Guild Wars 2

Feels like alot of stats wasted just for the venom heals . I tried it abit but as far as i remember it didnt scale that well with HP

Good watch. . Abit curious about your traits in virtues and what gear you are running. . Trying to go back to my Guardian but i feel some lack of flow and mobility compared to my warrior(

1 thing would fix all the zerging.. player collisions.. So you cant run in a blob, and you can make a meat shield for your ranged DPS etc, that would fix sooo much

Nier.2478:

PvE = okay
PvP = not in a million years

Good feedback… Really.. Care to elaborate?

Ive been playing around with the same build alot.. But I could never live without fast hands trait, know its not necessery but i just love swapping..

What I would suggest however for your build is this:

Once bloodlust stacks are 25 have a 2nd shield to switch with and put the +50% endurance in it, I love dodging and coming from playing both ele and guardian i got used to 100% uptime on vigor, wich aint possible with warrior so i solved My problem like this..

Due to the low duration on might on procc compared to the internal CD i would rather put flameblast or air on the axe..

What i Personaly never miss is the 20% GS cd reduction, I just hate 100b so the more WW and Bladetrail are of CD the better

Good luck)

I cant find any reason to use offhand axe over shield or mace.. Sure if you run in a zergtrain its good.. But for 1v1 or small skirmishes the mace and shield both give a CC and shield offers a 3 sec block while mace gives you 4 stacks of vulnerability for 12 sec with low CD..

Would be interesting to see stats from someone with full pov/tough/healing gear.. Might be worth a shot together with beserker accessories

Only plugging it in a skill calculator wont show toughness from gear and accessories..

And as said before dont use LB as 2nd set.. Better to have axe/mace or sword shield depending on more DPS or more defence.. And if you go defend a keep/tower you usually get out of combat fast when inside and you can swap out your GS or 2nd set for LB..

Should make it possible to also buy all ingredients for legendary through stuff aquired in WvW.. Ofc the prices should be REALLY HIGH, but atleast then you have a chance to get it.. I dont Personaly have alot of badges cause i enjoy roaming and ganking more the sieging, but i still think that ppl that Work Hard in WvW and have maybe 3-4k badges in stock should be getting close to getting a legendary.. For only PvEers to be able to get it is not a good way to treat the PvPers..

Yeah, true that the 25% chance sounds good.. But if you look at it from another perspective its very low up Time on the Boon since its internal CD is 30 sec.. Im still trying to decide on runes myself but having a Hard Time finding anything better then the power precision toughness offered by emerald orbs..

To tired to read it all.. But running similar build.. But imo dont use those runes.. I was looking at runes aswell but those are not worth it since you need to rely so much on luck for protection with them, and you dont have any way of getting protection when you want it, fif you get what im saying.. Rather stack the toughness through some emerald orbs imo, that way you get nice power+precision aswell as high toughness..

Sure warrior is quite okey.. Only thing i would want to see changed is the burst mechanic.. Give more choices.. For example give 2-3 stances to choose from instead, either buffing offense with Fury and might, defense with regen and protection or a life-leeche stance where you steal health with each sucessfull attack for a short duration.. Best would be 2 stances + the current One.. Would give more diversity and become abit more complex and situational..

Coming from playing guardian as My first Class in this game i can say its not impossible.. But you need to know the guardian Class pretty good to be able to deal with a good guard in 1v1… Reason for this is that guard dont have as clear and visible animations as for example the D/D Ele.. If you know the CDs and can predict the build he/she is using that Will help alot …

Sil.4560:

I don’t even use it on gates; usually we should have rams anyway. It is rather funny to use on the opposite side of the gate though, downing the unsuspecting people who are right next to it. XD

Look at it as a short break.. Press 100b then grab a drink haha.. And yeah thats also quite funny to do) hehe.. Warrior GS would be the perfect weapon to me if they only changed 100b.. We all Seen it on youtube the “look at me when i go PRO!!”-ppl go bullscharge + Frenzy + 100b , but they never show how PRO they really are when the enemy evades their 100b rofl.. Most of them just stand there wondering what happened haha

Oglaf.1074:

Sil.4560:

I never bother with sPvP (ever), but I actually do find Greatsword useful in WvW because it’s an entirely different sort of combat setting in many cases.

How is it different? PvP is PvP regardless. Players are going to avoid your Hundred Blades unless you resort to the “cheesy” tactic. Greatswords are more of a PvE weapon because it is too much of a one-trick pony.

You can get higher DPS from both bladetrail and whirlwind attack if you Time them right.. I only use 100b when smashing a gate or when taking a camp guarded by npcs… 100b is the skill i disslike the most in the entire game, so i just change My gameplay so it doesnt involve it..

TL;DR: GS is not a PvE only weapon unless you cant use it the proper way…

Skoti.3195:

It doesn’t mean anything that Deso is FULL. It’s almot FULL of PvE players.

Yeah.. Some ppl dont understand it but Server Population does not equal WvW population…

Nymph of Meliai.6739:

I think you can sum up T1 as follows…
SFR – the more skilled individual players but lacks numbers
ER – semi-skilled players and able to produce numbers from elsewhere on the map to rescue bad situations. ER will try and sneak attack places by coming in behind VS and SFR battles but do not have the numbers to always pull it off and as a result lose a lot of territory fast to VS.
VS – huge numbers but on the whole individually very weak (with the exception of one or two rare players who are very skillful). VS will wait until SFR and ER are fighting each other and then try to steal the win with shear numbers when all the hard work has been done by SFR or ER. SFR are often able to take out VS zergs twice the size in numbers but ER tend to get swamped by VS.

Really cant put it like that.. Cause all the servers have some of everything.. If you run around solo and manage to get a 1v1 with anyone you will see that both VS and ER have very good Individual players.. Aswell as some small roaming groups that are great to fight against when coming with your own roaming group.. And all 3 servers also have terrible players where you sometimes wonder " do they know dodge is in the game?" . Ofc you can have an opinion based on what you see, but also depends on what kind of player you are..

I main GS aswell in WvW on my Warrior.. And switching 2nd set depending on what needs to be done.. Tho now ive even stopped using ranged in keep defence, I just find it so much more fun going out and Whirlwind and then in again..

2nd set im using:

Travelling: Sword+Warhorn
Fighting: Axe + Mace . Mace OH for the sweet sweet knockdown.. and pair axe 2 with mace 4 and you got 8 stacks of invul on your target with 2 attacks..

Guess its also a matter if you have fast hands traited or not.. Personally I love that trait, reminds me so much more about Age of Conan with that specced..

“Nono go hundred blades glasscannon instead” thats what i read from the above post.. Nice to see someone trying to use S/S ive always wanted to test it bit never gotten around..

Good vid, personally not a big fan of Frenzy , just dont like the whole mechanic.. But really made me wanna try something similar out with my knight geared warrior…

Pentaxia.6215:

no, it looks horrible.. Try AC armour, with some alterate boots and head gear..

Yeah.. What this Guy says, if you want the worst looking armor ingame that is.. Cmon even the starter armor looks better then AC armor lol

Rainu.6871:

-Thieves have the minor trait Feline Grace which makes dodges only use 35% endurance (it still costs 50% but then 15% is returned).
-Thieves can trait to gain vigor on heal.
-Thieves can trait to gain vigor on steal.

Using a d/d condition thief I’m very seldom out of ways to avoid damage with lots of dodges, death blossom, roll for initiative and withdraw (which is both an evade and grants vigor)

Yeah you have those sources for vigor, but since Anet Said every Class should be able to take on any role its evasion that should make the thief be able to “tank” stuff for abit.. And that the guardian and ele has vigor on crit is weird if the thief does not.. Both of those have great healing and great survival, guardian from blocks and ele from heals..

No matter what is discussed ppl always see it differently.. I wanna see the thief as a evasive thank, therefor vigor is mandatory, but that might be because there is no class that really has what im looking for.. Wtb thief without stealth or ranger without the dumb pet hehe..)

Thieves should get a similar trait as guardian and elementalist (think mesmer has it to?!) wich grans vigor when doing a critical hit.. When I think about thief I think about and evasive character, and atm it aint since you dont have that many ways to gain vigor.

Katsumoto.9452:

Ele’s need a huge nerf then. They run away better than anyone else in the game when using D/D weapon set.

Well ele does need a nerf, but not cause they can run away, morse cause you can build full bunker and be unkillable and at the same time do good damage.. Only bad eles claim that D/D ele aint OP.. I have one myself cause i found the attunement swapping interesting, but its really to easy, and never liked spells either, so dropped it pretty fast…

ski.4927:

I found that as a Ranger that can take a beating and keep fighting, POW/tou/vit gear was holding me back. All that power I was getting was just not giving me the damage I needed to accomplish anything.

I switched to a mixture of apothecary(tou/HEA/cond) and Shaman (VIT/hea/cond gear and started focusing on using conditions to do my damage. I found that my survivablitity stayed about the same, but I am able to put out quite a bit more damage this way.

That kinda depends on what weaponsets you are running with……..

Braxxus.2904:

Cosmo.8176:

the other classes which can only dodge twice every 8-10 seconds

What?
Ele’s – perma vigor
Engi – perma vigor
Theifs – nigh infinite evades

Necros I have no idea, they seem to just facetank hard
Guards don’t need no stinkin’ dodges

Warriors – potentially have equivalent to perma vigor… kinda

• Edit: Mind you I’m not saying Ranger’s are bad off in the dodge/evade area. Just saying most classes have far better than the baseline dodging timers.

Fyi, Guard has perma vigor aswell.. And thats from only putting 5 points in a tree lol

And yes, ele can easily maintain perma vigor.. Unless your a terribad player who doesnt utilise attunementswapping..

Vecuu.2018:

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/66729-how-to-be-a-great-greatsword-ranger/

Thanks!!)

Vecuu.2018:

Hjulstad.6317:

Vecuu.2018:

Soldier’s Armor and Weapons with Knight’s Accessories and Dolyak Runes.

The build of champions.

Full melee?

GS+Axe/Warhorn

Always liked the GS, but feels like damage is to poor.. If Anet was smart they would fix the GS skill so it did greater direct damage instead of the bleeding… Any way you can share,your specc ? Either here or on pm.. I Will be leveling a ranger to 80 this evening cause im bored with My 3 other 80s (guard, ele, thief) and want a new challange..

Vecuu.2018:

Soldier’s Armor and Weapons with Knight’s Accessories and Dolyak Runes.

The build of champions.

Full melee?

Wow.. Talk about a bounch of sad ppl..

Its pathetic with all the pie throwing between the servers really.. Only few here can take a win or loss without bashing..

Yeah, Some guilds on SFR use the culling bug, do I like it? No, absolutely not.. But what will make these guilds stop abusing this? A fix made by Anet.. Pretty sure its not Only On SFR this happens since ive seen enemies doing so aswell.. But i can Only comment on SFR part since im there...

Scouts and spies going to other servers are cowards and losers and so are their guilds for allowing it, but not the server... And what could fix this? Anet changing transfers... If you are weak you cheat...

Most of the stuff ppl are crying over are Anets fault.. Do they tell ppl to abuse these things? No, but its in human nature to take the easy way to victory. ( not everyone wants the easiest way but many do like the uber skills of a train with 30 ppl spamming 1 while rushing through the enemies 20 ppl wiping them and then feeling so pro, i dont like it but i can see how some ppl might.)

TL:DR Dont blame the servers, blame the players and the guilds allowing it aswell as Anet not fixing it...

typing from ipad got this weird and multiposted……

Why the speedup? It just makes it unwatchable

Didnt read the whole Wall of text since im on phone. But My opinion would be making the thief rely less on stealth and more being a evasive tank or evasive DPS depending on what you wanna do.. Stealth is a bad thing in whatever game you look at

Had some Karma i didnt need on My character so went to orr and bought some lvl 80 Green accessories to try getting a yellow One from the forge… Put 4 in and all looked normal untill the 4 pieces met in the middle.. Then nothing happened, i got no item or anything.. Thought it was just a random bug so threw 4 new ones in, and same thing happened again, they just dissappeared..

Went to orr and bought 8 green daggers and put them in the forge aswell, got a Green dagger back.. Put 3 daggers and 1 accessorie in the forge and again got nothing..

Is this a known bug?

My wish is what its always been.. Make rangers Able to choose to run with or without pet.. PET is to important and should just be like 1 extra utility slot/ buff bot imo… But that wont happen im sure

So i ran AC exp path 1 yesterday and once we killed the last boss it happens.. Nothing actually happens. We wait about 15min and still doesnt complete.. So abit more then 1 hour wasted for nothing at all.. I mean what is this? Anyone Seen this before?

Interesting.. So basicly, when dual-weilding you should always have 1 on crit/get on swap sigil and One for increased duration/damage/crit or you Will kitten yourself? Thought i red something about different sigils having different cooldowns?

Interesting.. So basicly, when dual-weilding you should always have 1 on crit/get on swap sigil and One for increased duration/damage/crit or you Will kitten yourself? Thought i red something about different sigils having different cooldowns?Edit: My 2nd dagger has the 7 power / kill sigil and seems that ruins te might on swap aswell?!

I run with the major sigil that gives 2might stacks at weaponswap.. But is it bugged , i fot seem to get any might really

JakHammer.7094:

I have read Brutaly’s great guide stickied at the top. My present build is pretty much taken in whole from that thread and thank you so much. But I use GS not Hammer.

Why? A glance at my forum handle, which is also my main, and you might suspect I like hammers. I own perhaps 200+ in my real world collection. Hammer as is just does not get it done for me.

I read and reread the guide and threads on the animation skip for the #1 chain, and have watched the vidoes. I simply cannot learn to do the animation skip. Without that edge I just don’t feel that I can perform nearly as well with Hammer as with GS.

I contend that those defending the as is Hammer so strongly almost certainly have mastered the skip.

I think that giving a weapon a passing score because it has the hidden benifit of a dextreity exploit, and suggesting l2p as a fix for the rest of us, is not best practice for the weapon, the class or the game.

It really is a l2p issue.. The skip is good, but without it you still do great.. Its not something you need to use, its more of a small benefit if you learn to react on time.. Bit the skip does not make the weapon..

Ragnarox.9601:

Hjulstad.6317:

Hammer really doesnt need a buff.. Ppl stating this should really play around more with weapon and traits.. Chain as an example, cant count only the 3 hits from it, you need to take the damage from the symbol into the calculation aswell, wich for me ticks for 1k+ / pulse.. MB: not much to say about it,One of the hardest hitting skills we have and with low cooldown, and its a blast finisher, cant get better than that.. And hammer doing low damage? Give me some of the stuff your smoking plz, cause atleast My MB hits Hard.

Cba typing more from phone..

TL;DR: Learn to use the hammer the right way and use the skills at the right Time.

Stop the crying about hammer allready, its l2p issues.. Hammer is the most complete weapon the guardian has ..

all the time trolling on the phone, pls sir if you play elementalist and you dont own 80 lv guardian you are just trolling on our subforum.
i told my honest opinion that skill 5 is useless ppl are dodging out of it. need revamp 5 skill.

No trolling.. Just stating opinion , ppl crying for a boost for a weapon that is allready allt greater then most others need to l2p.. Sure dodge out of ring of warding shouldnt be possible, but thats a minor thing..

This might come as a shock to you, but you can actually play more then One Class.. And allready have a 80 guardian with 3 full exotic sets and 6 weapons.. I just wanna prevent ppl who have l2p issues from giving a perfect weapon a boost so it gets overpowered and ending up ruining the Class by giving nerf after nerf..

Ragnarox.9601:

1 skill ok
2 skill yo could make max range 500-600 because of skill 4 knockback
3 skill is ok but useless sometimes
4 skill ~semi useless
5 skill totally useless (need revamp)

i think hammer should have some kind of dmg boost, ppl using gs because of high output dmg, hammer does not have that and its slow. buff needed.

Hammer really doesnt need a buff.. Ppl stating this should really play around more with weapon and traits.. Chain as an example, cant count only the 3 hits from it, you need to take the damage from the symbol into the calculation aswell, wich for me ticks for 1k+ / pulse.. MB: not much to say about it,One of the hardest hitting skills we have and with low cooldown, and its a blast finisher, cant get better than that.. And hammer doing low damage? Give me some of the stuff your smoking plz, cause atleast My MB hits Hard.

Cba typing more from phone..

TL;DR: Learn to use the hammer the right way and use the skills at the right Time.

Stop the crying about hammer allready, its l2p issues.. Hammer is the most complete weapon the guardian has ..

Reading on phone.. So didnt read all but the earth for toughness.. Never choose traitline based on stats.. Choose it based on what traits Work best for you

Mank.2183:

Bad memories of the changes FC did in AoC to “fix” combo cancelling comes to mind… THAT was without penalty too, at least here we have endurance keeping it relatively in check.

Funcoms so called fix to “combo-skipping” actually damaged it more then it fixed it.. Before it took some skill to Time things and move around to not die.. At that point you saw what players that where good.. Take Chigo for example, he could pretty much take any melee Class to lvl 80 with kitteny gear and still just laugh some High pvplevel noobs to death.. Not like now when its kitten and so much more about the gear..

Well since in lowbie i cant say for My ele.. But im pretty sure the best looking daggers ive Ever Seen are the AC ones) most other dungeon weapons just look bad tbh..

Stupid forum wont let me Edit.. Another question i have is what stat you prefer focusing on? And is it at all worth Going for Healing Power just for self healing ?

Appreciate it alot!

Hey!

Watched your video abit.. Great Watch first of all.. Just curious what gear are you running with? And coupled with what Runes? I watched the Dragon something, watching from phone so its Hard see noticed that you had around 23k HP but was that due to keep buffs ? Thanks for a great Watch! Will Watch more as soon as i can sit at the computer

Thanks first of all for showing that “melee” ele is very much Viable! I have been playing guardian pretty much all the Time since release and tried several vbuilds and weapons and i ofc like the guardian.. But i was not 100% loving it.. I never liked ranged combat so when i decided to roll an alt i was first between thief and warrior, but kitten they are boring imo.. So tried ele and but got turned of abit by all the “prepare to die in 2 hits lol” talk.. But I find it soooo fun now that ive gotten more levels and got inspired and motivated by your vids! Thanks!!

@Fabsm

Seems you are testing on NPCs? I got a better suggestion. Go to heart of the mists and to the big group with training dummies, run up the stairs, activate VoR and then jump and attack a mob.. Then you have lost some Heath and Will stay in combat without dieing and you can take it slow and Watch the numbers.. And once you get a procc, open traits and add 10 points in the tree with healing power, and Watch for next procc.. Only thing you cant check is the food, but Runes + sigils can be tested.. If i have Time i Will check it aswell this evening

ppl who cry that RF aint as good as Endure Pain.. Just go roll a warrior.. Giving guardian something that is to close to Endure Pain would be toooooo OP… And this allready feels abit OP tbh.. This discussion is almost as funny as the guys crying for the low HP pool of the guardian.. Why even stick with the class then? Just roll warrior? Dont make this class stronger Anet plz.. Cause then it will be to strong..

Yeah.. ppl tend to forgett about the importance of the virtues.. sigh..