Guild Wars 2

Literally any class is fine in WvW right now. If you’re looking for something uber meta to run in GvG with or super organized Zergs, than ask around that your guild/commander needs. Otherwise any class is fine for roaming or small skirmishes. I roam on my Rev all the time with my partner, who plays ranger. so..

Hey guys, lately I’ve been playing my warrior more and I’ve wanted some input on my WvW situation. Keep in mind, this is all about solo/small group (less than 5) roaming. I don’t care about zergability.

I currently run mostly Berserker, with a touch of Marauder (couple weapons, couple trinkets) With Defender Runes — Mace/Shield and GS. I have a blast and feel totally capable in most all situations. But when I play this same build in sPvP, where power warrior isn’t padded by as many buffs, and Defender Runes don’t exist, I switch to running Vipers amulet and Krait Runes, same build otherwise (I maybe change some traits, I honestly don’t remember) and I have a blast here, too – with so much mixed burst this build is wonderful.

anyway, the point is that I’ve been slowly amassing some Vipers gear for my warrior, and I’ve been second guessing whether it’s a good idea or not. Should I make a second set of gear for condi roaming, with Vipers/Krait like I do in Spvp – Should I stick with my power build with defender runes, because it’s really strong in WvW – or should I blend the ideas and go Viper/Defender for less burst but more sustain?

Doggie.3184:

Dunno why there are still people who don’t realize how great it’d be to get a new 1handed weapon we don’t already use that can be wielded in either hand… lot more build diversity if they do it right.

we need a foooocus.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Jim Hunter.6821:

GinghamLion.3614:

I would really like it to be changed. Immobilize is such a wonky thing in GW2, anyway. As far as I know, stun breaks don’t actually break immobilize. Or they bug often. Or it has something to do with how this trait pulses immobilize, which I think should be changed.

Why would a stun break cleanse a condition?

I’d like stunbreaks to break/cleanse immobilize as well, condition or not. But hey, that’s just mho.

Right, what I’m trying to say is I think it’s dumb that stun breaks don’t remove immob. I think they should.

The staff was the best choice for the thief hands down for the first specialization.

Secondly, I hate so much that you want thieves to get greatswords – literally the furthest thing away from everything they do thematically – because you want to use the one katana-like skin in the game with it. They just cam out with a Kama dagger, use that.

Lastly, thieves definitely should get a focus as their next weapon, and be shadow magic themed.

I would really like it to be changed. Immobilize is such a wonky thing in GW2, anyway. As far as I know, stun breaks don’t actually break immobilize. Or they bug often. Or it has something to do with how this trait pulses immobilize, which I think should be changed.

Sunshine.5014:

Hooglese.4860:

Because the game is not designed for duels, it’s designed for 5v5s. If it was designed around dueling we wouldn’t have conquest. We’d have team death match.

This myth about “it’s designed for 5v5” still persists.

95% of all the fights in this game are 3v3, 2v2, and 1v1. Back cap and 1v1 on point happens a lot more frequently than 10 noobs clashing in mid disregarding the other 2 points and map objectives.

Please stop repeating that myth.

Woah woah woah. We don’t ever mean 5v5 is 10 people running headfirst right into each other. When we say “balanced around 5v5” we specifically mean 5v5 conquest mode. Honestly as far as MMO PVP goes, GW2 is extremely balanced. You have balance around 1v1 viability, defensive capabilities, ability to survive under multi-target pressure, mobility, objective control. Everything. All of this goes into “balancing for 5v5” and if the game was balanced for 1v1 Duels, I think we would see a LOT more class stacking in conquest.

I’m not saying it can’t be done in a video, but meta games are subject to change. I know guild wars doesn’t have a particularly volatile meta strategy, but that doesn’t change the fact that it isn’t something that’s set in stone. Making a tutorial video IN GAME based on a current meta strategy would be a waste of development energy.

Now. Do you want people to understand the basics of what in the world is happening on these maps? Sure. But remember- they do give you instruction. Right at the beginning of each and every game. “HOLD ON TO YOUR POINTS. SEIZE THEIRS.”

Ross Biddle.2367:

While these are basic mechanics in PvP, the things people need to learn about are things like-

• Know your role
• Fight on point (or dont fight off point)
• Rotate properly
• Know when to disengage

You can’t really incorporate these things into an in-game tutorial because all of these concepts are a product of an established meta game.

Man.. Any thief can run all day.

These forums are a weird place.

D/D could certainly use a rework. That would be amazing.

But seeing as how I got hit by a 10k damage vault yesterday, no.. It doesn’t neem more range. It needs its evade frames removed, or its damage lowered. Then maybe we’ll talk range.

The focus is amazing and looks good on anything.

I’m sure this has been said before- but I think a good fix to Diamond skin would be that is pulses resistance on you at a reasonably high interval (basically giving you ‘perma resistance’) so the condition during the >90% hp fighting would still be applied, and then as soon as you tick them below 90, those condis suddenly take full effect. I hate fighting an ele and just seeing immune, immune, immune, immune.

It can be vaguely inferred. Many people who post on these forums play in the upper tier with some of the esl players/teams in ranked matches. So they’re aware they’re playing with some of the best players- thus they know their match making is high.

Hey guys, I haven’t touched my warrior since HoT launched. So I know very, very little about berserker. But I miss playing him, so I had some questions.

I have berserker stat gear, with hoelbrach runes, axe/sh GS. I’d like to continue playing this type of build.

Shinryuku had this wonderful fight on his stream, and I wanted to know fi you guys could figure out which triat lines he dropped for berserker, and give me some tips/tricks for the new berserker mechanics. Like, at one point does he not to the axe adrenaline ability right into the GS one? what’s that all about?

http://www.twitch.tv/shinryuku_ku/v/27889443

thanks for any input.

I agree that this would be nice, as I’d lke to do it for my alts, but what I REALLY want is some kind of mastery experience writ to be a reward track item. I want to pvp, and I want to unlock masteries to finish my elite specialization weapon collection. I HATE grinding for masteries.

i didn’t want to post this in the HoT thread because i feel like the mac client doesn’t get any attention. But any time there are large amounts of players on the screen, be it a meta event in the new maps, or a zerg in WvW, my client will crash. It’s made doing any of the large events in the new maps impossible and pretty much has made the new content unplayable.

computer specs:
Mid-1015 Retina Macbook pro
quad core 2.5ghz i7
16gigs ram
AMD Radeon R9 M370x graphics card
OSX el Capitan

How are people liking these runes? They seem to be really great, and I’m thinking about replacing my runes of the pack with them, since I hardly need the swiftness duration with Dash. I use valk armor so the guaranteed crit can be wonderful.

kash.9213:

It won’t grow on me, this animation has almost got me killed more than anything. I can’t position or orient myself around my target or stay within the range I need to, basically I can’t stay on top of my target, I have to always play catch up with this Dash animation because it wiggles me away from them and I have to try to snap back.

I also cannot jump and flip into the dodge as with the normal dodge animation which is something I make constant use of and that’s a big hit to me losing that. The other two Elite dodge animations are spot on and work both normally and combined with jump/flip.

This is simply untrue. It doesn’t wiggle you away from your target. It has the same start and end point as if the animation wasn’t there. If you can’t stay on too of your target, it’s because you’re not used to the extra distance, which is nothing but a huge buff.

Also, you absolutely can jump-dodge with it. And it’s rad.

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This was my absolute favorite part of the entire daredevil specialization. That animation is perfect and I don’t want it going anywhere.

Pick bound if you don’t like it. I can’t get enough of how awesome it is.

I don’t complain too much about match making.. But playing pvp this week has been really badly balanced. Some of those Rev wins over the weekend I got carried HARD and was basically dead weight as I figured out the class. Then from yesterday and today on my mesmer, I feel like I’m playing my butt off and doing really really well, and my team has no sense of map rotation and is constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time. I feel like I’m playing really, really hard and being dragged down even harder.

I wanted to chime in on the idea that people have been tossing around about the new dodge mechanic being an F-key toggle. I think it is a terrible.. TERRIBLE idea.

Here’s why: it looks way too strong on paper, so certainly we would see Daredevil would be toned down to compensate. But in reality, the only dodge you would be cycling between would be the random jump to the Rush dodge if you needed to break chill or cripple. Power builds would still largely benefit from the leap, and condi builds the lotus option. So you’d be gimping a potentially great specialization by giving a largely meaningless on the fly option, rather than having three powerful stand alone options, and a stronger overall trait line.

Purple Miku.7032:

GinghamLion.3614:

Sigh.. No one playing on a 15" Mac with a dedicated graphics card?

The problem is that laptops themselves are horrible for gaming (source, I use one) but by forcing yourself to only use a macbook for it is just asking for trouble :/

What I can tell you is that you need to have a powerful CPU to have an acceptable framerate on GW2. If you have a low end graphics card you can make do with lower graphic settings ingame and still get an acceptable framerate but otherwise they aren’t that important.

Whatever you decide to do, just prioritise the processor.

I really don’t think laptops are terrible for gaming.. There are wonderful gaming laptops out there, but they are more expensive than a desktop. Anyway.. That’s not what this topic is for.

The 15" MBP I mentioned has a 2.5ghz quad core i7. That, with the more than decent graphics card, should run this game extremely well. Right?

Sigh.. No one playing on a 15" Mac with a dedicated graphics card?

So I’ve bee playing for almost 2 year on my 13" macbook pro from earlly 2011. I’ve always played on low setting with a few things turned up to medium, and I’ve enjoyed it just fine. I have pretty low frame rate at those setting, usually around 16-18. I play 90% pvp and a little WvW, so that’s kind of rough, but I have plenty of fun.

anyway, I recently bought the HoT pre purchase, and have been playing with the beta a bit. I’ve always kind of ignored the silverwates because it doesn’t run very well on my computer, but it definitely seems the the new maps are simply too vast, and my frames drop to about 5. I simply won’t be able to enjoy the new content like this, and on top of that, i’d lik eto at least have 20+ frames in pvp.

this is the kicker though, I will not be able to buy a windows PC. I simply will not do it and it’s out of the question. I know they are vastly superior in price to quality ratio for a use such as video games, but I will still be needed to own a macbook for my personal life.

So I’ve decided the most likely option I’ll be pursuing will be the 15" macbook pro that has the AMD Radeon R9 M370X graphics card. Does anyone have any experience with the model macbook, specifically playing on the OSX client, because I’d rather not bootcamp my computer. If so, will you share your graphical settings and performance experience?

Thanks for your time!

I mean. You could consolidate a handful of conditions into burning, then swap weapons to cleanse it.

Hey there necro forums. The Necromancer is once of two classes that I’ve never touched. The only other being engi, and I don’t think i ever will.

Anyway, I’d like to be decent with my necro that’s been collecting dust for some time. In the past I was never drawn to the terrormancer builds, and I don’t want to run any power builds because I run 99% power on every other class I play. I want some diversity!

the new-ish signet celestial build seems to really fit what I’m looking for. I love hybrid builds and I’d like to give it a try. But I’m TOTALLY lost on the actual mechanics for this class. I’d be really grateful if someone would give me a general breakdown of how to function as a necromancer. basic strategies and rotations of the class. Just a good starting point so I’m not flailing about mindlessly.

TL;DR- how do I necro? I’m lost.

I did the arah collection because I had nothing else I really wanted from pvp and dang, I was so thrilled to see that claw was assassin stats. What a fun surprise.

Thanks for the advice guys. It really seems like it’s exactly as tough a matchup as I felt. I think my problem is I try to chain CC them and burst them because I’m afraid of their counter pressure, I need to be more patient.

Using a standard d/p spvp build (not the panic strike one) I really just feel like powermancers are the scissors to our paper. On a zerker thief, two ticks from a well and and the AA pressure, I can just never seems to keep the CC up long enough to burst them down. Basilisk venom, followed by a steal daze, and if I’m lucky enough to get the fear off after that, as soon as they’re free I get 100-0 in just the blink of an eye. And now that we can’t strip stability from lich form, they’ve got that going for them too.

Any tips?

The only reason I don’t want it to be a rifle is because rifles are lame and ugly. I want more melee weapons because that’s how I like to play my thief. I’d just feel really bored firming away at long range with a goofy rifle.

So I just got my SO into playing spvp since we roam together in WvW and PVP isn’t as intimidating any more. my MMR isn’t very high at all. I’m just your average PvPer, but since she hasn’t played much at all, what does it do since we que together? I’ve heard that your match making gets harder when you que together, but does it being her all the way up to my level, and then bump us up from there? Or do we kind of meet in the middle?

My w/l has been pretty rough lately, so I’d guess it bumps us both up to a higher challenge xD

Is that not the same shield ability they showed? I see the hand of a clock.

Simon.3794:

condition warrior is never a thing
it’s hybrid or power.

because there are classes who do better as condition pressure role

Right, that totally makes sense. I tried out some of these builds today and had a blast. Thanks for all of the input!

Nice! Thanks for the builds guys. And great advice on taking a tankier amulet with sigil of intelligence, I played a match today as full glass and did terrible
Because I think I actually used to use the soldiers amulet. Man, I’m out of practice on my warrior.

I mean, we kinda got a tiny hidden buff; with a pretty much no casting animation potential immobilize that almost always leads to a burst. But honestly I kind of have see trouble timing my swap because it feels so clunky without the rushing illusion.

I don’t see why they can’t have the animation stay the same, but simply spawn the actual illusion at the target.

So we know ileap used to fail really, really often. So it’s great that they fixed that. But I really miss the animation of your clone dashing out from you. I suppose it’s better now since it’s not so obvious when a burst is coming, but does anyone else miss that really great animation?

I also LOVE full glass warrior. I do axe/sword
Right now, I suppose a shield would probably serve me better?

But thanks for that link! Don’t know how I missed it.. But I see it’s a hybrid build with celestial amulet. I’ll definitely give it a shot, but is there a “pure” condition build? Or would it not be as effective?

Specifically a S/S and probably longbow build? I don’t play my warrior very much, and waned to try some new stuff with him since I almost always do axe longbow. I was surprised that there was no sword condition build on meta battle, so would you wonderful forum goers help me out a little?

Also, I forgot to mention that these are on medium setting, with the shadows and blur very very low/off. So is be expecting at least that, if not higher settings.

So I’m playing currently on a mid-late 2011 13" MacBook Pro and am considering upgrading to a new one. I know that since then the 13" versions have been moved to an i7 processor. What else is different, since I think the memory is the same? And what kind of frames would I be able to achieve? I think right now I’m sitting on a lowsy 17-20 frames and it’s killing me (literally in spvp and WvW).

Ghotistyx.6942:

Its not /everything/ you need to know, but its pretty great. Hot join is indeed a mess, I’d play unranked only, as you’ll generally be matched with players at your skill level, and on a new char, you’ll be with others that are similarly on a new char or similar.

Well, the guard is new. My account is not. Not that I’m high up on the MMR scale or anything, but I certainly can’t keep up with a brand new spec as I could on my shatter mes.

Hey guys, just made a brand new guardian for pvp. I’m usually a thief/Mesmer player and I’ve been branching out. I tried him out today in hot join and it was just a mess. Hot join is awful.

Anyway, I’m using a GS & S/F, traits I do not remember, 6 in valor for sure, but the others are largely spread out.

So basically I’m trying to play a dps guard and I’m brand new at this class, how do I mitigate damage? Rangers were just knocking me around and immobilizing me, and I ate it. What are some tips for a new zerker guard?

Narkodx.1472:

I like full zerker running trickery AND shadow arts

That’s where the moneys at IMO

2/0/6/0/6

I may try it out eventually, but I like to play pretty aggressively, and that seems like a pretty drawn out fight.

Good point. I’m not a fan of signet builds, I tend to include only one and it’s been the move speed signet, which I’m thinking about trying the power one, but that’s not for this thread. Thanks for your input, I’ll likely put on half zerker gear and see how it feels.

Hey everyone! Returning player from a few months break, and I’m finally abandoning the SA line in my roaming build. You just can’t beat the utility the trickery line offers.

Anyway, I notice a lot of people are saying they run full zerker while roaming. I’ve been used to full valk, and that combined with the passive/defensive traits of the SA tree, I feel like I’m a little short on constant damage.

Here’s the thing: I’m going to run D/P, and I’ll likely still stick with the hidden killer trait. So do I need to increase in precision from zerker gear to maintain damage while chipping away at blinded enemies, or should I stick with higher vitality from the valk gear knowing that my backstabs will still hit like a truck?

Woah. That was wonderful. What is with that guy?

Hey guys! I missed my two chances at getting some mist forged heros weapons and I was just wondering when I can expect another tournament so I can nab them for sure this time.

Can multiple people go into (and basically do the whole living story together) and everyone gets credit for completing it?