Guild Wars 2

i don’t think population matters that much. in the end it comes down to skill and organization of the commanders in the server.

TC fights outnumbered all the time and we still beat larger population servers frequently in zerg fights.

WvW has many facets to it and should not be balanced around zergs only.
There are small scale roaming and solo roaming to consider.
They all contribute in their own ways in different time zones.

To say balances should revolve around zerg vs zerg only isn’t right.
And that is what makes balancing WvW so challenging.
How do you balance a game mode that has so many facets to it?

If you somehow managed to balance the zerg vs zerg scene, will small scale and solo roaming become unbalanced? And vice versa.

They beat the other servers and went top.

fix the below classes and builds first:

• DD lotus DD evade condi build (needs nerf)
• Chronophantasm Chrono Condi build (needs nerf)
• Traps Evade condi DD (needs nerf)
• Reaper (needs buff, needs other forms of damage negation instead of soaking damage in shroud because kitten letting enemies hit you is a NO when they do all sorts of healing upon hitting you and I’m referring to you berserkers)

all those builds above that needs nerf are low skill high gains builds. similar to druids.

What is the best condi rune for WvW solo or small group roaming now?
I used to use Nightmare runes but it got nerfed…not sure what to use now =/

In response to the ‘good fight’ thread, which is rather silly in the context of a WvW game, I leave here the ‘jump on their corpse’ thread that is really what most of us feel when we fight and kill or get killed by other players in WvW.

If there are encounters where you wanted to or did jump on your enemies’ corpse as a show of barbarism as is fitting of a WvW bloodlust inducing game mode, and didn’t get to do it enough or add the enemy into your chat to continue the blood-letting blood-curling rage induced cussing and fisticuffs, feel free to post here.

You spend more time with yaks than with players. Mooooo.

I just saw BG has a asura with a Diamond General rank
that is like 9000+ WvW level…is this possible???
Who is the highest? is he the highest?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_Experience

how do you guys fare though against condi heavy enemies like condi phantasm chronos and condi trap or evade daredevils?

Not just the regular condi chrono, but those that uses phantasm with lifesteal sigils.

Or maybe you guys don’t have these opponents on your server / timezone that you are running…

Svarty.8019:

Svarty.8019:

Alex.6483:

Hi there,

I’m new to necro and want to focus on playing power reaper in wvwvw – both roaming and zerging.

Roaming reaper?! This I have to see!
Are there any videos of these pwning Thieves, Mesmers and Berserkers?

I’m just going to quote myself just to ask again for these videos.

I got some pure power reaper roaming vids in my signature…

vana.5467:

EremiteAngel.9765:

Have these 2 giants in WvW ever fought?

lol

I’d put all my money on AHMA if this ever happened (it won’t).

why not? they are both in T1 and both giants.

Knox.3126:

never heard of them. whats servers are they?

AHMA is in BG i think.
TW is in TC.

Zackie.8923:

Make it so that you can’t fight the same servers in consecutive weeks. give us more variety.

you would need to balance all the servers in terms of coverage and skill level before we could try something like this.

Have these 2 giants in WvW ever fought?
Who is the winner?

I have had the honor to run with both guilds as a pug and they have both been dominant in stamping their mark into every map they are in every reset night.
If they are in ebg, SMC is usually theirs.
If they are in bl, the enemy’s garrison is usually theirs.

I am really eager to know who will win between these WvW giants.

For NA for example, BG has been king in terms of coverage for a long time.
I think it might be good to forcibly transfer a group of players to other worlds so that it becomes more competitive in the top tier.
I know forcibly transferring sounds like a bad idea to all of us, but how about we offer a carrot for transferring?

Block people from tranferring to BG, but allow people to transfer out of BG.
And each person who chooses to transfer out of BG gets free transfer to any world of his/her choice and maybe 2000 gems as a carrot.

We could do this for EU’s dominant server too.

I certify him as one of the best warriors I have fought.
Long awaited video mate!

Its on discount…will I get a permanent hairstyle makeover contract?

Guardians have decent condi clearance.
However, against the other current meta condi enemies, it is not enough.

I suggest changing all meditation skills to clear 2 condis on use when traited instead of heal.
We need a real dedicated condi clearance tree.

onevstheworld.2419:

Was part of a balance update last year.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-September-29-2015

this can’t be true…I’ve not used shield guard for so long…

i just get it for more health thats all. guards need health to fight all the condi monsters.

i have it though. no big deal to be honest. i still lose and win as frequently as night and day.

I thought guardian shield 5 cancels on movement…
I can now cast it and move without it cancelling!

XTR.9604:

Both. I run sword/shield and scepter/focus on my guardian and it works out pretty well.

This is what I run: http://xtremetheory.com/wvw-roaming-guardian-meditation/

You can look at my recent streams on twitch (AsphyxiaXT) if you want to see some of the game play in the build above. I haven’t had time to highlight anything recently.

is str in numbers trait better than shield reduction trait?

the power creep and lack of balance is already big enough. why do you need more stats?

because desert

desert

TC got half the points of BG and way less than JQ too.

WHY ARE WE IN T1?
MOVE US BACK TO T2.

We are not linked to any other servers. We don’t need T1.

Please help.

I play a medi-burst guardian and struggle against most condi enemies during solo roaming.

For e.g.:

• Chronophantasm condi chrono bunkers
• Evade DD lotus condi daredevils
• Traps pistol condi daredevils

Any tips?

The build I run:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVEQNAR8dn8cCVdilDBWDB8DhlEiKL/+vA8aZDgEQe5j+rH-TVCFAB6r+RSK9A4hAYoKIIpM4KlgqfBAdDMcEAkb/hNDDAjgQAmZmZaEREBA-w

I love the sword design more than the scepter, but I am having trouble staying on enemies with a sword/focus + Greatsword build.
I dislike the bow.
So I was wondering if I should change to scepter and if it will be any better…

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Redfeather.6401:

My gut says it has to be southwest corner of Brisbane Wildlands. Let’s see if my instincts are sharp.

your gut… can talk? o.0

It’s beautiful…but I can’t seem to recall the location…

mazut.4296:

A/F?! I only saw Reaper shroud ;D

true lol…but still i love the ranger hate hahaha

Jeknar.6184:

EremiteAngel.9765:

I train and practice so that I don’t give them the chance to go ooc. Training and knowing how and when to burst is the key.
If a thief resets a fight against me, I count it as my loss. I let him escape.

Unless your signature is outdated, I find hard to belive that you actually do that as a reaper, honestly… Necro is problably the slowest class in the game.

i did the same as a Reaper/Necro. If i fail to burst him, and let him go ooc, I start the next round with less Lifeforce. and less. and less. until he kills me. And each time I fail, I chide myself for failing.

A necro will have a much better chance bursting a good thief down than a reaper though, with its range fear and range lifeblast.

I practice a dragonhunter now and I do the same thing. Practice how and when to burst and if I fail, I lost that round.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

So let me just state a few things before I go ahead and share.

This is a small scale/solo build. It does not use Reaper. I wasn’t trying to achieve anything other than some good sustain to compliment my high Toughness. I understand that Signets Of Suffering would benefit the chosen traits. In no way is this a “recommended” build. I have no idea if it’s been posted here before. Intelligence Sigil is to better control Plague Sending.

To make a long story short, I shelved my Necro a few months ago because I was tired of getting steamrolled in WvW. Without Reaper, I’m simply at too much of a disadvantage but I dislike how Reaper feels. So, it’s either Reaper, less fun, more wins or, Necromancer, more fun, less wins.

Coming back to it today, I tinkered with different traits and utilities to see if I could put something together without changing my gear and I landed on this build which I’m going to call the Bloodeater

By no means is it optimal or amazing but it’s very fun and obnoxiously beefy. I was face tanking 4 people earlier tonight for a good 5 minutes or more and I never went below 30% health. That’s with one stunbreak and no stability excluding Plague.

Of course I’m sure a competent player would be able to wear it down but I wanted to share this in case someone’s looking for something different. So give it a shot and have fun (:

build looks great but I think you will struggle against stun heavy builds.

Jeknar.6184:

Pixid.2817:

What you guys are doing by complaining about these things is slowly homogenizing the game. If your a slow, bulky, whatever class/build that gets ganked by thieves, probably don’t go out alone. We can either have an asymmetrical unbalanced game about fun and flavor and different classes, or we can have WoW.

I’m not complaining… I’m just pointing that it’s annoying when a thief keep comming back 5-6 times and failing at what he should have done at best on the second try.

Unlike some stupid people here, when a thief moves out to gain space, I don’t chase. Instead I make that gap even bigger by using my mobility to the oposite direction. That way the thief will have to burn all his initiative to reach me, or when he finally get back my cds will problably be all ready again.

I train and practice so that I don’t give them the chance to go ooc. Training and knowing how and when to burst is the key.
If a thief resets a fight against me, I count it as my loss. I let him escape.

Re-design WvW ruins.

Make it a 1 vs 1 mini arena.

Please support and add your thoughts on how this could work, or maybe not work.

am I the only TC player worried that with the exodus the guilds, we are going to drop to T2 or T3?

We can’t even compete in T1 with BG and DB now. We even lost to JQ the last match up.

Jourdelune.7456:

Build got the META status right now.

who decides if a build is meta or not?

mordran.4750:

Lahm.7056:

how necro is underwhelming in solo scenarios but forget it can be one of the strongest professions in small skirmishes with the right group, with the right the peel and support, you will rarely lose an evenly matched fight if the enemies are unable to take you down before you downed one of them.

Yes this is the case since release, Necro shines if supported, but to be viable in roaming means also that you have to be viable on your own and there necro lacks badly compared to the other classes. Developers just don´t give a rat´s kitten about that.

agreed.
in a good team, necro is de vas tat ing.
when alone, necro is de vas tat ed.

ArchonWing.9480:

Ah, fun stuff. I like it when people try shield+ dragohunter. You are really slow though, so you might want to take JI somewhere in this. Or grab the sentry first aid kits for swiftness. As silly as it sounds Guardians need to do that because they are that slow or are doomed to traveler runes forever.

I don’t see the point of taking Honor tree, honestly though. You have one minor that’s not useful solo at all, and a so-so mace trait. Pure of Heart doesn’t really help sustain too much as you don’t have aegis spam. Writ of persistance is alright, I guess but I’d be tempted to bloat stats with Force of Will.

If you take Virtues you can remove 5 condis instead of 2 with your f2 skills which really helps against condi users and indomitable courage which is good to get you out of a jam and also best for ensuring safe stomps as well as just pushing forward if they don’t know what your shield does and 20% damage when Aegis is up which probably won’t be much, but nice if you can get the jump on someone.

Blood sigils seem pretty interesting. It ignores armor too.

Also I didn’t know there was a food that reduces condi damage! I made the boon duration/damage reduction one which is only good for zerging. >.>

I’ve been thinking of virtues too and will give it a try!

TakeCare.3182:

Dragonhunter crushes Daredevil by default. If you let the fight go on for an hour, you just got outplayed, to be honest.

with all respect, you probably have not fought DDs running cheese builds then.

Are you tired of fighting tanky druids that heal all day while their pets kill you?
Are you tired of fighting condi chronophantasm chronomancers that dish out so much condi burst and yet have so much defense?
Are you tired of fighting Adrenal Health pumped berserkers with durability runes?
Are you tired of fighting full evade condi and power daredevils?
Are you tired of fighting high sustain scrappers?

This build allows you to take on many of the cheesiest roaming builds in WvW.
It is a variant of the metabattle PvP symbol build.
You also have enough damage to kill non-sustain builds.

Warning : It is a super boring build. Against other sustain cheese builds, tank builds, healing builds, you can duel up to an hour with no clear winner. On the up side, with this build, they won’t be able to kill you now.

I dueled a full evade DD for 1 hour yesterday and neither could kill the other. And this was just one of many other similar fights against other sustain builds. Stalemate.
And I am just a new Dragonhunter of about 2 weeks and still learning the class =/

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVEQRApd7en8cCVdidDBWDB8DhlGi6aYXgAQe4T+nHrAigRA-TlCFABLcCAgU9H23f4Klg0pLYOtCE8EASSpnSKDA4gAQKANHZB-w

If you want more mobility you can

• swop scepter for sword and
• contemplation of purity for judge’s intervention and
• runes of durability for traveler runes

This will allow you to escape most outnumbered situations. You will fare worse against condi enemies though. I will recommend the mobility build if you are running with a party. If you are solo, I will recommend the durability runes build above.

Note: I totally will not want to make this my main roaming build. I will still prefer to go marauder + zerk on my dragonhunter because it is so much more fun. Although not as good against all the sustain cheese in WvW now, but no I will not fight fights that last an hour with no winner.

Pregnantman.8259:

It is great that we finally have symbols on Scepter and Sword, but at the moment they both seem a bit overtuned. It looks like devs didn’t want to replace old skills these two weapons had with new symbols as to keep their flavor and playstyle, but I don’t think combining old skills with new symbols is the way to go.

Ever since HoT, every symbol added in game had this additional gimmick in addition to normal symbol effects. Longbow’s Symbol of Energy burned foes and it was ok, even underpowered at that state because of its cooldown and projectile nature. However, the new two symbols added are not really the same. Symbol of Blades: low cooldown, 0 cast time (much more than 1 per second like other symbols), free teleport and AoE blind. Symbol of Punishment: low cooldown, hits multiple times, relatively short cast time. In my opinion they do too much for too little cost compared to other symbols we have.

What I think should be done is adding small gimmicks to all of our symbols and getting all of them into same line. For example:

—Symbol of Faith cast time reduced to 3/4 and now heals players covered in area symbol created for a decent amount.

—Symbol of Swiftness knocks enemies back by a tiny bit when its first put.

—Symbol of Protection cast time reduced to 3/4, damage numbers in auto attack or symbol arranged to keep the same dps in hammer (Hammer symbol originally has a ‘gimmick’ in which you deal higher damage on the initial strike while you place it)

—Symbol of Wrath cast time increased to 1/2 and now Immobilizes a foe for 1 second when they first enter the symbol (target limit 5).

—Symbol of Blades cast time increased to 1/2 (or 3/4 to match Unrelenting Assault) and blind aspect moved to third skill – each projectile of third skill now also blinds on hit.

—Symbol of Punishment cast time increased to 1/2 or 3/4.

—Symbol of Energy arrow speed increased.
Thoughts?

Are you trying to get us nerfed?

Natwinter.9234:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVQQRApd8en8cClChVDBWdC8Dhl6hSe+z//HrGCip4KA2hYA-TRDFABAp0b9TAAAHBgbUGc/+DDoEE4HAwI6H608HBHEAZUfIFVYyQDBpAEdMA-e

While playing Symbolic build in WvW, I always like to experiment, to see how far you can push gear in a certain direction, in this case adding more passive damage reduction for unprecedented sustain. Nigh impossible to be killed, unless 1v4+, but even then, it’ll be a grudge match of attrition.

Swapped in the Superior Rune of the Scrapper for the 7% damage reduction, plus the +10% Damage Reduction food, and the passive from Hunter’s Fortification adding another 10%. With all the blocking going on and the removal of conditions, I opted to invest in Focus Mastery, giving the focus 4 & 5 a -33% damage reduction, and reduced recharge. I found the original Symbolic Dragonhunter build to be susceptible to CC chains, and these tweaks patch up the gaps and allow to survive burst if stunned. Plus the reduced recharge allows you to work through the rotations faster.

Overall, super tanky, and still a bruiser. In the hands of someone more capable I imagine it’d be very effective, but I’ve taken on 1v2s with classes than normally destroy me one on one. Tangoing with a Chronomancer and Revenant duo… Elementalist and those bulky healing Druids, no problem! Juggernaut your way through camps and towers, defend those nodes indefinitely, be impervious to all danger!

Are u able to kill anyone who runs sustain too though? Or do u guys fight for an hr before calling truce, patting each other on the back for being pros, and then run off feeling good.

This has been happening way too often with high sustain builds. They just take all the dmg since they can heal back up easily.

gennyt.3428:

And those 3-4 people never once thought to kill the pet?

the pet is tankier than the druid

Jeknar.6184:

I don’t get what exactly is the discussion here. You’re complaining about the Cancerous Chronophantasma Mesmer? That’s problably the strongest 1v1 build atm and the only times I ever beat one was with condi necro (with all the condition return skills equpped)

The only time I beat one was with a reaper with all the condition transfers equipped too.
The reaper shout that transfer 1 condi per hit works wonders against them.

But I think OP’s point is, yes there are a couple of niche builds that can fight these condi chrono mesmers, but every other build fails. And for these niche builds to fight them, they give up on a lot of things.

So condi chrono mesmers can kill most builds that stay and fight them while having more trouble fighting only a couple of niche builds. These niche builds have a good chance against these condi chrono mesmers but gives up a lot and is disadvantaged against most other roaming builds.

I really hope more players go on there to post their designs and participate in sharing and commenting on other designs. Its a great place to share and get feedback on your style!

https://gw2style.com/

Inspired by thread: Thanks got GW2 Wiki
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Thanks-to-GW2-Wiki/

I heard TW is moving to DB.
Is this the fall of TC?

I just noticed that marauder armor has more stats than berserker =/

Hey all. I’m a Reaper convert to DH a few days ago and am loving DH for WvW solo roaming and fights.

I’m currently trying out different weapon combos and favor the sword focus scepter torch power build.

I would love to know from the more seasoned DH roamers here:

• what is the strongest power burst weapon comination?
• what are the combos available for each weapon combination?

i am currently trying this combo which i think is a very strong opening combo chain to instant kill my opponent or force him to panic trigger his defenses

• focus 5 > torch 4 > meditation blink immediately after casting torch 4 > F1 traited for immoblize and blind on cast > scepter 2 > F1 pull > F2 traited for immobilize and damage on cast > sword 3