Guild Wars 2

Zodi.8932:

Atramentous.1923:

Why would they do that? This is a gift for people who been there from the beginning. Wait for your 5th birthday or deal with it, please.

Community of this game is funny, they would like to have everything easily accessible. Some other dude started bashing Anet in another thread because they did not contain Perma Frost Dye in the present. This is just ridiculous.

Oh trust me, I’m one of the main people thinking things in this game are too easy to obtain and people moan too much but your comment is completely irrelevant here. Notice how I said I don’t mind it being hard to obtain as long as it’s actually possible to obtain.

These are amazing looking skins and my favourites. I started GW2 late so I’m really expected to wait 3 more years to get these skins that I love? No that’s just a joke.

I wouldn’t say it’s irrelevant. It’s just there are varieties of difficulties and versions of “hard”. For some pieces of gear you got to be finishing a raid, for other you gotta gather countless collection items and it just happens that for those particular pieces, you got to have a character that is over 5 years old. Tough luck.

Even though I play this game since GW1 release, I have come across the forums recently (been active for a while @ GW2’s launch only). And what struck me the most, is how the MMO player base has changed over last 15 years, hell, even the last 3. I just keep on seeing people here, moaning about not getting what they want, in the way they want.

I want to get pinnacle weapons which are available from 29+k achievements, yet I’ve got only 11. Anet pls add them to the birthday presents!

Why would they do that? This is a gift for people who been there from the beginning. Wait for your 5th birthday or deal with it, please.

Community of this game is funny, they would like to have everything easily accessible. Some other dude started bashing Anet in another thread because they did not contain Perma Frost Dye in the present. This is just ridiculous.

Weird, I don’t have a guild nor any friends in this game and I pug CM’s on a daily basis

If you believe you are really in the dead end, you can always find a group that sells 100CM (100-150g) to obtain the title. Title with knowledge you’ve gained so far combined may be enough to get into an experienced group, thus allow you to start farming it. Same would apply to 99CM, it’s ridiculously easy nowadays – rarely do I get a group that wipes on it.

Remember though that 100CM does not forgive any mistakes made by any of the members of your party.

Hey,

I used the build from Metabattle – i.e malice sigils and full viper with aristoracy runes and toxic cry/rare pizza but am now going to transfer to the build suggested by qT guild (you can see it on their web).

It has way bigger damage output potential due to the fact you get to keep Geomancy sigils. It uses nightmare/trapper runes instead. Will be way better for 100CM/raiding.

New fractal is very cool, the long-term rewards (Cosmic Infusion) are cool – they’re worth like 2k gold atm?

It is true, though, it is hell of a pain to pug. Only yesterday have I spent 3 hours on wiping on 100 CM Arkk because people do not know mechanics or cannot execute their movement in a proper way (they all had the title) – try to imagine how infuriated I was, considering I first killed him 2 days after release date.

I’ve had like 15 different people joining the team throughout the 3 hours and someone always messed up. While I agree the content should be and in fact is challenging, the whole idea with one person’s mistake = party wipe is a little bit too much.

I actually do not feel like going into this fractal again, at least not before people put their kitten together. Title in case of this Fractal means nothing, seems like people have bought it or smth.

Oh, and I’ll just add – I pug all the content. Perhaps if I had a raiding PvE guild things would have been different.

ugrakarma.9416:

full viper is glass cannon. medium power dps, high condi. near perma burn stacks.

in open world u have to kill before being killed.

when i have time i will make a video of how i roam in open world areas with more dangerous mobs like some HoT Zones.

How is it glass cannon? I found it way more solid than the pure Berserker. Healing is just so OP if you know when to pop it.

OP’s gear mix is just a waste, I see no point of having condition damage if you do not have any condition duration. We also do not know what weapons are being used by him.

In any way, Warrior is fine, the recent patch was a nice boost to condition damage and I am very satisfied overall (I play open world meta events/raids/fractals) – it’s always been like this MMOs, you gotta adapt to the changes – just craft your set of proper gear and roll with most up to date build. Such as here:

https://qtfy.eu/guildwars/warrior/condi-ps-quick-guide/

This build is a little bit off what I am using (I got full viper + malice/strength sigils + aristrocracy runes) but provides very proper information overall in regards to setup and rotation.

If you play open world only then just drop the Might of Justice/Banners and take Doylak/Endure Pain or other defensive skills which will make you way more durable (not that there’s need for them anyway).

Hey, thanks for your input.

Ive just noticed that somebody also posted below:

Viper’s Shoulders (I suspect instead of Sinister, if u used Sinister shoulders and not boots?)
Sigil of Malice
Rare Veggie Pizza
Furious Tuning Crystal

Kinda shame that Furious Crystal is account bound, now I will have to level the Artificer up…

I guess there will be couple of ways of bringing Condi duration back to 100% and we’ll have to wait a bit until people find the most efficient one.

Hello there,

with the recent changes to the foods, it may not be that easy to reach 100% Condi Duration anymore.

Is it already known what could be the best, new meta CPS build? Haven’t seen any updates on metabattle etc. yet.

Should we get the condi/bleed/burn duration sigils on? Are there any new foods we could use in place of Rare Pizzas/Toxic Crystals?

The nerf is rather strong, logged in today morning just to check by how much it was lowered, and I am down from 100 to 76%, food/utility buffed.

I am lookin forward to hearin your ideas!

Finally crafted my Sunrise last night. Been a tough and long way (probably still way easier due to the farm frenzy that we got nowadays), but definitely worth it. Every single piece of it has been farmed, no precursor/lucky drops :<

And this is my Warrior now, pretty different than what I have posted here 9 months ago

Alright, thanks a lot for quick answer Was skimmin through the patch notes, but I did notice this one. Oh well, that sucks :P

Hey there, just a quick question!

Has anybody else noticed that Bladetrail has been nerfed with the recent patch? I mean its damage does not increase while hitting multiple enemies anymore… If that’s the case then its heartbreaking (at least for me) – considering it makes GS build useless for event farming and I have spent 150g on my GS :<

Cheers,
Atramentous

Timmy.9371:

Ive done countless hours of research, i have a friend who is a professional power trader. And he can only make 20g a day. So what the hell can you farm that makes you more money then that? You would need 13+ lodestones a day or 12+ exotics to drop.

With all respect – seems like your friend is nowhere near professional. I FARMED (didn’t have anything stocked up) resources needed for Vision of the Mists (costed me around 90g back then to craft) in 4 days, that is playing “only” 8-9 hours a day. So I guess one could farm way more in a day if he only dedicated more hours to it.

Well, I am no ANet dev whatsoever, although by judging Eternitys’ looks (combo of Twilight and Sunrise, i.e superb legendary) they surely aren’t finished. Eternity doesn’t even have footprints effect… I mean c’mon.

Congrats! Really big accomplishment

@ Aphix; TrustyTurkey – three options. He’s:
- playing 20h~ a day
- gotten lots of help from guildies/friends
- bought loads of gems.

I don’t see how else it would be possible.

Indeed you can get pre-cursors by combining variety of weapons and mystic forge stones.

treborIRL – in case you did not notice, Trading Post is game-wise, meaning all servers share it (there isn’t anything like server-specific Trading Post)… And also, the least wanted pre-cursors are indeed very cheap – Rage of Rage for example (for legendary speargun) is 35g ~.

1) You can get it only @ Mystic Forge, random world drop or buy it off of TP. As for rare/exotic mix – as far as I know people usually go with rares, since it’s way cheaper.
2) You can’t do that, u need to have 2 crafting professions. Why? Not a clue, ask a dev
3) No, u can get only 2 gifts of exploration per character and that is by discovering the whole world.
4) Yes.

Nice, thanks for sharing the recipe Maisen.

On the note – I wouldn’t say Volcanus/Foefire is for lazy people… 200-400g is still a lot Gonna take me ages to farm that, considering I am constantly broke after crafting Vision of the Mists and flushing money down the Mystic Forge on a daily basis…

The recipe for IDS (old Icy Dragon Sword you mean?) is already known. Seen it somewhere @ Crafting forums. As far as I remember it doesn’t need any Gifts. It was kinda cheap actually = 50ish g.

EDIT: 1 Eldritch Scroll 50 Mystic Coin 100 Orichalcum Sword Blade 50 Corrupted Lodestone

Congratulations and thanks for sharing the recipe! Any chance of you making the video and showing us some particle effects?

Unforunately I do not have such possibility as for now. Once I do, I’ll gladly record it You can’t really see it on screens, but its effects while fighting are indeed awesome – they look very alike with twilights’/dawns’ (comparing to the beta yt video).

Hey there, so while being bored with farm for Legendary’s components, I decided I’d get something spicy already. So there it goes, servers’ first Vision of the Mists

The point of this thread is obviously to show how it looks and what particle/skill effects it has cause as far as I know no one has uploaded any photos.

The cost was rougly 90g – 250 Ectos, 250 Ori GS Blades, 100 Mystic Coins and 1 Eldritch Scroll.

Congratulations! Well, as for now, prices been raising rapidly and I don’t think they will stop since demand grows whereas supply is the same if not smaller.

By the way, did you combine rare or exotic greatswords?

CoF path 2, run took approximately 35 minutes. First dungeon run in a week.

Reward: 15 marks, 26 silver, 46k~ XP. Ridiculous.

@levelfiftynerd.7514

Hey there, glad I can actually help somebody!

Regarding my gear, indeed it is Power, Precision and Critical Damage set. The same applies to jewelry of course.

As for my traits, you’re pretty much correct but I think that you meant Discipline, not Tactics

The only exception is my trait of choice in Discipline – I took V, not VI. It is because the only signet I ever use is Signet of Rage (well, and rarely Healing Signet), so I don’t think it’s worth investing 20% quicker signet re-charge. I rather to have additional, pretty much permanent 9% crit rate (this results in 94% critical chance), rather than lower (12 secs) cooldown on signet of rage. Why’s that? I treat Signet of Rage as a great opener, although during a longer fight I still manage to keep up Fury (20% quicker signet recharge won’t change anything, you still can keep it up without wearing off) and Might at high enough levels even without using it (thanks to trait X in Arms).

TheDemonEmperor.6825 – All I was saying is that your claim of Signet of Rage and FGJ being enough to maximize Warrior’s damage is incorrect. And additionally, I just outlined that the sequence of popping FGJ and Signet of Rage you’ve given is incorrect as well, if you want to maximize your damage

hype r – Sorry sir, I thought you did look on the screenshot I have uploaded earlier, where my utility skillbar is shown. Yeah, I do not use 5 signets myself, I just use 4 + FGJ. Also thinkin, if I should exchange one of the signets for Banner of Discipline, which is a damage increase, but unfortunately with lower up-time.

And below is my yesterdays’ screenshot (for Psybunny – maybe he will look into this thread again) of a crit done during Temple event. The boss didn’t even have vulnerability stacks maxed (it had only 3, to my surprise…)

TheDemonEmperor.6825:

signet biuld is a veryyyyy weak biuld. For lower lv it might do ok. But once u unlock stuff like, For great justice, and signet of rage “elite skill”.

Tht is all u r going to need to max up ur dps.

I mean come on, for great justice alone, give 8sec +20% crit and +might stack. The moment tht end, u activate signet of rage. tht is another constant 20%crit and migth stack. Then u have 2 unuse skill slot for other neat stuff.

Basicly wht am trying to say is. All the signet aside from rage. Is weakkkkk and not usefull.

With all respect, but you certainly have no idea what you’re talking about. The idea is to pop “Signet of Rage” simuntaneously with “For Great Justice!” in order to maximize your “Might” stacks as soon as possible. Good to outline here that “Fury”, stacks in duration, so it really does not make sense to firstly pop “Signet of Rage”, and afterwards – once that ends – pop “For Great Justice!”… that way you only loose out on “Might” stacks. Then you just keep on popping FGJ once it’s off of cooldown (as well as “Signet of Rage”) and you’re set. And no, certainly those two aren’t enough to MAXIMIZE your damage. Maximization means one crits as often as possible, and hits for as hard as possible.

hype r.5431:

Because you aren’t even maximizing dps while using 5 signets.

How can you even address my post, if you have no idea what build I use. Perhaps you should take a look at my previous posts, where I even included some screenshots to see what “build of mine could high dps lovers follow”. And yes, I am pretty sure I maximized my damage.

Nonetheless, this thread is kind of pointless. People who enjoy big numbers and huge burst dps will follow a build similar to mine. Those, who want to play as a support, will pick up warbanners/defensive signets/shouts and what else have you. Overall, there is no better builds… there’s just different builds.

However, as I see it – Warriors are one of the best nukers out there (if not the best), while being relatively tough regardless of the traits/stats allocation. So why waste the potential?

Psybunny.8906:

Sorry for being sceptical, but I think you’re exaggerating a bit. If not I’d love to see a pic of 27k 100b, highest I’ve reached in a dungeon is about 17-19k, though I play a bit more balanced build too. Are you using full crit/prec runeset? What’s your toughness/hp?

Not a problem. Sorry for taking such long time to answer, but I wasn’t visiting Warrior forum for a while. Well, I am being serious, not exaggerating a little bit (why would I? To be cool?). For now I can provide you with a 21k crit screenshot (done a veteran mob in Orr), which I have taken just now. Once I’ll jump into some dungeon, I will provide you with the 27k crit screens

Please, bear in mind that in that screenshot I had only two “Bloodlust Sigil” buff stacks (so I was missing 200 power), I was missing 6 stacks of Might (which is another 250 power, for one stack of might is around 40, as far as I recall) plus in my dungeon parties the boss has usually 25 stacks of vulnerability applied (which is additional 25% damage taken).

I do not use any runes in armor – I just put in Ruby Orbs, which I am pretty sure are the BiS if you wanna maximize your damage (in total they grant 12% critical damage, 120 power and 84 precision).

Sebyos – One huge mistake in your reasoning and reading with understanding.

Have I not written that I’ve done all the paths, not just this one Magg shizzle repeatedly? I’d have gone nuts, if I did the same thing over, and over, for like 30+ hours (guess that’s how long it’d take then, or?). We also did not rush with it – sitting on vent, chatting and having fun – those weren’t any speed runs. Also, if I add idle times, like waiting for others to join, toilet or cig breaks and so on, it’d surely add up to an hour per run.
And obviously, I put in 75 hours as an approximate number – I did not count exactly how much I spent on getting this set – it could be 60, 65, 70 – whatever – it still took long enough for me and required dedication. The whole set goes for 1,400 btw.

And no, it’s not a “completely false assumption” to claim that other explorable runs can take 20-30 minutes if you actually speed run (I did that with Arah for example – no, not a shard run). Because they do if you know what you’re doing.

That was my 5 cents – perhaps those who actually worked for the set like I or my friends did, feel the same way. It is an achievement for me, and I am glad I got it. It all depends on the approach of the person and how one wants to aquire the set. However, you – saying that all the people who got CoF set are noobs, and owners of any other set are dedicated, skillful pros – especially when you do not have even a CoF set yourself, is clearly offensive and ridiculous.

And anyway, this game is so full of randomness, that you may never say whether something required dedication. Would you say I am dedicated if I wore a T3 Cultural Tier Set for 120g? Cause I know one person that does, and guess what, it took him one day to earn it. How? Luck with getting legendary pre-reqs in Mystic Forge.

You’re a noob – this is what my Warrior is saying

No but seriously, I have done all three CoF paths, pre and after buff/nerf (?) w/e. I have sacrificed tens of hours (around 75 – to be exact… what do you mean no dedication, you nuts?) in order to get this set. Not going to stop wearing it only because some people associate it with, as you call it “exploits”. I’ve never exploited, and never will.

Believe it or not, but even since head-start I told myself this would be at least ONE of my main sets. Why? Because to me, all other dungeon heavy sets look ridiculous on Charr.

So your point, Sir, is invalid.

Oh and btw. I ran most of the dungeons’ explorables and they can be finished quicker than CoF Magg path. With a pre-made group of course – the way it’s supposed to be done.

What do you mean no warrior should use more than 2 signets? Who said that, you? Oh, please…

Thrasharr – level 80 warrior Still working on my Arah Greatsword.

Well, I am a fully exotic geared Warrior, having 30/30/10 in Power/Precision/Crit Dmg, also got 4 signets. With 86% crit damage, 87% crit chance and approx. 4,700 Power with self-buff, I hit for about 25-27k with Hundred Blades. And look out – I don’t have problems with surviving in dungeons! Using Whirlwind Attack on a 8 sec CD as a dodge/additional damage dealer helps a lot – I’ve noticed that most of the people don’t bother. Burst as quickly as possible, move away (be it WA or normal dodge), heal if needed, Rush… then it’s just rinse and repeat.
I farm Arah/CoF/HotW explorables on a daily basis so I’d say I got some background there… If your warriors fail miserably with this build, tell them to re-roll