Guild Wars 2

Hvaran.6327:

shoutwar is dead

banner is still there
imobs and stuns are still there.

Why shoutwar is dead? I didn’t follow all the recent changes.

thanks

Hi all,
I took a break from the game for more than a year, i see sword/warhorn build are still the meta in WvW but i would like to know if axes (that i always liked) are viable for roaming or small groups.
Are there any builds that use axes has weapons?

Thanks

- 8 characters
- 5 to level 80
- 2 characters with 100% map completion

I don’t plan on doing it one more time but who knows, maybe with the ranger.

so to make it simple, do we have to raise a ticket to get a refund in game for the doubled skins we have?
thanks

i like traveler runes a lot, i can’t stand the slow motion speed of my guardian.

Pavel.8531:

Ok, I agree with your point, that all other heals will be unaffected, so in that sense it’s a nerf. However – HS + adrenal + regen from dogged was what made warrior sustain what other people considered “godly”. And this sustain was weak vs bursty zerker builds and poison. One of the 2 will be weaker after the patch.

Yes warrior sustain is really good, still this change to HS is a nerf no matter how you see it.
I can say that due to the change in ferocity it will affect warrior survavibility less than expected but at the and of the day this is valid for every class and every healing skill.

Pavel.8531:

jihm.2315:

with the crit damage reduction it might turn out to be a buff

Shh, quiet down you, we don’t want people to realise that, right? It’s a nerf, nerf you hear me?

Because other healing skill are unaffected by this change right?

Treborlavok.3504:

Heimdallr.7021:

I think they are still thinking how to change the signet, in the meantime they nerfed it, though it will not stop people from whining.

its not just the passive that is the problem. Its warriors as a whole.

so what should they nerf too in your opinion?
when the warrior class became from useless to OP?
Most of the whining i see on the forum are about HS e Cleansing Ire, now healing signet has been slightly nerfed, should they nerf also CI (maybe adding an internal cooldown) the warrior would be fine?

A lot of people also whine about the warrior stats (high HP, high toughness) but i don’t recall anyone saying anything about it when the warrior sucked, now apparently it became a huge issue.

I think they are still thinking how to change the signet, in the meantime they nerfed it, though it will not stop people from whining.

nekretaal.6485:

Warrior Regen was increased.

Crtical damage took a 25% nerf, but healsig only took an 8% nerf. The damage of the people who actually do damage (ignoring those shamans bunkers who can’t kill anybody), falls behind passing warrior healing.

Healsig is more powerful than ever.

With this line of thoughts every class received a huge buffs too their healing skills.

JoopFOX.9510:

Do you really think the conquest gamemode needs more maps?

I’m hoping for another competitive game mode surprise reveal this or next week’s Ready Up, which wouldn’t be just for hot join.

This.
I’d like a new game mode, also the last map they added is skyhammer which isn’t exactly a big hit.

I don’t like Sylvari so i would go with humans, however i’ve only norn characters

You might have problems vs heavy condition builds without cleansing ire.
I would also swap the amulet with something else, healing power doesn’t really add much survivability, i prefer to use soldier’s amulet.

regards

Thanks a lot i will try out the new build with these changes and zerk jewel.

Hi all,
I’ve been playing necro in pvp this weekend and i’ve enjoyed it quite a lot.
I’ve been runnin a power build focusing on death shroud too but i’m not sure where I have to improve it or if it is good at all.
Here is a link:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vQAQNAoYWjc0UcbNNu0whbCB6x7hLOTUBkh6h7wOfIA-TsAA2CtIYSxkjJDTSmsMNgYJykAA

Runes can be changed but i like the speed bump also in PvP to move between mid and home points and the vitality bonus is a nice addition.
Can you please tell me what is wrong with the build and the areas that need improvements?

Thanks

Matisse.9356:

Everything before summer would positively surprise me.

Anything later than june would be a disappointment to me.
I mean, if they still have several months of work to release the new system why the “hurry” to remove pvp glory?

A integrated VoIP would be a nice addition, anyway the OP is right: way too often i see people raging after the first minute of play calling out teammates and whatnot.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

entropy.9613:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

normal glory vendors removed

only 1 kodan npc glory rewards remain i think

All rank glory vendors will be staying in the game until the feature build.

oh does this mean i can still buy copper silver gold rank reward chests to fill up my pvp locker after 18 march until the feature patch?

Yes, you can still spend earned glory points after march 18 but playing pvp will not grant glory anymore.
I wonder when the new system will take place.

I only have a norn mesmer

I’ll watch it at home, thanks for sharing.

Glyphs are not graphical variation of the spell, some enhanctments though added special effect to the weapon.
I think howevere that purple is the characteristic colour of mesmers, i wouldn’t like it to be changed :P

I like pink

/15chars

Ptolemy.5086:

Not sure what your goal but let me point to obvious mistakes.
sigils not stacking together
Change armor to dire and trinkets to zerk or try somthing else if you go for combine direct dmg+ conditions +survival. Arcane thievery currently not good enough. It is sounds very good in theory but long casting time long cooldown and huge chance to miss make it waste of space. I use mantra of resolve to clean conditions. I did try that weapon combo few times didn’t like it. Scepter is underpowered and unless you PU cond build doesn’t really works well.

Hi,
thanks for the tips, can you please be more specific about the sigils? What would you use? I put energy sigils so that i have one more dodge to spawn clones on weapon swap, accuracy to get better crit chance.
I will try mantra of resolve, when i was playing mesmer i remember mantras not being used much so i dismissed them now.

Thanks

Indeed you might be right about Illusionary Persona, i’m still not sure about the equip setup, with this build i should have quite a decent uptime of confusion that’s why i invested point in cond. damage.

I’m always open to suggestions, it’s not easy to pickup a class again after so much time
thanks again

Hi all,
i’m a little bit tired of warrior/guardian and i’d like to get back to mesmer after a lot of months, i think last time i played him was a year ago.

I’d like to focus on confusion and shatter but i’m not sure if i’m doing things correctly, the build i had in mind is this one:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vgAQRAsa7flknpRtdqxNNcrNiYqQwh6x15dfXpH82FmbA-zUCBINDim+IQEBhOFqIaslhFRjVzATlaR1qXAeEMa1AA-w

I guess that having several ways to apply confusion i should focus on condition damage, i tried to keep crit chance not too low because IIRC sword/pistol are have power (and crit) based damage.

How would you change the traits and on which stat should i focus?

thanks a lot for any feedback

Guys, first of all thank you for the quick answers
It was indeed the Chantry of Secrets! It wasn’t showing as map completion of Bloodtide Coast so i really didn’t enter the portal.

Thanks

Hi all,
i’m trying to complete the map also with my warrior but i’m stuck at 99%, i completed today the red border (which was the only one i was missing) but i’m at 726/727 POI and I cannot find where is the last one!
I’ve wandered from map to map, i’ve looked also in each zone zooming out and i’ve completed all of them, i don’t know what i’m missing :/
I’ve been in LA after the patch and it’s completed that too…
Any clues?

Thanks

MiLkZz.4789:

People complain about the hambow removing too many conditions and I agree. The longbow F1 is to easy to use and in teamfights you build adrenaline up so fast you can use that one and the hammer F1 on cooldown, meaning 6 conditions removed every 7s. That is a bit over the top and is why the hambow is so so strong in spvp. Removing 3 conditions every 7s would bring them more in line with the rest.

How can you remove 6 conditions every 7 seconds steadily?
You could do that in particular situations i guess, but in the long run you will never remove so many conditions with cleansing ire.

Travlane.5948:

i have NEVER played warrior before. i did well. TOP kills. 2nd score. did well. top defenderand top assaulter. bottom line if u play a class you have never even logged onto before…. itllshow how bad you are too. btw i got all my points WITHOUT CAPPING so yeah. try again?

You showed me that warrior is easy to play, we all know that, thanks.
Also in hotjoin people come and go during the match, score is hardly a measure of how well you played even in tournaments.
In your team there’s also another warrior who is the last one, same on the other team, what do you get from that?

coglin.1867:

Heimdallr.7021:

The OP didn’t prove anything.
I agree though that the warrior need to be toned downin some way, however it is not OP as many people claim it to be.

coglin.1867:

Actually it is. I am going to guess you have not leveled all professions to 80 so you do not even have a clue how OP it is or isn’t, yet you will make such statements.

I have 5 classes to 80, I don’t need to level every class to 80 to give my opinion on class balance, or i have to take for granted that anyone who claims warrior is OP has leveled every class to 80?

coglin.1867:

And yes, he did prove something. Unlike people who make blind claims based on what they read here or what someone afflicts against them in game, he at least picked it up and tried it for himself. You on the other hand are claiming “it is not OP” and offering absolutely no evidence, facts, or any argument what so ever to support your perspective.

The OP on the other hand never made any claims in the original post, he simply listed how easy or difficult he found certain aspects of his experiences.

Learn to read, I didn’t say that, what I did say is that warrior is not as OP as many people are saying.
Then again, the video posted by the OP doesn’t prove a think, the fact that he played a couple of matches in hotjoin taking a high score can’t be taken as a proof of that.

Yesterday i entered a couple a tournaments with my ranger and i scored 1st in both games, do you see me claiming ranger is OP?

So tell me, what exactly did he prove?

Carpboy.7145:

Cygnus.6903:

I’m fine with the 8%. It is a justifiable nerf that doesn’t wreck the skill.

Taking out the regen from Dogged March is way more painful.

Those leaked notes are confirmed fake

Yes but IIRC the devs have talked about the 8% reduction of HS passive during the livestream, i guess that should make it to the balance patch.

Lorelei.3918:

Condi Bunker Mobility Warriors are OP (As most condi bunkers are currently, but warriors get to have the best mobility on top of it)

Hambow is OP

Healing Signet is OP

Warrior Mobility is OP.

What makes you think your class deserves the ability to get away from every other class scott free whenever they feel like it? You have the most gap closers in the game PLUS effective immunity to movement impairments.

The hambow build you are calling OP doesn’t have the slightest mobility, hambow warriors can’t run away from anything: the warrior troll build you are talking about is sword/greatsword, hardly OP.

The OP didn’t prove anything.
I agree though that the warrior need to be toned downin some way, however it is not OP as many people claim it to be.

I wonder if could be a good idea to make HS to scale better with healing power so that a warrior should make a tradeoff between damage and great sustain.
Anyway don’t forget that to use cleansing ire you have to land the burst skill and unfortunately only hammer and longbow are easy to hit (well comburstive shot always hit).

Carpboy.7145:

Sorry for the rant, its just a lot of things ive started to notice as i get into higher and higher level pvp

Nothing to be sorry about, these kind of arguments are starting to be really annoying on the warriors forum.

I don’t understand the argument of being ‘easy to play’.
I would love the warrior to have more depth and proactive gameplay instead of relying too much on passives, that is not a reason for a nerf however.

jihm.2315:

Heimdallr.7021:

Dahkeus.8243:

mPascoal.4258:

Shets.4538:

Only me? or am I the only one that think the guardian moves like turtles.. we could also need some Signet for movement, would be perfect!

Thank you!

Mesmers are slower than us. but yeah excluding us and Mesmer every class as an 25% permanent movement increase or can have perma swiftness (Warriors and Engineers)

You…do realize that Guardians have 100% swiftness pretty easily, right? Staff + Retreat + Save Yourselves.

Hell, even thieves can’t get 100% swiftness without using centaur runes.

And you call that pretty easily?
Warriors have perma swiftness pretty easily, not guardians.

warriors are the gods of this game so they are out of comparison

Warriors can do perma swiftness since day 1 and they’re are not out of comparison (also, they’re not the Gods of this game, but i don’t want to start another ‘nerf warrior’ thread considering the warrior forum is already loaded with them).

Guardians can’t do perma swiftess easily, that’s a fact:
what the user was suggesting was giving up two utility slots to use a couple of shouts that most of shouts guardians don’t use (kill yourself and retreat), on top of that equip a staff which is not a weapon everyone likes and most guardians don’t even use, I do not call that pretty easily even without comparing it to warrios.

Dahkeus.8243:

mPascoal.4258:

Shets.4538:

Only me? or am I the only one that think the guardian moves like turtles.. we could also need some Signet for movement, would be perfect!

Thank you!

Mesmers are slower than us. but yeah excluding us and Mesmer every class as an 25% permanent movement increase or can have perma swiftness (Warriors and Engineers)

You…do realize that Guardians have 100% swiftness pretty easily, right? Staff + Retreat + Save Yourselves.

Hell, even thieves can’t get 100% swiftness without using centaur runes.

And you call that pretty easily?
Warriors have perma swiftness pretty easily, not guardians.

Thanks a lot for all the feedback, i should hit 80 with my ranger this weekend so next week I will most likely go in for some WvW.
I will test again my spirit build in tpvp this week, I have only played a few matches but i quite like the gameplay though I preferred the beastmaster bunker build I was using a few months ago (i don’t remember spirit rangers being so popular back then).

regards

Hi all again,
i’ve been thinking on a spirit ranger build but i don’t know the class very well so i have a few questions:
1) is the “passive” effect of spirit triggered by normal attacks or only special skills?
2) water spirit as a healing skill is worth it?

this a very incomplete build i’m working:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAV8YncEVWZTFeVAaZgo9IT9/8sCGy9oUnKUA-j0BBoOCyUBAZPFRjtMsIas6FYaTER1ecFRrGA-w

it’s for WvW but i’d like some inputs on the traits and utilities.

thanks

they are fake…

mPascoal.4258:

I would say a class is OP when it can get 3 of the main stats over 2k points …

I could have stopped reading this nonsense after the first sentence.

Thanks guys, i guess i will try this spirit ranger build with short bow.
I’ve some spare glory points that i’d like to spend to level the ranger to 80

Hi all,
i’ve played a few months ago something like a hundred games with the ranger to know the class.
I must say that i liked playing ranger despite his problems, I was using a beastmaster bunker build (0-0-30-10-30) but reading the forums it looks like now only spirit rangers are considered viable, is that true?
I just want to know if i’m wasting my time testing other builds, i left the game for some time and i don’t know what changes underwent this class.

Thanks

Another one of these threads.

phaeris.7604:

People still defending warriors?

It’s easiest class to play in pvp by far, best survivability, amazing spike damage, amazing mobility. It towers above anything else.

I can’t believe I used to play one so much in pvp and thought I was pretty good at this game, this was before the buffs and healing signet changes.

The guy who just said he put out 23k damage and is whining…..you get to put out that sort of damage whilst still retaining 3k armour and 20k hp. An ele can’t even get close to achieving that sort of output, yet to even try would have 12k hp and 1850 armour, with 0 escapes and 0 defensive traits.

This is why there is an issue with warriors at the moment.

just stop

The warrior forum is becoming hardly readable.

Bombsaway.7198:

Warriors are significantly over powered at the moment. The key would be to make them, once again, extremely subject to condition damage with few ways to cleanse.

Yes, that is the key to make them useless once again.

Rune of the dolyak regen is ridicolous and doesn’t scale with healing power.
We will see after the revision on runes and sigils, i have a spare set just in case

Bombsaway.7198:

The greatest precursor of balance is population of a class. Warriors need to be toned down dramatically.

Maybe you didn’t play when GW2 was released but warrior was a very popular class even back then.
In every MMO the warrior is usually a very played class.