Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I wasn’t able to play as much as I would have liked for BWE3, but I did get some footage.

Defender runes heals for 3920 + 0.6 * Healing Power which is quite nice! You get the block from aegis on heal, as well as the block from bandit’s defence. The heal cooldown is 30 seconds. I tried this with Channeled Vigor but got interrupted far too often to be effective. I look forward to the reduced CD of that heal on HoT release.

Pulmonary Impact was still great. If you can outplay people you are well rewarded. I can’t always outplay people unfortunately!

I know defender runes was an odd choice, but it was fun!

Good d/d eles and any brawling scrapper mopped the floor with me, but many others were pretty easy to take down.

I’m still spamming Impact Strike, which is frustrating, but hopefully that will be more well honed come release date!

Never thought about using defender runes with Daredevil but it actually makes sense. Very nice, definitely going to try that out for myself at launch! Nice video

alchemyst.2165:

Never thought about using defender runes with Daredevil but it actually makes sense. Very nice, definitely going to try that out for myself at launch! Nice video

Defender was great. I think overall Channeled Vigor will be our best heal to pair with “on heal do X” now that they reduced the CD. Can’t wait for all the options.

I can’t help but think we still need some more condi clear and damage mitigation tho.

Woaden.9425:

alchemyst.2165:

Never thought about using defender runes with Daredevil but it actually makes sense. Very nice, definitely going to try that out for myself at launch! Nice video

Defender was great. I think overall Channeled Vigor will be our best heal to pair with “on heal do X” now that they reduced the CD. Can’t wait for all the options.

I can’t help but think we still need some more condi clear and damage mitigation tho.

Apparently we might be getting reduced damage by weakened foes with Weakening Strikes, so that will help if that gets implemented, and Dash will reduce Physical and Condition damage by 10% for 4 seconds, even better. But yeah, I agree, Escapist’s Absolution should be combined with Driven Fortitude, and maybe some more condi clear in some other areas as well.

I threw my Elite slot on Left Ctrl so I have to lean into it a bit with my lower left side of my palm but without having to pick up my hand or fingers from the keyboard. I had the problem of spamming Impact Strike but also with miss clicking my other Elites which was more an issue of my panicky gameplay. I just needed something more deliberate but still fluid. I like the video, a nice stretch of clear game play is more engaging to watch, also easier for more casual players like myself to see what’s happening.