Guild Wars 2

Pressing 2 with my sword right when someone punted the guy off the cliff. I did not make it.

Some day the people of GW2 will understand how a 1v1v1 works. Then they will understand that there will always be double teaming. And stop complaining about it. That day will be glorious.

Hammer Sword / Mace
Numba one stunna

Perhaps if it sliced the enemy in half it would be great!

I absolutely love the idea of having than one burst choice. I hate sword burst but I have to run sword for the mobility. Even more than 1 burst per weapon period because I sometimes like to throw on a greatsword and that burst is pretty terrible too.

Can you tell us anything about the condies that hurt our movement abilities? I think a lot of us have suggested the mobile strikes removing chill and crippled as well. Is this something you’re going for? Or have you come up with something different?

With the current system it doesn’t encourage anyone to do anything but zergball. Really need to increase rewards for small manning things, upgrading, building siege… Ect. One of the best upgrades for the thankless job of scouting, upgrading and building siege is currently the most rank costly, the increase supply and yet the person doing this job gets very little to no WXP. Would be nice to have a reason to not just run in a giant lagging zergball all the time.

Vodka.3958:

Coldviper.6794:

Vodka.3958:

Coldviper.6794:

GoF, you guys should run all thieves since all you do is run. All you’re necro’s are just fun wiping.

Well if you aren’t running in WvW, then you are walking. So in that sense I’m pretty sure we all do our fair share of running

&how come you only enjoy wiping their necros and not their guardians instead? Did the patch increase the precursor drops for killing necros? Srs question

I only noticed their mass necro’s that just die like foolish children. I’m sure we kill the guards on the way.

Anyway, GoF, try taking our tower again. See what happens.

Dang you sound really dangerous there bro, I’m scared for sure!!!

I’m very soft and cuddly.

Vodka.3958:

Coldviper.6794:

GoF, you guys should run all thieves since all you do is run. All you’re necro’s are just fun wiping.

Well if you aren’t running in WvW, then you are walking. So in that sense I’m pretty sure we all do our fair share of running

&how come you only enjoy wiping their necros and not their guardians instead? Did the patch increase the precursor drops for killing necros? Srs question

I only noticed their mass necro’s that just die like foolish children. I’m sure we kill the guards on the way.

Anyway, GoF, try taking our tower again. See what happens.

Can JQ and BG stop running from me? My pink outfit and quaggan can’t be that scary can they?

Bakitten291:

Nuked.2360:

Heavens Brethren.6471:

Congrats JQ for maintaining first place by being the lead server in a two server team. I solute you for your individual servers skill in Wv3. Good job manning up to your loss last week by showing such excellent strategy! =) Go “Jade Rall.” Cheer

You seem a little mad you do realize that SoR hit us just as much as you guys. Thing is our stuff wasn’t paper when they hit it. We capitalized on your guys dead periods and you guys struggled to do so this is the result.

So Sor is in the water only attacking our people… JQ is on the hill, only attacking our people… yep sure your point is totally proven. Btw, this is directly outside our spawn.

Ah fun stuff. Always enjoy pushing hackgate.

Pretty much, they made players worth wayyy too much and capturing worth way too little.

Terrible point design and after every patch it just seems like Anet wants us all to kitten zerg around all day with their awesome skill lag.

In fact you should get a lot more for defense imo.

EMP! STOP RUNNING! I WANT MY BAGS AND WXP!

Skill lag imo has slightly improved but still bad during all you JQ’s giant zergyness.

Uh hello, they removed the one thing that made home BLs interesting like a month after release! Remember the orb that everyone couldn’t resist hacking!?

If they nerf it too hard I’m not sure what build I’ll run. But they also mentioned buffing mantras which I’ve always wanted to try, so if they do I might give mantras a try.

I don’t understand why people act like it’s such a big decision to stop playing an mmo. Especially a F2P one. If you’re bored maybe go play something else? And “come back” later?

Was about to argue that it is another form of currency. But I’m assuming you mean a currency that doesn’t take up bag space. Which does make sense, and who knows why they didn’t do it as it was clearly pretty easy to just throw out the new laurels. And I’m sure they’ll just say there’s some technical reason why they can’t do it now.

The CC is hardly all that impressive or unique being that it’s so easily countered by blinds and people who know how to press dodge when I’m flying in the air or pulling it back for a charge smash.

Hammer could really use some love. Perhaps 3rd swing with 1 being a blast finisher as well.

Oops yes, and on that note, as much as I love it, they gotta fix the leg Specialist trait on arrow carts in wvw. So OP.

Just curious us on some of my fellow warriors would like to see for us in the patch tomorrow.

There’s honestly not a whole lot I could ask for. But here’s just a couple things I wouldn’t mind.

-Mobile Strikes removing chill and crippled as well.
-Endure Pain not taking damage from conditions or lifesteal.
-Some way to make blinds not such a hard counter to hammer. Perhaps making Earth shaker hit regardless of blind or not.

Those are really all I could hope for. How about you?

Korbaal.6402:

Coldviper.6794:

Ljiona.9142:

Coldviper.6794:

Does anyone on JQ play for the fights? Or just to win? Serious question.

Don’t you have to fight to win? Serious…

Well if you consider a zerg killing 10 people a “fight”. Then I know where you stand.

If you want small scale battles you could spvp. Or go out there and recruit more guilds for your TZ. But in reply to your question, There’s nothing more fun than running around in a large zerg steam rolling everything in its path. Call it what you will, fight/slaughter whatever.

I think everyone who play’s any game will play to win. If you dont then you need to re-evaluate your outlook.

Serious.

Ok, so if this is what the majority of JQ feels, then I know where you stand.

I like good fights as in something that can and does fight back and may even come close to or does beat me. Thats what I call fun. Thats what I call a fight.

And of course I play to win the fight, I guess I should’ve asked, do you more care about winning the overall match, or the battles. Screw overall because that’s just a coverage game on who has more people in a 24/hour time frame.

Ljiona.9142:

Coldviper.6794:

Does anyone on JQ play for the fights? Or just to win? Serious question.

Don’t you have to fight to win? Serious…

Well if you consider a zerg killing 10 people a “fight”. Then I know where you stand.

Does anyone on JQ play for the fights? Or just to win? Serious question.

Weirdo’s in this thread. Just weirdo’s.

That shield is terrible for any TRUE engineers. You guys are just seeking attention trying to be “different”.

WTB Legendary gear shield.

I noticed this ability just has a small splash behind me, is that the only part of the field that causes knockdown? When I read the description it made me believe there would be some kind of trail I leave behind. Is there any actual lasting trail? Or is it literally only if their in the small splash directly behind me?

Also a side question for its toolbelt skill super speed. Does super speed ignore cripple or chill and still boost your speed to basically out of combat speed?

Im Not Braxton.6283:

Vash.9183:

I know people are going to call QQ, but SoR is to blame for the lack of good fights from BG this week. We only have 1 guild on in BG at this point and they are fighting a large JQ zerg in EBG. Our ppt is ranging from 85-105. While we’re duking it out with JQ and basically all the BL maps are completely silent and have plenty of points to capture, SoR decides to bring their zerg of about 80+ members to attack us at the same time.This is only one out of many instances.

I know I’d say “QQ” if someone else was saying this, but if you want a reason for the lack of effort this week, it’s because Choo & co. are griefing our players when there is already enough stress on our ppt. Not surprised you guys have such a bad reputation.

We were griefed by choo the other week. We had to team up with ICoa to get anything done. It was annoying. they did nothing but follow us. They are such a large guild. I can see the point in doing it. It wrecks the other players moral. Tactics maybe.

Griefed? Isn’t WvW a form of PvP? How is killing you in a pvp zone griefing? It’s like complaining about being ganked in a game on a PvP server… You chose to be there.

EMP refuses to GvG TW during primetime with the reason given that the score was too close.

Currently doing one against BG, AGG guild, during primetime, only down 9k, with the current lowest PPT.

Suspicious.

Some of us our confused with the time change. Is it in 3 minutes or an hour and 3 minutes?

Update and a thank you letter to Jade Quarry.

Drama. You have the answers. I have the answers. We all have the answers. Coverage is coverage and is what wins matches. Why do you care so much about winning is the question, do you get some sort of prize that I dont know about?

WTB Rankings so we can have a lot less. “Well caught a fish 5 feet long!” And more evidence to support it.

Owning you strategically with our classes skills. Preposterous!

Get better scouts. Baddy.

This lag was so horrid right at reset, couldn’t even spam 1, then would get stacks of confusion and suddenly 1 fires a million times. People ghosting everywhere bouncing around the screen. Culling still horrible.

However it would APPEAR to have cleared up a bit. Appear. I might just be getting lucky for a bit.

Everythings always been instant when bought on the BLTC, recently bought a makover kit and it consumed my 350 gems but never sent the item via mail.

And then there were none. Thanks for the tower.

I’ll have to look into recording, maybe I can get some good footage this friday. Never done really any recording so I’ll talk to some people and see if I can get it set up.

Mayan.7164:

What do you think about Mace/Shield and Physical Utilities combination with Hammer?

I have tried mace shield however not with physical utilities, I feel like I need the stability at the very least with shake it off for stun breaks and and conditions. Perhaps I’ll try it when I have enough guardian support that I dont need the stability or stun breakers.

Also I remember one of the big things bothering me with mace or even axe mainhand is lack of mobility, pretty much the only reason I mainhand sword is savage leap. I like the idea, but being mobile in WvW just too important. I did kind of like the extra block though, and also taking reflect on block trait.

Hammer has some issues with blinds, but I don’t typically play for the solo role, I play for smashing large groups faces in and stunning them while being able to take a hit while my group behind me takes them out with damage.

And I can still solo camps just fine, simply swap to sword axe and it’s fine once the blind field wears off of the scouts I can throw hammer back on and then I focus them down.

Good grief people, in such a hurry to start an argument. I don’t think I ever said in that statement that it would be a bad thing for a mobile strikes buff. And I don’t, I would kill for mobile strikes to remove cripple and chill.

^ pretty much nailed it.
Funny how being crippled or chilled actually makes you hit with it a LOT harder. Which is the one scenario where if they buffed mobile strikes to remove cripple and chilled would actually weaken this ability.

It’s not bad, personally I just feel like after 50% crit there’s really no need to go higher which is why I dont put anything in arms. If I did I’d do rendering strikes. That much crit just seems unnecessary imo. But it’s nice, I definitely should swap death from above with for berserkers power, I just get lazy sometimes with swapping traits. Because DFA can be very useful in some situations.

I change around food based on what my fights are looking like. I typically go Omnomberry Pies or the -40% Condition Duration food. And actually yes on trinkets sometimes I will throw on berserker stuff IF I’m not MA or IF our fights are going well. Sometimes we go up against really good guilds in T1 and ultimately winning those fights comes down to staying alive, so as a hammer warrior its not my job to deal damage, my job is to CC.

The scout blinds make it difficult, honestly you just got to do a lot of kiting, I recommend killing the guards all first then the lord. It’s very difficult to do much with a hammer, which is my main build but offhand sword/axe works out pretty well.

Also I only run P/T/V gear but use lifesteal food and if possible I like to have the healing signet instead of mending when I do this.

Just thought I’d share my WvW Hammer build I’ve been running for a long time and tweaked to what I personally find perfect, at least for the way I play. I’m an alt-aholic, so that kind of goes with what I run in my offhand. Basically this build lets me be a bit a bit optional for my offhand weapons.

Main Weapon – Obviously Hammer
Offhand options I change based on how my fights might be going, what I’m fighting, ect.
Offhand Options – Sword/Shield(Most frequently ran when I’m MA or really having difficulty staying alive.)
Sword/Axe(For a bit more fun offense and nice adrenaline gain)
Greatsword(I’ll occasionally mess with this, basically same reason for a bit more fun offense)

The Build -
Strength – 10 – Death From Above
Arms – 0
Defense – 30 – Embrace the Pain, Merciless Hammer, Defy Pain/Last Stand(Sometimes run into groups running a lot of knockbacks so I’ll throw on last stand instead.)
Tactics – 10 – Leg Specialist(Mmmm Hammer Shock makes this own)
Discipline – 20 – Signet Mastery, Mobile Strikes(Hence why I always run sword or greatsword, amazing for getting out of roots, just wish it helped with chills and cripples)

Heal/Utilities / Elite -
Mending
Shake It Off
For Great Justice
Balanced Stance
Signet of Rage

Armor – All my armor is power toughness vitality gear, people should really recognize that if you cant stay alive in WvW big fights, you might be the reason we’re losing because of the rallying function. And surprisingly when running with a big group, you get a good amount of boons already which still make you consistently hit rather hard. Especially due to the fact that many people in WvW are glass cannons. I do run a bit of knight rings and accessories for a little added crit.

Weapons – Hammer, Sword, Shield are all P/T/V, but my Axe and Greatsword are Berserkers, simply because that is their intent for when I want more offense.

Runes – 2 Superior Runes of Water / 2 Superior Runes of the Monk / 2 Superior Runes of Hoelbrack. IMO boons in this game are OP, most classes that run good boon builds will do very well. There’s honestly not a whole lot of removal in the game so it helps you hit like a truck and keep swiftness up.

Sigils – Bloodlust on hammer, axe and shield, Battle on sword, and Rage is awesome on greatsword time it right and you can get a full 100b off without being kitten glass cannon frenzy 100b warrior.

So anyway, that’s my warrior, feel free to tell me what you think, and I can’t help it but I have to post kitten with it all.

Step 1. Get PTV gear.
Step 2. Dont be bad.
Step 3. Destroy every glass cannon backstabbing thief.

Well I know when you mix legendaries with footprints you only get one. But as he said you lose the ice up the arm effect in offhand. But I’ve done more research and you still keep footprints. However I wouldn’t be surprised if this is fixed in a later update. Always seeing legendaries randomly getting updates for their effects.

I’d be interested to see a warrior with bolt and frostfang, wonder what overrides what.

I’ve heard that with frostfang you dont get a certain part of the effect if its equipped in the offhand. Can anyone confirm or deny?

I’m thinking of going for frostfang but if I lose footprints or any other part of the effect I really dont want to waste my time.

How about some props to the opponent in this 3 way? Give some of your enemies some credit? Who has been some of your top opponents that gave you some of those crazy fun fights?!

1. Best open field fights – Votf good fights, impressive how well you stick together.

2. Toughest defenders – EMP, just wish you guys would stick around longer after we finally penetrate the defense.

4. Most unique strategies – I’m blank here honestly, everyone seems to do the same thing in T1. Maybe votf again just because they seem to do it the best.

5. Biggest zerg – Either EMP or Tsym it seems… sooooo many.

Anyone else?

edit: oops on missing 3, made an edit at the end, was gonna add “Best dressed” but thats kind of hard to tell.

Depends what you’re doing. For big group WvW I can tell you hammer wins, and I’ll swap around with GS or S/Sh secondary depending on how my days going. I hate sword burst, but savage leap makes it almost neccessary to use for survival.

Well being Charr I can tell you my character looks like a bad * with t3 culteral and juggernaut. However as a hardcore WvWer I can tell you sometimes I wish I were an Asura just because being a smaller target really does help a bit with how many people target you. I’m a big ol charr with a juggernaut… I tend to be one of the primary targets.

However I do have other Asuran toons and I can honestly say I lack any interest in gear cosmetics which is sad because that’s a big thing in GW2. My warrior looks awesome and is fun to play as a charr, my engineer is fun to play, but meh not interesting really to look at.