Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, so I have recently come back to Guild Wars 2 and after much contemplation over what class to level up and start fresh on I think I have narrowed it down to Warrior but before I commit to leveling him I have a couple of question I was hoping you more experienced players can answer.

Firstly and mainly, I am not overly keen on all of the Warriors weapon sets. I enjoy the GS, Hammer and the LB the most, and tried out a few condition builds with double swords and was quite keen on that. So how far will these weapons take me? This is more of a PvE question as I’m not at all familiar with the PvE scene and would like to try out Fractals.

What uses or roles will I be filling in WvW? I played a Thief before and would some times just be designated to combo blasting fields with my SB. I’d like a bit more of a dynamic role. (Not so concerned with this as I don’t think I will be running WvW very much, and maybe just roam)

That’s really all I need to know to decide whether or not Warrior will be my new class, thank you in advance for any responses!

Because they are two different pets, why would they share a health pool…?

Faux’s “RRR” build suggests a Sword Main hand I think.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Faux-s-RRR-Build-Detailed/first

Yeah I am all for this, doesn’t even need to be replaced with any thing for now, just get rid of it or make it a Major trait. Or as Okamakiri suggested have it bypass revealed.

Male Norns look ridiculous imo, I was all set to make a Norn Guardian but the shoulders and just general sizing of them is completely off for me. I’m now torn between Human Male and Female Norn, gotta check both of their 2handed animations out.

There are a couple of builds the most popular and easy being Pistol/Dagger, they stack bleeds like crazy and kite you when they aren’t in Stealth, Condition Removal doesn’t work that great against them because there bleeds don’t last a long time and they can stack them very easily (The chain being CnD>Auto attack).

It’s hard to counter other than trying to predict where they are and using AoE attacks around that area I haven’t found a particular technique that works against them. They can afford to be a bit more Tanky as well.

That’s the only build I really have a problem with from Thieves any more. Is there a particular Weapon Set from the Thieves arsenal that you’re having trouble with? The Bow isn’t much of a main weapon set afaik and Pistol/Pistol is said to have weak damage but I don’t have much experience playing a Thief.

Chaosbroker.3860:

Honestly I’m enjoying one of the few mmos that actually has female heavy armour that looks … get this … like heavy armour. To each their own I guess.

There are still some sets that just look ridiculous, at least the Heavy Armor is better than the Light, I do regret making my Ele Female I always make this mistake, in the vain hope that the people designing the armor aren’t marketing it for 15 year old boys.

Bow isn’t good for sPvP? I have been using it with some success, but I have been joining games with few players for 1v1’s so maybe that’s why, I find it extremely useful paired with my GS and 5 second weapon swap(When it works -.-).

The immobilise is useful for getting HB’s off now and again, but usually I just use it for fleeing targets or for a quick 4-5k blast from the number 3 ability I think it is before swapping back to my GS.

HTXL.2598:

Roll Staff bunker Ele, already strong, Mist form got buffed

Hate to disappoint but they just received a HEAVY nerf.

If it was a bug, then they should have informed us it was a bug a LONG time ago and taken them out a LONG time ago, letting players get accustomed to it, building their character around it and spending countless hours grinding to get the gear for this specific build is just down right insulting.

Ziggy.7319:

Disappointed.

-No Dueling.
-Thieves still at large. there was a sizeable CnD nerf, but nothing to mug or backstab or pistol whip.
-Warriors still at large, no nerfs (besides dual shot), very surprising.
-Mesmer portal nerf should’ve been PvP only like they did for some other skills.
-Engineers will still and forever be a gimmicky clunky class that will never be competitive.

You’re gonna be really pissed off when you find out Dual Shot got a buff :P

Yes I would also like my zone completion back, I don’t intend to run around Queensdale getting all the poi and Waypoints I have already collected.

Have hearts and poi and way points you have completed and collected get taken away?

I just completed a zone before the patch, I logged back in after the patch and I no longer have completed that zone…

DEV C: TO THE GROUND kitten IT!

Alberel I would hardly call them buffs, they aren’t game breaking any way. I would agree though, that a few classes got shafted in this patch, they where promised fixes and to be brought up to speed with other classes and instead received nerfs. Very disappointing.

TGSlasher we read it correctly and it appears all blast finishers where unintended, either that or they kittened it up.

Insignia.3826:

warriors are complaining? did you not see the other professions. you warriors got the best of it.

I don’t even want to look at the Ranger forums.. I’d probably cry for them, this was indeed very disappointing, my main being an Ele I could punch a kitten over some of the changes they made in this patch.

JonPeters.5630:

Fast hands only is broken on the very first swap after you turn it on our load a map. After that it works. Fixing that first time bug is extraordinarily difficult, but we think it is worth it to keep the trait.

That still warrants a fix imo, is it still being looked into? It doesn’t sound like it from your post, it sounds like it’s broken and too hard to fix so we’ll leave it.

Thoughts on the patch notes? …lol

Xolosheep.1649:

“Effect will only activate during combat. "

Meaning if there is nothing attacking you, u’re not in combat, then the blast will not activate.

Are you guys testing this on dummies or foes?

Worked with dummies before didn’t it? I’ll go test it against a real mob though.

I don’t think Warriors need a nerf tbf and they hardly got a buff they just had a bunch of projectile finishers added hardly game breaking. Any way I was shocked to see the lack of changes to Rangers, and cannot believe they nerfed my Ele, truly dissapointed with this “Major Class Balance” patch.

Are you in combat?

There was an awful lot of tooltip updates, not looking good for the future if this is what they consider a balancing patch.

Yup, that was disappointing

Any sign of the patch notes? O.o

Lysico.4906:

I mean we paid for this!

oh wait we did not..

Relax guys.. what is a few hours??

It’s not just a few hours, because unless they nip this in the bud and start communicating with their player base this type of thing will continue to happen, it’s truly not a big deal, but neither is letting us know the patch is delayed.

Hawks.5736:

Dee Jay.2460:

This is getting annoying. I’ve been checking for an update every hour now for 6 hours. Nothing…

Is is really too much to ask to get a reliable time here? I mean the 15th is over in half of the world already.

I wouldnt say its too much to “ask”, but its too much to expect that a major content patch that also introduces new systems will always go swimmingly.

Just chill people, its the event on Sunday thats the important one-time thinger.

I would just expect them to keep us updated, I don’t see why they are making the same mistakes as every other MMO, if they would just communicate with their customers pre-emptively and tell us the patch will be delayed there would be no harm, but no we are left to guess, and that’s the problem.

I would settle for the Patch Notes -.-

Well this is disappointing xD where’s this big patch at?

Stun Break’s don’t break snares/roots afaik, I don’t think they ever have.

Generally it’s down to taste with weapons, I’ve been checking the forums since I started and when ever these topics are raised you will get a mixed response so from that I have taken that they are all viable. I haven’t had much experience with S/D though.

With trait’s I would say you are on the right path, I leveled using Earth/Water and switched Earth for Arcana around level 55 and I found it much nicer with the shorter Attunement swapping.

I am getting a crazy amount of sound bugs, one is like a siren and the other seems to be enhanced game sounds, my volume is quite low but when this one triggers certain sound effects blast out of my speakers. Any solution or at least some one having similar issues?

Ghertu.7096:

Low-level content beatable for other professions even with random set of traits. Elementalist avaible for newcomers as well as other professions. Why gamer should be already experienced to play ele?

I’m not saying it isn’t harder for an Ele, and it has been said many times that an Ele is harder to get to grips with but if you provide a little information like what Weapon you use and what traits you have picked up there might be some improvements that can be made to help make it easier.

@Frye Seriously, I didn’t realise that would come under such scrutiny, to sum it up though I had a different levelling experience to YOU and there for I am full of it.. Okay buddy.

Maybe it’s your trait setup, I had no trouble at all levelling, I barely died and I didn’t come across a skill point I couldn’t solo, in fact quite the opposite I was able to solo some group events.

Could you link your traits, and what weap are you using?

I like it, but I don’t make it my main focus, I can imagine it get’s boring if that’s all you do. Tried WvW? Much prefer it. Also are you in a well coordinated team? It makes the world of difference.

Ahah! Thank you!

I was using 2/6 for each of these to get 30% boon duration, but I logged on today and it’s saying 4/6 on both sets of rune, as if I was just using 4 of the same type, is this intended?

I think once the rendering issue is fixed, which should have been sorted a long time ago, and I think there initial burst needs to be toned down, I don’t know how this would be done, but the Mug+CnD+Backstab opening combo is far to powerful imo.

I’d like to see Backstab break stealth if they miss as well, but that’s more of a personal preference, I just felt cheesy when playing Thief being able to spam it and not have to time it what so ever.

I’m not even against using it I also quite like things like this, as you say it adds more depth to combat, I’m just saying I don’t think it’s intended and I wouldn’t be surprised if Anet “fixed” it.

Are you sure TAB is not assigned to Next Enemy rather than Nearest Enemy?

Seems unintended to me, I wouldn’t get to comfortable on relying on this.

Lava Font doesn’t do any significant damage, no more than other skills. Meteor Shower seemed to take a big chunk off, once it had run it’s full duration but I was still left with about half of the Trebs health. Doesn’t seem like an issue to me.

What’s the Magma skill? I can’t find any thing beginning with ‘Magma’ as a skill, only on Trident weapon skills.

I just tried the Meteor Shower and it did some damage, but nothing nerf worthy I took it out about the same speed I would on my Warrior.

What skill is it that kills the Treb so fast, and how much faster can an Ele destroy it than another class?

OddFinrir, he did say the Ele uses a Staff.

Could you get your Ele’s stats and specc by any chance?

It’s just a separate PvP window now, the button is still along the top of the screen, second from last.

Most of the legendaries are hideous tbh, they’re either messy and just badly designed like the Scepter, or they’re a child’s toy like the Unicorn Bow or the Pistol that shoots streamers. I don’t see why the Greatsword gets two awesome looking skins either, when every thing else is limited to one and most of them look awful.

Personally though I will be D/D and whilst the Incinerator isn’t the greatest looking weap, I’ll still probably get caught up in the grind for one.

I think, because he quoted me, he is on about popping Tornado and then cancelling it straight away, or after a knockdown so you have 16+seconds of Stability.

It’s a bit lame that our Elite itself is quite kitten, but you can’t knock that much Stabilty, as far as Elites go it’s pretty good imo.