Guild Wars 2

Judges+Ring of Warding precast=ele kitten

Do you desire bloodshed?
Do you desire a beautiful symphony of correlated warfare and pleasure?
Does your hunger for conquest feed your infinite desire?
OR, are you just a warrior fighting for the mighty Blackgate seeking a band of legendary heroes to form your alliance in blood?

Infinite Desire [IDes] Is a newly formed, and growing guild recruiting new players to join our community. If you like bloodshed of the pvp and pve varieties, a good community of friends to play content with, experienced and active leaders that work hard to provide a great guild for everyone a part of it, and the server blackgate, we may be the right choice for you.

-We’re a place for mature gamers who wish to enrich their gw2 experience with like minded individuals.
-We have multiple experienced commanders.
-We use a system of guild leadership where each member has a say in what our next move is, and how we shape the future of IDes.
-We are friendly, and love to game socially.
-We have a private IDes Teamspeak3 server open to all members. (not required)
-We have open spots for many ranks and roles including new commanders, advisors, recruiters, etc.
-We plan to host monthly guild events which are not mandatory but you’re encouraged to be a part of.
-We do not have mandatory WvW, although if you have zero interest in wvw, we probably aren’t the best guild for you.
-We emphasize the individual player and his/her skills and accomplishments, and recognize them accordingly.
-We aren’t role-play focused, but there are some RPers and we don’t discourage anyone’s way of having fun.

If you’ve read this far, from us sincerely at IDes, we’d appreciate if you would take a few short minutes to email us at Infinitexdesire@gmail.com, or send ingame mail to Vanguardian.4921 to let us know you might be interested. We hope to see you on the battlefield!

I should also mention a few things incase anyone is wondering,
-3 commanders
-many of us have legendaries (not that this means much at all :p)
-We’re all experienced and willing to help
-we have a teamspeak private server
-there is no formal application process, however there are a few questions we ask each potential recruit to make sure the guild and him/her are right for each other.
-Although our focus is on recognizing the individual and their actions there is no formal ranking system, rank is based on what you do for the guild. Ex. recruiter, advisor, battlemaster, commander, etc.
-All members are welcome to use guild buffs and facilitations.

The above posters guild sounds great, ill give him that. However, if you’re looking for a smaller guild, that is primarily wvw with a few dungeons a day with dedicated, active, and fun players, then let me know. IDes might be right for you, however you’d have to be willing to transfer to Blackgate. Just a though, feel free to let me know Mr. Karirus.

I could go way more into detail on my build, and why berserker’s+Honor/Valor is an awesome choice, but if i’m just going to be told i’m not entitled to reply on a public thread, and that my advice is purely boasting i’m not going to bother. anyone interested in my build, or to see it in action can pm me on forums or ingame, and id be happy to help out.

I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware that I am not entitled to post on public forums, did i miss that memo? I don’t think any Guardian new or old should just play what people say is t he best, I think, they should be aware of all their options, try them all for themselves and pick what they want. I was trying to say that Berserker’s on a guardian is one of those options, and despite that you both keep saying, i think he should check it out, give it a try and see what he thinks himself. My point’s where not to empower my own self and boast on a newbie topic, my points where meant to illustrate the viability and potential that such a gear set has. Furthermore, it’s in the game to be used, it’s there for a reason. Point and case.
I’ve come to the conclusion that taking any of Heinel’s posts seriously aren’t going to do me or anyone else any good, so i’ll reply to Swiftpaw’s.

With full berserker’s I run a 0/20/30/15/5 build, and in most circumstances i find Berserker’s armor and trinkets, as well as weapons to be a great combination seeing as the traits themselves arent overly offensive and provide the needed boost in defense. Protection is a HUGE thing when considering damage mitigation when using an aggressive set and playstyle. And the boon itself will go farther than toughness ever will, and any experienced Guardian will tell you that large pools of HP isn’t needed, especially if you play Altruistic Healing, in which it’s actually a setback. 15-17k is usually the sweetspot, but find your own. Aegis helps block the larger attacks, but more than anything you want to dodge, so i always take vigorous precision for the 100+% Endurance Regen.

Again, you must have missed the “I’ll also say that it is NOT for new guardians. You have to be very experienced with guardian and its strengths to pull it off.” and the “I’ts 100% viable, as long as you got the right traits and you know what you’re doing, but again, i really wouldn’t reccomend it until you have 1000+ hours with guardian.” oh, and the “I’m not (like i said before) advocating it to new players, but I’m letting him know, it’s an option, and it’s a kitten good one provided he wants to go this route and learn to adapt to the lower hp pool and lower toughness.” So before you give advice on the simple grounds of “Don’t take this guy’s advice, it’s bad” you should probably read it for yourself, and take into account that my advice includes all the proper warning and clarification it needs, unlike yours. I’m simply providing advice, that no one has to take if they don’t want to. You however, are not providing anything contributive.

You must have missed my entire post by making that comment.

Heinel.6548:

Vanguardian.4921:

I’ll take it a step further. Can be done, nah. Viable. In fact, it’s a strong choice. Guardian and full berserker’s is an amazing combo in the right player’s hands. Sure, bad players won’t be able to handle it. But good one’s can. And I’m confident anyone can be good enough to go with it. Also, giving an example of content being too easy, try lvl 30 fractals. From major mobs you can only take 1 (2 at the most) more hits in full defensive gear, as opposed to full beserker’s, So my advice: Learn to dodge, play your angles, and avoid damage, instead of speccing to take more of it. I do tons of challenging PvE and WvW, and there are no facts to prove Berserker’s isn’t a viable and strong option for a half decent player.

I’d like to say something about elitism but that’d be hypocritical.

To everyone else, if you’re looking for advice, do not take his advice.

I’m giving my opinions and helpful advice, and all you have to counter them with is “don’t take this guy’s advice” that’s not only pretty sad, but not constructive at all. I’ve given a lot more worthwhile advice than you have in the guardian forums. And furthermore if you’re going to try to disprove other’s opinions or advice, try to use facts instead of hollow insults.

I mean it’s fair enough if YOU can’t make it viable because you’re simply not good enough with the class, or because you’re playstyle for example: standing there and taking more hits than is advised doesn’t allow it. But a lot of us are seasoned dodgers and blockers and know how to be just as survivable and aggressive with full Berserker’s and do a lot more damage as the result. I’m not (like i said before) advocating it to new players, but I’m letting him know, it’s an option, and it’s a kitten good one provided he wants to go this route and learn to adapt to the lower hp pool and lower toughness.

I’ll take it a step further. Can be done, nah. Viable. In fact, it’s a strong choice. Guardian and full berserker’s is an amazing combo in the right player’s hands. Sure, bad players won’t be able to handle it. But good one’s can. And I’m confident anyone can be good enough to go with it. Also, giving an example of content being too easy, try lvl 30 fractals. From major mobs you can only take 1 (2 at the most) more hits in full defensive gear, as opposed to full beserker’s, So my advice: Learn to dodge, play your angles, and avoid damage, instead of speccing to take more of it. I do tons of challenging PvE and WvW, and there are no facts to prove Berserker’s isn’t a viable and strong option for a half decent player.

Heinel that’s not exactly an accurate assumption. I wouldn’t wear full berserker’s, EVER, if i did not intend to play aggressively. When i wear berserker’s, i play aggressive, and i don’t use scepter (meaning i’m full melee) and i’m not the only Guardian who can pull it off and still be tanky. Ask Trungalung.

I do fractals 40+ with full berserker’s no problem, i do wvw with full berserker’s and i’ve done arah in full berserker’s. I’ts 100% viable, as long as you got the right traits and you know what you’re doing, but again, i really wouldn’t reccomend it until you have 1000+ hours with guardian.

I disagree with the above poster. I have seven sets of gear that i rotate between depending on how i’m feeling or what the situation needs, however, I have ran full berserkers with Lyssa runes with extreme success and still had great survivability. In my strong opinion guardians are the only class who can get away with full berserker’s in melee range without hitting the floor every 30 seconds, however, I’ll also say that it is NOT for new guardians. You have to be very experienced with guardian and its strengths to pull it off.

Say you like the skin of something, but it doesn’t have the stats that you’re looking for. Ta’da?

Think about what you just said for a second.

^good advice. If my build didnt eat conditions for breakfast, id definitely consider that route.

Why are people QQing about this “nerf”? It’s better for non crit heavy builds making them able to dodge more, and since VP did NOT grant boons to anyone but yourself it’s a very very very very minor affect to AH over all.

One last point of mine: With an AH Guardian, you rely on your shouts most often for two things: healing (AH proc and Regen) and Protection. Therefore, say you run two shouts and signet of judgement or whatever else. You’re relying on the SAME two shouts both things, cond removal and protection/healing. Seeing as Protection is PHYSICAL damage mitigation, which does nothing for conditions, I firmly believe that you do NOT want your physical dmg mitigation AND condition removal on the same cooldown, that’s just killing your efficiency in my opinion. <- add that to the points i listed earlier, and to me, Soldier’s runes become less and less useful.

@Hostility, tbh, i Hunt asura’s out of a crowd. So yeah… It works in a very bad way for the one’s that i find :p

And furthermore, Pure of Voice (the guardian trait) which does the same thing as Soldier’s runes bat also affects the party, is also useless. (again, my opinion.) Because it’s buffed, and only works with half of our shouts, and the other half just don’t work with it. Look for other sources of condition removal. Sigil of Purity, Purity Trait, Contemplation of purity even, anything. There’s tons of other, more effective alternatives. That being said, i don’t suggest Hoelbrak either, but i guess it’s okay.

Everyone seems to think Soldier runes are great. They are, for warriors. For guardians, most of us commonly only use (for shouts) SY and HTL, meaning bascially we have 1 shout that removes conditions from ourselves and allies. Why? Because SY prioritizes the pulling of conditions and not curing of them (for some stupid reason) so unless you’re allies have zero conditions which is almost never the case, you’re pulling more conditions onto yourself without curing them, which kinda makes the Soldier rune’s effect useless imo. I ran with soldier’s for weeks, and it’s my firm opinion that there are MUCH better options.

I don’t know if this sort of post is allowed, but i’ve no other way to say this to anet so here goes:
GREAT JOB! You listened to the commnity, addressed a lot of our concerns, and did so with awesome and detailed explanations as to WHY you did it!
On top of that, i have no doubt that you are an awesome company and will continue to do everything in your power to improve this game and keep it the addicting awesome experience it started as.
A+ on the patch.

New Stats:
2010 Power
1541 Precision
2101 Toughness
1443 Vitality
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Attack: 3121
Crit Chance: 34% Crit Dmg: 30
Defense: 3312
HP: 16,075

isn’t crashing the market manipulating it?lol

Trungalung is a man of wisdom. Guardians are beasts, in and out of fractals. You just have to 1. Stop taking other people advice for armor, and find your own sweet spot. 2. Find a trait build that works for YOU, not 100 other people. And 3. Learn how to tie it all together through hours of playing.

@Aleaf, i dont remember exactly, but Scepter’s projectile speed but NOT cast speed was increased to help it hit things, Ever since it’s been fine imo.

Considering he said “you guys” addressing all the other people talking about projectile speed, yeah…

They already did buff it.

Increase drop rates on T6 Materials/ OR Remove DR from farming activities seeing as it’s original intention was to stop botters anyway. We aren’t bots anet, but we’re kitten well getting affected by the anti-bot measures. Great job on the new karma and dungeon rewards, but a little extra step needs to be taken for T6 materials and some other materials (cough cough, doubloons). This is what i’ll be wishing for come Wintersday. <3

Lol oZii, so true. Nothing changed in pve, i rock the full set of knights armor and jewels.

I melee 99% of everything and have 0 problems, there is a few times you’ll need to whip out a scepter, but just keep a good one in your bag at all times and you’ll have no problems.

If you crash your car on accident should the company give you a new car? If you lost your wallet should the bank give you the money you lost? You made a mistake, you pay for it. Don’t expect people to cater when you make dumb mistakes.
It’s just like any other problem regarding ingame mistakes. Is it Anet’s fault? no. Is it yours? yes. If they would/did refund you then hooray for them! good job. But never expect someone to fix your own mistakes. It’s no one else’s job.

Probably going to change soon but there are my pushed up defensive stats.

How can your group who’s cross server get into an overflow at this time of day? we’re all on the same server but cannot access an overflow server to port into FOTM together. What gives?

I’m sure they wouldn’t make it a one time chance. that wouldn’t make sense in any way.

Gab , you’re pissed? I got dc’d before i even got the chance ^^. lol

Reallly agitated me. A lot of hard work. We were on livestream all day too, just for the end of the day dissapointment lol.

I just got Dc’d on fractal lvl 10 right before i completed it, and actually a crash more accurately. Wanna talk about pissed off?

No. Not unless there’s no space in any other box. Essentially, if you have an exotic fractal box, every exotic you pick up will be placed in that box first if possible.

No, they can hold other equipment to. read the description, they are like any other specialty box, it’s priority not requirement.

Title says it all, Pm Vanguardian.4921 ingame, or pm Vash Stormblaze.

Personally, id seriously just trying my suggestion. If you don’t like it, you’re always free to switch back. Drop two handed mastery, replace with writ of persistence or empowering might. Don’t waste traits on pure of voice, if you really want that, take soldiers runes.
TAKE inspired virtue. it’s a must for altruistic healers, if you don’t believe me, believe brutally who has an excellent guide to altruistic healing stickied on the guard forums.

And if you need any ingame pointers, or want to play with me to see that i actually know what i’m talking about, id love to run some dungeons or whatever you’d like and show you some awesome things about the build you’re working on, add me and message me anytime

I posted a build of mine earlier, you’re welcome to check it out if you like. Hammer-Staff is a lovely combo and i ran it in dungeons for quite a while. In my opinion, the general order of priority for those traits should be as follows:
Inspired virtue. Always take this. Always.
Empowering might. Very useful, almost irreplacable.
Signet mastery or writ of persistence. Shorter cooldown on your massive heal, or longer duration on your circle of protection? totally your choice, i chose signet.
Writ of exaltion and pure of voice. In my opinion, wasted traits, but remember this is only MY opinion. I’m sure they are someone’s cup of tea, but not mine. Condition removal is too easy to begin with, and your team if they’re any good can remove their own not rely on you for it. And writ of exaltion, well id choose persistence over it everytime.

dig the shield

I lost almost 1000 Achievement points as well, what the kitten?

@Darx, that’s about 30mins of play time (with a good group) for an obisidan shard. and it’s a hell of a lot funner than farming 2100 karma. so “hahhahah” that.

I didnt even read half your post to be honest. and you’re already my daily hero.

Days? are you assuming there’s like hundreds of levels? considering they said each fractal is a “mini dungeon” i doubt your point very much so.

Has anyone here considered that it’s not a player based dungeon level at all? and rather based on the party itself. Meaning every parties dungeon level is 0 until they start doing dungeons? seems like the most obvious thing to assume…