Guild Wars 2

Softspoken.2410:

Bailey.6892:

Flaredon.5479:

that 220 condition damage is alot actually especially when your geared for condi damage and that traits gives you 1900, your burns start to tick for 850 every second, most times hitting 5+ times befores its removed

so if we do the math right thats 4275 burning damage thats pure damage not affected by toughness, this trait changes is a god send for damage type guardians

if your ticking for only 380 then your clearly not seeing its full potential

How would you build your guardian to take advantage of this? (Being serious rather new to the class so I haven’t a clue). Would be interested in trying something new out.

Focused mainly on WvW solo roaming or with an engineer flipping camps.

First: I’m not sure if this would apply particularly well to WvW. I’m not very good at WvW, and I know that the build I’m outlining wouldn’t have many defenses.

Power-focused with solid burn uptime. Greatsword & <Mainhand>/Torch. Gearwise you’ll be berserker trinkets and probably weapons, but rampager armor for a bit of condition damage without sacrificing too much power, and a lot of precision.
30/20/0/20/0. Important traits are – Fiery Wrath, Zealous Blade, Kindled Zeal, Radiant Fire, Empowering Might.

Empowering might is important because you’re hybrid: might stacks are your best friend in the whole world, and with your high crit rate (Remember that splash of rampager armor?) you should be getting 3 or 4 stacks of might constantly from it. (Level 80 that’s 105-140 power and condition damage.) This also lets you get the most out of vigorous precision (you basically have guaranteed vigor uptime now) which is important since this build has no real defenses.

So far, heal / utilities / elite would be of your choice, but you’d probably want some of the more defensive ones. Consider Purging Flames maybe, for another AoE burn to resist getting cleansed and a condition clear. Shouts and the reduction trait in Honor could give some defensive power to you and those around you.

Again, I don’t know how this would work, (wrote it just now in about an hour) but it could be something to start with.

Thank you for the reply!

Yea the skill is anet for sure. Rarely works as it should. And is pretty worthless as an escape means as a random mob walking in it will put you into combat. Let alone of one of the enemy’s you are trying to avoid steps in it so their mates can burn you down.

Crapgame.6519:

No, I don’t think you got that bad all of a sudden. I think some classes got adjusted more maybe over the last few patches with this one being major for 1 or 2 classes. We didn’t get any negative adjustments. But depending on your stance we got something.

I know I’m probably going to be changing but waiting till Friday I think. I mostly roam solo or in a duo in WvWvW and while typically doing well, this week I’m getting destroyed. I don’t think it has much to do with the patch but rather than the server (Dragonbrand) who roam with 60 or more…so fights haven’t been much in my favor regardless if they start 1 or 2 v 1 they quickly turn into 1 v 10

I’m in all clerics gear, accessories, all exotic (no ascended at all). In fact, I may be to the point whereas I can withstand only yet not kill anyone (case in point a up ticked ranger earlier – I just walked away). So I need to change something just not sure what.

Clerics
1,594 power
1,019 precision
1,604 toughness
1,255 vitality
25 condition damage
45% boon duration
18% critical damage
2,548 attack
9% critical chance
2,876 armor
14,195 health
1,320 healing power

Sitting with a bank of Knights gear, hammer. I also have 102 laurels and a metric ton of honor badges. Was thinking of trying to mix and match a good build using zerker gear for dps but also fit in a bit of heal/health. I like to use shield, great sword, sword, focus, staff, and torch. I’m just not good at this so the cleric/heal build is what I’ve used for a while now but I guess that needs to change…

I am on dragonbrand and roam with an engineer or solo and felt the same way, that you guys only rolled in mass zergs.

Although yes I have been getting dead real fast lately…..it is sad that my ranger has so much more survivability and out heals the guardian by a ton.

Trying to find a good solid build for the guardian although have not had much luck yet.

Flaredon.5479:

that 220 condition damage is alot actually especially when your geared for condi damage and that traits gives you 1900, your burns start to tick for 850 every second, most times hitting 5+ times befores its removed

so if we do the math right thats 4275 burning damage thats pure damage not affected by toughness, this trait changes is a god send for damage type guardians

if your ticking for only 380 then your clearly not seeing its full potential

How would you build your guardian to take advantage of this? (Being serious rather new to the class so I haven’t a clue). Would be interested in trying something new out.

Focused mainly on WvW solo roaming or with an engineer flipping camps.

With the new patch was wondering if any one could make a recommendation for a solid solo roaming build for wvw focusing on flipping camps.

Right now I am doing an ah build 0/5/30/30/5

Why not tickets,
The point is that their coder messed up and is still most likely employed. So the customer is being forced to eat the coders mistake and that is not right. The issue was on anets end not the customers. I mean granted it worked out great for anet claiming they were selling one thing and not actually selling the item causing people to keep buying chests when it is possible all they would have needed was one chest.

Gathering waypoints a second time sucks, the world is not that exciting. Would prefer to have the waypoint unlocked at the account level and not character level. Fell asleep last night from boredom gathering waypoints. And when asked how I like the game I have to be honest and say I am so bored I fell asleep playing it.

kristen.2368:

Okay, so I don’t know if I put this in the correct spot, but after buying bigger bags from my character, I sent the old ones to my sister’s account so I could log in and sent them to my other character. (She was fine with it) I sent it to her account and now I don’t know how to get it! I can’t even find it. Help?

Is her mailbox full? May be that she has over 10 items in the mail. May want to start their, and good luck.

I see that they are now going to give the bloody recipe sinc ethey failed to do their job right the first time and have it as a drop option.

So those who kept wasting gems on it having 0 chance, why the meager compensation? Should give the recipe and the amount of chests the customer had purchased. Or give a couple weapon skin tickets for each purchase.

Had I known the chests were not coded right I would not have wasted the gems on them, and what you have offered anet is not enough compensation. Could easily have gotten it in the first chest if the coders had done their job right.

Thank you mercury ranique, it is appreciated. Glad I waited to find out before I used the ticket, was also looking the cultural armor although now I have to think about it. Thank you for the help.

I have a jade dragon ticket to redeem and was wondering once I choose the one I want and apply it to the item (lets pretend the hammer). Can I then use a fine transmute stone to make another hammer have the same look? Wondering if I can have my dps item and my tanking item have the same look? Or would it destroy the dps hammer if I tried to then make the tanking hammer share the same look?

Sadly, it seems as a class we do not do well against engineers. My brother mains an engineer and he scoffs when ever he sees a guardian. And the regen rangers are another pain in our arse, they out heal us by a long shot.

Suspense.8016:

There’s three of us planning making a trio.
My preferences:
Guardian with a Greatsword at least

Their professions and preferences:
Hunter with a longbow
Engineer support/healer

To be successful, what builds should we go far with our preferences noted here? Especially trait and skill build as we’re all still leveling.

The ranger I would suggest they go with fauxs RRR build and use a greatsword and shortbow or greatsword axe/torch. My main ranger uses this set up and she is nearly impossible to kill. We also noticed in our band of merry men that I was usually the one target first as a ranger. Using swoop to disengage for Trolls to repop is great.

I will ask our engineer if they have a support healing build tonight when I see them. They are mainly running masks condition build. Although sometimes have switched to a gc sd build.

I have been running an ah build on my guardian although have been looking for an alternate build….it is fun although I am not saving my group as I like and it can be brutal when I am solo roaming.

This would be great, could help me with my kiting issues. (aka me being kited).

Would you all recommend a pure zerker amulet like call of the wild or a one that also has vitality like the godrock amulet?

Thank you for the help. Now to decided what the zerker one I want is. I hope you all are having a great weekend, thank you for helping.

Hello,
I am ready to purchase the first item of ascended gear for my guardian and was looking for some recommendations. I have been running an ah build right now with exotic gear. I have been switching from knights armor to zerk armor to see what I like with zerk jewelry although I do have knights jewelry as well. And runes of the pack.

puddintay.5786:

You guys need to let this play our for a couple of weeks folks. You havent even given it a fair shake. Crying after first matchup since launch.

Why do we need to wait, we already know it is screwed up Anet touched it. It is to late for a system like this to be effective. They missed the chance for this to work by not starting the game off with this system, now guilds have migrated to certain servers leaving those left behind little chance. Had the system been inplace it would have kept the transfers and the issues caused by them to a lesser amount.

anet and that’s the end of the story.

Guardians just need to have their cooldowns reduced especially on the weapon skills and massive buff to their healing, especially to healing allies receive.

Their regen is much lower than a rangers, and our healing does not even come close to compensating for some off the massive crits in WvW.

JustTrogdor.7892:

Bailey.6892:

Wolfgang Michael.8217:

Just out of curiosity, what was the item?

Wondering that also.

It would be nice if they added a cod feature to the mail system. And not allow anything stupid like gift wrapping. Also have the cod mail have a short timer on it before it is auto sent back if not collected. Like an hour or so, this way a person cant say yea send it cod and never accept it and keep the item in limbo.

The problem with mail trading is that people would be spamming /map non-stop. If they had a trade channel it would be so full of non-stop posts it would be almost painful to try to follow because people would be spamming it non-stop as well.

I imagine this is one reason why it is discouraged in GW2 and why it is fairly risky if you do it.

Cant be any worse than the spam anet programs into the game, your invited to dance as an example. But yes I can see that.

Thank you, I appreciate the help!

DevonCarver.5370:

The concept of tiers has little meaning at this point and you should try to stop thinking of matchups in those terms. Servers are matched up by proximity of rating, not proximity of “tier”. If the tiers have ratings that are within the range of the random adjustment, they can end up fighting each other. This is going to result in blowouts, no doubt about it. However, we are not going to make changes to this after just 2 weeks of the system. There are things we can do. We will almost certainly end up adjusting the total added to each server rating to group the matchups a little more closely. First however, we need to let the ratings adjust by having more varied matchups like these. If you look at EU, which is using the exact same system, you can see matchups with numerous surprising results. The same will likely be true by the end of the NA matchup.

TL;DR: We are going to wait at least a couple more weeks before changing any of the math behind the new system, but it is very likely we’ll decrease the size of the variation at some point.

Test server, build one.

And it is still borked.

Wolfgang Michael.8217:

Just out of curiosity, what was the item?

Wondering that also.

It would be nice if they added a cod feature to the mail system. And not allow anything stupid like gift wrapping. Also have the cod mail have a short timer on it before it is auto sent back if not collected. Like an hour or so, this way a person cant say yea send it cod and never accept it and keep the item in limbo.

I am getting ready to purchase my first ascended item and was wondering if I get it from a normal laurel dealer can I place a WvW infusion in it? And vice versa if I get a WvW ascended item can I put a normal infusion in it?

Now to figure out the item I want for my guardian. Thank you all for the help.

Cempa.5619:

Not trying to derail the thread, but how exactly do warriors produce the highest ranged damage?

Because we have anet to thank for that. Anet is the biggest detriment that the ranger class has, and with their infinite wisdom they decided to force poorly coded ai on us and split our damage, and now are deciding to reduce the damage of the shoddily coded ai.

On a side note I do like the suggestions for a new skill that have been presented in the thread.

awe extender.1908:

Let’s wait and see what Anet decides to do. Maybe the trait changes make up for it? Or maybe the pet’kitten-box gets bigger!?

I would rather not, it is a sad but true fact the biggest detriment the ranger class has is anet. Unless they are going to eliminate the pet or give the majority of the damage back to the ranger then anything they do will be a screw up yet again.

Thank you, that is good to know. Will eliminate it from my possible skills.

Hello was wondering how useful the skill merciful intervention is. And was also wondering if npc’s end up screwing the skill up. Where it reads teleport to the nearest ally with the lowest health and create a healing area around them. Hoping it wont trigger for npc’s.

Is it worth taking in WvW or is the heal just to little to be of notice?

It is not showing combat information such as condition damage, healing etc.

akamon.2769:

hmm thinking on how a targetless teleport would work.. so we would just teleport the corresponding distance in whichever direction you’re facing? how would that deal with slight ledges, etc? so we don’t get stuck etc.

would love that as well though!

Would be awesome, could work the same as the rangers great sword ability swoop…..an absolutely fantastic ability.

akamon.2769:

hmm thinking on how a targetless teleport would work.. so we would just teleport the corresponding distance in whichever direction you’re facing? how would that deal with slight ledges, etc? so we don’t get stuck etc.

would love that as well though!

Would be awesome, could work the same as the rangers great sword ability swoop…..an absolutely fantastic ability.

Thank you gang I am going to check out the builds and the videos. Thank you for taking the time to help me figure out the class in wvw and make the transition from my ranger and thief…iot has been brutal as the guardian seems so slow by comparison in movement speed and attack speed. Although I am liking the class and feel I will become more useful as I learn the ins and outs and find a build that dosent make me want to curl up with a bottle and just drink.

I wish I could find some up leveled players.

Hello,
With the DD ele, the main issues came down to my not being able to keep up with them. When I did manage to hurt them they would just ride the lightning away and come back at me with full health. My cooldowns also seemed to be taking for ever. My passive health regen and active healing did not seem up to par.
When I found the ele again later with my ranger it was no match at all, was able to answer a text and relax during the fight.

Thank you Akamon, the help is appreciated!

I have 30 Points in Valor with the traits set to I/VI/XII
And then 30 in Honor with the traits set to II/VI/IX

With 5 points in both Radiance and Virtues

My Armor is All knights with my jewelry being berserker jewels/gems. I am using both a knights great sword and staff, the staff has sigil of air and the sword has bloodlust (steal health on crit). Went with a couple cheap runes to make sure I liked the weapon play style. I also picked up a scepter and a focus.

I have been having a hard time getting kills in on targets that should be fairly simple (I think) was fighting a dd elementalist last night and got my trashed handed to me, in the past they have not been a problem although on the guardian I felt like nothing more than a speed bump.

Also having a hard time keeping up with runners to get the kill as well as being able to disengage. If things go bad and the engineer I run with tells me to run I really have not been able to make it out alive. I have been mainly playing a ranger using faux’s RRR build found here http://tinyurl.com/n33ljp2 although I use a great sword and shortbow with the build and have amazing surviability and can take 2 or 3 people on solo. My secondary class is a thief (I am a lousy thief player)

While I wont say no to mass taging in WvW I am looking for a build that will allow me to take on one or two players solo and when I am with the engineer to be able to help keep them up or at least be able to pick them up after words if things go wrong.

Also wndering what of our slot skills are broken, I tried the signet that revies a fallen ally with no luck. Tried it on an ally that was had not been stmomped and was bandaging them selfs with no luck. And then I tried it on an ally who had been stomped again with no luck.

Just having a brutal time of it with the guardian in WvW and any help is appricated.

Slot Skills I am using are

Heal: Shelter

Slot: Judges Intervention/Stand Your Ground/Save Yourselves

Any help?
I jumped into wvw last night with a set of knights draconic armor and great sword/staff. And have my points spread out 0/5/30/30/5. Having a hard time of it, not used to getting in their and not being able to disengage like I can with swoop etc.

Was looking at maybe clerics armor with a great sword and sword/shield?

Mainly solo WvW or with an engineer friend.

Hello,
Clanbert on the dragonbrand server is looking for more players to join our ranks. We are a small guild with a large voice server (400 slot) if you are interested in joing us please let me know or look for one of our members in game. Or if your guild simply needs a voice come we can look at helping out with that.

Hello,
I just hit 80 on my guardian ankitten ot lost and scared. I will be mainly doing WvW solo roaming or with a small group, of two or three. Would like a dps build and a healing/support build for when with my engineer. Or any build that the experienced guardians would recommend.

Not a power build although a bunker build that some one linked for me in another thread. I have 0 credit with it and or posting it although looks kinda fun.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Can-some-one-help-with-a-bunker-build/first#post2095879

Thank you gang!
So my friend is not to keen on bunker as he is afraid we would never kill anything. Any one have an alternate build to masks? As a condition ranger and with him being condition we seem to be stepping on each other’s toes. And to be honest I am a coward and not sure I want to switch my ranger as they see the giant human ranger and the tiny asura engineer and always try to kill me first. The whole ranger easy loot bag curse. Thanks again, all the help has been amazing and the engineering community is awesome so thank you gang.

a shield build that is not necessarily a bunker build.

Not sure if engineers have any thing that would be close to Fauxs ranger regen build found here http://tinyurl.com/qh4vjs3 right now they are running masks build and have been having some more problems than normal ever since the last patch and we cant figure it out why that is so looking at some alt builds.

Forestnator.6298:

U see retaliation on screen like confusion. Additional retaliation dmg in wvw is reduced to the half. I am preaty sure he was not killed by retaliation from a ranger. But for sure through conditions which are also not shown in combatlog. Anyway – an engineer should never got killed by a ranger… that confuses me the most because u were additional 2 vs 1?!

It defiantly was not from condition damage. It went like this we came out of the water, saw the ranger just finish killing the guard by garrison. I stunned the ranger, engineer nade barraged the ranger, engineer went boom from retal. I killed said ranger with no retal damage. Rezed engineer and then we stood their for a few minuets so the guard would spawn and we could flip. No other players in the area.

Although I have to agree it is pretty stupid that the combat log does not record condition damage or heal info.

Any idea why his retaliation would be killing him? Only thing we can think of, since rangers do not get retaliation. Was a norn ranger and their racial s do not give retal that I know of. Also seemed that dots were procing retal.

Thank you Nirvana!

Now if we can figure out why his retaliation is killing him!

Rift Saboteur would be nice…sab dancer was always fun

http://telarapedia.gamepedia.com/Saboteur

He uses two pistols and runs masks build, although he tried something new tonight and took nades although changed nothing else. The issue here is it was from a ranger and us ranger types do not get retal.

Edit:
On a side note do you have a link to your engineer build Nirvana? May have a second engineer joining us soon and might be nice not to have all condition builds.

ChillyChinaman.6057:

Just my take on a more useful version of this skill.

Changes:
Blocks(actually blocks instead of the current reflection)
Allows movement
Channel time: 3s
Cool down: 20s
Grants 5s of Retaliation
Damage: 800

Any feedback? I know we won’t be able to reflect a warriors kill shot back at him anymore, but I feel that this will be more useful overall and give the axe more usage.

I like the reflect so would have to say no thank you to the blocking portion. Nothing like reflecting kill shot back or karka ranged attacks. Although it does need to allow movement.

Electro.4173:

How the heck are you 1-skill-killing Young Karka with projectile reflect? I usually get them down to half health at the lowest.

Also, screw Reef Drakes. I hate them, condition removal or no. That cursed instant AoE “puddle” they have is horrible, especially when they put it down and then pull / stun you in the middle of it.

What I want to know is why my reef drake does not have the good attacks the other reef drakes have.