Guild Wars 2

Awesome video and highly impressed with the survivability of this still.

Currently my warrior has finally hit level 80 and I am looking for a build to go with for WvW and PVE.
I have been trying to avoid Zerker as much as possible since that’s practically all i see is zerker warriors swinging greatswords around and then getting stomped by mobs in PVE and getting pounded in WvW.

I have been looking between the new Condition builds that have been floating around using Sword/Shield+Longbow or Sword/Sword+Longbow. I have also seen multiple builds using something similar where its Axe/Shield+Hammer where its more of a bunker power type.

I like the idea revolving around Dual Swords it just looks awesome but I feel the 5 skill on sword is still broken. It is a block but if canceled barely gives any adrenaline at all. The 4 skill now using torment does crazy damage against moving targets.

Axe/Shield being the typical Warrior I see they normally do heavy damage but I have only seen the serious damage from zerker builds which rather not run with one of those and get killed.

So Bunker Power build, or a condition build? Granted other classes are better at both but I feel that warriors are getting somewhere with this.

How about an item on the TP that would allow race change? Currently there is total makeover kit but all it does is change the total look of a character. Why not their full race as well?

A build like this gives me hope for Dual Swords on classes. It sucks badly on warrior and on Mesmer does not seem viable but you make it work very well.

I want Dual Swords to work well. I think Bleed is a nice condition but every class has some form of condition removal and 4 skill should just deal damage and pull, the 5 skill should block as long as the shield does.

Why are there no builds around dual swords? I thought for sustained DPS Sword/X Weapon is better than using a Greatsword. I get that the Sword 4 and 5 Skill are bleeds so could either go with a power build or condition build to make that work, right?

Atrophied.8725:

I hope CD and SoS are taking this week to learn from TC so they can improve, not just sitting back and letting the score run out.
From what I saw while commanding on TCbl last night:
Wear more bunker-type gear. If you’re dying, add more pvt.
You stack well, CD, but then you don’t move! Mean, I appreciate you standing in all my AoEs, and your retal stacking kinda hurts, but it doesn’t win you fights.

Yeah SoS tries to stack as well. We do good sometimes but then get overwhelmed or PUGs run out and get people killed. All good though we have fun fights out there.
I agree about the bunker gear as well. No idea how many people I see get stomped in no time flat running full zerker gear.

The end attack Sword Wave from the One Handed Sword is supposed to hit 3×. So far I have been testing this on Dummys and while I was in WvW. It only hits 1 time. Never seems to hit 3 anymore. With no might Stacks and my bunker build dmg goes from 650-650-400 where the end combo is supposed to be 3 hits its only 1 for 400 damage.

Anyone else notice this?

Phantom.8130:

SoS, you….. you portal bombed our portal in the SW camp on TCBL. the irony was staggering.

We held that camp for about a good 30-45 mins with just 25 of us versus like 40+ TC. I think we did pretty good lol

Sunspots.9861:

Salute to all those who came to fight last night on TCBL. All sides showed up and I don’t think anyone just hid away in any towers all night. Here’s a bit of it from [PiNK]’s perspective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGA80Vd6nJ8

We were trying to figure out why TC wanted that platform so badly lol

There are quite a few guilds on SoS that will show respect to downed players. If anyone sees a guild on SoS that starts the /laugh or any disrespectful emotes please notify us and we will get that taken care of.

Great fights so far see a lot of PINK and EP guys out there. you have been Giving FANG, SoV, and AoA a good fight guys. We enjoy it. Even though we are behind in points we are not beaten. :-D

I only request one thing and that is for TC and FA to show some small respect. I have noticed today so far there are a few guilds on TC one with tag INCV I believe that will /laugh when they kill players. This will be like a 40 man zerg versus 15-20 people on SoS. Granted were not as strong as we used to be because of players migrating to other servers. When I kill players and it was a good fight they deserve respect. Please /bow

So SoS is currently siege capped with no siege? Kinda confused with this one.

I’ve noticed on my Warrior that just can not use any of the Rifle skills without them lagging

Well Mesmer is okay but I can not figure out if its gonna be exactly class for me or not. D/D Ele seems fun and Tankish if specced and geared right. Warrior is okay but lacks the Regen capabilities unless use Signet. Unless I am missing something

Well I have been trying to level mesmer just used to melee combat just gets boring after a bit.

So, I have been playing Guardian for long time and been 80 a while now. love my guardian but I would like to play a new class thats comparable to Guardian. I am used to being melee ranged most of time. So anything tanky that can do a decent amount of damage and have some regen would be great.

Any suggestions?

So why not make tokens a collectible so I can easily deposit them in bank without them taking up bank space?

Curious never tested this before or exactly know how stats fully work. I know precision increases Crit Chance by a certain amount. Is it possible to crit with a healing ability? If so would adding precision into this build help any with not only dmg but heals also?

Yeah i have hope for this build. I will keep building clerics gear up and fully test this when i do.

Crapgame.6519:

Fujikura.6754:

Nice build and glad to see it work for you. Sadly I suck at it. Been spoiled by using AH build for so long kinda get used to it.

Well, if you can play the AH build, then you play this one. I’ve used the AH build and found the Hammer to be too slow. I don’t want to say this one is easier but you don’t have to do the whole animation dancing that you do when using the AH build.

I still pack a hammer just because I’m a mean person and enjoy punting people off strange places out in WvWvW using Banish But honestly, it comes in handy farming too. Greatsword and Hammer mows down Risen…

Well I have been using AH for a while now. I did buy some clerics gear just basic rare gear didnt go too far into it but I notice as guardian we turn into big hit me signs. I take a lot more damage it seems using this build.

Nice build and glad to see it work for you. Sadly I suck at it. Been spoiled by using AH build for so long kinda get used to it.

CnaeusDane.2938:

I’m by no means an expert, but here’s my thinking (I’m assuming you’re talking pve)

I personally find no use in using retaliation in PvE. Most of the time the battles are too short and don’t deal enough damage to cause a huge impact, so I’d take the 10 from virtues. If you want to be a support Guard I’d say put the 10 from virtues into Honor and get Pure of Voice and then switch Monk’s Focus for Altruistic Healing. Then you can use Hold the Line and Stand Your Ground to support your team and heal yourself. Now with this set up every third strike of GS chain will heal you because of might, using any virtue will heal you twice, and using Symbol of Wrath gives you Aoe Pulse heal. It’s not a lot per boon but it adds up.

Or if you want you can switch gear to have high crit chance and do the same thing with Empowering Might, but have slightly higher damage with lower health/toughness.

It’s all preference but there’s a lot of different combinations

Well I mostly do PVE and WvW. So that might help.

Currently I have been using a random build and I am not sure if I am just hurting myself or what anymore. I try to play a Tank Type style but I use Gsword more than anything and often switch to a Sword/Shield for knockbacks, blind, and a teleport. Been using Meditations as my off skills and healing Signet for the higher heal.

http://www.gw2db.com/skills/calc/guardian#7|0|3527|12641|12643|1311|4501|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|30|1389|2175|1396|20|866|1400|0|20|2177|2176|0|2|9|0|61745|28040|49966|53497|49963|53496|53498|21025|48789|48789|48789|48789|48789|

I need help lol. Any advice given would be great.
I’m just used to playing Ret/Prot Pally from WoW days I need to stop comparing Guardian to pally and come up with a build that works best for me that i can use without feeling like I am kittening myself.

Ghedoriah.4290:

If you’re having that much trouble with bots on SoR, whilst we can’t get them to log off entirely, if you want to let us know where they are, we can at least try killing them so they’re getting no benefit.

Well from what I have seen SoR seems to have hacked orbs and they glitch golems as well. Bots on their server just spamming points. Guess SoS players will just continue to report those players.

Spacedad.2841:

Elterzzz.4378:

Free transfers are not an issue. if we were stuck with no transfers… dominant servers would keep on being dominant. wheres the fun in that? at least keep it interesting and moving. if you’re a proud server guy like me… learn to accept it. im not moving. in fact i moved from a winning server (ET) to SoS! just so i could be with an australian community. and im loving it here in SoS.
cant really do anything about it really. WvW is a 24/7 fight. know nightcapping is an issue but thats how it works. americans from an australian perspective are nightcappers too!

not trying in wvw is more of a tactical decision tbh. dont take it personally.

We’re aware that nightcapping is (or was) an issue for your server as well. Unfortunately, given how free transfers work, transferring NA guilds to your server is a ‘solution’ that winds up ruining the game further for even more people. All of the problems we’re seeing now come back to a combination of free server transfers and a matchmaking system that isn’t working at all yet. I would ideally have wanted your server where it was last week to have matched up with an appropriate oceanic-focused pair of servers. Just as we should be matched up with NA servers of roughly equivalent population. Instead a segment of the imploding Titan Alliance decided to move en masse (along with various joiner-ins) to your server, thereby ruining the present matchup for a week. This didn’t happen to just our matchup though – almost every tier is seeing similar circumstances. It’s a huge clusterkitten and it needs to be fixed for the benefit of the game’s long-term success, or we’re going to keep seeing this cycle.

I have seen multiple guilds transfer over to SoS since been on SoS at launch. Eventually they either leave or some stay or dwindle down. Currently you complain about GW2 WvWvW. When SoS was paired up against Eredon Terrace when RUIN was on that server we did not enjoy some of their tactics mind you but we accepted it and figured other methods. Guild I am in actually used guerrilla tactics and moved from point to point using small 5 man squads taking points and either defending them with siege or moving on to the next one.
Instead of bickering on the forum come up with an idea with your guild and fight back. Maguuma was actually doing pretty good earlier and pushing us back during NA mid-day hours. So maybe during Mid-day you have a better chance for a push?

Granted free server transfers are not helping with certain servers but we had that same issue with NA players transferring to Northern shiverpeaks and Eredon Terrace when we fought them.

Curring.9752:

He only has two of the attunement buffs up, now if it was all 4 then I would be suspicious.

Yeah wish I would have gotten him when he had all 4 or had fraps loaded at the time before he ran off. If I see him again I will load up Fraps and upload it and take more screenshots. Only got this one before he took off after some people.

Well this was weird because he did it CONSTANTLY. We had more than 5 people on this guy and could not kill him at all.

Saw this while I was in WvW. This guy could do this constantly and stack these attunements back to back constantly and swap between attunements in like 2 seconds over and over. Never seen an ele I knew do this.

Hexicz.8450:

What the hell are we supposed to do? Not play at all? It is our prime time when you guys are asleep.

You guys need to learn that America isn’t the only country in the world.

I play at night as well because I work during the day. Go figure right?

Wow, complaining for something I have seen both TC and GoM do? Congratulations? GoM with hacking as well? You are ones to complain having all 3 orb bonuses thanks to a hacker. Saw videos of when this happened by someone from TC and GoM players defended this player while the hacker capped it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj22WVIIcxw

Viable strat. Seen all servers do it.

Okay, so with GoM attacking and being more powerful at the moment due to having all 3 orbs in less than 10 minutes without attacking a single keep.

Sea of Sorrows is asking Tarnished Coast for a small alliance to crush and push GoM into spawns. I understand this will come to a price. EB will be open a free for all as it were. GoM borderlands be split in two between SoS and TC. TC Borderlands be left to TC and SoS borderlands left to SoS. With this we could easily hold off GoM and push them to spawns I believe.