Guild Wars 2

Both of your examples of other classes GM traits have a very significant difference from unsuspecting foe: both death shroud and stealth are built into their respective classes as a baseline mechanic. A warrior does not innately have stuns not traits to cause stuns, he has to go way out of his way giving up a weapon set to cause short duration stuns. That’s why it’s treated differently. There might be a case of sigil of paralyzation causing skull crack to last too long for such a short cooldown with little telegraph, but that’s an issue with skull crack and not this trait.

Delta Blues.8507:

Oh come on. I’ve been watching videos from this guys this morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c_Dtv--t_Rs

And it’s absolutely ridiculous
A war can run full zerker in 100% crit chance, have more CC/burst than a thief and he’s running around with 20k health and probably over 2,3k armor. and still having really good survival.

I call kitten on that.

An Axe+Shield/GS Warrior from Feb 6th. I suppose that’s pertinent to the topic.

Or, you know. Not at all.

If you just killed Laidra and are thinking WTF, this is not possible, and definitely not within the time frame!.. Well. It’s the hardest achievement I’ve done to this date, but it is possible.

I’d like to share a few tips for it that I think many people don’t realize. At this point I assume you have already beaten her.

1: Berserker gear is a no-go! I did every fight up to this with berserker and it was just fine. But trust me, since you can’t just circle here when chasing pools on the ground, you WILL eat some damage. I’m not going to say impossible, but very close to it. Get some healing power and toughness. I did it in all berserker except my rings + traits in toughness

2: But there’s no way we can make it in time, it was hard enough the first time. Not true. What you do not realize is that throwing additional thingies at her makes her vulnerable by a significant amount meaning you hit harder. This makes up for the lost time and is also why berserker gear isn’t needed.

3: Memorize the pools on the ground and remember which arena you use. The pools are not random and spawn same place every time. You want to make effective use of them.

4: Don’t be greedy! If you get really low, leave that pool alone and start circling until you have some HP again. You have a little spare time.

5: Don’t even try doing a stunt to get 2 illusions into a pool. You won’t have time to pick up the remains of both.

6: While pets are near useless in this fight do bring wolf and dog. If you get in trouble their ability will buy you a few seconds to run from Liadra. (Fear and Immobilize). Note that the illusions can be feared as well.

7: Use the rifts to rally. You might want to kill off the first 2 before you get to the part where Liadra chases you, but after that leave them alone. You can use Rampage as One to avoid the first pull, but after that, accept you will get pulled and that you might go down. Rally and get on the horse again. If you are lucky you can sometimes range the rifts but don’t count on this.

8: Buffs! Recommendations:
– Food: Omnomberry Ghosts for the 66% chance of stealing life. You can steal HP from illusions too in the beginning if you want. Don’t waste too much effort on it though.
- Nonfoods: I used Sharpening Stones for a bit of extra power. Not essential though, but I guess it is useful if you have trouble making it within the time limit.
- Gemstore boosters: While I didn’t get much out of what I had, these boosters can be somewhat helpful (Tested, they are not removed upon entering arena) : Armor Booster (-5% damage) Damage Booster ( + 5% damage), Rejuvenation Booster (Around 100hp/second) and Speed Booster if you don’t choose Signet of the Hunt (+15% movement speed).

Note: People normally use endurance regeneration food, but remember that just 5 trait points = 50% regeneration for us.
Good luck!

Edit: I seem to get a few requests on my setup; I run shortbow (the extra dodge on #3 is amazing for this fight, + you can keep Laidra somewhat away with the cripple and daze (#4, #5). Offhand is sword+warhorn, but isn’t really utilized – Only for meleeing rifts in the beginning. On a few times sword have saved me using #3 as dodge though, but you also waste 9 seconds until you can get back on the shortbow. I run Scholar runes on my gear, but I would easily have picked something different for the fight – At nearly no point am I over 90% HP, which is the idea with those runes.

Direwind.8409:

im so sick of watching rather than getting into the battle, we need a ranged attck of 1200

You just need to break away from your habit of hanging out with zergs and thinking ranged attacks are good IMO.

Direwind.8409:

its starting to bother me alot..

WHY DO we have no range attacks! every other class can use some sort of 1200 ranged attack?! why not thief?! why do we have to jump up on a wall to even have the chance to hit anything in a keep siege (before we die instantly to focus)

im so sick of watching rather than getting into the battle, we need a ranged attck of 1200

Shadow Refuge→Exit Keep→Do something→Steal on someone at the gate→Get back in→Profit

Good fights to BP on EB tonight. I thought we might kick the hornets nest when we rushed your keep, sure enough you queued the map and gave us 2v1 hell with Ebay, happy we did not lose the keep on my watch. Thanks to all the SBI who came out to defend with me tonight and didn’t leave after the Eternal Karma Train.

Daecollo.9578:

I wanna wield my staff like a female would.

Maintain a firm grip on the shaft, and keep your helmet well-polished. You’ll get there.

I’m a male and will always wield my staff accordingly.

Probably when you get a sex-change…

You do realize that those spirits have health, right? And since they have health, they can die, right? And when they die, you are now fighting a Ranger with 0 skills in his utility slots.

Hadan.2841:

Oh u referring to dat 4v15 we did outside SM yesterday of GH/GF. Yea u can post tht if u want. I walk talking about the part where we were starting to understand why u do the things you do and seek so much attention on a game. Dw tho as I said your secret is safe with me my friend

You mean the 7vs10 and you tower-hugging w/ 2 Cannons, a Ballista and a fully upgraded guard entourage w/ you?

Classy…

But then again, this is what you need in order to be on the same playing field.

It’s ok, I feel you…. everyone has to start somewhere.

=]

KStudios.2850:

Jinks.2057:

Well its confirmed…..Jinks > [kerw]

I know its disheartening for you BP fellas, and it may cause some members of [kerw] to rethink their situation……

Jinks is here for you all though

And you wonder why they treb you… XD

OMG that’s what I did wrong!! Should have totally said 1v5+1treb’r

You guys could start your own thread trying to troll each other for 5 pages back and forth, just agree to a duel to settle this, or chill on the video game drama

Hadan.2841:

I got beat bad and I’m trying to save face

Not working

Hadan.2841:

You should post the 2nd part of tht convo, you knw where u started to open up a bit when I hit tht soft spot of yours, oh your dirty secrets, dw together as I said we will get u thru this.

O the part where you claimed you stomped GF and refused to set up a GvG?

It’s ok Hadan….http://www.ehmry.com/ is where you can apply to my fanclub.

Jinks>[kerw]

Well its confirmed…..Jinks > [kerw]

I know its disheartening for you BP fellas, and it may cause some members of [kerw] to rethink their situation……

Jinks is here for you all though

I know right, it’s surreal.

Cogbyrn.7283:

Some of us aren’t defending this build because we use it. We’re defending this build because the arguments used against it are vacuous at best.

I ran this build for a while in the past, and again after the july patch. Hated it. Retraited. Effective? Yes. Fun? For me, no, not really.

So…. as someone who has played the build, played against the build. and currently is unbiased towards the build (since I dont play it and have no attachments to it), I think it’s balanced.

I run a much worse (but more fun) build now, and I STILL dont have problems beating these other warriors in WvW or sPvP. Kitten man.

The other day in sPvP I fought a really, really good War running this build. He got me twice, and I was getting frustrated. Then I realized why, because, he wasn’t using this build to beat me.

Confused?

He was using the build as a mere tool, a means to turn his skill into results. The build was not carrying him, the build was allowing him to utilize his own ability to predict my behavior, and react accordingly. And he was good at it, blocking, dodging, stunning perfectly. He had it down.

As soon as I realized this after my 2nd death, I started really fracking with him, hard. I became unpredictable, doing random moves and maneuvers in the fight, turning to run and earthshakering over my shoulder, pausing and standing still like an earthshaker was coming, causing him to blow his block, meanwhile im really typing /dance… suddenly he was the predictable one. His only real win condition was to skullcrack/100b me and that’s all he could really aim for. I bagswapped a GS before one fight, and when he skullcrack me, swapped, and started 100b, I popped endure pain, swapped, and 100b’d him right back. He was so surprised (and 100b takes a second to cancel) he ate nearly the entire thing.

I didn’t lose any more fights to him.

L2Play.
L2Adapt.
L2Win.

Well technology advances with the times,you can hardly expect them to continue using obsolete crap of 250 years ago in the modern world.We don’t use pinhole cameras when we can just pull out a smartphone and insta-snap now do we?

So you actually sat there and took the hit?

every skill is a mark you have to place on the ground and basically stand still to place them.

wut

No, not being one shot is the challenge.

That first goomba in the first mario has killed more people then Liandra ever will!

Lil point here

Winning PPT does not equate to being skilled.

Thx

Healing signet is OP, I can’t kill wqrriqr anymore. I used to sneeze at them and they die, but now I can’t kill them anymore. Please nerf them to remind me that my skill with a thief is superior.

alamore.1974:

I was explaining my sword/sheild build to a theif the other day cause he swore i was hacking. Heres exactly wat he said. " you kitten hacken nub. No warrior no matter how skilled they are can beat my build. You peice of ****."
All i said was " i kitten the fool who dont dial collect"

This pretty much shows the mentality of the people who insist that warriors are OP now and that a class as cheese as the thief is fine. Entitlement to the max.

I was explaining my sword/sheild build to a theif the other day cause he swore i was hacking. Heres exactly wat he said. " you kitten hacken nub. No warrior no matter how skilled they are can beat my build. You peice of ****."
All i said was " i kitten the fool who dont dial collect"

A class that can and will disappear and escape at any time doesn’t get to call others cowards.

Please tell me you didn’t let that exchange end just like that OP. I’m sorry but these are the thieves that makes my mother tell me to stop playing with my dinner, I would have enjoyed that conversation.