Guild Wars 2

GW2 is a real hardcore grind game. No matter what you do, its a grind. PvE, Fractal, PvP or WWW.

I care bare myself to play one, becasue its so kittening dirty. 2 DH or more nowadays just spamming traps.

Mysticjedi.6053:

It’s more than just causal. Though we may be using different definitions. My win percentage floats between 50- 60% and I’m getting frustrated with the system. I soloq a lot so that is probably most of the problem.

With a 50% win/lose chance I’ll never get past the first tier of Emerald. If that is the point of Emerald to keep 50%ers out, cool. I can deal with that, but they need to make that clear.

No man, the system (actually all ELO, MMR systems) is created to keep you at 50% win rate. Thats the purpose. So that you play with people equal to you, atleast that is the idea of it.

The problem here is that it becomes inbalanced, as a soloQ even tho you are clearly better and should therefore in theory climb to YOUR tier. However, if you meet premades all the time it becomes twisted and you start loosing more then you should.

I pvp a lot now adays, but just completely stayed out of ranked, it seems it takes away the fun factor and it just a grind fest with people exploiting system and you need a team.

gg

I was going thru the patchnotes, when I noticed that it has changes to classes, I got happy. Scrolled down with a smile on my face and thinking, this is it. This is when I come back to my Ranger and feel…goood! Then I actually start laughing, I mean out loud laughing, when I noticed its mostly some nerfs.

So sneaky, I was actually back on my Druid again after been torn between my Herald and Him. I love my ranger, with 1000+hours played. But, …

nevermind, Im to sad to write.

I first read it as….

Just what a healers wants to hear.

“GO fulll regen, then play like a dps, so noone will know that you are”!

The glory is for you to know what you do, while you blend in. Just dont tell anyone!

The best way to deal with high spike damage is to throw more zerkers as it, eventually it dies and all is happy.

I love how we(some) argue, you can go support, healing there are people who love it. True they love it, but we ALL know as well as them, that they only half as good as they could be, as there comrades who run Shiro/Glint Zerk. I mean, if you running around doing meta events with tons of people, as long as it completes its all good. But in silence, we know, we judge and see the people standing in backline with a tablet, that they are not as good as they can be. So, the rest of us can carry them alittle.

Don’t get me wrong, I am ok with it. But we know…

This one day, in Dragon Stance, I put Jalis instead of Shiro. I just said YOLO and ran with the spinning hammer. After a couple of minutes i realized there was no real point, switched back to Glint and changed back to Shiro.

It was glorious 20sec of hammertime!

This one time, in Verdant Brink I went Centaur. I was like, Tablet is now here, oohhh no its over there…cant find it? Its over here now. But then I realized, that noone needed heals and the once that did did not get any heals from tablet. So I switched back to Glint and changed to Shiro.

It was glorious 20sec of pure support!

I recently did the switch myself, altho I do miss my ranger a lot. Specially thinking of all the time I spent on him. World completion. The damage output is better on the rev, but I am considering maybe going back again. I just like the ranger. Range Harald dps is very good tho!

Earix.5684:

Yes, I don’t get many bags but I don’t really care.

This is a HUGE issue for many and to be honest, one of the WORST designs for WWW content. Some classes and builds are just hugely penalized. That anyone in the raid,group tags is enough is just completely lack of understanding, imho. It makes me so angry, how they could have done it like this, I cant type anymore.

I agree with purecura, altho running full heal seems to overdo in HoTs. The heals are really good, but scaling is bad. Your damage is extremely low compare to a full zerk.
I want to go full heal support to, but I cant see the need, so Il stick with zerk druid.

The condition druid I run with full shaman is also really nice in terms of damage and healing. I switch between them.

The day they say, We need Druid heals or this will fail! Is the day I rejoice. It seems to be the normal of the game, to rather be downed, then healed.

I think druids are extremely nice in HoT PvE. However, there is no real need to stack healing power as the scaling is just TERRIBLE. When I run in full shaman condition druid, my 4 in form heals for 1100 or slightly more. When I run in full berserker it heals for 880 or so.

So, a full berserk druid is really handy, I would also not neglect the staff 1 in terms of damage and some support heals during some of the events. Same with the root.

Most people say, people should be able to handle themslves in full berserker, yes does not mean that slashes of heal here and there, does keep people from dying and increases the dps of all. I always have glyph of empower up for a group wide 10% damage buff. Lets not forget grace of the land.

Most peope dont see, how good it is with some druids around the events. They think they all keep themselves up and safe, but they dont.

Its a dirty and ungrateful job, but it makes things better

Well written, sad it wont be read and considered by the people in charge.

But, I enjoyed it.

Sounds about the same as me, but Im going more poison. Mind sharing your build?
There are some options in the build that I can not seem to decide around.

Posted it a little bit higher up. Also, some notes on what to switch in what situation.

Ok, I have been trying out so many things with druid now.
This is what I am running right now, I cant decide between skirmish and beastmastery.
But skirmish seems to do very well for me. Its very AOE heavy, so i usualy run around in HOTS and grab as many mobs that I can see and take them all in one go.

I love to destroy blue bars, ancient seeds help with that, but sometime I go with grace of land. With water sigil on the weapon, CA is constantly up. Like, all the time.

The builder does not have Shaman set, but I am full Shaman. I found health is better then toughness against all the poison and bleed and kitten. But, settler would do the same things.

The build work great solo but even better in a small party.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAnfWnMqAVsidrAGsCUtgFGBD+pWVzqNjrOXSjpAc5CAn8syNB-TRxBABCqJgijAAf7PAwjAgZ9AAA-e

I take down a single veteran a little slower then my full berserker long bow. But I take down 4 veterans at the same time, much faster.

If I run in a party, I would consider taking empower glyph. With the CA constanly up and and empower, I would buff my buddies damage by 25% all the time. While doing good condition damage myself. Since its condition and stuff, it gives me time to throw in a couple of heals as well, to top em off, if they step into something unlucky.

Edit: This build just soloed the Champion Hero Point at Dragons Passage Waypoint.
I am sure with some help from the pro people, we can adjust it to be better.

It has been mentioned here bfore, that a druid gives 5 people a 25% damage buff, with glyph and Grace of the Land. So a condition druid for example, would make up that damage loss easy with those buffs. As condition druid damage output is also pretty good.

What is your good old fashioned ranged build?
I really want the druid to work and be needed!

Well, I have been experementing with Druid build a lot. It is a little lackluster, altho it can provide a huge benefit for a small party. Making HOTS kind of faceroll.

Yesterday I went all conditions and traps, it was ok but quite annoying. Now I am more into the glyph, poison, SB and pet as added damage. I am doing very well solo with condition stacking. Heavy CC is nice, as you and your party can just throw yourself in a group of mobs without problems.

Im going to try with Shaman for world PvE, should be really effective.

This “bug” if I dare to call it a bug. Is extremely annoying. I can not find a single Hammer skins that looks remotely good stowed.

It stupid, it makes no sense and it should be fixed ASAP. It cant even be that hard to fix.

I would like to express a big wooping.. KAPAOW! ..

that is all..

So anyone seen any good movies lately?

… wait?.. wrong thread?

Oyeah sorry..

QQ..blob..hax0r. QQmore. Cant do anything..

Its a game, just have fun. Do what you think is fun? I for oine, enjoy killing you. That being said, I do enjoy an occational death.

I recently came back to GW2. I started on Henge of Denravi in my guild Ginnunga [Gin] as part of the Titan Alliance. Transfered to Blackgate and then together with PrX we went to Seaferers Rest. Now I find myself in an odd situation. As everyone in PrX and Gin stoped playing i run with the PUG. That being said, I know wvw and how to follow. Im fully geared and I do my part.

2 things needs to be said:

the SFR pug seems to me atleast to be suprisingly coordinated, atleast compared to how it was on HoD. So i think they diserve some cred and not the hostility.

The commanders are doing a very very good job to coordinate people that are not on TS. ( I have not been able as I am currently out traveling in Asia and my internet is somewhat restricted). But its very easy to follow and help.

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That being said, reading this boards i feel a hostility, I have not yet found a new home guild. As I am trying to catchup, account got hacked before they implemented the “account restore thingy”. And they salvaged and sold everything I had, badges, sets, jewelry, crafting mats.

So I just want to speak out for the pug, some of them are not people who just transfered in on a bandwagon, some of us just wants to shoot people in th face.

Writing on Ipad, so sorry for typos..

It worked. It looks interesting, lots of healing power. However, how will your birds survive? They just die so fast imho.

I find toughness win over to much healing power.

What are your tips and tricks to get as many as possible?
I find myself switching to LB in a zerg ONLY to be able to AOE. Been testing if the poison from SB generates as many.

Sometime it seems i have a hard time getting enough bags and specially picking them up if im running and shooting.

So, got my sake….share your wisdom oh you mighty internet.

Im currently running a hybrid BM bow/GS build. (i figure a throwing trap build would generate bags…)

Link does not work. There is a hybrid build in that look simular.

I find for medium atleast, to mix cultural with TA is not to bad. Thw medium T2 is just…horrible and extremely ugly! Someome should get smacked for that chest piece.

Insulting English just made me overlook and completely disregard anything you said. Low….

Iam very interesting to learn Arah better. I play ranger, have more then one exotic set for various builds.

I find drakes very nice now in dungeons with the blast finishers. That being said, we are all talking best of the worst here. Pets in dungeon is …….tiresome…

I like those spirits, does not seem to OP.

Fights are messy, takes to long, give nothing….so people skip. End of discussion. If Anet didnt want to much skipping they get to the bottom of the problem, instead of this buff then nerf then buff then nerf idiocracy.

This post is an excellent way to show Anet how inbalanced the classes are for dungeons. Thank you OP.

+1 to all but 5th. Dont really see the effect. But some ideas are really good and been on my mind to.

I salute you! That is exactly the way to think of caracter design. To proper engage the player, even if a class is bad, if its properly engaged it will rage less.

I love the fact that you bond with the pet, n GW1 you trained it and named it. To make it your buddy! Here, I dont even bother to name it,. The pet means nothing to me. It just runs in and die anyway, so i switch pet, it runs in and dies. Then I wait for CD.

Anet, hire this guy.