Guild Wars 2

Wuselknusel.4082:

Demented Yak.6105:

I don’t understand how anyone on this forum can complain about anything. The pets were absolutely FANTASTIC!

Since when are pets amazing?

Since the fire wyvern and smokescale were revealed.

Smoke field or massive fire field.

Yep. Me too.

Goodbye Revenant, Elementalist and Engineer. I’ll never see you again.

EDIT: Until druid gets nerfed.

I don’t understand how anyone on this forum can complain about anything. The pets were absolutely FANTASTIC!

The heals are way too strong. All conditions roll right off. 13 conditions cleansed in one go with no ICD.

I’m not sure where the druid would be best placed just yet but there are going to be very few things that can bring it down.

You’ve got to be kidding.

You might be the only one to not even consider playing the druid now.

Uber Mega healing with stealth, superspeed, lots of combo finishers, 13 condition clearing and pets with smoke and fire fields

What? There were tons of ground targeted AOE heals…

Irenio is insane.

If Druid doesn’t get nerfed by 10,000%, I’m rerolling to ranger.

The asura should have wiped them all out when they had the chance. Sure the sylvari are kind, helpful and relatively peaceful people but they’re also naive, weak willed, morons.

It’s not about not liking the sylvari as a race. It’s about the fact that ANY of them could turn at ANY time and you wouldn’t even know right away. I for one would not bet my LIFE on the idea that all of these potential enemies can resist forever. My little asura (master race) is smarter than that.

Kill them all, I say. Kill them while they sleep. They’re dreaming about ripping our skin off anyway.

Of all the things you may want to complain about with respect to rangers, you choose this?

‘Druid’ is probably one of the better names anyway. This is not on the list of the top 500 things that need to be changed.

Druid gets overpowered…

People who like being underpowered will change professions…

Nobody likes the Dragonhunter…

Dragonhunter gets longbow…

Destiny!!!

Ferocity gives 0.067% damage per point (AT 100% CRIT ONLY). Power gives 0.1% damage per point. Isn’t that really all we need to know?

Power is better. It’s good to have both but when you have the option of picking one or the other, your decision should be obvious.

I think the more useful question would be whether or not power or precision is better.

Sondergaard.8469:

This view likely comes from how I handle traits as a whole. I want passive bonuses, that improve my overall potential strength, but I look for the always on traits as opposed to the long cooldown proc skill traits.

I agree in that I generally prefer traits I can use all the time and very consistently.

I do like the idea for the RotGD trait though. I’d like it a lot more if we got the condition damage reduction all the time (I suppose you’d have to lower the percentage a bit) but either way, this’ll be a great replacement for the hammer. Thanks Roy.

I’m ok with the courtyard once in a while.

The only map I never pick is Kyhlo. I hate that place. It’s so depressing.

I know how sPvP works but I must admit, a lot of the time I go in to unranked and play like an imbecile. I don’t really care about winning in those situations. I just want to bash some skulls in.

I’m glad someone finally had the courage to speak out against tempest.

There’s not nearly enough people saying the exact same thing.

That’d be great.

What else is there to say?

So you’re complaining about mobility? Mobility is the best thing about this game. I really hope they just add, add, add until the game dies, in a hundred thousand years hopefully.

You could always go and play Pokemon. There is no movement at all in combat.

I died against a melee ranger once. Then I made a ranger and played about 50 PvP matches with a few different builds. Now I just look at them and they melt.

So, I have no idea what the OP is saying. What are you saying, boy?!

Hiki.9310:

Cecilia.5179:

Misguided.5139:

This isn’t GW1 and things are balanced differently. Adding condition transfer to Shiro would be a problem, IMO.

It would have to be lightweight, because a condition transfer on any attack is very powerful. Maybe it would be 1 or 2 conditions on a 5 or 10 second icd, because Impossible Odds is a very expensive upkeep.

If a revenant starts with 100 energy and uses no skills impossible odds will last nine seconds; alternatively, if they switch to shiro from another legend, with 50 energy it will last four seconds.

They can probably make it transfer one condition per strike with a one second interval and it might not be anything overly strong.

The revenant energy mechanic ranges from +5 energy per second to -5 energy per second. Without any upkeeps, it stays at +5. Impossible odds does not take 10 energy from you every second. It puts your energy loss at -5 per second (5 -10 = -5). So from 100% you get 18 seconds and from 50% you get 8 seconds.

I want rainbow dye!

Who’s with me?!

I’ve been considering the exact same professions. My lead is the revenant but I’m pretty sure I’ll be making all of the ones you listed.

I’m beginning to hope that they just delete the ranger from the game just to see all the rangers have a mental breakdown.

I really thought there’d be more of these self-pitying threads today. I’m very disappointed.

“Megathread” – I like it.

I agree with most of this and I like the retribution ideas most of all. Very nice indeed but I swear, if anyone touches coalescence of ruin then I’m going to have a tantrum – the likes of which nobody has ever seen. Back off.

Renkencen.6127:

At the moment I’m going to make my Rev quite tanky due to making my ascended gears mainly soldiers related and wanting to get rid of some of my current ascended trinckets leftovers.

Also I definitely going to have Herald elite spec and I definitely going to used a hammer (you always got to have a range weapon in PVE) althought does that means I automatically have to used Jalis legend? With Herald, Retribution (since it ties in with Jalis) the last trait will be Invocation.

You don’t have to use Jalis with the hammer. In fact, they have pretty minimal synergy. Any weapon can be used with any legend quite effectively.

This was funny. Thank you.

I think I know what happened here.

OP uses an ele expecting the profession to carry him to success. It didn’t quite to that for him and it certainly didn’t make him a PvP god so he thinks it’s balanced. Does that sound about right?

For me, coming from WoW, the pvp gameplay in gw2 is a dream. I’m just happy that I’m not pressing keys in an extremely predictable order whilst standing still 99% of the time while others are jumping around pretending mobility matters.

I can definitely see where you’re coming from but you’ll never hear a complaint from me about PvP in this game. It’s all about perspective.

He was running Hammer/sword+sword with Glint and Shiro. He was using the retribution, devastation and herald traitlines.

As far as I can tell, this was probably his build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAscin3gWNSuQrJRboBlsP0fS4I6QJ4EdrkFNFSdG74HtBIBNwugJMiA-TpQOAB9WGAg9HAA

Most other people were using something along the lines of: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsemn3guNSuQ7JRboZlsP0rS4IaVJ4EdskFNFidMppNtBYBNwugJshA-TpgSABAs/ArlBAA

For most of BWE2, I was mostly running: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlAQNAsein3gWNSuQrJRboBlsP0fS4I6QJ4EdrklZlhNmb2RNgEewe6r3G-TpgSABAs/ArlBAA

I must admit that I only really know the basics of chronomancer but I’ll give the other questions a go.

I would definitely not have used unrelenting assault (the teleport-evade thing with the sword) while you had all your illusions up. When you ran behind that wall, if he had used phase traversal and then burst of strength (20 vuln) with unrelenting assault or auto-attacked with impossible odds, he could have done some serious damage.

I would also not have used the hammer so much at close range. He could have avoided a lot of damage by keeping by keeping a larger range (easy with Shiro) when using hammer and not using hammer 5 (big floating hammer) so often on you. Using hammer 5 on such a mobile target is just a waste of precious energy. It’d would have been a lot better to stay back and spam coalescence of ruin (hammer 2).

He also seemed to use infuse light about 2-3 seconds too late, especially when you used blurred frenzy. It’s obviously it’s impossible to predict every move your opponent makes in time but there were a few times he could easily have had the upper hand if he’d used those blocks and invulnerabilities in time.

What I cannot stress enough if you are a hammer revenant is that you must keep a large distance between you. Hammer 4 (projectile absorb) is quite useless in close combat yet your opponent used this and hammer 2 at very close range quite a few times.

Lastly, he didn’t seem to have a great command of his available skills (though I suppose it’s understandable considering how little time we got to play with them). I didn’t see any jade winds, impossible odds or bursts of strength. I think I saw one phase traversal but he was right next to you and you were using blurred frenzy so it was a bit of a waste.

All a chronomancer really needs to do with a revenant is stay in a reasonable proximity with their illusions and use as many conditions as possible. A hell of a lot of revenants seem to rely heavily on unrelenting assault (god knows why) so having even one illusion near you will mitigate the damage significantly.

Ultimately, this is probably not what you should expect when facing a revenant. A lot of revenants will be running with invocation which gives basic condition removal (something your opponent had absolutely none of outside of riposting shadows) and 40% critical hit chance from fury (as opposed to 20%). Then there’s Mallyx. Some people will be running this legend and it’ll be a lot harder to use conditions against them. In this event, you’ll want as much CC as possible as the Mallyx legend has no stunbreaks outside of invocation and it’s reasonably unlikely that they’ll be using any of the stability traits.

Feel free to disagree with any of this. Again, I have a very basic knowledge of chronomancer and I don’t use my mesmer every often.

Rev shield 5 is only 3 seconds. You also can’t move. All the weapon skills have a relatively low cooldown because energy management is also a factor. Shield 5 has a pretty hefty energy cost. Trust me, nobody in their right mind is going to be using this skill every 20 seconds.

There are those on the revenant forum who’d very much prefer the Rev’s shield 5 to be just a 3 second block with no root or heal. The grass is always greener on the other side, I guess.

Poor rangers. I’m glad you guys are last. It means that all my favourite professions aren’t.

I’d prefer fear but any CC would be nice, I suppose.

I still don’t understand. Why can’t you just pretend your hands are glowing for a different reason? That’s what role playing is all about anyway, right? Imagination and pretending.

I don’t understand how a little glow impedes your ability to role play.

Please explain this.

Nope. There’s not really any reason to do this. I like the elites how they are.

Another classic case of trying to fix what isn’t broken (for the most part anyway).

Kaizoku.1298:

Block is a terrible idea, it is a kittening 4 seconds root…. Seriously wtf are you guys thinking this is a kittening free 7 hit phoenix = insta death !

1: It’s 3 seconds.

2: Well kitten it. If there’s even one skill to be afraid of then there can never be any benefit gained from this skill. Let’s all quit. On the other hand, we could just cancel crystal hibernation and dodge it.

And it looks super cool!

I’ll meet your guardian with my Mallyx/Glint Rev and use those stacks of burning to heal myself to full health then apply resistance and burst you down with a combination of Embrace the Darkness and Unrelenting Assault once I remove your blocks.

Revenants are weak to conditions but we’re strong against idiots.

/Game and thread.

Ashley.3408:

bear in mind im talking about pve would it be viable to stay in one legend/weapon ?

It’d be about as viable as an elementalist staying in fire forever or an engineer who never uses any kits. It’s technically possible and you probably wouldn’t die ALL the time but it’s just a waste. If you want to play like that, you’d probably be better off with a warrior or maybe a ranger.

You can do just about everything with the revenant. Each legend covers a pretty large area of gameplay.

Here’s a very simplistic and superficial description of the style of each legend and weapon:

Shiro/sword: Frontline damage and mobility.
Jalis: Tank and some support at any range.
Hammer: Backline damage with a nice projectile absorb.
Ventari: Mega-support at any range.
Staff: Frontline damage and support.
Glint: Support with boon pulses and some mid-range damage options and utility.
Shield: Support and block.
Mace/axe: Frontline condition weapons.
Mallyx: Frontline conditions and utility with resistance.

Ultimately, it’s just better if you play it.

Join us and become a future revenant!

Get unrelenting assault and more!

Leave your barren, neglected thief main behind!

Ulf.4937:

or possibly set this up as an upkeep skill with self taunt and -10 Energy reg

Lol.

Gaaroth.2567:

Killyox.3950:

That condi copy trait is useless. It may proc when you have just 1 condi but be on ICD when a second later you got 5 on yourself.

Should be 100% chance with 15s ICD with a thresold of 3 condis on rev to activate the trait.

and this, sir, is pretty kitten good suggestion

I second that.

Why would you use UA skill off cooldown anyway. I barely used it every 20 seconds.

Is this how other people play in pvp? Spam the best skills they have and hope for the best?

Knighthonor.4061:

Kidel.2057:

Sylent.3165:

Longer cd with extra 2 seconds so 12 total now.

I’d prefer a 10% damage reduction much more.

Why? With sword I never use 2, with shield 4 and 5 are both situational and don’t always need used off cooldown. UA was really our only skill with the weapon skills worth using off cd. We are just auto attackers really

2s more on cd is better then 10% reduction. The skill is already weaker then AA, so it has to be worth the energy.

Adding cd is a smart move because it doesn’t lower too much your sustained dps, but you can dodge less frequently

If thats the case than i want to see a buff to the legend skills to off set for this nerf.

because demon Unyielding Anguish also got nerfed. What legend is now good for pvp that isnt Elite Specialization. ….?

Mallyx is still good for PvP along with Jalis and Shiro. Don’t be so dramatic. This is turning in to the ranger forum – the way everyone’s saying: “Poor us. Life is so unfair”.

It’s not even a funny joke.

Kidel.2057:

fear on UA would actually be interisting

I don’t even care if it’s on UA or another skill.

I JUST WANT FEAR !

7/10

Quite amusing.

I don’t have any ascended armour and weapon sets or any runes and sigils at the ready but I do have lots and lots of money.

I’m going to wait for the final iteration of the revenant before I decide how to use it.

Kodiak.3281:

It seems unlikely to change at this time.

This is going to be one of those “give it time” topics where we’re gonna have to leave Shield is the way it is, let people get wrecked in SPvP with a shield because players adapt and simply time out the block and follow it up with massive burst in their location just like used to happen with the Engie shield. People stop using it, it gets adjusted to what it should have been now, life moves on, and we get back to a more consistently designed game where (regardless of game mode) mobility is life.

At least Axe is still pretty amazing. Still honestly mulling a Frostfang.

Don’t be absurd. If you actually get bursted after this skill finishes, you deserve to die. There are tons of options for immediately avoiding bursts with this profession.

If you’re particularly frightened of this non-issue, you could always just cancel the skill half a second early by swapping weapons and then dodge out the way of any incoming attacks.