Guild Wars 2

nicknamenick.2437:

Holosmith is like a warrior with 5 insanely hard hitting burst skills..

Go into holosmith mode (photon forge) spam those skills wich deal insane dmg..
You have enough time before you get to hot to burst down 5man..

You go out of holosmith mode.. wait like 10sec and repeat.

Sorry but those skills in Photon Forge deal insanely dmg!

Also 2nd grandmaster(you know the one that gives strength above 100 heat) with rune of strength gives 25 stacks of might 100% of the time if your careful. Just remember to stick with the team.

Khenzy.9348:

David.5974:

Holo dont have stability if he is not in heat mode. Lack of cobdi clean… If he attack in heat mode just kite him. Then you can kill him.

Scourge…. Eh … Broken?

Hello? You know you can play with team mates that can cover up your weaknesses? They might not be that good because once they enter Photon Forge they are locked in it a few seconds without stability and other defensive stuff, but hey, I’m talking about the damage here. It’s ridiculous, and we all agree with that.

You know you have throw elixer b, right? As well as the option to extend the range of your auto attack, or have corona burst grant stab? Stab is the least of a Holosmith’s problems, getting counter-bursted is. However, if you can draw their attention and kite/tank, despite high DPS on their end and possible range while a teammate guns ’em down from afar, your good.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

I don’t imagine many people are using this skill at the moment but I just wanted to gush over how much I’m enjoying it.

I use it in sPvp and PvE, and will probably will do so as well in WvW. And I don’t know about you, but I run it with gadgeteer (which gives superspeed just for a reminder) and I get quite a bit of value from it, as well as upgrading a.e.d

I was thinking sword/shield as soon as I knew Holo was more power, though I do see you point for using pistol as you have the immob and a decent attack in blowtorch, though, I’ll probably be running shield myself.

I’m glad we got stronghold, it gives some different build options as you have to travel cross-map to get troops, and killing the NPCs instead of just players.

Ben Phongluangtham.1065:

I mentioned this in the AMA, may as well repeat it here. For a multitude of reasons, balance being just one, we don’t have any plans on doing a 2v2 (or 3v3) queue.

We’ve been talking about doing special tournaments on occasion. 2v2 would be one option for a special tournament.

A 2v2 tournament every so often sounds fun.