Guild Wars 2

Nevhie.6079:

Nice Vid and funny Music hehe…

May i know ur P composition? With their roles if u can. Or u just simply go with anyone?

We roll w/ whoever is on. It’s not really the class composition but the players. We’ll adjust our strategy depending on who’s playing what.

akamon.2769:

dem tunes ; )))

added: and that Guard that leap of faithed face first into your sanctuary. XDD

good stuff! learning lots from your new support videos, Amins.

Yeah, you’d think he should know better, eh? lol

6/15 New Vid: Support: Staff

Gahn.8150:

We are sons of a minor god what you wanna do …

I want just one thing, on little thing that seems not that hard to fix …

Can we get fixed http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Symbol_of_Swiftness pretty pls?

Can we have that add duration upon all other sources of Swift?

Let alone that sometimes pretty much only screws up other sources of Swiftness ….

Request Denied, Sons of a Minor God.

Section 22 of Article 22-W7F clearly states that any and all increase in performance, otherwise negating any and all decrease in performance, shall be deemed contradictory to class balance, wherein all actions outside of retaliation shall be nerfed due to the inability, secregation and marginalization of multi-hit abilities used by other people outside of the current class at hand.

Reference Article: Q-Q:

Are you kidding?

Since when does Anet care about it’s WvW Community when “Shiney’s” are concerned?

No my friend, “stay thirsty”.

You mean, all 40+ of you against our 15?

Coincidentally, you didn’t get nearly as many of us as you think you might have…

Castaliea.3156:

Shaojack.3871:

Only a WvW player has 2000 hours played but still broke, no map completion or legendary and still sees + FOTM as Flavor of the Month + .

This. LOL. True as kitten.

lol. yep, basically sums it up.

Grithan Soulforge.5726:

Katz.5143:

Do you think they noticed its down?

What time is it in India right now?

/laugh

kitten outsourcing.

Epic Fail Anet.

Do your work during work hours, not during prime time.

Sol.4310:

Amins.3710:

Love all the ‘critics’ who have nothing to show for their otherwise ‘epic’ playstyle and skillz….

Always the case Sol: Those who can’t, try to teach!

lawl

Keep up the good work

We up against you guys this week, best match up in ages can’t wait for fight your guild again.

Hopefully I’ll get some game time in this week!

IF I were to ever make a thief, this build fits my playstyle perfect.

Bravo. Nice job. Loved the music.

Finally a pull away from the glassy.

For your conditions, why not add Lemongrass and then maybe stacks of +healing? You’ve seem to get a good amount of regen and since evasion is your best defense, the lemongrass would support the condition removal (40% duration).

Don’t think the dps loss would be too noticable.

ODB.6891:

Ok…just to start with, this whole wow mentality of a support class you guys keep spouting needs to go in the trash.

GUARDIAN:
“Guardians are devoted fighters who protect their allies and smite their enemies by drawing from the power of their virtues. True guardians are brilliant tacticians and selfless defenders who know when to sacrifice their own defenses to empower their allies to achieve victory.”

Sounds like a DPS class to me.

• see how ridiculous that comment was Naranek?

Ken.9018:

Since most of the skillful players are in Heart of the Mists, imagine all the hardcore tpvp players decided to form a WvWvW guild, since they are the REAL pvp players, I wonder how awesome the guild would be in WvWvW

It would royally fail.

90% of the tPvP’ers have ego’s the size of 16 year olds.

They can’t work together on large scale, would get bored in an hour because they all have the attention span equaling the length of a tPvP match and would wind up kittening about how imbalanced WvW builds are, ending right back in the Mists.

On top of that, tPvP’ers are good at 1v1’s, maybe 1v2’s.

The real ‘skilled’ players always end up in WvW.

PvP is static. Once you kids learn this, you’ll come over to the dark side.

Troll harder.

Pinko.2076:

Amins.3710:

lol.

All I have to say is those are the numbers I remember fighting, when paired against Mag.

We’ve held Briar in FA BL for the last 3 hours but, g’kitten , you guys come in and sweep it w/ your 50+ against our 20, and not much we can do.

Fun fights none the less around Briar / Ruins / SW Camp / S Camp…

[Good Fights].

I think we need to recruit a bit more, our 15 can’t hold up anymore.

You have briar because FA keeps tossing bodies and bags to WK. You should come turn it into a three way, screw towers.

We did our flanking and got into a 3 way a bit, but you guys vastly outnumber our 20.

We can take the first wave, but just crumble to the second and third.

We’ll recurit, get more people and come at you. Don’t worry. We don’t back down.

lol.

All I have to say is those are the numbers I remember fighting, when paired against Mag.

We’ve held Briar in FA BL for the last 3 hours but, g’kitten , you guys come in and sweep it w/ your 50+ against our 20, and not much we can do.

Fun fights none the less around Briar / Ruins / SW Camp / S Camp…

[Good Fights].

I think we need to recruit a bit more, our 15 can’t hold up anymore.

I only have 4 foods that I use:

Lemongrass Poultry
Omnom Compote
Saffron mango
Mango Pie

Sigil of Stamina. That’s the new one. Lot’s of dodge roll healing. LOTS. Feels’ like playing Yoda w/ an Asuran. lol

I think we all pretty much started out DPS and then just with the change / patches, moved to more support, as we got more organized.

We’re also on smaller servers, where if we were running w/ a 30+ guild grp, we would probably be back in some sort of DPS build as our ‘other’ guardians would be more support.

I’m assuming here, ofcourse.

akamon.2769:

i want to add that as a DPS Guardian, you will most likely want to jump in, drop the bomb, and get back out. like a few have mentioned, if you know what you’re donig, you can still last quite a bit if the fight happens to go on. but it does take practice.

i myself went from a standard hybrid build to more DPS focused. and i enjoy it a lot.. still learning a lot! but the most i learnt was from the early stages, learning how to survive, how to outlast and really understand and play the class mechanics.

then moving onto berserker or being “glassy” if you will, made more sense to me. though at the same time, i’ve talked to some Guards who’ve been DPS focused the whole time.. in a sense, it’s like how Luffy was thrown into the jungle by Garp and he survived and only got stronger that way. lol.

but i would recommend trying out different builds anyways if you like the class and figure out what you enjoy the most and do the best at, the two not mutually exclusive or dependent on one another.

Second.

Gear for more beef while you figure out your playstyle…

Once you’re comfortable, add more dps.

akamon.2769:

working out on a 30/x/30/x/x build right now. it’s workable. most effective? maybe not, but i feel alright surviving, and definitely doing a lot of damage.

kudos goes to Amins of course. you can check out his Zealous Defender youtube vids. : )))

would definitely love a rework of the zeal traits though! just so Guards can add more variety to their builds.

Look guys…

Builds are simple…

You Trait for damage, gear for damage.

You trait for defense, gear for damage.

You Trait for utility, you gear for playstyle.

You trait for Defense, you gear for Damage.

You trait for Defense, you gear for Defense.

It’s simple.

The line isn’t bad. It’s what people expect to do from traiting in that line.

If you’re going for a 30/x/30/x/x build and going “glass cannon” or, imho, Beryll at the least, pick up Sigils, Runes & Food that add healing or ~damage negation~.

did you know you could stack Sigil of Restoration w/ Omnom compote to get +1500 health per kill? Great for zerging…

Think outside the box.

Infiltrator runes… awesome…

And yes, our Zeal line has the least … ‘best feel’ to it, when compared to our other awesome trait lines… no doubt and I would be happy, as most of us vet guardians would, for a consolidation of usleess traits.

stunningstyles.7054:

I tried using scepter as full glass might stacking and it still hits like paper

2k-2.5k is not paper.

Especially from 450-600 range.

foofad.5162:

It’s a terrible skill, mostly because of how incredibly buggy it is. Whether or not it targets NPCs, it often completely fails to teleport you at all much less to the person with the lowest health.

Second.

It needs to have the same mechanics as JI.

End of Story…

HEAR THAT DEVS..

End

Of

Story.

Guardians sux, everyone re-roll RANGER!!!!!!

OMG – RANGER SO GUUD I SHUD BE RANGER W/ EPIC PET.. PWN UR FACE.

FOTM. Single reason there’s not as many Guardians…

Those players that suck, jump on the monthly/patch bandwagon.

Those of us who are good players, regardless of class, are still playing the Guardian because it’s the class we choose and what we like… because we’re THAT good.

Suck it up, FOTM people, I’m hunting you.

We do not need an “organized”, large scale “Arena”.

That’s just dumb.

Love all the ‘critics’ who have nothing to show for their otherwise ‘epic’ playstyle and skillz….

Always the case Sol: Those who can’t, try to teach!

lawl

Keep up the good work

Your other option is to use pretty much the same build as Akamon has stated, but incorporate +healing into the jewel set so you’re at bout +750’ish healing.

That will give you +900’ish health on dodge roll for you and your engi friend…. then also add in Battle presence instead of Aegis Heals and drop the 2h master down to tier 2.

Then maybe go w/ GS + S/F… That’s all the mobility we can get really… And to boot, you’ll have 4 blinds… woot woot!

Between the dodge rolls, extra shield from focus, 4 blinds, and 3 leaps/ports… that’s a ton of mobility and support for your engi…. that’s my go to build for roaming by myself or w/ a buddy.

Build

I enjoy the down’d state.

What I don’t enjoy is once you stomp and get the kill, they can be rez’d.

THAT needs to be removed or add a “Death Timer” of 5 minutes, before they can be rez’d…. just enough time for the battle to end and the victor’s to rez thier dead before they move on ….

IcerXx.3670:

I prefer this system, it’s not like you LOSE anything by swapping characters, it’s just incentive to use one over another.

Same…

Plus, it’s a great way to cure altitis.

Valik Shin.9027:

People seam to forget that there r guild groups that can be in the 30-40 range that r very coordinated.

Then the suggestion would be to join one and quit complaining, make one yourself or learn how to avoid them…

Keep ur head on a swivel lad.

Knights Gear / Berryl Jewelry / Zerker Weapons.

Greatsword + either Sword/Focus or Mace/Focus

Go for Dwanya Runes @ lvl 39 (at least 4) and Sigil of Restoration for each mainhand wpn.

Utilities (in order of open slot): Hold the Line, Save Yourself, Retreat (for getting around the map).

First 5 pts in Virtues.

Next 15 in Honor (Reduce Shout Duration).

Next go 10 points into Zeal (More dmg on burning)

Valor to 30.

After that, you should know what you’re doing.

Just a short vid on some of our Small Group Tactics … how we bust zergs when we’re outgunned.

Sometimes, it just takes some forethought into gameplay….

Leave the zerg’s alone, we like our badges…. and squirrrrrrlllllsss.

All I can say is that over the many… many… many… manymanymanymanymany (thanks AnEt / Glicko) manymanymanymanymanymany…. (yes, we’ve been together that long) many weeks we’ve been matched up…

BP has shown incredible progress in their tactical roaming/group play. If they had more numbers, it would be a very competitive and fun fights.

They also know how to troll a forum, which makes both ingame and out of game aspects, fun.

G’luck!

Just a short vid on some of our Small Group Tactics … how we bust zergs when we’re outgunned.

Evilzara.6378:

Amins.3710:

Just a short vid on some of our, Good Fights, Small Group Tactics

Yes, Yes, we’re revealing some of our zerg bust’n moves…. but in all honesty, the more everyone improves, the more fun it is!! Truly.

I mean, at a 26.7% chance we’ll be matched up AGAIN… don’t we all want more “good fights”?

No pun intended…. well… maybe….

Did you include the time I beat you?

Nope. Didn’t want you to feel bad about your victory over a known star.

Just a short vid on some of our, Good Fights, Small Group Tactics

Yes, Yes, we’re revealing some of our zerg bust’n moves…. but in all honesty, the more everyone improves, the more fun it is!! Truly.

I mean, at a 26.7% chance we’ll be matched up AGAIN… don’t we all want more “good fights”?

No pun intended…. well… maybe….

6/5 New Vid: Hammer / Staff #3: Small Group Tactics

Changed a few things in my support build….

Still running full Clerics w/ Boon Duration / Melandru.

Changed some jewelry around – some P/V/H (magi) and Celestial instead of full Sapphire.

Not going to tell you about my new Sigils and Food, though! muahah

Was running +1889 Healing for a bit in the fight, when I had +healing stacks. I know I can get it up higher…

EM was healing for 3.3k and VoR when I changed food around was up to 202 for the grp, during the night… don’t believe I caught it on this vid… most of the time i was running around between 1400-1600 + healing.

Basic’s of the Build, nothing special… truely

PS: if you think you know what they are, send me a pm.

Amins.3710:

Symbols should not immobilize.

I would suggest:

1) re-making Glacial Heart: Symbols Chill on pulse.

2) Protectors Impact: Create a Symbol of protection when you are Immobilized or Frozen.

3) Fix Scepter Orb Speed

4) For the love of all things HOLY ~ Fix Merciful Intervention so that it’s a player targeted ability… just like JI. It’s completely USELESS as is. It’s worse then Engi Elixers… at least you know you’re going to get A or B…. w/ MI… you could end up in bum kitten nowhere w/ a pooch up your kitten .

Area Control for WvW & PvP = Wardings, Bubbles, Fields.

Area Control in PvE = more AOE Dmg.

Do they?

…….

foofad.5162:

Healing Power scales terribly for most of your healing abilities. You CAN be a healing support character even without healing power, and you’ll be more useful to your team if you can kill and heal. Mace/(Shield or Focus) + Staff is incredibly supportive in both healing and boons, and you don’t need healing power to make it so. You’ll heal everyone around you on your autoattack, you have regen on a symbol, you AoE heal for 1.5k or so with your Shield, and another 1.5k or so on Empower. Battle Presence is really not that great, unfortunately. Healing over time never saved anyone, burst healing does.

Compared to someone w/ 1600+ Healing…. I can get a well over 700p/s to a party of 5..

But +healing is just horrible…………..

PS: Empowering Might – 3k every 16s if you went w/ Staff. Orb’s detonating for 1.5k or 550+ on pass through.. and if you’re good, you can pass through then detonate for 2k+ every 8s.

Do not roll a guardian. You won’t be happy.

Bash.7291:

Amins.3710:

Symbols should not immobilize.

I would suggest:

1) re-making Glacial Heart: Symbols Chill on pulse.

2) Protectors Impact: Create a Symbol of protection when you are Immobilized or Frozen.

I don’t mind symbols chill on pulse at all. I just got yelled at too many times for trying to suggest chilling as it was “too strong of a debuff” I think a 1 second immobilize when the symbol is laid down is still fine though, as it would work kind of like muddy terrain and the engineer’s glue shot. With the amount of condition reduction food being used at the moment in WvW, and the fact that people already fight in points in sPvP, I don’t see a 1 sec immobilize on symbol creation to be OP.

I get it, but here’s my concern.

As from the perspective of WvW.. most people in group play are typically Hammer/Staff.

Being able to toss down your staff symbol at range, switch into hammer → imobl again, then ring them up… that’s a TON of ’ w t f ’ on the receiving side.

And seeing as how most are 2h mastery, it’s done every 12s on the staff. Then spec into symbols larger and symbols last longer… you’re pretty much better off than Muddy Terrain, which is already a phenomenal ability.

Maybe add in a “Chance to Proc”: IE 60% Chance to Chill on hit.

Just a suggestion….

Drop the “Top XXX” Rank. blah blah…

Anyone with half a brain knows that it’s just a time sink aspect and does not necessarily equate to skill.

Symbols should not immobilize.

I would suggest:

1) re-making Glacial Heart: Symbols Chill on pulse.

2) Protectors Impact: Create a Symbol of protection when you are Immobilized or Frozen.

The larger problem is that the dead don’t stay dead.

What’ is this… some bad horror syfi… where the zombie apocalypse raises from the ashes to defeat every living thing?

Get rid of this mechanic.

At least then, small roaming groups could do drive by’s on the larger zerg, or kite the zerg, knowing that what they acutally DOWN… STAYS DOWN.

Srsly.

Just a thought: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQJATRjAVV2JWOWo2Bi1j90nA1KwJ2DDxI+XwmJ-jkyAYrARRAIQQJPl1EogYZsIasqFM9JRUt3AzdQEVLDAzYA-w

Try the hammer w/ it Stunning. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1TKrCvJ9Lo

Nicely done.

BrimstoneAshe.5043:

Amins.3710:

Instead, what’s happened is larger tower hugging zergs afraid to come out even when there’s equal numbers.

Yes yes. Only AR is guilty of tower hugging. Ebay is like the Spartans. The weak are culled and nothing steps on the battlefield wearing the Ego Bay tag that isn’t 10ft tall and bullet proof. No one would ever witness Ebay hugging a tower when the odds are even. Ever. The below video is clearly a fake.

http://youtu.be/Rciy-kQw0cU

That… is.. AMAZING!

I can now call myself a zerg while solo roaming! WOOT.

Kodiack.2783:

Amins.3710:

It’ll be nice once we don’t have to fight AR/BP anymore… simply because you’ve neither learned nor implemented adaptive strategies over the last 6 weeks.

It’s one thing to say “population imbalances” made for crappy gameplay, but even the small roaming groups are just bad.

6 weeks… zero improvement on any front…

I mean, srsly?

Instead, what’s happened is larger tower hugging zergs afraid to come out even when there’s equal numbers.

Tower hugging zergs? you mean like this one?

btw, I chased groups back to that tower all night.. on purpose , just to get lots of screenies.

:)

That looks a whole lot like us taking a tower in an enemy BL and Farming badges… Yep, that sounds about right.

/golfclap

Your legendary forum skillz seem to be waning. Mor SS plz

It’ll be nice once we don’t have to fight AR/BP anymore… simply because you’ve neither learned nor implemented adaptive strategies over the last 6 weeks.

It’s one thing to say “population imbalances” made for crappy gameplay, but even the small roaming groups are just bad.

6 weeks… zero improvement on any front…

I mean, srsly?

Instead, what’s happened is larger tower hugging zergs afraid to come out even when there’s equal numbers.

Hey…

Looking for a skirmishing/roaming build w/ SB + Condition/Bleeding built for adding pressure and kiting.

Here is the Build I had in the Video.

Here is the WvW Gameplay Video

I was alo thinking that maybe I should incorporate Piercing Arrows… was thinking 20/10/30/10/0… But don’t want to kill my survivability.

Suggestions on Build / Playstyle would be helpful.

All help is appreciated.

Zenith.7301:

Guardian has aoe group stability, prot, regen, condition clear, sanctuary, aegis, an instant chunk of group heal with virtue, symbols granting the group fields for retaliation. Empower gives the group healing and easy stacks of might on top of healing and ground control, without needing to occupy a utility slot. They also do deceptive damage because when specced their burning and retal will eat you up pretty quickly. They have group blinds.

I love people who state every spec into 1 and assume they can do it all at the same time…

Those 30/30/30/30/30 specs are SOOO OP, especially when they get a 6th utility slot.