Guild Wars 2

I am fine with the downed state in general, but tweaks need to be made. The ele downstate went from worthless to OP overnight, and theif/mesmer need some work too. The other classes downed states are fine IMO. And no healers is great, leave it.

I’m using pretty much the same build and love it. You guys should definitely check it out.
My only tweaks are 2handed mastery (9) in Honor, and I use double energy sigils in hammer/GS.

I agree with the above. Suggestion: Use the weapon sigils for energy (+50% endurance on swap). The above spec gives you heals on dodge, so you should constantly be dodge rolling/healing and weapon swapping.

Not sure if there is a total cap on available glory. I know you can get over 115k stored.

I think the ranger pets need to be more like the guardian spirit weapons. If the players traits into the spirit weapons they can be very viable, with great utility and dmg. But if players want they can completely ignore that part of the class and still be 100% viable.

I love the current setup. It feels like a perfect merger of an FPS style gaming with MMO depth of class mechanics.

bwookie.3807:

Jordan.9132:

Cloak and dagger hits at same time as steal, backstab comes less than half a second after. Even if I pop endure pain to stop the backstab which requires incredible timing, steal+cloak and dagger still does roughly 6-10k.

And if it does happen and he falls behind in the fight whatsoever, he will just invis/blink away and come back when his signet if back on cooldown.

Its not a l2p issue, a good thief will never die to anything other than another thief. If he feels he is losing the battle, he will simply invis/blink away followed by 2-3 shortbow blinks and no other class can catch him.

No more timing than is necessary to dodge a specific blow. Avoiding steal and cloak and dagger is more difficult. If you toughness is not 0 then you should only be taking about 5k damage from the steal and cloak and dagger combo MAX. All the people who quote ridiculous numbers for the backstab combo are either 0 toughness or got hit in WvW or are warriors who had frenzy up.

Seriously take the time to roll up a thief and test it on the golems. A signeted backstab does max about 8k damage to the heavy golem. The whole combo hits for about 10-12k on golems. If you’re getting hit for all your hitpoints you have 0 toughness, and low vitality.

Wow you are claiming steal+cloak/dagger+backstab = 5k dmg in total?
I know on my ranger i run ~1800 toughness and still get hit for EACH of those for >4K.

Had the same “bug” happen to my team last night. 5/5 crashed and had to restart, while the other team was un-affected.

I don’t know about pve, or WvW, but in sPvP pets are pretty freaking useless. Ya sure they have a nice F2 that I can use from time to time. BUT the fact is they have a large portion of the Ranger dps that (a) dies very quickly, (b) cant attack while moving, and © has a very slow rate of fire which is easily dodged.

In all honesty, Thief is a better ranged class than Ranger =/

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commander should have been based on lifetime kills.only the top x number of people get to have the title

Lifetime kills is a terrible idea. It would need to be whomever has been most active over the past ~4 weeks.

Same problem. Pretty much can’t pvp at all =/ I have had this problem for the last couple weeks, but it was only ~1 per night. Now it is about 1/3 deaths im getting stuck at loading screen.

Once glass cannon beat another glass cannon. shocking.

Sorry i am not trying to say you suck or anything. I only watched the first 2 mins and you were watching the side while adding extra dps which is great. But it wasn’t fun to watch that 2 min, which is what you want/need for a utube channel (IMO). Maybe you guys had great teamwork and won? Could be a gg can still be boring to watch.

I stopped watching after ~2 min.
All you did is stand far away spamming auto-attack. You barely used your poison, didn’t even use cripple or daze at all.
Then u rushed into “save” your buddy, but u again didn’t daze the guy going for the spike which he got off and got a free kill from you.
Does it get better later in the vid?

The best thing about the longbow is without a doubt the knock-back.

necro’s. Mesmers are a cake walk if u use GS + spirit hammer for cc.

my favorite use is with the sword, it is amazing for preventing db’s on my team. Target enemy about to spike ur teammate. Sword#2 to warp to him, shield #5 to knock back, rez teammate.