Guild Wars 2

Hi, I made this the other day, I’ve been proposed to post it here from the reddit, so here it is.

Hope you guys enjoy

https://imgur.com/gallery/VKm3V

Depends on your class and build. Lots of meta build still don’t use Elite Specs in WvW.

Taobella.6597:

having 2 of same skill would be OP like think of a Mesmer that could in theory have 3 portal up

All I can imagine is a Mesmer with even more clones. XD

azizul.8469:

thief basilisk venom , shared.

I love that skill so much, now you see a champion’s breakbar, press 0, now you see an empty champion’s breakbar!
MAGIC!

msalakka.4653:

I ordered a bacon burger, Arenanet delivered tuna.

I’d be freakin happy to get a tuna, tuna is expansive and really good fish! Plus you can make sushi with tuna!
sushi > burger.

I’m pretty sure Banish should have a lower cooldown, its pretty hige right now for a 1 target CC with and extremely obvious tell and 1 second cast time

I’ve never seen as much people on map as now, maybe the people playing GW2 are too busy playing it to complain on the forum?

I’m using Bleeding Venom Share Daredevil and I’m having a blast playing it, most of your DPS is around D/D3 and the Jumpy Dagger Dodge, so you’re very survivable because you’re constantly dodging.
The damage itself is surprisingly extremely good especially if you have 5 players around you to share your venom, you can easily stack lots of poison during your burst.

Pretty sure its 50 then you add whatever taxes you have to pay. Not 100% sure tho.

m.imgur.com/rgQMFb0
There we go, this link should work!

Weird, I’ll repost it later on imgur

Holy crap this is HILARIOUS! Please make this a thing or something and give the guy who thought of that a raise! XD

Here is the link for anyone who didnt see it.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10153511185334209&substory_index=0&id=114036714208

Keksmuffin.1450:

FMW is better in almost every 5 man scenario unless you’re REALLY desperate for CC.

Kam.4092:

Also one small thing needs to be done. They NEED to separately balance PvE and PvP for real… They did in GW1

They did it in GW2 before too I think, but they switched that back and made PvE and PvP the same

Cecylio.1286:

If you enjoy blue fire… are you using greatsword as a weapon? Then I recommend you Cobalt, you’ll be amazed

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cobalt

Lots of Ascalonian Catacombs weapon have a blue flame around them during the night too I think. Or a blue aura of some sort.

Just randomly answering stuff.

GW2’s Expansion is not like other MMO’s expansion, they didn’t raised the max level and made everything before completely useless (cough*FF14,WoW*cough)

The core game is completely free to play, they kinda include GW2 in HoT’s price, sort of.

For 2) we have no idea yet.

50$ is good for the expansion. Take in mind that they don’t charge the main game anymore, they don’t charge for a subs (those mega server ain’t gonna pay themselves) and its their first expansion in 3 years, its not like they’re abusing with 1 expansion every year.

Juba.8406:

Its normal you know.

One time i was like usual doing 100b in mid Foefire, my m8 chrono gave me alacrity and quickness, my 100b turned into 1000b then our engi gave me magnet power, i pulled all players to my 1000b and then it happened numbers beyond believe started to appear, My GS got too hot to the point that 1000b reached their lord and got insta died, game ended with the message:

“You Win”

no joke i tell you.

Wow mate, that looks awesome, like, you just created the new meta, care to share your build with us so we can be awesome too?

Wait wait wait? What? Warrior? Is…. Is this real? XD

Do you even DH, bro?

Maybe some people likes that kind of haircut, ever thought of that?

I’d run Scepter/Focus or Scepter/Torch if you really want to keep Hammer.
If you’re using Guardian, GS + Scepter/Torch with Condi build is really good and fun.

I always try to keep 1melee weapon and 1ranged weapon.

If you have DH, Longbow + GS is the best DPS

Hunter.4783:

“State of the guardian in PvE?”

Trash tier. Right up there with thief

Can’t heal, druid is wayyyyy better. there isn’t even a contest

below average DPS. I don’t need to elaborate this one. If you aren’t convinced yet, chances are you never played any other class beside guard.

Mediocre support. chrono, herald, warrior, tempest is actually better.

Every guard main rerolled in my guilds, or transferred his ascended gear to other soldier profs. no point in being part of the sinking ship

The white knights will tell you guardians are in a good spot however.

Many people do beleive that Guardian have a really good DPS right now cause of DH, I’ve been laugh at for saying a DPS inscrease of some weapon would be nice

Soryuju.8164:

I do think it’s a little funny that no one so far, OP included, seems to have remembered that “Receive the Light!” exists. Shows how popular of a choice it is for healing, I guess.

I actually use Receive the Light! in raid, I love it.. I’m always on blue (zones, I’m good at it) and it really helps popping it on everyone in the zone.
With the shout trait its a big heal, on a low cooldown, that doesnt requires a melee target (trap heal)

The wall? Sorry I’m not a WvW player. Really wondering what you’re talking about xD

Zende.1704:

That would be great! I am sad that I can’t play my guard without vitality on my amulet in PvP and that change may be (partly) what we need!

Marauder? Its a great trade-off in my opinion

Aeolus.3615:

anything works in pve even no armor :P

Do you even fractal/raid bro?

I wanted a Heavy armor, but I wanted magic too

Daniele Rebecchi.1746:

Ok ty very much!just a couple extra question:

-what are in general best elite skill for guardian?
-dmg modifier runes (example the 10% dmg from scholar) affect only raw power or also condi dmg?

That’s a good question, Guardian is pretty lucky and has 3 good elite skill.
Renewed focus is great for survivality, but personaly I prefer it on Dragonhunter since the Virtues are more powerful.
Feel My Warth is a great DPS inscrease for everyone in your party, fun times.
[DH only] Dragon’s Maw is the best tool for DH to destroy a breakbar into oblivion. Plus it gives 10 might upon activation.
I don’t like the signet that much, but I can see it being useful if you really want that heal.

If it says dmg it should be all your dmg, including condi (I might be wrong, but I hope not :P )
If you’re going condi build with guardian you should use Runes of Balthazar
If you need more survivability, go with Dolyak
Rune of the Wurm for a freaky Vit/Fer boost (I like it okay :| Don’t judge me)
Scholar is really good, but sometimes if can be hard to stay at 90%+ hp.
Rune of the Flame Legion is very good, even on power build, since Guardian easily burn any enemy just by existing close to them

I had another rune in mind but I forgot it, maybe I’ll edit this message later. Or maybe I’ll just completely forget about it.

Guardian can block attack using lots of skills. One of them being Virtue of Courage/Shield of Courage (your F3) basically everything that applies Aegis to you is a block.
When I was using Burn Guardian I was using Carrion on my armor and weapons, and a bit of mixed stuff on my trinkets to have some Toughness and Precision/Ferocity. And I was using Superior Rune of Balthazar for the condi damage and the extra burn duration.
But now with Dragonhunter I switched to Zerker because I need all that DPS for the Raid.

When I was playing Thief
2222 Wars 2

What the guy above said, keep it separated between all the treads that we already have please.
Also I don’t want to bash your idea, but looking at what you proposed we would be more powerful than the currently broken Revenant, I kinda don’t want that personally

merchantchuck.4875:

ive noticed sometimes when i try to break the break bar that occasionally nothing will happen, anyone else get that too?

Does the enemy have stability? For example between fractal 41 to 50 because of the boons you apply on Critical its pratically impossible to do any damage on the break bar.

Dragon’s Maw > Banish > F1 pull. There you go, you just solo’d the whole bar

I can’t disagree with you. I feel like hybrid build got a really heavy nerf with HoT.
But Colin did said that a balance patch was coming very early 2016. So you won’t see any modification until then. You can post in the couple feedback posts that we have, propose ideas and hopefully devs will check them.
Its about as much as we can do until 2016

Henry.5713:

A solution that would still stick to their idea to reduce liquid rewards could look something like this:

- increase or even better completely remove the daily limit on dungeon rewards

No, if people do that they’ll always run same run over and over and over again for that huge XP bonus (cough*acpath3*cough) or they will drop the XP/token bonus to a couple skittles.

Why is leap on flashing blade so important for some people? I just don’t get it xD

Its really just a problem in WvW where you have to stay with the zerg.
In PvE and PvP DH always have Wings (F2) for a 900 range jump every 26 seconds, we have two teleports in our utilities, both are pretty useful, GS3 is a leap, Sword2 (while pretty awful) is a 600 range teleport.
We have plenty of ways to apply cripple and immobilize too.
If you really want that speed boost, well yeah, Rune of the Traveller

Ghotistyx.6942:

You know how Sword Wave had those 3 little swords in the animation? Each of those swords is the focal point for a very small Wave like Wave of Wrath. They should be sized so that enemies are hit the same as they might be under the original Sword Wave (3 hits on center, 1-2 hits on edges)

Flashing Blade is a leap finisher

Zealot’s Defense becomes Symbol of Defense. 2s Symbol that destroys projectiles crossing the threshold. I’m not sure if I would want it still throwing blades, so just keep those TBD.

Boom, done.

Sword wave is already like that, we want this gone cause it keeps missing and glitching

FB, not really fixing it imo

Zeolot’s Defense sounds more like a nerf to me :/

Because your personal Fractal level is not higher than 20, everytime you do fractal 20 it only raised your fractal level by one. So its you’re 4 fractal away from Casual Hero you’d be around 16 I guess. Anyway, look for that when you get in.

So I just tried the raid for the first time (couldnt play for the last 2 weeks) and I must say, while all the other weapons where an option, sword was not even close to be there. I was not even close to consider it in my build!
With Hammer I can almost solo the CC bar of the guardians, LB GS offers good DPS, Scept Torch pffer good condi dps, Focus Shield offers good support, but I felt like sword has nothing for it.
Some higher numbers along all the stuff I mentionned really wouldnt hurt

If you really like Renewed Focus you should try switching Zeal or Valor for Dragonhunter. The new Virtues are very strong! F2 is about 3k~4k heal (without Healing Power) and F3 helps you block a lot of projectiles.
Other than that I’d say, try to have a bit more vitality, personally I like being around 17k HP and I think I have around 2.8k armor (not sure, I’m not close to my computer)
Also, in HoT its sometime almost suicide to stay at melee range. Personally I would switch Staff for Scept/Torch or Longbow.

Edit : Use Focus instead of Torch if you want more survivability.

The one that is competant

For PvE, can anyone tell me how they use #5? I have no idea how to use that yard effectively in PvE

Yes it is, if the cripple condition appears in their “condition bar” than the trait kicks in.

So we got a feedback tread of Hammer going on, so I thought I’d make one for Sword too since I beleive it really needs to be fixed, even more than Hammer in my opinion, at least Hammer can help a lot on break bar damage.
While sword is a one hand weapon, what it gives is… really bad.
Keep in mind that I mostly PvE

Sword Auto attack, #1 and #2 are really just, boring, 2 absolutely boring slash that gives absolutely nothing but decent damage.
#3’s fan is dealing pretty good damage, but it also glitches a lot and misses a lot. On some enemies it just doesnt even work at all forcing you to switch weapon even though Sword would be a really good choice for the fight

Sword 2 is bad. I do understand that in PvP its interesting to have a teleport . But its damage are the equivalent of a little slap on the butt, it has that pretty bad delay to its stab.

Sword 3. God, tracking is awful, damage is okayish, I do beleive that its a loss of DPS over Auto attack, has a big cooldown, is really crappy at blocking projectiles in PvE.

So the fixes I have in mind

For auto attack, keep the damage the same, make #3 a cleave so it tracks and doesnt glitch as much. Maybe add a soft cc to the #1&2?

Sword 2 is pretty obvious in my opinion, make it faster and make it hit a bit harder so its not such a huge dps loss

Sword 3 I would make the glitchy projectile block an actual block. So it can synergize better with the couple blocking traits we have. And make the projectile faster or track better.

What do you guys think about that?

Don’t listen to that guy

For leveling try as many build and weapons as you can, always keep 1 melee weapon and 1 ranged weapon.
If you’re planning on playing only PvE, play your warrior and have fun!

The newcomers have only been able to play for what, 2 months? The game has been out for 3 years. I’d rather pay that 30$ more and have been able to play for a year than wait till 1 month of HoT and not be ready at all for the HoT cause I’m still trying to figure out what is agony and what is a combo field.

Also MMORPG needs money to stay up in case you had no idea, and expansion cost money too. Capitalism, yo. They can’t just give everything for free you know.

I really have to agree! Taking out your weapon and the that ugly aegis shield just cover your super awesome looking shield. If removing it is out of question at least make it way more faint. Why not just an aura like other boons?

Spoiler and still says the spoiler in the title, COULD YOU KITTEN NOT PLEASE!!!!!

What build are you using? Utilities? Healing skills? Etc.