Guild Wars 2

I Covered Wars.4380:

BS is so bad at pvdoor and ppt. We don’t know how to cap a tower.

gal your textures

gal

Kain Francois.4328:

So the Wand is stronger than Greatsword versus single targets?

How does he accomplish such high damage in the video then?

The difference is the way Whirling Wrath’s damage is shown.

The final number it shows is the total amount the entire channel has done, not the last individual hit, versus the way Smite shows its damage, where the damage from each hit is shown individually.

You have to factor in channel time, cooldown times, and total damage to figure it out, which I’m sure has already been done somewhere on this forum.

Asclepius.4396:

I am sitting at windmill in SF bl if anyone wants to duel. You can PM me or just show up and bow

duel me void

Kyotee.7851:

Oh, thanks K U T M. that must be it! Lol I play an engineer too, and though I’m swapping through my kits and abilities rather quickly at times….the class just doesn’t feel like I described above. Weird, huh?

Maybe it’s all in my head! Anyone seen my meds? xD

Might be you’re watching the Attunement cooldowns as well, making it seem like you’re using more skills than you actually are.

Traiting into Arcana reduces the cooldown of Attunement swapping, which might help a bit.

1h Sword.

/15chars

Using skills quickly to achieve combos != spam

High condition damage and very tanky?

Of course it’s viable.

Just don’t complain when it gets nerfed.

If the trait reduced healing turrets cd, it’d be OP as hell.

It’s already an amazingly strong healing skill.

WonderfulCT.6278:

joe ooga booga.4287:

I’m trying to find pro dueling guardians. I live in Eredon Terrace, the 2 servers i’m going against are SF and Kaining, so if you live in those servers please duel me. i am playing a guardian.

LOL ur a bigger noob than the last guy I called a noob

Man Ken, you are salty today.

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Anyway, the OP is actually a really good guardian.

azngeek.4592:

Gamgee.8612:

You will fall as a log when you meet a condi-specced player. No removal at all, not even a dogged march trait. Take away 400 of that toughness and spend some on vitality and condi removal and you will probably survive even longer.

i’m using “Cleansing Ire” to remove condition.

If you think that is enough…

:S

Time to kitten off some rangers.

GrahamW.5397:

Shatter mesmer with the following traits 0/20/20/0/30 just because a mes uses stealth doesnt mean they are useing pu, and there was alot more then just 5 confusion when you interupted me. Not gona respond anymore i doubt anyone wants to watch us argue.

I can stack 9.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Static_Shot

Honestly. You shattered twice in the duel with me. I’m sorry if you playing the spec wrong had me a bit confused.

GrahamW.5397:

Im not a phantasm mesmer lol and that confusion on interupt was totally not perplexity.

You realize I have a pull, and a skill that applies 5 confusion on the same kit, right?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tool_Kit

It wasn’t perplexity.

S/S + Staff mesmer with prismatic understanding. Hmm, not phantasm. Obviously not.

GrahamW.5397:

If anyone on kaineng or et who ISNT running some cheese cond/perplexity build wants to have some fights this week pm me. Oh and to the war i just fought that first fight was great to bad the engi had to ruin it afterwards.

Lol, I run antitoxin runes. Which, btw, aren’t perplexity! Who knew!

Also, PU phantasm is pretty cheese.

Antitoxin, Traveler

Knights, Magi, zerker w/o vit.

Mesmer, necro, and warrior.

And suddenly, 20 players could carry supply, and cap it even faster!

coglin.1867:

To be totally honest, there are probably at least double the amount of commonly used builds then mentioned above.

Easily.

The biggest problem you’ll probably run into is the fact that most engineers will be running their own build. It may be similar to a lot of other builds, but they’ll all have their quirks.

The most “common” ones that I can think of are

HGH, a heavy mightstacking build. Has two main “Variants”, Prybar and Nades.
Prybar: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalspicnuSfF1LJSoC4HoC5loHPGlNZfUwWPIA-TkAAzEBp0xpjJIZO2cGiMXA

Nades: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalspiYnuSfF17ICoC5loHPGlNZfewWPIEC-TkAAzEBp0xpjJIZO2cGiMXA
Both of these builds can swap 2 might duration runes for 2x Altruism, or swap all 6 for Noble in wvw. Shield also works in these builds.

Played by rotating through the elixirs to stack might, and dealing heavy condition damage.

SD, A high-damage, burst build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUl0piYH5ylF17IyoHkmoNagKkXfewWPIEC-TgAg0EGpMyZkxIpRWjGWA
This build has quite a few options for changes. Speedy Kits/Power Wrench can easily be swapped out for whatever’s prefered in their slot. Mine/nades can be swapped for Utility Goggles/Rifle Turret.

3-4 Kit – So much variation. I play 3 kit build, so I post my build for this one. There’s not really a “set” build for it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqiYH5yuF1LJyoCdWoC2nIF5n+95Bb9gQIA-TgAAzCpIaS1krJTTymsNB

Nade/Bomb – A build I’m not very familiar with. If you look around for Ostrich Egg’s gameplay, I’m fairly sure this is the build he plays.

Chaith’s power control:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/tPvP-Five-Gauge-Chaith-s-Power-Control/first#post3051466

Healing bombs – Very tanky, lots of regen, heals, etc.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIq6ZH5yuF17IxoCdO0D7XY1K6R+tsjB-ToAg2CrIMSZkzIjRSjsGNCZ2A
Can drop speedy kits or automated response to grab the bomb radius trait pretty easily.

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All of these (Excl. Chaith’s + Nade/Bomb) are my takes on the builds. Like I said, they have lots of different variations, and I wouldn’t expect to run into any engineers running these exact setups, except maybe HGH nades, which is pretty much set in stone due to the way its traits work.

Put them in pvp mode because pve is not my area of expertise, and wvw has way too many possibilities.

If you have any questions about individual skill/trait functionality, feel free to PM me.

That would make the karma train move even faster! Do it ANet!

JKFlipFlop.7123:

Avatar of Belle.9623:

JKFlipFlop.7123:

Fun week everyone. Got to chill with my gommies again and talk with some old friends. Nice fights all around for the most part. Still sad I guild creation capped myself and couldn’t make a fake [BS] guild this week. Maybe next time, Heh

Yes! Do it!

If we are against ET again tonight after reset I definitely will, but 3 weeks in a row against ET is unlikely. My 2 guild creations this upcoming week will be reserved for the guilds on the opposing servers I want to troll the most.

Also a shame I never ran into you or Xom this week. But I did manage to stomp all the BS I could find, outside of duels and getting 5v1d.

Xom quit a while ago.

Just bring Perplexity to Pvp, and instantly, almost every class has a new viable build!

Julie Yann.5379:

Stogzlol.4795:

A lot of posts saying 30/0/0/10/30 for PvE aren’t entirely wrong. The newest build I’ve stumbled upon putting out much higher numbers than the previous is 30/25/0/10/5. It’s a somewhat selfish build, but the numbers are amazing.

PvP wise, Hambow is the current meta running 0/10/30/0/30. It’s not the best roaming build with a bow on, but a lot of players have been swaping bow for more viable roaming weapons. A lot of players run Sword/Warhorn/Hammer or GS/Hammer for WvW roaming. If you’re just zerging, who honestly cares what your build is.

Another amazing PvP build, especially in sPvP are the Sword/Sword/Longbow condi builds. There are so many variations running around at this point. I’ve personally been using 0/25/15/10/15 w/ Melandru runes. A lot of warriors have been leaning to Lyssa runes lately, however, I just purely enjoy the over all condi reduction from a 48 second minimum condi clear w/ 4 secs of buffs.

Some information regarding the PvE build can be found here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/what-is-now-MAX-dps-pve/first#post3235420

I’ve been using Runes of Antitoxin on my SS/LB build (WvW). You get the same condition reduction but sacrifice stun reduction for more condition damage. It works pretty good.

+, 50% uptime on 5 stacks of might vs practically any other condition build is no joke.

While an engineer may be able to outstack bleeds, we don’t have epi, we don’t have anything remotely like spite signet, and we don’t have condi transfer.

Forum nonsense aside, this week was pretty sweet. Met a lot of cool people from AR and GoM, had some great small scale fights, and somehow managed to not lag in the one SM fight I took part in.

I was offered a near limitless amount of nude women to transfer grace a T1 server with my presence, and declined.

Heil Shoesies

Could probably lose the Cavaliers.

With only 2.2k attack, the added crit damage will hardly be noticeable. Could swap it for Valkyries as it’s mainstat power if you want to keep a bit of a defensive stat on it.

Don’t worry it’s only good as a gimmick.

PvP isn’t interesting yet. It’s definitely starting to get better though. I’d check again in six months or so.

Nagato no Kami.4980:

Writetyper.1985:

Nagato no Kami.4980:

Pizz.3698:

Myrix.6347:

EvilSardine.9635:

My tactic is to dump everything you can on them from the get go then CC them with supply drop, shield stun and knock back along with a tool kit magnet pull. What that does is gives to conditions time to eat away at the necro. If you’re really good, you can time these interrupts whenever you see the necro raise his hand signaling that he’s going to pop his heal which cures all conditions.

If you make sure he’s blinded with grenade, static shot, or the bomb blind, his transfer conditions (plague signet if you spot him with it) should miss you.

If that fails. I gotta run like crazy because my only form of condition removal is from heal turret. Luckily most necros are slow and with my rocket boots chills, cripples, and swiftness I can kite until my CC is back.

Yup! I used to die to them ALL the time until I abused their main weakness. CC. Sometimes I go over to their sub-forum to look for a thread about how they lack stability despite being slow and tanky and feed on their tears.

Its funny because necros can trait for the easiest access to stability (5 sec every 9 sec without boon duration).

Actually, it’s 3 seconds of stability for every 10 seconds (7 if traited).

The reason why condi necros don’t run it is because it has no synergy with a condition build (tree = more death shroud + crit damage). Terrormancers often run it so if you take damage on fear, be prepared for stability as well.

On the other hand, if terrormancers are running it then they can’t really take dhuumfire. If you see a necro with stability you know you can be a little bit more offensive.

This is true.

You can, however, run a 30/10/0/0/30 build that has dhuumfire and stability. It works very well, actually.

The truth is, most necros won’t run stability. Just won’t. In fact, one of the biggest complaints on the necro boards is the LACK OF ACCESS TO STABILITY.

Highest uptime to CD in the game and they complain ALL THE TIME.

I don’t get it myself. -_-

They can’t run a faceroll build and have stability.

oh no

I think we have one dev on ET, never seen him in wvw though.

Jeknar.6184:

We had a nice fight trying to hold GoM hills last night… Too bad our 6 man crew couldn’t stop the 25+ GoM zerg. But my omega made you have to change your mind 3 times before you could finally break on inner. I broke your rams, your first cata, your second gate atempt and ALMOST got your second cata (I got zerged, lulz).

On another topic: Will we have a fight night today? Yesterday fight night was terribad…

GoM’s in this matchup, so probably not.

Wait that doesn’t make sense, GoM was the only one who showed last night

GoM’s AR’s in this matchup, so probably not.

This guy again? He ran inside a keep after a zerk/soldier warrior from my guild was melting him.

He ran from me when he couldn’t cleanse all my poison.

omgsoop

I can heal myself from 1k to full twice in a row. In mostly rabid.

Going to try this build on my mesmer. Might swap gs for staff, because I love it Q_Q.

Engineer is in a pretty strange place for wvw. In roaming/small scale combat, they can be gamechangers, but in zergs, our strongest weapons either get eaten by retal or don’t bring enough to be worth it in zergs. We have relatively low cooldown water fields (Though they are short, so timing is important) and so many blast finishers it causes ele’s to cry.

Makes it seem like we should go for a supporty role, but that, again, is only decent in small scale.

I took part in gvg as an engi, and would spend my time getting ignored and then stomping their backline necros and eles.

DON’T GO CONFUSION BUILD. Perplexity is just stupid, don’t do it.

Illusions.3108:

I do well with Mesmer in sPVP, but engineer i cannot figure out how to do it?? Any tips?? I like condition builds but i know sPVP doesnt really offer that.

1/10

got the one because the op didnt give it away

It was my first night not lagging when over 20 people were in the same place.

Colt.9051:

styx.7294:

K U T M.4539:

Jeknar.6184:

Opc.4718:

tl;dr fighting zergs at 1fps and winning because #1 spam is OP. Also, cleric guardians outheal everything.

I disagree… I can outheal a cleric guardian on my magi guardian.

I can also outrun a centaur.

uh, they give the same amount of healing power. Cleric guard would be tankier though.

In some situations, magi gets to heal dodge more through the more frequent crit vigor procs.

I imagine it’d hit like a wet blanket tho… what with having next to no way to deal damage anways… =/ Doesn’t seem very practical of a stat set for guardians.

The only practical stat set is zerkers.

Kiting helps a lot. They lack mobility, and we can kite exceptionally well with bombs and grenades.

Jeknar.6184:

Go spoil someone else willya?

no i love you kawa

Jeknar.6184:

Opc.4718:

tl;dr fighting zergs at 1fps and winning because #1 spam is OP. Also, cleric guardians outheal everything.

I disagree… I can outheal a cleric guardian on my magi guardian.

I can also outrun a centaur.

uh, they give the same amount of healing power. Cleric guard would be tankier though.

Could be made slightly less situational by healing based on the amount of players around, the less players, the more they’re healed for.

Oh my god yes

/15

SonOfKrypton.4357:

Guys, guys, guys, children…

I seriously had the weirdest idea just now…

Like, it’s gonna BLOW YOUR MIND. It’s more of a simple linguistic math equation.

content = rewards

I’ll give you a second to take that in “WvWers.”

Believe it or not, if you didn’t spend so much time whining on the forums about not getting rewards cause it doesn’t suit you, you could just you know, go and do the content?

Can you imagine having to actually do something to get rewarded? What an outrage!

ArenaNet pls, if I can’t get rewarded for actually doing something, please reward me for spamming #1. Please and thank you!

I’m sure you loved the badges achievement chests gave you.

The Hammer.5960:

Excalibur.9748:

um a thief is not wanted for ZvZ or GvG. Maybe 1 for scouting, but that’s it. The only class worse in this area is ranger.

That’s just so spectacularly wrong it borders on hilarious.

It ‘might’ (Can’t honestly tell, it looks huge to me) be smaller length wise than the current gvg area, but it’s DEFINITELY wider.

Rinzler.8072:

Dunno, i think 30 mesmers could take out 30 of every other class.

It is my fantasy to see it happen, think of the mayhem.

Good luck finding 30 decent mesmers on the same server

styx.7294:

K U T M.4539:

Opc.4718:

losieight.4807:

Ar so bad, 15+ wiped by 4 in open field..

ET/GoM so bad, 9000+ wiped by me in open field..

See I can do it too, and do it better c:

Except his actually happened.

Hm, when I fight 4-1 odds they usually just run me over!

That was kind of the way he was using to call them bad.

Opc.4718:

losieight.4807:

Ar so bad, 15+ wiped by 4 in open field..

ET/GoM so bad, 9000+ wiped by me in open field..

See I can do it too, and do it better c:

Except his actually happened.

I know there was a wvw roaming build somewhere that was something like Rabid armor + zerker trinkets. The final stats looked very nice, sorry that I can’t find the link or give credit for it.