Guild Wars 2

MidoriMarch.8067:

berserker is the op class that can regen 7.4k hp with 0 healing power while dishing out kitten tons of damage and esp rifle easy mode

If you can’t read a rifle u should take 10 minutes and learn how it works. Then you don’t have to spend 2 hours complaining on the forums all the time about it.

U still need 3 stats for that. Condi mesmer needs 1 stat, and it can drain more than 7.4k hp in 1 second. THen its base hp is high as can be……so take dire and u got urself a bonafide tank with way more hp than a warrior does and more toughness than the warrior making ur armour just as good as heavy armour. And you can blink, stealth, and bomb an enemy without them knowing you are there.

One good condi mesmers can go 1vs2 against two other good meta players. When ur class is twice as effective regardless of skill level IN GUILD WARS 2, which is the definition of unfair when it comes to ganging enemies, then you have a problem with the class.

Mesmer rotations need more vulnerabilities. Its an easy skill based way to fix the class. Either that or assume they all are going dire and nerf their hp in half. Noone wants to spend a frriggin year fighting 1 class that ports and stealths for half the fight.

Thieves spam their block all the friggin time when you fight them making the fights ridiculously long and neverending. BUT AT LEAST THERE’S A COUNTER TO THAT……its called unblockables, its ur own fault for not bringing one so you can’t complain. With mesmers if you have an unblockable you might get a 1-2 second window to hit them during a 20 second perma invulnerable/sustain rotation.

well use ur head for a minute OP. Wvsw is about controlling and playing in large groups and killing other large groups. What class would bring the most to such a gametype…..maybe the one that spams aoe, blocks, traps, instant revivals, healing, shields, bubbles, ranged attacks, boons. A proper guardian zerg is like having a perma shield gen and ram spamming tone skin on ur zerg.

43% damage reduction…..blocks all over…instant regeneration…..perma resistance….you try killing that.

Nikkinella.8254:

So you killed cheese with cheese? Not impressive if you have to use condi to do it. Celebrate when you can do it on a power build, that requires 3 stats instead of 1 to do it and has to sacrifice all its defense to do so. Condi is overpowered in wvw regardless of what class its on, so 1 condi spammer killing another is nothing new.

Condi guardian isn’t cheese. Its easy to counter with any proper builds. If you aren’t paying attention to how much burn those 3 stacks are doing to you its ur own fault. You can still reck them quite fast with burst even if they run dire or trailblazer due to the lower hp pools.

The chrono prolly goofed and got itself killed in all likelihood. But lets assume they had a proper fight and give the OP some credit…..

Tl;DR:
Gj killing an OP class with a significantly less powerful one!

EVERYONE SO NEGATIVE. LETS BE MORE POSITIVE.

So you are a fresh player who bought a bunch of legendaries….and bought alot of other expensive endgame stuff it seems…..with gems.

I um…….that musta been alot of gems! That musta cost hundreds of dollars if you convert real money to gems and that to gold and buy legendaries off the TP.

emkelly.2371:

Wow that argument over which is better is pretty pointless when you can easily get the gear for both cheap. Just start with one, and get the gear for the other, then switch off equipment when your party needs it.

Wait…how can I get this gear for cheap? And how cheap? You can get like 1 set from story content in exotic level.

engie’s alrdy have alot of other abilities that warriors have….but that are overtuned as said. You should compare our frenzy to their elixir thing.

Engie’s need it cause they have stealth……
Stealth is a real crux for all classes that have it, that’s why the ones who have stealth get their other abilities overtuned to compensate for the stealth abilitites.
So you kno….don’t think about it.
JUST HOW IT IS.

DevilishLyx.2340:

Dawdler.8521:

We already had a vote. A majority of people wanted DBL, thus they must have liked it.

Correction, people voted based upon the options anet gave us. What wvw players really want is to remove the DBL and replace it with a real new wvw map. But this wasnt an option that was provided.
The options we were given were, keep wvw stale with the same alpine maps, or add the DBL as one of the BLs to keep those few who liked it. So tbh this poll was a poll where the community only really had one choice! No one wanted to keep wvw stale with the same old map on all 3 BLs, and anet were not going to provide us with a new map, and no one wanted the DBL to be a dominant map.
And so have the DBL as one map and the other 2 as alpine was the ONLY choice we had! There was no other real option for us to choose, the other options would have lead to a faster decline of the wvw population, which no one wants.

You had multiple times to make urselves be heard. You had multiple times to vote.

You lost. Just be thankful that they were ‘willling’ to remove it (for a time) and change it ‘FOR YOU’. You guys have no idea how much anet went out of its way to cator to a minority of players.
Time to accept your defeat with ‘some’ level of grace. YOu lost, get over it. Tired of hearing losers whine.

DevilishLyx.2340:

Dawdler.8521:

We already had a vote. A majority of people wanted DBL, thus they must have liked it.

Correction, people voted based upon the options anet gave us. What wvw players really want is to remove the DBL and replace it with a real new wvw map. But this wasnt an option that was provided.
The options we were given were, keep wvw stale with the same alpine maps, or add the DBL as one of the BLs to keep those few who liked it. So tbh this poll was a poll where the community only really had one choice! No one wanted to keep wvw stale with the same old map on all 3 BLs, and anet were not going to provide us with a new map, and no one wanted the DBL to be a dominant map.
And so have the DBL as one map and the other 2 as alpine was the ONLY choice we had! There was no other real option for us to choose, the other options would have lead to a faster decline of the wvw population, which no one wants.

You had multiple times to make urselves be heard. You had multiple times to vote.

You lost. Just be thankful that they were ‘willling’ to remove it (for a time) and change it ‘FOR YOU’. You guys have no idea how much anet went out of its way to cator to a minority of players.
Time to accept your defeat with ‘some’ level of grace. YOu lost, get over it. Tired of hearing losers whine. You don’t have to play it, there is no reason to play on the map if you don’t want to. Even if it is your home bl there is no reason to play it….you have 3 other maps you can play on.

Problem is ghost thiefs are strong against any glass cannon build, can run circles around them, ooc abuse them, and just stalk them till they die. It lowers the skill floor of all players by making them feel stupid for not tanking up. And its a case where there is no counterplay for many of these classes, and whenever you outplay the thief it can just stealth or jump away then ooc then stalk you again.

I mean they can’t kill me in a 1vs1 with my condi build (which is tank by default since condi allows this crap), I find it annoying they just run away and ooc all the time though and come back but they can’t hurt me unless there are 2+ of them. That doesn’t really make it okay though, its pretty dumb to know where they are but be unable to hit them with ur damage abilities cause they can’t be targetted.

I’m fine with the build existing. But the fact the thief has all this movement speed/ability. Has the ability to ooc abuse. And can just waypoint back and forth across the map like any other classes. Has 3 dodges and all these evade spamming abilities and heals….its ridiculous to kill the stupid thief and have it reappear within 1 minute fully refreshed and ready to kill you. And overall presents to little risk to the thief itself…
Alll that kitten makes it not okay imo. Low risk High reward isn’t good for the game. High risk High reward IS good for the game…..so fix this kitten alrdy.

anduriell.6280:

Only reliable reveal are the DH traps and maybe thennew warrior shout. and thats it

warrior shout is 4 second of reveal on a 1200 range with a 30s cd. And you have to have the enemy targetted to do it…lulz.

And if ur a warrior of any substance, you have to ooc to spec it into ur build since its active ability is a single target 10 vulnerability stack….for 10 seconds…which is the crappiest thing you could bring to a wvw fight.

But hey I’m sure getting the thief revealed for 4 second will be more than enough time to deal with its 3 dodges, blocks, and attacks with built-in evade, and their heal…..and kill it before it stealth again and ooc’s and comes back full hp to hunt a warrior with -1 utility skills meaning the warrior will lack a stability an endure pain or a berserker stance.

Running condi bow warrior with mace/whatever with trailblazer gear. Wanted advice on what runes are most viable. Emphasis would be on doing the best I can in small group (5-10ish)/duel situations, but I would run it in zergs too.

Note I would defense line obviously and use headbutt, so most of the synergy would come from that ability as the elite.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Nightmare

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Orr

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Sunless

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_the_Undead
(the 6th ability would give me about +170 condition damage, which is pretty much exactly the amount that I lose by taking Trailblazer armour over dire )

Or Krait, which i’ve been running.

Wanted to emphasis utility in this build, but I’m wondering if undead would be better since Krait doesnt really seem like it does as much as I thought it did, except for the poison would is pretty important.
Noone uses the warrrior forums so, just gonna try asking here. If not ill try in pvp.
There aren’t really any ways for warriors to apply poison outside of runes and the on swap weapon sigil (which unfortunately is single target only and is used at the expense of geomacy…..which is rly important for keeping pressure off me between attacks.

I don’t get how conditions work against blocks and stuff.

Like whenever I use shield stance (on my warrior for example) I block normal damage but condi damage usually gets through. I don’t know if they are simply traited via retaliation or what…but it gets through the shield. I find it hard to believe that so many use unblockables with condi damage.

If some1 has aegies and u hit them with a condi attack…what happens?
If some1 has aegies and u hit them with a condi aoe….what happens?
If some1 with block walks through ur firefield with the block active…what happens?
If some1 dodges, does the condi they have on them still tick damage?

Just find it confusing.

YOu’d think the answer would be:
nothing
the aegis destroyed the aoe if possible, otherwise it blocks the first tick of a field
block upon entering a fire field will block the field for as long as the block is active
the condi ticks regardless of you dodging

but i just don’t see this happening ingame.

Thuggernaut.1250:

I like your suggestion, maybe a leap at the enemy to extend the range of Rip (for enemies that kite) would help. Maybe make it unblockable?

Too bad offhand sword is so totally weak and worthless it doesn’t make sense to take it in any scenario. Everything it does is outclassed by the other offhands. I think even offhand axe gets more action in sPvP, which is next to nothing. At least offhand axe is good for a laugh/gimmick build, offhand sword is just garbage.

im using oh sword right now in my condi build for wvsw. and its working fine, I like it.

Sword 5 Functions the same as a shield, except it breaks when a melee attack hits it, in which case it does a nice condi bleed. Its 5s less in cd as well than a traited shield 5. Sword 4 vs shield 4….sword 4 gives a ranged condi attack that does nice damage, its a decent tradeoff in wvsw since most of ur enemies are ranged. I mean I got shield mastery spec’d and I’m still taking sword OH over shield OH.

Sword OH serves as a block, and is a more effective damage dealer. The only real kicker is the fact shield gives defense by default on equip…so you don’t have access to that with sword. Its just nowhere near to being OP….which arguably is the problem if you think about it.

When you need a middle ground between the defense of a shield and the offense of a torch…..sword OH is there.

kdaddy.5431:

Cerby.1069:

anet too scared to buff things that are useless/obsolete. Cause they risk potentially making something ‘new’, that other classes haven’t had to fight against, too useful or powerful in some way.

People can kill warriors and they aren’t the top of the top….. so no changes is the best way to keep a sense of balance

Ok i guess, you just have EU player named lord helseth calling warrior a trash class.

I mean nothing better then being the worst class season 1-2 and potentially S5.

um, okay…sure.

Warrior by design has always been a solo kind of class. So I get it, with our current insane sustain, why people would call them trash classes for pvp. I mean we do our own thing, and we have the sustain to do it. So frustrated players who don’t have proper teammtes will go off on their own as warriors and try to do everything on their own. Which is great, but it just has limitations given how warriors fight. So an organized buff sharing crew of 5 is gonna beat a team with warriors on it generally.

So he’s calling the profession trash on the basis that it is selfish. Whereas the other classes spend alot of their builds buffing teammates, warrior spends it all on themselves and then complains when they don’t win blaming others for not being as amazing as they are incombat (cause thats what people who solo que ranked do in pvp)

We don’t provide much to our teammates though so….really warriors don’t have a place when it comes to standing in circles in a 5v5 pvp fight.

i have a super hard time getting it to go off in the direction of the thing I have targetted in wvsw.

I’ll target some1 to my side who is moving behind me, and fire it when he’s at my side and it goes straight instead.

The targetting reminds me of the old gs5….just weird random directions alot of the time

And in zerg fights: it will hit the guy thats directly infront of it rather than the one I targetted, so if an enemy gets infront of me while its going off it hits the enemy infront (rly annoying for clones/pets/wvwscrap and what not). When i target a new enemy and use it on them when theres lots of enemies around me it doesn’t always go for the new enemy….goes for some random guy instead

Also changing the target right when you cast makes the guy its cast on completely random it seems. You just don’t have the control you should have over headbutt. I should be able to cast…then 0-0.5seconds after cast, change the target and have it move in a diff direction. occasionally you can pull this off but its completely random most of the time.

I don’t care about its range or its speed or whatever……I just want it to be more fluid and responsive feeling. I don’t even care if they make it harder to hit static enemies in the process! The ability is OP on paper when it works right. But that doesn’t make it okay for it to have these problems.

Fluid and controllable warriors are preferential to OP robot movement warriors.

@emkelly, Down boy! Down! Want the ball? go fetch the ball! sheeeesh, way too much energy and wayyy too much hate bro, tone it down a bit.

dont use a warhorn. it gives you a blast finisher…..but if you think that’s worth 2 weapon spots then you need to go play a different class.

And the only thing I can see making hammer work in a zerg fight is a tank warrior running nomad or something, that spams sigil of absorption or whatever the steal life on interrupt sigil is that has no cd. Meanwhile the tank ele who grants giant cc spam on everything it gets near is just strolling through the enemy zerg like a boat on the water, is asking…..“what is that idiot with the hammer doing here?”

We can’t transform as reindeer this year though…..cause devs.

Uhhhh that’s pretty funny actually…lulz

merry christmas!

Spurnshadow.3678:

One server could just not play and have no negative consequence.

Theoretically sure that could happen. Is it a reasonable to think this might happen though? no, lol.

Lets say 1 server just doesn’t play at all, so always getting the same ppt as 2nd place is. WEll then the other 2 servers would have to maintain their positions for EVERY skirmish. That’s ALOT of uptime that the winning server would have to cover. And that’s ALOT of opportunity and TIME for 2nd place server to coordinate a 2 hours sessions where they can overtake the winner. All they would need to do is win 1 skirmish….

If teams are sooooooooooo uneven that this is impossible then it isn’t the new scoring systems fault, its the matchmaking. Regardless its unreasonable to think that a team that does nothing will get 2nd place.

The new scoring system is a good way to collect data. And although it continues the legacy of flaws of the previous scoring system, it is an improvement over the previous scoring system.

No, cause then it wouldn’t be funny.

isn’t it just the fact that warrior and guardian are the most impactful lone wolf classes?

I mean people going team support and team buff roles in all the other classes are gonna be frustrated if the rest of their team doesn’t help them form that solid triangle/pentagon

Pvp is about teamplay. I would think that the team that buffs eachother would be more powerful than 5 warriors who at best can just give eachother full might while mitigating their own damage. Its like a wave vs a rock…..
When I see warriors in pvp I just see them as very limited, for the reason that pvp is about 5-team-play. Warriors aren’t what you want in a wvsw zerg (20-team-play).

Since the OP has been formally educated, this thread can now be closed.

emkelly.2371:

When it goes on that short cool down it does not cancel the passive, it just means you cannot activate the active effect for 3 seconds. the same goes for when you get interrupted.

Interesting, I’ll have to test that. You would assume any signet on cd would have its passive cancelled.

Come back with some exact numbers and details. And maybe even toss in a few complete sentences.

Assuming I read any of that correct tho:
‘What if sword 4 and F1 were swapped so 4 is the new immobilize (wat?)? And 4 is a close range attack and the 2nd part of 4, rip, is still there. Would it make it more useful?’

?!??!?!??!?!
I’m gonna go with ‘no’ as my answer…
F2 is already ranged, makes no sense to feel that F1 needs to be ranged if the F2 is ranged. And in terms of Sword 4……why would people want a melee skill as their sword 4…? Look at the potential MH for OH sword. At most you have axe 3 as the sole ranged skill if you make sword 4 melee. The f1 skills should not be reworked if you have berserk, cause you shouldn’t even be using ur F1 90% of the time unless ur spec’d for double burst, and everyone is meant to have berserk.

I don’t get why this even exists. For power users its horrid damage. For condi users its horrid damage.

Just seems like an outdated idea from gw2 vanilla that was just left in there and never truly removed/fixed.

I mean it prevents sword 4 primary from going on cooldown after you use it….its in the way. The animation is clunky and slow if you do the rip as well….you are better off auto attacking with whatever weapon you are using.

Would like to see rip removed or grant another effect of some kind.

I mean I don’t wanna make the ability OP, I just want to clean it up and give it some added utility.

Ideas for Rip:
-After Impale, if you wait 3 seconds you have a 4 second window on which to active “Rip”. Rip must be activated within 130 range. It causes target foe to become dazed and crippled (or incumbered) for 1.5 seconds, while doing a vomit (like when u eat too much halloween candy) animation. After rip is activated, Impale goes back on its 15second cooldown. You may choose to activate sword 4 anytime after the initial impale hits to put it back on cd and cancel the rip. If impale misses it goes right back to cd and skips rip.

-something simpler: remove rip

-something simpler: rip, as is, applies poison or some kind of control effect (cripple or something useless) to the target along with the measly damage.

Lahmia.2193:

I prefer the long cast time. 6s resistance is pretty powerful so needs some counter play. And if you press by accident, you can actually cancel cast.

Goes on cd though…..which is pretty bleh idea since it cancels the passive for 3 seconds or whatever. Considering you get 6 seconds resistance and a burst of healing for 17 seconds of cd…..in many cases its better just to let it finish casting if you could use those things.

I had to google who you were talking about. First off….its a female seraph, that should help ease many peoples confusion right there.

ya the joke kinda falls short now…

emkelly.2371:

Physical skills already got a pretty big buff. Don’t misunderstand me, they still need some love, but they don’t need reworked, they just need to have better cooldowns (in cases like Rampage) and a damage buff (in the case of thinks like kick and stomp) I’d love to see more vanilla warriors running around with physical skills which can actually compete with rage skills. All in all I agree with you, I just differ in my thinking on what they need.

mmmmm I disagree, although I disagree with the OP on a couple of things to boot.

There is presently no viable build that uses physical skills. Some people get away with stomp as 1 of their skills, sure, but that’s pretty much it.

Would halfing bola’s existing cooldown to a mere 6 seconds when traited, justify them in my builds? nope. Would being able to use ‘kick’ every 5 seconds justify it in my builds? nope.

Would bullsrush be jusftied on a 15s cd? sure, i can see that happening tbh.
Stomp on a 15s cd? Wouldn’t have use in my builds sstill but for many pvp sure….why not.
Would having these things make ur builds op? WEll it would be a control skill, it would make u less tanky and less damage heavy in return, but bolster synergy with teammates in ways warriors just can’t achieve atm.
Is it okay to make bullrush a 15s cd as is though? no, cause of the movement gain it provides. Is it okay to make stomp 15s as is? no, cause its an aoe skill.

If though…..we made it so landing bullsrush on an enemy halfved the cooldown of the next use….then ya we could justift the 15s cd since being incombat and ramming into an enemy would seek to counter the movement gained and give ways to avoid it being abused to kite. Additionally maybe bullsrush negates stability on use now? So you can knockdown people who use it, ands its more of a timed ability. ccing some1 with bullrush maybe activates an additional effect like protection on the cc’d warrior. Conditionxcondition as some would say is what would allow us to make skills viable while not making them abusive for other things..

Hot took some good steps towards giving abilities 2ndary abilities. It even gave a few built-in weaknesses for counterplay. This is what physical skills need tbh, and on that merit I agree with the OP.

Yes lets lower the skill floor even more…..instant casts on everything important! Screw interrupts! HOT META BABY!

And better yet lets take the weakest points of an insanely OP and utility friendly heal and bring them up to those OP levels! All OP items need to be standardized so allll their components are equal!..ok im bored

healing signet is the best utility we own imo. Most people think its the best heal in the game…..thats not something I would claim, but I have a hard time saying it isn’t. I definitely have no evidence it isn’t.

If you really wanna remove the cast time on something it should be signet of stamina. Its passive is 50% endurance regen, and its on press is 12 condi clear……kidna hard to activate a cast for that when u’ve been condi bombed though. And the cd makes the ability pretty unviable. Its a single clear ever 40 seconds or something like that. If you use it to clear a mesmer’s normal 3 condition attack they will just put 3 more conditions on you 1.5 seconds later after you tank the last conditions for 1 seconds doing the cast.
Stamina is a case where you should be rewarded for using it in situations where its meant to be used (clearing a bomb). I shouldn’t need a stability just to use something once in 40 seconds (ruining its passive effect) that does a 1-time clear and has a cast-time allowing the condition to eat at me during.

Not to mention the fact noone has room for it with the need for an unblockable these days and endurepain/berserker stance/stability/outbreak

Or we can just not play wvsw in 2017.

Isn’t that anet’s master plan? Do ur dailies in eotm then go to pvp/pve?

Tell you what, lets compromise! WE’ll alll strike in 2017 till tournaments come! That suits our needs of not playing the mode, and that suits ur goal of getting tournaments back!

Values would have to be changed. Not rly big on the idea but not really against it either.

WxP boosters would have to be changed/removed as well for this to work, alot of work.
Leveling might need a small rework….not that anyone would/should care.

When you type similar things it automatically flags it as spamming and activates excessive messaging, even if you aren’t typing for minutes at a time.

Ex)

Enemy spotted at blah blah blha
Enemy spotted near vjbjjbjkb
Enemy going around blbjbkljbljlbjkj
Enemy spotted

Stuff like that would trigger the excessive messaging spam filter.
You can get around it by changing how you say something.
So:

Ebay near lkjlkgldjldk
Red near gdlkgjsdlgsdjkl
15 by dflkjflksdfjkljfk
GUild name fskdjlkjfksfj

Another thinig that triggers it is if you arrowkey down in chat and repeat lines you said before, even if you change a few words it still triggers. Typing it out completely new is the same thing.

Honestly this is why block was created…..block any players abusing the system, and stop punishing those who aren’t. But anet chooses a noob friendly approach so everyone who enters gets the same streamlined experience.

Where is mending even viable atm? I mean healing signet rly does everything mending does but better.

Even if I wanna stack alll the condition counter abilities in the game…..id still go healing signet.

Saying as few things as possible in ts while getting a very specific point across is important. I seriously don’t get why people try to explain everything using proper full sentences if they are trying to be serious. " guys can we focus please, cut the chatter, okay everyone we are going to wait 4 seconds, dodge forward, wait 2 seconds, then charge. Everyone cool with that cause thats what we are gonnna do. so lets all group up. and lets do that in 3…..2… . . 1…go…oh wait they killed us"

If you want empower at a specifc time…then saying empower isn’t enough.
say something like “empower, 3 sec” skipping the ‘in’ if your group can understand you properly.

“empower 3 sec, tick” (countdown begins after tick is said)
“scrap” (cancel the last set of orders)
“empower 3 sec, dodge 4 sec, tick” (empower in 3 seconds, dodge in 4 seconds, each countdown begins when I say tick, so there is a 1second delay between empower and dodge)
“scrap”
“dodge back”
“kite back” (attack while moving backwards)
“charge 3 sec, tic”
“scrap”
“Sequence 3 sec: dodge, empower, dodge, wait, tic” (in 3 seconds from the tic, start a sequence of moves as ordered)

The new build so far:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAT5cnMdAlkiVhAehAElilrADJAkASdK5gWXN4d0maftA-TliHQBB4IAAi9HAwDAQc6GEoyNjokQeq/ssDCAGVCegLAQAAEg5LfkP5DMf5Lf5Lf7z3N6RP6RPapAUUaE-w

old stuff:

http://de.gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAT5cnMdAlkidhAWhAElilrADJAkASdK5gWXN4N0mabtA-TViHQBVUJo8U/Rc6GAx+DL7gAIgjAwBuAACU5HAeAABAQAm5MTmlZw4Fv4Fv4FPfX36W36W3ECQxaA-w

I need some help polishing this guy up a bit.

Main concerns:
1.-sigils
2.-condition clear
3.-condition duration hitting 100% or higher
4-berserker trait line

1.
So first with the sigils. I’m looking for utility rather than just increased stats. Honeslty I was running sigil of cleansing and sigil of geomacy on both weapons, but had forgotten they shared cooldowns between weapon sets….so 9 seconds each. I wasn’t sure if sigil of cleansing only proc’d if you had ‘2’ conditions on you. Or if it proc’s when you swapped regardless. Or if brawler’s recovery had first dibs on a condition and the sigil had second…..or vice versa, and whether this affected any of the above.
I mean depending on the answers to the above, it might be worth taking 2 sigils of cleansing, especially if it doesn’t proc unless you have 2+ condi on you (that way my weapon swap will use it when i need it).
Also on the mace/sword i have a freee spot currently used by sigil of hydromacy. There’s a strong possibility I’ll put energy on it, as I did many times want to dodge but had no endurance. At the same time though, i was never in trouble of dying when i needed to dodge….tanking the hits often lead to more healing than damage, and allowed me to cast my attacks, whereas dodging would have left me without aoe and attacks to keep the enemy occupied. I’m really on the sidelines here.

2.
I think the primary benefit of sigils is to help clear conditions at this point, the build needs all the condi clear it can get (power based attacks are pretty much covered at this point with 2x endure pain, lots of toughness, healing, and rousing resilience alll over the build).

3.
My condition duration……I don’t understand how to read the build editor. From what I could seee the 60.2% is the increased duration of all conditions, then if i scroll over it I see the special extra condition increases for blood (from my rune) and fire (trait).
So i just add this special extra condi to the total to get the total conditioin duration of the blood for example.

BUT, in wvsw this base value is very different. When I scroll over the condi duration bar it shows me values in the 90’s for blood and fire. Leaving me to conclude that ingame it shows the total condi duration of specific conditions rather than the extra like the build editor does? I mean I only have my armour and weapons in trailblazer atm and its in the 90’s…….so it just doesn’t make sense.

Anyways I need assistance on how much over 100% I should allow myself to go for some conditions to allow others to go higher. I mean right now bleeding is gonna be higher than all the others. My initial thoughts were that going 105% condi duration with bleeding would be okay, so long as fire and other conditions reap some benefit.

Debating whethr to get a 87 heal per second +70 healing over the 18-20% condi duration increase. That condi duration increase is probably something i wanna keep on further thought….if i dont need it tho ill go for the heal.

4. berserker trait l ine. not sure if i want to take savage instinct over last blaze. Headbutt+stunbreak is a 4-5k in burning that it gives. Otherwise I’m getting 2 conditioin removes, and an auto stunbreak…..meaning i can save outbreak for something else. I mean even better…..use headbutt to break stun while i have conditions on me, then once i hurt berserk i break a 2nd stun, and I still have outbreak and endure pain leftover to break 2 other stuns……lots of rousing resilience heals going on there. I mean I do get stunned and what not a million times over in some cases, so its great for that. More closed fights tho its gonna be against me I figure. not s ure which would be better. Defense vs offense…..but my offense is also for defense with this build.

Short Answer: Never

Why would people assume that HoT marked a milestone where anet would be introducing new specs into the game on a regular basis?

That makes nooooooo sense at all!

Expect more masteries and the ability to do new things like ride mounts and what not in closed instances (not rly exciting imo). But to expect every class to get new abilities? lol no. Don’t expect anything close to what hot provided. I mean where would they even go from there….? Everything now has even larger aoe? even larger condi bombs, even more porting, even more stealth, even faster rezing….even more ranged abilities…..
the only way to go is to make normal new abilities (basic melee attacks like vanilla warrior for example) and increase the stats such that they make vanilla builds obsolete and they allow hot builds to be the aoe lesser damage variants.
But even that is a dumb idea since it kills more content than it adds to the game lol.

There won’t be any new elites in gw2. At best you’d be lucky if you get a new elite skill per class….but even that seems unlikely given what we currently have.

Maybe ask Santa for some coins….?

I hear he appears in Divinities reach by Tixx’s dungeon, to give to all the creatures of Tyria when Christmas looms closer.

7 JP runs per half hour makes it a good farm? And here I thought u would need at least 12……making you 1g (sold at 10s-10.70s) after all the TP costs were taken care of.

15 seems pretty standard for people doing the farm correctly. Most I got was 13, and i ran straight for the 30 minutes and only messed up 1 jump causing me to restart 1 run at the presents…..so i coulda got 14. And I know I coulda got 15 if I took the riskier shortcuts (which i now know how to do). Some people tell me they get 17 or 19……i dont more than 17 as being possible.

i dont think its a good farm anymore though consider presents are now selling for 2s less……8sish…mbe low 9s if ur rly lucky and some1 has bought a whole chunk at the time.

prices of presents are pretty horrid atm.

anet too scared to buff things that are useless/obsolete. Cause they risk potentially making something ‘new’, that other classes haven’t had to fight against, too useful or powerful in some way.

People can kill warriors and they aren’t the top of the top….. so no changes is the best way to keep a sense of balance

welp from my experience:

Condi more effective for pve, especially large hp enemy bosses (champs or whatever). And given how simple everything other than champs and bosses in pve are…..condi is better for pve. Its tick based damage so it takes a bit of momentum but once you got that momentum everything starts to melt. The only flaw is this momenum impedes ur performance against lesser enemies….whereas with power you automatically deal high damage and cleave through them.
Plus the amount of tank you can get with condi…..just makes it so easy in pve lol. I mean condi and condi duration are ur king damage…..power would be next, but there is no gear that allows this. The other damage gears left only introduce precision into the mix…which isn’t really gonna do much for you unless u are traited for on crit damage.

Power better for spike/burst damage.

I don’t do raids but whenever I have tried them I’ve been told to go condi cause they can’t use a power warrior. Or some1 can easily come and take my place as power warrior….and they tell me to go condi warrior or change to ele. Idk, just feels like condi is more wanted when I try to raid.

I mean thats all just from my personal experience and the numbers I experience and what not. I check the combat logg for all my builds, but I don’t crunch the numbers like they do for raids….but the only way i see power warrior trumping condi warrior is through Phalanx strength and the hypothetical 25×30×6 (you and 5 others is it? or just 5 total? idk, make that 6 a 5 mbe) = alot of extra power and damage that a condi warrior can only offset with fire fields….and fire fields won’t offfset it by much.

Definitely gonna take me longer to kill enemies in wvsw with condi. With my gunflame I kill half of the players I meet in 2 hits though i.e. tap them with rifle 4 then fire gunflame….unless they got protection on themselves or an ally booning them.

well suit urself. Im making a condi pve warrior with bow+ mace/sword atm with trailblazer stats…..get all my conditions as close to 100% as possible without going over, and invest the rest in condi and defense (vitality, toughness, healing power even).

I was running sword/shield + mace/sword for a bit in pvp as well. It lacked the aoe and ranged relief that bow gave, but it was pretty good still. you can chain shield + ur two blocks with all ur cc for some good nail drivers. The sword berserk is by far the best part of sword MH imo. i wouldn’t dream of using sword without berserker mode for flaming furry. Sword 1, 2, 3, F1 are really not good damage dealers. Sword F2 surprised me tho with the kind of burns it ‘could’ do.

Danng son, this is pathetic. Pick urselves up off the flooor and have some dignity.

So desperate for an answer you are willing to take the fall for every mistake? lulz….fine suit urself.

Welp I got my tag last christmas. After a year I’ve grown out of wvsw commanding alot…..had some gooood times tho, but whatever.

I’ll give you some brief stuff:

-figure out how you wanna command (teamspeak or text or both)
-figure out the role of the command you want (havoc, zerg, scout, defense/upgrade)
-figure out how ‘you’ want to fight (your class, your build-tank/melee/ranged/cannon/combo/support)
-figure out how you want other people to fight for you when u lead (using siege support, ranging, charging, kititing, counterplay, blob formation, shield wall)

Once you do thatttttttttttt:
Get siege. Nobody likes a commander that don’t have siege on them. Buy all your basic siege (kmart blue siege) off the TP. Buy superior cata with heroics at the notary, buy all the other superior siege off the TP though with buy orders (cheaper). If you have a tonnnn of notaries you might buy superior rams with them too…..honestly you should look at the TP prices before spending ur notaries on rams even though, I mean superior trebs cost alot less than superior cats on the TP but take twice as many notaries as cats.

Buy some traps (just siege disruptors is fine)

So in total YOu should have:
-ALOT of basic arrowcart/rams/catapults (100-250)
-ALOT of superior rams and superior catapults (50-100)
-10-20 superior ac, and superior ballista
- 5-10 Superior generator, superior trebuchet, siege disablers,

Extra that comes in handy if you have money:
-superior golemns, and guild siege in general is the best siege posssible….but its expensive

You should also bring some feasts (lvl 70+). You can just bring a generic one. Heck I’ll send you my generic one if you want, I make them for 20c each and spam them all over the borderlands for lulz sometimes.

You should USE FOOOD AND UTILITIES IF YOU COMMAND. I cannot stress that enough. If you aren’t taking wvsw seriously how can you expect anyone in ur squad to? What you use depends on ur build. I mean me: i use seaweed salad and furious sharpening stones…or just the 1 hour superior sharpening stones since money is scarce. The tank foods are cheaper….cept the 10% damage reduction stuff.

Start making friends in wvsw through whatever methods you have available:
-Joining TS rooms and talking via mic is probably the fastest way.
-following commanders, joining commander squads…..getting ur name out there
-be nice to people
-join guilds (plurrrral)
-acknowledge people taht join u when u command.
- be chatty, talkitive (text/mic/both)
-be gimmicky (people like gimmicks, give ur commander char a funny name or roleplay name or something, use a flashy build, use flashy skins, do certain unorthodox things every run (killing the giant grub in ebg or something for example…..or do a suicide run or build golemns or escort yaks…..anything reallly that people dont do en mass anymore..lineup and dance….idk)

…blah blah blha

learn the siege placement spots by watching other commanders. thats really the best way to learn. YOu need to learn the siege placement spots, thats really important. you can’t just build random rams or cats and expect to do well (at least not in a smaller command or against people who defend proper)

- find some1 u can share command with. they takeover when you need a bathroom break or to stretch ur legs….its rly strenous to sit and watch the map and chat and enemy and dictate orders and still fight allllll at the same time for ur entire play session. When they aren’t commanding they should be ur lieutenant, dictating lesser tasks so u dont have to do as much work. Then you both switch when ready.

-learn all the command functions. the 8 command beacons, the 8 command target icons, the map icons, the minimap pings (ok those aren’t important), learn to open ur squad so everyone can send invites……all that jazz…..learn /p and /squad….learn squad broadcasts.

edit: if i say notaries…i just mean heroics…..the yellow things in ur wallet ur spend at the notary

Oh I just realized I assumed you have HOT? Oh well, I’m gonna function assuming you do…

Here:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAT5cnUJClkidhAWhAElilrATJH06qBvh2UbrFJAkASdA-TVSHQBA4BAQgDCAzuAAC4IAcGdDyS5HhU/JE7PgRlgBAQAm5MTmlZwRP6RP6RPazcmzcmzcmlCwu1AA-w
edit: ( i swapped in discipline line since arms hardly does anything for you with such a low crit rate)

I took ur build and changed some things to make it more viable. It looks perrrrrty awesome imo, I might even try it. Note this isn’t a meta build though, you would have to take shield instead of offhand sword for it to be even considered meta build. But meta is boring, and you don’t need it for wvsw…..better to have a more diverse and fun build and this looks perty diverse and fun if I do say so myself.

You can decide for yourself what your tier 3 berserker skill is……eternal champion or bloody roar would also be viable options. Bloody roar basically just for the taunt. And eternal champion looks great just it could potentially mess up your rousing resilience stun breaks…..
but I would definitely try eternal champion out for this build. Being able to fire your abilities while in berserk mode is really important, and your stunbreakers can be exhausted by the enemy for better or for worse at the wrong times. Whatever, eternal champion probably better now that I think about it…..lol, ya probaly go eternal champion instead of king of fires. If ur allies are giving you stability, or the enemies aren’t cc’ing the kitten out of you then just go king of fires….
Bloody roar would mainly be for killing thieves

Also feel free to use healing signet instead of defiant stance. I chose defiant stance cause you said you were doing it for groupplay. And defiant stance, asssuming you are really pro at playing warrior and reading the game, is gonna be a better choice for mitigating zerg loads of damage (wvsw). Basically its for situations where the entire enemy group is focus firing you. It assumes you have enough survivability to stay in the fights through normal situations, and gives you more ways to survive when the enemy focus fires the kitten out of you. Its like having 3 endure pains….lets put it that way. Also discourages the enemy from focus firing you…..since they kno the cd isn’t that large on this ability and they are wasting their time when you got 2 other endure pains available not to mention 2 blocks and 4 dodges….that adds up to 8 seconds+4 second +3 second…..about 15 seconds of invulnerability from infinite damage values if you chain properly.

Edit: tried build in pvp, not bad tbh (use carrion amulet)

-headbutt over signet of rage….especially since you said this isn’t for solo roam. Really no debate here, take headbutt. Can get swiftness (not that you really need it) and fury (again not overly important since u got a hypothetical 28 constant seconds of it stashed) from allies. I guess ur burst skills have multiple ticks so 100% crit chance would apply to all those ticks? Never really considered that, seems decent if it does.
edit: just realized you aren’t running berserker line, so ignore my suggestion for now.

I personally don’t like balanced stance. Whenever I use it the enemy just eats through the 2 stability per 3 seconds it supplies…..and its horrid for stomping when you got 2-3 downed enemies by you. U are only getting swiftness out of it….tahts the only reason to take balanced stance. Just go dolyak signet….gives you 180 toughness instead of swiftness, and you WONT get knocked down unless you are boon stripped.

In terms of ur fondness for s/s. I get it. Sword-sword looks kitten, I even tried again to make it work in wvsw.
I mean this is a pretty good synopsis on what happens in gw2 when you use s/s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_CkkREzCQw&t=8s
….aka the ‘thief’ at the ending

You aren’t gonna be facing other warrriors in wvsw, your gonna be facing things jumping around, shooting u full of arrows, and stabbing you all over. Sword sword has a single block and the main attack only hits things in short melee range…..its not made for countering ranged or teleporting attacks. So basically its worthless against every class except for vanilla warrior lulz.

It has some semblance of a place in pve….although its really offset by torch. At best you can use it for 1vs1 honour duels….but even then it ain’t great.

Maybe mace/sword? lol…idk that might be interesting i might try that out tbh.

plenty of other things to pick apart for this build, but thats my main things illl suggest you look at changing.

When in doubt just take greatsword…still gonna do more for you in wvsw than sword-sword will, even though you are running condi.

Spartacus.3192:

sigil of draining on a ranged weapon where your HP should be at 100% just doesn’t seem efficient as you said.

Well in its defense, nothing worth killing DOESN’T hit me at least once with ‘something’. Even if its just retaliation.

But Ya I’m not liking it either…..hoping to go back and I’m hoping when I do go back I won’t have the interrupt bug…….i’d bet 100g that it does come back though, not like anyone cares tho (player base or anet). I dont’ really get why my damage feels like crap….maybe its just the enemies I face (that happens alot tbh since its wvsw and enemy types vary each day). I always hated sigil of force. But Now I want to return to a rifle that uses it. Honestly maybe I’lll just put sigil of rage or something gimmicky on my day rifle and return my night rifle to sigil of night and air. I used to use sigil of rage…..it honestly was fun and made rifle alot less clunky feeling, although not very reliable for sure given my tendency to proc combat on pve then fire my killlshots.

thats like playing a very difficult single player puzzle game and complaining, while you have a printed version of the walkthrough infront of you, that its too easy and straightforward.

vove.2768:

I run marauder rifle/gs in wvw and killing thieves is megaeasy. Don’t listen to the “advice” on standing still xD And always evade backwards. Keep track of his cds, especially steal/shadowstep, hit him when he is in stealth.

I shoulda rephrased it to: not using wasd or turn. that’s what I meant by standing still. You can dodge all you want while standing still since it doesn’t change ur 360 degree attack radius.

And if the OP is having difficulty with fighting thieves what do you think their movement patterns are like presently? They are probably moving forward, backwards, side-side, thinking that standing there is what’s gonna get them killed……moving serves no purpose when fighting a thief ’that’s attacking’, it just makes it easier for them. I use seaweed (10% extra damage while moving) and I STILL opt to standing still when they come for me, cause landing the hits is hard and is infinitely times more important than +10% damage.

If you have no problem hitting or reading the thief then sure, ya don’t need to listen to me. Listen to the guy using marauders gear instead.

Huskyboy.1053:

sPvP response you guys realize that Whirling axes is extremely useful in combo fields right? Obviously it’s useful for chasing too, but when used in a dark, light, lightning, ice, or smoke field it creates a ridiculous number of bolts throughout the channel. On top of the damage of course. Very useful if you’re smart and paired with a guardian, necromancer, condi rev, or ele. Just gotta time it right. That’s largely what makes that skill so good. What I said goes for any combo field but the ones I listed don’t require any healing power or condi damage investment to be useful.

meh, gimmick stuff. cool beans though

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mending

…what!?!

How could a cast heal justified as a physical skill? Unless the animation is for the warrrior to stab himself with healing syrum or physically assult thier own body….. I don’t see.

Even if this is a troll, comment why u bother?

I don’t understand the point in ppt anymore. Just I feel kittened for even trying to increase my team’s ppt. It doesn’t matter at alllll what I do. I can even command a group of 20 or more and steamroll stuff and I still don’t feel like it matters unless I’m upgrading thigns to T3 or Destroying T3 stuff.

Anyone else just feel dumb for playing the way we used to play? I only feel like im doing something when I’m working to upgrade something to T3. And this requires considerable time, investment, and repetition. Break out the guild upgades……get people to escort yaks, get people to defend yaks.

The whole game is turning into yak escort simulator. The best tactics for borderlands are going to be to have a havoc group in the enemy territory, and everyone else focusing on upgrading holdings to T3, putting all guild upgrades on them, and expanding these holdings very very slowly one at a time outward and upgrading them to T3 one at a time. Making golemns for camps and having them stall enemy attacks….lulz. Just stupid kittent like that….

Pay to win baby. Seeing nothing but golemn rushes each night now…..and no enemy can defend against that many golemns with so few. No defensive siege can save you from the money.