Guild Wars 2

kyubi.3620:

i dont recall 25k on hundred blade behing a bad hit dear. It may not be this great for average warrior dps but it still outshine most class who would be based on damage.

No, no it doesn’t. 25k hundred blades is bad, not to mention you need to factor in cast time and not just pay attention to the final number.

Everything you need to know is here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE.

Strife’s builds are outdated and no longer used.

Man Slauterer.5984:

sorry but im known for this on my server. I preach against the zerker and dps guardians whole heartedly. i preach cleric or apothecary guardians. honestly the dps gain you get from a team i find to be greater overall because your team can stand and take any dmg they need to while dealing damage more and you are keeping the dmg off of them. ill give a FULL analysis of this argument and stand point if you whisper me in game. Man Slauterer. name is in signature and post.

You have no argument, you’re just wrong. A good guardian will pop aegis when it is needed and blind mobs to stop group members from even being hit. Timely reflects are more valuable than any heal you can provide. The meta builds have all the condition removal you need and the ability to do what I just said all the while doing high DPS yourself.

If something hits hard enough to down people in 1-2 hits your “healing” will be next to useless. Then you’re just a liability as the encounter will just take longer due to the complete absence of one persons DPS.

You’re just trying to justify your lazy play style.

Providing dragonite is used for armour I will have a full set on day 1. If however crystalline ingots are used instead well… Just more time gating.

How about no…

I’ve seen players with under 1k achievement points that are significantly better than some with over 15k. Sure a few thousand points is more of a safe bet since it shows at least a bit of experience but in no way should it ever be a deciding factor.

It seems you have the common problem of not reading the party info before joining.

Even the heavy T3 helmet clips with the face and teeth. It’s about time they spend some time cleaning up armour on charr.

The Phalanx heavy armour in the gem store.

Well done ANet, really great quality testing you’ve done here.

Why are you asking us if opinions don’t matter to you?

ItWasntMe.7102:

Btw I am not a bearbow ranger. Chances are the “great pretenders” probably outnumber the bearbow types 10-1.
Many of you don’t “out contribute” us in party runs as much as you like to imagine whether we play support or dps. Looks great on papier, but alot of you aren’t consistent or optimal in the application process. So in the end there isn’t a huge gap in dps if any.
Those of you that insist on keeping your omnom bar on despite the fact you are bringing down your ENTIRE parties dps with your up n down routine every 6-7 hits when they have to pause to help you up cuz you can’t stay alive between healing cds, perhaps you are the true leeches. After all if you know you can’t stay up long why omonoms over dps or defense consumables? Is that looking out for your team?

There are some AMAZING players in every class, some of you need to face it~ you may not be one of them no matter how closely you copy their build, or use their lingo.
Flexibility is a good thing for all classes to be, not just those you expect “nonstop support” from.

If you camp at 1500 range with a longbow you do not give buffs to group members or receive any from them. Sword/X dps is higher than longbow even at max range. You are bringing down your group dps by ranging 24/7.

Stop making excuses for your terrible gameplay.

Adam.4103:

Inb4 Scarlet causing the Thaumanova Reactor incident.

hue hue hue…

Maybe test things before you release them?

CMstorm.8679:

Axe5 is viable with 25 bloodlust and 25 stacks of might, empowered/empower allies. It’s decent with 25 bloodlust + a few stacks of might +empowered and Destruction of the Empowered, but there’s nothing to stop u from using it. If u figure something out that makes it worth using, by all means, go for it!

You could have all the buffs in the game and you would still do more damage by just auto attacking.

So because one group was nasty that means the entire dungeon community is? You get bad apples in all walks of life, a video game is no different.

You should be using night and slaying sigils on your main hand or off hand along with force. Just alternate depending on the content you’re doing.

Yes that’s the problem, most of the people complaining probably don’t even try to start up a group themselves. Any time I’ve started a post for up to 3 more people it fills almost instantly.

lordkrall.7241:

Patrikan Habaton.2548:

actually it would make perfect sence for you to start at Level -12/-13 you loose 51 Level from your about 28/29 and I loose 51 Levels from my 81 … stop trolling and posting LIES ty!

Which are 31 levels higher than you were supposed to be, so don’t expect any sympathy there.
The max-level was supposed to be 50, but people abused certain parts of the game in order to bypass that cap. ArenaNet shouldn’t (and won’t) take those people into consideration.

For once just stop defending ANet on absolutely everything… They could have locked off fractals over level 50 by changing 1 line of code. They knew people had got to level 80 or were getting there, at any time they could have said that they were going to do this. Now all they have done is waste those peoples time due to being so short sighted.

Or even worse when those 100 things also require to be confirmed each time. This is something the game sorely needs.

What the… That’s a lot of fractals.

skyhawk.5149:

I usually go S/W and switch between GS and LB depending on the situation. Once you become so familiar with the ranger its actually a fun class to play. Most ppl hate rangers since rangers are exceptionally hard to learn to play.I’m a believer of skill not a believer of classes, i’m so familiar with my ranger that i rarely die in PvE (and even in WvW) unless I’m being surround by 5+ Vet Mobs or Sheer amounts of AoE. Its very hard to die in PvE situations as the ranger pet heal on down function is pretty OP. Also I believe it is possible to stow the pet as long as you put it flee mode.

No the reason I hate most rangers is because they don’t even try to play better. Camping longbow at 1500 range is inexcusable in any situation.

VOLKON.1290:

haviz.1340:

VOLKON.1290:

Weren’t you the one that said difficulty didn’t increase above 48 or something? So your “81” is nothing more than 48 done a bunch of times, not level 81 difficulty.

You’re not “81” difficulty. You’re an over-orbed 48 or so. As such, you’ll be seeing greater difficulty coming to challenge you. Good luck!

81 and 48 in same league does not compute.

If 81 and 48 are effectively the same with regards to the challenge (81 no more difficult than 48) then it does compute. It’s my understanding that the level of difficulty doesn’t increase beyond that.

Just watch some footage of a 70+ fractal, getting 1 shotted by trash mobs is certainly a difficulty increase over 48.

Frost spirit and spotter are reason enough. I hate having pug rangers in a group but if people know how to play them then they are valuable.

So no updated way in which to acquire a specific skin? Great I guess I’ll need to grind another 200 dailies to not get the skin I want.

VOLKON.1290:

Razor.9872:

I think that setting fractal levels back to 30 was most likely the right decision. However, I do also think that players who has progressed passed 30 should be recompensed in some meaningful form.

Compensated… for what exactly? Doing Fractals? They’ve already been compensated with the greater rewards available for the levels they were at. Now the reward system and the challenges are being changed quite a bit, so instead of knocking everyone back to level one they’re rewarding everyone above level 30 in there by not making them have to do the first thirty levels worth of Fractals again as well. Anyone below 30 still has to do those levels to catch up.

You clearly never done higher level fractals. The rewards don’t get any better no matter what the level. You get the same drop quality at level 1 and 79. Skins still had a bad drop rate at 48.

I’ve lost a lot of respect for ANet now. They didn’t even have the decency to respond to our concerns and instead brush it aside. I can’t believe how incompetent they have become.

I’ll take my 500 ectos then.

Yes thank you for resetting the level of people that grinded to level 50-80 without any compensation. Now casuals doing level 10 fractals can get weapon skins as well how awesome… Not.

Inb4 Scarlet causing the Thaumanova Reactor incident.

It literally takes a few seconds to fill a group. Make a post yourself don’t just wait for someone else to make one.

There is nothing wrong with path selling either, if there’s demand for it then there will also be a supply.

Seveleniumus.5973:

Survivability is MUCH better, when you look at numbers you’re actually not sacrificing that much of it, relative to damage increase you gain.
However if you’re running with other zerkers, your toughness still may end up being the highest in the group, so you’ll be getting all the aggro and you’ll seem less survivable than thiefs/eles.

Actually even if you wear full zerkers gear and trait defensively you lose a LOT of dps. Damage modifiers make a build not just the gear.

Also the toughness aggro theory is a myth, sure there are some bosses that seem to be drawn to it but others pretty consistently go for whoever is doing the most damage. Aggro can also be entirely random and can switch mid fight.

Yes it’s been proven again and again and again… In fact I have a friend who got a Dusk from dungeon greatswords about a month ago.

Axe/mace, gs rotation is the meta. Sword is situational as an offhand and axe is just plain junk.

Fafnir.5124:

level 40 fotm drop weapons at a 40% drop rate through rng you can get what you want if you do enough of them. I got 20 weapon I’m not using so many other better skins you can get. I don’t think weapons should be made easier. If anything there should be a recipe to make them ascended.

Got to love when people make up random statistics.

You already made this thread a couple of weeks ago. You got perfectly reasonable responses from it as well. They are not bugged, stack in melee and use reflects, stability if necessary. You won’t get wiped if your group does those things.

The problem is in PvE too many guardians camp at 1200 range with scepter as it is, another ranged option and more people would do it. You’re not helping anyone at that range.

It was no problem for me in full zerker gear, learn when to dodge etc…

Well the passive from healing signet was enough to keep me near 100% health in full zerker gear for the entire fight so yeah…

rizzo.1079:

Adam.4103:

Charak.9761:

So instead of buffing other methods of gold acquisition, they nerfed one of the viable options.

Great, back to TP flipping cause Anet doesn’t understand how proper rewards should be rewarded.

Why should mindless farming in a zerg reward people? If you want good money do dungeons.

Because I have more fun running with the zerg in FG than I do trying to memorize the unfun dungeons. Because the game is about fun, not making good money.

You have an odd idea of fun.

Charak.9761:

So instead of buffing other methods of gold acquisition, they nerfed one of the viable options.

Great, back to TP flipping cause Anet doesn’t understand how proper rewards should be rewarded.

Why should mindless farming in a zerg reward people? If you want good money do dungeons.

Traitine.8713:

Adam.4103:

Axe offhand is junk in any game mode.

Just because you don’t like it, or it isn’t a popular meta build, doesn’t mean it’s not fun.

I’m sorry that I would rather choose to not be bad.

To be fair you only have yourselves to blame. People who have spent 1000g+ just for the chance at getting a precursor could have had their legendaries a long time ago if they had just saved up and bought the precursor. I agree that the means of acquiring precursors needs to change but you chose to gamble.

Obtena.7952:

You don’t get it. It doesn’t matter. People can decide for themselves if they find value in a build and use it.

But they would find more value in better builds that’s the entire point. Promoting something sub optimal is just wrong.

Obtena.7952:

Bright.9160:

We’re not dictating which builds people should be using, we’re pointing out the objective flaws in the build and the danger it brings to the community, namely, presenting itself as a ‘good’ build while not being one and promoting bad play.

I think that’s a very subjective interpretation. People can decide for themselves if this is a build they want to play or not, regardless of how you have labelled it. What you think of the build doesn’t give you free reign to flame it into oblivion. I’ve already mentioned a few of the positive aspects of this build. If you think there is a better build that does all that, feel free to make a new build thread about it.

It’s not subjective, bad is bad. You have had more than a good enough explanation already as to why that is.

Traitine.8713:

Axe/axe and axe/mace are super fun weapon combos. I used to farm in Orr with axe/axe and my magic find set.

Definitely not WvW friendly weapon combos though.

Axe offhand is junk in any game mode.

Katz.5143:

Actually this has been brought up many times.

I personally won’t buy it because its over priced. I think at the very least it should be exotic armor. As it is you have to immediately transmute the looks to better armor. Not worth it to me.

If it was exotic and had undesirable stats you would need to transmute it anyway.

If you can’t get enough gold for cultural sets now then you’re doing something wrong. Besides as people have said the emperor title would lose all meaning. If you can afford the armour then you can afford transmutation crystals as well.

This is why you should never let pugs open an instance.

Even at over 100% crit chance you get the occasional non crit. So either it’s capped at 99% or maybe even lower.