Guild Wars 2

Yes. They are bad and should feel bad.

Signet builds work well in early game, but their main strength comes from the flat precision bonus, which becomes much weaker in higher levels, such that it’s not worth taking over level 60.
There’s no group support at all, no defense, no CC, no period of learning to actually use utilities.

Basically, it’s the W/Mo with Mending from GW1

It’s actually closer to 40 or 50 that a straight signet build becomes less group oriented. It’s also not dependent on precision from the single signet supplying that stat in such weak amount. And, contrary to your statement, there is still support in the form of defense and cc in a signet build. If a warrior, even in a signet build, hasn’t learned to utilize class utilities by level 40 they can’t blame anyone or anything but themselves.

An opposing faction, at the very least, should not be allowed to pick up a warrior’s bannner and run away with it. I don’t feel anyone but the warrior setting the banner should be allowed to move said banner unless, as Leo and zTales stated, they are in the warrior’s war party.

Kellhus.8071:

I disagree, and my warrior is 80.

If you play warrior dps, most go with GS and rely on setting up HB which is easily avoidable and you can counter with strong damage while they put out zero with HB on it’s traited 8 second CD. A bad warrior who stays with GS on a miss will die before GS is up again, a good one will shift to something/shield and block with 5, followed by a stun to create space again, or chain into another HB.

Neither of those are better survivability than what any ele can get just by traiting into water and getting regen or protection/cripple on aura shifts into earth — not to mention the heals and escapes we get by weapon selection alone.

That being said, a really well played eviserate triple axe warrior can be a problem given their 8 second evis, and weapon swap crits with sigil of intell, and how quickittenhey will build adren (I know on my warrior running this is the only time I’ve landed a 10k crit against anyone, and the target was an ele with no toughness). But, again, this build is only a threat from a good player, and does come down to who plays better against their opponent.

I can’t remember the last time I lost to a thief on either my warrior or ele 1v1, the problem most people make with them is not understanding that AEs still hit them when in stealth. The moment one engages you strip off the conditions they place, drop into Earth dagger and 4 to 5, or ice dagger 3 to 2, fire dagger 4 and 3, or lighting dagger 3 and 4 away (or just 5 and knock them away). Point is there are multiple combinations ( and I only listed dagger!) the leave glass cannon thief builds completely exposed.

And if I’m seeing a ton of pistol 3 thief spammers, I’ll swap to a staff build and earth 3 to let them kill themselves, or just mind my end better and dodge them to negate more than half the damage. I think people are caught up in WoW playing where one strong ability means the class is OP, without remember that a well used dodge is there specifically for that.

I have only known thieves lacking in gear to go with a ‘glass cannon’ build. A competent thief sets up his traits and gear for the most likely situations he/she will encounter. As a thief, most glass cannon builds are easily countered.
My main is a thief. I have only lost to an elementalist once, and that was a pre-80, which was as a sPvP roamer, and I have yet to lose 1v1 to an elementalist post-80. I have won the majority of elementalist encounters on my warrior and ranger post-80. I think I may have lost three or four encounters with elementalists in all (one on my warrior and the others on my ranger out of nearly 20+/day), mainly due to ethanol/meperidine intoxication.
I recently began my journey as an elementalist (lvl 54) and have been greatly disappointed in the class’s burst and survivability in pve and pvp compared to my thief, warrior and ranger. Even my lvl 21 guardian does more damage with a higher survivability rate in comparison to what my elementalist was capable of at a similar level.
I feel that the elementalist class definitely needs some attention from the devs. Playing an elementalist has been far less enjoyable than any other class I’ve played thus far.

@GankSinatra
I think he was simply trying to get that cushion to prevent being blown up by burst from another character without the ability to retaliate.
About three hours ago my wife powered down her pc, walked out of the office and went out to the garden… all without a word. This is unsual behavior for my wife as she always tells me if she’s going to go outside or leave the house. I went outside and asked her what was bothering her. She said a Thief had just killed her in under 4 seconds and she had been able to do so little damage to the thief before she died that she didn’t even see a dent in his health bar.
My wife’s elementalist has a tad over 1.7k toughness and 15.2k or so health. She can’t understand how she can have such good gear with a fair amount of health and tougness and still lose a fight before she hardly has time to react. As she’s too upset to ask without the risk of being banned… had Anet looked into thief burst versus other players with decent toughness and health values? It honestly has to be a bit frustrating to have spent so much time leveling and gearing a certain character/class, due to preference of playstyle and mechanics just to have another class come along and blow you up without you having a chance to retaliate.
I’ve played my guardian since then hoping she doesn’t remember that my main is a thief.

The inexpensive route is to use drops and rewards as you level while choosing your battles wisely. You can always check the trading post for inexpensive armor and weapon upgrades. I would advise you not to spend all of your money purchasing new gear for every level you attain. If you absolutely have to have new gear, you should only do so every 5 levels or more to keep from going broke.
Going by actual play time, you will level too fast for most purchased upgrades to be worth the expense. However, after you achieve level 40, if you have a strong, consistant income you may look into purchasing rare (yellow) gear from the trading post as they have much higher stats and will be more effective for more levels than fine or masterwork gear. Most people are selling rare gear on the trading post for only a few copper more than what they’d get by selling it to a vendor.

I’m feeling lazy and opted to not read through all 12 pages of posts, but has anyone tried ipconfig /release /renew and /dnsflush? I just wonder if dns cache poisoning could be a possible cause of this issue.

As mcl mentioned, using a password which is longer than allowed can cause such issues. You’ll likely need to contact customer support to rectify the situation.

I’ve heard that some guilds/groups use such tactics to pester or enervate other players until they leave to make room for their own members.

This isn’t likely the cause of your issue, but be sure certain programs such as PeerBlock or any IP blocking programs aren’t running in the background.

Dual-Core AMD Athlon II P340 Processor- 2.2GHz – As already stated, your CPU is underpowered for this game.
3072MB RAM – You may want to consider bumping up to 8Gb of ram. This is possible to do for under $50 USD.
AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 – Your GPU is also underpowered for this game.
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit – OS is good to go.

As for what Ceallach stated, I suspect you’ll spend closer to $750 to purchase a system that will run this game smoothly on moderate settings. You can usually find some decent, budget machines on http://www.tigerdirect.com/ and http://www.newegg.com/. You will definitely want to shop around. Don’t take the first deal that you come across. If you’re in a sizeable city, you may want to consider looking into a local independent computer shop as well.
As for building your own system, you can easily do it yourself. As long as you know how to handle the hardware and install your own software, and can find wholesale parts you should be able to build a decent system for a fitting price.

Yes, the camera should be able to be zoomed out quite a bit more. The current camera zoom setting doesn’t allow for proper situational awareness in pvp situations. A few players may enjoy looking at every kitten in their character’s armor, but many prefer to see what’s going on around them without having to constantly pan the camera around. The current camera settings make it feel as though I’m playing a bad 3rd person shooter.
Or, we could join this thread. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Camera-related-Issue-Mega-thread