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LionChain.7694:

Finally, the trait Power of the Virtuous (which gives 15% reduction to virtues’ CD’s) is buggy w/ the DH f1-3 CD’s. The F1 skill should be 17 sec w/ the trait, but instead it’s 17.5 sec. The F2 should be 25.5 sec, but it’s 26. And the F3 should be 63.75 sec, but it’s 65.25. Unless I’m missing something (in which case, forgive me), this should be addressed b/c the F1-3 skills aren’t getting the full proper reduction to their CD’s, especially the F3 one, which is 1.5 sec longer than it should be.

This trait has always been this way.
Before the specialization patch it was always worded as a ‘Recharge Rate Increase’, which is different from cooldown reduction but made sense. The calculation it is currently doing isn’t 20 * 0.85 = 17 (Using VoJ as an example) but rather 20 / 1.15 = 17.39130434… which it rounds to 17.5.
In other words the cooldown isn’t being reduced by 15%, but rather the rate at which we recharge is being increased by 15%.

It’s not the only location. This is a cave in Queensdale.

It is 20% bonus, but Revenants have a trait that boosts it to 40%.

Would be nice to be able to stack up the duration, I always forget to keep eating to reapply. There should be a limit though, maybe only up to 2 hours like the fireworks?

Shadowwarrior.7159:

Isn’t there an ICD? This should massivly limit the amaount of radiant fire procs … (like Empowering Might :-( )

Yes the ICD is 10 seconds, it doesn’t require a burning target and the 20% is the increase in burning duration and the cooldown reduction on torch skills.

Posting some pictures of my warrior for my sketch.

Greetings! An EU Gen mentor here. Nothing needs changing for me but I do have Elementalist and Warrior as well as Guardian now.

As others have stated the ‘Blue Chevron’ Hylek is a NPC that you can challenge and beat to gain a skill point, however skillpoints don’t unlock till level 15 now…
It also seems that because you no longer start with your underwater weapons unlocked the early underwater events have been removed.

Liewec.2896:

i’ll be “that guy”

Elite Druid
Elite Gladiator
Elite Cabal
Scar Pattern
;)

I miss my elite gladiator armour, though when I got it it didn’t have a helm :S. Main reason I’m missing out on a couple HoM points is because I don’t have a single ‘full set’ of elite armour.

There is a vendor near the ruined lion statue in LA you can talk to to get the first title.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Birthday_Vendor

Rym.1469:

McCoy’s Angles.

Nuff said.

Haha! Brilliant.

Me and few guild members were talking about having Guild Halls and how we miss them from GW1. Would be nice to see them again, doesn’t have to be something as in-depth as it was in GW1 just something small (I’m thinking on the size of the airship/royal terrace) where we can meet up as a guild before missions/organise would be wonderful.
Personally however I’m more up for Anet deciding, at least then we can assured that it is something that is possible to implement and we can still provide feedback to help the idea develop further.

Not sure about Force and Night stacking, but everything else does so traits+sigils all stack same with any consumables your using.
Slaying sigils also stack with Force/Night.

Are you talking about the programmable buttons along the side or all buttons on the keyboard?

Have you got the profiler program installed and running? I have a G19 and if the program isn’t running the programmable keys stop working. If you do have it running then make sure you have correct profile active.

Luna.9640:

You know guys …

CAKE > KATE !

Maybe so but,
PIE > CAKE

Hi, if possible, could I join the waiting list?

Basically the shown fee is the listing fee.
On the TP there are two different ‘taxes’ when selling items, one is an up front payment, the listing fee, which is 5% of the sale price. There is also sales tax when the item sells which is another 5% of the original sale price, for a total of 10%.

Here’s my warrior.

Head: Mask of the Wanderer
Shoulders: Pit Fighter
Torso: Phalanx
Gloves: Splint Gauntlets
Legs: Phalanx
Boots: Phalanx

Dyes: Burnished Steel, Mahogany and Ruby.

darkace.8925:

It’s especially disjointing when two NPCs are talking in voiced dialogue, when the conversation shifts to include you and all of a sudden the character who was just speaking has no voice. This is compounded when that same character then starts speaking in voiced dialogue again.

100% agree with this. It feels clunky, and disrupts the flow of the scene at times.

You know if you double click on the item it shows you where to go right?

Also played since headstart, I don’t go AP hunting so I’m also still below 5k AP. I tend to just ignore those ads as I don’t feel that you can accurately estimate someone’s experience through AP. I would suggest making your own groups it’s what I do when there aren’t any I want to join.

I have played since headstart, I have over 1000+ hours of experience on Guardian, Warrior and Elementalist. I make use of the meta builds, I run full zerk on them all and I have experience in most (screw CM) dungeons. I still have less than 5k AP.

IMO it is not a great measurement for experience, but it is the only one available. I generally have to make my own groups as I can’t join the others, I mostly run dungeons for gold so I’m looking for the ‘FULL ZERK BLAH BLAH’ ads so I can get fast and smooth runs, and sadly a large proportion of those have an AP requirement that I don’t meet.

I’d love it if you could draw my Warrior.

PM me on the forums for anything!

Also has some use in 1 open world meta event that I can think of, which is the Grenth temple event when you are killing the priest. He has an attack that launches you into the air just high enough that you take damage when you land, that trait can save you in that event sometimes.

Do you mean this one?

http://gw2sp2g.herokuapp.com/

INTP
Introvert(89%) iNtuitive(38%) Thinking(75%) Perceiving(22%)
So, Moto.

I think that fits quite well.

You’re not alone!

I love my mace, use it all the time along with my Hammer, great for sustain with symbols.

All heals in GW2 whether they be one-time big heals or heals over time all follow the formula:

Total = Base + (HP * S)

Total – The final amount you heal for.
Base – The base amount the heal heals for.
HP – The amount of healing power you have
S – The scaling factor for healing power

Therefore it will effect all heals, not just your 5 skill/personal heal. As an example the regeneration boon gives health for every second it is active, say you have 300 healing power from going 6 deep into Honor, and that you are level 80.
Regeneration has a base heal of 130 at level 80 and scales with 0.125 healing power, as such it would heal for 130 + (300 * 0.125) = 167.5 per second.

Generally pure healing power builds aren’t that effective in PvE as you will suffer too much in the damage department, and that generally the scaling factor ‘S’ will be quite low, meaning that you need a lot of healing power to see much in the way of returns. However it can work quite well in WvW, so look out for the Healway build somewhere on this forum.

Obviously it’s Criswyn Silverpaw >.>

GS’s WW is pretty good on burrows, if you stand on top of them. Other than that I think scepter’s Smite might be ok if no mobs have spawned from it yet. Basically anything that is power based and hits lots of times o.0

Nothing comes close to Frostbow or Fiery Rush though…

An extra 15% Boon duration would be very tempting, especially considering I am already 5pts into Virtues.

I was in the same position a while back, I went for staff with traits as 30/10/0/20/10, not the best DPS spec but it gives you good condition removal (for you and your group) and reasonable damage. It’s great while getting used to the class but can get a little dull with the lava font spam :S
Take Fire: VI, VII & XI. Air: VI. Water: VI. and Arcane: V.

Currently I’m moving more towards a D/F spec.

+1 for Quaggan jumping

1. Elementalist
2. Ranger
3. Engineer

I would like to also see more gear viable in PvE, but I don’t think nerfing Zerker/Assassin is the way to go about it.

I feel the best way to go about it at the moment is to possibly think about the way in which mobs defence is setup, currently it is just massive hit-points, I would suggest making it more toughness/armour based; this way condition builds would have a bigger impact than they currently do without out-right destroying Zerkers.

It’s much harder to think of a way to make support gear more viable than it is currently, one way may be to increase the effect healing power has overall as well as decreasing the bases. I’m sure there are better ways of doing that though.

A whole thread was started recently for this look here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Teachers you may be able to find someone

As you said that DPS was not an issue, I would suggest something similar to my build

This uses Cleric gear to give a high amount of healing support and with 50% extra boon duration some nice support that way.
You can swap out PoV for Battle Presence if you already have enough group condi removal.

Speeding up the attacks of the mace would be awesome! (atm the third strike of 1 is only 1/4 second faster than hammer)

I’d also like to see something done with Protectors Strike, being able to detonate it early for the protection sounds like something that could work.

I would also like to suggest making it work like it is described, as in it blocks for allies too, in my experience it doesn’t do that.

I consider my healing power high and it’s at 1322, so I’d say anywhere around the 1000+ mark.

Seems to me that the cooldown reduction for virtues gained through the virtues tree is bugged. Resolve has a base cooldown of 60, speccing 20 points into it (20% reduction) and it is at 50 seconds, surely this should be 48? It’s the same for justice and courage too.

Agree with all of those, my build pretty much fits all of them… (My build) Damage sucks though, but I’m more of a group support than damage dealer.

I use something similar to this (here). I main a Mace and Shield and swap out my secondary as needed. Tend to play it as a support role, it works very well in PvE. I can focus more on symbols more as things tend not to move around as much in PvE as people do in PvP.

Almost identical to my setup, but I take Purity instead of Strength in Numbers. I swap out Pure of Voice for larger symbols or Battle Presence depending on the situation, though I’m finding larger symbols to be of more help than Battle Presence atm. I have 100% up time on regen and protection, and very high uptime on vigor, I abuse my dodge heal constantly which heals for ~1.2k.

@kasimmorathi: It’s great. My Virtue of Resolve ticks for around 200. It’s quite easy to get >600hps with this.

@The Demonic Spirit: I don’t need AH, and the passive regen more than makes up for it IMO. All taking AH will do is cripple my boon duration and virtues. Also it scales TERRIBLY with healing power (I think at 0.01 or something). My crit chance is also low from having Cleric gear meaning that the healing from triggering Vigorous Precision is very low too.

This is very much a group support/anchor build, as such the damage you get is not great. It works well in PvE, not so great for high fractals as damage is needed more there. It works very nicely in dungeons, in open world this works though you hit like a wet fish, so yes you can ‘face-tank’ that champion till it dies but it WILL take a while.

I use Mace/Shield and Hammer or Staff, Boon duration runes, traits 0/0/20/30/20 (my current setup).

I use Stand Your Ground, Hold the Line and Save Yourselves, swapping out SY for Wall of Reflection if needed. Use your dodge a lot it heals very nicely for 1.2k and you will have vigor to help keep endurance up (I find I get enough crit with the fury from SY) as well as sigils of energy on weapon swap.
Swap out Pure of Voice in traits for larger symbols if it isn’t needed.

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/guardian/?3.0|b.1k.h6.d.1k.h1j|9.1k.h6.e.1k.h1j|1c.71g.1c.71g.1c.71h.1c.71h.1c.7o.1c.7o|21l.0.21l.0.31l.0.21l.0.31l.0.8a.68|0.0.a5.u24b.u39a|1.7|v.19.16.0.1i|e

80% all boon duration boost/100% protection
2960 armor/16k health

-snip-

You won’t kill things fast solo but you’re an invaluable asset to your group and zerg.

Vigor and Energy sigils allow more dodge rolls for healing.

Scarily close to the build I’m running atm, 0/0/20/30/20, Cleric everything with Mace & shield / Hammer or Staff. Very tanky but you won’t be killing anything anytime soon :P. Have 60% boon duration which is JUST enough for perma-swiftness from SY and Retreat also have perma regen and almost on protection too, generally tend to take HtL instead of Retreat. Tempted to go with 10/0/10/30/20 for some more damage.

I play it the same way I did with Boonway but I find I have less damage but MUCH more staying power thanks to the higher healing power and toughness.

Look up the AH Hammer build stickied at the top of the page, has good survivability and decent damage with crits. I found it to be better in world events and WvW as the healing you get works best when there are 5 people receiving your boons, in dungeons not everyone may be in range. It still works really well in dungeons though as it is a very robust build.

We believe so yes, should be +15% boon duration rather than chill.

I agree with your opinions about the fights, and also agree with the proposed changes.
+1