Guild Wars 2

Sandrox.9524:

Helly.2597:

Sandrox.9524:

Playing power reaper with small group is so hard. Positioning is so important. Timing the shroud is so important…

Good vid and its nice seeing power reaper /o\

It’s not power. Title and build says hybrid…

my bad though dmg numbers are like not full zerk power still and haven’t really noticed the condi numbers. My comment still stands though, its hard playing power reaper in group fight.

Yes, im almost full Celestial geared on Reaper, with 3 trailblazer stats to put more emphasize on condition damage and to top off the tankiness a little bit. But you can definitly get some rly high crits with Celestial gear and some fury.

And yes, definitely true, Power Reaper is both frustrating and statisfying to play in a grping scenario, simply because its so easily shut down by Weakness, and CC, yet unhindered can be very powerful.

thanks!

mazut.4296:

Play style is not that much different from reaper. You still prefer to be in melee, but not the whole time

Hey thanks!

This is a Reaper habit haha, Scourge is incredibly strong at range so there isn’t much need for me to go into Melee range. Scourge has quite abit of grp support potential but i needa drop some Reaper habits to fully use those capabilities.

But can work on those when expansion drops soon!

EremiteAngel.9765:

Love your song choice as always.
Wondering what your thoughts are on the viability of Reaper after we get access to Scourge.
Would you make the switch to Scourge? Will Reapers still be viable in your group comp?

Hey thanks for watching!

If reaper stays the way it is, (with the current deathly chill) then I think it might still have a place, but the funny thing is, Scourge kinda hardcounters Reaper. There wasn’t a single instance where i felt threatened by a Deathly Chill reaper when I played Scourge.

You can just simply shut down a reaper completely with the amount of cleansing, CC and Barrier that Scourge has.

If they made reaper a strong power option then i’d definitely still continue playing it tho. How they would make a viable power reaper build is something that i have no clue of tho. Weakness is a very common thing in WvW and it affects Power Reaper very very much.

But yes, as it currently stands, i’m pretty much in love with Scourge, so the switch from Reaper to Scourge is only an inevitability

Hey guys! Back with a second montage!

This video features some Scourge gameplay as well. Three decent clips that I was able to record during the Demo Weekend. 2 fights showcase a strong condi corruption build and 1 final fight that showcases an experimental barrier/healing build by taking advantage of the Transfusion trait in Blood Magic.

Abit more server variety compared to the first video as well.

Hope you will enjoy this video and any constructive criticism is always welcome!

Also, Audacîty[Au] is still recruiting skilled players. We are currently putting the emphasize on finding a capable Guardian, but ofcourse anyone who thinks he’s up for the challenge is welcome to register for a tryout here: http://audacitygw2.shivtr.com/

Nop i’m getting it too, stuck in loading screens mainly and then i get the connection error. Been happening since 2 days ago as well.

Sometimes it overcomes the loading screen and i’m in, but mostly not and I can’t load in at all.

Hey guys! I have recently joined a brand new roaming guild, called Audacîty [Au], and would like to share some of our recent fights. We are currently residing in Vabbi which has only recently been classed as a “major server” and thus the montage does not have a lot of server variety due to recurring matchups.

However we are hoping to rise up in the rankings fast so we can encounter much more variety in servers and tougher opponents!

Our guild’s goal is to specialize ourselves around 3v3s and 5v5s, as well as general roaming! We will have open-recruitment soon in order to fullfill this goal!
I’m relatively new on necro so if theres any constructive feedback, i’ll definitely appreciate it.

Hope you’ll enjoy our debut montage!

kappa.2036:

Nice stats combination although the build overall seems pretty vulnerable to conditions (you have 0 condi cleanses outside celestial avatar basically). One good condi spike after CA and you are a walking dead.
Signet of Renewal is good in most situations, and the new Evasive Purity is also a great choice to clean poison from you, just dodge I recommend it instead of Gliph of Alignment, is also another break stun.
“Protect Me” can be a good choice instead of gliph of equality. Protection,aoe stun break,speed, and most important regen that help you to refill your CA.
These are my personal suggestions

Thanks for your feedback! I agree signet of renewal would definitely be a life saver, the reason why i run Glyph of Alignment is because of the AoE heal it gives when you’re in CA, which can save alot of my allies if paired with Lunar Impac, so i have a hard time dropping it for the signet. So far the only issue where i truly notice the lack of condi clear is when a deathly chill necro gets on me though, but then i CLEARLY see the issue.

May give Evasive Purity a shot actually, doesn’t look too bad. Think dropping vigor isn’t that much of a big deal in wvw, possibly use energy sigil to compensate.

I actually swap between protect me and glyph og Equality alot! In WvW i feel like glyph of equality is quite viable as it synergizes well with Ancient Seeds, as I can be in control of when i want to immob someone.

Great suggestions though, thanks!

Hey guys!

Being an avid PvPer for a very long time I decided it was time to change the scenery as PvP had become quite stale (especially with how last season went) and what better than revisiting an old gamemode which I was very passionate about years ago. WvW roaming!

my main professions in PvP have always been the supporty types and ever since HoT came out I was fascinated with the mechanics of the Druid and have mained it in PvP ever since.

The plan was to mainly duo/trio roam and I wanted to create a druid support build that would offer great versatility and utility through burst healing, stealth, boons, and sustained damage.

this is what I came up with for now:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNBMhZ6kSFohFsiVwgVgrFsMLYPBg603ypqNnyaw/zC6DF-TxSpABa9EAWQp3cnAgXOEAYpPIBVVWUJYKKDQTlgt2fAA1IKHcA8CcxFAv4iLu4iL82ACIgA6VKgMnaB-e

Quick overview of the build:

The goal was to try and achieve similar heal results to what Mender Amulet does in PvP and i found that hovering around 750 healing power and using a 10% outgoing healing bonus complimented by the Natural Mender trait generally touched the same numbers.

98% boon duration after swapping to sword/warhorn using Concentration Sigil. My buddy Fox always complains about how he wants more fury so using Warhorn and stacking boon duration was the obvious choice. Especially because Warhorn offers an extra blast finisher which is very good.

Other noteworthy points is that the build is using Durability runes, offers utility through AoE protection and resistance to all allies in range.

Broke 2800 armor (which is usually what i aim for in alot of bruiser builds) along with 10% damage reduction food. Have to outlive my allies, if i die before them then my support role is useless.

30% crit chance, makes 50% with fury which is quite ok, aswell as 2200 power. Once you get the might stacks flowing, the damage rly isn’t that bad.

Here is a video showcasing what the build can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdP0D-MTsEQ

These were all clips without voice coms so I admit, I do miss some heals. With voice coms i think coordinating Rejuvenating Tides becomes alot easier and you will get more worth out of using it.

I’m the type of guy who strives to create better and better builds but i’ve reached kinda of a bottleneck with this one. I kinda want more damage but i don’t know where or what I could change, and am thus asking for feedback here.

Feel free to drop any question about the build or video or any suggestions on what to improve are appreciated as well!

Thanks!

Hey guys, recently playing WvW again with some friends, mainly small man duo/trio. Figured i’d try make a healing/support druid build as I feel the playstyle really shines in small man groups (i.e duo or trio) due to the mobility, utility through boons/stealth, and great burst healing potential. The damage isn’t too bad either.

Anyways enough talking, here is the video:

Shoutout to my duo partners Mats and Fox, awesome lads and great players. Without them this build would have been nothing. (fox has his own youtube channel with great great video, check him out too, his channel link is also in the description box)

Feedback/questions are appreciated, never stop learning, or help others in their endeavors.

Build is in the video description box, or for a more visual experience, at the end of the video.

Scarlet.

ninjambo.3784:

Nice video.

This might have been a mistake made in the build editor, but for that build shouldn’t you be running two-handed training over natural healing as the 2nd trait in beastmastery?

Thanks!

The reason why I use natural healing is because if I don’t, the only reliable astral force generation is from dolyak runes. I have 0 condi clease aside from entering CA so it’s very important that I can enter CA the moment it’s off cooldown. Natural Healing helps alot with this

nice vid! skirmishing seems fun to play with, might give it a try.

Hey guys, been awhile since my last video. Decided i wanted to create a good 1v1 minitage as I’ve had some great 1v1s with this build. It is also a minor guide in some sorts where I point out how important certain plays are vs the classes I fight in this video.
The clips are also in somewhat of a chronological order (skillwise). The final two 1v1s in the video should show my most recent results after about 2-3 months of playing/practising this build.

The build (pvp version) is showcased at the start of the video. The pve/wvw build can be found in the description box tho i’ve heard that gw2skills.net is down (?).

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1s0mWyhT10

also shoutout to Miaze for creating this build.

Hope you enjoy and feedback is appreciated.

Justine.6351:

where are the 10k laser beams? ;-(

did an 8k lazer beam somewhere in the beginning on the mesmer I believe, close enough i guess :’<

Fluffball.8307:

Nice, I like the extra offense axe brings over dagger, which is better for conquest.

You seem like you have a habit of assuming there is a stealth revive? I often pop GoE on downed opponents for no reason too, a habit from team fights in PvP where you can’t tell what the hell is going on.

It’s probably because usually like combining GoE with Hydroswap to proc ancient seeds instantly and it becomes kind of a habit to use one with the other when I can :P

Played with dagger as well but roaming escalates so quickly, need to be able to make quick kills or be able to cleave to prevent rezzes, GS requires ALOT of power/ferocity to fullfill this role so axe OH became the natural choice to me.

thanks for watching!

Hey guys, haven’t made a montage in a very long time but recently started roaming again and I felt those jitters again which lead to this video. Build is at the end of the video or theres a readable browser verion in the description box.

Let me know what you think and thanks for watching!

Diva.1476:

CAN I GET A REPLY ON THIS?

Sure! Hi!

I miss core necro so much T___T specifically the good ol power necro with double wells and lich. Also miss the old dark path from core deathshroud.

I sometimes try to play core necro builds, but tis hard compared to reaper ;(

Spartacus.3192:

Why aren’t people doing this while they were in the lower divisions where you cant lose tiers? Boggles the mind.

I did mine while in Emerald.

IDK if i’m missing something, but you have to repeat this same achievement 4 times, not just once.

Ascension part 1 is 2 different professions, and Ascension part 2 through 4 are all 5 wins on 3 different professions.

You have no idea how frustrating it is to play a game with a class you’re not familiar with in a high tier enviroment.

zxstanyxz.8769:

Logi.5612:

This achievement is such a massive issue imo. There are alot of players, including me that for the majority of their games soloq’d into a high division (or legendary like me) on 1 single profession.

All of sudden, if you want that shiny pvp backpiece you’re forced to play 2 other classes to finish the achievement. The issue isn’t particularly the learning part of the classes, the issue is that, for me as example, i have to suddenly play 2 new classes that i’ve had limited playtime with or never played at all, at Legendary division. This means i have to play against other legendary players on a profession that I essentially suck at. Which can cost games.

Include the atrocious queue times and i’m probably gonna be spending a week before i have 5 wins on the 2 different professions.

I think this is incredibly bad design and a massive oversight.

And now we know another reasons why people with high division such as legendary queue up with ambers.

or you could play 5-10 rounds on unranked for a night and learn the class so that when you start playing it in ranked its not an instant disaster?

Its a misconception to think that you can “learn a class within a night of playing”.

I’ve spent almost 1000 games and 250 hours on my druid, and there are still things that i could learn or practise just by looking at how ROM plays when he streams. And its against these types of players that I have to play against when you’re in Legendary Division.

They could very easily fix or change this achievement by adding a 10 wins and a respective 15 or even 20 win achievement on the same class. So you could pick, get 5 wins on 3 different professions, or choose to win 15 or 20 times on 1 profession.

Those are my thoughts on the matter atleast.

This achievement is such a massive issue imo. There are alot of players, including me that for the majority of their games soloq’d into a high division (or legendary like me) on 1 single profession.

All of sudden, if you want that shiny pvp backpiece you’re forced to play 2 other classes to finish the achievement. The issue isn’t particularly the learning part of the classes, the issue is that, for me as example, i have to suddenly play 2 new classes that i’ve had limited playtime with or never played at all, at Legendary division. This means i have to play against other legendary players on a profession that I essentially suck at. Which can cost games.

Include the atrocious queue times and i’m probably gonna be spending a week before i have 5 wins on the 2 different professions.

I think this is incredibly bad design and a massive oversight.

And now we know another reasons why people with high division such as legendary queue up with ambers.

can confirm this, the cleanse seems absolutely random.

Ganry.2834:

Wow great video, this was really educational and well made. It’s unfortunate you weren’t able to record some thief or engineer fights though. Would have loved to see how you would handle those matchups

You should watch this as well Roy Cronacher! This must be great data from a sPvPing perspective!

Yeh I wish I recorded some more fights, I only started figuring out the playstyle of this class towards the end of Sunday/Monday as the BWE ended.

I myself am interested if I can beat engis, does look tough on paper when I think about it though.

Griffith.7238:

This is awesome man. Great gameplay it was quite informative. The Rev definitely has mad potential though I am a bit worried about the obvious flaws this video uncovers. The fact that you are having to save your energy for essentially 1 Utility per Legend is a bit concerning. I hope they intend to allow us at least a few build options where we can actually play the aggressor here it seems more of slowly whittling down your opponent while using Reposting Shadows if you get cc’d and Pain Absorption if you get condis on you lol. You barely even got to use ulti’s except for on the Necro. I also hope this isn’t going to become the new standard of gameplay where it takes 14 years to kill a single person because that’s really gonna make PvP a bore.

You also seemingly proved a point I was trying to make in a few other threads that Legend Swapping on cooldown was not optimal ,but rather you use it as the parameters of the fight change which is exactly what you did so cheers for that.

All in all great job man I think you created some excellent footage of a Rev playing at a high level and that should definitely help them going forward with the class.

Thanks for watching man!

Yeh I think the energy costs on some skills are too high, aswell as the energy cost on the weaponsets really necks the revenant to be truly viable. Not sure what the best way is to solve this though. Personally i’d say remove energy cost of off the weaponskills, but i’ve seen alot of people disagree.

I also agree that Legend Swapping off CD is wrong currently. It probably worked in the BWE prior to this before we got weapon swap because “on swap” sigils affected it.

Recursivision.2367:

Hey Scarlet!

Great video. Only other thing that I’d note is that given Pain Absorption and Banish Enchantment have similar energy/resistance cost, sometimes it’s better to throw in the banish enchantment to strip fat ele/necro might stacks and the like.

Yup definitely true, good point. Think Banish Enchantment is probably alot more effective vs signet necro as they basically only have might, so its very easy to remove.

Hey guys, this is a short interactive guide where I showcase a few 1v1s with a pure power based Revenant build against 3 of the current meta builds you would typically
see in a regular sPvP match. (In this video i was only able to capture fights vs Signet Necro, d/d Cele Ele, and Zerker warrior, 2 clips per profession, 1 win and 1 loss and why i won/lost. Off capture recording I have done fine vs Thieves, but Mesmers destroy the Revenant)
Would also like to note that, while revenant does OK in 1v1s, it does not do that great when he gets +1’d or gets focused in some kind of teamfight or skirmish.

First up, the build that was used:

Traits: http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgYBnAK4BfQ~
Amulet: Soldier (I’ve experienced good results with Crusader aswell)
Weapons: Sword/axe – Staff
Sigils and Runes: Leeching Energy on both sets and Rune of Vampirisim.

It is interactive because I explain why I do the things I do in the fights. You may have to watch the fights twice since the explanations do distract you a little from the actual gameplay. Hence why i made an interactive panel with video timestamps that you can click on, to skip to a fight you want to see, or rewatch.

The video:

Hopefully some of the devs working on the Revenant will also watch this, so they can have a view of what a Revenant can do when played by someone who has spent this entire weekend trying to figure out and understand the profession.

I believe it has great potential and am looking forward already to the next BWE.

Feedback or any other remarks/questions are appreciated

What if the autoattack generated energy but the other skills kept their expenditure of energy? Or perhaps other skills that, when landed, rewards you with energy?

Thought i personally think it’s bad that we have to pick between using our utilities or our weaponskills, cause you can’t use both. You lose so much energy quickly when you start using both. Most of the time i end up autoattacking someone to death because i cant afford using anything else (mainly against condi classes, have to keep using pain absorption if you want to win, since it requires 35 energy and you get 5secs of resistance(when traited for it) you can kinda keep using it. But only if you just auto attack).

So apparently Ùnrelenting Assault follows you till the end of the world XD

On to the Legendary Stances themselves:

Shiro Legend points:

Shiro heal (enchanted daggers) could potentially be good, right now its not really a heal, you use it offensively which is an interesting mechanic. if there wasn’t an internal cooldown on the life leech then it would be a very good healing skill and you can burst with it aswell which is very cool. If the ICD were to be removed i’d propose a higher initial heal, and lowering the life leech dmg. That way people can’t get insta
5k bursted by life leech. I actually haven’t tested if the leech itself can be blocked or dodged, thus wasting a leech charge though.

overall the shiro legend utilities are pretty good imo.

Malyx Legend Points:

Malyx displacement field (Unyielding Anguish) is a very good skills with some very interesting usability. You can “port” thieves out of their shadow’s refuge, you can save people with it whilst rezzing and you can use it as a last ditch effort at leaping away out of the fray. 1 thing i cannot understand tho is that the displacement field “ports people” to the direction you are facing. Perhaps this was part of balancing the skill but what happens is when i try to kite away with it, I actually port the people chasing me right infront of me. So it actually helps them close the gap, which is COMPLETELY counter intuitive. I’d like it if it ported away from you rather than the direction
your character is facing or it being truly random, so it becomes a high risk/high reward skill.

overall the malyx legends utilities are very good.

Dwarf Legend Points:

The heal is probably one of the worst heals in the game. I thought i’d seen it with warrior’s Mending, but this heal is even worse. I understand that the revenant can potentially use 2 heals after eachother, but i think the cooldown on this dwarf legend is just too long. Basically a shiro+dwarf combo is impossible cause you have 0 sustain. This is an issue with the revenant by itself aswell as the shiro heal being underpar atm purely as a heal though. The brick road skill (Inspiring Reinforcement) is what saves the legend imo, its really really good. The taunt skills energy cost is i think abit too high and will probably never be used in pvp honestly. Vengeful Hammers does alright dmg, I also don’t think it has much uses though because energy management is very important. You’ll just drain through your energy fast if you have that up + using weapon skills. The Elite dwarf forms effects are pretty good, but the cast time is SOOOOOOOOOO LOOOOONG. basically begging people to interrupt you.

Centaur Legend Points:

I like the idea of it being a skill based legend. If you are very good at using it, the rewards could be immense. It probably has the most healing out of all the professions currently in gw2. The thing is, it’s clunky. The tablets travel time is still too slow. You might think its fast. but it isn’t. In practical uses you’ll find out that it either requires an immense amount of coordination with your team or you’ll just simply miss the pass through of the tabelt. Either increase the travel speed, or remove the 1/4th cast time. Maybe even both honestly. Other than that the utilities look good.

These are all the things I thought needed attention. Thanks for reading and add whatever you think needs to be added in this thread.

General impressions:

I’ve been playing the Revenant most of this beta weekend and i think it’s a very fun profession with lots of potential but there are some issues. I’ve written this thing up after having played ONLY as a shiro/sword/DPS based Revenant. This write-up is purely my own opinion and vision of this profession, I may have misunderstood the mechanics and uses of some skills and some of the proposed changes may be unfair so please be constructive about them and propose your own ideas if you think they are better.

As a dps build you lacks sustain, has virtually no cleanses aside from the dwarf heal and some of the Ventari skills. But you’d have to dedicate yourself to being a tanky healer if you want those. I also don’t get why our weaponskills cost energy. Sometimes you completely run out of energy and you’re locked out of all your weapon skills aside from your autoattack. I thought it would make alot more sense if certain skills, when landed, rewarded you with energy. This is probably a balance thing, but I feel like, in it’s current form, needs to be able to always have access to all of their weapon skills.

Weapons:

Staff:
Does good damage imo, staff is your bread and butter atm, all the skills are really good.

Sword MH:
The autoattack does pretty good damage, the animation however is very very… weird? I hope the animation is just a placeholder. The #2 skill (Precision Strike) is pretty good, people think it isn’t but I think it is. It’s a ranged 1second chill on a 4second CD. Not to mention if you hit this on top of a single target, it can hit THREE times. It crits for 1.5k on marauder, so that x3 and you have burst.
Relentless Assault (sword 3) whilst doing good dmg and being a nice gap closer, it locks you inside a pretty long animation that you cannot cancel. And because you cannot cancel it you gotta be prepared to receive 30 stacks of burning from a ring of fire or purging flames. Not to mention its very susceptible to counter pressure. A warrior was able to land almost a full a 100blade channel whilst doing relentless pursuit, even tho the skill looks like it was intended to port/hit the target at a variety of angles (side, back, front etc). And because you cannot cancel the animation, unless you weapon swap, (which obviously isnt always up) you will probably die. Basically, the risk is alot higher than the potential reward.
Perhaps add some evade frames for this skill?

Sword OH:
The block is good, the CD is fair imo and the immob reactionary is also pretty good since it applies it to everyone in an aoe cone. Not so sure about the #5 (Grapsing shadow) skill, it seems to be abit buggy, sometimes doesn’t even shadowstep you away from your target, the damage is also very low (1.3k crit with marauder) and the cooldown too long. Either increase the dmg, or lower the CD.

Axe:
I really like both the skills. #4 (Frigid Blitz) skill does amazing dmg and is a great gapcloser, 900 range and on a 12 second cooldown and UNBLOCKABLE. It even
applies chill! great skill. The #5 (Temporal Rift) skill is also really nice. The cooldown is just right and the width of the pull is good. the dmg isn’t too high but for a 15second cooldown. This was also my OH of choice together with sword.

Mace:
Good condi weapon, hits very fast and thus stacks alot of torment. The burn field is very fair, doesn’t apply alot of burning because the field isn’t that large but the CD is low so you can consistently drop it. the #3 skill is nice aswell, if you aim it just right it can stack a good amount of torment and the blast finisher is nice too.

Hammer:
Our only ranged weapon, i think the skills look good, but because a dps revenant lacks sustain, i think it’s hard to use. When targets are kept at range i think it does decent pressure, mainly through the #2 (Coalescence of Ruin) skill and autos. But the moment people get near you is when hammer gets clunky. You’ll be forced out of hammer until you can somehow get the aggro off of you. Perhaps it requires a form of disengage? Also similar to the sword #3, the hammer #3(Phase Smash) skill, you are stuck in the animation and people can still hit you during the skill. Even worse is when theres fire fields. Be prepared for burn stacks. The damage/range and CD is good tho. Just like sword #3, give it some evade? You are leaping “through” the mists afterall. Or maybe reverse the way this skill works. Instead of leaping towards someone, hit the ground and leap backwards? That way hammer will have some sort of disengage.

ait thanks

What happens to my leaderboard ranking/points if i were to transfer to a different region (say EU to NA)? Do they reset to 0 after transfer, or do i carry over the points?

Yup yesterday during a match a power Necro also had this bug during a match. He could basically freecast the entire matchas we couldn’t see him nor target him. Couldn’t even see his projectiles so we couldn’t discern his position from that either.

Today I received this bug myself. The enemy team said that they could not see/target me at all.

Not sure yet what the criteria are for activating this perma invis bug, but it occured after my first death in said game.

It’s pretty game breaking if you ask me xd

This a new bug that’s circulating around. I first saw it yesterday when I was queueing against a necro and he suddenly disappeared on everyones screen and he could literally freecast the entire game without us seeing or being able to target him.

Today this bug actually happened to myself. Throughout the entire game nearly, I was invisible to the enemy team.

Pretty game breaking if you ask me. I’m not sure how the bug happened but I believe I received it after my first death.

Flitzie.6082:

Holy crap, I had forgotten you do not get the crit chance bonus when signet have been used and are on cooldown. Thanks for reminding me! This changes alot of course.

I understand the importance of traits now, and trait damage scaling.
I’ll try all of those suggestion you guys gave me and report back with an updated version.

I am wondering why no-one commented on the gear though. I have no problem in buying/crafting a few exotic gear sets to try things out.
What are other warrior running in wvw? Is Soldiers a good choice?

Tbh a warrior can easily get away with full zerker because they have high innate armor and health, but if you aren’t comfortable with that you could go with some cavalier jewelry or what I did for awhile, knights armor and berserker jewelry.

Im not rly a number cruncher, I just set “must haves” and test till i think it feels right. For example, must have atleast 2800 armor through gear, and minimum of x% crit dmg etc. then you work your gear towards those must haves.

Hmm, i’ve run the sword/shield hammer build for a looong time and i think your trait setup is abit weird. It’s like you’re forcing yourslf to be unique amongs others but in the end you’re dragging yourself down in both team fighting aswell as solo roaming. A 0/0/6/2/6 build like others suggested above me will do far better at both situations. But i’ll try help you improve your current setup with unsuspecting foe since you are half soldiers afterall

As for cleansing ire, looking at your build i’d say its not too bad to go without it as you are using hoelbrak with dogged march and lemongrass, but I personally use it for the secondary bonus which is the adrenaline gain on hit. Hammer needs this because it’s attacks are so slow, and since the dmg nerf on earthshaker it NEEDS to be a 3bar hit for it to pack a decent punch. Especially for you who runs half soldiers.

Get rid of deep strikes if you are using unsuspecting foe. If you do plan on using signet of stamina and signet of rage then I will assume that you’ll be using their active effects alot and you’ll only benefit off of deep strikes through healing signet which is like only 2% crit chance. Furious reaction is probably better for more fury uptime and a little extra vigor.

The 2 pts in the strenght line is kind of weird. That trait is like a filler trait. People use that because there isn’t anything else useful in that slot except that fall dmg reduction in some situations or dual wielding but thats not flr here. Take those out and put 1 in defense and 1 in discipline, your build would be 0/4/6/0/4.

Arms line: furious reaction – unsuspecting foe
Defense line: dogged march – cleansing ire – Merciless hammer (absolute must now)
Discipline line : warriors sprint – destruction of empowered (such a strong trait)

I’m not telling you what to do, but this variant is what I ran when i was experimenting hammer/sword/shield and I think its a step better than your build in every aspect in both solo roaming and team fighting. But i thing 0/0/6/2/6 is truly the best for hammer

Anyways good luck, ignore my perspective or take it to heart, up to you.

Thanks alot for the replies guys, made things alot more clear. Think i’ll pick either kodash or desolation, will discuss it one more time with my friend

Hey there, i’ve been on NA since beta as a euro cause of friends but most of them moved on to Wildstar or something else.

I’m kinda tired of having to play with a permanent 300+ ping so I thought now is the time to move EU. A friend of mine is also coming with me

I’m trying to find a server that has a very good stream of action in WvW, as in lots of solo roamers and small mans as I am mainly a solo/duo roamer myself. Or just alot of action in general. Me and my friend were thinking of trying out a higher tiered server such as Kodash but i’m not particularly knowledgeable about the EU server so thought i’d make a post here to get some more insight.

Thanks in advance

Awesome video Joe! I recently started a Mesmer myself and am a completely noob on it so I was wondering:

How much would it cost for people like us to take mentoring classes from you?

Keep em up!

As title says, most of my guildies haven’t been able to finish their dailies for almost a week as they are stuck at 5/5 and they won’t reset when the server reset happens.

Same things happening to me now after this last maintenance.

^

I had already discussed this with Israel and Second to God. They said that they had nobody available at the time that i asked them so I told them to give me a mail or a whisper whenever they were ready.

Still haven’t heard anything from em. Israel is keeping tabs on me as he has me on his friendlist so no excuses there.

haxi.9038:

KarlusDavius.1024:

haxi.9038:

good job destroying people who don’t even have food/oil on with 25 stacks of bloodlust, 5 stacks of guard leech, and 5 stacks of applied fortitude

Good job bringing up something that doesn’t actually matter as the OP was outmanned the whole time. Seriously, credit where credits is due or prove otherwise. Feel free to post up your video of you taking opponents on 1vX.

This isn’t spvp, it’s WvW. If they didn’t have food or stacks then more fool them.

Yup, they are so bad that they dont even know about using food/oil. 25 stacks of bloodlust+5 stacks of guard leech is equal to having 10 stacks of might on you all the time. That certainly does make a huge difference.
I never commented on his skill level, just pointing out the fact that those buffs give a pretty big advantage

Only thing bad here is your trolling. What does a PvEr like you who farms all day to complete his legendary collection know about wvw?

Hes outnumbered so why shouldn’t he use those extra buffs to even the odds?

Anyways great video as always Raiden

Lindbur.2537:

Because whirl finishers really don’t matter anywhere.

Until you meet a d/p thief that drops a blind powder and uses the stolen whirl that you get from warriors.

All they needa do is activate the whirl inside the blind field and it’ll keep blinding regardless if you’re in or out of the field.

Great vid Joe! Music was really nice too

docMed.7692:

Wait; so you guys don’t want to fight 5v5 sPvP and consider WvW builds to be ‘real’ builds? Interesting… dire, perplextity, inflated stats, roaming buffs, food/oil; etc – All are counter to what many in any competitive scene would consider ‘real’ builds. In fact most consider WvW a cheese fest. Either way I personally don’t care where we 5v5, but I’m just a bit confused why you are interested in taking the path with the most resistance, especially one that lends itself to interruption from outside forces (i.e. zergs/roamers/etc); just sounds like a lot of excuses.

What? Excuses? Look at the thread closely lol. We never said we did not want a 5v5 in spvp but I find the 5v5 more credible to be held in WvW, cause thats where you died right? And you were napping right? And unprepared right? So every excuse made by you guys implied that you would have no problem beating us IN WvW during that time if all of the above excuses weren’t there.

As for inflated stats, pvp has deflated stats, can’t really argue with that, look at the celestial amulet for example.

Also rumour has it that you guys suddenly recruited high ranked tpvp players. Not that I care but I find it interesting that you aren’t bringing the 4 people that died in the video.

Israel.7056:

Pretty weak sauce reply Joe but I kinda figured I’d get as much.

What I believe is that deep down you know that fight was a meaningless ambush gank but that, as your friend put it, you guys really want to get your name out there so you took the opportunity to use the fact that you happened to gank RIOT members on a champ mob because you figured it would make tM a bigger deal.

bla bla bla meaningless ambush bla bla white knighting bla bla we were napping bla bla

Logi.5612:

Alright i’m done with all these dumb back and forth throwing. Let’s organize a GvG, 5v5 straight up.

Or will you dodge and make more excuses? This will be a good opportunity for you to back up all your excuses right now. Mail either me or Joe and we’ll set it up.

Alright i’m done with all these dumb back and forth throwing. Let’s organize a GvG, 5v5 straight up.

Or will you dodge and make more excuses? This will be a good opportunity for you to back up all your excuses right now. Mail either me or Joe and we’ll set it up.

Israel.7056:

As I’ve said before, you did a good job of catching us napping. We could’ve shown better situational awareness there. It was a good ambush and we didn’t react nearly as quickly as we should have.

But you still deserve to be belittled. You idolize some of us and want to establish a relationship so you post a video of you ambushing us after we spent the entire afternoon sparring? We had several other fights that day, why not post those or even give mention to them? I think it’s because Joe wanted to give the impression that that was our only encounter that day.

If Joe didn’t intend insult then he is either not very bright or chose his words very poorly because ganking people and then saying “good fight you guys are great” is insulting.

And I’m sorry to burst your bubble, but I don’t think I would’ve ever been interested in a “friendly rivalry” with you guys because quite frankly I don’t see that there’s anything to be gained from it. That being said, I’m probably the least friendly member of RIOT but after all this I don’t think you’ll be able to get much traction with anyone else in guild either.

Man has my image of RIOT been crushed. Saddening. You know fully well that all the other “sparring” involved massive zergs around and about and i would hardly call that a sparring session. Meh why am I even trying. Your ego is just all over the place, i’m out.

cyyrix.6105:

Logi.5612:

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Forgive me if I have a hard time trusting the sincerity of a guy who has a bucket full of salt titled “Ostrich Eggs Embarrassed” in his own signature.

Just like that video, this one (regardless of the quality of the fight) was a salty move by tM, and received a salty response by RIOT. /thread

Unfortunately you have no clue what the backstory of that video is and I don’t really feel like explaining that to you. Should I refer to someones post a little bit earlier in this thread which I will direct you and Israel:

cyyrix.6105:

careful with that ego.

To think Riot Gaming is a professional organisation with the above people representing it, pretty peculier

Israel.7056:

lolwut.4298:

If you honestly think that you guys played that well you are either delusional or terrible, there was a lot of potential for you guys to win that fight but it was obvious that you guys were inadequate to achieve that outcome

Maybe you should actually learn to play the game both mechanically and in situational awareness before trying to make all these excuses when you were clearly outplayed by a large margin. Go back to your PU builds and continue to hope that your cheese specs are able to make up for your lack of skill

We didn’t get outplayed mechanically, we got ambushed. It was a good ambush but a terrible fight. The problem wasn’t improper skill rotations or wasted cooldowns or split dps, it was that our two main dps got bursted before we could regroup leaving us with only randoms who weren’t on TS. So for him to call it a good fight and say we did great is condescending nonsense.

It bothers me that we got ganked but what bothers me more is for him to talk to us like “yeah you guys did your best we were just better.” It’s an insult to my intelligence.

Think it was last saturday that we 4manned again in EotM and we decided to give that champ a whirl to see what the fuss was about. Didn’t seem like a big deal until we got jumped by a large number of players following a commander. We were in the EXACT same position you guys were only we were the ones outnumbered. Indeed the champ was troublesome. But we saw those enemies coming and the moment we realised that the champ was being a bother we simply kited away and we managed to kill those enemies on the bridge whilst losing the champs aggro.

Joe never intended to belittle RIOT or implying them to be bad. We have seen countless and countless videos of you guys starting from BETA. We have seen you on twitch, we have seen you guys PR the crap out of your guild and people have used you guys as a baseline for “being good”.

We were incredibly excited to have finally gotten the chance to truly test our own personal skill as we have been doing really well in the lower tier servers. But since we are a lower tier server, people judge us by it. So even more reason to be excited at having a chance to fight a renowned t1 guild. Sure this was not a legit GvG, but it was an outnumbered fight for us where an even number of RIOT members were involved. So Joe was excited to post this video publically to put ourselves on the map to prove the naysayers wrong and perhaps setup a further relationship with RIOT for more future friendly rivalry.

Instead we get belittled. I’m pretty disappointed as I personally have looked up to RIOT. Yishis made me play a thief and has also inspired and created the beast known as I Am Mugi. Second to God has inspired me to take my warrior out of pve and bring it out to WvW. There are probably many other instances in tM where RIOT played an influence to where we are now and i thank you for that. But i’m done with RIOT now. To me you have become just another pug in the blob, and beating you will no longer feel like an achievement.

Carpboy.7145:

Love seeing pineapple vids

I wonder how much toughness they were running in that first clip. 3k eviscerate crit, :’( also love the second clip, always fun taking advantage of the other server. That block at the end to lol. He must have been crying on the inside he didnt get to troll you in downed state.

Every time eviscerate doesn’t crit i think a pineapple goes rotten :0

Yeh the ele was pretty tanky, typical support cleric staff ele i guess. Though i did eviscerate him in protection

Thanks for watching

Hey there guys! Was kinda relunctant to post this 2nd video whilst my first video thread was still on the frontpage. But decided that i’d drop it here anyways, please forgive me

10 minute minitage, hope you’ll enjoy! All info needed in the youtube description box

lastprelude.4826:

Kind of random but chest armor did you use throughout the video, with the cloak-like appendage? It looked really cool.

Ah I think you mean my helmet. It was a limited time skin on the Gem Store called “Grenth Hood”. So far it’s the closest thing to having a cape/cloak atm in GW2.

Eiland.1405:

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tl;dr:
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Kay I gave the 30/0/25/0/15 a try. And I will wholeheartedly agree that in almost every 1v1 situation this build wrecks. However as soon as a 2nd person added in, I found myself dying so much more that I went back to the original 0/0/30/10/30 build that I was running after a couple of hours.

The 2 endure pains combined with Desperate Power is just so amazing. Whilst it is a very situational trait, it can save my life and has great synergy with Defy Pain, and the cooldown on Defy Pain isn’t all that bad either.