Guild Wars 2

If you’re running off to reset, so can the champs.

It’s a fight ’til the death, or the player is a coward.

Sawnic.6795:

Delvoire.8930:

They haven’t implemented the Bezerker change yet. That comes next patch I believe.

Also, people are reporting after the No Condition phase there is a phase that needs heavy conditions.

That doesn’t fix the problem of “Condition players are forced to afk or respec.”

It’s a straight up slap to the face.

But if there is a phase that needs heavy conditions, it’s unfair to Berserker players as they need to respec too.

SkiTz.4590:

Vol.7601:

Traveller.7496:

iStoked.4018:

Seriously! I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor.

C) Selling Tormented weapons on the store just makes me angry that there’s no way to get them besides random. It’s a slap on the face for any GW1 veterans who had them and loved them.

Buy them from the TP?

yayaya farm gold till you fall flat on your face!!! awesome rewarding gameplay!!

/sarcasm off

get real. Stop with this nonsense “buy from TP”… ya farm gold ok, i dont really feel like doing endless and mindless zerg trains to earn something.

These weapons will probably be 50-70g while they cost 1 ticket. That’s farming ‘til you fall on your face? If you can only make 70g from champion trains I question your quality of gameplay. What are you, AFKing in Lion’s Keep?

Yes, let’s put only items nobody wants in the gem store. That will surely allow financial ability to continue to host the game and produce content, right?

Vol.7601:

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SPOILERS VIDEOS***

Cinematic starts at 6:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2f86wnjJOU

Thank you.

As my server is bugged, and even after the defeat of the Knights, cannot enter the portal to the Breachmaker, I’m wondering if someone has a video of the cutscenes in English uploaded onto Youtube and are able to post a link.

Gandara main shard just defeated the 3 Knights with a couple of minutes to spare, and the circles on the ground that give the individual light buffs did not appear, so we can’t access Scarlet.

Can we get some testing already?

That’s ridiculous.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

Fror.2163:

Fror.2163:

Also, you write down explicit exploits. I’d edit the ones with “in pure safety” to remove the exploit. Ideally I’d say “boss X can still be exploited in pure safety”.

I quote myself because I didn’t see your add before I finished my edits. Everything that mentions “safe” shouldn’t mention “how” it’s safe.

This is a very fair point, I edited those ones. I think I got them all.

My apologies. Granted I don’t expect developers to know “how” to exploit it, so how can the unknown be fixed.

No problem, I’d like the more exploitable bugs fixed too, not just ones that are a detriment to the speed of players

For WvW purpose only, an Ele or Guardian.

It is to never, ever, ever be bought into a dungeon or any PVE environment on any class whatsoever, EVER.

CM Path 1, Frost can still be meleed on the rock in pure safety.

Arah Path 1, Ancient Ooze can still be meleed on the coral in pure safety.

AC Path 2, occasionally the Charr NPC (who’s name I do not know) will not trigger the trap event and follow a random player. The Ascalonian Captain does not spawn.

COE paths 1/2/3, players are still able to leap over the door and fight Subject Alpha before a path has been selected.

MassDelusion.9130:

Flissy.4093:

MassDelusion.9130:

get some life steal food (candied dragon rolls are 2s each)
along with your GS use axe/warhorn, and use a sigil of energy on the warhorn

the life steal along with the extra dodges on swap (and skill #5 warhorn) should help you out.

Sword is better than Warhorn. 5% damage from Dual Wielding & Riposte. Warhorn is for Weakness and when your group needs vigor, not personal use.

@OP, Your accessories is where you want the Crit damage. Try swapping your armor to Knights while you learn Dungeons, but keep your accessories as Berserker. As for a middle ground between PVE and WvW, there is no such thing. You will never be good at both with 1 gear set, just good at one or gimping yourself at both. Get 2 gear sets.

he’s asking for survivability, not more damage.
the weakness and the extra vigor is for more survivability

You don’t learn to play Berserker by sacrificing damage. It’s counter productive, it’s like telling him to use GS Axe/Mace but Soldier armor and Dolyak runes. Sword is better both offensively and defensively on a personal level than Warhorn if for some reason the Mace isn’t useable, or in a Pure axe build.

Warhorn really isn’t a big deal outside trash skips and 50 Fractals.

@OP, a trait to bear in mind is Building Momentum, 15 point minor is Strength, it gives you 50% endurance when you use your burst skill. It’s a temporary damage loss because of Berserker’s Power, but it’s good to keep in mind if you find yourself in a pinch.

MassDelusion.9130:

get some life steal food (candied dragon rolls are 2s each)
along with your GS use axe/warhorn, and use a sigil of energy on the warhorn

the life steal along with the extra dodges on swap (and skill #5 warhorn) should help you out.

Sword is better than Warhorn. 5% damage from Dual Wielding & Riposte. Warhorn is for Weakness and when your group needs vigor, not personal use.

@OP, Your accessories is where you want the Crit damage. Try swapping your armor to Knights while you learn Dungeons, but keep your accessories as Berserker. As for a middle ground between PVE and WvW, there is no such thing. You will never be good at both with 1 gear set, just good at one or gimping yourself at both. Get 2 gear sets.

Gwen.7619:

I wouldn’t say flagged myself, but having two accounts I have to say the account I play less gets better loot then the account I play the most, my main account has only had 3 exotic’s drop in over 4,511 hours play while the lest played has had more as well as ascended chest drops in WvW. So for me it is the lest played account thats better off.

As far as I’m concerned the less hours I play per day the better my luck is the next day.

While I doubt your validity of 3 exotic drops in 4.5k hours, as that is quite ridiculous and you’re probably being hyperbolic, it could be logical that there is diminishing returns linked to play time, akin to “resting” experience in other MMOs.

It’s fair to believe maybe increased play time in a period does lead to poorer quality loot, but tied to a particular account is unrealistic and pathetic to believe.

This is what I came up with. It’s no news conditions are poor in Dungeons, and Warrior is one of the worst to do so. There is no point trying to optimize damage of a bad build setup, so do what you can to pump out more damage from the rest of your group from Banners, EA and Vuln, hence the Sigil selection.

Neoheart.2750:

ESO will have it’s own following and fanbase etc but it’s not that one that Anet have to worry about. Its Wildstar.

Yes, because everybody who has played GW2 is sure to bandwagon onto yet another NCSoft game, right? Right???

Kal Spiro.9745:

Living Story events last for a month.

Fractured didn’t.

Ok I Did It.2854:

it makes no sense for the casual player to get all the great drops and the hardcore ones get screwed, its the hardcore ones that are keeping there game going.

You’re right, it does make no sense.

And that’s why everybody has equal chance at everything in the game. This is the most ridiculous claim I’ve ever read on the forums.

Not only are you insinuating that accounts are flagged for RNG, but you’re also claiming that AN individually tags them as “Hardcore” or “Casual”.

Also, as a rule, it’s the casual playerbase that runs the game. The hardcore usually don’t support the gem store through real world funding as they already have a stock of gold they can easily move into gems. This is usually because a casual player has a job while Mr Hardcore is a student or unemployed, thus the reason for having almost limitless time to play while being unable to afford providing the gem store with any meaningful support.

Please.

Only the Axe was designed to be a spammable Burst, hence the Sharpened Axes trait. Everything else is situational use. For example, an emergency endurance regeneration through Building Momentum, but costing a sacrifice to get this. Or some on-point AOE pressure with Longbow burst.

Fortunately for PVE, none of the bursts are really worth using anyway, so even if this trait didn’t exist it would only really be benefitting Eviscerate – which is single target anyway.

If you want to take EA do so, I run 30/10/0/20/10. Ditch the Greatsword, pure Axe is just better. Reason?:

• Either you’re in an optimal group so have Might stacks anyway -> Useless Forceful Greatsword & Axe is higher DPS with an outside Might source.
• EA is even better in bad groups and the PUG roulette, it’s just a colossal team DPS increase.

JVJD.4912:

Flissy.4093:

wildfang.9670:

Lindbur.2537:

Rifles are a bad choice in dungeons.

depends on your personal taste honestly.

No it doesn’t. Longbow is objectively a better choice. It has better damage, an immobilize, a blind, a fire field and a blast finisher, plus the best damaging condition in the game. All of these things a Rifle lacks.

Longbow cant one shot anyone in wvw , a rifle can

1 shotting someone with a broken keyboard so can’t dodge doesn’t really make a weapon good. Killshot is the most highly telegraphed skill in the game, and anybody who gets hit with it I’d be able to kill with a level 5 Bearbow in blues. I could count on 1 hand how many times I’ve been hit by a killshot, and 0 of my fingers are up.

This again?

Come back when you have data for at least triple figure accounts have all tested a 5 figure sum of gold on the forge.

Millionaires.4201:

When I realized I got jack all for months of work, I just closed the game, I mean there’s people with 8 Legendaries and the best armour I have is worth like 2 gold.
I cannot take much more lmao.

Much like real life, it’s better to invest your money than to hit the casino.

Most the EU servers are full of people refusing to speak English in Map chat. For that reason, go join a US server because unless you speak multiple of the eastern European languages, you’re in for a hard time.

Not to mention any EU overflows & Dungeon LFG will be full of French/German/Spanish speaking only players from those official language servers.

On my 4 world completions, I’ve had to revisit the Chantry of Secrets every time.

insanemaniac.2456:

think inside the box

It’s not really a valid counter though, as this counter is countered by Rare Veggie Pizza.

Honestly, making the #4 AOE Fury is all it needs to be a good initiator in a Pure Axe build. Then swap back to A/M and not tough A/A until next group.

Apparently the Spanish tooltip mentions Elonian Wine. Apparently.

Zerker is still the best DPS set.

This has accomplished nothing regarding Berserker superiority, all it’s doing it making Assassin a useless stat.

Pyre without a shadow of a doubt. The price tag says it all – not because it’s limited edition gem store because the other “gold” gem prices are not even close.

You need an Axe and GS with:

• Night (AC, TA, SE, COF, COE)
• Force (CM, HotW, Arah) – obviously you could use dungeon specific sigils instead.

You need a Mace with:

• Force or Battle (For usage with your Night Axe)
• Battle, Fire or Frailty (For usage with Force Axe)

You need a Warhorn with:

• Force or Battle (For usage with Night Axe)
• Battle or Fire (For usage with Force Axe).
  Note that Warhorn will mostly be used in Fractals for weakness, but is also a good choice for AOE Vigor. For this purpose, you could use an Energy sigil but I wouldn’t recommend it.

You need a Sword with Energy too.

For runes, the only option is Scholar. If you struggle with a 24% uptime on >90% HP, you don’t replace the runes, no, instead you learn.

wildfang.9670:

Lindbur.2537:

Rifles are a bad choice in dungeons.

depends on your personal taste honestly.

No it doesn’t. Longbow is objectively a better choice. It has better damage, an immobilize, a blind, a fire field and a blast finisher, plus the best damaging condition in the game. All of these things a Rifle lacks.

KarlusDavius.1024:

OP asked about WvW

He asked about everything BUT WvW.

hellsmachine.4085:

There is no one size fits all approach, different players have different roles.

Not everyone wants to be as 1337 as you.

You do realize that winning sPvP is not about scoring max kills right?

He plays for max kills, different players have different roles. Gosh.

Not really shafted. Medium and Heavy both need Damask bolts too.

Shinun.8326:

Discipline in this build also adds a 30% increase in damage because every hit is a crit

You could get increased damage, plus 300 Power, by putting them into Strength. Berserker’s Power = +15% (always full as both burst skills are horribad), +3% from Stick and Move, and +10% from Slashing Power. Add 300 Power onto that, and it’s much better than investing into Discipline. The +30% Condi duration from Strength isn’t really a reason (although +30% vuln duration is definitely nice), but it’s better than the +30% Burst Recharge from Discipline.

Shanks.2907:

Well, the best dps is using 100b on cooldown and swapping to axe AA. Just sitting on GS waiting for 100b using the AA and 4/5 skills is a huge waste in DPS. You can use whirlwind after 100b if you’re on a wall for good dps too.

Also, wouldn’t bother with axe off hand. 5 skill is lower dps than AA. I would use something like the shield, warhorn or even sword.

Not true. Pure Axe is much better if you can outsource Might. In the 30/25 meta, the Greatsword is there to pump out the Might stacks while doing good damage. If the Might stacks are not needed, pure Axe is better.

Purple Miku.7032:

“I’ve recently got into the habit of not using the Greatsword, it’s just not very good apart from mobility.”

Wat…

I don’t know what you’re on about, but in my solo Arah P3 runs I very VERY frequently hit above 46k on Wraithlord crusher with hundred blades final strike and easily above 52k on the hunter. Highest I’ve hit on crusher before was ~50k and highest on hunter was 60k, SOLO. Forceful greatsword IS the most significant trait here, but there is absolutely no way in hell that you can convince me that axe autoattack chain is better DPS. Whirlwind serves as an evasion AND incredible damage, so I’m not sure what you’re on about with “leaving the player more vulnerable” and GS #5 hits a ton of damage as well— nearly as much as eviscarate.

Greatsword not being good? Don’t be silly. :P

Again, because of Forceful Greatsword. A big number =/= good DPS, take into cast times. Of course, 100B IS good DPS, but not as good as pure axe if you get 25 Might stacks elsewhere. The evasion = mobility, I gave credit to that.

As for leaving the player more vulnerable, you either eat hits while casting 100B (R.I.P Scholar runes, or R.I.P you in any Fractal worth a dam), or horribly kitten your damage by interrupting it.

Pure Axe is mathematically better DPS than 30/25 GS|Axe/Mace with a Might stacking party. I use GS|A/m in PUGs, but when I have my organised team with Might stacks, pure Axe is better damage.

Eternity is the most likely, buffed up with spam tonics.

Alternatively, I believe there are consumables in the open world that changes your characters color for a period of time.

I don’t understand the points in Discipline, the traits in that line are horrible. As for taking Furious and Leg Specialist, you already have permanent fury from FGJ and Signet, so why do you need these?

Teratus.2859:

Im ok with how the Heirloom rewards are set up
250 Heirlooms takes a few days to farm but what really kills this reward is the 10g requirement on top of all that..

yes I like my horns but come on
after farming for several days to hit 250 Heirlooms throwing that 10g in there is a complete rip off

yes I paid it since I have an attraction towards demonic features much like I did with my Gw1 character who constantly work his Demon horns and Lich costume

but that 10g was a real unfair scam tbh

Firstly, you made it sound as in the farming took several days. We both know this is a lie, and you stated that for effect. It was 20-30 minutes of gathering heirlooms every day for a few days, 4-5 hours at most. 4-5 hours =/= several days.

10g is fair – a nice gold sink for an item that will be popular, but one that has a price tag that is not crippling to the daily player.

Vol.7601:

Go guest to higher population servers to do them?

All I can read is “spam” “spam” “spam”.

Irony.

Flintbrow.7985:

GS is king in PvE due to mobs just standing still and eating your #2 skill.

This is not true, it leaves the player vulnerable too. The greatsword is so good – especially in PUGs – because of the Forceful Greatsword trait, giving the Warrior many, many stacks of self-Might, causing higher damage. If Might can be outsourced, usually through an Ele, Axe/x is higher DPS.

I’ve recently got into the habit of not using the Greatsword, it’s just not very good apart from mobility.

@OP, If you don’t like the mainhand Axe or the Greatsword, hang up your Warrior in PVE as anything else is simply a detriment to the group.

Preview? Was expecting this.

P2W is a non-existant term in GW2, as everything you can buy every gem store item with in-game gold too.

30/10/0/20/10.

Empowered Allies to bump your teams DPS at a small cost to your own. Better than Meta in PUG groups, aswell as organised speedruns with only 1 Warrior.

Only thing I miss is Fast Hands.

MakeitNeil.4561:

If you are gonna let those mesmer, necro, and engi minions last forever, at least do the same for guardians. I am not proud to say that spirit weapons suck now.

A Mesmer’s clones/phantasms, a Necro’s minions & an Engineer’s Turrets are all destructible.

As for Spirit Weapons, haven’t they all always been bad, apart from Shield in certain PvE situations?

Healix.5819:

Flissy.4093:

There are much more urgent matters to attend to in the game. Fix the game breaking bugs before the visual clipping.

Are you sure you want artists/modelers to fix non-visual bugs?

Good answer.

gesho.9468:

Balefire.7592:

How is this any different from a 8k Backstab, or Eviscerate?
Except for, you know, the fact that 17k over six Life Blasts averages to about 3k per Life Blast, which isn’t even that big a power hit.
Attaching Dhuumfire to Life Blast is a bad idea in my opinion, but not because Life Blast is too powerful.

landing single backstab takes more then #111111111111111111

Yes! #5 #1 #5 #1.

I always enter the dungeon before posting an LFG.