Guild Wars 2

You can still play like it was in the beginning. No one is making you play the meta builds so go for it and have fun.

hello FoTMers. We warriors know you must feel awful. You have lost yet another opportunity to take advantage of a really overpowered skill and cause it to nerf the entire class. But we as warriors are strong, sturdy bodied individuals who will not let this nerf affect us. We will continue to kill you no matter what class you move onto next and we will spam /sit in your face. We just want to let you know that we love you!
THANK YOU the warrior class will no longer be a punchline used to describe overpoweredness and BS.
sincerely real warriors.

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That one is perfect.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/83915-axemace-dps-build-for-dungeons-and-fractals-101513/

shameless self-promotion. But also, the correct answer.

Hello,

I am a WvW player and go to PvE in order to get the skins, achievement points and stuff. But i would also like to play sPvP (only rank 13 atm) – the problem is i dont get anything from it.
So what would you think of a gold reward in sPvP, not too much but so that you can actually play sPvP even if you are working on a legendary, just to take time out and relax a bit, while still getting something for your aim? (btw i am not working on a legendary :P )
It doesnt have to be much but I think even pure sPvP players would benefit from it as then they can buy themselves skins from the trading posts without the need to farm in PvE.

Just an idea
cheers Tarkan

srsly have u ever attempted to use earth shaker on a slope? i say attempted because IT DOES NOT WORK ON DIFFERENT ELEVATIONS.

so anet if u decide (which i recommend u dont) to nerf its damage YOU BETTER MAKE SURE U FIX THE CONTROL SIDE OF IT.

warriors sound off DO NOT LET ANET THINK ITS OK TO NERF ITS DMG BUT NOT FIX ITS BUGGYNESS!

ps this has been an issue since day one.

Marrett
Officer of Zero Negative
Charr Jesus

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I’m a bit annoyed seeing posts in the forums and people inside the gaming the argument that Warriors are OP’ed because of their popularity. It actually brings me back to the release of Guild Wars 1, of people asking for Warrior/Monks(Wammos) getting nerfed. It was of course pure stupidity. They were extremely popular because they where easy to play and easy to understand, but it was not a qualified justification to change the class because it worked.
The difference here is experience, and unlike in GW1 where the angry masses just blame everyone but themselves, the situation in GW2 with mainly the healing signet and the Hammer Warrior builds are featured in other threads.

What this thread is about, why Warriors are popular. Or rather why they have always been popular. Short answer is; Because they are extremely fun to play. Longer answer;

I’ve played a Warrior since day 1, and I feel that I saw a lot of Warriors everywhere back then as well. The preveleance of Warrior has changed. I recall that early this year Guardians started becoming popular, and I remember Mesmers suddenly being the class I saw most people play as. Then there was the Thief armies in WvW.

Warrior is a great class because there is a lot of ways to play. The Axes are great and fun. The sword is awesome for utility. The Warhorn is great. Many people have different views on the longbow and the Rifle. The Greatsword is legendary, and the Hammer is the current Flavor of the month. Mace is solid too! In fact it seems to me that the only weapon that doesn’t work that well in some circumstance, is actually the Shield.
But if you look at it in an overall perspective, it means that there is a lot of really great way to play Warriors. If you look at Ranger as an example, you are looking at a class with a lot more problematic weapon sets! Guardians come close to Warriors in build variety as well.

Another reason is that one of the main things about guild wars is the action combat. No other class than Warrior and Thief really facilitates that level of action and swordswinging mayham that well. Warrior really gives you that sense of swinging a weapon like it was a console action game. That’s what that class brings to the table. If you compare it to a Guardian weapons like Sword and Greatsword gives you a lot more instant action weapon attacks.m there are fewer cast bars, less of strained animation. You just get this fluid mess of PRESSING BUTTONS.

It makes Warrior an easy class to play, a good class to get variety as. I’ve run all sorts of builds. From bunkers, to shout healing warrior, to bleed condition, to shout cleanser, to banner buffer, to zerg stomper to zerker single target. It’s just a class that works and it’s a lot of fun to play.

Even the utilities mostly works. and every warrior I know runs their own thing. In fact, at any point in time I think Warrior in GW2 is the most fun class I have played in any MMO. Since Everquest and WoW and DAOC, what this class embodies is all I ever wanted. I was sick of sandwhich combat from day 1 and hated the wack-a-mole.

TL;DR – Warriors are not awesome because they are Warriors. Warriors are awesome because awesomeness is the epitome of the Warrior way of life.

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Here is an example, Warriors get 400 health per tick with their healing signet and with a Thief you only get 300 health per tick while in stealth

Warrior gets 392 base with a 0.05 coefficient. Thief gets 293 with a 0.1 coefficient. Also, Healing Signet is a healing skill, not a passive trait. And you could outheal a Warrior by taking Shadow Protector which would provide you with Regeneration, putting you at 423 with a 0.175 coefficient.

warriors also have almost 10k health more than thieves

So do Necromancers. Also, Engineers, Rangers and Mesmers have about 5k more than Thief.

Warriors can hit with skill 4 on hammer up to 7k while a full berserker thief hits for only 6k to 9k [depending on the toughness of the character] in stealth on a backstab.

Anecdotal evidence, which btw is bullkitten. Backstab is a 1.2 or 2.4 coefficient whereas Staggering Blow is 1.3. In case you don’t know what that means, with identical stats, if a Warrior is Staggering Blowing you for 7,000, you’ll Backstab for 13,000. Heck, even if you count Merciless Hammer for the 25% damage increase, that’s still only a 1.625 coefficient, which is a farcry from Backstab. So the only way a Backstab deals less damage is an unfair comparison or Backstabbing the front.

Hammer Stun really?? they can use it like every 4 seconds depending on their build.

The lowest cooldown on a burst skill is 7.75 seconds. The only way you’re going to stun more often than that is to use Mace and weaponswapping, but that just means you’re pulling off one stun every 5s. Unless you’re running into warrior who use Rune of Warrior, which no one does.

So in summary: All of your claims are exaggerated, misleading or anecdotal bullkitten.

Your argument is flawed and its clear you are too narrow minded to make any constructive suggestions. If your argument is that warrior is the only viable class, then clearly the problem is that the other classes are not viable and need to be buffed accordingly.

If you nerf the only viable class, then you have no viable classes – this is the flaw in your argument.

Teamwork OP.
/15char

wow people group up on a team game? what? how dare they

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The reality about healing signet is that many other classes have had this same effect for a long time, through Regeneration. All the engineers and elementalists who have 100% regeneration uptime are achieving the same sustain effect within their own class. Thieves have a version of this through their healing and condition removal from stealth. Same goes with guardians and their constant AoE healing.

The concept of healing signet’s sustain is nothing new. It’s new to warriors, but it has been done already. Why the shock and awe about warriors having this mechanic now is silly.

Stop your non-sense..you compare regeneration to the warrior healing signet?…Are you mad?
I should have like 2000 pts in healing power to match the passive healing of the signet.

Healing signet = 400 HP for sec
Regeneration = 130 +0.125 * Healing Power.

Same error that Arc made, you are comparing healing directly without taking other class mechanics into account. There are dozens of other things to consider such as: Evades, blinds, blocks, invuln, protection, stealth, clones, the list goes on. Warrior healing is the way it is because it lacks most of these other mechanics in any significant capacity.

i would suggest stop playing warrior and pick any non-fotm class and a good or decent build for them. then go soloq or teamq or whatever u like and see how it is to play against wars or team with > 2 wars and every war has 1-2 stuns on low cooldown, berzerker, healsig.

at some point u will notice u need 1000x skill to win against the war then he would need if you arent a mesmer or thief with teleports. all others class need to keep distance to win and even then its not easy as it sounds if the enemy know how to play.

I dabble with Engi and Guardian but don’t enjoy the playstlye as much, but I always make sure to bring along some sort of countermeasure. Just having Protection Injection greatly reduces the damage you take when you do get stunned.

Every high ranking team I’ve faced in TPvP doesn’t seem to have issues with lockdown Warriors because they make sure to account for it, something many SPvP/Solo players don’t do.

oh so u realize that its op at a certain level of skill? thx for the clarification, now devs could u please nerf that kitten?

I said no such thing, I said that the players in SPvP and TPvP are too stuck in their ways to try to counter anything. Up until now the meta has always been about being the thing to counter, not about countering.

its the same like bullsrush, haste + hundred blades. so it needs a nerf, it doesnt matter if some teams have no problems with it or not. the amount of posts should be a clear indicator of how broken the build is to a certain level of skill. risk/reward is not equal enough. i dont see any reason to defend that cheese.

If you had problems with Bulls + Frenzy + 100b then we have nothing to talk about balance wise.

The problem with warriors, and the misinformation comes from the fact that they have multiple builds available to them. Most people are used to only having 1-2 builds for class, so the mix of warriors kind of meld together. In a single match you are going to face a mace/shield, hammer warrior, and a bunker warrior, and a GS warrior, and a warrior with massive healing, and a warrior with massive damage.

That being said, I think the warrior is the model for which we should strive to take all classes. Right now, they are the strongest profession. There is little doubt to that. There is a reason people are rolling new warriors daily. But instead of nerfing them, model after them.

The reality about healing signet is that many other classes have had this same effect for a long time, through Regeneration. All the engineers and elementalists who have 100% regeneration uptime are achieving the same sustain effect within their own class. Thieves have a version of this through their healing and condition removal from stealth. Same goes with guardians and their constant AoE healing.

The concept of healing signet’s sustain is nothing new. It’s new to warriors, but it has been done already. Why the shock and awe about warriors having this mechanic now is silly.

I am posting this here as opposed to the Warrior forum because most of the complaints regarding Warrior is PvP related, also the most amount of misinformation about them comes from this forum.

Almost every day I see a new thread that claims something about the Warrior that is either exaggerated or just downright untrue. This is highly annoying because if anybody takes what this person says seriously, they may go on to spread this untrue information.

Here are some examples, I’ve removed the names because I am not doing this as a form of public shaming. I am using these as a few more recent examples of people saying things that are so easily disproved by anyone familiar with the class. In the case of the video it shows little more than a people auto attacking a guy and the second his health starts dropping he starts dodging and using shield block. More importantly, it was used to somehow prove that Warriors are OP in PvP, even though the footage is from WvW.

For the love of Jedsus… A warrior that uses hammer and sw/shield has 6 stuns with zero diminishing returns. More than anyone in game. They can out heal anyone. They have the most hp and toughness. They’re second best a condition cleansing. I don’t understand the constant love that warriors are getting. At least with other professions their variation in builds. With warriors, almost all have hammers and either sw/shield or longbow.

But seriously though they have their stuns up of like every 5 secs, and 2 stun breakers are not enough o,o

i love how warrior defender pretend that there is nothing wrong with their class, taht they arent op and all.u guys were always strong in wvw. u guys were terrible in spvp though. ok u got buffs and they are way too much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9JjnaW3rE

this should not be possible in any game and yes that warrior actually does dmg too.
stop trying to defend an op class. it does need a tone down.or maybe u would like al other classes brought up to your level then and then we see u all crying again.

Sorry for my Russian English.

So Warrior have ultra mobility. Crazy DMG in all builds. PERMANENT ultra healing regeneration 1100 hp evry 3 sec passive. 4 SEC stun from mace evry 6 second lol what??? 100% crit% when ppl are stunned.

Im have all classes andthis is so OP. im have 51 spvp rank for all clasess

Let’s not forget a certain thread that hung around for a good while that was created by a guy who later admitted to hardly playing any PvP.

Wiki before you post, you do yourself a major disservice if you past something about a skill or trait that is just blatantly false. The cooldown of burst skills and the effectiveness of Adrenal Health are the most common mistakes/exaggeration. Burst skills are rarely used on cooldown because doing so is typically a foolish thing to do. In the case of hammer you typically want to set Earthshaker up before using it, if you’re getting hit by it when it’s just being thrown out on CD then that’s an issue with you. You also have to account for things such as stability, blocks, blinds, and any other number of other factors. Just because it comes off of cooldown doesn’t mean you’re going to instant use it.

As for Adrenal Health, most Warrior builds currently use their adrenaline all the time to keep from being overwhelmed by conditions so very rarely do you actually get all that much healing from it. Many also seem to think that it procs every second when it’s actually every 3.

I could go on for ages about this but the moral of the story is that you should do a bit of reading before you write something about a class, because it’s getting very annoying to see the same piece of incorrect information repeated by multiple people.

its life, back then warrior had to play 400%(if its 200% you need for ele) better to be equally good to any other people his rank for 6 MONTH+

and i did not cry like a little kitten about other jobs, but telling Anet to do something to warrior instead.

Pre cata 20% of WoW players participated in Arena on a regular basis, and 40% participated in Battlegrounds on a regular basis (no idea what it is these days, but those percents are based off of 13 million or so subs). Isn’t WoW supposed to be the PvE game in comparison to GW2? lol

So, since I saw some hotjoin horrible yelling at a brand new rank 8 about how bad he was yesterday after I 1v2’d them, doing his best to drive away new pvpers, I figured quite a few people still haven’t seen this. It’s worth a watch, even though it’s very much focused on LoL.

Blaming your team – it’s always been the clearest sign you are bad, and it always will be. And yes, sometimes you do get bad teams. It’s how you handle that which shows if you’re any good. Do you step up or do you cry and whine? Are you usually the guy who carries or the guy who gets carried? Because the first guy doesn’t complain about his team not being as good as him, he’s used to it.

Considering that all pvp servers are shared for all players in that region, why must the HOTM remain server specific? If anything it fractures the community and makes it appear 1/24th of the actual population size in NA and 1/27th the size in the EU.

Not only would merging these make the community feel stronger but also offer a place to discuss pvp specifics outside of a match and form teams which each player present.

I would really like to see all NA HOTM’s merged and all EU HOTM’s merged, still region separate at this stage.

The only negatives would be the influx of people using the HOTM as a means to go through the lions arch gate. This could easily be solved by removing that gate and have those people waypoint straight there like most regular players as the gate itself serves very little function to the pvp community.
The other issue would be the testing area and the possibility of having too many players with a limited amount of npcs. Rather just make those areas instanced such as they were in gw1. If multiple players want to enter together they can party up. This would also allow more elaborate use of npcs that could focus on team play and have 5 person teams use this instanced area as a practice ground.

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make this sig heal for 200 every 2 seconds instead of 400 each second.

With your suggestion, I am so glad you are not a developer.