Guild Wars 2

So I just bought Guild Wars 1 again because I owned it when it was brand new and I hated it, and by the time I appreciated it I moved on to another game. Its time I made a man out of myself and played through this game and got some achievements as well, starting from the beginning.

Anyone out there want to jump into some GW1 eventually? Probably gonna start this weekend and play a few hours a day until we finish it or get all the achies

Zerker for everything except raids

Can’t weapon swap

Power builds suck in pve

Forced to use Nades for 3 years

Elite spec added gyros, none are good.

Great class but nowhere near master race

this game is pve only

been that way a long time

In pvp this skill is hot trash unless you’re gimmick bunker busting but for pve its king. Anyone who thinks it’s bad now is horribad. With full buffs in raids you hit so hard this keeps you at full hp and so much bursting. Anything else besides raids is lol anyway

Best pve heal by far I use it for all fracs n raids

Made Juggy just for my engy and it was the stupidest decision ive made in game. Figured it would be awesome to have on my rev but now I barely like rev, or hammer on rev

I can viper druid fairly well if yall want me. I’m fully geared n ready.

Toon name Tyr Almighty

so I have 200+ hours on my Rev and was using it exclusively for about 2 months. lately ive been on all my other toons and I raided on my rev last night… and wow do I dislike this class. I dont know what did it, ive always had my complains about it but also things I loved about it but I dont know doing VG and Gors on it made me so… bleh.

dont mind me just venting

so… 2k hours of Mesmer on and off or 3 years, and im finally playing Chrono. Been playing Berserker/Reaper/Scrapper since HoT, but due to never being able to find a chrono for RAIDS I decided to pick up the old mantle and bring it back.

Can someone give me some quick updates on the pve scene and pvp scene? mainly, whats the best dps/tank set up or desired set up for Raids and how are we in pvp?

Fluffball.8307:

DnT recently came out with a video suggesting 2 damage focused (full vipers) condi druids. If that’s worth anything.

You might want to keep an eye on the 10 ranger raid thread as well. That will succeed.

yep I saw that, im interested in that as well. I would absolutely love to use my druid more, trying to play more engi/ranger/necro and less War/Guard

So lets bunker down here and talk Druid.

Ive been Raiding a lot lately, doing a lot of fractals, and ive come to a conclusion that Druid is in a really good spot. Im so used to telling people Ranger sucks that its awkard for me. I actually want druids around me at all times.

So I currently have a Zerker and Zealot set on my druid and im thinking of taking my viper set off my engi and giving it to my druid. Is anyone having success with condi druid, this a/t build thats going on? I heard theres a video of A/T druids raiding but I Cant seem to find any.

anyway, Druid is awesome.

im a complete and utter immense super mega ultra fantastic Ranger hater since day 1. I have about 1k hours on Ranger and ive hated every second of it, this is the ONLY game I strongly dislike the ranger/archer type class and I forced myself to use it.

Fast forward to Druid and its ABSOLUTELY wonderful for pve/pvp/wvw. A class that can maintain decent/good dps both by burst and sustain, aoe heal and buff? Druid is what the Guardian was supposed to be, and DH is what the Ranger was supposed to be

emkelly.2371:

I’ve actually made mention of this before. not only is the after cast longer but the arrow speed is slower as well. Now, it is kind of cool that dual shot arcs because theoretically it gets around things like minions and pets which can get in the way, but then you notice that ranger bow and guardian blow can piece, and also the ark on dual shot is not enough to avoid these things anyway.

The long and short of it is that the longbow is a condi weapon which does not have the speed to inflict conditions fast enough, does not have the condi burst potential which would counter the slowness of the weapon, and does not have the damage to be effective.

There was a time when the longbow did serve a purpose. You could blast the fire feild three times in quick succession, leap through it and even whirl finish it. you can’t do any of that now because of all the stuns thrown around these days.

Like all things with the warrior everything has fallen behind while every other class has just evolved. (the one exception is thief, which if you ask me has gotten screwed almost as much as warrior,)

Agreed with everything except Thief. Thief has been meta in basically every scenario forever despite nerfs forever. The past few months I agree theyve been next to us in the homeless shelter, but the recent patch has employed them

core ranger is so awful

thats about it

scerevisiae.1972:

Azure.8670:

Aury.1367:

yep, and Crystal Hibernation on F6-12 each with unique cooldowns. Also we want that, if Hammer autoattack hits 3 times, the enemy dies. no downed state, simply dead.

This is a stupid post. Hammer too underpowered, it needs bouncing as well. Also, it should give 5 stacks of burning per bounce.

5 stacks of burning is too easy to cleanse, should be 2 stacks burning, 2 stacks poison, and 2 stacks torment as well, per bounce, with a small AOE of say 1K damage, 600 radius on final bounce. Also blocking is just annoying, should be unblockable as well.

well now we’re onto something. I think we’ve finally got anet level balancing here guys. I would like to add boon corruption on the auto attack as well. I mean, ranged boon corruption is all the rage these days, we should get in on this while we can

Condi war was the most fun I’ve had in pve since launch and they gutted it. I understand the scorched earth nerf but they over nerfed it and didn’t buff sword or torch to make up for it

pepsis.5384:

Azure.8670:

Hot is way too easy I run around maps hitting 1 with a ranged weapon getting map completion while farming events and watching netflix on my other monitor. Change your build. Anet even nerfed it from the beta version which was much better

Is trolling accepted on these forums ?

I’m not trolling at all. I run those maps all day doing hero point trains for people and farming events for map currencies because I’m working on all 3 new legendaries and just finished astralaria. There’s so few ranged enemies you can press one and watch TV all day. Reaper and literally melee everything. I’ve run tangled depths half afk so much that dulfy shouted me out on the td hp walkthrough. Game is absolutely simple, press win and move. In beta mordrem snipers one hit you during the day time, that was hard

Hot is way too easy I run around maps hitting 1 with a ranged weapon getting map completion while farming events and watching netflix on my other monitor. Change your build. Anet even nerfed it from the beta version which was much better

Ok fair enough but I’m positive this said pve originally that’s what confused me. All bueno

Ill try this tomorrow… but this doesnt seem like it would pump out any damage really. I also dont see the benefit to taking defense. shield mastery is good but thats about it for this build and PVE anyway

Aury.1367:

yep, and Crystal Hibernation on F6-12 each with unique cooldowns. Also we want that, if Hammer autoattack hits 3 times, the enemy dies. no downed state, simply dead.

This is a stupid post. Hammer too underpowered, it needs bouncing as well. Also, it should give 5 stacks of burning per bounce.

My real problem with longbow is how poor scorched earth is for power builds. I’ve always used longbow for pve wvw and pvp but now no

And it sucked. Please buff or give new utilities. I’m so tired of so many worthless traits utilities and weapons

Literally the least cohesive post on the internet. Not even being rude, I legit do not understand a word you said because it seems like you want weapon swap from what I read

Because warrior longbow is about aoe and control with a side order of burning.

See rifle for damage

Aury.1367:

There are many nice Builds without Glint, it’s not necessary. You will get to the point at duells for example where you use shiro 90% of the time.
Mobility? Yea, one stunbreaker. Wow.
Survival? Yea, one easily interruptable Heal, and protection if you want to use all your energy, lel.
Damage? yep, if youre not alone. Alone its mediocre at the same level with other classes.
Glint, more pure dmg than shiro? nah.
Spamming weaponskills? Yea if you switch stances constantly, using glints skills only isnt very effective.
And Glints skills DO need energy. Facets? Ever heard of? Theyre up most of the time if you want to provide buffs to your party, the more buffs the less weaponskills can be used.

Can’t think of many or any really good builds without herald traitline

I’d like to see what hammer build is being used for this and it is dh or regular guard

Every class that isn’t engi.

But besides that, the Laziest class to play AND play well is rev.

Bwadark.2519:

I imagine the new specialisation, for when it’s announced/released will be tied in with another expansion and this theme will continue. I think each profession that got a 2h should get either a mh or an oh. Or hell maybe spice things up giving a 1h that can be equipped to both. Something to allow the shield to be viable would be nice, though it’ll be a mace. Because 1h hammer skins. Gotta keep to the theme. I don’t think the engi would ever get a sharp weapon. Just speculation.

Engi imo won’t get mace ne a use of tool kit imo. I think it has a better chance of sword

I forgot Geomancey is triggered by legend swap. Makes sense. Smart move sir

Sigil of earth is extremely powerful and underrated. Geomancey is a beast also but I agree, I think bursting makes more sense

I will agree that are very bad at the game for the most part however I’d run fracs with Robert gee

I’d sell my first 6 born to have scrapper hammer on my warrior

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Rifle was always stronger in dps then longbow.

Agreed my friend, but longbow hadn’t beat in many situations due to aoe. Now rifle blasts radius and piercing on gunflame is so hard to pass up. Plus I feel the primal on longbow condi nerfed also effected the power pulses but I’m not really sure honestly

TheBravery.9615:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Warrior-balance-proposal/5970348
Tried to gather responses from players of other professions, got this.

xx swagmaster cyprus xx.7028:

i ll tell you as i go
peak performance buff would make stomp/kick worth considering but it would make rampage straight up too strong.

arms adept major traits are a bit too strong to be adept

reworked thick skin is too strong to be adept minor

cull the weak too strong, it should apply weakness on specific actions, not pulse it. (something like on burst skill use)

new adrenal health is also too strong it should be nerfed to provide healing on adrenaline use instead of adrenaline gain

new rousing resilience shouldn’t give fury, protection should be on losing stability stack and be shorter duration (lose 2 stacks gain it twice and so on), the heal should have lower base healing but scale with healing power at least a bit.

new merciless hammer is just too strong, autoattack chain unblockable is ok everything else noway.

burst precision is also too strong change it to remove blind when using a burst skill

savage instinct is also too strong a short duration resistence when entering berserker mode is fine but activating berserker stance is not ok

bloody roar fear is actually a nerf lol you need the taunt to hundredblade the guy you just taunted

come at me bro is ridiculously overpowered everyone complains about revenants 3s taunt of death upon receiving a cc and you give warriors an unblockable version that can be used on keypress ? no, just no.

what do you guys think?

If he doesn’t play warrior kitten em

Just hop on metabattle. For pve all you need if a gs rifle and longbow. Iongbow is my weapon of choice for power and condi builds but rifle lately is so strong I don’t think bow can compete anymore

TexZero.7910:

Azure.8670:

Agemnon.4608:

The Glorious armor set is like so cool!

Im happy you like this but you look like a scrawny viewtiful joe, a broke power ranger and an unemployed random final fantasy knight.

Hey now I’m all for your crusade, but the moment you dis viewtiful joe we got problems.

Nah I love the viewtiful one I just think he is the rent a center version

Agemnon.4608:

The Glorious armor set is like so cool!

Im happy you like this but you look like a scrawny viewtiful joe, a broke power ranger and an unemployed random final fantasy knight.

penelopehannibal.8947:

Azure.8670:

a-a-actually sir, id just like a nice metal chain jerkin.

You mean like this guy?

soooooooooooooooooo much winnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

on paper this looks like it can exterminate someone rather well, perhaps killing roamers or taking points, not sure how it would actually work though. Im open to giving this a whirl over the weekend and giving feedback

So first off, I want to say that TheBravery is doing the right thing. Take it easy on him, im sure he doesnt mean to be rude. Our forum, and reddit for that matter since thats actually the real gw2 forum, need more focus on what needs to be done. I cry probably more than anyone, if not top 3, so I know where Peter is coming from. Warrior has NEVER been my pvp or wvw class of choices, I leave that for necro always and forever, bunt Warrior is my overall favorite class and my PVE main. I know War pretty much inside out and when I fight one in pvp I just smash them, its always been this way and it seems it always will be. The only time ive ever truly feared warriors was during the short mace/hammer meta. Fast forward now and Warrior is worse than ever, with the same broken traits and garbage weapons. Weapon master that isnt great with anything save GS, and the only reason GS is so good is because it can stack might aoe. Other than that its meh as can be. I watch WvW videos (shout out Vaans, youre a beast id love to 1v1 you one day) and see what Warrior is capable and it makes me happy, but I remember WvW isnt balanced and I hop into pvp and it just doesnt translate. I pick up my GS in PVE and now (thank you anet btw) my rifle and crush things. All my other weapons mean nothing and are obsolete for years now, and much of the community doesnt care because GS WOOOO but no, this isnt good. Warrior has been the same FOREVER. GS/STACK MIGHT/BANNERS! We got to taste what it was like to be on top of the condi food chain for a short period, but that dream is dead.

To make it short, ill say what ive been saying for years——- Warriors problems are 50% traits and 50% weapons. Until more weapons have their own identity, all the traits in the world wont fix a thing. Until more traits are made worth taking and certain traits become baseline, our weapons will never be good

basz.6129:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vdAQFASlUUhSuYNVwxLQ7FLsFFdwP8J/YcMG/I4IeiBAA-TRSBABDt/w96AMTJIWKFwTDxVK7e4CBAwDEgS1f2MMAEgI4dXmpRERESBknyI-e

Ran this solo through entire HoT story, including mordremoth. Use it in open world for everything, works great. Static discharge with hammer kickers. You melt enemies. Use dodges and double shield if you bite off more than you can chew. Should be no problem 1v1 a chanpion.

Dude ive been using this with modified ammunition and applied force and im DESTROYING things. I love it! Most fun ive had in pve in a long time tbh thank you. in a long fight obv condi is the way to go (so its said) but ive been using this in frac and such and laying waste

a-a-actually sir, id just like a nice metal chain jerkin. Perhaps some hard leather to go over it, so I can melee? Nothing too hangy like a dress, I dont want anything to get caught on terrain while I do battle.

I hate to sound like a baby but the armor is so… bad that I have trouble playing the medium classes. horrendous horribad choices.

can we have more things similar to magitech armor? I cant really find anything befitting an engi

Stand The Wall.6987:

Azure.8670:

Wells are the truth in pve and they’re great for zerg ing in wvw, especially dropping them on downed.

I never understood dropping them on downed. I can obviously see why if people clump up to res, but if they dont, arent you just wasting a bomb? Isnt it better to simply range focus pressure them or melee cleave?

actually I meant that by your own downed, you drop it as a form of thief/glass protection to res

Wells are the truth in pve and they’re great for zerg ing in wvw, especially dropping them on downed.

Grenth himself can’t compete with a reaper in pvp

TheLastNobody.8319:

Azure.8670:

It only took the necro over 3 years to finally be a good condi class. Heck, it only took the necro 3 years to become a good power one as well

And all of that is threatened to be undone by ANET pouring too much boon corruption in one patch. I love my necro, I don’t wanna go back to being a class that people say gtfo. ;-;

Dude I’ve been loving necro for years, now that it’s actually great in all game modes I’m scared to use it because I feel it’s gonna get nerfed just because

Evis has sucked for a long time. I’ve long complained about axe on warrior necro and ranger