Guild Wars 2

There is none viable warrior build without fast hands. I dont remember any build in the past That worked without it.
Only this means that warrior skills were made to work with fast hands.
Warrior Sprint was made to help warriors to be close to their targets because that was really needed, before that warriors were easely kited by every other class.
If there are traits that need to be baseline are those ones.

No thanks.

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All these WoW players coming to GW2 and asking for a “Titan’s Grip” kind of ability is starting to get old.

I seriously hope A-net never adds this.

JonPeters.5630:

• Delayed Reactions – Interrupting a foe slows them. (3s of Slow)

• Illusionary Reversion – Gain a clone after you activate a shatter skill.

• Chronophantasma – Your phantasms respawn the first time they are shattered.

Everyone is going to take these 3, cause its kittening overpowered (place your clone, F5, place your phantasm, F1, auto reproc from phantasm, F2-3-4 w/e, F5, replace phantasm, F1, auto reproc, F2-3-4), and the others are really lackluster for anykind of build.
[edit] found this by reading the post https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/mesmer/Chronomancer-Traits/page/2#post5056037
But there probably will be an ICD so it woont be a thing [/edit]

Chronomancer was already known to be beyond OP, you just bring it further in the OPness
The only way this get ever balanced is for F5 to take the spot of one of the current shatter skill
Oh wait “elite spec will modifie the way you use your class mechanic” … as long as its true for gardien, here i dont see a “modification” but litteraly an additionnal new one …
Continuum shift alone make chronomancer way stronger than Mesmer … who is already fine, who is in a solid spot with all incoming baseline trait …. So basically something stronger than something strong is balanced #legit

• Time Marches On – You move 25% faster. The duration of incoming movement-impairing conditions is reduced by 25%. (Cripple. Chilled, Immobilize)

RIP, the drawback of beeing a mesmer was to be slow and weak to cc …. you destroy this drawback that make the class balanced in one minor that every build is going to have …. GG

Worst part of this is being able to whisper the one thats been blocked…

Are there any suggestions on the actual mechanic? Here’s mine:

Cost: 500 Influence
Build Time: 1 day and 12 hours
Category: Economy Tier IV
Boost: 10% Track progression for 2 days

This would put it somewhat on par with the 10% Magic Find boost for 3 Days.

BobbyStein.2315:

• The story step “Victory or Death” and “The Ruined City of Arah (story)” dungeon are being merged and revised to support 1–5 players. The previous version of the Ruined City of Arah (story) dungeon will be retired, and the explorable version will be unlocked by default.

While most of your announcement is good, I would urge you to re-consider this part. Until PS replayability is added, you’re taking a piece of content that anyone can access at any time, and limiting it to only those players who have the story step active. Experiment with a soloable dungeon if you like, but don’t keep taking away content.

In other MMO, you choose Warrior. In Guild Wars, Warrior chooses you !

What about a small AoE that damages foes in the area? Perhaps have it pulse at the same rate that the banner buff reapplies itself. As for how much it would do idk, it would require play testing.

Although I do like the idea of actually having a reason to use the banner skills, maybe keep the CD reduction? Not sure if that’s too much for a minor trait.

This is a feature that already would have some use, but with the new breakbar mechanic I think it would be super useful, and that is to have a bindable “Now!” button available that would cause your character to shout “Now!” along with a very large visual, like a giant spiky word balloon that players all around can see.

That’s just an example, of course, it could be something slightly different in terms of visual and audio expression, but I think it’d be a good idea to have a single keypress that a zerg commander could use to, without voice chat, instantly command the entire zerg to “do that thing,” whatever that thing might be in the specific encounter.

Yes, it might be possible to troll with this command, and it might be necessary to make it so that only commanders can use it, and maybe even that only squad members would see it, but overall I think it would be highly useful when compared to existing options.

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Male, U.S.A.

Four adult (I use the term loosely) children, 2 male, 2 female, 3 MMORPG players

Retired Microbiologist, Clinical and Research, study advanced Physics as a hobby

Went to University and Graduate Schools, taught Microbiology for USAF & at University

My best non-humanoid friend is a Basset Hound, the chickens and goats not-so much

I play GW with my kids, and grand kids who live 600 miles away

Played original Everquest, played that with my kids for years – might try the new EQ…
6 years of EVE Online with my son-in-law, also 600 miles away
Other MMORPG’s as the kids try other games- I’ve played about 20 for at least a 3 month period. I liked Rhyzom and Rift, the kids didn’t.

Rarely post here or “talk” in game because I can’t/won’t learn touch type. However, my daughter who lives locally posts here often, and I read here often as well.

If my kids didn’t play, I probably would spend all my on-line time at ICC (Internet Chess Club) which is my place to PvP.

Chess, Amateur Radio, Violin, Olympic style Archery, Schuetzen

My wife (of 39 years) thinks GW is silly, yet she plays with dolls

I’d rather enjoy the death of Marjory and her barbie doll with no personality.

Juba.8406:

Greatsword
all Greatsword skills can now cleave up to 5 targets except Rush.

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since GS does less damage, got no CC or utility.. this change will give Greatsword a unique utility worth of bringing to conquest pvp.

Mending
is now a Physical skill.

Physical Training
is now an Adept trait.

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this change is to resolve the conflict between Physical Training and the other Master traits like Axe Mastery, Slashing Power & Distracting Strikes which made Physical Training to never get used, also by being in Adept it make the trait conflicts with Restorative Strength making the new Mending in check, unless the warrior wanted to sacrifice 4 points to take both traits.

Shield Master
this trait now merges both Shield Master & Missile Deflection into one trait.

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this change to make Shield more viable and on par with Off-hand Sword when it comes to Missile reflections.

Fast Hands
is now a feature of Warrior requires no traiting.

Critical Burst
is now in Discipline line in place of the current Fast Hands.

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Fast Hands is so important to Warrior to the point it doesn’t feel like a Warrior without it, builds without Fast Hands are rare to nonexistence, which forces warrior always to put 3 points in Discipline not including the forced 4 points for Cleansing Ire.

Critical Burst suits the Discipline line pretty well as a replacement for Fast Hands.

Attack of Opportunity
is now a Master Minor trait in Arms line.

Brawler’s Recovery
is now a Grandmaster Minor trait in Arms line, same place of the current Attack of Opportunity.

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Brawler’s Recovery meant to build outside of cleansing ire or strengthen it, the problem is it located in Discipline line as a Grandmaster trait conflicting hard with Burst Mastery which combined with Cleansing Ire synergies better and offers more than Brawler’s Recovery, leading it to never get used.

so the solution is to move it down in traits or move it to other trait lines, since we made Fast Hands a global feature for Warrior, putting Brawler’s Recovery in there will make the current meta builds more powerful.

so its better to move it to Arms line as a Grandmaster Minor trait, since that line has nothing to cure conditions making it more viable to trait there.

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I support this! Hire this guy Anet! You need ppl with these ideas!

Part 1

I log in.

I skip trough the login reward for which I have to view the daily achievments even tough I don’t want to, whatch it slowly going away.

I waypoint to the Silverwastes, with a deep sigh, mumbling to myself, attempt 32, be kind Rngeesus and finally give me a Coat.

On arrival I notice that the “Next pact assault will begin in 5 minutes”. Fair enough. I pop open LFG tool, see 5-10 ads for “WARRIOR ONLY 5KAP ZERK!!!” in General PvE tab, and keep looking for the magic SW x% to pop up. A 60% pops up, I’ll try to join – too late, I wasted an extra second scratching my left ear and the party got full. Soon enough SW 80% pops up, I actually manage to join the party, but as expected, the map is already full.

The 5 minutes have passed and Pact assault has begun. Another sigh. Well, might as well get this show rolling. I tag up, like I tagged up in the past for the last 100+ times. Indigo or Red, Indigo or Red, can’t decide it depends on my mood really, I am feeling indigo today, but by the end of the run I know I’ll feel red.

“Anyone feels like tagging up for other forts?” – As always, no reply. I manage to solo the mordrem at indigo whtihin 5 minutes, and the first fort is on a roll now. “Can we get some tags for amber/blue/red?” – dead silence.

Click, LFG tool open once again. I start to type: “SW – 0% – need 3 more comms please”. About 15 seconds pass and a sylvari ranger joins my party, taxies in on me, leaves my party immidately. My LFG is erased. So I open it once again and type: “SW – just started – blue/amber/red commander needed”. A mesmer joins, asura. Leaves party, my LFG is erased.

In the meantime Red gets take “by the Pact”, we have done our first defense in Indigo, being the only commander on the map, I have 2-3 people around me now. “Can anyone tag up for other forts?”

Blue and Amber still untaken, Red does it’s first defense, we have done our second defense at Indigo. LFG time. “3 commanders needed for SW please”. A bit tricky, I didn’t use % this time. No one joins. I re-edit the LFG to SW 15% cause I am starting to be lazy about it, and I don’t want to type the same sentence over and over. Surprisingly, a group of 4 joins instantly on me. My LFG is erased. All taxi in, all are at map entrance. They linger around a minute in my party, before they start leaving. They are still at the entrance, none moving.

Indigo and Red progresses, we are 35%. Someone took amber in the meantime. Blue is still being ravaged by mordrem. I open LFG, type “35% – 3 commanders please”. In no time, my party fills up, they taxi in, leave party whitout a word. I reopen LFG – “SW – need 3 more comms 40%”. Party is full, they leave. “SW 40% – 3 comms needed”. I get supressed.

For the next 5 minutes, the map progresses silently, blue gets taken, map is at 60% when I can speak again. I don’t even care about commanders anymore. I open LFG – SW 60%. A group of 3 join me this time, and a 4th random guy. All of them taxi in. Someone is requesting a kick for the 4th random guy. It is confirmed. Soon after, I get kicked from my party.

Map is at 70%, thankfully I cannot LFG in any more people. I try one last time in map chat: "From the 40-50 people that I taxied in with “commander needed” anyone willing to tag up?" To my surprise, I actually get a response: “this is chestfarm map noob”. A guy actually tags up for Red soon after. I thank him in map chat: thanks for pitching in.

80%. Map is full, yet I still got the same 3-4 people at Indigo as in the beginning. And we just lost Blue to the mordrem. 80% indicates that I should get my copypastes ready, that I have on a notepad. I paste in the tactics for indigo: “Indigo Breach Boss: 1. Please DON’T kill Poison bubbles, only when bosses are near it, they stun the boss, 2. Use RANGED when the two bosses meet, you’ll die melee, 3. Try to focus one boss at a time!”
I paste in the tactics for red: "Red Breach Boss: Feel free to use AoE! “No AoE at red” is a myth, it’s not true. The small husks only give it regeneration. Use poison and give it all you got!"
As usual 1 guy in map chat goes “lol no aoe at red”. I try explaining: “the small husks don’t matter, it’s only regen, and you lose more DPS if you just spam 1”. Another guy goes: “bubbles heal it”. “true, but bubbles pop anyway after time, you just have to kite it away”. First guy again: “LOL NO AOE RED!!!”

I calculate. Amber defense should have about a 2 minutes timer, so breach in 2 minutes. Map chat: “breach ~2 mins”. In my mind this makes the AFK guys at spawn move, but that maybe just happening in my head, what I do notice is that people actually arrive at my fort, indigo.

I agree, Giving Forceful GS a 5% dmg increase is uninspired and will make Slashing power the clearly worse choice.

Hell, even now I think FG is better.

Might generated from 5 to 7 seconds seems fine.

Thaddeus.4891:

Kagamiku.9731:

SuzukiMethod.4732:

As someone with 2 level 80 rangers, I will trade you everything pet related, traits included, for just eviscerate.

Why? Rapid fire is better than eviscerate will ever be.

Against someone that know how to fight a pew pew ranger? Nope. Its easy to cancel the rapid fire of a ranger. If we could have a melee burst like eviscerate to punish those that approach too much of you and turn around you, ranger would be OP.

How do you cancel a pewpew ranger that’kittenting you from a safe spot? Reflect is the only way, which not every class has, and those who do only have a very limited supply of it. And they’ll be sure to knock you down prior to using it so most of it hits anyways. You can pop your stability, but they made you blow your stab for a skill with a 10 second cooldown.

Eviscerate is easily dodged and it’s predictable to when it will be used. Shield bash is also pretty easy to dodge. There is nothing more annoying than a power ranger hitting you with rapid shot when you’re already dealing with another player. Since a warrior needs to be in melee range to land the eviscerate, a good player can deal with a 2v1 situation against average players. Rangers make it impossible to 2v1.

Justin ODell.9517:

Try to look at it from the eyes of a beginner guys.

The NPCs award points, and give you a buff. Who wouldn’t want that?

It takes a higher level of understanding of the both the map and conquest mechanics to get that securing mid is important.

How would you guys suggest we go about teaching this to players?

Could we get a little tutorial window to pop up at the beginning of each match with a basic strategy and mechanics explanation for the map. It might seem obvious but a reminder to the effect of: “A captured position gains your team 1pt per second so you will quickly fall behind when the opposing team holds more points than you!”

I often find newer players chasing objectives or that annoying peck-and-run-like-bolt warrior around the map for a 5pt kill for 45 seconds, if you get the idea. Simply stating the obvious about the benefits of holding points would be helpful.

btw, snipers are soldiers.

Lets be honest the stow weapon thing is lame and just makes the game not fun on both ele and mesmer.

The reason it is lame is because balancing around such “exploits” (or whatever it is) is not possible. If they want to balance around it then they need to reduce the damage on mesmer GS and need to reduce the heal on ele heal signet.

But I dont think this is fair on the vast majority of the games population who just want to play and have fun and not have to worry about these exploits. Why should ele or mesmer be nerfed just to compensate for certain exploits? But the alternative is that you need to do something because this exploit is at least in part responsible for ele being the best class.

The only solution is to fix the exploit by increasing the cast time and removing the after cast. Or actually fix it by adding a cooldown to auto attacks that are interrupted.

It is kind of like the tornado res bug that used to exist and was rampant in team queue for a while. It sucked but those using it were just using what was in the game.

Here is my take on it: The master of peace had a plan to bring the egg to a place where it would weaken or hinder mordremoth (dragons and probably also their eggs consume magic after all so the plan is to cut mordremoth’s food supply somehow, remember how we did it with the mouth of zaithan). However he failed since the sneaky path he wanted to take was already blocked by the morderem, lying in his death throws he wanted to tell us the plan (one that caithe perfectly understood and saw comming) but caithe thought giving the details of that plan in one of mordremoth’s strongholds surounded by his minions listening might not be a good idea and neither would be discussing the matter, so she finished him and ran with the egg in her “troubled hero” style.

HOWEVER YOUR GOOD INTENTIONS SISTER DO NOT MATTER HERE, THE FREAKING EGG IS MINE, YOU DO NOT TAKE MY STUFF UNPUNISHED!

The only time I would use it is if you cannot get away from the fight and you are 2 hits from dying.

That is the only time you should ever pop healing signets active.

Shockers that you have to time your stealth properly and not spam it for once in your life.

This is the reason I like solo roaming. When I go to PvP or when I used to go around with a guild I felt very much I had to choose the meta builds because there are other people depending on me and expecting things from me, and frankly it’s out of order to go into a team environment and expect your team to put up with you messing about of some strange build because you think it’s fun. That’s not what team play means and if that’s what you want to do you shouldn’t be in a team environment or should have a team of friends who have agreed to you doing it.

In solo roaming though, noone depends on me and noone is expecting me to fill a certain role. I am free to make any crazy build I like and as long as I can make it work for me that’s all that matters.

So… Generally I do feel pigeonholed in team environments, but when going solo or duelling I feel there is a lot more scope to find what works for you rather than trying to fit a certain role.

hb would suck even if it was double damage, it’s just kitteneless root with a big “kill me” neon sign over you head. The only good thing about hb is dps on downed ppl…but you need to down them first ofc…

Stop relying solely on twitch for your marketing campaigns.

As for randomly claim out of the blue hours from the twitch thing goes live many people will miss it, frankly because not everyone cares, is on and notified in time, and some just get too busy in the game they aint going to waste there time to stop playing GW2 just to watch some random Twitch video that you don’t know or not will be any good.

If your going to use twitch, at least AFTER its over with, replace your marketing advertising with a YOUTUBE video instead of leaving it as twitch and making people click on the link and nothing shows up and I’m sure there is probably some way to find an after video of it through twitch but frankly many of us don’t know how to do it and don’t even care to waste our times trying to figure it out.

So stop using Twitch to promote things, instead use YOUTUBE videos, YOUTUBE videos are always able to be watched.

This is part of the reason why GW2 isn’t that great in the marketing game of the esports, they simply rely too much on Twitch.

Hmm, i think i know a good build with shortbow