Guild Wars 2

players actually making the map? do you know how much work that would take to implement!? and even if that were to happen, there would be some serious issues with that, for example, someone makes a troll map with just endless obstacles everywhere and jump pads/teleport pads, giant laser cannons aiming straight at the other teams base when they spawn. If I understood that correctly. Though I see what you really mean. It would be nice to have more maps and all that, but the players just should not be able to make their own map with ridiculous mechanics 10x more than sky hammer.

If you used defenders flame with superior runes of the guardian, would both the burn damage and duration be increased, though the runes don’t exactly specify how much it burns for, just a 1 second burn whenever you block. And I really only see a burn build working in Pve with scepter and scepter power/fiery wrath/maybe radiant power and maybe unscathed contender (though you can pretty much run any build in Pve and do fine) but fire is pretty much the only dps condition guardians can apply atm…

My favorite question I want to ask about guardian is about the trait Indomitable Courage. It says it’ll grant aegis and stability to “nearby allies” but I didn’t know that “nearby” meant a 1200 radius XD though I’m only seeing this on the gw2 build editor. a 1200 radius stability field is awesome! (assuming it actually does that)

and do the traits in game show which skills that they have an effect on? cuz it doesn’t say on any of the build generators. And my last question is, do most zerker guardians in pvp use GS and empowering might +might sigil? those 3 stacks of might seem like it’d be pretty nice… :O

1. What do you want in a pet other than just having it distract so you can keep kiting all day?
I’ve got a lvl40 ranger and when I hit 80 with him i was thinking of making a pet-focused dps build, though that would quickly fail…
But on the other hand, theres these skills/traits: sic em, SotW, Signet of stone, pets prowess, companions might, malicious and expertise training, empathetic bond/bark skin, beastmasters might/bond+fortifying bond, masters bond
No doubt people have made pure pet-reliant builds, but IF i were to as well, what would be my best options and pets? humor me…

2. I made a post earlier about a shout-ranger bm build and it sounded super gimmicky to me because most of them aren’t exact;y “good” but since “Guard” was changed and now has a 15 sec cd (12 if traited) I wanted to try out x/x/30/x/20 using brown bear+empathetic bond as well as shout master and commanding voice. you can clear 5 conditions every 12 seconds if u do run soldier runes…i might try this in pvp without soldier runes, but it seems like a pretty decent base given that you can keep your pets alive

Minotaur pet, Quaggan pet, giant wasp pet

Flubble.8093:

love my charr mesmer

That’s the most terrifyingly awesome charr I have ever seen out of all the charr pics I’ve seen…That has to be at least #1. 20/10 I adore the mask, the fire sword and the fire-themed dye on a really nice armor set.
Personally, I think the necromancer masks look amazing on charr only if you have the right facial features to make it really look convincing. What armor sets are you wearing?

i’ve never seen any other 5 of the same class run in tpvp and win. how come it’s almost always warriors?

why not 5 rangers or 5 necros or even 5 guardians

it’s tempting to use bountiful hunter with lyssa runes in pvp, but what else could you do with the points you have left?

Would the effect from empathetic bond apply to both hyenas when you summon its ally so you’d have 6 conditions removed every 10 sec? or not?

necros have a lot of stun breaks with long cool downs but no reliable stability, unless you bring lich form, and well of power doesn’t really count.

Roseberry.8912:

Woooow! 10/10! I love her exotic look!
You made her face look soo unique and you’ve done a great job with matching her armour and those tatoos!! amazing!

Here’s Ulva Moontooth, my elementalist! They’re quite old pics, and I miiight have posted them in an other thread, but these are the best pics I have on her so I hope its oki doki anyway!

haha I call dibs on your char :P

i’ve heard a lot of people talking about how it would be really nice to have quick access to build templates etc. but I just thot that i should re-emphasize the point…

the range increase would be way too much as a base. If traited with extra range, you’ll have 1800 range on longbow and 1500 for short bow…. it’s a short bow for a reason, its meant to be more of a close range type weapon.

lets just say you have a guardian who has Battle Presence up, an elementalist who has Soothing Mist up most of the time, a support ranger running Spirit of Nature with 30 points in beastmastery, a necromancer who wants to be running Transfusion and Deathly Invigoration because why not… a thief using shadow refuge, an engi with healing bombs and mortar, a mesmer with harmonious mantras and restorative mantras, and a warrior with healing shouts…

at lvl80, warrior shouts have almost 1500 base healing;
Mesmer restorative mantras have 2640 base healing;
Engi healing turret (without regen effects) heals around 2600hp and the mortar’s Launch Elixir gives 430 Aoe healing for 5 sec in a 240 radius;
Shadow Refuge heals for around 1400 health on 5 pulses in 4 seconds;
Deathly Invigoration heals almost for 600 hp and Transfusion heals on 9 pulses for 330 health each… and throw in Well of Blood – 230 health per sec for 10 secs
Spirit of Nature heals 320 per sec, and Harmonic Cry heals around 3k health(40sec cd)
Soothing mist
Battle Presence with Absolute Resolution heals about 380 per sec.

I’d just want to stack all the higher health per sec effects. So i’d have ranger, guardian for sure, maybe thief, mantra mesmer, maybe engineer and a staff elementalist. that’ll be like a base of 800hp per sec….Actually what’ll be fun is buffing a warrior with non-boon regen effects (and the warrior has regen banners this time, not healing shouts)

From guardian, ranger and elem, the warrior will regen around 1.2k per sec without the boon. just for kicks, lets throw in dolyak runes and mango pie for the warrior XD
that comes out to 1.3k per sec. Throw in actual regen from the banner and thats around 1.7k regen per sec. 1.8k if you add a rejuvenation booster (all of this is roughly base stat healing, with the exception of guardian and elementalist benefits) but yeah…just seeing how crazy I can get regen without the actual boon. :o

how come a mesmer is represented by butterflies?

of course its supposed to be challenging. Before, Teq was killed so fast and by the time someone shouted “Teq up,” and other players were scrambling to get there, he’d already be at like 30% health then he’d die before the rest of the players got to him and got the chest loot.

I’ll admit it is a little frustrating now with all the krait and poison, but it actually made the fight more interactive, especially with the turrets to clear all the poison etc.

It’s actually a lot like fighting the claw of Jormag minus the poison and 15 minutes, but you use the Pact weapons to break down the ice wall, just like how you would vs tequatl breaking down the bone shield around him. There’s also a lot of that Frozen Ground that stacks up if you’re standing in/near it too long and don’t forget the tons of ice brood minions that spawn that you have to deal with.

Xsorus.2507:

SoTW scales with Healing Power

thanks, it just wasn’t showing that on any of the build editors

asuran jail is funny, but sad

If you slide down rata sum notch by notch with some revive orbs and 50% less falling damage and make it all the way to the bottom and don’t get ported back up, ur a boss

oh and if any of you know, does Signet of the Wild scale at all with healing power, or does it just grant a laughable 62 health per second?

Im not sure how well this build would perform dps-wise but it has amazing condition cleanses.

(mainly for Pve…maybe pvp)
This is what I think the base of the build should be: x/x/30/x/20 in wilderness survival, you have x for the adept trait, then Oakheart Salve(VIII) for the Master trait and Empathetic Bond(XI) in GM.
For the beast mastery line, you have Shout Master(III) and Commanding Voice(V)

healing utilities are either Troll Unguent or Healing Spring (imo)
your regular utilities are Signet of Renewal(must), “Guard!” and between “Protect Me!” or Lightning Reflexes. (R.a.O or the Nature Spirit for elite)
Runes might wanna be soldier just cuz you have a 12 sec recharge on Guard along with other passive condi cleanses.

and 1 of your pets at least has to be the Brown Bear.

thoughts?

It’s not really a HUGE deal, but it’s sometimes a nuisance to have to reset EVERY trait just so you can go back and change one thing about your build… :P

Each trait line should be resettable and have the Add Trait Points +5(left click) or +1(shift click) like in most build editors/generators. Am I right?

PLEASE, what is that song…it’s too epic!

so…you want to dodge and watch as your pets stand in one spot and have some huge laser or blast hit them square in the face, but really it’s gonna say “evade”? hmmmm

Is the trait broken, or is it just a hidden increase? I didn’t notice a change at all

it’s a crazy question, but i’m wondering if ranger pets either just get “larger” from activating Signet of the Wild and will they get even larger if they trigger the Enlargement Trait… or if those 2 just stack in duration…and damage?

any channeled skill is activated in about half its duration rather than the full time it takes to activate and any movement skill that you activate is faster than it usually is.

…http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Quickness

Pibriamal.8719:

You do realize that ANet stated that they want Warrior sustain to be regen based right?

Anyway, I’ll bite. Duel me. You can go whatever class you want. I won’t even impose any restrictions on you. Whisper me whenever you find me online,, we can set up a time.

im all for warriors being sustain and all that, but I’m just saying that after everyone complaining about how OP healing signet is and how OP warriors are, i’d like to see a 1v1 where a warrior gets by with healing surge.

And i’d love to duel, but I probably won’t be on for a while

If you can win in a duel or match without Healing Signet, show me and i’ll be impressed

wow. warrior OP? how come I see engineers still owning them like it’s nothing? How come I still necros dominating warriors, even if they have zerker stance/stability?
How come spirit rangers wreck these “OP” warriors? Why have I been seeing d/d eles still owning warriors in Wvw?

If you happen to be against a warrior and you see that he has stability up, then why waste your CC’s when it’s up? just wait it out, kite, keep your distance if they’re not using bow. Stability skills still have long CD’s and they’re not going to be up 24/7 :P Warriors can still be crippled, chilled and immobilized but it’s more effective in Pvp than Wvw of course, because they usually only have a 33% reduction on slowing effects, whereas in Wvw/Pve, they can just go 98%condition reduction, then you might want to worry.

Phalanx armor (especially the helm) looks like a combo of heavy whisperer armor and the Noble armor from Caudecus’s Manor.

Lord Kuru.3685:

CMstorm.8679:

As a necro, do you hop into spectral walk, go behind the downed player and begin the stomp then you teleport back in front of them right as you come down to finish them? (i’ve tried this a few times, and I think it works on downed guardians so u can avoid their knock-back)

Anyone else use this? How does it work? It doesn’t seem like it should avoid the guardian knockback.

timing has to be good though i’m not 100% sure on this. Last time I remember doing it, it worked

Xae Isareth.1364:

I guess if they made GW3 to be my perfect game, it would….

1) have no classes whatsoever and fully embrace action combat. You would have fully costumisable combo chains for each weapon tupe which comes with an utility bar for certain skills which won’t work in a combo chain (eg ground-targeting AoEs).

2) remove stats from gear altogether and focus vertical progression on levelling abilities and skills. Weapons would give you certain effects which are horizontally progressive and armours are just cosmetic.

3) bosses so huge you need to fight them on top of them.

4) fully destructible environment, with environmental weapons being perfect ably usable alternatives to your weapon.

5) incredibly diverse gameplay with elements taken from everything from horror survival to button-bash combat.

6) immersive storyline which combines sci-fi with high-fantasy (much like Starcraft lore I suppose).

So…you want something that sounds like a combination of Diablo 3, The Elder Scrolls, maybe Dead Island, maybe Dante’s Inferno, Assassin’s Creed, God Of War, the Halo Series?

There used to be a big problem with the gladiator heavy armor for charr, cuz your hand would always clip through the shield if you had one.
Though it’s not exactly a raising/floating issue, but that one was fixed.
Something that’s funny with the medium inquest armor chest piece is that on the sides of it, there’s holes/slits and you can see right through your charr…dunno if this was fixed or not, but it was pretty good…

I’d have to say, and whoever else wants to agree with me or not, is the heavy Dark Helm (or in Pve it’s called severed breach helm, lone helm of the afflicted, shelter helm) on charr. It looks pretty awesome but it’s just kinda resting on your charr’s face not really holding on to something, know what I mean?
http://www.gw2armor.com/charr/male/k5/heavy/display_looks.php

Which are your favorite stomping strategies when downing players?

Do you like to throw wall of reflection between you and downed warriors or just popping aegis?
Do you prefer mesmer portal stomping (or does that not work as well anymore, I haven’t seen it in awhile)
Do you just enjoy throwing some kind of blind on downed rangers, warriors, guardians, engineers, necros before they can interrupt you?
Are you the thief that just loves to pop a smoke field right on top of them so they always miss?
Are you the person that throws immob on an ele so when they go into vapor form, they’re just stuck there?
As a necro, do you hop into spectral walk, go behind the downed player and begin the stomp then you teleport back in front of them right as you come down to finish them? (i’ve tried this a few times, and I think it works on downed guardians so u can avoid their knock-back)
Or do you just dodge the interrupt or block/deflect it?
Or you can hack and slash until they’re dead

I liked how adrenaline functioned in gw1. In gw2 you really only need adrenaline if going burst/dps or maybe support/defense cleansing ire

I like how initiative functions on thieves more than adrenaline works for warriors personally, but I still like warriors better

nah. you could just walk thru the fire until you have 25 might. that’s OP. On top of that, if you or allies do a blast finisher on it, that’s Aoe 3 stacks of might.

JackSpacer.4320:

Charr Warrior: Kilgorn

awesome pic! I even love the molten jetpack that you’re rocking XD the colors are really sweet too.

Rainwhisker.4603:

This is my charr engie. I finally found a getup where those shoulders just worked so well on two months ago, really proud of it.

He must really be fascinated by what he’s looking at. but he looks good

The highest i’ve ever seen torment stacked was like 13-16 in crown pavilion and that was probably the last time I remember seeing torment stacked…though there are, more than likely, instances that groups do get a full 25 stacks of torment right? assuming theres a DS condition necro, maybe some condition warriors running sword offhand…or something like that, right? Because you’ll have 25 bleeding, vulnerability, a few stacks of confusion every so often, and 25 torment if it happens. (Along with all the other conditions that are bombarded on top of world bosses)

It gets BAD in high populated duel servers when that one players does one thing that another player doesn’t like, then everyone else goes kitten -gang on each other for no reason…Or sometimes the Cleanup Crew will come along and wipe out all the zerglings and cause a bunch of QQ. But I don’t know if there’s a whole lot to do about Spvp zerging.

BaconCatTheGreasy.9542:

At the moment warriors can just equip their passive regen signet and be unable to be killed. When a warrior is 4v1 and not dropping below 50% health and able to kill the other 4 players, it simply makes PVP unfun. Just had two games where it was impossible to kill any of the opposing team because it was all passive regen warriors.

Did those 4 other players happen to be running divinity/celestial and Pvp steady weapons? That might be it

Lord Gwyn of the Sun.3842:

I am a level 6 Guardian just starting out in GW2 with my guild The Three Lords of Lordran[DSGL]. I was wondering for a mix of gameplay and a hint of roleplay for my character in the game based off a character in Dark Souls, is there a flaming sword weapon for my character to use? Also is there a crown headgear or something similar as well? In case you don’t know, Gywn wields a mighty greatsword that is constantly on fire while wearing an outfit that makes him kingly. Is there something similar to this somewhere in Tyria?

Looks like Sauron o_O

Humor me for a second. Which class and build in Pve offers the most direct damage and fastest attack speed? I’m already assuming warrior, though ranger has some decent damage

Yeah, I already know that this is going to be a crazy question to ask, but I’m asking it anyway…

IF rangers could choose to go into combat without their pet and gain all bonuses of skills or traits that would normally affect them AND their pet.

for example: Troll Unguent would grant about 1500 health per second for 10 seconds on the same 25 second cool down. Heal As One would grant the ranger about 12k health… etc. With maxed out healing gear/traits in Pve, you’d get 2k hp per second from T.U. and around 16k for Heal As One.
Signets would basically be the same only you wouldn’t need the signet of the beastmaster trait to gain both effects… Already this is insanely OP

If the healing were to be reduced somewhere between 25%-33% and there was an option available so u could fight w/out your pet, how would it fare? or should I just shut up because I have terrible ideas…

gimme some feedback here. If one were to go 30 spite, either they’re going some kind of power-well build or some death shroud burst…if it’s such a thing. Is it useful, because axe seems fairly pretty good for inflicting 2 vulnerability on every hit. (possibly for pvp, but how about for pve/Wvw?)

But I do see how just about every1 in pvp or Wvw is just crazy about MM or some sort of ridiculous condi burst because its obvious…look at how many bleeds necro has, or look at how many skills/traits inflict insane chill durations…

I can beat just about any MM necro with my permachill necro…though It can be frustrating once u’ve locked onto him, then accidentally hit tab or swap targets to have to cycle thru or just mouse click him to re-target by then. But I only see MM necro being OP in WvW roaming, if the minions retain their Pve health buff there

Carlos.4371:

She kinda looks too golden and shiny to be a thief ^^ But ignoring that, really nice setup!!

CMstorm’s comment about how sad my guardian looked on the first screenshot made me post a better one now

Here you go

aww im sorry. just DEAL WITH IT so epic

kazi.6438:

Ancient screenshot, but one of my favorite Charr bugs regardless. Occasionally I just spawn like this in WvW and run around looking like an idiot until I mash skills/take damage.

haha it’s the lolwut pose

It must be Ganon’s Castle… o_O

Carlos.4371:

CMstorm.8679:

U cant beat this as a norn. admit it XD

Just Fabulous!
11/10

The two chars I play most, Guardian and Ranger

your top screenshot looks like ur guy is doing a sad, miserable walk away. I can just see a crowd of people behind him pointing and laughing at him as he walks away lol

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Like balancing on a dagger’s tip.

nice