Guild Wars 2

Player Character.9467:

You do realize that would be considerably more powerful than the effect from the existing sigils? Chill field >>> one time chill aoe etc. and then there’s the blind field…

You don’t get to pick which one ya want.

Eternal War
Nourishment
Consumable
Allows your attacks from stealth to instantly kill a non-thief.
Duration 30 minutes
Only functional in WvW
Sold by a vendor in the Citadel
Cost 1 silver or 1 badge

Honestly, they should restore the skills to how they were, but add revealed to them and make them longer range, so mobility thieves have a place. Currently stealth thieves reign all. Who complained about IS anyways over stealth/backstab?

nakoda.4213:

but if it is 5v5 with 10 asura, no one has an advantage.

i don’t know what black hole people are playing in, but i see norn, human, char, and sylvari all the time in pvp.

Not true, its still harder to see the following:
- Enemies animations.
- Enemies in Terrain.
- Enemies inside combo fields.
- Enemies hiding in minions.
- Enemies hiding in giant particle effects.
- Harder to see if there dodging or using regular attacks, because honestly they do crazy flip kicks.

It still has a huge advantage, even if you are one as well.

Sounds cool, but we would need a damage nerf first because we did more damage.

It used to be a skill non-stealth thieves could use, but it seems they took all the skill/fun from the ability.

It most of the time does not even work.

Please return it how it used to be.

Nope. They can only be gained in story missions, and only 2 of them.

Sigil of Deadly Combinations
Create a random combo field when weapon is switched to during combat.
Duration: 4 s
(Cooldown: 9 s)

This can create any combo field, however it is completely random!

Not to be a devil’s advocate, but:

Your Defensive Utility sounds like a worse version of Aegis, taking its own cool-down onto account and the fact you would have to sacrifice an attack to block making it much worse.

Your Offensive Utility, buffing our Max HP and making us take more damage for critical chance? I have too much already, this would be a worthless utility nobody uses, because its simply not worth what you give up for it. We need more sustain, not less.

I actually think that looks good, realistic as well.

A mostly African does have burnt patches of skin on certain parts of there body, there hands are also whitish as well.

Honestly, I think she looks rather cute!

As a developer said:

If a Warrior is required to CC someone before they can damage them, then something is wrong with the class.

Empathetic Fighter.2065:

I like your suggestions a lot, but not f3 that much. I’d found it better if it would be -20% dmg for 5-7 seconds or something like that. It can be easily abused if you put a duration of 20 seconds, which even stacks up. That can turn into unkillable warrior while doing 10k evis’ and 3k autoattacks.
(It’s just my opinion, as I played 4 months warrior with about 2.5k games)

You ever PvP before? (in Spvp!)
Warriors are absolutely horrible in the current Meta, they lack any sort of survivability and sustain and get locked and shut down, giving them there own way to absorb damage would assist them in getting to where they need to be and staying on the target, they need both this and the ability to reliable remove conditions as well. They also cannot be the same as he guardian either.

I’m sorry I can’t win stupid arguments, all you will do is say “Its just because of wvwvw” when the topic at hand clearly has to do with a thief in wvwvw, I can’t win against the argument because your head is simply in a dark place, i’m sorry I give up.

Sure, nerf backstab it does way too much damage! Its not like it does less damage then Whirling Wrath, Axe 3 (not counting the first 2 attacks.), Killshot and I won’t even go into air elementalist burst.

You win, I no longer care.

Fenrir.5493:

Daecollo.9578:

Fenrir.5493:

Daecollo.9578:

Fenrir.5493:

Daecollo.9578:

Warriors do more damage then thieves.

Axe autoattack’s 3 chain does more damage then backstab.
Whirling Wrath does more damage then backstab.

Lies, not even the 3 hists of axe autoattack are the same damage of 1 single backstab, even dagger autattack does more damage, what are you doing here in this forum?, you clearly have a thief that enjoys 1 hit killing people.

Fenrir, read my posts and check your eyes. I have a thief and a warrior. However I am here most of the time moreso then anywhere else.

You have read dozens of my posts here trying to fix the warrior, but YOU CAN SEE THE TOOLTIPS IN THE LINKS.

Backstab isn’t the 1-hit-kill attack you say it is. Its less damage then most other normal abilities.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Thief-Backstab-Picture/first#post2185307

Looks like you just hit a warrior, judging by what you stole.

What if:

He had frenzy, taking another 25% damage?

What if he had full zerker? There is only a 180 armor difference between thief and warrior…

Its balanced, because glass cannons are suppost to kill glass cannons, and you hit another glass cannot with a damage increase on him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_rXq2LYg0

Sniper Warrior, hitting 18-25k criticals from kill shot.

So you are comparing an adrenaline skill that snares you on the floor and can be avoided very easy with a skill that can 1hit kill you from stealth…

Nope, its not balanced.

I will compare to whirling wrath then, which does more damage, can hit more targets.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DJgYhGde9Qmc

Or how about the roaming elementalist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyahdHO0WHk&list=LLmzSk2tr1p9t2yv9glC613Q

Fenrir.5493:

Daecollo.9578:

Fenrir.5493:

Daecollo.9578:

Warriors do more damage then thieves.

Axe autoattack’s 3 chain does more damage then backstab.
Whirling Wrath does more damage then backstab.

Lies, not even the 3 hists of axe autoattack are the same damage of 1 single backstab, even dagger autattack does more damage, what are you doing here in this forum?, you clearly have a thief that enjoys 1 hit killing people.

Fenrir, read my posts and check your eyes. I have a thief and a warrior. However I am here most of the time moreso then anywhere else.

You have read dozens of my posts here trying to fix the warrior, but YOU CAN SEE THE TOOLTIPS IN THE LINKS.

Backstab isn’t the 1-hit-kill attack you say it is. Its less damage then most other normal abilities.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Thief-Backstab-Picture/first#post2185307

Looks like you just hit a warrior, judging by what you stole.

What if:

He had frenzy, taking another 25% damage?

What if he had full zerker? There is only a 180 armor difference between thief and warrior…

Its balanced, because glass cannons are suppost to kill glass cannons, and you hit another glass cannot with a damage increase on him.

Sniper Warrior, hitting 18-25k criticals from kill shot, this playstyle was recently buffed since then.

The only funny thing is… hes not even wearing the 6% of all toughness, 4% of all vitality is extra power buff…

Fenrir.5493:

Daecollo.9578:

Warriors do more damage then thieves.

Axe autoattack’s 3 chain does more damage then backstab.
Whirling Wrath does more damage then backstab.

Lies, not even the 3 hists of axe autoattack are the same damage of 1 single backstab, even dagger autattack does more damage, what are you doing here in this forum?, you clearly have a thief that enjoys 1 hit killing people.

Fenrir, read my posts and check your eyes. I have a thief and a warrior. However I am here most of the time moreso then anywhere else.

You have read dozens of my posts here trying to fix the warrior, but YOU CAN SEE THE TOOLTIPS IN THE LINKS.

Backstab isn’t the 1-hit-kill attack you say it is. Its less damage then most other normal abilities.

eldain stenlund.4306:

yey.. so we can use 3 swings to do the dmg as a 1 backstab… GREAT.

how ever, you first need to be able to hit something to get that chain hitting dmg…
dunno if you have a cheating program to see thru stealth… but i have no clue what so ever about where to swing, if the thief decides to play stealth and toy with you.

No, the third chain outdamaged backstab.
This does not include the first 2 attacks.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Whirling_Wrath
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Triple_Chop
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Backstab

Triple Chop/Whirling wraith also can hit more then one target, infact they can hit several.

Please cry about damage some place else.

If you actually played a thief, you would know exactly where they are going to swing… BEHIND YOU…

Warriors do more damage then thieves.

Axe autoattack’s 3 chain does more damage then backstab.
Whirling Wrath does more damage then backstab.

yeah.. so basicly the ‘6’ ability is now as good as guardians 10 point trait.

Rerolls.

Sorry bro…

Stability Stomping…

Is it fair?

Why not just remove all traits and choice from the game and make it ez-mode?

I would go for that, if Healing Signet was a Utility slot. Currently Guardian heal is 2x better, especially if traited up.

F2 Shield sounds like AOE Aegis, except a lot worse with the changes coming to weakness. (since it only blocks 3 attacks, it will be OP in PvE/UP in PvP) We are not trying to be Psedo Guardians.

Healing Surge sounds better then Healing Signet in almost every way. However it is just a crappy version of Hide in Shadows, except it doesn’t stealth you and cure all conditions. Maybe if it cured 3 conditions, gave 6 seconds of protection.

100b is basicly a crutch, it needs to be toned down in damage and made a bit more mobile and faster channel.

Currently impossible.

Roll a BM-Boon+Toughness Ranger and use 2 axes, you will be super tanky and pull out a lot of DPS.

In fact atm in the current Meta, because of retaliation, Axe 5 can kill you. You can literally kill yourself faster then an enemy can. Axe 1 also out damages Axe 5 too.

Last time I played my Necro and played against an X/Axe Warrior, my retaliation did 9960 damage to him… lol

Seriously, there is a thread for this already, we don’t need 20 of them.

So basicly, you get 3.5 seconds of Daggerstorm every 6 seconds? ….

These are all Grandmaster traits, they allow the Elementalist to focus on one Attunement.

Fire:
Master of Fire
Reduce the cooldown on all fire attunement skills by 60%.
Increases the cooldown for all non-fire attunement skills by 100%.
In addition, gain might for 15 seconds every 3 seconds, as long as you are attuned to fire.

Air:
Master of Air
Reduce the cool-down on all air attunement skills by 60%.
Increases the cooldown for all non-air attunement skills by 100%.
In addition, gain fury for 15 seconds every 15 seconds, as long as you are attuned to air.

Water:
Master of Water
Reduce the cool-down on all water attunement skills by 60%.
Increases the cooldown for all non-water attunement skills by 100%.
In addition, Applying a boon to allies heals you while attuned to water.

Earth:
Master of Earth
Reduce the cool-down on all earth attunement skills by 60%.
Increases the cooldown for all non-earth attunement skills by 100%.
All Earth-based spells are instant while attuned to earth. (Only casting them.)

Enemy of the Ele=Chill.

Don’t use frenzy?

Or a ‘5’ point trait.

Nerf Unload/Pistol Whips Hit-Rate, Buff SoM.

Moving Hundred Blades to the burst skill and making arcing slice the ‘3’ ability, moving whirlwind down to the ‘2’ ability.

Not really:
1) Blend into effects.
2) Harder to see.
3) Better animations, its hard to know what they are doing, even if they dodge some times it looks like there regular attacks.

Many many reasons.

Hundred Blades = Crutches

Kolly.9872:

Daecollo.9578:

All traits should be good, traits should be a hard choice picking them.

We should also be able to choose our 5/15/25 traits as well, these are what breaks most builds from working since they only benefit one thing.

Simplifying it won’t do anything, I think it needs to be more complex.

Well it seems that both of us agree that traits in the current state need a rework.
Actually there are only 5\6 out of 12 traits on every line that are worth it using while the others are left back.
We only have 2 different points of view on how to fix this:
I am suggesting to simplify things, while you are suggesting to add complexity and make the trait choice harder.
While I could agree with you, I also know that complexity is very hard to balance and we know how long it takes for A-Net to balance things, that’s why I am aiming to the other way.
I also think that before wasting time on adding new and complicated things that eventually will require more time to balance out, A-Net should rework the already existing traits and only then should start adding new things.
When the game was released 10 months ago, there were only 10 trait per line if I remember well, then A-Net added 2 more traits on every line for a total of 12.
The problem is that many of those traits that were added later, seems to be there just to fill that spot but there is a bad design behind them.
In the end I don’t mind if A-Net would follow the more complexity path or the more semplicity way to fix the problem, I just want to see more balance between traits and a lot of different balanced builds .

I actually dislike balanced games actually. I like it when everyone has something a little unique and unbalanced. I feel that we will never achieve perfect balance and anyone who seeks it might as well say: we should just make one class with all the same abilitys.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the case, so the balance argument cannot win. We can simply make it as balanced as possible, or perfect imbalance.

Warrior isn’t a good class for taking damage.

Light/Heavy armors difference is only 200 toughness.

All traits should be good, traits should be a hard choice picking them.

We should also be able to choose our 5/15/25 traits as well, these are what breaks most builds from working since they only benefit one thing.

Simplifying it won’t do anything, I think it needs to be more complex.

Similar to Manaan music in KOTOR 1 ! :>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD4YUEd18R0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU69IwnF_ZI

They just sound really similar.

Why would it be in SPVP?

We already have Dueling in SPVP.

Enmity.3428:

Yeah, Warriors do have bunker builds…

… but they’re all utter bollocks.

Warrior bunkering is almost like Thief bunkering without stealth. Don’t do it.

tigirius.9014:

Daecollo.9578:

?

We already have masks like that.

Where? I’d like one. I was thinking of my old hunter’s gas mask helm in WoW.

No, I mean. Underwater helmets are like gas masks. (He linked a Ninja helmet.. we have ninja helmets already.)

AlBundy.7851:

hmm just used it it’s not as bad a animation as I remember it.

2 Arcing Slice (Activation time: ½) (Recharge Time: 6 seconds.)
Strike your foe with an unblockable uppercut and gain Might.
Damage: 1,251
3 Might: 10 s
Unblockable
Range: 160

This is honestly what I would change 2 too, then move hundred blades to the burst skill. It would make the great sword much better for pvp, while reducing it in pve where its required.

It allows for much more aggressive game play as well.

It looks kind cool if its spec up. However the problem with it is you hold it in the air way too long.

Venom’s are actually kind of useless atm.

They could also be switching Hundred Blades/Arcing Slice. Would make it a lot more aesthetically pleasing and make since since Hundred Blades is more of the bursty skill.

That is exactly why its getting nerfed, its playstyle simply trumps everything else in pvp/pve. (its a horrible playstyle), but when mobs stand still its just extremely stupid to have it holding back an entire class, just because it just trumps everything else. Other classes deserve a spot in PvE as well, Warriors will have there spot too still, it just won’t be tied to one thing.

This is what i’m speculating:

Hundred Blades (Channel: 1 second.) (It was 3¾)
Repeatedly strike multiple foes. The last strike does extra damage. Allows you to move at reduced speed.
Damage (8x): 1,224
Final strike damage: 306
Range: 200

Its probably getting a 20-40% Damage nerf, but probably becoming fully mobile and a 75% faster channel.

(I know for sure its getting a faster channel.)

Yes… a bunker warrior build completely reliant on your guilds guardians.

/golfclap.

Why not just play a guardian?

AlBundy.7851:

I’d support hundred blades getting a projectile relfect hell outside of tank and spank pve fight hundred blades has zero uses. Hundred Blades is a horribly designed skill.

From what i’ve heard its getting its damaged cut down a good chunk so other classes have a chance in PvE

From what i’ve heard, 100b is actually getting a 20-40% damage nerf. Rightly so as well. Its been holding this profession back far too long.