Guild Wars 2

Hey guys. I came back to guild wars after a while… now i got huge FPS probs ( got 15 Fps only). My PC isn´t new but he could run GW2 on nearly max settings a year ago. Any Advices ?

thx for the feedback guys !! I was thinking to invest a little into healing power because of tome of resolve ( but since we don´t know how it will scale with it in the final game we have to wait).
I Came up with that stat combination: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRAsf8uENDx6hwwfosBQFUn5kYCzQA-TBiMQBnSZAo0PcH1DKlKODUJIA2fAeKN6kSMSB4nwK-e

opinions?

Hey guys i have a question.. for once in a while i´m really hyped for PVE… i got my Guard up to lvl 80 and try to prepare for PoF.
My Question is : what gear should i use?? I wanna go for condi dmg but there are so many condi different condi sets like vipers, dires etc.

what are your advices?? I was thinking about a combination between Dire and Shaman.. but i dunno if its worth to invest in healing power…

Brutaly.6257:

Rather interesting see so different builds and different weapon sets. Might be so that FB actually allows for more than one new way of playing.

Yeah i think so too… with Firebrand you are no longer forced to use Meditations (THANK GOD). Shouts work very good with firebrnad, Consecrations are a viable option too, with just a LITTLE tweaking Mantras are in a very good spot aswell, and if you want you still can use that old boring meditations.

what i want to say is that you will have much more build and utility diversity.

I came up with this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAs/+E1DxmhABRYMQU5fYBfQbAMtrJA-T5gAQBAa/BAcSAkYZAA

the empty weaponslot is axe, healing is mantra and last utility is the mantra that removes condis.

For the Firebrand Traitline: all the bottom traits:
1. Archivist of Whisperes: More pages= More burn, healing, stability
2. Legendary Lore: This trait is freaking awesome imo. it gives you one more stack of burning on every tome skill( for example: this increases the burning dmg on skill 2: to 11k burning). It also gives you one block everytime you use a skill of tome of courage.
3. Loremaster: beeing able to keep justices passiv is one of the biggest aspects of this build..Without it the dmg wouldn´t be nearly as high as it is.

On the first look this build seems to be pretty weird. But it really kicks kitten The “Secret” is the Rune of the Mad King if you use ur elite it will summon a couple of birds that repeatedly attack your foe ( even after he blocks, evades or stealths). Combining this with the virtues passive ( every 3rd attack a flame explosion ) this skill alone can create up to 6 stacks of burning. While the birds attack your foes ( not only one ) you are able to use some defensive skills like sanctuary, tome of courage or tome of resolve.

For Example: When i notice my health starts to go down or i´m under pressure i pop feel my rath ( usually all enemies start dodge rolling because they see birds repeatedly attackingthem), switch into tome of courage give myself stability, resistance, to tome of resolve and start healing ( u willhave quickness between the whole rotation duie to feel my wrath and and the firebrand traitline). At the same time i preassure my enemy even more with puring flames.

When it comes to attack rotations i usually try to waste the enemies condi cleanse with torch and axe then switching into tome of justice : 3-2-4-1-1-2-3-2/4 doe to the constant burning and bleeding ur enemy will die.

About sanctuary: you can also go with sth if you want ( e.g: if i see 2 necros in the enemy team i switch to sth with more condi cleanse

For references: i´m on 480.000 dmg and 400.000 healing average.

Wow thanks i didn´t know that !! I used to pick khylo most of the time because i really like the look and design of the map. A shame it has such problems.

it has to heal every second ( like warrior healing signet) or it will never be worth using instead of renewed focus, feel my wrath or the new Mantra

nice idea !!! teleport on f1 would also be an amazing engage skill so you can follow up with the close range attacks of f1

A few Hours ago i had a match against a thief. I used firebrands tome of courage bubble that reflects projectiles. Well all shots got reflected.. after the bubble was on cooldown, i popped sth that granted me aegis ( it did not work and the projectile did hit me). I asked the deadeye and apparently they have ONE skill that can´t be blocked or reflected, but it is “just” one and it isn´t that 11k deadshot thing

Exedore.6320:

Firebrand feels like two opposing specs rolled into one:

1. close range axe + mantras vs.
2. tome support

It doesn’t work. The burning tactic with F1#1 only works against people who stand in it and don’t cleanse.

its not that easy to cleanse and get out of it. You have a big pull you can use quite often and with wrath of justice you can lock your enemy and burn them to hell.

I came up with this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAs/+E1DxmhABRYMQU5fYBfQbAMtrJA-T5gAQBAa/BAcSAkYZAA

the empty weaponslot is axe, healing is mantra and last utility is the mantra that removes condis.

For the Firebrand Traitline: all the bottom traits:
1. Archivist of Whisperes: More pages= More burn, healing, stability
2. Legendary Lore: This trait is freaking awesome imo. it gives you one more stack of burning on every tome skill( for example: this increases the burning dmg on skill 2: to 11k burning). It also gives you one block everytime you use a skill of tome of courage.
3. Loremaster: beeing able to keep justices passiv is one of the biggest aspects of this build..Without it the dmg wouldn´t be nearly as high as it is.

On the first look this build seems to be pretty weird. But it really kicks kitten The “Secret” is the Rune of the Mad King if you use ur elite it will summon a couple of birds that repeatedly attack your foe ( even after he blocks, evades or stealths). Combining this with the virtues passive ( every 3rd attack a flame explosion ) this skill alone can create up to 6 stacks of burning. While the birds attack your foes ( not only one ) you are able to use some defensive skills like sanctuary, tome of courage or tome of resolve.

For Example: When i notice my health starts to go down or i´m under pressure i pop feel my rath ( usually all enemies start dodge rolling because they see birds repeatedly attackingthem), switch into tome of courage give myself stability, resistance, to tome of resolve and start healing ( u willhave quickness between the whole rotation duie to feel my wrath and and the firebrand traitline). At the same time i preassure my enemy even more with puring flames.

When it comes to attack rotations i usually try to waste the enemies condi cleanse with torch and axe then switching into tome of justice : 3-2-4-1-1-2-3-2/4 doe to the constant burning and bleeding ur enemy will die.

About sanctuary: you can also go with sth if you want ( e.g: if i see 2 necros in the enemy team i switch to sth with more condi cleanse

For references: i´m on 480.000 dmg and 400.000 healing average.

1.Reduce the cast times of the tomes
2. delete the button on “f” that allows you to switch back to weapon ( if you are stuck and spam the button,most of the times u switch out by accident)
3. Ad sth. like druids staff heal where he kinda teleports towards a location and heals nearby allies in that area.
4. Increase the overall healing of the resolve tomes skills ( most of the time its not worth it to switch into them)
5. Increase the resistance duration on tome of courage
6.Increase the range of axe to 300 like any other melee range weapon

well i can only speak for myself but i am rocking pvp atm with the firebrand. After you get used to some rotation it can be pretty good ( deals more dmg then old burn guard/ has even better sustain with the right rotations)

My Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAs9OnkIClDhNDB8DBD/hyGAdbdeD3U4DA-TpgMABAs/g4lBAA

the missing weapon is Axe and the missing skill is the mantra that removes condis.
for the firebrand traitline i choose all traits on the buttom

I rember everyone (including Thiefs) hating on true shot beeing op because it could hit for 8-10k with full zerker etc. ( basically same conditions deadeye has). But now you guys really try to defend a skill that allows you to oneshot a player from 1500 distance in stealth ??? Cnon guys

RabbitUp.8294:

Best thing about firebrand is you can get up and make a sandwich while waiting for your tomes to recharge.

Renwed justice+ courageous return+ renwed focus+ Power of the virtues help to overcome the cd´s quite a bit

but i know what you mean.. they are freaking high maybe they will lower them

Manimarco Devil.1790:

So far it looks pretty great for PvE. PvP…. not so much

Really? hmmm i´m rocking pvp pretty good with it

Manimarco Devil.1790:

InViictuZz.1705:

the trait that reduces the cooldown of mantras does not reduce the cooldown (it just adds the immob)

I believe it reduces charge recovery time not the full recharge time of the mantra

it doesn´t do that either i checked it

or it does not show in the tooltip. One way or the other it is a bug

yeah it is really frustrating when you “spam” f2 to get into it and undo it a moment later because you pressed it one time to much xD

I feel like i´m the only one that thinks firebrand is freaking awesome ?? Of course you have to get used to all the new utilities (especially the new Tomes, wich can be pretty good if you starting to know them). Its just a playstyle that guardians didn´t have to think about before. Instead of reacting to sth you have to be a little preemptive ( if you notice a condi bomb go f2 or if you notice a deadeye go f3 and use that bubble.. these are some examples).

Tome of Justice: AWESOME!! you have a big CC that pulls everybody together and is the perfect opening for a great burst combo ( i go 3-2-4 wich is almost like a free kill). It can be easily reset with renewed justice wich allows you to be a constant burning/bleeding bomb). In combination with litany of Wrath it even has the potential to be a full heal.

Tome of Resolve: First i thought it is super weak and can´t be usefull. But after practicing a little and starting to create more complex rotations it is a good condi clear, boon sharing tool and decent heal. Although it think sth like Druid staff healing would be nice ( warping to a location and apply healing there)

Tome of Courage: Imo the weakest of them, because you don´t really get enough for swapping into that tome and using a skill (atleast if you are in a fight). But still you can do some pretty cool stuff with it. Combining Pure of Heart and legendary lore and the right gear you can heal yourself about 4.8k with just using the first skill of that tome ( with 8 pages it should be around 7k, while having aegis and blocking)

Although i think the casttimes of equiping a tome should be faster and i think it would be a good idea to create a trait or just add sth that reduces the cooldown of the tome, if you have pages that you didn´t use ( sometimes you just use 1 page of a tome and go out it with full cooldown)

Mantras: to be honest… i´m not a big fan of them atm… the only one i use and find pretty usefull is the one that cleanses condis. The range for all the offensive mantras is way to short ( to hard to hit somebody with it).

Axe: love it !! ( just increase the range to 300 like any other melee range weapon

the trait that reduces the cooldown of mantras does not reduce the cooldown (it just adds the immob)

duster.7013:

Space against them as condi mes. They only have one condi you need to be worried about, ez cleanse. Solid scrapper player should also be able to deal with them.

not with the Firebrand… they get acces to some good cover condis like bleeding, cripple, weakness, vul, immob, blindness.

RabbitUp.8294:

Brutaly.6257:

RabbitUp.8294:

The condition duration of axe is such a joke though, 2s seconds of bleeding on auto, when warrior sword does 8s and has a trait that increases it by 20%.

The difference is that warrior has bleeds as main condi and for FB it is a cover condi. FB does not need more bleeds.

Comparing apples and pears.

It’s not a cover condi, it’s part of its dps. Plus, warrior has plenty of burn with Berzerker.

Guardian, on the other hand had its VoJ cut in half.

what do you mean with VoJ cut in half??? The passive burning from Tome of Justice is 541 for 1 1/2 while voJ does the same dmg but with 4s. Isn´t ToJ better because it provides more dmg in a shorter period of time ??

ToJ: 360,67 dmg per second
VoJ: 135,24 dmg per second

another advantage is that you don´t have as much time to cleanse it.

Hey guys, i started to play Ele a view days ago and could need some adive for my future Gear and Builds. First of all : i really like the playstyle of double dagger so i would love to keep them. Unfortunately i don´t really know if i should skill on Power/precision/ferocity or condi dmg… The build should be for PVE.

So have you any good build and gear advices for double dagger?

i think a symbol that pulses quickness might be a LITTLE overpowred. Maybe granting Quickness for the first and the last Pulse !?? Wouldn´t be that OP but still a good way to work with the hole quickness Traitline

I´m curious if the healing aspect of the tome skills also heals the Firebrand himself. For Example:

Chapter 1: create a wave of healing for your allies
Chapter 2: cleansing condis on nearby allies. Allies are healed for each condi removed
Chapter 4: heal allies and grant them swiftness

The description seems pretty clear about it. However there are numerous skills that have the same description but also apply healing to the guard himself ( e.g Shield of Absorption, Faithful Strike, etc. ). On the other Hand there is the Trait “Communal Defenses” wich grants allies aegis if you block an attack ( this however does only apply to your ally )

What are your Opinions about it?? I really hope Firebrand can heal himself with the tome skills too, so we finally don´t have to use medis to survive ( at least in theory xD )

How does renewed focus work with the new “Virtues” ?? I´m wondering if the tomes refresh after using renewed focus ( kinda OP but funny ) what are your opinions about it ?

Hey there i´m running the following build :

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQRAre8dn8cCVDhdDBGCB8Dhl6hCbIuvp4KA2hYQe+z//H-TZBFAB/XGAgHAABnAg73fohjAAA
( its basically the symbolic build with a few changes ).

My Question would be : would you combine shield with the sword or the scepter ? Thanks to stalwart defender i have 3k toughness when i run shield. And because i use sword most of the time, wouldn´t it make more sense to combine it with sword?? what are your Opinions about that ?

they removed the cleric amulet.

Evilek.5690:

Xista.7391:

I think in the end, DH is a horribly designed profession for sPvP. Low skill floor, low skill cap. It’s very effective against lower skilled players, but anyone experienced can easily play around it.

You must balance game on high lvl players floor, not for hot join where play players on touchpad.

In S1 i see maybe one DH every ten game in D/L League, to S2 DH hit next traps nerf and is really low chance to see DH in high lvl League.

you are totally right… i don´t see guard in the next meta… but i´m still gonna rock the season with my new build

why not delete all traps??

hey man,

first things first…
i really love it when people try to create new builds instead of sticking to old stuff, so props for that
I will start with the positive things:

- As said i like new stuff and on the first look your build looks quite viable

- the dmg with zealots fire on torch is actually pretty strong ( especially because you can use it 2 times) i think it could be even nearly as strong as LB2.

- I´m a little bit surprised about the burning dmg (pretty high for a non condi based build : 3k(6k) burning from torch 4, 1,8k burning from LB4, and some decent burning from your blocks.

- When it comes to the decision between Heavy Light and Hunters Forification i´m also prefer the second option. ( 1. Because Condi Remove is so important atm and it works so good with all our blocks. 2. There is so much CC in the game anyway. So if you are in a group fight you don´t really need that one extra knockback.)

Negatives (not much to say here):

- In my opinion you given up some potential with ur choice of the rune. You don´t have any source of swiftness(except the passive proc on ur rune) so I don´t see so much sense in using that Rune. If you want you 25% incr. movement speed i would go with RUNE OF THE TRAVELER. Other good options imo are : RUNE OF EXEBURANCE. RUNE OF THE WURM ( i use it alot actually and do pretty good, get some vitality and gain up to 200% ferocity)

- You quite loose some mobility with choosing smite condition over JI ( but you counter that pretty good with the increased movement speed) (still on maps like foefire i would choose JI youn can be so fast on points helping ur allies with that skill and sword2 on that map.
- I know the heal on purifiaction is insane high, but shelter would synergize better with Hunters Forification and Anplified Wrath.

Thats all i have to say i think I´m going to try it out
looks like a hell of fun bursting down enemys with zealots fire
( and sry for my bad english )

I had the same idea about making his own stat combination’s. Another idea would be that you have a like 3000points and can equip them like you want( but having a maximum of points that you can equip to one stat) just brainstorming

My advice would be : if you like guard/DH just stick to it and play it. You will do a muxh
Better job when you play sth you like and know. I Main DH and stick to it and even if its not
The meta i do pretty good. For the most part i stay on a captured point and defend it until help is on the way or i killed the target.

Hey guys, since i only play guard and still love it i feel the need to master a new profession…. so i wanna hear some suggestions about what profession would be a good second choice for me ( i don´t have the time to learn complicated and advanced kombo rotations on my keyboard so i think ele isn´t the best choice here).

I kinda thought about mesmer, but i really don´t know much about the profession…

maybe you can give me some hints and clues

hey guys

I wanted to craft some kind of build with good dmg and good healing ( fokusing on single and outnumbered fights). Unfortunately testing wvw builds is very expensive…
so i wanna hear you opinions and thoughts about this build. feel free to share you criticism

Build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQJATRn8cCVDhVdCeDB8DhlEi6aZDgEAbDygyU+5j+sH-TVDDQB+QpXFuAA5TFE9tfAAsgIhKDUgSQYoaRoUTwAm4CwRA4AmHmwjAgUA5pyC-w

i don´t know what gear and skills you use.. or how fast u can react.. but if you counter the trap burst they won´t kill you..

Azure The Heartless.3261:

Exemplar.1479:

Karl McLain.5604:

The true shot note was indeed intended to indicate Deflecting Shot. True Shot is definitely not slated for any unblockable state at this time. :P

Source: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Patch-note-17-11/first#post5768384

balanced

they understand that a lot most players actually now how to counter and play against DH… its not that hard and they know it. Thats why they take their time nerfing things…

ofc it is… i just tested it… start guild wars 2 and look at deflecting shot…

its not true shot that is unblockable… its deflecting shot…

hackks.3687:

Yasha.5963:

hackks.3687:

Traps need a tell. Period.

They should also need to be triggered before they can begin to recharge, and not as soon as they’re laid. You know… like how every other skill works.

But that would mean no reliable stun break for DH!!

sounds like a fair trade for stability cripple aegis and high damage to me

this trap actually does no high dmg after BWE3

hackks.3687:

Traps need a tell. Period.

They should also need to be triggered before they can begin to recharge, and not as soon as they’re laid. You know… like how every other skill works.

thats how traps work in gw2, back in gw1 you could even stack them

i think it´s perfect the way it is.. i think the devs said sth about beeing vulnerable from behind or sth like( i think this would be a good idea).

3-4 games tell you little to nothing about a build/class…
I play DH since bwe1 and it still happens that i rek People and
Then there are matches where i get killed by other ones…
There are counters to DH and slowly People will find more counters.

dodging dragons maw is easy, you have quite some time before the maw “closes” the moment u see the teeths just dodgeroll… there are tutorials on how to counter traps…

and nerf always for lazy players that are afraid of changes

guardians will still have the controll over the battle we are awesome

BlaqueFyre.5678:

But timing dodges would take skill and learning to be better while calling for nerfs only takes a minute to post on the forums, I find highly amusing that I never see threads that’s start off with, how to I counter X, or what can build x do to win against build y. But the problem is people want to blame others/other builds for being too “OP” instead of admitting they might be wrong or doing something wrong.

you are so right… people don´t want to change their fav build, so instead of finding a way to counter sth and create new builds they scream for nerfs so they don´t have to change anything..

90% of the players are just lazy and don´t want to take effort in learn how to counter and play against in and new situations

THANK YOU <3

xD look in ur settings… you can find an instruction on how to dodgeroll or just give urself stability…its not our fault when you don´t feel the need to equip some skill or trait that gives urself stability or invulnerability. One of the things DH was supposed to have is “Battlefield control” they won´t change anything about it..