Guild Wars 2

Apothecary is great if you are going for a high toughness regen build. I find Carrion better than Rabid cause of inherently low crit damage of condi builds. I haven’t crunch the numbers so I might be wrong but to me on a condi build more power is better.

Veritas.6071:

Daecollo.9578:

Julie Yann.5379:

interesting idea but I think we already have enough blocks/invulnerability in our arssenal. I would be happy with more vigor or 50% endurance refill. Dodging is a very effective damage mitigation skill. The more you can do it the better. “Evasive Burst”

Sorry but this isn’t Dark Souls.

Building Momentum

Ooops, totally forgot about that one, don’t I feel smart now. Never really payed attention to the Strength minors cause I only ever spec in it for Axe mastery, Slashing power, or Berserker’s Power. We can never have enough vigor. Maybe replace one of our totally useless minor traits in Tactics with it.

Thanks again for the great intput. The idea of the boon duration was more for myself than sharing with others. With it I can get perma swiftness while around the map, I cycle attunements a lot in battle and keeping my regen/protection up longer helps me stay alive and whatever I manage to give to others is a bonus. Now that I know how to use arcane wave maybe I can use it to supply some extra might as well. Maybe once I get more experience and playing Ele becomes more of a reflex I might think of trading them in for something a little more offensive.

Wethospu.6437:

Just wondering am I considered entitled when my weaponswap gets a cooldown whenever I throw an orb because of a bugged Warrior trait?
Lots of complaints are based on stuff like this. If they are designing frustrating fights (with steep penalty for small mistake) they really should ensure that their incompetency doesn’t add an extra layer of frustration.

I unless you are trying for the 8 orb achievement the weapon swap but bug doesn’t affect you since the only attacking you need to do in phase 1 are the vortexes and even if there location is random their respawn time isn’t.

skillionaire.3574:

LOL imo this OP is a troll, As a guardian myself (my only character is the guardian) i run a regen tanky build with semi decent damage. I play war of attrition style out tank my opponents it’s always served me best.

When im randomy dueling i make a habit of dueling other classes with tanky builds. I can honestly tell you my guardian still has the upper hand against tanky warriors, they don’t really have good burst healing nor do they have the great defensive skills like guardian..ofc it makes sense for their passive regen to be strong. It’s the only decent source of healing they get. Now if you want to know whats op healing…LOOK to the ranger troll healing signet…thats op.

I feel sorry all this warrior hate..aside from that mace stun build hate they’re also getting hate for their healing signet. LOL…

All i will say is..there is always a counter build. If you can’t beat a class running a particular build try make one that does. Stop being lazy and moaning on the forums.

Quoted for truth

Namica.2951:

That said, Warrior would do well enough with a new range option: say a pistol, which Rhytlock already uses as is.

or 1 of those sharp metal Frisbee things that Xena used to wield.

Are you speaking of PvE, WvW, or PvP?

IndigoSundown.5419:

darkace.8925:

That leaves us with two groups of players directly opposed to one another, and the developers cannot – no matter how much they’d like to – please both at once. They’re either going to release content that is easy enough for virtually anyone to complete or they’re going to release challenging content that leaves less-skilled players crying foul. Either way, someone’s going to feel alienated.

I think ANet has been doing a pretty good job of trying to put something in to please as many demographics as possible. It’s one of the things they’re doing right. It’s not just high-skill versus completionists either. There’s the WvW crowd, the group content crowd, RPers, and probably many more.

I think a lot of players are content to complete the content that appeals to them and that they can do, and leave off the content that doesn’t. Those who think that everything has to be aimed at their demographic are being unreasonable, and ANet knows this.

I expect ANet will continue to try to please as many groups as possible. However, the frequency with which any particular group sees content aimed at them is likely to vary based on how popular certain content offerings are. For instance, I’d bet money ANet is tracking how many people get the achievements for beating Liadri.

If only they would revamp the WvW achievments to something that won’t take 8+years playing 8hours a day. If I want to QQ, those achievments are valid QQ material.

interesting idea but I think we already have enough blocks/invulnerability in our arssenal. I would be happy with more vigor or 50% endurance refill. Dodging is a very effective damage mitigation skill. The more you can do it the better. “Evasive Burst”

Banquetto.9521:

The question is not “what is this recipe good for?”, but rather “what are the next fifty copies of this recipe good for, once you’ve already got one?”

They’re down to a few coppers on the trading post now, aren’t they?

If we aren’t willing to pay that amount of gold(mats) to craft a single use portal then the recipe is pretty much useless and good for nothing.

Thanks, gives me something to think about and experiment with. I was thinking of trading in a cantrip for something esle since I rarely need all the condition removal. Not sure about going 30 in Fire since ,like every staff ele in WvW, our zergs needs our heals and protection when busting down gates and long SM fights. I’ll try the GS for sure, it will probably give me more mobility which I seem to be lacking.

It’s all about the weapon swapping and how some weapons synergise well with others. Now the we have cleansing Ire, Dogged March, improved healing signet and the new perplexity/torment runes we can have viable bunker type condition or CC builds instead of your typical zerk GS-Axe/mace or mace/shield-GS (speaking PvP, WvW). PvE dungeons still require us to go full DPS, but for solo PvE there are a lot of interesting possibilities. Have you tried the Guardian, similar playstyle as the warrior but with more support variety where as warrior is mainly about putting on the hurt.

I play for fun, but I find it way more fun when I get shinies.

I love mine, have over 1400 hours played on it. Made dozens of builds for it, costs me a fortune, but there are so many possibilites to explore especially now that we got some buffs. It opened up a lot of builds that just weren’t viable before.

I would love to get a spear (not the underwater one) or halberd, some sort of pike weapon. A 2 handed axe would be epic for the whole barbarian role play.

avexis.9047:

condition damage is not viable in world vs world. any decent player/group of players will have large amounts of condition removal. in pve it is viable but is nowhere close to as high in damage as axe/mace berserker.

If condition builds aren’t viable why is it that conditions are what kill me most of the time in WvW. In PvE, condition builds are next useless expect to have some fun solo facerolling in Orr. Don’t bring it to dungeons cause all you will be is an anchor.

All depends if you are going to be zerging on a High pop T1 server or Solo/small team roaming on a lower tier. I prefer the latter, it makes for more interesting fights especially when you run into a group almost twice your (and sometimes win). I use Soldier Gear shout build when I am commanding but I personally find it ratrher boring.
You get creative when you are out manned every night and have to resort to small group guerilla warfare in order to hold your ground. A couple of 5 man teams keeping the enemy distracted away from your towers and keeps, hitting multiple target sat once until you have enough numbers to kind of form a zerg is an effective way of holding on to your points.

I used Sword Shield/LB (mixed PTV-Zerk gear with mixed trinkets) Melandru Runes with Lemongrass food (dogged march-cleansing Ire) and annoyed (killed) a lot of people. If you prefer mele S/S-hammer or S/S-M/S and use the runes of perplexity and add confusion to the lolz. Having a lot of fun right now with a tanky Dual Sword-LB regen/condi build right now.

What about Hammer- Sword/Mace? I don’t know the DD thief that well but this weapons set has some good CC, a gap closer, and decent DPS potential.

They are called achievement points not entitlement points and it is normal for a gmae like Guild wars to have achievements that only a small percentage of the people successfully complete. Completionists will just have to accept that and live with it. It took me 83 tries and 6 different builds to beat liadri, it was frustrating yes but it pushed me to evovle my play style. Try new tactics, watch a few videos and memorize the patterns. Once you get it, Liadri is kind of a joke.

Norn female warriors “Death by Snu Snu”

I find banners awkward to use and I prefer having my utilities freed up for stomp, SoS, and X depending on the situation(usually a stun breaker). I’m using 0-10-30-0-30 with 5 torment and 1 healing rune since the 6th torment rune is kind of useless cause we never activate healing signet. My utilities are important to make up for the lack of CC in the build. Mango Pie makes up for the lack of banner regen.

RoyHarmon.5398:

Julie Yann.5379:

There is a reason why the recipe sells for 8c on the TP. Nobody wants to spend that much on a single use item. Wasn’t there a prototype portal gun that did pretty much the same thing and cost almost nothing?

It costs almost nothing because it does almost nothing. It “teleports” you a very short distance in some direction, but I haven’t figured out how to make it useful yet (I think I still have 4 or 5 of them in my inventory).

I was wondering how good it was, I remember partying with a guy that used it to portal people that couldn’t make it up the cliff when we used to take shortcuts in CM. That’s why I mentioned it.

Poxheart.2845:

I finished collecting the gear for this build last night & tested it out. My first few encounters did not end up well probably because I wasn’t familiar with the skills and the optimal time to use them. Running into some stealth abusing thieves right off the bat didn’t help either. My first impression was that I didn’t think this build could handle the current T1 roaming environment.

Continued trying the build today and I’m doing better now that I’m more used to the skills. Managed to win some 1v1s & a 2v1 that I don’t think I would have with my old build. Probably the funniest encounter of the day was a thief that twice tried to take me but ended up stealthing & running.

It doesn’t have the mobility I’m used to having from greatsword, but I’ll get used to it. It seems to do well in small group fights, too.

I used to run Hammer S/S so the lack of mobility wasn’t really and issue. Getting used to the lack of CC was. I find it next to impossible to lock down an opponent but laying down a fire field on a downed foe and savage leap/torment/bleed stack his friends trying to rez him is so much fun. I think it excels at rez denial. Also able to solo camps that my old build couldn’t really handle well.

From Daecollo who is unable to post ATM. I don’t always agree with him but he is right on this one and since he asked so politely.

“The Healing Signet complaints are ridiculous, and here is why. There are other heals that heal far more then Healing Signet that other classes have and have far more utility tied to them. For example, Hide in Shadows heals you and stealths you and cures all damaging conditions… The stealth allows you to avoid a lot of damage if your smart. Here is however another example….

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Summon_Blood_Fiend
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vampiric_Master + http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bloodthirst

With those three traits, Blood Fiend heals for 520 hp/s, which is 128 hp/s more healing then healing signet, without the traits Blood Fiend heals for 71 more. You can argue that the blood fiend dies easily, however that is NOT the case, you can trait it to have as much health as a warrior, and it heals out of combat and also heals itself. When it dies it can also explode in a poison cloud that constantly poisons the enemy and it can be instantly sacrificed (before it dies.) for even more healing, where the signet takes a long time to cast for its heal.

Blood Fiend also deals damage, and pretty good damage for being a utility slot."

I have to add.

Those who cast the healing signet don’t know how to use it cause if you do you will surely die. It’s strength is in it’s regen, it’s active heal really suck cause all it does is give you a pathetic burst which leaves you vulnerable for the next 20 seconds. If it had some form of utility tied to it like protection or retaliation or filling your endurance bar while granting vigor it might be worth whole activating it.

I find to Healing signet to be just right, if we spec heavy in toughness and healing/condi we can bunker (it’s about time we do). If you go full glass it is no better than any of our other heals and in fact it really sucks against burst classes. Poison cuts it’s effectiveness by half. Signet of the wild is a utility skill which can be use along side a healing skill. Healing Signet is a healing skill so of course it should be stronger. Plus, we can’t really be used along side any other regen utility cause banners suck.

I just tested this out soloing Champs in Orr. I little slow on the hurt but, wow! It take a a hell of a beating. I was face tanking several vets at a time even. Torment not as effective in PvE as the mobs just stand there. Can’t wait to try it in WvW to see what I can do with it. Used 4 runes of perplexity + 2 runes of torment. Cleansin Ire, SoS, Balance Stance, and Mobile strikes should be enough to handle conditions.

EDIT: Thank you for changing my beliefs that condi warriors suck and that warriors can’t bunker. I’m loving it, it’s got a few hard counters and lacks a little in CC but overall it performs really well. I can hold a camp against 3-4 long enough for help to arrive and have 1 or 2 down by the time they get there. Now I need to get full ascended trinkets to max this out.

Edit: After more testing I found the perplexity isn’t all that great with this build. I find that confusion doesn’t proc very often since their are no interupts in the build and can’t trait for then. I might just go for either more bleeding or torment and maybe add a sigil of battle to my weapons set to help keep might up which will boost damage.

Scoobaniec.9561:

Use rampage lol

I kited her down a ways and finish her off with rampage.

What it all comes down to is, mind you own effin business, don’t join my party, enjoy your precious build, and shut up about it. It’s just like real life, you mind your own business, hang around with like minded people, enjoy your activities and don’t push your beliefs onto others. If you are going to challenge/question someone about their beliefs, use a little tact and avoid the name calling.

GW2 is a game the is designed and marketed to casuals. Most casuals don’t care about min maxing. If that is a problem to you, then maybe you re playing the wrong game.

Having mained a warrior, then leveled a gardian, I found that Ele kind sucked until I hit about level 60-65 and died a whole lot. Once I hit 80 I found it pretty good but nothing close to War and Guardian.

There is a reason why the recipe sells for 8c on the TP. Nobody wants to spend that much on a single use item. Wasn’t there a prototype portal gun that did pretty much the same thing and cost almost nothing?

I use my Staff Ele exclusively in WvW. The idea behind my build is to provide some good support for the group while still maintaining some decent DPS. Still fairly new to Ele so I’m asking for some input from you more experienced folks.

Hear is the build

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImibwR5QlDAkHvcCLBFEwQRxM7A-j0yAYLA6DQyTZNNKIW7Cb1NIl3optx0uRW9mUVMgQAiWAA-w

I find that for PvE full zerk gear is the way to go (Guardian is the only class that I can say that about without reservation.) The Guardian can easily survive pretty much anything in zerk gear because of all the damage mitigation and heals you can get through traits. For WvW you might want to have a second set with a little more toughness/vitality without necessarily going full PTV.

I gave hundreds of rares to the Mystic thief and got nothing but rares or next to worthless exotics. Definitely not worth the money I put in. RNG is a kitten kitten and she hates me. Gratz on your lucky streak but I know many are hoping that you ckoke on that legendary.

I leveled my Ele (WvW stff) after the nerf and I don’t see anything wrong with MF. Just the regen while I’m in it is enough to save my kitten when I am in trouble. I just pop protection the moment I come out of it and heal back up and either keep fighting or run away leaving a trail of CC behind me.

Nice vid really enjoyed watching it. I’m surprised at how well it performs, I guess the element of surprise kind of helps. People aren’t used to running into a tanky condi warrior and don’t know how to counter yet.

But what will the trolls feed on? ;P

Blix.8021:

All the people I run with seem to be relieved that the runs were swift. Pray tell, where are these people who pride themselves on ignorance and inefficiency? I never see lfg posts asking for slow, tedious runs, only posts asking for fast ones. Funny, that.

I’m sure that everyone agrees that a 2 hour dungeon run is no fun but not everyone cares if the run takes an extra 5 or10 min (on any other dungeon than CoF) and our idea of a good run is not measure in seconds. It is measured in good fights and nice saves and an overall fun time. It can be gratifying to know that you carried a bad party through the dungeon and that without you they would have failed completely, even if it took an extra 20 mins. I find those experiences way more fun that a robotic zerker speedrun.

You like your full zerk groups so you look and post for them on LFG and hopefully those are the only parties you join. The rest of us don’t want you people joining our mixed groups and them raging because the run takes a little longer or because we do things a little differently then you are used to or because one guy likes to heal and give us boons while we face tank. We on the other hand will not join full zerk groups cause we either do not have the gear or we don’t like the mentality the drives them.

I think there is about the same amount of gold being distributed but now it is being distributed evenly instead of just to the hard core CoF farmers. All the new ascended recipes that will be coming out soon should balance evreything out as I am sure it will be expensive to make.

Blix.8021:

I don’t consider it a valid “build choice” to pick a bad build.

but just because it isn’t the most optimal build doesn’t make it bad. I have played many different builds, some were aweful, some were good, some were incredible. Just because it is not a full zerk doesn’t necessarily make it a bad build but trying to get these elitist to understand that is like trying to explain something to a mushroom.

Patience, it will eventually sell, I had some stuff that got undercut weeks ago which sold yesterday and today. What I hate is when some kitten undercuts way low (1% profit or less) with 3500 of an item (especially one that doesn’t move all that quick). Looking at about a month before that one clears out. Good thing I diversify, doesn’t matter if my money is stuck in the market, I’m still making some money on other stuff in the mean time.

Leo G.4501:

Bambu.4270:

How about -50% endurance generation for dps focused players. That surely will fix everything. Anyway I hope they add/rework monsters that wont simply go down before they even move and also should have some survivability checks opposed to dps checks.

Don’t see a reason to punish people for their build choices…

…kind of like I don’t see a reason to reprimand people for their build choices.

But calling them names and being jerks to them because of their build choices alright?

Leo G.4501:

I swear, it’s like talking to a child.

“Pizza is only good with pepperoni. Mushrooms and olives and all those other toppings are poopie and you’re selfish for ordering it on your pizzas.”

Well, sometimes you like adding new toppings to add flavor or just to try things out…

“NO! IT’S POOPIE! And you’re selfish! Pepperoni is the best!”

~sigh~

had to lol at this one

colesy.8490:

Just because a couple pieces of content actually require you to turn your brain on doesn’t make it difficult.

For example, I can do COF and COE purely off of muscle memory whereas something like dredge fractal requires you to take your initiative. Nevertheless, it’s not hard, it’s just tedious and boring.

The main problem with your statements is that you are painting everyone the same color. Like it has been said before, not everyone is capable of playing in zerker gear (connection speed, physical limitaions, god awful reflexes, new to the game). Them choosing to make of for it with a little more toughness/vitality/healing so that they don’t get down does not make them selfish. It makes them smart, and I would rather have 1 of them on my team than a Noob in Zerk gear that read somewhere that everything is easier in zerk gear and dies cause he can’t handle it.

colesy.8490:

Whether you donate hundreds of dollars to a food bank is irrelevant, using less than optimal gear in a dungeon is still selfish.

Why waste your time with emotional arguments on the internet when nobody gives a toss?

It’s not an emotional argument cause I really couldn’t give 2 kittens about what anybody here thinks and the whole thread is nothing but 1 big troll fest. Just read the title, it screams troll. I was just trying to demonstrate, on the off chance that there are non-trolls in here, that categorizing people for a choice of gear in a video is wrong and that’s why so many feel insulted by comments like that.

“Wearing zerk is being narrow minded and arrogant” I don’t even have to explain why cause this thread speaks for itself.

I sponsor 2 children over seas, donate hundreds of dollars to the food bank every year, do charity work with our church and give my bottles to the local bum every time I see him rummaging through trash/recycling bins on our street but I am a selfish person because I wear less than optimal gear in a video game? What’s wrong with you people?

Lately I’ve been playing Sw/Sh-LB or Sw/Sh-A/M in WvW.

I take a similar approach when making new builds. I usually pick the weapon set, pick the traits that synergies my weapons and the role I want my build to play. Then I assemble my gear to reach similar thresholds, again depending on what kind of role I want to play.

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25-III-VII
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30-III-VI-XII

GS/Rifle

Melandru runes, lemongrass food

SoH, BS, EP, SoS, SoR

This is what I used to beat Liadri and it worked rather well. Took me a while to find a build that worked for me (80+ tries) and memorize the patterns. Once you figure out the patterns and how to stay in the safe zones it’s actually pretty easy. Presently working on Light Up the Darkness. Personally I found the reduced condition duration better than Endurance regen. You don’t even have to worry about clearing cripples and stuff in phase2. Just keep your speed boost up with SoR and BS and keep Endure Pain as an oh-kitten button for when you get pulled into the AoE. SoS remains unused to keep endurance regen up along with BS which makes up for not using end regen food.

Some that gives defensive boons like the Guardian or Ele pair up well with warriors.

I only started caring about achievement points after they start giving out shinnies for them. Most of them, especially the exploration ones, are like a chore to me (got 2000 hours on my main and still sitting at 80% map completion cause it’s so kittening boring) so I completely ignored them. Now I’m trying to get the skins so I will just grind my way through the achievements to get them. Once I get the skins I want I will surely go back to ignoriong them until another shinny that I like comes out.