Guild Wars 2

Why is this skill lag still in the game? Its been here for a long time now. Anet adds content but it seems like they aren’t keeping the hardware or software up with the stuff.

If you plan on just swinging away at w/e is near you then yes Warrior is easiest to play. If you plan on working as a team to bring down a worthy opponent, then you may think otherwise. I laugh everytime I see a Theif or a Mesmer or even a Ranger just run straight at me like they own the place. Normally they result in just auto attacking and spamming w/e they have that isn’t on cd.

I find it hard to trust people when they say Warrior is op when so many people I personally have seen have no idea how to play against someone who can take a hit annnd give it right back. Warriors are vulnarable to range attacks (not all but most builds). Kite them if you seem them pull out an axe or a gs as they normally require decent proximity to fight you. If they pull out a rifle, get right in their face and circle attack them. It is very hard to keep targets on someone moving around your feet with a rifle.

But kitten y people just run in swinging and they get their butts handed to them so they complain.

For the people who did not play Guild Wars 1, there was a condition called, Disease. What it did was it would put degen on a target, then if you stood near a target..ally or foe, of the same species (Humans -Humans, Charr-Charr etc) it would spread to them. Essentially becoming nearly impossible to remove unless someone did a mass cleansing or people stood away from each other.

That being out of the way, why did they take it out? IMO it would be a great anti-zerg condition. I’m not saying it would obliterate it, but it would definitely make a zerg hesitate to say…stand in the aoe of a dead cow from trebs that would use disease. As it would go viral and could not be removed until people cleansed it.

Side question, why did they remove Deep Wound. For non-Guild Wars 1 players, it would take a percentage of your TOTAL hp not your current hp and it would chunk it back. It would only be triggered by certain skills. Normally after bleed (Severe Artery/ Gash)

Currently I am using Knight armor/Hoelbrak runes, Knights Hammer/Rifle or Sword /Shield, Cavalier Trinkets. Sharpening Stones. + Poultry and Leak soup, 25 Bloodlust stacks. With this combo I have around 2800-2900 power, 45% crit chance (With Fury), and I am traited 0/0/30/10/0/30 when using Sword/Shield, 0/10/30/0/30 when using Rifle. Hammer is and always will be my main weapon. I know it too well to just drop it now. I will never leave you again my hammer!

10/10. That my friend looks like a true Ranger Charr.

This is my new and improved Charr. Meet…. Furby Fighter Curby.

She is a banished Blood Legion soldier exiled for disobeying orders when she lead her Furby Warband against the Flame Shaman before backup arrived. She later raided a Blood Legion armory and managed to get away with some armor from it. She later crafted her own armor to make up for the loss of coverage. She remains a Gladium.

Well I have trial ran nearly every combo of weapon I can think of with Warriors. I have come to my conclusion that for me personally, I get the best results from Axe/Shield – Axe/Warhorn when I am in a small group in WvW.

Now I need the Warrior community to help me. I have been debating with myself for months on what gear would be good with this setup and I have changed nearly 10 times.

For me I noticed results from Cavalier armor + Cavalier trinkets and Knights armor + Cavalier Trinkets. I tried Soldier and it was too…..tanky.. I know you may be raising an eyebrow at me for that but when I say tanky I mean real tanky.. no damage just eating damage. I want to be able to dish it out while taking it back.

I am not going for the godmode setup nor am I looking for the one shot kill. I am looking for sustained dps while supporting my group so they can run the damage. But being useless in damage when they go down is not going to help anyone when I am hitting for 1k damage per crit.

I am currently running Hoelbrak runes over Lyssa but I am starting to wonder atm.

Any suggestions for gear?

Just curious if Anet has any plans to implement Mantle support? I don’t expect it just curious. For those who don’t know what it is, it is basically a new Directx 3d renderer that is more for low end PC’s hardware and it is open source. Meaning Nvidia..Intel whoever wants to make it compatable to their stuff can. It releases uneeded workload on the CPU so it can basically.. ramp up performance pretty high for a lower end machine. It is also very console friendly to make them more able to handle the higher end games. That is what I know about it but im sure there is much more to it then this.

Mods if this is in the wrong spot put it where it belongs IDK where to put technical discussions at because it isn’t a technical issue.

When you cancel Flurry for Warriors and swap to another weapon with a channel time (Hundred Blades). You will stall out and start walking backward or just sit their and you can’t move.

War Condi Meta joke.

2 swords walk into a gym.. they see the longbow sitting in the corner. The swords ask.. whats wrong longbow? The longbow says… I think I pulled something.

That isnt roaming. That is a mob without a purpose. Roaming is solo. Mobbing is what this is. Just running around with a large group (not zerg size) and just killing random things.

Kind of like how 20+ man guilds in one blob classify themselves as “havoc”.

Yeah I felt the same way. It is sort of out of the Warriors element to not use DPS style of damage or Burst. I use Rabid with my S/S LB build. I use Dire with my Hammer/LB build.

S/S LB = 0/30/20/0/20.This setup is a bit less forgiving if you mess up so play carefully.
Hammer/LB = 20/0/20/0/30. This setup is much more forgiving if you mess up but the damage is much much much less.

I tend to stay away from raw damage builds because they are easy to avoid IMO. Ive been killed by them but it isn’t too often for me personally. Then again I dodge more then a politic during election season so I tend to avoid being hit by telegraphed single target skills.

There are plent of setups out there that people use with LB because the Burst attack it has is so useful.

The new content seems to be more prone to condi damage.. am I the only one noticing this?

Running a DPS LB is not advised. Mainly because the base damage is subpar when compared to the condi damage it produces. There is a reason it is normally used with s/s. It stacks the burning to a duration level that the enemy must remove it or die.

Im not saying it is impossible but when compared to the burning damage. DPS LB is just not enough to make it a real threat.

So when are the servers going to be optimized to a point where skirmishes are less likely to be based on luck (skill regging first)? I am getting a bit tired of being back stabbed by theives only what seems like 4 times and in reality it is around 8-10 and I am downed.

This may be what shooters consider (Hit reg) IDK if that applies to MMO’s but that is how I know it as. I will use my Earthshaker and I will be suspended in the air for the entire duration of the skill reguardless of how close the impact zone I want is. All the while I am being beaten down by a random roamer and that is around 2 free hits I just got handed to me.

This is horribly apparent when zergs get into it on EB and it just lags and the server hamsters cannot handle the load Anet wants them to handle. Me and my squad will be in a fight and it just falls apart when the lag sets in so bad that our spikes just do not sync and we just crumble because we have no coordination.

I was helping a friend and a ranger was cherry picking us in the animal pit. I gibbed him and we went up only to be greeted with like 20+ BG guildies all just posted up at the top.

Really BG? resorting to camping a JP? Lol. Pretty bad when you are so overflowed with noobs that you have a full blown zerg camping JP’s.. No I am not kidding. 20+ people camping one JP.

Its even worse when I actually get up to you noobs and I gib 5 of you before your group even knows what happened.

Use Sword/Dagger /GS and spec into avoid and evade…use throwable traps. It is just hilarious at the roaming ability of an evasion ranger. It even gives a theif a run for their money in evasion. With the combo of back stabs and stuns all with traps constantly being thrown at their feet. IMO the ranger is the single most valuable havoc class next to the warrior.
They can’t be hit by anything if you play it right. You just work your way to the back of the battle lines in a skirmish and just troll the kitten out of the lights. Throw traps everywhere. Let the heavies deal with the damage and big guys.

Rangers are so miss played in this game is saddens me. Rangers have other weapons besides the bow. Use them. They are amazing when used right. This is just my 2 cents though. Dont deny it try it for yourself.

I had a long talk with my friend about her ranger the other day. She finally listened to me when I said rangers are never designed for “Spike” or " Condi bleed spam" as she was saying. She needed to nit pick at the enemy until they gave up or they died from the slow ticking of poison and bleed from the dagger.

Okay I have been cruising around in WvW lately and having good/bad times.. Died my few share and ive killed my few share. However I can’t help but notice every now and again there are guardian groups running around. Ok I am bracing for death I get hit.. ONCE, read this very carefully so you fully understand.. ONCE.. one skill. The scepter aoe skill. It is dropped on me and I am dead. 25k hp -0 in under a second. I come back and the guy is gone.

Just his other guards around. They come for me and I try to run they catch me. I turn around and am duking it out. Ok they are clearly not damage specced because I am just not taking damage at all. However I hit one of them with everything I had….I don’t need to be damage specced to make a dent in a guardian with a warrior full bar burndown on someone. He was KD’d and I did it again. His hp never moved. At all. I apply burn/bleed/torment. All gone instantly. I cannot do anything to this guy.

His buddy comes along and one shots me again with scepter aoe.

Is this some new godmode build or is it a cheating group? I can name names or video but Anet will try to remove the post.

This is not a new build. It has been around for a long time. It is just now being used more because of the Condi buffs.

Lol, really? Why the hell does blind effect an AOE effect? Last I knew a bomb isn’t going to miss from a blind. Its aoe it should hit. I understand the direct damage it can have but why does the blast get taken away from blind? I am getting owned in PvP from people blind spamming me and since I favor AOE when I am with my party in WvW it all misses. Even my Earthshaker misses. Same with Longbow Arcing Shot misses when blinded. My guildies told me it also makes their shatters miss at times.

Its broken.. fix it anet. I highly doubt it was intended to effect AOE skills (Not the direct hit from the initial AOE impact if it is a character target AOE).

Okay, lately I have been making topics about my Charr having massive skill delay since the beta. Well I have been doing some serious testing and comparing and I think I have come to a conclusion.

The skill delay for a Warrior, is caused by the Adrenaline bar filling up the tiers 1-2-3. As the bar fills up it updates your burst skill. As the skill updates it causes a small hiccup or even a full on stall of all skill activations. I noticed this with my longbow when I swapped to my LB to AOE a camp only to be greeted with a stalled burst. Well at the time I was watching my bar and right as the hiccup happened, my adrenaline bar had updated to the new tier.

This has been repeated across all weapons with burst attacks. As the bar updates it will delay or stall or hiccup your next skill or the one you are trying to use. Causing skill delay across your character. Again this has been proven based on my testing across all weapons for the Warrior class and it seems to be related to the Burst skills refreshing apon moving to the next tier of adrenaline.

Anyone else experiencing this skill delay with the Warrior please try this and see if this is happening to you as well.

This is a legit post to this problem. It is not lag or FPS drops or rubberband related at all. I know what those all look like and this is a full on skill stall across all the activated skills and it seems to be relayed to the adren bar. Not the ones that cast instantly FOR THE WARRIOR ONLY AS FAR AS I KNOW. I do not know anything about the other classes.

Flissy.4093:

Any attempt at an “all around” build which claims to be effective in all content is ridiculous and a complete waste of time. No build can do everything moderately okay – trying to make an “all around” build just ends up gimping yourself in every aspect of the game meaning you will be getting rick rolled in WvW, and end up useless in a PvE environment.

Use a different build for everything, trait resetting is super cheap, and keep different gear sets for each content. Even if you can’t afford multiple exotic gear sets, this is the still better option just using rare equipment – someone in full rare Berserker gear will be better than anybody running a “tanky” exotic Soldier build in a PvE environment, but running exotic Berserker in a WvW Zerg will not be as beneficial as rare Soldiers or Knights.

Oh, and no matter what, Divinity runes, and celestial stats in general, are junk. Absolute junk. Don’t use them.

I agree with the beginning part of this statement. Going all around is rarely a good idea. Invest in something. Tank or DPS or Condi.. whatever you want but don’t try to take it all on because it will just fall flat.. I know.. I have tried it. Don’t be fooled by a build being good if your team is the one carrying you. I have had that happen. I will think my stuff is just rocking only to see my team switch up in the next run and I get rolled over.

One thing to kitten about a hammer because it is taking half your HP with one Earthshaker spike and you can’t do kitten about it.

Another thing to kitten about a hammer because you forgot the dodge button and it hardly makes a dent anymore with Earthshaker.

Hammer Warrior is sort of like duck hunting… Only the stupid ones fly low and get killed.

Keep your distance. We may have a leap but hammer has a slow attack speed. Use it against the Warrior. It causes me a problem when I am fighting a kiter. Granted I just swap to LB but the thought counts when trying to escape.

Ive been making a Condi build for my Warrior since the day of release. Always loved my swords and my hammers (specced for confusion on interrupt). I have toyed with many options throughout but I find myself always swapping between Rabid and Carrion.

Any opinions on the two? My thoughts are.. Warriors have a high HP pool so id invest in Rabid for anti-spike toughness. But if I am screwed on adren for w/e reason the conditions put on me are destroying me, which would make Carrion the obvious choice because Vit counters condition stacking. Whut choo tink?

Really? Nothing from anyone? This isn’t just some armor clipping, this is a serious bug. Charr have massive skill delay in PvP. I would like some input or a comment from a dev if this is just me or if it is a known issue.

P.S My connection speed is 50mb/s and 5 upload MB/s

Okay, this is just getting annoying now. I can handle lag in PvE. However when it happens ONLY on my Charr, I have a problem. Especially in PvP/WvW where timing is everything. There is a significant delay in all of my burst skills and some of my blocking skills. Most noted is Earthshaker and LB Burst. I will use LB burst.. Swap.. Try to Earthshaker.. Nothing. it just stops. Sits there and I have to use it again. I will hit the button around 10 times just to get it to work.

My connect is solid. The WvW is solid connection. But my skill lag is just stupid. And this is ONLY on my Charr. I have many others saying the same thing. Humans/Norn/Asura are the most noted in my testing to have near flawless Skill Activation. All with low pings.

The delay for Charr can get as bad up to 5 seconds just to register that I want to pick up a banner. What the hell happened to the Charr? This was in the beta and it is still here. I can do small PvP and WvW but the moment I get into combat with another player, my Skill Activation just flops over and dies. With no effect on my connection or the latency in game.

Any response from a Dev or someone who has seen this happen to them or to an opponent you have been fighting that seems to just be.. Spinning around flailing as a Charr. Is is packet loss? What is going on? And no the WvW servers I play on are not understress because I have seen it when it is and it just laaags into the ground. This is very specific with my Charr and Skill Activation times.

Before the L2P people come in. I am very skilled with my Warrior. My timing when crap is working is on the spot. I can spike people and survive/dodge/combo etc. But this is crippling me against people when my skills do not go off when I tell them too.

Hi, I am not getting any help from any of the other channels so I will post here.. I am reluctant too because I usually don’t get many hits here.

Anyway.. I am a Charr race. Whenever I try to use a skill.. I get horrible delay.. Specifically with PvP/WvW. Example would be swinging a weapon (sword) and I will get out attacked by a mace attack response wise. I will have skills cancel out on me and even outright miss.

I have a strong net so it isnt me.. I hope.. What is happening? It takes me a full 3 seconds for my Charr to pick up the banners I drop. This does not happen on any of my other races.

Could it be a packet loss? IDK im not big on networking

Because I got tired of seeing a noob running around me like I was Stonewall Jackson because my Charr is poorly optimized in Skill activation and so all I get are canceled skills and missed throws.

Was the Charr meant to have such horrible skill delay in heated combat with another player? I feel like I have to go through every ounce of my reaction times just to keep up let alone out gun/maneuver. And I am using weapons like sword/sword or gs. So my mobility is above average. Yet when I am in PVE I seem to do fine.. I react and it does what I say when I say it. But not in PVP of any kind. I am getting skills canceling on me.. Skills missing, or even as far as skills hitting but nothing is happening (Maybe they removed the effect idk).

I am having my sword being beat out by a mace in terms of skill activation times.. This does not happen on my Human/Norn/Asuran. In fact lol my Asuran has the best reaction speed. However I spent over a year building my lil furrball of death and I would like to know if I can fix this lag or if I am just screwed and will have to deal with it.

Ok I am wondering is it just me or is the Charr’s combat in WvW..less than average in terms of skill reaction times? Example.. I swing my sword.. a warrior swings his mace.. It actually beats my cast time because mine is delayed. But this is only in PvP. Since I WvW more I figured id post it here. If I am wrong please move this to whereever it needs to go mods.

The War with a mace btw.. was a norn.

We are brand new and remaking from another guild. We love tight nit groups that get along well together.. We plan to make WvW Havok Teams so run around and attack camps/outposts/towers etc.

We do not stay with the zerg unless it is needed.

We enjoy community and friendship thus the Req are as follows.

100% rep
Raidcall (No mic needed just be logged on when with a group)
No lonewolves. Don’t hermit into a corner.. get to know your guildmates and have fun.

We also do Fractal groups and plan to later on participate in Tpvp. Casual active players are always welcome.

We are looking for Friendly Loyal Active players. Vet/New willing to learn are welcome.
Since we are new, we are small. But we plan to grow and have fun. PM Furby Fighter Curby in game or Mail me and I will get back to you.

OMG I want to slap a baby over and over rather then level another alt… Lol if anyone out there does this for fun then what are you doing to level.. Me and my friends just cannot do it.

Gimme my twohanded Axe and I will be a happy Charr… Oh and armor that doesn’t clip!

Mainly the twohanded axe! XD

Cus mine is a twohander.

Tomasmxmf.9403:

I’ll give you a few easy steps to becoming a great PVE warrior

Step 1-Run full zerker everything w/ 30/25/0/0/15
Step 2-Do lots of damage
Step 3-Learn how to dodge
Step 4-??
Step 5-Have good guard
Step 6-Profit $$$$$$$$$$$$$

Good or generic? Just cus you saw it on a build list doesn’t mean it is best. I spend most of my time picking up people who try to go full zerker and they get mowed over. Only a pro should use full zerker not someone who is looking for guidance on being a pve/dungeon warrior.

Being a zerker takes skill to be honest.. You need to get really handy with dodging. For this case I would put 20 into defense for the regen and Cleansing Ire.. That trait is very nice for sustain since some warriors have a hard time with conditions. And it promotes you to be aggressive. Better preparing you for Zerker late game when you get better or have a coordinated group.

And as of recently the armored attack buff is pretty nice..10%? Wow. And the Spike armor is even better. Making durable warriors a bit more viable in dungeons where more often then not you will be soaking up the damage while dishing it back out.

Ill have to try this because I could do the damage but it just wouldn’t quite finish them. Maybe it is just a fun build. I was just kitten kitten attacking XD

Am i ever going to get armor for my Charr that isn’t bugged out stretched crap designed purely for Humans and moved onto Charr?

Guild Wars with no Guild Wars… Elder Dragons with no Elder Dragon LS events. This…is epicness.

My biggest issue with GW2 from GW1 is skills/stats. When you changed your stats around it had a huge effect on your character. In GW2 changing your stuff from Assassins and Zerker is like….Ok what has changed here?It just seems like GW2 is just so straight forward and if you move from the meta you are crippled. I had so much fun making builds in GW1 but in GW2 it really feels like the game just refuses to allow you to change at all.

I beef up tanky stlye with warrior and I am still getting dropped by npc’s. I go full zerker with warrior and I am still getting dropped by npc’s. It just doesn’t feel like anything you do is rewarding you for anything.

The rush skill for Warriors is broken and has been broken for a while now. Based on what I have noticed it works great for smaller targets.. Largest being a charr. However when going against an opponent who is huge like… an effigy ooorrrr the zerker boss in fractals. You will just keep running until the animation is over but never actually hit with rush. Which is a shame because rush can hit pretty hard.

I die quite a bit from this because I will try to rush out or rush in and I will be stuck in the running animation for rush and if they drop an aoe I am screwed.

Again this only happens against big opponents size wise not strong ones. This goes for any opponent as long as they are very big.

Exactly what Death said. It is a great skill no doubt. You can hold down a point and be a pain to remove without siginifanct effort. However you are pinned to one spot.

Basically.. Banner = Defending..Shouts = Attacking

I don’t like banners due to the mobility restrictions you’re enforcing on yourself. Banners really do give nice health when attacking a fixed point, though, and in a huge zerg throwing a few banners around will help your allies without them even realizing it. For mobility purposes, consider going all-out shout build.

Seems like another on paper idea, I just tried it on the field and it had its moments. But more often then not I just got my kitten handed to me. All well.

You think putting 100% crit sigil on swap for both axes on different hands and just cycling the 2 would be decent? If not fun. Dump everything into crit damage.

You could try hammer lb. Spam lb burst andjust spam might to your team. Put at least 5 into discipline for adren on swap

cranked.3812:

Please don’t run PVT armor in dungeons. Bare Minimum is Knight’s with as much zerk as you can handle before you feel you go down too much.

Please don’t be a cliche thanks.

Anyway, PVT Armor/Zerker GS/Rifle or Longbow. All Cav Ascended Trinkets… and I mean all of them. Lots oh Crit damage with toughness = win. And either all ruby orbs on the armor or Rune of the pack or w/e it is. (It has 100 prec as the final buff). Run 30/20/0/0/20. PVT keeps you going while the other items buff you up.

Run Healing sig or Healing Surge.. that is your call. Prec Sig/Discipline banner/For Great Justice/ Elite Sig of Rage.

I am pulling off 25k-30k total damage from Hundred Blades while I am also laughing at the full zerker warriors dying in 2 hits from a boss. But it is k cus I am sure when they aren’t dying all day they are hitting big numbers.

Keep going full zerker people I am enjoying the easy daily revives.

Don’t forget Omnomberry food (healing on crits) and sharpening stones.

MastaNeenja.1537:

Dinky

“I ate a thumbtack on a dare once, it’s still in there.”

Da Dink.

Powerblock. The rage mail I got from this elite was just hilarious.

The combat system is totally biased towards humanoid races in this game PVP wise. It is clearly polished towards the humans over beast races (Charr). I will be running away from a player and with my human I will 180 and hit them with a crippling wave from my hammer (Warrior) or a hammer bash. With my Charr? Nope. It will kitten its way with a half done spin and put itself on cooldown.

I have actually tested this with me and my friends and the hammer bash animation from the start of the cast NOT THE ACTUAL HIT with a human is nearly instant. For a charr it takes around 1 to .05 seconds to even react to me hitting the button and THEN it will go into animation.

In PVP if you arent a humanoid or an asura (For their size not skill register) you are pretty much gimping yourself.

In PVE it is pretty nice. Still skill delays but it isn’t bad at all.

It is because when a human is wearing it they are standing straight up. Everything in this game “Minus SOME cultural” was designed for humans and they just modded it for others races. Backpacks however were just given to humans and slapped onto other races. I feel your pain, I have almost no options for back packs because my charr is being forced to use human designed gear. Guess asking for some skilled artwork for other races is too much to ask.