Guild Wars 2

Ether Renewal completely stomps Thieves like that.

Zumy.6318:

Culling will remain an issue due to server quality limitations and ANet not willing to improve them as this would lessen the profit.
As simple as that.

What.

There is no backup plan. March update better be pretty impressive because the only change they’ve made to culling so far has only made it worse.

GorHanis.7563:

The culling will be remain.

Just think, instead of talk. They need a new engine if they would like to totally fix it. This is NOT an option! They will be try ofc and write here nice comments about it, but nothing more. Deal with it…

Wow, talk about an armchair programmer. You do not have the faintest clue how GW 2 is written, what the limitations of their engine is or what can be done to fix culling, just like the rest of us.

Posts like yours are truly a joke.

Ether Renewal is amazing. Have used it since they reduced the cast time a while back and never looked back.

Cleansing Water (the trait, not the skill) removes a condition when you apply Regeneration.

Soothing Disruption applies Regeneration when you use a Cantrip.

Elemental Attunement applies Regeneration when you attune to Water.

This is why Cleansing Water (the trait, XI) is good and you should GET IT.

siniaq.5628:

Do u know guys a role of spotter in www?

Off-peak hours or lower population servers. And having people sit inside Towers or Keeps is not exactly very fun for them.

It was a silly change, but now you just have to treat every White Sword pop as Orange ones.

You have (near) perma-Swiftness from your Auras (+ Updraft). Windborne Dagger is worthless (and buggy, apparently).

What do you have against condition removal? It works with Soothing Disruption and Elemental Attunement, you are giving up so much free condition removal. Cleansing Water.

Out of the 3 skills listed, you only have 1 that triggers the 6s of Regeneration. Surely that’s not worth it? You will already get Regen & Vigor from Soothing Disruption when you Mist Form. It’s just a really bad trait overall.

I would personally just go Divinity, but pick whichever Rune set you prefer.

I am not a fan of Bunkers as a whole, but here’s my suggestions:

Soothing Wave is a horrible trait. You should pick up Cleansing Water (XI) and move the Cantrip reduction trait to the Master tier, if you really want it. Remember that the Regeneration granted from Soothing Disruption works with Cleansing Water.

Windborne Dagger is a horrible trait. Get Renewing Stamina for perma-Vigor.

There is no reason to have 20 points in Earth instead of picking up Zephyr’s Boon and Evasive Arcana.

I would also suggest that Armor of Earth or Cleansing Flame is better than Arcane Shield unless you spec for it.

Your Sigils do not work together. When one is on cooldown, the other will not proc. Use a passive one + one of the others.

Dolyak Runes are pretty terrible. The 6/6 bonus is a tiny 30hp/s Regen which is honestly not worth it.

30 points in Arcana was never useless and it still isn’t. Stop making such blatantly ignorant statements.

Well, duh. They barely nerfed anything related to the only viable build we have.

20k health is way more than you need for most things. I would definitely drop some health, but don’t get more Toughness than you really need – offensive stats are good too.

“Pry Bar: Increased the number of confusion applications from three to five and increased duration of confusion from 3 to 5 seconds.”

This is the single-most idiotic buff ever.

Drakeco is pretty boss, he should have more subscribers! I like how he’s able to swap builds almost on the fly. I had a lot of trouble adapting to the high Power Grenade / Rifle burst when I was focused on playing against a Confusion-heavy build.

And even then, still having to deal with Confusion from the Magnet → Pry Bar combo even after he swapped. Gah!

Good fights o/

EU does have stronger guilds to fight than NA. Although the recent loss of KAZ hurts quite a bit.

You cannot dictate how people should enjoy the game they’ve paid for.

I imagine that any build with the Elemental can cap supply camps. Not sure how tanky the Earth Elemental will be at such a low level, though.

I’d grab 10 Arcana / 10 Air / whatever as a 30+

There’s a video on my channel if you need good spots.

Where’s VoTF going?

Itkoviana is indeed awesome. He ended up beating me much more soundly the next day, I need more experience using the Focus.

Oh btw, I never made a thread for it, but if anyone is interested in good leash spots for solo capping supply camps:

TimeBomb.3427:

Intigo, were you using -40% condition duration food?

Nah, we were both using the standard 66% Lifesteal Food (Omnomberry Ghost/Pie). I think it might be worthwhile for him to use Rare Veggie Pizza in this fight. Not sure if -condi duration food is worth it generally, I prefer the passive healing.

Switching to Focus, running 30 Water and using Cleansing Flame greatly increases the odds in a matchup like this. It’s funny how 2 of our hardest fights are versus heavy Condition builds (this Engineer and a Confusion Mesmer).

I really need to get used to using the Focus.

What do you mean? I don’t think the icon changes?

You should use Burning Speed more. It’s pretty simple to land versus big groups and it deals high damage. I rarely saw you use it at all when you swapped into Fire.

I’m 0/15/0/25/30 – pretty standard, but the extra 5 in Water would be better for fighting versus such a Condition-heavy build. As for letting up the pressure, I usually let up when I have no cooldowns up at the time. Gotta have Burning Speed or similar ready to really deal any damage unless I’m auto-attacking with Air.

That other Ele Itkoviana mentioned is actually this guy:

Dalo.3941:

A tie?! Stop slacking Intigo ._.

But no one likes that guy.

<3

We ended up fighting a few more times before RG transferred to SFR and I got royally spanked.

I don’t think you’ve fought a truly competent Confusion Mesmer. I can drag the fight out indefinitely, but winning it is quite another matter.

Ray.2640:

Depends on what build he’s going. If he’s condition / confusion stack then you better find some good excuses to not show up.

Hahah, QFT – holy hell, is that build broken. I am very confident in my dueling ability, but I fought a Mesmer from my guild with that spec today before transferring and it was just plain stupid.

I am very envious of how Mesmers have so many viable builds (you list shatter, phantasm and the retaliation thing).

Eowynna.1879:

The tendency have been to be melee heavy to be sucessfull in the open field (VOTF, KAZ and RG to name a few). We learned to counter those groups, but it was kinda suprising to meet a group that was range heavy. It showed that Ranger Entangle and Necro wells are really powerfull if used well. We didn´t have an answer to that, so you guys (WL) won fair and square in my book

RG is not melee stacked nor have you ever fought us in a GvG setting.

The jury is still out on whether Mighty Ice Arrow is a worse poster than Tagnut.

Stay tuned for further development.

gezz.5618:

i role an ele to be bursty mage not a melee tanky mage..

D/D can be very bursty. You obviously have no clue what you are talking about.

RG worst Treb users in all of Tyria.

golantrevize.2394:

I would get the cavalier amulet (power, toughness and crit dmg).

This is a good choice.

Personally, I’m getting [Syzygy] for the balanced stats. The Crit Dmg ratio is very good on it and all the stats are beneficial to me. Although I’m still a bit undecided on whether I want the utility slot or the potential +4 stats later. Shrug.

Ah, Rare Veggie, that’s true. Omnomberry Ghost + Master Oil isn’t too bad.

dreztina.4820:

Just consumables costs almost 20 silver/hour. I MIGHT break even on that doing wvw, but I certainly won’t make any money. If I spent the time I have in wvw doing pve instead, I’d probably have two legendaries. And yet, a pve’er can come into wvw and have better stats than me. Go figure.

What consumables are you using that cost 20s/hour? o.O

I recently fought probably the best Engineer I’ve fought so far in WvW and decided to make a video of some of the duels we had. I included tips / skill breakdowns in the video itself for anyone interested:

Some very intense duels which swung both ways and were always quite close. Definitely the most fun I’ve had in WvW duels so far.

This is also a case for people using more offensive gear. A turtle-based setup with Healing Power & Signet would never break this guy, although Cleansing Flame could potentially be a pretty powerful utility to use. I tend to be too locked down on my utility choice when a switch here could have been very beneficial.

Another thing I should have touched on is using Churning Earth to kill his Elite. I have a tendency to ignore his Elite turrets far too much when they are actually fairly squishy and simple to take down. The Block that he uses each time I cast Churning just works in my favor since he won’t be attacking me while I kill the turrets.

Anyone got any thoughts on the matchup or play in general?

I am always against Cleric’s. You sacrifice too much simply to get Healing Power.

Gear offensively. Use your dodge rolls efficiently and land your damage.

Ya, I did – the quality is fine, it’s just that you encoded it in 16:9 when you play in 4:3 (1280×1024).

It’s not a big problem, but you may want to fix it for next time. Most people have 16:9 monitors now, but you still shouldn’t make the video look like that. Black bars and the actual resolution is preferable.

Anyway, good stuff!

Not bad!

The video looks a bit ‘squashed’ – what resolution do you play at and what did you encode it to?

You both just linked the same video.

Wizardauz.3761:

Next time….

Do a GvG….. Underwater.

Now that would be intestesting and a challenge.

WHO IS THE BEST UNDERWATER GUILD?!

We did that with siN after all the GvG’s we had. Was pretty hilarious. I still have footage of it, I think.

Sovereign.1093:

Which server is RG based now a days? I’m hearing conflicting rumors >3< NA? EU?

We’re on Piken Square right now, as we have been since free transfers closed. Za Drots is on Seafarer’s Rest.

My forum alt at http://www.sea-of-sorrows.com finally got banned

Some hilarious reading on there until it did, though.

codiac.5642:

jkctmc.8754:

World vs world should be a FOUR SERVER MATCH UP.

THIS! Trivial to implement with a small change to the current BL map.

…how can you honestly say it’s trivial to implement?

And why do you want a 4 server matchup?

Tornado is pretty much terrible no matter what, so yeah.

It would be nice if they fixed all the stupid things in regards to Confusion – traited dodge rolls, as well.

You don’t need to kill 25 trash mobs to “up the stack”. Play with it normally and simply swap when you’re at 25 stacks. If you’re in a group, you get the 25 stacks in 1-2 engagements.

Everyone should use it, it’s insanely good.

It breaks Dxtory for me too and gives me a few random crashes, but other than that it had improved FPS.

Swimsasa Stoon.8936:

burst is king that’s why the 9 might for 20ish seconds during your burst is better than a continuous might stack.

I don’t even…

Oh wow, LordByron.

Sorry, but you are complete and utterly wrong. If daphoenix ever advocated it then he has even less of a clue than I originally thought. It has always been a bad trait.

How can you possibly say you would only get 3 from EA Might stacking? Area Might lasts for 20 seconds (prior to Boon Duration) and you have an attunement swap cooldown of ~10s. If the wiki is right, the Might granted from Spell Slinger lasts 15 seconds. How can you POSSIBLY think it’s better than Evasive Arcana?! I am not even taking into account that you would want to use your Cantrips appropriately as opposed to popping them simply to get Might stacks.

Why would you use the Cantrip CD reduction trait in the first place? The Regen/Vigor one is superior and very rarely would you want to skip Cleansing Wave.

Really now.

Darxio.5672:

Intigo.1653:

Darxio.5672:

Honestly, we should have had that ratings reset, but they should have set it to one-day matches for a week so that the servers could tumble through the rankings MUCH faster for said week while the servers find their newest partners.

We really need a compression of the ratings. A reset would accomplish that.

No, we don’t. Look at the matchups. Everything except for tier 8 (and 7, for EU) is in a good place.

I play in Tier 8. But it’s not only Tier 8 that needs some shuffling.

Then change the calculation to achieve better variation, do not mess with matchups that have no issues. T8 is a problem separate from anything else. A reset is a genuinely bad idea. If you can’t see that then you’re even more shortsighted than ArenaNet is.

LordByron.8369:

i suggest you to use
10/10/0/30/20 cantrip buld
You can use mix of knight set with some vit and some crit dmg

get your damage from boons and combos rather than from raw power

The “Cantrips grant Might” trait is utterly horrible. Using it over Evasive Arcana (which you can also use to stack Might with the Earth roll in your Fire fields) is a very bad idea.

Darxio.5672:

Honestly, we should have had that ratings reset, but they should have set it to one-day matches for a week so that the servers could tumble through the rankings MUCH faster for said week while the servers find their newest partners.

We really need a compression of the ratings. A reset would accomplish that.

No, we don’t. Look at the matchups. Everything except for tier 8 (and 7, for EU) is in a good place.

Zenith.7301:

Intigo.1653:

Zenith.7301:

Why s/d? Scepter is a bunker weapon — mainhand dagger will outburst and outdamage against any competent player. Scepter sustained damage is horrible as well.

Because the Air burst is far superior. I prefer D/D, but many use S/D for that specific purpose.

If you want a D/D build simply run 0/15/0/25/30 with Valkyrie/Berserker mix.

And Judge, you need to copy-paste the link. It was just an example since Phantaram runs it.

How is air burst better than a Burning Speed>Ring of Fire combo with Arcane Wave and Missile? One combo gives me might stacks and hits aoe on top of it all — the other does not. Perhaps air burst can be done more frequently, but it is single target — and if you’re going for single target burst the mesmer and thief provide far better burst.

…

The Burst in AIR comparatively between the 2 is obviously better for S/D. Some people prefer it because of that and the fact that it can take advantage of the Air X trait.

We’re also not talking about other classes.

Holy.