Guild Wars 2

TimeBomb.3427:

Nice video

FYI, sigil of battle and earth don’t stack. All sigils, even on-swap and on-crit sigils, share the same CD. So if the on-swap sigil is on CD, on-crit can’t trigger, and vice versa. For more info, see: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

Interesting ill try changing my battle sigil.

The only condi cleanse im using is the turrent, it would be easier if i could pick my turret up more to lower the CD but the slight delay in EB makes it so hard while moving.

as for build its 30/10/0/20/10

Thought i would just share my vid with you guys. Seeing other people engi vids made me really one to make one of my own hope you enjoy.

Full rabid gear perplexity runes , sigil of battle and sigil of earth.

Im pretty sure there isnt any up-levelled players

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Copestetic.5174:

It would be nice if Obby armor made its way here. As long as Heavy Armor looks better than Warrior’s Obby from 1. Sheesh, that kitten looked horrible.

whaaaat warriors obsidian armour was my favourite set.

From a roaming stand point in my opinion its

Super team ranger
A team Engi necro , stealth mes im not too sure about this one it does lack pressure.
B team warrior, other spec mesmers and thiefs who im tempted to put in C team because 1v1 they usually just run.
C team guardian, ele

Im getting this too, i just assumed they rage quit.

rip deadeye farm , bags nolonger drop silver.

I didnt even know they had a daily for the queen jubilee because i get my daily from doing pvp.

I assumed this patch today would bring out more achievements. when i saw 14/16

The only thing i think that needs to be changed is removing the dome and some sort of fix to aoe rings to help colour blind people.

I have beat her.

I would love some sort of dash ability on adrenalin, i loved the wow charge and intercept mechanic worked.

gesho.9468:

this is spvp, i have condi traits and flamethrover and grenades or bombs in utils.

in weapon i like shield. i like that pistol gives basic (condi on 2, blind on 3) without extra clatter and then you can use shield for active defense.

but somehow this idea stays on paper. in practice i hardly ever manage to get value out of shield. for blocking projectiles – its not worth for autoatack, and for big cooldowns, i dont often notice ranged telegraphs. for blocking melee, if you need to block big melee you ara usually disabled.

Trust me theres nothing like reflecting back a rangers barrage or a warrior killshot.

As for skill 5 its amazing against every melee. When a thief tries to stealth i wait a second and pop the shield great for screwing over their backstab. Also stops warriors bull charge mace stuns ect.

And if someone wants to run from you throw it at them to stop their mobility skill like ride the lightning or warrior great sword 5 skill.

Not to mention it has a great blast finisher, and can also trigger the new rune set that puts confusion on an enemy if interrupted.

Player Character.9467:

silentnight warrior.2714:

Player Character.9467:

silentnight warrior.2714:

What i find more funny is that warriors made that build to adapt to the condition meta. Still other classes refuse to adapt to warrior changes. Its better for them to nerf warriors instead of nerfing the food that make that build to much strong than it is in reality.
And again that build can be countered.

spvp has no foods and wvw will never be balanced around what 1v1 roamers are doing

Thats why i said “the food that make that build to much strong than it is in reality.” with reality i was refering to spvp/tpvp. In WvWvW that build is much better because of the food.
Nerf the food and it is all right.
Besides not only warrior can use that food, that trait and that runes in WvWvW.

If you’re going to nerf -condi you have to nerf +condi too… they’re already built in as counters.

“Hey man, if I don’t take +condi duration, your -condi duration is totally eating up my condi duration.”

this x 1 000,000

If you dont want to buy rare veggie pizza +40% condi duration to counter the Bowl of lemongrass poultry -40% condi duration just leave this thread.

how many hours a day? Did you have empty rings to fight at.

Its so predictable and easy to avoid. I bet warriors would still beat the people who are complaining even with a 50% extra cd on mace skill and halving its duration.

thx SRoode and gz on your bolt.

Making sunrise

I also need about 65 lodestones + 100g runestones

but i have dawn.

And after that need to finish off my map completion and im done.

Bearlin.7238:

I actually find it more amusing when people fall to their deaths as they attempt to disrupt my farm

Its so brilliant because if they fall you cant res them.

Ive seen some pretty rude lazy people who wont waypoint, i usually res people a couple times before moving to a different dome.

But i like to grab my 4 gambits again which takes 4 seconds then run over to res. In that time almost everyone whos waiting for a res flips out and rages going RES???? kitten you. So then i just jump around their corpse.

I have spent a terrible ammount of money race changing in wow for different animation’s. After a few months of using the same attacks i want a new set of animations to enjoy.

I dont understand why some people set rules for themselves, its a game, things should be allowed for fun not disallowed because its easier than levelling a new character.

Many games easily reset race based achievements and account unlockables , WoW and racial mounts and armour ect.

Just make a simple choice selection screen where people can choose options for their story or reset their entire story line.

They could even make it £20 i would be so fine with that.

food is now banned from WvW.

I like the sound of no rallying off of pve mobs in WvW.

I feel like capes should have been our 1 year present.

The armour looks really nice on humans, but the greatsword animations for asura are amazing.

I currently have a human warrior but im tempted to level an asura one with crafting now just because the animations make the warrior feel so much quicker.

I think the ecto price is more to do with the speculation of t7 mats and now that people cant farm CoF p1 any more to convert tokens to level 75 bits of armour to salvage for ecto.

currently farming to get my Dawn precurser 150g off , started with 100g

I feel like its a middle ground between thief roamer and guardian. Most of the warriors abilities also have a huge telegraph saying hey im about to stun you, dodge now.

I just watched a guardian do it multiple times a few mins ago with sword focus and reflect wall.

In my opinion i dont think this would be a problem in the first place if anet wasnt so trigger happy with nerfs and DR.

Most people feel the need to farm it more than they usually would because they know anet is going to nerf this to the ground like cursed shore farming, dungeons, DR ect ect. I also feel like the champion farm below the gauntlet and cursed shore champ boxes are more of an issue because i imagine it would be easier to bot?.

Havent tried to bot before though so maybe it is harder to bot cursed shore.

Excalibur.9748:

If this spec doesn’t get nerfed next patch, I’m taking my warrior (currently lv2) to lv80 in WvW and I’ll stream/make some videos with him to show how easy mode it is.

I was levelling my warrior earlier, but then I remembered with next patch comes account balance so I’ll be able to level my FotM warrior much easier.

“A roaming class should absolutely have the advantage over warrior… warrior is already good in PvE, ZvZ, GvG, it’s not fair that it’s good at everything at once.”

Thought i would look back on your posts to see what class you are. Im actually enjoying fighting warriors on my thief now, rather than destroying them. But tbh most of these mace shield warriors wear zerk gear so it doesn’t take too long to destroy them with my sword dagger , shortbow.

This build is strong, but by no means op.

I main thief but i also have a 80 ele warrior and guardian and soon mesmer.

If you are an engineer play pistol shield
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bomb kit flame-thrower rocket boots. If he gets close you can either use 5 to daze him, or 4 to knockback or your trait that blinds someone when you get cc’d automatically every 30 seconds, or use your flamethrower knock back or the blind. You also have access to a blind field from smoke bomb which you can combo stealth field off with rocket boots big bomb or shield 4.

If you are an ele you have access to mist form teleport chill aura stun protection.

if you are a thief you have multiple ways to beat this, sword dagger, sword pistol , dagger pistol, blind fields shadowstep ect. Pistol dagger but i haven’t tried that in ages.

Havent played my guard in a while but stability/aegis.

Mesmer will NEVER lose to this build, staff teleport is on almost the same cool down as the stun, blink, decoy, shatter invuln shatter daze sword skill 2.

Cant speak for necro’s and rangers because i haven’t played them since release.

Also a screenshot just to prove i play thief much more than warrior.

personally im against this change in its current form, maybe im just weird but i have a lot of fun doing speed clears. Arenanet needs to stop nerfing every farming spot in the game and reward players who can play more than 2 hours a day. Usually when im in uni on week days i don’t play but on weekends i play for a good 10 hours. All this DR and nerfing to spots makes it hard for me to enjoy my time when i get on.

I also dont want to be rewarded for using excel spread sheets and websites to play the tradepost.

Im also interested to see how this will affect the ecto/molten lodestone market.

Since a few days ago i have had to open my ports to get into lions arch. Is this a problem on my end or arenanets? I have been playing the game for the past year without opening them.

The problem with lions arch that ive been having is a never ending loading screen, i have a good internet connection. 65 mb dl 15 up. 25 ping 0 packet loss 1 to 0 jitter.

i just started getting this problem today. i opened my ports and now its fixed

i opened TCP 80, 443, 6112, 6600

i would like to see a type of token drop by every chest, that when you have say 20 can be handed in for a weapon ticket so that way its not a complete rng mess.

dont buy them , i bought 75.

2 tickets
5 mini pets
bunch of rubbish

on average the ticket seemed to drop every 30 or so that i opened

Exewre.2837:

mickers.2715:

I haven’t been on desolation for long but i have to say its so frustrating waking up in the morning to see VS capped everything at 4am while you were asleep and gained a nice amount of points. I would love to see WvW a 12 hour event and shutdown at night so prime time fights were more intense and stop the door smashing simulator.

And if you want for some reason to play 24/7 they can allow you to pick a second server with a different prime time to represent.

if you shut down at night, deso ll be in trouble since they do points at night and at lunch time
Thats why they are talking now about cheats and morningcap since they are the nightcappers

Ive had the fortune of being off this week, its the same every night. 4 or 5pm deso cap a load of points with some resistance from VS and ER then at 4AM VS get a big group of ppl with 6+ golems and cap the entire map while most deso people are offline, so no deso really arent the main nightcappers.

Dayra.7405:

And why are you frustrated about something you should know since 6 month?
By design the best 24/7 coverage wins WvW. Fighting quality is rather irrelevant to win WvW.

Ive only been on deso for a few weeks, i dont care a huge amount because im not in a WvW guild and play Spvp more.

“Fighting quality is rather irrelevant to win WvW.”

Which in my opinion is stupid and brings no skill to it once you learn where to place siege.

“2) Enjoy fighting when you wana fight, but ignore if you win or loose the match.”

This is pretty much what i do it is still pretty disheartening to know you are losing but there is nothing you can do other than quit your work or get some people from different time zones to fill in for you.

One thing that would be handy if out manned is a bunch of npc’s you could hire or get to follow you to build and use siege equipment. At some points i have wanted to take a keep but cant find a few other people to help build and protect rams.

I haven’t been on desolation for long but i have to say its so frustrating waking up in the morning to see VS capped everything at 4am while you were asleep and gained a nice amount of points. I would love to see WvW a 12 hour event and shutdown at night so prime time fights were more intense and stop the door smashing simulator.

And if you want for some reason to play 24/7 they can allow you to pick a second server with a different prime time to represent.

Im on deso too, i dont understand where you found these players that dont res instantly. Teach me your ways of finding them!

Which ever you prefer, glass cannon is harder to pull of in wvw outside of a 1v1.

If you want to melee go for cannon if you want to be ranged and wear people down slowly go condition.

Just thought id share a PoV from tief in WvW in zerg fights and 1vX

i use

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I use Valkyrie accesories with berserk 4/6 valkyrie 2/6 with ogre runes.

Somtimes i switch the berserk out with the power toughness vitality gear from karma.

down skill 3 rallys the warrior, but only gives you a smallish chance on kill to come back to life.

So dont use it unless you know you are going to die from that mob.

I would love to have a viable build to fight on the capture point with. Its so stupid fighting someone for 2 mins and win but lose like 30 points for your team because they have it captured the entire time your fighting. Thief is great fun but anything other than going full berserk feels like you become a stealth res bot who cant cap points alone.

Thats a shame, dont the flags look completely different though anyway? although its been a long time since i used one of the stomp consumables so i might be mistaken.

i just finished making 16 with like 40k glory + some random stuff i already had and got not one rare dye. So weeks of work for about 30 silver.

Is the 100 nades build the one where they use rifle and the trait that makes them cast chain lightning when they use a gadget, ive seen that one quite often recently.

Lofat.2406:

Login.5102:

Wvw view

4. Is there any other useful skillS besides c&d to use before stealth.

I think what he means here is how one would hit CnD then instantly hit steal to land the CnD right as they steal. Pistol whip would work also. Any skill that has a delay in casting would work depending on what you want to achieve.

Good point

you start casting CnD then follow it up a fraction of a second after with any instant skill so shadow step , steal or infiltrator signet. This also works with heartseeker and is great for finishing people off from a distance. I cast heartseeker followed by steal which teleports me near them allowing me to get a really long range surprise heartseeker off.

I mostly miss being able to easily jump into a pvp with my casual friends, its the same reason i loved 2v2 so much was just easy for me and my friend to get quick games together without finding a whole team to wait to log in with. RBG were soo tedious to set up a match ahead of time then if one person doesn’t show spamming chat for ages to get someone.

I am really happy with the armour system they have in gw2 not having to grind pve is great. Or having your gear reset every season you can quickly just jump in and solo play without questioning if they beat me through skill or a large gear difference/rng.

i havent done WvW on a thief but in spvp

1, HS is much better at gap closing and getting away, UNLESS you want to teleport from one level of elevation to another say the middle cap point in khylo to the roof. Also HS like every other movement skill is affected by swiftness increasing the range. But slows also affect it so dont try to escape or gap close while you have chill on you because you wont go far.

With the shortbow you also have to take into account the arrow flight speed so by the time it hits your teleport location you have already travelled a few 100 units.
2. Shortbow is only good for teamfights mostly or other backstab thiefs. If people are ressing run upto them and spam 2 at melee range for best dps. If you are backing your team up sit back set down some cluster bombs from range, then a poison when they get midish hp.

As for combos for a laugh sometimes i like to shadowstep quickly switch to my D/D and start casting cloak and dagger as a quick surprise back stab if steal is on CD tis a big waste of initiative. I almost never use skill 3 unless i really really need to escape. But untargeting and using HS away would be better.

3. Yes with a dodge roll or weapon swap.

4. nope other than a poison utility or assassins signet. Somtimes ive used scorpian wire with a P/D build to drag someone too me for a C/D so they dont dodge, usually i have caltrops at my feet aswell.

5. I think so yes but its risky to dive into a team fight first but its great for killing people who are fighting already.

6. for a while i used air but i found fire to be more effective its also great for doing some damage for clones and sigil of bloodlust in the other.

lvis.3824:

How to make money from sPvP ?

1) Buy/win chests

2) Salvage Items

3) Create Dye using mystic forge ( 1 Consumable Token Consumable Token + 1 Arcane Orb Arcane Orb + 10 Arcane Powder Arcane Powder + 1 Arcane Sliver Arcane Sliver = Random Dye )

4) Sell Dye on TP

I think in my total of 33 ranks worth of chests ive gotten maybe 20 arcane slivers.

Im pretty bored of the revive system, If their teamate is even half paying attention he can revive faster than the finisher animation.

It doesnt feel like players get punished for getting downed in pvp.
I would love to see some sort of short term debuff to someone who was recently revived , like the pve de-buff where you start off with less hp the next time you get downed.

Basically what im saying is if one person started doing the finisher the same time as the teamate started reviving he will always get the revive off first.

Batlav.6318:

the problem is they are invis before the attack and sometimes i cannot click a button before im down

Stof what u suggest ? to tell the thief to wait so i can swap armor/traits etc ?
On my ranger i swaped armor traits for more armor/hp and guess what i still get killed only by thieves while i beat others…

i said it before the dmg is not the main problem but that the thief can fail at killing the target and go away every time they want.
I understand that i was surprsised fine my armor is not the best so i got killed.
but why i cannot kill a thief unless he is afk ?

You dont click skills with your mouse do you?

Batlav.6318:

i know that it is not much armor but if i sacrifice all my dmg only to can survive few seconds longer how will i be able to kill anything ?

And why my “no armor” is not problem against any other class ?

Are you running a well build? When you know a thief is getting near throw down a fear mark, also dodgeroll back once when he gets in steal range. Your chill effects also really screw over a thief because it over halfs the range on heartseeker so aoe condition him while kitting away. When he uses his heal which stealths him go into the form which gives you a new healthbar i forget its name now.

While in that form where you have the green bar if you use the skill life transfer it hits the thief in stealth even though you wont have him targeted.

Hopfully that makes your battles against them a little easier.

i was afraid it was that tbh, i quit my 58 ranger because it killed the range aspect of the class for me, made it feel so slow. + i was getting tired of auto hit spam.