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Hi all. My SO plays on an IMac (late 2012), fully updated, and can barely play guild wars on low graphic settings. At many random spots, a graphical glitch will occur that dissects the screen into gray triangles. We were hoping that the 64 bit mac client would fix this, but it hasn’t whatsoever. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
So. You’re paying 30$ for Firebrand? What are you paying for the rest of the expansion? Because I’m paying 80$ for all the elite specs and everything else the top package gives me. You might want to contact support.
They could also just give firebrand, tempest and ventari their own special buffs. Maybe give firebrand a physical damage reduction buff, limit grace of the land to physical dps, give tempest condi dps buff, and give ventari some condi damage reduction buff.
I like this idea a lot. It goes back to pre release rhetoric about all classes feeling really powerful instead of just balanced.
I’m so happy with this. Check my post history, I’ve been running trailblazer’s dhuumfire since hot came out. Depending on how the dhuumfire interacts with the f1, I’m just going to become more unkillable and more powerful. I love this.
I don’t understand what groups the op’s of these topics are getting into. I’ve tried to raid multiple times, failed all of them, and never had a toxic interaction. Makes me think either the op hasn’t actually tried raiding or is a big contributor to their own toxic encounters.
As much as I love being nearly invincible already, that would make shroud necros fairly op. Wouldn’t need to take your soul is mine, wouldn’t really need rise, or any other life force generator. Would ruin the point of any other life force generator.
Necros being the only class to not have a single block or evade outside of the 2 that every class have already balances that out. Besides, if you’ve ever been in teamfights you’d notice that lf is already easy to gen using staff and spectral armor which is why the meta build isn’t using the skills you’re talking about
I’m not talking about pvp, though. The only time I play pvp is when I have guild missions requiring it. In PvE, the staff is absolute trash for life force genning.
@rajjy Here you go. Like I said, I take the shroud cooldown reducing trait because I like being able to pop my life force generators and be ready to go back in to my happy place when the shroud cooldown is up, but you can play around with it if you want. I just find that it works best like this.
As much as I love being nearly invincible already, that would make shroud necros fairly op. Wouldn’t need to take your soul is mine, wouldn’t really need rise, or any other life force generator. Would ruin the point of any other life force generator.
The build I use in… well every thing but pvp since I don’t play it, is trailblazer’s dhuumfire. I use spite, soul reaping, and reaper. Damage solely comes from burning, which, with max duration condi from trailblazer, balthazar runes and a smoldering sigil, hits consistent 6-7k dps. I run your soul is mine, rise, spectral armor, and spectral grasp, all but rise for life force generation. Take the traits that extend shroud pool and lower cool down, and you’ll never die. Usually, I’m only out of shroud for about five seconds before having a full bar again.
Don’t you dare touch my dhuumfire. They finally made it viable with reaper. Don’t you touch it.
in pvp you’ll probably get about 2 hits in before they escape your range.
In higher levels, yeah, this will most likely be the case. I can still go toe-to-toe with ranked friends when it’s a duel, but yeah it’d be tough to catch them if they’re running away. You have enough control between greatsword and dagger/warhorn (weapons I run for LF-building) to pin down opponents in short fights, but longer ones would be tough.
Dhuumfire reaper is amazing. I run it with trailblazers and I’m just as tanky as a nomads guardian and can dish out over 5000 dps just from burning, without consumables. You can trait for constant 25 vulnerability if you’re on your own, as well as have a full stack of might for yourself within a few seconds. With the aoe swing of reapers 1,trash mobs die very quickly, and along with rise you’re extremely sustainable against bosses. It’s an amazing pve build. Hard to say in pvp since there’s no trailblazers but with carrion it still works alright. Run sigil of bursting and smoldering along with runes of balthazar, then whichever pizzas you fancy and the crystals (I think) for condition damage from %toughness. Might have those consumables mixed up.
Tldr. I completely prefer trailblazers Dhuumfire over bleeding/poison necro.
It’s sad that people are so close minded in this game. Bad direct damage weapon? It’s an awesome condi weapon. Reapers onslaught brouht dhuumfire back from the grave. Combined with trailblazers armor and you’ve got nice damage and a great tank with two health bars, a heal skill that’s up every 12 seconds, 33% further reduced damage with rise. People are way too obsessed with meta and what other people think of the classes to actually play different playstyles.
Don’t listen to the people saying not to go tanky guardian. Yeah the meta is damage damage damage but unless you’re playing with a very organized group people go down like flies because they’re all glass cannons. My guild master is a nomad guardian, another guild mate is a minstrels guardian, and playing with them is awesome. All the damage people can go HAM and not worry as much about dying. Guardian does make an awesome healer from my experience.
I’m actually looking for the same type of build. My guild leader is our main healer and my necro tanks so I’ve been wanting an off tank role for my guardian.
So far I’m using mace shield for defense and healing and then sword and focus for more damage. I’m using a few symbol traits since both weapons have it. Fury on the sword symbol will be very helpful and give some offensive support. I believe I have the blind on justice and justice on kill traits too, along with the critical chance on one hand weapons. Hope that helps!
Like above… once you use the counter-magic, it gives you quickness and a shield. It’s almost like they had a mechanic to stop the health drain.
I… didn’t even notice there were other mobs. First, they literally show you what to do earlier in the mission. Second, maybe put on some tankier gear so other mobs aren’t a problem anymore? The fight takes five minutes, max. I don’t know how you guys are taking so long with it.
then don’t do the mission.
That is not acceptable, everyone deserves to play the content they like.
No, no they do not. That is a really old, baseless argument that holds no water. You don’t get to do things just because you like them. Especially if you knowingly engage in things that are dangerous for you.
Windowed full screen is your answer. However, I used to be a fan of windowed mode, and I never had a problem with it. You can stretch your screen to exactly what you want. If there’s still a tiny amount of space you keep clicking in… that’s literally windowed mode.
This is the closest I can get to my build with the builder. I use trailblazer’s everything, with fire and condi duration consumables. Maintains around 9-10 stacks of burning, around 7000 dps, and is tankier than a nomad guardian. It’s not meta, but I’d say it’s just as effective and a hell of a lot more fun than sticking to what everyone says you should use.
Just as another take on the dhuumfire build, I use trailblazers armor and weapons, with a great sword (for funz) and dagger warhorn for lf generaton, along with augury of death, the heal shout and rise. These together give me a heal every 12 seconds that regens lf and cuts my damage received in half. Using Balthazar and smoldering/bursting, and pizza and utility consumables, I maintain around 7000 dps while being tankier than a nomad guardian. I personally don’t like the scepter as it requires you to stay out of shroud and generates lf so much slower than dagger warhorn and say, spectral armor.
It really depends on what playable you want. Do you want to be condition damage or power? Thats your answer, unless you want us to tell you what direction we’d go in. I prefer to have some kind of decent defense on most of my chars, so personally I’d probably go with dire. Otherwise I’d go with rampaers.
It sounds like you want to do as little as possible while you’re playing. I wouldn’t mind an auto follow allies or friendly npcs, but enemies should be out of the question. GW2 is based around fast paced, fluid, proactive and reactive combat. Not push button to start chasing hitting things. GW1 had it because that was gw1’s combat style. It doesn’t match GW2.
Some of the other suggestions sound good. I’d really enjoy a salvage system like Diablo 3, where you’d salvage all of a particular rarity.
Back in “the good old days” conditions were useless. I don’t know what game you were playing, but no matter how much you wanted to use conditions anything besides blind and vulnerability, maybe weakness, were useless. No one used them and they were highly loomed down upon because the damage was pitiful compared to melee damage. If your problem is with wvw, there is a separate forum for that. But for the game in general, the updates to condition stacking were some of the best changes they made.
There was a time GW2 was Casual Friendly
in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns
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Aranvar, I’ll be honest I didn’t rag your whole post, just don’t care to read a wall after work. I just have one small issue with you saying restricting stat combinations would be good. Having different stat combos is what allows build diversity. You don’t have the best tank/healer without nomads, for example. I use trailblazers in a great necro burning tank build. I couldn’t do that without didn’t stat combinations.
Or ventari, or mallyx… There are other ways to play it. Glad to see berserker mindset is still going strong.
No real class composition. As long as you can kill mobs you have enough dps. Strategy is really important though. You DO NOT have to kill each vine as it appears, you can miss a surprising number of them if they are too far away.
Before we launch we’ll be covering a lot more in depth info on guild halls and guild progression, including a number of details we haven’t announced yet. Hang tight – your answers will come then!
I feel kinda screwed by Anet. “You have to buy HOT to see what is in HOT”
We are a tiny 3 person guild (since GW1) and just can not earn favor.
That write in no way says you have to buy it to see what’s in it… I think your anger is getting in your way. Gaile said they’d be releasing the info close to launch. If you preordered before that, that’s your fault and your lack of judgement. Not theirs. Also, my guild has around seven active people and we almost always only do guild missions with 3 people. You have no excuse.
I can’t fathom this problem. I always port into an empty map, usually a fresh one our one with an hour and a half left. I open the lfg, across as a DS taxi, immediately have four other people, they start taxiing, and within a few minutes the nap is full with 3 commanders. Every. Single. Time. It really is that simple.
Well reality is completely different thing. I am in game however and i want to swing 2 swords at once. You dont have asura and charr in rl right?
Anet kittened up bc they made sword/sword etc as separate option. They could easily fix it by adding new “dualsword” kind of stuff. Thats generally why i prefer 2h weps (gs) over dualwield in gw. It just seems wrong to me that most of the time i do not use my second hand. Even in faction trailer you see Shiro using both swords at once..
To do that they would have to rework all sword auto attacks specifically for when you’re dual wielding swords/melee weapons. So that’s not an easy fix. Like someone else pointed out. According to history, it’s fairly accurate. Even having two full length swords is realistically implausible. If we’re going by anime logic, maybe, but that is NOT an easy fix.
See, this is the kind of post that discourages any actual responses. Your post is saying, “give us your obviously wrong opinion so I can tell you how stupid you are.” Why would they answer a loaded question like this? You aren’t looking for a constructive conversation, you’re just looking to be gratified.
Wow, that was one hell of a subjective opinion fogleg. I personally found the maps to be very well designed. The closest example you can come to bad design is tangled depths. Tangled. Depths. There’s a hint to what the map would be like, and it’s in the name. They told us they were giving us a jungle. In MY opinion, I think they delivered exactly that. I didn’t want just another flat central tyrian map.
Gates? Sorry you couldn’t explore everything in the first few hours of play. Sorry you had to put in a little work. And in no place whatsoever were you required to have a super high mastery rank, except in ley line gliding. Gliding. In currents of magic. It’s pretty kitten reasonable for this ONE thing to be high up.
Again, fun is highly subjective. I had a lot of fun, so did all my friends, and so did thousands upon thousands of players that don’t come on here to complain about something they didn’t design and had all the information they needed to make an informed purchase.
What do you mean you can’t gather materials? Cause you can’t take a hit in your berserker’s armor? If you want to talk about the sheer amount of flax needed for things, fine, but that’s not what you’re arguing.
Tl;dr FogLeg is the spokesperson for the guild wars 2 playerbase and whose opinion is the one, true way.
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Here’s the big thing I don’t understand with all these complaining threads. Yes, you can use any class you want as long you have the necessary roles. And many classes can perform these roles. You are not limited to a rigid class composition, despite what everyone thinks. The only time you may need to wait for a tank or healer is if your pugging, which was not anets aim. Yes, if everyone is optimized you can do it, but in an actual group is possible with so much less. Anyone saying otherwise is objectively wrong.
Definitely leave it on. Other skills you activate will override it or you can just cancel the chain, and it’s mindless damage. Plus a lot of builds use autoattack as one of the main damage sources.
The revenant “nerf” isnt a nerf at all. It’s autoattack was grossly overpowered and was brought into line. It’s still extremely powerful, damage and support
Death shroud is far from needing to be fixed. The only reason so many people changed to reaper is because it’s role is damage dealing, up close. Shroud is still very good for range, but core necromancer also had a lot of other roles it can play. Comdi scepter, minion master tank, etc. Everyone is just so focused on damage dealing that they don’t pay attention to what else arena net had given us.
I’m assuming you mean melee. Depends on what kind of playstyle you’re looking for. Do you want supportive, offensive or defensive? A mixture of two of those is possible with pretty much any class, they all just do it differently. Warriors has a lot of offensive support for his team and deal a lot of damage too. Necromancer, especially reaper, can deal very heavy damage, or they can use a lot of life steal to help their team survive. Both these classes also have the possibility of dealing a lot of condition damage.
Tl;dr it really depends on what playstyle you’re looking for beyond just melee. More info can help give you an answer.
Your issue may be your trinkets, that is, your amulet, rings, earrings and backpack. Other than that, taking defensive traits that work with your gear is very important. I forget exactly what the warrior has so this is a fake example, but a percent of power being added to toughness does nothing if you have kittle power. Stuff like that. Other than that, learning to dodge, kite, interrupt and otherwise crowd control mobs is very important to your health. Warriors arent as tanky as their name implies, so movement and proactive damage avoidance is very important.
Also, you may want to consider taking runes and/or sigils that will benefit a defensive playstyle.
Your issue may be your trinkets, that is, your amulet, rings, earrings and backpack. Other than that, taking defensive traits that work with your gear is very important. I forget exactly what the warrior has so this is a fake example, but a percent of power being added to toughness does nothing if you have kittle power. Stuff like that. Other than that, learning to dodge, kite, interrupt and otherwise crowd control mobs is very important to your health. Warriors arent as tanky as their name implies, so movement and proactive damage avoidance is very important.
Also, you may want to consider taking runes and/or sigils that will benefit a defensive playstyle.
How is an instant kill mechanic any better than timers? How does telling players to run to a spot or die reward skill or build diversity? Your suggestion is almost wise than the non issue of timers.
Haven’t tested, but I would take trailblazer’s over viper’s every day. In my mind, making sure I stay alive is more important than eking out every last little bit of damage. I use dhuumfire btw. Since dhuumfire is based on staying in shroud, taking less damage and having more life force protects my actual dps.
You don’t need ascended armor for the raid, typically it’s just required to have ascended weapons and trinkets, since those stats are weighed more I guess. You can play however you want. At least for condition, you don’t have to run full damage stats to maintain enough dps to do your job. I run trailblazer’s and do just fine. The problem with power is that pretty much all of your dps comes from grave digger, which you only use for the second half of the fight. So for half the fight your damage is significantly impaired.
A trailblazer’s burning reaper does really well for me. Very sturdy with great damage. So far (with carrion accessories and burning runes/sigils and consumables) maxing around 9 burning stacks.
Have you thought of just using Commander’s with a Phalanx Strength/Empower Allies berserker build? Besides soloing, I don’t see much point to not having group support besides soloing. Sure, you lose out on a lot of tankiness, but the return may be worth it.
For soloing though, I may very well use this on my warrior. Been wanting to use Commander’s with the above build, but soloing in maguuma will be a lot nicer with your build.
Experiment with what you want. People are going to hold onto glass cannon stats for dear life, so don’t listen when they say that’s all you can do. I’m looking at taking commanders armor with a phalanx strength build. Commanders adds power, precision, toughness and boon duration. So you still hit like a truck, have extra tankiness and maintain full might stacks easier. Okay around though, find a build that suits you, has a clear damage, control or support role, and performs its role well.
Reaper is godly. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either trolling or needs to learn to play. I prefer condition damage. For my build, use spite, soul reaping and reaper. Take traits that apply vuln on shroud 1, in an area in shroud, close to death, dhuumfire, August of death and kitten d onslaught. Condition damage armor (I’m getting trailblazer today for condition duration and tankiness), runes of balthazar, sigil of bursting and smoldering. For weapons I use dagger/ warhorn for life force generation and a great sword, use great sword to go into shroud. Use any weapons you want, though.
This build (with carrion and truffle steaks) maintains 5200 burning per tic without any other buffs. Haven’t tried with trailblazer yet, but that should increase the number of burning stacks at any time, so even more damage.
Best condi build I’ve found is focused on dhuumfire with reapers onslaught. Spite soulreaping and reaper, take augury of death so your heal shout recharges in 12 seconds at max targets. Plus rise halves your damage taken. Use runes of balthazar, sigil of smoldering and sigil of bursting. With carrion stats you can hit 5200 burning per tic with truffle steaks. Haven’t tried with trailblazer yet but will be once I get home. Should be even more damage thanks to condition duration stats, plus you’ll be the tankiest dps in the group.
Let’s actually be real for a minute. It doesn’t matter what classes you bring as long add each build is solid and relatively optimized. There is absolutely no need for"engi over thief" unless your speed clearing. Get the needed roles filled and have everyone know what they need to do, you’ll be fine.
Almost any class can. Thieves are the only ones I’ve found that aren’t super effective with condition builds. Reapers are very good at maintaining 5K burns, 25 might and 25 vuln, as well as having a ton of hard and soft ccs.
Revenant is good at maintaining decent torment levels area wide, but their condi damage doesn’t get very high. It used to be based around inflicting tons of conditions on yourself and then spreading them to foes, but that was taken out without substituting the trait mechanics so mallyx is left feeling… Incomplete.
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