Use this site: http://lootballs.com/?blog/NevermoreRavens
The grendith ruins ones should be easy to find – just wanted to check you have the right raven. If it doesn’t work then keep submitting bug reports I guess >.<.
went to the site you linked, ya i has the right raven.
siiiighi’ve already sent in 2 bug reports on top of a ticket..
i mean sure i can keep sending them but i shouldn’t have to?.. :/
That sucks and many of the nevermore collectors are probably past that stage.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3vfeu3/letter_of_introduction_and_lets_talk_about/
This guy is now in charge of legendaries, post in this reddit thread letting him know about it. Hopefully he can get it fixed asap.
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Does anybody know how to disasseble the gift of mastery? I remember Anet promised to install a feature to do so after HoT launched.
The following have been tried:
- throw it into the mystic forge
-legendary weapon npc’s
-try to salvage it
-wikipediaAny help/suggestions are welcome!
AN never mentioned this. The only thing mentioned was being able to disassemble the Gift of Fortune. Probably because many components in it (T6 mats, mystic clovers) are needed for the new legendary gift (mystic tribute).
That doesn’t mean that they may not include a recipe to disassemble other gifts but there is/ has never been any word on this from a dev.
I’ve checked there is fireworks with a 10% most have only 5% though…
Second I might have false values of base . but I do know I get 4.3K XP whe boosted.
And I do not run candy corn food, an inscription or the 10% fireworks, so I lose about 30% (I am at 345%) somewhere??? where max should be (correted) 375%….
The fireworks people use give this bonus:
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ram's_Reward
All of which are 10%.
Like I said, I’m not saying you are lying, but you may have 25,000 achieve points or something = 30% exp boost.
If you look at how exp is calculated for mobs, you get 0.25% of the foe’s level. At level 80 this should be 0.25% of 254,000 but as these are HoT mobs I think they boosted that base to around 280,000. This means all vet should yield around 700 base exp. Then boosters yield the rest. The one thing about the 50% exp booster (from all types) is that it gives you bonus exp of a set amount (regardless of mob living time) which may push you to the 4k amount you state – I didn’t test this but did notice bonus exp on mobs I recently killed which could not be accounted for by living time as they had just spawned.
Bottom line though, is the exp/ hr is good (and probably the most sustainable for long periods i.e. 2 hrs +) but there are other ways to get more if you put effort into killing mobs off the beaten track. To each his own I guess
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When I first started, I got lost all the time. I really disliked this map. After spending many hours farming, I started getting use to all the intricacies. Having nuhoch wallows and waypoints definitely helped.
Eventually, though, I became so use to the map it became second nature to me. I absolutely love it now. It’s one of my favourite maps in the game. You basically need to take a few hours taking a tour and getting use to the general layout. After that, you can use Teku Nuhoch waypoint and the wallows to get to half the places on the map. Most of the other half can be gotten via waypoints directly. It’s actually pretty logical to navigate after a while..
For everyone arguing for/against condi builds remember that there is a lot about the raids that we don’t know, as we’ve only seen 1 boss. And that boss happened to require at least some condi builds. The one thing we know for sure is that condi builds will be viable since nothing is going to be zerg-able in the raid. How well Rev stacks up to other condi builds does not have to only include their dps but how well their utilities stack up comparatively as well.
Until we know more information, this is a guide PURELY for the highest possible dps, and should be treated as such.
The guide was made for current content and as such is completely valid for current fractals and dungeons. I’m sure Obal will tweak it for raids when they come out.
Rev condi dps isn’t high enough for PvE, regardless if raids require it. When other classes can do 25-30%+ more condi damage than you in a timed fight, the low dps hurts. Using condi Rev’s in non timed fights should be fine but for timed fights may not be viable. Also, the best condition for PvE is burning, Rev’s have low access to that which makes it more difficult. We’ll have to see if torment becomes a thing but right now condi Rev’s in PvE is more of a niche build. We’ll see if things change I guess.
I got a question for those who’ve played rev for a while already; any idea if a staff-centric build would work ? For some reason S/A bores me to death, and the staff animations look too good to pass up
Staff dps is really bad unfortunately. If you have fun with it though, feel free to use it. The 5 skill is a must for break bars and 4 is an ok heal, but compared to sword, the dps is night and day. You may have more luck using a staff in hybrid build or just use it in general PvE because you like it. Obal’s build is just a guide. Feel free to play whatever you find fun.
Thank you for this Roy, works a charm now. Only issue I ave is I got in the habit of waiting for Shiro to become ready, I need to break that habit!
On a side note, why does axe 4 have such a low range (600). I know this is the same as sword 2 on a thief, but thieves can spam that ability, Rev’s can’t do back to back axe 4’s. Basically, I can;t use it as a decent gap closer, instead relying on shiro 8. If it could be increased to 900 that would be amazing.
Nice guide, but full berserker is not optimal since you go past 100% crit rate most of the time under permanent fury.
You can’t go past 90% without outside help or food/ infusions/ nourishment/ sigil with precision in them which will be a dps loss. The outside help requires both banners and spotter for 100%.
Optimal means the best for a given situation. In PvE, full dps is still best for fractals, dungeons and open world. Even in raids, I think full zerker will be the way because of how much damage a rev can do.
@Obal I’ve been running this build since HoT launched and the damage is really good. The toughness from upkeep though makes Rev’s really tanky for a full glass build. Have had little trouble in the jungle even though some of the mobs hit really hard.
Sea weed salad makes a noticeable difference to dps and I think will be the recommended food for raids. In raids, night sigils won;t work and frailty will be a waste with 10 ppl so am using Air on my axe (force on sword). Just wondering what your thoughts will be?
Sure, I said “optimal”, not max dps. At some point vit becomes more interesting then precision. It’s a little bit OT maybe, but I didn’t go against your statement
Well, the definition of optimal is best or most favorable. The guide is an optimal DPS build hence will want to max dps – anything but zerker’s is a dps loss usually (there are exceptions but this isn;t one of them).
Anyways, you can run some valk or cavalier if you are struggling but that wouldn’t be optimal. Obviously if you are dying, dead dps = 0 dps, but I haven’t found a boss yet where you can’t run full zerker including the raid first boss. We will see what happens as raids progress I guess.
BTW, I’m not arguing you can’t have alternatives/ variations of this build as you suggested.
This is a major problem for me too, I now wait 1.5-2s (not kidding) before hitting shiro 9 for dps because of the skill lag. I have stopped using Heralds F2 (i.e. using active before switching to shiro) because many said that was the cause but it hasn’t solved the issue. It’s a really big dps loss and that 1.5s delay is just so frustrating. Switching between any of the other legends except Glint does not cause this problem. Please fix.
CA form only lasts 15s too now (use to be 20s).
I’m not trying to say Guardians can’t heal, I’m trying to say Druids can do it easier/ better.
I mostly agree, but I’m still not convinced that guardians are worse at (practical) burst healing specifically. :p
I suppose whether or not the range restrictions on druid burst healing are a problem or not will only be able to be truly seen once the expansion hits.Verdant etching is instant whilst seed of life is only 10% of a 14k heal. Group healing is definitely not out of the question, watch this Lost Vale kill:
He pretty much keeps up his whole party and if you look for reddit threads, they attest to that.
Druid heals are mainly 300 radius which is enough for everyone around the boss. Stacking was originally used when group huddles in a corner to LoS mobs into their territory. Simply grouping around a boss (like in the video) isn’t really stacking. Given the above scenario, druids can definitely group heal. Just keep them in their own party so they can hit members outside their party and you’re set.
With regards to landing moves like healing seed, you’ll need some coordination with the tank who can easily move the boss over the seeds.
That’s true, coordination helps a lot, although I don’t think grouping together that tightly is always going to be a viable strategy. At least I know it isn’t in stuff like PvP and even in some fractals. Perhaps (all? some?) raids are different though.
I don’t recall Verdant Etching’s seeds exploding instantly.You have to count the cast time, same as when calculating dps. The cast is 2.25, then the heal starts which is 3s.
I’m pretty sure I would’ve noticed Healing Breeze having a longer cast time (in total) than Signet of Courage. The actual healing effect starts at around 0.3-0.4 seconds. From what I counted, it doesn’t seem like that “3 second” breeze is 3 seconds long either, so I’m assuming the tooltip is incorrect unless the breeze persists after the cast.
Overall, like I’ve mentioned, it’s too early to say whether Guardians can or cannot fill the healer spot. However, Druid’s have higher burst and higher sustained healing. Both theoretically and practically. My long posts, sorry for that, wasn’t to disregard your opinions, but I wanted to point out factually that druids can heal more than any other class in terms of raw healing than everything else by some distance.
You are right though, whether that kind of healing is necessary is another question and that’s why you are getting posts like should druids use zerkers, clerics or zealots.
I think it’ll be recommended in raids, at least. I don’t believe guardians have the sustained healing to keep a whole group up indefinitely, but I still do believe that they have the most practical burst healing, so maybe they’ll fit in as zealot DPS/supplemental burst healers or something. Overall I do agree that druids generally outheal guardians pretty hard.
My whole rant/ posts was because you said:
I honestly don’t believe druids have better burst healing than guardians
I simply wanted to show some evidence and reading back it’s turned into a long tirade :P. Anyways, as mentioned, if you like guardian healing builds, give them a go
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It’s k. I was wondering on the details of this matter anyway, and your posts helped me realize that I was underestimating/miscalculating how much healing druids can put out, although I never really thought their general healing was weaker in the first place. :>
I plan to use both a guardian and a druid. I don’t see the need to “reroll” to be honest.
Lol, I don;t think any Guardian needs to re roll, the only thing that might be changing is they won’t be near the top in terms of first picks… maybe (depends on contents).
You’re right verdant etching does have a delay, I was sleepy when I wrote that because I saw Seed of Life/ Verdant etching and mistakenly took that as Seed of Life/ Cultivated synergy as in you were saying the both additional heals to the main heal had a delay and only the seed does, my mistake.
I also forgot to add a further 25% heal boost druids get from glyph of power in CA form so that takes healing up to 65% and hence theoretically (and it’s not too hard to perform practically), a druid could do a 17-18k single heal. However, that would probably be overkill and wasting the 25% healing from glyph of power when it should be used for the 3.5% dps boost to the party.
The only way I see a healing druid doing useful dmg (one of its weapon is lol staff) is maybe condi traps lol. Apothecary.
It comes down to, healing power/x/x stats. Power builds use 3 stats and conditions use 2stats, one of which is only found on giver’s weapon/runes/sigils/traits/foods/utilities.
thinking:
axe/torch, staff,traps
generate af with staff/use traps and swap to axe/torch, pop into celestial form.
leave celestial form and drop bonfire/split blade and swap into staff/use traps.
generate af and swap into axe/torch and enter celestial form.
leave cf and drop bonfire/split blade and swap to staff/use traps.
on and on and onI tried this, a condi/ healer because o the exact same logic – condition damage needs 2 stats, power needs 3. However, when testing it, sustained dps was non existent because of one key factor, not being able to weapon swap to the second torch meant no second bonfire = really hurt dps (much lower than pure zerker power builds). Since CA form now has a 10s cd means you don’t want to waste it as a weapon swap to get that second bonfire.
The fact that the vale Guardian and I assume future bosses don;t sit in the bonfire also hurt dps.
The biggest weakness though was the staff having no condi damage on it. You basically need the staff to get into CA form. So much so, you spend 90% of fights with either staff or in CA form. The few times you get to use a condi burst, the dps is average but really suffers from not using condi foods and condi runes = duration’s are not capped.
If they don;t add conditions to the staff, then power builds are the way to go. I was trying a bleed short bow variant too but had to take Ancient seeds to get some decent dps. Given that ancestral grace is now pretty much mandatory in groups, again I don’t think a short bow druid will work.
I’m pretty sure CA triggers quickdraw. If using the staff trait with a staff using a sigil of geomancy you can apparently proc aoe ancient seeds.
Using both staff and CA as swaps you should be able to drop a bonfire every ~10sec.
Geomancy/earth, same difference ;-)
That’s just it though. Normal A/T rotation is getting bonfire every 10s because you could go Bonfire -> Some other stuff > Weapon swap -> bonfire. If you are switching to CA form or the Staff you can no longer get that second bonfire as you will not have the torch equipped and be locked in CA/ with a staff for 10s.
In the beta you could not get enough astral force without the staff (so it was and I think still will be mandatory) and it was hard to get into CA form with just the A/T.
Bottom line, A/T does not work without quick draw + having torch on both weapon sets. Otherwise you will have 10s intervals (either on staff or in CA form) with low to zero dps.
Try it this weekend, but as it stands, condition dps isn;t high enough without the 2 torches sadly.
As I mentioned, the new GM grace of the lands which will give your party a 15% dps boost is much better than any personal dps we could offer and will become mandatory in groups meaning ancient seeds will not be used in raids/ fractals. Thats just my 2 cents
I did not know that trick, thank you.