Guild Wars 2

It’s used to censor curse words and other “vulgar” terms that Anet deems offensive.

Ehh I mean whatever bring some data or something tangible than “get good or uninstall”
I mean I find it funny how some of you with the “pff because pro players know how to get around it so how can it be op” when I’m pretty sure all of you have found something about the game imbalanced and have commented on in a thread in the past. Maybe… like excessive blinds? But when warriors are in question it’s just you’re bad lol

What data can be brought? Every class has different mechanics. Balance should be considered with the competitive scene in mind. Otherwise, certain classes would become terrible competitively. If you find your class to be too complicated to play effectively, then roll a warrior… And I’ve never drifted off into another classes subforum and whined about OPness. I think it’s annoying and not helpful in any way. It’s rarely if ever constructive criticism about the class.

All I know is that I’ve played with every class except an engineer and the only class that I feel was not on par with the others is the ranger.

It’s called being a collector, Impale.

Nothing should only be obtainable through near impossible odds using RNG-based mechanics.
I’m all for minis being aquired through skill and/or gold. But not this RNG based bullkitten.

And worse of all, it’s not even trade-able. Some people get it within the first few stacks and don’t even want it, while others have invested thousands of gold to obtain it and still fall short. It’s ridiculous.

Wonderly.1324:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Vladimer.7051:

I will add as a mini collector and a avid gem purchaser, I am rather ticked that the only way to get this mini is all based on RNG. I have already opened over 5k bags and nothing. I always buy the gem mini’s to complete my collection. I will have to stop now due to this matter.

boohoo to me I know, This is now the only aspect of the game I enjoy ( I am a digital Hoarder)

I understand, Vladimer. I am the same sort — I’m still playing sometimes for a MPB (Miniature Polar Bear) in Guild Wars during the Wintersday event.

If you continue the quest, I will wish you luck, as one collector to another.

I’m not sure you really understand the mentality of a collector, Gaile. I have every single mini in the game. Every. Single. One. For the sake of completing a collection, I purchased 2000 gems for Mr. Sparkles. For the sake of completing the collection, I’ve purchased every gem store mini, even the ones I thought were ugly and would never use. For the sake of completing a collection, I begged and bribed and formed a ToL team and trained for weeks to win a Mini Llama. I’ve spent thousands of dollars on gems, but always on gem store items, because I refuse to convert gems to gold for rewards that can be earned within game. If this mini were to be so unrealistically unobtainable that the statistical expected return would cost over a thousand gold in ToT bags and moreover this amount has to be amassed within a 2-week time frame, it would destroy my collection and eliminate my desire to continue pursuing a complete collection. This would eliminate my desire to further spend gem store purchases on minis, and also remove a core goal that drove me to play and enjoy this game.

Keep in mind that even if you don’t get him this year, the chances of him returning next year are very high. The Bloody Prince is an example, and they even made him far cheaper to obtain than the previous year. I can’t recall any Holiday minis that were not available the following year.

Also, ToT bags will always exist so even when Haloween ends, you will still be able to purchase them.

Izer.2083:

What people complain about warrior are:
for example someone with the same IQ played warriors for 1000hours in SPVP/WVW roaming and the other player play any job beside mez / thief ( jobs that specialized in one on one)
Both them of course with the same IQ will be equally good right?
and u can guess who win the fight if they fight one on one….

Because warrior is an easier class to play than most. If two average players went 1v1 with equal skill, then the warrior is likely to win. If two players who have mastered the class face off, then it can go either way. A Mesmer is a warriors bane if a Mesmer knows how to play the class well. And none of that implies that the class is OP.

and seriously dude.. If warrior used stability and berserker stance at the same times how do u stop them from getting close?

Kite them until it’s off cooldown? And enjoy the 35-50seconds until it’s off cooldown again. It’s not like those are spammable abilities.

and the new warrior heal skill works with condition…. it’s op. My main is not a guard… but i think anet should switch guard and warrior new heal skill

No, the new warrior heal skill is trash in any kind of pvp environment. Three seconds of condition immunity that also converts damage to health at the expense of any healing beyond that….terrible. What do you think happens if you stop attacking a warrior that activates Defiant Stance? He may as well just jump off a cliff, he’s going to die anyways. Any warrior using that trash over Healing Signet or Healing Surge is just nerfing himself.

I’m starting to feel this is pointless, but i’ll take the bait one final time.
The “why” is because we’re not viable without it. Why is that not a good enough reason?We don’t have fancy clones and stealth like a mesmer does. We tank damage or we dodge out of it. We are seen throughout the entire battle. Some mesmer and thief builds can spam so many things that you’re lucky to hit them 20% of the time. FH lets us deal with our lack of utility far better. We need FH because warriors are crappy without it. If you can’t comprehend that then I have nothing more to say to you. If you don’t believe it, then prove it. I’ve played a few thousand pvp games as a warrior and I’ve watched competitive play and one thing never changes— Fast Hands is mandatory in all builds. Fast hands is simply an amazing skill, if you’re implying that a warrior can still succeed in PvP without that amazing skill then you’re implying that warriors are incredibly OP…and warriors only take FH to be even more OP. But again, that’s not something you can prove, because it’s not true.

tl;dr A warrior needs it because they’re not viable without it, other classes don’t need it because they would be OP with it. In the same vein as how a mesmer would not be fine without clones, while a warrior is. Completely different class mechanics. Honestly, the circular logic you’re using for this makes very little sense. Comparing and contrasting a class isn’t so cut and dry.

Lady of Letters.8601:

Kagamiku.9731:

frostyraziel.1854:

Farmers will find every possible excuse in the book to farm. I have nothing against farming, but when you’re ruining the experience for everyone else, then you deserve to be punished. You’re no different than botters. Why even play the game?

By “everyone else” you must mean the minority. As there are far more people interested in farming champs during the invasion than there are people more interested in completing it.

Just because farmers are noisier does not mean that they are a majority.

Regardless of any claims to a democratic majority, can’t we try to find a way to keep the game fun for everyone? Because that’s what it is: a game, not a job nor a grinding experience.

It’s more the fact that the aetherblades are all but finished before scarlets minions bar is even 20% done.

And farmers are not noisy at this meta-event, all I ever see are people who want to complete the event whining at everyone else who has zero interest in the marginal reward that it provides. Eventually people will realize that the ones who try to force others to complete something they don’t want to are just as selfish (if not more so) than the ones who want to do whats the most profitable for them.

Malediktus.9250:

Bordak.6519:

Kuldebar.1897:

Bordak.6519:

“The thing is, there is no good or evil……”

lol. lolololollollol. mwhahhahahahhahaaahaa. BAHAHAHHAHHAA.

I shouldn’t laugh as it’s kind of sad. To each their own.

It’s rather empowering, isn’t it though?

The shackles of all sentient action being struck off by such a liberating philosophy!

See, son, there’s not really good or evil, it’s just a preference thing; one man’s evil is another man’s ice cream and cake.

I made a mistake by posting my laugh. In response to:

“The thing is, there is no good or evil……”

I should have simply said this:

You are wrong.

No, morals are a human invention and are passed on from generation to generation by education from parents, religion, school, politicians etc. So is what is considered “good” and “evil”. If you look at the human history, the things considered “good” and “evil” change all the time, too.
Nature does not know good or evil. Ask a cat if it thinks wether killing for fun is evil or not. Or the old romans.
Good and evil are just inventions to justify certain actions by other humans.

Whether or not the cat finds it fun to kill is of no concern… A cat acts on instincts, we have the ability to use rational thought.

Killing for entertainment is evil no matter how you slice it. There are grey areas, but if your only intent is to harm some one without rhyme or reason, you’re no better than something truly evil. You can’t just throw the term out the window because you want to be philosophical. It does have a meaning and it can correlate to a persons actions.

It’s not about them “letting you” it’s about them outplaying you. You make it sound like they can’t knock down or immobilize or fear chain you and take half of your HP in a single burst. They don’t even need to do that if they’re smart about it. A good zerker can solo a bruiser. If 3 people are letting you LOS them they can’t be good. Sounds like they’re just chasing you around using auto attacks.

DarkSyze.8627:

1. Decrease warrior survival by 50%
2. Increase warrior attack by 20%
3. Increase warrior defense by 25%
4. Increase warrior Fear shout by 15%
5. Give warrior access and ability to equip dual large heavy weapon.

So you now see, a warrior survival is not first priority anymore, warrior survival is not very important anymore. Warrior depend on survival to be a warrior is gone. Warrior is good now

How do you decrease a warriors survival when you’re increasing their defense by 25%??

By survival you mean HP, or what? Because they already have crappy ways to mitigate damage, they’re not all that survivable comparative to other classes with tanking potential.

Neko.9021:

There is no last-hitting in GW2, just so you know.

Tagging in GW2 works as such:

• The amount of loot you get from a mob is based on how much damage you and your party do to that mob.
• However, notwithstanding the statement above, you as an individual must do at least one (1) damage to the mob to receive any loot.

Is that actually true?

Pretty sure it’s:

1.) You must do at least X amount of damage to receive any loot, but you will not receive better/more loot for doing more damage than the minimum required.

This thread…whiners everywhere.

And some of the logic you guys use to justify why the content should be nerfed boggles the mind. Do people not know what an achievement is anymore? You don’t nerf something simply because the majority of people can’t do it. It’s an achievement, not a requirement. If all achievements were doable by everyone with minimal effort then whats the kitten point of even having achievements?

There is no counterplay to it. It’s the only skill in the game that actually makes you run away for 8 seconds. It doesn’t matter if it’s rampage or hammer.

Diamond Skin says hi, except then you just run away forever, right? Also I’d really like to see a video of you soloing lich form or rampage without you running from them with your tail between your legs.

The fact they are the stronger sets is due to the cc capability.

Hammer is so easy to dodge, I don’t even. The only thing I can think of is you don’t see them proc zerker stance, and you keep pewpewing away in melee range, only to realize you haven’t been doing any damage to them and they now have you in a CC combo. Kite them for 8 seconds, it’s not hard.

As posted earlier, The ONLY class that will be able to remove it is mesmers and necros.

And thiefs. That’s almost half the classes. And warriors already have a huge problem with those classes. Blind spam, fear spam…Everything about a mesmer is spam.

The only thing it changes is that now you have 8 seconds of condition immunity and not 8 seconds of condition immunity followed by 5 seconds of little to no conditions that are easily removed by other means.

What are you even talking about here? Berserker’s stance is 8 seconds where conditions can’t be applied to you. What is this “followed by 5 seconds of little to no conditions”

It’s not that big of a nerf. It just allows some room for condi classes to do something other than go afk when he actives it.

It is a big nerf. Big enough to where warriors would stop using it because of how easily strippable boons are on a warrior.

Warrior: Pops zerker stance
Necro: I’ll be taking that!
Warrior: All these fears….

Or thiefs saving their steal for when we pop zerker stance, so they can blind spam us to death.

Is that video supposed to be some kind of joke?

1st fight 2v2 (lose) You probably would have lost 1v1 too considering the other warrior dropped half your life in two hit!

2nd fight you’re chasing someone with an orb and by the time they reach the point they have 1/3rd their life. Not exactly impressive you killed them at that point.

3rd right – you managed to down a bad necro but he ressed and you proceeded to die shortly after.

4th fight – utterly molested by another warrior 1v1. That healing signet really let you facetank damage considering he killed you in 10 seconds flat.

5th fight…? Downed a necro that had 1/3rd health by the time you got to him.

Are you trolling me? Where in any of that video does it show the OPness of HS.
It shows you being molested in 2v1’s and the only legit 1v1 you had.

Thanks for confirming to me you should not be taken seriously.

BaconofPigs.1683:

Cyninja.2954:

Yay, let’s throw around trigger words like “exploit” on every thopic or game aspect we disagree/dislike.

Let’s not give any care to what exploit actually means but rather generate a lot of buzz for this rant/complaint/suggestion we have.

I’m sure the inability to use proper terminology will absolutely make people take my topic seriously.

/sarcasm

On topic, rare veggie pizza might not be well balanced against other buff foods for certain builds – true. Unfortunately this is not an exploit. Better luck next time.

And you wrote

rare veggie pizza might not be well balanced against other buff foods for certain builds – true.

So it IS not balanced, and overpowered. Hence it is a bug

And from the wiki

An exploit is the misuse of a software feature or bug in a way that allows a player to generate in-game benefits without the risk or time expected by the game’s designers.

Since it is a bug and if you use it. It is a misuse. Does it generate in-game benefits without any risk? Yes.

Then by this definition. The food itself is a bug, and its usage is an exploit., Thanks.

Please don’t use words you don’t understand. Just because something is overtuned (I disagree that it even is), that does not make it a bug. You even quoted the meaning of the word and you still failed to comprehend what it means. A bug does not mean something that is overpowered; it’s an error, flaw, mistake, failure, fault or “undocumented feature” in a computer program that prevents it from behaving as intended. It’s doing exactly what it’s intended to do. Calling it an exploit is even worse and quite frankly you lose all credibility at that point.

If Anet decides it is overpowered then they will balance it. It’s perfectly fine to use until then and it’s downright silly to use terms like bug and exploit to discourage people from using the top condition food.

korelg.7862:

Kagamiku.9731:

It’s tough going 30 into tactics for a PvE build…It’s a good trait in a bad traitline.

not really, you get boon duration, strength in numbers(?), improved banners, party might stacking

that means 150*5 power+ 25*4 might stacks worth of power and almost perma banner… overall i’d say it is actually an extremely strong PvE trait lane

Any half competent group will have at least 12might stacks up at all times. With sigil of battle and forceful greatsword, I can probably maintain at least that much on my own. I guess it really depends on the group you’re in. The worse your team is, the more potent the trait will become. It’s almost negligible in an experienced group, to Godly in an inexperienced one.

Empower allies and empowered (perma banner not really needed) make up for some of the loss going into that tree, but the strength and arms trees have too much going for them to sacrifice 30 into tactics under most circumstances. You also need to sacrifice scholar runes for rune of strength, which do considerably less damage when the might duration is not taken into account.

Mesmer was never a “free kill” it pains me when people try to pretend that it was. Mesmers were not amazing in pvp because thief counter and point style capture. Even so, EU used mesmers quite often in high tier.

In an actual dueling scenario, mesmer was one of the strongest classes even before the patch…They were buffed to absurd levels post patch so now even mediocre mesmers can faceroll better players 1v1.

Too many baseline traits…

You’re not risking your account though, because Anet won’t ban for this exploit. Anet only bans for exploits that hurt the economy. There was a different way to skip the mini boss and it was later fixed…and then this new method arose. No one was banned for skipping him previously, they won’t be banned now.

Learn how Anet operates, and you won’t have to second guess yourself on what you can and can’t do. Anet has let some of the most exploity kitten go unpunished because it wasn’t detrimental to their economy.

And in a way, it makes sense. If you want to skip past some kitten mob with a billion HP to progress faster through a fractal with bad rewards to complete a daily you’ve already completed a thousand times, then why not? It’s not hurting anything or anyone.

And the fact that OP wants to report these people leads to Rednik’s point that he’s more trying to get them in trouble then he is concerned with whether he’ll be banned for the use of the exploit himself. Anet won’t ban for something unless they’re certain you took part in the bannable offence willingly.

I would like to confirm that Anet doesn’t do kitten about dungeon stealers. I have sent a ticket about a scammer who stole my dungeon two times now (yes, he did it twice, same person +his friend) and there have been others who told me he did the same to them. He’s not banned, he hasn’t even been suspended. He still goes around stealing dungeons on a daily basis.

The only form of Vigilante I can come up with is posting his name in the LFG tool and warning people about his kitten dungeon scamming ways. The more people that know of him, the more of an outcast he will become. It’s all I can do; since Anet does nothing.

connieboy.9840:

Kagamiku.9731:

P Fun Daddy.1208:

Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HixNwGVDOb4&list=PL_tvolwEnBwTwGF1IKeI7QLRaNLsqvsXm&index=5
There’s a link to these for every class in the description for the video you posted.

The fact that every class is capable of this speaks words on its own. If you’re a good player you can make sue out of a harder to play class. Just ebcause a warrior is easy to play does not make it overpowered. It gives an advantage when two average players are fighting each other.

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And the funny thing is, people complain about healing signet but warriors are one of the easiest classes for me to take down (as a warrior) — Healing signet is completely shut down by the condition build that I use. Most still run hammer and the damage is pathetic.

My whole team was against two warriors today on a point in a pvp match. 5vs2. Warriors were regenerating so hard yet were still able to put out so much damage they downed our entire team without us even getting one down (team even called target, so we had focus). Regenerating beyond all the damage we put out (we even had a condi necro (which brings up another point, Warriors even get a fear, which is unbelievable)).

Your move.

You and the rest of your team is just really bad? This isn’t a game of chess honestly, skilled players have been able to demolish with each and every class. It’s not unusual to see Youtube videos of Mesmers or Necros taking on 3v1 or 4v1 and winning. I can supply the video if you don’t believe me. This is in a similar vein to how two warriors beat the 5 of you. You were outplayed. Thrashed, trashed, dumpstered.

And me personally? I beat most warriors with relative ease, yet when I’m focused on in a 2v1 situation, I rarely win in Spvp, if I want to keep the point that is.

1/10 not even worth the effort to reply reasonably to.

Well, prices need to normalize first. The prices are going to be at their cheapest at the start of an MMO, and things will steadily rise in price over time(as people obtain more and more gold for purchasing power). But it’s the job of the GW economist to make sure it doesn’t get out of hand. How much have things changed between now and 6 months ago?

But anyways, I never said inflation didn’t exist, I said inflation was not caused by SW chest farming. The Queens gauntlet gambit farm is an example of what can cause a huge amount of inflation, as people were making 20/30g an hour in silver coins. Money was not being moved around, it was being created. And that’s what can cause inflation.

Reduce cooldown on cloak and dagger? It has no cooldown. The reveal debuff is why you cant spam cloak and dagger and remain invis and there is no way to get around that. If you time your cloakndagger right you can stay perma invis by hitting the enemy with dagger5 right after the debuff is gone.

I consider Rangers UP. Every other class to be well within the range of balanced.
I’ve seen mesmers and necro’s that have won 5v1’s in youtube videos. Surely they’re OP too if we’re talking about potential. But no, I just think they are extremely skilled players who know their class and would whoop most warriors. Barring the ones who can use their class to the fullest as well.

Classes need some tweaks they don’t need the nerf hammer or large buffs. For instance, a guardian should have a bit more mobility, but otherwise, they’re good where they currently stand.

Dynnen.6405:

SpecterMAT.7306:

Please remove water field blasting healing from every professions.
They heal too much. Warriors cannot do it.
Why those other bullkitten professions can do it? Is it even legal do heal that much amount?
We can only heal 400 hp by that regen. They can heal lot more.
We don’t have access to such things. Remove water fields.
Also nerf engineers. thanks anet.

Healing signet by itself isn’t too bad. Combined with adrenal healing its outrageous. Also…warriors can’t blast finisher in water field?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blast_finisher

Yea, warriors are definitely not lacking in the blast finisher department, lol

How can 392HPS to 472HPS go from “not too bad” to “outrageous.”

Warriors only have one blast finisher out of all their weapons. If one isn’t lacking, then what is?

A lot of bosses can 1-shot you if you don’t dodge…Even if you’re a warrior. Especially in high lvl fractals.

It’s not about higher damage, it’s about worthless utility skills. Virtually every skill on rifle is either easily dodged or lacks a purpose. I mean, compare rifle butt with point blank shot. Two skills on the same CD that serve the same purpose, except one if vastly better than the other. The rifle skill volley is similar to rapid fire, except it has shorter range and fires much slower. The fact that it deals less damage just adds to the inferiority of it.

VoxShatterfall.5470:

and if you are one of them I say that achievements ARE for EVERYONE).

No they’re not. The very definition of achievement explicitly states that achievements are not for everyone. Unless everyone is equally as skilled and capable of obtaining said achievement. And they’re not.

No counterplay to berserkers stance —→ Physical damage.

berserker’s stance is perfectly fine. Rampage is the problem.

Sounds about right.

Interestingly enough, the people who I meet in-game are usually pretty level-headed and nice. It’s like everyone who doesn’t know how to play the game just comes here to complain about it instead of improving. Truly the rectum of the GW community.

It’s nice in a few fractal levels as well as WvW. Bad everywhere else.

It makes perfect sense if your main objective is to tag as many mobs as you can. #5 of dual axe probably does it better than any other warrior weapon. Your second weapon set can be used for mobility (I prefer sword/Warhorn myself). Just use some soldiers gear and omnom compotes and you’ll shrug off most zerg fight damage. while you tag as many invaders as possible. Zerker stance/endure pain/some stability should be popped prior to jumping in, in order to reach the center of the zerg without taking any damage.

It’s the only place with no-respawn time because you can kill ambients and re-enter. Rinse/repeat.

And who is going to be the one to tell you?

Why would use use krait runes with GS/hammer and rampage? That doesn’t make any sense.

Siltoneus.7138:

Teon.5168:

Siltoneus.7138:

New new Dailys suck. Completely and utterly. I’m not going to waste 3 hours of my time on a kitten Fractal for a ONE PART of a frickn’ Daily achievement. I have a life, and 1-1 1/2 hours a day is should be MORE THAN ENOUGH time to get a frickn’ daily achievement.
Lets hope someone at ANet realizes what a kitten colossal screwup this is, and fixes it post-haste.

Have you actually tried the new daily system? You can do it in 10-15 minutes easy.
Claiming that it takes 3 hours to complete is an utter fabrication.

Try it before just making stuff up about it.

You better kitten belive I’ve done them. Hated every kitten minute of it. And as far as taking 3 hours, I could care less what YOU think, I know how much time it takes me to run one of those PITA Fractals. With a family, job, and kids, you better BELIEVE I know EXACTLY how long it takes.

I can only hope you’re trolling.

Why use the fractal achievement as an example when you can avoid it entirely? Go chop some lumber, trade in 25 badges for some siege weapon(s)…And finally, take a sentry or view a vista. 5-10minutes you’re done. Stop with the fabrications, please.

PS you sound kittened using caps to stress certain words.

You need to get to the next zone before your progress is saved. Waypoints only save your progress while you’re playing, but it wont save it after you log off.

Bigsexy.8302:

gg, Anet, no re.
So if I need one laurel to get my ascended weapon done I may end up wait for few more days,

Wintersday dailies provides a laurel.

That’s one problem solved.

Berserkers stance is 8second condition immunity on a 60second cooldown. How does a warrior come anywhere near killing you in 8 seconds?

The engi swiftness nerf was the only thing I saw engineers complaining about and that was buffed. Every other class receives a “too bad” to things they’re not happy with. And there lies the problem.

DarkSyze.8627:

Warrior is born with defense, not born with survivabilty.

So warriors are born with armor already on them?

…Sorry, couldn’t resist.

There are thee zones in world 1. They are separated by a miniboss. Did you get to an area with a shopkeeper inside a cage being guarded by some robot looking thing that shoots lasers from its eyes?

Edit: Seems your problem is solved, so n/m

500-700 dps seems terribly low. Your auto attacks do more than that, without even using your other skills/utilities.

I would give up the new crappy aed on my engi any day for healing singet as an example. But healing singet would be op on any other class right? But its not op on a warrior?

Engi’s can bunker down better than a warrior because of their near-perma protection. Give healing Signet to a class that doesn’t have that and it’s not going to do much for them. Mesmers signet is just as good. The base healing is slightly worse with three illusions active but it has a stronger active heal AND restores all Phantasm skills.

And most othr classes can avoid damage using various utilities. Thief can cloak constantly or evade spam, guardians have blocks and reflects and multiple other utilities that mitigate damage, Mesmers have illusion spam making it hard to target them. Minionmancers are a real joy to play against…Engi’s can bunker down better than just about anyone, and their mine spamming is nigh insufferably when you’re trying to stay on a point. A real pain for any melee class to deal with. Ranger also has minions as well as plenty of evades to spam. So yes, every class has their perks. A warrior is meant to take it all to the face, they need a lot of survivability.

This is just another whine thread that blows everything out of proportion with no significance to anything. Especially since the topic has been beaten half to death already. Moving along.

PS Zerker warrior isn’t anywhere near the best warrior build. And their surviveability sucks.

raethe.1903:

Kagamiku, I hope you receive better results than I have. Some of the people harassing me have admitted it on the forums without any concerns.

Oh, the two who kicked me were pretty open about it as well. Since we ended up in the same megaserver after I was kicked, they began to circle around me while using the /laugh feature. Which leads me to believe they have done this countless times and no action has been taken against them. I really hope Anet isn’t simply jesting at the notion they permaban for this.

I honestly don’t get why usernames need to be concealed from the public. They all deserve to go on a naughty list that all GW users can see so they can avoided at all costs. More importantly, save people from the same unfortunate outcome of having solo’d a dungeon and having it stolen from them.

For Dungeons you don’t really want much condition damage. If you think you can handle it, then going pure berserker gear is optimal..If you need some practice first, then Knights armor works fine. For the added toughness and you still do pretty good damage.

For WvW…If you’re zerging, Soldiers armor works out nicely.
If you’re roaming, I would recc. a Rabid armor spec. With either Hammer/LB or SwordSwrd/LB

Sadly, one suit of armor isn’t going to be good for every type of gameplay.

Mesmers are out of control at the moment. Definitely the current strongest class.

Nothing like being interrupted by something you can’t even dodge, followed by a long stun, followed by a burst that can kill you even with the tankiest amulet.

Siroso.2769:

Kagamiku.9731:

Siroso.2769:

and it’s a hard burst to avoid.

Oh now that’s funny.

Everything about GS is easy to avoid. It’s only useable because of stuns, knockdowns and immobilize.

Out of curiosity, what skills on the greatsword are only useable because of stuns, knockdowns and immobilise?

Are you referring to hundred blades? If you are using hundred blades for anything other than cleaving downed corpses, you’re doing it wrong.

Every single skill.

1.) GS auto is slow

2.) HB is the most clunky skill in the Warrior resume, and is in the most need of an immobilize or knockdown to work.

3.) Whirlwind is the only skill I give credit to. But even then you need to be in melee range to land it or it’s easily dodged. And even when in melee range, you can avoid half of the damage by dodging after it hits you the first time. Even so, I consider it a good skill.

4.) Bladetrail. A complete joke. You won’t ever be landing this.

5.) Rush?? Nope, never landing it against anyone half competent. Even in melee range.

What skills are you referring to? Arcing Slice? I suppose it can be hard to dodge, but Combustive Shot is infinitely better than it for point holding and condition cleansing. Especially if you’re blinded.

So what is your plan to land these skills without an immobilize or knockdown? This is why Throw Bola or Bulls Charge is pretty much a staple in a GS build. You also have Pin Down. Albeit, that skill isn’t easy to land either.

Axe is a far better weapon for DPS in PvP…Because the auto’s are fast and hit harder and it has less obvious tells. Eviscerate is very dodgeable but it’s not too hard to land and it’s way more useful at stage 3…Where-as arcing slice is garbage at stage three. GS/Bow is picked over Axebow because of the much better mobility and the evade from whirlwind that also does good damage. And you can also choose skills that knockdown or immobilize to make GS burst more manageable.

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Though question. Does anyone else notice earthshaker specifically does not go off. Usually need to hit it at least 2 times before it will cast. Seems really buggy, causes a lot of rubber banding too and I can’t say I get any lag with any other skill.

Yes, I notice this too.
There have been so many times where I had to repeatedly hit F1 because earthshaker wouldn’t go off.

The best way to remedy the situation would be to make the end reward better, and I mean way better. While not giving a reward (or a very minor one) for failure. Or even better, reward each individual person based on the number of events they participated in (and the reward is only given after successfully completing the invasion) that were related to the Invasion-meta. That way, completing the event is comparable to farming champions, and the ones that afk get no reward like they deserve. However, they would need to limit the champions so that the event does not become too rewarding. Between the end reward and the champion loot bags, it could become a tad too lucrative.

If Adrenaline on hit was baseline, I’d consider using Brawler’s Recovery over it when the patch hits. Cleaning a condition every 5 seconds is pretty darn good. And rather than Cleaning Ire I would pick the new Last Stand..Because quite frankly, it will be a powerful trait. Unfortunately, it has to compete with Cleaning Ire wich is essential to almost every build.