Guild Wars 2

But staff/scepter is very strong in living story.

Anierna.6918:

@ Dub: I was in TS w/ my friend. The pugs weren’t in TS with us, so I had to type. That’s always the downside of pug’ing – no voice coms.

We never kicked anyone who was using a good build, unless you’re referring to that ele….. and after all those fails, he definitely deserved it. I thought we gave him more than enough chances.

I’m wondering why you’d say s/d or s/f sucks in AC. You stack literally every single boss, most of them against a wall. Therefore, s/f is optimal; it allows you to stack more might due to more blasts, then use FGS if the boss is against a wall (Spider, Kholer) and LH if if he isn’t against one (last bosses in p1 and p2). You aren’t killing that many adds in AC, so you don’t need the greater AoE of dagger MH or staff, and you’re using Ice Bow on burrows.

Only thing that me and my friend did wrong was letting the pug open; each of us just assumed the other had opened. lol

Nothing wrong about writing in party chat. As you made it sound, from my point of view the kick wasn’t justified. He didn’t get unfriendly, kindly explained why he used #4 on the same burrow as you and even conjured one without being asked to. Just attacking with LH is far from optimal, but better than you could expect from most pugs. Since he participated in the dungeon to that certain point and didn’t really slow down your group, I do not see the kick justified.

All bosses die within 3 seconds in a 3+ men group. Why would you stack might, wasting more time than needed? If going AC, you should have persisting flames and 25 in air, using Burning Retreat, conjuring FGS and then using rush once, kills pretty much any enemy without losing time stacking might/doing whatever else. Aswell as Meteor Shower and Frozen Ground are probably the strongest skills an elementalist can bring, aside of conjures.

Anyway, back to topic.
I like your fail, Cynz and it would have had high chances to be my choice of the week, if I didn’t already read it in the “funniest player fails thread”.

You’re kicking players who’re at least trying to use good builds and are talking in party chat without just messing around? I’d say you deserved it to be kicked.

Aswell as S/D (or especially S/F) suuuucks in AC.

Can I be a judge?

Ethics.4519:

Dub.1273:

Ethics.4519:

WvW and PvE are drastically different. A pure PvEr new to WvW will get destoryed in his full zerk, not understanding large group play mentality. Just has a WvWer may get destroyed in his cleric/boon sharing gear not understanding one-shot mechanics in PvE.

As a typical PvE’er, I’m not experiencing this. As most WvW’ers are probably zerglings, you can handle them pretty much like PvE silver trash. LoS, CC and AoE perfectly work, noone ever suspects.

You have to remember who the majority playerbase is for GW2 =).

On a more serious note, You probably aren’t running the same PvE build that you do WvW. I mainly meant taking a great WvW build into PvE is hurting as much as taking a dps meta pve build into wvw. I just added more stuff to make myself sound smart. Sometimes it doesn’t work (all the times).

Hmm, I’m actually using my PvE builds in WvW, except on my thief who I don’t take into PvE. 30/25/0/0/15 warrior, necro, 25/25/10/10/0 ele or 30/30/0/0/10 condition necro. They’re all working out quite good, even in outnumbered situations or EBJP arena.
Well, the “who is gw2’s main playerbase”-question comes in here, I guess.
And I definitely agree the other way round, using PvP (WvW) builds in PvE is just bad.
I just wonder how easy WvW would get if using a proper PvP build. Probably not as good as PvE build, though, since every second a fight lasts, chances of being zerged down increase.

Ethics.4519:

WvW and PvE are drastically different. A pure PvEr new to WvW will get destoryed in his full zerk, not understanding large group play mentality. Just has a WvWer may get destroyed in his cleric/boon sharing gear not understanding one-shot mechanics in PvE.

As a typical PvE’er, I’m not experiencing this. As most WvW’ers are probably zerglings, you can handle them pretty much like PvE silver trash. LoS, CC and AoE perfectly work, noone ever suspects.

And if there’s none, better take your fingers away from “her”.

If taking that example, all professions, with a certain build and inability to adapt to certain cituations, do. A GS A/M Warrior wouldn’t stand any better chance killing four mobs on his own when melee’ing. Swap A/M to longbow and you’re suddenly able to do. Swap LH to Staff, you’re able aswell.

I’m using full berserker armor, Berserker GS, Berserker Axe, Assassin’s Sword, 6 Mighty Infusions and 8 Precise Infusions (+5 Power/Prec). Bloodlust stacks, precision food, precision signet. This is the optimum for solo situations. For group situations something like a 75% 25% mix was best, iirc.

Are you sure that is my quote?

cursE.1794:

glass ele builds are perfectly viable, since bosses die in under 10 secs, during which time you can avoid all dmg via 2x dodges, fgs 3, hiding inside wall/feedback, relying on aegis from guard, relying on blinds from lh/guard

Can you show me the part of the OP’s post where he says that he only runs fractals/dungeons with totally organized groups in which he can rely on his teammates 100% so he doesn’t have to care about survivability at all? Because i don’t find it.

Can you show me the part where we said an organized team was required? It comes down to player skill, if someone relys on the group for staying alive, he’s a bad player.

Aswell as also your build, Aniera, isn’t the optimum in all situations. I’m slowly getting tired of repeating it.

Erm, who is king in mesmerville, you or me?
Wardens generally start attacking in max. melee range a.d therefore do not move enemies. I’m not even entirely sure if the do when too close (which shouldn’t happen now anymore anyway).

Just stay in max. melee range, you’ll never push him out of wardens and therefore don’t have to push him back in./
When illusions spawn, you can fairly easily run/dodge behind a box, feedback alphard and destroy illusions yourself.
IF wardens wouldn’t stop working, this fight would be very easy to solo.

Edit: Ohwell, it was D/F, but without the use of a single dagger skill.

Actually Sanderinoas tactic works wonderful, with 0/30/0/25/15 you can keep up 3 wardens fairy easily. The only problem is that wardens, no matter if traited or not, sometimes just self-interrupt their whirl or don’t even start spinning.

Yeah, lupicus is a rather easy boss with slow, predictable attacks.
Melandru Priest is aswell.
Lyssa Priest too.
Grenth Priest too.
High Priest of Arah Gates too.
Dwayna too.
Balthasar too.
Abomination too.
Corrupted Gorillas too.
Insert any mob except a few ones like Icebrood Wolves here, too.

This game is all slow and rather easy.

They also seem to really like mesmers. with 15 in illusions and the signet heal, you can now permanently nullify all of belkas and alphards attacks. Well, not the pushback, but that’s like 1k damage per 30 seconds.

They made some good changes, some bad but didn’t change the worst thing in the entire path. Brie not activating when the instance owner is offline/outside of the dungeon. ANet, seriously?

As I already said, your rotation isn’t optimal and 30/10/10/20/0 is subpar when just focusing on damage.

Just buy the WvW Berserker Armor?

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You can block the pull and the bomb. Or just dodge it.

robertul.3679:

Phoenix.2518:

Casmurro.9046:

robertul.3679:

Actually I just managed to solo Alphard just to prove that even after the buffs he’s still pretty easy. It was an afk fight to be honest. I have no idea why are you complaining. Pics attached.

That quest thats is showing in your pic “Navigate the labyrinth of arah” is up, which means you didnt get to Lupicus, so you cheated!

If you look at his combat log… he was using a trident to kill Alphard.. so he somehow pulled her far enough to probably just AFK attack it to death.

It’s photoshop mate.

Yeah definitely, that also explains why you’re picking items up and why Mass Invis is on 98 seconds cooldown And why lupicus’ quest is up.

Ohwait, being a dirty cheater also does. :O

With persisting flames and S/F, you can get two claps into your fire field without using your heal. With using your heal, you can only get one in. Since the heal does close to no damage, you’re better off not using it. It makes the whole thing easier, though.

However, boon duration runes are a rather bad choice in PvE. You’re dishing out perma fury anyway and the might stacks last for 22 out of 25 seconds. 3 seconds dowtime of might instead of a 20% personal dps increase.
Also, when using a build with 30 air (not fresh air), you’re better off switching to air instead of fire, when 8 charges are left.

Aside of that good demonstration.

Hugh The Great.9367:

Defiant Stance is a horrible skill. The enemy just defends for 3 seconds while the warrior is low on health. Then resumes attacking afterwards. Using this stance is simply a delayed warrior death for 3 seconds. It’s too unreliable to be useful.

And then you realize it’s a full HP heal with 3 additional seconds of endure pain in PvE.

Ronnie.8902:

Jeez…!!! What strange human beings you can find around… O.o

Exactly, although we might have a different view on who’s strange and who’s not.

In my opinion, defensive gear scales too well!

Bump. How can it be the only ANet answer has been obvious?

Mob’s Health in Arah:
Lvl 75 Orrians: 13.757
Lvl 80 Trash: 15.774
Lvl 81 Trash: 16.232
Lvl 82 Trash: 16.697
Lvl 83 Trash: 17.162
Lvl 80 Elite Adds: 129.776
Lvl 80 Elites: 157.269
Lvl 82 Elites: 166.496
Lvl 80 Champs: 630.960
Lvl 83 Champs: 686.460
Lvl 80 Bosses: 1.376.340
Lvl 82 Bosses: 1.456.840
Lvl 83 Bosses: 1.497.440

Mob’s health in HotW:
Level 80 Bosses: 7.284.000

Arah is accurate data, HotW just what i would expect.

Good 5 men teams should do over 50k dps against most enemies. Optimal teams about 70k dps.

Bump.

A proper PvE Staff build is 30/20/10/10/0 or 30/25/25/0/0. Both of these will only receive a little buff (25 in fire), nothing except that changes.

haviz.1340:

He might not have fgs in mind.

Not only, although i’ll just be posting my first attempt (which was fgs because i was lazy).

Edit: The video is actually 3 seconds, youtube just weirdly adds 1 second to any video you upload. The kill was everything but optimal, i didn’t bother stacking might, was on my WvW traits, was under 90% because of w/e and lagged like kitten.
http://youtu.be/zl-JicyV01M

Dub.1273

Elementalists are best.

ArthurDent.9538:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RAuOx2iFJY

Whoops.

I did a 3 second ele kill. Could surely get it down to 2s.

ZoroDaOtter.3859:

If you can keep your HP up, Zerker + Scholar runes are the best for damage (even better if you can keep from getting hit to keep aegis and Unscathed Contender up). Knight’s are poor man’s Zerker or for learning. Soldier’s are only useful for mobs with anti-crit mechanics. I think Ogre runes give more DPS over Ranger (http://gw2buildcraft.com/ gives more effective power when slotting Orgre) but I’m not 100% sure.

10/25/0/10/25 is fine for dps

Ogre Runes might be better than Ranger Runes if you only have 916 Power. Once you start using gear, there is absolutely no scenario in which ogre runes are better than ranger runes.
Scholar in non-less reflect situations, ranger in medium-high reflect situations. Although there are situations (very high power, rather low precision) where ranger runes are better than scholar runes even without reflects.

Elementalists are best.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

obal.3218:

It’s just there to show what the class is capable of. Maybe some of the stubborn or ill-informed AH and clerics guards might convert to zerkerism after seeing it . As far as DPS tests go I agree for the most part.

But how fast can the Gandalf build do it in?

I did a 3.5s kill first try. I’m sure Gandalf can do better.

Ranging basically contains “adadadadadadad” + dodging once per ~15 seconds.

The projectiles can’t be absorbed, reflected or blocked. The dazing projectile doesn’t even hit naked 35’s for half their HP and it can be avoided on range pretty easily. The shockwaves come right after the jump and are easily noticable on range.
All in all, the troll is an extremely annoying fight with heavy anti melee stuff. But he’s not only very annoying but also very easy.

Poorly telegraphed? A giant jump into the air and various trackable shockwaves aren’t telegraphed enough? Icebrood Wolves would like to have a word with you.

And mesmer have to do a solo without reflects, because reflects EZYmode no skill!!1!!1!!

Waiting on yours sandy <3

In optimal situations (perma 25 might) it’s just a little difference. If you are averaging more like 15 stacks, the difference becomes huge. Then add the vuln from rending strikes and 20% gs cooldown and 30/0/0/10/30 becomes quite bad.
And in solo situations, like at lupicus, you’re probably missing around 30% damage.

Guardian, if you want easymode for you and your team. Especcially if there is none in your team yet.
If you already have two guardians or love some challenge for your team, it can be warrior.
If you enjoy some harder play for yourself, although correctly played bringing very high value to your team, choose ele.
If you play how you want, bearbow is the way to go.

And if you do not plan on making a new character, it’s definitely guardian.
However, in berserker gear and offensive traits, each profession has it’s uses.

Insert your stats, gear, build, common utilities and common party setting here:

Dubculator says:

In the given situation, assuming banner of discipline being up but no stacks/food, Soro’s is slightly better than Zojja’s.
You might want to change to 30/25/0/0/15, though, as 30/0/0/10/30 was kind of destroyed with the empower allies → master tier patch.
About stacks and food you might want to use Bloodlust + Precision Food. In more organized fights (22-25 might, banner of strength, probably empower allies) you can use Perception + Power Food.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Thief – Thief does the highest single-target damage in the game,

Err, no. :/

haviz.1340:

TKiller.6829:

Grenth wants to call bullkitten on you.

Edit: now rereading you said “bosses” which makes your statement correct but I meant that there’s more to Grenth priest event and the adds scale very properly.

Yes I meant just bosses. And to add some interesting fact, Grenth who is legendary mob has champion level of hp (~630,000).

Mob’s Health:
Lvl 75 Orrians: 13.757
Lvl 80 Trash: 15.774
Lvl 81 Trash: 16.232
Lvl 82 Trash: 16.697
Lvl 83 Trash: 17.162
Lvl 80 Elite Adds: 129.776
Lvl 80 Elites: 157.269
Lvl 82 Elites: 166.496
Lvl 80 Champs: 630.960
Lvl 83 Champs: 686.460
Lvl 80 Bosses: 1.376.340
Lvl 82 Bosses: 1.456.840
Lvl 83 Bosses: 1.497.440

Notice that mob’s do not always are what they seem to be, as locust swarms count as veterans for the title and have veteran’s HP, but use the elite silver circle.

The only problem is that they decided to give ascended gear better stats than exotoc gear. And that ascended gear is only obtainable via endless amount of grinding, not with something that requires skill and justifies the name “ascended”

Elementalist is highest, warrior is upper average.

FGS Killtime: 3 seconds.
Aswell as the rotation matter’s too much to deliver accurate data. S/D could mostlikely burst one down within ~6 seconds.