Guild Wars 2

Radiance adds more dmg to sword than honor does.
Sword cd reduction, 15% crit chance on main hand weapons, +10% ctir chance against burning targets.
Also since you will be playing with torch if you want dmg you get to use torch 4 twice as much.
If you wanna go swordtorch /GS though the dmg is probably still on Virtues + Zeal

Im a guardian main and I can assure that that (at least on large targets) you guys still deal way more damage. I have tested different Guardian builds and even the highest dmg was about 6k dps lower than tempest staff on a large target.

The reason people think DH does more dmg than tempest now, is that the qt post patch dps video for Tempest was done with all buffs and with realistic buffs while the DH video was made only with unrealistic buffs.

But even in those videos you can see the tempest dps is still higher.

All buffs + Large hitbox.
Tempest Staff : 44,3k dps
DH Scepter/Torch: 35,4k dps

like i said realistic buffs arent shown on DH in the Video but I tested it myself and got these results.

Realistic Buffs + Large Hitbox.

DH Scepter/Torch with Radiance and Virutes (the dmg will be way lower in an actual encounter as you cant keep the 20% dmg modifier you get for aegis and the 11% damage modifier you get for the 11 different boons) : 26,6k dps

DH Scepter/Torch with Radiance and Zeal (more realistic dmg) : 24,1k dps

Tempest Staff : 32,1k dps

So even though DH has good damage and still brings good defensive buffs you guys dont need to worry about us taking your spot as the #1 damage dealer.

Your dmg ist still far superior.

Edit: On small hitboxes Hammer dps is better than scepter but with 23,1k dps is still lower than Tempest Fresh Air.

the qt benchmark was done with both, unrealistic and realistic buffs. If you only look at the unrealistic onces its your own fault.

I have done some testing now by myself and i got to the result, that with realistic buffs the optimal dmg of scepter/torch is indeed higher than that of the hammer. However, that was only the case with The Virtues Traitline with perma aegis and lots of boons which give you a 1%dmg buff.
Since you wont have those in a Raid or Fractal( at least not permanently) Hammer in the end still deals a bit more dmg + Provides permanent protection.

In General scepter is still stronger than it used to be and shouldnt be overlooked when creating builds

That video was made with unrealistic buffs though and since alacrity does a lot more for scepter/torch than for Hammer this video cant be used for a fair comparison.

The problem with Tempest isnt that it was nerfed. Its how it was nerfed.
They took away the fun of having a smooth and fluid dps rotation.
Instead of messing with the cooldowns they should have reduced staff fire dmg by 10% or decreased Lava Font’s duration.

So yeah, Tempest is still a good choice for a Raid Team but many Tempest players already stated that they dont want to play Tempest anymore since the fun of it was ruined.

Retaliation as a whole is completely useless in PvE as it Provides almost no dmg.
It is even very Harmfull in Fractals with “boon thief”.
So I think they should work on that as well and make it a buff thats actually usefull

I started playing again like 3 weeks ago.
Ever since I’ve been having disconnects. At first it was like one dc a day and it was always just a short one that didnt log me out.
In last couple of days though these disconnects have been getting more regular ( several times a day) and sometimes even hard disconnects, meaning I get put into character select.
This is most annoying and problematic especially in Raids.
And it’s always just Guild Wars, TS and everything else doesnt show any problems.

Is anyone else struggling with this lately as well?

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Why does it get annoying though? Why are people so against sexualization and revealing things? I’ll never understand that.

It annoys me because I just don’t like these skins and it’s difficult to find female skins that aren’t revealing. It seems the options are very limited.

I don’t see what there is to understand about that. It’s simple preference. You have yours. I have mine. The game should cater to both tastes.

I agree with you there.
Ofc, many people like the skimpy armors but there are also many who dont want their female character to look like that and these people have very limited options when it comes to armor choice.

It would just be fair to have an equal amount of revealing and not so revealing armor. Simply for the people who are growing tired of it.

In GW 1 there was a bigger variety and it was good that way.

Its not about taking the revealing armors away from you. Its about giving more alternatives to it.

too bad:( but ty

So i have been wondering if the Dragon’s Maw can be used to keep the souls in gorse’s split phase from walking to him. I know that knockback and knockdown doesnt work so…
Does anyone know?

Since the patch from 23.2 rolled out, my girlfriend encountered an annoying problem.
When she is moving around her character is juddering around in a strange way.
It looks like the character is being pulled back a bit constantly and then slides back into position.
Its not a matter of low fps since it happens with 60 fps and it also looks different that low fps juddering.
Also, it is only her character that does this, Not the game in general, not even other characters.
Repairing the game didnt help and even with todays little patch nothing happened.

Does anyone else have this problem since 23.2 ?

Im talking about the backpiece that you can find in coe.
The rare Version can be sold for 10 Gold.
But who and why is willing to pay 10 gold for a rare backpiece that, when salvaged, gives you stuff worth 1,6 gold at best?
I know the supply is low because most people stopped running dungeons but that still doesnt explain this price.
Its not even part of a collection or something like that.
Anyone got an idea?

I didnt have a problem with someone going afk in the middle of a game while already loosing.
My problem are the players who are afk from the very beginning of the game.

lost a 4vs5 ,lost 2 pips

didnt mean to spam it, i got an error massage so i thought i wasnt posted but aparently it was

So as far as i know there is a system for punishing people who leave the game and also you dont loose pips if your teammember leaves and its 4vs5.

But what about the people who are just standing around ,doing nothing exept move a bit every then and now to prevent beeing disconnected?

In like 10 games today I had 2 of those in my team and one in the enemy team.

It´s extremely annoying to loose pips thanks to these people especially since there is nothing you can do about it.
So please Anet, give us the option to report these people so that they can be removed from pvp.

So as far as i know there is a system for punishing people who leave the game and also you dont loose pips if your teammember leaves and its 4vs5.

But what about the people who are just standing around ,doing nothing exept move a bit every then and now to prevent beeing disconnected?

In like 10 games today I had 2 of those in my team and one in the enemy team.

It´s extremely annoying to loose pips thanks to these people especially since there is nothing you can do about it.
So please Anet, give us the option to report these people so that they can be removed from pvp.

So as far as i know there is a system for punishing people who leave the game and also you dont loose pips if your teammember leaves and its 4vs5.

But what about the people who are just standing around ,doing nothing exept move a bit every then and now to prevent beeing disconnected?

In like 10 games today I had 2 of those in my team and one in the enemy team.

It´s extremely annoying to loose pips thanks to these people especially since there is nothing you can do about it.
So please Anet, give us the option to report these people so that they can be removed from pvp.

Does really noone know?

So, I really like the song that plays in the spirit vale while fighting the vale guardian but i wasnt able to find it anywhere.
Does anyone have a name or a link for me?:D

ah kitten it.
I was hoping that at least long dungeons like Arah would still give some amount of money, but 4,5g for an Arah full run? no thanks

No , even for ascalon its 50 + 26 s so 76. But i dont know about the others

I looked in the wiki but it seems most dungeon rewards werent updated yet.
So i ask you players. If you have done any of the dungeons since HoT release and remember how much gold you got for them, please tell me here.
I can then make a table of the new rewards here in this post.
Thanks

Awesome <3

I absolutely love the song that plays in Auric Basin during the Meta event but i wasnt able to find it anywhere.
Could someone here tell me the title of the song of post a link to it? I would appreciate it alot.
ty

So, the Fractal Mastery path promises increased rewards from the boss chests.
I have maxxed the path but i havent noticed any increase in what i gain for doing the fractals.
So, does anyone know how exactly the rewards are being increased by the path?

So this happened two times today.
The first time i was doing fractals with some friends. We had just finished the third one which was the grawl fractal, when instead of beeing ported to the final fractal, we landed in Lions Arch and the fractal was gone.
Second time was in the Silver Wastes. I was doing the events on a rather empty map. Whe had finished The Breach and were waiting for the attack on VineWrath to begin.
Suddenly I was ported to another SilverWastes map where the events were at 0%.
And I wasnt the only one. There were a lot of people on that new map that had just been ported there from another one, many from the map i had been on.

I hope this gets fixxed soon as it is a really annoying bug that is strongly demotivating

I really hope that the getting the blooms in a few days thing will work because i didnt get blooms for the last event that ended 7 minutes ago…
Also what about those connection problems? every event i have a dc. Sometimes it is just like a lag spike and i cant do anything for a few seconds but 2 times already i had to reconnect. That is also pretty annoying especially because it literaly happens once every event

I too am hoping for scarlets shoulders and gloves to return to the gemstore.
They are pretty cool and i regret not buying them when they were released:(