez an ally when an enemy necro has this skill on their bar. This skill must have ‘snowball effect’ hidden in it’s code whenever you don’t rez from range.

Savage leap. Its great for getting around, low cooldown, helps a lot in jump puzzles, and when waiting around for guildies its fun to use it to get to difficult to reach places. Like on top of flag poles.