Guild Wars 2

1. Herald
2. Reaper
(if I had played Revenant from the start, Reaper would be the first)
3. Druid
4. Scrapper
5. Daredevil
6. Tempest
7. Berserker
8. Chronomancer
9. Dragonhunter

Varezenem.2813:

However Roy I do have to agree with the feedback on other topics. To make ventari more competitive it needs to lose that cast time on tablet movement and increase its speed and range a bit too (to 1200-1500).

Yes please, remove the cast time on #6, and add 1/2 sec cast to Natural Harmony, but reduce its delay to 1 sec or get rid of it.

I wanted a shapeshift form, but the Celestial form is great. The staff though… that channeled AA looks awful.

I was just messing around with the possibilities. Let’s say the planets align, you’re below 75% HP and ~10 seconds into the fight. Cast Rite of the Great Dwarf, pop VH and suddenly you have 85~100% damage reduction (not sure if it’s multiplicative or additive). In this case, armor wouldn’t make a difference.

But it’s definitely not a good build for roaming or anything that requires high mobility. Maybe defending towers and camps, you know.

I love it too, i was thory crafting a tanky build for wvw, and the active defense (few passive traits though) makes this class incredibly tough even in berserk gear.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlQQNAsemnXNmNSqJzJRBlTlshymS4PZUJYrMsklZlhNmb+RNgEewe6q/G-ThSBABU8AAsUlCKVXxMlgRcIAuSpBWKzIa/B80HAwZAgUARMGA-e

• - 50% damage taken with Vegeful Hammers/Close Quarters/Determined Resolution/Shrouding Mists
• High uptime of Protection
• Lots of condi clear and heals
• Extra 280 thoughness by upkeeping VH

It’s also worth mention that even though we do not have Vigor, Enduring Recovery plus Vigorous Persistence is better than most classes with access to it.

Nemesis.6938:

where is my shapeshift?
rework please

Pretty much this.

I had this idea of an F5 – Spiritual Bond, connecting with your pet. Each family has 5 new skills (weapon 1-5), and each species has it’s new F2 as well. F1 becomes a gap closer with small cooldown, and F3 an evade skill on a longer cooldown.

I’m not sure if they went with it in mind, considering the supportive kind of gameplay they have mentioned. But I sincerely hope for some kind of beast transformation based on our selected pets. Maybe that’s the reason it took them so long to reveal this elite spec.

Gaaroth.2567:

fixed the heal. still this with 1.9k on shield 4 gives an insame amount of self heal, near to elementalist. You run this on bunker builds, mostly.
People really do not see how strong it is right now…

I meant to say 4k from Shield #5 plus 2k from Shield #4 twice. Poison can screw our healing, but even -33% is better than nothing from sword.

Anyway, if you like mobile block stick with sword, it’s a lot better if you’re being chased by a big group. Shield is an excelent tool if you intend to fight the enemy. You can dodge when it ends btw, it’s not like you’re locked in place for 1 second.

And I never said block is better than what used to be. I replied to another thread saying that the partial-invulnerability was better imo. Block has a bunch of weaknesses against Warrior, Rev, Necro.

I think you guys are not giving enough credit to the heals on shield.

Off-hand sword can block on the move, great! In 24 sec you can have 4 sec of block + high damage skill with an unreliable pull. Using shield you can have 3 sec of block + 8k heal + 4 sec of protection. In terms of survivability I can’t see how oh sword is better.

Why can’t you dodge if you know they will be “unloading everything” on you?

I like the change, it just sucks we’ll get rekt by necros with wh #4 and staff #5. The endure pain effect was better than block IMO.

I was downloading the new patch steadily at 1 MB/s, then suddenly it drops to 1 KB/s for the last file, and takes the whole eternity to finish the update.

Fix it! I’ve never seen such bullkitten dl speed since dial-up connection.

Kidel.2057:

What’s the reason for 42% and 44% crit rate? Why stop at those values? You need at least 52% for 100% crit rate with a warrior using banners or precision food.

You have to consider Spotter. My build with Fury has 85%. +8% from Banner, +7% from Spotter.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlQQNAsemnvN2gS6JvQRVlbossyPU4V5IKYs8ElFNFitMnpNtBYBNwugJshA-ThSBABU8AAsUlCKVXxMlgRcIAuSpBWKzIa/B80HAwZAgUARMGA-e

Also, 5% damage is less than 175 power you get from power runes.

The one thing that made me realise how good masteries are is the the Uprooted Paradise region. I was leveling up Glider and had no idea how to get there, then an event popped and tens of players start to jump up there using the Mushroom, at that point I saw how many cool things they can allow us to unlock without leveling up per se.

I like it. Salvation has too many outgoing healing traits, 25% MS let us pick another legend instead of Glint.

I don’t think it deserves it’s own mechanic (F3), but it should be spawned automaticaly when you swap to Ventari.

My suggestion to improve it:
- Remove the cast skill, only becomes available if you destroy the tablet with Energy Expulsion.
- Make the tablet follow you at 240 range after 5 seconds w/o any interaction (6-0).
- Remove the cast time on Ventari’s Will, and increase movement speed by ~30%.
- Increase the radius of Natural Harmony and the passive heal of the tablet to 360 radius.

I was playing with this build a while ago, and it’s a lot of fun.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlQQJAWinnNWNSyJrJRTl/ksmygSYU5QJIscrklZlRNgEaY9iOKxO6q/G-TRSBABCqDgS1fMTJ4VK/i4CAgnmAe2fIvDBAAPBASBExYA-e

Ventari was the last legend I gave a try, but he’s indeed worth playing. Can’t tell for sure how much impact my heals had on the allies against the Verdant Brink legendaries, but I felt a lot tougher even in berserk gear. You can swap the runes for Monk.

Kodama.6453:

Krysard.1364:

UA is fine, pls theres no need to nerf a prof when people still dont know how to play against it

14k damage with one skill with evade and without a chance to kite it because it will port you wherever the enemy runs in a 1 on 1 fight is fine? srsly? xD

Game is not balanced around 1 on 1, deal with it. PvP is a team game mode, work with your team mates. In WvW there’re even more people, but if you want to solo cap stuff to boost your ego, that’s not the devs problem.

Interrupt during cast, double dodge, invulnerability, kite to neutrals… get better?

Whenever you’re AFK or WP to a new map, pop Facet of Nature and Facet of Elements, until you find some enemies to fight you already have 40 sec of swiftness, then you can swap freely between stances.

No matter where I go, he has this green tint all the time, except on his weapons.

It needs to be more transparent.

I hope we get a skill that converts remaining Regeneration in instant heal. Rangers can provide a lot of regeneration, but is worthless when the fight ends or the player goes down with 50s of it.

The Gw2skills was updated.

My open world build, if the content becomes more challenging.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vlQQNAseinvN2gS6JvQRVlbossyPU4V5IKYs8EllNFidMlZNtBIBLwegHchA-ThSBABU8AAsUlCKVXxMlgXp0ALlZEt/Ae6Dy7QAAwZAgUARMGA-e

I haven’t created new characters since the NPE patch, but this might help you.

That’s exactly why the healing per pulse should be very clear in the tooltip, because we will rarely be able to channel for the full duration.

Numbers can be tweaked later, I believe that 2,400 – 3,200 heal per pulse would be good enough imo.

The animation for this skill has nothing to do with a physical fighter. It would look better if was like a monk floating in the air while meditating, or an injured/tired fighter rambling around trying to regaining his strength back.

Also, change the tooltip to the amount healed per pulse instead of full heal.

Thank you.

Please don’t make this game F2P. If you think the community is so dead that you have to open the game to everyone else, then I’m out.

Mortifer.2946:

Warriors are extremely boring. After 3 years I still didn’t level mine to level 80…. boring boring boring.. even in PVP

I disagree, Guardian is the most boring class in this game. My warrior has over 500h played, while the guardian only 92h, and the only reason I haven’t deleted him yet is because he’s a grandmaster armorsmith.

horvgab.4879:

My story was just an example for a problem. Because it is. You can be sure there is a lot of player (most of player), who think: the meta is the only way, and players without is just noobs, because they don’t understand the game… This is the current attitude and it isn’t healthy. They wont come to the forum, they wont start arguing about it, just believing the s.hh.t. So we have to make moves, to saying to them: this isn’t the only way. And have to create mechanins in the game to support this idea. And that’s why I started this conversation. Anyway I gave some solution and idea too.

Meta is not about the only way to complete a challenge, but the most efficient way to do that. If you can’t play with those people, make your own LFG.

Oh, I did that because that’s a cheap way of using sword/warhorn, sword/warhorn. You put your main weapon on the weapon set 1, and the off-hand on weapon set 2, so you can benefit of on-swap traits, sigils, etc.

I should have explained how to play too.
Enter in-combat, strike once to apply Opening Strike then swap weapon, AA chain then use Call of the Wild, AA until you can swap again and repeat.
This way you will apply x5 Vuln > gain Fury on swap > apply x5 Vuln > Call of the Wild > apply x5 Vuln > repeat

Yeah, the pet has nothing to do with Revenant, but Ranger is the only class that can keep permanent Might (~x15) + Fury + Swiftness + Regen + 25% uptime of Quickness and ~x20 Vuln on your target.

This is for PvE btw.

Invictus.1503:

…and Quickened Zephyr on your Revenant…no, wait, that isn’t a Revenant at all.

C’mon, Quickening Zephyr IS Impossible Odds with a short uptime.

Julie Yann.5379:

Muchacho.2390:

According to stream primal burst skills will remove 3 conditions with cleansing ire. In fact all traits that depend on adrenaline level will work as if you adrenaline level is 3 if you have a full adrenaline bar in berzerker mode.

So, potentially clearing 9 conditions in 15 seconds plus whatever gets cleared with your other skills. Sounds pretty OP.

Actually 12 conditions, Berserk removes 3, then +3 for each Primal Rage skill.

With the long waiting, I came up with a really fun build with the objective to replicate the sword/x weapon set using Shiro and Glint. I can keep perma Swiftness/Fury/Might and a good amount of Quickness, and apply to the target ~15 vulnerability, just like Rev’s sword does.

Also have access to a dodge roll that removes immob and refills endurance, Super speed, Regeneration… and Stability, if you feel like swapping to Jalis. :P

Sword and shield!

:D

Rym.1469:

P.S. Could you make a statement on “adding more utilities for each Legend to the pool” when you’re ready?

Mallyx could use a 4th utility skill that consumes health to regenerate energy. Kinda like a blood mage.

Misguided.5139:

Kidel.2057:

Shared Empowerment alone may be easily 4 extra stacks every 3 seconds for almost 6 seconds (with 15% duration from trait) from just 1 upkeep active, meaning almost 8 stacks from only 1 upkeep in a group of at least 5. A lot more with 2 upkeeps, imagine 3.

So, you think we will get one stack from shared empowerment for each ally? I hope you are right about that. Also, with the ICD, I wonder about ticks from different abilities occurring within the ICD (and not counting). I guess we will see how it shakes out during next BWE.

I believe you can’t because when you apply the boon to allies, one player will get it first no matter if the skilll applies to 5 targets (server reads one command at time, this is the reason they had to adapt the code for Blinding Ashes), so the ICD starts.

But if you activate Facet of Strength > wait 1 sec > Facet of Darkness > wait 1 sec > either Facet of Light or Elements, that’s 5 extra might stacks permanetly*. With Facet of Nature as well, it goes to extra 8 stacks for ~25 seconds.
*Auto attack only.

Treetoptrickster.4205:

or maybe Facet of chaos could grants something other than protection?

Retaliation could be very useful. And I still think Vengeful Hammers should have Protection, it looks such a waste of energy in it’s current state.

Here is a good reason why Life Blast should hit twice: because it hits the body and the soul of your target.

I have this idea for Support Ranger if healing becomes a thing in HoT.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNMQRBMhdG2JlKCVolFLL2vigF8F0vCct4axAjQxh73GA/TMspuH6leTnyreQVpA-ThSGABCcEAA4BAAoKFXq0TKlgDpMY3TCwk6HqUdFP2fIAACwNbz2sND+5P/5P/5Pbn38o38o3sUAeNGA-e

You can cast Call of the Wild every 10 seconds (perma 2-3x Might, Fury, Swiftness and Regen + Blast Finisher), while healing your party members for 685 with Sigil of Renewal, and still deal some pretty decent damage. Your pet can pull aggro from your allies, and you still keep their DPS high with Spotter.

Protect Me could replace Lightning Reflexes, but I don’t like that skill in the current state though.

Today was a good day for me. I hope they have fixed whatever made the servers lag so often.

Talyn.3295:

Its not just looting when it comes to talking to them. I have noticed that during some dungeon runs that the priority of actions is kinda iffy.

Yes, this is actually the main problem, game priority. The F key should prioritize your actions this way:

Instant Loot > Res Party Member > Res Random Player > Activate Object > Bundle (Gunk, Skull, Conjures, etc) > Res NPC > Regular Loot (Window) > Talk with NPC

And I appreciate the AoE Loot key bind, very helpful. I had the AoE Loot enabled, but didn’t know there was a special key exclusive for loot.
Thanks

Could you remove this option when we are in-combat?

It sucks when I’m looting and it starts a dialog with a nearby NPC. I know some quests require us to retrieve a few items to the NPC, so we will likely be in-combat, but aside from that, I don’t want to talk with them while fighting, and the dialog box can be very annoying.

You’re not alone. The latency, particularly in world events, makes the game unplayable. I used to run pretty much all world bosses a day early this year, but after last patch this isn’t possible anymore.

I have the same issue, it’s very annoying and distracting. All my characters have all traits and skills unlockd.

Same for Rangers and Engineers knocking enemies away when I’m about to Backstab or 100b.

I just killed SB, got the reward from the big chest, but the bonus chest and quest completion was not given. Got it yesterday though, but the quest for SB is still there and does not affect the Completionist one.

Yep, same thing. I had all specializations and utilities unlocked, and remaining 165 hero points. After this patch, I still have access to everything, but the Training page shows it’s empty.

Please no. I like Spectral Walk the way it is. 300 range is so low it’s not even worth ground target, you better just word it “Blink forward a short range”.

I gave a suggestion almost one year ago to make Dark Path a teleport skill, with the same cast time and not instant, to compensate the lower cooldown.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Dark-Path-1/first#post4474554

You can do anything in PvE, open world exploration, solo champions, hold a fort in SW by yourself. Necro is a very sustain class with great DPS, but does not bring enough utility for the group in Dungeons. In Fractals the constant weakness and life steal can be very helpful though.

I play necro in every area of PvE no problem, I don’t even need join groups to get the gold medal in big events, but just don’t take your Necro to a Dungeon group asking for Zerk Meta and stuff like that. Level up a Warrior or Ele to do dungeons, and enjoy the rest of the game as Necromancer.

To be fair, dungeons is the most boring stuff I do lately, I’d rather only play SW and kill World Bosses, unfortunately it doesn’t give as much gold.

Xillllix.3485:

Dude, all we want is to not be forced to open our inventory every time we want to change weapon.

It has nothing to do with balance at all.

It doesn’t make any difference, staff, D/x, S/x require other traits, you have to stop to select them anyway.
You would never be effective using a single set of traits for any kind of weapons you choose to equip.

thetwothousand.5049:

But the fire skills are the worst fire kit ele has, worse than focus. I can’t ever see a reason for fire 4, it’s just a blast finisher i can’t use for anything but might and 90% of ele boons are AoEs already.

Add break bars to all the attunements,

Fire 4 is better than Signet of Inspiration and doesn’t take a utility slot. If Elementalist give AoE boons already, with Heat Sync you can double the duration of those boons.

What break bar means? Stun break?

cursE.1794:

I could not find the ele warhorn skills and cooldowns. Help me out here pls?

http://dulfy.net/2015/07/24/gw2-tempest-elementalist-elite-specialization-livestream-notes/
Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2/v/8428828