Guild Wars 2

Get your top 8 locked in. Then have the remaining members make armorless/skill less/ dodge less run across the second arah p2 skip. What ever 2 makes it the fartherest will be the 2 who get to raid.

Yup. And don’t forget when the stomp fails for some buggy crap reason so they have even longer to kick your kitten from the ground

always go here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

who let the BH thief in this discussion?

Match? No. Guardian can provide heals while providing other things like stability, blocks and reflects. That’s a combo they can’t compete with

I agree with the bulwark change. Hardly anyone runs this since it is outclassed by getting a free trap on cc.

I run Test of Faith and Dragons maw. The team CC dragons maw provides on an opponent low on cd’s is still awesome even with the stupid cool down nerf.

You get huge damage numbers when you are fighting a tanky team and have no spike. So run a build that hurts people but doesn’t kill them. So they can keep healing while you do your high damage.

brannigan.9831:

Don’t be so sour there are tons of op elites. You can’t blame people for playing what is strong. It’s up to A-net to balance things. The pvp season starts December 1 I guarantee you there will be lots of changes to DH and the other elites to bring them more in line with the old builds before that happens.

If DH is “brought in line” with old builds, then we are all going back to burn to be competitive lol

Also, only with the shield can you attack. Once that is up, you are toast.

Also I’ve confirmed on many occasions that this shield does not block attacks from the back.

Yup. Had this idiot engineer talk crap to me because of 2 failed stomps that look successful. Like being able to do a stomp requires some kind of skill if you aren’t interrupted. This crap needs to be fixed

Odyssey.6523:

Cat I think guilds have always been doing that, now you are just able to easier tell. I don’t particularly care to “get that name up there,” sometimes you have guild members who are new and want to try it. I’m not going to tell them no because they cant carry their own.

And that’s the problem with no ranked(

Also it’s Chuck

Thanks to that guild queue thing, I’ve beaten more premades than lost recently. I think alot of bads like seeing their guild name so they bring in people who suck just to get that name up there.

Gwalchgwn.1659:

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

Amaya.1483:

You should thanks those people, having some really really bad Players on DH will maybe show people that you can kill them hahaha

Highly agree!

I’m tired of stupid thieves talking crap in say chat that I only killed them because I’m using OP DH. And it definately isn’t the thousands of hours I have on guardian, and it’s not the fact a stupid thief decided to 1v1 a guardian.

So you killed them because you’re using guardian* and not DH? So it’s just Guardian OP to thieves? (I’m not saying this, but that’s what you last sentence kind of implies)

There is a reason metabattle has dps guardian as a counter to thief.

So what I was implying with the last part, is thieves are foolish for fighting a dps guardian including a DH whether or not a single trap was used. And me being a very experienced guardian, I was going to win regardless of what dps guardian build I ran.

So thieves need to stop crying about DH’s and choose their fights more wisely. DPS guardian has always owned thieves even if dps guardian was out of meta for a while and considered weak.

Unranked conquest is level 10 right?

How we make a class that has so much stealth/mobility be balanced? I feel like it being UP in fights is a good trade off for the map control they offer.

I can’t come up with a way to make thief be amazing without it causing cancerous cells to form.

Amaya.1483:

You should thanks those people, having some really really bad Players on DH will maybe show people that you can kill them hahaha

Highly agree!

I’m tired of stupid thieves talking crap in say chat that I only killed them because I’m using OP DH. And it definately isn’t the thousands of hours I have on guardian, and it’s not the fact a stupid thief decided to 1v1 a guardian.

Generally when I lose, it seems to be a stomp because my teammates are doing some of the lowest mmr tactics. I can go from amazing close games back to back then get delivered a pure kitten for a team on my next couple.

Try this bad boy out http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Druid_-_Celestial_Avatar

LegallyBinding.4937:

How about we stop complaining on the forums and let Arenanet do their job.

You forgot to put kappa

OP tldr: I can already avoid the damage by dodging but I want to be able to avoid the damage and still have all my dodges so DH’s are left with no spike and poor sustain since they lost utilities to bring traps. Help ObiBAN KeNERFi, you are my only hope.

sephiroth.4217:

Guys I can’t dodge a static trap I need help!!!

I watch the DH lay his traps, and then as he watches me deciding what I’m going to do about it, I facetank the traps to get to him but I die, nerf DH it’s OP.

There is no other viable build other than traps, well not any with low risk high reward anyway. I don’t want to think when I PvP, just facetank everything and spam skills to win.

It’s frightening, how true this is.

BadSanta.6527:

Your not a honest gurd your just a frustrated Mesmer

Bingo /15char

Nerf traps and we go back to burn builds. Sooooo much fun……..

DrNub.1072:

Even after DH release…. Heck I still have trouble killing some engi’s just cause how much they can kite and popping blocks and elixirs

Bro, are you telling me you can reliably tear up a Scrapper on a node?

I need to reevaluate my life. That is the 1 class when an experienced person plays that I lose to more than win. Or at least have to disengage which is a loss.

Yeah I think Dragonhunter will be mandatory and should have at least 2 per raid. So let’s all keep that in mind when we make the meta for metabattle. Cool? Guys? Guis? Geyesss?

Minstrel ammy was bunker guards only hope. With its removal we are far too squishy.

It is easy to blow up a bunker guard once they’ve popped shelter.

iZallen.9074:

Drekor.5217:

Apparently you haven’t seen a Scrapper or Chrono

Yes, but a good chronomancer is hard to find; Engies too; so they fall of the radar alot more than DH.

I think you haven’t tried scrapper. The amount of damage it can do in burst while still being tank as kitten is silly.

For instanced pve, sword is on the opposite end of optimal. For wvw, sword is dope. And for open world, just use a staff and tag since who really cares it’s open world and you can just let other peoplease kill stuff for you.

it costs like 6 or 7 gold to swap the stats per item I think.

Can someone Tl;Dr this whole thread or am I just missing an inside joke? I ask this, because I come from another game community where if you didn’t know us, you’d swear the whole community hated each other and just talked crap.

It’s hideous. The mistguard armor is the true dragonhunter armor. The pants look like they were made from dragon scale. The shoulder piece is on the shooting side so it protects the wearer on the place it needs it.

Tldr mist guard is our armor!

Don’t ever take a fight 1v1 vs a damage guard. Unless you are playing against pure scrubs.

The only time to fight a damage guard 1v1 is if you know help is on the way and you have to just survive for like 30 seconds. In which case you blind and dodge in between doing poke attacks.

Thieves are lunch for guardians. Doesn’t even have to be DH.
Mesmer should use clones to wreck traps, also the GS pull is easy to dodge.
Warrior whirlwind is a power attack that is near impossible to react to at close range. Use this once you start getting that health down.(Assuming you using GS +Axe/shield)

Soldier’s was always considered low damage. Knight’s was middle of the road, while zerker was the top tier.

If you a strong independent soldier’s guardian who don’t need no zerker meta. Then just keep doing what you are comfortable with. Also changing stats on gear is EZ, so don’t feel too stuck in what ever stats you choose. Only trinkets have to be rebought.

Yup. They should start removing amulets and nerfing sigils until there is only 1 viable build left, then the game will finally be perfectly balanced Anet style.

Someone summon obal to lay down some cold hard facts

quaniesan.8497:

This inquiry for “advice” is nothing more than a stealth request for nerf. How do I know. Whenever an advice is given, the OP ardently dismissed it into “the trap is a death sentence, there is no way around it (nerf please?”). Luckly we are not mesmers or he will go and ask for visual marker for the real one among the clones.

Bads will forever be bads. They blame their failure on everything but themselves.

FeelsAlright.5860:

Zdenny.2704:

Bullkitten, Anet made Elites OP only because it will force people to buy expansion. Again hhow it can be esport if you put non hot players into disadvantage?

I ususally don’t agree with you, but so much this. They needed to sell boxes. You forget they need to make money to continue to having jobs. Once sales drop, they’ll nerf it down.

Right before the new elites go on sale

They finally found a way to make a queue not be the same 10 people. By forcing everyone to queue unranked

I prefer the quad dodge

meow one twenty.4376:

Kontrolle.3514:

meow one twenty.4376:

All I know is abc uses Scrapper, so we should probably nerf it.

Engineer

Adaptive Armor: Reduced the toughness gained per stack of Adaptive Armor from 100 to 60.
Human Growth Hormone: Reduced the duration of might granted from this trait from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.

already done.

40%

25%

Oops. My bad, I thought the light heartedness was evident.

It was to 99% of the world’s population .

If you love gw2 combat and classes then yes. If you care about balance and a dedicated dev team who communicates with the community and releases constant updates…. then no.

There are mich better pvp games out there if you aren’t hooked into this game already.

I run GS LB w/ wall of reflect, retreat, that spin trap and dragons maw.

Generally I try to attract enemies in smaller groups and get my trap gs burst before doing some lb kiting. Then have my wall of reflect if things get too hectic.

But my best bit of advice, once all your survival skills are on cd, it’s time to disengage and reset. If I have to use my wings of resolve, it’s in a direction away from enemies and I head for cover to get off cooldowns.

HoT can be brutal when you are doing a group event and some chupa cabra comes out of nowhere and kicks you in the nuts.

I wonder why dps guardians have been using medis only since they were buffed way back when.

Is it because metabattle? Or because we have no other choice.

For pure open world casual grind stuff, a knight set with traveller runes could be cool. I run berserker and don’t seem to get 100 to 0. But I do definately take some good damage. Those stupid veteran bow frogs that dodge can hit you like a truck if you aren’t actively blocking them.

What build are you running as a go to open world build?

On a standard non DH bunker guard running staff mace shield I generally get over 250k team healing with something like 900 boons applied and 300 ish conditions removed from allies.

I’ll post a screen shot later. Because I think that condo removed sounds a bit low. When I’m off work I’ll dig through my screenshots.

+1 to returning dungeons to their former glory…

Just watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EedZ5kFAvSw

Improve AI please. No nerfing of things because AI is too dumb to figure things out.