Guild Wars 2

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How dare you ask a question OP. What, you think this is some kind of forum or something?

OP i believe the optimal scepter build uses conjures, aka combining the scepter burst with the hammer, or something like that

Definitely. Scepters can burst peeps for 15-18k depending on traits and utilities. The damage is nearly instant (<half a second) and is very hard to predict. I like fire/air/arcane btw. It’s probably better to start with water or earth to see what style you like.

I’ve found Scepter surprisingly decent in this meta because more people are running glassier builds.

Btw the person in the first video isn’t doing the burst 100% correctly. You cast phoenix first but you need to flash before phoenix finishes casting. This reduces the phoenix travel time to zero and makes the burst unpredictable.

One of my favorite combos was air focus 5 (knockdown) into fire 2 (dragon’s tooth). At this point they will stunbreak and dodge and right after they dodge use the phoenix-flash combo.

happy one-shotting

Hello, I wanted to share an idea I thought would be really cool for pvp. This new game mode would involve ‘templates’; builds with weapons, utilities, traits, sigils, runes, the whole nine yards, pre-selected. Each class would have several templates to choose from. Template ideas would be a collaboration between experienced pvpers and Anet. Balance changes would also be separate from the rest of the game. Templates and balance changes would be made with three ideas in mind:

1. template is fun to play
2. template is reasonable to play against, (build has appropriate risk/reward, build has counter-play dependent on skill, not class, less rng).
3. template is fun to watch (animations to dangerous skills are recognizable, build isn’t ridiculously tanky or has ridiculous sustain, build doesn’t spam screen clutter).

pros:
1. More build diversity. I know this sounds counter-intuitive but I think templates would actually increase build diversity. Right now we have the illusion of choice, the higher you get, the less build diversity you see.
2. Bring back awesome builds that were fun to watch, play, and even play against.
3. Balance is easy. Currently, making a balance change has many consequences. Currently one single change will effect several builds, multiplied by different stat combinations, multiplied again by three game modes. With templates you would at most effect one or two other templates.
4. Points are more dynamic and exciting, not stagnant and boring like they are now.
5. Things actually die.

I hope it’s a complete rework, not just a buff. Shortbow is so boring

My god those passives… this is a joke right? You were so lazy you also applied blanket changes to groups of utilities regardless of functionality. You think sig of hunt and stone should have the same cd? I’m being harsh for your benefit btw, more passives are bad for the game end of story.

Sadly, roaming is in it’s last throes. Too much cheese to wade through. Too much damage and instant burst to 1vX. Not enough enemy roamers to enjoy roaming anymore.

great ideas man, here’s some of mine:

*greatly increase the rewards from loot bags but divide the rewards by the number of people who tagged the enemy. This makes sense logically and in terms of making WvW a far more interesting place.

*more objectives for different roles. WvW is a war. Why do we have so few roles? Add in rewarding objectives for spy’s, roamer’s, defenders, assassins (killing enemy commanders), disruptors (economy system, castles and keeps should have an economy that exists outside the walls).

*main zerg shouldn’t have so much mobility, being able to storm across the map and complete objectives as they go. Put a speed penalty depending on the size of the group. Groups of 20 and less shouldn’t have any speed penalty.

*WvW skill tree!!!!!! Spend your points to unlock powerful constructs like: (trench: gives you and 4 allies reduced damage from siege, rabbit hole: hides you from enemies that don’t get to close, dynamite: weakens walls, commander: increases stats of those around you.

high burst would be fine if their wasn’t so much instant/unavoidable/passive damage.

I don’t really know how good we are, but there are enough newish players in WvW that you can win 95% of your 1v1’s and even a few 1v2’s and 1v3’s.

Faux’s RRR build! I think it would be cool if it locked your pet in one location but it boosted your pets abilities significantly, like a defensive “node” you could set up.

yep, I’ve only been playing for a few days and I’m already set on my build. Quick draw and taunt are game changers for power ranger. I’m still using dogs btw, my pets knockdown crits for 5k lol. The shortened rampage as one is amazing. 5-9 seconds of swiftness on wpn swap gives me more mobility than before. 16 second cd heal as one is pretty great to. Honestly there are so many buffs we just got. I’ve been beating condi rangers in wvw by out-maneuvering them with quick draw double swoops. In pvp this would be rough though I think. Gotta take advantage of open spaces.

A good power ranger will win most 1v1s in WvW, but I mean come on, It’s one of our few shining moments. I wouldn’t really care if they nerfed the range as long as they gave lb something in return.

lb/gs zerk can definitely hold its own in a 1v1, just keep practicing. Don’t swap to GS too early, don’t move unless you have to in LB, play aggressively when you pop stone. I know dueling rooms are toxic but if you wanna get better it’s a good option, better yet, find thieves/warriors to duel over and over again. I honestly don’t think wvw is a good place to learn, in the time it takes to find a 1v1 you could have dueled someone like 10 times plus actually talked to them and learned what they’re doing. Not to mention in wvw you’ll fight SA thieves who have a completely different play-style than the far more aggressive trickery thieves in pvp

Kolly.9872:

I’d like to propose the idea of removing foods from wvw instead

ya, in the past I could howl immediately by deselecting a target beforehand which is.. annoying to say the least, now even that doesn’t work sometimes.

When you cast your pet’s f2, it does it immediately no matter where it is, in other words, it’s up to the ranger to intelligently decide if the target is in range. Drakes for example would turn to face the target and fire, no matter how far they are. Would be even cooler if we had control over the secondary special pet attacks, aka tail swiping a healing spring even if your target is far away. Thoughts?

Here’s some tips for LB:
-Learn when to strafe and when to stand still for channeling power and skill reliability.
-Learn when LB #3 fails and how to avoid it, this takes a while.
-don’t sabotage you’re pet’s CC with LB #4.
-LB #5 is kind of interesting, even if you cancel it immediately, a couple arrows will drop. This is useful if you wanna get off some quick pressure without exposing yourself for too long.

3. Sounds fun, kinda reminds me of the Wildy, cookie to anyone who gets this.
I think GvG could be moved to a new PvP game type, guilds would probably appreciate a more structured environment anyways.

+1, only reason I don’t name my pets is the no sticking, please fix Anet.

I’m not trying to pass judgement, but I do think some people put their server’s victory over personal fun, which is crazy. An empty wvw dominated by one server that had a ‘victory at any cost’ mentality is pretty lame for everyone. Another misconception is that people duel for bragging rights, which for me at least isn’t true. Many duels aren’t really duels just spontaneous 1v1s where the opponent happened to be fun to fight against. The OS isn’t an option because it’s always empty. That being said, it’s wrong to be mean to someone who interrupted unless they’re purposely trolling.

Let’s be honest, longbow is cheese. But we need that cheese because without it, we’re under powered. The buffs Anet gave us didn’t help us against the specs we struggle vs., the buffs helped us against the specs we are already good against. They could have buffed Longbow in a more creative way, giving us some way of dealing with targets in close range like a engineer’s rifle, even warrior longbow 2 does high damage at close range. Ele scepter 3 is another example of a balanced high damage ranged skill. Basically I’m saying longbow needs buffs ands nerfs. Right now, it’s too easy to do damage but we lack the tools to deal with certain specs.

dat sustain tho. Have you tried offhand warhorn slanger? Seems like it would give a lot to this build, extra 2k heal, dps boost to you and your pet, especially when you’re in sword and you have no crit chance.

Bloodlust will give you ‘bout 10%. Even with max might, it’ll be more than force for sure. btw, fire 3 can hit 3-4 times for massive damage so I wouldn’t waste it on might stacks. (unless you’re hitting and stacking at the same time). I don’t pve much but there’s a video somewhere I believe of the optimal s/f lightning hammer rotation.

I use it man, one with air and fgs is an amazing escape tool.

Ya, he’s referring to the initial burst which is point blank range, also ideally with:
-full hp
-full stamina
-swap to air before phoenix lands so you get the damage bonus for being in air and fury from swapping

or if you’re a burst junkie: 25 30 10 0 5

the worst is when you do the phoenix-flash combo and it misses or doesn’t crit and you end up casting fire 2 instead of air 2.

1. good damage potential (a lot of synergy with drakes, gs, clarity, hunt) but low reliability. (some of your burst is hard to land)

2. good to fair. I feel like in some situations you’re gonna be stuck in gs.

3. Replace bird with drakehound for even more synergy!

man, now days whenever someone mentions ‘elementalist’ it means d/d cele ele

For mah scepter ele:
fire attune: q
air attune: shift
water attune: left alt
earth attune: mouse button 3

utility skill 1: e
utility skill 2: mouse button 4 (lightning flash)
utility skill 3: r
dodge: space
jump: v
weapon swap: z (not that important)
healing: c (i use signet so not that important either)
elite: x

I feel like this skill is borderline useless for several reasons:
1. it’s better to use the water autoattack, which has a better chance of triggering fresh air.
2. low damage doesn’t match it’s ease of use.

my idea:
1st. increase CD significantly.
then:
-ice field?
or
-blast finisher?
or
-damage buff?
or
-chill?
or
-boon rip?

thoughts?

Could be, not is, nexed; and god forbid someone asks a simple question without getting attacked lol.

Whaaa? Condi necro is insanely strong.

I think what would be nice is a vid on specific 1v1 match ups. I for one struggle with condi necros and s/d thieves the most.

I still love it. scepter/focus has zero mobility so I pretty much have to run fgs when I roam. It’s also still decent downed cleave.

To those who don’t understand why it’s a problem, hotjoin is the ambassador to pvp content. It’s a lot of people’s first exposure to non pve content and the fact that it’s so bad turns a lot of people off of pvp and gw2 in general.

Single element builds should be bad because there’s no counter-play. People can’t be like: he switched to fire here comes the burst, he switched to earth, get read for the cc, he switched to water, time, to apply condis.

My s/f solo roaming loadout has been having a lot of success as I get better. Mostly zerk with soldier and knight. 16k health, 2.2k armor, 50% crit chance, 199% crit damage.

air/fire, pack, autotarget ON!, learned that from lightningblaze

Frankly this sounds awesome! Can I brainstorm a new trait?
new Grandmaster trait: swapping seasons creates a 1 second combo field at your current location based on season (summer = fire field, fall = smoke field? (hunt theme), winter = ice field, spring = water field)

If you’re a dagger/pistol thief, don’t focus so much on getting the backstab in. Power rangers, especially s/d, have so many ways to deny the backstab. Play very aggressively, dodge pet cc, and abuse shadowshot and headshot.

If you’re running scepter, the culmination of hits also gives you a very high chance of getting a double sigil proc (if you’re running air/fire).

Ranger grandmaster trait: Remorseless

add this effect: When your pet gains stealth, it gains opening strike.
(aka you can use “guard” shout to give your pet an opening strike.

new Grandmaster trait in beastmastery: insert cool name

effect: activating a pet (swapping) creates a small, short duration combo field at your location based on the pet type.

Something I can add is use gs #4 cautiously vs good d/p thieves due to shadow shot. BTW when I was playing ranger, I found s/d much better than gs, but then again that was before the gs buffs.

one more thing: swap to drake → hilt bash → tail swip → do the damages

If you use pure power weapons, the dps you lose from zerker to celestial is very large. The more might you stack, the smaller this difference is. I guess what I’m saying is celestial forces you to use might stacking of some sort to do decent damage.

I like watching glass d/d, glass staff, and scepter fresh air.

I’m afraid it can’t unless you use lightning hammer which doesn’t make sense for your question. The damage from that set comes cycling between elements. Make it easier on yourself by making your key-binds convenient. I have fire set to ‘q’, earth set to ‘mouse button 3’, water set to ‘alt’ and air set to ‘shift’ for example. Scepter/dagger will be better for leveling, I like scepter/focus when fighting other people. Also, imho scepter doesn’t “come alive” until lvl 80 when you get the ‘fresh air’ trait. Stick with scepter as it’s super fun!

Just wanted to give props to whoever does the Sylvari work. There’s a reason why all my characters are Sylvari!

Certain aspects of this game are pretty fun to watch but others are just boring. I don’t know if anyone caught the “1v1” cup but watching the spirit ranger fight the phantasm mesmer was pretty much the worst thing I’ve ever seen. For one thing, this game is too subtle for the average person. When someone sees someone die to condis, their gonna be like wait? why did that guy just die suddenly? Certain animations are far too subtle to be enjoyable to watch. People watching an asura evis someone to death will be like why did that little guy do so much damage with that little attack? Cooldowns tend to be low in this game and sustain is high so instead of seeing “big plays”, you see repeated plays over and over again.