Guild Wars 2

there is a big dev event on reddit!

go there and say thank you!

I say no…

I will check back later again…

(you might think I rage but I did give up playing GW2 in season1 … I love guardian… Untill it is on-par with other classes I’m off…)

Back to Hearthstone lads

I was expecting nerf on TS and buffs all across…

Well I was right about the first part….

Same here!

I couldn’t care less about the LB2 nerf since I suggested something similar but +1 sec cast-time… What equals to -20% DPS from that skill alone.

What really kittenes me off is that sword/hammer/consecrations/signets/spirit weapons haven’t been touched…. Why?

They could nerf TS by 90 percent and I wouldn’t give a flying kitten about it because it was a cheap and skill-less nuke but why ignore the rest of the problems?

This Guardian balance makes no sense to me… I mean at all….

Yes Traveller Runes exist for a reason… but every other prof have options…. Guardians do not.

They can choose to take a minor trait or use a specific weapon or use a utility or the Runes….

Guardian is bound to Speed/Swiftness runes and they have no options.

The untraited Retreat is worse the Locust and you have to cast it on CD and waste all the utility it gives… Meanwhile you can run with the Locust for forever and use it when you need the utility…

Big difference I think.

Guardian is the slowest prof now (and ever been) without any good reason… I don’t think even the devs know why anymore.

1, 26 Friday
2, Emerald
3, around 30%
4, stuck at 0 pips
5, no I have about 2-3 loosing-streaks after a single win (just enough to get rid of the comeback-pips) my longest one was 7 or 8 loss in a row
6, yes but not regularly

Nice one +1

All is vain!

I would be absolutely fine getting kicked out of queue if on a loading screen.

What about a pop-up message?

“You are about to change instance. If you continue your queueing will reset.”

“Stay in the world / Enter”

I did enjoy the games. The camera-handling was crap, the twitch lagged, they reset once, the syncing was dreadful.

But the games were absolutely amazing! Finally I could watch the whole event without falling asleep.

Pretty long 1v1 plays across the map and brutal clusterflak teamfights (even off-points) everywhere. Some excellent support plays from ele’s, engineers and that one from Alkore meanwhile DD players were unloading every hurt on focus targets while struggling to stay alive themselves…

3 series out of the four ended 3:1 so even the EU second team got a leg from Abjured (with one of the best comeback I’ve ever seen…). Well no surprise they are the four best of the world for a reason!

I wish more Gua/Warrior/Thief/Ranger were played but…

I think if finally the “only one profession maximum” rules got introduced -so no double rev- we can see more of the mentioned professions.

@Salamander:

+1

@Dreddful:

No I’m not a DH player I actually prefer Burn Guardian builds. So I had to learn all these counter things while playing against my favourite class. There are many counterplay!

It’s up to you if you try to find them as I did or complain on forums…

Note: dealing with a DH can be a really harsh experience at first time…
But please trust me:

with time you get better chance!
with lots of time you gonna wreck every single DH so they go out of meta again where they’ve never been AT ALL.

/facepalm

another one…

OK, so here it is:

1, if you see a Guardian on a point you know there are traps!
2, you can activate them by minions (means dead DH)
3, you can counterplay it with stability-block-invul-aegis-whatever
4, the DH is a one trick pony… they are either medi trap or full trap (or condi… but God’s help is needed for you to beat a condi guard if you have issues with a standard DH…). Full trap is a piece of kitten absolutely weak and the only purpose is to beat a single idiot. Meditrapper is a bit trickier but they only use 2-3 traps.

If you have issues because some of the DH traps’ effects ARE invisible then you can find other forum posts to complain and I’m pretty sure ANET is aware of this problem.

Somebody already explained this better than I will here but here it is:

The “teleport” abilities make you move very fast to one direction using the most beneficial way. So you won’t get the effect of everything between you and your destination. So with a teleport you can get out of the harm’s way of AoE because the program finds another route. If you are encircled with something the program can not find a safe route so you will be knocked down.

For example mesmer Portal is an exception. It moves you from point A to B without you being in between.

Hi there!

I did play basically exactly the same build yesterday (Generosity sigils, Traveller runes but Supreme Justice instead of AR)! It was a blast!

I tried to not rotate to any Druid at all… In teamfights I focused the papers/low condi remove specs and let the power lads deal with the Druid.

But surprisingly the Necro was beatable. Either there are less condi transfer necroes in the game now or they are screwed up by a one-condi-per sec builds.

Note:

I want to change the GS to something else… I do not know for what but that weapon holds me back. I don’t know what other weapon I need but GS has to go. Period.

What I would like to see is a regular “Elite Spec Weekend” form ANET.

Every week From Friday to Monday you could try out a rotated elite spec for free. In PvP (unranked), Wvw (ANY map!) and Pve. All progression gained would stay as it is even if the next champ comes a week after. If a f2p player decides they can unlock an Elite Specialisation for 6 dollars.

I know it sounds complicated!

But I think the HoT should be able to get in small “chunks” if needed. I’m pretty much sure they would earn more money this way.

50 dollars for somebody trying out the game only for the PvP is a bit much (not for me, do not get me wrong I purchased 2 Ultimate Pre-Order). But six bucks is nothing.

After unlocking all the elite specs a f2p player gets full access to the HoT PvE content as well…

P,S,: The numbers can be tweaked…

My 2 c…

A warrior is crying because of mobility issues… Hm…

A guardian player here (not a DH…)

Hammer + Mace/Shield is the way to go…. Brutal auto damage + CC like there is no tomorrow… Stability can screw you up so you have to have a few utilities to counter the Stability spammers… Called Immob… Signet of Wrath with it’s 10% immob uptime can really help…. The other way is to swap Mace for Scepter and call it a day…

Hammer/Sc+Shield is a very good combination… (it was used as Sc+Focus before HoT…)

Happy Guardin’!

I still respect him however….

It wasn’t his fault ANET didn’t give a flying flak….

Hamguard… preferably with Sc+F (before the patch)

I could do some OMFG moments in teamfights….

There is no more satisfying element than playing 1v1 and catch your opponent in a “sudden” CC chain and beat it to death with autoattacks…

So by selling superior siege worth 2000 Proof you get 50 gold…. This is great! 100 hours of wvw and this is your reward!

It’s not even enough to gear up a new lvl80 in full exotics! And you are happy with this?

I don’t really want more money out of WvW but I want SOMETHING out of it!

If you PvP you can get your Dungeon/OpenWorld skins/tokens without leaving the game-mode
If you PvE you can get your Dungeon/OpenWorld skins/tokens without leaving the game-mode
If you WvW… uh, well you can sell your mats/siege to buy skins from TP or go farm PvE/PvP just because you are fed up with the ugly exotic gear appearance…

Deaeira.2651:

Just get superior siege for it and sell it on the TP (or donate to your guild). Superior Catapults go for 15s per 6 hero tokens right now.

This is an excellent idea!

So by doing so I only loose 1 gold per hour if I follow a commander and about 3-4 gold if I do havocking… Great!

/sarcasm of

Please ANET bring the solo Q back!

I know what you want to achieve… To force more pvp players to make teams and get a shot at sPvP tournament…

But trust me loads of us do not want this… We just want to queue up and have fun… But against premades?

Forcing a simple pvp player to get a team or rekt is like locking the tier6 colletion tab of every PvE players because “they wanna build a legendary don’t they!” ?

Well I did try something similar but the LB does not really work in a Burn build.

1, You have to sacrifice a trait line for it (Virtue and Radiance being mandatory for a burn build… Valor or Honor is needed for sustain…)
2, The LB is a weak condi weapon even as a secondary choice.

In a hybrid build a Longbow could work but you are better of going sc+t.

So now we are at the stage where a LB could be used in a few of the builds but exchanging a trait for Dragonhunter is almost always a no-no if you are not power-specced….

My 2 c…

I main a Guardian but I still have issues with the DH LB#5… Mostly because I cannot see it and I cannot distinguish it from marks-wells. It can be my computer running on lowish settings because of wvw blob size. This ability is absolutely punishing if you have a budget PC.

But I have no idea for the solution since I don’t want my main nerfed based on graphical performance of the plebs like me :P And I do think this ability is fine in small scale fights.

Thank you Melanion for the clarification… And for all of you ofc

So there is a completely different Dire/Ramp burn build which is meta (sort of…).

I think I still stick to this full Dire frontliner build. The sheer chance to tag up to 10 enemies with one autoattack make it superior in my eyes :P

aaaand!

It also means I only have to change my weapons/accessories if roaming/havocking

I tried this build because a few weeks ago somebody linked a staff burn build here somewhere. And to be honest with you I do like it.

I might try different weapons now. Staff is pretty much mandatory in a frontliner build but the Hammer or GS is not. Sure one Ham is needed for blasts but the second guardian usually slots GS anyways. But the GS is only a secondary weapon and only used for mobility/cleave (and got killed by retal). So why not condi tank and different weapons?

Happy Guardin’!

Hi guys!

Thank you for your feedback…

I try to make this build to replace my old full PVT staff guardian (the one who sticks to the FL commander). It’s not a damage dealer by any means.

This build only improves my “lootstick” to instead of hitting 500 AA it deals 1000 damage if the burn is not cleaned. It is still absolutely support focused. I only exchange Power for Condition Damage.

I don’t know too much about it (possible I was the only one in our PUG) using such a build. But the commander mentioned that the enemy blob “must have loads of Burndians”.

I think it deals more damage than the regular PVT build. Cleanses are not able to clean as fast as I can apply them.

(more later…)

Happy Guardin’!

Hi fellow wvw-ers!

I would like to ask a few questions regarding my build. I did check the metabattle.com but the frontline build in the GvG section is not my style and I think it is a weak build if you are not in a coordinated group.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAW5elsAtApZoUo1C1CxVoVI8D9DdwQU3itBCgcLcf9HuC2gRA-TFxFwAj0NAQJYTlfyU/hQALmDA-w

Do you think a “Burndian” is on-par with the normal power version? If not why?
Apart of Energy what sigils should I use? Fire (low crit chance even with Fury)?
What runes? (Traveller? Flame Legion? Trooper?)
Should I get more Healing Power or just let the Water Fields do the job?

I did feel that my damage is improved (compared to the old PVT gear). But I don’t really know how a PUG frontliner should look like nowadays…

Thank you for your help!

“You actually have to be good and know how to play.”

I give it up…

I no words have…

NeXeD.3042:

Shovel Face.4512:

NeXeD.3042:

And another player who made it to legendary (supposedly) and can’t even play with mouse and keyboard at same time…. also invalidates any balance opinions…

Haha what are you trying to say? I didn’t smurf at all and mostly duo Qed.

I’m saying it’s ridiculous a player that can’t do what 98% of the players that play this game can make it to legendary at all.

Not accusing you of smurfing, duo queuing was the most effective way other than smurfing.

It just means even in leagues it’s clearly still just a grind to the top, I know players that I can 100-0 that made it to legendary and im not good.

You not saying that a guy who keyboard-turns, and sometimes clicks utilities managed to get the Legend… I feel that I am kitten! And I mean it….

copypasta here:

Hello!
There are two different keybinding methods:
First one is called “reach”: you use the ESDF for moving. You can easily press YAQW and RTG and SHIFT+RTG buttons. Easy combinations: 10
Second one is called “modifier”: you use your little finger to hold down SHIFT and/or the CTRL key. You can press Q, ERF, SHIFT+ERF, CTRL+ERF buttons. Easy combinations: 10
Also never forget: the easiest keystroke is the SPACE. So now I always have the SPACE+modifiers binded.
Currently I’m using:
Q: weapon swap
ER: weapon skills #1 and #2
SHIFT+ER: weapon skills #3 and #4
CTRL+R: weapon skill #5
SHIFT+SPACE, CTRL+SPACE and CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE for three utilities
Redragon Perdition mouse Num pad: 4 profession skills, healing skill and the elite.
Extra button: dodge
If you don’t have a gaming mouse you can move the attunement bindings to the number keys.
You will be surprised how smooth a combat can be…
For example on every profession I put the “mobility-teleport” skill on CTRL+Space… it’s like a second nature now.
My Oh-kitten button is the shift+ctrl+space usualy (like condi-remove or mist form or stone spirit… you name it…) The only thing I have to do is stretch my little finger out and hit Space…
And this keybinding improved my PvP-WvW experience a lot… Sure I have a MMO mouse now with 20 buttons but I still use the old keybinding for the most of the time…
I just got used to it…
Good Luck!

The WvW players were asking for zero death penalty for years… ANET heard us and we have it now..

Why would you rewind this back?

You are dead you are out of combat without a chance to get back… Why would you force the downed (killed) to run back?

If their team is winning it’s all good … If loosing the next WP is the spawn anyways…

Oh yes the time a cement shaman had better aggro-holding abilities than a warrior…

The time no paladin had poisoned the Horde…

The time mages spent hours to knead the bloody Bread and made the Water.

And the freakin’ time to wait till somebody ride to the MeetingStones…

Good Ol’ times indeed

OK… Maul + (damage)Pet AA vS TrueShot… Winner?

And don’t even start the conversation “they must be in melee range” because I start the “enemy must be in LOS and have no reflect”.

Varezenem.2813:

mulzi.8273:

i hit much harder, with a similar cooldown, with maul on my ranger. And thats a true AoE. And I can buff it like crazy too.

Rather than nerfing TS, perhaps we should bring up the similar skills to the maul/ts level,.

You are lying or misinformed Maul has a 1.6 coefficient TS has a 2.5 (56% more) coefficient.
To be able to hit anywhere near TS you would need quite a few damage modifiers.

or a pet…

Maul + Bird F2 vS True Shot…

Which one wins?

Hammer is our 2nd worst 1v1 weapon (after the Staff). It’s also a weak “mobber” weapon, the Staff beats it here. But in team fights (pvp or wvw) it can be really strong. The most important thing (I think…) is that you must use it reactively. Make your foe waste a dodge or a CD evading your MB or a teammates attack and punish it immediately!

Judge Intervention is a must for a Hammer user (even after the nerf). And it works together with the Longbow extremely well.

You have one hard hitting ability on each weapon plus you have a crapload of CC.

Zealot
Banish
Ring
F1
F2 if traited
Heavy Light trait
Hunter’s Ward
Test of Faith

But you need somebody to take advantage (or help to land) of your CC otherwise it’s wasted. And missing a CC on Hammer feels punishing… They have soooo long CD. If you just burned them all without killing your opponent then GG you are wielding a lamppost against a bat…
At night…
And you cannot fly…

My 2 c

Call it Focused Light… Your Light Field are so focused they are a Fire Field…

Anyway who gives a kitten about thematic at this stage?

Well my ideas:

If MB was buffed to something like 750 leap… No aftercast.
Zealot’s Embrace to be a cone attack (max target:5) or faster velocity.
Banish could use a .0,5 cast time and have a 3 target limit.
The Ward should be able to cast while on the move and blocking all attacks or it should have a chain skill what heals and gives protection to allies and knocking enemies down. Such you could prevent a feeing foe to escape the ring (because of the hell-long cast time) by simply cast the second ability. But sacrificing the Prot and Heal.

And my final dream (was mentioned many times here…)

Glacial Heart trait: -20% CD reduction, your critical hits chill enemies, your Symbol of Protection is a Fire Field….

I’m with ya!

OK lets nerf the TrueShot’s damage down to MB level… Do not forget that the ONLY ability what is not a DPS loss compared to AA-ing the crap out of people is the TS.

But please:

#3: Deflecting Shot: Make it Projectile Finisher and a Block for 1.5 sec.
#4: Symbol of Energy: this ability gives (Vi…haha…vi….hahahha….VI…hahahha
I can’t…hahaha…) Vigor… For 3 whopping seconds! Muhahahaha!!!! Change it to give Fury for 5 seconds!
#5: The final impact Chills for 2 seconds or the final impact is Unblockable…

Here we go!

The DH (EDIT: ofc I mean the Long Bow…) has only One damaging weapon skill. You want to nerf it? Give something in exchange! I yet to read ANY good advice how to make the Dragonhunter less of a N00Bk1ll3r and more of a skillgame.

It does beat N00bz! But it is nowhere near the level of a truly OP build…

So if you are a noob your cry is expectable but not new… Ask a PvP veteran! How do they feel about DH?

They all will say: it’s a single target nuker but has to trade too much survivability/support for damage to doing so.

All these problems could be solved by introducing the load-save-build option…

The meta would be much more dynamic with picks and counter-picks.

But now honestly this does not work…

You may start rebuild your toon before the match starts only to realise that 2sec before the start someone just picked a counter against you…

Please ANET introduce templates for sPvP!

On topic:

Ele counters DH which counters thief and thieves counter Ele

Reaper counters Scrapper what counters Druid but Druid counters Reaper

Revenant kills Mesmer but the Meso destroys Warriors what kills Rev.

…and so on…

(my list is not accurate AT ALL… builds make a big difference.. this is only an example)

I think the best way would be if they’d sell blue and green version of the Scrolls…

One is soulbound for the current price and the second one is account bound for double-triple Proof and 50-100 Badge.

My 2 c

Well I don’t but if the guy who linked a Burn Staff build a few weeks ago shared his ideas again I would be really thankful!

Huh guys, do not get me wrong… i like the punch the lb#2 delivers… It has some serious damage… But althrough the Guardian is my main I still hate that ability. You know why…

The Hammer#2 has the same issue (forces you to actually leap) but it feels more dynamic for me.

I do not want to say that I want to nerf the Guardians… But I still think that LB#2 is boring as hell and if you don’t stand still for 1 seconds every 5 you loose DPS… You can call it a trade-of…

But I have every right to hate an ability even if it’s mine

It deals good damage, it forces the foe to dodge, it has low CD… What not to like???…

The fact that I have to press it on every cooldown otherwise it feels like I kick myself

But you are right I should stop complaining…

This is a very good build! Thank you for sharing and +1…

I’m a very casual PvP-er now so I might swap the CoP for something else… Either a trap or my favourite PurgingFlames… Yes it is not a Meditation so I will loose a bit of healing but it practically does the same as CoP (you can argue here!) talking about condi-defence but deals damage and it’s a fire field so it’s better for 1v1… I rather trade a sigil slot for better condi-management if I can skip using CoP (I think it’s a straight boring utility to have…)

… well I think…

Thank you again!

I had a restoration Shaman, a Hunter and a prot Warrior in WoW.

In GW2 I first rolled a Ranger. This was one of my biggest mistake in this game… 2-3 years ago the Ranger was an underdog in PvE/Wvw. I stucked with this toon for a year or so but I got fed up with the hate so I rerolled to Ele (D/D and staff waterbot), than I rolled a Thief (levelled to 80 and geared up but it’s not my style…), than a Necro (the walking death but it’s not my style either… I’m a helpful person so this selfish stereotype didn’t catch me) and now I main a Guardian. It’s like a Protection Hunter in WoW terminology

The philosophy and the tools are just for me (even the Dragonhunter’s)… (I wish ANET nerf the CD on the TrueShot… I hate that skill! I’m forced to spam this in 20% of my gametime ! I hate that with all my heart! )

Happyangrycatfish:

It depends what game mode you prefer and if you are in/can find a decent guild…

In PvP the DH could be a meta an there is the old burn build.
In wvw… well Gua is still GWEN
In open PvE Whatever…
In fractals Guardian is all right
In Raids: well it’s fresh so everybody tries to run meta classes and the Gua is not one of them (but it’s a viable choice…)

So I say your experience may vary based on the guild you find or the friends you have…

Happy Guardin’!

+1

Now I go and cry somewhere….

They gave me nothing what would make me come back…

This going to be strange…

With the nerfs to ammulettes I think the game will be like this:

Thief hard counters Ele and Mesmer
Ele hard counters Guardian
Mesmer hard counters Guardian
Guardian hard counters Thief

Of course this is up to builds… A DH would perform differently than a Burn Guard…

A Burn Guard actually counters the Ele but if the ele is Staff… No chance…
A Shatter mesmer counters DH, can kite Burn but hopeless against hybrid.

We gonna see some interesting meta

my 2 c

Oh, and let’s delete every classes without boonstrip/corruption watching those Spammers getting all the cakes while facerolling on the keyboard and you can’t do kitten all against it…

What I would like to know if the +Ferocity on Arcane Skill trait (Elemental Surge) would stack with the new Fresh Air + Fero trait…

In the preview John Corpering said the new Fresh Air trait won’t stack (but I think he meant “with itself”).

EDIT: this could be a straight +300 ferocity only using Fresh Air, Elemental Surge and Arcane Blast…