Guild Wars 2

kurtosis.9526:

Also, fwiw, if you’re buying a new gear set primarily for WvW, full zerker is not the only choice, even for small group roaming.

There are certain pieces of gear that are optimal for Crit Damage, and the rest aren’t:

All Ascended trinkets
Exotic Amulet/Earrings
Exotic trinket gem slots
Shoulder/Glove/Boot Armor
1H Weapons

Could you explain that in more detail? If I understood it the right way, one should boost crt DMG only on shoulder/gloves/boots OR on ascended trinkets?
So Cavalier and Berserker parts should be slotted here?

in the forums is a quite interessting interrupt build with a huge condition load and physical attacks. Weapons are S/Sh, M/S. Awesome!

More skills mean more diversity! That is what Anet wants to achieve among all classes!

warrior does a lot of DMG PvE-wise. Use whatever you like: Zerker with GS / Axe Axe / Bow or go with Rabid or Rampagers with S/S and Bow.

For me, rifle is a bit lame

okay, easy as that xD

nice music, easy skirmishing

I think stability isnt much of a problem. You still got 4 sec Immobilize on Swords F1 and enough blocks plus movementskills (Sword #2 and bulls Charge) to “kite” other peoples Stability.
It may even let them feel superior because you run/kite alot in the first place while stability is up. But at the time it goes away, you use all your interrupt skills (quite a lot) and you can do massive DMG.

Another hint: You could try to use Rampage as elite because it offers nice swiftness, Stability AND another movement skill. For me it functions like a lifesaver.
Lets think that threw: opponent uses Stability and deals alot of DMG. You can block (shield, mace, sword) if stab is still up and you cant endure or outwait more attacks, use Sword #2 to gain distance, cast Rampage (swiftness and Stability → harder to catch) use Rampages #3, use bulls charge. Thats enough distance and since stability is down on your opponent, you can rush back in with sword leap and play out all your interrups to put massive confusion stacks on your enemy! His “pace of attack” is quite probably quite offensive in this phase of battle and he will hurt himself A LOT!

Nice build, nice idea → Now we need solid testings
kind regards
Arya Pi

Puandro.3245:

If you guys arent tunning regen banners with apothecary gear you are missing out.

Puandro please explain that in detail!
I am quite new to Warrior – could you post a Build you are talking about?

you could try Mango Pie food for more HPS. Though I am not sure if it is better then Lemon grass. Whats your Opinion in that case?

he is sick! Dont be a Hitler -please

If you switch 10 Points from Arms to Tactics, you can choose “Inspiring banners”.
These 30secs without Banner of Discipline hurt the group more then 10 points lost in Arms+some vul. stacks – thats my opinion since Banner buffs are for the whole group and traited you got it all the time

lets share some candies and talk about politics and religion. Seems more peacefull then Skull crack to me!

;)

helps to force enemies to use their defensive abilities WHILE you cant be CCed!
Shouldnt be used as a life saver though!

there are times in which I hope no one from anets team reads all the “complaints” and starts to swing the n-e-r-f-Hammer

You can use veggie Pizza for enhanced condi duration OR lemongrass for -40% Condi duration on yourself. That helps at least a little against Necros. With this said and your CC strategy, I think you have quite a solid chance against them!

Thanks.
Phineas Poe, just a quick question:
My problem with inertial converters second Stun break is, that 25% HP is really low. At the moment I am that low, I am almost dead. How would it work in your opinion, if you swap rocket boots to Elixir S so you can save your live and use EGs stunbreaker in a more deliberate way…? Though movement is cut down now…

Thank you for your help.
@Kimbald: could you post your builds for me? Your playstyle sounds pretty interesting. Do you use shield in larger scaled fights? because as already discussed in these forums, shield skills seem to lack a bit of usability…
what Healing skills do you use btw? They must be on a pretty low cooldown if you want to utilize runes of altruism. And what do you do against conditions? Which food do you use?

And when exactly does the sigil of hydromacy proccs?
Kind regards
Pi

why dont anybody consider taking ‘sitting duck’? I like it very much!!! You get a nice criple (with your setup you havnt got that much cripple-skills exept ‘Box of nails’) and 5 stacks of vuln. That makes 5% more dmg for Pry bar for example

Thank you for your comments and expains.
So am I right in thinking that a power/condi/X setup is superb for PvE if I would like to use either bombs/grenades or FT/EG??
Or shouldn’t I invest points and equipment in Conditiondmg if I take FT/EG?

If you dont mind I would love to see your PvE setup since I am very unsure which armor needs to be farmed at first.
The first thing I thought would be a solid choise is rampager (P/P/C). Then I figured that berserker gear may be even better. By now I am quite confused and not sure which set’s the most appropriate for me… and I want to add that I definitely want to bring at least one kit to the build. (playing with one weapon and without any alternation is not my understanding of engineering).

Then I want to ask which runes you use in PvE and do you have different sets and weapons for WvW?
And please, please explain me how to work with EG in a PvP kind of scenario. I fail to use it in the right situations..

kind regards
Pi

Very inspiring!
Tell me, what juwels do you wear?

Dear Engineers,

since I am level 80 and not sure where to begin, I want to start farming my equippment.
Could you please give me some hints where to start, which set is the most appropriate for engineers?
I would love playing something like this:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqic3zy3F1LJxoCdGUh8K6R+tsj/ogtyF-jkCBINBkCEgIAMHqIasVTFRjVdDTlCRHbQ1mcCy+AICBsYOA-w

But as this can be a bit boring in long terms I like to switch kits to eg FT.
For that purpose I need to know which Set-and Weaponstats fit the best.

What do you use in PvE? Please post it!!!
And what do you use in WvW??

with kind regards
Pi

now a mathematical point of view regarding this issue:

1. there are 8 classes with many traits, different sigills, some weapon and some skills.
That would make possible 1000 ways to build a character. Lets assume that there are only 8 kind of viable builds for each profession.
2. If we have 8 classes and 10 more or less viable builds this multiplicates to 80 different ways to play a character in guild wars regardless which class you choose.
3. Since you picked only one build and your contrahent another that is only one choise against another.
Since you have 80*80 =6400 possible matches (order isnt considered by purpose) your permanent impression is kind of narrow-minded.

And we didnt even start to take personal skills as a coefficient in mind, no conection problems … you see, the list is long. Dont blame warriors for it.
Its like Berlusconikittenking children – then denying it. Lern to play and stand up for your mistakes. Dont be a Berlusconi man, that makes me sad…

kind regards
Arya Pi

Stuns → Stunbreak
Spike DMG → Mitigation Skills
Nasty DMG/Locks → Dodge Rolls
Melee Range → Range
Heal → Poison
Swiftness → Cripple
caught → fled
massive HP → high DMG
high toughness → Condition DMG
…

As you see, there is a counter for everything. Against warriors your setup should be pretty simple since we have decent HP and Toughness and some stuns and locks.
Not more… what you need:
-Stability
-1/2 Stunbreaks
-mix of DMG (condi and strength/crit)

Simple as that.
period.

Oni Link.4621:

@TheMaskedParadigm: Not really because I have permanently over 20 stack of Might without relying on others, that’s how I compensate for damage lack. Permanent Fury and Swiftness too.

@Dempsey: Banners are useless for boss fights because you have to keep moving around to dodge attacks, otherwise you are dead. Mace damage is low because it is very slow and weakness lasts only for 50% on bosses. Sword OH is absolutely not needed, single block and no damage output, shield is better if you need to parry.
If you move correctly and know how to dodge then you don’t need any block.
With your traits and weapons you deal no damage at all: slow and weak auto attacks and no Might stacking.

How do you gain these might stacks?

jonathan.7862:

One can not simply pay for a profession switch?

one cannot simply walk into mordor!

Red Raven.7824:

Daecollo you and your kittining weird suggestions.

Some are visionaries, some are not!

Superkav, please test this build! It really looks awesome

Anet – please rework banners. So many good Ideas in this thread, if you promote more variety, please give banners a retry!!!

for me warrior means more action and guard means more sustanibility

… but we can cc a lot more instead!

Could s.o. explain what the Trait “Merciless Hammer” means exactly by stating: if a foe is disabled… ??
Means stunned, crippled, chilled??

I like your build alot and will test it now in PvP.
I think if you use #5 to run away in the right moment it is better movement now then “Ride the lightning” from Ele which prevented me almost every time to get killed.
I just dislike how endure pain functions…

Ask a man about his length and devide it by 2!
I think it is no difference in Gw2
My engineer is happy to do 2k DMG with Zerker Set and his strongest attack. There are times where I even dont hit more then 1000 dmg. So your DMG is kitten high, very fast and almost all time accessable. Relax

‘rampage’ seems to be a pretty good “oh kitten ” button.
Massive CC, more HP, Stability and a dash to run away. Furthermore, as already mentioned, ‘Throw boulder’ helps to keep following enemies away…

Whats your problem with the skill?

Anet should read, discuss and improve. Current state of traits ins unsatisfying!

MiLkZz.4789:

Easy question, the playstyle is so different. I have a warrior and a guardian and I love my warrior a lot more. I know other players rolling warriors aswel and saying it is real fun to play. Some of them don’t ofcourse, it still is personal opinion.

A bunker warrior with tons of CC ponies everything up that does not have stability. A warrior has great escape abilities. Mine is specced for group support condition cleaning. And he removes tons of conditions from myself and teammates. Think I can remove up to 12 conditions in 1 rotation on myself alone. While my guardian, also specced for support feels totally different to play with. I feel their abilities are easier to land but are lower damage. Meaning you keep up a continuous DPS cycle burning your opponent slowly down. While a warrior has abilities harder to land, but they hit real hard. Meaning he is more like a burst character.

Survivability, a warrior with protection from a guardian (or himself) is the tankiest thing ingame. That health pool just takes so long to burn down. He surpasses the guardian in tankyness in large scale fights. But the guardian beats him in smaller and solo fights.

tldr.:
warrior: CC/burst dmg/mainly aoe condition cleaning, second aoe healing/best survivability in large zerg fights
guardian: Pull and lock/continuous dmg/mainly aoe healing, second aoe condition clean/best survivability in small scale fights

could you explain your condition cleanse combo in more detail please? wanna learn!

Puandro as always I do enjoy your videos very much!
Quick question: Does ‘Destruction of the Empowerment’ pay out very well? Because some of your counterparts didnt have that much boons. Whats your opinion on ‘Mobile Strikes’? Wouldnt it add even more survivability to your build?
With Kind regards

My opinion: your feedback have been given in the fifth post of your thread!
Puandro nailed it…
Please take comments not as a personal offence, being bad in theory-crafting in any MMORPG isnt that much of the deal. Enjoy your strengthes in reallife maybe!

Just soldiergear and Traits whatever you like

I am leveling with grenades and a range of 1500.
So my build is:
30
5
0
25
10
From the first traitline you get MASSIVE vulnerability stacks, mega range and Bleed threw crit. Second line gives more Bleedstacks.
25 in Alchemy push your boonduration and Vitality (I think vitality is superior in PvE) you gain Vigor for Speed and things like backpackgenerator
Last but not least: 10 points in the last traitline: non stop speed if you switch through your kits and since you got 25 points in alchemy you got even nonstop vigor.
love this setup

I began with power vit and toughness (soldier).
Later I mixed some Power Precision Condi DMG with it ! (Berserker)

rocket shoes right into a zerg → Bomb, Big ol Bomb → Gear Shield or Elix S to get out save

Acidic Elixirs looks promising. Though in your build, there isnt much space for variation …

these suspision all day long … just be happy and enjoy rocket boots

Î changed Elix B to rocket boots so I can utilize combo fields more often. This is nice since we can get wheter area might, or retalliation. Both usefull in large scaled battles
If you switch leg mod to speedy kits, you can move 900 units every 16 secs, might be better to mitigate some Dmg… And for food maybe -40% cond. duration?

.. and whats about switching fireforged trigger to sitting duck? I like the new trait alot

@DrMatt

I hit lvl 80 recently and only got a full berserker Set. Since I want to give your build a try, please tell me, where do I get this stuff the best:
Trinkets -

- Soldier Emerald Backpiece
– Knight’s (ascended) amulet
– Berserker (ascended) accessory x2, ring x2,

Is there any build with healing power?

stick with thumper turret – new Stunbreak!