Guild Wars 2

Problem is it scales bad. If you can get it around 1000 it’s worth getting.

So, I’m pretty much finally done. Still missing one earring, but I’m not going to be getting that for awhile. So I’m just going to push this out. This has gone through a lot of changes. People are going to be like WTF, but in the end you’ll see reason behind the madness.

All the traits are the same, just a lot of gear changes. So lets begin.

Helm- Knight
Shoulders- Knight
Chest- Valkyrie
Gauntlets- Berserker
Leggings- Berserker
Boots- Soldier

Runes: x6 Divinity

Greatsword- Berserker w/Sigil of Life
Hammer- Berserker w/Sigil of Battle

Backpiece- Cavalier
Earrings- Full Berserker and Divinity(all stats)
Rings- Soldier and Cavalier
Amulet- Divinity(all stats)
For the ascend items. Offensive you want precision and defensive you want healing power.

Food:
Spicy Chocolate Cookie
Master Maintenance Oil

Utility:
Switch out Save Yourselves for Signet of Mercy.

So let me explain why I did all of this. You have dmg covered with +2.9k attack, 44% crit chance, and +90% crit dmg. You also have survivability covered with +2.9k armor and, almost 17k hp.

Yet something was missing and it took me awhile to see this. Healing power. This build will give you almost 1000 healing power to boot.

So this build has everything a guard needs.

I’ll leave two screenshots. One unbuffed and one fully buffed.

Also you don’t have to use Mercy. It’s more useful when you are building up your stacks, or want to try a different food. Without it you will be at 800 healing power, and the difference between 800 and 1000 isn’t huge. Skills I’d recommend though;

Signet of Bane/Judgment/Mercy
Save Yourselves
Contemplation of Purity
Judge’s Intervention
Smite Condition

I was hoping for Healing Signet buff…….

But looks solid overall.

Just want I expected. Can’t complain.

Probably start using Bane more. 180 power and a 1200 knockdown? Yes plz.

Ascended Berserker/Valkyrie is what you are looking for in trinkets, but you probably need exotic first. So go Zerker trinkets w/Exquisite Beryl Jewel.

For armor I’d do full Zerker then Valkyrie weapon.

If you want some toughness then Cavalier. You can get exotic trinkets from the Temple of Balthazar, then the ascend you can get from laurels and fotm.

There’s also cava armor, but I only seen it drop in fotm.

graverr.6473:

I tought Dogged March(or whatever the new trait name) it was supposed to reduce the power of cripple/chilled by 30% ,not their duration.

-New trait: Dogged March. Replaces Turtle’s Defense. Reduces cripple, immobilize, and chill durations by 33%, and gives a small amount of regeneration when hit by these conditions.

First two 80s I did PvE leveling/WvW. Didn’t really have a problem. It was fun and new.
Third 80 I got bored half way through and crafted.
Final two just crafted the whole way. Couldn’t bear to do it again.

I’m sure once they add new zones and classes I won’t mind the PvE lvling again.

If I see a Ranger or Mesmer underwater I don’t bother them for the most part. Ranger will just pet rez. Mesmer will just stack confusion, and you can’t even stomp.

Underwater combat terribly unbalanced. There’s a reason why maps like Raid on the Capricorn aren’t in the tpvp rotation.

Work in progress, still have some rares trying to get rid of.

For the most part condition gear/builds don’t work well with Guards, since we have one and it’s lackluster on top of it. You can still do ok if you want to run Rampager, but you are better off going direct dmg gear. (zerk, valk, knight, and etc.)

You’ve been in this tier what? 48 hours now, and you’re already making assumptions. I could say the same thing about HoD, but I don’t because I know better. Just because you kill some pugs or underlevels doesn’t mean anything. Every server has alot great players and guilds.

Meditation builds don’t really rely on boons. It’s going to hit AH based builds the hardest.

Demise- Starts off weak and gets stronger over time. Only way to cleanse is by defeating the necro.

Probably op, but whatever.

Necro could use Corrupt Boon before. Lyssa always been a risky rune set to run.

Cameirus.8407:

Harbinger.8637:

Guardian is in a good place right now, and still will be after the patch.

Both warriors and thieves needed the buffs. Pretty much when you activate might your next three attacks will be unblockable, and the boon hate is a trait.

Also spirit weapons are getting another hp buff.

Sorry, did you just say thieves need a buff? hahahaha.

As for warriors? yeah ok, their pvp is not great, but they need their dmg toning down for pve.

I’m talking about tPvP where thieves are underwhelming for the most part.

That’s the whole point of spectator mode. Watching a top player, and learning from it.

Guardian is in a good place right now, and still will be after the patch.

Both warriors and thieves needed the buffs. Pretty much when you activate might your next three attacks will be unblockable, and the boon hate is a trait.

Also spirit weapons are getting another hp buff.

Definitely a step in the right direction.

I heard rumors about them leaving. Guess it was true.

The sigil’s effects only activate on critical hits, although this is not stated in the tooltip.
The sigil’s effect also heals the wielder.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil_of_Water

I was wondering how he did that, but ya the guy’s build is very effective.

Kiting is not a problem for the most part. You have two immobilize and cripple. 1200 and 900 range gap closers. Plus Call of Arms and Rage you can get well over a min of swiftness if you keep stacking.

Nice call on Forceful Greatsword. If you want to take the safer route you can replace Frenzy with Balanced Stance. I still enjoy using Frenzy even after the nerf.

As we all know warriors are pretty much at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to pvp, really no reason to bring one into sPvP let alone tPvP. So I’d like to share this build, too help people struggling in pvp. Also if this build has been done before I apologize in advance.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNBhODbkzJ4tGS2hJSAYUUEQnCUpU0mdJFixGA;TsAg0CnoKyUkoIbRuikFtKYYx+DA

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Why this build works so well, it addresses most of the Warrior’s shortcomings.

Conditions- One of the biggest problems. With this you have two full condition removers on a 36 and 48 second cd. Plus the two on the warhorn on 12 and 16 second cd.

Boons- Yeah a warrior with a lot of boons, weird I know. Thanks to the warhorn that’s two boons, plus the boon you get from your healing skill. Also factor in all the boons you get from Rage+Lyssa. Plus the 20% boon duration.

Survivability- Well we have condition covered so that’s half the battle, so next is dmg mitigation. You have no toughness you say. True, but where all your survivability is going to come from is your dodges and boons. Lets looks at all the ways to restore endurance with this build;

Build Momentum
Signet of Stamina
Call to Arms
Sigil of Superior Energy

The synergy with all these different runes and traits is why I find the build good. Alone they may not look that great, but together it works well.

So I just thought I’d share my build. If you don’t like it that’s fine, or if you do like it that’s great too. It works for me, and I’m sure it will work for others. Ofc constructive criticism is always welcomed.

62 is the highest base you can go. It can go higher though. Warrior with Axe Mastery and Banner of Discipline for example is 87.

Vayra.3290:

Harbinger.8637:

First Offense- One hour
Second Offense- Two hours
Third Offense- Three hours
and so forth

Make it reset every 24 hours.

Also for the bad ISP argument. If you dc or lag out, just make it back before the game ends and it doesn’t count penalty.

And if I DC at 490-450? Any system that gives that kind of penalty to innocent people is never going to be implemented. Ever. Any dev that would even suggest that would soon find himself out of a job.

Not really. Counter Strike has a similar system for leaving competitive games, but much worse. Can get up to a week.

First Offense- One hour
Second Offense- Two hours
Third Offense- Three hours
and so forth

Make it reset every 24 hours.

Also for the bad ISP argument. If you dc or lag out, just make it back before the game ends and it doesn’t count penalty.

Necro is you best friend against them;

Well of Corruption
Corrupt Boon
Putrid Mark

Those are just the major ones I’ve listed.

I’ll bet my three legendaries Andro wins.

Signet of Dolyak is so bad. That being said, the active on it is nice. Eight seconds of stability, but the passive is worthless. It gives you 90 more toughness…..lol

Don’t see why they didn’t just make it like the Guardian one and be 10% less dmg.

Dualathlon fight club thing or whatever you want to call it was a great time. Nice showing too. Hope to see more of it in the future.

5 signet is op. You guys just haven’t discovered it yet.

x/x/30/30/x. It’s the jack of all trades, master of none build.

Are there better builds for survivability? Yes, same goes for dps and support. But AH does them all well, not great, but well.

You can go into in situation knowing you’ll be ok. I love my Paragon build, do I think it’s the best? No, ofc not. It just fits me and my playstyle.

I actually gave this a go in some tpvp matches, and it works surprisingly well. Great for holding points. Only problem is, like you mentioned in the comments of the video is CCs. I did switch some traits, but overall the build is the same.

Oh, I love dueling. It’s one of the only reasons I still go to WvW. I’ll definitely be there. I know most of Yarr will be to, if they’re online.

Dat matchmaking!

sPvP doesn’t have anything to do with your rating/rank. When you say rank I’m assuming you are talking about your rank on the leaderboard.

GoM sure does like gifs.

Yes, WXP doesn’t have anything to do with the player skill lvl or xp gains(for the most part). You could lvl 1-80 only doing WvW, and probably be +50r by the time you hit 80.

Yeah, I got the same email today. Lucky it was in was my junk mail, and all my other Anet emails never have been. So I knew something was wrong.

It does look legit though, I can see people falling for it.

Guardian. You play one so you should know.

They can give you boons and remove conditions. Plus with a lot of CCs to help you land skills like 100b.

Since you are running all shouts I recommend you use Pure of Voice. I’d also drop Retaliatory Subconscious and get Vengeful if you are going for retaliation.

Lastly I’d drop Retreat for SYG. Retreat is nice for getting places, but for actual combat it’s meh. Plus you’re already using the staff so you really don’t need the swiftness, and one extra block isn’t going to help that much. While on the other hand not having stability will get you killed. Also factor in the CDs, you can use SYG twice in the time it takes to use one Retreat. So that’s just more boons and healing.

Finishing Rangers can be extremely annoying if you don’t have stability.

Start the finish get hit by lighting bolt. No big deal!
Try it again, wolf AoE fear. Ok annoying.
Pet starts to rez, and teammate shows up. kitten!

That being said if you have stability they are easy pickings when down. Don’t really have a problem with it.

Only thing that needs to be fix is the pet rez underwater, but nobody cares about underwater combat lulzbroken.

I’m just going to touch on the animations, plenty of other people to talk about builds.

Human/Sylvari- Share the same animations. Balanced looking.

Charr- Power and reckless looking animations.

Asura- Small so it can be tough for opponents to know what you’re channeling. Some of the cooler looking ones.

Norn- Big and clumsy. The sound effects make it worse.

Valkyriez.6578:

SPvP has never been good to new players. It’s too convuluted with outdated systems.

Why do I have to run to an NPC just to que a tournament? Just add the button to the PvP tab already.

Yes please. I’d love to run around, and do all my PvE stuff while waiting for a que. Standing around in the Mist is rather boring.

Thief is easy in spvp zergfest, but in a tpvp match where people know what they’re doing it’s pretty much the opposite.

Can’t go wrong with Energy.

I think seven in a week is more then fair. I know a lot of people have busy schedules/lives, but if you can’t play one game a day. You really shouldn’t be able to sit on the top of the leaderboard.

If GoM can do this most or every night this match up will not be close anymore. GoM day team was already decent, but they where severely lacking a night team. Seems they have that covered now.

All I can say is lmao