Guild Wars 2

Zoid.2568:

Bash.7291:

“After it takes a few blocks, then it explodes” …no… no it doesn’t work like that. You would THINK that someone that works at Anet that posts a guide would actually KNOW WHAT THE CLASS SKILLS DO.

It explodes after three blocks.

/me cries

I am running 0 10 10 30 20 variant of this build in my guilds 5 men group.

Full cleric armor/weapons,with knights/valkyrie trinkets and soldier runes and dps food.

What you bring on the table for your team with it are many aoe blinds,vulnerability on

blinds (you can easilly stack 12-15 stacks of vulnerability in first 3-4 sec of the fight),150

toughness for your group while in combat,good dodge heals and lot of condi removal

with pure of voice and absolute resolution.

I still find it to be the best support build for small scale…well at least for me.

Cheers

Heya guys!

First of all,as this is my first post in this thread,i would like to thank Chris to this fine build i’ve been playing with for months now.

I didnt check this thread for a long time and,now when i did,i would like to mention i made a version of it myself bcs i wanted to get my dps up and,basically,leave playstyle as much intact as possible.

At that time i didnt have like..ANY gold so i wanted to keep majority of my gear the same.( i am still in full cleric armor)

First thing i did was to change my ruine set so i went full eagle rune( and i see chris did that too,which is a bonus.
That added some crit chance and crit dmg but it wasnt quite enough for what i was aiming for.
Then i took 25 from boon duration line and put it into radiance…so i got..fury on burning and weakness on blinds( and i have LOT of aoe blinds)..and man i LOVE this build now for SOLO and SMALL GROUP play.(thats what i’ve been doing 80% of my time spent in wvw)

I’ve kept 100% chance for burning oponents when i block,bcs it works well with 25th radiance point trait ( more damage on oponents with cionditions on)
I also added some knights ascended pieces to get my crit around 45% and crit damage bit over 20%.

As buff food i am using mango pies and maintenance oil.
For my way of playing in wvw,massive loss in boon duration,which i was affraid off to be honest,didnt prove to be much of a problem.

My healing power is around 1000 and that is totally fine aswell.
So my current build is 0 25 10 30 5.

There is probably better gear combo for this but i cba farming golds :P

I am noit saying this build is super good or will work for everyone,i just wanted to share it with you guys.

OH yes,you will be bit squishier with this build,but not at all that much.

Cheers and take care all!

I must say OP has really good points there.

It beats me how can people not realise simple fact that holly trinity would made boss fights ( mechanics), so much more versatile and interesting then without heal,tank,dps system.

PVE in GW2 lacking sooo much (i am speaking for myself here) and is just outright boring.

ON the other hand,i like how current system works in PVP and combat system is very interesting and fun (tho there is WAST space for improvements),so i am kinda split with my opinnion bout holly trinity.

For me..it sucks in PVE and i hate PVE in this game,but it works pretty good in PVP.

Oh yes…for people who thinks that they would have problem to find groups,did you read LFG pannel latelly?:P

Its like..you open it and in description you see (all in caps ofc) “ONLY WARRIORS AND MESMERS”…." ONLY 5K ACHI POINTS PEOPLE" (this is easily my favourite ever:P) and kitten like that.

Its there guys..you dont need holly trinity for this kind of behaviour .

Cheers

Dranul asuraball is just brilliant,i laughed so much.

Fantastic !

Jesus christ FSP and Zee German guys!

Do you really need to escalate every single time when poor COG warrior and guardian fight you?
I mean we are already starting all fights against all odds ….and,what started as 2 vs 4 or 5, always ends up as 2 VS all your relatives and their neghbours with pointed sticks in their hands!

Oh yesh… maybe you’re not so good in combat,but man…you sure do know how to corpse dance! :P

Efin anoying evening…..grrrrrrr….

Well its pretty obvious what wake up call Icey thought about,regarding wvw meta.

It is also obvious that gandara was never about huge guilds steam rolling machines of doom, but rather about smaller,skilled groups fighting larger forces,having fun on battlefield..or die trying:P
I wouldnt change our WVW community for any META oriented community as i know what that would look like,tho i also have understanding for Icey’s wiev aswell.

Unfortunatelly COG is pretty much dead atm and we roam solo or up to 3 men most of the time,but having JDGE,Yak,XxX,Bannanas and rest of our wvw guilds( soz guys i cant even remember all guild tickers but luv ya all) on Gandara is more than enough for me to still love WVWing on this server.

Cheers

They also /inv you to tell you dat you suck,when you beat them…they mad.

Klawlyt if you’re aksing from people to be honest ,how about you being honest at first place?

You say Wow raids are easy?
Well LFr versions you can set follow to random player and afk whole run,normal versions are more challenging(still easy for semi organized group) but man…HC versions are and always will be challenging as hell.

Aberant,retal can be kept up around 100% of time ONLY if you heavily spec for it….and go for boon duration rune combo.
Just to make that straight.

Also,while i agree retal,clones,whatever are not best designed,thieves should literally not complain about almost…anything…whole class is badly designed with worst stealth design ever seen in any MMO so far.

Shocking! I know!

Atherakhia.4086:

All depends how things are done.

If it’s a passive X% damage per boon on the target increase then yea, it’s awful.

If it’s a dispel all boons and deal +x% damage per boon removed and put a debuff on the target making it so they can’t reapply boons for 5 seconds, then it’s a great addition to the game.

Most games have more ways to remove buffs than they have ways to put them on. A real dispel mechanic and counter to buffs adds more depth to the PvP environment and more depth to PvP is never a bad thing.

It’s all going to come down to how things are implemented.

Would be awesome if it could also reset target players computer .
Now THAT would be great addition to the game!

Stability is fine and is needed bcs without it,pvp in this game would not only be aoe fest ,but both chain CC and aoe fest which would be even more terrible than it is already.

Stealth,on the other hand,is totally ridiculous.

To be honest,the only fix thieves need is to make any kind of damage to break stealth.
As it is now,it almost funny how terrible stealth mechanic ( if any mechanic actually even exists) is.

Cheers

For me new system is like..10 million times better.
And no..i am not running in zergs.
Also…thiefs are insta rendered now as soon as they start attacking out of stealth.

ALSO..this is just my personal experience.
Love those changes.

Hello Cal,

I will answer your first question and i want to apologize in front,bcs it will render rest of your questions totaly irelevant.
The answer is……(insert random drumroll)……no.

Have a nice day.

I managed to keep myself away from this discussion last week but…
It is so funny to see this much kitten from PS after,what can only be described as,prety big embarrassment with QQing and that fail alliance " fun experiment".

Basicaly you guys managed to make open alliance with AR,ruin your server reputation(well…at lest for me) and finnish last in that clash.
I congrat you on that wonderous achievements…its not easy to fail like that.
On the other hand,much love for Gandara folks,which came up victorious in those circumstances.

Trial system worked much better for me.