Guild Wars 2

Asato.5479:

-Healing Signet : As like proposed above, better scaling of the passive with healing power would be more nice while reducing slightly the basic health regen par second; more interesting for bunkers and less for damage dealers. But to do this changement, you have to first buff/up the other healing skills of the warrior.

The only reason HS was implemented the way it is now was because they wanted to give “damage dealer” ( aka non-bunker) warriors passive sustain and means to survive without them having to spec as bunker.

If we take that away the skill becomes obsolete in its intended purpose.

Hey Anet, I like the changes, although some of them don’t make sense for me. For example Rune of Hoelbrak vs Rune of Strength.
They are pretty much the same, yet Rune of Strength get a 45% might duration and Hoelbrak only 30%… I think Rune of Hoelbrak needs to be on par with Rune of Strength otherwise it’s just a cheap version of Rune of Strength…

Superior Rune of Hoelbrak

+25 Power
+10% Might Duration
+50 Power
25% chance when struck to gain might for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 5 seconds)
+100 Power
+20% Might Duration; -20% Condition Duration applied to you.
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Superior Rune of Strength

+25 power
+10% Might Duration
+50 Power
+15% Might Duration; 25% chance when struck to gain might for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 5 seconds)
+100 Power
+20% Might Duration; +7% damage while under the effects of might.
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Either give Hoelbrak the 15% might duration bonus like Rune of Strength or tweak it otherwise like #4 Bonus get’s -15% COndition duration or #4 applies 15 sec might instead of 10… that would add to the diversity, don’t make a cheap replica of rune of strength…

You people cry about everything.If they run Gs,zerk with bullscharge and frenzy you cry..if they run hambow you cry..if they use healsig you cry,if they use berserk you cry.
Maybe its time for another game so you can dry your eyes a bit ?

Anyone with half a clue can see why conditions are completely broken.

It’s basic math, really.

at this point conditions are doing burst damage rather than sustained damage as they were intended

Hi,
When I first got the update I could use the chat system. Suddenly now when I type and hit return, the text is not sent.. tried relogging, restart, etc. and nothing.. :-(

Why is it that people feel warriors are so kitten OP. Warrior greatsword was fine before the condition meta..

First, quickness got nerfed. This nerfed all heavy crit/burst builds not just warrior.

Then Warrior Greatsword was nerfed on top of that due to the changes in the first tree, and the move from Empowered trait.

I don’t want any trolls in this thread but I would welcome any honest discussion regarding Warriors. This is in terms of PVP (WvW or Arena). I actually think that despite popular opionion, the warrior skills are actually pretty good. The damage on the other hand is another story.

Warrior 1 needs buff.
Warrior F1 Burst needs to be a freakin burst ability.. how in the hell does the burst ability hit for about the same as Warrior 1 skill.. which is terrible.

I want your opinions and your aguements, if warrior greatsword should be buffed or why not.

There is a simple counter to Stuns: Stability/Stun Breakers

There is a simple counter to Immobilizations/chills/cripples: condi removal skills OR condi duration reduction food/armor stats.

If you are suffering from these effects simply adjust your gear/playing style/skills to compensate for these adversities.

ANET do not change a thing. This is the one part of WVW combat that you guys nailed since release!!!! Focus on giving WvWers more rewards and achievements for going to battle each and every day!

jportell.2197:

@OP maybe because warriors don’t need any new GM traits to actually perform… They are the apex predator in PvP right now. They have viable builds of every kind.
1. Burst
2. Sustain
3. Tank/Bunker
4. Condi/tank

Almost no other classes have this build diversity which is why the warrior new GM traits are lackluster. They don’t need to be more OP than they already are.

You just pulled the “Warriors are OP, so that means they don’t deserve any bug fixes, general fixes, tweaks to quality of play or any good GM traits for that matter” card.

That is completely stupid. It’s not like GM traits would make a class stupidly OP because guess what? It REQUIRES sacrifice. So since warriors are “OP” right now that justifies giving us total garbage GM Traits? Especially when ANet hypes up this “OMG NEW 40 GM TRAITS!” to keep interest in this game?

Guess what? They are nerfing Hambow builds again. Pindown has an elaborate animation and a 3x longer cast time now. Healing Signet is being nerfed by 8%. Building Momentum just received the wrath of ANet’s infamous nerfbat.

And lol @ a “sustain” build. What is that even supposed to mean? You mean shout healing right???? Lol, ok there buddy.

Hambow builds are the only A-Tier build in sPvP. Any other build is B-Tier at best. And like I said, they are nerfing that again.

I’m getting really sick of this “Warrior is good so they don’t deserve anything else good” mentality. If you care about this game then you should want as many viable options for each class as possible.

Yes, other classes are in rough shape, but that doesn’t mean you don’t stop improving the other classes. Warrior still has plenty of worthless traits and skills. The most annoying thing right now is skills like Bull’s Charge and Rush overshooting your target or simply refusing to connect. Both skills have strong effects but when they whiff it really hurts.

I have no idea either.
We are still not that good in my opinion. Lots of our skills still needs to be fixed…

The thing that I didn’t like about this ending was that there was no real explanation. A lot of folks guessed she was after Mordremoth, but we still don’t know why she went to such extremes to wake him up, and how he got into her head in the first place, and what that could mean for the sylvari.

The NPCs say they’re not interested in the explanation, but that’s the exact opposite of what my character would have done in that situation. She would have let her talk, and then killed her. Every piece of information is crucial. Why put all those pieces together in the bar and then not get the answer from the sylvari’s own mouth!?

Otherwise, I’m happy to see a return to dragons, but without an explanation, a cool cinematic is just a cinematic.

gesho.9468:

there was huge thread by lordrosiky on this. no dev response. i hope there will be drop-in ladt minute war nerf in the patch. signet nerf is nthing, pin down, okay, offers some intelligent counter for kiting. but overall, war will be top tier of health, toughness, healing, damage and control (top, or one of the top in each category), that is – crazy op.

Play a warrior in arenas and you’ll understand why they need to be tough and have a sturdy body.

Take away their damage? They become guardian copies. Take away their tankiness? They become thieves.

Then Blame and Whine Wars starts.

play the class you like nerfs come and go

Short 7 minute video, just your typical burst warrior. Has a nice 1v1 with Korosh.i (apprently his name gets censored? lol) at the end though.

All info needed in the description box

There is no need for innovation to be skilled. All you need to do is evolve.

A person beats you, you steal their build and play it better. Eventually all the crap dies away and you are left with evolutionary perfection. You never had to create a build, yet you suddenly are the strongest at your class, merely by theft.

The only personal twist you need is your timings, skill choice, and map awareness.

haven’t made a video in awhile so i decided to make one, quality isn’t the best I’m aware of that but it can be difficult to record, have low FPS while playing at the same time, I will need a better GPU. Anyways enjoy. I’m not opposed to showing losses or what I did wrong because nobody wins or is completely flawless 100% of the time and no build is unstoppable or uncounterable despite what you see on most videos, so I put a few in there.

Video:

hihey.1075:

No, I don’t like it. It’s a l2p issue and it will oversimplify things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellant

Hey everyone!

I made a fun sPvP video showcasing two not so popular power builds.
All build information is in the video and should be easy enough to understand.

Hope you like it!

Josh Davis.6015:

The proposed changes to critical damage gear aren’t specifically PvE-focused, but focused rather on the stat weighting of critical damage itself. We’re not aiming to make crit damage unviable, just to bring it closer to other gear sets.

How about dire gear. In PVT you can’t deal good damage but stay tanky. You need precision and critical damage for good amount of damage. However people can reach massive condition damage and still stay tanky with dire. I know because I have that gear. In berserker vs dire comparison dire has the advantage in my opininon (WvW).

If idea is just bring it closer to other gears, start with dire. I’m ready to give up my dire gear. But condition damage is not important for PVE. People farm low AI mobs/bosses with berserker gear in dungeons. But increase their AI is a harder solution. So solution is nerf the berserker. Sorry but this is the reality in my opinion, this is not about WvW. In WvW berserker vs dire duel, berserker user need to be more skilled than dire user for win the fight. In generally berserker gear requires more skill for survive in WvW. Also this nerf will affect mainly kinght/cavalier/berserker mixed DPS builds. These builds will become more useless. Sorry for bad English.

this will be working as intended, because, fast hands trait is working as intended.

activating 2 different on swap sigils on each swap is an intended game play mechanic for warriors with fast hands trait.

nothing overpowered.

move along, nothing more to see here.

Kyon.9735:

Then don’t you think it’s unfair for only warriors to be able to do this?

do you think it is fair that

mesmers have illusions
thieves can stealth
necromancers have death shroud

etc.

warriors have fast hands.

this is working as intended.
get over it.

Make PvE dungeons more challenging (faster attacking enemies), remove defiant on bossmonsters and remove condition cap. And no separation is needed.

And nice sideeffect, without condition cap, condition damage can be balanced on PvP, WvW and PvE without separation.

Arenanet doenst roam in wvw so they will NEVER understand that pve and wvw are 2 different things and now they are thinking: critical damage is not important in zergs but what about roamers? thats the most fun pvp mode atm and since its a PVP mode it shouldnt be balanced around a dungeon that is too easy to complete in full berserker gear.

aye, what Swagg said.
everything is fantastic.

except, lack of game modes, maps.
non newbie friendly conquest mode.
people play 8 vs 8 conquest mode like no holds barred death match mode anyway.

and the amount of warrior haters in the forums is too kitten high.

Funny to see people saying stuff like “this change was needed”, then reading Necro in their sig…But seriously, all this will do is put a HUGE kitten spotlight on Condi builds so they will be next to get that nerf stick.

I would rather get one-shotted by a glass zerker thief that atleast has to give something up than a bunker condi war/necro/engi/etc. These bunker-condis really give up nothing short of power, which isn’t really needed anyway as they can spam conditions faster than they can typically be cleansed by most classes. ( I have tried a few of the builds myself and they are ridiculously easy to play and have few weaknesses)

Let me ask you this: How many people out there are building specifically for power negation? Now how many people are building specifically to overcome the condi spam garbage? (Hint: look at the price of Melandru Runes and Lemongrass Poultry Soup)