Guild Wars 2

I’ve got 3 level 80 guards across 2 accounts and it was also my first 80 3 years ago. Guardian is imo the best overall class, but it’s extremely utterly boring. What’s so hard to understand about that

Don’t mind xil, he’s extremely upset about the tempest. Mind yoy, I agree with just about everything he says, but I’m remaining positive so I don’t cry

However im truly thinking about making war my main

Mace considering it’s the only mh weapon I don’t have at least 5k kills with

Long story short I have two guards and one does nothing so I’m thinking of rolling condi on it. Lately I’ve been running sinister engi and ele for sw. I’ve seen some condi guards but honestly how is it

Malchior.5732:

Knighthonor.4061:

Malchior.5732:

Knighthonor.4061:

So which provide the best heals per second, Tempest or baseline Elementalist?

With the recent buff to Water Overload, probably the Tempest.
Before it was definitely an Elementalist who swapped constantly rather than camp Water.

Well there you are. Like i said, the Elite Specialization seem all built for this new group content that Anet doesnt want to talk about yet, and seem to all be more focus on traditional trinity roles which may be the reason this feature is being talked about on the low until closer to release.

tempest likely the new group healer role for the new group content. Would be useful there. Not so much in vanilla GW2 in which everything is dps.

thats why i say wait until we know everything before saying something is useless. Not everything was revealed.

1. That’s a very kittenumption. You assume Healing will be required at all.

2. That means it’s useless for old content; none of the other elite specs are designed like this. Why is ours screwed over?

3. The healing got buffed because originally SWAPPING CONSTANTLY WAS BETTER. Why is the risky heal doing so much worse than the super safe one? It’s not even about new group content, it’s just about good design. I mean, it still sucks, but at least it heals for more than 3k.

Revanent is. It’s honestly hot garbage for the current content, so is dragonhunter

Knox.8962:

Currently, they do an absurd level of damage. Just under staff Ele and Condi engineer, but with virtually 0 ramp up time and 0 gaps in the damage.

As of right now rev is the lowest DPS class

Honestly as a mes nec ele main, I cannot wait to play berserker. Reaper is awesome, chrono is awesome and I like tempest, but berserker is the hybrid class I’ve been waiting for

I thought the new heal was garbage until he said condi damage heals you too. Very interesting.

Knighthonor.4061:

phokus.8934:

Knighthonor.4061:

phokus.8934:

Knighthonor.4061:

How about you all wait until you actually play the elite specialization before threads like this…

See the Mesmer/Chronomancer forums.

Whatever Robert touches, turns to gold.

Mesmer was already OP. Warrior is not. Thats the difference.

You literally know nothing about Mesmers or the Chronomancer elite spec by saying that.

To put things in a very simple statement for you, Robert designed Chronomancer, Reaper, and Berserker which change how each core class works and the abilities and traits were well thought out and flow with each specialization.

Mesmer was already one of the most powerful classes. Nothing they got in their Elite Specialization was replaced. They only gained.

Necromancer had stuff replaced. Go back and look at the Necromancer elite specialization beta feedback thread. Had lots of issues. Only good skills were RS and for pve. I wont even go there. You can read it for yourself.

Warrior gains a new berserker skill, but still at the core the same underpowered class that it was nerfed into. Warrior is not Mesmer. Warrior is not Ele. Warrior is Warrior.

like i said, best to wait until you play the Elite Specialization before jumping the gun with threads like this.

What mode is Mesmer Meta in?

Kk

I understand why people don’t like dh. I don’t understand why everyone calls it boring. Guardian is by far the most boring class, it has nothing fast or close to exciting about it. It’s a pve faceroll go to sleep class, why would you expect dh to be different. Can’t change its core

Never in meta

Boo.

Yep eternal champions was such a throw back. Makes me want to play it

ronpierce.2760:

Atticus.7194:

Looked pretty bad to me, some of really powerful skills obviously aren’t going to make it to launch as they are. As it stands many of these skills (both burst and rage) seem worse than what we have access too already and I’m not in love with the Berserk mechanic, it’s basically “hit this and faceroll everything!” That’s not exactly new or interesting gameplay, it’s a whole elite spec about thinking less and button mashing more.

Glad I didn’t preorder HoT like I was tempted too.

You’re trying so hard to hate it. Just don’t play the game anymore, sheesh. Hate it before you see it. See it’s amazing and hate it because it won’t make it to live. Hate that it’s a reckless with a name like “Berserker”… Okay, we get it, you’re just not having a great time anymore. No one is forcing you to play it. O.o

This.

Spec was absolutely amazing. Not kept everything about the warrior thslay makes it great… dps, mobility, stability, stun breaks, and gave us a new way to do it. It automatically makes other weapons set viable. Only the chronomancer is nearly as well done

I agree with all of this

I like the name and my thief has already been switched to all red

Robert Gee is 3 for 3

Shala.8352:

A true warrior will never play condi, warrior is the fairest class in the game and doesnt need to go easy cheap condition damage, thats why i would never play bow warrior, i only want go DPS! So i hope that torch wont have any burning noob condition skill.

is this a joke or…? fairest class in.. the game?

Highest armor?
2nd highest mobility?
Highest Health?
Passive Healing?

btw DPS means damage per second, which is exactly what condi does.

since you hate condi so much im sure you dont use vuln stacks or cripple or immo.

Is this a real post????

btw why WOULDNT you want to use taunt with longbow? you dont taunt to get hit, you taunt to stop others from getting hit

love condi, hope it helps with condi a lot. condi is the future of dps anyway, a lot of sinister builds are close to, or surpassing power now. Condi also opens up more types of gameplay. I dunno how people can be opposed to this…. doesnt just power/pre/feroc get boring?

This skill and the air overload should have a 20 percent chance to stun

Torch has really good skins and can cause some good gameplay. Warriors should be happy about this

Axe torch will look sweet together

These changes are def a step in the right direction. Def not ready for launch, but atleast in the right direction

Needs Robert Gee

I’ve been supporting tempest since the live stream and instill really like it, but I cant believe close to none of the feedback was addressed. I appreciate the warhorn buffs in truly do, and I personally think the shouts for the most part are in a good place, but the traits make no sense and need to be addressed. Even with my white knight armor shining I can’t see myself putting more time into tempest than reaper or chrono. I just cant

…. I thought karl was the dev?

Sylent.3165:

Hexalot.8194:

Sylent.3165:

Revenant finally made a useful shield for elite

You lost all credibility here.

A shield that heals, provides protection, causes no damage for 4 seconds while healing……I personally don’t know how a shield can be any better then that. Sorry it doesn’t do 10k damage a second like you wanted but it does what a shield should do. Protects you and keeps you alive

Rev shield is god awful lol. Chronomancer shield is 100 times better

Torch confirmed just now

Mesmer condi is the way to go but it’s still a hard fight. D/p thief can win with patience. P/d thief can win also but just through being annoying and making them leave especially in wvw.

Signet necro and minion necro currently seem to be the only real counter to ele

This is a very well disguised troll post

Just give tempest weapon swap and call it a day

I’m so tired of the tempest hate I’m dying to know the changes

Rain.9213:

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Definitely accurate.

I also want to emphasize how good Glint is gonna be for dungeons/fractals. Facet of the Elemental provides decent aoe cleave, while Chaotic Release lets you knock down all enemies to prepare to burst them with your team. The changes to Unrelenting Assault also further improve your aoe cleave. The rest of Glint is just amazing boon support and with all the vulnerability stacking of a sword+shiro, parties are gonna welcome Revenant with open arms

Rev will be shunned from fractals. It’s looking way worse for group content than ranger and nec

Mesmer without stealth can melee revenant to death

You’re all crazy. The Rev shield is garbage. Chrono is the only class that got good shield skills

Hahhahaha you win

Ff14 is the only competition gw2 has and it’s on pace to demolish wow. It’s on pc and 2 consoles, and now supposedly heading to xbone.

I hear your wife has a lot of male norn friends.

I’m really really really happy that you guys are loving the rev and the elite spec. It’s good to see people being positive for once .

Sadly in think I’ll have to bow out and accept Rev is the one class just not for me. I didn’t like anything about the elite reveal, but everyone else seems to love it so I’m not gonna bash it, just accept that I’m a lowly tempest and move on. Sigh

Rygg.6237:

IMO Facet of Nature needs a way to transfer boons and stacks on the Revenant to the party, that alone would make it meta even while being the lowest DPS class, if you run Mace and invocation you can easily have fury up each 5-10 seconds and stack by yourself 10-15 might alone, transfer that plus boon uptime and you have the most bang for buck boonspamming for the party after elemenalist

I’m not sure rev dps is lower than ranger mes and necro

The killer from scream because i have a knife and no stability

Ranger is and has been garbage in just about every way for s long time. All of my faith is in druid

Obviously there’s nothing to see until tmrw, but as of now it sounds very meh to me. Maybe I’m misreading the information but it sounds so much like the tempest with limited access

I asked this on the mesmer forum might as well ask here too!
I had two, but I deleted my asura to make a human guardian and absolutely regret it

Anet has horrid communication for the most part. What they don’t understand is that we would accept an extremely vague answer most of the time instead of things being completely Ignored for months and years

How many mesmers do you have and what do you use them for? I just made my 4th, but I deleted one so now I have 3. One in assassin for mantras, pve. Sinister for pve hoping for bleeding buffs and now my third I have no idea what for, I guess wvw roaming

despite Ranger probably being the least popular class for dungeons, it’s actually a very popular class overall. You’ll see tons of them. Rangers aren’t bad at all, not even in dungeons, it’s just hard to use then we’ll and easy to use them bad

skowcia.8257:

Annnd..the complains on guard forum about shield skills started, even tho we already complain about selfroot. Eles also started comparing it to temepst.. Time for a popcorn.

Zaoda.1653:

By the sounds of it, there still isn’t a ‘permanent’ 25% movement utility though, it sounds more like something that will be temporary via blast finishers or whatever. I hope I’m wrong.

I doubt there will be any, espesially when one signet grants swiftness. Traveler runes still the king, espesially with it +15% boon and +10% condi duration.

To be honest it sounds Just like tempest

Bhawb. Only person I’ll ever say is better than me, everyone else just plays necro more than me.

I loved how full shout tempest played so much, but it def needs seeeerious buffs

You guys are bugging beyond belief if you think this is better than tempest. I admit overloads are nowhere near what they should be, but tempest even now would fold this nonsense in half. Bah nvm I don’t know why I bother