Guild Wars 2

Standard damage rotation is to swap to air (proccing Electric Discharge) and use Lightning Strike. Afterwards, swap to another attunement, get a crit, and then swap back to air and repeat. If you’re running Arcane Blast, that’s a guaranteed crit. Basically you want to attune to air whenever possible, not only for the damage but for the superspeed uptime which is essential for kiting.

Standard burst rotation is swap to air > Lightning Strike > swap to fire > Phoenix > Lightning Flash > swap to air > Lightning Strike. You can use Gale to knock down the opponent before doing the burst. You could also use Gale and then Dragon’s Tooth, which will probably force them to stunbreak and dodge. Burst them afterward. Remember that Gale is unblockable!

Since you’re running Strength runes, you can stack might by casting Flamewall (fire field) and using blast finishers on it. Dragon’s Tooth, Phoenix, Magnetic Wave, and Comet are all blast finishers. If you’re running Evasive Arcana, you can also dodge roll in earth attunement for one. Use Fire Shield for, well, a fire shield.

Don’t focus too much on the rotations though. Use each skill as necessary. Remember to kite, kite, kite! Your damage rotation is instant and doesn’t require you to face your target, so you can kite while still dealing pressure. Throw in a Blinding Flash (also instant cast) or a Dust Devil to blind your opponent. Use Swirling Winds and Magnetic Wave for projectile reflection. Obsidian Flesh for when you’re under pressure. Gale and Comet for CC. Magnetic Wave, Phoenix, and Evasive Arcana for condi clear.

I guess the extra toughness is nice, but honestly I just want more damage, and if the ferocity from furious sharpening stones is better than the power from superior sharpening stones, then I’ll gladly make the switch.

My current build (with superior stones) has:
2553 power
52% crit chance
215% crit damage

With furious stones, this becomes:
2434 power
52% crit chance
225% crit damage

The problem with the furious stone version is that the power is a bit low for my liking. It might be burstier, but I heard that power is better for overall damage than ferocity.

I assume there’s a reason everyone runs furious stones nowadays. Maybe it really is more damage? Or is it just for the bonus toughness?

As a roamer, I’ve always taken superior sharpening stones by default because of the straight-up increase to power (and also because they’re inexpensive). But lately I’ve seen more and more people using furious sharpening stones instead. Are the +ferocity and +toughness better than +power?

The reason the build is so slippery is because of the #3 ability on staff (1200 range dash that evades), #3 on greatsword (another 1200 leap that evades), the F1 ability on smokescale (blast or leap finisher in it = stealth), and a trait that grants stealth + superspeed upon leaving celestial avatar form.

They can be frustrating to fight because they can disengage and reset so easily. One way to deal with them is to put reveal on them when you think they’re about to exit celestial avatar. That way they won’t get stealthed.

Yeah, he’s not changing his mind anytime soon. I’ll save myself the frustration and see myself out.

Josh XT.6053:

So if you get into a fight with someone irl and you punch them so hard they trip over themselves then they decide to run away, do you win? lol.

I can go that route too. If a someone with a gun breaks into a house with the intention of killing the resident, but the resident escapes, does the shooter win? lol.

Josh XT.6053:

Like I said, may not be a “victory” but it certainly isn’t defeat if I get into a fight with someone who runs from me. By your logic, thief wins every fight since they can just use the bad game mechanic that is their mobility and ininitely shortbow5 away lol.. Not a win when they do that, thats admitting defeat.

Okay, so a thief who runs from you is not the winner of the fight. I can agree with that. But that’s not my main point. My main point is that you aren’t the winner. You didn’t even kill the guy.

You say that thieves abusing their mobility is “bad.” But how else is he going to beat you? You claimed that thieves will never beat you, but that’s just the height of arrogance. If you ever encounter a thief who knows what he’s doing, a combination of patience and mobility will be the reason he’ll beat you. He’ll kite you when you’re in your damage attunements, interrupt your overloads to negate your main source of damage, and constantly disengage to throw you off guard, hoping that you’ll make a mistake. He might even fully disengage and then later attack you when you’re not expecting it. It’s the best chance he has to kill you.

You also can’t boil down all instances of running away to “admitting defeat.” I’ve ran from plenty of fights merely because I got bored. I’ve ran from fights because I saw enemies in the distance and didn’t want to be ganked. I’ve ran from fights because I wasn’t running a build suited to roaming, or had another objective in mind. I’ve even ran because the terrain/location of the fight wasn’t to my advantage, and later won those same fights because I lured them to a more even playing field.

Josh XT.6053:

I think if they ran, they didn’t win lol. Maybe it isn’t necessarily a loss to them for having to run, but its definitely not a win if they run away. If running away was winning, then I can just drop a fiery GS and win against an 60 man blob right? lol.. Not good logic in my opinion.

Running away from a 1v1 is admitting defeat to me, anyone needing a full disengage in a fight lost in my eyes. It doesn’t matter how many times a thief tries to go in on me, they’ll either get downed or they’ll have to run away when they realize they can’t hurt me.

Again, it depends on who you ask and how you define things. If a roamer runs into a 60-man blob and manages to disengage and live to tell the tale, then in my eyes, yes, the roamer won. He succeeded in his goal to survive. On the other hand, the 60-man blob intended to kill the lone roamer but failed to do so.

My logic might not make sense to you. Likewise, your logic kind of bewilders me. The objective of a 1v1 fight is to down or kill the other player. I can understand the runner not being the winner of the fight, since he failed to kill you. But if you can’t catch and kill the runner, then why should you be considered the victor if you didn’t fulfill your objective either?

Let’s say you went roaming one evening and all of your fights ended with your opponents fleeing. You were unable to catch any of them. In other words, you did not kill a single player; all your enemies exploited your lack of mobility and chasing ability. I assume that would be a successful evening in your book?

Josh XT.6053:

That is what I consider a win. If someone runs away because they realized they aren’t going to beat me, that is a win. If I downed/killed them, that is a win.

Everyone seems to have their own philosophy when it comes to roaming. Killing your opponent is a win for sure… but failing to deliver the killing blow and letting your opponent escape? I don’t think I could ever consider that a win. Honestly, I would give the win to my opponent because I know exactly how satisfying it is to escape from my opponent(s) and deny them a kill.

To illustrate with an anecdote: I was roaming on my druid the other day and was in the middle of a fight with a dragonhunter. Suddenly a condi scrapper joined the fight and bombed me with conditions. Knowing that condis are my weakness, I immediately stealthed via celestial avatar and disengaged from the fight. Although the DH went off somewhere else, this scrapper continued to run after me, so I tentatively engaged him 1v1 and quickly discovered that I was no match for his condi pressure. So I went off to do better things: taking camps, winning fights without him involved, and ganking him like he nearly did to me. Every time we crossed paths and we were alone, he would give chase, but I would simply avoid him. I could tell he desperately wanted to kill me, and he knew very well that he had the ability to. But I never gave him that chance.

I’d say I was the clear winner that night.

I’m constantly getting interrupted in PvP/WvW. Overload Earth isn’t an issue since you get stability while casting it, but I hate it when Overload Air (my damage) gets interrupted.

Also, is Harmonious Conduit worth it in any build? The stability and damage boost would definitely help but it’s tough to give up the regen and vigor for applying auras.

Awesome gameplay. Have you had trouble with reflects? I’ve been wanting to revisit the longbow but I’ve been told that it isn’t as effective against the increased reflect uptime that came with elite specs.

If you only have access to (permanent) swiftness, is Rapid Regen worth taking?

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Scrapper_-_Marauder_Explosives

Thoughts on this build? Some people have said it might become meta in S3. Is it possible or nah?

Also, would this build work for WvW roaming? A number of people have said that scrappers are too easily kiteable, so maybe grenades could solve that problem.

So I’m conflicted over which set of runes to run on my zerker (Def/Disc/Bers) for roaming. Pack runes seem like the better choice at first glance because of the +175 power and the precision bonus. But would the +5% damage and +175 ferocity from Rage runes make up for the loss of power?

I have 2600 power and 50% crit chance before the runes.

So I’ve heard that power shatter isn’t that great in PvP anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m assuming it’s because (1.) elite specs have too much sustain and can eat shatters without much issue, and (2) it doesn’t have much sustain itself.

If this is the case, then I was wondering if power shatter is playable in WvW roaming? Damage is generally higher in WvW and you also have the option to run PU for more sustain and easy escapes. I’ve been hearing about this PU mantra build that seems to be good. If anyone could describe this build then it would be appreciated.

Also, can power shatter be played with the chrono traitline? I imagine it would be good for damage output with Continuum Split resetting shatters. Is a PU chrono build possible?

Does anyone know if the bruiser sw/sh + staff build with Defender runes still works?

Assuming no bugs, then there would be no problem choosing both Shield Master and Defender runes and everyone would be happy. And assuming no bugs, then yes, given a choice between the two, I agree that Shield Master is superior.

In any case, I wasn’t comparing the two. I was just saying that it’s the Shield Master trait that’s “gimping” the build, so to speak, because it combines reflects and on-block effects, which don’t synergize with each other, like Elegie mentioned. Reflects don’t count as blocks, so the trait essentially renders part of itself useless.

… Or so I thought. From the video, it looks like the might-on-block effect of the Shield Master trait actually DOES apply to reflects. OP was gaining might while reflecting the ranger’s projectiles, but was not gaining regen from the Defender runes. So it looks like the Defender runes are indeed bugged and that reflects do count as blocks according to the Shield Master trait.

cryorion.9532:

Trait description:
Reflect missiles whenever you are blocking. Gain might when you block an attack. Shield skills recharge faster.

Rune description:
When you block a foe’s attack, gain 1 second of regeneration.

In my montage, I block ranger’s rapid fire (reflecting it) and getting might from it, but not regeneration.
So I think it is bug.

Oh I see. Yeah, you were definitely getting might from the reflects, so I guess the Defender runes might actually be bugged. Then that means the Runes of the Guardian that Elegie mentioned are bugged as well, since it’s been noted that the burn-on-block effect doesn’t trigger on reflects.

Oh yeah, when I said “Projectiles don’t count as blocks,” I meant that “Reflected projectiles don’t count as blocks.”

Okay, so I’m a bit confused now.

Let’s say you block a Rapid Fire with shield 5 without the Shield Master trait. The projectiles would count as being blocked (not reflected), and thus you would gain the regen from the runes. However, you would miss out on both the reflects and the might from block since you don’t have the trait.

If you block Rapid Fire WITH the Shield Master trait (and still with Defender runes), then those projectiles would be reflected. But since reflected projectiles don’t count as blocks, you would not get the regen from the runes, nor the might from the trait. You would only get those boons from blocking melee attacks.

If this is the case, then isn’t it the trait that’s the questionable choice, not the runes? By choosing the trait, you gain the ability to reflect projectiles, but those reflects don’t count as blocks, thus rendering “gain boon on block” effects useless against projectiles. But by not choosing it, you don’t get reflects at all and you would not gain the extra might from blocked melee attacks either. BUT you still get the regen from any blocked attacks, ranged or melee (correct me if I’m wrong).

Actually, now that I think about it, it’s not even Shield Master that’s at fault, but rather the simple fact that reflects don’t count as blocks. If reflects did count as blocks, then you could choose both Shield Master and Defender runes and gain both the reflects and the on-block effects.

Choppy.4183:

cryorion.9532:

Choppy.4183:

Were you definitely using Defender Runes in all of that footage. Several times it seemed like you weren’t getting the regen you should have for blocking attacks. For example….

https://youtu.be/qTekd7eVb6A?t=8m15s

Yes, 100% sure (you can see that I get 4k heal when I block – 6th bonus of the rune – in the last fight). When I look at the rune on wiki, there should not be any internal cd… which is strange. But you know anet… if skills like eviscerate are still affected by cripple or chill because “they forgot”, I am not even surprised…

Has anyone else noticed an ICD on the regen provided by Defnder Rune 2 when blocking an attack?

Cryorion’s clearly not getting the regen as per the above link, and the wiki says there isn’t supposed to be an ICD. Tbh, if there is one, the rune becomes waaaay less interesting, imo.

In the clip you linked, he didn’t block anything. He dodged the Guardian’s AOE downed skill (you can see the “Evade!” messages) and then he reflected the ranger’s projectiles. Projectiles don’t count as blocks; it’s always been that way.

You know how you could have kept that subscriber? By dropping “Best Warrior NA” title without making a thread about it. And please, just retire already and stop the attention-seeking posts. Trust me, they’re not helping.

Is this the case for anyone else? I asked in several maps and not one person has seen the Horror yet.

… to access the new maps? I don’t plan to unlock the elite spec on my main, which has map completion, so if we do need these two maps explored, then I can go ahead and do them on my alts before HoT launches.

If an opponent wastes his dodges, evades, and blocks just because he thinks you’re about to skullcrack him, wouldn’t that make skullcrack easier to land?

Use #3 on mace to trigger Last Stand and wait it out.

You can always sheathe skullcrack to bait dodges.

Not sure why you’re complaining about a straight-up buff to Shield Bash. Enjoy it. Use it to set up a skullcrack or a Hundred Blades under quickness, or to bait Balanced Stance.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASnUUBlch1aBeeBEqil7ii+0b9ZHsBjwAYcEbiPD-TlSDABdq+DFXAgnUWkgSwqUKAlSsQ0BAgJIa2fQiHAQAAEA2Z0ZyAwMGA-w

Crit chance looks low at first, but it goes up to 30% due to the High Caliber trait (10% increase while in melee range), while Hematic Focus (another 10% when foe is bleeding, which is procced with Sharpshooter) and No Scope (fury uptime) can potentially raise it to 60%.

There isn’t much condition removal in the build, but I’m hoping that the Hoelbrak runes, lemongrass, and the Adaptive Armor trait will make conditions less of a pain to deal with. Sigil of Cleansing should help as well.

I’m hoping the leap on hammer, stealth gyro, and superspeed access will offer disengage potential. I do have several concerns though:

1.) Hammer leap is 1000 range, but it consists of three leaps, so I’m worried it might be too slow for covering distance.

2.) Stealth gyro is still visible when you’re stealthed so it’s not going to help much for escaping. However, if you activate the gyro and then detonate the gyro immediately, it should still provide you with 4 sec of stealth (assuming you don’t damage anything with the detonation and reveal yourself). It’s not much, but with superspeed, you might be able to create some distance between yourself and the enemy.

3.) The 3 sec of superspeed from the Shocking Speed trait might not be enough to be of any use. Plus, the only lightning field is on a 24 sec CD. You have 5 sec of super speed from Slick Shoes toolbelt, but it’s also your only stunbreak. Juggernaut and Reactive Lenses might alleviate the need for a stunbreak, however.

Comments and criticism are welcome! Feel free to post your own builds as well.

As a roamer, I’m pretty excited. The scrapper might have some great disengage ability with its access to superspeed and the hammer’s leap (1k range on the tooltip) + block.

The trait line also seems quite solid and brings enough to actually be a replacement for a core trait (unlike -cough- Berserker).

My sylvari engineer has bluish-purple skin and armor so she’ll be using either Entropy or the Nightmare hammer. Tormented might work too.

I still roam solo! The vast majority of my time in-game is spent roaming or theorycrafting builds to roam with.

I agree with many of your points. It’s difficult to finish fights without other players joining in, though this can be alleviated somewhat by luring the enemy to a more isolated part of the map. This is why I rarely initiate a fight; I always get the enemy to come to me. Surprisingly, most enemies will approach you if you don’t approach them; I’ve never really found myself to be missing out on fights just because I don’t initiate.

Being chased by small groups halfway across the map… story of my life. I usually roam on my warrior and whenever I encounter a group of three people or more, I’ll usually turn tail and run. Honestly though, I kinda enjoy being chased; it’s thrilling to have a sea of red names behind you desperately trying to catch up, their projectiles falling just short of hitting me. I sometimes wonder why people waste their time trying to catch a single warrior. Even on my own server, I just have to cringe when I see 10 or 20 teammates chasing after a lone thief or something. I secretly cheer for the enemy whenever it happens.

I run my M/S + GS warrior for two main reasons: one of them is the reflects. I have two reflect skills with one on a 10s cooldown). Perfect for LB rangers, PD thieves, and engineers. Mobility is the other reason. It’s sad to say that if you want to roam solo without getting frustrated all the time, you need a class/build with reliable disengage options: either stealth, mobility, or both. This is why necros and guards are the only classes I don’t roam with.

I’m on Borlis Pass, so if you ever face us, keep an eye out for a female Norn warrior with a Whispers helm. I’m always up for a fight. Unless you’re a PU condi mesmer.

If any of you ever face Borlis Pass, you’ll find me roaming solo on various classes (primarily warrior, mesmer, engi, and ranger nowadays). I very rarely roam in a group and I don’t like condi builds so I don’t use them.

As someone who exclusively uses power builds, my main problem is that nearly everyone roams with a partner or a group, so a fair amount of my time is spent running because I usually don’t have the sustain to fight outnumbered (unless the enemies are bad). To be honest though, I find that trying to shake off 5+ enemies by falling off cliffs (which I do often on my warrior, who runs the fall trait) or utilizing stealth and juking them can be kinda thrilling, so I’m not too bothered when I can’t find fights. If I can’t find any good fights, I just run around seeing how many enemies I can get on my tail before they get bored and leave, or I die.

I was just on a Diessa Plateau map where nearly everyone DC’d halfway through the event. I lost 15 or so stacks. When we logged back in, there were still 15 minutes left so everyone started getting stacks anew. But when the event ended… guess what? None of the people who DC’d received any rewards despite regaining their stacks.

Ugh.

Carighan.6758:

If we understood it correct you need more than 15 stacks to get rewards.

Plenty of people on my map received 5 blooms with 10 stacks or less. I myself got 10 blooms with only 8 or 9 stacks (don’t remember since my stacks disappeared at the end of the event).

I’m still the only person I know who got 10 blooms – 5 from a bouncy chest and 5 from a pop-up reward screen. Interesting… but it’s been confirmed that the rewards are bugged so this won’t really matter when it’s fixed.

Oh I forgot to mention that my game has been crashing occasionally when I go to the character screen select (both by logging in to it and logging out to it). Here’s a log:

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• System <—*
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For the past few days I’ve been having this problem where after 20 or so minutes of playing, my FPS drops to sub-10 and I get some strange texture glitches, most notably the liquidy texture on my character in the hero panel. Occasionally, special effects like spells are replaced with black boxes.

Switching view modes (windowed, full screen) alleviates the problem but only temporarily. I also noticed that toggling Vertical Sync on/off also fixes it, but again only temporarily.

I’ve tried repairing the client but to no avail. I’m wondering if it’s a problem with my graphics card. It’s a pretty low-end card, a Nvidia GeForce 310M, but it has let me play on low-med settings for the past 3 years (up to 30 FPS in uncrowded areas) with no problems while looking reasonably good (textures and shaders are on medium).

Dirame.8521:

Azure.8670:

no disrespect to you, im sure youre good, but this forum is very berserker negative right now

If only you knew what could be done with this gem of a profession.

Enlighten us then, O Chosen One who alone has unearthed the enigmas of the Berserker specialization while the rest of we forum users languish in ignorance.

Yeah, it was datamined that 170 hero points would be needed to unlock an elite spec’s skills and traits, and an additional 80 points (250 points total) would be needed to obtain the two special skins for each elite spec.

Leveling up to 80 gives you 398 hero points, which is just enough to unlock all the core traits and skills for a class. There are a total of 214 hero points located throughout the world (including PvE zones, WvW, and the krait shard obelisk in the home instance), so HoT would have to introduce 36 points, which is fine (4 new maps in HoT = 9 hero points per map). But like someone above mentioned, each expansion would then have to introduce 250 hero points (assuming each class gets a new elite spec per expansion), which is a bit ridiculous, considering that there are 200+ hero points in ALL of Tyria atm.

None of the above is set in stone, of course. I hope it isn’t. I just ran my thief through almost every zone to get 170 hero points in preparation for HoT, and while it fortunately didn’t take that long (thank you thief mobility), it was mind-numbingly boring. Can’t wait to do it on my engi and mesmer.

I also kinda want to run the Fire traitline with Traveler’s but I don’t feel like getting a whole new set of armor and runes (I’m running Air with Hoelbrak runes atm).

Recently I saw a build that ran the Burning Fire trait, which allowed the user to replace Cleansing Fire with Signet of Air for the 25% movement speed. Would that be an acceptable alternative? When activated, the SoA is a stunbreak on a pretty low cooldown so I guess it’s not completely useless, but then I’d lose the movement speed for 25 seconds, which would suck. The swiftness from air attunement swap is only 5 seconds, so that’d hardly make up for it. Updraft also provides swiftness, but it’s too valuable to use on cooldown just for the swiftness.

Can’t please everyone. Personally I disliked them because they didn’t fit at all with my armor, so I’m glad for the change.

I heard that the hobosacks might make a return as backpack skins though, so there’s that to look forward to (assuming it’s true). For now, there are similar skins available that are linked a couple posts above.

Great kiting skills and use of LOS! I find it interesting that you don’t use the trait Warrior’s Sprint. I feel so slow without it, especially if I’m running full melee.

Also, what’s with the resurgence of the skull crack build? I remember that it fell out of favor because the Unsuspecting Foe trait was moved up a tier and because the ability itself was given an animation. I think there was some kind of nerf to the sigil of paralyzation as well (correct me if I’m wrong). Was there an update I missed that helped boost its popularity?

Invoker.5462:

As a warrior i smirk when im surrounded in spve because i know the more they throw at me the stronger i get.

That’s not how it works. The more you’re surrounded, the quicker you’ll die.

Invoker.5462:

I.E Warrior 1 bull rushes enemy then CC with hammer while warrior two uses Quickness/hundred blades and arcing blade. Dude thats like 10-15k DPS right there! 2 seconds of that and ur dead!

Stability.

You’re right in that warriors are mobile, but only with certain weapons.

Darkness.9732:

Seems I’ve gathered all gw2 warrior community here…… Instead of telling me^^ learn to play^^ YOU should tell yourselves :

LEARN NOT TO PLAY AN OVERPOWERED CLASS

Anet should nerf istantly eviscerate for gw2 playerbase sake.
I repeat I just want to play a balanced game.
I don’ want any kind of advantage or disavantage. Eviscerate is OP admit it warriors

learn to play ^^

Darkness.9732:

An F skill shouldn’ t deal so much damage. 11k… Are we joking?
I understand you warriors love playing an op class becouse it’ s the only thing you can actually do in this game. But your OP class is ruining other people gw2 exeperience.
I really hope a dev will read this post..becouse eviscerate and i say eviscerate must be nerfed as soon as possible.
It’ s OP and everyone knows and you warriors too.

In case this hasn’t been drilled into your head already: the F skills are called PROFESSION MECHANICS. Each profession’s F skills serve a different purpose and are UNIQUE to the profession. The warrior’s F skills are called burst skills and become more powerful over time as the warrior builds up adrenaline. The ranger’s F skills are completely different and serve a completely different purpose: to control their pet.

Instead of complaining, learn from the experience and improve yourself so it doesn’t happen again. Get some toughness on your armor, learn the animation of Eviscerate (a pretty obvious leap, or watch for intelligence stacks) as well as the common set-ups for Eviscerate (Shield Bash, any CC, or even immobilize from Leg Specialist trait), and get rid of that Signet of the Hunt and replace it with Lightning Reflexes. And unless you’re a melee ranger, don’t let the warrior (an Eviscerate warrior usually runs full melee with greatsword) get close to you.

By the way, I was running in WvW with my longbow ranger yesterday and burst down a warrior from ranged with a QZ’ed Rapid Fire and a couple autoattacks. Ranger damage should be nerfed. Or maybe the warrior should have equipped more toughness, or used LoS against me. Who knows?

Apparently one chest box is guaranteed when you kill the boss for the first time.

They were discontinued and replaced with the login reward system.

I believe the time scales up when you have more party members. When you’re solo, the south gate event finishes quickly, but when you’re in a full party it takes a long time to complete, probably around 10 minutes. This was my experience at least.

I seem to be in the minority here but I actually enjoyed the fight. The first phase with the tentacles was easy enough to figure out; however, I quickly died in the second phase because I was running all over the place. That was the only time I died though. After respawning, I played much more carefully and was able to figure out the mechanics of the fight on the go. As a zerker greatsword warrior, Whirlwind Attack helped me tremendously in avoiding damage. I killed the dragon within two burn phases.

I also managed to get through the entirety of the fight without stability, so I wouldn’t say it’s a must-have. You definitely need a stun break though.

Some tips:
- When the explosive plant bulb things appear, you’ll notice that they’re always in pairs and are attached to each other by a vine. If you run between the bulbs, straight through the middle of this vine, you will trigger both bulbs to explode without being knocked back/damaged. This is an easy way to clear the bulbs so you can navigate the room more safely.

- It’s possible to light the fires without relying on Braham’s stability bubble. Since the dragon’s paw attack (the big AOE circle that can interrupt your cast) has a cooldown, you just have to “bait” the dragon into using it, and then quickly run and light the nearest fire. You can still be interrupted by the dragon’s other attacks, though I’m not sure if the crumbling ground attack specifically targets the player though.

It’s certainly worth trying out if you have the money to spare. Since yesterday I’ve been running LB + S/D (sometimes S/A) and having tons of fun with it. Last night I burst down an unsuspecting engi from full health to zero using Rapid Fire + QZ and a couple autoattacks. I was on top of a cliff so he didn’t even see it coming. I killed the same engi twice more, demolished several thieves, and autoattacked a mesmer to death (each autoattack was hitting him from 2.5k to 2.8k damage and he wasn’t upleveled). I’m not even running full glass; I have Traveler runes and about 2.5k toughness with SoS, so that sort of damage just seems unfair, lol. It’s also pretty easy to run away with LR + sword #2.

Looks decent. I’m not sure if the two sigils of smouldering stack though. Even if they do, I’d swap them out in favor of other sigils like battle, torment or even leeching. You have plenty of condition duration anyway.

About the nightmare runes… I ran nightmare runes on my engi for a while, but I found that they were more of a hindrance than an advantage. The condition duration is nice and it’s awesome when the fear proc saves you from an opening burst, but the fear can also mess up your rotations and decrease your damage output against both players and NPCs. It’s your call though.

Oh, and I would bring toolkit over either bombs or grenades. I could never go without the pull and the block. But again that’s just my preference.

I’m having the same issue. The buttons and everything are still there (hover your cursor over the right spots and the tooltips will show up); they’re just invisible for some reason.

Argon.1563:

Well, thats a terrible shame, considering it was the better of the two long-range weapons.

Speak for yourself lol. I would pick longbow over rifle even in a power build.

Burning is additional damage, regardless of how short the duration is. You also forgot that longbow has Pin Down, which is 6 bleeds for 12 seconds + a nasty 3-second immobilize. Additionally, you can stack might for yourself to make your condis tick for more.

Ah, I mistyped. I meant a condi warrior, not a condi shouts warrior. You can run shouts if you want, but you’d be forced into the Tactics line and lose out on a lot of other great traits for a condi warrior. I imagine a shouts condi warrior would be something like 0/2/6/6/0 with apothecary gear, but keep in mind that healing power doesn’t scale well with Healing Signet or Adrenal Health and you’ll be losing out on movement speed, Fast Hands, and a lot of condi damage compared to a 0/6/4/0/4 condi warrior in full dire.