Guild Wars 2

Brutaly.6257:

It is a fact that in a damage scenario sword/scepter has half the damage as axe.

The only real addition of burns is ToJ, and if you trait to play tomes (bottom traits).

Trait for a melee quickness build and come back and say that scepter and sword is fine compared to axe.

Other sources of burning (that are not nerfed): Ashes of Just (which IMO is a much stronger grandmaster than the all-the-time-passives one) and Symbolic burning (which you can easily have more of with FireBrand thanks to the short recharge of the healing mantra… think Zeal 233 Honor 322 Firebrand 222). TBH I think that Scepter/Focus + Axe/Shield might be my go-to weapon sets with FB.

Well I think that Firebrand will do a great job of improving the current symbolic build.

Zeal 233
Honor {2 or 3 – 3 with the healing mantra I think}/{2 or 3 – 2 if your team stacks might without you}/2
Firebrand 222

Scepter+Focus / Hammer (Or Mace/Shield for 2 more sources of Aegis)

Healing Mantra / Bane Signet / Stunbreak (Stand Your Ground is good for Stability) / Wall of Reflection or Purging Flames (Depending on situation) / Feel My Wrath or Renewed Focus

So I’ve played about 50 matches this tourney (last 3 days)… I’d say that there are normally 2-3 obvious bots across the 10 players in most matches.

Aside from never talking, usually appearing offline, not coordinating with others, and never marking/taking marked targets, they react slowly (which is their most obvious tell). As an example, if you cap a point and about 2 seconds after the point swaps you have 2 teammates running straight there, and when they change they just start running for the next non-friendly point, they might be bots. Also they get “lock on” when fighting, and chase their enemy target all around, regardless of on/off point. If you are lucky enough to get a bot or 2 chasing you, you can kite between points and take them out of the game, making it easy for the rest of your team to win.

Frustrating for 2 reasons: those that actually play the game don’t like teammates that aren’t actually players, and also these bots are often better than some human players on teams.

I (and others) have been reporting them as we notice them, but there are alot of them in Silver right now.

Orpheal.8263:

Yeah, and you need like 100 of these by this item introduced token items just to get it …

And we got 1

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So… many people (me included) got well over 100 tokens out of 20 packs (3000 gems). Not free, but not the RM sink that many feared.

TyPin.9860:

In light of the expansion and the apparent condition focus on mirage I wanted to try some condi-power burst for WvW roaming. I came up with the following build: click me

Now keep in mind that the shield and trinkets stats are only the way they are, because I took stuff I had lying around in in my bank. I am not sure yet, if I should go for full viper on everything… However, I have been struggling with a choice for runes. Currently I use Berserker runes. I kinda feel, unless I hit a very good shatter, that the condies have not much impact on the fight and I am contemplating switching the runes (also maybe food… not sure). But I am unsure what to go for.

I know things might change with new runes and the grieving stat combo, but I wanna get some practice and feeling for it, before I really commit to it…

Also, if anyone want to suggest using scepter… I don’t really like that weapon. Despite it having consistent condition pressure, I wouldn’t really wanna use it.

I know scepter isn’t for everyone… but I really like scepter/sword as a backup weapon set… those 2 hard blocks with short cooldowns are fantastic.

Benjamin Arnold.3457:

UI bug :P fix incoming!

Thanks… though it’s just a display error. 10 rocks still bring it down.

Kronos.2560:

If you go glint/vent and all the gear/traits for healing you actually do quite well. You give a regeneration tick of 500+ to all allies (not to mention the other boons you are applying). And the ventari heal spam is good. Druid still wins out a bit in the spike heals but with 500-600 regen per tick from just standing there … not too shabby.

Although if you are wanting the new spec for healing I suspect it will be a condi based one. Shortbow at least is condi based on leaks etc.

Trouble is that your regen ticks won’t matter, cause any boonsharing Chrono will overwrite it. The regen with the longest duration is the one that “works”, not the one with the highest per-tick heal.

So now that expertise and concentration are stats, you’re going to add them to Celestial gear, right? …. right?

Don’t forget to convert all the condition- and boon-enhancing traits from traitlines to just be concentration and expertise as well please.

Can you use crowbars, etc directly from the shared inventory or do you have to drag them to a char’s inventory before clicking on the airship debris?

I really like DH with symbols and traps for fractals: Longbow and Mace/Focus

DoogySnowStalker.2069:

Special Circumstances

*DPS trial was originally 30 seconds, doubled damage dealt within 30 seconds time frame to match amount of fury procs within 60 seconds

Overall DPS in 30 seconds
*Remorseless: 26,549.5
*Predator’s Onslaught: 26,736.6

Overall DPS in 60 seconds
*Remorseless: 53,099
*Predator’s Onslaught: 53,473.2

For clarity’s sake: this isn’t DPS, is it? This is total damage dealt? DPS would be 26,549/30, 26,736/30, 53099/60, and 53473/60, right?

Also your first comment indicates that you were having trouble with varying time units… recommend you actually use DPS (i.e. damage per second) as your unit of measure and you will avoid any problems like this in the future.

Good work though, thanks for investigating this.

Sclerite Greatsword.

So… of the 19 “old dyes”, in this set, one of them is Abyss.

I opened 25 dyes today. Got 4 bottles of the new colors, and 3 other rares. 2 Abyss and a Spearmint.

Last refuge is terrible. Hard to catch is underwhelming but not that bad.

I also hate the necro 5-pt minor that makes a minion. terrible in stuff like Jade Maw.

AH is a bad crutch. Specially staffhumping AH guards. Its up there with bearbow as terrible builds you see too often.

I agree. Also the Asuran racial skills “radiation field” and “pain inverter” should be Glamours and traitable by mesmers.

So to summarize, the absolute minimum to be a decent ranger is 20/0/0/10/0 with spotter and vigorous spirits, and a sword.

If you pug with your ranger (like I do) and you can’t rely on your teammates to cleanse your condis, you might be tempted with this: 20/0/30/20/0 so you can pick up EB. It’s a bit less damage than those listed above, but you can still melee, provide all the manditory team support you can, and you’re going to be a useful addition to your team. Unlike bearbow. Which is terrible.

What i really wish is that all racial skills had a “type” that was used by one or more classes and could be traited. For instance, Charr have a shout (war cry), a trap (shrapnel mine), and a trick (hidden pistol). Before anything gets buffed, let racial skills be traited by appropriate class traits.

Also, some class skills arent properly in categories where they can be traited (elites especially).

Finally… i think that some classes have different named skills that have identical mechanics. e.g. symbols=wells, marks=traps. in this case, racial skills should be traitable by equivelent categories. as an example, the charr shrapnel mine (trap) should be traitable by rangers, thieves, and (via mark traits) by necros.

So I have 2 questions regarding +Condition Duration / +Burning Duration for Guardians. If you don’t really know, please don’t speculate. Please only post if you know the answer.

1. For Virtue of Justice’s active effect, all allies get burning on their next attack. That burning is blue/red and looks different than regular burning. Does the guardian’s burning duration and condition duration affect the ally’s VoJ strike, or does each ally’s own condition duration affect it?

2. For Shattered Aegis’ effects, the same question: when the guardian’s aegis is triggered on an ally, and the ally does their PBAOE burning blast, is that 2-sec burning affected by the guardian’s, the ally’s, or no one’s +burning/condition duration?

bbanfillov.9308:

Just one problem. These end-game elitest are now poisoning this game with “Only 80s allowed” In a AC group. Do they not realize everyones levels scale back down to 30 and stats are averaged out depending on your final stat count? Being a level 80 doesn’t mean your debunked stat amount will be higher. It will be the max amount of stats a level 30 can have at that level which is pretty easy to accomplish for a level 30.

So, 3 things:
1. With the downleveling (say to L35 for ACEM), a L60 wearing L50 gear has worse stats than a L50 with L50 gear… this is a great reason to require L80s because people don’t re-gear every level while levelling. (i.e. a L80 is much more likely to have gear matching their level than someone from L35-79)

2. If you want to level a character, join the group with one of your L80s and then tell the party that you are going to swap to your different class alt. Nearly every party I’ve been in (and I do a lot of dungeons) is cool with that… I guess because they can see I have at least one L80 already.

3. In the time it took you to write your post, you could have levelled a character to 80 and then you could be elitist too.

Just noticed that they also raised the wall in path 1, so you cant jump on the slope anymore.

So the new path 1:
The kill 2 inquest/kite 1 still works.
The 3 golems are tethered together so it is very hard to split them.
The final boss has an additional gold with her. They are splittable, though both call a few silver adds.
We ended up 4-manning the 3 golems together and the last fight, so it’s not impossible.

But,the days of 20-minute path 1 SE speedclears are over =(