Guild Wars 2

So I keep seeing people commenting how their class is jealous of Signet of Rage. I figured: Why not start an appreciation thread?

For all you Signet of Rage lovers out there, what’s your story?

I for one combined it with 30 tactics which is 30% boon duration, and Rune of the Pack (+20% swiftness) and the trait to decrease Signet cooldown for near perma swiftness! (Cooldown= 4 secs every 48 secs?)

When combined with For Great Justice and that Signet which gives 5 might when used, you have a perma 13+ stacks of might and perma fury! :O

Oh my Balthazar, this skill is awesome… What’s your story?

Rune of lyssa and boon trait leaves me around 10 seconds between switfness and a great oh crap button.

signet of rage rules, makes all other elite abilities useless….

I would use some of the other elite skills available for warrior if they weren’t completely useless with 4 minute cooldown.

It’s too good compared to the other elites, sadly. It’ll get nerfed to 120 second cooldown if we’re lucky, and 180 if we’re not.

I doubt it gets nerfed. Its good yes, and on a low cd, but its not as game-changing a skill or an ohkitten button like say…… time warp or thieves guild. Signet of rage is just a nice, consistent boost, but doesn’t have a HUGE affect like other classes elites.

Time warp is easily the best elite in the game really.

I hate the animation on Sig of Rage when it’s not active. You look like Pig Pen with dust coming off you.

Sadly it’s the only elite worth taking.

Also it’s a selfish elite and no help to your team.

Rampage is just lol. It makes you into a slightly tougher warrior, with no access to heal and crappy abilities. If i go up against a warrior who uses it, i’ll just walk away and come back when it’s over since they have no mobility and can be immobilised.. ‘Please fight me whilst rampage is up!!!!’ – he probably says.

The banner is on a HUGE cooldown, and has a lengthy cast time. It also suffers from the downsides of all other banners, ie: being pretty rubbish in running fights.

So what else is there to take?

I love this Signet. Enough said

Yeah. I Love this signet. It’s got a short cooldown, good buffs, and makes it feel useful.

Timewarp and Thieves Guild (Or Dagger STorm) are other great classes elites. I think the rest of the classes though after that are all pretty crappy.

If you’re not using Signet of Rage, you’re doing it wrong.

warbanner is nice in dungeons come on :P

I still like banner for Dungeons, but it’s the only situation I really use the banner.

Thumbs up for SoR.

I really wouldn’t be surprised to see the cooldown placed at 90 – 120 seconds, if only because combining it with Rune of Lyssa currently feels absurd (which is what I do as well).

5 stacks of might, fury and swiftness aren’t exactly game changers. Yes they have a long duration, but one hit by anything that removes boons and it’s effects are gone.

Rampage is utterly, utterly useless and the banner is only useful for quickly ressing people in dungeons (all of the banners are lacklusture mind you).

Cogbyrn.7283:

I really wouldn’t be surprised to see the cooldown placed at 90 – 120 seconds, if only because combining it with Rune of Lyssa currently feels absurd (which is what I do as well).

I don’t see any problem with Warrior having access to 100% uptime fury + swiftness + might, because it requires your elite slot + gear + other skills and the class has no sources of protection or aegis.

Those consistent buffs are nice but you give up the ability to have some kind of major decisive skill.

The problem, as many others have said, is that the other elites fail at their roles of decisive skills

@Khristophoros : I have no real problem with gearing yourself towards 100% uptime on those boons (absent any boon removals, of course).

The problem I was illustrating is that the Runes of Lyssa remove all conditions on you and give you all buffs for 5 seconds every time you activate your elite. I think 60 seconds is the shortest elite, and the ability to remove all conditions, let alone also gain all boons (including such beauties as Aegis) is extremely strong.

Perhaps the rune sacrifices too much to provide such a thing in the end, but I’m really, really enjoying it at the moment.

60 seconds is fine.

it was like 180 seconds or was it 120 seconds during beta?

Cogbyrn.7283:

@Khristophoros : I have no real problem with gearing yourself towards 100% uptime on those boons (absent any boon removals, of course).

The problem I was illustrating is that the Runes of Lyssa remove all conditions on you and give you all buffs for 5 seconds every time you activate your elite. I think 60 seconds is the shortest elite, and the ability to remove all conditions, let alone also gain all boons (including such beauties as Aegis) is extremely strong.

Perhaps the rune sacrifices too much to provide such a thing in the end, but I’m really, really enjoying it at the moment.

I have to admit, I didn’t know about that rune, or I had just forgotten.

Well personally, I think it would be giving up a lot to run that so it seems fine.

For example right now I’m getting 15% boon durations and 30% bleed duration off my rune setup (2/2/2 you know the deal) and so my rifle is bleeding for like 12 seconds and it’s just totally gnarly. I also have 100% uptime on my boons (fury and swiftness) from that 15% so I’m proccing the extra bleeds off crits a lot.

So yeah I think it’s a fair trade off.

I love the signet of rage on my warhorn warrior. 100% uptime on swiftness is quite nice when running around in WvW

I doubt that they’ll increase the cd, it used to be 120 in BWE’s, so they lowered the cd. And yes, much <3 for SoR.

I just wish they would change the Pig Pen animation of it when it’s not active.

What? Signet of Rage is USELESS!!

Shh… edit your posts before they nerf this!

Necromancer: Summon Flesh Golem has the same cooldown as Signet of Rage. Both can be traited to have -20% cooldown, putting them both on 48 seconds.

Thief: Basilisk Venom has a 45s cooldown, while Signet of Rage has a 60s cooldown. Both can be traited, putting the venom on a 36s cooldown and the signet on 48 seconds.

I spend 99% of my time in WvW and Signet of Rage is always the buff I have on. I have the same setup as the OP with the swiftness duration buff so I also have a 4 second cooldown.

If an enemy is running from a losing battle, I am the last person they want to see in their rear view mirror because I will be on them in a heartbeat. The combination of sword/shield and greatsword give me all the tools i need to chase down and trap them. By the time the trailing group arrives to finish them off, I am off to the next target to make sure they do not make it to safety.

The only time I drop signet is in situations where I know my group will be outnumbered. I will switch to Rampage elite and Hammer + Mace/Shield since i can totally remove 2-3 people from the fight. Using Rampage at the beginning of the fight can easily swing the battle in your favor by keeping people from doing anything but worry about you CC’ing them. Between Hammer, Rampage, Mace and Shield, you will have 10 CC’s at your disposal.

Every other Warrior elite is terrible and not worth using.

That’s why it gets used so much.

It’s better than every elementalist elite…

I love it. Using a couple runes to get +30% BOON DURATION. Together with 10 points in tactics, i get all those rage boons for 42 seonds. Which means i’m without them for only 6s. I can live with that haha.