The good thing is you guys can tell your server to not run with the people that use the blame game. They will either have to change their ways or change servers. Thats the good thing about no looking for dungeon and i doubt there will ever be a looking for dungeon. There is no reason for a glass cannon (im a guardian glass cannon in a way focusing on power precision and toughness) to die fast with the ammount of things they can do to either reduce damage or avoid it. I tanked a champ risen abom for about 90% of its health while giving might and such to the people around me (that would stay still to hit them with my elite number 3) and everyone was happy and it took very little time to down them unlike when a ranged kites it and the melee cant so anything to it because the glass cannons dont know that slows work on unstoppable mobs. Its unstoppable not unslowable and I yell at the rangers and such to use their slows and when they say “they dont work” i yell at them some more and tell them to use it because it does work and it skyrockets the damage to those kinds of mobs.
I kind of think they should change some abilities around with the shield and focus. I think it would feel more shield like if you could use your shield to block instead of knockback. Does it NEED to happen, no. In pve against champs i think it should since knockbacks dont work on them and most champs are melee, i could just go to the focus but i hate the look with a passion. Either way though you get 33% damage reduction from either weapon, and you get a block that blocks 3 attacks or one that absorbs projectiles.
With the hammer #2 you can possibly do more damage than the gs number 2 but if all your seeing is 2k crits and want damage your built wrong, ive gotten around 4-5k crits and about the same with the Greatsword #2 but the hammer number 2 is on a shorter cd. It lacks mobility though but ive done some pretty good damage with it with a sword and shield for mobility and more knockback. I dont find myself using knockbacks that much in pve so i think i might try to get rid of my shield which i love to use a focus.
With my level 80 guardian I held off the champ risen abom quite easily even without the 33% damage reduction 100% uptime. The only times that i got hit was when my evade bugged out and only i guess you could say half evaded. I only have 11k health with 0 points in the vit tree and build as power crit toughness until i can get more gear.
It was actually pretty easy swapping between my sword / shield set and my greatsword using blinds properly using my block heal meditations to heal and such when my heal was on cd and the max damage i took was around 4.5kish damage. It was quite fun, i think i could of done the same on a warrior as long as you can learn the boss, and its great when a melee is able to avoid attacks because the other melee dont have to move and can go to town. If a ranged is kiting and no one is slowing the abom its a pain and when someone says “you cant slow it” slap them in the face and tell them to use their slows, unstoppable means you cant root them, stop them, it doesnt say anything about slows.
Ive seen quite a bit of necro videos and not one of them could do very well with all the burst out there, they are good in team play and thats about it. The necro players ive watched arent junky noobs, they are pretty high wow players even some rank 1 glads cant make a bunker build for a necro and just use the epidemic builds and stay in team fights.
There are so many problems with traits and such that its so depressing to pvp with a necro or wvw with one if you cant place your wells where you want or have larger marks if you are attacking from the high ground in wvw. The condition spreading is our only strong points, daggers are lacking in mobility so trying to me a melee necro is pretty hard unless you can use the worm well enough.
Ive seen necros so involved and lose then switch to a thief and heartseeker spam and laugh and say why play a necro when you can just do this. I think thiefs are just op along with mesmers at the moment with moa, but i think if they change some stuff around and make some trait options work better and trait bugs like the bone minion summon to actually be of any use then it will be a good class and can work well alone as well as with other people due to more options.
The shield is just the Guardian shield. I like T2 human more than T3. Not worth around 400-600 real life dollars depending on the gem exchange.
I have a Norn gs guardian and i get top player quite a bit so size cant really be that much of an issue. The human GS / Hammer grunt sounds as female are annoying as 2 cats fighting outside your window at 3 in the morning every night for a year.
I hope it gets changed, it kind of sounds like they are little girls falling down or something with each swing. I say just make one of each, look at the cultral gear, look at how the other gear is on each character then make your decision. I dont think size really plays that big of a role to make it so you are countered more easily, i just force people to use their 2 dodges quite fast then unload on them as a norn.
What about using Hundred Blades with quickness and a knockdown so people cant get away and you will land every hit? Hundred Blades is really good and should be used if you know how to use it. If your just going to auto attack you might as well just be a heartseeker thief.
I dont think you have taken into consideration every possible setup. Power and precision with HB will pretty 1 shot any glass cannon out there if you are able to land the whole duration which is easy to do with bulls rush and frenzy.
With my rifle build with 22k hp full glass canon specced for F1 burst and #3 burst i was dropped in bulls charge hb combo, if the guy just sat there and spammed #1 i would of beat him which i did later on because his combo was down.
This isnt like wow where dps matters, its all about combo chains and counters and teamwork.
Like I said before if your just going to worry about 1 button dps just go heartseeker thief and leave the warrior.
I use sword and shield for my other set, blink blind, block projectiles while doing around 3k damage with your 3, group wide 33% damage reduction and a knockback that can be used in many ways, I havent had too much success with the staff or scepter and you could probably go with sword focus or mace focus since youll be in melee range most of the time.
I have an 80 guardian and I love the greatsword, there wasnt really a nerf to it at all since my damage still came from the same source as before, the whirl. Having good weapon combos is where its at. Guardian GS abilities are easier to land because of being able to move with your whirl having a charge that blinds which is good for survivability and you can grip people in and then whirl right on top of them. I dont use the symbol THAT much unless i have like 4 people on me, it just isnt needed.
Warrior GS has a lot of burst but you are very squishy and can only do that burst if other people arent kiting mobs around or you dont have a root or knockdown up. I 2 shot a GS warrior with my rifle warrior, though he was able to kill me in a HB that was only when he had his BC available for the knockdown, all other times even without popping frenzy I won.
You do have quite a bit of mobility to get around with on the warrior and with your shield you can pull some pretty cool moves if you weapon swap well enough. Just try them both out, they both have their strengths and you have to choose which one you would be able to bring out better as a player.
I use a greatsword and a sword/shield. The damage and blinds are great along with the mobility and you can take either of the tomes as your elite skill.
I started off with putting points into valor picking up either meditations recharge 20% faster or 5% toughness as precition, i then went into power picking up 10% more damage to burning foes. You will do a lot of damage in your whirl every 10 sec if you can connect and you dont get interupted or downed.
I went for the 20/0/30/10/10 build at 80 but at the moment since my crit is low i put 20 into that. Get 10% damage done to burning foes and spirit weapons arent destroyed while commanded because they do quite a bit of damage, in valor i picked up meditations recharge 20% faster 5% toughness is given as a bonus to precision and meditations heal you. In honor i got aegis heals on removal and in virtues i picked up spirit weapons last 50% longer. This is the Ayra greatsword build that you can find on youtube and it works very well.
You’ll focus on toughness power and crit mostly and at 80 picking up the forge runes. The sigils can be whatever you think would complement your playstyle but i think quickness is the go to sigil for auto attacks your whirl and your zealots defense. The heal i went for is shelter because blocking everything for the duration that you cast it is very good. I went for Hammer of Wisdom for my spirit weapon, judge’s intervention which can be used to apply a burn to everyone or tele away from trouble which also heals you since its a meditation and smite condition which removes a condition on a short cd and heals you. The elite skill doesnt matter much but i went for the tome of courage because the aoe heals and group support is very good with a group wide full hp heal.
Try it out and see what you think. If you dont like it you can always throw your tweaks in it to suit you. You could pair greatsword with a hammer as well and do some aoe and group support but i think sword and shield works better as long as you get use to your shield number 4 and when to knock people back with your 5 to split a group or something.
I have pretty much 0 level 80 elite gear at the moment for a few reasons. But in pvp i have absolutely no problems with warriors. I was using the build i am now with the shaman amulet only having 11k health and they couldnt burst me down, i then switched to beserker amulet with forge runes and its pretty tanky and puts out good damage. If you can avoid a warriors Hundred Blades the engagement is usually yours.
For exotic gear at 80 for my personal preference I would go for power precition toughness gear with the forge runes and try to pick up toughness and vitality for your main choices in your amulet rings and accessories.
Im using the Ayra greatsword build and you guys can look it up on youtube.
I just dont like scepter and staff. I also hate how slow the third swing of the hammer. Other than that I like the impact and such. I use the greatsword more than anything at the moment but with my build i can probably switch to hammer without a problem.
It still doesnt explain why i only got around 1400~ karma for 4 events
I dont know if anyone else has noticed anything with boosters recently but the karma booster doesnt seem to be working.
I looked up how people are getting their karma and how much they get roughly which with a booster people say its around 500+ karma per event in Orr. So I decided to see for myself how much I get with a booster that I had and did the same events that I researched. I only got 378 karma per event with a booster, my booster ran out and I still only got 378 karma without the buff.
Is there something wrong with boosters? Did something change since people were getting 100k karma a day and ignoring dungeons such? If so whats the point of boosters if you get the same ammount of karma? Unless the boosted ammount doesnt show up and just gets automatically put into your karma stash. I dont think it does because i started with out 25000 and when i was done with about 4 events i only had about 26700 karma roughly.
Some light on the matter would be nice.
You have to remember that this isnt meant to be a pve game. Its a pvp game through and through though its not really balanced at the moment with things like heartseeker spam and such. Anet has even said its a pvp game and GW1 was even based highly around pvp.
When the Necromancer says “your power flows through me” they are actually talking to the god Grenth. Its his power that they use to summon minions, they arent demons at all.