Guild Wars 2

Fractals are quite good now with the keys yielding decent returns and around 12% chance to get an ascended item.

Hmm. Well there is no reason they could/should not add the ability to combine AR and WvW infusions in the forge.

misterman.1530:

Well, I have this on a couple of characters but while working on my Thief recently, am finding it incredibly difficult to get the HP under Tarir – for the obvious reason that I cannot find a map that will open it up.

This is what I was worried about from day one. When you block HPs (anything) behind the completion of the meta, that spells trouble.

Sure…I know…“you” did the whole map meta solo with a Warrior wearing trash gear while watching Netflix. Awesome for you. Or “you” always find a map with a full contingent of dedicated people working toward completing the meta. Again, awesome-sauce for you.

But as fewer and fewer people are spending their time in AB, for instance, there will be fewer and fewer chances to get that HP.
I am, however, hoping that the Maguuma Scrolls I buy using Heroic Proofs in WvW randomly selects that HP to complete. But given my incredible lack of luck with RNG, I am not holding out any hope.

You can usually find a taxi into an AB that is winning if you look at the right time.

Rings do drop from encryptions, I’ve gotten several.

The update post said you were going to give ascended drops from the daily chests. I saved mine up. I was planning to use the pristine relics to buy a bunch of keys. Now I have to pay 50% more for the keys and get no extra chances at ascended drops according to the patch notes.

Very unhappy.

I have a snaff as well that cannot be attuned. I’m just gonna replace it with another one from a chest when I open a get a billion rings tomorrow opening 20 days of FoTM chests. If that doesn’t work I’ll have to open a ticket.

I think commander gear would be good for a tanky buff rev (power/prec/tough/boon). I
’d try something like this
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAS8unXN2gSqJvQRBlbosfyPU4Q5IKYr8EllZlhNma2RNgCawe6r/G-TlRQAB7qboDleroEcblBLr+DA7PIKIMC-w

Or some other rune that helps vs conditions.

Nice guide. Which classes/builds have enough DPS for the SCAR lane?

The 15th is likely, but…

Notsoperky.2348:

Coulter.2315:

I think you can get everything required to max HoT Masteries with just silvers – they aren’t that bad took me an afternoon to get silver in all of them (except the flying one in VB yuck xD). Have enough Mastery points for everything so you don’t need to bash your head against the wall and go for gold if you don’t want to.

You need 13 silvers to max the mastery lines, if you have managed to get all the other masteries from everything else except raids.

Either you are exceptionally gifted as well as extremely lucky and have a wonderful connection with no ping and are god’d gift to SM8 (ie, all gates were open, nothing blocked by meta event, never missed a jump or glide, etc), or your claim of ‘an afternoon’ is completely bullkitten. Some of them are blocked most of the time and you have to get very lucky to even get in- then kicked out before you complete.

The other problem I’m finding now is even finding where my missing mastery points are without having to spend hours consulting outside databases and comparing to those I have to determine which ones I should have, do have, or can try for.

The achievement panel shows you what will reward you with mastery points.

I don’t think you have enough sand.

Rauderi.8706:

I’d only passed by one set of snipers on the way around, somewhere around the first third of the race. If you swing wide enough around them, they don’t seem to notice you.

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Also, F this thing. These stupid minigames need to tell us what masteries are required before I go wasting my time on them. Without unlimited gliding, there’s no way in hell I’m getting Silver, much less Gold.

I’ve gotten 2:05 with only lean, it’s just a pita. Assuming the snipers don’t kill you, gold should be possible with lean.

I’ve gotten several vials, not seen a glob drop so far though. Need to try that 52 farm for some shards.

There are several snipers along the flying circus route. Sometimes they are close enough together that two of them one shot you out of the air. There is nothing you can do except stop doing the adventure, kill them, hope they don’t spawn the same way again, and go all kitten way around to get back into the adventure again. Really silly design.

Rune of Rage is pretty good.

Just make your own group in LFG, you’ll get people.

You would get a ton of stacks with the sigil of str since you would also get extra shared empowerment procs with it.

Somebody got stomped in ESL by a condi rev? Source?

Your think rev is boring and you are switching to warrior? Uhh…

I switched to rev because warrior is boring. You set a few utiliies and never change them out or think much about when to use them (FGJ, banners, stun break, signet, etc.) Most all of them are used on cool down in PvE without any thought involved. If you want something more complex avoid warrior, its even worse.

Oh, this bug. My window was resizing every time I exited the game to desktop and came back in (i.e. stopped playing for the night and came back tommorrow). I gave up and stopped resizing it. I use the largest UI size because I run at 2560 FWIW.

Strength: Good if you are providing most of the might stacks for a group. Otherwise something else is probably better. The ferocity from rage runes gives you more personal DPS than the power from strength and the same +5% while buffed.

Hoelbrak: Great for the condi duration reduction but will be a DPS loss without the percent damage bonus.

Ogre: I’ve no idea how 1% compares to 35 ferocity off hand, but rage is probably better DPS.

All the organized groups are doing raids right now instead of open world content.

Yup, super pricey since you need 250 sprockets to make 1 and there is no practical way to farm them. Sucks since it’s the only healing power gear with two offensive stats to go with it.

Linfang.1087:

Roy was pondering adding a higher base damage to torment for the Revenant under Mallyx or Corruption like some type of trait, but I do not know what ever happened from there. Not saying that would be a day/night change but he did acknowledge Mallyx and Condi rev does need some lovin.

I don’t think DoT Rev will cut it without that. Hard to say though since we lack real damage meters.

Most rev’s are running full zerker DPS. You can also tank, not sure what is being used for that but I’d guess a mix of knight and cavalier with maybe some vit thrown in.

Celtic Lady.3729:

ProtoGunner.4953:

LOL, how can’t you get a single bladed coatbox? I got already 4 and salvage the rest. Just LFG and find a full map, it’s super easy. Gives a box every time you kill all 5 bosses which always happens when map is full, even with about 7mins left.

It doesn’t give a box when you kill all 5 bosses. It only gives a guaranteed box when you have T4 at night AND enough participation.

And it’s not “super easy” to get a full map or a full map that finishes to T4. I’ve been on plenty of full maps that didn’t even make it to T3. The LFG may help, but it’s not a guarantee of anything.

I’ve never seen a T4 VB and with the raids good luck with anything short of a guild run since it’s the LFG waiting room for raids. An entirely foreseeable outcome.

Luclinraider.2317:

Ramhu.4651:

Interesting topic
Luclinraider, could you tell us which weapon you’re using ? sword and axe or shield ? :p
And which spec ?

I actually main it with Hammer. It, imo, is the best weapon for Rev. Everyone is all raving about Sword/shield….but the way I see it….at least in PvP (I mainly PvP). Good players know that UA is coming when they see your quills from Shiro. They will usually just block, or dodge that combo. This leaves Sword/Shield with literally NOTHING worth running. I really do feel that sword/x is only worth running for 3…which is easily countered.

Hammer on the other hand has 1200 range, making it a massive range weapon that can hit 5 targets. Not only that but it brings an evade attack into the fight, and an AOE control. Finish that off with a wall that blocks projectiles/gives your attacks life steal…and you’ve got a weapon that imo trumps all the others on Rev….

Even in PvE I hit WAY harder with my hammer than with Sword/x

As for spec I currently run: Herald, Devastation, Invocation .

Although I will likely swap one of the later 2 out for Retribution if they make Dwarf King worth running, and run him over Shiro.

Sword auto attack with Impossible Odds puts out huge DPS and lots of vuln stacks, I wouldn’t say it has nothing going for it. Sure the hammer hits harder per skill, but sword is a huge damage and since it always applies vulnerability it will trigger focused siphoning.

Pretty much. Why take a warrior when you can bring a Revenant?

The torch is amazing. Pistol, rifle, staff, and shield are nice. Bows: wat?

Get in a Silverwaste chest farm train. You’ll get tons of them in a few hours.

OH Sword is kinda meh. Unless you really want that block. Axe 4 is great for gap closing and shield has good utility.

Summoning the tablet when switching and making the move skill instant cast would go a long way towards making it more viable. It feels rather clunky for any use the way it is right now.

dutchiez.7502:

Can we please get some actual numbers instead of just “increased”?

Indeed. Increased to what?

Excellent. Hopefully this will make fractals worth while. I especially like the idea of more ascended armor drops.

zombeaver.1650:

thx for your anwser guys, but is it possible to change stats on exotic gear? if it is, can u tell me what i need for this and where i can do this?

That’s for ascended gear. You’ll have to buy(gold, karma, dungeon) and/or craft new exotic gear if you want different stats.

A full set of viper armor/weapon will give you 21.67% condition duration. Very important for maxing your damage on longer fights.

Runes of Balthazar and mace 2 spam are probably your best DPS.

Keep in mind you only need 35% to max boon duration with the herald. I’m pretty sure herald can have the best regen ticks in game if you stack all the healing % traits.

Zealot’s gear would be ideal, but it’s expensive.

If you grab a set of rune of the monk and a boon food you already have 100% and another 10% healing.

Does anyone know how + healing % effects work?

UnbentMars.9126:

Sola.7250:

Ascended Armor was top tier, I’ve created 2 full sets (1 Hv, 1 Lt) through crafting and farming but, now there’s all this talk of Legendary Armor, I’d hate to see the cost of that!!!

Ascended gear has the same stats as legendary gear so the only real change between the two is the ability to switch stats at any time.

They are also making the legendary armor have collection stuff, so the actual gold cost will be mitigated by things that won’t require gold, but we will see

Right, just like the new precursor crafting did for the existing legendaries… oh wait.

Burning arrows in tactics is terrible for condition builds. It has zero synergy with anything else you would want to do as a condition build.

1. Staff 4
2. Jalis heal
3. Invocation adept trait on legend change
4. Shiro for chill/immobilize/cripple/stun
5. Ventari has one that removes 3 with kitten CD if you really need to pump out removal.
6. Mallyx can grant resistance

korasukage.9315:

You might find this build to your liking: Burning Bleeding Bow Build: A Condition Warrior.

I also use rare veggie pizza and the toxic master crystals in order to cap condition duration (only used to test out DPS though, I usually use some cheap +condition food while kitten ing around).

Try the build out, it’s really rather awesome.

Cheers

I think you picked GS instead of bow in there. Either way I don’t feel tactics is worth taking in any kind of berzker condi build. The only trait that is good is the bow one for the build.

I just wish the zealot’s gear was more reasonable obtainable. It might make for a decent amount of damage with some healing power but it way too kitten expensive.

Rev has good evasion and general weakness to conditions so investing in some vitality is a good idea for WvW IMO.

Looking at builds taking herald and retribution seems like a good starting point to me as well.

I pretty much circle strafe constantly while using the auto attack with rev. Using sword 3, hammer 3, and hammer 5 to evade/stun enemies is good way to avoid damage. Sword 2 and axe 4 also chill which helps keep the enemies away.

Summoning the tablet when you switch would be nice, given you can use exactly zero other abilities in that stance before you do. Increasing the radius would help too.

1. Get a sword
2. Spec devastation
3. Select Shiro
4. Turn on impossible odds
5. Watch everything die.

Pompeia.5483:

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Searing fissure should be able to maintain 9 stacks of burning if you max out duration. I’m thinking viper weapons/armor with runes of balthazar would be best. With pizza and a sigil of malice you get 52% condi duration base. With traits you would have
100% poison
97% burning
85% torment

Depends on your primary source of DoT damage. Getting 50% poison duration and 33% torment duration is nice. The extra poison proc is on a really long cooldown though so it’s kinda blah, It could have no cooldown and it wouldn’t be OP. Overall though, yeah, corruption is pretty weak. A hybrid approach might work.

Fix the soothing bastion traits boon duration buff.
Add a 20% cool down to shield skills on soothing bastion like every other weapon trait.

Yo dawg I heard you like spears…