Guild Wars 2

Pros:
Nice mechanics on the Wyvern fight.
Revenant skills offered a very nice change of pace from the other classes, though I spent most of the time with the hammer. I was not very fond of the axe or mace, it also took me awhile to remember it had a 1200 range, I kept using it as melee.

Cons:
Was unable to talk to guildies during the beta.
Would have been nice to have some choice in armor stats, as apposed to celestial.
Little disappointed in the gliding, which seems to be environmentally specific.

Concerns\General thoughts:
I am hoping that we can change up the utilities for the various legends, other wise it will seem to make the class very rigid, especially since you only have 1 weapon slot.
Also not sure if it was intended but the hammer skill 3, Phase smash. I noticed if targeted Wyvren and it was in a burning area I would take fire damage, not sure if that was intended.
The difference in Legends was nice, but I did not really like the self-inflecting penalties some of the utilities caused, since other classes don’t really have those types of penalties. Of course that could change with specializations. I did seem to spend most time in the Dwarf Legend, only time I switch was for the double heal, and the demon elite. Just generally speaking, with the recent stability changes I can defiantly see the Dwarf legend being useful, with it’s “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” stability skill; it might bring back some of those pushes. It also reminded me a little of the Hammerdin form Diablo 2.

All in all, very fun two hours, only crashed to desktop once, I hope to be included in future tests.

Title says it all, that or make them more obtainable via other or cheaper means. Currently 200 gems for 7 dyes, that rely solely on RNG, your not guaranteed a rare, your not even guaranteed you won’t get a dye you already have. You can get 1 unidentified RNG dye for 5 laurels, they can be crafted but again at a very high cost, which would be acceptable if when I craft a unidentified color rare dye, if I knew I would at least get an uncommon dye, but it doesn’t. It’s also one of the few items needed for gifts used in crafting a Legendary that isn’t in the loot table, other being Box o Fun. (That I know of, which I think is equally unreasonable.)

I do like the idea of the Gem store’s Color swatch, but with that being added it would be nice to see the unidentified dyes return to the loot table. Even if it was at a slightly lower drop rate then it was before. I wouldn’t even be opposed to have a PvP reward track where it was possible to obtain dyes from.

Edit: spelling.

Lettuce.2945:

He runs a similar build to mine when he goes bunker and I had a conversation with him about it like a couple weeks back. He has lower over all stats but it still works for him. I run 2.3k power, 24-25k hp with vit stacks, 38% crit rate, 188% crit dmg, 2.5k armor, 688 condi dmg, and 712 healing power. He runs a mixture of gears like me, I just rounded it out more. The stats I mentioned is with food fyi.

I would love to see this build, or Nex’s, I’ve just hit 80 on my ele, and have been holding off on gear, but after a hour on gw2skills.net I still haven’t figured out what type of gear you two are using to get any where close to those numbers. I don’t want to go berserker yet.

Galsia.4102:

It’s a shame you’ve already invested so much into Celestial gear because sooner or later you’re going to find Warrior sPvP builds don’t really translate well into WvW.

Mobility is king in WvW roaming and you have absolutely none. Dueling in OS will probably be nice though.

Which is why I would like to keep the Traveler runes, though since I am trying to go a mostly condition build. I could swap LB for Dire Sw\Wh, that would solve the mobility, and Wad’s Vigor issue, and add some sort of Condition damage rune. Only downside is I would loose the guaranteed condition cleanse with the long bow, and loose the ability to kite if need be.

wads.5730:

theres also no point in going celestial, you might as well just go full dire with sword instead of axe.

your power is way too low in celestial to mean anything. the fact that you’re not using str runes means you wont be able to get enough might stacks to make up for the low power.

you’re also not using vigor on stance trait, you’re going to get kitten on without some sort of vigor uptime.

Keep in mind this is a build that I am trying to modify\salvage that I was originally going in a different direction, and I haven’t had too much issue with lack of vigor, but I will make the change ans see how it works.

Though, I look at celestial has a hybrid type build, the point is not to do all damage with conditions, power, or crit, but with this build to do most damage with conditions, and make up for the lack of condition dmg from not using Dire, with the Power and Crit that I do have…of course I could be completely off my rocker. I will look at moving to a complete Condition warrior with a Dire set, I do have a few ascended armor chest with the option for Dire, so it would not be to hard for me to switch.

However in the mean time how would something like this work? Keep in mind I just threw a Condition Dmg rune in, it can be change, and still not sure what Weapon sigils to use.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQRBHZxG2ITHlhWFiXIciGIJoQP6ZQJcNAKAdfBA-T1xCABxp+DAPggvU+JiGkDVC+i+hZ2fIAACAl5RP6MnZpAgYOA-w

I’m trying to flush out my WvW roaming build using Celestial armor and trinkets, with Axe\Sw + LB. This is my current build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNAncTjMdUGaVIehwJagkgC9onBlw1AoA0tFA-TlyCABOcEAiT9HAeAB7t/wbaCOUJ4L6B+S5XDHCAR0gEAABgy8oHdmzsUAQMHA-w

I started off running https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Balanced-Build-for-WvW-sPvP-by-Assassin-X – but I did not enjoy using the great sword. So I swapped to running with Axe\Sword I’ve seen ran in PVP. I don’t have enough charged crystals to finish out crafting Celestial axe and sword, so for the time being I am using Dire Weapons. The two sigils in the longbow were just what I had sitting around, and I am not sure about what sigil I should use for the sword. I was thinking about about http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Bursting – which I am close to having enough sprockets to craft. Also the Rune of the Traveler is also left over from Assassin’s build, it can be replaced, but I do enjoy the 25% movement speed when roaming.

Any advice would be appreciated.