Guild Wars 2

tairazilla.4901:

Esmee.1067:

My 5th and likely favourite toon:

Edit:
And my newly created Asura Elementalist. I love how quick Asura look, goes perfectly with how quickly Elementalists can get around.

your elementalist is beautiful. can i ask what pieces you are using? i didnt expect the ominous arah shoulders could be used in such an elegant way.

T3 with winged head and gloves, Arah shoulders

From the OP: “dungeons and fotm”

So basically the same condi build everyones used/complained about for months. Also youre better off taking 10 from discipline into defense for defy pain or retaliation when crit (think of it as another condition) or into arms for furious (lets you spam f1s constantly) or last chance (very good for finishing off with flurry and some sword autos)

Sarrs.4831:

So basically it’s Aegis except less useful.

Im assuming something similar to 30/0/20/0/20 cav armor/lyssa runes, zerker trinks

Steinpilz.5078:

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

everything at fractal 50 will pretty much 1shot you anyway,

I don’t want to do fractals at level 50.
I want to go level 30 only.

Ok. Zerker is still better

Zerk is boring. Better play a condi tank then, oodles of excitement!

Mmm ver good. While i love bow/GS in spvp, ive tried it for roaming and i just dont like it as much as ham/GS

Yes. Next will be mesmers or engineers. (My money’s on mesmer)

Its still funny how whenever something happens that someone wasnt expecting its always “hacks!!!” Or “you cheater!!!” Nowadays when someone tells me im hacking i just get a big smile on my face. Its the sign of a job well done

Thats just a problem with pets, thats not why you see more bad rangers. Mostly bad rangers is because bearbow is so effective while leveling up

Its immune.

1. I main engineer, i know
2. Berserker stance on warrior says the same thing, even tho its complete immunity

Hi new, im dad!

Automated response. GM trait in alchemy. Simple way to beat him is to condi bomb him right at 40%. It doesn’t cure condis, only prevents the application of new ones. Its also getting nerfed hard in 2 days

Then what will we use for PVE? Not axe cus its horrible dmg. Not shield cus its even worse dmg. Not horn cus its also 0 dmg. Not sword either cus its for condi. Crushing blow= a 4% DPS increase for the entire team. Thats pretty significant if you look at it that way

For pvp i dont think anything can match the pressure of an HGH/nade engineer

Harbinger.8637:

Warriors really don’t have that much regen. They have three main sources; Healing Signet, Dogged March, and Adrenal Health. Healing Signet requires them to give up any type of burst healing, unlike Guard that can have VoR and a healing skill. Also add in the fact that it’s being nerfed. They are also completely removing the regen from Dogged March in the feature patch, so that will be one less source they have. So two out of their three sources are taking serious nerfs next patch.

Dogged march is keeping the regen. That was from fake patch notes

^ dont use geomancy sigils, use sigils of doom. You should already have no problem stacking lots and lots of bleeds, and the poison from the sigil will greatly help against his healing and is also just another condition hell have to waste a cleanse on

^actually eles are the best at that with a s/d fresh air build

Yes berserker set

There are almost an infinite number of builds that use a GS, and so just saying “a GS build” could mean anything. And that build, no, just no

A female asura named Lyss the Shadow

Try Tarnished Co

By GS do you mean greatsword? Because thats not a build, thats a weapon, which also happens to be in many meditation builds

What if there was a trait that instead of buffing steal, buffed the skills you stole?

You’ve got the same chance for ascended at low ranks

^ its 7 seconds, and thats with 30 points in discipline, and if you can land the obvious animations. And kits arent an engineers mechanic. Toolbelt skills are

I dont think boon duration is as big of a problem. Ferocity is

Gee thanks for the clarification

If you insist on not running meta just cus then try this tanky DPS build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vIAQNAR3ejMdU5ZtHGewJaAA94qq2yo4HgUKszNA-z0BBYfCyEEwUIBKzsIasFWFRjVXDT5iIqmQAmnAA-w

Much better all around stats then your build. Toughness is also almost always a much better damage mitigator than vitality as well especially on a warrior with an already massive HP pool. Having high vitality can even hurt you in fractals because agony scales off a % of your health, meaning the more health you have the more health each tick will take.

Just transmute it

You should call it “the swag-cap” cus swag

Just spam nades/bombs at your feet and stuff dies

Offhand axe isn’t viable at all

Your 1-3 skills are affected by your main hand weapon. Your 4-5 skills are affected by your offhand. Every profession can dual weild

Yes. My bad.

It depends if you do WvW of PVE. If you only do PVE you can just transmute it since conditions are worthless

Try this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vYAQNAsaVl0Mp3plOx2JsPNhs9onqQiSrAN19grkPtC-zkCB4fBEbRRjgIaEFIkFgEGA5oFRjtNoIas6aYaXER1kCYrFAA-w

Sanduskel.1850:

There are counters to stealth. They include no cool down high radius aoes, mind reading and 1000m leaps with no cool downs!

I think some people don’t know what hard counter means, lol

Thieves don’t have the lowest health pool. Sorry that is simply false. Bow shots don’t reveal thieves, lol.

Guards, eles, and thieves all have the lowest HP pool of 10.8k base

Just to add on, eles have some of the biggest, untelegraphed burst in the game. The trade off tho is theyre insanely squishy when going for this type of build

Zietlogik.6208:

Norn? Human? pfft

This

You do a couple missions for each order first, then you can choose

I like this. Cool art thing. +1

Steinpilz.5078:

Thaddeus.4891:

Steinpilz.5078:

So: What guardian build is good for the fractals?

Like Natsu said : Either the Dungeon Meta, or the Hammer build. The difference come from the Protection that the hammer give you in melee. In dungeon, you don’t really need protection at all, but in fractal, some Bosses are harder to melee so having 1 Guardian giving constant protection in melee can help a great deal. The guardian will lose a bit of dps, but if the whole party can melee and not range the boss, then you gain a great deal of DPS.

I don’t like hammer because it is so slow.

Then id probably go thief or ele

You can always run skullcracker build. Bit meh now but its still definitely viable. (Especially in WvW where people dont know what a dodge key is) the build revolves around using the mace f1 (skullcracker) with a swap to GS while theyre stunned for 3 sec and using 100b. Unsuspecting foe is almost mandatory, as is cleansing ire. Forceful GS, and discipline for reduced burst CD are all good options for the rest of your traits. Build the gear as tanky or glassy as you like.

0/30/20/0/20 is one, 20/30/20/0/0 is another (no fast hands). Basically anything with a base of 0/20/20/0/0

Completely agree ^

Stupid people coming into my escape, trying to prove that whats been tried and true to be the best is just plain wrong. Not even willing to try and see why its the best, but completely convinced theyve uncovered some secret that people who’ve been playing for nearly 2 years now had never even thought of. What is with these stupid people?

TLDR

It goes both ways

But how will you ever master it if you refuse to use it in the first place? And for many people a “fun” build would be the top, most efficient build out there. Aka zerk

This

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Diamond-Skin-build-w-video

Or this

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/D-D-roaming-post-patch

Either one, make ascended celestial armor

Very very squishy. Try this

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vYAQNAoYVlsMp8plOx7JsPNhs9onqQii7BTlUNVXhoC-zUCB4fAYLLakgIaEFIUBg5oFRjtNoIas6aYaXER1kCYrFAA-w

Thieves will have perma weakness on the sword auto attack, and permanent blind on trash mobs from black powder. Thieves have the second highest DPS in the game with D/D (CnD, BS, auto chain, repeat. Spam HS under 25%) second only to a FGS ele. They can provide permanent AoE stealth via shadow refuge and smokescreen+cluster bomb which makes a massive difference in dredge, ascalon, and Arah.