Guild Wars 2

Commander armor is a waste of stats. Go with a mix of marauders/zerk and cavalier. Your ferocity (crit damage) is very low so you’re not maximizing your damage very well. “Concentration” on the Commander armor is for boon duration and it doesn’t really stat too well, you only gained 12.4% boon duration from all of that and you’re missing out on a lot of better stats because of it.

Here are my builds: http://asphyxia.tv/builds/

I have two different WvW builds there, one for roaming and one for playing front line in larger groups.

http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-back-line-elementalist-build/
^ This is what I run for back line staff elementalist for WvW.

Those traits are still pretty good for PvE as well, but I’d maybe trade water line for air line for PvE.

Osu.6307:

If you are a roamer, assuming you have a viable build, whatever class you are best on is probably your best choice. Roaming, like dueling, is more dependent upon individual skill than any sort of class advantage.

^ This.

wyther.8372:

TC farms BG for hours upon hours on end not bothering to take stuff.

Tell me more about how TC farms BG for hours upon hours.

Kill to death ratio:
BG 1.25:1
TC 0.99:1
YB 0.58:1

Grim West.3194:

The biggest zerg always wins in WvW. That’s the way it is designed.

Untrue. Smaller groups are just as much to blame as the zergs. Last night on YB BL, we had 2 smaller groups and 1 blob on the map and we managed to take almost the whole map over because the 2 smaller groups would go taking towers and camps while the blob would attack keeps to draw the enemies. Most of our PPT was from that map in particular lol.

I’m on Blackgate and can personally say that the pairing with ET should be removed. People are transferring to ET to stack Blackgate even further and its gotten old. We super queue every map for very long periods of time.

Do I want to transfer though? Nope. The roaming is good, the blobs are bad and we get plenty of bags picking off the massive tails of the blobs lol.

This most recently has been happening to me because of taunt. When warriors use their berserker mode taunt, it happens to me as well. I made a post in the bug report action but apparently no one cared enough. Ranger taunt does it to me all the time. May not be the same exact issue as going back 2 years, but it is an issue.

Work around is type “/sit” and you’re free. Really really really annoying problem though.

Edit: I actually took the time to go in to my guild hall against a friend and we tested this with several classes. Ranger and Warrior taunts made me get stuck every time, Revenant taunt did not for some reason. Those were the ones we tested.

Unchecking it made them more visible to me. Try that out.

Do you have “Effect LOD” checked?

I see your forum signature says “Mods on this forum deletes all threads of value” – if they’re deleting all of your threads, and they’re anything like this one, there is no value in them and it should tell you something.

I generally prefer air and fire for warrior GS personally. On hammer I would go with Air and Draining.

My suggestion is to just stream with twitch and highlight your favorite videos. Not sure why anyone puts game videos on youtube anymore since Twitch got so good.

The gathering tool slots should be account wide – its been discussed many times, ANet has chosen to do nothing about it.

Doesn’t sound like your build is trash. My builds are in my forum signature ( http://asphyxia.tv/builds ) if you want to check them out for comparison – I don’t personally run reaper though.

It sounds like you got focused and bursted, but it also sounds like a player skill issue (no offense, trying to help you out here.) If you start getting bursted, using your elite chill skill or plague form will help you out a lot, so would dodging. You could also go in to shroud to try to stay alive better. It sounds like either you didn’t have time to react or you just didn’t react well enough in the situation to survive.

Until you get the hang out it a little more, you might be good with replacing some of your trinkets with Cavalier or something to that effect since you essentially have no toughness. Marauder or Zerk armor is usually typical for necro.

I had considered doing that, psizone. The idea was a more “hybrid” build so that I still have some power for spike damage.

trunks – Yeah I know, like I said above, the hybrid idea is just so the build has 2 sources of damage. Neither is “top notch” by any means, but the build is very survivable and in the “long fight”, it is more likely to win because of its sustain and constant ability to keep applying conditions while still dealing raw damage.

Yikes, that is no good. I use this sigil on my Elementalist, I had no idea it wasn’t working..

Vulkanos.3276:

I know but this is still a wvw guild, so why not?

Because its WvW specific, not server. You may also want to try gw2wvw.net too.

As the old saying goes “every dog will have its day.” I think my favorite servers I’ve been on have been Maguuma and Blackgate. I enjoyed my time on Fort Aspenwood back in the day of Mag/FA/SOS T2, but it isn’t as fun these days. I also enjoyed my time on Borlis Pass (my first server) and met most of my friends that I know in the game now from that server – but I don’t think I’ve ever been too proud of it, the average player skill on BP has been a pretty low low for a long time with the exception of a hand full of players.

Each server has a different kind of community, I get that. I enjoy the Maguuma community because they’re trolly like me. I get the same kind of impression from a lot of people on Blackgate even though I haven’t been there for too terribly long yet. Some would call those two servers toxic – I would call them home lol. But I’ve transferred to and off of Maguuma 4 times now, I can’t imagine I won’t ever end up back there – but I like matches to be different.

With this server linking, the matches have been different, we’ve had the chance to meet new people and even a chance to play with old friends that were once on the same server. You really miss out on the game if you don’t transfer around and meet new people and fight new enemies. It really spices things up a lot.

First problem I see is that you think server pride is a real thing. Anet reserves the right to shut down any server they want at any time – you better get used to having more of a guild pride or something like that because the server system as we knew has changed and will continue to change. I’ve transferred servers more times that I can even remember at this point, its been at least 16 times between my 2 accounts, I have no “server pride” because it is hard to be “proud” of a server who lost all of its people and dropped to being one of the lowest ranked servers lol.

Like someone else above said, it sounds like you just enjoyed the PvDoor and now you can’t do that – sorry for your loss.

Straegen.2938:

Josh XT.6053:

Not sure I understand what you’re saying. Needle trap immobilizes, tripwire knocks down.

I was referencing defensively. One knockdown trap by another thief and this build will end up eating any number of big shots with no way to defend. I routinely catch similar builds by switching a utility to Trip Wire then DPSing the area it was popped. Basically any build that drops crazy CC can blow this build up.

That said, I am sure once a player learns the build they know what to avoid and to be careful around CC builds. Course Trip Wire is a particularly nasty problem for builds that lack a stun break.

Nothing is perfect, but I’ve had pretty good success in winning 3v1s with this build even lol. Can’t say they were “good players” but it is not hard to win those kind of fights on it.

Condi mesmer has always seemed boring to me. I definitely prefer the high damage shatter mesmer.

Here is mine: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-mesmer-build/

Thanks for acknowledging this. I was pretty surprised to see a small group of Yaks Bend in FA Bay last night when it was fully fortified and nothing was damaged.

atreyu.9624:

Josh XT.6053:

My thief build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-thief-condition-build/

Pretty hard to kill it if played right because you’re stealth 24/7.

oh good lord, not this ebola build

Made my day lol.

Straegen.2938:

The glaring hole with this build does seems to be stun or immobilize but I suspect the player picks their spots and avoids players running heavy AoE CC.

Not sure I understand what you’re saying. Needle trap immobilizes, tripwire knocks down.

If you mean stun breaks – you’re right, it doesn’t have anything good to deal with that. But if you’re careful, you won’t need it because you can keep up your stealth shortbow 5 away if you need. Shortbow 5 is the easy way to get away from the immobilizes, but lacks stun breaks. Luckily being full dire, it has plenty of toughness and HP to survive being stunned for a few seconds then just shortbow5 away.

Grayclay.4579:

Josh XT.6053:

Grayclay.4579:

Josh XT.6053:

Grayclay.4579:

Josh XT.6053:

I keep my builds up to date on my website in my forum signature. I think an alternative to metabattle might be a good idea though.

Dope builds breh. You ever play Engi?

I wasn’t ever too great at Engineer, didn’t spend too much time on it but when I did, I played condi/perplexity back when that was good lol. I might try to get back in to it now that Scrapper is pretty decent for roaming.

Breh, P/P condi is so strong right now. Do it, I want to see you put your usual twist on it.

I threw my friends scrapper build on there, but modified it a little bit as far as armor/runes goes. He mains engineer so he would know better than me on what traits were better.

The blurb on your site says good access to stealth. All I see is Gyro, is there a combo I’m not seeing?

Yeah, my friend used this build against me in 1v1 and that gyro kept him stealth a lot. It isn’t like Thief or Mesmer stealth up time but it is still a lot of stealth from that gyro.

DeWolfe.2174:

Josh XT.6053:

JQ just mad that they can barely beat FA even which is the weakest of the T2 servers. Cry more about Blackgate. My alt account that I play about as much as my BG account is on BP/FA and its been fun farming JQ and YB there as well.

JQ/IOJ KD ratio 1.15
BP/FA KD ratio 0.80

Please repeat that?

Maybe some cares will be given if we get a change of Dev’s after this Beta. Until player control is restored, nothing for competitive WvW’ers to do. Luckily at least the next PvP season starts soon.

Okay, allow me to repeat.

“JQ just mad that they can barely beat FA even which is the weakest of the T2 servers.”

Does it help you any that I boldened and underlined “barely” since I said barely??? Hope that helps.

Also at this current time, JQ has FA beat by 11k points. JQ is barely beating FA like I said.

http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-front-line-guardian-tank/

I made this tank build just for you based on what you were talking about. If you prefer mace/shield, you can swap the GS for it. I personally am not a fan of Mace at all though, just very slow and lacking.

Szeraf.5781:

Josh.XT

Now that was a proper awnser, and for that, thank you!
What about healway builds? Can it be viable in zerging, while also netting bags?

My oroginal idea was to fit a role where I can “protect”/buff/or even heal the frontline while surviving a lot (blocking) -> also with that tagging every enemy for a nice little bag of goodies.
Sorta like a walk in walk out while being useful and also tagging up the enemy. I dont want to be the holy trinity in one package I want to be the one who can prevent zerg wipes or even prolong the inevitable.

Pretty much any Guardian build with a staff on can collect mass amounts of loot in zerg fights as long as it can stay alive. I think if your idea is to protect your group a lot, you might want to consider Elementalist though. Guardian does it well, but a full support Guardian won’t out-do a full support Elementalist.

If the goal is just living forever and supporting allies, run full Nomad gear and a staff.

JQ just mad that they can barely beat FA even which is the weakest of the T2 servers. Cry more about Blackgate. My alt account that I play about as much as my BG account is on BP/FA and its been fun farming JQ and YB there as well.

Grayclay.4579:

Josh XT.6053:

Grayclay.4579:

Josh XT.6053:

I keep my builds up to date on my website in my forum signature. I think an alternative to metabattle might be a good idea though.

Dope builds breh. You ever play Engi?

I wasn’t ever too great at Engineer, didn’t spend too much time on it but when I did, I played condi/perplexity back when that was good lol. I might try to get back in to it now that Scrapper is pretty decent for roaming.

Breh, P/P condi is so strong right now. Do it, I want to see you put your usual twist on it.

I threw my friends scrapper build on there, but modified it a little bit as far as armor/runes goes. He mains engineer so he would know better than me on what traits were better.

My thief build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-thief-condition-build/

Pretty hard to kill it if played right because you’re stealth 24/7.

You’re welcome to try my ranger build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-ranger-build/

The reason you’re most likely dying a lot on your build is that the longbow shoots a lot of heavy hitting projectiles, people are very likely reflecting them back at you. I love fighting longbow rangers because they end up defeating themselves when I throw on my magnetic aura on my ele lol.

Zetsumei.4975:

Meh make your own builds. People need to learn to stop copy + pasting others’.

Some people just find what is effective and don’t mind sharing it. I fully expect a lot of my builds to get nurfed because I found the way to make them work what might be considered “too well” lol. I don’t perfectly min-max where the numbers look great, I come up with builds and play them to and tweak them to find what the maximum damage to survivability can be. I build my characters to survive and do as much damage as possible with as much survivability as needed for outnumbered fights.

I’d rather fight against people who have good builds than people who have bad builds and aren’t learning how to play the game because of it. So many people just assume a class isn’t good because they’re using a weak build.

My WvW Shatter Mesmer Build:

http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-mesmer-build/

I primarily built it for roaming purposes, but with a few small changes it could work well with group play as well. It is a pretty heavy hitting build with the mind wrack/sword 2 combo.

Here is my WvW ranger build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-ranger-build/

It is running full celestial with more of an emphasis on condition damage. This way it provides a little bit of extra power damage as well as getting a lot more healing power, toughness and vitality.

With the traps, it gets stealth from trapper runes which helps out a bit with the mobility.

Gunflame warrior is the only good thing that comes to mine. I use it for WvW roaming from time to time. My build is here: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-warrior-build/

borgs.6103:

Man, I used to run this pre-HoT. The “hacking” salty PMs are gold. Does the “heal+stow” trick still work?

Not sure, I don’t really play thief that much because it got boring lol. But yeah any time you play this build, you get those kind of PMs if people ever get a chance to see you outside of stealth lol.

One day my 3 man group got into it with 2 thieves running this build and we eventually just had to run away because we couldn’t ever see them outside of stealth lol.

gebrechen.5643:

Josh XT.6053:

First of all, what server are you on?

Second, those populations are ONLY based on WvW population now. They’re not based on the PvE population.

If you’re in an NA server, it is “linked” with another server which people could still transfer to in order to boost your coverage.

They aren’t based on wvw population or JQ wouldn’t be full. And the problem with linked server is that you don’t know if this linking is permanent. What if they decide that your world gets linked with a new one after you transfered?

JQ may not be “full” for NA prime time anymore now that a decent bit of their guilds went to TC, but they still have some pretty impressive coverage at other times. You’re not really fooling me anyway and not going to get a pity party from me over JQ falling apart. I’m on Blackgate on my main account and on BP/FA on my alt account that is fighting JQ right now. If you guys spent more time trying to do something rather than running away from fights to get to siege, you might not be in the situation you’re in.

Kanebrake.6192:

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Quality of Life improvements did not win the vote, so we have no immediate plans to work on something like this. Also, while it might not seem like it, this problem is non-trivial to solve cleanly.

This isn’t a quality of life issue. It’s a common sense issue that should have never made it into the game to begin with. At the very least it should have come with the ability to disable it. How this kind of garbage makes it past the drawing board is beyond me.

^ My thoughts exactly.

Darknicrofia.2604:

Volatile.8452:

Hexalot.8194:

Josh XT.6053:

Not enough “thanks” go out to the ANet guys I think. I gave a lot of negative feedback when HoT came out and am happy to see they’re turning things around.

That said, in NA, the server tiers have been shaken up greatly and I’m loving seeing different servers to fight more often. I’m on Blackgate and we’ve been fighting Jade Quarry and Yaks bend for god knows how long, now we’re getting Dragonbrand and TC in the mix too. It has been a lot of fun seeing some different servers without having to transfer around.

Very interesting that Yaks Bend and Jade Quarry have dropped to Tier 2 after being in tier 1 for so long as well.

JQ yes, but Yaks hasn’t been in T1 that long compared to the other traditional T1 servers. Six months at the most maybe ?

But we (Yaks Bend) were winning almost every single week. I actually stopped playing WvW because some weeks we would be 80k points ahead of BG.

As was stated earlier, YB lost a few guilds to TC that inevitably led to a drop to Tier 2. Currently we are beating JQ and FA, but it’s a lot more evenly matched than the blowouts that were happening vs BG after the guilds transferred. I could head to EB in primetime and we were outnumbered because we were losing so bad that no one bothered to play. I think the new matchups have been working much better so far and I’ve had some really fun smaller scale battles with FA and JQ. I, for one, hope these tier shakeups continue.

bragging about beating BG when it isn’t seasons or when there’s nothing on the line just proves how green you are to T1.

the server isn’t named #hibergate for nothing.

^ This lol.

Grayclay.4579:

Josh XT.6053:

I keep my builds up to date on my website in my forum signature. I think an alternative to metabattle might be a good idea though.

Dope builds breh. You ever play Engi?

I wasn’t ever too great at Engineer, didn’t spend too much time on it but when I did, I played condi/perplexity back when that was good lol. I might try to get back in to it now that Scrapper is pretty decent for roaming.

Szeraf.5781:

No input on the basic question Great

Yeah I mean no offense when I say this – but what I was getting at is to scrap it and try out one of the builds I gave you lol. If you want me to give you critical details on why your build wouldn’t do as well, I can do that too.

Traveler runes are a waste of stats for the ability to move a little faster. If you’re running with a group, you should always have swiftness. Run something like Scrapper runes, a lot better for giving you more power, toughness and damage reduction.

Carrion armor won’t let you do much raw damage because you have no precision or ferocity. Either go with Celestial or choose to be either power or condition – hybrid builds don’t work very well without Celestial gear. Your burns do not deal enough damage to be effective enough to not care about power in larger group play, so you do need to have power, precision and ferocity for your damage to matter.

Mace mainhand is veryyyyy weak for WvW game play. Shield is not that great either. I suggest taking Staff, GS or Hammer in the place of those. If you’re not roaming, sword/focus aren’t too great either. For roaming, sword/focus is fine but I’d perfer Scepter/Focus and GS if you’re opting to not run longbow.

If you’re going to run Radience line, why not run a torch off hand? That is the best thing about that line since you’re running radient flame, which is a torch skill. Honor would be a better line to take if not running torch offhand.

Running 3 meditations for group play isn’t going to help you very much,

Like I said, the reason I offered my build is because it is pretty much everything you’re missing. If you don’t want to run dragonhunter, drop that line for Honor, drop Longbow for Staff, drop the traps for “Renewed Focus” and “Hold the line!”

This is the WvW build I run for my thief for roaming. It is a condition build, pretty over powered and does not use the elite spec. (For those of you who scream that not having HOT makes you useless.)

http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-thief-condition-build/

Added my necro roaming builds: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-necromancer-build/

I added my roaming build to my web site, hope it helps.

Here is my roaming build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-necromancer-build/

I am personally a big fan of running full Celestial on guardian. I didn’t care for DH much at first but the more I’ve played it, the more its grown on me.

My roaming Guardian build: http://asphyxia.tv/guardian/

My group play Guardian build: http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-front-line-guardian-build/

Both running full celestial, its a good hybrid set that does a lot of damage between burning and raw damage and provides a lot of support with the heals.

I didn’t take a ton of time looking over it but I can tell you right from the start a few suggestions.

Never run Lich form, there are SO many reflects out there that people are actually using now, you’ll end up downing yourself more often than not with Lich. I love it when Necros use Lich fighting my ele because they usually 2 shot themselves.

Durability runes aren’t too good for roaming, they’re pretty nice for larger group play, but not too effective for smaller play. I tend to go for Strength runes for classic necro or Scrapper runes for reaper personally.

Drop staff for roaming, go with Axe/Dagger and Dagger/focus. Staff is actually more of a condi weapon and is only really great for larger group play or if you’re condi. Dagger main hand is very strong and will help you burst down your enemies that want to stay on you melee. It also provides you an immobilize. It works really well with focus off hand because you can hit 4 to give them a bunch of vuln, then 3 to immobilize them, then you can just spam 1 on them and watch them fall.

Also, I generally prefer full zerk on necro and drop death magic for blood magic. Then you can also drop the 25% movement speed sigil and run the line that gives you 25% movement when you are wielding a dagger from blood magic.

I have my group play necro build on the page in my forum signature, I used it for roaming pretty often even. Only thing I change are the weapons I’m using (which are above.)

My WvW Revenant Build

http://asphyxia.tv/wvw-roaming-revenant-build/

I use it for roaming, seems to be pretty effective. If anyone has any suggestions, I’d be interested to know since I haven’t been playing my revenant too terribly long.

Straegen.2938:

Josh XT.6053:

Blob wars 2. lol…

whatever floats their boats I say…

Oddly I have found roaming/skirmish in the current T2 to be kinda crappy compared to the old T1. I kinda see why roamers/skirmishers hated YB now. YB often won’t engage without a lot more numbers or a door to hug. Not all of them but a vast majority it seems.

Yeah the “roamers” on YB are actually just scouts, they almost always run away from the fight to their nearest wall and siege lol. I’m glad they’re out of tier 1, now roaming is a bit better on Blackgate.

I keep my builds up to date on my website in my forum signature. I think an alternative to metabattle might be a good idea though.