Guild Wars 2

Because THEY ARE NOT PETS! They are minions, meaning you are not supposed to control them. If you want a pet go play Ranger!!

I only know of one GS build that is amazing in PvE but not sure about PvP:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Fg-7-0;0FFx-r2ZEV-0;9V2E;3TOE;459A48-5;04-F0b;17V-17V-16gF

0/0/30/25/15

Damage will come only when you can land Flame Trap then use a finisher like Swoop / Crippling Throw or from Axe Split Blade while having Quickness up.

Hi Sol,

Looks good and I enjoyed it. As fas as I can tell its the same build as before except you changed utilities and now use Citadel Runes (kind of obvious when you get random Fury and Bombs spawning under you lol).

Using 1h Sword you are already miles ahead of most, good job on that choice it is our best weapon by a country mile.

Did you show your build and stats?

Cempa.5619:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-VRR;2Z;0h0u5NQFx0;9;5T9T;253B0;017A;1aZ;4dZm9fRk09Fk

WvW build with a mix of rabid&carrion.

0/30/10/30/0 P+P
Elixir H / Elixir B / Elixir S / Elixir C / Crate

Health 18,832 (without armor)
Toughness 1,814 (without armor)
Bleeding Duration 55% (without food)
Condition Damage 1,050 (without food or Sigil)
Healing Power 669

I just realized a problem with the build: Pizza is 40% and my base is 55% Bleed duration so I am 5% short :/ Its 50% and 100% for the extra ticks right?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-VRR;2Z;0h0u5NQFx0;9;5T9T;253B0;017A;1aZ;4dZm9fRk09Fk

WvW build with a mix of rabid&carrion.

0/30/10/30/0 P+P
Elixir H / Elixir B / Elixir S / Elixir C / Crate

Health 18,832 (without armor)
Toughness 1,814 (without armor)
Bleeding Duration 55% (without food)
Condition Damage 1,050 (without food or Sigil)
Healing Power 669

karitzuki.7659:

Hey, after watching your video, I switched my spec to run something similar. Do you mind telling me how much Power, Precision and toughness you currently have? The editor isn’t showing it properly. I want to know how much I should shoot for. Thank you so much. Very nice skills, man. I hope you keep making videos!

http://i.imgur.com/z6cu4.png

Could you list the music?

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/76112-wvw-vid-gsrifle/

Video and build of a Rifle Warrior + GS in WvW!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=iR8jjDlM4rs

His Build:

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcRo0M9cMRFnmMRFnmGG9MxVsVkcak

What is your favorite utility setup?

Mending / “Shake It Off!” / “On My Mark!” / Dolyak Signet / Signet of Rage

My 2¢ into Rifle viability would be yes as part of a weapon set but no as a main weapon that is used most of the time.

What that means is Rifle is situational and should be used as such. Before a boss pull consider the fight and adjust the already invested trait point, utilities and such but do not and you should not use the mentality that ‘Rifle’ is a main weapon.

How important in a WvW (GS) are the following two traits:

1) Strength 15 point IX Slashing Power (GS damage increased by 10%)

2) Arms 25 point Attack of Opportunity (10% damage increase to bleeding foe as a GS Warrior I have x1 stack of bleed up 99.99% of the time)

Obviously everything has a cost and spending 45 points in the ‘DPS’ lines means less points in the ‘Defensive’ lines.

The build I had in mind here was 20/25/15/10/0

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sg-70;0VKFO0Z4NL-60;9;4JOE9-48-49-1;00;3P-F0;2KJG4KJG45Be

Since this is a WvW Toughness will come from gear (1500 – 1700 depending on build).

If the 20% extra damage is not ‘mandatory’ the idea is to max out the Toughness/Healing line.

I did copy and paste and still got a blank builder!

Moonrabbit.1543:

I cannot fathom why ANet is targeting AoE and, by virtue of this, the elementalist and engineer, which are underpowered in PVE. I hope that they restrict their nerfs to PvP, though I suspect that the changes will affect all areas of game play. Why is it that they keep implementing dramatic nerfs for caster classes in this game? I do not want to play a warrior, guardian, or thief, yet these are apparently ANet’s favored professions. Are they not aware of the capabilities of a thief relative to an elementalist (let alone an engineer)? Why am I being incentivized to play classes that I never want to play in any MMO?

I understand you want to know why Anet is targeting AE, well lets look at this clip shall we:

Hi,

How can a zerg counter x4 Ele’s, I know the 4 Ele’s used a choke point but shouldn’t a zerg be able to win?

Arsenic Touch.7960:

AoE abilities balancing

One of the issues brought up a lot in WvW./sPvP is AoE (Area of Effect). We feel like they are too strong at the moment and a lot of people in WvW are gaming the system using AoEs.
For people that don’t know – max targets for siege weapons is 50 while max targets for AoE is 5.
Reducing AoE effectiveness to bring them in line with the single target damage skills.
Major update coming to all the AoE skills – make classes that are good at single target damage stand out a bit more.
Same thing with dungeons – right now if you have a lot of AoE you can past encounters by just spamming AoE which is not what we want.

Yeah man. Guess we’ll have to ditch our traps and longbow? psh, who cares about barrage.

Traps: garbage CHECK
LB: garbage CHECK

Point of thread: No idea OP seems to like sub pare game play

M8 you wanna run around with a LB and role play some weird sniper fantasy go ahead bro, all power to ya, but really LB and Trap builds are sub par…Or you like to stand back in a zerg and that’s how you get your rox off!

Seriously though if you don’t know why this change is being made go see the video of 4 Eles wiping AN ENTIRE ZERG in WvW!

Tried the build today and I like it, at first sight I thought the lack of the 10%+10% GS dmg boost (10% dmg when bleed and the 10% GS dmg increase) was a big thing but GS hits like a truck even without those traits.

I do ask more discussion on utilities, what are you all doing?

Considering moving points into reduced Shout CD.

10/20/20/20/0 Shout GS Build

Why go down the Defense line?

What if instead of the Defense line get the 1sec immobilize and Shout CD reduction in Tactics and then used On My Mark+Rifle 5 for an instant x15 Vulnerability?

That would also lower the CD on your Shake It Off! CD.

teg.1340:

I’ve played rifle warrior in WvW for ages. IMO the weapon is very well balanced. The lack of utility is compensated with decent single target range dps. Im using a combination of knights + berserkers/ valkyries. Rifle 1 crits for 1000+ direct dmg. Volley hits for 5-8k on average every 8 secs. Rifle 2 is awesome combined with leg specialist. Brutal shot could be either more dmg or casttime decreased.

Dont except rifle alone to be decent in 1vs1. There’s a reason you can swap between 2 weapon sets.

That’s about the build/gear I’m playing…Do you go for Vulnerability stacking for your one two punch?

You can play the way you like in WvW it just means you have to invest time in figuring out what works best best gear wise and build wise.

You can excel at WvW as a Melee Ranger or a Ranged Warrior.

Word of advice: really solid builds are rarely shared on the forums, when they do its weeks or months after the said player has moved away from it.

The other way to learn about really good builds is from professional gamers who need you to subscribe and follow them.

On these forums here I have seen more than one youtube video of glass cannon warriors doing more than 18k with the kneel down shot.

How about Traits and utilities? x15 Vulnerability /w a +5 Bleed and I’m doing decent burst /w a Power and Crit build.

What am I doing wrong? My issue is kill speed, I have no other issue with Rifle, I enjoy every other part of gaming with it, its just kill speed I seem to be taking forever to kill!

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-s70g;1VKFO0Z4ZL-60;9;49O-JE4;026;207-5;04-k6;2KJG4KJG46gC

10/25/0/20/15 Rifle / GS

Mending / “Shake If Off!” / “On My Mark!” / SoS / Signet of Rage
Rune of Lyssa
Crit Sigil 5%

tehdevbot.1398:

Noobish question here, but what stats would one work towards on a build like this?

The question is would it be better to maximize bleed duration or not?

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQJAqalspSXnvSgF17IRoCDG0D9mX+K6xjh8kB;ToAg2Croay0koJbTumkNNWYWB

Your standard P/P Condition build, should you focus on getting that extra tick of Bleed or not?

Which jewels and runes?

My current choice is Shaman Amulet + Undead Runes /w Corruption+Earth Sigil (seeing how the build has 49% + 20% crit chance).

Any thoughts?

Hi,

P/D WvW build here and trying to understand how to better utilize my last 20 points, go for Venom’s in Deadly arts or Trickery, any advice and insight is appreciated.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-cR333;0RwFb0J5VOkd0;9;6TJJ;429A27-26-SNH6a;1dZm9fRk02Vg

0/0/30/20/20 P/D & D/D
Hide in Shadows / Caltrops / Shadow Refuge / SoS / T. Guild

All the trait links lead to a blank builder!

Wondering if Wells & Condi go well together?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=;044Z;1kHFH0G4sJVJ0;9;5T-JJ;118A;107-39-SNH6;2jwmAjwmA2Fs

0/30/0/20/20 S+D / Staff
Consume Condition / Spectral Armor / WoS / WoC / Lich Form

Spectral Armor + Last Grasp /w 1406 Condi dmg (before food)

Thoughts?

Why do you call it Axe build, looks like a Staff build!

@ 3:05 the above Necro duels a GS/S+S interested in that -Warrior- build.

Is it just 100b landing?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=;044Z;1kHkC0p3FJkJ0;9;5TJJ;216A14-02;2SNH6;2jwmAjwmA2Ve

As you want a build that is ‘good’ and works for ‘everything,’ the above link fits the bill!

Looks good as a starting point.

1) Sword: By far our best weapon, use it with or without auto attack! Its damage and burst are unmatched and when used with Torch off hand you drop your own fire field, jump back and back in for a combo finisher!

2) Torch or Dagger off hand: Play with both and you decide!

3) QZ: Why? LR is of far greater value, your build of choice is an evasion healinbg condition build.

4) Sick’EM: Try it out and try another DoT -condition- utility out and figure out which is more bang for your buck.

5) Signet of Wild: Great choice! Your build is built on HEALING!

I plugged your build into a trait builder and ended up with 1,200 Toughness did I do it wrong? I have never been able -other than Mesmer- to play any form of PvP with below 15xx – 16xx Toughness.

Explain how a Warrior can play with 1200 Toughness? Thanks.

Depends on build, P/D comes in a variety of builds from venom to crit to condition based and they tend to use C&D on things that don’t dodge when possible…Pets, minions yellow and PvE mobs, not just you!

Some build for heavy longevity and will outlast just about most builds!

Get the Thief out of her comfort zone of popping in and out of stealth while healing 3,000 HP each time they stealth!!!

Feywray.4351:

Epidemic works on ALL mobs in the aoe range, not just up to five. And for the record, it’s aoe range is HUGE.

5 mobs and its a range of 600.

This is one of the best condition builds available for the class today for general game play and works extremely well in all parts of the game as it can be played as linked or switch over to a full Well-Bomber variant without resetting Traits.

0/30/20/20/0 Consume Conditions / Epidemic / Corrupt Boon / SoL / Elite of Choice
Scepter+ Dagger / Staff

Health 20,372
Condition Damage 1,406
Critical Hit 49%
Toughness 1,810

Add food and have fun!

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=;044Z;1kHkC0p3FJkJ0;9;5TJJ;216A14-02;2SNH6;2jwmAjwmA2Ve

Nice build and looks pretty solid, looking forward to seeing some WvW and tPvP clips with it.

Has to be some of the best video editing I’ve ever seen! Thanks, great stuff.

Amos.8760:

WAIT A MINUTE – this only happens to engineers?! I’ve never played anything else past 10 and just assumed it was a game-wide thing.

I don’t like throwing out blanket statements so Ill add this:

I am excellent at playing ranged control while strafing and kiting, I use multi button mouse and rebind using numbers, Shift+numbers and Ctrl+numbers as well as Shift+Mouse and Ctrl+mouse….I only face this issue with Engineer and especially Pistol.

Do other professions have it? If they do I never experienced it.

Necro, Ranger, Thief, Guardian, Mesmer -I know I play too much- all 80 (well Ranger is almost 80.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Fg-F-0;0FFx-r2gDV-0;9-02;3TJJ;459A48-59-4-F0S;1F-03F-036gy

How viable is it in all parts of the game?

0/0/30/20/20 GS / S+WH

Almost 30 and now I recall why I dumped this profession: 4sec ability CD if used when not facing the target.

While the game has auto facing in PvE, I have been experiencing this horrible effect enough times to make me absolutely hate the profession. As a Pistol engineer I frequently get within a range of 200 and when fighting +2 foes it takes just one -my target- to move out of line of sight and BAM 4sec CD on the ability.

Hate that mechanic and hope its changed if it is intended. I do not have that issue with my Pistol Thief, Bow Ranger and Rifle Warrior!

Sol.4310:

Cempa.5619:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-FV-g;2FFx-r2gDV-0;9V2O;2JT-J;109-58A;108-4-k6;2LNW4LNW46gD

0/20/30/0/20

SB+GS / Jungle Spider+Dog
Fantastic single target control

This is a good all round build that you can use any time and any place!

Immobilize: x3 (2sec + 2sec + 3sec)
Knock Down: x1 (2sec)
Cripple: Near all the time

Hey Cempa you should test out running the Wolf, I’ve now got my pet set to avoid combat in WvW, reason being is they die to easy and a new combo I’ve found to be extremely effective.

When I get jumped by group of players I get stunned/KD/Imbo normally you would die, or I need run into zergs to down someone. I petswap to my wolf and F2 and thanks to being on avoid combat he uses his Fear right away. And if you run 15 in Bm you have fear every 25 seconds the CD will reset on pet swap, so No 45 second wait on your F2.

Cool thanks! By the way are you still running that build I linked -though I think you might use the bleed instead of LR?

It seems the community believes that a level 30 in AC will do significantly less damage than a level 80, not saying groups are not taking a level 30, just indicating a perception and asking is the perception accurate?

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-FV-g;2FFx-r2gDV-0;9V2O;2JT-J;109-58A;108-4-k6;2LNW4LNW46gD

0/20/30/0/20

SB+GS / Jungle Spider+Dog
Fantastic single target control

This is a good all round build that you can use any time and any place!

Immobilize: x3 (2sec + 2sec + 3sec)
Knock Down: x1 (2sec)
Cripple: Near all the time

@Sol: What build you using now? Still Jungle Spider+Dog SB?

Wild Bill x2 -that’s what first occurred to me when I saw you two.

Thrown Elixirs cause damage: What kind of damage we talking here? Is it worth it for a full utility Elixir build?

Thanks for the video, one question:

Your armor choice is Carrion (Vitality/Condition/Power) why take that over a set on Trading Post with (Toughness/Condition/Precision)?

Thanks

http://www.gw2db.com/recipes/leatherworker

1) Carrion: Power / Condition / Vitality

2) Trading Post: Precision / Toughness / Condition

Choice 1 I can craft, choice 2 I can buy but which is better and why?