Guild Wars 2

A p/d thief tore me and 4 others a new one extremely easy (i’m a cond warior, the others a mix of hammer/gs and hammer/mace warriors)

No one cold lock him as by the time we targeted him he was invisible, then hitting us for 150 tick bleeds. – aoe/flame arrow/hammer seemed to have no effect due to his dodging.

Was amasing to watch how easily he wiped us out… I guess we should have run.

Next time we will :-)

Drakkar Lane… enough with the 222 Thieves!
That’s all I seem to see from you guys – then either laugh jump on body after a gank (as if it’s something special spamming 22222)

There are other classes, even other thief builds than the 222 spam.

Where do I get this? I know it has something to do with WXP but can’t see it on the list?

Well, I must say I was very impressed…

I run an axe warrior in WvW and just had an interesting fight with a Mesmer…

Well, I say interesting, it was more of a humbling experience for me :-(
He/she started with some sort of invisibility curtain, then I was surrounded and had about 3-5 different conditions on me. I removed them, got a few hits in then I was surrounded again and full of conditions… then my health melted away!
Was amazing and made me think about building a Mesmer myself to try and emulate this build.

So, anyone know which or what build it was?

Gandara still waiting :-(

Sadly (as I mostly WvW) I know we (Gandara) do have some great commanders and all it would take is for them to organise + the few big guilds we have to take part and we can take down this lizard!
Later I went to Frostgorge for my Shiverpeak killer daily and counted no fewer than 9 Commanders chasing from one champ to the other.

(ps. It wasn’t any Commander from Eden)

Gandar…. oh… Hold on …

Just back from another failed Teq encounter on Gandara (think we got him to 60%)

It would have been much better if it wasn’t for the actions of several Dorito wearing little dictators who started badmouthing anyone who used the wrong weapons, (I have no idea what are the right weapons?), that they were the ‘Elite’ players on our server (I have never seen them in WvW) and were generally mouthing and abusing all that were there.
Eventually about 20 guys decided they had heard enough abusive language from them to troll the event just to annoy the arrogant Commander (Messing on the jump pads etc…).

Maybe that’s why Gandara hasn’t had much success yet.

Yey… Mighty Gandara just got it down to 92% Health…

Next time he’s ours :-P

It would be highly amusing that after all this effort the loot remained the same (A few blues/greens-very small chance of yellow/gold).

Anyone know this build and care to share?

Seen it a lot recently in WvW and seems to tank and hit amazingly hard (shield bash+hundred blades)

A warrior with this build took out 3 of my friends (Average players-not total noobs) and it was like men vs boys :-(

I know the stats, I mean damage in real-terms…
(damage per tick) difference?
Power builds show a 5-10% Damage difference (according to reports I have read) so wondering if the +4 cond damage on the weapons also translates to 5-10% extra damage per tick?

I have read that the difference between Exotic and Ascended for power/crit builds is 5%-10% damage but what if I run a condition spec character?

What condition damage (if any) does the ascended weapons offer me?

Can you farm an event/world boss for Dragonite?
I thought you could only get Dragonite from the same boss once per day per account ? not per character?

Are world bosses and Temples the only ways?

I am running a Cond dual sword/Lbow warrior in wvw and need advice about sigils to use…

I currently have

Sigil of corruption+ sigil of Earth on swords
Sigil of Earth on Lbow

Maybe swap out Earth for Hydroancy or doom on Lbow?

Is there anything in them worth having? Last time I had a key from open world was many months ago and when I opened them I got garbage.

Are they still full of garbage?

Is it still possible to get these – apart from buying off the tp?

For Halloween I think it would be great to get some Death-shroud effect weapons.
And for all weapon, not just Greatswords !!!!

For once id love my dual wield warrior to have some particle effect looking weapons :-)

I know this is a very noob question but…

How do I use this to escape combat? I see may videos of warriors using this to escape and run away, but whenever I use it I leap BACK into combat :-(

I tried pressing Esc to cancel my target but still seems to leap to nearest target :-(

There have been so many great looking GS skins released recently with amazing particle effects (Cobalt etc…) but what about the other weapons?

I’d love frost effect swords (for my dual sword warrior) but we got nothing with a particle effect :-(

The only decent particle effect sword is the fire sword, but I don’t have 150g for one, unlike Cobalt which goes for 5g.

When all have access to the same lever of equipment, then the competitive play can begin.
Now when I lose a close fight with a guy with a legendary i’ll be thinking I could have probably won if I had access to the same gear.

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Tietus.8013:

You’re kidding right? This is exactly what’s happening with no arrangements required. It’s very hard to get a fight at the moment.

Maybe in your tier. Last night we literally had an hour long, 3 way server fight for SM. It was incredibly fun.

While before i’d love a long fun fight, but now, with the new materials only available in SM (and in Towers?) just seems like wasting time when all could have received the rewards…

Since Ascended mats can be gotten from Keeps/towers and Sm, maybe the 3 servers can come to some sort of a truce for a few weeks, each taking turns to cap different towers for the ascended mat rewards?

Just an idea…

So you only want power builds in WvW?

Maybe you should eat lemongrass and use Mel runes to offset condition damage ? if not then it’s your own fault you die!

*Sounds like a ‘Waaa my zerker warrior with all zerker gear died to a condition build… I should not die to nerf conditions’ *

I have read (not sure if correct) that you’ll need to craft Exotics to get to 500 !!! Maybe that’s great for the super-rich but what about the normal players?

I hope someone is making a ‘budget’ guide :-)

They sell for 33-ish silver on the TP yet they take 5 piles of crystalline dust + Master tuning crystal to make…
= 7 Piles of crystalline Dust!

to buy 7 Crystaline dust would cost around 1g40s (current paket price)

Someone making a huge loss selling the Potent Crystals?

If you take a break now, you’ll be so far behind the gear grind that it will take you weeks/months to catch up when you do come back…

I wish I hadn’t seen one :-P
Sadly I did and got a one-way ticket back to the waypoint hehe

So if I have a large guild but only 2-3 play WvW i’m screwed? Way to reward large zerg guilds and punish smaller groups… :-(

A big fat NO from me

Anyone can help me find these herbs? are there specific herb patches I should look for?

It seems everyone is suddenly realising they have to level Weaponsmith and other weapon skills in anticipation of the new patch, and this is having a disastrous effect on the price to level.

A few weeks ago I levelled my Artificer and Heavy armour skills to 400 and each cost me around 4-6 gold (following a guide and buying the mats of the tp)

Today I decided to level my Weaponsmith to 400 and cost me well over 15g in materials alone due to the demand!
I advise level yours now before they go even higher (if you have not done so already)

Several friends and I recently had our kitten handed to us by a pair of bleed thieves using DB.
This isn’t a moan/nerf post, I was amazed by how effective it was at taking us down and our inability to damage them… Kudos to them :-)

I see lots of guys/gals talk about p/d and d/p builds but rarely hear mention of the bleed db build – and I can tell you, it is super effective (or was against my friends, myself and several others who foolishly tried to help) hehe

Nothing more amusing than to die, then some big-headed guy/gal comes along boasting about how he never dies to thieves and how we must be noob/pve’ers… then 5 minutes later he’s dead next to you

Decided for a change to make a Cond warrior as I was used to GS or Hammer and I must say I am really enjoying it.
Ok, I die loads more in WvW than before (it’s a ltp thing as i’m new to the build) but I have won a few fights and surprised a few people.

Well apart from a shield/mace Warrior who did a stun-hit-stun combo and tore me a new one so easy… was still fun :-)

Thanks for the advice.. I didn’t want to go full GC so opted for zerker/knight mix.
How about the build in general? Am I missing any traits that you think I should have?

(I’d do some WvW but realise that GS Warriors are just loot bags for the opposing team :-( hehe )

Any chance to make Ascended trinkets Account bound?
I have 2 characters, a Zerker Necro and Warrior, but changing my Necro to a cond Necro so would like to give my Zerk trinkets to my Warrior (no Ascended).

It’s crazy that I have Ascended Zerker trinkets that cost time and effort to acquire yet they will become worthless because I changed my build.

I had a hammer warrior – all ptv armour+weapos for WvW but soon realised it wasn’t the best for PvE, so I decided to make some changes…

30 III, IX, XI
0
0
10 III
30 VI, VIII, XII

Knights armour+ Scholar runes
Zerker weapons +Trinkets

Ok, I have GS but what other weapon would work?
Longbow or Rifle? (I want some ranged option)

Advice please from Fellow warriors :-)

Errr… I think you posted in the wrong thread :-) as your reply made no sense whatsoever :-)

I’ve had the sad task of having to report several of my own Server for using this exploit (sent with screenshots to Anet)

Basically involves climbing onto the wall near the gate then using Warrior leap to jump through the top of the gate (gap).
Sad that Gandara had to resort to this exploit… I thought we were better that that.

I have been messing with my necro and like a noob I have no idea what combo fields we have… :-(

I see many builds with spectral wall, so i’m guessing spectral wall + staff blast is a combo?

What others do we have?

I mainly WvW with a little Pve and was unsure which build to use… so I acquired 2 sets of gear (Zerk for power and Rabid for Condition) and came to share a few observations …

(These are my own opinions, and i’ll be the first to admit i’m no Pro gamer)

Power
Great fun to use as lB and wells do some great damage but still lacking compared to a GC Warrior/Thief for damage output.
One problem I had was that I have to rely too heavily on DS for LB as once that is gone, you have few options for escape/defence and are easily and quickly burst down.
1v1 was fun but 1v2 difficult due to limited DS force running out, although I found Power builds were great in small roaming gangs/Zergs.

Conditions
I was a little disappointed with conditions, both in WvW and PvE. Pve, works amazing as long as no-one else is there (or a few Warriors/Thieves)… Almost impossible to use for the invasion content due to the huge amount of conditions already on the mobs, making you little more than a bystander.
As for WvW, seems like it takes an age to apply any decent amount of bleeds which are then removed and you burst down – unless you get lucky with someone running no cond removals).

What are others experiences?

One thing really worries me about the new influx of Ascended items, and that is if Anet decides to nerf your build.

I currently run a power necro, so if I grind for months to get all ascended gear that fits the build, then Anet decide to nerf the build into oblivion, making the build next to useless… then what? I can’t give the trinkets/weapons to a different character.

For some crazy reason they are all soulbound to that individual character!! Makes no sense.

I have the trait Heightened Focus but with 3 bars of adrenaline i’m not seeing 15% increase in my crit chance…
Is it bugged?

Thanks, i’ll try the 30/25/0/10/0/ build-i’ll add a few bits and pieces to it :-)

I used my Warrior (Hammer) in WvW but decided to use another character for that.
So… i’m going to convert my Warrior into a PvE warrior and wanted to know (with the recent changes) what the current most effective pve build is?

Ps. i’d prefer not to go all Zerker (maybe keep my pvt armour) and have zerker weapons/trinkets.

All advice apreciated

Op joking?
Rangers regularly tear me a new one in WvW

Played against a Cond Mesmer and the speed he could apply conditions was amazing, Conditions then invis/blink-rinse and repeat until I was dead :-( hehe
Anyone else come up against this type of Mesmer?
I hear Rangers are also awesome at applying conditions fast …

Would a full zerker build work in WvW or would I be too squishy?
I’m thinking of utilising SD as much as possible for life blast and might stacking.

Anyone run such a build?

Come back after a break and I loved WvW, but sadly reading the forums it seems everyone is fully decked out in Ascended items.. putting me at a severe disadvantage unless I suck it up and roll with the zerg…

I thought by now ascended would have been made easier to get rather than a time-sink (laurels) or fractals, maybe log in do daily and in a few months time i’ll be able to play and actually compete :-)