I wish I could help but my druid is a mess right now. I dont even know what im doing with it anymore
PvP: Revenant
Open PvE, dungeons, fractals: any of them
Raids: Revenant
Gathering stuff/farming: DH
WvW: any of them
Rev is the superior class for farming and gathering. Their movement speed will let you get across a map ridiculously fast. Rev cant tag mobs as well as Guard, but this isnt the Orr days and thats not even important anymore.
I dont understand how a dev can play some of these classes and then log onto a Guardian and think that their weapons are ok. Im not even getting into traits, im still stuck on how bad most of the weapons are overall.
berserkers power should be baseline honestly. youll always take that traitline and that trait. I really wish I could use axes with that. also, GS and Axe traits should be melded together. Until Axe stacks might it will always be good but worse than GS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/42uz0c/secret_testers_st_dps_graphs_1262016
although I dont believe this to be accurate, apparently condi dps is higher than power.
jus sayin
Im sorry but I dont think this is accurate
I actually found all of the nerfs to be fair, the only thing thats hmm to me is sword 2. Its just not.. done correctly
so ive been messing with this and its amazing. Its no longer good as a sustained heal, but for offensive its a gold mine popping signet F2 F1 6 F1 is nutso damage for opening and clears mobs instantly in PVE. if you cant kill 3 vets with this I dunno man, but im crushing with it. Its def got terrible healing now tho
im sure you have great ideas but I stopped reading at evade on 100b
ok so honestly guardian isnt great at anything. were much closer to being a strong condi class than we are power at this point. I miss using my guard and im trying to find any reason to use it. We are literally a joke class currently, and burning can POSSIBLY do something. We are a meh tank and lol dps power wise
Whoops. I’d like to think I’m able to see large capitalized title threads, but apparently not. Still, pretty sure the “legit” is about the emotion at the potential, rather than the actual viability.
boom and yes this is it exactly
I actually think these buffs are better than we believe, but im letting time tell that one
wow is dagger that much stronger? I was kinda thinking of using my thief again because I love sword thief
? Viper warrior is broken, so Guardians are going to rush out and equip viper armor?
Maybe people should keep the warrior QQ in the warrior forum?
nope this is legit, not QQ.
He did a great job with this class
He did what? You call it great job?
Coming from a former thief main, YEP
I cant get my damage to close to 50% of what I was doing before. Ive been trying for 3 hours. Im hoping im wrong, but, I dont see it
I didnt realize until I Read this that the auto doesnt pierce
….What about Hammer?
dont be silly warrior cant use hammer
Ive tested and tested and tested and my dps just seems to be hot garbage. Also it seems the exploding fire aura isnt working.
A guildie of mine just made a dps graph and claims burnzerker is still on top but I just cant believe it. Anyone else out there testing? (Nike.. I need you :\)
Seems they just wanted players to run rifle/axe,axe for some reason.
axe/axe would be viable if the axe trait wasnt there with burst mastery
People keep saying Roys name and expect a response. We got fooled, I thought Roy would be active on this board due to how much feedback we got in beta but we havent heard a peep from him since launch really.
He did a great job with this class, lets just stop expecting any word from him
Current meta build is Viper Condi using Reaper/Curses and either Death Magic (For fights with lots of adds) or Blood Magic for the utility/support.
Zerk reaper is generally just okay. Doesn’t excel at anything and is fairly inflexible, has to fight for slots against PS warriors and Heralds which is an uphill battle.
Condi is currently hard to come by so finding spots is fairly easy, with the Burnzerker nerf the 3 condi classes are fairly equal so you will probably be able to find a decent group.
im curious what you consider the 3 condi classes? Burnzerker is absolutely done, its not viable anymore. That leaves engi and necro?
However, I think you may see condi mesmer and ranger a lot more now
please dont even. Condi warrior got absolutely destroyed and necro for better in just about every way. Dont even.
Guardians didnt even get anything worth noticing. Just stop
mace barely got buffed, axe offhand got buffs which is nice, but due to requiring GS for just about everything theres very little room for axe offhand as far as I can see for pvp/pve. In PVE we no longer can use condi, so our torch is worthless (which is our cool new weapon remember!). Sword/Torch seems stronger, slightly, post patch, but our dps came from longbow and it does absolutely no damage now so sword torch is now no longer worth it. Rifle got buffs, so now we are forced to use rifle EVEN MORE for pve and pvp, and of course, GS.
I think the patch was a nice step forward for warriors but we are def never getting away from rifle/gs axe/shield. Heck, all this patch really did was remove weapons from us tbh
nah not because of buffs, but because they completely broken viper warrior and it does no damage at all. Prepare for viper guardians to come running out the woodwork
well,. im switching my viper set to my guard and atleast ill have one condi heavy…
I had made my condi warrior my main and I can now barely break 4k burning damage. This is disgusting. The only thing im happy about is rifle is legit good now for pve, but holy lord condi warrior is dead
the change looked good on paper, I didnt try it yet. going to in a few min
All I remember from what you wrote is that theres never been a necro fan club and I toss salad at you sir!
I have been a pain taking necro lover forever.
unless you met at anet, yea, youre right
Nightmare runes with one black diamond or berserker runes? I was under the impression is was much stronger to use nightmare I just happen to go on metabattle and see berserker as the primary.
any word on this?
Fun you didn’t see an AA nerf coming you’re silly
I just made a post about this as well, im tired of playing condi but I get owned using power scrapper
I get whooped everywhere with my hammer. I dont get it, dunno what im doing wrong. im fine with condi but the second I pick up hammer im dead meat lol
IMO it depends on what mode you want to play. While in pvp/wvw hammer scrapper is amazing, in pve the other weapons and classic builds are more effective.
Not in the slightest. Thunderclap deals 42’000 dps, Electro Whirl 18’500, Rocket Charge 12’000, Shock Shield 12’500 against a HEAVY armor target (2600 armor). To compare, freeze grenade deals 11’000 dps. Hell even the aa is strong with 8’300 dps, nade aa is only 7’200…
As for a condi build, in raids, abandoning scrapper is abandoning utility for 10% power damage. I guess you can do the math on your own. “Mor effective” is more practice oriented. Medic gyro is the best heal skill for raids in every encounter, especially due the super speed and condi engi being the ones to go to the green fields. Having super speed for everyone makes this task easier, lets the team reencounter faster, more dps, more effective. Same goes for protection in stun phase from it’s toolbelt, also helps scholar bonus professions.
I doubt these numbers…
I havent seen a scrapper in pve … in a very long time
Sylvari male necro
Crypt The Immortal
Viper male Asura
Donald Tyrump
Its seriously starting to bother me. Ive taken two 4-6 month breaks in my 3+ years of gw2, and I dont want to do it again, but I cant seem to play any of my other games while I play gw2, it just consumes too much time. I have a solid 8 games I want to catch up on… but I feel like im cheating on gw2 whenever I turn another one on. I know this sounds crazy but I cant be the only one
he was half kidding… but just half
Didnt watch vid yet but you havent let me down so far. Let me get some food and ill enjoy this
You know, I was taking a month break to catch up on single player games like xenoblade and such, but this made me log back in
I think the issue is base guardian being lacking more than DH not being strong, especially since DH doesn’t do enough to fix core guardian issues compared to how other elite specs (ie. reaper) do to fix their base class flaws.
Reaper is perfect though, but I get what youre saying. The thing is, Necro had a GREAT base but was missing “something”. It was Decent for PVE, Great for PVP and great for WVW due to certain things it had. Reaper found a way to pull it all together: it made condi builds better, added more aoe, made melee stronger, more survivable (somehow) faster… It just truly upgraded the Necro.
Guardian on the other hand had possibly the best base besides ele and DH didnt really fix the flaws it had, it just added strengths it didnt have before. Thats why DH is cool and its good, but theres still something missing.
IF any of that makes sense lol
No it totally makes sense. I think part of the issue is DH being selfish on a class thats always been about support, and while the new virtues are great, having a cast time to make them higher risk/ higher reward isn’t great in a meta where people spam AoE interrupts on points without thinking, while you’re forced to run stupid traits in virtues to get your virtures to work well enough to keep you alive, much in the same way necro needs soul reaping for staff LF gen and vital persistance, its just that the cooldown of the virtues being a bit high despite their strength makes it a weak class mechanic if you ask me.
Also in my opinion, most of the guardian weapons are a bit lacking aside from longbow, theres usually a useless skill or two on each set, and its not like necro where you have shroud skills to make up for the kitten iness of most your weapon skills. Instead you get traps, and longcooldown virtues that give you momentary extra surviability.
Yeah, overall, I’d say that dragonhunter/guardian is lacking sustain in the nature of the current meta, because their virtues are their primary defense/cleanse, have long cooldowns, and the low health pool works against them because they can’t spam heals as well as an ele can.
I agree on the weapons part completely. Ive gotten to a point where I only use longbow
wait… what??? what are you talking about? Are we talking pve or pvp? if pve, then… no. If pvp, granny church groups out dps wars
I’d consider it…but I’m not well known. That being said, if they get to directly communicate with the devs it might be worth it. The actual job description is a little vague.
youve been posting on these boards forever, I atleast know who you are. Of course, ive been here forever, but only posted on nec/mes/ele forums for the better part of 2 years
Viper warrior is all I use now. Longbow burst is so good for fracs and sword torch pumps out beast damage the few times you still stack
Axe should stack might just like GS and things would be different across the board
You mean you want Anet to nerf Axe next ?
What you are asking is insane, considering Axe fast auto attacks and the burst would make it OP.
Axe is fine and already a strong weapon for warrior that needs no traiting, GS on the other hand need its traits to function well.
It’s not insane at all. The game has changed, every class stacks might on itself so easily, actually easier than war does tbh. Rev rolls around with 12 stacks minimum before the fight even starts. Reaper’s and tempest stack might absurdly fast.
You think Axe stacking might is broken? Besides from evis, axe is much worse than rev sword. Also, primal burst evis is meh.
I think the issue is base guardian being lacking more than DH not being strong, especially since DH doesn’t do enough to fix core guardian issues compared to how other elite specs (ie. reaper) do to fix their base class flaws.
Reaper is perfect though, but I get what youre saying. The thing is, Necro had a GREAT base but was missing “something”. It was Decent for PVE, Great for PVP and great for WVW due to certain things it had. Reaper found a way to pull it all together: it made condi builds better, added more aoe, made melee stronger, more survivable (somehow) faster… It just truly upgraded the Necro.
Guardian on the other hand had possibly the best base besides ele and DH didnt really fix the flaws it had, it just added strengths it didnt have before. Thats why DH is cool and its good, but theres still something missing.
IF any of that makes sense lol
Axe is good, its just GS little brother for no reason.
Because GS offers no legitimate burst in PvP, so Axe kinda fills the role.
Hammer is pretty much kittening garbage all around at this point, though. Awful damage on every ability, excruciatingly long cooldowns on everything, everything is incredibly predictable and telegraphed and therefore probably will never even hit in todays blind/block/evade spam nonsense.
Honestly, Hammer is easily one of the worst weapons in the game right now. Combine that with the fact that every warrior weapon is designed to be INTENTIONALLY weak due to Fast Hands and you have a perfect example of why warrior is kittening garbage right now.
And no, ANet won’t address any of this.
I got nothin.
youre spot on
I love these changes
Also, Smash Brawler should be baseline. I cant for the life of me see why they added this trait, nearly every build requires if for Berserker, if not, every build. This should be the base of the build so we can use the other traits lol
Things were better when 2-handed weapons didn’t get 2 upgrade slots…and when I could get 2 charges for on kill sigils if I had 2 of the sigils equipped…..and when I could swap those on kill sigil weapons for different weapons without losing the stacks automatically.
Oh and I don’t think hammer needs much of a buff if anything done to it. I mean merciless hammer is crap we all know that, but it’s not needed either. Hammer works fine as an offhand. As a main it could use a bit of a buff….in which case we just need to make merciless hammer better lol; that would make everyone happy.
Hammer sucks, im happy youre so positive though you cheered me up a bit lol. Between scrapper, Guard and Rev I have to say all of theirs is much better. War Hammer is.. decent, somewhat, or was anyway, in pvp kinda but even now war cant even make it into pvp to use it so thats off the table.
The biggest culprit in my opinion is Mace. Mace is a good weapon that is stuck between power and condi for no reason and isnt great at either one. Axe is good, its just GS little brother for no reason. It should stack might just like GS and things would be different across the board
yes. I mean, im going to use the build for everytthing, but id prefer it be for sustained fights