And nobody bats an eye when Gift of Fortune, also 1/4 of a Legendary, is more expensive than the precursor for most Legendaries.
Kick them. Don’t even bother trying to tell them the weapon is bad, because even if they swap they’d still be in an x/x/6/6/x build.
Only some recipes are super cheap, and that’s because lots of people have them due to it being overrun paths, such as COF 1 and AC Path 1 & 3.
Personally, I have Plague from CM P2 and I profit about 5.5g on 200 Tokens. I know a bunch of the Arah ones are worth crafting too, aswell as the SE P2 one being 20g+
Ah sorry if this is for PvE then this build is not the best .
What are you on about? It’s basically the top DPS build for a Warrior, but with Signet Mastery instead of Empowered.
@OP You need to replace your Sigil of Smothering with Force. To improve further, put a Sigil of Bloodlust on your Spear/Harpoon Gun, then get another GS (as yours is only Exotic) with Force & Night/Fire.
So the new PvE meta is auto-attacking with the greatsword? Interesting.
Yeah, Nike, DeKeyz & co. did the maths recently. I think it worked out to be somewhere around 300 DPS more than the DWA Pure Axe build, which was already ~6% better than the old 30/25 Axe/Mace & GS.
Ah sorry if this is for PvE then this build is not the best .
What are you on about? It’s basically the top DPS build for a Warrior, but with Signet Mastery instead of Empowered.
@OP You need to replace your Sigil of Smothering with Force. To improve further, put a Sigil of Bloodlust on your Spear/Harpoon Gun, then get another GS (as yours is only Exotic) with Force & Night/Fire.
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GW2 is the best B2P MMO on the market. No content updates? Then vote with your wallet and don’t put a penny/cent into the gem store.
I still don’t understand why people compare this to P2P games and whine about infrequent content updates.
For now, China launch was the focus. Now that that is done, we may see some content in the works. Again, vote with your wallet and don’t “pay” to play if you are not getting any content for your money. If gem buyers start to diminish, they will soon pump out content to bring people back.
It’s ridiculous! Equipping SoM then unequipping it will remove it but only temporarily. Pretty much as soon as you enter combat it’s back. I don’t like it, i want it fixed. I don’t want my dps increased because of a bug.
Then stop using the trait/healing signet until it is fixed.
Use it for the skin. Exotics of a stat you want are better than Ascended of what you don’t.
They are the same. Your sample size is pathetically small to try and provide any evidence otherwise, come back with 5 digits.
Oh good, so the stacking hate has leaked from the dungeon subforum into general as if it is an illegitimate strategy. Muppets.
How about we not re-use disposable temporary content?
So you’re opposed to Wintersday and the Mad King as well, hm?
I personally am. Both were absolutely terrible and offered me no more than 1 hour of “new” activity.
I think the problem with dailies is, since the 15th, I’ve often had to TRY and get 5 done, I usually only get 3 done by “just playing”.
When I’m playing a couple of hours a day, I shouldn’t have to go out my way and actively attempt to complete part of a daily.
Engi being able to melt 3 ppl and sustain 3 ppl on one point even with whichever build you using i mean thats ridicules.
Ahh yeah, the good old 6/6/6/6/6 that typical warriors believe is possible when they can’t faceroll their keyboard and win.
Ok, lets come clean. Who already has stocks of ultra cheap runes for this already?
/raises hand
This is true, but I’d still agree if they removed all our stashes anyway.
I’m relatively new to Engineer, not even having completed Genius yet, and I’m currently running this build that was recently advised to me.
Like most people, Necros are currently the bane of my life. It almost doesn’t matter what build (except MM, I seem to do well about those), they just tear me a new one before I can even put any pressure on them.
I’m hit with an 8+ bleed stack with 5+ covering conditions before I can even put any pressure down. As soon as I cleanse them – which uses my heal – they seem to be immediately reapplied. If by some miracle I do manage to have time to fight back, as soon as I have applied any decent number of conditions they just omnom them all into extra health.
And then there’s the fear … as soon as one ends I’m often hit with another, which doesn’t even end before I’m down.
I’m guessing a condi necro is a hard counter to bomb-condi Engineer, but there surely is some tricks I need to know?
And cm 2
You know I run that kitten daily, Spoj.
If ArenaNet controlled which fractals, it would be.
1) Dredge
2) Dredge
3) Dredge
4) Dredge with more protection.
It is another fool who thinks the Precursor market can be manipulated.
It’s exactly this, and it’s been happening with increasing frequency recently. Someone got access to mommy’s credit card, bought himself a lot of gold, then acted like a fool.
I’ve always been a big fan of Scholar runes, and been a religious user of them. But with the Strength rune update, it is almost impossible for me to ignore Strength runes any longer.
Pros for Scholar:
Pros for Strength:
If I take people back to “Ruby orbs vs Scholar” situation, Scholar were better if you had a 24% uptime on >90% HP. Does anybody know the figure for Scholar vs Strength, assuming 100% Might Uptime, because that will be the deal breaker for me.
I don’t know the comprehensive list of what are and what are not craftable (for all I know it may be as few as 10 non-craftable), but perhaps this would be fair if the only possible “rewards” were ones that couldn’t be crafted?
Russians don’t play the game? Or Spanish talking people? Those two are both European and with more countries involved than German or French.
French is a very commonly spoken language in the world. Many African countries’ main language is French, or minor adaptations of it, not to mention, of course, Canada. As for German, I believe there are regulations that require translations into the German language for certain games to be released there – someone will correct me if I’m wrong no doubt.
I personally think the game should be translated to Portuguese too, though, but I’m taking a stab and speculating southern american countries to be populous in the game.
Buff healing power on enemies.
For example Elite Risen have 157k health but their Regeneration heals 220 per tick.
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or not, as we all know people’s view on giving mobs more health (which is essentially what this results in).
Granted, that currently that regen is pathetic, and it would actually be better to buff it up.
I find it laughable that ANet puts more chance to earn good loot and legendaries (cough tournament of legends cough) into sPvP to drag people into it, instead of actually polishing it.
It’s still not a reason to do sPvP. It’s extremely unrewarding on a timescale, and the only thing that is (a la tournament of legends) you don’t have a hope in hell unless you were doing this crappy e-sport for fun for months.
Short & important answer is “nothing new”.
It’s akin to subbing to Netflix and them telling you that you can only watch a certain number of movies per week.
Actually, it’s more like subbing to Netflix and them telling you that you can only watch the same movie X times per week, but you’re free to watch every other movie in the catalogue in addition.
SE P1, CM Path 3 & COF P1 are the quickest paths in the game without using exploits.
To stop bickering from both sides of the pond, it should be both flags next to the LFG.
I agree, just finished my ascended armor today and now i am not able to salvage my (very expensive) runes from my exotic armor
1 piece of Ascended armor likely cost more than an entire new rune set. Unless you mean something like Strength, then 2 pieces of armor. If you can’t afford more BIS runes again, why would you craft Ascended?
First tip is not to make a class to play PvP with. I have a 9th Character slot with a character who gets constantly deleted to reroll to X profession so I can play Asura.
Nothing in the game is versatile, btw, not even Engineer. Every class is funneled into just a handful of builds, most being 2 or 3, unless you opt for a terrible “play how you want” build (a la dual pistol thief, FT Engie, Staff Mesmer).
I’d go with Ele. Everybody likes a good Ele. Your kits are your attunements, very mobile, light armor looks generally B.A. and the play how you want builds are actually pretty fun. Only issue is lack of weapon choice again.
Karma and WvW gear needs to be salvageable, but just gives no Ectos/Dark Matter, as does Ascended armor/weapons. I have a Bloodlust & Force Sigil sitting on my Ascended Speargun because I made Frenzy the other day, with no reasonable way retrieve it.
We know Extractor is overpriced and is only useful for higher tier AR and Generosity sigil, so just don’t buy it.
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It really feels like it’s just me who is very anti mesmer. It takes far too long to pump out 3 Swordsmen and they just get killed anyway. They are incredible on paper, but it’s impossible to reach close in reality.
Finish the Legendary set for the class you play. Or for the real hardcore TP PvPers, go for the complete set!
Warriors are in a strong place in dungeons, but are both highly overplayed and overrated. You will find many groups want 3 Warriors, for reasons that still confuse me. No group needs more than 1, but every group needs that 1.
This is the current meta build. Any smart group only uses 1 Warrior, and that Warrior needs to bring Empowered Allies, and this is the best build for it. For more “diffiicult” content (30+ Fractals), this build is better, as it allows a strong Might uptime when fights become too long and pre-pull Might wanes early in the fight.
Do note that people are still theorycrafting and testing other builds, so builds – especially the second build – is still up in air a little. In honesty, the Dungeon subforum is a far better place to keep up to date on PvE meta builds than the actual class subforum itself.
For leveling without crafting, you can either do generic open world combat and exploration with GS Sword/Warhorn, level in Edge of the Mists/WvW, or play dungeons on an already 80 and “log at the end”.
no the point is that the community did this math already. And the consensus was that the trait is not that good. Then later on a couple people said it was good and provided no math or proof and tried to convince the masses it was better.
So I did some tests and found the following, warrior axe auto-attack chain happens every:
Untraited
- 3.560 sec
Traited
- 3.280 sec
Difference
- 0.280 sec
- 7.87% (0.280 / 3.560 * 100)
7.87% faster aa chain rate implies a 7.87% damage increase, not 10%. Thought this info might come in handy for the theorycrafters on here.
Constantly people keep saying its a 7-10% DPS increase but its not. Its only a DPS increase. If at no point do you stop attacking a boss in a long fight. In order to get an extra hit. You have to attack a target for a long time before that attack speed bonus grants and extra hit.
That means the traits gives you no real world bonuses and having more crit damage and beable to do hundred blades and AA with axe like the old meta build is still superior to the new trait 99% of the time.
If at anytime you have to stop attacking or the fight does not last long enough to get an extra hit the trait does absolutely nothing. This is why that trait is no good. And this is why people should not listen to NIKE lol.
There we go, some maths. Just back up your statement in future to avoid this long, convoluted path just to end up getting you to post some eventually anyway.
Do note that I like DWA, but I still use the GS/AM build when not using EA.
Again, for the EA build I’m still awaiting maths if 4/6/0/4/0 is better than 6/2/0/4/2.
“Because I tested it” does not count as evidence at all. Provide us with results of your test, including your math numbers, your assumptions and screenshots where applicable.
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I am curious, as I mentioned above, that the gs portion of the gs+a rotation is almost double the dps of the axe portion. Makes me wonder if it’s better dps, even in a group where the self-Might isn’t needed to even swap. Clearly Goku and Dub and the other lupi warrior solos have unscientifically figured out that it’s better when solo especially with strength runes, but I will go back in and do the math to see if it’s better in groups too.
Its better for the same reasons as in solo. You rarely have perma 25 might and vuln in casual runs. Obviously if you are doing a record or you are super keen every casual run like DD do then its not the best choice.
That isn’t good enough for me. I want to test it. It might be the best dps even in a record run but I won’t rely on conventional wisdom to decide that for me.
Edit: Forgive the badness of this dps rotation (and Swiftpaw audio), it could obviously be tightened up, but I was on my lunch break and didn’t have time to record something perfect, though it hardly matters once you see the results.
GS Rotation
100b = 3
WWAx4 = 3
BT = 2
Rush =2
Auto Chain = 4
GS First Auto = 2Total Coefficients = 40.4
30/30/0/10/0
Power: 3,919
Crit Chance: 94%
Crit Damager: 117%
Damage Mods: 2.58
Coefficients/30 = 1.35Total DPS: 12,727
Well that settles it for me. 30/30/0/10/0 GS camping is the top DPS warrior build. You can even have Axe/Mace on swap and start fights with #2 + #4 for vuln burst and then swap to GS camp the whole fight. Either way, this is the best dps you’re going to do.
basically, dual-wield agility is there to fill the gap that axe and gs dps had pre-patch
we should have been camping gs all this time
:)
That’s all well and good, but I took the OP to mean DWA is no good in pure axe build. His post sounds like taking DWA makes pure axe do less DPS than if those points were invested into the crit damage line.
“Because I tested it” does not count as evidence at all. Provide us with results of your test, including your math numbers, your assumptions and screenshots where applicable.
If you are a pro you would have those numbers already and have ran the same test no?
So far there is no evidence that it is good other than a few pros like yourself saying it is sounds familiar.
I have no idea if it is a good trait. I just go by the description and 10% speed sounds fairly good to me, so I use it. I’m still awaiting people to test if it is a good trait, and from another player’s research here, it looks like it is not.
Whether or not running DWA in 4/6/0/4/0 is better than the old pure-axe empowered allies build (30/10/0/20/10), I am awaiting testing on (I do not want to do this myself).
What build were you testing it against? For all we know, you were testing DWA in a 0/6/6/2/0 build, while comparing against 6/5/0/2/1 or something similar.
Have your Guardian or Warrior open. They are a literal necessity in every Fractal for a speed efficient (note I’m not talking optimally) run. Everybody else should have most other classes geared, including a second Guardian for when required, Ele & Thief.
Above post has dungeons covered.
You can run absolutely anything for temples and open world.
There are much bigger issues with the game than a name of a skill.
“Because I tested it” does not count as evidence at all. Provide us with results of your test, including your math numbers, your assumptions and screenshots where applicable.
It has something to do with the deep strike trait and healing signet. Noticed yesterday when I tested it around that you have to have Healing signet on your utility bar when equiping / zoning with the trait on and you get the effect of the might to your warrior for free. Afterwards you can de-equip both, the trait and HS to still benefit from the effect.
I also noticed this, and is entirely correct. Part of me never wants this fixed lol.
GS camping is the highest dps warrior build
No it’s not. The rest of your post is untrustworthy and void now you made that comment.
Longbow depending on if you need to range the boss (HotW troll) or other bosses.
Ranging that boss is the worst thing you can do. A well timed melee dodge will dodge both the landing and the following tremor.
While we are at it, why don’t we remove anything that isn’t a makeover kit, BLSK, tickets (remove the scraps please, too broken) or permanent contracts?
Definetely S/S..Torment is still Op as hell,infact they should really nerf the dmg of this skill,ticking 800 dmg while standing still is just too much,the duration is also far too long imo with such a short cd wich can be reduced even to make you able to put almost constant torment on someone.
Honestly i stopped playing S/S – Lbow because its just way to strong and it really feels like easymode,after a while you just get bored of it since there is little challenge if you play the build right,espec if you grab a toughness regen banner with it.
Impale is such an obvious skill that is really is only a minor threat unless you’ve unbound your dodge key.
When FGS Rush will be nerf (if it will), there will be no more reason to stack elementalist in record runs, 1 will be more than enough.
Except that they are the higher DPS class in the game? In a non-stealth speedrun, replace the Thief with a second Ele.
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A huge supply of the 2 greatswords – Dawn and Dusk – come from players using the mystic forge hoping to profit.
Recently, hoards of players have reported that, even when throwing in 4×80 weapons they receive lower levels out (as low as 75). This could be deterring players from using the mystic forge in this way, hoping to sell their rewards on the TP, which would result in a lower supply of the weapons, aswell as a higher demand due to more people turning to the TP aswell as the mystic forge.
That could explain some recent price changes in the precursor market. Doesn’t answer OP, but thought it would be helpful to state.
Actually the OP talked about warrior in general. I dont think anybody would use GS/LB in PvE.
You’re right, all the baddies use GS/Rifle.
But for the most part, OP was referring to dungeon content.
You’ll be annoyed at yourself when you realise that you need all Legendaries, and skins such as Greatsaw, Ghastly Grinning Shield, Infinite Light, Mjolnir, as well as all Gem Store skins & Meta achievement skins, plus exclusive sPvP skins some of which are no longer available to finish the wardrobe.
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