Guild Wars 2

I really like might stacking on my Ele. This is PvE

I start in Water, use Shatterstone (sometimes twice)>Fire> Dragon’s Tooth>Ring of Fire>Phoenix>Earth>Earthquake>dodge in the ring to get the blast finisher from Evasive Arcana>Churning Earth>use all 3 cantrips then switch to Air while Churning Earth is casting to get fury before it ends

Build is 10/10/0/20/30. Fire VI, Air VI, WaterV and IX, Arcane IV V and XI.

Knight’s Armor, Cavalier’s jewelery with Beryl Orbs, Knight’s Weapons with 2 sigils of Superior Accuracy. Ruby orbs on armor.

Skills are: Glyph of Elemental Harmony, Cleansing Fire, Armor of Earth, Lightning Flash, Glyph of Elementals or Tornado. I try to use the Glyph in anything but Air, usually Fire for more damage and more Might, or Water for Chill/Healing

Ascended weapons are not out yet. Also, Anet has said that making Ascended gear only obtainable through fractals was a mistake and they’ll be fixing that issue later on and I’m pretty sure they said Ascended gear will be easier to get

Brutal Shot: Causes 5 bleeds for 10 seconds. 15 second cool down

I love my Scepter/Dagger Ele, but I don’t think I’d use him in PvP though, but I don’t PvP anyways. But in dungeons, at least at level 80, I can get 4500 on a Dragon’s Tooth, 7K on Fire Grab, and 5-7K on Churning Earth.

They definitley could increase the speed of some skills, and maybe change Earth 3 to an Aura or something else

Character: If you read anything about Sylvari the firstborne are the first Sylvari to be born from the Pale Tree 25 years ago. Caithe is also a firstborne. A Wyld Hunt if I remember right is what Sylvari see in the dream (before they’re born) and it tells them what they’re supposed to do in life, Trahearne’s was to cleanse Orr. As for his past, he dedicated his 25 years of life to studying orr and is a wise scholar, he probably knows more about Orr than anyone, that’s one reason why he became Marshall. How did he survive? Same way you have throughout your story.

He seeks your advice because before the Pact was started you are his very trusted friend and he puts you second in command, you’re like an advisor.

Voice Acting: He never said it like that. He was giving a pretty good speech to the troops and when then dragon roared he said “Do you hear that? It is the dragon who is afraid!” inspiring the troops further. Most Sylvari don’t have alot of emotion because they’re, at least from what I can tell, a “serious” race if you will. Some are more emotional than others

Tornado with a pull would be great, and it should pull, Tornado’s suck stuff in. If it pulled in it would already do much more damage with the 1 ability

Your conjure idea is really nice. I was actually thinking about conjures just now and my idea for them is that which everone you pick up, it becomes a weapon you can swap to (10 second cooldown) and then you go back to your main weapons. Maybe it would be OP but I don’t know

I’d like Fire: Fireball, Dragon’s Tooth, Pheonix, Ring of Fire, Fire Grab.

Water: Vapor Blade, Cone of Cold, Geyser, Water Trident, Cleansing Wave

Air: Chain Lightning, Lightning Bolt, Shocking Aura, Ride the Lightning, Swirling Aura

Earth: Stone Shards, Rock Barrier, Magnetic Aura, Earthquake, Churning Earth

I have to say I’ve been enjoying Tornado in dungeons, when there’s a bunch of foes I press 1 and the lightning bounces around doing tons of damage, or I use 2 for alot of blind to help lower their damage

I haven’t really experienced them in WvW or SPvP as I do neither, but in PvE I also haven’t seen where their damage is amazing. Only getting up to 3K on my Pistol Whips, Heartseekers (when the foe is low on health) and Backstabs.

With my defensive set up, p/t/v armor. Masterwork Cleric’s jewelery, at level 80 my hammer auto-attacks hit for 800-1200. When I get a crit and some might from Warbanner/For Great Justice I can hit for 2K-3K (if they’re stunned). I’m sure if you specced DPS Hammer could do some awesome damage and have nice CC

I don’t WvW but my build is 10/20/0/30/10. Don’t remember my gear I’ll look later. I start in Air 4>5 switch to Fire 2>4>3 switch to Earth 2>4>5 (while using 5 I use Cleansing Flame, Armor of Earth, and Lightning Flash, then switch to Water before it ends for Fury)

It’s a might stacking cantrip build

I disagree with the Berserker’s Might thing. Instead I’d like to see Inspiring Battle Standard do something like “Banner’s give Regeneration and pulse an effect every 15 seconds”.

Banner of Defense: 3 seconds of Protection

Banner of Tactics: 600 Heal

Banner of Strength: 1 Might for 15 seconds

Banner of Discipline: 2 seconds of Fury

Battle Standard: 1 second of Stability

I’ve made other suggestions on Banner’s, as I really like them, this is a new idea I’ve had and seems really good. Edit: Maybe remove the Regen from them and add a little more time to the boons.

I’ve been running full p/t/v gear on my warrior with Runes of Earth. Hammer/Great Sword, which changes depending on the fight. Should I change to full cleric’s gear to help my Regen Banners and get a rune set that increases Healing Power?

You can greatly increase survivability and not lose that much damage if you get Knight’s Armor with Beryl jewelery or something like that instead of going full Berserker’s

I have a suggestion you can add if you want for Mines.

1: Change them to a kit.

2: Mine Kit skills.
1: Mine: Throw a mine that explodes when a foe is in range or on impact.
2: Flame Mine: Throw a mine that explodes when a foe is in range or on impact. Inflicts burning for 5 seconds 10 second cool down
3: Repeating Explosion Mine: Explodes 5 times when a foe is in rage or on impact. 15 second cool down
4: Crippling Mine: Throw a mine that explodes when a foe is in range or on impact. Causes 5 seconds of cripple 20 second cool down
5: Shrapnel Mine: Blast Finisher. Throw a mine that explodes when a foe is in range or on impact. Causing 10 stacks of bleeding 40 second cooldown

Go to Heart of the Mists
Get Trait
Get Skill
Activate skill
???
Profit.

I think you mean Burning Fire for the trait. I’m almost 100 positive that it just adds 3 seconds of burning to all the skills it affects

Since Hammer is a defensive weapon, I’d like to see the trait changed to something like Hammer Damage is increased by 10%, cooldowns reduced 20%, and gain 5-10% damage reduction while wielding a Hammer.

Things Warrior is good at:

1: Group Support. Warhorn + the Warhorn trait gives Vigor and other nice boons when removing conditions. They do lots of control with Hammer and Mace. Banners can provide AoE perma-regen, damage boosts and defense boosts. The elite Banner is an AoE rez and AoE Signet of Rage.

Healing Shouts provide nice healing, condition removal, and damage boost to the group.

2: Damage. Warriors can do lots of damage with just about any weapon. I’m sure if I was set up for more damage instead of pure defense my hammer could hit alot harder then 850-1200 per swing.

3: “Tank”. I have 3450~ armor, over 30K health, and gain about 500 health a second from Regeneration, Healing Signet, and food. And with my Banners I can give the group, as mentioned earlier, stat boosts

Warrior is good at lots of things

All Scepter needs really is maybe a slight damage boost and it needs it’s skills to hit faster. Now while on the subject of Scepters, anyone else wanna see Elementalist dual wield Scepters?

Skills could be something like:

Fire 4: Lava Arrows, fire a volley of 5 lava arrows at target that cause 1 second of burning each and the 5th arrow explodes.

Fire 5: Incendiary Bonds, bond the target foe and immobilize them for 2 seconds. When the immobilize a fiery explosion occurs and nearby foes take damage

Water 4: Ice Spear, fire a Spear of Ice at target foe. Pierces foes

Water 5: Maelstrom, you place an AoE on target area that lasts 5 seconds causing 2 vulnerability every second and healing allies every second

Air 4: Lightning Orb, launch an Orb of Lightning that causes 5 vulnerability to the target and does alot of damage

Air 5: Enervating Charge: Electricute your foe with an Envervating Charge that causes weakness

Earth 4: Sliver Armor, an Aura that does 75% damage back to foe from their next attack. Lasts 3 seconds

Earth 5: Crystal Wave, place a pulsing wave of crystals on target location that does damage, cripples, and bleeds

These could probably be tweaked. Original Guild Wars players will recognize these skill names

I’ve been running D/D on my Ele, still working on a build. Currently doing 20/20/20/10, and it works nice, designed to work with Aura’s and Glyph’s. I’m just having trouble deciding gear. Currently have Rare Knight’s Armor and Rare Rabid Jewelery.

Should I change my Knight’s gear for something like Valkyrie to get more health and crit damage to go with my precision and almost perma-fury? I don’t wanna lose out on the toughness though because I only got 2600 armor.

And to offer something to the thread besides my questions, Ele’s leveling get Glyph of Storms and use it in Earth Magic, 10 seconds of AoE perma blind. Also get Arcane Shield, these are life saving skills in PvE

Been looking at crafting materials. Can’t seem to find anything with a profit margin like you said. Or if I do nothing that moves fast enough =(

I made a topic about these before, but wanted to bring attention to it again. Their cost is going through the roof. It doesn’t make sense that Gold Doubloons can be made from Silver Doubloons but Silver can’t be made from Copper. And Platinum should be able to be made from Gold Doubloons.

If an Anet team member could reply if they have any plans for something like this that would be great

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Healing SIgnet: I agree with the scaling smoother, I thin kit should heal for about 300 a tick at level 80.

Adrenal Health: This is just pretty much useless because, at least for me, I have no reason to keep my adrenaline full when I can apply stuns with my Hammer and Mace adrenaline skill. My suggestion is change the name to something like Warrior’s Endurance, and have it tick every second for like 80 health

Thick Skin: It is only a 5 point trait, but there’s plenty of useful one’s out there. How about a 5-10% chance to gain protection for 3 seconds on hit, with a 30 second cool down?

Greatsword Burst Skill: A blowout doesn’t benefit Greatsword too much I don’t think. Maybe it should add like 5-10 stacks of vulnerability for X seconds

Hammer Auto-attack: 50% is a bit high, maybe 25-30%

Only reason I could see a guild failing is if no one wants to play with anyone in the guild, if there’s no activity, and no one wants to help anyone. Probably other things that I don’t care to think of right now

The guild I made is doing great, we’re not very big, but we started as a family run guild and people seem to like it. We help each other and do stuff together when we can. The only rules we have are keep chat clean, no more than PG13, and respect other players. We just want our guild members to have fun and don’t want to force them to do anything they don’t want to

I’m sure it’s plenty viable. The adrenaline skill get’s the 12% damage boost from the trait, and then you can use Whirling Axe to get all that adrenaline back pretty quick. With For Great Justice and Dual Strike you have plenty of Fury. You can bring something more helpful to the group like Battle Standard as your Elite.

The damage from Whirling Axe isn’t outstanding but you can dodge while using it, combined with the 5 point trait that damages at the end of the dodge roll it’s a nice combo to be a bit defensive while doing some damage

I say play what you like and try to make it as good as possible

I’ve made suggestions for Banners before, like having an Adrenaline skill but I like this as well, not necessarily the call thing but getting another skill once it’s used. Something like:

Banner of Strength: Grant allies in range 5 stacks of might for 30 seconds. Cooldown: 60 seconds

Banner of Discipline: Grant allies in range 15 seconds of Fury. Cooldown: 60 seconds

Banner of Defense: Grant allies in range 10 seconds of protection. Cooldown: 60-Banner recharge not sure.

Banner of Tactics: Heal allies in range for 2000 (gains 1 point per point in healing power). Cooldown 60 seconds

Battle Standard: Grant allies in range 10 seconds of Stability. Cooldown: Banner recharge.

Made these on the spot, I’m sure they can be improved

I didn’t have any for a while but I put 10 points in it so I could get the buffs when changing attunements

I believe you would have, technically, 2 rolls on each hit. One roll with a 33% chance to cause vunlerability, and another roll with a 30% chance

Warrior: Off-Hand Pistol

Ranger: Nothing

Guardian: Axe

Mesmer: Know nothing about Mesmer

Necromancer: Not familiar with Necromancer

Engineer: Mace or Torch

Elementalist: Greatsword

Thief: Torch

It’s not hidden. It shows when you’re selling something next to listen fee “Projected Profit” or something like that

@The People Confused with my post: Healing Surge used to give you 1 bar of Adrenaline before the heal (thus being able to use it at 2 bars and get the full 3 bar effect). Now, it heals you before the Adrenaline is gained. So I’m saying with the effectiveness of the lower heals by it, I might as well just use Mending and get the condition removal from it then use Healing Surge

As mentioned above they drop from human type foes. My guess is since the bot slaughter they are getting grinded into something thats worth hardly nothing

I wouldn’t say super cheap, they used to be less than 2 silver now they’re 10 silver. To buy the 230 I need it would be about 28-30 gold.

Thanks for the advice though, money farming is probably the best way

I don’t like the change at all. It became my favorite heal after I dropped Healing Signet, but with this change I can use the adrenaline gain before the heal to my advantage because it’s not there anymore.

Being a Tank with a Hammer and Mace/Shield I never have full adrenaline long so I can use my Adrenaline Skill stuns. Now I might as well just use mending

Hey, I’m currently working on making The Juggernaut. Does anyone know a good way to farm Silver Doubloons?

I think it could work, if you focus on condition damage and critting, put a Sigil of Earth on the Axe. Should be able cause some nasty bleeding

Warrior’s make awesome Tanks. I’m running 10/0/30/30/0. Hammer and Mace/Shield (Knight’s Hammer Exotic, Knights Mace Rare, Pact Shield. These will all eventually be Tough/Vita from dungeons). Full Rare Sapphire Jewelery. Running runes of Earth for 6 seconds of Protection every 30 seconds. Utilities are Healing Surge, Banner of Defense, Fear Me (sometimes Shake it Off), Endure Pain, Battle Standard.

Traits: Strength (III), Defense (V, IX, X), Tactics (II, V, and XI if I remember right). At level 80 with buffs from both of my banners, I have 3500 Armor, 3K attack, 26K Health

I use healing banners so I can give my party steady Regeneration, which also outheals 2 Healing Shouts on a 20 second cooldown from my calculations.

Best tanking experience I’ve head was holding off a Graveling Burrow all by myself in AC exploreable (first and only time through) while my group finished off all the other ones. Was downed a few times but got up from killing something.

@ Magnetron: What are you flipping? I haven’t found anything to be worth flipping yet because of listing fee + tax

Agreed with Black Wolf, also this is for all items not just Crafted Armor. Crafted is the only thing I’ve found I can occassionally make 15-25 silver off of if it’s on a high trend. Weapons are the worst from what I’ve seen.

In response to mangarrage, alot of people would be making money if they would quit selling stuff so low. That’s the problem is people don’t realise they’re losing money which is what I wanted to bring attention to. If it was always like this and people started realising it, crafters would make money and people who don’t feel like crafting and sell the mats they get would make money still and be able to buy equipment they want

You may have all the mats mangarrage but there’s no reason for you to even make the armor because you could just straight up sell the mats and sometimes make more money. And it should make sense to be able to buy mats>make something>make money. That’s how business works, and not everyone would do it because they wouldn’t put the time in to calculate such things or just too lazy to do it anyways

Hey people that enjoy making money. As the title suggests this is about Crafted Armor that’s put up on the TP. I notice people don’t realize that how much they’re selling the armor for (I’ll use the 2 gold 85 silver I’ve seen alot as an example) is actually costing them money. Not only are you paying the listing fee and tax, but you’re selling the armor for a tiny bit over the cost of materials. From what my few calculations have brought you need to sell for about 3.25 gold to come out with a decent profit. That’s using the cheaper Fine Materials like Armored Scales.

Only hoping that this thread will get people’s attention and we can see armor prices starting to rise…hopeless hope is hopeless v.v

I find it somewhat useful, but it could be made better. Problem is the only bad Adrenal skill is Arcing Slice on Greatsword. There’s never really a reason to keep adrenaline full, especially when you’re a Tank like me with Hammer and Mace/Shield.

I’d like to see it’s power reduced by, say, 30% or something and have it ticking all the time

I know it’s only 3 days from releasing, but Anet, look at all the posts in here. Don’t make it a gear grind, that’s one reason why so many people love Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, because you don’t have to gear grind, you play because you want to.

I think depending on the Legendary equipped looks of the weapon your wielding from the kit changes. Let’s say you have the Predator

Flame thrower and Elixr gun would keep their shape, but have similar coloring, I don’t know what you would do with bombs/nades but it’s a start

I’d like to see the trait fixes mentioned even though I don’t use them. I think our utility skills are fine, only thing I’d like to see is a Banner Adrenaline skill to give em some flavor.

Main thing I’d like to see though is someway to get Protection, although Superior Runes of Earth are nice

Edit: I want Endure Pain to last it’s full 5 seconds too

I really like Scepter/Dagger. I have alot of AoE damage and alot of defense.

On a side note, am I the only one who thinks we should be able to dual-wield scepters?

@Mesket: It’s not permanent but Warrior’s can get Protection every 30 seconds with the Earth runes. It lasts 6 seconds for me

Here’s what I use and it makes me pretty tough to kill.

I have full Toughness/Vitality armor, except for the helmet because I couldn’t find one so I use a Vaklyrie one. My weapons are an Exotic Knight’s Hammer, a Rare Knight’s Mace, and the Pact Shield. I also have Rare Cleric’s Jewelery. 5 Runes of Earth and 1 Rune of Svanir all Superior

Traits are 10/0/30/30/0.

Strength: III
Defense: V/IX/X
Tactics: II/V/XI.

Utilities are Healing Surge (still don’t know if this is better than Healing Signet I haven’t gotten a dungeon test yet), Banner of Defense, Shake it Off, Endure Pain, Battle Standard.

You get nice regen ticks for about 225, also giving them to the party. 25-26K health. 3300-3500 armor, about 2700-3100 attack (depends on weapon equipped).

This is with all your Banner buffs on you.

You’re able to take 1-2 Silver Mobs out of the fight while your party members finish off the others, while granting them Regeneration and other boons from Banners. Lots of Blast finishers for those epic Water fields. You still do decent damage too, Hammer hits for 800-1200, Mace 600-700 and 1200 on the third hit

Edit: Forgot to mention that I have a Sigil of Leeching on my Hammer and Mace, and a Sigil of Water on my Shield