Guild Wars 2

Ashanor.5319:

Tora.7214:

Ashanor.5319:

I enjoyed the Deadeye, but it does have some issues that need to be addressed. It needs to feel more fluid for one. Range needs to be increased a bit also.

It allready has the highest range available of any other weapon in game, even longbow ranger

honestly, im finding it fun, the sole reason why im farming for the predator now.

its interesting how the skill cap is different in pvp with deadeye, with other classes, you have to have knowledge of your character attacks, rotations, and best way to use fields in order to dish damage.

with deadeye however, it does not requires skill to do damage, the class does that easily by itself, no, the skill must come from learning when to attack, how to aproach, from where to attack, and most important, when and how to retreat to prepare for the next ambush.

they got the feeling of Sniping pretty well imo; position, ambush, reposition, ambush, etc

Looks like it is the same to me, but only when kneeling for Deadeye. Pretty sure Ranger used to have higher range than 1500 with a trait, but I haven’t played in a long time.

ranger range used to be 900 with longbow, then 1200 with a trait, then it was changed to have base 1500, currently the only class who can shoot that far, now they will share the long range throne with deadeyes

Ashanor.5319:

I enjoyed the Deadeye, but it does have some issues that need to be addressed. It needs to feel more fluid for one. Range needs to be increased a bit also.

It allready has the highest range available of any other weapon in game, even longbow ranger

honestly, im finding it fun, the sole reason why im farming for the predator now.

its interesting how the skill cap is different in pvp with deadeye, with other classes, you have to have knowledge of your character attacks, rotations, and best way to use fields in order to dish damage.

with deadeye however, it does not requires skill to do damage, the class does that easily by itself, no, the skill must come from learning when to attack, how to aproach, from where to attack, and most important, when and how to retreat to prepare for the next ambush.

they got the feeling of Sniping pretty well imo; position, ambush, reposition, ambush, etc

by the way, am i the only one who noticed the Holosmith elite; Prime Light Beam, is a perfect replica of Scarlet´s Briar Prime Hologram own main attack? Animation, effect, and even name wise

i noticed this as well, if i use maul and hit air i get the attack of opportunity buff, however if i hit something with maul i dont get aoo, like if it consumes itself inmediatly. makes for good combos in spvp though (prelude slash/maul with predator onslaught to one shot most glass cannon builds)

liking it so far, definily a more offensive aproach to the power druid build, i really wish though that they allowed us to switch pets while merged, having to unmerge, wait 10s to remerge takes the fun out of having 2 pets at the time as soulbeast.

i honestly dont see why couldnt they keep the F4 button to switch on beast mode, the button just vanish when you merge and you use only F1,2,3,5 so its not like they even needed that button for something else

also having a lot of fun with power, using the usual power build i used as druid but with soulbeast instead, prelude slash>maul combo is specially fun in pvp agaisnt classes than jump on you like thief/holosmith.

it would be cool though if you could switch pets while merged, the F4 button dissapears in beast mode so isnt like they had to disable pet switching to use that button for something else. having to unmerge, wait 10s, then remerge takes away the posibility of more strategic gameplay for having 2 pets

do you guys think sword/pistol could work with holo? i actually like sword, but im also a fashionsmith and i dont apreciate shields making my character´s wings dissapear…

here personally dont mind what kind of mechanic it uses as long as it becomes a competitive dps spec. i love my pet and ranger gameplay but i hate that we are forced to either healer or medium to lower tier dps

there is currently a bug on pets F2 skills that make the CD appear in blue numbers and go down slowly as if the pet was aflicted with the chilled condition even though the pet doesnt really have the condition on

its however a visual bug only because even if the skill is apparently still on CD because of the phantom chilled status you can still use the pet skill once its natural CD is over. even if on your screen there are still numbers going down. Is still anoying anyway because you dont know if your pet skill is or is not on CD

Arrow Storm.4618:

So I made the silly mistake of throwing away my Spirit Containment Unit after finishing Nevermore III because I thought I didn’t need it anymore, but it looks like Nevermore IV needs it at the Combine Raven and Spirit achieve..

I doubt it but is it still possible to complete the achieve without it? I just don’t want to buy 3 more spiritwood planks but I think I might have to thanks to my careless mistake.

check the legendary weapon crafting npc, i belive he sells anything needed for the crafting that you had before and may have dropped accidentally

it was not a nerf it was a bug fixing, i even made a post about it before the patch https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/bear-and-bristleback-pets-stats-discrepancy/first#post5775094

on the bristleback status screen it is show that it has less than half the vit rating of a bear pet, however as you can see in the screenshot it still have even slighty more hp than bear pre patch

seriusly omg, why hasnt arenanet fired yet the medium armor designer? trenchcoats trenchcoats everywhere, with all the world of cool looking leather armor all we get are trenchcoats of all sizes, colors and designs. one would have expected to get something awesome looking in HoT, and what do we get? bladed, ley line trenchcoats yayy.

tbh im not that exited about medium armor legendary anymore, i bet all my legendary weapons that it will be another trenchcoat but with shiny particles effect

I think you still dont understand the purpose of my topic, Im not (partially) trying to be cheap, gonna try to be more clear

-Dulfy created a raiding guide for people where they recomended to use zealot weapon/armor with cleric trinkets http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/

-Why zealot? Because guardian vale and gorseval are both dps race battles where every bit of dmg worths toward success so the druid need healing power, but also some offensive to do its far amount of dmg as he heal, thats the.main problem with your personal mix, thats a full healer build with an over the top healing power and altmost no power

Now the reason of my post are:

- Posible alternative for those that want to follow Dulfy build, but dont want to expend absurb amounts of g on zealot armor

Why i think it could work as “an alternative to dulfy.net stats choice”?

1: has the same amount of hp, armor, power and crit %

Cons

- Sacrifice 300 healing power, but still remains above the 1k healing power wich is the community recomended for raid healing

Pros

-Gains 21% ferocity that can make druid dmg contribute more to the dps check bosses.
-The dmg and crit is lower but still close to the usual vanilla zerker builds, making it posible to be usable as an hybrid build outside hot content, all you need is to swap your healing power staff for another more dps oriented weapon like lb or sword with berserker stats and youre good to go for outside hot content, then just swap back to healing power staff when you return to maguuma

And since ascended trinkets are way easier to get than armor you could have an alternative set of dps trinkets to swap the cleric ones when not healing. Keeping the armor as zerker and just swaping trinkets and weapon so you dont have to craft an additional armor set just for raiding

its mean to use a secondary weapon for the dps weapon, leaving staff only for heal, if you check the builds i posted above i used zealot for the staff, but berserker for the secondary weapon, never intended to do dmg with staff, just heal and switch to secondary weapon for the dmg

the idea was to replace dulfy.net recommended zealot gear with a more money friendly, pve and dmg check alternative that works for both pve and raid, not just raid, needing only to change the traits/food buffs instead of the whole armor if you want an overall ascended armor for both game aspects

hi, first want to make clear that the trait build and secondary weapon choice are optional, this topic is mean to focus on the armor stats, i chosed GS just to fill a wep there but it could be any weapon to fill the main damaging weapon

anyway according to dulfy then the best recomended setup for raid druid would be zealot armor/weapon with cleric trinkets and monk runes wich then would give stats similar to these http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWBWYEM4o6VNr+06KBpOmw13KAA-TlCBABVcIAeUJoW7PImyPU1BA9kittenjAgqq/knmg9fAAAA-w

now the 2 main issues i see with this build is first, ascended armor is too way lenghty to craft to use on only a single aspect of the game, second is that being zealot makes it atleast 130g more expensive to craft that any other ascended armor because of the watchwork mechanism required for the insignia

thats why messing around with the builder i came with this alternative http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAWBWYEM4o6VNr+06KBpOmw13KAA-TlCBABVcIAeUJoW7PImyvKV/BVdAQfBAA4IAknmg9fAAAA-w

as you can see, it posses the exact numbers in power, armor, vit and crit %, the most noticable difference is that it sacrifices 300 healing power.

however it still remains above the 1k healing power (with staff), and if you compare the healing numbers the difference is altmost nule

the main benefit is that it adds 21% ferocity to contribute even more with the dps race check of vale guardian and the next boss after it and makes it more atractive for daily pve use, and most important it saves you that extra 100g gold in crafting the zealot insignias

i would love to hear opinions on this stats alternative

my charr druid, altmost got the ascended druid staff and waiting eagerly for winster day gem store updates to change the ugly flame citaled helm for the grenth hood

Kaliny.8265:

Tora.7214:

None of these “tips” will help you agaisnt the increasingly popular perma evasión d/d condi daredevil

Well, if d/d + d/d, with energy sigils and agi signet+withdraw (or dd-heal+other stun break+acro traits) you can get something sort of perma evasion.

Still can countered by cleanse. Don’t need to be a very spammable strong cleanse either, just cleanse after he aplys the Spider Venon/Imparring Daggers and he will turn into a very friendly malabarist for at least 20 seconds.

Not saying it is weak build, just very easily counterable. (on wvw guards/dhs and “stone” eles/tempest sometimes just ignore me until I get tired of trying and go away)

spider venom and imparring daggers are just the top of the iceberg, the most dmg comes from the massive bleed spaming that “friendly malabarist” does while dodgeing at the same time, no cleanse can stop bleed stacks when they are re-applied so fast https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Impaling_Lotus https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Death_Blossom

the only counters to this build has been ground targeted aoes attacks that still melts the thief on those brief vulnerable miliseconds when landing because of the lack of double defensive stats for conndi builds in spvp (no dire, you sacrifice either tough or vit) but any power range or melee build is pretty much screwed

Hehe this reminds me of the full beastmaster raid i participated once in Ro2. 20 bears (a bear form similar to wow’s but anthromorphic wich basically plays as a self healing tank) agaisnt the raid boss, we were even visited mid fight by a GM who took a screenshot and posted it on Facebook hehe

None of these “tips” will help you agaisnt the increasingly popular perma evasión d/d condi daredevil

i been farming vet oakhearts at high timbler claims for over 3 days now and this item has refused to drop, im i doing something wrong or im just having terrible luck?

atm seems like the only way tengus will want to make allianze with the pact is if an elder dragon comes crashing right trough the dominion of winds gate, and considering what they did on the battle for lions arch i wouldnt know if i would help them or shot dead any tengu that tried to cross the boundaries into lions arch

Reve is like a mix of warrior and guardian, does more dmg as guard, not as high as warr but close enough, limited to a single and very slow range weapon but as herald it has the best buff stacking of all classes.

If you are unsure of what class to play, you can always just create one and enter spvp. You will be jumped instantly to lv 80 there and be provided with gear and runes/sigils (only inside that map) to have a glimpse of each class gameplay at lv 80

As long as they fire the médium armor designer, that person seems to have some sort of fetish with trenchcoats

fishball.7204:

Yes. Ch 15 awards 25 and Ch 16 awards 15 ore per different character.

ic, thanks for the answer so doing them again with the same character wont work i see (slighty lazy to do all the steps again with an alt)

after finally obtaining the Bo staff for my thief, seeing as the machined staff killed 2 birds and also filled that requeriment for my ranger Yggdrasil staff i decided to go ahead and get it too

however i got 40 of the 50 ores for the inscription thanks to the story missions i did with my daredevil, i was wondering if doing them again will give me crystallized ore again or i must do it with a different character?

anduriell.6280:

I agree with @kevvy, i play both classes: a herald with clerics and a druid.
Herald/ventari actually can bring abour the 75% of the Druid healing to game, but also can bring: instant condition cleanses + projectile shielding.

The DPS don’t need to suffer you still can help your team in the heat of the battle, even if you play with staff you’ll do at least double DPS than the Druid’s staff does and bring as much heals as the druid’s staff do.

So yeah, there is no reason to use the druid in raids, a tempest or ventari can heal enough good to make it not needed as i foresaw after the BWE3.

Based on healing is good but only healing is bad. More than that if they keep nerfing the class because Anet doesn’t know how to handle a class that is supposed to be healing around.

Good luck controling the tablet with a radius of 240 around to heal a raid that spreads and moves a lot, moving a lot yourself to dodge the blue warp aoes that appear at sword/staff range while keeping optimal dps at the same time

Even if heal wasnt that nesesary, i dont think any party would reject a free 35% dmg buff to half the raid

as an additional question, does zealot gear worth for open world pve druid? i mean if im not raiding, might consider spending the big journey to get ascended zealot if i know it will worth in more places that just raid

Ok, druid is not 100% nesesary but it defnily helps a raid go much smoother.

Can we return to topic about alternatives to zealot gear? (sorry if it sounds rude but im also interested on this and the topic about if druid is or not usefull seems off topic to me)

my guild is kinda casual so is posible they wont have a set raid time, having 7 80s i was planing on taking the one that has the most chance to get me into a pug raid slot and gear him up for it

wich class/build you guys have seen that raids usually always search/require most when creating pug raid groups? (have all classes but engi and necro)

after finally getting my bristleback pet today i noticed that it had practically the same ammoung of health as my bear, and though that he could make a nice tanking pet replacement so i decided to check their stats to compare and noticed something that doesnt seem right:

as you can see on the screenshots below, bear has “more than double” the ammount of vit than the bristleback pet, however their hps are altmost identical, in fact, even being so far behind in vit the bristleback still has “slighty more” hp than the bear. i assume them that it must be a bug, either the bristleback stats tooltip is wrong. or its internal stats are

i would say go soldier with zerker accesories, thats what i been using on my DD and its just awesome, the extra vit and toughness really help with survavility giving 18k hp and 2.8k armor, and still have a decent 44% pasive crit chance thanks to prescicion signet and accuracy runes, not counting the crit modifiers from critical strikes, and nice dmg (7k unloads, 3k weakening strikes, 7k vaults) thanks to high power and dmg modifiers from traits

havent done vb meta in a while, though as one of the few hundreds that managed to go to raids that brief morning of bw3 i find the LFM zerker dps in map channel fun because i know that team is going to get their existence owned (some ppl really think they can defy anet claim of zerker meta not working for raid and go full zerker team into raids)

just wondering why the hell huntsman is needed to craft this if all potions and consumables style items are mean to be an Artificer products

another reason to bring staff daredevils: massive weakness (not vulnerability, “weakness”) stack on boss? yes please

Dont worry, since the new legendaries require gift of maguuma mastery from all 4 HoT map completions. Is probably that hp trains will be quite common when they are released

Why not revenant?

Considering what the tengus did on the battle for lion’s arch they should be glad that the pact hasnt launched a full assault on the dominion of winds yet.

Its clear that the only way they will want to ally the orders is when an elder dragon comes crashing right trough their gates and im not sure if ill come to aid them or shot dead any tengu that tries to cross the border into lion’s arch

Should have been more specific: join a “good” guild, one that accept you for the class you play as long you play your role. Not one of those silly wow wannabe guild that only accept the best of the best on their ranks

Best guilds are those that play organized, but that still remember that this is a game, mean to have fun as you play it
With my guild i have done dungeons, high lv fractals, wvw and story content togueter, and I ve yet to find someone that has told me to reroll

Imo the reason you were kicked from AC is because ppl still use them as a farming spot so they want high lvled or atleast experienced people

Anyway play what you enjoy, not what is the meta, ne personally i benched my thief for years because i discovered (very late) that I really didnt enjoyed the fragile assassin like gameplay. However after Hot thief as become my main again because i love the new sturdy kungkittenmonk like style of aoe and dodgeing.

About the being kicked issue, i dunno in what “higuera meta circles” that happen but in 3 years i havent once been kicked of a party for playing my “dungeons unpopular” clases; ranger/thief

As for raid, just join a guild, a guild wont kick you.

If you play a light armor class you have another set of invisible shoes in the form of the tribal armor shoes….. oh, yeah……

assassin.7895:

drgast.1469:

Azure Prower.8701:

So far I’m having an easier time going through HoT on every other class after first going through it with Thief. Even though my thief has the best gear.

I’m quite positive… that Thief sucks.

That’s pretty common on any toon. My thief was my 4th toon through after ranger, guardian, necro…and I thought it was really easy on Thief using Daredevil. All of the dodges make you kind of invincible in PvE.

the only thing that makes you invincible is pistol whip spam + envigorating precision

Thats because you still havent started to see the new dodges as part of your rotacion, instead of just survival tools. I soloed most of the hot hp champs (except some very obvious ones like the guano bat al baltha avatar) with my soldier DD, my little asura thief feels like Master Shifu with his Bo staff

You can get away with playing zerker in core game, but in Hot content you are severely holding back your thief by playing it as a fragile assassin when is obvios that they have evolved into kungkittenmonks now xD

(seriously anet? I cant say the martial art name without being sensured by chat filter?)

Depends on build, the problem is that most thieves still havent get out of the berzerker stats meta, thats why they keep being destroyed

I decided to move away from it and made 2 different builds with my daredevil, trying to play it the way arenanet seems to seems them by the new dodge mechanics and DD runes

And im having a total blast

For pvp i use an evasion conditions based build with dire stats (carrion in spvp) with d/d and lotus training wich just destroys anyone that isnt using a trap/wells based build. Great survability, massive condition cleanse, 90% evasion uptime, 30+ aoe bleed stacks and great hp regen thanks to the synergy of lotus and blosson with SoM. Played well no class outside the mentioned above can kill you; they will wave their arms trying to hit you as you fly around them bleeding them to death

The second build i made was for daily pve content wich uses soldier armor/wep with berzerker accesories, sigils of the night,sigils of accuracy, DD runes, staff +p/p or sb, result: 2.7k armor, 44% crit with prescicion signet (51% if we count the flanking trait crit Buff) 2.6k power with 18k hp; pretty survivable with its nice armor, hp, dodges when you start to see them as part of your rotacion instead of just survival tools, fast staff hits that also synergy pretty well with SoM and And still pretty nice aoe dmg with 3k bound dodges and 8k vault, 3k WC

So my suggestion is: get.out of the friking berserker meta, berserker thief is dead, puff kaput, play DD thief as it.was created.to be played.and you will see how fun and powerfull class is

hello, im trying o complete the collection for my thief asenced Bo staff, im 10/12 on the collection and the part i need to do now ask me to get the machinied staff

after seeing this other guide showing the exact parts to complete the machined staff colection https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3rdqq9/yggdrasil_guide/ i see that i need atleast 400 of each of the first three map currency in order to obtain it.

since nahuch staches arent any longer buyable trough the TP (they are there, but cannot be bought) whats now the fastest way to farm map currency? i tried farming the staches myself, i have the mastery, but either the drop is extremely low or im just unlucky because killing every enemy i see for more than 2 hours i have only gotten 3 this far

oh i see, thats really unfortunate :/ i was planing on buying quite a lot of them since i need 400 of each maguuma map special currency for the machine staff collection…

for some reason, and this only happens with nahuch hunting stachs in the TP, when i click any of the 3 types to buy them, the game stays loading the stach prices forever. this doesnt happen with any other item in the TP.

what anoyed me most was how cliffhanger the ending was: thrahearne dead, jungle dying, Glint egg shining.

puff, back to open world, i was like “wait, thats it?” seriusly?. i sure kitten hope arenanet has some kind of epilogue waiting for us soon, because that was just too imcomplete.

it was like if you were throw directly into open world after Zaithan fell into the abyss, or being sent back into open world right after Scarlet´s End cinematic.

no epilogue, no thanks message from a important npc at our mail, no nothing, we are just mean to accept what we saw at the end and leave it like that

it would be more bearable if we still had dungeons for easy gold gathering since all the mats to craft the precursor are buyable on the TP. unfortunally with the nerf to it we now are bound to a different kind of rng; findind or not finding SW chest trains

messiah.1908:

Tora.7214:

I dont think that thief was doing it right. 200dmg is the average of like 3 bleed stacks ticking.

So the thief was either playing it wrong, or you were playing your cards right and didnt chased the thief at melee range

On a melee character that tries to spike me down 10s is more than enough time to fill him with enough bleed stacks to make him take 2-2.5k dmg ticks

Range dps however, and traps, specially traps and any floor skill can melt this build in seconds.

Range dps can still be baten if you manage to catch up. But trap dh, staff necros, wells chronos and trap rangers that know what theyre doing will kill you

Still is a pretty fun and powerfull build to play if you are tired of the more squishy thief builds. You can do yolo jumps with confident

As an additional note worth mentioning that this is not a spiking build, is about surviving and wearing out the opponent. So if what youre looking is a build for spiking down in like 5s you better try using staff with soldier stats and DD runes instead. The guarented crit.on dodge make bound/vault a nice spike combo. And soldier stats give you a nice survability

as a thief when i dodge i cleanse his conditions pretty much easily so again ele, necro, ranger , guard can cleanse bleed and poison pretty much easily too
against non condi cleanse player you can tick 2k dps but common who aint taking condi cleanse these days …

i wasnt referring to condition dmg, i was refering to the raw dmg of the skills itself; yes we can cleanse condition while evading, best condition cleanse of any class i think. but we have to land some time and thats where we are most vulnerable to the effect of land skills like:

necros reaper mark wich fears us and we cant dodge while feared, thus unable to cleanse and vulnerable to heavy retaliation. also the damage from well of suffering

falling on a ranger combo of spike and flame trap, burn is a pretty strong condition atm so even if we can cleanse it, the couple of seconds that managed to tick on us from the knock will hit hard. also long channel skills like rapid fire and and barrage will eventually hit us in the small vulnerable frames we have between dodges

DH traps, do i even need to describe these?

chronomancers gravity wells, wich leave you completely vulnerable and unable to dodge

those are the most dangerous kind of skills for this build, not condition dmg, but skills that are either long enough to hit us on our small vulnerable moments, deal massive instant dmg when we are vulnerable (DHs) or leave us vulnerable to retaliation (knocks, pulls, launches)

since we lack Dire stats in spvp a condi thief has to sacrifice either endurance or vitality on his amulet choice so strong hits will still hurt, and while SoM can keeps us altmost always full from small hits that go trough dodge, a well aimed spike that leaves us below 50% hp on our vulnerable frame are way harder to heal