CC-ing most bosses actually makes the fight harder. If you blow through the defiant and actually interrupt a skill, it tends to reset the bosses’ AI. Making them use attacks outside their usual predictable order (at least once).
For example, knocking down Rumblus in AC 3 during his summon, has cause him to immediately stand up and scream on multiple occasions with guild tests. Far more dangerous than just letting him summon adds.
How about we remove Defiant? Then bosses would be fun. And not a kite-fest.
You haven’t seen good guardians. In pvp, it’s a bit difficult to hit with scepter perhaps, but not in pve. It’s very easy for a guardian to hit 3k on auto attack with scepter, which is stronger and faster than my dps ranger’s long bow auto attack, then there’s smite which chews through immobile targets.
No. My guardian has 3000 attack and 70% crit damage.
Kohler is one of the hardest bosses until you learn to dodge his grapplehook, once you learn to dodge that he becomes the easiest boss in the game.
It’s easy to dodge at that, when you see him powering up like a cartoon character, you dodge or move behind a pillar.
Yes you can dodge his pull, but nobody can stand there and take hits for more than a few seconds. You end up having to kite him.
JUST LIKE EVERY SINGLE BOSS IN GW2. KITE KITE KITE KITE
Can’t we have some boss fights where we can actually CC the boss and use strategy to win? I’m so sick of kiting every single boss. It’s so boring, not fun.
I can’t get it to work. You said illusionary leap thru temporal curtain? It gives about 4 seconds of retaliation on the clone, but nothing to me. Is that right?
EDIT: I figured it out, you have to STAND on the temporal curtain line. Very weird.
Yep, that’s how you do it. You stand on top of the curtain, then do the leap + swap, for the double activation.
Yeah.. 14 seconds from the leap, and 15 seconds from the shatter. I don’t even think Guardian is capable of generating that amount of retaliation, and it’s supposed to be their signature boon. Odd.
I can’t get it to work. You said illusionary leap thru temporal curtain? It gives about 4 seconds of retaliation on the clone, but nothing to me. Is that right?
EDIT: I figured it out, you have to STAND on the temporal curtain line. Very weird.
Hello, I’m a level 80 guardian and since today my critical chance has dropped from 40% to 36% out of nowhere. I didn’t change anything in my build. So I was like, fair enough i’ll just buy a Superior sigil of Accuracy (+5% crit chance) and geuss what? My crit change is still 36%…
Does anyone have the same problem? Because i think it’s really weird.
The sigil has never displayed properly on the page.
But it does look like Guardians have 4% less crit that normal. I found 2 other guardians in game with the same issue.
I really like the look of this build so far. The retaliation uptime is interesting.
Do you ever find you don’t have enough dps to get someone down? Like another class that is similarly tanky?
The only class that I have completely failed at taking down is a staff ele using ether renewal, sitting in water pretty much the entire time. Everything else will die eventually, or run away. I can’t really stop a thief from running away (who can?), and I also can’t catch up to a d/d ele if they want to peace out. Everything else I can chew down though. The build has deceptively high power, since that is the major stat on all of the gear, just no crits.
I see. Do you think this build would be effective using Knight’s (pwr/prec/tgh) gear? That way there would be a bit more burst from crit, but still able to take little beating. Or is the large amount of Vitality required?
@Osicat, Sigil of Generosity seems good but, like you, I only use my sword to juke in for blurred frenzy. Does the sigil remove conditions on phantasm and clone crits too? OR just crits with the sword?
Sooo.. with these builds.. If you get bleeds/burns/poison thrown on you, you’re just supposed to take it? Run away and wait for heal to be up? Seems incredibly weak.
Crippling Dissapation and Confusing Combatants are amazing traits imo. Many times you’ll create an illusion and they might be killed instantly, well at least the enemy gets confusion or crippling.
And I’m not sure if many mesmers realize a clone being “killed” means not only if they get hit, but if they get overwritten as well.
I have so many thief kills in wvw dedicated to Crippling Dissapation. They’ll stealth, I’ll shatter, and they’ll come out of stealth a few seconds later with a limp, typically they’d be a mile away, but if they’re crippled, it’s an easy blink/MI/MW kill.
I used a build for a while I called my “suicide bomber” build. Because I would just make as many clones as possible to sacrifice to the enemy.
It honestly depends more on yer dodging skills and playstyle at that level. For example: I personally roll with ~2400 armour/18-20k hp, depending on loadout/buffs.
Meanwhile, my Guild leader is a Thief. Rolls with around my level of armour, but like 11-13k hp. Truth is, he typically outlives me. (Of course, my slow Mesmer self tends to get caught by enemies more often, but that’s not the entire reason).
I suggest 16k or so for health, a good 2k or so armour. This, plus careful fighting, should keep you decent. Some of our guys can pull it off with 14k hp/less armour, but that is definately glassy.
You really think only 2k armor is enough? My guardian rolls in 3.1k and I still get hit fairly hard from time to time. Mesmer is my second 80 after guardian so I’m not really sure how light armor classes work.
This is just one possible location (maybe a clue to where the staff is) that i thought of. In lions arch their is a secret underwater tunnel system that leads to a secret order of whispers base. When you talk to the keeper there you say to her “I came to discover the undiscoverable” and she mentions a hole that smugglers cut into one of the columns in Agora that leads to the sewers in which the smugglers used to transport contraband. She then says that the order doesnt know the location of the column. I think this is all part of a secret quest chain in lions arch that plays out sort of like a scavenger hunt. (this is all just an idea I had, it could hint at the location of the staff but it more than likely doesnt). There is also some priory people at a digg site in LA that talk about unearthing artifacts from old lions arch. The have cry bars laying around that can be picked up and used under water (maybe you have to break something with them). There is also that pirate ghost in the maze place that may have some importants. Maybe following this "chain all the way through may end with a chest possibly containing the staff. Like I said before, this is just an idea I had. Their could be no chain at all and this could all be random stuff in LA just for fun with no meaning or importants. What do yoiu guys think? Here is a link to a video i found showing the location of the underwater tunnel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anF3pKLcgu0
A story line for a weapon? I wish, not even the legendaries have stories behind them.
Quite pathetic on Anet’s part. I don’t expect this weapon will be related to any sort of ingame story, it will be out of some random chest or some dumb mystic forge recipe. Just like everything else.
I’ve had soo many good duels in WvW be ruined by some other guy, either from my team or my enemies, or a small group.
If you see two people in the middle of a battle, think for a second before you rush in and try to get the last couple hits. Maybe they are having fun, maybe they don’t want to be disturbed.
He probably got it confused with the scythe skin from halloween, it wouldn’t be the first time this happens it won’t be the last, throughout the months people have seen this staff from time to time on people, and ask them where they got it but no answer, of course there has never been proof, probably because it isn’t the true staff.
I specifically asked him exactly this. He said no, it had a gargoyle with a wing sticking out on top. Not a scythe. Plus like I said, the person linked him in a whisper Final Rest.
I’ve seen “Golemancers” in game, asuran inquest have golemancers, they control golems. And half the opening cutscene after creating an Asura character are golemancers. We need this class! It could even be a branch of engineer?
And all the other races have their own classes we don’t currently have access to. Like Norn Shamans.
Yes they do work together. I tested this out myself.
Guardian GS auto attack + empowering might + sigil = 7-12ish perma stacks of might. Of course it depends on your crit, but I rarely dropped below 5 stacks using normal auto attack with around 30% crit. With multiple targets and higher crit it keeps getting better.
Just curious, what’s the rational behind having a bunch of precision (and hence +crit rate) but without the +crit damage? And there are plenty of players who wouldn’t use it since it has vitality instead of a dps stat.
Are you implying someone would use this combo for every piece of their gear?
No. This would just offer a better variety. Surely if someone had only power/pre/vit gear they would find very quickly it’s not the greatest.
But having the option of this gear, would allow us to balance out our builds, if needed.
Anet said legendaries’ stats would always be upgraded to the best of the ascended stats. So.. if you get a legendary, you never need to worry about upgrading your weapon if Anet adds more vertical progression.
