Guild Wars 2

Is it even worth it anymore? I’m playing around with builds that don’t use elite specs, and I can’t help but use knights ammy, or something that boosts my health to keep me alive.

I can play vanilla ranger, but I have to use the smokescale and porcupine thingy to stand a chance. Hammer/GS combo for warrior vanilla is still pretty viable, so long as you use knight’s ammy.

Any other vanilla builds you guys got?

Depending on what skill level you play at core guard is pretty good.

OriOri.8724:

Depending on what skill level you play at core guard is pretty good.

is there anything else other than guard?

ele, thief, and necro are decent

MiGFiD.1760:

OriOri.8724:

Depending on what skill level you play at core guard is pretty good.

is there anything else other than guard?

you can play condi engi. very squishy, but insane damage. flamethrower is real nice after the buffs. run any elite, i just like the mortar for condi clear, heal, & using ghe auto to stack burns w a fire field. gyro is best, but if you dont have HoT you can do a lot of damage w condi engi.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQJAqelUUhatY7Ww+KQ7FLsFlYHNFPB4HWiBQYNcRvGA-TJBGQBDsMAAOBAp5BAoh9HAA

Engi is your best bet. HoT is named by population “Power Creep”. You need HoT to play good pvp. It’s not ugly, it’s marketing so it can sell.

I play Retro Mid-Support Bunker the last 4 years i can from diamond to legendary and last season platinum .
Is viable if ur team mates know how to play if not u are always 1v2-3 and die fast.

I played core thief (DA, TR, SA d/p sb) to/in plat on my alt account. Was doing fine i would say, beside my teammates flaming me for using refuge and not having HoT spec. Need to play extremely careful though, as “SA” (omg filters cmon) for example just can’t keep up with condi overload that necros and wars dump on you and you don’t have dodges to deal with DH traps. Chills are real issue. It also becomes very obvious, when you play core, how stupidly broken Hot specs are in mobility department. Druids got RTL on 18 sec CD for example (i wanna see the guy that decided it was good idea to give bunkery point holder long range gapcloser + evade on such short CD), gl getting decaps vs them while not running DD.

Cynz.9437:

I played core thief (DA, TR, SA d/p sb) to/in plat on my alt account. Was doing fine i would say, beside my teammates flaming me for using refuge and not having HoT spec. Need to play extremely careful though, as “SA” (omg filters cmon) for example just can’t keep up with condi overload that necros and wars dump on you and you don’t have dodges to deal with DH traps. Chills are real issue. It also becomes very obvious, when you play core, how stupidly broken Hot specs are in mobility department. Druids got RTL on 18 sec CD for example (i wanna see the guy that decided it was good idea to give bunkery point holder long range gapcloser + evade on such short CD), gl getting decaps vs them while not running DD.

To be fair

A s/x – GS ranger can cover way more distance of a druid with staff and on shorter CD:
rotate camera backward sword 2 roll back, rotate front and leap, swap to gs and leap with gs3 = total area covered 2100 range every 12s…and we are talking about core ranger and both sword 2 and gs3 are evades

Supreme.3164:

Cynz.9437:

I played core thief (DA, TR, SA d/p sb) to/in plat on my alt account. Was doing fine i would say, beside my teammates flaming me for using refuge and not having HoT spec. Need to play extremely careful though, as “SA” (omg filters cmon) for example just can’t keep up with condi overload that necros and wars dump on you and you don’t have dodges to deal with DH traps. Chills are real issue. It also becomes very obvious, when you play core, how stupidly broken Hot specs are in mobility department. Druids got RTL on 18 sec CD for example (i wanna see the guy that decided it was good idea to give bunkery point holder long range gapcloser + evade on such short CD), gl getting decaps vs them while not running DD.

To be fair

A s/x – GS ranger can cover way more distance of a druid with staff and on shorter CD:
rotate camera backward sword 2 roll back, rotate front and leap, swap to gs and leap with gs3 = total area covered 2100 range every 12s…and we are talking about core ranger and both sword 2 and gs3 are evades

That ranger is also way easier to kill than the druid, let’s not forget it.

Acrisor.8097:

Engi is your best bet. HoT is named by population “Power Creep”. You need HoT to play good pvp. It’s not ugly, it’s marketing so it can sell.

Oh man, I haven’t played condi engi in a while. I’ll probably try it out again