Guild Wars 2

The theme is done amazingly, I can’t really find anything to complain about there. Gameplay on the otherhand is much easier to pick apart. You have some good aoe damage, that’s just about it.

It looks like the responses change based on race and I’m very happy they do. I play a female Charr Revenant and got these different responses.

Glint: “Everything has unfolded as I knew it would.”
Character: “You keep me alive, I’ll keep making a difference.”

Ventari: “Sometimes I miss the simple joy of galloping across an open field.”
Character: “Just as long as we’re galloping toward the enemy.”

Shiro: “The emperor feared my great power-do you?”
Character: “You’re so easy to ignore.”

I got a few new ones too.

Mallyx: “I shall consume you from within.”
Character: “Only if I’m already dead.”

Mallyx: “You can’t hold me forever.”
Character: “But I can hold you as long as I need to.”

Mallyx: “Demons of Torment will hound you to death and beyond.”
Character: “Enough of your threats. I’m not impressed.”

Shiro: “What has become of my empire in my absence?”
Character: “They say Cantha expelled all nonhumans and closed its borders long ago. After Orr rose, it was isolated further.”

May we always remember the Staff for what it was.

Let us never forget our faithful Staff Guardians, may they live on forever in our hearts.

Kain Francois.4328:

I was initially skeptical to Kalla Scorchrazor too. But since we now know Elite Specs will have lore associated with them, she might have a more formal introduction into the story. I say wait and see. Give it a chance.

Agreed. While Pyre might fit better we already know a good bit about him. I hope to learn more about Kalla with the expansion.

Brian.6435:

That’s all fine and dandy for Charr heroes. But what really makes them special? At the end of the day…they were still just Charr. The thing all the other Legendary aspects have in common is they’re beyond just regular people. Jalis became the great stone dwarf. Shiro was a general of abaddon and responsible for the jade wind cataclysm. Glint was a Dragon. Malyx a margonite Lord. Ventari….basically responsible for cultivating the Sylvari.

Kalla Scorchrazor…grandcub of Pyre…responsible for a charr rebellion … oh ok. I don’t know man, maybe for a regular stance for revenant, but for an ELITE spec? C’mon.

Well, she doubled the Charr’s capability and united the legions over one of their biggest problems, infighting. While it isn’t on the same level as some of the other legends it certainly isn’t anything to sneeze at.

I agree on Pyre Fierceshot being the better choice. Especially with the shortbow being the new weapon and his rebellion against the ‘gods’ rather than the rebellion against the social structure that Kalla spearheaded.

I love reading stuff like this! Hopefully it works out for you, I might follow suit then.

All it takes is playing passively. Deny bursts and don’t let headbutt land and you should win, no adrenaline = much lower damage and sustain numbers. Just remember that headbutt’s range is really wonky.

Berserker, Defense, Discipline when built right is hilariously easy to play. But they’re still susceptible to similar thins that base Warrior is. Kite hard, deny headbutt like you would bursts, use vertical movement, and save some sort of stun break for when stuff gets nasty

Y tho?
I’m kidding, the defensive perks built into half of their weapon skills and the 9K chilling medium-short ranged burst on a short cool down does it.

A Warrior running “On My Mark” clearly has a knack for experiencing disappointment and pain.

How ironic, when HoT hit Revs were hilariously overtuned in comparison to the other heavies. Now it’s the opposite, at least sword #2 is still super strong and defensive perks are pushed into about half of the Rev’s weapon skills. Goodbye the now burning corpse of legend balance.

Don’t miss your burst skills, they are your lifeblood, miss those and you’ll have a bad time. If you have Adrenal Health don’t be scared to throw a burst at a mesmer clone or ranger pet for the regen, only do that if you need the regen though.
Be ready to cancel skills with stow-weapon or weapon swapping, that’s the key thing every great Warrior does.
Don’t throw your stances at small things, try to predict with Endure Pain and use it as a stunbreak if you feel you need to. Using zerker stance to secure a solid hit on classes that blind often is also nice, especially when you use it mid-cast to throw them off.
Be ready for mind-games and you should be good to go.

I remember the old Nike Warrior, the fancy vel-cro times when only a Thief could keep up. Now we’ve got laces that we trip over at least twice a day.
Only Sword-Shield(or warhorn)/GS has amazing mobility now, all of which is purely horizontal, no verticality.

Fun vid!
I spotted you while messing around yesterday and just had to fight, the healbot Ele build did it’s job very well for sure.

CoR can only hit 5 people max split between all 3 impacts, and 1-shot 12Ks only go off with the 50% boost, and even then it’s usually blocked or evaded. But it is priceless to watch one land.
Rapid Fire is ok at best.

Skill floor is the pick up and play with passable efficiency threshold, while skill ceiling is absolute mastery/max efficiency threshold. Mesmer, for instance, has a low skill floor but a very high skill ceiling.

The commander has issued his 5 minute plan! Do not let Stalin down or 1000 years gulag!

Hydro Sigil also procs blind, landing arcing slices with a surprise blind cleanse is great.

I came back to the game recently after a break and decided to screw around with hammer.
So far I can feel it’s not as good as other options, but it does work if used right. I’ve kept a good 65-ish% win rate when solo roaming. It works best with a group of friends though, you slap them around and they pound them into the dirt, it’s worked wonders for me and my little group, but I’ve gotten really good at using hammer, (and I’m probably being carried)
There is better, but hammer can work when used very well against the right opponents. A ranger with even half a brain will put you down with no problem.

Cecilia.5179:

HatSimulator.9362:

Cecilia.5179:

Well if they are playing sustain druid, marauder warrior, or pu condi mesmer, I am inclined to do a few nonchalant hops on their corpse. This is also a really good way to get people to hate mail you.

whats marauder warrior? is that condi or just a warrior with PTVF gear? Seems like an odd hatred.

Also, i always jump on mesmers, thieves and rangers.

Marauder Warriors are the ones that are basically immune to everything half the time, do insane damage, and using greatsword to nab the still unnerfed adrenal health. They like to run damage reduction food or regen food. I find them somewhat cheesy but less cheesy than pu mesmer or sustain druid.

I think Adrenal Health was nerfed actually.
And real Manchildren use zerker gear for the full feeling of driving your enemies before you.

I just find condi to be both extremely boring to play as or against, it feels really passive, I know you have to hit someone to apply a condition with most skills just like you need to whack people to kill them with power. But it just doesn’t feel right.
Too stale I think, you can apply pressure 10 seconds after landing your attack because the condi has done it’s job, while power has to constantly be hitting to pressure. Now you’d think power would have more initial pressure because condis tick. That’s one of the problems, the hardest condi burst is scarier than the hardest power burst, which doesn’t make any shred of sense to me.

Just in case you want another subject here you go, Caeda Ripstep

http://imgur.com/a/rC09Q
Disappointment always comes before anger with her. :P

The mace primal burst is overtuned. That said I don’t have problems with condi Warrs on my power Warr, I dislike condi chrono and scrapper sustain makes me question mortality but they aren’t too bad, just need proper play against them.

The best part is that’s still a solid maybe. At least it might be only 1 month of a stacked match, unless you’re DH then it’ll be 3. :^)

Yep, if the banner is dropped early it can heal through poison, but if the down is being bombed as well as poisoned it won’t help.

If you get hit by just the initial landing of the mortar’s fire shot it can straight down people with squishier builds. It certainly needs a nerf, because that spam of fire ticks is absolutely ridiculous when fighting something else.

The Asura animations are definitely cool, but they’ve always looked a bit goofy to me. The Norn ones look pretty hamfisted, as in they seem to be slower but seemingly more impactful. I personally like the Charr animations the most, good mix of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal swings. They’ve also got a good mix of speedy swings and heavy swings in there.

I don’t think gender affects Asura or Charr animations.

It’s certainly one of the harder matchups. I’m assuming a build with greatsword and X/shield
I like to hold shield block for their out-of-stealth bursts with clones, I tend to wait a couple seconds before using it because if they want to wait it out their stealth will run out and you can just dodge by or LoS.
Always hold rush to close larger gaps or to run or an emergency LoS if you’re about to go down, don’t be afraid to cancel rush too, it hits hard but against a Mesmer it might hit 1/100 times so I’d weapon swap as soon as you get close and go for some autos or a shield bash/headbutt, just be prepared to cancel, cleanse, or pop berserk if they avoid it or blind you.
If you really need the health don’t be afraid to use your burst on a clone, just be sure you’re not blinded.
Try not to let yourself get interrupted, keep a good peripheral awareness of the clones, especially when you’re close to the mesmer, and keep pressure on the mesmer at a constant, only drop pressure to avoid heavy damage or if you need to regen up.
A wild Arc Divider when they’re invisible if you can predict their ports/movements can REALLY wreck their plans, particularly when it outright kills clones on a solid crit, which is also why I like sigil of force, just that little bit to help nuke clones and deny shatters. Try to get Stick and Move to do some work there too, an extra 10% if you don’t have 100 endurance.
The most important thing to do is land bursts for adrenal health. If you miss one you’re in trouble, if you miss two the fight is over if it’s a respectable mesmer.

Keep in mind this is just my experience when fighting them, as far as I can tell they don’t like constant pressure, it’s a pretty situational fight like most are as a Warrior.

Build diversity as a whole was led to a nearby ditch, shot in the back of the head, shoved in that ditch, and then burned.

The name of the game isn’t out-damaging or suddenly blowing your opponent up anymore if you’re a smaller group, that used to work pretty well a while ago, you’d have loads of front-loaded damage and plenty of back-load to reinforce it. Hammertrains did damage but it could also take some before having to back up, even under heavy pressure. Now it’s about 3 seconds in the kitten tops against a group over twice your size, and that’s with extremely tanky comps, the minstrel, magi, cleric, nomad frontline comps that are extremely hard to take down.
It’s become who can outsustain the other group first rather than who can surprise and bomb the other group first. And while the surprise explosion was a bit of a buzzkill if the other group reacted poorly, it provided more excitement than endless rounds of hitting Unobtanium walls with pool noodles and toothpicks.

Tank up really really hard if you’re front, have the back stack as much damage as they can while still being able to take some hits, and that’s the name of the game. Sustained damage from back, hilariously sustain heavy builds in the front.
(Make group Warrior great again)

Warrior has always been a good roaming class, even from the HoT Release – adrenal health buff time period. They’ve held up being good at 1v1s for a long time now too.
Zerging I’d suggest either a hammer-sword/warhorn stance or shout build, shouts still aren’t very good but you can make them work for you if you’re on top of your game.
Roaming you can use plenty of builds, almost all of which having a greatsword in them, Sword/shield, axe/shield, and hammer if you’d like. You’ll usually use Berserker Stance and Endure Pain, with the third slot being open, I suggest either Outrage or stab application.

The main thing to remember though is to land your bursts, if you miss one 3 bar burst you’re going to be in trouble, if you miss 2 in a row it’s over 9/10 times. Also, P/P thieves will kill you almost every time if you stay and fight them as double melee.

Ehmry After Dark can’t even hope to stand up to the menagerie of CD and friends for a few reasons. Some of the biggest being tome-zone coverage of 4 servers being much better than that of 2, and the combined population being hilariously over-saturated for T4. I really hope ANet either manually messes with glicko to get that 4 headed Hydra (hail) out of T4 or rethinks the linking soon.tm.

If I recall, an ANet member stated in the thread mentioning Friday becoming the reset day again that the old 9:00 P.M. reset time wasn’t possible anymore due to a newfound technical issues, I’m not quite sure though.

That said, I’d prefer the good ol’ 9:00 P.M. It just coincides better with most plans as far as I can tell, that, and it’s another hour to go at it in WvW before it gets too early the next morning.

Duelers do tend to be more mechanically skilled than the average ‘zergling’ and that’s because of their more focused practice when dueling. But not every ‘zergling’ is average, some of the best zerglings tend to duel from time to time or used to be duelers.

Just like a skilled duelist, a skilled zergling shouldn’t be underestimated and as said before, everyone will play how they want to play, to each their own and so on.

The only problem with Warrior’s damage is our ability to get it off. When we do connect it tends to really work for us, but that’s just it, we have some problems getting our damage off, hopefully these sustain changes help that.

Agreed. I’m very happy with the WvW changes in this patch, it’s a big step in the right direction. Moar changes liek dis peese.

When it says each unique boon I believe it means each type of boon.

Let’s say someone has vigor, 3 stacks of stability, fury, resistance and 25 stacks of might on them. That’s 5 unique boons, stacking boons only count as a single unique boon no matter how many stacks there are.

Assuming it compounds each 3% bonus the equation should look like, 1.03^(5) That (5) being the number of unique boons on the target. The ^(unique boon number(5 in this case)) means 1.03 is multiplied by itself 5 times.

In your 6.09 example it’s only 1.03^2 which is the same as 1.03 X 1.03 Which would mean you’re getting 6.09% bonus damage on that target.

1.03^(5) = 116% rounded up from 1.15927 and so on.So you’d be getting a total of 16% bonus damage from that trait on that target with their 5 unique boons.

I believe it’s working as a compounding multiplier.

Yes, many “things” :P

Warrior hambow was easily meta, granted it was a boring and easy build, but it was meta right next to D/D Ele for some time.

Warrior’s current spot in the meta is pretty bad right now, but that’s only for WvW and PvP, Warrior’s are still great for PvE.

With that said here are some builds, all of them can be personalized to what you feel you need with them.

For zerging in WvW I like this build.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNBiYDbkpD6CxqQwxDoDxwWQh/dAE6aME4tQOCTwoD-TVCBABopEsn9HsU9HAuAAbcQA0S5Xe6Gk4BAwwRAIAACwNvZ2sNDeuzduzduz5m38m38m3sMAFjB-w
It does good damage, has about as many invulns as a Warrior can have, and still brings the extra power with Empower Allies and the good ol’ Battle Standard. It’s more of a selfish build than the old shoutheal build , but that extra survivability for yourself is almost needed in most situations right now.

Warrior in PvP is in a very sorry state, it’s worse off here than in WvW and the only build that I find to be somewhat competetive and almost ‘Meta’ on a Warrior in PvP is this build or a variation of it:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQRAsf5enEdAVhgtkCmkCEliFjAzIAsBzZvF3k7zFZEsCWeA-TZBHABl9EAA4gAEwJAw+yABv/AA
It is condi and I don’t really like playing condi, but this build, and it’s variations are undoubtedly some of the best Warrior builds for PvP at the moment.

For PvE Phalanx Strength Warrior is still good, especially with Berzerker:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR3ZnckCdfg1eA+dAEliFyAT5D822AJDgAQk7twuYjsA-TFSBABXp8bhjAAlq/gnuBa2f4hLCAAPAAzUC+NYAYEECwMzMTjIiIkCIixAA-w

Berzerker is a good spec if you want raw damage, it can do either condi or power, but the only thing it really brings is damage, you can get some extra stab with Eternal Champion, Blood Reckoning is there but it’s not very good in practice, and Savage Instinct is another stun break and some nice condi removal.

Vanilla Warrior builds work just as well as Berzerker builds, it’s primarily a matter of which one you like more.

T4 does tend to taper off hard after about 3 hours, but it’s good most nights around that time. Its beyond flourishing compared to T8, so I can’t complain. :P

I love it, I need it.

I said it earlier in the thread, page 2 I believe, and while I agree stab needs a change so It can do its job, I don’t think it should be totally reverted to old stab.
I read in another thread here an idea for a .5 ICD for each stack of stab being stripped. So 5 stability stacks would last at least 2.5 seconds and give you a good window to make use of it. But the full stack should still be corruptible so there’s still solid counter play.

Anyone commanding on a Warrior instead of a Guardian with the current state of balance is one of 3 things; 1. A troll, 2. The very embodiment of courage, or 3. A dreamer.

But yes gimme that 100g commander tag because I’m a poor.

I’d like a spear/halberd on land, a Great-axe, and fists. All sound interesting, the spear/halberd and fists in particular.

My vote would have to go to fisticuffs, nothing would be more satisfying than punching a Rev or Scrapper out, except maybe going fists vs zerg. Just imagine it, body slamming one player at a time, screaming “JOHN CENA!!!” At your monitor. That’d make a good burst skill.

Bodyslam: “Lift your opponent into the air before slamming them onto their back, forcing your weight onto them and stunning them.”
Just imagine an Asura bodyslamming a Charr

Thieves Can always wear their sunglasses at night and everyone knows that you don’t switch the blade on the guy in shades. :^)

I could think up entire playlists if I dedicated the time to it, but I’ll just throw out a few songs.

Warrior before Jun 23rd – Volbeat A Warrior’s Call
Warrior now – Kenny Loggins Danger Zone
The hilarious hammer/rifle Zerker – Megadeth Symphony of Destruction and Limp Bizkit Break Stuff
Yolo Gunflame Warrior – Saliva Click Click Boom
Warrior only teams (those poor, brave souls) – Manowar Warriors of the World

Thief – Corey Hart Sunglasses at Night

Revenant – Saliva Hunt You Down

Scrapper AND Tempest bunkers – Yakety Sax

If this isn’t a joke that pull on blast would be hilarious on hammer Warriors

I’m basing this on the current problems I see the most and hear about commonly, it’s also opinionated of course. :P

1. The old maps back in some respect, any way to stop the bleeding, patch the leak, etc… A map rotation sounds like it would work, once every week or two the maps swap, anything for the old Alpines’ return.
2. Rewards, everyone I know, including me, play WvW to have a good time, but quite often you need to do a considerable amount of PvE to get the gear you want, and to an extent, need. This is highlighted with guild upgrades. WvW also doesn’t have many, I can’t think of any, cosmetics that set it apart like both PvE and PvP does, Fashion Wars
3. Population balance, I was in ET for the first 3 years of the game, watching it decline, I know ET isn’t the only server. I’d suggest collapsing/merging some of the bottom servers, I know it’s not a pretty option but with the games current reduced, and dropping or stagnating, WvW population it might be the best. I’m sure you guys and gals at ANet will figure out the best option to balance population.
4. Stability balancing. I find this particularly important, stability plain doesn’t work in entirely too many situations, most of them involving Hunter’s Ward spam and/or outnumbered fights. The best suggestion I’ve seen that I believe would fix this issue was a .5 second ICD on each stack of stability, still fully corruptible. I really, truly hope stability and/or CC get looked at because it’s really bad in outnumbered situations, even when baiting half of the other group’s CC.
5. Encourage more combat. I’m one of those players that would rather fight than practically everything else, that said I think WvW should be more lively. Siege effectiveness against players is a bit better than I think it should be, but that argument has been beaten into the ground by others so I’ll let it rest. I can’t think of a whole lot for incentivizing fights aside from increased PPK, that could also reduce fights, lower PPT, more rewards for killing other players, or maybe a 30 seconds-1 minute period where you cannot waypoint and must sit there and think about what killed you? That’s probably not a great idea but I’d make use of it for sure.

I can elaborate further later. I’m glad to see someone’s watching Gaile Gray, it’s why I decided to post this from my phone, keep up the good work and communication!