Guild Wars 2

I’m used to do Lupicus with 2 shortbows (both with sigil of battle) for constant weapon swap for swiftness, fury and might for me and my pet. Never had problems doing it. Usually Healing Spring + Runes of Dwayna (full set) + Settler’s Set is enough to control a few hits from him. And for those stronger hits, I always take “Protect Me” and Signet of Stone for this fight.

I made a few tweaks in my spec that made my pets a bit more reliable. First i must say that I run a condition build with 20/30/0/0/20, with Full rampager’s (P/Pr/Cond), Undead Runes (T/Cond) and working on Rabid Jewels (Pr/T/Cond – still considering some healing gems).

From Skirmishing line I got Pet’s Prowess to increase their damage and Carnivorous Appetite, so they can heal on crit. The other trait is Quick Draw (mainly run bows, with some melee weapons on bags for when needed).

From Beastmastery I got Compassion Training (pets heal for more) and Rending Strikes (mostly run Jaguar/Devourer/Shark, can be changed to any sort of pet you run).

With this setup my Jaguar can stay up for a very long time during champions and world bosses. It doesn’t work that great on dungeons, but it is rarely an insta kill (except for agony attacks). I also try to keep him (and me) with regen as much as possible, via signet, and via Healing Spring with projectiles combo finisher or Troll Ungent (those heals always stay on CD, I use them whenever it’s possible).

Tbh, for GS i prefer Rending Strikes by far. The trait said anything that the bleeds must be yours so you can have the extra 10% damage. So, unless i’m wrong, it doesn’t matter who is applying the bleed or how many stacks it has. You will get the 10% extra, even for just one stack.

So, with several classes applying and maintaining bleeds better than a GS warrior you just need to put as much of vulnerability you can to whack your targets and see big numbers with your 100b.

Deep Cuts seems more suitable for conditions builds with 1h swords, where your goal is to get to 25 stacks faster than other classes and keep those stacks high so they can burn your target’s HP.

Depends on what you want to do. If you want DPS then go with the berserker one (PPC), if you are more concerned about survivability, then go Soldier (PTV). My opinion: Go with Knight’s gear (power toughness precision) until you are sure if are confident enough to risk yourself with berserker or if you prefer a more conservative playstyle with Soldier.

If you want more survivablity, you can always go with Sigil of Blood. It combines well with Omnomberry Pies to keep you up for long fights. DPS wise, I like Fire and Air Sigils.

GS only becomes really good if you put 20 points in Arms to get Forceful Greatsword trait. Without the trait, Axe/Axe is better than GS. But, the most important is: Try all the weapons combination, and pick up the one you like the most. GS is great? Yes, but dual Axe is great as well. It basically depends on how you make your build, and how you adapt yourself to the weapon.

I have this same bug. But mine started after I updated my GeForce 520 driver to this 310.90 a few days ago. So I assume it’s actually some bug with the nvidia driver, not the game itself. If you haven’t seem this before you might just have been lucky. Some of my guildies have this bug as well, and it started after the driver update.

You need to do all the dailies in the achievement list to get the daily achievement. People who already have 2 laurels are people who were fast/lucky enough to finish that kitten combo kills daily before the reset (i’m one of those, and it was stressing, to say the least), and then did the other daily after the reset (the one with the dodges and revivals).

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

hithlain.4385:

I’m 58 with a hammer and never had issues with veterans of my level… except those who poison, poison is awful…

Just.. why hammer? GS faster, have mobility, CC and have more damage.. Hammer #4 (why do you need blowout without charge skill?) and #5 is good for pvp, but totally useless on leveling, well immobilize not very useful against mobs too..

Simply put: It’sfun. Also, the 3rd skill on it’s auto attack is a protection light combo field. It helps A LOT in several fights (33% damage reduction is always good). And #2 is a Blast Combo finisher that does a very good single target and AoE damage. Also, the blowout is more usefull in PvE as an interrupt, not to simply blow enemies away.

Also, the reasons you are giving to not use hammer as a viable weapon just works for very low levels. After 30, you realize that, yes, those skills that you judge as “useless” have it’s uses.

The mob moves a lot? Lock him in your #5 area and beat him or prevent other mobs to join the fight at melee range.

Too many mobs coming to you stacked? Use your immolize and break their formation. Even the knockback works for this purpose breaking their formations and numbers, and interrupting them as well.

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

NickFireman.7243:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Razor.9132:

If you want more offensive range take the torch, otherwise focus.

Torch animations great, but pretty useless. Even autoattack cause burning, why i need 2 more burns?

To keep 100% burn uptime. Burn is one the most powerful conditions in the game. So if you can keep it up for most of the time, your target will die way faster.

On my Guardian I mainly run with hammer. But my off-set is scepter and torch. It’s an awesome combination.

On leveling hammer is very weak if compare with GS or Sword+something. On leveling i need focus, because that shield #5 give me great protection against veteran mobs.

Well, if it works for you then keep using it. I leveled using Scepter and Torch and never had problems with Veterans. Sure, on low levels, GS is better than Hammer, but Torch is equal to Focus, it just depends on your playstyle.

hithlain.4385:

Don’t remember what the two torches skills for the guardian are. Does it create a fire zone? If so, it could be good to use for a combo.

And you cannot have too many burns

The #4 is a burn aura that you can launch at foes (wich, in my opnion, is it’s best use); and #5 Is a Flame Breath cone AoE.

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Razor.9132:

If you want more offensive range take the torch, otherwise focus.

Torch animations great, but pretty useless. Even autoattack cause burning, why i need 2 more burns?

To keep 100% burn uptime. Burn is one the most powerful conditions in the game. So if you can keep it up for most of the time, your target will die way faster.

On my Guardian I mainly run with hammer. But my off-set is scepter and torch. It’s an awesome combination.

For the acolytes just keep running around around the room waiting for the new acolytes. Abuse your dodges to gain distance and you will be fine.

For the gate part, if you are the glass cannon of your party, then you should be the one destroying the controller, not on the braziers. Just go in there and you will burn it fast. I run with a much more defensive/supportive build (sonic boon) and it dont take me more than a minute to destroy it. Just position yourself out of the shaman line of fire and you will be safe to destroy the controller.

SoldierBoy.9642:

Where do i get the sigils? Is it for the upgrade slot of the weapon?

Yes, sigils are for the upgrade slots in your weapons.

Sigils, in lower levels usually come already placed in weapons when you get them. At lower levels you should’t bother that much about sigils since you will be changing your weapons a lot.

But, if you really want some sigils, you can look for them on TP (auction house) and/or look for their recipes on the wiki. Many Sigils and Runes can be crafted. Sigils by weapon craft professions (weaponsmith, huntsman and artificer) and Runes by armor craft professions (armorsmith, leatherwork and tailoring).

I use Bloodlust on my Rifle, Air on my Bow (going for Fire as soon as possible) and Blood on my GS. Combine Blood sigil, Omno Pies and Shout build and I can stick DPSing targets for very long time.

Unfortunately this bug is happenning for quite a few time already and, as long as I know, in several servers. It’s still possible to complete the challenge, but it depends on wich of the 3 sharks are still “killable”. Depending on wich, you can target and hit it with a few skills above the cave or inside the cave, in the water, with your underwater ranged weapon. I did it this week with my Guardian. Had to find the spot above the red shark (that was stuck in the ground) and AoE it.

Simple question: Are you 2 mesmers?

If so, the answer is that it’s showing the runes of your pvp gear wich, by default, has the runes of your class.

Unless something really changed while i was not looking, Arcing Slice is still just applying Fury, instead of Might. There was a post a few weeks ago explaining that it was an error. They were thinking about changing the skill to make it more viable, but they gave up and brought it back to it’s original work, but they forgot the tooltip.

Like said by Karma, Arcing Slice is really not worthing use. You get more benefit from FGJ/SoR and full adrenaline bar (with at least Berserker Power trait) for your 100Blades and Whirlwind attacks.

Oglaf.1074:

rogerwilko.6895:

STOP !

Hammer time.

and you can use Hammer for trash and swap to GS or whatever at boss.

They don’t share specc, so that really isn’t that viable. You either specc for Hammer or Greatsword.

It’s not about the spec, it’s about the weapon usefulness. The thing that they dont have the same spec just means that one of them will be sub-optimal, and, in that case, he is speccing for GS, since it’s his weapon for bosses.

And for trashes, you can use the Hammer with a GS spec since will actually just need the cc’s, not the damage from it. Like I said, Hammers do a great job in gravelings from AC exp for example, better than GS tbh. You keep interrupting/stunning the worst from Breeders and Scavengers, and the rest of the group destroy them very fast.

Depends on the situation. Most of the times, I run GS/Rifle, swapping those when needed.

For TA blossoms or when condition damage may be good, I go for GS/LB.

For places like AC exp. I use the hammer to deal with the gravelings, specially with breeders and scavengers. It’s also VERY usefull on AC Path 2 trap gauntlet, no need to kite, just swing the hammer with stuns, slows and knockbacks. Then on bosses, I get my GS back into action.

A GreatAxe would rock. We already have 2 hands versions for swords (greatswords) and maces (hammers). Why not a 2h version for the axes??? It would make the warrior in certain armors look more gruesome and vicious.

I did this challenge with my necro this weekend on Jade Quarry. All sharks were above the ground with green names, but the challenge was saying 2/3. Went to the underwater cave where we should fight the sharks and voilá, the last shark was there and it was red. Killed it, got the skill point.

Try go to the cave and look for any red shark. Also, try using an underwater ranged weapon and set auto target on and start attacking, it will probably tag anything stuck on the walls, and maybe it will be possible to hit it.

Not sure about Fireheart Rise, but yes, you can find this set pieces in several karma vendors through Orr maps.

Seems like a minor bug. It happens to me when my foe is way bigger then me (Like giants in Orr). It seems like if, i cant hit it’s body, just it’s legs, the skill doesn’t hit at all… just keep running close to the enemy but dont do the finishing strike.

I’m running with the Sonic Boon build already linked, I’m liking it a lot. I didn’t lost the dps i thought i would and now I can keep fury up 100% of the fight time.

My gear is still a lot different from the spec, still working on Knight’s set. But the only different thing i will do compared to the build is the runes.

I’ll keep my soldier runes. With the Signet of Rage I already lost a good “team” skill, since banner gives almost the same buffs that the sigil (with less time, but party wide) and has a AoE ress. So I wont give up on every shout cleaning a condition.

What I do is spam FGJ! and On My Mark! e save Shake it Off! for when I actually need a condition removal, like when I get 2 or 3 conditions at once or me and my party are knocked back/down (if in melee heavy group).

Each shout in my current state is healing for about 1k, 1.2k, wich, since sonic boon is a dps oriented spec, not enterily support, is a good number to keep my health up enough to resist the bigger damage from bosses high damage skills.

I used s/s – longbow for PvE for a long time too. I liked it a lot. Full Rampager’s set with Coral jewels. Bleeds ticking for over a 100. Reached 20+ bleed stacks very fast.

Of course, you cant compare it with the Raw Damage from GS or Hammer. But it can go very decent with DW swords.

You just need to pay attention cuz certain party comb can spoil your bleed stacks. Used to run with 2 shatter mesmers. Never had problems with them, but when we joined another friend and his d/d earth elementalist (or it was d/scepter, not sure now), i saw my bleeds ticks for smaller amounts. That’s one the reasons i dropped it.

Again, like any glass cannon spec, you need to be very aware of when to dodge.

One thing you can try is to change your elite skill to the Battle Standard Banner. If the npcs are all kinda grouped as corpses you can drop the banner in a position where most of them are inside banner area of effect and they will all rez. I had the same problem with my ranger… Had to kite all mobs and keep using the skill for my pet to revive the npcs, cuz i had much more than just 5 + boss. Took ages to kill all of them.

Psybunny.8906:

Carry both in your bag and swap when needed, they are situational. If I was you and had to get one before the other, I’d get the rifle first and then the bow.

^ This. I carry both too. If I need pure damage against my target (when i cant get close enough to use my GS) I use the rifle.

If it’s an AoE fight or a fight that conditions would rock, I go for my bow. I rarely run with elementalists, and when i go, my friend prefers Earth over Fire, so the fire combo field of the bow does wonders in AoE fights.

Kyosji.8961:

So, you can stack identical sigils, but you cannot use 2 different ones? That makes ZERO sense.

Exactly. And it does makes sense. It prevents people to get 3 sigils buffs at same time (imagine a warrior with DW axes/swords/maces and rifle/bow), like power, precision and codition damage for example.

The reason you can have 2 of the same working is just to makes easier to get the 25 stacks cap.

Fine… I agree that you have the right to ask for it. But, as far as it is known, the movement for melee classes are working as intended. So this is not a bug.

If you would like that change to be made, which, i have nothing against as long as i have the option to deactivate it, you should post it on the Suggestions forum, not the Bug one, since it’s not a bug.

Look, i dont see any problem with this… i came from WoW, and, as far as i know, WoW has a similar melee movement schemes… So i see no problem with this… If you just need to hit a skill and the game do the rest for you, then you would be no more than a bot, just watching the game, like in strategy games.

I like to move after my mob. And specially in this game where dodge and run are vital for survival, an auto-move on attacks seems a deadly trap.

I already hate when i use skills with movement on bad timing (like sword #2 and GS #5) and end downed due to being crushed by a boss. If every attack did that i would be like crazy looking for a way to deactivate it.

It seems like it’s not working in the whole game… There is no point in giving a token with the vendor being in an instanced area which we can’t access if we have already finished the quests… Before giving the tokens, they should make sure we would be able to access the vendor.