Guild Wars 2

aarias.4016:

First off, I am a supporter of waypoints in WvW. That said, I don’t think they should be used the way they currently can be; as of now, when contested, a waypoint will open up (briefly) between the expiry of one “contest” and start of a new one. Is this working as intended?

In addition to evaluating whether WPs should stay locked when a keep is contested through the end of a defense event, also look into allow combat inside a keep in general to count as ‘contesting’. In longer fights it becomes tedious to have to remember to send one guy to poke at a gate to keep the contested status up while there is a 100-man 3-way raging in the lords room.

This is just ridiculously easy. Not only did I not die during our raid tonight, I didn’t even take any damage! Seriously guys, I’d work on your individual skill.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

Titanic had a better soundtrack, imo.

Whoa there… GW2 has problems but the soundtrack isn’t one of them.

Autoattack
As it is now:
Since the patch on the 25th of june, the damage is no more rising steadily towards the end of the chain, but rather have it spike with the last attack. This change made it obviously less attractive for PvP where you often won’t land the last attack, but as I see it, it also has some drawbacks in other situations. Against enemies with low health, you often don’t even get to the end of the chain. Therefore you are contributing less damage despite using an autoattack which fully concentrates on damage and nothing else. It doesn’t have vulnerability, bleed, cripple, weakness or anything like this.
The main reason I think the autoattack is bad, is that you often feel obliged to make it to the last attack to make it an effective autoattack (even then, there seems to be some odd aftercast time after the last attack). Meanwhile, you have some other skills ready and you might want to use them, but it would reset the autoattack, so you don’t.
What I want tosay is, the axe’s #1 doesn’t complement with the rest of the skills.

What could be done:
Make it more responsive.
Balancing the autoattack is always hard, because it’s the most used skill of all 5.
One possibility would be to decrease the time it takes to get to the last attack.
This can be achieved either by increasing the attackspeed (on-hit effects need to be considered!) or by decreasing the amount of hits from 6 to 4 for example.
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I only looked at these three aspects now, although I know there is more to it, such as synergizing with other weapons, traits and actual differencing between PvE/PvP/WvW.
This is only meant to show the main deficit of axes as I see them compared to our other weapons. I am not saying I want to see all of these changes and make axe an op weapon, these are just a few suggestions to bring it on par with the other weapons.

I wrote this, because lately I haven’t seen many warriors (including myself) running around with axes other than using the standard GS/axe+mace combo for dungeon speedruns.

no real tl;dr here (axe is lackluster and needs some utility)

The axe as it is now, is a rather poor weapon choice for warriors considering using it as your main weapon.

The axe lacks mobility/cc, useful utility in skills to make them viable and has a bad (not speaking about dmg here!) AA. Let me explain this to you:

First of all, let’s take a short look at the axe skills:

1. Autoattack: Since the patch on 25th of June, the main damage from the autoattack lies in
   it’s last swing. To get to this attack takes around 3.6 seconds by the way.
2. Cyclone Axe: This skill can attack up to 5 enemies in a circle around you and stacks some
   vulnerability on them. Furthermore it’s a whirl finisher.
3. Throw Axe: Throws an axe on your opponent and cripples him. Can only hit 1 enemy.
   This is a projectile finisher.
4. Dual Strike: Hits up to 3 enemies with 2 strikes each. The warrior gains fury
   depending on how many strikes he landed.
5. Whirling Axe: Spin around for about 3 seconds and hit up to five enemies 15 times.
   This skill is a whirl finisher and you can dodge while attacking.
6. Eviscerate: Leap at your enemy and deal massive damage. This is a leap finisher
   and has a range of 300.

Mobility/CC
As it is now:
This is kind of obvious, as axe is not made for these purposes. There is the sword for mobility and the mace for CC is what most people are going to say. So, if these two options are given to other weapons, what does the axe have? Looking at the skills listed above we can see that the axe does not offer any kind of – what I call – “controlling” effects, except the 4 seconds cripple on #3 which only hits a single enemy and can be evaded easily.

What could be done:
There is a third option of such controlling effects and many classed already have it: evade. In my opinion, this could be a nice buff for whirling axe. This skill currently has some nice effects such as the whirl finisher, but the damage is rather unsatisfying.
So why not give this skill some utility and let the warrior evade for 0.75 seconds.
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Utility in skills
As it is now:
I want to take a look at the skills #3 #4 #5 and F1 here.
#3 offers a single target, projectile finisher cripple. The velocity is slow and often misses against real players who dodge/strife.
#4’s main reason to use is the fury you get. This would be a nice thing, but warrios already have such easy access to fury via traits, utility and elite making the gained fury redundant in most cases.
#5 only shines if you can hit 5 enemies or have some nice combo field beneath you.
In PvE/WvW the damage is otherwise rather lackluster and the only other utility you may find is dodging while attacking.
F1 deals some nice amount of damage (if it hits critical) and is a leap finisher. Unfortunately its range is only 300 and furthermore reduced by cripple/chill and it is a highly telegraphed skill as well, meaning you have to prepare for it with stun/immobilize most of the time.

What could be done:
#3 could need some increased velocity. That alone should be enough for this skill.
Another nice buff would be a 1 second immobilize before crippling, however this can also be achieved by traiting 10 pts into the vitality tree.
#4 This skill…It looks good, it feels good, but there is not much coming around to be honest.
Maybe add a supportive aspect to it and grant half of the fury gained to your team members. Or, as this skill is probably meant to be offensive, just make it unblockable.
#5 This is a highly situational skill in my opinion. It should be used if you have a desired combo field beneath you or if you are surrounded by at least 5 enemies. So why don’t we add another situational use to it. Make it block (or even reflect) projectiles similar to the ranger’s skill where they also gain retaliation and inflict vulnerability, in cost of not being able to move.
F1 is an awesome burst skill, but doesn’t hit that much without preparation. My Suggestions: Increase the range to 600, to make it useful even if you are crippled or add evade frames to the attack, so it can’t be interrupted midair.

Cactus.2710:

As an active player who has regularly criticized ANet for poor communication and springing crap on us we didn’t want, I have to strongly commend the OP for this huge step in the right direction. Well done.

They probably only released this because of the leaked update notes yesterday. I hope they really plan for better communication, but this is definitely not evidence either way that that’s the case.

So guardians will finally be given fury but warriors can’t have protect? Seems fair.

we going to get dragon armor and a new saint skill?

I feel like a melee class that can’t manage to stay on target easy enough and always having to wear runes of melandru + dogged march+ lemongrass and dedicate most of my utilities to condition cleanse to just stay up in wvw and tPvP. PvE I beat the hell out of everything with my full zerker gear and gs because they dont dodge.

Bacon got it 100% my sentiment, but then again you can’t go wrong with Bacon

Very good video i recommend fellow warriors to see it, becase its always have been known that warrior is the only true balanced class in the game, but maybe some people dont know why, then you should see this video:

http://www.twitch.tv/helsethgw2/c/2696189

Tom Gore.4035:

Well yes you don’t reall notice tesselation on creature skins, etc. But you would notice it in terrain textures. It really makes surfaces come alive.

You would also notice tessallation on human medium T3 under boob which is currently blocky as hell :P

well i was in a rush to that tower since 25 rof were knocking on the door and all the sudden the ring was up behind me and i was dead, sadly i forgot the screenshot. That all was at ~22:50 cest on UW Bl Sunnyhill

And ocf i report hackers on my sight when i see them.