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If you want to be near unkillable while still having healing abilities and no damage I’d go for something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWl8ApVo1CxZI0ENRCRk5cOmfhXHcdA-TViEABJ8AAoZ/Bw0F4o6PIoEcXlfAY+rhLBQzHBAyAwsAA-w
You can always swap out sentinel for nomad’s if you really want to as well.. you just lose hp and gain toughness, the amount of condi clear this can put out you could do that if you wanted. But keep in mind you’ll have even less damage pressure than sentinel (which is literally almost nothing.) so to answer question 3 no you will not be able to pressure anything, not even a full zerker ele. Your damage will be crap.
Also I chose hammer over mace because the spammable blast will do more healing than a mace and shield will if there’s waters, but if there is none then you can go mace/shield (then you will really, really have no damage pressure.) And it just has better utility overall (ring of warding is amazing and so is immobilize.)
Change retributive armor to VII if you go mace shield.
Another one you can go for if you want a bit more damage would be:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fVAQJASWl8ApVo1CxZI0ENRCRk5cOmfhXHcdA-TFyGABA8AAWZ/hr0FUo6P3pE8JlfEcJAI+IAQGAmFA-w
Can go soldier backpiece if don’t have celestial. Now your burn will hurt a bit more for pressure and you do slightly more damage. Still way overly tanky and bunker.
I suggest not going meditations as they have no support since they are the guardian’s selfish utilities. Shouts are much more party oriented and give support, whereas meditations just support yourself. Shouts are always the best support utilities along with consecrations. You can also get renewed focus and change elite focus to indomitable courage if you want more stability, or absolute resolution if you feel you don’t need extra stability (lots of guardians or something.) But book is very good for support now especially with the elite focus trait change.
There’s some other flexible changes you could make with gear too if you want, I’ll watch the thread if you have any questions about that… but I would stick with the trait choices as that’s very solid for wvw and surviving.
EDIT: I also wouldn’t recommend to use a build like this as full bunker is very outdated and guardians lean towards going damage now with getting support from shouts and blasts etc, (still tankiness from soldier gear though, you could never survive full zerker or something.) But you can obviously play what you want.
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Racial skills are all pretty useless overall.. you never use them at end game because they’re weaker than normal skills (for good reason, else all people would be one race for the most powerful racial.)
So pick whatever race you like the most. If you can’t decide I’d suggest Asuran because they fit the role of engineer the best (they’re all inventors and geniuses and tinkerers.)
My engineer is a norn.
Aw man, I was excited to make a tanky frontline power build that spams flamethrower and spammable blast finisher comparable to guardian hammer… Still might try it but the retal looks like a killer and still not the best damage.
AH is still the meta from what I know, since it allows you to lose survivability for more damage since you can heal up easier. The new meta rune I’d be looking at is Hoelbrak, from what I know many guardians are running these, including myself.
Also expect to see more guardians using book elites with the new elite focus soon. For damage and support.
Retaliation tags stuff in wvw, if you run in with your zerg and get retal from a guardian or yourself (phantasms for your mesmer, elixir b or blasting light fields on engie) this will tag stuff. So just stick on your commander’s butt and support the heavies etc with your heals and boons and you should be tagging tons of stuff with retal.
I never fully grasped HoD’s zerg numbers until now. Good lord, I have yet to run into a HoD zerg that wasn’t around 50 people. I don’t know how long we can hold out against those numbers.
They have to run those numbers, anything under 2to1 numberswise they get annihilated. It’s crazy how bad some of these groups are.
I dunno, every yak’s bend fight I’ve gotten into I don’t even take damage and you all tend to fall over instantly. And I’m not talking about some outnumbered fight. We had a commander with a bunch of pugs @ na and kept wiping a full guild group on our bl. I never had a boon stripped or my health go below 90%. I’ll have fun getting bags from you for the rest of the week.
Yes please, remove the aoe cap… I would love to see all of you whiners die instantly to my zerg who engages fights with 20+ seconds of retaliation on EVERYONE. You would ALL die INSTANTLY and that would be hilarious. Zerging is not mindless unless you run around flipping paper with some pug commander. An evenly matched zerg will wipe time and time and time again against the same zerg who knows what they are doing and are more skilled. (boon stripping stability, blasting nulls and blasting waters when needed, frost blasts etc..) You guys would poop your pants if you ran into a real zerg that isn’t just a bunch of pugs flipping paper. It’s skill based.
They should really, it will also hinder people bringing in rally bots because they can just get books for their alts to level them up instead. I for one don’t like taking my uplevels into battlegrounds to kitten my group… Karma training or not.
It’s always terrible around SMC even in smaller fights like 50v50. It’s unplayable when it’s a 3 side clash of 40+ from each server anywhere. It did this when I was on CD and same thing now on HoD. I’ll have some of my skills work but the ones I want to work won’t. Like for example sometimes my Hold the Line will go off instantly while spamming Stand Your Ground for 20 mins before and after. Totally random. It does die down as more people wipe though.
It seems a lot of people will lag and some won’t lag it all, it takes turns. It’s really dumb because a lot of the time I can’t press ANY skills while some guy training me can do whatever he wants, it’s frustrating.
I really think you should change the way conditions and stuff calculate (it has to keep recalculating every single tick which is insane when 200 people are bleeding) It should just be a static bleed number based on what your condition damage etc was at the time you hit them with it, instead of constantly changing with your stacks and might etc. Because it always starts shortly after the battle, not when we’re getting ready to engage… and by that time it’s too late to save yourself except running and spamming your skills trying to make them work.
My main is an engie and I have zero issues with retal. Learn to blast water fields and heal back up, you will NOT die instantly unless you are a total scrub, in which case you just need to l2p. Strip their boons, get them to break apart so they can’t aoe retal, ignore the retal and be where you’re supposed to be so you get blasted waters to get your hp back, stop wearing full zerker and get some vit etc.
I’ve probably downed myself once with retal and that was because I threw a grenade barrage on top of their stack after portal bombing like an idiot, instead of rolling out of the portal and attacking when I was supposed to, which was MY OWN FAULT not because retal is some op boon.
Also, I bet 99% of you are same scrubs who cry because you get wrecked by arrow carts (probably because you’re all squishy zerks in pve builds.) You probably have no idea that retal is the one of the only counters to arrow carts that no one can reach. Where is your god now if now we can’t counter those arrow carts with aoe retal?
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You take away the AoE cap, and suddenly retaliation becomes the greatest boon to ever exist.
And if you suggest reworking retaliation so it has a cap then you’re just running in a circle.. remove one cap, add another. That’s just silly. In fact I wish they would remove it so all you pug zergers would die instantly to retal.
If you think ZvZ is just some karma train, you need to get away from pug commanders flipping paper towers and join a REAL guild/alliance that does REAL zerg WvW. It is incredibly skill based and you can beat zergs twice your size and do incredible things when you are organized. ZvZ is the best part of WvW.
And on another note, as a zerg you should be looking to break up their blob so you CAN aoe them without a cap, which requires skill. You should be tossing rings/lines/fears/pushbacks/ccs to break them all up and split them up into a big scraggly pile so you can hit who you want to hit. If you actually WvWed in a real zerg you would already know this.
If you keep getting the emails it means that they KNOW YOUR PASSWORD. You should change it right away. Also, changing your account name isn’t a bad idea either.
I also had three. I believe it was from some chinese brute force attacks. Changing your password should be enough, but I’d also make a brand new e-mail and change your account to that… that’s what I’m going to do.