Guild Wars 2

Scoobaniec.9561:

Keiel.7489:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Grok Krog.9581:

PvE: Greatsword. Highest DPS, don’t have to swap

I lolled.

what’s so funny about it?

I dont know..maybe outside of a lol hb, gs is a trash compared to axe?

While you’re correct, the maths was recently ran. Pure greatsword is now the highest DPS for a Warrior because if you swap weapons for some axe auto attack fun, you have periods where 100B and WWA are off CD. It was also considered the breaking of 100B, and the breaking of Axe autos, where Axe loses again because the damage is all backloaded.

BAM, there is the chart that Nike, DeKeyz and co. worked out. I believe this was calculated with 25 Might stacks, so any might stack dropping and GS just pulls further ahead because of Forceful GS.

I think Lilith should be disqualified, that’s no Charr!

If the cost is an offput, ascended is not for you.

World Bosses – Too strong reward for auto attack fests. World Bosses like Teq, Wurm, are in a good place.

Champ Trains – Far too strong, even now, for their reward. Needs nerfing to the ground.

Dungeons – Limited reward per day. Effort is required to complete them in a reasonable time. Most dungeon paths are fair, some are too good (Arah P1, P2) and some are too weak (COF P2, SE P2, HOTW P2/3)

Queens Pavilion – Abhorrent reward for the time if uncoordinated, but I’m currently in a gold overflow and it’s very rewarding. Very fair, and more content needs to be like this. A little more “guarenteed” reward is required for Gold though, as it’s a crapshoot if you get anything or not.

Condi kiting + Energy Sigil = Easy 8 orbs.

Purple Miku.7032:

^ some of the foods I use went up slightly, but some others went down so it kind of evens out.

I use truffle steaks and candied dragon rolls in pug runs. I understand that not everyone has cash to spend but wtf… at least use minotaur steaks or something.

To be honest I find it even more insulting when I see people using magic find food than none at all. It’s like “I have literally no interest in making sure we do well.” because if they weren’t using anything, there’d be the chance they simply forgot to refresh their nourishments.

Meh.

Spicier Flank Steaks for me!

Allaraina.8614:

I bring my tanky guard into CoE because I constantly run the risk of the full zerk players dying and wiping

So when they die your “tanky guard” can out DPS the healing of Alpha? Wow, you’re magic!

Yeah, Berserker is really overpowered right?

I really disagree with Thief. PUGs never know how to utilise stealth and just run out of Smoke Screen/SR when I’m trash skipping.

The builds the majority of Rangers seem to use offer next to nothing to the group:

• Extremely low damage
• Out of range of buffs (because they sit at 1500 range with a longbow)
• No support at all – they never use Frost Spirit or Spotter, and even if they did the people playing decent builds would not benefit (see above).

Basically it. I can’t say I’m surprised, because they are called “Ranger”, so people misinterpret the name even though it’s meant as some form of “roaming the plains” kind of Ranger, like a Forest Ranger.

A decent Ranger will use Sword/X and Greatsword, with Frost Spirit & Spotter to be of some use to groups.

TL;DR: People using ranged weapons get insta-kicked from good groups, most the players who fit that pick Ranger.

reco.8531:

3. keep a dev or some game employee in the cities without their anet tag on and when they get a gold seller whisper them ,which doesnt take long, give them the power to deal with them.

Resources don’t allow it.

All ANet can do is ban their reports and put them as priority, while further improving security of hacked accounts. Sadly, it’s mostly up to players to not be dumb and keep their account secure while not buying from goldsellers or downloading any 3rd party software as all the compromises their accounts.

COF was fun
Farming all day every day
Too bad it is gone

DotE. Mostly your Dolyak Signet will be on-CD, so you’re not getting any toughness bonus.

DotE is extremely strong.

Zanshin.5379:

Flissy.4093:

wads.5730:

condis are also the way to get the 8 orb achievment as warrior.

Yes, I did 8 orbs with this build in rare condi with ascended berserker trinkets.

If someone is having trouble, either with normally or 8 orbs, get full exotic (CM, TA, HOTW & Arah vendors). Amulets & Accessories are super cheap on TP (amulet is ~2g, accessories at ~1.3g) but the ring is a little more expensive (~5g)

I do want to say that you really need that Energy sigil though, especially for 8 orbs.

Seems a little expensive just for one boss.

The armor you can salvage into ectos & rabid inscription. Get the Accessories because the rare version (book of rabid deeds) is 90s, so 40s more for Exotic? Sign me up. Rare amulet costs ~33s, so can substitute. Rare ring costs 1.1g and green costs 70s.

It’s the game telling you “swap out your awful life sigil”.

Doggie.3184:

Do underwater auras still work on land? and when are the bugs that actually hurt the game going to be fixed instead of these harmless ones that exist only for kittening around? There’s so many things on higher priority than this.

I believe only Kamohoali’i’s aura works on land. My Frenzy certainly doesn’t, and I’m pretty sure Kraitkin doesn’t.

I wonder when MMO developers will learn that having discontinued, tradable items for the first few holidays is a horrendous and economy breaking decision.

Really, Rifle is only useful because people aren’t used to it, so struggle to counter.

But Killshot? Come on, that thing is useless. If someone didn’t dodge that, you could have killed them naked with nothing but physical utilities.

From your list, all them of but difficult content and a gear grind would just make me run so far from this game.

Condi engies tend to lack condition removal (usually have it on healing turret only) and often has ZERO stability. If they take either of those in a greater amount, they kitten their condis.

Its an L2P issue, just like all PvP whines.

“Dear Anet,

Nerf paper! Scissors is fine though.

Sincerely, rock".

Elrey.5472:

Traits were 0/4/4/6/0
I used Tactics traits 4, 10 and 11. Arms traits 2 and 3.
Defense traits 2 and specially 9 are a MUST for that fight,

I ran with with 0 points in defense and did 8 orbs. But they are a “MUST”? I think not.

Devik.9852:

Um where does it say Gift of Heroes cost 200 tickets if you make it in mystic forge?

Please link the exact page and point me to where it says that..

Show me where it says you can make the Gift in the MF.

tigirius.9014:

mehcetylene.2376:

Dungeons are the most neglected aspect of GW2 so the dungeon community isn’t anywhere near a priority for the developers.

The Open World loot system would like to have a word with you on that. You get 4-5 times the loot from story dungeons even than you do in the open world even with DR.

At least open world receives updates. The last dungeon update was TA aetherpath, and even then that was just replacing an existing path so overall dungeon content didn’t even increase.

I’ll try to be brief here…

Developers promised here that duplicate exclusive dyes will be refunded after the 15th patch. I followed all instructions and logged into ALL of my characters several times between the given dates.

I didn’t receive any, so submitted a ticket. The response I received to this first ticket was a more dragged out “we’re too busy to deal with you right now”.

I submitted another ticket a few days later … “this needs further investigation”, no reply to this even now.

I got fed up of waiting for one after a week, so submitted a THIRD ticket on the matter, I got the reply “I’ve forwarded this to appropriate staff for investigation”. No response AGAIN.

Finally, I sent a 4th ticket recently. Apparently all items were refunded but I didn’t receive them. Currently waiting on a reply for a ticket to resolve this.

Anybody in this same boat as me, who are eligible for a refund, are not getting it, but have apparently already received?

You need to purchase both a Gift of Heroes and a Hero’s Weapon to make a Mistforged one. The Gift costs 200 tickets & the Hero’s weapon costs 100.

I think you need to check your maths. You can get 5 regular Hero weapons, but not 5 Mistforged.

You weren’t around in the days of COF farming were you? That is why dungeon reward DR exists, and dungeon loot as a whole was changed.

As someone who runs strictly dungeons and would love to spend all day in CM & Arah, it’s absolutely a good thing you can’t.

If you really want to run that dungeon multiple times in a day, you shouldn’t need a reward as an incentive to you, it sounds like OP is just after SE P1 spam to super profit.

It’s something to do with a server buffer limitation, not a design choice.

I’m sure someone can elaborate more on that.

It’s done this way on purpose, and most currencies are able to be converted to gold, just indirectly. Yes is REALLY is that bad if you could just swap currencies all the time.

Want Fractal relics? Run the fractal. Want Karma? Join EOTM or play open world. Want a particular dungeon armor? Run that dungeon. It baffles me you think it’s logical to be able to run something like AC for example, then buy Arah armor.

Coming back? Likely.

Soon? Unlikely.

Don’t forget you can get quivers from the MF, although that’s like saying “You want Bolt? Well you can just get another Sword from the TP”.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

There’s not a whole lot of love for shields in this game. The Flameseeker Prophecies, the legendary, only has a nice glowy effect on wield with a page turn when first wielded or a skill used. When stowed, it doesn’t look like a legendary at all. Only when I looked into possibly pursuing it did I realize I’d seen it around many times, just never noticed because it looks absolutely plain. Also, as far as I know, the only legendary that does not have footfalls.

Leave my shield alone please, it’s perfect as is.

Veckna.9621:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

Veckna.9621:

TheKillerAngel.3596:

Veckna.9621:

I’m not very easily annoyed but here’s a few things that grind my gears when I have to pug:
3. Thieves that camp D/D when we’ve stacked in a corner, thieves that don’t know when or how to stealth people to speed up a run, thieves that don’t realize they got smoke screen to block projectiles and thieves that don’t help blasting fields;

If you don’t have a bundle weapon and are in a corner isn’t the dagger auto chain the thief’s highest DPS option?

Sword/pistol becomes more effective unless you’re in a situation where you can position yourself behind the target, with comparable DPS simply in AA chain and permanent weakness and blinds helping mitigate incoming damage to your group.

Weakness/blind matter a lot less vs most bosses, and dagger still has heartseeker.

Heartseeker is only impactful once a boss hits 25% health or lower, wether you believe that small burst is worth taking over the defensive capabilities is the sword/pistol set is up to you.
Personally I stick to sword/pistol when stacked in a corner also because pistol whip is a great way to maintain your DPS uptime when you have to dodge.

I just take Ele LH if I can’t BS tbh. More DPS & Blinding? Yes please.

Kishlin.6271:

My GS is volcanus, and i don’t really feel like crafting a second one. x) Guess I’ll just swap the bloodlust on my sword and put the undead sigil on my GS replacing bloodlust.

Anyway, thanks for the answers guys, this has been puzzling my mind for weeks.

With the wardrobe system you can put Volcanus skin on a standard greatsword.

Want to be an invincible tank? Press your dodge key, it’s negates infinitely more damage than any amount of toughness or vitality will.

wads.5730:

condis are also the way to get the 8 orb achievment as warrior.

Yes, I did 8 orbs with this build in rare condi with ascended berserker trinkets.

If someone is having trouble, either with normally or 8 orbs, get full exotic (CM, TA, HOTW & Arah vendors). Amulets & Accessories are super cheap on TP (amulet is ~2g, accessories at ~1.3g) but the ring is a little more expensive (~5g)

I do want to say that you really need that Energy sigil though, especially for 8 orbs.

Welp, just managed, barely. I need to kill less grubs next time, the inquest ran out of grubs to focus on.

Dub.1273:

As a warrior? Shouldn’t be too much trouble for you then. Just equip double stability and fgj or frenzy and burst those berserkers down, might even knock them down before they arrive at terminal (mace 5) so they stop moving and you can kill them in safety.

I do exactly that, but they have a passion for killing that terminal and never want to attack me.

I can’t seem to kill those that are killing the console, I just can’t get them off it.
Tips?

A lot of players build anti-condition now. If you go with Dire, you will run into a few nigh unwinnable situations. Rabid gives you enough “hybridity” to avoid such things.

Are you sure it’s Subjects 7s attacks and not the gambit that “burns” you?

A staff Guard cries out,
“my empowers good damage”.
Immediate kick.

Zach.3264:

Fair point, but what about all the other classes that can’t corrupt your boons?

OP just gave an example, and one of the most annoying ones for an Engie.

I could give you another and say I wish I could disable my Reckless Dodge trait on my Warrior, it has broken stealth so many times.

There are very few traits that have any negative effect though, I’m sure there are things that need looking at much more than this.

On-crit sigils will only work when you are using the weapon it is slotted in. Although in your example, your axe attacks will proc the air sigil on your sword as you’re still using the sword.

Bloodlust will still be active even if you use axe/sword, as long as your GS is on your other weapon set.

As for the undead sigil, if you put it in your GS it will improve GS damage only, and if you put it in your axe OR you sword, it will improve both your axe & sword. Ideally, get another Greatsword with Undead sigil in it, and another axe or sword with one in.

Just did that … in rares.

Taku.6352:

Aura stacking still works fine…

OP was on about the Watchknight Tonic where you could stack the effect of every Legendary you could get your hands on at the same time, not just underwater/second set ones.

I don’t see the problem. It’s a win for all parties.

1) Anet gets their $$$.
2) The gem-buyer knows how much they are getting for their $$$.
3) More people buy gems due to this, so gold→gem price drops a little.

People that don’t use consumable buffs. I’m not after people popping the good stuff, but at least use something like Blackberry Pie or Steak & Asparagus just to show you’re at least trying.

It’s a Charr.

That’s like asking if a Human is a Chimpanzee or a Gorilla.

Vol.7601:

Flissy.4093:

How do people even necro 11 month old threads?

This site has a terrible search algorithm.

Granted, but how is it not instinctive to check timeline of the post.

I have one, it’s undyeable so will never be used, but it can be used on regular armor now. I believe it was free in the gem store for Wintersday 2012 so you can no longer get it.

As I said just, it’s not dyeable, so it looks really odd and out of place.

How do people even necro 11 month old threads?