Guild Wars 2

Guardian.

Others don’t hear your shouts (really, how can’t they hear you shout?). And “Hold the Line” voice never works.

A lot of players tend to compare the sword auto attack to Zealot’s Defense. Its quite misleading, auto attack does do more damage over time. But generally damage over time skills aren’t as useful as burst damage skills in a pvp setting. In pvp its easier to teleport to a target and hit them with ZD than it is for you to teleport to a target and try to get a three hit auto attack in. So it has its uses, but its situational.

Sword does need to have finishers, ZD could stand to be actual blocks so it benefits from other traits that activate from blocks. Flashing blade is ok as it is I guess, if it was nerfed in beta, chances are we won’t see it buffed. The auto attack could use some sort of finishing effect. It hits up to three times yes, but GS, Hammer and Scepter have superior auto attacks.

Rampage.7145:

No dude u are kind of wrong about Dx11, lets see, it can boost CPU performance by doing 2 things, basically multhithreading is much better on DX11 protocols which means it could potentially be more efficient rendering the game by using 4 core CPUs, not going into details here, just watch some new dx11 engines and how they perform on games like BF3 and Crysis 3, don’t tell me BF3 is not a CPU instensive game cuz it is a FPS, that is not true, it is actually way more CPU intensive than any MMO out there due the complex models, advanced lighting and physics, full destructive enviroments (do u have any idea how CPU intensive that is and why no other games does something like that????), a multiplayer 64 players map in BF3 is about twice CPU intensive than any WvW scenario the diference is the engine optimization for dx11. Also by adding new features as tasselation u can create more complex models with tons of poligons and make em easier and faster to render by the GPU, but ofc this kind of stuff would requiere a full revamp of 3D models which is not gonna happen.

Sure a cosmetic implementation adding AA filters won’t do anything but making the game runs slower, but i don’t think that is what ppl means when talking about dx11 support.

WoW is cpu limited yet dx11 gave substantial performance boosts. So you could be right. GW2 engine is entirely different though and it has a lot of odd things going on. Like reflections being rendered via cpu instead of gpu…..

We probably won’t see any performance fixes until the next expansion game, unfortunately.

Rampage.7145:

Aza.2105:

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

Rampage: wow, your system must suck or something, playing L2 i never see lower then my cap of 60fps…….even in huge mobs of players with all sorts of effects going off…..

L2 at a constant 60fps? The biggest pile of bs I’ve ever heard. The game has been running the exact same since 2004, its so poorly coded that it doesn’t take advantage of modern cpus. The game runs just as it did when I had my Athlon 2500+. Rampage probably doesn’t have a bad system. You are good at telling tall tales.

Again i have high end stuff only i7 2600k@4.5, radeon hd7950, i also have an AMD system running phIIx6@4ghz radeon hd6950, L2 gets as low as 5FPS during sieges on both systems alike, i have no reasson to lie here, i played the game since betas and i can tell u it runs just as bad as it did on my pentium 4 back then. Unreal engine is terrible for an MMO it is desinged for FPS games the way it loads the assets onto memory is terrible it dosn¡t cache enoug info to keep up rendering large ammounts of ppl so it takes a huge hit when having 20 ppl on the screen fighting each other and totally unplayable with 100+
In fact GW2 engine is a lot better than Unreal 3.5 engine when it comes to huge PvP battles hands down, GW2 runs bad but not nearly as bad as Tera does when it comes to PvP or raids, even 5 man dungeons run like crap on Tera sub 15 FPS, that is a straight fact, i play Tera more than GW2 honestly, i know what i’m saying.

Oh don’t worry I believe you, you are telling the truth about L2. Its the person I quoted I don’t believe, he is a liar who attempts to tell lies to push his agenda.

Disable reflections, the are currently being done on the cpu not the gpu.

Brutaly.6257:

What condition didnt convert? It converts bleeds and burns. Those im 100% certain in.

Try using rune of the soldier set bonus. If you use stand your ground it won’t convert the condition into a boon. My guess is for that skill, the soldier shout bonus is being prioritized over pov.

PoV is still bugged, now it no longer works with stand your ground. It removes the condition but does not convert it into a boon! Do we have to wait another five months until they fix it?

Using stand your ground with pure of voice, removes the condition but does not convert them into the opposite boon. Please anet, I don’t want to wait another 5 months to have this fixed!

There is no competition between the two, use them both. PoV is sick.

Well I agree with the OP. I think a fix would be to allow champions to be able to drop more than 1 piece of loot. Like lets say up to 5-6? And maybe three for Vets.

Reihert.1509:

Dont get overconfinded Tarsius.

There is always next patch….
And I’m pretty sure they gonna change some weapon CD just so we could get our finger memory screwd up (again).

I agree yeah, but hey at least everyone can be happy pure of voice has been fixed. It took them long enough.

I just brought one of the ascended rings with the new stats. When I tried to infuse it in the mystic forge I found that the recipe to do it does not work with the ring. I guess Anet forgot to add it :<.

Every so often Anet gives us a patch, usually which consist of Guardian nerfs which practically make no sense. Today, as the the title says is that day again. Were in most cases we can say goodbye to a skill we loved or a skill that no one ever really used. Lets not forget how Anet doesn’t fix bugs (hello pure of voice).

So this thread will be used to guess what will be nerfed. In the past we thought Anet only nerfed skills that were used frequently, but this is proven to be not the case (i.e spirit weapons).

Alright everyone, posts your guesses. Lets see who can guess right.

Rampage.7145:

U can also get a FX 8350 for that motherboard (u need to update bios to the lastest). Ur hd 6950 is allready more than enough to pull 100+ FPS on this game at the highest setting at 1080p.
So my recomendation would be selling ur 1100t on Ebay it should sell at 100$ at least, then buy the FX 8320 or FX8350. It is a very cheap upgrade and will probably give u good results for the money.

He isn’t going to get 100+ frames if he gets a FX 8350 using his 6950. I don’t even get close to that using the 8350 and a 6970 oc. Guild Wars 2 is poorly optimized for AMD cpus.

Rampage.7145:

Aza.2105:

Rampage.7145:

Aza.2105:

Its double the fps. And yes its quite strange. And its also a bit insulting that you are trying to suggest the problem is on my end. I build pcs man. All game perform well, even the cpu intensive ones such as civilization v etc. Those games my cpu beats his in. But not in gw2.

Again take a look at the video think it is an 3570k which is 25-30% faster clock per clock than any first gen i7, then think for a second, read some stuff in wikipedia like how a program give instuctions to a processor, what instructions per cycle means, that kind of stuff and then post. Not trying to insult u just showing u the truth i have a i7 2600k myself and a phenomII x6 and the i7 don-t come any close to doble the phemom performance enven clocked 700mhz higher so there is no way in hell, a first gen i7 double the performance of a fx 3850, there must be something wrong in ur end, if u don-t believe my words just watch the video dude.

Oh man, I know what you mean by instructions per cycle. And I’ve already seen that video. And like I said, the i7 950 with geforce 470 is getting 2x my fps in many circumstances. And this isn’t coming from a perspective of a person ignorant of computer tech, just to let you know that.

Again not trying to insult u telling u are ignorant by any means, only pointing out the ur CPU is a fast as any first gen i7 in this game. If u are getting any different results there must be something wrong with ur system that is all. The game is sensitive to many things like memory, Chispet problems, PCI bus speeds, latency, so there can be plenity of stuff compromising ur performance besides the CPU itself, things that other games/programs will just ignore. I have also good knowleadge about computer hardware, the first computer i built was a intel 486, back in the early 90s, i also own both platforms so i can tell u for sure, u are wrong, may be because my systems are highlly tweaked, don’t really know but i just wish my i7 had double performance than my AMD so i could play WvW at playable rates all the time.

My 3dmark 11 score is around 6000, that is normal for this setup. I don’t know why you want to debate with me about what I’m saying. I have no reason to exaggerate what so ever, what would I gain from it? But like I said, I’m telling you in most cases the fps is doubled.

And yea all of my other specs are fine, pcie slot is running at x16 etc etc. Everything is NORMAL. In fact, like I told you my setup will outperform his in other cpu intensive games EXCEPT gw2.

Rampage.7145:

Aza.2105:

Its double the fps. And yes its quite strange. And its also a bit insulting that you are trying to suggest the problem is on my end. I build pcs man. All game perform well, even the cpu intensive ones such as civilization v etc. Those games my cpu beats his in. But not in gw2.

Again take a look at the video think it is an 3570k which is 25-30% faster clock per clock than any first gen i7, then think for a second, read some stuff in wikipedia like how a program give instuctions to a processor, what instructions per cycle means, that kind of stuff and then post. Not trying to insult u just showing u the truth i have a i7 2600k myself and a phenomII x6 and the i7 don-t come any close to doble the phemom performance enven clocked 700mhz higher so there is no way in hell, a first gen i7 double the performance of a fx 3850, there must be something wrong in ur end, if u don-t believe my words just watch the video dude.

Oh man, I know what you mean by instructions per cycle. And I’ve already seen that video. And like I said, the i7 950 with geforce 470 is getting 2x my fps in many circumstances. And this isn’t coming from a perspective of a person ignorant of computer tech, just to let you know that.

Rampage.7145:

Aza.2105:

kirito.4138:

Those applications are multi-threaded and optimized to harness the potential of additional cores.

GW2 rely heavily on single thread processing power and INTEL excels in this category over AMD.

See Part 4.2 – 4.8 here to understand more in detail. See 4.11 to learn what the devs has commented on regarding optimization.

Yes this is true, but a 100% performance increase shows there is a problem. My friend has a i7 950 with a Geforce 470, I have a Amd FX 8350 with a Radeon 6970. My friend has literally double the fps I have in most given situations.

For example if I have 40, my friend will have 80-100+. Interesting enough in skyrim, my cpu outperforms his. But not by much. So its understandable if a competitive intel cpu is 20% faster than its amd counter part in most given situations. But here we have the counter parts being 100%+ faster.

This doesn’t even happen in skyrim, wow, civilization 5 or sc2. The only other game it seems to happen in is Assassin Creed 3:

http://img.techpowerup.org/121123/ac3%20proz483.png

I definitely think there is a problem.

That is totally false if u friend double ur FPS must be because a different issue. As u can see that video proves intels is 30% faster at it’s best
That is also an IVY bridge CPU which is WAAAAAAAY faster than ur friend’s first gen i7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8_dh4b0jL8
I would say ur processor is as fast as a first gen i7 in single thread performance aka GW2, so if u are not getting the same performance he does u have a serious issue with ur PC, don’t blame ur processor. If u think upgrading to a brand new intel processor will give u stable 60+ FPS u are wrong, it will gove u most likelly 30-40% more frames, do the math yourself and see how many FPS would u get. but stable 60+ FPS not gonna happen even using a 1000$ intel CPU not even stable 40+FPS, that is just imposible due game poor general performance.

Its double the fps. And yes its quite strange. And its also a bit insulting that you are trying to suggest the problem is on my end. I build pcs man. All game perform well, even the cpu intensive ones such as civilization v etc. Those games my cpu beats his in. But not in gw2.

kirito.4138:

Those applications are multi-threaded and optimized to harness the potential of additional cores.

GW2 rely heavily on single thread processing power and INTEL excels in this category over AMD.

See Part 4.2 – 4.8 here to understand more in detail. See 4.11 to learn what the devs has commented on regarding optimization.

Yes this is true, but a 100% performance increase shows there is a problem. My friend has a i7 950 with a Geforce 470, I have a Amd FX 8350 with a Radeon 6970. My friend has literally double the fps I have in most given situations.

For example if I have 40, my friend will have 80-100+. Interesting enough in skyrim, my cpu outperforms his. But not by much. So its understandable if a competitive intel cpu is 20% faster than its amd counter part in most given situations. But here we have the counter parts being 100%+ faster.

This doesn’t even happen in skyrim, wow, civilization 5 or sc2. The only other game it seems to happen in is Assassin Creed 3:

http://img.techpowerup.org/121123/ac3%20proz483.png

I definitely think there is a problem.

Does it work in pve? I know it works in spvp, but when I try it in pve I see no stat changes.

Thanks!

Same, I lost many of my achievement points.

Mob HP should increase depending upon how many people are present. This would stop the mobs from instantly dying to a zerg.

Jaz,

These are all gpu dependent games though and with a oc 8350 vs a stock intel cpu. The benchmarks in that video seem accurate, I’m using a 8150 and get very similar fps. Its ok, I know you like AMD. I do too, but they are bad in cpu dependent games like GW2, SC2, WoW etc.

They are good for other stuff though, like the 8 cores are quite handy in my digital art apps or anything that can take advantage of them.

rickswarrior.3240:

aza my comment on that video is simple that was early testing of game and before there was hardly any support for the fx8350 period and likely without the hot fixxes from microsoft for fx 8350 which are not included in the regular updates you have to email microsoft and then they will email you them trust me i am doing hardcore research on this now

The hotfixes are already a part of windows 8, and regardless they didn’t increase performance by any substantial amount. In some cases it decreases performance.

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

rickswarrior.3240:

hey jazhara knightmage i wanted to point out i will have the asus sabertooth 990fx mobo in like 2 days and the amd fx 8350 shortly after and my ram will be here 1866mhz corsair vengence later on i will step up to ati 7970 at sec i run ati 6970 oc to max cpu and gpu are liguid cooled and will remain so even after upgrade so overclocking / temps wont be an issue and i have a 1000w pc power & cooling psu so i have plenty juice to feed the unit. i see you have the 8350 what is max stable overclock you have found take into consideration i have way overkill cooling a custom cooling cabinet with a v8 automotive brass/copper 5core radiator in it and 5x 230mm fans on radiator lol.

you still need to cut up your posts, try putting a blank line between sentances or ever 2 sentances it makes it easier to read your posts.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1348623/amd-bulldozer-and-piledriver-overclocking-guide-asus-motherboard
you can use this guide to overclock even on asrock and such.

it depends on the chip, im using the
FSB – 280
DRAM – 1866Mhz
CPU/NB – 2520Mhz
HTT – 2520Mhz
settings at 4.6ghz(whatever that multi is) 1.43volts

follow that guide and see how it works for you…

Aza.2105

http://teksyndicate.com/videos/amd-fx-8350-vs-intel-3570k-vs-3770k-vs-3820-gaming-and-xsplit-streaming-benchmarks

http://teksyndicate.com/videos/amd-fx-8350-oc-vs-i5-3570k-oc-battle-continues

I will look some of the others up when i hit the office(headed there now…there are cases the 8350 is faster then the 3570k(closest price intel has, and it costs more and runs alot hotter)

AMD FX-8350 vs Intel i5 3570k Average Gaming Performance: Guild Wars 2:

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

Aza.2105:

You should of gone intel instead of getting a 8350 cpu. Its not so great for many games. While its a step above the 8150 slightly, you would of been better off buying a i5 or even a i3. Both of which runs circles around amd cpus in gw2.

sorry Aza, but, every game I have(well over 200 on steam alone) runs perfectly well/excellent on my horrible AMD processors(8120 and 8350, as well as a 1055t) yes they are all overclocked, but its so easy to overclock amd chips its not even funny…..

Overclocking FX series makes little to no performance difference in CPU dependent games. If I was naive I’d belive you when you say everything runs perfect with your AMD system. However, since I’m not and I’m a system builder and enthusiast I do not.

The only time the FX series is ok is when the game is more GPU dependent, CPU dependent? Intel runs circles around it, sadly. Find me a benchmark that shows the FX beating out similarly priced intel cpus. You won’t!

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

You should of gone intel instead of getting a 8350 cpu. Its not so great for many games. While its a step above the 8150 slightly, you would of been better off buying a i5 or even a i3. Both of which runs circles around amd cpus in gw2.

Vol.5241:

I do agree that there are too many legendaries. Even the hardcore players got them within a month of release. I was hoping that it would have taken 4 months for hardcore players to make them and maybe a year for casuals.

A big feature of legendaries are there rarities. Now you see them everywhere.

The best solution to this right now is to introduce more legendary skins for each weapon type so that we see more variety.

I can’t imagine how you and others who are like you feel when someone is able to achieve irl without putting the amount of effort in you had to do to achieve the samething.

The comedy is, people will just blame others as if they are the problem i.e too many legendaries, make them harder so others can’t get them (meaning, only I can have it so I can feel good about myself). When the reality of the situation is that its not their problem but rather the ones complaining about them.

To make it short, get some business and stop worrying about others. If you weren’t so idle you wouldn’t care what others are doing. The only time you should care if it directly intrudes upon your life.

Josh Foreman.8250:

Cantha was my favorite GW1 region to work on. And I worked on every GW release. I know a lot of the dev team loved it and would love to revisit it. I kinda agree with critickitten about the negative aspect of tight corridors. Most of that came from hitting technological limits while trying to keep the epic quality of the concept art. I think we could do some really amazing things with those themes in our new engine. Certainly nothing is ruled out. I certainly encourage anyone to express your desire for a Cantha region in GW2 in a positive and friendly way. It could be years away, but it’s worth asking for.

I feel many gw1 players such as myself want to return to places such as cantha and other locations in the original gw. My reason? I’m curious to know what has happened over the course of 250 years. What has changed in places like cantha and elona? Heck, I even want to see the crystal desert, which was my favorite location in gw1.

As of now, despite gw2 being a sequel it really doesn’t feel like the original. Connections between the two games are too far in between. Occasionally one sees something that makes you go “ah hah I remember seeing that in gw1”. But as I said, its quite rare.

Do not negate gw1 past, but at the sametime gw2 should also move forward and explore stuff gw1 could not.

Levitas.1953:

either you cant afford a legendary or you crafted one not for the skin but for vanity. ill craft sunrise soon, i dont care if its too common or whatever: i love it.
stop looking at the others, look more at your char instead.

This.

You guys who care about what others have, are quite insecure and need people to have nothing in order to make you feel good and accomplished. Focus on yourself instead of projecting upon others.

It would be great to get a official answer on this.

Alex.9268:

It is completely ridiculous now. Lineage2 5 years ago was crisper than this mess.

Sad, but true. :<

Meow.5794:

Im pretty sure this already have been patched, not sure if it works tho, gonna try it when I remember to :P
I dont think “Save Yourselves!” works at all with Pure Of Voice

It has not been patched. And neither has missing sounds from shouts and the ability for your allies to hear your shouts >.>.

No, gw2 pvp is quite disappointing. In gw1 I only pvped because it was so exciting. You never knew what kind of builds you were going to go against and there was almost a endless amount of builds you could create (even if many weren’t viable). I didn’t pve much because I found it repetitive.

For me gw2 has the opposite effect, it feels completely redundant. Everything about it feels like it lacks thought and imagination. I’m hoping it will become better over time. It needs more gameplay modes, classes need more builds. I also think they should add a alliance battle type game and a hall of hero type game. 5v5v5v5 would be great.

fishergrip.4082:

Torch is terrible. Sword is decent for small fights and 1v1. I’d go sword/focus or sword/shield if you insist on using sword.

I find torch to be a ok weapon, problem is you don’t have any defense.

I’ve been using a sword/torch build for a few weeks on and off. I’m very certain that the setup does more damage than a GS one. But not by much.

I feel that the comparisons to gs vs sword are a bit unfair, since it usually compares all five gs skills to the three skills sword has. A better comparison would be to use focus or a torch with the 1h sword.

The right handed strength trait makes sword/torch do a lot of dps.

gamefreak.5673:

I am sorry about this change for your skills. They are now in line with necro minions and ranger spirits so welcome to the club i guess for what it is worth.

I didn’t know ranger and necro summons were destroyed when they used a skill related to it.

This can’t be the same development team GW1 players came to respect, who ever makes the changes are idiots.

My friends,

Anet is suggesting we bring single target builds to a aoe fight. Instead of doing what is right and using aoe skills to kill groups of monsters. But there is a problem…..most encounters in gw2 are with groups of monsters fighting you. Single mob fights are quite rare, I’d say 85% of fights consist of groups of mobs attacking you….while the other 15% is a single target fight.

A aoe change would make the game worse, due to the fact that CC is quite weak. Typically in many mmos, to assist single target damage dealers you use CC to immobilize, sleep etc the mobs. But in gw2, things like immobilize last 2 secs, blind is only on next hit and so forth. So there is no time to CC and single target dps a mob then move to the next one.

GW2 is a aoe game, so its natural for everyone to use aoe skills over single target ones. In fact, I wondered why single target skills even existed in the game, thinking that maybe it was a mistake. If Anet wants single target skills to become stronger all they have to do is simple increase the amount of single mob encounters.

I don’t want to disrespect the OP but he shouldn’t blame armor or another class on his error. There is definitely a way to avoid all of that. What the OP fails to mention is:

Steal has a CD
Cloak and Dagger uses initiative
Backstab is only a threat when you get hit from behind while they are stealth.

Steal has a 45sec cd? So that is the approximate time needed for the theif to perform that kind of setup again. Meanwhile guardian has: Shield of Wrath, Protectors strike, Retaliation, Symbols, Renewed Focus, Dodge, Ring of Warding, Banish, Blind from flashing blade and skill #4 with focus and virtue of justice, Shelter, Virtue of Courage.

I’m not saying that if the thief does this you do that problem solved. If that was the case then the game wouldn’t take much thought. Rather I’m saying guardian does have tools at their disposal to deal with that. Which is why they are known for their durability in pvp.

I feel that many players tend to think about how old style mmos work, i.e soak up damage with mitigation. Its true to a extent in gw2 but toughness, armor and vitality should be considered more of a buffer that is used when you make a error. Dodge is the real mitigation in game, along with block and blind.

The whole issue with aoe is Anet’s fault. And its not a problem with the aoe skills themselves, its the fact that 85% of encounters end up you vs a zerg of mobs. The natural response on how to deal with this is to get aoe. The same can be said for WvW when you see a zerg you bring aoe.

So the solution to the problem would be to focus more on single encounters, not to nerf aoe. In regards to wvw, this is difficult because anet can’t control the nature of the zerg in that environment.

The Guardian is a heavy armor class who relies on boons to make up for their low levels of innate health. “They focus on area control and punishing enemies for the position on the battlefield.” We want them to feel very powerful when their boons are active, but if those boons are removed, they will start to feel pressure. They can remove conditions more easily than the Warrior, but share the Warrior’s need to be in melee range to dole out maximum damage.

LOL well with the aoe nerf, good bye guardian. Most of guardian’s arsenal besides 1h sword is aoe. So I’m going to guess that hammer, great sword, scepter and staff will be weakened by a bit. Sounds about right given Anet’s track record for nerfing stuff.

Bakitten291:

vespers.1759:

i never once mentioned wvwvw in my post.

Tysefol.2017:

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely agree that guardian is perfect for PvE. But for PvP, & WvW I just feel like a watered down Warrior.

Pretty sure this topic was a PvP/WvW issue, not a PvE one, Regardless, Guardians bring SO much more in line of group support without having to give up much damage in PvE. Almost 100% protection up time with the hammer, massive amounts of boon hand outs for the party, through shouts, EM, Staff, etc. Pretty good condition removal from traited shouts, traited resolve, purging flames. All of which we are far better than warriors at doing, and most of these things are done while still doing damage.

This is true yes. Also, don’t forget that Guardian’s have spirit weapons which are up to two extra sources of damage.

Ganzo.5079:

ok after some “study” around the wiki, i have some example to propose. an take into account theese are only my examples.

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Zeal line:

every point assigned to the zeal line give to the guardian a better application of the might boon.

Actual might formula: 0.375 * Level + 5 = 35 attack power or condition damage at level 80 per stack

My formula: (0.375 * level) + 5 + (points on zeal * 0.3)= 44 attack power or condition damage per stack at level 80 WITH MAXED ZEAL LINE, if you have no points on zeal, formula work in the old way.

Traits:
Zealot speed give you a 5% change to gain another stack of might when you gain might, with the other offects

Simbolic exposure give you a 7% change to gain another stack of might when you gain might, with the other offects

Simbolic power give you a 10% change to gain another stack of might when you gain might, with the other offects

a little note to all, before say that this tweak is OP, keep in mind that in order to max zeal line, the guardian have to drop defenses, so its a perfect solution to the ones that want to play as fullglass cannon.
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Radiance:

Swiftness duration : Base boon duration + boon duration modifyer+ (points on radiance* 0.25)
Basically with 30 point on radiance you gain 4 seconds on the swiftness duration.

Traits:
justice is blind When you gain swiftness, you gain 2 seconds of fury too, with the other traits effects

renewed justice When you gain swiftness, you gain 3 seconds of fury too, with the other traits effects

Radiant power When you gain swiftness, you gain 4 seconds of fury too, with the other traits effects (i dont know if its the case to touch this trait that is powerful enoght, for me its better to stop at the step 2)
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Valor:

Protection Damage reduction: 33% + (points on valor * level * 0.003) = 40% damage reduction with maxed valor line at level 80.

i dont touch minor traits here, the formula effect is powerful enough
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Honor

Regeneration duration: Base boon duration + Boon modifyer + (point on honor * 0.25)
Same duration addiction as radiance, 4 seconds when maxed line.

I dont touch minor traits here, not because the formula is strong, but because minor traits on this line are the best minor traits we have.

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Virtue

Aegis improvement here i not propose a real formula, but a simply aegis improvement by the tweak of 2 traits.

Virtues of retribution: Aegis can block 2 attacks before vanish
Power of the virtuous: Aegis can block 3 attacks before vanish
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I now before post this reply, i want to remark one thing. on this post i have make only mere examples, i dont pretend to be a real dev, i have a little experience in modding shards on NWN, so i use my little experience on this.

Edit

a little sidenote on how aegis work, its a month that i dont actively play on game so i havent tested it, but its better if aegis block attacks only if there arent other block effects active (like protector strike, shelter, zealot defence), this is only to NOT WASTE our active defences if Virtue of courage refresh aegis during a skill activation, and to not waste our overall defense.

I think your ideas are cool but I’m going to be honest I do not like the RNG part of your proposition. The only thing it will do is make players have less control of their character since they will be victims to “chance”. I’d rather have a consistent value with a moderate cooldown tied to it.

Kami.7369:

Actually Scepter DID get buffed. The immobilize applies more stacks of vulnerability now. In fact, if you go into the Zeal tree, the immobilize will put up 8 stacks of vulnerability.

It may not be the buff everyone wanted, but it is a buff. I’m trying to work a zeal/radiance build for a heavy spike. Focus blind and Scepter immobilize into Sword Teleport then Virtue of Justice and Zealot’s Defense. If you’re quick enough, you’re looking at a 35% damage boost on the attacks.

Its still worthless.

And I don’t know why people make posts asking why stuff was changed. Anet doesn’t care, they don’t read the guardian forums at all. And even if they did, its unlikely that they would change anything based upon our feedback.

So far:

Great sword nerfed.

Now AH nerfed.

What is next? I can’t even guess since the other options aren’t very good.

Asilion.9213:

It’s pretty simple:

SBI cannot beat SoS
JQ cannot beat SoS

This happened before in HoD, just before JQ got organized and started giving HoD a run for their money (and a lot of SBI finally stopped playing for 2nd). HoD smelled smoke and fled, they knew the fire was coming.

You get a situation like this, a few weeks in, and servers show their true colors. The situation in EB was plain to see: SBI was gunning for 2nd, JQ had to accept 3rd. That does not mean SBI isn’t still going for 1st place on the BLs, it just means their strategy on one map in one “shift” gave up trying to knock SoS out of 1st. JQ always goes for 1st, which is why #1 always goes for JQ. If the odd server out goes for JQ, that is the tie-breaker and SBI knows it. They decided the placements during the days of HoD supremacy.

But let’s not label an entire server when certain goals shift. It is a group of their members large enough to have an impact, but they may very well be operating independently of the rest of the server (even the majority). EB is only roughly 30-33% of the map/players in WvW at any given time, and mathematically represent the minority of a server at any given time.

I do not know. Perhaps in a 1v1 setting the big three are roughly even. All three are relatively strong, so I don’t see how its possible to win in a 2 v 1 situation. You say SoS beats jq and sbi but I don’t know if this accurate. From what I observed sos appears to be dominate when sbi is fighting jq and sos at once (this happens way too often in eb). So their forces are split. If JQ and SBI decided to focus SoS, I highly doubt they would appear very strong, the same as if SBI and SoS focused on JQ.

attended/looted/no mail

I’m not sure what causes you to qualify for the reward. One person who was in my group for the event received the chest. While the rest of us have not. Quite strange

How exactly are dungeons grindy? Tokens are super easy to get, you do three paths and thats 180 tokens….. I’m not sure how much easier one would want it.

The only problem with dungeons is some bosses hp are a tad bit too high. And then their is that tedious destroyer fight in coe path 3……

Other than that dungeons are a great source of money, mats and tokens.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

Hey everybody, as these are coming through your game mail, make sure your mailbox isn’t full. It’s actually good practice anyway to empty your mailbox if you don’t have unclaimed loot in there.

My email is empty, and I never received a thing.

Hmmm I havent gotten one yet.