Oh, on a side note: There actually is a critchance cap below 100%. With assassin armor, ranger runes, 25 perception stacks, fury and some precision infusions i’m at 101% critchance (S/F, 100% with GS) in the hero panel. Nevertheless i get some non-crits.
It’s also overall better than RHS + Bloodlust (under the assumption of an 10/x/0/x/25 build). And even with RHS and double sigil on sword focus, a rotation is even better when gs has no x% sigil.
As thief: Dodge, Dodge, Withdraw, Dodge, Roll for Initiative, Dodge, Weaponswap, Dodge, Dodge, Signet of Agility, Dodge, Dodge.
You should be safe now.
i am quite intrigued to try to 25+ Virtues builds.
@Dub and others – is RHS really a waste of a trait most of the time? i’ve just gotten used to going full Radiance most of the time now.
If you’re lazy and stick to sword most of the time, RHS is a good choice for you.
If you aren’t lazy and do a proper rotation instead, RHS is usually wasted.
May i know the proper rotation you are speaking of ? I assume it uses gs and sword. Is it this rotation whirling wraith /symbol/auto attack /whirling wraith(total 14s in gs)/swap to sword auto attack (8s) then swap back to gs and repeat again?
Starting with GS: Whirling Wrath, Symbol, Leap of Faith, Binding Blades, 1 1, Whirling Wrath, swap, 1 1, RoJ, 111111 for 10 seconds (4 seconds after weaponswap recharged), starting with GS again with a simply altered rotation (2x whirling wrath, then binding blades, then swap).
i am quite intrigued to try to 25+ Virtues builds.
@Dub and others – is RHS really a waste of a trait most of the time? i’ve just gotten used to going full Radiance most of the time now.
If you’re lazy and stick to sword most of the time, RHS is a good choice for you.
If you aren’t lazy and do a proper rotation instead, RHS is usually wasted.
I know how 3w/1g/1m hits 25 might. But not how it maintains 25 might and 25 vuln.
Edit: No, i actually don’t know how 3w/1g/1m hits 25 might without blasts.
How do you maintain 25 might in a 3w/1g/1m party without the guardian contributing nothing but mindless might spamming?
You have 3 might per warrior, 0-4 from guardian, 0 from mesmer. You’d need to use blasts, so either the warriors run warhorn offhand or lb. Or they loose dps picking banners up and blasting guardians firefields (who had to take at least two in a fight longer than 20 seconds).
50% duration on vuln and weakness. All other conditions last full duration (unless it’s a boss like alphard with -100% condition duration, immunity to cc or entiys that are immune).
Weird NA tactics. I guess you’re using somewhat like 1 ele 1 engi 1 guardian 2 war then?
I can’t imagine any other (effective) setup that maintains 25 might, 25 vuln, has both banners and 2 warriors with 2 unused signets.
Rush has a slightly longer cast than the first autoattack. It’s about 0.8 seconds i believe.
Also, rush has no problems against targets such as lupicus, you just have to stand inside them.
WWA hits three times on average, even on tiny enemies. It’s more based on from where you start and where you’ll end.
Bladetrail is worth casting too, it hits twice and sometimes becomes some weird bouncing projectile that hits 3-5 times per enemy.
Also: What is Deep Strikes? I’m sure you mean Deep Cuts (50% longer bleeds).
Considering the title he survived with 0% (no viewable healthbar, neither as target nor in the upper right corner).
Do i have to comment on how much i hate ArenaNet?
I don’t take any offense to it, it just wasn’t me who came up with that build.
The credit has to go to Norjena out of german forum who actually submitted me some initial knowledge and ideas about guardian builds, including his suggestion of 10/25/0/25/10 for a lazy lupicus solo.
Anyway: I’m currently using 10/25/0/10/25 for optimized groups in most content, aswell as solo if unscathed contender can be kept up to be more valuable with virtues 25 trait than elusive power.
Unquestionable this is a very nice comparison. Unfortunately it is even in assumed optimal circumstances (except Unscathed Contender) a bit from accurate. RHS for example is usually a pretty wasted trait.
Not sure how 10/25/0/25/10 is “my build”.
I’m changing my build based on the content and use whatever fits best to the situation.
10/25/0/25/10 is what i use for heavily dodge-reliant content that either favours long consecration durations or allows to keep up aegis. Or in parties who lack of consistent might stacking.
Furthermore, sword atoattacks are inferier to a proper rotation which will only have about 60% sword uptime (more like 0-40% in optimized groups), depending on the fight duration.
The only dungeons that i really know “everything” of are AC (, TA) and Arah.
I’ll share whatever i know when i’m asked to, although i won’t give a summar of detailed information.
gw2dungeons.net instead gives (or will give) a pretty nice overview.
You can dodge the damage of Vevina’s “The Prestige” but it will still apply some seconds of burning which ticks for more than 500 health. You can see that in our Tafu run on ny channel.
For the risen archmage: already done, it was way too easy.
Kholer is easy too as long as you bring a lot of patience, evades and cleave damage. Warrior definitely recommended.
I’d last but not least like to see some examples of rT members hating on HC.
All that discussion started because of some (really disrespectful) comments on youtube and proceeded in forums where HC tried proving FGS as exploit and therefore declaring our records as non-legit. I don’t really know where Shadeus himself fit there in, he only did one video about it explaining but wasn’t involved in any discussion on youtube i believe. I seriously fail to see hate towards him, especially since we have been and still are playing together once in a while.
But anyway, -the honey badger- doesn’t give a kitten.
A rotation between both is best, it depends on cooldowns which set is better to use at the moment.
Anyway: You don’t even have to semi-exploit alphard. Kite him around the pillars until he teleports, run to him and afk-111 until he reaches 75% health. Kite him and clones around again until he teleports. Repeat at 50% and 25% health.
As a sidenote, that would not make any sense at all. Vevina would kick Scarlets kitten out faster than she could start her kittened up laugh.
And i really don’t get why they try to revamp dungeons instead of adding new (permanent, non super time gated) ones. When i look at it, the AC revamp was a huge fail except lowering boss hp a bit. Scavengers are laughable, kholer is extremely annoying with 80% evade time, the troll is probably the worst designed enemy in the entire game, spider queen is just no fun, howling king is an afk fight, rumblus is afk when stacking in a corner and pure rng if you try it normal. And all that considering those bosses have been fun to fight. Especially the rumblus revamp…. urgh.
Detha even began teaching her friends extended abuse of broken game mechanics. Tzark is just as strong as Detha by now whereas Hodgins always had something against quick dungeon clears.
And we didn’t even take care of might stacks much, plus i was wasting Unscathed Contender pretty often.
I’ve got 8k 8k 11k greatswords autoattacks on belka in just the same composition.
I believe the best staff rotation is Autoattack + Lava Font. Burning can’t be taking into account because even just one guardian will overwrite your burning all the time.
Did you take actual cast times, probably hapening interrupts and aftercasts into account?
Also, LH has ~90% uptime in most fights and the little downtime is used to stack might to increase parties dps output even more.
It’s more like 28 additional procs which makes it about 1.4 times as effective as without lightning flash. Using flash to hit 8 times with whirl instead makes it 2.0 times as effective as without.
Nope. You aren’t breaking a skill or glitching an animation.
Making a skill hit twice as often is much more exploit’ish than simply teleporting to get more procs off. What people whine about is the damage output and the resulting viability of elementalists, who are hands down too hard to play for most “speedrunners” out here.
